[0.0s] Dumbgeons and Dragons will begin in a moment.
[4.2s] Yeah, I'll be right back with that registrar.
[6.4s] What, what are you doing in this room?
[9.2s] This is where I spend my time when the students aren't here. I make notes from the day. I log important events. Any gestures to the cabinets that are in the room?
[23.2s] Oh, question for you. Please. You said this is where you stay when the when the children aren't here, when the students aren't here. Where did the students go?
[33.0s] I presume the students went home for the day.
[37.5s] Okay.
[39.1s] Did you ever check upstairs? What do you mean?
[41.7s] Nothing.
[43.6s] How many how many students would be in this class for you to check on?
[51.6s] Presently enrolled, as far as I recall, based on your questions, I have a feeling some things may have changed. But perhaps that is I that has changed. There were 37 students enrolled at this school.
[70.0s] Do you do you know their names?
[71.8s] I have a registrar of their names. Yes.
[74.6s] Who is the baddest one?
[76.5s] All students are here to learn and better themselves. There are no bad students.
[82.5s] Who is the naughtiest one?
[85.2s] There were some that tried the patience of the teachers. Yes. Rusty. Rusty was one.
[91.8s] When when they were naughty, you know, shenanigans were happening. They've been told several times to stop. What kind of consequences are we talking about?
[107.2s] Is your interest in the punishment of students?
[111.6s] Well, yes, just to compare against my own experience, you know, I'd like to know what I'm getting into at this school. Or was discipline not within your purview here?
[125.8s] It was just a marker of discipline. I imagine the discipline would be taken on by the teachers, which how many teachers did you say there were and what were their names?
[136.6s] There were two teachers here when I was he as he as it's speaking, it appears to be gaining context from the things that you're saying.
[150.6s] There were two teachers here. Last I recall, a dwarven fellow named Kill Darum and an educator went by the name of Demise.
[167.7s] What's a dwarven's teacher's name again?
[169.8s] Kill Darum.
[172.2s] Kill Darum?
[174.4s] It's better than Kill Delights.
[177.7s] Kill Darum.
[178.5s] And bring in the noise and bring in the fun.
[181.4s] Less teaching to do comedy.
[183.6s] Lessen the rule, was it?
[188.0s] Dumbgeons and Dragons is a D&D actual play podcast and I'm your dungeon master Russ More, he, him. Also with me today is Amy More as Alydin, she, her.
[197.7s] Are all students classified?
[199.6s] Tom Laird as Kavlaran Goldweave, he, him.
[202.6s] Ask again later?
[204.3s] And Kyle Claset as Bizard the Wizard, he, him.
[207.3s] Yes, please. And that, thank God. Thank you, little dice.
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[222.1s] Join us today at patreon.com slash dumb dragon cast. And now, fuck it, let's play.
[229.8s] But 270 years is not necessarily a long time for a dwarf.
[237.5s] Okay, um, yeah, you were gonna ask something.
[240.5s] Uh, well, yeah, no, I was just wondering, like, who made you? Is that rude?
[246.0s] I did not know my manufacturer.
[250.6s] Me neither.
[252.2s] I'm sorry.
[253.1s] So, like, the worst consequences I've gotten in school so far have been just detention.
[263.7s] She looks over at Bizarre and goes, just kidding.
[266.6s] Like, would the kids get detention here at this school?
[270.0s] Children have received detention, writing of lines.
[275.0s] Oh, line writing, yeah.
[276.8s] Cleaning of various equipment around the school.
[283.0s] There was never any ill intent towards the children, if that is what your question is.
[290.3s] Well, you know, sometimes, you know, for their own good or whatever, that none of that happened here.
[298.0s] Not under my watch.
[299.6s] What city is the school in?
[302.2s] This school resides in, and it looks like it's considering the three of you.
[308.2s] This school resided in Vinter's mouth.
[312.9s] Uh, that read was weird.
[316.8s] Um, is this machine being shifty?
[320.2s] I wouldn't expect it, but I've seen weird stuff.
[323.0s] You can roll in sight.
[325.2s] You're really liking those two tonight.
[327.2s] Those twos.
[327.9s] All right, that's a seven.
[329.1s] I'm going to stop rolling you.
[330.7s] What is happening?
[331.6s] I'm getting all the twenties.
[332.8s] These boys are rolling shit.
[334.9s] All right.
[335.5s] Yeah, unfortunately, yeah, you don't pick anything up off any sort of
[340.9s] contextual feeling one way or the other.
[344.6s] Who is the principal at this school?
[347.6s] Well, the principalship was shared by the educators.
[351.6s] Oh, so, so Keel and Demise?
[356.0s] Correct.
[357.4s] And who wears short shorts?
[361.2s] Hmm.
[362.0s] Oh, it got Russ with that one, guys.
[363.5s] I don't know who wore short shorts, but boots with the fur was Demise.
[374.7s] But she had the whole school looking at her.
[377.1s] Twas hot in her.
[384.2s] And that's where that will stop because it's in the school.
[387.7s] You hear it's the school for children.
[390.8s] I footsteps and a call downstairs.
[393.7s] I have that registrar.
[395.1s] Do you do?
[395.9s] Is it safe to come down?
[397.6s] Oh, yeah.
[399.0s] Oh, yeah.
[399.6s] Thank you so much.
[401.7s] Look at Alydin.
[402.5s] Like, oh, I assume she's not like coming down the stairs.
[406.0s] Is she?
[406.6s] I thought she was like screaming from the top.
[408.4s] Oh, she was screaming.
[409.1s] She was very much not wanting to.
[412.5s] Does anybody want to come get it?
[414.5s] Sure.
[414.9s] I'll, I'll, I'll be right there.
[416.6s] All right, Cav, you quickly run up the stairs, grab the list.
[420.8s] She says, is everything OK down there?
[424.0s] We found some weird like automaton type thing that said it's like the
[428.5s] guardian of the school.
[429.4s] Anyway, gotta go figure this out.
[430.8s] We'll be back.
[432.7s] Oh, I like you have interpreted hall monitor as guardian of the school.
[440.2s] I love that so much.
[441.6s] I mean, what is a hall monitor if not the guardian of the school, Amy?
[446.5s] I love it.
[448.8s] That's someone who takes their job real seriously.
[451.9s] Cav, you come back and have the registrar's list.
[455.5s] So do you know how to play any cool games?
[457.4s] I did not partake in playground games.
[460.7s] I monitored the children.
[462.1s] OK, but like X's and O's?
[465.1s] I do know the rules for X's and O's.
[469.9s] And did you play?
[471.9s] No.
[474.2s] Did no kids ask you to play?
[476.5s] Children asked me to play.
[477.8s] It was not my role to play.
[480.0s] Did you want to play, but you didn't because it wasn't your role?
[484.0s] There's been stuff I've wanted to do, but that I didn't because it wasn't.
[490.0s] Like. For me.
[494.8s] But I still wanted to.
[496.4s] I was in charge of the children's safety.
[499.6s] Russ, are there any other doors in this room, or is this kind of just
[503.3s] like where this ends?
[504.8s] This is where this room seems to end.
[506.5s] So, yeah, in this room, there's the desk that this being was seated at.
[511.5s] He's it's now standing in front of you.
[514.4s] There are a few filing cabinets that do appear to have documents in them.
[518.1s] Some of them are like, yeah, like a cracked open a little bit.
[522.7s] How tall is this entity?
[525.3s] He stands six foot four.
[530.7s] Oh, so very big.
[532.0s] He appears very tall in front of all of you.
[534.8s] I think Cav is probably the tallest of the three of you,
[537.5s] and he's still taller than Cav.
[540.5s] So looking down at the floor, at the ruins that we're standing in,
[545.0s] what sense can I make of what I'm seeing?
[548.2s] Arconically, do you want to roll our comments, please?
[552.7s] And that thank God.
[554.4s] Thank you, little dice.
[555.8s] That's going to be a 24. We're back.
[557.6s] Damn, damn.
[562.4s] Class is now in session.
[564.9s] What you see just at a glance, without any sort of check,
[567.7s] you see a faint circular etching in the floor.
[570.8s] There's geometric precision that doesn't appear to be decorative in any way.
[576.7s] It currently is not glowing.
[578.8s] But when you did step inside, you saw that faint glow,
[581.9s] which appeared at least context clues to activate this hall monitor.
[587.6s] You see lines intersecting at odd angles
[590.8s] that don't quite align with the room's general architecture.
[595.3s] You spend some time as as it's talking
[599.6s] and you catch something.
[602.9s] The structure of the ruins resembles
[608.5s] a sort of puzzle,
[611.8s] and it has similarities to certain ruins that you saw in the library room.
[618.7s] The geometry itself
[621.4s] matches the ley line alignment diagram that you saw in that room as well.
[627.2s] The magic itself, the ruins itself does not appear to be local.
[632.2s] Nobody in town or nothing outside of these extra
[637.0s] planar events where have you been able to tie to anything in particular.
[643.1s] The system itself appears to be built
[646.5s] with the same principles as the false entrance.
[649.4s] And when you trace the outer ring with your eyes,
[654.8s] the circle itself briefly appears larger,
[659.8s] not physically, but conceptually.
[663.4s] It's as though this room once existed inside something much bigger
[668.8s] and then it snaps back really quick.
[672.0s] OK, as you're examining it, you cross the ruins and enter into the circle.
[680.0s] And as you do so, the bell that is on the hall monitor begins to tremble.
[685.0s] You hear a slight
[687.1s] tinkling of this bell.
[689.9s] One room glows briefly.
[694.2s] And you hear a whisper not coming from the hall monitor,
[698.3s] but you bizarreed hear a whisper that says status pending.
[705.4s] Does anybody else hear it or is it just bizarre?
[707.3s] Just bizarre.
[708.3s] I'm going to pull out the the the thread
[712.4s] and see if there's any reaction from it.
[714.6s] You pull it out and the thread tightens slightly,
[718.8s] not violently, just enough to confirm that this place
[723.8s] perhaps was once tied to what you're seeking.
[728.3s] OK, I step out of the circle.
[732.0s] The bell on the hall monitor stops vibrating and the room slowly dissipates.
[739.3s] OK, I remember.
[745.2s] I remember Bonwyn hearing it.
[747.5s] So the voice that I heard in the false index after placing my
[752.0s] tome on the pedestal repeated itself.
[755.7s] And it's a lot of similar
[760.2s] activity to the false index.
[765.7s] What do you mean?
[766.6s] Well, the I hold the thimble out and I heard the thread out
[770.2s] and just kind of let the spool like float for a moment
[773.2s] and then grab it up again and say also
[778.1s] step in there and see if you hear what was the phrase that you heard again.
[782.6s] Well, you don't even have to tell me just.
[785.4s] See if you hear it.
[786.4s] I don't think I said it out loud.
[788.8s] Yeah, I step in to the circle.
[792.4s] OK, because I trespassered.
[794.2s] Alydin, you step in and
[797.9s] you all hear the hall monitor's bell tremble again,
[801.0s] and this time two rooms flicker.
[805.0s] You know, after a brief moment, both go dark.
[810.0s] You don't hear a voice, Alydin.
[812.7s] The bell stops ringing as the lights go dark.
[817.0s] I step back out and I shrug.
[819.5s] Hmm. Nothing.
[824.4s] Cav, you try. Yeah.
[826.0s] OK, sure.
[827.3s] Cav, you step in after Alydin exits and similar to Bazaar,
[832.2s] one room illuminates a different room on the other side of the circle.
[838.0s] Can I be walking around and sketching these rooms as I go?
[841.6s] Sure. As they're doing things.
[843.8s] I don't have specific images of them, but just right.
[845.8s] I sketch rooms. Or Cav room or whatever.
[850.7s] Same thing. The bell trembles.
[853.8s] One of the rooms glows briefly and Cav, you hear a whisper,
[859.1s] again, barely audible, that says status pending.
[863.3s] Anything? Yeah, same sort of thing Bazaar had.
[868.9s] Hmm.
[872.9s] Why?
[877.4s] Why us?
[878.4s] Um, hey, why did they hear a voice and I didn't?
[884.7s] I'm addressing the construct, obviously.
[888.6s] I have an answer for that.
[890.2s] OK, good.
[892.2s] I love it when there's an answer for my question.
[894.1s] Very rarely does it happen at all.
[897.6s] So this is exciting.
[899.2s] Welcome to the middle, everybody. How are you doing?
[901.2s] Hey, we are right here.
[903.1s] Wondering about you. Glad to be here.
[905.5s] Oh, I'm doing great.
[907.6s] You know, is living the dream of working at Target.
[912.4s] Oh, shit. That's a that's a deep pull.
[915.8s] It's that off screen is what that was.
[922.4s] You know, it could be an inspirational time for Kyle
[925.6s] just to motivate everybody is what it could be.
[927.8s] That's right. Motivational words.
[929.1s] What do you really want to be doing, man?
[930.8s] Yeah. What do you really want to be doing?
[932.5s] Because if, you know, you want to, you should try it. Yeah.
[936.9s] What if you want to, like, help support your favorite podcast?
[940.8s] Fucking. Oh, my gosh.
[942.9s] There's a place you can do that, Carla.
[945.8s] Wow. What?
[947.6s] Tell me. How do I do it?
[949.4s] He's the most coherent start to a middle we've had in a long time.
[953.0s] Word of mouth on, like, social media.
[955.0s] But if you're looking to get like something for something,
[958.2s] a little squid pro crow, you know what I'm saying?
[961.1s] Then we got that Patreon.
[963.8s] We do. Hell, yeah, we do.
[965.3s] We've had it for a while. We talk about it incessantly.
[969.8s] But that's the only way to make sure people know about it,
[972.6s] because they duck in, they duck out, they listen to the story.
[975.9s] They wait till they get caught up.
[977.6s] And then there's this constant reminder of us saying, hey,
[980.8s] we love to do cool things.
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[991.0s] We're coming up on our 10 year anniversary next year, guys.
[994.2s] Oh, my gosh. That's crazy.
[996.2s] Damn. I'm adding it to the business agenda
[998.6s] that we have to talk about our 10 year anniversary.
[1002.0s] OK, we got a plan for that all through year nine.
[1005.2s] We can't do what radio does and figure out they're halfway through
[1008.6s] a big milestone anniversary and then be like, well, let's do a day.
[1012.9s] Yeah. I mean, we could do that. Yeah.
[1015.5s] We'll see what happens, but let's endeavor to do better.
[1019.0s] Let's do we go like that.
[1021.2s] So good. Yeah, we got there.
[1023.7s] But Patreon, which when you come support us on Patreon,
[1027.8s] that's exactly what you're doing is you're supporting the stories
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[1046.2s] There's some things that come along with that.
[1048.1s] And it also allows us to go do really cool things like get together
[1051.8s] in the same city and play games together,
[1055.6s] which is an entirely different dynamic.
[1057.9s] And I'm not going to knocking on wood.
[1060.3s] Yes, not going to have to say it.
[1062.3s] Damn it, Russell.
[1065.7s] Come on. I want you can't lightning can't strike twice.
[1070.5s] It does. Yeah, it does.
[1072.6s] There's things specifically designed to attract it.
[1075.4s] And I feel like you saying that was one of them.
[1077.5s] Like you're a pneumonia lightning rod now.
[1080.9s] Yeah, it's going to come back twice.
[1083.7s] It's going to be that old ammonia.
[1085.0s] No, that's what I'm talking about.
[1087.3s] It's going to be the same.
[1088.6s] It's going to be the same.
[1089.5s] Monia is coming back for revenge.
[1091.6s] It's like, yeah, retro ammonia pneumonia.
[1095.5s] I joke because it was terrible.
[1097.8s] It was terrible.
[1098.8s] It was terrible.
[1099.9s] What wasn't terrible was that we all got to get together.
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[1142.4s] It looks to consider your question and then
[1146.8s] goes to it takes a couple steps towards you.
[1150.1s] Do you do anything?
[1151.1s] No, I don't back up or anything.
[1152.5s] I'm feeling pretty chill about this guy. Sure.
[1154.8s] I step forward a little bit.
[1157.3s] Sure, it it sees you step like, you know, kind of in the way
[1162.0s] and it pauses and takes a step back and
[1165.9s] turns to you, Bazaar, apologies.
[1168.6s] I am moving to the filing cabinet
[1171.6s] on the other side of the room.
[1173.2s] If you would just I can move further.
[1175.6s] No, sorry. Yeah.
[1177.0s] And I shove Bazaar.
[1177.9s] I go, Bazaar.
[1178.8s] I step back.
[1180.0s] Don't embarrass me.
[1181.4s] He kind of takes a side step around
[1184.4s] and Alydin nods and moves to the filing cabinet
[1187.5s] and pulls one open,
[1190.2s] begins filtering through some of the files.
[1194.3s] He pulls a thin folder
[1198.5s] that you can kind of see over his shoulder.
[1201.6s] It looks like it has some meticulous script on it.
[1204.2s] And he he pulls it over.
[1205.7s] I'm trying to like. Yeah.
[1207.1s] You see over you see
[1210.2s] the header that says transitional students
[1213.2s] hold until classified.
[1216.3s] Inside you see names without ages.
[1220.1s] You're kind of skimming through as he's going.
[1222.9s] Ages without names.
[1225.0s] Marginal notes like exhibits adaptive traits.
[1229.9s] Does not respond to standard placement.
[1233.2s] Re-evaluate after alignment event.
[1237.0s] And then one page as he's flipping through
[1239.7s] that he lands on that's blank
[1240.9s] except for a single line that says
[1243.3s] Alydin pending determination.
[1247.0s] And it is dated for three days from now.
[1251.2s] I don't think you can be classified.
[1255.6s] What does that even mean?
[1257.7s] Uncertain.
[1258.6s] Ask again later.
[1259.5s] How does one get classified?
[1263.3s] What are the classifications?
[1265.6s] Why can't I be classified?
[1268.3s] Oh, is there.
[1270.2s] Is it a test?
[1273.7s] Do you just look at?
[1275.8s] Do you just.
[1277.7s] Did you classify them?
[1280.2s] I'm pointing to Cav and Bazaar.
[1282.2s] It is not I who classifies.
[1284.6s] Who classifies.
[1286.4s] Can I see that?
[1287.8s] He hands you the file.
[1289.0s] Damn.
[1290.5s] I hand it back to Bazaar.
[1291.8s] I didn't really want to look at it right now.
[1293.8s] It was a blank page with my name on it.
[1295.8s] That's.
[1298.2s] So who classifies?
[1300.3s] I'll open it up and look at it.
[1301.8s] I don't believe I'm authorized to remember that.
[1306.2s] Somebody's authorized your memories?
[1309.4s] Tilts his head again.
[1313.0s] I don't believe I'm authorized to remember that.
[1316.1s] I don't like that.
[1319.2s] That seems wrong.
[1320.2s] Doesn't that seem wrong?
[1321.0s] I mean, it doesn't seem great.
[1323.1s] Seems ominous.
[1326.0s] Is Tally's name in there?
[1328.4s] Why would my name be in there?
[1334.8s] When did your name get in there?
[1337.0s] So you don't know who.
[1339.2s] Is it important to be classified?
[1342.9s] I'm gonna go back to my other one.
[1344.1s] What are the classifications?
[1348.5s] I like that question.
[1349.7s] Classifications are specialties or traits
[1353.3s] that may be deemed of interest.
[1357.0s] If I ask of interest to who,
[1359.0s] are you gonna say that you're not authorized
[1361.5s] to remember that?
[1362.6s] Believe I'm authorized to remember that.
[1366.5s] Okay.
[1368.2s] What was this school for?
[1373.1s] Education.
[1375.0s] In?
[1376.8s] All subjects.
[1377.8s] Including magic?
[1382.1s] Magic is categorized.
[1387.2s] I am not.
[1388.0s] You are though.
[1389.4s] Then what is my purpose?
[1390.8s] I don't think purpose and categorization
[1393.2s] are necessarily the same thing.
[1395.2s] You've told us to protect the kids.
[1399.2s] Are you protecting them from categorization
[1403.4s] or classification?
[1405.5s] I don't believe protection of classification is necessary.
[1412.1s] Have you found anything that determines
[1414.4s] whether classification is negative in those files?
[1420.1s] Flip through these files.
[1423.2s] Doesn't appear to-
[1425.9s] Are all students classified, Bessard?
[1429.7s] I don't think that's how it works.
[1434.2s] You've never worked school administration,
[1437.1s] so I can't say that for sure.
[1444.0s] Kav, do you know somebody who,
[1449.4s] do you have a contact that knew like administration
[1451.9s] for schools or something?
[1455.0s] I mean, not off the top of my head,
[1457.4s] but probably Oak knows someone.
[1461.2s] Should we ask June?
[1462.9s] June might know.
[1464.5s] Does June even know about this?
[1468.4s] That's a great question.
[1469.5s] Who is June?
[1471.2s] I think that's the answer.
[1473.5s] June's a good friend.
[1475.6s] I wanna have like an aside with Bessard
[1480.0s] and just be like, come here.
[1482.5s] Step out of the room, yeah.
[1486.3s] What are you thinking?
[1487.1s] I don't think that like this,
[1490.5s] I'm getting the feeling that this guy
[1492.6s] isn't inherently bad,
[1495.8s] but I'm getting the feeling like he has like a trigger
[1502.2s] maybe that will make him do something bad.
[1509.3s] I think you're onto something there
[1511.0s] based off of the runes on the floor.
[1513.7s] It appears, like I said, tied to the false index
[1518.6s] or the archive in general, so.
[1522.7s] Should we ask him about the archive?
[1525.3s] I don't think he's permitted to remember that.
[1529.6s] That upsets me.
[1533.0s] I know, it's okay.
[1535.5s] It'll be okay.
[1536.8s] I look down at CQ and I go,
[1540.1s] I permit you to remember everything,
[1542.6s] just so you know.
[1544.4s] We can go check with,
[1547.1s] we know June doesn't know about this thing.
[1549.6s] What we need to figure out is.
[1552.5s] Hold on, how do we know June doesn't know about this thing?
[1555.2s] That's actually a fair point,
[1556.3s] just because it doesn't know June
[1557.4s] doesn't mean June doesn't know about it.
[1559.3s] True. They could be like,
[1560.1s] hey, there's like this weird thing in the basement,
[1562.0s] don't touch it.
[1562.8s] And as the school administrator,
[1564.2s] like maybe there's some handoff from the previous one
[1568.4s] to explain what the hell's going on?
[1573.5s] I wanna give the benefit of the doubt.
[1578.1s] Like, can we keep him?
[1580.2s] I don't think that's a good idea.
[1584.6s] I do think that we take note of this event,
[1590.8s] recognize its potential,
[1593.5s] but other than some of the oddities
[1595.6s] going on in the classrooms.
[1597.7s] We should ask him about the oddities
[1599.6s] going on in the classrooms.
[1601.5s] True, maybe it's something related.
[1605.0s] That's the next direction.
[1608.0s] Let's go.
[1608.8s] Hey, Joe, mind if I call you Joe?
[1612.8s] What'd the kids call you?
[1613.6s] They just said hall monitor, didn't they?
[1616.0s] They did.
[1617.8s] Is there another name that you would prefer to be called?
[1621.0s] I have not considered it.
[1623.2s] Okay, well, yeah, consider it.
[1624.9s] Would you call me Joe?
[1626.8s] If you like it.
[1628.6s] I don't find it distasteful.
[1633.0s] Okay, if you do, let me know.
[1635.1s] I'll call you Joe.
[1637.1s] I'll stop calling you Joe.
[1639.4s] There are some weird things happening in the school, Joe.
[1643.9s] Like desks, like growling at students
[1647.0s] and like moaning, kind of complaining.
[1649.2s] The bells are ringing all by themselves at weird times.
[1652.7s] Also, there's this weird knocker
[1654.5s] that is like interrogating people
[1657.6s] before it's letting them inside of the classrooms.
[1661.3s] I just developed a list out of nowhere.
[1664.6s] What do you, have you seen anything like that?
[1667.6s] Isn't that weird?
[1669.1s] I don't believe I'm authorized to remember that.
[1673.6s] Then it glitches briefly.
[1676.1s] The runes on the floor,
[1679.0s] you said they look to appear like a puzzle piece.
[1682.3s] I'm going to try to manipulate,
[1684.4s] see if it's able to be manipulated like a slid
[1688.8s] to actually be solved like a puzzle.
[1692.0s] Are we talking like one of those tile puzzles?
[1693.9s] Yeah, something like that.
[1695.0s] I'm thinking more so like spinning the rings
[1697.3s] to make the picture come together is where my head's at.
[1700.2s] But yeah, yeah, I like that.
[1704.6s] Let's go with it.
[1706.6s] Yeah, so you are,
[1709.2s] let's figure out how that works with the description
[1712.7s] that I gave and what you pictured.
[1714.6s] So you see them as like physical pieces on the floor
[1719.9s] or you see them like on a wheel in the middle of the floor.
[1723.7s] Yeah, so you described them as like a geometric precision
[1727.4s] and they don't seem to match up.
[1729.3s] It's like they're like off kilter from each other.
[1731.5s] So I'm imagining they probably need to be like shifted
[1735.6s] so that the,
[1738.2s] so essentially the ley lines that they're representing
[1740.8s] are readjusted to look proper by magical standards.
[1745.8s] By magical standards.
[1748.1s] So I'm thinking maybe there's a disconnect
[1750.0s] because of the way the rune is right now
[1752.5s] and maybe altering that if I can will permit him.
[1757.6s] Absolutely.
[1759.8s] So you bend down
[1765.4s] and find that the runes themselves
[1769.0s] are inlaid within this secondary piece.
[1774.8s] It's not obvious the amount of dust,
[1778.1s] the amount of clutter that's kind of in this room
[1780.5s] wasn't obvious at first,
[1781.7s] but you brush some of that away
[1783.7s] and you find that you are able to manipulate them.
[1786.0s] And as you manipulate them, the runes themselves,
[1788.4s] like as you move this circle,
[1791.6s] like it's moving like a lazy Susan.
[1795.2s] The runes themselves begin to spin in place
[1798.6s] as you move this structure.
[1802.8s] There are brief moments where the runes,
[1806.0s] as when you step through it,
[1808.0s] like some of them light up on the other side
[1811.4s] and then quickly fade.
[1812.9s] Every time one happens,
[1814.0s] there's a jingle of the bell on the hall monitor on Joe.
[1818.4s] Every third or fourth light that lights up,
[1821.8s] there's like, it looks like Joe is glitching.
[1825.5s] I'll let you decide how far you go
[1829.2s] with that, seeing that response.
[1831.7s] The first time I see a glitch result
[1834.0s] in an erratic behavior that could hurt somebody,
[1838.4s] I'm gonna stop.
[1839.6s] Okay.
[1840.7s] Yeah, we'll say like lights light up,
[1843.2s] bells go for the first couple of times,
[1844.9s] but then on like the third, fourth time,
[1847.7s] you see the glitches, like the same subtle glitch,
[1851.0s] but then like there's this rattle of his figure
[1856.0s] and which causes you to kind of retract.
[1859.1s] The, as the runes are spinning,
[1863.2s] like you see the ley line picture
[1867.1s] that was in the center of this, as I described,
[1870.1s] which was the same that was up on the wall
[1872.0s] in the previous room.
[1875.2s] You see the same as it's all laid out,
[1879.7s] you have a sketching of it from Alistair,
[1882.0s] who unfortunately isn't here,
[1884.2s] he would love this shit.
[1885.1s] I'm sure.
[1886.8s] You see it start to faintly glow,
[1889.8s] like right as you stop.
[1891.7s] Like it's just a low, like glowing hum.
[1894.5s] Doesn't look like it's fully illuminated,
[1896.3s] like all the runes, like they glue bright,
[1898.3s] but then they quickly fade.
[1901.0s] Joe, are you okay?
[1902.4s] I am fine.
[1904.6s] Do you?
[1906.0s] I feel fine.
[1907.5s] You feel?
[1909.1s] I don't feel, and he looks,
[1910.9s] he's looking at you kind of for context.
[1913.0s] I don't feel like I would bring anyone harm.
[1919.2s] I meant, are you hurting?
[1921.4s] Pauses, but doesn't respond,
[1923.5s] and then looks down at the clipboard
[1930.4s] that's fused to its arm,
[1932.2s] and he looks at it as if considering it,
[1936.4s] like he hadn't since you guys walked in,
[1939.6s] and lifts a couple of pages,
[1942.1s] and pulls this card.
[1945.1s] It's a parchment card,
[1946.2s] looks like a thicker stock of paper,
[1950.1s] and he goes to hand it to you.
[1954.3s] Says, I forgot I had this.
[1959.5s] He hands it to you and says,
[1962.6s] this permits passage without escalation.
[1967.5s] I believe it is incomplete.
[1970.8s] He hands it to you, Alydin.
[1973.0s] I reach forward and I take it.
[1975.4s] Do I see something that is incomplete on it?
[1979.6s] You see what looks like a hall pass or badge.
[1983.8s] It's warm to the touch as you grab it,
[1987.2s] and you see runes shift with names and rules.
[1992.8s] As he hands it to you again, he repeats.
[1996.6s] This allows passage without escalation.
[2000.8s] I am not authorized to know why that would be necessary.
[2008.5s] Dumbgeons and Dragons, season four, episode 57,
[2012.1s] starring Amy More as Alydin,
[2014.2s] Carla Maxted as Bonwyn Everbane,
[2016.4s] Tom Laird as Kavlaran Goldweave,
[2018.6s] Kyle Claset as Bizard the Wizard,
[2021.2s] and Russ More as your dungeon master.
[2023.8s] Dialogue editing and sound design of today's episode
[2026.4s] is by Russ More.
[2027.6s] Our community manager is Jessica Babiak.
[2030.1s] Music is from Epidemic Sound,
[2032.0s] and sound effects are from Epidemic Sound,
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