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[12.8s] The guards watch you as you walk towards and the door opens and take a few steps inside.
[19.0s] Alistair kind of as there's some slight hesitation, Alistair says,
[24.4s] we, this is the first possible entrance I've ever seen.
[28.3s] And he goes through the door, pushes it open and disappears into the darkness.
[34.8s] Good. I was going to say we should push him through first.
[37.2s] Well, I don't trust that son of a bitch to go alone.
[39.6s] So I step through the door.
[41.6s] You do. Yeah.
[43.2s] Follow quickly behind.
[45.4s] And as you step through the door,
[48.2s] it is a narrow hallway like you could fit to side by side.
[53.2s] But it's pretty tight.
[54.3s] Like going single file would be much more comfortable.
[58.0s] So that said, who is last through the door?
[61.5s] I'll go last.
[62.5s] I believe I'm dead center, probably right after Bazaar before Bonwyn.
[68.0s] You know, the safety snuggle.
[69.8s] Absolutely.
[70.5s] Cav, as you take your steps through the door, slam shut behind you,
[74.6s] hear this burst of air, you turn and you look back
[78.8s] and you see only stone where there was the red door.
[84.1s] Dumbgeons and Dragons is a D&D actual play podcast,
[87.7s] and I'm your dungeon master, Russ More, he him.
[90.4s] Also with me today is Amy More as Alydin, she her.
[93.9s] Yeah, you do. You rock.
[95.3s] Carla Maxted as Bonwyn Everbane, she her.
[98.4s] Let's stay together this time.
[100.2s] Tom Laird as Kavlaran Goldweave, he him.
[103.2s] I lie all the time.
[104.4s] And Kyle Klasset as Bazaar the Wizard, he him.
[107.5s] No, that's assault, brother. I'm not doing that.
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[119.8s] And now let's get right to it.
[121.8s] Fuck it. Let's play.
[128.4s] And is there a torch in here?
[130.2s] Do we see that light now or as your eyes begin to transition,
[137.2s] you do see now that there are several torches down this hallway.
[141.6s] That seems to go on for quite a ways.
[143.7s] And it at the end terminates in darkness.
[149.1s] Hey, guys, just before we get going, just so everyone knows,
[153.9s] it closed behind us.
[155.5s] So we're like in here now.
[159.5s] OK, cool.
[162.7s] OK, that's OK.
[164.3s] We've done something like this before.
[166.5s] Stay close. And it'll be fine.
[172.4s] Let's stay together this time.
[174.5s] Love it. Yes.
[177.3s] You all begin walking single file and you catch up to Alistair,
[181.4s] who's fallen asleep against one of the walls.
[185.2s] Classic Alistair. Classic Alistair.
[187.9s] He's not great at a getaway.
[191.4s] Or get to it.
[195.1s] Sorry, everybody.
[197.0s] I'll I can keep leading if you'd like.
[201.2s] It's a question, Alistair.
[203.4s] Do you dream when you have these these naps?
[207.9s] Uh, no one's ever asked me that before.
[213.6s] Many you fall asleep.
[216.0s] He's got his fingers.
[217.2s] He's got a Chris Angelou mind freak.
[220.7s] He he looks like he's deep in thought as I.
[226.6s] I don't think so.
[229.4s] But I but I.
[232.7s] I can say a lot of things for certain, but I can't say that for certain.
[236.3s] OK, cool, cool.
[238.3s] He's really sitting with this and he turns deep in thought
[241.0s] and he like reaches for one of the torches and looks at it
[244.3s] and he passes it back to bizarre.
[247.0s] I probably shouldn't hold this.
[249.3s] Oh, OK, yeah, you'll just.
[252.2s] Right. So take the torch.
[256.5s] And he begins to walk.
[257.6s] And he calls out after a few moments and he says,
[261.3s] I think I see something down at the end.
[263.3s] Hold the torch up.
[264.6s] It's flickers in and out of view,
[267.0s] but it looks like there is a stone door down at the end.
[271.8s] He goes up to it and I don't see any handles.
[276.0s] Maybe somebody can help me push.
[278.0s] He starts throwing himself at it, not violently,
[281.1s] but like with like some force to try and like move it.
[284.9s] Wait, wait. OK.
[287.2s] So when I used to spend some time at one of the barns
[291.3s] at the edge of town, this guy.
[296.2s] Jeff would always want the best horse stall.
[301.8s] Was that Jeff? I met him.
[306.3s] Yeah, maybe Alistair just wants to be involved.
[310.5s] No, yeah, you probably did me him.
[312.5s] Yeah. Was he loud?
[314.3s] Yeah. Oh, no, this chef was quiet.
[316.1s] Oh, it's probably different.
[318.2s] Yeah, you must have met loud Jeff.
[321.8s] Yeah, he came up to me, said, My name is Jeff.
[326.6s] I said, OK, great to meet you.
[327.8s] My name is Alistair.
[329.6s] And then we don't need to recount the whole conversation.
[332.9s] Do you have a score to that riveting combo?
[337.1s] Anyway, he would always
[341.0s] Ooby trap his door so that if anyone tried to come in one,
[344.5s] he was out and take his spot.
[346.8s] They would either end up with horse shit
[350.0s] poop all over them or a bucket of water on their head or something.
[354.8s] Wow. So we should look and see if maybe there's
[360.6s] a booby trap, some sort of trap, some sort of trap.
[364.0s] Alistair begins running his hands along the door looking for a trap.
[369.0s] So just a solid stone door.
[371.0s] Any carvings or anything like that?
[374.6s] No carvings that are visible appears to be a solid slab.
[380.2s] No handle.
[382.4s] Can I use my stone cunning
[386.4s] where if I make a history check related to the origin of stonework,
[391.9s] I proficient in that and I can like double my bonus.
[394.6s] So I sure I know about stone.
[397.7s] Yeah, you do. You rock because of my heart.
[401.7s] And so for a double my proficiency bonus.
[409.6s] So that's an 18.
[411.5s] That's a great roll.
[413.8s] I smell it. I like like my finger and put it on and then like my finger again.
[418.8s] Like, hmm, it's salt.
[423.0s] I just like the door.
[427.1s] I'm using all of my senses.
[429.3s] I love it.
[430.6s] You're doing this, everybody, in various states of confusion or awe,
[435.3s] depending on your view in this moment.
[438.8s] But you identify the stone as diorite,
[442.9s] which is favored in ancient law codes and royal statues,
[448.4s] often associated within the space with law and judgment
[454.2s] or irrevocable decisions.
[457.1s] Not often something that is used to craft entrances.
[465.8s] As you continue to examine, you see that there are telltale signs
[470.7s] that this at least this portion you haven't investigated any further down
[475.1s] in this, but there are telltale signs that there is dwarven influence
[479.4s] within the creation of this space, perhaps not directly tied to you.
[483.6s] But like there are similar.
[485.8s] You can tell that there are similar tools made.
[488.8s] You can also tell that this is like a
[493.1s] a pocket slide kind of door.
[498.4s] I relay all this to my friends like a grandparent's bathroom.
[503.2s] Yeah. And maybe in part of my like, as I said, I'm
[507.5s] I'm laying hands on it.
[509.7s] And as I realize that, can I try to
[513.1s] push it to the side?
[516.0s] Yeah. As that comes to a realization that you push in exactly the right point.
[521.8s] Like Alistair was just throwing himself at the door.
[525.4s] He was doing the opposite.
[526.4s] There's not a lot of weight behind him, like soaking wet.
[529.2s] He's probably 55 pounds.
[531.7s] It's like a finesse situation.
[533.3s] He's a very slender guy.
[534.9s] But yeah, you push in just the right moment and everybody hears this click.
[539.5s] And then a ashy dust
[543.5s] kind of comes out from around the seams of the door,
[546.6s] and it begins to grind and slide into the wall beside it.
[551.6s] The room beyond before anybody has a chance to react is not lit.
[557.7s] You see shadows of what look like pieces of furniture,
[562.7s] but you can't quite make out anything beyond into the next
[567.8s] egress or into the next space that you would be going into.
[571.3s] Even with my dark vision?
[572.9s] Even with your dark vision at this moment. OK.
[577.0s] But no arrows shoot out and like kill us all. No.
[580.0s] Great, because I I interrupted them checking for traps to just open the door.
[584.2s] Yeah. Well, you know, you were looking for traps and then you were like,
[587.6s] wait a minute. There's some history here. Yeah.
[591.7s] Well, it's let's.
[594.2s] Get that torch in there.
[595.8s] I mean, like I said, this stone is.
[599.5s] This is no ordinary place, which I know we already knew,
[604.3s] but let's just it's been reinforced that this is.
[608.4s] Ancient and important.
[611.2s] Well, yeah, and I mean, no ordinary place like literally a door
[613.9s] disappeared behind us, so like, yeah, 100 percent.
[616.8s] Indeed, in many ways, not an ordinary place.
[620.4s] If we bring the torch in, can we see in the room?
[624.5s] Do you enter the room?
[626.0s] Yeah, I'm going to enter the room.
[627.4s] A bunch of us have dark vision.
[629.4s] He said even with dark vision, we can't see in there with dark vision.
[632.2s] Oh, I missed it.
[633.7s] Yeah, from outside the room, you can't make out anything beyond
[637.6s] the occasion, the briefest silhouette.
[641.0s] Hold the torch.
[641.6s] I'll step forward and I'll use control flames to actually
[645.7s] expand the area of bright light so that we get a little bit more
[649.7s] more of color out of it and see if it winds up
[652.3s] diffusing a little bit of that darkness.
[655.0s] Sure. And sorry, you said you step in or you're doing this in the term
[658.3s] in trying to illuminate beyond.
[660.1s] I'm doing it while stepping in.
[662.1s] OK, sounds good. Bazaar, you're the first to step through
[664.6s] and everybody else you see the flame.
[668.8s] Two kind of different views happen.
[671.1s] Everybody else sees the flame begin to expand at your hand,
[674.6s] which seems like it's being eaten by this darkness that that is enveloping.
[679.6s] But Bazaar, as you step into this room,
[682.5s] take the first few steps beyond the threshold,
[685.7s] the darkness dissipates.
[687.1s] It disappears.
[688.4s] You become the same kind of faint silhouette to everybody else.
[694.0s] But the room itself now for you is lit
[697.8s] seemingly by some skylight high up in this room.
[701.4s] And you see all around this room that there are stone shelves
[706.2s] carved directly into the walls.
[708.9s] And all of these shelves hold stone.
[711.8s] What look like books, each etched with names and titles.
[717.2s] And there's a inscription on the far door, which I'll wait until
[722.5s] everybody else decides what they're going to do.
[725.4s] I'm going to step back out and say,
[730.0s] come on in. We're good.
[732.6s] OK, yeah, let's go.
[735.4s] Everybody else steps through and same kind of a fact happens.
[738.1s] You step through the darkness and the skylight
[743.6s] illuminates the space that you're in again.
[746.3s] Stove shelves carved directly into the walls.
[749.5s] Stone books on all of these.
[753.3s] There is a door on the far wall that appears to have an inscription on it.
[759.9s] And there is a lectern
[762.6s] placed kind of center back of this room close to the door,
[767.4s] which looks like it has a place for three books,
[772.1s] like enough that you could place and or open three books on it.
[777.6s] The inscription on the far door
[781.0s] says only what is true may pass unrevised.
[788.1s] Somebody tell it a secret.
[792.0s] We know from what Alastair told us that the archive
[796.6s] will index the truth.
[802.0s] And we have a lectern, so we can try sharing secrets
[806.0s] or we could try to see if one of these many, many books
[812.5s] leads us to what could be true.
[816.7s] But Alydin, you came up with your idea,
[823.1s] so you need to you need to commit to it.
[825.3s] And you need to share a secret with if you do it, I'll share a secret.
[830.3s] Oh, well, you do it first then.
[831.9s] Mm hmm.
[834.0s] Who's your idea?
[836.5s] I can't think of a secret.
[840.4s] She's being such a child right now.
[842.2s] What are Bonwyn and Cav doing?
[846.1s] Just watching this kind of waiting to see how Secret Gate plays out, right?
[851.0s] Watching this tennis game.
[852.7s] Alastair is ignoring everything.
[854.6s] He's overlooking at the book titles.
[856.5s] Yes. Actually, what I'm probably doing
[861.2s] because he read their character sheet, guys,
[863.2s] I'm going to use my eye for detail and I can make a perception check
[867.4s] to spot a hidden creature or object or to make an investigation
[872.4s] check to uncover or decipher clues.
[876.0s] Shit, my eye doesn't give me jack squat.
[879.2s] Oh, it does.
[881.2s] I got fade touched and all I got was this fucked up eye.
[884.7s] Misty step. What are you talking about?
[886.9s] Yeah, that's a good one.
[889.0s] Not on command.
[890.9s] Once a day on command, you can do it.
[895.0s] Hey, welcome to the middle, everybody.
[896.6s] It's the middle. It's here.
[898.9s] You're here. Fancy meeting you here.
[902.0s] Come here often every week, I hope.
[904.8s] Yes, better be.
[906.3s] I know we do. We do. We do, for sure.
[908.2s] I try to at least. Almost every week.
[910.4s] All of us. Yeah, like as often as I can do it.
[913.1s] Yeah. Yeah, yeah.
[914.4s] It's fun here.
[915.6s] It's amazing how often it just happens, like unexpectedly, though,
[919.0s] when, like, we're just chilling, talking, then bam, we're in it.
[922.5s] You think you're just chatting with your friends and then then suddenly.
[925.8s] Yeah. Yeah.
[927.6s] So sometimes it's by accident.
[929.9s] But I love when it happens.
[931.6s] Me, too. Me, too.
[933.3s] Yeah. What's new?
[935.3s] Pussycat. Pussycat.
[936.9s] Whoa, whoa, whoa.
[938.8s] Oh, wow. We all hit a different key there.
[940.6s] That was great. I stayed out of it.
[942.9s] Me, too. That was just the boys.
[944.9s] It was. It was just the boys serenading us.
[948.1s] Good for you. We do what we can.
[949.5s] It was gorgeous.
[950.5s] You're going to love that in playback.
[952.5s] Oh, it's going to be great.
[953.4s] I will never hear it. It's fine.
[955.0s] There you go.
[956.9s] You skip the middle stuff.
[958.8s] Uh, yep.
[960.5s] He lived him. He doesn't need to skip them.
[964.2s] He skips them because he's a living.
[965.6s] Yes, just the middle.
[966.9s] Yeah, just the middle.
[968.4s] Just the middle.
[970.6s] His listenership has dropped off in Victoria.
[972.6s] I can't explain it.
[973.6s] Weird. I don't know.
[975.0s] I barely listen to any podcasts at the moment.
[977.3s] So the fact that people can find the time to, like,
[979.9s] still keep up with podcasts, I'm so impressed.
[982.3s] And to keep up with us, us dorms.
[984.9s] Thank you so much. Even more impressive.
[986.8s] What are you doing here? We love you.
[989.2s] We do love you.
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[1027.0s] Oh, yeah. You can be as cool as this person.
[1030.9s] Yeah, who is starting to realize I need to keep track of all of this stuff.
[1035.2s] The medically pronounced.
[1037.3s] I think Russ is actually building a computer to look up this.
[1041.3s] I don't know what's happening.
[1042.8s] I feel like we've really is this crash.
[1045.4s] The hard drive. This is what did it.
[1047.6s] Yeah, this is what did it.
[1049.8s] The person who we are dedicating this episode to today is Sonia Weiberg.
[1056.2s] Thank you. Thank you so much.
[1058.7s] Yeah, too cool. Yeah.
[1061.6s] Too cool for bad ass name. Absolutely.
[1065.8s] Yeah, it is. Yeah, I was going to say I had Street Fighter in my mind
[1070.3s] because I just watched the Street Fighter trailer again,
[1072.8s] but that would be Mortal Kombat. Yeah.
[1074.7s] So yeah, related. Yeah, sure.
[1077.5s] You know, yeah, similar.
[1079.8s] It's all fighting. It's all bad ass.
[1082.2s] Yeah, I was going to say I just assume Sonya's a bad ass.
[1085.7s] I mean, look, I've only heard of two Sonia's before that one
[1090.0s] and the one from like the Arnold Schwarzenegger
[1094.0s] movie where he's like the barber Conan Conan Conan.
[1097.3s] Blanked on the name of fucking Conan the Bar.
[1099.3s] It's literally Conan the Barbarian. Yeah.
[1101.9s] You know that, you know, with the guy muscles and he's like,
[1105.1s] he's very barbaric. Punches a camel. Yeah. Yeah.
[1110.1s] Do yourself a favor, though.
[1111.1s] Do not watch the new Red Sonia.
[1113.8s] Real bad. Oh, OK, that's too bad.
[1119.2s] You know what, Sonia, we can count on our Sonia.
[1123.2s] Always. Thanks for being here, Sonia.
[1124.9s] Always the best. We love you.
[1127.7s] We love you. Russ loves you so much.
[1130.7s] He left the podcast.
[1131.9s] He literally got up and walked away, letting Loki out.
[1134.6s] And he opened the door and then Loki just sat like a very good boy
[1138.4s] in front of the open door and looked up at Russ with all the love
[1141.2s] in his eyes. And now sitting there like, yeah, no, it's like
[1145.0s] I was just crying at this door. It's true.
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[1185.0s] Sixteen, sixteen.
[1186.9s] OK, they're bizarre.
[1188.9s] And Alydin are talking about sharing secrets.
[1192.1s] Alistair is overlooking at books.
[1194.6s] Bonwyn, you are trying to decipher perhaps some sort of meaning
[1198.9s] or anything to this.
[1201.8s] Looking at the lectern,
[1203.1s] looking at the books and looking at the inscription, it is
[1207.0s] it becomes clear to you that you must place
[1211.2s] as you look at some of the book titles.
[1214.8s] You must place three books
[1218.0s] that hold truths to allow you to pass.
[1223.4s] I've just shared a document with all of the books in this space.
[1228.0s] This may be difficult, and I apologize if it is,
[1231.5s] but we'll see how it goes.
[1234.0s] Hey, we haven't been given a puzzle to solve in some time.
[1238.6s] Governed by honest hands certainly isn't a truth.
[1242.4s] Governed by omission might be true.
[1244.9s] Maybe now. Oh, yeah.
[1246.2s] Do they have publication dates?
[1248.0s] I grabbed number 17 and I put it on the lectern.
[1251.7s] Wizard, the wizard entangled in unpaid debts.
[1254.6s] I thought the next one said Tina Fey do not interfere.
[1257.2s] And I was like, I am curious about this.
[1260.0s] Also, nobody tells Tina Fey what to do.
[1262.3s] That's right. Tell me, because you were talking with Alydin before.
[1265.9s] Tell me the transition there.
[1267.2s] Try to kind of going over it and going back and forth,
[1272.4s] kind of see some of the names on it.
[1273.9s] I notice like my name,
[1276.6s] Wizard, the wizard on a book behind her.
[1278.3s] And I'm like,
[1280.8s] well, maybe we're both right in a way.
[1287.2s] And I will go first.
[1290.1s] That's when I walk over to the book that says,
[1292.4s] Wizard, the wizard entangled in unpaid debts.
[1295.8s] Grab the book off the shelf, put it on the lectern.
[1299.0s] You place the book and you hear a whisper.
[1302.9s] Bizarre. Accounts pending.
[1307.6s] You hear this whispered in like this clear monotone voice.
[1314.0s] And the book locks into place with a soft click.
[1319.6s] The stone book itself and the lectern around it begin to grow slightly warm.
[1325.8s] You feel this sound of air pressure change and like your ears pop
[1331.0s] as the book is placed on the lectern.
[1335.0s] That seemed to be a good response.
[1337.6s] Yeah, I'm going to put a book on the lectern as well called
[1342.4s] Bonwyn Everbane, Bearer of the Forge's Burden.
[1348.3s] I have doubts about having my name involved in this,
[1351.7s] but, you know, Bizarre did it.
[1354.6s] So why wouldn't I?
[1356.2s] It's the one thing I know to be true.
[1358.6s] Exactly. I don't all of the others seem.
[1363.8s] I don't know. Like they could be true or not.
[1367.4s] Are, can I ask a question?
[1370.7s] And you may or may not answer.
[1373.1s] Are there only the how many four?
[1378.4s] Three? How many books?
[1380.2s] Places on the lectern.
[1381.2s] There are three places on the lecture.
[1383.4s] Are there only three correct books?
[1387.0s] That's a great question.
[1390.7s] OK, Bonwyn, you see Bizarre place his place,
[1394.6s] a book titled with his own name,
[1397.8s] and you find one of your own,
[1401.4s] and you move to place it onto the lectern as well.
[1404.6s] And similarly, you hear this whisper in your head.
[1408.0s] Inheritance confirmed.
[1410.4s] Same kind of monotone, straightforward voice.
[1415.4s] And then the book slightly locks,
[1417.7s] like soft locks into place,
[1419.9s] and you feel a warmth begin to glow from it
[1422.7s] as you're standing beside Bizarre.
[1425.0s] And I look at him like, hmm?
[1427.1s] What did you hear?
[1429.6s] How did you know I heard anything?
[1431.1s] I did, I did hear something.
[1433.1s] Me too.
[1435.2s] I heard accounts pending.
[1437.0s] Did you?
[1438.0s] I heard inheritance confirmed.
[1441.7s] Fuck.
[1444.8s] I was hoping, I was hoping we'd hear the same thing,
[1448.8s] and that would make me feel better somehow.
[1451.1s] I think you should feel OK.
[1454.0s] I feel concerned.
[1456.8s] Oh, see, I feel like you should feel OK,
[1458.9s] and I feel concerned.
[1460.6s] Not if you knew my debts.
[1462.4s] Everybody, before we place the last book,
[1464.0s] hold on, are we sure?
[1466.3s] I mean, you've placed both of your names.
[1470.9s] She must have had confidence,
[1473.4s] but there's only one spot left,
[1475.5s] and there are three of us in several books
[1478.5s] that don't really tie directly to any one of us.
[1483.4s] Well, you know, it's funny you bring that up, Alastair,
[1485.7s] because I notice that there's no books tied to you.
[1487.8s] No books with your name.
[1488.9s] That's strange, isn't it?
[1491.2s] Seems odd.
[1493.3s] Honestly, I hadn't noticed that,
[1494.7s] and I appreciate you guys pointing it out.
[1497.0s] I can't, I don't,
[1499.8s] he's looking through the books,
[1501.0s] he's like, no, there are none with my name on them.
[1504.2s] That's right, because you're a nightmare,
[1506.0s] and you're not real. Does that mean
[1506.9s] no truths?
[1508.4s] I'm a real boy, bizarre.
[1513.0s] Pinch me.
[1514.4s] No, that's assault, brother, I'm not doing that.
[1516.2s] Maybe it's tied to location,
[1518.0s] because we have Nigel Knops on here,
[1521.0s] so I mean, that's a Vintersmouth thing,
[1523.4s] maybe, depending on where this doorway opens
[1526.1s] in the world, it has different-
[1528.3s] Oh, it's like regionally based.
[1529.2s] Different titles, different, yes.
[1530.9s] Okay.
[1531.8s] Perhaps, or perhaps Alastair is a nightmare.
[1536.7s] I don't know the answer.
[1538.0s] I don't think I'm a nightmare.
[1540.9s] That's exactly what a nightmare would think.
[1544.6s] I'm just trying to find the archive.
[1548.0s] Cav, do either of the ones with your name on it,
[1551.8s] do you feel confident?
[1554.6s] I mean, what confidence filled both Bonwyn and Bizard?
[1559.8s] Both Bonwyn and Bizard.
[1564.3s] Because I see my book titles there,
[1566.8s] and I don't feel particularly confident
[1569.7s] about either of them.
[1571.6s] See, I felt very confident.
[1573.4s] Yeah, I felt very confident,
[1574.7s] only because I usually don't make poor decisions,
[1578.2s] and this one was probably the poorest decision I've made.
[1582.0s] Just wait till my later teen years.
[1586.8s] Now, see, in the philosophy of these books, too,
[1589.8s] all contracts are voluntary.
[1592.6s] The contract of life isn't voluntary.
[1595.0s] Indeed.
[1595.9s] You know, so really philosophically,
[1597.8s] and this goes back to what Alastair was saying,
[1600.0s] is the truth according to the archives, so.
[1607.3s] Yes.
[1608.5s] Yes, many of these are ambiguous.
[1610.5s] They could be true, or they could not be true,
[1615.6s] but they are not truth.
[1619.2s] If that makes sense.
[1620.4s] See, like, the Fae do not interfere.
[1622.4s] We know that to be false.
[1624.1s] That is not accurate.
[1625.2s] But the Fae partners in silence,
[1627.8s] do the Fae work together?
[1629.0s] I mean, well.
[1630.4s] That could be true.
[1631.2s] That could be true, because it deals with yours,
[1634.2s] and then, of course,
[1635.1s] Banger Man was working for somebody,
[1638.0s] so that could be a truth.
[1639.6s] I mean, even Nigel Knapp's corrupt in all things.
[1642.4s] My instinct says yes, but then I think,
[1645.0s] well, in all things.
[1646.2s] In all things, exactly.
[1647.7s] That can't be true.
[1648.8s] Yeah.
[1650.0s] He's definitely not useful.
[1651.5s] No.
[1652.6s] Well, I guess as a Patsy.
[1657.6s] Yeah.
[1658.5s] It gets useful to who?
[1661.0s] It's a great question.
[1661.9s] The council, I guess.
[1663.4s] I don't know who the council is.
[1665.5s] Yes.
[1667.0s] The mayor serves the people, I mean.
[1669.3s] Nope.
[1670.1s] I mean, Nina seems to now,
[1671.6s] but Knapp certainly didn't, and.
[1674.5s] Is anyone really serving the people?
[1676.4s] Are they just there to get paid?
[1678.7s] So cynical for such a young person.
[1680.7s] I was there to get paid in a tax break.
[1684.8s] Forgotten Bazaar was working for the bad guys
[1686.8s] for a while there.
[1689.6s] Yeah, he's a city employee, too.
[1692.6s] Any of y'all have a conviction
[1694.0s] on what our third truth should be?
[1697.0s] I mean, if it was like Kavlaran Goldweave,
[1700.6s] free of professional ambition, 100% I'm in,
[1705.5s] but like free of ambition overall, that's just.
[1708.9s] That's true.
[1709.7s] I mean, remember we did those games
[1711.2s] to go on that adventure that went very poorly,
[1715.6s] but you were competitive in those games.
[1719.6s] Absolutely.
[1720.5s] So you're not free of ambition entirely.
[1722.6s] And I mean, I don't feel like I'm bound to the truth.
[1725.5s] I lie like a fucking, I lie all the time.
[1728.4s] I'm lying right now.
[1731.4s] I don't know how to feel about this.
[1734.4s] What about truth revised to endure?
[1740.3s] We know that truth can be revised.
[1744.2s] Memories were being destroyed and erased and stolen.
[1750.0s] Oh, interesting.
[1750.9s] See, I took that title a different way
[1753.2s] in that our personal truth becomes revised
[1756.4s] in our own brains so that we can continue living
[1759.7s] without the burden of all of the knowledge
[1764.2s] that might hurt us over and over again.
[1766.0s] Yeah, or similar to how the victors write history.
[1769.2s] Indeed. Sure.
[1770.2s] Indeed.
[1772.4s] Memory subject to seizure, memory as personal property.
[1778.0s] I mean, I can seize my own memories.
[1779.8s] I would have thought personal property, but yes.
[1781.5s] But then when we were,
[1783.0s] and we were in the bubbles and the thing,
[1785.4s] and I mean, they were subject to seizure.
[1789.6s] We could lose them.
[1790.6s] I lost some.
[1792.6s] So if this is the objective truth of the Weeping Archive,
[1797.3s] it would not consider itself preserving control
[1800.2s] but preserving knowledge
[1801.8s] because it is holding on to what it considers true.
[1804.7s] So I think right now we've boiled it down
[1806.8s] to potentially the Weeping Archive preserves knowledge
[1810.1s] and the Fae partners in silence.
[1814.6s] But does it preserve knowledge?
[1817.6s] It thinks it does.
[1818.8s] It thinks it does.
[1820.4s] But what if this isn't about what it thinks,
[1822.7s] but whoever is adding the information to the archive.
[1827.3s] This is layers on layers.
[1829.0s] Well, that's on us too soon.
[1830.5s] But they would also think
[1831.6s] that the archive preserves knowledge.
[1833.5s] That's why they're supplying the knowledge to the archive.
[1837.0s] Does a bad thing happen
[1838.2s] if we put the wrong book down, does it say?
[1840.7s] I don't see anything anywhere over here.
[1843.9s] I feel like that feels the closest to the truth
[1848.6s] that the archive would believe.
[1852.0s] Says only what is true may pass unrevised.
[1857.0s] What does unrevised mean?
[1858.5s] That probably doesn't sound very good.
[1861.2s] Whatever we put down, they're gonna change.
[1863.5s] If it's not right.
[1865.0s] Oh.
[1866.0s] Well, perhaps we're not able to,
[1870.6s] if you put down something wrong and then pass through,
[1873.4s] it's maybe rewriting history.
[1879.0s] For us.
[1880.0s] Oh, damn, I really fucked up.
[1888.7s] Was that bizarre saying that or Kyle?
[1890.7s] No, that was bizarre saying that.
[1892.4s] Okay.
[1893.2s] What happened, why?
[1895.0s] Well, I mean, if that hypothesis is right,
[1897.9s] is that it's changing our history.
[1900.9s] I just put myself into a bunch of fucking debt
[1903.6s] and not thinking about the debt that I do have.
[1906.2s] Yes.
[1907.0s] Jesus Christ, do I have a home now?
[1908.6s] Or will it erase your debt?
[1910.2s] It says entangled in unpaid debts.
[1911.9s] I'm the bearer of the forge's burden.
[1915.1s] And then it said inheritance confirmed.
[1919.0s] So like that is, there's no getting out of it now.
[1922.1s] Right, I've like committed,
[1924.6s] even though I had already committed.
[1927.1s] I guess mine said it counts pending, so.
[1932.6s] Maybe let's put the Weeping Archive
[1935.8s] preserves knowledge.
[1936.8s] Let's see what happens.
[1937.8s] We can't just stay here forever.
[1939.4s] I didn't bring enough snacks.
[1941.9s] Who places it?
[1945.1s] Me.
[1946.4s] Bon, when you pull the book off the shelves,
[1948.7s] the Weeping Archive preserves knowledge
[1951.5s] and similar to placing the other book,
[1954.7s] you place this book,
[1958.9s] which you identify as limestone, down on the lectern
[1963.9s] and a whisper, similar, same voice.
[1969.9s] But this time, the voice is colder.
[1977.3s] Knowledge is incidental.
[1981.1s] You hear that in your head
[1983.8s] and you see fine cracks appear along the book itself.
[1989.2s] The stone, as you can feel it placed,
[1992.7s] it doesn't click the same way.
[1995.3s] It begins to grow cold in your hands.
[1997.6s] These fine cracks form across the book
[2001.8s] and then quickly seal themselves.
[2003.4s] And everybody hears the walls begin to slide in closer.
[2009.8s] Oh, oh, come on.
[2019.4s] Dumbgeons and Dragons, season four, episode 50,
[2023.0s] starring Amy More as Alydin,
[2025.0s] Carla Maxted as Bonwyn Everbane,
[2027.3s] Tom Laird as Kavlaran Goldweave,
[2029.5s] Kyle Claset as Bizard the Wizard,
[2032.0s] and Russ More as your dungeon master.
[2034.6s] Dialogue editing and sound design
[2036.3s] of today's episode is by Russ More.
[2038.5s] Our community manager is Jessica Babiak.
[2040.9s] Music is from Epidemic Sound
[2042.8s] and sound effects are from Epidemic Sound,
[2044.9s] Boom Library and Sound Ideas.
[2047.1s] Our amazing cover art is by Matt Garbutt.
[2049.8s] A huge thank you to our supporting producers,
[2052.2s] Gabriel Lynch, Jessica Babiak,
[2054.3s] Angaron Kierzen, Perry Mady,
[2056.5s] Cat Waterflame, Jacob Madden,
[2058.8s] Old School Gamer D, Craig Zeiss,
[2061.4s] L.A. Branton, Chibs1012, and Kudzu828.
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[2077.9s] We hope to see you over there
[2079.2s] and you have yourself right now a great week.
[2083.4s] Yes, and we'll talk to you very, very soon.
[2089.2s] Lapped it.
[2090.6s] Ah, I lapped it.
[2092.6s] Oh, and then there's another timer down there.
[2094.4s] Yeah, yes.
[2095.6s] Deep breath, Russ.
[2098.7s] That's what happens when you time a lap.
[2101.5s] You can even- Fuck it, let's play.
[2104.3s] You can even name the laps if you want.
[2105.5s] You're sucked forcefully through the door
[2107.6s] and you're all dead.
[2108.6s] Oh, holy hell.
[2110.8s] It's that weird- What's that about that lap?
[2112.7s] From the first President Evil movie.
[2114.0s] Oh my God.
[2115.3s] I didn't know this would be a point
[2116.5s] of contention in our marriage.
[2119.3s] I mean, you had to have a feeling.
[2121.2s] I mean, what's come up so far?
[2124.0s] Not much, who knew?
[2126.1s] This and kitty cat wine openers.
[2130.4s] You okay, Kyle?
[2131.4s] Elgut is choking up with all this knowledge of magic.
[2137.4s] Fucking love it, man.
[2140.8s] You feel your feelings.
[2142.3s] Dumbgeons and Dragons is a Dumb Dragons production.