1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:04,000 Hey, psst, Dumbgeons and Dragons starts in just a second. 2 00:00:04,000 --> 00:00:08,000 There's the jingle of a bell as a customer leaves. 3 00:00:08,000 --> 00:00:20,000 Bizard, you're behind the register and you reach into your pocket and there's a quick reminder of where you were the night before. 4 00:00:20,000 --> 00:00:25,000 You don't have long to think about it though as Alydin runs up beside you. 5 00:00:25,000 --> 00:00:29,000 Um, hey, do you got a second? Just right now, just a little moment. 6 00:00:29,000 --> 00:00:31,000 Yeah, Alydin, what's going on? 7 00:00:31,000 --> 00:00:36,000 Well, I was just wondering because we started talking about it before and you mentioned something about a weave 8 00:00:36,000 --> 00:00:42,000 and then something about like there's a price to pay and like, and you know, 9 00:00:42,000 --> 00:00:51,000 I know this isn't like formal kind of like school and stuff, but I'm real keen to know. 10 00:00:51,000 --> 00:00:52,000 Yeah. 11 00:00:52,000 --> 00:00:55,000 Everything about magic, everything. 12 00:00:55,000 --> 00:01:03,000 Every, I mean, I wouldn't even dare to say I know even a quarter of the things there is to know about magic. 13 00:01:03,000 --> 00:01:09,000 It's one of those mysterious things that you always kind of follow and chase 14 00:01:09,000 --> 00:01:15,000 and hope that you can glimpse it through the mirage that it presents itself through, 15 00:01:15,000 --> 00:01:23,000 which speaking of a mirage, the weave in and of itself is sort of something that you can only see at certain points. 16 00:01:23,000 --> 00:01:30,000 But just because you can't see it doesn't mean it isn't there and isn't able to be manipulated. 17 00:01:30,000 --> 00:01:36,000 You know how on a hot day you can take a fan and kind of fan yourself off, right? 18 00:01:36,000 --> 00:01:37,000 Yeah. 19 00:01:37,000 --> 00:01:43,000 See, that's kind of you affecting the air around you to create a sensory effect. 20 00:01:43,000 --> 00:01:49,000 Um, certain sensory effects that can be made can be imparted upon objects. 21 00:01:49,000 --> 00:01:59,000 Say you were to borrow an essence of the weave and pull essentially light out of the weave, 22 00:01:59,000 --> 00:02:08,000 like a source of light from magic and imbue it into an object for, say, maybe money? 23 00:02:08,000 --> 00:02:10,000 If you've ever done that? 24 00:02:10,000 --> 00:02:14,000 Well, I don't get what you mean. 25 00:02:14,000 --> 00:02:19,000 Alydin just like kind of holds like intense eye contact. 26 00:02:19,000 --> 00:02:22,000 Do you want to learn about magic or do you want to lie? 27 00:02:22,000 --> 00:02:27,000 I would prefer to do both. 28 00:02:27,000 --> 00:02:31,000 Dumbgeons and Dragons is a D&D fifth edition actual play podcast 29 00:02:31,000 --> 00:02:34,000 and I'm your dungeon master Russ More he-him. 30 00:02:34,000 --> 00:02:38,000 Also with me today is Amy More as Alydin she-her. 31 00:02:38,000 --> 00:02:42,000 With this key I can come in if the door is locked. 32 00:02:42,000 --> 00:02:45,000 Carla Maxted as Bonwyn Everbane she-her. 33 00:02:45,000 --> 00:02:47,000 Like, is there a bear in the tunnel? 34 00:02:47,000 --> 00:02:50,000 And Kyle Claset as Bizard the Wizard he-him. 35 00:02:50,000 --> 00:02:55,000 Uh, yeah, yeah, I'm one of the mayor's advisors. 36 00:02:55,000 --> 00:02:59,000 Dumbgeons and Dragons is a Patreon-supported podcast where you can get a 7-day free trial 37 00:02:59,000 --> 00:03:03,000 if you sign up today at patreon.com slash dumb dragoncast. 38 00:03:03,000 --> 00:03:05,000 Now fuck it, let's play! 39 00:03:05,000 --> 00:03:09,000 Alright. 40 00:03:09,000 --> 00:03:10,000 A little bit. 41 00:03:10,000 --> 00:03:17,000 Cause li-listen, lying has kept me and the kids safe for a long time. 42 00:03:17,000 --> 00:03:19,000 Alydin, are you living here? 43 00:03:19,000 --> 00:03:21,000 No. 44 00:03:21,000 --> 00:03:25,000 Alydin, did you just take the bread from those-those buns-toe? 45 00:03:25,000 --> 00:03:27,000 No. 46 00:03:27,000 --> 00:03:29,000 I can respect that. 47 00:03:29,000 --> 00:03:36,000 There's nothing wrong with a-a lie if it serves you and serves the ones you care about. 48 00:03:36,000 --> 00:03:38,000 So, I can respect that. 49 00:03:38,000 --> 00:03:40,000 How about, okay, I won't lie to you. 50 00:03:40,000 --> 00:03:43,000 That works for me, if it works for you, of course. 51 00:03:43,000 --> 00:03:51,000 As far as this exchange that we have going on, um, I'm gonna be honest and forthright. 52 00:03:51,000 --> 00:03:58,000 So, I feel like it is only a fair exchange if you do the same in this regard. 53 00:03:58,000 --> 00:04:01,000 I'm not asking you to spill everything about your whereabouts, 54 00:04:01,000 --> 00:04:03,000 where you go after the store, before the store. 55 00:04:03,000 --> 00:04:08,000 As long as whatever you do outside of that doesn't make its way through the door, 56 00:04:08,000 --> 00:04:11,000 we're gonna be okay. 57 00:04:11,000 --> 00:04:20,000 But you can always come to me if something does happen and you need to. 58 00:04:20,000 --> 00:04:23,000 I know you're-I know you're capable. 59 00:04:23,000 --> 00:04:27,000 But if you need to, you come here. 60 00:04:27,000 --> 00:04:31,000 I pull out an extra key and I put it on the desk. 61 00:04:31,000 --> 00:04:38,000 Alydin's eyes are like dinner plates, like deer in headlights. 62 00:04:38,000 --> 00:04:45,000 I don't think she's ever touched a key that she hadn't stolen off of somebody for some reason. 63 00:04:45,000 --> 00:04:51,000 And she just stares from the key, up to you, back to the key. 64 00:04:51,000 --> 00:04:53,000 Pushes it forward. 65 00:04:53,000 --> 00:04:56,000 I'm trusting you. 66 00:04:56,000 --> 00:05:04,000 So, like, with this key, I can come in if the door is locked? 67 00:05:04,000 --> 00:05:06,000 That's correct. 68 00:05:06,000 --> 00:05:12,000 Now, of course, I'll know, but it is for you to use. 69 00:05:12,000 --> 00:05:16,000 Oh. Okay. Thanks. 70 00:05:16,000 --> 00:05:21,000 And she takes the key and she takes a piece of yarn out of her bucket 71 00:05:21,000 --> 00:05:27,000 and snakes it through the hole in the key and ties it onto the handle of her bucket, 72 00:05:27,000 --> 00:05:31,000 but obviously not hanging out of the bucket, inside the bucket. 73 00:05:31,000 --> 00:05:36,000 I'll keep it real safe. I won't come in here and do weird stuff. 74 00:05:36,000 --> 00:05:41,000 I don't think that needed to be said, but okay. 75 00:05:41,000 --> 00:05:44,000 Well, you kids say the wildest things. 76 00:05:44,000 --> 00:05:47,000 You've never worked with kids before, have you? 77 00:05:47,000 --> 00:05:52,000 No, I don't even think I necessarily was one. 78 00:05:52,000 --> 00:05:55,000 But, you know, that's my own doing. 79 00:05:55,000 --> 00:05:59,000 So this is going to be very interesting for me. 80 00:05:59,000 --> 00:06:06,000 But anyway, so about that light being imbued into an item, per se, 81 00:06:06,000 --> 00:06:15,000 I noticed the coin that I gave you to get some coffee and pastry from those buns dough. 82 00:06:15,000 --> 00:06:18,000 They kind of lit up a little bit on your way out. 83 00:06:18,000 --> 00:06:21,000 Oh, did they? 84 00:06:21,000 --> 00:06:28,000 That just kind of sometimes like sometimes money is just shiny, I think. 85 00:06:28,000 --> 00:06:35,000 Okay. The connection to money, what does it make you feel? 86 00:06:35,000 --> 00:06:43,000 Well, probably the same thing that most people feel and because everybody wants it. 87 00:06:43,000 --> 00:06:54,000 Right? So like money is like, you know, you're safe and you're full. 88 00:06:54,000 --> 00:06:58,000 And that that would make anybody happy. So I guess money would make me happy. 89 00:06:58,000 --> 00:07:02,000 Money would solve lots of my problems. I do think so. 90 00:07:02,000 --> 00:07:07,000 I agree with you in the sense of security. Money brings security. 91 00:07:07,000 --> 00:07:12,000 Now, for certain political figures, money brings them power. 92 00:07:12,000 --> 00:07:17,000 While it is happiness, you could you could reduce it down to happiness. 93 00:07:17,000 --> 00:07:24,000 You need to find out what is the most salient point that you are connecting to, 94 00:07:24,000 --> 00:07:29,000 because that is the thing that will draw you closer to the weave. 95 00:07:29,000 --> 00:07:35,000 When you feel safe and secure, when you feel like you can provide, 96 00:07:35,000 --> 00:07:39,000 maybe that's maybe that's what you need to focus on in those moments. 97 00:07:39,000 --> 00:07:44,000 And when you are trying to grasp at the weave. 98 00:07:44,000 --> 00:07:55,000 But how do I know when I'm trying to grasp at the weave? 99 00:07:55,000 --> 00:08:03,000 At Everbane's, we hear heavy steps coming down some stairs. 100 00:08:03,000 --> 00:08:14,000 And Bonwyn is stepping into the open space, feeling a little worse for Rare. 101 00:08:14,000 --> 00:08:25,000 Having been out late last night with Neven, taking in some of the nobles parties. 102 00:08:25,000 --> 00:08:29,000 But not only the festivities, once you returned home, 103 00:08:29,000 --> 00:08:36,000 there was a noise that seemed to be keeping you up all night. 104 00:08:36,000 --> 00:08:42,000 Sounded like at some points scratching in the floors, 105 00:08:42,000 --> 00:08:46,000 like a knocking sound that came throughout the night. 106 00:08:46,000 --> 00:08:52,000 And be it the state you were in or others, you didn't really get up to try and find it. 107 00:08:52,000 --> 00:08:56,000 But now that you're up and ready for the day, 108 00:08:56,000 --> 00:09:00,000 you're extra sluggish because of the lack of sleep due to this. 109 00:09:00,000 --> 00:09:05,000 So as you enter, Thane is just getting on their gear for the day 110 00:09:05,000 --> 00:09:08,000 and they see you out of the corner of their eye and they say, 111 00:09:08,000 --> 00:09:12,000 Oh, did you have fun last night? 112 00:09:12,000 --> 00:09:17,000 Yes, costume party was a success. 113 00:09:17,000 --> 00:09:21,000 Well, I mean, heard stories down at the shop. 114 00:09:21,000 --> 00:09:24,000 Yeah, I can tell by the way or the face you're making at me. 115 00:09:24,000 --> 00:09:29,000 I got you. I got you this passes you a coffee and a muffin. 116 00:09:29,000 --> 00:09:30,000 You're the best. 117 00:09:30,000 --> 00:09:32,000 Oh, yeah, we were out kind of late. 118 00:09:32,000 --> 00:09:36,000 And then I don't know, there was something going on here. 119 00:09:36,000 --> 00:09:39,000 I was hearing like a weird sound and I couldn't get to sleep. 120 00:09:39,000 --> 00:09:43,000 But I also, you know, when you're just like too tired. 121 00:09:43,000 --> 00:09:45,000 Yeah, I don't. It'll go away. 122 00:09:45,000 --> 00:09:47,000 It's fine. 123 00:09:47,000 --> 00:09:50,000 So I didn't check it out. 124 00:09:50,000 --> 00:09:54,000 So it's not those kids again, is it? 125 00:09:54,000 --> 00:09:58,000 Well, I don't know. I thought I'd check that first, but I don't think so. 126 00:09:58,000 --> 00:10:01,000 Like, I know Alydin now it'd be weird, I think, 127 00:10:01,000 --> 00:10:04,000 if she was like trying to sneak in that way again. 128 00:10:04,000 --> 00:10:07,000 But I don't know. Can you help me move the? 129 00:10:07,000 --> 00:10:09,000 Yeah, yeah, yeah, of course. 130 00:10:09,000 --> 00:10:11,000 And we'll just double double check. 131 00:10:11,000 --> 00:10:14,000 Two of you push the crate that you were the crater, 132 00:10:14,000 --> 00:10:19,000 the table that you had previously put to stop Alydin from coming through that way. 133 00:10:19,000 --> 00:10:24,000 You move it off and you see the door there and Thane lifts it, 134 00:10:24,000 --> 00:10:27,000 allowing you access to to see down in. 135 00:10:27,000 --> 00:10:31,000 It's a from from the surface. 136 00:10:31,000 --> 00:10:33,000 It's it's a shadowy tunnel. 137 00:10:33,000 --> 00:10:36,000 There's a little stepladder that goes down into it. 138 00:10:36,000 --> 00:10:39,000 You know, it'd be a comfortable fit for you. 139 00:10:39,000 --> 00:10:44,000 Probably a considerably tighter fit for Thane, who's much taller than you are. 140 00:10:44,000 --> 00:10:47,000 Let's make an investigation roll. 141 00:10:48,000 --> 00:10:52,000 Oh, not great. I am tired. 142 00:10:52,000 --> 00:10:54,000 That's an eight with bonus. 143 00:10:54,000 --> 00:10:58,000 You're looking down into it like nothing's clicking with you. 144 00:10:58,000 --> 00:11:00,000 You put your hand on the back of the doors. 145 00:11:00,000 --> 00:11:02,000 You're trying to lean down without actually going in. 146 00:11:02,000 --> 00:11:05,000 And you feel on the underside of the door. 147 00:11:05,000 --> 00:11:07,000 There's scratch marks. 148 00:11:07,000 --> 00:11:13,000 Oh, oh, sorry. 149 00:11:13,000 --> 00:11:16,000 Oh, oh, what is it? 150 00:11:16,000 --> 00:11:18,000 And I'm kind of like a bit hunched over, right? 151 00:11:18,000 --> 00:11:22,000 Because I'm leaning down and just not even standing up, 152 00:11:22,000 --> 00:11:25,000 but just moving my hand up the trap door. 153 00:11:25,000 --> 00:11:31,000 Like, oh, again, just like if I ignore it, maybe it won't be there, Thane. 154 00:11:31,000 --> 00:11:33,000 Mm hmm. 155 00:11:33,000 --> 00:11:35,000 You see this? You feel this? 156 00:11:35,000 --> 00:11:40,000 He leans over the door a little bit more to get a better look at what you see. 157 00:11:40,000 --> 00:11:44,000 And yeah, that looks. 158 00:11:45,000 --> 00:11:47,000 Yeah, that wasn't kids. 159 00:11:47,000 --> 00:11:50,000 No, it doesn't look like kids doesn't look like it. 160 00:11:50,000 --> 00:11:53,000 That's those are some large scratch. 161 00:11:53,000 --> 00:11:59,000 Like, that's a big tool or kind of like holds up their hand. 162 00:11:59,000 --> 00:12:01,000 Like, that's something big. 163 00:12:01,000 --> 00:12:04,000 Yeah, I don't even know what this could be. 164 00:12:04,000 --> 00:12:06,000 Like, is there a bear in the tunnel? 165 00:12:06,000 --> 00:12:08,000 That can't be. 166 00:12:08,000 --> 00:12:11,000 I oh, yeah, no. 167 00:12:11,000 --> 00:12:13,000 I mean, we just maybe there is a bear. 168 00:12:13,000 --> 00:12:15,000 Good thing the kids didn't find the bear. 169 00:12:15,000 --> 00:12:17,000 Do we want to close it? 170 00:12:17,000 --> 00:12:19,000 Oh, yeah, let's close it. 171 00:12:19,000 --> 00:12:20,000 Great idea. 172 00:12:20,000 --> 00:12:21,000 Let's close that. 173 00:12:21,000 --> 00:12:22,000 Move the table. 174 00:12:22,000 --> 00:12:26,000 I'm going to just you know, that small anvil that I use. 175 00:12:26,000 --> 00:12:28,000 Let's maybe just get that on the table. 176 00:12:28,000 --> 00:12:29,000 Let's just. 177 00:12:29,000 --> 00:12:35,000 OK, there's been a lot of talk about like noises coming from below. 178 00:12:35,000 --> 00:12:38,000 I don't know if you heard the criers there the last few nights, 179 00:12:38,000 --> 00:12:43,000 but like people have been saying like they're hearing things. 180 00:12:43,000 --> 00:12:47,000 And if you're hearing things, then. 181 00:12:47,000 --> 00:12:50,000 Yeah, I mean, they don't even probably know about the tunnel. 182 00:12:50,000 --> 00:12:54,000 So nobody else would have thought to look there. 183 00:12:54,000 --> 00:12:58,000 I mean, how big did you say those goblins were? 184 00:12:58,000 --> 00:13:00,000 Oh, no, no. 185 00:13:00,000 --> 00:13:01,000 No. 186 00:13:01,000 --> 00:13:02,000 No, no, no. 187 00:13:02,000 --> 00:13:06,000 Not I mean, maybe three of them in a trench coat with like some 188 00:13:06,000 --> 00:13:12,000 knife fingers like that I made, you know, but otherwise, no, no, no, no. 189 00:13:12,000 --> 00:13:16,000 And I mean, those weren't that that wasn't made by like something 190 00:13:16,000 --> 00:13:17,000 that I would have made. 191 00:13:17,000 --> 00:13:19,000 That seemed it's rough. 192 00:13:19,000 --> 00:13:20,000 That was claws. 193 00:13:20,000 --> 00:13:24,000 That seemed organic. 194 00:13:24,000 --> 00:13:26,000 OK, do we call animal control? 195 00:13:26,000 --> 00:13:30,000 I think I think we got to go find days or somebody like we got to 196 00:13:30,000 --> 00:13:35,000 show them what we've seen and maybe there's a connection they can 197 00:13:35,000 --> 00:13:40,000 use it as an access point and we can just shut it up behind them or maybe 198 00:13:40,000 --> 00:13:41,000 they can find another one. 199 00:13:41,000 --> 00:13:42,000 I don't know. Where's that kid? 200 00:13:42,000 --> 00:13:44,000 The kid knows how to get in there, right? 201 00:13:44,000 --> 00:13:47,000 I know, but we can't tell date, right? 202 00:13:47,000 --> 00:13:48,000 Yeah. 203 00:13:48,000 --> 00:13:49,000 OK, let me just go upstairs. 204 00:13:49,000 --> 00:13:52,000 I need to grab something before we go. 205 00:13:52,000 --> 00:13:56,000 But then by then I'm going to have drank this coffee and I'm going to be 206 00:13:56,000 --> 00:13:57,000 10 out of 10. 207 00:13:57,000 --> 00:14:00,000 We can go talk to days. 208 00:14:00,000 --> 00:14:04,000 We'll be right back. 209 00:14:04,000 --> 00:14:07,000 It's the middle. 210 00:14:07,000 --> 00:14:08,000 Welcome to the middle, everybody. 211 00:14:08,000 --> 00:14:12,000 What's up? 212 00:14:12,000 --> 00:14:13,000 Wow. 213 00:14:13,000 --> 00:14:16,000 Couldn't couldn't help myself. 214 00:14:16,000 --> 00:14:18,000 Came in came in real hot there. 215 00:14:18,000 --> 00:14:20,000 Sorry. 216 00:14:20,000 --> 00:14:21,000 I'll always have your back. 217 00:14:21,000 --> 00:14:22,000 Thank you. 218 00:14:22,000 --> 00:14:23,000 I know. 219 00:14:23,000 --> 00:14:25,000 It's actually it was quite romantic, you guys. 220 00:14:25,000 --> 00:14:26,000 Yeah, it's really good. 221 00:14:26,000 --> 00:14:27,000 Yeah. 222 00:14:27,000 --> 00:14:28,000 Yeah. 223 00:14:28,000 --> 00:14:29,000 That's nice. 224 00:14:29,000 --> 00:14:30,000 That's what you have to aspire to everybody. 225 00:14:30,000 --> 00:14:31,000 That's right. 226 00:14:31,000 --> 00:14:32,000 Yep. 227 00:14:32,000 --> 00:14:33,000 Yep. 228 00:14:33,000 --> 00:14:34,000 This is the bar. 229 00:14:34,000 --> 00:14:38,000 If you're supposed to make a weird bad dated reference. 230 00:14:38,000 --> 00:14:40,000 Just you do it. 231 00:14:40,000 --> 00:14:41,000 Double down on it. 232 00:14:41,000 --> 00:14:42,000 Yeah. 233 00:14:42,000 --> 00:14:44,000 Thank you for doing that, sweetheart. 234 00:14:44,000 --> 00:14:45,000 You're welcome. 235 00:14:45,000 --> 00:14:46,000 Love that. 236 00:14:46,000 --> 00:14:47,000 We're. 237 00:14:47,000 --> 00:14:53,000 I don't know how to get out of this. 238 00:14:53,000 --> 00:14:54,000 We're trapped. 239 00:14:54,000 --> 00:14:56,000 We're trapped in this. 240 00:14:56,000 --> 00:14:58,000 We're trapped in the 90s. 241 00:14:58,000 --> 00:15:00,000 Let me out of the stated reference. 242 00:15:00,000 --> 00:15:02,000 Oh, God. 243 00:15:02,000 --> 00:15:04,000 Dude, where's my car? 244 00:15:04,000 --> 00:15:05,000 Sweet. 245 00:15:05,000 --> 00:15:06,000 Oh, no. 246 00:15:06,000 --> 00:15:09,000 But what does mine say? 247 00:15:09,000 --> 00:15:10,000 Sweet. 248 00:15:10,000 --> 00:15:11,000 Dude. 249 00:15:11,000 --> 00:15:12,000 OK. 250 00:15:12,000 --> 00:15:14,000 Let's start again. 251 00:15:14,000 --> 00:15:16,000 Welcome back, everybody to the middle. 252 00:15:16,000 --> 00:15:17,000 This is the part. 253 00:15:17,000 --> 00:15:19,000 We're keeping the first one. 254 00:15:19,000 --> 00:15:20,000 Oh, of course we are. 255 00:15:20,000 --> 00:15:21,000 Yeah. 256 00:15:21,000 --> 00:15:22,000 Yeah. 257 00:15:22,000 --> 00:15:25,000 No, we're just segueing into this new intro for it. 258 00:15:25,000 --> 00:15:27,000 Welcome back to the real middle. 259 00:15:27,000 --> 00:15:28,000 Ah, yes. 260 00:15:28,000 --> 00:15:30,000 That was just the test middle. 261 00:15:30,000 --> 00:15:31,000 Yeah. 262 00:15:31,000 --> 00:15:33,000 We're just testing the ground, seeing how you liked it. 263 00:15:33,000 --> 00:15:34,000 Loved it. 264 00:15:34,000 --> 00:15:35,000 Leave us. 265 00:15:35,000 --> 00:15:38,000 Hit that like, comment, subscribe button. 266 00:15:38,000 --> 00:15:39,000 Smash that like button. 267 00:15:39,000 --> 00:15:41,000 Drag it straight over to the trash can. 268 00:15:41,000 --> 00:15:42,000 Do it. 269 00:15:42,000 --> 00:15:43,000 Five star review. 270 00:15:43,000 --> 00:15:44,000 Yeah. 271 00:15:44,000 --> 00:15:45,000 Thank you. 272 00:15:45,000 --> 00:15:46,000 I'm not participating in this part. 273 00:15:46,000 --> 00:15:47,000 Oh, come on. 274 00:15:47,000 --> 00:15:48,000 I'll was up. 275 00:15:48,000 --> 00:15:52,000 Hey, if you like that was up reference, you should join us on Patreon. 276 00:15:53,000 --> 00:15:55,000 There's lots more where that came from. 277 00:15:55,000 --> 00:15:56,000 Oh, yeah. 278 00:15:56,000 --> 00:15:58,000 So much more where that came from. 279 00:15:58,000 --> 00:16:00,000 Carla's just holding her face in her hands now. 280 00:16:00,000 --> 00:16:03,000 I don't know if it's because of that or because of just being tired. 281 00:16:03,000 --> 00:16:05,000 But like, we're going to try and wrap it up here. 282 00:16:05,000 --> 00:16:06,000 All put together. 283 00:16:06,000 --> 00:16:07,000 Yep. 284 00:16:07,000 --> 00:16:12,000 So join us at patreon.com slash dumb dragon cast where when you are a patron, you get an episode dedicated to you. 285 00:16:12,000 --> 00:16:15,000 Like today's patron, Laura. 286 00:16:15,000 --> 00:16:16,000 Laura. 287 00:16:16,000 --> 00:16:17,000 Laura. 288 00:16:17,000 --> 00:16:18,000 Oh, I'm sorry. 289 00:16:18,000 --> 00:16:19,000 Laura. 290 00:16:19,000 --> 00:16:21,000 What's up? 291 00:16:21,000 --> 00:16:24,000 What's up? 292 00:16:24,000 --> 00:16:25,000 Also, I'm sorry, Laura. 293 00:16:25,000 --> 00:16:26,000 We love you. 294 00:16:26,000 --> 00:16:27,000 Yeah. 295 00:16:27,000 --> 00:16:31,000 Also, I hope Laura is older than, like, twenty seven and will maybe understand that reference. 296 00:16:31,000 --> 00:16:33,000 Or maybe even way older than that. 297 00:16:33,000 --> 00:16:35,000 I don't know how old that reference is. 298 00:16:35,000 --> 00:16:36,000 I don't know. 299 00:16:36,000 --> 00:16:38,000 Thirty five and up then. 300 00:16:38,000 --> 00:16:39,000 That makes more sense. 301 00:16:39,000 --> 00:16:43,000 If you've seen a scary movie that is a step before. 302 00:16:43,000 --> 00:16:46,000 So, like, maybe mid twenties. 303 00:16:46,000 --> 00:16:47,000 You know what? 304 00:16:47,000 --> 00:16:48,000 Laura's been with us for a long time. 305 00:16:48,000 --> 00:16:50,000 They know what we've got, what we're dealing out. 306 00:16:50,000 --> 00:16:51,000 OK. 307 00:16:51,000 --> 00:16:52,000 All right. 308 00:16:52,000 --> 00:16:53,000 Fair enough. 309 00:16:53,000 --> 00:16:55,000 Not a new, not a new patron. 310 00:16:55,000 --> 00:16:56,000 A long time patron. 311 00:16:56,000 --> 00:16:58,000 So thank you for being here with us. 312 00:16:58,000 --> 00:16:59,000 Thanks for sticking it out, Laura. 313 00:16:59,000 --> 00:17:00,000 Yep. 314 00:17:00,000 --> 00:17:01,000 Yes. 315 00:17:01,000 --> 00:17:04,000 And if you just forgot and the credit card just keeps racking up. 316 00:17:04,000 --> 00:17:05,000 This is your reminder. 317 00:17:05,000 --> 00:17:07,000 This is your reminder that you're still paying. 318 00:17:07,000 --> 00:17:09,000 This conversation never happened. 319 00:17:09,000 --> 00:17:10,000 Never happened. 320 00:17:10,000 --> 00:17:11,000 All right. 321 00:17:11,000 --> 00:17:18,000 We thank you for being here with us and hope that you are having a wonderful week ahead and we can't wait to talk to you again very, very soon. 322 00:17:18,000 --> 00:17:21,000 So bye. 323 00:17:21,000 --> 00:17:22,000 Bye. Bye. 324 00:17:22,000 --> 00:17:23,000 We love you. 325 00:17:23,000 --> 00:17:24,000 That's the middle. 326 00:17:24,000 --> 00:17:25,000 That's the middle. 327 00:17:25,000 --> 00:17:26,000 That was it. 328 00:17:26,000 --> 00:17:27,000 We love you. 329 00:17:27,000 --> 00:17:28,000 Strong discount. 330 00:17:28,000 --> 00:17:29,000 We sure do. 331 00:17:29,000 --> 00:17:30,000 Hop off that horse. 332 00:17:30,000 --> 00:17:31,000 Love you. 333 00:17:31,000 --> 00:17:32,000 Bye. 334 00:17:32,000 --> 00:17:33,000 Love you guys. 335 00:17:33,000 --> 00:17:34,000 Bye. 336 00:17:34,000 --> 00:17:40,000 We're back in the shop and you've moved on from the conversation. 337 00:17:40,000 --> 00:17:47,000 Alydin, you're busy unloading some boxes that Bizard has you working on. 338 00:17:47,000 --> 00:17:58,000 And Bizard clock chimes on the far wall and your focus turns to it. 339 00:17:58,000 --> 00:18:08,000 And we find ourselves the night before down in the basement of the casino. 340 00:18:08,000 --> 00:18:15,000 You just entering through the door and you hear a bell of a of a game being played. 341 00:18:15,000 --> 00:18:23,000 Somebody has just won something big that that transitions into the door shuts behind you. 342 00:18:23,000 --> 00:18:37,000 Before you is a large oak desk in the middle of this rather luxurious space and a tall leather chair with a figure sitting there. 343 00:18:37,000 --> 00:18:47,000 He's got his back turned to you and there's a glowing red aura coming up from the other side. 344 00:18:47,000 --> 00:19:01,000 There's a puff of smoke as a large hand comes down over the arm of the chair and in it is a rather fat cigar that as you watch it, 345 00:19:02,000 --> 00:19:11,000 you see the ember of the end of the cigar illuminate more as if somebody's lighting it. 346 00:19:11,000 --> 00:19:15,000 Nothing and there's no no ignition source near it. 347 00:19:15,000 --> 00:19:19,000 It's just being held in this person's hand. 348 00:19:19,000 --> 00:19:27,000 Then a deep booming voice echoes out still hasn't turned around. 349 00:19:28,000 --> 00:19:34,000 So, Bizard, you want to make a move on the mayor? 350 00:19:34,000 --> 00:19:38,000 You've heard correctly. 351 00:19:38,000 --> 00:19:40,000 Have a seat. 352 00:19:40,000 --> 00:19:44,000 You see in front of you there are two chairs. 353 00:19:44,000 --> 00:19:46,000 I sit on the left chair. 354 00:19:46,000 --> 00:19:51,000 Oh, that's the one with the trap door and the alligators in the pit. 355 00:19:51,000 --> 00:20:00,000 You sit down and the cigar goes back behind the chair and a big plume of smoke again. 356 00:20:00,000 --> 00:20:04,000 What's your issue with the current leadership? 357 00:20:04,000 --> 00:20:11,000 To put it bluntly, they're bad at business. 358 00:20:11,000 --> 00:20:15,000 From my side, I get left alone. 359 00:20:15,000 --> 00:20:18,000 I get a little kickback. 360 00:20:18,000 --> 00:20:21,000 Business is good for me. 361 00:20:21,000 --> 00:20:28,000 A disruption in that could could change my business. 362 00:20:28,000 --> 00:20:36,000 It's interesting. If you're getting a kickback, then I assume Nina would be the one giving you that kickback, correct? 363 00:20:36,000 --> 00:20:39,000 Yeah, I see Nina every now and again. 364 00:20:39,000 --> 00:20:44,000 It's more to keep us happy. 365 00:20:44,000 --> 00:20:49,000 If we're happy, mayors happy. 366 00:20:49,000 --> 00:20:52,000 Right. 367 00:20:52,000 --> 00:21:00,000 Well, I'll have to admit there's not quite a lot I know about your operation in conjunction with the current office. 368 00:21:00,000 --> 00:21:15,000 But I assume that there has to be some form of a gap that you would like to see filled, something that you've had to make some kind of compromise, I imagine. 369 00:21:15,000 --> 00:21:26,000 But what if that compromise no longer had to be made by ousting the current political figure? 370 00:21:26,000 --> 00:21:29,000 You're not wrong. 371 00:21:29,000 --> 00:21:32,000 You're not wrong. 372 00:21:32,000 --> 00:21:40,000 There's a certain entitlement that comes on that side of the river. I'm sure you know what I'm talking about. 373 00:21:40,000 --> 00:21:45,000 Yes, become familiar with it. 374 00:21:45,000 --> 00:21:51,000 It's a long pause. 375 00:21:51,000 --> 00:21:54,000 You're in tight with them, aren't you? 376 00:21:54,000 --> 00:22:00,000 Yeah, I'm one of the mayor's advisors. 377 00:22:00,000 --> 00:22:10,000 As far as that goes, it is something I do for my own benefit and not truly for the benefit of the office. 378 00:22:10,000 --> 00:22:16,000 Stroking egos, if you will. I've had to do it a lot in my life. 379 00:22:16,000 --> 00:22:20,000 You know, I'd be lying if I said I wouldn't be doing it sort of right now. 380 00:22:20,000 --> 00:22:31,000 However, I feel like I need to stroke the ego of the person that can best serve me and, well, the people who have taken care of me and, well, I mean, the rest of the town, truly. 381 00:22:31,000 --> 00:22:42,000 Obviously the ego I've been stroking for going on almost a decade, I would imagine, hasn't quite panned out the way I expect it to. 382 00:22:42,000 --> 00:22:44,000 Well, Mr. Wizard. 383 00:22:44,000 --> 00:22:47,000 Please, Mr. Wizard is my father. Call me Bizard. 384 00:22:47,000 --> 00:23:07,000 There's a substantial issue if what you wish for, somebody were to enact a series of events and those events don't go entirely correctly and anything comes back to me. 385 00:23:07,000 --> 00:23:18,000 The protections that I have on this side of the city might disappear. 386 00:23:18,000 --> 00:23:28,000 How far are you willing to go? 387 00:23:28,000 --> 00:23:31,000 Because don't get me wrong. 388 00:23:31,000 --> 00:23:34,000 I want what's best for the city. 389 00:23:34,000 --> 00:23:39,000 This fucker up in City Hall, he isn't the best for anybody. 390 00:23:39,000 --> 00:23:44,000 Yeah, he's fucking it up for the people that's in the streets. 391 00:23:44,000 --> 00:23:49,000 As far as I would go, how far would I go? 392 00:23:49,000 --> 00:23:58,000 I mean, certainly the cost of learning magic in and of itself has been a sacrifice, so what's one more thing? 393 00:23:58,000 --> 00:24:06,000 If a fall guy is what you're asking for, then a fall guy you shall have. 394 00:24:06,000 --> 00:24:11,000 But I'm the only one who can fall. 395 00:24:11,000 --> 00:24:20,000 No one else, regardless of what they may know or what they may have done aiding me. 396 00:24:20,000 --> 00:24:30,000 Because I will rally support, I will rally help from the other business owners, from people I have become acquainted with and made friends with. 397 00:24:30,000 --> 00:24:39,000 I will be your fall guy if you make sure that I'm the only one who takes that plunge. 398 00:24:39,000 --> 00:24:43,000 It's very noble of you. 399 00:24:43,000 --> 00:24:49,000 You hear the sound of a drawer, and you can kind of see a little bit around. 400 00:24:49,000 --> 00:24:54,000 It's reaching to a unit on the other side of the wall there. 401 00:24:54,000 --> 00:25:01,000 Can't see what he pulls up, but then the drawer slides closed. 402 00:25:01,000 --> 00:25:07,000 The chair swivels around. 403 00:25:08,000 --> 00:25:12,000 As the camera, we don't see the figure still. 404 00:25:12,000 --> 00:25:22,000 We just see Bizarre seated in his chair, now illuminated by this glowing red-orange light. 405 00:25:22,000 --> 00:25:34,000 And a large gray hand slides a velvet pouch across the table towards you. 406 00:25:34,000 --> 00:25:40,000 It lets it go and lets it linger there. 407 00:25:40,000 --> 00:25:42,000 I reach out and take it. 408 00:25:42,000 --> 00:25:45,000 That's the answer. 409 00:25:45,000 --> 00:25:51,000 You do that, I can put any number of things into play. 410 00:25:51,000 --> 00:25:57,000 I kind of open it for a second and rifle through. 411 00:25:57,000 --> 00:26:02,000 Oh, that's, that's big, that's big crime. 412 00:26:02,000 --> 00:26:07,000 Ok, ok, oh. 413 00:26:07,000 --> 00:26:11,000 Alright, um. 414 00:26:11,000 --> 00:26:14,000 Any, any clarifications you'd like, you'd like to make? 415 00:26:14,000 --> 00:26:16,000 I mean, that's just the first page. 416 00:26:16,000 --> 00:26:20,000 Uh, ok. 417 00:26:20,000 --> 00:26:23,000 Everything is outlined. 418 00:26:23,000 --> 00:26:27,000 Oh, except for this. 419 00:26:27,000 --> 00:26:35,000 On the card you see this man, Kenny, reach into a breast pocket and this jacket he's wearing. 420 00:26:35,000 --> 00:26:39,000 Puts down a small glass vial that appears to have a liquid in it. 421 00:26:39,000 --> 00:26:54,000 Uh, is that, is that meant if things go wrong for me or if things go right for Knops? 422 00:26:54,000 --> 00:26:56,000 I'll figure out what to do with it, I guess, huh? 423 00:26:56,000 --> 00:27:02,000 Just silently stares at you and just nods. 424 00:27:02,000 --> 00:27:06,000 Yeah, yeah. 425 00:27:06,000 --> 00:27:08,000 I'll be in touch in a couple days. 426 00:27:08,000 --> 00:27:14,000 He turns his chair back around and see him reach for another cigar. 427 00:27:14,000 --> 00:27:22,000 I, uh, stand up and I say, well, uh, Mr. Flames, it's, hopefully it'll be a pleasure doing business with you. 428 00:27:22,000 --> 00:27:29,000 Uh, and I cast control flame to bring a light over from a candle and light a cigar as I walk out. 429 00:27:29,000 --> 00:27:34,000 You're a chuckle as you shut the door behind you. 430 00:27:34,000 --> 00:27:41,000 The echoing din of the casino rings back into your ears and we flash back to the store. 431 00:27:41,000 --> 00:27:47,000 Alydin looking up at you with an empty box in her hand. 432 00:27:47,000 --> 00:27:49,000 Are you ok? 433 00:27:49,000 --> 00:27:51,000 Hmm. 434 00:27:51,000 --> 00:27:56,000 Uh, yeah, yeah, um, you've finished unpacking that. 435 00:27:56,000 --> 00:27:58,000 Ok, uh, what time is it? 436 00:27:58,000 --> 00:28:03,000 You've been standing there for like a long time looking at the clock and stuff and just kind of like you're frozen. 437 00:28:03,000 --> 00:28:07,000 And then that reminded me of this one guy who stayed with us for a little while. 438 00:28:07,000 --> 00:28:10,000 His name, it doesn't matter what his name was. 439 00:28:10,000 --> 00:28:12,000 You'll probably never meet him again anyway. 440 00:28:12,000 --> 00:28:16,000 Um, but this guy used to just kind of like turn off. 441 00:28:16,000 --> 00:28:20,000 Like, he'd be like, ooo, and then he would be gone for like 20 minutes. 442 00:28:20,000 --> 00:28:22,000 I thought that was happening. 443 00:28:22,000 --> 00:28:24,000 I thought you had what he has. 444 00:28:24,000 --> 00:28:29,000 Um, are you talking about narcolepsy? 445 00:28:29,000 --> 00:28:33,000 I don't think it had anything to do with dead people. 446 00:28:39,000 --> 00:28:44,000 Dumbgeons and Dragons Season 3 Episode 22 starring Amy More as Alydin. 447 00:28:44,000 --> 00:28:46,000 Carla Maxted as Bonwyn Everpain. 448 00:28:46,000 --> 00:28:48,000 Tom Laird as Kavlaran Goldweave. 449 00:28:48,000 --> 00:28:51,000 Kyle Claset as Bizard the Wizard. 450 00:28:51,000 --> 00:28:53,000 And Russ More as your Dungeon Master. 451 00:28:53,000 --> 00:28:57,000 Dialogue Editing by Carla Maxted and Sound Design by Russ More. 452 00:28:57,000 --> 00:29:01,000 This episode featured music from Epidemic Sound and Slipstream. 453 00:29:01,000 --> 00:29:05,000 And sound effects from Epidemic Sound, Boom Library, and Sound Ideas. 454 00:29:05,000 --> 00:29:09,000 Our amazing cover art and character designs are by Matt Garbutt. 455 00:29:09,000 --> 00:29:11,000 And a huge thank you to our supporting producers. 456 00:29:11,000 --> 00:29:16,000 Gabriel Lynch, Jessica Babiak, Kat Waterflame, Jacob Madden, Christian Brown, 457 00:29:16,000 --> 00:29:20,000 Ongeron Kiersen, Perry Matey, Craig Zeiss, Old School Gamer D, 458 00:29:20,000 --> 00:29:24,000 L.A. 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We'll talk to you soon. 468 00:29:56,000 --> 00:30:00,000 We hear the sound of the bell at the Magic Closet as a customer leaves. 469 00:30:00,000 --> 00:30:03,000 And Bizard, you're standing behind the desk, 470 00:30:03,000 --> 00:30:07,000 putting the money into the register that you just earned from this transaction. 471 00:30:07,000 --> 00:30:10,000 Can you just explain stored? 472 00:30:13,000 --> 00:30:15,000 Customer leaves. 473 00:30:15,000 --> 00:30:17,000 Did Amy have an edible tonight? 474 00:30:17,000 --> 00:30:19,000 What's going on? 475 00:30:19,000 --> 00:30:21,000 There's no way it's kicked in yet though. 476 00:30:21,000 --> 00:30:23,000 I don't know, my friend. 477 00:30:23,000 --> 00:30:27,000 You're a little extra silly right now. 478 00:30:27,000 --> 00:30:31,000 What you just described, like a shopping experience. 479 00:30:31,000 --> 00:30:33,000 I'm going to do better. 480 00:30:33,000 --> 00:30:35,000 He's going to do it exactly the same. 481 00:30:35,000 --> 00:30:38,000 There's a jingle at the door again. Not even. 482 00:30:38,000 --> 00:30:41,000 Don't want to jingle the door too much. 483 00:30:41,000 --> 00:30:43,000 It's really a mimic. 484 00:30:43,000 --> 00:30:46,000 How much can I be making here? 485 00:30:46,000 --> 00:30:49,000 Dumbgeons and Dragons is a Dumb Dragons production.