1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:02,399 Previously on Dumbgeons and Dragons. 2 00:00:02,399 --> 00:00:10,000 You are in the middle of a clearing. You have just seen this monstrous, huge beast in front of you. 3 00:00:10,000 --> 00:00:13,839 They're popping up through some sort of portal. 4 00:00:13,839 --> 00:00:18,800 Well, I mean, they disappeared via lightning. Maybe they arrived that way, too? 5 00:00:18,800 --> 00:00:24,240 Yeah, when the big ones died and then they all left at once, it seems like a strategic retreat. 6 00:00:24,240 --> 00:00:31,840 The real big one, it seemed like it had elements of the fey, but it was a hodgepodge of different animals. 7 00:00:31,840 --> 00:00:38,560 They see me run to the trees and then they see like a dark cloud that comes from my hands. 8 00:00:38,560 --> 00:00:45,280 Right before it hits, you see that same lightning bolt. 9 00:00:45,280 --> 00:00:46,560 Come and fight it yourself! 10 00:00:47,359 --> 00:01:00,400 Somewhere else, we see a almost a crystal ball within a liquid surface, focusing in on Thea. 11 00:01:00,400 --> 00:01:08,400 And we see in this room, the dead body of this creature and long white hair. 12 00:01:08,719 --> 00:01:12,160 The loadiest fucking bravesman! 13 00:01:12,160 --> 00:01:16,400 As he laughs, I'll be coming for you soon. 14 00:01:19,120 --> 00:01:23,280 Welcome to Dumbgeons and Dragons. We're a D&D 5th edition actual play podcast. 15 00:01:23,280 --> 00:01:27,920 And I'm your dungeon master, Russ More. And with me today is Carla Maxted. 16 00:01:27,920 --> 00:01:34,880 That is me. Today I am going to be Lexington. Lex we've decided on, 17 00:01:34,880 --> 00:01:37,120 but maybe always beefy boy in our hearts. 18 00:01:37,200 --> 00:01:38,640 And Tom Laird. 19 00:01:38,640 --> 00:01:42,320 Yeah, that's me. Today it's Flint Firebeard's turn. 20 00:01:42,320 --> 00:01:43,680 And Amy More. 21 00:01:44,320 --> 00:01:49,600 That's me. And I am playing Thea, who's happy to be back. 22 00:01:50,480 --> 00:01:55,600 She feels like she doesn't get enough air time. She's jealous. 23 00:01:56,560 --> 00:01:58,880 Just like how she doesn't get enough turns when we fight. 24 00:02:00,320 --> 00:02:05,680 Well, she's jealous of a story, other story, story A. 25 00:02:06,560 --> 00:02:08,000 They get the same amount of time. 26 00:02:08,000 --> 00:02:09,360 Yeah, she doesn't feel that. 27 00:02:09,360 --> 00:02:10,640 She was used to having all the time. 28 00:02:10,640 --> 00:02:12,319 She was. Yeah, now she shares the time. 29 00:02:12,319 --> 00:02:13,200 So that's fair. 30 00:02:14,319 --> 00:02:19,120 Well, where Amy feels like she gets more time is over in Tom's game, 31 00:02:19,120 --> 00:02:22,480 which is over on Patreon, Patreon.com slash dumb dragon cast. 32 00:02:22,480 --> 00:02:22,960 Right? 33 00:02:22,960 --> 00:02:25,040 That is true. She gets a lot of time there. 34 00:02:25,040 --> 00:02:29,600 Yeah, I've never once had to share that character spot with any other character. 35 00:02:31,040 --> 00:02:34,800 Really nailing this banter today. So good. 36 00:02:34,800 --> 00:02:36,560 It's the facial expressions that come after it. 37 00:02:37,520 --> 00:02:39,120 How's the weather today, Jim? 38 00:02:40,960 --> 00:02:42,320 Over to you, sports. 39 00:02:42,880 --> 00:02:46,560 But what happens when you are a patron is you get an episode dedicated to you. 40 00:02:46,560 --> 00:02:48,480 It just comes upon you. 41 00:02:48,480 --> 00:02:50,960 And whether you want it or not. 42 00:02:50,960 --> 00:02:51,680 Yep. Sorry. 43 00:02:51,680 --> 00:02:55,439 Like today's patron, Terry Jensen. 44 00:02:55,439 --> 00:02:56,480 There it is. 45 00:02:56,480 --> 00:02:59,439 Terry, Terry, Terry. 46 00:02:59,439 --> 00:03:00,000 Thank you. 47 00:03:00,000 --> 00:03:01,840 And now, fuck it, let's play D&D. 48 00:03:05,280 --> 00:03:08,719 Previously, we had our good friend Rev from The Crit Show on, 49 00:03:08,719 --> 00:03:12,640 and there were a few loose ends that we didn't wrap up. 50 00:03:13,520 --> 00:03:15,200 So you had some things to look for. 51 00:03:16,880 --> 00:03:19,040 Some horses and some Donnie. 52 00:03:21,040 --> 00:03:28,480 How long, given worst case scenario, would you say that you would look for these things? 53 00:03:29,200 --> 00:03:30,000 Until the end of time. 54 00:03:30,000 --> 00:03:31,040 Things, Russ? 55 00:03:31,840 --> 00:03:33,040 These things? 56 00:03:33,039 --> 00:03:36,560 All we're left with is this fucking goat, Russell. 57 00:03:38,479 --> 00:03:40,719 Okay. So here's how it plays out. 58 00:03:41,439 --> 00:03:47,199 After the hideous monster from an unknown place, an unknown origin disappears, 59 00:03:47,199 --> 00:03:51,519 you are left in the clearing with your good friend, Margaret, 60 00:03:52,319 --> 00:03:59,359 and you help the warriors, quote unquote, kind of clean up, 61 00:03:59,440 --> 00:04:03,840 help bury their deceased, and then go out hunting, 62 00:04:03,840 --> 00:04:07,600 not hunting, go out in search of your horses and Donnie. 63 00:04:09,280 --> 00:04:11,760 We're going to hunt those horses down, I tell you what. 64 00:04:11,760 --> 00:04:12,640 Hunt those horses. 65 00:04:13,600 --> 00:04:16,480 You go back to where you had originally crashed, 66 00:04:17,520 --> 00:04:24,960 and with Margaret's help, you very quickly find horse tracks 67 00:04:24,960 --> 00:04:26,639 that go off in a couple different directions. 68 00:04:27,840 --> 00:04:29,040 No, they've split the party. 69 00:04:29,360 --> 00:04:36,560 You follow them, find them, so Tiny and Clipclaw are easily found. 70 00:04:38,480 --> 00:04:43,680 After, I mean, correct me if I say anything that's too outlandish, 71 00:04:43,680 --> 00:04:50,639 after several days of searching, you come across Donnie's collar. 72 00:04:51,600 --> 00:04:54,080 Thought you were going to say a different word that started with C, 73 00:04:54,080 --> 00:04:55,680 and I was going to be very upset. 74 00:04:56,400 --> 00:04:57,040 Corpse. 75 00:04:57,040 --> 00:04:58,959 He was worried you were going to say Donnie's corpse. 76 00:05:00,319 --> 00:05:03,040 No, you come across Donnie's collar. 77 00:05:04,400 --> 00:05:08,800 Thea, your telepathic calls to Donnie, 78 00:05:09,600 --> 00:05:15,360 no matter how hard you try and how long you try, remain left unanswered. 79 00:05:20,480 --> 00:05:22,319 So we search for several more days. 80 00:05:22,319 --> 00:05:26,719 Do we have any sort of searching montage music? 81 00:05:27,439 --> 00:05:29,920 You tell me how many days you search for before you... 82 00:05:32,639 --> 00:05:33,839 Nine years pass. 83 00:05:36,959 --> 00:05:43,839 No hints or clues or anything other than the collar are left of his whereabouts. 84 00:05:46,240 --> 00:05:47,680 Thea does not accept this. 85 00:05:48,560 --> 00:05:50,159 He's out there, we just have to keep looking. 86 00:05:52,480 --> 00:05:57,040 Do you think because he knew where you were heading, he would go there? 87 00:06:01,519 --> 00:06:03,040 Donnie's never really been much of a, 88 00:06:05,199 --> 00:06:08,719 you know, like initiative, take charge, kind of dragon. 89 00:06:08,719 --> 00:06:11,600 He needs a pretty thorough explaining, usually. 90 00:06:13,360 --> 00:06:13,600 Right. 91 00:06:14,480 --> 00:06:15,680 I just can't see him leaving. 92 00:06:15,680 --> 00:06:17,839 I just can't see him choosing to leave. 93 00:06:18,160 --> 00:06:22,800 And this collar, what's the, that was just decorative or? 94 00:06:22,800 --> 00:06:27,760 Well, he's now no longer as big as he was before. 95 00:06:27,760 --> 00:06:33,920 He is now just this little red pseudo dragon. 96 00:06:33,920 --> 00:06:39,520 Russ, is the collar ruined or has it just like detached? 97 00:06:39,520 --> 00:06:42,720 Like has it broken apart or has it unclipped? 98 00:06:42,720 --> 00:06:52,160 It looks like the clasps have been forcibly removed or damaged in some way. 99 00:06:55,440 --> 00:06:57,440 Someone's stolen Donnie. 100 00:07:00,800 --> 00:07:05,680 But did that person think they were stealing a dragon wormling? 101 00:07:05,680 --> 00:07:14,959 That person must have been very powerful to have gotten even close enough to Donnie to rip this off of him. 102 00:07:18,480 --> 00:07:19,920 Or someone he knew and trusted. 103 00:07:26,399 --> 00:07:27,519 Not there. 104 00:07:27,519 --> 00:07:33,040 There aren't many of those people around, unfortunately, Lex, but yeah, I guess. 105 00:07:36,639 --> 00:07:39,519 Well, I don't know how to help. 106 00:07:39,519 --> 00:07:41,360 I didn't I didn't know him for long. 107 00:07:42,879 --> 00:07:47,920 And you're not getting anything on your your mind chats for him? 108 00:07:48,639 --> 00:07:52,160 No, it's just radio silence in there. 109 00:07:54,399 --> 00:08:01,120 Trying to see if I have anything helpful, but not really, because I'm just just a beefy boy for the most part. 110 00:08:01,120 --> 00:08:05,360 And any like there's been no tracks where we found this collar. 111 00:08:05,360 --> 00:08:06,800 It was just there. 112 00:08:08,319 --> 00:08:11,520 Yeah, all right. 113 00:08:11,520 --> 00:08:14,400 Well, we've searched pretty thoroughly. 114 00:08:15,759 --> 00:08:16,720 We have no leads. 115 00:08:19,600 --> 00:08:20,480 What should we do now? 116 00:08:25,280 --> 00:08:30,560 My mind tells me that we should go to Waterdeep. 117 00:08:32,240 --> 00:08:34,080 Maybe Donnie will be there. 118 00:08:36,320 --> 00:08:40,720 But my heart tells me that Nulara would not stop looking for him. 119 00:08:42,320 --> 00:08:49,840 What if we continue to look as we travel and maybe someone saw? 120 00:08:51,440 --> 00:08:55,840 You know, a pseudo dragon in a cage or something. 121 00:08:57,680 --> 00:09:00,399 I don't think we have much of a choice. 122 00:09:00,399 --> 00:09:04,080 We're running out of supplies out here wandering through the forest. 123 00:09:05,360 --> 00:09:08,560 Let's head to Waterdeep. 124 00:09:14,080 --> 00:09:23,519 As you set off down the path with Clip Clop and Tiny, Margaret says she is separating ways. 125 00:09:25,200 --> 00:09:30,720 She approaches Lex and reaches out to hand you something. 126 00:09:31,680 --> 00:09:36,080 Margaret pulls a stone out of her pocket and I think gives it to Lex. 127 00:09:37,360 --> 00:09:41,680 I hope that if this name doesn't stick, I hope you find one that does. 128 00:09:42,320 --> 00:09:46,800 And you crush this and you can send me a message. 129 00:09:47,840 --> 00:09:48,800 It's not a very good one. 130 00:09:48,800 --> 00:09:49,519 Only one time. 131 00:09:49,519 --> 00:09:53,440 But you let me know where you are if you need help and I'll be there as fast as I can. 132 00:09:54,000 --> 00:10:03,520 She tells you that she'll do her best in the circles that she has to try and track down Donnie. 133 00:10:04,640 --> 00:10:09,760 And if she hears anything, she will contact you as well. 134 00:10:17,680 --> 00:10:22,560 You travel on the road back to Waterdeep from your location. 135 00:10:22,720 --> 00:10:25,280 From your location, it takes you a couple weeks. 136 00:10:28,080 --> 00:10:37,200 As you're nearing the final stretch of Waterdeep, Flint, we find you deep in thought. 137 00:10:39,920 --> 00:10:41,040 Which may be unusual. 138 00:10:41,040 --> 00:10:42,320 I was going to say, is that new for you? 139 00:10:42,320 --> 00:10:45,920 I mean, usually deep and blinking, thought not so much. 140 00:10:46,480 --> 00:10:49,280 Thea and Lex make a perception check. 141 00:10:52,560 --> 00:10:56,640 Twenty five. 142 00:10:59,600 --> 00:11:00,400 Twenty four. 143 00:11:02,320 --> 00:11:04,320 Damn, we are like, on it. 144 00:11:05,360 --> 00:11:06,160 You're focused. 145 00:11:06,160 --> 00:11:06,800 You're on it. 146 00:11:06,800 --> 00:11:07,360 That's okay. 147 00:11:07,360 --> 00:11:10,480 I will tell you what that means momentarily. 148 00:11:13,200 --> 00:11:20,720 We close in on Flint's pensive demeanor and flash to another scene. 149 00:11:21,120 --> 00:11:25,120 We are over top of the Well of Dragons. 150 00:11:26,960 --> 00:11:34,320 Explosions, roars, and screams of battle are happening below and we zoom down towards 151 00:11:34,320 --> 00:11:41,440 the Temple of Tiamat as we see Flint rushing towards the closing door of the Temple of 152 00:11:41,440 --> 00:11:49,759 Tiamat and it's at this moment that Flint tried to call on board. 153 00:11:50,720 --> 00:11:53,600 That son of a bitch. 154 00:11:55,519 --> 00:12:01,200 We zoom into Flint's mind as this is occurring. 155 00:12:09,360 --> 00:12:10,560 I need you right now, bud. 156 00:12:13,040 --> 00:12:13,680 Yeah, man. 157 00:12:13,680 --> 00:12:22,080 And kind of a lot of stuff to unpack with this whole scenario. 158 00:12:22,720 --> 00:12:28,080 Yeah, there's some important shit happening and we got to take care of it. 159 00:12:28,720 --> 00:12:33,360 Yeah, something might not have told you, might not have let slip. 160 00:12:37,120 --> 00:12:42,880 Where I come from, and it could be very similar here as well. 161 00:12:43,920 --> 00:12:52,080 But Tiamat, she's got a kind of a thrall over folks like myself. 162 00:12:54,240 --> 00:13:02,320 And if I come out and help you, I don't know if I'll actually be helping you. 163 00:13:04,160 --> 00:13:05,360 You catch my drift? 164 00:13:06,720 --> 00:13:11,120 Yeah, that just wouldn't have occurred to me. 165 00:13:11,120 --> 00:13:15,039 So that's, yeah, maybe best you don't show up then. 166 00:13:19,600 --> 00:13:26,560 I get what you need me to do and I'm very, I don't say this a lot. 167 00:13:26,560 --> 00:13:28,159 I'm very sorry, my friend. 168 00:13:29,600 --> 00:13:31,919 I can't be there for you right now. 169 00:13:34,159 --> 00:13:36,240 No, that's okay. 170 00:13:36,480 --> 00:13:43,279 Okay, I guess just the three of us will have to take care of this ourselves then. 171 00:13:48,080 --> 00:13:50,960 He says once more, I'm sorry. 172 00:13:52,560 --> 00:14:00,399 And then you feel him fade from where you normally sense him. 173 00:14:01,360 --> 00:14:03,360 You don't, it's not that he's gone. 174 00:14:03,360 --> 00:14:08,879 It's just that he's gone into a sort of hibernation. 175 00:14:08,879 --> 00:14:13,840 He pulled the blanket all the way over his head instead of just mostly up his face. 176 00:14:13,840 --> 00:14:14,480 That's right. 177 00:14:14,480 --> 00:14:17,360 He is full hiding under bed with blanket. 178 00:14:20,800 --> 00:14:25,120 And we flash back to Flint's face in present time. 179 00:14:25,279 --> 00:14:32,080 And Thea and Lex, over the last couple of weeks, you've noticed Flint, 180 00:14:33,600 --> 00:14:38,720 I mean, not that he's normally the most chatty individual, but he's been extra quiet. 181 00:14:40,399 --> 00:14:45,840 And Thea specifically, Lex, you've noticed this, but maybe, you know, context wise, 182 00:14:45,840 --> 00:14:51,200 you don't necessarily know that it's important, but Thea, you've noticed the 183 00:14:51,520 --> 00:15:02,160 dragon scale on Flint's body has expanded well beyond where it is, 184 00:15:02,960 --> 00:15:06,160 creeping up his neck and further down his arms. 185 00:15:08,960 --> 00:15:15,040 You crest over a hill and you see off in the distance the city of Waterdeep before you. 186 00:15:15,039 --> 00:15:20,719 Flint, how are you doing? 187 00:15:22,799 --> 00:15:24,480 Uh, yeah, all right. 188 00:15:24,480 --> 00:15:31,279 I mean, I just keep kind of replaying, you know, team and everything else in my head. 189 00:15:32,959 --> 00:15:33,679 Yeah, yeah. 190 00:15:33,679 --> 00:15:38,639 It's a special five minutes when I catch myself not thinking about that day. 191 00:15:40,879 --> 00:15:44,319 You know, let's, let's get in here. 192 00:15:44,320 --> 00:15:53,920 Let's update Leosin and talk to the Gilded Nine Shadows, the Brotherhood. 193 00:15:53,920 --> 00:15:55,440 Who are we talking to about the scales? 194 00:15:56,080 --> 00:15:58,400 Arcane Brotherhood was the one trying to help you with that. 195 00:15:59,600 --> 00:16:00,720 Why there's so many? 196 00:16:02,080 --> 00:16:04,160 Gilded Nine Shadows kind of ditched you. 197 00:16:04,160 --> 00:16:05,280 Oh, well, fuck them then. 198 00:16:06,560 --> 00:16:06,800 Yeah. 199 00:16:06,800 --> 00:16:10,560 Remember you went back to the Gilded Nine Shadows and Reginald Thermopolis 200 00:16:10,560 --> 00:16:12,800 told you to basically go do it yourself. 201 00:16:12,800 --> 00:16:13,520 Oh, right. 202 00:16:14,079 --> 00:16:18,079 Because resources are low and we can't do anything. 203 00:16:18,079 --> 00:16:19,519 Was that his voice? 204 00:16:19,519 --> 00:16:20,559 Yeah, I think it was. 205 00:16:20,559 --> 00:16:21,039 Pretty sure it was. 206 00:16:21,039 --> 00:16:22,799 His name was Reginald. 207 00:16:24,559 --> 00:16:26,399 Not sure if that was the voice, but maybe it was. 208 00:16:26,399 --> 00:16:27,039 I'm pretty sure that was the voice. 209 00:16:27,039 --> 00:16:28,319 We're gonna have to go back and listen. 210 00:16:28,319 --> 00:16:29,120 Uh, okay. 211 00:16:30,480 --> 00:16:35,679 Let's go to the, you know, just say the Brotherhood. 212 00:16:36,960 --> 00:16:38,159 Arcane Brotherhood. 213 00:16:38,159 --> 00:16:42,480 Yeah, but I don't know how much of this we are sharing with our new friend Lex. 214 00:16:42,480 --> 00:16:48,879 Okay, well, for world knowledge, the Arcane Brotherhood is well known within the realm. 215 00:16:48,879 --> 00:16:53,279 Okay, Brotherhood makes it just sound like maybe it's like a secret society. 216 00:16:53,279 --> 00:16:54,800 The Gild was super secret. 217 00:16:54,800 --> 00:16:55,840 Gild was super secret. 218 00:16:57,840 --> 00:16:59,519 All right, well, let's go to the Arcane Brotherhood. 219 00:17:00,639 --> 00:17:06,480 First stop and talk to them about your condition. 220 00:17:08,000 --> 00:17:12,079 Yeah, I remember they said something about an amulet. 221 00:17:12,640 --> 00:17:16,480 Needed, but I don't remember much else other than that, so maybe they can remind us. 222 00:17:18,319 --> 00:17:20,240 You don't remember what you need? 223 00:17:21,599 --> 00:17:26,880 In my defense, there was a lot of other stuff going on that seemed a little more important. 224 00:17:27,759 --> 00:17:31,120 Yeah, but I mean, in the event that we didn't die, 225 00:17:31,120 --> 00:17:33,200 this is like the most important stuff for you. 226 00:17:34,240 --> 00:17:36,559 Yeah, for me, but it wasn't the most important for us. 227 00:17:38,079 --> 00:17:40,880 I flip open my notepad that I keep in my satchel. 228 00:17:41,600 --> 00:17:42,880 I'm going to moot you right now. 229 00:17:42,880 --> 00:17:43,600 How dare you? 230 00:17:44,640 --> 00:17:46,480 This is my character choice. 231 00:17:47,520 --> 00:17:52,240 And I say, here's what you need. 232 00:17:52,240 --> 00:17:52,880 Remember it. 233 00:17:52,880 --> 00:17:53,360 Okay. 234 00:17:53,360 --> 00:17:57,760 You need the host vessel, which I think will be really hard to lose, 235 00:17:59,520 --> 00:18:05,680 diamond dust dust, a drop of your blood, the amulet of wonder, 236 00:18:06,400 --> 00:18:08,400 bing, bang, boom. 237 00:18:08,400 --> 00:18:10,160 It's only four things. 238 00:18:10,160 --> 00:18:11,920 What was the diamond one? 239 00:18:11,920 --> 00:18:16,240 A diamond of dust or as dust. 240 00:18:16,240 --> 00:18:21,120 Sorry, as dust, a crushed up diamond, diamond dust. 241 00:18:21,120 --> 00:18:21,600 There we go. 242 00:18:21,600 --> 00:18:22,000 Good thing. 243 00:18:22,000 --> 00:18:23,360 Diamonds are very crushable. 244 00:18:24,160 --> 00:18:24,640 Why? 245 00:18:24,640 --> 00:18:25,279 Yeah, right. 246 00:18:26,640 --> 00:18:28,240 I take the big one out of my satchel. 247 00:18:31,360 --> 00:18:32,240 Got you covered, buddy. 248 00:18:32,240 --> 00:18:33,200 We'll figure this out. 249 00:18:33,200 --> 00:18:33,600 All right. 250 00:18:33,600 --> 00:18:34,240 Four things. 251 00:18:35,039 --> 00:18:35,839 Sounds easy enough. 252 00:18:37,039 --> 00:18:44,799 But maybe in the meantime, they can do something to slow some stuff down. 253 00:18:46,640 --> 00:18:48,000 Where is the gray scale? 254 00:18:48,000 --> 00:18:48,640 Have I seen it? 255 00:18:48,640 --> 00:18:50,240 Oh, there's got to be. 256 00:18:50,240 --> 00:18:52,400 By this point, you've definitely seen it. 257 00:18:52,400 --> 00:18:54,160 You would have seen it on him before. 258 00:18:55,519 --> 00:18:57,519 It hasn't been talked about in game. 259 00:18:57,519 --> 00:19:00,400 So I'll leave it up to you guys if you've talked about it elsewhere. 260 00:19:00,400 --> 00:19:03,039 But yeah, it's like creeping up the neck pretty. 261 00:19:03,039 --> 00:19:08,960 Previously, it started kind of central chest, but yeah, now it's neck and upper arms. 262 00:19:08,960 --> 00:19:11,440 So creeping up from underneath his armor and clothes. 263 00:19:12,639 --> 00:19:14,720 And are you guys having this conversation? 264 00:19:15,359 --> 00:19:18,639 Are we all just walking together or are you two kind of apart? 265 00:19:18,639 --> 00:19:23,599 Well, I think since once we found the horses, we probably hitched up the wagon. 266 00:19:24,319 --> 00:19:25,599 Which was destroyed. 267 00:19:25,599 --> 00:19:29,119 Which was enemy, but we were out there for a long time. 268 00:19:29,119 --> 00:19:30,639 We bought a new wagon. 269 00:19:30,639 --> 00:19:31,680 God rest. 270 00:19:32,480 --> 00:19:33,120 Two weeks. 271 00:19:34,080 --> 00:19:35,200 These are the questions I get. 272 00:19:36,320 --> 00:19:38,720 I just didn't want to jump into the conversation. 273 00:19:38,720 --> 00:19:42,560 I think I may be walked off to have sitting up front in the carriage, 274 00:19:42,560 --> 00:19:46,160 which is why I'm trying to be like, I know you're within earshot and you're like 275 00:19:46,160 --> 00:19:49,440 hanging out and I'm just like, you know, your condition. 276 00:19:51,680 --> 00:19:54,799 That thing that you've got going on. 277 00:19:54,799 --> 00:19:55,680 The diabetes. 278 00:19:56,000 --> 00:19:59,840 The diabetes, yes. 279 00:20:01,120 --> 00:20:04,799 So we're just like probably speaking in. 280 00:20:05,920 --> 00:20:06,400 Tongues. 281 00:20:07,279 --> 00:20:12,080 No, I was going to say like just like really obvious, like code, like, 282 00:20:13,200 --> 00:20:17,360 you know, like going to get that thing checked out, you know. 283 00:20:18,960 --> 00:20:19,920 From the people. 284 00:20:20,480 --> 00:20:22,080 Yeah, the brotherhood of you. 285 00:20:22,720 --> 00:20:27,439 Well, so we're just being straight up probably real weird. 286 00:20:29,679 --> 00:20:29,919 Okay. 287 00:20:30,799 --> 00:20:33,039 Well, I'll just let that play out before I jump in. 288 00:20:33,039 --> 00:20:35,759 Then I go just, you know, I've noticed that you're just like, 289 00:20:35,759 --> 00:20:37,359 can I play the game now too? 290 00:20:37,359 --> 00:20:39,839 Your rash has been spreading. 291 00:20:40,399 --> 00:20:42,480 I'm just going to call it scales his rash now. 292 00:20:45,439 --> 00:20:48,720 Okay, you know, you got to get that rash checked out. 293 00:20:49,759 --> 00:20:52,000 Where will you look for Donnie when we get to the city? 294 00:20:52,079 --> 00:20:54,399 Do you think he will go to where your friends are? 295 00:20:58,000 --> 00:20:59,919 Probably if he's going to go anywhere. 296 00:21:02,960 --> 00:21:06,079 Yeah, maybe the arcane brotherhood can help us out with that too. 297 00:21:08,639 --> 00:21:12,399 I think after we make our way to the arcane brotherhood, then 298 00:21:13,359 --> 00:21:16,000 I'll probably have to leave you. 299 00:21:16,000 --> 00:21:20,159 I think I need to return to the place where I was. 300 00:21:22,399 --> 00:21:23,839 Made created. 301 00:21:26,000 --> 00:21:30,240 And, and find my creator. 302 00:21:32,240 --> 00:21:34,079 But sounds like a really heavy trip, man. 303 00:21:37,199 --> 00:21:40,879 While it sounds like you're the decimators of dragons, 304 00:21:40,879 --> 00:21:43,039 I think you're familiar with very heavy trips. 305 00:21:43,039 --> 00:21:45,919 So the fate of the world doesn't depend on this one. 306 00:21:45,920 --> 00:21:53,519 Flint, I wonder if, and I apologize for 307 00:21:56,000 --> 00:21:57,600 the invasiveness of the question, 308 00:21:59,039 --> 00:22:00,960 but I do have some healing abilities. 309 00:22:00,960 --> 00:22:08,000 I wonder if I could try to help you with your rash. 310 00:22:10,560 --> 00:22:11,680 Thanks, Carla. 311 00:22:11,680 --> 00:22:13,600 I've got what's called antibiotics. 312 00:22:14,560 --> 00:22:16,640 Got a real good topical cream. 313 00:22:18,800 --> 00:22:22,000 Bexatrin, some polysporin, 314 00:22:24,560 --> 00:22:26,000 some neosporin. 315 00:22:26,880 --> 00:22:27,920 She's got all the sporens. 316 00:22:27,920 --> 00:22:29,040 She's got all the sporens. 317 00:22:29,040 --> 00:22:33,120 I've got all, I've got, I just pull out a big box labeled sporens, 318 00:22:33,120 --> 00:22:36,720 just to pull out a bunch of different bottles and tubes. 319 00:22:36,720 --> 00:22:40,160 But then also like mushrooms and stuff, because like spores. 320 00:22:40,160 --> 00:22:40,660 Exactly. 321 00:22:41,380 --> 00:22:41,880 Mm-hmm. 322 00:22:43,700 --> 00:22:46,500 Yeah, I mean, I guess we could give it a shot. 323 00:22:46,500 --> 00:22:52,660 I don't know if it's something that can be just healed like that. 324 00:22:52,660 --> 00:22:53,700 But yeah, yeah, you know what? 325 00:22:53,700 --> 00:22:58,019 If you want to, if you want to give it a try, I'm open for it. 326 00:22:59,860 --> 00:23:04,580 I mean, I don't know either, but I'm happy to try. 327 00:23:06,259 --> 00:23:08,500 Sure, yeah, let's do it. 328 00:23:10,660 --> 00:23:13,540 What are you trying to do? 329 00:23:14,740 --> 00:23:17,460 I'm trying to heal his like dragon scale list, 330 00:23:17,460 --> 00:23:21,300 because I think he just has like a dragon scale rash. 331 00:23:21,300 --> 00:23:22,820 I mean, yeah. 332 00:23:22,820 --> 00:23:25,540 What are you using to try and do this? 333 00:23:27,060 --> 00:23:30,740 Well, I mean, I do have like normal healing. 334 00:23:30,740 --> 00:23:34,500 Like I have lay on hands and other skills. 335 00:23:34,500 --> 00:23:37,700 You pick one and you tell me, you pick one. 336 00:23:37,860 --> 00:23:43,220 Okay, well. 337 00:23:43,220 --> 00:23:46,819 Also, how hilarious is it going to be if she fucking just cures him 338 00:23:46,819 --> 00:23:51,779 and we never even saw it to like just try to heal you? 339 00:23:53,539 --> 00:23:57,299 Well, what if I try lay on hands? 340 00:23:57,299 --> 00:23:59,460 Let's say I have two tiers of powers. 341 00:23:59,460 --> 00:24:03,220 I'll probably start with the lower level sporen 342 00:24:04,420 --> 00:24:06,740 before trying the hard level sporen. 343 00:24:07,380 --> 00:24:09,940 The extra strength sporen is safe for later. 344 00:24:10,740 --> 00:24:12,259 It's emergency sporen. 345 00:24:12,259 --> 00:24:14,660 Kate, describe to me. 346 00:24:15,779 --> 00:24:19,460 Kate, so are we sitting side by side? 347 00:24:19,460 --> 00:24:21,299 Oh, I scamper into the back of the wagon 348 00:24:21,299 --> 00:24:23,700 to leave room for you to come on up to the front 349 00:24:23,700 --> 00:24:25,380 and do your stuff. 350 00:24:25,380 --> 00:24:25,880 Perfect. 351 00:24:27,140 --> 00:24:29,539 So I'm going to come up a side. 352 00:24:29,539 --> 00:24:32,099 Flint, and is it on the, 353 00:24:32,900 --> 00:24:34,980 whatever side of your neck I can see it on, 354 00:24:34,980 --> 00:24:36,579 that's the side I'm going to use. 355 00:24:36,740 --> 00:24:37,379 Both sides? 356 00:24:38,019 --> 00:24:40,980 Before we do, do you want to do this while you're in the wagon 357 00:24:40,980 --> 00:24:42,740 or do you want to do this once you get back into water? 358 00:24:45,539 --> 00:24:48,339 Well, again, this is just a low level sporen. 359 00:24:48,339 --> 00:24:51,220 Let's just give it a shot in the wagon. 360 00:24:53,539 --> 00:25:00,179 So I'm going to put my hand on the side of your neck 361 00:25:00,179 --> 00:25:05,699 and just close my eyes and alakazam your heel. 362 00:25:06,819 --> 00:25:07,539 But probably not. 363 00:25:08,980 --> 00:25:12,099 Okay, so you begin to lay on hands 364 00:25:12,099 --> 00:25:17,299 and it starts as you otherwise have felt it begin. 365 00:25:18,980 --> 00:25:22,099 Flint, you feel the warming energy 366 00:25:22,980 --> 00:25:25,939 come from his very cold hand. 367 00:25:28,259 --> 00:25:31,379 You feel it leech into your arm. 368 00:25:32,980 --> 00:25:35,859 Lex, you feel very much the same. 369 00:25:36,899 --> 00:25:39,859 Um, Thea, you're watching this from the back? 370 00:25:39,859 --> 00:25:42,099 Oh yeah, I'm like, no, I'm like right up there. 371 00:25:42,819 --> 00:25:45,059 Um, okay, I'll tell you what you see in a second. 372 00:25:46,899 --> 00:25:50,980 Flint, you feel the warmth move into your muscles 373 00:25:51,699 --> 00:25:53,859 and Lex, you feel, you're feeling 374 00:25:54,819 --> 00:25:58,259 this, the same energy drain that you normally feel. 375 00:25:59,699 --> 00:26:04,740 Um, but just as quickly as it starts, 376 00:26:04,740 --> 00:26:08,500 it ends and you feel this warmth sucked back out of your arm, 377 00:26:09,140 --> 00:26:13,700 Flint, um, and you've, your muscles feel colder 378 00:26:13,700 --> 00:26:16,660 where Lex said they were healing you. 379 00:26:17,380 --> 00:26:22,180 The energy bounces back on you, Lex, and you feel it rush back to you. 380 00:26:22,819 --> 00:26:26,259 Thea, in the back, you see Lex focusing, 381 00:26:28,579 --> 00:26:31,539 paying attention to both Flint and Lex. 382 00:26:32,019 --> 00:26:40,180 Um, there's a bit of a glow about what Lex is trying to do and as you watch Lex, 383 00:26:42,659 --> 00:26:47,700 you see where, where the, where skin looked like scars. 384 00:26:48,819 --> 00:26:53,139 You see those begin to, as the longer he goes on, 385 00:26:53,139 --> 00:26:56,099 begin to peel and separate from each other. 386 00:26:56,100 --> 00:27:00,020 The skin begins to peel back, you see muscle and sinew below, 387 00:27:00,900 --> 00:27:07,460 and as the energy rushes back, it quickly seams them back up as if nothing had happened before. 388 00:27:13,060 --> 00:27:14,020 Did it work? 389 00:27:17,540 --> 00:27:21,540 I'm sorry, my friend, it didn't, it didn't work, at least. 390 00:27:21,619 --> 00:27:25,460 I'm sorry, my friend, it didn't, it didn't work, at least. 391 00:27:27,700 --> 00:27:31,059 I'm, I'm almost, almost positive it didn't work. 392 00:27:31,059 --> 00:27:38,019 I mean, I, I felt something at the start and then it quickly disappeared 393 00:27:38,019 --> 00:27:40,819 and I even felt kind of cold afterwards. 394 00:27:44,019 --> 00:27:46,579 Yeah, I think, I think this might be 395 00:27:46,819 --> 00:27:49,220 beyond my healing powers. 396 00:27:50,980 --> 00:27:57,139 Not even the extra back, backs in, spore in, you know, backs a spore in. 397 00:27:58,019 --> 00:28:05,059 Maybe once we're off the road, I can, I can try again and see if 398 00:28:06,419 --> 00:28:08,179 I can pour more energy in. 399 00:28:08,179 --> 00:28:10,819 I don't know if you want to pour more energy into it. 400 00:28:11,059 --> 00:28:13,619 I don't know if you want to pour more energy into it. 401 00:28:17,859 --> 00:28:18,579 What do you mean? 402 00:28:19,460 --> 00:28:23,859 Well, this might be super personal, 403 00:28:26,500 --> 00:28:33,619 but as I was watching you do your mojo, 404 00:28:36,819 --> 00:28:40,659 your skin was totally separating and I could see your muscles and everything 405 00:28:40,740 --> 00:28:46,980 and then when you were done and it came back to you, it all, like, came back together again. 406 00:28:49,860 --> 00:28:50,900 Yep, that's how it was. 407 00:28:52,019 --> 00:28:54,259 Is it weird that I didn't notice that? 408 00:28:55,460 --> 00:28:58,580 I mean, you were kind of focused on, you know, the, you were in the mood. 409 00:28:58,580 --> 00:29:01,620 Like you weren't going to look like straight at him and be like. 410 00:29:01,620 --> 00:29:04,340 Yeah, just me with my hand on his head. 411 00:29:04,340 --> 00:29:05,140 Eye contact. 412 00:29:05,860 --> 00:29:08,660 I'm going to say you were kind of, you were kind of facing the road. 413 00:29:08,660 --> 00:29:10,100 Well, you still had the reins. 414 00:29:10,100 --> 00:29:11,060 That's how I picture it. 415 00:29:11,060 --> 00:29:14,100 He was still like driving the cart and I was beside him. 416 00:29:14,100 --> 00:29:15,540 So he wasn't looking directly at me. 417 00:29:15,540 --> 00:29:18,820 So sorry, every time you heal someone, you rip your body open a little bit? 418 00:29:21,300 --> 00:29:32,660 Well, every time I heal someone, then it hurts me, 419 00:29:34,500 --> 00:29:38,980 but it's worth it to put that good back into the world, 420 00:29:38,980 --> 00:29:42,099 to put that healing energy into someone who needs it. 421 00:29:42,099 --> 00:29:43,700 How many people have you healed? 422 00:29:46,819 --> 00:29:49,539 Well, a few. 423 00:29:49,539 --> 00:29:56,259 I mean, it's been, it's been a couple years since I've been who I am 424 00:29:56,259 --> 00:29:59,140 and I didn't know right away what I could do. 425 00:29:59,220 --> 00:30:09,140 But once I learned, I tried to, I tried to help. 426 00:30:09,140 --> 00:30:12,020 And then sometimes it works great. 427 00:30:12,020 --> 00:30:13,380 I mean, I got Perseus. 428 00:30:13,380 --> 00:30:17,620 That's, that's how he is with me. 429 00:30:18,180 --> 00:30:22,020 So isn't it worth a little bit of your life to put love into the world? 430 00:30:22,660 --> 00:30:29,460 No, I, yes, my healing spells do, there is not that toll. 431 00:30:31,619 --> 00:30:34,500 Well, I don't, I don't understand it. 432 00:30:34,500 --> 00:30:40,660 And that's part of the reason I want to go find my creator to learn what, 433 00:30:43,779 --> 00:30:47,619 what he did, why it happens and, and how, 434 00:30:48,180 --> 00:30:51,620 how I can, maybe how I can stop that. 435 00:30:51,620 --> 00:30:55,540 It would be wonderful if I could just heal and not hurt myself. 436 00:30:55,540 --> 00:30:56,980 And your creator lives in? 437 00:30:57,940 --> 00:30:58,500 Waterdeep? 438 00:30:59,060 --> 00:31:01,220 The, the Baldrick Mountains. 439 00:31:01,940 --> 00:31:06,980 So I'll, I'll take my leave from you after, after we find Donnie. 440 00:31:08,980 --> 00:31:09,780 Oh, hopefully. 441 00:31:11,860 --> 00:31:13,540 I say under my breath, not to her. 442 00:31:13,540 --> 00:31:14,980 I say after we find Donnie. 443 00:31:18,580 --> 00:31:18,980 Thank you. 444 00:31:20,340 --> 00:31:21,380 See, I might've cried. 445 00:31:23,140 --> 00:31:23,700 Okay. 446 00:31:23,700 --> 00:31:29,940 So that's like more personal information that's come out of you in the last two 447 00:31:29,940 --> 00:31:35,780 minutes than I think the entire time since we've known each other breakthrough. 448 00:31:38,660 --> 00:31:40,740 Well, sometimes after a healing. 449 00:31:40,740 --> 00:31:43,300 You're vulnerable and I can ask you any questions I want. 450 00:31:45,140 --> 00:31:47,380 Well, maybe not any questions. 451 00:31:47,620 --> 00:31:54,340 But it does, it, it changes me in a small way every time. 452 00:31:54,340 --> 00:31:55,700 So, okay. 453 00:31:56,820 --> 00:31:59,060 Well, will you be joining us for? 454 00:32:01,380 --> 00:32:05,780 Flint's rash removal. 455 00:32:08,900 --> 00:32:11,860 Gotta get some sweet talcum powder going on here. 456 00:32:11,860 --> 00:32:15,620 You know, well, if you, 457 00:32:16,580 --> 00:32:20,900 if you think I would be useful, then I'm, I'm happy to see that through. 458 00:32:20,900 --> 00:32:21,860 Well, you've, you've more than. 459 00:32:21,860 --> 00:32:23,220 I'm very strong. 460 00:32:23,220 --> 00:32:28,180 So if you need some sort of strength assistance. 461 00:32:28,180 --> 00:32:30,900 Well, you've more than proven yourself in a fight. 462 00:32:34,100 --> 00:32:39,940 And it's nice to have, you know, people around. 463 00:32:41,860 --> 00:32:42,900 I don't know, Flint? 464 00:32:43,860 --> 00:32:47,860 Yeah, I mean, Lex has been, Lex has been a real boon so far. 465 00:32:47,860 --> 00:32:48,100 So. 466 00:32:49,060 --> 00:32:51,460 As long as you want to stay with us, Lex, you're welcome. 467 00:32:53,860 --> 00:32:56,019 Well, let's see how things go in water deep. 468 00:32:56,019 --> 00:32:58,900 And you, you know, where you're creative. 469 00:32:58,900 --> 00:33:00,180 Does your creator have a name? 470 00:33:01,300 --> 00:33:02,180 I don't know. 471 00:33:03,700 --> 00:33:08,980 When I left him, I was in no condition to ask questions. 472 00:33:09,779 --> 00:33:13,700 So I, I think I remember how to get back there, 473 00:33:14,579 --> 00:33:17,460 but I'm not exactly sure who I'll find. 474 00:33:18,339 --> 00:33:21,299 And if I'm being honest, I'm not exactly sure what I'm going to do to them 475 00:33:22,180 --> 00:33:22,900 when I find them. 476 00:33:23,860 --> 00:33:31,460 Oh, my intentions now are noble, but I can't say how I'll be. 477 00:33:31,460 --> 00:33:32,660 Murderously noble. 478 00:33:33,380 --> 00:33:34,180 Fair enough. 479 00:33:34,980 --> 00:33:39,299 Well, we have something to take care of with Flint's, 480 00:33:40,500 --> 00:33:43,140 you know, situation here, as you can see. 481 00:33:44,740 --> 00:33:52,420 And we have, we're, we're stopping at the Arcane Brotherhood just to see if 482 00:33:52,420 --> 00:33:55,220 there's anything that they can do temporarily. 483 00:33:55,220 --> 00:33:57,460 And if not, we are off again. 484 00:33:59,460 --> 00:34:02,420 If Donnie's not there, hopefully we can send out. 485 00:34:03,380 --> 00:34:08,740 They can, I don't know, give us some resources to look. 486 00:34:09,460 --> 00:34:13,300 We can't keep looking and leave Flint like this. 487 00:34:14,740 --> 00:34:20,900 So while Flint is still Flint, we'll be heading out to the temple of 488 00:34:21,460 --> 00:34:27,380 Calum Shen, which is in the bald or something. 489 00:34:27,380 --> 00:34:28,260 Now, no, okay. 490 00:34:29,860 --> 00:34:30,579 Just curious. 491 00:34:32,420 --> 00:34:40,659 Welcome back to the middle. 492 00:34:43,139 --> 00:34:46,900 You put a little like country vibe on it. 493 00:34:46,900 --> 00:34:50,900 I've been listening to a lot of country radio lately, you know, what with my job. 494 00:34:50,900 --> 00:34:55,220 And I just, I just feel in the boots and the trucks sleeping into your bones. 495 00:34:55,220 --> 00:34:56,099 I really like it. 496 00:34:57,220 --> 00:34:58,019 The girls. 497 00:34:59,539 --> 00:35:00,579 Feeling the girls. 498 00:35:00,579 --> 00:35:02,099 Feeling the girls, hey? 499 00:35:02,179 --> 00:35:04,019 Yeah, HR is getting involved next week. 500 00:35:04,019 --> 00:35:05,139 That's a real problem. 501 00:35:06,819 --> 00:35:08,739 Russ isn't allowed to listen to country anymore. 502 00:35:08,739 --> 00:35:11,219 We just said, cut up the songs, Russ. 503 00:35:11,219 --> 00:35:13,699 I mean, Russ was the last person I would have picked for that. 504 00:35:13,699 --> 00:35:16,819 I know, you know, it's always the quiet ones though. 505 00:35:16,819 --> 00:35:19,219 Always the quiet ones. 506 00:35:19,219 --> 00:35:21,219 Okay, where, uh. 507 00:35:21,219 --> 00:35:26,579 Where Russ doesn't inappropriately do anything with any girls is over on Patreon. 508 00:35:26,659 --> 00:35:30,179 We're just straight down in a lot of the break lines have been cut. 509 00:35:32,819 --> 00:35:35,139 Patreon.com slash dumb dragon cast. 510 00:35:38,659 --> 00:35:41,940 I don't even know where to go from here, but Patreon, where you can support. 511 00:35:42,659 --> 00:35:44,179 Come join our community. 512 00:35:44,179 --> 00:35:45,299 You can support the show. 513 00:35:45,299 --> 00:35:48,819 You can support the other shows that we are doing and creating and all that great stuff. 514 00:35:48,819 --> 00:35:53,460 And part of being a patron is you get some special access within our discord community, 515 00:35:53,460 --> 00:35:55,139 which is of course open to the public. 516 00:35:55,779 --> 00:36:00,739 But patrons have access to special channels with the ability to ask us all the important 517 00:36:00,739 --> 00:36:04,099 questions like what country songs Russ is singing this week. 518 00:36:04,900 --> 00:36:06,739 And has HR actually gotten involved yet? 519 00:36:06,739 --> 00:36:08,900 And how's the HR complaints going, Russ? 520 00:36:08,900 --> 00:36:09,619 Time will tell. 521 00:36:09,619 --> 00:36:10,259 Yep. 522 00:36:10,259 --> 00:36:13,619 But also what's happening on discord is some very magical things. 523 00:36:13,619 --> 00:36:17,779 And something that we're very happy about is that people are playing games together. 524 00:36:18,659 --> 00:36:22,019 People have like made friends and now they're playing games together. 525 00:36:22,019 --> 00:36:24,259 And it makes me so happy. 526 00:36:24,260 --> 00:36:26,020 It really warms my cold, cold heart. 527 00:36:27,700 --> 00:36:30,820 We have an amazing little piece of the internet bubble right now 528 00:36:31,380 --> 00:36:39,220 because our discord is, I'm going to say, the best place on the internet. 529 00:36:39,220 --> 00:36:40,740 Yeah, it's very nice. 530 00:36:40,740 --> 00:36:41,380 It's so wholesome. 531 00:36:41,380 --> 00:36:43,140 There are no mean people. 532 00:36:44,180 --> 00:36:45,780 There's no grossoes. 533 00:36:45,780 --> 00:36:47,060 Yeah, no, there's no grossoes. 534 00:36:49,700 --> 00:36:52,740 And again, HR is talking with him, but I mean, 535 00:36:52,740 --> 00:36:54,420 no one makes anyone feel unsafe. 536 00:36:54,420 --> 00:36:56,660 We're all, we're very inclusive. 537 00:36:56,660 --> 00:36:57,700 People are legit. 538 00:36:57,700 --> 00:37:04,100 Just making online friends again, like straight up chat room style online friends. 539 00:37:04,100 --> 00:37:05,860 Like the halcyon days of the internet. 540 00:37:06,980 --> 00:37:08,660 And playing games together. 541 00:37:08,660 --> 00:37:11,300 One of the biggest questions I receive on my other podcast, 542 00:37:11,300 --> 00:37:13,620 you can go listen to it at dm2gmcast.com. 543 00:37:13,620 --> 00:37:14,180 Shameless. 544 00:37:14,180 --> 00:37:14,980 Flawless, Russ. 545 00:37:14,980 --> 00:37:16,340 Yeah, it was great. 546 00:37:16,340 --> 00:37:19,940 One of the biggest questions that we say we can't answer is where do you find people? 547 00:37:20,500 --> 00:37:22,420 But you can find them over in our discord. 548 00:37:22,420 --> 00:37:23,539 Now you have an answer. 549 00:37:23,539 --> 00:37:25,460 All those people are looking for games too. 550 00:37:26,180 --> 00:37:27,539 And we think you should join us. 551 00:37:27,539 --> 00:37:28,820 So a couple things there. 552 00:37:28,820 --> 00:37:30,420 Come join us on Discord. 553 00:37:30,420 --> 00:37:31,300 That's free. 554 00:37:31,300 --> 00:37:32,980 But you can also join us on Patreon. 555 00:37:32,980 --> 00:37:34,980 Patreon.com slash Dumb Dragon Cast. 556 00:37:35,539 --> 00:37:38,500 We have a whole bunch of different tiers with a whole bunch of exclusive content. 557 00:37:38,500 --> 00:37:42,820 Plus some extra bonus Discord access once you get in there. 558 00:37:42,820 --> 00:37:45,220 And all the details are at our website. 559 00:37:45,780 --> 00:37:46,820 DumbDragons.com. 560 00:37:46,820 --> 00:37:47,940 Haven't plugged that in a while. 561 00:37:47,940 --> 00:37:49,059 Go visit us over there. 562 00:37:49,059 --> 00:37:49,780 There's a website. 563 00:37:50,420 --> 00:37:52,660 All right, thanks everybody. 564 00:37:52,660 --> 00:37:56,900 Now we're going to get back to this episode where we're back in Waterdeep and it's super cool. 565 00:37:56,900 --> 00:37:58,500 We always go back to Waterdeep. 566 00:37:58,500 --> 00:37:59,460 It's always Waterdeep. 567 00:38:07,220 --> 00:38:10,980 Throughout this conversation, you have made it to Waterdeep. 568 00:38:10,980 --> 00:38:15,060 The gates to the south entrance of Waterdeep open wide. 569 00:38:16,100 --> 00:38:17,620 The last time you were here, 570 00:38:18,579 --> 00:38:21,859 the streets were filled with refugees. 571 00:38:21,859 --> 00:38:23,299 The city was surrounded. 572 00:38:24,099 --> 00:38:27,460 Sentries and metallic dragons were set up on the walls. 573 00:38:28,420 --> 00:38:33,059 And now it is all but back to normal. 574 00:38:35,460 --> 00:38:40,739 Life has resumed, at least from a surface view. 575 00:38:41,460 --> 00:38:46,500 The city appears to be moving and operating as it did 576 00:38:46,500 --> 00:38:51,460 before any of the Cult of the Dragon attacks began occurring. 577 00:38:54,340 --> 00:38:57,139 Okay, out of game here. 578 00:38:57,139 --> 00:38:58,980 The Arcane Brotherhood is in Luskin. 579 00:39:01,460 --> 00:39:02,980 Why did you let me go on? 580 00:39:04,420 --> 00:39:05,699 Do they have a satellite outpost? 581 00:39:05,699 --> 00:39:07,619 Do they have a satellite location? 582 00:39:09,860 --> 00:39:11,219 Yes, I'm curious. 583 00:39:13,380 --> 00:39:14,980 Your touch point here is Leosin. 584 00:39:15,940 --> 00:39:18,260 And Castle Waterdeep and the Council of Waterdeep. 585 00:39:20,179 --> 00:39:21,539 I was sort of getting that mixed up. 586 00:39:21,539 --> 00:39:23,780 I thought maybe everyone was in. 587 00:39:24,900 --> 00:39:28,900 At one point, everyone was here because there were massive battles. 588 00:39:32,099 --> 00:39:37,460 Very easy to catch all the managers all at once because they were all in for the meeting. 589 00:39:38,179 --> 00:39:44,420 So if you were to have a start point, 590 00:39:46,340 --> 00:39:50,179 we're going to say maybe you remember that the second you cross through the gates at 591 00:39:50,179 --> 00:39:53,220 Waterdeep, you have this realization that, oh, fuck. 592 00:39:55,380 --> 00:39:56,740 I mean, that tracks the arc. 593 00:39:56,740 --> 00:39:57,539 It really does. 594 00:39:58,420 --> 00:40:02,659 So yeah, the gates open, the city's back to, it's being great. 595 00:40:02,659 --> 00:40:04,740 Laura was really the one that was good with maps. 596 00:40:05,619 --> 00:40:06,500 Like that was kind of her whole thing. 597 00:40:06,500 --> 00:40:07,699 Notes and maps, yep. 598 00:40:07,699 --> 00:40:09,940 Thea just assumes whatever city she goes to, 599 00:40:09,940 --> 00:40:12,340 the people will be there that she needs to talk to. 600 00:40:12,340 --> 00:40:16,739 That you guys are still, you know, working through that hole in the park. 601 00:40:18,739 --> 00:40:20,019 Okay, yeah, back to normal. 602 00:40:23,460 --> 00:40:25,380 Wow, it looks a whole lot better in here. 603 00:40:27,219 --> 00:40:28,739 Ah, Jesus. 604 00:40:29,940 --> 00:40:34,739 Okay, so the Arkane Brotherhood is totally not here. 605 00:40:36,579 --> 00:40:43,780 Yeah, as we were getting here, I was starting to think that it wasn't in Waterdeep. 606 00:40:43,780 --> 00:40:45,219 No, it's definitely not. 607 00:40:45,219 --> 00:40:49,300 But we can still go see Leosin, who may have some ideas for us. 608 00:40:51,940 --> 00:40:52,579 Okay. 609 00:40:52,579 --> 00:40:53,940 Yeah, that's all I got. 610 00:40:54,980 --> 00:40:56,099 Let's go see Leosin. 611 00:40:56,739 --> 00:41:02,579 Hopefully he will have some ideas and then, I mean, we've got to set off to 612 00:41:03,539 --> 00:41:10,579 the temple in Kalimshan, which is, and Thea starts pointing around like to the 613 00:41:13,940 --> 00:41:21,940 east, north, north, east, west. 614 00:41:21,940 --> 00:41:22,659 Roll a history. 615 00:41:25,460 --> 00:41:25,699 Two. 616 00:41:26,659 --> 00:41:29,059 You think you're, you think they're where you think they are. 617 00:41:30,019 --> 00:41:31,219 North, east, west. 618 00:41:33,779 --> 00:41:37,299 Anybody else want to roll a history to contend that, or are you just going to believe her? 619 00:41:37,299 --> 00:41:38,179 That's fine too. 620 00:41:38,179 --> 00:41:40,659 I mean, she seems very sure of herself, but. 621 00:41:40,659 --> 00:41:41,699 She does seem confident. 622 00:41:41,699 --> 00:41:43,139 I'm not going anyway. 623 00:41:43,139 --> 00:41:44,820 I will roll a history check. 624 00:41:44,820 --> 00:41:45,320 Thank you. 625 00:41:48,179 --> 00:41:49,299 It's going to be good enough. 626 00:41:50,420 --> 00:41:53,779 It was a 19, and that's been one of the bonuses. 627 00:41:53,779 --> 00:41:58,739 Yeah, you know, Kalimshan is the oldest civilization, more than 9,000 years old. 628 00:41:58,980 --> 00:42:00,260 In all of Toriel. 629 00:42:00,260 --> 00:42:03,780 And it is far south, far south. 630 00:42:03,780 --> 00:42:04,500 It's its own. 631 00:42:05,540 --> 00:42:07,940 The only direction we did the first. 632 00:42:07,940 --> 00:42:15,060 It's its own country, for lack of a better term, within the world. 633 00:42:17,380 --> 00:42:19,540 But yeah, definitely not north, northeast, west. 634 00:42:20,420 --> 00:42:24,820 So as I'm pointing around, does Flint just like grab my hand and like. 635 00:42:24,820 --> 00:42:25,780 Just slowly move it. 636 00:42:25,780 --> 00:42:29,940 Oh, that's what I said, south. 637 00:42:32,100 --> 00:42:33,300 You were so close. 638 00:42:33,300 --> 00:42:35,860 So, you know, I was just one direction away. 639 00:42:37,060 --> 00:42:37,860 Story of my life. 640 00:42:41,860 --> 00:42:42,740 Is the one direction. 641 00:42:44,980 --> 00:42:45,860 I got it. 642 00:42:48,820 --> 00:42:52,180 The last place I expected a one direction joke was our podcast. 643 00:42:52,180 --> 00:42:53,060 That's why I was like. 644 00:42:53,620 --> 00:42:54,580 Very quick, Russ. 645 00:42:54,579 --> 00:42:56,420 That was making a one direction joke. 646 00:42:56,420 --> 00:42:58,179 Why are you touching all over my beer can? 647 00:42:58,179 --> 00:42:58,819 What are you doing? 648 00:43:03,619 --> 00:43:04,179 He's peaked. 649 00:43:04,179 --> 00:43:05,219 You know, he he knows he. 650 00:43:09,219 --> 00:43:11,380 You make it to Castle Water. 651 00:43:12,019 --> 00:43:14,500 The guards see you coming. 652 00:43:15,779 --> 00:43:18,819 You give them the salute that you normally give them. 653 00:43:20,019 --> 00:43:21,299 Yeah, just like that. 654 00:43:21,299 --> 00:43:22,259 My middle finger. 655 00:43:22,259 --> 00:43:23,059 No, I'm just kidding. 656 00:43:23,059 --> 00:43:24,980 I'm I'm with them. 657 00:43:26,739 --> 00:43:27,619 I'm with them. 658 00:43:27,619 --> 00:43:33,779 They they like they let the whole wagon in everybody aboard all three of you. 659 00:43:35,059 --> 00:43:35,539 And they go. 660 00:43:36,179 --> 00:43:37,139 Don't forget to go. 661 00:43:37,139 --> 00:43:38,179 God damn right. 662 00:43:38,179 --> 00:43:38,679 Yep. 663 00:43:39,380 --> 00:43:42,739 Oh, and you you park and. 664 00:43:42,739 --> 00:43:44,019 And I park. 665 00:43:46,659 --> 00:43:47,219 Like do you. 666 00:43:47,219 --> 00:43:48,019 Yeah, I do. 667 00:43:48,019 --> 00:43:48,739 Like you did in. 668 00:43:50,019 --> 00:43:52,340 I can't remember, but I did it really nice. 669 00:43:53,059 --> 00:43:54,100 Oh, Blackpool. 670 00:43:54,740 --> 00:43:56,579 In Blackpool, you parallel parked like. 671 00:43:56,579 --> 00:43:57,700 That's where ALex was too. 672 00:43:59,700 --> 00:44:03,780 So yeah, you parallel park it and there's there's like pages that run out to try and 673 00:44:03,780 --> 00:44:05,300 like, you know, take the reins from you. 674 00:44:05,300 --> 00:44:09,380 And then they kind of step back as you are parallel parking in astonishment. 675 00:44:09,380 --> 00:44:12,019 They're like, hey, can you teach us how to do that? 676 00:44:12,019 --> 00:44:13,460 Maybe later, kid. 677 00:44:13,460 --> 00:44:17,220 Brush the horses and I flick them a gold piece. 678 00:44:17,220 --> 00:44:20,180 Thought you threw him the keys and I was like, I don't use keys for this. 679 00:44:20,179 --> 00:44:23,219 See, no, I'm pretty sure there are keys. 680 00:44:23,219 --> 00:44:25,059 I don't know if you know how wagons work. 681 00:44:25,059 --> 00:44:26,339 No, I'm pretty sure they're keys. 682 00:44:26,339 --> 00:44:29,059 One of them catches the gold and they look at it in astonishment. 683 00:44:29,059 --> 00:44:31,539 Like it's the most money they've seen in forever. 684 00:44:31,539 --> 00:44:34,739 And they say, yep, we'll brush them until their hair falls out. 685 00:44:34,739 --> 00:44:36,179 No, please don't do that. 686 00:44:36,179 --> 00:44:37,219 They've been through a lot. 687 00:44:37,940 --> 00:44:41,379 We'll brush them gently until they are appropriately brushed. 688 00:44:41,379 --> 00:44:44,259 OK, and then feed them oats and tell them how pretty they are. 689 00:44:44,259 --> 00:44:44,659 And pretty. 690 00:44:44,659 --> 00:44:45,940 You're very pretty. 691 00:44:47,699 --> 00:44:49,859 You head into Castle Water. 692 00:44:50,420 --> 00:44:52,740 You head to Leo's office, I presume. 693 00:44:52,740 --> 00:44:54,019 Oh, yeah, I do the special knock. 694 00:44:54,019 --> 00:44:55,220 This is new for Lex. 695 00:44:55,220 --> 00:45:04,019 So you enter a very probably the largest castle you or any part of you has ever seen. 696 00:45:04,820 --> 00:45:11,460 I don't know how you want to describe that, but tapestries are hung by the walls. 697 00:45:11,460 --> 00:45:14,180 It's intricately carved stonework. 698 00:45:14,180 --> 00:45:16,980 Like a lot of times with castles, it's just like crude. 699 00:45:16,980 --> 00:45:18,660 Put it together, make sure it stands up. 700 00:45:19,219 --> 00:45:22,259 The walls are smooth within Castle Water deep. 701 00:45:22,259 --> 00:45:23,299 They're so fancy. 702 00:45:24,739 --> 00:45:31,059 Freshly cleaned carpets that run runners that go down all hallways within the building. 703 00:45:31,699 --> 00:45:34,179 The deeper you go, the more torches they have. 704 00:45:34,899 --> 00:45:43,699 It is the highest level of luxury, I guess you could say, 705 00:45:43,699 --> 00:45:46,739 that I think Lex has probably ever seen. 706 00:45:47,700 --> 00:45:54,420 There is a part of me that feels like this is a little bit familiar, 707 00:45:56,100 --> 00:46:03,060 but I'd say I'm 80% completely in awe of this place and 20%. 708 00:46:03,060 --> 00:46:03,620 Not a big deal. 709 00:46:04,500 --> 00:46:07,540 It feels not comfortable. 710 00:46:07,540 --> 00:46:14,020 I probably have never been in the castle before, but I have certainly seen the outside. 711 00:46:14,500 --> 00:46:16,180 Okay, fair enough. 712 00:46:17,700 --> 00:46:21,220 You head down the familiar hallways for Flint and Thea, 713 00:46:21,220 --> 00:46:25,700 the familiar hallways that you've come to know so well over the last several months, 714 00:46:26,740 --> 00:46:31,700 and make it to Leosin's office, and the door is closed. 715 00:46:33,380 --> 00:46:34,900 Now I do the special knock. 716 00:46:37,460 --> 00:46:38,740 How does the special knock go? 717 00:46:39,620 --> 00:46:39,940 You know. 718 00:46:44,740 --> 00:46:46,500 It is the only special knock. 719 00:46:46,980 --> 00:46:54,020 You hear from inside a chair scoot back, and papers, books, you hear them closing, 720 00:46:54,020 --> 00:46:59,540 and papers being arranged, and footsteps that come to the door, and it opens. 721 00:46:59,540 --> 00:47:04,660 And standing before you is a very clean cut from the last time you saw him. 722 00:47:05,940 --> 00:47:12,340 More well-rested Leosin, and he looks to you, and a smile crosses his face, 723 00:47:13,059 --> 00:47:19,140 and he says, you're back, and he reaches to give you a hug. 724 00:47:19,940 --> 00:47:21,300 Oh, I hug him. 725 00:47:23,300 --> 00:47:28,500 I thought you were supposed to just deliver new lore, 726 00:47:28,500 --> 00:47:32,019 and that's a relatively quick trip. 727 00:47:32,019 --> 00:47:33,620 We thought something might have happened to you. 728 00:47:34,900 --> 00:47:36,500 Oh yeah, we were such dicks. 729 00:47:36,500 --> 00:47:40,180 We really should have sent like a note or something. 730 00:47:40,739 --> 00:47:45,619 Well, I mean, most of us thought you'd probably be okay. 731 00:47:45,619 --> 00:47:49,619 Some of us thought you might have died. 732 00:47:49,619 --> 00:47:50,579 So who won the pool? 733 00:47:51,940 --> 00:47:54,500 I'm going to have to check the scoreboard after. 734 00:47:55,139 --> 00:47:56,099 Okay, I hope it was you. 735 00:47:58,179 --> 00:47:59,940 I had you coming back right on time. 736 00:48:00,659 --> 00:48:01,699 Joke's on me. 737 00:48:01,699 --> 00:48:02,980 I should have known. 738 00:48:02,980 --> 00:48:04,019 Yeah, that one's on you. 739 00:48:04,019 --> 00:48:05,699 Yeah, yeah. 740 00:48:05,699 --> 00:48:07,219 Maybe it was Arvid who won. 741 00:48:07,219 --> 00:48:08,739 He'll want to see you at some point. 742 00:48:09,700 --> 00:48:10,980 Oh, that Arvid. 743 00:48:10,980 --> 00:48:11,540 Yeah. 744 00:48:11,540 --> 00:48:12,580 Come on in, please. 745 00:48:12,580 --> 00:48:13,940 Please come in, and who is your friend? 746 00:48:16,020 --> 00:48:17,460 Oh, this is Lex. 747 00:48:19,140 --> 00:48:20,420 It's nice to meet you. 748 00:48:20,420 --> 00:48:22,180 He reaches out and says, oh, Chilly. 749 00:48:23,140 --> 00:48:25,300 Nice to meet you too, Lex. 750 00:48:25,300 --> 00:48:29,940 Where are you from as he's pulling chairs around his desk? 751 00:48:29,940 --> 00:48:39,300 Well, I was parts of, let's say, the Baldrick Mountains. 752 00:48:39,300 --> 00:48:42,260 Oh, out by Thay region. 753 00:48:42,260 --> 00:48:44,659 That's quite a far ways away from here. 754 00:48:44,659 --> 00:48:46,740 Yes, I'll be heading back there soon. 755 00:48:47,460 --> 00:48:50,579 My, well, that is quite a travel. 756 00:48:50,579 --> 00:48:56,500 I hope you have safe travel arranged, safe passage arranged. 757 00:48:57,460 --> 00:49:00,900 I mean, I was just going to find a caravan. 758 00:49:02,019 --> 00:49:03,460 Just going to hoof it. 759 00:49:03,460 --> 00:49:04,260 Cool, cool. 760 00:49:04,260 --> 00:49:05,460 All right, well, have a seat. 761 00:49:05,460 --> 00:49:06,420 Have a seat. 762 00:49:06,420 --> 00:49:06,980 That's fine. 763 00:49:09,139 --> 00:49:11,940 So where, where, where, tell me. 764 00:49:11,940 --> 00:49:13,059 We lost Donnie. 765 00:49:13,059 --> 00:49:13,559 Why? 766 00:49:15,940 --> 00:49:22,260 Tell me why ain't nothing but a heartache. 767 00:49:22,260 --> 00:49:24,179 Now he pulls out a scroll. 768 00:49:24,179 --> 00:49:25,059 Isn't anything but a heartache. 769 00:49:25,059 --> 00:49:25,860 Poor Don. 770 00:49:25,860 --> 00:49:31,220 He pulls out a scroll and it says here, uh, to be left with my most trusted of friends. 771 00:49:31,220 --> 00:49:32,260 Oh my God, Leo. 772 00:49:32,260 --> 00:49:33,539 So don't even do that. 773 00:49:34,500 --> 00:49:37,860 Listen, we were coming back from. 774 00:49:39,220 --> 00:49:39,539 Okay. 775 00:49:39,539 --> 00:49:41,380 So there's a few stops on the way. 776 00:49:41,380 --> 00:49:42,180 Everything's fine. 777 00:49:42,180 --> 00:49:47,460 We go to this town, Blackpool, which isn't actually even there. 778 00:49:48,340 --> 00:49:52,099 It's overrun by this orcas love and fuck up. 779 00:49:52,259 --> 00:49:59,860 Oh, and he snatches a new friend that we had pulls them into. 780 00:49:59,860 --> 00:50:00,339 What is it? 781 00:50:00,339 --> 00:50:03,139 Like, like a death portal. 782 00:50:03,139 --> 00:50:03,699 Yeah. 783 00:50:03,699 --> 00:50:05,940 Death, like into orcas land. 784 00:50:05,940 --> 00:50:15,779 Anyway, we find this fine fellow Lex there and we all escape, but coming from there to here, 785 00:50:16,500 --> 00:50:28,740 big angry, um, like monkeys that shoot lightning out of their mouths and just appear and disappear 786 00:50:28,740 --> 00:50:38,180 like through portals and kind of like whoosh over top of us, topple our, our carriage over. 787 00:50:38,820 --> 00:50:40,900 We're all left unconscious in a ditch. 788 00:50:40,900 --> 00:50:41,780 We wake up. 789 00:50:41,780 --> 00:50:42,900 Horses are gone. 790 00:50:42,900 --> 00:50:43,940 Donnie's gone. 791 00:50:43,940 --> 00:50:49,139 We end up, I don't know, helping some villagers that were also trying to battle the thing. 792 00:50:49,860 --> 00:50:51,700 Let's just say things disappear. 793 00:50:52,260 --> 00:50:53,700 We find our horses. 794 00:50:53,700 --> 00:50:57,300 We search for days in the woods and Donnie is nowhere to be found. 795 00:50:57,300 --> 00:51:00,820 But we found this and I slammed the collar down on his desk. 796 00:51:02,179 --> 00:51:03,700 Somebody took this collar off. 797 00:51:03,700 --> 00:51:04,820 Somebody stole Donnie. 798 00:51:05,860 --> 00:51:09,700 Now I know you're thinking that she left a lot of stuff out of that recap, 799 00:51:09,700 --> 00:51:11,700 but actually it was pretty accurate. 800 00:51:11,700 --> 00:51:15,780 Wow, that's, um, you're welcome listeners. 801 00:51:15,780 --> 00:51:20,020 You know how to really get into it. 802 00:51:21,220 --> 00:51:21,940 Don't you? 803 00:51:21,940 --> 00:51:24,420 Yeah, that was beginning middle end right there. 804 00:51:24,420 --> 00:51:24,820 Yeah. 805 00:51:24,820 --> 00:51:28,740 Case closed, except not because we don't have Donnie and now he's little. 806 00:51:33,380 --> 00:51:34,740 Now he's just a baby boy. 807 00:51:35,380 --> 00:51:35,700 Okay. 808 00:51:36,420 --> 00:51:37,780 Well, and we need some help. 809 00:51:37,780 --> 00:51:41,220 And also at the same time, we don't have time to look for him 810 00:51:41,220 --> 00:51:44,020 because of Flint's rash. 811 00:51:44,660 --> 00:51:47,300 Flint, do you have a rash on top of all of this? 812 00:51:48,100 --> 00:51:54,900 Well, I mean, it's, it's this little thing that's going on my neck here and other places. 813 00:51:57,940 --> 00:51:59,460 She's just trying to be kind. 814 00:51:59,460 --> 00:52:04,340 And other places where you can see and also where you can. 815 00:52:04,340 --> 00:52:05,780 Well, that's a lot to unpack. 816 00:52:06,820 --> 00:52:10,740 That's like, so where do you want to start? 817 00:52:11,380 --> 00:52:13,860 Well, he reaches for the caller. 818 00:52:13,860 --> 00:52:21,060 He says we might be able to use this to help locate Donnie if he's in this plane. 819 00:52:21,860 --> 00:52:23,620 Well, that's where I wanted to start. 820 00:52:24,820 --> 00:52:25,140 Okay. 821 00:52:25,140 --> 00:52:26,340 Let's try and find Donnie. 822 00:52:27,460 --> 00:52:27,780 Great. 823 00:52:28,420 --> 00:52:30,580 Um, cool. 824 00:52:30,580 --> 00:52:30,980 All right. 825 00:52:31,540 --> 00:52:36,420 And then he moves it off to the side and says, and then what's next? 826 00:52:36,420 --> 00:52:39,860 We'll have to go talk to some, some higher ups there. 827 00:52:39,860 --> 00:52:46,019 What, uh, rash, uh, you gotta find an ointment. 828 00:52:46,019 --> 00:52:51,380 His condition is seeming to rapidly deteriorate. 829 00:52:51,380 --> 00:52:54,740 Since the last time I saw you, it has become worse. 830 00:52:55,380 --> 00:52:56,019 Yep. 831 00:52:56,019 --> 00:52:57,539 The rash. 832 00:52:57,539 --> 00:52:58,500 Do we really? 833 00:52:58,500 --> 00:52:59,140 Does. 834 00:52:59,140 --> 00:52:59,460 Okay. 835 00:53:00,260 --> 00:53:00,740 Yep. 836 00:53:00,740 --> 00:53:01,700 We'll keep going with this. 837 00:53:02,340 --> 00:53:03,700 We just met Lex. 838 00:53:03,700 --> 00:53:04,019 Fair enough. 839 00:53:04,019 --> 00:53:08,260 We didn't want to like spill all of our beans and, you know. 840 00:53:08,260 --> 00:53:09,220 I get it. 841 00:53:09,460 --> 00:53:10,820 Messed upness all over him. 842 00:53:11,620 --> 00:53:14,340 They take a long time to warm up to people. 843 00:53:14,340 --> 00:53:15,540 I've noticed that. 844 00:53:15,540 --> 00:53:19,780 Seems like you came in at a time when there was high tension. 845 00:53:21,300 --> 00:53:23,540 I think high tension follows these ones around. 846 00:53:23,540 --> 00:53:29,220 I found them or I guess they found me in a town full of zombies. 847 00:53:30,100 --> 00:53:33,860 And it's been a lot of action since then. 848 00:53:33,860 --> 00:53:36,420 This has kind of just been one thing after another. 849 00:53:36,420 --> 00:53:38,900 Since they've been gone, my blood pressure has gone down. 850 00:53:38,900 --> 00:53:44,980 My doctor said I might not die at an early age, but now I feel it rising. 851 00:53:45,619 --> 00:53:47,700 At an early age, you're like 80. 852 00:53:48,740 --> 00:53:50,340 I'm 32. 853 00:53:50,340 --> 00:53:51,139 Oh, man. 854 00:53:51,139 --> 00:53:53,220 You gotta self-care. 855 00:53:54,180 --> 00:53:56,980 I wanted to make an obligatory Kelly Clarkson joke 856 00:53:56,980 --> 00:53:59,780 when Russ said since you've been gone, but there was no time to get it in. 857 00:53:59,780 --> 00:54:00,579 Sorry. 858 00:54:00,579 --> 00:54:01,220 Gotta be quick. 859 00:54:01,220 --> 00:54:02,260 Gotta be quick with those things. 860 00:54:04,019 --> 00:54:06,340 Okay, so we gotta find Donnie. 861 00:54:06,340 --> 00:54:08,820 Do you know what you need for your rash? 862 00:54:09,539 --> 00:54:11,140 Uh, yes. 863 00:54:12,180 --> 00:54:16,740 My good friend here, Thea, had written it down because, well, she used to be a scribe. 864 00:54:16,740 --> 00:54:18,100 So she's still kind of in the... 865 00:54:18,100 --> 00:54:18,660 I've heard. 866 00:54:19,460 --> 00:54:20,019 In the knack. 867 00:54:20,980 --> 00:54:22,420 It's just four things. 868 00:54:22,420 --> 00:54:22,740 Cool. 869 00:54:23,539 --> 00:54:30,260 Uh, diamond as dust, drop of my blood, the amulet of wonder, 870 00:54:30,260 --> 00:54:32,980 which I mean there's probably tons of those lying around. 871 00:54:32,980 --> 00:54:34,100 Just kicking around. 872 00:54:34,100 --> 00:54:35,620 And a host vessel. 873 00:54:36,980 --> 00:54:38,180 I think you are the... 874 00:54:38,180 --> 00:54:38,900 Oh, no, wait. 875 00:54:38,900 --> 00:54:39,380 Host vessel. 876 00:54:39,380 --> 00:54:43,140 No, no, we need a host vessel for Bort. 877 00:54:43,140 --> 00:54:44,100 Yeah, cool. 878 00:54:44,580 --> 00:54:44,900 Okay. 879 00:54:45,860 --> 00:54:47,300 Um, great. 880 00:54:47,300 --> 00:54:54,020 Gonna have to do some research unless you got a location of any of the big ones. 881 00:54:54,020 --> 00:54:54,660 Yeah, yeah. 882 00:54:54,660 --> 00:55:01,140 That last known location of the amulet of wonder was the temple in Calumson. 883 00:55:02,100 --> 00:55:04,100 The temple in Calumson. 884 00:55:04,660 --> 00:55:05,220 It just says... 885 00:55:06,340 --> 00:55:07,620 That's how I wrote it down. 886 00:55:08,420 --> 00:55:08,740 Well... 887 00:55:09,300 --> 00:55:11,380 The temple in Calumson. 888 00:55:11,380 --> 00:55:12,980 The temple in Calumson. 889 00:55:12,980 --> 00:55:16,340 Well, Calumson is a country about as big as Faerun. 890 00:55:17,460 --> 00:55:20,500 Oh, I'm sure there's more than one temple there. 891 00:55:20,500 --> 00:55:23,780 There might be a couple, being that they are a... 892 00:55:26,100 --> 00:55:30,740 I mean, they got a lot of temples, got a lot of magics. 893 00:55:30,740 --> 00:55:32,260 They're a very old civilization. 894 00:55:32,260 --> 00:55:36,020 So in fact, they might have more temples than we would. 895 00:55:38,180 --> 00:55:41,220 Do you know anyone in Calumson? 896 00:55:41,220 --> 00:55:44,420 I can put in some requests. 897 00:55:45,060 --> 00:55:47,940 See if I can't figure out if we have anybody down there 898 00:55:47,940 --> 00:55:53,060 who might be able to help you figure some stuff out. 899 00:55:53,060 --> 00:55:54,180 That would be super duper. 900 00:55:54,820 --> 00:55:56,340 Gonna have to look into that though. 901 00:55:57,540 --> 00:55:58,500 Okay, you wanna... 902 00:56:00,820 --> 00:56:03,540 Okay, take this and he hands you back Donnie's collar. 903 00:56:04,259 --> 00:56:14,340 He says, you gotta go downstairs and take this with you and go see Arvid. 904 00:56:15,860 --> 00:56:19,059 He's kind of in charge of the wizard scenario now. 905 00:56:21,460 --> 00:56:23,860 He's kind of head of the department. 906 00:56:24,659 --> 00:56:26,340 I see your reluctance. 907 00:56:26,340 --> 00:56:27,219 Well, no, it's fine. 908 00:56:27,219 --> 00:56:30,820 I just bet he's just such a treat to deal with now that he's been given... 909 00:56:31,780 --> 00:56:34,900 I mean, he's talked about you a lot. 910 00:56:36,019 --> 00:56:38,180 How he thought you'd come back a lot. 911 00:56:38,180 --> 00:56:38,900 Oh, that's good. 912 00:56:38,900 --> 00:56:39,620 That's nice. 913 00:56:39,620 --> 00:56:40,180 Okay. 914 00:56:40,180 --> 00:56:42,100 So positive. 915 00:56:42,100 --> 00:56:42,580 For sure. 916 00:56:42,580 --> 00:56:43,860 He was rooting for you. 917 00:56:43,860 --> 00:56:44,180 Okay. 918 00:56:45,300 --> 00:56:48,420 And then I'll see who we have down in Calumson. 919 00:56:50,260 --> 00:56:56,340 See if we can't get you a location of a temple, the temple, the temple. 920 00:56:58,180 --> 00:57:00,100 And maybe we'll go from there. 921 00:57:01,220 --> 00:57:04,260 Sounds, sounds good. 922 00:57:04,260 --> 00:57:04,980 Okay. 923 00:57:04,980 --> 00:57:05,300 Okay. 924 00:57:08,820 --> 00:57:10,500 Anything else I can do for you? 925 00:57:11,860 --> 00:57:13,140 Now that you've dropped all these... 926 00:57:14,100 --> 00:57:17,220 Oh, you mean other than solve all of our problems for us? 927 00:57:17,220 --> 00:57:18,740 No, Leon, I think we're good. 928 00:57:18,740 --> 00:57:20,100 You've laid it out for me. 929 00:57:21,059 --> 00:57:23,140 Just all, all over my table. 930 00:57:23,860 --> 00:57:24,340 Oh, please. 931 00:57:24,340 --> 00:57:26,580 Your table was covered in papers before we got here. 932 00:57:26,580 --> 00:57:28,260 I heard you shuffling around. 933 00:57:28,260 --> 00:57:30,420 Look at them now and you look down and they're just everywhere. 934 00:57:30,420 --> 00:57:31,300 Yeah, no. 935 00:57:31,300 --> 00:57:31,800 Look at this. 936 00:57:32,500 --> 00:57:34,180 Nobody touched his table yet. 937 00:57:34,180 --> 00:57:34,980 They're everywhere. 938 00:57:34,980 --> 00:57:35,460 Yeah. 939 00:57:35,460 --> 00:57:39,619 It's like you, you two walk back in here and just chaos follows you. 940 00:57:41,300 --> 00:57:42,500 Be a real fucked up curse. 941 00:57:43,059 --> 00:57:43,860 Tell me about it. 942 00:57:44,740 --> 00:57:46,420 Go see Arvid, please. 943 00:57:48,420 --> 00:57:51,220 It was nice to meet you, Leos, and I'm... 944 00:57:51,940 --> 00:57:52,820 Pleasure. 945 00:57:52,820 --> 00:57:53,320 Pleasure. 946 00:57:53,320 --> 00:57:55,220 Sorry for the stress. 947 00:57:55,220 --> 00:57:56,820 Oh, it's not your fault. 948 00:57:58,019 --> 00:58:00,180 You sound like you have a journey ahead of you. 949 00:58:00,579 --> 00:58:02,099 That has nothing to do with me. 950 00:58:03,619 --> 00:58:05,700 And for that, he is grateful. 951 00:58:05,700 --> 00:58:06,900 I'm thrilled about that. 952 00:58:06,900 --> 00:58:07,700 I'm thrilled. 953 00:58:08,260 --> 00:58:15,619 It's amazing how some days you wish you were left in a cave with dragon cultists. 954 00:58:17,700 --> 00:58:24,099 When we shake hands, I shoot him a little calming healing through my hand. 955 00:58:24,819 --> 00:58:30,500 Um, he, he breathes just a sigh of relief as that happens. 956 00:58:31,460 --> 00:58:34,659 Um, are you trying to do it sneakily so nobody else sees? 957 00:58:34,659 --> 00:58:35,299 Yep. 958 00:58:35,299 --> 00:58:35,799 Yep. 959 00:58:36,420 --> 00:58:39,139 It's just a little trickle of healing. 960 00:58:39,139 --> 00:58:39,639 Perfect. 961 00:58:41,539 --> 00:58:45,619 The three of you head out and back down the stairs to Arvid's. 962 00:58:46,900 --> 00:58:48,980 Thea and Flint, you lead the way. 963 00:58:49,380 --> 00:59:01,300 Thea, as you are walking, you think you hear a noise, familiar noise, coming from behind you. 964 00:59:04,019 --> 00:59:04,980 I turn around. 965 00:59:06,179 --> 00:59:07,539 There's nobody back there. 966 00:59:07,539 --> 00:59:09,539 You just see the torch lit hallway. 967 00:59:10,740 --> 00:59:12,740 What type of noise did it sound like? 968 00:59:12,740 --> 00:59:13,619 It was a voice. 969 00:59:13,619 --> 00:59:14,500 Oh, it was a voice? 970 00:59:14,500 --> 00:59:15,300 It was a voice. 971 00:59:15,300 --> 00:59:19,060 Oh, that's a, that's a very specific kind of noise. 972 00:59:19,060 --> 00:59:19,560 Yep. 973 00:59:20,100 --> 00:59:20,660 Whose voice did it sound like? 974 00:59:20,660 --> 00:59:23,060 So you hit your button and turn your chair around. 975 00:59:23,060 --> 00:59:24,980 You, you couldn't quite place your finger on it. 976 00:59:30,580 --> 00:59:33,940 I kind of give my head a shake and keep walking. 977 00:59:35,460 --> 00:59:44,260 As you turn back around, you're immediately faced by the image of Nu'vara. 978 00:59:44,260 --> 00:59:45,300 No, damn it. 979 00:59:47,780 --> 00:59:52,500 Standing, grasping your shoulders, staring deep into your eyes, 980 00:59:53,860 --> 01:00:04,500 her eyes completely black and she goes to speak and a black bile begins to froth from her mouth. 981 01:00:07,300 --> 01:00:11,860 You go to instinctively reach to your side and pull 982 01:00:11,860 --> 01:00:14,420 a dagger. 983 01:00:16,099 --> 01:00:22,740 Your hand goes to a blade, you pull it out and you see Nu'vara's dagger, 984 01:00:22,740 --> 01:00:27,860 the glowing red eyes and they thrust up into the body of Nu'vara in front of you. 985 01:00:35,059 --> 01:00:40,900 The intro song, Nowhere Land, is by Kavin MacLeod of incompetech.filmmusic.io. 986 01:00:41,700 --> 01:00:46,099 All other music and sound effects can be found at epidemicsound.com. 987 01:00:47,220 --> 01:00:53,619 A huge thank you to our supporting producers, Christian Brown, Creighton's Raven, Devin Michaels, 988 01:00:53,619 --> 01:00:58,260 Gabriel Lynch, Jacob Madden, Joshua Dixon, and Kat Waterflame. 989 01:00:58,260 --> 01:01:01,300 To find out more how you can support Dumbs and the Dragons, 990 01:01:01,300 --> 01:01:04,660 visit Patreon.com slash dumb dragon cast. 991 01:01:05,300 --> 01:01:06,260 Thank you for listening. 992 01:01:06,820 --> 01:01:07,539 Have a great week. 993 01:01:08,260 --> 01:01:09,059 We'll talk soon. 994 01:01:10,019 --> 01:01:12,980 Well, yeah, it wasn't. 995 01:01:12,980 --> 01:01:13,699 It made him big. 996 01:01:14,980 --> 01:01:16,340 Oh, it made him big. 997 01:01:16,340 --> 01:01:17,380 Thank you, Carla. 998 01:01:18,259 --> 01:01:22,900 I was like, well, it means like he was owned and he was a part of the family. 999 01:01:22,900 --> 01:01:24,500 It was where I was going to go. 1000 01:01:30,500 --> 01:01:32,500 I Googled Baldrick Mountains to see where it was. 1001 01:01:33,380 --> 01:01:39,380 Yeah, so I put in Baldrick Mountains and it like a lot of like leather sexual 1002 01:01:42,579 --> 01:01:43,699 in the United States. 1003 01:01:45,219 --> 01:01:46,900 Yeah, I probably just spelled it differently. 1004 01:01:46,900 --> 01:01:47,460 Fair enough. 1005 01:01:47,460 --> 01:01:50,579 And it looks like it's like, did you accidentally write Baldick Mountains? 1006 01:01:50,579 --> 01:01:50,900 Hmm. 1007 01:01:50,900 --> 01:01:51,699 Baldick Mountains. 1008 01:01:51,699 --> 01:01:52,820 I don't think so. 1009 01:01:52,820 --> 01:01:53,380 I don't think so. 1010 01:01:53,380 --> 01:01:54,739 Gotta go to the Baldick Mountains. 1011 01:01:57,699 --> 01:02:00,099 He gave me this shlong that doesn't work anymore. 1012 01:02:01,059 --> 01:02:03,219 And that's why I'm dressing all this leather. 1013 01:02:04,900 --> 01:02:06,900 This story is getting richer by the minute. 1014 01:02:06,900 --> 01:02:07,539 Sorry, sorry. 1015 01:02:07,539 --> 01:02:09,860 Yeah, it looks like it's it's fantasy themed. 1016 01:02:10,659 --> 01:02:11,139 Nice. 1017 01:02:11,139 --> 01:02:11,619 That's exciting. 1018 01:02:11,619 --> 01:02:15,219 Anyway, just thought I couldn't see that on my computer and not share with my friends. 1019 01:02:15,219 --> 01:02:15,940 Appreciate that. 1020 01:02:15,940 --> 01:02:16,980 Dicks.com. 1021 01:02:16,980 --> 01:02:20,179 Yeah, the whole other Dicks.com situation. 1022 01:02:20,180 --> 01:02:25,300 Dumbgeons & Dragons is a Dumb Dragons production.