[0.0s] Previously on Dumbgeons and Dragons.
[2.4s] Did you guys hear that?
[3.8s] I heard something. Did anyone hear it more clearly?
[7.7s] It sounded not dead. They need to get to the tower. Someone's somewhere.
[11.4s] I don't know if you can see something, but all I can see are undead and
[16.6s] I feel terrible saying this, but I think we just have to go.
[20.2s] I guess so. It doesn't sit right with me. I heard them.
[24.2s] We gotta keep eyes on the prize though.
[26.3s] We will hope they know how to get to the tower.
[29.0s] We will hope we can get to the tower.
[31.8s] Off and to the right of this room, there is a single desk.
[36.8s] There is a letter, but what catches your eye is a figure slumped over beside the desk.
[45.3s] I rushed to this person.
[47.1s] It becomes clear that this person is deceased.
[50.5s] To whom may find this letter?
[52.5s] The Arcane Brotherhood is not lost.
[56.5s] This beacon of hope is meant to guide you to our location.
[60.6s] Find the Arcane Brotherhood in Icewind Dale.
[65.0s] There's refuge there.
[67.0s] A place where the undead have slowed and cannot keep up their unrelenting force.
[72.9s] Macoth the Crimson.
[74.6s] Oh shit!
[75.1s] Welcome to Dumbgeons and Dragons. I'm your dungeon master Russ More.
[84.2s] He, him, also with me today is Amy More.
[87.4s] Yeah, she, her, and I play Thea Amastasia.
[91.1s] And Carla Maxted.
[92.7s] She, her, and I play Yen Bolnuri, also she, her, Kalishtar Cleric.
[97.9s] And Tom Laird.
[98.9s] He, him, and I am playing Telgir, who also goes by he, him.
[102.6s] And we're joined by a lovely guest today from the Broad Swords.
[106.5s] We've collected them all at this point.
[108.3s] It's Kristen Flemmons.
[109.8s] Yay!
[110.5s] Gotta catch them all.
[112.2s] That's right, we've got them.
[113.0s] We've got Broad Swords.
[114.6s] Yeah, I'm Kristen.
[115.8s] She, her, and I will be playing Agath,
[118.4s] Godlass, Cthlo, Olavi, the Goliath Fighter slash Cleric.
[124.9s] I'm into it.
[125.8s] Also she, her.
[127.8s] Excellent.
[128.4s] If that's not a mouthful.
[128.9s] So many letters.
[130.0s] There's just so many letters.
[131.1s] There's like dashes, epistroph, it's wild up in here.
[136.9s] You're going to have to pronounce it every time exactly the way it's said, okay?
[141.3s] Be a lot of, hey you.
[142.6s] Yeah, totally.
[143.7s] And new girl.
[146.9s] Where we also don't pronounce things well is over on Patreon.
[149.8s] Patreon.com slash dumb dragon cast.
[151.8s] Where when you are on Patreon, you get an episode dedicated to you.
[154.6s] And I'm going to do my best to pronounce their names right.
[156.4s] No, but don't, because then you just set yourself up for, you know where we don't.
[161.1s] This is a catch 22.
[162.6s] You either do it right.
[165.6s] So no pressure.
[166.6s] There's no way you can succeed.
[168.2s] Okay, well, this one's kind of hard to mess up.
[172.6s] Newt Bootsma.
[174.6s] Thanks Newt.
[175.6s] Thanks Newt.
[176.7s] Also, those are fun syllables all in a row, aren't they?
[179.9s] They really are.
[181.2s] So you can join us at Patreon.com slash dumb dragon cast.
[183.6s] And now, fuck it, let's play.
[200.3s] We see you three soaring through the air on your magic carpet.
[206.4s] Going high above the spine of the world.
[209.8s] And down below, we see a soul figure on horseback riding equal pace to you.
[221.0s] You break through the mountain range after four or five days of travel.
[230.0s] And before you, you see this shimmering rainbow wall.
[235.7s] And at the base of this wall is a horde of undead.
[248.3s] There it is.
[249.0s] Check this out.
[249.4s] This is the darkest timeline people.
[251.2s] You got tricked by the rainbow wall.
[253.0s] You thought that sounds nice.
[254.7s] Camera panning down.
[255.8s] Still nice.
[256.4s] Still.
[256.7s] Oh, no, not nice anymore.
[257.9s] Magic carpet, rainbow wall, person on a horseback.
[260.7s] Come on.
[261.5s] Flying demons are crashing into this wall and shimmering and pouring.
[266.8s] You see tears beginning to form and them trying to crawl through.
[271.8s] You bring your carpet down and land beside the rider
[275.8s] and just take a look over the sight before you.
[281.8s] And then we hear a heavy pounding knock at the door.
[286.7s] And we find ourselves back in the tower of the Arcane Brotherhood.
[292.2s] The three of you are getting ready.
[294.0s] You're gear.
[294.6s] You've had a few hours of good solid rest.
[299.4s] As you're getting ready to leave to Icewind Dale,
[303.1s] where you have been directed, this heavy knock comes at the door.
[309.6s] Oh, I don't know.
[312.1s] Are we expecting anyone?
[314.6s] Oh, you two are vibing.
[316.3s] Jinx, you owe me an ale.
[318.9s] So we're thinking like someone's selling cookies or like.
[326.2s] Can anyone see through a wall?
[329.4s] No.
[330.7s] No.
[331.8s] Should we just, hey, who's there?
[335.0s] Good one.
[335.6s] Yeah.
[337.8s] Again, a gun tell gear.
[339.0s] Louder, louder.
[340.3s] Hello?
[340.7s] Oh, I want to crack the door just like a little bit and do that thing
[346.5s] where you brace your foot along the bottom so that no one can shove it in like a jerk.
[351.7s] A large hand with pale Goliath like skin
[356.1s] does reach through the door and start to shove it open.
[358.4s] Oh, no, thank you.
[359.3s] No, thank you.
[360.2s] Strength contest, please.
[361.4s] Oh, well, that's.
[363.5s] You can do it.
[364.3s] Don't kill me by opening a door.
[368.4s] That's 13.
[371.0s] I didn't.
[375.8s] 19 then you're just like sliding against the door.
[379.1s] You're comically pushing me back.
[380.5s] My shoes are like skidding along the dusty floor.
[385.0s] I'm very calmly, not like urgently, just like the door needs to open.
[389.6s] Like I'm not even there.
[391.6s] I may not have noticed you.
[394.5s] It's possible.
[397.0s] Yeah, it happens.
[397.9s] It happens a lot.
[399.1s] And stepping through the door, you see a very large Goliath woman.
[405.2s] She is probably getting close to eight feet tall.
[409.5s] She is quite strongly built.
[414.2s] Not a surprise, perhaps, that she was able to push the door open that that simply
[418.8s] and fairly mud streaked.
[422.4s] Probably some hints of dried blood at various places in the furs and armor that
[427.9s] she is wearing a fine panoply of weaponry attached to shoulders, back, hips.
[438.1s] And she just steps through the door.
[440.3s] My footing slipped this floor.
[442.8s] Tiny pebbles all over.
[444.4s] Who are you?
[445.3s] Sorry, before you close the door, there are demons and stuff outside in case you
[449.4s] want to bring anything in.
[451.2s] Yes, so before she closes the door,
[456.6s] she holds it open for a few moments longer and a gigantic horse comes in behind her.
[466.3s] This horse is pale to the extent that is almost translucent.
[471.6s] You can see blue veins and almost its musculature through the skin, sort of in
[478.0s] like a creepy deep sea creature kind of way.
[483.1s] And its eyes are this almost sickly yellowy green.
[488.4s] And it sort of like snorts and huffs.
[491.0s] And she slaps it on the butt a little bit to get it to move all the way through
[496.3s] so she can then close the door.
[499.3s] How big is the space in here now that it's in the lobby?
[504.6s] Cool, because I was picturing something a little bit smaller.
[507.7s] We're all like cheeked.
[509.6s] Piled in the elevator.
[511.4s] Can't even stand up because the eight feet isn't high enough.
[514.9s] Yeah, no, we're in a large grand chamber of this massive cathedral room.
[522.6s] And she'll just sort of take a second to look around at the group of you.
[528.3s] And as you ask her who she is, Agath.
[535.6s] Gesundheit.
[538.2s] And you?
[541.8s] I have so many questions.
[543.6s] Well, I mean, let's start with the basics.
[546.6s] Telgir.
[547.8s] I'm Yenbl.
[549.1s] She nods at each of you.
[550.7s] Well, I didn't want to give my name, but now I feel weird
[553.2s] being the only one who hasn't said it.
[554.8s] I'm Thea.
[556.3s] You do seem slightly weird.
[558.8s] Yeah, well, I mean, says the eight foot tall person
[561.5s] who came riding in a translucent horse.
[565.9s] Who are you?
[566.6s] Not your name, but who are you and what are you doing here?
[570.1s] I seek answers.
[573.0s] This is the tower.
[577.4s] Arcane Brotherhood.
[580.5s] The Beacon.
[582.1s] Yes, you're in the right place,
[584.2s] but unfortunately no one else is here.
[590.8s] We have also only just arrived and we will be leaving soon.
[597.6s] And what is your business here?
[601.0s] Much like you, we came for answers and some assistance.
[605.9s] Good, well, where are the answers?
[610.1s] Do you know to whom we should speak or a library or?
[624.0s] Well, we do have a lead.
[627.9s] Are you, I don't know, this is going to sound stupid,
[630.2s] but the whole world is completely fucked up.
[632.3s] Are you a good person?
[638.1s] I am not a demon.
[639.9s] Okay, that's a good start.
[644.4s] You go.
[645.2s] No, you go.
[647.8s] She's just looking back and forth between the two of you.
[650.7s] How do you feel about Orcus?
[652.6s] Oh, that's a good question.
[654.1s] Poorly.
[655.5s] Yes.
[656.2s] Okay.
[656.7s] Yeah.
[658.0s] That is a good answer.
[659.6s] Are you maybe looking to change the world back
[662.1s] to the way it was perhaps?
[665.2s] I'm not sure I believe such a thing is possible,
[668.3s] but were the gods findable, I would be interested in that.
[678.1s] Or if I could bring punishment to Orcus,
[683.5s] I would be interested in that.
[687.8s] Well, it kind of seems like we're all on the same team here.
[691.7s] Wonderful.
[692.2s] We can get going then.
[693.4s] Yeah, we're headed to Icewind Days.
[697.6s] We are going to Icewind Days, that's the one.
[700.6s] We found a letter and that there's a refuge or
[704.6s] that is where we are going.
[708.4s] But there is nothing here in the tower.
[712.2s] Correct.
[714.6s] I think she just sort of turns around and punches a wall.
[717.8s] Oh.
[718.4s] Briefly.
[722.2s] So many dead.
[723.9s] And nothing here in the tower.
[727.5s] You've checked.
[729.0s] We have thoroughly checked.
[731.0s] Well, there's one dead guy upstairs.
[732.8s] Pretty good sweep.
[733.8s] Yeah, dead guy upstairs.
[735.0s] And that's where we found the letter.
[737.3s] The letter.
[737.7s] By the beacon.
[740.4s] Yes, there was a letter from MacArthur Crimson
[743.5s] explaining about Icewind Dale.
[746.0s] Are you ready?
[747.2s] Do you want to take a sweep of the tower first?
[750.7s] Yes, I must see.
[752.7s] Want to go punch the guy upstairs?
[754.9s] Perhaps.
[756.1s] Okay.
[756.6s] How long has he been dead?
[758.6s] Is he very rotten?
[761.2s] He's not rotten, but he has been dead a long time.
[765.2s] Yeah, pretty gross.
[767.1s] And do you know who he is?
[768.9s] No.
[770.1s] And what was in this letter?
[772.3s] Just instructions about going to Icewind Dale.
[777.6s] Well, you can read this if you like.
[780.2s] I would like.
[780.7s] I'll give her the letter.
[782.4s] You look at the letter and it says,
[784.6s] To whom may find this letter?
[787.1s] The Arcane Brotherhood is not lost.
[790.2s] This beacon of hope is meant to guide you to our location.
[794.6s] Find the Arcane Brotherhood in Icewind Dale.
[797.7s] There's refuge there.
[799.4s] A place where the undead have slowed and cannot keep up their unrelenting force.
[804.6s] Signed, MacArthur Crimson.
[806.7s] And does that name ring a bell for Agath at all?
[810.8s] Yeah, you would have been coming because you likely had contacts or at least
[818.2s] knowledge of some people in the Arcane.
[820.5s] So yeah, the name definitely would ring a bell.
[822.9s] Maybe not somebody you met, but through...
[826.9s] I mean, I'm sure it was a real big story of how the Decimators of Dragons
[831.0s] saved her from an ice dragon's lair.
[833.9s] A tale told across the land.
[836.9s] Yeah, that one lasted 20 years.
[838.7s] Yeah. But yeah, you would recognize it.
[844.8s] I would like to do a quick sweep of this building if you have the time to spare, but
[857.4s] I would not object to joining you in Icewind Dale if that is where the Brotherhood now is.
[865.5s] I'm happy to wait.
[867.0s] I think we could use all the help we can get.
[870.1s] Also, can I touch your horse?
[873.3s] I would not recommend it.
[877.0s] He is sensitive and has a foul disposition.
[884.2s] Oh.
[887.0s] Does he also have a name?
[887.8s] She's totally going to touch your horse when you leave.
[891.7s] Tresraxus.
[893.8s] Tresraxus.
[894.6s] It's real mouthful.
[895.6s] That is a strong name.
[897.3s] I call him Rax.
[900.9s] He dislikes this.
[905.3s] Sounds like you two have a strong bond.
[910.5s] Search the castle.
[911.5s] It's complicated.
[914.2s] We'll take care of Rax from a distance.
[918.6s] From around a corner, you guys hear Donnie, but you see a red pseudo dragon
[923.3s] zip out from around a corner carrying as many dry crackers that he could find.
[928.4s] I found enough food to last at least me for like 20 minutes, so that should be-
[933.1s] Oh!
[934.5s] We have friends?
[935.7s] I think sort of instinctually she goes for a weapon and then-
[941.0s] It's all right.
[941.9s] He's with us.
[942.9s] Donnie, get in here and I open up my pouch.
[945.0s] Okay, yeah, yeah.
[946.2s] Just gonna pile the crackers in here.
[947.6s] We got a new friend?
[949.8s] Yes.
[951.0s] Okay, cool.
[952.6s] Horse has a real good vibe about it.
[956.9s] I'm gonna hide in here.
[958.7s] You would like to go off and search the building?
[962.6s] Yeah, I'm just gonna do a quick scan for anything.
[967.1s] I think the idea of fighting so hard to get here and then having it be empty is
[973.1s] just a little hard to swallow, so she just needs to see it for herself.
[978.0s] You want to make it past the foyer.
[980.2s] I get it.
[981.3s] Are there any, aside from people, is there any thing in particular that you might be looking for?
[992.2s] Any sort of writing, any sort of like maybe, you know, what she would really like to know
[999.4s] is what the F happened to the gods and where are they and why the fuck aren't they here.
[1007.0s] So anything relating to that.
[1011.8s] So writing pictograms, diagrams, stained glass things that might have hints,
[1018.6s] that kind of thing, or I don't know, magical portal that'll come take her
[1024.0s] to punch Orcus right in the teeth maybe, something like that.
[1028.7s] Okay, you go off.
[1030.9s] Do you leave the horse where it is?
[1033.3s] There's like an elevator that takes you up.
[1035.1s] He kind of does what he wants, so.
[1037.4s] Okay, cool.
[1039.4s] Horse stays, but your new friend Agath walks off and back down the hall.
[1045.9s] I want to try to make friends with the horse.
[1048.7s] Okay, you're welcome to say what the horse does at this point.
[1052.7s] I guess roll an animal handling check, maybe that sort of.
[1057.8s] It was only a 15.
[1060.1s] Okay, not so bad.
[1061.8s] Well no, but I mean with a plus 10 animal handling,
[1064.2s] I was expecting something a little more exciting, but I rolled an Amy, so.
[1069.2s] He is very moody and part demon, so he stomps and sort of shakes his head
[1076.6s] and huffs and doesn't quite attack, but you do notice that as he huffs,
[1083.3s] the breath coming out of his nostrils starts to get like this greenish acrid
[1091.0s] like look and smell to it.
[1092.6s] And like you can sort of like feel like as you try and get closer,
[1096.6s] it kind of like burns the inside of your throat as you're breathing.
[1100.4s] You kind of like sort of like if somebody is cooking really hot chili peppers
[1105.0s] and it just like just like.
[1107.9s] I've done that to myself.
[1109.1s] Yeah, it's sort of like suddenly like, okay.
[1111.0s] Oh, wow.
[1112.6s] Oh, it was like a boy.
[1115.4s] It's going to be a good one to have on our team.
[1118.3s] Tell gear turns the end ball.
[1121.4s] He says, did you happen to scope all those weapons?
[1126.0s] Yes, this is a very impressive person.
[1129.0s] I'm very happy to have on our side if she is on our side.
[1133.5s] So so tall, so strong down, not, you know, not down with orcas.
[1138.6s] So that's that's right away.
[1140.5s] That's a plus.
[1141.5s] It has been so long since we have seen any creature
[1145.7s] not immediately trying to kill us.
[1147.9s] It's refreshing.
[1148.6s] It's why I was a little standoffish at first.
[1152.4s] You know, we've been burned before.
[1154.0s] Yeah, no, I totally get it.
[1156.9s] Plus, I mean, just kind of really just manhandled that door with you behind it.
[1161.1s] Really just pushed it and you just slid on the floor.
[1163.8s] It was real, just real slick.
[1166.5s] And then Fia starts to like scuff her shoe, like where it was trying to recreate
[1170.4s] how slippery it was, even though it wasn't slippery.
[1172.2s] It's not slippery at all.
[1173.3s] In fact, you can't scuff them at all across that with your own strength.
[1177.2s] Dust blew in and it's me, you know.
[1179.5s] Yeah.
[1179.8s] Oh, yeah.
[1180.2s] No, happens to the best of us.
[1181.5s] It kind of rolls his eyes in the background.
[1187.0s] We follow Agatha back down this hallway.
[1191.1s] The first hallway that you walk down, it follows the outside of the tower
[1196.3s] in almost a circular fashion for quite a ways before coming to a singular open door,
[1202.8s] probably because the other three would have been coming and going from it,
[1207.9s] which leads into just a small box of a room with a series of lights on the wall.
[1214.7s] Are they like magical lights?
[1217.0s] Yeah.
[1218.2s] Yeah, she can tell.
[1220.3s] She knows magic stuff.
[1221.7s] Yeah.
[1223.9s] Can I roll some kind of like history or a kind of check on what they are?
[1229.0s] Would you know how an elevator works?
[1231.4s] No, I don't think those are very common where she's from.
[1234.9s] They're not.
[1236.4s] She's going to spend a lot of time.
[1239.5s] I didn't prepare to detect magic, but...
[1243.6s] You can definitely roll an arcana or even like a history,
[1247.6s] because you would have gained some knowledge of the tower itself.
[1251.0s] A little bit better at history, but that ain't good.
[1253.8s] That's a 10.
[1255.0s] You stare in this room for quite a while.
[1257.4s] Yeah.
[1258.1s] What would Agoth do, not knowing exactly what to do, in order to get movement?
[1264.2s] Shield up, slowly approaching very cautiously, stepping back a bit,
[1273.8s] itching forward again, considering casting a spell, but deciding against it,
[1282.5s] going to take out maybe like a lance.
[1286.2s] Just make it really awkward and like, start poking things with the lance.
[1293.1s] As you poke like one of these lights, it illuminates brighter, and then the door begins to close.
[1299.8s] That is very nerve-wracking, small spaces, not great, but...
[1303.8s] Then vertical movement starts.
[1306.3s] I think she's very motion sick.
[1309.5s] This is all we're doing for the rest of this episode.
[1311.9s] Agoth is on the elevator, pressed against the wall.
[1320.3s] Doesn't take very long, and then the movement slows, and then comes to a stop,
[1323.9s] and you hear a small ding, and then the door slowly slides open, and you're on
[1331.0s] there's an entirely different hallway ahead of you.
[1333.8s] She's going to take full stealth crouch, creeping forward at a low crawl.
[1341.9s] Out of the doors very quickly, in case they are closing again.
[1346.6s] Gonna maybe prop them open with something, and then very carefully,
[1353.3s] very hunter-in-the-wood style, make her way down this hallway.
[1358.5s] It's a dimly lit hallway, and there's several doors along the way.
[1363.8s] As you look in the first one, it looks like what were at one point living quarters.
[1368.5s] A lot of the sheets and beds have kind of been tossed.
[1371.8s] Personal items seem to have been cleared off of shelves.
[1375.6s] There's the occasional non-important book or journal that's been
[1384.2s] scrawled in a couple pages, but as you kind of flip through some of these,
[1388.4s] there's no real information regarding the gods, or a portal, or anything.
[1395.9s] It's all just, it seems like all before information, when people were living happy lives.
[1404.6s] So does it look like this place has been abandoned for that long then?
[1408.7s] Like 10 odd years, or?
[1411.3s] Not 10 years, I don't think.
[1413.7s] It looks like it's been, like dust has started to really pile up on shelves and stuff.
[1419.8s] There appears to be fresh footprints,
[1422.2s] but what you can absolutely deduce is that they match the three that you met downstairs.
[1428.2s] On this floor specifically, you don't find anything else.
[1433.2s] So I'd say it's been abandoned for anywhere from between one and three years.
[1439.2s] Okay. Are there stairs, or is the elevator the only way to traverse?
[1446.2s] Yeah, as you walk around, the only way you find is this dinging box.
[1452.9s] It is the way.
[1454.6s] She'll like scowl at it and kind of grit her teeth and like, you know,
[1457.5s] just sort of do a sequential, I think she's figured out that the button,
[1461.8s] how the buttons work, no longer requires the lance.
[1465.4s] Still deeply suspicious. Does not like it.
[1469.1s] Does not like this experience of moving like under something else's volition,
[1474.0s] but will scope the rest of the tower in the same way.
[1477.9s] Yeah, you go floor by floor until you reach a floor about midway up this series of lights,
[1484.8s] and the doors swing open and you find that there are no footsteps leading out.
[1489.3s] Okay, more promising.
[1490.5s] Which leads you to believe that it was a room,
[1492.5s] or at least a floor that was missed by the group before you.
[1495.4s] We are not thorough.
[1497.3s] You walk out and into this, what looks more like a large cathedral,
[1503.1s] and you do see along the walls, which are the swirling beacon up on top,
[1511.6s] illuminates these stained glass windows, and in them are just backdrops.
[1523.0s] From the looks of the room, and as you kind of go around,
[1526.5s] you see that there are like placards beneath all of them,
[1530.0s] and they have the names of, at the very least, the lawful gods.
[1535.2s] But in those stained glass images, you do not see those gods.
[1540.8s] Hmm, interesting.
[1544.3s] Yeah, I will sort of like do a full circuit of all of the windows and the cathedral space,
[1553.8s] and if there is nothing else to find except the god's continued absence,
[1560.4s] then I will eventually make my way back down.
[1565.3s] In the meantime, I feel like my lovely horse may have racks like snacks,
[1575.1s] so he may be trying to muzzle his way into that bag to take some of those crackers
[1581.8s] that we're flying past.
[1583.5s] Super excited about it, and it's just feeding him all these crackers like,
[1587.8s] Hey! Hey, those are my crackers! Hey, no!
[1589.8s] You'll be fine!
[1590.3s] Get it away from the demon beast!
[1591.4s] I'm making a friend, Donnie, you know how important this is to me!
[1594.2s] No! They're my crackers, I found them!
[1595.9s] You walk around the corner as this is happening.
[1599.0s] They're mine!
[1599.8s] It's fine, you're making a friend.
[1601.3s] Rex is like just sort of like snorting and like bearing his teeth at the pseudo dragon.
[1608.0s] Ugh! I can snort and bear my teeth too!
[1610.8s] Hey!
[1611.0s] Oh, you got something there, right?
[1613.1s] It's a cracker!
[1614.0s] No, it's not.
[1615.8s] Okay.
[1616.2s] Stop snorting.
[1617.5s] No!
[1617.6s] Get in the bag, Donnie, you're embarrassing yourself.
[1620.1s] Your horse is a menace.
[1622.9s] Yes, that is the point.
[1626.9s] Did you find anything that you were looking for?
[1632.5s] I simply found that here, too, the gods are absent.
[1638.1s] What gods specifically are you looking for?
[1642.4s] Well, any of them would be nice, but...
[1646.6s] Yeah, fair enough.
[1648.7s] Eldath and I once had...
[1652.6s] Well, I was once her cleric.
[1656.6s] Before, being a cleric was not a thing anymore.
[1664.2s] Right.
[1665.0s] Well, let's go kick some orcish ass and find some gods in the Arkane Brotherhood.
[1674.8s] Yes.
[1675.9s] I'm sorry, I'm still feeding crackers.
[1680.4s] They're my crackers.
[1681.4s] We have only arrived here not too long ago in this time and place.
[1688.6s] In this time?
[1697.8s] Yes, we were...
[1701.8s] I guess in the before times?
[1704.9s] We're from the past, but isn't technically everybody from the past?
[1710.0s] No.
[1711.0s] What if you think about it, though?
[1713.2s] Well, turns out these ones were fighting a lich, and then they essentially didn't realize
[1721.0s] ten years had passed.
[1722.6s] You say that like we lost track of time in a floating pyramid told here.
[1727.4s] That's not what I meant, but just from the time they went into the flying pyramid
[1732.2s] and the time they came out, ten years everywhere else had passed.
[1736.7s] Not a lot of time had passed for them.
[1739.4s] And the ten most terrible years.
[1742.0s] And in all of this, I had not even thought to consider that the gods had all disappeared.
[1748.8s] You are a cleric.
[1750.2s] I am.
[1754.2s] For whom?
[1755.6s] I follow the path of the light.
[1757.9s] I have a spirit, a quarry spirit called Ithgara.
[1762.9s] It is, I think, somewhat different than a cleric.
[1766.7s] Here I am from Kalimshan, and it is different, but I have a spirit who follows a god.
[1775.8s] And your magic, have you used it since you lost ten very bad years?
[1789.5s] Yes.
[1789.8s] And it, did it not destroy things around you?
[1805.3s] Only the things I was intending to destroy.
[1811.4s] She cocks her head, and it doesn't, for us,
[1818.3s] the clerics who are not from the past do beg, air quotes.
[1827.9s] When the gods disappeared just before the war, our magic remained, but the gods were not here
[1841.2s] to fuel it, and it draws its power from the earth around us.
[1851.3s] Every spell I cast has a cost, a direct cost, of the life force of those beings around me.
[1865.2s] Do you still have connection to your god?
[1873.1s] I look at my traveling companions, assuming they will jump in and say something,
[1878.6s] if I have been draining their life force while we have been like,
[1882.5s] I look at them, have I been hurting you?
[1891.2s] I assumed everybody knew about
[1895.0s] this. Of course, that was a dumb assumption on my part.
[1901.4s] It's hard to remember what has happened in ten years to mention it.
[1904.5s] That's true, there's a lot.
[1906.0s] A lot, and the world is ended, it is a lot to remember.
[1912.0s] My power comes from the Dreaming Dark. This is different than following a god,
[1922.5s] so perhaps that is why I can still access my power?
[1927.8s] Perhaps they are not banished. I do not know the Dreaming Dark, but I do know that
[1937.6s] whether it is living creatures or plants or just the earth itself, each spell I cast
[1945.8s] draws on that life force a little more, and the time the earth has left
[1952.6s] grows shorter with each act of magic.
[1957.6s] Mathia, are you not able to restore the earth a little bit as we have traveled?
[1964.9s] Like this much? I draw my power from the earth itself, from nature, and I don't know,
[1975.0s] maybe given more, there's not much earth or nature left. I'm only able to revitalize,
[1986.0s] I guess, a small portion.
[1989.4s] So she'll look at the group of you, sort of like in a stern, like matronly
[1996.6s] manner almost, and be like, you do not cast frivolous spells here.
[2005.1s] Cast only with the utmost need.
[2009.3s] I do not cast frivolous spells.
[2012.8s] Good.
[2014.0s] Didn't you try to make just a leaf green?
[2016.7s] That is not a frivolous spell in a dead world!
[2019.4s] You gave away my cracker!
[2020.5s] Johnny, I swear to God!
[2022.2s] This is a lot of information to try to process. Perhaps we should start our travels.
[2029.8s] We generally go by carpet, but you and your beast will not fit on the carpet, I don't think.
[2038.2s] Oh, but I bet he can run fast!
[2040.3s] Who runs fast?
[2041.8s] I hand him another cracker.
[2044.0s] He's really worming up to you a lot.
[2047.4s] I think Agatha's kind of watching this.
[2051.1s] I'm gaining a friend in the horse and Donnie's just hating me more and more in my bag.
[2055.5s] Why, I gotta get that horse while it sleeps.
[2058.8s] Does the horse sleep?
[2060.1s] It is a demon, it does not sleep.
[2062.2s] Motherfucker.
[2062.9s] So, so your horse is fast?
[2065.2s] Could probably keep up to a flying carpet?
[2068.6s] How fast is your rug?
[2071.2s] Out of character, it goes 60 feet, like its movement is 60 feet,
[2075.6s] which is probably horse equivalent?
[2077.8s] We will be fine.
[2079.2s] Russ is waving away.
[2080.6s] It's nothing crazy, though.
[2081.7s] Well, if the horse starts and goes...
[2084.1s] If a magic carpet and a demon horse both leave,
[2088.5s] we will be fine.
[2089.4s] I suggest we go.
[2092.5s] Yes.
[2093.1s] Yeah, no time like the present.
[2095.4s] Yes, there is nothing more for us here.
[2100.2s] You all climb aboard your transports and break through the door into a swarm of demons.
[2109.4s] Love it.
[2110.2s] Welcome to the middle.
[2118.2s] We're here and we're excited.
[2119.9s] And we're winners.
[2121.2s] Winners.
[2121.9s] Kind of.
[2122.6s] Honorees.
[2123.1s] No, not kind of, honorees.
[2125.1s] Yeah, well, always in our hearts.
[2127.3s] Always.
[2128.0s] Uh, no, I take this as a total win.
[2131.4s] I'm gonna turn Amy's mic up there.
[2132.9s] I'm real hot.
[2133.8s] I mean, you are, hey, hey, you are real hot.
[2136.9s] It's true.
[2137.5s] It's true, sorry.
[2138.2s] So is our podcast on the Webby Awards.
[2140.8s] Yeah, the Webby Awards.
[2142.5s] We entered them and we got an honoree,
[2146.2s] which means we get a plaque that we get to put up on the wall.
[2149.2s] A plaque.
[2149.7s] That's pretty awesome.
[2150.5s] A plaque, guys.
[2151.8s] It's amazing.
[2152.2s] And we can share custody of this plaque and it can spend summers with us.
[2156.6s] And then we can go kind of like in a three-month rotational period.
[2161.0s] I don't want winters with the plaque.
[2162.8s] There's nothing to do.
[2164.4s] But you're always inside with the plaque.
[2166.6s] You get to see the plaque all the time.
[2170.2s] This is really just a win for you, Tom.
[2172.8s] I like it.
[2173.7s] I'm on board.
[2174.3s] But we wanted to brag a little bit,
[2175.6s] but also say thank you for listening to us
[2177.5s] and for being here and for supporting us
[2179.4s] and doing all that crazy stuff that you do on the interwebs
[2182.0s] to tell people about us.
[2183.1s] Because without that, we wouldn't have a plaque to share.
[2186.3s] Yeah, we would have just been nominees.
[2189.0s] Well, nominees is actually better than honorees.
[2191.0s] So we don't, yeah.
[2191.8s] We would have just been.
[2193.3s] Nothing.
[2193.8s] We would have just not been mentioned at all.
[2196.2s] Thank you for your submission.
[2197.8s] You know what we would have been like?
[2199.0s] We would have been like Facing Fate,
[2200.3s] who didn't even get an honoree.
[2201.5s] Poor little baby show.
[2202.5s] Aw.
[2202.9s] Yeah.
[2203.4s] It's just, it's not its time.
[2205.6s] Dumjins put in its time.
[2207.4s] I feel like next year.
[2208.6s] Next year will be Facing Fate's time.
[2210.6s] We won't even enter Dumjins.
[2211.9s] Yeah, we will.
[2213.0s] OK, maybe we will.
[2214.0s] We'll see how it goes.
[2216.3s] But yeah, we got a lot of details about that somewhere.
[2220.7s] Don't know.
[2221.1s] Probably in the description?
[2222.6s] In the description, maybe.
[2223.4s] Or on our socials.
[2224.4s] Follow us.
[2225.0s] Follow us on the socials, like Facebook, and Twitter,
[2227.3s] and Instagram.
[2227.9s] Did we tell you that we're back on Instagram?
[2230.0s] I didn't know we left.
[2230.9s] Russ has been gramming all over the place.
[2232.9s] Nah.
[2233.7s] Yeah.
[2234.2s] No, well we are.
[2235.4s] And I do it.
[2237.4s] Sometimes.
[2238.2s] That explains that.
[2239.5s] Hey.
[2240.7s] That sounds like how we do things.
[2243.1s] Instagram.com slash DumDragonCast.
[2245.3s] So come join us over there.
[2247.0s] It's probably a picture.
[2247.8s] We'd love for you to see it.
[2249.2s] OK, that's the end of this middle now.
[2251.1s] Love you, bye.
[2251.8s] Love you, bye.
[2252.3s] OK, love you, bye.
[2255.0s] And we cut back to the base of the Spine of the World.
[2261.6s] You see before you this horde of undead
[2265.0s] and this rainbow wall that looks like it curves up
[2269.3s] and back towards the region of Icewind Dale.
[2273.4s] Is Spine of the World like the name of a mountain?
[2276.2s] OK, good.
[2277.0s] That's what I thought.
[2277.8s] Good for me.
[2278.6s] And we're just witnessing like a dome of protective magic.
[2282.1s] It appears that way.
[2283.4s] Yeah.
[2285.0s] Yeah, it appears to be blocking out
[2288.7s] these demon creatures and undead creatures.
[2292.7s] But it does appear that some of them,
[2294.6s] the harder they hit and the more that hit in one place,
[2297.8s] are able to at least break through the curtain a little bit.
[2303.8s] You haven't seen any get through,
[2307.0s] but it does appear that they're weakening in some spots.
[2310.2s] And how close can we get?
[2313.7s] Is there energy coming off it, pushing us back,
[2316.2s] or how do we interface with it?
[2319.0s] Are we so good-hearted that we're just
[2321.0s] going to make it through no problem?
[2322.3s] We can just fly through?
[2323.5s] I don't know.
[2325.0s] How do you want to deal with this?
[2326.4s] I don't know if the horse will make it through.
[2327.6s] I'm worried about the horse.
[2331.0s] Good point.
[2332.0s] Yeah, I would like to fly close
[2335.8s] and see what we're dealing with.
[2338.8s] I don't want us to get rocketed back.
[2341.0s] In fact, since I can fly with my special boots
[2344.4s] or however I was able to fly before,
[2347.2s] I think I just can.
[2348.2s] I think I just decide to.
[2349.9s] Wait, but now maybe that's a spell.
[2351.7s] Fuck.
[2352.6s] Can you just fly now?
[2355.2s] Yeah.
[2355.7s] Well, I mean, do we have clarification
[2357.4s] on if Yenbul's magic is the same?
[2362.1s] We don't.
[2362.6s] You have nothing clarified beyond what a Goth has told you.
[2366.9s] Maybe flying on the magic carpet is destroying the world.
[2370.3s] Who knows?
[2372.4s] If only they get off the fucking carpet.
[2375.0s] Greenhouse gases.
[2376.2s] Yeah, I mean, air travel is notoriously
[2378.2s] one of the biggest polluters there is.
[2379.8s] Lazy sons of bitches just walk already.
[2382.7s] Just terrible.
[2387.0s] We should fly close and see if we can get through
[2391.3s] because we are good people.
[2393.1s] Yeah, I kind of want to touch it.
[2394.3s] It's pretty.
[2395.8s] Let me re-describe.
[2397.4s] So you've landed at the base of the Spine of the World.
[2400.9s] So then there's rolling foothills
[2403.0s] and then swath of undead and then rainbow curtain.
[2409.1s] So we're just a little up overlooking this horrific scene.
[2414.1s] Yeah, yeah.
[2415.6s] So we just can't stroll up.
[2417.2s] We've taken a moment to confer.
[2420.1s] Yeah, so this is where we landed you at the beginning
[2423.0s] just to be like, hold fuck.
[2425.7s] I have a question for you, Agath.
[2429.6s] You keep saying that Rex is a demon.
[2434.4s] This wall here seems to be repelling demons
[2440.2s] or maybe undead or maybe we haven't seen any demons.
[2443.9s] I don't know, but it's repelling things.
[2446.5s] Is he going to be able to get through the wall?
[2449.8s] I do not know.
[2451.6s] He is technically half demon.
[2455.3s] Perhaps.
[2456.8s] That's enough.
[2458.2s] Are you going to be able to ride through this horde
[2463.2s] to make it to the base of the rainbow wall?
[2468.0s] You should just like kind of smile a little bit
[2471.7s] and sort of like loosen the mace on her shoulder.
[2476.5s] I like your confidence.
[2478.1s] Do we just try?
[2480.7s] Do we know that Icewind Dale nailed it?
[2485.0s] It's on the other side of this rainbow wall?
[2488.5s] Yeah, you all have general world knowledge
[2491.4s] of where regions are.
[2492.7s] Yeah, we've seen maps.
[2495.4s] Does it look like from here there's any areas
[2499.0s] that might be less populated with the hordes of undead
[2506.1s] and that you could maybe choose a more advantageous path?
[2510.7s] One of your flying friends were to elevate themselves.
[2515.5s] You would see that it appears as far as I can see
[2519.8s] that there are undead,
[2521.0s] but this seems to be like a large cluster.
[2523.2s] Like there's a pathway that cuts through the Spinal World
[2526.4s] which you were following along
[2527.9s] and it seems like this is where a lot of them
[2529.8s] have come out and just kind of congregate
[2531.6s] and they're slowly spreading out.
[2534.3s] There is a cavern farther to the east
[2538.4s] where some of them appear to be like dropping off
[2541.6s] the closer they get to it.
[2543.4s] And it does appear to thin out more to the west.
[2547.9s] If you decide or anybody decides
[2550.0s] that they want to fly closer to it before just charging it,
[2554.1s] I could give you more information,
[2555.8s] but I'll leave that one up to you.
[2558.0s] I want to run at it hard like platform nine and three-quarter.
[2565.0s] Yenbul can fly up and get closer because, yeah,
[2569.1s] in theory, she can just fly.
[2570.8s] She can just fly, so.
[2572.3s] Thea is going to take out guacamole and get on her back.
[2579.8s] It's not what you think, Kristin.
[2581.0s] Oh, it's not more snacks, surprisingly.
[2584.2s] I was going to say, Rex's ears perk up.
[2586.0s] Yeah, from her bag.
[2588.2s] It's loose, though.
[2589.0s] It's a loose guacamole.
[2590.3s] I'm pretty bad.
[2590.9s] Just a handful of guac.
[2592.8s] Yeah, just a fistful of guac.
[2594.7s] Just a fistful of guac, that's all it is.
[2598.2s] Sorry for that visual, everybody.
[2600.2s] My jade serpentine owl, I say, guac, I need you.
[2605.2s] And a giant owl with a saddle, a big snowy white owl appears.
[2611.0s] And I say, you know, if we're all on the same carpet
[2616.1s] and we hit this wall and we all go down,
[2619.9s] I think maybe now three separate units going for it
[2625.4s] might be a good idea.
[2628.2s] Maybe I could go for it first.
[2629.6s] If I fall off, you guys could catch me on the carpet.
[2634.7s] I mean, we can certainly try.
[2637.0s] I'm just saying, I think if we're putting all of our eggs
[2639.5s] in one flying carpet, we could end up with an omelet.
[2642.8s] I will be flying 10 feet behind everybody.
[2646.3s] Fair enough.
[2646.9s] Just to let you know.
[2647.9s] If we go to the west, there is fewer demons.
[2653.4s] We could try to flank around them and then approach the wall.
[2658.5s] Sounds like a solid plan.
[2660.2s] Let's hope it's not a solid wall.
[2662.2s] I've been giving Tullgear carpet flying lessons
[2664.5s] so he can totally drive it by himself.
[2666.2s] And I'm pretty good, yeah.
[2667.9s] We've been taking turns because we've been traveling by carpet
[2670.5s] so it's kind of exhausting.
[2671.9s] We have to trade off.
[2673.7s] Don't you control it with your mind, though?
[2676.9s] So are you making him seem like he can do it?
[2681.0s] You're doing a great job, Tullgear.
[2682.6s] I grab the corners and I'm like, ooh.
[2684.6s] I'm almost positive that is not true.
[2688.2s] Spoken directions.
[2691.8s] Yeah, it's not tied to Yenbul's magic.
[2695.0s] It's whoever's sitting on it?
[2696.2s] Yeah, exactly.
[2697.4s] It has its own component to it.
[2699.4s] It's just generally magic.
[2701.0s] Right.
[2701.3s] Because you can rent magic carpets.
[2703.4s] Yeah.
[2703.8s] Or could in the before the darkness.
[2706.0s] In the before times.
[2707.0s] In the before times.
[2708.1s] When you could go to a movie theater or like.
[2710.8s] Yeah, this is really just a commentary on how life is right now.
[2713.8s] I know it feels like that.
[2715.5s] And thanks for bringing that to our game that we play every couple weeks.
[2718.8s] Why would I want to avoid that in my fantasy time?
[2723.0s] I don't.
[2723.5s] I want to live in the dark timeline.
[2729.7s] All right, so you fly or ride off to the west.
[2734.6s] Everybody roll stealth.
[2737.5s] And are you charging it or are you going close,
[2741.4s] seeing what you can see and then charging it?
[2744.8s] I think the latter of those, like we'll get around the zombie horde,
[2748.3s] see what we're dealing with and then.
[2751.8s] Like advance.
[2753.6s] Got it.
[2754.2s] Yeah, scouting scouting run seems like something you do when you know how to survive.
[2761.4s] Does Rex need to roll separately?
[2766.6s] Um, yeah, he's a big old horse.
[2774.2s] I mean, I would roll one base.
[2776.8s] I mean, you're basically rolling for the horse at this point, I think.
[2779.8s] Because you, yeah.
[2782.4s] Should I roll for guacamole then and undo this role that I did?
[2786.1s] No, you have to keep that.
[2788.6s] OK, I'm singing as I.
[2790.9s] Um, just use your stealth if Rex doesn't have.
[2795.9s] Myself?
[2796.6s] Yeah.
[2797.0s] OK, so then that's actually a 19.
[2800.0s] Surprisingly for the Goliath on the armored horse.
[2803.6s] I mean, this is not your first time.
[2809.1s] I also got a 19.
[2811.1s] Oh, I got a 16.
[2813.0s] I'm yelling at the top of my lungs as I fly.
[2815.5s] I love the feeling of the wind in my hair.
[2818.6s] I rolled a one.
[2820.7s] I missed right in my giant snowy owl.
[2823.7s] I have a plus.
[2824.9s] I have a plus two, so it doesn't matter.
[2827.7s] Wait, wait, wait.
[2828.3s] Aren't you lucky?
[2830.6s] Wasn't somebody saying they were going to be lucky?
[2832.6s] I'm so lucky, Kristin.
[2835.5s] That Kristin is here to remind you how lucky you are.
[2839.9s] I'm going to take a lucky action.
[2843.0s] Thanks, Kristin.
[2843.8s] They never remember that they can do.
[2844.6s] And I rolled a 12, which is now a 14, which is like 13 times better.
[2849.6s] Better than it was before.
[2852.5s] OK, we'll say you all make it to the west where it begins to thin out.
[2859.0s] It's like, you know, four or five undead deep rather than like 50 deep.
[2866.6s] Oh, yeah.
[2867.5s] Yeah.
[2868.2s] Easy peasy.
[2868.8s] It's like petering off as far as your scouting mission.
[2872.0s] Yen Bull, I assume maybe you are flying close because you're the most controlled.
[2877.1s] Sure.
[2877.7s] OK, well, a big owl, not as controlled as an individual deciding where they're flying.
[2884.6s] I mean, I do it like Superman, but weirdly, like I'm Jesus.
[2887.9s] Like, you know how he flies, like, you know.
[2891.6s] I'm sorry.
[2892.0s] Does Jesus fly, Carla?
[2894.4s] Sure.
[2895.1s] I'm just curious.
[2897.5s] I mean, I don't this is probably not the place to get into that.
[2903.5s] Depends on your denomination.
[2904.9s] Sometimes Jesus flies.
[2907.8s] Flies in a Jesus-like position where Jesus, you know.
[2911.8s] Yes, now I get it.
[2912.6s] Not Jesus is flying like Jesus.
[2914.9s] Flowing down after he's done something impressive.
[2916.1s] You know when it's really being a Christ analogy like that.
[2920.9s] Yeah.
[2921.2s] Totally.
[2921.8s] Exactly.
[2922.9s] OK, Yen Bull, you Jesus fly over to the wall.
[2928.8s] And the closer you get, you can begin to see through the veil.
[2933.5s] And you look down around the ground and you see more hilly and some rocky terrain.
[2945.0s] Closer to where the mass of the horde is, you see that there is a guard or a sentinel group
[2955.4s] positioned higher up on a rocky cliff face.
[2959.8s] And as things are kind of tearing through, you see arrows loose towards them.
[2968.0s] So you see probably three or four people, humanoid people.
[2972.6s] How far are they from me?
[2974.9s] Or how close can I get to them through the wall?
[2977.9s] I mean, you're probably would have had to go down a fair ways, like 200, 300 feet.
[2982.6s] Yeah, so I'd have to go back to where that mass of undead is to be closer.
[2987.4s] If you wanted to draw their attention yet, you'd have to make your way back that way.
[2991.7s] And there are flying things more present over there that you haven't fortunately tripped.
[2997.7s] OK, I'm going to file that away.
[3002.1s] Well, I guess I'm not going to file that away.
[3003.8s] I'm going to tell my friends, I think I can do that psychically.
[3008.9s] So I don't need to come down.
[3011.0s] Look at all this frivolous magic, Kristen.
[3013.0s] Jeez.
[3013.8s] But it's not spells.
[3015.8s] These aren't spells.
[3017.4s] No, they're paranoid. I love it.
[3019.7s] We are paranoid.
[3022.5s] It's just an ability that I have.
[3026.4s] Yes, I can speak telepathically.
[3029.0s] So I share this information that there is guards on the other side, back down,
[3034.9s] you know, all that stuff you just said.
[3036.7s] What can I see kind of where we are through just rolling hills?
[3041.9s] Yeah, the rolling hills just continue.
[3043.6s] There are a couple of cliffy rock faces.
[3046.1s] That's a thing, right?
[3047.7s] Beautiful. I love it.
[3048.8s] Devocative.
[3050.3s] Are the cliffy rock faces verdant or are they dead?
[3054.8s] Is there living things on them?
[3056.7s] Yes, there appears to be life beyond this veil.
[3060.4s] OK, I'm going to kind of go back to where my friends are.
[3065.0s] On the other side, there are trees and life.
[3070.3s] Really?
[3071.8s] It does seem to be some kind of refuge.
[3077.7s] OK.
[3080.2s] Well, we've got to get in there, obviously.
[3083.4s] I mean, we did before, but I'm standing like a drug addict.
[3087.0s] Guys, we just got to get to the green.
[3089.8s] I need to fix those sweet trees.
[3091.2s] I'm going to smell that sweet grass.
[3094.9s] But yeah, we should probably...
[3098.2s] Was there anything else you noticed?
[3099.8s] So you said that there were guards there?
[3102.2s] Yes, but not close here.
[3104.5s] So they are protecting against breaches,
[3107.8s] but I don't know if we will count as a breach.
[3111.0s] Should I just go try to touch the wall?
[3114.0s] Yeah, I guess there's only really the one way to find out.
[3116.4s] I agree.
[3117.1s] I'm going to try and touch the wall.
[3119.8s] I'm going to follow behind her and not touch the wall,
[3124.2s] but just be there in case something horrible happens to her.
[3126.4s] Well, what if I blow back and you need to catch me?
[3128.2s] Sure, for sure.
[3129.0s] It's nice of you.
[3129.8s] Yeah, I'm concerned.
[3131.7s] I gently just reach out my hand.
[3135.4s] Okay.
[3136.2s] You reach out your hand and you feel like a warm glow the closer you get to it.
[3141.8s] And like I said, the closer you get to it,
[3145.0s] it becomes more translucent,
[3146.4s] less like just rainbow colors floating through.
[3150.2s] And you feel like you've gotten to a point
[3154.0s] where you should be touching something,
[3156.1s] but you are moving.
[3158.9s] You continue to move forward.
[3160.5s] Okay.
[3160.9s] Well, I'm going to keep moving forward if I can.
[3163.0s] Yeah.
[3163.6s] Tentatively.
[3164.6s] You slowly move through until like this,
[3168.2s] this color begins to envelop you
[3170.2s] and then you break through on the other side.
[3173.8s] It's cold, like frigid, cold air,
[3180.5s] but it's clean air.
[3182.2s] It's crisp.
[3183.8s] It smells fresh.
[3185.4s] I turn to my friends to see if I can still see them
[3190.2s] or they can see me and we can.
[3192.6s] Yeah, sorry, Thea, as you go up,
[3194.3s] you too would be able to see through
[3195.8s] and you see Yenbul proceed through this wall
[3198.6s] and like turn around to look towards you.
[3201.0s] And beckon.
[3201.7s] To one of these and wave to each other.
[3203.6s] No, just beckon.
[3205.6s] Okay.
[3206.0s] Then, well, I fly back to a goth.
[3211.0s] They made it through.
[3212.9s] I don't think anyone shot arrows at them.
[3216.6s] Do you think you can get through the undead extravaganza down there?
[3221.8s] I've seen more extravagant extravaganza.
[3225.8s] Yeah, you have.
[3226.8s] I am optimistic.
[3229.8s] I'm happy to help if you think you need a hand.
[3232.7s] I, on the other side, have dug into my bag
[3234.8s] and I'm getting all of the clothes I have with me
[3237.0s] because I'm from the desert.
[3238.7s] And Leosin did warn me
[3240.7s] that I should bring some warm clothing
[3242.9s] and boy do I need it.
[3244.7s] Now you're layering up.
[3245.8s] I'm not equipped for that.
[3246.8s] Yes.
[3248.2s] All right, maybe we can hang back
[3252.0s] and if a goth, do you need us?
[3256.1s] Would you like us to like help clear the way with you?
[3260.2s] Or you would go it alone kind of gal?
[3263.1s] I would not deny any compatriots the joy of battle.
[3268.3s] Okay, let's, let's do this thing.
[3271.8s] To the horde we ride and also fly.
[3274.4s] With that you take off down this cliff face
[3277.8s] and charge toward the horde.
[3280.2s] I assume you're going to let a goth kind of lead that charge
[3283.2s] and then very much so because if there's trouble
[3286.2s] then we can come in and help and if not.
[3288.6s] Great.
[3289.2s] I just want to be like ready with my bow and arrow.
[3292.0s] Yeah, how are you,
[3293.3s] are you just charging through with your horse
[3295.6s] or do you have a weapon drawn?
[3297.4s] How are you breaking through at least the first few undead?
[3301.1s] So building up as much speed as possible on the way down
[3308.2s] sort of hunched over Rex's neck
[3310.9s] sort of sitting high in the saddle.
[3313.6s] Shield on one arm.
[3314.7s] I'm going to pull the mace in the other
[3316.9s] and like stay silent as long as possible
[3319.2s] because I think they're sort of focused on the wall.
[3324.5s] Just like that.
[3325.0s] But at the last minute I think you know
[3327.4s] the joy kind of overtakes her
[3329.0s] and she'll just like let out a giant scream
[3332.2s] as she like just barrels into them.
[3335.0s] And I mean he's a charger.
[3337.1s] He's like a half demonic warhorse.
[3339.6s] So like we trample the first few for sure
[3344.1s] and just I'm just going to like
[3346.0s] it's like playing T-ball with the mace.
[3351.9s] Heads.
[3354.1s] This massive horse and goliath are charging through
[3357.8s] and heads are flying
[3359.9s] and then you see a goth reach the wall
[3365.9s] and it begins to light up.
[3370.2s] It didn't do this when Yenbul charged through.
[3375.0s] Like the horse hits this wall
[3377.5s] and flames begin shooting out and around.
[3382.3s] She continues to charge forward
[3384.6s] and Yenbul you see like this horse
[3388.7s] and a goth you would see it too.
[3391.0s] Like the flesh begin to bubble
[3395.9s] and you feel like you hit like quicksand.
[3401.0s] Like you slow a lot
[3403.8s] and you feel the undead grasping
[3406.7s] for your horse behind you
[3408.3s] and kind of pulling through with you
[3410.8s] as you are continuing your momentum
[3413.3s] as much as you can through.
[3415.1s] And Yenbul you hear the whistling sound
[3419.8s] of an arrow flying through the air towards you.
[3429.4s] Dumbgeons and Dragons Season 2 Episode 82
[3433.5s] Starring Amy More as Thea Amastasia
[3436.3s] Carla Maxted as Yenbul Nuri
[3438.4s] Tom Laird as Tulgier Heavyfoot
[3440.3s] and Russ More as your dungeon master
[3442.4s] with guest Kristen Flemmons
[3443.8s] as a goth god-lost catho alavi.
[3446.2s] Editing, production and sound design by Russ More.
[3449.2s] This episode featured music from Epidemic Sound
[3451.4s] and sound effects from Epidemic Sound,
[3453.1s] Boom Library and Sound Ideas.
[3455.4s] A huge thank you to our supporting producers
[3457.5s] Gabriel Lynch, Jessica Babyok,
[3459.3s] Mark Hartless, Stevie, Cat Waterflame,
[3461.8s] Jacob Madden, Christian Brown,
[3463.4s] Devin Michaels, Aaron Stevens,
[3465.2s] Eric Houlihan and Ray Sirbeck.
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[3485.8s] Thank you for listening.
[3487.0s] Have a great week.
[3488.1s] We'll talk again soon.
[3492.0s] I want it like...
[3494.6s] Amy wants to have some like
[3496.3s] Rick Grimes like questions for her.
[3498.2s] Like how many people have you killed?
[3505.6s] Right.
[3505.9s] There aren't enough fingers.
[3509.8s] Are you, I don't know,
[3510.9s] this is going to sound stupid,
[3512.0s] but the whole world is completely fucked up.
[3514.2s] Are you a good person?
[3516.6s] In the background of all of this,
[3517.8s] can you have like the elevator doors closed,
[3520.6s] get stuck on whatever she has,
[3522.0s] ding, open back up,
[3523.8s] close, jam on it, ding, open back up.
[3527.0s] Was anyone else picturing like
[3528.6s] when Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure,
[3530.5s] when they go to the mall
[3531.5s] and all the historical figures
[3532.8s] are like amazed by them all?
[3534.1s] Because that's what I was picturing.
[3535.6s] Yeah, that's perfect.
[3539.6s] I didn't even remember I was a cleric.
[3543.9s] You were the one who said
[3544.9s] you were a cleric at the beginning
[3546.3s] and I was like,
[3547.1s] damn, I didn't say my character's pronouns
[3549.5s] or what she was or does.
[3552.9s] What she was or does?
[3557.7s] Elf druid, fuck.
[3561.0s] It's okay, Tom didn't say it either,
[3562.5s] only I did.
[3564.3s] And then I apparently forgot.
[3565.8s] Jump back, who the fuck is this?
[3568.1s] Now we're back again.
[3569.4s] I see what's happening.
[3570.6s] Yeah, really Tarantino-ing this for us.
[3574.6s] Well, I didn't want there to be any question
[3576.6s] why you had to bring this character along.
[3578.2s] Character's already there.
[3579.7s] It's true.
[3580.4s] I like it.
[3581.0s] Perfect.
[3581.3s] How we get there is up to us.
[3582.1s] It's just how you said yes,
[3583.0s] not if you say yes.
[3584.6s] Dumbgeons & Dragons is a Dumb Dragons production.