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[30.0s] turn and begin to see this huge glowing aura coming directly from Boppa, who begins levitating
[52.0s] from his bed.
[53.0s] Well, I mean, that's new.
[55.5s] That's gotta be a good sign.
[56.5s] Yes, that must be good.
[57.8s] We should go.
[58.8s] We should go get that dragon lady.
[86.4s] Welcome to Dumbgeons and Dragons.
[91.0s] Amy didn't like that.
[92.0s] Welcome to Dumbgeons and Dragons.
[94.0s] I'm your Dungeon Master Russ More.
[96.2s] He, him also with me today is Amy More.
[100.1s] Duh.
[101.1s] It is me, Amy More, and I go by she, her, and I am playing a slew of characters
[106.4s] today.
[107.4s] I've got Sullivan Sleight, he, him.
[109.4s] I've got Thea, Mastasia, she, her, and a fun little bonus character I didn't know
[115.3s] I was going to be playing.
[117.3s] Nighthunter, she, her.
[119.4s] Let's do it.
[120.4s] And Karla Max did.
[123.0s] She, her, all of these gals also go by she, her.
[128.6s] We've got Yen Poldnuri.
[131.0s] We've got Anelia Strong, and we've got an Euryxia's Akra, better known as Glim.
[136.7s] And Tom Laird.
[137.7s] Yeah, that's me, he, him, and all of the characters I am playing also go by
[143.3s] he, him.
[145.0s] There's Lint, there's Telgir, there's Moot, there's probably one or two more.
[153.6s] Who knows?
[154.6s] They're all here.
[155.6s] Are you a janitor at some point?
[156.6s] Like cleaning up inside that first aid tent?
[159.4s] I mean, why not, right?
[160.4s] That's right.
[161.4s] Well, as far as we know, the janitor's still locked away, right?
[163.5s] So he's still locked in that cell because he bamboozled Yen Poldnuri.
[166.8s] He does not bamboozled, that's true.
[169.0s] Yeah, lots of things happening.
[170.6s] But you know where we don't bamboozle people?
[173.2s] No, yeah.
[175.0s] Where's that, Amy?
[176.0s] Over on Patreon.
[177.0s] Oh, yeah, we never bamboozle you.
[178.0s] Patreon.com slash dumb dragon.
[180.6s] We're straight up with what we give you over there, which is a whole bunch of sweet bonus
[184.8s] content.
[187.8s] It's pretty serious.
[188.8s] Like the many, many episodes we have where you can find out all about Opal, who
[193.8s] apparently became king, Night Hunter, and Elia.
[196.6s] You know, sometimes you just have to write your own history, Tom.
[199.3s] And when you see your DM not not curbing into that, you just got to just take the
[203.4s] bull by the horns and make him king in your own timeline.
[205.8s] I mean, was I supposed to be making you king?
[208.0s] Anybody else wonder if, like, he's definitely, like, put a spell on everyone in that town
[213.8s] to make him think he's king?
[214.8s] I don't remember in his character backstory that his parents were the rulers of this area.
[220.8s] No, I don't remember that.
[221.8s] This is a different timeline, you know?
[222.8s] It's been a long time since we talked about that.
[224.2s] Who knows what's changed in a backstory, right?
[226.4s] I mean, characters evolve, their histories evolve.
[229.0s] Do their paths evolve?
[231.5s] I don't think that's right.
[232.7s] The history books?
[236.7s] Maybe while he was a king, his dad became the king.
[241.2s] And then when his dad passed, now he's the king, so it wasn't...
[244.3s] Sure.
[245.3s] I can see that.
[246.3s] Yeah.
[247.3s] Okay.
[248.3s] Now, are we talking like a violent coup or is it just like order of success?
[251.9s] I really don't see...
[253.3s] We're getting too deep into the Opal backstory here, but I don't see Opal throwing a
[260.9s] violent coup.
[262.2s] No.
[263.2s] Like sending...
[264.2s] No, I meant Opal's dad.
[265.2s] Oh, sure.
[266.2s] In order to actually...
[267.2s] Because normally it is a pass down through family type of thing.
[272.6s] I guess we don't know Tabaxi culture.
[274.7s] But what happens...
[275.7s] Or how old Tabaxi's lived to, because maybe his dad had to wait that long for
[279.8s] grandpa to kick it and finally him for to become the king.
[284.7s] He lost seven of his nine lives by then.
[285.7s] Yeah, he had to wait for him to become the king there.
[288.3s] That's right.
[289.3s] To make this story short, when you are a patron at Patreon.com slash dumb dragon cast,
[293.5s] you get an episode dedicated to you.
[295.3s] Like today's patron, Lindsay Bowen.
[297.9s] Lindsay, I tried to throw to you so many times.
[301.7s] It's true.
[302.7s] Someone said royalty and I was like, you know who else is royalty?
[304.8s] And then everyone talked over me.
[306.5s] Lindsay, you're royalty.
[308.6s] That's right.
[309.6s] You are.
[310.6s] Agreed.
[311.6s] Lindsay, you're royalty.
[312.6s] Thanks, Lindsay.
[313.6s] Is actually also playing with us in the games that are running in the other episodes.
[318.0s] So thanks, Lindsay, for being here with us and hanging out on Patreon.com slash dumb
[324.5s] dragon cast.
[325.5s] Come join us over there.
[326.5s] Okay, bye.
[327.5s] No, not bye.
[328.5s] This is the beginning of the episode.
[329.5s] What are you doing?
[330.5s] Don't say goodbye.
[331.5s] Russ has this manic opal knot of stress inside of him.
[337.9s] He should not be elected to DM when he's playing that character.
[339.9s] He is turning into player Russ, which is very chaotic and dangerous for DM Russ.
[346.0s] Get it together right now.
[348.0s] We'll talk about this in the downtime, but this is an anchor point where maybe a little
[353.1s] chaos is needed.
[354.5s] Fuck it, let's play.
[355.5s] Fuck it, let's play.
[356.5s] Fuck it.
[357.5s] Let's play.
[358.5s] Scared.
[359.5s] I'm Batman.
[360.5s] This is unsettling.
[361.5s] Not Batman.
[362.5s] You're Batman.
[363.5s] Okay, I'm Batman.
[364.5s] A well adorned temple is before us, built with steel and stone structures, gold ribboned
[385.0s] through everything as Flint and Bort push open large doors that echo through this sparse
[394.2s] chamber and take a few footsteps inside.
[398.9s] Up at the altar, Flint, you immediately notice the cleric who ran service for you when
[407.5s] you were growing up.
[409.5s] Father Murren.
[411.5s] Yeah.
[413.0s] Got a little situation here.
[416.0s] Yeah.
[417.0s] He sits up from a pew where he's having a nap.
[422.0s] All right, that's what we're doing.
[425.0s] Huh?
[426.0s] Oh, hey, hey, Flint.
[429.0s] Oh, sorry to wake you.
[432.0s] No, that's okay.
[433.0s] I was sleeping, sitting up.
[434.0s] You know how us and the god business got to do it.
[438.6s] We got to just sleep when we can.
[441.0s] Take it when you can get it.
[442.0s] Right.
[443.0s] It's tough to tell if it's day or night down here under the ground, too.
[446.4s] So what can I do for you?
[449.4s] It's a golden hour, so you're right in between.
[450.4s] Who's your friend?
[451.4s] Well, this here is, well, his name's Bort.
[455.4s] Hi.
[456.4s] Turns out he's, we're sharing a body.
[462.4s] Well, it doesn't look like you're, I see both of you.
[466.4s] It doesn't look like you're sharing a body.
[468.4s] Okay.
[469.8s] How to say this?
[472.8s] Yeah.
[473.8s] Without sounding like you don't, maybe, maybe how we say without sounding like there's
[479.8s] a couple.
[483.1s] You're a man of faith and belief that souls and spirits.
[488.1s] Yes.
[489.1s] Yes.
[490.1s] So what if there were two spirits or souls that were trying to inhabit the same vessel?
[498.8s] Well, that would be very problematic for one or both of them.
[504.2s] How would somebody go about and separate the two of them?
[510.6s] Well, there's rituals that could be performed to transfer one soul into another vessel,
[518.7s] be it a recently deceased vessel or an actual container of sorts.
[534.0s] But again, this doesn't look like an issue that is bound by you.
[538.2s] It's like, I have a friend who is dealing with this kind of thing that we need to
[543.3s] talk about, Flint.
[544.3s] Yeah.
[545.3s] Yeah, I've got a friend that's dealing with this thing.
[549.6s] Okay.
[550.6s] Well, it's, you require someone of divine power.
[556.8s] Oh, that's why I came to you with this question.
[561.2s] Of course.
[562.2s] It's not something I've ever done or witnessed, but it is something that I have read where
[566.9s] the two souls themselves, depending on how long they've been for, can be salvaged.
[572.8s] But if it's been a while, they tend to merge.
[577.2s] We'll just estimate and say like 11, 12 years.
[581.2s] That seems like longer than anything I have ever read.
[584.7s] Okay.
[585.7s] So like seven years?
[587.4s] Is that more along the speed?
[589.1s] It is believed that after a point, it's tough to say because souls are, there's
[597.5s] There's no precise way to determine how a soul merges with another one.
[604.1s] But after a set point, those two souls begin to merge and their worlds become one.
[611.6s] Okay.
[613.6s] So let's say that they have done this merge and the worlds have become one.
[619.2s] Is there any way to separate them then or is it like too late for that?
[623.8s] Well, with the right person, with the right reason, and a ritual that is performed to
[636.4s] perfection, it could be possible to separate them.
[647.0s] your eye as you're talking to Father Murren, you see a lush, rich forest come into view.
[660.3s] You turn to look at it, it's like there's this tear in the wall.
[664.8s] A bird flies out past you, Bort sees it and looks as it moves past, and as you
[672.4s] follow this bird and it lands on a sculpture on the other side of the room, you look back
[681.6s] and the forest is gone.
[686.1s] Is the bird still there?
[688.5s] Yes.
[690.0s] Does Father Murren also see the bird?
[693.4s] No.
[696.2s] Okay, so for the ritual, we need another, or my friend would need a secondary vessel
[706.4s] for the souls to be split into.
[709.0s] Yes.
[710.0s] Well, yes, somewhere for the soul to go unless the soul wishes to pass to their
[718.3s] great beyond.
[720.6s] And kind of give like a little look and a slight turn of the head towards Bort, like
[728.6s] maybe this is something you're into?
[730.4s] Bort shoots eyes and like just like, it's just like a hard line across the neck to
[736.4s] say nope.
[738.2s] Okay, what kind of, this might be a dumb question, but what kind of vessel?
[745.4s] Where does one just find an empty vessel?
[747.9s] When a person dies through natural causes, that could be a way.
[760.1s] I'm not saying it's the only way, but this is where it gets gray.
[770.6s] How do you pick a vessel?
[773.3s] I think you and your background, you know how you can find a vessel.
[779.8s] Okay, now this might be a little bit beyond your know-how.
[785.4s] Is there a, I don't want to say specialty cleric because I don't think that's the
[790.9s] right term, but is there a specialty cleric who deals in this kind of thing?
[795.8s] There are tomes on it and many, myself included, have read on it.
[801.1s] I mean, gods have the power to do a lot of things, but who has access to a god, right?
[810.9s] It's a great question.
[813.4s] Certainly not me.
[815.0s] Then you would need someone who is close, who has been studying and exploring their
[821.0s] divine following for quite some time.
[825.2s] Their closeness to their god is or could bridge that gap.
[833.6s] Okay, so Hail Mary pass for a god himself or herself or just someone who's like real
[840.2s] tight with one of them.
[841.8s] Yes, I mean, if this is something you're interested in, Flint, I mean, you fell asleep
[847.4s] so many times in service that I didn't, these are questions that are somewhat out
[855.1s] of the blue for me, but I mean, was this covered in the services?
[859.1s] Because I feel like this would have kept my interest pretty good.
[861.8s] No, to be, no, and not not directly, and maybe that's that's my bad.
[869.2s] I will review my sermons and see if we can't liven them up.
[874.8s] But with that, if this is something you're interested in, I could I could show you
[879.0s] the tomes and see if there's anything that you can glean from them yourself
[882.5s] and help your friend.
[883.9s] I mean, I'd love to have a look.
[885.7s] He beckons you and you follow him down a spiral staircase.
[891.3s] He's walking a few paces faster than you.
[894.1s] Can I just push board down the stairs?
[897.2s] Try no, that's your your character.
[901.4s] You can do what you want to do, Tom.
[903.3s] I won't stop you.
[904.3s] I brought my own character and you do what I wanted.
[906.3s] The camera pans down.
[907.8s] You see Flint's leg kick out.
[910.6s] Whoops.
[913.6s] You follow down these stairs and Father Mern is getting is moving faster and
[920.5s] faster and quickly moving down these stairs.
[923.6s] And as you are moving and following him and trying to keep up with him, the
[927.8s] the steps, like the echo that was happening softens and you begin to hear
[935.3s] the sound of wildlife and trees and breeze blowing through.
[939.9s] And you get to the bottom of these stairs and it opens into this lush green
[945.3s] forest, board steps down behind you.
[952.7s] And he turns and looks at you and says, are you seeing what I'm seeing?
[959.3s] Man, we're this close to getting some answers and I don't know what to do now.
[969.9s] We cut back to the medical tent and standing outside of the tent as we pan
[981.9s] into view are Opal and Sully, who are just kind of kicking the dirt outside.
[987.6s] What are you out here for?
[989.7s] Well, I mean, I'm in charge of this whole place, but they don't let me near
[995.0s] things of great importance.
[997.8s] So you're the king, but you're not allowed to do anything important?
[1003.7s] Not when it comes down to, I'm not really the most helpful when it comes
[1009.0s] to dead bodies and blood just kind of makes me feel weak in the knees.
[1014.8s] Oh, they don't keep dead bodies in there?
[1016.8s] No, it's like the, it's like the first aid tent.
[1019.9s] It's like people trying to get better.
[1022.2s] Oh, oh, that's why they didn't let you in there.
[1025.7s] Okay.
[1026.6s] We move inside and Bahamut is levitating in the center of the room, this
[1035.3s] brilliant illuminating aura coming off of him and everybody is in this room.
[1042.6s] Except for Sully and Opal, we've already established they're out.
[1050.1s] Everybody else is in this room.
[1052.4s] I feel like Flamingons is definitely crisscross applesauce on top of Grantz's bed.
[1059.7s] Hey, hey, hey, how long has he been doing this?
[1062.9s] And Moot is just pinching Glim with his crab claw on the arm.
[1069.5s] No, keep doing it.
[1070.2s] Glim, are you seeing this?
[1071.2s] I keep pinching because I feel like I'm going to wake up.
[1074.2s] I can't believe I thought he was gone and then I thought maybe he would
[1078.1s] just be unconscious forever and now he's glowing and floating.
[1081.1s] And like, I don't know if you remember, because I don't really talk about
[1084.1s] him so much anymore, but that is like totally on brand for him
[1087.1s] because it's so awesome.
[1088.9s] I mean, it's pretty amazing.
[1090.0s] I am just going to keep pinching you though.
[1092.1s] Yeah, please do because it's reassuring that I'm not
[1095.7s] waking up as you pinch me.
[1098.3s] Elia, so who is Shiny Guy?
[1101.5s] I'm not really sure, but I mean, it is pretty amazing.
[1104.9s] It's very impressive.
[1105.8s] I mean, I can't deny the spectacle of it.
[1108.8s] I'm not sure.
[1109.9s] Opal, just be so mad he's not here.
[1112.3s] He's going to be so mad.
[1113.4s] He's missing all of this.
[1114.9s] Turn around and Opal's head is peeking through just big eyes.
[1119.7s] I make that tssst.
[1121.3s] Ah!
[1122.6s] No, he makes a cat.
[1123.7s] It's getting out of there.
[1124.5s] You know the one.
[1125.1s] Yeah, no, it's nothing in there you want to see.
[1127.1s] It's totally fine.
[1128.4s] I'm just going to sit here.
[1130.6s] Like, I can see the shiny light coming out from underneath the...
[1134.0s] I know, right?
[1135.1s] Listen, I'm only out here babysitting you, so it's fine.
[1137.2s] I'll get filled in later.
[1138.3s] You're babysitting me?
[1142.0s] We flash back to Inside the Dead.
[1147.9s] A moment goes by and it's like stunned silence.
[1151.3s] Everyone who is slightly injured, not unconscious, begins to stir in their
[1161.4s] beds, like they are being healed.
[1168.5s] They unwrap bandages and cuts go away.
[1172.3s] Bruises and broken bones seem to heal themselves.
[1177.4s] Yenbl, are you seeing this?
[1179.5s] I...
[1180.3s] It's unbelievable.
[1181.8s] Look at this, this man over here.
[1183.4s] He had a huge cut on his head and now it's disappearing.
[1187.9s] And the corporeal form of Bahamut begins to float down and right itself
[1195.8s] at the side of his bed.
[1199.1s] He's seated there, the aura beginning to fade.
[1205.9s] He opens his eyes slowly and he looks around at everybody and stops on Glim,
[1214.7s] who's...
[1216.3s] Doing Zumba?
[1217.8s] Still getting pinched.
[1221.3s] All right.
[1222.5s] Glim, oh my God, oh my God, oh my God, oh my God, Glim, oh my God, oh my God.
[1225.5s] Are you okay?
[1226.8s] What can we do for you?
[1228.5s] You're here.
[1229.6s] Yeah, yeah, I'm fine.
[1231.1s] I'm fine.
[1235.1s] It's nice of you all to break me out of there, hey?
[1239.1s] Well, it wasn't easy.
[1241.5s] The world's kind of, I mean, things are pretty bad.
[1246.1s] Yeah.
[1247.6s] Sorry, is anybody allowed to talk to the God or is it just her or I
[1252.1s] don't know how to do this.
[1253.0s] Yeah, no, it's chill in here.
[1255.3s] Oh my God, I was whispering that to Yenbl.
[1257.3s] Your hearing's amazing.
[1259.9s] Hello, hello, God, it is, it is nice to have you with us.
[1265.0s] Yes, just do a once around here, Bahamut, got all your names all ready.
[1270.7s] Oh, wow.
[1272.3s] That's convenient.
[1273.6s] It's nice that you're all here.
[1276.1s] You were in different organizations, I guess, when I last saw you, but that's
[1283.7s] all right, we'll sort it out later.
[1287.6s] What, what are we, where, where are we at?
[1290.9s] I mean, like literally or existentially or.
[1294.7s] In the, in the, in the stream of, in the stream of life.
[1299.5s] Oh, um, I mean, there's not a lot of life left in the world, just a
[1305.0s] lot of orcas followers.
[1308.4s] Right.
[1309.7s] A lot of death.
[1310.5s] Right.
[1311.1s] Yeah.
[1311.5s] A lot of zombie things happening.
[1313.8s] Yeah.
[1315.5s] We got anything to drink?
[1316.6s] Oh, let me get you a glass of water.
[1318.0s] Of course.
[1318.6s] Oh, no, no, no.
[1322.3s] Oh, something to drink.
[1323.1s] Something to drink.
[1325.8s] Of course.
[1326.5s] Of course.
[1327.1s] All right.
[1328.9s] She comes back with a Fanta.
[1339.3s] Welcome to the middle.
[1340.1s] The middle, the middle.
[1343.1s] It's where we talk about things.
[1346.1s] Stuff and things and stuff and stuff.
[1348.5s] And it's Christmas time.
[1349.7s] You Fox.
[1350.4s] Hey, I mean, I mean, I think maybe just the repeat song would
[1356.4s] be maybe better preferable at this point.
[1359.6s] I mean, is this just a cute pet name for our listeners now?
[1362.9s] What's up?
[1363.2s] Fuckers.
[1365.7s] I think I'm comfortable.
[1369.1s] I just started sweating all flesh.
[1373.5s] She's like, take it back.
[1374.7s] I love you guys.
[1375.4s] I don't I don't like it.
[1377.3s] I mean, it is kind of funny, though.
[1379.1s] It is a little bit funny.
[1380.0s] Especially while I'm over here being like, what's up, fuckers?
[1382.7s] Yes.
[1383.6s] Carla's left the room.
[1384.9s] She's like, I can't do this anymore.
[1386.2s] Not the podcast.
[1388.4s] I mean, I think about it.
[1389.3s] And if Amy said that to me, then I would like it.
[1392.2s] So I think it's probably fine.
[1395.7s] We apologize if we've offended you.
[1399.1s] Oh, no, I don't.
[1400.3s] No, you know, you know, you know what you got into in here.
[1404.5s] The obligatory.
[1405.6s] And if that's what got you.
[1407.9s] Yeah, this is your first time listening.
[1410.4s] And then if that's the case, you've got to go way back.
[1413.6s] Go way back.
[1414.3s] And you know that it's all in love.
[1415.9s] This middle is all about just saying how next week
[1417.9s] we're doing a sweet crossover with our good friends from Dum Dums and Dragons,
[1421.6s] which we've played by now.
[1423.9s] And it was just a riotous good time.
[1427.1s] So funny and fun and awesome and like that thing happened.
[1431.5s] Yeah, I got a little confusing with the with the multi Tom.
[1434.4s] Well, there was actually a confusing bit about the other guy named Tom,
[1438.1s] because I looked in my calendar on Saturday morning
[1441.2s] and there was a thing that was like seven a.m.
[1443.9s] Russ and Tom discuss crossover.
[1445.9s] And I was like, what in the fuck is this?
[1447.7s] It's like eight thirty.
[1448.7s] I'm like, well, I missed it.
[1451.1s] Oh, no, I was like, I don't know when this got added to the calendar,
[1455.1s] but I missed it.
[1455.9s] And he's like, no other Tom.
[1457.1s] I'm like, OK, perfect.
[1458.5s] Don't worry.
[1459.2s] And then he was like, other Tom.
[1462.1s] Hold on a minute.
[1463.4s] Who is this person?
[1464.3s] If there's another time I could show up to my meetings, that would be great.
[1466.7s] That would be ideal.
[1468.7s] So that's coming up next week.
[1471.0s] And it's going to be great.
[1471.9s] We hope you listen to it.
[1473.0s] It's another two parter one episode on their feed, one episode on our feed.
[1477.3s] We would love for you to check them both out.
[1479.8s] Hoo boy.
[1481.4s] Lots of good jingle bells happening in this one.
[1484.7s] Let me just tell you.
[1485.7s] Jingles and jangles.
[1487.2s] Yeah.
[1487.8s] Amy's just been staring at Russ the whole time
[1490.0s] since he said, oh, boy.
[1491.5s] But like in Russ's voice, not in Grant's voice.
[1494.0s] And it's like, are they merging?
[1496.1s] And then he said, like, there's lots of jingle,
[1498.4s] but like he's using it as like a noun and an adjective at the same time.
[1502.5s] And I'm like, jingle bells.
[1505.8s] I don't see what the problem is here.
[1507.3s] No problem.
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[1513.6s] And then we're off for a whole week, everybody.
[1517.3s] Bizard.
[1518.2s] One week.
[1519.2s] And then we're back at it.
[1520.3s] It's the week we take to rest our voices.
[1522.7s] We don't speak for an entire week.
[1525.0s] Just save it all up.
[1525.8s] We're going to a silent yoga retreat.
[1528.3s] That's right.
[1529.2s] I'm going to a yogurt retreat, so.
[1531.4s] Oh, did I misread the invitation?
[1533.7s] Yeah.
[1534.9s] It's just all Denon all the time.
[1537.0s] Not a sponsor.
[1537.8s] Not a sponsor, but Denon, if you're listening.
[1539.7s] Will there be Gogurt?
[1541.2s] Yeah, we hope so.
[1544.8s] I don't know where to go from Gogurt.
[1545.9s] Me neither.
[1546.7s] Yogurt.
[1547.2s] No one ever does.
[1548.1s] No one ever does.
[1549.8s] All right.
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[1555.2s] And we hope to see you again on our next episode.
[1558.6s] OK, bye.
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[1560.3s] Love you. Bye.
[1565.3s] So I got to lead this thing, I guess.
[1570.2s] Well, I mean,
[1572.1s] no one else knows what to do or even where to start.
[1576.9s] Yes, if you could offer.
[1579.3s] Guidance or.
[1581.7s] Inside, they're all very willing to do the work,
[1586.4s] but you have to maybe point us in the direction.
[1590.3s] We can even start small, like how do we wake these two up?
[1594.9s] They haven't started glowing and hovering like you did.
[1597.8s] Well, they probably won't.
[1599.1s] I don't think they're gods.
[1602.8s] This one might think he is nailed it.
[1605.9s] Well, we all know who he's pointing to.
[1607.6s] Oh, yeah.
[1608.7s] Well, let's see here.
[1609.8s] He walks over, gets stands up slowly, walks over between the two,
[1614.5s] holding his Fanta in one hand.
[1617.2s] Not a sponsor, but they could be stands between the two of them
[1622.5s] and holds his hand out over Flint.
[1626.1s] This light comes from his hand.
[1630.2s] Shines down on Flint, but nothing, nothing happens.
[1637.8s] This one's not quite ready yet.
[1640.0s] Ready, meaning like, like it will happen.
[1643.6s] Five more minutes in the oven.
[1645.8s] Well, he's he's a key player, so it's going to have to happen.
[1651.8s] We're going to have to figure that out.
[1654.8s] He holds his hand out over Grancis, same glowing light.
[1662.0s] And as Grancis begins to stir.
[1667.1s] Of course, this this one, this one, he was ready.
[1671.2s] He was just.
[1673.9s] He's seen some things.
[1675.2s] He's actually been awake this whole time.
[1678.3s] He's been just been enjoying the sponge baths.
[1681.7s] I don't.
[1683.7s] Grancis begins to stir and he opens his eyes.
[1688.5s] Slowly begins to prop himself up.
[1691.3s] Oh, oh, oh, goodness.
[1696.8s] Oh, well, it's you've done some nice things with the with the sewer there, Leosan.
[1704.6s] Thea, Thea.
[1707.3s] Hey, hey, hey, whoa, hey.
[1711.4s] Whoa, oh, boy, come on over here.
[1717.5s] Hey, hey, you're pretty cool.
[1720.3s] Bonama just nods his head and backs off to give Thea space to take
[1724.3s] a couple of steps forward.
[1725.4s] Oh, yeah, she goes to his bedside.
[1727.9s] Hey, hey, so.
[1731.3s] When were you going to come and get me?
[1733.9s] Oh, you know what?
[1735.0s] Lots of irons in the fire and you were one of them, my friend.
[1737.8s] Oh, wow.
[1738.8s] Look, Flint's still over there.
[1740.2s] God couldn't even wake him up.
[1741.4s] We've had our hands full.
[1742.5s] I tried to I was like in a ghostly plane at one point and I saw you and I was like,
[1747.2s] Hey, Thea, Flint, but you didn't do anything.
[1755.6s] Well, new law.
[1757.8s] Where's new law?
[1760.3s] Well.
[1763.0s] Oh, lots changed.
[1769.8s] We cut out to a scene in the center of town and Glim particularly is following
[1780.8s] very close to Bahamut.
[1783.2s] Who else do we think would want to be?
[1788.0s] I know everybody would want to be, but if we were to pick three particular
[1791.9s] people, who do you think would want to be talking to Bahamut first?
[1797.8s] Opal.
[1800.6s] All right, sir.
[1801.3s] And I get to talk to the God.
[1803.7s] You're technically my God.
[1805.2s] You're on my property.
[1808.6s] Squatter's rights.
[1810.8s] Possession is nine times the law.
[1813.5s] I mean, I think Mute would go with Glim for sure.
[1816.7s] They've been hearing about this guy for a long time.
[1819.0s] Yeah, see what all the hubbub's about.
[1821.6s] Yeah, Mute, Glim, and Sully.
[1823.7s] You're at like a campfire that's just at the center of town.
[1830.6s] There's lots of people milling about.
[1833.5s] You three have Bahamut's attention at the moment.
[1837.1s] It's good to see you've been hanging on to that book there.
[1841.6s] Some people might have given that up a while ago.
[1846.7s] Well, I mean.
[1848.4s] Oh, well, she never wavered.
[1851.3s] Not one minute.
[1852.3s] Yeah, she's all like, I'm not going to give him up
[1855.9s] and I'm not going to let him down.
[1857.9s] Yeah, not going to run around and desert him.
[1860.6s] Not a chance. Yeah.
[1862.9s] I mean, I wish that was true.
[1866.7s] Glim. He knows he's Bahamut.
[1869.2s] I can't. He knows the truth.
[1871.9s] I held on longer than reason dictated.
[1875.1s] And then my friend got hurt.
[1876.4s] And I realized that was it.
[1878.7s] She held on so long, sir.
[1881.3s] You did. I lost my eye.
[1884.2s] You did.
[1890.7s] So he's like, I want to be a part of the conversation.
[1898.6s] Look, I'm I'm sorry you lost your eye and.
[1903.2s] Your hand.
[1904.3s] Well, I mean, that that wasn't your fault.
[1906.1s] Or was it your fault?
[1907.2s] I don't think it was your fault.
[1908.8s] No, no, I don't think it was my fault.
[1913.1s] No, I wasn't here.
[1914.4s] I was in I was in a prison cell.
[1916.7s] That thing that gave me my new hand.
[1918.7s] He didn't seem to know anything about you when I asked him.
[1922.1s] Well, you're dealing in some different things, aren't you?
[1925.9s] I mean, it was either that or stay there forever.
[1928.0s] So I think I made the right choice.
[1931.2s] Yeah, we'll sort that out.
[1933.9s] I know that it might come in handy.
[1936.1s] Let's just put it that way.
[1937.9s] I mean, it already has with all you guys too soon being gone.
[1941.2s] Like I was able to actually use some magic and and help out the team.
[1945.9s] And Glim, I know that you wavered.
[1949.6s] I mean, I still loved you in my heart, but I just couldn't.
[1952.5s] I couldn't dedicate myself to you once it was actively causing harm.
[1957.7s] I mean, a loving God is about love, not about hurting people.
[1962.6s] So but you're back and you're here.
[1967.5s] And now all we have to do is find the other gods, bring them here.
[1972.8s] And save the world.
[1974.3s] That would be a way to do it.
[1979.1s] A lot of the gods are.
[1982.3s] Are gone already, though.
[1985.3s] But like not not all of them, though, right?
[1988.5s] No, no.
[1990.4s] He takes a big drink of Fanta, not a sponsor.
[1993.4s] No, not not all of them.
[1997.9s] I mean, there's a few that pass through the cell and came and went and.
[2004.8s] I get the I get the feeling that there's there's quite a few more.
[2009.9s] Places judging by the state of the state, the world that right now.
[2016.5s] That there's more of those facilities and more gods passing through the
[2020.9s] through them.
[2022.6s] Yeah, it's an insensitive term, but passing through the meat grinder.
[2027.1s] Oh, boy.
[2027.9s] Oh, jeez.
[2029.4s] Well, you know, work is he deals in
[2032.0s] the intricacies of.
[2034.6s] It's an accurate term.
[2036.2s] It just. Yeah.
[2039.6s] Out of curiosity.
[2044.5s] What happens to all the ones that we left behind,
[2049.7s] like the group that rescued you?
[2051.3s] They. They left some behind.
[2053.8s] Are they going through that?
[2057.2s] Grinder.
[2059.5s] He probably eventually,
[2063.2s] I mean, the cells themselves drain the energy back to.
[2068.7s] The abyss, I presume, is where Orcus is, he siphons their power
[2073.8s] and then when they are weak enough, he consumes them.
[2077.9s] Oh, boy.
[2079.8s] What a dick.
[2080.9s] Yeah, I would think it would go without saying at this point,
[2083.7s] but fuck that guy, am I right?
[2086.8s] I mean, yeah.
[2087.7s] Oh, my glam.
[2089.1s] She's the wait.
[2091.0s] I love it when she swears.
[2093.8s] So, I mean, I hate you just woke up
[2098.9s] and now we're all like, hey, can you solve all of our problems for us?
[2103.1s] But do you have any idea of how to solve all these problems?
[2106.0s] Well, yeah, I've got some.
[2109.9s] I don't see everybody here who we need.
[2112.9s] I mean, there's the there's the one who's still dealing
[2116.7s] with some internal turmoil right now.
[2120.1s] We'll have to wake him up.
[2123.6s] And then there's some others that we'll have to find.
[2127.3s] But, I mean, more importantly, there are a few places we need to send you.
[2133.3s] All of which give us more time.
[2135.6s] OK, well, where do we go?
[2137.7s] What do we do?
[2139.0s] Some some of you and he just kind of waves his hand to
[2144.7s] the the general vicinity where people are looking around
[2149.4s] corners at the god in the center of their town.
[2152.9s] Some of you will need to come back and tell me.
[2159.7s] In Celestia, before it's taken, that this is happening.
[2164.5s] It will happen.
[2166.4s] So so I tell you what and tell you.
[2171.1s] Go. Back in through time.
[2176.5s] Oh, OK, yeah, yeah, naturally, like one does.
[2181.5s] Well, you have the soul bridge jam, right?
[2184.8s] Uh, yeah, yeah, so we just need to go back in time,
[2189.1s] go to Celestia and warn you that Orcus is coming and then.
[2193.7s] Yeah, yeah, and then just like a watch out.
[2197.3s] Well, that's part of it.
[2198.6s] That's that's part one of what we call Bahamut's four pronged.
[2203.4s] Oh, wait, Sully, is your plan to just hide in the shadows
[2206.7s] until he walks by and then jump out with this warning?
[2209.4s] Well, I mean, no problem.
[2211.3s] Maybe I'm not sure. I haven't really thought it out yet. OK.
[2215.2s] That's one part.
[2216.0s] We don't we don't necessarily that's not necessarily the first part.
[2219.4s] But once we have all the pieces in play, that's a major part.
[2222.9s] And sorry, it was Bahamut's four pronged plan.
[2226.9s] Four pronged plan.
[2228.9s] There's four prongs.
[2230.2s] I probably should have put this one closer to the end, but that's OK.
[2234.0s] We're here now.
[2234.8s] So it's Bahamut's four non sequential pronged plan in no particular order.
[2240.4s] OK. Another prong of Bahamut's
[2244.3s] is, yeah, he's referring to himself in the third person.
[2247.6s] He's a god. He can do it.
[2248.8s] Another prong for Bahamut's four pronged plan is bringing your
[2254.3s] not not your, but bringing the sexy back.
[2258.8s] Sexy back.
[2259.8s] Is that what he's called?
[2261.0s] Flint, I think, is his name, but we can bring sexy back.
[2264.1s] Yeah, I mean, he's got that deep V going on there.
[2266.8s] That Hawaiian shirt. Yeah, sure.
[2270.3s] Yeah, no. So we need to.
[2272.1s] OK, so we got to warn you.
[2274.1s] We got to bring sexy back.
[2275.5s] He's key.
[2277.0s] We've got to.
[2279.3s] You may have already done it, maybe.
[2282.3s] Recruit. Orcas's right and left hand.
[2288.2s] Recruit meaning bring to our side, the little one and the Dragonborn.
[2294.7s] Yeah, yeah, yeah, them.
[2298.1s] OK, I feel like that's going to be tough.
[2301.3s] Yeah, because they are just like really team orcas right now.
[2305.7s] Yeah, well, I mean, once one of them goes, maybe the other one will go.
[2309.6s] Maybe it's just one of them that we need.
[2312.1s] Which one? I don't know.
[2316.0s] You told me, well, I mean,
[2318.3s] you told me that that's what happened,
[2322.2s] is that you recruited them.
[2324.2s] So I presume that you recruited.
[2327.5s] What? Oh, because we've already.
[2330.0s] Back in time and told me all of this.
[2332.4s] Yeah, OK, so sorry.
[2333.9s] But you still ended up in jail.
[2336.4s] Yeah. So I won and meant nothing.
[2338.5s] And did we not do it right the first time?
[2340.4s] Was the hiding in the shadows the better plan?
[2342.6s] And we screwed it up.
[2344.9s] Well, no, see, there's this thing about time is it's a construct
[2350.9s] and continuously moves forward in its own way.
[2354.4s] So what happens is you come back and warn me and.
[2359.7s] We're getting to the fourth prong, because we've got so far worn Bahama.
[2363.7s] Yeah, yeah, yeah, we've got wake up sexy.
[2367.9s] We've got recruit left and right hands.
[2371.1s] Yeah, left and right hand and go to the abyss.
[2375.7s] Oh, OK, now hold on.
[2378.3s] Now it seems like sequence.
[2379.7s] It seems like the sequence of these.
[2381.5s] I understand that to you, probably time is all happening at once.
[2389.3s] And it's not linear, but for us it is.
[2396.3s] So the sequence of the plan is sort of important.
[2401.2s] Yeah, totally.
[2402.7s] And when we're in the abyss, what are we doing?
[2404.9s] Yeah, which one do we go to the abyss first?
[2406.9s] Stopping, well, killing Orcas.
[2410.5s] Oh, OK, OK.
[2412.4s] What's the only place you can actually do it
[2415.5s] is in his home plane of the abyss.
[2419.0s] That's new information.
[2420.2s] That's good to know.
[2421.4s] But also you're going back to before he takes over
[2427.1s] all of the gods before he's all powerful and stuff.
[2431.3s] OK, so first go back one year.
[2434.0s] OK, that seems like the first step.
[2435.7s] Yeah. Kill Orcas.
[2438.0s] Yeah, OK. No, no, no.
[2440.4s] Yeah, I think recruit second.
[2442.8s] The hands and then kill Orcas and then wake sexy up.
[2449.0s] No, I well, what is he going to kill Orcas?
[2452.1s] Because I think that maybe that matters, too.
[2454.1s] He didn't come see me.
[2455.5s] So I presume that maybe he went somewhere else.
[2460.9s] Oh, so these it is non-sequential
[2465.4s] because different people are doing.
[2467.5s] We've been sort of on this whole like our own program
[2470.5s] where like we're doing our thing, you know, for so long.
[2473.8s] We don't have to do all these things.
[2475.8s] No, well, I think you use the whole group.
[2479.7s] Right. I mean, we have we have you three.
[2483.0s] We've got four others and then some others over there.
[2487.1s] There's a lot of there's a lot of irons in the fire.
[2490.0s] How many how many of us are working on this right now?
[2494.3s] Or is that just going to destroy my mind?
[2496.3s] That's not even going. Oh, shit.
[2498.2s] Because what's going to happen?
[2500.6s] Is you're going to go back in time.
[2503.5s] And time. Changes. Right.
[2508.5s] These people here.
[2512.8s] Probably won't see that change.
[2516.3s] So they're like doomed to this timeline.
[2521.3s] If you go back and make a change.
[2524.5s] It doesn't necessarily stop what's already happening.
[2529.0s] It creates a new, happier timeline, hopefully.
[2534.1s] Well, that part sounds good.
[2536.1s] And also, like, it couldn't be much worse. Yeah.
[2540.7s] I suppose just creating a new reality is just as good as fixing this one.
[2548.4s] Or maybe it fixes it.
[2550.5s] Well, you just said it. Oh, I've had a lot of Fanta.
[2555.3s] OK, so do we talk to everybody else about this?
[2560.3s] Are you going to have your own little side one on ones with everybody?
[2563.3s] They're going to are we are we team captains?
[2565.8s] They're like a town hall style meeting that we have.
[2569.2s] And everybody sort of volunteers for particular duties.
[2573.3s] Not the council. Right. Like.
[2575.9s] Well, I mean, he's is he not in charge?
[2578.9s] As soon as we walked out, he yelled, I'm the one in charge. So.
[2582.7s] Yeah, he's been saying that a lot.
[2584.1s] I think that's just like his go to catchphrase.
[2587.0s] It's a neat behind that fountain over there.
[2589.3s] I think he's been following us the whole time.
[2591.6s] We'll give him a job.
[2593.9s] It'll keep him busy.
[2595.6s] That's probably for the best.
[2597.6s] I guess it's probably a good idea to have a council meeting and.
[2602.8s] Without me telling you who needs to go where,
[2605.3s] you need to figure out who wants to go where.
[2610.8s] Because if you tell us, it'll be a wrinkle in time
[2613.8s] and it won't work out right. Possibly.
[2617.1s] Now, I think I get this whole time.
[2618.5s] Now you got it. All right.
[2644.6s] Dumbgeons and Dragons, season two, episode one hundred six,
[2648.7s] starring Amy More as Thea Amastasia and Sullivan Sleight,
[2652.3s] Carla Maxted as Yenbul Nury and Glim, Tom Laird as Tulgear Heavyfoot,
[2656.8s] Flint Firebeard and Moot, and Russ More as your dungeon master.
[2660.6s] Editing, production and sound design by Russ More.
[2663.6s] This episode featured music from Epidemic Sound and sound effects
[2666.9s] from Epidemic Sound, Boom Library and Sound Ideas.
[2669.9s] A huge thank you to our supporters,
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[2705.5s] Have a great week. We'll talk again soon.
[2712.6s] This is the part where just where Russ just breathes into your ears.
[2716.5s] As Russ coming back, he knows that Amy was right.
[2720.6s] So he's trying to like bring himself back into his body
[2724.1s] and stop being player Russ. I mean, he'll never say it out loud.
[2727.3s] Yeah. I don't know what you're talking about.
[2729.1s] We know that's what that sigh meant.
[2731.1s] And Tom and I knew it.
[2733.2s] I knew one else singing to become one by Spice Girls in their head.
[2738.3s] I am now the whole time when you're like when two souls
[2743.7s] merge and become one, like when to become one.
[2754.7s] Bork comes in, come and make love to you, baby.
[2758.2s] Bork would. Yeah, he would.
[2763.7s] Got to keep fucking.
[2766.6s] I don't know if I can hold Keanu for as long as I'm going to need to hold it.
[2770.1s] You hold Matthew McConaughey longer.
[2771.9s] I mean, I just got to keep saying, all right, all right, all right.
[2774.7s] You have to get back into it.
[2779.4s] Just say, I know Kung Fu. I know Kung Fu.
[2783.7s] This is OK.
[2784.7s] How do we guide a conversation with a God?
[2786.4s] Oh, I don't know.
[2787.5s] We're all just like, you know what I mean?
[2790.5s] Yeah. What do you ask of a God?
[2791.9s] You don't ask anything.
[2793.0s] You just sit there in awe, right? Yeah.
[2794.7s] Or is Thea going to be like, can you fix my friend?
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