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[30.0s] Oh, okay, yeah, thank you. Who are you? Welcome. I am Yenbul. I believe my friend Leosin said to look for me.
[37.9s] We're hunting down that amulet of wonder. Any, any leads?
[41.6s] It's not the best news I could give you because it is with
[45.7s] Shangalar. Oh, that is real crappy. The Lich, whose undead army has overtaken the city and- Well, this means two birds one stone.
[52.2s] Well, that's true. We help your city and we get the amulet back.
[56.9s] I have a friend or a man I know, Mannix Fallenleaf. He knows where there's a portal
[62.9s] leading to this flying fortress. I can get you to
[67.8s] the next city. It must move quickly though. And you exit
[72.7s] further from where a massive wall has been erected and
[78.6s] you see just swarms of undead crashing into and climbing up over.
[85.6s] Mannix leads you through
[87.7s] the streets of this town that he referred to as Keltar. And inside there are runes on
[95.6s] the wall. The runes begin to glow as he runs his hand along them.
[100.6s] He says, when you are ready, we shall step through. You look up and beyond the clouds as they begin to part you see a
[108.3s] massive
[110.2s] pyramid floating high in the sky above the mountains. Is this like the one that you crashed?
[118.0s] Hers was more of a castle.
[120.4s] Much smaller.
[122.4s] Welcome to Dumbgeons and Dragons.
[124.4s] We're a D&D 5th edition actual play podcast and I'm your dungeon master Russ More. And with me today is Amy More.
[131.6s] Yeah, I'm here. I'm here for you listeners.
[135.1s] Not for you, Russ. For you listeners. Yeah, no one's here. And I play Thea Amistacio.
[141.0s] And Tom Laird. Yeah, I'm here and I'm here for all of you, but not Russ. And I play FlintFirebeard.
[149.9s] And Carla Maxed. I am also here for everyone in the whole world except
[160.6s] No, just for everybody even Russ. Thank you. And I play
[164.6s] Yen Bull Nury. Yes, Yen Bull. Welcome Yen Bull.
[168.4s] New character. Very exciting. First time getting to introduce her in the intro. That's exciting.
[174.8s] It's very good. You guys didn't even know her last name. No idea.
[177.8s] Thea doesn't ask about last names.
[181.2s] Why would you? What are you gonna ID me?
[184.4s] Where we are concerned about last names is over on Patreon.
[188.1s] That's weird. That is weird. And also your social insurance number, please.
[193.0s] Yeah, credit card number and the little one on the back, the little three-digit.
[197.1s] Spirey date too.
[198.6s] Patreon.com slash dumb dragon cast. We don't ask for any of that stuff, but what we do ask for is that you come join us.
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[220.7s] Some run by Tom. What? Some bonus episodes run by Amy and Carla. Yarp.
[227.6s] So many things happen over there.
[231.9s] Sorry, I'm not sure where Yarp came from. I mean, I think Sean of The Dead.
[236.3s] Thea from Within Me is where it came from. Oh, Hot Fuzz, of course. Hot Fuzz, yes.
[240.6s] I saw that once. Oh my god, you should watch it again. It's amazing. Did that stick with me?
[246.0s] They're all so good. Must've.
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[279.3s] Only one that rust slips over. No.
[282.0s] It's gonna be a good episode everybody. Fuck it. Let's play D&D.
[291.8s] We see or hear rather a figure quickly scurrying down a stone hallway.
[303.2s] We see the point of view from this creature and we know it's a creature because it's very low to the ground.
[313.4s] We hear heavy footsteps
[315.7s] stomping behind further down the hall. The point of view looks behind and doesn't see anything and quickly flies up
[324.1s] into this dimly torch lit hallway. Stone all around. Cobwebs all around.
[331.3s] And we see a small alcove off to the side.
[337.2s] This creature zips in to this alcove and it goes deep into the wall.
[345.3s] It's heavy breathing that kind of echoes soft and light but it echoes
[351.4s] loud in the ears of this creature.
[354.6s] Those footsteps that we heard previously
[356.6s] walk past this spot. Loud and there's grumbling.
[366.0s] And we pan out and we see Donnie
[369.8s] curled up inside of this labyrinth. This tunnel. This maze that he is in.
[377.6s] And we flash back to Flint,
[380.0s] Thea, Yen Bull, and Mannix at the base of the mountain
[384.3s] overlooking the fortress before them.
[388.4s] Thea immediately sinks to the ground and like starts touching all the foliage and stuff and just kind of
[394.4s] really getting her nature on.
[396.4s] She didn't quite realize how much she missed
[399.7s] the nature of this creature.
[401.9s] It's a real deserty country too, so this is the only place you're going to get that lushness.
[409.2s] Yen Bull is going to
[411.8s] not like disappear into the forest or anything, but she's going to start looking
[416.7s] for some kind of
[418.0s] some kind of
[419.7s] some kind of
[421.7s] some kind of
[423.7s] some kind of
[425.7s] some kind of
[427.7s] Not like disappear into the forest or anything, but she's going to start looking for
[432.9s] signs to see if those friends that she mentioned might be anywhere near her.
[439.0s] Okay.
[440.7s] What kind of signs is she looking for? You know, do this, don't do that. Friends this way.
[449.2s] Can't you read the sign, Amy?
[451.6s] Uh
[457.1s] So because they are there's like various groups of these sort of wandering warrior groups, they
[467.2s] leave signs in the trees for one another like
[471.4s] specific ways of breaking branches like things that no one else would notice unless you knew to look for them.
[476.9s] Like the hobo signs of the woods.
[479.2s] Okay, cool.
[481.2s] So I'm looking you're looking for that. Okay, roll me
[485.2s] a d20.
[486.7s] Odds you find it
[488.7s] evens you don't.
[493.0s] It's a 19.
[495.6s] Okay, so you find something. What do you find?
[499.0s] In a specific tree
[501.6s] a specific type of tree that is sort of rare only found
[505.8s] um
[507.0s] in the marching mountains right near the crook of kind of where uh
[512.8s] branch meets the tree trunk
[515.3s] there is a little uh
[517.8s] slice and some like a knife marks there
[521.7s] um, just indicating that that they have been there.
[526.4s] Um, I can tell how old they are based on like
[531.9s] how dried out and like
[534.5s] the old they are. Okay, basically. Um
[542.0s] Russ hates everything that's happening right now. Uh, they are
[547.1s] a day old.
[549.5s] A day old.
[552.9s] Okay
[554.9s] that is
[558.0s] probably
[559.4s] too far
[561.2s] if well, I guess I should ask my friends.
[564.0s] What is our plan for
[567.6s] attack? Are we going to I have friends who are
[572.5s] are
[573.6s] great fighters.
[575.2s] I do not know if they would help us. They are
[580.0s] at least one day away.
[583.5s] Well, not on any kind of specific timeline. Um, it kind of sounds like calum port
[589.7s] has
[592.8s] fallen. If we stop Shangalar, the undead army will disperse.
[599.8s] I want to find my friends, but I want
[603.7s] I want to save calum port. It is
[606.7s] the greatest most ancient city in the world and it cannot
[611.2s] fall in such a
[613.9s] disgusting way. Our best chance of defeating him
[617.1s] would probably be with the help of your friends.
[620.8s] Mannix, what do you know of Shangalar? Is he
[626.3s] surrounded by
[628.4s] many many others or or
[631.7s] by himself?
[633.2s] Mannix looks up at the floating fortress in the sky
[638.7s] and says
[640.7s] there are many levels
[643.5s] to this fortress
[646.0s] and
[647.9s] Shangalar does not travel alone.
[653.1s] I fear we will need to fight through many in order to get to him.
[660.5s] So all the friends we can get are a good thing.
[665.5s] Be it a day away or not, I think we stand the best chance.
[670.7s] Well, then
[672.3s] let us go this way.
[674.7s] I pick up the daisy chain that I had been making and I set it on Flynn's head and I follow Yen Bull.
[684.3s] The group gathers their things and begins heading off following the tracks that Yen Bull has found.
[691.2s] How much do you know
[693.0s] about
[694.2s] the history
[695.5s] of Calum Shan?
[697.5s] Oh my goodness.
[698.7s] Um, I think we only just really figured out that Calum Shan was over here in a place that we needed to go
[706.4s] two days ago.
[708.8s] Well, I mean, Leosen told us a little bit about some
[712.6s] genies
[714.4s] that battled.
[716.4s] Yes, many
[718.0s] long ago many battles with genies.
[721.4s] More recently
[723.4s] there was a a glorious revolution and there were
[727.1s] uh many slaves who escaped and overthrew their oppressors and and my friends the Janissar,
[734.3s] many of them
[735.6s] are the children of those escaped slaves and they
[739.3s] they now
[742.7s] live in isolation and
[745.0s] fight and train
[747.3s] in case another
[749.6s] need arises.
[752.1s] And on one of my adventures I
[754.5s] came to this place and spent time with them.
[759.3s] And you think they might be willing to help us?
[763.0s] They do not stand for evil.
[766.4s] So I I think they will want to help.
[771.6s] All right.
[774.3s] They can be elusive though many many people here never have even
[781.8s] seen a Janissar.
[785.1s] Count me in with those people.
[792.9s] You travel through the forest of Myrrh.
[799.0s] M-I-R.
[802.0s] Um following Yen Bull who is following
[805.6s] more of these signs. Yen Bull make a survival check.
[810.0s] Okie dokie.
[814.4s] Well, that was a one.
[824.3s] Plus?
[826.0s] Three.
[829.2s] Nice.
[830.4s] Yes.
[831.2s] Um
[832.3s] I'm distracted by my new friends.
[835.0s] You travel for
[837.3s] going off your confidence of the the marks.
[841.0s] Um, I assume that you would have followed them for a good while.
[844.8s] Um, you travel for about four or five hours into the forest.
[849.9s] Uh when you
[853.8s] the path you are following
[855.8s] you you lose it's not that it disappears, but you you lose your your tracking of it.
[864.2s] Yen Bull why have we stopped?
[866.2s] The marks in the trees they are gone. They are not I cannot find anymore. I'm I'm not sure
[878.7s] which way they have gone.
[883.5s] Oh
[885.5s] should we go back
[889.0s] the way we came?
[891.2s] I am going to cast locate creature.
[896.6s] Okay, what are you trying to locate?
[898.7s] I am trying to locate
[901.1s] um this group of
[905.0s] people whose name I already forgot
[908.0s] from my own thing that I made happen. Janissar. Thank you Janissar. Um
[915.6s] the spell can locate a specific creature known to you or the nearest creature of a specific kind
[921.2s] so long as you have seen such a creature up close.
[924.4s] Okay, so what type of creature is this? I guess it depends how generous you want to be. It does say human.
[930.0s] I mean I can't find a human. Okay, um, but if
[933.4s] I can also maybe they are like
[936.6s] give off some specific vibes.
[939.6s] Yeah, one of them doesn't shower very often.
[944.0s] Okay, well as long as you can find rather than just like a monster creature. Yeah, no, no, sorry, uh
[949.7s] a creature of a specific kind such as a human or a unicorn so long as I have
[953.7s] such as a human or a unicorn. You know, either or. Or both. The two standard types of creatures. Sure, that you want to track down
[961.1s] those would be the only kinds of creatures I would want to track down. Cool. Okay.
[965.2s] Um, so what do you got to what do you got to do for that?
[968.1s] So I pull out a little bit of fur from a blood hound and close my eyes
[973.4s] and just think real hard.
[977.2s] A roll? No, just does it. I don't think so. One action.
[982.5s] All right. Components, concentration.
[985.9s] No, I think it just
[988.8s] happens.
[990.2s] Um, uh, you'll sense the direction of the creature's location.
[995.3s] Um, if the creature is moving, you know the direction of its movement.
[1000.7s] Can't locate a creature of running water at least 10 feet wide blocks of path between us.
[1007.2s] You didn't have to give him all the information. He'll be like, oh they went over a river.
[1011.7s] I mean, it's a very big river. They're on a fjord.
[1014.5s] Uh, yeah, there's no no river on this side that you're on here. Um, that's fine.
[1021.0s] You definitely get a sense. Your your bloodhound dog hairs tingle.
[1027.3s] And uh,
[1028.9s] maybe you tell me what you do now that you you sense a direction or location of
[1035.0s] this person.
[1036.7s] Come come this way. I have found them
[1039.2s] or at least an indication of which direction they are heading in. Let's let's go this way quickly.
[1044.9s] Okay, handy trick.
[1047.6s] Um, with this new
[1050.1s] ability, um, I'm gonna say that you track within
[1055.3s] You feel like you're getting very close. So it's been the better part of a day
[1060.5s] whether you stopped for
[1063.5s] Do I start seeing, um
[1066.0s] Like sign of them again. Yeah. Yeah. Yes, you definitely once you once you cast the locate locate creature
[1072.9s] Um, you got back on path. You see the the markings start to appear back up and the further you go the fresher they get
[1081.0s] um, so you feel like you're within
[1084.2s] about
[1085.7s] And you know an hour or less of catching up to them
[1089.4s] Um
[1092.0s] The genus are as I said very
[1096.1s] secretive so
[1097.8s] We are getting close when we get
[1100.4s] very close we should
[1103.3s] Perhaps
[1105.1s] I should
[1107.1s] Just approach to explain
[1110.6s] Who we are and I think they are great warriors as I said
[1114.7s] They will probably know we are we are coming or they will know when we are near them
[1119.1s] Um
[1120.3s] Sounds reasonable
[1122.2s] Yeah, I mean you've been here before you've met them before you take lead on this
[1128.0s] As you've been traveling for a day, um
[1131.6s] Yimbul and
[1134.2s] How are Mannix's little legs doing does he need me to carry him on my shoulders?
[1138.4s] Mannix still kind of seems like he's gliding. Right, right, right. He's got heelys on. Exactly
[1145.9s] Are they light up heelys maybe they're below a rope you can't quite tell there's just there is an odd like
[1151.9s] um
[1153.3s] Under lit carriage thing happening. Yeah
[1157.2s] so maybe
[1158.3s] Um, but so he's got an odd undercarriage making a note dn flint make a constitution saving throw
[1164.8s] Uh, this is like new heat that you're traveling in this. Oh nat 20. Oh, you're so robust
[1172.5s] a six
[1174.0s] Great constitution saving throw plus four
[1176.8s] Ten
[1177.6s] Okay
[1178.7s] I'm hot and sweaty you are hot and sweaty and you suffer a level of exhaustion
[1186.0s] The three of you Mannix and everybody and flint and thea
[1190.2s] Thea you you rp the way you get rp with now that you're getting levels of exhaustion and stuff. Okay
[1197.3s] Um yimbul you're going off to track down your friends
[1201.9s] completely
[1203.1s] Um, I guess yeah once we're pretty close
[1206.1s] um
[1207.1s] I think that would make sense. They are
[1210.5s] You get to a point where you think that it's time to separate
[1214.5s] And based off of your tracking, how many people do you expect to find here?
[1218.6s] I'm not sure that I know because any group even if it was just like two of them
[1223.6s] They would have been making those markings because that is how they
[1227.2s] kind of
[1228.4s] Find each other
[1230.5s] Uh, okay, you head off. Um, the three of you stay behind. Um, as you see yimbul disappear through the trees
[1237.7s] Uh, what do you three do to pass the time until she comes back?
[1243.2s] Um, I sit down
[1246.0s] And I lean against a tree
[1248.3s] And I grab some fronds
[1251.2s] From nearby
[1253.0s] Bushy thingy and I start to fan myself
[1255.9s] Is anybody else hot?
[1258.0s] It's so hot
[1259.3s] Uh, I head over and use the fan that thea gifted me
[1264.8s] and add to the fanning
[1268.9s] I mean, it's really hot here. You're so sweet. It's so hot. Well, how are you not hot?
[1272.8s] No, I'm hot
[1274.1s] but for some reason this armor seems like
[1277.5s] Weirdly cool. You're wearing like four times more clothing than I am. Maybe it's the headband. I don't know what's going on, but maybe
[1285.4s] Maybe
[1287.2s] Yimbul you're tracking your your friends
[1290.6s] um
[1291.8s] Are you moving stealthily? Are you moving with intent to allow them?
[1296.8s] You know if they were to hear you to know that you're coming. How are you? How are you traveling?
[1301.8s] Are you singing some sort of ditty?
[1304.4s] Not singing a ditty. Um
[1307.1s] I don't think i'm being like trying to be stealthy or anything. Um, I think they are
[1312.9s] Um
[1315.7s] I don't think they're like afraid of people generally. Um
[1320.8s] they just
[1322.0s] Choose to remain isolated unless they are coming to fight for the good guys. So
[1327.4s] um, I am assuming that once I go see them
[1331.1s] I can like talk to them and even though I probably won't know the two that I am going to see
[1335.8s] Or the however many that i'm going to see. Um, I can explain
[1340.3s] That I spend time with them and blah blah. Okay, perfect. Uh, you head off and into the trees and after um,
[1346.5s] About 10 or 15 minutes
[1348.8s] um
[1350.3s] Get to a point where you no longer see any
[1354.5s] Of the markings not that you've lost them, but that they're just not there anymore
[1362.3s] Hello
[1364.7s] I feel like
[1366.4s] You might be nearby
[1368.9s] My name is yen bull. I spent time
[1373.5s] With some of you
[1376.4s] Two or three years ago
[1379.6s] You you hear from behind you a branch crack
[1386.9s] You turn and you see a a female genus our warrior
[1391.7s] bearing the symbol
[1394.1s] uh of tear
[1396.3s] On a on an amulet around her neck
[1399.8s] She has a bow loaded and aimed towards you
[1404.2s] And says why are you following us?
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[1427.3s] Humans always tell me they think it's easier to be non-human
[1430.8s] They don't know what it's like to be one of us how difficult it is to keep your head above water
[1438.1s] You wouldn't happen to know anything about that would you falconer looked back over his shoulder not a clue
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[1489.2s] And we're back in the middle again
[1492.9s] Dun dun dun dun dun dun
[1494.9s] See how i've let russ take this back again because he so desperately needed something like this in his life. I just
[1500.3s] Thanks everybody. He really seemed like he was throwing off last time
[1503.3s] I mean, I didn't say a single thing till the end. So really yeah, I was thrown off
[1508.8s] sorry
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[1543.7s] Yeah, but it's very good. Yeah, it's excellent
[1546.5s] Yeah, russ, uh, you know, we do a lot of patting ourselves on the back every now and then but you know
[1550.9s] got a hats off to russ on this one because
[1553.4s] Oh boy is it good. He took our shenanigans and turned it
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[1564.7s] Um, so yeah first season of facing fate what facing fate is is our new show
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[1691.7s] But now we'll get you back to this episode
[1693.7s] Hopefully you're enjoying uh all the things that are happening over there all the crazy planning
[1699.4s] That's happening forest walks. Uh, we'll talk to you all next week. Thanks everybody
[1708.8s] Why are you following us
[1712.0s] I come
[1713.3s] seeking assistance from you
[1716.5s] I spent time with
[1719.2s] Jasim and some of the others
[1722.1s] several years ago, and I know you are
[1724.6s] very mighty warriors and you will
[1727.9s] Perhaps help my friends and I
[1734.5s] A male voice comes out from behind you and says
[1741.3s] What is it you require
[1746.5s] Shangalar has sent an undead army that has taken over calum port and the city is falling in it is
[1754.4s] Is we need help to defeat him you wish to defeat shangalar you have an army yourself
[1763.7s] They'll know I have just myself and three others
[1774.2s] You wish to take on a lich
[1777.3s] Which
[1781.7s] That can control an undead army and take down the largest oldest city in the world
[1791.0s] With you
[1793.1s] And three others
[1795.3s] Though I did not say
[1797.3s] It would work, but we will try
[1800.1s] also
[1801.7s] two of them are are mighty warriors that have
[1805.7s] Saved Faerun time and again, and now they are here and they will they will help us
[1814.4s] Uh make a persuasion check
[1820.9s] She like accidentally dropped our business card
[1825.8s] Uh 13
[1830.5s] You see the two
[1831.8s] Uh, you kind of step back and you can see the two now they've moved in front of you
[1838.9s] And they're looking to each other
[1842.5s] That is a tall order to ask the man says
[1852.5s] Yes, you are right the woman steps forward and says we
[1857.8s] We wish
[1863.7s] We had more to give you but going up against shangalar with six people would be suicide
[1877.5s] Perhaps you could
[1880.4s] Speak to more janice are and and and bring them we will we will start and you will come
[1887.2s] Help us
[1894.0s] The nearest settlement is
[1898.4s] A day away
[1902.2s] You are going at this with or without us yes, yes, I must
[1908.1s] Defend my city
[1912.1s] It's very noble stupid but noble
[1916.9s] and
[1919.8s] We will hurry
[1924.1s] And hope that
[1928.1s] You make it until we get back
[1934.9s] Thank you
[1938.7s] If you see just seem tell him yen bull is fighting
[1943.6s] Um
[1946.5s] Okay
[1949.8s] Totally
[1951.9s] You bet will do got it
[1955.9s] Yen bull yen bull is fighting
[1961.1s] Let me write that one down, I don't know if i'm gonna remember
[1964.9s] Of course. Yes. We will tell jaseem that you are fighting the good fight
[1970.1s] Right before they turn the woman speaks up and says I am zana
[1975.7s] And this is massoud
[1977.4s] We will do what we can to bring you aid
[1981.2s] if
[1982.3s] the janice our council
[1984.7s] declines
[1986.6s] You will not see us
[1989.2s] I understand zana massoud. Thank you
[1994.8s] They bow their heads
[1996.9s] Yes
[1998.1s] And they begin walking off in the direction where you were tracking them. Well, I want to zip back to my friends pretty quick
[2006.5s] Where do we where do we come in with flint thea and um
[2010.8s] Mannix my arms are real tired from i've i've lost the gossamer cape
[2017.8s] I have like stripped down to like covering important bits, but i'm like gross sweaty
[2024.9s] It's only been about an hour. Oh god, it feels like forever
[2030.1s] How long have we been in this jungle when yen bull runs back up?
[2036.2s] Well, uh, how did uh, how'd it go well they
[2042.8s] I found two they will
[2046.9s] Go to their gathering and ask more to come help, but they could not come now
[2054.9s] So perhaps soon we will have reinforcements but for now
[2062.2s] It might just be us
[2065.8s] Did you say did you say really convincing things like
[2069.3s] when he's done with
[2070.9s] Callum port, he's probably coming here next, you know stuff like that the real light of fire
[2076.7s] I think this guy's not gonna stop at like, you know, just one city
[2080.8s] You are you are probably right he will overtake all of callum shan
[2088.0s] You seem and did you tell them that did do they seem like they really want to help
[2093.0s] Well, I don't i am not so good with words as you thea
[2098.5s] Oh, okay. Now do we think that maybe it might be colder up on the giant floating pyramid. Oh
[2105.2s] You are finding it too hot
[2108.1s] It is very hot
[2110.2s] Yeah, i've been fanning her like non-stop here. Your muscles look super great though flint flint make a constitution saving throw
[2119.7s] Because of the muscles 18 before bonus
[2126.4s] I was hoping that you'd get exhaustion just based on
[2131.7s] 22
[2133.7s] I am so sorry. We traveled all this way and perhaps not even
[2138.6s] found help but
[2140.9s] I have a solution for how we can get back
[2145.7s] To the base of the mountains near the pyramid
[2149.6s] Without you getting more tired
[2152.4s] Lay it on me sister. What do you got?
[2153.9s] So I take off my backpack and there's like what looks like a bedroll rolled up on it and I unroll it
[2161.2s] Just go to sleep
[2164.2s] Okay, you guys gonna carry me and it is, uh
[2168.1s] a beautiful like intricately woven carpet
[2174.1s] And
[2185.8s] I roll it out and it's it's quite big it ends up being you know, like
[2191.7s] Four by six feet and uh, I say
[2198.2s] It's here
[2200.9s] And it floats up into the air
[2205.4s] That is a hell of a trick this is so cool
[2210.7s] Is this way you can save energy before we have to fight
[2214.9s] Right
[2217.6s] And great idea yanbo, thank you
[2220.4s] um
[2222.6s] This is a dia gets on and just lays down. This is a
[2226.3s] Rude question, but how much do you weigh?
[2232.1s] Y'all are fine. It's gonna be carry the four
[2236.1s] Like a hundred
[2239.5s] Like a hundred eleven pounds with all my stuff
[2243.6s] It's just tiny I so tiny I way fish way fish. Yes, that's why I get fucking beat up all the goddamn time
[2251.7s] This will be no problem
[2254.1s] and I get up
[2255.7s] on there with you and then
[2257.5s] It like lowers a little bit so that Mannix can get up and flint can get up on there, too
[2262.0s] But we can all ride on the magic carpet
[2266.7s] I'm so excited. I mean
[2269.2s] Mannix looks to you and says did you
[2272.8s] Steal
[2274.1s] One of these no, I would or are you paying out the ass for I did not it is not a rental
[2282.1s] I did not rent it
[2283.9s] On one of my journeys. I met a man in the desert and we had uh
[2290.9s] How do you say a uh, uh bit uh
[2295.3s] He oh you were gambling a little bit of gambling. Yes, and i've won it
[2303.0s] Wow
[2305.2s] I mean, that's awesome. Was it a dice game by any chance?
[2309.3s] It was not it is a complicated game with many moving pieces
[2314.1s] And there is dice and then words and you have to solve a puzzle to be honest. I didn't even really know how to play
[2321.2s] Well, there's nothing at all sinister about
[2324.4s] Winning a magical item from someone you don't know in a way that you don't really feel like you earned
[2330.2s] Shall we
[2332.7s] uh
[2335.6s] Uh, do you fly through the trees or do you fly above the trees?
[2339.7s] It doesn't say how high it can fly. I guess it depends. It's a magic carpet. It can fly
[2345.4s] Um, then I guess wherever you want it, I guess above the trees
[2348.5s] But maybe in like the top of the canopy so that we're not getting like thwacked by leaves
[2353.8s] But um, we're not just like
[2356.5s] Shake it off. What's up?
[2359.6s] Sure coming for you
[2361.8s] So now we should be probably twice as fast probably should have pulled this out earlier because now we go, uh
[2367.3s] 60 feet instead of 30 is our movement
[2370.2s] Yeah, that's fine. So you make it back in half the time
[2375.1s] No incident, I mean you see various different animals
[2379.8s] But nothing that really makes a move to try and track you down as prey. What kind of animals? There's some uh monkeys
[2388.5s] some
[2390.3s] Jaguar-esque creatures
[2394.4s] Smaller creatures that you see kind of scurrying around can't really get a good eye on because you're now flying up
[2400.2s] Um, and you make it back to the location of which you started
[2404.6s] It's like the base of the mountain. Yeah, yeah base of the mountain. You see the fortress up
[2409.0s] Floating amidst the cloud now. We at least know how we're gonna
[2413.7s] Get to the fortress
[2416.7s] Manic says I don't think that guacamole could have carried us all up there at the same time
[2421.6s] um, you
[2423.1s] Magic carpet up
[2425.5s] When russ closes the door, amy opens a carpet. I believe that's the saying
[2430.6s] Carla opened the carpet. I don't know if I like that
[2436.5s] Dear oh my
[2438.4s] So, okay fair. So you're flying up with the intent. You were just in mexico, Carla
[2442.9s] You're flying up with the intent to begin battle
[2446.5s] One of you has a level of exhaustion. No, we're not flying. Wait. I don't think we said we were flying up there
[2451.3s] I said we she said we had the means to fly up. No, I said now
[2455.6s] We have a way to fly up there because I don't think guacamole could have flown us all up at the same time
[2460.9s] Listen to the words that are coming out of my mouth. I don't think I thought we camped at the base of the mountain
[2466.5s] Yeah, all right. I'm exhausted man. All right, you may camp at the base of the mountain
[2471.5s] It's only in our other game that amy just shoots a guard without any play. Yes
[2475.7s] No, I fia is much more like precious right now. Fair enough. Okay
[2480.9s] Uh, you make camp at the base of the mountain kind of in in the in the forest line, and i'm no longer exhausted
[2486.6s] um
[2488.1s] uh
[2489.3s] If you take a long rest, which is eight hours
[2492.5s] Okay, but what she's an elf I was just gonna say what if I meditate for four? All right
[2497.3s] Well, okay, I mean everybody else still has to sleep too. So if you're going full long rest
[2506.1s] For everybody else sure if you're not
[2511.0s] Everybody else gets exhausted
[2514.1s] Let's
[2515.2s] We're bringing exhaustion into this game. Okay. Why are we getting exhausted?
[2519.0s] Oh because we've just been up because you if you don't sleep for yeah, I say we all have a nap
[2525.7s] All right, uh you take
[2528.5s] Proper rotation of keeping an eye on things. Yeah dibs first on sleeping first. Okay
[2535.5s] Yeah, you make it through the night
[2537.9s] With all this great planning
[2541.6s] If you don't say you take a rotation I throw shit at you, of course we take rotation
[2548.1s] What are we noobs? Yeah, you wake up the next morning all rested and refreshed
[2552.5s] Manic says
[2555.3s] So what is your plan?
[2558.1s] Yes
[2559.1s] What is our plan?
[2561.7s] Oh my yes. Oh, what is our plan?
[2565.5s] Yes, it's basically the we have a plan the not it
[2570.0s] Okay, here it is. I'm just who's on first. I'm just gonna throw it out there
[2574.9s] We
[2576.0s] Go up
[2578.6s] Okay, i'm with you so far and we present ourselves as um big fans
[2587.6s] Of what mr. Lich is up to
[2591.1s] Okay, I feel like this might not be but you know, i'm willing to hear it out big fans
[2595.9s] You know
[2597.2s] love is work
[2599.4s] Uh seen some of it firsthand
[2602.5s] Wondering if he needs, you know
[2605.0s] some advisors or you know some like
[2608.5s] some
[2610.0s] Peeps to
[2612.7s] Just tell him how great he is
[2615.6s] Okay, i'm gonna throw another plan out there. Yes, please and you tell me if it's as ridiculous as yours
[2621.8s] We're playing this game
[2623.6s] Yeah, so we show up and we claim that we're
[2628.4s] Follow up people from the amulet store and we realize that we sold him the wrong amulet
[2634.4s] And we need to switch it out for the real amulet
[2637.3s] Yours is more ridiculous in mind. I think
[2640.3s] I don't feel like it is
[2642.5s] Okay, manic speaks up and says funny people
[2647.8s] You are walking into the iron fortress of shangalar
[2652.5s] with multiple layers
[2655.7s] Of battle
[2657.7s] with undead
[2662.0s] Okay, so here's what we do we fly to the top layer
[2666.6s] There is no entrance
[2669.1s] except by portal
[2671.9s] Can you make one of those?
[2675.2s] I know where one is which is why we are here
[2678.9s] Yeah, but can you make it anywhere?
[2681.8s] No
[2682.6s] Oh, okay. There goes that one
[2686.1s] Look I just wanted to say that I was joking with my plan before in case anyone thought it was serious
[2692.9s] It's hard to tell sometimes with you funny people from another place
[2700.1s] Fair maybe we try the sneaky route we sneaky sneak in
[2709.3s] We quietly kill whoever we have to quietly kill
[2713.9s] I mean, it's really easy to dispose of a body if you can like, you know throw it off of a
[2718.1s] Like hovering yeah
[2720.1s] I mean just throw it right off a flying pyramid, but we quietly make our way up to the top and um, you know
[2728.9s] This so far is the best plan
[2732.6s] I
[2733.6s] Have never I mean it's not saying much, but you're right. I have never saved the world before
[2740.2s] Okay, we usually do so very accidentally so I
[2743.8s] I trust decimators of dragons to know the right thing to do
[2753.3s] I feel we are unprepared
[2756.8s] But they don't know how to get more prepared so that's kind of how we start all of our adventures very unprepared
[2764.1s] You know
[2765.1s] Okay, there's gonna be a five-headed dragon. Are we ready for this? No. Okay
[2770.4s] Let's do this
[2773.8s] Okay, so we portal on up there
[2777.3s] Sneak around
[2778.8s] Kill whoever needs killing
[2781.0s] And then kill the lich. This is easy only four things
[2785.8s] That's four step plan
[2788.5s] Super concise plan
[2790.5s] And and somewhere in there finding the amulet. Yes
[2795.0s] Well, I assume he has it on his person
[2797.9s] That would be easier than if he had it somewhere else
[2801.2s] In his safe deposit box, it's the bank
[2805.3s] Back in who's a funny person now
[2809.9s] We're rubbing off on her I don't know whether or not to be happy or sad
[2814.0s] All right. So I I think that is our best plan. Maybe we should
[2820.5s] We don't we don't know you two very well in terms of
[2824.2s] What you bring to a battle? I know what I can trust flint to do which is smash everything
[2830.9s] um
[2832.5s] but what
[2834.2s] What would you say your strengths are?
[2839.0s] I am
[2841.7s] Not so strong
[2845.3s] But I beg to differ but I
[2849.7s] Am
[2851.7s] Pretty good with the magic
[2854.9s] And
[2856.5s] I am good for
[2859.9s] healing
[2861.7s] When you are hurt
[2866.0s] Very helpful awesome. Um
[2870.9s] You sir mannex, how about you
[2873.7s] I I know you do that hover thing. That's pretty cool. Thank you. Thank you
[2878.5s] I
[2879.8s] Well, how do you sum up being able to?
[2883.2s] To
[2886.1s] Destroy or bring back life
[2891.8s] Walk between the ethereal
[2895.6s] Thea gives flint a look
[2898.9s] Skip between planes
[2903.7s] Okay, and how is that applicable to what we can do but you can smash I can
[2909.4s] Well, I'm not gonna don't worry what do you don't worry i've got i've got it covered
[2916.1s] Look funny people
[2917.8s] I've been dealing with this shit a long time. Oh, I broke them
[2922.9s] I like that. He's just getting like all bets are off now
[2927.0s] All i'm wondering is in the heat of battle walking between the ethereal and the material planes
[2935.0s] Is great. Um
[2937.1s] But is there anything specifically maybe that you can give us that would give us an edge or an advantage upon
[2944.0s] entering sneaking
[2948.0s] Coming face to face with a lich
[2950.3s] Also, what's the best course of action when we are face to face with a lich don't be face to face with a lich
[2957.3s] Oh, well, that's unhelpful. I feel like we're going to end up there
[2961.5s] Yeah, if we don't end up face to face with a lich we've died somewhere between level like bottom and
[2968.3s] Is the concern?
[2970.1s] Don't worry. I can bring you back
[2973.5s] And I can heal you before you go and have to be brought back
[2978.3s] Okay, Mannix walks over to you thea
[2983.9s] Ushers you to bend down
[2986.7s] You want me to bend the knee no, i'm just kidding I crouched down don't be weird about it
[2995.5s] Um he
[2997.6s] Thanks carolyn
[2999.5s] He puts his hand up
[3001.5s] says
[3002.6s] may I
[3005.3s] I don't know. It depends where your hand is up near your face. Okay. Yes, you may put his hand up near your face
[3011.4s] You just hand up my skirt my what puts his hand up near your face, okay?
[3020.1s] It says you have some darkness in you
[3023.7s] And places his hand on your cheek and temple
[3029.6s] Closes his eyes
[3032.3s] And yen bull and flint you see thea's eyes roll back in her head
[3038.3s] Did he did he just kill her what happened here
[3044.8s] Thea you are now in a dark place
[3052.1s] Mannix is standing beside you
[3057.5s] Wait dark like there's no light or like dark mineral dark place right dark like there's no light, but you feel like dread
[3065.0s] pour down on top of you
[3068.7s] You take a few steps and you hear splash splash splash
[3075.4s] Where are we
[3077.7s] You tell me how am I supposed to know
[3083.2s] In a quick flash you see Nulara before you oh no, you're not real. You're not real. You're not real
[3094.2s] Mannix snaps and you're back
[3098.6s] I like push his hand away from my face
[3104.5s] I will help you fix that after we stop this
[3112.4s] And I just nod obviously really shaken and move myself away from Mannix
[3120.0s] You
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[3158.2s] Thank you for listening. Have a great week
[3161.0s] We'll talk soon
[3162.7s] Before they turn the woman speaks up and says I am zana
[3167.2s] And this is massoud
[3169.9s] And we notice that you ask for our help but not for our names
[3176.1s] Can we at least like sing the end of it
[3179.0s] On a magic carpet ride
[3182.5s] And then no more you'll be killed by liches
[3187.3s] Because liches give stitches to you
[3191.4s] Tom just pulled up scissors was like
[3194.6s] Don't pull on me and then put them down. I was like
[3198.1s] That's right
[3199.3s] It's very confusing the adventure going on crafting projects going on over there. What are you cutting?
[3204.6s] Well, he's not trying to find his way out of this mess I have forced us into
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