[0.0s] Dumbgeons and Dragons will begin in a moment.
[7.4s] The air in this space is shaking. You can feel waves emanating off of the banjo man. You hear
[17.0s] all of these memories shattering all around you. Kavin, Bonwyn, you've just docked at this memory
[25.0s] of Calder's where Bizard and... We've cut the engine and we've sidled right up. That's right,
[31.2s] where Bizard and Alydin are inside. There are horrors climbing up onto your platform
[37.1s] and all around this memory. Alydin, you look out and you see them. You see the two notes
[42.2s] that they have. You and Bizard are inside of this memory where there's still no real
[47.4s] acknowledgement from the Calder that's in here to you. What do you do?
[53.8s] I think I'm going to go over to the edge and say,
[60.7s] Bonwyn, maybe we need them all in here. I'm going to so very slowly and gently put my hand
[68.0s] through the barrier. I don't want to break it. Please, God, don't break.
[74.4s] It feels like you're reaching through marbles as your hand goes through it.
[81.4s] I like marbles. I think I would like that sensory experience. I'm thinking right now,
[85.8s] that sounds great. I'm like, well, that seems nice, kind of like cool and smooth.
[89.4s] It's like a small ball pit. For your hand. For your hand, yeah.
[93.8s] You extend your hand out. Bonwyn, you are next. We can do these kind of
[99.8s] at the same time. So yeah, Alydin reaches through and a hand out. You see horrors now.
[106.5s] They too see that the hand is coming out. It looks like they're moving quickly towards Alydin.
[113.3s] Alydin snaps fingers.
[117.9s] Oh, I was going to say, I assume Alydin's going for a high five.
[120.7s] So I reach up.
[121.7s] No. Now is not the time.
[124.9s] And the memory breaks and everyone's dead.
[127.7s] Dumbgeons and Dragons is a D&D actual play podcast and I'm your dungeon master,
[133.3s] he, him. Also with me today is Amy More as Alydin, she, her.
[137.2s] I just had a terrible moment that if I opened it up, maybe I would see myself inside of it.
[141.0s] Carla Maxted as Bonwyn Everbane, she, her.
[144.0s] Obviously you guys, I didn't say it, but I was creating a lasso with my rope this whole time.
[148.9s] Tom Laird as Kavlaran Goldweave, he, him.
[151.7s] With arms wide open.
[154.0s] And Kyle Claset as Bazaar the Wizard, he, him.
[157.0s] You just need to place them just like that.
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[178.6s] And now fuck it.
[179.8s] Let's play.
[180.5s] I will try Drew.
[184.9s] I will try to put the notes in her hand.
[191.6s] Okay.
[192.6s] I mean, they're like notes with like the, there's like a skinny part.
[195.4s] Yeah.
[195.8s] Yeah, I'm thinking like, I can carry you so many wine glasses in one hand.
[200.1s] Exactly.
[200.6s] Yeah.
[201.2s] Exactly.
[201.8s] Alydin, you feel the notes enter your palm and clasp them, pull them back through,
[208.2s] I assume.
[209.0s] So slowly.
[210.1s] So slowly, gently.
[213.4s] Make a dexterity saving throw, please.
[219.4s] Bonwyn, you do so as well.
[222.2s] 13.
[223.6s] 16.
[224.2s] Alydin, you feel resistance as it's hard to see, but you see one of these shadowy
[227.8s] creatures trying to grasp onto the music note itself.
[231.7s] Bonwyn, what do you do in response to that?
[236.4s] Oh, I'm going to hit it.
[237.5s] Okay.
[238.4s] That's your creature, not the memory.
[240.2s] Of course.
[240.8s] Yeah.
[241.1s] Okay.
[242.7s] Well, your dice will decide that, I guess, Bonwyn.
[244.9s] Yeah, right.
[246.8s] Roll damage.
[247.4s] We'll say that success comes from the saving throw that you just did.
[250.4s] Roll damage.
[251.8s] Okay.
[255.3s] So that is eight damage.
[261.9s] You stab into it and it lifts its head and lets out this shrill scream as
[267.8s] its arm fractures off.
[270.3s] Dramatic.
[271.2s] And this one disappears into the darkness, so now you quickly pull your hand back in.
[276.9s] And as you do so, as these two notes enter this space, there is a...
[284.9s] Explosion's not the right word to use right now.
[287.0s] There's a burst of energy that both you and Bizard feel in this space,
[292.4s] and it begins to brighten a little bit.
[298.1s] Alydin turns to Bizard and is like, eh, waving.
[306.2s] The whores outside are swarming this memory.
[311.4s] They're hitting at it.
[312.4s] They're biting at it.
[313.5s] And we are just hoping that Bonwyn and Cav can help us.
[319.8s] These creatures are no longer even remotely paying attention to you, Bonwyn or Cav.
[325.8s] They are completely engulfing and swarming this memory, which it sounds like something
[332.0s] is like crushing down, like you're inside of a can and it's being crushed from the outside.
[338.8s] Bizard, it's your turn.
[341.1s] So there are four notes.
[343.1s] There's a distinguished environmental change as these notes came into this place.
[349.4s] What do you want to do?
[350.0s] Does it have a monocle?
[351.0s] How distinguished is it?
[351.8s] Oh my god, Amy, I was just going to say the same thing,
[353.8s] but I was waiting to see if there was a pause because they didn't want to interrupt him.
[357.6s] I was like, suddenly everyone's wearing a top hat.
[362.5s] Tuxedos abound.
[365.0s] Bow ties.
[366.0s] From my experience with illusion magic,
[370.4s] would this change make it seem like something went from being ethereal to tangible?
[375.3s] I guess in a sense.
[379.1s] Okay, I'm going to try to just reach out and place my hand on Calder's shoulder.
[383.8s] That's nice, I would have slapped a bitch.
[385.4s] Yeah, you reach out and you touch him and for the first time in this space,
[389.7s] like you feel that he is solid and there.
[394.4s] As you touch him, he still does not acknowledge you though.
[398.2s] Rude.
[399.2s] Okay.
[399.8s] You see these four notes, the two that you already had, two that are in Alydin's hand,
[407.0s] and you look down at, oh and the music box.
[411.3s] Can't forget the music box is in there too.
[414.2s] Playing its tune over and over again.
[418.7s] Make an insight or intelligence check, please.
[425.3s] Okay, try this again.
[430.8s] That's a 10.
[431.6s] With Alydin's assistance, maybe you roll with advantage.
[435.9s] You got this.
[436.5s] You're both thinking about it very hard.
[439.0s] That's a 18.
[442.2s] So with these four notes in place, with your ability to sense and feel Calder in this space,
[450.6s] you see the notes now.
[455.0s] Maybe it's your musical training, maybe it's just you've gone completely insane
[461.1s] and this place has taken your mind, but the notes begin to arrange themselves for you.
[466.8s] You see, you hear the loop of the music that's been playing constantly
[473.0s] and you see the notes that you have in front of you and you are able to see a pattern
[480.5s] in how the music's playing and the notes that you have in this space.
[486.2s] I begin to arrange the notes, turning back and I say,
[490.1s] Alydin, I think I know how the notes go.
[492.4s] You just need to place them just like that.
[498.6s] They're like teasing us there.
[501.0s] And Alydin was like, oh, thank God, okay.
[505.6s] And as you place them and as you hear the loop get to the point where it starts,
[511.5s] you know, it hits the repeat and it goes back,
[514.7s] it begins to play the notes that you have in front of you.
[520.6s] The correct melody plays and the last one sustains
[525.1s] and everything around you begins to shake violently.
[531.6s] Calder in this memory looks like he's having a eureka moment.
[539.7s] He gets up and you see, you see on the page,
[543.2s] which he's been writing and crumpling and writing and crumpling,
[546.6s] he's finished whatever this song is.
[549.8s] And as this correct melody plays, everything trembles.
[555.0s] You turn and look back out and you see the horrors backing off and away.
[560.6s] And through the darkness, you see the banjo man clutching his head
[565.2s] and screaming as cracks are racing across his body.
[570.3s] No, no, I just wanted to fix it to mend the song and make it whole.
[576.7s] And his form begins to dissolve.
[580.2s] The strings of his being snapped one by one like a broken instrument.
[585.4s] The floating fragments of reality begin to wither into dust.
[589.9s] Everything in this memory, you feel closing in on you.
[596.6s] I grab Alydin and jump out of it.
[599.4s] Make an acrobatics or athletics check, please.
[603.6s] Yes. Yes, I will attempt that.
[609.4s] That's a seven. Take a picture.
[612.4s] Okay. Send it to Jess.
[615.0s] Do I need to make one? Or did he just pull me into the abyss?
[621.9s] I didn't agree to this, but okay. I know, I know.
[624.9s] I assume, I mean, obviously you guys, I didn't say it,
[627.9s] but I was creating a lasso with my rope this whole time on the other.
[633.8s] Very Wonder Woman-esque, of course.
[635.4s] You know, just like you do.
[636.7s] There's a little downtime, right?
[638.3s] Sure.
[639.3s] Cav and I are just like, what's going on in there?
[641.8s] How you doing?
[642.5s] From the outside, Bonwyn and Cav, you see,
[646.7s] you feel this wave and you turn and you see the same thing from the banjo man.
[650.5s] You look back and you see Bazaard grab Alydin and run and jump.
[655.5s] And it's, as they do, they come out of the memory
[659.7s] and it's like now they're floating.
[662.6s] They're unable to come back down towards the platform that you are on.
[667.9s] Cav, you're up next. What do you do?
[670.6s] Breaks out to define gravity.
[675.1s] I like floating so much better than falling.
[677.6s] So like, okay.
[680.1s] But also like in space, that is terrifying.
[682.6s] Oh, so terrifying, but you know.
[685.1s] I guess just like try to ready myself for whatever's going to happen with this.
[692.2s] Breaking situation.
[694.1s] Like you'd sing Creed, open arms and open your arms.
[697.5s] Catch them with arms wide open.
[700.6s] Like when we say we've come out and are floating away.
[704.7s] How far away are we from them?
[707.8s] Well, you were like right side by side.
[709.8s] So like, yeah, we were right beside and you're like going upwards.
[713.4s] You're on an upwards trajectory.
[715.5s] Okay.
[716.1s] Yeah, but like not reachable by me.
[719.1s] What's your vert?
[720.8s] Yeah.
[721.7s] Oh, we know what the vert is because there's a high jump.
[725.1s] Oh, there's a high jump.
[726.7s] There's actually a mechanic for that in this game.
[728.8s] I have learned.
[729.4s] I thought jumping was just kind of like a...
[731.0s] It's equal to three plus your strength modifier.
[733.4s] Uh, high jump.
[735.0s] Not without some assistance unless you have a sweet vert.
[739.4s] I mean, I think I have an okay vert.
[742.6s] It's not like overly great.
[744.1s] Can you run towards me and I'll like oof you up.
[747.7s] Love it.
[748.2s] Yeah, sure.
[749.3s] Love it.
[749.7s] Okay.
[749.9s] So you're going to run and...
[751.6s] I'm sturdy.
[752.5s] Like I can crouch down.
[753.8s] Oh, and you're strong too because you do it.
[755.6s] Exactly.
[756.5s] Right?
[758.2s] I tell Bonwyn, just like that night at the Quivering Hills dance party.
[766.6s] We did a bit of a thing.
[767.9s] It was quite impressive.
[774.1s] Welcome to the middle, everybody.
[775.8s] Oh, buddy.
[776.5s] Oh, Russ.
[778.0s] Oh, little Muppet Russ.
[779.5s] Oh, that was great.
[781.6s] It's exactly what I was hoping it would be.
[784.9s] Welcome to the middle, everybody.
[786.7s] Welcome to the middle.
[787.7s] Mostly maybe Kyle and I will just talk because as you heard Russ, he can't really talk.
[791.8s] Also, it's the middle of the day.
[793.1s] So like I feel like there's going to be some weird energy.
[795.9s] Yeah, yeah.
[796.6s] It's like the middle-est middle.
[798.4s] Middle-est middle of the day instead of evening when we normally record these.
[803.0s] Yeah, yeah.
[803.5s] We've had the day to get through.
[804.9s] We're warmed up.
[805.8s] Ready to kind of cool down.
[807.6s] We'd be chilling with our people and, you know, playing D&D.
[811.3s] But we're here now.
[813.2s] We're going to do this damn thing.
[814.8s] And right before we started recording, I started bullying Kyle.
[819.6s] And I'm going to continue that because I thought it would be fun.
[823.7s] We always talk about, oh, we have this whole other game over on Patreon.
[826.8s] But if you don't have Patreon, you don't get to listen to it.
[829.5s] We tell you Tom runs it.
[831.0s] And he is a very easy, breezy DM.
[833.5s] Very true.
[834.1s] Yes, he is.
[834.5s] Yes.
[836.2s] But we never really talk about who we play.
[838.8s] And since Kyle is like the newest character over there and his character rules,
[844.2s] I thought maybe he could tell us a little bit about him.
[847.4s] Yeah.
[848.0s] So Nash Salmon Treats.
[851.2s] He's a swashbuckling rogue ancestral guardian barbarian.
[857.9s] So that's the multiclass that he's playing.
[860.0s] But he's a lion or a leon, however you pronounce that.
[864.6s] And he is named after his favorite treat.
[868.0s] It's part of his group's naming convention is that once you become the age of a warrior,
[874.0s] you name yourself after the favorite treats.
[876.1s] And my name's Nash Salmon Treats because that's what I do, yo.
[879.2s] So wait, is everybody in your group, is it like duck treats or is it like Oreo cookies?
[888.8s] Yeah.
[889.3s] Yeah?
[889.8s] Yeah.
[890.1s] It's just whatever.
[891.6s] It's like, yo, this is what I associate with.
[895.4s] It's like, you get your choice because every time it's like,
[897.7s] okay, we're going out to battle.
[898.8s] I'm making this up right now.
[900.2s] But every time before an epic battle goes on,
[903.0s] everybody gets to eat their favorite treat beforehand.
[906.7s] Because it may be the last time they get to eat it.
[909.2s] Exactly.
[910.4s] I love that.
[912.5s] And if you could, just to continue the bullying,
[915.0s] could you give us just like a few, just because Nash really has a vibe.
[921.3s] I would say, yeah, I just want you to, like, what does Nash sound like?
[927.1s] So Nash is probably me in college for many reasons.
[933.7s] But, you know, he's kind of just chill, just does his thing.
[937.1s] Not very smart.
[938.1s] Doesn't read books because that's nerd shit.
[941.7s] But he's very wise.
[943.1s] Like I found in our interactions with him, like he may not read good, but he-
[947.8s] He's willing to be introspective.
[949.5s] Doesn't read at all.
[952.4s] He's complicated.
[953.3s] He also really gave Amy's character a lot to think about
[957.4s] because they were used to being the strong, powerful one.
[960.6s] Why read a book when there's people to read?
[962.8s] Those are what's happening in life.
[964.1s] See, that's exactly the kind of thing that Nash is always dropping.
[969.0s] Yeah, so there's a little bit of Nash salmon treats for you.
[972.2s] Thanks, Kyle.
[973.4s] Yeah, no problem.
[974.3s] If you do join our Patreon as well as getting to know
[977.1s] Nash Salmon Treats and our other characters better in our whole other show that we do over there,
[982.3s] you also get an episode dedicated to you.
[985.4s] And this week's Patron Says Muppet Russ is-
[990.6s] Dartbot Billy.
[993.8s] Thanks, Dartbot Billy.
[995.8s] Dartbot Billy, not laughing at you.
[997.5s] Just laughing at Russ.
[1000.6s] Dartbot Billy.
[1002.6s] I choose to believe that is not an avatar name.
[1006.4s] That is their real name.
[1007.4s] That's their real given name.
[1009.0s] Yeah, I like it.
[1010.6s] Dart is actually maybe a pretty cool name.
[1013.8s] Yeah, I think so.
[1015.0s] Dart, I can see, yeah.
[1016.2s] Yeah, although I guess here in Canada or maybe in the U.S. too,
[1019.3s] people say that means cigarette.
[1023.6s] So maybe it's not.
[1025.8s] Dartbot Billy altogether though, great given name.
[1028.4s] And that's why you should name your next child.
[1030.8s] Yes, everyone listening, please name your next child Dartbot Billy.
[1034.2s] Want to see a spike in that Dartbot Billy graph.
[1038.4s] Yeah, 20 years from now, there'll just be like a uptick, like crazy.
[1043.4s] People will be running for office.
[1044.9s] And it started here with you becoming a Patreon member.
[1048.0s] So if you too want to have an effect on the naming convention in history,
[1051.9s] hop on over to our Patreon.
[1056.1s] Patreon.com slash dumb dragon cast.
[1058.9s] Yeah, that's it.
[1060.4s] Thanks, friends.
[1061.5s] That was wonderful.
[1062.8s] We'll get you back to the episode
[1064.4s] and I will talk to you hopefully better next week.
[1068.2s] Love you.
[1068.6s] Bye.
[1069.4s] Love you.
[1069.8s] Bye.
[1074.0s] You are yeeting.
[1076.2s] You're yeeting, Cav, up into the air.
[1079.0s] Cav, you've been yeeting.
[1080.4s] You've been yeeting.
[1081.2s] First I did the eating.
[1082.4s] Now I'm being eaten.
[1083.6s] It's just been the life.
[1084.2s] And then hopefully I can catch you guys back because again,
[1087.8s] you're going to get them and then you're all just floating away.
[1090.7s] The yeety becomes the yeeter.
[1092.5s] The yeeter becomes the yeetee.
[1094.5s] Carla, make a dex check with your lasso
[1097.3s] as all of this is happening.
[1099.0s] Oh, a nat 20.
[1100.2s] Shit, yes.
[1100.5s] Oh, shit.
[1101.0s] Finally, finally.
[1101.9s] Take a picture.
[1103.0s] I've been saving it this whole time.
[1105.3s] For this moment.
[1106.2s] OK.
[1106.8s] For this moment.
[1108.0s] So Cav, you run forward and step into Bonwyn's hands
[1113.8s] and she launches you up and towards Alydin and Bazaar
[1118.5s] who are floating away and you grab hold of Alydin.
[1121.9s] And then feel a tug at your foot as you see that the rope
[1126.6s] that Bonwyn had is now around your ankle
[1129.2s] and she's holding you there.
[1131.0s] All around you, everything is collapsing.
[1133.6s] Memories are disappearing, but they're not breaking.
[1139.0s] They're not fracturing the same way that they did.
[1142.3s] And as the void collapses, you feel now all pulled back
[1147.8s] down towards Bonwyn as she's trying to anchor you there.
[1154.1s] After a quick moment, everything goes completely dark
[1162.4s] and then you feel cool grass under your hands.
[1170.0s] You all find yourselves in the clearing.
[1176.0s] Dawn is breaking.
[1177.8s] Wait, would you say it's a breaking Dawn situation?
[1181.7s] Maybe.
[1182.7s] Are we sparkling?
[1184.1s] Did we become vampires?
[1187.1s] Did anyone else feel weird that the end of the song was
[1189.8s] da na na na na na?
[1194.6s] I mean, it is of such a clear ending.
[1197.0s] Yeah.
[1197.4s] It actually was a great choice.
[1199.2s] The air around you still feels wrong.
[1202.8s] A distant rippling sound echoes across the space
[1211.4s] like a great harp being tuned.
[1217.2s] The wind carries a whisper, not of the banjo man,
[1221.6s] but of something older, something deeper.
[1227.8s] You hear the song was merely a symptom.
[1233.3s] The fracture still lingers and we are listening.
[1243.4s] The wind stops.
[1245.1s] Everything's silent for a moment.
[1247.3s] Alydin, you look down at your feet and the music box
[1251.6s] plays one final note and then stops.
[1263.1s] Damn, I thought you were going to say it explodes.
[1269.8s] In your face, the two hill points you had, they're gone.
[1276.6s] You're still all dead.
[1280.6s] Alydin will bend down and pick up the box.
[1286.0s] You hold it and it rattles like there's something loose or broken inside.
[1291.3s] Do you want me to light that on fire for you or?
[1293.5s] I just had a terrible moment that if I opened it up,
[1295.6s] maybe I would see myself inside of it.
[1297.7s] I pass it to Buzard.
[1299.0s] Uh, I'm going to take it, okay.
[1303.4s] I, you know, okay.
[1309.8s] It deserves observation, to say the least.
[1314.0s] You look across the clearing and the old warped tree
[1319.0s] that you used to climb into the fey is fractured and split.
[1326.2s] Still there, but it's like it's been axed in two.
[1333.6s] And coming out of the woods around you, you see all of the missing children.
[1343.1s] You see Tally run, sprint across the field towards you, Alydin.
[1349.6s] Jump into your arms, which likely knocks you on your ass again.
[1356.3s] Yeah.
[1357.0s] You see Cedric and his eye that works too hard
[1359.8s] and you see a whole bunch of other children all coming out
[1363.9s] that you don't recognize.
[1366.2s] They fill this clearing.
[1368.9s] There's so many of them.
[1370.0s] How long?
[1371.8s] June's going to be pissed.
[1374.6s] I want to, I want to look for the oldest one.
[1376.9s] You find a child that's 15 ish.
[1382.2s] Of similar age to myself.
[1383.5s] Of similar age to yourself.
[1385.0s] Age is just a number.
[1387.2s] Um, and I go up to them and where, where are you from?
[1394.8s] I'm, I'm from Kingstown.
[1397.0s] Where, where am I?
[1399.0s] Well, Vintersmouth ish.
[1404.0s] There's a look of confusion.
[1406.8s] I look, I look to Bazaar and I, and I shrug.
[1410.0s] I go, do we take them home with us?
[1412.7s] I mean, we can't leave them out here.
[1416.1s] You know, we have a good space working with the school.
[1419.3s] We have a plan in place.
[1421.6s] We can attempt to return those back to Kingstown,
[1428.2s] but I, who knows how long this has been happening.
[1431.7s] Um.
[1433.1s] Do you guys have parents?
[1434.9s] You see them look to each other
[1437.7s] and a lot of them are shaking their heads
[1440.2s] and couple are, couple are nodding,
[1442.8s] but the majority of them appear to not.
[1447.5s] You know, I bet you're hungry.
[1449.2s] You've been through a lot.
[1450.7s] Maybe we should, why don't we just go get a snack?
[1455.8s] Everything's going to make more sense
[1459.0s] or at least feel easier to deal with.
[1460.5s] If we just maybe go have a snack.
[1464.4s] What time is it?
[1465.2s] Is Dem Bunsdoe open?
[1467.4s] Oh, I bet they're open.
[1468.6s] You guys are going to love this place.
[1470.0s] It's so good.
[1472.2s] My treat, come on.
[1475.4s] You lead all these children out of this clearing
[1477.6s] and back towards Vintersmouth
[1480.0s] and we cut to those bunsdoe
[1483.2s] where everybody's in the street outside
[1486.7s] and you've, you've been.
[1488.7s] Approximately how many children are we talking about?
[1492.9s] Let's say a number.
[1494.4s] Yeah.
[1496.0s] Everybody roll a d20.
[1498.0s] Oh boy.
[1499.0s] Shit, things are about to get low.
[1501.0s] Not 20, no.
[1502.1s] Five.
[1502.9s] 12.
[1503.5s] Six.
[1504.6s] Five, 12, six.
[1506.5s] That's right, Kyle, what'd you get?
[1508.2s] I got an 11.
[1509.0s] 11, and 18, 19, there are 49 children in total.
[1517.1s] Oh wow, no wonder we couldn't find seating inside.
[1521.5s] As you get back to town though,
[1523.4s] everybody who you pass is shocked to see you.
[1529.8s] You walk through the hot block
[1532.4s] and Thane comes out of Everbane's
[1536.3s] and he sees you there, Bonwyn.
[1538.2s] And he says, you're, you're, you're, you came back, you're back.
[1542.7s] Of course, I mean, it's only,
[1545.2s] we had to go get the children.
[1548.6s] Well, he looks and you see a few people like,
[1554.4s] not running, but like see you
[1556.4s] and like they're going to go get somebody.
[1558.9s] After hearing that, I'm gonna,
[1560.3s] I, Bazaard's gonna go to that 15-year-old and be like,
[1563.7s] you, you say you're 15-year-old, 15 years old.
[1566.6s] What year were you born?
[1569.0s] Fuck.
[1571.5s] You there, boy.
[1572.9s] What year is it?
[1575.4s] He tells you a year that is several years earlier.
[1582.4s] So they're out of time.
[1583.7s] Like they've been, they were trapped there.
[1586.1s] He may be 15, but he should not be 15.
[1589.1s] Yes.
[1591.5s] And Thane looks to you and he says,
[1594.5s] you've been, you've all been gone.
[1597.1s] The kids kept disappearing.
[1599.0s] You found them.
[1599.7s] That's amazing.
[1600.8s] You see the guard running up the street
[1604.6s] and he says, you've been gone for three, three weeks.
[1609.4s] I thought he was going to say years.
[1610.8s] 10 years.
[1611.4s] No, not doing that again.
[1615.1s] Three years would have been manageable though, but.
[1617.2s] Yeah.
[1617.5s] Weeks is better.
[1618.8s] We looked for you everywhere.
[1620.6s] Like we couldn't, we couldn't find you or where you went.
[1624.6s] Yeah.
[1624.8s] It turns out a lot of things in this world
[1627.1s] are not at all how I thought they were.
[1630.3s] I was stuck with a fake family.
[1632.2s] There was this whole other world and we were on.
[1634.9s] It's a lot Thane.
[1637.1s] It's a lot to explain.
[1639.1s] Things aren't what they seem though.
[1642.6s] He begins to help you like move these children down.
[1645.9s] He's like, we're going to get you something to.
[1649.4s] Okay.
[1650.0s] Moving you to school.
[1650.8s] The guard has come and one of them looks to you
[1653.6s] and says, where's, where's, where's Dase?
[1657.7s] Where's, where's, where's the captain?
[1661.9s] Where is Dase?
[1665.0s] And I guess I look at Cav and I was,
[1670.6s] because it was the four of us, right?
[1672.7s] Yeah.
[1673.0s] Like me and Cav and Bazaar and Dase.
[1677.1s] Well, you, you and Dase and Thane went out.
[1681.8s] Thane had to go back,
[1683.0s] but you and Dase went forward,
[1686.2s] but then didn't save.
[1687.6s] And then Bazaar and Cav came after.
[1690.4s] Oh God, it's all on me.
[1691.6s] It was just me and Dase.
[1692.6s] It's just you and Dase.
[1693.5s] Shit.
[1694.4s] And you're like, fuck that guy.
[1695.4s] And then when I met up with them,
[1697.0s] it was just me.
[1697.9s] Fuck.
[1701.9s] You know what though?
[1702.8s] You can't be held responsible for that.
[1705.1s] This is crazy magic stuff.
[1706.9s] Definitely.
[1707.7s] I definitely feel responsible in the moment.
[1710.6s] Um, I'm not, I'm not sure what happened to him.
[1715.6s] He was with me and then he wasn't.
[1718.1s] And so he's, he's still back there?
[1725.4s] I don't know.
[1729.4s] He wasn't in the space we were.
[1732.0s] So it's likely, yes, still there.
[1736.2s] Getting back there though,
[1737.6s] seeing that tree in the state it was,
[1739.6s] I doubt that is a route for us.
[1742.4s] Yeah.
[1743.8s] Because when we saw those memories,
[1745.5s] there was no, no Dase memories there, right?
[1748.2s] So he was somewhere else.
[1750.3s] Correct.
[1751.2s] But what we do know is that the kids
[1754.2s] weren't just coming from here.
[1756.1s] So if we do need to go find Dase,
[1758.2s] there has to be a portal near Kingstown.
[1761.1s] Because kids from Kingstown were taken.
[1762.9s] So we want to follow this through.
[1766.4s] We can't leave him there.
[1769.8s] Yeah, there's another way in.
[1771.5s] We're going to have to take these kids home anyway.
[1773.7s] And if we're going to go back in,
[1774.9s] we need to be better fucking prepared than we were.
[1777.8s] Yeah, we do.
[1779.4s] Cav, I think you need to get to a doctor.
[1782.9s] As I'm like bleeding out.
[1784.2s] Yeah, like you're just looking a little rough.
[1787.0s] Cav's being so quiet.
[1788.6s] Guards have come and are like propping you up.
[1790.2s] I'm actually leaning on the 15-year-olds
[1792.6s] to like prop myself up.
[1794.6s] Guards come and like shimmy themselves out from,
[1797.6s] you know, away from the 15-year-olds
[1800.2s] and are moving you towards the hospital.
[1803.5s] That's a really awkward sentence.
[1805.5s] The guards are moving you away from the 15-year-olds.
[1808.1s] They're taking you away from the children?
[1810.1s] Yeah.
[1811.6s] Let's move this bloody beaten man
[1813.7s] away from these kids.
[1814.6s] You are violating your parole right now, sir.
[1816.9s] In a way to make sure that he is taken care of.
[1821.6s] You get these children to the school.
[1824.3s] They're under watchful eye.
[1826.6s] All of you are getting tended to,
[1829.6s] patching any wounds you have.
[1831.7s] I think Bizard would take a moment
[1833.4s] to talk to the group and be like,
[1835.0s] I wouldn't openly talk about what happened to anybody.
[1839.7s] I don't think they would believe you.
[1842.1s] And I don't need people worrying about you.
[1845.2s] We don't need people worrying about us.
[1847.0s] So I don't know.
[1849.2s] Tell who you trust, but.
[1852.1s] Right.
[1852.7s] We were just lost in the woods.
[1855.3s] And then we found all the kids from years ago.
[1861.2s] Think about how it sounds as an outsider.
[1863.9s] Floating memories.
[1865.4s] The whole experience.
[1867.0s] It doesn't make sense.
[1868.9s] A house filled with musical instruments attacking us.
[1872.4s] It sounds crazy.
[1874.1s] It's absurd.
[1875.4s] It's absurd.
[1877.1s] But this is the world we've learned that we exist in.
[1880.2s] Don't people need to know?
[1883.4s] If they can't understand
[1884.6s] because they weren't there to experience though,
[1887.0s] it's just going to be like
[1889.8s] falling on deaf ears, won't it?
[1892.6s] I think it would cause more chaos
[1895.0s] knowing about something so hard to understand
[1900.6s] than it would bring about curiosity.
[1904.6s] I'm curious.
[1905.8s] Like I kind of want to go back
[1908.2s] and figure out why the hell
[1910.1s] I can't cast a spell without it backfiring on me.
[1913.4s] Then it's our job to make sure that they stay safe.
[1919.2s] Exactly.
[1920.6s] We took care of one portal.
[1923.7s] Maybe we can take care of the others.
[1926.6s] I don't know.
[1927.3s] Take care of yourselves.
[1929.4s] Rest up.
[1930.8s] We can catch up on this later.
[1932.7s] You're going to have to teach me a whole lot more magic.
[1936.2s] You're going to have to learn a whole lot more magic.
[1938.6s] Way to put that back on me.
[1940.0s] Well, we're going to get there together
[1941.1s] because I have to learn a whole lot more magic too.
[1944.2s] That shit was ridiculous.
[1946.5s] It is funny.
[1947.2s] I'm excited by it.
[1948.2s] It's, you know, using my spells
[1951.7s] and having them completely explode in my face,
[1953.8s] you know, metaphorically speaking.
[1956.2s] Was I speaking in rhymes?
[1958.5s] Yeah.
[1959.5s] Yeah.
[1961.0s] Okay.
[1962.6s] That wasn't on purpose?
[1965.0s] No.
[1965.4s] I thought it was a weird time to start some poetry.
[1969.6s] Yeah, it felt odd.
[1971.6s] And I, you know, it's not one of the best things that I do.
[1975.7s] But, yeah, okay.
[1980.6s] I'm done thinking about that place for now.
[1984.7s] Yeah.
[1986.8s] But I feel great now that I ate.
[1992.9s] Food is good.
[1993.8s] You all split up and return home
[1996.6s] and we'll end on Bonwyn who has used...
[2000.2s] How are you feeling walking back to Everbane's?
[2004.6s] Oh, terrible.
[2006.6s] I like basically just forgot about days.
[2010.8s] And I mean, you know, in further reflection and therapy,
[2014.5s] I'm sure I'll come to realize there was a lot going on.
[2017.1s] And I was not the one that created the situation
[2020.3s] that put us there.
[2021.9s] But, you know, he was my friend.
[2024.3s] And I just like lost him in this scary, un-understandable place.
[2030.6s] So, yeah, feeling pretty bad.
[2034.6s] Feeling happy that we got the kids back.
[2038.6s] But, yeah, just feeling very guilty, I think.
[2045.8s] As you open the door to Everbane's,
[2048.2s] the familiar warmth from the forge isn't there.
[2055.0s] You step in, you see Thane, who's returned.
[2059.8s] He's trying to stoke the fire of the forge.
[2065.1s] Hears you come in, so I went out,
[2070.3s] I don't know how long ago, a couple days ago.
[2073.0s] I haven't been able to get it back going.
[2078.0s] Has anything else been weird here?
[2080.5s] I mean, other than us missing?
[2082.6s] But here, here at Everbane, has anything been weird?
[2087.1s] I mean, no, weird.
[2092.0s] I don't think so.
[2093.4s] He looks around, I don't know what you mean.
[2095.9s] But no, like, I mean,
[2098.2s] aside from not being able to get the forge going.
[2101.7s] Okay, well, let me try.
[2105.1s] You go over to it and inspect it.
[2109.4s] There's no, you know this, like, the back of your hand.
[2113.0s] There's no physical damage to it or anything around it.
[2120.1s] And you go to light it.
[2123.2s] Any flame that enters it immediately gets snuffed out.
[2128.2s] Flint won't spark.
[2129.9s] Bellows won't stoke.
[2132.6s] The forge refuses to burn.
[2139.1s] Dumbgeons and Dragons, Season 4, Episode 26,
[2144.1s] starring Amy More as Alydin, Carla Maxted as Bonwyn Everbane,
[2149.0s] Tom Laird as Kavlaran Goldweave,
[2151.4s] Kyle Claset as Bizard the Wizard,
[2153.7s] and Russ More as your dungeon master.
[2156.1s] Dialogue editing and sound design of today's episode is by Russ More.
[2159.8s] Our community manager is Jessica Fabiuk.
[2162.3s] Music is from Epidemic Sound,
[2164.2s] and sound effects are from Epidemic Sound and Boom Library.
[2167.5s] Our amazing cover art is by Matt Garbutt.
[2170.2s] And we'd like to say a huge thank you to our supporting producers,
[2173.8s] including Gabriel Lynch, Jessica Fabiuk,
[2176.4s] Cat Waterflame, Jacob Madden,
[2178.5s] Angaron Kiersen, Perry Matey,
[2180.6s] Old School Gamer D, Craig Zeiss,
[2183.0s] and L.A. Branton.
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[2209.8s] All right, Dase.
[2210.6s] I forgot about Dase.
[2211.7s] Shit.
[2211.9s] Where the fuck is Dase?
[2213.4s] Oh, my God.
[2214.3s] Did we leave Dase in the fae?
[2216.9s] Absolutely.
[2217.6s] What shit happened to Dase?
[2219.4s] Did he come with us?
[2220.4s] Yes, he had a childhood moment or something,
[2222.9s] and then we didn't hear from him.
[2224.2s] He disappeared.
[2226.6s] God, we're going to have to go back for Dase.
[2227.9s] Never mind.
[2228.0s] I won't say that anymore.
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