1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:30,000 Dumbgeons and Dragons begins in a moment. As Thurston Lawfulgood says his goodbyes and disappears through the crowd heading back towards what you can presume is Kingstown with his big bag of money, we see coming from City Hall, there are several wagons out front. Being led by military guard are the mayor and many of his counterparts, a few of the nobles from town, all being led 2 00:00:30,000 --> 00:00:48,120 down kicking and screaming towards these wagons. The crowd that's outside of the courthouse quickly shifts and begins making their way over to these wagons throwing whatever they have on them. Bottles and tomatoes, I would assume a lot of rotten tomatoes, a lot of rotten tomatoes like they're not 3 00:00:48,120 --> 00:01:18,080 wasting good produce, no. We haven't said, but this town is just flush with rotten tomatoes specifically for these particular reasons. There's a weird curse. We'll find out more about that another time, I'm sure. But as they're being shoved in, one of the guards kind of looks over to the crowd and gives it like, everybody calm down, justice will be served. They're being taken to Kingstown to be put under their own trial to serve 4 00:01:18,120 --> 00:01:23,320 time. I don't know, I'm just the guard. Okay, I'm just here to take them away. 5 00:01:23,359 --> 00:01:24,960 You're doing a great job. 6 00:01:24,960 --> 00:01:29,800 We love you. Thank you. This guy said he's serving just us, meaning the 1%. Get him. 7 00:01:29,880 --> 00:01:32,439 No, no, no. Run. 8 00:01:32,439 --> 00:02:02,400 You catch a glimpse of the mayor who is comically upset in this moment. And as he kind of fades into the sunset, heading back towards Kingstown, he's looking through the back window. And you see he's got like this, you can't hear him because they put soundproof glass on there. But he has this look that he's about to say something like, if it wasn't for those damn kids, I'm going to kill you. 9 00:02:02,879 --> 00:02:10,280 I'll get you next time, Scooby Gang. Something like that. Maybe not exactly that because of copyright. But you get what I'm saying. 10 00:02:10,319 --> 00:02:12,520 Anybody know what he said? I couldn't hear it. 11 00:02:12,680 --> 00:02:15,319 I he was moving his mouth, but 12 00:02:15,840 --> 00:02:19,240 I mean, probably something like he'll be back for vengeance someday. 13 00:02:19,240 --> 00:02:23,439 No, I think it was something about peanut butter. I don't know. It was hard to follow. 14 00:02:23,840 --> 00:02:29,719 That's what he said kids, but I'm just one. You guys are all 15 00:02:29,759 --> 00:02:38,639 There was this trick we learned where if you're not a kid, where if you didn't know the words in a song, you could just mouth watermelon. And that usually worked. Maybe he was maybe he was saying watermelon. 16 00:02:39,520 --> 00:02:42,000 He didn't really have much good to say. 17 00:02:42,039 --> 00:02:42,680 Never did. 18 00:02:43,759 --> 00:02:44,800 Good one. Good one. 19 00:02:45,879 --> 00:02:47,879 So like Thurston's gone with all the money. Yeah. 20 00:02:48,439 --> 00:02:51,560 I'm just a random crowd person. I don't know who Thurston is. 21 00:02:51,599 --> 00:02:57,759 Sorry. You exactly sound just like Benson. Another person that I know with that exact same voice. 22 00:02:57,840 --> 00:02:58,400 It's weird. 23 00:02:58,439 --> 00:03:01,599 Sorry, sir. Yeah, you're much taller. 24 00:03:01,599 --> 00:03:03,520 I have one of those voices. I am much taller. 25 00:03:03,640 --> 00:03:07,640 All right, stranger. And then I walk away because I don't know what's a stranger. 26 00:03:08,840 --> 00:03:15,000 Dumbgeons and Dragons is a D&D actual play podcast and I'm your dungeon master Russ More, he him. 27 00:03:15,120 --> 00:03:18,599 Also with me today is Amy More as Alydin, she her. 28 00:03:18,719 --> 00:03:19,879 I let him touch my duck. 29 00:03:20,040 --> 00:03:25,360 Tom Laird is Kavlaran Goldweave, he him. I really missed it when I was stuck on house arrest. 30 00:03:25,440 --> 00:03:28,440 And Kyle Klasset is Bizard the Wizard, he him. 31 00:03:28,640 --> 00:03:31,880 This looks like part of the cuckoo clock that I was working on in the back room. 32 00:03:31,920 --> 00:03:39,760 A quick shout out to our Patreon family who make this show possible and get 130 or more exclusive episodes for their trouble. 33 00:03:40,000 --> 00:03:43,920 That's like a lot of D&D that you can get right now. 34 00:03:43,960 --> 00:03:46,400 Patreon.com slash dumb dragon cast. 35 00:03:46,400 --> 00:03:47,560 We hope to see you over there. 36 00:03:47,680 --> 00:03:49,560 And now fuck it. Let's play. 37 00:03:52,160 --> 00:03:53,920 We cut to the next day. 38 00:03:54,480 --> 00:03:59,680 Kav, you are back at your apartment, no guards in tow. 39 00:04:00,120 --> 00:04:06,040 Freedom is the first time you've tasted freedom since you've been back from the fey. 40 00:04:06,080 --> 00:04:10,240 And dare I say, even before going to the fey, because that wasn't really freedom. 41 00:04:11,560 --> 00:04:19,720 How long has it been since I've been back to the apartment and like separated from the guards? 42 00:04:20,360 --> 00:04:27,160 The guards you wouldn't you wouldn't have had the guards basically since the night before. 43 00:04:27,200 --> 00:04:29,440 Yeah, because like they wouldn't have been hanging out in the jail. 44 00:04:29,440 --> 00:04:33,240 Yeah, you would. If not them, then there were guards on you in the jail. 45 00:04:33,240 --> 00:04:38,360 So basically since you escaped jail is the last time you've had any guards on you. 46 00:04:38,360 --> 00:04:45,640 On the way out of jail and that I started to miss the guards because it's been a couple of days. 47 00:04:45,640 --> 00:04:49,320 So I sent them a little note to be like, hey, do you guys want to hang out? 48 00:04:49,880 --> 00:04:55,560 And now that I'm back in the apartment, I see that the reply has been like slipped under the door. 49 00:04:55,560 --> 00:04:58,560 So I eagerly open that up and it says no, thank you. 50 00:05:00,720 --> 00:05:04,560 Swiftly after that, there's another note that gets kicked under the door. 51 00:05:05,000 --> 00:05:06,720 Oh, man, all sorts of mail. 52 00:05:06,720 --> 00:05:09,040 And I open the door to like see who it was. 53 00:05:09,040 --> 00:05:10,440 Do I see anyone out in the hallway? 54 00:05:10,440 --> 00:05:13,160 Oh, my God, you try to catch them while they're trying to sneakily. 55 00:05:13,520 --> 00:05:16,280 The anxiety within me cannot. 56 00:05:16,320 --> 00:05:18,560 Hold on. Yeah. 57 00:05:18,560 --> 00:05:20,360 No, you don't see them. 58 00:05:20,360 --> 00:05:21,880 So fucking rude. 59 00:05:21,880 --> 00:05:24,800 Like the hallways are quite long to before. 60 00:05:27,680 --> 00:05:29,040 Amy can't even. 61 00:05:30,000 --> 00:05:31,000 No other doors. 62 00:05:31,000 --> 00:05:36,680 Do you open the door when you're like door dash or Uber eats or skip the dishes person is there? 63 00:05:37,000 --> 00:05:39,240 Depends how hungry I am. 64 00:05:39,240 --> 00:05:41,120 I wait outside the front door. 65 00:05:41,120 --> 00:05:42,800 I wait. I don't. 66 00:05:42,800 --> 00:05:45,840 I wait at the peephole like the weirdo I am. 67 00:05:46,080 --> 00:05:46,760 I'm sorry. 68 00:05:46,760 --> 00:05:49,920 Kyle waits up the block and then tails back to the house. 69 00:05:50,160 --> 00:05:52,320 I got to make sure they drive safe through my neighborhood. 70 00:05:52,320 --> 00:05:54,360 Right. OK, sorry about that. 71 00:05:54,360 --> 00:05:55,960 Yeah, that's OK. I'm not actually sorry. 72 00:05:55,960 --> 00:05:58,240 OK, no one. No one in the hallway. Yeah. 73 00:05:59,560 --> 00:06:03,320 OK, I'm going to open up my new piece of mail and see what's see what's up. 74 00:06:03,520 --> 00:06:09,280 It says Kavlarin, please report to City Hall at nine a.m. 75 00:06:09,280 --> 00:06:11,960 You look and it's eight fifty seven. 76 00:06:12,800 --> 00:06:15,280 Sincerely, Nina. 77 00:06:15,280 --> 00:06:19,840 All right. And it's probably more than a three minute leisurely stroll 78 00:06:19,840 --> 00:06:22,520 to City Hall from where I am. Yeah, definitely. 79 00:06:22,520 --> 00:06:24,680 Yeah. All right. 80 00:06:24,680 --> 00:06:27,720 I'm going to go run through town to see if I can get there on time. 81 00:06:28,040 --> 00:06:31,920 All right. You quickly get yourself ready and bolt out the door. 82 00:06:31,920 --> 00:06:34,320 And we it's a skills challenge. 83 00:06:36,360 --> 00:06:39,440 Suddenly, there's a giant boulder rolling behind you. 84 00:06:39,640 --> 00:06:41,200 What do you do? 85 00:06:41,200 --> 00:06:44,040 Cardiff, I mean, I avoid the man with the fruit cart. 86 00:06:44,040 --> 00:06:44,879 Absolutely. 87 00:06:44,879 --> 00:06:47,560 Somebody dumping refuse out the second story window. 88 00:06:47,560 --> 00:06:50,200 All these rotten tomatoes just everywhere. 89 00:06:50,600 --> 00:06:53,040 Just everywhere. Slip and fall on them. 90 00:06:54,400 --> 00:06:57,480 We fade out on you as you're running towards City Hall 91 00:06:57,480 --> 00:07:02,640 and jump over to Bazaar and Mom's Marvels, formerly the Magic Closet, 92 00:07:03,560 --> 00:07:06,560 where Bazaar, you are just getting up for the day. 93 00:07:06,560 --> 00:07:09,080 You hear some movement downstairs. 94 00:07:09,080 --> 00:07:12,320 You look and you assume it's either your mom or Alydin. 95 00:07:13,040 --> 00:07:18,800 And as you come down in, you hear Alydin like burst from the back room. 96 00:07:19,719 --> 00:07:22,279 Hmm. What's the noise? 97 00:07:23,040 --> 00:07:24,920 What's going on? I did something. 98 00:07:24,920 --> 00:07:28,159 OK. Good. Bad. Yes. 99 00:07:29,519 --> 00:07:32,759 OK. I broke a few things, but that's OK. 100 00:07:32,759 --> 00:07:34,600 That's fine. Mm hmm. 101 00:07:34,600 --> 00:07:37,319 And I reach into my bucket 102 00:07:37,599 --> 00:07:45,199 and I pull out this little like mechanical toy duck. 103 00:07:48,120 --> 00:07:50,600 Do you mind? Do you mind if I check it out? 104 00:07:50,680 --> 00:07:52,079 Yeah, don't break it. 105 00:07:52,079 --> 00:07:54,079 Wouldn't dream of it. I let him touch my duck. 106 00:07:54,519 --> 00:07:56,800 Yeah, I'm going to inspect this thing over, 107 00:07:56,800 --> 00:08:00,240 look it over, set it down on the desk and just kind of look at how it stands 108 00:08:00,240 --> 00:08:04,079 and, you know, really try to get a like glean something. 109 00:08:04,639 --> 00:08:07,839 Um, like, well, how does it? 110 00:08:09,159 --> 00:08:10,680 How does it work? 111 00:08:11,199 --> 00:08:13,120 OK. What do you do? 112 00:08:13,120 --> 00:08:14,919 Hold on, Amy's reading. 113 00:08:14,919 --> 00:08:18,079 This looks like part of the cuckoo clock that I was working on in the back room. 114 00:08:19,319 --> 00:08:21,719 I haven't seen a cuckoo clock. 115 00:08:21,719 --> 00:08:25,199 OK. So, OK, I pet its head. 116 00:08:25,199 --> 00:08:31,199 And from within the duck's body, there's a soft like blue. 117 00:08:31,439 --> 00:08:33,960 Or what color did I say my coin shined with? 118 00:08:34,080 --> 00:08:35,879 I think it was blue. 119 00:08:35,879 --> 00:08:37,840 Yeah, it was like a white or a white blue. 120 00:08:37,840 --> 00:08:40,200 Yeah, that same color. Yeah. 121 00:08:41,600 --> 00:08:44,960 Kind of radiates from the inside of the duck. 122 00:08:46,200 --> 00:08:48,679 And I say, can you go get me that wand? 123 00:08:49,080 --> 00:08:52,039 And the duck hops out of your hands 124 00:08:53,319 --> 00:08:58,279 and waddles over and grabs the wand that I was pointing at 125 00:08:59,079 --> 00:09:01,679 and then brings it back to me. 126 00:09:02,279 --> 00:09:04,679 And I take the wand and I go, huh? 127 00:09:04,679 --> 00:09:07,039 Ha ha ha ha. OK. 128 00:09:07,199 --> 00:09:08,959 How's it alive? 129 00:09:08,959 --> 00:09:11,879 I that's a really good question. 130 00:09:11,879 --> 00:09:15,519 I kind of know because I have these books that I took off the shelf. 131 00:09:15,519 --> 00:09:17,799 And I know that you said to wait for you, but like I didn't 132 00:09:17,799 --> 00:09:19,679 because I couldn't sleep. 133 00:09:19,679 --> 00:09:23,199 And so I just started, you know, like I was just I followed. 134 00:09:23,240 --> 00:09:24,839 It's kind of like cooking. 135 00:09:24,839 --> 00:09:28,120 OK, yeah, yeah, I can I can get that analogy. 136 00:09:29,279 --> 00:09:32,039 It's a very good way of looking at it, especially if it makes sense. 137 00:09:32,039 --> 00:09:36,559 And I mean, the the initiative you're showing yourself starter. 138 00:09:36,559 --> 00:09:41,000 And I'm I'm really proud of you for just 139 00:09:41,879 --> 00:09:44,919 stepping in and doing this 140 00:09:44,919 --> 00:09:48,199 and discovering what your talents are on your own. 141 00:09:48,199 --> 00:09:50,679 I mean, I'm certainly happy to be making ducks. 142 00:09:51,559 --> 00:09:53,759 And you know what? Make ducks, you shall. 143 00:09:54,000 --> 00:09:56,519 Is is it alive? 144 00:09:57,519 --> 00:10:00,559 It's like someone making a dish that they've never cooked before, 145 00:10:00,559 --> 00:10:02,879 so they have no idea what it's supposed to look like. 146 00:10:03,799 --> 00:10:07,120 Going, you know, even reference frame going with that analogy 147 00:10:07,919 --> 00:10:10,000 is is a stuck alive. 148 00:10:10,319 --> 00:10:12,879 I it is, 149 00:10:14,319 --> 00:10:19,279 I believe, an automaton, a think about. 150 00:10:19,279 --> 00:10:22,199 OK, so there's these creatures called golems, 151 00:10:22,199 --> 00:10:25,279 and they're crafted out of all sorts of different materials, 152 00:10:25,279 --> 00:10:29,919 but they are imbued with a magical essence that like animates them. 153 00:10:30,360 --> 00:10:32,279 It's animated with magic. 154 00:10:32,279 --> 00:10:36,480 But because it is, there is a personal touch to it. 155 00:10:36,839 --> 00:10:39,360 You know, part of you, 156 00:10:40,399 --> 00:10:42,559 you know, is exhibited through the creature. 157 00:10:42,559 --> 00:10:46,319 And that's why you probably have, I mean, have such a bond with it. 158 00:10:46,720 --> 00:10:48,720 I think it's imprinted on you. 159 00:10:48,720 --> 00:10:50,919 Isn't that's what isn't that what ducks do? 160 00:10:51,720 --> 00:10:54,079 Yeah, I guess. I guess so. 161 00:10:54,080 --> 00:10:57,040 My God, I'm like, it's God. 162 00:10:57,040 --> 00:10:59,200 But I just want it as a friend and I pick it up. 163 00:10:59,800 --> 00:11:00,800 I didn't name it. 164 00:11:00,800 --> 00:11:06,800 Also, I borrowed something and I lift the duck's wing. 165 00:11:07,240 --> 00:11:12,759 And it's I mean, it was this is my first pass at this duck. 166 00:11:12,759 --> 00:11:18,680 So it does not look like it's like bony. 167 00:11:18,680 --> 00:11:21,200 I would like I lift the wing and you can see like 168 00:11:21,840 --> 00:11:29,120 like metal, like nails that I've bent into place as rib bones. 169 00:11:29,600 --> 00:11:31,800 And inside, there's a crystal. 170 00:11:32,520 --> 00:11:37,840 I found that in the back and I hope that's OK. 171 00:11:38,320 --> 00:11:41,240 You know what? I don't even remember that being there. 172 00:11:41,240 --> 00:11:43,080 And I try to live by rule. 173 00:11:43,080 --> 00:11:45,800 If I haven't used it in a year, then I probably didn't need to use it. 174 00:11:45,800 --> 00:11:48,720 Fantastic. It's like it was waiting for me. 175 00:11:48,720 --> 00:11:50,920 OK, I have to think of a name. 176 00:11:51,200 --> 00:11:55,480 Think of a name and, you know, we can we can talk to Bonwyn 177 00:11:55,680 --> 00:11:58,320 about improving, you know, maybe the structure of it. 178 00:11:59,240 --> 00:12:03,680 I would give advice on how to maybe cover up the more precious parts 179 00:12:04,120 --> 00:12:05,560 like the stone. 180 00:12:05,560 --> 00:12:08,120 But I think Bonwyn would serve you better in that area, 181 00:12:08,120 --> 00:12:09,840 being able to armor in some ways. 182 00:12:09,840 --> 00:12:13,480 She can teach me how to do metal smithing. 183 00:12:13,840 --> 00:12:17,560 I mean, if this is if this is part of the craft that you have 184 00:12:17,560 --> 00:12:23,000 and there's this marriage of metallurgy and magic, then, I mean, 185 00:12:24,000 --> 00:12:27,720 you're going to need more than one mentor and more than one person. 186 00:12:27,760 --> 00:12:29,200 I can't do any of that. 187 00:12:29,200 --> 00:12:33,400 So by all means, you've I'm here to help you figure out 188 00:12:33,400 --> 00:12:37,280 what you want to do and not make you do what I think you should do. 189 00:12:37,280 --> 00:12:40,760 So explore. OK. 190 00:12:41,640 --> 00:12:43,680 Come on, duck quack. 191 00:12:44,640 --> 00:12:47,280 That's a really good quack sound. Solid. 192 00:12:48,560 --> 00:12:51,240 I've been practicing, so I've been sitting over here 193 00:12:51,240 --> 00:12:54,280 for this entire scene, like, OK, they're going to call on the duck 194 00:12:54,280 --> 00:12:55,720 here any moment. Any minute. 195 00:12:55,720 --> 00:12:57,960 Now is my time to shine. Get ready. 196 00:12:58,400 --> 00:13:01,840 And the duck and I waddle over to the corner where I was 197 00:13:03,080 --> 00:13:07,320 where I had all these books open and I snuggle up with it in my lap 198 00:13:07,320 --> 00:13:10,280 and I start to flip through the pages and read. 199 00:13:11,640 --> 00:13:15,480 I'm about to walk out to the front of the of the store. 200 00:13:15,519 --> 00:13:17,200 And I turn back and say, 201 00:13:17,200 --> 00:13:19,519 do you remember that when you're done with your experiments, 202 00:13:19,519 --> 00:13:21,200 you need to clean up after yourself? 203 00:13:21,200 --> 00:13:24,120 Yeah. Yeah. It's the one rule. I know. Just remember. 204 00:13:25,920 --> 00:13:28,920 I'm proud of you. Remember that. OK. 205 00:13:30,240 --> 00:13:31,879 And I walk through the door and close it. 206 00:13:31,879 --> 00:13:35,080 For D&D sake, because that's what we're playing. 207 00:13:35,440 --> 00:13:39,320 I made a homunculus servant. 208 00:13:39,360 --> 00:13:42,480 Yeah, you did. With an armor class of 13. 209 00:13:42,680 --> 00:13:48,240 And it can it has 20 walking speed, 30 flying speed. 210 00:13:49,360 --> 00:13:52,600 It's immune to none of your fucking business, Russ. 211 00:13:53,360 --> 00:13:56,120 I mean, I can just look it up. Yeah, fine. OK. 212 00:13:57,440 --> 00:13:59,039 I also have a computer. 213 00:13:59,039 --> 00:14:02,320 You you don't have the ability to find this. 214 00:14:02,440 --> 00:14:03,960 You'll never have this. 215 00:14:03,960 --> 00:14:06,600 I can only find this like 10 percent of the time 216 00:14:06,600 --> 00:14:09,600 when I'm looking for it in my character sheet. So. 217 00:14:10,600 --> 00:14:13,440 Damage immunity is to poison condition. 218 00:14:13,440 --> 00:14:16,040 Immunity is exhaustion and poisoned. Can't do it. 219 00:14:16,159 --> 00:14:18,000 It's got dark vision. 220 00:14:18,000 --> 00:14:20,440 It understands my languages. 221 00:14:20,440 --> 00:14:25,560 It has evasion, which means if the homunculus is subjected 222 00:14:25,560 --> 00:14:28,279 to an effect that allows it to make a dexterity saving throw 223 00:14:28,440 --> 00:14:31,360 to take only half damage, it instead just takes no damage 224 00:14:31,360 --> 00:14:34,639 if it succeeds and only half of it fails. 225 00:14:35,279 --> 00:14:39,519 And it's got the action of forced strike, 226 00:14:39,919 --> 00:14:42,679 which is a ranged weapon attack. 227 00:14:42,679 --> 00:14:45,960 It's my spell modifier to hit the range is 30 feet 228 00:14:46,600 --> 00:14:50,840 and does force damage, and it also can channel magic. 229 00:14:51,360 --> 00:14:56,360 Humunculus delivers a spell you cast that has a range of touch. 230 00:14:56,600 --> 00:14:59,000 And the humunculus must be within 20 feet of you. 231 00:14:59,200 --> 00:15:01,519 So like I could throw my duck at something 232 00:15:02,039 --> 00:15:05,519 and my duck could deliver like shocking grasp or something. 233 00:15:05,799 --> 00:15:07,559 Yes. Awesome. 234 00:15:07,559 --> 00:15:11,600 So is the duck more buff than most of your player characters? 235 00:15:12,600 --> 00:15:14,079 Maybe. Yeah. Yeah. 236 00:15:14,079 --> 00:15:17,199 That's cool. I mean, well, don't forget that duck anywhere. 237 00:15:17,679 --> 00:15:20,919 This duck lives in my bucket. It's a duck. It's. 238 00:15:24,319 --> 00:15:26,960 And then the next one, you have to say duck it. Let's play. 239 00:15:28,799 --> 00:15:30,279 Write that down. 240 00:15:30,279 --> 00:15:33,120 That's good. That's gold. 241 00:15:33,120 --> 00:15:35,679 Let's play. Got it. Thanks. 242 00:15:35,679 --> 00:15:37,600 100 percent. Love it. 243 00:15:37,600 --> 00:15:39,799 Perfect. Amazing. Could do no better. 244 00:15:42,839 --> 00:15:44,519 Yo, what up? Yes, welcome. 245 00:15:44,519 --> 00:15:46,799 Welcome. It's great to be here in the middle. 246 00:15:48,519 --> 00:15:50,199 It is comfy. 247 00:15:50,199 --> 00:15:53,319 We're. What year is it? 248 00:15:53,319 --> 00:15:55,079 We're in October now. 249 00:15:55,079 --> 00:15:57,240 Mm hmm. Twenty twenty five. 250 00:15:57,240 --> 00:15:59,600 Yes. Twenty five. Still. It's been a long one. 251 00:16:00,000 --> 00:16:00,920 You know what we have? 252 00:16:00,920 --> 00:16:04,360 We have our other show coming back next week. 253 00:16:05,120 --> 00:16:07,000 Next week. That's very soon. 254 00:16:07,000 --> 00:16:09,960 That would be a totally appropriate thing to talk about here in the middle. 255 00:16:09,960 --> 00:16:12,480 Amy, tell me more. I just interrupted you and tried to. 256 00:16:12,480 --> 00:16:14,840 What? No, I'm not sure if I said the right show because. 257 00:16:14,840 --> 00:16:16,639 Which show? Cyberpunk. 258 00:16:16,639 --> 00:16:19,840 Well, yes, but it's on Facing Fate, which is the name of our show. 259 00:16:19,840 --> 00:16:21,879 Oh, yes. Yeah, it's a show. 260 00:16:21,879 --> 00:16:23,879 Chromeheads and Corpos. 261 00:16:23,879 --> 00:16:26,440 Yeah. Is that a secret or is that. 262 00:16:26,440 --> 00:16:28,519 I didn't know. I didn't know. 263 00:16:28,519 --> 00:16:30,439 Trailer's already out in the feed. 264 00:16:30,439 --> 00:16:33,199 Oh, baby. Maybe time. 265 00:16:33,199 --> 00:16:34,840 It will be. It's scheduled. 266 00:16:34,840 --> 00:16:36,240 Guys, you should listen. 267 00:16:36,240 --> 00:16:37,759 It's really great. 268 00:16:37,759 --> 00:16:38,879 Kyle was the boss. 269 00:16:38,879 --> 00:16:41,199 That's what you call the the game master, right? 270 00:16:41,199 --> 00:16:42,039 The boss. Yeah. 271 00:16:42,039 --> 00:16:43,720 You call it the referee. 272 00:16:43,720 --> 00:16:46,439 The referee. Yeah, yeah. 273 00:16:46,439 --> 00:16:47,480 I like that. 274 00:16:47,480 --> 00:16:48,480 It's really fun. 275 00:16:48,480 --> 00:16:50,319 We're so out of our element. 276 00:16:50,319 --> 00:16:54,919 Oh, my God. Doing doing the murders and things like we're not prepared. 277 00:16:54,919 --> 00:16:56,120 Yeah. Oh, please. 278 00:16:56,120 --> 00:16:58,480 They know that we're living in a dangerous 279 00:16:58,480 --> 00:17:05,160 place and everyone's doing killing here has to be appropriate for where we live. 280 00:17:05,160 --> 00:17:10,240 So it's just different because we're mostly trying to make friends and be kind. 281 00:17:10,240 --> 00:17:12,720 That's right. And this is not that. 282 00:17:12,720 --> 00:17:13,839 No. Yeah. 283 00:17:13,839 --> 00:17:18,640 Sometimes facilitating survival is not conducive to making friends. 284 00:17:18,640 --> 00:17:21,839 Exactly. So but it's a really good show. 285 00:17:21,839 --> 00:17:23,839 We like it a lot if you listen to it. 286 00:17:23,839 --> 00:17:25,000 Oh, yeah. 287 00:17:25,000 --> 00:17:27,160 Yeah, you all have cracked me up any times. 288 00:17:27,200 --> 00:17:29,320 We all worked really hard on it. 289 00:17:29,320 --> 00:17:30,800 Mostly Kyle and Russ. 290 00:17:30,800 --> 00:17:33,880 Yes, they worked very hard, very hard on it. 291 00:17:33,880 --> 00:17:35,800 So, you know, face it. 292 00:17:35,800 --> 00:17:38,200 Give her a little listen. 293 00:17:38,200 --> 00:17:39,160 Missed you, Kyle. 294 00:17:39,160 --> 00:17:42,400 Didn't even catch it, didn't even catch it. 295 00:17:42,400 --> 00:17:43,360 Good times. 296 00:17:43,360 --> 00:17:45,720 Hey, how's that name coming here? 297 00:17:45,720 --> 00:17:48,800 Yeah, I was going to say, am I wrong that there's already cyberpunk 298 00:17:48,800 --> 00:17:50,840 content over on our Patreon? 299 00:17:50,840 --> 00:17:52,240 Absolutely, there is. 300 00:17:52,240 --> 00:17:56,120 And now that the episodes are actually releasing, 301 00:17:56,120 --> 00:18:00,160 I'm going to get them out before they go out to the public. 302 00:18:00,160 --> 00:18:03,080 So you get early access when you join. 303 00:18:03,080 --> 00:18:05,640 I'm sorry, everybody's been a patron for the last year and a half, 304 00:18:05,640 --> 00:18:06,680 and we've been talking about it. 305 00:18:06,680 --> 00:18:08,520 We won't talk about that, though, 306 00:18:08,520 --> 00:18:11,840 because you also get something else when you're a patron, right? 307 00:18:11,840 --> 00:18:14,080 Yeah, you get an episode dedicated to you. 308 00:18:14,080 --> 00:18:15,000 That's right. 309 00:18:15,000 --> 00:18:19,360 And today's patron, who we dedicate this episode to, is Ted Hubbard. 310 00:18:19,360 --> 00:18:22,400 Thank you so much. 311 00:18:22,400 --> 00:18:23,640 Oh, my goodness. 312 00:18:23,640 --> 00:18:25,320 Ted, are you so wholesome? 313 00:18:25,319 --> 00:18:28,480 That's the most wholesome sounding name I ever heard. 314 00:18:28,480 --> 00:18:29,279 I like it. 315 00:18:29,279 --> 00:18:34,599 Ted, just just baking bread, being nice to their neighbors. 316 00:18:34,599 --> 00:18:36,919 Probably a great pet owner. 317 00:18:36,919 --> 00:18:38,079 Oh, probably. 318 00:18:38,079 --> 00:18:39,119 Yeah, absolutely. 319 00:18:39,119 --> 00:18:42,879 Or conversely, a total punk rock badass with a wholesome name, 320 00:18:42,879 --> 00:18:44,119 and either way, crushing it. 321 00:18:44,119 --> 00:18:44,960 Ted, thanks. 322 00:18:44,960 --> 00:18:46,119 Yeah, absolutely. 323 00:18:46,119 --> 00:18:47,559 We're lucky to have you, Ted. 324 00:18:47,559 --> 00:18:49,159 Thanks for being here for so long, Ted. 325 00:18:49,159 --> 00:18:51,799 We love and appreciate you. 326 00:18:51,839 --> 00:18:55,399 And yeah, when you sign up and you're like Ted, 327 00:18:55,399 --> 00:18:57,839 and you commit for the long haul, 328 00:18:57,839 --> 00:19:00,680 you get those early Facing Fate episodes 329 00:19:00,680 --> 00:19:03,399 and a whole bunch of other stuff. 330 00:19:03,399 --> 00:19:04,720 It's a great time. 331 00:19:04,720 --> 00:19:06,879 We've already talked about it all ad nauseam. 332 00:19:06,879 --> 00:19:09,639 So see you over there. 333 00:19:09,639 --> 00:19:10,599 Just ask Ted. 334 00:19:10,599 --> 00:19:11,200 They know. 335 00:19:11,200 --> 00:19:11,960 Give them a call. 336 00:19:11,960 --> 00:19:12,879 Go to the Discord. 337 00:19:12,879 --> 00:19:14,200 Say, hey, Ted, what up? 338 00:19:14,200 --> 00:19:15,399 Just like that. 339 00:19:15,399 --> 00:19:21,319 Ted, it's 555-555-5555, as for Ted. 340 00:19:21,359 --> 00:19:22,159 You got it. 341 00:19:22,159 --> 00:19:23,119 Thanks, Ted. 342 00:19:23,119 --> 00:19:26,519 OK, let's get back to the episode 343 00:19:26,519 --> 00:19:28,159 where we're having a great time, too. 344 00:19:28,159 --> 00:19:31,480 And you will be in the episode. 345 00:19:32,480 --> 00:19:33,480 OK, love you, bye. 346 00:19:33,480 --> 00:19:34,480 Love you, bye. 347 00:19:34,480 --> 00:19:36,679 What a weird way to end it. 348 00:19:36,679 --> 00:19:38,480 You're going to be in the episode, everybody. 349 00:19:38,480 --> 00:19:41,079 You're going to be in the episode, I think. 350 00:19:41,079 --> 00:19:41,879 What? 351 00:19:41,879 --> 00:19:44,319 What do you mean? 352 00:19:44,319 --> 00:19:47,159 We cut over to City Hall. 353 00:19:48,160 --> 00:19:50,920 And Cav, you are... 354 00:19:50,920 --> 00:19:52,759 You've cavbooked it, I think? 355 00:19:52,759 --> 00:19:57,600 I'm assuming there's some sort of, like, Ferris Bueller day off 356 00:19:57,600 --> 00:20:01,240 running hijinks that I've gotten into along the way. 357 00:20:01,240 --> 00:20:02,440 Yeah, of course. 358 00:20:02,440 --> 00:20:04,759 There's a parade that you've had to cut through 359 00:20:04,759 --> 00:20:07,400 and you've actually joined in, started to sing a song. 360 00:20:07,400 --> 00:20:08,720 So we'll get that. 361 00:20:08,720 --> 00:20:09,680 We can get that later. 362 00:20:09,680 --> 00:20:10,880 That's fine. 363 00:20:10,880 --> 00:20:12,680 We'll roll the tape back on that one, no worries. 364 00:20:12,680 --> 00:20:14,720 I know you're good for it. 365 00:20:14,920 --> 00:20:16,920 There's a swimming pool. 366 00:20:16,920 --> 00:20:20,160 You know, you're leaping over people in their backyards, 367 00:20:20,160 --> 00:20:22,480 stopping at the at the gorsches of the group. 368 00:20:22,480 --> 00:20:23,480 Of course, yeah. 369 00:20:23,480 --> 00:20:24,360 Of course, yeah. 370 00:20:24,360 --> 00:20:26,480 Run up through City Hall. 371 00:20:26,480 --> 00:20:29,600 And, I mean, you tell me where you go. 372 00:20:29,600 --> 00:20:33,120 Nina's the one that presumably sent the letter. 373 00:20:33,120 --> 00:20:37,519 There's, like, the golden fountain in the front courtyard. 374 00:20:37,519 --> 00:20:39,039 That's where I would go, yeah. 375 00:20:39,039 --> 00:20:43,240 Making your way through the city, you see the golden fountain. 376 00:20:43,519 --> 00:20:45,680 You stop on one side. 377 00:20:45,680 --> 00:20:50,359 Nina's nowhere to be seen in the immediate vicinity. 378 00:20:50,359 --> 00:20:52,079 Gives you a moment to catch your breath 379 00:20:52,079 --> 00:20:57,079 and, like, swat the fog words. 380 00:20:57,319 --> 00:20:58,160 I know. 381 00:20:58,160 --> 00:20:59,079 Dab the sweat from your brow. 382 00:20:59,079 --> 00:21:00,839 I'm having that day, too, so. 383 00:21:00,839 --> 00:21:01,839 Yeah. 384 00:21:01,839 --> 00:21:03,440 We'll just all muddle through together. 385 00:21:03,440 --> 00:21:05,240 Maybe we'll only do one today. 386 00:21:05,240 --> 00:21:06,079 We'll see how it goes. 387 00:21:06,079 --> 00:21:06,920 Okay, sometimes I'll come up 388 00:21:06,920 --> 00:21:08,839 with, like, really good words like duck it. 389 00:21:08,839 --> 00:21:10,079 It's fine, okay? 390 00:21:10,079 --> 00:21:11,880 Amy, shoulder the load for the rest of us. 391 00:21:11,880 --> 00:21:12,720 We create words. 392 00:21:12,880 --> 00:21:13,720 Got you guys. 393 00:21:13,720 --> 00:21:14,680 Not the other way around. 394 00:21:14,680 --> 00:21:15,519 That's right. 395 00:21:15,519 --> 00:21:16,360 That's right. 396 00:21:16,360 --> 00:21:18,240 We don't need to use these all ready words. 397 00:21:20,240 --> 00:21:22,920 Fucking all ready words, how dare they? 398 00:21:22,920 --> 00:21:24,920 These goddamn all ready words. 399 00:21:24,920 --> 00:21:26,240 Thought I had a good vocab, 400 00:21:26,240 --> 00:21:28,640 but turns out I just know a lot of all ready words. 401 00:21:28,640 --> 00:21:29,480 Yeah, right? 402 00:21:31,920 --> 00:21:33,799 Fucking all ready words. 403 00:21:33,799 --> 00:21:34,640 God damn. 404 00:21:38,880 --> 00:21:41,839 You're dabbing your brow of all the sweat 405 00:21:41,839 --> 00:21:43,639 from your Ferris Bueller's run. 406 00:21:48,119 --> 00:21:49,639 Yep, no, this is all making sense. 407 00:21:49,639 --> 00:21:50,480 Keep going with it. 408 00:21:50,480 --> 00:21:51,959 Yep, we're crushing it. 409 00:21:51,959 --> 00:21:54,879 And you sit down at the Golden Fountain, 410 00:21:54,879 --> 00:21:56,839 which is covered in tomatoes, 411 00:21:56,839 --> 00:21:59,159 rotten tomatoes particularly, 412 00:21:59,159 --> 00:22:02,199 and you hear quick footsteps coming from behind you, 413 00:22:02,199 --> 00:22:04,720 which is not unusual because it's, you know, 414 00:22:04,720 --> 00:22:07,240 relatively busy here for the morning. 415 00:22:07,240 --> 00:22:11,759 And you hear just a little clearing of a throat 416 00:22:12,599 --> 00:22:16,200 Cough Lauren. 417 00:22:16,200 --> 00:22:17,039 Oh, hey. 418 00:22:17,039 --> 00:22:18,440 Hey, what's up, Nina? 419 00:22:18,440 --> 00:22:22,240 You were supposed to be here exactly 17 minutes ago. 420 00:22:22,240 --> 00:22:24,160 Okay, well, funny story. 421 00:22:24,160 --> 00:22:27,960 I didn't get your note until like right before 10. 422 00:22:27,960 --> 00:22:32,839 So kind of took me a little bit to get here. 423 00:22:32,839 --> 00:22:34,240 Yes, yes, yes. 424 00:22:34,240 --> 00:22:35,720 Come with me, come with me. 425 00:22:35,720 --> 00:22:37,279 So you're cleared of all charges. 426 00:22:37,279 --> 00:22:41,720 She starts walking off towards the actual City Hall. 427 00:22:42,680 --> 00:22:43,680 Mayor Knops has been taken to Kingstown 428 00:22:43,680 --> 00:22:46,079 along with a lot of his cohorts. 429 00:22:46,079 --> 00:22:49,360 As discussed, I am, and she looks at you, 430 00:22:49,360 --> 00:22:54,360 and also I work in Kingstown for the Auditor's Department. 431 00:22:54,880 --> 00:22:56,960 I remember, obviously. 432 00:22:56,960 --> 00:22:58,440 My question for you is, 433 00:22:58,440 --> 00:23:01,600 do you want to remain employed in Vintersmouth? 434 00:23:01,600 --> 00:23:03,600 She turns around and looks up at you. 435 00:23:04,680 --> 00:23:06,759 I mean, like, I do kind of like it here. 436 00:23:06,759 --> 00:23:09,039 Is there more work to be done? 437 00:23:10,039 --> 00:23:15,039 Oh, she leans in and like moves to put her hand 438 00:23:15,039 --> 00:23:17,839 up on your shoulder, but is like ushering you 439 00:23:17,839 --> 00:23:20,720 to like kneel down a little bit so that she can. 440 00:23:20,720 --> 00:23:23,240 Yeah, she puts her hand on your shoulder 441 00:23:23,240 --> 00:23:25,159 once you bend down a little bit. 442 00:23:25,159 --> 00:23:26,960 The work is just getting started. 443 00:23:28,119 --> 00:23:30,240 Cool, okay, well, what's next? 444 00:23:30,240 --> 00:23:31,079 Follow me. 445 00:23:31,079 --> 00:23:32,399 And she continues to walk and she says, 446 00:23:32,399 --> 00:23:34,399 grab a snack, I don't think you've had breakfast yet 447 00:23:34,399 --> 00:23:35,519 as you're passing by the kitchen. 448 00:23:35,519 --> 00:23:38,119 I do love that snack area of the kitchen. 449 00:23:38,280 --> 00:23:39,560 It's so well stocked. 450 00:23:39,560 --> 00:23:40,680 Still fully stocked. 451 00:23:40,680 --> 00:23:43,520 Yeah, I really missed it when I was stuck on house arrest. 452 00:23:44,840 --> 00:23:46,320 Well, I'm so glad you're back here. 453 00:23:46,320 --> 00:23:48,280 We've had too much food since you've been gone. 454 00:23:48,280 --> 00:23:51,400 So really they've been overstocking it, 455 00:23:51,400 --> 00:23:53,080 anticipating your arrival back. 456 00:23:53,080 --> 00:23:54,320 I can totally help with that. 457 00:23:54,320 --> 00:23:55,160 That's fine. 458 00:23:55,160 --> 00:23:56,720 You get to the point at which, you know, 459 00:23:56,720 --> 00:23:58,320 normally you would turn to Nina's office. 460 00:23:58,320 --> 00:24:01,200 She turns towards the mayor's office 461 00:24:01,200 --> 00:24:02,360 and continues that way 462 00:24:02,360 --> 00:24:05,080 and goes through the mayor's office door 463 00:24:05,079 --> 00:24:10,079 and hops up in the big chair behind the table desk, 464 00:24:10,159 --> 00:24:12,839 hops up in the big chair behind the desk and says, 465 00:24:12,839 --> 00:24:14,799 I have a seat, sir. 466 00:24:14,799 --> 00:24:17,679 Now, did you get rid of the table desks 467 00:24:17,679 --> 00:24:20,199 that was here before and just go with the desk? 468 00:24:20,199 --> 00:24:22,439 I have asked for specifically just a desk. 469 00:24:22,439 --> 00:24:25,000 The table desk was way over the top. 470 00:24:25,000 --> 00:24:26,599 Okay, gotcha, gotcha, gotcha. 471 00:24:26,599 --> 00:24:28,079 And are you mayor now? 472 00:24:28,079 --> 00:24:30,879 What is, film me in on everything, girl. 473 00:24:30,880 --> 00:24:35,880 So I am mayor standing in for mayor for the time being. 474 00:24:36,200 --> 00:24:40,320 I am closest to knowing what is happening. 475 00:24:40,320 --> 00:24:42,000 Therefore, I am filling in. 476 00:24:42,000 --> 00:24:44,160 So like surrogate mayor, if you will. 477 00:24:44,160 --> 00:24:49,160 Yes, yes, yes, until they have a proper mayoral birthing 478 00:24:51,000 --> 00:24:53,960 as is the tradition, as is the tradition. 479 00:24:53,960 --> 00:24:56,520 So mayor is birthed into the position. 480 00:24:57,440 --> 00:25:02,440 Like Ace Ventura through a rhino. 481 00:25:02,440 --> 00:25:05,119 That's exactly what you're talking about. 482 00:25:05,119 --> 00:25:07,200 So at the next mayoral birthing, 483 00:25:07,200 --> 00:25:08,920 they will take over the rules 484 00:25:08,920 --> 00:25:10,799 and regulations of the city. 485 00:25:11,680 --> 00:25:15,519 In the meantime, I have been put in place to, 486 00:25:16,680 --> 00:25:18,400 how to say this delicately, 487 00:25:18,400 --> 00:25:20,000 stop the rest of the corruption 488 00:25:20,000 --> 00:25:21,480 that is happening in the city. 489 00:25:21,480 --> 00:25:23,920 Yeah, no, well, I mean, like you're perfect 490 00:25:23,920 --> 00:25:25,519 for the job, so. 491 00:25:25,519 --> 00:25:26,639 Well, thank you, thank you. 492 00:25:26,639 --> 00:25:29,480 It's not too long ago that you thought I was bad 493 00:25:29,480 --> 00:25:30,960 and I heard you say bad things. 494 00:25:30,960 --> 00:25:32,799 That's how good you were doing. 495 00:25:34,639 --> 00:25:36,639 I don't know what the local acting award 496 00:25:36,639 --> 00:25:39,039 is here in Vintersmouth, 497 00:25:39,039 --> 00:25:40,480 but you should probably get one. 498 00:25:40,480 --> 00:25:41,839 Oh, well, thank you. 499 00:25:41,839 --> 00:25:43,879 I think it's by nomination only though. 500 00:25:43,879 --> 00:25:46,440 And you need certain participants in the city 501 00:25:46,440 --> 00:25:48,039 to actually vote for you. 502 00:25:48,039 --> 00:25:50,400 So they're difficult to win. 503 00:25:50,400 --> 00:25:53,720 But if you can lead that, you can do anything. 504 00:25:53,720 --> 00:25:55,160 What I need from you is, 505 00:25:55,160 --> 00:25:59,200 because you have seen a lot of the damage 506 00:25:59,200 --> 00:26:02,079 that has been done and I feel like 507 00:26:02,079 --> 00:26:04,920 if I'm judging your character correctly, 508 00:26:04,920 --> 00:26:09,200 you want to do more with your life. 509 00:26:09,200 --> 00:26:11,160 Yeah, sure, yeah, okay. 510 00:26:11,160 --> 00:26:12,839 Yeah, I think so, right? 511 00:26:12,839 --> 00:26:17,000 You just haven't found your calling yet. 512 00:26:17,000 --> 00:26:19,200 Well, like I'll be honest with you, 513 00:26:19,200 --> 00:26:21,799 it wasn't this. 514 00:26:22,240 --> 00:26:24,759 I know I stumbled into a good job, 515 00:26:24,759 --> 00:26:27,839 but this is not what I want to do. 516 00:26:27,839 --> 00:26:28,839 No, it's okay. 517 00:26:28,839 --> 00:26:31,039 Well, tell me, in three to five years, 518 00:26:31,039 --> 00:26:33,279 where do you see yourself, Kavlar? 519 00:26:33,279 --> 00:26:35,200 I mean, I haven't really given it much thought. 520 00:26:35,200 --> 00:26:40,200 I guess me and Bench open a cool new place in town 521 00:26:41,720 --> 00:26:45,200 and like, you know. 522 00:26:45,200 --> 00:26:46,599 So restauranteur? 523 00:26:46,599 --> 00:26:50,000 Yeah, maybe, or something like that. 524 00:26:50,000 --> 00:26:52,079 Very nice, yeah, Bench is good. 525 00:26:52,880 --> 00:26:54,599 I've cleared Bench of everything 526 00:26:54,599 --> 00:26:59,599 that he was being tried for as well. 527 00:26:59,920 --> 00:27:02,599 So that is possible. 528 00:27:02,599 --> 00:27:04,519 Just so you know, his name was in the books, 529 00:27:04,519 --> 00:27:07,559 but he wasn't directly tied to a lot of the things 530 00:27:07,559 --> 00:27:08,400 that were happening. 531 00:27:08,400 --> 00:27:09,240 Oh, well, that is good to know. 532 00:27:09,240 --> 00:27:10,079 He's on the up and up. 533 00:27:10,079 --> 00:27:10,920 He's good, he's clear. 534 00:27:10,920 --> 00:27:13,920 I guess I should, like, is Oak cool? 535 00:27:13,920 --> 00:27:16,039 Like, is Oak solid? 536 00:27:16,079 --> 00:27:21,079 Oak, Oak is the most solid individual. 537 00:27:21,359 --> 00:27:22,200 I fucking knew it. 538 00:27:22,200 --> 00:27:24,680 In this entire city. 539 00:27:24,680 --> 00:27:27,720 Oak stumbles backwards into bad things 540 00:27:27,720 --> 00:27:30,200 thinking he's doing good things. 541 00:27:30,200 --> 00:27:32,680 That's why they thought he was helping 542 00:27:32,680 --> 00:27:35,200 because he was doing the paperwork so well 543 00:27:35,200 --> 00:27:37,839 and all of that paperwork covered up everything. 544 00:27:37,839 --> 00:27:40,159 Yeah, I mean, he's very good at it. 545 00:27:40,159 --> 00:27:41,879 Which is why they brought you in. 546 00:27:41,879 --> 00:27:42,720 Did you know that? 547 00:27:42,720 --> 00:27:43,759 That's why they brought you in 548 00:27:43,759 --> 00:27:46,119 because they knew you would do bad job with the paperwork, 549 00:27:46,119 --> 00:27:47,559 but you just gave it all to Oak. 550 00:27:47,559 --> 00:27:50,400 Yeah, they didn't really see that coming, eh? 551 00:27:50,400 --> 00:27:52,879 No, no, they did not. 552 00:27:52,879 --> 00:27:56,599 What I need is a right hand. 553 00:27:57,559 --> 00:27:58,400 Okay. 554 00:27:59,879 --> 00:28:00,879 No, I'm in. 555 00:28:00,879 --> 00:28:02,079 You don't even have to say anymore. 556 00:28:02,079 --> 00:28:03,799 Yeah, okay. I'm on board. 557 00:28:03,799 --> 00:28:06,079 Great, great, great, great, great. 558 00:28:06,079 --> 00:28:08,359 So we'll have to dig in a little bit more 559 00:28:08,359 --> 00:28:11,920 and figure out exactly where we're going to place you 560 00:28:11,920 --> 00:28:13,319 and how we're going to place you 561 00:28:13,319 --> 00:28:17,879 because we don't want it to seem too rushed. 562 00:28:17,879 --> 00:28:19,519 Take some time. Okay, all right. 563 00:28:19,519 --> 00:28:22,519 You've been to this weird fae place. 564 00:28:22,519 --> 00:28:23,879 You've just gone through a trial. 565 00:28:23,879 --> 00:28:24,799 Oh my God. 566 00:28:24,799 --> 00:28:25,639 Oh my God, Nina. 567 00:28:25,639 --> 00:28:27,839 Does this mean that I get to do 568 00:28:27,839 --> 00:28:30,799 the thing that all municipal employees 569 00:28:30,799 --> 00:28:31,839 get to do at some point 570 00:28:31,839 --> 00:28:34,000 and that's go on an extended leave? 571 00:28:34,000 --> 00:28:36,159 That is exactly what I'm teeing you up for here, 572 00:28:36,159 --> 00:28:37,000 Kavlaran. 573 00:28:37,000 --> 00:28:39,559 Yes, you are going on an extended leave. 574 00:28:39,559 --> 00:28:41,679 Sorry. Amazing. 575 00:28:41,680 --> 00:28:42,519 Hold on. 576 00:28:42,519 --> 00:28:45,279 She turns around and like pulls a big rope 577 00:28:45,279 --> 00:28:46,120 that's behind her 578 00:28:46,120 --> 00:28:48,880 and streamers start to fall from the ceiling. 579 00:28:48,880 --> 00:28:52,039 Confetti and then people come in with snacks. 580 00:28:52,039 --> 00:28:53,840 Baby's first leave. 581 00:28:53,840 --> 00:28:56,240 Baby's first leave, exactly. 582 00:28:56,240 --> 00:28:58,880 I had the pomp and circumstance here already for it, 583 00:28:58,880 --> 00:29:00,560 but you beat me to it. 584 00:29:00,560 --> 00:29:02,080 That's just how good you, 585 00:29:02,080 --> 00:29:04,160 that's just how good I know you are. 586 00:29:04,160 --> 00:29:05,920 So you're going to go on your extended leave. 587 00:29:05,920 --> 00:29:08,080 Take a week, take two weeks, you tell me. 588 00:29:08,080 --> 00:29:10,600 But when you come back, we'll get you up and running 589 00:29:10,600 --> 00:29:15,600 and infiltrating isn't necessarily the wrong word, 590 00:29:19,280 --> 00:29:24,080 but infiltrating certain organizations in the city. 591 00:29:24,080 --> 00:29:26,080 Okay, cool. Like which ones? 592 00:29:26,080 --> 00:29:26,920 I can't tell you that. 593 00:29:26,920 --> 00:29:29,120 You're going on extended leave and you blab. 594 00:29:30,800 --> 00:29:31,640 I mean, you're not wrong. 595 00:29:31,640 --> 00:29:33,040 What? 596 00:29:33,040 --> 00:29:34,200 You're not wrong. 597 00:29:34,200 --> 00:29:36,040 We will work on that, okay? 598 00:29:36,040 --> 00:29:37,800 That will be first week back, 599 00:29:37,800 --> 00:29:40,000 working on not blabbing so quickly. 600 00:29:40,359 --> 00:29:42,519 Because like the second you came back into the city 601 00:29:42,519 --> 00:29:44,359 after that, and I heard your friends, 602 00:29:44,359 --> 00:29:47,279 I heard, I heard her tell that your friends said, 603 00:29:47,279 --> 00:29:48,880 oh, maybe we'll keep it to ourselves. 604 00:29:48,880 --> 00:29:52,160 And you were like, portals are real. 605 00:29:52,160 --> 00:29:54,119 Well, I mean, it was oak. 606 00:29:54,119 --> 00:29:55,559 I can't lie to oak. 607 00:29:55,559 --> 00:29:58,039 Well, you're going to have to lie to oak. 608 00:29:58,039 --> 00:29:58,880 Nina. 609 00:29:58,880 --> 00:30:00,920 She gives you like this one eyebrow look. 610 00:30:00,920 --> 00:30:03,000 It's like, that will be the true test. 611 00:30:03,000 --> 00:30:05,119 Okay, it's good I'm going on this leave 612 00:30:05,119 --> 00:30:07,400 because like I need to prepare for that. 613 00:30:07,400 --> 00:30:09,680 You take the snacks you need. 614 00:30:10,680 --> 00:30:11,840 There's nothing in your office. 615 00:30:11,840 --> 00:30:15,600 You could take what, if you leave anything there, that's fine. 616 00:30:16,759 --> 00:30:17,759 Go have a rest. 617 00:30:17,759 --> 00:30:18,600 Take a vacation. 618 00:30:18,600 --> 00:30:20,680 Take a boat cruise. 619 00:30:20,680 --> 00:30:23,799 Go hang out with your friends down at the pub. 620 00:30:23,799 --> 00:30:28,200 You and the magic, busy. 621 00:30:28,200 --> 00:30:29,160 Bizarre, yeah. 622 00:30:29,160 --> 00:30:31,720 Busy the wizzy is what they called him, yes. 623 00:30:31,720 --> 00:30:33,480 Really, I did not know that, 624 00:30:33,480 --> 00:30:37,720 but I'm going to store that one right up there. 625 00:30:37,720 --> 00:30:39,440 Yeah, just take that out. 626 00:30:40,160 --> 00:30:41,000 Tell him Nina sent it. 627 00:30:41,000 --> 00:30:41,840 He loves it. 628 00:30:41,840 --> 00:30:42,680 Got it. 629 00:30:42,680 --> 00:30:43,960 And that kid, you hang out with the kid too. 630 00:30:43,960 --> 00:30:44,799 What's up with that? 631 00:30:44,799 --> 00:30:45,640 Don't worry about it. 632 00:30:45,640 --> 00:30:46,920 We'll talk about it when you get back. 633 00:30:46,920 --> 00:30:47,960 Okay, cool. 634 00:30:47,960 --> 00:30:50,720 And you said just to help myself to the snacks? 635 00:30:50,720 --> 00:30:51,920 Yeah, yeah, come in every day. 636 00:30:51,920 --> 00:30:52,840 I don't care. 637 00:30:52,840 --> 00:30:54,880 They stock the thing for everybody. 638 00:30:54,880 --> 00:30:56,799 You work here, so that's good. 639 00:30:56,799 --> 00:30:58,200 Okay, cool. 640 00:30:58,200 --> 00:30:59,480 Take the confetti, take the streamers. 641 00:30:59,480 --> 00:31:00,920 You know what, clean up on your way out 642 00:31:00,920 --> 00:31:03,320 and I'll see you in two weeks. 643 00:31:03,320 --> 00:31:06,880 Okay, I'll go grab a broom from the closet 644 00:31:06,880 --> 00:31:09,840 and I'll come clean up and then we'll see you in a bit. 645 00:31:09,840 --> 00:31:11,280 I love to go get her attitude. 646 00:31:11,280 --> 00:31:12,120 Thanks, Kavlaran. 647 00:31:12,120 --> 00:31:16,760 And she slams open a big ledger on her desk 648 00:31:16,760 --> 00:31:19,080 and starts jotting some notes down. 649 00:31:20,240 --> 00:31:24,000 Back at Bazaar and Mom's Marvels. 650 00:31:24,000 --> 00:31:27,280 Bazaar, it's been some time since you've 651 00:31:28,760 --> 00:31:31,200 actually been tending your store. 652 00:31:32,680 --> 00:31:35,560 So as you enter back in, 653 00:31:35,599 --> 00:31:39,319 you see that, which you subscribe to, 654 00:31:39,319 --> 00:31:43,279 but there's the Vintersmouth voice is like stacked up 655 00:31:43,279 --> 00:31:44,879 in a corner underneath the desk. 656 00:31:44,879 --> 00:31:46,440 You haven't been through any of that, 657 00:31:46,440 --> 00:31:49,240 which is some way you keep up on the city. 658 00:31:50,639 --> 00:31:55,639 The pirate paraphernalia has grown 659 00:31:56,279 --> 00:31:58,879 in the last few days. 660 00:31:58,879 --> 00:32:01,960 It was kind of dwindling there as you were back 661 00:32:01,960 --> 00:32:06,559 and you still haven't actually seen Captain Jacob around. 662 00:32:09,079 --> 00:32:13,200 But yeah, you close the door after seeing Alydin's new duck 663 00:32:13,200 --> 00:32:15,240 and you kind of catch your eye 664 00:32:15,240 --> 00:32:16,799 on the Vintersmouth voice. 665 00:32:16,799 --> 00:32:20,680 It's like an easy place to start cleaning up 666 00:32:20,680 --> 00:32:22,400 and getting things back in order. 667 00:32:23,319 --> 00:32:27,319 Yeah, start going through cleaning up the desk area 668 00:32:27,319 --> 00:32:31,000 because I think probably my first task 669 00:32:31,000 --> 00:32:33,400 is going to be making sure the books are good 670 00:32:33,400 --> 00:32:34,759 since I haven't been around. 671 00:32:34,759 --> 00:32:37,119 But to do that, I've got to have a clean working space. 672 00:32:37,119 --> 00:32:39,079 I'll be way too distracted. 673 00:32:39,079 --> 00:32:41,519 So I start picking up papers and I'm like, 674 00:32:41,519 --> 00:32:43,680 well, I do want to read about these 675 00:32:43,680 --> 00:32:46,920 because I want to know how the outside perspective was 676 00:32:46,920 --> 00:32:48,960 of what we went through. 677 00:32:48,960 --> 00:32:52,359 So I go and I open up a cupboard 678 00:32:52,359 --> 00:32:53,680 kind of above the shelf 679 00:32:53,680 --> 00:32:57,839 where I keep a bunch of different magical items. 680 00:32:57,840 --> 00:33:01,120 And as I do, there's just this downpouring 681 00:33:01,120 --> 00:33:04,760 of coconut shell drink mugs 682 00:33:04,760 --> 00:33:07,800 that are just plastered with the namesake 683 00:33:07,800 --> 00:33:11,560 of Bazaar Mom's store. 684 00:33:11,560 --> 00:33:13,400 It's Bazaar Mom's Marvels. 685 00:33:13,400 --> 00:33:15,880 Bazaar's still learning the name of it. 686 00:33:15,880 --> 00:33:17,760 He's been away that long. 687 00:33:20,160 --> 00:33:24,680 But yeah, this just torrent of coconut shell drinks 688 00:33:24,680 --> 00:33:27,040 come down and I'm just standing there kind of like, 689 00:33:27,079 --> 00:33:32,079 oh, it's all the pirate stuff. 690 00:33:33,119 --> 00:33:35,599 Why is it, okay. 691 00:33:35,599 --> 00:33:37,359 And I start cleaning that up 692 00:33:37,359 --> 00:33:40,839 and I start looking around and I try to take stock 693 00:33:40,839 --> 00:33:44,279 of how much is my original merchandise 694 00:33:44,279 --> 00:33:47,879 versus how much is new merchandise 695 00:33:47,879 --> 00:33:49,079 I have nothing to do with. 696 00:33:49,079 --> 00:33:53,920 It's probably like a one third yours, 697 00:33:53,960 --> 00:33:58,440 two thirds your mom's and this Captain Jacob's. 698 00:33:58,440 --> 00:33:59,600 I'm gonna walk around the store 699 00:33:59,600 --> 00:34:03,480 and kind of take eye on like the stock of things. 700 00:34:03,480 --> 00:34:06,279 And I mean, business is business. 701 00:34:06,279 --> 00:34:10,559 Like, I'm gonna take note of as I go around, 702 00:34:10,559 --> 00:34:13,079 like where are the empty spots on the shelves? 703 00:34:13,079 --> 00:34:16,880 Do they, are they mostly weighted towards the, 704 00:34:16,880 --> 00:34:19,200 the merchandise that I'm not responsible for 705 00:34:19,200 --> 00:34:21,720 or is it the other way around? 706 00:34:21,720 --> 00:34:25,240 You would see that most of the empty shelves 707 00:34:25,240 --> 00:34:30,240 are probably more on the mom's side of things. 708 00:34:32,000 --> 00:34:34,120 There are a number of spots 709 00:34:34,120 --> 00:34:36,680 that you could stock on your side. 710 00:34:37,640 --> 00:34:40,760 Pretty stock and standard toys 711 00:34:40,760 --> 00:34:42,000 that the kids would come in, 712 00:34:42,000 --> 00:34:43,680 firecrackers, that sort of thing. 713 00:34:43,680 --> 00:34:45,880 But yeah, as you're kind of walking around 714 00:34:45,880 --> 00:34:48,240 and you have been back and you have noticed 715 00:34:48,400 --> 00:34:52,400 that some of this pirate merchandise, 716 00:34:52,400 --> 00:34:54,480 like you had pulled some things from the shelves 717 00:34:54,480 --> 00:34:56,360 because you had come to realize 718 00:34:56,360 --> 00:34:59,240 that some of them were in fact cursed items. 719 00:34:59,240 --> 00:35:00,480 Good, good. 720 00:35:00,480 --> 00:35:03,760 But yeah, most of the empty shelves 721 00:35:03,760 --> 00:35:07,040 are their responsibility at this point. 722 00:35:07,040 --> 00:35:07,880 Okay. 723 00:35:07,880 --> 00:35:10,480 Yeah, you know, I'm gonna spend the day 724 00:35:10,480 --> 00:35:13,360 like just tending my shop, taking care of things, 725 00:35:13,360 --> 00:35:17,520 kind of getting back to like a baseline of normalcy 726 00:35:17,519 --> 00:35:20,360 after everything that's been going on. 727 00:35:20,360 --> 00:35:22,960 And then as I'm, I can go ahead 728 00:35:22,960 --> 00:35:25,320 and I start pulling out merchandise, restocking, 729 00:35:25,320 --> 00:35:27,719 like even the pirate stuff. 730 00:35:27,719 --> 00:35:30,559 And I'm kind of looking over it and I start, 731 00:35:30,559 --> 00:35:33,199 I pull out this one like small figurine 732 00:35:33,199 --> 00:35:36,280 of like a pirate standing behind a cannon and I'm like, 733 00:35:38,759 --> 00:35:42,199 I bet I could make that fire something interesting. 734 00:35:42,199 --> 00:35:47,199 And I go back into my shop with it to go work 735 00:35:47,519 --> 00:35:50,759 and go up to Alydin and say, Alydin, 736 00:35:50,759 --> 00:35:55,759 do you want to put your new knowledge to the test 737 00:35:55,840 --> 00:35:57,639 and see if we can make this little cannon man 738 00:35:57,639 --> 00:36:00,199 shoot off colorful sparks? 739 00:36:00,199 --> 00:36:01,360 Yes. 740 00:36:01,360 --> 00:36:04,159 Cool, I'm gonna close the shop up, we're stocked up. 741 00:36:05,880 --> 00:36:09,719 I'm gonna go, I'm gonna go grab some food, 742 00:36:09,719 --> 00:36:11,840 clean up the area, come back, 743 00:36:12,960 --> 00:36:14,559 and we're gonna make this little thing 744 00:36:14,559 --> 00:36:16,360 blow some small shit up. 745 00:36:16,400 --> 00:36:18,720 Okay, I'll get my books. 746 00:36:18,720 --> 00:36:22,360 Yeah, and Bazaar walks out to go get the food 747 00:36:22,360 --> 00:36:24,079 and just thinking to himself, 748 00:36:24,079 --> 00:36:26,800 I was like, well, if I invited her here, 749 00:36:26,800 --> 00:36:31,280 I left, if this is, and if it's profitable 750 00:36:31,280 --> 00:36:33,280 and it provides us the money for her to live here 751 00:36:33,280 --> 00:36:36,599 and I lean into it, lean into it. 752 00:36:37,760 --> 00:36:39,240 Let's make it work. 753 00:36:39,240 --> 00:36:42,000 And he steps through the door, closes it behind him. 754 00:36:43,000 --> 00:36:46,440 And yeah, the close sign just kind of flips over 755 00:36:46,440 --> 00:36:48,320 as he, as the door closes. 756 00:36:54,639 --> 00:36:58,199 Dumbgeons and Dragons, season four, episode 39, 757 00:36:58,199 --> 00:37:00,719 starring Amy More as Alydin, 758 00:37:00,719 --> 00:37:03,199 Carla Maxted as Bonwyn Everbane, 759 00:37:03,199 --> 00:37:05,519 Tom Laird as Kavlaran Goldweave, 760 00:37:05,519 --> 00:37:07,840 Kyle Claset as Bazaar the Wizard, 761 00:37:07,840 --> 00:37:10,159 and Russ More as your dungeon master. 762 00:37:10,239 --> 00:37:11,879 Dialogue, editing, and sound design 763 00:37:11,879 --> 00:37:14,079 of today's episode is by Russ More. 764 00:37:14,079 --> 00:37:16,519 Our community manager is Jessica Babiak. 765 00:37:16,519 --> 00:37:18,399 Music is from Epidemic Sound, 766 00:37:18,399 --> 00:37:20,480 and sound effects are from Epidemic Sound, 767 00:37:20,480 --> 00:37:22,639 Boom Library, and Sound Ideas. 768 00:37:22,639 --> 00:37:25,359 Our amazing cover art is by Matt Garbutt. 769 00:37:25,359 --> 00:37:27,799 A huge thank you to our supporting producers, 770 00:37:27,799 --> 00:37:29,839 Gabriel Lynch, Jessica Babiak, 771 00:37:29,839 --> 00:37:32,319 Ongorong Kiersen, Cat Waterflame, 772 00:37:32,319 --> 00:37:34,319 Perry Matey, Jacob Madden, 773 00:37:34,319 --> 00:37:36,960 Old School Gamer D, Craig Zeiss, 774 00:37:37,000 --> 00:37:41,320 L.A. Branton, Chibs1012, and Kudzu828. 775 00:37:41,320 --> 00:37:43,079 We'd love if you joined us today 776 00:37:43,079 --> 00:37:45,559 at Patreon.com slash Dumb Dragon Cast 777 00:37:45,559 --> 00:37:47,039 for the amazing community, 778 00:37:47,039 --> 00:37:49,840 all the bonus content, and so much more. 779 00:37:49,840 --> 00:37:52,039 Patreon.com slash Dumb Dragon Cast 780 00:37:52,039 --> 00:37:53,199 will see you over there, 781 00:37:53,199 --> 00:37:55,119 but until then, have a great week, 782 00:37:55,119 --> 00:37:56,559 and we'll talk to you soon. 783 00:37:57,639 --> 00:37:59,320 They're being taken to Kingstown 784 00:37:59,320 --> 00:38:00,760 to be put to their own, 785 00:38:02,039 --> 00:38:04,059 to be put under their own, 786 00:38:04,980 --> 00:38:07,139 what's the word I'm looking for? 787 00:38:07,139 --> 00:38:08,659 Did anyone else think Russell's going to say 788 00:38:08,659 --> 00:38:10,420 to be put to death? 789 00:38:10,420 --> 00:38:11,900 Yeah, me too. 790 00:38:11,900 --> 00:38:14,219 Like, are we getting back into public execution? 791 00:38:14,219 --> 00:38:17,739 Because, I mean, I don't take kindly to this. 792 00:38:17,739 --> 00:38:20,860 We don't know that this world doesn't do that. 793 00:38:20,860 --> 00:38:22,099 And then I walk away, 794 00:38:22,099 --> 00:38:24,099 because I don't know what to string to. 795 00:38:27,139 --> 00:38:28,380 Oh my God, I'm so sorry. 796 00:38:28,380 --> 00:38:29,940 You just sounded exactly like 797 00:38:29,940 --> 00:38:31,940 this other person I've been dealing with. 798 00:38:31,940 --> 00:38:33,860 I wasn't actually looking at you. 799 00:38:33,860 --> 00:38:35,900 I just heard the voice. 800 00:38:35,900 --> 00:38:38,660 Well, yeah, no, we're in a crowd. 801 00:38:38,660 --> 00:38:40,260 Yeah, mm-hmm. 802 00:38:40,260 --> 00:38:41,300 Like, okay. 803 00:38:42,860 --> 00:38:43,700 Okay. 804 00:38:46,340 --> 00:38:47,700 Guys, we're at peak. 805 00:38:49,700 --> 00:38:51,660 I've never played an artificer before. 806 00:38:51,660 --> 00:38:53,460 Carla's gone for one extra week, 807 00:38:53,460 --> 00:38:54,900 and we fall apart. 808 00:38:54,900 --> 00:38:57,820 Dumbgeons and Dragons is a Dumb Dragons production.