1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:02,160 previously on Dumbgeons and Dragons. 2 00:00:02,160 --> 00:00:06,320 Hey, how attached are you to the fact of Perseus being a rat? 3 00:00:06,320 --> 00:00:10,560 I don't think his being a rat is of particular importance. 4 00:00:10,560 --> 00:00:11,919 Great, enough said. 5 00:00:11,919 --> 00:00:16,719 Margaret, I'm going on an adventure to find my creator. 6 00:00:17,679 --> 00:00:20,879 And if you're not busy, it would be great if you could come. 7 00:00:20,879 --> 00:00:23,440 Well, I could go for a little walkabout. 8 00:00:23,440 --> 00:00:24,000 I did it! 9 00:00:24,800 --> 00:00:27,359 Oh, I'm sorry, I didn't realize you had company. 10 00:00:27,359 --> 00:00:27,760 Um. 11 00:00:27,760 --> 00:00:29,679 Lex, it's me, Perseus. 12 00:00:30,239 --> 00:00:30,960 Perseus? 13 00:00:31,679 --> 00:00:32,560 Yeah, it's me! 14 00:00:32,560 --> 00:00:34,719 We live in a world of magic and fantasy. 15 00:00:34,719 --> 00:00:36,399 We can do whatever we wish. 16 00:00:36,399 --> 00:00:44,960 You look over and you see a familiar face, and you're reminded of a kobold 17 00:00:45,679 --> 00:00:48,799 whose name is Marvin Dundalfoot. 18 00:00:48,799 --> 00:00:51,039 Hey, hey, I could get you a sweet deal. 19 00:00:51,039 --> 00:00:53,039 Just look at this watch here. 20 00:00:53,039 --> 00:00:59,359 And as you kind of focus on him, he has a feeling that somebody's watching him. 21 00:00:59,359 --> 00:01:03,840 He looks over and he sees you, and then you see a look of panic in his eyes. 22 00:01:03,840 --> 00:01:07,200 I will, I'll say that later. 23 00:01:07,200 --> 00:01:08,319 And he bolts down the street. 24 00:01:08,319 --> 00:01:09,519 We've got to follow that kobold. 25 00:01:09,519 --> 00:01:17,280 Yeah, follow. 26 00:01:25,280 --> 00:01:27,039 Welcome to Dumbgeons and Dragons. 27 00:01:27,040 --> 00:01:31,920 We're a D&D 5th Edition Actual Play Podcast, and I'm your dungeon master, Russ More. 28 00:01:31,920 --> 00:01:34,400 And with me today is Tom Laird. 29 00:01:34,400 --> 00:01:39,200 That's me, and I play Perseus the Rat kind of halfling guy. 30 00:01:39,200 --> 00:01:41,200 Also with me, Carla Maxted. 31 00:01:41,200 --> 00:01:48,320 That's me, and I play Lex the Frankenstein-y cool monster dude guy. 32 00:01:48,320 --> 00:01:52,800 And joining us again today, we can't get rid of him because we love him so much, 33 00:01:52,800 --> 00:01:54,240 it's Rev from the Crit Show. 34 00:01:54,800 --> 00:02:00,000 Hi, I play Margaret Broadcloak, and I'm still sleeping on Russ's couch. 35 00:02:01,040 --> 00:02:05,520 I made you stay for another two weeks after that last one in order to make sure we got 36 00:02:05,520 --> 00:02:07,120 this one just right on time. 37 00:02:07,120 --> 00:02:12,000 He's like, sorry, we only record this specific story every other week, so just hang out. 38 00:02:12,000 --> 00:02:13,600 That's how it works. 39 00:02:13,600 --> 00:02:15,760 Yeah, but we got that closet super organized. 40 00:02:16,640 --> 00:02:17,760 Thank you for that. 41 00:02:17,760 --> 00:02:22,400 Where you can organize people's closets if you really want to is over on Patreon. 42 00:02:22,400 --> 00:02:25,520 We'll post a link and you can organize a closet. 43 00:02:25,520 --> 00:02:26,560 Why not? 44 00:02:26,560 --> 00:02:29,280 Patreon.com slash Dumb Dragoncast. 45 00:02:29,280 --> 00:02:34,080 But when you are a patron, you get an episode dedicated to you like today's patron, 46 00:02:35,759 --> 00:02:36,960 Ty Zuniga. 47 00:02:37,920 --> 00:02:39,360 Hey, thanks, Ty. 48 00:02:39,360 --> 00:02:40,319 Thank you, Ty. 49 00:02:41,520 --> 00:02:44,960 You can find out more at Patreon.com slash Dumb Dragoncast. 50 00:02:44,960 --> 00:02:48,159 And now, fuck it, let's play DND. 51 00:02:53,120 --> 00:03:00,000 We pick up with our friends, Lex, Margaret, Perseus, and Arvid, taking chase down the 52 00:03:00,000 --> 00:03:04,879 streets of the town of Glickfast, which is at the base of the Baldrick Mountains, 53 00:03:04,879 --> 00:03:06,879 pushing their way through the crowd. 54 00:03:06,879 --> 00:03:09,840 And now we're going to enter what we call a chase. 55 00:03:09,840 --> 00:03:14,560 We've never done this specifically before, and I'm very excited about it, everybody. 56 00:03:15,120 --> 00:03:16,560 Look at Russ with his game mechanics. 57 00:03:16,560 --> 00:03:17,439 I know. 58 00:03:17,439 --> 00:03:18,560 It's very exciting. 59 00:03:18,560 --> 00:03:20,719 I feel like Tom and I are both like, oh, no. 60 00:03:21,120 --> 00:03:27,039 No, they actually have chase mechanics in the Dungeon Master's Guide. 61 00:03:27,039 --> 00:03:28,159 Who knew? 62 00:03:28,159 --> 00:03:29,039 Fun. 63 00:03:29,039 --> 00:03:30,479 That sounds like an NPC's name. 64 00:03:31,520 --> 00:03:32,400 Chase mechanics. 65 00:03:32,400 --> 00:03:33,360 Chase mechanics. 66 00:03:34,800 --> 00:03:35,680 It's going to be now. 67 00:03:35,680 --> 00:03:36,719 Please write that down, Russ. 68 00:03:37,360 --> 00:03:38,240 Amazing. 69 00:03:38,240 --> 00:03:40,240 Chase mechanics. 70 00:03:40,240 --> 00:03:40,800 Got it. 71 00:03:41,599 --> 00:03:43,120 I feel like he didn't actually write that down. 72 00:03:43,120 --> 00:03:46,639 He just set it in the tone like when you're blowing someone off on the phone 73 00:03:46,639 --> 00:03:48,240 and you're like, yeah, 7 p.m. and then. 74 00:03:51,680 --> 00:03:52,400 They're on to me. 75 00:03:52,400 --> 00:03:52,960 They're on to me. 76 00:03:53,759 --> 00:03:57,439 OK, so we'll run down kind of because we've never done this before. 77 00:03:57,439 --> 00:04:00,400 We'll run down a little bit of how this is going to work. 78 00:04:00,400 --> 00:04:04,079 So a chase requires a quarry and at least one pursuer. 79 00:04:04,079 --> 00:04:09,599 So we have a quarry, which is the Kobold Marvum Dundalfoot. 80 00:04:10,639 --> 00:04:12,400 And four pursuers in this case. 81 00:04:13,280 --> 00:04:17,759 Any participants not already in initiative order must roll initiative. 82 00:04:17,759 --> 00:04:21,120 So we're going to get everybody to roll that sweet initiative. 83 00:04:22,879 --> 00:04:23,519 Oh, my God. 84 00:04:24,240 --> 00:04:24,959 A six. 85 00:04:26,319 --> 00:04:27,039 Seventeen. 86 00:04:28,000 --> 00:04:29,120 You're much more. 87 00:04:29,120 --> 00:04:30,079 You guys are much more. 88 00:04:30,079 --> 00:04:34,719 This seven year old woman is much more fleet of foot than my big lumbering body, I guess. 89 00:04:34,719 --> 00:04:35,199 It's all right. 90 00:04:35,199 --> 00:04:35,839 Arvid got worse. 91 00:04:35,839 --> 00:04:39,199 And I guess the halfling was a former rat, so he's pretty good. 92 00:04:39,199 --> 00:04:40,959 And you're just a little scurrier. 93 00:04:40,959 --> 00:04:41,839 You're so quick. 94 00:04:42,800 --> 00:04:44,800 I don't know what you're going to do when you get to the Kobold. 95 00:04:44,800 --> 00:04:46,959 Way ahead of the rest of us, but let's see. 96 00:04:46,959 --> 00:04:47,839 Very problematic. 97 00:04:49,599 --> 00:04:53,599 Marvum was across like a crowded area. 98 00:04:54,399 --> 00:05:02,319 By the time Lex set off and we picked up, he's probably 80 feet ahead of Lex. 99 00:05:03,519 --> 00:05:05,199 And then Lex took off. 100 00:05:05,199 --> 00:05:07,120 Who took off first behind Lex? 101 00:05:07,679 --> 00:05:08,399 I did. 102 00:05:08,399 --> 00:05:12,479 Margaret will say you're about five feet behind. 103 00:05:13,519 --> 00:05:16,399 Perseus and Arvid will say are pretty close to each other. 104 00:05:17,359 --> 00:05:18,079 Running the chase. 105 00:05:18,079 --> 00:05:22,479 Participants in the chase are strongly motivated to use the dash action every round, 106 00:05:22,479 --> 00:05:28,479 which you use your action, which you would normally take to attack or cast a magic spell 107 00:05:28,479 --> 00:05:31,919 to move double your speed during the chase. 108 00:05:33,759 --> 00:05:38,319 And then pursuers who stop to cast spells and make attacks run the risk of losing their quarry. 109 00:05:38,319 --> 00:05:42,560 So you can run 30 feet, but if you cast a spell, they may bolt ahead on their next turn, 110 00:05:42,560 --> 00:05:44,639 which means you can't exactly catch them. 111 00:05:44,639 --> 00:05:49,039 During the chase, a participant can freely use the dash action a number of times equal to 112 00:05:49,039 --> 00:05:51,360 three plus your constitution modifier. 113 00:05:52,399 --> 00:05:57,519 Each additional dash action it takes during the chase requires the creature to succeed 114 00:05:57,519 --> 00:06:03,120 a DC 10 constitution check at the end of its turn or gain one level of exhaustion. 115 00:06:04,079 --> 00:06:07,360 The participant drops out if they reach level five. 116 00:06:07,360 --> 00:06:11,919 Since its speed becomes zero, you can also die. 117 00:06:11,919 --> 00:06:12,560 Don't do that. 118 00:06:13,439 --> 00:06:18,000 A creature can remove levels of exhaustion it gained during the chase by finishing a 119 00:06:18,000 --> 00:06:21,199 short or long rest, which we're not going to really worry about right now. 120 00:06:21,920 --> 00:06:25,680 So you have free reign of dash until you use up your number? 121 00:06:25,680 --> 00:06:26,160 Yeah. 122 00:06:26,160 --> 00:06:27,360 And then you have to roll for it? 123 00:06:27,360 --> 00:06:30,959 So if you have four, once you hit four, you're donezo. 124 00:06:33,439 --> 00:06:34,079 Spells and attacks. 125 00:06:34,079 --> 00:06:38,399 A chase participant can make an attack or cast a spell against other creatures within range. 126 00:06:38,399 --> 00:06:41,279 Apply the normal rules for cover terrain and all that stuff. 127 00:06:41,840 --> 00:06:45,680 Chase participants can't normally make opportunity attacks against each other since 128 00:06:45,680 --> 00:06:48,080 they all are assumed to be moving in the same direction. 129 00:06:48,080 --> 00:06:53,840 So if you catch up to them and they move out of range, just based on how initiative works, 130 00:06:53,840 --> 00:06:58,160 you can't then swipe at them the same way opportunity attacks would work. 131 00:06:59,360 --> 00:07:01,280 Ending a chase if one side stops. 132 00:07:02,080 --> 00:07:03,120 That ends the chase. 133 00:07:04,320 --> 00:07:09,280 If neither side gives up, the quarry makes a stealth check at the end of each round 134 00:07:09,280 --> 00:07:12,080 after every participant in the chase has taken its turn. 135 00:07:12,080 --> 00:07:14,880 The result is compared to the passive wisdom perception. 136 00:07:15,760 --> 00:07:20,240 So if they make a stealth check and nobody sees them disappear, you lose them. 137 00:07:21,520 --> 00:07:24,800 So that said, can I get everybody's passive perception, please? 138 00:07:24,800 --> 00:07:25,440 24. 139 00:07:27,200 --> 00:07:27,600 Wow. 140 00:07:28,400 --> 00:07:29,920 Good fucking luck, Marvam. 141 00:07:31,120 --> 00:07:31,600 Nine. 142 00:07:33,040 --> 00:07:33,680 Oh wow. 143 00:07:33,680 --> 00:07:34,240 22. 144 00:07:34,240 --> 00:07:37,280 He's just got those little baby eyes. 145 00:07:37,280 --> 00:07:38,320 22, 24. 146 00:07:38,319 --> 00:07:41,360 So we're never going to lose and Arvind is 13. 147 00:07:42,800 --> 00:07:47,920 At the end of each person's turn, I'm going to get you to roll a d20, 148 00:07:47,920 --> 00:07:52,240 which is going to cause a complication for the next person. 149 00:07:54,159 --> 00:07:54,959 We shall begin. 150 00:07:56,959 --> 00:07:59,759 The four of you take off down the street following Marvam. 151 00:07:59,759 --> 00:08:00,719 He's pushing out of the way. 152 00:08:00,719 --> 00:08:02,719 He says, move, move, get out of the way, get out of the way. 153 00:08:02,719 --> 00:08:04,000 And he dashes ahead. 154 00:08:04,000 --> 00:08:11,360 So he moves 60 feet, just bolting through the streets, dodging and weaving as he goes. 155 00:08:11,360 --> 00:08:17,600 At the end of his turn, he's going to roll a d20, which is going to be a 14. 156 00:08:18,639 --> 00:08:20,560 No complication occurs. 157 00:08:20,560 --> 00:08:22,240 Perseus, what do you do? 158 00:08:22,240 --> 00:08:26,160 So you are currently 90 feet behind him. 159 00:08:27,680 --> 00:08:28,639 I dash. 160 00:08:28,639 --> 00:08:30,399 I dash the living hell out of it, Russ. 161 00:08:30,399 --> 00:08:30,800 All right. 162 00:08:30,800 --> 00:08:33,200 And you are halfling, so you move 50. 163 00:08:33,360 --> 00:08:34,400 Let's get, yep, 50. 164 00:08:34,960 --> 00:08:37,040 Okay, and roll a d20 for me, please. 165 00:08:38,000 --> 00:08:40,160 Okay, it's an 11. 166 00:08:40,160 --> 00:08:41,759 Perseus, you charge ahead. 167 00:08:42,640 --> 00:08:44,160 Margaret, it's your turn. 168 00:08:44,160 --> 00:08:47,440 Yeah, I will dash as well, start running through the crowd, 169 00:08:47,440 --> 00:08:49,840 trying to chase after Marvam. 170 00:08:49,840 --> 00:08:51,360 Okay, so you dash ahead 60. 171 00:08:51,360 --> 00:08:55,280 So you are within 25 feet at your new current position. 172 00:08:55,280 --> 00:08:56,720 Roll a d20 for me, please. 173 00:08:59,360 --> 00:08:59,860 One. 174 00:09:04,160 --> 00:09:04,400 Okay. 175 00:09:04,400 --> 00:09:06,400 That's never a sound you want your DM to make. 176 00:09:07,200 --> 00:09:09,759 Lex, so you head off. 177 00:09:09,759 --> 00:09:13,759 Margaret and Perseus kind of bolt ahead and are running past you. 178 00:09:15,120 --> 00:09:15,840 What do you do? 179 00:09:16,960 --> 00:09:18,800 I also dash. 180 00:09:18,800 --> 00:09:22,080 Okay, you begin to take off, running full tilt. 181 00:09:22,080 --> 00:09:22,960 You see Marvam. 182 00:09:22,960 --> 00:09:24,000 You're catching up to him. 183 00:09:24,000 --> 00:09:26,640 Make a dexterity check, please. 184 00:09:28,240 --> 00:09:29,120 That is a 20. 185 00:09:29,120 --> 00:09:37,120 As you're running, this huge horse cart jumps out in front of you across street. 186 00:09:37,120 --> 00:09:38,080 You do get over it. 187 00:09:38,080 --> 00:09:39,039 How do you get over it? 188 00:09:40,480 --> 00:09:41,919 Maybe I slide under it. 189 00:09:41,919 --> 00:09:45,039 Maybe I like grab the thing and slide between the wheels, 190 00:09:45,039 --> 00:09:47,679 like be first and then like get up and keep running. 191 00:09:47,679 --> 00:09:49,279 Real fast and furious stuff. 192 00:09:49,279 --> 00:09:50,159 That's exactly. 193 00:09:52,159 --> 00:09:56,399 Yeah, you as without losing a beat, you slide under and you 194 00:09:56,480 --> 00:09:59,600 are now within 20 feet of Marvam. 195 00:09:59,600 --> 00:10:00,879 I roll a d20, please. 196 00:10:02,720 --> 00:10:03,220 Two. 197 00:10:04,720 --> 00:10:06,720 Okay, it's Arvid's turn. 198 00:10:06,720 --> 00:10:11,679 Arvid is following as quickly as he can, his robes flowing behind him. 199 00:10:12,399 --> 00:10:19,199 As he's trying to keep pace with you, you slide underneath this trolley, this horse cart. 200 00:10:19,199 --> 00:10:24,559 He tries to go around it and there's this huge crowd that is just moving in behind it. 201 00:10:24,560 --> 00:10:30,400 He gets blocked and he's slowed by 10 feet. 202 00:10:31,600 --> 00:10:35,040 I was really hoping there'd be like a farmer stand with a bunch of oranges. 203 00:10:36,880 --> 00:10:38,960 Oranges everywhere as he crashes into it. 204 00:10:39,600 --> 00:10:41,760 Are moving panes of glass somehow? 205 00:10:41,760 --> 00:10:42,640 Sure, yeah. 206 00:10:42,640 --> 00:10:43,600 Good option as well. 207 00:10:44,560 --> 00:10:48,960 He has rolled an 18, so there is no complication for Marvam. 208 00:10:49,920 --> 00:10:55,280 Marvam looks behind and sees everybody gaining on him. 209 00:10:55,280 --> 00:11:03,440 He takes a quick turn, shoots down a side street and is running as fast as he can. 210 00:11:03,440 --> 00:11:05,120 He is also dashing. 211 00:11:05,120 --> 00:11:08,160 Okay, and how far away from him am I now? 212 00:11:08,160 --> 00:11:09,280 So you're 100 feet. 213 00:11:10,879 --> 00:11:15,440 So yeah, this little halfling legs is not a great thing for me. 214 00:11:16,400 --> 00:11:21,840 Okay, yeah, I guess I'll dash again and try to get to that corner that he turned down. 215 00:11:21,840 --> 00:11:22,960 You absolutely make up. 216 00:11:22,960 --> 00:11:25,920 He's about 50 feet ahead of you now. 217 00:11:25,920 --> 00:11:28,400 You're losing ground on him at this point. 218 00:11:28,960 --> 00:11:30,240 Roll the d20, please. 219 00:11:32,240 --> 00:11:32,740 10. 220 00:11:33,440 --> 00:11:41,520 Okay, Margaret, you are currently 85 feet behind, so he's taking a sharp turn. 221 00:11:42,000 --> 00:11:44,879 Make a dexterity saving throw. 222 00:11:47,360 --> 00:11:47,860 16. 223 00:11:48,639 --> 00:11:52,480 As you come around this corner, falling behind Perseus and Marvam, 224 00:11:52,480 --> 00:11:57,279 these vendors are right around the corner and you narrowly miss running right into them. 225 00:11:58,399 --> 00:12:02,480 One of them, you know, you kind of clip his arm as you're running by 226 00:12:02,480 --> 00:12:05,600 and he yells out to you and says, watch where you're going there. 227 00:12:05,600 --> 00:12:08,079 And I actually have one of his apples from his carton. 228 00:12:08,079 --> 00:12:09,679 I throw a coin over my shoulder as I go. 229 00:12:12,159 --> 00:12:12,659 Awesome. 230 00:12:14,720 --> 00:12:15,919 And roll a d20, please. 231 00:12:18,240 --> 00:12:18,740 Two. 232 00:12:20,000 --> 00:12:20,799 Sweet rolls. 233 00:12:21,519 --> 00:12:22,480 You guys are killing it. 234 00:12:23,519 --> 00:12:24,159 Lex. 235 00:12:24,159 --> 00:12:25,679 I'm going to dash again. 236 00:12:25,679 --> 00:12:26,960 You're around the corner. 237 00:12:27,759 --> 00:12:30,720 There's the guy yelling who Margaret just kind of clipped. 238 00:12:31,519 --> 00:12:33,360 A coin is flying through the air. 239 00:12:34,079 --> 00:12:38,799 You're catching up and passing Perseus who looks like he's maybe running out of breath. 240 00:12:39,680 --> 00:12:49,520 And the further down you go, like the crowd begins to get, it's just filling up the street. 241 00:12:49,520 --> 00:12:55,680 So make either an athletics or an acrobatics check as you're trying to move your way through this crowd. 242 00:12:57,040 --> 00:12:58,480 Well, let's say athletics. 243 00:12:58,480 --> 00:12:59,520 So that's a 23. 244 00:13:00,640 --> 00:13:01,140 Okay. 245 00:13:03,920 --> 00:13:05,920 I do a handstand over the crowd. 246 00:13:06,880 --> 00:13:10,320 Well, I mean, yeah, basically how athletics works because of strengths 247 00:13:10,320 --> 00:13:12,480 is you're just shoving people out of the way. 248 00:13:14,240 --> 00:13:15,760 I'm like a big linebacker, right? 249 00:13:15,760 --> 00:13:17,840 I'm just like barreling my way through this crowd. 250 00:13:18,480 --> 00:13:21,680 It's that scene where we just see like from the crowd's point of view 251 00:13:21,680 --> 00:13:24,080 and just people flying into the air, but we don't see you. 252 00:13:26,400 --> 00:13:29,840 So you're making way for Arvid who is trailing a little bit behind. 253 00:13:29,840 --> 00:13:31,840 Now roll a d20, please. 254 00:13:33,920 --> 00:13:34,420 Nine. 255 00:13:34,900 --> 00:13:38,340 Arvid finally pushes his way through the crowd that he was working through. 256 00:13:38,980 --> 00:13:45,140 When a guard sees him running and yells out to try and stop him. 257 00:13:45,940 --> 00:13:47,540 Hey, you stop there. 258 00:13:48,740 --> 00:13:52,340 Seems like somebody he has mistaken him for somebody else. 259 00:13:52,340 --> 00:13:55,140 I'll let you folks decide if he continues to move, 260 00:13:55,140 --> 00:14:00,500 he may be attacked by the guard or we could have him stop and deal with the guard, 261 00:14:00,500 --> 00:14:02,740 which would take him probably out. 262 00:14:02,820 --> 00:14:03,379 I don't know. 263 00:14:03,379 --> 00:14:04,580 What do you think Arvid would do? 264 00:14:04,580 --> 00:14:09,940 I don't I feel like he makes some fucking awkward small talk with a guard, to be honest. 265 00:14:09,940 --> 00:14:11,539 Yeah, like and they would just let him go. 266 00:14:13,139 --> 00:14:19,860 Okay, Arvid taken back stops in front of this guard who is holding a spear in his hand. 267 00:14:20,659 --> 00:14:24,100 You look behind you, Lex, you see him stopped talking to the guard. 268 00:14:25,460 --> 00:14:28,419 Nothing has happened for Marvam who dashes again 269 00:14:29,060 --> 00:14:32,659 and he is going to roll for Perseus, which is a five. 270 00:14:33,139 --> 00:14:37,139 So Perseus, you're trailing ever so farther behind. 271 00:14:37,139 --> 00:14:39,700 Make a dexterity saving throw and tell me what you do. 272 00:14:41,139 --> 00:14:43,940 Okay, it's a 19. 273 00:14:43,940 --> 00:14:45,779 Okay, are you dashing? 274 00:14:45,779 --> 00:14:46,740 Are you trying to do something? 275 00:14:46,740 --> 00:14:47,700 What are you what are you doing? 276 00:14:48,500 --> 00:14:50,740 How close is Lex to me? 277 00:14:51,299 --> 00:14:54,340 Lex is 30 feet ahead of you. 278 00:14:55,379 --> 00:14:56,899 I really wish it was 20 feet. 279 00:14:57,940 --> 00:14:59,220 I have it written down here. 280 00:14:59,220 --> 00:15:00,259 I have to follow it. 281 00:15:00,259 --> 00:15:00,899 It's a chase. 282 00:15:01,620 --> 00:15:02,340 No, fair enough. 283 00:15:03,139 --> 00:15:03,459 All right. 284 00:15:03,459 --> 00:15:04,980 Well, that changes what I'm going to do then. 285 00:15:04,980 --> 00:15:05,299 Hang on. 286 00:15:05,299 --> 00:15:06,819 Will I figure something else out? 287 00:15:06,819 --> 00:15:08,179 No, because you're falling behind. 288 00:15:08,179 --> 00:15:10,740 Nobody's in 20 within 20 feet of you at this moment. 289 00:15:10,740 --> 00:15:12,899 But I mean, I kind of had the first step. 290 00:15:12,899 --> 00:15:16,500 So I mean, you can move 30 feet and then do something still. 291 00:15:17,459 --> 00:15:19,379 Well, I can only move 25 feet. 292 00:15:19,379 --> 00:15:21,299 That would put you within range of Margaret. 293 00:15:22,819 --> 00:15:23,939 Okay, I'll do it. 294 00:15:23,939 --> 00:15:30,259 I'll I'll move up to Margaret and I will cast Spider Climb on Margaret. 295 00:15:31,139 --> 00:15:32,419 Yes, Betty White. 296 00:15:33,220 --> 00:15:36,899 So until the spell ends, one willing creature you touch gains the ability to move up down 297 00:15:36,899 --> 00:15:41,059 and across vertical surfaces and upside down along ceilings while leaving its hands free. 298 00:15:41,059 --> 00:15:43,459 Also gains a climbing speed equal to its walking speed. 299 00:15:43,459 --> 00:15:46,579 So if there's anything that Margaret then needs to get over top of, 300 00:15:47,220 --> 00:15:48,740 I feel like she can do it pretty easily. 301 00:15:48,740 --> 00:15:49,379 I think so. 302 00:15:49,379 --> 00:15:49,779 All right. 303 00:15:50,819 --> 00:15:56,100 So you've moved 25 feet, which places you 75 feet now behind Marvam. 304 00:15:57,060 --> 00:15:59,700 I forgot to roll the stealth stuff. 305 00:15:59,700 --> 00:16:01,540 So we'll do that at the end of the next one. 306 00:16:02,580 --> 00:16:05,379 But Margaret, you now have Spider Climb. 307 00:16:05,379 --> 00:16:06,980 So roll a d20 there, Perseus. 308 00:16:08,820 --> 00:16:10,340 Go get him, Margaret. 309 00:16:10,340 --> 00:16:11,139 And that's a 12. 310 00:16:11,860 --> 00:16:13,860 Nothing impedes you this round. 311 00:16:13,860 --> 00:16:17,620 What do you do with your newfound spider abilities? 312 00:16:18,659 --> 00:16:24,980 So is the fleeing cobalt like in a straight line in front of us right now? 313 00:16:25,860 --> 00:16:29,060 Yeah, it's a relatively packed crowd. 314 00:16:29,060 --> 00:16:31,779 But yeah, you can see his head kind of bobbing up and down 315 00:16:31,779 --> 00:16:34,659 as he's kind of peeking behind him as he's running down the street. 316 00:16:35,860 --> 00:16:36,500 Okay. 317 00:16:36,500 --> 00:16:39,539 So yeah, I'm going to dash again. 318 00:16:41,620 --> 00:16:44,340 And I think because we aren't making, like we're not catching up. 319 00:16:44,340 --> 00:16:46,659 All we're doing is kind of keeping the same distance. 320 00:16:46,659 --> 00:16:48,420 So far you're even keel, yeah. 321 00:16:49,700 --> 00:16:53,460 So I think that having been given this gift by Perseus, 322 00:16:53,540 --> 00:16:58,340 I'm actually going to action surge and move again 323 00:16:58,340 --> 00:17:01,460 so that I can run past him and get in front of him. 324 00:17:01,460 --> 00:17:07,940 Okay, so that puts you 15 feet ahead of him if you take the full movement. 325 00:17:09,059 --> 00:17:10,740 Yeah, I'll take the full movement that way. 326 00:17:11,299 --> 00:17:15,380 Next time if he gets past, I might be able to catch up to him again. 327 00:17:15,380 --> 00:17:17,779 But I'm going to try to like stop and block him now. 328 00:17:17,779 --> 00:17:18,279 Okay. 329 00:17:19,059 --> 00:17:22,500 So you are trying to block for his next movement. 330 00:17:22,500 --> 00:17:24,900 He's going to have disadvantage on that stealth check 331 00:17:24,900 --> 00:17:26,259 because you're right in front of him. 332 00:17:26,900 --> 00:17:29,220 And if you could roll me a d20 for Lex. 333 00:17:31,460 --> 00:17:31,779 Eight. 334 00:17:32,420 --> 00:17:36,259 Lex, as you're running down, you see Margaret take this huge jolt 335 00:17:36,259 --> 00:17:38,099 and get out in front of Marvam. 336 00:17:38,980 --> 00:17:47,059 And out in front of you, a hunched over old man comes out and steps in your way. 337 00:17:47,059 --> 00:17:49,220 Then he's reaching his hand out for a coin. 338 00:17:49,460 --> 00:17:52,420 Could you just spare just a little bit? 339 00:17:52,980 --> 00:17:58,019 So you have to make either an athletics, an acrobatics, 340 00:17:58,019 --> 00:18:00,980 or an intimidation check to slip past this beggar. 341 00:18:01,700 --> 00:18:03,299 Okay, well, it's going to be acrobatics 342 00:18:03,299 --> 00:18:05,299 because I don't want to just push over this old man. 343 00:18:05,940 --> 00:18:06,980 Get out of here, jerk. 344 00:18:09,380 --> 00:18:11,460 18 for acrobatics. 345 00:18:12,019 --> 00:18:14,019 So I can like twist around him, hopefully. 346 00:18:14,660 --> 00:18:15,620 Yeah, absolutely. 347 00:18:15,620 --> 00:18:16,579 You twist around him. 348 00:18:16,579 --> 00:18:20,019 And as you do so, he kind of double takes and looks and says, 349 00:18:20,019 --> 00:18:21,220 well, fuck you too. 350 00:18:25,379 --> 00:18:26,740 Roll a d20, please. 351 00:18:26,740 --> 00:18:27,220 Oh, sorry. 352 00:18:27,220 --> 00:18:28,179 You're dashing. 353 00:18:28,179 --> 00:18:28,819 Yeah. 354 00:18:28,819 --> 00:18:29,299 Yeah, I did. 355 00:18:30,339 --> 00:18:30,819 20. 356 00:18:33,379 --> 00:18:33,859 Okay. 357 00:18:33,859 --> 00:18:35,379 Nothing happens for... 358 00:18:36,500 --> 00:18:37,539 Marvam's out. 359 00:18:37,539 --> 00:18:38,899 Nothing happens for Marvam. 360 00:18:38,899 --> 00:18:40,819 So we're going to try and at disadvantage, 361 00:18:40,819 --> 00:18:43,699 he's going to try and stealth away. 362 00:18:43,699 --> 00:18:44,419 He does not. 363 00:18:45,380 --> 00:18:48,019 So he now sees you in front of him. 364 00:18:48,019 --> 00:18:50,340 He is going to try and... 365 00:18:52,820 --> 00:18:53,620 He's going to try and... 366 00:18:53,620 --> 00:18:55,779 She's going to take these 30 feet of movement, 367 00:18:55,779 --> 00:18:57,940 but he's going to try and shove you as he moves by. 368 00:18:57,940 --> 00:19:00,900 So he'll move 15, shove, and then try and go. 369 00:19:00,900 --> 00:19:06,420 So this is going to be straight strength against your ac, 370 00:19:06,420 --> 00:19:07,860 which is not going to be good. 371 00:19:07,860 --> 00:19:08,900 So that's a nine. 372 00:19:09,940 --> 00:19:14,019 So he runs into you. 373 00:19:14,500 --> 00:19:15,460 How do you stop him? 374 00:19:16,819 --> 00:19:19,460 I think I have my shield out. 375 00:19:19,460 --> 00:19:22,259 Margaret is a mark of the sentinel. 376 00:19:22,259 --> 00:19:24,819 And so she just puts the shield out and plants it down. 377 00:19:24,819 --> 00:19:26,579 So he runs directly into it. 378 00:19:26,579 --> 00:19:29,779 Kind of like he's barreled down his shoulder 379 00:19:29,779 --> 00:19:31,940 like he was trying to plow into you 380 00:19:31,940 --> 00:19:35,379 and just glances up and off and falls to the ground, 381 00:19:36,099 --> 00:19:39,059 just off to the side as everybody else catches up. 382 00:19:39,059 --> 00:19:41,059 And the chase is over. 383 00:19:41,059 --> 00:19:44,980 Oh, God. 384 00:19:49,059 --> 00:19:50,179 Didn't mean to interrupt you. 385 00:19:50,179 --> 00:19:52,019 I think we've got a couple of questions for you. 386 00:19:52,019 --> 00:19:55,460 Oh, who do you think you are stopping people like me? 387 00:19:56,500 --> 00:19:58,179 Oh, nice to meet you. 388 00:19:58,179 --> 00:19:59,940 My name is Margaret Broadcloak. 389 00:19:59,940 --> 00:20:02,899 I've got some friends here who seem to recognize you. 390 00:20:02,899 --> 00:20:06,179 And boy, it sure seems like you recognized him as well. 391 00:20:06,179 --> 00:20:07,859 I don't know what you're talking about. 392 00:20:07,859 --> 00:20:09,940 And then as he turns and sees Lex come up, 393 00:20:10,259 --> 00:20:15,220 oh, yeah, that's your friend? 394 00:20:16,259 --> 00:20:17,140 That's correct. 395 00:20:17,140 --> 00:20:18,180 That's your friend. 396 00:20:18,180 --> 00:20:20,900 Okay, I'm just going to just stand right here. 397 00:20:20,900 --> 00:20:22,740 I'll just stand right here just beside this. 398 00:20:23,620 --> 00:20:25,940 Hey, so Lex now. 399 00:20:28,019 --> 00:20:30,259 Yes, Lex is my name now. 400 00:20:30,259 --> 00:20:33,059 Pleasure to meet you, Lex Marvam. 401 00:20:33,059 --> 00:20:34,660 Marvam, that's me. 402 00:20:34,660 --> 00:20:35,860 That's what my friends call me. 403 00:20:36,900 --> 00:20:39,299 I don't think we're meeting for the first time. 404 00:20:39,539 --> 00:20:40,099 You know me. 405 00:20:41,379 --> 00:20:44,899 I mean, I've seen you around, you know, it's just. 406 00:20:46,819 --> 00:20:48,180 Maybe about two years ago. 407 00:20:48,180 --> 00:20:49,379 Maybe about two years ago. 408 00:20:51,220 --> 00:20:56,740 Would you say you saw me like this or sort of more separate? 409 00:20:57,460 --> 00:21:00,579 Well, I mean, you know, who's to say really what? 410 00:21:02,180 --> 00:21:04,500 I mean, a little bit of column A, a little bit of column B. 411 00:21:04,500 --> 00:21:09,220 I might have been around when they kind of put you together. 412 00:21:09,700 --> 00:21:16,099 And then, you know, I mean, you know, bring pieces and stuff. 413 00:21:16,099 --> 00:21:19,700 Anyways, long story short, how you been? 414 00:21:19,700 --> 00:21:20,659 What you been up to? 415 00:21:20,659 --> 00:21:21,700 It's good to see you. 416 00:21:23,220 --> 00:21:25,779 I don't know that you mean that, but I've been well. 417 00:21:26,500 --> 00:21:28,180 I have these friends now. 418 00:21:28,180 --> 00:21:31,619 Yeah, I've come very spry to meet my creator. 419 00:21:32,419 --> 00:21:35,139 Oh, cool. 420 00:21:36,980 --> 00:21:38,019 What can you tell me? 421 00:21:38,660 --> 00:21:39,940 What about my creator? 422 00:21:41,859 --> 00:21:43,059 You know, what do you? 423 00:21:43,059 --> 00:21:44,099 What is a creator? 424 00:21:44,099 --> 00:21:45,059 What are you trying to do here? 425 00:21:45,059 --> 00:21:47,460 You're trying to like, like intimidate. 426 00:21:47,460 --> 00:21:50,420 I just want him to like, tell me some stuff about the dude. 427 00:21:50,420 --> 00:21:51,059 Yeah, you roll. 428 00:21:51,059 --> 00:21:55,619 You roll me a skill and then we'll that'll dictate how he responds. 429 00:21:55,619 --> 00:21:57,059 I think intimidation. 430 00:21:57,059 --> 00:21:58,180 No, well, not great. 431 00:21:58,180 --> 00:21:58,579 Eleven. 432 00:22:01,379 --> 00:22:02,579 I'm just so winded. 433 00:22:02,579 --> 00:22:04,420 It's really, I just. 434 00:22:04,420 --> 00:22:07,779 Hey, hey, look, once you get yourself 435 00:22:07,779 --> 00:22:09,940 collected here, maybe we can have a few drinks. 436 00:22:09,940 --> 00:22:10,660 I'm just going to go. 437 00:22:10,660 --> 00:22:13,940 I'm just going to check on some things back at the old homestead. 438 00:22:15,379 --> 00:22:21,139 No, you are definitely not leaving here without giving me some information 439 00:22:21,139 --> 00:22:24,899 and maybe just guiding my friends and I to where my creator is. 440 00:22:24,899 --> 00:22:26,420 Yeah, yeah, I get it. 441 00:22:26,420 --> 00:22:27,059 I get it. 442 00:22:29,779 --> 00:22:31,460 Mountains up there. 443 00:22:31,460 --> 00:22:33,379 He's starting to take a few steps back there. 444 00:22:33,379 --> 00:22:36,819 Margaret and Perseus as Arvid kind of finally makes it up and says, 445 00:22:36,819 --> 00:22:39,779 oh, that that guard was just delightful. 446 00:22:40,740 --> 00:22:42,740 Confused me for some other person. 447 00:22:45,220 --> 00:22:46,740 Well, you do have that look. 448 00:22:46,740 --> 00:22:49,939 Don't you just have one of those faces looks so familiar. 449 00:22:49,939 --> 00:22:51,139 Thank you for saying so. 450 00:22:52,179 --> 00:22:57,139 Perseus pulls out his dagger and kind of starts to point it at Marvam. 451 00:22:57,139 --> 00:23:00,740 Oh, hey, yeah, wait a second here, buds. 452 00:23:00,740 --> 00:23:02,419 We don't need to pull out any weapons. 453 00:23:03,539 --> 00:23:05,619 You just look like you might have been going somewhere 454 00:23:05,620 --> 00:23:07,620 and I don't think you should be going somewhere right now. 455 00:23:07,620 --> 00:23:09,380 Roll an intimidation there, Perseus. 456 00:23:10,180 --> 00:23:11,060 Oh, I would love to. 457 00:23:12,580 --> 00:23:14,260 Oh, well, it's going to be good. 458 00:23:14,260 --> 00:23:15,620 Uh, what's the bonus? 459 00:23:16,340 --> 00:23:18,660 Oh, fuck, it's a 23. 460 00:23:18,660 --> 00:23:22,260 Look, I wasn't a scared of the big guy because I knew where to pull the stitches 461 00:23:22,260 --> 00:23:24,500 to just make his arms go all flippy dippy. 462 00:23:24,500 --> 00:23:27,780 But you you look like you've been in some battles there, friend. 463 00:23:27,780 --> 00:23:31,620 And he walks over to you and kind of just like pushes your knife just to the side here 464 00:23:31,620 --> 00:23:33,860 and says, look, you know, we can get to know each other. 465 00:23:33,860 --> 00:23:34,900 We can be friends. 466 00:23:35,620 --> 00:23:37,620 We don't have to fight. 467 00:23:37,620 --> 00:23:42,420 And I hold my other free hand close up to his face 468 00:23:43,300 --> 00:23:47,140 and it's like dancing electricity is on my fingers. 469 00:23:47,140 --> 00:23:50,100 Oh, that's cool. 470 00:23:52,180 --> 00:23:55,460 We cut to a tavern later. 471 00:23:57,860 --> 00:24:00,580 It says, so you want to meet your you want to meet your creator. 472 00:24:02,500 --> 00:24:05,060 Yes, I want to know why I was made. 473 00:24:05,059 --> 00:24:07,299 Why you were you were made as an experiment. 474 00:24:08,659 --> 00:24:10,980 But for no purpose, just to see if he could do it. 475 00:24:14,500 --> 00:24:15,220 Is he evil? 476 00:24:15,220 --> 00:24:16,259 He's evil, right? 477 00:24:16,259 --> 00:24:17,700 No, he's got to be evil. 478 00:24:17,700 --> 00:24:18,980 I mean, he sounds a little evil. 479 00:24:18,980 --> 00:24:23,059 No, don't don't don't look not. 480 00:24:23,619 --> 00:24:24,500 He's not evil. 481 00:24:25,539 --> 00:24:31,299 He he was trying out some things 482 00:24:32,259 --> 00:24:36,419 because he was getting in good with with this guy who, you know, 483 00:24:36,419 --> 00:24:39,220 I told him he was kind of evil. 484 00:24:40,019 --> 00:24:41,859 He's like he was trying to just, you know, 485 00:24:41,859 --> 00:24:44,819 make a push forward in this in this new organization, 486 00:24:44,819 --> 00:24:48,099 trying to make a way for himself, putting pieces together, 487 00:24:49,059 --> 00:24:52,259 as you know, seeing if he could bring them back. 488 00:24:53,700 --> 00:24:55,059 That's how you came about. 489 00:24:55,059 --> 00:24:59,059 You were kind of his golden child. 490 00:25:00,019 --> 00:25:02,659 More of a mottled gray child, I think. 491 00:25:02,659 --> 00:25:04,259 But I see your point. 492 00:25:04,259 --> 00:25:06,579 What what organization? 493 00:25:10,019 --> 00:25:13,460 The strict name of it was never exactly divulged 494 00:25:13,460 --> 00:25:16,179 to your good buddy Marvam over here. 495 00:25:16,179 --> 00:25:19,220 He he just told me to go out and collect parts. 496 00:25:19,220 --> 00:25:20,419 So that's what I did. 497 00:25:20,419 --> 00:25:23,859 I went out and I dug some things up and found some things 498 00:25:23,859 --> 00:25:26,899 and I stole some things and, you know, slice and dice. 499 00:25:26,900 --> 00:25:30,019 And then you got pieces to put together a jigsaw. 500 00:25:32,580 --> 00:25:35,140 I mean, this is a very blase attitude from you, Marvam. 501 00:25:35,140 --> 00:25:37,860 But I see that you perhaps are just 502 00:25:39,780 --> 00:25:43,860 you weren't the the brains of the operation, right? 503 00:25:43,860 --> 00:25:46,420 You were just just a worker bee. 504 00:25:46,420 --> 00:25:48,500 Yeah, yeah, a worker bee, right? 505 00:25:48,500 --> 00:25:49,780 And he nudges Perseus. 506 00:25:49,780 --> 00:25:50,660 He's like, you get it. 507 00:25:52,180 --> 00:25:53,460 I don't really know what a bee is. 508 00:25:54,820 --> 00:25:55,380 How about you? 509 00:25:55,380 --> 00:25:59,460 Lady with the shield, you're very fast. 510 00:26:00,180 --> 00:26:02,580 You strike me as the type of person who 511 00:26:03,460 --> 00:26:07,460 doesn't really work for for loyalty or for fame, 512 00:26:08,340 --> 00:26:09,220 but for coin. 513 00:26:10,020 --> 00:26:12,580 What if I was just to offer you a number of coins 514 00:26:12,580 --> 00:26:14,020 to walk us back to the place 515 00:26:14,020 --> 00:26:16,020 you delivered the things you collected? 516 00:26:16,020 --> 00:26:19,060 Oh, well, now we're speaking my language here. 517 00:26:19,060 --> 00:26:21,940 You see, I had a feeling we might be. 518 00:26:21,940 --> 00:26:24,020 What kind of coins are we talking here? 519 00:26:24,019 --> 00:26:26,339 These like these like high value, 520 00:26:26,339 --> 00:26:28,579 highfalutin, high weighted coins. 521 00:26:29,940 --> 00:26:31,859 I mean, that looks like a good looking shield 522 00:26:31,859 --> 00:26:33,940 you got there probably cost a pretty penny. 523 00:26:34,980 --> 00:26:35,539 It's true. 524 00:26:35,539 --> 00:26:39,220 I make the rounds around various cities, 525 00:26:39,220 --> 00:26:41,059 helping them out and collecting a little money 526 00:26:41,059 --> 00:26:41,700 here and there. 527 00:26:41,700 --> 00:26:44,500 I'm sure you can be more than aptly compensated. 528 00:26:44,500 --> 00:26:46,259 Interesting, interesting. 529 00:26:46,259 --> 00:26:46,740 All right. 530 00:26:46,740 --> 00:26:48,980 Well, I mean, if the if the price is right, 531 00:26:48,980 --> 00:26:50,500 maybe we can just visit there. 532 00:26:50,500 --> 00:26:52,819 I mean, you know, who am I to stand 533 00:26:52,819 --> 00:26:54,500 in front of a family reunion? 534 00:26:55,379 --> 00:26:55,859 Exactly. 535 00:26:55,859 --> 00:26:59,139 You're just helping bring a family back together. 536 00:26:59,139 --> 00:27:00,740 Who could fault you for that? 537 00:27:00,740 --> 00:27:01,299 You know what? 538 00:27:01,299 --> 00:27:03,700 That's what they say on my business cards 539 00:27:03,700 --> 00:27:05,619 is bring in family together. 540 00:27:05,619 --> 00:27:10,419 Marvam Dundalfoot, Marvam Dundalfoot, 541 00:27:10,419 --> 00:27:12,019 bring in families together. 542 00:27:14,899 --> 00:27:15,939 Let's point the slogan. 543 00:27:16,579 --> 00:27:18,500 You know, it's really catching fire here. 544 00:27:19,059 --> 00:27:22,579 Marvam, do you know we've been dancing around it, 545 00:27:22,579 --> 00:27:25,220 but what is the name of my creator? 546 00:27:25,220 --> 00:27:27,859 He don't even remember the name of the guy 547 00:27:27,859 --> 00:27:28,819 who created you. 548 00:27:29,539 --> 00:27:31,059 How did you make it back this far? 549 00:27:33,299 --> 00:27:37,299 Well, when I left, I recognized the things 550 00:27:37,299 --> 00:27:40,339 that, you know, I woke up, 551 00:27:40,339 --> 00:27:41,299 there was no one there. 552 00:27:41,299 --> 00:27:42,019 I escaped. 553 00:27:43,460 --> 00:27:45,379 I have vague kind of flashes, 554 00:27:45,379 --> 00:27:47,699 but it's not like we sat down 555 00:27:47,699 --> 00:27:49,699 and had a conversation and then I left. 556 00:27:50,580 --> 00:27:54,980 You, well, I mean, you had many conversations. 557 00:27:55,539 --> 00:27:56,980 You don't remember any of those? 558 00:27:57,860 --> 00:28:00,340 It's not like he created you and you were gone. 559 00:28:00,340 --> 00:28:02,180 Like you were around for a while 560 00:28:02,180 --> 00:28:08,180 as he trained you and gave you your gifts, 561 00:28:08,180 --> 00:28:09,059 as he says. 562 00:28:11,299 --> 00:28:14,019 Well, I don't really remember that. 563 00:28:16,180 --> 00:28:17,380 I mean, if I saw him, 564 00:28:17,380 --> 00:28:19,540 maybe I would probably recognize him. 565 00:28:19,540 --> 00:28:20,980 Or when I see the place, 566 00:28:20,980 --> 00:28:22,660 I knew that I would recognize it, 567 00:28:22,660 --> 00:28:28,020 but I don't remember spending quality time 568 00:28:28,020 --> 00:28:29,060 with my creator. 569 00:28:30,100 --> 00:28:30,740 All right. 570 00:28:30,740 --> 00:28:36,580 It's his name is Nick O'Real Katie. 571 00:28:38,100 --> 00:28:39,700 It's been a while since I've been up 572 00:28:39,700 --> 00:28:41,780 to his establishment. 573 00:28:42,340 --> 00:28:43,700 Haven't heard much of him. 574 00:28:43,700 --> 00:28:45,460 You know, he doesn't have any runners 575 00:28:45,460 --> 00:28:46,500 coming down lately. 576 00:28:47,780 --> 00:28:50,340 So if you go up, 577 00:28:50,980 --> 00:28:53,300 I'm not sure what you're walking into here. 578 00:28:54,980 --> 00:28:56,260 You haven't been bringing him more? 579 00:28:56,820 --> 00:28:58,580 He cut me a while ago, you know, 580 00:28:58,580 --> 00:28:59,860 before you left. 581 00:28:59,860 --> 00:29:02,420 Well, maybe he's had a change of heart. 582 00:29:03,780 --> 00:29:05,140 Maybe, maybe. 583 00:29:07,220 --> 00:29:07,780 All right. 584 00:29:07,780 --> 00:29:10,980 Well, he looks around to the table. 585 00:29:10,980 --> 00:29:12,260 He said, do we settle up now 586 00:29:12,260 --> 00:29:13,380 or do we settle up then? 587 00:29:18,180 --> 00:29:19,860 I assume that's then. 588 00:29:19,860 --> 00:29:20,340 OK. 589 00:29:21,300 --> 00:29:21,780 OK. 590 00:29:24,100 --> 00:29:26,820 Does that count as a short rest mechanically? 591 00:29:27,540 --> 00:29:29,460 I don't know how long a short rest is. 592 00:29:30,100 --> 00:29:31,860 It depends what you all want to do. 593 00:29:31,860 --> 00:29:33,620 Do you want to like spend the night 594 00:29:33,620 --> 00:29:34,980 and then go up in the morning? 595 00:29:34,980 --> 00:29:36,820 You kind of will call it like, 596 00:29:36,820 --> 00:29:38,820 you know, mid afternoon 597 00:29:38,820 --> 00:29:39,780 when you were starting 598 00:29:39,780 --> 00:29:42,180 this chase interrogation thing. 599 00:29:42,900 --> 00:29:43,860 We could spend the night, 600 00:29:43,860 --> 00:29:45,220 go fresh in the morning. 601 00:29:45,220 --> 00:29:47,700 I guess we have to keep him with us, though. 602 00:29:47,700 --> 00:29:48,019 Yeah. 603 00:29:48,579 --> 00:29:49,940 He's a real shady character. 604 00:29:49,940 --> 00:29:50,579 Yeah. 605 00:29:50,579 --> 00:29:51,700 Maybe we should go now 606 00:29:51,700 --> 00:29:53,140 while we've got him in hand. 607 00:29:53,700 --> 00:29:54,420 Yeah. 608 00:29:54,420 --> 00:29:55,380 I don't want to pay for him 609 00:29:55,380 --> 00:29:56,900 to stay at an inn with us. 610 00:29:56,900 --> 00:29:57,460 That's true. 611 00:29:58,339 --> 00:30:00,259 And nobody wants to share a room with him. 612 00:30:00,259 --> 00:30:00,740 No. 613 00:30:00,740 --> 00:30:01,240 No. 614 00:30:02,500 --> 00:30:03,620 Yeah, we could definitely call it 615 00:30:04,339 --> 00:30:05,140 a short rest. 616 00:30:07,860 --> 00:30:09,140 You set out same day 617 00:30:10,019 --> 00:30:11,380 being led by 618 00:30:12,339 --> 00:30:12,839 Marvam. 619 00:30:13,720 --> 00:30:16,360 And you head up into the Baldrick Mountains. 620 00:30:17,080 --> 00:30:19,480 They are cascading, 621 00:30:20,280 --> 00:30:21,560 tall mountains 622 00:30:21,560 --> 00:30:24,120 that stretch the expanse of Fay, 623 00:30:24,120 --> 00:30:26,360 which is the country you are in. 624 00:30:29,560 --> 00:30:32,760 You are led deep within these mountains 625 00:30:32,760 --> 00:30:34,520 following a winding path. 626 00:30:35,320 --> 00:30:35,960 There aren't many, 627 00:30:36,520 --> 00:30:39,480 any people that you see coming or going. 628 00:30:42,920 --> 00:30:44,680 Yeah, it's just up around the bend here 629 00:30:44,680 --> 00:30:47,000 to the mouth of the cave. 630 00:30:48,440 --> 00:30:49,560 You've been traveling for 631 00:30:51,080 --> 00:30:53,160 let's say four or five hours at this point. 632 00:30:57,640 --> 00:30:58,760 You continue to travel 633 00:30:58,760 --> 00:31:00,600 for another 30 minutes or so. 634 00:31:01,960 --> 00:31:03,240 You round a bend 635 00:31:03,240 --> 00:31:05,640 and you come to the mouth 636 00:31:05,640 --> 00:31:07,000 of this wide open cave. 637 00:31:07,000 --> 00:31:08,600 You've traveled up and into 638 00:31:08,600 --> 00:31:12,680 to one of the mountains 639 00:31:13,720 --> 00:31:15,000 nearest to the city. 640 00:31:16,600 --> 00:31:19,080 Says, you go in there, 641 00:31:19,800 --> 00:31:21,000 kind of go to the back. 642 00:31:21,000 --> 00:31:21,880 He's got a door. 643 00:31:25,320 --> 00:31:26,840 I don't know if the knock still works. 644 00:31:26,840 --> 00:31:30,440 It's like a rick-a-dick-a-dick-a-dick-dick, you know? 645 00:31:30,440 --> 00:31:32,040 Well, maybe you should come and show us. 646 00:31:32,040 --> 00:31:32,680 Ah, okay. 647 00:31:32,680 --> 00:31:33,400 Yeah, sure. 648 00:31:34,840 --> 00:31:35,340 Okay. 649 00:31:36,760 --> 00:31:37,260 Got it. 650 00:31:39,400 --> 00:31:42,680 You all proceed into the mouth of the cave. 651 00:31:44,120 --> 00:31:47,240 And everybody has dark vision, I presume? 652 00:31:48,440 --> 00:31:48,940 Sure. 653 00:31:50,200 --> 00:31:52,200 Or you're a human, aren't you, Margaret? 654 00:31:52,200 --> 00:31:52,700 I am. 655 00:31:53,720 --> 00:31:55,080 My mace gives off light. 656 00:31:55,080 --> 00:31:55,720 Okay, perfect. 657 00:31:57,000 --> 00:31:58,440 Margaret thinks of everything. 658 00:32:00,760 --> 00:32:04,120 As it gets to be too beginning to get 659 00:32:04,120 --> 00:32:06,680 like dim and like, you know, 660 00:32:06,680 --> 00:32:08,519 where you're straining to see, Margaret, 661 00:32:08,519 --> 00:32:11,160 you pull out your mace and illuminate the area. 662 00:32:11,960 --> 00:32:14,840 The light spins out and everybody you see 663 00:32:16,840 --> 00:32:20,440 bones kind of pushed up and off to the side. 664 00:32:20,440 --> 00:32:23,799 Like they've been almost like swept off to the side 665 00:32:24,360 --> 00:32:28,120 of various creatures and humans 666 00:32:29,560 --> 00:32:31,240 and different humanoids. 667 00:32:32,920 --> 00:32:35,080 They're in a bundled mess, 668 00:32:35,079 --> 00:32:37,240 not like somebody sat down and just died there 669 00:32:37,240 --> 00:32:39,159 and then that's where their skeletons are, 670 00:32:39,159 --> 00:32:40,839 but just in a bundled mess. 671 00:32:40,839 --> 00:32:42,039 And the further back you go, 672 00:32:43,079 --> 00:32:45,799 like Marvam said, you reach a door. 673 00:32:49,399 --> 00:32:52,439 It's almost like this cave was carved into this mountain 674 00:32:52,439 --> 00:32:54,359 and then it reaches a flat face 675 00:32:54,359 --> 00:32:59,240 and then there's a stone door with a handle. 676 00:32:59,799 --> 00:33:00,279 He says, 677 00:33:00,279 --> 00:33:04,920 uh, just knock. 678 00:33:06,359 --> 00:33:07,079 You want me to knock? 679 00:33:07,720 --> 00:33:08,220 Yes. 680 00:33:09,799 --> 00:33:11,559 You said you know the knock. 681 00:33:11,559 --> 00:33:12,059 Okay. 682 00:33:14,359 --> 00:33:15,000 Okay. 683 00:33:15,000 --> 00:33:16,839 Yeah, I mean, you're the adventuring types. 684 00:33:16,839 --> 00:33:17,339 All right. 685 00:33:18,119 --> 00:33:18,680 He knocks. 686 00:33:23,639 --> 00:33:27,160 He stands there kind of scuffing his feet, 687 00:33:27,160 --> 00:33:28,519 looking around at everybody. 688 00:33:29,480 --> 00:33:37,799 So, any good stories anybody wants to tell while we wait here? 689 00:33:39,400 --> 00:33:41,319 Was it usually a long wait when you knocked? 690 00:33:41,960 --> 00:33:44,920 Ah, not usually this long. 691 00:33:44,920 --> 00:33:47,000 Looks like maybe some people, 692 00:33:47,000 --> 00:33:51,240 some runners have expired in these here caves. 693 00:33:51,240 --> 00:33:55,079 Not usually such a clutter of bones. 694 00:33:56,200 --> 00:33:58,200 I mean, as new as bones can be. 695 00:33:59,160 --> 00:34:02,519 I mean, they weren't here when you were coming regularly? 696 00:34:02,519 --> 00:34:03,400 Not previously. 697 00:34:03,400 --> 00:34:04,759 Like I said, you know, 698 00:34:04,759 --> 00:34:09,320 around the time that you went poof a couple years ago, 699 00:34:09,320 --> 00:34:11,480 give or take, that's the last time I was here. 700 00:34:11,480 --> 00:34:14,920 So he's just maybe doing a new decoration thing. 701 00:34:15,719 --> 00:34:17,159 You know, I'm just going to try the door. 702 00:34:17,159 --> 00:34:18,679 I'm just going to see what happens. 703 00:34:19,719 --> 00:34:22,840 And he reaches for the door and tries to pull on it 704 00:34:24,679 --> 00:34:25,559 and it doesn't open. 705 00:34:25,559 --> 00:34:31,719 So, all this way just to come to a locked door. 706 00:34:31,719 --> 00:34:35,000 Ha, what a story to tell your kids later. 707 00:34:35,000 --> 00:34:36,119 Can you have kids? 708 00:34:36,119 --> 00:34:37,639 I don't even know if that's possible. 709 00:34:38,360 --> 00:34:41,639 I'd like to reach into my, like, 710 00:34:42,840 --> 00:34:45,719 adventuring sack that I imagine I have with me. 711 00:34:46,279 --> 00:34:46,779 Okay. 712 00:34:47,559 --> 00:34:50,519 And I pull out a hollow metal tube 713 00:34:50,519 --> 00:34:52,360 that measures about one foot long. 714 00:34:52,360 --> 00:34:56,840 And without knowing really what I'm doing, 715 00:34:57,640 --> 00:35:00,200 just just like this otherworldly power 716 00:35:00,200 --> 00:35:01,559 is kind of guiding my hand. 717 00:35:02,440 --> 00:35:07,240 I strike it and point it at the door 718 00:35:08,840 --> 00:35:12,760 and a tone issues out from it. 719 00:35:15,000 --> 00:35:17,400 And if the door is locked, it should now be unlocked. 720 00:35:19,160 --> 00:35:19,960 Is it knock? 721 00:35:19,960 --> 00:35:20,840 Is that what you guessed? 722 00:35:21,320 --> 00:35:24,280 I use my wondrous item, Chime of Opening. 723 00:35:25,000 --> 00:35:26,600 Ooh, fancy. 724 00:35:30,440 --> 00:35:31,240 Perfect, yeah. 725 00:35:31,240 --> 00:35:35,720 It rings out and you hear from the door 726 00:35:35,720 --> 00:35:37,400 just like this movement of stone. 727 00:35:40,039 --> 00:35:41,559 And then it kind of cracks open 728 00:35:42,200 --> 00:35:45,400 and there's a, it doesn't have hinges so to speak, 729 00:35:45,400 --> 00:35:48,680 but it kind of slides open and like scrapes along the floor 730 00:35:48,679 --> 00:35:51,879 and is like, wow, I got it gets me one of those. 731 00:35:51,879 --> 00:35:53,000 Where'd you get it there, friend? 732 00:35:53,960 --> 00:35:55,159 I'm not really sure. 733 00:35:55,159 --> 00:35:58,679 Arvid, did you, did you cook this up for me? 734 00:35:59,399 --> 00:36:01,719 Yes, yes I did. 735 00:36:02,679 --> 00:36:03,559 Well, it's pretty handy. 736 00:36:04,839 --> 00:36:06,759 You're so thoughtful, Arvid. 737 00:36:06,759 --> 00:36:08,599 That's why I gave it to him, really. 738 00:36:09,960 --> 00:36:13,000 Because I knew we'd need to open the door at some point. 739 00:36:13,000 --> 00:36:13,559 You're so smart. 740 00:36:13,559 --> 00:36:17,879 As if by some knowledge that, thank you, thank you. 741 00:36:18,119 --> 00:36:19,720 Incredible foresight to know 742 00:36:20,280 --> 00:36:21,880 that somehow we'd need to open a door. 743 00:36:23,559 --> 00:36:25,800 I mean, I've been on a few adventures 744 00:36:25,800 --> 00:36:27,320 and there's usually a door in the way. 745 00:36:27,800 --> 00:36:28,680 Okay, okay. 746 00:36:29,720 --> 00:36:33,400 Lovebirds, I see, they're just gonna pull the door open. 747 00:36:34,440 --> 00:36:35,559 After you. 748 00:36:35,559 --> 00:36:38,039 He pulls the door and it grinds open 749 00:36:39,160 --> 00:36:43,160 and it's into a dark hallway that extends down before you. 750 00:36:43,160 --> 00:36:45,960 You don't see any person or any creatures in your way. 751 00:36:45,960 --> 00:36:47,880 Okay, what do you do? 752 00:36:48,760 --> 00:36:51,639 Can I, I'm gonna do a perception check to see. 753 00:36:51,639 --> 00:36:52,840 I mean, we got the door open now, 754 00:36:52,840 --> 00:36:55,240 but just to make sure there's not, you know, 755 00:36:55,240 --> 00:36:57,800 a big old trap immediately. 756 00:36:59,000 --> 00:37:00,599 Uh, 14? 757 00:37:03,639 --> 00:37:05,880 It appears to be entirely safe. 758 00:37:07,559 --> 00:37:08,840 Well, we've come all this way. 759 00:37:08,840 --> 00:37:09,639 I'm going in. 760 00:37:10,280 --> 00:37:11,639 Yes, yes, after you. 761 00:37:11,639 --> 00:37:13,720 All right, friends first, here we go. 762 00:37:14,360 --> 00:37:15,960 He's kind of waving everybody by. 763 00:37:16,680 --> 00:37:18,920 I mean, we understand you're just gonna leave now. 764 00:37:18,920 --> 00:37:19,960 You don't need to. 765 00:37:19,960 --> 00:37:21,080 I still need my payment. 766 00:37:21,080 --> 00:37:22,520 We said I'd be paid then. 767 00:37:22,520 --> 00:37:25,640 So I mean, I gotta wait around. 768 00:37:25,640 --> 00:37:27,160 Maybe I'll just keep the door open. 769 00:37:27,960 --> 00:37:28,680 Yes, that's fair. 770 00:37:28,680 --> 00:37:30,920 You can count half your coins while you wait. 771 00:37:30,920 --> 00:37:31,560 Perfect. 772 00:37:31,560 --> 00:37:32,600 Thank you. 773 00:37:32,600 --> 00:37:34,520 And I'll hand him a little, a little pouch. 774 00:37:35,880 --> 00:37:37,480 Oh, would you look at these here? 775 00:37:37,480 --> 00:37:40,520 Yeah, key onesies, twosies. 776 00:37:40,520 --> 00:37:41,960 And as you walk down the hall, 777 00:37:41,960 --> 00:37:43,320 you hear him counting them out. 778 00:37:43,559 --> 00:37:45,080 I'll just wait here for you. 779 00:37:45,080 --> 00:37:45,960 No worries. 780 00:37:53,080 --> 00:37:55,080 Hey now, we're in the middle. 781 00:37:55,080 --> 00:37:57,960 We're talking all about the things. 782 00:37:58,600 --> 00:38:00,280 Oh, it started so strong. 783 00:38:00,280 --> 00:38:01,880 It didn't start off really good. 784 00:38:01,880 --> 00:38:03,480 It started so strong. 785 00:38:03,480 --> 00:38:05,240 Hey now, we're in the middle. 786 00:38:05,240 --> 00:38:07,559 We're talking about the things. 787 00:38:08,920 --> 00:38:12,680 I feel like the lyrics were what were good the first time. 788 00:38:12,679 --> 00:38:18,759 Yeah, it's the lyrics that were not the problem. 789 00:38:18,759 --> 00:38:20,119 Yeah, the tune was great. 790 00:38:20,119 --> 00:38:20,759 I know. 791 00:38:20,759 --> 00:38:22,839 Hey now, it's the middle. 792 00:38:22,839 --> 00:38:24,279 Come and join us. 793 00:38:24,279 --> 00:38:25,399 Hang in. 794 00:38:25,399 --> 00:38:27,000 Okay, you're better at things than I am. 795 00:38:31,000 --> 00:38:35,000 Amy can rap and just like put random lyrics into any song. 796 00:38:35,559 --> 00:38:36,279 You know what? 797 00:38:36,279 --> 00:38:39,879 It's not a skill that comes in handy as much as you think it would. 798 00:38:39,880 --> 00:38:42,840 Wow, see, I thought you'd be like making mad coin off that. 799 00:38:42,840 --> 00:38:43,720 I know. 800 00:38:43,720 --> 00:38:48,760 It's just kind of sitting unused except for every once in a while here in the middle. 801 00:38:48,760 --> 00:38:49,720 And we're in it. 802 00:38:49,720 --> 00:38:51,400 What are we talking about today? 803 00:38:51,400 --> 00:38:52,119 Stuff. 804 00:38:52,119 --> 00:38:53,320 Probably Patreon. 805 00:38:53,320 --> 00:38:58,519 Patreon.com slash dumb dragon cast is a place where you can go listen to a really cool. 806 00:39:00,599 --> 00:39:01,559 Amy's dying. 807 00:39:05,240 --> 00:39:07,000 That's what you lose your shit at. 808 00:39:07,800 --> 00:39:13,960 It's because in my head he said Patreon.com slash dumb dragon teats. 809 00:39:13,960 --> 00:39:15,800 It sounded like dunk dragons. 810 00:39:20,760 --> 00:39:24,599 Which doesn't make sense for this because they're not going to overheard it yet. 811 00:39:24,599 --> 00:39:26,360 So dumb dragon teats means nothing. 812 00:39:26,360 --> 00:39:31,000 When you hear the episode that we just recorded, it's a side scroller episode. 813 00:39:31,000 --> 00:39:35,480 You'll be able to piece this energy that we've got going on to the exact recording. 814 00:39:36,280 --> 00:39:40,519 Yeah, if you've been on the fence, if you've been on the fence about joining Patreon, 815 00:39:42,119 --> 00:39:47,400 I gotta say Russ really brought a pretty unique energy to the game we just recorded. 816 00:39:47,400 --> 00:39:51,000 And I'd really love it if you could listen to it because if you're a Patreon, 817 00:39:51,000 --> 00:39:53,960 then you can listen to all these extra games that we play. 818 00:39:53,960 --> 00:39:55,880 And some of them are pretty weird. 819 00:39:55,880 --> 00:39:58,280 You're going to see a different side of Russ. 820 00:39:58,280 --> 00:40:02,920 If you like DM side, you're going to see character side and go, 821 00:40:03,559 --> 00:40:05,000 the hell is going on here? 822 00:40:06,760 --> 00:40:10,840 What happens when Tom yes ends everything Russ says in an episode? 823 00:40:11,880 --> 00:40:16,920 I didn't have a lot of prep, so there was a lot of yes ending. 824 00:40:16,920 --> 00:40:17,400 It's true. 825 00:40:17,400 --> 00:40:19,079 He showed us his notes. 826 00:40:19,079 --> 00:40:23,159 Where we don't prep many things, Patreon.com slash dumb dragon cast. 827 00:40:24,360 --> 00:40:28,440 Long story short, we do have another podcast over there called The Adventures of. 828 00:40:28,440 --> 00:40:30,119 It is DM'd by Tom Laird. 829 00:40:30,119 --> 00:40:33,079 And he lets me go a little bit bonkers in that. 830 00:40:33,960 --> 00:40:37,960 He just announced that we go hard on him, so I'm going to let him do whatever he wants, 831 00:40:37,960 --> 00:40:40,920 which is great until we get to the point where we're at now 832 00:40:41,880 --> 00:40:43,880 where I can't say because nobody's listening to it. 833 00:40:43,880 --> 00:40:46,280 Even Carla and I can't really rein him in. 834 00:40:46,280 --> 00:40:47,639 He's impossible. 835 00:40:47,639 --> 00:40:49,400 It's a good thing he DMs all the time. 836 00:40:49,400 --> 00:40:52,760 Tom tried there for a minute with some characters and it just 837 00:40:52,760 --> 00:40:54,519 steamrolled over top of them too. 838 00:40:54,519 --> 00:40:55,800 Just couldn't stand up to it. 839 00:40:55,800 --> 00:40:57,159 Rules are there ain't no rules. 840 00:40:57,159 --> 00:40:57,960 Exactly. 841 00:40:57,960 --> 00:41:00,440 Patreon.com slash dumb dragon cast. 842 00:41:00,440 --> 00:41:01,800 We hope to see you over there. 843 00:41:01,800 --> 00:41:04,039 Not only for that show, but we do some great hangouts. 844 00:41:04,039 --> 00:41:04,920 We play some games. 845 00:41:04,920 --> 00:41:08,199 We get to know you, our listeners and our patrons. 846 00:41:08,199 --> 00:41:09,880 And we have a lot of fun over there. 847 00:41:09,880 --> 00:41:11,000 So we hope to see you. 848 00:41:12,039 --> 00:41:17,960 And now let's get back to the episode where Lex and Margaret and Arvid and 849 00:41:17,960 --> 00:41:20,760 Perseus are doing some wild and crazy things. 850 00:41:20,760 --> 00:41:21,079 Love you. 851 00:41:21,079 --> 00:41:21,720 Bye. 852 00:41:21,720 --> 00:41:22,199 Okay, bye. 853 00:41:22,200 --> 00:41:27,880 Thank you, Margaret, for that. 854 00:41:28,600 --> 00:41:29,320 Yes, of course. 855 00:41:31,640 --> 00:41:33,720 This does all seem familiar. 856 00:41:34,600 --> 00:41:35,560 I've been here. 857 00:41:35,560 --> 00:41:39,720 This is, I mean, I knew when I saw Marvin, but this is the place. 858 00:41:40,840 --> 00:41:45,560 Do you have any memory of coming through this corridor or? 859 00:41:47,800 --> 00:41:51,640 I mean, yes, flashes, but was that me? 860 00:41:51,639 --> 00:41:53,960 Was that the parts of me? 861 00:41:53,960 --> 00:41:55,559 I do have memories of that. 862 00:41:57,079 --> 00:41:57,960 It's hard to say. 863 00:41:57,960 --> 00:41:59,960 Everything is such a blur and a jumble. 864 00:42:02,119 --> 00:42:07,559 As you walk down the halls, there are a series of doors that are opened up. 865 00:42:07,559 --> 00:42:15,000 And it looks like this place hasn't been well kept up for quite some time. 866 00:42:15,879 --> 00:42:17,400 It's, you're not sure. 867 00:42:17,400 --> 00:42:21,159 There's no, I think the dust is thick along the floor. 868 00:42:21,159 --> 00:42:22,599 The dirt is thick along the floor. 869 00:42:22,599 --> 00:42:25,159 There's no footsteps except for the ones that you're making. 870 00:42:26,519 --> 00:42:30,440 Doorways along the hall that you're walking down and offshoots. 871 00:42:31,559 --> 00:42:37,000 You see into a couple and it, the first one you look into is 872 00:42:37,960 --> 00:42:40,119 more or less like a sitting, eating room. 873 00:42:41,079 --> 00:42:50,039 Lex, you have flashes of a fire illuminated in the middle of this room, 874 00:42:50,119 --> 00:42:53,960 where there are just long since burned out embers. 875 00:42:56,440 --> 00:43:02,360 You're seated around with several people, not just one, not just Marvam, 876 00:43:02,360 --> 00:43:10,840 not just your creator, Nick O'Real, but many people in this place. 877 00:43:13,800 --> 00:43:14,840 This is all familiar. 878 00:43:14,840 --> 00:43:18,679 I remember now we were in this room and there were several people, 879 00:43:18,679 --> 00:43:25,960 some in a uniform, just some regular looking folks and Nick O'Real, I remember his face now. 880 00:43:28,839 --> 00:43:35,239 Russ, do I remember like in this building, if I was here, like what I remember where, 881 00:43:36,759 --> 00:43:39,719 I don't know, like where his room is or where the, 882 00:43:39,719 --> 00:43:40,759 where's the TV room? 883 00:43:40,759 --> 00:43:41,799 Like, where is he chilling? 884 00:43:42,359 --> 00:43:42,859 Yeah. 885 00:43:43,740 --> 00:43:50,539 Yeah, you do, the further in you go and the more flashes you get room by room, 886 00:43:50,539 --> 00:43:57,660 you get a clearer image of Nick O'Real and you get a clearer sense of who he was to you 887 00:43:57,660 --> 00:43:58,860 and what he was to you. 888 00:44:00,539 --> 00:44:06,220 The further in you go, each room flashes, you have interactions with people 889 00:44:07,180 --> 00:44:11,980 who work there or who did work there rather. 890 00:44:11,980 --> 00:44:21,260 You get flashes of people who were similar to you in a way, pieces of people, 891 00:44:23,740 --> 00:44:29,580 but none that exhibit the same interaction level that you had. 892 00:44:30,140 --> 00:44:33,660 Like you were almost tasked to work with these new 893 00:44:34,460 --> 00:44:40,059 people, for lack of a better term, to try and coax something out of them. 894 00:44:40,059 --> 00:44:45,420 Like you see that as you walk through, you see kind of more medical-like facilities. 895 00:44:45,420 --> 00:44:50,940 They're not medical because you're in a cave, but that seems to be what these rooms were like. 896 00:44:50,940 --> 00:44:57,339 Everybody else, as Lex is describing these scenes to you, you see like broken down 897 00:44:57,340 --> 00:45:09,500 tables and equipment, long since expired or dried up medicinal or magical items. 898 00:45:11,820 --> 00:45:21,019 And Lex, your feeling of Nick O'Real is not one of hatred the further in you go. 899 00:45:21,019 --> 00:45:30,059 The deeper you go, the more fatherly you remember him being. 900 00:45:30,940 --> 00:45:37,820 You see his face, he's a taller man, a little heavier set, round face, 901 00:45:38,699 --> 00:45:42,460 balding white hair that flows long down. 902 00:45:46,059 --> 00:45:50,059 And you see his smile the longer you're here. 903 00:45:50,779 --> 00:45:56,380 And it brings a certain warmth to your normally cold demeanor, 904 00:45:56,380 --> 00:45:59,099 not your demeanor is cold, but normally cold body. 905 00:46:04,059 --> 00:46:11,900 I remember him now not with anger or even confusion. 906 00:46:11,900 --> 00:46:16,860 I remember him being kind to me. 907 00:46:20,539 --> 00:46:22,380 Do you remember why you left? 908 00:46:25,019 --> 00:46:31,259 I don't. I remember there were others like me and we were sort of working together. 909 00:46:31,259 --> 00:46:33,980 And now that I'm here, I don't have these. 910 00:46:34,619 --> 00:46:40,539 I thought I would get here and I would feel angry and I would feel vengeful. 911 00:46:41,980 --> 00:46:49,820 But now I just have sort of warm memories of him and that's it. 912 00:46:49,820 --> 00:46:54,700 I don't know, I can't trust my own memories because they're so sporadic, 913 00:46:54,700 --> 00:46:58,940 but maybe he wasn't an evil man. 914 00:47:00,940 --> 00:47:04,940 Although there is some inherent evil in what he did. 915 00:47:06,380 --> 00:47:09,420 Well, perhaps if we dig a little further through here, 916 00:47:09,420 --> 00:47:12,380 you might find something as to why maybe it was for, 917 00:47:12,940 --> 00:47:19,820 you know, bad, what's the phrase, bad intentions towards a good end. 918 00:47:22,380 --> 00:47:22,860 Perhaps. 919 00:47:25,019 --> 00:47:28,780 As you're all walking through, I presume you're walking with, 920 00:47:30,700 --> 00:47:35,660 you know, keeping aware of your surroundings and stuff, not just waltzing through. 921 00:47:36,780 --> 00:47:40,619 Yeah, I think, yeah, I'm like pretty like looking at things and even kind of like 922 00:47:40,619 --> 00:47:44,460 touching the walls, trying to like, as things are coming back to me. 923 00:47:44,460 --> 00:47:44,619 Yeah. 924 00:47:44,619 --> 00:47:48,699 And even detecting magic every now and then just to see if anything here still seems to be 925 00:47:49,739 --> 00:47:50,460 potent at all. 926 00:47:51,099 --> 00:47:54,539 Margaret, as you're detecting magic, you know, very early on, 927 00:47:57,500 --> 00:47:59,420 everything's like there's nothing there. 928 00:47:59,420 --> 00:48:04,699 Like it's just a cold, empty room, cold empty rooms in the side of a mountain. 929 00:48:05,500 --> 00:48:09,659 The deeper in you all go into this mountainside, 930 00:48:11,019 --> 00:48:19,099 Lex, you start to get a feeling that you are nearing Nick O'Real's office or quarters 931 00:48:21,339 --> 00:48:24,619 or a common gathering place. 932 00:48:24,619 --> 00:48:32,859 And Margaret, you get a sense of as you enter this last room, all of you 933 00:48:33,500 --> 00:48:36,779 at the end of this long winding hallway through this facility, 934 00:48:37,260 --> 00:48:45,900 you sense kind of in this room that's coming up, it's dark, dimly, well, dimly lit based on your 935 00:48:45,900 --> 00:48:51,340 light, you can't quite make out everything that's in there, you see shadows, but you 936 00:48:51,340 --> 00:48:59,500 also get a sense of kind of an illusory magic that's emanating from this room, not in a huge 937 00:48:59,500 --> 00:49:05,420 strong wave, but in just kind of it's lingering throughout this room that's coming up, 938 00:49:06,380 --> 00:49:07,420 but not anywhere else. 939 00:49:09,340 --> 00:49:15,180 I'm reading something from this room coming up, just be careful when you go in. 940 00:49:15,740 --> 00:49:20,700 I will. This was his study where he did all of his 941 00:49:23,019 --> 00:49:28,059 thinking, his writing, I don't know, I remember him being in this room a lot. 942 00:49:29,420 --> 00:49:30,780 And I'll open the door. 943 00:49:31,740 --> 00:49:36,220 Lex, you walk through the door. Margaret, as Lex walks through the door, 944 00:49:38,380 --> 00:49:44,460 there's this wave of illusory magic that just kind of spreads out and into the room and 945 00:49:44,460 --> 00:49:51,820 everybody sees the wave kind of as it rolls through the room, it cleans it up. So it's 946 00:49:51,820 --> 00:49:56,860 like the room was the same as every other room you passed, chairs and everything turned 947 00:49:56,940 --> 00:50:02,539 over, covered in dirt and dust. But then as the illusion rolls over, it's like this 948 00:50:02,539 --> 00:50:14,059 room is back together. And you see a man, an older man, seated in a large armchair by a 949 00:50:16,860 --> 00:50:24,860 wood-burning fireplace. Seated in the chair beside him is Lex. 950 00:50:26,860 --> 00:50:32,380 You see a scene play out in front of you. It's the two of you, Lex and Nikaril, 951 00:50:33,660 --> 00:50:37,099 talking back and forth. You can't quite make out what they're saying. It's low, 952 00:50:39,740 --> 00:50:50,140 drawn-out conversation. Everything is very above board, very warm, very encouraging. 953 00:50:50,699 --> 00:50:58,379 Lex, you have memories that wash back of this conversation. And the gist of what Nikaril is 954 00:50:58,379 --> 00:51:08,940 imparting with you is that you are special and meant to do good in this world. And he 955 00:51:08,940 --> 00:51:18,300 tried to build you and build others like you in order to get in with a new 956 00:51:19,659 --> 00:51:26,940 power, a new employer, he says, time and time again. He doesn't tell you who that is, 957 00:51:29,820 --> 00:51:36,139 but he tells you he can't do it anymore. What he was hoping to do was to give you the 958 00:51:36,139 --> 00:51:41,659 powers that you have, but not have them corrupt your new body. 959 00:51:43,739 --> 00:51:50,299 As you interpret that, he doesn't want you to fall apart as you are able to cast these healing 960 00:51:50,299 --> 00:52:00,699 spells. Some time passes in this conversation and there's a loud bang that is heard from 961 00:52:00,700 --> 00:52:08,140 the direction of the hallway. Margaret, if you're still detecting magic, you can tell 962 00:52:08,140 --> 00:52:14,380 that it's still part of whatever this illusion is. It's like it's captured a scene, a moment 963 00:52:14,380 --> 00:52:22,620 in time. You hear echoing screams coming from down the hallway, footsteps running, 964 00:52:23,420 --> 00:52:31,819 and Nikaril's face goes stark. He has a sense of like a quick urgency of panic. 965 00:52:35,819 --> 00:52:40,940 Like the blood rushes from his face and he stands up and he pulls Lex and says, 966 00:52:40,940 --> 00:52:51,500 you need to leave now. And he rushes out and down the hall and you see in rooms, 967 00:52:52,539 --> 00:53:00,780 undead warriors, soldiers striking down others in this facility and he pushes past you. 968 00:53:00,780 --> 00:53:06,059 You get into a fight as he ushers you down this hallway. 969 00:53:06,139 --> 00:53:14,059 The scene leaves you, he sends you off, and he runs back to his chamber, closes and locks 970 00:53:14,059 --> 00:53:25,099 the door behind him. He begins writing a note on a table. The door bursts open behind him 971 00:53:25,099 --> 00:53:34,139 and in rush, six undead warriors. Swords and spears drawn, and in behind them, almost floats 972 00:53:36,139 --> 00:53:46,219 a dark elf with long white hair. He doesn't say anything, but the look on Nikaril's face 973 00:53:46,780 --> 00:53:48,380 with long white hair. 974 00:53:51,100 --> 00:53:54,620 He doesn't say anything, but the look on Nikaril's face 975 00:53:57,260 --> 00:54:04,460 is resolute. He knows what's about to happen. And as the warriors rush towards him, 976 00:54:05,820 --> 00:54:14,780 a small smile, a smirk comes across this dark elf's face and the scene immediately cuts. 977 00:54:16,220 --> 00:54:22,220 And you're back in this dust covered, tossed and turned room. 978 00:54:25,820 --> 00:54:33,500 So I was wrong. I wasn't here for vengeance or maybe I do need vengeance, 979 00:54:33,500 --> 00:54:38,860 but not against my creator, against those people that killed him. 980 00:54:38,860 --> 00:54:47,500 And yes, it seemed like he created you to make things a little better in a situation 981 00:54:47,500 --> 00:54:49,500 where he saw things going very badly. 982 00:54:52,620 --> 00:54:55,660 Can we look and see if that note he was writing is 983 00:54:56,860 --> 00:54:59,820 there? Yeah, everybody can make an investigation check. 984 00:55:02,539 --> 00:55:06,140 I love investigating. 19. 985 00:55:06,139 --> 00:55:11,579 9. I'm too distraught. 16. 986 00:55:13,659 --> 00:55:20,299 Perseus. Everybody begins looking through. Lex, you immediately go to the desk. 987 00:55:21,739 --> 00:55:28,619 You don't find anything inside the drawers and strewn about, broken pens and torn up paper, 988 00:55:28,619 --> 00:55:32,779 but nothing that was explicitly written on or you recognize from that scene. 989 00:55:33,740 --> 00:55:40,300 Perseus, you begin searching through some piles off to the side, 990 00:55:42,780 --> 00:55:51,100 some of which have been burnt up and you find a scrap of paper. It's been torn. It's been singed. 991 00:55:51,900 --> 00:55:55,900 But the two line is too Lee. 992 00:55:56,059 --> 00:56:04,539 Too Lee. And then it issues a list of people. 993 00:56:06,619 --> 00:56:13,019 And at the top of that list, partially torn, says Thelonious Prims. 994 00:56:18,460 --> 00:56:24,780 Well, my friends, I feel like my work here is now I think only just beginning. 995 00:56:24,780 --> 00:56:30,700 I need to find this Thelonious Prims and get justice. 996 00:56:32,700 --> 00:56:35,740 Well, I'm in. I don't know about about you others. 997 00:56:36,940 --> 00:56:38,140 Oh, I'm happy to help. 998 00:56:39,340 --> 00:56:43,740 Yes, this person seems to command just the type of thing I am, 999 00:56:44,780 --> 00:56:46,620 well, still kicking around to deal with. 1000 00:56:46,619 --> 00:56:54,940 Well, Lex or Lee or Granger or whatever your name might be tomorrow. 1001 00:56:57,900 --> 00:56:58,779 Where to next? 1002 00:57:01,579 --> 00:57:03,980 I think we need to leave this place 1003 00:57:05,339 --> 00:57:08,460 and go back to that town and get some more information. 1004 00:57:16,619 --> 00:57:25,900 Music and sound effects from today's episode can be found at EpidemicSound.com. 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