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Welcome to Dumbgeons and Dragons! We're a D&D 5th edition actual play podcast, and I'm your Dungeon Master Russ More, and with me today is Amy More!

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I am, I'm here! I am playing Thea Amastasia, a High Elf Druid.

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And Tom Laird!

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That's me, I didn't realize Russ was starting right then, so I hit record as he said the intro, so hopefully you have fun lining that up, Russ.

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And I play Flint Firebeard.

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And Karla Janow! Karla Maxted!

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Karla Janow.

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I pranked you because I didn't put my name in the thing, it just says Karla. Oh, you changed it.

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Yes, I am also here. I am playing a character with no name, a.k.a. Beefy Boy.

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A human fighter, among other things.

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Mystery, mystery, mystery.

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And also joining us today, a very special guest, Rev from The Crit Show!

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Hi!

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Yay!

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Thanks for having me.

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Thanks for being here, Rev.

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Thank you so much for being here.

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It's my pleasure.

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Tell us a little bit about The Crit Show and what our listeners could expect when they come and just pop in.

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Yeah, so The Crit Show is an actual play podcast, of course, and we focus on Monster of the Week and other Powered by the Apocalypse games.

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In the first season, the hunters discover they have to go to other worlds to kind of get all the things they need.

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And so our mechanic now is that when they go to a different world, it's a different Powered by the Apocalypse game.

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And so they get to experience all these different games that exist by all these smaller publishers or independent publishers.

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And one of the big things we kind of focus on is that in the first three or four episodes of that game system, we want to make sure you walk away, know how to playing it.

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Now, as far as your character goes, we'll leave it up to you.

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You can introduce them now or we can just find out naturally.

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OK.

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I'll say this much.

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Her name is Margaret.

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It's really all there is to know.

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That's all you need to know.

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That's all you need to know.

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I have such a visual picture already.

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Just hearing that.

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Of a Margaret? Yeah.

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Of a Margaret.

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Everybody's got a Margaret.

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My brain just went.

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Is her nickname Marge? Margie?

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Is she a standard lady?

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Marge?

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Yeah, could be Marge.

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She is not a Marge.

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She is a Margaret.

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OK.

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Good to know.

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Everybody please be careful.

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Where you don't have to be careful is over on Patreon, Patreon.com slash dumb dragon cast.

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Where when you are a patron, you get an episode dedicated to you like today's patron, David Bennett.

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David Bennett.

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Thank you, David Bennett.

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You're awesome.

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You can find out more at Patreon.com slash dumb dragon cast.

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And now, fuck it, let's play D&D.

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We hear the sound of creaking wagon wheels rolling over a trail passing through the misty forest.

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The trail is slow as Tiny and Clip Clop pull Flint, Thea, Donnie and their new friend,

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no name, Beefy Boy, closer to their final destination of Waterdeep.

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At your current pace, you are approximately a 10 day away.

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You're getting in the final stretch.

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It's good.

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It's been a long haul for you.

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The fog is thick and the air is humid this night, more so than the group's last excursion through the misty forest.

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Did anyone else think when he said no name, Beefy Boy, that it was probably a microwavable dish?

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Oh, yeah, 100% now.

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I had a lot of those when my wife and I were living in separate states.

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To the last bite.

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So it's been a few days we've been traveling.

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Can I assume we have passed through a town and maybe I haven't weaponed myself?

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Who would assume that sort of thing?

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That is a pretty crazy leap, Carla.

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Did you also assume we stopped for food?

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I just wanted to make sure I didn't want to not say it and then have a weapon and somebody be like,

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where did you get a weapon?

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Aren't you borrowing a sword from Flint right now?

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We'll say you stopped in a smaller town.

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So what weapon did you procure?

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So many.

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You had no money.

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It was a small town but well known for its weapon selection.

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That's right.

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Yes, exactly.

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I have many, many weapons.

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All right.

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Well, I look forward to hearing about them each individually as you choose during battle to pick which one you are going to do.

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Charm, wit, dashing good looks.

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Oh no.

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She didn't say there are physical weapons.

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I don't have any of those things.

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I have gray skin.

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I'm modeled.

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I probably smell a bit off.

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I don't think I have any of those skills.

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As you travel through the misty forests, Thea and new friend, the next account is quick, much faster than you can react.

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There is a flash off to the right of the path, followed by the sound of a rumbling earthquake.

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The trees are heaved up in all directions.

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Earth explodes beneath your wagon.

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You, your horses and wagon are sent crashing into a rolling wave of forces as your head hits the ground hard.

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What the fuck?

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Sorry.

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Don't I even get to roll for head hit?

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I'm sorry.

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This is only happening to Beefy Boy and I?

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No, everybody.

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This is happening.

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This is happening to everybody.

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You just mentioned us specifically.

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Because you have the highest perception.

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Oh.

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So you saw the flash and then.

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Wait, so you think floating?

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We're sleeping through it.

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It never notices anything.

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Oh, I see.

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We saw the flash.

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We noticed the flash before the earthquake.

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Otherwise, there would have just been an earthquake roll at the top.

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Okay, then the what the fuck I said from earlier counts for when I saw the flash.

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Flint blinked right as the flash happened, so he totally missed it.

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And made it for a really awkward photo.

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All three of you roll a perception check at disadvantage.

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Well, that's a nine, so good luck, Amy.

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Let's see if I can roll a one.

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Oh, damn it.

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17.

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Wait, perception?

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Guys, I rolled two 20s in a row.

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Yeah, you did.

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It literally never happened before.

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It was for a bullshit perception check.

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18.

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And I'm kind of mad.

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Carla's new place is blessed.

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Hashtag blessed.

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Can I mail my dice to you?

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Maybe you just like rub them around on the carpet and then mail them back to me.

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Well, can you do it right before I'm going to move out just in case you curse my new life?

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It's hurtful.

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All right.

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Sorry, Flint.

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What did Flint do?

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Oh, it didn't.

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No, it still matters.

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It doesn't even matter.

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It was a four.

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Okay, well, you don't see what I'm going to describe next.

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It's a very, very long blank.

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Thea and new friend, you see a huge furry silhouetted figure leap over top of your

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wagon and run off into the forest, followed by an enormous roar as you lose consciousness.

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Uncertain how long exactly has passed, you are shaken awake by a person.

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Rev, who do you wake up first and who do they see?

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I think I wake up Thea first and they see a woman in her late 50s, gray hair and a

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large dark cloak.

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She would be played by Betty White, like season six Golden Girls.

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Oh, all right.

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But she's got a very ornate necklace on and a large shield with a crest of an eye on

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the front of it.

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Are you all right?

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Mom, what?

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It seems you took a bit of a tumble.

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Who are you?

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Oh, my name is Margaret.

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It seems that you got in the path of the, well, whatever the hell this thing is,

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I'm trying to track down.

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I look around.

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Do I see my buddies?

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You see Beefy Boy and Flint.

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You do not see Donnie.

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What about the horses?

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The horses appear to have been broken free from the wagon, but you don't see them.

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What about the goat?

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The goat is standing right beside Flint.

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The goat is still with us?

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Yes, the goat is still with us.

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Perfect.

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I take anything that's around me and I like throw it at Flint to wake him up.

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I assume rock, hunk of dirt, something.

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You're unconscious.

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I'm going to whip a rock at your head.

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Where do you hit me with this rock?

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In the chest.

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Relax.

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Flint, wake up.

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Yeah, I'm up.

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What's?

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Friend.

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Friend.

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Oh, hello.

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Hi, Flint, Firebeard.

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Oh, hi.

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How are you?

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I'm Margaret.

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How are you?

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I mean, a little surprise to be waking up.

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Last thing I remember is I blinked really long and did I fall asleep?

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Is that what happened?

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Did you drive the car off the road?

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Is that what happened?

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I thought maybe you got in the path of I'm tracking this thing down, but did

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you drive off the road?

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Is that what happened here?

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I mean, I don't remember driving off the road, but I guess it could have happened.

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What do I see?

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Like, are we in like a cavernous inside the ground kind of situation?

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Are we in a ditch?

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No, you're, I mean, it's clear where the trail and this earthquake have kind of

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gone.

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Like the earth is completely disrupted.

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The trees kind of fallen over.

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You can see the path probably like 50 yards on either side of you.

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Like what a tremor leaves behind?

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I mean, out of game may be something similar, but it does clearly look like the

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the earth was disturbed off to the right, to the left, and then kind of dissipates.

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And just to be clear, I'm talking about like Kavin Bacon tremors, not just a

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tremor of the ground.

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Yeah.

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Okay, cool.

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I mean, sure.

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Okay.

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I just thought maybe like we'd fall into a crack in the ground.

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I wasn't sure how extreme.

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Or maybe there was some sort of tractor race playing chicken.

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I don't know.

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Who are you?

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Me?

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Yeah.

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Are you all right?

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I've already, did you get a concussion when you fell?

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Well, maybe.

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Oh, no.

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Well, I'm Margaret.

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And you know what?

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For the next 45 minutes or so, I'll keep reminding you, don't go to sleep.

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Okay.

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Because I don't want any of this to be permanent loss.

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It's really kind of you.

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Yes.

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Well, I try to make sure we take care of, you know, those we come across.

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Is everyone accounted for here?

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No.

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No one's woken me up.

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I'm just still sleeping.

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You guys don't care about me.

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We just met.

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It's fine.

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We're just like taking care of the situation first, you know.

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I understand.

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I understand.

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I'm new.

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Have you happened to see a like gold wormling anywhere?

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No, not in recent memory.

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What about a really big horse and what would look like a small horse, but just a regular size horse?

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Oh, is that what was pulling your wagon?

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Oh, no, I'm sorry.

261
00:13:00,000 --> 00:13:07,000
I didn't see anything except the overturned wagon here and the three of you.

262
00:13:07,000 --> 00:13:14,000
I stand up and I go and give beefy boy a little nudge with my foot.

263
00:13:14,000 --> 00:13:15,000
Nudge, nudge.

264
00:13:15,000 --> 00:13:21,000
Oh, what was that?

265
00:13:21,000 --> 00:13:24,000
That's what I've been trying to figure out.

266
00:13:24,000 --> 00:13:25,000
You don't know what you're tracking?

267
00:13:25,000 --> 00:13:31,000
No, I've talked to some folks around here and it's something they've never seen before

268
00:13:31,000 --> 00:13:34,000
and I've never heard of, even the description of it.

269
00:13:34,000 --> 00:13:40,000
Well, depending on who you talk to, it's 10, 15 feet tall.

270
00:13:40,000 --> 00:13:46,000
Some say it moves like a gorilla, but it's got horns and a long thin tail

271
00:13:46,000 --> 00:13:51,000
and wherever it goes, there's earthquakes and lightning storms.

272
00:13:51,000 --> 00:13:56,000
I've never heard anything of the like and I've been tracking things down for quite a while.

273
00:13:56,000 --> 00:13:59,000
Did you all get a good look at it?

274
00:13:59,000 --> 00:14:03,000
I turn to Flint and I'm like, if we find it, can we keep it?

275
00:14:03,000 --> 00:14:07,000
Earthquakes and lightning storms and you want to keep it?

276
00:14:07,000 --> 00:14:09,000
Well, we got a dragon, we got a goat.

277
00:14:09,000 --> 00:14:13,000
We got a beefy boy, we're getting a bit of a motley crew here.

278
00:14:13,000 --> 00:14:17,000
Yeah, it's a whole menagerie of interesting creatures.

279
00:14:17,000 --> 00:14:22,000
I reach out with my mind, Donnie.

280
00:14:22,000 --> 00:14:23,000
There's no response.

281
00:14:23,000 --> 00:14:25,000
Donnie Dragon.

282
00:14:25,000 --> 00:14:27,000
I assume his last name is Dragon, right?

283
00:14:27,000 --> 00:14:30,000
I would have to think so.

284
00:14:30,000 --> 00:14:31,000
Still no response.

285
00:14:31,000 --> 00:14:33,000
Nothing? Oh.

286
00:14:33,000 --> 00:14:38,000
I yell, Tiny.

287
00:14:38,000 --> 00:14:40,000
Make a perception check.

288
00:14:40,000 --> 00:14:46,000
Oh, maybe something. Oh, no.

289
00:14:46,000 --> 00:14:50,000
23.

290
00:14:50,000 --> 00:14:53,000
Um, you don't hear anything?

291
00:14:53,000 --> 00:14:56,000
Marker, are you a good tracker, would you say?

292
00:14:56,000 --> 00:14:58,000
Yeah, I would say so.

293
00:14:58,000 --> 00:15:04,000
You know, it gets the job done, but this thing seems to be able to jump really well

294
00:15:04,000 --> 00:15:10,000
and just kind of vanishes and there's no constant track to follow.

295
00:15:10,000 --> 00:15:12,000
Is there a reason why you're tracking it?

296
00:15:12,000 --> 00:15:19,000
Well, I just heard I try to go around and, well, I deal with with monsters.

297
00:15:19,000 --> 00:15:26,000
I just been, gosh, 20 years now, I've been just hunting them where I can find them.

298
00:15:26,000 --> 00:15:30,000
And I was traveling and I heard about this one.

299
00:15:30,000 --> 00:15:36,000
Some people were losing their their cattle were being mutilated and their houses were being destroyed.

300
00:15:36,000 --> 00:15:41,000
And it seemed like good a place as any to try to lay the hand.

301
00:15:41,000 --> 00:15:43,000
It sounds pretty noble.

302
00:15:43,000 --> 00:15:50,000
Yeah, it's, you know, you get older and you start to do things to make up for past sins.

303
00:15:50,000 --> 00:15:54,000
So this is a thing I can do fairly well.

304
00:15:54,000 --> 00:15:56,000
Well, would you like a hand?

305
00:15:56,000 --> 00:16:04,000
I have a feeling with disappeared animals that we might find them where we might find that creature of yours.

306
00:16:04,000 --> 00:16:10,000
Yeah, if you're losing a couple, if you're missing a couple things, they may be with whatever this thing is.

307
00:16:10,000 --> 00:16:13,000
I would hate to leave him alone long.

308
00:16:13,000 --> 00:16:17,000
What do you guys think? I turned toward Beefy Boy and Lint.

309
00:16:17,000 --> 00:16:27,000
Well, I mean, if Margaret's a tracker, then chances are we can get a track on this thing and maybe find out what it is.

310
00:16:27,000 --> 00:16:32,000
Yeah, I really don't want something to happen to those horses and to Donnie.

311
00:16:32,000 --> 00:16:36,000
I think I think we should probably lend a hand if we can.

312
00:16:36,000 --> 00:16:40,000
All right.

313
00:16:40,000 --> 00:16:42,000
Shall we shall we forward?

314
00:16:42,000 --> 00:16:44,000
Should we follow this track in the ground?

315
00:16:44,000 --> 00:16:51,000
Margaret, like, is there a track in the ground or is there like just an earthquake or it seemed like it kind of jumped over us?

316
00:16:51,000 --> 00:16:53,000
Or what do we track?

317
00:16:53,000 --> 00:16:56,000
Track wise, you don't see much of anything.

318
00:16:56,000 --> 00:17:00,000
The ground is disrupted in the immediate vicinity.

319
00:17:00,000 --> 00:17:14,000
As far as you two are concerned, Thea and Beefy Boy, you saw a general direction before passing out off to the left of the off to the left of the trail.

320
00:17:14,000 --> 00:17:24,000
I would like to use my boots of levitation to levitate above the tree line and see if I can see anything from the sky.

321
00:17:24,000 --> 00:17:25,000
OK.

322
00:17:25,000 --> 00:17:28,000
When you smile like that, it upsets me.

323
00:17:28,000 --> 00:17:33,000
Sometimes I just smile just because it's off putting.

324
00:17:33,000 --> 00:17:34,000
OK.

325
00:17:34,000 --> 00:17:36,000
It's a human emotion on your face.

326
00:17:36,000 --> 00:17:37,000
Don't do it.

327
00:17:37,000 --> 00:17:39,000
You do anything for that or is that just once per long rest?

328
00:17:39,000 --> 00:17:40,000
I can't remember.

329
00:17:40,000 --> 00:17:41,000
You haven't used it in a while.

330
00:17:41,000 --> 00:17:43,000
I know it's a wondrous item.

331
00:17:43,000 --> 00:17:49,000
When I wear these boots, I can use an action to cast levitate on myself at will.

332
00:17:49,000 --> 00:17:53,000
So all right, I can just cast it.

333
00:17:53,000 --> 00:17:57,000
What does it look like as you cast it?

334
00:17:57,000 --> 00:18:00,000
I just see all upsies and I jump in it, push the air.

335
00:18:00,000 --> 00:18:03,000
Oh, look at that.

336
00:18:03,000 --> 00:18:05,000
Wow.

337
00:18:05,000 --> 00:18:07,000
Nothing surprises Margaret anymore.

338
00:18:07,000 --> 00:18:09,000
She's been in this game for a while.

339
00:18:09,000 --> 00:18:16,000
You launch up and you oversee you see over top of the of the tree line.

340
00:18:16,000 --> 00:18:26,000
There's a very clear direction where this explosion or earthquake or whatever it is started off to the direction that you saw it.

341
00:18:26,000 --> 00:18:28,000
And it cuts clear across the path.

342
00:18:28,000 --> 00:18:33,000
And then it goes another 50 yards or so in the direction where you saw the monster go.

343
00:18:33,000 --> 00:18:40,000
And then the tree cover is left intact after that.

344
00:18:40,000 --> 00:18:43,000
So it's pretty thick trees.

345
00:18:43,000 --> 00:18:45,000
Misty as well.

346
00:18:45,000 --> 00:18:46,000
Thick and misty.

347
00:18:46,000 --> 00:18:47,000
Thick and misty.

348
00:18:47,000 --> 00:18:55,000
That's how we like it.

349
00:18:55,000 --> 00:19:00,000
I don't know where to go with that.

350
00:19:00,000 --> 00:19:03,000
I slowly float down, not so graceful.

351
00:19:03,000 --> 00:19:04,000
I'm not very graceful.

352
00:19:04,000 --> 00:19:07,000
I've only used these boots like twice, I think.

353
00:19:07,000 --> 00:19:10,000
And I feel like do you have to like kind of pull yourself?

354
00:19:10,000 --> 00:19:11,000
You're levitating.

355
00:19:11,000 --> 00:19:14,000
You have to like pull yourself down beside trees to get down.

356
00:19:14,000 --> 00:19:15,000
I can only go up.

357
00:19:15,000 --> 00:19:22,000
I think once I take cast levitate off, I just float to the ground.

358
00:19:23,000 --> 00:19:25,000
But yeah, it's not graceful.

359
00:19:25,000 --> 00:19:30,000
It's like...

360
00:19:30,000 --> 00:19:31,000
Flint like reaches out to help.

361
00:19:31,000 --> 00:19:34,000
I'm like, no, no, I have to do this on my own.

362
00:19:34,000 --> 00:19:38,000
I'll never learn if you help me.

363
00:19:38,000 --> 00:19:40,000
I point in the direction that we saw it go off.

364
00:19:40,000 --> 00:19:43,000
And I was like, it goes about, you say yards or feet?

365
00:19:43,000 --> 00:19:46,000
50 yards.

366
00:19:46,000 --> 00:19:47,000
Okay.

367
00:19:47,000 --> 00:19:48,000
So it's about like...

368
00:19:48,000 --> 00:19:49,000
150.

369
00:19:49,000 --> 00:19:50,000
That's what I was going to say.

370
00:19:50,000 --> 00:19:55,000
About 150 feet or, you know, 50 yards in this direction.

371
00:19:55,000 --> 00:19:58,000
But then the trees, they get so thick.

372
00:19:58,000 --> 00:20:01,000
I don't know if it just stopped or if I just can't see anything anymore.

373
00:20:01,000 --> 00:20:03,000
But I think it's a safe bet.

374
00:20:03,000 --> 00:20:08,000
Let's grab our stuff out of the really useless cart now.

375
00:20:08,000 --> 00:20:11,000
Should we put a sign on the wagon that says like,

376
00:20:11,000 --> 00:20:14,000
this is property of the Decimators of Dragons.

377
00:20:14,000 --> 00:20:17,000
Please don't steal me.

378
00:20:17,000 --> 00:20:20,000
Do you guys kind of capitalize on your fame in that kind of way

379
00:20:20,000 --> 00:20:22,000
so people don't steal your carts?

380
00:20:22,000 --> 00:20:24,000
We generally try not to draw too much attention.

381
00:20:24,000 --> 00:20:26,000
Yeah, that might make it a collector's item.

382
00:20:26,000 --> 00:20:28,000
People might want it more.

383
00:20:28,000 --> 00:20:30,000
That's a good point.

384
00:20:30,000 --> 00:20:31,000
That's a good point.

385
00:20:31,000 --> 00:20:33,000
Maybe we should just kind of pull it off the trail then.

386
00:20:33,000 --> 00:20:36,000
Is it like busted up or is it just turned over?

387
00:20:36,000 --> 00:20:37,000
Well, it's turned over.

388
00:20:37,000 --> 00:20:39,000
It's damaged.

389
00:20:39,000 --> 00:20:44,000
Would need to be repaired before you're able to get it moving again.

390
00:20:44,000 --> 00:20:45,000
Oh, I see.

391
00:20:45,000 --> 00:20:46,000
Yeah.

392
00:20:46,000 --> 00:20:47,000
Maybe let's drag it off.

393
00:20:47,000 --> 00:20:49,000
Not a hot item for thieves.

394
00:20:49,000 --> 00:20:52,000
No, but a collector's item for sure.

395
00:20:52,000 --> 00:20:53,000
Sure.

396
00:20:53,000 --> 00:20:55,000
Put it in the showroom, you know.

397
00:20:55,000 --> 00:20:57,000
Water deep swapping shop.

398
00:20:57,000 --> 00:20:59,000
Come up with a good story to go along with it.

399
00:20:59,000 --> 00:21:03,000
Get someone to come in and do a little restoration video on it.

400
00:21:03,000 --> 00:21:05,000
Pimp my wagon.

401
00:21:05,000 --> 00:21:07,000
American Pickers, pimp my wagon.

402
00:21:07,000 --> 00:21:12,000
Okay, someone write that down because that would be a fun bonus episode.

403
00:21:12,000 --> 00:21:13,000
Yo, dog.

404
00:21:13,000 --> 00:21:14,000
Oh, no.

405
00:21:14,000 --> 00:21:16,000
Pimp my wagons today.

406
00:21:16,000 --> 00:21:17,000
That guy.

407
00:21:17,000 --> 00:21:18,000
Ludicrous.

408
00:21:18,000 --> 00:21:19,000
No, it's not ludicrous.

409
00:21:19,000 --> 00:21:20,000
I thought it was exhibit.

410
00:21:20,000 --> 00:21:21,000
Exhibit.

411
00:21:21,000 --> 00:21:22,000
That's right.

412
00:21:22,000 --> 00:21:23,000
I mean, what?

413
00:21:23,000 --> 00:21:24,000
I never watched it.

414
00:21:24,000 --> 00:21:25,000
I have no idea.

415
00:21:25,000 --> 00:21:26,000
I quickly Googled that.

416
00:21:26,000 --> 00:21:28,000
I had no clue.

417
00:21:28,000 --> 00:21:30,000
It's edited down for brevity, right?

418
00:21:30,000 --> 00:21:31,000
Yeah.

419
00:21:31,000 --> 00:21:32,000
Okay.

420
00:21:32,000 --> 00:21:37,000
You start to head off towards the direction in which you pointed.

421
00:21:37,000 --> 00:21:42,000
You travel for a good while before you come to anything.

422
00:21:42,000 --> 00:21:45,000
Is there anything that you discuss with each other?

423
00:21:45,000 --> 00:21:50,000
I'd like to talk to Margaret.

424
00:21:50,000 --> 00:21:52,000
Hi, Margaret, is it?

425
00:21:52,000 --> 00:21:54,000
Yes.

426
00:21:54,000 --> 00:22:01,000
I know this is a strange question, but I don't really have a name.

427
00:22:01,000 --> 00:22:02,000
I have many names.

428
00:22:02,000 --> 00:22:09,000
I have a whole list of names, and I'm sort of hoping to kind of nail one down in these two.

429
00:22:09,000 --> 00:22:13,000
It's been a week, and they still haven't come up with anything.

430
00:22:13,000 --> 00:22:18,000
So I don't know, first impressions or anything.

431
00:22:18,000 --> 00:22:25,000
So first impressions, I'm very tall and have straggly long hair and kind of grayish skin, and I'm real tough and strong looking.

432
00:22:25,000 --> 00:22:26,000
But no pressure.

433
00:22:26,000 --> 00:22:33,000
As I walk past you, I say, because you're too picky.

434
00:22:33,000 --> 00:22:34,000
She's right.

435
00:22:34,000 --> 00:22:38,000
They have made some suggestions, but.

436
00:22:38,000 --> 00:22:41,000
You remind me of a Lexington that I once met.

437
00:22:41,000 --> 00:22:46,000
I don't know if that sticks with you, but.

438
00:22:46,000 --> 00:22:47,000
Lexington.

439
00:22:47,000 --> 00:22:49,000
Lex for short.

440
00:22:49,000 --> 00:22:50,000
I like that.

441
00:22:50,000 --> 00:22:51,000
It's commanding.

442
00:22:51,000 --> 00:22:58,000
Some of my problems were they were very long names they were giving me, and you couldn't shout it out in a battle with directions.

443
00:22:58,000 --> 00:23:00,000
But Lex.

444
00:23:00,000 --> 00:23:01,000
Thanks, Margaret.

445
00:23:01,000 --> 00:23:02,000
Yeah.

446
00:23:02,000 --> 00:23:05,000
But what do you want to be called for now?

447
00:23:05,000 --> 00:23:06,000
Well.

448
00:23:06,000 --> 00:23:07,000
Oh, beefy boys.

449
00:23:12,000 --> 00:23:16,000
Why don't why don't we try out this Lex name?

450
00:23:16,000 --> 00:23:17,000
All right.

451
00:23:17,000 --> 00:23:18,000
Let's try it out.

452
00:23:18,000 --> 00:23:21,000
Hey, guys, I'm going to we're going to try out Lex.

453
00:23:21,000 --> 00:23:22,000
What do you think?

454
00:23:22,000 --> 00:23:24,000
Lex Lex and Perseus.

455
00:23:24,000 --> 00:23:26,000
Sounds pretty good, right?

456
00:23:26,000 --> 00:23:28,000
Lex Perseus.

457
00:23:28,000 --> 00:23:30,000
Perseus my rat.

458
00:23:30,000 --> 00:23:31,000
Right.

459
00:23:31,000 --> 00:23:32,000
Yes, sorry.

460
00:23:32,000 --> 00:23:34,000
I was like as a last name.

461
00:23:34,000 --> 00:23:35,000
I think sounds good.

462
00:23:35,000 --> 00:23:36,000
I like it.

463
00:23:36,000 --> 00:23:38,000
I think it's got a nice like strong sound to it.

464
00:23:38,000 --> 00:23:41,000
OK, let's let's try it out.

465
00:23:41,000 --> 00:23:44,000
Yeah, Lex and Perseus has got a good got a good duo feel.

466
00:23:44,000 --> 00:23:46,000
So he still has his rat.

467
00:23:46,000 --> 00:23:48,000
It didn't run away with all the other animals.

468
00:23:48,000 --> 00:23:55,000
No, the rat is still on on his person because that's where the rat lives.

469
00:23:55,000 --> 00:23:58,000
In like a pocket or something.

470
00:23:58,000 --> 00:24:00,000
Yes.

471
00:24:00,000 --> 00:24:01,000
True.

472
00:24:01,000 --> 00:24:10,000
I imagine him maybe in like a pullover, like a hoodie, but with like the pocket in the middle, the kangaroo pocket.

473
00:24:10,000 --> 00:24:13,000
Yeah.

474
00:24:13,000 --> 00:24:15,000
Which is not very commanding at all.

475
00:24:15,000 --> 00:24:16,000
Underneath the cloak.

476
00:24:16,000 --> 00:24:17,000
Hanging out in a hoodie.

477
00:24:17,000 --> 00:24:18,000
This is my commanding hoodie.

478
00:24:18,000 --> 00:24:21,000
Oh, yes.

479
00:24:21,000 --> 00:24:24,000
My bunny hug.

480
00:24:24,000 --> 00:24:25,000
As you continue.

481
00:24:25,000 --> 00:24:26,000
Sorry, go ahead.

482
00:24:26,000 --> 00:24:32,000
As you continue, the trees get thicker.

483
00:24:32,000 --> 00:24:33,000
And mistier.

484
00:24:33,000 --> 00:24:36,000
Does Flint really like it?

485
00:24:36,000 --> 00:24:37,000
Maybe.

486
00:24:37,000 --> 00:24:40,000
The air is a bit moist.

487
00:24:40,000 --> 00:24:54,000
And for a while, Margaret, you you saw you'd come across tracks having gone to cities before having gone to settlements that have been destroyed before.

488
00:24:54,000 --> 00:25:00,000
So you were following some of those tracks and they disappeared like just abruptly after a point.

489
00:25:00,000 --> 00:25:10,000
Yeah, this is this is the same damn thing that you can track it for a bit and then there's just nothing.

490
00:25:10,000 --> 00:25:12,000
Cast around here a little bit.

491
00:25:12,000 --> 00:25:21,000
See if you can spot any branches or I just can't quite tell how it's just seems to be vanishing.

492
00:25:21,000 --> 00:25:29,000
I'm going to start looking around the area again at the ground and the trees trying to see if there's anything that might have been missed at first glance.

493
00:25:29,000 --> 00:25:30,000
Sure.

494
00:25:30,000 --> 00:25:31,000
You would like to do that as well.

495
00:25:31,000 --> 00:25:33,000
I am also going to do that.

496
00:25:33,000 --> 00:25:36,000
Margaret, you can make an investigation check with advantage.

497
00:25:36,000 --> 00:25:40,000
Everybody else just make an investigation check.

498
00:25:40,000 --> 00:25:46,000
I'm taking special care to look up because if its tracks disappear, maybe it somehow is a flying creature.

499
00:25:46,000 --> 00:25:48,000
Fair enough.

500
00:25:48,000 --> 00:25:50,000
That was a 17.

501
00:25:50,000 --> 00:25:51,000
15.

502
00:25:51,000 --> 00:25:54,000
I'm just pretending to look.

503
00:25:54,000 --> 00:25:58,000
Sorry, 20.

504
00:25:58,000 --> 00:26:06,000
You all are looking around for at least in the area where the tracks disappeared or Margaret told you that the tracks disappeared.

505
00:26:06,000 --> 00:26:22,000
You see cracks and like branches that have been broken in some of the surrounding trees, but that doesn't go on for very long as far as distance goes.

506
00:26:22,000 --> 00:26:30,000
The more you look around, are you all spreading out, kind of getting a survey of the immediate vicinity?

507
00:26:30,000 --> 00:26:31,000
Probably.

508
00:26:31,000 --> 00:26:33,000
I think so.

509
00:26:33,000 --> 00:26:36,000
Look at each of your periphery, each of you.

510
00:26:36,000 --> 00:26:41,000
You see at least one person off to either side of you.

511
00:26:41,000 --> 00:26:57,000
But further just beyond that, the trees that you pass seem to take on an image of what could be an army marching next to you.

512
00:26:57,000 --> 00:27:02,000
When you turn and you look at them, the trees go back to normal.

513
00:27:02,000 --> 00:27:05,000
Guys, I think these woods are haunted.

514
00:27:05,000 --> 00:27:09,000
Yeah, there's definitely something.

515
00:27:09,000 --> 00:27:12,000
Are you seeing that out of the corner of your eye?

516
00:27:12,000 --> 00:27:14,000
You just can't quite get it.

517
00:27:14,000 --> 00:27:20,000
When I go to look at it, it just goes back to normal trees.

518
00:27:20,000 --> 00:27:29,000
Do I know anything about magical woods being a druid and enjoying nature?

519
00:27:29,000 --> 00:27:30,000
Make a nature check.

520
00:27:30,000 --> 00:27:31,000
Carefully, Russ.

521
00:27:31,000 --> 00:27:34,000
Is it a nature check or is it an arcana check?

522
00:27:34,000 --> 00:27:37,000
What are you specifically trying to find out?

523
00:27:37,000 --> 00:27:47,000
If I know of any lore of magical happenings in the woods, like a tree army.

524
00:27:47,000 --> 00:27:53,000
You can make either a nature or an arcana check, however you decide.

525
00:27:53,000 --> 00:27:56,000
23.

526
00:27:56,000 --> 00:28:01,000
You know that there are many magics within the woods.

527
00:28:01,000 --> 00:28:14,000
You haven't heard of anyone in particular about a tree army that looks, to what you saw in your peripheral, looked more humanoid.

528
00:28:14,000 --> 00:28:18,000
And when you turn back, the trees were just trees.

529
00:28:18,000 --> 00:28:23,000
There's nothing that you can think of specifically that would incite that.

530
00:28:23,000 --> 00:28:28,000
You can hug a tree and cast Detect Magic.

531
00:28:28,000 --> 00:28:33,000
Okay.

532
00:28:33,000 --> 00:28:37,000
You cast Detect Magic and you hug a tree.

533
00:28:37,000 --> 00:28:39,000
No, that's what you do.

534
00:28:39,000 --> 00:28:41,000
That's what happens.

535
00:28:41,000 --> 00:28:44,000
You cast Detect Magic and you hug a tree.

536
00:28:44,000 --> 00:28:49,000
Now, it says you sense the presence of magic within 30 feet of you.

537
00:28:49,000 --> 00:28:52,000
So you sense all of Flint's goods, all of your goods.

538
00:28:52,000 --> 00:29:02,000
You sense anything that Beefy Boy and or Margaret are carrying, give off an aura of magic.

539
00:29:02,000 --> 00:29:04,000
What about me just generally?

540
00:29:04,000 --> 00:29:08,000
Do I have a kind of glow, a grayish glow?

541
00:29:08,000 --> 00:29:11,000
Yeah, I think so.

542
00:29:11,000 --> 00:29:12,000
I think so.

543
00:29:12,000 --> 00:29:14,000
Beefy Boy, Lex.

544
00:29:14,000 --> 00:29:16,000
It's actually Lex we're trying to try out.

545
00:29:16,000 --> 00:29:17,000
I'm being so weird.

546
00:29:17,000 --> 00:29:19,000
I'm hugging this tree and I'm like looking around.

547
00:29:19,000 --> 00:29:20,000
Yeah.

548
00:29:20,000 --> 00:29:25,000
Lex definitely does give off an interesting aura.

549
00:29:25,000 --> 00:29:29,000
I stare at Lex a little bit longer than everyone I get all squinty.

550
00:29:29,000 --> 00:29:31,000
And Margaret looks at Lex.

551
00:29:31,000 --> 00:29:32,000
Is she communing with nature?

552
00:29:32,000 --> 00:29:35,000
Is that how they do it?

553
00:29:35,000 --> 00:29:40,000
I haven't seen her do this, but I haven't been with them long.

554
00:29:40,000 --> 00:29:42,000
Maybe this is just how she does it.

555
00:29:42,000 --> 00:29:43,000
All right.

556
00:29:43,000 --> 00:29:46,000
I mean, I've been with her a long time and I've never seen this before.

557
00:29:46,000 --> 00:29:48,000
Oh, this is new behavior.

558
00:29:48,000 --> 00:29:49,000
This might be the concussion.

559
00:29:49,000 --> 00:29:52,000
Glad I could keep you surprised, Flint.

560
00:29:52,000 --> 00:29:55,000
Could be the concussion.

561
00:29:55,000 --> 00:29:58,000
Could be.

562
00:29:58,000 --> 00:30:02,000
There's nothing inherently magic about any of these trees.

563
00:30:02,000 --> 00:30:09,000
So I don't know why they'd be seeing visions of things that aren't here.

564
00:30:09,000 --> 00:30:15,000
Maybe they're not magical trees that are turning into people and then back again.

565
00:30:15,000 --> 00:30:16,000
Unless they are.

566
00:30:16,000 --> 00:30:18,000
And I start to tickle the tree.

567
00:30:18,000 --> 00:30:20,000
Things are getting weird.

568
00:30:20,000 --> 00:30:22,000
I apologize.

569
00:30:22,000 --> 00:30:25,000
Does it giggle?

570
00:30:25,000 --> 00:30:28,000
No giggle is perceived.

571
00:30:28,000 --> 00:30:32,000
I take my knife out.

572
00:30:32,000 --> 00:30:33,000
Okay.

573
00:30:33,000 --> 00:30:36,000
And I tickle it a little harder.

574
00:30:36,000 --> 00:30:38,000
I poke the tree.

575
00:30:38,000 --> 00:30:43,000
It makes a chunk sound as you pierce into the bark on the tree.

576
00:30:43,000 --> 00:30:44,000
Does the tree bleed?

577
00:30:44,000 --> 00:30:46,000
Like a knife hitting a wood kind of sound?

578
00:30:46,000 --> 00:30:48,000
Yeah.

579
00:30:48,000 --> 00:30:49,000
Like metal on wood?

580
00:30:49,000 --> 00:30:52,000
Does the tree bleed?

581
00:30:52,000 --> 00:30:54,000
Just in the traditional staff kind of way?

582
00:30:54,000 --> 00:30:57,000
No, like in the bleed your own blood kind of way.

583
00:30:57,000 --> 00:31:07,000
There's no unusual tree behavior that happens to this tree that you are first hugging, then tickling.

584
00:31:07,000 --> 00:31:10,000
And then stabbing.

585
00:31:10,000 --> 00:31:14,000
She seems to be dealing with a very violent gamut of emotions very quickly.

586
00:31:14,000 --> 00:31:15,000
Should we?

587
00:31:15,000 --> 00:31:17,000
Is this normal?

588
00:31:17,000 --> 00:31:18,000
Don't worry.

589
00:31:18,000 --> 00:31:19,000
It's not going to escalate from here.

590
00:31:19,000 --> 00:31:21,000
I just, you know, I had a sneaking suspicion.

591
00:31:21,000 --> 00:31:23,000
Lex, can I talk to you for a minute?

592
00:31:23,000 --> 00:31:26,000
Where are they going to escalate after stabbing?

593
00:31:26,000 --> 00:31:27,000
That's a good question.

594
00:31:27,000 --> 00:31:30,000
She's probably going to take her clothes off.

595
00:31:37,000 --> 00:31:38,000
It's middle time.

596
00:31:38,000 --> 00:31:40,000
Now we're here.

597
00:31:40,000 --> 00:31:42,000
It's like the meat in the sandwich.

598
00:31:42,000 --> 00:31:48,000
It's very, you know, yep.

599
00:31:48,000 --> 00:31:50,000
Sorry, I didn't know my meat would throw you off so much.

600
00:31:50,000 --> 00:31:53,000
Amy's metaphor really, really threw you off.

601
00:31:53,000 --> 00:31:57,000
It's that time of the night where Rush has just given up and is agreeing with everything we say.

602
00:31:57,000 --> 00:31:59,000
I mean, I gave up a long time ago, but that's okay.

603
00:31:59,000 --> 00:32:03,000
We won't talk about that right now because those are episodes that will come out much later.

604
00:32:03,000 --> 00:32:05,000
Looking forward to that.

605
00:32:05,000 --> 00:32:13,000
But what we would like to talk about is how awesome you are and how much we love you for listening to the show as you do.

606
00:32:13,000 --> 00:32:14,000
So thank you.

607
00:32:14,000 --> 00:32:15,000
Thank you.

608
00:32:15,000 --> 00:32:16,000
Thank you.

609
00:32:16,000 --> 00:32:19,000
It's what keeps podcasts going is people listening to them.

610
00:32:19,000 --> 00:32:20,000
And us.

611
00:32:20,000 --> 00:32:22,000
It keeps us podcasting.

612
00:32:22,000 --> 00:32:23,000
Yes.

613
00:32:23,000 --> 00:32:31,000
I mean, we could podcast into the void, not knowing if anyone was listening at all, but it's so much better knowing that people are listening.

614
00:32:31,000 --> 00:32:32,000
Yeah, it is a lot better.

615
00:32:32,000 --> 00:32:40,000
Yeah, well, because that's what we're going to talk about is reviews and how reviews remind podcasters, not just us, but all podcasts that you listen to.

616
00:32:40,000 --> 00:32:44,000
You should rate and review because it just reminds them that it's not going into the void.

617
00:32:44,000 --> 00:32:48,000
And there are ear holes at the end of those those waveforms.

618
00:32:48,000 --> 00:32:57,000
And yeah, so we want to read some of those reviews that we have received recently, like this one from Mercy Morris via Apple podcasts.

619
00:32:57,000 --> 00:33:00,000
And they say, obsessive.

620
00:33:00,000 --> 00:33:02,000
I haven't gamed for about 30 years.

621
00:33:02,000 --> 00:33:05,000
I found this via Tanis, White Vault, etc.

622
00:33:05,000 --> 00:33:16,000
I'm working my way through from the beginning and have got obsessed, partly because the storyline is good, but mainly because the players and characters are just so interesting and open to emotional investment by listeners.

623
00:33:16,000 --> 00:33:20,000
It is also not irritating for a woman to listen to.

624
00:33:20,000 --> 00:33:22,000
Thanks, humanoids.

625
00:33:22,000 --> 00:33:24,000
No, thank you, Mercy Morris.

626
00:33:24,000 --> 00:33:25,000
I totally get it.

627
00:33:25,000 --> 00:33:28,000
I think that might be our best review ever.

628
00:33:28,000 --> 00:33:30,000
I like it.

629
00:33:30,000 --> 00:33:32,000
You know what?

630
00:33:32,000 --> 00:33:45,000
As a woman myself, sometimes listening to a myriad of D&D podcasts, it can feel a little exclusionary sometimes.

631
00:33:45,000 --> 00:33:54,000
And I mean, I tried to gear myself towards those that are less so and much more open for everyone.

632
00:33:54,000 --> 00:34:01,000
But sometimes it can be because D&D for the longest time was just like kind of nerdy boys game.

633
00:34:01,000 --> 00:34:02,000
And it's so not.

634
00:34:02,000 --> 00:34:03,000
That's right.

635
00:34:03,000 --> 00:34:04,000
Exactly.

636
00:34:04,000 --> 00:34:05,000
All right. Next review.

637
00:34:05,000 --> 00:34:06,000
This podcast rocks.

638
00:34:06,000 --> 00:34:08,000
This podcast gets me through my work days.

639
00:34:08,000 --> 00:34:14,000
The sometimes witty banter, other times hilarious outburst that drive Russ nuts at a level of appreciation to it.

640
00:34:14,000 --> 00:34:18,000
I've been binging as much as possible because I want to catch up to the new episodes.

641
00:34:18,000 --> 00:34:20,000
I hope Grancis comes back again.

642
00:34:20,000 --> 00:34:22,000
I have made it to the never ending maze of pain.

643
00:34:22,000 --> 00:34:24,000
And I can't stop now.

644
00:34:24,000 --> 00:34:30,000
That is from F.J.F.J.H. on Apple podcast.

645
00:34:30,000 --> 00:34:37,000
Little do they know, they're going to come and hear this episode and be like, I can't believe this is still in the maze.

646
00:34:37,000 --> 00:34:38,000
Right?

647
00:34:38,000 --> 00:34:39,000
This one is.

648
00:34:39,000 --> 00:34:40,000
We are in the maze.

649
00:34:40,000 --> 00:34:41,000
We're still in the maze.

650
00:34:41,000 --> 00:34:42,000
That's the one.

651
00:34:42,000 --> 00:34:43,000
I feel like sometimes I am in the maze.

652
00:34:43,000 --> 00:34:47,000
I feel like every time I hear the word maze, I get like a little triggered.

653
00:34:47,000 --> 00:34:52,000
Yeah, a little bit of like a little shiver runs down my back.

654
00:34:52,000 --> 00:34:58,000
This one also via Apple podcasts from skim border OC.

655
00:34:58,000 --> 00:35:08,000
It's called thanks for the soups fun cast five stars rated and reviewed before and happily here again to read the new storyline for the DDC.

656
00:35:08,000 --> 00:35:10,000
Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

657
00:35:10,000 --> 00:35:11,000
All right.

658
00:35:11,000 --> 00:35:13,000
I have never just never seen it abbreviated before.

659
00:35:13,000 --> 00:35:15,000
It's very funny.

660
00:35:15,000 --> 00:35:20,000
I've always enjoyed watching characters develop from lower levels as well as players portraying a new role.

661
00:35:20,000 --> 00:35:26,000
As I am without a group of my own knuckleheads, I listen to these crazy Canadians stumble and giggle their way through it all.

662
00:35:26,000 --> 00:35:29,000
Feels like home game brings back the old feels.

663
00:35:29,000 --> 00:35:30,000
Thanks for all the fun.

664
00:35:30,000 --> 00:35:31,000
Oh, I like that.

665
00:35:31,000 --> 00:35:32,000
That's nice.

666
00:35:32,000 --> 00:35:35,000
I also like what a rad dude that person is.

667
00:35:35,000 --> 00:35:36,000
Right.

668
00:35:36,000 --> 00:35:37,000
Skim border OC.

669
00:35:37,000 --> 00:35:40,000
Thank you all so much for those lovely reviews.

670
00:35:40,000 --> 00:35:43,000
If you haven't reviewed us, we would love it if you did.

671
00:35:43,000 --> 00:35:48,000
And we can find them very easily through Apple podcasts or Stitcher.

672
00:35:48,000 --> 00:35:49,000
That's where they scrape from.

673
00:35:49,000 --> 00:35:59,000
If you leave them somewhere else, I'll try and find them or you can just send them to me and we'll definitely thank you very much in some fashion like this.

674
00:35:59,000 --> 00:36:01,000
You can always throw a tweet at us too.

675
00:36:01,000 --> 00:36:04,000
You can always just email it in old school style.

676
00:36:04,000 --> 00:36:05,000
Whoa.

677
00:36:05,000 --> 00:36:08,000
Or send us a handwritten letter to our PO box.

678
00:36:08,000 --> 00:36:09,000
We got that too.

679
00:36:09,000 --> 00:36:10,000
Yeah.

680
00:36:10,000 --> 00:36:11,000
No one's ever sent us anything.

681
00:36:11,000 --> 00:36:12,000
We don't really ever.

682
00:36:12,000 --> 00:36:13,000
No, we don't.

683
00:36:13,000 --> 00:36:14,000
That's fair.

684
00:36:14,000 --> 00:36:17,000
I'm just saying one day there'll be mail in there.

685
00:36:17,000 --> 00:36:18,000
Since Amy mentioned it.

686
00:36:18,000 --> 00:36:21,000
Well, I'm just saying one day there's gonna be mail in there.

687
00:36:21,000 --> 00:36:22,000
My mind is going to be blown.

688
00:36:22,000 --> 00:36:27,000
I don't even know if we get, I think we're supposed to get like a notification when something's in there.

689
00:36:27,000 --> 00:36:28,000
I don't go check it.

690
00:36:28,000 --> 00:36:29,000
You should probably check it.

691
00:36:29,000 --> 00:36:31,000
I see we could have lots of things.

692
00:36:31,000 --> 00:36:32,000
Yeah, we could.

693
00:36:32,000 --> 00:36:33,000
If you could send something to our PO box.

694
00:36:33,000 --> 00:36:37,000
Do you think someone sent us like an entire turkey dinner and it's just sitting in there going to waste?

695
00:36:37,000 --> 00:36:39,000
Ross apologizes for not checking in.

696
00:36:39,000 --> 00:36:42,000
I think they would call me at that point because it's linked to me.

697
00:36:42,000 --> 00:36:44,000
Your PO box smells.

698
00:36:44,000 --> 00:36:45,000
Like an old goat?

699
00:36:45,000 --> 00:36:49,000
No, that's a little teaser for a future episode.

700
00:36:49,000 --> 00:36:50,000
All right, everybody.

701
00:36:50,000 --> 00:36:51,000
Thank you very much.

702
00:36:51,000 --> 00:36:53,000
Hopefully enjoy the rest of this episode.

703
00:36:53,000 --> 00:36:54,000
Hey, Rev's awesome.

704
00:36:54,000 --> 00:36:55,000
He's in there too.

705
00:36:55,000 --> 00:36:58,000
Make sure you go listen to the Crit Show.

706
00:36:58,000 --> 00:36:59,000
Okay.

707
00:36:59,000 --> 00:37:00,000
Bye.

708
00:37:00,000 --> 00:37:01,000
Love you.

709
00:37:01,000 --> 00:37:02,000
Bye.

710
00:37:02,000 --> 00:37:03,000
We love you.

711
00:37:03,000 --> 00:37:05,000
Lex, can I talk to you for a minute?

712
00:37:05,000 --> 00:37:06,000
Yes.

713
00:37:06,000 --> 00:37:07,000
Yes.

714
00:37:07,000 --> 00:37:08,000
Of course.

715
00:37:08,000 --> 00:37:09,000
Okay.

716
00:37:09,000 --> 00:37:17,000
I take Lex to the side and I go, can I ask you a personal question?

717
00:37:17,000 --> 00:37:21,000
Well, we did have a moratorium on those, but it's been a while.

718
00:37:21,000 --> 00:37:23,000
So yes, of course.

719
00:37:23,000 --> 00:37:24,000
Of course you can.

720
00:37:24,000 --> 00:37:27,000
I put my knife away because otherwise this is just super threatening.

721
00:37:27,000 --> 00:37:28,000
Yeah.

722
00:37:29,000 --> 00:37:41,000
I noticed when I was detecting magic that, like, sure, we all have magical items, but

723
00:37:41,000 --> 00:37:49,000
none of our persons are totally glowy magical, but you are.

724
00:37:49,000 --> 00:37:52,000
Oh.

725
00:37:52,000 --> 00:37:53,000
Am I?

726
00:37:53,000 --> 00:37:54,000
Was I?

727
00:37:54,000 --> 00:37:56,000
You are and were.

728
00:37:56,000 --> 00:37:57,000
Oh.

729
00:37:57,000 --> 00:37:58,000
I mean, I'm mostly covered.

730
00:37:58,000 --> 00:38:00,000
I wasn't looking in a mirror.

731
00:38:00,000 --> 00:38:01,000
I had no idea.

732
00:38:01,000 --> 00:38:03,000
And how?

733
00:38:03,000 --> 00:38:04,000
Hmm.

734
00:38:04,000 --> 00:38:11,000
Well, as I believe I mentioned, I am a little undead.

735
00:38:11,000 --> 00:38:12,000
Mm-hmm.

736
00:38:12,000 --> 00:38:18,000
So it's probably related to that.

737
00:38:18,000 --> 00:38:19,000
Okay.

738
00:38:19,000 --> 00:38:20,000
We're...

739
00:38:20,000 --> 00:38:21,000
Okay.

740
00:38:24,000 --> 00:38:25,000
Okay.

741
00:38:25,000 --> 00:38:28,000
I think I'm satisfied with that for now.

742
00:38:28,000 --> 00:38:30,000
I'm assuming you went off to, like, a corner.

743
00:38:30,000 --> 00:38:31,000
Of course.

744
00:38:31,000 --> 00:38:32,000
Yeah.

745
00:38:32,000 --> 00:38:34,000
Well, I didn't want to be, like, witch.

746
00:38:34,000 --> 00:38:36,000
What's up?

747
00:38:36,000 --> 00:38:41,000
Although I do think maybe we are surrounded by witches, but that's only because Russ

748
00:38:41,000 --> 00:38:45,000
has burned us so many times before.

749
00:38:45,000 --> 00:38:47,000
There's not always just witches in the woods.

750
00:38:47,000 --> 00:38:50,000
There's usually witches in the woods though.

751
00:38:50,000 --> 00:38:51,000
I don't know what you're talking about.

752
00:38:51,000 --> 00:38:54,000
If we learned anything from playing with you or nursery rhymes.

753
00:38:54,000 --> 00:38:55,000
Okay.

754
00:38:55,000 --> 00:38:56,000
We get it.

755
00:38:56,000 --> 00:38:58,000
Russ is a bad guy who puts bad witches and children in the forest.

756
00:38:58,000 --> 00:39:00,000
I haven't introduced any of those.

757
00:39:00,000 --> 00:39:01,000
True.

758
00:39:01,000 --> 00:39:02,000
You're right.

759
00:39:02,000 --> 00:39:05,000
What were Flint and Margaret talking about during this...

760
00:39:05,000 --> 00:39:11,000
So you blinked and you missed it.

761
00:39:11,000 --> 00:39:12,000
Yep.

762
00:39:12,000 --> 00:39:15,000
And then you woke up on the ground.

763
00:39:15,000 --> 00:39:16,000
Yep.

764
00:39:16,000 --> 00:39:17,000
All right.

765
00:39:17,000 --> 00:39:18,000
All right.

766
00:39:18,000 --> 00:39:21,000
And where were you headed?

767
00:39:21,000 --> 00:39:23,000
Back to Waterdeep.

768
00:39:23,000 --> 00:39:25,000
Oh, business in Waterdeep, eh?

769
00:39:25,000 --> 00:39:29,000
I mean, we're always just in and out of Waterdeep.

770
00:39:29,000 --> 00:39:33,000
I don't suppose you've heard anything about this disturbance.

771
00:39:33,000 --> 00:39:35,000
Are you through here a lot?

772
00:39:35,000 --> 00:39:41,000
It's been the last month or two that there's been talk about this thing.

773
00:39:41,000 --> 00:39:45,000
No, we've been on the road for the last little while.

774
00:39:45,000 --> 00:39:51,000
We had to take care of Tiamat and then do some other stuff.

775
00:39:51,000 --> 00:39:52,000
What now?

776
00:39:52,000 --> 00:39:59,000
Well, yeah, we fought Tiamat and banished her back to the ninth circle of hell.

777
00:39:59,000 --> 00:40:00,000
Oh.

778
00:40:00,000 --> 00:40:03,000
Well, congratulations.

779
00:40:03,000 --> 00:40:05,000
Thank you.

780
00:40:05,000 --> 00:40:06,000
I assume we come back.

781
00:40:06,000 --> 00:40:08,000
We didn't have a long talk.

782
00:40:08,000 --> 00:40:13,000
Have we discovered...the tree turned up nothing, I assume.

783
00:40:13,000 --> 00:40:15,000
Yeah, no, that was just kind of embarrassing for me.

784
00:40:15,000 --> 00:40:17,000
We could just blow away past that.

785
00:40:17,000 --> 00:40:21,000
Have we noticed anything else?

786
00:40:21,000 --> 00:40:29,000
Margaret, make a survival check.

787
00:40:29,000 --> 00:40:32,000
Two.

788
00:40:32,000 --> 00:40:33,000
Oh, no, wait, wait, wait.

789
00:40:33,000 --> 00:40:34,000
You do not survive.

790
00:40:34,000 --> 00:40:35,000
Eight.

791
00:40:35,000 --> 00:40:36,000
Nine.

792
00:40:36,000 --> 00:40:37,000
Oh, all right.

793
00:40:37,000 --> 00:40:38,000
It's much better.

794
00:40:38,000 --> 00:40:41,000
There are these points that you add to the die roll, you see.

795
00:40:41,000 --> 00:40:42,000
There are.

796
00:40:42,000 --> 00:40:43,000
You got a Post-It note there?

797
00:40:43,000 --> 00:40:44,000
I do.

798
00:40:44,000 --> 00:40:46,000
Add your bonuses.

799
00:40:46,000 --> 00:40:49,000
I've got the little clip marker guy up there and he's pointing at it.

800
00:40:49,000 --> 00:40:50,000
I like it.

801
00:40:50,000 --> 00:40:53,000
That's good.

802
00:40:53,000 --> 00:40:57,000
We'll tack it on to your original one here, I think.

803
00:40:57,000 --> 00:41:02,000
So you lost the direction of the creature, the monster.

804
00:41:02,000 --> 00:41:13,000
However, Margaret, you did see more humanoid tracks going off in a couple different directions.

805
00:41:13,000 --> 00:41:23,000
Nothing, nothing panicked or frantic, just like somebody has traveled through here recently.

806
00:41:23,000 --> 00:41:31,000
Yeah, I haven't seen anything except these tracks here going off in that direction.

807
00:41:31,000 --> 00:41:34,000
Are they fresh?

808
00:41:34,000 --> 00:41:36,000
Are they?

809
00:41:36,000 --> 00:41:39,000
Are they?

810
00:41:39,000 --> 00:41:42,000
Yeah, within a couple days.

811
00:41:42,000 --> 00:41:52,000
Just a few days old, maybe not fresh enough to be this thing transformed into some monstrous little child and wandering away.

812
00:41:52,000 --> 00:41:58,000
So you don't think it's some sort of witch person who's turned into this?

813
00:41:58,000 --> 00:42:02,000
Well, I won't rule it out, but it at least doesn't fall into that pattern.

814
00:42:02,000 --> 00:42:04,000
Well, it's the only tracks we have.

815
00:42:04,000 --> 00:42:05,000
I say we follow them.

816
00:42:05,000 --> 00:42:06,000
Yeah.

817
00:42:06,000 --> 00:42:07,000
Sure.

818
00:42:07,000 --> 00:42:10,000
Just to clarify, we never saw, like, there was no horse tracks or anything.

819
00:42:10,000 --> 00:42:11,000
Like, they were just gone.

820
00:42:11,000 --> 00:42:13,000
The animals were just gone.

821
00:42:13,000 --> 00:42:14,000
Yeah.

822
00:42:14,000 --> 00:42:16,000
That's what I thought.

823
00:42:16,000 --> 00:42:20,000
Sometimes we don't ask some pretty obvious questions.

824
00:42:20,000 --> 00:42:22,000
We do a lot of assuming.

825
00:42:22,000 --> 00:42:23,000
We do.

826
00:42:23,000 --> 00:42:31,000
I mean, on the plus side, that might be good for your animals because all the ones that Margaret has come across have just been just mutilated.

827
00:42:31,000 --> 00:42:32,000
Oh, okay.

828
00:42:32,000 --> 00:42:34,000
All right.

829
00:42:34,000 --> 00:42:35,000
Yes, I'm glad we didn't see that.

830
00:42:35,000 --> 00:42:36,000
No news is good news.

831
00:42:36,000 --> 00:42:38,000
Oh, God.

832
00:42:38,000 --> 00:42:41,000
This is the episode where Russ murders all the animals.

833
00:42:41,000 --> 00:42:42,000
I haven't murdered any animals.

834
00:42:42,000 --> 00:42:43,000
What are you talking about?

835
00:42:43,000 --> 00:42:48,000
Remember when I almost didn't get guacamole back?

836
00:42:48,000 --> 00:42:49,000
Guacamole.

837
00:42:49,000 --> 00:42:51,000
Don't even bring up stuff like that.

838
00:42:51,000 --> 00:42:53,000
Guacamole was never in danger, not like you three.

839
00:42:53,000 --> 00:42:56,000
Hashtag find guacamole.

840
00:42:56,000 --> 00:42:59,000
So sorry, direction is to follow the footprints that Margaret found?

841
00:42:59,000 --> 00:43:00,000
Yep.

842
00:43:00,000 --> 00:43:01,000
Yes.

843
00:43:01,000 --> 00:43:03,000
Okay, you do so.

844
00:43:03,000 --> 00:43:07,000
You travel for another less than an hour.

845
00:43:07,000 --> 00:43:11,000
And it's I said it was kind of evening dust, so it's getting to be night.

846
00:43:11,000 --> 00:43:24,000
The trail, the light trail of a what you can presume to be a couple of different people eventually comes to a clearing in the forest.

847
00:43:24,000 --> 00:43:32,000
Just as you're getting to the clearing, you see flickering light up ahead of you.

848
00:43:32,000 --> 00:43:35,000
Well, this seems to be a good sign.

849
00:43:35,000 --> 00:43:38,000
Maybe someone here saw something.

850
00:43:38,000 --> 00:43:41,000
At the very least somewhere to stay for the night.

851
00:43:41,000 --> 00:43:43,000
Yes, let's go say hello.

852
00:43:43,000 --> 00:43:51,000
As you get closer and the trees begin to fan out a little bit, it's definitely a small settlement.

853
00:43:52,000 --> 00:43:59,000
Only a few, not even not even huts, but just tents of sorts.

854
00:43:59,000 --> 00:44:10,000
And it opens up into a clearing and you can probably count from a distance six or seven tents, a few people surrounding some campfires.

855
00:44:10,000 --> 00:44:19,000
Those that are looking, probably Margaret, Thea, Lex, probably not Flint.

856
00:44:19,000 --> 00:44:30,000
You see before you enter this clearing, you see that there are a couple of sentries just doing perimeter walks of this clearing.

857
00:44:30,000 --> 00:44:35,000
Should we announce ourselves so we don't take an arrow in the knee?

858
00:44:35,000 --> 00:44:40,000
Yeah, I don't think sneaking up on a settlement at dusk is the best route.

859
00:44:40,000 --> 00:44:43,000
We should talk to one of the sentries.

860
00:44:43,000 --> 00:44:46,000
Flint, you think that's a good idea?

861
00:44:46,000 --> 00:44:55,000
Yeah, I mean, in case they're not friendly, be ready, but I think announcing our presence is probably a good idea.

862
00:44:55,000 --> 00:44:58,000
Have you armed your goat?

863
00:44:58,000 --> 00:45:05,000
No, Bill is going to rely on his jumping ability if there's any trouble.

864
00:45:05,000 --> 00:45:07,000
Well, fair enough.

865
00:45:07,000 --> 00:45:10,000
Do we know how big Bill is? Is it like a...

866
00:45:10,000 --> 00:45:12,000
I know we talked about it.

867
00:45:12,000 --> 00:45:14,000
Normal goat size or like a picnic goat size?

868
00:45:14,000 --> 00:45:16,000
Adorable little goats.

869
00:45:16,000 --> 00:45:18,000
Yeah, normal goat size.

870
00:45:18,000 --> 00:45:20,000
Okay.

871
00:45:20,000 --> 00:45:22,000
Okay.

872
00:45:22,000 --> 00:45:26,000
We walk up to one of the sentries and from a distance.

873
00:45:26,000 --> 00:45:28,000
Like, loudly, right?

874
00:45:28,000 --> 00:45:30,000
Hello!

875
00:45:30,000 --> 00:45:43,000
The sentry stops and is holding, puts his hand on his hilt and says, who's there?

876
00:45:43,000 --> 00:45:48,000
Part of me just really wanted to go, tis us, the decimators of dragons!

877
00:45:48,000 --> 00:45:50,000
But I don't.

878
00:45:50,000 --> 00:45:52,000
It's not really your style.

879
00:45:52,000 --> 00:45:54,000
Oh, hold up, hold up, just a moment.

880
00:45:54,000 --> 00:45:58,000
We're just passing through and see if everyone was all right here.

881
00:45:58,000 --> 00:46:04,000
We encountered something pretty nasty about an hour away from here and it was headed this direction.

882
00:46:04,000 --> 00:46:08,000
Oh, okay.

883
00:46:08,000 --> 00:46:15,000
He puts his hand down and starts to walk towards you and you see him kind of put his hand up and give a signal.

884
00:46:15,000 --> 00:46:19,000
And the other sentry on the other side makes another signal.

885
00:46:19,000 --> 00:46:25,000
And he walks towards you and says, what did you come across?

886
00:46:25,000 --> 00:46:31,000
Well, they got kind of waylaid by it on a path towards Waterdeep.

887
00:46:31,000 --> 00:46:37,000
Do you want to describe your experience to him? Maybe he's seen something like it.

888
00:46:37,000 --> 00:46:45,000
Well, there was a flash and then this sound in a giant creature and then an earthquake.

889
00:46:45,000 --> 00:46:49,000
And then we were all knocked unconscious as we flew out of our wagon.

890
00:46:49,000 --> 00:46:55,000
It was really not the kind of creature you'd think would just disappear afterwards, you know?

891
00:46:55,000 --> 00:46:58,000
We haven't really been able to find any tracks.

892
00:46:58,000 --> 00:47:00,000
You know anything about that?

893
00:47:00,000 --> 00:47:07,000
We have heard of creature attacks in the area.

894
00:47:07,000 --> 00:47:15,000
In fact, we were hoping to track it down ourselves.

895
00:47:15,000 --> 00:47:18,000
Interesting that you come this way and said it was headed in this...

896
00:47:18,000 --> 00:47:24,000
Did you say that it was headed in this direction or did I infer that by you walking this direction?

897
00:47:24,000 --> 00:47:31,000
Well, we lost its tracks and then saw what must have been tracks from someone here and it was all we could see.

898
00:47:31,000 --> 00:47:39,000
So we thought better to ask whoever was at the end of the tracks than just wander aimlessly in the woods.

899
00:47:39,000 --> 00:47:41,000
Of course. Yes, well, it's...

900
00:47:41,000 --> 00:47:44,000
Yes, come in. It's getting late.

901
00:47:44,000 --> 00:47:51,000
We can set you up with some food and some shelter for the night.

902
00:47:52,000 --> 00:47:57,000
Have you heard much of the monster before seeing it today?

903
00:47:57,000 --> 00:47:59,000
I feel like we all look at Margaret.

904
00:47:59,000 --> 00:48:04,000
Yeah, I've heard a bit about it. I've been tracking it.

905
00:48:04,000 --> 00:48:06,000
You said you're hoping to find it down.

906
00:48:06,000 --> 00:48:12,000
Are you some landowners around here or wanting to preemptively find it?

907
00:48:12,000 --> 00:48:24,000
Yes, well, we're a group of mostly farmers and other trades types who are just trying to protect our families

908
00:48:24,000 --> 00:48:32,000
and followed as many tracks as we were able to find, which led us here.

909
00:48:32,000 --> 00:48:38,000
Interesting. When was the last time you encountered anything, either people who had dealt with it

910
00:48:38,000 --> 00:48:42,000
or has anyone, have any of you even laid eyes on it?

911
00:48:42,000 --> 00:48:51,000
Not all of us. Some of us have seen shadows, silhouettes.

912
00:48:51,000 --> 00:48:57,000
Wherever it goes, it leaves destruction.

913
00:48:57,000 --> 00:49:14,000
It's like it shoots lightning from its maw, its mouth, and buildings burn. It's a terrifying sight.

914
00:49:14,000 --> 00:49:19,000
And I think I look over my shoulder at the group.

915
00:49:19,000 --> 00:49:24,000
In the travels you've had, you said shadows.

916
00:49:24,000 --> 00:49:32,000
Have you seen figures in the trees or things just outside of your vision that when you turn they're gone?

917
00:49:32,000 --> 00:49:41,000
You see him kind of take a breath, take a moment, and he coughs and clears his throat and says,

918
00:49:42,000 --> 00:49:49,000
No, we don't believe in any such sort of child stories.

919
00:49:49,000 --> 00:49:56,000
We tell those to keep our children from wandering too far, but never seen anything quite like that.

920
00:49:56,000 --> 00:49:58,000
What's your name?

921
00:49:58,000 --> 00:50:01,000
Christo. My name is Christo.

922
00:50:01,000 --> 00:50:05,000
Christo, we're happy to come into your camp and chat with you a while,

923
00:50:06,000 --> 00:50:14,000
I just want you to know that idea of these are stories we tell our children, things like that don't exist.

924
00:50:14,000 --> 00:50:17,000
That's going to get you killed.

925
00:50:17,000 --> 00:50:24,000
So wipe that idea out of your head because all the things that you think could be out there are out there and worse.

926
00:50:24,000 --> 00:50:28,000
And she turns and walks into the camp.

927
00:50:28,000 --> 00:50:31,000
Make a persuasion check with advantage.

928
00:50:31,000 --> 00:50:37,000
I'm persuaded Margaret really crushing it with the fireside stories.

929
00:50:37,000 --> 00:50:42,000
She's got a microphone under her or not a microphone, a flashlight.

930
00:50:42,000 --> 00:50:43,000
Twenty three.

931
00:50:43,000 --> 00:50:45,000
Oh, yeah.

932
00:50:45,000 --> 00:50:55,000
You turn and walk, but you feel that he is afraid for how commanding you are and what you're saying.

933
00:50:55,000 --> 00:51:00,000
And the three of you see just his face go white like the blood leaves his face.

934
00:51:00,000 --> 00:51:05,000
And he waves you this way.

935
00:51:05,000 --> 00:51:10,000
We'll get you some food.

936
00:51:10,000 --> 00:51:15,000
You head into the camp and it is majority men.

937
00:51:15,000 --> 00:51:20,000
There are a few women among the ranks, so to speak.

938
00:51:20,000 --> 00:51:25,000
As he said, they all appear to be not.

939
00:51:25,000 --> 00:51:28,000
They all appear to be untrained.

940
00:51:28,000 --> 00:51:37,000
They all have crude weapons, some rusted, just kind of what they scrounge together, makeshift, slap together shields.

941
00:51:37,000 --> 00:51:43,000
And they're sitting around telling telling stories as they see you walk up.

942
00:51:43,000 --> 00:51:48,000
And Christo says, well, these these fine.

943
00:51:48,000 --> 00:51:49,000
Four.

944
00:51:49,000 --> 00:51:52,000
Sorry, I didn't catch all of your names.

945
00:51:52,000 --> 00:51:55,000
I don't think, but it's Lex Lex.

946
00:51:55,000 --> 00:51:58,000
Yes, he is.

947
00:51:58,000 --> 00:51:59,000
Thea.

948
00:51:59,000 --> 00:52:00,000
Thea.

949
00:52:00,000 --> 00:52:01,000
Flint.

950
00:52:01,000 --> 00:52:02,000
Flint.

951
00:52:02,000 --> 00:52:03,000
Margaret.

952
00:52:03,000 --> 00:52:07,000
Margaret are here to tell a scary story.

953
00:52:07,000 --> 00:52:10,000
No, are are here.

954
00:52:10,000 --> 00:52:12,000
They're tracking the beast that we are tracking.

955
00:52:12,000 --> 00:52:17,000
And hopefully it seems like they might be able to help us.

956
00:52:17,000 --> 00:52:20,000
And at the end of it, you'll all get your tracker.

957
00:52:20,000 --> 00:52:22,000
Boy and girl scout badges.

958
00:52:22,000 --> 00:52:25,000
And next we'll go on to s'mores.

959
00:52:25,000 --> 00:52:27,000
They kind of look to each other.

960
00:52:27,000 --> 00:52:29,000
Sorry, I have a dark sense of humor.

961
00:52:29,000 --> 00:52:31,000
You know, we're going to find this thing.

962
00:52:31,000 --> 00:52:32,000
It's going to be fine.

963
00:52:32,000 --> 00:52:34,000
Yeah, it's going to be fine.

964
00:52:34,000 --> 00:52:35,000
It's killed some of our families.

965
00:52:35,000 --> 00:52:38,000
OK, it'll be fine after we kill it.

966
00:52:38,000 --> 00:52:41,000
But obviously there's been some tragedy.

967
00:52:41,000 --> 00:52:44,000
Somebody stop me.

968
00:52:44,000 --> 00:52:48,000
So not a mass situation where it's somebody stop me.

969
00:52:48,000 --> 00:52:50,000
It's a legitimate cry for help.

970
00:52:51,000 --> 00:52:54,000
It's a scream from the eyes, not so much to the voice.

971
00:52:54,000 --> 00:52:55,000
OK, perfect.

972
00:52:55,000 --> 00:52:56,000
Yep.

973
00:52:56,000 --> 00:52:57,000
Somebody jump in here.

974
00:52:57,000 --> 00:52:59,000
You sit down around the fire and you're

975
00:52:59,000 --> 00:53:04,000
brought bowls of stew that they've been cooking up.

976
00:53:04,000 --> 00:53:06,000
And just kind of leave you.

977
00:53:06,000 --> 00:53:09,000
You're interjected telling each other's

978
00:53:09,000 --> 00:53:12,000
tales, which more or less corroborate with each other.

979
00:53:12,000 --> 00:53:17,000
And then you're left to just the foursome for a moment.

980
00:53:18,000 --> 00:53:22,000
These people set out with nothing but a bunch of gardening tools.

981
00:53:22,000 --> 00:53:24,500
Yeah.

982
00:53:24,500 --> 00:53:28,000
You know, I was just trying to I thought maybe he was one

983
00:53:28,000 --> 00:53:32,000
of the less trained people since he was kind of on guard duty.

984
00:53:32,000 --> 00:53:37,000
But it seems like he's the most trained and yikes.

985
00:53:37,000 --> 00:53:39,000
Yeah.

986
00:53:39,000 --> 00:53:42,000
I think it's maybe good we came across them.

987
00:53:42,000 --> 00:53:45,000
This thing seems pretty deadly and they're just out here.

988
00:53:45,000 --> 00:53:46,000
Yeah.

989
00:53:46,000 --> 00:53:49,000
He said with gardening tools.

990
00:53:49,000 --> 00:53:54,000
Also, did anyone notice that he like kind of paused before

991
00:53:54,000 --> 00:53:57,000
he responded about the shapes in the trees and said that's

992
00:53:57,000 --> 00:53:58,000
just a fairy tale.

993
00:53:58,000 --> 00:53:59,000
What's that?

994
00:53:59,000 --> 00:54:00,000
What's I mean, what's going on there?

995
00:54:00,000 --> 00:54:01,000
Fucking lies.

996
00:54:01,000 --> 00:54:03,000
That's what's going on there.

997
00:54:03,000 --> 00:54:07,000
I don't think he's comfortable standing in his truth yet.

998
00:54:08,000 --> 00:54:10,000
Lex, that's so deep.

999
00:54:10,000 --> 00:54:13,000
But they seem trustworthy.

1000
00:54:13,000 --> 00:54:15,000
Don't you think?

1001
00:54:15,000 --> 00:54:18,000
They seem like a liability.

1002
00:54:18,000 --> 00:54:20,000
Well.

1003
00:54:20,000 --> 00:54:21,000
Yes.

1004
00:54:21,000 --> 00:54:23,000
Yeah.

1005
00:54:23,000 --> 00:54:26,000
So I'm not entirely sure how to proceed.

1006
00:54:26,000 --> 00:54:31,000
It kind of seems like this creature attacks at random.

1007
00:54:31,000 --> 00:54:35,000
Has there been anyone like gotten out a map and pinpointed

1008
00:54:35,000 --> 00:54:37,000
the specific spots?

1009
00:54:37,000 --> 00:54:40,000
And is there like a cork board with a lot of red string

1010
00:54:40,000 --> 00:54:42,000
and thumbtacks?

1011
00:54:42,000 --> 00:54:45,000
I feel like it would be fair to think that Margaret has,

1012
00:54:45,000 --> 00:54:47,000
at least from the attacks that she's the people she's talked

1013
00:54:47,000 --> 00:54:50,000
to, that she's got a map with markings on it.

1014
00:54:50,000 --> 00:54:51,000
Sure.

1015
00:54:51,000 --> 00:54:53,000
Yeah, definitely.

1016
00:54:53,000 --> 00:54:56,000
What could you discern from that?

1017
00:54:56,000 --> 00:54:58,000
Does it spell out?

1018
00:54:58,000 --> 00:55:02,000
Look in the north quadrant of the woods.

1019
00:55:02,000 --> 00:55:05,000
Or is it like a pentagram and it's the middle of it

1020
00:55:05,000 --> 00:55:07,000
that we need to go?

1021
00:55:07,000 --> 00:55:10,000
Anything really clear like that?

1022
00:55:10,000 --> 00:55:13,000
Just a bunch of arrows pointing toward one spot.

1023
00:55:13,000 --> 00:55:15,000
Or it's in a perfect circle.

1024
00:55:15,000 --> 00:55:17,000
We need to go to the center of it.

1025
00:55:17,000 --> 00:55:18,000
Yeah.

1026
00:55:18,000 --> 00:55:20,000
From what you've been able to gather, like the settlements

1027
00:55:20,000 --> 00:55:25,000
within the Misty Forest are spread out.

1028
00:55:25,000 --> 00:55:33,000
They mostly jut off of main trails that cut through.

1029
00:55:33,000 --> 00:55:38,000
And in the last couple months, you've been able to track down.

1030
00:55:38,000 --> 00:55:42,000
You've been probably hearing stories of it for the last couple

1031
00:55:42,000 --> 00:55:43,000
of months.

1032
00:55:43,000 --> 00:55:46,000
How long have you been actively traveling?

1033
00:55:46,000 --> 00:55:53,000
I think how long would it take to travel around these woods?

1034
00:55:53,000 --> 00:55:57,000
A tracker like yourself, probably not as long as others.

1035
00:55:57,000 --> 00:56:02,000
But we'll say it might take you to get to all of the

1036
00:56:02,000 --> 00:56:06,000
settlements, probably the better part of two or three

1037
00:56:06,000 --> 00:56:10,000
months to go through the entire thing.

1038
00:56:10,000 --> 00:56:15,000
I feel like maybe three weeks so that I'm just kind of

1039
00:56:15,000 --> 00:56:19,000
completing part of the first arc through the area.

1040
00:56:19,000 --> 00:56:23,000
Yeah, so the ones that you, the stories that you've heard

1041
00:56:23,000 --> 00:56:31,000
from settlements that haven't been hit have led you to where

1042
00:56:31,000 --> 00:56:33,000
you've come across ones that have.

1043
00:56:33,000 --> 00:56:36,000
And there is no real line.

1044
00:56:36,000 --> 00:56:40,000
It's not like this creature is going from point A to point B

1045
00:56:40,000 --> 00:56:41,000
there.

1046
00:56:41,000 --> 00:56:45,000
They show up near the edge of the forest and then deep

1047
00:56:45,000 --> 00:56:46,000
within.

1048
00:56:46,000 --> 00:56:48,000
And the timeline that you've been able to kind of

1049
00:56:48,000 --> 00:56:53,000
structure together from half stories and hearsay and a few

1050
00:56:53,000 --> 00:56:57,000
people who have actually seen these events is it pops

1051
00:56:57,000 --> 00:57:03,000
quickly and seems to not leave much of a trail between.

1052
00:57:03,000 --> 00:57:13,000
Yeah, there doesn't seem to be any real pattern at all.

1053
00:57:13,000 --> 00:57:19,000
It's actually hearing you all talk about the liability

1054
00:57:19,000 --> 00:57:21,000
here of these people.

1055
00:57:21,000 --> 00:57:26,000
I joked earlier about it being someone.

1056
00:57:26,000 --> 00:57:29,000
I wonder if we could talk to these people and maybe fill

1057
00:57:29,000 --> 00:57:32,000
in more of this map to see where they're from.

1058
00:57:32,000 --> 00:57:34,000
See who they know that has been hit.

1059
00:57:34,000 --> 00:57:37,000
Maybe there's some common connection between all the

1060
00:57:37,000 --> 00:57:41,000
people.

1061
00:57:41,000 --> 00:57:42,000
That's a good idea.

1062
00:57:42,000 --> 00:57:43,000
Good of an idea.

1063
00:57:43,000 --> 00:57:46,000
I feel like you're the expert on this one, Margaret.

1064
00:57:46,000 --> 00:57:51,000
So I do have a feeling like so odd that there are no

1065
00:57:51,000 --> 00:57:54,000
trails or tracks after a certain point it just

1066
00:57:54,000 --> 00:57:56,000
disappears.

1067
00:57:56,000 --> 00:58:02,000
Maybe this creature is using portals or can teleport.

1068
00:58:02,000 --> 00:58:05,000
Portals would make sense.

1069
00:58:05,000 --> 00:58:09,000
When a portal pops into existence, is there a bright

1070
00:58:09,000 --> 00:58:10,000
light?

1071
00:58:10,000 --> 00:58:11,000
I mean, could that be the light?

1072
00:58:11,000 --> 00:58:13,000
Or people have said they've seen lightning coming out of

1073
00:58:13,000 --> 00:58:14,000
its mouth.

1074
00:58:14,000 --> 00:58:15,000
I guess that's.

1075
00:58:15,000 --> 00:58:17,000
Well, at the same time, we know dragons who can do

1076
00:58:17,000 --> 00:58:18,000
that.

1077
00:58:18,000 --> 00:58:23,000
Well, and sometimes people come with the first

1078
00:58:23,000 --> 00:58:25,000
justification they can for something they see to

1079
00:58:25,000 --> 00:58:34,000
let their mind rationalize it.

1080
00:58:34,000 --> 00:58:37,000
But yeah, let's talk to these folks and see if they

1081
00:58:37,000 --> 00:58:41,000
can fill in any more information about the where

1082
00:58:41,000 --> 00:58:43,000
and how of this thing.

1083
00:58:43,000 --> 00:58:45,000
Did everyone just kind of like saunter off to bed?

1084
00:58:45,000 --> 00:58:47,000
Are we best to do this in the morning?

1085
00:58:47,000 --> 00:58:49,000
We're just going over and kicking tents down.

1086
00:58:49,000 --> 00:58:50,000
Get up.

1087
00:58:50,000 --> 00:58:52,000
We've got questions.

1088
00:58:52,000 --> 00:58:54,000
Bring out your dad.

1089
00:58:54,000 --> 00:58:56,000
Yeah, no, it is very late.

1090
00:58:56,000 --> 00:59:01,000
It's kind of last last serving of this meal that

1091
00:59:01,000 --> 00:59:06,000
they were last to call as you approach.

1092
00:59:06,000 --> 00:59:08,000
So people have kind of filtered off.

1093
00:59:08,000 --> 00:59:13,000
Christo, before you started talking, designated you

1094
00:59:13,000 --> 00:59:16,000
or made room for the four of you within a tent.

1095
00:59:16,000 --> 00:59:21,000
You see a couple guards kind of doing watch

1096
00:59:21,000 --> 00:59:22,000
perimeter.

1097
00:59:22,000 --> 00:59:24,000
Looks like Christo has swapped out.

1098
00:59:24,000 --> 00:59:28,000
There are a couple people around in the in the

1099
00:59:28,000 --> 00:59:29,000
camp.

1100
00:59:29,000 --> 00:59:33,000
But all in all, most people are asleep presently.

1101
00:59:33,000 --> 00:59:36,000
Did he did he give any sense of what they were

1102
00:59:36,000 --> 00:59:38,000
going to do in the morning?

1103
00:59:38,000 --> 00:59:40,000
They packing up and moving on because this is

1104
00:59:40,000 --> 00:59:42,000
just where they stopped.

1105
00:59:42,000 --> 00:59:46,000
He did not specifically say judging from how the

1106
00:59:46,000 --> 00:59:50,000
camp is set up, you can probably guess that

1107
00:59:50,000 --> 00:59:53,000
they've been in this location for at least a

1108
00:59:53,000 --> 00:59:55,000
couple days, if not longer.

1109
00:59:55,000 --> 00:59:59,000
They might be using it as a as a go between as

1110
00:59:59,000 --> 01:00:02,000
they go out and search the area.

1111
01:00:02,000 --> 01:00:03,000
I'm not going to lie to you.

1112
01:00:03,000 --> 01:00:05,000
I don't feel super comfortable sleeping with

1113
01:00:05,000 --> 01:00:14,000
their air quotes sentries out guarding.

1114
01:00:14,000 --> 01:00:18,000
Should we take turns joining, joining the

1115
01:00:18,000 --> 01:00:19,000
watch?

1116
01:00:19,000 --> 01:00:20,000
Yeah, maybe.

1117
01:00:20,000 --> 01:00:24,000
Yeah, I think I might sleep better.

1118
01:00:24,000 --> 01:00:27,000
I'll go first.

1119
01:00:27,000 --> 01:00:30,000
OK, I'll take second watch you wake me up.

1120
01:00:30,000 --> 01:00:39,000
I wild change into a dark gray winter wolf and

1121
01:00:39,000 --> 01:00:41,000
you're going to give him a heads up on that

1122
01:00:41,000 --> 01:00:42,000
or they're going to.

1123
01:00:42,000 --> 01:00:43,000
Oh, shit.

1124
01:00:43,000 --> 01:00:45,000
No, I don't think the ever really does does

1125
01:00:45,000 --> 01:00:46,000
she.

1126
01:00:46,000 --> 01:00:48,000
Like I do things.

1127
01:00:48,000 --> 01:00:49,000
I love it.

1128
01:00:49,000 --> 01:00:52,000
But I mean, it's dark and I don't do it inside

1129
01:00:52,000 --> 01:00:55,000
the tent.

1130
01:00:55,000 --> 01:00:56,000
That's good.

1131
01:00:56,000 --> 01:01:01,000
I think I walk out and as I'm walking up out

1132
01:01:01,000 --> 01:01:04,000
of the clearing, I wild change.

1133
01:01:04,000 --> 01:01:08,000
OK, so you're going to wild shape, not tell

1134
01:01:08,000 --> 01:01:11,000
their sentries that you're doing this and

1135
01:01:11,000 --> 01:01:12,000
they're not very good sentries.

1136
01:01:12,000 --> 01:01:14,000
It is a very sneaky creature.

1137
01:01:14,000 --> 01:01:15,000
Probably fine.

1138
01:01:15,000 --> 01:01:18,000
It just it's a wild choice.

1139
01:01:18,000 --> 01:01:19,000
A little test.

1140
01:01:19,000 --> 01:01:22,000
People are looking for dangerous, wild, furry

1141
01:01:22,000 --> 01:01:23,000
creature.

1142
01:01:23,000 --> 01:01:24,000
But you're right.

1143
01:01:24,000 --> 01:01:26,000
This kind of feels brand.

1144
01:01:26,000 --> 01:01:28,000
She just kind of does what she wants.

1145
01:01:28,000 --> 01:01:29,000
OK, so you can.

1146
01:01:29,000 --> 01:01:30,000
Yeah, sure.

1147
01:01:30,000 --> 01:01:31,000
That's what you want to do.

1148
01:01:31,000 --> 01:01:32,000
Great.

1149
01:01:32,000 --> 01:01:34,000
Everybody else is going to sleep presently.

1150
01:01:34,000 --> 01:01:35,000
Yeah.

1151
01:01:35,000 --> 01:01:36,000
OK.

1152
01:01:36,000 --> 01:01:38,000
So you wild shape.

1153
01:01:38,000 --> 01:01:41,000
And how how are you patrolling?

1154
01:01:41,000 --> 01:01:42,000
Are you within the clearing?

1155
01:01:42,000 --> 01:01:44,000
Are you going within the trees?

1156
01:01:44,000 --> 01:01:47,000
What's what's your mode?

1157
01:01:47,000 --> 01:01:50,000
I think I'll go within the trees and I will

1158
01:01:50,000 --> 01:01:53,000
stealthily just kind of track around this

1159
01:01:53,000 --> 01:01:57,000
clearing further out, keeping myself kind of

1160
01:01:57,000 --> 01:01:59,000
between the sentries.

1161
01:01:59,000 --> 01:02:01,000
Like I'm not like following one.

1162
01:02:01,000 --> 01:02:04,000
So, you know, actually trying to be

1163
01:02:04,000 --> 01:02:08,000
inconspicuous and not threatening.

1164
01:02:08,000 --> 01:02:11,000
OK, make a make a stealth role.

1165
01:02:11,000 --> 01:02:13,000
So you're going to be stealthy.

1166
01:02:13,000 --> 01:02:14,000
Let's do that.

1167
01:02:14,000 --> 01:02:15,000
Excuse me.

1168
01:02:15,000 --> 01:02:16,000
My God.

1169
01:02:16,000 --> 01:02:19,000
Well, it's only a seven.

1170
01:02:19,000 --> 01:02:21,000
OK.

1171
01:02:21,000 --> 01:02:23,000
You get out to the track, crack, crack,

1172
01:02:23,000 --> 01:02:24,000
crumble.

1173
01:02:24,000 --> 01:02:25,000
Haven't been a wolf in a while.

1174
01:02:25,000 --> 01:02:26,000
Sorry.

1175
01:02:26,000 --> 01:02:29,000
Snap branches, crack wrestling of bushes.

1176
01:02:29,000 --> 01:02:32,000
You do you go out and you you think

1177
01:02:32,000 --> 01:02:35,000
you're being super stealthy and then

1178
01:02:35,000 --> 01:02:37,000
sleek slinking along.

1179
01:02:37,000 --> 01:02:40,000
You catch one of the sentries.

1180
01:02:40,000 --> 01:02:43,000
Unsheathing their sword and walking

1181
01:02:43,000 --> 01:02:45,000
towards where they're hearing some of

1182
01:02:45,000 --> 01:02:47,000
this noise coming from.

1183
01:02:47,000 --> 01:02:50,000
I say, Hey, it's me, Thea.

1184
01:02:50,000 --> 01:02:52,000
Oh, OK.

1185
01:02:52,000 --> 01:02:54,000
Don't come any further.

1186
01:02:54,000 --> 01:02:55,000
I'm naked.

1187
01:02:55,000 --> 01:02:56,000
Oh, OK.

1188
01:02:56,000 --> 01:02:57,000
Something druids like to do in the

1189
01:02:57,000 --> 01:02:58,000
woods.

1190
01:02:58,000 --> 01:02:59,000
Right.

1191
01:02:59,000 --> 01:03:00,000
You might hear me wrestling around.

1192
01:03:00,000 --> 01:03:02,000
I hear everything's fine.

1193
01:03:02,000 --> 01:03:03,000
OK.

1194
01:03:03,000 --> 01:03:05,000
Sword sheathes back and he keeps

1195
01:03:05,000 --> 01:03:06,000
walking.

1196
01:03:06,000 --> 01:03:07,000
It's weird.

1197
01:03:07,000 --> 01:03:08,000
These aren't good sentries.

1198
01:03:08,000 --> 01:03:13,000
Weird people, weird group.

1199
01:03:13,000 --> 01:03:15,000
You continue through the trees.

1200
01:03:15,000 --> 01:03:16,000
Make it.

1201
01:03:16,000 --> 01:03:17,000
Are you?

1202
01:03:17,000 --> 01:03:18,000
Yeah, you're actively.

1203
01:03:18,000 --> 01:03:19,000
Yeah.

1204
01:03:19,000 --> 01:03:21,000
Make an investigation check or a

1205
01:03:21,000 --> 01:03:22,000
survival check.

1206
01:03:22,000 --> 01:03:24,000
Can you smell anything with your

1207
01:03:24,000 --> 01:03:26,000
keen wolf nose?

1208
01:03:26,000 --> 01:03:29,000
It says I have well, my perception

1209
01:03:29,000 --> 01:03:31,000
checks that rely on hearing or smell.

1210
01:03:31,000 --> 01:03:33,000
I have advantage on.

1211
01:03:33,000 --> 01:03:35,000
I didn't say perception.

1212
01:03:35,000 --> 01:03:36,000
I know you didn't.

1213
01:03:36,000 --> 01:03:39,000
I was answering Carla's question.

1214
01:03:39,000 --> 01:03:41,000
Investimigation.

1215
01:03:41,000 --> 01:03:42,000
I assume that's my.

1216
01:03:42,000 --> 01:03:45,000
I mean, I forgot you're a wolf.

1217
01:03:45,000 --> 01:03:46,000
It's probably going to be

1218
01:03:46,000 --> 01:03:47,000
perception.

1219
01:03:47,000 --> 01:03:48,000
You actually thought I was just

1220
01:03:48,000 --> 01:03:50,000
out in the woods naked.

1221
01:03:50,000 --> 01:03:51,000
You believed it.

1222
01:03:51,000 --> 01:03:52,000
I believed it.

1223
01:03:52,000 --> 01:03:53,000
That was such a good lie.

1224
01:03:53,000 --> 01:03:54,000
I was very convincing.

1225
01:03:54,000 --> 01:03:56,000
You want it to be perception?

1226
01:03:56,000 --> 01:03:57,000
Yeah, with advantage.

1227
01:03:57,000 --> 01:03:58,000
OK.

1228
01:03:58,000 --> 01:03:59,000
Yeah, because you're smelling it.

1229
01:03:59,000 --> 01:04:02,000
That's an 18.

1230
01:04:02,000 --> 01:04:05,000
And that is not.

1231
01:04:05,000 --> 01:04:06,000
It was a two.

1232
01:04:06,000 --> 01:04:07,000
It wasn't a crap.

1233
01:04:07,000 --> 01:04:08,000
Yeah.

1234
01:04:08,000 --> 01:04:09,000
Run relax.

1235
01:04:09,000 --> 01:04:11,000
You do almost a full walk around

1236
01:04:11,000 --> 01:04:13,000
the perimeter of this clearing.

1237
01:04:13,000 --> 01:04:16,000
You get to a certain point on one

1238
01:04:16,000 --> 01:04:23,000
side and you you hear movement,

1239
01:04:23,000 --> 01:04:25,000
gentle movement up in the trees to

1240
01:04:25,000 --> 01:04:26,000
one side.

1241
01:04:26,000 --> 01:04:29,000
When you look, you don't you

1242
01:04:29,000 --> 01:04:32,000
don't see anything that jumps out

1243
01:04:32,000 --> 01:04:34,000
at you.

1244
01:04:34,000 --> 01:04:36,000
You have you smell some sort of

1245
01:04:36,000 --> 01:04:39,000
musty odor at the same time.

1246
01:04:39,000 --> 01:04:42,000
When you get back around to the

1247
01:04:42,000 --> 01:04:45,000
other side, carrying your perimeter,

1248
01:04:45,000 --> 01:04:48,000
you see out of your peripheral

1249
01:04:48,000 --> 01:04:50,000
again, the movement in the trees

1250
01:04:50,000 --> 01:04:52,000
that you saw earlier and it

1251
01:04:52,000 --> 01:04:54,000
smells.

1252
01:04:54,000 --> 01:04:57,000
It smells like a is fresh in your

1253
01:04:57,000 --> 01:04:58,000
mind.

1254
01:04:58,000 --> 01:04:59,000
Probably it smells like a

1255
01:04:59,000 --> 01:05:02,000
battlefield.

1256
01:05:02,000 --> 01:05:03,000
Dried blood.

1257
01:05:03,000 --> 01:05:08,000
And as you turn and look, the

1258
01:05:08,000 --> 01:05:10,000
scent disappears and the

1259
01:05:10,000 --> 01:05:11,000
movement stops and you just see

1260
01:05:11,000 --> 01:05:13,000
the trees again.

1261
01:05:13,000 --> 01:05:18,000
I want to try to actively not

1262
01:05:18,000 --> 01:05:19,000
look.

1263
01:05:19,000 --> 01:05:23,000
So, you know, how you're

1264
01:05:23,000 --> 01:05:26,000
trying to see the illusion.

1265
01:05:26,000 --> 01:05:27,000
So you have to unfocus your

1266
01:05:27,000 --> 01:05:28,000
eyes and pretend like you're

1267
01:05:28,000 --> 01:05:29,000
not looking for it.

1268
01:05:29,000 --> 01:05:30,000
Yeah.

1269
01:05:30,000 --> 01:05:31,000
Magic eye.

1270
01:05:31,000 --> 01:05:32,000
I want to do that again and see

1271
01:05:32,000 --> 01:05:33,000
if I see it.

1272
01:05:33,000 --> 01:05:34,000
Okay.

1273
01:05:34,000 --> 01:05:37,000
In the same spot, you do so.

1274
01:05:37,000 --> 01:05:41,000
You look at your nose and

1275
01:05:41,000 --> 01:05:42,000
I make that face.

1276
01:05:42,000 --> 01:05:44,000
Unfocus your eyes.

1277
01:05:44,000 --> 01:05:45,000
And you begin to see the

1278
01:05:45,000 --> 01:05:46,000
movement again out of your

1279
01:05:46,000 --> 01:05:47,000
peripheral and that smell

1280
01:05:47,000 --> 01:05:50,000
wafts back to you.

1281
01:05:50,000 --> 01:05:51,000
But because it's out of your

1282
01:05:51,000 --> 01:05:52,000
peripheral and because it's

1283
01:05:52,000 --> 01:05:53,000
dark and because it's

1284
01:05:53,000 --> 01:05:55,000
shadows, you don't really get

1285
01:05:55,000 --> 01:05:59,000
a good look at any of the

1286
01:05:59,000 --> 01:06:01,000
people or humanoid creatures

1287
01:06:01,000 --> 01:06:02,000
that you can kind of see out

1288
01:06:02,000 --> 01:06:03,000
of your peripheral.

1289
01:06:03,000 --> 01:06:04,000
They don't look like they're

1290
01:06:04,000 --> 01:06:05,000
walking towards you

1291
01:06:05,000 --> 01:06:06,000
necessarily, but they look

1292
01:06:06,000 --> 01:06:07,000
like they're marching by

1293
01:06:07,000 --> 01:06:09,000
going in a singular direction.

1294
01:06:09,000 --> 01:06:11,000
I want to say, I want to

1295
01:06:11,000 --> 01:06:12,000
say something.

1296
01:06:12,000 --> 01:06:14,000
I want to say hello.

1297
01:06:14,000 --> 01:06:17,000
Who's there?

1298
01:06:17,000 --> 01:06:18,000
Do I notice any of them

1299
01:06:18,000 --> 01:06:20,000
like stop or even recognize

1300
01:06:20,000 --> 01:06:21,000
that I've spoken?

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01:06:21,000 --> 01:06:24,000
There's no response.

1302
01:06:24,000 --> 01:06:25,000
The it feels like she's

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01:06:25,000 --> 01:06:28,000
seeing a memory.

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01:06:28,000 --> 01:06:31,000
You, you carry on for the

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01:06:31,000 --> 01:06:33,000
rest of your watch.

1306
01:06:33,000 --> 01:06:34,000
And as you're just finishing

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01:06:34,000 --> 01:06:39,000
up, you see a flash coming

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01:06:39,000 --> 01:06:42,000
from the center of the camp.

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01:06:42,000 --> 01:06:44,000
It's bright.

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01:06:44,000 --> 01:06:46,000
It's blue.

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01:06:46,000 --> 01:06:47,000
And then there's an

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01:06:47,000 --> 01:06:49,000
eruption.

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01:06:49,000 --> 01:06:54,000
One of the tents ignites in

1314
01:06:54,000 --> 01:06:56,000
flame and crackling

1315
01:06:56,000 --> 01:06:57,000
lightning.

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01:06:57,000 --> 01:06:59,000
Chip.

1317
01:06:59,000 --> 01:07:00,000
You hear screaming, which

1318
01:07:00,000 --> 01:07:02,000
wakes all of you.

1319
01:07:02,000 --> 01:07:04,000
You run out and you see

1320
01:07:04,000 --> 01:07:06,000
standing amidst the rubble

1321
01:07:06,000 --> 01:07:08,000
of this tent, fire jumping

1322
01:07:08,000 --> 01:07:10,000
to the other ones.

1323
01:07:10,000 --> 01:07:14,000
A close to what you could

1324
01:07:14,000 --> 01:07:17,000
presume 15 foot tall

1325
01:07:17,000 --> 01:07:19,000
gorilla like creature

1326
01:07:19,000 --> 01:07:21,000
hunched over.

1327
01:07:21,000 --> 01:07:24,000
What is that?

1328
01:07:24,000 --> 01:07:26,000
Gray and brown fur, huge

1329
01:07:26,000 --> 01:07:29,000
hulking hands.

1330
01:07:29,000 --> 01:07:31,000
Its hind legs look more like

1331
01:07:31,000 --> 01:07:33,000
a dog's legs.

1332
01:07:33,000 --> 01:07:35,000
Has a long ape like snout

1333
01:07:35,000 --> 01:07:37,000
with huge horns and spikes

1334
01:07:37,000 --> 01:07:39,000
coming down from its chin

1335
01:07:39,000 --> 01:07:41,000
and horns that stretch out

1336
01:07:41,000 --> 01:07:46,000
probably 10 feet.

1337
01:07:46,000 --> 01:07:47,000
It turns and it looks to

1338
01:07:47,000 --> 01:07:49,000
your group.

1339
01:07:49,000 --> 01:07:51,000
Its eyes flash a deep,

1340
01:07:51,000 --> 01:07:53,000
dark red.

1341
01:07:53,000 --> 01:07:54,000
And then you hear from the

1342
01:07:54,000 --> 01:07:57,000
trees the sounds of apes

1343
01:07:57,000 --> 01:07:59,000
as this thing that you see

1344
01:07:59,000 --> 01:08:02,000
before you hits the ground

1345
01:08:02,000 --> 01:08:06,000
with both of its hands.

1346
01:08:06,000 --> 01:08:09,000
And the ground erupts,

1347
01:08:09,000 --> 01:08:11,000
throwing dirt and debris

1348
01:08:11,000 --> 01:08:13,000
and tents and people all

1349
01:08:13,000 --> 01:08:15,000
over.

1350
01:08:15,000 --> 01:08:16,000
Everybody make a dexterity

1351
01:08:16,000 --> 01:08:17,000
or strength saving throw

1352
01:08:17,000 --> 01:08:19,000
in that moment.

1353
01:08:19,000 --> 01:08:20,000
Do I have to if I'm on

1354
01:08:20,000 --> 01:08:21,000
the outside of the camp?

1355
01:08:21,000 --> 01:08:22,000
You're on the outside.

1356
01:08:22,000 --> 01:08:23,000
So sorry.

1357
01:08:23,000 --> 01:08:24,000
Question for you.

1358
01:08:24,000 --> 01:08:25,000
Yeah.

1359
01:08:25,000 --> 01:08:27,000
So I have a crossbow of

1360
01:08:27,000 --> 01:08:28,000
light warning that makes it

1361
01:08:28,000 --> 01:08:29,000
so that even when I sleep

1362
01:08:29,000 --> 01:08:32,000
I can't be surprised.

1363
01:08:32,000 --> 01:08:34,000
So that would have gone off

1364
01:08:34,000 --> 01:08:38,000
just as the

1365
01:08:38,000 --> 01:08:40,000
just as Thea would have

1366
01:08:40,000 --> 01:08:41,000
seen the light.

1367
01:08:41,000 --> 01:08:42,000
So you might have come out

1368
01:08:42,000 --> 01:08:43,000
just a little bit before that.

1369
01:08:43,000 --> 01:08:44,000
OK.

1370
01:08:44,000 --> 01:08:45,000
But you didn't sense

1371
01:08:45,000 --> 01:08:46,000
anything prior to that.

1372
01:08:46,000 --> 01:08:47,000
Yeah.

1373
01:08:47,000 --> 01:08:48,000
So the whole reason I asked

1374
01:08:48,000 --> 01:08:49,000
that is that like seeing it

1375
01:08:49,000 --> 01:08:50,000
appear and knowing it's

1376
01:08:50,000 --> 01:08:52,000
MO, would I be able to

1377
01:08:52,000 --> 01:08:53,000
instead of trying to avoid

1378
01:08:53,000 --> 01:08:55,000
this explosion from underneath

1379
01:08:55,000 --> 01:08:56,000
us?

1380
01:08:56,000 --> 01:08:58,000
Could I activate my winged

1381
01:08:58,000 --> 01:08:59,000
boots and take off into the

1382
01:08:59,000 --> 01:09:00,000
air?

1383
01:09:00,000 --> 01:09:01,000
Yeah.

1384
01:09:01,000 --> 01:09:02,000
Totally.

1385
01:09:02,000 --> 01:09:03,000
Yeah.

1386
01:09:03,000 --> 01:09:04,000
So yeah, you won't have to

1387
01:09:04,000 --> 01:09:05,000
make that savings for

1388
01:09:05,000 --> 01:09:06,000
everybody else though.

1389
01:09:06,000 --> 01:09:07,000
Twenty two also.

1390
01:09:07,000 --> 01:09:08,000
Wow.

1391
01:09:08,000 --> 01:09:09,000
Margaret was super

1392
01:09:09,000 --> 01:09:10,000
not impressed with your

1393
01:09:10,000 --> 01:09:11,000
levitating boots earlier in

1394
01:09:11,000 --> 01:09:12,000
the day.

1395
01:09:12,000 --> 01:09:13,000
Now that I'm on the outside

1396
01:09:13,000 --> 01:09:14,000
going, oh, she's got tricks

1397
01:09:14,000 --> 01:09:15,000
of her own.

1398
01:09:15,000 --> 01:09:16,000
OK.

1399
01:09:16,000 --> 01:09:17,000
I also got a 22.

1400
01:09:17,000 --> 01:09:20,000
Oh, we're very strong.

1401
01:09:20,000 --> 01:09:21,000
OK.

1402
01:09:21,000 --> 01:09:22,000
I would have killed that

1403
01:09:22,000 --> 01:09:23,000
so hard and I would have been

1404
01:09:23,000 --> 01:09:24,000
unconscious for the entire

1405
01:09:24,000 --> 01:09:25,000
battle.

1406
01:09:25,000 --> 01:09:26,000
So it's a good thing I went

1407
01:09:26,000 --> 01:09:27,000
home and watched first again.

1408
01:09:27,000 --> 01:09:28,000
Double King Cust within one

1409
01:09:28,000 --> 01:09:29,000
day.

1410
01:09:29,000 --> 01:09:30,000
It would have been very

1411
01:09:30,000 --> 01:09:31,000
dangerous.

1412
01:09:31,000 --> 01:09:32,000
Can you imagine what kind

1413
01:09:32,000 --> 01:09:33,000
of horrific things I would

1414
01:09:33,000 --> 01:09:34,000
do to the trees?

1415
01:09:34,000 --> 01:09:35,000
Somebody stop me.

1416
01:09:35,000 --> 01:09:36,000
So you are each knocked

1417
01:09:36,000 --> 01:09:37,000
back from your position,

1418
01:09:37,000 --> 01:09:38,000
Flint and Lex, by 10 feet.

1419
01:09:38,000 --> 01:09:39,000
But because you saved,

1420
01:09:39,000 --> 01:09:40,000
you're not knocked prone.

1421
01:09:40,000 --> 01:09:41,000
And as you hear from

1422
01:09:41,000 --> 01:09:42,000
within the trees, you're

1423
01:09:42,000 --> 01:09:43,000
not knocked prone.

1424
01:09:43,000 --> 01:09:44,000
You're not knocked prone.

1425
01:09:44,000 --> 01:09:45,000
You're not knocked prone.

1426
01:09:45,000 --> 01:09:46,000
You're not knocked prone.

1427
01:09:46,000 --> 01:09:47,000
You're not knocked prone.

1428
01:09:47,000 --> 01:09:48,000
You're not knocked prone.

1429
01:09:48,000 --> 01:09:49,000
You're not knocked prone.

1430
01:09:49,000 --> 01:09:50,000
You're not knocked prone.

1431
01:09:50,000 --> 01:09:51,000
We hear more from within

1432
01:09:51,000 --> 01:09:54,000
the trees, more ape noises.

1433
01:09:54,000 --> 01:09:55,000
And as you look and turn,

1434
01:09:55,000 --> 01:09:57,000
you see another flash of

1435
01:09:57,000 --> 01:09:59,000
lightning and you look back

1436
01:09:59,000 --> 01:10:01,000
and the ape creature before

1437
01:10:01,000 --> 01:10:03,000
you is gone and charging

1438
01:10:03,000 --> 01:10:06,000
out are

1439
01:10:06,000 --> 01:10:10,000
orange and black

1440
01:10:10,000 --> 01:10:12,000
monkey like creatures,

1441
01:10:12,000 --> 01:10:14,000
but their faces

1442
01:10:14,000 --> 01:10:17,000
have beady red eyes

1443
01:10:17,000 --> 01:10:21,899
Snouts a fucking mushroom on its tail and some of them are carrying mushrooms

1444
01:10:24,260 --> 01:10:28,939
That explains a lot it's the mushrooms that's what's doing it to all of us always

1445
01:10:28,940 --> 01:10:30,940
It's

1446
01:10:46,060 --> 01:10:50,940
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01:11:33,700 --> 01:11:37,740
What what yeah in the podcast oh my god

1456
01:11:39,020 --> 01:11:41,600
Just stop you you stop

1457
01:11:42,500 --> 01:11:44,500
What's your name?

1458
01:11:45,860 --> 01:11:47,860
Good question

1459
01:11:48,900 --> 01:11:50,900
I'm not one page

1460
01:11:51,059 --> 01:11:53,059
One thing that rest doesn't do

1461
01:11:53,379 --> 01:11:58,859
Have up the sometimes he does and then we're really thrown off. Oh, it's just fun. It's gonna start with the G though

1462
01:11:58,859 --> 01:12:01,339
Just wait will not you don't know that it will

1463
01:12:02,259 --> 01:12:04,259
You don't know me

1464
01:12:04,259 --> 01:12:06,259
It's not going to know

1465
01:12:06,739 --> 01:12:08,739
Sorry

1466
01:12:08,979 --> 01:12:10,979
Gartholomew

1467
01:12:11,420 --> 01:12:14,179
You can't get sington

1468
01:12:15,099 --> 01:12:17,659
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