1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:02,800 Dumbgeons and Dragons will begin in a moment. 2 00:00:03,480 --> 00:00:07,280 You're all gathered in the Brewed Awakening and Bench is getting some cold 3 00:00:07,280 --> 00:00:13,480 clots for Alistair who's asleep in one of the booths and you're all just kind 4 00:00:13,480 --> 00:00:19,379 of piling in around him, waiting for him to wake up, waiting for Bench to 5 00:00:19,379 --> 00:00:23,600 come back with a big bucket of cold water to wake him up, any of the above. 6 00:00:23,679 --> 00:00:27,440 I was just thinking about like, what if I accidentally like, tipped a glass 7 00:00:27,440 --> 00:00:29,240 of water into his lap? 8 00:00:29,720 --> 00:00:30,680 No, that's not how you do it. 9 00:00:30,960 --> 00:00:32,600 Warm water, hand in it. 10 00:00:34,160 --> 00:00:35,679 Bra in freezer. 11 00:00:37,520 --> 00:00:37,800 Yeah. 12 00:00:37,800 --> 00:00:40,880 Let's just prank this guy now that we've decided he might be evil. 13 00:00:41,200 --> 00:00:41,560 Right. 14 00:00:41,640 --> 00:00:43,040 Just sleep over antics. 15 00:00:45,760 --> 00:00:47,359 He's going to wake up and he's going to be on the floor. 16 00:00:48,480 --> 00:00:52,560 You know, I could cast floating disc and we could basically simulate that. 17 00:00:53,719 --> 00:00:55,840 It's a good use of the first level spell slot. 18 00:00:56,040 --> 00:01:01,440 Oh, he wakes up in the bathroom as one of us whispers Bloody Mary for the third 19 00:01:01,440 --> 00:01:03,560 time, just dips. 20 00:01:04,240 --> 00:01:05,240 Let's see what happens to us. 21 00:01:05,240 --> 00:01:12,240 I have disguised self so I could make my sleepovers. 22 00:01:12,280 --> 00:01:13,480 We are ready. 23 00:01:13,520 --> 00:01:14,359 Absolutely. 24 00:01:14,359 --> 00:01:16,000 We should have just a sleepover episode. 25 00:01:16,359 --> 00:01:17,800 I know it would be fun. 26 00:01:17,879 --> 00:01:18,719 Slumber party. 27 00:01:18,840 --> 00:01:20,359 Oh no, they stole my kidneys. 28 00:01:20,920 --> 00:01:25,640 After we stop, whatever this is, I think it's really extreme as a night 29 00:01:25,640 --> 00:01:28,400 goes on, the pranks get more and more serious. 30 00:01:28,680 --> 00:01:30,359 That's why you always have a bathtub of ice. 31 00:01:30,400 --> 00:01:31,040 Just in case. 32 00:01:31,040 --> 00:01:31,719 Just in case. 33 00:01:32,680 --> 00:01:36,599 Dumbgeons and Dragons is a D and D actual play podcast, and I'm your 34 00:01:36,599 --> 00:01:38,840 dungeon master, Russ More, he, him. 35 00:01:38,960 --> 00:01:42,359 Also with me today is Amy More as Alydin, she, her. 36 00:01:42,599 --> 00:01:43,680 Rude. 37 00:01:43,799 --> 00:01:46,719 Carla Maxstead is Bonwyn Everbane, she, her. 38 00:01:46,719 --> 00:01:48,439 This is how Russ calls us all out. 39 00:01:48,599 --> 00:01:51,480 And Kyle Claset is Bazaar the Wizard, he, him. 40 00:01:51,519 --> 00:01:52,960 I don't think I'm ready to be read yet. 41 00:01:53,000 --> 00:01:56,560 Dumbgeons and Dragons is a Patreon supported podcast, and we'd love for 42 00:01:56,560 --> 00:02:00,680 you to join us today at patreon.com slash dumb dragon cast. 43 00:02:00,760 --> 00:02:03,240 You'll get a seven day free trial to check things out. 44 00:02:03,400 --> 00:02:05,120 And now let's get right to it. 45 00:02:05,440 --> 00:02:05,880 Fuck it. 46 00:02:05,960 --> 00:02:06,720 Let's play. 47 00:02:09,680 --> 00:02:11,000 So this is Alistair. 48 00:02:11,879 --> 00:02:12,840 Asleep right now. 49 00:02:13,240 --> 00:02:17,159 Yeah, but when he's sleeping, you can look through his stuff. 50 00:02:17,920 --> 00:02:20,400 I just take out like a fistful of papers from his. 51 00:02:21,400 --> 00:02:22,640 Messenger bag. 52 00:02:23,719 --> 00:02:25,760 That's kind of what I was picturing, right? 53 00:02:25,760 --> 00:02:27,200 Like an overflowing. 54 00:02:27,719 --> 00:02:30,159 Satchel kind of thing, accordion portfolio. 55 00:02:31,000 --> 00:02:35,200 This guy wearing any like jewelry that signifies like religious following. 56 00:02:35,439 --> 00:02:36,759 Great question, Kyle. 57 00:02:36,759 --> 00:02:37,360 Great question. 58 00:02:37,360 --> 00:02:38,560 Make a religion check. 59 00:02:38,599 --> 00:02:39,280 Literally. 60 00:02:39,400 --> 00:02:40,240 Did we like. 61 00:02:40,480 --> 00:02:40,840 Nope. 62 00:02:41,920 --> 00:02:42,280 Nope. 63 00:02:42,599 --> 00:02:43,480 We didn't girl. 64 00:02:43,719 --> 00:02:44,480 That's going to be a 12. 65 00:02:44,480 --> 00:02:45,200 But neither did Tom. 66 00:02:45,200 --> 00:02:46,000 It's not just on us. 67 00:02:46,680 --> 00:02:47,240 No. 68 00:02:47,400 --> 00:02:50,840 So you see before you, because I haven't described Alistair really 69 00:02:50,840 --> 00:02:52,439 very well to you at all. 70 00:02:52,879 --> 00:02:59,560 You, he is a, what you could describe as a youngish man, probably early 71 00:02:59,560 --> 00:03:05,600 twenties, um, in his robes that he is in are like way too big for him. 72 00:03:06,080 --> 00:03:10,400 Um, he does as described to have a satchel that is bulging with papers 73 00:03:10,400 --> 00:03:14,200 and journals that Alydin is now pulling out and the loose scrolls 74 00:03:14,200 --> 00:03:15,800 that are just tied haphazardly. 75 00:03:16,240 --> 00:03:21,520 Um, he does have a set of round spectacles, um, that just kind of 76 00:03:21,520 --> 00:03:23,120 perch on the end of his nose. 77 00:03:23,480 --> 00:03:25,960 His hair is disheveled. 78 00:03:25,960 --> 00:03:32,000 He has no, um, to your religion question, he has no prominent jewelry 79 00:03:32,000 --> 00:03:38,120 with any sort of religious symbols or insignia or anything that you can see. 80 00:03:38,439 --> 00:03:41,480 He does have like a very, nothing too noticeable about it. 81 00:03:41,480 --> 00:03:42,800 Like chain necklace. 82 00:03:42,920 --> 00:03:44,960 Would you call it mundane? 83 00:03:45,040 --> 00:03:46,320 It's a mundane necklace. 84 00:03:46,320 --> 00:03:46,760 Thank you. 85 00:03:46,800 --> 00:03:48,040 Is he wearing a turtleneck? 86 00:03:48,159 --> 00:03:49,760 Uh, he's not at this time. 87 00:03:49,760 --> 00:03:51,280 Somebody get this man a light beer. 88 00:03:51,520 --> 00:03:55,000 I'm going to pop his eye open and look at his, look at the color of his eye. 89 00:03:55,000 --> 00:03:58,240 See if he has any of the, uh, magical graying that occurs. 90 00:03:58,879 --> 00:04:00,319 He does not. 91 00:04:00,520 --> 00:04:04,960 And as you kind of prop his eyes open, he wakes up quickly and he's 92 00:04:04,960 --> 00:04:08,080 like, oh, oh, oh, oh, thanks. 93 00:04:08,120 --> 00:04:08,319 Okay. 94 00:04:08,319 --> 00:04:08,879 Thanks guys. 95 00:04:09,439 --> 00:04:09,960 Sorry. 96 00:04:10,040 --> 00:04:11,600 Uh, something in my eye. 97 00:04:11,719 --> 00:04:13,960 Uh, it was his finger. 98 00:04:14,439 --> 00:04:16,480 Oh, why? 99 00:04:16,519 --> 00:04:17,199 Hi. 100 00:04:17,800 --> 00:04:18,480 Who are you? 101 00:04:18,480 --> 00:04:19,720 I'm Alastair Greaves. 102 00:04:19,720 --> 00:04:20,800 Nice to meet you, sir. 103 00:04:21,000 --> 00:04:21,960 Alastair Greaves. 104 00:04:22,000 --> 00:04:22,960 I'm Bazaar'd. 105 00:04:22,960 --> 00:04:24,240 What brings you to town? 106 00:04:24,639 --> 00:04:25,439 I shake his hand. 107 00:04:26,240 --> 00:04:31,319 Oh, well, uh, I came to town, uh, is he with you and he looks 108 00:04:31,319 --> 00:04:33,000 to you, Alydin and Bonwyn? 109 00:04:33,199 --> 00:04:33,480 Oh yeah. 110 00:04:33,480 --> 00:04:34,920 Yes, he is. 111 00:04:35,360 --> 00:04:36,840 He is the most important part. 112 00:04:36,840 --> 00:04:38,680 This is your friend that you needed to talk to. 113 00:04:38,720 --> 00:04:39,280 Yes. 114 00:04:39,680 --> 00:04:39,920 Okay. 115 00:04:39,920 --> 00:04:42,199 So clearly we have not completely caught up. 116 00:04:42,439 --> 00:04:48,639 Um, I, well, I've, how would I position this? 117 00:04:48,639 --> 00:04:51,079 What you tell me better match what they told me. 118 00:04:51,599 --> 00:04:51,839 Yeah. 119 00:04:51,839 --> 00:04:54,439 So you can get right to it and say the thing. 120 00:04:54,959 --> 00:04:56,240 If you know what that is. 121 00:04:56,639 --> 00:04:57,839 I do know what that is. 122 00:04:57,839 --> 00:05:02,079 I'm looking for, and he looks around in the room, say it's just us. 123 00:05:02,079 --> 00:05:04,279 It's quiet night at the, at the, at the bar. 124 00:05:04,480 --> 00:05:06,399 I'm looking for the weeping archive. 125 00:05:06,759 --> 00:05:12,000 Uh, and I believe that I've found it or at least a possible entry to it. 126 00:05:12,360 --> 00:05:15,399 Um, uh, are you, are you familiar? 127 00:05:15,439 --> 00:05:16,039 Are you familiar? 128 00:05:16,039 --> 00:05:18,319 They said you're very magical in nature's end. 129 00:05:18,319 --> 00:05:19,959 You may be studied in Kingstown. 130 00:05:20,000 --> 00:05:25,120 Uh, is there, uh, are you familiar with it in your own right? 131 00:05:25,959 --> 00:05:26,519 Am I? 132 00:05:26,879 --> 00:05:29,959 Would I remember anything from history or my arconic studies? 133 00:05:30,159 --> 00:05:34,399 Uh, you want to roll history or arcana your call, which 134 00:05:34,480 --> 00:05:37,159 yeah, is this like one of those things where it's not taught in 135 00:05:37,159 --> 00:05:41,639 school, but it's like a myth, you know, like the Holy Grail. 136 00:05:41,919 --> 00:05:42,319 Yeah. 137 00:05:42,360 --> 00:05:42,839 Right. 138 00:05:42,959 --> 00:05:43,360 Yeah. 139 00:05:44,039 --> 00:05:45,479 I want to go with history. 140 00:05:45,560 --> 00:05:46,000 I like that. 141 00:05:46,000 --> 00:05:52,719 The idea that this is that it is magical in nature, but an archive. 142 00:05:53,199 --> 00:05:53,919 Isn't that what it's called? 143 00:05:53,919 --> 00:05:54,800 The weeping archive. 144 00:05:55,240 --> 00:05:55,439 Yeah. 145 00:05:56,439 --> 00:05:57,759 I'm going to go with history on this one. 146 00:05:58,479 --> 00:05:58,839 All right. 147 00:05:58,839 --> 00:06:00,839 That's a 20 fucking four. 148 00:06:00,839 --> 00:06:01,560 24. 149 00:06:01,560 --> 00:06:02,399 Damn. 150 00:06:02,399 --> 00:06:03,519 You've been there. 151 00:06:03,639 --> 00:06:04,879 You built that place. 152 00:06:04,879 --> 00:06:06,560 That's why his spell book is there. 153 00:06:06,560 --> 00:06:07,519 Let me take you there. 154 00:06:07,959 --> 00:06:11,319 Your knowledge of it is through rumors that you heard. 155 00:06:11,759 --> 00:06:16,879 From faculty and like people several years ahead of you at the school. 156 00:06:17,120 --> 00:06:17,399 Right. 157 00:06:17,800 --> 00:06:23,319 Um, there were no books that you could find on it. 158 00:06:23,759 --> 00:06:30,319 Um, what you heard from them is the archive was a library or the 159 00:06:30,319 --> 00:06:38,000 weeping archive was a library that you heard was built against the fe. 160 00:06:38,199 --> 00:06:45,759 So built somewhere between the worlds, um, and only accessible through thin veils. 161 00:06:46,959 --> 00:06:52,560 The archive itself was never, um, kind of the bedtime stories that you may 162 00:06:52,560 --> 00:06:56,639 have heard was never meant for mortals of the material plane. 163 00:06:57,800 --> 00:07:04,879 Um, it was against them or rather against the fe and it was a defense. 164 00:07:05,399 --> 00:07:11,480 It was said to contain contracts, bargains, memories, and forbidden 165 00:07:11,480 --> 00:07:16,480 knowledge, anything dangerous that the fe might twist. 166 00:07:17,519 --> 00:07:18,639 It sounds really important. 167 00:07:18,680 --> 00:07:22,120 This entire time, the first moment you said rumor has it. 168 00:07:22,399 --> 00:07:24,600 I've been making a parody. 169 00:07:26,879 --> 00:07:27,600 Kyle's back. 170 00:07:27,600 --> 00:07:28,719 So he's got your notes. 171 00:07:28,719 --> 00:07:28,879 Yeah. 172 00:07:30,920 --> 00:07:31,639 Thank God. 173 00:07:31,879 --> 00:07:33,040 Cause I'm just over here like, 174 00:07:35,000 --> 00:07:35,759 it ain't real. 175 00:07:37,839 --> 00:07:38,240 Don't worry. 176 00:07:38,519 --> 00:07:39,079 I'll finish it. 177 00:07:39,920 --> 00:07:41,600 Anything else I can give you with that? 178 00:07:41,600 --> 00:07:42,719 That's a really good role. 179 00:07:43,600 --> 00:07:44,600 I can work with that. 180 00:07:44,959 --> 00:07:49,040 So, uh, I can give you this because this was this kind of, this makes sense. 181 00:07:49,120 --> 00:07:53,480 Um, so you would have also heard that it was called the weeping archives 182 00:07:53,480 --> 00:07:59,680 because the ink, uh, like physically weeps from the shelves, um, and 183 00:07:59,680 --> 00:08:06,319 spirits bound in the books were said to be weeping or crying forever. 184 00:08:07,600 --> 00:08:08,400 That sounds familiar. 185 00:08:08,400 --> 00:08:11,319 I think Alistair told us that, uh, he asked me that. 186 00:08:11,319 --> 00:08:13,960 I say a few hours ago, I would have told you that it's a 187 00:08:13,960 --> 00:08:16,560 fairy tale meant to scare kids. 188 00:08:16,600 --> 00:08:17,280 Cause think about it. 189 00:08:17,280 --> 00:08:20,879 If something as powerful as a being from the fe actually had that, 190 00:08:20,879 --> 00:08:22,439 why wouldn't they have already used it? 191 00:08:23,160 --> 00:08:24,439 I think they do use it though. 192 00:08:24,439 --> 00:08:24,800 Sorry. 193 00:08:24,960 --> 00:08:27,040 Uh, you had a thought you were at a string. 194 00:08:27,399 --> 00:08:28,280 No, no, go ahead. 195 00:08:28,280 --> 00:08:29,319 And you, they do use it. 196 00:08:29,319 --> 00:08:30,000 What are we going to say? 197 00:08:30,399 --> 00:08:31,680 I think they do use it. 198 00:08:31,680 --> 00:08:32,919 I think they've been using it. 199 00:08:32,919 --> 00:08:38,240 And I think that there's something happening here in this town that 200 00:08:38,240 --> 00:08:44,679 is, that is, that is why people are coming here to try and find 201 00:08:44,679 --> 00:08:49,319 it, to try and tap into it, to, to, to, to use its power, to 202 00:08:49,319 --> 00:08:55,120 use whatever, whatever contracts or binding elements are in it. 203 00:08:55,840 --> 00:08:57,919 That, oh, it just, 204 00:09:02,759 --> 00:09:05,639 I, I, I found more information about it. 205 00:09:05,639 --> 00:09:12,440 That leads to possible openings where we could get into that. 206 00:09:12,440 --> 00:09:17,320 Uh, Russ real quick, that exasperation and that does desire and drive. 207 00:09:17,679 --> 00:09:21,120 What is the vibe I'm getting from him on that in that moment? 208 00:09:21,639 --> 00:09:26,639 I was also, I was also wondering too now about his, now that I see 209 00:09:26,639 --> 00:09:29,960 like Bazaar being skeptical and like, yes, it must be more like Bazaar. 210 00:09:30,080 --> 00:09:31,240 Is it fanatical? 211 00:09:31,240 --> 00:09:32,120 Like, does it seem? 212 00:09:32,159 --> 00:09:33,840 Yeah, I got an 11. 213 00:09:34,519 --> 00:09:36,000 Oh shit guys. 214 00:09:36,000 --> 00:09:37,080 I rolled good. 215 00:09:37,159 --> 00:09:38,440 Oh damn, I didn't. 216 00:09:38,480 --> 00:09:39,200 I got a nine. 217 00:09:39,679 --> 00:09:41,120 Oh man, I got a plus zero on it. 218 00:09:41,279 --> 00:09:42,399 17. 219 00:09:42,600 --> 00:09:43,240 Damn. 220 00:09:43,480 --> 00:09:44,039 Proud of me. 221 00:09:44,240 --> 00:09:50,919 I mean, definitely with 17, uh, you with 11 or anything below a 15, 222 00:09:50,919 --> 00:09:54,839 like you're passionate, like it's passionate. 223 00:09:55,079 --> 00:09:57,479 That's what you're getting from it with a 17. 224 00:09:57,879 --> 00:10:04,399 You, Alydin maybe have felt this feeling that you are seeing in him now. 225 00:10:04,799 --> 00:10:09,399 And that's that he has been talking to people who don't understand, 226 00:10:09,719 --> 00:10:12,039 don't believe, don't trust. 227 00:10:12,319 --> 00:10:17,079 And now he's talking to people who register that this could be a thing. 228 00:10:17,399 --> 00:10:20,319 Not only that this could be a thing, but I've heard of this thing 229 00:10:20,560 --> 00:10:25,000 and are willing to at least entertain the idea of finding this thing. 230 00:10:25,400 --> 00:10:30,320 So it's like a relief, like a passionate release of like, 231 00:10:30,640 --> 00:10:32,040 he's not talking to a wall. 232 00:10:32,600 --> 00:10:40,120 But does it feel like good intentions behind that wanting to find it? 233 00:10:40,480 --> 00:10:42,920 Cause while he's passionately talking about it, I'm more wondering 234 00:10:42,920 --> 00:10:46,800 if I'm seeing that glint of greed behind his eyes. 235 00:10:46,800 --> 00:10:49,520 I don't think you see any of that. 236 00:10:49,519 --> 00:10:54,960 Like, I think you see somebody who's been, uh, researching this been told 237 00:10:54,960 --> 00:10:59,799 these crazy, been told its stories and fairy tales, um, and has seen 238 00:10:59,799 --> 00:11:02,879 like the reports coming out of Vintersmouth of all these strange and 239 00:11:02,879 --> 00:11:07,079 unusual events have heard of people like going on their own expedition 240 00:11:07,079 --> 00:11:11,879 to see the, the, the dream world or whatever they might call it. 241 00:11:12,439 --> 00:11:13,960 Um, the weeping archive. 242 00:11:14,360 --> 00:11:19,439 Um, and he's like, this is his chance, but he doesn't seem 243 00:11:20,319 --> 00:11:25,039 like it doesn't seem like he is ill intent with this. 244 00:11:25,600 --> 00:11:30,399 I'm looking and say, okay, say it does exist. 245 00:11:30,600 --> 00:11:31,679 Say you do find it. 246 00:11:32,600 --> 00:11:33,120 What then? 247 00:11:34,159 --> 00:11:43,679 Well, uh, what then is, um, we burn it to the ground and I want to 248 00:11:43,679 --> 00:11:45,919 look and see how he reacts to that. 249 00:11:46,079 --> 00:11:47,720 I was thinking the exact same thing, Amy. 250 00:11:47,720 --> 00:11:48,840 I was like, we burn it. 251 00:11:49,040 --> 00:11:52,440 He, he looks at you with a little confusion. 252 00:11:52,440 --> 00:11:54,160 He's like, no, no, no, no, no. 253 00:11:55,280 --> 00:12:01,960 I mean, somebody, somebody may try to control it, but I don't think 254 00:12:01,960 --> 00:12:03,600 it's something that can be controlled. 255 00:12:03,639 --> 00:12:08,840 Like I think the, the power that is coming through into this town and 256 00:12:08,840 --> 00:12:14,879 will eventually bleed into the greater world is something that needs to be stopped. 257 00:12:17,360 --> 00:12:18,639 I don't know how to do that. 258 00:12:18,679 --> 00:12:26,639 The books that I found in the archives back in Kingstown, they didn't, 259 00:12:27,199 --> 00:12:28,279 they're all redacted. 260 00:12:28,279 --> 00:12:32,399 They don't have the information on who controls it, who actually 261 00:12:32,399 --> 00:12:36,199 created it and, and what they want to do with it. 262 00:12:36,559 --> 00:12:42,519 So I feel like if I were to find it, that I have enough knowledge that 263 00:12:42,519 --> 00:12:46,879 I would know what I'm looking for in order to shut, to shut it down, 264 00:12:46,879 --> 00:12:48,720 to release people from it. 265 00:12:50,080 --> 00:12:51,080 People are trapped in it. 266 00:12:52,720 --> 00:12:58,799 Well, the, the, the spirits in the books, the, the, yeah, the, the, the 267 00:12:58,799 --> 00:13:05,039 faith that like the entire thing is, is contracts and binding agreements. 268 00:13:05,039 --> 00:13:10,000 And like, and this kind of like sparks a recent event for you, 269 00:13:10,039 --> 00:13:15,720 particularly Bonwyn is you went through a very recent ritual where 270 00:13:15,720 --> 00:13:20,279 there was a binding of sorts with some sort of extra planar being. 271 00:13:20,639 --> 00:13:27,000 Like people make arrangements for power, for, for their own greed, 272 00:13:27,000 --> 00:13:31,720 for, for good, like to save somebody they love, but they 273 00:13:31,720 --> 00:13:35,720 sell their soul to this archive. 274 00:13:35,800 --> 00:13:40,080 And I feel like I could save some of those people. 275 00:13:40,360 --> 00:13:40,759 Okay. 276 00:13:41,120 --> 00:13:43,679 Um, it's a noble pursuit. 277 00:13:43,759 --> 00:13:52,559 Uh, I think, uh, again, I wouldn't have really put much thought to this 24 hours ago. 278 00:13:52,799 --> 00:13:56,519 I haven't even thought about the weeping archives since school. 279 00:13:57,240 --> 00:14:00,759 Um, cause yeah. 280 00:14:01,000 --> 00:14:10,000 Um, but after seeing stuff like this and I flip open the thin journal and 281 00:14:10,000 --> 00:14:15,480 like write it and, and show him the effects of the ink itself written 282 00:14:15,480 --> 00:14:17,639 with the, uh, written with the elk ink. 283 00:14:18,120 --> 00:14:22,000 It's like, after seeing this, does that disappear after he's done writing it? 284 00:14:23,080 --> 00:14:25,679 Our previous entries still in the journal. 285 00:14:26,000 --> 00:14:27,919 When you open it, it is blank again. 286 00:14:28,240 --> 00:14:28,440 Yeah. 287 00:14:28,440 --> 00:14:29,039 Sorry, Kyle. 288 00:14:29,240 --> 00:14:29,879 No, you're good. 289 00:14:29,960 --> 00:14:30,960 It's a good call out. 290 00:14:31,080 --> 00:14:31,919 Good call out. 291 00:14:31,919 --> 00:14:34,919 I didn't want, didn't think about it, but yeah, I'm going to just 292 00:14:35,279 --> 00:14:37,720 write a note and I'm gonna put like, hello world. 293 00:14:40,679 --> 00:14:47,080 He watches the ink smear across the page and, and he, he looks at it in like 294 00:14:47,120 --> 00:14:50,320 equally delighted and also horrified. 295 00:14:51,000 --> 00:14:54,240 And he says, yes, yes, this is it. 296 00:14:54,320 --> 00:14:58,799 Uh, it's, it's a fragment of the weeping archives influence 297 00:14:58,840 --> 00:15:00,639 right here in Vintersmouth. 298 00:15:00,919 --> 00:15:02,159 Like you, you see it. 299 00:15:02,159 --> 00:15:03,720 Everybody sees what it does, right? 300 00:15:03,720 --> 00:15:06,159 Like the archive doesn't preserve words. 301 00:15:06,159 --> 00:15:09,559 It couldn't, it consumes them and it writes them back. 302 00:15:09,880 --> 00:15:13,520 This, this, this, and he puts his hands on his paper. 303 00:15:13,560 --> 00:15:14,400 This is glorious. 304 00:15:14,400 --> 00:15:16,840 So this is a person trapped in the book. 305 00:15:17,440 --> 00:15:20,080 Well, I think so. 306 00:15:20,760 --> 00:15:24,000 Like it's, it's glorious, but it's also terrifying because if it is, then 307 00:15:24,000 --> 00:15:31,000 somebody is in here, somebody, somebody's, I don't, I don't know how it works. 308 00:15:31,000 --> 00:15:32,960 I cast remove curse on the book. 309 00:15:33,600 --> 00:15:36,920 I touch all curses affecting one creature object end. 310 00:15:37,160 --> 00:15:41,080 If the object is a cursed magic item, its curse remains, but the spell breaks 311 00:15:41,240 --> 00:15:43,040 its owner's attunement to the object. 312 00:15:43,040 --> 00:15:45,560 So I guess I would, I would know that that's not going to. 313 00:15:46,920 --> 00:15:53,240 Well, I mean, what's the point then at your touch, all curses affecting 314 00:15:53,240 --> 00:15:56,000 one creature or object one creature object end. 315 00:15:56,520 --> 00:15:59,120 So I guess the shot and what Bazaar would do, right? 316 00:15:59,120 --> 00:16:00,600 He'd be like, here's the thing I can do. 317 00:16:00,600 --> 00:16:01,440 Let's give it a shot. 318 00:16:01,680 --> 00:16:02,040 Yeah. 319 00:16:02,400 --> 00:16:02,720 Yeah. 320 00:16:02,960 --> 00:16:08,440 So is this object cursed or is it a cursed magic item is the question. 321 00:16:09,160 --> 00:16:10,560 So up to you, sir. 322 00:16:11,160 --> 00:16:11,560 Yeah. 323 00:16:12,240 --> 00:16:16,440 I would not know at this point because I haven't identified it, but my initial 324 00:16:16,440 --> 00:16:19,800 reaction, knowing that there's a person trapped in this would think 325 00:16:19,800 --> 00:16:21,480 that there's a curse on this book. 326 00:16:21,680 --> 00:16:21,960 Yeah. 327 00:16:22,519 --> 00:16:24,040 And I tried it instantly. 328 00:16:26,680 --> 00:16:29,000 Welcome to the middle, everybody. 329 00:16:29,360 --> 00:16:30,160 The middle. 330 00:16:30,160 --> 00:16:31,879 You're in the middle. 331 00:16:33,240 --> 00:16:34,879 A 2026 middle. 332 00:16:35,240 --> 00:16:37,920 This is Carla's first 2026 middle. 333 00:16:38,639 --> 00:16:39,320 Oh yeah. 334 00:16:40,160 --> 00:16:42,560 Thanks for having me back after all that kerfuffle. 335 00:16:42,560 --> 00:16:44,320 I'm glad I'm still here. 336 00:16:44,320 --> 00:16:45,960 It's water under the bridge at this point. 337 00:16:46,160 --> 00:16:46,560 Perfect. 338 00:16:46,560 --> 00:16:47,600 That's really big of you guys. 339 00:16:47,840 --> 00:16:49,240 The bruise is healing though. 340 00:16:49,320 --> 00:16:50,480 You can barely see it now. 341 00:16:50,480 --> 00:16:51,680 So good. 342 00:16:52,879 --> 00:16:53,840 That's a joke everyone. 343 00:16:54,320 --> 00:16:55,040 That's just a joke. 344 00:16:55,040 --> 00:16:56,040 We didn't buy a joke. 345 00:16:56,040 --> 00:16:58,120 We're all, we all love each other so much. 346 00:16:58,160 --> 00:17:02,560 2025, we had various middle themes and now it's beating each other up. 347 00:17:02,720 --> 00:17:03,560 It's brawl. 348 00:17:03,560 --> 00:17:04,319 It's fight club. 349 00:17:04,319 --> 00:17:04,799 Yeah. 350 00:17:04,799 --> 00:17:06,160 Well, we're not supposed to talk about fight club. 351 00:17:06,160 --> 00:17:07,400 Oh right, we're not supposed to talk about fight club. 352 00:17:07,400 --> 00:17:08,319 It's a terrible middle. 353 00:17:08,319 --> 00:17:10,400 Okay, so we've started the year off poorly. 354 00:17:10,400 --> 00:17:12,440 I'm sorry, Brad Pitt. 355 00:17:13,000 --> 00:17:14,240 What about Edward Norton? 356 00:17:15,039 --> 00:17:16,600 I mean, it was really horrible though. 357 00:17:16,920 --> 00:17:17,759 What about Edward Norton? 358 00:17:17,759 --> 00:17:18,559 Was he there? 359 00:17:18,559 --> 00:17:20,319 What about meatloaf? 360 00:17:20,319 --> 00:17:21,360 Thank you Carla. 361 00:17:21,360 --> 00:17:22,640 What about meatloaf? 362 00:17:25,720 --> 00:17:26,600 We're bad guys. 363 00:17:26,600 --> 00:17:28,079 No one asked about Jared Leto. 364 00:17:28,079 --> 00:17:29,079 That's right, no one asked about that. 365 00:17:29,079 --> 00:17:30,079 Jared Leto was in that? 366 00:17:30,480 --> 00:17:30,960 Who? 367 00:17:31,759 --> 00:17:32,680 Oh boy. 368 00:17:33,799 --> 00:17:37,200 So the middle, this is obviously where we talk nonsense. 369 00:17:37,759 --> 00:17:43,960 And here we are doing it and also selecting one very special 370 00:17:43,960 --> 00:17:46,039 patron to dedicate the episode to. 371 00:17:46,039 --> 00:17:48,759 Because that's something you get when you're a patron. 372 00:17:48,759 --> 00:17:49,799 Absolutely. 373 00:17:49,799 --> 00:17:50,079 Yeah. 374 00:17:50,079 --> 00:17:53,840 When you join at patreon.com slash dumb dragon cast, you get that episode 375 00:17:53,840 --> 00:17:57,319 dedication like today's patron, Theodrax. 376 00:17:58,120 --> 00:18:00,480 Theodrax, that's a stunt name. 377 00:18:00,519 --> 00:18:01,759 That is a dope name. 378 00:18:02,559 --> 00:18:03,720 The dragon's name. 379 00:18:05,160 --> 00:18:07,480 I believe now it's a dragon. 380 00:18:07,599 --> 00:18:08,559 Absolutely. 381 00:18:08,759 --> 00:18:09,759 Thank you for listening. 382 00:18:10,360 --> 00:18:11,640 Thank you for listening. 383 00:18:11,759 --> 00:18:13,000 Awesome dragon listener. 384 00:18:13,000 --> 00:18:19,200 That whole long dragon life that you're taking this, I mean, nine years. 385 00:18:19,200 --> 00:18:21,319 We're echoing through a hoard right now. 386 00:18:21,319 --> 00:18:26,160 Like it's where our voices are resounding off piles of gold. 387 00:18:26,360 --> 00:18:28,440 You know how to select your treasure. 388 00:18:28,440 --> 00:18:29,120 So thank you. 389 00:18:29,320 --> 00:18:30,920 Oh, guys, guys, come on. 390 00:18:30,920 --> 00:18:31,720 This is dragon. 391 00:18:32,240 --> 00:18:32,520 Yeah. 392 00:18:35,040 --> 00:18:35,360 All right. 393 00:18:35,400 --> 00:18:36,440 Well, thank you, Theodrax. 394 00:18:36,440 --> 00:18:38,320 And thank you for joining us here today. 395 00:18:39,280 --> 00:18:40,800 patreon.com slash dumb dragon cast. 396 00:18:40,800 --> 00:18:44,080 We hope to see you over there and now we'll get you back to the episode. 397 00:18:44,080 --> 00:18:44,200 Okay. 398 00:18:44,200 --> 00:18:44,400 Love you. 399 00:18:44,400 --> 00:18:44,720 Bye. 400 00:18:45,080 --> 00:18:45,400 Love you. 401 00:18:45,400 --> 00:18:46,480 Bye. 402 00:18:46,960 --> 00:18:52,800 As he's describing this, you, you cast that and as you're casting it, he 403 00:18:52,880 --> 00:18:57,720 like breaks for a second and he goes, Oh, look, a brass button. 404 00:18:57,920 --> 00:19:01,440 And he goes, uh, I just down beside the table and like picks it up 405 00:19:01,440 --> 00:19:02,160 and he's looking at it. 406 00:19:02,160 --> 00:19:03,000 He's like, what are you doing? 407 00:19:03,240 --> 00:19:09,039 And as you're casting it, you see the ink begin to swirl on the 408 00:19:09,039 --> 00:19:16,200 page and similar, similar to an Alydin drew on it, um, you see 409 00:19:16,200 --> 00:19:21,759 it form that same, what appears to you to be the same circle, um, that 410 00:19:21,759 --> 00:19:24,720 then evolves into that same door. 411 00:19:24,880 --> 00:19:28,640 And it's like the, it's, it gives the perspective that you're moving 412 00:19:28,640 --> 00:19:32,559 through the door and you see the ink bleed and spill out onto the 413 00:19:32,559 --> 00:19:34,360 pages and across the table. 414 00:19:34,680 --> 00:19:35,839 How, how big is it? 415 00:19:36,279 --> 00:19:37,400 Journal book size. 416 00:19:37,400 --> 00:19:38,920 Yeah, no, that's a good, good point. 417 00:19:39,039 --> 00:19:41,000 Uh, so yeah, I wasn't sure. 418 00:19:41,000 --> 00:19:41,200 Yeah. 419 00:19:41,360 --> 00:19:43,000 Um, what did you do? 420 00:19:44,160 --> 00:19:49,200 I tried to see if perhaps there was a curse on the book, holding 421 00:19:49,200 --> 00:19:51,440 the spirit within to try and release it. 422 00:19:51,559 --> 00:19:54,079 Um, what if the spirit within is bad? 423 00:19:54,559 --> 00:19:56,199 What if it's trapped for a reason? 424 00:19:57,199 --> 00:20:02,000 Like the, the perspective movement on the pages, uh, continues to evolve. 425 00:20:02,000 --> 00:20:05,480 And it's like, the ink is like drying up in the center and the 426 00:20:05,480 --> 00:20:09,799 white page is coming back and the ink is rolling out, uh, continuously 427 00:20:09,799 --> 00:20:12,159 onto the table and like off the edge. 428 00:20:12,279 --> 00:20:16,960 It is like actual liquid ink, not like ephemeral looks like ink. 429 00:20:17,000 --> 00:20:19,039 It's like a liquid. 430 00:20:19,559 --> 00:20:19,799 Yeah. 431 00:20:19,839 --> 00:20:20,039 Yeah. 432 00:20:20,039 --> 00:20:20,720 It's the same. 433 00:20:20,759 --> 00:20:23,199 It's the same ink blood from the elk. 434 00:20:23,319 --> 00:20:26,200 I'm going to try to stick my hand into the book. 435 00:20:26,720 --> 00:20:26,920 Okay. 436 00:20:30,440 --> 00:20:32,360 We're not doing a rescue mission. 437 00:20:32,400 --> 00:20:34,319 You need to stay here. 438 00:20:34,920 --> 00:20:35,319 Bazaar. 439 00:20:35,319 --> 00:20:38,319 It's so curious to swat it. 440 00:20:38,600 --> 00:20:40,799 Uh, you're just putting your hand on the book. 441 00:20:41,080 --> 00:20:44,600 Oh, no, I'm going to try to put my hand into the book. 442 00:20:44,920 --> 00:20:46,519 Oh, like into the spine. 443 00:20:46,519 --> 00:20:48,400 Like, yeah, like this looks like a hole. 444 00:20:48,400 --> 00:20:50,279 So I'm going to put my hand in the hole. 445 00:20:50,519 --> 00:20:50,759 Yeah. 446 00:20:50,759 --> 00:20:51,640 You, you do that. 447 00:20:51,720 --> 00:20:52,640 Nothing happens. 448 00:20:52,960 --> 00:20:55,080 Uh, your, your, your, your hand goes into the book. 449 00:20:55,080 --> 00:20:59,440 It like heaves up and closes onto your hand, but ink hand. 450 00:20:59,480 --> 00:21:03,720 It seems like whatever was happening has passed. 451 00:21:04,040 --> 00:21:05,440 That was super dangerous. 452 00:21:05,840 --> 00:21:07,759 Remember the, what if it sucked you right in or something? 453 00:21:07,759 --> 00:21:08,480 The book's bite. 454 00:21:08,600 --> 00:21:09,640 The book's bite. 455 00:21:09,960 --> 00:21:13,480 The book, remember that, the book's bite. 456 00:21:13,840 --> 00:21:14,280 Yeah. 457 00:21:15,280 --> 00:21:16,240 You need to be more careful. 458 00:21:16,240 --> 00:21:16,920 We need you here. 459 00:21:17,040 --> 00:21:17,480 Sorry. 460 00:21:17,480 --> 00:21:19,520 That was some major curiosity. 461 00:21:20,079 --> 00:21:26,799 And, um, but the book seems like it went back to normal. 462 00:21:26,920 --> 00:21:29,599 Uh, yeah, it is completely blank pages. 463 00:21:29,599 --> 00:21:33,920 Whatever ink that was there is now like pooled on the table and down on the ground. 464 00:21:34,319 --> 00:21:34,799 Gotcha. 465 00:21:35,119 --> 00:21:38,319 What about this other book that we took from the podium in the center of town? 466 00:21:38,319 --> 00:21:40,200 That's just writing shit willy nilly. 467 00:21:40,519 --> 00:21:41,559 That's a bigger book. 468 00:21:41,839 --> 00:21:43,759 Both books have stuff writing themselves. 469 00:21:43,839 --> 00:21:44,079 Yeah. 470 00:21:44,079 --> 00:21:46,279 Which, which, uh, another book. 471 00:21:46,759 --> 00:21:47,639 Didn't you see the book? 472 00:21:47,639 --> 00:21:53,599 It was on like, uh, like a platform in the center of town and it was revealing secrets. 473 00:21:53,720 --> 00:21:55,839 Well, I wasn't here. 474 00:21:55,839 --> 00:21:59,559 I was, I was having a nap in a street. 475 00:21:59,720 --> 00:22:02,079 It's not really a nap if you just fall asleep. 476 00:22:02,119 --> 00:22:02,680 That's okay. 477 00:22:02,680 --> 00:22:04,279 You don't need to pretend for us. 478 00:22:04,399 --> 00:22:04,680 Yeah. 479 00:22:04,680 --> 00:22:10,440 Um, yeah, we, we came back from our adventure and, um, there was a book on 480 00:22:10,440 --> 00:22:13,599 a podium in the middle of town and it was just talking shit. 481 00:22:14,119 --> 00:22:16,200 I opened it up on the counter. 482 00:22:16,319 --> 00:22:20,359 Do you open it so that it's like facing him or like, how do you, how do you 483 00:22:20,359 --> 00:22:20,680 put it? 484 00:22:20,680 --> 00:22:23,200 Yeah, I mean, I'm just opening it so you can see that it's writing. 485 00:22:23,279 --> 00:22:24,119 It's not facing him. 486 00:22:24,119 --> 00:22:24,920 It's facing us. 487 00:22:25,160 --> 00:22:25,359 Okay. 488 00:22:26,039 --> 00:22:26,759 I don't know this guy. 489 00:22:26,759 --> 00:22:35,639 I want to just take a quill and write on the book that has spilled all of 490 00:22:35,639 --> 00:22:39,960 its ink out just to see if it does anything or is it like used up now? 491 00:22:39,960 --> 00:22:42,920 Did it like spit out all of its inky stuff and now it's just a book book. 492 00:22:42,960 --> 00:22:43,879 Yes. 493 00:22:43,920 --> 00:22:44,160 Okay. 494 00:22:44,160 --> 00:22:45,480 So a couple of things. 495 00:22:45,480 --> 00:22:46,759 I write bizarre smells. 496 00:22:48,920 --> 00:22:49,519 LOL. 497 00:22:50,160 --> 00:22:51,799 So two things happen at once. 498 00:22:51,799 --> 00:22:54,720 You turn the book, uh, to him. 499 00:22:54,960 --> 00:22:58,640 You open it to the last entry, which was Alydin's. 500 00:22:58,680 --> 00:23:04,519 So if you're reading the book, I could give you Alydin's as well, but 501 00:23:04,519 --> 00:23:08,440 first you see that it begins to write out in front of Alastair. 502 00:23:08,759 --> 00:23:12,880 He falls asleep, not from illness, but from fear. 503 00:23:13,280 --> 00:23:16,120 He cannot face the silence when awake. 504 00:23:16,880 --> 00:23:22,000 He said, Oh, this one, this one tells hard truths. 505 00:23:22,400 --> 00:23:28,560 And then Alydin's, which you would be able to see bizarre, uh, says the 506 00:23:28,560 --> 00:23:34,640 maker still dreams of the Faye who touched her and sometimes she wishes 507 00:23:34,640 --> 00:23:36,520 the dream would never end. 508 00:23:38,920 --> 00:23:40,000 Rude. 509 00:23:42,880 --> 00:23:43,400 Yeah. 510 00:23:45,840 --> 00:23:46,360 Damn. 511 00:23:48,080 --> 00:23:49,480 Fuck book. 512 00:23:51,120 --> 00:23:52,840 This is how Russ calls us all out. 513 00:23:53,280 --> 00:23:54,200 Jesus. 514 00:23:55,000 --> 00:23:56,280 Von Nguyen, take a look at this. 515 00:23:56,760 --> 00:23:58,080 I don't want to be alone. 516 00:23:58,520 --> 00:24:00,080 I don't think I'm ready to be read yet. 517 00:24:00,160 --> 00:24:01,800 So I don't think so either. 518 00:24:02,080 --> 00:24:02,800 Oh boy. 519 00:24:02,960 --> 00:24:03,720 Shit. 520 00:24:03,720 --> 00:24:07,320 Alastair just kind of closes it after you see that. 521 00:24:07,399 --> 00:24:11,039 Um, uh, I don't, I don't, I don't know. 522 00:24:11,079 --> 00:24:18,559 It's definitely seems like a similar, um, similar type of enchanted magic 523 00:24:18,559 --> 00:24:21,599 or like coming from the, the, the archive, but that. 524 00:24:21,879 --> 00:24:24,159 This one feels malicious for no reason. 525 00:24:24,240 --> 00:24:25,839 No, no, you're right. 526 00:24:26,000 --> 00:24:27,639 And who's to say it's even true. 527 00:24:28,919 --> 00:24:31,359 Well, we all just exchange looks. 528 00:24:34,240 --> 00:24:36,480 Bench who comes over with some beers. 529 00:24:36,480 --> 00:24:38,519 He's like, that's not watered down. 530 00:24:38,640 --> 00:24:39,200 I promise. 531 00:24:43,319 --> 00:24:47,799 I mean, Alydin is there truth to that? 532 00:24:47,799 --> 00:24:53,319 Was there something that you, that you're still holding onto from your 533 00:24:53,319 --> 00:24:56,680 experience in the Fae that you want or need? 534 00:24:58,440 --> 00:24:58,799 I don't know. 535 00:24:58,920 --> 00:25:00,480 She's like clutching her. 536 00:25:01,960 --> 00:25:02,519 The antlers. 537 00:25:02,519 --> 00:25:03,360 The shiny antlers. 538 00:25:04,000 --> 00:25:05,200 Like, I don't know. 539 00:25:05,240 --> 00:25:06,039 I don't know. 540 00:25:06,039 --> 00:25:12,879 No, you can tell us nobody remembers their dreams and dreams are just your 541 00:25:12,879 --> 00:25:20,519 mind playing you a play so that you're not bored when you're sleeping. 542 00:25:20,759 --> 00:25:21,200 Yeah. 543 00:25:21,879 --> 00:25:25,720 You know, I'm trying to think, have we even talked about what happened 544 00:25:25,960 --> 00:25:29,079 with you before we took you out of that home? 545 00:25:29,079 --> 00:25:33,960 Cause I, I don't remember us covering what was going on. 546 00:25:34,200 --> 00:25:34,879 No, no. 547 00:25:35,080 --> 00:25:42,560 Um, I mean, I almost just said, Flint asked me, I mean, like when Cav like 548 00:25:42,560 --> 00:25:44,640 came up, he was like, are you okay? 549 00:25:44,640 --> 00:25:45,320 And I was like, yeah. 550 00:25:45,640 --> 00:25:50,960 And that doesn't seem like an in-depth kind of discussion about, 551 00:25:51,320 --> 00:25:54,840 about what you experienced and your thoughts and feelings about that. 552 00:25:54,840 --> 00:25:58,640 I mean, we kind of came back and just things started happening right away, 553 00:25:58,640 --> 00:26:03,960 you know, and maybe, maybe we need to talk about what was happening. 554 00:26:04,519 --> 00:26:08,519 She's like sitting there uncomfortable, like shifty eye looking towards Alistair. 555 00:26:08,519 --> 00:26:11,720 Like, guys, yeah, we don't need to do that now. 556 00:26:11,720 --> 00:26:12,559 No, not now. 557 00:26:13,039 --> 00:26:15,440 You, you maybe, I can, I can go. 558 00:26:15,440 --> 00:26:17,000 No Alistair, it's fine. 559 00:26:17,000 --> 00:26:18,360 We should have, I feel terrible. 560 00:26:18,360 --> 00:26:21,039 Yeah, we don't, we're not trying to spring this on you. 561 00:26:21,039 --> 00:26:24,279 And also, you know, like, just think about it when you're ready. 562 00:26:24,680 --> 00:26:26,360 I want to lead with, I'm sorry. 563 00:26:26,360 --> 00:26:27,360 I didn't ask sooner. 564 00:26:27,680 --> 00:26:28,240 Me too. 565 00:26:28,400 --> 00:26:28,799 Yeah. 566 00:26:28,880 --> 00:26:30,000 I really agree with that. 567 00:26:30,039 --> 00:26:32,440 We, we really should have prioritized that. 568 00:26:32,519 --> 00:26:35,880 I'm like, I'm, I'm so fine. 569 00:26:35,920 --> 00:26:37,200 You're always fine, Alydin. 570 00:26:37,200 --> 00:26:37,920 You're a survivor. 571 00:26:37,920 --> 00:26:39,200 You're always going to be fine. 572 00:26:39,200 --> 00:26:44,440 But that doesn't mean that, you know, it isn't helpful to kind of talk about 573 00:26:44,440 --> 00:26:45,240 things you've been through. 574 00:26:45,320 --> 00:26:45,960 Cause it is. 575 00:26:46,160 --> 00:26:48,960 Did you talk about all the things that happened at the Forge? 576 00:26:51,720 --> 00:26:52,240 I mean, most. 577 00:26:52,240 --> 00:26:53,080 Boom! 578 00:26:55,759 --> 00:27:00,440 Listen, we all may be fine, but if we're helping each other out and we're 579 00:27:00,440 --> 00:27:04,160 friends, I want to make sure my friends do better than fine. 580 00:27:05,039 --> 00:27:05,440 Yeah. 581 00:27:05,840 --> 00:27:06,279 Agreed. 582 00:27:07,920 --> 00:27:08,160 Okay. 583 00:27:08,160 --> 00:27:08,960 But maybe later. 584 00:27:09,200 --> 00:27:09,360 Yeah. 585 00:27:09,360 --> 00:27:09,640 Yeah. 586 00:27:10,360 --> 00:27:10,880 Anytime. 587 00:27:11,200 --> 00:27:15,240 Uh, so Alistair, what do you, you don't want to burn it down. 588 00:27:15,600 --> 00:27:16,120 You want to. 589 00:27:16,880 --> 00:27:17,840 Well, then. 590 00:27:18,039 --> 00:27:19,080 Seal it off. 591 00:27:20,640 --> 00:27:21,279 Yeah. 592 00:27:21,720 --> 00:27:22,320 Seal it off. 593 00:27:23,519 --> 00:27:25,200 But then are we trapping the people? 594 00:27:26,039 --> 00:27:27,600 Like the spirits in there? 595 00:27:28,520 --> 00:27:31,040 I don't know if what's in there can be, I don't know. 596 00:27:31,040 --> 00:27:34,720 I, I, I hope I can find something like not only to like. 597 00:27:36,120 --> 00:27:39,920 So you're saying that you think they've already found it. 598 00:27:40,880 --> 00:27:42,560 The people who would use it for malicious intent. 599 00:27:43,320 --> 00:27:47,360 Well, I think they, I think they found, I think they found some of the 600 00:27:47,360 --> 00:27:49,320 same information that I have. 601 00:27:50,560 --> 00:27:54,760 And I think if they want to release whatever is in there to, to, to 602 00:27:54,759 --> 00:27:58,799 bind more people to gain their own power, to tap into something that 603 00:27:58,799 --> 00:28:03,839 would give them something that would, would give them an edge here as this, 604 00:28:04,039 --> 00:28:07,319 as whatever this is. 605 00:28:07,319 --> 00:28:10,279 And he just kind of gestures to this, to the city. 606 00:28:10,279 --> 00:28:11,839 That's like, that's the vibe you're getting. 607 00:28:13,440 --> 00:28:18,839 Like that gives them a higher status when whichever Faye comes 608 00:28:18,839 --> 00:28:21,440 through and takes over. 609 00:28:21,440 --> 00:28:25,960 What do we, what do you know about the Faye? 610 00:28:25,960 --> 00:28:32,000 Are there certain, are there certain symbols represented by, by beings? 611 00:28:32,000 --> 00:28:36,400 Like I'm trying to think about power and how it's been, you know, 612 00:28:36,720 --> 00:28:42,000 visited here, the, you know, the power over greed with Mayor Knapp's. 613 00:28:42,920 --> 00:28:43,640 Yeah. 614 00:28:44,080 --> 00:28:48,400 Power over knowledge by eliminating the schools. 615 00:28:49,240 --> 00:28:52,200 You know, maybe there is validity to what you're saying here. 616 00:28:52,200 --> 00:28:54,080 And it's been a slow creep. 617 00:28:54,560 --> 00:28:56,960 Alydin has helped herself to one of the beers. 618 00:28:57,240 --> 00:28:58,400 I'm not noticing. 619 00:28:59,160 --> 00:28:59,920 I'm too caught up. 620 00:28:59,920 --> 00:29:04,880 Honestly, she's, she's giving eyes above that glass, like say something. 621 00:29:05,840 --> 00:29:11,440 Like he's listening to you, but his eyes are drawn back to the, to the, 622 00:29:11,440 --> 00:29:14,440 the, the book that you found in the center of town. 623 00:29:14,600 --> 00:29:14,960 Yeah. 624 00:29:15,039 --> 00:29:20,039 Like, and he's like, you can tell that he like wants to open it again, 625 00:29:20,039 --> 00:29:25,079 but like there's hesitation and he's like flip, like lifting the cover 626 00:29:25,079 --> 00:29:26,559 and I open it for him. 627 00:29:27,039 --> 00:29:34,880 His eyes are transfixed on the page and another passage begins to come 628 00:29:34,880 --> 00:29:41,480 across the page and it says the ink first stained his hands years ago. 629 00:29:42,200 --> 00:29:44,079 It has never washed clean. 630 00:29:45,559 --> 00:29:47,079 And he's, he closes it. 631 00:29:47,559 --> 00:29:48,000 Sorry. 632 00:29:50,079 --> 00:29:50,880 Can I see that? 633 00:29:51,000 --> 00:29:54,680 And I want to pull the book towards me and open it. 634 00:29:54,920 --> 00:29:55,039 Yeah. 635 00:29:55,039 --> 00:29:58,519 He lets you, he lets you, you're going to open it to yourself. 636 00:29:58,519 --> 00:29:58,799 Yeah. 637 00:29:59,319 --> 00:30:01,799 I guess I'll have to look and see what the book says about me too. 638 00:30:02,519 --> 00:30:03,319 Curiosity. 639 00:30:03,799 --> 00:30:04,360 Me too. 640 00:30:04,440 --> 00:30:05,640 I'm not up for it tonight though. 641 00:30:05,960 --> 00:30:06,519 No, that's fair. 642 00:30:07,600 --> 00:30:12,600 Alydin, you opened the book again and beneath Alistair's two 643 00:30:12,600 --> 00:30:18,480 entries in your one, it writes, she wonders if the Faye curse is not a 644 00:30:18,480 --> 00:30:23,160 burden, but a gift, and she does not wish to give it up. 645 00:30:23,560 --> 00:30:25,000 Reading that over your shoulder. 646 00:30:26,800 --> 00:30:27,160 Right. 647 00:30:32,520 --> 00:30:32,880 All right. 648 00:30:32,920 --> 00:30:34,000 So you're looking at the book too. 649 00:30:34,040 --> 00:30:34,440 Got it. 650 00:30:34,720 --> 00:30:35,440 Oh, no, no, no. 651 00:30:35,560 --> 00:30:40,040 I was like, I was kind of knowingly nudging back to what we were just 652 00:30:40,040 --> 00:30:40,760 talking about. 653 00:30:41,000 --> 00:30:42,480 Yeah, no, I'm not waiting. 654 00:30:42,480 --> 00:30:43,000 On my turn. 655 00:30:45,279 --> 00:30:47,120 I got you all primed and ready, sir. 656 00:30:47,640 --> 00:30:48,000 Oh yeah. 657 00:30:48,000 --> 00:30:48,240 Yeah. 658 00:30:49,799 --> 00:30:50,640 Oh no, I did. 659 00:30:51,079 --> 00:30:51,880 Come on guys. 660 00:30:52,319 --> 00:30:55,160 It would be so hard to resist. 661 00:30:55,559 --> 00:30:56,960 No, yeah, I definitely do it. 662 00:30:56,960 --> 00:31:00,400 I just want to make sure my, my clearing my throat wasn't mistaken for 663 00:31:00,400 --> 00:31:01,680 like, get the fuck out of the way. 664 00:31:02,440 --> 00:31:02,759 Right. 665 00:31:03,279 --> 00:31:04,200 My turn. 666 00:31:04,319 --> 00:31:04,680 Got it. 667 00:31:05,279 --> 00:31:07,599 Not me going around opening it in front of people. 668 00:31:08,400 --> 00:31:09,120 Look at yourself. 669 00:31:09,559 --> 00:31:10,599 Look at the mirror. 670 00:31:11,040 --> 00:31:11,840 Shane. 671 00:31:12,840 --> 00:31:13,680 Oh my goodness. 672 00:31:14,440 --> 00:31:15,680 That's pretty hilarious. 673 00:31:17,040 --> 00:31:19,200 I mean, I think that is what a teenager would do. 674 00:31:19,440 --> 00:31:20,080 Bizarre. 675 00:31:20,400 --> 00:31:24,120 I mean, Alladin had pulled out a bunch of pages from, from his, from 676 00:31:24,120 --> 00:31:28,560 Alistair's bag and they're kind of just strewn across the table and 677 00:31:28,560 --> 00:31:31,680 like falling, regardless of whether she was pulling them out. 678 00:31:31,680 --> 00:31:33,120 Are they ink soaked now? 679 00:31:33,160 --> 00:31:33,480 Yeah. 680 00:31:33,480 --> 00:31:38,400 Some of them have a slight ink stain to them that rolled up across it. 681 00:31:38,519 --> 00:31:39,800 Rolled up across it. 682 00:31:40,040 --> 00:31:44,440 Um, but make a perception roll. 683 00:31:47,160 --> 00:31:47,840 21. 684 00:31:47,960 --> 00:31:52,160 As you're looking over Alladin's shoulder at the end of the table, 685 00:31:53,040 --> 00:31:54,519 two things catch your eye. 686 00:31:55,040 --> 00:32:00,440 On one page, which Bonwyn had already previously seen, you see a 687 00:32:00,440 --> 00:32:07,680 symbol of Ashutra, scrawled onto it, which was the, which 688 00:32:07,680 --> 00:32:13,039 was the deity who Bonwyn communed, or did the ritual with, um, and 689 00:32:13,039 --> 00:32:15,200 you helped set up all of that. 690 00:32:15,200 --> 00:32:16,720 So you would have seen that symbol. 691 00:32:17,279 --> 00:32:23,440 Um, the other piece you see is off the corner of a page. 692 00:32:23,519 --> 00:32:25,600 You see your last name. 693 00:32:27,200 --> 00:32:27,560 Man. 694 00:32:28,480 --> 00:32:29,120 The wizard. 695 00:32:29,519 --> 00:32:29,799 Yeah. 696 00:32:29,799 --> 00:32:35,120 I'm like, isn't that, that's, that's the mystery. 697 00:32:35,160 --> 00:32:37,120 No, it's the mystery. 698 00:32:37,160 --> 00:32:39,760 We wouldn't even realize that like, wouldn't even. 699 00:32:40,560 --> 00:32:45,560 Yeah, actually, I would have never said my last name around y'all for reals. 700 00:32:46,440 --> 00:32:47,200 Not for reals. 701 00:32:47,200 --> 00:32:48,760 You have, I think you have, I don't know. 702 00:32:49,000 --> 00:32:50,080 I know what it is. 703 00:32:50,560 --> 00:32:50,920 Okay. 704 00:32:50,920 --> 00:32:51,080 Yeah. 705 00:32:51,080 --> 00:32:51,280 Yeah. 706 00:32:51,280 --> 00:32:53,080 I know what it is, but yeah. 707 00:32:53,840 --> 00:32:53,960 Yeah. 708 00:32:53,960 --> 00:32:54,960 I don't think I've actually said it. 709 00:32:55,800 --> 00:32:56,520 I don't think so. 710 00:32:57,280 --> 00:33:00,440 I was going to say, I know everybody's last name, but bizarre. 711 00:33:01,440 --> 00:33:03,960 It's like, it's not the man I live with and call magic daddy. 712 00:33:04,840 --> 00:33:06,240 And I don't have a last name. 713 00:33:08,000 --> 00:33:08,680 I'm sure I do. 714 00:33:08,680 --> 00:33:10,120 Bizarre T whiz, huh? 715 00:33:10,120 --> 00:33:10,960 T whiz guys. 716 00:33:11,600 --> 00:33:12,000 Cool. 717 00:33:12,000 --> 00:33:14,080 I'm not saying anything about that. 718 00:33:14,520 --> 00:33:14,800 Okay. 719 00:33:15,400 --> 00:33:15,680 Got it. 720 00:33:16,040 --> 00:33:16,640 That's what you see. 721 00:33:16,840 --> 00:33:17,200 Yeah. 722 00:33:19,000 --> 00:33:20,880 Well, this got awkward. 723 00:33:22,960 --> 00:33:24,840 I set my glass down to empty. 724 00:33:26,680 --> 00:33:33,000 Dumbgeons and Dragons season four, episode 45, starring Amy More as Alydin, Carla 725 00:33:33,039 --> 00:33:39,000 Maxted as Bonwyn Everbane, Tom Laird as Kavlaran Goldweave, Kyle Claset as Bizarre 726 00:33:39,000 --> 00:33:41,960 the Wizard, and Russ More as your dungeon master. 727 00:33:42,160 --> 00:33:45,880 Dialogue editing and sound design of today's episode is by Russ More. 728 00:33:45,960 --> 00:33:48,200 Our community manager is Jessica Babiuk. 729 00:33:48,400 --> 00:33:52,400 Music is from Epidemic Sound and sound effects are from Epidemic Sound, 730 00:33:52,400 --> 00:33:54,480 Boom Library and Sound Ideas. 731 00:33:54,519 --> 00:33:57,079 Our amazing cover art is by Matt Garbutt. 732 00:33:57,279 --> 00:34:01,079 A huge thank you to our supporting producers, Gabriel Lynch, Jessica 733 00:34:01,120 --> 00:34:06,880 Babiuk, Angaron Kierzen, Perry Matey, Cat Waterflame, Jacob Madden, Old School 734 00:34:06,880 --> 00:34:09,200 Gamer D, Craig Zeiss, L.A. 735 00:34:09,200 --> 00:34:12,960 Branton, Chibs1012, and Kudzu828. 736 00:34:13,079 --> 00:34:17,519 Dumbgeons and Dragons is a Patreon supported podcast and all of our amazing 737 00:34:17,519 --> 00:34:22,360 community help make sure that we have adventures for you every single week. 738 00:34:22,400 --> 00:34:25,400 Come join us today, patreon.com slash dumb dragon cast. 739 00:34:25,400 --> 00:34:30,600 We hope to see you over there and you have yourself right now a great week. 740 00:34:30,880 --> 00:34:33,000 Yes, and we'll talk to you very, very soon. 741 00:34:34,319 --> 00:34:39,799 And let's say I need to find in the book where I put more than one for each of you. 742 00:34:40,759 --> 00:34:44,639 Russ just has a Google doc called like mean things to say to characters. 743 00:34:44,639 --> 00:34:48,799 Private shames, private shames, reporting for duty. 744 00:34:51,119 --> 00:34:53,920 Dumbgeons and Dragons is a dumb dragons production.