[0.0s] Buzzard, you're holding in your hand the spool of thread that reacted when the false
[13.8s] entrance appeared.
[16.7s] But it started reacting again and not spinning in the same way it was, but in fact it unspools
[22.4s] itself.
[23.4s] about a foot or two, it's not pointing to the location where you had entered this portion
[30.7s] of the archives, if that's what it was, but it's pointing beyond the city, more in
[36.4s] line with where the map that Alistair had rubbed out while you were in there.
[43.2s] Don't say it like that!
[45.0s] I already did.
[46.0s] No, continue to say it like that please.
[47.0s] You already did it.
[48.0s] No way to edit.
[49.0s] No way to edit it.
[50.0s] No way to edit it.
[51.0s] He rubbed it out.
[52.0s] Well, great job, Alistair.
[53.0s] Now this thread is pointing in that direction.
[55.9s] Okay, awesome.
[58.2s] Dumbgeons and Dragons is a D&D actual play podcast, and I'm your dungeon master Russ
[63.1s] Moore, he him.
[64.7s] Also with me today is Carla Maxstead as Bonwyn Everbane, she her.
[68.7s] We were only gone for a night, right?
[71.3s] Tom Laird as Kavlaran Goldweave, he him.
[74.2s] I'm thinking maybe the Skewer Trio?
[76.1s] And Kyle Claset as Bizard the Wizard, he him.
[79.2s] No.
[80.2s] I'll come with you.
[81.6s] Dumbgeons and Dragons is a Patreon-supported show, which means it's funded by people
[86.1s] who saw what we do and said, yes, more of that.
[90.2s] And you can too at patreon.com slash dumb dragon cast.
[93.9s] We hope to see you over there and now fuck it, let's play!
[99.7s] I know the spool floats, so I'm gonna go ahead and let it do that and take the
[103.4s] thread that's like hanging there and I'm gonna start winding it around an ink pen
[109.3s] that I have out of my out of my bag.
[111.6s] So just kind of like creating my own spool of it and seeing if the spool moves on
[116.3s] its own. Or what is what is the lead here?
[120.3s] The foot or two is actually it's no longer it's not hanging, it's extended out
[126.0s] and holding position like it's pointing in a direction.
[131.4s] You can try to wrap it if that's what you want to do.
[135.6s] As you do, you wrap it around your ink pen and it clips your finger, like wraps
[140.9s] around your finger once and as it does, you get this fleeting vision.
[148.8s] You're all at once somewhere else, you see before you a stone door without
[155.3s] hinges, you see words carved and scratched out, you can't quite make out
[160.9s] what they say, and you see a shadow standing on the opposite side of the
[166.0s] entrance. As it slips from your finger, you're suddenly back in front of City Hall.
[173.0s] I kind of like instinctively reach out and like grab up the string in the spool
[177.4s] and like stumble backwards.
[179.0s] It's like, OK, um.
[185.8s] So I just let's let's go ahead and go get ready for dinner.
[194.8s] And I had this interesting tale to tell you about a dinner I had recently.
[202.5s] But we should do it away from here, since you're done working, Gav, we
[207.1s] don't need to be here anymore.
[209.4s] No, we do not.
[211.4s] OK, so you good?
[215.0s] Yeah, away we go.
[217.3s] Good. I'm I'm good.
[221.4s] Yeah, I just kind of kind of start like walking away a little bit like
[225.6s] days, but I know where I'm going and I'm going back to my shop.
[231.5s] Oh, my God, you're going to be your pirate dad.
[233.9s] No, I hope no.
[236.2s] I'll be on a date night or something.
[237.5s] Maybe they're going to be at the cave.
[240.5s] Yeah. Oh, God, that's going to be awkward as fuck.
[243.0s] No, they're going to.
[244.2s] It's no, they're at the cave.
[246.7s] You're going to cave.
[247.8s] Yeah, the cave, the spot where the old people make out.
[250.6s] Dope. Yeah.
[257.4s] OK, you're going back to Magic Closet.
[259.9s] I mean, I'm going to I'm going to start walking that way just instinctively.
[265.4s] And I'm kind of going to be rambling like under my breath,
[268.1s] like it's a stone door and like rambling a little bit about what I saw
[273.9s] and then like turning around as if I'm still kind of in the scene,
[277.6s] like trying to relive it, like my eyes are closed while I'm walking.
[281.9s] And then I turn around and I turn back
[284.5s] and I kind of like trace out the doorway that I've seen.
[287.8s] I'm very much in my own head, just like.
[291.0s] Completely detached.
[292.3s] What are Bonwyn and Cav doing behind Bazaar?
[294.9s] I guess maybe just watching him walk away.
[297.2s] I mean, because I I asked if he was good.
[299.4s] He said yes. He's definitely acting weird. Yeah.
[304.0s] And we need to get back to the other side of the bridge.
[307.6s] So I guess I'm going to follow him and like walk with him,
[311.2s] especially because he seems a bit out of it.
[312.8s] But we are obviously on like the noble side because we were at City Hall.
[316.7s] So we need to get back where we're going.
[319.7s] So, yeah, yeah.
[322.5s] Bazaar, I'm going to I'm going to come with you
[324.4s] because I'm going to go back to the hop lock and get ready for dinner.
[328.7s] Yeah, I'll head I'll head back to the Divorced Dad Motel.
[332.4s] Perfect. Yeah.
[333.2s] And then I'll meet you guys at Cade.
[335.9s] Ask Steve if Shelly is letting him see the kids enough
[339.3s] because I'm worried. Oh, I can answer that for you.
[341.3s] She is not. OK. Yeah.
[343.4s] Is that for the best, do you think?
[346.6s] I don't know.
[347.4s] I mean, maybe that'll change when he, you know, puts in a little effort.
[350.5s] Bad decisions. Yeah. Yeah. OK.
[353.0s] Shelly doorway, Steve, kids.
[356.4s] Oh, no, we're jumbling them up.
[359.0s] Dinner, caves.
[362.0s] Cave, cave restaurant, not.
[366.3s] Why don't should I come with you?
[368.2s] Are you going to get changed? Oh, no.
[373.1s] I'll come with you. We should both go.
[375.0s] Let's both go. Yeah.
[376.6s] You come with me.
[377.6s] Let's all go to my place and get ready together. Love it.
[380.5s] Oh, it'll be so fun. I love that.
[383.8s] OK, come on. Yeah.
[385.2s] Everybody I follow them walks.
[387.2s] Yeah, I'm going to maybe like link an arm with them.
[389.1s] Yeah, I'm worried about him.
[390.2s] He is he is the smartest of us and he is unclear.
[393.0s] There's something happening. Yeah.
[394.8s] Yeah. He is rattled.
[396.8s] As you're all walking.
[398.7s] Bazaar, give me an insight role.
[403.6s] OK.
[406.5s] All right, that's going to be an 18.
[409.9s] You're replaying this vision that you had over and over again in your head.
[415.9s] The the spool itself hasn't extended any further.
[420.4s] The same foot to feet in that vicinity of thread is like locked on this location,
[427.5s] which doesn't move very much because you're at a distance of perhaps where it's pointing.
[432.7s] But like it's still holding its position if you if you if you bring it out in front of acting,
[439.1s] acting as a true north in some way.
[441.0s] Correct.
[443.0s] As you're replaying this vision over and over and you're kind of talking it through,
[447.5s] mumbled out loud, Bonwyn and Cav concerned, looking at you, you start to.
[456.1s] Make some inferences about some of the things that you've that you've been seeing.
[462.8s] A takeaway that you draw is that based on what you're seeing,
[467.4s] the Weeping Archive can be reached.
[471.8s] But also based on what you're seeing, knowing that there were three lines in the map,
[478.2s] knowing that only one of them was up.
[481.6s] Some of the strange things that Cav said and the form that was filled out,
[486.8s] you feel that the Weeping Archive can be reached, but perhaps only briefly.
[492.8s] And without the spool, the entrance may not stay put.
[501.6s] You don't have the sense that the spool is a key,
[506.0s] but appears to be creating some stability for the actual entrance.
[514.6s] It's in and out and the spool, it's stitching, it's stitching itself to the, where are we?
[526.9s] We're just about the hotplot.
[528.6s] We're going to get ready for dinner together, have a drink, you know.
[533.2s] It's stitching itself to the world, I think.
[537.8s] Yeah.
[540.2s] Let's go get ready.
[542.4s] OK.
[543.7s] I have ideas, I don't, I'll explain.
[547.0s] OK.
[549.7s] You all walk into Everbane's.
[552.1s] It's Thane's day off.
[553.5s] He's not there.
[555.8s] You go in and Bonwyn, as you go in, you kind of open some of the curtains,
[563.6s] let some light in.
[565.0s] Just give me a perception roll with advantage.
[571.8s] Just Bonwyn?
[572.5s] Just Bonwyn.
[573.1s] Nine.
[574.6s] You sense something different about the space, which draws you,
[583.1s] like you start to see if there's tools out of place or anything missing.
[589.7s] It draws you over to the forge.
[592.1s] Make an investigation roll once you're over there.
[596.3s] Guys, there's something weird in here.
[598.3s] So maybe just like don't touch anything for a minute.
[603.8s] OK.
[604.7s] Yeah.
[605.2s] 21.
[606.9s] You cautiously walk over to the forge.
[611.9s] And the sensation you got as you walked in is very apparent
[617.1s] now that you're in this location.
[619.2s] You look down and there are old tool marks on the forge
[625.0s] that don't match your hand.
[627.2s] Don't match your work.
[629.7s] You see hammer blows that look corrected in a way.
[635.4s] A section of stone that has been reworked repeatedly,
[640.0s] which looks to you and your eye, your stone cutting, generations apart.
[646.8s] And you lay your hand on it and you feel heat coming from it,
[652.0s] but not fire specifically.
[654.8s] There's this pressure building up inside the forge.
[659.1s] OK, there's something wrong with the forge.
[661.5s] Again, but different.
[664.2s] This is...
[667.1s] Come look.
[668.1s] OK, these marks, these are not me.
[671.4s] Well, who would have made them then?
[673.4s] I don't know, but look at the difference here.
[675.5s] Well, it's hard to explain, but I can tell that this is really old
[679.6s] and this is newer and something is not right.
[683.7s] The more you examine them, you see a maker's mark
[688.8s] that you don't recognize.
[691.2s] Someone's used my forge?
[696.8s] We were only gone for a night, right?
[699.6s] Well, I mean, we never did specifically get told
[703.4s] that it was the next day.
[705.6s] Yeah, it was just night and then morning.
[708.3s] But see this, this is not me.
[710.2s] This is...
[711.7s] I don't know who this is.
[712.6s] Bazaar and Kav also roll Investigation.
[716.1s] Mm-hmm.
[718.9s] That's a dirty 20.
[720.0s] Whoa, not 20.
[721.5s] Oh, damn.
[723.6s] The two of you look, and Bonwyn, perhaps you are distressed
[728.4s] or severely distracted by this thing
[732.4s] that you found inside of your forge.
[736.8s] The two of you, Kav, for perhaps the first time in several days,
[743.3s] like something clicked with you immediately.
[746.5s] Like this mark that Bonwyn just pointed out
[750.4s] was the same mark that you recognized
[753.9s] that was present on some of the stone books
[757.6s] and on the false entrance.
[760.2s] Bazaar, do you also start to recognize it
[762.6s] from similar locations?
[764.9s] And also, as you pull out the map,
[767.2s] like there's the diagram that was created.
[771.7s] It appears down in the corner of this,
[774.8s] just kind of like half there
[777.1s] because it wasn't part of the immediate map.
[784.1s] This is the thing we saw in the archive, right?
[789.2s] And in a few other places?
[791.5s] Mm-hmm.
[795.2s] Really?
[797.6s] Yeah.
[799.6s] What does that mean?
[803.3s] Oh, was this a portal?
[806.0s] I mean, they did it, there was a deity.
[809.1s] So, okay.
[814.2s] The thread wrapped around my finger and I saw a door.
[819.6s] Okay.
[820.8s] And a shadow standing behind me.
[825.4s] Okay.
[826.2s] And the Weeping Archive is,
[832.5s] we're able to reach it.
[836.2s] And somehow this is keeping those doors
[844.9s] or those entryways stitched to our world,
[850.4s] is my guess.
[855.6s] Huh.
[857.1s] Because this was floating towards Lingersville.
[863.4s] In fact, it's still pointing
[865.8s] in that general direction, I believe.
[868.2s] I mean, we should probably go to Lingersville
[870.9s] and check it out, right?
[873.7s] Yeah, yeah, I mean, we'll get more info
[875.6s] from Oak at dinner and kind of figure out
[880.0s] what we need to bring with us.
[882.2s] So the door had symbols on it.
[887.6s] Your forge has a symbol from the door on it.
[891.7s] The door was a fake door.
[894.5s] There are potential other doors.
[900.4s] Maybe it's a passphrase.
[904.3s] Hmm.
[905.3s] Did the map, we've been in one door.
[908.5s] Yeah.
[909.4s] The map has given us a symbol.
[912.0s] Maybe there's more than one test.
[915.2s] Well, there probably is.
[916.4s] Okay, so we'll, like, let's obviously make note of this
[921.8s] and maybe we need it.
[924.4s] I don't like the idea of my forge being connected
[929.6s] to anything other than the huge things
[931.6s] it's already connected to.
[932.9s] Right, it's already got a lot going on.
[934.6s] Indeed.
[935.8s] Yeah.
[936.6s] What if that's why it's connected?
[938.4s] Oh.
[940.0s] Oh.
[941.4s] Because there's, like, a thinness there.
[944.6s] Yeah, it's worn away by a connection between two realms.
[948.2s] Right.
[950.1s] Well, somehow that makes me kind of feel better,
[953.8s] I guess, because it makes sense.
[955.4s] Like, that because,
[960.6s] yeah, I've communicated with, like,
[963.6s] the other side there would be.
[967.4s] Yeah.
[968.2s] Which-
[969.1s] There would at least be, like,
[970.9s] residue or, like, a pathway had been established, so.
[974.8s] Yeah.
[975.6s] Yeah, there's, like, a thinness between the realms.
[979.1s] Which also lines up with the, I guess,
[982.8s] maybe almost like a ley line
[984.4s] that's going up into the mountains
[986.2s] connecting to that portal up there
[987.7s] that does have some similarities
[990.4s] to both the Fae and the Fi.
[993.9s] Right.
[994.8s] So.
[996.0s] And it's.
[997.3s] Maybe, oh.
[999.4s] Do we need to go through that portal?
[1002.1s] Oh.
[1003.0s] We might have to go through the portal.
[1004.8s] That's the closest one,
[1006.2s] and it's one we haven't been through,
[1007.6s] but it's not lit up, so maybe we have closed it down.
[1011.6s] Yeah.
[1012.5s] My bad.
[1013.4s] Okay, well, we've got a fun dinner to attend.
[1018.8s] Yeah.
[1019.9s] So, Bazaar, you can probably borrow
[1022.4s] something of Thane's that he's left here
[1024.0s] if you want to change into something fancier,
[1026.7s] or you look great as you are.
[1028.6s] Up to you.
[1029.6s] We should all maybe get,
[1032.0s] just brush some of the rubble off of us.
[1035.2s] We are still a little bit dusty for cave.
[1037.8s] Indeed.
[1038.7s] Yeah, good call.
[1042.2s] Welcome to the middle, everybody.
[1043.5s] Oh, the middle.
[1044.5s] Thanks for being here.
[1045.9s] Thank God we're here.
[1047.0s] Just finding myself here now.
[1048.7s] You know, sometimes you just stumble into it,
[1050.9s] and it's full of great people,
[1053.3s] just like you, dear listener.
[1057.0s] Oh, absolutely.
[1059.1s] Yes.
[1059.9s] Think of how many people are listening
[1061.2s] at the same time right now.
[1062.8s] Well, we're only talking to one.
[1065.7s] It's true.
[1066.8s] Ever.
[1067.7s] We're only ever talking to one.
[1069.1s] Just one?
[1070.4s] That's how the magic of radio works.
[1072.6s] Damn.
[1074.0s] So if you talk to all of them,
[1075.1s] you alienate every single one of them.
[1077.1s] Is that what's going on in my classroom?
[1079.6s] Yes.
[1080.4s] A little different for a teacher.
[1082.2s] Oh, God.
[1083.1s] I mean, you got the eyes on you,
[1084.4s] but in this audio medium, we're in the ears of one,
[1087.4s] maybe two tops.
[1088.3s] Fair enough.
[1089.1s] I love you one listener, two tops.
[1090.4s] Oh, yeah, it could be a couple
[1091.6s] sharing AirPods or something.
[1093.0s] Oh, I love that.
[1093.8s] Oh, I love that.
[1094.7s] Yeah, yeah, yeah.
[1096.5s] That's very sweet. Kyle fixed it.
[1098.0s] Yeah, yeah.
[1098.8s] So we love you is still applicable.
[1104.4s] Mm-hmm.
[1105.2s] Mm-hmm.
[1106.3s] Absolutely it is.
[1109.5s] We got shirts.
[1110.9s] Oh, wow.
[1112.0s] Talk about them.
[1113.2s] Sometimes Russ says something,
[1115.0s] and you couldn't have guessed.
[1116.1s] No, I would have never.
[1117.2s] Yes, that's what he was gonna say.
[1118.0s] Never imagined.
[1118.9s] And there it is.
[1119.7s] Yep.
[1120.6s] We do have shirts.
[1121.4s] Yes.
[1122.2s] Individually, which we are wearing now,
[1124.1s] and as a podcast,
[1125.5s] which I think is probably what he meant.
[1127.5s] I'm wearing a podcast shirt right now.
[1130.4s] Wow.
[1131.2s] Well, yeah.
[1132.7s] What?
[1134.5s] That's awesome.
[1135.4s] Where do we find said shirts, though?
[1138.3s] I mean, I know where we find them.
[1140.5s] Oh, in our drawers, if we're just being.
[1143.4s] That's right, you got it.
[1144.4s] You were on the right track there.
[1146.1s] But is it like, is it the dashery.com slash dumbdragons?
[1149.2s] Dumbdragons.com, or dumbdragons.dashery.com.
[1152.9s] Oh, there we go.
[1153.7s] So close, yeah.
[1154.6s] I had all the right words just in the wrong order.
[1156.2s] Yeah, it's the slash, it's trying to brand it,
[1158.8s] and all that sort of stuff.
[1159.7s] You know what, I bet there's a place
[1161.4s] that's easier to find like all of our stuff.
[1163.4s] They're just one stop, go there,
[1166.1s] and it'll take you everywhere related to us.
[1169.2s] Yeah.
[1170.1s] You know, all the stuff.
[1170.9s] There is.
[1171.8s] It's our website, actually.
[1173.7s] It is our website.
[1175.0s] Which doesn't, it's a work in progress.
[1177.9s] Well, it has all you need.
[1181.6s] Well, no, because I'm saying that we have a special person
[1184.4s] that we need to say thank you to.
[1187.1s] It's a work in progress, but it has all you need.
[1192.8s] I'm focusing towards the Patreon right now.
[1195.2s] Yeah, I know.
[1196.0s] Straight out of Russ's wedding vows.
[1198.1s] Oh god.
[1199.0s] Oh my god, sorry.
[1204.4s] Sorry, Kyle, what were you saying?
[1205.5s] Yeah, Kyle.
[1206.3s] Kyle's trying to get us on track.
[1207.6s] I was just saying you could probably find
[1209.3s] a lot of our cool stuff over at Patreon
[1211.6s] where you can see extra content,
[1213.3s] definitely links to where our merch is,
[1216.6s] other shows and games that we play,
[1220.4s] and also you can join up on the Discord.
[1223.4s] But one of the cool things.
[1224.3s] And the newsletter.
[1225.3s] And the newsletter, that's absolutely right.
[1226.8s] Jess puts together a ball and newsletter.
[1228.8s] Really is, shout out to Jess on that.
[1231.0s] That thing always looks great.
[1232.4s] So one of the big, big upsides of joining the Patreon
[1237.5s] is having an episode dedicated to you.
[1240.3s] And this episode's dedicatee.
[1243.3s] No, we're the dedicators.
[1244.5s] They're the dedicatee.
[1245.7s] But I don't know their name, Russ.
[1246.7s] Who is it?
[1247.6s] It's Travis Richardson.
[1250.1s] Thanks, Travis.
[1251.0s] Thanks, Travis.
[1252.8s] Thank you so much.
[1253.6s] Thanks, Travis.
[1254.6s] Do you go by Trav or Travis?
[1257.6s] Or this.
[1258.7s] Maybe just drop the S, go by Travi.
[1261.4s] Travi's fun.
[1262.6s] Or T-Dawg.
[1263.6s] T-Money.
[1264.8s] T-Money.
[1265.6s] Yeah, T-Money.
[1266.4s] What's the last name again?
[1268.1s] Richardson, Richardson.
[1269.6s] Oh, money makes sense.
[1271.3s] There we go.
[1273.1s] T-Rich.
[1274.2s] T-Rich, that's good.
[1277.1s] Yeah, there you go.
[1277.9s] Well, that's what we call you now.
[1279.1s] You could just go with Team Rich.
[1280.6s] Of course, T-Rich.
[1284.5s] Thank you very much, T-Rich.
[1287.4s] I hope all your friends start calling you that too,
[1289.4s] because they clearly listen.
[1291.5s] But they haven't joined Patreon yet,
[1292.4s] so get them on that at patreon.com slash dumb dragon cast.
[1295.0s] We hope to see you over there,
[1295.9s] and now we'll get you back to the episode.
[1298.6s] Because who knows what we've said
[1299.8s] for the last three and a half minutes,
[1301.3s] but we love you, and we hope you have a great week.
[1304.8s] We'll talk to you soon.
[1305.6s] Love you, bye.
[1306.5s] Love you, bye.
[1307.3s] Can you believe we do these in one?
[1311.4s] And they're so good.
[1312.8s] Just professional.
[1313.7s] They're so good.
[1314.8s] T-Rich.
[1318.1s] You all get ready, and it takes you a little while,
[1321.0s] but you make your way to cave at seven o'clock,
[1324.8s] right on the nose.
[1326.7s] And you see,
[1329.6s] you see Oak waiting in line.
[1332.9s] It's an extensive line.
[1334.8s] He waves at you.
[1336.3s] Do I, do we, do we have to stand in the line?
[1339.0s] Did you?
[1339.9s] No, we, we, we're, we're-
[1342.0s] Excuse me, sorry.
[1342.8s] We're booked.
[1343.6s] I'm gonna, my friends are here.
[1345.2s] It's fine.
[1346.3s] Get out of the way.
[1348.0s] Hi.
[1349.0s] It's great to see you, Kav,
[1350.5s] and YouTube is art, and Bondwood,
[1352.6s] I saw, we saw you earlier.
[1354.0s] So we saw you earlier.
[1355.8s] We understand. Great to see you.
[1357.0s] How was the wedding?
[1359.7s] Oh, it was a lot.
[1360.8s] Yeah.
[1362.0s] It was good, though.
[1362.8s] It was good.
[1363.6s] Everyone seemed happy.
[1364.5s] Okay, well, for the sixth wedding,
[1365.3s] you bring me along,
[1366.2s] and I'll help wrangle all the things that happened.
[1369.4s] I just- Love it.
[1370.8s] I wanna take that- It's a date.
[1371.6s] Take that off your plate.
[1372.6s] Okay, well-
[1374.0s] I just wanna go for the drama, honestly.
[1376.2s] I know, it does sound like
[1378.5s] there's a little bit of messy bitch in me,
[1380.7s] and it made me wanna kinda be there
[1382.5s] when Kav told us about it.
[1384.2s] Fair.
[1385.0s] I'd love to see that.
[1387.6s] Great, so you guys have a reservation?
[1390.2s] We have a reservation, so come on, yeah.
[1392.6s] You walk up, and the
[1394.9s] Mater D, who you recognize as Cliff Hanger,
[1398.7s] he is, he's standing,
[1401.2s] do you have, he looks down over his glasses,
[1405.2s] you have a reservation, yes?
[1408.2s] Cliff, you know me, you know we have a reservation.
[1411.2s] Of course, here, let me just pencil you in
[1413.8s] underneath this one here,
[1415.2s] we'll move some people around,
[1416.6s] we'll make sure that you get in,
[1418.2s] it's fine, Bonwyn, come on in,
[1420.4s] for just one, two, three,
[1421.8s] for the four of you, yes?
[1423.5s] Yes. No?
[1424.4s] Mm-hmm.
[1425.2s] Okay, yep, great.
[1426.0s] He grabs some menus, takes you back,
[1428.7s] and has a seat, and there are three specials
[1431.7s] this evening, if you would like to hear those,
[1433.3s] I know many people just come for the stalactite meals,
[1436.9s] but we have the dripstone delicacy,
[1439.8s] which is a slow braised cave goat
[1442.1s] in mineral wine reduction,
[1444.2s] served over glow root mash.
[1448.0s] We have the spelunkers surprise,
[1450.6s] stuffed deep cap mushrooms
[1452.4s] with spiced lizard sausage and cave cheese,
[1456.3s] as well as the under dark skewer trio,
[1459.0s] fire roasted blind lizard, crystal beetle,
[1462.1s] and cave eel with molten pepper glaze.
[1467.6s] Thank you, Cliff.
[1468.4s] I'll leave you to think about those,
[1470.4s] we'll bring you some drinks around,
[1472.2s] enjoy the evening, heads on.
[1475.3s] Wow, those all sound great,
[1477.3s] I've never been in here,
[1478.2s] this place is schwanky, ooh.
[1481.0s] It's fancy, isn't it?
[1481.9s] This feels nice.
[1482.7s] I haven't been here yet either,
[1483.8s] it's really nice.
[1485.3s] I feel underdressed.
[1486.9s] No, you look great, dinner's on us, Oak,
[1490.0s] so don't pick what you like.
[1492.6s] Yeah, I put on my bestest polo this evening,
[1495.2s] I even got the sweater vest for the top
[1497.8s] just to make it look quite dapper.
[1501.4s] Yeah, thank you, thank you.
[1504.2s] Looks like he just kind of clues back in.
[1506.0s] Oh, the files!
[1507.5s] And he pulls the files out and puts a stack down.
[1512.4s] Did you learn some interesting things?
[1514.6s] Yes.
[1516.0s] Yes, so the two I put on it, they found a few.
[1519.5s] Had a feeling there might be more,
[1520.9s] so I went down digging, found six more,
[1523.5s] so I'm by two, a few, I'm in two.
[1526.5s] But I did find several.
[1527.3s] That's why you're the best.
[1528.7s] Interesting things, there's a lot of redactions
[1532.6s] about Lingersville, which feels,
[1536.8s] feels odd, but there's some stuff
[1539.0s] about the founding in there,
[1540.4s] there's some water anomaly incident
[1543.2s] that looked like it created some sort of like,
[1545.8s] I don't know, psychoses among the people.
[1548.5s] Oh.
[1549.4s] Yeah, like, I mean, have a read through here,
[1553.2s] but there's definitely.
[1555.0s] I don't like casualty report is.
[1557.8s] Yeah.
[1559.6s] Well, maybe it's zero.
[1561.9s] Could be, it's redacted, so you're right, you're right.
[1566.6s] They don't want no people to know
[1567.8s] about good things that happen, I guess.
[1570.2s] Definitely connections to Vinter Smith and.
[1574.6s] Yeah, I see that, like Herbert Linger
[1576.7s] and Terry St. Vinter were,
[1579.2s] they started Lingersville together, it looks like,
[1581.3s] and then.
[1582.1s] Bam, resonant.
[1584.3s] That is. What do you mean?
[1585.4s] Wasn't that on the form?
[1586.8s] That was on the form, Cav, right?
[1589.1s] Did they consider it resonant or?
[1592.1s] Oh.
[1594.6s] Was that something I, am I misremembering?
[1597.5s] They were considering something inert.
[1600.1s] I mean, it's kind of an antonym.
[1605.7s] It's resonant, as in it's still resonating with something,
[1609.3s] and that's the town that we need to go to,
[1611.0s] that's the one that's lit up.
[1614.4s] Yes, yeah.
[1615.9s] I didn't know Vinter's mouth was spelled three,
[1619.4s] I thought it was all one word.
[1623.2s] Early, as they were kind of trying to find themselves,
[1626.9s] there was record that they had it split up.
[1631.1s] Vin being wine of the region,
[1634.9s] there used to be good grapevines that grew here,
[1638.9s] and then it was a play on words,
[1642.0s] wine your mouth, basically, is what that meant.
[1646.4s] Oh!
[1647.2s] Yeah.
[1648.4s] Oh, okay.
[1650.0s] I actually really like that.
[1651.3s] Once they stopped making wine,
[1652.6s] so quite as regularly, it didn't quite make a sense,
[1655.6s] so they just slapped the name together.
[1658.0s] Okay, fair enough.
[1659.9s] Okay, so everyone moved to a new settlement.
[1665.0s] Flingersville's abandoned.
[1669.8s] Memory weakens with distance, I mean, that's true.
[1673.7s] I mean, that's just memory of actual.
[1676.5s] Ghost town.
[1679.6s] Reach up the fence, okay.
[1683.4s] Uh, Oak, is there a reference of, like,
[1688.3s] time that has passed since these events?
[1696.0s] Oh, like when it shut down?
[1700.2s] Yeah.
[1701.6s] Let me see here.
[1703.2s] He starts flipping through some pages.
[1706.7s] Long story short, is somebody old enough
[1708.6s] to have experienced this that we could find?
[1711.0s] Oh, probably not.
[1713.1s] I think some of the oldest folks in town are,
[1718.2s] well, that would have been here for the longest,
[1720.2s] or like your family, or at least some of the oldest.
[1724.8s] Yeah.
[1726.4s] And I mean, that was like, no one, you know,
[1729.9s] my dad, my grandpa, great grandpa,
[1731.6s] like no one's ever.
[1734.2s] What about some of the children
[1737.0s] that came back from the fey?
[1739.2s] We don't know how long they might have been in there.
[1741.3s] Some of them could have been in there.
[1742.8s] Oh, wow, that would have been a very long time.
[1745.2s] Oh, you think there's.
[1746.4s] It's a possibility.
[1747.2s] A connection to Lingersville with those kids?
[1751.2s] I mean, they're kind of.
[1752.0s] Stranger things have happened in the last week,
[1753.9s] I guess.
[1754.8s] Suppression orders.
[1757.2s] Uh-huh.
[1758.0s] Prevent critical mass awareness, Kingstown oversight.
[1763.3s] Uh-huh.
[1764.7s] And also.
[1765.5s] Why would Kingstown, oh.
[1769.9s] Well, that last page is creepy.
[1771.5s] And that note that says lie classified as stabilizing.
[1775.2s] Oh, my goodness.
[1778.4s] Okay, I mean, I guess we have to go.
[1784.1s] You have to go?
[1785.8s] Well, what's going on out there?
[1788.4s] I don't know.
[1789.2s] Yeah, not like we don't have to leave right now,
[1791.5s] but we have to.
[1792.3s] Oh, yeah, I didn't mean we have to go.
[1793.2s] I didn't even get my drinks yet.
[1794.8s] Oh, oh, no, no, no, don't be silly.
[1797.6s] We're here to enjoy them.
[1799.7s] No, no, no, no.
[1800.6s] We never do you dirty like that.
[1801.4s] Oh, no, of course.
[1802.2s] No, thank you for doing all this research.
[1804.4s] This is incredible.
[1805.5s] I didn't know any of this stuff.
[1807.8s] Honestly, I didn't either.
[1809.6s] A lot of this is, I mean, shutting it down,
[1812.8s] obviously, was a well-known fact,
[1814.5s] but a lot of the reasons here,
[1815.8s] like, there's a lot that could be
[1820.8s] under these redacted pieces, too.
[1823.0s] You mentioned the fatalities.
[1824.9s] Why would they block that out?
[1826.9s] And that's, I mean, neurological distress.
[1831.0s] Have we tried just highlighting it
[1832.6s] and then changing the writing to white
[1835.2s] and see if we can?
[1836.0s] Oh, yeah, I don't know if you can do that
[1839.1s] with these parchment documents.
[1841.6s] Some people don't know how to redact documents properly,
[1844.5s] so you can just show just like the red.
[1847.1s] Right, yeah, no, that seems like a poor process
[1850.4s] that somebody might have.
[1851.4s] Yeah, it seems like a bad way of doing things.
[1853.3s] It's like you didn't pay for a proper program
[1856.2s] to do it. Yeah.
[1857.8s] Yeah. Yeah.
[1859.9s] The emotional fixation on the lake,
[1862.0s] I mean, that would explain the drive
[1864.0s] to want to divert the water,
[1869.4s] so maybe we need to be looking around the lake
[1873.8s] as the source of whatever it was
[1876.0s] that was influencing people. Definitely.
[1879.1s] The water, I mean, they founded it
[1881.9s] because of the water, right?
[1883.7s] I mean, it's why it's here.
[1886.8s] Yeah, it was like the number one reason.
[1889.0s] Yeah, it's typical set up of civilization.
[1899.1s] Public explanation, bacterial contamination.
[1902.7s] Regulated license.
[1903.8s] Who licensed the suppression order?
[1911.4s] Oak? Sorry, you asked?
[1912.8s] What kind of upward mobility do you have to find out
[1917.3s] who may have licensed or filed this?
[1922.9s] Oh, I mean, there's no real record on the files.
[1927.0s] I could, now that I have the files,
[1932.6s] I could go look and see if there's an archival
[1935.3s] or a ledger record to see who submitted the records
[1938.6s] or who even redacted the records.
[1940.7s] That should be something that we find.
[1943.3s] Well, unless it's redacted itself,
[1944.9s] because that is entirely possible.
[1947.2s] Yeah, that wouldn't...
[1948.7s] Yeah, but I can certainly take that
[1950.9s] and see if I can find something about it.
[1953.0s] Maybe.
[1955.3s] Fawn one cav, what are y'all's thoughts?
[1958.2s] I'm thinking maybe the skewer trio.
[1962.3s] Fair, I was thinking the dripstone.
[1966.5s] Does sound good, does sound good.
[1968.6s] My mind's still on food.
[1969.8s] Don't try to fuck with me.
[1971.4s] I knew it would be, I knew it would be.
[1973.5s] I don't know if I can let you keep the records,
[1976.4s] but take whatever copies you need.
[1980.0s] I've got notebooks here,
[1981.7s] like we can keep as many of the records.
[1984.0s] Of course, yeah, you wouldn't be able
[1985.4s] to let us keep the real actual records
[1987.9s] that you need to go back.
[1988.7s] It would also help me try and track down
[1990.5s] if we used to have a record
[1992.2s] of who submitted and redacted.
[1994.0s] Just have somebody make a rub off of one.
[1996.7s] I beg your excuse me?
[1998.5s] Huh?
[2000.3s] Nothing, what are you thinking about eating?
[2005.5s] Dumbgeons and Dragons, season four, episode 54.
[2009.5s] Starring Amy More as Alydin,
[2011.6s] Carla Maxted as Bonwyn Everbane,
[2013.8s] Tom Laird as Kavlaran Goldweave,
[2016.0s] Kyle Klasset as Bizard the Wizard,
[2018.6s] and Russ More as your dungeon master.
[2021.2s] Dialogue editing and sound design
[2022.8s] of today's episode is by Russ More.
[2025.0s] Our community manager is Jessica Babiak.
[2027.4s] Music is from Epidemic Sound,
[2029.4s] and sound effects are from Epidemic Sound,
[2031.5s] Boom Library, and Sound Ideas.
[2033.6s] Our amazing cover art is by Matt Garbutt.
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[2078.0s] How do we always crush it?
[2078.8s] And this is like where you're fading out,
[2080.0s] even though we've said bye,
[2081.2s] and you just hear us talking this shit.
[2082.9s] Sometimes there is just like a line after the bye,
[2085.6s] that I'm like, I'll leave that in.
[2086.9s] Just gonna leave it.
[2088.1s] Yeah.
[2089.0s] Can you believe we did that in one?
[2090.5s] Can you believe that? Every time.
[2094.0s] If we don't retake these, not once.
[2097.3s] Damn it, we're professionals.
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