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[12.2s] We find ourselves in the hot block.
[16.5s] The hot block is a busy portion of the artisan district of Vintersmouth, where
[21.9s] Bonwyn's blacksmith, Everbane's, is the central piece.
[28.6s] We hear hammering from inside there.
[31.9s] We have to the left and right, we have the tailors, we have the ferriers, we
[37.8s] have the woodworkers and glass blowers.
[40.1s] Like this is where a lot of the materials that are sold both in and
[45.8s] out of town are getting made.
[48.0s] So they clump them all together.
[50.7s] And as we kind of come down this street, we see those two boat crewmen
[57.4s] who are pulling along this very small crate.
[63.4s] They appear to be quite out of breath and sweating buckets, regardless of the
[69.8s] size. Bonwyn, you turn and look at them and they look like they're about
[75.7s] ready to pass out, which based on the size of anybody else looking at it,
[80.6s] would say that this is, there's something wrong with these two.
[84.7s] Are we almost there?
[87.9s] We're almost there.
[88.8s] And I can get you some, I'll get you some water.
[91.4s] Oh, thank you.
[92.0s] I really, I really appreciate it.
[93.7s] I obviously couldn't have carried this back here by myself.
[97.3s] I didn't think it was going to be this heavy.
[99.1s] Yeah, it looked a lot smaller when we, it's, it's deceptive.
[103.6s] It's this special metal and you just need a touch of it and you add it in.
[107.8s] And it, it's, um, yeah.
[111.9s] Oh, okay.
[114.4s] Ready?
[114.9s] No, one, two, three.
[120.3s] I pulled something.
[121.7s] Okay.
[122.2s] Okay.
[122.8s] Yep.
[123.3s] Is it there?
[124.1s] Okay.
[126.6s] I don't, no, just here.
[127.8s] Let me just.
[128.4s] It hurt so bad.
[129.6s] Oh my God, Taylor, get it together.
[131.0s] There's some pressure on it.
[134.0s] Welcome to Dumbgeons and Dragons, a D&D fifth edition actual play podcast.
[139.4s] I'm your dungeon master Russ More.
[141.2s] He, him and Dumbgeons and Dragons stars Amy More as Alydin.
[145.3s] She, her.
[145.9s] She looks around and goes, Tom Laird is Kavlaran Goldweave.
[153.4s] He, him.
[154.2s] We're good, right?
[155.0s] We can do like a cone of silence.
[157.1s] And Carla Maxted as Bonwyn Everbane.
[159.9s] She, her.
[160.7s] Let's maybe, uh, fewer gold statues and more.
[164.9s] This is going to sound crazy.
[166.9s] I don't know.
[167.4s] Schools.
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[176.1s] And now we've got a lot to get to.
[178.0s] So fuck it.
[179.7s] Let's play.
[185.5s] We arrive in a very derelict abandoned building on the outskirts of what is.
[198.5s] Known as the Kinsman's district.
[203.1s] Vintersmouth is split into three distinct parts.
[206.4s] There is the artisan district, which we spent some time in last time where
[209.8s] there's the docs, uh, where there's the hot block, where there's a lot of
[214.2s] restaurants, um, a lot of the hubbub of the city and the action of the
[218.7s] city happens in the artisan district.
[220.7s] Uh, there's the noble district, which is where we found the mayor's office.
[224.5s] We haven't really seen a lot of that.
[226.3s] Um, but now we're exploring the Kinsman's district, an area that is
[231.5s] particularly known for its criminal activities.
[236.3s] Um, in this abandoned building, we hear the soft footsteps of Alydin
[245.2s] who's returned home after having an altercation with Sergeant Dase.
[250.4s] Um, and you enter as you usually do and it's silent.
[254.7s] Um, what do you do when you enter this building and give a brief
[259.6s] description of like what you see.
[263.3s] As you enter, it looks just like a regular, you know, abandoned building.
[268.1s] There are crates in the corners.
[269.7s] It's dusty.
[271.4s] There are tarps and things that have been left around, um, pieces of wood
[276.2s] and nothing, nothing really to see there.
[279.9s] You would peek your head in and be like, oh yeah, that's an empty, abandoned
[285.5s] building, uh, but as Alydin walks through the door and shuts it behind
[293.0s] her, uh, she looks around and obviously had checked to see if anyone
[300.1s] was following her and goes out of the shadows and beneath different
[307.9s] crates, um, several other children appear.
[313.2s] One of them, a, a very slender, uh, three and a half foot tall
[321.5s] girl runs over to you.
[323.3s] She's got very tousled brunette hair, appears to be a half elf.
[328.4s] And she says, you, you made it back and you, and you brought
[331.4s] a, and you brought a baguette.
[333.9s] Everybody, everybody come on quick, come quick.
[335.6s] Shh, Tally.
[336.8s] Sorry, sorry, sorry, sorry, sorry, sorry, sorry, sorry, sorry.
[338.6s] Okay.
[338.9s] I did.
[339.2s] I got a big baguette.
[340.2s] I had to, well, I had to outsmart constable.
[344.7s] What's his face?
[346.8s] Constable days.
[347.7s] And she, she, she got smarter constable days.
[351.1s] Sergeant, Sergeant days again.
[353.3s] Of course you did.
[354.5s] Nobody's surprised.
[355.6s] He's such a big dummy.
[356.6s] He is such a big dummy.
[358.2s] All right.
[358.5s] Here, split this up Tally.
[360.6s] Okay.
[361.0s] Okay.
[361.3s] Okay.
[361.5s] You get a piece.
[361.9s] Don't take the biggest piece again.
[363.4s] That's not how this works.
[364.3s] No, of course not.
[365.2s] You get the last piece.
[366.3s] Everybody gets equal pieces.
[368.1s] Okay.
[368.5s] Here, Yanny, you can have some growl.
[371.3s] This is, this is for you here.
[372.9s] Okay.
[373.3s] Okay.
[373.7s] Yep.
[373.9s] No, I'll spread this around.
[375.5s] This is so great.
[376.2s] This is, this one's bigger than the last one.
[378.0s] That's amazing.
[378.9s] They were just going to throw it out anyway.
[380.5s] So I think we're doing this town a service by making it less thrown away.
[388.6s] There's stuff for no reason.
[389.8s] That would be so stupid.
[391.2s] Why would they throw this away?
[392.6s] It's so good.
[394.0s] Do not talk with your mouth full.
[396.6s] I'm sorry.
[397.6s] Wow.
[398.5s] Here, here's your, here's your piece.
[400.3s] Here's your piece.
[401.0s] Thanks Tally.
[401.8s] So what have you guys been up to while I was gone?
[403.4s] Uh, oh, well we, uh, we, we, we did the perimeter.
[407.3s] Uh, like you, like you said, uh, make sure we didn't see anybody coming
[410.9s] through, you know, the kinsmen, they were walking by not too long ago.
[414.2s] Uh, we, we kept real quiet so that they didn't, so they didn't see us.
[418.3s] Uh, we didn't want any, any busy.
[420.7s] We didn't really want to do anything else beyond that.
[423.0s] I mean, we ventured out a little bit to this, to the back stables, you know,
[427.4s] cause there were some birds out there.
[429.4s] Um, and do you guys practice at all?
[433.2s] So we, well, I mean, no, no, we didn't practice.
[439.2s] I'm sorry.
[439.8s] You guys are going to be out there before you know it.
[442.8s] I can't be doing everything for you all the time.
[445.3s] I'm not going to be here forever.
[446.9s] I got plans.
[448.0s] Okay.
[448.8s] So if you're not practicing, pickpocketing with each other, right.
[452.5s] How are you supposed to pickpocket when you're out there?
[454.4s] Well, that's a good question.
[456.6s] Okay.
[457.2s] Uh, after, after we, maybe we can do some practice.
[460.3s] You can show us again how I would do it.
[463.1s] Uh, yeah, I can do that.
[465.1s] Yeah.
[465.6s] But after I'm tired.
[466.6s] Okay.
[467.0s] Okay.
[467.4s] Okay.
[467.7s] Yeah.
[467.9s] No, it won't bother you.
[468.6s] We'll go over to the worst.
[469.5s] Go sit over here and hum our little song that we, that we hum together.
[482.1s] That's the only song.
[485.6s] Anyone knows curls up in the corner, um, on some burlap blankets and, um, just sits
[491.6s] quietly and thoughtfully eats her baguette.
[512.8s] We fade out and we hear a soft hum of an empty room and there's the
[526.0s] sound of flipping of papers, one slowly at a time, scrawling of notes.
[537.0s] And we see Kavlaran seated at a desk, flipping through the papers that he's
[543.5s] allotted for the day with Oak standing ridiculously close, looking over his shoulder.
[552.2s] So, uh, I went and talked to Nina and Nina said that, uh, they, they have
[559.8s] the paperwork for, uh, for the monument and everything looks good.
[565.0s] And I trust Nina so that, uh, you know, so, uh, that's all ship shape.
[570.1s] Um, they did mention that taxes did go up.
[573.5s] Um, and, uh, you know, this was, uh, this was the third strike, um, for
[579.4s] Brewed Awakening, um, uh, for not paying those new taxes and they
[585.7s] had to revoke the business license.
[587.3s] It was all above board and the paperwork was all filled out and
[590.4s] everything, uh, totally, totally on the up and up.
[593.6s] Uh, okay, great.
[594.8s] Um, oh, can you show me the first two written warnings?
[598.9s] You obviously kept copies of those, right?
[601.2s] That you took to Brewed Awakening?
[603.0s] Yeah.
[603.4s] Oh, of course.
[605.0s] Yeah.
[605.4s] Yeah.
[605.7s] No, we're going to have to, uh, either let me see.
[608.4s] Uh, I've got one and he pulls out a piece of paper, uh, from a, from
[612.8s] a pouch that he has, puts it down in front of you, smooths it out.
[616.6s] And he says, here's the first one.
[618.0s] Uh, this one was from, uh, a few months back, uh, when we had that,
[622.6s] uh, had that, that tax increase.
[625.0s] Um, and then, uh, where was that second one?
[628.1s] Um,
[630.8s] see, okay.
[631.4s] Well, the, the only problem I have with the first one is it doesn't
[634.8s] really give any details.
[636.9s] It just says taxes are going up.
[639.4s] Yeah.
[640.1s] And that's the end of the note.
[641.2s] Well, yeah.
[642.0s] And then it, uh, see down here at the bottom, it says Brewed Awakening missed.
[646.8s] There was a couple other businesses, uh, they got, they got
[650.4s] torn off as they paid.
[651.9s] Uh, so Brewed Awakening missed, uh, and, and, and, and, you know, a delayed,
[657.8s] delayed missed, uh, you know, even by a day really just sets everything back
[663.1s] in motion.
[663.7s] So that's really just, um, it's the, it's the, it's what we got to do to
[668.6s] make sure everything's in line and in order in this town here.
[673.9s] Okay.
[674.6s] Uh, yeah.
[675.4s] Have, have you guys considered maybe a more streamlined system for these
[681.0s] collections?
[681.7s] Like if one miss sets everything back, that doesn't seem like a great system.
[687.8s] I mean, a lot of our city's systems run solely off of these tax dollars.
[693.2s] So we really, in order for the people to know what they're getting and
[697.0s] know, and need to benefit from the resources that the city provides, uh,
[702.2s] taxes are very important introduction into, uh, everybody's daily workflow.
[711.0s] Uh, yeah, that, uh, that makes a lot of sense when you put it that way.
[717.8s] Well, I mean, that's what Nina said.
[719.8s] So I, I mean, I never really argue with Nina.
[723.4s] Uh, Nina just tells me that that's what the mayor has sent down and
[727.8s] that's what we're doing.
[728.9s] Uh, so the city guard goes around and collects the taxes and then brings
[732.5s] it on back and then keeps a note if anybody's missed.
[735.4s] And then on the third strike, well, that's a revoke, uh, yes,
[739.3s] revoking the business license.
[741.9s] Okay.
[742.5s] Uh, yeah.
[743.6s] Uh, we're like, we're good, right?
[746.0s] We can do like a cone of silence.
[749.2s] What do you mean?
[749.9s] You know, some trust going on here.
[751.5s] I could ask you a pointed question and, uh, of course.
[754.7s] Yeah.
[755.1s] You can just, you can tell me, does Nina run in this show?
[758.0s] Is Nina running this show?
[758.9s] Cause it seems like Nina's running the show.
[760.4s] Nina doesn't run this show.
[761.7s] The mayor runs this show.
[764.2s] Oh, Cav.
[768.4s] All right.
[768.7s] Just, I was just curious.
[769.7s] Nina knows a lot of things.
[771.2s] Like it's important to have somebody in the, in the organization who, uh,
[775.8s] really just, uh, keeps everything together.
[779.9s] But is Nina running this?
[781.1s] No, Nina, Nina takes orders.
[783.3s] Okay.
[783.6s] Cool.
[784.0s] Um, I'd love like a one-on-one with Nina at some point.
[786.7s] You haven't had a one-on-one with Nina.
[788.2s] Nina's great.
[789.0s] You're going to love Nina.
[790.2s] I'm going to get that on the books for you, you know, probably within
[793.4s] the next two to three weeks, cause Nina's very busy.
[796.4s] Well, yeah, I mean, it sounds like it.
[799.7s] Uh, so in, in order to square away Bench's tax issues, I just get him to pay
[806.2s] what he owes and all good.
[808.3s] He can keep going on his usual business.
[811.2s] Yes.
[812.0s] As long as everything's paid up, but then has to go through a reapplication
[816.2s] process, uh, because we've had to revoke it.
[819.6s] Um, it's logistical nightmare.
[822.6s] It's best just to pay the taxes when everybody comes knocking,
[825.8s] if you know what I mean.
[827.3s] I'm, I'm getting that impression.
[829.0s] That's for sure.
[829.8s] Uh, okay.
[831.0s] Yeah.
[831.4s] Okay.
[831.9s] Um, well, I think, I don't know, it seems like a pretty hard day's work we put in.
[836.3s] Maybe we, maybe we duck off a little early.
[839.7s] I'll go talk to Bench and we'll get the sorter for tomorrow.
[842.5s] Oh, uh, cut out, cut out early.
[845.8s] We haven't been through all of the allotted paperwork for today though.
[852.8s] No, you're right.
[853.4s] We haven't been.
[854.0s] Oh, it's very true.
[855.5s] Okay.
[855.9s] Well, we finished up this paperwork and then second it's done, we can go, uh,
[861.3s] you know, hit the town to two great gents out on the town.
[866.9s] Having a great time.
[868.8s] All right.
[869.1s] Okay.
[869.4s] Yeah, I like the sound of that.
[870.8s] Okay.
[871.4s] Okay.
[871.9s] I love it.
[872.7s] Uh, back to the paperwork and he's immediately over your shoulder.
[878.1s] Five o'clock sharp.
[879.1s] As soon as our workday is done, we're just going to burn rubber out of here.
[885.5s] Just got like four and a half more hours to go.
[887.8s] Does it work though, when you're having so much fun?
[889.5s] I would, I would say not.
[890.8s] Yep.
[891.1s] And they closed the good, uh, gastropub.
[894.0s] So like, where are they even going to go?
[895.8s] Where do I have to be?
[896.7s] We'll be right back.
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[1245.0s] There's a rumble coming from inside Everbane's from the burning forge
[1249.9s] as the two crewmen who have taken their water and have headed back
[1253.8s] towards the docks as you are uncrating your new shipment of Estrum.
[1261.1s] Thane, you have to come look at this if you have a second.
[1263.5s] Yeah, just a sec. I'm just going to put this away here.
[1266.8s] Thane walks over.
[1268.3s] Thane is a half elf who is approximately five and a half feet,
[1275.1s] also currently dressed in like black slacks,
[1280.0s] white blouse, black leather apron, shoulder length, fiery red hair
[1286.2s] and deep dark blue gray eye and very sharp facial features, warm but sharp.
[1294.2s] And they walk over to you and they're wiping their hands and say,
[1298.6s] is that the shipment of Estrum?
[1300.4s] Yeah, just got here.
[1301.6s] Oh, my gosh.
[1302.9s] Have you even seen it before?
[1305.6s] Only just sketches of it.
[1307.4s] I never. OK, let's crack it open.
[1309.5s] And I'll warn you, it's not.
[1313.2s] It's not a lot to look at, you know, in the crate, but
[1317.8s] it's going to it's going to blow your mind what I can do with this metal.
[1320.6s] OK, and I take a like a little crowbar and kind of
[1325.1s] crack open the crate and like lift the lid off and as big as I thought
[1330.9s] the crate was going to be, no, it's it's you just add the tiniest
[1336.6s] amount to the steel and it makes it super strong.
[1341.0s] I know it seems really heavy because those two and it is really heavy,
[1345.2s] but this is enough for, I mean, a ton of weapons.
[1349.7s] So
[1351.7s] when it's diluted, it makes the weapons light and strong and sharp.
[1357.2s] You can hone it really easily.
[1360.2s] It holds its edge.
[1361.9s] It's amazing. It's incredible.
[1364.0s] I mean, it costs a pretty penny.
[1365.5s] But it's it's amazing.
[1369.0s] So you got it.
[1370.2s] You got a job for this one.
[1371.5s] Who are you making it for?
[1373.0s] What are you making?
[1374.0s] Well, you know, I'm making that light, delicate blade for Ignatius.
[1379.3s] Oh, right. Right. Yeah.
[1381.1s] I think I here I showed you the hilt, I think.
[1383.2s] And it's it's it's going to be pretty ornate on the handle.
[1386.5s] But the blade itself is not messing around.
[1390.8s] It is going to be.
[1392.2s] Well, I saw the sketches. Yeah, that's going to be amazing.
[1395.0s] Yeah, it's this is a this is a killing blade.
[1397.8s] This isn't just Ignatius in the in the in the business of killing.
[1401.8s] What's Ignatius's job here?
[1403.9s] No, Ignatius is sort of a
[1408.7s] malord, fancy sort of.
[1411.1s] Oh, so it's more of a look at what I have.
[1414.3s] Yes, but
[1417.1s] he wants the real deal and very well, you know, he's got the cash to pay for it.
[1422.9s] So let's get him what he wants.
[1425.3s] And it gets us this.
[1426.8s] And you can you can have some of this, too,
[1429.4s] to play around with if you want to, you know, work on something a little bit
[1433.1s] more delicate. Oh, I love that.
[1435.6s] Speaking of which, Phil down at the dock, they had pirate problems.
[1439.8s] Oh, no. Their mast got busted.
[1442.0s] And I said that you could probably help, you know, just with like a
[1446.2s] coupling for the mast, just something iron simple.
[1449.1s] But is that oh, yeah, I've got some scraps here.
[1451.5s] No problem. I can whip something up.
[1452.9s] I'll go, you know, I'll go down and measure it up.
[1454.8s] It'll be thank you. It'll be great.
[1456.7s] Take care of that. Awesome.
[1458.0s] You're the best.
[1459.3s] Do you need help hoisting it up there?
[1461.3s] I saw those two. They were really struggling.
[1463.9s] I know.
[1465.0s] You know what? Honestly, it'll probably break the table.
[1467.2s] So I'm just going to kind of work off what I need.
[1471.2s] Got it. And yeah.
[1473.0s] Oh, and I mean, of course, I know you wouldn't.
[1476.8s] But maybe just don't totally mention it to everybody that I have this
[1480.4s] because it is obviously pretty valuable.
[1483.2s] Oh, of course. Yeah. No, mum's the word.
[1485.5s] Don't worry about it. Awesome.
[1486.9s] All right. I'll be back.
[1487.9s] I'm going to go measure that up,
[1490.2s] be back in a flash and we'll whip that up for them.
[1492.9s] You're the best.
[1494.4s] As Thane grabs a few things and heads out down towards the docks,
[1499.5s] give us a description of Everbane's,
[1503.6s] the general layout size,
[1507.0s] maybe some personal items or things that you have hanging on the wall, if anything.
[1513.9s] Yeah, so it's it's big.
[1517.0s] It had started out pretty small,
[1519.4s] like my grandfather started the forge and it was just pretty small,
[1524.1s] but kind of grew and expanded.
[1526.6s] And then my father took over the business and it grew and expanded.
[1530.4s] So it's quite large.
[1532.0s] So Thane
[1534.8s] kind of rents over half of the space
[1538.2s] in the shop doing sort of like, you know, horseshoes and sort of less finesse work.
[1545.3s] And then I have sort of a smaller workshop that's sectioned off.
[1550.0s] Everything else is quite open, of course, because we're flames and anvils.
[1554.0s] And, you know, it's hot and loud.
[1556.3s] But I do have sort of a small office
[1558.4s] in the back where I do my sketches and I tinker with things and try
[1561.8s] and figure out how to make these specialized weapons that I make.
[1567.1s] There isn't like a storefront or anything
[1569.9s] so much because everything is is custom.
[1573.0s] I love that. We we pull back out of Everbane's here and a couple of people
[1579.4s] walk by and give a holler in, hey, Bonwyn, how you doing?
[1583.5s] Hey, I'm good. How are you?
[1585.5s] Trying to scrape up some more work.
[1587.5s] They just bumped up the taxes.
[1588.9s] Oh, I know.
[1590.3s] It's unbelievable.
[1592.1s] Like at some point, you just can't get more blood from a stone.
[1597.7s] Right. And I heard they shut down three more shops in the district.
[1601.1s] Yeah. Let's maybe a fewer gold statues and more.
[1605.6s] This is going to sound crazy.
[1607.6s] I don't know. Schools.
[1609.5s] Yeah, schools.
[1611.2s] Clean up the sidewalks, get some people enough food to eat.
[1615.0s] It's it's, you know, I know that, you know.
[1618.0s] All right. Well, you have a good one.
[1619.2s] I'm going to go try and
[1621.4s] make something
[1624.4s] with nobody having any money.
[1625.6s] It's hard to do that.
[1626.6s] And it just kind of fades off into the noise of the block.
[1633.7s] Cut back to Alydin
[1637.2s] and you are laying in your your makeshift bunk
[1642.2s] and you hear a rattle of cans,
[1646.8s] which is one of my yes, my trip, your perimeter alarms, security system.
[1653.7s] Everybody in the space, all the kids
[1656.0s] in the space and tally all shh, everybody quiet
[1660.3s] and everybody kind of moves back to the shadows.
[1663.5s] What do you do?
[1664.8s] I think that
[1667.4s] upon hearing the cans, there is like a routine.
[1672.4s] There's a planned reaction for that.
[1674.4s] So I think what
[1678.1s] Alydin and Tally would do would be whispering to the others,
[1682.3s] get in your position, which is just to hide for the rest of them.
[1686.6s] And
[1688.8s] Alydin
[1690.8s] puts her back to the wall with the door to her left and just waits.
[1697.4s] Hand on her bucket.
[1700.6s] That's right.
[1702.8s] It's also a weapon over my dead bucket.
[1706.8s] I mean, body, you hear some heavy footsteps coming into the stable,
[1712.6s] the back of the stable, you hear them kick over some some wood
[1717.6s] crates that just crumple to the ground.
[1720.1s] Sounds like they're whoever's back there.
[1723.3s] There's low grumbling conversation.
[1726.8s] You can't quite make out what they're saying,
[1729.2s] but sounds like they're rooting around and looking for something.
[1732.9s] You position yourself if you would like, you can move closer to try and hear.
[1737.3s] Oh, yeah.
[1738.2s] If there's one thing that Alydin likes to do, it's eavesdrop.
[1742.2s] So she for sure sneaks up all sneaky, sneaky and
[1747.5s] wants to hear if there's anything juicy to listen to and make a stealth role.
[1754.6s] I mean, information is its own form
[1756.6s] of currency, so if you can get something to help you out, absolutely.
[1762.3s] Ten, I had a plus three and everything.
[1765.2s] Ten's not bad.
[1766.2s] Well, ten's fine.
[1768.8s] Ten's fine, we're low level.
[1770.9s] That was episode one, OK?
[1772.6s] I know that was that's in the past, Amy.
[1775.2s] One time deal.
[1777.8s] OK, yeah, you move forward.
[1780.8s] You are reasonably silent.
[1783.8s] You're not drawing attention to yourself.
[1785.6s] And as you move closer, the grumble conversation becomes clear.
[1790.0s] And you hear a gruff male and female talking back and forth.
[1798.2s] Kenny sent us out here and said there's an easy access point to get into the underground.
[1804.6s] This place hasn't been used in years.
[1807.0s] I see the kids walking around here every now and again.
[1811.0s] You see anything over there?
[1812.5s] It's just crates. There's nothing here.
[1814.8s] Yeah, no, like it's a stable.
[1817.2s] Why would they put an underground department in a state?
[1821.3s] Yeah, I think the intel's bad because, yeah, it just doesn't make sense.
[1825.8s] Hey, you hear that?
[1827.8s] Hmm, probably just a rat.
[1830.1s] Yeah.
[1831.7s] Yeah, it's just a rat.
[1833.8s] You, PAlydin, hear one of their footsteps begin moving closer
[1839.5s] to an entryway where you're very near to.
[1843.6s] You hear their breath on the other side, and as they're peering in,
[1848.2s] you see just the shadow of them emanating through and into the space.
[1854.4s] You're
[1855.7s] curled up and tucked away.
[1857.8s] Yeah, I'm flat against the wall.
[1861.0s] Crouched down.
[1863.4s] Just holding my breath.
[1867.6s] And looking around to see
[1870.3s] if all the kids are well hidden.
[1874.5s] Check that corner over there once more, and then we'll be gone.
[1880.2s] Anything over there?
[1882.8s] No, just some old sacks.
[1884.6s] I don't know. Let's go back.
[1886.2s] There's no underground caverns out here.
[1888.8s] That's all back in the main district.
[1891.1s] Nothing connects this far out.
[1893.8s] All right, back to the shop.
[1896.9s] The footsteps carry back off.
[1900.4s] Alydin
[1902.4s] waits until she's sure that they're gone and just follows them a little bit
[1910.2s] down the street to make sure that they're not doing a whole double back
[1913.4s] thing, because she's stupid.
[1916.1s] And when she's sure that they have gone and decided to give up on this
[1923.6s] pursuit, goes back in and
[1927.3s] gives her a little like, I need to figure out the fucking whistle,
[1930.4s] because I'm just like,
[1935.3s] make it just a Hunger Games thing if you want.
[1941.9s] But yes, something like that.
[1943.1s] I'll figure it out, you guys.
[1944.3s] We'll listen to bird calls is what we'll do.
[1946.9s] Here you go. There we go.
[1948.2s] Yeah, simple bird calls.
[1950.7s] Simple bird calls, you know.
[1953.8s] Just a warbler or whatever.
[1957.6s] Probably a blue-footed booby, because, you know, it's us.
[1961.2s] So, guys, guys.
[1964.0s] Yeah, come out, come out. It's safe.
[1966.0s] OK, are they gone?
[1969.7s] Those are two of Kinney's
[1973.0s] dumber bruisers over there.
[1975.6s] And they were looking for some underground tunnels.
[1979.6s] Underground tunnels?
[1980.6s] Do you think they're going to come back?
[1982.1s] I don't think so.
[1983.5s] There's no tunnels out here.
[1984.9s] You guys did a really great job of hiding.
[1987.2s] So I don't think they're going to come back.
[1989.6s] Thanks. Yeah.
[1990.9s] Thanks. It was really scary.
[1993.1s] I used that spot you showed me yesterday.
[1995.5s] Well, good. And thank you for making sure there wasn't someone in there first.
[2000.6s] It was weird last time.
[2002.2s] Too many people, one space.
[2003.9s] One barrel can only hold one person.
[2005.9s] Remember, one barrel, one person, one barrel, one person.
[2009.4s] So I think we should look around
[2011.6s] for this, because they didn't actually try real hard.
[2014.1s] And we haven't been in this spot for a super long time.
[2018.6s] Have you guys been exploring anywhere in here?
[2021.2s] A little bit, but you find anything?
[2024.1s] Not. Yeah, but we haven't checked everywhere.
[2026.7s] Like there could be.
[2028.5s] That'd be pretty cool.
[2029.7s] I wasn't looking for underground tunnels.
[2032.3s] New priority.
[2033.3s] OK, we need to find if there is a hidden trap door somewhere,
[2037.8s] because if there is a tunnel system that can connect us to the main town.
[2043.4s] Oh, our life just got a whole lot easier.
[2046.0s] OK, underground tunnels.
[2048.4s] Let's go. Let's go, everybody.
[2049.5s] Let's find some underground tunnels.
[2050.6s] This is going to be really cool.
[2052.1s] Tally, get the candles.
[2053.7s] OK, I'll go get the candles.
[2056.2s] Tally runs off.
[2057.5s] Everybody scatters as they begin to look
[2060.8s] underneath bales of straw.
[2064.0s] There's barrels everywhere,
[2065.3s] there's sacks of grain that have fallen over that are moldy.
[2068.7s] Probably a wheelbarrow of some sort of some sort.
[2079.6s] We hear the door open of the Brewed Awakening, which is entirely empty.
[2087.2s] There's a big sign up on it says out of business,
[2090.7s] which has been just crudely painted
[2092.7s] onto this sign slapped up over the front glass.
[2096.8s] And inside, on top of the bar, is Bench Ripley doing a set of push ups.
[2105.1s] 842, 843, 844, 845, 845.
[2113.6s] I mean, Bench, wow, that's that's a really high number.
[2117.7s] Oh, yeah, well, there's not much to do with the business clothes.
[2120.4s] So I just sit here pumping the iron and pumping my muscles up.
[2123.9s] Just waiting either any any news on the opening the Brewed Awakening?
[2129.3s] Oh, yeah. OK, a couple of updates on that front.
[2133.3s] They said they gave you three warnings.
[2135.2s] Oh, yeah, they gave me the warnings, but the warnings.
[2139.6s] Yeah, the warnings came the same day that the taxes were due.
[2142.3s] How was I supposed to get it together?
[2143.9s] OK, yeah, like it was like memo, taxes, memo.
[2147.1s] You missed them. Come on, man.
[2148.7s] Yeah, it seems
[2150.6s] I don't know how they're running things here.
[2152.7s] It's definitely not what I'm used to.
[2156.4s] That's for sure. But a couple of solutions for you.
[2159.9s] One is you pay the taxes.
[2163.1s] We owe them.
[2165.6s] They'll look at reinstating you.
[2168.2s] Sounds like it's a bit of a permitting process because you let it lapse.
[2171.5s] It's a whole paperwork thing.
[2173.7s] Second option, I go get Oak.
[2177.4s] I bring him here.
[2179.4s] You ply him with some drinks while you're closed.
[2182.4s] Yes, no paying customers tonight.
[2185.6s] And maybe we get some sort of expedited
[2187.8s] paperwork thing through the system ASAP tomorrow.
[2190.7s] Well, if you think that would work,
[2192.4s] I mean, I'm more than happy to do that, to play the game.
[2195.2s] I mean, I don't know, but worth a shot, right?
[2198.5s] Yeah, no, that's absolutely.
[2199.8s] I mean, I have the taxes.
[2201.0s] They just don't take them.
[2202.3s] So they just shut down the business so we can have Oak here.
[2205.7s] You bring him here.
[2206.6s] We have the drinks.
[2208.2s] We have the fun.
[2209.1s] We say, hey, maybe a business.
[2210.9s] I mean, that's the plan.
[2212.0s] But yeah, we'll see.
[2213.4s] I think I think he'll be a lot more agreeable
[2216.4s] once I get him away from from the mayor's place there.
[2219.8s] OK, this sounds like a great plan.
[2221.7s] You go get Oak and I will get the drinks ready.
[2225.6s] And we will maybe plan some whodunit questions.
[2228.9s] Perfect.
[2229.8s] What do games do to play?
[2232.1s] OK, I will figure that later.
[2234.9s] That bench goes back into the kitchen
[2236.6s] as Cav heads out to get Oak and we prepare for guys night.
[2248.8s] Dumbgeons and Dragons, season three, episode two.
[2252.3s] This episode starred Amy More as Alydin,
[2255.1s] Carla Maxted as Bonwyn Everbane, Tom Laird as Kavlaran Goldweave
[2260.0s] and Russ More as your dungeon master.
[2262.6s] Dialogue Editing by Carla Maxted and Sound Design by Russ More.
[2266.8s] This episode featured music from Epidemic Sound and sound effects from Epidemic
[2271.1s] Sound, Boom Library and Sound Ideas.
[2273.8s] Our amazing cover art and character designs are by Matt Garba.
[2277.4s] A huge thank you to our supporting producers,
[2280.0s] Gabriel Lynch, Jessica Babiak, Cat Waterflame, Jacob Madden, Christian
[2284.4s] Brown, Craig Zeiss, Barry Mady, Ongarong Kiersing, Old School Gamer D,
[2289.4s] L.A. Brent, Nathaniel Teeter, Luna and Aaron.
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[2349.0s] So in that sense, Nina's the glue that keeps the motor running.
[2354.0s] Motors don't exist in this world.
[2355.8s] Nina's the glue that makes sense.
[2358.4s] We said the glue keeps the motor running.
[2363.4s] Yeah, that's the part of it.
[2365.0s] It doesn't make sense.
[2365.8s] Wait a minute.
[2366.2s] Motors don't exist here.
[2370.0s] Otherwise, perfect.
[2372.0s] I don't know why my mind is breaking down.
[2373.8s] I'm giving you a little bit of an idea.
[2376.6s] I don't know why my mind is breaking down.
[2378.6s] I'm giving it its monthly glue.
[2380.6s] We don't let rust work on the cars.
[2382.6s] Everybody scatters as they begin to look
[2385.8s] underneath bales of straw and
[2389.8s] other things that are found in an abandoned.
[2391.8s] Fuck, I'm terrible at this game.
[2396.6s] You just gotta shake the rust off.
[2398.2s] I can describe things.
[2399.2s] You can.
[2400.0s] I believe in you.
[2401.2s] I've been in barns and they kind of are.
[2404.0s] They really are.
[2405.0s] Yep, it's just kind of catch-all, right?
[2407.6s] There's like some wire.
[2409.8s] There's like, yeah, there's barrels
[2412.2s] everywhere, sacks of grain that have
[2414.2s] fallen over that are moldy.
[2416.0s] Probably a wheelbarrow of some sort.
[2422.2s] Love it.
[2422.8s] They're looking under all of that stuff.
[2424.4s] Dumbgeons and Dragons is a Dumb Dragons production.