[0.0s] Previously on Dumbgeons and Dragons.
[2.4s] You are in the middle of a clearing. You have just seen this monstrous, huge beast in front of you.
[10.0s] They're popping up through some sort of portal.
[13.8s] Well, I mean, they disappeared via lightning. Maybe they arrived that way, too?
[18.8s] Yeah, when the big ones died and then they all left at once, it seems like a strategic retreat.
[24.2s] The real big one, it seemed like it had elements of the fey, but it was a hodgepodge of different animals.
[31.8s] They see me run to the trees and then they see like a dark cloud that comes from my hands.
[38.6s] Right before it hits, you see that same lightning bolt.
[45.3s] Come and fight it yourself!
[47.4s] Somewhere else, we see a almost a crystal ball within a liquid surface, focusing in on Thea.
[60.4s] And we see in this room, the dead body of this creature and long white hair.
[68.7s] The loadiest fucking bravesman!
[72.2s] As he laughs, I'll be coming for you soon.
[79.1s] Welcome to Dumbgeons and Dragons. We're a D&D 5th edition actual play podcast.
[83.3s] And I'm your dungeon master, Russ More. And with me today is Carla Maxted.
[87.9s] That is me. Today I am going to be Lexington. Lex we've decided on,
[94.9s] but maybe always beefy boy in our hearts.
[97.2s] And Tom Laird.
[98.6s] Yeah, that's me. Today it's Flint Firebeard's turn.
[102.3s] And Amy More.
[104.3s] That's me. And I am playing Thea, who's happy to be back.
[110.5s] She feels like she doesn't get enough air time. She's jealous.
[116.6s] Just like how she doesn't get enough turns when we fight.
[120.3s] Well, she's jealous of a story, other story, story A.
[126.6s] They get the same amount of time.
[128.0s] Yeah, she doesn't feel that.
[129.4s] She was used to having all the time.
[130.6s] She was. Yeah, now she shares the time.
[132.3s] So that's fair.
[134.3s] Well, where Amy feels like she gets more time is over in Tom's game,
[139.1s] which is over on Patreon, Patreon.com slash dumb dragon cast.
[142.5s] Right?
[143.0s] That is true. She gets a lot of time there.
[145.0s] Yeah, I've never once had to share that character spot with any other character.
[151.0s] Really nailing this banter today. So good.
[154.8s] It's the facial expressions that come after it.
[157.5s] How's the weather today, Jim?
[161.0s] Over to you, sports.
[162.9s] But what happens when you are a patron is you get an episode dedicated to you.
[166.6s] It just comes upon you.
[168.5s] And whether you want it or not.
[171.0s] Yep. Sorry.
[171.7s] Like today's patron, Terry Jensen.
[175.4s] There it is.
[176.5s] Terry, Terry, Terry.
[179.4s] Thank you.
[180.0s] And now, fuck it, let's play D&D.
[185.3s] Previously, we had our good friend Rev from The Crit Show on,
[188.7s] and there were a few loose ends that we didn't wrap up.
[193.5s] So you had some things to look for.
[196.9s] Some horses and some Donnie.
[201.0s] How long, given worst case scenario, would you say that you would look for these things?
[209.2s] Until the end of time.
[210.0s] Things, Russ?
[211.8s] These things?
[213.0s] All we're left with is this fucking goat, Russell.
[218.5s] Okay. So here's how it plays out.
[221.4s] After the hideous monster from an unknown place, an unknown origin disappears,
[227.2s] you are left in the clearing with your good friend, Margaret,
[232.3s] and you help the warriors, quote unquote, kind of clean up,
[239.4s] help bury their deceased, and then go out hunting,
[243.8s] not hunting, go out in search of your horses and Donnie.
[249.3s] We're going to hunt those horses down, I tell you what.
[251.8s] Hunt those horses.
[253.6s] You go back to where you had originally crashed,
[257.5s] and with Margaret's help, you very quickly find horse tracks
[265.0s] that go off in a couple different directions.
[267.8s] No, they've split the party.
[269.4s] You follow them, find them, so Tiny and Clipclaw are easily found.
[278.5s] After, I mean, correct me if I say anything that's too outlandish,
[283.7s] after several days of searching, you come across Donnie's collar.
[291.6s] Thought you were going to say a different word that started with C,
[294.1s] and I was going to be very upset.
[296.4s] Corpse.
[297.0s] He was worried you were going to say Donnie's corpse.
[300.3s] No, you come across Donnie's collar.
[304.4s] Thea, your telepathic calls to Donnie,
[309.6s] no matter how hard you try and how long you try, remain left unanswered.
[320.5s] So we search for several more days.
[322.3s] Do we have any sort of searching montage music?
[327.4s] You tell me how many days you search for before you...
[332.6s] Nine years pass.
[337.0s] No hints or clues or anything other than the collar are left of his whereabouts.
[346.2s] Thea does not accept this.
[348.6s] He's out there, we just have to keep looking.
[352.5s] Do you think because he knew where you were heading, he would go there?
[361.5s] Donnie's never really been much of a,
[365.2s] you know, like initiative, take charge, kind of dragon.
[368.7s] He needs a pretty thorough explaining, usually.
[373.4s] Right.
[374.5s] I just can't see him leaving.
[375.7s] I just can't see him choosing to leave.
[378.2s] And this collar, what's the, that was just decorative or?
[382.8s] Well, he's now no longer as big as he was before.
[387.8s] He is now just this little red pseudo dragon.
[393.9s] Russ, is the collar ruined or has it just like detached?
[399.5s] Like has it broken apart or has it unclipped?
[402.7s] It looks like the clasps have been forcibly removed or damaged in some way.
[415.4s] Someone's stolen Donnie.
[420.8s] But did that person think they were stealing a dragon wormling?
[425.7s] That person must have been very powerful to have gotten even close enough to Donnie to rip this off of him.
[438.5s] Or someone he knew and trusted.
[446.4s] Not there.
[447.5s] There aren't many of those people around, unfortunately, Lex, but yeah, I guess.
[456.6s] Well, I don't know how to help.
[459.5s] I didn't I didn't know him for long.
[462.9s] And you're not getting anything on your your mind chats for him?
[468.6s] No, it's just radio silence in there.
[474.4s] Trying to see if I have anything helpful, but not really, because I'm just just a beefy boy for the most part.
[481.1s] And any like there's been no tracks where we found this collar.
[485.4s] It was just there.
[488.3s] Yeah, all right.
[491.5s] Well, we've searched pretty thoroughly.
[495.8s] We have no leads.
[499.6s] What should we do now?
[505.3s] My mind tells me that we should go to Waterdeep.
[512.2s] Maybe Donnie will be there.
[516.3s] But my heart tells me that Nulara would not stop looking for him.
[522.3s] What if we continue to look as we travel and maybe someone saw?
[531.4s] You know, a pseudo dragon in a cage or something.
[537.7s] I don't think we have much of a choice.
[540.4s] We're running out of supplies out here wandering through the forest.
[545.4s] Let's head to Waterdeep.
[554.1s] As you set off down the path with Clip Clop and Tiny, Margaret says she is separating ways.
[565.2s] She approaches Lex and reaches out to hand you something.
[571.7s] Margaret pulls a stone out of her pocket and I think gives it to Lex.
[577.4s] I hope that if this name doesn't stick, I hope you find one that does.
[582.3s] And you crush this and you can send me a message.
[587.8s] It's not a very good one.
[588.8s] Only one time.
[589.5s] But you let me know where you are if you need help and I'll be there as fast as I can.
[594.0s] She tells you that she'll do her best in the circles that she has to try and track down Donnie.
[604.6s] And if she hears anything, she will contact you as well.
[617.7s] You travel on the road back to Waterdeep from your location.
[622.7s] From your location, it takes you a couple weeks.
[628.1s] As you're nearing the final stretch of Waterdeep, Flint, we find you deep in thought.
[639.9s] Which may be unusual.
[641.0s] I was going to say, is that new for you?
[642.3s] I mean, usually deep and blinking, thought not so much.
[646.5s] Thea and Lex make a perception check.
[652.6s] Twenty five.
[659.6s] Twenty four.
[662.3s] Damn, we are like, on it.
[665.4s] You're focused.
[666.2s] You're on it.
[666.8s] That's okay.
[667.4s] I will tell you what that means momentarily.
[673.2s] We close in on Flint's pensive demeanor and flash to another scene.
[681.1s] We are over top of the Well of Dragons.
[687.0s] Explosions, roars, and screams of battle are happening below and we zoom down towards
[694.3s] the Temple of Tiamat as we see Flint rushing towards the closing door of the Temple of
[701.4s] Tiamat and it's at this moment that Flint tried to call on board.
[710.7s] That son of a bitch.
[715.5s] We zoom into Flint's mind as this is occurring.
[729.4s] I need you right now, bud.
[733.0s] Yeah, man.
[733.7s] And kind of a lot of stuff to unpack with this whole scenario.
[742.7s] Yeah, there's some important shit happening and we got to take care of it.
[748.7s] Yeah, something might not have told you, might not have let slip.
[757.1s] Where I come from, and it could be very similar here as well.
[763.9s] But Tiamat, she's got a kind of a thrall over folks like myself.
[774.2s] And if I come out and help you, I don't know if I'll actually be helping you.
[784.2s] You catch my drift?
[786.7s] Yeah, that just wouldn't have occurred to me.
[791.1s] So that's, yeah, maybe best you don't show up then.
[799.6s] I get what you need me to do and I'm very, I don't say this a lot.
[806.6s] I'm very sorry, my friend.
[809.6s] I can't be there for you right now.
[814.2s] No, that's okay.
[816.5s] Okay, I guess just the three of us will have to take care of this ourselves then.
[828.1s] He says once more, I'm sorry.
[832.6s] And then you feel him fade from where you normally sense him.
[841.4s] You don't, it's not that he's gone.
[843.4s] It's just that he's gone into a sort of hibernation.
[848.9s] He pulled the blanket all the way over his head instead of just mostly up his face.
[853.8s] That's right.
[854.5s] He is full hiding under bed with blanket.
[860.8s] And we flash back to Flint's face in present time.
[865.3s] And Thea and Lex, over the last couple of weeks, you've noticed Flint,
[873.6s] I mean, not that he's normally the most chatty individual, but he's been extra quiet.
[880.4s] And Thea specifically, Lex, you've noticed this, but maybe, you know, context wise,
[885.8s] you don't necessarily know that it's important, but Thea, you've noticed the
[891.5s] dragon scale on Flint's body has expanded well beyond where it is,
[903.0s] creeping up his neck and further down his arms.
[909.0s] You crest over a hill and you see off in the distance the city of Waterdeep before you.
[915.0s] Flint, how are you doing?
[922.8s] Uh, yeah, all right.
[924.5s] I mean, I just keep kind of replaying, you know, team and everything else in my head.
[933.0s] Yeah, yeah.
[933.7s] It's a special five minutes when I catch myself not thinking about that day.
[940.9s] You know, let's, let's get in here.
[944.3s] Let's update Leosin and talk to the Gilded Nine Shadows, the Brotherhood.
[953.9s] Who are we talking to about the scales?
[956.1s] Arcane Brotherhood was the one trying to help you with that.
[959.6s] Why there's so many?
[962.1s] Gilded Nine Shadows kind of ditched you.
[964.2s] Oh, well, fuck them then.
[966.6s] Yeah.
[966.8s] Remember you went back to the Gilded Nine Shadows and Reginald Thermopolis
[970.6s] told you to basically go do it yourself.
[972.8s] Oh, right.
[974.1s] Because resources are low and we can't do anything.
[978.1s] Was that his voice?
[979.5s] Yeah, I think it was.
[980.6s] Pretty sure it was.
[981.0s] His name was Reginald.
[984.6s] Not sure if that was the voice, but maybe it was.
[986.4s] I'm pretty sure that was the voice.
[987.0s] We're gonna have to go back and listen.
[988.3s] Uh, okay.
[990.5s] Let's go to the, you know, just say the Brotherhood.
[997.0s] Arcane Brotherhood.
[998.2s] Yeah, but I don't know how much of this we are sharing with our new friend Lex.
[1002.5s] Okay, well, for world knowledge, the Arcane Brotherhood is well known within the realm.
[1008.9s] Okay, Brotherhood makes it just sound like maybe it's like a secret society.
[1013.3s] The Gild was super secret.
[1014.8s] Gild was super secret.
[1017.8s] All right, well, let's go to the Arcane Brotherhood.
[1020.6s] First stop and talk to them about your condition.
[1028.0s] Yeah, I remember they said something about an amulet.
[1032.6s] Needed, but I don't remember much else other than that, so maybe they can remind us.
[1038.3s] You don't remember what you need?
[1041.6s] In my defense, there was a lot of other stuff going on that seemed a little more important.
[1047.8s] Yeah, but I mean, in the event that we didn't die,
[1051.1s] this is like the most important stuff for you.
[1054.2s] Yeah, for me, but it wasn't the most important for us.
[1058.1s] I flip open my notepad that I keep in my satchel.
[1061.6s] I'm going to moot you right now.
[1062.9s] How dare you?
[1064.6s] This is my character choice.
[1067.5s] And I say, here's what you need.
[1072.2s] Remember it.
[1072.9s] Okay.
[1073.4s] You need the host vessel, which I think will be really hard to lose,
[1079.5s] diamond dust dust, a drop of your blood, the amulet of wonder,
[1086.4s] bing, bang, boom.
[1088.4s] It's only four things.
[1090.2s] What was the diamond one?
[1091.9s] A diamond of dust or as dust.
[1096.2s] Sorry, as dust, a crushed up diamond, diamond dust.
[1101.1s] There we go.
[1101.6s] Good thing.
[1102.0s] Diamonds are very crushable.
[1104.2s] Why?
[1104.6s] Yeah, right.
[1106.6s] I take the big one out of my satchel.
[1111.4s] Got you covered, buddy.
[1112.2s] We'll figure this out.
[1113.2s] All right.
[1113.6s] Four things.
[1115.0s] Sounds easy enough.
[1117.0s] But maybe in the meantime, they can do something to slow some stuff down.
[1126.6s] Where is the gray scale?
[1128.0s] Have I seen it?
[1128.6s] Oh, there's got to be.
[1130.2s] By this point, you've definitely seen it.
[1132.4s] You would have seen it on him before.
[1135.5s] It hasn't been talked about in game.
[1137.5s] So I'll leave it up to you guys if you've talked about it elsewhere.
[1140.4s] But yeah, it's like creeping up the neck pretty.
[1143.0s] Previously, it started kind of central chest, but yeah, now it's neck and upper arms.
[1149.0s] So creeping up from underneath his armor and clothes.
[1152.6s] And are you guys having this conversation?
[1155.4s] Are we all just walking together or are you two kind of apart?
[1158.6s] Well, I think since once we found the horses, we probably hitched up the wagon.
[1164.3s] Which was destroyed.
[1165.6s] Which was enemy, but we were out there for a long time.
[1169.1s] We bought a new wagon.
[1170.6s] God rest.
[1172.5s] Two weeks.
[1174.1s] These are the questions I get.
[1176.3s] I just didn't want to jump into the conversation.
[1178.7s] I think I may be walked off to have sitting up front in the carriage,
[1182.6s] which is why I'm trying to be like, I know you're within earshot and you're like
[1186.2s] hanging out and I'm just like, you know, your condition.
[1191.7s] That thing that you've got going on.
[1194.8s] The diabetes.
[1196.0s] The diabetes, yes.
[1201.1s] So we're just like probably speaking in.
[1205.9s] Tongues.
[1207.3s] No, I was going to say like just like really obvious, like code, like,
[1213.2s] you know, like going to get that thing checked out, you know.
[1219.0s] From the people.
[1220.5s] Yeah, the brotherhood of you.
[1222.7s] Well, so we're just being straight up probably real weird.
[1229.7s] Okay.
[1230.8s] Well, I'll just let that play out before I jump in.
[1233.0s] Then I go just, you know, I've noticed that you're just like,
[1235.8s] can I play the game now too?
[1237.4s] Your rash has been spreading.
[1240.4s] I'm just going to call it scales his rash now.
[1245.4s] Okay, you know, you got to get that rash checked out.
[1249.8s] Where will you look for Donnie when we get to the city?
[1252.1s] Do you think he will go to where your friends are?
[1258.0s] Probably if he's going to go anywhere.
[1263.0s] Yeah, maybe the arcane brotherhood can help us out with that too.
[1268.6s] I think after we make our way to the arcane brotherhood, then
[1273.4s] I'll probably have to leave you.
[1276.0s] I think I need to return to the place where I was.
[1282.4s] Made created.
[1286.0s] And, and find my creator.
[1292.2s] But sounds like a really heavy trip, man.
[1297.2s] While it sounds like you're the decimators of dragons,
[1300.9s] I think you're familiar with very heavy trips.
[1303.0s] So the fate of the world doesn't depend on this one.
[1305.9s] Flint, I wonder if, and I apologize for
[1316.0s] the invasiveness of the question,
[1319.0s] but I do have some healing abilities.
[1321.0s] I wonder if I could try to help you with your rash.
[1330.6s] Thanks, Carla.
[1331.7s] I've got what's called antibiotics.
[1334.6s] Got a real good topical cream.
[1338.8s] Bexatrin, some polysporin,
[1344.6s] some neosporin.
[1346.9s] She's got all the sporens.
[1347.9s] She's got all the sporens.
[1349.0s] I've got all, I've got, I just pull out a big box labeled sporens,
[1353.1s] just to pull out a bunch of different bottles and tubes.
[1356.7s] But then also like mushrooms and stuff, because like spores.
[1360.2s] Exactly.
[1361.4s] Mm-hmm.
[1363.7s] Yeah, I mean, I guess we could give it a shot.
[1366.5s] I don't know if it's something that can be just healed like that.
[1372.7s] But yeah, yeah, you know what?
[1373.7s] If you want to, if you want to give it a try, I'm open for it.
[1379.9s] I mean, I don't know either, but I'm happy to try.
[1386.3s] Sure, yeah, let's do it.
[1390.7s] What are you trying to do?
[1394.7s] I'm trying to heal his like dragon scale list,
[1397.5s] because I think he just has like a dragon scale rash.
[1401.3s] I mean, yeah.
[1402.8s] What are you using to try and do this?
[1407.1s] Well, I mean, I do have like normal healing.
[1410.7s] Like I have lay on hands and other skills.
[1414.5s] You pick one and you tell me, you pick one.
[1417.9s] Okay, well.
[1423.2s] Also, how hilarious is it going to be if she fucking just cures him
[1426.8s] and we never even saw it to like just try to heal you?
[1433.5s] Well, what if I try lay on hands?
[1437.3s] Let's say I have two tiers of powers.
[1439.5s] I'll probably start with the lower level sporen
[1444.4s] before trying the hard level sporen.
[1447.4s] The extra strength sporen is safe for later.
[1450.7s] It's emergency sporen.
[1452.3s] Kate, describe to me.
[1455.8s] Kate, so are we sitting side by side?
[1459.5s] Oh, I scamper into the back of the wagon
[1461.3s] to leave room for you to come on up to the front
[1463.7s] and do your stuff.
[1465.4s] Perfect.
[1467.1s] So I'm going to come up a side.
[1469.5s] Flint, and is it on the,
[1472.9s] whatever side of your neck I can see it on,
[1475.0s] that's the side I'm going to use.
[1476.7s] Both sides?
[1478.0s] Before we do, do you want to do this while you're in the wagon
[1481.0s] or do you want to do this once you get back into water?
[1485.5s] Well, again, this is just a low level sporen.
[1488.3s] Let's just give it a shot in the wagon.
[1493.5s] So I'm going to put my hand on the side of your neck
[1500.2s] and just close my eyes and alakazam your heel.
[1506.8s] But probably not.
[1509.0s] Okay, so you begin to lay on hands
[1512.1s] and it starts as you otherwise have felt it begin.
[1519.0s] Flint, you feel the warming energy
[1523.0s] come from his very cold hand.
[1528.3s] You feel it leech into your arm.
[1533.0s] Lex, you feel very much the same.
[1536.9s] Um, Thea, you're watching this from the back?
[1539.9s] Oh yeah, I'm like, no, I'm like right up there.
[1542.8s] Um, okay, I'll tell you what you see in a second.
[1546.9s] Flint, you feel the warmth move into your muscles
[1551.7s] and Lex, you feel, you're feeling
[1554.8s] this, the same energy drain that you normally feel.
[1559.7s] Um, but just as quickly as it starts,
[1564.7s] it ends and you feel this warmth sucked back out of your arm,
[1569.1s] Flint, um, and you've, your muscles feel colder
[1573.7s] where Lex said they were healing you.
[1577.4s] The energy bounces back on you, Lex, and you feel it rush back to you.
[1582.8s] Thea, in the back, you see Lex focusing,
[1588.6s] paying attention to both Flint and Lex.
[1592.0s] Um, there's a bit of a glow about what Lex is trying to do and as you watch Lex,
[1602.7s] you see where, where the, where skin looked like scars.
[1608.8s] You see those begin to, as the longer he goes on,
[1613.1s] begin to peel and separate from each other.
[1616.1s] The skin begins to peel back, you see muscle and sinew below,
[1620.9s] and as the energy rushes back, it quickly seams them back up as if nothing had happened before.
[1633.1s] Did it work?
[1637.5s] I'm sorry, my friend, it didn't, it didn't work, at least.
[1641.6s] I'm sorry, my friend, it didn't, it didn't work, at least.
[1647.7s] I'm, I'm almost, almost positive it didn't work.
[1651.1s] I mean, I, I felt something at the start and then it quickly disappeared
[1658.0s] and I even felt kind of cold afterwards.
[1664.0s] Yeah, I think, I think this might be
[1666.8s] beyond my healing powers.
[1671.0s] Not even the extra back, backs in, spore in, you know, backs a spore in.
[1678.0s] Maybe once we're off the road, I can, I can try again and see if
[1686.4s] I can pour more energy in.
[1688.2s] I don't know if you want to pour more energy into it.
[1691.1s] I don't know if you want to pour more energy into it.
[1697.9s] What do you mean?
[1699.5s] Well, this might be super personal,
[1706.5s] but as I was watching you do your mojo,
[1716.8s] your skin was totally separating and I could see your muscles and everything
[1720.7s] and then when you were done and it came back to you, it all, like, came back together again.
[1729.9s] Yep, that's how it was.
[1732.0s] Is it weird that I didn't notice that?
[1735.5s] I mean, you were kind of focused on, you know, the, you were in the mood.
[1738.6s] Like you weren't going to look like straight at him and be like.
[1741.6s] Yeah, just me with my hand on his head.
[1744.3s] Eye contact.
[1745.9s] I'm going to say you were kind of, you were kind of facing the road.
[1748.7s] Well, you still had the reins.
[1750.1s] That's how I picture it.
[1751.1s] He was still like driving the cart and I was beside him.
[1754.1s] So he wasn't looking directly at me.
[1755.5s] So sorry, every time you heal someone, you rip your body open a little bit?
[1761.3s] Well, every time I heal someone, then it hurts me,
[1774.5s] but it's worth it to put that good back into the world,
[1779.0s] to put that healing energy into someone who needs it.
[1782.1s] How many people have you healed?
[1786.8s] Well, a few.
[1789.5s] I mean, it's been, it's been a couple years since I've been who I am
[1796.3s] and I didn't know right away what I could do.
[1799.2s] But once I learned, I tried to, I tried to help.
[1809.1s] And then sometimes it works great.
[1812.0s] I mean, I got Perseus.
[1813.4s] That's, that's how he is with me.
[1818.2s] So isn't it worth a little bit of your life to put love into the world?
[1822.7s] No, I, yes, my healing spells do, there is not that toll.
[1831.6s] Well, I don't, I don't understand it.
[1834.5s] And that's part of the reason I want to go find my creator to learn what,
[1843.8s] what he did, why it happens and, and how,
[1848.2s] how I can, maybe how I can stop that.
[1851.6s] It would be wonderful if I could just heal and not hurt myself.
[1855.5s] And your creator lives in?
[1857.9s] Waterdeep?
[1859.1s] The, the Baldrick Mountains.
[1861.9s] So I'll, I'll take my leave from you after, after we find Donnie.
[1869.0s] Oh, hopefully.
[1871.9s] I say under my breath, not to her.
[1873.5s] I say after we find Donnie.
[1878.6s] Thank you.
[1880.3s] See, I might've cried.
[1883.1s] Okay.
[1883.7s] So that's like more personal information that's come out of you in the last two
[1889.9s] minutes than I think the entire time since we've known each other breakthrough.
[1898.7s] Well, sometimes after a healing.
[1900.7s] You're vulnerable and I can ask you any questions I want.
[1905.1s] Well, maybe not any questions.
[1907.6s] But it does, it, it changes me in a small way every time.
[1914.3s] So, okay.
[1916.8s] Well, will you be joining us for?
[1921.4s] Flint's rash removal.
[1928.9s] Gotta get some sweet talcum powder going on here.
[1931.9s] You know, well, if you,
[1936.6s] if you think I would be useful, then I'm, I'm happy to see that through.
[1940.9s] Well, you've, you've more than.
[1941.9s] I'm very strong.
[1943.2s] So if you need some sort of strength assistance.
[1948.2s] Well, you've more than proven yourself in a fight.
[1954.1s] And it's nice to have, you know, people around.
[1961.9s] I don't know, Flint?
[1963.9s] Yeah, I mean, Lex has been, Lex has been a real boon so far.
[1967.9s] So.
[1969.1s] As long as you want to stay with us, Lex, you're welcome.
[1973.9s] Well, let's see how things go in water deep.
[1976.0s] And you, you know, where you're creative.
[1978.9s] Does your creator have a name?
[1981.3s] I don't know.
[1983.7s] When I left him, I was in no condition to ask questions.
[1989.8s] So I, I think I remember how to get back there,
[1994.6s] but I'm not exactly sure who I'll find.
[1998.3s] And if I'm being honest, I'm not exactly sure what I'm going to do to them
[2002.2s] when I find them.
[2003.9s] Oh, my intentions now are noble, but I can't say how I'll be.
[2011.5s] Murderously noble.
[2013.4s] Fair enough.
[2015.0s] Well, we have something to take care of with Flint's,
[2020.5s] you know, situation here, as you can see.
[2024.7s] And we have, we're, we're stopping at the Arcane Brotherhood just to see if
[2032.4s] there's anything that they can do temporarily.
[2035.2s] And if not, we are off again.
[2039.5s] If Donnie's not there, hopefully we can send out.
[2043.4s] They can, I don't know, give us some resources to look.
[2049.5s] We can't keep looking and leave Flint like this.
[2054.7s] So while Flint is still Flint, we'll be heading out to the temple of
[2061.5s] Calum Shen, which is in the bald or something.
[2067.4s] Now, no, okay.
[2069.9s] Just curious.
[2072.4s] Welcome back to the middle.
[2083.1s] You put a little like country vibe on it.
[2086.9s] I've been listening to a lot of country radio lately, you know, what with my job.
[2090.9s] And I just, I just feel in the boots and the trucks sleeping into your bones.
[2095.2s] I really like it.
[2097.2s] The girls.
[2099.5s] Feeling the girls.
[2100.6s] Feeling the girls, hey?
[2102.2s] Yeah, HR is getting involved next week.
[2104.0s] That's a real problem.
[2106.8s] Russ isn't allowed to listen to country anymore.
[2108.7s] We just said, cut up the songs, Russ.
[2111.2s] I mean, Russ was the last person I would have picked for that.
[2113.7s] I know, you know, it's always the quiet ones though.
[2116.8s] Always the quiet ones.
[2119.2s] Okay, where, uh.
[2121.2s] Where Russ doesn't inappropriately do anything with any girls is over on Patreon.
[2126.7s] We're just straight down in a lot of the break lines have been cut.
[2132.8s] Patreon.com slash dumb dragon cast.
[2138.7s] I don't even know where to go from here, but Patreon, where you can support.
[2142.7s] Come join our community.
[2144.2s] You can support the show.
[2145.3s] You can support the other shows that we are doing and creating and all that great stuff.
[2148.8s] And part of being a patron is you get some special access within our discord community,
[2153.5s] which is of course open to the public.
[2155.8s] But patrons have access to special channels with the ability to ask us all the important
[2160.7s] questions like what country songs Russ is singing this week.
[2164.9s] And has HR actually gotten involved yet?
[2166.7s] And how's the HR complaints going, Russ?
[2168.9s] Time will tell.
[2169.6s] Yep.
[2170.3s] But also what's happening on discord is some very magical things.
[2173.6s] And something that we're very happy about is that people are playing games together.
[2178.7s] People have like made friends and now they're playing games together.
[2182.0s] And it makes me so happy.
[2184.3s] It really warms my cold, cold heart.
[2187.7s] We have an amazing little piece of the internet bubble right now
[2191.4s] because our discord is, I'm going to say, the best place on the internet.
[2199.2s] Yeah, it's very nice.
[2200.7s] It's so wholesome.
[2201.4s] There are no mean people.
[2204.2s] There's no grossoes.
[2205.8s] Yeah, no, there's no grossoes.
[2209.7s] And again, HR is talking with him, but I mean,
[2212.7s] no one makes anyone feel unsafe.
[2214.4s] We're all, we're very inclusive.
[2216.7s] People are legit.
[2217.7s] Just making online friends again, like straight up chat room style online friends.
[2224.1s] Like the halcyon days of the internet.
[2227.0s] And playing games together.
[2228.7s] One of the biggest questions I receive on my other podcast,
[2231.3s] you can go listen to it at dm2gmcast.com.
[2233.6s] Shameless.
[2234.2s] Flawless, Russ.
[2235.0s] Yeah, it was great.
[2236.3s] One of the biggest questions that we say we can't answer is where do you find people?
[2240.5s] But you can find them over in our discord.
[2242.4s] Now you have an answer.
[2243.5s] All those people are looking for games too.
[2246.2s] And we think you should join us.
[2247.5s] So a couple things there.
[2248.8s] Come join us on Discord.
[2250.4s] That's free.
[2251.3s] But you can also join us on Patreon.
[2253.0s] Patreon.com slash Dumb Dragon Cast.
[2255.5s] We have a whole bunch of different tiers with a whole bunch of exclusive content.
[2258.5s] Plus some extra bonus Discord access once you get in there.
[2262.8s] And all the details are at our website.
[2265.8s] DumbDragons.com.
[2266.8s] Haven't plugged that in a while.
[2267.9s] Go visit us over there.
[2269.1s] There's a website.
[2270.4s] All right, thanks everybody.
[2272.7s] Now we're going to get back to this episode where we're back in Waterdeep and it's super cool.
[2276.9s] We always go back to Waterdeep.
[2278.5s] It's always Waterdeep.
[2287.2s] Throughout this conversation, you have made it to Waterdeep.
[2291.0s] The gates to the south entrance of Waterdeep open wide.
[2296.1s] The last time you were here,
[2298.6s] the streets were filled with refugees.
[2301.9s] The city was surrounded.
[2304.1s] Sentries and metallic dragons were set up on the walls.
[2308.4s] And now it is all but back to normal.
[2315.5s] Life has resumed, at least from a surface view.
[2321.5s] The city appears to be moving and operating as it did
[2326.5s] before any of the Cult of the Dragon attacks began occurring.
[2334.3s] Okay, out of game here.
[2337.1s] The Arcane Brotherhood is in Luskin.
[2341.5s] Why did you let me go on?
[2344.4s] Do they have a satellite outpost?
[2345.7s] Do they have a satellite location?
[2349.9s] Yes, I'm curious.
[2353.4s] Your touch point here is Leosin.
[2355.9s] And Castle Waterdeep and the Council of Waterdeep.
[2360.2s] I was sort of getting that mixed up.
[2361.5s] I thought maybe everyone was in.
[2364.9s] At one point, everyone was here because there were massive battles.
[2372.1s] Very easy to catch all the managers all at once because they were all in for the meeting.
[2378.2s] So if you were to have a start point,
[2386.3s] we're going to say maybe you remember that the second you cross through the gates at
[2390.2s] Waterdeep, you have this realization that, oh, fuck.
[2395.4s] I mean, that tracks the arc.
[2396.7s] It really does.
[2398.4s] So yeah, the gates open, the city's back to, it's being great.
[2402.7s] Laura was really the one that was good with maps.
[2405.6s] Like that was kind of her whole thing.
[2406.5s] Notes and maps, yep.
[2407.7s] Thea just assumes whatever city she goes to,
[2409.9s] the people will be there that she needs to talk to.
[2412.3s] That you guys are still, you know, working through that hole in the park.
[2418.7s] Okay, yeah, back to normal.
[2423.5s] Wow, it looks a whole lot better in here.
[2427.2s] Ah, Jesus.
[2429.9s] Okay, so the Arkane Brotherhood is totally not here.
[2436.6s] Yeah, as we were getting here, I was starting to think that it wasn't in Waterdeep.
[2443.8s] No, it's definitely not.
[2445.2s] But we can still go see Leosin, who may have some ideas for us.
[2451.9s] Okay.
[2452.6s] Yeah, that's all I got.
[2455.0s] Let's go see Leosin.
[2456.7s] Hopefully he will have some ideas and then, I mean, we've got to set off to
[2463.5s] the temple in Kalimshan, which is, and Thea starts pointing around like to the
[2473.9s] east, north, north, east, west.
[2481.9s] Roll a history.
[2485.5s] Two.
[2486.7s] You think you're, you think they're where you think they are.
[2490.0s] North, east, west.
[2493.8s] Anybody else want to roll a history to contend that, or are you just going to believe her?
[2497.3s] That's fine too.
[2498.2s] I mean, she seems very sure of herself, but.
[2500.7s] She does seem confident.
[2501.7s] I'm not going anyway.
[2503.1s] I will roll a history check.
[2504.8s] Thank you.
[2508.2s] It's going to be good enough.
[2510.4s] It was a 19, and that's been one of the bonuses.
[2513.8s] Yeah, you know, Kalimshan is the oldest civilization, more than 9,000 years old.
[2519.0s] In all of Toriel.
[2520.3s] And it is far south, far south.
[2523.8s] It's its own.
[2525.5s] The only direction we did the first.
[2527.9s] It's its own country, for lack of a better term, within the world.
[2537.4s] But yeah, definitely not north, northeast, west.
[2540.4s] So as I'm pointing around, does Flint just like grab my hand and like.
[2544.8s] Just slowly move it.
[2545.8s] Oh, that's what I said, south.
[2552.1s] You were so close.
[2553.3s] So, you know, I was just one direction away.
[2557.1s] Story of my life.
[2561.9s] Is the one direction.
[2565.0s] I got it.
[2568.8s] The last place I expected a one direction joke was our podcast.
[2572.2s] That's why I was like.
[2573.6s] Very quick, Russ.
[2574.6s] That was making a one direction joke.
[2576.4s] Why are you touching all over my beer can?
[2578.2s] What are you doing?
[2583.6s] He's peaked.
[2584.2s] You know, he he knows he.
[2589.2s] You make it to Castle Water.
[2592.0s] The guards see you coming.
[2595.8s] You give them the salute that you normally give them.
[2600.0s] Yeah, just like that.
[2601.3s] My middle finger.
[2602.3s] No, I'm just kidding.
[2603.1s] I'm I'm with them.
[2606.7s] I'm with them.
[2607.6s] They they like they let the whole wagon in everybody aboard all three of you.
[2615.1s] And they go.
[2616.2s] Don't forget to go.
[2617.1s] God damn right.
[2618.2s] Yep.
[2619.4s] Oh, and you you park and.
[2622.7s] And I park.
[2626.7s] Like do you.
[2627.2s] Yeah, I do.
[2628.0s] Like you did in.
[2630.0s] I can't remember, but I did it really nice.
[2633.1s] Oh, Blackpool.
[2634.7s] In Blackpool, you parallel parked like.
[2636.6s] That's where ALex was too.
[2639.7s] So yeah, you parallel park it and there's there's like pages that run out to try and
[2643.8s] like, you know, take the reins from you.
[2645.3s] And then they kind of step back as you are parallel parking in astonishment.
[2649.4s] They're like, hey, can you teach us how to do that?
[2652.0s] Maybe later, kid.
[2653.5s] Brush the horses and I flick them a gold piece.
[2657.2s] Thought you threw him the keys and I was like, I don't use keys for this.
[2660.2s] See, no, I'm pretty sure there are keys.
[2663.2s] I don't know if you know how wagons work.
[2665.1s] No, I'm pretty sure they're keys.
[2666.3s] One of them catches the gold and they look at it in astonishment.
[2669.1s] Like it's the most money they've seen in forever.
[2671.5s] And they say, yep, we'll brush them until their hair falls out.
[2674.7s] No, please don't do that.
[2676.2s] They've been through a lot.
[2677.9s] We'll brush them gently until they are appropriately brushed.
[2681.4s] OK, and then feed them oats and tell them how pretty they are.
[2684.3s] And pretty.
[2684.7s] You're very pretty.
[2687.7s] You head into Castle Water.
[2690.4s] You head to Leo's office, I presume.
[2692.7s] Oh, yeah, I do the special knock.
[2694.0s] This is new for Lex.
[2695.2s] So you enter a very probably the largest castle you or any part of you has ever seen.
[2704.8s] I don't know how you want to describe that, but tapestries are hung by the walls.
[2711.5s] It's intricately carved stonework.
[2714.2s] Like a lot of times with castles, it's just like crude.
[2717.0s] Put it together, make sure it stands up.
[2719.2s] The walls are smooth within Castle Water deep.
[2722.3s] They're so fancy.
[2724.7s] Freshly cleaned carpets that run runners that go down all hallways within the building.
[2731.7s] The deeper you go, the more torches they have.
[2734.9s] It is the highest level of luxury, I guess you could say,
[2743.7s] that I think Lex has probably ever seen.
[2747.7s] There is a part of me that feels like this is a little bit familiar,
[2756.1s] but I'd say I'm 80% completely in awe of this place and 20%.
[2763.1s] Not a big deal.
[2764.5s] It feels not comfortable.
[2767.5s] I probably have never been in the castle before, but I have certainly seen the outside.
[2774.5s] Okay, fair enough.
[2777.7s] You head down the familiar hallways for Flint and Thea,
[2781.2s] the familiar hallways that you've come to know so well over the last several months,
[2786.7s] and make it to Leosin's office, and the door is closed.
[2793.4s] Now I do the special knock.
[2797.5s] How does the special knock go?
[2799.6s] You know.
[2804.7s] It is the only special knock.
[2807.0s] You hear from inside a chair scoot back, and papers, books, you hear them closing,
[2814.0s] and papers being arranged, and footsteps that come to the door, and it opens.
[2819.5s] And standing before you is a very clean cut from the last time you saw him.
[2825.9s] More well-rested Leosin, and he looks to you, and a smile crosses his face,
[2833.1s] and he says, you're back, and he reaches to give you a hug.
[2839.9s] Oh, I hug him.
[2843.3s] I thought you were supposed to just deliver new lore,
[2848.5s] and that's a relatively quick trip.
[2852.0s] We thought something might have happened to you.
[2854.9s] Oh yeah, we were such dicks.
[2856.5s] We really should have sent like a note or something.
[2860.7s] Well, I mean, most of us thought you'd probably be okay.
[2865.6s] Some of us thought you might have died.
[2869.6s] So who won the pool?
[2871.9s] I'm going to have to check the scoreboard after.
[2875.1s] Okay, I hope it was you.
[2878.2s] I had you coming back right on time.
[2880.7s] Joke's on me.
[2881.7s] I should have known.
[2883.0s] Yeah, that one's on you.
[2884.0s] Yeah, yeah.
[2885.7s] Maybe it was Arvid who won.
[2887.2s] He'll want to see you at some point.
[2889.7s] Oh, that Arvid.
[2891.0s] Yeah.
[2891.5s] Come on in, please.
[2892.6s] Please come in, and who is your friend?
[2896.0s] Oh, this is Lex.
[2899.1s] It's nice to meet you.
[2900.4s] He reaches out and says, oh, Chilly.
[2903.1s] Nice to meet you too, Lex.
[2905.3s] Where are you from as he's pulling chairs around his desk?
[2909.9s] Well, I was parts of, let's say, the Baldrick Mountains.
[2919.3s] Oh, out by Thay region.
[2922.3s] That's quite a far ways away from here.
[2924.7s] Yes, I'll be heading back there soon.
[2927.5s] My, well, that is quite a travel.
[2930.6s] I hope you have safe travel arranged, safe passage arranged.
[2937.5s] I mean, I was just going to find a caravan.
[2942.0s] Just going to hoof it.
[2943.5s] Cool, cool.
[2944.3s] All right, well, have a seat.
[2945.5s] Have a seat.
[2946.4s] That's fine.
[2949.1s] So where, where, where, tell me.
[2951.9s] We lost Donnie.
[2953.1s] Why?
[2955.9s] Tell me why ain't nothing but a heartache.
[2962.3s] Now he pulls out a scroll.
[2964.2s] Isn't anything but a heartache.
[2965.1s] Poor Don.
[2965.9s] He pulls out a scroll and it says here, uh, to be left with my most trusted of friends.
[2971.2s] Oh my God, Leo.
[2972.3s] So don't even do that.
[2974.5s] Listen, we were coming back from.
[2979.2s] Okay.
[2979.5s] So there's a few stops on the way.
[2981.4s] Everything's fine.
[2982.2s] We go to this town, Blackpool, which isn't actually even there.
[2988.3s] It's overrun by this orcas love and fuck up.
[2992.3s] Oh, and he snatches a new friend that we had pulls them into.
[2999.9s] What is it?
[3000.3s] Like, like a death portal.
[3003.1s] Yeah.
[3003.7s] Death, like into orcas land.
[3005.9s] Anyway, we find this fine fellow Lex there and we all escape, but coming from there to here,
[3016.5s] big angry, um, like monkeys that shoot lightning out of their mouths and just appear and disappear
[3028.7s] like through portals and kind of like whoosh over top of us, topple our, our carriage over.
[3038.8s] We're all left unconscious in a ditch.
[3040.9s] We wake up.
[3041.8s] Horses are gone.
[3042.9s] Donnie's gone.
[3043.9s] We end up, I don't know, helping some villagers that were also trying to battle the thing.
[3049.9s] Let's just say things disappear.
[3052.3s] We find our horses.
[3053.7s] We search for days in the woods and Donnie is nowhere to be found.
[3057.3s] But we found this and I slammed the collar down on his desk.
[3062.2s] Somebody took this collar off.
[3063.7s] Somebody stole Donnie.
[3065.9s] Now I know you're thinking that she left a lot of stuff out of that recap,
[3069.7s] but actually it was pretty accurate.
[3071.7s] Wow, that's, um, you're welcome listeners.
[3075.8s] You know how to really get into it.
[3081.2s] Don't you?
[3081.9s] Yeah, that was beginning middle end right there.
[3084.4s] Yeah.
[3084.8s] Case closed, except not because we don't have Donnie and now he's little.
[3093.4s] Now he's just a baby boy.
[3095.4s] Okay.
[3096.4s] Well, and we need some help.
[3097.8s] And also at the same time, we don't have time to look for him
[3101.2s] because of Flint's rash.
[3104.7s] Flint, do you have a rash on top of all of this?
[3108.1s] Well, I mean, it's, it's this little thing that's going on my neck here and other places.
[3117.9s] She's just trying to be kind.
[3119.5s] And other places where you can see and also where you can.
[3124.3s] Well, that's a lot to unpack.
[3126.8s] That's like, so where do you want to start?
[3131.4s] Well, he reaches for the caller.
[3133.9s] He says we might be able to use this to help locate Donnie if he's in this plane.
[3141.9s] Well, that's where I wanted to start.
[3144.8s] Okay.
[3145.1s] Let's try and find Donnie.
[3147.5s] Great.
[3148.4s] Um, cool.
[3150.6s] All right.
[3151.5s] And then he moves it off to the side and says, and then what's next?
[3156.4s] We'll have to go talk to some, some higher ups there.
[3159.9s] What, uh, rash, uh, you gotta find an ointment.
[3166.0s] His condition is seeming to rapidly deteriorate.
[3171.4s] Since the last time I saw you, it has become worse.
[3175.4s] Yep.
[3176.0s] The rash.
[3177.5s] Do we really?
[3178.5s] Does.
[3179.1s] Okay.
[3180.3s] Yep.
[3180.7s] We'll keep going with this.
[3182.3s] We just met Lex.
[3183.7s] Fair enough.
[3184.0s] We didn't want to like spill all of our beans and, you know.
[3188.3s] I get it.
[3189.5s] Messed upness all over him.
[3191.6s] They take a long time to warm up to people.
[3194.3s] I've noticed that.
[3195.5s] Seems like you came in at a time when there was high tension.
[3201.3s] I think high tension follows these ones around.
[3203.5s] I found them or I guess they found me in a town full of zombies.
[3210.1s] And it's been a lot of action since then.
[3213.9s] This has kind of just been one thing after another.
[3216.4s] Since they've been gone, my blood pressure has gone down.
[3218.9s] My doctor said I might not die at an early age, but now I feel it rising.
[3225.6s] At an early age, you're like 80.
[3228.7s] I'm 32.
[3230.3s] Oh, man.
[3231.1s] You gotta self-care.
[3234.2s] I wanted to make an obligatory Kelly Clarkson joke
[3237.0s] when Russ said since you've been gone, but there was no time to get it in.
[3239.8s] Sorry.
[3240.6s] Gotta be quick.
[3241.2s] Gotta be quick with those things.
[3244.0s] Okay, so we gotta find Donnie.
[3246.3s] Do you know what you need for your rash?
[3249.5s] Uh, yes.
[3252.2s] My good friend here, Thea, had written it down because, well, she used to be a scribe.
[3256.7s] So she's still kind of in the...
[3258.1s] I've heard.
[3259.5s] In the knack.
[3261.0s] It's just four things.
[3262.4s] Cool.
[3263.5s] Uh, diamond as dust, drop of my blood, the amulet of wonder,
[3270.3s] which I mean there's probably tons of those lying around.
[3273.0s] Just kicking around.
[3274.1s] And a host vessel.
[3277.0s] I think you are the...
[3278.2s] Oh, no, wait.
[3278.9s] Host vessel.
[3279.4s] No, no, we need a host vessel for Bort.
[3283.1s] Yeah, cool.
[3284.6s] Okay.
[3285.9s] Um, great.
[3287.3s] Gonna have to do some research unless you got a location of any of the big ones.
[3294.0s] Yeah, yeah.
[3294.7s] That last known location of the amulet of wonder was the temple in Calumson.
[3302.1s] The temple in Calumson.
[3304.7s] It just says...
[3306.3s] That's how I wrote it down.
[3308.4s] Well...
[3309.3s] The temple in Calumson.
[3311.4s] The temple in Calumson.
[3313.0s] Well, Calumson is a country about as big as Faerun.
[3317.5s] Oh, I'm sure there's more than one temple there.
[3320.5s] There might be a couple, being that they are a...
[3326.1s] I mean, they got a lot of temples, got a lot of magics.
[3330.7s] They're a very old civilization.
[3332.3s] So in fact, they might have more temples than we would.
[3338.2s] Do you know anyone in Calumson?
[3341.2s] I can put in some requests.
[3345.1s] See if I can't figure out if we have anybody down there
[3347.9s] who might be able to help you figure some stuff out.
[3353.1s] That would be super duper.
[3354.8s] Gonna have to look into that though.
[3357.5s] Okay, you wanna...
[3360.8s] Okay, take this and he hands you back Donnie's collar.
[3364.3s] He says, you gotta go downstairs and take this with you and go see Arvid.
[3375.9s] He's kind of in charge of the wizard scenario now.
[3381.5s] He's kind of head of the department.
[3384.7s] I see your reluctance.
[3386.3s] Well, no, it's fine.
[3387.2s] I just bet he's just such a treat to deal with now that he's been given...
[3391.8s] I mean, he's talked about you a lot.
[3396.0s] How he thought you'd come back a lot.
[3398.2s] Oh, that's good.
[3398.9s] That's nice.
[3399.6s] Okay.
[3400.2s] So positive.
[3402.1s] For sure.
[3402.6s] He was rooting for you.
[3403.9s] Okay.
[3405.3s] And then I'll see who we have down in Calumson.
[3410.3s] See if we can't get you a location of a temple, the temple, the temple.
[3418.2s] And maybe we'll go from there.
[3421.2s] Sounds, sounds good.
[3424.3s] Okay.
[3425.0s] Okay.
[3428.8s] Anything else I can do for you?
[3431.9s] Now that you've dropped all these...
[3434.1s] Oh, you mean other than solve all of our problems for us?
[3437.2s] No, Leon, I think we're good.
[3438.7s] You've laid it out for me.
[3441.1s] Just all, all over my table.
[3443.9s] Oh, please.
[3444.3s] Your table was covered in papers before we got here.
[3446.6s] I heard you shuffling around.
[3448.3s] Look at them now and you look down and they're just everywhere.
[3450.4s] Yeah, no.
[3451.3s] Look at this.
[3452.5s] Nobody touched his table yet.
[3454.2s] They're everywhere.
[3455.0s] Yeah.
[3455.5s] It's like you, you two walk back in here and just chaos follows you.
[3461.3s] Be a real fucked up curse.
[3463.1s] Tell me about it.
[3464.7s] Go see Arvid, please.
[3468.4s] It was nice to meet you, Leos, and I'm...
[3471.9s] Pleasure.
[3472.8s] Pleasure.
[3473.3s] Sorry for the stress.
[3475.2s] Oh, it's not your fault.
[3478.0s] You sound like you have a journey ahead of you.
[3480.6s] That has nothing to do with me.
[3483.6s] And for that, he is grateful.
[3485.7s] I'm thrilled about that.
[3486.9s] I'm thrilled.
[3488.3s] It's amazing how some days you wish you were left in a cave with dragon cultists.
[3497.7s] When we shake hands, I shoot him a little calming healing through my hand.
[3504.8s] Um, he, he breathes just a sigh of relief as that happens.
[3511.5s] Um, are you trying to do it sneakily so nobody else sees?
[3514.7s] Yep.
[3515.3s] Yep.
[3516.4s] It's just a little trickle of healing.
[3519.1s] Perfect.
[3521.5s] The three of you head out and back down the stairs to Arvid's.
[3526.9s] Thea and Flint, you lead the way.
[3529.4s] Thea, as you are walking, you think you hear a noise, familiar noise, coming from behind you.
[3544.0s] I turn around.
[3546.2s] There's nobody back there.
[3547.5s] You just see the torch lit hallway.
[3550.7s] What type of noise did it sound like?
[3552.7s] It was a voice.
[3553.6s] Oh, it was a voice?
[3554.5s] It was a voice.
[3555.3s] Oh, that's a, that's a very specific kind of noise.
[3559.1s] Yep.
[3560.1s] Whose voice did it sound like?
[3560.7s] So you hit your button and turn your chair around.
[3563.1s] You, you couldn't quite place your finger on it.
[3570.6s] I kind of give my head a shake and keep walking.
[3575.5s] As you turn back around, you're immediately faced by the image of Nu'vara.
[3584.3s] No, damn it.
[3587.8s] Standing, grasping your shoulders, staring deep into your eyes,
[3593.9s] her eyes completely black and she goes to speak and a black bile begins to froth from her mouth.
[3607.3s] You go to instinctively reach to your side and pull
[3611.9s] a dagger.
[3616.1s] Your hand goes to a blade, you pull it out and you see Nu'vara's dagger,
[3622.7s] the glowing red eyes and they thrust up into the body of Nu'vara in front of you.
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[3665.3s] Thank you for listening.
[3666.8s] Have a great week.
[3668.3s] We'll talk soon.
[3670.0s] Well, yeah, it wasn't.
[3673.0s] It made him big.
[3675.0s] Oh, it made him big.
[3676.3s] Thank you, Carla.
[3678.3s] I was like, well, it means like he was owned and he was a part of the family.
[3682.9s] It was where I was going to go.
[3690.5s] I Googled Baldrick Mountains to see where it was.
[3693.4s] Yeah, so I put in Baldrick Mountains and it like a lot of like leather sexual
[3702.6s] in the United States.
[3705.2s] Yeah, I probably just spelled it differently.
[3706.9s] Fair enough.
[3707.5s] And it looks like it's like, did you accidentally write Baldick Mountains?
[3710.6s] Hmm.
[3710.9s] Baldick Mountains.
[3711.7s] I don't think so.
[3712.8s] I don't think so.
[3713.4s] Gotta go to the Baldick Mountains.
[3717.7s] He gave me this shlong that doesn't work anymore.
[3721.1s] And that's why I'm dressing all this leather.
[3724.9s] This story is getting richer by the minute.
[3726.9s] Sorry, sorry.
[3727.5s] Yeah, it looks like it's it's fantasy themed.
[3730.7s] Nice.
[3731.1s] That's exciting.
[3731.6s] Anyway, just thought I couldn't see that on my computer and not share with my friends.
[3735.2s] Appreciate that.
[3735.9s] Dicks.com.
[3737.0s] Yeah, the whole other Dicks.com situation.
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