Prepare yourselves for the season finale.
Dumbgeons and Dragons will begin in a moment.
We're at the fountain at the foot of City Hall and the four of you after wing night
and maybe a couple more oatmeal stouts and whatever other beverages you have prepared.
A slight beer for the evening.
Nothing heavy at all.
Yeah, ready for a caper.
Perfect.
Find yourselves ready to go break into some drawers.
What does everybody look like?
And maybe have you done preparations?
Have you just left the bar?
Let's check in.
Starting with Kav, who is the leader of this.
Kav's still wearing his work tunic and pants.
And he's got his messenger style bag, a little cloak over one arm.
And just like really feeling it on the way back to City Hall.
Well, you're supposed to be there, right?
Like that's true.
Maybe you forgot something at work.
Exactly.
Maybe you're sneaking back to do some paperwork.
Who knows?
Maybe.
That's right.
Alladin.
I only have like one set of clothes, so I'm wearing what I'm wearing.
But I have covered my my bucket in like I've taken like some some coal
and some ash from a fire pit and just kind of like took the shine off of it.
Perfect.
You know, don't want to be too conspicuous.
Bizarre, you are or maybe have or are in the process of casting a spell,
which is really in the previous episode was part of this whole plan working.
How do we find you at this moment?
I'm going to say I probably just like dipped into a dark alley
and come back out as Nina say,
oh, yes, darling, this is how we are going to get into the City Hall.
No problem.
Roll a performance check to see how believable it is to everybody else.
Oh, man.
Fuck, yeah, I'm actually good at these.
There you go.
Oh, my God, y'all.
That's a fucking Nat 20 for a 26.
Oh, my God.
Doesn't matter what it sounds like to your ears.
This is perfect.
Nina, like nailed it.
Absolutely.
So you look like Nina walking out of the walking out of the alleyway.
And then Bonwyn, obviously Kavlaran's leading this,
but you have the most skill in this sense.
What is your attire going into this caper?
I mean, I think I generally always just am wearing like my work clothes.
I've made sure to kind of make sure anything jingly jangly is
like secured, even though, again, we're kind of just like walking in.
Yeah.
I don't need to be dressed like a cat burglar, but still just want
to make sure I can be quiet and sneaky.
Also, for one second there, when Nina walked out,
there was a moment when I was like, oh, fuck.
Oh, no, oh, it's fine.
Right.
OK.
Too many stouts.
Not a lot of magic.
Yeah.
In my day to day.
So this is some pretty dope shit.
Oh, yeah, Alydin is just sitting there like, oh, it worked.
I break for a second.
No, it's me bizarre.
You're good.
I mean, you are good, darling.
You're good.
It's crazy.
Unbelievable.
And Kav is like pretty nonplus with it.
He's seen it before.
But like, yeah, he admits it's well done.
And we're like the same height.
So I kind of like, I don't know,
tug on your shirt sleeve and bring you a little closer.
And I go, is this going to hurt you?
It already kind of has.
One of those things where you have to shrink your bones.
Dumbgeons and Dragons is a D&D fifth edition actual play
podcast.
And I'm your dungeon master Russ More, he him.
Also with me today is Amy More as Alydin, she her.
Auntie Nina, did you move offices?
Carla Maxstead as Bonwyn Everbane, she her.
Plus, it makes me think there's something good in here.
Because why would you do that?
Tom Laird as Kavlaran Goldweave, he him.
You know what, I could get one done tonight for sure.
And Kyle Claset as Bizard the Wizard, he him.
Prop the ownership here, and then business ownership
over here.
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And now fuck it, let's play.
You're walking up the steps to City Hall
and the doors open and we see the four of you
slow motion like hero walking into the place.
And as you are looking around, obviously Kavlaran
Bizarre, I would place you at the front
because you know where you're going.
We interrupt this cool guy walk as a security guard
pops up in front of you and says,
oh, what are you doing here?
Nina, is that you?
Yes, darling, who else did you expect?
Well, it's after hours.
I didn't expect anybody to be coming in tonight.
Which means it must be fucking important
for me to be here, so get out of the way.
Of course, I just have to go.
Just let the supervisor know that you're here
and then you're free to go, okay?
If you could just come sign in as well
and then we'll make sure everything's all ready.
There's a supervisor here as well.
You don't just take the note at night.
No, there's a couple of us.
One of us, he's doing the rounds right now
and I was just watching the front, okay?
If you could just come sign in,
just make sure it's all, everything's fine.
Kav, you too, and you've got friends here.
There's usually no visiting after hours,
but do you know Bonwyn at all?
Oh, yeah, hey, Bonwyn, good to see you.
Hey, how are you?
Great, you're right.
Leonard, you?
I know, how's your sister?
Oh, she's great, yeah, absolutely.
Oh, she's doing good in Kingstown.
I haven't seen her in so long.
She is, she's been, she got into all the arts
and crafts and was like, really,
everybody has one in town here,
so I had to go to the other city to see some more.
As they're chatting, I pull on Nina's sleeve
and I go, Auntie Nina, Auntie Nina,
aren't you gonna show me your office?
Is it true you can fire anybody?
Make a group, either performance or deception check,
whichever you prefer or whichever feels most appropriate
for how your character is acting.
18. Deception.
I'm just talking to my friend, Leonard.
You're doing great.
Do you really need to perform?
Yeah, you don't have to perform.
You're not lying.
I think you're probably just like, actually,
it's genuine.
How's your sister? I genuinely know, Leonard.
I'm genuinely curious about his sister.
Well, that's a five.
Put him a child who listens to me anyway.
That's two out of three successes, so that works.
He kind of looks over as Alydin starts
loudly talking to Nina and is, you know what?
I'll fill it out.
You go ahead.
I'll let Pip know that you're wandering around
and just be quick, okay?
And thank you.
Good to see you.
Good to see you, Bonwyn.
And he heads over to the front desk.
Yeah, yeah, say hi to Millie for me.
So good to see you.
Did I say we didn't sign in?
We totally did, actually, already.
And I am casting a spell called Gift of Gab.
I pretty much reshaped the memories of listeners
in the immediate area so that they forget everything
that was said in the last six seconds
and then they believe the verbal component,
which is me saying, I did actually sign us all in.
Okay, okay, is there any check or anything for that
or it just happens?
No, it just happens.
And it's a reaction when you take,
when you speak to another creature.
This is a real, these are not the droids
you're looking for situation.
Totally.
Yeah, then absolutely.
Oh yeah, of course, nevermind.
You're good to go.
Well, yeah, great to see you.
Have fun.
He leans down to Alydin.
Have fun looking around.
City Hall is a magical place.
It sure seems so, sir.
Right.
Yes, Alydin, so bureaucracy, let's go.
Making your way down the first hall,
you round a corner and Amy,
what do you see in front of you?
An intern memorial wall.
Poor business practices all over the place.
Alydin Seas is a hallway filled with portraits
of past mayors.
All very ornate.
It's even for a child, she's like, that's too much.
Like that's, it's way too much.
And midway through this hallway,
they have a water fountain, a drinking fountain
that is a basin that just has some free flowing water,
not unlike the gold one that is outside the building,
but kind of a miniature version in here.
And like she could not help herself.
She kind of skips over and goes,
look, it's water inside.
And like, that's a drink from the fountain.
Alydin, you run over to the water fountain.
Everybody kind of stops for a moment.
Everybody make perception check
as you're standing in this hall.
Me too.
Yeah, you with disadvantage
because you're drinking water.
Eight. I feel like it's disadvantage
just because I'm rolling it.
Am I already not disadvantaged?
Just your natural disadvantage.
Yeah, well, I rolled a nine and a 17, so a nine.
Oh.
What's Cav got there?
11 was my worst.
Okay, great.
Everything seems to be going just fine
as Alydin drinks water
and you begin to move back down the hallway.
You round a couple more corners.
Every now and again, Nina giving a,
or Nina giving a little commentary
on the rooms you're passing,
just in case one of the guard happens to be
up and around the corner.
Yes, so property ownership here
and then there is the business ownership over here.
As you're making your way down to Nina's office
down this last corridor,
you see up ahead something that catches your eye.
Carla, what do you see?
I think I see the aforementioned kitchen
where the donuts are and it's ridiculous.
There's an espresso machine.
There's a bubbly water thing.
There's fridges full of stuff.
Nothing is, these aren't vending machines.
This is just, this is just free for staff.
All kinds of snacks, like a whole little
like airport style vestibule shop of snacks,
but just for staff, which is, you know,
I'm not going hungry, but come on guys.
Exactly.
For those playing the home game,
Amy just raised her hand for Alydin.
Yeah, like there's a whole slew of
underfed people on this town.
Not that I begrudge people, free snacks at work,
but this is just, it's too much.
This is very much situational.
Yeah, and wrong.
Pull up your character sheet.
You're going to make a check here
to see if you can resist the snacks.
I mean, I don't know if I could.
You're a starving kid on the street.
Shiny apples, bananas, like just-
This food is kept cold.
Yeah.
Somehow, like.
I mean, I feel like survival is the check to make there.
Would you-
It's a lot of instincts.
So rolling us, for Alydin specifically,
rolling a successful survival check
would be me running and getting snacks.
Would be you running and getting snacks, yep.
Watch Nat 20, here it comes.
Totally, this is Amy's best roll.
No, no, it's a three, so just regular.
Plus two, a five.
I'm tugging on Baldwin's sleeve like,
look, look, look at all the food.
I know.
Look at all the food.
I know.
Maybe just see what looks good
and we'll go get it tomorrow.
I want you to have these things, but like.
Do they know how many there are?
If I take one, will they know?
I don't know.
Honestly, I didn't expect it to be like this.
I've only been in City Hall to get my business license
and pay my taxes.
I haven't been back here.
Maybe on the way out?
Maybe on the way out.
Honestly, I kind of want to swipe something.
After I saw those gold ornate frames,
everything in here is so ostentatious.
I hate it.
Filled with hope.
Out of Nina's voice, I kind of lay down and say,
you should totally take something.
They really just garner how much was there
versus the last day and if they need to order more,
they kind of just fill it in as a need by basis.
They don't actually keep track
of the inventory in that manner.
So yeah, we can take some on the way out, for sure.
Yeah, on the way out.
I don't want it to weigh me down.
Yeah, good thinking.
Because I'm going to fill this bucket.
Yeah.
The three adults in the situation continue walking
and we see Alydin just longingly looking
at the slow walk right past the kitchen door
until one of you reaches back and there's just a yoink.
And you make your way down to the end of this hall
and there's a sign up on the wall
that says Mayoral Assistant Nina C. Madonna.
You go to open the door.
Who goes to open the door?
Nina.
Nina, obviously.
Good call.
Nina goes to open the door and it is locked.
Yes, I seem to have forgotten my keys.
That's okay because we're not moving around.
I don't know what I'm doing.
That's amazing.
It's good to just stay in character.
The thing was locked and then just four sets of dead eyes
like, well, what the fuck do we do now?
Shit, it's locked, turn around.
I'm going home, get the canoe on the way out.
We couldn't have anticipated this.
I will use my thief's tools to try to open the door.
Please do, sleight of hand.
You fucking problem solver is what you are.
That is a 14.
Yeah, you bend down and quickly move.
I don't bend down.
I'm very short. You're the same height.
You reach your tools and you hear a click
and the door unlocks and creaks open
into a very stark and empty space.
This isn't what I thought her office would look like.
This isn't what her office looks like.
There's usually a large desk in her office.
Again, there should be some drawers, isn't there?
Auntie Nina, did you move offices?
No, I do not believe I did.
You hear footsteps down at the far end of the hallway.
Sounds like heavy, two sets of footsteps.
You don't see them yet,
but you hear them coming from down the corridors.
Do I recognize my friend Leonard's voice?
You don't hear a voice.
Is there anywhere to be like out of sight?
There's in this room, there's back in the kitchen
and there is another door, which you know is a staircase
that would go up to the next floor.
I mean, we've got Nina with us.
We don't need to act sneaky.
True.
Unless this is Nina,
but maybe your niece wants some snacks, Nina.
Why don't we go get some snacks?
Yeah.
Auntie, I'm so hungry.
Let's double back to that kitchen.
Absolutely.
Head back down to the kitchen.
You get in there.
Alydin, you are at this point.
Welcome to dive into all of the food that's in there.
Oh, I'm filling my bucket, literally.
And the footsteps are getting louder
and they're coming towards your location.
And as you are all making small talk,
trying to look nonchAlydint,
around the corner you see Leonard and another guard
who only if you don't know him,
well, three of you would probably know him
because you worked there, would be Pip,
the head security guard for tonight.
Is everything okay down here?
We heard, yeah, we just heard one of the alarms go off
and just wanted to make sure that everything was okay.
We're just getting some snacks.
Oh, okay.
I didn't know that Auntie Nina worked in a place
that had so much food.
You guys are the coolest.
Well.
I wanna work here when I'm older.
My mouth is full of food.
It is quite good.
Okay, well, we'll just go down and reset the alarm
on your door there, no problem.
And be on our way.
Yeah, that's weird.
Did you go into your office down at the end there?
Leonard goes and heads down to check the door.
I nod my head with the food in my mouth.
Auntie Nina said that it was unlocked
and then she said something about
incompetent ass hats not locking up
and then I, was I not supposed to say that?
Make a, make an intimidation role, Alydin.
Could be supported with assistance
by Kyle being Nina here, so with advantage.
Fucking need advantage.
God damn it, 12?
Sure.
Yeah, he looks to Nina who's stuffing their face.
Do you give like a look to support this, Kyle?
Yeah, big time.
Okay, cool.
He's like pointing like.
The eyebrow is up.
Okay, we'll go make sure that everything's reset
and you just have a great night, everybody.
Eat up.
Not necessary, no.
No, don't reset, okay.
Okay, well we'll just go deactivate
and then leave it and you can reset it on your way out.
Appreciate it.
Thank you, darling.
He goes down to check on Leonard
and then after a brief moment,
the two of them come back and say,
all right, have a good night.
We'll see you on your way out.
Bye, misters.
As you hear their footsteps getting farther
in the distance,
you can go back down to the office if you would like
or what you thought was the office anyways.
Yeah.
You go back down there and now when you look in,
the room has Gwenda Laveer's desk inside of it.
There is a chair and a small desk
and Bizard, you get the desk,
which is odd because right now you would probably
be the one to do this for Nina
and it's not coming to mind
but you have the feeling some enchantment
or illusion was placed upon the room.
Huh, that's very odd.
We'll be right back.
It's the middle.
Welcome to the middle of this season finale,
season three finale.
It's all coming to an end.
Should we sing old Lang Syne or something?
Yeah, I feel like today there's a very in the air,
like everything's wrapping up.
Should, oh, no, no.
Not really.
No, it doesn't.
It's not really how, spoiler alert,
we're coming back with these characters next season.
So cat's out of the bag.
But yeah, this is, I love this episode.
It's very silly.
It's a nice end to the season.
I mean, the whole season has been great.
You know, we made it just so we could introduce
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and all that sort of stuff.
But going out on this little caper is wonderful.
And then when you keep listening,
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More's gonna happen next season.
More's gonna happen, yeah.
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Yeah, so we're still figuring those out,
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Yes.
Yeah, so we'll get to know some of the other people
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That's very odd.
Who did this?
Okay.
Well, other magic users seem to be abound
because I didn't set this up.
So that was like a magic trick.
It just looked like it was empty,
but it's not empty.
Yeah, no, it's 100% not empty.
I didn't do this.
I mean, you know, the arcane locks.
I should have thought about that, but.
So what do we do now?
I mean.
Well, it's tripped now, right?
It is like a trap, but now it's tripped
so we can go in now.
But like the tripped trap is already tripped.
What if there's another trap
waiting to be tripped inside?
Alydin is just sitting there like
eyes going back and forth between all of them
and being like, I don't know what the hell is going on.
I say we just keep tripping the traps.
Well, they already know we're here, right?
So like.
They already know we're here.
It'd be super weird if you brought your niece
on a tour and you didn't bring her to your office.
That would be weird.
Auntie Nina. That's true.
All right, yeah, let's do it.
Plus it makes me think there's something good in here
because why would she do that if there was nothing?
If it's just an administrative office,
why would you need a trick?
Kavlarne, do you have a super important job
where you need to have some magic on your door?
Absolutely not.
It definitely means there's something to hide
rather than something to keep secure.
All right, I'll show you that cabinet.
We may be getting there.
You go into this first office area
and make your way to the door, Kavlarne.
You reach for the handle and it is unlocked
and swings open.
See, that's the first door I was expecting.
It's the door within the door.
Why can't we?
Oh, well.
Can't even barely open this.
You'll see.
Is it another magic thing?
You kind of just have to kind of scooch on through.
Okay, I'm not really built for scooching, but okay.
Everybody scooches in, I guess.
Who goes first, Kavlarne?
Sure, yeah.
Kavlarne.
Nina will follow.
Kavlarne scooches in followed by Bazaar Nina
and Kavlarne, you are climbing up onto the desk
to make room and Bonwyn, you and Alydin,
as you enter, you see that this room,
the majority of it is filled with a massive desk,
hence the lack of ability to open the door
and everybody just kind of scooching in around you.
Okay, how does she work like this?
I don't know, but apparently she's great at her job.
You can throw chickens across this desk.
You really could.
Absolutely.
Very true.
Bonwyn, it's that one right there
and the two bottom drawers on it
are the ones with the locks on it.
Okay.
I assume now I have my hands in the air
and I'm scooching around the side to fit.
Thank goodness Kav just climbed right up on the desk,
so he's not in the way anymore.
Eliminate that problem.
Yeah, because assuming the filing cabinet
is like the opposite, like kitty corner,
diagonally across from the door we just came in.
On the opposite wall there,
so you would have to go to the other side, but yeah.
No checks necessary to get around.
You can get to the cabinet.
So these ones aren't locked, these top ones, they're?
Yeah, the top three, they just have like
personnel files and that sort of thing in it.
Did you read any?
I mean, I may be dipped into Oak's fun fact
because mom is barred from City Hall.
Oh my God, I'm so not surprised
she was banned from our high school too.
No.
Oak, some things never change.
Next time we do boys night, I'm getting the full story.
Oh my goodness, she's a lovely woman,
but oh boy, does love her son.
Does really love her son.
Okay, I am going to try to open
the second from the bottom drawer.
Okay.
I pull out my thieves tools
and I'm about to just like dig in there
and then I think,
well, maybe this is better.
Investigation.
Oh, Nat 20 plus four.
Oh shit, what's up?
Fuck it, I know the model and serial number
of this filing cabinet.
So with a Nat 20, I'll give you both locks.
The top one, you are examining it
and there is a small hole,
which to you, having done a lot of metal work
and that sort of thing,
have worked with locks on your own projects.
There's a small hole which doesn't seem
to be connected or important
to the actual locking mechanism.
And on the bottom one,
there is like,
there's a very subtle vibration
coming from the actual lock itself.
Like not as you're approaching it,
you don't really sense it
and as you're kind of fumbling around
with your tools, you don't really sense it,
but it's once you kind of stop
and take a moment,
like there's just a slight hum sound
that's coming from it.
Okay, this doesn't make any sense,
but this is what I want to try to do.
Especially with that bottom one that's buzzing,
is from my pouch, pull out a magnet
and like run the magnet over it
and see if that,
I'm trying to decouse it.
Sure.
It's like what I'm,
that's what Carla's thinking,
but like see if I can disrupt the flow
of whatever is vibrating.
Sure, yeah.
Cause I don't know how magic works.
No, you don't.
So you put the,
so you have a magnet on your person,
you are, you run it past.
Like there's a slight pull as you,
as it moves past,
but then you see,
and bizarre as you're kind of stepping in,
as you're seeing kind of,
there's something funky happening here.
You see this electric shock
that shoots out of the lower lock towards the magnet,
which gives you Bonwyn,
more than a static shock,
it causes you to drop the magnet on the floor.
Kind of recoil.
Ouch.
Ooh.
What do you,
do you know what's causing that?
Ooh, hard to say without seeing the inside of it,
but some form of,
some form of enchantment placed upon it.
So I don't,
don't have a way to dispel this though.
Okay.
Well, related question.
The one above,
see this little hole?
What's that about do you think?
Is it gonna shoot gas in my face
or an arrow or something?
Could be,
or possibly maybe it's the actual keyhole
and the keyhole is a ruse.
And just cause I already had the magnet,
I'm also just gonna magnet the top,
cause why not?
Yeah, it's,
see if that does anything.
Magnet the top one,
it sticks as you would presume
it would stick to a metal lock.
I'm gonna search under desk
for something that might be the exact diameter
of that hole.
Like maybe something very inconspicuous
that would be on a desk that,
once you look at it,
you're like, okay, let's go.
Sure, make an investigation roll please.
Sick.
That's a 14.
Okay.
Can I also crawl under the desk
and investigate too?
Sure, you roll a separate investigation.
So searching around on the top of the desk.
Searching around to the top of the desk,
there's like stacks of papers that you see,
there's a big notepad in the center
that doesn't have anything really
of any importance mentioned in it.
You pull open the center drawer
and there's a series of pencils and quills.
You don't see anything that looks like,
like she's got hair pins,
there are thumb tacks,
there are push pins,
like a sewing needle.
So a couple things that would,
that could fit in there,
but nothing that looks like a locking mechanism device.
Well, going back to the other idea
of it being some kind of gas emitter,
is there, you know,
and I look around for,
since it's a windowless room,
I'm gonna look for a candle.
Yes, so there are two sconces on the wall,
both that have candles set in them
that are half burned down at this point.
I'm gonna light one real quick,
get some like, you know,
semi-melted wax, ball it up,
and shove it in that hole.
Okay.
So you do that,
stuff that little hole with wax.
Okay, now I'll try and open it.
Okay, a sleight of hand, please.
14.
You get to work and same as the door,
you feel the locking mechanism catch,
and as it catches,
you feel something else inside the lock catch.
Give me a dexterity saving throw.
Oh, nat 20 again.
Okay.
So be it-
Plus six, 26.
Be it the, that's very good.
So be it your attention is heightened a little bit
after being shocked,
plus the addition of the wax,
you pull your hands back as that happens,
and this needle shoots out of that little hole,
slow at first as it works through the wax,
and then propels itself through the wax
that Bazaar has placed there.
But I get out of the way in time.
Yeah, you do.
You are fine, yeah.
Sweet.
Then does the drawer open?
Then, yeah, you sensed that it unlocked,
so now if you so desire,
you could open the mechanism and pull the drawer open.
Well, a flying needle is rude.
How does she open her own drawer?
That's a great question.
The key itself would keep the needle
from coming out, darling.
Oh, oh, sure, of course.
That's what she would say.
I'm gonna pull open the drawer.
Okay, drawer slides open,
and everybody's kinda crowded around Bonwyn.
Inside is, I mean, I don't know how exciting
you want me to make the description of books are,
but there are several ledgers inside of this.
You know what, let Kavlaran describe
how excited he is to see these books, right?
Because I look in, Alydin is just like,
yeah, those are books.
I bet Kavlaran has a different feeling.
Kavlaran has never been so happy
as to see nondescript, plain ledger-type books.
And that's exactly what they are.
There's nothing inherently special about these.
They're not a special color.
They're just plain beige, large ledger books.
Three of them stacked on top of each other
inside of this drawer.
Guys, I think we just found the good stuff.
Nice. The raw ones?
The raw ones, exactly.
Kav touches his nose.
So are you gonna grab them?
I mean, yeah, just gonna flip one open
and take a little look-see, Russ.
Pull it out and flip it open,
and there are extensive entries on money,
tax dollars, investments, payments
from different organizations,
all coming in to and out of the mayoral office.
Is there like a tab system
and one might say like fraud on it?
It doesn't say-
Some people don't look for the obvious.
Extortion.
Obvious, okay.
It has-
Misappropriated funds.
It has single letter tabs down the side,
and they happen to be F-R-A-U-D
as the different sections.
So I mean, in a sense, that's what it is.
Perhaps it was an oversight.
Perhaps they knew exactly what they were doing.
It's too early to tell.
Subconsciously.
Yeah, it's too.
Yeah.
But yes, it appears to you
that these books are what you have been looking for.
Okay, this should be,
I mean, I'm gonna have to take a closer look at it,
but this should be everything we need.
Amazing.
I wanna pull out that drawer.
Okay.
To see if I can get to the one behind.
Okay.
Circumventing whatever the thing is on it.
Okay, so you pull out the drawer,
and before it,
I'm a jackass.
We all die.
Before it reaches the end
to where you'd be able to,
like, k-k-k-k, the drawer,
it hits the desk behind you.
You hit the desk,
and there's no room to pull it completely out.
Of course.
Bonwyn, it might be good to look
if there's a way to reset that needle,
just so we can get this back into the-
You're so right.
Yeah, great, great thought.
Can somebody, can you,
I can't even reach that.
It's, like, over on the other side of the,
can you, you've got long-
I got it, don't worry.
I'll climb over the desk.
Don't worry about it.
Yeah, you've got good reach
with those arms of yours.
Do you notice any other pinholes?
Like, she set it off by accident,
and there's just, like,
the wall is just filled with-
Poor Gwen Devere.
Just, like, went to go grab something,
so I'm just like, ah!
One thing that was to not describe Gwen Devere
was her eye patch.
That's true, yeah.
Yeah, right?
Classic Gwen Devere.
Her eye patch and her single deflated
breast implant.
Gwen Devere, that, yeah.
So, yeah, I'm gonna see if I can just, like,
put it back in and reset it and close it.
Let's make one more sleight of hand check.
Nah, 25.
Okay.
My god, your rolls are good.
I have not done a really good roll tonight.
Killing it.
Yeah, you are, you're able to reset the,
you're able to reset the needle and the lock itself
and secure it so that it appears as if
you had just walked in there.
I assume you're getting up and,
everybody's leaving now?
We just, I just-
I really wanna try and open that other drawer,
but- I was just gonna say.
But we got what we came for.
It may be good to take our own note
and not be greedy like the government
they're trying to expose.
Touché.
Yeah.
Buzzkill.
I'm-
Party pooper.
Curious as all get out, don't get me wrong.
Well, next time we break into City Hall,
we'll check in-
When will we have this opportunity again?
Next time we won't be breaking in, I hope.
Alydin just looks confused.
Everybody make an investigation roll
as you are resetting the room.
This is not to necessarily find things,
but to make sure it looks like you,
it was when you came in.
We're never there.
God, fuck me.
22.
Rolled a seven, got a plus four, 11.
Okay.
All in all, everything looks as it was
when you came in.
Bonwyn, as you are thinking about
going for that second lock again
with a different way,
you notice that there's a little bit of wax
that you missed on the first cleanup
and you managed to take that with you.
But everybody else, everything looks fine.
You've, from filtering over the desk,
you've put all the papers back
to where you think they were.
Everything appears to be in good order.
I've scrubbed off the boot print off the desk.
Yeah.
Everything looks as it was when you came in.
You reset the doors as you leave.
You, I guess you probably wouldn't be the ones
to reset the room.
You could delegate that to the security guards
on the way out.
We see you leave the office and walk past the kitchen
and then, Alydin, you double back
to grab a whole bunch of food
and pile it in your bucket.
Oh yeah, that bucket's full.
Okay.
And pockets.
You make your way back out the front
and wave to the security guards who say,
oh, tour all over?
Do you think you're gonna be making it
into City Hall when you grow up?
You know what?
I learned so much about how the government runs
and how good it is to be on top.
It really is, isn't it?
Yeah, that's the best place to be.
Yeah, yeah.
Wow.
Well, smart kids these days.
Who needs school, right?
Right?
Yeah.
Exactly, Darius.
Well, you all have a good night.
We'll go reset your office.
No problem.
Have a good night, everybody.
Give them thank yous, bows, and head on our way.
I almost said, love you, bye.
Cause that was, love you, bye.
I mean, maybe you would say that to Leonard.
Maybe.
Quick footsteps now back down to City Hall.
Not trying to be conspicuous,
but moving fast just in case.
And make your way back down to the fountain
where you are, I guess this is the point
where you can go your separate ways,
but a little check in before you do that.
All right, so I've got what I need.
I'm gonna have to go back to Kingstown
and show this to my bosses.
But it shouldn't be long and I'll probably be back,
I don't know, three or four or five days.
It would be best to get out of town
with those while you can.
Absolutely.
Should we like take copies or something?
Why I'm just wondering, cause you know,
if I've learned anything,
it's that you can't trust the people in power.
And what if they assassinate Kavlaran I.
I mean, I hope not.
Kavlaran how long would it take you
to transcribe one of these books into your own?
You know what, I could get one done tonight for sure.
Would that hold up though?
Oh no, I would take the originals with me
and I'd leave you the copy, just so there was something.
They're gonna need to see these ones.
No point in having a copy if you've got the original
as you're taking it where it needs to go.
What if they're taking money from like Kinney and stuff?
You guys know Kinney, right?
From what I saw, it looks like they're taking money
from everyone.
Yeah, but like, what if we were able to look at it all
and then, you know, and then we know some stuff
because it's important to know stuff.
You know when you know something about somebody
and they don't want anybody else to know that thing,
right?
So they might be more likely to do the thing
that you want them to do or something like that
that I heard other people say that I have never done.
I feel like guys, I don't know the whole plan.
Well, cause we're just making it up as we go.
Yeah.
What?
I mean, now we maybe have proof of the corruption.
Perfect.
Now we get proof of the corruption to the authorities.
What if they take it and they don't do anything?
Then we just gave them all of our stuff.
They'll do something.
They can't let this sort of thing,
now that it's going to be public,
like word will get out.
So they will have to react.
Who are the easiest people to fleece?
The people who wouldn't notice something missing.
And who is that?
Mobility.
The nobles.
Let's see if they've been fleecing the nobles
for anything and then if we can get even,
I mean, cause whether they notice it or not,
they do care about their money.
And if he loses the nobles,
then that in and of itself could be,
you know, a good stepping stone.
Now, listen,
I don't know much,
but what I do know is that
you can't trust people with money.
Wait, did you mean that you can't trust people
as in giving them money,
as in I shouldn't give you money anymore,
or you mean people who-
Or the ones who already have money.
No, you can't keep giving me money.
No, that's not what I meant at all.
But I mean like, those guys across the river,
they know that there are kids like me down here.
And just cause you know about something
doesn't mean you're gonna do anything about it.
So I don't know if,
I hope Kavlarin that you're right,
but how do you know that once you give this over
and that's all you got,
that they're gonna do the thing
you hope they're gonna do?
So are you saying we should
just make the information public?
Maybe?
And put them on blast?
Ooh.
Tell the town criers?
I don't know,
but I think that if you were to just tell
some rich people that other rich people
are being jerks,
they'll be like,
okay.
Okay.
And maybe that makes me a cynical 14 year old.
And maybe I'm jaded.
I don't think you're wrong.
Maybe an aggressive poster campaign
with some very pertinent information on it
would go a long way.
We could make posters.
I've got plenty of parchment back at my shop.
I can summon an extra set of hands
to help us kind of scribe things down
if we want to go that route.
That's very forward.
How about this?
Why don't we just sleep on it?
We've got the books.
Cav, maybe if you don't mind,
go look through them.
Get sort of a general sense of
just how bad it is.
And then we can meet up tomorrow morning
and figure out our plan.
To take down the government.
That's right, Alydin.
Kavlarne with books in hand going to review,
everybody going to just take the night,
rest,
and come up with a plan on the next morning.
Everybody goes back to their own homes.
We follow Bonwyn back to Everbane's
and you open the door and head in for the night,
closing and locking it behind you.
And there's a few things that Thane hasn't done
because they're your usual activities.
You want to walk us through that a little bit here?
I think that Thane probably goes around
and like, you know, banks all the fires and stuff,
but I just in an excess of caution
after he goes, so he doesn't know.
Just go and double check.
So I just kind of go around
and make sure like everything is safe.
Like this, I live here and there's a lot of fire.
So just want to be extra, extra careful.
Clean up, put away all the tools.
You know, I want a nice, easy morning when I start.
So I'm just kind of like futzing around, you know,
getting everything tidy and sorted out and yeah.
As you finish all these preparations
for what could happen,
you start making your way back upstairs.
And as you hit the top of the stairs,
you hear that same knocking sound
you heard the night before
coming from back down in the shop.
I'm going to come back down the stairs.
On the way, I'm going to grab something as a weapon.
And this is a place where we make weapons.
So you'd think I would grab something good,
but I don't.
Should I grab a butter knife?
Yeah, I just grab like whatever is the closest thing
as I'm like coming down the stairs.
She's like a cocaine-er.
Yeah, exactly.
Like something like that.
On it are the knife wings.
You take those off, cocaine only.
Like a broom handle or something.
You know, something that would just be sitting around
that I grab.
And I kind of go over cautiously
just to listen
and see, yeah, more closely what it sounds like.
You grab that and you come back down.
And as you move back down the stairs,
as quiet as you're trying to be,
the knocking stops until you get down to the bottom
and stop and listen.
And right at the spot where the desk has been pushed
and everything has been piled on top,
there's that same knocking
that's getting heavier.
She yells, not today, Satan, and goes back to bed.
Not today, Satan.
I think I feel pretty safe
because there's all that stuff on top of it, right?
So I'm not gonna start moving that stuff or anything.
I don't feel that safe.
But I could at least get a little nearer
and say, what do you want?
And feeling pretty dumb
because I think it's probably some kind of wild creature
that's not gonna answer me.
As you say that, the sound stops
and it's eerily silent in your shop.
And it is dark, so I'm just standing there.
My eyes are so wide
because you know when you're trying to hear in the dark
and for some reason you open your eyes really wide,
I'm like not moving.
You hear a long drawn out scratching sound
coming up from beneath the table,
which is followed by another bout of silence.
And then there's a huge thud coming up from it
that shakes everything on top of the table.
Run, bitch.
I feel like I'm over here watching a movie
being like, don't go down there.
Don't go in there.
Don't run out the stairs.
That's right, run out the front door.
Luckily I'm still dressed and everything.
I just went upstairs.
So I'm gonna stop, look at my hand
where I'm holding something useless,
throw it away, grab something that's actually a weapon
because again, there's like a million things laying around
and leave.
Like I'm going somewhere.
And honestly, I don't know if at this point
I even know where I'm going
because I know there's tunnels all around the town.
So I don't know where I'm gonna go to feel safe
because this is where I feel safe.
So maybe the guard house.
As you're looking at the broom,
the thudding starts up again
in intensity and repetitiveness.
As you're grabbing all these things
to rush out of the space and you've got a weapon
and you've got something to defend yourself,
you see that the anvil that's on top
is beginning to wobble from the strength of these hits
that are happening beneath the door.
We see you run out into the street
heading to the guard house.
As the door shuts, the thudding stops
and this anvil is rocking back and forth
until it tumbles to the ground.
Dumbgeons and Dragons season three, episode 25.
That's the season finale.
Starring Amy More as Alydin,
Carla Maxted as Bonwyn Everbane,
Tom Laird as Kavlaran Goldweave,
Kyle Claset as Bizard the Wizard,
and Russ More as your dungeon master.
Dialogue editing by Carla Maxted
and sound design by Russ More.
This episode featured music from Epidemic Sound
and Slipstream and sound effects from Epidemic Sound,
Boom Library and Sound Ideas.
Our amazing cover art and character designs
are by Matt Garbutt and a huge thank you
to our supporting producers,
Gabriel Lynch, Jessica Babiak,
Cat Waterflame, Jacob Madden,
Christian Brown, Ongorong Kiersen,
Perry Matey, Craig Zeiss,
Old School Gamer D, LA Branton and Sarah Murphy.
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but we'll be back in September with new episodes
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Bye for now.
It's one of those things
where you have to shrink your bones.
And that's where we'll cut the cold open.
Horrified face on Alydin.
Terrible.
Gosh.
It's a little bone shrinking.
Don't worry about it.
Sorry, don't do it.
It's not worth it.
Yeah, it's part of the illusion, you know.
Like, it's an illusion,
but like your bones feel the illusion.
So, you know.
It's magic to everyone else.
It's just agony to you.
Yeah.
Nina.
Did we give Nina a last name?
Probably did.
Don't think so.
I don't remember.
Nienersen.
I don't recall.
Give me.
Niener, niener, niener.
That's what the kids called her at school.
And that's why she helped shut them down.
Yeah.
That's right.
Yeah, absolutely.
That's makes sense.
What's that school?
Right?
Hurt people, hurt people.
On the page.
Nope.
Just Nina.
So, all.
Maybe it's like Madonna.
It's just.
I mean, yeah.
You can just say the name Madonna.
It's just Nina.
Nina Madonna.
There it is.
That's what it says.
Mayoral assistant, Nina Madonna.
And I assume.
Is her name Nina Cher Madonna?
Or perhaps Nina Shakira Madonna?
Ooh, good question.
Well, I believe it would be Shakira Shakira
if it was.
It would be Shakira Shakira.
Hey, did we just walk past the guards
and come floor and just had like three big ledgers?
Yeah.
Yeah, yeah.
High school.
He does paperwork.
Just a small, yeah, circular.
Like someone took like a toothpick and went, yeah.
Perhaps.
Yeah, that would be a good description of it.
Wait, is it cake?
It's cake.
Is it done?
God damn it, Russ.
This whole time it's just been cake.
Gotcha.
Season over.
Is cake or not cake?
Or is it cake?
There's a show.
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