[0.0s] Previously on Dumbgeons and Dragons. [2.4s] I guess my next stop is to go to Tamanthor and find the Citadel and pledge my oath. [7.8s] My fear is that it may have been slightly romanticized for you. [13.9s] The majority of them believe that there are no dragon gods. [20.4s] While that sounds like a sad way to live, but I guess I understand why they would be [24.5s] military and strong and I guess they're awfully afraid that they might be enslaved again. [29.3s] Your view of Dragonborn, specifically from your village, might be shaken. [36.0s] Did you do something different with your hair? [37.9s] Uh, no, I mean, I think it's the same as it was before. [41.4s] Maybe you're just exhausted, maybe you're just super tired, but Sully seems like he grew. [46.2s] Yeah, now I just seem to be legitimately smaller than before. [50.4s] Which I don't see why that's a problem, but apparently it's a problem. [54.5s] Give me a couple days. [57.1s] Let me look into perhaps wild magic and see if I can't find anything that would flippy the effect. [64.4s] Is that the technical term? [66.2s] All right, guys, can we make a pit stop at the hospital? [69.6s] By the way, there's a growth on my body that I'm quite attached to. [74.3s] In a non-romantic, more of a platonic, loving relationship. [79.1s] You are a weird bunch. [82.1s] Just full of problems. [84.5s] Welcome to Dumbgeons and Dragons. [106.6s] We're a D&D 5th edition actual play podcast, and I'm your dungeon master, Russ More. [111.0s] And with me today is Karla Maxted. [113.0s] That is me. [114.0s] I play Glim, a dragonborn pAlydin, just like so stoked to tell you about my man Bahamut. [121.2s] And Tom Laird. [123.4s] That's me. [124.1s] I play Moot, a wild magic half-orc sorcerer who is currently a bit shorter than he was before. [132.2s] And Amy More. [134.2s] That is me. [135.3s] I play a lightfoot halfling rogue named Sullivan's Light. [140.6s] And I'm so interested to hear all about this story. [143.8s] Bahamut? [147.0s] He's never heard of him before. [151.4s] I almost believe that could be possible. [153.7s] It's like I've literally tuned him out or tuned you out so good. [158.0s] Totally. [159.5s] Guys, this tea smells amazing. [161.7s] What kind of tea is it? [163.1s] It is David's Tea Cold 9-1-1. [168.2s] Are you fighting something off? [170.2s] Yep. [171.0s] Remember when I took that itty bitty sip of Russ's Powerade a couple days ago? [174.7s] I do remember and you instantly went, oh fuck, why did I do that? [179.9s] Never drink my Powerade. [181.9s] I know this now. [184.2s] I feel like you knew it before too, but you still screwed up. [187.2s] This isn't one of those cults where we drink the Powerade, okay? [191.0s] This is where I get my Powerade and you leave it alone or you get a cold. [194.8s] I mean, that's a good way to always keep your stuff. [196.6s] Booby trapped his Powerade. 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[255.8s] Captain Mike is a very impressive man. [258.2s] Check that all out. [259.9s] Maybe not Captain Mike, but all the bonus content that we were talking about earlier [263.6s] over at Patreon. [264.6s] Patreon.com slash dumb dragon cast. [268.4s] And now, fuck it, let's play D&D. [279.2s] We left you. [280.1s] You were going to the hospital and they saw you. [285.1s] There was no lump there that they saw. [287.4s] They stitched you up because you did have a somewhat bleeding open wound. [293.6s] And sent you on your way because there was nothing else to see. [297.7s] Do I still feel attachment to where my lump used to be? [300.9s] You feel like there's something missing. [306.9s] Guys, I really, I know it sounds crazy, but [310.5s] I really miss what I call it. [315.4s] Ken? [315.8s] Ken. [317.0s] I miss Ken. [320.2s] So bad with names I can't even remember the name I gave to my semi-sentient lump. [327.0s] Is there anything we can do to help? [334.1s] No, I don't think so. [336.4s] I think this is just something I'm going to have to get through. [341.1s] Maybe you could fill that void with Glim's friend Bahama. [346.7s] She'll tell you all about him. [350.8s] It's not a spiritual void so much as like, [354.8s] like you know if you have like a brother or something and you guys are always together [362.3s] and then he goes off to college and then you're left to fend for yourself in the wild [368.2s] streets of the city. [370.6s] Where are you guys right now? [372.6s] I guess we're walking out of the hospital or like walking down the street. [377.6s] Yeah you get out into the street and you hear a call from up ahead of you and it's [381.8s] Hey you funky bunch what you up to? [384.8s] Oh god is that his app? [386.2s] It's me, Hillop, can you hear me? [390.6s] I'm coming towards you. [392.6s] Just look anywhere. [394.0s] Hi Hillop. [396.8s] Oh hey you crazy kids what you been up to this whole time? [399.8s] How's your leg? [401.8s] My legs are fine. [402.6s] They healed quite well after the bumpety bump down the stairs. [406.0s] Why why you say? [408.2s] Oh it's a shoulder. [409.1s] How's your shoulder? [411.7s] Where you shot me in my heart? [413.9s] I did not shoot you in your heart. [415.8s] We were bestest of friends and you just you keep bringing up the fact that you shot me [420.7s] in cold blood. [422.2s] It's it wasn't in cold blood. [424.3s] I just fooling with you. [425.7s] Oh gosh listen I'm going I'm going through some some grief and some loss right now. [431.4s] Can you just not? [432.6s] What did he lose? [433.5s] Why did he? [436.2s] It's a whole thing. [437.5s] It's sort of hard to explain. [438.7s] He had a lump and they were best friends. [442.9s] He had a lump? [444.6s] And they were best of friends than me? [447.5s] Well I mean we hadn't seen you Hillop. [449.2s] We thought you were back on the caravan trail. [451.9s] Oh no see you know what they're getting ready with the caravan out there but I too [456.0s] had a lump and now it's gone but you know. [459.8s] You did? [460.7s] Wait you had a lump too? [462.4s] Yeah it was a few days ago. [464.9s] Oh did you like your lump? [467.3s] It's yeah I was very it's very friendly lump it was there and it's [471.0s] I drew a little smiley face on it. [473.0s] Oh that's such a good idea. [474.5s] I didn't draw a smiley face on it. [476.2s] Where abouts was your lump? [478.6s] Uh it was on it was on my backspace um. [484.9s] So it wasn't on the delete? [485.4s] Mine was on my control alt delete. [493.4s] Yeah it was on my backspace and it uh it was like shoulder shoulder back here [498.4s] and he reaches and he's trying to spin around and point to it. [501.8s] Oh mine was right here and I and I spin and I'm trying to point to it. [505.2s] There's two people spinning the street no it's right here just a little bit to the left. [509.3s] It's a little down just a little bit down but just like a really hard place to see. [513.4s] Look at us we're bonding so over our missing lumps. [518.4s] Did you did yours just disappear Hillop? [521.4s] Yeah one one day it was there it had the smiley face on it. [524.4s] Next day I woke up and it was just like a big old bruise is what they told me [530.6s] and it's bleeding. [532.4s] Yeah I had a cut too. [534.5s] Do you think our lumps escaped? [537.0s] I mean that's what I assumed. [539.0s] I don't know who who who would have taken a lump. [543.3s] Do you think our lumps were stolen? [545.3s] Who who would want to steal a lump? [547.4s] Did you guys have have the envy of the lumps? [550.8s] We didn't even know about the lump. [552.1s] Yeah we had no idea this was a thing. [555.5s] Good because of my lumps. [557.4s] My lumps my lumps my lumps. [559.8s] My lovely lady lumps. [561.9s] Check it out. [562.8s] Do you think this has something to do with those mushrooms that you both ate? [568.8s] All those meaty mushrooms I try to remember them all the time. [572.2s] I yacked mine up. [575.7s] Yeah you did yak it up. [577.0s] I yacked it up onto someone. [580.1s] Yeah but I mean out of the four of us you both ate the mushrooms and then had [587.8s] these lumps show up and Glim and I didn't and we didn't have any lumps show up. [594.2s] Well I mean you two are missing out. [596.9s] Yeah it was really wonderful for the short amount of time that we were together. [600.4s] It was quite an amazing experience. [602.2s] Really made me feel special. [603.5s] It was almost like my friendship with Sully here but without the backhanded comments. [609.4s] Or the arrow in the shoulder. [611.1s] What's the arrow in the shoulder? [612.3s] I almost forgot thank you for bringing that up. [614.2s] You know when your lump just makes you feel like you're the only person in the room. [617.8s] In the arms of my lump. [625.0s] We can't have two F's with the F's of the angels. [629.7s] SPCA commercial with Sully holding his lump. [633.1s] Have you seen this lump? [635.3s] This lump is missing. [636.4s] Are you gonna put it on a milk carton? [638.0s] Oh that would be like the grossest thing to see at the breakfast table. [641.2s] Maybe the lump was sat alone in a buggy marsh. [645.1s] Hey is there something funky about you? [646.9s] You are shorter friend. [649.1s] Oh yeah yeah yeah that that happened to me. [651.8s] That's a thing that's happening right now. [653.7s] Maybe it's permanent I don't know. [655.7s] That's super cool. [657.3s] Now you can fit through many more doors. [659.2s] Yeah not as cool as a lump though am I right? [662.8s] Well I wasn't going to try to rub it in too much but Sully has a point. [667.0s] Well did you go to a doctor or anything to find out anything about the lump? [670.8s] We just came from the hospital and they just sewed up the mark left where Sully's was but [675.7s] did you learn anything about it? [678.2s] No because it was gone. [679.8s] They they stitched me up too and said it looks like I got stabbed in the back with [685.5s] with a sharpie pokey point. [689.6s] And then I said I have a friend who likes to shoot me with sharpie pokey points. [694.3s] Oh yeah it was one time. [695.5s] And they said to probably avoid him and then I look at this I stumble across each [699.9s] other and he too is inflicted with the sharpie pokey point where there used to be a lump. [705.1s] Well I'm starting to think that our lump might have been something. [709.1s] Something that was inside that like has now come outside. [713.3s] Do you think your lumps like ran off together? [717.4s] Well it can't help but make me feel like like maybe we weren't good enough. [722.3s] You know like why would he leave? [724.0s] We weren't lumpy enough. [729.1s] This is very sad. [730.2s] I don't like to see my friend so sad. [732.1s] Do you have any idea of what we can? [734.4s] I mean Moot's idea about the mushrooms does kind of seem to make sense. [739.3s] Well yeah but I yacked mine up. [742.5s] Yeah but still I mean you probably didn't get all of it. [744.9s] Maybe you didn't yack it up fast enough. [747.6s] Maybe it's those like the oils in it. [751.8s] Oh geez. [753.3s] Hey if it exploded from our backs at some point probably while we were sleeping [758.0s] do you think there'd be a trail of something to follow? [761.2s] Oh I think you didn't notice anything on your sheets when you got up [764.4s] or you just didn't think to look. [766.6s] I don't know if you know this about me Glim but I'm not very like observatory. [777.6s] Right, right. [778.7s] We did talk about it several times. [783.4s] What? [790.6s] Well we've got a couple days before we find out about you know [794.2s] Moot's incredible drinking problem so [796.6s] Sure do you make short pants over there? [798.0s] So we could I mean [799.4s] He wishes. [800.0s] We could go to the temple and see if there's or where are you staying [802.8s] Hilla? Maybe your place is closer. [804.4s] We can investigate there easy. [806.8s] I'm a man of the road. [808.9s] I stay in my caravan. [810.7s] How far away is that? [814.4s] Where are we? [815.9s] You're just walking down the street and you have absolutely no idea where you are? [820.9s] You know some days I just go out for a walk and it takes me a while to get back there [825.3s] because I find new friends to talk to and then they take me to other places and we [829.7s] we hang out and we have we have baguettes and we have drinks and then we laugh about [835.9s] all the times that we had earlier in the day and then I don't know where I am and [839.3s] then I stumble my way back until I find the caravan. [842.5s] Well it sounds a little bit dangerous Hilla but I'm a little worried about you doing [847.6s] that but you're a man of the world so it's it's fine. [851.5s] Well I thought you were going to offer me a place to stay. [853.7s] No that's cool. [856.4s] That's fine. [857.2s] No that's what that lead-up was for. [859.0s] Yeah. [859.7s] Oh geez Louise. [860.6s] No it's fine. [861.4s] Sorry I didn't pick up on that subtext. [863.4s] You seem so happy with the way your life was. [866.2s] I mean it is pretty great you should try that sometimes with all the baguettes. [871.4s] You know Shorty I've seen you at the sun and stars. [876.9s] Oh yeah I'm there constantly. [879.0s] You know just earlier today they had this thing set up and they said it was for [883.9s] for moot and it was this very lovely luxurious table and Remy said that he was [890.5s] he was just whipping up something special for his good buddy moot. [894.0s] You know no charge on this one because you come in so frequently but then he [899.0s] came in all in a huff later and was like off through the table against the wall. [907.8s] I mean wow that is that sounds so unlike Remy he's usually such a cool customer. [913.6s] Well it sounds like you got some making up to do. [917.4s] It definitely does sound I'll have to I'll have to swing by tomorrow. [921.1s] Okay okay so we're going to go check out the crime scene where somebody stole your [927.4s] your your friend. [929.4s] Yeah okay let's go let's find him. [931.6s] Let's go find him. [934.4s] The four of you head back to the temple of Bahamut. [938.4s] Takes you a little while to get there but you make it into Sully's room. [942.8s] How does Sully's room look? [944.7s] That's a little bit messy. [947.0s] The word disaster zone comes to mind. [949.8s] He doesn't have that much stuff so there actually there actually isn't a whole lot [954.5s] around because he travels light. [957.1s] His bed is totally unkempt. [958.9s] It looks exactly the way like a teenager's bed would look. [963.3s] You wonder how on earth they get those blankets straight to sleep in. [967.0s] They don't know. [968.2s] And yeah just a few things here and there shoes on the floor but otherwise fairly tidy. [975.1s] Okay so where did it happen? [976.8s] Did it happen in here? [978.6s] Well I assume it happens when you go go to sleep because I have no recollection of anything [984.0s] you know coming at me. [987.4s] Well let's pull back pull back your blanket. [989.2s] I feel weird doing it but maybe see if you see anything on the sheets. [997.0s] Seems risky in like a howl to see boy's room. [1000.8s] I think he's 19. [1001.6s] Don't get a black light out. [1006.4s] According to them Sully just masturbates just all the time. [1009.0s] Ferocious masturbation. [1010.7s] Ferocious masturbation. [1013.4s] Whoa that is an aggressive sentence. [1019.6s] Yeah I mean whatever else you see you can describe but you do see a spot of a spot [1027.6s] of blood a boat wound position where you would be laying and it kind of like trickles down [1034.6s] the side closest to the wall. [1038.2s] Hey look look there's definitely a trail. [1041.8s] Uh hold my I assume these are just like mattresses like like bed rolls on the ground. [1051.5s] Or at least just a very simple bed. [1053.4s] I'm picturing like a just a simple frame. [1055.7s] Yeah yeah. [1058.2s] Uh I I pull the bed from against the wall to look down the other side. [1065.9s] Make an investigation check. [1068.5s] New dice. [1070.3s] Oh that's a 13 which is less shitty but my investigation is a plus one so 14. [1078.6s] Yes you see uh the blood that trickles down the side and then it's almost like [1084.8s] it's something slid across the room but you lose the trail about halfway across the room. [1095.4s] Oh jeez. [1096.1s] And it just there's no real entry or exit it just terminate like kind of just fades off [1102.9s] at that point. [1103.6s] Like the blood has dried up. [1104.9s] Like the blood has dried off. [1107.7s] Well I know uh that uh Ken made it halfway through the room and then probably [1119.1s] left. [1121.0s] I don't even know what we're looking for here. [1125.8s] And I don't know. [1126.9s] I I don't know. [1129.5s] Maybe those guys at uh El Torcho Academy can uh. [1136.9s] Oh you went to El Torcho. [1138.4s] They have the cool they have the cool skewers with the meats. [1143.4s] Are we talking about the same place? [1144.9s] I don't think so. [1145.4s] El Torcho they have the torches. [1148.2s] No this is a magic school. [1150.4s] Yeah. [1151.0s] Oh that's different. [1152.6s] They should change their name because it's very close to the very trendy restaurant El Torcho. [1157.3s] Well now I know I want his meat on sticks. [1159.7s] You too that sounds great. [1160.9s] Is it one of those places there's like the fire in the middle of the table and [1164.2s] you cook your meat yourself? [1166.1s] Yeah that too. [1166.6s] They come along with big pieces of meat on skewers and they and they saw it off. [1170.8s] Both of those things happen at the same time. [1173.3s] Can we stop by? [1174.7s] They saw off slabs of raw meat to your table and then you cook it in the center. [1181.5s] El Torcho sounds just downright magical. [1184.4s] El Torcho is pretty magical. [1186.7s] Well maybe we go get some baguettes and swing by El Torcho's. [1190.6s] They let you bring your own bread? [1192.2s] Well we have some baguettes on the way because it's a bit of a hike. [1195.6s] Oh I see. [1196.5s] In the other side of the city. [1198.0s] Right right. [1199.5s] You own a caravan. [1201.6s] What? [1202.6s] Why don't you just take a horse? [1204.2s] Well because the streets are very narrow. [1206.2s] They don't like you taking the horses through the city. [1208.7s] Oh all right. [1211.4s] Well what do you guys want to do? [1212.9s] I mean other than go to El Torcho. [1214.9s] Well yeah I mean that's number one on my list now. [1216.9s] But definitely I mean we have to eat. [1219.0s] We flash ahead to El Torcho. [1220.7s] Okay oh great. [1222.2s] You're there. [1222.7s] We'll talk about it there. [1223.8s] You're having the same discussion but you now you're in El Torcho there's [1227.6s] massive there's just massive fire in the center of this table that as you sit down [1234.3s] it simmers back down and there's a grill plate there and they come over with very [1238.6s] heavy types of meat beef and chicken and pork and something his fans fantastical. [1248.9s] I have the meat sweat set in yet for moot. [1254.3s] You are sweating even before you start eating. [1257.6s] You're a smaller man now. [1259.0s] So you just don't have the constitution that you had before. [1263.6s] But feel free to continue your conversation now eating meats. [1266.8s] Okay I love it. [1268.4s] So what do you guys want to? [1269.8s] I felt so sad when you were talking about your lumps and you just seem so distraught. [1274.4s] And I mean it there was that little trail of blood but any idea? [1278.6s] Do you want to keep looking? [1280.0s] Do you want to just accept the loss and mourn it and move on or what do you think? [1286.5s] I don't even know. [1287.3s] I mean like the mystery of it all is killing me. [1290.6s] Oh my god what if it was a little mushroom with legs. [1294.5s] That would be very yummy too. [1297.3s] Oh no we're not supposed to eat our friends. [1299.7s] Um I lost them. [1303.4s] I got caught up in the meats. [1306.4s] That's fair. [1307.0s] That's all I've been thinking about since we came here. [1310.0s] Yes they're very tasty. [1311.3s] Here try this one. [1312.2s] It's it's I don't even know what it is. [1315.0s] Well it's delicious. [1318.7s] That's Sully eating meats. [1321.6s] Well I mean it would be very interesting if we could find Sully's. [1325.1s] We at least know that it went like a little bit left from his original starting point. [1331.8s] So that gives us somewhere to go. [1333.8s] Me I don't even know where where where Barry left me. [1339.7s] What was it what was yours named? [1341.3s] Barry. [1342.3s] Barry. [1343.3s] Barry. [1348.3s] Okay so we finish our meats and go back to the temple. [1351.2s] Well now that we've got that out of our system we can think clearly. [1357.0s] While we're like re-energized right. [1359.0s] If I'm thinking about a specific kind of food it's all over for me until I have that. [1362.6s] That's all I want until yeah. [1364.8s] We flash back to the temple and you're back in the room now full a little bit more tired. [1371.8s] But perhaps more invigorated. [1374.9s] Maybe if I just lay down we can re-enact what happened. [1379.8s] Okay I like this plan. [1381.4s] Okay. [1382.2s] Shall I play Ken? [1384.9s] Sure. [1385.6s] Okay cool. [1386.7s] All right. [1387.1s] You just lie down like you were laying before. [1389.1s] Okay I lay down on my side with the lump side down. [1392.2s] Okay tuck tuck me in here moot boy. [1395.8s] Okay. [1396.4s] Okay I hide under the covers. [1401.7s] Okay so go. [1405.5s] What do you do while you sleep? [1407.7s] I don't know I fucking sleep. [1409.1s] What do you do when you sleep? [1410.2s] Do you like make gurgly noises or like stretch around? [1414.7s] You have to get into character at this point. [1417.1s] I am me about to fall asleep. [1419.3s] Also about to kick you out of my bed. [1421.6s] Okay well that's not really the point of this exercise. [1426.6s] Okay right I was just trying to get him in the in the moment. [1430.1s] I thought you were going to say in the mood. [1432.0s] Get out of my bed. [1432.9s] I am Ken. [1434.6s] I am stretching my maybe limbs. [1438.6s] I'm bursting free from my my side womb. [1444.8s] I am covered in my host's blood. [1448.4s] I am trickling down. [1450.3s] We didn't move the bed out far enough for me to play Ken. [1453.8s] Glim moot you move the bed. [1456.3s] Okay we move the bed over. [1457.9s] Scooch that bed over for you. [1459.5s] I'm trickling down the side. [1461.6s] How did this happen? [1462.7s] I don't know but keep going. [1466.8s] I am trickling down the side and I am crawling sludging along. [1472.2s] Maybe I have legs. [1473.6s] Maybe I don't. [1475.0s] We're gonna find out. [1476.6s] Oh and I've hit the point where I've run out of my host's blood. [1481.2s] Now where do I go? [1482.4s] What do you see down there? [1483.4s] Where would you go? [1484.2s] I see well there's the closest exit. [1487.5s] I mean the door is the closest exit and then the window. [1490.9s] If I have if I have hands and legs and maybe I have sticky sticky fingers [1496.2s] I could climb to the window but I look at the wall [1501.6s] and I don't see sticky fingerprints so maybe [1509.1s] maybe I crawl to the door and I crawl to the door. [1515.4s] Okay now we're just following along as [1518.6s] Sully remains in bed. [1520.7s] Yeah I imagine Sully's falling asleep at this point. [1523.6s] Sully's definitely asleep. [1526.1s] Okay so now I'm out the door. [1529.3s] Sully we're trying to find Ken. [1530.6s] This is your whole thing. [1531.7s] You should come with us. [1533.6s] Right so much meat so much meat. [1537.8s] I roll out of bed. [1539.9s] How much of that performance did you get? [1543.4s] You're crawling out the door because it's the nearest exit. [1546.4s] Yes now come down here with me pretend you are Ken. [1549.0s] Get into the mindset of Ken. [1552.0s] Well I'm already really close to the ground so I'm just gonna bend over a little bit. [1556.1s] Okay. [1556.4s] All right I'm Ken. [1557.6s] I'm walking around. [1558.8s] I'm probably hungry. [1560.9s] It's a possibility. [1562.3s] Do do do lumps eat? [1565.2s] Do lumps walk? [1567.1s] Well we haven't determined if Ken has legs or not yet. [1570.0s] Well it's gotta have some sort of mode of transportation. [1573.5s] I mean I think food seems I think that's pretty smart Sully. [1578.3s] If you just if you just been birthed from your host's side womb. [1585.4s] Gross. [1586.6s] I hate everything about this. [1589.8s] Then maybe you you need some sustenance so. [1593.0s] Is there a baguette in this temple? [1595.5s] There is not but there is a kitchen. [1598.7s] Oh well maybe we head to the kitchen. [1600.5s] Is it down these stairs in front of us? [1603.8s] Yes. [1604.6s] To the kitchen we go. [1606.3s] Down here with me Sully. [1609.1s] Are you guys seeing anything down there? [1610.9s] Any like disturbances in the dust or any prints or anything? [1618.4s] Well I mean. [1619.6s] Is it evening now? [1621.9s] Probably. [1622.6s] Yeah because this was like a whole like this happened first thing in the morning. [1627.1s] And now we're trying to investigate. [1629.8s] And we stopped for a whole large meal in the middle. [1633.6s] That's right. [1634.6s] There is a little flickies. [1636.6s] How often do they sweepy sweepy here? [1640.3s] I mean it's usually very clean. [1643.1s] Okay well you should talk to the owner and tell them that there's a little bit of dust here. [1648.3s] Don't worry I got it but next time someone might not do this. [1652.6s] You're right. [1653.4s] Most people wouldn't come somewhere they've never been before and then [1656.7s] crawl around on the floor pretending to be a lump escaped from a body. [1662.3s] Well when you say it that way. [1665.4s] When you say it that way it just sounds so fucking insane. [1669.5s] You make your way down the stairs into the kitchen and you're following [1673.4s] Hillup and Sully who may or may not be crawling beside of him. [1676.6s] I'm crudgy. [1678.4s] Says okay what else there's a pantry over there. [1687.0s] Okay well let's go check out the pantry then. [1689.4s] Well yeah. [1689.8s] That was my cue to say maybe you lead. [1692.7s] Oh my god. [1693.9s] I walk over to the pantry and I open the door. [1698.1s] Do you see anything? [1700.7s] I rule an investigation. [1703.0s] Sure. [1704.6s] That's a seven. [1707.4s] You don't see anything and then Hillup comes in behind you [1712.6s] and he's like how could you miss it? [1715.2s] What are you talking about? [1716.4s] Look along the bottom shelf here get down here. [1719.8s] Ah I crouch. [1721.9s] Look there's there are things missing from the lower shelf. [1726.1s] What's kept on the lower shelf? [1730.1s] Um I don't know I mean like probably some some barley and things you know like dried [1736.6s] grains like you'd keep in the pantry. [1738.8s] It looks like maybe the mice could have been here or the ken. [1744.0s] Maybe ken is a mouse. [1748.4s] So you had a mouse in your side? [1750.0s] Did you have a mouse in your side? [1751.8s] That is yet to be determined. [1753.9s] Well I don't know. [1755.6s] Okay well it looks like there's a tiny hole that's torn in the side of this this burlap [1760.4s] bag that things are spilling out down into. [1765.0s] Well grab it let's take it in there and open it up pour it out maybe he's still in there. [1770.6s] Okay okay now we're onto something here. [1773.1s] I'm scared now it's like you know you're like you wanted it to happen but now that [1776.9s] it might be happening you're just really not too sure you actually want to meet your lump. [1781.0s] That is a very common thing yeah. [1786.6s] Yeah we've all been there. [1788.2s] Totally. [1788.9s] So I get out a bowl and I open the bag and then I pour it out [1793.4s] and maybe we see anything in there that is untoward. [1807.4s] And we're back in the middle again. [1810.5s] The spooky middle. [1812.6s] You know what it is kind of a spooky episode we didn't plan it that way but you know. [1816.8s] I mean yes we did we completely planned it that way. [1820.5s] Totally. [1821.2s] Totally planned it just like we always do so that the things happen at the right seasonal [1826.9s] time like spooky things when it's spooky. 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[2076.2s] Facing Fate a Dumb Dragons Production [2096.1s] You pour out the oats into the bowl and while you don't see anything that is not oats [2104.5s] you do see a lot of things that are oats a lot of things that are oats [2113.0s] no you you begin kind of like moving around and kind of sifting through and toss it through them [2119.1s] and a what comes to the top is a tiny like you know how lizards shed their skin [2128.9s] hmm that's what rises to the top but it's more humanoid in shape [2136.9s] esk but very small so there's like a tiny exoskeleton husk [2144.6s] ish yeah more reptile skin like than exoskeleton but yes [2150.6s] oh my god do you think this is kin here do you have any feelings about this and i [2156.0s] like hold out towards him to see if he has any kind of like emotional reaction [2161.0s] no this is just an empty shell of what used to be ken so it did used to be ken [2167.5s] well i mean maybe i i never i never seen a lizard look like this and this looks like [2175.6s] a tiny person does this look like a tiny person to anybody else it it does that's kind [2181.0s] of weird yeah yeah like i gave like side birth to my own twin yeah [2193.4s] i mean it was weird before but now it's just real this is a real humdinger [2200.0s] okay you have very important things that you contribute to conversations [2206.6s] hey look i was the one who found the maybe ken that's true so you're a tiny human and [2215.3s] you've just side birthed you go eat some food you grow out of your skin shed your skin [2223.3s] you need clothes where do you go next clothes he went to the tailor oh okay we'll go to tiny [2230.1s] town to the tiny town tailors and then to the haberdashery the tiny town haberdashery he needs [2237.7s] a hat right no self-respecting tiny side birth human would not have a nice hat right hillip [2245.5s] begins walking around the room and there's a back door in this in this kitchen um and he goes [2251.9s] and opens it up he says well i don't know how big he gots but um he might have fit [2257.4s] underneath this door if he was still a small small boy or girl you're right or girl well you [2265.8s] know what though i did get a i did get a specifically male feeling from him i mean you named him ken [2271.7s] which is i mean she's very historically a male name not that it really matters but um kendalyn [2278.8s] can it kendalyn not just kendal i would have gone either kendal or or kennedy or [2286.8s] kendalyn kendra i mean kendra that's a good one a lot of options so never mind you do you [2294.6s] i'm gonna i'm gonna look so i get down also i open the door and also get down on my hands [2300.9s] and knees and see if i can see anything exiting this door oh i don't i rolled a two [2306.4s] oh you don't have a sweet bonus i don't how sweet of a bonus could i possibly have he's got like a [2313.0s] plus eight to some stuff i do i have a plus nine just light of hand there you go um i come over and [2320.2s] i also look all right everybody's welcome to look 18 18 get your own number tom no it was [2330.6s] the same number all three of you come get down and beside him oh wait 17 i thought i had [2334.9s] a plus one but i don't sorry amy that's cool so you're enough you can have 18 thank you appreciate [2339.0s] it um all three of you come get down now you're you're like right into this um moot are we are [2344.8s] we you're right into this you're into it i mean you're rolling ales at the meat place like [2351.5s] probably gotta wash down that meat somehow i guess so um glim you don't see anything and [2358.2s] it empties into a a fairly busy street um moot and sully you see moving down the steps um small [2367.9s] tiny footprints that get as you kind of track them down the stairs they get lost in the [2375.8s] in the just the pathway just the regular traffic tramples them and you kind of lose [2381.6s] them at the bottom of the stairs uh he do we smell or see anything in either direction that [2390.2s] maybe stands out like is there a smell of delicious cooked goods coming from one way or [2397.4s] i'm trying to think of something that sure a tiny hungry person might go towards um the [2404.3s] the kitchen exits onto a side alley so you go to the left you get out to the main road [2409.8s] you go to the right it goes down a back set of out like a bad series of alleys that cut behind [2416.7s] a lot of the buildings along this block if i was a teeny tiny person if i was a teeny [2424.0s] tinier person i would probably take the back alley so i didn't get all squished and squashed [2431.3s] yeah i think you're right yeah the main roads probably very loud in comparison so i'd probably [2436.5s] stay away from that especially being all naked and stuff [2442.6s] true i mean you'll also maybe being that new have no sense of shame [2448.5s] also who said i'm ashamed to be a naked i'll get naked right now [2452.0s] sorry sir no no no sir you already proved that you shake you shake your [2456.8s] your tushy at that's anybody who you so desire well that was just for truth of [2462.2s] all right but i mean okay i go forward has been established i go forward down the alleyway [2471.0s] everybody's following yeah you bet all right i'm really invested in this [2475.3s] tiny how could they not it's weird it's so upsetting but delightful [2485.3s] it's all of those i can't wait to meet our new party member tiny ken [2489.1s] oh my god can we hey can we name yours barbie may my name my name my love barbie it was barry [2499.7s] it's pretty close was barry's bobby's so close well i mean if we find your lump we might find [2506.2s] my lump that would be pretty cool that's right maybe they are hanging out together [2510.6s] they've started their own traveling lump band joins the lump circus [2519.0s] how many of these things do you think are out there that there's a whole circus full [2522.6s] this is uncertain but maybe more than two do i see anything as i'm walking down this alleyway [2532.1s] make an investigation check for the new area that you know it's only a four i also rolled [2536.6s] a four oh i will do better i hope 13 hillip [2543.2s] i mean hillip can roll too he's not really i don't think it matters what dice i have you guys [2552.6s] nope the four of you are walking down the the alleyway and it's getting pretty dark [2559.8s] there's not much light there's light coming from some of the windows from inside a lot [2563.5s] of the buildings um moot you um you walk past another alleyway that cuts between buildings [2572.6s] back to the main street and you notice a what looks like a young boy standing in the alley [2584.5s] you there boy what day is it uh excuse me did you happen to see anything [2595.3s] super small heading down this alley he's 10 or 15 feet down the alley and he [2602.2s] he turns i'm assuming this young boy is wearing clothes and looks like a normal boy yes yes sorry [2608.0s] he's wearing clothes he's got a actually he's got a hood up but you can see that he's a [2612.6s] younger just by the build of him um he turns and looks at you um and stands and turns his [2619.8s] body towards you um and takes a few steps forward figure the three of you have kept walking [2626.8s] maybe you've heard moot stop and talk but moot you see as he steps into a bit of a light shining [2634.2s] out of window you see a third eye in his forehead huh and you don't see his lips move but you [2643.4s] hear in your mind and he says [2650.5s] meet me in the graveyard [2655.9s] what do the three of you do you hear moot talking to somebody probably walk up to see who he's [2663.8s] talking to moot moot did you find the tiny man as they come back and to you moot uh the boy [2671.1s] vanishes in a almost a cloud of shadow and he's gone before they come around the corner [2681.4s] you look down the alleyway and there's nobody there for everybody else who you talking to man [2686.8s] did you see him it's do i just not see him he's too small uh no uh there was a person a [2693.7s] young man here but now i don't i don't know guys i thought someone was here but maybe [2700.5s] maybe not [2704.2s] did you have too many meats are you getting the meat hallucinations i've heard of those i haven't [2710.9s] experienced them yet maybe i needed one more slice of the unknown the unknown was pretty [2717.6s] delicious i swear we should probably go ask it go ask them sometime and see what that meat was [2722.9s] so we could get it ourselves hillip do you know is there a graveyard anywhere around here [2729.0s] i mean there is there is a graveyard yes it's uh the city of the dead is the graveyard for water [2735.3s] deep is it close by why you want to go there yeah that's sort of a strange question out of [2741.0s] nowhere here in this dark alley and very specific well the person i thought i saw [2749.8s] they told me to meet them in the graveyard wait so you did see someone or you didn't see [2754.8s] well i thought i did i thought i did because he seemed real to me but then when you guys came over [2762.2s] he wasn't there anymore i mean that sounds like exactly the sort of person you should [2767.9s] probably tell your friends about the kind that are there and say like weird mysterious things [2772.7s] and then just disappear yeah that's why i'm telling you okay also he had three eyes [2779.6s] oh oh okay wow kind of buried the lead on that story probably should have led with that one [2787.0s] oh and when he talked to me he didn't move his mouth but i heard him in my head [2791.4s] and he told you to meet him in a graveyard yeah and you want to go there well i'm you know [2797.4s] like this is a good idea i'm a curious personality okay in more ways than one did he seem like did [2805.0s] he have an energy like a ken kind of energy oh good question i don't maybe i don't know what [2813.1s] the ken energy really is well i think we just call it ken energy oh that is good [2819.4s] hmm what would we call mine a barergy that doesn't roll the same the barometer oh you [2826.5s] are very good at these such things i know that's why we're best friends um so yeah maybe [2833.6s] you know if we can track ken down we can also go do you think we should go to the graveyard [2839.5s] i'm really intrigued i mean i'm also intrigued but when we say it out loud it sounds like a very [2844.6s] bad idea but it sounds crazy but i mean well i got these and i pull out my daggers so maybe [2851.5s] you stabbed yourself and you got your ken free did i also stab you did you sleep with your daggers [2857.0s] i don't sleep with my daggers i sleep naked the way god's intended [2863.3s] so yeah we got we got this weird graveyard guy so uh let's go make poor choices [2869.1s] i guess let's um let's hit the graveyard and see either a three-eyed boy or a tiny human or [2875.6s] maybe both or just a bunch of dead people or just a bunch of dead we'll almost definitely [2881.0s] see them yeah they'll they'll for sure be there um i'm sure i've seen it on the on the [2885.8s] walkabout sometime and i will i will uh maybe there's a great baguette on the way we get some [2892.4s] some delicious baguettes okay do you want more food i can't even think about eating [2897.3s] hillip oh my goodness it's been a whole like hour two hours that we've been crawling around [2903.0s] on the ground trying to track down the tiny ken well you're the only one that's been [2907.4s] crawling hillip look you guys you did it at the end there i saw you [2911.5s] you admit it you got into it you were playing my game and it worked look at us we found a [2921.0s] three-eyed wonder in the middle of the night and now we are headed to mystery [2926.8s] it's gonna be really exciting i mean again when you say it out loud it sounds crazy [2933.8s] i don't think we need baguettes though i don't think i think that may be like [2937.4s] like like an expediation is the important part of this did he give you a time was he like at [2945.9s] 11 30 or no he just said meet him in the graveyard [2952.7s] okay well i guess we could go tomorrow too do you want to go during daytime yeah but do like [2961.2s] spirits who could possibly help you out even come out in the morning time [2965.4s] i mean we're already on our way i say we just keep going and hillip maybe if we'll pass a [2969.9s] baguette and if we go past one you could pop in very quickly oh thank you this was so nice [2977.3s] i will get each of you a baguette just for being so kind in my considerations on this [2981.9s] adventure you carry on your way through water deep and as you're getting nearer you do [2990.0s] pass a baguette and so you all you all each of you are now in possession of a baguette [2994.6s] whether you eat it or not that's up to you you get nearer to the city of the dead which is the [3001.4s] cemetery ward in water deep and from behind you you hear a call out that says uh fun noise [3013.0s] i think someone's calling you fun fun noise is that you fun times is it burko yes yes it is [3020.2s] me the master of magic burko well what are you doing here uh well i was i was out uh perusing [3029.9s] for a delicious baguette which it seems you have found is it back this way would you just like [3036.6s] mine no i wouldn't want to take one person's baguette it's no no i i insist i'm still very [3044.6s] full from our all meat dinner that is very kind of you i will hold it and not not eat it [3049.1s] until i give you the news that you sir might be shorter for good [3057.2s] as i hand him the baguette like oh well that's it's not exactly the news i wanted to hear so [3063.7s] i looked into this wild magic asked a few friends uh you know we mulled it over we [3071.3s] talked about it usually when wild magic is involved it um it creates [3082.4s] irreversible effects it is to be not not toiled with [3091.2s] so he should just stop doing magic altogether well i mean if he doesn't want to get shorter [3097.4s] that's probably a great idea if you're just dabbling in in in the dark arts without [3105.4s] proper education as one does [3111.2s] so wait the wild magic is a dark art well it's it's unexplained by [3117.8s] my many in in the in the education field it's just something unexplained doesn't mean [3123.8s] dark though i was just using a metaphor to to try and scare you away from shrinking more [3130.2s] seemed like you were trying to magic shame me i was not trying to magic shame you you gave me [3135.0s] this delicious baguette and for that i am eternally grateful and wish i had proper [3139.9s] better news for you you took a man's baguette and gave him terrible news i don't think that's [3144.8s] very good bedside man i tried not to take his baguette knowing that i had not proper good [3150.7s] news to give him it's okay you can still have the baguette thank you thank you very much um [3158.9s] sorry to not be of any more help um perhaps you could get your friends to pull hard on your legs [3166.7s] and and on arms i hear that's a new thing they're rolling people out trying to stretch [3173.5s] them stretch them taller okay um that's terrible i'll think about that uh just random weird [3180.8s] question for you for men any three-eyed people um well uh no not okay not i mean no oh yeah well [3191.4s] we got you here something burst out of my side that you said look i told you i'm not a doctor [3196.6s] it was a little person that is very strange [3204.7s] how why do you have a little person inside your side out of my satchel i take the uh like the [3211.1s] teeny tiny i assume it looks like a little snakeskin snowsuit that's sort of what i'm [3215.8s] picturing yeah yeah like uh yeah it'd be really hard to get out of if you had to pee what is [3221.9s] well this is the uh the shedded um exoskeleton can you not wave it in my face well i just want [3231.0s] you to take a real close up yeah that looks vile yes uh and that came out of you no no [3238.2s] the thing that shed it came out of me i mean so and now we're tracking it down really yeah [3245.0s] well that sounds like you i think the world needed more than one of me and so i burst myself [3254.6s] it's a very high high view point you have of yourself [3260.6s] mm-hmm yeah um well i'm gonna have to hit the books on that one [3267.3s] when you take my baguette and feel free to swing by and talk to fran and [3273.6s] let her know you're you're coming to visit me again [3279.7s] okay okay bye burko hope i see you tomorrow zumba i will i will be there after carbo loading up [3287.0s] with this baguette i would hope so you betcha gotta work off this this sweet baguette oh he [3292.9s] takes a bite oh you're missing out good friend sweet noise so we just ran into him on the street [3301.0s] right he wasn't in the graveyard no no he's he was just yeah before you got to the the ward he [3306.2s] just he just came upon you it's funny how that happened so you carry on your way and [3315.0s] you make it to the gates of the city of the dead and it is a it is a gated ward it goes [3322.0s] all the way around hillip explains to you if you had not ventured out that far into the city yet [3328.3s] but it is um yeah entirely iron gated fence and iron rot fenced off [3335.7s] um the gate is passable it's not locked if you so desire to enter [3342.9s] let's do it yeah now and never i got 11 hp let's go into this graveyard meet this three-eyed [3349.1s] no-mouth boy [3352.6s] what are you doing to how are you entering what are you what's the the general mood of the group [3358.7s] here i take my daggers out it's a dark graveyard yeah yeah i think i would i would not looking to [3365.1s] stab a little three-eyed boy or anything like that but like who knows what else might but [3369.1s] you want to be ready yeah i would like to kind of nervously rubbing the feather necklace [3375.4s] i have in my hand yeah i've got my war pick out just okay um everybody is uh ready to rumble so [3385.5s] they say hillip is following very close behind um he is holding a torch um kind of over the [3392.7s] shoulders of glim perhaps perhaps perhaps perhaps perhaps uh he's holding the over the [3400.6s] shoulder of glim um you carry through the cemetery everybody make a perception roll [3413.1s] 19 eight eight amy get your own number sorry um aided by the torch light that [3424.4s] uh hillip is holding over your shoulder glim the general feel at least right now is the [3434.9s] the shadows are playing tricks on everybody's eyes you see just it it's probably just the [3442.9s] wind moving the branches uh hillip moot and sully think there are things moving beyond [3449.9s] their vision uh within the cemetery glim you don't see these things you see them [3456.6s] rather as as they are tree branches and leaves and bushes and tombstones [3465.3s] guys it's so creepy in here what do you mean it's just i mean it's dark and i know it's [3470.7s] the final resting place of a lot of people but just branches and gravestones it's not really [3477.9s] i think it's just a cemetery at night it has a has a weird vibe i don't know i think there's [3483.3s] like things in the trees and stuff maybe it is the ken and the berry i think if it was ken i [3491.5s] wouldn't be so freaked out you know i have a feeling of comfort that is true yeah maybe it's [3496.4s] that uh three-eyed boy hello you continue you home you continue walking through the cemetery [3505.5s] kind of going up and down rows and glim as sully and moot and hillip kind of spread out a [3515.2s] little bit you're all close together but directly in front of you glim you see a small boy in a [3524.1s] dark hooded tunic and he lifts his head and looks up at you and you see that he has a [3534.5s] third eye right in the middle of his forehead he's very pale compLexion [3541.7s] and all four of you here in your head [3546.0s] the demon gates are opening [3548.5s] and then he looks directly at glim your destiny it calls [3578.5s] you [3599.1s] the song long road ahead is 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