1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:03,000 Dumbgeons and Dragons will begin in just a moment. 2 00:00:06,000 --> 00:00:20,000 Alydin, you're seated at the table and you've been picking at your food, the soup before you rolls and your parents across the table from you. 3 00:00:20,000 --> 00:00:27,000 Look over at you again and say, Alydin, you look, you look tired. Do you need to go lie down and have a nap? 4 00:00:28,000 --> 00:00:37,000 No, I just think I've maybe been inside for a really long time, like just, just in my room. 5 00:00:37,000 --> 00:00:43,000 I just thought like maybe I'd walk around the house a little bit, you know, just kind of stretch my legs. 6 00:00:43,000 --> 00:00:48,000 Oh, oh, yes, of course, of course, you can stretch your legs all you want. 7 00:00:48,000 --> 00:00:53,000 But we'll clean up here. If you get tired, though, give us a call. We'll help you back up to your room. 8 00:00:53,000 --> 00:00:56,000 Okay, we don't want you taking those stairs too, too quickly. 9 00:00:56,000 --> 00:00:57,000 Okay. 10 00:00:57,000 --> 00:00:59,000 Both Tom and Carla. 11 00:01:00,000 --> 00:01:02,000 I don't like that. I'm really making a face. 12 00:01:02,000 --> 00:01:04,000 She's fine. 13 00:01:04,000 --> 00:01:08,000 I don't, I don't want to be put to bed. I don't think I'll wake up. 14 00:01:08,000 --> 00:01:09,000 I don't like that. 15 00:01:09,000 --> 00:01:13,000 So, I would like to go exploring. 16 00:01:13,000 --> 00:01:14,000 Okay. 17 00:01:15,000 --> 00:01:21,000 Dumbgeons and Dragons is a D&D actual play podcast and I'm your dungeon master Russ More, he, him. 18 00:01:21,000 --> 00:01:24,000 Also with me today is Amy More as Alydin, she, her. 19 00:01:24,000 --> 00:01:28,000 I walk over to the desk and I'm trying to be nonchAlydint. 20 00:01:28,000 --> 00:01:31,000 Carla Macstead as Bonwyn Eberbane, she, her. 21 00:01:31,000 --> 00:01:33,000 Like I made some feedback and they, and they listened. 22 00:01:33,000 --> 00:01:36,000 Tom Laird as Kavlaran Goldweave, he, him. 23 00:01:36,000 --> 00:01:38,000 Where did all the ghost kids go? 24 00:01:38,000 --> 00:01:41,000 And Kyle Clasett as Bizard the Wizard, he, him. 25 00:01:41,000 --> 00:01:43,000 Oh, yeah, this is, this is freaking my bean. 26 00:01:43,000 --> 00:01:51,000 Dumbgeons and Dragons is a Patreon-supported podcast and we love and appreciate all of the support that we get from our community. 27 00:01:51,000 --> 00:01:55,000 You can join us today at patreon.com slash Dumb Dragon Cast. 28 00:01:55,000 --> 00:01:59,000 Not only do you get amazing bonus episodes of shows like The Adventures of, 29 00:01:59,000 --> 00:02:02,000 but you could also join us backstage at our regular recordings. 30 00:02:02,000 --> 00:02:06,000 Check it out today and now, fuck it, let's play. 31 00:02:09,000 --> 00:02:20,000 Chair scoots out and you stand up and they start collecting dishes and you see them taking them into the kitchen and start cleaning up after dinner. 32 00:02:20,000 --> 00:02:28,000 You exit through the gift shop, the gift shop, the hallway behind you. 33 00:02:28,000 --> 00:02:35,000 And you've, you've come and gone from this specific room a couple of times. 34 00:02:35,000 --> 00:02:47,000 Off to the right as you exit this dining room area, you see a hallway that leads to the front door where there's a set of stairs that will take you back upstairs where your bedroom is. 35 00:02:47,000 --> 00:02:55,000 To the left, there is a hallway that takes you down, or you haven't been down this way. 36 00:02:55,000 --> 00:03:04,000 So there is a hallway with a door down at the far end and off to the right, just before that door, there is another door. 37 00:03:04,000 --> 00:03:08,000 The door down at the end of the hallway is cracked open. 38 00:03:08,000 --> 00:03:11,000 Well, I'm going to peek into that one since it's already open. 39 00:03:11,000 --> 00:03:18,000 I don't want to get, I don't know, like raise suspicions like I'm like trying to be like sneaky or anything. 40 00:03:18,000 --> 00:03:24,000 So I walk, I walk into the room fairly like this is my home. 41 00:03:24,000 --> 00:03:31,000 You enter into this room and it appears to be a study. 42 00:03:31,000 --> 00:03:35,000 There's a wooden desk inside. 43 00:03:35,000 --> 00:03:39,000 There are several bookshelves on the wooden desk. 44 00:03:39,000 --> 00:03:43,000 There's a single journal. 45 00:03:43,000 --> 00:03:47,000 Looks like an old worn leather bound journal. 46 00:03:47,000 --> 00:03:57,000 I walk over to the desk and I'm trying to be nonchAlydint, like just like looking at some of the book titles along along the book cases. 47 00:03:57,000 --> 00:04:03,000 Any book titles jump out to me at all, like make an investigation. 48 00:04:03,000 --> 00:04:07,000 How to convince your fake child they're really your child for dummies. 49 00:04:07,000 --> 00:04:09,000 Something like that. 50 00:04:09,000 --> 00:04:10,000 Anything like that. 51 00:04:10,000 --> 00:04:11,000 So obvious. 52 00:04:11,000 --> 00:04:16,000 Oh my God, it's a 23. 53 00:04:16,000 --> 00:04:17,000 Nice. 54 00:04:17,000 --> 00:04:23,000 You're scanning them quickly and yet thoroughly, apparently yet very thoroughly. 55 00:04:23,000 --> 00:04:32,000 But what you notice very quickly is that the names on the spines of these books. 56 00:04:32,000 --> 00:04:34,000 You can't make them out. 57 00:04:34,000 --> 00:04:39,000 It's like they're the the letters on them are ever shifting and changing. 58 00:04:39,000 --> 00:04:49,000 And even as you focus on them, the colors of the books themselves begin to change and shift. 59 00:04:49,000 --> 00:04:55,000 No one name sticks long enough to really register in your in your brain. 60 00:04:55,000 --> 00:04:59,000 God, this place is so weird. 61 00:04:59,000 --> 00:05:07,000 I turn to the desk and take a look at the take a look glance at the journal. 62 00:05:07,000 --> 00:05:13,000 The journals closed on the desk and it's an old leather journal. 63 00:05:13,000 --> 00:05:18,000 It's got these like blue inlay on it. 64 00:05:18,000 --> 00:05:20,000 There's no no title to it. 65 00:05:20,000 --> 00:05:23,000 No, no name. 66 00:05:23,000 --> 00:05:26,000 Is it bound or anything or is it just a book? 67 00:05:26,000 --> 00:05:31,000 It appears like a shoe and like flip it open a little. 68 00:05:31,000 --> 00:05:34,000 It's like a it's like a it's like a heavy leather bound book. 69 00:05:34,000 --> 00:05:35,000 Yeah. 70 00:05:35,000 --> 00:05:36,000 Yeah. 71 00:05:36,000 --> 00:05:39,000 But there's nothing that I need to like untie or there's no lock on it. 72 00:05:39,000 --> 00:05:40,000 No, nothing. 73 00:05:40,000 --> 00:05:43,000 Does it appear to be bound in human skin? 74 00:05:43,000 --> 00:05:45,000 Oh, no. 75 00:05:45,000 --> 00:05:49,000 Carrying forward that investigation role that was very good. 76 00:05:49,000 --> 00:05:53,000 It does not appear to you that it is skin. 77 00:05:53,000 --> 00:05:59,000 I don't even know if I would know if it was fine Corinthian leather. 78 00:05:59,000 --> 00:06:07,000 Oh, I want to when I opened the door, did it squeak or creak? 79 00:06:07,000 --> 00:06:08,000 No. 80 00:06:08,000 --> 00:06:10,000 OK, I continue walking. 81 00:06:10,000 --> 00:06:18,000 I just slowly shut it a little more so that I can't be seen from anyone walking in the hallway. 82 00:06:18,000 --> 00:06:21,000 And I want to open this journal. 83 00:06:21,000 --> 00:06:23,000 Just take a little peek. 84 00:06:23,000 --> 00:06:29,000 You slowly and quietly walk back to the desk and you flip open the front cover. 85 00:06:29,000 --> 00:06:35,000 And on the inside is a page very much like a lot of journals that you've seen. 86 00:06:35,000 --> 00:06:43,000 This book belongs to and in scrawled writing, it says The Banjo Man. 87 00:06:43,000 --> 00:06:45,000 Her brother doesn't even have a name. 88 00:06:45,000 --> 00:06:49,000 He just calls himself The Banjo Man. 89 00:06:49,000 --> 00:06:51,000 It's sort of sad, isn't it? 90 00:06:51,000 --> 00:06:53,000 Yeah, a little bit. 91 00:06:53,000 --> 00:06:57,000 I am like, oh my gosh. 92 00:06:57,000 --> 00:07:18,000 And I start to like quickly flip through and see if I can't like being as fast and as quiet as I can look for anything that might help me either find Cedric or get out of here. 93 00:07:18,000 --> 00:07:19,000 Get out of here. 94 00:07:19,000 --> 00:07:22,000 Preferably both. 95 00:07:22,000 --> 00:07:24,000 You're quickly flipping through. 96 00:07:24,000 --> 00:07:28,000 Roll investigation again. 97 00:07:28,000 --> 00:07:31,000 Oh, it's missing the one in front of the nine this time. 98 00:07:31,000 --> 00:07:32,000 Thirteen. 99 00:07:32,000 --> 00:07:39,000 You're quickly flipping through the book and you as you get partway through, you're trying to find anything that'll give you clues or hints. 100 00:07:39,000 --> 00:07:46,000 There's a lot of there's a lot of music notes like notation off the top of the book. 101 00:07:46,000 --> 00:07:51,000 There's looks like song ideas all the way through. 102 00:07:51,000 --> 00:08:12,000 But then you get to a final page as you begin to hear your father's footsteps coming down the hallway towards the study and one page you land on describes a need to find the right song, the right child and the right resonance. 103 00:08:12,000 --> 00:08:23,000 And as you look up and you see the door slowly opening, the last entry of this page reads, she is almost perfect. 104 00:08:23,000 --> 00:08:24,000 Almost. 105 00:08:24,000 --> 00:08:27,000 But she clings to what was. 106 00:08:27,000 --> 00:08:31,000 That will change soon. 107 00:08:31,000 --> 00:08:37,000 Do I have time to rip this page? 108 00:08:37,000 --> 00:08:38,000 Roll a stealth. 109 00:08:38,000 --> 00:08:41,000 Oh, God damn it. 110 00:08:41,000 --> 00:08:43,000 Yes. 111 00:08:43,000 --> 00:08:44,000 Fuck yeah. 112 00:08:44,000 --> 00:08:49,000 It is a 21. 113 00:08:49,000 --> 00:08:52,000 Quickly out of the book and as silently as you can. 114 00:08:52,000 --> 00:08:56,000 I like cough or something while I'm doing it. 115 00:08:56,000 --> 00:09:05,000 The page rips from the book and you confidently quietly slam the book shut and look to the shelves behind you as if. 116 00:09:05,000 --> 00:09:12,000 Yes, the journal as your father enters and says, is everything okay in here? 117 00:09:12,000 --> 00:09:19,000 Oh, yeah, I was just maybe looking for a book to read. 118 00:09:19,000 --> 00:09:24,000 He looks you over. 119 00:09:24,000 --> 00:09:27,000 Says, I think I have one for you. 120 00:09:27,000 --> 00:09:28,000 Come with me. 121 00:09:28,000 --> 00:09:30,000 Come with me. 122 00:09:30,000 --> 00:09:35,000 I follow him. 123 00:09:35,000 --> 00:09:49,000 The three of you are making your way down a winding path through the forest after having just. 124 00:09:49,000 --> 00:09:50,000 No, nothing. 125 00:09:50,000 --> 00:09:51,000 Nothing's happening. 126 00:09:51,000 --> 00:09:54,000 We're listening to your cinematic description. 127 00:09:54,000 --> 00:09:57,000 I'm not mouthing the words. 128 00:09:58,000 --> 00:10:01,000 Oh, it was in my head as soon as you said making your way. 129 00:10:01,000 --> 00:10:07,000 I was holding it together but Amy was mouthing it and I was like. 130 00:10:07,000 --> 00:10:09,000 I caught a glimpse of Carla. 131 00:10:09,000 --> 00:10:10,000 We're back. 132 00:10:10,000 --> 00:10:12,000 Miss Rowling, you're all dead. 133 00:10:12,000 --> 00:10:13,000 New season. 134 00:10:13,000 --> 00:10:14,000 Okay, bye everybody. 135 00:10:14,000 --> 00:10:19,000 I think part of our business meeting was getting back to the silly a little bit. 136 00:10:19,000 --> 00:10:21,000 But I've got to be the stick in the mud. 137 00:10:21,000 --> 00:10:23,000 That's my role in this. 138 00:10:23,000 --> 00:10:25,000 Roll for stick in the mud. 139 00:10:25,000 --> 00:10:27,000 Did y'all see that stick in the mud? 140 00:10:27,000 --> 00:10:30,000 Look at that. 141 00:10:30,000 --> 00:10:31,000 I won't see anything anymore. 142 00:10:31,000 --> 00:10:32,000 I don't know. 143 00:10:32,000 --> 00:10:33,000 You're down. 144 00:10:33,000 --> 00:10:34,000 You're walking down a path. 145 00:10:34,000 --> 00:10:36,000 You just defeated a monster and release some children from a spirit prison. 146 00:10:36,000 --> 00:10:40,000 The sound of banjo echoing around you. 147 00:10:40,000 --> 00:10:42,000 This path continues to wind. 148 00:10:42,000 --> 00:10:45,000 You don't see a clear end to it at this point. 149 00:10:45,000 --> 00:10:48,000 I've got a question, maybe a bizarre. 150 00:10:48,000 --> 00:10:49,000 Maybe you might know. 151 00:10:49,000 --> 00:10:50,000 To fucking shoot, buddy. 152 00:10:50,000 --> 00:10:53,000 Where did all the ghost kids go? 153 00:10:53,000 --> 00:10:58,000 I mean, honestly, I really don't know at this point. 154 00:10:58,000 --> 00:11:02,000 They're probably exactly that. 155 00:11:02,000 --> 00:11:04,000 Ghosts of children past. 156 00:11:04,000 --> 00:11:06,000 I hope not the children that we're seeking. 157 00:11:06,000 --> 00:11:08,000 They didn't look familiar. 158 00:11:08,000 --> 00:11:10,000 No, no one looked familiar. 159 00:11:10,000 --> 00:11:11,000 Especially not Alydin. 160 00:11:11,000 --> 00:11:12,000 Alydin wasn't in there. 161 00:11:12,000 --> 00:11:13,000 Yeah. 162 00:11:13,000 --> 00:11:21,000 But you know, I guess we figured out whatever we were supposed to figure out there. 163 00:11:21,000 --> 00:11:24,000 So I think maybe we freed them. 164 00:11:24,000 --> 00:11:26,000 I'm going to go with we freed them. 165 00:11:26,000 --> 00:11:27,000 I think we freed them. 166 00:11:27,000 --> 00:11:28,000 I love that. 167 00:11:28,000 --> 00:11:29,000 Yes. 168 00:11:29,000 --> 00:11:34,000 I also believe we freed them and they are happier and probably back home. 169 00:11:34,000 --> 00:11:35,000 Happy, loving life. 170 00:11:35,000 --> 00:11:36,000 Love it. 171 00:11:36,000 --> 00:11:37,000 That's it. 172 00:11:37,000 --> 00:11:39,000 Now we just have a couple more children to free. 173 00:11:39,000 --> 00:11:40,000 Exactly. 174 00:11:40,000 --> 00:11:41,000 We're on a streak. 175 00:11:41,000 --> 00:11:44,000 This sounds doable when you bring it down into bits like this. 176 00:11:44,000 --> 00:11:46,000 It's just saving a couple kids. 177 00:11:46,000 --> 00:11:50,000 It's just going to a hollow and maybe like just getting them to turn down the 178 00:11:50,000 --> 00:11:53,000 banjo like just just a scope. 179 00:11:53,000 --> 00:11:54,000 Sure. 180 00:11:54,000 --> 00:11:55,000 Yeah. 181 00:11:55,000 --> 00:11:56,000 Much. 182 00:11:56,000 --> 00:11:57,000 Yeah. 183 00:11:57,000 --> 00:11:58,000 Constantly. 184 00:11:58,000 --> 00:11:59,000 Yeah. 185 00:11:59,000 --> 00:12:04,000 So so far through a portal following a path save some kids through a hole. 186 00:12:04,000 --> 00:12:06,000 Do you know an opening portal? 187 00:12:06,000 --> 00:12:07,000 I mean, yeah. 188 00:12:07,000 --> 00:12:08,000 Follow a path. 189 00:12:08,000 --> 00:12:10,000 We'll save some kids. 190 00:12:10,000 --> 00:12:11,000 Yeah. 191 00:12:11,000 --> 00:12:12,000 It's all there. 192 00:12:12,000 --> 00:12:13,000 Yeah. 193 00:12:13,000 --> 00:12:14,000 We're just going to. 194 00:12:14,000 --> 00:12:15,000 Yeah. 195 00:12:15,000 --> 00:12:16,000 We're going to do it. 196 00:12:16,000 --> 00:12:17,000 Wash, rinse, repeat. 197 00:12:17,000 --> 00:12:18,000 Right. 198 00:12:19,000 --> 00:12:22,000 I'm. 199 00:12:22,000 --> 00:12:23,000 Yeah. 200 00:12:23,000 --> 00:12:27,000 Like technically, I think we've done some traveling. 201 00:12:27,000 --> 00:12:28,000 Cool. 202 00:12:28,000 --> 00:12:32,000 We're definitely you could charitably say having adventures. 203 00:12:32,000 --> 00:12:37,000 It's sort of scary and I don't like them, but they're adventures. 204 00:12:37,000 --> 00:12:38,000 Oh, yeah. 205 00:12:38,000 --> 00:12:40,000 This is this is freaking my bean. 206 00:12:40,000 --> 00:12:45,000 So, you know, like and I'm used to the weird shit kind of. 207 00:12:45,000 --> 00:12:46,000 Yeah. 208 00:12:46,000 --> 00:12:49,000 That's why I went immediately to you with the question about the ghost kids. 209 00:12:49,000 --> 00:12:50,000 I understand. 210 00:12:50,000 --> 00:12:57,000 And I'm really worried that I'm not, you know, not able to stand up to the expectation. 211 00:12:57,000 --> 00:13:00,000 But this is it's a creepy shit. 212 00:13:00,000 --> 00:13:01,000 You'll. 213 00:13:01,000 --> 00:13:02,000 Yeah. 214 00:13:02,000 --> 00:13:03,000 Yeah. 215 00:13:03,000 --> 00:13:04,000 Hundred percent. 216 00:13:04,000 --> 00:13:07,000 And it just right now is making me so motivated to find the kids. 217 00:13:07,000 --> 00:13:08,000 We got it. 218 00:13:08,000 --> 00:13:10,000 Like, this is terrifying me. 219 00:13:10,000 --> 00:13:12,000 An adult. 220 00:13:12,000 --> 00:13:15,000 So, yeah, we got to find those kids. 221 00:13:15,000 --> 00:13:18,000 So we're just going to like path. 222 00:13:18,000 --> 00:13:19,000 Right. 223 00:13:19,000 --> 00:13:21,000 Because it led us to the ghost children. 224 00:13:21,000 --> 00:13:24,000 It's probably going to lead us to our next terrifying adventure. 225 00:13:24,000 --> 00:13:28,000 So let's keep going double time. 226 00:13:28,000 --> 00:13:29,000 Yeah. 227 00:13:29,000 --> 00:13:33,000 And according to those lyrics, you know, we've we're at the last part of it. 228 00:13:33,000 --> 00:13:38,000 So we just got to head to that hollow to those newly freed children we're talking about. 229 00:13:38,000 --> 00:13:39,000 Great. 230 00:13:39,000 --> 00:13:41,000 Awesome. 231 00:13:41,000 --> 00:13:51,000 You're not sure at what point in the talk of becoming adventurers, but the sound of banjo has all but disappeared. 232 00:13:51,000 --> 00:13:52,000 Oh, oh, they're listening. 233 00:13:52,000 --> 00:13:53,000 That's nice. 234 00:13:53,000 --> 00:13:55,000 Like, I made some feedback and they and they listened. 235 00:13:55,000 --> 00:13:56,000 All you had to do was ask. 236 00:13:56,000 --> 00:13:57,000 Who knew? 237 00:13:57,000 --> 00:14:04,000 There's an eerie silence about the path that you're walking down. 238 00:14:04,000 --> 00:14:07,000 The kind of silence where you don't hear the crunching of your own feet. 239 00:14:07,000 --> 00:14:08,000 Yeah. 240 00:14:08,000 --> 00:14:10,000 Oh, it's not a good silence. 241 00:14:10,000 --> 00:14:13,000 That's still worse than banjo. 242 00:14:13,000 --> 00:14:18,000 Can I roll like, I don't even have my character sheet. 243 00:14:18,000 --> 00:14:20,000 Before you ask what can you roll? 244 00:14:20,000 --> 00:14:22,000 What are you trying to find out? 245 00:14:22,000 --> 00:14:36,000 I think I am just I guess looking around and trying to see if so things have gotten very quiet, which I thought I wanted 30 seconds ago. 246 00:14:36,000 --> 00:14:37,000 But now I don't. 247 00:14:37,000 --> 00:14:38,000 Turns out it's worse. 248 00:14:38,000 --> 00:14:40,000 Turns out it's actually scarier. 249 00:14:40,000 --> 00:14:42,000 Could you turn it up to like three or four maybe? 250 00:14:42,000 --> 00:14:50,000 But last time, so far we've been like coming upon things and I feel like I'm probably surprised every time. 251 00:14:50,000 --> 00:14:52,000 So I want to like head on a swivel. 252 00:14:52,000 --> 00:14:55,000 Like, what what's going to happen next? 253 00:14:55,000 --> 00:15:00,000 Because we know we're approaching the hollow and probably the banjo man. 254 00:15:00,000 --> 00:15:01,000 I would assume. 255 00:15:01,000 --> 00:15:03,000 Well, can't you just ready in action? 256 00:15:03,000 --> 00:15:05,000 I could ready in action. 257 00:15:05,000 --> 00:15:07,000 Look at you D&D and everything. 258 00:15:07,000 --> 00:15:08,000 Right? 259 00:15:08,000 --> 00:15:09,000 Yeah. 260 00:15:09,000 --> 00:15:12,000 If you want something combat related, you could ready in action. 261 00:15:12,000 --> 00:15:14,000 I'm a level two character. 262 00:15:14,000 --> 00:15:15,000 What am I even going to do? 263 00:15:15,000 --> 00:15:16,000 Slap a bitch. 264 00:15:16,000 --> 00:15:18,000 I'm going to clench my fist. 265 00:15:18,000 --> 00:15:24,000 I'm going to clench my fist like Franklin, like Arthur, like whatever that fist. 266 00:15:24,000 --> 00:15:26,000 Arthur, I believe. 267 00:15:26,000 --> 00:15:27,000 Don't fuck with his plan. 268 00:15:27,000 --> 00:15:29,000 Franklin never fought anybody. 269 00:15:29,000 --> 00:15:32,000 No, Franklin definitely never fought anybody. 270 00:15:34,000 --> 00:15:35,000 That's right. 271 00:15:35,000 --> 00:15:43,000 I think Franklin was a beautiful, non-toxic masculinity that he was showing. 272 00:15:43,000 --> 00:15:45,000 Anyway, like investigation, I guess. 273 00:15:45,000 --> 00:15:46,000 Sure, sure. 274 00:15:46,000 --> 00:15:49,000 Investigation or perception, whichever you prefer. 275 00:15:49,000 --> 00:15:52,000 I'm better at investigating than perceiving. 276 00:15:52,000 --> 00:15:54,000 Oh, and I'm bad at both. 277 00:15:54,000 --> 00:15:55,000 Bad at both. 278 00:15:55,000 --> 00:15:56,000 That's an eight. 279 00:15:56,000 --> 00:15:58,000 Welcome to the middle, everybody. 280 00:15:58,000 --> 00:15:59,000 Thanks for being here. 281 00:15:59,000 --> 00:16:01,000 We love that you've joined us. 282 00:16:01,000 --> 00:16:03,000 Just a surprise middle lunch. 283 00:16:03,000 --> 00:16:07,000 Yeah, it's coming out of a real tense moment in this episode, too. 284 00:16:07,000 --> 00:16:09,000 So that's going to scare everybody. 285 00:16:09,000 --> 00:16:10,000 Okay, good. 286 00:16:10,000 --> 00:16:12,000 That's what we're going for, jump scares. 287 00:16:12,000 --> 00:16:14,000 The tense moment of this episode. 288 00:16:14,000 --> 00:16:16,000 Radical tonal shifts. 289 00:16:16,000 --> 00:16:19,000 I was like, this episode we just recorded? 290 00:16:19,000 --> 00:16:23,000 No, the episode that comes out to the whole Indomstance where you're still stuck in a house. 291 00:16:23,000 --> 00:16:24,000 Fuck. 292 00:16:24,000 --> 00:16:26,000 I mean, you're always stuck in something this season. 293 00:16:26,000 --> 00:16:27,000 You're always stuck somewhere. 294 00:16:27,000 --> 00:16:28,000 It's true. 295 00:16:28,000 --> 00:16:32,000 I've got a Tuesday tattoo. 296 00:16:32,000 --> 00:16:39,000 It's just going to be a little cardboard box and it's just going to have chains and a padlock on it. 297 00:16:39,000 --> 00:16:42,000 And it is just where I live. 298 00:16:42,000 --> 00:16:43,000 Yeah. 299 00:16:43,000 --> 00:16:46,000 Okay, and then should I get one of a pamphlet or something? 300 00:16:46,000 --> 00:16:48,000 What can I get? 301 00:16:48,000 --> 00:16:50,000 Oh, that's really fun. 302 00:16:50,000 --> 00:16:52,000 Just a little bitty one. 303 00:16:52,000 --> 00:16:54,000 We could go to the tattoo show. 304 00:16:54,000 --> 00:16:55,000 It's coming up in a month. 305 00:16:55,000 --> 00:17:00,000 And we could go get little character kind of specifics. 306 00:17:01,000 --> 00:17:02,000 Okay. 307 00:17:02,000 --> 00:17:03,000 I've totally derailed this. 308 00:17:03,000 --> 00:17:04,000 I'm sorry. 309 00:17:04,000 --> 00:17:05,000 Okay, but we're in the middle. 310 00:17:05,000 --> 00:17:14,000 So if you are with us on Discord, which we know that you are because Discord is an amazing place filled with amazing people. 311 00:17:14,000 --> 00:17:22,000 You should drop little pieces of our different adventures because Carla and I will literally almost get anything tattooed on our bodies. 312 00:17:22,000 --> 00:17:24,000 We have various. 313 00:17:24,000 --> 00:17:25,000 It's true. 314 00:17:25,000 --> 00:17:26,000 We're addicted. 315 00:17:26,000 --> 00:17:27,000 It's fine. 316 00:17:27,000 --> 00:17:28,000 We're moosey goosey when it comes to that. 317 00:17:28,000 --> 00:17:29,000 I am like a water bottle. 318 00:17:29,000 --> 00:17:31,000 I'll slap a sticker on there. 319 00:17:31,000 --> 00:17:32,000 Hundred percent. 320 00:17:32,000 --> 00:17:33,000 Yeah. 321 00:17:33,000 --> 00:17:36,000 So that. 322 00:17:36,000 --> 00:17:38,000 What else happens on Patreon? 323 00:17:38,000 --> 00:17:41,000 Oh, but also Patreon. 324 00:17:41,000 --> 00:17:44,000 Patreon.com slash dumb dragon cast. 325 00:17:44,000 --> 00:17:46,000 You get to hear a whole other show. 326 00:17:46,000 --> 00:17:49,000 And we just recorded some bomb episodes for it. 327 00:17:49,000 --> 00:17:51,000 It's so funny. 328 00:17:51,000 --> 00:17:53,000 But you also turn it around. 329 00:17:53,000 --> 00:17:54,000 Is it going to be a fight? 330 00:17:54,000 --> 00:17:55,000 Are we going to make new friends? 331 00:17:55,000 --> 00:17:56,000 Who knows? 332 00:17:56,000 --> 00:17:57,000 We never know. 333 00:17:57,000 --> 00:18:01,000 Hopefully you'd be able to see us doing this middle bit recording right now. 334 00:18:01,000 --> 00:18:03,000 The different tiers. 335 00:18:03,000 --> 00:18:04,000 Yeah. 336 00:18:04,000 --> 00:18:09,000 If you're a producer tier or above, you can actually watch these shenanigans happen live. 337 00:18:09,000 --> 00:18:14,000 And I can speak for everyone who is watching. 338 00:18:14,000 --> 00:18:18,000 When I say smooth. 339 00:18:18,000 --> 00:18:19,000 Smooth. 340 00:18:19,000 --> 00:18:20,000 Always smooth. 341 00:18:20,000 --> 00:18:21,000 That's a quotation. 342 00:18:21,000 --> 00:18:22,000 That's a quote. 343 00:18:22,000 --> 00:18:26,000 Well, but there is one thing that's super guaranteed if you join our Patreon. 344 00:18:26,000 --> 00:18:28,000 And that is having an episode dedicated to you. 345 00:18:28,000 --> 00:18:30,000 Which I believe Russ has that person. 346 00:18:30,000 --> 00:18:31,000 Russ is about to announce. 347 00:18:31,000 --> 00:18:33,000 Like today's patron. 348 00:18:33,000 --> 00:18:34,000 Yum. 349 00:18:34,000 --> 00:18:37,000 Like today's patron, Les Winsell. 350 00:18:37,000 --> 00:18:39,000 Thank you, Les. 351 00:18:39,000 --> 00:18:41,000 Thank you so much. 352 00:18:41,000 --> 00:18:43,000 Russ sounded so alarmed. 353 00:18:43,000 --> 00:18:44,000 But he was ready. 354 00:18:44,000 --> 00:18:45,000 I don't know why. 355 00:18:45,000 --> 00:18:47,000 They do that to us all the time. 356 00:18:47,000 --> 00:18:50,000 Again, we're going for dramatic tonal shifts. 357 00:18:51,000 --> 00:18:53,000 Thank you, Les. 358 00:18:53,000 --> 00:18:56,000 You are more than we deserve. 359 00:18:56,000 --> 00:19:00,000 I was just going to say that, Amy. 360 00:19:00,000 --> 00:19:02,000 Because you're the same person. 361 00:19:02,000 --> 00:19:04,000 I know we are. 362 00:19:04,000 --> 00:19:06,000 We are. 363 00:19:06,000 --> 00:19:08,000 But you are more than just a pun to us, Les. 364 00:19:08,000 --> 00:19:10,000 Thank you for being our patron. 365 00:19:10,000 --> 00:19:12,000 Absolutely. 366 00:19:12,000 --> 00:19:13,000 Okay. 367 00:19:13,000 --> 00:19:14,000 Thanks, everybody. 368 00:19:14,000 --> 00:19:15,000 We'll get you back to the episode. 369 00:19:15,000 --> 00:19:18,000 Can we jump scare out of something? 370 00:19:19,000 --> 00:19:20,000 What do you mean? 371 00:19:20,000 --> 00:19:21,000 Got us. 372 00:19:21,000 --> 00:19:22,000 I got you. 373 00:19:22,000 --> 00:19:23,000 We did it. 374 00:19:23,000 --> 00:19:24,000 Done. 375 00:19:24,000 --> 00:19:26,000 I was going to go with a look over there. 376 00:19:26,000 --> 00:19:27,000 That was much better. 377 00:19:27,000 --> 00:19:28,000 Bye. 378 00:19:30,000 --> 00:19:34,000 The sound of your feet crunching has disappeared. 379 00:19:34,000 --> 00:19:37,000 The sound of the banjo is gone. 380 00:19:37,000 --> 00:19:41,000 There is light coming from above. 381 00:19:41,000 --> 00:19:44,000 You presume from the moonlight coming through the canopy. 382 00:19:44,000 --> 00:19:50,000 You've noticed that the mists have started to roll back in through the trees, slowly covering the path. 383 00:19:50,000 --> 00:19:57,000 And as you round a bend, the three of you see up ahead another clearing. 384 00:19:59,000 --> 00:20:02,000 The air is still. 385 00:20:02,000 --> 00:20:06,000 You can't hear anything from up ahead. 386 00:20:06,000 --> 00:20:08,000 Do you continue forward? 387 00:20:08,000 --> 00:20:15,000 I mean, maybe I will pull out my bow and ready that. 388 00:20:15,000 --> 00:20:17,000 Yeah, I'll have my sword ready as well. 389 00:20:17,000 --> 00:20:20,000 Tentatively walking forward into the clearing. 390 00:20:20,000 --> 00:20:24,000 I'm just daydreaming and looking at the trees. 391 00:20:24,000 --> 00:20:27,000 So I haven't really clued into the fact that there's like... 392 00:20:27,000 --> 00:20:28,000 Sweet. 393 00:20:28,000 --> 00:20:30,000 Just sweet silence at this point. 394 00:20:32,000 --> 00:20:34,000 Like, yeah, I'm an adventurer now. 395 00:20:34,000 --> 00:20:36,000 Sound of overload running. 396 00:20:36,000 --> 00:20:38,000 There's too much that's new. 397 00:20:38,000 --> 00:20:40,000 Do I need like a cool nickname? 398 00:20:40,000 --> 00:20:41,000 Kavlaran the Terrible. 399 00:20:41,000 --> 00:20:43,000 No, that's no good. 400 00:20:46,000 --> 00:20:51,000 Well, two of you paying attention and the third following behind Kavlaran the Terrible. 401 00:20:51,000 --> 00:20:53,000 No, that's not right. 402 00:20:53,000 --> 00:20:58,000 You all step into this silent clearing. 403 00:20:58,000 --> 00:21:08,000 And as you make your first few steps into it, the music slowly, softly and deliberately starts up again. 404 00:21:10,000 --> 00:21:12,000 Plucks on a banjo string. 405 00:21:14,000 --> 00:21:23,000 Across the way, you see a white wooden house with a lovely porch. 406 00:21:23,000 --> 00:21:27,000 I swear to God, if there's a bucket on the lawn in front of the house, like... 407 00:21:27,000 --> 00:21:29,000 The bucket came back in. 408 00:21:29,000 --> 00:21:31,000 Ah, I forgot about that. 409 00:21:33,000 --> 00:21:41,000 Seated on the porch, rocking in a chair that creaks in time with the tune that you're listening to, 410 00:21:41,000 --> 00:21:53,000 is a man dressed in very earthen attire, very browns and greens. 411 00:21:53,000 --> 00:21:57,000 He's got a cloak over top of him, a hood that kind of comes down. 412 00:21:57,000 --> 00:22:01,000 So you can see a beard beneath it, but you can't quite make out his facial features. 413 00:22:03,000 --> 00:22:13,000 His voice is warm and slow and inviting, yet something beneath it is deeply and fundamentally wrong. 414 00:22:16,000 --> 00:22:20,000 Well now, you all been busy, ain't ya? 415 00:22:20,000 --> 00:22:22,000 Diggin' where you shouldn't. 416 00:22:23,000 --> 00:22:27,000 Runnin' from things best left unchaste. 417 00:22:27,000 --> 00:22:33,000 But you came all this way, so I reckon you oughta hear my song proper. 418 00:22:34,000 --> 00:22:36,000 Guys, I think this is the banjo man. 419 00:22:36,000 --> 00:22:37,000 I think we found him. 420 00:22:37,000 --> 00:22:39,000 I don't know, I don't see a banjo yet. 421 00:22:41,000 --> 00:22:44,000 Turn to look back at him, waiting to see if a banjo appears. 422 00:22:44,000 --> 00:22:48,000 Turn to talk to each other, and he's just about to break into song. 423 00:22:48,000 --> 00:22:50,000 I was like, the fuck, guys? 424 00:22:50,000 --> 00:22:52,000 Come on, little respect. 425 00:22:52,000 --> 00:22:56,000 You could have a soft whisper conversation without interrupting. 426 00:22:58,000 --> 00:23:01,000 You see him reach down, and he lifts a banjo. 427 00:23:01,000 --> 00:23:04,000 His fingers begin dancing across the strings. 428 00:23:05,000 --> 00:23:13,000 The melody is hauntingly familiar, much like the lullaby, half remembered from childhood. 429 00:23:13,000 --> 00:23:21,000 He hums a few notes, then chuckles, as if at an inside joke only he understands. 430 00:23:23,000 --> 00:23:26,000 Children get lost all the time, don't they? 431 00:23:26,000 --> 00:23:28,000 Slip between cracks. 432 00:23:28,000 --> 00:23:29,000 Wander... 433 00:23:29,000 --> 00:23:30,000 Is that what you're laughing about? 434 00:23:30,000 --> 00:23:32,000 Too far. 435 00:23:32,000 --> 00:23:33,000 Yeah. 436 00:23:33,000 --> 00:23:35,000 Yeah, it is, sir. 437 00:23:35,000 --> 00:23:37,000 The terrible, was it? 438 00:23:38,000 --> 00:23:42,000 Wander too far past the fence, and forget where home is. 439 00:23:42,000 --> 00:23:48,000 And when that happens, when nobody's left to tuck them in, to hush their cries, 440 00:23:48,000 --> 00:23:52,000 to soothe that little lonesome ache, well, that's where I come in. 441 00:23:54,000 --> 00:23:58,000 He plucks a discordant note, and the clearing shudders. 442 00:24:00,000 --> 00:24:05,000 Standing up from the tall grass are wooden mannequins. 443 00:24:06,000 --> 00:24:15,000 They come forward like a silent audience, and their heads creak around towards you in unison. 444 00:24:16,000 --> 00:24:20,000 You see the man up on the porch, he grins wider. 445 00:24:21,000 --> 00:24:27,000 I take the strays, the forgotten, the ones the world had no use for. 446 00:24:27,000 --> 00:24:32,000 Give them a song to hold onto, a home where they ain't gotta worry no more. 447 00:24:32,000 --> 00:24:42,000 Cause, what's childhood really, but a tune that gets played over and over, till someone up and stops the music. 448 00:24:43,000 --> 00:24:45,000 At that perfect moment. 449 00:24:45,000 --> 00:24:47,000 Sorry, Russ, I want to let you keep going. 450 00:24:47,000 --> 00:24:48,000 No, go for it. 451 00:24:48,000 --> 00:24:52,000 Because you clearly have prepared this, and I love it, but I also do have a readied action, 452 00:24:52,000 --> 00:24:56,000 and I would like to try to shoot his banjo, cause fuck this guy. 453 00:24:56,000 --> 00:24:58,000 Go for it. 454 00:25:00,000 --> 00:25:02,000 Okay, it's... 455 00:25:02,000 --> 00:25:03,000 Telling up. 456 00:25:03,000 --> 00:25:05,000 Oh, this is a bad 20! 457 00:25:05,000 --> 00:25:11,000 Oh, shut up. Oh my god. Are you about to save all of us just right now? 458 00:25:11,000 --> 00:25:17,000 No, I'm probably not about to do anything but die, but I will at least go out in a good blaze of glory. 459 00:25:17,000 --> 00:25:18,000 Yeah, you fucking did. 460 00:25:18,000 --> 00:25:19,000 Absolutely. 461 00:25:19,000 --> 00:25:20,000 Okay. 462 00:25:20,000 --> 00:25:28,000 As he sighs, shaking his head, as though disappointed, you loosen arrow towards him and the banjo. 463 00:25:29,000 --> 00:25:30,000 Roll damage. 464 00:25:33,000 --> 00:25:36,000 15 plus cause of the sneak attack. 465 00:25:37,000 --> 00:25:38,000 21. 466 00:25:39,000 --> 00:25:43,000 21 damage. I rolled almost on pex die, you guys. 467 00:25:43,000 --> 00:25:45,000 Did you explode that banjo? 468 00:25:45,000 --> 00:25:46,000 I'm sweating. 469 00:25:47,000 --> 00:25:48,000 So excited. 470 00:25:49,000 --> 00:25:50,000 Is it the roll? Is it the wine? 471 00:25:50,000 --> 00:25:51,000 Probably not the wine you're drinking. 472 00:25:51,000 --> 00:25:52,000 We have no idea. 473 00:25:55,000 --> 00:26:02,000 Everyone, as if in slow motion, sees this arrow cut through the mist, moving towards the banjo, 474 00:26:02,000 --> 00:26:06,000 and cut like parting the sea of mannequins before. 475 00:26:07,000 --> 00:26:11,000 And, Bonwyn, you've got your eyes set on this man. 476 00:26:11,000 --> 00:26:15,000 Everybody else is kind of following the arrow as it's moving through the space. 477 00:26:16,000 --> 00:26:22,000 And you see his smile does not waver as this arrow's flying towards him. 478 00:26:23,000 --> 00:26:30,000 It strikes the banjo, and you see wood fracture off the corner of it. 479 00:26:30,000 --> 00:26:38,000 Let's out this discordant tone, and as the creaking heads of the children turn towards you, 480 00:26:38,000 --> 00:26:41,000 their bodies shift quickly towards you. 481 00:26:41,000 --> 00:26:43,000 Are they children or are they mannequins? 482 00:26:43,000 --> 00:26:44,000 Yes. 483 00:26:44,000 --> 00:26:46,000 They are child mannequins. 484 00:26:46,000 --> 00:26:47,000 Okay. 485 00:26:47,000 --> 00:26:48,000 So much worse. 486 00:26:48,000 --> 00:26:49,000 Yep. 487 00:26:49,000 --> 00:26:50,000 It's the worst combination. 488 00:26:50,000 --> 00:26:51,000 It's the worst combination. 489 00:26:51,000 --> 00:26:54,000 I thought it was an either-or situation, but nope. 490 00:26:54,000 --> 00:26:55,000 No. 491 00:26:55,000 --> 00:26:56,000 Both. 492 00:26:56,000 --> 00:26:57,000 They are children mannequins. 493 00:26:57,000 --> 00:26:58,000 Okay, great. 494 00:26:58,000 --> 00:27:07,000 A piece of the banjo breaks off and falls to the porch, and he looks down, his grin not fading. 495 00:27:07,000 --> 00:27:08,000 Oh, God. 496 00:27:08,000 --> 00:27:14,000 Does it turn to liquid metal, and then it back up, and he's actually a T-1000? 497 00:27:14,000 --> 00:27:17,000 Or it becomes a new child mannequin. 498 00:27:17,000 --> 00:27:18,000 Oh, no. 499 00:27:18,000 --> 00:27:19,000 One or the other. 500 00:27:19,000 --> 00:27:20,000 What have I done? 501 00:27:20,000 --> 00:27:23,000 I've only been an adventurer for five minutes. 502 00:27:23,000 --> 00:27:24,000 What have I done? 503 00:27:24,000 --> 00:27:26,000 I think it's going great. 504 00:27:26,000 --> 00:27:27,000 I think so, too. 505 00:27:27,000 --> 00:27:37,000 The mannequins begin to slowly step towards you, some of them breaking off and going towards the trees. 506 00:27:37,000 --> 00:27:46,000 And he laughs and gives a little tisk towards you. 507 00:27:46,000 --> 00:27:53,000 But y'all, you just had to go and spoil it, and it shifts his tone. 508 00:27:54,000 --> 00:28:02,000 That warmth is now gone, pulling at threads, making trouble, trying to take what's mine. 509 00:28:02,000 --> 00:28:07,000 And that's something I just can't allow. 510 00:28:07,000 --> 00:28:16,000 And he lets out this chord from the banjo, and you hear a vibration start within this clearing, 511 00:28:16,000 --> 00:28:19,000 and the ground begins to shake beneath you. 512 00:28:19,000 --> 00:28:27,000 And coming up from the ground in front of you are these much similar, 513 00:28:27,000 --> 00:28:36,000 but different to what you saw in the last clearing, these homunculus-like creatures. 514 00:28:36,000 --> 00:28:45,000 There's a large, stitched together, stuffed teddy bear with too many button eyes. 515 00:28:45,000 --> 00:28:51,000 There's dozens of dangling marionettes that begin to come from the trees. 516 00:28:51,000 --> 00:29:03,000 You hear horse hooves coming from behind the house, and riding atop of this rocking horse is this porcelain doll knight. 517 00:29:03,000 --> 00:29:13,000 And then with one explosion right in front of you, this jack-in-the-box shoots up from the ground, 518 00:29:13,000 --> 00:29:19,000 and its warped, twisted face begins bobbing and laughing in front of you. 519 00:29:19,000 --> 00:29:21,000 Who reflexively punches it in the face? 520 00:29:21,000 --> 00:29:28,000 The banjo man up on the porch now stands, rolling his shoulders, the banjo slung against his chest. 521 00:29:28,000 --> 00:29:34,000 The melody turns sharp and piercing like a music box suddenly wound too tight. 522 00:29:34,000 --> 00:29:41,000 And he says, So I got a choice for you, sweet things, as everything around you stops for a moment. 523 00:29:42,000 --> 00:29:46,000 Y'all can sit right here like good little ones. 524 00:29:46,000 --> 00:29:52,000 Let me play you a song till you don't remember what you came for, or... 525 00:29:52,000 --> 00:29:58,000 His grin stretches unnaturally wide and a deep resonant twang rings out, 526 00:29:58,000 --> 00:30:04,000 and the first of these twisted toys starts moving again. 527 00:30:04,000 --> 00:30:13,000 Stuff bears groaning, the jack-in-the-box screeching as it lurches forward and backward towards you. 528 00:30:13,000 --> 00:30:16,000 Or... 529 00:30:16,000 --> 00:30:19,000 We can dance. 530 00:30:19,000 --> 00:30:21,000 Ugh. 531 00:30:21,000 --> 00:30:26,000 I don't know about y'all, I'm kind of tired of the dances, but real quick question for you. 532 00:30:26,000 --> 00:30:28,000 Is Alydin in that house? 533 00:30:28,000 --> 00:30:31,000 Yeah, you banjo man, I'm talking to you. 534 00:30:31,000 --> 00:30:34,000 As the jack-in-the-box kind of bounces in front of him. 535 00:30:34,000 --> 00:30:36,000 You're like, Did I fucking stutter? 536 00:30:36,000 --> 00:30:39,000 I have some issues with your logic here. 537 00:30:39,000 --> 00:30:44,000 Like you said, you take things and people that have been forgotten. 538 00:30:44,000 --> 00:30:46,000 Well, Alydin wasn't forgotten. 539 00:30:46,000 --> 00:30:49,000 None of those kids were. We were taking care of them. 540 00:30:49,000 --> 00:30:51,000 They're not lost or forgotten. 541 00:30:51,000 --> 00:30:53,000 Your friend isn't too far. 542 00:30:53,000 --> 00:30:56,000 Alydin! I had to start yelling for Alydin again. 543 00:30:56,000 --> 00:31:00,000 You hear the creaks of those mannequins one more time. 544 00:31:00,000 --> 00:31:05,000 As they continue to disperse towards the trees, make an investigation roll, all of you can. 545 00:31:05,000 --> 00:31:11,000 Perfect. I definitely am used to being around a lot of loud distracting things. 546 00:31:11,000 --> 00:31:16,000 I was born and raised in a blacksmith shop. 547 00:31:16,000 --> 00:31:18,000 Let's see. That was terrible. That was a nine. 548 00:31:18,000 --> 00:31:21,000 Got an 18. I got 14. 549 00:31:21,000 --> 00:31:24,000 I only got a six. I'm not even in this scene. 550 00:31:24,000 --> 00:31:26,000 Or are you? We don't know yet. 551 00:31:26,000 --> 00:31:27,000 We don't know. 552 00:31:27,000 --> 00:31:33,000 Bonwyn, you're calling out for Alydin, seeing if perhaps she's in the house behind the banjo man. 553 00:31:33,000 --> 00:31:40,000 Kavlarne and Bazaar, you quickly scan the entire scene around you, 554 00:31:40,000 --> 00:31:43,000 but you land on some of these mannequins. 555 00:31:43,000 --> 00:31:49,000 And you start to recognize some of the features of these mannequins. 556 00:31:50,000 --> 00:31:58,000 You see the eye that works too hard of Cedric. 557 00:31:58,000 --> 00:32:00,000 You see Tali. 558 00:32:00,000 --> 00:32:11,000 And then disappearing into the trees, you see Alydin with a wooden bucket attached at her hip. 559 00:32:11,000 --> 00:32:14,000 And we cut back to the house, Alydin. 560 00:32:14,000 --> 00:32:21,000 You're following behind your father, and he said he was going to take you to find a book. 561 00:32:21,000 --> 00:32:23,000 He said, I've got something for you. 562 00:32:23,000 --> 00:32:25,000 And he leads you back down the hallway. 563 00:32:25,000 --> 00:32:27,000 You pass by the dining room. 564 00:32:27,000 --> 00:32:32,000 You see your mother in there watching dishes. 565 00:32:32,000 --> 00:32:38,000 And he leads you by a front sitting room. 566 00:32:38,000 --> 00:32:42,000 And up on the wall of this sitting room, 567 00:32:42,000 --> 00:32:47,000 as you enter, is this family portrait. 568 00:32:47,000 --> 00:32:53,000 It's a large painting that depicts the three of you. 569 00:32:53,000 --> 00:32:57,000 Do you want to make an investigation roll as you enter this room? 570 00:32:57,000 --> 00:32:59,000 Yeah, but not with the fucking computer. 571 00:32:59,000 --> 00:33:00,000 I guess. 572 00:33:00,000 --> 00:33:03,000 No, don't do it with the computer first. 573 00:33:03,000 --> 00:33:05,000 Were you going to change your mind? 574 00:33:05,000 --> 00:33:07,000 Yeah, roll. 575 00:33:07,000 --> 00:33:10,000 You can do insight or perception rather than investigation, 576 00:33:10,000 --> 00:33:13,000 because you're not really looking for anything at this moment. 577 00:33:13,000 --> 00:33:16,000 Well, that's a plus zero, so fuck. 578 00:33:16,000 --> 00:33:19,000 How about a two? 579 00:33:19,000 --> 00:33:21,000 Twenty? 580 00:33:21,000 --> 00:33:23,000 Two and a zero is 20. 581 00:33:23,000 --> 00:33:25,000 Yep. 582 00:33:25,000 --> 00:33:30,000 Yeah, you see this large painting, and you enter the room, 583 00:33:30,000 --> 00:33:34,000 and your father goes off, and there's a small bookshelf, 584 00:33:34,000 --> 00:33:39,000 and he comes back with his book of nursery rhymes. 585 00:33:39,000 --> 00:33:42,000 And unlike all the other books in the study, 586 00:33:42,000 --> 00:33:47,000 this one appears to be holding its shape and form. 587 00:33:47,000 --> 00:33:52,000 It's like a book you've read before, 588 00:33:52,000 --> 00:33:55,000 with the children, lent to you by June. 589 00:33:55,000 --> 00:33:57,000 Like, this isn't anything new. 590 00:33:57,000 --> 00:34:00,000 And he says, I think you'd really like this one. 591 00:34:00,000 --> 00:34:05,000 He hands it to you. 592 00:34:05,000 --> 00:34:15,000 I take it carefully, and I say, thanks. 593 00:34:15,000 --> 00:34:17,000 I'll read it later. 594 00:34:17,000 --> 00:34:19,000 Of course, of course, of course. 595 00:34:19,000 --> 00:34:21,000 You have a seat in the chair if you'd like. 596 00:34:21,000 --> 00:34:24,000 You can take it up to your room wherever you'd like. 597 00:34:24,000 --> 00:34:30,000 I'm going to make one more roll as you're kind of quickly... 598 00:34:30,000 --> 00:34:33,000 You can roll investigation at this point if you're... 599 00:34:33,000 --> 00:34:34,000 Anyone! 600 00:34:34,000 --> 00:34:37,000 Now that you're in the room, okay? 601 00:34:37,000 --> 00:34:40,000 Your eyes quickly dart around the space. 602 00:34:40,000 --> 00:34:43,000 There's a front window that you look out, 603 00:34:43,000 --> 00:34:45,000 and you still see the picket fence out front. 604 00:34:45,000 --> 00:34:47,000 It's still nighttime. 605 00:34:47,000 --> 00:34:50,000 And your eyes shift back to that painting. 606 00:34:50,000 --> 00:34:54,000 And as you lock onto it, 607 00:34:54,000 --> 00:35:01,000 the faces, including yours, in this painting shift. 608 00:35:01,000 --> 00:35:05,000 The figures flicker between unfamiliar and ghostly reflections 609 00:35:05,000 --> 00:35:10,000 of yourself at different ages. 610 00:35:10,000 --> 00:35:14,000 You begin to feel weak. 611 00:35:14,000 --> 00:35:17,000 The book in your hands feels very heavy, 612 00:35:17,000 --> 00:35:22,000 and you have a hard time gripping it as it falls to the floor. 613 00:35:22,000 --> 00:35:26,000 Your vision begins to narrow. 614 00:35:26,000 --> 00:35:29,000 Last thing you see is your father 615 00:35:29,000 --> 00:35:33,000 rushing towards you to catch you before you hit the ground. 616 00:35:33,000 --> 00:35:37,000 No, damn it! I rolled a 21! 617 00:35:44,000 --> 00:35:47,000 Dumbgeons and Dragons Season 4 Episode 19 618 00:35:47,000 --> 00:35:50,000 Starring Amy More as Alydin, 619 00:35:50,000 --> 00:35:52,000 Carla Maxted as Bonwyn Everbane, 620 00:35:52,000 --> 00:35:55,000 Tom Laird as Kavlaran Goldweave, 621 00:35:55,000 --> 00:35:57,000 Kyle Claset as Bizard the Wizard, 622 00:35:57,000 --> 00:35:59,000 and Russ More as your dungeon master. 623 00:35:59,000 --> 00:36:03,000 Dialogue, editing, and sound design of today's episode is by Russ More. 624 00:36:03,000 --> 00:36:05,000 Our community manager is Jessica Babiak. 625 00:36:05,000 --> 00:36:07,000 Music is from Epidemic Sound, 626 00:36:07,000 --> 00:36:10,000 and sound effects are from Epidemic Sound and Boom Library. 627 00:36:10,000 --> 00:36:13,000 Our amazing cover art is by Matt Garbutt. 628 00:36:13,000 --> 00:36:17,000 And we'd like to say a huge thank you to our supporting producers, 629 00:36:17,000 --> 00:36:19,000 including Gabriel Lynch, Jessica Babiak, 630 00:36:19,000 --> 00:36:21,000 Cat Waterflame, Jacob Madden, 631 00:36:21,000 --> 00:36:23,000 Angaron Kierzen, Perry Matey, 632 00:36:23,000 --> 00:36:25,000 Old School Gamer D, 633 00:36:25,000 --> 00:36:27,000 Craig Zeiss, and L.A. Branton. 634 00:36:27,000 --> 00:36:32,000 We'd love for you to join us over on Patreon.com slash Dumb Dragoncast 635 00:36:32,000 --> 00:36:34,000 where there's so many amazing bonus episodes, 636 00:36:34,000 --> 00:36:38,000 and now we're opening up the backstage of our actual records. 637 00:36:38,000 --> 00:36:39,000 Join us today. 638 00:36:39,000 --> 00:36:42,000 Hey, you have a great week. We'll talk to you soon. 639 00:36:42,000 --> 00:36:44,000 Hope to see you over there. 640 00:36:44,000 --> 00:36:49,000 We come to Kavlaran and Bizarre and Bonwyn. 641 00:36:49,000 --> 00:36:51,000 In the hallway? That's madness! 642 00:36:51,000 --> 00:36:53,000 How did you guys get here? 643 00:36:53,000 --> 00:36:55,000 Look at him just trying to... 644 00:36:55,000 --> 00:36:57,000 So happy to see you. 645 00:36:57,000 --> 00:36:59,000 He's like, I'm just going to talk through you, Amy. 646 00:36:59,000 --> 00:37:01,000 Fuck you, we're changing scenes. 647 00:37:01,000 --> 00:37:03,000 If I don't start setting the scene, it doesn't count. 648 00:37:05,000 --> 00:37:07,000 Sorry, what was that? 649 00:37:07,000 --> 00:37:09,000 Uh, well, I don't know. 650 00:37:09,000 --> 00:37:12,000 It was impactful and cinematic at the time, 651 00:37:12,000 --> 00:37:13,000 but that's okay. 652 00:37:13,000 --> 00:37:15,000 We're lost to the ether now. 653 00:37:15,000 --> 00:37:17,000 Alydin! 654 00:37:17,000 --> 00:37:19,000 I'm going to start yelling for Alydin again. 655 00:37:19,000 --> 00:37:21,000 Yeah? 656 00:37:22,000 --> 00:37:24,000 I'm sorry, I'm just coughing in here. 657 00:37:25,000 --> 00:37:28,000 Dumbgeons & Dragons is a Dumb Dragons production.