[0.0s] Yes, hello there.
[1.7s] Dumbgeons and Dragons will begin.
[3.6s] Just one moment.
[8.6s] There is the sound of screaming echoing through the docks as we see Bonwyn and Kavlaran, Alydin
[22.8s] and Bizard among the mob of the citizens of Vintersmouth surrounded by these three creatures
[31.2s] that are encrouching on their space, moving along the rooftops towards the docks where
[36.2s] everybody is being surrounded and almost herded to.
[40.3s] The city guard and the military are trying to usher people onto boats and get as many
[44.8s] of them out into the water as they possibly can.
[48.2s] Everybody who can is over by the bridge now being moved over to the noble side of Vintersmouth.
[54.2s] Those people are being cut off by one of these monsters.
[58.8s] The three of them turn and focus on the heart of this group and let out this echoing
[70.0s] howl that echoes through the air down on top of this main mass of people.
[77.6s] We see people covering their ears, shrieking in pain and dropping to their knees as two
[84.0s] of them leap down to the street.
[88.9s] Dumbgeons and Dragons is a D&D actual play podcast and I'm your dungeon master Russ
[93.6s] Moore, he him.
[95.2s] Also with me today is Amy More as Alydin, she her.
[99.1s] What?
[100.1s] I can help.
[101.9s] Carla Maxstead as Bonwyn Everbane, she her.
[105.5s] This cost so many gold.
[107.3s] Tom Laird as Kavlaran Goldweave, he him.
[110.2s] Like steel drums?
[111.2s] Is it like an island rhythm?
[113.2s] And Kyle Claset as Bizard the Wizard, he him.
[116.3s] I'm dancing more than I'm attacking.
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[129.6s] We hope to see you over there.
[130.6s] And now fuck it, let's play!
[137.3s] The four of you and Dace are right at the intersection of the dock and the bridge and
[145.3s] the roads that intersect and the crunching noise of one of these creatures lands down
[152.0s] some 25 feet from you.
[155.1s] What do you do?
[157.1s] Can I throw that thing that I said I had?
[159.7s] My crazy like super ninja star like just as a reaction.
[166.2s] Because it's in my hand, I've been carrying it.
[169.2s] It took me three years to make.
[171.4s] Exactly.
[172.4s] This cost so many gold.
[176.5s] How I envision it as you like retract it, like if it connects, it like sticks in
[183.2s] with one and I feel like collapses on top of it with like some of the other ones
[187.8s] like almost rolling into whatever you're attacking.
[190.0s] Oh yeah, tearing into.
[191.0s] It's like a bear trap you can throw at people.
[193.8s] Kind of.
[194.8s] Yeah, I love it.
[197.0s] Let's make it cool because you're doing something custom, you're making something really good.
[201.4s] Only the finest materials here.
[203.4s] This is a dope weapon, Bonwyn's ability to use this dope weapon in question.
[208.3s] That's true.
[209.3s] But let's find out.
[210.3s] Maybe it's not quite bAlydinced yet, you know, maybe you haven't finished it yet.
[213.3s] I built it for an elf and I'm a dwarf, like everything's thrown off.
[219.2s] Everything's all out.
[220.2s] He handed over to Kavlar.
[222.6s] Let's just make it five daggers, 5d4 plus five.
[225.2s] But I have to, but I have to hit it first.
[227.2s] Gotta make an attack coral first, yeah.
[229.2s] So we're rolling you guys.
[231.2s] Hell yeah.
[232.2s] So that's a 25 to hit.
[234.2s] Fuck yeah.
[235.2s] Amazing.
[236.2s] She's well past beta testing, y'all.
[238.2s] Yeah, right?
[239.2s] Yeah, but this thing's gonna take like a legendary action.
[242.2s] Yeah, 100% for nothing.
[244.2s] God, what a dick move to put a legendary creature against some level ones, right?
[249.2s] Three of them.
[250.2s] 14 damage.
[253.2s] Plus five?
[254.3s] Plus five?
[255.3s] Plus five.
[256.3s] Then 19 damage.
[257.3s] So 19 damage.
[258.3s] So this one lands down on the ground and Bon, when you throw this, what do we want
[264.3s] to call this?
[265.3s] We throw this dagger star towards the creature and it impales in its side.
[272.3s] Shitty.
[273.3s] Should be the star.
[275.3s] Bizarre, as you see this dagger fly, you notice that along the side, along the
[283.4s] flank of it, there's this blackening of its skin, which leads you to believe that
[289.4s] this is the one you hit with your earlier.
[291.4s] I'm gonna say, good, you hit the damaged one already.
[295.4s] Perfect.
[296.4s] That was my plan.
[297.4s] Can I make that my sneak attack?
[299.4s] It would be sneaky.
[301.4s] They weren't expecting a star shitty.
[304.4s] Just let me hit an extra d6 on this guy.
[306.4s] Come on.
[307.4s] Give me a d6.
[308.4s] Just give me three more damage, come on.
[311.4s] It's all I got.
[312.5s] I don't know how to play a rogue yet, guys, because I haven't been doing any rogue-y
[315.5s] things.
[316.5s] Yup.
[317.5s] I played a rogue for like three years.
[320.5s] Never did a sneak attack.
[321.5s] Never did a sneak attack, not once.
[324.5s] Monster lands down, dagger flies out, does a substantial amount of damage.
[328.5s] It lets out a growl and turns its attention to you and your group.
[333.5s] You hear from the far side of the docks a scream of pain as you see one of these
[340.6s] monsters is like in the mix of the people over there now.
[345.6s] A couple guards are on it from your point of view, but they are being handily taken
[350.6s] care of at this moment.
[351.6s] One other thing you do hear from the other side of the city, it's a ways away, but
[357.6s] you begin to hear the sound of drums echoing through the city.
[361.6s] Like steel drums?
[362.6s] Is it like an island rhythm?
[365.6s] Steel drums.
[367.6s] Steel drums.
[369.6s] The seaweed is always greener.
[372.6s] Kiss the girl.
[375.6s] I can't resist.
[377.6s] Coming like from the far side of the artisan district.
[380.6s] From the noble city.
[381.6s] Oh, from the noble side.
[382.6s] No, from the noble side, more the military barracks.
[385.6s] I did think it was going to be Stomp coming for an impromptu show or something.
[390.6s] That's right.
[391.6s] Implying that more military are on their way.
[394.7s] You don't know how long it's going to take them to get there though.
[397.7s] Through this, Alydin has crouched down and out of her bucket has pulled a small
[402.7s] torch and the thing that she has to light it with.
[407.7s] Like a flint?
[408.7s] Flint?
[409.7s] Flint, yep.
[412.7s] Lights, lights the torch on fire and like is holding it out bravely.
[417.7s] Like it just in front, just in front of her, just trying to be like,
[422.8s] Back beast.
[424.8s] Yes, that's right.
[425.8s] I think with that, Dase is going to step in front of you between you and the monster.
[430.8s] His sword's long since been drawn.
[433.8s] Alydin, you need to, you need to take that and get back.
[436.8s] Find safety.
[437.8s] Well, I, I can help.
[440.8s] Okay, but maybe not in the mouth of this creature that's right in front of us as
[444.8s] it takes a jump towards you and stops like a foot away from him and is going to try to bite him.
[451.9s] Oh yes.
[452.9s] Alydin is staggering back.
[454.9s] So yeah, like takes a leap.
[456.9s] I said he was about 25 feet, takes a huge leap and like the ground crunches underneath
[461.9s] this creature's feet and is going to try to bite him.
[465.9s] It gets two bite attacks.
[467.9s] The first one is going to hit.
[470.9s] Dase isn't level one.
[472.9s] No, I assume Dase is more of like a level seven.
[475.9s] A huge chunk comes out of Dase and he lets out a scream and drives his sword
[481.0s] into the creature with advantage because he's close but not grappled and is going to hit.
[488.0s] And that same one is going to take nine slashing damage.
[493.0s] With that one moving forward, would two of them be within like 40 feet of each other?
[498.0s] You've got one that came down from the bridge side of the docks.
[503.0s] The one in the middle is still up on top of a building and the other one is on the far side of the docks.
[509.0s] Oh, within a group of people, right?
[512.0s] Right.
[513.0s] So no, they have not yet come close to each other.
[517.0s] Well, if none are within 40 feet of each other, then what I'm going to do is go
[522.0s] and take the torch of one of the frightened guards and I'm going to set the barricade
[529.0s] ablaze and I will use my action to cast control flame to assist that.
[536.1s] Hoping that knowing what I know as far as seeing these things in darkness,
[540.1s] they're attacking at night.
[541.1s] Hopefully a lot of light will deter them in some way, shape or form.
[545.1s] So I'll do that and with my bonus action,
[548.1s] I'll bust out my scimitar and start doing a blade dance to help my AC and movement.
[555.1s] Should I light something on fire too?
[557.1s] Do it.
[558.1s] Yeah, fire.
[561.1s] Fire is a great idea.
[562.1s] Everybody.
[563.2s] She sees a hay pile and just starts like literally lighting everything that is wooden.
[570.2s] Don't need to tell her twice.
[571.2s] Or looks dry.
[572.2s] Yeah, and there's debris, right?
[573.2s] I mean, you're at the docks.
[574.2s] There's debris.
[575.2s] There's crates.
[576.2s] So like, grabbing debris.
[577.2s] I'm lighting shit on fire.
[579.2s] Like lighting it, like kind of making impromptu torches,
[582.2s] giving those to other people, like kill the beast.
[586.2s] Flames begin to rise along the barricade as people are rushing to the other side.
[591.3s] The creature that is closest to you, that attacked Dace,
[595.3s] would be closest to that first fire that you lit.
[598.3s] It doesn't leave melee with Dace,
[603.3s] but its attention is quickly drawn to the fire
[607.3s] and away from the immediate danger that it otherwise feels that it's in.
[614.3s] Well, I think if it was noticeable that the flame, like, it didn't like it,
[619.4s] then yeah, like light it up.
[622.4s] Because we're at the river, which is like a natural barrier, right?
[626.4s] So if we light things along that and get everybody on the other side,
[630.4s] I mean, there's one of them over there, isn't there?
[632.4s] But two on the one side, one on the other.
[634.4s] I mean, it seems like the best idea.
[637.4s] Yeah, I think it's a great option.
[639.4s] There's no good.
[640.4s] There's no, yeah, there's no like strong option here.
[643.4s] Plus we know that the soldiers, like we've heard the drumming,
[646.4s] so we know they're coming on the other side.
[648.4s] So in theory, maybe they can help with that one that's on the other side.
[652.4s] We're just trying to make them not kill anybody in the meantime.
[656.4s] Exactly, until reinforcements come.
[658.4s] Heavily trained and armed reinforcements, which is what we need right now.
[662.4s] Did I mention I have 10 HP?
[665.4s] Yeah, don't get bit.
[666.4s] It's not on us.
[668.4s] So flames begin to light all along the dock side
[672.4s] and you see them just running down all of these different hay bales
[675.5s] and barriers that are naturally set up down at the dock.
[679.5s] People are rushing on and now pulling, whatever,
[682.5s] anchors or ropes off of the boats.
[685.5s] We haven't heard from Cav in a little bit.
[687.5s] What's Cav doing?
[688.5s] Cav is attempting to get as much like flammable material
[692.5s] as he can and like spread it around so more fires can be set.
[696.5s] Not the boats.
[697.5s] Not those.
[698.5s] Not those.
[699.5s] So all along this side of the dock,
[703.6s] flame is making its way down into the dock
[705.6s] and building somewhat of a barrier between the one up on the roof
[709.6s] and the docks itself.
[711.6s] And anybody paying attention to that one,
[713.6s] you see it starts to pace as that fire is being lit.
[717.6s] The one that is fighting Dace is going to,
[721.6s] at this moment, try to back up a little bit
[724.6s] which will provoke an opportunity attack from Dace.
[728.6s] He is going to hit it as it is.
[731.7s] He's trying to just reposition itself.
[733.7s] He's going to take another 11 slashing damage
[736.7s] and moves out of reach of Dace there
[739.7s] and is prowling along, keeping an eye on you and your group
[743.7s] as you are passing these torches down to other people
[748.7s] and getting these flames lit.
[750.7s] I think Alydin is doing something reckless
[752.7s] like a 14-year-old would
[753.7s] and is finding chunks of like wood
[758.8s] that is on fire
[761.8s] and she is quickly scooping it into her slingshot
[766.8s] and is shooting them.
[769.8s] She's burning her hands bad.
[771.8s] It's not a good choice,
[773.8s] but 14-year-olds don't make good decisions.
[775.8s] So you're shooting them at the monster?
[777.8s] Yeah.
[778.8s] Okay, you want to make an attack roll?
[779.8s] And it's a monster that's on Dace
[781.8s] because he's like my guard dad.
[783.8s] Got it.
[784.8s] Guard dad.
[786.8s] He's like my guard dad.
[787.8s] He's like my guard dad.
[789.8s] Does Dace live in the divorced dad's apartment building?
[792.8s] Oh, my God.
[794.8s] We don't know yet.
[795.8s] I hope not.
[797.8s] A 15?
[798.8s] Will not hit.
[800.8s] It will glance off of the creature.
[802.8s] It doesn't look like it makes enough impact
[804.8s] to do anything.
[805.8s] Maybe it starts some other fires
[806.8s] closer to it though or something.
[808.8s] Maybe it does.
[809.8s] It ricochets.
[810.8s] Yeah.
[811.8s] Skids into...
[812.8s] Fall short and like some grass on fire or something.
[814.8s] Sure.
[815.8s] Yeah.
[816.9s] Skids into some crates on top of some grass.
[819.9s] The one that was on Dace
[821.9s] is now prowling along the perimeter.
[824.9s] It looks like it's moving in the direction
[827.9s] of the other one that is down in the ground.
[829.9s] If there seems to be fire going
[831.9s] and people seem to be getting the idea
[834.9s] of having torches or something flaming,
[836.9s] then I'm going to move more onto the dock
[839.9s] to make sure people are getting on the boats
[842.9s] untied, pushed off, right?
[844.0s] Like to try and get them moving.
[847.0s] There is a monster in the lake,
[849.0s] but I mean this is a more clear and present danger.
[853.0s] Yeah, absolutely.
[855.0s] I mean you don't know that there's a monster.
[857.0s] That's true.
[858.0s] Like that was seen behind the camera.
[860.0s] You don't know that's there.
[861.0s] I do know there's pirates in the lake.
[863.0s] Yeah.
[864.0s] But still.
[865.0s] Long rumored pirates.
[866.0s] Okay, make an athletics check to see...
[869.0s] Nad 20.
[870.0s] Ding.
[871.0s] Oh my god.
[872.1s] Bonwyn is like leaping over top of any
[875.1s] of these burning crates.
[876.1s] Like a very action moment,
[878.1s] like moving down and helping untie these ropes
[881.1s] and getting these ships out there.
[882.1s] An Olympic hurdler.
[883.1s] You're able to get one out and move on
[886.1s] to the second one before anything else happens there.
[890.1s] And I'm assuming some of these
[891.1s] are hopefully bigger boats,
[893.1s] like shipping kind of boats,
[894.1s] so there actually is like a good amount
[896.1s] of people on them.
[898.1s] Everything in here with the exclusion
[899.1s] of a couple smaller vessels
[901.2s] are all shipping vessels.
[903.2s] Seeing those two reconnect,
[905.2s] getting closer together,
[906.2s] I think that would cue me in
[909.2s] to do the thing I've been wanting to do,
[911.2s] and that is to cast slow.
[913.2s] And as long as they're within 40 feet of each other
[916.2s] because I can do like a 40 foot cube,
[918.2s] I need them both to give me
[919.2s] a wisdom saving throw.
[921.2s] Oh, I hope they're dumb as shit.
[922.2s] They might be.
[923.2s] I hope so too.
[925.2s] We shall see.
[926.2s] 14.
[927.2s] Okay, so you are timing this
[929.2s] as they are getting within that range.
[931.2s] So as this second one is moving towards,
[934.2s] the other one is taking people out.
[939.2s] It is dealing with everybody around it.
[944.2s] That's an 11 on the die,
[947.2s] but it has a plus five wisdom.
[949.2s] Plus five wisdom.
[950.2s] Six turns out not dumb as shit.
[951.2s] Deep lore down underground.
[953.2s] Hey, damn.
[954.2s] Damn, damn.
[955.2s] But that's only one, right?
[956.2s] There's two in that cube.
[957.2s] That's one.
[958.3s] That's one.
[959.3s] That's an eight.
[961.3s] Plus five is a 13.
[963.3s] Well, fantastic.
[964.3s] That one is slowed.
[965.3s] It will take a negative two to its AC
[968.3s] and dexterity saving throws.
[970.3s] It can't use reactions.
[972.3s] On its turn, it can either take an action
[974.3s] or a bonus action, not both.
[976.3s] And regardless of the ability of the creature
[978.3s] or magic items,
[979.3s] it can only make one melee or ranged attack
[981.3s] during its turn.
[982.3s] Sick.
[983.3s] What a fucking awesome spell.
[984.3s] That's pretty good.
[985.3s] Pretty good.
[986.3s] Not too shabby.
[987.4s] That's 40 feet of movement to approach the one
[990.4s] that was moving towards the other one
[992.4s] that left Dace.
[993.4s] Okay.
[994.4s] You would be able to make it up to that creature
[997.4s] if you wanted to
[998.4s] or any distance that you need to be.
[1000.4s] Closing that distance.
[1001.4s] The sound of the drumming is getting closer
[1004.4s] and you see torchlight now emanating
[1008.4s] through the main square on the noble side,
[1011.4s] which is approaching the bridge.
[1015.5s] You not only hear the sound of drums,
[1017.5s] you hear the sound of a steady military cadence
[1020.5s] of a large squadron of people
[1024.5s] coming around this corner.
[1026.5s] You see the first few of them,
[1028.5s] they're not going to be able to make it this turn,
[1030.5s] likely next turn or perhaps even one after that.
[1033.5s] Cav, you had been helping set fires.
[1038.5s] As you are doing that,
[1040.5s] you look up and you see the glowing eyes
[1043.6s] of the one on the rooftop.
[1046.6s] What maybe was distracted before,
[1049.6s] but now you have a better view
[1050.6s] with the light all around you,
[1052.6s] is you see that this one is,
[1057.6s] its neck is beginning to glow
[1060.6s] just like a soft red
[1062.6s] and it looks like it's taking in a huge breath.
[1065.6s] It's doing a mating dance.
[1067.6s] Absolutely it is.
[1068.6s] It's the male of the species.
[1070.6s] Turns around.
[1071.6s] It's coming onto,
[1072.6s] it's coming onto Cav.
[1073.6s] I'm not surprised.
[1074.6s] He's very fetching in his sleep outfit.
[1076.6s] That's right.
[1077.6s] His sleep outfit.
[1080.6s] I'm going to call pajamas from now on.
[1083.6s] My sleep tuxedo.
[1085.6s] We'll be right back.
[1089.6s] It's the middle.
[1091.6s] Hey friends, welcome to the middle.
[1093.6s] It's good to see you here.
[1094.6s] It's not just me from the first one
[1096.6s] and then me and Amy from the second one.
[1098.6s] It's all of us.
[1099.7s] We're all here.
[1100.7s] Everybody.
[1101.7s] The gang's back together again.
[1102.7s] Yeah, we are.
[1103.7s] That's right.
[1104.7s] So talk to Amy about it in the last episode,
[1106.7s] but how's everybody feeling about season four?
[1108.7s] We're all very excited on this end of the call.
[1110.7s] Oh, I love it.
[1111.7s] It's so fun.
[1112.7s] There's so much action.
[1114.7s] It's exhausting, honestly.
[1118.7s] Spook, it's scary.
[1119.7s] Was a comment in the Discord,
[1121.7s] I think from Arachan,
[1122.7s] that the stakes feel real.
[1124.7s] Oh, yeah.
[1125.7s] Not just like we're floating through the world.
[1127.8s] Happy and go.
[1128.8s] I'm as happy and go and carefree.
[1130.8s] Yeah.
[1131.8s] But also it is fun to light things on fire.
[1134.8s] Yep.
[1135.8s] Yeah.
[1136.8s] And it's true.
[1137.8s] I like how at the beginning of this,
[1139.8s] we were like, listen,
[1140.8s] we're gonna like lower stakes,
[1142.8s] slowly start to build.
[1144.8s] Everything's on fucking fire.
[1145.8s] Well, we did lower stakes for a program.
[1148.8s] You can't have no stakes.
[1149.8s] We did like a whole season until heist.
[1151.8s] Well, there was pirates in there
[1153.8s] that were trying to eat us.
[1154.8s] Well, that's true.
[1155.8s] That's true.
[1156.9s] But anyway.
[1157.9s] Allegedly cannibalistic pirates.
[1159.9s] Love season four slash season three,
[1162.9s] chapter two or whatever we're calling it.
[1164.9s] Yeah.
[1165.9s] I like it.
[1166.9s] Yeah.
[1167.9s] Yeah, it's going good so far.
[1168.9s] I'm having a lot of fun with it.
[1169.9s] We were gonna talk about the fact
[1171.9s] that you could get merch on Patreon,
[1173.9s] but this feels a lot better.
[1174.9s] So if you want to sign up on Patreon
[1176.9s] to support us as we're creating this wonderful
[1178.9s] high stakes season,
[1181.9s] you can do so
[1182.9s] at patreon.com slash dumb dragon cast.
[1185.0s] You get a seven day free trial
[1186.0s] when you sign up
[1187.0s] and when you stick around
[1188.0s] for three consecutive months
[1191.0s] or not three consecutive months,
[1192.0s] but three months
[1193.0s] because you can dip out
[1194.0s] and come back should you need to.
[1196.0s] You get some merch.
[1197.0s] There's a sticker at the $5 tier,
[1199.0s] a mug at the supporting producers tier
[1201.0s] and the game time,
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[1228.0s] What kind of like debris is around Cav
[1231.0s] that hasn't been set on fire?
[1233.0s] Yeah.
[1234.0s] Well, I mean,
[1235.0s] if Alydin has anything to say
[1236.0s] about a lot of things
[1237.0s] that have been set on fire,
[1238.0s] but there certainly would be like planks of wood.
[1241.0s] There would be
[1242.1s] Oh, you know what?
[1243.1s] Let's have it be set on fire
[1244.1s] because like that's just going to add to the festivities.
[1247.1s] It's better.
[1248.1s] I'm going to grab something
[1249.1s] that looks like would be okay to throw
[1252.1s] whether it's just like a hunk of wood
[1254.1s] or whatever it is.
[1255.1s] True.
[1256.1s] And I'm going to cast the light spell on it.
[1258.1s] Okay.
[1259.1s] Sick.
[1260.1s] I touch it and it sheds a bright light
[1262.1s] in a 20 foot radius
[1263.1s] for an hour
[1265.1s] and then also a dim light
[1267.1s] for an additional toy.
[1268.1s] And you're hucking it
[1269.1s] at the one on the roof?
[1270.1s] Absolutely throwing it
[1271.2s] at the one with the red neck
[1272.2s] that's like inhaling.
[1273.2s] Yeah.
[1274.2s] Make an attack roll.
[1275.2s] We'll see how well you do here.
[1278.2s] If you do very poorly,
[1280.2s] like you're not going to get it up there,
[1281.2s] but if you hit it, great.
[1284.2s] If you get it in the vicinity,
[1285.2s] like it'll at least be up on the roof.
[1286.2s] Yeah.
[1287.2s] It'll maybe spook it a little
[1288.2s] if I don't hit it.
[1289.2s] Calf played high school football.
[1290.2s] He's got a perfect spiral on it.
[1292.2s] He did.
[1293.2s] It's been a few years.
[1296.2s] Muscle memory kicked in though.
[1297.2s] Right.
[1298.2s] Absolutely.
[1299.2s] It's 13 on the die,
[1300.3s] so that's a 14.
[1301.3s] So it doesn't hit to do any real damage,
[1304.3s] but you do make it up on the roof,
[1306.3s] which distracts this creature for a moment.
[1309.3s] It clangs down.
[1311.3s] You see the fire begin to swell
[1314.3s] around the edge of the building.
[1317.3s] Oops.
[1318.3s] But like whatever's going on
[1320.3s] with that neck can't happen.
[1321.3s] So like.
[1322.3s] Yeah.
[1323.3s] It backs up several steps.
[1324.3s] So you lose direct line of sight of it.
[1326.3s] You can kind of see the top of its head.
[1327.3s] It starts inhaling smoke
[1329.4s] and becomes weak from that.
[1332.4s] You hear wheezing
[1333.4s] and then the sound of a giant inhaler.
[1336.4s] The one on the far side of the dock
[1338.4s] that was surrounded by guards.
[1340.4s] You see all of the guards
[1341.4s] that were in vicinity
[1342.4s] have now been knocked down to the ground.
[1345.4s] They do look deceased from where you are
[1348.4s] and it begins running towards
[1350.4s] one of the far ships
[1352.4s] on the far side of the dock.
[1353.4s] So opposite side from where you are.
[1355.4s] Perfect.
[1356.4s] I light one of my short bow arrows
[1361.4s] on fire and shoot it at it.
[1365.4s] Yes, of course.
[1366.4s] Cool.
[1368.4s] That's a 25 day hit.
[1370.4s] Damn dude.
[1371.4s] And that is nine damage.
[1375.4s] Plus like if you wanted to give me
[1377.4s] any kind of like special fire damage
[1379.4s] or something I'm ready.
[1380.4s] Give me a D6 of fire damage.
[1382.4s] Three.
[1383.5s] Hoping to also distract it away
[1386.5s] from chasing the people on the boat too.
[1388.5s] So it's like beginning to like
[1390.5s] leaps and bounds towards this ship
[1392.5s] and as it is getting ready to jump
[1395.5s] this arrow strikes into it
[1397.5s] and lets out a growl
[1399.5s] as it skids to a stop
[1401.5s] and like rolls to its side
[1403.5s] and is standing up
[1404.5s] like pushing itself off of the people
[1406.5s] that it has just crushed underneath its weight
[1409.5s] and turns and has now
[1411.6s] got its eyes locked on you, Bonwyn.
[1413.6s] Great.
[1414.6s] Loves to be the center of attention like that.
[1417.6s] Alydin slingshotted.
[1422.6s] Slingshot.
[1423.6s] Slingshot.
[1426.6s] That's it.
[1427.6s] Alydin slingshot.
[1428.6s] Slingshot.
[1430.6s] As much as she could
[1433.6s] with her hands
[1434.6s] and it was just getting,
[1435.6s] it was getting ouchy
[1436.6s] and she turns and sees
[1439.7s] Bonwyn fire off an arrow
[1442.7s] at the one creature
[1444.7s] and from inside her bucket
[1447.7s] she pulls out her boomerang
[1449.7s] and hooks it at,
[1452.7s] I'm just Dennis the Menace.
[1454.7s] Hell yeah, dude.
[1455.7s] I forgot about this.
[1456.7s] I forgot you had a boomerang.
[1457.7s] I was so delighted.
[1458.7s] Yeah, a boomerang.
[1460.7s] So I'm going to,
[1461.7s] I'm going to throw my boomerang at it
[1463.7s] because she's using what she's got.
[1466.7s] Absolutely.
[1467.7s] Throwing the boomerang
[1468.8s] at that Bonwyn just shot.
[1469.8s] Yes.
[1470.8s] Okay.
[1471.8s] Yeah.
[1472.8s] Well, that's a nat one.
[1475.8s] But it says if I miss
[1478.8s] it comes back to me.
[1481.8s] But have I hit some innocent bystander
[1484.8s] with my boomerang?
[1486.8s] Scared citizen number two.
[1487.8s] Because it was one
[1488.8s] and I know there's punishment
[1489.8s] that comes along with that.
[1491.8s] You know what?
[1492.8s] So it goes out
[1494.8s] and clearly misses.
[1497.8s] It comes back, but falls short.
[1499.8s] And as you look at it
[1500.8s] and begin to move towards it
[1502.8s] to go pick it up
[1503.8s] because you've got a bit of a clear site
[1506.8s] debris that's spread across
[1508.8s] that's been spread across
[1509.8s] in all the chaos
[1510.8s] begins to light between you
[1512.8s] and the boomerang.
[1513.8s] So you are now being
[1516.8s] more or less encircled in flame.
[1519.8s] Just me?
[1520.8s] Well, you and like a couple
[1522.8s] like other people trying to run away.
[1524.8s] Like, but you are cut off
[1526.9s] from that section of the dock right now.
[1528.9s] Am I cut off from my group?
[1530.9s] So Bizard
[1532.9s] is up on the walkway
[1534.9s] moving towards the one
[1535.9s] that is trying to get over
[1537.9s] to the one that Bonwyn shot.
[1539.9s] Cav probably be closest to you.
[1541.9s] Bonwyn is down
[1542.9s] trying to push boats off
[1543.9s] or at least in that direction.
[1544.9s] So Cav is closest to you right now.
[1547.9s] Dace would be not too far
[1549.9s] but the flames are growing around you.
[1551.9s] Oh, I want to run back to Cav or Dace.
[1554.9s] Whoever's
[1556.0s] Amy, I'm going to need you to come up
[1558.0s] with a move
[1559.0s] that you can call the OK Boomer
[1561.0s] for your boomerangs.
[1567.0s] Once you imbue it with magic.
[1569.0s] There we go.
[1570.0s] Right?
[1571.0s] Then it becomes the OK Boomer.
[1572.0s] What's Dace doing?
[1573.0s] He done anything lately for me?
[1575.0s] I mean, he did get
[1576.0s] I think he hasn't done it.
[1577.0s] He did get chomped.
[1579.0s] He sees Bizard
[1581.0s] like rush up to this one
[1582.0s] that he was fighting.
[1583.0s] Turns and sees Alydin
[1585.1s] like being more surrounded by flame.
[1587.1s] And I think he's going to evaluate those two
[1590.1s] and try and go help Alydin
[1593.1s] in this moment.
[1594.1s] He doesn't have a monster directly on him.
[1596.1s] He turns and sees
[1597.1s] that the military forces
[1599.1s] which there are a large number of them
[1601.1s] now on the other side of the bridge itself.
[1605.1s] So they are getting there
[1606.1s] and he's going to rush down
[1607.1s] and try and scoop up Alydin.
[1610.1s] Do you allow him to do so?
[1612.1s] Yeah.
[1613.1s] OK.
[1614.2s] It's a scary situation.
[1616.2s] He's going to pick you up.
[1618.2s] That's going to be
[1619.2s] we'll say half of his movement
[1621.2s] because you were running back towards him
[1623.2s] and he's going to try and move you
[1625.2s] back towards the bridge
[1626.2s] where the forces are coming.
[1627.2s] So he can make it basically
[1629.2s] from his position
[1630.2s] to pick up Alydin and back again.
[1632.2s] At that
[1633.2s] you hear the twang of arrows loosing
[1637.2s] from the other side of the bridge
[1639.2s] and they're flying over
[1642.2s] and towards the monsters.
[1645.2s] You see a couple of them stick into
[1647.2s] like right in front of you
[1648.2s] Bizard a couple of the arrows
[1649.2s] stick down into the flesh
[1651.2s] of the one in front of you.
[1653.2s] Bonwyn you see the one
[1654.2s] that's now kind of prowling
[1656.2s] towards you
[1657.2s] get one stuck in its side
[1658.2s] doesn't seem to lose its pace
[1661.2s] on this one
[1663.2s] and then some others
[1664.2s] just scatter to the ground
[1665.2s] so there are loose arrows
[1666.2s] and I yell
[1667.2s] next time light them on fire
[1669.2s] just offering helpful tips.
[1671.3s] Yeah.
[1672.3s] Okay.
[1673.3s] That one in front of me
[1675.3s] I'd give it an attack or two.
[1678.3s] Is this the one
[1679.3s] that I happened to slow
[1680.3s] or is that the one
[1681.3s] that Bonwyn's working with?
[1683.3s] The one that Bonwyn is working with
[1686.3s] has been slowed.
[1687.3s] Perfect.
[1688.3s] The one that you are hitting
[1689.3s] has taken the most damage
[1690.3s] and the one that you hit
[1691.3s] with the cold much earlier.
[1692.3s] Hell yeah.
[1693.3s] Well let's keep that going.
[1694.3s] We're going to do
[1695.3s] two Scimitar attacks.
[1697.3s] Two attacks?
[1698.3s] You are a high level.
[1699.3s] That is going to be
[1700.4s] a miss on the first one
[1702.4s] and a miss on the second one.
[1703.4s] Shit.
[1704.4s] I'm dancing more than I'm attacking.
[1706.4s] You're confusing it.
[1707.4s] You got so lost in the movement.
[1709.4s] Alright.
[1710.4s] Remember your steps.
[1711.4s] Remember your steps.
[1712.4s] Left, right, one, two, three.
[1713.4s] Left, right, one, two, three.
[1715.4s] I'm going to stay right up in its face
[1717.4s] and that'll be that.
[1719.4s] It's going to turn
[1720.4s] and try and attack you.
[1721.4s] Okay.
[1722.4s] A turn.
[1723.4s] I mean you're right up on its face
[1724.4s] so it's going to
[1726.4s] first of all does it recharge?
[1728.4s] It does not.
[1729.5s] Okay.
[1730.5s] First one to hit you.
[1732.5s] This one has both of its multi attacks.
[1734.5s] It's going to be a 12.
[1736.5s] Nope.
[1737.5s] Excellent.
[1738.5s] And the second one
[1739.5s] is going to be an 11.
[1742.3s] So also not going to do it.
[1743.7s] He's mesmerized by your steps.
[1745.2s] So maybe it is working.
[1746.2s] Mesmerized.
[1747.2s] Yeah.
[1748.2s] The two of you are in this dance of attacking
[1750.9s] but not hitting each other in this moment.
[1753.4s] Bonwyn.
[1754.4s] The one on the other side of the docks
[1756.2s] is now like pushing its way through people
[1758.7s] that are trying to flee out of the way towards you.
[1763.2s] Leaps up into the air towards you.
[1766.4s] How far is it?
[1767.4s] It's pretty close.
[1768.4s] Well if it's leaping up into the air
[1770.7s] it's going to be within striking distance.
[1774.5s] If you don't do something to interrupt it
[1776.3s] it's going to land on you.
[1777.7s] Well I'm going to do something to interrupt it
[1779.8s] or I'm certainly going to try.
[1782.6s] I am going to try to hit it
[1784.6s] with my short sword
[1788.6s] but it has another enemy close to it
[1791.0s] so I can still sneak attack it.
[1793.2s] And it's a nat 20 again.
[1795.6s] Oh my god.
[1796.6s] And that doubles the sneak attack.
[1798.0s] Dice two.
[1799.0s] Hell yeah.
[1800.0s] Yeah it does.
[1801.0s] Does it?
[1802.0s] Yeah.
[1803.0s] Okay.
[1804.0s] Oh boy.
[1805.0s] Oh wow.
[1806.0s] So many dice to roll.
[1807.0s] I might not die you guys.
[1808.0s] I might not die.
[1809.0s] It is going to jump off my butt.
[1810.0s] Oh my god.
[1811.0s] Okay.
[1812.0s] 12 plus four is 16
[1814.0s] and then my sneak attacks
[1816.8s] were very bad.
[1818.0s] Three more damage.
[1819.2s] So it leaps up towards you
[1821.0s] and this is the one that is also slowed
[1823.2s] so your attack is on point
[1827.8s] and it's a little bit thrown off
[1830.2s] by the spell that's been cast on it
[1832.4s] and you land a gnarly hit
[1836.0s] with your short sword into its side
[1838.4s] and as it's flying through the air
[1840.4s] you're tearing along its side
[1842.0s] which blood begins to pour out
[1844.7s] as it lands down on the ground
[1846.3s] right where you were standing.
[1848.7s] Oh cool.
[1849.7s] So it's like prone now
[1850.7s] so can I like back up
[1851.7s] without provoking an opportunity attack?
[1853.8s] Yes.
[1854.8s] Amazing.
[1855.8s] I'm going to go ahead and do that.
[1856.8s] That was a real close call.
[1857.8s] It was.
[1858.8s] It was quite close.
[1859.8s] You rolled like a fucking champ.
[1862.8s] Yep.
[1863.8s] Dice is carrying Alydin.
[1865.8s] He's going to finish running
[1866.8s] to the other side of the street.
[1869.8s] He's going to put you down
[1871.8s] and like grab you by the shoulders
[1873.8s] and say where are the other kids?
[1876.8s] They're in the magic shop.
[1878.8s] Okay you need to go
[1879.8s] and be with them
[1880.8s] and keep them safe.
[1882.8s] I point back the way we came
[1886.8s] amidst the fire
[1888.8s] and the monsters.
[1889.8s] He's going to yell go
[1891.8s] and then he's going to turn
[1892.8s] and move back towards where Bizard is
[1895.8s] with that monster.
[1896.8s] So you don't have to go
[1897.8s] but that's what he's telling you to do.
[1900.8s] I think that like...
[1902.8s] I want her there
[1903.8s] she's part of the team
[1904.8s] but oh boy.
[1905.8s] She's going to run.
[1907.8s] Our dad told her to run.
[1909.8s] So and she is...
[1911.8s] And you know all the sneaky ways
[1913.8s] to get everywhere anyway so like...
[1915.8s] So as you turn
[1916.8s] and you begin to run that way
[1917.8s] like out of the corner of your eye
[1919.8s] you see that the military forces
[1920.8s] are now on the other side of the bridge.
[1921.8s] Since they came into view
[1922.8s] like they've picked up their pace
[1924.8s] swords drawn are now rushing down
[1926.8s] into the mix.
[1928.8s] So there's a lot of bodies going on
[1930.8s] there's a lot of things going on
[1931.8s] and as you round the corner
[1933.8s] you're dashing I assume
[1934.8s] because you're not really
[1935.8s] doing anything else.
[1936.8s] So you've got double movement.
[1937.8s] You can see the magic closet
[1939.8s] down at the end.
[1940.8s] Make a perception roll.
[1944.8s] Oh I did that 20.
[1945.8s] I'm going to roll with my left hand.
[1947.8s] There we go.
[1948.8s] We've cracked the code.
[1949.8s] You make your way
[1950.8s] part way down the street
[1951.8s] and you're getting there
[1952.8s] you're not going to be able
[1953.8s] to make it this turn obviously.
[1954.8s] But you hear the sound of movement
[1957.8s] up on the rooftop
[1959.8s] and you turn and you look
[1960.8s] like you can see the glow
[1961.8s] through the breaks in the buildings
[1963.8s] of the fire that's lit
[1964.8s] down at the docks.
[1965.8s] But you see a sizable red glow
[1968.8s] up on top of the building
[1970.8s] immediately to your right.
[1972.8s] You can't see a body
[1973.8s] or a creature
[1974.8s] or anything like that.
[1975.8s] You just see this glow
[1976.8s] and as you hear it
[1978.8s] that glow disappears
[1980.8s] towards where the action is.
[1982.8s] As soon as I hear and see
[1984.8s] I come to a dead stop
[1986.8s] and I back myself into the shadows
[1989.8s] if there's a garbage can
[1992.8s] or crates of something.
[1994.8s] I don't know.
[1995.8s] I hide myself until
[1999.8s] I feel like the danger has passed
[2002.8s] and then I continue to book it
[2004.8s] to the magic closet.
[2005.8s] Kavlaran, I think you're
[2008.8s] one of the final ones
[2009.8s] in this round
[2010.8s] that hasn't done anything
[2012.8s] in this immediate scene.
[2015.8s] I haven't done fucking anything.
[2017.8s] The look of shock
[2022.8s] on everyone's face right now.
[2024.8s] I'm trying to hit leave session
[2025.8s] but it's grayed out.
[2026.8s] I don't know what's going on.
[2028.8s] It will not let me get out.
[2030.8s] I have to put up with Amy's abuse.
[2033.8s] So you had previously
[2035.8s] huffed this flaming piece of wood
[2038.8s] up on top to deter that one
[2040.8s] from presumably letting out
[2042.8s] another howl.
[2043.8s] It's still visible
[2044.8s] and it's stepping back towards
[2045.8s] and it seems like it's surveying the scene.
[2049.8s] If you want to get a sense of
[2051.8s] maybe what it's thinking, doing,
[2055.8s] you could roll an insight.
[2057.8s] I'll take a chance on trying to
[2059.8s] understand what it's up to.
[2061.8s] 11 plus 4, 15.
[2063.8s] For the brief moment
[2064.8s] that you're able to watch it,
[2065.8s] it disappears and then comes back
[2067.8s] and it looks like it's going to
[2070.8s] recharge this howl again
[2073.8s] but then sees that
[2074.8s] the military forces are coming in
[2076.8s] and it lets out not the same kind of howl
[2080.8s] but lets out more of an upset shriek.
[2084.8s] A call that looks like
[2086.8s] out of the corner of your eye
[2087.8s] perks the ears of the other two creatures
[2090.8s] and then as you're watching this,
[2092.8s] you see a figure come into view
[2097.8s] very shadowy but like this
[2099.8s] emanating aura around it
[2101.8s] come up behind this creature.
[2103.8s] Looks humanoid in nature.
[2106.8s] I mean I don't love any sort of
[2107.8s] like emanating aura
[2109.8s] but I also don't know that it's a bad thing.
[2111.8s] I'll try and find some cover
[2113.8s] and just kind of see what's going on
[2115.8s] with this aura that's showing up.
[2117.8s] I'll try and find something that isn't burning
[2119.8s] and kind of like crouch behind it
[2121.8s] and just take a little look
[2123.8s] at what's going on with this sitch.
[2125.8s] Sure, so we'll say you're moving
[2127.8s] more towards the bridge side of the dock
[2129.8s] where all the soldiers are coming in.
[2131.8s] Less towards the big scary monsters.
[2133.8s] It's usually how I like to do it.
[2135.8s] So the forces are rushing in.
[2137.8s] Bonwyn, the one that you had attacked
[2140.8s] they're now surrounding it, drawing in.
[2142.8s] It's backing up towards you.
[2144.8s] It's retreating from that position.
[2147.8s] So I should stab it in the butt?
[2149.8s] Would give you...
[2151.8s] It's about this time in every season
[2153.8s] that we need to stab something in the butt.
[2155.8s] Absolutely.
[2157.8s] Why have I said that exact phrase?
[2161.8s] As every character I've ever played.
[2164.8s] But are you just backing up towards me?
[2166.8s] It's like getting...
[2168.8s] I need to, right?
[2170.8s] Yeah, go for it.
[2172.8s] Great, sneak attack also.
[2174.8s] I fucking love sneak attack, guys.
[2176.8s] With my sword again, that's a 19 to hit.
[2179.8s] That'll hit.
[2181.8s] Eight points of damage.
[2183.8s] Not great.
[2185.8s] You stab into it.
[2187.8s] It lets out a shriek
[2189.8s] into you and try and knock you to the side.
[2193.8s] Well, I can try.
[2195.8s] I am short and stout.
[2197.8s] I got a low center of gravity.
[2199.8s] That's going to be a 23.
[2201.8s] Jesus.
[2203.8s] Well, that will do it.
[2205.8s] It's not hitting you with its claws or its bite.
[2207.8s] It's just hitting you with its back end there.
[2211.8s] It is going to give you some damage
[2214.8s] from falling to the ground.
[2216.8s] This is where I die.
[2218.8s] It's not a direct attack.
[2220.8s] It's very small.
[2222.8s] It's just going to be too bludgeoning damage.
[2224.8s] Just 20% of your total life force.
[2226.8s] That's practically dead.
[2228.8s] If you make a strength saving throw,
[2230.8s] you can see if you are knocked prone or not.
[2232.8s] Well, that's only a seven.
[2234.8s] So I think I am, unfortunately.
[2236.8s] Yes.
[2238.8s] So you are knocked to the ground.
[2240.8s] You take this damage.
[2242.8s] You're dazed as the forces are pushing it back.
[2244.8s] It turns.
[2246.8s] I'm going to try and save again.
[2248.8s] That's another 13.
[2250.8s] So it's going to retreat
[2252.8s] in a manner that is
[2254.8s] half of its speed,
[2256.8s] which is going to give it 20 feet.
[2258.8s] So it's not going to go as far as it would like,
[2260.8s] but it would make it to
[2262.8s] the edge of the dock
[2264.8s] and is leaping over some of the flame.
[2266.8s] Still very much within reach
[2268.8s] for a lot of other people.
[2270.8s] The one that you are on, Bizard,
[2272.8s] there are military forces
[2274.8s] flooding in behind you as well.
[2276.8s] It sees those.
[2278.8s] It's going to try and attack you.
[2280.8s] It's coming in for a bite.
[2282.8s] I'll give you first response to it.
[2284.8s] We are going to just attack again.
[2286.8s] That would be a 19 to hit
[2288.8s] on the first attack.
[2290.8s] 19 is going to hit it this time.
[2292.8s] And then a 15 on the second.
[2294.8s] 15 will not.
[2296.8s] Well, we'll take the one.
[2298.8s] That's better than what we got last time.
[2300.8s] So we're making improvements slowly but surely.
[2302.8s] It's going to be a good three
[2304.8s] non-magical slashing damage.
[2306.8s] So we're really making a difference in this world.
[2308.8s] You're doing it.
[2310.8s] Three damage it didn't have before.
[2312.8s] That's right. Better steps.
[2314.8s] Which is enough to stop its immediate attack.
[2316.8s] And now that the forces
[2318.8s] kind of have run in behind you,
[2320.8s] it's going to try and scale the wall
[2322.8s] successfully.
[2324.8s] Very successfully.
[2326.8s] So it takes a hit. I'll give you an opportunity attack
[2328.8s] as it's turning and running.
[2330.8s] 23.
[2332.8s] And that'll be six slashing damage.
[2334.8s] Non-magical.
[2336.8s] As it turns and leaps onto this wall,
[2338.8s] you get one final swipe.
[2340.8s] And with a couple of huge pulls up the wall,
[2342.8s] it's now on the top.
[2344.8s] Vlarin,
[2346.8s] you are at a position where you're
[2348.8s] watching the one
[2350.8s] that maintained its position up on the roof
[2352.8s] and you see this other one jump up.
[2354.8s] And that figure comes up behind it.
[2356.8s] As it gets closer,
[2358.8s] like there's this
[2360.8s] red flame
[2362.8s] about it. That aura becomes more
[2364.8s] clear as a flame. And
[2366.8s] it brings down two
[2368.8s] huge fists down on
[2370.8s] top of the back of this creature.
[2372.8s] And the creature
[2374.8s] itself
[2376.8s] disappears from view underneath
[2378.8s] the weight of whatever this
[2380.8s] thing is that
[2382.8s] you're seeing.
[2384.8s] Even amid all the chaos,
[2386.8s] you hear this huge sickening
[2388.8s] thud. And as you see this other one
[2390.8s] pull up and see, like it
[2392.8s] quickly jumps to the
[2394.8s] other building and
[2396.8s] is running along rooftops trying to
[2398.8s] flee from its current position.
[2400.8s] Okay, so something
[2402.8s] both hurt and spooked it very badly.
[2404.8s] Yeah. Is there anything you
[2406.8s] want to do from your position?
[2408.8s] No, I just want to take like a mental picture
[2410.8s] of what I've seen so I can describe it
[2412.8s] to everyone later. So the military forces
[2414.8s] have now overwhelmed this position.
[2416.8s] The ships have all been either let free
[2418.8s] or have like the ropes have burned.
[2420.8s] Some of the ships have some
[2422.8s] flame attached to them and they're being
[2424.8s] trying to be put out by some of the people on the
[2426.8s] ships. But they're now
[2428.8s] backing out into the river and down
[2430.8s] into the lake. Any of
[2432.8s] them that can. I'm going
[2434.8s] to stand up. You stand up.
[2436.8s] There's still one of these creatures
[2438.8s] that is down in the mix
[2440.8s] so to speak. And
[2442.8s] it is now being attacked
[2444.8s] by the military forces. Like they have it
[2446.8s] completely surrounded. Of course I would roll a nat
[2448.8s] one for the first one.
[2450.8s] Did they light anything on fire as I helpfully
[2452.8s] shouted to them?
[2454.8s] My grapes at each other by accident.
[2456.8s] Arrows have been
[2458.8s] flaming. That's great.
[2460.8s] They had initially come in with blankets to try
[2462.8s] and put out the fire but then wrapped them
[2464.8s] around their swords and were like this is probably
[2466.8s] what we need to do. It was the
[2468.8s] fire brigade that came over.
[2471.8s] So they have
[2473.8s] this one surrounded and are now
[2475.8s] pushing all of their force on top of
[2477.8s] this one. And with the number of military
[2479.8s] here it goes down
[2481.8s] not quickly and not
[2483.8s] without a fight. Some soldiers lose
[2485.8s] their fight as
[2487.8s] well. But it does go
[2489.8s] down in the midst of all of this
[2491.8s] chaos. Alydin?
[2493.8s] Yes? You?
[2495.8s] Present!
[2497.8s] You hid
[2499.8s] amongst some trash cans
[2501.8s] and crates and just watching what
[2503.8s] you could see and then as you were
[2505.8s] certain that the coast was clear you
[2507.8s] make your way back to the magic closet
[2509.8s] and you unlock it and lock it behind
[2511.8s] you and make your way up to
[2513.8s] Bizarre's home
[2515.8s] in this place.
[2517.8s] And you're looking around for everyone.
[2519.8s] I don't have a key
[2521.8s] to his personal abode.
[2523.8s] I don't think. I have a key to the shop
[2525.8s] but the apartment
[2527.8s] upstairs I feel like
[2529.8s] Tali and I definitely have a
[2531.8s] knock. And so
[2533.8s] I do my knock.
[2537.8s] I'm not going to remember that.
[2539.8s] I'll pick a different knock.
[2541.8s] Tali, it's me. Hey.
[2543.8s] Open it. Okay.
[2545.8s] Door opens.
[2547.8s] Come on in. Come on in.
[2549.8s] We're all in here.
[2551.8s] And I come in and I quickly shut the door behind
[2553.8s] me. I don't bother locking it.
[2555.8s] Is everything okay? No.
[2557.8s] I look around.
[2559.8s] Are any children
[2561.8s] sleeping? No. Everybody's
[2563.8s] in sheer panic. There's still
[2565.8s] a lot of noise and chaos coming
[2567.8s] in. Like there's a glow of fire coming
[2569.8s] in through the windows.
[2571.8s] Okay.
[2573.8s] So.
[2577.8s] I look at the kids and I'm like
[2579.8s] just one. Just one second.
[2581.8s] And I bring Tali out into
[2583.8s] the hallway. Yeah. Cause
[2585.8s] no sense in causing panic.
[2587.8s] Okay.
[2589.8s] There are three big
[2591.8s] monster things. Three?
[2593.8s] Yeah. And they seem to be kind
[2595.8s] of scared of fire. Okay.
[2597.8s] Is that the glow?
[2599.8s] Yeah. We started setting
[2601.8s] everything on fire. Of course.
[2603.8s] That makes most sense.
[2605.8s] Sure. My hands. I'm like
[2607.8s] my hands? You set your hands on
[2609.8s] fire? Well, sort of.
[2611.8s] Anyway. Um. One of them
[2613.8s] bit Dace. Oh god. Is he okay?
[2615.8s] Yeah. No. He's fine.
[2617.8s] But he told me to come here and
[2619.8s] stay with you guys. How are the
[2621.8s] kids? They're terrified. We're all terrified.
[2623.8s] But we've been keeping calm and singing
[2625.8s] songs and just trying to
[2627.8s] trying to just quietly
[2629.8s] just keep everyone calm.
[2631.8s] What's that? And she looks out the window
[2633.8s] and you turn and look out
[2635.8s] the window and you see a figure
[2637.8s] leaping across the
[2639.8s] rooftop. Doesn't look like one of the creatures. You see a
[2641.8s] figure leaping across the rooftop
[2643.8s] and away from the
[2645.8s] action. I don't know what
[2647.8s] that is.
[2649.8s] You know what though? Dace told us to stay here.
[2651.8s] So let's stay
[2653.8s] here. Um.
[2655.8s] Let's stay here.
[2657.8s] We move from
[2659.8s] the magic closet over the rooftop
[2661.8s] where we see the one
[2663.8s] creature that had stayed most of the time
[2665.8s] up on the roof is dead on
[2667.8s] top of the roof. Down on
[2669.8s] the ground the military forces have overrun
[2671.8s] the second one down
[2673.8s] in the dock itself and we see
[2675.8s] the third one fleeing off
[2677.8s] into the distance.
[2679.8s] The entire dock
[2681.8s] is burning or burnt to the ground.
[2683.8s] And we see you
[2685.8s] all collecting yourselves
[2687.8s] as the military
[2689.8s] forces who are sure that
[2691.8s] this one creature is dead clear away
[2693.8s] and are beginning to help those that are injured
[2695.8s] and covering up those that have been
[2697.8s] killed in this battle.
[2699.8s] I'm
[2701.8s] going to start organizing like
[2703.8s] a bucket brigade or whatever
[2705.8s] we can do to now start trying to get
[2707.8s] the fires out before
[2709.8s] we actually burn our whole town down.
[2711.8s] Yeah Bazaar is going to start going around and
[2713.8s] just casting controls flame to extinguish
[2715.8s] like five foot cubes. Well that's
[2717.8s] way cooler than what I'm doing.
[2719.8s] But it's like the same idea.
[2721.8s] I'm going
[2723.8s] one side you're going the other.
[2725.8s] There we go. Yeah.
[2727.8s] There's nothing left. It's all burnt.
[2729.8s] I'm like splashing water from the river
[2731.8s] up. Cav is just
[2733.8s] sitting holding his books.
[2735.8s] Like I don't know what he just saw
[2737.8s] but he's kind of
[2739.8s] had his mind blown by
[2741.8s] the things that happened tonight.
[2743.8s] Oh and that's where we leave you.
[2745.8s] It's everybody
[2747.8s] working to
[2749.8s] help anyone injured
[2751.8s] get to the ships that have drifted off
[2753.8s] into the lake and just
[2755.8s] sitting
[2757.8s] in the moment that is this attack
[2759.8s] on Vintersmouth.
[2771.8s] Dumbgeons and Dragons
[2773.8s] Season 4 Episode 3
[2775.8s] starring Amy More as
[2777.8s] Alydin, Carla Maxted as
[2779.8s] Bonwyn Everpain, Tom Laird as
[2781.8s] Kavlaran Goldweave, Kyle
[2783.8s] Claset as Bazaar the Wizard,
[2785.8s] and Russ More as your Dungeon Master.
[2787.8s] Dialogue Editing by Carla Maxted
[2789.8s] and Sound Design by Russ More.
[2791.8s] This episode featured music from
[2793.8s] Epidemic Sound and Slipstream
[2795.8s] and sound effects from Epidemic Sound,
[2797.8s] Boom Library and Sound Ideas.
[2799.8s] Our amazing cover art and
[2801.8s] character designs are by Matt Garbutt
[2803.8s] and a huge thank you to our supporting
[2805.8s] producers.
[2835.8s] We hope to see you over there,
[2837.8s] patreon.com slash dumpdragoncast
[2839.8s] and maybe we'll see you in the community
[2841.8s] we're over on Discord. You have a great
[2843.8s] week, we'll talk to you soon.
[2847.8s] And then the theme song goes and it's
[2849.8s] really fun and everything's happening
[2851.8s] in this...
[2853.8s] We can't kill anybody with this music.
[2855.8s] They just really won't see it coming.
[2857.8s] Is that how you say that?
[2859.8s] I believe it's encroaching?
[2861.8s] I feel like it was a combo word but
[2863.8s] it actually worked great in the situation.
[2865.8s] So I say language is always evolving.
[2867.8s] It's a new portmanteau.
[2869.8s] You're good.
[2871.8s] That's right.
[2873.8s] Well, if it sounds weird
[2875.8s] in the edit, just flag it
[2877.8s] and I'll bloop it out with farm noises.
[2879.8s] I noticed it when you said it and I thought
[2881.8s] I'm not sure that's the word.
[2883.8s] They're crouching and encroaching.
[2885.8s] But maybe they were crouching.
[2887.8s] I think you just made up
[2889.8s] the perfect word.
[2891.8s] I just had a moment where I was like,
[2893.8s] have I been saying this word wrong?
[2895.8s] Webster's Dictionary Word of the Year 2024.
[2897.8s] Encroaching.
[2899.8s] Encroaching.
[2901.8s] Perfect. I've written it down
[2903.8s] as a note to come back to you later.
[2905.8s] But it felt right. It felt right in the moment.
[2907.8s] Mail it to yourself so when it is the word of the year
[2909.8s] you can claim ownership.
[2911.8s] Make it the title of this episode.
[2913.8s] Word of the Year?
[2915.8s] Encroaching.
[2917.8s] The other side of the bridge and they
[2919.8s] were like, obviously.
[2921.8s] Get your nose out of the garbage.
[2923.8s] That's what Bonwyn yells to the soldiers.
[2925.8s] What are they doing? Priorities, you guys.
[2927.8s] Get your nose out of the garbage.
[2929.8s] Dumbgeons & Dragons is a Dumb Dragons production.