[0.0s] Thanks so much for being here, friend.
[1.5s] Dumbgeons and Dragons will begin in a moment.
[4.4s] Alydin, you were expelled from the chamber that we were in, the library.
[12.0s] I thought you were just going to say school.
[13.9s] I got like what I do.
[16.8s] This is the real question.
[18.4s] This is the mystery.
[19.3s] What did Alydin do?
[21.3s] It's a real, it's a memento style game.
[24.6s] Alydin is also covered in tattoos.
[26.7s] Okay.
[27.7s] You're expelled from the chamber and then June came by and like grabs you by the arm
[33.0s] and said you haven't been in school enough.
[34.5s] You need to, you need to get over here.
[37.4s] Got to get my learning on.
[38.6s] You yelled back not to do anything cool while you were gone.
[41.7s] So everybody just sat on the curb.
[43.8s] Like they just waited for three whole episodes.
[47.2s] Excellent.
[48.0s] This is good audio.
[48.7s] As they should.
[50.3s] But we find you at school and this is, this is about a day later.
[55.3s] So you're reconnecting.
[56.8s] Bizard has joined you.
[59.5s] This isn't informal class right now.
[62.9s] I mean, it could very well be formal class, but Bizard has joined you.
[66.9s] You're expecting Cav in a little while and you are asking some questions about
[74.9s] one of the books that you pulled off of his shelves.
[77.4s] The book is Artificers.
[80.7s] Are they just in it for the clocks?
[83.2s] Are they just in it for the clocks?
[85.3s] They have to read the book.
[86.2s] Yeah, we'll find out.
[87.2s] I'm sure.
[89.1s] Dumbgeons and Dragons is a D&D actual play podcast and I'm your dungeon
[93.4s] master Russ More, he, him.
[95.4s] Also with me today is Amy More as Alydin, she, her.
[98.9s] You haven't read the book.
[100.5s] Tom Laird is Kavlaran Goldweave, he, him.
[103.4s] The school of hard knockers.
[105.6s] And Kyle Claset is Bizard the Wizard, he, him.
[108.6s] The potent magic of the fae is so strong to make one forget that they need to use the restroom.
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[129.4s] Let's play.
[132.4s] Alydin, how far did you did you get in into our reading?
[137.4s] How far was I supposed to go again?
[139.1s] I mean, it's kind of like at your own pace.
[141.3s] This is, you're supposed to be motivated by wanting to learn because it's your own
[146.1s] craft and it's a really no no setting your own terms is is ideal because I want to
[153.0s] encourage you and not push you.
[155.7s] Well, I read nine chapters.
[157.8s] Nine chapters.
[158.7s] Okay.
[160.0s] Excellent.
[160.6s] Excellent.
[161.7s] So if I could read those, would you be willing to give me a presentation over
[169.7s] chapters one through three next week?
[172.1s] Sure.
[172.8s] But I mean, it was just kind of like, okay.
[177.9s] I tell you what made her a 14 year old about this book.
[180.6s] That's actually boring school stuff.
[184.6s] That's boring school stuff.
[186.5s] I I want you to put what you've learned into practice.
[194.8s] I want you to go through figure out answer for yourself.
[199.4s] Are you just in it for the clocks?
[201.4s] Because what does that you need to tell me what that means?
[205.7s] Well, it gives a whole new meaning to time as a construct for sure.
[211.3s] But I am not just in it for the clocks.
[215.8s] I don't know why I'm in it because I can be and I think that is pretty cool
[223.7s] and I want to know what I can do.
[225.8s] Okay.
[227.2s] You've told me just enough to make me realize what the point of the book is.
[232.2s] And I'm sure if I skimmed a little bit, it sounds like the point of the book
[236.8s] is not you haven't read the book.
[238.6s] No, I'm not an artificer.
[240.5s] It was recommended to me to give to you.
[242.4s] But if I were to make a guesstimation based on that and what you've just
[246.1s] told me are they in it just for the clocks?
[248.8s] Technically.
[249.4s] Yes, because it sounds like you want to know what makes things tick.
[253.0s] Oh, yeah.
[254.7s] Yeah, I see what they did there.
[256.7s] Clever writing, clever writing indeed.
[259.7s] So if you could because everything's got to intermingle with gears
[267.1s] and moving parts based off of what you've been telling me and I want
[273.3s] you to try to think of something that you want to make using this
[279.3s] knowledge and I want it to be practical beneficial for your everyday life.
[288.0s] This needs to serve you in making your life easier.
[292.2s] Can I just add to my little duck guy and I bring out my little
[300.6s] absolutely there's nothing wrong with improving upon something
[303.9s] you've already started developing.
[305.2s] It's actually giving you a leg up and being able to give you
[308.5s] a chance to go in and review work you've done with this new keen eye.
[312.6s] You may actually see some missteps that you took originally and
[316.9s] so you may not only be able to modify and add to it,
[321.0s] but overall improve it.
[322.5s] So I that's actually a great first place to start.
[326.7s] So any ideas like I'm curious, you know, just with like the
[335.0s] springboard what you want to do with your duck kind of walks
[339.4s] in circles at the moment.
[340.8s] So he's not super mobile, but if I could get him to be more
[347.4s] mobile, I could maybe send him like on errands and stuff retrieval.
[356.2s] Okay, so retrieval that's that's useful especially because they
[360.9s] can probably looking at the size difference your duck can probably
[363.7s] get places that you might not be able to so that could be helpful.
[367.8s] You're pondering this here bizarre.
[371.0s] You're the only two in this classroom right now and as you
[375.9s] two are discussing a a bell in the room begins to ring which
[382.1s] causes you both to turn and this is like a larger size bell
[385.7s] with a rope on it with the intent to like ring it to start
[388.9s] the class but like it's ringing by itself.
[391.8s] That's unusual for you.
[393.3s] Alydin you look at it and the school's been doing some weird
[397.2s] things since it's opened up and this is just one of the many
[400.7s] things that's been happening.
[403.3s] Oh my God that thing again.
[405.9s] Did they change something with the like is it actually time
[409.9s] for class like how that's new.
[414.3s] We can't go by the bell system anymore because they
[417.5s] go off so randomly.
[421.5s] Hmm.
[422.8s] I'm thinking ghosts.
[425.5s] Yeah, that's a possibility.
[428.5s] I guess I don't know what's not a possibility now after
[431.7s] everything we've kind of gone through but hear footsteps
[436.2s] now at distant footsteps coming down the hallway.
[439.5s] They sound familiar.
[441.0s] You could even place them to Kavlaran then we cut out
[443.8s] in the hall and we see Kavlaran looking into classrooms
[447.8s] trying to find Bizard and Alydin you get further down
[451.3s] the hallway of the school and like compared to the one
[455.2s] of the last times you were in Kavlaran like everything
[458.7s] is looking very good in the school.
[460.6s] There's fresh coats of paint over a lot of the school.
[463.5s] There's fresh banners everywhere.
[465.5s] There's a mix of like new desks and some very old
[468.7s] furniture as you're peeking your head in and out of
[472.0s] in and out of the classrooms and then you catch Bizard's
[475.3s] voice as he's explaining whatever lesson he and Alydin
[479.6s] are a couple doors ahead.
[481.9s] I'll make my way in there.
[483.2s] You go to open the door and you turn the knob and then
[487.2s] are like hit by the door as it appears to be locked
[491.0s] even though the handle spun for you and a figurine of
[495.9s] like this lion's head which is in the form of a
[499.3s] knocker begins to speak to you and it says please
[503.5s] state your name and your purpose Kavlaran Goldweave.
[508.9s] I want to see my friends it pauses and you see it
[512.8s] like raise an eyebrow at a school.
[516.4s] Yes.
[516.9s] Yes.
[517.3s] One of them is younger and one of them is there
[521.3s] like mentor teacher wizard type the figurine disappears
[527.2s] for a moment and then reappears on the inside of
[529.9s] the class and you both hear announced one Kavlaran
[534.3s] Goldweave with questionable purpose for arrival.
[538.2s] Shall I let him in?
[539.6s] Yes.
[540.7s] Yeah.
[541.5s] Yeah.
[541.9s] Yes.
[542.5s] Is this normal?
[543.9s] Figuring disappears again and goes back into the
[546.2s] hallway and he says you shall pass and the handle
[551.2s] releases itself and the door slowly swings open new
[555.2s] security measures so no more kids get snatched.
[558.4s] I mean would you say you're
[559.9s] purpose was just I was coming to see you guys.
[562.8s] Okay, so not a very good security system if that's
[565.2s] what it is.
[566.2s] I that's you just say my buddies in there.
[569.9s] Well, I mean like I could hear you guys but I
[572.3s] didn't give any names though.
[574.1s] So I'm actually kind of surprised it let me
[575.9s] in to be fair that it did say that, you know,
[581.0s] it wasn't necessarily saying it's saying it's
[583.3s] saying questionable purpose, but I guess we
[586.1s] could be like go ask questions, but we knew
[588.8s] the name.
[589.3s] So I want to go over and I want to investigate
[592.5s] this knocker.
[594.2s] Russ side question.
[595.5s] Did I hear how it introduced me to them?
[598.2s] Yes, it would have been muffled.
[600.2s] But yes, you would have you would have heard
[602.4s] it conversing with bizarre and I mean look
[605.2s] it's not the first time cabs been introduced
[607.0s] that way.
[607.4s] So it's fine.
[610.7s] You want to go investigate the knocker?
[612.0s] Yeah.
[612.7s] Okay, you go up to it and roll investigation,
[614.7s] please.
[615.1s] Is there anything what I guess what hold on
[616.8s] before you roll a hard knockers?
[619.5s] Thank you.
[620.5s] What do you what are you doing?
[622.4s] What are you looking for?
[623.3s] I'm just going to go see if I can talk to
[625.2s] it because it seemed to have a full-on
[626.7s] conversation with calf.
[629.5s] So sure.
[630.7s] What do you say to it?
[631.7s] Sup, bro.
[632.7s] It remains motionless in front of you.
[635.8s] Sure.
[636.2s] Can I turn around?
[638.1s] Maybe it only talks to adults only talks
[643.4s] to middle-aged white men.
[644.4s] I don't know.
[645.8s] All right.
[646.9s] Later.
[649.1s] Okay.
[649.3s] So the bell rings itself.
[651.8s] There's a security thing.
[653.3s] That's new tally runs through the door.
[656.1s] Alydin.
[656.5s] Are you done learning yet?
[657.4s] We're playing in the playground and we
[658.6s] want to see you do the thing to get that
[660.5s] maybe doesn't end up in the top of the
[661.9s] flagpole again this time.
[665.3s] Gotta know.
[668.1s] I look over a bizarre.
[669.1s] What are you learning?
[669.7s] What are you talking about?
[670.3s] What are you doing tally?
[671.6s] We have some things to figure out.
[673.4s] I appreciate you wanting to preserve
[676.0s] Alydin's childhood.
[678.1s] I'll make sure that Alydin makes up time
[681.2s] later to hang out with y'all.
[683.0s] Okay.
[683.3s] I overheard you talking about the weird
[684.4s] things.
[684.6s] Did you tell him about the hall pass that
[686.1s] like rewrites itself?
[687.8s] Okay, come and sit down and you start
[689.4s] talking.
[690.4s] Oh, okay.
[692.4s] She comes in sits down and she sits in
[694.3s] one of the one of the desks which are
[696.0s] very school desks with the chair attached
[698.7s] to them.
[699.0s] She sits in and it creaks like unusually
[701.9s] loud and she slaps it that stops it.
[706.2s] So yeah, there was this hall pass and
[708.9s] I had to a teacher wrote on it that
[711.2s] I was going to the washroom and then
[713.4s] I got down the hallway and I looked
[715.9s] at it and it said I was going to
[717.7s] the library.
[718.3s] So I went to the library and I got
[719.4s] some books instead.
[720.8s] You didn't pee in there, did you?
[722.5s] No, I didn't pee in the library.
[724.9s] Do you pee in the library?
[726.3s] No, but you were supposed to go to
[727.4s] the bathroom.
[728.0s] Did you just hold it from that point on?
[729.6s] Yeah, I still am.
[732.8s] Tally, it's recess.
[733.8s] How long ago was that?
[735.0s] A while.
[735.6s] Listen to your body girl.
[736.5s] Okay, that's not great little dude.
[738.2s] Yeah, no, fair.
[740.6s] Thanks for saying so.
[741.8s] I should probably go to the washroom.
[743.4s] But yeah, strange things are happening
[745.3s] and she stands up and now that
[748.4s] she's paying attention to it,
[749.6s] she's got like her legs crossed
[751.0s] and she's walking out the door
[752.3s] and then the chair begins to
[754.1s] groan again and she slaps it
[757.9s] every time.
[759.3s] Yeah, sorry, yes.
[760.1s] Tally, quick question.
[761.4s] Did you get distracted or did
[763.0s] you straight up forget that you
[764.5s] needed to use the bathroom?
[769.0s] That's a great question.
[771.8s] Yes.
[773.4s] Yes.
[774.0s] I think I did forget about using
[775.9s] the bathroom.
[776.9s] Thank you.
[777.4s] Go take care of yourself, please.
[779.4s] Oh, yes.
[779.9s] Okay, I'll be back.
[781.4s] Zips out the door.
[782.4s] I forgot to use the bathroom.
[784.6s] They're an odd one.
[785.6s] I kind of like them.
[786.4s] It's not the first time.
[788.5s] Right, but like I piecing
[793.4s] the things together you can you
[795.2s] can see the individual parts,
[796.6s] right?
[797.3s] Oh, yeah.
[797.9s] Okay.
[798.3s] The school's got fae all over it.
[800.8s] Absolutely.
[801.4s] I mean, that's a memory changing
[806.1s] effect right there.
[807.3s] Are we sure she didn't just get
[808.5s] distracted?
[809.5s] I really don't think it was a
[812.3s] distraction because the I feel
[816.5s] like your body would still remember
[817.9s] it and maybe the potent magic of
[822.4s] the fae is so strong to make one
[825.1s] forget that they need to use the
[826.9s] restroom.
[829.3s] Why would they do that?
[831.4s] They it's it's chaos.
[834.4s] Like think about the chaos.
[836.4s] Like imagine if all of a
[837.6s] sudden Tally realized it and
[840.2s] then was way way nowhere near
[842.7s] a bathroom.
[845.5s] So people just be pee in
[846.9s] their pants all up in this
[848.6s] joint and pooping everywhere.
[850.7s] I have to say it like that
[851.7s] because we're in a school.
[852.9s] I mean, I hear you're not cool
[854.3s] if you don't pee your pants.
[856.0s] That's true.
[857.3s] I've heard that as well.
[861.1s] Okay, I have not heard that
[863.8s] but I will keep that in mind.
[867.0s] What what what do we do?
[869.3s] What do we what should we is
[871.0s] there anything to do about it?
[873.4s] Anyone new at the school?
[874.6s] Well, there's there's Mr.
[876.5s] McBiddle is new and candle is
[880.7s] new and Mrs.
[883.3s] Felt-Dashian is new.
[886.2s] Okay.
[888.7s] June's still around, correct?
[891.5s] Oh, yes.
[892.9s] Nothing would happen without June.
[895.4s] Then I think we need to talk to
[897.4s] June about where these people
[900.8s] came from.
[901.7s] Yeah, like what are their
[902.8s] credentials?
[903.7s] What are their credentials?
[905.5s] That's a very good question.
[909.5s] Let's go find her.
[910.6s] Why would they want to teach
[911.9s] in this school?
[913.7s] What is their motivation behind
[916.7s] getting employed here?
[919.0s] What and that's just as
[920.2s] just trailing off.
[925.1s] Oh chat.
[925.8s] Wait, don't call it that.
[927.3s] Oh God.
[931.6s] We're back with oh chat.
[932.9s] We're talking Oreos.
[934.4s] Yeah, baby.
[937.4s] Yeah, because what's in the middle?
[939.7s] The white stuff and us because
[941.5s] that's where we are right now.
[943.5s] Well done, Kyle.
[944.5s] Just what I think Kyle's going
[945.7s] to just going to like veer off
[947.6s] and bring it back.
[948.4s] No, we're just going to go harder
[950.4s] into it.
[951.7s] You got to go with the weird
[952.9s] owl references.
[954.0s] It always gets you 100%
[956.7s] every time.
[957.7s] Well, thanks for being here.
[959.0s] No chat.
[960.3s] We're glad to have you.
[962.3s] I hate it.
[963.5s] I know Kyle brought it back to
[965.2s] the middle Russ.
[965.8s] You didn't need to bring it back
[967.1s] back to oh chat.
[968.5s] He's just doing what I didn't.
[970.2s] Yeah.
[972.2s] Now, if you could bring it back
[973.2s] to oh town, that would be
[975.0s] appreciated.
[976.1s] All right.
[976.6s] I'll drop in exactly a
[978.5s] one and a half second clip.
[980.0s] Listen for it.
[981.5s] That's oh town.
[982.8s] Haven't heard them.
[983.6s] There they are.
[984.7s] Get them.
[986.5s] What are we talking about?
[988.9s] Hey, when you join us on
[990.8s] Patreon, you get
[993.5s] not an Oreo,
[994.9s] but you do get some
[996.5s] merch after three months,
[997.8s] which is a very fun thing
[999.8s] that we thought you would
[1001.1s] like fun.
[1001.9s] It is fun.
[1003.0s] Every once in a while
[1004.0s] because we get a little
[1004.8s] notification saying like,
[1006.8s] hey, one of your patrons
[1008.1s] is going to get some
[1008.8s] merch and I get excited
[1011.0s] about it and I have nothing
[1012.5s] to do with me.
[1013.5s] Yeah, we don't get to be
[1014.5s] there when you open the
[1015.4s] mail, which is always the
[1016.4s] most exciting part of
[1017.5s] everybody's week when they
[1018.7s] get mail to open.
[1020.1s] That's what I found with
[1021.1s] Amy being away.
[1022.2s] Is there a significantly
[1023.9s] less Amazon boxes that
[1025.3s] come to me?
[1028.5s] Busted.
[1029.3s] Nobody's knocked on my
[1030.5s] door for a week.
[1032.0s] It's been great.
[1032.6s] The dogs are bored then.
[1033.4s] Undisturbed work.
[1035.8s] No distractions.
[1037.2s] Well, Russ,
[1037.8s] I got to ask because
[1038.8s] I'm very curious.
[1040.9s] Do the people get to
[1041.9s] choose what swag they
[1043.7s] get or?
[1044.8s] That's a great question.
[1046.0s] So when you join us
[1047.0s] at the $5 tier,
[1049.2s] you get a sticker
[1051.8s] It's a nice big glow.
[1053.0s] I think it's way too big
[1054.5s] for most things.
[1058.0s] It's good for a
[1058.6s] refrigerator, right?
[1060.6s] What I'm looking at
[1061.6s] is because you can choose
[1062.5s] the size and I'm always
[1063.9s] like baker's spanner
[1065.7s] always.
[1066.9s] So you go for the
[1067.5s] largest sticker.
[1068.5s] So it takes up like
[1069.9s] the back of an iPad,
[1071.2s] I would assume.
[1072.3s] I guess it's one of
[1073.2s] those big ones.
[1074.8s] And then our supporting
[1076.0s] producers tier,
[1077.1s] you get a lovely mug
[1079.0s] that has like the
[1080.9s] the field scene
[1082.4s] that we have where
[1083.5s] calves like bent over
[1085.1s] like climbing up a mountain.
[1088.3s] There's a
[1090.2s] the slime off in the
[1091.5s] corner that Amy says
[1092.5s] looks like a dick.
[1093.8s] So there's that too.
[1095.5s] You also get an episode
[1096.8s] dedicated to you.
[1097.7s] Did you know that?
[1098.8s] I did know that.
[1100.0s] Brand new.
[1100.7s] Oh, you knew.
[1101.4s] Okay, I knew.
[1102.2s] I thought it was new
[1103.0s] news.
[1104.0s] This is the first
[1104.8s] episode you've ever
[1105.6s] listened to.
[1106.1s] It could be new news.
[1107.3s] And hey, welcome.
[1108.6s] And if you're starting
[1109.4s] right now.
[1109.9s] Dip right in at a
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[1112.5s] I love that for you.
[1113.5s] Carla picked up exactly
[1114.8s] what I was thinking.
[1115.6s] But today's patron is
[1117.9s] Lonnie Vogler.
[1120.0s] Thanks, Lonnie Vogler.
[1121.3s] Thank you so much.
[1122.5s] Are you a cartoon?
[1123.9s] Not a cartoon character.
[1125.1s] Like a
[1126.3s] comics character
[1128.2s] from 1977.
[1130.7s] Because that's a
[1131.3s] cool name.
[1132.7s] Absolutely.
[1133.8s] Lonnie Vogler,
[1134.7s] private eye.
[1136.6s] Lonnie Vogler from
[1137.5s] the Daily Bugle here.
[1138.7s] Yeah, right.
[1140.6s] Catch the news.
[1142.3s] It's me, Lonnie Vogler.
[1143.6s] With my hands.
[1144.8s] That's how you catch news,
[1145.7s] right?
[1146.1s] Yes, yes, yes.
[1147.3s] Give it to me.
[1149.5s] Yes.
[1150.8s] Thanks, Lonnie.
[1151.6s] Well, thanks, Lonnie.
[1152.4s] Thanks, Lonnie.
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[1163.5s] Cut to the front office
[1165.0s] where you would expect
[1165.9s] to find,
[1167.3s] at the very least, June
[1168.6s] or any of the other teachers.
[1170.0s] And you walk in
[1170.9s] in the front reception area
[1173.1s] who there would be another
[1175.0s] person there.
[1176.6s] Ezzie Mae.
[1177.9s] She sees you as you
[1179.0s] walk in.
[1179.6s] Oh, Alydin.
[1180.3s] It's a pleasure to see you.
[1182.4s] Well, we brought some
[1183.2s] friends.
[1184.0s] Nice to see you.
[1185.6s] Bizarre.
[1186.3s] And I'm sorry.
[1187.4s] I don't know
[1188.4s] your name.
[1189.0s] Oh, hi.
[1189.6s] I'm I'm Cav
[1191.2s] or Cav Lauren,
[1192.1s] whatever you prefer.
[1194.1s] Nice to meet you, Cav.
[1195.2s] We're here for some info
[1196.3s] about credenzas.
[1197.5s] Maybe you know something.
[1199.4s] Credentials.
[1200.2s] Oh, sorry.
[1201.2s] Credentials.
[1202.3s] Yeah, I was going to say
[1204.0s] I know of a great credenza place,
[1206.2s] but perhaps we can talk
[1207.2s] about that later.
[1208.4s] Credentials.
[1209.0s] Who's credentials
[1209.9s] and what inquiry
[1211.7s] do you have about them?
[1213.1s] Well, we've got
[1215.0s] Faldashian.
[1217.3s] This is Faldashian.
[1218.4s] Yes.
[1218.8s] She's a candle.
[1221.6s] Candle.
[1222.1s] Yes, candle's
[1224.5s] a very keen historian.
[1227.1s] Okay.
[1227.5s] All right.
[1227.9s] And then I just
[1229.8s] I made a note.
[1230.6s] It's just old bitty.
[1231.9s] Is that right?
[1233.8s] Oh, Mr.
[1235.2s] McBiddle is probably
[1236.9s] who you're referring to there.
[1239.0s] Perfect.
[1239.4s] Yes.
[1241.3s] Yes.
[1241.6s] There are three new instructors.
[1243.7s] They came highly recommended.
[1246.7s] Recommended by who?
[1247.8s] Well, Mr.
[1248.4s] McBiddle.
[1250.9s] The new acting mayor,
[1252.1s] Nina Madonna,
[1253.8s] came recommended from her.
[1255.8s] We go way back.
[1258.0s] Oh, good.
[1258.8s] Well, I really enjoy her.
[1260.3s] She comes in every now
[1261.6s] and again to check up on the students
[1263.1s] and see how things are going.
[1264.4s] If the funding is adequate.
[1266.4s] So Mr.
[1266.9s] McBiddle and Mrs.
[1268.5s] Faldashian came from Kingstown.
[1270.7s] They were educators there
[1272.2s] whom
[1273.5s] Ms.
[1273.8s] Madonna knew very well.
[1276.7s] Candle came from
[1278.9s] not Kingstown.
[1280.0s] Candle came from
[1281.4s] another small town
[1282.8s] not too far from here,
[1284.4s] Roysville.
[1286.6s] She was also
[1287.8s] looking for a move.
[1288.9s] She was an instructor
[1289.9s] there in a small school
[1291.4s] looking to move up
[1292.7s] to a bit of a larger
[1294.6s] state.
[1294.9s] Came in an interview.
[1296.0s] Did very well.
[1297.1s] Knows a lot about the
[1298.4s] different areas.
[1299.3s] Unfortunately,
[1300.2s] though,
[1300.7s] she's not feeling
[1302.0s] well today,
[1302.7s] as you probably noticed
[1304.0s] in your history class
[1305.1s] earlier,
[1305.5s] Alydin.
[1306.7s] I noticed.
[1307.8s] Yes.
[1308.1s] So Mr.
[1308.6s] McBiddle had to fill in.
[1311.7s] He struggles with certain
[1313.0s] subjects sometimes,
[1314.2s] but
[1316.1s] that said,
[1316.7s] he's a great administrator,
[1318.3s] steps in on math
[1319.5s] like nobody's business,
[1320.9s] and can read an
[1321.9s] okay,
[1324.3s] an okay substitute
[1325.8s] plan.
[1327.1s] He kind of just wings it,
[1328.5s] though.
[1328.9s] Like,
[1329.2s] why do they even do that
[1330.4s] work some of the time
[1331.6s] when he's filling in?
[1332.6s] So in history,
[1333.3s] he has a
[1333.7s] little bit of trouble.
[1338.0s] That's good.
[1338.8s] That's good.
[1339.4s] A little bit of trouble.
[1340.5s] I'm going to write that one down.
[1342.5s] And she does.
[1344.0s] Title of episode.
[1345.6s] A little bit of trouble.
[1347.2s] Oh, you,
[1349.0s] Kavlar,
[1349.5s] you know,
[1351.5s] I'm sorry you didn't
[1352.7s] necessarily say where you work,
[1354.2s] but knowing
[1355.7s] Madonna,
[1356.2s] do you happen to work
[1358.3s] over there,
[1359.2s] or at least
[1360.7s] go there frequently?
[1361.8s] Look,
[1362.0s] it's like a little bit of a gray
[1363.3s] area at the moment.
[1364.6s] I'm not exactly sure.
[1365.9s] I think so,
[1366.9s] but like last the other day,
[1368.6s] I was just like guarding
[1369.8s] stuff.
[1370.2s] So I don't know.
[1371.3s] Yes.
[1372.4s] You haven't been fired.
[1374.0s] Not to my knowledge.
[1376.0s] Oh,
[1376.2s] okay.
[1376.8s] Well,
[1377.0s] we have some paperwork
[1378.2s] that I need to get to City Hall.
[1380.4s] I just need to get it to City Hall.
[1382.1s] I don't need anything done with it.
[1383.6s] Okay,
[1383.8s] we can probably handle that.
[1385.8s] Yes,
[1386.5s] it's down in the basement.
[1389.0s] There's a basement?
[1390.5s] Oh,
[1390.8s] yes,
[1391.1s] there is a basement.
[1392.7s] I mean,
[1392.9s] everything's pretty calm up here.
[1394.6s] I could just give a hauler out
[1395.9s] to June and make sure
[1397.7s] she knows that I'm stepping away,
[1399.2s] but we could go take a peek
[1400.6s] downstairs,
[1401.2s] grab that,
[1402.2s] and then if you wouldn't mind,
[1404.5s] being that you're so connected over there,
[1406.4s] if you could take that back to City Hall for me.
[1408.6s] I can certainly drop it off for you.
[1411.1s] Thank you.
[1411.5s] Thank you.
[1411.9s] Thank you.
[1412.2s] I'm just going to zip out front here.
[1413.5s] I let June know that we're headed down
[1414.9s] to the basement just in case anybody else shows up.
[1417.6s] One moment and she
[1419.1s] heads out the front door for disappears
[1420.7s] for a second.
[1423.1s] Funny that we're actually getting to the bottom
[1425.0s] of things here some somehow.
[1427.5s] I kind of thought like
[1429.6s] she said we a lot.
[1432.3s] So I kind of thought she like wanted us
[1434.1s] to go with her,
[1434.7s] but then not.
[1436.8s] Okay, I don't know.
[1439.0s] Well, I think we're going to go with her.
[1440.4s] I think she's just telling June.
[1442.3s] Oh, okay.
[1443.2s] Gotcha.
[1443.8s] Gotcha.
[1444.6s] I can't wait to see the basement.
[1446.8s] I wonder what's down there.
[1448.3s] Wonder if there are old school records.
[1449.9s] I would assume all sorts of fuckery.
[1452.2s] You can't say that in school.
[1454.0s] She comes back in.
[1455.0s] Sorry,
[1455.4s] that's a dollar in the swear jar,
[1457.8s] but we can head out
[1459.6s] head out right away.
[1460.9s] Russ, can I roll an insight check?
[1463.8s] Sure.
[1467.4s] You don't want to pay that fucking dollar.
[1468.9s] Is there?
[1469.3s] Well, no, I'm fine with paying the dollar.
[1473.2s] Look, we just discussed.
[1474.2s] I'm maybe on a dollar.
[1475.3s] If you can't pay the fine,
[1476.6s] don't do the crime.
[1478.4s] But no,
[1479.2s] I just want to know that like
[1481.5s] there's no like underlying like,
[1483.9s] ooh,
[1484.2s] got to get them to the basement
[1485.8s] for something.
[1486.9s] Oh, sure.
[1487.5s] Yeah.
[1487.7s] Roll an insight.
[1488.8s] All right.
[1490.3s] I mean,
[1490.6s] it was a four on the die.
[1491.9s] So I'm just going to go ahead
[1493.0s] and not even look at what the bonus was.
[1494.8s] So,
[1495.7s] okay.
[1496.4s] We'll say that
[1497.5s] being that you
[1498.7s] you as the player have suspicions
[1501.7s] have
[1503.8s] had those suspicions,
[1505.1s] but nothing that she's given off
[1507.4s] since perhaps obscure paperwork
[1510.7s] has come into play
[1512.0s] has has really triggered anything.
[1514.1s] She seems to know the names of all the people
[1516.1s] she needs seems to
[1517.4s] you know,
[1517.9s] be able to connect a few dots
[1519.4s] that make enough sense for you that
[1521.9s] everything she's saying seems up and up.
[1523.9s] We'll lead the way.
[1525.2s] I can't wait to see.
[1526.4s] As we're walking,
[1527.6s] I'm going to
[1529.4s] ask Ezzy.
[1529.9s] Ezzy,
[1530.9s] where's Royceville?
[1532.6s] I'm
[1533.8s] not familiar with
[1535.9s] where that is.
[1537.2s] Royceville is just beyond
[1539.0s] the Mee Mountains.
[1540.3s] If you go
[1541.6s] more down into the south there,
[1543.6s] you have to go through some of the forested area.
[1546.0s] There is a bit of a
[1548.0s] the cowbird swamp.
[1550.5s] You have to go through that.
[1552.6s] It's a bit of a trek,
[1554.3s] but then you make it to this
[1555.5s] lovely fielded area
[1558.0s] where there's lots of
[1559.9s] rare bird species.
[1562.1s] It's a lovely region.
[1563.6s] A lot of people travel there
[1565.0s] just for that reason alone,
[1567.5s] but there is a small town there
[1569.6s] with a few families
[1571.3s] and a very small school.
[1573.0s] You're probably not going to find it
[1574.9s] on one of like the
[1576.4s] the older maps in the school.
[1579.2s] It's really just a stopping point
[1581.2s] and
[1582.6s] well, I mean since a lot of people
[1584.1s] have been into birding,
[1586.7s] it's
[1588.1s] it's really starting to flourish,
[1589.8s] but not quite as fast as
[1592.0s] as perhaps Candle would have liked
[1594.1s] to gain more experience.
[1596.0s] I think their goal is to make it to Kingstown
[1598.2s] one day.
[1598.9s] Good to know.
[1599.6s] Good to know.
[1601.3s] Thank you.
[1601.8s] She leads you down the hall
[1603.4s] and out the back
[1604.8s] of the school
[1606.3s] where there is
[1608.2s] a small staircase that goes down
[1610.7s] and then there is a
[1612.4s] like a double wide cellar door
[1614.4s] thinking of like Twister movies
[1616.1s] where they pull them open
[1618.2s] and she goes in.
[1619.2s] I mean every horror movie that has
[1621.6s] an exit to the basement ever.
[1623.4s] Yeah.
[1623.8s] Yeah.
[1624.7s] I don't know what you're talking about.
[1625.6s] I said Twister movies.
[1626.8s] I said tornado natural disaster movies.
[1629.2s] Yeah, those were horror movies.
[1631.1s] Yeah, I mean that's a horror in their own right.
[1633.4s] For those of us scared of nature.
[1634.3s] Yeah, fair.
[1635.5s] She goes and she pulls one up.
[1636.9s] One of you fine gentlemen
[1638.0s] wouldn't mind helping me here
[1639.4s] just with the other door.
[1640.3s] Oh, sure.
[1640.7s] Yeah, absolutely.
[1641.5s] Little creaky.
[1642.4s] Yeah, that's all you can.
[1643.9s] I got this.
[1645.0s] I feel overlooked.
[1646.5s] She she pulls one up.
[1649.0s] Slams down.
[1649.9s] You pull up the other side
[1651.9s] and
[1652.9s] she she looks down
[1654.4s] and there's a little
[1656.5s] shelf with several candles
[1658.2s] on it.
[1659.2s] She grabs a few and lights them.
[1661.7s] Says there's some there's some windows
[1663.7s] down there.
[1665.2s] But you know, this just helps us
[1667.4s] see, you know, all the fine
[1669.3s] paperwork that we're looking for.
[1671.3s] She lights them for you
[1672.8s] and says follow me.
[1673.9s] She heads down.
[1675.2s] There's a
[1676.3s] few steps down into this
[1678.0s] into what ends up being
[1680.9s] a pretty decently built
[1682.4s] more cellar area.
[1684.1s] There's a lot of filing cabinets
[1685.7s] all down the side
[1686.7s] and she starts
[1688.9s] pulling.
[1690.3s] You know, I stacked it up here on the top.
[1692.3s] Just one second here.
[1693.9s] She start
[1694.8s] filtering through some of the pages.
[1697.4s] Don't mind me talk amongst yourselves.
[1699.7s] I'll just be just a moment here.
[1702.4s] Looking, she's filtering.
[1704.0s] This isn't it.
[1705.3s] Putting it down.
[1705.9s] Maybe June brought it back up and she
[1708.3s] off to the side there.
[1709.5s] Alydin, what do you think of the basement?
[1712.1s] I mean,
[1713.7s] it's okay.
[1716.1s] It's kind of
[1717.7s] I don't know.
[1718.1s] I expected it to be maybe a little spookier.
[1721.0s] Sure.
[1721.4s] Yep.
[1722.5s] Well on the mundane side.
[1725.0s] You hear her filtering through some pages
[1727.6s] and then she's like,
[1728.8s] oh, I think I think this is it.
[1731.4s] I'm just going to hold the candle here just a little close
[1734.1s] and she's walking back over.
[1735.5s] Not as you can see her.
[1737.1s] She's not really paying attention to where she's walking
[1739.6s] and she trips.
[1740.8s] The pages fly up into the air.
[1744.0s] I'm going to cast control flame to put the candle out.
[1748.4s] Good thinking.
[1750.4s] Her candle,
[1751.6s] I assume it's just her candle you're targeting in that moment.
[1754.6s] Her candle snuffs out.
[1755.9s] She trips and stumbles.
[1757.0s] The pages scatter across the floor.
[1759.0s] Oh, no, I'm so sorry.
[1760.3s] And she goes to
[1762.3s] pick them all up.
[1764.9s] Filtering them.
[1766.8s] This is this is exactly what just get a moment.
[1769.4s] I got a we can organize them perhaps up in the office.
[1772.5s] Everybody roll a perception check while we're down here.
[1777.7s] Nat 20.
[1779.4s] That made up for that one.
[1781.8s] 12.
[1782.1s] It did.
[1783.7s] If only that was an attack roll.
[1785.7s] That is going to be a 21.
[1788.5s] Kyle, you can just let me have it.
[1790.0s] No, I got a natural 19.
[1792.1s] I didn't get a natural 20.
[1793.1s] I mean your natural 20 still I think is better than that.
[1795.9s] Yeah, it's totally better than mine.
[1797.4s] What's your perception?
[1799.1s] Perception zero.
[1801.3s] Okay.
[1801.5s] Well, I still think it's better.
[1803.7s] Nat 20 is always better.
[1805.3s] I perceive.
[1806.5s] Yeah.
[1807.2s] Some things.
[1808.5s] Tell me what I perceive.
[1810.9s] As he's picking up the pages bizarre and cab, perhaps
[1813.3s] you're helping a little bit.
[1814.2s] Alydin you are just filtering through looking at some of
[1819.1s] the some of the files that are in there pulling a few
[1823.7s] open seeing some names and tossing them back closed.
[1827.4s] You get down to one of the far cabinets and you feel
[1830.5s] a draft coming through bizarre.
[1832.9s] You are clocking Alydin as she's walking back as
[1836.0s] you've seemed a little hesitant to be down here,
[1839.2s] but you see her like stand like dead still as this
[1843.2s] draft hits you and I say hit it doesn't like no.
[1847.1s] No, I yeah, no, no, but like it's it's a draft where
[1849.8s] there probably shouldn't be a draft.
[1852.2s] Well, I get excited because I've been underground
[1855.7s] before.
[1856.2s] I don't know if you guys know this.
[1858.0s] It's a bit of a thing around a couple times.
[1860.1s] Yes, and I know that where there's a draft there's
[1864.1s] oftentimes a new entry or exit point from the
[1870.7s] chamber where you're at right now.
[1872.0s] So I want to like follow that draft.
[1874.7s] I'm holding out my candle.
[1877.4s] I'm seeing the flame flicker flame flickering
[1880.1s] back and forth and it goes between two cabinets
[1883.2s] that are too tight even for you to fit between
[1886.4s] not too tight for you and I bring out Cogsworth
[1891.9s] Quackington and I want to get him to waddle on
[1898.3s] him be between these two cabinets and kind of
[1902.8s] like light it up back there to see what's sure
[1905.7s] what's back there.
[1907.2s] Okay.
[1908.1s] Yeah, you place them down on the ground and
[1911.8s] little feet are moving back and illuminates
[1914.8s] on the other side.
[1915.6s] It's tight enough that the little curve to his
[1919.9s] walk that he's got right now isn't like he
[1924.4s] walks in a circle, but it's a large circle.
[1926.7s] It's a slight limp, right?
[1928.0s] You walk in with a limp.
[1929.5s] You're going to circle around.
[1930.9s] It's kind of like that.
[1931.7s] But since there's the two cabinets, it just it
[1934.9s] keeps him on the straight narrow there.
[1937.1s] So so you just walk forward pink pink pink.
[1941.7s] Yeah, a little bit go go.
[1943.8s] You can see he gets beyond the cabinets
[1946.5s] and like the light beyond illuminates like
[1950.0s] a larger space than you'd expect and the
[1953.3s] draft stops.
[1955.4s] Wait, stop stop.
[1958.1s] Come back and it starts backing up.
[1962.9s] And then it it no longer has the the guard
[1966.1s] rails of the cabinet.
[1967.8s] So it like backs up into one of the cabinets
[1971.4s] just enough that it like throws it off
[1972.9s] kilter and tips over.
[1977.6s] Bazaar, do you see how it in like now down
[1980.3s] like looking at my arm?
[1983.1s] Yeah, man, you really need something to fetch
[1986.1s] that for you now, don't you?
[1988.2s] I got you.
[1988.8s] I'm gonna cast mage hand and I'll get the
[1990.4s] duck.
[1991.2s] No, I can do it.
[1992.6s] Oh, okay.
[1993.4s] I cast mage hand and it's about to go
[1994.9s] through.
[1996.1s] I wave at it.
[1998.0s] It slaps back a little bit and does like
[1999.9s] thumb or gestures and then dissipates.
[2002.7s] I give it the middle finger.
[2004.0s] That's fair.
[2005.2s] It can be a dick sometimes as you didn't
[2007.0s] see though, did she?
[2008.8s] Dumbgeons and Dragons season 4 episode 55
[2014.1s] starring Amy More as Alydin, Carla
[2016.5s] Maxted as Bonwyn Everbane, Tom Laird
[2019.1s] as Kavlaran Goldweave, Kyle Claset as
[2021.7s] Bazaar the Wizard and Russ More as
[2024.3s] your dungeon master.
[2025.8s] Dialogue editing and sound design of
[2027.5s] today's episode is by Russ More.
[2029.6s] Our community manager is Jessica Babiak.
[2032.0s] Music is from Epidemic Sound and
[2034.1s] sound effects are from Epidemic Sound
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[2040.1s] Garba.
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