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[7.2s] Bizard and Kavlaran open the door, incense begins to pour out of this establishment.
[14.3s] There's blinking lights, a smoky air to the space as you enter the chest of drawers.
[21.6s] And the walls are completely lined with the most colorful, all different sizes of underwear that you've got more than you've ever seen or pictured before in your life.
[35.9s] And it takes a moment as you're kind of clearing the smoke from your eyes and popping right up in front of you is this older man, very, very skinny.
[46.3s] He's got a tan shirt with a brown vest over top.
[54.1s] His pants are three sizes too big, and he's got them cinched up with a rope.
[59.1s] And he comes jumping up to you and says, Good day, my friends, come into the chest of drawers.
[67.3s] What can I find for you?
[68.5s] Shall we do some fittings?
[70.2s] Yeah, yeah, um, Kavlaran, I don't know if you wanted to just drop by and pick up or if you know your size or if you wanted to get something custom.
[78.8s] I mean, I won't lie, this place has changed a little bit for the last time I was here, and I just needed like a second to take it all in.
[85.5s] Oh, we have made some improvements.
[87.3s] When was the last time you were here?
[88.8s] It's been like a couple months?
[91.2s] Years.
[92.5s] There were some little market research that we did that said bright lights, incense was popular with the kids, we've got the music that I was about to turn on, it disappears in the back.
[106.4s] Just give me a moment.
[107.3s] And then you hear just like this thumping bass coming from the back.
[110.6s] I'm working late because I'm a singer.
[114.2s] I assume.
[115.2s] I was expecting a lot more sitar, but all right, I'm into it.
[118.8s] And he comes out and there's this disco ball begins lowering from the ceiling and says, what do you think?
[125.3s] I absolutely love it.
[127.4s] I knew people would.
[129.1s] Incense is a little much, maybe dial that back a bit.
[132.6s] Dial back the incense, he writes on his notebook, dial back the incense.
[136.1s] Okay, perfect.
[136.7s] Thank you.
[137.1s] Thank you.
[137.4s] Nobody said that before.
[138.9s] Looking at you, looking at you two, um, tight briefs and a G string.
[144.5s] Yes.
[145.6s] Perfect.
[146.0s] Absolutely.
[147.1s] As long as it's a silk.
[149.2s] Oh, yes, of course.
[150.4s] And he, uh, zips over to a shelf off to the side.
[154.5s] Wait, are you getting the G string or am I getting?
[157.6s] I mean, I was pretty sure I was getting it, but I guess we're going to see when he comes back.
[161.6s] We'll just buy whatever and we can take whatever.
[163.6s] Absolutely.
[164.2s] I was just wondering who was the G string and who was the brief.
[167.7s] Can't wait.
[168.2s] I like that the man is going to decide, right?
[171.2s] I pick your panties now.
[172.5s] It's fine.
[175.3s] Less choices in my life.
[176.5s] I'm all for it.
[178.0s] That Steve jobs situation.
[181.2s] He comes over with this silver platter of a tray and there are four different types of, of, uh, tight briefs on one and four different G strings on the other.
[192.3s] Um, and he's like waving them back and forth in front of you as if waiting to see who picks them.
[198.6s] And then he drops the G strings in front of cav.
[202.7s] Says, yeah, did I get it?
[205.5s] Oh, yes, of course.
[206.7s] My good sir.
[207.4s] Nailed it in the hands.
[208.5s] He says there's no trying on what's your size.
[212.0s] We could, we could measure, but of course that that's entirely up to you.
[216.5s] Uh, I I'm a thick with two C's.
[219.2s] Thick with two C's.
[220.3s] Uh, he checks the label, called it thin with six eyes, thin with six eyes.
[227.1s] He looks at the label, called it again.
[229.2s] I haven't lost my touch.
[230.8s] No trying on.
[231.6s] I mean, we could sure go into the back, try them on, try and keep whatever there's magic in this world.
[239.7s] We'll just get them to clean it after.
[241.1s] If there's anything wrong with it, we can press to digitate it clean.
[244.7s] It'll be fine.
[245.2s] Perfect.
[246.0s] Yes.
[246.3s] Yeah.
[246.5s] As you were.
[247.4s] Okay.
[247.7s] Hold on.
[248.0s] I'm sorry.
[248.4s] Pause.
[249.4s] Does anybody else feel like press the digitation?
[252.6s] All it does is alter the thing.
[257.1s] Like let's say you're cleaning a pair of dirty undies.
[260.4s] Mm hmm.
[260.8s] Those undies are still technically dirty.
[263.4s] There's like just a layer of press the digitation over top of it.
[266.8s] Oh, it cleans it.
[268.0s] I, that's not, I feel about that spell.
[271.7s] I feel like-
[272.2s] You're thinking more it went, like it took everything down to the, to the
[275.4s] crick and beat them on the rocks.
[278.8s] Like, I feel like it's layered.
[281.0s] It is transmutation.
[282.2s] It's literally altering an item's, you know, contents and everything.
[286.6s] Yeah.
[287.3s] In my heart, it's just a layer of, I don't know.
[291.7s] Like Scotchgard or something?
[293.1s] Like a Scotchgard, like transmutating Scotchgard on the underwear.
[297.6s] The Robert Munch book where she colors herself with the amazing
[304.0s] never come off until you're dead markers.
[308.2s] I mean, it's been a long time since I've read any of those.
[311.3s] Anyway, she finds it, she gets a peach one.
[313.6s] And after she had finished marking all over herself, she
[317.7s] colored over it with peach.
[319.0s] That's how I feel.
[321.4s] The cold meds are kicking in.
[322.8s] I'm so sorry.
[323.5s] Continue on.
[324.4s] Fair, fair.
[325.4s] No.
[327.4s] Amy's flying high tonight.
[329.3s] That's okay.
[330.9s] You, the two of you go into the back and he says, call if
[333.5s] you need something seasonal.
[335.6s] You can just go ahead and bring it.
[336.8s] I'm always interested.
[337.9s] Same.
[338.2s] Love it.
[338.8s] Would you like some different fits?
[340.8s] No, you just, you bring me what you feel is best.
[344.2s] Dealer's choice.
[345.5s] Like you guys, did you ask his name?
[347.8s] Who's this gentleman choosing out your undies?
[350.1s] It's Mr.
[350.5s] Chest.
[352.2s] Obviously it's Mr.
[353.6s] Of drawers.
[356.5s] Chester drawers.
[360.5s] All surnames are after a trade, right?
[364.1s] It's Mr.
[364.6s] Chester drawers.
[365.5s] Yeah.
[365.8s] It's like Iceland.
[369.1s] That's how they do their last names, but not professional.
[372.3s] Oh, I thought you were talking about.
[374.0s] I thought you were making a joke about Iceland because it's not
[376.2s] ice, it's green.
[377.8s] No.
[378.6s] Cause they like name their last names after their dads.
[385.6s] Oh God, you guys.
[386.2s] We cut to the answer, Smith.
[391.3s] You doing okay?
[392.1s] I'm, I'm here.
[394.1s] Okay.
[394.4s] Well it's your turn next.
[396.4s] Dumbgeons and Dragons is a D and D actual play podcast, and I'm
[403.4s] your dungeon master, Russ More.
[405.0s] He, him also joining me today is Amy More as Alydin.
[409.0s] She, her, I'm going to wail on that bucket so hard.
[411.8s] Carla Max dead as Bonwyn Everbane.
[414.1s] She, her, I think we do it classic sleepover style.
[417.8s] Tom layered as Kavlaran Goldweave.
[419.8s] He, him.
[420.4s] I don't think you want it to be kept loose.
[422.1s] If it's on the down low and Kyle class it as bizarre.
[424.8s] The wizard.
[425.5s] He, him.
[426.2s] I don't think that's actually a game.
[427.6s] I don't spend much time on boats.
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[438.1s] where we play more D and D and have just a really great time.
[441.9s] And Hey, don't forget next week.
[444.3s] We have a very special holiday episode.
[447.2s] Two of them actually coming out for you.
[449.9s] So, you know, stick around here.
[451.8s] Fuck it.
[452.2s] Let's play.
[454.7s] Alydin and a lot of the kids.
[459.4s] Oh, I think we said all of the kids were going to have a sleepover.
[463.8s] Big sleepover.
[464.6s] At Everbane.
[465.0s] Bane, Day said he would probably come, which is good.
[468.2s] Cause this is a lot of children for me to feel responsible for.
[471.0s] Although they've been taking care of themselves, but still.
[474.2s] Yeah.
[474.7s] I don't think they require a lot of extra care, but like, you don't
[477.6s] know how trashy they might trash the place.
[480.2s] They're children.
[481.0s] That's right.
[482.0s] It's been a very commotion filled evening.
[486.2s] Everybody's been tucked in.
[488.2s] Bonwyn and Alydin and Dase and Thane are all kind of just collecting
[493.6s] themselves in the, in the main areas.
[496.8s] Everybody's drifted off into the various, I guess, how many bedrooms do you have?
[501.2s] Not even really bedrooms.
[502.4s] I think we do it classic sleepover style where we like pull all the beds
[506.7s] in and we're like in the big open space because we had just kind of
[510.5s] moved everything after monster destruction.
[513.8s] So things hadn't quite been set back up.
[515.8s] So like, and it's warm and cozy because we've like banked the, the
[520.1s] fires and the forages and like, you know, everybody's eating popcorn
[524.6s] and told scary stories.
[526.0s] And now they're all just kind of drifting off to sleep.
[530.0s] Maybe the four, I was going to say the four of us adults.
[532.7s] No, maybe the four of us.
[534.7s] I mean, Alydin totally is like, like in my little office that's
[539.8s] like off that main area.
[541.9s] All right.
[542.3s] As all of the kids are drifting off, door closes and the four of you are
[547.4s] in the room and Dase looks around and sits down in one of the, on one of
[552.4s] the stools that's in this space and says, do you need us to stay all night?
[558.2s] I don't think so.
[559.0s] I mean, we're all here or I don't know.
[561.4s] I guess we should be maybe doing watch.
[564.6s] I think we do need you to stay.
[565.8s] I've reconsidered.
[566.7s] Roger that.
[567.2s] Yeah.
[567.8s] We need to, we need to do a watch in case another kid wanders off or is taken
[572.7s] or got to figure out what's going on.
[577.1s] So maybe Alydin first watch because.
[580.4s] Yeah.
[581.1s] Then you can get some sleep.
[583.2s] Yeah.
[583.5s] I would, I could do, I could do any watch.
[587.5s] Oh, I know you could, but I don't want you to have to.
[590.5s] It's not a competition.
[591.8s] Yeah.
[592.7s] Okay.
[594.5s] Do I like just sit by the door?
[596.8s] Well, you can just find, you can pull a comfortable chair in there.
[602.0s] Okay.
[602.3s] And just watch closer to the fire.
[604.0s] You could read a book or something.
[605.6s] I mean, we're not looking for, um, a mouse creeping in.
[609.8s] I don't think, I think it will be obvious if a kid gets up and
[612.6s] starts to like wander away.
[615.2s] And then just, um, I guess raise all hell, maybe bang this,
[621.8s] give her a pod and ladle.
[624.0s] I take the ladle and then I lift my bucket and go, yes.
[628.6s] And then I put the ladle inside the bucket.
[630.4s] Yeah.
[631.1s] All right.
[631.4s] I got this.
[632.7s] You got this.
[633.2s] I got this.
[634.5s] And we'll be, we'll be just right in here.
[636.8s] A couple of us will be trying to just get a little rest as well.
[639.5s] So we can make it through the night, but yeah, we'll be right in here.
[641.9s] Door will be cracked open.
[643.2s] Okay.
[645.0s] Okay.
[645.2s] I'm going.
[648.6s] You enter back into the space with all of the sleeping children,
[651.4s] a couple of them stirs.
[652.7s] You come in and look up at you and put their heads back down on their
[657.4s] pillows and drift off to sleep.
[661.4s] You sit in a chair that's reasonably comfortable over by one of the fires.
[668.4s] And what do you do?
[670.2s] I think what Alydin does is gets her bucket and takes a little pocket
[677.2s] knife out that she has and is just kind of like meticulously like scraping
[683.7s] off a little bit of rust on her bucket.
[686.5s] Like not making a huge man of noise.
[688.3s] She's not raising all hell or anything.
[690.4s] Um, but she's like, and like carving some, some pictures into her bucket
[696.6s] with the knife and just pretty much anything to keep herself awake.
[700.4s] Cause she does not want to fall asleep.
[702.0s] How embarrassing would that be?
[703.5s] How embarrassing?
[704.3s] So embarrassing.
[706.0s] Uh, the night drifts on a little bit and your eyes begin to get a little heavy.
[711.8s] Would you make a constitution saving throw?
[714.4s] Oh my God.
[715.0s] I'm just going to roll on my iPad.
[717.1s] Oh no.
[717.4s] It's like real life.
[719.0s] Oh no.
[719.9s] I got a 19.
[721.6s] Oh, that's not like real life.
[723.5s] No plus two.
[725.0s] It's a 21.
[726.5s] I believe that Alydin would be like, I'm awake for 21 hours.
[730.2s] Stay awake my whole life.
[731.6s] Yeah, your eyes begin to get a little heavy and you shake it off and
[737.6s] plaster them open as much as you can.
[739.9s] I get up and walk around a little bit.
[741.7s] It's the blood moving.
[742.7s] It's always a good trick.
[743.6s] Yep.
[747.3s] No, definitely won't open a window.
[748.9s] That might be how the banjo man gets in.
[751.8s] That shut Tom up.
[752.7s] Yeah.
[753.0s] What do you think?
[753.6s] Windows?
[754.5s] He didn't know he wasn't here.
[755.5s] Yeah, it's true.
[756.4s] Oh, fair.
[757.1s] Yeah.
[758.2s] I mean, I was there for the creepy song.
[759.9s] Yeah, yeah.
[761.2s] You finish out your watch and next one in is Bonwyn comes in, sees you pacing
[771.4s] about the room at this point.
[774.0s] Okay, go to bed.
[775.7s] We got this.
[776.4s] You're good.
[777.1s] Did you see anything weird?
[778.1s] No, nothing weird.
[779.3s] Are you guys sure you're okay?
[780.7s] You don't need me to take another hour or two?
[783.4s] I tell you what, we'll wake you up if we need you.
[786.1s] Okay.
[786.6s] I think maybe I have borrowed a book, let's say from June, since she used to
[795.5s] work at the school, perhaps she was like the keeper of the books and I'm looking
[799.9s] to see if I can learn any more about like, it's like a folklore kind of book,
[806.0s] maybe about the banjo man or that weird treble clef kind of symbol that was
[812.3s] burned into the floor.
[814.0s] Symbol that was burned into the floor.
[817.6s] I'll roll library.
[818.9s] Just kidding.
[820.1s] That's a cyberpunk roll.
[822.7s] History is probably the best.
[824.4s] What about something I'm good at?
[826.0s] Do you have a good investigation?
[827.6s] Cause like, I do have a good investigation, but yeah, I wouldn't
[831.5s] quite correlate, it's probably history.
[836.0s] Uh, that's not the worst 14.
[838.6s] Crack open the book and you're flipping through the stories of all
[842.4s] the tales that, uh, that have been collected over the years.
[846.2s] And, um, you come across one that catches your eye about a person
[854.3s] who was down on their luck, spent some time traveling from city to
[860.0s] city, playing their music.
[862.7s] They weren't the best.
[866.1s] The moral of this tale is, um, all kind of wraps up into do what you
[872.6s] love and good things will come.
[876.7s] This tale though, as you continue to read on about this person,
[882.4s] it's all very, there's not a lot of specifics.
[886.4s] They never named the person in this tale.
[888.5s] They just call them the man or the, or the, or the person or the musician.
[893.4s] It gets to a point and they are introduced to a being from the fey.
[900.8s] This being makes them a deal.
[904.8s] You continue to play music every time you play, you will get better.
[909.8s] And in return, you will bring people to the fey for this being.
[918.2s] The tale in and of itself, as you continue to flip the pages
[922.4s] as you're reading through, you find it isn't completely finished.
[926.1s] This goes on to, um, tell you how much this person has become like
[933.6s] this well renowned musician throughout the land.
[937.8s] And as you get to the last page, it stops kind of mid page as if the,
[943.4s] the person, as if the person writing it just stops at the end of the
[952.3s] stopped, it's in the middle of a phrase.
[956.1s] And then instead of what, um, you know, would come at the end,
[961.6s] the, uh, a proper piece of punctuation, there is a tiny musical note.
[968.8s] As you hit that, your eyes begin to get a little heavy.
[975.4s] If you'd make a constitution saving throw, please.
[979.2s] 16.
[980.3s] Your eyes begin to get heavy and your, your head bobs.
[984.0s] And as that happens and you're kind of correcting yourself and you look
[987.8s] back down at the page, there's like what appears to be like a shimmer
[992.9s] across this, just this one page.
[994.7s] You flip back and forth a couple of times.
[996.8s] And, and then when you come back to it, that shimmers gone.
[1001.0s] There's a hand taps you on the shoulder and it's DACE.
[1006.3s] So is everything okay?
[1009.1s] Yeah, Russ, I think I remember this right.
[1011.9s] Wasn't there also like a shimmer thing on the actual, what was it on the
[1019.2s] leaf or on the etching that I did?
[1021.5s] Or it was, yeah, it was on the musical note that looked like it
[1024.1s] was scratched or burned into, okay.
[1027.2s] On the actual one, not the copy.
[1029.6s] Okay.
[1030.0s] That's what I thought.
[1030.6s] But before I started telling tall tales today, so I wanted to make sure.
[1035.6s] Um, I'm, I'm good.
[1036.9s] I think I found something.
[1038.6s] What's that?
[1040.1s] Well, you know, that etching that I showed you that burn kind of musical thing.
[1045.7s] Well, the real one is like, had a bit of a, I don't know how to
[1050.0s] explain it, like a shimmer on it.
[1053.0s] Um, like something not of here.
[1057.9s] And I was just reading in this book about this musician who makes a deal
[1061.8s] with someone from the Faye to get excellent at music, but then they owe
[1066.0s] this Faye creature people as payment.
[1071.6s] No, that doesn't sound good.
[1072.4s] And I saw the same thing.
[1074.3s] Shimmer thing.
[1075.2s] Right.
[1076.1s] You see it?
[1077.0s] Takes the book from you and I, I don't, I'm sorry.
[1080.7s] I don't, I don't see any shimmer.
[1082.4s] I hands it back.
[1084.5s] I mean, we go way back.
[1085.6s] So you believe that I see these things.
[1088.2s] Yeah.
[1088.4s] I mean, it's also like, I believe that you've seen it.
[1091.5s] It's also very late.
[1092.7s] We've been up dealing with, you know, not saying that what I'm saying is I believe you.
[1097.9s] There's a lot of strange things that are happening.
[1100.7s] Indeed.
[1102.2s] What do you know about the Faye?
[1103.5s] I don't really know much.
[1104.8s] Like the stories we used to tell when we were kids.
[1107.3s] And like, they're just stories for boat and forest and like
[1111.6s] spooky tales to tell at night.
[1113.8s] No, that's, that's all that same thing.
[1116.3s] I don't, I don't really know it.
[1118.5s] If only we had him a wizard here who might know some things.
[1122.4s] Of course he's off to Kingstown.
[1123.8s] That's okay though.
[1124.5s] Of course.
[1125.2s] So like our one sort of real magical person.
[1129.6s] Should look at diversifying that specialty.
[1134.4s] Yeah.
[1134.6s] I mean, he's normally always around, but this is, I mean, we could really
[1137.7s] use some insight here.
[1139.8s] Do you think someone else might know?
[1141.2s] Like, I mean, like some, some of the older folks down by my parents or June
[1147.9s] or someone like, I don't know.
[1149.9s] In the morning at the very Lacey, you know, you got this from June.
[1153.3s] You said you can maybe check and see if she has all the old books from
[1157.3s] the, from the schools, like at the mill.
[1162.4s] I don't know.
[1162.8s] Should we send the kids to stay at the old folks place with the old folks
[1166.8s] or then will they be unprotected?
[1168.3s] I, well, I mean, they'll, we give them warning when, before we send
[1175.5s] the kids down to the old folks place.
[1177.3s] Oh yeah.
[1177.7s] I didn't think we should just send, you know, 30 random children down.
[1183.2s] Yeah.
[1183.6s] Yeah.
[1183.8s] I'll send a note maybe.
[1184.3s] Make sure that there are extra, extra festivities that they have running
[1187.6s] around, you know, just put on pause while the kids are there.
[1190.5s] Well, there'll definitely be some canoe rides.
[1192.1s] There's like 150 canoes kicking around that place.
[1194.2s] My dad's gone nuts.
[1195.2s] So, yeah.
[1196.3s] Okay.
[1196.8s] Yeah.
[1197.0s] I think that'll be good.
[1197.9s] That'll be good.
[1198.5s] Yeah.
[1198.8s] Hey, well, just a thought.
[1200.3s] Um, let's, let's check that out in the morning.
[1203.2s] Uh, but I didn't see anything other than, other than this.
[1206.2s] And I think, and can I actually do like, just in case I was so engrossed,
[1210.8s] like a head count, make sure everybody's still there.
[1214.4s] Yep.
[1215.4s] Rural investigation.
[1216.8s] 11.
[1217.8s] Yeah.
[1218.0s] You look around, nothing's changed.
[1220.8s] I run out of fingers and toes.
[1222.0s] I can't go higher.
[1223.5s] You, you see all, basically everybody there that doesn't look like
[1227.4s] there's any empty cots in the space.
[1229.8s] Nothing's changed with the doors or windows.
[1232.2s] Like everything is as you, as you left.
[1235.8s] Okay.
[1236.6s] I'm going to hit the rack.
[1237.9s] You're in charge.
[1238.6s] Yep.
[1239.1s] You got it.
[1240.4s] Uh, Dase goes over as you head out into the other room and he's
[1244.4s] tossing another couple logs on the fire just to stoke that back up.
[1248.4s] And he sits back in the chair and notices there's a book beside
[1252.7s] him and also starts reading.
[1255.7s] We don't need Bazaar.
[1256.4s] We're going to be so smart by the end of all this studying.
[1259.5s] We'll be right back.
[1263.6s] It's the middle.
[1266.1s] That way I don't have to worry about it.
[1267.5s] Mm hmm.
[1268.5s] There you go.
[1268.9s] Lovely.
[1269.9s] Welcome to middle everybody.
[1271.2s] Hello middle.
[1271.7s] Hello.
[1272.2s] Middle.
[1273.4s] How's everybody doing?
[1275.3s] Good.
[1275.6s] Real great.
[1276.2s] Hey, fucking-tastic.
[1278.4s] Is that real?
[1279.0s] Cause that automatically sounds sarcastic.
[1281.2s] Uh-huh.
[1281.9s] Damn it.
[1283.2s] That's fucking-tastic.
[1284.3s] That's the, that's the fucking-tastic.
[1286.2s] That's the Tom situation that he was talking about earlier.
[1288.9s] Yeah.
[1289.7s] Fan fucking-tastic.
[1291.0s] Fan fucking-tastic.
[1292.4s] Fan fucking-tastic.
[1293.6s] You can't.
[1294.0s] I don't think you can.
[1294.8s] Fan fucking-tastic.
[1296.2s] Yeah.
[1296.6s] Fan fucking-tastic.
[1298.3s] Nah, it's too, it's too rabid.
[1299.8s] That one was definitely pretty aggressive.
[1302.4s] Yeah.
[1303.8s] Man.
[1304.8s] Well, we didn't swear at all in this episode until this point.
[1307.6s] Oh wow, we did so good.
[1308.7s] So now this one has to be explicit again.
[1310.0s] Sorry everybody.
[1311.2s] Oh well.
[1312.4s] They should all just be labeled explicit.
[1314.2s] They are.
[1315.7s] That's a good call.
[1316.5s] Yeah, no, just to catch all of those, uh, flamie kin sex room from season two, season one.
[1324.2s] Any innuendos that happen to get by us.
[1326.0s] It's just a blanket of careful explicit.
[1330.4s] Yeah.
[1332.0s] Yes.
[1332.3s] Just, just assume that we're going to say something and it's going to be off-color.
[1337.2s] Yeah.
[1337.9s] That's just a good way.
[1338.7s] And it might be sarcastic, but it might not be, depending on who says it.
[1343.4s] It's true.
[1343.8s] Exactly.
[1345.0s] But either way, it'll probably be profane air time.
[1352.5s] My profanity comes from the heart.
[1355.3s] You know what else comes from the heart?
[1356.9s] What?
[1358.4s] The love that we give our Patreon subscribers over at Patreon.
[1362.2s] So much love.
[1363.3s] You just go to patreon.com slash dump dragon cast.
[1366.4s] You sign up, you get a lot of great bonus content.
[1369.8s] There's a book club.
[1371.0s] There's special discord channel.
[1374.2s] All kinds of good stuff.
[1376.9s] Maybe you can play with us.
[1378.4s] But of course, also you get an episode dedicated to you.
[1383.0s] Like today's patron, Lisa S Beasley.
[1391.0s] Lisa has recommended a couple of really good books to me in the discord.
[1396.9s] So yeah, it's not just all D and D in there.
[1398.8s] You can get book recs, get all kinds of good stuff, recipes, all
[1402.9s] sorts of stuff.
[1404.4s] Yeah.
[1404.8s] And just getting to know people.
[1406.6s] Just some nice people.
[1407.9s] Yeah.
[1408.6s] Yeah.
[1409.5s] Oh, good times.
[1410.3s] We're all over there.
[1411.8s] The love.
[1412.4s] Yeah.
[1413.8s] This is fan fucking-tastic.
[1415.6s] No, see you can't say it.
[1419.0s] Fan fucking-tastic.
[1421.1s] Nope.
[1421.7s] Sorry guys.
[1423.1s] I got a smile.
[1423.7s] This is actually now our most swearing-est episode.
[1426.5s] Just trying to swear.
[1429.1s] Yeah, but we're working out something.
[1430.5s] What if we, what if we flip it?
[1432.3s] What if we go fucking-fantastic, but not fan fucking-tastic?
[1439.0s] No, see, yeah, it's the placement of the fucking.
[1441.4s] It's cause in that situation, fuck actually fivils a grammatical role as an adjective.
[1447.2s] And it's never like a positive adjective either.
[1449.9s] So, I mean, I mean, unless it's fucking great, fucking great, fucking great.
[1456.0s] But if you're like inserting it in the middle of a word, it's not just on its own.
[1461.7s] Fucking potato casserole.
[1464.0s] Yeah.
[1464.2s] See, if you put it in the middle.
[1465.2s] I don't know, that sounded kind of pleasant.
[1466.9s] Is sweet potato one word?
[1468.5s] Would it have to be something like po-fucking-tato?
[1470.9s] Yeah, it'd be like po-fucking-tato.
[1473.7s] Po-fucking-tato?
[1474.8s] Look, I did it wrong, okay?
[1476.4s] Did you notice Sam Weiss was like, po-fucking-tato.
[1478.2s] Do you want me to sing a song and not rhyme at the end, like mash and boil and fuck them in a stew?
[1482.3s] What about elevensies?
[1486.4s] I was going to try to put fuck into that too, and I can't.
[1488.5s] Oh, wow.
[1490.0s] We fucking love you guys.
[1491.2s] We fucking love you guys, it's true.
[1494.0s] Yeah, 100%.
[1495.1s] Thanks for listening, thanks for being here, thank you Lisa.
[1498.8s] Go join us today at patreon.com slash dumb dragon cast, and I'll get you back to the episode.
[1504.0s] Have a fan-fucking-tastic day.
[1505.7s] Fucking fantastic episode.
[1507.0s] Fucking fantastic day, love you.
[1509.3s] Love you, bye.
[1510.3s] Bye.
[1514.4s] Back in Kingstown, it's the next day.
[1517.8s] Cav, you turned in the books, but then left them in the stack of papers on your desk to keep them...
[1524.7s] Brilliant plan, if I do say so myself.
[1527.8s] You're making one last stop by the office and you're swinging by your desk just to make sure that they are in fact hidden.
[1536.5s] The piles have gotten taller since the last time you were there.
[1540.6s] And as you're turning around to head back out, you hear a call from Comptroller Wiggum.
[1548.3s] Hey, hey, Cavlarin, Cavlarin.
[1551.6s] Say.
[1552.0s] Oh, yeah, yep.
[1553.0s] And you hear from the other side.
[1555.0s] Cavlarin, you're back?
[1557.0s] No.
[1559.0s] Good to have you.
[1560.2s] Say, yeah, yeah, yeah, come into the office here, see?
[1563.5s] He starts heading back towards his office.
[1566.1s] I go in and close the door.
[1568.4s] She's always on it so fast.
[1570.8s] I've been here like 30 seconds.
[1572.4s] Everybody will know you're back.
[1574.2s] But then don't worry, I'll correct it because we need you to be gone.
[1579.3s] So I took the information that you gave me and I took it up to a couple of folks above me.
[1586.3s] I'm not going to name names right now, but there's some serious interest in the findings that you have.
[1594.0s] Yeah, just kind of played it a little loose with some, you know, what if kind of questions.
[1599.8s] And well, let me tell you, there have been there have been some investigations into certain ladies,
[1608.4s] business handleings.
[1611.0s] Uh huh.
[1611.4s] Just keep it keep it real loose and on the down low.
[1617.8s] OK, well, I think those are two different things.
[1620.5s] I don't think you want it to be kept loose if it's on the down low.
[1623.8s] Well, this is new information for me because I usually just go report things.
[1628.2s] This has some higher ups in it.
[1630.3s] I'm not really sure about reporting it.
[1632.0s] But what I'm telling you is there are people perceptively on our side here.
[1638.6s] So this is good.
[1639.5s] This is good news for both of us.
[1641.4s] OK, we like that.
[1642.4s] Like that. So we're going to send you back to Vintersmouth.
[1646.2s] Keep things copacetic.
[1649.0s] You don't have the books anymore.
[1651.0s] You hid them somewhere.
[1652.2s] Yes. Yes.
[1654.0s] Perfect. Great. Love that for you.
[1656.3s] And then give it a give it a week, maybe two.
[1660.4s] And we'll send someone from our office to do some further investigations,
[1668.3s] follow ups to certain reports in an effort to make move this to the next step.
[1676.5s] And what is that next step?
[1678.7s] Well, that's what we're that's what me and and a couple others
[1684.2s] and are going to try and figure out here is the next step is we've got to
[1689.6s] we feel we've got to cut off.
[1694.4s] The supply. Of everything.
[1699.4s] To the mayor.
[1700.7s] OK, yeah, no, I think that's a good call.
[1703.0s] Easiest way to do that, we figure,
[1706.0s] is to shut the mayor and all of his closest cohorts down first.
[1714.3s] OK, any any objections?
[1717.4s] I don't think reason why that wouldn't work.
[1721.5s] I mean, it's a lot of people to to shut down all at once, but.
[1726.6s] Yeah, I'm pretty confident that'll work.
[1728.8s] You just I mean, based on the books, I mean, it's probably pretty evident.
[1731.8s] You still think every noble in the city is
[1735.6s] is also. At least has some
[1739.8s] handling of what has been going on.
[1742.8s] I mean, it might be too much to say every single one,
[1746.3s] but, yeah, I think for the most part, they all kind of know.
[1752.0s] All right. Well,
[1755.2s] we'll come with a few people, then, you know, come in force.
[1759.5s] We've got the military there. Yeah.
[1761.7s] Uh huh. Well, those are our military.
[1764.2s] Well, I mean, you might want to just like, make sure that's the case.
[1767.7s] They've been taking handouts for a while down there.
[1771.0s] Really? He says you got those books on you.
[1775.4s] I mean, not on my person, no.
[1777.2s] Good. That was the test. You passed.
[1779.4s] Oh, all right.
[1781.6s] I love the easy ones.
[1783.0s] Yes. Well, we'll bring we'll bring some we'll bring some
[1787.5s] lieutenant or commander, somebody, somebody who we can vet here.
[1793.3s] Like Lieutenant Dan?
[1794.6s] Well, we could bring Lieutenant Dan. Yeah, absolutely.
[1798.9s] It wasn't my first go to, but Lieutenant Dan could could be an OK guy.
[1803.4s] He's a good guy. We'll see if he's on the up and up.
[1806.4s] Do a little internal vetting here.
[1809.7s] This pen doesn't work.
[1810.9s] I'm just going to write down a different with a different.
[1814.4s] No, this this one works.
[1816.5s] Lieutenant Dan.
[1819.1s] He's still in he's still in the he's still in the organization.
[1824.1s] I mean, he retired last I saw, but it's been a little while
[1827.5s] since I was really up to date.
[1829.8s] OK. Maybe it was a different Dan.
[1833.2s] You continue doing your business.
[1834.8s] We want to keep you off the radar for a little bit.
[1837.7s] So just whatever it is you usually do there.
[1840.6s] I'm sure it's very similar to what you were doing here.
[1843.3s] Yep. It's as much as possible all the time.
[1846.1s] The two of you just lock eyes for like a.
[1849.5s] Like too long.
[1850.9s] Cav continues nodding slowly.
[1852.9s] Yep, that's what that's that's why we sent you to Vinter Smith
[1855.8s] is because you loved your job so much.
[1857.8s] So we're going to send you there.
[1859.0s] You're going to continue doing what you're doing.
[1860.9s] You may get a couple a couple of letters from us with some updates.
[1865.9s] Don't worry.
[1866.6s] We'll make sure that they are imbued with a certain
[1870.6s] magic quality so that if they are taken before they get to you,
[1875.2s] that they won't have the same message.
[1878.4s] OK, I'm told that this is something that's possible.
[1880.9s] I haven't handled much magic in my life,
[1884.5s] but we've got a couple of people on on payroll now
[1887.3s] who handle in these cipher systems.
[1890.4s] Cool. I'll I'll have to ask my buddy Bizardo about it.
[1894.2s] Yes. He may need to help you because
[1898.3s] it's entirely likely he will have to help me.
[1900.7s] Yes. Excellent. Excellent. Excellent.
[1902.7s] Well, it's good that you have that out there.
[1904.9s] Because if you couldn't read the message, this would make this very difficult.
[1908.7s] But that said, we will send a few people out to further the investigation
[1913.1s] and hopefully just to have a plan at that point to shut things down
[1917.2s] and then start working out,
[1919.2s] working out towards all of the nefarious people in those books.
[1923.8s] I love it.
[1924.9s] Mm hmm. And that and then all that whole plan checks out to you.
[1930.1s] Yes, 100 percent all in.
[1932.7s] Oh, OK. Good, good, good, good, good, good.
[1936.0s] All right. Well, it's good seeing you.
[1938.0s] Good to have you back. You're not back.
[1940.9s] I'll make sure to let everybody know that you have left again.
[1943.9s] Perfect. Yeah, you came in left quickly.
[1949.0s] Take a coffee on your way out.
[1950.2s] It's the best coffee in the entire city.
[1953.1s] All right. We'll do. You pour yourself a coffee.
[1955.6s] It is still the same cold swill that you had
[1959.1s] that he served to Bizardo last time.
[1961.2s] Good to see you, Kav.
[1963.1s] Uh, yeah, and I just kind of put the coffee down on the counter
[1966.5s] and duck out the door, duck out and down the hallway.
[1969.0s] And we see Comptroller Wiggum go over to the to the cup
[1973.3s] and says, oh, he forgot his cup and take any swigs out of it.
[1977.2s] So I'll just I'll just finish this off here for him.
[1979.7s] And he goes and sits behind his desk and puts his feet back up
[1982.4s] and takes a long drink of that cold, cold coffee.
[1989.8s] Ah, well, it's my favorite.
[1991.6s] I like Comptroller Wiggum's is
[1995.4s] like when the internet first came out, it's like,
[1997.6s] I haven't dealt with this magic stuff.
[2003.9s] Email, I don't know.
[2005.4s] We've got an intern there young.
[2007.4s] I'm sure they know how it works.
[2013.1s] Down at the docks,
[2015.0s] Bizard, you're waiting for Kav and the ship to leave
[2018.0s] and a lot of times passing and you're expecting your mother
[2022.6s] to arrive in hopes that she comes back to you with Vinter's man.
[2027.4s] You're scanning the crowd looking for either Kav or your mother.
[2031.4s] And some time passes and you hear the bell of the ship
[2037.6s] behind you and a call for everybody to get on board.
[2042.5s] You see coming through the crowd, you see Kav
[2046.6s] who's got his bag and
[2049.6s] tucking in all of the G strings that he picked up at the chest of drawers.
[2054.0s] All the shopping bags, like shopping bags.
[2056.6s] Yeah. Shopaholic.
[2059.6s] I closed my spell book.
[2061.5s] I've been spending the time, like looking up and also copying
[2064.5s] new spells that I bought from just going to different different shops
[2068.1s] around town and spending that money that I've earned.
[2071.8s] So I kind of closed my book.
[2075.2s] Look up and I see Kav and I'm like, cool.
[2079.0s] Still a little bummed that I'm not seeing my mom.
[2082.1s] But I look up Kav, give a wave.
[2085.0s] Oh, Bizard, are you ready to go?
[2088.2s] Uh, yeah, yeah.
[2091.9s] I wasn't sure if my mom was going to stop by or not, but.
[2096.6s] We didn't stick around.
[2098.8s] The bell just rang.
[2099.8s] I'm sure you just heard it.
[2100.8s] So, you know, this. Oh, shit.
[2102.3s] No, sorry. I was in my own little world there
[2104.2s] thinking about all the shopping.
[2105.9s] Yeah. Yeah, it's, you know, it is one thing I miss.
[2109.2s] Miss about the King's 10 Kings town.
[2111.9s] So, yeah, that's it. I'm.
[2116.9s] I feel you on that.
[2118.2s] No, we should catch this boat because I, you know, I need to get back.
[2121.8s] I can't leave.
[2123.4s] I don't want to leave Alydin, you know, with the responsibility
[2127.0s] of the shop too long.
[2129.0s] So, my God, of course, the shop.
[2130.8s] Yeah, we know we should go right away.
[2133.0s] Yeah, and I'm going to go over to like the harbor master,
[2138.6s] and I'm just going to say, hey, if
[2142.0s] if this woman shows up
[2143.8s] and asking about this ship, would you give her this note, please?
[2147.2s] Which woman?
[2148.8s] Her name's Clara, and she'll be asking for Bizard
[2152.7s] or the ship Hanny heading to Vintersmouth.
[2155.6s] If she shows up.
[2156.8s] Of course, you can burn it, throw it away, throw it in the water.
[2160.8s] It doesn't matter.
[2161.4s] Oh, OK, of course, of course.
[2163.2s] Yeah, no problem. He takes it from me and puts it in the pocket here.
[2168.0s] Your name was Bizard.
[2169.2s] Yes, yes. OK, that's good.
[2170.6s] Yeah. All right.
[2172.4s] You got it. Well, you got your tickets.
[2176.2s] To have Lauren, that was, you know,
[2179.4s] transportation was covered.
[2181.2s] Oh, yes. Yeah.
[2182.0s] No, sorry.
[2182.8s] And he reaches into like three different bags at the same time,
[2186.4s] trying to find the tickets.
[2187.9s] I know they're around here somewhere.
[2189.6s] G-strings flying in the air.
[2192.1s] Yeah. So you're fumbling for your tickets.
[2196.6s] The underwear juggle that's happening.
[2199.2s] Bizard, you take one last look over your shoulder
[2203.6s] and you see coming through the crowd
[2207.4s] with a couple bags over her shoulder is your mother.
[2210.9s] Oh, I rush over to I'm like, please hand me your bags, Mom.
[2215.2s] Oh, yeah, of course.
[2217.4s] Yeah, it's still still time.
[2219.5s] Yes, yes, there's still time.
[2221.0s] This. You you are coming with me.
[2225.0s] I. She looks down and then kind of back.
[2229.6s] And yeah, yeah, I'm I'm coming.
[2232.7s] OK, OK, let's go.
[2235.6s] Let's go. She pauses for a moment.
[2238.2s] She takes a couple steps and pauses and kind of looks back over her shoulder.
[2242.5s] And you've moved ahead a little ways.
[2244.1s] And as you turn to make sure she's there, you see her.
[2249.2s] Struggling in this moment.
[2253.5s] Mom, I. Yeah.
[2256.3s] Do you do you want to go with me?
[2260.5s] Yes, yes, I do.
[2263.4s] Do I actually believe her?
[2265.4s] Roll insight.
[2267.0s] That's an 11.
[2268.0s] You definitely sense hesitation in her.
[2273.1s] But what you do feel that she wants to come with you.
[2277.6s] But there is an internal struggle
[2280.6s] that you feel just radiating off of her.
[2284.4s] I'm going to put her bags down and we're going to pull her off to the side and be like, I.
[2291.4s] I can tell that you want or that you would like to go.
[2297.1s] But something tells me you don't feel like you can go.
[2301.4s] And I want to make sure because I'm the last thing that I want to do
[2306.1s] is make you live a life of not your own choosing.
[2310.3s] I'm not going to be that person.
[2312.1s] She takes in what you say and she looks up at you.
[2318.8s] And there's a shift in the tone and the feeling that she's giving off.
[2325.3s] And she says,
[2328.2s] bizarre, I've been living that for years.
[2332.8s] I'm coming with you.
[2338.6s] OK, your father is he'll stay here.
[2344.8s] Maybe he'll come and visit.
[2346.2s] He won't come and visit.
[2348.2s] I wouldn't expect him to.
[2351.2s] I'd love to see where you've made a home.
[2354.8s] Very well, if this is if this is what you truly want.
[2360.2s] I mean, it's what I want, but that doesn't
[2362.2s] that's not what matters at the end of the day.
[2365.4s] She grabs your hands and holds them tight.
[2367.8s] And it's what I want.
[2370.4s] Let's go. Your friend, maybe.
[2373.2s] Why does he have so much underwear?
[2375.2s] You know, and I kind of like tuck some in my bag.
[2378.6s] I'm like, I don't, you know, just they're very comfortable.
[2381.9s] And, you know, he likes his thing there.
[2386.5s] OK, yeah, let's go. Let's go.
[2390.2s] No hesitation here.
[2392.0s] This is what I want.
[2394.3s] OK, darn.
[2396.0s] Grab her bags back up and start heading towards the heading
[2399.3s] towards Kavlaran, who's maybe found the tickets by now.
[2404.0s] He's found the tickets, finally.
[2406.6s] You turn, you all walk up the gangplank and find a spot
[2410.9s] in one of the galleys and set your things down.
[2413.5s] And you're around a table.
[2415.6s] And there is this is a
[2420.5s] more of a luxurious ship than the first one
[2423.8s] that you came out to Kingstown on.
[2426.4s] And someone comes around and serves you some tea
[2429.7s] and some small scones and and then moves on.
[2434.8s] The three of you are having a pleasant moment.
[2438.4s] And Kavlaran, your experience with Bazaard's parents
[2443.8s] hasn't been that so far.
[2445.6s] So it's a nice feeling that is around the table as you
[2449.0s] as you all look at each other.
[2451.4s] Well, I have to say, I'm
[2455.3s] I'm glad you decided to come, Mom.
[2456.9s] And Kavlaran, like, looks like we have a new citizen of Vintersmouth.
[2461.9s] So this is going to be good.
[2467.2s] This is going to be good.
[2467.8s] Are you set with everything that you needed to do here?
[2470.6s] Are we like good on all that?
[2473.2s] Totally good on everything here, or at least as good as can be.
[2477.2s] And good news.
[2478.5s] I know the welcome wagon committee quite well in town.
[2481.8s] We'll get your mom set up real nice.
[2483.6s] Perfect. Perfect.
[2486.9s] Remind me to talk to you later
[2492.3s] about that noble Cressida Thorne.
[2495.8s] Remind me to talk to you about her.
[2497.4s] Oh, yeah, the one.
[2499.1s] Yep. OK, yeah, we'll we'll chat a little later.
[2502.5s] Mm hmm.
[2504.3s] So is there
[2507.3s] fun boat games
[2512.1s] that we can do? How long is the journey?
[2514.2s] Well, is it about I mean, it's about three days by land
[2517.8s] and day and a half by the
[2520.8s] by ship flies by if you're playing games.
[2524.0s] It's true. This is true.
[2525.8s] I haven't played any boat games before, so
[2529.4s] that could be fun. OK.
[2532.0s] Let's play some boat games.
[2533.2s] I hear one that's really fun is especially on a boat is trying to
[2538.2s] keep a marble within a circle.
[2539.9s] You all hold a table together.
[2541.5s] And since the boat's swaying, it's quite a quite a dexterous challenge.
[2546.2s] I don't think that's actually a game.
[2547.8s] I don't spend much time on boats, Mom.
[2549.4s] I'm going to be honest with you.
[2551.0s] Well, it sounds like fun.
[2551.9s] Let's try and see if we can get other people to come join us.
[2554.8s] Beautiful. You all try and find a marble
[2559.0s] or whatever you need to to set this game up.
[2561.8s] And we it's the hottest game in Kingstown.
[2566.0s] Circle marble boats.
[2569.2s] Fucking stupid.
[2570.8s] Circle marble like this.
[2573.3s] They didn't workshop the name or anything like marble puzzles,
[2576.4s] like table tip. No, no marble circle marble.
[2581.6s] I play the hell out of that game.
[2583.9s] Alydin, you feel a cool breeze.
[2596.0s] You look around and you find yourself
[2600.8s] in this clearing in the forest.
[2604.3s] So this has to be a dream.
[2608.4s] You see a deer skip across
[2611.6s] the clearing and disappear into the trees
[2614.1s] and some birds shoot up into the air.
[2624.2s] I want to look around for any,
[2627.0s] I don't know, anything in a role investigation.
[2630.0s] Oh, I can do that. 15.
[2632.7s] You are taking a moment
[2635.2s] and looking around and you're listening to everything you hear.
[2639.6s] You hear everything you'd expect.
[2641.6s] You hear wildlife off in the forest
[2644.3s] and breeze through the trees and the grass is tall
[2648.2s] and swaying in front of you.
[2650.0s] And after a brief moment,
[2653.6s] you feel yourself beginning to move to the other side of the clearing.
[2659.1s] And on the other side of the clearing,
[2660.6s] you hear the soft sound of music beginning to play.
[2663.8s] Oh, this, this, this, this is, this is not good.
[2672.3s] Do I still have my bucket?
[2674.6s] If I fall asleep with that bucket, do I have the bucket?
[2677.6s] Yeah, you have the bucket.
[2678.6s] OK. Yeah, you have your bucket.
[2684.1s] Alydin takes out the ladle
[2688.4s] and holds a bucket and just,
[2690.8s] well, I mean, I'm moving toward
[2695.7s] the like not of my own volition
[2699.4s] kind of idea or like in a dreamy trance.
[2703.7s] Like, yeah, you feel you feel yourself moving in this.
[2708.0s] You can't there is no real choice in the matter.
[2712.4s] Like you look, you can look around you, but yeah,
[2715.3s] you're compelled at this moment to move to the other side of the clearing.
[2719.0s] So bucket in one hand, ladle in the other.
[2723.1s] I'm just prepped to if the minute I see anything, any tomfoolery happening,
[2729.4s] I'm going to wail on that bucket so hard.
[2731.9s] You make it about halfway.
[2733.2s] It's going to be to the tune of the music.
[2735.7s] And then it's a cowbell.
[2738.9s] And Christopher Walken is going to come out of the forest.
[2742.8s] I could just picture your moves.
[2744.4s] More cowbell.
[2745.2s] Don't fear the banjo man.
[2747.3s] OK, I'm sorry.
[2749.1s] Yeah, you get about halfway through the clearing and then you
[2753.4s] on the other side where the presumed music sound of music is coming from,
[2758.7s] you see this rippling shimmer
[2763.2s] in the trees on the other side.
[2765.3s] Well, that has magic written all over it.
[2772.9s] I'm kind of looking around as I'm going toward this magic
[2777.3s] shimmery thing, just being like, oh, I don't like it.
[2782.5s] And as you continue to walk forward,
[2784.6s] the trees begin to move in the surrounding area
[2789.9s] and they're like parting the way towards this one massive tree.
[2797.8s] With this opening.
[2802.0s] As soon as the trees start to move,
[2805.2s] Alydin is like moving.
[2808.3s] No, no.
[2809.8s] And she starts to wail on her bucket.
[2812.0s] And as you go to wail on the bucket, no sound comes out.
[2816.8s] What? You hit it again and again.
[2820.1s] What the hell? You see the bucket denting.
[2824.5s] Mm.
[2827.4s] Um, I'm going to yell for help.
[2830.2s] Help.
[2831.9s] Dase.
[2832.8s] You hear your voice and then it's like it, the echo of it
[2837.7s] sucks away.
[2840.6s] You see the tree get closer to it and hanging from the tree
[2845.4s] and down around the base of the tree are wooden toys.
[2850.6s] Oh, this is so creepy.
[2852.9s] The sound of the music gets louder.
[2856.6s] And as you can almost reach out and touch the tree,
[2861.2s] you're startled awake back in Everbane's.
[2865.3s] Well, you guys, I saw a tree.
[2869.7s] Thane is sitting in the chair and he looks like he was awake,
[2873.7s] but he's definitely pretty groggy and he's Alydin.
[2876.2s] Are you OK? Is everything all right?
[2878.1s] I had, well, I, yeah, I had the weirdest dream and.
[2888.0s] I don't, and there was a tree and there were toys.
[2891.5s] And that music was playing.
[2894.0s] You look around the room, make an investigation role.
[2901.3s] How about a 23?
[2903.9s] I'm really nailing it on my rolls today.
[2906.0s] As you're describing this to Thane, you catch out of the corner of your eye.
[2912.4s] The window on the other side is cracked
[2915.4s] and you see leaves that have strewn into Everbane's.
[2919.3s] And you look and you're counting the heads
[2922.6s] of all the kids and Tally's missing.
[2929.8s] Thane, where's Tally?
[2931.7s] What do you mean? Tally's right.
[2934.6s] Uh, Tally, he calls out.
[2937.6s] Tally. He goes into the back.
[2943.1s] Wake up, wake up.
[2944.7s] One of the kids is missing. How?
[2946.8s] I don't. I don't know.
[2947.8s] I did. I swear I didn't fall asleep.
[2950.1s] I swear. And he goes back and checks out.
[2954.2s] How did you said you saw something?
[2955.6s] You said you heard something.
[2957.2s] The banjo man took Tally.
[2959.6s] I was in a dream and there was the shiny thing
[2966.3s] and I couldn't stop walking toward this big tree with a hole in it.
[2971.4s] And then the music that the banjo man was playing was so loud.
[2975.3s] And then there were these these wooden toys everywhere on the ground.
[2979.9s] And and then I I woke up.
[2983.0s] Oh, and I tried to bang on my bucket and I lift the bucket up
[2987.6s] with the ladle and nothing.
[2990.6s] No sound came out.
[2992.0s] You look at your bucket.
[2993.1s] It looks the same as when you went to sleep.
[2995.4s] It's not dented like you saw in the dream.
[2997.7s] What do you mean a shimmery thing?
[2999.6s] Because remember when we saw
[3003.2s] the the carving in the floor where Cedric was taken and there was like
[3008.3s] like a ripple almost in the air.
[3010.6s] Yeah, kind of like when it's really hot.
[3014.0s] Yeah. You know, and you see.
[3016.4s] Yeah, it was like that.
[3018.3s] All all like around the trees and stuff.
[3023.4s] And look, and I point to the open window.
[3026.2s] Dase pushes past all of you and opens the front door.
[3029.8s] And you see him kind of disappear around a corner
[3033.4s] and calls out to you, Bonwyn.
[3038.2s] Come quick. Yeah.
[3040.1s] And I rush over.
[3042.0s] Alladin follows behind, obviously.
[3044.1s] Everybody follows behind.
[3045.8s] And you see this trail of these leaves
[3049.8s] leading up the road and towards the forest.
[3053.7s] And as the morning breeze picks up, they begin to blow.
[3057.6s] He says, I think we've got to hurry to follow these.
[3059.7s] And he starts taking off.
[3061.1s] This would be the part in the movie
[3064.6s] where Alladin goes, this is something I have to do on my own.
[3070.0s] And the adults are like, no, no, absolutely, absolutely.
[3073.5s] I don't think so.
[3074.5s] Thane, stay here with the kids.
[3082.6s] Dumbgeons and Dragons, season four, episode 13,
[3085.9s] starring Amy More as Alladin.
[3087.8s] Carla Maxted as Bonwyn Everbane.
[3089.8s] Tom Laird as Kavlaran Goldweave.
[3091.9s] Kyle Claset as Bizard the Wizard and Russ More as your dungeon master.
[3096.0s] Dialogue, editing and sound design by Russ More.
[3098.8s] This episode featured music from Epidemic Sound and Slipstream
[3102.5s] and sound effects from Epidemic Sound, Boom Library and Sound Ideas.
[3107.0s] Our amazing cover art and character designs are by Matt Garbutt.
[3110.5s] And a huge thank you to our supporting producers,
[3113.1s] Gabriel Lynch, Jessica Babiak, Cat Waterflame, Jacob Madden,
[3116.8s] Christian Brown, Angaron Kierzen, Perry Matey,
[3119.9s] Old School Gamer D, Craig Zeiss, L.A. Branton, Barbara Sandersyke
[3124.4s] and Sarah Murphy.
[3125.6s] Regular episodes of Dumbgeons and Dragons will be on break for the holidays,
[3129.6s] and we'll be back with new episodes on January 8th.
[3132.3s] In the meantime, we'll have a bunch of new fantastic holiday content,
[3135.8s] including a two part one shot guest starring Abdul Aziz
[3139.2s] from Spout Lore and Mall Brats run by Kyle called Santa Baby.
[3143.7s] That's starting next week, which we hope you're really going to enjoy.
[3146.8s] So until next time, happy holidays, happy new year.
[3151.2s] And we hope you have a wonderful ring in of twenty twenty five.
[3156.9s] I don't dislike that idea.
[3158.8s] I'm not opposed to it.
[3159.7s] I can't float it, though.
[3160.7s] You guys have to take the reins on that.
[3163.2s] OK. All right. Cool.
[3164.5s] We'll get we'll get halfway through this.
[3166.1s] I'll be like, Russ, I just shit my pants.
[3169.6s] Oh, I was just straight up
[3170.8s] going to throw you under the bus as soon as you came back.
[3174.2s] I figured.
[3175.2s] Russ, Amy's real tired and we should only do one episode.
[3181.4s] Because she she couldn't tell you, but we are telling you.
[3186.2s] I could go for two.
[3188.4s] I'm here and I'm drugged up.
[3190.2s] Dumbgeons and Dragons is a Dumb Dragons production.