1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:04,400 Hey, friend. So glad to have you. Dumbgeons and Dragons will begin in just a moment. 2 00:00:07,040 --> 00:00:15,599 Bizard, you are running your hand along the stage and you feel an inscription of sorts. 3 00:00:17,440 --> 00:00:21,440 You direct your attention away from the children and down to this and you see 4 00:00:22,160 --> 00:00:30,320 symbols similar to the ones that you saw along the path. But even more so, 5 00:00:31,440 --> 00:00:36,160 like there is a hint of recognition that comes to you from your schooling. 6 00:00:38,000 --> 00:00:42,560 You run your hand along this one and then you notice that there are several more along the 7 00:00:42,560 --> 00:00:49,840 stage. If you can roll arcana or history. I believe it will be arcana. 8 00:00:52,159 --> 00:00:57,759 Oh, that's a natural one. I'm really fucking up in the magic area today. 9 00:00:59,439 --> 00:01:01,280 Everyone's very confused. 10 00:01:01,280 --> 00:01:06,640 These are really difficult to read. I'm having a hard time. So I'm going to take a bottle of 11 00:01:06,640 --> 00:01:12,959 ink and I'm going to pour it in to fill in the worn out sigils and runes so that they're 12 00:01:12,960 --> 00:01:14,720 clearer and easier to read. 13 00:01:14,720 --> 00:01:20,720 I like that. I like that. Yeah. Do that. And Bonwyn and Cav, you 14 00:01:21,680 --> 00:01:28,320 see Bizard do this, like pouring ink onto the stage and like pulling out a scrap of 15 00:01:28,320 --> 00:01:33,120 parchment. So that brings your attention over there as well. And you see that he's pouring 16 00:01:33,120 --> 00:01:41,680 it into these symbols along the stage. Allow you to now that everybody's kind of crowded 17 00:01:41,680 --> 00:01:49,120 around looking, allow you to roll again with this new version of the same symbol. 18 00:01:49,120 --> 00:01:52,000 Thank you, Ross. And what are we rolling? 19 00:01:53,520 --> 00:01:54,960 Arcana or history. 20 00:01:54,960 --> 00:02:01,040 Yeah. Could I also roll? Like I would have done, you know, like research into 21 00:02:01,040 --> 00:02:05,280 even not understanding it, but just for like artistic flourishes on things, you know? 22 00:02:05,280 --> 00:02:07,840 Sure. 13. 23 00:02:07,840 --> 00:02:11,039 13. 24 00:02:11,599 --> 00:02:13,039 I got a 25 this time. 25 00:02:13,039 --> 00:02:15,920 Oh, that's so much better. Thank God for Bizard. 26 00:02:17,759 --> 00:02:23,759 The ink has brought it all together. So you do that and you're flipping this over 27 00:02:23,759 --> 00:02:29,039 and the two of you, Bonwyn and Cav, are looking at them like, 28 00:02:29,039 --> 00:02:31,599 yeah, we know what this is. You don't know what this is. 29 00:02:32,319 --> 00:02:38,799 The first one, you pick up the symbol and on the paper, it immediately comes to you. 30 00:02:38,799 --> 00:02:44,240 The symbol represents a movement. Maybe it's a class that, you know, you said the dance 31 00:02:44,240 --> 00:02:48,959 wasn't a particularly strong one, but maybe it's one you kind of like nodded off through 32 00:02:48,959 --> 00:02:55,840 and didn't quite pay attention. But this movement is says or is interpreted as 33 00:02:55,840 --> 00:03:03,120 step forward. With that context, you look at the next few. The next one says spin. 34 00:03:04,319 --> 00:03:09,199 The next one says bow. The fourth one says clap. 35 00:03:11,039 --> 00:03:16,960 However, one section as you're looking between these, one section of the dance 36 00:03:16,960 --> 00:03:24,640 floor is slightly cracked and you go over and make an investigation roll at that. 37 00:03:26,800 --> 00:03:28,000 Twelve. 38 00:03:28,000 --> 00:03:34,319 You pick away at this crack in there and it reveals another inscription hidden beneath 39 00:03:34,879 --> 00:03:40,960 and the inscription says only the banjo man may end the song. 40 00:03:43,520 --> 00:03:46,879 So are these kids doing this step forward, spin, bow, clap move? 41 00:03:46,879 --> 00:03:55,599 They are doing step forward, spin, bow, clap and then they are stumbling over the final step. 42 00:03:56,800 --> 00:03:57,360 Gotcha. 43 00:04:00,080 --> 00:04:04,879 Dumbgeons and Dragons is a D&D actual play podcast and I'm your dungeon master, 44 00:04:04,879 --> 00:04:09,840 Russ More, he, him. Also with me today is Amy More as Alydin, she, her. 45 00:04:09,840 --> 00:04:13,120 I grab it and I pull him over me and I flip him over. 46 00:04:13,120 --> 00:04:16,079 Carla Maxstead as Bonwyn Everbane, she, her. 47 00:04:16,079 --> 00:04:18,800 We're very weak. We don't know anything. 48 00:04:18,800 --> 00:04:21,600 Tom Laird as Kavlaran Goldweave, he, him. 49 00:04:21,600 --> 00:04:24,879 Which unfortunately is actually radiant damage, but that's all right. 50 00:04:24,879 --> 00:04:28,079 And Kyle Claset as Bizard the Wizard, he, him. 51 00:04:28,079 --> 00:04:30,480 Sorry, I've never fucked up this bad at dancing, y'all. 52 00:04:30,480 --> 00:04:35,199 Dumbgeons and Dragons is a Patreon-supported podcast and it wouldn't be around if it 53 00:04:35,199 --> 00:04:40,800 wasn't for fine patrons just like you. Well, you can sign up today at patreon.com 54 00:04:40,800 --> 00:04:44,959 slash dumb dragon cast, get a seven-day free trial and access to a whole bunch 55 00:04:44,959 --> 00:04:48,560 of additional adventures that are ready and waiting for you. 56 00:04:48,560 --> 00:04:50,639 And now, fuck it, let's play. 57 00:04:54,879 --> 00:05:00,000 While you think on that, we're going to cut back to your room, Alydin. 58 00:05:00,639 --> 00:05:05,439 You're staring at yourself in the mirror with this music box that you've released, 59 00:05:06,719 --> 00:05:08,719 released the mechanism on. 60 00:05:08,719 --> 00:05:11,680 The mechanism, when you turned it backwards, 61 00:05:11,680 --> 00:05:15,439 it distorted into an eerie whisper that repeated the phrase, 62 00:05:15,439 --> 00:05:18,959 not real, not real, not real, not real. 63 00:05:19,839 --> 00:05:22,639 You've released it and the song continues forward again. 64 00:05:24,879 --> 00:05:28,800 Well, I'm done with this. 65 00:05:33,519 --> 00:05:38,719 So, Alydin is going to strip the bed, 66 00:05:41,040 --> 00:05:46,800 tie the sheets into knots, carefully open the window 67 00:05:46,800 --> 00:05:55,520 and throw out the music box. 68 00:05:55,520 --> 00:05:56,160 Fuck that thing. 69 00:05:58,560 --> 00:06:03,600 Fucking things going first and throw out the makeshift rope. 70 00:06:05,439 --> 00:06:09,360 Tied it to like the bed frame or something like that. 71 00:06:11,600 --> 00:06:12,639 But I don't go down it. 72 00:06:13,599 --> 00:06:16,879 Um, you said that there was a closet. 73 00:06:17,599 --> 00:06:18,879 I said there was a dresser. 74 00:06:18,879 --> 00:06:19,599 A dresser. 75 00:06:20,240 --> 00:06:21,919 I go under the bed. 76 00:06:22,959 --> 00:06:23,279 Okay. 77 00:06:24,240 --> 00:06:26,959 Um, and then I get out from under the bed 78 00:06:26,959 --> 00:06:28,800 and realize I have to make a big noise. 79 00:06:29,680 --> 00:06:32,319 Or you'll just be waiting by yourself in a dark space. 80 00:06:34,479 --> 00:06:39,039 And now I'm just under the bed and it's cold because I've opened the window. 81 00:06:39,680 --> 00:06:45,200 Um, I'm gonna, I need it to be, I need it, 82 00:06:45,200 --> 00:06:47,360 I need to make them think that I really went out there. 83 00:06:48,960 --> 00:06:52,560 Alydin throws her bucket out the window 84 00:06:55,200 --> 00:06:58,720 and make sure that it hits the roof. 85 00:07:00,000 --> 00:07:00,960 Like it doesn't clear it. 86 00:07:02,960 --> 00:07:04,000 It's in the middle of the field. 87 00:07:05,040 --> 00:07:07,280 Uncle Rico's that bucket over those mountains. 88 00:07:09,840 --> 00:07:12,080 And then I quickly hide under the bed. 89 00:07:13,760 --> 00:07:18,240 You throw the bucket and it goes over the edge of the roof 90 00:07:18,240 --> 00:07:24,320 and you hear it hit, um, like a, a porch post or a banister 91 00:07:24,320 --> 00:07:25,840 or something down below. 92 00:07:25,840 --> 00:07:30,480 Like you hear it strike wood, um, and clatter the contents of, 93 00:07:31,759 --> 00:07:33,680 inside the bucket rattle together. 94 00:07:34,319 --> 00:07:39,439 You hear like the sheet pulling against the window frame. 95 00:07:40,319 --> 00:07:46,000 The conversation you hear silenced downstairs, like it stops. 96 00:07:46,879 --> 00:07:50,079 And then you hear some slow footsteps 97 00:07:50,800 --> 00:07:54,960 move towards where the sound came to the front door. 98 00:07:54,960 --> 00:07:59,600 You hear as the door opens and a few steps out onto the porch. 99 00:07:59,600 --> 00:08:08,480 I, I, I'm, I'm waiting because I only heard one set of footsteps. 100 00:08:09,280 --> 00:08:13,600 There are two creepy not parents in this house 101 00:08:13,600 --> 00:08:15,439 and I'm hoping they both go look for me. 102 00:08:15,439 --> 00:08:20,320 You hear this, this, this storm door close at the front 103 00:08:20,320 --> 00:08:24,720 and a few steps, uh, muffled steps out on the front porch. 104 00:08:26,800 --> 00:08:29,280 Um, and then you hear the heels again. 105 00:08:29,840 --> 00:08:33,440 Of your mother and they're coming up the stairs. 106 00:08:35,680 --> 00:08:40,560 They come up the stairs and round the, the mid landing 107 00:08:40,560 --> 00:08:44,399 and come up again and you hear slow footsteps 108 00:08:44,399 --> 00:08:48,399 and a, and a soft voice that calls out. 109 00:08:52,879 --> 00:08:54,639 I do not respond. 110 00:08:54,639 --> 00:08:55,600 I'm holding my breath. 111 00:08:56,800 --> 00:08:57,840 I'm out that window. 112 00:08:58,800 --> 00:08:59,759 Roll stealth. 113 00:09:01,759 --> 00:09:03,120 How about a 19? 114 00:09:04,560 --> 00:09:05,280 Yeah, you did. 115 00:09:06,639 --> 00:09:10,240 You hear the, the handle on the door turn 116 00:09:10,240 --> 00:09:15,600 and then light creek of the hinges and a few steps come in. 117 00:09:16,480 --> 00:09:19,840 The woman pauses in the room and she calls out again. 118 00:09:20,480 --> 00:09:22,400 Alydin, are you playing hide and seek? 119 00:09:24,320 --> 00:09:27,040 She slowly walks over to the window. 120 00:09:27,840 --> 00:09:32,320 She pokes her head out the window. 121 00:09:41,519 --> 00:09:44,560 Sorry, a lot of visual comedy going on right now. 122 00:09:44,560 --> 00:09:48,399 Kyle's just miming what I'm thinking and just like, 123 00:09:48,960 --> 00:09:52,560 I just push her out the window, but I don't think, 124 00:09:52,560 --> 00:09:55,280 like they haven't actually done anything to hurt me. 125 00:09:55,279 --> 00:10:04,079 It's just weird and so I don't think I'm ready to murder a person. 126 00:10:05,519 --> 00:10:07,360 Strong urge for defenestration. 127 00:10:08,720 --> 00:10:09,759 Roll for self-control. 128 00:10:11,120 --> 00:10:12,879 No, I just, I stay hidden. 129 00:10:13,759 --> 00:10:16,240 Woman's still looking out the window. 130 00:10:17,519 --> 00:10:18,480 You can't see her. 131 00:10:18,480 --> 00:10:19,519 You can see her feet. 132 00:10:20,240 --> 00:10:23,199 You're tucked as far to the wall as you can. 133 00:10:23,199 --> 00:10:24,240 You can see her feet. 134 00:10:24,240 --> 00:10:31,279 She's standing by the window and she's there for what is a good long moment. 135 00:10:31,279 --> 00:10:36,080 And then from outside, you hear this low warping note 136 00:10:37,279 --> 00:10:40,080 that feels like it's being carried on the wind. 137 00:10:42,799 --> 00:10:48,399 Then the woman pulls her head back inside and pulls the sheet back up. 138 00:10:48,399 --> 00:10:53,039 You hear your bucket kind of clanging as it's being dragged up and over. 139 00:10:54,320 --> 00:10:58,720 And then she pulls it back in and then closes the window. 140 00:10:59,759 --> 00:11:03,759 Says, Alydin, when you're done playing your game, come down for dinner, okay? 141 00:11:03,759 --> 00:11:08,960 And she walks back out your room, back downstairs, 142 00:11:08,960 --> 00:11:11,919 and you hear the door open downstairs. 143 00:11:11,919 --> 00:11:13,200 The man come back in. 144 00:11:16,399 --> 00:11:16,879 Damn it. 145 00:11:24,240 --> 00:11:26,879 Ugh. 146 00:11:33,120 --> 00:11:38,399 As you hear the door latch shut and the footsteps begin to move back downstairs, 147 00:11:38,399 --> 00:11:42,159 you hear the clattering of plates being set around a table. 148 00:11:42,159 --> 00:11:43,039 Again? 149 00:11:43,039 --> 00:11:48,320 Again, the low conversation starts back up. 150 00:11:48,320 --> 00:11:49,440 You can't make it out. 151 00:11:51,519 --> 00:11:52,639 Okay, that didn't work. 152 00:11:53,360 --> 00:11:56,879 Um, Alydin is gonna play along. 153 00:11:58,399 --> 00:11:59,679 She goes into her dresser. 154 00:12:00,319 --> 00:12:01,759 She finds clothes. 155 00:12:01,759 --> 00:12:06,399 She changes into whatever pretty dress is in there. 156 00:12:06,399 --> 00:12:07,439 Very out of character. 157 00:12:09,759 --> 00:12:14,480 And she opens her door and skips downstairs. 158 00:12:15,279 --> 00:12:16,159 What's for dinner? 159 00:12:17,200 --> 00:12:18,159 Back up a little bit. 160 00:12:18,720 --> 00:12:21,600 You open your door with your dress on, 161 00:12:21,680 --> 00:12:26,399 and you immediately hear the conversation downstairs stop. 162 00:12:27,680 --> 00:12:32,080 You walk downstairs and enter into the dining room area 163 00:12:32,960 --> 00:12:35,200 where there's another meal set. 164 00:12:36,080 --> 00:12:41,920 You don't know how long, like this is going back to like your hands, right? 165 00:12:41,920 --> 00:12:43,920 Like you don't know how long you've been here. 166 00:12:43,920 --> 00:12:48,320 Is this meal the same meal that was here when you got to this place? 167 00:12:48,320 --> 00:12:50,000 Or have you been here for a long time? 168 00:12:50,000 --> 00:12:50,800 You don't know. 169 00:12:50,800 --> 00:12:51,760 Do I feel hungry? 170 00:12:52,720 --> 00:12:53,840 I'm an orphan. 171 00:12:53,840 --> 00:12:54,720 I'm always hungry. 172 00:12:54,720 --> 00:12:55,120 You're an orphan. 173 00:12:55,120 --> 00:12:55,760 You're always hungry. 174 00:12:57,760 --> 00:13:03,920 On the table, there is a roast in the center. 175 00:13:03,920 --> 00:13:05,360 There's some potatoes. 176 00:13:05,360 --> 00:13:10,400 And at each of the place settings, there is a bowl of soup. 177 00:13:10,400 --> 00:13:16,080 You sit down at the table and you see all of this wonderful meal. 178 00:13:16,080 --> 00:13:17,680 And your mother reaches over and says, 179 00:13:17,840 --> 00:13:22,480 I'm sorry we didn't find you in your game and hands you this basket of rolls. 180 00:13:23,200 --> 00:13:24,960 Oh, that's okay. 181 00:13:27,840 --> 00:13:29,200 I was just fooling around. 182 00:13:29,840 --> 00:13:31,440 You know, I'm such a good hider. 183 00:13:32,000 --> 00:13:32,800 Oh, of course. 184 00:13:32,800 --> 00:13:35,040 You play those games so, so well. 185 00:13:35,040 --> 00:13:38,000 And she passes the roll down to your father. 186 00:13:38,000 --> 00:13:42,000 And you look down into the soup. 187 00:13:42,399 --> 00:13:48,080 I guess first, do you go to eat anything? 188 00:13:49,600 --> 00:13:51,919 Play our knowledge because Amy isn't tired. 189 00:13:52,639 --> 00:13:53,600 It's so tough. 190 00:13:54,799 --> 00:13:57,120 I ate the first time, didn't I? 191 00:13:57,120 --> 00:13:58,960 I believe so. 192 00:13:58,960 --> 00:14:00,480 I think you did. 193 00:14:00,480 --> 00:14:01,840 I think you ate at least something. 194 00:14:03,679 --> 00:14:04,480 It was a meal. 195 00:14:05,360 --> 00:14:07,039 You've been gone for who knows how long. 196 00:14:07,840 --> 00:14:08,799 I'm a starving orphan. 197 00:14:08,799 --> 00:14:09,440 I ate. 198 00:14:09,440 --> 00:14:11,759 Yeah, I remember you ate quite well. 199 00:14:12,240 --> 00:14:14,960 If they were going to poison me, they probably would have already poisoned me. 200 00:14:15,519 --> 00:14:20,159 But I'm going to kind of like pick at my roll and drop the pieces of bread into the soup. 201 00:14:20,159 --> 00:14:22,159 Because I like a mushy because I'm a fucking animal. 202 00:14:23,759 --> 00:14:24,240 Sure. 203 00:14:24,240 --> 00:14:27,120 Yeah, you tear apart the roll and you drop it in. 204 00:14:27,120 --> 00:14:30,879 I mean, you're just used to like day olds that you get your hands on. 205 00:14:30,879 --> 00:14:31,840 So it needs it. 206 00:14:32,960 --> 00:14:36,159 You drop the pieces into the soup and like there's pleasant 207 00:14:37,200 --> 00:14:40,080 nothing conversation happening between your parents. 208 00:14:40,960 --> 00:14:44,480 Um, you drop the pieces into the soup and that bowl of soup 209 00:14:44,480 --> 00:14:48,800 begins reflecting a distorted version of your face. 210 00:14:52,639 --> 00:14:58,000 The surface as the soup begins to settle at the bottom begins to clear. 211 00:14:59,120 --> 00:15:05,759 And it begins showing a memory that is like rushes back to you. 212 00:15:05,759 --> 00:15:13,759 It shows you at the orphanage where you had grown up for the majority of your child life. 213 00:15:15,120 --> 00:15:22,720 And then as this memory comes flooding back to you, the image in the soup is gone. 214 00:15:25,279 --> 00:15:34,000 You're broken from that moment as the father figure who you pictured right beside you 215 00:15:34,000 --> 00:15:40,639 is now standing, like standing over you and he's put a hand on your shoulder. 216 00:15:40,639 --> 00:15:42,639 He says, is everything all right, Alydin? 217 00:15:43,519 --> 00:15:45,840 Yeah, dad, every everything's fine. 218 00:15:47,919 --> 00:15:51,600 And as he puts his hand on your shoulder and you look up at him, 219 00:15:51,600 --> 00:15:55,039 I grab it and I pull him over me and I flip him over. 220 00:15:55,039 --> 00:15:55,840 No, I'm just kidding. 221 00:15:57,840 --> 00:15:58,720 Sorry, go on. 222 00:15:58,720 --> 00:16:02,159 As he put his face in the soup and drowns in the soup. 223 00:16:03,120 --> 00:16:04,319 I just hold it in there. 224 00:16:05,120 --> 00:16:07,120 I'm gonna waterboard my mom with the soup. 225 00:16:07,679 --> 00:16:10,399 I'm gonna get all kinds of weird, I'm on cold meds. 226 00:16:11,759 --> 00:16:12,799 Things are getting weird. 227 00:16:16,159 --> 00:16:22,000 As he puts his hand on your shoulder and asks you that question, you turn and look up at him. 228 00:16:22,879 --> 00:16:30,799 You begin to feel a weakening in your body, strength leaving your body. 229 00:16:31,760 --> 00:16:34,000 And he looks down at you and says, okay, that's okay. 230 00:16:34,000 --> 00:16:35,840 You just eat up, eat up, okay? 231 00:16:35,840 --> 00:16:39,600 And he goes back and sits down at the table and he himself begins 232 00:16:40,560 --> 00:16:42,560 slurping on the soup and eating the roll. 233 00:16:43,760 --> 00:16:46,080 You feel lightheaded and woozy. 234 00:16:47,520 --> 00:16:53,200 I don't fucking touch the soup, but I eat the, I eat the roll. 235 00:16:53,200 --> 00:16:54,720 What's left of the roll in my hand. 236 00:16:55,680 --> 00:16:58,960 You begin to put the roll in your mouth and you're looking between 237 00:16:59,920 --> 00:17:00,639 the parents. 238 00:17:01,519 --> 00:17:03,360 They're looking at you and smiling. 239 00:17:07,440 --> 00:17:09,120 And we'll cut back to the stage. 240 00:17:14,559 --> 00:17:15,200 So much more than what we got done. 241 00:17:15,200 --> 00:17:16,720 Welcome to The Middle, everybody. 242 00:17:16,720 --> 00:17:17,519 The Middle. 243 00:17:17,519 --> 00:17:19,920 Hey there, so glad to be here. 244 00:17:21,039 --> 00:17:23,440 We just got out of our recording of The Adventures Of, 245 00:17:23,440 --> 00:17:28,799 which you can now join us and watch from the backstage over on Patreon. 246 00:17:29,200 --> 00:17:33,519 And while you're talking about all the great experience that everybody's having with that, 247 00:17:33,519 --> 00:17:36,400 I'm going to go and do the thing that I should have done a while ago. 248 00:17:37,279 --> 00:17:38,720 Oh yeah, we know what you're talking about. 249 00:17:39,600 --> 00:17:40,559 You know what though? 250 00:17:40,559 --> 00:17:47,120 This was kind of like our trial time of doing this live record with our backstage. 251 00:17:47,120 --> 00:17:49,200 We got two backstage beauties. 252 00:17:50,400 --> 00:17:52,480 And maybe they can let us know how it went. 253 00:17:54,000 --> 00:17:55,360 I can't put a heart. 254 00:17:55,840 --> 00:17:58,160 Less than three. 255 00:17:58,160 --> 00:17:59,120 Wow, that's harsh. 256 00:18:02,000 --> 00:18:04,000 Oh no, the alligator ate the three. 257 00:18:04,000 --> 00:18:07,200 That's all I'm going to think about now every time I see that, Kyle. 258 00:18:09,680 --> 00:18:13,760 But if you want to hang out and do the backstage thing while we play live, 259 00:18:13,760 --> 00:18:17,360 you can go to patreon.com slash dumb dragon cast. 260 00:18:17,360 --> 00:18:21,920 Anyone on the supporting producers tier and up is welcome to join us. 261 00:18:21,920 --> 00:18:23,760 Kat says much fun. 262 00:18:23,760 --> 00:18:24,640 Very wow. 263 00:18:25,200 --> 00:18:25,920 Very well. 264 00:18:25,920 --> 00:18:27,759 That's a ringing endorsement. 265 00:18:27,759 --> 00:18:29,360 Yeah, get that gook hang too. 266 00:18:30,400 --> 00:18:37,680 But also if you join us on Patreon, you get an episode dedicated to you. 267 00:18:37,680 --> 00:18:39,280 Yeah, you sure do. 268 00:18:39,280 --> 00:18:40,720 Like today's patron. 269 00:18:44,240 --> 00:18:54,400 Who is the amazing, wonderful, fantastic, stupendous, intelligent. 270 00:18:54,400 --> 00:18:56,320 I got to keep track of this better. 271 00:18:56,320 --> 00:18:57,360 Jason Quinn. 272 00:19:01,200 --> 00:19:03,040 Thank you so much. 273 00:19:03,040 --> 00:19:04,640 And I mean all those things that I said. 274 00:19:04,640 --> 00:19:06,320 All those things are true. 275 00:19:06,320 --> 00:19:08,320 Also, I think you look great in jeans. 276 00:19:08,960 --> 00:19:10,320 They really work for you. 277 00:19:10,320 --> 00:19:11,360 Way to go, Jason. 278 00:19:11,360 --> 00:19:12,160 Thanks for being here. 279 00:19:12,160 --> 00:19:12,720 Way to do it. 280 00:19:12,720 --> 00:19:13,360 Thanks, Jason. 281 00:19:13,360 --> 00:19:17,040 And thanks everybody for joining us tonight in The Adventures Of, 282 00:19:17,040 --> 00:19:19,680 which you can go listen to over on Patreon too. 283 00:19:19,680 --> 00:19:21,040 You don't just have to join us for the record, 284 00:19:21,039 --> 00:19:24,960 but there's six seasons of amazing, super fun stuff 285 00:19:24,960 --> 00:19:30,639 where we're now realizing that we do secretly love us. 286 00:19:30,639 --> 00:19:31,599 That's what we're realizing. 287 00:19:32,559 --> 00:19:36,240 It's been my long con to make us the ultimate big bad in the end. 288 00:19:36,240 --> 00:19:37,440 Oh god. 289 00:19:37,440 --> 00:19:38,559 Nah, we're fine. 290 00:19:38,559 --> 00:19:40,480 Yeah, you guys are all right. 291 00:19:40,480 --> 00:19:41,119 That's right. 292 00:19:41,119 --> 00:19:42,559 Thank you all for being here. 293 00:19:42,559 --> 00:19:43,839 We'll get you back to the episode. 294 00:19:43,839 --> 00:19:45,039 We love you so much. 295 00:19:45,680 --> 00:19:46,399 K, love you. 296 00:19:46,399 --> 00:19:46,799 Bye. 297 00:19:46,799 --> 00:19:47,279 Love you. 298 00:19:47,279 --> 00:19:49,279 Bye. 299 00:19:51,039 --> 00:20:01,680 I'm going to turn to Bono and Cavan and be like, 300 00:20:01,680 --> 00:20:05,839 okay, so he obviously didn't teach these kids the final move. 301 00:20:06,879 --> 00:20:10,159 And these kids don't understand, they learned the steps, 302 00:20:10,159 --> 00:20:12,480 but they don't understand why they're doing the steps. 303 00:20:12,480 --> 00:20:16,720 And, you know, music and dance correlated with each other rhythmically. 304 00:20:17,359 --> 00:20:20,079 And in the song that brought all these kids here, 305 00:20:20,079 --> 00:20:22,639 says with music suite, your steps he'll guide. 306 00:20:22,639 --> 00:20:26,799 So hopefully following the rhythmic pulse of the music 307 00:20:26,799 --> 00:20:30,799 and filling in the steps, that's literally all I've got. 308 00:20:31,839 --> 00:20:32,319 Okay. 309 00:20:32,319 --> 00:20:33,679 Okay, let's do it. 310 00:20:34,720 --> 00:20:38,879 So I'm going to hop on stage and I'm going to try to create my own move 311 00:20:40,000 --> 00:20:43,119 that fills in with the rhythm where these kids keep messing up. 312 00:20:43,119 --> 00:20:43,619 Okay. 313 00:20:45,119 --> 00:20:49,759 You get up on stage and you step into formation with these children. 314 00:20:50,559 --> 00:20:51,059 Mm-hmm. 315 00:20:51,679 --> 00:20:55,359 Are all three of you doing it or are you just letting Bazaar handle this? 316 00:20:55,359 --> 00:20:57,679 I feel like I'm going to see what he's doing. 317 00:20:57,679 --> 00:20:59,519 Yeah, I want to see the move and then I'll. 318 00:21:00,720 --> 00:21:01,599 See what the vibe is. 319 00:21:01,599 --> 00:21:03,919 Are we all going to like freestyle our own move? 320 00:21:03,919 --> 00:21:05,199 Are we all going to try? 321 00:21:05,199 --> 00:21:05,519 Right? 322 00:21:07,039 --> 00:21:10,720 Okay, get up and you get into position. 323 00:21:10,720 --> 00:21:12,639 You begin the steps that you've watched them. 324 00:21:12,639 --> 00:21:14,240 There's four steps. 325 00:21:14,240 --> 00:21:15,359 You've picked those up. 326 00:21:16,000 --> 00:21:19,119 And then roll me either a performance or dexterity. 327 00:21:20,159 --> 00:21:21,439 Oh, performance, definitely. 328 00:21:22,639 --> 00:21:24,159 Okay, guys, go fuck yourself. 329 00:21:24,159 --> 00:21:24,799 That's a nine. 330 00:21:26,879 --> 00:21:27,759 Was uneven. 331 00:21:27,759 --> 00:21:28,879 I mean, you trip. 332 00:21:28,879 --> 00:21:29,359 I don't know. 333 00:21:30,480 --> 00:21:30,980 Yeah. 334 00:21:31,519 --> 00:21:32,960 So slippery from all that ink. 335 00:21:34,159 --> 00:21:34,879 Damn it. 336 00:21:34,879 --> 00:21:39,759 You get up on stage and you do the four moves and then you attempt a fifth move. 337 00:21:40,960 --> 00:21:49,599 You whatever you do causes you to stumble along with the children. 338 00:21:49,680 --> 00:21:56,000 And then Bonwyn and Cav, you hear this now, too. 339 00:21:57,200 --> 00:22:03,440 Bonwyn, you hear the creaking coming from the surrounding forest again. 340 00:22:04,720 --> 00:22:07,440 Bazaar as you're trying to find a new step. 341 00:22:08,800 --> 00:22:13,840 You keep attempting this and the correlation clicks 342 00:22:13,840 --> 00:22:17,200 for the two of you off the stage as you're watching him. 343 00:22:17,200 --> 00:22:24,559 The more bizarre tries and fails, the louder this sound gets. 344 00:22:26,880 --> 00:22:31,440 And as you look back to him and Cav, you're looking over at Bonwyn. 345 00:22:32,319 --> 00:22:39,519 You see like a parting, a bending of the trees as this 346 00:22:40,400 --> 00:22:48,879 nightmarish creature resembling a twisted marionette of roots and broken instruments, 347 00:22:49,599 --> 00:22:56,319 its limbs held aloft by invisible strings, and it begins moving out of the forest. 348 00:22:56,319 --> 00:23:01,200 And all three of you look over now as its joints creak like old wood 349 00:23:01,200 --> 00:23:05,680 and its hollow chest cavity thrums with the haunting echoes 350 00:23:05,680 --> 00:23:08,000 of the banjo music that you've been hearing. 351 00:23:10,400 --> 00:23:17,279 As horror steps into the clearing and is making its way over to the stage. 352 00:23:19,279 --> 00:23:21,759 I'm gonna get you to roll for initiative. 353 00:23:23,279 --> 00:23:25,440 Sorry, I've never fucked up this bad at dancing, y'all. 354 00:23:27,440 --> 00:23:28,639 Even on his worst day. 355 00:23:30,000 --> 00:23:32,079 And these dice can go away for tonight. 356 00:23:32,079 --> 00:23:34,319 Yeah, my dice are sucking. 357 00:23:34,319 --> 00:23:38,319 14. 358 00:23:40,799 --> 00:23:41,359 Four. 359 00:23:41,919 --> 00:23:43,839 Oh, jeez, guys. 360 00:23:43,839 --> 00:23:44,159 Wow. 361 00:23:45,519 --> 00:23:47,279 Why don't these guys do puzzles? 362 00:23:47,279 --> 00:23:47,679 I don't know. 363 00:23:47,679 --> 00:23:49,519 I'm switching from green to orange. 364 00:23:50,399 --> 00:23:51,759 Bonwyn, you're going to be up first. 365 00:23:51,759 --> 00:23:56,079 So the two, Bonwyn and Cavalarin, you are off the stage. 366 00:23:56,079 --> 00:23:57,919 Bizarre, you are still on the stage. 367 00:23:57,919 --> 00:24:02,799 You can see all three of you have seen this creature making its way towards you. 368 00:24:02,799 --> 00:24:07,919 It's not moving quickly, but it is moving directly towards you. 369 00:24:07,919 --> 00:24:16,960 And like the roots and its limbs seem like they can extend 370 00:24:16,960 --> 00:24:21,839 and like the vines from trees are wrapping around itself. 371 00:24:21,839 --> 00:24:27,200 Like this entire thing, like its face looks like a, well, I mean, 372 00:24:28,160 --> 00:24:34,480 kind of like an ant from Lord of the Rings, but much more marionette. 373 00:24:34,480 --> 00:24:37,920 Like there's a movement to the jaw that's happening. 374 00:24:37,920 --> 00:24:38,420 Great. 375 00:24:39,920 --> 00:24:48,400 I am going to like pull up my flint and steel and light an arrow on fire 376 00:24:48,400 --> 00:24:50,880 and try and shoot it, because wood. 377 00:24:50,880 --> 00:24:51,440 Burn it up. 378 00:24:51,440 --> 00:24:53,200 All right. 379 00:24:53,200 --> 00:24:55,279 Also, I have no weapon. 380 00:24:56,799 --> 00:24:57,840 Bonwyn, no fight. 381 00:24:59,120 --> 00:25:00,400 Bonwyn, no do anything good. 382 00:25:00,400 --> 00:25:01,360 Level two. 383 00:25:01,360 --> 00:25:03,519 Okay, but let's see. 384 00:25:06,480 --> 00:25:07,759 Oh, 19. 385 00:25:07,759 --> 00:25:08,320 Nice. 386 00:25:08,320 --> 00:25:09,440 19 will hit. 387 00:25:09,440 --> 00:25:10,640 Yes, yes, it will. 388 00:25:11,519 --> 00:25:12,320 Excellent. 389 00:25:13,360 --> 00:25:15,360 So that's five damage. 390 00:25:16,400 --> 00:25:19,840 I don't know if you want to like gimme a little something because of the fire. 391 00:25:19,839 --> 00:25:25,759 You want to roll a d6 worth of fire damage. 392 00:25:26,879 --> 00:25:31,359 Okay, that's a three for fire damage. 393 00:25:31,359 --> 00:25:37,919 And then because I hit, I can sneak attack it, I think. 394 00:25:37,919 --> 00:25:38,419 Yep. 395 00:25:40,159 --> 00:25:42,319 So that's an extra five damage. 396 00:25:43,439 --> 00:25:46,559 There are some real dry roots right in like the lung area. 397 00:25:46,960 --> 00:25:47,460 Yeah. 398 00:25:48,079 --> 00:25:48,579 Yes. 399 00:25:49,279 --> 00:25:52,480 I don't want to think of it as an end because I love the ends. 400 00:25:52,480 --> 00:25:53,519 Yeah, no, this is. 401 00:25:53,519 --> 00:25:55,599 But as some other creepy treat. 402 00:25:55,599 --> 00:25:56,099 Yeah. 403 00:25:57,839 --> 00:26:00,319 Call it a waltzing horror if you want to. 404 00:26:00,319 --> 00:26:01,200 It's not an end. 405 00:26:01,200 --> 00:26:01,700 Oh, cool. 406 00:26:03,519 --> 00:26:10,879 Yeah, your arrow looses and sticks into the chest of this and you hear like this 407 00:26:10,880 --> 00:26:18,880 discordant like string snapping as it strikes in and lets out this low droning note that 408 00:26:18,880 --> 00:26:20,640 echoes out over all of you. 409 00:26:21,520 --> 00:26:27,360 You see where the arrow hits, like the flame is still a light. 410 00:26:27,360 --> 00:26:32,000 It doesn't appear that it's completely caught on all of the tree yet, 411 00:26:32,000 --> 00:26:35,360 but it is still a light and stuck into them. 412 00:26:35,360 --> 00:26:39,440 Do the children, like I'm going to look behind me, like are they, what are they doing? 413 00:26:39,440 --> 00:26:41,600 They continue the dance. 414 00:26:41,600 --> 00:26:42,100 Oh, OK. 415 00:26:44,480 --> 00:26:54,000 It is this creature's turn and he lets out this low note and then begin and then continues 416 00:26:54,000 --> 00:26:55,279 to move towards you. 417 00:26:56,160 --> 00:27:03,600 He's going to, you know, you who's just tried to hit him Bonwyn or just hit him Bonwyn, 418 00:27:04,400 --> 00:27:12,320 you, he's going to reach out with his hand and coming out of his hand are not only vines, 419 00:27:12,320 --> 00:27:17,200 but these very thin strings of an instrument. 420 00:27:17,200 --> 00:27:26,000 He's going to try to ensnare you with this so you can make a strength saving throw 421 00:27:26,000 --> 00:27:28,880 to try to avoid this. 422 00:27:29,760 --> 00:27:30,640 Oh, 19. 423 00:27:30,640 --> 00:27:31,840 19, all right. 424 00:27:31,840 --> 00:27:33,280 I am a hearty dwarf. 425 00:27:33,279 --> 00:27:38,319 It reaches out for you and you feel these things trying to wrap themselves around your 426 00:27:38,319 --> 00:27:39,359 hands and your feet. 427 00:27:40,079 --> 00:27:47,440 You manage to pull yourself free and it releases itself and it takes another few 428 00:27:47,440 --> 00:27:49,279 steps towards you and Cav. 429 00:27:50,000 --> 00:27:52,480 Bizarre, you're still up on the stage. 430 00:27:52,480 --> 00:27:54,240 The children continue to dance. 431 00:27:55,279 --> 00:28:00,879 This creature has come out of the forest and is now attacking Bonwyn down off the stage. 432 00:28:00,960 --> 00:28:05,360 There's an arrow that's a light in its main body as well. 433 00:28:05,360 --> 00:28:10,000 You said that plank that says the banjo man can only end the song is broken already. 434 00:28:11,040 --> 00:28:14,320 Yes, I did, banjo man. 435 00:28:15,280 --> 00:28:21,360 The floor was slightly cracked and you pulled away at it which revealed a hidden 436 00:28:21,360 --> 00:28:22,400 inscription beneath. 437 00:28:22,400 --> 00:28:27,360 I'm going to try to break the whole idea of like what I know to be incantations or spells 438 00:28:27,360 --> 00:28:30,400 and I'm going to try to rip the entire board out just to remove that part. 439 00:28:30,960 --> 00:28:31,520 Of the equation. 440 00:28:33,360 --> 00:28:34,320 Make a strength check. 441 00:28:35,440 --> 00:28:36,400 That's a 14. 442 00:28:37,360 --> 00:28:43,440 You break away from the group of children as they stumble on that last step and run over 443 00:28:43,440 --> 00:28:49,280 to the board itself and you're pulling at it and the nails are prying themselves free 444 00:28:49,280 --> 00:28:55,200 and as you're doing that, the creature before you, you've gotten quite close to it now. 445 00:28:55,279 --> 00:29:01,840 The creature turns and acknowledges you as you do manage to pull this board up and out. 446 00:29:01,840 --> 00:29:06,080 It splinters and breaks but yeah, you've pulled the majority of it away. 447 00:29:06,080 --> 00:29:08,640 There are a few little pieces closer to the nails. 448 00:29:10,240 --> 00:29:13,600 I'm going to take the inscribed part that I ripped off and just throw it off 449 00:29:14,240 --> 00:29:16,080 away from the stage. 450 00:29:16,880 --> 00:29:19,279 I assume that'll be my action. 451 00:29:19,279 --> 00:29:22,480 I'm going to go ahead and pull out my scimitar and start up a blade song. 452 00:29:23,120 --> 00:29:26,720 Just the humming of my scimitar as it spins, 453 00:29:26,720 --> 00:29:29,120 creating its own little music to counter the music going on. 454 00:29:29,120 --> 00:29:30,000 Amazing. 455 00:29:30,000 --> 00:29:30,319 Okay. 456 00:29:31,039 --> 00:29:35,839 And I'll move up to Bonwyn and Cav and be in the thick of it with them. 457 00:29:35,839 --> 00:29:36,339 Got it. 458 00:29:37,120 --> 00:29:38,559 That brings us to Cav. 459 00:29:38,559 --> 00:29:39,059 All right. 460 00:29:41,279 --> 00:29:50,240 Cav is going to have his war hammer drawn and rush forward and take a swing at this 461 00:29:50,240 --> 00:29:51,839 horrible tree banjo monster. 462 00:29:51,840 --> 00:29:52,340 Okay. 463 00:29:52,960 --> 00:29:55,760 Unless it's a terrible idea but we're doing it anyway. 464 00:29:55,760 --> 00:29:56,720 Got to do it. 465 00:29:56,720 --> 00:29:58,320 We got to do something, right? 466 00:29:58,320 --> 00:29:58,640 Yep. 467 00:29:58,640 --> 00:29:59,120 All right. 468 00:29:59,120 --> 00:30:02,160 That is a 19 to hit. 469 00:30:02,160 --> 00:30:02,880 Oh yeah. 470 00:30:02,880 --> 00:30:03,840 19 is going to hit. 471 00:30:03,840 --> 00:30:05,840 Switching to the orange dice is paying off, Joe. 472 00:30:05,840 --> 00:30:06,560 Drop that bitch down. 473 00:30:06,560 --> 00:30:07,060 Excellent. 474 00:30:07,680 --> 00:30:11,920 And that is seven points of crushing damage, bludgeoning damage. 475 00:30:11,920 --> 00:30:13,440 I'm over here so jealous. 476 00:30:14,000 --> 00:30:20,800 I'm fighting some sort of stupid mind problem and you guys get to punch and hit stuff. 477 00:30:21,440 --> 00:30:22,559 Absolutely. 478 00:30:22,559 --> 00:30:26,720 You crack into like the leg of this creature and you hear. 479 00:30:27,519 --> 00:30:33,279 Similarly, you hear like as if you took your hammer to like the back of a guitar. 480 00:30:33,279 --> 00:30:36,799 Like that's the sound that comes out of it and then the splintering wood 481 00:30:36,799 --> 00:30:38,399 follows quickly after that. 482 00:30:39,279 --> 00:30:48,079 It lets out this thunderous scream for lack of a better term as you do that. 483 00:30:49,359 --> 00:30:49,680 Okay. 484 00:30:49,680 --> 00:30:51,200 Anything else you can or would like to do? 485 00:30:53,600 --> 00:30:57,360 I could probably do more but I'm going to leave it there. 486 00:30:57,360 --> 00:30:57,680 Okay. 487 00:30:58,799 --> 00:31:03,360 Look, after you've torn up the board, the children continue to stumble on that last step 488 00:31:03,360 --> 00:31:09,279 but now that you've removed that board from the stage, you turn and you look 489 00:31:09,279 --> 00:31:16,400 and the children continue to stumble for a few more paces but then they start to correct 490 00:31:16,400 --> 00:31:19,279 themselves as the music continues. 491 00:31:19,279 --> 00:31:26,799 However, instead of stumbling, they hit that beat in the music and they freeze 492 00:31:27,920 --> 00:31:29,680 and then they continue on with the dance. 493 00:31:30,559 --> 00:31:34,960 So the pattern has changed but there's still a beat in the music that's missing. 494 00:31:36,559 --> 00:31:37,119 Bonwyn. 495 00:31:37,680 --> 00:31:38,480 Drop that beat. 496 00:31:41,200 --> 00:31:41,839 I guess. 497 00:31:42,639 --> 00:31:45,119 Well, it's all up on me now. 498 00:31:45,120 --> 00:31:46,240 Yes, yeah. 499 00:31:46,240 --> 00:31:49,440 The three of you are basically right up on it. 500 00:31:49,440 --> 00:31:49,680 Yeah. 501 00:31:50,640 --> 00:31:57,040 Okay, then I'm going to switch to my short sword better. 502 00:31:58,560 --> 00:31:59,120 Oh my god. 503 00:31:59,840 --> 00:32:03,120 And close range and that is a now one. 504 00:32:04,320 --> 00:32:05,040 That's gross. 505 00:32:05,760 --> 00:32:07,440 Going out the way. 506 00:32:07,440 --> 00:32:08,160 No, I'm just kidding. 507 00:32:08,160 --> 00:32:09,200 But it's going away. 508 00:32:09,760 --> 00:32:10,720 There's a way in the bucket. 509 00:32:11,920 --> 00:32:12,640 That's right. 510 00:32:12,640 --> 00:32:23,840 You try and swing out with your short sword and it ends up getting wrapped up in the vines 511 00:32:23,840 --> 00:32:33,520 and branches of one of its arms and because it's a now one, you feel the same pressure 512 00:32:33,520 --> 00:32:38,640 around your wrists that you felt when it first tried to attack you but this time it latches 513 00:32:38,640 --> 00:32:39,440 on. 514 00:32:39,440 --> 00:32:47,360 So along one of your wrists and one of your legs, you feel these strings now attached to 515 00:32:47,360 --> 00:32:47,600 you. 516 00:32:47,600 --> 00:32:53,759 So you are grappled for all intents and purposes but you still have, is Bonwyn left 517 00:32:53,759 --> 00:32:54,560 or right handed? 518 00:32:55,120 --> 00:32:56,080 Oh, I don't know. 519 00:32:56,080 --> 00:32:56,880 I guess right. 520 00:32:56,880 --> 00:32:57,920 I had not said. 521 00:32:57,920 --> 00:33:00,880 So your right hand and right leg are both bound. 522 00:33:00,880 --> 00:33:02,560 You still have your left. 523 00:33:02,560 --> 00:33:03,840 Anything else you would like to do? 524 00:33:04,960 --> 00:33:06,800 I don't think there is anything else I can do. 525 00:33:06,799 --> 00:33:16,240 You are grappled and you begin to feel an urge to move like this. 526 00:33:16,240 --> 00:33:22,240 You now feel the strings pulling up on that side of your body and it's going to try and 527 00:33:22,240 --> 00:33:23,599 grab the other side. 528 00:33:24,399 --> 00:33:29,039 You can make a strength saving throw to save yourself from this. 529 00:33:30,639 --> 00:33:31,200 17. 530 00:33:31,919 --> 00:33:34,720 So it tries to latch onto the other side. 531 00:33:34,799 --> 00:33:41,279 Your right side, however, starts to dance uncontrollably, which is throwing you off 532 00:33:41,279 --> 00:33:41,759 bAlydince. 533 00:33:41,759 --> 00:33:43,279 So it's puppet mastering you. 534 00:33:43,279 --> 00:33:46,559 It's trying to puppet master you. 535 00:33:49,200 --> 00:33:53,839 Now that it's up close to everybody, it's going to swing down at you, Bazaard, 536 00:33:53,839 --> 00:33:55,120 and try and strike you. 537 00:33:55,120 --> 00:33:58,480 That's going to be a 15 to hit. 538 00:33:59,680 --> 00:34:00,319 No, sir. 539 00:34:00,319 --> 00:34:00,960 Okay. 540 00:34:00,960 --> 00:34:06,319 It swings down and it hits the ground beside you and you hear this thunderous echo 541 00:34:06,319 --> 00:34:08,079 throughout this space. 542 00:34:09,199 --> 00:34:12,559 Ground is turned up underneath you. 543 00:34:12,559 --> 00:34:16,559 Like you could tell, if this thing had hit you, it would have knocked the wind 544 00:34:16,559 --> 00:34:18,720 out of you pretty hard. 545 00:34:18,720 --> 00:34:25,119 Which after that happens, his arm is crushed into the ground and you see 546 00:34:25,119 --> 00:34:28,800 Bonwyn trying to fight off half of what's happening. 547 00:34:29,519 --> 00:34:31,360 It's your turn now. 548 00:34:31,360 --> 00:34:33,920 This is very dangerous and we need to move quickly. 549 00:34:33,920 --> 00:34:40,320 So I'm going to use my action to cast haste on myself, giving myself a 550 00:34:40,320 --> 00:34:44,080 secondary action, which I'm going to use that to attack the vines that 551 00:34:44,080 --> 00:34:44,960 are holding Bonwyn. 552 00:34:45,920 --> 00:34:50,080 So I'm going to make attack against each vine, if that's possible, or 553 00:34:50,080 --> 00:34:51,840 against the creature, however it works out. 554 00:34:51,840 --> 00:34:57,280 Yeah, I think based on proximity, you could slice down through both of 555 00:34:57,280 --> 00:34:57,440 them. 556 00:34:58,080 --> 00:34:59,440 As long as you hit, you should be good. 557 00:35:00,480 --> 00:35:04,560 That's a 17 on the first attack and a 16 on the second. 558 00:35:04,560 --> 00:35:05,440 Both of those will hit. 559 00:35:06,320 --> 00:35:06,880 All right. 560 00:35:06,880 --> 00:35:08,320 1d6 plus 2. 561 00:35:09,360 --> 00:35:12,640 That is 8 damage on the first attack and 6 damage on the second. 562 00:35:14,720 --> 00:35:15,280 Good hit. 563 00:35:16,320 --> 00:35:19,920 Same echoing string breaks happen in Bonwyn. 564 00:35:19,920 --> 00:35:28,400 You quickly find yourself released and free from the need to move as the 565 00:35:28,400 --> 00:35:32,720 way you were, but because your bAlydince was thrown off, you're now prone 566 00:35:32,720 --> 00:35:33,920 at the foot of this monster. 567 00:35:34,480 --> 00:35:35,039 Makes sense. 568 00:35:35,599 --> 00:35:36,320 Kavlaran. 569 00:35:36,960 --> 00:35:38,079 There's a lot going on. 570 00:35:38,079 --> 00:35:39,440 There's a lot of things happening. 571 00:35:39,440 --> 00:35:40,480 Yeah, a lot going on. 572 00:35:41,280 --> 00:35:41,680 All right. 573 00:35:41,680 --> 00:35:44,960 And if I remember correctly, Russ, our characters don't really know 574 00:35:44,960 --> 00:35:45,760 shit yet. 575 00:35:47,119 --> 00:35:47,920 Yeah. 576 00:35:47,920 --> 00:35:49,039 We're very weak. 577 00:35:49,039 --> 00:35:50,719 We don't know anything. 578 00:35:50,719 --> 00:35:52,960 It's an accurate description of our characters. 579 00:35:52,960 --> 00:35:53,279 Yeah. 580 00:35:54,400 --> 00:35:54,719 Fair. 581 00:35:54,719 --> 00:35:55,840 We don't know shit. 582 00:35:55,840 --> 00:35:56,159 Yeah. 583 00:35:59,039 --> 00:36:01,759 Is there shit in particular that you were hoping to know? 584 00:36:01,759 --> 00:36:07,119 No, just knowing, just reminding myself that he doesn't really know 585 00:36:08,239 --> 00:36:12,400 the things that he could do with his class if given the training. 586 00:36:13,039 --> 00:36:19,360 Yeah, I mean, you've been in battle already, so you did pull some of your 587 00:36:19,360 --> 00:36:20,400 abilities out. 588 00:36:20,400 --> 00:36:24,720 Like, I think you used, what did you use? 589 00:36:24,720 --> 00:36:28,480 Did you use a spectral weapon or do you have a spectral weapon? 590 00:36:28,480 --> 00:36:30,240 I don't have a spectral weapon. 591 00:36:30,240 --> 00:36:34,800 You did something because you saw Christina's character. 592 00:36:35,519 --> 00:36:36,880 Maybe like a sacred flame? 593 00:36:37,519 --> 00:36:39,440 Yeah, maybe a sacred flame. 594 00:36:39,440 --> 00:36:40,160 Yeah. 595 00:36:40,160 --> 00:36:41,680 Flame would be great in this situation. 596 00:36:41,679 --> 00:36:48,399 Yeah, but you did pull some pAlydin or, yeah, some cleric type feature out 597 00:36:48,960 --> 00:36:50,559 that we didn't really get into. 598 00:36:50,559 --> 00:36:54,399 But yeah, it was after she had done hers and then you did yours. 599 00:36:54,399 --> 00:37:00,000 Yeah, I'm going to, I'm assuming it would have been like spectral flame. 600 00:37:00,000 --> 00:37:00,159 Yeah. 601 00:37:00,159 --> 00:37:01,279 That makes sense to me. 602 00:37:01,279 --> 00:37:03,039 Now that you say that, I think that's what it was. 603 00:37:03,039 --> 00:37:03,539 Yeah. 604 00:37:04,879 --> 00:37:09,679 And seeing the fucking kind of shit that's going on with this weird tree thing, 605 00:37:10,319 --> 00:37:14,559 Kav tries to call down that spectral flame. 606 00:37:14,559 --> 00:37:15,059 Okay. 607 00:37:16,159 --> 00:37:18,799 Describe to me what that looks like. 608 00:37:18,799 --> 00:37:24,000 Kav kind of raises his war hammer a little bit and like then like points it at the 609 00:37:24,000 --> 00:37:25,599 tree banjo man monster. 610 00:37:25,599 --> 00:37:26,099 Yep. 611 00:37:26,799 --> 00:37:36,719 And like a crack of like really bright, not quite lightning, but like flame, it's 612 00:37:36,720 --> 00:37:41,520 got a whole lot going on, kind of like comes down from the sky on top of this guy. 613 00:37:42,400 --> 00:37:42,900 Okay. 614 00:37:44,560 --> 00:37:47,840 Does, which unfortunately is actually radiant damage, but that's all right. 615 00:37:47,840 --> 00:37:48,640 That's fine. 616 00:37:48,640 --> 00:37:49,140 Yeah. 617 00:37:51,040 --> 00:37:54,640 And yeah, you need to do a dex save. 618 00:37:54,640 --> 00:37:55,680 Oh, that's a nat one. 619 00:37:56,960 --> 00:37:57,920 Any big pluses? 620 00:37:58,720 --> 00:37:59,040 Four. 621 00:37:59,040 --> 00:38:00,560 So that's a max five. 622 00:38:00,560 --> 00:38:01,060 Okay. 623 00:38:01,520 --> 00:38:03,200 Well, that is going to hit you. 624 00:38:03,200 --> 00:38:04,800 How can you have a plus four to dex? 625 00:38:04,800 --> 00:38:07,200 It's a giant tree monster that seems unfit. 626 00:38:07,200 --> 00:38:09,760 It's a giant instrument tree monster. 627 00:38:09,760 --> 00:38:11,039 Right, right, right. 628 00:38:11,039 --> 00:38:11,920 You're right. 629 00:38:11,920 --> 00:38:12,720 All right, all right. 630 00:38:14,320 --> 00:38:20,720 So yes, you'll take five points of radiant damage from the sky. 631 00:38:21,920 --> 00:38:23,360 And that's amazing. 632 00:38:23,360 --> 00:38:31,519 That comes down and like, although it's not flame, it does sear into this creature. 633 00:38:31,519 --> 00:38:36,239 And one thing we missed on your turn, Bonwyn, was additional fire damage because it is now 634 00:38:36,239 --> 00:38:37,599 a light from that position. 635 00:38:37,599 --> 00:38:39,599 So if you want to roll me a d6 on that as well. 636 00:38:40,480 --> 00:38:41,199 Six. 637 00:38:41,199 --> 00:38:42,000 Oh, shit. 638 00:38:44,880 --> 00:38:46,480 Okay, cool beans. 639 00:38:47,440 --> 00:38:51,920 The flames are building and like smoke is billowing through and like out of this 640 00:38:51,920 --> 00:38:53,280 creature's mouth now. 641 00:38:54,159 --> 00:38:58,000 And we go back to the children and like you see you've been, 642 00:38:58,639 --> 00:39:00,719 all of you have been kind of clocking them out of the corner. 643 00:39:00,720 --> 00:39:04,240 You guys seeing if anything changes and you see that same pattern. 644 00:39:04,240 --> 00:39:07,600 Like they have now, they are no longer stumbling. 645 00:39:07,600 --> 00:39:09,520 They are still continuing to dance. 646 00:39:09,520 --> 00:39:14,240 But there is that pause in the dance that they are not resolving still. 647 00:39:15,280 --> 00:39:18,960 Have they become any more corporeal or they're still just okay? 648 00:39:18,960 --> 00:39:23,440 Yeah, still everything is still the same for all intents and purposes. 649 00:39:23,440 --> 00:39:26,320 And we will go to Bonwyn. 650 00:39:27,200 --> 00:39:29,120 Oh, that's me. 651 00:39:29,120 --> 00:39:29,840 That's you. 652 00:39:29,840 --> 00:39:30,160 Okay. 653 00:39:30,160 --> 00:39:36,320 Well, I mean, really all I can do is just try again with that short sword. 654 00:39:37,440 --> 00:39:40,000 That is 25 to hit. 655 00:39:40,720 --> 00:39:42,160 Yes, it will. 656 00:39:42,160 --> 00:39:51,120 So that is a seven piercing damage and then I'll do the fire damage for this turn. 657 00:39:52,400 --> 00:39:53,760 And that's a six again. 658 00:39:54,400 --> 00:39:59,440 Oh, and because I hit sneak attack. 659 00:39:59,840 --> 00:40:00,160 Yeah. 660 00:40:04,079 --> 00:40:05,519 Which is an extra two. 661 00:40:06,240 --> 00:40:06,880 That's okay. 662 00:40:08,480 --> 00:40:12,640 Limbs and strings and vines are beginning to fall off of this creature. 663 00:40:12,640 --> 00:40:16,480 Like it's falling to its knees. 664 00:40:16,480 --> 00:40:18,880 The flames are engulfing it now. 665 00:40:19,680 --> 00:40:23,120 Roll me another fire extra d6 of fire damage. 666 00:40:23,680 --> 00:40:24,559 Five. 667 00:40:24,559 --> 00:40:29,039 The flames now moving across its body and up over its head. 668 00:40:29,039 --> 00:40:36,000 Like this discordant tune and melody begins like fracturing itself out of this creature 669 00:40:36,000 --> 00:40:38,719 as it falls to its knees and splinters. 670 00:40:38,719 --> 00:40:43,679 You hear crackles and pops of the wood as it falls to the ground at your feet. 671 00:40:43,679 --> 00:40:48,559 There's this echoing musicality that happens. 672 00:40:48,559 --> 00:40:56,639 And as the banjo music that's coming from the chest of this creature begins to fade, 673 00:40:56,719 --> 00:41:00,559 you look back at the children who are slowing their dance. 674 00:41:00,559 --> 00:41:08,400 But then there's a surge of music that happens and it begins to play faster. 675 00:41:08,400 --> 00:41:12,559 And the children begin to dance faster, still missing that beat. 676 00:41:12,559 --> 00:41:14,799 But it continues to pick up pace. 677 00:41:15,599 --> 00:41:18,000 The monster appears to be defeated. 678 00:41:18,000 --> 00:41:23,119 But whatever is controlling these children is not resolved. 679 00:41:23,119 --> 00:41:30,319 Well, with my super speediness, I was going to go over and use four attacks to attack 680 00:41:30,319 --> 00:41:33,279 the other four planks that dictate their movement. 681 00:41:34,159 --> 00:41:35,279 Just go ahead and take those out. 682 00:41:36,400 --> 00:41:42,079 Quickly you hop up onto the stage and you don't need to roll damage. 683 00:41:42,079 --> 00:41:45,039 We can just say you go up and you hit the planks. 684 00:41:45,039 --> 00:41:48,400 You destroy the symbols as they exist there. 685 00:41:48,400 --> 00:41:51,279 And you see their movements as they are moving faster. 686 00:41:51,840 --> 00:41:55,600 They begin to miss the steps that you are destroying. 687 00:41:55,600 --> 00:41:59,200 And they begin to, rather than stop on the steps, 688 00:41:59,200 --> 00:42:04,720 they begin to walk in the circle that they are creating this dance for. 689 00:42:06,000 --> 00:42:13,200 As the dance stops, they begin to move around you and they all turn and look at you, 690 00:42:13,200 --> 00:42:16,480 their hollow eyes staring down at you. 691 00:42:16,480 --> 00:42:18,800 And in one voice they all say, 692 00:42:19,760 --> 00:42:22,240 He waits for you at the hollow. 693 00:42:23,679 --> 00:42:27,280 The mist that engulfs this space begins to part. 694 00:42:27,920 --> 00:42:34,000 And it reveals on the far side of this clearing that you catch your eye. 695 00:42:34,719 --> 00:42:39,679 A forest path that leads out of this clearing. 696 00:42:40,480 --> 00:42:45,760 As this mist dissipates and the children before you become part of the mist. 697 00:42:46,639 --> 00:42:48,079 Follow out into the forest. 698 00:42:55,440 --> 00:43:01,519 Dumbgeons and Dragons Season 4 Episode 17 Starring Amy More as Alydin 699 00:43:01,519 --> 00:43:06,320 Carla Maxted as Bonwyn Everbane Tom Laird as Kavlaran Goldweave 700 00:43:06,320 --> 00:43:11,119 Kyle Claset as Bizard the Wizard And Russ More as your Dungeon Master 701 00:43:11,119 --> 00:43:14,800 Dialogue editing and sound design of today's episode is by Russ More 702 00:43:14,880 --> 00:43:19,200 Our community manager is Jessica Babyuk Music is from Epidemic Sound 703 00:43:19,200 --> 00:43:22,560 And sound effects are from Epidemic Sound and Boom Library 704 00:43:22,560 --> 00:43:25,200 Our amazing cover art is by Matt Garbutt 705 00:43:25,200 --> 00:43:28,800 And we'd like to say a huge thank you to our supporting producers 706 00:43:28,800 --> 00:43:33,440 Including Gabriel Lynch, Jessica Babyuk, Cat Waterflame, Jacob Madden, 707 00:43:33,440 --> 00:43:39,120 Angaron Kierzen, Perry Matey, Old School Gamer D, Craig Zeiss, and L.A. 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