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[30.0s] The city is on high alert.
[31.6s] We are trying to avoid the gate, not go through it.
[34.7s] I am taking you to another point on the wall.
[36.7s] You tie off to the other side and one, two, three, you go over and scale down.
[41.8s] Leave the rope there.
[44.2s] But you come down and land into some brush and you see off towards the main road that
[50.9s] cuts across the city, you see helmed guards patrolling, but you are able to make your
[56.1s] way through the brush and you look back up to the wall and the location where you came
[62.6s] down, you see one of these large gargoyles come out of the night and land and crunch
[70.6s] down on top of the pillar where you climbed down and it's scanning the grass below.
[77.2s] But it doesn't appear to see you as you disappear into the night on your way back
[82.1s] to Prosker.
[83.3s] And from the city of Cereloon you just hear faintly on the wind the sound of a pan flute
[91.8s] playing a melody from a faraway land.
[113.3s] Welcome to Dumbgeons and Dragons.
[118.2s] I'm your Dungeon Master Russ More and with me today is Carla Maxted.
[122.8s] That is me.
[124.0s] I know how to play this game expertly.
[127.0s] Just wait.
[128.0s] And I play Glim.
[129.0s] And Amy More.
[131.4s] I know how to play this game marginally.
[135.4s] And I play Sullivan Sleight.
[137.9s] And Tom Laird.
[140.2s] I know how to play this game Muppetippa.
[144.2s] And I play Moot.
[146.0s] So hi, everybody.
[148.8s] It seems like we haven't played this or any main feed game in forever.
[155.8s] Well, it has been a while.
[156.8s] Russ had to do the intro like nine times.
[158.8s] I'll put.
[159.8s] Yeah, there was only a couple, but.
[161.9s] I'm D&D.
[162.9s] No way.
[163.9s] No, I'm.
[164.9s] I'm.
[165.9s] Welcome to Russ.
[166.9s] I'm a Dumbgeons and Dragons.
[169.2s] I'm a Dumbgeons and Dragons.
[171.4s] I mean, story checks out.
[173.4s] Yeah, a little rusty.
[175.4s] A little rusty.
[177.4s] Hi.
[178.4s] Where you can hear a game that we played more more recently than this and where Tom
[183.8s] did much better introing the game than I did is over on Patreon, Patreon.com slash
[188.7s] dumb dragon cast, where when you're a patron you get access to our exclusive game
[195.1s] called The Adventures of Facing Fate.
[199.2s] No, not Facing Fate.
[201.1s] Get out of here, Amy.
[203.2s] I'm sorry. I wasn't.
[204.5s] I didn't have my listening ears on.
[206.8s] Usually you're teeing us up for Facing Fate.
[209.2s] I got all excited.
[210.2s] No, no.
[211.6s] This one's all about Tom.
[212.8s] This one's all about Tom.
[214.0s] Well, not really.
[215.0s] The Adventures of.
[216.0s] It's about all of you.
[217.8s] Yeah. And mostly Russ.
[220.0s] And the. What?
[222.4s] I mean, yeah, that's fair.
[224.1s] I do hijack it every now and again.
[225.9s] That's that's that's not my fault.
[227.7s] It isn't.
[228.7s] Clearly, you know, this is I feel like this season that we're doing right now.
[232.7s] Season four is just Opal's arc.
[234.3s] And then. He'll just be dust in the wind after that.
[237.9s] He will somehow become the big bad.
[240.1s] Has been prophesized.
[243.4s] But when you're a patron, you also get an episode dedicated to you.
[246.6s] Like today's patron.
[250.6s] Eli McElveen and Sean Howard.
[253.1s] Thanks, Eli and Sean.
[254.8s] Oh, Sean and Eli and Sean.
[257.1s] You are amazing.
[257.7s] We know them.
[258.7s] We do know them.
[260.2s] We know. Well, we know in person.
[261.9s] We did meet them in person.
[263.7s] Pre pandemic.
[265.0s] Yeah. Remember meeting people in person.
[266.9s] Oh, they're wild times.
[269.0s] There was a there was a point this year when we could have seen Sean again
[273.0s] in person, but covid.
[275.1s] Yeah. Yeah.
[276.1s] Because we were going to try and do the Edmonton Expo again.
[278.5s] And he was going to come out for that.
[282.8s] Collective sigh.
[283.9s] Yeah. Well, we miss you guys.
[285.6s] Anyways, now it's time to play the game, I think.
[290.0s] Fuck it, let's play.
[292.4s] Previously, because I think we all need a little refresher.
[296.2s] Need a little previously.
[297.8s] The three of you had gone to the wonderful city of Sarah Loon.
[302.4s] You proceeded to fire blast faces.
[305.8s] Touch my donkey.
[307.7s] No one touches Rolf.
[308.9s] Donkey, which you left the donkey there.
[312.2s] We did with a very kind staple boy.
[314.8s] Oh, Rolf, I love you so much.
[318.0s] You stole a bunch of stuff off of a ship and then you escaped
[323.4s] via a local rooftop escape artist.
[328.4s] Sneaky sneak.
[329.4s] Named Flora's Lava, played by the wonderful Keith Ahman.
[333.8s] And now we find you having
[338.7s] spent a good 10 day on the road,
[342.7s] practicing your skills.
[345.7s] Thinking about what to do next with your life.
[349.5s] Rolling up to the city of Prosker.
[352.7s] Now, Sully, during this time, you've been really honing those skills.
[358.0s] You know, you got a good practice on the ship there,
[361.4s] perhaps in some weird, roguish way, lending a hand
[365.7s] to all of your friends, because everybody rolled really well.
[369.7s] But you got to level up.
[372.4s] Oh, pew, pew, pew, pew, pew, laser's explosions.
[378.5s] So we're going to go into what you got.
[380.4s] You go to level three, Sully.
[384.1s] Stats. Yeah.
[385.9s] All right. So in this level, only one thing changed for me.
[389.2s] I got to choose a roguish archetype.
[392.0s] So this is something that
[396.3s] that I get at third level, and it makes me awesome.
[400.2s] I chose. Well, I'm not going to split hairs here.
[404.3s] It makes me awesome.
[405.4s] It makes you awesome.
[406.2s] But it guides the type of rogue that you are for future.
[410.4s] Oh, I know. Yeah.
[411.8s] I'm just explaining this to to our listeners.
[414.2s] Oh, right. Because this is a podcast.
[416.5s] What? For other people.
[419.3s] Are you out there listening right now?
[421.2s] I mean, we dedicated to somebody, at least one person's listening.
[423.8s] That's true. We dedicated it to two people.
[425.7s] That's true. All right.
[427.0s] So mastermind is what I chose.
[430.0s] And it says with mastermind,
[432.8s] I gain master of intrigue,
[436.6s] which means I gain proficiency with the disguise kit,
[440.5s] the forgery kit and one gaming set of my choice.
[444.3s] And I get to learn two languages of my choice.
[446.8s] Additionally, I get to unerringly.
[450.2s] Do you hear that, Russell?
[451.2s] I'm not going to make any mistakes because it says unerringly.
[455.3s] OK, means without error,
[457.6s] mimic the speech patterns and accents of a creature that I hear speak
[461.2s] for at least a minute, enabling me to pass myself off as a native
[465.0s] speaker of a particular land, provided that I know the language.
[468.7s] Everybody you meet from now on is only going to speak in one word sentences.
[473.2s] Just a lot of grunts.
[475.4s] Uh, Amy, I'm very excited for Sully's
[480.2s] master of the disguise kit because I'm picturing just fake mustaches
[484.3s] all of the time, all the time.
[486.2s] Those big Groucho glasses with the nose attached to them.
[489.6s] Perfect. Yeah, a lot of them are going to be homemade.
[493.3s] It's going to be great.
[494.0s] So I chose a dice set and my two languages being draconic and orc.
[500.0s] I also get master of tactics.
[502.0s] So it says that starting at this level,
[504.4s] I get to use the help action as a bonus action.
[507.8s] Additionally, when you use the help action to aid an ally in attacking
[511.3s] a creature, the target of that attack can be within 30 feet of you
[514.9s] rather than within five feet of you, if the target can see or hear you.
[519.6s] So it makes help a lot more helpful.
[525.7s] When was the last time you used the help action?
[528.6s] I didn't even know I had it.
[529.6s] I mean, never, almost never.
[532.0s] And now it's a bonus action.
[533.3s] So you can use it all the time, not use it again and again.
[538.7s] You can not use it on every turn.
[540.7s] But this is what happens is that I get something cool
[543.8s] and then I go, oh, I didn't know I could do that.
[547.5s] And now I'm going to do it.
[549.4s] I hope so. Maybe.
[550.9s] What does it help? Or alternatively, alternatively,
[554.0s] in about six or eight months, we'll get a new listener.
[557.4s] They'll listen back to this old episode.
[559.8s] They'll go on Discord and say, hey, does Amy ever use that bonus
[563.4s] action of help that she has?
[564.8s] And then we'll all be like, oh, yeah, help.
[569.3s] That's the best. Where is help?
[571.4s] It's under bonus actions now.
[573.2s] To carry on the stats, stats, stats, stats, actions.
[577.4s] Help is one where you can provide assistance
[580.8s] in a narrative or mechanic style way.
[584.7s] I'm sorry, Russ, I don't know where you're looking.
[588.2s] What the listener can see is that Russ is pointing at Amy's
[592.3s] computer screen directly to help
[596.0s] and help once you once you use that action, gives the person
[600.4s] you are helping advantage on their next role,
[603.7s] of which you are helping them with, be it a strength check and stealth or whatever.
[608.7s] Oh, I hope Sully sneaks in behind someone on his hands and knees
[611.9s] so Glim can push them over him.
[614.7s] It might be you. Classic.
[616.1s] It might be Moot. All right.
[618.6s] Sorry. Follow up question.
[620.3s] This is just like learning time with Dumbgeons and Dragons.
[624.8s] Improvise? Yeah.
[626.7s] It's like, oh, I've got this spoon and this rattlesnake.
[630.7s] I'd like to improvise a banjo.
[634.2s] Yeah. Well, usually it's like improvising a weapon because it's in combat.
[638.5s] Right. I'd like to I'd like to pick up the snake near me
[641.6s] and use it as a whip and whip this person in the face.
[644.0s] Is that like improvise? Yeah. Yeah.
[646.4s] Fang first whip in the face.
[648.1s] I mean, that's awesome.
[649.1s] If you click on them, they tell you what they do, too.
[652.3s] Oh, my God, they do.
[654.6s] Y'all, I'm not going to waste the rest of the podcast time with this.
[657.2s] I'll do my own reading.
[658.5s] No, this is learning with me.
[660.8s] I'd like to hear at least one more option of improvise
[663.7s] because the first one is true.
[665.2s] I would also like another example and a snake.
[668.0s] And then you make a banjo.
[669.6s] So please tell me what else comes to you immediately,
[672.6s] because that was magical.
[675.6s] You know, I don't know.
[676.8s] Like if I had like a tin can and a rock, I could probably like make
[681.6s] I don't know, like I'm going to say I just want to go with musical device.
[686.0s] I'm right there.
[686.9s] I'm like, it'd be a really poor maraca.
[689.4s] I was going to say the one rock maraca.
[696.8s] I mean, probably a better maraca than the snake spoon banjo.
[700.3s] No idea what I do with that snake spoon banjo.
[703.3s] We're going to find out now that now that Amy knows
[705.7s] Sully can improvise during combat.
[709.0s] Ah, all these basic things.
[711.4s] It's just so good.
[712.3s] And now we can leave Sully.
[714.2s] Snake spoon now stats over.
[720.7s] We join the three of you.
[722.0s] How how did you get back?
[723.8s] Did you just walk the whole way or did you hitch a ride?
[726.7s] You tell me what you're doing as you get back into Prosker.
[731.5s] Improvise Amy, this is your time to shine.
[736.0s] I hop Sully hops on Glim's back, right?
[739.5s] All like, yeah.
[743.0s] It doesn't go over well.
[744.0s] I don't think it lasts very long.
[745.2s] I mean, you could help.
[746.3s] You could help me with my strength check with your help.
[749.0s] And then I'd be very extra strong and it'd be no problem
[751.7s] because you'd use improvise as the action and help as the bonus action.
[755.6s] Mm hmm. It's all coming together now.
[757.8s] You rue the day that I looked at this sheet of paper.
[761.2s] You rue the day I've read my character sheet, Russ.
[766.1s] That's OK. It's not going to stick.
[767.6s] We all know. I'll forget this.
[768.9s] I think I think we walk.
[770.6s] I think we try to lay really low, right?
[772.5s] We just escaped a city in which we were wanted people.
[776.5s] And now we're moseying on up to like an entire city of thieves and crooks.
[782.5s] So all right.
[784.0s] So 10 day walk.
[785.4s] I feel like Glim is really just she's feeling it.
[789.0s] She's good. She's in the zone.
[790.8s] Sully and Moot, though.
[794.2s] Probably dragging a little bit by this point is my guess.
[798.1s] My for sure ask for piggyback rides.
[800.5s] We're not we don't have the hearty constitution that Glim does, though.
[804.0s] It's true.
[805.2s] I mean, I have a very good constitution score, but not in that way.
[809.3s] Right. I do not.
[811.4s] Guys, I feel like we've been walking for like a really long time.
[814.5s] I know. Isn't it great?
[815.7s] I feel so good.
[816.8s] We've been out in this fresh air and we're heading to Prosker.
[819.8s] And we escaped that place where I never even want to think about again
[823.8s] or go to again or consider again, except for Flora's Lava, who was so cool.
[828.3s] He was like really cool.
[830.1s] He was definitely really cool.
[832.0s] I know I said I wouldn't say it again, but are we there yet?
[835.8s] Yeah. How long how long is it to Prosker?
[838.8s] I mean, we must be almost there, right?
[840.7s] It's got to be like over this hill.
[842.4s] Please tell me it's over.
[843.6s] Oh, is it over the hill?
[844.8s] You get up to the top of the hill.
[847.8s] And on the other side of that hill.
[850.6s] You see another hill.
[852.4s] But on the other side of that hill, you see Prosker.
[856.2s] Fuck it. I'm rolling down these hills and Sully straight up bends over,
[861.1s] grabs his ankles and like tire rolls himself down the hill.
[866.7s] OK. Tell me how many jugs you're carrying as you do this.
[870.3s] I'm not carrying the jugs.
[871.6s] No, we gave them all to me, remember?
[873.1s] All of them for 10 days. Wow.
[876.6s] We took lots of rests.
[879.5s] You know, I have all of them.
[880.9s] Maybe Moot maybe has a couple, but I know I took Sully's for sure.
[885.0s] Yeah, I think I had the soft spices and things like that.
[888.4s] Right, because there were six total jugs.
[890.6s] Yeah. Yeah.
[891.4s] OK, that's cool.
[892.4s] We've got two strong people and Sully.
[896.2s] So Sully is.
[899.0s] Like hula hoop rolling himself down this hill right now, I suppose.
[903.1s] Just ass over tea kettle, just like, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
[907.4s] That's the sound it would be if he was on the hill.
[911.7s] It's like a Benny Hill theme going as it's going.
[914.5s] Yeah, exactly.
[915.6s] Find me. Yeah, exactly.
[919.9s] Where are these scantily clad women come from?
[922.6s] And these keystone cops that are running around chasing them.
[926.1s] Oh, yeah.
[928.0s] It's about midday as you roll into Prosker.
[930.2s] Where's your literally?
[932.5s] Ah, what's you do?
[937.0s] What's your what are you doing?
[938.6s] It's your first stop. Where do you go?
[940.0s] Who do you see? What do you do?
[941.6s] I know about you guys, but I really like a hot meal.
[944.1s] Is Prosker where we came from?
[948.3s] Like where the blood oath was signed? Yes.
[951.0s] Unbeknownst to Glim, but yes.
[953.1s] Yes. Yes. Yes.
[954.2s] That was Carla asking, not Glim.
[956.3s] And where I got in trouble for handing out pamphlets.
[958.6s] That was Glim.
[959.5s] Yep. Yep. That was Prosker.
[961.4s] That's where all of this began.
[962.7s] I got kidnapped. Yep. Yep.
[964.4s] Yes. But Moot met a great friend. That's true.
[969.8s] Only good only good memories for you.
[972.9s] Yeah, I mean, probably food and lodgings.
[976.4s] And then we have this stuff that we probably want to get get back to Charmy.
[984.4s] Hey, guys, maybe we can go grab something to eat at the Rusty Bucket.
[987.9s] Yeah, I could use some some home cooked meal in cooked meal.
[992.8s] You know what I mean. Not road food.
[994.8s] Bucket cooked meal.
[996.1s] Just bring me a bucket of that chicken that they're so so hyped about.
[999.8s] I hadn't heard about the chicken.
[1001.3s] Oh, apparently it's finger licking good.
[1003.2s] Yeah, right. I can go for some wings of something.
[1005.2s] All right. You head to the Rusty, Rusty Bucket.
[1007.7s] The Rusty Bucket.
[1009.0s] The Rusty Bucket. Take several white Russians, please.
[1012.4s] That's right. It's all borscht and white Russians.
[1016.2s] This is different than I remember.
[1018.0s] Ownership changed. Yeah.
[1020.7s] You head to the Rusty Bucket.
[1022.8s] You grab your food.
[1024.5s] They have a tavern attached, which provides you lodgings.
[1027.9s] Well, right.
[1028.9s] Like, we should probably take this stuff to Charmy.
[1030.7s] And I mean, I've used seven napkins already and my hands are still slick.
[1034.9s] Anybody got like a napkin, but like it's been pre-moistened?
[1038.8s] Hmm. I don't know.
[1041.0s] Maybe maybe they can just get you like a wet rag from behind the bar.
[1045.9s] Would that work? Yeah. Yeah, I guess so.
[1047.8s] Or a finger bowl. Oh, yeah, those are fun.
[1050.3s] That sounds like really fancy.
[1052.3s] I don't know. I don't know.
[1054.5s] Moot, write this down for me.
[1055.8s] Write this down. OK. Pre-wetted napkin.
[1061.5s] Pre-wetted napkin.
[1063.8s] Mm hmm. We're going to call it the PWN.
[1068.1s] PWN. Yeah, it's going to be big.
[1071.2s] Remind me in like, remind me in like 10 days.
[1074.1s] OK, I'm on it.
[1078.4s] What's happening in 10 days?
[1079.6s] Don't ask. None of your business.
[1083.4s] There's a there's an old woman sitting beside you.
[1086.1s] What's happening in 10 days, dearie?
[1089.2s] How is this going to be such a big thing in 10 days?
[1091.9s] I can't explain. Yeah, it's just a feeling I have.
[1094.4s] Also, you've been listening this whole time.
[1096.0s] You know, it's rather nosy.
[1097.6s] Well, you sat down right next to me at this table here.
[1101.3s] Just invited yourself.
[1102.4s] Are we in the same fucking booth right now?
[1104.2s] Yeah, we're on a four top and we did sit right next to this old woman.
[1107.6s] Yeah, I was just sitting here enjoying my rusty bucket of chicken.
[1112.6s] And the three of you sit down and just start talking about wet napkins.
[1116.0s] Well, perhaps you seemed a little bit lonely.
[1118.7s] Well, I just thought some proximity would be would be nice.
[1122.0s] Well, it's been a while since I've seen my children.
[1125.7s] All right, we should probably go see Shami.
[1127.7s] Are you lonely?
[1128.6s] Because I could tell you about this friend of mine.
[1130.8s] I would love a story.
[1132.0s] He keeps you company in like all of the darkness.
[1134.4s] Maybe we should wrap this up before it gets started.
[1137.7s] Well, also, Glim, you're not supposed to do that here.
[1140.0s] You got in big trouble.
[1140.9s] Yeah, that was a bit of a problem last time we were here.
[1143.2s] What's she not supposed to do? Right.
[1145.5s] Oh, nothing. I'll I'll tell you later.
[1147.4s] Prostate to the size.
[1149.5s] I put the pamphlet that I was holding back in my back in my pocket.
[1157.6s] No pamphlets here.
[1158.9s] You're a very interesting group and I like you a lot.
[1161.3s] My name's
[1163.3s] Judith.
[1164.5s] Pfft.
[1165.6s] Judith.
[1167.0s] Mmm, Judith.
[1169.1s] Sometimes I don't say my name very often.
[1171.5s] Sometimes I just get stuck in my chops there.
[1173.3s] You know what?
[1173.7s] Sometimes the name just tastes, you know, when the name just
[1177.0s] and you rolled around in your mouth and you're just like,
[1179.3s] mmm, Judith.
[1180.6s] Judith.
[1182.1s] Judith.
[1183.1s] All right, Judith.
[1184.5s] All right.
[1185.4s] You enjoy that bucket.
[1187.0s] All right, wet napkins, friend.
[1188.2s] I'll tell you about Bahamut.
[1189.8s] Mmm.
[1190.3s] Bahamut.
[1192.8s] Judith, you keep that under your belt.
[1194.3s] You don't say that word.
[1195.3s] I'm just tasting Bahamut.
[1198.2s] Mmm, Bahamut.
[1200.2s] It's the most delicious word in the universe.
[1203.4s] But we should go.
[1204.2s] We've got jugs of stolen goods to deliver.
[1207.8s] Well, you've got to do something.
[1209.2s] See you later.
[1209.8s] What?
[1210.7s] Bye-bye now.
[1212.3s] Bye, Judith.
[1213.9s] Bye.
[1215.3s] We didn't want to take Judith with us.
[1217.7s] Guys, I think that's the first time we've turned down
[1220.0s] an NPC to come with us ever.
[1222.8s] I just really didn't like the way she said it.
[1225.1s] It was very unsettling.
[1226.2s] So I thought Amy said, call her Judith.
[1228.9s] At one point, I was like, wow.
[1234.9s] I didn't, but it would be great.
[1235.6s] Nope, definitely said Judith, just with Sully's accents.
[1238.8s] Mmm.
[1239.7s] Oh, yeah.
[1241.2s] Don't worry, I didn't want you to bring Judith either.
[1243.3s] I didn't know she was going to be there.
[1245.2s] Yeah, I was going to say that wasn't one of your carefully
[1247.9s] crafted NPCs.
[1249.2s] No, he has a wrench down here.
[1250.8s] There's like four M's and then Judith.
[1253.8s] Ruslick said, as patient, it just says, sexy goblin,
[1256.8s] so we're in for it tonight.
[1258.5s] Yeah.
[1260.4s] Judith.
[1261.3s] Judith.
[1262.0s] Judith.
[1264.0s] Bah-mah-t.
[1266.2s] Bah-mah-t, bah-mah-t, bah-mah-t.
[1269.8s] Oh, yes.
[1271.5s] Yes.
[1274.0s] Yes.
[1276.4s] We're going to take this little break here to say,
[1278.6s] this is what happens when we don't record for a month
[1280.8s] and a half on a specific storyline.
[1283.9s] It's good.
[1284.6s] It reminds me.
[1285.4s] We're just coming home to these old friends,
[1288.2s] and it just feels so good.
[1289.6s] It reminds me of how we used to do it, all shenanigan.
[1292.8s] It was a little rocky start there,
[1294.4s] but once Judith showed up, it really just brought it all back.
[1297.4s] Yep.
[1297.8s] Mmm, Judith.
[1303.9s] He's doing something with his tongue, isn't he?
[1306.8s] Mmm, Judith.
[1309.7s] Judith.
[1310.4s] It's a lot of lip licking going on.
[1313.9s] Well, that's the only way to make that noise.
[1315.9s] Mmm.
[1316.9s] No, it's not.
[1317.9s] No, it's not.
[1318.9s] Mmm, Judith.
[1319.9s] No, it's got like a mmm.
[1321.9s] It's got like a mmm thing in it.
[1323.9s] Stop it.
[1324.9s] Throw some wet sounds.
[1325.9s] Lots of wet sounds.
[1326.9s] I mean, the mood vote for this episode of 3M's Judith
[1330.3s] is going to be a real weird one.
[1332.1s] I'm sure Judith, how many M's is that?
[1333.6s] I went for three.
[1335.2s] Yeah, I think it's like three sounds.
[1336.2s] Yeah, three's good.
[1336.9s] Four, a little excessive.
[1337.9s] Well, there's a mmm, so yeah, there's three.
[1340.7s] How am I supposed to articulate that?
[1342.9s] Is there like a special umlong for M's when you go up an octave?
[1348.4s] Yeah, sure.
[1349.4s] Why not?
[1350.4s] You can use some capitals in lower cases and they'll really get your point across.
[1353.4s] Oh, that's true.
[1354.4s] Yep.
[1355.4s] Somebody cling clang at this door.
[1358.4s] God, Judith seemed really lonely.
[1361.4s] Yeah, I'm going to come find her later maybe.
[1364.0s] I don't know if you should do that, Glen.
[1365.0s] Tell her about Vaughnet.
[1366.0s] I know.
[1367.0s] It's like-
[1368.0s] I thought it was just the pamphlets.
[1369.0s] Do you think it was-
[1370.0s] No, I think it's the whole thing.
[1371.0s] I think it's the general message.
[1372.5s] Right, because we're in the Thieves' City and they don't like me.
[1375.5s] That's right.
[1376.5s] This is preaching about the Lord of Justice.
[1377.5s] Well, it's not that they don't like you.
[1378.5s] Yeah, they just don't like you.
[1379.5s] Yeah.
[1380.5s] Yeah, yeah, yeah.
[1381.5s] We're going to be respectful of their trickster thievy person.
[1386.5s] Yeah, I want to be respectful of their beliefs as well.
[1389.5s] Yeah.
[1390.5s] Yeah, that's true.
[1391.5s] All right, let's go find Shami here.
[1393.5s] You know what?
[1394.5s] You guys have been troopers holding these jugs.
[1396.5s] Do you want me to carry them the rest of the way?
[1399.5s] Not all of them.
[1400.5s] Maybe like three of them?
[1402.0s] Maybe not three of them.
[1403.0s] Maybe like two of them?
[1405.0s] I think it's fine.
[1406.0s] Would you like-
[1407.0s] How about-
[1408.0s] I'll give you one.
[1409.0s] Oh yeah, okay.
[1410.0s] I can carry a jug.
[1411.0s] Okay.
[1416.0s] You head back to the town square of Prosker where Shami's establishment is.
[1423.0s] It's a happening day.
[1424.0s] Everybody's out shopping, having a good time.
[1427.0s] Shami's got a lineup, you know, six people deep.
[1431.6s] This is good.
[1432.6s] Guys, I think we should join a lineup.
[1434.6s] This is just a feeling I have as Amy.
[1436.6s] I immediately want to stand in this line for no reason.
[1439.6s] Who might we talk to in this lineup?
[1442.6s] It's true.
[1443.6s] Also, I feel like sometimes we're just so Canadian.
[1446.6s] That we just get in line and we're like, cool.
[1449.6s] It's like we see a lineup and then we just get in a lineup.
[1452.6s] Yeah.
[1453.6s] And then you talk to the person in front of you and every person just like did
[1456.6s] the same thing and no one even knows.
[1458.6s] Anyway.
[1460.1s] Like a garbage chute perhaps?
[1461.1s] Canadian problems.
[1462.1s] Yeah, like a garbage chute.
[1463.1s] All right, good.
[1464.1s] Just going to sidle up next to, hello there.
[1467.1s] The gentleman in front of you turns around just waiting in line for some herbs.
[1475.1s] Ah, yeah.
[1476.1s] Oh, your name's Herb?
[1477.1s] It's so nice to meet you.
[1479.1s] No, my name's Frederick, but I'm here for herbs.
[1483.1s] Oh, I see.
[1484.1s] Frederick, it's so nice to meet you.
[1485.1s] My name's Glim.
[1486.1s] Pleasure.
[1487.6s] Do people call you Freddie?
[1490.6s] Uh, not in a long time.
[1493.6s] What about Rick?
[1494.6s] Never, actually.
[1495.6s] Not once has anybody called me Rick, so.
[1498.6s] That could be something cool you get into.
[1500.6s] Yeah.
[1501.6s] Yeah.
[1502.6s] Apostrophe Rick.
[1503.6s] Let me try it on here for a minute.
[1505.6s] Hey, I'm Rick.
[1506.6s] Well, that sounds pretty awesome.
[1507.6s] Hey, Rick, how's it going?
[1508.6s] Yeah.
[1509.6s] It seems cool.
[1510.6s] Hey, I'm Frederick.
[1511.6s] I mean, still good, but maybe it doesn't have the same...
[1517.1s] Zing.
[1518.1s] Hey, I'm Rick.
[1519.1s] Rick should have, like, a leather jacket.
[1521.1s] Rick's a good-time guy.
[1523.1s] Okay.
[1524.1s] Well, I've got a son named Carl, so, you know what, let me call, maybe you can help
[1529.7s] him with his name, Carl!
[1532.6s] So we've got Carl, Rick, and, mm, Judith.
[1537.3s] There's a theme, folks.
[1538.3s] Can you guess it?
[1539.3s] I am sensing a theme.
[1540.8s] Just drop that in the Discord if you've figured out the Easter egg in this.
[1545.5s] It just happened.
[1547.4s] A skinny boy comes walking over.
[1550.4s] What?
[1551.4s] Well, these folks just gave me a new name.
[1554.4s] What?
[1555.4s] Yeah, we renamed you Dad.
[1557.4s] To what?
[1558.4s] Rick.
[1559.4s] Yeah, my name is Rick now.
[1562.4s] That's stupid.
[1563.4s] Hey, you respect your dad.
[1565.4s] That's his name.
[1566.4s] It's also just half of his regular name.
[1569.4s] What are you, witches?
[1570.4s] Were you a witch?
[1571.4s] No.
[1572.4s] Why would you?
[1573.4s] Because you're changing names.
[1575.4s] Now we just offered a suggestion.
[1576.4s] I don't know if you understand what witches do.
[1578.9s] To change people's names, obviously.
[1580.9s] So my mom always wrote me up.
[1583.9s] She says, is anybody trying to change your name, they're probably a witch?
[1586.9s] That's a very specific thing to have been told.
[1588.9s] What happened to your mom?
[1589.9s] She had her name changed by a witch.
[1591.9s] But couldn't she just ask people to call her something else?
[1593.9s] She couldn't remember.
[1594.9s] But then how'd she know to tell you?
[1599.9s] Aha!
[1600.9s] Are you a witch?
[1602.9s] No.
[1604.3s] Cotton, you don't fucking lie.
[1605.3s] Get out of here, kid.
[1608.3s] Well, that's my son.
[1609.3s] I'm going to turn back.
[1612.3s] Oh, look, we're next in line here.
[1614.3s] I'm just going to go buy my herbs.
[1616.3s] Nice to meet you.
[1617.3s] My name is Rick.
[1619.3s] It was real nice meeting you too, Rick.
[1621.3s] Nice to meet you, Rick.
[1622.3s] Bye, Rick.
[1623.3s] Your son's a dick.
[1625.3s] Was he like six?
[1626.3s] Seven?
[1627.3s] Yeah.
[1628.3s] God.
[1629.7s] Oh, that's a lot.
[1632.7s] I somehow thought like 12.
[1634.7s] He approached with a lot of tween.
[1635.7s] Yeah, he had some real attitude going on.
[1637.7s] I guess I misread that.
[1639.7s] Yeah, probably like middle years.
[1641.7s] Yeah.
[1642.7s] Tweens.
[1644.7s] Rick goes and buys his herbs and then you're next in line there.
[1648.7s] You walk in and it's the same style of setup.
[1652.7s] Lots of turnstiles as last time.
[1654.7s] Shami, baby, we're back.
[1657.7s] Who are you?
[1659.1s] Uh.
[1661.1s] Remember?
[1662.1s] You zipped us off to saloon.
[1665.1s] Oh, right.
[1668.1s] You just tell him that you've completely forgotten about us regardless of if we were
[1671.1s] to come back with your stuff.
[1672.1s] We would have been off scot-free.
[1673.1s] Well, no.
[1674.1s] You signed the-
[1675.1s] Oh, no, no.
[1676.1s] Hello.
[1677.1s] Sully, are you okay, Sully?
[1680.1s] Sully, oh my goodness.
[1682.1s] Yeah, sorry about that.
[1684.1s] No, you're right.
[1685.1s] We would have came back regardless because those are the kind of good people we are.
[1688.5s] Give her her things, everybody.
[1690.5s] Oh, good.
[1691.5s] Let me just check the inventory here.
[1692.5s] Lay them all out on the table.
[1694.5s] She pulls out her list.
[1697.5s] She goes down six alchemical jugs marked with the sign of Dagon, which of course looks
[1703.5s] like-
[1704.5s] This symbol here on these here jugs?
[1706.5s] Yeah.
[1707.5s] Yeah, just like the ones that are right here.
[1709.5s] This checks out.
[1710.5s] Yeah.
[1711.5s] Yep.
[1712.5s] My papers are somewhere.
[1713.5s] I took notes.
[1714.5s] Uh-huh.
[1715.5s] Uh-huh.
[1716.5s] Uh-huh.
[1718.0s] Oh, you got some-
[1719.0s] And everything nice is.
[1720.0s] It's all there, man.
[1721.0s] And everything nice is from Aglaros.
[1722.0s] She's got the dream- dream flake, the sundrop, the satara, the goji leaf, the sticks.
[1728.0s] What do we got here?
[1729.0s] We got a couple extras, don't we?
[1731.0s] You just thought about bringing some extras back?
[1733.0s] He stole more than you needed to?
[1735.0s] We're not on purpose.
[1736.0s] It all kind of happened so fast.
[1738.0s] Well, steal is such an ugly word.
[1741.0s] Well, what do you want to do with these two here?
[1744.0s] Do you- do you have a use for them?
[1747.4s] If they do, maybe they could help Sully with that cough he just evaded.
[1750.4s] Oh, yeah, that'd be good.
[1752.4s] Yeah, no, you probably don't want to do that.
[1754.4s] This one here is, uh, luex?
[1757.4s] Uh, it's a poison.
[1759.4s] Oh, I definitely don't want to eat that.
[1761.4s] Uh, let me tell you what it does.
[1764.4s] It's not good.
[1765.4s] Wait for it.
[1767.4s] I'm waiting.
[1768.4s] I'm on the edge of my seat.
[1769.4s] I'm looking it up in my book.
[1770.4s] Oh, you found a seat, Sully?
[1772.4s] No.
[1773.4s] I did not find a seat.
[1775.8s] But you said you were on the edge of your seat.
[1778.8s] Oh, that's just a saying.
[1779.8s] That's like what people say.
[1781.8s] I hadn't heard that one.
[1782.8s] I'm going to write that one down.
[1783.8s] I like that one.
[1784.8s] Yeah, jot that one down.
[1785.8s] So when you have so much anticipation, uh, that like you're on the edge of your
[1790.0s] seat because you're not all relaxed and stuff sitting at the back of your seat.
[1793.0s] Oh, sure, sure.
[1794.0s] Yeah.
[1795.0s] Uh, well, when I said it was a poison, it's not actually a poison.
[1797.0s] You put it on, uh, it's made from powdered stalks of luex plants, uh, which only
[1802.3s] grow in very specific regions.
[1805.1s] Uh, it's normally sprinkled on bleeding wounds, which are then sealed, uh, then sealed with
[1811.4s] bandages or magical healing.
[1813.9s] Um, after that, oh, well, it's, uh, it's addiction rating is pretty vicious.
[1821.5s] Yeah, side effects could include, uh, intense racking pain for the first minute.
[1830.3s] After this, well, you could become immune to all pain.
[1833.7s] That's a positive thing, but you don't react like you normally would.
[1838.7s] It changes you.
[1840.3s] Like you stabbed me in my shoulder and I like giggle or something like that.
[1846.1s] Like you're a little clumsier.
[1849.7s] I mean, this sounds terrible.
[1851.5s] What could this be?
[1852.5s] It just sounds bad all around.
[1853.5s] This doesn't, I mean, maybe it stops the bleeding.
[1855.6s] Oh, here you go.
[1856.8s] Here's the bad part.
[1857.8s] Here's the-
[1858.8s] Maybe if it's like a mortal wound.
[1860.3s] No.
[1861.3s] I thought that was-
[1862.3s] So, um, once you take more than one dose in 24 hours, well, if you don't, if you
[1869.8s] don't really take well to these sorts of things, you could, you could die in indescribable
[1875.9s] agony.
[1876.9s] Oh.
[1877.9s] Oh God.
[1878.9s] So maybe we'll just avoid that.
[1882.7s] Need a high constitution for that one.
[1885.4s] Do you want, do you want something like this?
[1887.2s] Because I mean, we could all, like, we don't have to keep it.
[1889.5s] We could just sell it.
[1890.5s] There's a good black market here, right?
[1893.4s] Well you're in it.
[1894.7s] Um, so yeah, I mean, I could, I could pay you a reasonable dollar for both of
[1899.7s] these.
[1900.7s] The other one here is Mordane Vapor, which is made from ground leaves of rare
[1907.2s] herb found deep in tropical forests.
[1911.1s] It gives you, well-
[1915.3s] Can I guess?
[1916.7s] Yeah, please do.
[1917.7s] You said Vapor.
[1918.7s] Should we all guess?
[1919.7s] Yeah, so Vapor, so I'm imagining it makes like big billowing clouds of smoke that
[1923.0s] you can like, maybe like do cool tricks with and everybody thinks you look really
[1927.4s] awesome.
[1928.4s] Oh, I like that.
[1929.4s] I was going to say give you an erection for more than six hours.
[1932.7s] Uh, doesn't affect your member.
[1934.9s] Well, I mean, actually it could because it gives you visions of incredible
[1938.7s] mind-boggling beauty.
[1940.2s] Oh.
[1941.2s] Well, if you're not getting hard from that, I don't know what to do.
[1944.2s] And for all you for about half an hour and during this time, well, there's a good
[1948.5s] chance that you lose against anything you're doing.
[1952.9s] No.
[1953.9s] Just basically being able to walk.
[1955.9s] Right.
[1956.9s] So you just lay there in excruciating amounts of pleasure with these visions
[1963.1s] for 30 minutes.
[1964.1s] Yeah.
[1965.1s] Sounds like a great way to have a weekend.
[1966.9s] High addiction rating on this one.
[1969.7s] If two doses are taken, well, it becomes a deadly poison.
[1975.5s] The beauty turns to death.
[1978.7s] It could kill you in anywhere from, you know, a day to a week.
[1984.6s] Hmm.
[1985.6s] At least this one seems to be dangerous.
[1987.8s] This one does something good at the beginning, at least the other one.
[1992.0s] Just all seems terrible.
[1993.0s] Yeah.
[1994.0s] It's all bad.
[1995.0s] Yeah.
[1996.0s] Uh, and I see you got the circlet here.
[1997.8s] That's good.
[1998.9s] I have everything on the list.
[2000.8s] I will hand this over to you.
[2003.9s] She hands you the contract, which you signed.
[2006.8s] Yep.
[2007.8s] I take it back and I say thank you very much.
[2011.6s] And as you hold it in your hand, it bursts into flames and falls to the ground.
[2016.4s] Oh, that's how it's supposed to happen.
[2018.4s] Oh, gosh.
[2019.4s] You could have warned me.
[2020.4s] You got me.
[2021.4s] Really sneaky.
[2022.4s] Yeah.
[2023.4s] Really sneaky.
[2024.4s] Yeah.
[2025.4s] I changed my pants.
[2026.9s] Well, good thing you wore your brown pants.
[2034.0s] Don't choke Amy.
[2035.0s] I know.
[2036.0s] It was very mean.
[2037.0s] I was mid-drank.
[2038.0s] Well, that's why I always come wear my shitting pants.
[2042.6s] It's like heavy on the walking dead right now.
[2049.4s] But yeah, these two, yeah, I could definitely pay a reasonable price for them.
[2053.3s] They seem really rare.
[2056.3s] Ten gold for the Mordain Vapor, and I'd probably give you, I don't know, reasonably about
[2063.2s] a hundred for the Lewicks, a hundred gold, a hundred ten all in.
[2069.0s] Well, considering that we weren't expecting to pay for any of this, I mean, I'm okay
[2074.6s] with that.
[2075.6s] Glim, Moot, you good?
[2076.6s] Oh, sure.
[2077.6s] Of course.
[2078.6s] Yeah.
[2079.6s] Seems pretty good, yeah.
[2080.6s] Seems fair.
[2081.7s] I do not want the responsibility of having these powders and stuff on my...
[2088.5s] Well, if you only take a little bit of this one, it's totally fine.
[2090.9s] Did you want to try it before you sell it?
[2093.2s] No?
[2094.2s] No.
[2095.2s] Okay.
[2096.2s] She goes and tucks them away onto a shelf behind her.
[2100.9s] As well.
[2101.9s] How was your trip?
[2103.2s] Everything goes smooth?
[2104.7s] Well, someone touched our donkey.
[2108.1s] Yeah, where is it?
[2109.2s] You had a donkey.
[2110.2s] I put it, we put it into the circle.
[2111.6s] You had to move everything around.
[2113.2s] I can't talk about it.
[2116.0s] We had to give him to a good home.
[2120.4s] It was too dangerous to get out of the city.
[2122.5s] We had to lay low, and by lay low, I mean take to the roofs to escape.
[2126.5s] I may have gotten very angry when someone touched the donkey, and then it seemed like
[2130.8s] Solly hated them for some reason.
[2132.3s] I don't know, it just seemed like the right vibe to really just flame blast them,
[2137.9s] and then everyone sort of wanted us.
[2142.2s] That sounds terrible.
[2144.1s] I mean, you flame blast, anyways, regardless, regardless of that.
[2149.1s] I mean there was other things that were good.
[2150.7s] We made two new friends.
[2152.7s] Mood got to wear an awesome hat.
[2154.8s] I had a pretty awesome sun hat.
[2156.7s] Did you get to take that hat, buddy?
[2157.7s] You look fucking amazing in that hat.
[2158.8s] We got new pseudonyms, so it was really like a growth experience.
[2164.5s] Very fun, very fun.
[2165.5s] It sounds like a wonderful adventure.
[2167.2s] Well, if you want your donkey back, I mean I can help you out with that.
[2173.2s] Costs 110 gold.
[2176.5s] Well, we left him with this very nice boy.
[2179.3s] Right?
[2179.8s] Who seemed like real happy to have him.
[2182.0s] I do feel like those two maybe are meant for each other.
[2185.0s] I think so, too.
[2185.7s] Okay.
[2186.5s] Thank you, though.
[2186.9s] Well, if you change your mind.
[2188.5s] I know how sad I feel if all of a sudden a donkey that I knew and started to love,
[2193.2s] all of a sudden just poofed away from me.
[2195.2s] Exactly.
[2196.2s] Great.
[2196.8s] Right.
[2197.3s] That's cool.
[2198.0s] Shall we?
[2198.7s] Have a good one.
[2199.6s] Yeah.
[2200.0s] No, it's a pleasure doing business with you.
[2201.4s] Glad everything worked out in the end.
[2203.4s] Again, if you want your donkey back or any other sort of, you know, odds and ends,
[2208.0s] you come back to Charmy's and we'll take good care of you.
[2211.0s] Okay.
[2211.4s] Thanks, Charmy.
[2212.0s] We're here in the middle.
[2237.9s] Really?
[2238.6s] Really got like a good.
[2239.6s] Awesome power peed that last.
[2242.4s] Second, third, fourth wind on that one.
[2243.7s] Wow.
[2244.7s] Yeah, well, you just got to sustain it.
[2246.5s] It's like you moved away and then you're coming back, you know, but we're here.
[2251.1s] We are here.
[2251.8s] In the middle?
[2252.5s] In the middle.
[2253.1s] Welcome to it.
[2255.0s] Thank you for being here with us.
[2256.3s] It's a wonderful day.
[2257.3s] It's the episode where we came back from recording with Mook, Glim, and Sully.
[2261.2s] And it's a wild ride, isn't it?
[2263.0s] We're all loose.
[2266.0s] We're pretty loosey goosey.
[2269.2s] Yeah, Judith, Judith.
[2272.4s] We would like to thank one of our patrons for the name Eskenerveen.
[2278.6s] And that patron is ALex Garrity.
[2280.8s] Thank you, ALex, for that name.
[2282.2s] Thank you, ALex.
[2283.6s] That's one of the things that some of our patrons get to do over at
[2286.2s] Patreon.com slash dumb dragon cast is provide to us NPCs and items.
[2291.9s] We tried our very best to mention them.
[2294.0s] We're going to be very good about it moving forward.
[2296.8s] But we've actually made some changes to that tier.
[2299.0s] And make it a little more alluring, if you will.
[2303.5s] We've slapped some lingerie on this.
[2305.2s] I know I didn't.
[2306.0s] The way you said that made me a little bit uncomfortable.
[2309.0s] Boudoir photo shoot for the tier.
[2311.4s] It's it's really a lot going on.
[2313.2s] Pick your own word and put it in there.
[2314.7s] Whatever. No, no, that was good.
[2316.2s] Yeah. No, alluring was the one.
[2319.9s] But what you get to do over there now is provide to us as many names,
[2323.5s] race, class, quirks as you can or want to at the $15 tier,
[2330.4s] which is our in world tier.
[2332.0s] And that will give us NPC ammunition for days.
[2335.9s] Also, you can make Russ like if the special quirk is turn all ours into L's
[2341.9s] and then just unleash that on Russ and watch him go.
[2345.4s] Less is going to have a great time with that.
[2347.9s] She did it already.
[2350.0s] She really had that in the chamber.
[2353.0s] So good. That could be one of the options that you do.
[2356.2s] But also at that tier, you get to stock the shelves of the new feature
[2360.8s] that we're going to be bringing to the show, which is Zed Mart.
[2366.6s] What's Zed Mart?
[2367.9s] Well, Canadian friends, you may remember something.
[2371.2s] A store here called Zellers was fantastic.
[2375.2s] Was it? It wasn't really.
[2376.9s] It was like a bad Canadian kind of like discount department store.
[2381.9s] But we don't remember going there.
[2384.0s] It was a step down from Wal-Mart, K Mart, step down from Wal-Mart.
[2388.4s] Some of them had like lunch counters in them.
[2390.7s] Oh, for sure. There was a lunch counter.
[2393.3s] Yeah. Yeah.
[2394.4s] So it's just a little a little nostalgia.
[2397.8s] They'd send me a letter on my birthday.
[2399.8s] I got to eat there for free.
[2402.2s] So we've incorporated that.
[2404.0s] That is our Zed Mart.
[2405.6s] So this is smart to shop there every every six to eight episodes.
[2410.0s] Now, that store is going to pop up into a store with a new local branch
[2415.2s] where our players, whichever storyline we happen to be in,
[2420.3s] will be able to pop into the Zed Mart
[2422.5s] and buy some sweet stuff that you guys come up with.
[2425.2s] So we can browse the wares, find out what's available,
[2428.0s] what our awesome patrons have like come up with and what they cost.
[2431.9s] And some of them will buy, some of them will window shop,
[2435.9s] some of them will drool over and try and convince our friends
[2439.0s] to give us extra money so that we can like all chip in to buy them
[2442.9s] and they'll betray us and we'll never get the thing we want that's a pony
[2446.3s] or like whatever, for example.
[2448.9s] Just a hypothetical.
[2451.4s] Absolutely has never happened to Carla before ever.
[2454.8s] It sounded rather specific, which we'll get into probably
[2457.6s] in the downtime of whatever downtime we record next.
[2460.8s] But but that's what we're doing.
[2462.8s] And we'd love for you to come join us.
[2464.0s] Patreon.com slash dumb dragon cast.
[2467.3s] Come check it out.
[2468.3s] But now let's get you back to the episode
[2470.0s] and find out if Judith comes back.
[2473.0s] Did you hear the tongue noise that time?
[2474.4s] There was noise.
[2475.9s] Judith.
[2478.7s] Judith.
[2479.6s] OK, have a great week.
[2482.0s] Talk to you soon.
[2482.7s] Bye.
[2486.9s] All right. So do you have like a list
[2490.3s] of what we're supposed to be doing at any given time?
[2494.7s] I think I mean, not not like a formal one.
[2497.6s] Oh, that's surprising.
[2499.6s] I know, but sometimes we get so distracted that it's hard for me
[2503.4s] to keep track of what we're supposed to be doing.
[2505.4s] Well, you guys remember how we're going to save the world.
[2507.9s] Obviously.
[2509.1s] Yeah, we eventually. What's it?
[2510.6s] What's we need to go to Taman?
[2513.3s] So to the capital to declare my oath.
[2517.2s] Right. So I don't know.
[2520.6s] I mean, we've been doing this other cool stuff,
[2522.5s] but maybe we should head.
[2524.5s] And it's very, very far.
[2527.2s] So I don't know how we want to get there.
[2529.9s] In what direction is it?
[2531.8s] Well, all I'm thinking is I did this thing.
[2535.8s] We did this thing so that we could save Merv.
[2540.7s] But I don't know if Merv is safe.
[2543.1s] You're right.
[2544.9s] So like maybe he could like come along on our
[2547.8s] on our saving the world adventure.
[2549.3s] I know it said there was only three of us,
[2550.9s] but maybe if we get to a coast or something,
[2553.3s] he will enjoy his seafaring life.
[2556.2s] Well, how do we?
[2557.4s] So you need to talk to Laden, Laden Menda.
[2562.1s] I mean, do you remember you got kidnapped here?
[2565.3s] And then that's how you found out about Merv, right?
[2567.7s] I sure did.
[2569.0s] Do you think I don't know,
[2571.2s] like you recognize the kidnappers if you saw them?
[2573.4s] Like, how do we get a message?
[2574.6s] How do we find out if Merv's OK?
[2576.3s] I don't know. Maybe if I just like hang out in town square
[2580.1s] by myself for a second, you guys turn your backs.
[2582.9s] Maybe I'll get kidnapped again.
[2584.5s] It kind of seems like something that would happen to me.
[2587.3s] You know what? It's not the worst idea I've ever heard.
[2590.0s] You're not wrong. It's kind of what happened last time.
[2592.7s] All right. Well, let's stage my own kidnapping here.
[2595.4s] And we'll just see if we like give it a few minutes.
[2599.4s] They were pretty quick.
[2600.2s] So it's like you turned your back for a second and they had me.
[2603.2s] OK, well, I'm just going to go back over to our in-wink.
[2609.5s] Yeah, I'll go with Glim.
[2613.0s] I'm saying wink. I'm not winking.
[2614.8s] Glim, you don't have to say winky winky.
[2616.7s] Oh, I'm not that good at the winking.
[2618.8s] So I say it. But OK.
[2620.9s] We're just going to leave you here by yourself then.
[2624.4s] All right. I'm just going to look at the cool stone work in this square.
[2629.3s] I used to be a stoner.
[2632.8s] Sully goes off and is looking down,
[2636.0s] just whistling to himself, waiting to get kidnapped.
[2639.4s] He's not whistling to himself, though. He can't whistle.
[2642.0s] Right. He can't whistle.
[2643.2s] Sully is just humming to himself.
[2648.1s] Asking to be kidnapped.
[2650.9s] Moot and Glim, where do you go?
[2652.2s] I think just like down the road and then kind of like turn around.
[2656.2s] It's obviously we want to, yeah, you know,
[2658.8s] a little ways around a corner.
[2661.0s] Two heads on top of each other. Exactly.
[2663.8s] OK, as you walk around this corner, Moot, you almost run
[2667.3s] face to face into your friend, Eska,
[2670.8s] who's startled and jumps back to Moot.
[2674.5s] I didn't know you'd be back so soon.
[2677.2s] Oh, I didn't.
[2678.6s] I didn't know we were going to be back right away either.
[2680.6s] But how have you been?
[2682.9s] What have you been up to?
[2683.9s] Well, it's just, you know, as we had previously discussed,
[2686.4s] taking notes on trying to figure out how to
[2690.4s] tackle these magical abilities.
[2693.4s] Yes, yes, yes, yes, yes.
[2694.8s] Yeah, I mean, I had a couple other events
[2698.9s] since then, and I tried to try to figure out what I was doing previously.
[2703.7s] One, I was summoning my mage hand to get a box of oats.
[2710.4s] As one does, yeah, that's a that's a pretty standard thing.
[2713.5s] It's just, you know, a long day juggling.
[2716.0s] You don't want to get up and get the oats.
[2718.6s] I get it.
[2720.0s] And the other one, there was, I mean,
[2722.6s] I was doing my snowball trick and these little,
[2727.2s] I don't know what they were.
[2728.2s] They were just little like mushroom gremlin people
[2731.9s] just popped out of nowhere and started like terrorizing the people.
[2737.0s] I don't know if they were trying to terrorize the people,
[2738.8s] but they were certainly making a lot of hi, I'm Eska.
[2742.8s] Oh, Eska, it's so it's so nice to meet you.
[2744.9s] I've heard so much about you.
[2746.2s] Moot told me so much about you.
[2748.3s] Oh, wow, that's that's that's great.
[2750.4s] We had long days on the road.
[2751.6s] So, you know, you have to, of course,
[2753.5s] you learn a lot about people and the people they know and the people
[2756.6s] the people they know know all those people.
[2760.5s] Well, that's that's great.
[2761.9s] And so, yeah, a couple couple occurrences.
[2766.1s] No real trigger.
[2767.7s] Like I felt like just this surge of like
[2773.0s] power, right, as soon as it happened.
[2777.2s] It felt like it felt good.
[2780.5s] Oh, see, I'm always I never remember what mine feel like.
[2785.0s] I just remember the things that happen after.
[2787.2s] Oh, did anything happen to you?
[2789.0s] Well, I had one happen to me, but I just felt really warm inside
[2793.6s] after it happened.
[2794.9s] But I'm not really sure if it I had one where I wet my pants, too.
[2799.6s] No, no, no, no.
[2800.4s] And that's not what I mean.
[2801.2s] Like I felt like war.
[2802.6s] Sorry. No, yeah, me neither.
[2804.1s] I just seen a big hot bowl of soup or something.
[2806.6s] I felt really warm inside.
[2808.8s] Oh, that's that's not like I'd spilled it on my crotch.
[2812.4s] Oh, yeah, of course, me neither.
[2814.0s] I mean, I was just, you know, trying to, you know,
[2816.9s] normalize your situation in that moment.
[2819.3s] Well, it's very kind of you, but it wasn't needed.
[2821.6s] Yeah. OK, fair enough.
[2824.0s] OK, well.
[2826.4s] Great. I mean, you got you got time to chat.
[2828.2s] And he's just walking around like maybe we can try
[2830.6s] and figure this out, throw iceballs at each other and like see if we can't.
[2835.2s] I don't know.
[2835.8s] Well, you guys can go ahead if you want mood.
[2837.4s] I can keep an eye on Sully and I look back at Sully in the square.
[2841.0s] And what's he doing?
[2842.7s] Sully's gotten a little tired of standing.
[2845.4s] It's been a long.
[2847.4s] So he's you see his small figure crisscross applesauce
[2853.0s] sitting on the stone in the square.
[2856.4s] Like he's got a stick in one hand and he's like pushing rocks.
[2860.4s] He just looks so kidnappable.
[2862.2s] Yeah. Right.
[2864.3s] Yeah, I can keep an eye on Sully if you guys.
[2867.3s] Want to do you want to meet back at the at the end later?
[2870.7s] Or should I meet you somewhere?
[2872.4s] Yeah, I guess meet back at the end.
[2874.4s] And yeah, I don't I don't know how well,
[2877.8s] we'll just be as long as we're going to be.
[2879.4s] Yeah, I think I can probably handle the kidnappers.
[2881.5s] I mean, last time they ran away pretty quick
[2883.4s] and this time I'll know right away that he's been kidnapped.
[2886.1s] So, yeah, I can handle it.
[2888.9s] All right, cool. Thanks, Glim.
[2890.4s] And Aska and I go off like arm and arm, skipping down the street.
[2894.0s] That's nice.
[2895.8s] La la la to talk about magic.
[2899.1s] Sully, you're sitting in the middle of the street.
[2901.1s] People are walking by you, some of them looking at you like,
[2903.3s] what are you what are you doing?
[2906.2s] But you're still not kidnapped.
[2910.3s] He looks around like really.
[2913.9s] Just disappointed that no one's kidnapped him.
[2918.7s] It's like, well, I'm not good enough to kidnap second time.
[2921.7s] Yeah. So he starts to get up
[2924.7s] and brushes, brushes pants off and kind of.
[2931.6s] He has no idea how long he's been sitting there for.
[2933.9s] It could have been forever for all Sully knew.
[2937.6s] But he starts to make his way back to the inn
[2939.8s] because we didn't say where we were going to meet.
[2941.9s] So Sully's just like.
[2944.5s] Yeah, maybe they're getting some more chicken or I don't know.
[2952.5s] He just trudges off.
[2953.9s] Well, when I see Sully get up, then I then I'll I'll follow him.
[2959.0s] Hey, Sully. Oh, Glim.
[2961.0s] I wasn't kidnapped.
[2962.5s] I I know I was watching from over there so that I would be ready
[2966.0s] in case you were, because Moot went with his friend,
[2968.4s] Eska, to do some magic training.
[2970.8s] So I was waiting, but then.
[2973.4s] Yeah, you didn't get you didn't get kidnapped.
[2976.0s] Are you OK? Yeah, it's a little disappointing.
[2978.2s] Thanks for asking.
[2979.3s] It's a little disappointing, but you know what?
[2981.8s] I kind of realized something as I was sitting there
[2986.5s] that when I saw that guy at the dock
[2991.0s] after we had, you know.
[2994.6s] Got gone there and was like doing the thing
[2997.4s] and and did the whole like given to the scrolling stuff.
[3001.8s] He totally showed me Merv being let go.
[3006.4s] Yeah, yeah, I thought maybe you wanted to find out where Merv was
[3010.5s] so we could go get him, so he could come with us.
[3013.0s] But I think he's safe.
[3015.0s] I think I can tell you something, Glim.
[3016.9s] You know what?
[3017.7s] Merv and I, we met in the prison in in Neverwinter.
[3023.0s] We didn't actually know each other that great.
[3025.5s] I did have a big a big heavy sack of guilt
[3029.5s] weighing on my heart because it was essentially my fault
[3034.1s] that he was pulled into that
[3037.8s] that that big that big hole.
[3041.6s] So but now that I see that he's been let go,
[3045.5s] I think I can probably, you know, rid myself of those feelings
[3050.8s] and give my whole attention to your quest for world domination.
[3056.9s] Oh, well, I mean, it's saving the world,
[3059.2s] but I mean, I guess dominating it with with good spirits
[3062.4s] and good intentions is sort of sort of what we're doing.
[3065.8s] Dominate it with with love.
[3068.5s] Yeah. Yeah.
[3069.7s] Let's dominate this world with love.
[3071.4s] Yeah. Get up on it with love. That's right.
[3076.6s] You scream that as you're walking to the rusty buck.
[3079.4s] Rusty buck.
[3080.6s] You can't make that word.
[3082.4s] It's a rusty bucket.
[3083.6s] I know. I want to call it a rusty bucket.
[3086.0s] Why? What's a rusty bucket?
[3088.0s] I don't know.
[3089.2s] Not a thing.
[3090.7s] You're saying that as you walk back to the rusty bucket
[3093.5s] and you scream that just as the doors open and on the other side.
[3099.1s] What's that about mountain things with love?
[3103.3s] Judith and I.
[3104.8s] Judith. Yeah.
[3107.0s] Oh, wow.
[3109.7s] It's it's been a long day.
[3112.7s] We fade out on the two of you brushing off.
[3115.1s] Judith and we cut back to Moot and Eska.
[3120.4s] The two of you have skipped off arm in arm
[3123.0s] down the streets and you get about, I don't know,
[3127.6s] 20 meters away and Eska stops.
[3129.7s] It's like, where are we going?
[3130.8s] Well, I thought you were leaving.
[3131.6s] Oh, no, I just got swept away in the in the excitement of skipping.
[3137.9s] I haven't skipped in forever, my friend.
[3140.2s] Oh, neither have I.
[3140.8s] We've been very busy sneaking out of cities that don't like us.
[3143.9s] So skipping was not on the menu for a while.
[3146.0s] Well, well, OK.
[3147.9s] Well, if we're going to talk about this, maybe just find because
[3150.7s] like it seems to like the the power,
[3155.0s] just like it feels like it's rushing through, like out of the earth,
[3158.1s] out of the out of Nate, like maybe we just go find an open field
[3161.8s] and like practice, see if we can get it to happen.
[3166.4s] It's a pretty good idea, actually.
[3168.1s] It's, you know, as a
[3170.9s] just controlled experiment, as best we could do it.
[3173.8s] Yeah. OK.
[3175.8s] The two of you continue to skip off just outside of the city.
[3179.2s] And you're out in an open field.
[3183.4s] Grass about knee height
[3185.6s] by a little stream that's running down to the city and says,
[3189.1s] well, what kind of what kind of things can you do?
[3191.2s] You said like it was like ice stop another fire fire at that point.
[3196.5s] I did the yeah.
[3197.9s] Yeah. I mean, honestly, it kind of changes every now and then.
[3204.0s] Just if I if I haven't done it in a while,
[3206.7s] sometimes new things surprise me.
[3208.4s] So it's probably good we came to an empty field to test this out.
[3211.8s] All right. OK.
[3214.3s] Well, I guess I'll go I'll go first.
[3218.2s] He begins moving his hands towards the stream.
[3222.0s] And you see the water begin to lift up and out of this stream.
[3227.0s] And he moves it in a sphere
[3231.2s] out in between the two of you.
[3233.5s] And he's focusing quite hard on it.
[3236.2s] And you see it kind of vibrating
[3239.8s] in between his hands, not holding it, but just levitating there.
[3243.9s] It's.
[3246.4s] Nothing, nothing else seems to be like I can control.
[3249.5s] Like specifically, like water is really easy for me.
[3254.6s] Anything else is.
[3258.3s] I don't seem to have a grasp on yet.
[3261.3s] And he moves his hands and it pops and falls to the ground.
[3267.2s] OK, hmm.
[3272.1s] Well, I mean, it makes sense that water works well for you.
[3276.5s] That that makes total sense to me.
[3279.4s] For me, yeah, like it started with with a lot of ice kind of stuff.
[3284.1s] And now I've got some fire stuff and I, you know, I guess I'll.
[3290.0s] Try and just throw a fire bolt over over in the water,
[3294.9s] because that way it'll it'll just go out and no one will get hurt.
[3297.4s] There's a lot of grass here.
[3298.4s] We don't want to we don't want to burn down, burn down the place.
[3302.0s] Yeah, yeah, that's that's a bad that's a bad plan.
[3304.5s] So, yeah, I'll go stand over by the river and I'll
[3308.2s] I'll throw the fire bolt into it.
[3310.4s] Is that yeah, that checks out.
[3312.3s] Sure. Yeah, yeah, let's do that.
[3314.2s] All right. So, yeah, I, you know, kind of.
[3318.4s] Palm up and I've got a little fire bolt in my hand
[3322.6s] and I throw it on into the river.
[3326.0s] All right. So as you cast this fire bolt,
[3328.3s] roll me on your wild magic surge table.
[3331.7s] Got to get that surge table.
[3334.7s] I rolled a thirty four.
[3338.6s] So thirty four.
[3339.9s] You're going to maximize the damage of your next damaging spell
[3343.2s] you cast within the next minute.
[3345.4s] So let's say you feel like there's something something inside you
[3351.6s] that's just got to got to come out.
[3353.6s] How close is Eska to me?
[3356.2s] Like I would say that as you cast, like he's behind you,
[3359.1s] but maybe like, I don't know, five to ten feet tops.
[3362.9s] Like he trusts us that, you know, he can like water splash fire.
[3366.4s] So I kind of look at my hand after I throw the the fire bolt
[3371.0s] into the river and it's like there's like
[3374.6s] human torch style.
[3375.8s] It's like my hand is still kind of glowing.
[3379.2s] Afterwards, and I turned to Eska and I point at my hand.
[3382.6s] I say, like, well, this doesn't usually happen.
[3385.8s] That's not normal. I was going to ask if that's normal.
[3388.2s] No, no, it's not. It's not normal.
[3390.0s] Should I? Should I do it again?
[3394.0s] He shrugs and like gives this big face of like, yeah.
[3400.8s] Yeah, that's what we're here for, to practice, right?
[3404.4s] OK, all right. Yeah, let's do it.
[3406.4s] And this time I put both of my hands together.
[3411.9s] And like my thumbs touching and the fingers are spread out
[3415.9s] and I unleash a cone of fire,
[3421.6s] just flames shooting out everywhere.
[3425.6s] And like some of it's hitting the river and some of it isn't
[3429.1s] because it's a little more than I had planned on.
[3433.8s] This fire erupts from your hands and splashes down
[3437.8s] and Eska immediately sees that it kind of splashes up
[3440.8s] onto the grass on the other side.
[3442.8s] And he moves to throw some water onto the burning grass
[3446.6s] as it sets and looks to use it without that one.
[3451.2s] Is that a different kind of thing?
[3453.0s] Or is that the same like that was bigger?
[3456.7s] No, no, that was that was I just felt like I was really like revved up.
[3461.6s] So I I went for more.
[3464.0s] Oh, yeah, I could I could see that.
[3466.6s] Like it just like.
[3468.4s] And as you guys are talking and discussing the ground begins to shake.
[3474.1s] Oh, boy, is that is that you, too?
[3477.2s] I don't I don't think so.
[3479.2s] This is a new one for me.
[3481.7s] You're looking around trying to figure out
[3484.4s] neither of you is really feeling anything except the ground shake,
[3487.2s] not your usual usual magic.
[3491.6s] Tingle, tingle.
[3495.1s] And there's an.
[3499.0s] The sound of ground tearing and
[3505.1s] what can only be described as an explosion
[3507.6s] coming from the center of the city.
[3510.4s] We cut to Sully and Glim and you are sitting in the rusty bucket.
[3516.6s] Avoiding Judith.
[3519.5s] And the table begins to shake and the ground begins to shake.
[3522.1s] Pictures begin falling off the wall and you hear this explosion.
[3528.2s] Judith, what the fuck did you do?
[3531.0s] It wasn't me.
[3534.8s] Does it with everything now?
[3536.5s] It's escalated. Oh, God.
[3537.9s] Double down on it.
[3539.5s] So, I mean, there's two separate groups here,
[3541.6s] but each kind of describes to me what you do as soon as this explosion goes.
[3546.5s] Ask and I just kind of look at one another.
[3549.6s] And do we see, like, smoke or anything in the city?
[3552.2s] Yeah, after a brief moment, you see what looks like
[3556.1s] ash and black cloud billowing up from the center of the city,
[3560.4s] kind of towards the town square where you had just come.
[3563.8s] I say, ask, I would like we got to go check on Sully and Glim.
[3568.0s] They might be that that might have been them.
[3570.4s] Yeah, yeah, yeah. OK, let's go. Let's go.
[3572.7s] Two of you run off back towards the center of town.
[3575.1s] Glim and Sully. What was that, Sully? I think.
[3579.5s] That that sounded really bad.
[3581.8s] It did sound bad. Is it time to save the world, Glim?
[3584.5s] I don't know, but I think maybe we should start.
[3586.6s] And I think we run out of the rusty bucket.
[3588.5s] Yeah, let's head towards that explosion.
[3591.0s] This one's on you, Judith.
[3594.4s] I got it.
[3596.4s] You burst out and you see this black cloud
[3599.0s] and ash billowing up from the town square where you had just come.
[3602.4s] It's down the street from where you are in the rusty bucket.
[3605.7s] You're running down the street and people are running away from you.
[3608.5s] Neska, you're running in from the opposite side of the city
[3611.1s] and people are pushing past you as you're trying to get to
[3614.4s] where this explosion had come from.
[3617.1s] And you round the corner and you see that there is this tear
[3620.6s] in the center of the town square that opens up into this black pit
[3626.2s] that is billowing flame and black cloud and ash.
[3632.4s] And you hear this guttural scream.
[3638.2s] Come from the center of this mess and up shooting from this cloud
[3643.8s] is this winged, hideous demon that bursts up into the cloud
[3649.4s] and begins flying around and swooping down,
[3652.2s] trying to pick up people that are fleeing.
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[3708.1s] Okay.
[3709.6s] Out of character, out of game.
[3712.6s] What's your play here?
[3716.6s] Well, I'm not sure, but I think-
[3720.6s] Well, as far as I can track it-
[3722.3s] Because when you handed the scroll over
[3725.4s] to the guy at the dock,
[3726.9s] he showed you an image of Merv being let free.
[3730.0s] Yeah, I know, but how do I-
[3731.5s] No, I didn't remember that.
[3733.7s] Like, Merv, you basically saw him being
[3739.7s] walked off the premises and being like,
[3742.5s] bye.
[3744.3s] And you don't know what city that's in.
[3749.0s] Well, then maybe we'll find out
[3750.5s] that I'm not gonna get kidnapped,
[3752.0s] and I'm just gonna assume that Merv is fine,
[3754.2s] and then we're gonna go to-
[3756.1s] Maybe while you're contemplating in the square,
[3758.9s] you can think about-
[3760.7s] Oh, remember.
[3761.6s] You can think about how.
[3762.8s] Okay, yeah, that's fair.
[3765.4s] Okay, back in-
[3767.4s] Never give me important plot point information.
[3769.2s] I had forgotten that happened, too.
[3770.8s] I also had forgotten.
[3772.0s] Thank you!
[3773.4s] There was all that-
[3774.2s] Rooftop chase.
[3775.2s] I mean, it was so long ago
[3777.8s] we found the information.
[3778.6s] There was intense high action
[3780.3s] between then and now.
[3781.2s] There's a lot going on.
[3783.3s] You forged new friendships.
[3784.7s] Fair enough.
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