[0.0s] Dumbgeons and Dragons will begin in a moment. All of you have gathered in Everbane's and Bonwyn
[8.0s] and Bizard, you in particular right now, are heads inside of the forge taking a look at the entire
[15.2s] situation.
[18.8s] Well, so you tried everything that you've been taught. You found this note.
[25.4s] Mm hmm. Yeah, I mean, to be totally honest, the forge is basically constantly running. I mean,
[32.0s] we'll let it go out, you know, when I take my two weeks in the summer and Thane goes back home
[37.6s] to visit his family. And otherwise, it's just, it's just going for the entire year. So
[46.5s] okay,
[48.1s] you know, roll Arcana or Investigation.
[52.1s] Let's go with Arcana.
[55.3s] That's 14.
[56.4s] 14 for me too, for investigation.
[59.0s] Bizard, do you want to roll with Advantage based on Bonwyn's roll, please?
[66.5s] Yeah. Oh, it was less.
[69.3s] Great. Cool beans.
[70.9s] Yeah.
[71.7s] He actually got dumber when I came and stood beside you. Sorry.
[75.6s] Yeah, I can't believe you can't find it.
[77.4s] My normie vibes were like, just like sinking into your magical skin.
[84.7s] Bonwyn, when you back out of the main area and you're going to check other
[88.5s] components around and Bizard, you are, I mean, you're looking intently in here,
[97.6s] not really sure what you're looking for exactly. But as you like scoot away some
[102.8s] ash off like the, the, the bricks or stone, what is it made out of? Stone or brick?
[112.9s] I literally was just googling images of forges to be like, what does this look
[118.1s] like?
[118.2s] Mostly probably like cement, what I would assume.
[120.7s] Yeah.
[122.6s] Yeah.
[123.0s] But in an old timey world, probably like, just like a hearty stone.
[127.1s] Yeah. Yeah. Some river stones, you know, maybe.
[131.0s] Yeah.
[132.4s] Oh yeah. If you Google forge and look at images, this is all exactly what I was
[137.6s] mixuring. It's like stone. It's open, but also has a top.
[143.5s] Excellent. Okay. So we're all seeing the same thing.
[146.8s] Yeah.
[147.2s] Of course. Got to have the chimney.
[148.4s] I mean, I don't know. I'm seeing a very handsome fellow in a yellow and
[152.5s] blue outfit with an X-Men tag next to his name.
[158.4s] Your search history is very different.
[160.0s] I feel like the rhythms are not aligned.
[164.3s] Oh damn.
[166.5s] Dumbgeons and Dragons is a D and D actual play podcast.
[170.1s] And I'm your dungeon master Russ More.
[172.0s] He, him also with me today is Amy More as Alydin.
[175.5s] She, her, and if that doesn't work, you're here.
[178.2s] Carla.
[178.6s] Max.
[178.9s] That is Bonwyn.
[179.7s] Everbane.
[180.5s] She, her, when rolls her eyes like you can when you're an adult at your
[184.1s] parents, Tom Laird is Kavlaran Goldweave.
[186.8s] He, him.
[187.5s] Look, sir.
[187.9s] We've just been politely watching until this point.
[191.4s] And Kyle Claset is Bizard the Wizard.
[193.8s] He, him.
[194.3s] Oh God.
[195.2s] What did I do?
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[215.7s] And now fuck it.
[216.9s] Let's play.
[219.4s] Okay.
[219.7s] So you scoot away some ash away from the mantle of the forge and your
[224.8s] fingers run along something that, that feels out of place and taking another
[229.3s] look at it, you see that there is an etching that's hidden behind like the
[234.5s] hearthstone, like right in behind there.
[237.5s] I'm going to look around for like a brush or something to really like
[240.0s] clean out the cracks and see if I can get a better definition on it.
[244.7s] This is a full one of those nice fireplace kids right there.
[250.3s] That's what he thinks about your brush.
[252.8s] Yeah.
[254.5s] Not a fan.
[256.0s] Okay.
[256.6s] Oh, just a standard brush.
[258.0s] You're a wizard, man.
[259.2s] Come on.
[260.4s] All right.
[260.9s] Fine.
[261.3s] Fine.
[261.6s] I'll cast.
[262.5s] I'm kidding.
[262.9s] I'm kidding.
[263.2s] Cast gust and get ash and soot everywhere everywhere.
[268.2s] Hey, I just can't make your dogs happy, dude.
[273.1s] No one can, anybody want them?
[276.0s] I've told you, no, I have my own.
[282.4s] Yeah.
[282.7s] So they get everything they want.
[286.0s] And yet maybe that's the problem.
[288.0s] Yep.
[289.3s] Yeah, probably.
[290.5s] Uh, okay.
[291.4s] Whether you gust or whether you brush.
[293.4s] I don't have gusts, so it's brush.
[295.3s] Okay.
[296.8s] What about May's hand with a tiny brush?
[299.6s] Yes, I can do that.
[301.1s] In fact, I do.
[303.5s] Just so you don't get any shit on you.
[304.8s] Because I have other things that I need to look at anyway while it's being cleaned away.
[307.0s] So go ahead.
[307.7s] Yes.
[308.4s] Uh, you, uh, are able to see this etching now.
[312.7s] And it says to the flame, grief is the shadow of joy.
[318.7s] Both burn bright in its heart.
[321.3s] Bonwyn, have you ever noticed this etching?
[324.8s] Uh, no, like the manufacturer kind of thing on the inside.
[329.3s] Uh, I, it may be it's from the manufacturer.
[332.2s] I know it doesn't look as a manufacturer.
[336.7s] I would say no.
[338.0s] Okay.
[338.6s] Okay.
[339.2s] Well, no, I can see where you're touching now.
[341.5s] That's not it up on the side there.
[343.1s] You can see the thing.
[343.9s] And it also is just the EB that my dad did.
[346.0s] I don't know why I said the manufacturer.
[347.6s] Cause obviously my dad just built the forge, but you know, it was, it was an
[353.3s] upgrade one from the one that like great, great graded me.
[356.4s] And he thought he could start a new business making forges, but were
[362.1s] the only blacksmiths in town.
[363.6s] So I'm not sure.
[364.8s] Forge forgers.
[366.9s] Oh, that could be something.
[369.4s] Fane, write this down.
[371.4s] Yeah.
[371.8s] Okay.
[372.5s] Forgers.
[373.6s] Forge forgers.
[374.5s] Are we making forges now?
[376.5s] We might make fake forges.
[378.7s] Why would we make fake forges?
[380.3s] You mean forging forge forgers?
[383.2s] The best part of waking is forges in your cup.
[388.1s] You know, I was thinking Folgers a second ago and I was like, how can this work out?
[395.5s] He just went for it.
[397.5s] I don't wait for it to work out.
[398.9s] I just, that's right.
[399.5s] You just make it happen.
[400.5s] If we learned anything from the business meeting before Russ got us all horribly
[404.0s] sick, it's that we're just going to take those shots.
[406.6s] We should just go for it.
[407.7s] Exactly.
[408.6s] Definitely.
[409.0s] Definitely.
[409.1s] You don't know what's going to land.
[410.0s] Yeah.
[411.4s] Um, no, I don't.
[412.6s] I never noticed, uh, I never noticed an etching in here.
[417.2s] It aligns with the note that you got, uh, to the flame.
[421.5s] Grief is the shadow of joy.
[423.8s] Both burn bright in its heart.
[427.1s] Okay.
[428.0s] Grief is the shadow of joy.
[429.5s] Grief is the shadow of joy.
[431.3s] Both burn.
[432.5s] So does that mean it wants, it's like the two sides of a coin.
[436.8s] So it can have joy or grief.
[440.4s] Let me look at the note again.
[443.8s] I mean, you know, when you.
[444.8s] Joy and grief remembers the truth of the hand that stokes it.
[448.7s] Blood and purpose, joy and grief.
[451.6s] These are the sparks it craves.
[453.4s] I think I understand, you know, that being the two sides of the
[456.3s] same coin and the shadow, you know, you.
[460.3s] Sometimes a shadow can, uh, diminish an actual person.
[464.6s] You know, at, you know, at evening time, your shadow can be
[466.7s] much larger than you actually are.
[468.5s] Right.
[468.8s] I think that's a good metaphor for how, you know, grief can
[472.0s] overshadow the joy in your life.
[474.4s] Oh, that's really, that's, that's quite beautiful.
[478.4s] Sorry.
[478.7s] How that relates to you.
[480.5s] I don't know how that forage.
[481.6s] I don't fucking know.
[482.4s] I don't know either.
[484.2s] The thing is my business, the opposite of yours is very much,
[490.2s] uh, a hands-on touching, doing, thinking when I'm creating my weapons
[498.6s] and being creative in that way, but otherwise it's very.
[503.1s] It's not esoteric, you know?
[505.2s] So that must've got lost between great, great, great grandma,
[511.4s] Malin and me.
[516.4s] Yeah.
[522.7s] What's something you can't live without?
[526.5s] And you can't say the forge because, well.
[528.3s] Um, gosh, I don't know.
[534.2s] Uh, well, I mean, up there on that shelf, you'll see there's
[539.3s] like a really quite poorly made a dagger.
[542.2s] That's the first thing that I ever made myself.
[547.1s] And I put it up there to remind me to keep progressing and that I can do this.
[553.0s] And it's like, it's really important to me.
[557.2s] So it's not, you know, on the scale of things, I'm willing to give up.
[563.1s] I guess it's, I don't want to give up, you know, someone I love, but that
[569.0s] is a thing I love and that is important to me.
[572.0s] A lot of sentimental value.
[573.4s] A lot of sentimental value.
[575.1s] Absolutely.
[578.0s] So.
[579.6s] It was just something I imagine, you know, your father guided
[582.6s] your hand on this graph.
[583.9s] Of course, of course.
[585.4s] Important memory as well.
[586.5s] So many memories of, of, yeah, just time spent as a little one beside my dad
[593.0s] working and, and him helping me.
[596.7s] And yeah, but this was the first one he never laid a hand on.
[601.1s] He just watched and, you know, corrected me if need be, but I did it all myself.
[607.0s] So, oh, did he, did he do that thing where he comes by and goes,
[610.7s] interesting and walks away?
[612.5s] Yes.
[613.1s] Yes.
[613.6s] Oh, that's how you're going to do that.
[615.1s] Huh?
[615.4s] Yeah.
[616.3s] What the fuck is that shit?
[617.6s] I mean, that's why part of me was glad when him and mom retired out to the
[621.1s] lake, because he would still do that.
[624.2s] Even though, and I would never tell him this to his face.
[628.9s] I am like 10 times the Smith he is.
[631.8s] Have you seen the things that I've made?
[633.8s] The weapons, the intricacy, the commissions that you have.
[637.1s] He was a very good Smith, but yes, exactly.
[641.2s] It's just, it's, but he's still like, Oh, okay.
[644.9s] Sure.
[645.5s] Yeah.
[645.7s] You could do it like that, I guess.
[647.3s] Okay.
[648.0s] Follow up question.
[650.6s] What's more valuable to you?
[652.2s] Cause like, you have to think about what you're offering here.
[654.6s] That you give that up.
[656.1s] There's a potential of lost memory.
[658.2s] Uh, you know, they talked about how they lost their voice.
[661.4s] So, you know.
[662.7s] Yeah.
[663.3s] Is the loss of that memory, uh, worth relighting the forge to you?
[671.6s] I mean, I need the forge.
[675.9s] To, to, for my livelihood, to make money, to help the kids, for Thane's employment.
[683.9s] I mean, there's a lot counting on it.
[687.2s] Not to mention, you know, like the pressure of legacy and I can't be the
[692.0s] ember bane that lets the forge go out forever.
[695.7s] So I guess it is.
[701.2s] I think it's worth it.
[703.0s] I'm going to tell you this and I totally respect your decision and your view on
[705.9s] this as somebody who was raised in a house expecting to take over a business.
[711.4s] You don't have to.
[713.4s] You can do your own thing, but if you love this, keep doing it.
[717.2s] Obviously.
[718.5s] Yeah.
[720.2s] Yeah, that's a really good point.
[721.4s] Thank you for that.
[722.8s] Yeah, no problem.
[723.6s] But no, I had a wonderful, happy childhood.
[725.6s] So I would like to take over that.
[727.3s] Fantastic.
[729.1s] I'm happy to hear that.
[730.2s] Small, just minor judgments, but yeah, no judgment, just obliviousness.
[736.4s] Just, I kind of pictured when you were shit talking your dad, that Russ was
[740.3s] going to like pan the camera over and he was going to be right behind you.
[746.2s] I mean, you did ask him to come to town.
[748.6s] I did ask him to come to town.
[750.4s] Knock, knock, knock.
[753.6s] But he wouldn't know, he still thinks it's his home.
[756.1s] No, it's not dad.
[759.4s] Welcome to the middle, everybody.
[761.3s] We're so happy that I didn't hit record.
[765.2s] I hit record on my local and I was like, well, I guess I'm the only one talking.
[768.7s] You went from, I'm not going to talk a lot to now you're the only one talking.
[772.9s] Welcome to the middle only with Russ.
[775.5s] I'm not going to talk a lot, but let me just start off talking.
[778.2s] Anyway, we're in the middle.
[779.3s] We're in the middle and we're bullying Russ because we don't talk very well.
[783.0s] Because he's sick.
[783.9s] Come back, it's okay, we're not trying to bully you.
[787.0s] He actually has left the room now.
[789.6s] You know what I think about Russ, guys?
[791.6s] Tell me.
[792.5s] He's really hardworking and smart and kind.
[794.8s] Oh my God.
[795.4s] He works so hard.
[797.4s] I agree with all of these statements.
[799.5s] He's like genuinely a good person.
[801.5s] It's, it's crazy.
[806.1s] Am I right back?
[807.3s] Yeah.
[807.8s] Point of sale.
[812.6s] Real cash register over here.
[816.8s] Um, what are we talking about?
[818.8s] Everybody?
[819.2s] You, you, nothing but terrible.
[823.4s] Nothing but mean things about you.
[825.0s] You'll find out when you, when you listen back.
[826.9s] There's only mean things to say about me.
[828.5s] So I get it.
[830.4s] Uh, another thing Russ is, is prepared because, uh, we have patrons.
[836.8s] You see, you can become one at patreon.com slash dumb dragon cast.
[841.3s] And as part of that, you get a bunch of stuff, including like
[844.9s] special extra episodes of like a million extra episodes, I think approximately.
[849.6s] Yeah, just a little other show and all kinds of fun stuff.
[852.7s] But another thing you get is an episode dedicated to you.
[856.7s] Here he comes.
[857.3s] The star of the show.
[858.4s] Russ More with today's patron.
[861.3s] Zombie army.
[862.9s] Oh, thank you.
[864.7s] Oh, wow.
[865.9s] That's probably our most terrifying patron.
[868.2s] Thank you.
[868.6s] Zombie army.
[869.4s] Please stay with us happily.
[873.5s] It is singular name, not even a hyphen or share situation.
[879.2s] Nice.
[880.0s] Well, if there's going to be a zombie army, zombie army, zombie army.
[886.0s] Army.
[886.4s] Yeah.
[886.8s] Love it.
[887.1s] Yeah.
[887.6s] Yeah.
[888.8s] We got there.
[889.7s] Yeah.
[890.1s] Yeah.
[890.4s] Yeah.
[891.2s] Thanks on the army.
[892.1s] Stay on our side.
[893.2s] I love it.
[894.7s] Yeah.
[895.0s] No, it's great to have you.
[896.7s] Um, I don't know what else we've talked about.
[898.6s] So if we feel like that's like great,
[900.4s] I think we've done it, you know, don't worry.
[902.8s] We did a great job.
[904.0s] Well, you know, you always do a great job.
[906.4s] That's why I left you with confidence to go deal with the screaming
[911.2s] dog in the background.
[912.4s] That was fine.
[913.7s] Yeah.
[914.5s] Well, it's good to see you all for that brief period of time.
[917.4s] Let's get them back to the episode now.
[919.4s] Okay.
[919.8s] Let's do it.
[921.2s] Okay.
[921.4s] Love you all.
[922.0s] Bye.
[924.8s] The door burst open and your father enters.
[928.8s] Is it broken?
[929.6s] It's not broken.
[931.4s] It's not working, but it's not broken.
[933.6s] Come look, look for yourself.
[935.4s] I've tried everything.
[936.4s] Come and grabs a hammer off of a, uh, I'm going to watch him do like, just
[940.4s] watch a montage of him doing the exact same thing I did in the previous
[944.3s] montage, cause you know that like, but that's tapping it, he's looking at
[949.4s] it, he's trying to throw fire or he gets you to run through everything
[953.6s] and he stands right over your shoulder.
[955.7s] Yeah.
[956.1s] Right.
[957.4s] Interesting.
[960.2s] Just sharing significant looks with Bazaar.
[966.8s] He looks at it and he's, he's perplexed.
[969.8s] And, and then you notice that there's like kind of, uh, some
[976.2s] glint of recognition.
[979.4s] Where'd you say you went?
[981.0s] Well, um, I, we were, I don't know.
[987.6s] What are we telling people, Bazaar?
[989.6s] Uh, to, uh, to find people in the woods.
[994.4s] Yeah.
[995.0s] Alydin and some kids were missing and that's sort of why to help.
[999.1s] And we went somewhere weird, dad.
[1001.3s] I don't know what it was.
[1003.3s] It was a weird place with scary things and monsters and a whole
[1008.8s] bunch of children who we rescued.
[1011.6s] So that's good.
[1015.3s] Why do you ask?
[1016.6s] Well, the Forge hasn't really gone out in a, in a long time.
[1024.0s] Your mother mentioned you found like a letter.
[1026.0s] Yeah.
[1026.4s] I found a letter from Malin.
[1029.1s] So my great, great, great grandma.
[1034.2s] And it, it's, um, it's pretty woo-woo about beating it.
[1039.4s] What do you mean it's woo-woo?
[1040.4s] Well, here you can, you can read it and also you probably already knew
[1045.7s] this because you know this place inside and out, but Bazaar found
[1048.4s] an etching inside, uh, the Forge.
[1053.2s] Yeah.
[1053.8s] You know about that one?
[1055.0s] Yeah.
[1055.6s] No.
[1056.0s] Well, I mean, when we rebuilt it, we used a lot of the, the, the
[1059.8s] material stone, of course, from great, great grands, uh, grands Forge.
[1068.0s] Um, and, and yeah, I mean, it's never been, I've never had to
[1075.6s] relight it, my father's never had to relight it.
[1079.2s] His mother never had to relight it.
[1081.0s] This is not to say, this is not a guilt trip.
[1086.4s] Let me just preface it there, but this is to say that your great,
[1091.7s] great, great grandmother Malin, how many times can we say great?
[1095.6s] Yeah.
[1096.4s] He's looking at the letter.
[1098.3s] She made it, at least it's how it was told to me, is that she made
[1106.5s] an offering through some sort of ritual so grand that it was to
[1113.4s] keep the Forge lit and have her soul guide the hands of
[1118.4s] everbanes throughout eternity.
[1122.2s] For that to go out, are you sure you were just looking for kids in the woods?
[1132.9s] Well, we were definitely just looking for kids in the woods.
[1135.9s] Um, a lot of things happened.
[1139.0s] There was instruments and they were attacking us.
[1141.3s] There was a man made out of a banjo, um, sort of he had a banjo
[1147.4s] and then it, we were floating in memories in space.
[1150.8s] This all sounds like the nonsense I was saying after that one weekend
[1155.1s] in high school when I was away for the night camping and I came home.
[1159.5s] I know that, but this really happened.
[1163.0s] Yeah.
[1163.4s] Uh, the, the way you just explained it sounds very familiar and it was
[1170.0s] exactly the situation we were just dealing with.
[1172.1s] Somebody was under or made a deal with this other, other planer being.
[1179.5s] And, uh, it just kind of backfired on them.
[1184.5s] And so we wound up in that realm.
[1189.1s] I think the, the Feywild is, maybe it could have been the shadow
[1194.2s] fell as creepy as it was, but that's, that's where we were.
[1199.9s] So I'm just, yeah.
[1202.5s] My G G G G ma no G G it.
[1207.4s] That's not easier.
[1208.1s] I thought that might be easier than we could just call her grandma.
[1212.2s] Malin.
[1212.9s] Let's just call her Malin.
[1214.1s] It's easier.
[1215.3s] Um, you think she made a deal with the same thing that the
[1218.3s] banjo man made a deal with?
[1220.3s] I mean, you're right.
[1221.0s] And we're talking, this is two, this is a coincidence.
[1225.2s] Everything that I've heard told and it's, it's piece by piece
[1231.8s] kind of slowly coming back is there was nothing nefarious in the rituals.
[1237.6s] She's she did to keep it lit and as, as it's, as it's, I mean, it's
[1243.1s] as it's outlined here and as it, as it was told, like she did it for good.
[1253.1s] Yeah.
[1253.6s] I read it like she gave something to the fire as opposed to making a deal
[1258.8s] with a outside scary entity.
[1262.0s] But I don't know how to give a thing to a fire, especially if the place
[1267.6s] can't be made to hold the fire.
[1270.4s] Exactly.
[1271.4s] As I've never had to or seen, I don't have a lot of like firsthand
[1277.0s] information on when rolls arise.
[1279.2s] Like you can when you're an adult at your parents.
[1281.9s] Look, I've got an old, I've got several old boxes of books that have
[1286.6s] been passed down that are just collecting dust.
[1288.8s] Like maybe there's something in there.
[1290.1s] Maybe there's more journal entries from Malin.
[1292.5s] Maybe, maybe there's something that can give us a clue back at the house.
[1296.6s] Great.
[1298.4s] Thank you.
[1298.9s] I don't know if this being an other worldly kind of situation or, you
[1302.9s] know, something mystical, perhaps something from another plane could help out.
[1309.0s] I kind of had a realization dreaming the other night and woke up with a
[1313.1s] spell in mind.
[1314.1s] And with the adventure that we went through the, you know, those portals
[1318.1s] and everything, summoning came to mind.
[1321.2s] And I will hear easier to be shown.
[1324.2s] And I begin drawing an outline, a chalk circle on the ground, a lot of
[1330.2s] squares, triangles, concentric, it's amazing.
[1334.2s] It's like he's, it'll blow your mind.
[1336.7s] Okay.
[1337.3s] And in the center of it, kind of the elemental symbol for the fire plane.
[1341.9s] And I sum it up, I sum it up a few mag or a few magma methods.
[1349.4s] Whoa.
[1352.1s] Which, what, what's happening?
[1356.5s] Just seeing if perhaps this could wind up getting things started again, kind
[1363.6s] of breaking the idea of what's being said, but maybe we can just, you
[1367.2s] know, force it, uh, with a little, little devilish magic.
[1372.1s] So, okay.
[1373.0s] Oh, okay.
[1373.8s] Uh, you don't want to read the books.
[1375.2s] You just want to bring in fire monsters.
[1377.1s] Okay.
[1377.4s] Cool.
[1377.8s] Yeah.
[1378.0s] I mean, that's one way to do it.
[1382.8s] Yeah.
[1383.1s] No, that's so interesting.
[1387.2s] Yeah.
[1387.4s] I just totally dad commenting on your magic never done it himself.
[1391.4s] No idea about it.
[1392.8s] What, um, Kyle, what, what do I, what
[1397.0s] are we looking at?
[1398.1s] So we're looking at four of these little imp like creatures.
[1402.7s] They're having, uh, they look very slender.
[1406.3s] They're flying with like very like kind of flamey and magmas
[1409.7s] dripping off of their wings and off of their chin.
[1413.0s] They're a lot.
[1413.5s] Their tongue is just like lava dripping out of their mouth.
[1416.2s] Um, really sharp claws and nails and they're just kind of
[1418.4s] floating there like, Hey buddy, what's up?
[1422.4s] And, or, well, Russ, you can do whatever.
[1425.0s] Yeah.
[1427.5s] No.
[1427.9s] Yeah.
[1428.1s] You've just summoned four methods into the space.
[1431.3s] You don't have any control over them, right?
[1433.4s] No, I, I do.
[1434.7s] Yeah, you do.
[1435.6s] Yeah.
[1436.2s] They're friendly to me and my companions.
[1438.6s] Got it.
[1439.1s] Yeah.
[1439.3s] It's not.
[1439.6s] Oh yeah.
[1440.0s] It's not like summon minor demon or whatever.
[1443.8s] I'm actually conjuring minor elementals.
[1445.7s] So they're actually elementals, not devils.
[1447.4s] My bad.
[1448.2s] Got it.
[1448.6s] Got it.
[1448.9s] Got it.
[1449.0s] Yeah.
[1449.3s] How could you explain element?
[1450.9s] You're trying to dumb things down for me.
[1453.7s] They look like they're from hell.
[1455.2s] Yeah.
[1455.5s] Yeah.
[1456.4s] Sure.
[1456.7s] Uh, how fun.
[1458.1s] Okay.
[1458.4s] So maybe, um, maybe Bonwyn is like, sure, those are all of this.
[1466.0s] And, and we'd obviously cleaned out the forge of everything to your, you
[1470.7s] know, and I start like kind of getting some kindling back in there and trying
[1474.8s] like, okay, can you, yeah, try.
[1477.9s] Yeah.
[1478.2s] Uh, okay.
[1478.7s] Uh, jab, jab, jab, jib with a Y.
[1482.4s] Go on in there and, uh, they go in there and they stand, you know, in a
[1488.1s] circle around each other and, uh, they just exhale their fire breath
[1492.0s] right into the center of it.
[1493.3s] From the outside, you can see like this big burst of flame.
[1497.2s] You hear them kind of cackling to each other as they're trying to light this.
[1501.2s] You, you hear the crackle of wood.
[1504.0s] Um, and then everything is quickly extinguished and then like a plume
[1509.6s] of smoke pours out and the methods come.
[1516.6s] What if I put this in there?
[1517.7s] Should I put, I'm going to put this in there and, and I, I take that
[1522.2s] little dagger that I, that I had made and my dad doesn't know what's going on.
[1527.3s] It's fine.
[1527.8s] What, what are you doing with the, what, what are you doing with the dagger?
[1530.8s] Well, I said I needed to, you know, give something and need to lose something.
[1535.9s] And this is really valuable to me.
[1537.8s] So I thought maybe this could be a small sacrifice to the, to the flame in the
[1542.8s] forge and if that doesn't work, you're here.
[1549.0s] Who's the creepy child in the corner?
[1554.7s] Look, sir.
[1555.1s] We've just been watching until the window.
[1559.7s] Yeah.
[1560.0s] No, that's, that's fair.
[1560.9s] I mean, it's good to see all of you again.
[1562.6s] Um, okay.
[1563.8s] Yeah.
[1565.3s] Okay.
[1566.0s] Um, that is a recharge ability that I have to do.
[1568.6s] So I rolled four D six and I got three out of four sixes.
[1571.8s] So three of them can do it quickly again.
[1574.5s] So is it Jim with a Y that can't do it this time?
[1577.0s] Yeah, poor Jim with a Y.
[1579.7s] Okay.
[1580.3s] The three of them pile back in, uh, with the dagger and same thing goes.
[1585.3s] You're watching from the outside.
[1586.4s] You see like a wood spark, um, around the blade and then same thing.
[1592.1s] Everything seems like it gets like sucked into a place and then smoke
[1597.1s] shoots back out, um, the dagger remains.
[1600.9s] Um, and then the three of them pile back, or I guess four of them, because
[1604.2s] they would have tried to go, all go in, four of them pile back out.
[1610.0s] Thank you for trying to take some Tom's and grab it just in case it's
[1614.1s] hot and I put it down.
[1617.3s] Yeah.
[1617.7s] Um, y'all, y'all, y'all are dismissed.
[1621.2s] Y'all can, y'all can head on back and I break concentration on the, on the spell.
[1625.9s] Uh, at the same time, like, uh, there is a loud ringing in my ears as blood
[1630.5s] just begins to pour out of them.
[1632.1s] And I'm saying, Oh God, what did I do?
[1636.2s] Oh my Bazaar.
[1637.0s] Oh my God.
[1637.7s] Is your friend okay?
[1638.5s] What's Oh my God.
[1639.8s] Oh, okay.
[1640.8s] Okay.
[1641.2s] This, no, this is clean.
[1642.1s] Let me, it's okay.
[1643.9s] It's okay.
[1644.6s] It's okay.
[1645.3s] Everything's good.
[1646.4s] Shh.
[1647.2s] Well, I'll just, okay.
[1648.2s] I'm, I'm going to get a napkin.
[1650.6s] Is he okay?
[1651.9s] I don't know.
[1653.4s] I don't, I feel like I don't know anything anymore, to be honest.
[1657.8s] Why don't we go take a look through some of those books?
[1660.8s] Okay.
[1661.2s] Maybe we'll find something.
[1662.3s] Maybe we can, maybe your mom will be back and she can patch up your friend's
[1666.7s] head, uh, summons fire monsters, bleeds from his ears.
[1675.9s] I actually really want mom to meet his mom.
[1677.8s] Cause I think they'll hit it off.
[1679.2s] Uh, who's his mom?
[1680.8s] Her name's Clara and she's, she's taking over.
[1684.0s] Yeah.
[1684.2s] No, Claire has been down for lemonade a couple of times.
[1687.8s] Oh, Justin.
[1688.9s] Okay.
[1689.5s] Wow.
[1690.0s] Even though she was kind of redoing the whole store.
[1692.2s] Yeah.
[1692.4s] She's been very busy.
[1693.2s] I helped her with some of the shelter in there.
[1695.7s] Wow.
[1697.3s] Okay.
[1697.8s] Great.
[1698.2s] Did they like each other?
[1699.4s] Oh yeah.
[1699.8s] They hit it off.
[1701.8s] Uh, they're starting a canasta club.
[1704.2s] Of course they are looking for new members and he's pointing to cav.
[1709.9s] Is cav been there this whole time?
[1711.0s] This whole time.
[1711.4s] Just quietly sitting in the corner with Alvin.
[1713.5s] Yeah.
[1714.0s] Oh, I'm in there.
[1715.6s] I did not know.
[1716.2s] I did say you were all there at the beginning.
[1718.8s] Did you?
[1719.4s] Yeah.
[1719.6s] Oh, I missed that.
[1720.4s] Cause that's where we left.
[1721.2s] It was like, well, we're going to try and fix the forge.
[1723.3s] So we all went there.
[1724.8s] Whoops.
[1725.7s] That's okay.
[1727.7s] This cav in is two guards.
[1728.8s] Yeah, like two guards.
[1729.7s] Yeah.
[1730.4s] Have I not paid my like peace bond or anything?
[1732.9s] No, they're there.
[1735.1s] Yeah.
[1735.5s] The guards are waiting outside, but they, there's one at the
[1739.0s] front, one at the back.
[1740.3s] Good thing they don't know about the tunnels.
[1742.4s] I think everyone knows about the tunnels now, don't they?
[1744.7s] Pretty wide knowledge now.
[1747.1s] Maybe they don't know we have one.
[1748.8s] I don't think we want to go in there though.
[1752.2s] We cut down to your parents place and your dad leads you into his
[1757.8s] workshop and you see that he's been building lots of chairs and what
[1763.2s] looks like bed frames, a lot of different pieces, presumably.
[1769.2s] For the school says that, but just mind yourself.
[1772.6s] Don't, don't step on anything sharp.
[1774.8s] They're here.
[1775.1s] He grabs a couple of things and puts them up on the table.
[1778.1s] This is this, this kind of production level is so much, makes
[1784.2s] so much more sense for stuff for the kids than just like pumping
[1786.8s] out canoes like you were.
[1788.0s] So I'm glad I've really perfected the canoe.
[1790.6s] Uh, you know, they started, you know, the business is booming.
[1793.8s] Actually, there are lots of people trying it.
[1796.2s] Uh, they're gorgeous, but this is like.
[1799.2s] You're really making like a real material difference for those kids.
[1802.2s] So thank you.
[1802.9s] Oh, of course.
[1803.6s] Of course.
[1804.0s] Uh, here, give me a hand back here and he goes and goes to the back
[1807.4s] and there's this huge stack of boxes.
[1809.9s] It's gotta be one of these.
[1811.0s] He's trying to reach up to the top there.
[1814.1s] Hey, uh, you, you, uh, Kav was it right?
[1817.3s] You're going to come help me with the ones up top here?
[1819.6s] Sure.
[1820.1s] Yeah, absolutely.
[1821.2s] Right.
[1822.1s] You start handing them down, passing them out and it's opening up boxes
[1826.6s] they're coming down and maybe this one shuffles one to you.
[1831.0s] Bonwyn, uh, there's old journals in here.
[1835.3s] I don't know how far back they go.
[1836.9s] Oh my God.
[1837.4s] Not mine.
[1838.4s] I hope.
[1840.0s] Well, maybe this one's got the unicorn on it.
[1844.0s] All that might.
[1845.0s] Okay.
[1846.2s] Nobody read that.
[1847.8s] Okay.
[1848.1s] None of you.
[1848.6s] Uh, we'll just put that back in the box.
[1850.4s] Whoever finds it finds it and he passes it over to Bazaard.
[1853.5s] Um, everybody's kind of looking through and trying to find what, uh, trying
[1858.0s] to find anything of any value.
[1859.8s] Everybody want to roll either an investigation.
[1863.3s] Yeah.
[1863.5s] Probably just investigation.
[1866.4s] Not one.
[1867.2s] I'm too embarrassed about the thought that someone might read that journal
[1869.8s] that I wrote when I was a lot of years old.
[1871.2s] You are very distracted.
[1871.6s] Snatching things from people's hands at this point.
[1875.4s] Yeah.
[1875.6s] I'm just going around looking like, yeah, yeah.
[1877.2s] No, no, not that one.
[1878.4s] No, no magic shit in that one.
[1880.7s] Nope.
[1880.9s] Nothing.
[1881.3s] There's nothing important in that one.
[1882.4s] Don't worry about it.
[1883.6s] 1813.
[1885.7s] 22.
[1886.4s] Oh shit.
[1887.0s] Ooh, Alex.
[1889.2s] Do I have to roll a disadvantage?
[1890.8s] Wait, can I see out of my other eye?
[1892.8s] Yeah, you can see your eyes.
[1895.6s] I feel like I probably makeshift an eye patch or something.
[1900.5s] So as to not concern people around me, I'm tired of getting asked
[1905.9s] questions, but my shiny eye.
[1907.8s] Which has actually been like counterproductive because now they're
[1910.4s] asking, what did you do?
[1911.3s] So many questions.
[1912.2s] I'd just be like, I'm hooked it.
[1913.4s] Mind your business.
[1915.2s] Alydin, you're tossed a small box and you're filtering through.
[1919.8s] There's only a few books in there.
[1922.2s] There's, I mean.
[1923.3s] I'm good if it got tossed at me.
[1925.0s] Yeah.
[1925.8s] Surprisingly.
[1926.6s] A huge heavy box of books gets thrown at the child.
[1929.5s] That's right.
[1930.4s] Make a dexterity saving throw.
[1933.2s] You pick out a book and something about this book reads like fairy
[1939.6s] tale, but another part, there's a familiarity to it based on books
[1943.5s] you've seen at Bazaar's.
[1945.0s] The title of this book is Flames Beyond Fire.
[1949.0s] Sounds like a romance novel.
[1951.6s] Is there a shirtless man on the front?
[1954.2s] Some sort of firefighter, I'm sure.
[1958.4s] Tom, write that down.
[1959.2s] It's so good.
[1960.6s] Instant bestseller.
[1962.2s] Yeah, that would be.
[1964.2s] I want to flip.
[1965.0s] I want to flip through it.
[1967.4s] This looks important.
[1968.9s] Yeah.
[1969.1s] You flip through it and you start to see things.
[1972.0s] I mean, you don't know what exactly they're telling you, but there's a way
[1976.9s] in which this book is written that leads you to believe there are magical
[1981.5s] components to this book.
[1985.4s] Like it's very familiar from tomes that you've read of Bazaar's and
[1990.0s] spell books and that sort of thing that he has at his shop and just the
[1994.2s] way it's laid out, like this is jumping out to you, there's little
[1997.7s] notes in some of the ledgers.
[2000.8s] Bazaar.
[2002.1s] Yeah.
[2002.7s] Yeah.
[2003.8s] I waved the book.
[2005.4s] I think I got a good one.
[2007.2s] Oh, okay.
[2007.8s] Yeah.
[2008.4s] Check it out.
[2010.0s] Yeah.
[2010.2s] I'll open it up and flip through it.
[2012.6s] What's it called again real quick?
[2014.6s] Flames Beyond Fire.
[2016.6s] A Coral Between Lovers.
[2020.1s] The fire's in my pants.
[2024.2s] Something about burning loins.
[2026.2s] Okay.
[2027.9s] Who's the author?
[2028.8s] There is no author of this book.
[2031.1s] Anonymous.
[2031.8s] Okay.
[2033.3s] Keep your secrets.
[2034.5s] This is the best, most dangerous books.
[2036.4s] Yeah.
[2037.1s] Make an arcana roll as you take a look through this book.
[2042.2s] That's only a 10.
[2043.0s] Does anybody else have Reading Rainbow in their head?
[2044.5s] Yes.
[2045.7s] So much.
[2047.0s] You, as you begin flipping through this book, have a very, very
[2052.6s] vague memory of like just a little side class that was put on at Barnhart Swans.
[2061.6s] Speaking of which, you can get the shirts now on our store.
[2065.0s] Save it for the middle.
[2067.4s] God damn it.
[2069.0s] We're not going to have anything to talk about now.
[2070.6s] Oh, we're going to be fine.
[2071.7s] It'll be all good.
[2073.2s] You have a very faint memory of this very rare form of magical influence.
[2080.4s] It was referred to you as Anima Bound Fire.
[2084.8s] The concept is flames tied to identity and memory.
[2089.7s] Without further investigation, that's kind of where you're left based on what
[2094.2s] you're seeing as you're flipping through.
[2097.2s] Anima Bounds is the main character.
[2104.3s] I am just writing a romance novel in my head.
[2106.0s] Yeah, right.
[2106.7s] I mean, yeah.
[2108.2s] Yeah, this is, I'd have to, I'd have to spend more time.
[2115.5s] I'm right though, it's important, right?
[2116.3s] Huh?
[2117.2s] It's important, right?
[2118.4s] Yeah, you know, it's a, it's a good find for sure.
[2121.0s] Um, it talks in here about an Anima Bound Fire where, uh, specific
[2127.4s] fires and flames can be tied to like identities or, or memories.
[2132.7s] Um, shit.
[2138.2s] Swear jar, and I hold up my bucket.
[2145.2s] Hold up three fingers, three silver.
[2147.4s] I'll get you later.
[2148.4s] Um, I mean, that kind of confirms like the, like the loss of the memory.
[2155.9s] Uh, like, do you remember seeing what the memory that was lost?
[2159.3s] What was inside there?
[2159.9s] What was going on?
[2160.7s] I can't recall right off hand.
[2163.4s] The one that Bonwen lost?
[2165.1s] The one that Bonwen lost.
[2166.0s] Yeah.
[2168.0s] It was just, just Everbane's and there didn't seem to be
[2176.6s] anything super special about it.
[2178.7s] It was empty, um, except for, you know, the things that are around.
[2184.3s] He was smashing stuff, like picture frames and, and things like that.
[2190.6s] I was just wondering if it's like a specific memory or the
[2193.8s] idea of Everbane specifically.
[2198.2s] Like, I don't know.
[2203.2s] Maybe we got to go fix it.
[2204.3s] I don't know.
[2205.7s] Shit, I don't know.
[2206.9s] That's not the one.
[2211.8s] Dumbgeons and Dragons, season two, episode 29, starring Amy More as Alydin,
[2218.3s] Carla Maxted as Bonwen Everbane, Tom Laird as Kavlaran Goldweave,
[2223.1s] Kyle Klasset as Bizard the Wizard, and Russ More as your dungeon master.
[2227.8s] Dialogue editing and sound design of today's episode is by Russ More.
[2231.6s] Our community manager is Jessica Babiak.
[2234.0s] Music is from Epidemic Sound and sound effects are from
[2237.2s] Epidemic Sound and Boom Library.
[2239.3s] Our amazing cover art is by Matt Garbutt.
[2242.1s] And we'd like to say a huge thank you to our supporting
[2244.6s] producers, Gabriel Lynch, Jessica Babiak, Cat Waterflame,
[2248.5s] Aguron Kierzen, Perry Matey, Jacob Madden, Old School Gamer D, Craig
[2253.0s] Zeiss, L.A. Branton, and Chibs1012.
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[2282.7s] Yeah, that's right. You tell them, Loki.
[2285.7s] Paisley, don't everybody calm your shit.
[2289.5s] I just hit record and said we're going to play.
[2293.8s] Yeah, that's the those are the words they heard you saying,
[2297.6s] I'm going to record.
[2298.4s] And they were like, now, now scream, pull the cords off the table.
[2303.7s] How do we make that fuzz sound happen?
[2308.2s] We know they've been doing it.
[2309.7s] There's like a tiny and quite ill made little.
[2316.9s] Oh, my God, words.
[2320.0s] Small knife, the word is thank you.
[2324.6s] What I'm here for.
[2325.7s] I appreciate it.
[2326.4s] What the banjo man took from you.
[2327.8s] That's right. The word dagger.
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