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[2.2s] Hey, how attached are you to the fact of Perseus being a rat?
[6.3s] I don't think his being a rat is of particular importance.
[10.6s] Great, enough said.
[11.9s] Margaret, I'm going on an adventure to find my creator.
[17.7s] And if you're not busy, it would be great if you could come.
[20.9s] Well, I could go for a little walkabout.
[23.4s] I did it!
[24.8s] Oh, I'm sorry, I didn't realize you had company.
[27.4s] Um.
[27.8s] Lex, it's me, Perseus.
[30.2s] Perseus?
[31.7s] Yeah, it's me!
[32.6s] We live in a world of magic and fantasy.
[34.7s] We can do whatever we wish.
[36.4s] You look over and you see a familiar face, and you're reminded of a kobold
[45.7s] whose name is Marvin Dundalfoot.
[48.8s] Hey, hey, I could get you a sweet deal.
[51.0s] Just look at this watch here.
[53.0s] And as you kind of focus on him, he has a feeling that somebody's watching him.
[59.4s] He looks over and he sees you, and then you see a look of panic in his eyes.
[63.8s] I will, I'll say that later.
[67.2s] And he bolts down the street.
[68.3s] We've got to follow that kobold.
[69.5s] Yeah, follow.
[85.3s] Welcome to Dumbgeons and Dragons.
[87.0s] We're a D&D 5th Edition Actual Play Podcast, and I'm your dungeon master, Russ More.
[91.9s] And with me today is Tom Laird.
[94.4s] That's me, and I play Perseus the Rat kind of halfling guy.
[99.2s] Also with me, Carla Maxted.
[101.2s] That's me, and I play Lex the Frankenstein-y cool monster dude guy.
[108.3s] And joining us again today, we can't get rid of him because we love him so much,
[112.8s] it's Rev from the Crit Show.
[114.8s] Hi, I play Margaret Broadcloak, and I'm still sleeping on Russ's couch.
[121.0s] I made you stay for another two weeks after that last one in order to make sure we got
[125.5s] this one just right on time.
[127.1s] He's like, sorry, we only record this specific story every other week, so just hang out.
[132.0s] That's how it works.
[133.6s] Yeah, but we got that closet super organized.
[136.6s] Thank you for that.
[137.8s] Where you can organize people's closets if you really want to is over on Patreon.
[142.4s] We'll post a link and you can organize a closet.
[145.5s] Why not?
[146.6s] Patreon.com slash Dumb Dragoncast.
[149.3s] But when you are a patron, you get an episode dedicated to you like today's patron,
[155.8s] Ty Zuniga.
[157.9s] Hey, thanks, Ty.
[159.4s] Thank you, Ty.
[161.5s] You can find out more at Patreon.com slash Dumb Dragoncast.
[165.0s] And now, fuck it, let's play DND.
[173.1s] We pick up with our friends, Lex, Margaret, Perseus, and Arvid, taking chase down the
[180.0s] streets of the town of Glickfast, which is at the base of the Baldrick Mountains,
[184.9s] pushing their way through the crowd.
[186.9s] And now we're going to enter what we call a chase.
[189.8s] We've never done this specifically before, and I'm very excited about it, everybody.
[195.1s] Look at Russ with his game mechanics.
[196.6s] I know.
[197.4s] It's very exciting.
[198.6s] I feel like Tom and I are both like, oh, no.
[201.1s] No, they actually have chase mechanics in the Dungeon Master's Guide.
[207.0s] Who knew?
[208.2s] Fun.
[209.0s] That sounds like an NPC's name.
[211.5s] Chase mechanics.
[212.4s] Chase mechanics.
[214.8s] It's going to be now.
[215.7s] Please write that down, Russ.
[217.4s] Amazing.
[218.2s] Chase mechanics.
[220.2s] Got it.
[221.6s] I feel like he didn't actually write that down.
[223.1s] He just set it in the tone like when you're blowing someone off on the phone
[226.6s] and you're like, yeah, 7 p.m. and then.
[231.7s] They're on to me.
[232.4s] They're on to me.
[233.8s] OK, so we'll run down kind of because we've never done this before.
[237.4s] We'll run down a little bit of how this is going to work.
[240.4s] So a chase requires a quarry and at least one pursuer.
[244.1s] So we have a quarry, which is the Kobold Marvum Dundalfoot.
[250.6s] And four pursuers in this case.
[253.3s] Any participants not already in initiative order must roll initiative.
[257.8s] So we're going to get everybody to roll that sweet initiative.
[262.9s] Oh, my God.
[264.2s] A six.
[266.3s] Seventeen.
[268.0s] You're much more.
[269.1s] You guys are much more.
[270.1s] This seven year old woman is much more fleet of foot than my big lumbering body, I guess.
[274.7s] It's all right.
[275.2s] Arvid got worse.
[275.8s] And I guess the halfling was a former rat, so he's pretty good.
[279.2s] And you're just a little scurrier.
[281.0s] You're so quick.
[282.8s] I don't know what you're going to do when you get to the Kobold.
[284.8s] Way ahead of the rest of us, but let's see.
[287.0s] Very problematic.
[289.6s] Marvum was across like a crowded area.
[294.4s] By the time Lex set off and we picked up, he's probably 80 feet ahead of Lex.
[303.5s] And then Lex took off.
[305.2s] Who took off first behind Lex?
[307.7s] I did.
[308.4s] Margaret will say you're about five feet behind.
[313.5s] Perseus and Arvid will say are pretty close to each other.
[317.4s] Running the chase.
[318.1s] Participants in the chase are strongly motivated to use the dash action every round,
[322.5s] which you use your action, which you would normally take to attack or cast a magic spell
[328.5s] to move double your speed during the chase.
[333.8s] And then pursuers who stop to cast spells and make attacks run the risk of losing their quarry.
[338.3s] So you can run 30 feet, but if you cast a spell, they may bolt ahead on their next turn,
[342.6s] which means you can't exactly catch them.
[344.6s] During the chase, a participant can freely use the dash action a number of times equal to
[349.0s] three plus your constitution modifier.
[352.4s] Each additional dash action it takes during the chase requires the creature to succeed
[357.5s] a DC 10 constitution check at the end of its turn or gain one level of exhaustion.
[364.1s] The participant drops out if they reach level five.
[367.4s] Since its speed becomes zero, you can also die.
[371.9s] Don't do that.
[373.4s] A creature can remove levels of exhaustion it gained during the chase by finishing a
[378.0s] short or long rest, which we're not going to really worry about right now.
[381.9s] So you have free reign of dash until you use up your number?
[385.7s] Yeah.
[386.2s] And then you have to roll for it?
[387.4s] So if you have four, once you hit four, you're donezo.
[393.4s] Spells and attacks.
[394.1s] A chase participant can make an attack or cast a spell against other creatures within range.
[398.4s] Apply the normal rules for cover terrain and all that stuff.
[401.8s] Chase participants can't normally make opportunity attacks against each other since
[405.7s] they all are assumed to be moving in the same direction.
[408.1s] So if you catch up to them and they move out of range, just based on how initiative works,
[413.8s] you can't then swipe at them the same way opportunity attacks would work.
[419.4s] Ending a chase if one side stops.
[422.1s] That ends the chase.
[424.3s] If neither side gives up, the quarry makes a stealth check at the end of each round
[429.3s] after every participant in the chase has taken its turn.
[432.1s] The result is compared to the passive wisdom perception.
[435.8s] So if they make a stealth check and nobody sees them disappear, you lose them.
[441.5s] So that said, can I get everybody's passive perception, please?
[444.8s] 24.
[447.2s] Wow.
[448.4s] Good fucking luck, Marvam.
[451.1s] Nine.
[453.0s] Oh wow.
[453.7s] 22.
[454.2s] He's just got those little baby eyes.
[457.3s] 22, 24.
[458.3s] So we're never going to lose and Arvind is 13.
[462.8s] At the end of each person's turn, I'm going to get you to roll a d20,
[467.9s] which is going to cause a complication for the next person.
[474.2s] We shall begin.
[477.0s] The four of you take off down the street following Marvam.
[479.8s] He's pushing out of the way.
[480.7s] He says, move, move, get out of the way, get out of the way.
[482.7s] And he dashes ahead.
[484.0s] So he moves 60 feet, just bolting through the streets, dodging and weaving as he goes.
[491.4s] At the end of his turn, he's going to roll a d20, which is going to be a 14.
[498.6s] No complication occurs.
[500.6s] Perseus, what do you do?
[502.2s] So you are currently 90 feet behind him.
[507.7s] I dash.
[508.6s] I dash the living hell out of it, Russ.
[510.4s] All right.
[510.8s] And you are halfling, so you move 50.
[513.4s] Let's get, yep, 50.
[515.0s] Okay, and roll a d20 for me, please.
[518.0s] Okay, it's an 11.
[520.2s] Perseus, you charge ahead.
[522.6s] Margaret, it's your turn.
[524.2s] Yeah, I will dash as well, start running through the crowd,
[527.4s] trying to chase after Marvam.
[529.8s] Okay, so you dash ahead 60.
[531.4s] So you are within 25 feet at your new current position.
[535.3s] Roll a d20 for me, please.
[539.4s] One.
[544.2s] Okay.
[544.4s] That's never a sound you want your DM to make.
[547.2s] Lex, so you head off.
[549.8s] Margaret and Perseus kind of bolt ahead and are running past you.
[555.1s] What do you do?
[557.0s] I also dash.
[558.8s] Okay, you begin to take off, running full tilt.
[562.1s] You see Marvam.
[563.0s] You're catching up to him.
[564.0s] Make a dexterity check, please.
[568.2s] That is a 20.
[569.1s] As you're running, this huge horse cart jumps out in front of you across street.
[577.1s] You do get over it.
[578.1s] How do you get over it?
[580.5s] Maybe I slide under it.
[581.9s] Maybe I like grab the thing and slide between the wheels,
[585.0s] like be first and then like get up and keep running.
[587.7s] Real fast and furious stuff.
[589.3s] That's exactly.
[592.2s] Yeah, you as without losing a beat, you slide under and you
[596.5s] are now within 20 feet of Marvam.
[599.6s] I roll a d20, please.
[602.7s] Two.
[604.7s] Okay, it's Arvid's turn.
[606.7s] Arvid is following as quickly as he can, his robes flowing behind him.
[612.4s] As he's trying to keep pace with you, you slide underneath this trolley, this horse cart.
[619.2s] He tries to go around it and there's this huge crowd that is just moving in behind it.
[624.6s] He gets blocked and he's slowed by 10 feet.
[631.6s] I was really hoping there'd be like a farmer stand with a bunch of oranges.
[636.9s] Oranges everywhere as he crashes into it.
[639.6s] Are moving panes of glass somehow?
[641.8s] Sure, yeah.
[642.6s] Good option as well.
[644.6s] He has rolled an 18, so there is no complication for Marvam.
[649.9s] Marvam looks behind and sees everybody gaining on him.
[655.3s] He takes a quick turn, shoots down a side street and is running as fast as he can.
[663.4s] He is also dashing.
[665.1s] Okay, and how far away from him am I now?
[668.2s] So you're 100 feet.
[670.9s] So yeah, this little halfling legs is not a great thing for me.
[676.4s] Okay, yeah, I guess I'll dash again and try to get to that corner that he turned down.
[681.8s] You absolutely make up.
[683.0s] He's about 50 feet ahead of you now.
[685.9s] You're losing ground on him at this point.
[689.0s] Roll the d20, please.
[692.2s] 10.
[693.4s] Okay, Margaret, you are currently 85 feet behind, so he's taking a sharp turn.
[702.0s] Make a dexterity saving throw.
[707.4s] 16.
[708.6s] As you come around this corner, falling behind Perseus and Marvam,
[712.5s] these vendors are right around the corner and you narrowly miss running right into them.
[718.4s] One of them, you know, you kind of clip his arm as you're running by
[722.5s] and he yells out to you and says, watch where you're going there.
[725.6s] And I actually have one of his apples from his carton.
[728.1s] I throw a coin over my shoulder as I go.
[732.2s] Awesome.
[734.7s] And roll a d20, please.
[738.2s] Two.
[740.0s] Sweet rolls.
[741.5s] You guys are killing it.
[743.5s] Lex.
[744.2s] I'm going to dash again.
[745.7s] You're around the corner.
[747.8s] There's the guy yelling who Margaret just kind of clipped.
[751.5s] A coin is flying through the air.
[754.1s] You're catching up and passing Perseus who looks like he's maybe running out of breath.
[759.7s] And the further down you go, like the crowd begins to get, it's just filling up the street.
[769.5s] So make either an athletics or an acrobatics check as you're trying to move your way through this crowd.
[777.0s] Well, let's say athletics.
[778.5s] So that's a 23.
[780.6s] Okay.
[783.9s] I do a handstand over the crowd.
[786.9s] Well, I mean, yeah, basically how athletics works because of strengths
[790.3s] is you're just shoving people out of the way.
[794.2s] I'm like a big linebacker, right?
[795.8s] I'm just like barreling my way through this crowd.
[798.5s] It's that scene where we just see like from the crowd's point of view
[801.7s] and just people flying into the air, but we don't see you.
[806.4s] So you're making way for Arvid who is trailing a little bit behind.
[809.8s] Now roll a d20, please.
[813.9s] Nine.
[814.9s] Arvid finally pushes his way through the crowd that he was working through.
[819.0s] When a guard sees him running and yells out to try and stop him.
[825.9s] Hey, you stop there.
[828.7s] Seems like somebody he has mistaken him for somebody else.
[832.3s] I'll let you folks decide if he continues to move,
[835.1s] he may be attacked by the guard or we could have him stop and deal with the guard,
[840.5s] which would take him probably out.
[842.8s] I don't know.
[843.4s] What do you think Arvid would do?
[844.6s] I don't I feel like he makes some fucking awkward small talk with a guard, to be honest.
[849.9s] Yeah, like and they would just let him go.
[853.1s] Okay, Arvid taken back stops in front of this guard who is holding a spear in his hand.
[860.7s] You look behind you, Lex, you see him stopped talking to the guard.
[865.5s] Nothing has happened for Marvam who dashes again
[869.1s] and he is going to roll for Perseus, which is a five.
[873.1s] So Perseus, you're trailing ever so farther behind.
[877.1s] Make a dexterity saving throw and tell me what you do.
[881.1s] Okay, it's a 19.
[883.9s] Okay, are you dashing?
[885.8s] Are you trying to do something?
[886.7s] What are you what are you doing?
[888.5s] How close is Lex to me?
[891.3s] Lex is 30 feet ahead of you.
[895.4s] I really wish it was 20 feet.
[897.9s] I have it written down here.
[899.2s] I have to follow it.
[900.3s] It's a chase.
[901.6s] No, fair enough.
[903.1s] All right.
[903.5s] Well, that changes what I'm going to do then.
[905.0s] Hang on.
[905.3s] Will I figure something else out?
[906.8s] No, because you're falling behind.
[908.2s] Nobody's in 20 within 20 feet of you at this moment.
[910.7s] But I mean, I kind of had the first step.
[912.9s] So I mean, you can move 30 feet and then do something still.
[917.5s] Well, I can only move 25 feet.
[919.4s] That would put you within range of Margaret.
[922.8s] Okay, I'll do it.
[923.9s] I'll I'll move up to Margaret and I will cast Spider Climb on Margaret.
[931.1s] Yes, Betty White.
[933.2s] So until the spell ends, one willing creature you touch gains the ability to move up down
[936.9s] and across vertical surfaces and upside down along ceilings while leaving its hands free.
[941.1s] Also gains a climbing speed equal to its walking speed.
[943.5s] So if there's anything that Margaret then needs to get over top of,
[947.2s] I feel like she can do it pretty easily.
[948.7s] I think so.
[949.4s] All right.
[950.8s] So you've moved 25 feet, which places you 75 feet now behind Marvam.
[957.1s] I forgot to roll the stealth stuff.
[959.7s] So we'll do that at the end of the next one.
[962.6s] But Margaret, you now have Spider Climb.
[965.4s] So roll a d20 there, Perseus.
[968.8s] Go get him, Margaret.
[970.3s] And that's a 12.
[971.9s] Nothing impedes you this round.
[973.9s] What do you do with your newfound spider abilities?
[978.7s] So is the fleeing cobalt like in a straight line in front of us right now?
[985.9s] Yeah, it's a relatively packed crowd.
[989.1s] But yeah, you can see his head kind of bobbing up and down
[991.8s] as he's kind of peeking behind him as he's running down the street.
[995.9s] Okay.
[996.5s] So yeah, I'm going to dash again.
[1001.6s] And I think because we aren't making, like we're not catching up.
[1004.3s] All we're doing is kind of keeping the same distance.
[1006.7s] So far you're even keel, yeah.
[1009.7s] So I think that having been given this gift by Perseus,
[1013.5s] I'm actually going to action surge and move again
[1018.3s] so that I can run past him and get in front of him.
[1021.5s] Okay, so that puts you 15 feet ahead of him if you take the full movement.
[1029.1s] Yeah, I'll take the full movement that way.
[1031.3s] Next time if he gets past, I might be able to catch up to him again.
[1035.4s] But I'm going to try to like stop and block him now.
[1037.8s] Okay.
[1039.1s] So you are trying to block for his next movement.
[1042.5s] He's going to have disadvantage on that stealth check
[1044.9s] because you're right in front of him.
[1046.9s] And if you could roll me a d20 for Lex.
[1051.5s] Eight.
[1052.4s] Lex, as you're running down, you see Margaret take this huge jolt
[1056.3s] and get out in front of Marvam.
[1059.0s] And out in front of you, a hunched over old man comes out and steps in your way.
[1067.1s] Then he's reaching his hand out for a coin.
[1069.5s] Could you just spare just a little bit?
[1073.0s] So you have to make either an athletics, an acrobatics,
[1078.0s] or an intimidation check to slip past this beggar.
[1081.7s] Okay, well, it's going to be acrobatics
[1083.3s] because I don't want to just push over this old man.
[1085.9s] Get out of here, jerk.
[1089.4s] 18 for acrobatics.
[1092.0s] So I can like twist around him, hopefully.
[1094.7s] Yeah, absolutely.
[1095.6s] You twist around him.
[1096.6s] And as you do so, he kind of double takes and looks and says,
[1100.0s] well, fuck you too.
[1105.4s] Roll a d20, please.
[1106.7s] Oh, sorry.
[1107.2s] You're dashing.
[1108.2s] Yeah.
[1108.8s] Yeah, I did.
[1110.3s] 20.
[1113.4s] Okay.
[1113.9s] Nothing happens for...
[1116.5s] Marvam's out.
[1117.5s] Nothing happens for Marvam.
[1118.9s] So we're going to try and at disadvantage,
[1120.8s] he's going to try and stealth away.
[1123.7s] He does not.
[1125.4s] So he now sees you in front of him.
[1128.0s] He is going to try and...
[1132.8s] He's going to try and...
[1133.6s] She's going to take these 30 feet of movement,
[1135.8s] but he's going to try and shove you as he moves by.
[1137.9s] So he'll move 15, shove, and then try and go.
[1140.9s] So this is going to be straight strength against your ac,
[1146.4s] which is not going to be good.
[1147.9s] So that's a nine.
[1149.9s] So he runs into you.
[1154.5s] How do you stop him?
[1156.8s] I think I have my shield out.
[1159.5s] Margaret is a mark of the sentinel.
[1162.3s] And so she just puts the shield out and plants it down.
[1164.8s] So he runs directly into it.
[1166.6s] Kind of like he's barreled down his shoulder
[1169.8s] like he was trying to plow into you
[1171.9s] and just glances up and off and falls to the ground,
[1176.1s] just off to the side as everybody else catches up.
[1179.1s] And the chase is over.
[1181.1s] Oh, God.
[1189.1s] Didn't mean to interrupt you.
[1190.2s] I think we've got a couple of questions for you.
[1192.0s] Oh, who do you think you are stopping people like me?
[1196.5s] Oh, nice to meet you.
[1198.2s] My name is Margaret Broadcloak.
[1199.9s] I've got some friends here who seem to recognize you.
[1202.9s] And boy, it sure seems like you recognized him as well.
[1206.2s] I don't know what you're talking about.
[1207.9s] And then as he turns and sees Lex come up,
[1210.3s] oh, yeah, that's your friend?
[1216.3s] That's correct.
[1217.1s] That's your friend.
[1218.2s] Okay, I'm just going to just stand right here.
[1220.9s] I'll just stand right here just beside this.
[1223.6s] Hey, so Lex now.
[1228.0s] Yes, Lex is my name now.
[1230.3s] Pleasure to meet you, Lex Marvam.
[1233.1s] Marvam, that's me.
[1234.7s] That's what my friends call me.
[1236.9s] I don't think we're meeting for the first time.
[1239.5s] You know me.
[1241.4s] I mean, I've seen you around, you know, it's just.
[1246.8s] Maybe about two years ago.
[1248.2s] Maybe about two years ago.
[1251.2s] Would you say you saw me like this or sort of more separate?
[1257.5s] Well, I mean, you know, who's to say really what?
[1262.2s] I mean, a little bit of column A, a little bit of column B.
[1264.5s] I might have been around when they kind of put you together.
[1269.7s] And then, you know, I mean, you know, bring pieces and stuff.
[1276.1s] Anyways, long story short, how you been?
[1279.7s] What you been up to?
[1280.7s] It's good to see you.
[1283.2s] I don't know that you mean that, but I've been well.
[1286.5s] I have these friends now.
[1288.2s] Yeah, I've come very spry to meet my creator.
[1292.4s] Oh, cool.
[1297.0s] What can you tell me?
[1298.7s] What about my creator?
[1301.9s] You know, what do you?
[1303.1s] What is a creator?
[1304.1s] What are you trying to do here?
[1305.1s] You're trying to like, like intimidate.
[1307.5s] I just want him to like, tell me some stuff about the dude.
[1310.4s] Yeah, you roll.
[1311.1s] You roll me a skill and then we'll that'll dictate how he responds.
[1315.6s] I think intimidation.
[1317.1s] No, well, not great.
[1318.2s] Eleven.
[1321.4s] I'm just so winded.
[1322.6s] It's really, I just.
[1324.4s] Hey, hey, look, once you get yourself
[1327.8s] collected here, maybe we can have a few drinks.
[1329.9s] I'm just going to go.
[1330.7s] I'm just going to check on some things back at the old homestead.
[1335.4s] No, you are definitely not leaving here without giving me some information
[1341.1s] and maybe just guiding my friends and I to where my creator is.
[1344.9s] Yeah, yeah, I get it.
[1346.4s] I get it.
[1349.8s] Mountains up there.
[1351.5s] He's starting to take a few steps back there.
[1353.4s] Margaret and Perseus as Arvid kind of finally makes it up and says,
[1356.8s] oh, that that guard was just delightful.
[1360.7s] Confused me for some other person.
[1365.2s] Well, you do have that look.
[1366.7s] Don't you just have one of those faces looks so familiar.
[1369.9s] Thank you for saying so.
[1372.2s] Perseus pulls out his dagger and kind of starts to point it at Marvam.
[1377.1s] Oh, hey, yeah, wait a second here, buds.
[1380.7s] We don't need to pull out any weapons.
[1383.5s] You just look like you might have been going somewhere
[1385.6s] and I don't think you should be going somewhere right now.
[1387.6s] Roll an intimidation there, Perseus.
[1390.2s] Oh, I would love to.
[1392.6s] Oh, well, it's going to be good.
[1394.3s] Uh, what's the bonus?
[1396.3s] Oh, fuck, it's a 23.
[1398.7s] Look, I wasn't a scared of the big guy because I knew where to pull the stitches
[1402.3s] to just make his arms go all flippy dippy.
[1404.5s] But you you look like you've been in some battles there, friend.
[1407.8s] And he walks over to you and kind of just like pushes your knife just to the side here
[1411.6s] and says, look, you know, we can get to know each other.
[1413.9s] We can be friends.
[1415.6s] We don't have to fight.
[1417.6s] And I hold my other free hand close up to his face
[1423.3s] and it's like dancing electricity is on my fingers.
[1427.1s] Oh, that's cool.
[1432.2s] We cut to a tavern later.
[1437.9s] It says, so you want to meet your you want to meet your creator.
[1442.5s] Yes, I want to know why I was made.
[1445.1s] Why you were you were made as an experiment.
[1448.7s] But for no purpose, just to see if he could do it.
[1454.5s] Is he evil?
[1455.2s] He's evil, right?
[1456.3s] No, he's got to be evil.
[1457.7s] I mean, he sounds a little evil.
[1459.0s] No, don't don't don't look not.
[1463.6s] He's not evil.
[1465.5s] He he was trying out some things
[1472.3s] because he was getting in good with with this guy who, you know,
[1476.4s] I told him he was kind of evil.
[1480.0s] He's like he was trying to just, you know,
[1481.9s] make a push forward in this in this new organization,
[1484.8s] trying to make a way for himself, putting pieces together,
[1489.1s] as you know, seeing if he could bring them back.
[1493.7s] That's how you came about.
[1495.1s] You were kind of his golden child.
[1500.0s] More of a mottled gray child, I think.
[1502.7s] But I see your point.
[1504.3s] What what organization?
[1510.0s] The strict name of it was never exactly divulged
[1513.5s] to your good buddy Marvam over here.
[1516.2s] He he just told me to go out and collect parts.
[1519.2s] So that's what I did.
[1520.4s] I went out and I dug some things up and found some things
[1523.9s] and I stole some things and, you know, slice and dice.
[1526.9s] And then you got pieces to put together a jigsaw.
[1532.6s] I mean, this is a very blase attitude from you, Marvam.
[1535.1s] But I see that you perhaps are just
[1539.8s] you weren't the the brains of the operation, right?
[1543.9s] You were just just a worker bee.
[1546.4s] Yeah, yeah, a worker bee, right?
[1548.5s] And he nudges Perseus.
[1549.8s] He's like, you get it.
[1552.2s] I don't really know what a bee is.
[1554.8s] How about you?
[1555.4s] Lady with the shield, you're very fast.
[1560.2s] You strike me as the type of person who
[1563.5s] doesn't really work for for loyalty or for fame,
[1568.3s] but for coin.
[1570.0s] What if I was just to offer you a number of coins
[1572.6s] to walk us back to the place
[1574.0s] you delivered the things you collected?
[1576.0s] Oh, well, now we're speaking my language here.
[1579.1s] You see, I had a feeling we might be.
[1581.9s] What kind of coins are we talking here?
[1584.0s] These like these like high value,
[1586.3s] highfalutin, high weighted coins.
[1589.9s] I mean, that looks like a good looking shield
[1591.9s] you got there probably cost a pretty penny.
[1595.0s] It's true.
[1595.5s] I make the rounds around various cities,
[1599.2s] helping them out and collecting a little money
[1601.1s] here and there.
[1601.7s] I'm sure you can be more than aptly compensated.
[1604.5s] Interesting, interesting.
[1606.3s] All right.
[1606.7s] Well, I mean, if the if the price is right,
[1609.0s] maybe we can just visit there.
[1610.5s] I mean, you know, who am I to stand
[1612.8s] in front of a family reunion?
[1615.4s] Exactly.
[1615.9s] You're just helping bring a family back together.
[1619.1s] Who could fault you for that?
[1620.7s] You know what?
[1621.3s] That's what they say on my business cards
[1623.7s] is bring in family together.
[1625.6s] Marvam Dundalfoot, Marvam Dundalfoot,
[1630.4s] bring in families together.
[1634.9s] Let's point the slogan.
[1636.6s] You know, it's really catching fire here.
[1639.1s] Marvam, do you know we've been dancing around it,
[1642.6s] but what is the name of my creator?
[1645.2s] He don't even remember the name of the guy
[1647.9s] who created you.
[1649.5s] How did you make it back this far?
[1653.3s] Well, when I left, I recognized the things
[1657.3s] that, you know, I woke up,
[1660.3s] there was no one there.
[1661.3s] I escaped.
[1663.5s] I have vague kind of flashes,
[1665.4s] but it's not like we sat down
[1667.7s] and had a conversation and then I left.
[1670.6s] You, well, I mean, you had many conversations.
[1675.5s] You don't remember any of those?
[1677.9s] It's not like he created you and you were gone.
[1680.3s] Like you were around for a while
[1682.2s] as he trained you and gave you your gifts,
[1688.2s] as he says.
[1691.3s] Well, I don't really remember that.
[1696.2s] I mean, if I saw him,
[1697.4s] maybe I would probably recognize him.
[1699.5s] Or when I see the place,
[1701.0s] I knew that I would recognize it,
[1702.7s] but I don't remember spending quality time
[1708.0s] with my creator.
[1710.1s] All right.
[1710.7s] It's his name is Nick O'Real Katie.
[1718.1s] It's been a while since I've been up
[1719.7s] to his establishment.
[1722.3s] Haven't heard much of him.
[1723.7s] You know, he doesn't have any runners
[1725.5s] coming down lately.
[1727.8s] So if you go up,
[1731.0s] I'm not sure what you're walking into here.
[1735.0s] You haven't been bringing him more?
[1736.8s] He cut me a while ago, you know,
[1738.6s] before you left.
[1739.9s] Well, maybe he's had a change of heart.
[1743.8s] Maybe, maybe.
[1747.2s] All right.
[1747.8s] Well, he looks around to the table.
[1751.0s] He said, do we settle up now
[1752.3s] or do we settle up then?
[1758.2s] I assume that's then.
[1759.9s] OK.
[1761.3s] OK.
[1764.1s] Does that count as a short rest mechanically?
[1767.5s] I don't know how long a short rest is.
[1770.1s] It depends what you all want to do.
[1771.9s] Do you want to like spend the night
[1773.6s] and then go up in the morning?
[1775.0s] You kind of will call it like,
[1776.8s] you know, mid afternoon
[1778.8s] when you were starting
[1779.8s] this chase interrogation thing.
[1782.9s] We could spend the night,
[1783.9s] go fresh in the morning.
[1785.2s] I guess we have to keep him with us, though.
[1787.7s] Yeah.
[1788.6s] He's a real shady character.
[1789.9s] Yeah.
[1790.6s] Maybe we should go now
[1791.7s] while we've got him in hand.
[1793.7s] Yeah.
[1794.4s] I don't want to pay for him
[1795.4s] to stay at an inn with us.
[1796.9s] That's true.
[1798.3s] And nobody wants to share a room with him.
[1800.3s] No.
[1800.7s] No.
[1802.5s] Yeah, we could definitely call it
[1804.3s] a short rest.
[1807.9s] You set out same day
[1810.0s] being led by
[1812.3s] Marvam.
[1813.7s] And you head up into the Baldrick Mountains.
[1817.1s] They are cascading,
[1820.3s] tall mountains
[1821.6s] that stretch the expanse of Fay,
[1824.1s] which is the country you are in.
[1829.6s] You are led deep within these mountains
[1832.8s] following a winding path.
[1835.3s] There aren't many,
[1836.5s] any people that you see coming or going.
[1842.9s] Yeah, it's just up around the bend here
[1844.7s] to the mouth of the cave.
[1848.4s] You've been traveling for
[1851.1s] let's say four or five hours at this point.
[1857.6s] You continue to travel
[1858.8s] for another 30 minutes or so.
[1862.0s] You round a bend
[1863.2s] and you come to the mouth
[1865.6s] of this wide open cave.
[1867.0s] You've traveled up and into
[1868.6s] to one of the mountains
[1873.7s] nearest to the city.
[1876.6s] Says, you go in there,
[1879.8s] kind of go to the back.
[1881.0s] He's got a door.
[1885.3s] I don't know if the knock still works.
[1886.8s] It's like a rick-a-dick-a-dick-a-dick-dick, you know?
[1890.4s] Well, maybe you should come and show us.
[1892.0s] Ah, okay.
[1892.7s] Yeah, sure.
[1894.8s] Okay.
[1896.8s] Got it.
[1899.4s] You all proceed into the mouth of the cave.
[1904.1s] And everybody has dark vision, I presume?
[1908.4s] Sure.
[1910.2s] Or you're a human, aren't you, Margaret?
[1912.2s] I am.
[1913.7s] My mace gives off light.
[1915.1s] Okay, perfect.
[1917.0s] Margaret thinks of everything.
[1920.8s] As it gets to be too beginning to get
[1924.1s] like dim and like, you know,
[1926.7s] where you're straining to see, Margaret,
[1928.5s] you pull out your mace and illuminate the area.
[1932.0s] The light spins out and everybody you see
[1936.8s] bones kind of pushed up and off to the side.
[1940.4s] Like they've been almost like swept off to the side
[1944.4s] of various creatures and humans
[1949.6s] and different humanoids.
[1952.9s] They're in a bundled mess,
[1955.1s] not like somebody sat down and just died there
[1957.2s] and then that's where their skeletons are,
[1959.2s] but just in a bundled mess.
[1960.8s] And the further back you go,
[1963.1s] like Marvam said, you reach a door.
[1969.4s] It's almost like this cave was carved into this mountain
[1972.4s] and then it reaches a flat face
[1974.4s] and then there's a stone door with a handle.
[1979.8s] He says,
[1980.3s] uh, just knock.
[1986.4s] You want me to knock?
[1987.7s] Yes.
[1989.8s] You said you know the knock.
[1991.6s] Okay.
[1994.4s] Okay.
[1995.0s] Yeah, I mean, you're the adventuring types.
[1996.8s] All right.
[1998.1s] He knocks.
[2003.6s] He stands there kind of scuffing his feet,
[2007.2s] looking around at everybody.
[2009.5s] So, any good stories anybody wants to tell while we wait here?
[2019.4s] Was it usually a long wait when you knocked?
[2022.0s] Ah, not usually this long.
[2024.9s] Looks like maybe some people,
[2027.0s] some runners have expired in these here caves.
[2031.2s] Not usually such a clutter of bones.
[2036.2s] I mean, as new as bones can be.
[2039.2s] I mean, they weren't here when you were coming regularly?
[2042.5s] Not previously.
[2043.4s] Like I said, you know,
[2044.8s] around the time that you went poof a couple years ago,
[2049.3s] give or take, that's the last time I was here.
[2051.5s] So he's just maybe doing a new decoration thing.
[2055.7s] You know, I'm just going to try the door.
[2057.2s] I'm just going to see what happens.
[2059.7s] And he reaches for the door and tries to pull on it
[2064.7s] and it doesn't open.
[2065.6s] So, all this way just to come to a locked door.
[2071.7s] Ha, what a story to tell your kids later.
[2075.0s] Can you have kids?
[2076.1s] I don't even know if that's possible.
[2078.4s] I'd like to reach into my, like,
[2082.8s] adventuring sack that I imagine I have with me.
[2086.3s] Okay.
[2087.6s] And I pull out a hollow metal tube
[2090.5s] that measures about one foot long.
[2092.4s] And without knowing really what I'm doing,
[2097.6s] just just like this otherworldly power
[2100.2s] is kind of guiding my hand.
[2102.4s] I strike it and point it at the door
[2108.8s] and a tone issues out from it.
[2115.0s] And if the door is locked, it should now be unlocked.
[2119.2s] Is it knock?
[2120.0s] Is that what you guessed?
[2121.3s] I use my wondrous item, Chime of Opening.
[2125.0s] Ooh, fancy.
[2130.4s] Perfect, yeah.
[2131.2s] It rings out and you hear from the door
[2135.7s] just like this movement of stone.
[2140.0s] And then it kind of cracks open
[2142.2s] and there's a, it doesn't have hinges so to speak,
[2145.4s] but it kind of slides open and like scrapes along the floor
[2148.7s] and is like, wow, I got it gets me one of those.
[2151.9s] Where'd you get it there, friend?
[2154.0s] I'm not really sure.
[2155.2s] Arvid, did you, did you cook this up for me?
[2159.4s] Yes, yes I did.
[2162.7s] Well, it's pretty handy.
[2164.8s] You're so thoughtful, Arvid.
[2166.8s] That's why I gave it to him, really.
[2170.0s] Because I knew we'd need to open the door at some point.
[2173.0s] You're so smart.
[2173.6s] As if by some knowledge that, thank you, thank you.
[2178.1s] Incredible foresight to know
[2180.3s] that somehow we'd need to open a door.
[2183.6s] I mean, I've been on a few adventures
[2185.8s] and there's usually a door in the way.
[2187.8s] Okay, okay.
[2189.7s] Lovebirds, I see, they're just gonna pull the door open.
[2194.4s] After you.
[2195.6s] He pulls the door and it grinds open
[2199.2s] and it's into a dark hallway that extends down before you.
[2203.2s] You don't see any person or any creatures in your way.
[2206.0s] Okay, what do you do?
[2208.8s] Can I, I'm gonna do a perception check to see.
[2211.6s] I mean, we got the door open now,
[2212.8s] but just to make sure there's not, you know,
[2215.2s] a big old trap immediately.
[2219.0s] Uh, 14?
[2223.6s] It appears to be entirely safe.
[2227.6s] Well, we've come all this way.
[2228.8s] I'm going in.
[2230.3s] Yes, yes, after you.
[2231.6s] All right, friends first, here we go.
[2234.4s] He's kind of waving everybody by.
[2236.7s] I mean, we understand you're just gonna leave now.
[2238.9s] You don't need to.
[2240.0s] I still need my payment.
[2241.1s] We said I'd be paid then.
[2242.5s] So I mean, I gotta wait around.
[2245.6s] Maybe I'll just keep the door open.
[2248.0s] Yes, that's fair.
[2248.7s] You can count half your coins while you wait.
[2250.9s] Perfect.
[2251.6s] Thank you.
[2252.6s] And I'll hand him a little, a little pouch.
[2255.9s] Oh, would you look at these here?
[2257.5s] Yeah, key onesies, twosies.
[2260.5s] And as you walk down the hall,
[2262.0s] you hear him counting them out.
[2263.6s] I'll just wait here for you.
[2265.1s] No worries.
[2273.1s] Hey now, we're in the middle.
[2275.1s] We're talking all about the things.
[2278.6s] Oh, it started so strong.
[2280.3s] It didn't start off really good.
[2281.9s] It started so strong.
[2283.5s] Hey now, we're in the middle.
[2285.2s] We're talking about the things.
[2288.9s] I feel like the lyrics were what were good the first time.
[2292.7s] Yeah, it's the lyrics that were not the problem.
[2298.8s] Yeah, the tune was great.
[2300.1s] I know.
[2300.8s] Hey now, it's the middle.
[2302.8s] Come and join us.
[2304.3s] Hang in.
[2305.4s] Okay, you're better at things than I am.
[2311.0s] Amy can rap and just like put random lyrics into any song.
[2315.6s] You know what?
[2316.3s] It's not a skill that comes in handy as much as you think it would.
[2319.9s] Wow, see, I thought you'd be like making mad coin off that.
[2322.8s] I know.
[2323.7s] It's just kind of sitting unused except for every once in a while here in the middle.
[2328.8s] And we're in it.
[2329.7s] What are we talking about today?
[2331.4s] Stuff.
[2332.1s] Probably Patreon.
[2333.3s] Patreon.com slash dumb dragon cast is a place where you can go listen to a really cool.
[2340.6s] Amy's dying.
[2345.2s] That's what you lose your shit at.
[2347.8s] It's because in my head he said Patreon.com slash dumb dragon teats.
[2354.0s] It sounded like dunk dragons.
[2360.8s] Which doesn't make sense for this because they're not going to overheard it yet.
[2364.6s] So dumb dragon teats means nothing.
[2366.4s] When you hear the episode that we just recorded, it's a side scroller episode.
[2371.0s] You'll be able to piece this energy that we've got going on to the exact recording.
[2376.3s] Yeah, if you've been on the fence, if you've been on the fence about joining Patreon,
[2382.1s] I gotta say Russ really brought a pretty unique energy to the game we just recorded.
[2387.4s] And I'd really love it if you could listen to it because if you're a Patreon,
[2391.0s] then you can listen to all these extra games that we play.
[2394.0s] And some of them are pretty weird.
[2395.9s] You're going to see a different side of Russ.
[2398.3s] If you like DM side, you're going to see character side and go,
[2403.6s] the hell is going on here?
[2406.8s] What happens when Tom yes ends everything Russ says in an episode?
[2411.9s] I didn't have a lot of prep, so there was a lot of yes ending.
[2416.9s] It's true.
[2417.4s] He showed us his notes.
[2419.1s] Where we don't prep many things, Patreon.com slash dumb dragon cast.
[2424.4s] Long story short, we do have another podcast over there called The Adventures of.
[2428.4s] It is DM'd by Tom Laird.
[2430.1s] And he lets me go a little bit bonkers in that.
[2434.0s] He just announced that we go hard on him, so I'm going to let him do whatever he wants,
[2438.0s] which is great until we get to the point where we're at now
[2441.9s] where I can't say because nobody's listening to it.
[2443.9s] Even Carla and I can't really rein him in.
[2446.3s] He's impossible.
[2447.6s] It's a good thing he DMs all the time.
[2449.4s] Tom tried there for a minute with some characters and it just
[2452.8s] steamrolled over top of them too.
[2454.5s] Just couldn't stand up to it.
[2455.8s] Rules are there ain't no rules.
[2457.2s] Exactly.
[2458.0s] Patreon.com slash dumb dragon cast.
[2460.4s] We hope to see you over there.
[2461.8s] Not only for that show, but we do some great hangouts.
[2464.0s] We play some games.
[2464.9s] We get to know you, our listeners and our patrons.
[2468.2s] And we have a lot of fun over there.
[2469.9s] So we hope to see you.
[2472.0s] And now let's get back to the episode where Lex and Margaret and Arvid and
[2478.0s] Perseus are doing some wild and crazy things.
[2480.8s] Love you.
[2481.1s] Bye.
[2481.7s] Okay, bye.
[2482.2s] Thank you, Margaret, for that.
[2488.6s] Yes, of course.
[2491.6s] This does all seem familiar.
[2494.6s] I've been here.
[2495.6s] This is, I mean, I knew when I saw Marvin, but this is the place.
[2500.8s] Do you have any memory of coming through this corridor or?
[2507.8s] I mean, yes, flashes, but was that me?
[2511.6s] Was that the parts of me?
[2514.0s] I do have memories of that.
[2517.1s] It's hard to say.
[2518.0s] Everything is such a blur and a jumble.
[2522.1s] As you walk down the halls, there are a series of doors that are opened up.
[2527.6s] And it looks like this place hasn't been well kept up for quite some time.
[2535.9s] It's, you're not sure.
[2537.4s] There's no, I think the dust is thick along the floor.
[2541.2s] The dirt is thick along the floor.
[2542.6s] There's no footsteps except for the ones that you're making.
[2546.5s] Doorways along the hall that you're walking down and offshoots.
[2551.6s] You see into a couple and it, the first one you look into is
[2558.0s] more or less like a sitting, eating room.
[2561.1s] Lex, you have flashes of a fire illuminated in the middle of this room,
[2570.1s] where there are just long since burned out embers.
[2576.4s] You're seated around with several people, not just one, not just Marvam,
[2582.4s] not just your creator, Nick O'Real, but many people in this place.
[2593.8s] This is all familiar.
[2594.8s] I remember now we were in this room and there were several people,
[2598.7s] some in a uniform, just some regular looking folks and Nick O'Real, I remember his face now.
[2608.8s] Russ, do I remember like in this building, if I was here, like what I remember where,
[2616.8s] I don't know, like where his room is or where the,
[2619.7s] where's the TV room?
[2620.8s] Like, where is he chilling?
[2622.4s] Yeah.
[2623.7s] Yeah, you do, the further in you go and the more flashes you get room by room,
[2630.5s] you get a clearer image of Nick O'Real and you get a clearer sense of who he was to you
[2637.7s] and what he was to you.
[2640.5s] The further in you go, each room flashes, you have interactions with people
[2647.2s] who work there or who did work there rather.
[2652.0s] You get flashes of people who were similar to you in a way, pieces of people,
[2663.7s] but none that exhibit the same interaction level that you had.
[2670.1s] Like you were almost tasked to work with these new
[2674.5s] people, for lack of a better term, to try and coax something out of them.
[2680.1s] Like you see that as you walk through, you see kind of more medical-like facilities.
[2685.4s] They're not medical because you're in a cave, but that seems to be what these rooms were like.
[2690.9s] Everybody else, as Lex is describing these scenes to you, you see like broken down
[2697.3s] tables and equipment, long since expired or dried up medicinal or magical items.
[2711.8s] And Lex, your feeling of Nick O'Real is not one of hatred the further in you go.
[2721.0s] The deeper you go, the more fatherly you remember him being.
[2730.9s] You see his face, he's a taller man, a little heavier set, round face,
[2738.7s] balding white hair that flows long down.
[2746.1s] And you see his smile the longer you're here.
[2750.8s] And it brings a certain warmth to your normally cold demeanor,
[2756.4s] not your demeanor is cold, but normally cold body.
[2764.1s] I remember him now not with anger or even confusion.
[2771.9s] I remember him being kind to me.
[2780.5s] Do you remember why you left?
[2785.0s] I don't. I remember there were others like me and we were sort of working together.
[2791.3s] And now that I'm here, I don't have these.
[2794.6s] I thought I would get here and I would feel angry and I would feel vengeful.
[2802.0s] But now I just have sort of warm memories of him and that's it.
[2809.8s] I don't know, I can't trust my own memories because they're so sporadic,
[2814.7s] but maybe he wasn't an evil man.
[2820.9s] Although there is some inherent evil in what he did.
[2826.4s] Well, perhaps if we dig a little further through here,
[2829.4s] you might find something as to why maybe it was for,
[2832.9s] you know, bad, what's the phrase, bad intentions towards a good end.
[2842.4s] Perhaps.
[2845.0s] As you're all walking through, I presume you're walking with,
[2850.7s] you know, keeping aware of your surroundings and stuff, not just waltzing through.
[2856.8s] Yeah, I think, yeah, I'm like pretty like looking at things and even kind of like
[2860.6s] touching the walls, trying to like, as things are coming back to me.
[2864.5s] Yeah.
[2864.6s] And even detecting magic every now and then just to see if anything here still seems to be
[2869.7s] potent at all.
[2871.1s] Margaret, as you're detecting magic, you know, very early on,
[2877.5s] everything's like there's nothing there.
[2879.4s] Like it's just a cold, empty room, cold empty rooms in the side of a mountain.
[2885.5s] The deeper in you all go into this mountainside,
[2891.0s] Lex, you start to get a feeling that you are nearing Nick O'Real's office or quarters
[2901.3s] or a common gathering place.
[2904.6s] And Margaret, you get a sense of as you enter this last room, all of you
[2913.5s] at the end of this long winding hallway through this facility,
[2917.3s] you sense kind of in this room that's coming up, it's dark, dimly, well, dimly lit based on your
[2925.9s] light, you can't quite make out everything that's in there, you see shadows, but you
[2931.3s] also get a sense of kind of an illusory magic that's emanating from this room, not in a huge
[2939.5s] strong wave, but in just kind of it's lingering throughout this room that's coming up,
[2946.4s] but not anywhere else.
[2949.3s] I'm reading something from this room coming up, just be careful when you go in.
[2955.7s] I will. This was his study where he did all of his
[2963.0s] thinking, his writing, I don't know, I remember him being in this room a lot.
[2969.4s] And I'll open the door.
[2971.7s] Lex, you walk through the door. Margaret, as Lex walks through the door,
[2978.4s] there's this wave of illusory magic that just kind of spreads out and into the room and
[2984.5s] everybody sees the wave kind of as it rolls through the room, it cleans it up. So it's
[2991.8s] like the room was the same as every other room you passed, chairs and everything turned
[2996.9s] over, covered in dirt and dust. But then as the illusion rolls over, it's like this
[3002.5s] room is back together. And you see a man, an older man, seated in a large armchair by a
[3016.9s] wood-burning fireplace. Seated in the chair beside him is Lex.
[3026.9s] You see a scene play out in front of you. It's the two of you, Lex and Nikaril,
[3033.7s] talking back and forth. You can't quite make out what they're saying. It's low,
[3039.7s] drawn-out conversation. Everything is very above board, very warm, very encouraging.
[3050.7s] Lex, you have memories that wash back of this conversation. And the gist of what Nikaril is
[3058.4s] imparting with you is that you are special and meant to do good in this world. And he
[3068.9s] tried to build you and build others like you in order to get in with a new
[3079.7s] power, a new employer, he says, time and time again. He doesn't tell you who that is,
[3089.8s] but he tells you he can't do it anymore. What he was hoping to do was to give you the
[3096.1s] powers that you have, but not have them corrupt your new body.
[3103.7s] As you interpret that, he doesn't want you to fall apart as you are able to cast these healing
[3110.3s] spells. Some time passes in this conversation and there's a loud bang that is heard from
[3120.7s] the direction of the hallway. Margaret, if you're still detecting magic, you can tell
[3128.1s] that it's still part of whatever this illusion is. It's like it's captured a scene, a moment
[3134.4s] in time. You hear echoing screams coming from down the hallway, footsteps running,
[3143.4s] and Nikaril's face goes stark. He has a sense of like a quick urgency of panic.
[3155.8s] Like the blood rushes from his face and he stands up and he pulls Lex and says,
[3160.9s] you need to leave now. And he rushes out and down the hall and you see in rooms,
[3172.5s] undead warriors, soldiers striking down others in this facility and he pushes past you.
[3180.8s] You get into a fight as he ushers you down this hallway.
[3186.1s] The scene leaves you, he sends you off, and he runs back to his chamber, closes and locks
[3194.1s] the door behind him. He begins writing a note on a table. The door bursts open behind him
[3205.1s] and in rush, six undead warriors. Swords and spears drawn, and in behind them, almost floats
[3216.1s] a dark elf with long white hair. He doesn't say anything, but the look on Nikaril's face
[3226.8s] with long white hair.
[3231.1s] He doesn't say anything, but the look on Nikaril's face
[3237.3s] is resolute. He knows what's about to happen. And as the warriors rush towards him,
[3245.8s] a small smile, a smirk comes across this dark elf's face and the scene immediately cuts.
[3256.2s] And you're back in this dust covered, tossed and turned room.
[3265.8s] So I was wrong. I wasn't here for vengeance or maybe I do need vengeance,
[3273.5s] but not against my creator, against those people that killed him.
[3278.9s] And yes, it seemed like he created you to make things a little better in a situation
[3287.5s] where he saw things going very badly.
[3292.6s] Can we look and see if that note he was writing is
[3296.9s] there? Yeah, everybody can make an investigation check.
[3302.5s] I love investigating. 19.
[3306.1s] 9. I'm too distraught. 16.
[3313.7s] Perseus. Everybody begins looking through. Lex, you immediately go to the desk.
[3321.7s] You don't find anything inside the drawers and strewn about, broken pens and torn up paper,
[3328.6s] but nothing that was explicitly written on or you recognize from that scene.
[3333.7s] Perseus, you begin searching through some piles off to the side,
[3342.8s] some of which have been burnt up and you find a scrap of paper. It's been torn. It's been singed.
[3351.9s] But the two line is too Lee.
[3356.1s] Too Lee. And then it issues a list of people.
[3366.6s] And at the top of that list, partially torn, says Thelonious Prims.
[3378.5s] Well, my friends, I feel like my work here is now I think only just beginning.
[3384.8s] I need to find this Thelonious Prims and get justice.
[3392.7s] Well, I'm in. I don't know about about you others.
[3396.9s] Oh, I'm happy to help.
[3399.3s] Yes, this person seems to command just the type of thing I am,
[3404.8s] well, still kicking around to deal with.
[3406.6s] Well, Lex or Lee or Granger or whatever your name might be tomorrow.
[3417.9s] Where to next?
[3421.6s] I think we need to leave this place
[3425.3s] and go back to that town and get some more information.
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