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[7.8s] Alydin, Bonwyn and Dace are running through the streets of
[11.4s] Intersmith and quickly following a fast disappearing trail of
[16.6s] leaves that's leading to the Verboten Forest, making good
[20.9s] time. The leaves are scattering, though, and as you
[23.7s] get to the edge of the forest, all of you stop and
[26.8s] have this sense of unease.
[29.8s] Alydin, you begin to hear music playing from deep within the
[35.2s] forest.
[36.9s] Make a wisdom saving throw, please.
[39.5s] I'm rolling dice.
[41.1s] Roll it.
[41.8s] Bonwyn, you don't hear it at this point.
[43.5s] I hope there's just like a haunted piano somewhere.
[47.2s] Just a nice old crone out there humming to herself and
[50.6s] we're all freaking out.
[52.1s] Oh, well, a four.
[53.7s] Oh, shit.
[54.4s] I ain't wise.
[55.4s] I'm a child.
[57.8s] It's my excuse.
[58.9s] And not precocious enough to be wise.
[61.0s] Not precocious enough.
[62.3s] I'm working on it.
[63.6s] Alydin, you hear this music.
[65.5s] You're feeling compelled to move.
[68.0s] You try to fight it off a little bit, but you hear what
[74.1s] you what you think you hear is calls of Tally screaming for
[78.4s] help in the forest.
[79.8s] Do you guys hear that?
[81.0s] No, it's Tally.
[82.4s] It's Tally.
[83.7s] This way.
[85.0s] Take off.
[86.2s] I'm running full tilt.
[87.3s] I mean, I'm going to follow her.
[88.4s] I don't hear it, but I'm also going to follow her because
[91.6s] I'm not losing another kid.
[93.0s] Tally!
[94.0s] Alydin bolts off into the trees.
[96.2s] Bonwyn and Dace roll an athletics check to see if you
[99.9s] can keep up with Alydin as she begins like ducking under
[104.9s] branches and skipping over logs.
[107.1s] Like an adult could totally outrun a child, but the
[109.6s] speed in which a child begins running is unreal.
[114.9s] Pfft.
[115.5s] 14.
[116.6s] Alydin takes off into the woods and like disappears from
[120.5s] sight before you even realize what's happening.
[123.4s] You hear their footsteps and you follow quickly behind.
[126.2s] You trip and Dace kind of catches you as you're going
[130.2s] and helps you to your feet and you make your way onto
[133.0s] this path and you see Alydin up a hedge about 25 feet in
[139.0s] front of you.
[139.7s] Alydin, you turn to see if they're following you and you
[143.8s] see them behind you.
[145.4s] And up ahead, you see a clearing come into view.
[151.8s] Moonlight is beaming down into this space and you
[155.4s] hear Alydin, you hear the music getting louder.
[159.8s] The closer you get, you hear calls from Tally echoing
[163.4s] through the trees, drawing you into this space.
[168.1s] Bonwyn and Dace, you continue to run.
[171.8s] Alydin kind of stopped there for a moment and you
[174.4s] make it up to her.
[178.2s] Do you hear that?
[179.6s] It's Tally.
[183.4s] I don't hear anything.
[184.3s] No, which way?
[187.1s] Point toward the clearing.
[189.2s] Over there, but I can hear the music too.
[193.2s] Like the song, the music or banjo music or what
[197.7s] kind of music do you hear?
[199.2s] Banjo music, like the one the guy was singing.
[202.7s] Well, we have to, we have to go to her.
[205.4s] We do have to go to her.
[206.9s] I agree.
[207.5s] But I...
[209.0s] Alydin, you begin to walk forward and Dace reaches
[212.9s] out a hand to try to stop you.
[216.0s] And you...
[219.5s] What do you do?
[220.4s] I think I'm going to try and grab her hand,
[222.8s] like to actually hold her hand.
[224.6s] Okay.
[225.7s] Because we're in the woods.
[227.9s] I don't hear anything and I don't want to lose her.
[231.4s] Yeah.
[231.8s] So I'm going to grab her hand if she will let me.
[235.3s] You have, well, you're feeling compelled to continue forward.
[239.4s] So you tell me if you, if you let her.
[241.6s] Oh, um, I, I think I, I, I'm a bit nervous.
[246.6s] Can you, let's hold hands.
[248.1s] I'm nervous in here.
[248.8s] Okay, come this way.
[250.7s] I don't stop walking, but, and I'm kind of like yanking on your arm.
[254.6s] Like, come on, she needs us.
[257.4s] Come on.
[258.7s] The three of you make your way to the edge of this clearing
[262.4s] and you step out into it.
[265.3s] At this point, Bonwyn and Dace begin hearing faint echoing music as well.
[271.6s] You don't yet hear the calls from Tali that Alydin is describing.
[276.1s] And as you step out further into this clearing, Bonwyn, you step on something
[284.0s] and the grass is tall.
[285.4s] You step on something and kind of like your ankle rolls a little bit, not, not
[290.1s] enough to like seriously injure you or anything, but you roll an ankle and
[293.7s] you look down and the ground is littered with wooden toys.
[300.0s] Oh, come on.
[302.6s] Dace, Alydin, this is the creepiest thing I've ever seen.
[306.5s] This is-
[307.0s] Sorry, now that we're in there, am I compelled to go anywhere else or am
[311.0s] I where I was drawn to and now?
[315.0s] You, Alydin, look to the far side of this clearing and like your dream, you
[324.2s] see this large tree come into view and it's almost like the trees around the
[330.4s] edge are moving to make way for this tree that now comes into view and you
[337.4s] are, like your body's moving towards this, like you're pulling on, on
[343.0s] Bonwyn.
[343.6s] Bonwyn, whether you choose to try and stop her or not, she's moving towards
[348.5s] the other side of this clearing where the same imagery isn't, isn't happening
[357.0s] for you, but you do see this, this large oak tree with this bored out
[364.0s] hole in the side of the trunk.
[366.7s] Bonwyn, do you see that?
[369.5s] Do you see that?
[370.1s] I think she's in, come on.
[371.8s] I think she's in there.
[373.0s] Okay, but we have to like, let's maybe be sneaky because it's right.
[378.2s] Sneaky.
[378.8s] You're so good at that.
[380.3s] Let's try and not just run into the scary hole in the scary tree in the
[385.7s] scary woods.
[386.9s] I think she pretends to tip toe, but it's like, when you're being
[392.8s] compelled to a big tree with a hole in it, I can't talk sense into her.
[398.3s] I know that, but I still have to try.
[400.7s] You all step into the clearing and you're making your way across.
[404.1s] And the, the moonlight is, is coming down on top of you.
[408.7s] Um, Dace and Bonwyn making a wisdom saving throw at this point.
[415.6s] 16.
[417.0s] You all continue forward and you're stepping between these toys that are
[421.2s] littered all over the clearing.
[423.9s] And as you get about halfway, the world around you begins to shudder and each
[431.3s] of you find yourselves in a space, in a room, a child's room.
[438.2s] And the more you kind of take in the, the, the feeling of this space,
[445.0s] it is your room from when you were a child.
[450.6s] Am I just like back in a shack or?
[458.2s] You're actually just back in the hole you were hiding in for several
[460.9s] months.
[462.0s] Stop trying to get her stuck back in the hole.
[464.4s] I don't want to be underground.
[465.6s] I don't want to be in a cage.
[466.9s] The kid hole.
[467.7s] The kid hole.
[468.2s] The kid hole, of course.
[471.3s] Dumbgeons and Dragons is a D and D actual play podcast, and I'm your
[475.2s] dungeon master, Russ More, he, him also with me today is Amy More
[479.5s] as Alydin, she, her, my boss is mad.
[482.3s] Carla maxed out as Bonwyn, Everbane, she, her number one daughter and
[487.0s] live, laugh, love Tom Laird as Kavlaran gold weave, he, him.
[491.0s] There's no time.
[491.7s] We've got to go.
[492.4s] And Kyle Claset is bizarre.
[493.9s] The wizard, he, him, it's up.
[496.4s] Yeah.
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[521.4s] And now fuck it.
[522.7s] Let's play.
[526.7s] It will cut down to the Doc's Inventors myth.
[530.4s] There's a, a large passenger ship that's pulled into port and we
[537.3s] see bizarre and Kavlaran, and Clara following behind and Clara's waving
[543.4s] to the, to the crew saying it was lovely.
[545.8s] Thank you so much for teaching us all these games.
[548.7s] Did, can you believe how many games they actually knew?
[553.9s] More than I ever could have imagined.
[555.9s] Tic tac toe gin rummy.
[557.8s] Oh my goodness.
[558.8s] I haven't played so many things since I was just a child.
[562.4s] I feel like you're like some sort of card shark or something like that.
[566.4s] Like you came away with like quite, quite a bit of gold.
[570.4s] Like you kind of cleaned out.
[571.8s] Seven pocket watches.
[572.7s] People are mad.
[573.5s] She stuffs, she stuffs some gold pieces into her purse.
[577.5s] And you see the, we flashed to the crew who are like, who are waving, but also
[582.4s] they have this defeated look on their face.
[584.6s] Like she just hosed them for everything they were worth.
[588.2s] Oh, Clara.
[589.2s] Oh, that was just the most exciting, a couple of days on, on, on the, on the
[594.4s] river there, wasn't it?
[595.7s] And this is Vintersmouth.
[596.9s] I haven't been out this far.
[599.4s] Where are we going first, Bizarre?
[601.0s] Uh, well, um, first I'd probably go back to my shop and home.
[607.5s] So, uh, not a lot of space, but we'll make it work.
[612.0s] I, you know, I've got a nice bed you can sleep in and I, I have a cot
[615.0s] that I can put down in the storage area.
[617.2s] So I, yeah, I don't, I'm not here to put you out, you know, we'll,
[622.6s] we'll, we'll make it work.
[624.0s] And I can help out around the store as much as you need.
[627.1s] Um, uh, just to kind of, you know, get, get my feet back under me here
[631.4s] and figure out what's what in Vintersmouth.
[633.7s] This is a lovely town.
[635.1s] Little, little torn apart in this area.
[637.9s] Oh yeah.
[638.5s] Is everything okay?
[639.4s] Yeah.
[639.5s] We had a problem with some monsters.
[643.6s] Some monsters.
[645.6s] Yeah, don't mean you didn't mention that on the boat.
[647.6s] It must've been too busy with the game.
[649.2s] Well, I was just awestruck.
[651.3s] How did you learn to play cards like that?
[653.6s] Don't tell those, uh, those ship boys, but, uh, I've played a few games in my time.
[659.8s] They didn't know what hit them.
[661.6s] Don't feel like I've seen this side of you, mom, but I'm very, very excited
[665.5s] to see you open up a little bit.
[667.1s] Gav, do you need to get anywhere?
[668.6s] Or, uh, I was going to head back to the shop, check on Alydin
[671.6s] cause I left Alydin in charge.
[673.6s] Uh, so yeah.
[675.6s] I mean that's, unless you're headed back to, uh, to Bench's place.
[681.0s] Uh, yeah, I guess I should swing by my room and just make sure
[684.7s] everything's good there.
[685.7s] And yeah, then probably go see Bench.
[688.8s] Maybe talk to Oak tomorrow.
[690.9s] Probably not today.
[691.8s] Maybe a tomorrow thing.
[693.8s] Fair enough.
[694.2s] Fair enough.
[694.7s] Well, um, then yeah, we'll, we'll head on back to the shop.
[699.0s] You're of course more than welcome to join us, but I'm just going
[702.0s] to get my mom settled in and yeah, make sure everything is, uh, on
[706.4s] the up and up with Alydin.
[707.5s] Excellent.
[708.5s] Start walking towards the shop and say, Gav, I'll see you.
[711.0s] Yeah, we'll, uh, we'll catch you later.
[712.5s] Clara's got like a new lease on life.
[714.3s] She's like, springing her step.
[716.0s] Stella got her groove back.
[717.3s] Ritted the dead beat, right?
[719.0s] She just lost like 180 pounds.
[721.0s] She's slubbing it.
[723.0s] Bizarre, you and Clara, you make your way through the streets.
[725.8s] And so tell me all the sites here.
[728.6s] Uh, you know, how far to, to the store?
[731.4s] Where should I stop?
[732.5s] What should I see?
[733.4s] Who, who's good?
[734.5s] Who do I stay away from?
[736.6s] Well, I mean, everybody is fairly kind here in the town.
[741.0s] I mean, it's once you get into the richer side of the town, which
[744.4s] you'll, you'll obviously notice the difference between the two.
[748.3s] But, um, my shop is right between a fantastic clothier and a nice
[754.2s] barber, uh, so we can get you set up with any clothes that you need.
[758.7s] Get your hair done.
[760.2s] Um, you know, we have a couple of shops around, uh, there's
[765.0s] a place called the hot block where my friend Bonwyn has their shop Everbanes.
[770.0s] Uh, great place if you need any kind of utensils, metalwork or
[774.4s] anything crafted for you, really.
[776.3s] Um, oh, that sounds lovely.
[778.1s] And, uh, I can't wait to meet all your friends.
[780.2s] Yeah, absolutely.
[781.2s] We're not going to meet a guy named, if you meet a guy named
[785.8s] Ignatius, just, just say I'm good.
[788.2s] Okay.
[788.9s] Okay.
[789.3s] Just say I'm good.
[790.4s] Shady, shady character.
[791.8s] I mean, just a weird dude.
[793.1s] Like what are we?
[793.7s] He's very upfront about his business.
[795.8s] Uh, he runs an establishment called the quivering Hills and it's more of a house
[801.5s] of what people would consider ill repute.
[804.1s] So, well, all right, just so you know, if you go, it's your call.
[808.5s] You live your life mom, but you know, Ignatius got us in some trouble
[813.2s] and it kind of fell on us.
[814.8s] So I don't necessarily like the guy, but fair, fair.
[818.3s] Okay.
[818.6s] Well, we'll stay away from Ignatius now.
[821.0s] Yeah.
[821.4s] So fast forward to romance between Ignatius.
[825.8s] Oh, you son of a beach.
[830.0s] Well, you just want your mom to stay away from him.
[832.6s] It's a rebound, you know, like let her have a little wild fun.
[836.9s] Yeah.
[837.9s] Anybody knows how to show a woman a good time.
[840.2s] It's probably Ignatius.
[841.8s] Oh, God damn it.
[842.5s] You can call me daddy.
[844.0s] It's fine.
[846.1s] Disgusting.
[846.9s] I love it.
[847.3s] I can't wait for this.
[848.1s] I was that polymorph spell.
[852.0s] But, you know, for the time being, before we get back,
[854.6s] we can get some food at those buns dough, which talk of the town.
[859.4s] Got to get got to get you from there.
[861.2s] So good. Let's go.
[862.6s] You make your way to those buns dough and grab some delicious
[865.6s] pastries and coffees for for the next little bit.
[870.2s] And you make your way to the shop and it.
[873.3s] I mean, it's the late morning, but the closed sign is up.
[877.2s] The shutters are drawn.
[879.1s] The store, which by all intents and purposes should be open, is not.
[884.5s] And you unlock it and go inside and things are things are dark.
[890.5s] There are I mean, differences in the place is there are several hand
[894.1s] drawn signs of people who are not allowed to shop behind
[899.0s] behind the register.
[900.5s] Like, I mean, how many are there?
[903.5s] Well, like like like five, six that you can see.
[908.8s] OK, yeah.
[910.4s] The other one, she's still working on perfecting the sketch.
[912.7s] The other wall was just go up to him.
[914.9s] I look at some of the names.
[915.8s] I'm like, I get it.
[917.4s] That makes sense. That one's a shit.
[920.2s] Jackson with an X.
[922.8s] Oh, I say, well, it's odd that Hallidon wouldn't be here.
[929.7s] So I wonder.
[934.1s] Well, I want to get you settled.
[935.9s] Just go ahead and mom, take your things upstairs.
[938.6s] I need to.
[940.8s] I need to I have no idea where alladin would be at this point
[944.0s] if they're not here, so I'm going to cast the sending spell.
[949.4s] Reach out to Alladin and
[953.1s] I'm going to send a 25 word message or less saying,
[957.7s] hey, just got back.
[960.0s] The shop's not open.
[962.2s] Where are you? WTF.
[965.9s] Yeah. No, my boss is mad.
[967.4s] And in case you need to know, Russ, for any reason,
[971.4s] if the target is on if the target is on a different plane than me,
[975.3s] there's a five percent chance that the message doesn't arrive.
[978.6s] If you need that information.
[980.6s] I do need that in five percent.
[982.8s] That's pretty good.
[983.5s] Odd still. Yeah, it's a pretty powerful.
[986.6s] That's five percent chance.
[988.2s] All right.
[988.8s] You wouldn't change your cell phone provider over five percent drop it now.
[998.2s] It's close.
[999.3s] But you wait a good
[1003.8s] a good long moment longer than you think you need to.
[1006.4s] And no message comes back.
[1009.3s] Oh, shit.
[1011.7s] I'm going to tell my mom, Mom, just settle in.
[1017.3s] Chill. I'm going to.
[1018.4s] OK. Lock the door.
[1020.0s] I have to go check on something.
[1021.6s] I think someone's in trouble.
[1022.8s] Oh, oh, OK.
[1023.6s] Well, if you need anything, you come get me.
[1025.5s] OK, I'm happy to help, but I'll just tidy up around here
[1029.3s] until I hear from you, OK?
[1030.9s] Much appreciated.
[1031.8s] I'll be back as soon as I can.
[1034.2s] I'm so sorry.
[1035.0s] I'm good to rearrange the shelves. Yes. No.
[1037.5s] OK, I'll just take my stuff upstairs.
[1039.4s] OK, I tell you what, here here is a key.
[1041.9s] If you want to go walk around the city, just,
[1045.1s] you know, just maybe stay around the hot block and,
[1048.2s] you know, check out some of the stores around town.
[1050.7s] People are very nice, but I'm so bad timing.
[1055.0s] I hate to do this.
[1056.3s] Oh, no, no, I love you.
[1057.8s] And I'll be back. Of course.
[1059.3s] It's OK. Handle myself.
[1061.1s] You take off and door locked behind you.
[1065.2s] Where are you headed?
[1066.4s] First thing first inclination would be to head to Everbane's
[1070.9s] and check if Bonwyn knows where
[1074.6s] Alydin is.
[1079.0s] Welcome to the middle, everybody.
[1080.3s] We're back, baby.
[1082.2s] We're back. We missed you.
[1085.3s] So much. It's been a long time.
[1086.8s] You know, when you when you go away for a long time
[1090.0s] and then you actually start to hear from people
[1092.1s] that you've never heard of being like, hey, is this show still on?
[1097.0s] What is going on?
[1097.9s] Thank you for reaching out and connecting with us.
[1101.0s] The show is still on, clearly.
[1102.7s] You're listening to this episode.
[1104.9s] Just a bunch of these dum-dums got sick.
[1107.9s] Yeah, yeah.
[1109.8s] And then Amy followed up with also getting sick.
[1112.4s] Yeah, but I don't know what you're talking about, because she's pushing through.
[1116.1s] Whereas we were like, yeah, we couldn't.
[1118.3s] None of us know. I absolutely could not.
[1120.6s] I was too sick.
[1122.0s] We were all. I just love you more than they love you guys.
[1125.0s] So I just made that.
[1128.6s] Oh, wow.
[1130.4s] Wow. Sick Amy fucking comes for the headshot.
[1133.0s] No kidding.
[1134.6s] Oh, we love you. We missed you.
[1136.4s] And we're back. Yes.
[1137.9s] Yay.
[1139.5s] Excited to be back.
[1140.6s] We got together in January, where we all got each other
[1143.9s] sick from the intense makeout sessions that we all had, obviously.
[1147.7s] That's right.
[1149.2s] And planned a whole lot of things that we then now shifted down
[1153.7s] one month in terms of scheduling.
[1156.1s] Yes. But we got new stories that we want to do, new games,
[1160.6s] new new bit of new structure coming to some Patreon
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[1166.6s] That's what those are called. Or plates, whatever plates.
[1169.5s] Yeah. Yeah.
[1170.8s] It's like we're setting a plate for you at the Patreon table.
[1175.5s] You can come join us for the buffet at Patreon.com
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[1183.0s] of new bonus content for you each and every month.
[1187.4s] Yes. You nailed that, Russ. Well done.
[1190.0s] Yeah, that was really good. You really rolled into that.
[1192.0s] Felt really natural.
[1193.6s] I don't know if I said the website, though.
[1195.2s] So Patreon.com slash dumb dragon cast.
[1197.8s] One of the things part of the smorgasbord, is it the jello
[1201.9s] with the skin on top?
[1203.3s] Probably not, because that's good slash gross.
[1205.9s] Is it the shrimp? It might be.
[1208.0s] It could be. Is that you get an episode dedicated to you.
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[1215.9s] I know. It's scary.
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[1220.8s] Litch with a T.
[1221.9s] So maybe he's not an actual litch, but just like,
[1225.4s] that's his secret to tell.
[1226.8s] You're not. Yeah, no.
[1227.7s] Well, I think maybe he's going to spill the tea.
[1230.0s] Ancestrally was a litch, but it got changed
[1232.7s] like when they came through spooky Ellis Island.
[1237.2s] Yeah, exactly.
[1238.0s] You got to cover things up if you're going to be
[1240.6s] if you're going to be going that route.
[1241.5s] Exactly. No. Yeah.
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[1266.0s] Next next episode, two episodes.
[1270.2s] We actually recorded around the table.
[1272.1s] We did. So much fun.
[1275.6s] We got to like look each other in the eye
[1279.4s] as we made bad decisions, as we made bad decisions.
[1282.6s] And it was so weird because Amy and I make a lot of eye contact
[1286.8s] virtually. Somehow we somehow know we make eye contact,
[1290.8s] but we are sitting right beside each other in real life
[1293.2s] and we couldn't. It was a real change. Yeah. Yeah.
[1295.8s] We had to turn and face each other, which was weird.
[1300.0s] It was such a delight.
[1301.2s] They're making us talk.
[1302.9s] And I feel like the delightfulness of it,
[1305.3s] fingers crossed, translates to the episodes.
[1309.4s] I believe we'll talk about more how
[1312.6s] we'll talk more about how awesome it was next week.
[1315.1s] So now get you back to this episode.
[1317.2s] Thanks for being here, everybody.
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[1326.2s] Bon, when you find yourself in your childhood bedroom,
[1331.7s] what does the space look like around you?
[1335.0s] So this would be upstairs at Everbane's,
[1337.5s] like where the living quarters are, because of course,
[1339.6s] it was the family shop before it was my shop.
[1343.7s] I have now converted that into like a workout space.
[1346.5s] But what was once my childhood bedroom?
[1350.2s] And it's honestly, it's wonderful.
[1353.1s] Like, it's so nice.
[1355.3s] Maybe too much.
[1358.4s] Too many handmade metal signs from dad
[1362.0s] that say like number one daughter and live, laugh, love.
[1366.5s] But it's nice. It's cozy.
[1370.7s] There's there.
[1371.9s] She has a little desk with her books from school,
[1375.5s] a nice bed with a handmade quilt that her grandma made.
[1379.5s] Window looks out over over the hot block.
[1383.2s] And it's lovely.
[1384.9s] Bonwyn's parents are great.
[1386.3s] She had a lovely childhood.
[1388.2s] And it's it's nice.
[1390.9s] It's you know, she's got everything she needs in there,
[1394.2s] including some secret hiding spaces,
[1397.1s] because a girl's got to have those, too, right?
[1400.0s] Absolutely.
[1402.7s] You are instantly transported here into this.
[1408.2s] And there's the warmth of the sun coming through.
[1411.4s] And it feels feels safe and comfortable.
[1416.8s] You go and you run your hand along the quilt
[1420.1s] that your grandmother made you.
[1422.0s] And like the stitching is exactly as you remember it.
[1425.4s] And the smell in the room just overwhelms your senses.
[1428.7s] And you sit on the edge of the bed and you're instantly
[1431.9s] transported to this space.
[1434.2s] And you sit up on the bed and you like
[1440.0s] you for this moment feel like you are child Bonwyn again.
[1447.8s] Your feet dangle at the same.
[1449.6s] I mean, you're in, you know, say, dangle at the same distance
[1452.7s] over the edge of the bed and you throw yourself back on your bed
[1456.6s] and pull the pull the blanket around you and and sit back up.
[1462.6s] And then on the other side of the room, you see your
[1467.6s] favorite toy in a chair on the other side of the room.
[1470.8s] What does that look like?
[1472.4s] I think it is probably
[1475.2s] an old kind of like slidey rocking chair
[1478.4s] that my mom would have used when like when I was a baby to help rock me.
[1483.0s] But it ended up in my room and it's got a bunch of cushions on it.
[1487.2s] And also my favorite soft toy,
[1491.5s] because there wasn't a lot of soft toys in Bonwyn's life.
[1494.9s] A lot of a lot of metals.
[1497.1s] And, you know, she loves those, obviously made her life with them.
[1501.2s] But she has one soft stuffed pig that is just
[1506.7s] destroyed, basically like it's squished, it's flat, it's a non color.
[1512.5s] But it was, you know, it's the one she's had since she was a tiny, tiny baby.
[1516.5s] It's her it's her favorite one.
[1522.2s] You see this toy and like it, it's drawing you to it.
[1527.1s] You get up off the bed and you run across and you you grab the toy
[1531.1s] and hug it tight and lean into this chair that begins rocking back and forth.
[1536.1s] And as it begins rocking back and forth,
[1538.2s] you begin to hear this music kind of permeate the space, quiet at first.
[1546.0s] Then after a moment, it starts to pick up and you begin to hear
[1552.6s] like the sound of banjos echoing through.
[1558.2s] And the music isn't isn't scary.
[1560.8s] You're like, you know, you contextually, you adult Bonwyn
[1564.6s] know that everything is scary and terrifying.
[1567.7s] But suddenly everything is safe.
[1570.5s] And the door starts to creak open.
[1575.0s] And that's where we'll cut to Alydin.
[1582.4s] Alydin, very similarly, you find yourself.
[1588.8s] And now Alydin didn't have the same kind of upbringing,
[1592.2s] but you find yourself in a safe space.
[1596.8s] Somewhere, you know, it might not even been that long ago,
[1600.5s] but you find yourself in a place where you feel comfortable.
[1605.1s] Where do you find yourself?
[1607.6s] I find myself in.
[1614.0s] The little back room of the magic shop.
[1618.7s] Oh, God, take you to the magic shop.
[1624.6s] I have something in my eye.
[1628.3s] Yeah, she finds herself in the back there and
[1631.9s] is surrounded by the dusty jars
[1636.2s] and scraps of paper that she's been keeping
[1641.5s] and kind of practicing,
[1645.1s] making her printing nice and neat so that she can redo
[1649.1s] any, like, labels or price tags for him.
[1652.8s] And yeah, she's just.
[1657.7s] Just in the back room.
[1660.9s] You are writing down price tags and and and
[1668.9s] playing, not playing, but using things that may be
[1674.5s] bizarre, probably didn't want you to necessarily
[1678.1s] touch and play with, but you're you're not doing anything.
[1681.5s] I'm so careful.
[1683.0s] Yeah, no, you're you're being careful and you're
[1685.4s] picking these things up and examining them and spinning them in your hands.
[1689.8s] And as you place one of them down,
[1693.5s] you place it on top of a box that looks familiar.
[1700.2s] This box is and I say it looks familiar.
[1705.1s] It it has a it has a a feeling to it that as you place this
[1713.0s] this beaker down on top of it, you quickly move it off,
[1718.4s] knowing that this box is very important,
[1721.6s] not just to you, but perhaps to Bazaar as well.
[1724.6s] Like the box itself is is red and it has yellow and
[1728.6s] it has yellow kind of edging to it.
[1731.1s] It has a lock on it.
[1734.1s] You kind of patch your pockets and look around on the table
[1738.6s] and you can't find a key for it.
[1740.9s] I want to look in my bucket.
[1743.4s] You put a key in my bucket.
[1745.6s] You look down into your bucket and shimmering
[1750.4s] in the bucket in this iridescent rainbow to it.
[1755.9s] Is this skeleton key?
[1761.8s] Oh, yeah. Oh, I pick it up like so careful, so slow.
[1767.7s] Like I like there's something in this box.
[1770.8s] I have to know.
[1772.4s] I think. I think he would want me to know.
[1778.0s] I think Bazaar would want me to know.
[1782.2s] You grab the key and there's a warmth that runs through your arm.
[1787.3s] And you reach out and put the key into the lock.
[1792.0s] And you hear it, hear it latch and click.
[1796.2s] You turn it, you unlock the box.
[1800.6s] And like there's this
[1805.2s] small plume of what looks like dust
[1808.6s] that kind of comes up from the edge as the lock.
[1811.4s] The latch clears and the box kind of tips open.
[1815.6s] A light begins to emanate from the seal in the top of the box.
[1821.2s] Oh, Alydin is excited.
[1823.9s] She runs her hands along the edges of the box and like.
[1828.6s] It's the same warmth that's coming from this light slowly,
[1833.7s] like just like ever so slowly.
[1836.7s] You know, when you feel like you're the main character in a movie,
[1840.1s] she's having her moment, her main character moment.
[1842.4s] She's like, this is like the most important thing ever.
[1848.8s] She opens the box.
[1850.6s] You lift the lid on the box and light begins to pour out towards you
[1856.8s] and it dims and clears.
[1860.1s] And sitting in the middle of this box is a small wooden toy.
[1866.4s] What does the toy look like?
[1869.5s] I'm going to give you Amy's answer first.
[1872.2s] It is a small hamburger, a Royale with cheese, if you will.
[1876.6s] Thank you so much. Oh, my God, thank you so much.
[1883.8s] And it's stamped with B-A-M-F.
[1893.0s] OK, but that's not what it really is, because it'd be crazy.
[1900.2s] What is sitting there is one of those puzzle boxes,
[1909.6s] one of the and not not like Rubik's Cube, but like.
[1916.4s] I don't know how I'm trying to describe it.
[1917.8s] We're like Hellraiser.
[1920.7s] The Lammershants configuration.
[1924.2s] Maybe I like Amy's face right now.
[1929.3s] Is it like like one of those ones where it doesn't look like it has anything,
[1932.1s] but there's like a sliding panel and then you push a button
[1934.9s] to be able to undo a magnet and a ball rolls
[1938.6s] shit like that.
[1940.1s] Yeah, something like that.
[1941.1s] There's like there's intricate carvings of
[1946.0s] runes or letters that
[1949.5s] Alydin can't make out.
[1951.1s] And there are symbols and it feels somehow hollow
[1957.8s] but heavy at the same time, like there's
[1961.5s] like there's something in it.
[1966.3s] And she shakes it and she hears nothing.
[1969.7s] But there's a way to open the box, but there is no visible
[1974.1s] hinges or any sort of seams
[1979.2s] that Alydin can find.
[1982.2s] You take this puzzle box and you go sit in one of the chairs
[1985.6s] and chair squeaks beneath you.
[1988.4s] And you're running it over in your hands and trying to decipher the runes.
[1993.9s] And there's this wisp of light
[1999.0s] that you don't really pay much attention to.
[2001.1s] You're so enthralled with this this toy.
[2004.6s] It begins to encircle your head.
[2008.1s] And then goes out the back door.
[2011.6s] And that's when you lift your head
[2016.3s] and you turn and you look towards the back door,
[2019.4s] which is open and it's not usually open.
[2023.4s] Not leaving the box, she is.
[2028.4s] Just like obsessed with this box.
[2031.6s] She walks over to the door and kind of peeks
[2036.4s] out because she could have sworn that it was closed and
[2039.1s] Bazaar always keeps it locked.
[2043.7s] You poke your head out the door and it's it's dark.
[2046.8s] It's pitch black, dark of night, and it feels
[2051.2s] it feels off like there feels like something's not quite right.
[2056.3s] But from somewhere in that darkness,
[2060.7s] you hear the faint call of Tali.
[2064.6s] Tali.
[2067.1s] Alydin, where are you?
[2070.3s] She puts the puzzle box in her bucket
[2075.3s] and slowly steps out into the dark.
[2082.0s] Tali.
[2084.0s] Tali.
[2085.7s] Here, the creak of the door slowly closed behind her.
[2090.7s] Here, the creak of the door slowly closed behind you as
[2095.7s] the safety of the magic closet
[2100.9s] leaves as the door latches.
[2104.2s] You enter this dark space.
[2108.4s] I'm in the dark again.
[2112.3s] Do I feel like I'm outside or am I in one of those moments where
[2117.1s] the door shuts and it's just black?
[2123.1s] We'll come back to you.
[2125.1s] You just sit with that for a bit.
[2126.3s] Yeah, just wait there in the dark.
[2128.7s] You're used to it.
[2129.7s] You've left your mind still.
[2133.6s] Kav, you were going to go see Bench or you were going to go back to your place?
[2136.8s] You're going to go have a drink, like.
[2139.3s] I was going to go see Bench, but I get waylaid by the handsome
[2143.2s] first officer from the ship.
[2144.9s] Oh, OK.
[2147.0s] We we cut back down to the docks.
[2150.6s] And Kav, you are chatting with the first officer whose name
[2157.6s] I wish I pulled up all the fucking names because Jess gave me shit for giving
[2161.6s] someone an unnamed NPC.
[2165.4s] Well, yeah, but we also explain that we don't want to just use their good
[2169.0s] names on potential throwaway characters.
[2171.1s] Look, Tom's making a pass at the first officer from the ship here.
[2176.1s] So I feel like he will be a throwaway character, but that's fine.
[2180.7s] You don't know that. What if you really feel a connection?
[2183.5s] You know, this is how Kav does it.
[2185.6s] Yeah, Kav keeps it easy breezy.
[2188.4s] Love them and leave them.
[2190.7s] Set them free if they come back, yadda yadda.
[2193.0s] File a restraining order.
[2194.8s] Oh, season three responses.
[2196.9s] If it took me any longer than that, I would have just come up
[2200.5s] with a name it at the exact threshold of time that Russell's willing to put
[2205.5s] into it before just saying like Garnie Gorsh Gorsh.
[2213.5s] Never mind. I don't talk to this person at all.
[2217.4s] His name is Clark. He's so hot, but I can't.
[2219.7s] I mean, I just can't with the name Gorsh.
[2224.1s] He's all. Can you imagine moaning that?
[2226.0s] No, no.
[2228.4s] It's a gnome named Gurgungl.
[2230.8s] Yeah, that's a Gorsh, am I right?
[2236.4s] You're talking to Gorsh.
[2238.0s] No. I'm happy to talk to Gorsh.
[2242.1s] Gorsh. Gorsh is, well, I mean.
[2247.3s] Yeah, let's go with Gorsh.
[2248.5s] Love it. Sorry.
[2249.6s] People who've given us names and we've found ourselves here.
[2253.2s] The first mate of the of the captain of the captain,
[2257.2s] first mate of the ship that you just arrived on.
[2260.7s] Nice to see you back here.
[2262.6s] Is this where you're stopping or are you getting back on?
[2265.0s] Well, no, I'm you know, I'm here for the for the time being.
[2269.0s] Do you want to go grab a drink or something?
[2271.2s] I'd love to. Yeah, we don't leave for, you know, here for the day at the least.
[2275.6s] Is there a good spot around here?
[2276.9s] There is a great spot.
[2279.2s] It's called the Brewed Awakening.
[2280.9s] My buddy Benj runs it.
[2283.0s] All right. Fantastic. Can't wait.
[2284.6s] I can't wait. Just give me a moment.
[2286.1s] I'll let them know I'm heading out and I'll be right down.
[2289.6s] Perfect. Hops up onto the ship there.
[2291.7s] I'm sorry. This is an iconic, just like memorable
[2296.4s] Dungeons moment.
[2298.1s] I don't think Tom's ever had a character that had any romantic interest.
[2301.8s] I don't think so either.
[2303.4s] I like that it's been so easy, too.
[2305.2s] Till now, we just pointed it out.
[2306.5s] Now we're going to make it off.
[2308.8s] Yep. Yeah. Well, you know,
[2310.7s] like Russ named the love interest Gorsh.
[2313.7s] That's true.
[2315.0s] Which we haven't found out yet.
[2317.0s] Oh, that's true.
[2320.0s] So they haven't interacted on this voyage.
[2322.2s] They've just been like eyeballing each other.
[2324.1s] Just like some knowing glances.
[2325.3s] Yeah, polite small talk, probably.
[2328.6s] But that's about it.
[2329.6s] Yeah, that doesn't sound like being on a ship.
[2332.3s] Yeah, it sounds like some.
[2333.2s] Well, I'm trying.
[2335.5s] Clara was running. That's true.
[2337.2s] There was some intense gambling going on.
[2339.2s] Yeah, right. That's right.
[2340.9s] You wait a moment and you see this gentleman coming back down
[2346.8s] and he calls to a couple of people, says, yeah, I'll be back soon.
[2349.8s] Don't worry. I'll bring you back some food as well.
[2352.9s] And he comes down and Kav, make a perception check.
[2357.2s] Perception check.
[2359.8s] Do you see his nameplans?
[2363.2s] Is he wearing a uniform? Tell me more about it.
[2366.5s] I want to know, like, I mean, I would have to assume
[2369.4s] he had some very tight fitting pants.
[2371.2s] And that's what drew Kav's interest.
[2372.3s] This is what I'm wondering what Kav saw in him, that he was like, OK.
[2377.0s] You can tell what kind of underwears he gets from chest of drawers.
[2379.4s] You know what I'm saying? Absolutely.
[2381.6s] If any. None.
[2383.2s] None. You said perception?
[2387.1s] Yes, please. All right.
[2388.1s] So that is a 16 after bonus. OK, 16.
[2391.2s] So, yeah, you see the first mate coming down
[2395.6s] and, you know, describe the first mate for us.
[2399.0s] What did draw Kav into this gentleman?
[2402.2s] Well, he's got like a very nice, crisp uniform on.
[2407.0s] It's very white with some like navy blue accents.
[2410.5s] And yeah, just like a real nice, like sculpted butt in those pants.
[2415.6s] Kav has no idea what his face looks like.
[2418.7s] Oh, no. Yeah, no.
[2420.1s] Well, that's how we miss the name tag.
[2422.6s] Yeah, you see that sculpted
[2426.1s] button, those nice navy blue pants coming back down the gangplank.
[2430.1s] And out of the corner of your eye, you see
[2433.2s] Bazaar tear around a corner like full sprint
[2437.6s] heading towards the hot block.
[2439.1s] And there is an intersection that kind of passes by.
[2443.2s] You see him like bolting.
[2446.2s] Bazaar. Sorry, sorry, one sec. Sorry.
[2451.4s] What's up? Yeah, Kav.
[2453.2s] Hey, what's up?
[2454.8s] You're in a hurry. What's what's shaking?
[2457.8s] Oh, yeah, I I don't I don't know.
[2460.5s] Alydin's not at the shop and a spell that I use to talk to people
[2465.3s] didn't get answered.
[2466.8s] And that means maybe they're not on this plane of existence anymore.
[2470.9s] Oh, I don't know what that means for a child, but it's not right.
[2474.6s] OK. Oh, I'm I'm I turn over to the first mate.
[2479.2s] I'm I'm so sorry, but a friend of ours is missing
[2483.0s] and I'm going to have to reschedule that drink.
[2485.7s] That's that's OK. Is there anything we can do to help?
[2489.6s] I guess if you see a young girl with a bucket,
[2493.6s] you let me know. All right.
[2495.8s] OK, no other distinguishing characteristics.
[2498.1s] Just a young girl with a red hair.
[2499.7s] Well, I mean, red hair about yay high, you know, got it.
[2503.7s] OK, poor looking.
[2505.9s] Yeah, we'll keep an eye out.
[2508.6s] Like I said, we're we're here all day.
[2510.0s] If you need any help, like we got a full crew, we can we can do
[2514.8s] we can do something. Perfect.
[2516.6s] OK, thanks. Yeah, I'll let you know.
[2518.7s] Sorry, I didn't catch your name.
[2519.8s] We didn't have a chance at Gorsh.
[2523.5s] Gorsh. OK, yeah. Yeah.
[2525.6s] Is that a family name?
[2527.4s] Yeah, it was my my grandmother's name.
[2529.3s] There's no time. We've got to go.
[2531.3s] Because I say, man, like I'm going to Bonwyn's
[2534.5s] going to Everbane's right now.
[2535.5s] Check with Bonwyn, see if Bonwyn knows where she is.
[2537.5s] I just the lack of response.
[2540.5s] Yeah, that's crazy.
[2542.3s] Yeah, OK. All right, let's go.
[2544.8s] Two of you book it down to the hot block and
[2549.2s] you make it to Everbane's and the door is ajar.
[2553.1s] And there's there's commotion inside.
[2555.7s] And as you as you enter, you see Thane
[2559.4s] and all of the children
[2563.2s] that you've known to exist in and around Alydin.
[2568.6s] And there's June on the other side of the room
[2570.9s] helping kind of wrangle and feed some some of the kids.
[2574.0s] And Thane sees you enter and he calls you over.
[2576.7s] He says, Bazaar, you're back.
[2579.0s] Kav, good to see you.
[2581.2s] So he he just he's something's wrong.
[2586.4s] Something is not is not right. OK.
[2590.5s] Bonwyn and Alydin and Dase have
[2596.3s] so kids have been going missing.
[2598.8s] Oh, Cedric was first.
[2602.4s] We brought all the kids here.
[2604.8s] Tally went missing while we while we were here.
[2607.5s] And then the three of them
[2611.3s] followed this path like there's a banjo man.
[2615.3s] And there's there's there's music.
[2618.6s] And like I don't
[2621.2s] I can't explain it, but they followed these leaves.
[2623.7s] They just said there was leaves and they had to follow them.
[2626.0s] But they've been gone for two days.
[2630.6s] Yeah, that's way too long to be gone.
[2633.3s] Where are these leaves? Where do we go?
[2636.0s] They went down to the there was a path to the forest.
[2639.4s] June, June, are you are you OK?
[2641.0s] I can take them as far as as far as I remember seeing.
[2644.5s] Oh, yeah, I got these little ones.
[2646.4s] Don't you worry, you guys, come around, come around.
[2648.6s] I'm going to tell you a story.
[2649.7s] Oh, is it a scary one again?
[2651.8s] No, of course not. You're living the scary story.
[2654.6s] OK, good. Once upon a time, there was a vampire.
[2657.9s] A vampire? Oh, wow.
[2660.4s] That's not as scary as this.
[2662.8s] Thane takes you out.
[2663.7s] Did you guys just get back?
[2665.2s] Yeah. Yeah, just got back.
[2667.4s] Went to my shop.
[2669.3s] Alydin's not there.
[2671.0s] Yeah, we've had we've had every every day since been gone.
[2674.6s] Like the the guard has been out looking like they
[2678.6s] and nobody's been able to find them.
[2679.9s] They've been into the forest like they can't.
[2682.3s] Anyway, they're OK.
[2686.5s] Banjo Man
[2688.8s] Bard came down was singing a song.
[2691.4s] Kids picked up the song, started singing the song.
[2694.4s] The song was creepy.
[2695.5s] Like the song was like really like, why do kids sing this song?
[2700.2s] You know, talking about like a banjo man is going to come
[2702.6s] get you in your sleep kind of vibe.
[2704.8s] That's terrifying. Not cool.
[2707.0s] And then what did they say?
[2708.8s] And then there was Cedric went missing.
[2711.1s] There were there were leaves.
[2712.8s] They were in a bag because Bonwyn put him in a bag.
[2715.6s] And then she said something about a shimmering musical note,
[2719.0s] something like that.
[2719.6s] And you guys are walking towards the forest.
[2721.6s] The shimmering note where it was etched
[2725.2s] is etched into the into the floor, etched into the floor at the school.
[2729.4s] OK.
[2730.5s] Um, let's go see if we can find this trail.
[2735.0s] And then if we don't find anything there, that's our second stop.
[2738.2s] Yeah, of course, of course.
[2739.6s] And he takes the lead and down the street
[2743.9s] towards the Verboten Forest and
[2748.8s] a large wind picks up at that point
[2751.3s] and leaves from the entire Verboten Forest
[2754.2s] begin to move off of the trees and swirl around you.
[2757.6s] Bizarre, do you you sense
[2763.4s] a similar feeling, not the same,
[2766.5s] but a similar feeling to when you were down in the mine
[2769.7s] and you saw that portal in front of you, like there was a
[2774.4s] a disturbance, something that in you,
[2777.9s] in the essence of your very being sensed
[2782.1s] was different about the space that you were in, a difference about the world.
[2786.8s] Was there a disturbance in the force?
[2788.6s] No, I didn't say that. I didn't say that.
[2791.9s] Come at me, Lucas.
[2794.5s] No, it's Josney.
[2795.3s] They're going to get Josney now.
[2796.7s] Yeah. Oh, boy.
[2798.7s] You get this feeling and it's like the wind passes by
[2802.1s] and it comes on as this chill as you continue forward.
[2805.6s] You're unsettled.
[2806.8s] You know that something has shifted in the direction that you are going.
[2814.4s] Um, Cav, do you have all of your equipment with you?
[2819.8s] Are you? I have a feeling this is giving me the same vibes
[2824.2s] as what happened down in the mines.
[2826.7s] Oh, shit. No. Oh, yeah.
[2829.0s] No, I have everything.
[2830.0s] Like, I didn't even get a chance to go home.
[2831.6s] So. OK. OK. Just just double checking.
[2834.3s] Um, like at least Bonwyn's with her.
[2837.8s] We've got to go in there.
[2839.3s] We'll get him back. It's going to be totally cool.
[2841.9s] We got this.
[2843.9s] Yeah, we do. Let's get after it.
[2847.2s] Welcome home, am I fucking right?
[2855.0s] Dumbgeons and Dragons Season 4 Episode 14, starring Amy More as Alydin,
[2861.6s] Carla Maxted as Bonwyn Everbane, Tom Laird as Kavlaran Goldweave,
[2866.4s] Kyle Claset as Bizard the Wizard, and Russ More as your Dungeon Master.
[2871.2s] Dialogue, editing and sound design of today's episode is by Russ More.
[2875.1s] Music is from Epidemic Sound and sound effects are from Epidemic Sound
[2879.2s] and Boom Library.
[2880.3s] Our amazing cover art is by Matt Garbutt.
[2883.0s] And we'd like to say a huge thank you to our supporting producers,
[2886.5s] including Gabriel Lynch, Jessica Babiak, Kat Waterflame, Jacob Madden,
[2891.2s] Angaron Kiersen, Perry Matey, Old School Gamer D, Craig Zeiss
[2895.8s] and L.A. Branton.
[2897.1s] We'd love if you joined us today
[2898.9s] at Patreon.com slash Dumb Dragon Cast for the amazing community.
[2902.8s] All the bonus content and so much more.
[2905.6s] Patreon.com slash Dumb Dragon Cast.
[2907.8s] We'll see you over there.
[2909.0s] But until then, have a great week and we'll talk to you soon.
[2913.4s] It's a grumbly dog. Apologies.
[2915.8s] No, these are just noises from inside the woods.
[2917.9s] They're just forest.
[2918.8s] Yeah, street noise. We're running down the streets.
[2920.8s] We can hear people snoring through their open windows.
[2922.8s] That's right.
[2923.8s] Should I roll my speed?
[2925.2s] Tally takes off and you. Nope.
[2926.9s] What? I'm Alydin, Alydin, take, sorry, Alydin,
[2932.1s] going to go save some kids and go fuck a sailor.
[2935.0s] Hell, yeah.
[2936.1s] I mean, I would have preferred the order had been the other way, but whatever.
[2940.2s] He said he'd wait for me. It's fine.
[2943.6s] Did he yell it like, oh, wait for you
[2946.5s] till the end of the day.
[2947.7s] And then you do have to.
[2949.2s] And then we've got to get out of here.
[2950.8s] Seems like you had a dodged a bullet. Kind of needy.
[2953.8s] He's named after his grandmother.
[2955.3s] That's where we'll wrap the episode.
[2956.1s] There's no time.
[2959.8s] Dumbgeons and Dragons is a Dumb Dragons production.