[0.0s] Dumbgeons and Dragons will begin in a moment. The door to your motel room opens, Kav, and you step through two guards.
[10.0s] I'm in the motel room?
[11.0s] Yeah, but you got an ankle brace on.
[12.0s] You're back at the divorced dad's hotel.
[16.0s] It's the divorced dad's hotel. Yeah. The door to your hotel room opens and behind you two guards lead you in and then kind of step back and are standing guard.
[29.0s] Outside of your room, the door closes and you find yourself in the room that you left.
[35.0s] There's a slightly thicker layer of dust over everything.
[39.0s] They clearly haven't sent housekeeping because you've left the do not disturb on there.
[47.0s] Oh, it's the original sheets.
[48.0s] Yeah. Yeah.
[50.0s] Look, as someone whose husband works in the hotel trade, I respect the fuck out of the DND.
[56.0s] As you enter though, and as the door closes, your foot knocks into a folded up piece of paper on the ground.
[64.0s] I grabbed the piece of paper.
[66.0s] You pick it up. It looks like it was hastily folded and you open it and there are three lines written on it.
[75.0s] It says, they're rewriting the truth, friend.
[79.0s] Vintersmouth might forget, but I won't.
[83.0s] Watch the stars. They're moving too fast.
[86.0s] Someone as high as fuck when they wrote that.
[89.0s] I miss our simple little town guys. Everything's so complicated.
[94.0s] Everyone speaks in riddles now.
[96.0s] Since when, too? Like this feels new.
[99.0s] Oh boy.
[100.0s] About three weeks ago, they all decided we weren't there for them.
[103.0s] Everyone took a vote.
[104.0s] Let's just be kind of more like Wacky now.
[107.0s] Damn it.
[108.0s] Let's give it a whirl.
[110.0s] It's all that Wacky Wand Wednesday business.
[113.0s] They have no idea.
[114.0s] That's where it all started.
[115.0s] There's catamine on the wands.
[118.0s] Of course, that's it.
[119.0s] That's it.
[120.0s] The town's just a giant K-hole.
[123.0s] Mystery solved.
[126.0s] Oh God, you're going to have to have an age restriction now on that.
[129.0s] K-hole was Cav's nickname in college.
[133.0s] Oh God.
[135.0s] Dumbgeons and Dragons is a D&D actual play podcast,
[138.0s] and I'm your dungeon master Russ More, he, him.
[141.0s] Also with me today is Amy More as Alydin, she, her.
[145.0s] Not a kid. 14.
[147.0s] Carla Maxted as Bonwyn Everbane, she, her.
[150.0s] I did say I gave really good strong hugs, so sorry.
[153.0s] Do you want me to roll damage?
[155.0s] Tom Laird as Kavlaran Goldweave, he, him.
[158.0s] No, not like on the network sitcoms.
[160.0s] And Kyle Klasset as Bazaar the Wizard, he, him.
[163.0s] Escorts dressed up as guards.
[165.0s] Dumbgeons and Dragons is a Patreon-supported podcast,
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[180.0s] Come find it today at patreon.com slash dumbdragoncast.
[184.0s] And now fuck it, let's play.
[191.0s] Watch the stars.
[193.0s] Friend.
[195.0s] Well, I mean, Oak's a friend.
[198.0s] Bench is a friend.
[200.0s] Bonwyn, the kid, and Bazaar are all friends.
[206.0s] Somewhere, Alydin's ears are parking good.
[211.0s] Not a kid. 14.
[214.0s] Now, Russ, do I get the impression I'm free to leave the hotel room, or?
[220.0s] Are they just going to follow you and that's fine?
[223.0s] Or is it like a don't leave town kind of thing?
[226.0s] Yeah, like am I a flight risk, but as long as I don't go,
[229.0s] like they give me some leeway.
[231.0s] Yeah, they're allowing you to kind of go between places.
[234.0s] Obviously, you've been told by the guards
[237.0s] that you're to go nowhere near the mayor's office.
[240.0s] But you are a problem.
[242.0s] Barely did when he worked there, guys.
[244.0s] At this time, free to roam the city with escorts.
[250.0s] So stop by the quivering hills.
[252.0s] Go by the quivering hills, yeah.
[254.0s] Guards.
[255.0s] Oh, well, those are two very different things.
[257.0s] You mean escorted?
[258.0s] Being escorted around the town by armed individuals.
[262.0s] Escorts dressed up as guards.
[265.0s] Halloween, baby.
[267.0s] Cuff them.
[269.0s] All right, I would like to make my way to the Brood Awakening.
[274.0s] OK, yeah, you clean up whatever you're doing
[279.0s] and head back out with the two guards.
[281.0s] They don't say much of anything to you
[284.0s] unless you direct question or comment to them.
[288.0s] Who are they required to make small talk
[290.0s] if you make small talk with them?
[291.0s] Or what's their directive?
[292.0s] Are you trying to win them over?
[293.0s] Contractually obligated?
[294.0s] Contractually obligated to make small talk,
[296.0s] but they will not initiate small talk.
[298.0s] So is weather, hey.
[299.0s] You know what, though?
[300.0s] That's fucking ideal.
[302.0s] Perfect.
[303.0s] And you make your way to the Brood Awakening.
[306.0s] It's before it opens.
[307.0s] So the door is locked as you sidle up there.
[311.0s] I do the super secret knock that Bench and I agreed upon.
[316.0s] That's just three slow knocks.
[322.0s] It's almost instantaneous.
[324.0s] As soon as that third knock hits,
[325.0s] you hear a back door burst open
[328.0s] and quick footsteps running towards the front,
[330.0s] and the door swings open.
[332.0s] You see Bench's huge smile on his face.
[335.0s] You're here.
[337.0s] You came back.
[340.0s] He goes in to give you a hug,
[341.0s] and the guards kind of like
[343.0s] grab their handles or their swords.
[345.0s] It's fine, guys.
[346.0s] It's fine.
[347.0s] Come on in, everybody.
[348.0s] I assure you, too.
[349.0s] Come on.
[350.0s] It's good to see you.
[352.0s] So I don't need the full explanation,
[354.0s] but it's great to see you.
[355.0s] Would you like a drink?
[356.0s] I would love a drink.
[358.0s] Thank you.
[359.0s] Yes, yes, yes, yes.
[361.0s] Have your taste changed in the last three weeks,
[363.0s] or would you like the oatmeal stout?
[365.0s] I mean, I'll take anything you want to give me,
[367.0s] because it has been a hot minute.
[369.0s] Okay, okay.
[370.0s] Well, we'll put this little meat on your bones.
[372.0s] He pours you a stout.
[373.0s] I think I've got some...
[375.0s] I don't have anything hot whipped up yet,
[377.0s] but I've got some...
[378.0s] He looks under the counter.
[380.0s] I've got some pretzels and some beer nuts here.
[383.0s] Love it.
[384.0s] I'll make you something later.
[385.0s] So tell me, tell me, what's...
[387.0s] It's great to see you.
[388.0s] You look good.
[389.0s] Thank you.
[390.0s] Have you done something different
[391.0s] with the armed entourage behind you?
[394.0s] The armed escort?
[395.0s] Yeah.
[396.0s] Yeah, yeah.
[397.0s] I hear you're in a little bit of trouble.
[399.0s] I mean, look, you try to expose some corruption
[403.0s] and then you leave town for three weeks,
[405.0s] and it turns out not the best course of action to do.
[409.0s] No, you probably want to be here so you can plead your case.
[412.0s] Yep, yep.
[414.0s] Yeah, I'm really sorry about that.
[415.0s] But you know what?
[416.0s] I'll know for next time.
[417.0s] It's totally cool.
[418.0s] Well, I guess without job, like, you've got the...
[420.0s] Are they letting you leave?
[421.0s] Like, are you going back to Kingstown
[423.0s] or do you have to, like, go to trial?
[426.0s] Great question.
[427.0s] I asked the hotel manager and he said, like,
[430.0s] I'm already prepaid for a little bit,
[432.0s] so I can at least stay.
[435.0s] Yeah, I don't know if I'm, like, super welcome
[437.0s] back in Kingstown or what,
[439.0s] so I'm just going to have to see, like, what it is,
[442.0s] what's going on, what's happening.
[444.0s] Don't know.
[445.0s] Love it.
[446.0s] Love it.
[447.0s] Love it.
[448.0s] Okay, well, I'm going to go whip up something
[450.0s] in the back here.
[451.0s] You guys want anything?
[453.0s] See, both of them just shake their head.
[456.0s] Says, uh, well, okay, I'll be right back.
[459.0s] A question before you go, though.
[461.0s] Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
[463.0s] Um, have you been watching the stars lately?
[468.0s] Uh, like, like, just in the,
[473.0s] like, the stars in the sky
[475.0s] or, like, stars, like, famous people?
[478.0s] No, not, like, on, like, the network sitcoms,
[480.0s] but, like.
[481.0s] Oh, yeah, no.
[482.0s] Uh, well, I mean, I've seen them.
[484.0s] Uh, is there some, is there,
[486.0s] is this, like, a, like, a buddy,
[488.0s] a buddy-buddy romantic moment
[490.0s] where you were looking at the stars
[492.0s] and was I looking at the stars
[494.0s] and we were thinking of each other
[496.0s] as we were looking at the stars,
[497.0s] but not together?
[499.0s] I mean, maybe.
[500.0s] I was just curious if,
[502.0s] if they'd seemed different to you at all lately.
[504.0s] Like, maybe they were, like, going a little quicker
[506.0s] than they had been in the past.
[508.0s] No, I hadn't noticed. I hadn't noticed.
[510.0s] That's, uh, I'll keep an eye out, though.
[512.0s] No worries, no worries.
[513.0s] Are they going faster?
[514.0s] Is that, is that a, is,
[516.0s] is the, is the world spinning
[518.0s] at a much quicker rate
[520.0s] now that there's other worlds?
[522.0s] I mean, I don't know.
[524.0s] I spent the last few days in a hospital, so.
[526.0s] Right. Right, right, right.
[528.0s] Benchworks nights in his defense.
[530.0s] Vinter Smith, notoriously a cloudy town,
[532.0s] which we haven't established until right now.
[534.0s] That's why there's vampires everywhere.
[536.0s] It's, like, forks washing through.
[538.0s] Yeah, that's right.
[540.0s] No, no, not really.
[542.0s] Let me, let me go get you something.
[544.0s] I'll think on, I'll think on this riddle
[546.0s] while I'm in the back there.
[548.0s] Alright, cool. It's great to see you, Bench.
[550.0s] Yeah, yeah, yeah. Great to see you too, Cav.
[554.0s] We cut over to the school.
[556.0s] And, Bon, when you're
[558.0s] all ready for the day,
[560.0s] getting, going to pick up Alydin.
[562.0s] Hey, June, how did the night go?
[564.0s] Well.
[566.0s] Easier, once you'd been to Brewed Awakening?
[568.0s] Yep, a little, a little bit.
[570.0s] Just, it was a long night.
[572.0s] There was lots of, um,
[574.0s] lots of night screaming.
[576.0s] Yeah. Yeah. Well, good news.
[578.0s] Um, this morning
[580.0s] I asked Thane to go talk to my parents
[582.0s] and the, and everybody else, like, in their
[584.0s] retirement community and see if they can maybe
[586.0s] come and help with the kids
[588.0s] and take shifts and do cooking, you know, like
[590.0s] they, so.
[592.0s] That would be amazing.
[594.0s] I'm sure my parents will come and I'm sure a bunch
[596.0s] of other folks will come too because
[598.0s] yeah. So
[600.0s] helps on the way.
[602.0s] Helps on the way. Feel lighter already. Yeah.
[604.0s] Yeah, yeah. I'm just gonna, I gotta go
[606.0s] talk to Alydin. She,
[608.0s] she was really having some scary dreams
[610.0s] last night. I'm sure lots of them were.
[612.0s] She's been unusually quiet.
[614.0s] Oh, that is
[616.0s] unusual. Well, thanks for everything
[618.0s] you're doing and yeah,
[620.0s] we're circling the wagon, so
[622.0s] help should be here soon.
[624.0s] Thank you, Bon. And I'm gonna go
[626.0s] find my girl
[628.0s] Alydin. Make your way through
[630.0s] as few kids that give you high fives
[632.0s] and fist bumps on the way by and
[634.0s] Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, I'm a real rock star
[636.0s] in here. Of course. Yeah, you told some
[638.0s] killer stories last night. Yeah.
[640.0s] Um, and. That are all true
[642.0s] they now believe. Of course. Yeah.
[644.0s] Uh, and you
[646.0s] make your way to find Alydin. Where
[648.0s] does Bon win find Alydin this morning?
[650.0s] Uh, I think
[652.0s] like unusually for
[654.0s] like Alydin would be up at the
[656.0s] crack of dawn, probably bossing
[658.0s] some kids around, getting stuff
[660.0s] sorted. But she is
[662.0s] still in bed.
[664.0s] Not sleeping.
[666.0s] Just
[668.0s] just like teening?
[670.0s] Kinda, yeah. Yeah. Like
[672.0s] real pensive. Just
[674.0s] a look of she has never had
[676.0s] this many thoughts in her head at once.
[678.0s] Yeah, which is saying a
[680.0s] lot. She's been going through
[682.0s] it her whole life. Hey, Alydin.
[684.0s] Did you get back to sleep last night?
[686.0s] Yeah.
[688.0s] But it was the same stuff.
[690.0s] Oh, really?
[692.0s] It's like I didn't leave.
[694.0s] Can a dream wait
[696.0s] for you? Well,
[698.0s] you know what? A month ago I would have said
[700.0s] no, but now
[702.0s] maybe?
[704.0s] I found a very cryptic note
[706.0s] from my great great great
[708.0s] grandmother about the Forge
[710.0s] thing, so... Can I read it?
[712.0s] Of course.
[714.0s] So I sent Thane to get my parents. I thought
[716.0s] we should
[718.0s] let's both go talk to Bazaar
[720.0s] since he is the smartest magic guy
[722.0s] we know.
[724.0s] Find out about dreams, find out about
[726.0s] cryptic notes and feeding sorrow
[728.0s] to a Forge and just really cross
[730.0s] our fingers he has some idea
[732.0s] what's going on.
[738.0s] Couldn't your great
[740.0s] great great
[742.0s] grandmother
[744.0s] have maybe been a little
[746.0s] more specific? Because it's like your
[748.0s] whole job. Yeah, I
[750.0s] flipped the note over hoping there was
[752.0s] like... It's like your whole family's thing, right?
[754.0s] Yeah, like what I mean
[756.0s] by this is.
[758.0s] But no, nothing. It's just
[760.0s] mystery upon mystery. Do you have to cry
[762.0s] on it? I don't know.
[764.0s] Maybe.
[766.0s] It's powered by tears.
[768.0s] Seems counterintuitive though, more wet.
[770.0s] But I don't know.
[772.0s] But I kind of got to figure it out
[774.0s] or Everbane's is done and it has
[776.0s] been in the family for like
[778.0s] six generations. Oh, man.
[780.0s] Yeah, so
[782.0s] I don't know, I thought maybe
[784.0s] I'd buy you a cinnamon bun and we could go to
[786.0s] the magic closet and just like
[788.0s] Yeah. Yeah.
[790.0s] Talk to Bazaar. See how he's
[792.0s] doing. Maybe swing by the hospital
[794.0s] and visit Cav, you know. Yeah,
[796.0s] is he OK?
[798.0s] Yeah, I think so. Well,
[800.0s] I don't know. I
[802.0s] I don't want to lay more on you, but I did hear
[804.0s] that
[806.0s] remember how the guards all like carried him away?
[808.0s] Yeah. And that was so kind.
[810.0s] Uh huh.
[812.0s] Yeah, I guess they arrested him actually.
[814.0s] Oh, yeah.
[816.0s] Yeah.
[818.0s] Not surprise.
[820.0s] Not ideal.
[822.0s] No, and they kind of have that look on
[824.0s] their face too because like they weren't
[826.0s] like, you know when you've
[828.0s] stolen a few things, maybe
[830.0s] too many things and then it's just
[832.0s] a look of disappointment and like you're making
[834.0s] them do their job?
[836.0s] Yeah, it was like that.
[838.0s] Right.
[840.0s] So Cinnamon Bun?
[842.0s] Yeah, let's do Cinnamon Bun and Magic
[844.0s] Closet, hey? Oh, I heard
[846.0s] that that is not the name anymore.
[848.0s] Are you kidding? How?
[850.0s] Cut to Bazaar and Mums
[852.0s] Marvels. The two of you are standing
[854.0s] out front looking at
[856.0s] this beautiful sign.
[858.0s] It's so colorful.
[860.0s] I like it. I like the
[862.0s] bird. Yeah.
[864.0s] I wonder how Bazaar likes
[866.0s] it. Why is it wearing a hat?
[868.0s] I don't know.
[870.0s] Is that bird a pirate?
[872.0s] Kind of looks like
[874.0s] that bird might be a pirate.
[876.0s] Huh.
[878.0s] That's weird. Yeah.
[880.0s] Well, let's go see what the new
[882.0s] shop's all about.
[884.0s] Have I met Bazaar's mom
[886.0s] yet? No.
[888.0s] I don't think we've had an interaction.
[890.0s] Okay. Alydin's a little nervous.
[892.0s] None of us have, right?
[894.0s] Or I guess obviously
[896.0s] Cav has.
[898.0s] There was a very awkward
[900.0s] first interaction.
[902.0s] But they were on the boat together.
[904.0s] They go way back. But yeah, Alydin
[906.0s] and I haven't met her.
[908.0s] The door chimes and
[910.0s] you enter and
[912.0s] you are greeted
[914.0s] with a plethora
[916.0s] of pirate and nautical themed
[918.0s] items.
[920.0s] Alydin, you see entirely new
[922.0s] merchandise everywhere. You see
[924.0s] Bazaar's magical items. They've
[926.0s] expanded since I previously
[928.0s] described what Bazaar saw.
[930.0s] But they're still kind of relegated to
[932.0s] one wall at this moment.
[934.0s] Wow. It's
[936.0s] different. It's different in here.
[938.0s] Hey?
[940.0s] Real piratey. Yeah.
[944.0s] Why? There's a tide
[946.0s] chart. We live on a river.
[948.0s] This is not
[950.0s] Huh.
[952.0s] This book about not
[954.0s] tie-in could be
[956.0s] for anybody.
[958.0s] That's a lot of call for that here.
[960.0s] We are a port city.
[962.0s] Just ask Bazaar.
[964.0s] Oh, thank
[966.0s] God. Bazaar, since you've
[968.0s] been back and have kind of
[970.0s] taken a look at many
[972.0s] of the wands that children are just firing
[974.0s] off and a lot
[976.0s] of these new items,
[978.0s] you've actually come- A lot of quality control.
[980.0s] Absolutely. But you've actually
[982.0s] come to find that some of the nautical
[984.0s] items that you've found
[986.0s] may contain curses.
[988.0s] You're uncertain if
[990.0s] you've pulled all of them off the shelves.
[992.0s] So that's where we've kind
[994.0s] of caught you is like containment
[996.0s] in the back. Come on.
[998.0s] Come on back. I'm taking care of some things and
[1000.0s] Fuck. Yeah.
[1002.0s] Please come back.
[1004.0s] I've never been in the back room here
[1006.0s] before. Well, it's nothing fancy
[1008.0s] but gets the job done.
[1010.0s] What is all this stuff? So
[1012.0s] all of this is
[1014.0s] the product
[1016.0s] my mom, Clara, brought in
[1018.0s] which I think she
[1020.0s] stepped out to meet with
[1022.0s] oh, God, I can't remember his names.
[1024.0s] I've been thinking about so many other things.
[1026.0s] I can't even remember the name of my own shop now.
[1028.0s] Well, it has changed recently.
[1030.0s] New sign. Looks great.
[1032.0s] It looks really good. People probably love it.
[1034.0s] Very. Jake, Jake the pirate
[1036.0s] Oh, God. Is he
[1038.0s] is he a pirate?
[1040.0s] Is it Captain
[1042.0s] Jacob? I have no clue. His name
[1044.0s] is Jake and like there's
[1046.0s] nautical things around so I'm kind of like
[1048.0s] pulling threads together.
[1050.0s] I'm more concerned about the cursed items that we have here.
[1052.0s] I mean,
[1054.0s] Alydin and I did meet a
[1056.0s] pirate named
[1058.0s] Jacob.
[1060.0s] Who may or may not be
[1062.0s] a cannibal. Excuse what?
[1064.0s] He does want to take over the city.
[1066.0s] We're leaning towards not a cannibal.
[1068.0s] Definitely a pirate.
[1070.0s] Definitely wants to take over the city.
[1074.0s] With that, there's a
[1076.0s] chime and you hear several
[1078.0s] heavier footsteps
[1080.0s] come into the store.
[1084.0s] Cav, you enter in
[1086.0s] followed by your two
[1088.0s] entourage
[1090.0s] and you hear voices coming from the back room.
[1092.0s] Hello?
[1094.0s] Is that Cav?
[1096.0s] It sounds like Cav.
[1098.0s] We're back here. Cav, come on. Come on to the back.
[1100.0s] Buddy, how you doing?
[1102.0s] Doing great. Got a couple of
[1104.0s] stragglers with me. Don't mind them though.
[1106.0s] They're just on the clock.
[1108.0s] Okay. Oh, you were
[1110.0s] arrested. Oh,
[1112.0s] hey. Big time. That is
[1114.0s] Steve. Could you give us a minute?
[1116.0s] He's not going to run away. We can't go very
[1118.0s] far, Bonwyn. Just maybe out into the
[1120.0s] shop. Just our friend almost died.
[1122.0s] Keep the door open though.
[1124.0s] That would be appreciated.
[1126.0s] You know where I live.
[1128.0s] It's not really you we're concerned about,
[1130.0s] Bonwyn. I mean, I'm taking
[1132.0s] responsibility for this very injured
[1134.0s] man to not run away.
[1136.0s] Can you even run? Debatable.
[1138.0s] I couldn't really before.
[1140.0s] Cav, how you doing, buddy?
[1142.0s] And I give him a big hug and I'm like up to
[1144.0s] his waist, I guess?
[1146.0s] Might still be tender. Be careful.
[1148.0s] No. And I did say.
[1150.0s] That's face to belly button. I did say
[1152.0s] I gave really good strong hugs.
[1154.0s] So, sorry. Do you want me to roll damage?
[1156.0s] It's a well known fact. I know. It's okay.
[1158.0s] It's the most damage you've rolled.
[1160.0s] It's a little ouchy, but it's.
[1162.0s] Okay.
[1164.0s] Oh, record. Okay.
[1166.0s] I figured it was business.
[1168.0s] Yeah.
[1170.0s] Business. Business.
[1172.0s] Welcome to the middle.
[1174.0s] Welcome to the middle. Here we are.
[1176.0s] Hi.
[1178.0s] Here we are. See what I did there?
[1180.0s] I wanted it to happen, so I made it happen.
[1182.0s] Amy really took charge and I
[1184.0s] liked it. You know what I like to
[1186.0s] focus on right now? Kyle's
[1188.0s] shirt. Oh, yeah. It's so good.
[1190.0s] The shirt's came in.
[1192.0s] Kyle's got some of our new merch he's
[1194.0s] sporting. It looks fantastic.
[1196.0s] Do a little
[1198.0s] turn on the catwalk and then.
[1200.0s] Catwalk.
[1202.0s] Oh, there we go. Oh, he's getting tangled.
[1204.0s] Nice.
[1206.0s] Yeah, it's so nice. We have new
[1208.0s] styles, new storefront.
[1210.0s] It's pretty dope.
[1212.0s] How's the fabric, Kyle?
[1214.0s] Voluptuous.
[1216.0s] You heard it here first. I'm excited to get mine.
[1218.0s] I know. We'll get it sometime.
[1220.0s] We'll get it sometime. Eventually.
[1222.0s] Postal strikes.
[1224.0s] Good things come to those who wait.
[1226.0s] Exactly. But that new store
[1228.0s] is dumbdragons.dashary.com.
[1230.0s] Link will be
[1232.0s] in the description when you
[1234.0s] listen to this.
[1236.0s] Go check it out because
[1238.0s] we switched to this new store.
[1240.0s] Just so you know, because
[1242.0s] a lot of print-on-demand stuff, the margins
[1244.0s] aren't great.
[1246.0s] We have been getting, you know.
[1248.0s] We get a little bit from it.
[1250.0s] But this way, almost
[1252.0s] 50% of what you pay for
[1254.0s] the item comes back to us as
[1256.0s] the creators, which is huge.
[1258.0s] We get to use that for upgraded equipment,
[1260.0s] for getting actually physically
[1262.0s] together for
[1264.0s] shenanigans,
[1266.0s] because that's our best stuff.
[1268.0s] And maybe going to different
[1270.0s] conventions and maybe some live shows.
[1272.0s] Like the possibilities are endless.
[1274.0s] Thank you.
[1276.0s] Thank you. But also,
[1278.0s] if you do buy some
[1280.0s] merch, send it to
[1282.0s] Jess over in the Discord.
[1284.0s] Not the merch.
[1286.0s] Send a picture.
[1288.0s] Send a picture.
[1290.0s] Is that not what I said?
[1292.0s] You could just send Jess
[1294.0s] some stuff.
[1296.0s] If you buy something for yourself, buy something for Jess.
[1298.0s] One for you, one for her.
[1300.0s] She works real hard.
[1302.0s] Yeah, send a picture.
[1304.0s] And we'd love to see
[1306.0s] you sporting it out in the wild
[1308.0s] because, you know, more questions about
[1310.0s] the show is always better. And then you can
[1312.0s] talk about all of the great things that happen
[1314.0s] in the show.
[1316.0s] That wasn't really
[1318.0s] a great segue.
[1320.0s] And today's patron.
[1322.0s] That wasn't really a great segue.
[1324.0s] That segue didn't work.
[1326.0s] I was going to say, one thing that
[1328.0s] you can't send to Jess is the dedication
[1330.0s] that we give to each patron every
[1332.0s] episode. You get to keep that
[1334.0s] one for yourself. And Russ,
[1336.0s] do you know who that dedication goes to?
[1338.0s] That dedication
[1340.0s] goes to Amber
[1342.0s] W.
[1344.0s] I've never known an Amber
[1346.0s] that I didn't like.
[1348.0s] So much better than Amber Single You.
[1350.0s] Yeah, yeah.
[1352.0s] It's a big W.
[1354.0s] Wow, Tom.
[1356.0s] And Nicole.
[1358.0s] Tom has said 10 words tonight.
[1360.0s] Fucking nailed it.
[1362.0s] Tom'd the shit
[1364.0s] out of that thing.
[1366.0s] We've missed you, Tom.
[1368.0s] Damn.
[1370.0s] But that's the end of the middle.
[1372.0s] Thanks for hanging out with us, and we'll talk to you very, very soon.
[1374.0s] Get back to the episode. Love you, bye.
[1376.0s] Bye.
[1378.0s] Sorry, I just, it's so good to see
[1380.0s] you. I'm sorry you got arrested
[1382.0s] and like...
[1384.0s] What'd they get you for?
[1386.0s] You know, not super clear yet.
[1388.0s] Allegedly, they think I'm
[1390.0s] some sort of mastermind who was cooking
[1392.0s] the books for the city.
[1394.0s] But they don't. No, they think so.
[1396.0s] That's what I said. That's what I told them.
[1398.0s] Betty and Steve, you guys got the wrong man.
[1400.0s] Do you know...
[1402.0s] Bazaar starts laughing, one of the wands goes off,
[1404.0s] and a fucking fireball bounces around the room.
[1406.0s] Jesus!
[1408.0s] Can I borrow that?
[1410.0s] No, it's defective.
[1412.0s] No, I need fire.
[1414.0s] Oh god, Bazaar, guys...
[1416.0s] It's only, how long's it been since we've seen each other?
[1418.0s] No time at all. I have a thousand things
[1420.0s] I need to talk to you all about.
[1422.0s] Okay, hit us with it.
[1424.0s] Then so does Alydin, who is, maybe gets priority.
[1426.0s] Much less pressing, because
[1428.0s] you know, it's not my livelihood
[1430.0s] that's on the line here, and the honor
[1432.0s] of my family.
[1434.0s] Okay.
[1436.0s] That sounds very serious.
[1438.0s] Put that away. What's going on?
[1440.0s] Damn.
[1442.0s] When you put it like that, Alydin.
[1444.0s] So I can't light the forge at Everbane's
[1446.0s] and I found a weird mysterious note
[1448.0s] for my great great great great grandmother
[1450.0s] who maybe I have to feed its sorrow?
[1452.0s] What does that mean?
[1454.0s] I said she should cry on it.
[1456.0s] I found a mysterious note.
[1458.0s] Oh god, what did yours say? Was it also about fire?
[1460.0s] No, mine was about the stars.
[1462.0s] Okay. Like celebrities?
[1464.0s] Nope.
[1466.0s] Oh. Like the stars.
[1468.0s] The stars in the sky.
[1470.0s] Okay, what about them? Do you need to feed them sorrow?
[1472.0s] Whatever that means?
[1474.0s] No, I don't.
[1476.0s] I'll read you mine. It's pretty short.
[1478.0s] It says they're rewriting the truth, friend.
[1480.0s] Vintersmouth might forget,
[1482.0s] but I won't.
[1484.0s] Watch the stars, they're moving too fast.
[1486.0s] I mean the beginning sounds like
[1488.0s] they're just talking about them doing the double
[1490.0s] reverse whammy thing on you with the books.
[1492.0s] Absolutely, that's 100% what that part's
[1494.0s] referring to and then it's like
[1496.0s] And then something about the stars.
[1498.0s] It kind of goes off the rails for me.
[1500.0s] Okay, cool.
[1502.0s] Alydin, let's talk about your thing.
[1504.0s] Well, you know,
[1506.0s] you got a message.
[1508.0s] Cav got a message.
[1510.0s] I didn't get
[1512.0s] like a note kind of
[1514.0s] message. But I had this
[1516.0s] really weird dream last night.
[1518.0s] More than once. Dream message.
[1520.0s] Right? More like you just kept going back
[1522.0s] to it. It just every time I would
[1524.0s] wake up and fall back asleep, I was in the
[1526.0s] exact same spot. So there was a tree, right?
[1528.0s] And then there was like
[1530.0s] all sorts of like clocks and stuff
[1532.0s] hanging from it. And then there was like
[1534.0s] a tiny little town of
[1536.0s] Vintersmouth with tiny little people
[1538.0s] inside and the
[1540.0s] hands were ticking. And then there was this
[1542.0s] woman who looked like she was like maybe
[1544.0s] part of the tree. I don't know. And then she
[1546.0s] was like you're gonna change
[1548.0s] you're gonna change the world and something
[1550.0s] about screws and maybe springs.
[1552.0s] And then, but am I
[1554.0s] gonna be able to
[1556.0s] do it and something about time?
[1560.0s] Okay, there's like a ton going on there.
[1562.0s] Sounds like how I would remember
[1564.0s] a dream. Yeah, that was perfect.
[1566.0s] Thank you for putting that there though
[1568.0s] so that Amy knows. So crystal clear
[1570.0s] when you first wake up and then the minute
[1572.0s] later it's gone. I was losing
[1574.0s] it as soon as I was explaining it
[1576.0s] to Bonwyn. Amy
[1578.0s] was losing it. So all that's
[1580.0s] happening and we still don't know where
[1582.0s] Dace is. And there's like a thousand
[1584.0s] kids here now. So
[1586.0s] how do the four of us
[1588.0s] solve all of these problems? Wait,
[1590.0s] wait, wait, Alydin, you said you were visited
[1592.0s] by somebody in a dream. What did they
[1594.0s] look like? So
[1596.0s] she was, it was a woman
[1598.0s] and her
[1600.0s] eyes were like
[1602.0s] so shiny. Like
[1604.0s] like
[1606.0s] like glass. And then
[1608.0s] she had like
[1610.0s] like plant
[1612.0s] solder and stuff but like she was like
[1614.0s] she wasn't like part of the tree but she
[1616.0s] was kind of part of the tree because her skin
[1618.0s] kind of looked like
[1620.0s] like tree skin, right? Cool.
[1622.0s] And
[1624.0s] she was smiling at me but I didn't
[1626.0s] feel like unsafe
[1628.0s] but at the same time
[1630.0s] you know when someone smiles at you like they
[1632.0s] know something.
[1634.0s] It was kind of like that.
[1636.0s] And then she
[1638.0s] said something about like
[1640.0s] I'm gonna change the world and something about
[1642.0s] screws and oh and fire
[1644.0s] and fire. And she said something
[1646.0s] changing the world
[1648.0s] with screws and fire.
[1650.0s] Huh.
[1652.0s] Bizarre like stops
[1654.0s] for a moment, moves the box of
[1656.0s] like mishaps off the table
[1658.0s] and grabs one of the books that he got.
[1660.0s] There's a fire away from me.
[1662.0s] Yeah, grabs one of the books that he got from
[1664.0s] Kingstown.
[1666.0s] He pulls out Fadeels and
[1668.0s] Hellish Pacts, the
[1670.0s] intertwining of two realms.
[1672.0s] And I want to look
[1674.0s] through that book for a description of the lady
[1676.0s] that she just told me about.
[1678.0s] You know what I love about this guys is that it's like
[1680.0s] you know in Buffy where like mostly a big thing
[1682.0s] that they did was just like
[1684.0s] go to the library and like research
[1686.0s] things.
[1690.0s] Russ, do I see if Portals, Portals,
[1692.0s] Portals is amongst the books
[1694.0s] that Bizarre
[1696.0s] picked up onto the shelf?
[1698.0s] I would pull out the whole stack and just set it there.
[1700.0s] So yes, sorry, you are looking in
[1702.0s] the book that you just said and you're trying
[1704.0s] to find any sort of description
[1706.0s] or
[1708.0s] piece about this woman.
[1710.0s] Yeah, it says the book also
[1712.0s] includes accounts of powerful entities,
[1714.0s] both fae lords and arch devils,
[1716.0s] using mortals as pawns in their plans
[1718.0s] to open gateways between their domains
[1720.0s] and the material plane, hence
[1722.0s] the event that we just went through.
[1724.0s] As you were
[1726.0s] kind of transcribing and taking all these
[1728.0s] things down, like it
[1730.0s] jogs a memory, so roll investigation
[1732.0s] with advantage please.
[1734.0s] Beautiful.
[1736.0s] Rolls.
[1738.0s] You're doing it. That is going to be a
[1740.0s] 21 on investigation.
[1742.0s] Yeah, baby. You find a
[1744.0s] passage on
[1746.0s] this woman
[1748.0s] who fits, there's
[1750.0s] a lot there, so you know, take
[1752.0s] your time for a moment and then
[1754.0s] You know what, I can just read the passage
[1756.0s] that I found right here in this book
[1758.0s] on page 217. This seems
[1760.0s] just of the impossible.
[1762.0s] Seems like based off of what I've seen,
[1764.0s] Alydin, you might have spoken to
[1766.0s] Ysera Thindleweft.
[1768.0s] She did not tell me her name.
[1770.0s] Do you know her? Did you go to school
[1772.0s] with her or something? Me? No.
[1774.0s] I didn't go to school. No, I know
[1776.0s] sweetheart, I know.
[1778.0s] I didn't have a very good sleep last night.
[1780.0s] Yeah, that's fair. I meant Bazaar.
[1782.0s] I thought maybe Bazaar knows all kinds
[1784.0s] of cool people. No, no.
[1786.0s] So,
[1788.0s] this person comes
[1790.0s] from a book about arch
[1792.0s] fey and demon lords
[1794.0s] and similar to probably
[1796.0s] who the banjo man made an accord
[1798.0s] with. No pun intended.
[1800.0s] But
[1802.0s] yeah, so this is potentially
[1804.0s] one of those beings.
[1806.0s] So,
[1808.0s] she used to be a mortal
[1810.0s] named Ysera Emberlace
[1812.0s] and then
[1814.0s] vanished from this Artificer's
[1816.0s] Guild nearly 400 years ago.
[1818.0s] So,
[1820.0s] kind of applicable and odd that she
[1822.0s] made this making sense.
[1824.0s] So, she became a whispered caution,
[1826.0s] an Artificer who pursues
[1828.0s] an Artificer whose pursuit
[1830.0s] of beauty and precision crossed into the domain
[1832.0s] of the unknowable.
[1834.0s] Okay.
[1836.0s] So, this is
[1838.0s] someone who's confused.
[1840.0s] So, she's
[1842.0s] so she's like
[1844.0s] so she's like
[1846.0s] the banjo
[1848.0s] man's
[1850.0s] witch?
[1852.0s] It's
[1854.0s] maybe similar.
[1856.0s] Let's see. It goes on to say that
[1858.0s] Histagree agrees on very
[1860.0s] little except for the fact that
[1862.0s] she believed Artificer
[1864.0s] was not merely, Artificing
[1866.0s] was not merely a craft but a
[1868.0s] spell-like song that invention
[1870.0s] could tap into the same threads that
[1872.0s] wove dreams and fey bargains
[1874.0s] and memory itself.
[1876.0s] Um, last seen walking into
[1878.0s] a rift that shimmered like starlight through
[1880.0s] silk. A portal. Speaking of a loom
[1882.0s] that spins not cloth but
[1884.0s] consequence, not one followed, not one
[1886.0s] no one dared.
[1888.0s] Can people just say things normal anymore?
[1890.0s] Does no one can say things normal anymore?
[1892.0s] Artificer? Are you an
[1894.0s] Artificer? What is an Artificer?
[1896.0s] Wow, I mean that's what I went to go get the
[1898.0s] books to help me with. I mean I do have
[1900.0s] these and I pull those three books
[1902.0s] that I'd actually gotten
[1904.0s] to the side and say
[1906.0s] these were going to be what we
[1908.0s] studied to get you
[1910.0s] prepared. So yes, your track
[1912.0s] was to be an Artificer.
[1914.0s] Okay.
[1916.0s] They build stuff.
[1918.0s] Yes.
[1920.0s] That's why I was saying in there that you know
[1922.0s] maybe your hands are made to create and
[1924.0s] not destroy.
[1926.0s] Why don't they just say a builder?
[1928.0s] Because that denotes
[1930.0s] a more mundane meaning
[1932.0s] than what you'll be doing.
[1934.0s] Seems unnecessarily
[1936.0s] confusing.
[1938.0s] Can I rename myself whenever I become
[1940.0s] something? You can give yourself whatever title
[1942.0s] you want. Oh yeah.
[1944.0s] This is all Alydin is thinking
[1946.0s] about now.
[1948.0s] As long as you feel like you've actually earned it.
[1950.0s] Conversation entirely.
[1952.0s] What's my new
[1954.0s] cool name and title going to be?
[1956.0s] Were there moths
[1958.0s] around her?
[1960.0s] Hm? Moths?
[1962.0s] Yeah, moths.
[1964.0s] I don't think so. I can't really
[1966.0s] remember.
[1968.0s] It's one thing not tracking. Do you think that it made it like
[1970.0s] I'm going to dream about that again?
[1972.0s] Oh, I asked Bonwyn.
[1974.0s] What is real and what is magic?
[1976.0s] Oh, I'd like to also ask that question.
[1978.0s] Like how do we know what is
[1980.0s] like in my dream, was I
[1982.0s] dreaming? Was I really some place
[1984.0s] else with this strange
[1986.0s] person and clock trees?
[1988.0s] Because previously I would just say
[1990.0s] crazy dream. You know, everyone has
[1992.0s] crazy dreams.
[1994.0s] But like everything
[1996.0s] that just happened to us seemed
[1998.0s] that was like dreams.
[2000.0s] I think for
[2002.0s] those touched
[2004.0s] either by
[2006.0s] the ethereal weave
[2008.0s] or by
[2010.0s] divine right have
[2012.0s] some connection to
[2014.0s] a higher plane
[2016.0s] when unconscious.
[2018.0s] It's maybe when we get visited
[2020.0s] by be it a god
[2022.0s] or an
[2024.0s] epiphany on a spell or
[2028.0s] maybe what you experienced. So
[2032.0s] it's hard to say.
[2034.0s] But knowing your skills
[2036.0s] I would bet that it's not just
[2038.0s] a dream. She's searching
[2040.0s] through shelves and stuff
[2042.0s] and finds an empty notebook.
[2046.0s] And waves and goes,
[2048.0s] if I go into the same
[2050.0s] dream, I'm when I wake up, I'm
[2052.0s] going to write it down. She puts it in her bucket.
[2054.0s] That's a good idea. Dream Journal.
[2056.0s] Keep track of
[2058.0s] them. That's already a thing.
[2060.0s] I really thought I just.
[2062.0s] No, you just invented.
[2064.0s] I mean, I kind of just, you know,
[2066.0s] you grabbed a journal and you said you're going to dream your
[2068.0s] you're going to write down your dreams.
[2070.0s] I've never heard of that before.
[2072.0s] I think you invented that.
[2074.0s] She opens a book and
[2076.0s] and writes Alydin
[2078.0s] Dreamweaver.
[2080.0s] Our defensive dreamweaver is
[2082.0s] a really cool title. That is
[2084.0s] a cool title. I'm like
[2086.0s] don't look at it. Oh, sorry.
[2088.0s] She goes off into the corner.
[2090.0s] Dear diary. Well,
[2092.0s] that kind of points us in a direction.
[2094.0s] But your fire issue going on
[2096.0s] at the
[2098.0s] at the forge. Yeah.
[2100.0s] So I got this note.
[2102.0s] I mean, I'd still like to try the wand.
[2104.0s] I like a simple
[2106.0s] solution, but otherwise
[2108.0s] sorrow. I have
[2110.0s] to sacrifice something.
[2112.0s] I mean, I have to
[2114.0s] as Alydin so kindly
[2116.0s] pointed out, it is my livelihood
[2118.0s] and legacy of my family.
[2120.0s] So you lost a memory
[2122.0s] in there, correct? Yeah.
[2124.0s] Oh, yeah, you did. Yeah.
[2126.0s] Remember, he was in ever veins.
[2128.0s] In ever veins. Yeah.
[2130.0s] But I don't
[2132.0s] remember.
[2134.0s] What else? You think
[2136.0s] you think maybe he took
[2138.0s] the memory that you typically offer.
[2140.0s] Oh. To light
[2142.0s] the forge.
[2144.0s] Do you think I've just been doing it unconsciously
[2146.0s] this whole time? Maybe.
[2148.0s] Huh. I mean,
[2150.0s] does it have to be something tangible? I mean, I know
[2152.0s] the note reads like a note, but
[2154.0s] a voice, a voice you get back.
[2156.0s] You know, if you offer up a memory,
[2158.0s] you know, maybe it comes back to you.
[2160.0s] OK. I mean, I have some bad memories
[2162.0s] that I would be happy to give, but
[2164.0s] that probably doesn't really work, does it?
[2166.0s] It's got to be something you like.
[2168.0s] Well, yeah, there's got to be
[2170.0s] two sides of the same coin.
[2172.0s] I don't know. Honestly, I
[2174.0s] think my dad's coming to help with the kids. I'm really just
[2176.0s] hoping he can figure it out.
[2178.0s] We can hope that. And I'm
[2180.0s] happy to go check it out, see if we can
[2182.0s] find out what's going on with it and give it
[2184.0s] give it my best crack.
[2186.0s] You know, no promises, though.
[2188.0s] I appreciate it.
[2190.0s] This is so beyond my experience.
[2192.0s] If you guys use a wand, can I watch?
[2194.0s] Yeah.
[2196.0s] Yeah, y'all have to stand behind
[2198.0s] me, though.
[2200.0s] Far behind me.
[2202.0s] Because you're fireproof?
[2204.0s] No, no,
[2206.0s] but
[2208.0s] let's hope so.
[2210.0s] I do wear
[2212.0s] two cloaks so I can take one off.
[2214.0s] Alydin then laughs and writes
[2216.0s] something in the journal.
[2218.0s] Oh, while we're there,
[2222.0s] Pawn, when I've been meaning to ask, as
[2224.0s] we make our way out the door, I assume,
[2226.0s] do giraffes
[2228.0s] mean anything to you?
[2230.0s] What do you mean?
[2232.0s] Oh, I just
[2234.0s] happened to, while
[2236.0s] we were in there, there was a party and
[2238.0s] giraffes and you
[2240.0s] were there.
[2242.0s] You know, Neven?
[2244.0s] You know, like with
[2246.0s] the, yeah, well,
[2248.0s] she's my best friend and sometimes
[2250.0s] we just, I'll explain.
[2252.0s] I'll explain on the way.
[2254.0s] OK, sounds good.
[2256.0s] You walk out of the store and out into the street
[2258.0s] and everybody make
[2260.0s] and it's worked out so well
[2262.0s] in the fae, everybody make
[2264.0s] a perception
[2266.0s] check.
[2268.0s] Oh, well,
[2270.0s] better than probably every
[2272.0s] roll I had last time we played.
[2274.0s] That's a 10. Yeah, also
[2276.0s] a 10 for me, so not good, but
[2278.0s] 19.
[2280.0s] I'm busy.
[2282.0s] Writing in my
[2284.0s] dream journal. Thinking a lot of
[2286.0s] deep thoughts.
[2288.0s] Not right now.
[2290.0s] Cav, you're not moving
[2292.0s] as fast as everyone else and Bazaar
[2294.0s] and Bonwyn are talking about
[2296.0s] giraffes and Alydin
[2298.0s] is writing in her journal and you're
[2302.0s] unusually attentive
[2304.0s] to everything around you right now,
[2306.0s] to your surroundings.
[2308.0s] You notice that
[2310.0s] your friend's
[2312.0s] footsteps appear
[2314.0s] to be moving backwards.
[2318.0s] I mean, I wasn't expecting that, Russ.
[2322.0s] I guess a call out for everyone to stop.
[2326.0s] Guys, guys, stop,
[2328.0s] stop walking. Okay. Why?
[2330.0s] This is gonna sound crazy.
[2332.0s] I don't know if we have to start conversations
[2334.0s] like that anymore. Okay, yeah,
[2336.0s] you know what, after the last few weeks, fair.
[2338.0s] It really looked
[2340.0s] like y'all were walking backwards.
[2342.0s] Like your footsteps
[2344.0s] were moving in reverse.
[2346.0s] I've been trying this dance called the Moonwalk
[2348.0s] that I picked up when I was in,
[2350.0s] but I'm not good at it, so.
[2352.0s] Like our feet were pointing the wrong way?
[2354.0s] Yeah.
[2356.0s] Oh, gross. Like our top half
[2358.0s] was going like facing forward and
[2360.0s] and the feet were.
[2362.0s] Yeah, I don't know what,
[2364.0s] I just, I don't know what's going on.
[2366.0s] What do you want for pain
[2368.0s] management?
[2370.0s] That's a good question.
[2372.0s] They weaned me off the good shit
[2374.0s] a couple days ago.
[2376.0s] Everybody's kind of paying attention that
[2378.0s] if anybody does take a step.
[2380.0s] Yeah, I was about to test it.
[2382.0s] Yeah, you know, bizarre,
[2384.0s] you take a few steps forward, everybody's watching
[2386.0s] you do so, and then the
[2388.0s] footsteps are reversed.
[2390.0s] It appears as if you are walking
[2392.0s] backwards as you progress down the street.
[2394.0s] But he is progressing down the
[2396.0s] street. Yeah, yeah, he's walking normally
[2398.0s] as the footsteps appear to be going
[2400.0s] the other way. Walk forward,
[2402.0s] walk backwards, saying the backwards
[2404.0s] man, the backwards man, I can walk
[2406.0s] backwards fast as you can.
[2408.0s] Nightmares about that, why?
[2410.0s] That's unnecessarily creepy.
[2414.0s] Who's the backwards man? Don't put ideas
[2416.0s] into his head.
[2418.0s] Earmuffs. Of course.
[2420.0s] It wouldn't be me, it'd be, you know,
[2422.0s] fucking Tom Green.
[2424.0s] Yeah, but he'll make it into something
[2426.0s] super creepy. He's Canadian, we could get him,
[2428.0s] I'm sure of it. Hell yeah, dude.
[2430.0s] Hell yeah. Yeah.
[2432.0s] Write down Tom Green.
[2434.0s] You told me not to write things down.
[2436.0s] Don't write anything down.
[2438.0s] We manifest. Except for this.
[2440.0s] Tom Green. Yeah.
[2442.0s] Yeah, I don't have an answer
[2444.0s] for this one. I'm going to
[2446.0s] jump in the air and see
[2448.0s] what my feet do. As you leave
[2450.0s] the jump, the footsteps
[2452.0s] appear to be reversed from where you were
[2454.0s] standing. And then as you land
[2456.0s] and then kind of take
[2458.0s] a couple steps as you land, they
[2460.0s] still appear to be going in the opposite
[2462.0s] direction. So my feet don't go
[2464.0s] in the inverse direction that I'm moving in all
[2466.0s] directions, because otherwise they would
[2468.0s] have gone up into my legs and that would have been
[2470.0s] very painful.
[2472.0s] Glad it didn't work. Wow.
[2474.0s] I'm really glad it didn't work too, but that was the scientific
[2476.0s] end that I was expecting.
[2478.0s] I don't...
[2480.0s] This is magic,
[2482.0s] right?
[2484.0s] This is real?
[2488.0s] Hold on, I pull out my spell book
[2490.0s] and I'm just flipping through and I'm like, come on, something,
[2492.0s] something, something's weird, we've got something here.
[2494.0s] Nope, that's...
[2496.0s] But we can still go.
[2498.0s] Alydin starts to walk forward
[2500.0s] toward everything. Yes, yeah, we can
[2502.0s] keep moving out and
[2504.0s] I'm just flipping through my book as we
[2506.0s] continue on. We're just walking with our heads down looking at our
[2508.0s] right like, the fuck
[2510.0s] is happening? Alydin's the first one.
[2512.0s] Ken's Google search would be, why walk backward?
[2514.0s] Why backward walk?
[2516.0s] Why feet not forward, backwards walk?
[2520.0s] Alydin, you're the first one to
[2522.0s] move forward again
[2524.0s] and as everybody's looking
[2526.0s] at your feet, so you can only really,
[2528.0s] if you are all in fact looking at your feet,
[2530.0s] you start doing the
[2532.0s] Running Man and
[2534.0s] with
[2536.0s] a...
[2538.0s] the air around you begins
[2540.0s] to ripple slightly
[2542.0s] and
[2544.0s] you are
[2548.0s] jumped forward 30
[2550.0s] feet down the street
[2552.0s] and in the space you were and in the space you
[2554.0s] appear, the air
[2556.0s] around you and those spaces
[2558.0s] appears like silk
[2560.0s] being pulled through water.
[2562.0s] Bazaar? Alydin's the flash.
[2566.0s] Uh, um...
[2568.0s] Got something for this?
[2572.0s] And as you turn around to look at
[2574.0s] Bazaar, everybody can see
[2576.0s] that one of your
[2578.0s] eyes... Which one? The left one or the right one?
[2580.0s] Uh, odds is... Oh god.
[2582.0s] Don't be the left. Odds is left,
[2584.0s] even's right.
[2586.0s] Right. So your right
[2588.0s] eye appears to
[2590.0s] be glowing with
[2592.0s] what looks like a white
[2594.0s] moon-like color from a distance.
[2596.0s] I am going to...
[2602.0s] What am I gonna do?
[2604.0s] Shit. Cat?
[2606.0s] I don't want to move?
[2610.0s] Do I see or feel
[2612.0s] anything different? You don't notice your eye
[2614.0s] situation yet. You just...
[2616.0s] it suddenly appeared 30
[2618.0s] feet down the street away from your friends.
[2620.0s] You describe this as
[2622.0s] a, uh, as like
[2624.0s] a shimmering like silk?
[2626.0s] Yeah. Cool.
[2628.0s] Uh, immediately as soon as I see
[2630.0s] it, I am going to Misty Step
[2632.0s] to Alydin and
[2634.0s] and just like, hug.
[2638.0s] It is a very similar
[2640.0s] effect. Slightly different.
[2642.0s] But very similar effect
[2644.0s] that happens as Bazaar appears in front
[2646.0s] of you. It's like a quick, ah!
[2648.0s] Hug! Yep.
[2650.0s] Cloaks around and I'm
[2652.0s] gonna try to start just backing up away from
[2654.0s] this, uh, this loom
[2656.0s] looking thing, I assume.
[2658.0s] As you're backing away in this
[2660.0s] this, uh,
[2662.0s] water effect, it begins
[2664.0s] to dissipate as you
[2666.0s] as you walk away from it.
[2670.0s] I think there's something wrong with that part of the road.
[2674.0s] Uh, no. No, no, no. This was
[2676.0s] this reminded me of something
[2678.0s] that I read in the book, uh.
[2680.0s] Did you read
[2682.0s] something in the book and you made this happen?
[2684.0s] No, no, no, no, no, no.
[2686.0s] I'm glad I read the book because
[2688.0s] this might have
[2690.0s] been that, but the last time
[2692.0s] that Ysari, a person, was seen
[2694.0s] they, uh, were seen
[2696.0s] walking into a rift that shimmered like starlight
[2698.0s] through silk, speaking
[2700.0s] of a loom. She was talking about the
[2702.0s] remember that saying I said
[2704.0s] that spins not cloth but consequence.
[2706.0s] No one followed her in
[2708.0s] and no one dared.
[2710.0s] We almost should accidentally follow her in?
[2712.0s] I think you might almost have been
[2714.0s] pulled in.
[2716.0s] One day.
[2718.0s] I know, I know.
[2724.0s] Dumbgeons and Dragons
[2726.0s] Season 4, Episode 28
[2728.0s] Starring Amy More as
[2730.0s] Alydin, Carla
[2732.0s] Maxted as Bonwyn Everbane, Tom
[2734.0s] Laird as Kavlaran Goldwave,
[2736.0s] Kyle Claset as Bizard the Wizard
[2738.0s] and Russ More as your dungeon
[2740.0s] master. Dialogue editing and sound
[2742.0s] design of today's episode is by Russ
[2744.0s] Moore. Our community manager is Jessica
[2746.0s] Babiak. Music is from Epidemic
[2748.0s] Sound and sound effects are from
[2750.0s] Epidemic Sound and Boom Library.
[2752.0s] Our amazing cover art is by Matt
[2754.0s] Garbutt. And we'd like to say a huge
[2756.0s] thank you to our supporting producers
[2758.0s] including Gabriel Lynch,
[2760.0s] Jessica Babiak, Cat Waterflame,
[2762.0s] Jacob Madden, Ongoron Kiersen,
[2764.0s] Perry Matey, OldSchoolGamerD,
[2766.0s] Craig Zeiss and
[2768.0s] L.A. Branton. Have you been enjoying your time
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