1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:02,300 Dumbgeons and Dragons begins in a moment. 2 00:00:06,100 --> 00:00:11,099 Kavlaran and Bizard, you're making your way through a forest path. 3 00:00:11,099 --> 00:00:18,199 You've been led by Thane up to a point, but he got called back because another child appears to have been missing. 4 00:00:18,199 --> 00:00:26,400 So he went back to investigate that and since you gave you as clear directions as he could to the clearing that they know of 5 00:00:27,100 --> 00:00:32,000 where Bonwyn and Alydin were presumed to have gone missing. 6 00:00:32,000 --> 00:00:43,000 You are weaving through this path and the thicket is getting dense and it's encroaching on the path that it's going around you. 7 00:00:43,000 --> 00:00:51,400 But up ahead you see that there is a bright light, a bright sunlight coming down 8 00:00:51,399 --> 00:00:57,399 and what appears to be a clearing opening in this thick forest. 9 00:00:59,299 --> 00:01:03,299 Is there an obvious parting in the trees above or is this supernatural? 10 00:01:03,299 --> 00:01:10,700 As you get closer, it does appear that the forest itself is clearing this opening. 11 00:01:10,700 --> 00:01:20,500 So you step up to it and you poke your head through and there's this almost like meadow, tall grass. 12 00:01:20,500 --> 00:01:29,099 It's blowing in the wind in this circular pattern of trees that is now wide open. 13 00:01:29,099 --> 00:01:36,099 On the other side of this clearing you see the trees look very similar on your side until they get to the other side 14 00:01:36,099 --> 00:01:43,099 and then they get more gnarled and like, gangled isn't the word, withered. 15 00:01:43,099 --> 00:01:45,099 Yeah, gnarled and withered. 16 00:01:45,100 --> 00:01:52,100 You step out into it and the wind begins to pick up and you hear echoes of... 17 00:01:54,100 --> 00:01:57,100 With arms wide open... 18 00:01:57,100 --> 00:02:05,100 You hear echoes of Scott Staff who's calling you forward. 19 00:02:05,100 --> 00:02:07,100 How could you resist? 20 00:02:07,100 --> 00:02:08,100 I'm there, yeah. 21 00:02:08,099 --> 00:02:14,099 Dumbgeons and Dragons is a D&D actual play podcast and I'm your dungeon master Russ More, he, him. 22 00:02:14,099 --> 00:02:18,099 Also with me today is Amy More as Alydin, she, her. 23 00:02:18,099 --> 00:02:21,099 Alydin's got some common sense that Amy herself does not have. 24 00:02:21,099 --> 00:02:24,099 Carla Maxted as Bonwyn Everbane, she, her. 25 00:02:24,099 --> 00:02:28,099 Probably like pauses on the stairs until the making out starts, then she's out. 26 00:02:28,099 --> 00:02:31,099 Tom Laird as Kavlaran Goldweave, he, him. 27 00:02:31,099 --> 00:02:33,099 I'm wise, I'm just a little dumb. 28 00:02:33,099 --> 00:02:36,099 And Kyle Claset as Bizard the Wizard, he, him. 29 00:02:36,099 --> 00:02:37,099 I'm smart, not very wise. 30 00:02:37,099 --> 00:02:46,099 Dumbgeons and Dragons is a Patreon-supported podcast and you can join us today for a 7-day free trial at patreon.com slash dumbdragoncast 31 00:02:46,099 --> 00:02:53,099 where we have an entire other podcast for you and an amazing community that you can be a part of like the second you join. 32 00:02:53,099 --> 00:02:56,099 We want you to come check it out, just give it a little taste. 33 00:02:56,099 --> 00:02:59,099 Patreon.com slash dumbdragoncast will see you over there. 34 00:02:59,099 --> 00:03:01,099 And now, fuck it, let's play. 35 00:03:02,099 --> 00:03:05,099 You make your way out into this clearing. 36 00:03:05,099 --> 00:03:12,099 And Bizarre, you, you, you step, take a couple steps out and you trip on something. 37 00:03:12,099 --> 00:03:20,099 You look down and there is a wooden toy that you trip over. 38 00:03:20,099 --> 00:03:29,099 I'm going to bend down and pick up the toy and look at Kav's and say, I guess a child's been this way. 39 00:03:29,099 --> 00:03:32,099 So, I mean, it certainly seems that way. 40 00:03:32,099 --> 00:03:34,099 The trees don't look fun though. 41 00:03:34,099 --> 00:03:36,099 No, those over there definitely don't. 42 00:03:36,099 --> 00:03:37,099 Yeah. 43 00:03:37,099 --> 00:03:44,099 You know, if children are disappearing and something looks ominous and creepy, that's likely the way to go. 44 00:03:44,099 --> 00:03:45,099 So, yeah, 100%. 45 00:03:45,099 --> 00:03:46,099 Yeah, that's the right way. 46 00:03:46,099 --> 00:03:47,099 Yeah, I guess. 47 00:03:47,099 --> 00:03:48,099 So let's go there. 48 00:03:48,099 --> 00:03:49,099 Yeah, let's do it. 49 00:03:49,099 --> 00:03:53,099 And I like slowly like pull my little war hammer from behind my back. 50 00:03:53,099 --> 00:03:55,099 Like, how little is it? 51 00:03:55,099 --> 00:03:57,099 I mean, it's a normal size. 52 00:03:57,099 --> 00:03:58,099 Oh, OK. 53 00:03:58,099 --> 00:04:00,099 You did do it as if you were just being demure. 54 00:04:00,099 --> 00:04:03,099 Your movements were like, as if it was six inches long. 55 00:04:03,099 --> 00:04:06,099 Like you had a big one and then you had like a little one. 56 00:04:06,099 --> 00:04:07,099 The up close one. 57 00:04:07,099 --> 00:04:10,099 Right. It's your sneaky war hammer and your loud. 58 00:04:10,099 --> 00:04:15,099 It's just one of those like clubs. 59 00:04:15,099 --> 00:04:19,100 It's got your stamp on it for your job. 60 00:04:19,100 --> 00:04:20,100 Saved so much time. 61 00:04:20,100 --> 00:04:21,100 Yeah. 62 00:04:21,100 --> 00:04:24,100 Cautiously stepping out into the clearing. 63 00:04:24,100 --> 00:04:27,100 Make a wisdom saving throw. 64 00:04:27,100 --> 00:04:28,100 OK. 65 00:04:28,100 --> 00:04:34,100 One other thing I want to do is do I recognize if this toy belongs to any specific child? 66 00:04:34,100 --> 00:04:37,100 So, yeah, I didn't really describe it. 67 00:04:37,100 --> 00:04:43,100 You pick it up and it looks like a train or at least a portion of a train, like a wooden train set. 68 00:04:43,100 --> 00:04:45,100 OK, trains exist in our world. 69 00:04:45,100 --> 00:04:46,100 Are we talking caboose? 70 00:04:46,100 --> 00:04:48,100 Are we talking engines? 71 00:04:48,100 --> 00:04:52,100 Sometimes I have questions about whether trains exist. 72 00:04:52,100 --> 00:04:54,100 I always. 73 00:04:54,100 --> 00:04:55,100 Trains exist in this world. 74 00:04:55,100 --> 00:04:56,100 I really like trains. 75 00:04:56,100 --> 00:04:57,100 They're going to exist in this world. 76 00:04:57,100 --> 00:04:59,100 OK, I'm for it. 77 00:04:59,100 --> 00:05:03,100 You have to take boats up rivers to get places, but trains exist in this world. 78 00:05:03,100 --> 00:05:08,100 The infrastructure for trains isn't as good as it should be, but they're getting there. 79 00:05:08,100 --> 00:05:10,100 Yeah, you take a look at it. 80 00:05:10,100 --> 00:05:12,100 It looks like it's well worn. 81 00:05:12,100 --> 00:05:17,100 It doesn't specifically stand out to any any of the children you've seen around the town. 82 00:05:17,100 --> 00:05:19,100 It's most likely a child's toy. 83 00:05:19,100 --> 00:05:20,100 Oh, absolutely. 84 00:05:20,100 --> 00:05:21,100 Yeah, yeah. 85 00:05:21,100 --> 00:05:27,100 Well, and to the point, do I actually recognize it as a train or is this like I don't know what this is? 86 00:05:27,100 --> 00:05:29,100 That is a good question. 87 00:05:29,100 --> 00:05:31,100 I feel like you're worldly though, aren't you? 88 00:05:31,100 --> 00:05:33,100 You read so many books. 89 00:05:33,100 --> 00:05:34,100 One of them had to have a train app. 90 00:05:34,100 --> 00:05:37,100 Well, I mean, surely at the school for magic and dance. 91 00:05:37,100 --> 00:05:38,100 Dance and battle? 92 00:05:38,100 --> 00:05:39,100 Yes. 93 00:05:39,100 --> 00:05:40,100 What is it? Magic, fighting and dance? 94 00:05:40,100 --> 00:05:41,100 Burnhardt Swans. 95 00:05:41,100 --> 00:05:42,100 Magic, fighting and dance. 96 00:05:42,100 --> 00:05:43,100 Yes. 97 00:05:43,100 --> 00:05:44,100 Surely there was a book about train. 98 00:05:44,100 --> 00:05:49,100 So yeah, to that point, you do recognize it as a train. 99 00:05:49,100 --> 00:05:50,100 Sick. 100 00:05:50,100 --> 00:05:56,100 You don't recognize it specifically as a toy you've seen any of the children. 101 00:05:56,100 --> 00:05:58,100 Sure, it's not like Alydin's bucket. 102 00:05:58,100 --> 00:05:59,100 Exactly. 103 00:05:59,100 --> 00:06:00,100 Well, I know that one. 104 00:06:00,100 --> 00:06:02,100 That's Gerald's. 105 00:06:02,100 --> 00:06:05,100 Classic Gerald. 106 00:06:05,100 --> 00:06:07,100 These are so interesting. 107 00:06:07,100 --> 00:06:11,100 Look, Gerald's have to start his children too. 108 00:06:11,100 --> 00:06:12,100 That's true. 109 00:06:12,100 --> 00:06:16,100 And just so everyone knows, Gerald starts with a J in this case. 110 00:06:16,100 --> 00:06:18,100 I thought it was a G. 111 00:06:18,100 --> 00:06:21,100 That's a pretty rough clarification. 112 00:06:21,100 --> 00:06:25,100 I got a 12 on my wisdom save. 113 00:06:25,100 --> 00:06:26,100 I got a 17. 114 00:06:26,100 --> 00:06:27,100 Interesting. 115 00:06:27,100 --> 00:06:29,100 That's not the way I thought it was going to go. 116 00:06:29,100 --> 00:06:30,100 I'm wise. 117 00:06:30,100 --> 00:06:31,100 I'm just a little dumb. 118 00:06:31,100 --> 00:06:33,100 I'm smart, not very wise. 119 00:06:33,100 --> 00:06:35,100 Together we're a great team. 120 00:06:35,100 --> 00:06:39,100 So you're examining this toy and you're taking a few more steps. 121 00:06:40,100 --> 00:06:43,100 Both of you kind of like trip over some more toys. 122 00:06:43,100 --> 00:06:48,100 And like as the clearing of the grass gets a little more sparse towards the middle of this, 123 00:06:48,100 --> 00:06:51,100 you notice there's toys littered all over this clearing. 124 00:06:51,100 --> 00:06:56,100 Cav, as you're kind of taking this scene, picking up a couple as you're going, 125 00:06:56,100 --> 00:06:59,100 I mean, this isn't looking great. 126 00:06:59,100 --> 00:07:07,100 You look over at Bazaar and he is now like eyes locked on these gnarled trees on the other side. 127 00:07:07,100 --> 00:07:09,100 Just like straight walking. 128 00:07:09,100 --> 00:07:11,100 And he's even picked up his pace. 129 00:07:11,100 --> 00:07:14,100 You see him kind of like roll his ankle on a couple of toys. 130 00:07:14,100 --> 00:07:15,100 It looks like he is... 131 00:07:15,100 --> 00:07:16,100 Various Legos. 132 00:07:16,100 --> 00:07:22,100 I know this is creepy, but I'm imagining like he steps and this thing's got a wheel and it's like whoop. 133 00:07:22,100 --> 00:07:24,100 It's a little slapsticky. 134 00:07:24,100 --> 00:07:26,100 And then it's like they're marbles or... 135 00:07:26,100 --> 00:07:28,100 Mr. Bean style. 136 00:07:28,100 --> 00:07:30,100 It's very physical. 137 00:07:30,100 --> 00:07:34,100 But he is like locked on these trees making his way forward. 138 00:07:34,100 --> 00:07:38,100 It looks like he's under an influence of sorts. 139 00:07:38,100 --> 00:07:39,100 All right. 140 00:07:39,100 --> 00:07:42,100 And I kind of start to hustle over and call it up. 141 00:07:42,100 --> 00:07:44,100 Bazaar, are you good? 142 00:07:44,100 --> 00:07:46,100 There's no response. 143 00:07:46,100 --> 00:07:48,100 I don't think he's good. 144 00:07:48,100 --> 00:07:49,100 Okay. 145 00:07:49,100 --> 00:07:52,100 And I just like hustle over right behind him sort of thing. 146 00:07:52,100 --> 00:07:55,100 So I'm like not like grabbing him, but like right there. 147 00:07:55,100 --> 00:07:59,100 So like if I need to pull him back from something, I can. 148 00:07:59,100 --> 00:08:00,100 Okay. 149 00:08:00,100 --> 00:08:04,100 You are actually following a child and you like holding on to the back of their shirt. 150 00:08:04,100 --> 00:08:06,100 They can't feel you holding them, but you got him. 151 00:08:06,100 --> 00:08:07,100 Yeah. 152 00:08:07,100 --> 00:08:08,100 You got him. 153 00:08:08,100 --> 00:08:09,100 Yeah. 154 00:08:09,100 --> 00:08:16,100 So, you know, whether you touch his shoulder or not, like he's not acknowledging you and he's walking towards these trees. 155 00:08:16,100 --> 00:08:21,100 And, you know, as you're getting closer, the winds start to pick up. 156 00:08:21,100 --> 00:08:26,100 This doesn't really affect you, Bazaar, but Kav, like the winds are picking up. 157 00:08:26,100 --> 00:08:34,100 The grasses are like whipping at your legs as you're going by and you hear like clattering sounds behind you. 158 00:08:34,100 --> 00:08:37,100 That's always unsettling. 159 00:08:37,100 --> 00:08:40,100 I'll look behind me. 160 00:08:40,100 --> 00:08:55,100 You look behind you and you see movement in the grass as these toys that you've been tripping on and like kicking aside are all kind of starting to come together and build into this creature that is all of these. 161 00:08:55,100 --> 00:08:56,100 It's like a toy skeleton. 162 00:08:56,100 --> 00:08:59,100 All of these torsion of toys behind you. 163 00:08:59,100 --> 00:09:05,100 And it like draws this hammer, like almost a mirror of the hammer that you have on. 164 00:09:05,100 --> 00:09:06,100 So it's little. 165 00:09:06,100 --> 00:09:07,100 I knew it. 166 00:09:07,100 --> 00:09:08,100 It's a tiny little person hammer. 167 00:09:08,100 --> 00:09:09,100 Oh yeah, it's a tiny little person hammer. 168 00:09:09,100 --> 00:09:10,100 Yeah. 169 00:09:10,100 --> 00:09:11,100 Yeah. 170 00:09:11,100 --> 00:09:14,100 And it's now charging towards you specifically. 171 00:09:14,100 --> 00:09:15,100 All right. 172 00:09:15,100 --> 00:09:22,100 I like grab Bazaar's shoulder and like roughly kind of try to pull him out of whatever he's in. 173 00:09:22,100 --> 00:09:30,100 While I'm like also trying to protect us both as this thing's rushing towards. 174 00:09:30,100 --> 00:09:33,100 I just push Bazaar out of the way and then leave. 175 00:09:33,100 --> 00:09:35,100 I push him towards the beast, not run. 176 00:09:35,100 --> 00:09:39,100 I trip him and then I'm out. 177 00:09:39,100 --> 00:09:40,100 Alydin. 178 00:09:40,100 --> 00:09:41,100 Yeah. 179 00:09:41,100 --> 00:09:43,100 We left you. 180 00:09:43,100 --> 00:09:46,100 You were previously in the back room of Bazaar's. 181 00:09:46,100 --> 00:09:47,100 Yeah. 182 00:09:47,100 --> 00:09:52,100 You'd found a small puzzle box that felt hollow but quite heavy. 183 00:09:52,100 --> 00:09:54,100 It had runes and letters on it. 184 00:09:54,100 --> 00:09:59,100 And you had exited through a back door that you had never really been through. 185 00:09:59,100 --> 00:10:02,100 You'd assumed it just went to an alleyway. 186 00:10:02,100 --> 00:10:05,100 But you exited into this dark space. 187 00:10:05,100 --> 00:10:11,100 And that's where we find you now is you are in this dark void. 188 00:10:11,100 --> 00:10:13,100 And there's a... 189 00:10:13,100 --> 00:10:15,100 Just like always. 190 00:10:15,100 --> 00:10:17,100 All right. 191 00:10:17,100 --> 00:10:18,100 There's... 192 00:10:18,100 --> 00:10:19,100 Alone and dark. 193 00:10:19,100 --> 00:10:20,100 Yeah. 194 00:10:20,100 --> 00:10:22,100 I like it. 195 00:10:22,100 --> 00:10:27,100 Some of the space begins to come into view for you. 196 00:10:27,100 --> 00:10:33,100 There's like a candlelight or what you can presume is a candlelight down at the end of a long hallway. 197 00:10:33,100 --> 00:10:37,100 Well, I'm going to walk toward the only light that's there. 198 00:10:37,100 --> 00:10:38,100 I look down. 199 00:10:38,100 --> 00:10:39,100 Do I have my bucket? 200 00:10:39,100 --> 00:10:40,100 Yes. 201 00:10:40,100 --> 00:10:41,100 You still have your bucket. 202 00:10:41,100 --> 00:10:44,100 I think we said you maintained your bucket in the last one. 203 00:10:44,100 --> 00:10:49,100 I want to rummage through my bucket to find the matches and candle that I have in there. 204 00:10:49,100 --> 00:10:50,100 And I want to light myself a candle. 205 00:10:50,100 --> 00:10:51,100 Okay. 206 00:10:51,100 --> 00:10:56,100 Alydin's got some common sense that Amy herself does not have. 207 00:10:56,100 --> 00:10:57,100 I light a candle. 208 00:10:57,100 --> 00:10:59,100 That's the nice thing about D&D is you can really stretch out. 209 00:10:59,100 --> 00:11:00,100 Right? 210 00:11:00,100 --> 00:11:02,100 What a fantasy world. 211 00:11:02,100 --> 00:11:04,100 I can be my best self here. 212 00:11:04,100 --> 00:11:05,100 I want to do that. 213 00:11:05,100 --> 00:11:06,100 Yeah. 214 00:11:06,100 --> 00:11:09,100 You light the candle and it gives off some light around you. 215 00:11:09,100 --> 00:11:12,100 It's not as bright as you would otherwise assume it is. 216 00:11:12,100 --> 00:11:15,100 You can make out just rough walls. 217 00:11:15,100 --> 00:11:20,100 You are down this hallway and you look back and the door that you came in was gone. 218 00:11:20,100 --> 00:11:21,100 Of course it is. 219 00:11:21,100 --> 00:11:22,100 Of course it is. 220 00:11:22,100 --> 00:11:27,100 I do want to walk toward the what looks like candle. 221 00:11:27,100 --> 00:11:30,100 Like is it flickering or is it just a steady glow? 222 00:11:30,100 --> 00:11:31,100 Yeah. 223 00:11:31,100 --> 00:11:32,100 I love a steady glow. 224 00:11:32,100 --> 00:11:33,100 That's unnatural. 225 00:11:33,100 --> 00:11:34,100 No. 226 00:11:34,100 --> 00:11:35,100 It does appear to be flickering. 227 00:11:35,100 --> 00:11:40,100 Like there's some, not like a big wind, but there is some air movement in the space where it exists. 228 00:11:40,100 --> 00:11:41,100 Okay. 229 00:11:41,100 --> 00:11:44,100 I'm going to cautiously walk towards it. 230 00:11:44,100 --> 00:11:52,100 But I want to hold my candle out and I want to kind of inspect the walls to see if there is a writing. 231 00:11:52,100 --> 00:11:54,100 Are there bloody claw prints? 232 00:11:54,100 --> 00:11:56,100 Are there fingernails stuck in the wall? 233 00:11:56,100 --> 00:11:57,100 That's a good question. 234 00:11:57,100 --> 00:11:59,100 These are the things I want to know. 235 00:11:59,100 --> 00:12:01,100 Roll investigation. 236 00:12:01,100 --> 00:12:02,100 Oh God. 237 00:12:02,100 --> 00:12:04,100 Dare I try that dice I gave me in 20 last time? 238 00:12:04,100 --> 00:12:07,100 No, because what if it gives me 20 again on an investigation? 239 00:12:07,100 --> 00:12:08,100 No. 240 00:12:08,100 --> 00:12:09,100 Forget that. 241 00:12:09,100 --> 00:12:10,100 Okay. 242 00:12:10,100 --> 00:12:12,100 I'm going to go with these ones. 243 00:12:12,100 --> 00:12:13,100 17. 244 00:12:13,100 --> 00:12:15,100 Oh, you moved that for me. 245 00:12:15,100 --> 00:12:16,100 Oh, okay. 246 00:12:16,100 --> 00:12:17,100 21. 247 00:12:17,100 --> 00:12:18,100 Okay. 248 00:12:18,100 --> 00:12:19,100 That was smart. 249 00:12:19,100 --> 00:12:21,100 Nothing but fingernails. 250 00:12:21,100 --> 00:12:22,100 Oh my God. 251 00:12:22,100 --> 00:12:24,100 I just got the worst visual. 252 00:12:24,100 --> 00:12:26,100 My mind can conjure too good a picture. 253 00:12:26,100 --> 00:12:30,100 It's like an old floral wall print, but the floral is all fingernails. 254 00:12:30,100 --> 00:12:31,100 Yeah. 255 00:12:31,100 --> 00:12:34,100 No, you bring your candle up to it. 256 00:12:34,100 --> 00:12:36,100 Truly awful. 257 00:12:36,100 --> 00:12:43,100 You bring the candle up to it and it is like it's old wallpaper, like old worn wallpaper. 258 00:12:43,100 --> 00:12:46,100 There isn't really a pattern to it. 259 00:12:46,100 --> 00:12:51,100 It looks like it's just a faded blue, blue green. 260 00:12:52,100 --> 00:12:56,100 But there's something familiar about it to you. 261 00:12:56,100 --> 00:12:59,100 You can't put your finger on it exactly. 262 00:12:59,100 --> 00:13:06,100 I ponder on that as I continue to carefully moving my candle along the wall, along the 263 00:13:06,100 --> 00:13:11,100 floor in front of me, because I don't want to trip on toys. 264 00:13:11,100 --> 00:13:13,100 As above, so below. 265 00:13:13,100 --> 00:13:15,100 I'm going to go real, real slow. 266 00:13:15,100 --> 00:13:16,100 Yep. 267 00:13:17,100 --> 00:13:25,100 The floor, the closer you get to the light at the end of this hallway becomes more like 268 00:13:25,100 --> 00:13:28,100 old hardwood and it starts to creak under your feet. 269 00:13:28,100 --> 00:13:31,100 You continue to make your way down and nothing else really changes. 270 00:13:31,100 --> 00:13:34,100 Everything kind of comes more into focus. 271 00:13:34,100 --> 00:13:40,100 And as you get to what is this doorway that you've been walking towards, you 272 00:13:40,100 --> 00:13:45,100 look through and the light of this candle is illuminating what looks like an older 273 00:13:45,100 --> 00:13:46,100 kitchen. 274 00:13:46,100 --> 00:13:49,100 There's a long wooden table in the middle. 275 00:13:49,100 --> 00:13:51,100 It looks quite cozy. 276 00:13:51,100 --> 00:13:57,100 And there is that same familiarity you felt like there's a warmth to this kitchen. 277 00:13:57,100 --> 00:14:02,100 There's cupboards up along the walls. 278 00:14:02,100 --> 00:14:06,100 There's three chairs all around this table. 279 00:14:06,100 --> 00:14:12,100 And then there are placings set for lunch or a dinner. 280 00:14:12,100 --> 00:14:18,100 Would you say that this place, like the familiarity, like, am I getting like a 281 00:14:18,100 --> 00:14:20,100 homesick feeling? 282 00:14:20,100 --> 00:14:26,100 Is it, or is it just like one of those like nagging, like, I've been here 283 00:14:26,100 --> 00:14:29,100 before type feelings? 284 00:14:29,100 --> 00:14:32,100 I would say probably more a homesick. 285 00:14:32,100 --> 00:14:34,100 Hmm. 286 00:14:34,100 --> 00:14:37,100 Don't make me cry today. 287 00:14:37,100 --> 00:14:38,100 Do it. 288 00:14:38,100 --> 00:14:43,100 Yeah, I think first, Alydin looks, sorry, you said the candle was on the table. 289 00:14:43,100 --> 00:14:44,100 Yes. 290 00:14:44,100 --> 00:14:46,100 And the table is set for like, set for three. 291 00:14:46,100 --> 00:14:48,100 Set for three, yeah. 292 00:14:48,100 --> 00:14:54,100 I want to look around to see if there are any doors in this kitchen or is this 293 00:14:54,100 --> 00:14:56,100 like a dead end? 294 00:14:56,100 --> 00:15:00,100 You're just poking your head kind of through just to see if you can see. 295 00:15:00,100 --> 00:15:01,100 Yeah. 296 00:15:01,100 --> 00:15:02,100 Yeah. 297 00:15:02,100 --> 00:15:06,100 So you look in, there's a window above the, above a sink or like a sink 298 00:15:06,100 --> 00:15:11,100 basin and you look around and it looks like there's one egress, which looks 299 00:15:11,100 --> 00:15:14,100 like you can't quite make out it's a little darker through there, but it 300 00:15:14,100 --> 00:15:17,100 looks like a hallway leading to another room. 301 00:15:17,100 --> 00:15:20,100 So it's not a closed space that you're walking into. 302 00:15:20,100 --> 00:15:21,100 Okay. 303 00:15:21,100 --> 00:15:24,100 But it is empty of any other people? 304 00:15:24,100 --> 00:15:28,100 There doesn't appear to be any people in there as of this moment. 305 00:15:28,100 --> 00:15:37,100 So Alydin cautiously walks in and like any 14 year old starts to poke around 306 00:15:37,100 --> 00:15:44,100 and look in cabinets and under the sink and just pretty much, if there's a 307 00:15:44,100 --> 00:15:47,100 knife on the table, like are there cutlery? 308 00:15:47,100 --> 00:15:49,100 Are there cutlery? 309 00:15:49,100 --> 00:15:51,100 Are there be cutlery? 310 00:15:51,100 --> 00:15:55,100 There is cutlery, knife, fork, spoon, cha-cha-cha. 311 00:15:55,100 --> 00:16:03,100 I want to just kind of slowly put a knife into my bucket as I continue to peruse 312 00:16:03,100 --> 00:16:06,100 and see what the hell is this place? 313 00:16:06,100 --> 00:16:07,100 Yeah. 314 00:16:07,100 --> 00:16:12,100 You, yeah, you're pulling cupboards open and you're, you're seeing dishware 315 00:16:12,100 --> 00:16:17,100 and glasses, pulling drawers and you find the utensils and the junk drawer 316 00:16:17,100 --> 00:16:18,100 and all that sort of things. 317 00:16:18,100 --> 00:16:21,100 And these are like full, like this is like a functional. 318 00:16:21,100 --> 00:16:22,100 Fully functional. 319 00:16:22,100 --> 00:16:23,100 There's a junk drawer. 320 00:16:23,100 --> 00:16:25,100 What do I see in the junk drawer? 321 00:16:25,100 --> 00:16:28,100 There's a string, a needle and yarn. 322 00:16:28,100 --> 00:16:30,100 There's what else? 323 00:16:30,100 --> 00:16:31,100 Old sauce packets. 324 00:16:31,100 --> 00:16:32,100 Old sauce packets. 325 00:16:32,100 --> 00:16:33,100 Yeah. 326 00:16:33,100 --> 00:16:34,100 Takeout menus. 327 00:16:34,100 --> 00:16:35,100 Yeah. 328 00:16:35,100 --> 00:16:36,100 Ramen packets. 329 00:16:36,100 --> 00:16:37,100 It just says flavor. 330 00:16:37,100 --> 00:16:38,100 Yeah. 331 00:16:38,100 --> 00:16:42,100 Well, I want to take the sauce packets. 332 00:16:42,100 --> 00:16:43,100 Yep. 333 00:16:43,100 --> 00:16:44,100 100%. 334 00:16:44,100 --> 00:16:48,100 That could be like, that's just pocket sand, but with flavor. 335 00:16:48,100 --> 00:16:49,100 Absolutely. 336 00:16:49,100 --> 00:16:56,100 I want to take the string and the needle and the thread and the like the crafty kind of 337 00:16:56,100 --> 00:16:58,100 like what, like I could do something with it. 338 00:16:58,100 --> 00:16:59,100 Like useful stuff. 339 00:16:59,100 --> 00:17:00,100 I might need this. 340 00:17:00,100 --> 00:17:01,100 Yeah. 341 00:17:01,100 --> 00:17:06,099 And if there are also any other candles in the junk drawer, which is where people 342 00:17:06,099 --> 00:17:08,099 might usually keep them in the event of. 343 00:17:08,099 --> 00:17:12,099 You find a couple candles as you're looking through one full and one like half 344 00:17:12,099 --> 00:17:13,099 burned down. 345 00:17:13,099 --> 00:17:16,099 I'll take both of those as I continue to snoop. 346 00:17:16,099 --> 00:17:21,099 And as you continue to look through the space, you hear footsteps coming from 347 00:17:21,099 --> 00:17:23,099 down the other hallway. 348 00:17:23,099 --> 00:17:28,099 Am I in line of that hallway or am I like, can I be seen by the person or 349 00:17:28,099 --> 00:17:29,099 thing walking through the hallway? 350 00:17:29,099 --> 00:17:30,099 Not at this moment. 351 00:17:30,099 --> 00:17:31,099 Okay. 352 00:17:31,099 --> 00:17:33,099 Is there a cabinet I could fit in? 353 00:17:33,099 --> 00:17:36,099 Yeah, you could probably fit under the sink basin. 354 00:17:36,099 --> 00:17:37,099 All right. 355 00:17:37,099 --> 00:17:38,099 I'm under there. 356 00:17:38,099 --> 00:17:39,099 Really quiet. 357 00:17:39,099 --> 00:17:40,099 Really quiet, like sneaky. 358 00:17:40,099 --> 00:17:41,099 Great. 359 00:17:41,099 --> 00:17:45,099 You hear you pull the doors closed and then the footsteps are getting closer 360 00:17:45,099 --> 00:17:48,099 and it's one pair. 361 00:17:48,099 --> 00:17:54,099 Sounds like it's a woman wearing high heels clacking down the hallway. 362 00:17:54,099 --> 00:18:01,099 They move over to the table and you hear them moving the cutlery and there's 363 00:18:01,099 --> 00:18:02,099 a pause. 364 00:18:02,099 --> 00:18:06,099 And then they move to one of the drawers and pull out a knife and go set 365 00:18:06,099 --> 00:18:08,099 it back at the table. 366 00:18:08,099 --> 00:18:10,099 My heart is racing. 367 00:18:10,099 --> 00:18:11,099 I'm like, oh shit. 368 00:18:11,099 --> 00:18:12,099 I made sure to close everything. 369 00:18:12,099 --> 00:18:13,099 I'm sure of it. 370 00:18:13,100 --> 00:18:14,100 But then I took a knife. 371 00:18:14,100 --> 00:18:16,100 They're going to miss the knife, stupid Alydin. 372 00:18:16,100 --> 00:18:22,100 And then you hear them move back towards the hallway and they call down the 373 00:18:22,100 --> 00:18:24,100 hall and it is a woman's voice. 374 00:18:24,100 --> 00:18:26,100 And you hear her call, Alydin. 375 00:18:26,100 --> 00:18:32,100 Alydin, dinner's just about ready. 376 00:18:32,100 --> 00:18:34,100 Is this character going to talk a lot? 377 00:18:34,100 --> 00:18:36,100 Do you want Carla to be a woman? 378 00:18:36,100 --> 00:18:42,100 I think every character is going to be a little bit voice cracky today. 379 00:18:42,100 --> 00:18:43,100 All right. 380 00:18:43,100 --> 00:18:52,100 Can I see, is there a crack or have I shot myself in? 381 00:18:52,100 --> 00:18:57,100 There's a bit of a crack but you're not able to see much through it without 382 00:18:57,100 --> 00:18:59,100 propping the door open a little bit. 383 00:18:59,100 --> 00:19:00,100 It's got the child safety clips on it. 384 00:19:00,100 --> 00:19:01,100 Oh yeah. 385 00:19:01,100 --> 00:19:02,100 Damn it. 386 00:19:02,100 --> 00:19:03,100 I'm never getting out of here. 387 00:19:03,100 --> 00:19:04,100 You live in there. 388 00:19:04,100 --> 00:19:05,100 Damn it. 389 00:19:05,100 --> 00:19:06,100 Okay. 390 00:19:06,100 --> 00:19:07,100 Well, I am sweating. 391 00:19:07,100 --> 00:19:09,100 I think she's calling me. 392 00:19:09,100 --> 00:19:10,100 Me? 393 00:19:10,100 --> 00:19:12,100 And so I, no, I say nothing. 394 00:19:12,100 --> 00:19:15,100 I'm like, crazy woman, I don't know who you're talking about. 395 00:19:15,100 --> 00:19:16,100 No one else is here. 396 00:19:16,100 --> 00:19:19,100 After a moment, you hear another set of footsteps, heavier footsteps. 397 00:19:19,100 --> 00:19:26,100 And they come into the space and you hear them talking. 398 00:19:26,100 --> 00:19:28,100 You can't quite make out what they're saying. 399 00:19:28,100 --> 00:19:31,100 And the woman then says, have you seen Alydin? 400 00:19:31,100 --> 00:19:35,100 The man's voice says, no, I haven't seen her. 401 00:19:35,100 --> 00:19:36,100 She must be out playing right now. 402 00:19:36,100 --> 00:19:42,100 And they continue getting dinner ready. 403 00:19:42,100 --> 00:19:43,100 I sit tight. 404 00:19:43,100 --> 00:19:49,100 I'm confused, kind of upset, kind of want to go out there. 405 00:19:49,100 --> 00:19:58,100 But I'm too, I feel like I'm too skeptical to think that this is a real thing. 406 00:19:58,100 --> 00:20:01,100 And I'm just going to wait because nothing good ever happens to Alydin. 407 00:20:01,100 --> 00:20:08,100 And so nothing good can come of this right now. 408 00:20:08,100 --> 00:20:10,100 Welcome to the middle, everybody. 409 00:20:10,100 --> 00:20:12,100 Oh, Jesus. 410 00:20:12,100 --> 00:20:16,100 We definitely weren't just talking about something totally unrelated to the middle. 411 00:20:16,100 --> 00:20:17,100 No, not at all. 412 00:20:17,100 --> 00:20:21,100 Eight seconds ago, we're here in the middle and we are all focused and ready. 413 00:20:21,100 --> 00:20:22,100 That's right. 414 00:20:22,100 --> 00:20:23,100 100%. 415 00:20:23,100 --> 00:20:28,100 We've totally planned everything that we're going to do for this and future middles. 416 00:20:28,100 --> 00:20:29,100 Oh, wow. 417 00:20:29,100 --> 00:20:30,100 We really got to it. 418 00:20:30,100 --> 00:20:33,100 We are planning everything right now. 419 00:20:33,100 --> 00:20:36,100 We're really back from all these sicknesses. 420 00:20:36,100 --> 00:20:39,100 We're hitting the ground running, as they say. 421 00:20:39,100 --> 00:20:41,100 110%. 422 00:20:41,100 --> 00:20:45,100 Who wants to kick off this one with all the things we just talked about? 423 00:20:45,100 --> 00:20:47,100 Okay, well, we're back. 424 00:20:47,100 --> 00:20:51,100 So that's exciting. 425 00:20:51,100 --> 00:20:54,100 We are, I was going to say we're back. 426 00:20:54,100 --> 00:20:55,100 No, I already said that. 427 00:20:55,100 --> 00:20:57,100 That was part of the fun. 428 00:20:57,100 --> 00:21:01,100 This is now the second episode you've listened to since we've been back. 429 00:21:01,100 --> 00:21:04,100 Russ was saying that our schedule is like on track for shit. 430 00:21:04,100 --> 00:21:05,100 Yeah. 431 00:21:05,100 --> 00:21:07,100 So we should be around. 432 00:21:07,100 --> 00:21:09,100 And that's exciting. 433 00:21:09,100 --> 00:21:14,100 And part of that schedule is cyberpunk season two, which you haven't even listened to season one yet. 434 00:21:14,100 --> 00:21:16,100 But you're going to like it. 435 00:21:16,100 --> 00:21:17,100 You're going to like it. 436 00:21:17,100 --> 00:21:18,100 You're going to love it. 437 00:21:18,100 --> 00:21:19,100 We already know. 438 00:21:19,100 --> 00:21:21,100 That's why we're already rolling into season two. 439 00:21:21,100 --> 00:21:22,100 Right. 440 00:21:22,100 --> 00:21:33,100 So there's no downtime between seasons like there usually is with single series that we do. 441 00:21:33,100 --> 00:21:34,100 Ah, yes. 442 00:21:34,100 --> 00:21:36,100 But yeah, it's going to be a great time. 443 00:21:36,100 --> 00:21:38,100 And I don't know what else we have going on. 444 00:21:38,100 --> 00:21:40,100 What about, is it a secret? 445 00:21:40,100 --> 00:21:45,100 Like the changes to the things in Patreon? 446 00:21:45,100 --> 00:21:47,100 Is that a secret? 447 00:21:47,100 --> 00:21:48,100 Let's hang on to that. 448 00:21:48,100 --> 00:21:49,100 That's a secret. 449 00:21:49,100 --> 00:21:50,100 Hey, what about business? 450 00:21:50,100 --> 00:21:53,100 What about marketing? 451 00:21:53,100 --> 00:21:54,100 No, that's a secret. 452 00:21:54,100 --> 00:21:55,100 That's also a secret. 453 00:21:55,100 --> 00:21:57,100 Go back 15 seconds and skip forward 30. 454 00:21:57,100 --> 00:22:02,100 Or just know, just know that there's a couple of fun announcements. 455 00:22:02,100 --> 00:22:04,100 Couple of fun announcements coming. 456 00:22:04,100 --> 00:22:05,100 Secrets. 457 00:22:05,100 --> 00:22:10,100 Gotta make some internal announcements first before we start dropping bombs. 458 00:22:10,100 --> 00:22:12,100 I'm always trying to give away the secrets. 459 00:22:12,100 --> 00:22:14,100 I'm so sorry, you guys. 460 00:22:14,100 --> 00:22:18,100 These seem like little special moments where it's just like, hey, let me tell you something. 461 00:22:18,100 --> 00:22:19,100 But I can't tell you. 462 00:22:19,100 --> 00:22:20,100 Here's a secret. 463 00:22:20,100 --> 00:22:21,100 It's not a secret. 464 00:22:21,100 --> 00:22:33,100 But if you become a patron at patreon.com slash dumb dragon cast, you get an episode dedicated to you that public knowledge, including this evening's patron or this afternoon's or this morning's. 465 00:22:33,100 --> 00:22:34,100 I don't know when you're listening. 466 00:22:34,100 --> 00:22:40,100 Generic time of day's patron, Tiffany Parrott. 467 00:22:40,100 --> 00:22:42,100 Thanks Tiffany. 468 00:22:42,100 --> 00:22:44,100 Thank you Tiffany. 469 00:22:44,100 --> 00:22:48,100 Can I share a fun fact about the name Tiffany that sounds fake but is real? 470 00:22:48,100 --> 00:22:50,100 Love, go. 471 00:22:50,100 --> 00:23:01,100 OK, so there's this thing in writing, I guess, called the Tiffany paradox, which is that the name Tiffany, when would you think that name kind of was popular and originated? 472 00:23:01,100 --> 00:23:02,100 90s. 473 00:23:02,100 --> 00:23:05,100 I was going to say like 1986? 474 00:23:05,100 --> 00:23:06,100 Late 70s. 475 00:23:06,100 --> 00:23:08,100 Early 1900s? 476 00:23:08,100 --> 00:23:11,100 So the name Tiffany is in the Bible. 477 00:23:11,100 --> 00:23:13,100 Really? 478 00:23:13,100 --> 00:23:24,100 But if even if you're writing something like set way back when, you can't use that name, even though it's accurate, because we all associate it with like, it's a very modern name. 479 00:23:24,100 --> 00:23:25,100 It doesn't feel like it fits. 480 00:23:25,100 --> 00:23:26,100 Yeah. 481 00:23:26,100 --> 00:23:31,100 Anyway, I hope that's a true fact that I heard on a podcast about the name Tiffany. 482 00:23:31,100 --> 00:23:35,100 Tiffany, correct me if that is total BS. 483 00:23:35,100 --> 00:23:36,100 Now it's on two podcasts. 484 00:23:36,100 --> 00:23:37,100 It's fact. 485 00:23:37,100 --> 00:23:38,100 Yep. 486 00:23:38,100 --> 00:23:39,100 I have a question. 487 00:23:39,100 --> 00:23:44,100 Is it a podcast about the name Tiffany or is it a podcast about names and that one just happened to come up? 488 00:23:44,100 --> 00:23:46,100 I think neither. 489 00:23:46,100 --> 00:23:59,100 I think it was a podcast with an author who like brought it up in the context of like that paradox, how they were going to use the name and their editor was like, you can't use this because it makes people think of a modern time. 490 00:23:59,100 --> 00:24:00,100 Dates them in a certain time. 491 00:24:00,100 --> 00:24:03,100 And your book is not set in a modern time. 492 00:24:03,100 --> 00:24:04,100 Fascinating. 493 00:24:04,100 --> 00:24:05,100 Interesting. 494 00:24:05,100 --> 00:24:07,100 You know, someone's got to break that barrier though. 495 00:24:07,100 --> 00:24:08,100 That's true. 496 00:24:08,100 --> 00:24:09,100 That's right. 497 00:24:09,100 --> 00:24:12,100 Our next Bible adventure is going to be filled with Tiffany's. 498 00:24:12,100 --> 00:24:16,100 Or even like, let's do a middle ages show and it'll be wall to wall Tiffany's. 499 00:24:16,100 --> 00:24:17,100 Absolutely. 500 00:24:17,100 --> 00:24:18,100 Good episode title. 501 00:24:18,100 --> 00:24:19,100 Oops All Tiffany's. 502 00:24:19,100 --> 00:24:21,100 Oops All Tiffany's. 503 00:24:21,100 --> 00:24:23,100 Sorry, I feel like I stole that from you. 504 00:24:23,100 --> 00:24:25,100 No, I was just going to say wall to wall Tiffany's. 505 00:24:25,100 --> 00:24:27,100 That's a good name of the episode. 506 00:24:27,100 --> 00:24:30,100 But Oops All Tiffany's. 507 00:24:30,100 --> 00:24:32,100 Well, thank you, Tiffany. 508 00:24:32,100 --> 00:24:39,100 You can, you can join Tiffany over in the Patreon discord community by joining us at 509 00:24:39,100 --> 00:24:41,100 patreon.com slash dumb dragon cast. 510 00:24:41,100 --> 00:24:43,100 And we hope to see you over there. 511 00:24:43,100 --> 00:24:45,100 It's a great time. 512 00:24:45,100 --> 00:24:48,100 We have lots of friends. 513 00:24:48,100 --> 00:24:50,100 Now it's just trailing off awkwardly. 514 00:24:50,100 --> 00:24:52,100 It's great. 515 00:24:52,100 --> 00:24:53,100 Definitive statement. 516 00:24:53,100 --> 00:24:54,100 You'll like it. 517 00:24:54,100 --> 00:24:55,100 Yeah, you will. 518 00:24:55,100 --> 00:24:59,100 Like you'll like the rest of this episode if we ever let you get back to it. 519 00:24:59,100 --> 00:25:00,100 Nah. 520 00:25:00,100 --> 00:25:01,100 What about now? 521 00:25:01,100 --> 00:25:02,100 What about now? 522 00:25:02,100 --> 00:25:04,100 Is this just awkwardly talking about it? 523 00:25:04,100 --> 00:25:05,100 Okay. 524 00:25:05,100 --> 00:25:06,100 Bonwyn. 525 00:25:06,100 --> 00:25:12,100 We find you at the top of the stairs of Everpains because that's where your bedroom 526 00:25:12,100 --> 00:25:13,100 was. 527 00:25:13,100 --> 00:25:18,100 And there's flickering candlelight coming from downstairs. 528 00:25:18,100 --> 00:25:24,100 There's the sound of soft music playing sounding from outside. 529 00:25:24,100 --> 00:25:29,100 And unless you say otherwise, you start to make your way down. 530 00:25:29,100 --> 00:25:33,100 And you come out into the forge at Everpains. 531 00:25:33,100 --> 00:25:38,100 And your parents are dancing in candlelight. 532 00:25:38,100 --> 00:25:44,100 There's some traveling bards outside and they just are having a moment. 533 00:25:44,100 --> 00:25:46,100 Well, that's lovely. 534 00:25:46,100 --> 00:25:49,100 I mean, Bonwyn would stop. 535 00:25:49,100 --> 00:25:50,100 Collaborate and listen. 536 00:25:50,100 --> 00:25:52,100 Yes. 537 00:25:52,100 --> 00:25:53,100 No, I'm not sorry. 538 00:25:53,100 --> 00:25:55,100 We talked about this yesterday. 539 00:25:55,100 --> 00:25:56,100 Stop. 540 00:25:56,100 --> 00:26:00,100 Collaborate with the bards to allow her parents to have this kind of like beautiful moment 541 00:26:00,100 --> 00:26:02,100 even though part of her is like ugh. 542 00:26:02,100 --> 00:26:05,100 But also it's like, it's nice, you know. 543 00:26:05,100 --> 00:26:10,100 It's nice to have parents that love each other and like, yeah, so probably like, 544 00:26:10,100 --> 00:26:15,100 you know, pauses on the stairs just to like, till the making out starts. 545 00:26:15,100 --> 00:26:16,100 Then she's out. 546 00:26:16,100 --> 00:26:17,100 Yeah. 547 00:26:17,100 --> 00:26:18,100 No. 548 00:26:18,100 --> 00:26:20,100 And it is a sweet moment. 549 00:26:20,100 --> 00:26:23,100 And it goes on for this, the length of this song. 550 00:26:23,100 --> 00:26:24,100 And then you hear the bards. 551 00:26:24,100 --> 00:26:26,100 They're making their way down the street. 552 00:26:26,100 --> 00:26:28,100 They finish their dance. 553 00:26:28,100 --> 00:26:33,100 They do have a little kiss and you see them talking sweetly to each other. 554 00:26:33,100 --> 00:26:37,100 And then there's a little creak of the stairs and both of them look up and see you 555 00:26:37,100 --> 00:26:38,100 and they call you down. 556 00:26:38,100 --> 00:26:42,100 And I go to the warm embrace of my family. 557 00:26:42,100 --> 00:26:44,100 Yeah. 558 00:26:44,100 --> 00:26:45,100 Sorry, Alydin. 559 00:26:45,100 --> 00:26:46,100 It's okay. 560 00:26:46,100 --> 00:26:49,100 I'm in a cupboard, which I mean just four. 561 00:26:49,100 --> 00:26:50,100 Of course you are. 562 00:26:50,100 --> 00:26:51,100 Pretty standard. 563 00:26:51,100 --> 00:26:52,100 You put yourself there. 564 00:26:52,100 --> 00:26:53,100 I'm just saying. 565 00:26:54,100 --> 00:26:56,100 Look, when you go to one thing. 566 00:26:56,100 --> 00:26:58,100 I'm in a Coraline situation. 567 00:26:58,100 --> 00:27:01,100 Are they going to try to sell buttons on my eyes? 568 00:27:01,100 --> 00:27:02,100 I don't know. 569 00:27:02,100 --> 00:27:06,100 But I'm happy for you and your happy family. 570 00:27:06,100 --> 00:27:08,100 Or whatever. 571 00:27:08,100 --> 00:27:09,100 Yeah. 572 00:27:09,100 --> 00:27:13,100 And your dad calls you over and he says, Bonwyn, Bonwyn, I made you something. 573 00:27:13,100 --> 00:27:19,100 And he goes over to the forge and grabs, from what you can see without him actually 574 00:27:19,100 --> 00:27:22,100 showing you, like it's a wrought iron piece of something. 575 00:27:22,100 --> 00:27:25,100 And he comes around and shows it to you. 576 00:27:25,100 --> 00:27:30,100 And it's this very intricate wrought iron reindeer. 577 00:27:30,100 --> 00:27:32,100 And he hands it to you. 578 00:27:32,100 --> 00:27:35,100 He says, I've been working on this for a while and I thought you'd really like it. 579 00:27:35,100 --> 00:27:37,100 And he hands it over to you. 580 00:27:37,100 --> 00:27:43,100 And it's sharp and jagged and has a lot of the pieces that he makes are. 581 00:27:43,100 --> 00:27:50,100 But it is quite an amazing piece that he's put together. 582 00:27:50,100 --> 00:27:55,100 In this situation, spatially, like am I little? 583 00:27:55,100 --> 00:27:57,100 Am I kid size? 584 00:27:57,100 --> 00:27:58,100 Yes. 585 00:27:58,100 --> 00:27:59,100 I assumed. 586 00:27:59,100 --> 00:28:02,100 But I mean, I'm going to take it. 587 00:28:02,100 --> 00:28:03,100 Thanks, Dad. 588 00:28:03,100 --> 00:28:05,100 And like look at it. 589 00:28:05,100 --> 00:28:11,100 Because again, I've probably been, if not already training with him, then 590 00:28:11,100 --> 00:28:12,100 watching him work. 591 00:28:12,100 --> 00:28:17,100 So I'm probably interested in like the functionality of it or like how he did it 592 00:28:17,100 --> 00:28:21,100 in addition to just getting, you know, cool toy. 593 00:28:21,100 --> 00:28:22,100 Yeah. 594 00:28:22,100 --> 00:28:23,100 Yeah. 595 00:28:23,100 --> 00:28:26,100 Maybe this is my inspiration for intricate things. 596 00:28:26,100 --> 00:28:27,100 I don't know. 597 00:28:27,100 --> 00:28:28,100 Yeah. 598 00:28:28,100 --> 00:28:29,100 And you're looking at it. 599 00:28:29,100 --> 00:28:31,100 Or it's a poison thing. 600 00:28:31,100 --> 00:28:32,100 It's probably something terrible. 601 00:28:32,100 --> 00:28:35,100 In this moment, I love it. 602 00:28:35,100 --> 00:28:37,100 I know how Russ works, so. 603 00:28:37,100 --> 00:28:38,100 Yeah. 604 00:28:38,100 --> 00:28:39,100 It's not our first rodeo. 605 00:28:39,100 --> 00:28:40,100 Yeah. 606 00:28:40,100 --> 00:28:41,100 Sweet moments that turn sad. 607 00:28:41,100 --> 00:28:42,100 Yep. 608 00:28:42,100 --> 00:28:43,100 Yep. 609 00:28:43,100 --> 00:28:44,100 Never trust the child. 610 00:28:44,100 --> 00:28:46,100 Never trust the woman in the woods. 611 00:28:46,100 --> 00:28:47,100 The witches. 612 00:28:47,100 --> 00:28:48,100 Exactly. 613 00:28:48,100 --> 00:28:49,100 Both witches. 614 00:28:49,100 --> 00:28:50,100 That's exactly correct. 615 00:28:50,100 --> 00:28:55,100 He hands it to you and he's looking at your face to see, you know, the excitement 616 00:28:55,100 --> 00:28:57,100 on it, hopefully. 617 00:28:57,100 --> 00:29:04,100 And he kind of pats you on your head and then turns around and goes back to work. 618 00:29:04,100 --> 00:29:08,100 And it's late, so you don't assume he's going to be going back to work. 619 00:29:08,100 --> 00:29:14,100 But your mom moves upstairs in the space and he begins hammering down on 620 00:29:14,100 --> 00:29:16,100 whatever he's working on. 621 00:29:16,100 --> 00:29:19,100 Even though, yeah, I mean, it's late at night. 622 00:29:19,100 --> 00:29:23,100 Probably tired, but I'm still going to stay and watch, like, what he's doing. 623 00:29:23,100 --> 00:29:25,100 Kids never want to go to bed. 624 00:29:25,100 --> 00:29:26,100 No. 625 00:29:26,100 --> 00:29:27,100 Got to stay up. 626 00:29:27,100 --> 00:29:28,100 What's happening? 627 00:29:28,100 --> 00:29:29,100 But all I want is to go to bed. 628 00:29:29,100 --> 00:29:30,100 I know. 629 00:29:30,100 --> 00:29:31,100 Things really change. 630 00:29:31,100 --> 00:29:32,100 Things really change. 631 00:29:32,100 --> 00:29:33,100 Yeah. 632 00:29:33,100 --> 00:29:34,100 It's a flip. 633 00:29:34,100 --> 00:29:35,100 Yeah. 634 00:29:35,100 --> 00:29:36,100 You don't know where that shift happens, but one day you wake up and, like, 635 00:29:36,100 --> 00:29:38,100 I'm just going to bed all the time. 636 00:29:38,100 --> 00:29:39,100 Exactly. 637 00:29:39,100 --> 00:29:40,100 Yeah. 638 00:29:40,100 --> 00:29:42,100 You peek over his shoulder and see what he's working on. 639 00:29:42,100 --> 00:29:43,100 And he's working on this. 640 00:29:43,100 --> 00:29:47,100 It looks like a long sword. 641 00:29:47,100 --> 00:29:50,100 The handle is very intricately done. 642 00:29:50,100 --> 00:29:56,100 There's a coat of arms on it that you don't really recognize. 643 00:29:56,100 --> 00:29:59,100 But he's working way hard on it. 644 00:29:59,100 --> 00:30:04,100 Like, he's beginning to, like, buckets of sweat are pouring down. 645 00:30:04,100 --> 00:30:09,100 And it looks like he's, like, he's gone into this, like, trance state 646 00:30:09,100 --> 00:30:13,100 as he's hammering away at this blade. 647 00:30:13,100 --> 00:30:18,100 Can I insight that to see if that is, like, his normal, in his flow state, 648 00:30:18,100 --> 00:30:21,100 of, like, working at a repetitive task he's done before, 649 00:30:21,100 --> 00:30:23,100 or if, like, something weird's happened? 650 00:30:23,100 --> 00:30:24,100 Yeah. 651 00:30:24,100 --> 00:30:25,100 Please roll an insight. 652 00:30:25,100 --> 00:30:26,100 Take your pick. 653 00:30:26,100 --> 00:30:27,100 I can't. 654 00:30:27,100 --> 00:30:28,100 I can't. 655 00:30:28,100 --> 00:30:29,100 Oh. 656 00:30:29,100 --> 00:30:30,100 Let's see what happens. 657 00:30:30,100 --> 00:30:31,100 Oh, my god. 658 00:30:31,100 --> 00:30:32,100 It's the OG Theodice. 659 00:30:32,100 --> 00:30:33,100 Yep. 660 00:30:33,100 --> 00:30:34,100 I'm not. 661 00:30:34,100 --> 00:30:35,100 That sure is. 662 00:30:35,100 --> 00:30:37,100 So that's a four. 663 00:30:37,100 --> 00:30:38,100 Four. 664 00:30:38,100 --> 00:30:40,100 Your insight is a minus two? 665 00:30:40,100 --> 00:30:41,100 Sure is. 666 00:30:41,100 --> 00:30:42,100 Wow. 667 00:30:42,100 --> 00:30:43,100 Well. 668 00:30:43,100 --> 00:30:44,100 Just one more. 669 00:30:44,100 --> 00:30:45,100 Yeah. 670 00:30:45,100 --> 00:30:48,100 We're just going to put that to the side. 671 00:30:48,100 --> 00:30:51,100 Oh, and Wilson's playing at the table today. 672 00:30:51,100 --> 00:30:52,100 It's amazing. 673 00:30:52,100 --> 00:30:53,100 He just hasn't had a chair yet. 674 00:30:53,100 --> 00:30:54,100 He's here. 675 00:30:54,100 --> 00:30:55,100 Wow. 676 00:30:55,100 --> 00:30:56,100 We have an empty chair here. 677 00:30:56,100 --> 00:30:59,100 I've been thinking about that since we actually started recording. 678 00:30:59,100 --> 00:31:00,100 Of course once everything's set up. 679 00:31:00,100 --> 00:31:03,100 I'm like, why are we three on this side? 680 00:31:03,100 --> 00:31:06,100 We've left Kyle all by himself over there and Russ at the head of the table. 681 00:31:06,100 --> 00:31:08,100 Why did we do two and two? 682 00:31:08,100 --> 00:31:10,100 Because we're saving that one for Owen Wilson. 683 00:31:10,100 --> 00:31:11,100 That's right. 684 00:31:11,100 --> 00:31:12,100 Like we always do. 685 00:31:12,100 --> 00:31:13,100 We should be here any minute. 686 00:31:13,100 --> 00:31:14,100 Just in case he arrives. 687 00:31:14,100 --> 00:31:15,100 We always invite him. 688 00:31:15,100 --> 00:31:16,100 Wow. 689 00:31:16,100 --> 00:31:17,100 Wow. 690 00:31:17,100 --> 00:31:18,100 Wow. 691 00:31:18,100 --> 00:31:19,100 All right, neighbors. 692 00:31:19,100 --> 00:31:22,100 Let's just go open that door and see who's here. 693 00:31:22,100 --> 00:31:26,100 So with that four insight check, what do I know? 694 00:31:26,100 --> 00:31:27,100 Nothing. 695 00:31:27,100 --> 00:31:28,100 You've never seen. 696 00:31:28,100 --> 00:31:29,100 Is that even your father? 697 00:31:29,100 --> 00:31:30,100 Yep. 698 00:31:30,100 --> 00:31:31,100 Who knows? 699 00:31:31,100 --> 00:31:32,100 Who am I? 700 00:31:32,100 --> 00:31:33,100 I don't know. 701 00:31:34,100 --> 00:31:37,100 You something seems off. 702 00:31:37,100 --> 00:31:39,100 You don't know what it is though. 703 00:31:39,100 --> 00:31:41,100 Like it's not your even with a four. 704 00:31:41,100 --> 00:31:44,100 Like this isn't your dad's normal pace. 705 00:31:46,100 --> 00:31:47,100 Like he is. 706 00:31:47,100 --> 00:31:49,100 Is he a man possessed? 707 00:31:49,100 --> 00:31:50,100 Yeah. 708 00:31:50,100 --> 00:31:54,100 Like there is something that stands out as odd about this. 709 00:31:54,100 --> 00:31:55,100 Okay. 710 00:31:57,100 --> 00:31:59,100 Maybe just like dad. 711 00:32:00,100 --> 00:32:01,100 Are you dad? 712 00:32:01,100 --> 00:32:02,100 Are you okay? 713 00:32:02,100 --> 00:32:07,100 And like hammer held up as he's going down and like stops 714 00:32:08,100 --> 00:32:14,100 and just like places it down on the bench that's beside him. 715 00:32:14,100 --> 00:32:19,100 Like pulls the blade and he turns around and the blades like red hot. 716 00:32:19,100 --> 00:32:22,100 And he doesn't look like your dad anymore. 717 00:32:22,100 --> 00:32:25,100 Like his face is like twisted in a sense. 718 00:32:27,100 --> 00:32:31,100 And his hair is beginning to get like frazzled and frayed. 719 00:32:33,100 --> 00:32:37,100 And he is moving towards you and you're suddenly not childlike anymore. 720 00:32:37,100 --> 00:32:40,100 Like you are yourself in this space. 721 00:32:41,100 --> 00:32:45,100 And he's like becomes more animalistic. 722 00:32:45,100 --> 00:32:51,100 Like he is like hunched over and like coming towards you. 723 00:32:51,100 --> 00:32:52,100 Great. 724 00:32:52,100 --> 00:32:55,100 I'm going to throw that sharp caribou. 725 00:32:55,100 --> 00:32:56,100 What did you say it was? 726 00:32:56,100 --> 00:32:57,100 Reindeer? 727 00:32:57,100 --> 00:32:58,100 That's the same thing. 728 00:32:58,100 --> 00:32:59,100 That's the same thing. 729 00:32:59,100 --> 00:33:00,100 Similar. 730 00:33:03,100 --> 00:33:09,100 I'm going to chuck that at him and run like for the door. 731 00:33:09,100 --> 00:33:10,100 Like the front door. 732 00:33:10,100 --> 00:33:11,100 Okay. 733 00:33:11,100 --> 00:33:14,100 You want to make a ranged attack roll. 734 00:33:14,100 --> 00:33:16,100 So roll plus dexterity. 735 00:33:16,100 --> 00:33:17,100 A ranged deer attack. 736 00:33:17,100 --> 00:33:19,100 Your dex is great. 737 00:33:20,100 --> 00:33:21,100 Oh right. 738 00:33:22,100 --> 00:33:23,100 What am I doing? 739 00:33:23,100 --> 00:33:24,100 Ranged attack. 740 00:33:24,100 --> 00:33:25,100 Ranged attack. 741 00:33:29,100 --> 00:33:31,100 That's a 10. 742 00:33:31,100 --> 00:33:32,100 So 60. 743 00:33:33,100 --> 00:33:34,100 60. 744 00:33:34,100 --> 00:33:35,100 Yeah. 745 00:33:35,100 --> 00:33:38,100 So you whip this thing at this creature. 746 00:33:38,100 --> 00:33:40,100 This isn't your dad anymore. 747 00:33:40,100 --> 00:33:41,100 You're not dad. 748 00:33:41,100 --> 00:33:42,100 You're a dad mimic. 749 00:33:42,100 --> 00:33:43,100 Yeah. 750 00:33:43,100 --> 00:33:49,100 You whip this thing at this creature who's coming towards you and it like impales in its chest. 751 00:33:49,100 --> 00:33:50,100 God. 752 00:33:50,100 --> 00:33:57,100 It lets out this like guttural groan and you bolt for the door and throw it open and you're 753 00:33:57,100 --> 00:34:05,100 in this like wide open field with like all of these brambled like thorny patches 754 00:34:05,100 --> 00:34:11,100 that like catch on your pants as you walk out into them and you turn around and look 755 00:34:11,100 --> 00:34:16,100 and like there's this wooden shack and you see this creature like pull this reindeer 756 00:34:16,099 --> 00:34:21,099 out of its chest and throw it to the ground and now it's like running on all fours trying 757 00:34:21,099 --> 00:34:22,099 to get towards you. 758 00:34:22,099 --> 00:34:23,099 Oh jeepers. 759 00:34:24,099 --> 00:34:25,099 Is the door? 760 00:34:25,099 --> 00:34:26,099 Yeah. 761 00:34:26,099 --> 00:34:27,099 Yeah. 762 00:34:27,099 --> 00:34:28,099 Am I still at the door? 763 00:34:28,099 --> 00:34:29,099 Yeah. 764 00:34:29,099 --> 00:34:30,099 You're like a couple steps out. 765 00:34:30,099 --> 00:34:31,099 You could close it if you want. 766 00:34:31,099 --> 00:34:32,099 Yeah. 767 00:34:32,099 --> 00:34:33,099 Okay. 768 00:34:33,099 --> 00:34:34,099 Close the door. 769 00:34:34,099 --> 00:34:35,099 Not going to do much, but you're right. 770 00:34:35,099 --> 00:34:36,099 Probably a good idea. 771 00:34:36,099 --> 00:34:37,099 And then I mean I'm just going to run. 772 00:34:37,099 --> 00:34:38,099 Okay. 773 00:34:38,099 --> 00:34:42,099 Because there's nothing else to do at this point. 774 00:34:42,099 --> 00:34:43,099 Great. 775 00:34:44,099 --> 00:34:46,099 Back in the clearing. 776 00:34:46,099 --> 00:34:47,099 Oh boy. 777 00:34:47,099 --> 00:34:48,099 Yeah. 778 00:34:48,099 --> 00:34:49,099 That's you guys. 779 00:34:49,099 --> 00:34:50,099 Oh yeah. 780 00:34:50,099 --> 00:34:55,099 So you have like push Bazaar down. 781 00:34:55,099 --> 00:35:00,099 I tried to like grab his shoulder and spin him back towards me so he could look at 782 00:35:00,099 --> 00:35:03,099 this weird toy monster that is now formed. 783 00:35:03,099 --> 00:35:04,099 Okay. 784 00:35:04,099 --> 00:35:05,099 So you're. 785 00:35:05,099 --> 00:35:06,099 And hopefully break whatever. 786 00:35:06,099 --> 00:35:12,099 Jostling him in such a way not to try and cause him harm or anything. 787 00:35:12,099 --> 00:35:14,099 Maybe he's probably going to trip over some toys, but. 788 00:35:14,099 --> 00:35:15,099 Yeah. 789 00:35:15,099 --> 00:35:16,099 He has been this entire time. 790 00:35:16,099 --> 00:35:17,099 Exactly. 791 00:35:17,099 --> 00:35:18,099 Yeah. 792 00:35:18,099 --> 00:35:20,099 Just in your trance state we'll say that you do trip. 793 00:35:20,099 --> 00:35:22,099 You fall down Bazaar. 794 00:35:22,099 --> 00:35:28,099 And it does for even the briefest moment break that, break this trance that you're 795 00:35:28,099 --> 00:35:29,099 in. 796 00:35:29,099 --> 00:35:35,099 You give a flash and you see this homunculus of a creature charging towards you, which 797 00:35:35,099 --> 00:35:40,099 is enough to like shake you completely from whatever trance you were in. 798 00:35:40,099 --> 00:35:43,099 You look around in the space. 799 00:35:43,099 --> 00:35:49,099 I mean for you, you remember being on the other side of the clearing and now 800 00:35:49,099 --> 00:35:53,099 you're like you're really close to these gnarled trees, this creature running 801 00:35:53,099 --> 00:35:54,099 towards you and Kav. 802 00:35:54,099 --> 00:35:59,099 You look back to where you were walking and there is this one tree that has 803 00:35:59,099 --> 00:36:05,099 caught your attention, has this huge opening in it, which is where you were 804 00:36:05,099 --> 00:36:09,099 previously following him to. 805 00:36:09,099 --> 00:36:15,099 And Kav now with hammer drawn is ready to fight this creature. 806 00:36:15,099 --> 00:36:17,099 So let's roll initiative. 807 00:36:17,099 --> 00:36:18,099 Sick. 808 00:36:18,099 --> 00:36:20,099 Fight, fight, fight. 809 00:36:20,099 --> 00:36:21,099 You guys this is so fun. 810 00:36:21,099 --> 00:36:22,099 It's so fun. 811 00:36:22,099 --> 00:36:23,099 That's an eight. 812 00:36:23,099 --> 00:36:25,099 Having the best time. 813 00:36:25,099 --> 00:36:26,099 It's so fun. 814 00:36:26,099 --> 00:36:27,099 We've been doing it for like ten minutes. 815 00:36:27,099 --> 00:36:28,099 Yeah. 816 00:36:28,099 --> 00:36:29,099 So Kav, eight. 817 00:36:29,099 --> 00:36:30,099 Bazaar. 818 00:36:30,099 --> 00:36:31,099 Eight. 819 00:36:31,099 --> 00:36:32,099 Twenty one. 820 00:36:32,099 --> 00:36:33,099 Twenty one. 821 00:36:33,099 --> 00:36:34,099 Bazaar. 822 00:36:34,099 --> 00:36:35,099 And then this creature. 823 00:36:35,099 --> 00:36:36,099 Kav's like, wake up. 824 00:36:36,099 --> 00:36:38,099 You need to fight first. 825 00:36:38,099 --> 00:36:40,099 You're up. 826 00:36:40,099 --> 00:36:41,099 Okay. 827 00:36:41,099 --> 00:36:43,099 Like you fell on Lego. 828 00:36:43,099 --> 00:36:45,099 Like I bet you are ready to punch something. 829 00:36:45,099 --> 00:36:47,099 I know I would be. 830 00:36:47,099 --> 00:36:48,099 Yeah. 831 00:36:48,099 --> 00:36:50,099 I stepped on Lego just Friday. 832 00:36:50,099 --> 00:36:54,099 So it's really hitting home for me. 833 00:36:54,099 --> 00:36:55,099 Okay. 834 00:36:55,099 --> 00:36:58,099 So Bazaar, you're startled out of this trance. 835 00:36:58,099 --> 00:37:01,099 Just getting your bearings. 836 00:37:01,099 --> 00:37:03,099 You are first up. 837 00:37:03,099 --> 00:37:10,099 So, I mean, feel free to have a brief moment with Kav to try and figure things out if 838 00:37:10,099 --> 00:37:11,099 you need to. 839 00:37:11,099 --> 00:37:12,099 But yeah, you're first initiative. 840 00:37:12,099 --> 00:37:13,099 Yeah. 841 00:37:13,099 --> 00:37:14,099 Come at it. 842 00:37:14,099 --> 00:37:15,099 I'll clean them up. 843 00:37:15,099 --> 00:37:16,099 Shit. 844 00:37:16,099 --> 00:37:17,099 Wait. 845 00:37:17,099 --> 00:37:18,099 Where are we? 846 00:37:18,099 --> 00:37:19,099 Oh shit. 847 00:37:19,099 --> 00:37:20,099 Kat. 848 00:37:20,099 --> 00:37:21,099 Yeah. 849 00:37:21,099 --> 00:37:22,099 I mean, we're like the bad trees are there. 850 00:37:22,099 --> 00:37:23,099 This thing's here. 851 00:37:23,099 --> 00:37:26,099 We got a problem. 852 00:37:26,099 --> 00:37:29,099 Run to the hole in the tree. 853 00:37:29,099 --> 00:37:30,099 Sure. 854 00:37:30,099 --> 00:37:31,099 Yeah. 855 00:37:31,099 --> 00:37:32,099 Cool. 856 00:37:32,099 --> 00:37:36,099 Just fog cloud and stand up. 857 00:37:36,099 --> 00:37:41,099 And like, so the area, 20 foot area from where I'm centered is like heavily obscured, 858 00:37:41,099 --> 00:37:44,099 but keeping a bead on the direction of where that was. 859 00:37:44,099 --> 00:37:48,099 I'm going to grab Kav's hand and be like, this way. 860 00:37:48,099 --> 00:37:49,099 Okay. 861 00:37:49,099 --> 00:37:50,099 And scream, fog cloud. 862 00:37:50,099 --> 00:37:51,099 Yeah. 863 00:37:51,099 --> 00:37:53,099 That's a real Batman move. 864 00:37:53,099 --> 00:37:54,099 Yeah, exactly. 865 00:37:54,099 --> 00:37:58,099 Really trying not to step on any toys to give away your location. 866 00:37:58,099 --> 00:37:59,099 Oh yeah. 867 00:37:59,099 --> 00:38:01,099 There's a squeaky one we're done for. 868 00:38:01,099 --> 00:38:02,099 Okay. 869 00:38:02,099 --> 00:38:05,099 Now it's just rubber ducks. 870 00:38:05,099 --> 00:38:06,099 Jeep owners. 871 00:38:06,099 --> 00:38:11,099 So for fog cloud, what kind of disadvantage does that give? 872 00:38:11,099 --> 00:38:18,099 So it pretty much just makes the area heavily obscured, which invokes like the blind condition. 873 00:38:18,099 --> 00:38:23,099 So that can be removed by like a strong gust of wind. 874 00:38:23,099 --> 00:38:28,099 A strong gust of wind comes along. 875 00:38:28,099 --> 00:38:30,099 Strong gust of wind, but that's okay. 876 00:38:30,099 --> 00:38:34,099 It'll give a moment though for you to make your way there. 877 00:38:34,099 --> 00:38:36,099 You were close to getting there. 878 00:38:36,099 --> 00:38:37,099 Yeah. 879 00:38:37,099 --> 00:38:39,099 I did forget about the wind, but I was also under a trance. 880 00:38:39,099 --> 00:38:42,099 It's all happening. 881 00:38:42,099 --> 00:38:44,099 I'm like, toy monster, fuck. 882 00:38:44,099 --> 00:38:46,099 Yeah, I'm out. 883 00:38:46,099 --> 00:38:49,099 Is that the noise it makes? 884 00:38:49,099 --> 00:38:52,099 It comes out of a whoopee cushion. 885 00:38:52,099 --> 00:38:57,099 Well, we are in like this gross toy story situation here. 886 00:38:57,099 --> 00:38:58,099 Okay. 887 00:38:58,099 --> 00:39:02,099 So yeah, fog cloud goes out, you grab cav and you start making your way towards the tree 888 00:39:02,099 --> 00:39:09,099 carefully stepping because there are more toys being pulled towards this creature behind you. 889 00:39:09,099 --> 00:39:16,099 You manage to get to the tree on your turn and you hear the creature charging behind you 890 00:39:16,099 --> 00:39:22,099 and like slamming its weapon into the trees around you. 891 00:39:22,099 --> 00:39:27,099 Like you've made your way weaving in and it's trying to like break apart the brambles behind you. 892 00:39:27,099 --> 00:39:35,099 So at the end of your turn, you are basically at the mouth of the tree you were shooting for. 893 00:39:35,099 --> 00:39:41,099 It is trying to like barge its way through as it's getting bigger, bulking itself up by these trees. 894 00:39:41,099 --> 00:39:43,099 It's not making it easier for itself. 895 00:39:43,099 --> 00:39:45,099 It's collecting more toys as it comes closer. 896 00:39:45,099 --> 00:39:49,099 Yeah, you hear them like moving through the grass and through the trees towards it. 897 00:39:49,099 --> 00:39:51,099 So it's just getting bigger and bigger. 898 00:39:51,099 --> 00:39:58,099 So yeah, you're obscured in its ability to be able to get to you. 899 00:39:58,099 --> 00:40:02,099 So at the beginning of your turn, cav, you are at the mouth of this tree. 900 00:40:02,099 --> 00:40:03,099 Okay. 901 00:40:03,099 --> 00:40:05,099 Can I see anything in the tree? 902 00:40:05,099 --> 00:40:10,099 Like is it just like a void space or is it just look like the inside of a tree? 903 00:40:10,099 --> 00:40:14,099 It does look like a void space. 904 00:40:14,099 --> 00:40:22,099 Like you see the, like you can see like the inside of the tree. 905 00:40:22,099 --> 00:40:24,099 It looks like a hole. 906 00:40:24,099 --> 00:40:28,099 You can see the, like where it's been carved out. 907 00:40:28,099 --> 00:40:35,099 You don't necessarily know what could I get you to roll that would get you to know anything. 908 00:40:35,099 --> 00:40:37,099 You could roll an investigation. 909 00:40:37,099 --> 00:40:43,099 You could roll arcana if that, yeah, you don't really have a lot of arcane knowledge. 910 00:40:43,099 --> 00:40:50,099 So you could roll investigation to see what more you could glean from this before making a choice to go into it or not. 911 00:40:50,099 --> 00:40:53,099 All right. 912 00:40:53,099 --> 00:40:54,099 So you're thinking investigation. 913 00:40:54,099 --> 00:40:55,099 I think so. 914 00:40:55,099 --> 00:40:56,099 Okay. 915 00:40:56,099 --> 00:41:00,099 Are you sure you don't want medicine? 916 00:41:00,099 --> 00:41:02,099 I do medicine roll. 917 00:41:02,099 --> 00:41:04,099 No, I think I think it definitely investigation. 918 00:41:04,099 --> 00:41:05,099 Okay. 919 00:41:05,099 --> 00:41:06,099 If those are the two we're picking from. 920 00:41:06,099 --> 00:41:07,099 Okay. 921 00:41:07,099 --> 00:41:08,099 Those were the only two options. 922 00:41:08,099 --> 00:41:10,099 That's five. 923 00:41:10,099 --> 00:41:13,099 Okay. 924 00:41:13,099 --> 00:41:14,099 Yeah. 925 00:41:14,099 --> 00:41:15,099 No, it looks like a tree. 926 00:41:15,099 --> 00:41:17,099 It looks like a tree that's been carved out. 927 00:41:17,099 --> 00:41:18,099 Yeah. 928 00:41:18,099 --> 00:41:19,099 Okay. 929 00:41:19,099 --> 00:41:20,099 How big is this? 930 00:41:20,099 --> 00:41:25,099 Like, is it, is there an opening, but then there's still like a foot of tree on either side? 931 00:41:25,099 --> 00:41:26,099 Yeah. 932 00:41:26,099 --> 00:41:28,099 No, this is, this is a, this is a huge tree. 933 00:41:28,099 --> 00:41:30,099 Like it's, it stands out in this space. 934 00:41:30,099 --> 00:41:32,099 Like you hadn't seen any tree like this. 935 00:41:32,099 --> 00:41:34,099 I'm thinking like California redwood kind of side. 936 00:41:34,099 --> 00:41:38,099 This is a tree that is very out of space. 937 00:41:38,099 --> 00:41:39,099 I love it even better. 938 00:41:39,099 --> 00:41:40,099 More local. 939 00:41:40,099 --> 00:41:41,099 Canadian. 940 00:41:41,099 --> 00:41:42,099 Yeah. 941 00:41:42,099 --> 00:41:44,099 There are thorns climbing up the outside. 942 00:41:44,099 --> 00:41:47,099 There's ivy dripping down it. 943 00:41:47,099 --> 00:41:51,099 This is a tree that is not, not natural here. 944 00:41:51,099 --> 00:41:52,099 Okay. 945 00:41:52,099 --> 00:41:54,099 So that you can glean from it. 946 00:41:54,099 --> 00:42:01,099 And the opening itself, like an adult, you know, you or Bazaar could easily walk into this tree. 947 00:42:01,099 --> 00:42:06,099 Thrust your head in and just go, hey, magic. 948 00:42:06,099 --> 00:42:16,099 I'm going to, I'd like to roll a strength save and try to like pull Bazaar into the tree with me and like kind of pull us around the corner. 949 00:42:16,099 --> 00:42:22,099 So like we're at least out of sight because there's like room on the sides or at least in my mind there is. 950 00:42:22,099 --> 00:42:23,099 Okay. 951 00:42:23,099 --> 00:42:24,099 Yeah. 952 00:42:24,099 --> 00:42:25,099 All right. 953 00:42:25,099 --> 00:42:27,099 It's a 12. 954 00:42:27,099 --> 00:42:28,099 Okay. 955 00:42:28,099 --> 00:42:29,099 So sorry. 956 00:42:29,099 --> 00:42:30,099 You're, you're pulling him around the tree. 957 00:42:30,099 --> 00:42:31,099 Yeah. 958 00:42:31,099 --> 00:42:32,099 Like in and around. 959 00:42:32,099 --> 00:42:33,099 Okay. 960 00:42:33,099 --> 00:42:36,099 We'd be like through the door, but then against the wall. 961 00:42:36,099 --> 00:42:37,099 Like on the other side. 962 00:42:37,099 --> 00:42:38,099 Yep. 963 00:42:38,099 --> 00:42:39,099 Yeah. 964 00:42:39,099 --> 00:42:40,099 You quite easily. 965 00:42:40,099 --> 00:42:42,099 Bazaar isn't a, isn't a huge. 966 00:42:42,099 --> 00:42:44,099 I mean, he's not a waif, but yeah, he's not. 967 00:42:44,099 --> 00:42:45,099 Yeah. 968 00:42:45,099 --> 00:42:46,099 Yeah. 969 00:42:46,099 --> 00:42:47,099 But yeah. 970 00:42:47,099 --> 00:42:49,099 You yoink him in there and pull yourself around. 971 00:42:49,099 --> 00:42:56,099 And as you both step in, the tree suddenly like morphs around you. 972 00:42:56,099 --> 00:43:03,099 And you quickly find yourself in this, this different forest landscape. 973 00:43:03,099 --> 00:43:10,099 You hear the calls of, of animals that you don't, you can't recognize immediately. 974 00:43:10,099 --> 00:43:12,099 It is completely dark. 975 00:43:12,099 --> 00:43:14,099 Like it's nighttime. 976 00:43:14,099 --> 00:43:22,099 There's what you can presume is a moonlit, a moonlight coming through the canopy of the trees. 977 00:43:22,099 --> 00:43:29,099 But it's like, it's like more of like a, a blue, almost purple light that's coming through. 978 00:43:29,099 --> 00:43:32,099 You hear these calls of these animals. 979 00:43:32,099 --> 00:43:37,099 You hear crunching of leaves off in the distance, what you can presume as the animals. 980 00:43:37,099 --> 00:43:45,099 And you hear echoes from somewhere of this monster that was chasing you. 981 00:43:45,099 --> 00:43:46,099 That was going to be my first question. 982 00:43:46,099 --> 00:43:47,099 Yeah. 983 00:43:47,099 --> 00:43:49,099 The monster coming through. 984 00:43:49,099 --> 00:43:50,099 Can I still hear that monster? 985 00:43:50,099 --> 00:43:51,099 I can hear that monster. 986 00:43:51,099 --> 00:43:54,099 But it sounds like it's getting farther and farther away. 987 00:43:54,099 --> 00:43:55,099 Okay. 988 00:43:55,099 --> 00:43:59,099 Like at this point, it doesn't sound like it's following you. 989 00:43:59,099 --> 00:44:00,099 Okay. 990 00:44:00,099 --> 00:44:04,099 I look over at Bazaar and say, so good news. 991 00:44:04,099 --> 00:44:07,099 Monster problem seems taken care of. 992 00:44:07,099 --> 00:44:08,099 Fantastic. 993 00:44:08,099 --> 00:44:10,099 In other news, this. 994 00:44:10,099 --> 00:44:11,099 Where are we? 995 00:44:11,099 --> 00:44:12,099 Yup. 996 00:44:12,099 --> 00:44:13,099 Yup. 997 00:44:13,099 --> 00:44:15,099 So it was day, now it's night. 998 00:44:15,099 --> 00:44:16,099 Yup. 999 00:44:16,099 --> 00:44:19,099 We went through a tree with a giant hole in it. 1000 00:44:20,099 --> 00:44:21,099 Different forest. 1001 00:44:21,099 --> 00:44:24,099 I mean, that's all sounds like magic to me. 1002 00:44:24,099 --> 00:44:25,099 Okay. 1003 00:44:25,099 --> 00:44:26,099 I figured as much. 1004 00:44:26,099 --> 00:44:28,099 I wasn't sure that was going to be my next question. 1005 00:44:28,099 --> 00:44:29,099 Yeah. 1006 00:44:29,099 --> 00:44:30,099 Yeah. 1007 00:44:30,099 --> 00:44:31,099 Just, just confirming. 1008 00:44:31,099 --> 00:44:35,099 I would imagine some kind of teleportation magic has occurred, you know, since it's 1009 00:44:35,099 --> 00:44:42,099 in a tree, maybe something more natural, like maybe not necessarily arcane, but I 1010 00:44:42,099 --> 00:44:43,099 don't know. 1011 00:44:43,099 --> 00:44:44,099 Okay. 1012 00:44:44,099 --> 00:44:45,099 Cool. 1013 00:44:45,099 --> 00:44:46,099 Cool. 1014 00:44:46,099 --> 00:44:47,099 Cool. 1015 00:44:47,099 --> 00:44:48,099 Cool. 1016 00:44:48,099 --> 00:44:49,099 Exactly what I thought. 1017 00:44:49,099 --> 00:44:50,099 Yeah. 1018 00:44:50,099 --> 00:44:52,099 I was going to say the same thing, but I wanted to check with you first. 1019 00:44:52,099 --> 00:44:54,099 Yeah, like I wanted to give them the chance first. 1020 00:44:54,099 --> 00:44:55,099 Absolutely. 1021 00:44:55,099 --> 00:44:57,099 So what do we do now? 1022 00:44:57,099 --> 00:45:01,099 Well, if this is kind of an entry point, then hopefully there'll be some kind of 1023 00:45:01,099 --> 00:45:04,099 path that people normally take when they enter. 1024 00:45:04,099 --> 00:45:07,099 So let's start looking around for a trail of some sort. 1025 00:45:07,099 --> 00:45:08,099 Love it. 1026 00:45:08,099 --> 00:45:09,099 Yeah. 1027 00:45:09,099 --> 00:45:10,099 Start doing that. 1028 00:45:10,099 --> 00:45:11,099 That's so logical. 1029 00:45:11,099 --> 00:45:12,099 I know. 1030 00:45:12,099 --> 00:45:14,099 I have to play a smart boy. 1031 00:45:14,099 --> 00:45:17,099 I would get out of that tree and just be like, wow. 1032 00:45:18,099 --> 00:45:19,099 Monsters? 1033 00:45:19,099 --> 00:45:20,099 Yeah. 1034 00:45:20,099 --> 00:45:21,099 Marco. 1035 00:45:21,099 --> 00:45:25,099 The only thing is I'm not good at survival. 1036 00:45:25,099 --> 00:45:27,099 That's not, it's not Bazaar's thing. 1037 00:45:27,099 --> 00:45:29,099 You are looking around. 1038 00:45:29,099 --> 00:45:30,099 That was very beefy though. 1039 00:45:30,099 --> 00:45:31,099 Maybe. 1040 00:45:31,099 --> 00:45:32,099 I mean. 1041 00:45:32,099 --> 00:45:33,099 Can you find his way in a forest? 1042 00:45:33,099 --> 00:45:34,099 I don't know. 1043 00:45:34,099 --> 00:45:35,099 He's an office worker. 1044 00:45:35,099 --> 00:45:36,099 He's a city boy. 1045 00:45:36,099 --> 00:45:37,099 Yes. 1046 00:45:37,099 --> 00:45:38,099 I got plus two to survival. 1047 00:45:38,099 --> 00:45:39,099 Okay. 1048 00:45:39,099 --> 00:45:40,099 I'll assist you. 1049 00:45:40,099 --> 00:45:41,099 Excellent. 1050 00:45:41,099 --> 00:45:42,099 He's a scout. 1051 00:45:42,099 --> 00:45:43,099 Yeah. 1052 00:45:43,099 --> 00:45:44,099 Roll a survival. 1053 00:45:44,099 --> 00:45:45,099 Absolutely. 1054 00:45:45,099 --> 00:45:47,099 With advantage because he's assisting you. 1055 00:45:47,099 --> 00:45:49,099 I mean, I probably won't need the advantage. 1056 00:45:49,099 --> 00:45:50,099 It was a dirty 20. 1057 00:45:50,099 --> 00:45:51,099 Let's do it. 1058 00:45:51,099 --> 00:45:52,099 Okay. 1059 00:45:52,099 --> 00:45:53,099 Yeah. 1060 00:45:53,099 --> 00:45:54,099 Dirty 20. 1061 00:45:54,099 --> 00:45:55,099 It is. 1062 00:45:55,099 --> 00:45:56,099 All right. 1063 00:45:56,099 --> 00:45:57,099 Much better. 1064 00:45:57,099 --> 00:45:58,099 Yeah. 1065 00:45:58,099 --> 00:46:02,099 You begin to look around and you find quite quickly, Kav, some padded down area 1066 00:46:02,099 --> 00:46:08,099 of this forest that looks like could have been traversed somewhat recently. 1067 00:46:08,099 --> 00:46:13,099 And as you start to follow it and you're calling Bazaar to kind of keep up with 1068 00:46:13,099 --> 00:46:21,099 you, the path begins to like move and open like the branches and things begin to pull 1069 00:46:21,099 --> 00:46:28,099 themselves back from this path and create just like this straight line forward in 1070 00:46:28,099 --> 00:46:30,099 this forest for you. 1071 00:46:30,099 --> 00:46:36,099 Bazaar, I think I know the answer, but like also this is magic, right? 1072 00:46:36,099 --> 00:46:39,099 Like plants just normally don't do this. 1073 00:46:39,099 --> 00:46:40,099 Not that I've seen. 1074 00:46:40,099 --> 00:46:41,099 Cool. 1075 00:46:41,099 --> 00:46:42,099 Cool. 1076 00:46:42,099 --> 00:46:43,099 Yeah. 1077 00:46:43,099 --> 00:46:44,099 Okay. 1078 00:46:44,099 --> 00:46:45,099 Yeah. 1079 00:46:45,099 --> 00:46:46,099 I guess we're going this way. 1080 00:46:46,099 --> 00:46:47,099 Cool. 1081 00:46:47,099 --> 00:46:48,099 Lead the way. 1082 00:46:48,099 --> 00:46:49,099 You. 1083 00:46:49,099 --> 00:46:50,099 Okay. 1084 00:46:50,099 --> 00:46:51,099 Yes. 1085 00:46:51,099 --> 00:46:52,099 Follow me. 1086 00:46:52,099 --> 00:46:59,099 The two of you single file making your way down this path as you like on the 1087 00:46:59,099 --> 00:47:10,099 faint wind begin to hear the sounds of a banjo playing. 1088 00:47:10,099 --> 00:47:16,099 Dumbgeons and Dragons, season four, episode 15, starring Amy More as Alydin. 1089 00:47:16,099 --> 00:47:19,099 Carla Maxted as Bonwyn Everbane. 1090 00:47:19,099 --> 00:47:21,099 Tom Laird as Kavlaran Goldweave. 1091 00:47:21,099 --> 00:47:26,099 Kyle Klasset as Bazaar the Wizard and Russ More as your dungeon master. 1092 00:47:26,099 --> 00:47:30,099 Dialogue editing and sound design of today's episode is by Russ More. 1093 00:47:30,099 --> 00:47:34,099 Music is from Epidemic Sound and sound effects are from Epidemic Sound 1094 00:47:34,099 --> 00:47:35,099 and Boom Library. 1095 00:47:35,099 --> 00:47:38,099 Our amazing cover art is by Matt Garbutt. 1096 00:47:38,099 --> 00:47:42,099 And we'd like to say a huge thank you to our supporting producers, including 1097 00:47:42,099 --> 00:47:46,099 Gabriel Lynch, Jessica Babiak, Cat Waterflame, Jacob Madden, 1098 00:47:46,099 --> 00:47:52,099 Angaron Kiersen, Perry Matey, Old School Gamer D, Craig Zeiss, and L.A. 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