[0.0s] Previously on Dumbgeons and Dragons. [2.4s] You have reached the city of Proskur. [5.6s] Uh, so, I've been here a few times. Good soil, too. [10.6s] So, to find the map we're looking for a man. Last name, Undertask. [14.6s] Well, I mean, most people know him by Thunderaxe. [17.0s] Sully, do you see that? [18.9s] Oh, that guy with the rash? [20.1s] Yeah, the blue man group over there juggling. [22.4s] My name is Eska Nerveen. [25.3s] I have had some such similar things happen to me in the past. [29.0s] Perhaps we could talk about this over a snow cone or something. [32.7s] I mean, I'm always up for that. Can Sully come, too? He loves snow cones. [36.3s] You look back and Sully is gone. [38.2s] Two individuals come up behind Sully and throw a bag over his head. [42.9s] Jesus fucking Bahamut, what the hell is going on here? [46.1s] You do remember the good Leiden Menda, don't you? [50.6s] The look on your face tells me you perhaps don't remember. [53.8s] I've met a lot of people in my life. [55.8s] You go to High Moon, you find this scroll. [58.7s] The scroll is going to be at the Temple of Agma. [62.5s] Well, you know what? I hate being under someone's toe like this. [65.6s] Do this mail delivery, sure, and we won't kill Merve. [68.8s] I mean, that was on our list of things to do. [70.9s] We just didn't know where he was and now I guess we do? [73.7s] This poor guy's just a fisher. [75.5s] He's probably just like, the fuck is happening? [78.2s] Two men start walking towards you. One draws a crossbow. [82.5s] Hey, what the fuck? [85.8s] Welcome to Dumbgeons and Dragons. We're a D&D 5th edition actual play podcast [108.6s] and I'm your dungeon master, Russ More, and with me today is Amy More. [112.8s] I am with you today and all days and I play Sullivan's Light. [116.5s] And Carla Maxted. [118.5s] I am with you one evening a week and this is that evening and I play Glim. [125.9s] And finally, Tom Laird. [128.3s] I'm also with you one evening a week except for this week and last week where this week [133.8s] it's already two evenings a week for me and Russ and last week I think we were up to four? [138.7s] Four evenings last week. [140.7s] We really do love each other. [142.6s] We got three this week too, at least most of us. [147.3s] We spend a lot of time together. [148.7s] And where you can spend more time with us is several places but primarily Patreon. [163.4s] Patreon.com slash dumb dragon cast where when you are a patron you get access to our public [170.3s] discord but there are private Patreon exclusive channels in there. [175.6s] As well we have an entire other podcast, More of What You Love over there, [180.8s] DM'ed by Tom Laird. [182.8s] And this month we're wrapping up season three of that story. [186.9s] What? [189.5s] And then next month we're starting season four. [193.9s] I know we're only on season two. [195.6s] They're baby seasons. [197.5s] Just little itty-bitty boys. [198.9s] We can call them whatever we want to over there. [201.4s] They're stories, they're vignettes, they're seasons. [203.3s] That's what we call them. [204.8s] And we really enjoy playing those games and we want you to come enjoy them too. [207.8s] So Patreon.com slash dumb dragon cast. [209.6s] And when you are a patron you also get an episode dedicated to you. [212.2s] Like today's patron, Jonathan Nguyen. [215.5s] Thanks Jonathan. [216.5s] Thanks Jonathan. [217.7s] Thank you Jonathan. [218.9s] Fuck it, let's play D&D. [222.2s] Glim and Sully coming towards you are two male people. [227.0s] One pulling out his crossbow. [229.4s] Oh, it's not what I thought it was going to say. [232.2s] It's not that kind of town. [233.8s] Or maybe. [234.6s] I don't know. [235.1s] They're in trench coats. [236.1s] They could have been pulling out anything. [237.5s] Could have been. [238.2s] I said overcoats, not trench coats. [240.6s] We're losing the steam here. [242.6s] Sully and Glim towards you are coming two male figures. [247.1s] One is pulling out a crossbow. [248.8s] The other has a hand on his blade. [251.0s] And in his other hand, the closer he gets, you see he has a pamphlet in his hand. [255.8s] It says, excuse me. [259.1s] Yes? [260.6s] Is this yours? [261.2s] Did you? [262.1s] It is. [262.6s] Did you want to learn a little bit more about Bahamut? [267.4s] No. [268.9s] Oh. [271.0s] Oh. [271.7s] Well. [272.0s] You need to take this and he shoves it towards you and not spread it around here. [280.2s] Well that seems really close-minded of you guys. [282.6s] He maintains eye contact with Glim. [287.6s] You don't? [288.9s] Oh. [289.5s] Well. [291.0s] I just was telling Leopold. [293.1s] We just met. [293.8s] I was buying some supplies and I was telling him about- [296.9s] We talked to Leopold. [298.9s] We got your story. [300.1s] All 48 minutes of it. [304.2s] We don't need those thoughts around this town that is quite happy the way it is. [309.4s] Yeah, you guys seem super happy. [313.2s] Couldn't everyone just be a little bit happier though? [317.1s] Don't you feel like in your heart you could be like, I could be happier. [320.9s] I could have more fulfillment. [322.3s] I'm the happiest motherfucker around here. [324.8s] Oh, I'm sorry. [325.7s] It's just that your countenance is so... [329.0s] My job doesn't allow me to put up a front of happiness. [332.6s] We are happy here. [335.6s] Oh. [336.0s] Oh. [336.9s] Okay. [337.1s] Take your pamphlets. [340.1s] And be on your way. [343.7s] Well, the good news is we're just passing through. [348.0s] We are on a mission to save the world. [349.9s] So we're not going to be here very long. [353.0s] We're just looking for a map from a guy. [357.0s] And then we are out of here to leave you to all your happiness. [362.9s] From off to the side of you, as you say, looking for a map from a guy. [369.4s] There's an older dwarf that cuts between you and says, [374.8s] what seems to be the problem here, Victor? [379.7s] He says, well, these fine folks here were just leaving, they said, after they find some map. [388.2s] So they don't spread any ideas around here that might cause some issues. [394.5s] Yeah. [395.0s] Yeah, yeah, yeah. [396.9s] Don't worry. [397.4s] I'll take care of them. [398.3s] I'll get them on their way. [399.4s] Don't worry. [400.6s] Just go back to circle jerking around the get going. [406.1s] I'll take care of them. [407.8s] Turns and looks at you and says, just come with me. [411.7s] And he starts walking off. [413.3s] Excuse me, sir. [414.2s] Did you just say circle jerking? [423.4s] Moot, you're seated at a tavern with Esca [426.9s] and you've been talking about different sporadic occurrences, [433.3s] not things that you have been trying to do and trying to find some correlation to them. [441.2s] Esca is in midst describing one of these events. [446.1s] They've already described to you the tidal wave that came on. [451.2s] And as you found out, in fact, killed a lot of their family. [459.5s] They were driven out by the rest out of fear, mostly, [463.8s] but also an underlying hatred of them and this ability that has come upon them. [471.7s] And they're describing another event where [474.9s] like a crack in the earth opened up as they were trying to do one of their tricks. [480.9s] And since everyone around them fleeing, some people got hurt. [485.2s] No one, fortunately, died. [486.6s] But Esca describes that moment of like there was this well-up of [494.0s] it felt like something inside was trying to break free. [500.5s] I could feel it. [503.2s] My hair started to freeze. [505.8s] My feet started to burn. [509.0s] The elements inside of me, I just couldn't control them anymore. [513.7s] And it released into this earthquake in front of me. [519.8s] I mean, that sounds terrifying. [525.1s] So you didn't feel this until after you used the magic. [528.8s] Like kind of you didn't feel it before or anything like that. [532.5s] It was it was only after everything seems to be tied to when I [537.9s] perform or when I do tricks or when I cast these. [543.3s] And I guess you could call them spells when I do these events. [548.5s] Everything is tied to when one of those occurs. [553.7s] Yeah, mine have been mine have been after I've used magic as well. [558.2s] So I think that's the the correlation there. [561.3s] But I just I just I wish there was a way to know if [566.6s] there was a safe time for you to do your tricks or me to use magic. [571.7s] Like if there was a feeling we had inside that we thought like, [575.7s] oh, I can I can feel it kind of like a tingling behind the ears or whatever it is. [580.6s] Like I know it's coming, but you don't you don't feel any. [583.7s] I mean, I haven't felt anything like that till after I've used the magic. [586.9s] And then that's when the things happen. [589.3s] Sometimes like after an and a strange event doesn't occur for a while. [595.0s] Like I can feel this buildup inside of me. [598.8s] Like it almost comes out as some like like an anger. [602.6s] Like it changes my mood. [605.1s] It changes who who I am and what I feel. [610.2s] OK, I can that it's more predominant when [614.8s] when it hasn't happened in a while. [618.6s] And that's when I know like it's it could be like a bad one. [623.8s] So almost like there's some sort of reservoir inside you [629.1s] that's filling up and then it reaches a breaking point. [632.2s] He starts to nod across from me. [634.2s] He says, yeah, yeah, yeah, that that kind of hits the nail on the head. [640.2s] Have you have you noticed that there's like a similar amount of time [648.4s] that goes by in between these things happening? [650.8s] Or is it just sometimes you go for a long time and then it happens [654.7s] and sometimes it happens real quick? [656.2s] Or is there any sort of thing like that that you've noticed? [659.8s] There's there's no doesn't seem to be any pattern to it. [663.4s] It's not like once this time it happens, [665.8s] that means it's going to happen next time. [667.9s] Sometimes it happens a couple in a row. [670.7s] Sometimes it doesn't happen for like weeks or months on end. [675.6s] So no rhyme or reason, really. [678.4s] Not that I've found. [679.7s] Smoot writes that down in his notebook. [683.4s] Well, I mean, I take a lot of notes, as you can see. [687.0s] I think it's almost full. [688.5s] You know, yes, I need so many books. [692.1s] I think I'm going to start trying to track when this happens for me. [698.3s] And see if I can determine any sort of pattern. [701.2s] Maybe you should do the same [703.4s] and then we can compare notes in the future next time I'm in town. [707.7s] When when's the next time you're going to be in town? [709.7s] Well, I mean, we've been running all over the place. [711.3s] So I think probably sooner than later. [713.1s] OK, yeah, I can I can try and keep track. [717.1s] It's not something I really want to happen, [718.7s] but I will do my best to. [720.8s] Oh, no, I don't want it to happen either. [722.6s] But knowing when it might happen [725.8s] could give us a leg up on maybe controlling or avoiding bad situations. [733.2s] He leans back in his in his seats and reaches into his bag and pulls out a flute. [741.8s] Starts to play it not well, but just blows on it and starts to play it. [750.0s] Puts it down. [751.5s] OK, OK, I'll I'll do my best to. [755.1s] Make a note going to have to get a notebook. [757.4s] I don't keep track of many things. [760.6s] But yeah, let's do it next time you're here. [764.2s] If I'm here, we can make notes. [769.9s] Perfect. [770.4s] That sounds at least as something. [772.9s] And if it ends up being nothing, then, you know, [775.5s] I guess it was an exercise in futility. [777.5s] But hey, it might lead us to kind of cracking the code on this. [781.0s] We're like detectives of the unknown. [786.2s] Oh, I like that. [787.5s] Yeah. [788.1s] Oh, should I start a detective agency? [791.8s] This could be something. [793.9s] We can call us the note takers, the note buddies, the detective note cases. [803.2s] We'll workshop the name. [804.5s] We'll workshop the name. [806.0s] OK, perfect. [807.2s] Perfect. [808.2s] Looking forward to that, too. [809.1s] I'll write down some ideas for that as well. [811.7s] Well, I don't want to keep you. [815.2s] You told your friends you'd be back there. [818.8s] Walk with you back to town square there. [823.8s] Certainly. [827.1s] You get up and he settles the bill for you. [830.6s] And you walk back out into the street. [832.7s] We cut back to Glim and Sully who are following behind an older dwarf, [838.2s] gray, long gray beard, bald head, kind of torn and tattered work clothes [844.6s] that he's wearing. [846.1s] And he's just. [848.7s] Yeah, sure. [849.7s] Yeah, like a tunic and like brown trousers. [854.3s] Yeah, just that. [855.2s] Yeah, not very well cleaned. [858.4s] And he says, so what is it you need? [862.3s] You need a map. [864.0s] Hey, thanks for diffusing the situation over there [866.4s] and for explaining what a sucker jerk is. [869.4s] Well, a lot of the law enforcement in town [874.0s] really just like to hear the sound of their own voice [876.2s] because there's no real law enforcement here. [879.1s] It's just everybody just steals from each other. [883.4s] Yeah, it seems weird in a town where you can just steal. [886.3s] You can't talk about the good news about bomb [889.5s] and it seems like a weird priority. [891.8s] But I guess, you know, everybody has their own culture. [894.3s] So that's I shouldn't be judgmental about that. [897.8s] The primary religion here is one of thieves and trickers [901.2s] and liars and sinners, so to speak. [905.9s] If you look at it from Bahamut's point of view, [908.9s] they don't want that so much. [912.2s] The other one less known, but still predominant [917.5s] is Tempus, god of war, primarily concerned with [925.3s] destruction. [927.2s] Right, not really compatible religions, I guess, with mine. [932.0s] I understand, I understand. [933.2s] Their concern being that if someone gets the idea [935.8s] that there's a true good or right [940.6s] that maybe the whole system falls apart. [944.5s] Yeah, I guess I can see that from their point of view. [948.2s] I wonder if this might seem like a crazy question, [954.4s] but you're not Thunder Axe, are you? [962.3s] Looks to you and you've stopped walking by this point. [966.7s] You're out front of another looks like a shop [969.9s] or home on top and he looks up to the sign [974.8s] that is in front there and kind of points to it. [977.4s] You see Thunder Axe on it says, yeah, yeah, that's me. [987.0s] Well, that is amazing because you are exactly [990.6s] who we're looking for. [992.2s] Nobody says that in a long time. [994.6s] Well, I'm on a mission. [997.5s] We have a destiny to save the world and I need to. [1000.0s] Anyway, we need a map. [1002.0s] Apparently, maybe you have a map that. [1007.3s] Of the world of the map of the world. [1008.8s] Oh, OK, specifically more specifically. [1010.6s] I have many maps, but yes, I am one of the few [1013.8s] who possess a map of, you know, [1017.7s] the full world to a reasonable extent. [1020.6s] Yes, so is that what you sell here or? [1030.2s] Come in. [1030.8s] Sure, thanks. [1032.0s] I'm sorry. [1032.9s] Do you want it? [1033.7s] Moot should be coming back. [1036.6s] I don't know. [1037.0s] I'm not going to lie to you, man. [1038.9s] I don't want to be alone. [1039.7s] Yeah, no, you're right. [1040.6s] You're right. [1041.3s] You just yeah, come with me. [1042.7s] Last time I was alone, I was put into a sack. [1045.0s] My friend just got kidnapped and then escaped. [1047.0s] It's been a very busy morning so far. [1049.0s] It's a it's a rough town. [1050.3s] I'm not going to lie. [1051.3s] It doesn't jump out to me as an unusual occurrence [1054.7s] that your friend has gone through. [1055.9s] Right. [1056.2s] To be very fair, though, I thought it would have happened anywhere. [1059.6s] Yeah, Sully's a bit of a magnet for. [1063.0s] I was going to say scamp. [1064.6s] Oh, oh yeah, I was going to say magnet for trouble, [1067.2s] but scamp is really encapsulates your whole thing very well. [1072.2s] So come in, stay outside, do what you like. [1075.4s] I'd rather talk about your map, your adventure, [1078.0s] your saving the world inside. [1080.3s] Yes, yes, we'll come inside, of course. [1084.5s] You head in and it's a it's a modest [1088.7s] workshop. [1090.5s] Looks like he does a little bit. [1092.5s] There's a small forge in the back, a woodworking area. [1099.3s] He's got some some weapons and armor and shields up on the wall. [1103.6s] You see, Glim, you see one sword that catches your eye above everything else. [1109.9s] It looks like it almost stands out of place in the in the room. [1114.6s] It is a almost radiant long sword. [1119.6s] It's the closer you look at it. [1122.6s] If you do, you see intricate like carving work [1127.4s] like along the blade. [1128.7s] The Hilton pommel are just divine compared to everything else around it. [1137.4s] This sword is. [1139.8s] Wow, this is really something. [1141.7s] Was this I assumed you fought with an axe, thunder axe, I assumed. [1147.8s] Is this your sword? [1149.9s] Yeah, yeah, yeah, it is. [1152.4s] That's that's able. [1157.0s] Is he able to split someone in half? [1160.5s] Yeah, it's family weapons been searching for. [1164.7s] There's a pair of them and searching for them for a while. [1169.2s] Found the one for is able to find the other took ill here [1173.7s] and just never found the strength to kind of keep going. [1178.6s] But yeah, so you have a destiny to save the world. [1185.5s] Yeah, destiny to save the world. [1187.7s] We need to get to to man Thor and I need to declare my loyalty. [1191.2s] And it's, you know, I mean, that's we're just working our way there. [1194.6s] It's a long ways away. [1195.8s] We got a new, more urgent sort of pressing mission because of the kidnapping. [1203.8s] So I guess we need to know how to get to to high moon. [1209.7s] And then also, if you have a map that's going to show us the way [1213.3s] to to man Thor, that'd be great. [1215.9s] He walks over to a large drawer in a big wooden wardrobe and pulls it out. [1224.1s] And you see scrolls all rolled up inside of it and kind of flicks through and say, [1229.8s] no, not this one. [1232.6s] Pulls one out, looks at it. [1235.2s] It's a large map and pulls it. [1237.2s] I was like, yeah, there we go. [1238.7s] Lays it on the table and unrolls it. [1241.7s] He says, this is as I've seen it, the entire world of toriel. [1250.7s] What's a lot bigger when you look at it all on a big piece of paper. [1255.6s] And he points to a spot on the map and says, well, where, where did you say you came from? [1262.2s] Oh, well, we didn't. [1266.1s] We all met in never winter. [1268.9s] My friend points to the map and says, you're never winter's up here. [1274.2s] Right. [1275.3s] And you said time, man, Thor. [1276.7s] Yeah. [1277.2s] Well, that's way down here. [1281.6s] Right. [1284.6s] Down near unther here. [1287.5s] Okay. [1288.2s] So, I mean, we've got a, a ways to go. [1291.4s] And what about high moon? [1293.9s] Pretty, pretty close to where we are now. [1295.6s] Right. [1295.9s] We could probably, uh, reasonably close. [1299.6s] I mean, you could probably make it in a couple of 10 day. [1302.5s] Oh, I'm sorry. [1303.4s] Excuse me. [1303.9s] We're sorry. [1305.3s] Hold on. [1305.9s] Wait, how many of the tents did you say? [1309.1s] Uh, well, it's a fair distance out there. [1311.1s] He points. [1312.1s] We're here in Prosker right here, right next to the bridge of fallen men. [1321.9s] Uh, hi moon. [1323.9s] Well, the Dale lands are over here. [1326.4s] Jesus Christ. [1327.4s] That's like, and Sully puts his fingers out when he's like, [1330.7s] that's like a whole hand away. [1333.3s] Yeah. [1333.7s] I mean, you got to cut through the mountains there. [1335.7s] It's going to take you a while. [1336.7s] Couple mountain ranges to pass over. [1339.6s] Shit. [1339.9s] And you could try and how's that? [1345.3s] Will that be faster? [1347.2s] Um, well, if you were to get a, if you were to be able to charter, [1353.5s] Sarah Loon is, uh, on the coast here. [1356.3s] Uh, and where's high moon? [1358.3s] High moon is up in, uh, up in the Dale land. [1360.8s] Good Lord. [1362.3s] How would they expect me to get to, to get to high moon and then to Sarah Loon [1367.1s] all within 10 days? [1368.7s] Oh my God, most gonna die. [1371.5s] I'm sorry to hear that for. [1373.7s] Yeah, it's real shitty. [1374.7s] I just, um, do we even bother going? [1377.9s] I mean, well, I mean, he's your very best friend. [1380.7s] I think we probably should try. [1382.3s] Right. [1382.5s] And Ms. [1383.0s] Ma'am, meow, meow. [1383.7s] I mean, there's a lot of things kind of counting on us [1387.0s] getting to, to high moon and then to Sir Loon in the next 10 days. [1392.4s] Oh my God. [1393.3s] Is there like, okay, is there any way that we can travel faster? [1400.1s] Faster than like a horse or a ship? [1404.1s] Yeah. [1404.7s] Uh, I mean, I usually just traveled by, by cart or by foot. [1411.5s] Not no. [1413.0s] Is that why you're it's called cartography? [1416.3s] Sure. [1417.3s] No, I don't, I, I don't think that's right. [1421.7s] It doesn't sound right. [1423.3s] Actually, it was right folks. [1425.5s] Little did he know cartography is the making of maps. [1428.9s] Yeah, that's exactly it. [1430.9s] Well, I know that's the making of maps. [1432.7s] I don't know what I didn't think it's because there's a cart. [1438.2s] Why else would it be called that? [1439.5s] Russ getting back to the story sort of like a stopped clock is right twice a day. [1444.9s] I think that's what we've hit upon with Sully and this assertation about cartography. [1452.4s] You do not have to look up cartography, hon. [1455.1s] It's fine. [1455.7s] The showing the work part wasn't correct, but he arrived at the right answer. [1460.3s] He arrived at the right answer, which is impressive in its own way. [1464.1s] Is there any way to travel faster than a horse and a cot and a, and a ship? [1470.3s] And is the like, are there horses with wings? [1475.7s] I mean, have you do they sell? [1477.9s] I mean, I know you can get your hands on a lot of kind of like down low stuff. [1481.5s] I'm starting to feel like this town's changed a lot since the last time I've been here. [1486.3s] But when was the last time you was here? [1488.3s] Oh, like, you know, his agent, like your shop was in here, that's for sure. [1494.1s] I've been here for a while. [1495.4s] Yeah. So it's been a long time. [1498.5s] OK, so say you had only 10 days. [1504.9s] To get to High Moon and then to Sirloin and lives depended on it. [1509.9s] You know, this immediate area much better than we do. [1513.1s] What would you suggest? [1516.1s] Uh, well, I mean, you could try and arrange for some sort of [1521.5s] teleportation magics. [1524.3s] I don't even like to get involved with that shit. [1527.2s] Gosh, that's how I lost move in the first place. [1529.8s] Yeah, seems very risky and also expensive. [1534.0s] I mean, to make it through the mountain rages alone is going to be like, [1537.8s] I don't know, most of a 10 day if you're walking. [1541.9s] And if we're horsing? [1545.0s] Well, if you're horsing, it's going to take about half that. [1548.3s] If you if you make good trails and you got a strong horse. [1551.7s] OK, so we need three strong horses and good trails to not take a five days. [1560.7s] Glam, I just I don't know when I just. [1564.2s] I usually have a plan and I just. [1569.6s] Yeah. [1574.7s] Well, we don't need to talk this out in front of you. [1578.3s] Thank you so much. [1579.4s] We can we we'd love to buy the maps are going to be a big help. [1585.9s] Of course, of course. [1587.6s] And we'll keep an eye out for that sword. [1589.9s] Does the other one match this one? [1592.8s] Um, yeah, yeah, it does. [1596.1s] I mean, we will be traveling all over so much of the whole known world. [1599.7s] So who knows what we'll find kind of stopping things. [1603.8s] Yeah, it's very, very similar in design. [1608.0s] And of or about it rolls up the map and just hands it to you and says, [1616.7s] no, no charge. [1618.0s] Oh, well, thank you. [1620.3s] And thanks again for helping us with those those guards out there. [1624.8s] We will guess we gotta we gotta find mood and then we should just really get going. [1630.8s] We don't have a lot of time. [1632.7s] No, yeah, I guess not. [1636.1s] Well, I wish you the best on your journey. [1641.2s] And I hope this map does you well. [1645.6s] Going to want to move fast. [1648.2s] Yeah, thanks for all your help. [1650.2s] So we exit onto the street. [1653.2s] Sully screams, I need a horse. [1656.3s] People just kind of look at you and one guy comes up. [1660.1s] It says, you need a horse. [1660.8s] I got a horse. [1661.5s] I just got to look right here. [1662.8s] And then he opens his dress. [1666.0s] I got watches with horses on them. [1668.7s] No, I need an actual physical horse. [1670.6s] You're wasting valuable valuable time. [1673.0s] So I could die. [1673.9s] Geez, geez, look here. [1676.2s] Just men trying to make a business. [1677.9s] Look, come on, get out of here. [1679.5s] Get out of my face. [1681.3s] I don't want to buy a horse watch. [1683.5s] You get your face out of my face. [1685.1s] Walks off. [1685.8s] Son of a Jesus Christ. [1687.4s] You go circle jerk yourself. [1689.6s] Did I do it right? [1690.9s] I think circle jerk. [1693.2s] That must be Sully. [1695.8s] Just screaming circle jerk in the middle of town square. [1698.8s] Guys, you got what are those maps? [1701.6s] Moose, so much has happened. [1703.2s] Yes. [1703.8s] Yes. [1704.5s] We need to get to High Moon and then Sarah Loon. [1707.1s] Otherwise, Merv is going to die. [1710.0s] Whoa. [1710.5s] Oh, that's what I mean. [1712.7s] Sully got kidnapped and we we found the maps. [1716.3s] We I got in trouble for putting out pamphlets. [1719.0s] It's been a very I hope. [1721.8s] As guy, I hope you guys had a nice visit too. [1724.2s] Just I don't mean to be rude, but a lot has happened. [1726.6s] We sort of are on a bit of a time crunch to get to our next destination or Merv might die. [1734.9s] And also miss me and meows can come after me. [1737.2s] Yeah, more. [1739.1s] Oh, well, yeah, I don't want to deal with her again. [1741.3s] She's awful, awful, awful person. [1744.3s] OK, I guess, Asuka. [1746.8s] Yeah. [1747.1s] So do do your best to track it. [1748.9s] Of course. [1749.3s] Yeah. [1749.5s] Well, we'll figure it out if we if we can. [1752.3s] If not, yeah, at least we tried. [1757.7s] Yeah, of course. [1758.3s] I'll keep track. [1758.9s] Hold on. [1759.3s] You don't have any fast horses, do you? [1762.1s] Ways to get places real fast. [1765.0s] Specifically. [1766.5s] No, I don't have, you know, like, where do you like? [1771.0s] How quick do you need 10 days? [1773.5s] High moon. [1775.0s] Are you OK? [1775.6s] I mean, and Sirloin. [1776.8s] We got we just got to get there and then do a bunch of stuff. [1779.9s] So just get a scroll. [1782.1s] You can make it from high moon to Sirloin in a few days. [1785.9s] But I mean, getting to high moon, that's kind of tough. [1788.9s] I mean, there's a shop down by the town square there that I mean, they sell some. [1794.5s] I mean, they sell some. [1797.1s] Some, you know, black market magic stuff like maybe could help some guys. [1804.1s] I think I owe it to Merv. [1805.9s] I don't expect you to come with me. [1809.3s] Oh, we're a team. [1810.2s] We've got to save. [1811.1s] I mean, I'm with you, I think. [1813.8s] Right, Moon? [1814.8s] Yeah, I mean, this is the first time hearing of all of this. [1818.0s] It sounds very exciting. [1819.3s] But wherever you guys go, you know, I'm there with you. [1821.5s] We have a destiny. [1822.3s] So I think this is just another stop along the way. [1835.2s] It's the middle time, baby. [1837.3s] Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. [1841.3s] How's it going, everybody? [1842.4s] Thanks for listening on this fine week. [1844.2s] Hopefully you're well and safe and doing doing fine. [1848.1s] Just living your best lives, or at least. [1851.0s] Okay versions of your lives. [1852.8s] Yeah, something that resembles maybe what it used to be like. [1856.5s] Or nothing at all, but you're finding the joy in that too. [1860.6s] Hopefully if we're here with you, that means there's some normalcy in your life [1863.9s] because we're here. [1865.5s] We got you every week, every Wednesday. [1868.5s] We're here for you. [1870.5s] We want to thank some patrons this week who have gifted us some names to use. [1876.9s] They've gifted us items as well, but names specifically to use [1880.1s] in this latest episode here. [1882.9s] We're going to list some character names and who gave them to us. [1886.3s] So Bollnil Thunderax Undertask is from Nathan Hacking. [1891.5s] Thank you, Nathan. [1894.2s] Such a fun name. [1895.1s] And so hard to say. [1897.1s] Impossible, basically. [1899.5s] Eska Nerveen, or Eska Nerveen. [1902.8s] I think we said Nerveen in the episode, but if it's Nerveen, I'm very sorry. [1905.8s] That's ALex Garrity. [1906.8s] Thank you, ALex. [1907.6s] Thank you, thank you. [1909.1s] That was a fun character. [1910.3s] Merv, who is not a new character, but a recurring character, is from Christian Brown. [1915.3s] Christian, so sorry I lost him. [1917.7s] He was with us for such a short period of time. [1920.5s] So short. [1921.1s] Flintthea and New Laura lost him as well as Sully lost him. [1925.3s] So really we've lost him twice. [1928.0s] Perfect. [1928.4s] Just keep mis- mis-placing Merv. [1931.3s] And Leydon Menda, who made a comeback again, is from Jacob Madden. [1936.4s] So thank you, Jacob. [1937.4s] Thank you, Jacob. [1938.7s] If you would like to put your name, or some other name, into the show and have it live [1944.1s] on forever in podcast fandom, in podcast infamy. [1948.3s] If you want that to happen, Patreon.com slash dumb dragon cast, if you join us [1952.4s] at the in world tier, which is $15 a month, you can give us a character name [1960.0s] and an item to gift to a specific character. [1963.2s] And we will do our best to work those in in a timely-ish fashion, [1967.0s] but make it work with the show and with everything going on. [1971.1s] We've got lots more cool names coming up in the next little while, [1974.8s] and hopefully we'll see yours. [1976.7s] So Patreon.com slash dumb dragon cast, we hope to see you over there. [1980.0s] And now, let us get back to the episode. [1983.0s] We'll talk to y'all next week. [1984.3s] Thank you for being here. [1985.6s] Be safe. [1986.3s] Have fun. [1987.4s] Wash your hands. [1988.0s] Thanks, guys. [1988.7s] Love you, bye. [1991.5s] Sully has never felt such, like, brotherhood and camaraderie before. [1996.7s] And it's like, like wipes away, like a little, like, OK, well, that's real, [2001.7s] that's real nice of you guys. [2004.2s] It's like real dangerous and stuff. [2006.3s] And this isn't your shit. [2007.8s] So so I thank you. [2010.8s] Let's let's go do some black. [2012.3s] Let's go do some black magic. [2015.1s] No, black, black market magic. [2016.9s] Black, black magic. [2019.9s] OK, let's go. [2022.0s] OK, OK, magic markers. [2027.1s] OK, your friend is very stressed. [2028.7s] I understand. [2029.4s] OK, he says, just follow me. [2033.1s] And he takes you back to the town square there. [2035.5s] And the shop that Glim, you were speaking to the woman in, [2042.5s] he leads you to there. [2043.6s] But it looks like it's been closed up. [2047.9s] Oh, no. [2048.8s] Oh, do you think they're open? [2050.7s] Can we knock frantically? [2055.1s] I mean, it's a knock of a desperate man. [2056.7s] She lives upstairs. [2057.4s] She don't usually. [2058.7s] OK, you're knocking. [2060.7s] Excuse me, shopkeeper. [2063.1s] Her name is her name is Charmy. [2064.7s] Charmy. [2068.0s] If she comes down, maybe just slow down. [2069.8s] Maybe you hear kind of the thing rattling and she the sliders open [2076.3s] and she looks out and says, what is the problem? [2079.4s] Eska, why? [2083.1s] Why? [2085.1s] She really was down for a nap or something, hey? [2087.6s] No, that's how I say it when I'm woken up from a nap. [2091.9s] What what is the problem? [2094.3s] Hi, I'm back and I'm sorry to be so rude. [2099.3s] It's just my friend that I was looking for. [2101.7s] I'm so sorry. [2102.7s] He was kidnapped. [2103.5s] You really were right about that. [2105.1s] And then something about the pamphlets. [2107.0s] And I mean, that doesn't matter. [2110.3s] Sorry, I wasn't trying to sell you out there. [2112.8s] I just don't like to get mixed up. [2114.4s] They asked where I was. [2116.0s] You told them it's no problem. [2121.8s] What's the shortest way to say this? [2124.5s] We need to get to High Moon real fast. [2127.1s] Otherwise, someone could die. [2129.7s] Oh, that sounds like a very big problem. [2133.2s] Do you sell anything that might be a solution to a very big problem? [2137.7s] Well, I don't have any horses here, if that's what you're asking. [2141.1s] What thing can maybe a little faster solution? [2144.2s] You see Charmé look to Eska and Eska kind of like nods. [2151.1s] She's okay. [2151.8s] Come in, come in, come in, come in, come in, come in, just come in. [2155.3s] We come in. [2157.1s] You enter into her shop and she closes and locks the sliders behind you [2162.5s] and says just go back through through the curtain there. [2166.1s] And you enter into this incense-filled room. [2171.8s] A candle lit all around the edge. [2174.1s] There's different vials and components all along the walls [2179.0s] and says you need to get to High Moon quickly. [2182.0s] It's not cheap to get such places. [2187.9s] I'm just going to say that out front because I got to run a business here. [2192.0s] Well, yeah, no, I understand. [2193.1s] That's fair. [2193.8s] That's fair. [2195.7s] We do have some money and we have a donkey and a cart, [2200.4s] which I assume we don't get to transport with us [2203.3s] by whatever means we might be going. [2205.8s] Rolf is like a real, real solid donkey. [2211.1s] So, sorry, you want to bring the donkey? [2213.0s] No, I just mean if we need to sell him. [2215.7s] He's a solid donkey. [2217.6s] Right. Well, okay. [2220.6s] So, because this spell, I mean, it normally goes for a thousand gold. [2232.5s] I don't know if your donkey is a thousand gold donkey. [2236.7s] No, I was sort of more suggesting perhaps you could take the donkey [2240.4s] and the cart and all of the supplies and all of the donkey supplies [2245.7s] that we just bought as partial payment. [2250.4s] And then also some of the gold we have in our pocket. [2253.1s] Yes. [2253.9s] I also have, well, so I have a thousand ball bearings. [2261.8s] I have this bell here and a candle. [2264.5s] I got this crowbar and a hammer. [2267.2s] I just start emptying my pockets. [2269.5s] Don't you have an expensive magical staff as well? [2273.5s] No, Jesus Christ. [2274.7s] How much? [2275.4s] No, that was a question for you. [2278.5s] I didn't know. [2279.4s] I was like, you outing me? [2280.7s] I do. [2281.6s] But I, Sully, I think kind of feels like that's a Hail Mary for him. [2285.9s] So if he's got. [2288.4s] Sure. [2288.7s] If he's got that left over, maybe he's got a big bang in his pocket. [2292.0s] Like he had the scroll of vitriolic sphere or whatever it was. [2296.5s] So, so you want to give me a donkey? [2300.8s] You want to give me a cart? [2303.6s] Everything in the donkey cart. [2307.5s] Things we may need to have on our bodies. [2310.1s] I mean, I don't really have a place for a donkey. [2313.4s] I don't really have a place. [2314.7s] You woke me up from a nap. [2316.5s] I'm so sorry. [2319.0s] We thought maybe it would help with deliveries or something. [2321.8s] I don't know. [2322.3s] I mean, we can try and we can try and sell it. [2326.3s] It's just. [2326.8s] Going to High Moon and then where? [2329.7s] To Sirloon. [2330.7s] Sirloon. [2332.2s] Yeah. [2333.9s] Is there anything you need delivered to that area? [2336.9s] Maybe we could play courier for you. [2341.1s] Is there anything you'd like us to bring back for you? [2348.9s] I mean, you got a lot of like bobs and boobles over you were. [2352.5s] You were. [2353.2s] I mean, you were passing pamphlets for like the heebie jeebie god of good. [2360.2s] Yes. [2360.7s] You wouldn't want to see any. [2363.1s] It would. [2363.8s] You'd have to steal something to make it worth my while here because exactly you [2368.3s] don't have money to pay for the thing that I need back. [2371.1s] And I mean, I just want it. [2373.1s] I just want it. [2375.2s] And then I say in thieves can't. [2378.7s] Oh, I don't mind stealing. [2382.8s] Okay. [2383.5s] You might have a deal. [2386.9s] If I send you to High Moon, you get whatever you need for your buddy. [2392.8s] Go to Sirloon. [2395.5s] There's a shipment coming in around the same time that you're supposed to be there. [2401.0s] I think is what you said. [2403.2s] Don't know. [2403.7s] There was a lot of numbers and things being spewed out there. [2406.7s] Ken, I got 10 days to do this. [2408.3s] Perfect. [2409.8s] There's some components, some items coming in on a ship from across the sea. [2416.0s] That would be beneficial to have in my repertoire here. [2425.5s] Yeah. [2425.6s] Okay. [2425.9s] So let's do this thing. [2427.8s] You don't want to talk to your friends about it. [2430.7s] Okay. [2430.9s] Yeah, sure. [2431.9s] Hey, you guys. [2432.9s] So it turns out she does need a delivery picked up from Sirloin. [2438.4s] And so what we can do is we can when we drop off the scroll, [2442.9s] we can pick up her shipment and then bring it back. [2449.6s] Well, that seems like a pretty good deal. [2451.5s] That sounds very fair. [2453.9s] Is this a two-way ticket spell? [2458.3s] Well, the time frame of getting it back here is not quite as bad. [2465.3s] So not perishables then. [2466.7s] We're not going to pick up a big order of sheep's milk or anything. [2471.1s] No. [2471.7s] Freshly baked bread or anything like that. [2473.7s] We'll need a wagon perhaps. [2476.0s] So maybe if we send you with your donkey, that could be a good idea. [2482.7s] I would like to keep both. [2486.1s] Right. [2486.4s] It's going to be real cramped in here. [2488.2s] Not sure how we're going to get a donkey and a cart through my shop back here. [2492.3s] But is there a way that we can, since this is going to be so fast, [2496.9s] we can do it out in maybe in the cover of darkness in like a field or something? [2507.5s] Don't usually like to do that in case of passerbys, [2510.5s] being that all of you will be leaving at the exact same moment. [2516.2s] Right. [2516.7s] A little suspicious I guess. [2520.2s] Leaves me kind of holding the bag there is all I'm saying if somebody walks by. [2525.3s] Sure. [2525.7s] Sure. [2525.9s] Sure. [2526.8s] Well, I mean, we can help you just move some things around in here so we make some more space. [2534.0s] Yeah. [2535.7s] I mean, it's a donkey. [2536.8s] It's not a horse. [2538.6s] That's true. [2539.6s] Smaller. [2541.0s] All right. [2543.5s] You bring your donkey back here. [2545.5s] I'll get set up. [2548.1s] We're going to sign some paperwork and all's going to be good. [2552.3s] Okay. [2554.3s] Sure. [2555.1s] Yeah. [2555.8s] Paperwork. [2556.5s] I'll sign the paperwork if you guys want to get the donkey and stuff. [2560.5s] Sure. [2562.2s] So Glim and Moot, you walk back out and ask us like, so is she going to do it for you? [2570.8s] Sounds like it. [2571.8s] We have to pick something up for her and bring it back afterwards. [2576.3s] But otherwise, I think we're good to go, Glim. [2579.8s] Is that the impression you got? [2580.8s] It sure is. [2581.4s] Yeah. [2581.6s] I think she's going to help and we're going to just bring something back for her. [2587.4s] Okay. [2587.9s] Perfect. [2588.3s] Yeah. [2589.4s] Just make sure you follow the contract to a T and all should be good. [2595.8s] Okay. [2597.3s] Thank you for all your help. [2599.0s] Of course. [2601.4s] He starts to walk away. [2603.9s] I'll see you next time. [2604.9s] Sounds like you're coming back. [2605.8s] We've got kind of a date to see if anything happens there now. [2610.0s] Yeah. [2610.3s] We'll be back in the near future. [2611.5s] Perfect. [2611.7s] All right. [2611.9s] Well, I'll see you then, Moot. [2613.9s] It's nice to meet you, Glim. [2615.5s] I'm just going to go back home. [2619.6s] Okay. [2619.9s] Bye. [2621.7s] See you, Eska. [2623.5s] He runs off and you see Melvin waving in his hair. [2628.7s] So you walk off and go get Rolf back inside. [2633.7s] So we just have to draft up the contract here, my dear. [2637.9s] You see her writing on a large scroll. [2641.0s] It says, you three, your names were again, Sully. [2645.8s] You know what? [2648.7s] Do we need all our names down for the whole stealing thing? [2653.0s] Can we just put mine down for that? [2655.0s] Well, I mean, the three of you are, you seem like a good team. [2658.8s] We're a great team, but you know what? [2662.0s] If shit goes sideways, this should be all on me. [2666.5s] Why would shit go sideways? [2668.7s] Doesn't shit always go sideways? [2671.2s] Have you been outside your shop? [2673.9s] All the time. [2675.0s] And shit never goes sideways for you. [2676.4s] I stood out in the square for like four minutes and got kidnapped. [2680.8s] Look, that's not things going sideways. [2683.4s] That's just a regular day of the week. [2686.6s] Well, you know what? [2687.4s] My days are a little bit harder than everybody else's. [2690.0s] If it's at all possible, it makes no difference to you so long as you get your stuff. [2694.0s] As long as I get my stuff. [2695.1s] You put my name down there. [2696.3s] You leave them out of this. [2698.2s] All right. [2698.8s] You see her write down just Sully then. [2702.7s] Let's go full name Sullivan Sleight. [2704.7s] Sullivan Sleight. [2707.8s] And she writes down a list of various spell compo... [2710.7s] Well, I'll fill out the list properly, but like spell components, [2714.5s] some different items that she's looking for. [2718.3s] When the shipment is coming in, it's in approximately 10 to 12 days in Sarah Loon. [2724.2s] It's coming from across the sea from Aglauron there. [2727.6s] Cool. Write it down. [2729.2s] It's down. [2730.8s] Don't forget it. [2732.7s] I get to take a copy of the contract, do I not? [2735.1s] You get to take a copy of what you need to get. [2739.5s] Not specifically this contract. [2741.9s] And she says, all right, you just need to sign here. [2746.5s] And she holds up a sharp, thin dagger. [2753.4s] Do you want to make it official? [2754.6s] Oh, no, yeah, no, totally. [2756.9s] This is very standard. [2758.1s] Just a little drop will do. [2759.9s] But I'm curious about the terms of the agreement. [2765.2s] Well, if the agreement is void, or not followed through on rather, [2775.1s] well, you would be bound to the contract. [2781.7s] Okay, I'm going to need a more layman's terms. [2788.2s] We don't like to get too deep into it because we just like this piece of paper. [2792.4s] No, you're not going to get sucked into the paper. [2794.3s] I guarantee you're not going to get sucked into the paper. [2797.3s] Will I be chained to you to do your bidding for the rest of forever? [2800.9s] Sexual things and otherwise. [2802.7s] Oh, no, my dear, we would not need to go that far. [2805.9s] That's that takes a turn and this is not good. [2810.0s] Why do you plan on like totally fulfilling this? [2812.0s] Because when Sullivan's light says he's going to do something, he does something. [2814.7s] We need not worry about that. [2819.1s] Well, no, I think we kind of do. [2820.7s] Do you want to get to save your friend? [2822.6s] Ah, fuck. [2823.7s] I take the dagger. [2825.3s] I cut my finger and I do a little smudgy. [2830.1s] Beautiful. [2831.0s] She's flicks it and it rolls up and says, all right. [2833.6s] Ariel at this moment. [2836.8s] It'll be fine. [2838.1s] Sully, you say you've got it covered. [2840.1s] So much so that you put your name down as the sole one responsible. [2845.2s] It's very noble, very honorable of you to do such a thing. [2848.4s] Which is so strange. [2849.7s] Which is, from what I hear, so strange. [2853.9s] You hear up at the front the braying of Rolf and Mute and Glim kind of [2861.5s] starting to move things in. [2863.9s] Not a word to them, please. [2865.8s] Of course. [2866.3s] There's a deal. [2867.1s] You've signed the paperwork. [2868.6s] All is good. [2870.7s] It'll be back here in a few, two weeks probably. [2875.2s] Two to three weeks. [2876.3s] Oh, it's probably because you didn't let her hand out those pamphlets. [2878.9s] I mean, good God. [2881.3s] You know, you hang out with really nice people. [2883.1s] That goodness starts to seep right into you. [2885.1s] It really does. [2886.1s] Yeah. [2886.5s] That's why I stopped hanging out with really good people. [2890.5s] Anyways, she opens the curtains and says, right through this way. [2895.5s] Oh, what a fine steed this is. [2898.4s] Oh, Rolf likes that. [2901.2s] Yes. [2901.7s] It's wonderful. [2902.9s] Please no droppings. [2904.4s] It ruins. [2905.8s] And she points down and ruins the circle. [2908.9s] There's a chalk outline in the middle of the room. [2912.3s] It says, yes, just come in, bring your carts in. [2914.5s] And is everybody ready? [2916.9s] Sully's taking care of all the arrangements. [2919.1s] He knows what to get, when to get it, where to get it. [2921.7s] I hold up a piece of paper so that they don't worry about me actually remembering these things. [2928.3s] Turn audible sigh, that comes from. [2930.7s] I provided a pack slip for it. [2932.7s] Don't worry. [2934.3s] So if we're all ready. [2936.2s] Yes, I think time is of the essence. [2939.1s] Yeah, it sounds like we're on a clock here. [2941.1s] She opens a large book and it thuds and dust kind of kicks up from the table that [2947.0s] she puts it down on and starts to speak from the book and moves her hands around very precisely. [2954.1s] The candles begin to dim as a wave of energy begins to build up and swirl [2961.4s] in the middle of this room, the dirt that's on the ground. [2965.1s] I yell as this is happening. [2968.2s] If you could drop us near the temple of Agma. [2973.7s] You can't tell if she's heard you or not. [2976.4s] Um, almost like a tornado vortex begins to swirl around you. [2982.4s] You begin to lose sight of the room. [2984.3s] The candles from what you can see are snuffed out either by the wind or just by the fact [2989.5s] that you can't see them and there's a snap and this wind begins to die down [3001.0s] and you're in the middle of a forest just before like just at dusk, [3008.7s] about the same time as it was previously. [3014.5s] You hear the sound of a city off in front of you. [3021.5s] There's a path that goes down and it opens onto this sprawling valley down below. [3029.1s] You begin to walk forward a little bit and you see a sign that says, Hi Moon, this way. 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