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[8.0s] It's a couple days after the wedding. Kav, you've boarded a ship and made your way back to
[15.6s] Vintersmouth and you're pulling in to the harbor in the evening. It is a relatively calm
[23.3s] night. The sun is still setting. It's a beautiful like pinky purple sky. Vintersmouth
[29.8s] looking very beautiful. There's a few people walking along the harbor and as the boat pulls
[35.3s] into the port and the gangplank comes down onto the harbor, you wave a courteous wave to Gorsh
[44.7s] who... Things have cooled between the two of them? I mean he's just been gone a lot.
[49.8s] Okay, that's fair. You are making your way. Where are you headed now that you're back?
[56.2s] It's not like night time, so you know sleep isn't necessarily first and foremost,
[61.8s] but where are you headed? I mean I'm probably going to head to the Brutal Awakening.
[67.6s] You make your way over there. There's a bit, the crowd kind of fills out a little bit.
[73.6s] The closer you get to it, a little more of that evening post-work vibe. Everybody's
[79.0s] looking to cut loose and as you push open the door, the sound of music pours out into the street
[86.7s] and light fills the darkening town square. You see several people from the town that you
[94.2s] recognize, but primarily your friends, Bonwyn, Bazaar and Alydin, across and they're seated
[99.9s] with Alistair. Bench clocks you as soon as you walk in and it says,
[105.6s] Cav, you're back! Which pulls all of your attention to the door as you see Cav enter.
[115.8s] Cav, first piece you notice is that Bazaar is at this point healing, but still a little black
[122.3s] and blue in the face. Cav, you're back! I'm back! It's so nice. Whoa! Bazaar, what
[129.5s] happened? Yeah, I got lost down a dark alley. Oh sure, yeah, okay. Bag over my head kind of
[142.3s] thing. He got the crap kicked out of him is what happened. You know, I was piecing that
[147.8s] together. Yeah, got the good shits kicked out of me. Cool, who'd you piss off? I don't know,
[156.5s] but it's led to talking about some kind of weeping archive, some library. Oh yeah,
[163.0s] that thing. So, total cool coincidence. My dad's fourth wife was totally talking about
[170.9s] the weeping archive and I didn't understand what she was talking about. Huh, no way. It's
[177.0s] weird how when you hear about something and then all of a sudden you keep hearing about
[181.5s] it everywhere even though you don't ever remember hearing about it before. Yeah,
[186.2s] did she have good, like would she tell you? Okay, I remember a bit of it, so I'll just
[194.5s] run it past you guys and just first thought, best thought, especially you, sleeping dude,
[202.9s] I think you're gonna be probably the most knowledgeable about this. Oh, you're back! It's
[208.1s] good to see you again. My Alastair Greaves, lovely to connect again. Oh, sorry, we don't need to do
[214.3s] that again, right? No, totally good. Good, good, good, good. Just to catch you up because I
[219.8s] didn't realize you were asleep. I thought you were just resting your eyes, but. Oh,
[224.6s] were they closed again? Never mind, you go. I was at my dad's wedding. Well, his fifth,
[230.2s] anyway, doesn't matter. What was the theme? Fifth time's a charm? Is that a theme? Fifth
[237.9s] time's a charm. Yeah, so. Kind of has a ring to it. Like a rusted gold? It was more of a rusted
[244.8s] root. That's what they walk down the aisle to? Yeah. Cool. Anyway, his fourth wife. Damn
[255.4s] me forgetting that song in my head, Tom. Fuck you. Send me on my way.
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[305.8s] to it. Fuck it. Let's play. Anyway, so yeah, his fourth wife, the lovely lady, Dame Corvilla.
[319.4s] She's an interesting one. Anyway, she may or may not be a witch. That's neither here nor there.
[326.1s] But she said that at one point in my life, my father had signed a document.
[333.9s] And she said, you know, being an older man of a certain. Anyway, he didn't read it,
[340.8s] I guess, is the long short of it. And the words did not stay where he put them.
[347.6s] They were taken, preserved and filed in the Weeping Archive. So, so.
[355.0s] Uh, so, so you, so you have a direct connection to the archive through your lineage?
[364.2s] I mean, I don't really know. Maybe. Yeah. Is that what you're saying?
[368.1s] Well, I mean, that's what sounds like your fourth step. I don't know if step step mom.
[375.5s] Kind of just like one of Cav's ladies. Yeah. Is that what you call all of your father's
[383.7s] uh, previous wives is Cav's ladies. They're a whole team. It's the Goldweave girls.
[389.4s] Oh, oh, oh, that's fun. That's a cool name. That's a cool name.
[393.8s] That'd be a great spinoff podcast of several, several older ladies living together.
[400.0s] Putting it out there, not doing it ourselves. I mean, we will eventually. It's probably fine.
[405.9s] Well, that's very interesting. Not great, but interesting.
[410.5s] Yeah. I mean, not great was my first reaction too. So I'm glad we're on the same page there.
[415.4s] Well, maybe it is good. Maybe it's keeping something safe.
[420.7s] I mean, it didn't sound like it when she was talking about it.
[425.2s] Will it help us find it? Because you can like,
[429.8s] sense it. Is that a thing, Alistair? Oh, will his last name be on it? It's filed.
[436.1s] It may be in it. I don't know if it will be on it. I don't know if, yeah, no. I mean,
[442.8s] from what I know is having there are probably guaranteed many names within the archive
[450.1s] throughout however long the archive has existed. Okay. But yeah, placing a name on the archive,
[457.0s] like kind of sponsorship rights. I don't know. Well, no, I mean,
[461.2s] The Weeping Archive presented by Brood Awakening.
[465.2s] And is there a process for learning about this fucking place? Because it seems like
[468.5s] you could be at a wedding and get your ass kicked. And I got the raw end of the deal.
[476.2s] I guess it depends which way you approach it. And I mean, it sounds like a very lovely
[482.3s] wedding. But also, it was all right. It's the fifth wedding. So I guess in the big
[488.7s] scheme of things like tomato, tomato. No swag, but open bar. Open bar is good.
[496.3s] Well, that's nothing you could bring me. Oh, oh, last thing, too. This is probably
[501.4s] the most important because she said it as she had already turned away from me.
[506.1s] It was like that really cool thing they do in the stories when they drop that last little
[510.4s] bit of knowledge as they walk out the room and it rocks your world. She said that if I
[515.7s] ever read my father's name on ink that won't dry, don't touch the page.
[525.8s] That sounds very straightforward. Yeah, and like ominous as fuck.
[530.4s] Yeah, I was just thinking. Yeah, no, that's.
[533.3s] As if you didn't need any more reasons to file things.
[536.3s] Oh, tell me about it. Touch paperwork.
[538.1s] Where's the open? I need them. What the hell do parents know?
[540.7s] Do you want to try it? I open up one of the books.
[543.8s] Which book do you open? Open up the one that we were
[546.2s] writing stuff in that like we were trying to talk to somebody.
[550.8s] The one that was dropping the truth bombs.
[553.5s] There was the private shames book and then there was the one that was more.
[559.2s] Private shames will never not entertain me.
[563.9s] There was the private shames book, which is the one out in the town square that just
[569.0s] seemed to generate once somebody looked upon it.
[573.7s] The bizarre was writing in that was responding depending on what you put in there.
[579.4s] It did show that amorphous ink characteristic.
[583.2s] Yes, yes it did. It took the ink that you had written
[587.4s] and created the response, be it a sentence or a pictograph.
[592.3s] Yeah, yeah. Hold on.
[594.3s] Hold on, Kav, was this stepmom, was she nice to you or is she like jealous of you?
[603.4s] Oh, no, I did not. Did she offer you an apple?
[606.1s] No, no classic. You said she was a witch.
[608.1s] No classic witch. Well, I mean, it seems like she's a witch.
[611.6s] We had a little convo about it where like I'm pretty sure she's a witch, but
[615.4s] she didn't really say she's a witch, but like I think she said it without saying it, you know?
[620.3s] Okay, but do you think that she would want to hurt you?
[622.8s] Oh, no, I don't think so. She was always pretty cool.
[626.8s] I think just, you know, circumstances would like naturally want to pit us against one another,
[632.2s] but we've never, it's always been tight. We've been good.
[634.9s] Sounds like your dad might be the villain if he's now on his fifth wife.
[638.2s] He's 100% the villain.
[639.6s] Oh, so I mean, you probably had a united friend against the old man, right?
[643.9s] Yeah. I think maybe you
[646.3s] should listen to her then.
[648.2s] Okay, cool.
[649.4s] If it was a word of warning, maybe you should listen to your fourth mom?
[655.6s] Well, no, she's like only, okay, it's really complicated.
[660.0s] She's the fourth wife. I was the offspring from the third wife.
[665.1s] And then the two previous wives are also in my gang, but, you know, we're all cool.
[670.5s] It's a gang.
[671.0s] So you're the gang leader.
[673.4s] You're a ring leader?
[674.3s] Oh, no, absolutely not. It is a partnership through and through.
[677.8s] Okay. A lot happened at this wedding for you.
[681.8s] Oh, yeah. No, it was just real busy time.
[684.3s] You see Alistair begin to flip through some pages that are just all over this table
[688.7s] and he's pulling stuff out of his bag.
[690.2s] I think that reminds me, you see him drift and fall and thud on the table.
[696.0s] And as his head hits the table, you begin to hear the town bells ringing outside.
[703.4s] That's probably a bad sign, right?
[706.0s] I'm really tired of those bells.
[708.7s] Me too.
[711.0s] I guess let's go see.
[714.2s] Everybody in, not just you, but everybody in The Brutal Awakening gets up and heads outside.
[719.8s] Except for Alistair?
[721.0s] Except for Alistair.
[721.9s] Do we put him in the recovery position before we go so he doesn't, like,
[726.4s] I don't know, choke on his vomit or something?
[729.4s] You head out into the street after preparing Alistair in the fetal position
[733.7s] and you hear the bells ringing and you look over.
[739.8s] They're town alarm bells. You've heard them as the monsters were attacking.
[743.8s] You've heard them several times in the past before.
[746.7s] There's one down at the harbour. There's one over near City Hall
[751.4s] and there are a couple more kind of space throughout the city.
[754.3s] And as you look around the corner and you can see the one at the harbour,
[758.3s] as you look, something is off about it.
[761.9s] Like, as it moves from one side to the other, it is ringing out of sync.
[770.5s] And as you look at the street signs and the signs of the shops all around you,
[776.3s] the written words that you see begin to bleed ink,
[780.1s] like they're running from the signs themselves down onto the ground,
[786.7s] being seeped into the ground itself.
[790.0s] You hear screams from closer to City Hall, the more noble side of town,
[798.9s] which has been greatly reduced in terms of its status and stature
[804.4s] since Nina has taken over.
[806.5s] That side has been less referred to as the rich side of town
[811.9s] because they're trying to make it a little more equal.
[814.6s] But you hear screams from that side.
[816.1s] You hear people rushing to and from.
[818.0s] You see town guard and you hear the sound of grinding stone
[821.7s] at a distance across the river.
[823.8s] But you can hear it above the sound of the river rushing by.
[829.7s] Something terrible, right?
[833.1s] Something terrible.
[834.9s] I mean, it's usually always something terrible.
[836.9s] Should we go get armed and then go check it out?
[840.3s] Do y'all notice the bell?
[842.1s] Yeah.
[843.0s] Is there anything else out of sync to y'all?
[845.4s] Do y'all notice any other sounds that are going on in people's footsteps?
[850.2s] I'm going to check around and see if anything else is affecting perception.
[855.1s] Are people talking like in dubbed movies?
[859.0s] Yes.
[860.1s] I did a good visual gag, everyone.
[862.1s] Yeah, it was good.
[864.2s] Nailed it.
[865.8s] Yeah, as you look around, so the bells are very clearly that.
[868.7s] If you want to roll, I mean, perception probably is the best one to pick.
[876.1s] I'm going to roll.
[877.0s] It was bad.
[878.4s] It was a nat 20.
[879.9s] Oh my god.
[880.8s] I'm not even going to roll then.
[882.3s] I feel like we only rolled once last week and it was a 19 for you.
[885.9s] Maybe I should only roll once, so I really need to pick my moments now.
[890.5s] I got a 10.
[891.1s] Damn it.
[892.6s] I got a five.
[893.7s] I don't see shit.
[895.0s] I'm very observant.
[896.0s] Oh, I wasn't even going to because Amy...
[898.5s] Oh, I also got a five, so.
[901.9s] Cav, good to see you again.
[904.6s] Cav and Bazaar, your attention is drawn back.
[907.8s] The Brewed Awakening door like bursts open and as you look over to it,
[912.6s] like Alistair's stumbling out, like he just woke up.
[916.5s] He's looking around and you kind of go over to him,
[919.5s] which is drawing your attention right now to make sure he doesn't fall down into the street.
[925.0s] Bonwyn and Alydin, you're looking around at Bazaar's kind of prompt
[930.0s] and you're watching footsteps run by and they are slightly out of sync.
[934.4s] Not quite as clear as the belt, but they are slightly out of sync.
[938.5s] You see someone call to one of their loved ones across the way
[946.0s] and it is also there's like this reverberating like
[951.8s] tunnel effect that is happening when shouldn't be.
[955.1s] You're not that far from these people.
[957.6s] Are your ears not hearing things at the right time?
[961.8s] Yes.
[963.5s] Yes, things are, I don't know, out of sync, out of time.
[969.3s] Am I getting like fae vibes?
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[1190.7s] Am I getting like fae vibes?
[1192.6s] Yeah.
[1192.9s] You don't even need to roll for that.
[1194.2s] Like I experienced weird shit in the house.
[1196.6s] You experienced weird shit.
[1197.4s] And like this is like there are certain connections.
[1200.6s] It may not be exactly the same thing, but like.
[1203.0s] It's a vibe.
[1203.7s] It's the vibe.
[1204.6s] Everything that's been happening in town, like this is clearly an escalation of that.
[1208.7s] And as you, as Bazaar and Kav collect Alastair and bring him over,
[1214.0s] he's looking around like his eyes are wide.
[1216.5s] He's watching the signs and like pointing at things and like trying to like
[1221.7s] make sense of the sound.
[1223.0s] And he says it's, this isn't a bleed through anymore.
[1227.3s] Like this, he checks a page in his book and he's like filtering through them.
[1232.2s] I think this is, I think this is the archive indexing.
[1235.6s] What?
[1236.2s] What does that mean?
[1237.8s] Well, when the archive is taking record, strange, strange occurrences happen
[1245.8s] in the town or area where that's happening.
[1249.4s] What else, what else have you heard?
[1251.6s] Like the bells are going.
[1254.2s] Same with the voices.
[1255.1s] The voices and the steps are not quite.
[1258.8s] Yes.
[1259.4s] Okay.
[1260.2s] We have to find.
[1261.0s] You know, all the bleeding words also is, is also.
[1264.0s] No.
[1264.6s] Yeah.
[1264.9s] We have to find where it's, where it, where's the, where the point is,
[1268.2s] where the point of where it started is.
[1270.6s] Oh, there was some screaming, so it's probably near that.
[1273.5s] That's probably a good idea to go there.
[1276.2s] What happens when something is indexed?
[1279.4s] Usually it's whatever is being indexed is, is cataloged.
[1287.1s] Sometimes there's a physical detraction from the world.
[1292.5s] Something is taken and archived.
[1295.4s] Other times, just the words or the sentiments
[1298.6s] of the things happening in this town are taken and archived.
[1302.5s] So is somebody writing down a story of something
[1305.4s] happening right now in Vindersmith and it is being.
[1311.2s] Something has, has, has broken through and.
[1315.8s] It's like sucking us into the archive.
[1318.2s] And it's recording our experiences for who?
[1321.6s] For the truth.
[1322.9s] Is that a title or a.
[1326.0s] For.
[1326.4s] The concept of the truth.
[1327.9s] For its concept of the truth.
[1329.8s] For.
[1331.3s] For its knowledge.
[1333.0s] The archive it.
[1334.5s] For it.
[1336.2s] Well, I don't know.
[1337.6s] There's no record of somebody controlling the archive.
[1340.9s] Like powers greater than anything that I can comprehend
[1346.2s] or have come across.
[1347.8s] Similar to an objective.
[1350.2s] Objective entity.
[1353.8s] Yes.
[1355.8s] It doesn't really matter what's going on.
[1358.3s] They're just an eye viewing.
[1361.2s] Yes.
[1361.8s] Yes.
[1362.6s] Yes, that's it.
[1364.7s] But.
[1365.0s] But if it's happening now,
[1366.6s] it could mean that there's an entrance nearby.
[1369.3s] What about where that book showed up?
[1371.8s] Oh wait, we're like there.
[1373.5s] Yeah, you turn to the left.
[1376.2s] Is it that?
[1377.3s] It's not there.
[1377.9s] Is the book there?
[1379.0s] Do you hear that sound of grinding stone rise above the calls
[1383.3s] and the bells on the other side of town?
[1385.5s] Well, the action's that way.
[1387.6s] It certainly is.
[1388.6s] Yeah, it certainly is.
[1389.7s] Let's arm up, mount up.
[1392.4s] Get my steed.
[1393.8s] She turns and looks at Bazaar.
[1397.0s] It's a joke.
[1398.5s] Cav, did you bring Alydin a pony from your dad's wedding?
[1402.4s] I mean, we only got one to keep for ourselves.
[1405.4s] Is that the swag?
[1406.6s] It's a slow ride home.
[1408.2s] It's not a fifth wedding swag gift, I'm afraid.
[1411.4s] No, all I know is.
[1412.2s] We should probably go help those people, huh?
[1413.6s] Okay, so you each independently had to get, I guess, weapons?
[1419.2s] Or do you go to Bonwyns to get, say arm up?
[1422.2s] I was thinking, I was thinking everbanes,
[1425.0s] but obviously that's where I would go.
[1426.8s] But it is where all the weapons are.
[1428.4s] Not all the weapons, but.
[1430.0s] All the best weapons.
[1431.4s] Many weapons.
[1433.6s] But yeah, I guess everybody could have their own stuff
[1436.2s] at their own place.
[1437.9s] I assume we probably, like at this point in our lives,
[1441.9s] remain somewhat armed at all times,
[1444.8s] unlike before things started to go fricking nuts.
[1448.0s] But this is like, we're heading into it.
[1450.4s] So we got to get the, you know.
[1453.5s] You need the duffel bags full of guns from the Matrix.
[1456.9s] Exactly.
[1457.5s] Gotcha.
[1458.7s] Yeah.
[1459.9s] Okay, so you take a moment.
[1462.3s] You get to your things that you don't have.
[1464.2s] Cav, you just got off a boat.
[1465.4s] So like likely.
[1466.3s] You're at a wedding, you're fully armed.
[1468.0s] The majority.
[1469.1s] Yep, particularly going into the hot spot
[1471.6s] that was your father's fifth wedding.
[1474.2s] You need shield and hammer.
[1475.6s] Absolutely.
[1476.2s] To be able to walk out of it.
[1479.0s] You didn't know what was going to be asked.
[1481.1s] Could have been anything.
[1481.8s] As not best man, then best man,
[1483.9s] and then not best mannequin.
[1485.3s] That's right.
[1486.2s] We cut across the river to the fountain outside of City Hall.
[1492.8s] Previously a large monument to Mayor Knopps
[1497.3s] now turned back into more of a modest fountain.
[1501.1s] But what you see before you is no longer a fountain.
[1504.5s] Out of the earth, a stone doorway has formed.
[1509.0s] And it's fine.
[1509.9s] The final keystone pieces are being moved by some unseen entity
[1517.8s] or something, some force, placing them into position.
[1521.8s] The doorway itself is this deep red oak
[1527.4s] with these metal strappings across it.
[1529.8s] It has this large globe for a handle.
[1533.9s] People have run and fled and there are some guards
[1538.2s] putting position around it,
[1540.1s] trying to keep people away from it as you come up to it.
[1543.8s] And Alistair looks and says,
[1545.3s] this, I was down here the other day.
[1548.1s] This wasn't here.
[1549.0s] Tell me this wasn't here.
[1551.4s] This is new.
[1552.2s] This is new.
[1553.0s] This is new.
[1553.7s] Definitely, definitely new.
[1554.7s] Is the screaming rust just because the, you know,
[1559.8s] cobbles are moving and forming a door or people?
[1562.5s] It appears now that you're on this side,
[1565.1s] like shock and surprise.
[1567.3s] More than somebody's being attacked.
[1569.2s] Okay. Sure.
[1570.4s] Well, that's something.
[1571.6s] Bizarre, as you step closer to this,
[1576.8s] something in your pocket begins to move.
[1583.4s] Someone play hide the vibrator in somebody else's pants,
[1587.0s] turn it on remotely at security check out.
[1591.2s] And it's in an inside pocket and you reach in
[1602.7s] and you remember immediately what it is.
[1604.7s] Worse.
[1605.2s] It's not better.
[1606.7s] It's a vibrator.
[1607.7s] I knew it.
[1609.6s] You grab hold of the spool of thread that you found
[1614.0s] floating in your store after you returned from the Fae.
[1619.4s] It is the thread on the spool appears to be spinning
[1625.4s] quite rapidly around this wooden spool
[1628.7s] and it is developing this cold feeling to it,
[1634.3s] which intensifies the closer you get to this door.
[1637.3s] Okay.
[1638.1s] So it's a spool of thread that's starting to like
[1641.4s] unwind and starting to feel a little cold?
[1644.2s] Not even unwinding, just like the thread itself
[1649.2s] remains on the spool, but is like spinning around
[1653.4s] while you hold the wooden portion of it.
[1657.7s] Okay.
[1658.9s] This hasn't happened before.
[1660.4s] Nothing has really happened.
[1661.6s] Aside from floating in front of you,
[1663.6s] I don't know how much time you spent identifying
[1666.2s] or doing anything with it.
[1667.8s] We can retcon some of that if you'd like,
[1670.2s] but it hasn't done anything since then.
[1673.2s] Yeah.
[1673.8s] Um, so I assume I've let it go
[1677.0s] and it still floats in the air.
[1679.6s] So with it spinning and it being that close,
[1681.9s] I pull it out and I hold it there
[1683.9s] and as it gets cold, I release it just out of instinct
[1689.6s] and see what happens.
[1692.3s] It floats in front of you as kind of the chaos dies down.
[1697.9s] Guards get a little bit of the crowd under control
[1701.0s] and move people away.
[1702.7s] Um, Alydin, you're first to pick up on it,
[1705.5s] but everybody else hears it.
[1708.3s] The spool begins to hum a bit of a song.
[1715.1s] What does it sound like, Russ?
[1716.7s] Uh, it is, uh, no.
[1725.4s] No.
[1726.3s] No.
[1728.1s] Um, you-
[1729.3s] Juge.
[1730.4s] You hear it though, and it instantly transports you, Alydin,
[1737.8s] back to the Banjo Man's house.
[1741.2s] Is this because I asked you to hum it?
[1744.9s] Doesn't transport you,
[1746.0s] but like that's where it places you, mentally.
[1748.6s] Oh, mentally, okay.
[1750.0s] Yeah, like you aren't gone, but like transports you-
[1753.6s] I'm like, you dick, it was a joke.
[1755.2s] Mind.
[1755.7s] You don't hum to anything.
[1756.8s] We have a brief cut scene where you're like
[1758.8s] picturing yourself back in the house,
[1760.4s] like this song-
[1761.2s] I'm having a flashback.
[1762.7s] Yeah.
[1763.2s] Wasn't the primary song that kind of lingered throughout,
[1767.0s] but it was something that wove itself through your time there.
[1771.9s] And everybody else hears this song,
[1773.5s] you can't place it necessarily,
[1775.0s] you didn't spend as much time in that space as Alydin did.
[1780.0s] That, that's, it's not the song that the box made, right?
[1785.6s] No, no, it's not that song.
[1787.3s] There's so many songs.
[1789.0s] I know.
[1790.2s] Same artist, different track.
[1792.0s] Oh, okay, yeah, yeah.
[1794.5s] I've heard, I've heard this before.
[1798.5s] Where?
[1799.5s] Um, at the, at my, at the, the banjo man's house.
[1807.7s] Oh, I'm sorry.
[1810.4s] That must be upsetting to hear.
[1812.4s] Yeah.
[1813.2s] I grab it, try to get the humming to stop.
[1816.4s] Gets louder.
[1818.0s] It amplifies in your hand like a Kleenex box.
[1823.4s] No, you grab it, you may, like,
[1825.5s] as you grab it and like pull it close to you,
[1828.2s] it slows it's spinning,
[1830.6s] it still has that cold feeling to it
[1832.8s] and just kind of, you hear it faintly,
[1835.6s] but it definitely dissipates as you,
[1838.2s] as you place it back into your pocket.
[1840.8s] But you can still feel it moving,
[1843.4s] like trying to pull itself towards the door.
[1846.6s] When it was floating, was it,
[1849.2s] was it moving towards the door or was it staying?
[1851.6s] It was staying, yeah, staying stationary.
[1854.0s] So with it, like, I'll, like,
[1856.4s] I have it in the pocket in my, in my jacket
[1859.4s] and I'm going to put my hand over it and hold it
[1861.6s] as if I'm holding it over the coat
[1863.4s] and then I'm going to walk towards the door
[1865.3s] and see if it still reacts or still gives off,
[1868.8s] to see what the reaction is.
[1870.6s] This thing needs to be in front of it.
[1872.3s] Yeah, the closer you get,
[1873.5s] the colder it feels through, through your jacket.
[1876.9s] You can feel the threads, like, winding
[1879.9s] and where, like, friction should dictate,
[1882.3s] like, this should be starting a fire in your jacket.
[1884.9s] Like, everything is, like, even frosty around this piece
[1890.8s] and as you get within a few feet, it stops.
[1895.4s] Okay.
[1896.5s] The orb on the door, while I'm holding it,
[1899.6s] I'm going to take a quick look at the orb on the door
[1903.1s] and see if there's anything that would lead me
[1905.6s] to believe I could use this thread on this orb.
[1909.7s] Make an investigation roll.
[1912.1s] Okey dokey.
[1913.2s] Hell yeah, another five.
[1916.8s] What do you do to investigate the door?
[1919.0s] You know, I'm standing, like, probably a couple feet from it.
[1923.0s] I'd probably give it a once-over with my eyes
[1926.9s] and then pull out my sword
[1929.0s] and see if it spins or has any kind of motion to it.
[1936.0s] And I think that's about the extent
[1937.5s] of what I'd try to accomplish with it to see,
[1940.8s] is there more than one side to this orb
[1943.0s] or is it just the face that I'm seeing?
[1945.8s] Is it tidally locked?
[1949.7s] Okay, yeah, I see what you're saying.
[1951.7s] So yeah, you pull out your sword,
[1954.8s] you even take a half step closer to it
[1957.6s] and as you're examining it,
[1960.0s] everybody else is kind of crowding in around you
[1962.6s] so they too can see.
[1964.0s] But as you take that half step
[1966.2s] and make even the slightest movement towards it,
[1968.9s] you see the door turn and, like, unlatch
[1973.7s] and it slowly creaks open
[1976.3s] and you see a darkness pour out of it.
[1981.2s] Until after just a brief moment,
[1983.6s] from somewhere within this recess,
[1988.1s] there's the faint light of a torch
[1992.6s] that starts to bleed through this darkness.
[1999.6s] Dumbgeons and Dragons Season 4 Episode 49
[2003.0s] Starring Amy More as Alydin,
[2005.2s] Karla Maxted as Boba Fett,
[2007.5s] Starring Amy More as Alydin,
[2009.4s] Karla Maxted as Bonwyn Everbane,
[2011.7s] Tom Laird as Kavlaran Goldweave,
[2013.9s] Kyle Klasset as Bizard the Wizard,
[2016.4s] and Russ More as your Dungeon Master.
[2019.1s] Dialogue Editing and Sound Design of today's episode
[2021.6s] is by Russ More.
[2022.8s] Our Community Manager is Jessica Babiuk.
[2025.3s] Music is from Epidemic Sound
[2027.2s] and Sound Effects are from
[2028.4s] Epidemic Sound Boom Library and Sound Ideas.
[2031.4s] Our Amazing Cover Art is by Matt Garbutt.
[2034.1s] A huge thank you to our supporting producers,
[2036.6s] Gabriel Lynch, Jessica Babiuk,
[2038.6s] Angaron Kierzen, Perry Matey,
[2040.8s] Cat Waterflame, Jacob Madden,
[2043.1s] Old School Gamer D, Craig Zeiss,
[2045.7s] L.A. Branton, Chibs1012,
[2048.0s] and Kudzu828.
[2050.0s] Dumbgeons and Dragons is a Patreon-supported podcast,
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[2059.2s] Come join us today, patreon.com slash dumbdragoncast.
[2062.3s] We hope to see you over there,
[2063.6s] and you have yourself right now
[2066.5s] a great week.
[2067.7s] Yes, and we'll talk to you very, very soon.
[2072.9s] Edna has taken... Edna? No.
[2076.0s] Nina.
[2076.8s] Nina.
[2077.3s] Fuck.
[2078.8s] Nina Madonna.
[2080.3s] Edna's the hedgehog.
[2084.0s] And from Incredibles.
[2085.2s] And from Incredibles, yeah.
[2087.0s] Character inspiration.
[2088.4s] Dumbgeons and Dragons is a Dumb Dragons production.