[0.0s] Dumbgeons and Dragons will begin in a moment.
[3.0s] Bizard, Alydin and Kavlarananan are the three people in this room.
[8.5s] You've just been, Alydin in particular, you've just been handed this, what looks like a hall pass to you
[16.1s] by your new friend, Joe, aka the hall monitor.
[22.0s] He hands it to you and he says, this allows passage without escalation.
[29.2s] I do not know why that would be necessary.
[32.0s] At that you hear footsteps and a call from down the hall, coming down the stairs.
[40.2s] You hear the voice of Tally and Bonwyn and Tally says, I think, I think they're down here,
[44.8s] but it's kind of creepy.
[46.4s] I don't want to go down here.
[47.6s] It is a little bit creepy down here.
[49.4s] What are they, what are they doing down there?
[51.7s] Well, they disappear down there and then somebody told me to go get you because you
[56.6s] guys all like to hang out and something about a person thing.
[68.8s] It sounded fine the way that Alydin described it, screaming up the hall.
[75.4s] Okay, I have drawn my weapon because what are we walking into?
[79.6s] I don't know.
[80.3s] Well, I'm not walking into anything.
[81.9s] You have fun.
[82.9s] No, okay, yeah.
[84.7s] Thanks, Tally.
[86.2s] Yeah, it is creepy.
[88.1s] They're just down there.
[89.7s] Okay.
[90.2s] You guys still down there?
[92.8s] Yeah.
[93.5s] Yeah, we're here for you.
[94.5s] Just follow their voices.
[95.5s] That's what I do when I get lost.
[97.6s] You scoot on out of here.
[99.0s] All right, we'll see you later.
[100.4s] I'll just set the timer again.
[103.3s] 15 minutes.
[104.6s] You got it.
[106.7s] Hey, where, what's going on?
[108.9s] Dumbgeons and Dragons is a D&D actual play podcast and I'm your dungeon master Russ More, He-Him.
[116.6s] Also with me today is Amy More as Alydin, She-Her.
[120.2s] Would you know it if you saw it?
[121.5s] Carla Maxted as Bonwyn Everbane, She-Her.
[124.6s] Say something that only you guys would know.
[126.9s] Tom Laird as Kavlarananan Goldweave, He-Him.
[129.8s] You are a pillar of the community.
[132.0s] And Kyle Claset as Bizard the Wizard, He-Him.
[135.1s] I was really hoping you would say no.
[136.7s] Dumbgeons and Dragons is a Patreon supported show so every twist, every triumph, every
[142.4s] truly questionable decision is possible because of listeners like you.
[147.4s] Join us today at Patreon.com slash dumb dragon cast and now fuck it, let's play.
[156.1s] And sorry, we're in the basement of the school.
[158.0s] Of the school, yes.
[159.6s] You've gone down into, well you went down into a basement and then there's like a
[163.8s] sub basement that was behind some filing cabinets.
[167.2s] This whole town is under ridden with secrets.
[171.3s] Yes, exactly.
[174.2s] So yeah, dust and cobwebs and you see an open door down at the end of this long hallway.
[181.2s] And that's where the voices of your friends are coming.
[184.2s] Make your way down there and step in and I will read aloud the description of this room
[192.1s] more or less again.
[193.4s] You see your three friends and they are surrounding a humanoid, a vaguely humanoid
[201.0s] figure.
[201.4s] He's constructed of lacquered wood or they're constructed of lacquered wood,
[205.5s] brass hinges and layered parchment that stretches across a narrow frame.
[211.2s] A small iron bell hangs from one wrist and a clipboard is fused into the other arm.
[217.1s] The page is yellowed but pristine.
[220.2s] And where a face should be, there's only blank parchment.
[225.0s] And as you step into this room you see that on the floor there are runes that are faintly
[232.2s] etched in a circular manner around the room.
[237.8s] There are various filing cabinets all covered in a very thick layer of dust in this space.
[244.8s] And a desk on the opposite side.
[248.3s] And there looks to be just a few footsteps coming from that desk that end with this
[253.8s] figure in the middle.
[255.8s] Hi, friends.
[257.9s] Do I need this?
[260.3s] And I show them my to be determined.
[264.6s] I don't think so.
[266.8s] Okay.
[268.2s] No, but I'm glad you're here.
[269.9s] Real quick.
[271.3s] We have a new friend.
[273.4s] This is Joe.
[275.1s] Hi, Joe.
[276.9s] Violence is not necessary here.
[279.8s] Great.
[281.8s] Great.
[282.5s] Okay, I'm glad.
[283.8s] Joe is the hall monitor for the school.
[288.1s] Oh, the secret underground lair of the school?
[295.7s] No, just this one room school.
[299.1s] Oh, I see.
[300.0s] This part of the school that only exists.
[303.8s] Okay.
[305.0s] Hey, you should stand inside that circle and see if you hear something familiar.
[310.2s] Oh, that's that's really cryptic.
[313.0s] Okay.
[313.8s] Are you guys really my friends or you're freaking me out?
[317.7s] No, sorry.
[318.5s] That only you guys would know.
[322.1s] I have a pretty cool tattoo on my back.
[325.2s] Oh, you I mean, that's true.
[326.7s] I feel like everybody might know about that stretch.
[331.4s] I feel like Joe would think it was pretty cool.
[334.0s] Absolutely.
[334.6s] This is the target audience.
[336.5s] Joe is the target audience.
[339.5s] Okay.
[340.1s] Yeah, I'll stand in the circle and see if I hear something.
[343.9s] He's not dangerous.
[344.6s] Because I trust you implicitly.
[347.5s] Thank you.
[347.8s] I hope you're my real friends, not weird fake versions of them.
[353.2s] I would never be fake.
[354.4s] Bonwyn, you step into this rune circle and immediately
[362.9s] everybody else sees that this is a different reaction.
[366.3s] The room itself reacts before the circle does.
[371.4s] The air grows warm.
[373.7s] The dust lifts, not swirling, but settling inward.
[379.7s] The bell on the hall monitor vibrates without ringing.
[383.4s] And then the runes flicker once.
[387.3s] Then they don't glow.
[389.8s] They steady.
[391.2s] You hear in your head, Bonwyn, you hear an older voice
[398.4s] than perhaps you've heard in to date.
[402.3s] Because you've been, everybody's been hearing voices.
[405.7s] It's older and slower and it says load bearing.
[413.2s] Then there's a pause.
[415.9s] Continuity through pressure.
[421.0s] You feel a heaviness in your shoulders
[425.4s] as though something unseen has settled there.
[432.9s] Do you hear anything?
[436.9s] Well, it said load bearing.
[439.6s] Did you guys hear that?
[441.0s] No.
[441.5s] No.
[441.8s] Oh, load bearing.
[443.7s] Continuity under pressure.
[445.8s] It didn't say what it said when you put the book in the pedestal?
[449.8s] That one time?
[450.6s] No.
[453.4s] Bizarre, roll me a perception, please.
[457.0s] Okay.
[457.8s] This is Carla not remembering, but I'm pretty sure that was something different.
[462.2s] That is a 22.
[465.0s] Bonwyn's describing this and you see on the opposite side of the rune circle,
[471.4s] catches your eye before anyone else,
[474.0s] you see a new rune being etched into the outer ring.
[480.2s] It's metallic, not inked like the others.
[484.3s] And as you see that come to fruition,
[488.3s] a low tonal hum begins to fill the room.
[495.1s] Is that bad?
[497.1s] Should I jump out of here, guys?
[500.9s] Did that happen before?
[502.2s] No.
[502.6s] What's happening?
[505.3s] Joe freezes and then says very softly,
[512.2s] faculty?
[515.8s] No.
[518.6s] Infrastructure.
[524.2s] It looks at you, Bonwyn.
[528.3s] Doesn't say anything else.
[531.4s] Infrastructure would make sense.
[533.4s] Did he assign roles to you?
[538.1s] No.
[539.8s] Not cool enough for that, I guess.
[542.9s] But you have like, oh, he's the hall monitor.
[546.5s] And he has a roster.
[548.8s] Oh, but he didn't say you were on the roster?
[552.3s] I'm, what did he say?
[556.2s] I'm unassignable.
[558.9s] I'm yet to be assigned.
[561.0s] I feel like those are two very different things.
[565.1s] Pending determination.
[566.9s] Pending determination.
[568.6s] Okay, so we can just roll with what you said.
[570.6s] That was close enough.
[573.5s] Okay, infrastructure.
[578.7s] So I'm like, part of this place?
[584.7s] Maybe.
[586.2s] In ways.
[588.4s] I did feel when the words were spoken,
[594.8s] like a weight was put on me.
[598.3s] Not like a weight lifting, like the opposite,
[601.0s] like something settled on to me.
[604.5s] Well, you are a pillar of the community.
[607.8s] I mean, that's kind of a funny pun,
[610.2s] but also accurate.
[611.9s] Yeah, very accurate.
[612.8s] I mean, it's likely that your ancestors contributed
[616.2s] to the building, the creation of this building.
[619.8s] For sure.
[620.8s] Yeah, absolutely.
[622.2s] Joe, do you know who built this place?
[624.7s] Who built the school?
[626.1s] I don't believe I'm authorized to remember that.
[629.8s] Oh yeah, Joe has a lot of problems with that.
[632.2s] Right.
[633.4s] Even though I might be related to them?
[636.6s] Was there an Everbane on your list?
[638.7s] He looks at the clipboard,
[640.4s] and you don't see anything on the clipboard.
[643.1s] He's flipping pages.
[646.9s] No, I don't see an Everbane.
[649.7s] Let me check my files,
[653.8s] and he goes over to some of the cabinets.
[660.6s] Well, he's doing that.
[661.9s] You guys, are we OK down here?
[664.4s] Why did Stally have to set a timer?
[665.9s] Still not sure.
[666.5s] Not sure.
[666.8s] OK.
[668.2s] Well, just in case.
[669.7s] Just a precaution.
[670.3s] OK, OK.
[671.1s] Just a check on us every once in a while.
[673.2s] That's really smart.
[674.2s] And thank you for sending her to get me.
[676.2s] I didn't.
[676.8s] We didn't send.
[678.1s] I'm kidding.
[678.6s] I'm fucking with you.
[681.4s] We were actually wondering how you got here.
[684.9s] Who brought you?
[686.2s] Are you actually Bonwyn?
[687.8s] Oh my god, we didn't even check.
[689.3s] We should have keywords or like, you know.
[692.2s] We should.
[692.9s] Secret handshakes.
[694.2s] Yeah.
[694.7s] Yeah, password.
[695.8s] So we know if someone tries to pick us up from school,
[698.2s] it's not our mom.
[700.0s] So Bonwyn, just so that you know,
[701.8s] this school's been doing really weird stuff lately.
[703.9s] Like we're not, I don't think it's Joe's fault.
[707.0s] Like the school school?
[708.2s] Yeah.
[709.0s] OK.
[709.5s] Like desks are groaning, and the bell just kind of,
[713.8s] it has its own schedule.
[716.2s] Hall notes, like hall passes have been changing.
[721.8s] OK.
[722.2s] So just more weird stuff, but specifically at the school.
[725.9s] Yeah.
[726.7s] But like.
[727.9s] But everybody's safe?
[728.9s] Are the kids all OK?
[730.0s] I don't know.
[730.7s] Tally got a hall pass to go to the bathroom,
[732.7s] and then it changed, and then she totally forgot to pee.
[738.6s] Oh, I hate it when that happens.
[741.0s] Yeah.
[741.3s] But like.
[743.2s] I still think that was weird,
[744.7s] because it's not like a, usually you,
[747.8s] people don't remind you, your body is like,
[749.8s] oh, hey, remember?
[750.6s] Exactly.
[752.6s] Oh, and there's a knocker that was talking.
[755.4s] Oh yeah, asking for a real question.
[758.4s] Oh.
[759.2s] Yes.
[759.7s] Was it being rude?
[760.6s] Like that book that was in the center of town,
[762.7s] and like calling people out?
[764.5s] I mean, not really.
[765.3s] It was just asking a visitor to the school
[767.3s] what they were doing, what they were doing there,
[769.4s] and who they were.
[770.2s] But like, it felt invasive at the time.
[772.8s] That's fair.
[774.2s] But it was to the door of the classroom we were in.
[777.6s] So not even the school.
[780.8s] True, just the classroom.
[783.0s] Kavlarananan was already in the school.
[785.5s] I'm not sure.
[786.5s] But I think Joe.
[788.6s] But no ink's been bleeding and attacking or anything,
[791.8s] so that's.
[792.5s] Not that I've seen.
[793.4s] No.
[793.7s] Okay.
[794.1s] No.
[794.7s] Okay, that's, I mean, that's better.
[797.2s] There is an obvious connection to that here.
[803.0s] So.
[803.8s] This guy also has a roster from like 250 years ago.
[810.5s] Oh, interesting.
[812.7s] But no ever been on there.
[816.5s] I thought my family had been here that long, but.
[818.6s] Well, I mean, your family of craftsmen, perhaps.
[821.9s] They just constantly passing down the family business.
[827.0s] Yeah.
[830.6s] Welcome to the middle, everybody.
[832.2s] Jesus.
[832.6s] It's the middle.
[833.7s] Right on into it.
[834.2s] I just sometimes find myself in the middle.
[836.6s] You wander through on a darkened path.
[838.9s] I had no idea what they say.
[840.4s] The sun clears.
[840.7s] You think you're going to visit your grandma.
[842.0s] The sun clears.
[843.7s] And all of a sudden, you're in the middle.
[845.1s] Yes.
[846.4s] Yeah.
[846.9s] On the trip to grandmother's house, we go down to the middle.
[850.9s] Exactly.
[851.0s] Hey, have you got your grandma to listen to Dumbgeons and Dragons yet?
[854.1s] You should sign us.
[854.7s] My grandmas love us.
[857.4s] Grandmas can't get enough of us.
[858.9s] Saucy grandmas.
[859.3s] That's the untapped market.
[860.8s] Saucy grandmas.
[862.6s] Yeah, grandmas who, you know, live through that satanic panic
[867.4s] and they're ready to play D&D.
[870.6s] Yeah, we want their ears.
[871.9s] We want them listening to us.
[873.8s] Dungeons is hot for grandmas.
[875.8s] And you know what, a little kind of a schedule change we haven't been the most on
[881.5s] because there's been illnesses and things happening,
[883.8s] but we are officially going to do bi-weekly for the next few weeks
[888.2s] just to kind of get back on track.
[890.4s] So there's no like, you know, expectation, all that sort of stuff.
[893.8s] But just to let you know.
[896.9s] That life is happening.
[897.6s] Let's just set an expectation so you don't have an expectation.
[900.0s] We're going to dial back the expectation that we had.
[904.3s] Yeah.
[904.7s] Talk to your grandma.
[906.2s] She'll explain that sometimes life throws up some roadblocks.
[910.8s] And we're giving you time to go listen whether yes.
[914.9s] Go to her.
[916.0s] This would be a great summer time with your grandparents.
[919.0s] That's right.
[919.5s] Or elderly aunts and uncles.
[921.3s] Called your grandparents recently.
[923.8s] Listen party.
[925.6s] Be like, oh, okay.
[927.1s] Right.
[927.3s] You don't know what to talk about with your grandparents.
[929.3s] You just sit down.
[930.8s] Nice hot cup of coffee.
[932.2s] Maybe some tea.
[933.2s] Let me tell you a little tale from Vinter Smith.
[935.4s] And press play.
[937.0s] Also, I think I've advocated this before.
[940.1s] But if you're over like helping them with tech stuff,
[943.9s] just subscribe to the podcast on their device.
[947.0s] Download the background.
[948.2s] They won't ever know.
[949.2s] It's totally fine.
[950.2s] Or maybe one day it pops up.
[951.6s] They're like, what's this?
[952.7s] What the hell is this?
[953.5s] They give it a listen.
[957.9s] So that's all we're talking about today is that we're going to slow down.
[961.8s] So you've got time to catch up with your grandparents, okay?
[965.7s] You're welcome.
[966.3s] Yes.
[966.8s] We're doing you a favor, it turns out.
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[979.1s] You can't see this, but I made a spreadsheet.
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[982.3s] Oh yeah.
[983.1s] Amy can see it.
[984.4s] It's real guys.
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[987.4s] It's got spots for episodes where we dedicated people.
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[994.2s] Oh, sorry.
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[1001.2s] Thanks, Zayde.
[1002.5s] Wow.
[1003.1s] What a fucking awesome name.
[1004.3s] I know.
[1004.6s] I feel like I say that every time.
[1006.9s] I know, but I feel like everyone has an awesome name.
[1011.1s] It's like no one has a bad smile because all have awesome names.
[1014.7s] Yeah.
[1016.0s] Thank you.
[1016.3s] Zayde particularly has a nice smile though.
[1019.5s] We probably all agree, right?
[1022.0s] Warm.
[1022.9s] Yes.
[1023.5s] Warm.
[1024.0s] Yeah.
[1024.6s] Reaches the eyes really beautifully.
[1026.8s] Zayde is someone who calls and catches up with their grandparents
[1031.4s] and listens to Dumbgeons and Dragons all the time.
[1033.2s] Absolutely.
[1035.0s] Be more like Zayde.
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[1044.6s] Get you back to the episode.
[1045.5s] Love you.
[1045.8s] Bye.
[1046.0s] How do I end these?
[1046.7s] I don't know.
[1047.1s] Love you.
[1047.5s] Bye.
[1047.8s] Bye.
[1048.2s] Hashtag be like Zayde.
[1051.3s] Joe's been filing through one of these cabinets and he pulls it pulls out the cabinet drawer
[1060.3s] and it's stuck halfway and you can kind of see over his shoulder like all of the files
[1066.2s] are old and worn and yellowing and he's filtering through and even like tries to
[1071.1s] pull back some and pulls out a folder and flips it open and he says and so you said
[1080.3s] Everbane, correct?
[1082.3s] Yeah, Everbane.
[1083.5s] Yeah.
[1084.4s] Holds a file with a header that you can see that says Lingersville Academy final roster.
[1093.5s] The pages stop mid year.
[1097.5s] Names fade toward the end but one name does jump out and he points to it and it says
[1105.8s] Malin Everbrain Everbrain Malin Everbane.
[1112.0s] She was a nerd.
[1112.7s] That's what the kids called her to make fun of her.
[1114.5s] That was hilarious.
[1115.5s] Malin Everbrain.
[1116.6s] Everbrain over here.
[1118.7s] Status on the roster says age 12.
[1121.8s] Apprentice track.
[1123.2s] Craft in brackets.
[1125.7s] Malin that's that's my like great great great great great great grandma.
[1132.7s] You know guys the one with the forge and the oh that great great great great great
[1138.1s] great grandma and Lingersville.
[1140.9s] Yeah that's the that's the town that's no more.
[1147.0s] Yeah when was the last time someone checked?
[1151.4s] If it is no more things aren't the same as they were before.
[1157.2s] Yeah oh well we talked about going there didn't we we were gonna because the weird
[1163.0s] things were happening and we were like let's go where the weird things are happening.
[1167.8s] I think and then instead you guys came down to this much closer place where weird things
[1172.3s] are happening so I get it.
[1173.8s] Well it just kind of you know we were here talking about school and then.
[1177.9s] Plus like it's really hot for a long walk like that right now.
[1180.9s] It's true it's actually I mean it's it's nice down here subterranean you know.
[1186.0s] Yeah.
[1186.4s] Keeps it cool.
[1189.0s] I do think that this was it all feels too convenient but it's kind of pointing back
[1196.3s] towards Lingersville something is just drawing us towards that I mean because
[1202.7s] the students coming from there that's being tied to it this I don't know it seems like
[1208.2s] it's the right direction to go and this just gives me maybe more confidence in that decision.
[1213.3s] Yeah question did we ever get any information about whether or not the kids
[1220.9s] who came back from the fae were in the roster?
[1225.8s] Oh right yep.
[1227.0s] Yeah we had discussed like oh we should see if some of those kids that have been away
[1230.5s] for forever were from Lingersville.
[1233.0s] No we have we would not have gotten any of that information to at this point.
[1240.0s] No on the on the roster there are a few other names that you can see.
[1244.2s] I would love those names what do we got we got a Knops we got a what do we got?
[1249.5s] Loris Harrison age 9 noble track civic studies Elric River RYVER age 14 military preparatory
[1265.2s] Heron Linger age 16 advanced commerce Junel Foison age 11 athletics and navigation
[1277.7s] and A Grieves age is redacted clerical apprentice and name is also partially redacted hence
[1288.7s] just the A.
[1290.2s] So the real founders of Lingersville it sounds like Linger and then Foison is yeah huh well
[1298.6s] it makes me uneasy but I don't have a good reason for that.
[1302.0s] Right.
[1302.9s] Joe how long have you been the hall monitor here a long a long time?
[1307.3s] I've been the hall monitor since since the academy was founded.
[1315.0s] And who hmm this feels rude who made you?
[1323.1s] Probably not authorized to remember that.
[1325.5s] Oh okay yeah of course you guys asked of course yeah.
[1329.6s] I believe I used to report upward.
[1334.8s] Right that makes sense.
[1336.8s] Like to the headmaster?
[1340.3s] I believe so.
[1341.8s] Who was the headmaster?
[1343.3s] I don't believe I'm authorized to remember that.
[1348.2s] It's not like on any forms anywhere.
[1349.5s] I was gonna say maybe a file somewhere.
[1352.9s] Are we permitted to go through these files or?
[1355.8s] Oh please.
[1358.3s] He steps aside.
[1360.0s] And I was really hoping you would say no I don't want to.
[1362.5s] Yeah no there's so many.
[1364.0s] That's like oh I don't know what we'd be looking for.
[1367.2s] I tried that one with oak too it didn't work with him either.
[1370.2s] Okay.
[1370.8s] I've misplaced a ledger and he looks like he goes
[1373.9s] I think deep into thought and then flips on his clipboard again.
[1378.8s] I think himself goes over to one of the cabinets and begins searching through the files.
[1386.1s] Not here.
[1387.2s] Do you want us to help you look for it?
[1392.0s] Yeah you give us like.
[1393.8s] Tell us what it looks like and we're happy to help.
[1397.9s] We're really good at finding stuff.
[1399.4s] I don't remember the specifics of it but
[1402.5s] there's something I feel important about it I just can't place it.
[1407.4s] Would you know it if you saw it?
[1409.1s] I hope I would.
[1410.2s] Russ can I use my eye for detail to do a perception check
[1413.8s] to try and find a hidden creature or object or to uncover or decipher clues?
[1420.4s] Sure.
[1421.2s] I don't have a good plus for perception but let's see how she rolls.
[1426.1s] Not great that's a plus zero.
[1431.0s] 12.
[1432.4s] Okay you're looking around and like large I mean largely
[1438.9s] everything in this room has been untouched except for the couple drawers that he's
[1443.2s] opened the footsteps of all of you around on the floor.
[1446.8s] You begin like checking drawers yourself and all of you and Bon when you get to a drawer
[1454.9s] that seemingly won't open.
[1457.7s] Do you do you have a key for this one Joe?
[1461.0s] No none nope none no none none none none none none.
[1469.4s] The drawers should not require any keys or locks.
[1473.4s] Oh okay maybe I just need to really like put my weight into it so I kind of like
[1479.4s] You can do it.
[1480.3s] Spread my leg lower center of gravity and just like really reef on it.
[1485.7s] Sure uh roll a strength check.
[1489.1s] Sure I do oh that's just a 10.
[1493.9s] You hear whatever is jamming it like like straining like you're picturing you putting
[1501.8s] your feet up like now pulling on it like in a bit of a comical style.
[1508.5s] Part of it gives way a little bit so that like there's only just the faintest view
[1514.2s] inside the drawer but it doesn't budge beyond that.
[1518.7s] Can somebody do you guys want to try?
[1520.4s] Oh oh oh okay okay um I want to cast Mage Hand.
[1525.4s] I go over and I crack my knuckles and and I look a Bizard who probably looks like he's
[1531.8s] about to give some sort of like helpful like way to go and I was like I I got this I got
[1539.0s] this I got this because I'm embarrassed from what happened last time so.
[1542.6s] Mind Hand.
[1544.0s] Mind Hand so I want to essentially put my super thin little mage hand in and if I can
[1555.5s] if there's like a move that spatula that's blocking the that or grab files and slip them out
[1562.6s] because sure it's open I'm sure a page with them out at least uh so I I do that I think
[1572.0s] really hard and I try not to get into my own head about it.
[1575.0s] Okay describe to me what it looks like as it as it works this is the second time you've
[1579.8s] done this today and you're feeling confident.
[1582.5s] Oh yeah yeah I'm getting better um so as I'm thinking about it I'm doing a weird hand wiggly
[1592.6s] motion which is unnecessary I'm sure um and then the same shiny color of my eye
[1603.1s] is the color of my mage hand so um and it's kind of wispy and a little smoky and
[1608.1s] slips into the drawer and like yeah gropes around I guess I can't see it can't see
[1615.0s] just like whatever you touch pull it out yeah it's inside there is a single ledger in there
[1620.2s] that you you tamp around and grab and then you pull this book and like it strains against the
[1625.8s] the drawer as as Bonwyn's pulling at it to allow leaving just the littlest more room
[1632.0s] um and pops out and it hands it to you.
[1638.5s] You see that see that's amazing.
[1640.5s] Well done yep great job.
[1642.5s] What's in here?
[1643.8s] It is a blank ledger and on the inside cover though it says index subset dash educational
[1655.5s] nothing else is written.
[1656.7s] What if we like hold it up to the light can we see where there was writing
[1661.0s] and we make an etching on it.
[1662.4s] What does it say again?
[1664.2s] Index subset dash educational.
[1668.1s] Didn't Alistair say that the archive is indexing?
[1673.8s] I just saw that in my notes you guys.
[1676.8s] Yeah he did.
[1678.6s] So this is index are does it have to is it part of the same?
[1683.7s] Hey Joe do you know where the the weeping archives are?
[1687.7s] Worth a shot great question.
[1689.2s] Yeah.
[1690.6s] He looks down at the ledger and there's like a puzzled body language that he gives off and
[1699.0s] he says I don't believe I'm authorized to to remember that but that I believe is the
[1708.4s] ledger that I was thinking of and he comes over and oh looks at it and.
[1713.0s] Alydin you found it in the coolest way possible.
[1715.3s] Great job.
[1716.1s] I think you found it Bonwyn.
[1717.5s] He looks at it takes it from you if you offer it flips through the pages I remember I
[1726.4s] I don't know why I remember this book.
[1730.9s] Like it it may have been important or are you not supposed to know it but you do?
[1736.8s] I don't know and he closes it and hands it back to you.
[1740.6s] And sorry all the pages are blank?
[1742.5s] Correct except for the inside cover.
[1744.3s] Where yeah yeah yeah.
[1745.7s] Can you guys like I don't know like magic reveal.
[1748.9s] I'm sorry I don't know how your powers are.
[1750.6s] Oh let's write in it maybe it'll be like that book that oh writes.
[1755.3s] Let me try that.
[1757.0s] I hand it like I gesture towards Cav and I'm bizarre and I'm like
[1761.4s] I don't want to what if I get sucked into the book I know that sounds stupid.
[1766.5s] I mean you probably won't but I'll do it I'll do it it's fine.
[1770.8s] So Cav you go to write anything in the book?
[1774.5s] Yeah.
[1774.8s] Does Joe seem worried about this as we're like?
[1777.3s] No.
[1778.1s] Okay great.
[1778.7s] Yeah not giving up.
[1779.4s] I'll write out my job title at City Hall.
[1783.1s] You begin to write and it's it's like when a pen is out of ink like nothing appears on
[1790.1s] the page nothing you want to write is there there's no indent in the paper as if you
[1795.9s] had just you know pressed too hard nothing happens to the page.
[1802.5s] That's weird.
[1808.3s] Dumbgeons and Dragons season 4 episode 58 starring Amy More as Alydin,
[1814.0s] Carla Maxted as Bonwyn Everbane,
[1816.3s] Tom Laird as Kavlarananan Goldweave,
[1818.5s] Kyle Claset as Bizard the Wizard,
[1821.0s] and Russ More as your dungeon master.
[1823.7s] Dialogue editing and sound design of today's episode is by Russ More.
[1827.4s] Our community manager is Jessica Babyok.
[1830.0s] Music is from Epidemic Sound and sound effects are from Epidemic Sound,
[1833.9s] Boom Library, and Sound Ideas.
[1836.1s] Our amazing cover art is by Matt Garbutt.
[1838.8s] A huge thank you to our supporting producers,
[1841.3s] Gabriel Lynch, Jessica Babyok,
[1843.4s] Angaron Kierzen, Perry Matey,
[1845.5s] Count Waterflame, Jacob Madden,
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[1850.1s] and L.A. Branton.
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