1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:06,160 Dumbgeons and Dragons needs no introduction, but I mean, that's what this is for. 2 00:00:06,160 --> 00:00:08,960 You're listening to Dumbgeons and Dragons and it'll start in just a moment. 3 00:00:12,759 --> 00:00:19,000 The guards watch you as you walk towards and the door opens and take a few steps inside. 4 00:00:19,000 --> 00:00:23,600 Alistair kind of as there's some slight hesitation, Alistair says, 5 00:00:24,360 --> 00:00:28,280 we, this is the first possible entrance I've ever seen. 6 00:00:28,280 --> 00:00:33,679 And he goes through the door, pushes it open and disappears into the darkness. 7 00:00:34,760 --> 00:00:37,079 Good. I was going to say we should push him through first. 8 00:00:37,160 --> 00:00:39,560 Well, I don't trust that son of a bitch to go alone. 9 00:00:39,560 --> 00:00:41,600 So I step through the door. 10 00:00:41,600 --> 00:00:43,159 You do. Yeah. 11 00:00:43,159 --> 00:00:45,359 Follow quickly behind. 12 00:00:45,359 --> 00:00:48,200 And as you step through the door, 13 00:00:48,200 --> 00:00:53,160 it is a narrow hallway like you could fit to side by side. 14 00:00:53,160 --> 00:00:54,280 But it's pretty tight. 15 00:00:54,280 --> 00:00:57,480 Like going single file would be much more comfortable. 16 00:00:58,040 --> 00:01:00,920 So that said, who is last through the door? 17 00:01:01,520 --> 00:01:02,480 I'll go last. 18 00:01:02,480 --> 00:01:06,680 I believe I'm dead center, probably right after Bazaar before Bonwyn. 19 00:01:08,040 --> 00:01:09,800 You know, the safety snuggle. 20 00:01:09,800 --> 00:01:10,520 Absolutely. 21 00:01:10,520 --> 00:01:14,600 Cav, as you take your steps through the door, slam shut behind you, 22 00:01:14,600 --> 00:01:18,400 hear this burst of air, you turn and you look back 23 00:01:18,800 --> 00:01:22,719 and you see only stone where there was the red door. 24 00:01:24,119 --> 00:01:27,719 Dumbgeons and Dragons is a D&D actual play podcast, 25 00:01:27,719 --> 00:01:30,319 and I'm your dungeon master, Russ More, he him. 26 00:01:30,399 --> 00:01:33,840 Also with me today is Amy More as Alydin, she her. 27 00:01:33,920 --> 00:01:35,319 Yeah, you do. You rock. 28 00:01:35,319 --> 00:01:38,319 Carla Maxted as Bonwyn Everbane, she her. 29 00:01:38,399 --> 00:01:40,199 Let's stay together this time. 30 00:01:40,199 --> 00:01:43,120 Tom Laird as Kavlaran Goldweave, he him. 31 00:01:43,159 --> 00:01:44,400 I lie all the time. 32 00:01:44,400 --> 00:01:47,400 And Kyle Klasset as Bazaar the Wizard, he him. 33 00:01:47,519 --> 00:01:49,400 No, that's assault, brother. I'm not doing that. 34 00:01:49,400 --> 00:01:52,439 Dumbgeons and Dragons is a Patreon supported podcast, 35 00:01:52,439 --> 00:01:57,120 and we'd love for you to join us today at patreon.com slash Dumb Dragon Cast. 36 00:01:57,200 --> 00:01:59,679 You'll get a seven day free trial to check things out. 37 00:01:59,799 --> 00:02:01,840 And now let's get right to it. 38 00:02:01,840 --> 00:02:04,480 Fuck it. Let's play. 39 00:02:08,400 --> 00:02:10,199 And is there a torch in here? 40 00:02:10,199 --> 00:02:17,159 Do we see that light now or as your eyes begin to transition, 41 00:02:17,159 --> 00:02:21,360 you do see now that there are several torches down this hallway. 42 00:02:21,640 --> 00:02:23,680 That seems to go on for quite a ways. 43 00:02:23,680 --> 00:02:27,360 And it at the end terminates in darkness. 44 00:02:29,080 --> 00:02:32,880 Hey, guys, just before we get going, just so everyone knows, 45 00:02:33,920 --> 00:02:35,520 it closed behind us. 46 00:02:35,520 --> 00:02:37,720 So we're like in here now. 47 00:02:39,520 --> 00:02:41,920 OK, cool. 48 00:02:42,680 --> 00:02:44,280 OK, that's OK. 49 00:02:44,280 --> 00:02:46,520 We've done something like this before. 50 00:02:46,520 --> 00:02:50,960 Stay close. And it'll be fine. 51 00:02:52,360 --> 00:02:54,480 Let's stay together this time. 52 00:02:54,480 --> 00:02:57,280 Love it. Yes. 53 00:02:57,280 --> 00:03:01,400 You all begin walking single file and you catch up to Alistair, 54 00:03:01,400 --> 00:03:03,840 who's fallen asleep against one of the walls. 55 00:03:05,240 --> 00:03:07,920 Classic Alistair. Classic Alistair. 56 00:03:07,920 --> 00:03:10,000 He's not great at a getaway. 57 00:03:11,400 --> 00:03:13,600 Or get to it. 58 00:03:15,120 --> 00:03:16,960 Sorry, everybody. 59 00:03:16,960 --> 00:03:20,760 I'll I can keep leading if you'd like. 60 00:03:21,199 --> 00:03:23,359 It's a question, Alistair. 61 00:03:23,359 --> 00:03:25,879 Do you dream when you have these these naps? 62 00:03:27,879 --> 00:03:31,399 Uh, no one's ever asked me that before. 63 00:03:33,639 --> 00:03:36,000 Many you fall asleep. 64 00:03:36,000 --> 00:03:37,199 He's got his fingers. 65 00:03:37,199 --> 00:03:39,840 He's got a Chris Angelou mind freak. 66 00:03:40,680 --> 00:03:44,959 He he looks like he's deep in thought as I. 67 00:03:46,599 --> 00:03:48,799 I don't think so. 68 00:03:49,439 --> 00:03:51,439 But I but I. 69 00:03:52,680 --> 00:03:56,000 I can say a lot of things for certain, but I can't say that for certain. 70 00:03:56,320 --> 00:03:58,280 OK, cool, cool. 71 00:03:58,280 --> 00:04:01,000 He's really sitting with this and he turns deep in thought 72 00:04:01,000 --> 00:04:04,320 and he like reaches for one of the torches and looks at it 73 00:04:04,320 --> 00:04:07,000 and he passes it back to bizarre. 74 00:04:07,000 --> 00:04:09,280 I probably shouldn't hold this. 75 00:04:09,280 --> 00:04:12,200 Oh, OK, yeah, you'll just. 76 00:04:12,200 --> 00:04:14,480 Right. So take the torch. 77 00:04:16,480 --> 00:04:17,639 And he begins to walk. 78 00:04:17,639 --> 00:04:21,279 And he calls out after a few moments and he says, 79 00:04:21,279 --> 00:04:23,319 I think I see something down at the end. 80 00:04:23,319 --> 00:04:24,560 Hold the torch up. 81 00:04:24,560 --> 00:04:26,959 It's flickers in and out of view, 82 00:04:26,959 --> 00:04:30,560 but it looks like there is a stone door down at the end. 83 00:04:31,800 --> 00:04:35,839 He goes up to it and I don't see any handles. 84 00:04:36,000 --> 00:04:38,039 Maybe somebody can help me push. 85 00:04:38,039 --> 00:04:41,079 He starts throwing himself at it, not violently, 86 00:04:41,079 --> 00:04:44,519 but like with like some force to try and like move it. 87 00:04:44,919 --> 00:04:47,199 Wait, wait. OK. 88 00:04:47,240 --> 00:04:51,279 So when I used to spend some time at one of the barns 89 00:04:51,279 --> 00:04:54,879 at the edge of town, this guy. 90 00:04:56,240 --> 00:05:01,560 Jeff would always want the best horse stall. 91 00:05:01,800 --> 00:05:05,240 Was that Jeff? I met him. 92 00:05:06,319 --> 00:05:10,159 Yeah, maybe Alistair just wants to be involved. 93 00:05:10,519 --> 00:05:12,480 No, yeah, you probably did me him. 94 00:05:12,480 --> 00:05:14,319 Yeah. Was he loud? 95 00:05:14,319 --> 00:05:16,120 Yeah. Oh, no, this chef was quiet. 96 00:05:16,120 --> 00:05:18,199 Oh, it's probably different. 97 00:05:18,199 --> 00:05:21,800 Yeah, you must have met loud Jeff. 98 00:05:21,800 --> 00:05:24,000 Yeah, he came up to me, said, My name is Jeff. 99 00:05:26,560 --> 00:05:27,840 I said, OK, great to meet you. 100 00:05:27,840 --> 00:05:29,560 My name is Alistair. 101 00:05:29,560 --> 00:05:32,439 And then we don't need to recount the whole conversation. 102 00:05:32,879 --> 00:05:35,120 Do you have a score to that riveting combo? 103 00:05:37,079 --> 00:05:40,439 Anyway, he would always 104 00:05:40,959 --> 00:05:44,480 Ooby trap his door so that if anyone tried to come in one, 105 00:05:44,480 --> 00:05:46,759 he was out and take his spot. 106 00:05:46,759 --> 00:05:49,400 They would either end up with horse shit 107 00:05:50,000 --> 00:05:54,280 poop all over them or a bucket of water on their head or something. 108 00:05:54,800 --> 00:06:00,000 Wow. So we should look and see if maybe there's 109 00:06:00,560 --> 00:06:03,720 a booby trap, some sort of trap, some sort of trap. 110 00:06:03,960 --> 00:06:07,840 Alistair begins running his hands along the door looking for a trap. 111 00:06:08,960 --> 00:06:11,000 So just a solid stone door. 112 00:06:11,000 --> 00:06:13,800 Any carvings or anything like that? 113 00:06:14,560 --> 00:06:19,319 No carvings that are visible appears to be a solid slab. 114 00:06:20,240 --> 00:06:22,400 No handle. 115 00:06:22,400 --> 00:06:25,439 Can I use my stone cunning 116 00:06:26,400 --> 00:06:31,240 where if I make a history check related to the origin of stonework, 117 00:06:31,879 --> 00:06:34,640 I proficient in that and I can like double my bonus. 118 00:06:34,640 --> 00:06:37,439 So I sure I know about stone. 119 00:06:37,680 --> 00:06:40,720 Yeah, you do. You rock because of my heart. 120 00:06:41,720 --> 00:06:49,640 And so for a double my proficiency bonus. 121 00:06:49,640 --> 00:06:51,520 So that's an 18. 122 00:06:51,520 --> 00:06:53,840 That's a great roll. 123 00:06:53,840 --> 00:06:58,840 I smell it. I like like my finger and put it on and then like my finger again. 124 00:06:58,840 --> 00:07:00,880 Like, hmm, it's salt. 125 00:07:03,000 --> 00:07:05,600 I just like the door. 126 00:07:07,080 --> 00:07:09,280 I'm using all of my senses. 127 00:07:09,280 --> 00:07:10,560 I love it. 128 00:07:10,560 --> 00:07:15,200 You're doing this, everybody, in various states of confusion or awe, 129 00:07:15,280 --> 00:07:18,160 depending on your view in this moment. 130 00:07:18,760 --> 00:07:22,880 But you identify the stone as diorite, 131 00:07:22,880 --> 00:07:28,000 which is favored in ancient law codes and royal statues, 132 00:07:28,400 --> 00:07:34,160 often associated within the space with law and judgment 133 00:07:34,160 --> 00:07:37,080 or irrevocable decisions. 134 00:07:37,079 --> 00:07:44,479 Not often something that is used to craft entrances. 135 00:07:45,839 --> 00:07:50,719 As you continue to examine, you see that there are telltale signs 136 00:07:50,719 --> 00:07:55,120 that this at least this portion you haven't investigated any further down 137 00:07:55,120 --> 00:07:59,360 in this, but there are telltale signs that there is dwarven influence 138 00:07:59,439 --> 00:08:03,599 within the creation of this space, perhaps not directly tied to you. 139 00:08:03,640 --> 00:08:05,760 But like there are similar. 140 00:08:05,760 --> 00:08:08,000 You can tell that there are similar tools made. 141 00:08:08,800 --> 00:08:11,760 You can also tell that this is like a 142 00:08:13,120 --> 00:08:16,560 a pocket slide kind of door. 143 00:08:18,439 --> 00:08:22,040 I relay all this to my friends like a grandparent's bathroom. 144 00:08:23,160 --> 00:08:27,080 Yeah. And maybe in part of my like, as I said, I'm 145 00:08:27,520 --> 00:08:29,680 I'm laying hands on it. 146 00:08:29,680 --> 00:08:32,639 And as I realize that, can I try to 147 00:08:33,120 --> 00:08:35,439 push it to the side? 148 00:08:36,039 --> 00:08:41,840 Yeah. As that comes to a realization that you push in exactly the right point. 149 00:08:41,840 --> 00:08:45,360 Like Alistair was just throwing himself at the door. 150 00:08:45,399 --> 00:08:46,439 He was doing the opposite. 151 00:08:46,439 --> 00:08:49,159 There's not a lot of weight behind him, like soaking wet. 152 00:08:49,159 --> 00:08:51,720 He's probably 55 pounds. 153 00:08:51,720 --> 00:08:53,279 It's like a finesse situation. 154 00:08:53,279 --> 00:08:54,919 He's a very slender guy. 155 00:08:54,919 --> 00:08:59,000 But yeah, you push in just the right moment and everybody hears this click. 156 00:08:59,480 --> 00:09:03,360 And then a ashy dust 157 00:09:03,480 --> 00:09:06,639 kind of comes out from around the seams of the door, 158 00:09:06,639 --> 00:09:10,559 and it begins to grind and slide into the wall beside it. 159 00:09:11,559 --> 00:09:17,679 The room beyond before anybody has a chance to react is not lit. 160 00:09:17,679 --> 00:09:22,720 You see shadows of what look like pieces of furniture, 161 00:09:22,720 --> 00:09:27,240 but you can't quite make out anything beyond into the next 162 00:09:27,840 --> 00:09:31,080 egress or into the next space that you would be going into. 163 00:09:31,279 --> 00:09:32,919 Even with my dark vision? 164 00:09:32,919 --> 00:09:35,480 Even with your dark vision at this moment. OK. 165 00:09:37,039 --> 00:09:40,039 But no arrows shoot out and like kill us all. No. 166 00:09:40,039 --> 00:09:44,159 Great, because I I interrupted them checking for traps to just open the door. 167 00:09:44,159 --> 00:09:47,240 Yeah. Well, you know, you were looking for traps and then you were like, 168 00:09:47,560 --> 00:09:50,639 wait a minute. There's some history here. Yeah. 169 00:09:51,680 --> 00:09:54,080 Well, it's let's. 170 00:09:54,240 --> 00:09:55,840 Get that torch in there. 171 00:09:55,840 --> 00:09:58,040 I mean, like I said, this stone is. 172 00:09:59,480 --> 00:10:04,280 This is no ordinary place, which I know we already knew, 173 00:10:04,280 --> 00:10:07,120 but let's just it's been reinforced that this is. 174 00:10:08,399 --> 00:10:10,519 Ancient and important. 175 00:10:11,200 --> 00:10:13,920 Well, yeah, and I mean, no ordinary place like literally a door 176 00:10:13,920 --> 00:10:16,560 disappeared behind us, so like, yeah, 100 percent. 177 00:10:16,800 --> 00:10:20,120 Indeed, in many ways, not an ordinary place. 178 00:10:20,440 --> 00:10:23,519 If we bring the torch in, can we see in the room? 179 00:10:24,519 --> 00:10:26,039 Do you enter the room? 180 00:10:26,039 --> 00:10:27,439 Yeah, I'm going to enter the room. 181 00:10:27,439 --> 00:10:29,360 A bunch of us have dark vision. 182 00:10:29,360 --> 00:10:32,159 He said even with dark vision, we can't see in there with dark vision. 183 00:10:32,159 --> 00:10:33,679 Oh, I missed it. 184 00:10:33,679 --> 00:10:37,439 Yeah, from outside the room, you can't make out anything beyond 185 00:10:37,639 --> 00:10:40,399 the occasion, the briefest silhouette. 186 00:10:41,039 --> 00:10:41,639 Hold the torch. 187 00:10:41,639 --> 00:10:45,679 I'll step forward and I'll use control flames to actually 188 00:10:45,679 --> 00:10:49,319 expand the area of bright light so that we get a little bit more 189 00:10:49,720 --> 00:10:52,319 more of color out of it and see if it winds up 190 00:10:52,320 --> 00:10:55,000 diffusing a little bit of that darkness. 191 00:10:55,000 --> 00:10:58,320 Sure. And sorry, you said you step in or you're doing this in the term 192 00:10:58,320 --> 00:11:00,080 in trying to illuminate beyond. 193 00:11:00,080 --> 00:11:02,120 I'm doing it while stepping in. 194 00:11:02,120 --> 00:11:04,640 OK, sounds good. Bazaar, you're the first to step through 195 00:11:04,640 --> 00:11:06,879 and everybody else you see the flame. 196 00:11:08,760 --> 00:11:11,120 Two kind of different views happen. 197 00:11:11,120 --> 00:11:14,640 Everybody else sees the flame begin to expand at your hand, 198 00:11:14,640 --> 00:11:18,880 which seems like it's being eaten by this darkness that that is enveloping. 199 00:11:19,600 --> 00:11:22,279 But Bazaar, as you step into this room, 200 00:11:22,519 --> 00:11:24,879 take the first few steps beyond the threshold, 201 00:11:25,720 --> 00:11:27,120 the darkness dissipates. 202 00:11:27,120 --> 00:11:28,399 It disappears. 203 00:11:28,399 --> 00:11:33,639 You become the same kind of faint silhouette to everybody else. 204 00:11:33,960 --> 00:11:37,120 But the room itself now for you is lit 205 00:11:37,799 --> 00:11:40,919 seemingly by some skylight high up in this room. 206 00:11:41,399 --> 00:11:46,240 And you see all around this room that there are stone shelves 207 00:11:46,240 --> 00:11:48,480 carved directly into the walls. 208 00:11:48,919 --> 00:11:51,439 And all of these shelves hold stone. 209 00:11:51,840 --> 00:11:56,480 What look like books, each etched with names and titles. 210 00:11:57,240 --> 00:12:01,439 And there's a inscription on the far door, which I'll wait until 211 00:12:02,519 --> 00:12:04,840 everybody else decides what they're going to do. 212 00:12:05,360 --> 00:12:09,080 I'm going to step back out and say, 213 00:12:10,000 --> 00:12:11,679 come on in. We're good. 214 00:12:12,639 --> 00:12:14,919 OK, yeah, let's go. 215 00:12:15,360 --> 00:12:18,080 Everybody else steps through and same kind of a fact happens. 216 00:12:18,080 --> 00:12:22,200 You step through the darkness and the skylight 217 00:12:23,600 --> 00:12:25,840 illuminates the space that you're in again. 218 00:12:26,320 --> 00:12:29,480 Stove shelves carved directly into the walls. 219 00:12:29,480 --> 00:12:31,440 Stone books on all of these. 220 00:12:33,280 --> 00:12:39,000 There is a door on the far wall that appears to have an inscription on it. 221 00:12:39,879 --> 00:12:42,440 And there is a lectern 222 00:12:42,640 --> 00:12:47,120 placed kind of center back of this room close to the door, 223 00:12:47,399 --> 00:12:51,759 which looks like it has a place for three books, 224 00:12:52,120 --> 00:12:57,080 like enough that you could place and or open three books on it. 225 00:12:57,600 --> 00:13:00,279 The inscription on the far door 226 00:13:00,960 --> 00:13:06,519 says only what is true may pass unrevised. 227 00:13:08,120 --> 00:13:11,279 Somebody tell it a secret. 228 00:13:12,039 --> 00:13:16,600 We know from what Alastair told us that the archive 229 00:13:16,600 --> 00:13:18,440 will index the truth. 230 00:13:22,000 --> 00:13:26,040 And we have a lectern, so we can try sharing secrets 231 00:13:26,040 --> 00:13:31,000 or we could try to see if one of these many, many books 232 00:13:32,519 --> 00:13:35,279 leads us to what could be true. 233 00:13:36,680 --> 00:13:43,120 But Alydin, you came up with your idea, 234 00:13:43,120 --> 00:13:45,279 so you need to you need to commit to it. 235 00:13:45,279 --> 00:13:49,519 And you need to share a secret with if you do it, I'll share a secret. 236 00:13:50,319 --> 00:13:51,879 Oh, well, you do it first then. 237 00:13:51,879 --> 00:13:52,679 Mm hmm. 238 00:13:53,959 --> 00:13:55,439 Who's your idea? 239 00:13:56,480 --> 00:13:59,480 I can't think of a secret. 240 00:14:00,399 --> 00:14:02,199 She's being such a child right now. 241 00:14:02,199 --> 00:14:04,559 What are Bonwyn and Cav doing? 242 00:14:06,120 --> 00:14:10,360 Just watching this kind of waiting to see how Secret Gate plays out, right? 243 00:14:11,000 --> 00:14:12,720 Watching this tennis game. 244 00:14:12,720 --> 00:14:14,639 Alastair is ignoring everything. 245 00:14:14,639 --> 00:14:16,519 He's overlooking at the book titles. 246 00:14:16,519 --> 00:14:20,519 Yes. Actually, what I'm probably doing 247 00:14:21,240 --> 00:14:23,159 because he read their character sheet, guys, 248 00:14:23,159 --> 00:14:27,439 I'm going to use my eye for detail and I can make a perception check 249 00:14:27,439 --> 00:14:32,399 to spot a hidden creature or object or to make an investigation 250 00:14:32,399 --> 00:14:35,879 check to uncover or decipher clues. 251 00:14:36,000 --> 00:14:38,799 Shit, my eye doesn't give me jack squat. 252 00:14:39,200 --> 00:14:40,080 Oh, it does. 253 00:14:41,240 --> 00:14:44,080 I got fade touched and all I got was this fucked up eye. 254 00:14:44,720 --> 00:14:46,920 Misty step. What are you talking about? 255 00:14:46,920 --> 00:14:48,560 Yeah, that's a good one. 256 00:14:49,040 --> 00:14:50,920 Not on command. 257 00:14:50,920 --> 00:14:52,840 Once a day on command, you can do it. 258 00:14:54,960 --> 00:14:56,639 Hey, welcome to the middle, everybody. 259 00:14:56,639 --> 00:14:58,920 It's the middle. It's here. 260 00:14:58,920 --> 00:15:01,560 You're here. Fancy meeting you here. 261 00:15:02,040 --> 00:15:04,160 Come here often every week, I hope. 262 00:15:04,759 --> 00:15:06,280 Yes, better be. 263 00:15:06,280 --> 00:15:08,240 I know we do. We do. We do, for sure. 264 00:15:08,240 --> 00:15:10,400 I try to at least. Almost every week. 265 00:15:10,400 --> 00:15:12,879 All of us. Yeah, like as often as I can do it. 266 00:15:13,120 --> 00:15:14,360 Yeah. Yeah, yeah. 267 00:15:14,360 --> 00:15:15,639 It's fun here. 268 00:15:15,639 --> 00:15:18,960 It's amazing how often it just happens, like unexpectedly, though, 269 00:15:18,960 --> 00:15:22,439 when, like, we're just chilling, talking, then bam, we're in it. 270 00:15:22,480 --> 00:15:25,439 You think you're just chatting with your friends and then then suddenly. 271 00:15:25,759 --> 00:15:27,639 Yeah. Yeah. 272 00:15:27,639 --> 00:15:29,919 So sometimes it's by accident. 273 00:15:29,919 --> 00:15:31,559 But I love when it happens. 274 00:15:31,559 --> 00:15:33,279 Me, too. Me, too. 275 00:15:33,279 --> 00:15:35,320 Yeah. What's new? 276 00:15:35,320 --> 00:15:36,919 Pussycat. Pussycat. 277 00:15:36,919 --> 00:15:38,759 Whoa, whoa, whoa. 278 00:15:38,759 --> 00:15:40,600 Oh, wow. We all hit a different key there. 279 00:15:40,600 --> 00:15:42,480 That was great. I stayed out of it. 280 00:15:42,879 --> 00:15:44,879 Me, too. That was just the boys. 281 00:15:44,879 --> 00:15:47,360 It was. It was just the boys serenading us. 282 00:15:48,080 --> 00:15:49,480 Good for you. We do what we can. 283 00:15:49,480 --> 00:15:50,519 It was gorgeous. 284 00:15:50,519 --> 00:15:52,519 You're going to love that in playback. 285 00:15:52,519 --> 00:15:53,440 Oh, it's going to be great. 286 00:15:53,440 --> 00:15:55,039 I will never hear it. It's fine. 287 00:15:55,039 --> 00:15:55,840 There you go. 288 00:15:56,920 --> 00:15:58,840 You skip the middle stuff. 289 00:15:58,840 --> 00:16:00,519 Uh, yep. 290 00:16:00,519 --> 00:16:02,759 He lived him. He doesn't need to skip them. 291 00:16:04,200 --> 00:16:05,600 He skips them because he's a living. 292 00:16:05,600 --> 00:16:06,920 Yes, just the middle. 293 00:16:06,920 --> 00:16:08,440 Yeah, just the middle. 294 00:16:08,440 --> 00:16:10,600 Just the middle. 295 00:16:10,600 --> 00:16:12,600 His listenership has dropped off in Victoria. 296 00:16:12,600 --> 00:16:13,600 I can't explain it. 297 00:16:13,600 --> 00:16:15,000 Weird. I don't know. 298 00:16:15,000 --> 00:16:17,320 I barely listen to any podcasts at the moment. 299 00:16:17,320 --> 00:16:19,879 So the fact that people can find the time to, like, 300 00:16:19,879 --> 00:16:22,279 still keep up with podcasts, I'm so impressed. 301 00:16:22,279 --> 00:16:24,879 And to keep up with us, us dorms. 302 00:16:24,879 --> 00:16:26,759 Thank you so much. Even more impressive. 303 00:16:26,759 --> 00:16:29,240 What are you doing here? We love you. 304 00:16:29,240 --> 00:16:30,840 We do love you. 305 00:16:30,840 --> 00:16:34,440 We love one person extra special. 306 00:16:34,440 --> 00:16:37,759 Yeah, it's one person's extra love. 307 00:16:38,519 --> 00:16:43,519 We love you, but we extra super duper love our patron 308 00:16:43,519 --> 00:16:47,759 who's sponsoring this week or who we are dedicating this week to. 309 00:16:47,759 --> 00:16:50,519 That's the one. 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You can be as cool as this person. 318 00:17:10,880 --> 00:17:15,240 Yeah, who is starting to realize I need to keep track of all of this stuff. 319 00:17:15,240 --> 00:17:17,319 The medically pronounced. 320 00:17:17,319 --> 00:17:21,319 I think Russ is actually building a computer to look up this. 321 00:17:21,319 --> 00:17:22,839 I don't know what's happening. 322 00:17:22,839 --> 00:17:25,359 I feel like we've really is this crash. 323 00:17:25,359 --> 00:17:27,640 The hard drive. This is what did it. 324 00:17:27,640 --> 00:17:29,839 Yeah, this is what did it. 325 00:17:29,839 --> 00:17:36,000 The person who we are dedicating this episode to today is Sonia Weiberg. 326 00:17:36,200 --> 00:17:38,720 Thank you. Thank you so much. 327 00:17:38,720 --> 00:17:41,279 Yeah, too cool. Yeah. 328 00:17:41,599 --> 00:17:44,440 Too cool for bad ass name. Absolutely. 329 00:17:45,839 --> 00:17:50,279 Yeah, it is. Yeah, I was going to say I had Street Fighter in my mind 330 00:17:50,279 --> 00:17:52,759 because I just watched the Street Fighter trailer again, 331 00:17:52,759 --> 00:17:54,680 but that would be Mortal Kombat. Yeah. 332 00:17:54,680 --> 00:17:57,480 So yeah, related. Yeah, sure. 333 00:17:57,480 --> 00:17:59,799 You know, yeah, similar. 334 00:17:59,799 --> 00:18:02,240 It's all fighting. It's all bad ass. 335 00:18:02,240 --> 00:18:05,680 Yeah, I was going to say I just assume Sonya's a bad ass. 336 00:18:05,720 --> 00:18:09,960 I mean, look, I've only heard of two Sonia's before that one 337 00:18:09,960 --> 00:18:13,240 and the one from like the Arnold Schwarzenegger 338 00:18:14,000 --> 00:18:16,840 movie where he's like the barber Conan Conan Conan. 339 00:18:17,279 --> 00:18:19,320 Blanked on the name of fucking Conan the Bar. 340 00:18:19,320 --> 00:18:21,759 It's literally Conan the Barbarian. Yeah. 341 00:18:21,920 --> 00:18:25,120 You know that, you know, with the guy muscles and he's like, 342 00:18:25,120 --> 00:18:28,400 he's very barbaric. Punches a camel. Yeah. Yeah. 343 00:18:30,120 --> 00:18:31,120 Do yourself a favor, though. 344 00:18:31,120 --> 00:18:33,680 Do not watch the new Red Sonia. 345 00:18:33,840 --> 00:18:37,600 Real bad. Oh, OK, that's too bad. 346 00:18:39,200 --> 00:18:42,680 You know what, Sonia, we can count on our Sonia. 347 00:18:43,240 --> 00:18:44,880 Always. Thanks for being here, Sonia. 348 00:18:44,880 --> 00:18:47,080 Always the best. We love you. 349 00:18:47,680 --> 00:18:50,680 We love you. 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And now get back to the episode. 360 00:19:15,559 --> 00:19:18,160 Wait, one one word from producer Jess. 361 00:19:18,240 --> 00:19:20,799 Oh, through the end of the month is 50 percent off. 362 00:19:20,960 --> 00:19:23,440 Through the end of the month is 50 percent off. 363 00:19:23,440 --> 00:19:25,920 And this is still in this month that is happening. 364 00:19:26,759 --> 00:19:29,120 Yeah. Only a few days left. 365 00:19:29,320 --> 00:19:30,040 I'm good college. 366 00:19:30,040 --> 00:19:33,040 Ask you if you're wondering if it's the now it could be. 367 00:19:33,040 --> 00:19:36,600 So go to the Patreon and check 50 percent off. 368 00:19:37,160 --> 00:19:38,640 What a deal. Yeah. 369 00:19:38,640 --> 00:19:40,200 All right. We love you. 370 00:19:40,200 --> 00:19:41,240 Have a great day. We love you. 371 00:19:41,240 --> 00:19:43,480 Bye. Love you. Bye. Love you. Bye. 372 00:19:44,960 --> 00:19:46,880 Sixteen, sixteen. 373 00:19:46,880 --> 00:19:48,880 OK, they're bizarre. 374 00:19:48,880 --> 00:19:51,160 And Alydin are talking about sharing secrets. 375 00:19:52,120 --> 00:19:54,560 Alistair is overlooking at books. 376 00:19:54,560 --> 00:19:58,920 Bonwyn, you are trying to decipher perhaps some sort of meaning 377 00:19:58,920 --> 00:20:01,120 or anything to this. 378 00:20:01,759 --> 00:20:03,080 Looking at the lectern, 379 00:20:03,080 --> 00:20:06,680 looking at the books and looking at the inscription, it is 380 00:20:07,000 --> 00:20:11,240 it becomes clear to you that you must place 381 00:20:11,240 --> 00:20:14,160 as you look at some of the book titles. 382 00:20:14,840 --> 00:20:17,480 You must place three books 383 00:20:18,039 --> 00:20:22,160 that hold truths to allow you to pass. 384 00:20:23,440 --> 00:20:27,960 I've just shared a document with all of the books in this space. 385 00:20:28,039 --> 00:20:31,360 This may be difficult, and I apologize if it is, 386 00:20:31,519 --> 00:20:33,960 but we'll see how it goes. 387 00:20:33,960 --> 00:20:38,000 Hey, we haven't been given a puzzle to solve in some time. 388 00:20:38,640 --> 00:20:41,640 Governed by honest hands certainly isn't a truth. 389 00:20:42,440 --> 00:20:44,880 Governed by omission might be true. 390 00:20:44,880 --> 00:20:46,200 Maybe now. Oh, yeah. 391 00:20:46,200 --> 00:20:48,039 Do they have publication dates? 392 00:20:48,039 --> 00:20:51,400 I grabbed number 17 and I put it on the lectern. 393 00:20:51,680 --> 00:20:54,279 Wizard, the wizard entangled in unpaid debts. 394 00:20:54,559 --> 00:20:57,160 I thought the next one said Tina Fey do not interfere. 395 00:20:57,160 --> 00:21:00,040 And I was like, I am curious about this. 396 00:21:00,040 --> 00:21:02,320 Also, nobody tells Tina Fey what to do. 397 00:21:02,320 --> 00:21:05,880 That's right. Tell me, because you were talking with Alydin before. 398 00:21:05,880 --> 00:21:07,200 Tell me the transition there. 399 00:21:07,200 --> 00:21:12,000 Try to kind of going over it and going back and forth, 400 00:21:12,360 --> 00:21:13,880 kind of see some of the names on it. 401 00:21:13,880 --> 00:21:16,040 I notice like my name, 402 00:21:16,560 --> 00:21:18,279 Wizard, the wizard on a book behind her. 403 00:21:18,279 --> 00:21:19,080 And I'm like, 404 00:21:20,800 --> 00:21:26,080 well, maybe we're both right in a way. 405 00:21:27,240 --> 00:21:30,120 And I will go first. 406 00:21:30,120 --> 00:21:32,440 That's when I walk over to the book that says, 407 00:21:32,440 --> 00:21:34,840 Wizard, the wizard entangled in unpaid debts. 408 00:21:35,800 --> 00:21:38,040 Grab the book off the shelf, put it on the lectern. 409 00:21:39,000 --> 00:21:42,680 You place the book and you hear a whisper. 410 00:21:42,920 --> 00:21:46,360 Bizarre. Accounts pending. 411 00:21:47,560 --> 00:21:53,040 You hear this whispered in like this clear monotone voice. 412 00:21:54,000 --> 00:21:59,279 And the book locks into place with a soft click. 413 00:21:59,599 --> 00:22:05,440 The stone book itself and the lectern around it begin to grow slightly warm. 414 00:22:05,839 --> 00:22:09,839 You feel this sound of air pressure change and like your ears pop 415 00:22:11,039 --> 00:22:13,119 as the book is placed on the lectern. 416 00:22:15,000 --> 00:22:16,440 That seemed to be a good response. 417 00:22:17,599 --> 00:22:21,639 Yeah, I'm going to put a book on the lectern as well called 418 00:22:22,440 --> 00:22:26,280 Bonwyn Everbane, Bearer of the Forge's Burden. 419 00:22:28,280 --> 00:22:31,720 I have doubts about having my name involved in this, 420 00:22:31,720 --> 00:22:34,560 but, you know, Bizarre did it. 421 00:22:34,560 --> 00:22:36,200 So why wouldn't I? 422 00:22:36,200 --> 00:22:38,600 It's the one thing I know to be true. 423 00:22:38,600 --> 00:22:41,280 Exactly. I don't all of the others seem. 424 00:22:43,800 --> 00:22:47,120 I don't know. Like they could be true or not. 425 00:22:47,440 --> 00:22:49,320 Are, can I ask a question? 426 00:22:50,680 --> 00:22:53,080 And you may or may not answer. 427 00:22:53,080 --> 00:22:56,400 Are there only the how many four? 428 00:22:58,360 --> 00:23:00,200 Three? How many books? 429 00:23:00,200 --> 00:23:01,200 Places on the lectern. 430 00:23:01,200 --> 00:23:03,400 There are three places on the lecture. 431 00:23:03,400 --> 00:23:05,920 Are there only three correct books? 432 00:23:07,040 --> 00:23:08,720 That's a great question. 433 00:23:10,720 --> 00:23:14,360 OK, Bonwyn, you see Bizarre place his place, 434 00:23:14,640 --> 00:23:17,800 a book titled with his own name, 435 00:23:17,800 --> 00:23:21,440 and you find one of your own, 436 00:23:21,440 --> 00:23:24,560 and you move to place it onto the lectern as well. 437 00:23:24,560 --> 00:23:28,040 And similarly, you hear this whisper in your head. 438 00:23:28,040 --> 00:23:30,400 Inheritance confirmed. 439 00:23:30,400 --> 00:23:33,960 Same kind of monotone, straightforward voice. 440 00:23:35,360 --> 00:23:37,680 And then the book slightly locks, 441 00:23:37,680 --> 00:23:39,880 like soft locks into place, 442 00:23:39,880 --> 00:23:42,680 and you feel a warmth begin to glow from it 443 00:23:42,680 --> 00:23:45,039 as you're standing beside Bizarre. 444 00:23:45,039 --> 00:23:47,120 And I look at him like, hmm? 445 00:23:47,120 --> 00:23:48,120 What did you hear? 446 00:23:49,600 --> 00:23:51,080 How did you know I heard anything? 447 00:23:51,080 --> 00:23:53,120 I did, I did hear something. 448 00:23:53,120 --> 00:23:53,960 Me too. 449 00:23:55,240 --> 00:23:56,960 I heard accounts pending. 450 00:23:56,960 --> 00:23:58,039 Did you? 451 00:23:58,039 --> 00:24:00,600 I heard inheritance confirmed. 452 00:24:01,680 --> 00:24:02,519 Fuck. 453 00:24:04,799 --> 00:24:08,759 I was hoping, I was hoping we'd hear the same thing, 454 00:24:08,759 --> 00:24:11,120 and that would make me feel better somehow. 455 00:24:11,120 --> 00:24:14,000 I think you should feel OK. 456 00:24:14,000 --> 00:24:16,800 I feel concerned. 457 00:24:16,800 --> 00:24:18,880 Oh, see, I feel like you should feel OK, 458 00:24:18,880 --> 00:24:20,640 and I feel concerned. 459 00:24:20,640 --> 00:24:22,360 Not if you knew my debts. 460 00:24:22,360 --> 00:24:23,960 Everybody, before we place the last book, 461 00:24:23,960 --> 00:24:26,320 hold on, are we sure? 462 00:24:26,320 --> 00:24:28,680 I mean, you've placed both of your names. 463 00:24:30,920 --> 00:24:33,440 She must have had confidence, 464 00:24:33,440 --> 00:24:35,480 but there's only one spot left, 465 00:24:35,480 --> 00:24:38,480 and there are three of us in several books 466 00:24:38,480 --> 00:24:43,360 that don't really tie directly to any one of us. 467 00:24:43,360 --> 00:24:45,720 Well, you know, it's funny you bring that up, Alastair, 468 00:24:45,720 --> 00:24:47,839 because I notice that there's no books tied to you. 469 00:24:47,839 --> 00:24:48,920 No books with your name. 470 00:24:48,920 --> 00:24:50,360 That's strange, isn't it? 471 00:24:51,240 --> 00:24:52,079 Seems odd. 472 00:24:53,279 --> 00:24:54,720 Honestly, I hadn't noticed that, 473 00:24:54,720 --> 00:24:57,000 and I appreciate you guys pointing it out. 474 00:24:57,000 --> 00:24:59,759 I can't, I don't, 475 00:24:59,759 --> 00:25:01,039 he's looking through the books, 476 00:25:01,039 --> 00:25:04,160 he's like, no, there are none with my name on them. 477 00:25:04,160 --> 00:25:05,960 That's right, because you're a nightmare, 478 00:25:05,960 --> 00:25:06,799 and you're not real. Does that mean 479 00:25:06,919 --> 00:25:08,440 no truths? 480 00:25:08,440 --> 00:25:10,680 I'm a real boy, bizarre. 481 00:25:13,039 --> 00:25:14,359 Pinch me. 482 00:25:14,359 --> 00:25:16,200 No, that's assault, brother, I'm not doing that. 483 00:25:16,200 --> 00:25:18,000 Maybe it's tied to location, 484 00:25:18,000 --> 00:25:21,039 because we have Nigel Knops on here, 485 00:25:21,039 --> 00:25:23,440 so I mean, that's a Vintersmouth thing, 486 00:25:23,440 --> 00:25:26,119 maybe, depending on where this doorway opens 487 00:25:26,119 --> 00:25:28,319 in the world, it has different- 488 00:25:28,319 --> 00:25:29,159 Oh, it's like regionally based. 489 00:25:29,159 --> 00:25:30,919 Different titles, different, yes. 490 00:25:30,919 --> 00:25:31,759 Okay. 491 00:25:31,759 --> 00:25:36,639 Perhaps, or perhaps Alastair is a nightmare. 492 00:25:36,680 --> 00:25:38,000 I don't know the answer. 493 00:25:38,000 --> 00:25:39,960 I don't think I'm a nightmare. 494 00:25:40,920 --> 00:25:43,160 That's exactly what a nightmare would think. 495 00:25:44,640 --> 00:25:47,960 I'm just trying to find the archive. 496 00:25:47,960 --> 00:25:51,759 Cav, do either of the ones with your name on it, 497 00:25:51,759 --> 00:25:53,680 do you feel confident? 498 00:25:54,600 --> 00:25:59,600 I mean, what confidence filled both Bonwyn and Bizard? 499 00:25:59,840 --> 00:26:03,200 Both Bonwyn and Bizard. 500 00:26:04,280 --> 00:26:06,760 Because I see my book titles there, 501 00:26:06,760 --> 00:26:09,720 and I don't feel particularly confident 502 00:26:09,720 --> 00:26:11,600 about either of them. 503 00:26:11,600 --> 00:26:13,360 See, I felt very confident. 504 00:26:13,360 --> 00:26:14,680 Yeah, I felt very confident, 505 00:26:14,680 --> 00:26:18,200 only because I usually don't make poor decisions, 506 00:26:18,200 --> 00:26:21,960 and this one was probably the poorest decision I've made. 507 00:26:21,960 --> 00:26:24,000 Just wait till my later teen years. 508 00:26:26,800 --> 00:26:29,160 Now, see, in the philosophy of these books, too, 509 00:26:29,759 --> 00:26:32,640 all contracts are voluntary. 510 00:26:32,640 --> 00:26:35,040 The contract of life isn't voluntary. 511 00:26:35,040 --> 00:26:35,880 Indeed. 512 00:26:35,880 --> 00:26:37,800 You know, so really philosophically, 513 00:26:37,800 --> 00:26:40,000 and this goes back to what Alastair was saying, 514 00:26:40,000 --> 00:26:44,000 is the truth according to the archives, so. 515 00:26:47,279 --> 00:26:48,480 Yes. 516 00:26:48,480 --> 00:26:50,480 Yes, many of these are ambiguous. 517 00:26:50,480 --> 00:26:55,480 They could be true, or they could not be true, 518 00:26:55,560 --> 00:26:58,440 but they are not truth. 519 00:26:59,200 --> 00:27:00,400 If that makes sense. 520 00:27:00,400 --> 00:27:02,360 See, like, the Fae do not interfere. 521 00:27:02,360 --> 00:27:04,080 We know that to be false. 522 00:27:04,080 --> 00:27:05,240 That is not accurate. 523 00:27:05,240 --> 00:27:07,759 But the Fae partners in silence, 524 00:27:07,759 --> 00:27:09,040 do the Fae work together? 525 00:27:09,040 --> 00:27:10,400 I mean, well. 526 00:27:10,400 --> 00:27:11,240 That could be true. 527 00:27:11,240 --> 00:27:14,160 That could be true, because it deals with yours, 528 00:27:14,160 --> 00:27:15,120 and then, of course, 529 00:27:15,120 --> 00:27:17,960 Banger Man was working for somebody, 530 00:27:17,960 --> 00:27:19,600 so that could be a truth. 531 00:27:19,600 --> 00:27:22,400 I mean, even Nigel Knapp's corrupt in all things. 532 00:27:22,400 --> 00:27:24,960 My instinct says yes, but then I think, 533 00:27:24,960 --> 00:27:26,240 well, in all things. 534 00:27:26,240 --> 00:27:27,680 In all things, exactly. 535 00:27:27,680 --> 00:27:28,800 That can't be true. 536 00:27:28,799 --> 00:27:30,039 Yeah. 537 00:27:30,039 --> 00:27:31,480 He's definitely not useful. 538 00:27:31,480 --> 00:27:32,639 No. 539 00:27:32,639 --> 00:27:34,079 Well, I guess as a Patsy. 540 00:27:37,559 --> 00:27:38,519 Yeah. 541 00:27:38,519 --> 00:27:39,919 It gets useful to who? 542 00:27:41,000 --> 00:27:41,919 It's a great question. 543 00:27:41,919 --> 00:27:43,359 The council, I guess. 544 00:27:43,359 --> 00:27:45,480 I don't know who the council is. 545 00:27:45,480 --> 00:27:47,000 Yes. 546 00:27:47,000 --> 00:27:49,279 The mayor serves the people, I mean. 547 00:27:49,279 --> 00:27:50,119 Nope. 548 00:27:50,119 --> 00:27:51,639 I mean, Nina seems to now, 549 00:27:51,639 --> 00:27:54,519 but Knapp certainly didn't, and. 550 00:27:54,519 --> 00:27:56,359 Is anyone really serving the people? 551 00:27:56,400 --> 00:27:58,720 Are they just there to get paid? 552 00:27:58,720 --> 00:28:00,680 So cynical for such a young person. 553 00:28:00,680 --> 00:28:02,800 I was there to get paid in a tax break. 554 00:28:04,800 --> 00:28:06,760 Forgotten Bazaar was working for the bad guys 555 00:28:06,760 --> 00:28:07,840 for a while there. 556 00:28:09,560 --> 00:28:11,320 Yeah, he's a city employee, too. 557 00:28:12,560 --> 00:28:13,960 Any of y'all have a conviction 558 00:28:13,960 --> 00:28:15,760 on what our third truth should be? 559 00:28:17,000 --> 00:28:20,560 I mean, if it was like Kavlaran Goldweave, 560 00:28:20,560 --> 00:28:25,480 free of professional ambition, 100% I'm in, 561 00:28:25,480 --> 00:28:28,880 but like free of ambition overall, that's just. 562 00:28:28,880 --> 00:28:29,720 That's true. 563 00:28:29,720 --> 00:28:31,160 I mean, remember we did those games 564 00:28:31,160 --> 00:28:35,599 to go on that adventure that went very poorly, 565 00:28:35,599 --> 00:28:39,640 but you were competitive in those games. 566 00:28:39,640 --> 00:28:40,480 Absolutely. 567 00:28:40,480 --> 00:28:42,640 So you're not free of ambition entirely. 568 00:28:42,640 --> 00:28:45,480 And I mean, I don't feel like I'm bound to the truth. 569 00:28:45,480 --> 00:28:48,400 I lie like a fucking, I lie all the time. 570 00:28:48,400 --> 00:28:49,759 I'm lying right now. 571 00:28:51,400 --> 00:28:53,480 I don't know how to feel about this. 572 00:28:54,440 --> 00:28:59,440 What about truth revised to endure? 573 00:29:00,279 --> 00:29:02,839 We know that truth can be revised. 574 00:29:04,240 --> 00:29:09,240 Memories were being destroyed and erased and stolen. 575 00:29:10,000 --> 00:29:10,920 Oh, interesting. 576 00:29:10,920 --> 00:29:13,240 See, I took that title a different way 577 00:29:13,240 --> 00:29:16,400 in that our personal truth becomes revised 578 00:29:16,400 --> 00:29:19,720 in our own brains so that we can continue living 579 00:29:19,720 --> 00:29:23,319 without the burden of all of the knowledge 580 00:29:24,159 --> 00:29:25,960 that might hurt us over and over again. 581 00:29:25,960 --> 00:29:29,159 Yeah, or similar to how the victors write history. 582 00:29:29,159 --> 00:29:30,159 Indeed. Sure. 583 00:29:30,159 --> 00:29:31,000 Indeed. 584 00:29:32,439 --> 00:29:36,079 Memory subject to seizure, memory as personal property. 585 00:29:38,000 --> 00:29:39,839 I mean, I can seize my own memories. 586 00:29:39,839 --> 00:29:41,480 I would have thought personal property, but yes. 587 00:29:41,480 --> 00:29:43,039 But then when we were, 588 00:29:43,039 --> 00:29:45,439 and we were in the bubbles and the thing, 589 00:29:45,439 --> 00:29:49,599 and I mean, they were subject to seizure. 590 00:29:49,599 --> 00:29:50,559 We could lose them. 591 00:29:50,559 --> 00:29:51,559 I lost some. 592 00:29:52,559 --> 00:29:57,279 So if this is the objective truth of the Weeping Archive, 593 00:29:57,279 --> 00:30:00,159 it would not consider itself preserving control 594 00:30:00,159 --> 00:30:01,799 but preserving knowledge 595 00:30:01,799 --> 00:30:04,679 because it is holding on to what it considers true. 596 00:30:04,679 --> 00:30:06,759 So I think right now we've boiled it down 597 00:30:06,759 --> 00:30:10,079 to potentially the Weeping Archive preserves knowledge 598 00:30:10,079 --> 00:30:13,200 and the Fae partners in silence. 599 00:30:14,639 --> 00:30:17,559 But does it preserve knowledge? 600 00:30:17,559 --> 00:30:18,759 It thinks it does. 601 00:30:18,759 --> 00:30:20,240 It thinks it does. 602 00:30:20,400 --> 00:30:22,720 But what if this isn't about what it thinks, 603 00:30:22,720 --> 00:30:27,319 but whoever is adding the information to the archive. 604 00:30:27,319 --> 00:30:28,960 This is layers on layers. 605 00:30:28,960 --> 00:30:30,519 Well, that's on us too soon. 606 00:30:30,519 --> 00:30:31,599 But they would also think 607 00:30:31,599 --> 00:30:33,480 that the archive preserves knowledge. 608 00:30:33,480 --> 00:30:37,000 That's why they're supplying the knowledge to the archive. 609 00:30:37,000 --> 00:30:38,160 Does a bad thing happen 610 00:30:38,160 --> 00:30:40,720 if we put the wrong book down, does it say? 611 00:30:40,720 --> 00:30:43,880 I don't see anything anywhere over here. 612 00:30:43,880 --> 00:30:48,559 I feel like that feels the closest to the truth 613 00:30:48,639 --> 00:30:52,000 that the archive would believe. 614 00:30:52,000 --> 00:30:56,039 Says only what is true may pass unrevised. 615 00:30:57,039 --> 00:30:58,480 What does unrevised mean? 616 00:30:58,480 --> 00:31:01,240 That probably doesn't sound very good. 617 00:31:01,240 --> 00:31:03,480 Whatever we put down, they're gonna change. 618 00:31:03,480 --> 00:31:05,039 If it's not right. 619 00:31:05,039 --> 00:31:06,039 Oh. 620 00:31:06,039 --> 00:31:09,639 Well, perhaps we're not able to, 621 00:31:10,559 --> 00:31:13,359 if you put down something wrong and then pass through, 622 00:31:13,359 --> 00:31:18,359 it's maybe rewriting history. 623 00:31:18,960 --> 00:31:19,960 For us. 624 00:31:19,960 --> 00:31:21,519 Oh, damn, I really fucked up. 625 00:31:28,720 --> 00:31:30,679 Was that bizarre saying that or Kyle? 626 00:31:30,679 --> 00:31:32,359 No, that was bizarre saying that. 627 00:31:32,359 --> 00:31:33,200 Okay. 628 00:31:33,200 --> 00:31:34,960 What happened, why? 629 00:31:34,960 --> 00:31:37,879 Well, I mean, if that hypothesis is right, 630 00:31:37,879 --> 00:31:40,879 is that it's changing our history. 631 00:31:40,879 --> 00:31:43,559 I just put myself into a bunch of fucking debt 632 00:31:43,559 --> 00:31:46,159 and not thinking about the debt that I do have. 633 00:31:46,159 --> 00:31:47,000 Yes. 634 00:31:47,000 --> 00:31:48,640 Jesus Christ, do I have a home now? 635 00:31:48,640 --> 00:31:50,240 Or will it erase your debt? 636 00:31:50,240 --> 00:31:51,880 It says entangled in unpaid debts. 637 00:31:51,880 --> 00:31:55,119 I'm the bearer of the forge's burden. 638 00:31:55,119 --> 00:31:58,960 And then it said inheritance confirmed. 639 00:31:58,960 --> 00:32:02,119 So like that is, there's no getting out of it now. 640 00:32:02,119 --> 00:32:04,599 Right, I've like committed, 641 00:32:04,599 --> 00:32:07,079 even though I had already committed. 642 00:32:07,079 --> 00:32:09,200 I guess mine said it counts pending, so. 643 00:32:12,559 --> 00:32:15,799 Maybe let's put the Weeping Archive 644 00:32:15,839 --> 00:32:16,839 preserves knowledge. 645 00:32:16,839 --> 00:32:17,839 Let's see what happens. 646 00:32:17,839 --> 00:32:19,399 We can't just stay here forever. 647 00:32:19,399 --> 00:32:21,879 I didn't bring enough snacks. 648 00:32:21,879 --> 00:32:22,720 Who places it? 649 00:32:25,119 --> 00:32:26,359 Me. 650 00:32:26,359 --> 00:32:28,720 Bon, when you pull the book off the shelves, 651 00:32:28,720 --> 00:32:31,480 the Weeping Archive preserves knowledge 652 00:32:31,480 --> 00:32:34,680 and similar to placing the other book, 653 00:32:34,680 --> 00:32:38,879 you place this book, 654 00:32:38,879 --> 00:32:42,919 which you identify as limestone, down on the lectern 655 00:32:43,880 --> 00:32:48,880 and a whisper, similar, same voice. 656 00:32:49,880 --> 00:32:54,880 But this time, the voice is colder. 657 00:32:57,279 --> 00:33:01,120 Knowledge is incidental. 658 00:33:01,120 --> 00:33:03,800 You hear that in your head 659 00:33:03,800 --> 00:33:08,800 and you see fine cracks appear along the book itself. 660 00:33:09,240 --> 00:33:12,720 The stone, as you can feel it placed, 661 00:33:12,720 --> 00:33:15,319 it doesn't click the same way. 662 00:33:15,319 --> 00:33:17,639 It begins to grow cold in your hands. 663 00:33:17,639 --> 00:33:21,799 These fine cracks form across the book 664 00:33:21,799 --> 00:33:23,440 and then quickly seal themselves. 665 00:33:23,440 --> 00:33:28,440 And everybody hears the walls begin to slide in closer. 666 00:33:29,839 --> 00:33:33,559 Oh, oh, come on. 667 00:33:39,440 --> 00:33:42,960 Dumbgeons and Dragons, season four, episode 50, 668 00:33:42,960 --> 00:33:45,039 starring Amy More as Alydin, 669 00:33:45,039 --> 00:33:47,319 Carla Maxted as Bonwyn Everbane, 670 00:33:47,319 --> 00:33:49,519 Tom Laird as Kavlaran Goldweave, 671 00:33:49,519 --> 00:33:52,039 Kyle Claset as Bizard the Wizard, 672 00:33:52,039 --> 00:33:54,639 and Russ More as your dungeon master. 673 00:33:54,639 --> 00:33:56,279 Dialogue editing and sound design 674 00:33:56,279 --> 00:33:58,480 of today's episode is by Russ More. 675 00:33:58,480 --> 00:34:00,919 Our community manager is Jessica Babiak. 676 00:34:00,919 --> 00:34:02,839 Music is from Epidemic Sound 677 00:34:02,839 --> 00:34:04,919 and sound effects are from Epidemic Sound, 678 00:34:04,919 --> 00:34:07,039 Boom Library and Sound Ideas. 679 00:34:07,079 --> 00:34:09,800 Our amazing cover art is by Matt Garbutt. 680 00:34:09,800 --> 00:34:12,239 A huge thank you to our supporting producers, 681 00:34:12,239 --> 00:34:14,279 Gabriel Lynch, Jessica Babiak, 682 00:34:14,279 --> 00:34:16,519 Angaron Kierzen, Perry Mady, 683 00:34:16,519 --> 00:34:18,759 Cat Waterflame, Jacob Madden, 684 00:34:18,759 --> 00:34:21,400 Old School Gamer D, Craig Zeiss, 685 00:34:21,400 --> 00:34:25,599 L.A. Branton, Chibs1012, and Kudzu828. 686 00:34:25,599 --> 00:34:28,960 Dumbgeons and Dragons is a Patreon-supported podcast 687 00:34:28,960 --> 00:34:30,599 and all of our amazing community 688 00:34:30,599 --> 00:34:32,800 help make sure that we have adventures 689 00:34:32,800 --> 00:34:34,920 for you every single week. 690 00:34:34,920 --> 00:34:37,880 Come join us today, patreon.com slash dumbdraggingcast. 691 00:34:37,880 --> 00:34:39,200 We hope to see you over there 692 00:34:39,200 --> 00:34:43,440 and you have yourself right now a great week. 693 00:34:43,440 --> 00:34:45,639 Yes, and we'll talk to you very, very soon. 694 00:34:49,159 --> 00:34:50,559 Lapped it. 695 00:34:50,559 --> 00:34:52,599 Ah, I lapped it. 696 00:34:52,599 --> 00:34:54,360 Oh, and then there's another timer down there. 697 00:34:54,360 --> 00:34:55,559 Yeah, yes. 698 00:34:55,559 --> 00:34:56,720 Deep breath, Russ. 699 00:34:58,720 --> 00:35:01,480 That's what happens when you time a lap. 700 00:35:01,480 --> 00:35:03,440 You can even- Fuck it, let's play. 701 00:35:04,320 --> 00:35:05,480 You can even name the laps if you want. 702 00:35:05,480 --> 00:35:07,559 You're sucked forcefully through the door 703 00:35:07,559 --> 00:35:08,639 and you're all dead. 704 00:35:08,639 --> 00:35:10,840 Oh, holy hell. 705 00:35:10,840 --> 00:35:12,679 It's that weird- What's that about that lap? 706 00:35:12,679 --> 00:35:14,039 From the first President Evil movie. 707 00:35:14,039 --> 00:35:15,280 Oh my God. 708 00:35:15,280 --> 00:35:16,480 I didn't know this would be a point 709 00:35:16,480 --> 00:35:19,280 of contention in our marriage. 710 00:35:19,280 --> 00:35:21,240 I mean, you had to have a feeling. 711 00:35:21,240 --> 00:35:24,039 I mean, what's come up so far? 712 00:35:24,039 --> 00:35:26,119 Not much, who knew? 713 00:35:26,119 --> 00:35:28,559 This and kitty cat wine openers. 714 00:35:30,440 --> 00:35:31,440 You okay, Kyle? 715 00:35:31,440 --> 00:35:35,079 Elgut is choking up with all this knowledge of magic. 716 00:35:37,360 --> 00:35:40,760 Fucking love it, man. 717 00:35:40,760 --> 00:35:42,320 You feel your feelings. 718 00:35:42,320 --> 00:35:44,760 Dumbgeons and Dragons is a Dumb Dragons production.