1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:02,160 Dumbgeons and Dragons will begin in a moment. 2 00:00:03,080 --> 00:00:09,359 Alydin, you're swatting away Bizard's mage hand as he's trying to help you or 3 00:00:09,359 --> 00:00:15,359 encourage you. Uncertain. But you're Cogsworth McQuack. 4 00:00:15,400 --> 00:00:16,320 No, Mick. Just Quackleton. 5 00:00:17,039 --> 00:00:19,320 Everything has a Mick. Everything is Mick now. 6 00:00:19,719 --> 00:00:26,160 Cogsworth Quackleton has tipped over behind these filing cabinets in this space that you 7 00:00:26,160 --> 00:00:28,960 can't see really beyond and into. 8 00:00:29,800 --> 00:00:30,800 What do you do? 9 00:00:31,320 --> 00:00:33,039 I'm waving away. 10 00:00:33,280 --> 00:00:36,600 I know I I was I would have gotten there. 11 00:00:36,840 --> 00:00:37,840 You'll go. 12 00:00:38,000 --> 00:00:44,719 And I reach my hand forward in hopes of casting mage hand. 13 00:00:45,519 --> 00:00:47,560 Where are we at in terms of the out will? 14 00:00:48,000 --> 00:00:52,240 Yeah, I think odds I do it evens I don't like how far am I in this 15 00:00:52,480 --> 00:00:55,719 training? Did you actually read the first three chapters of that book? 16 00:00:57,000 --> 00:00:58,000 It was all in there. 17 00:00:58,240 --> 00:01:00,320 Fucking call me out like that. 18 00:01:00,600 --> 00:01:01,920 I wasn't going to roll handsight. 19 00:01:02,040 --> 00:01:04,200 Bizarre trusts you to be honest with him. 20 00:01:05,280 --> 00:01:11,680 Well, she'll bullshit her way through a presentation on those first three chapters. 21 00:01:13,159 --> 00:01:17,879 Dumbgeons and Dragons is a D&D actual play podcast and I'm your dungeon master 22 00:01:17,879 --> 00:01:19,320 Russ More, he him. 23 00:01:19,480 --> 00:01:22,800 Also with me today is Amy More as Alydin, she her. 24 00:01:22,840 --> 00:01:24,280 It's OK CQ, we got this. 25 00:01:24,320 --> 00:01:27,159 Tom Laird is Kavlaran Goldweave, he him. 26 00:01:27,560 --> 00:01:31,359 Nerds and Kyle Claset is Bizard the Wizard, he him. 27 00:01:31,439 --> 00:01:37,240 Imagine what your mind would look like trying to grab it without hands. 28 00:01:37,599 --> 00:01:41,840 Dumbgeons and Dragons is a Patreon supported show, so every twist, every 29 00:01:41,840 --> 00:01:47,000 triumph, every truly questionable decision is possible because of listeners 30 00:01:47,000 --> 00:01:51,159 like you. Join us today at patreon.com slash dumb dragon cast. 31 00:01:51,159 --> 00:01:53,240 And now fuck it. Let's play. 32 00:01:55,280 --> 00:02:03,480 Sure, if you have hesitation that Alydin could, like will be able to do that. 33 00:02:03,480 --> 00:02:09,759 I think that, yeah, I think she's focused more on the tinkering side and 34 00:02:09,759 --> 00:02:16,639 hasn't been really like, I think she's maybe a little like hesitant because 35 00:02:16,639 --> 00:02:23,439 she's not as good at the like, like, quote unquote, magic-y stuff. 36 00:02:23,639 --> 00:02:29,800 It's not coming as easily to her as it seems like. 37 00:02:30,039 --> 00:02:36,919 OK, the artificer side things is then with that more hesitation and perhaps 38 00:02:36,919 --> 00:02:41,079 you haven't been practicing nearly enough, like not even odds, evens. 39 00:02:41,079 --> 00:02:43,840 I think divisible by three and you get it. 40 00:02:44,120 --> 00:02:46,439 OK, it's a roll a d20. 41 00:02:47,800 --> 00:02:50,199 And if it's divisible by three, I get it. 42 00:02:50,240 --> 00:02:51,039 Yeah. All right. 43 00:02:51,799 --> 00:02:54,280 13. I mean, it's got a three in it. 44 00:02:54,280 --> 00:02:56,319 It's got a three in it. Does that count? 45 00:02:56,319 --> 00:02:58,639 Surprisingly, not divisible by three. 46 00:02:58,639 --> 00:03:00,319 No, unfortunately not. 47 00:03:00,319 --> 00:03:02,120 I'm seeing Alydin trying. 48 00:03:02,120 --> 00:03:08,680 I'm going to walk up and kind of say, OK, don't imagine physically 49 00:03:08,680 --> 00:03:10,479 something that can physically grab it. 50 00:03:10,479 --> 00:03:16,519 Imagine what your mind would look like trying to grab it without hands. 51 00:03:16,560 --> 00:03:22,680 Without hands like focus on your mind, grabbing it without hands 52 00:03:22,680 --> 00:03:27,280 and let that vision leave your body. 53 00:03:30,120 --> 00:03:32,360 Just just trust me, just close your eyes. 54 00:03:32,360 --> 00:03:36,040 OK, think about what your mind hand looks like. 55 00:03:36,040 --> 00:03:37,439 It can look like anything. 56 00:03:37,439 --> 00:03:38,480 Yeah, just think. Come on. 57 00:03:38,480 --> 00:03:41,160 Mind hand, mind hand. 58 00:03:41,160 --> 00:03:45,120 Yeah, you got to get in the zone with a mind hand, mind hand. 59 00:03:45,520 --> 00:03:48,080 And then, boom, it like explodes out of you. 60 00:03:48,439 --> 00:03:50,159 Try again. Try again. 61 00:03:55,360 --> 00:03:58,120 Your mage hand starts to flicker in front of you. 62 00:03:58,960 --> 00:04:01,400 I don't notice. My eyes are closed. 63 00:04:01,680 --> 00:04:06,599 Cav and Eze and Bazaard all see it as he's like, oh, I think you're doing it. 64 00:04:06,640 --> 00:04:08,080 God, are you guys all watching? 65 00:04:08,080 --> 00:04:11,080 Oh, I'll look away. I'll look away. 66 00:04:11,080 --> 00:04:14,040 Sorry, I forgot a couple of pages over here. 67 00:04:14,079 --> 00:04:15,799 It's OK. It's OK. 68 00:04:15,799 --> 00:04:17,599 Just smooth. 69 00:04:17,599 --> 00:04:18,759 Now, smooth it out. 70 00:04:18,759 --> 00:04:19,680 Smooth it out. 71 00:04:19,680 --> 00:04:23,279 Think about a fluid process, not just sorry. 72 00:04:23,279 --> 00:04:26,000 The explosion might have just been trying to spark it, like jumpstart it. 73 00:04:27,079 --> 00:04:29,199 Smooth flow. 74 00:04:31,560 --> 00:04:32,959 Am I doing it? 75 00:04:35,480 --> 00:04:37,159 I think I'm doing it. 76 00:04:37,159 --> 00:04:38,079 Oh, I'm doing it. 77 00:04:38,079 --> 00:04:40,120 I peeked my eye open. 78 00:04:40,120 --> 00:04:42,600 It's just a fade into view. 79 00:04:43,000 --> 00:04:46,920 It doesn't look like a hand, but I don't think it needs to look like a hand. 80 00:04:46,920 --> 00:04:49,680 Exactly. Mind hand. 81 00:04:49,680 --> 00:04:51,720 Get it. 82 00:04:51,720 --> 00:04:56,240 See, the mage hand like goes between the cabinets 83 00:04:56,600 --> 00:05:00,160 and like grasp down on top of Cogsworth. 84 00:05:00,800 --> 00:05:05,000 And you hear it grab and drag across the floor. 85 00:05:05,000 --> 00:05:08,439 And then similarly, like it's like sideways now. 86 00:05:08,439 --> 00:05:12,160 It's like kunk, kunk, kunk, kunk. 87 00:05:12,640 --> 00:05:19,160 I'm like physically moving my body, like like little to the left. 88 00:05:19,439 --> 00:05:24,080 Twists as you're like moving your body in the same way. 89 00:05:24,400 --> 00:05:28,560 And it like pulls it through and is like dragging it backwards. 90 00:05:28,560 --> 00:05:31,080 And you see Cogsworth's eyes. 91 00:05:31,080 --> 00:05:33,600 And nothing but white skin. 92 00:05:33,600 --> 00:05:37,000 There's this sheer panic look on this little robot face. 93 00:05:37,000 --> 00:05:39,439 It's OK, CQ, we got this. 94 00:05:39,439 --> 00:05:42,480 It drags it out and like pulls it down in front of you. 95 00:05:42,800 --> 00:05:43,720 And is holding it. 96 00:05:43,720 --> 00:05:45,840 I pick him up with my hand hands. 97 00:05:46,560 --> 00:05:48,000 I'm like, I'm so sorry. 98 00:05:48,000 --> 00:05:51,040 You are so brave, buddy. 99 00:05:51,040 --> 00:05:53,560 I'm just going to put him back inside of my bucket. 100 00:05:53,960 --> 00:05:57,520 I have lined the inside of my bucket with a little blanket. 101 00:05:57,520 --> 00:05:59,759 Oh, excellent. 102 00:05:59,759 --> 00:06:01,560 There's something back there. 103 00:06:01,560 --> 00:06:03,200 OK, should we just get in there? 104 00:06:03,200 --> 00:06:04,000 How do we do this? 105 00:06:04,000 --> 00:06:06,520 I mean, those look like filing cabinets. 106 00:06:06,520 --> 00:06:08,920 They don't I assume they're not a fixed. 107 00:06:09,280 --> 00:06:12,160 We we have a we have a dolly upstairs. 108 00:06:12,439 --> 00:06:13,920 I could go run and grab that real quick. 109 00:06:13,920 --> 00:06:15,520 I mean, how many of these do we need to move? 110 00:06:15,520 --> 00:06:17,200 How many how many are in the way? 111 00:06:17,200 --> 00:06:18,840 Like two. 112 00:06:18,840 --> 00:06:20,320 Oh, well, we don't need a dolly for that. 113 00:06:20,320 --> 00:06:22,160 I don't think you got this. 114 00:06:22,160 --> 00:06:24,920 I mean, we can we can try it. 115 00:06:24,920 --> 00:06:26,840 Oh, OK, I'm just going to go sit over here. 116 00:06:26,840 --> 00:06:28,160 I'm very tired. 117 00:06:28,160 --> 00:06:31,080 I can try and help. 118 00:06:31,080 --> 00:06:33,080 OK, yeah, let's do it. 119 00:06:33,080 --> 00:06:37,160 Bizarre just wants to make sure that he's never asked to help anyone move. 120 00:06:37,600 --> 00:06:40,480 His truck is just always broken down. 121 00:06:41,480 --> 00:06:45,200 Yeah, I moved once myself, never want to do it again. 122 00:06:45,200 --> 00:06:46,080 No, never again. 123 00:06:46,080 --> 00:06:49,720 It's the worst. It's absolutely the it's even the worst when you have movers. 124 00:06:50,360 --> 00:06:53,400 OK, so Cav in particular, you are going to move and Bizarre 125 00:06:53,400 --> 00:06:55,800 is going to spot excellent is what it sounds like. 126 00:06:55,800 --> 00:06:57,800 Yeah, OK. 127 00:06:57,800 --> 00:07:00,879 Yeah, it was just roll me a strength check here as you go 128 00:07:00,879 --> 00:07:03,160 to try to shift this first one out of place. 129 00:07:03,360 --> 00:07:06,960 I can do that. That is 16 plus 117. 130 00:07:07,280 --> 00:07:10,360 OK, Bizarre, what functionally are you doing 131 00:07:10,400 --> 00:07:13,960 if anything? Oh, what I'm doing is I'm at least helping 132 00:07:13,960 --> 00:07:19,120 to give like any kind of stability if it is not on the ground. 133 00:07:19,280 --> 00:07:24,920 Got it. Do you want to roll a dexterity check? 134 00:07:24,920 --> 00:07:28,840 Yeah, that would be way better than what strength would be. 135 00:07:30,439 --> 00:07:34,480 Doesn't matter, because I got a two on the dice. 136 00:07:34,639 --> 00:07:36,480 And that's OK. 137 00:07:36,480 --> 00:07:38,480 That's OK. It was more show for anything. 138 00:07:41,040 --> 00:07:45,000 In fact, you're pushing back against his cabbage trying to pull it out 139 00:07:45,720 --> 00:07:48,319 this way, right? I've never moved anything. 140 00:07:50,520 --> 00:07:52,400 It's my first time. 141 00:07:52,400 --> 00:07:55,280 OK, yeah, Cav, you like pop a couple drawers out, 142 00:07:55,280 --> 00:07:57,960 manage to get a handhold and like drag it out. 143 00:07:57,960 --> 00:08:00,280 And Bizarre is there. 144 00:08:00,280 --> 00:08:03,720 What I picture is Bizarre doing is like feigning help, 145 00:08:03,720 --> 00:08:06,680 but like more just like waving his hands around. 146 00:08:07,080 --> 00:08:10,199 So you drag it out and you hear it like across some of the stones. 147 00:08:10,199 --> 00:08:12,800 Measuring the distance being like almost there. 148 00:08:12,839 --> 00:08:14,599 Yeah, almost far enough. 149 00:08:14,599 --> 00:08:16,159 A little bit more. Yeah. 150 00:08:16,159 --> 00:08:19,560 You pull it out and Bizarre, you see that it's like free enough 151 00:08:19,560 --> 00:08:24,719 that any of you could sneak through, even just moving this one. 152 00:08:26,039 --> 00:08:27,079 So it gets free. 153 00:08:27,079 --> 00:08:30,560 Bizarre, you peek your head around and you see that there is an opening. 154 00:08:30,560 --> 00:08:32,439 It's like a half door height. 155 00:08:32,439 --> 00:08:36,159 And the draft that Alydin described, as previously mentioned, 156 00:08:36,159 --> 00:08:38,679 is is not there anymore. 157 00:08:38,680 --> 00:08:42,240 But it is a dark void space beyond. 158 00:08:42,240 --> 00:08:45,080 You don't see anything really in there, 159 00:08:45,080 --> 00:08:47,320 particularly since you don't have dark vision. 160 00:08:47,320 --> 00:08:52,120 I've sat myself on the ground, like with my back against the wall facing, 161 00:08:52,120 --> 00:08:55,480 like, you know, watching the show of the moving of the things, 162 00:08:55,760 --> 00:08:58,120 because there's something special about watching somebody else 163 00:08:58,120 --> 00:09:00,520 lift something heavy and you just sitting there. 164 00:09:01,920 --> 00:09:05,640 But from out of my bucket, I take my slingshot 165 00:09:06,039 --> 00:09:10,199 and I take one of my rocks that I have in there 166 00:09:10,519 --> 00:09:13,480 and I just I hold on to it and I squeeze it real tight 167 00:09:13,480 --> 00:09:15,879 and then I put it into my slingshot and sling it in. 168 00:09:16,639 --> 00:09:21,840 And I've imbued it with light that emits five foot radius. 169 00:09:21,840 --> 00:09:23,240 OK. Yeah. 170 00:09:23,240 --> 00:09:25,199 Slingshot it into the open space. 171 00:09:25,199 --> 00:09:26,840 Smart. Wonderful. 172 00:09:26,840 --> 00:09:30,519 So the rock goes, everybody kind of follows behind it. 173 00:09:30,519 --> 00:09:35,600 You see it go into this space and then it disappears. 174 00:09:35,759 --> 00:09:38,199 Down and you hear it hit down some steps 175 00:09:39,120 --> 00:09:40,840 going further into the ground. 176 00:09:40,840 --> 00:09:42,600 Good thing we didn't run in there. 177 00:09:42,600 --> 00:09:45,000 No kidding. Can we see it bouncing down? 178 00:09:45,000 --> 00:09:48,439 Or is it just like you see it bounced down the first few steps? 179 00:09:48,439 --> 00:09:51,639 And then really, you just see the glow coming up from wherever 180 00:09:51,639 --> 00:09:53,559 wherever you hear it land down at the bottom. 181 00:09:54,279 --> 00:09:56,559 Gotcha. Gotcha. Down we go then. 182 00:09:56,559 --> 00:09:58,799 Sure. Do you know what's down there? 183 00:09:58,799 --> 00:10:00,120 I've never been down there. 184 00:10:00,120 --> 00:10:02,439 No, I didn't know there was a space back there. 185 00:10:02,480 --> 00:10:05,120 Ezzy, do you want to go? 186 00:10:05,120 --> 00:10:07,680 Not particularly. I came for paperwork. 187 00:10:07,680 --> 00:10:11,280 Can you go tell June that we're going down to this place here? 188 00:10:11,280 --> 00:10:13,160 I would do that. And then you could sort the papers 189 00:10:13,160 --> 00:10:15,160 and we could take them when we leave? 190 00:10:15,160 --> 00:10:16,760 That sounds great. 191 00:10:17,480 --> 00:10:20,040 I'll give you a few minutes. 192 00:10:20,040 --> 00:10:24,920 And then if we don't hear from you, maybe we send in some. 193 00:10:25,880 --> 00:10:27,800 Send in some. Just check it. 194 00:10:27,800 --> 00:10:29,840 Just call down. I'll just call down in a few minutes. 195 00:10:29,840 --> 00:10:31,840 I'm going to tell June. OK, I'll be right back. 196 00:10:31,879 --> 00:10:33,399 She seemed real nervous. 197 00:10:33,399 --> 00:10:35,879 Yeah. Can I roll an insight? 198 00:10:36,920 --> 00:10:39,720 I don't have any bonuses, but I just just see if like 199 00:10:39,720 --> 00:10:42,840 she really did know or didn't know about this place. 200 00:10:44,360 --> 00:10:46,560 I'm at 20. Yeah, dang. 201 00:10:46,560 --> 00:10:48,879 Yeah, you get it like you get wasting them. 202 00:10:48,879 --> 00:10:50,399 No, you get a beat on it. 203 00:10:50,399 --> 00:10:52,320 You don't think that she knew about this place, 204 00:10:52,320 --> 00:10:55,200 but you also think she was really trying to make sure 205 00:10:55,200 --> 00:10:57,080 that she does not have to go down there. 206 00:10:57,080 --> 00:11:00,920 Perhaps it's a fear of the space or the dark or something. 207 00:11:00,919 --> 00:11:05,919 But like, yeah, understandable, all reasonable and not suspicious. 208 00:11:05,919 --> 00:11:09,159 Yeah, zero suspicion, more just like giving her the willies. 209 00:11:09,159 --> 00:11:11,240 She wants to be out of there, but she will send somebody 210 00:11:11,240 --> 00:11:13,639 to check on you in a few minutes. Cool beans. 211 00:11:13,639 --> 00:11:15,279 So, yeah, she disappears back upstairs. 212 00:11:15,279 --> 00:11:18,279 OK, who's going in first? 213 00:11:18,279 --> 00:11:23,599 Not it. I need a torch or something, but I can lead the way. 214 00:11:23,599 --> 00:11:25,719 You've got the candles still. 215 00:11:25,719 --> 00:11:29,000 So you would have at least that double fisting, obviously, 216 00:11:29,000 --> 00:11:31,000 the way that Russell's holding on to these candles. 217 00:11:31,000 --> 00:11:32,879 Double fisting those candles. 218 00:11:32,879 --> 00:11:38,200 Yeah, go ahead and cast control flames and expand the flames 219 00:11:38,200 --> 00:11:44,039 so we have a little bit more brighter light in the area. 220 00:11:44,039 --> 00:11:47,679 You've got a duck to get into this space and then you see the... 221 00:11:47,679 --> 00:11:49,759 Yeah, yeah, we got CQ. 222 00:11:49,759 --> 00:11:52,039 Absolutely. You see... 223 00:11:52,039 --> 00:11:55,840 Sorry. I see what you did there. 224 00:11:55,879 --> 00:12:04,080 You lower yourself to get into this space and you make five or six steps in. 225 00:12:04,080 --> 00:12:06,759 You're crawling in the candles out in front of you, 226 00:12:06,759 --> 00:12:10,840 and you reach the edge of this landing that goes down the stairs 227 00:12:10,840 --> 00:12:15,040 and you see the glowing rock down at the end of the staircase. 228 00:12:15,040 --> 00:12:21,080 There's probably about 12 to 15 steps between you and the stone. 229 00:12:21,080 --> 00:12:25,639 You carry on down, followed by Alydin Kav. 230 00:12:25,679 --> 00:12:29,439 I like to be sandwiched for safety. 231 00:12:29,439 --> 00:12:32,439 Nothing can come at me from the front or behind. 232 00:12:32,439 --> 00:12:34,759 And I'm going to pick that rock up too. 233 00:12:34,759 --> 00:12:37,759 I'm not going to leave that there, obviously. 234 00:12:37,759 --> 00:12:39,879 So yeah, the three of you go down these steps. 235 00:12:39,879 --> 00:12:43,799 And as you enter the staircase and go down a few, 236 00:12:43,799 --> 00:12:47,159 the ceiling gets higher so you don't have to have to crouch 237 00:12:47,159 --> 00:12:50,639 nearly as much as this little passageway to get in. 238 00:12:50,639 --> 00:12:54,519 And you reach the lower floor 239 00:12:54,519 --> 00:12:59,679 and the ground is covered in this thick dust 240 00:12:59,679 --> 00:13:05,480 that looks like it's been untouched by anybody in a long time. 241 00:13:05,480 --> 00:13:10,199 The air, as there was like a breeze coming in from the entrance up at the top, 242 00:13:10,199 --> 00:13:13,559 the air changes the further down you get. 243 00:13:13,559 --> 00:13:16,039 Like, it's not colder. 244 00:13:16,039 --> 00:13:17,960 It's just still. 245 00:13:17,960 --> 00:13:23,960 The area opens up into this longer hallway. 246 00:13:23,960 --> 00:13:29,800 And the walls themselves are lined with old instructional placards. 247 00:13:29,800 --> 00:13:33,720 There are two that you can see in particular, 248 00:13:33,720 --> 00:13:37,920 one that says order enables learning 249 00:13:37,920 --> 00:13:40,519 and attendance is responsibility. 250 00:13:40,519 --> 00:13:42,800 Nerds. 251 00:13:42,800 --> 00:13:44,759 I don't like it. 252 00:13:44,759 --> 00:13:50,360 A single door sits at the far end of the hall. 253 00:13:50,399 --> 00:13:57,279 So there's nothing in here except for some informational placards, 254 00:13:57,279 --> 00:14:00,800 stale air, lots of dust and a door at the end. 255 00:14:00,800 --> 00:14:02,560 Correct. 256 00:14:02,560 --> 00:14:04,519 Oh, Carla's missing out on the placards. 257 00:14:04,519 --> 00:14:06,320 She's really missing out on the good stuff. 258 00:14:06,320 --> 00:14:08,279 I put the placards in just for Carla. 259 00:14:08,279 --> 00:14:12,600 God, she loves an informational placard. 260 00:14:12,600 --> 00:14:13,800 Hey, we're back in the middle. 261 00:14:13,800 --> 00:14:14,759 Oh, it's the middle again. 262 00:14:14,759 --> 00:14:17,800 Again? It's been too soon. 263 00:14:17,800 --> 00:14:18,600 No, too long. 264 00:14:18,600 --> 00:14:20,279 I felt like it was just the middle. 265 00:14:20,279 --> 00:14:21,399 No, that was a week ago. 266 00:14:21,399 --> 00:14:23,039 That was one whole week ago. 267 00:14:23,039 --> 00:14:24,559 Time really goes quickly. 268 00:14:24,559 --> 00:14:28,519 I don't understand time anymore. 269 00:14:28,519 --> 00:14:29,039 No. 270 00:14:29,039 --> 00:14:31,519 You know what is a good way to tell time, though? 271 00:14:31,519 --> 00:14:32,279 Oh, gosh. 272 00:14:32,279 --> 00:14:33,759 Where are we going with this? 273 00:14:33,759 --> 00:14:34,559 Sundial. 274 00:14:34,559 --> 00:14:35,720 Hair past a freckle. 275 00:14:35,720 --> 00:14:36,879 Sure, yep. 276 00:14:36,879 --> 00:14:38,559 Hair past a freckle, that's a good one. 277 00:14:38,559 --> 00:14:40,120 Stopwatch, also a good one. 278 00:14:40,120 --> 00:14:41,639 But if you stop it, it's not doing anything. 279 00:14:41,639 --> 00:14:43,559 Yeah, it's not a great way to tell time, actually. 280 00:14:43,559 --> 00:14:45,439 No, it really is a one way. 281 00:14:45,439 --> 00:14:46,279 I stand with it. 282 00:14:47,240 --> 00:14:50,519 So see, nobody got it. 283 00:14:50,519 --> 00:14:52,879 Subscribing to our newsletter. 284 00:14:52,879 --> 00:14:56,360 Oh, that is a good way to tell time. 285 00:14:56,360 --> 00:14:57,919 Because it comes out once a month. 286 00:14:57,919 --> 00:15:01,839 So when you get a new one, you know that a month has passed. 287 00:15:01,839 --> 00:15:04,120 I love that. 288 00:15:04,120 --> 00:15:08,559 You can subscribe to our newsletter, which Jess so lovingly 289 00:15:08,559 --> 00:15:10,079 puts together every month. 290 00:15:10,079 --> 00:15:11,319 It's so good. 291 00:15:11,319 --> 00:15:12,039 It's amazing. 292 00:15:12,039 --> 00:15:15,039 Don't you want to see your fun characters wearing our merch? 293 00:15:15,039 --> 00:15:17,120 Hashtag bless that Jess, man. 294 00:15:17,120 --> 00:15:20,759 Hashtag bless that Jess. 295 00:15:20,759 --> 00:15:24,159 You can sign up for the newsletter at the website. 296 00:15:24,159 --> 00:15:28,360 Yeah, dumbdragons.com, which is getting new stuff basically 297 00:15:28,360 --> 00:15:31,039 since Amy's been away every day. 298 00:15:31,039 --> 00:15:33,439 There's been a new element that's been added to it. 299 00:15:33,439 --> 00:15:36,159 As his family went away and suddenly has a ton of free time 300 00:15:36,159 --> 00:15:37,279 to just like work. 301 00:15:37,279 --> 00:15:38,639 Amazing how that works. 302 00:15:38,639 --> 00:15:39,399 Yeah, it's funny. 303 00:15:42,639 --> 00:15:43,360 So there's that. 304 00:15:43,360 --> 00:15:45,800 But you can also check out Patreon, 305 00:15:45,800 --> 00:15:47,320 patreon.com slash dumbdragoncast, 306 00:15:47,320 --> 00:15:49,800 where when you are a patron, you get an episode dedicated 307 00:15:49,800 --> 00:15:55,279 to you, like today's patron, Elizabeth Galtres. 308 00:15:55,279 --> 00:15:59,279 Elizabeth Galtres. 309 00:15:59,279 --> 00:16:01,159 That sounds so noble, so real. 310 00:16:01,159 --> 00:16:04,560 Oh, see, I was thinking part of the Galtres family. 311 00:16:04,560 --> 00:16:07,440 I was thinking Elizabeth, switching it up, 312 00:16:07,440 --> 00:16:12,759 living in a meadow with like some animal familiars 313 00:16:12,759 --> 00:16:16,519 maybe, just living their best life. 314 00:16:16,519 --> 00:16:17,519 That cottage core life. 315 00:16:17,519 --> 00:16:18,200 Yes. 316 00:16:18,200 --> 00:16:19,039 Yeah. 317 00:16:19,039 --> 00:16:20,879 And maybe they are a noble who ran away 318 00:16:20,879 --> 00:16:22,679 from their noble life and is doing that. 319 00:16:22,679 --> 00:16:23,879 Exactly. 320 00:16:23,879 --> 00:16:25,360 They don't need that shit. 321 00:16:25,360 --> 00:16:27,240 I love that for you, Elizabeth. 322 00:16:27,240 --> 00:16:28,639 Elizabeth. 323 00:16:28,639 --> 00:16:30,279 That sounds like a good life. 324 00:16:30,279 --> 00:16:32,240 I'm glad you're spending some time with us too. 325 00:16:32,240 --> 00:16:35,000 Especially because your life brought you to us. 326 00:16:35,000 --> 00:16:36,919 We thank you so much. 327 00:16:36,919 --> 00:16:38,720 So patreon.com slash dumbdragoncast, 328 00:16:38,720 --> 00:16:40,039 we hope to see you over there. 329 00:16:40,040 --> 00:16:43,120 Elizabeth, who's got just the wildest back story. 330 00:16:43,120 --> 00:16:44,880 She might be casting a spell right now. 331 00:16:44,880 --> 00:16:45,720 She could be. 332 00:16:45,720 --> 00:16:47,080 It's entirely possible. 333 00:16:47,080 --> 00:16:48,080 Yes, yes. 334 00:16:48,080 --> 00:16:49,760 Thank you for being here, Elizabeth. 335 00:16:49,760 --> 00:16:51,480 And now we'll get you back to the episode. 336 00:16:51,480 --> 00:16:52,640 Okay, love you, bye. 337 00:16:52,640 --> 00:16:53,480 Love you, bye. 338 00:16:58,160 --> 00:16:59,720 Like what kind of placard are we talking about? 339 00:16:59,720 --> 00:17:04,160 Are we talking like engraved in metal and hung? 340 00:17:04,160 --> 00:17:05,640 Is it framed? 341 00:17:05,640 --> 00:17:08,840 Is it like scrawled in blood on the wall? 342 00:17:08,919 --> 00:17:13,919 No, it looks like, well, I mean, you work in a school. 343 00:17:15,399 --> 00:17:19,639 It looks like something that a teacher would put up. 344 00:17:20,759 --> 00:17:24,279 Like it's big block lettering so that it's easy to read. 345 00:17:25,359 --> 00:17:26,639 There's some color to it. 346 00:17:26,639 --> 00:17:28,359 You wouldn't call it colorful, 347 00:17:28,359 --> 00:17:33,359 but like it looks more intending to be a joyful sign 348 00:17:35,199 --> 00:17:37,919 rather than any sort of like punishing sign 349 00:17:37,920 --> 00:17:39,160 or anything like that. 350 00:17:40,279 --> 00:17:44,880 The lettering on it is clear and concise. 351 00:17:44,880 --> 00:17:49,880 So more poster than placard? 352 00:17:50,920 --> 00:17:53,680 Yeah, perhaps I was incorrect in my description there, 353 00:17:53,680 --> 00:17:57,200 but yes, we can say it's more instructional poster 354 00:17:57,200 --> 00:17:58,440 or poster adjacent. 355 00:18:00,440 --> 00:18:03,080 Instructional or motivational? 356 00:18:03,080 --> 00:18:04,480 Instructional or informational. 357 00:18:04,480 --> 00:18:07,480 I guess it depends on your interpretation 358 00:18:07,480 --> 00:18:08,880 of the signs. 359 00:18:08,880 --> 00:18:11,519 They're definitely there to motivate the students 360 00:18:11,519 --> 00:18:12,559 to do better. 361 00:18:12,559 --> 00:18:13,400 Students down here? 362 00:18:13,400 --> 00:18:15,480 Order enables learning. 363 00:18:15,480 --> 00:18:17,240 Attendance is responsibility. 364 00:18:17,240 --> 00:18:18,559 Sorry, your question? 365 00:18:18,559 --> 00:18:20,160 Oh, no, I was talking. 366 00:18:20,160 --> 00:18:22,960 We're just spit balling. 367 00:18:22,960 --> 00:18:24,559 We're just bullshitting over here. 368 00:18:24,559 --> 00:18:26,400 Can they be removed? 369 00:18:26,400 --> 00:18:27,240 Yes. 370 00:18:27,240 --> 00:18:29,319 Oh, I would like to take them. 371 00:18:29,319 --> 00:18:32,799 Okay, you take them off the wall. 372 00:18:32,799 --> 00:18:34,839 They're like tacked up there. 373 00:18:34,839 --> 00:18:36,160 Are they on paper? 374 00:18:36,160 --> 00:18:37,000 Yeah. 375 00:18:37,319 --> 00:18:38,160 Okay, I want to roll them up. 376 00:18:38,160 --> 00:18:39,519 Sure. 377 00:18:39,519 --> 00:18:41,880 Take an elastic band out of a money bucket. 378 00:18:43,119 --> 00:18:45,640 The stone walls beneath them look like they, 379 00:18:45,640 --> 00:18:48,920 like the dust peels away from them 380 00:18:48,920 --> 00:18:52,160 or like falls away from them as you take them off. 381 00:18:52,160 --> 00:18:54,519 I'm seeing original wall. 382 00:18:54,519 --> 00:18:56,160 Like when you take something down 383 00:18:56,160 --> 00:18:58,000 that's been in the sun and it's. 384 00:18:58,000 --> 00:18:59,359 Yeah, love that. 385 00:18:59,359 --> 00:19:02,240 Okay, what is this place? 386 00:19:02,240 --> 00:19:03,079 These are creepy. 387 00:19:03,079 --> 00:19:04,279 I'm gonna put them in my room. 388 00:19:04,279 --> 00:19:05,119 Is that okay? 389 00:19:06,040 --> 00:19:07,360 Go for it. 390 00:19:08,320 --> 00:19:10,080 Whatever helps you. 391 00:19:10,080 --> 00:19:12,240 I don't know what this place is. 392 00:19:12,240 --> 00:19:17,240 There's a door and these things aren't ominous. 393 00:19:18,680 --> 00:19:20,240 Let's guess. 394 00:19:20,240 --> 00:19:21,240 Okay. 395 00:19:21,240 --> 00:19:24,760 Five cinnamon rolls says 396 00:19:24,760 --> 00:19:27,240 it's a weird fucked up basement classroom 397 00:19:27,240 --> 00:19:29,080 where they put the bad kids. 398 00:19:29,080 --> 00:19:32,040 Okay, I'll see that bet 399 00:19:32,040 --> 00:19:34,840 and I think it's janitor school. 400 00:19:35,799 --> 00:19:37,359 Janitor school? 401 00:19:37,359 --> 00:19:38,199 That's right. 402 00:19:38,199 --> 00:19:41,359 It's where the janitors go to learn to be janitors. 403 00:19:41,359 --> 00:19:42,279 Oh, okay. 404 00:19:42,279 --> 00:19:44,480 I thought you meant like night school. 405 00:19:44,480 --> 00:19:45,759 So you got bad kids. 406 00:19:45,759 --> 00:19:47,639 You got janitor school. 407 00:19:47,639 --> 00:19:50,799 I'll meet the bet and I'll say 408 00:19:52,279 --> 00:19:54,559 twist weird event where we have to figure out 409 00:19:54,559 --> 00:19:56,199 why order enables learning 410 00:19:56,199 --> 00:19:58,720 and attendance as responsibility and. 411 00:19:58,720 --> 00:20:00,480 That feels like cheating. 412 00:20:00,480 --> 00:20:02,679 Feels like cheating, but okay, okay, fine. 413 00:20:02,679 --> 00:20:03,519 You know what? 414 00:20:04,480 --> 00:20:06,279 I'm gonna wager five cinnamon rolls 415 00:20:06,279 --> 00:20:09,039 that there are five cinnamon rolls back there. 416 00:20:09,039 --> 00:20:10,759 Oh, okay. 417 00:20:10,759 --> 00:20:12,920 Well, I feel like I'm getting five cinnamon rolls 418 00:20:12,920 --> 00:20:13,759 either way. 419 00:20:13,759 --> 00:20:14,599 Hedging your bets then. 420 00:20:14,599 --> 00:20:15,440 Go ahead, Kav. 421 00:20:16,720 --> 00:20:18,440 Oh, oh, sure. 422 00:20:18,440 --> 00:20:19,279 Well, I don't know. 423 00:20:19,279 --> 00:20:21,000 No, no, I'm on it, I'm on it. 424 00:20:21,000 --> 00:20:23,160 Like you moved those things real good. 425 00:20:23,160 --> 00:20:24,000 So like. 426 00:20:24,000 --> 00:20:25,960 I'm gonna muscle that door open, Russ. 427 00:20:25,960 --> 00:20:26,799 Yeah, you are. 428 00:20:26,799 --> 00:20:27,720 Okay. 429 00:20:27,720 --> 00:20:29,000 You head up to the door. 430 00:20:29,000 --> 00:20:32,119 You reach, it's like a thumb latch on it 431 00:20:32,200 --> 00:20:36,240 and you go to press the latch 432 00:20:36,240 --> 00:20:37,760 and it doesn't appear to be locked. 433 00:20:37,760 --> 00:20:41,960 You hear the opening, the click of the mechanism 434 00:20:41,960 --> 00:20:44,040 and it creaks open. 435 00:20:44,040 --> 00:20:47,400 And I just see five cinnamon rolls on a table or? 436 00:20:47,400 --> 00:20:48,240 Yeah, in fact. 437 00:20:48,240 --> 00:20:49,760 But they're sentient. 438 00:20:49,760 --> 00:20:50,600 It is. 439 00:20:50,600 --> 00:20:51,440 Twist. 440 00:20:51,440 --> 00:20:53,080 You've found yourself in a senseo 441 00:20:53,080 --> 00:20:56,440 and you're in a mall and now. 442 00:20:56,440 --> 00:20:58,240 It's our version of Cinnabon. 443 00:20:58,240 --> 00:21:01,640 It's an outlet mall. 444 00:21:01,640 --> 00:21:03,640 You have to escape without spending anything. 445 00:21:03,640 --> 00:21:04,480 Go. 446 00:21:04,480 --> 00:21:06,360 Remember the point when we had Cinzeo 447 00:21:06,360 --> 00:21:08,240 and Cinnabon in the same mall? 448 00:21:08,240 --> 00:21:10,680 It was a wild time. 449 00:21:10,680 --> 00:21:13,960 It's for the Halcyon days that they were. 450 00:21:13,960 --> 00:21:17,680 No, inside the room is small and square. 451 00:21:17,680 --> 00:21:21,360 You see filing cabinets that sag against the walls. 452 00:21:21,360 --> 00:21:24,960 A circle of faintly etched runes 453 00:21:24,960 --> 00:21:27,240 marks the center of the floor. 454 00:21:28,320 --> 00:21:30,960 Bizarre as you enter, you see them 455 00:21:30,960 --> 00:21:32,600 and they appear dormant. 456 00:21:33,600 --> 00:21:34,920 Okay. 457 00:21:34,920 --> 00:21:38,600 Slumped against a desk is a figure. 458 00:21:39,960 --> 00:21:42,559 It looks vaguely humanoid. 459 00:21:42,559 --> 00:21:45,400 It's constructed of lacquered wood, 460 00:21:45,400 --> 00:21:47,880 brass hinges and layered parchment 461 00:21:47,880 --> 00:21:50,000 stretched across a narrow frame. 462 00:21:51,000 --> 00:21:54,519 A small iron bell hangs from one wrist 463 00:21:54,519 --> 00:21:57,559 and a clipboard is fused into the other, 464 00:21:57,559 --> 00:22:00,480 the pages yellowed but pristine. 465 00:22:01,440 --> 00:22:06,039 Where a face should be, there is only blank parchment. 466 00:22:07,600 --> 00:22:09,240 Jess doesn't like it either, look at her. 467 00:22:09,240 --> 00:22:11,960 As you step fully into the room. 468 00:22:11,960 --> 00:22:13,240 Oh, hold on, wait. 469 00:22:13,240 --> 00:22:15,319 Who's saying we step fully into the room? 470 00:22:15,319 --> 00:22:16,880 Cab said he was looking for Cinnabon. 471 00:22:16,880 --> 00:22:19,360 I mean, I said I'd muscle the door open. 472 00:22:19,360 --> 00:22:20,880 I stopped after that. 473 00:22:20,880 --> 00:22:22,559 I assume we do one of these. 474 00:22:24,079 --> 00:22:24,920 Okay. 475 00:22:24,920 --> 00:22:27,039 We push and we recoil. 476 00:22:27,039 --> 00:22:29,319 Okay, then that's what you see. 477 00:22:30,279 --> 00:22:32,000 Yeah, if nobody's stepping into the room, 478 00:22:32,000 --> 00:22:33,399 then that's what you see from where you are. 479 00:22:33,399 --> 00:22:35,679 Stepping into a room triggers something. 480 00:22:35,679 --> 00:22:38,639 I wanna see if I'm getting five cinnamon buns first. 481 00:22:38,639 --> 00:22:40,159 There is not five cinnamon buns. 482 00:22:40,159 --> 00:22:42,079 However, there's a desk. 483 00:22:42,079 --> 00:22:46,200 You do hear a call from up in the main area. 484 00:22:46,200 --> 00:22:48,439 Is everything okay down there? 485 00:22:48,439 --> 00:22:49,359 It's Ezzy. 486 00:22:49,359 --> 00:22:51,559 Check again in five. 487 00:22:51,559 --> 00:22:52,399 Understood. 488 00:22:52,399 --> 00:22:55,960 Okay, should I get more people? 489 00:22:55,960 --> 00:22:57,279 No. Maybe. 490 00:22:57,440 --> 00:23:01,639 That's confusing, but okay, I'll wait here. 491 00:23:01,639 --> 00:23:03,279 You call up if you need anything. 492 00:23:03,279 --> 00:23:05,279 I'll call down in five minutes. 493 00:23:05,279 --> 00:23:06,639 Okay, so do I win? 494 00:23:07,960 --> 00:23:10,680 Yes, you win. 495 00:23:10,680 --> 00:23:13,079 Well, no, nobody wins. 496 00:23:13,079 --> 00:23:13,920 Nobody was right. 497 00:23:13,920 --> 00:23:15,279 No, there's no winner here. 498 00:23:15,279 --> 00:23:17,879 This looks like, remember that guy? 499 00:23:17,879 --> 00:23:19,920 Remember when he was all paid in pages? 500 00:23:19,920 --> 00:23:21,920 Yeah, paper face. 501 00:23:21,920 --> 00:23:23,000 Of course, yep. 502 00:23:23,000 --> 00:23:23,839 Who could forget him? 503 00:23:23,839 --> 00:23:25,519 This guy reminds me of him. 504 00:23:25,559 --> 00:23:30,559 This guy also reminds me of, well, your little duck friend. 505 00:23:32,639 --> 00:23:33,599 Ah! 506 00:23:33,599 --> 00:23:34,440 No, no. 507 00:23:34,440 --> 00:23:37,079 I reach down and I cover CQ's ears, 508 00:23:37,079 --> 00:23:38,480 and I go, how dare you? 509 00:23:38,480 --> 00:23:42,759 In development. 510 00:23:44,079 --> 00:23:46,279 Well, yeah, somebody made this guy. 511 00:23:46,279 --> 00:23:50,639 Well, yeah, but it's not just a, 512 00:23:50,639 --> 00:23:52,079 it looks like an automaton. 513 00:23:53,759 --> 00:23:55,480 It's not just a statue. 514 00:23:56,400 --> 00:23:59,400 Oh yeah, no, I fully expect this guy to get up. 515 00:23:59,400 --> 00:24:01,519 Is he the student or the teacher? 516 00:24:01,519 --> 00:24:02,920 Or is he broken? 517 00:24:02,920 --> 00:24:05,440 Alydin, this is falling into your realm. 518 00:24:05,440 --> 00:24:07,240 Oh, I'm sorry. 519 00:24:07,240 --> 00:24:10,279 I do not believe I have a realm yet. 520 00:24:10,279 --> 00:24:12,599 You are working on a craft, 521 00:24:12,599 --> 00:24:16,440 and this is falling within the vicinity of that craft. 522 00:24:16,440 --> 00:24:19,440 I am a child of 14. 523 00:24:19,880 --> 00:24:24,880 You are a smart and capable and talented person. 524 00:24:25,160 --> 00:24:30,160 Are we using this as a learning opportunity? 525 00:24:30,960 --> 00:24:33,279 Is this a teachable moment? 526 00:24:33,279 --> 00:24:36,640 I'd rather you do this right now when I'm here 527 00:24:36,640 --> 00:24:38,200 than have to do it when I'm not. 528 00:24:38,200 --> 00:24:39,039 What does that mean? 529 00:24:39,039 --> 00:24:42,080 I mean, he's got a really good point. 530 00:24:42,080 --> 00:24:44,039 Is this like drinking at home? 531 00:24:44,039 --> 00:24:46,279 I'd rather you kids do it while I'm at the house. 532 00:24:46,279 --> 00:24:47,120 Best you do this while we're here 533 00:24:48,080 --> 00:24:53,080 to like help as opposed to on your own. 534 00:24:53,080 --> 00:24:53,920 Yeah. 535 00:24:53,920 --> 00:24:55,160 Okay, well what am I supposed to do? 536 00:24:55,160 --> 00:24:56,720 I think that's for you to figure out. 537 00:24:56,720 --> 00:24:57,560 What? 538 00:24:57,560 --> 00:24:58,840 You need to go in and investigate this 539 00:24:58,840 --> 00:25:01,800 because you read nine chapters 540 00:25:01,800 --> 00:25:04,840 on a book about clockwork machines. 541 00:25:04,840 --> 00:25:05,680 So I've- 542 00:25:05,680 --> 00:25:07,040 Does it look like a clock? 543 00:25:07,040 --> 00:25:07,880 Bizarre. 544 00:25:07,880 --> 00:25:09,880 Not on the outside and that's kind of the whole point. 545 00:25:09,880 --> 00:25:11,800 Does your duck look like a clock? 546 00:25:11,800 --> 00:25:13,320 No. 547 00:25:13,320 --> 00:25:14,160 Okay. 548 00:25:17,320 --> 00:25:19,440 The look on Russ's face says, 549 00:25:19,440 --> 00:25:21,120 I didn't expect this interaction, 550 00:25:21,120 --> 00:25:21,960 but I'm here for it. 551 00:25:21,960 --> 00:25:22,800 I love it. 552 00:25:22,800 --> 00:25:24,000 It's great. 553 00:25:24,000 --> 00:25:28,200 Let's peer pressure the kid to walk into the creepy room. 554 00:25:28,200 --> 00:25:30,760 I feel like this is getting thrown into a lake. 555 00:25:30,760 --> 00:25:31,800 I'm going in. 556 00:25:31,800 --> 00:25:34,760 I am going in with Alydin and we're going in with this. 557 00:25:34,760 --> 00:25:35,760 We're going in. 558 00:25:35,760 --> 00:25:36,600 All the way. 559 00:25:36,600 --> 00:25:37,600 Yeah, yeah, yeah. 560 00:25:37,600 --> 00:25:39,520 Because you have to go in to be able to inspect it 561 00:25:39,520 --> 00:25:40,360 to the length of that. 562 00:25:40,360 --> 00:25:41,680 Okay, okay guys, okay. 563 00:25:41,680 --> 00:25:43,600 No, we're not staying outside. 564 00:25:43,600 --> 00:25:44,440 No, okay. 565 00:25:44,440 --> 00:25:45,280 Shutting the door open. 566 00:25:45,280 --> 00:25:46,600 Yeah. 567 00:25:46,680 --> 00:25:47,520 Good luck, kid. 568 00:25:47,520 --> 00:25:51,080 I'm just saying, okay, fine. 569 00:25:51,080 --> 00:25:56,080 That might be within my scope of information. 570 00:25:58,480 --> 00:26:00,240 I'm not even gonna say knowledge. 571 00:26:00,240 --> 00:26:01,960 Information. 572 00:26:01,960 --> 00:26:04,880 But what the heck are those pictures on the floor? 573 00:26:04,880 --> 00:26:09,880 That's your area of expertise, yes? 574 00:26:10,000 --> 00:26:11,160 That is your wheelhouse? 575 00:26:11,160 --> 00:26:12,000 You know what? 576 00:26:12,000 --> 00:26:12,840 What the frick is that? 577 00:26:12,840 --> 00:26:13,680 Cuchet. 578 00:26:13,680 --> 00:26:14,560 I walk in there? 579 00:26:14,559 --> 00:26:16,919 I step into the room and I start looking 580 00:26:16,919 --> 00:26:17,759 at the sigils on the floor. 581 00:26:17,759 --> 00:26:18,599 You almost said womb. 582 00:26:18,599 --> 00:26:19,440 Cuchet, Alydin. 583 00:26:19,440 --> 00:26:20,399 Womb watch, 2026. 584 00:26:20,399 --> 00:26:23,240 I open it up for her 60 book club. 585 00:26:23,240 --> 00:26:24,919 I guess, let's hear it. 586 00:26:24,919 --> 00:26:27,960 Okay, Bizarre, you step into the room then. 587 00:26:27,960 --> 00:26:30,319 Lead by example, I got caught, my card got pulled. 588 00:26:30,319 --> 00:26:32,559 As you step fully into the room, 589 00:26:32,559 --> 00:26:35,960 the runes in the floor give the faintest flicker. 590 00:26:39,359 --> 00:26:44,359 The bell gives a soft accidental chime. 591 00:26:45,559 --> 00:26:49,839 Parchment face ripples on this figure. 592 00:26:49,839 --> 00:26:54,839 And in a careful and confused voice, you hear, 593 00:26:56,440 --> 00:27:01,000 oh, is it time? 594 00:27:01,000 --> 00:27:03,279 The figure straightens itself in its chair 595 00:27:03,279 --> 00:27:05,279 and begins to look around the space. 596 00:27:07,480 --> 00:27:08,559 It might be time. 597 00:27:08,559 --> 00:27:10,159 I might be early though. 598 00:27:10,160 --> 00:27:15,160 Um, it could be late though. 599 00:27:15,920 --> 00:27:18,160 So I don't know the answer to your question, unfortunately. 600 00:27:18,160 --> 00:27:19,920 What's your name? 601 00:27:19,920 --> 00:27:21,360 I'm like behind. 602 00:27:21,360 --> 00:27:26,519 I'm like, I've like followed Bizarre in 603 00:27:26,519 --> 00:27:28,920 and I'm like just poking out from, you know. 604 00:27:31,480 --> 00:27:32,320 Human shield. 605 00:27:32,320 --> 00:27:37,120 He, this creature, this figure rather, 606 00:27:37,120 --> 00:27:41,560 looks, gives like a confused look at your questions 607 00:27:41,560 --> 00:27:45,560 and says, I don't have a name. 608 00:27:45,560 --> 00:27:48,760 I am referred to as the hall monitor. 609 00:27:49,800 --> 00:27:51,520 What's your job? 610 00:27:51,520 --> 00:27:55,840 My job is to, it looks like it's pausing 611 00:27:55,840 --> 00:27:58,120 and considering the questions. 612 00:27:59,000 --> 00:28:00,680 Or what's your purpose? 613 00:28:02,200 --> 00:28:07,080 Well, to monitor the children and to keep them safe. 614 00:28:07,640 --> 00:28:09,680 How do you do that down here? 615 00:28:09,680 --> 00:28:11,240 Sounds like an important job. 616 00:28:12,600 --> 00:28:15,320 How long have I been down here? 617 00:28:16,640 --> 00:28:20,640 Let's see, I'm 14 and I only just went to school 618 00:28:20,640 --> 00:28:21,600 this year. 619 00:28:21,600 --> 00:28:23,320 You do not fit my records 620 00:28:23,320 --> 00:28:25,480 and he looks straight at you, Alydin. 621 00:28:27,320 --> 00:28:28,160 I'm new. 622 00:28:29,840 --> 00:28:30,680 Hmm. 623 00:28:32,400 --> 00:28:35,320 Looks like he's considering that and says, 624 00:28:35,399 --> 00:28:37,639 that is not an error. 625 00:28:37,639 --> 00:28:41,480 That is new. 626 00:28:41,480 --> 00:28:42,319 Yeah. 627 00:28:43,559 --> 00:28:48,480 I want to ask a question along the lines of, 628 00:28:48,480 --> 00:28:53,039 when was the last student other than Alydin registered 629 00:28:53,039 --> 00:28:55,200 to get a sense of how long it's been 630 00:28:55,200 --> 00:28:57,000 since this has been used? 631 00:28:58,399 --> 00:29:00,839 Basically, when was the last time a student 632 00:29:00,839 --> 00:29:03,119 before Alydin was registered with you? 633 00:29:03,160 --> 00:29:08,160 Its head looks up or appears to look up 634 00:29:09,480 --> 00:29:12,880 and you see like a filtering of information 635 00:29:12,880 --> 00:29:14,560 pass across the parchment, 636 00:29:14,560 --> 00:29:17,000 too fast for you to really catch anything. 637 00:29:18,760 --> 00:29:20,920 And he gives you a year 638 00:29:22,440 --> 00:29:26,320 and that year is 270 years prior. 639 00:29:27,800 --> 00:29:29,800 Where did you come from? 640 00:29:29,800 --> 00:29:31,440 Where did you go? 641 00:29:31,480 --> 00:29:32,519 Cotton Eye Joe. 642 00:29:34,200 --> 00:29:36,279 Cotton Eye Joe is not registered here. 643 00:29:37,840 --> 00:29:42,840 I was created to keep order at the school 644 00:29:45,759 --> 00:29:48,120 and to make sure that the children are safe. 645 00:29:49,120 --> 00:29:50,880 How do you keep order? 646 00:29:50,880 --> 00:29:55,519 Well, I ensure that no one who doesn't belong here 647 00:29:55,519 --> 00:29:56,360 is here. 648 00:29:56,360 --> 00:30:01,360 So, like you kick people out or are you 649 00:30:01,640 --> 00:30:05,680 well, children that are registered, allowed. 650 00:30:06,759 --> 00:30:09,799 Parents of the children allowed. 651 00:30:09,799 --> 00:30:12,759 Educators also allowed. 652 00:30:12,759 --> 00:30:15,440 What happens if someone is not allowed? 653 00:30:15,440 --> 00:30:17,360 They are asked politely to leave. 654 00:30:19,960 --> 00:30:22,880 And then, if they do not leave 655 00:30:22,880 --> 00:30:24,440 and he looks to you Kavlarne, 656 00:30:25,480 --> 00:30:30,480 if they do not leave, I escort them off the premises. 657 00:30:30,519 --> 00:30:33,120 In a kind, respectful manner, yes? 658 00:30:33,120 --> 00:30:34,759 As kind as they show me. 659 00:30:36,360 --> 00:30:37,640 You ever kill a man? 660 00:30:37,640 --> 00:30:41,039 Pauses and then his head tilts 661 00:30:41,039 --> 00:30:43,519 in like this almost confusion. 662 00:30:45,759 --> 00:30:50,759 I do not have records of ever mortally wounding anyone. 663 00:30:51,880 --> 00:30:53,720 That's great. 664 00:30:53,720 --> 00:30:56,240 You hear a call from back upstairs. 665 00:30:56,240 --> 00:30:58,480 Everything's still okay down there? 666 00:30:58,640 --> 00:31:01,680 Bring us down a current list of students. 667 00:31:01,680 --> 00:31:05,720 All the ones that came back recently when we returned. 668 00:31:05,720 --> 00:31:07,279 Please. 669 00:31:07,279 --> 00:31:09,519 And she looks over bizarre like, 670 00:31:09,519 --> 00:31:10,960 she's not your fucking servant. 671 00:31:10,960 --> 00:31:11,799 Okay. 672 00:31:12,799 --> 00:31:14,880 Yeah, a current registered list. 673 00:31:14,880 --> 00:31:16,200 I'll be right back. 674 00:31:18,960 --> 00:31:22,440 Dumbgeons and Dragons, season four, episode 56. 675 00:31:22,440 --> 00:31:24,519 Starring Amy More as Alydin. 676 00:31:24,519 --> 00:31:26,799 Carla Maxted as Bonwyn Everbane. 677 00:31:26,799 --> 00:31:29,000 Tom Laird as Kavlarne Goldweave. 678 00:31:29,000 --> 00:31:31,519 Kyle Klasset as Bizard the Wizard. 679 00:31:31,519 --> 00:31:34,119 And Russ More as your dungeon master. 680 00:31:34,119 --> 00:31:35,799 Dialogue editing and sound design 681 00:31:35,799 --> 00:31:37,960 of today's episode is by Russ More. 682 00:31:37,960 --> 00:31:40,399 Our community manager is Jessica Babiak. 683 00:31:40,399 --> 00:31:42,319 Music is from Epidemic Sound 684 00:31:42,319 --> 00:31:44,399 and sound effects are from Epidemic Sound, 685 00:31:44,399 --> 00:31:46,559 Boom Library and Sound Ideas. 686 00:31:46,559 --> 00:31:49,279 Our amazing cover art is by Matt Garbutt. 687 00:31:49,279 --> 00:31:51,720 A huge thank you to our supporting producers, 688 00:31:51,720 --> 00:31:53,759 Gabriel Lynch, Jessica Babiak, 689 00:31:53,839 --> 00:31:56,039 Longeron Kiersen, Perry Matey, 690 00:31:56,039 --> 00:31:58,240 Cat Waterflame, Jacob Madden, 691 00:31:58,240 --> 00:32:00,879 Old School Gamer D, Craig Zeiss, 692 00:32:00,879 --> 00:32:05,079 L.A. Branton, Chibs1012, and Kudzu828. 693 00:32:05,079 --> 00:32:07,599 Dumbgeons and Dragons is a Patreon-supported show 694 00:32:07,599 --> 00:32:09,920 and because of our Patreon supporters, 695 00:32:09,920 --> 00:32:12,400 we get to keep telling bigger, weirder, 696 00:32:12,400 --> 00:32:15,359 more heartfelt stories in this world we love. 697 00:32:15,359 --> 00:32:17,440 And honestly, that's something 698 00:32:17,440 --> 00:32:19,319 we will never take for granted. 699 00:32:19,319 --> 00:32:22,440 Join us today at patreon.com slash dumb dragon cast 700 00:32:22,480 --> 00:32:25,840 and help us tell the stories that you want to hear. 701 00:32:25,840 --> 00:32:27,519 We hope to see you over there. 702 00:32:27,519 --> 00:32:30,600 Have a great week and we'll talk to you soon. 703 00:32:30,600 --> 00:32:31,440 Well, 704 00:32:33,920 --> 00:32:34,759 I, 705 00:32:36,519 --> 00:32:37,360 what? 706 00:32:40,120 --> 00:32:41,759 Try not to look at Jess. 707 00:32:43,480 --> 00:32:45,759 My brain just broke. 708 00:32:48,360 --> 00:32:49,200 Sorry guys. 709 00:32:49,200 --> 00:32:53,559 Dumbgeons and Dragons is a Dumb Dragons production.