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[2.2s] Dumbgeons and Dragons is a D&D actual play podcast, and I'm your dungeon master Russ
[31.9s] More, he him. Also with me today is Amy More as Alydin, she her. Carla Maxted as Bonwyn
[39.2s] Everbane, she her. Tom Laird as Kavlaran Goldweave, he him. And then Kyle's playing
[47.2s] a theremin, I love it. And Kyle Claset as Bizard the Wizard, he him. Dumbgeons and
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[72.7s] Dare is running real hard towards you.
[76.0s] Run so hard.
[77.8s] Bizard you had something prepped before. Absolutely give you that to try and stop
[85.6s] this bear.
[86.3s] Yeah, waving my arms as if I'm participating in this but really casting web to stop it
[93.0s] because it's going to charge I can have a feeling about it. So yeah, that's
[97.6s] going to be a DC 14 dexterity save. I'm going to center it right on it, make
[103.8s] it as difficult as possible.
[106.1s] That is going to be an 11.
[108.8s] Okay, that is a fail. So it is restrained by the webs. They can take an
[114.0s] action using a strength athletics check to break it. DC 14.
[118.9s] Amazing. Okay, so this bear running towards you all fours you see it as the
[124.8s] light kind of shines down on it. These mushroom caps coming out of what
[129.9s] appear to be open wounds all along this bear's body has this well, I
[138.1s] mean, angry look as it's tearing towards you as these webs shoot up in
[142.2s] front of it and ensnare around it as it's scratching and clawing at it.
[148.0s] What do we do? Do we run? We can't outrun it.
[151.0s] You can start trying get down and I mean, I need to maintain
[155.4s] concentration on the webs and hope that this thing is weak.
[163.4s] Where are we? Are we there yet?
[164.9s] There's a giant bear.
[166.4s] Where?
[167.0s] It's covered in mushrooms.
[167.7s] Right there.
[168.5s] What if what can we pull and push this card and run?
[172.4s] I can push a cart.
[175.3s] And then you, Bizarre, do you just focus on your web?
[178.4s] I'm focusing and...
[180.2s] But then what? I think we have to fight it.
[185.2s] I know that's stupid, but Bizarre can't just stay here and concentrate
[187.7s] on the bear all day and then he's going to try and run away and then
[189.8s] it's going to chase him.
[190.4s] I think he said we put him in the cart.
[191.3s] Yeah, what if he sits in the cart and we like take off with him and
[194.6s] we run and he can like keep the concentration going.
[197.2s] Oh, smart.
[199.4s] I'm not thinking clearly.
[200.4s] Okay, that's a great idea.
[201.5s] You hear the snapping of the webs as it's trying to trying to break free.
[207.0s] Bizarre, as you climb into the back of the wagon, Alistair and whoever's
[211.0s] pulling, Alistair's pushing, whoever's pulling, you barrel off.
[216.3s] Okay, Cav, you're pulling.
[218.1s] Barrel off down this path.
[220.7s] Hey, Trees, if there's anything you can do right now to like do a little
[224.2s] like a wall, that'd be great.
[226.6s] There's a pause as you hear
[229.6s] your voice delayed echo through the trees.
[234.6s] You hear a roar from the bear come as you're running down this path and
[239.9s] you hear that same wood creaking behind you.
[244.1s] Go faster.
[245.6s] Yeah, we're all just running and like I assume all pushing and pulling
[248.4s] and like go faster.
[251.7s] Since it snapped out of the web, I'm going to break concentration on that
[255.5s] and I'm going to cast grease under it and try to make it fall.
[259.3s] Okay, yes, I'm going to cast banana peel.
[261.3s] Yeah, pretty much all of you moving down this hill.
[264.2s] You see it come over the crest of this hill and the grease spreads out
[270.1s] in front of it and like loses its footing like whoop whoop whoop whoop.
[275.1s] How embarrassing.
[276.4s] Oh, as Alydin, you see the roots extending from the side of the path,
[283.1s] making their way towards the bear itself, closing in on the path around it.
[288.7s] Oh, it's Alydin.
[290.9s] The vines listen to you.
[293.2s] OK, please keep doing that.
[294.8s] Thank you so much, Vine Lord.
[298.0s] I think that's what people would say.
[300.3s] I would think so, yeah.
[302.4s] I don't know how I feel about it.
[308.0s] The bear looks like it's like trying to scratch at the ground and
[312.0s] pick itself back up.
[314.0s] It's kind of like when in the movies you actually get a dinosaur to fall down
[320.8s] and then you are throwing the ropes over top of it.
[323.9s] You think that's going to do anything?
[324.9s] And you think it's going to do it and does it?
[327.2s] Does it do it?
[329.3s] Yeah, it manages to to get back up and the grease is pouring down the path.
[336.0s] So give me a little extra room on this here.
[340.2s] But the roots reach and like wrap themselves around the hind legs of this bear
[345.8s] and it's clawing at them.
[347.2s] It looks like its attention has been drawn away from you
[350.3s] and is trying to bat away the roots and the vines that have have come out of the forest.
[356.7s] Run. Thank you.
[358.2s] So we just keep running, right?
[360.0s] Yeah. Where are we going?
[361.1s] Are we running back the way we came or we're running it like came from the side
[365.4s] and we're continuing on?
[366.8s] You continue running.
[367.7s] You hear the the echoing sound of this bear off in the distance.
[372.0s] You hear the snapping sound of trees and vines and that slowly fades away.
[380.4s] You crest over another hill and you see the same scene that you saw before.
[385.6s] You see smoke coming up off in the distance, but it doesn't look like it's any closer.
[393.4s] Do you think that bear set that fire?
[396.0s] Did you bear set fires here in Vintresmith?
[399.2s] Well, bears don't have mushrooms growing out of them typically.
[402.7s] No, that was new.
[404.5s] That was gross.
[405.8s] Yeah. A poor bear.
[409.4s] It was so mad.
[410.8s] I'm glad we didn't have to fight it.
[412.6s] I've never fought a bear.
[416.5s] Yeah, I fought a stag once.
[420.0s] It's just looking into the middle distance.
[422.2s] Yeah, and just just reliving some trauma more.
[430.4s] I still have its fucking thing with me that I keep forgetting that I have.
[435.6s] I can't even remember the word to it, guys.
[438.2s] It's antlers.
[439.7s] Did you take antler?
[440.7s] It's hoof.
[441.7s] It's yeah, you had you had a lot of things that you took with you.
[448.1s] You had a lot of things that you took from it.
[451.8s] You used every part of it because you're a conscientious hunter.
[454.6s] Absolutely.
[455.6s] You touched elk.
[457.8s] So the antlers, yeah, you have the antlers of reflection.
[461.5s] I have a hoof stone.
[463.3s] Oh.
[464.3s] You have an echoing hoof stone.
[465.5s] What does that do?
[467.0s] So once per day, you can use it to reroll a failed saving throw.
[472.5s] God damn.
[473.7s] When you use it, you can hear your own voice whisper the successful outcome a moment before
[478.8s] it happens.
[480.3s] And you have the ink vial or somebody has the ink vial of the archive and antlers of
[486.6s] reflection.
[488.3s] Antlers of reflection are pretty cool.
[489.6s] I'm sure Bizard would have cast identify on that at least once.
[494.2s] Like something similar.
[496.6s] So the antlers of reflection, the effect of those while carrying one, the user can
[501.0s] cast mirror image once per long rest.
[504.7s] Oh, shit.
[506.1s] Yeah, this is the middle part of the show where we rediscover all the things we've already
[510.4s] received.
[512.4s] It's my favorite part.
[513.7s] Like, what? I've never even heard of that before.
[515.2s] I always learned so much.
[516.5s] I know.
[517.2s] Bizard, Arcana or Insight.
[520.5s] Is this in reference to the smoke?
[523.2s] Uh, yes.
[526.0s] OK, I'm going to go with Arcana.
[529.4s] Nineteen.
[530.4s] You pick up that this visual that you've seen now twice.
[536.9s] I think you may can't remember if it was in the downtime or in the episode, but you
[540.8s] drew the illusion, the effect that if the sound is creating a distortion, perhaps there
[549.2s] are some visuals that are creating a distortion too.
[552.7s] There could be in your inventory something that may help with an illusory effect that
[562.9s] was recently purchased.
[564.4s] The fade dampening cordial, maybe?
[568.2s] I would guess on the anchoring drought, since it seems like we're being displaced
[574.4s] and there's spatial distortion.
[581.6s] And then Kyle's playing a theremin.
[583.0s] I love it.
[585.6s] But who drinks it?
[588.4s] Can't be all of us.
[589.2s] It has to be one.
[591.1s] I mean, I didn't purchase that one, so I don't think I'm drinking it.
[594.8s] I didn't either.
[596.6s] Oh, I thought somebody said they purchased it.
[598.8s] Well, I thought it was Bonwyn.
[600.5s] Yeah, I thought Bonwyn purchased it.
[602.4s] Did I?
[603.0s] I thought it was Alydin.
[604.7s] Oh, no, I was talking about wanting to not.
[607.8s] Yes, yes.
[610.3s] Uh, OK, great.
[612.4s] See, this is why I need you guys.
[614.8s] I already forgot.
[617.3s] OK, I'm going to I got this from from the sisters.
[622.5s] So I'm going to look, look, look, look, look, look, look, look, look, look.
[626.0s] What's it taste like?
[627.5s] Kind of like an apple cinnamon.
[629.0s] It's really good.
[630.0s] You taste that and like there's this this warmth that washes over you.
[636.0s] Your feet begin to feel very heavy, like almost
[640.0s] like gravity has almost doubled where you are right now.
[644.9s] And all around you,
[649.2s] like this distortion effect begins to wash away.
[653.3s] Nobody else witnesses this, but you see that in front of you now
[659.4s] where there was clearly one path, you see the smoke off in the distance.
[663.8s] The the the path diverges.
[667.4s] There is now two paths before you,
[670.2s] the one that you were following and another that looks like it's going
[674.0s] towards where the smoke is more clearly.
[679.4s] So I Robert Frost it up and take a moment to consider which path to take,
[684.5s] because if I take one, I can't take the other.
[688.0s] In your, I guess,
[691.4s] an experience to this point, the one path that maintained is the one
[697.1s] when you previously saw this that you took before.
[700.0s] Right. OK, so there's I see.
[704.9s] I think I see what's actually here now, and there isn't just, you know,
[707.8s] this path that you guys see that we've been on. Yeah, yeah.
[712.7s] But there's also a path right here.
[716.8s] But that is trees, but it's not.
[722.1s] It's not trees. I don't think it's trees.
[725.6s] I'm going to walk briskly in that direction,
[728.0s] but with an arm in front of me, because I'm not totally crazy.
[731.7s] I'm not going to break my own nose, but
[734.9s] in case this potion is playing a trick on him.
[737.1s] This is the platform nine and three quarters.
[739.6s] You have to go at it running. That's right.
[742.6s] And see what happens.
[744.8s] OK, Bonwyn cautiously, but also briskly, but with an arm up.
[750.4s] Yeah. Walks forward.
[752.4s] We're like, you see Bonwyn like right when you think they're going to hit
[756.0s] this huge red wood, walks through it.
[761.6s] You see this rippling effect of the image that you see before you.
[765.6s] Oh, shit. See, no broken nose.
[768.9s] Is this entire woods.
[772.3s] Just belong to the fey.
[774.7s] I don't know, but I do remember that this potion only lasts an hour.
[779.0s] So I think we should like 10 minutes.
[782.0s] What? Really? Son of a bitch.
[784.3s] Time distortions fucked up. Let's go.
[787.5s] Welcome to the middle, everybody.
[788.8s] The middle. Hey, here we are.
[790.8s] Hold on. What's over there?
[792.8s] Uh, did you?
[794.4s] I hear you.
[795.2s] Crawling under the desk.
[796.4s] This is a new kind of audio experience for the middle.
[799.4s] Yeah. Come with me under under the table to the audio interface that we have.
[803.9s] No, we're here. We're here with you and for you and having a great time.
[808.4s] And we got together
[811.8s] this past weekend.
[813.4s] Yeah, we did.
[814.3s] All of those things that we did were so magical.
[817.5s] It was so fun when we.
[819.8s] And then also when we.
[821.1s] Yeah, hold on.
[822.2s] Yeah, let's manifest what we what we think we did
[825.1s] and then check the boxes when we did.
[827.3s] So we got together.
[829.6s] We had a reasonable brunch time on the first day.
[834.1s] We were in Calgary. We were in Calgary.
[837.1s] We did karaoke.
[838.8s] Flights are booked, so we can't change that one.
[840.8s] So that's good. Yeah, it was karaoke.
[842.6s] Yeah. Yeah.
[843.5s] Either at a place or just in somebody's car.
[845.8s] One of them. Absolutely.
[848.6s] Yeah.
[849.9s] There was pasta and also clouds.
[852.0s] OK. Yeah.
[853.1s] Yes. Yeah. We got a little bit of rain.
[855.2s] And we got the moon showed up at one point.
[857.8s] Yeah. That was pretty dope.
[860.0s] I liked the weather more than I did in Texas.
[862.9s] OK. I would say.
[865.4s] Yeah, that was we saw some birds.
[867.7s] Yeah. So many birds.
[869.8s] We talked about the show and the game and then played,
[873.9s] probably played the game, too.
[875.8s] Yeah, we did all those things.
[877.8s] Played a different game, maybe.
[879.6s] And maybe you saw us.
[880.9s] Maybe you didn't.
[882.4s] Yeah, I don't know.
[883.8s] I think we've covered just about everything
[886.7s] that we could possibly.
[887.8s] And it was a magical weekend.
[889.2s] We had the best time.
[890.8s] And we have so many pictures.
[892.0s] Yes, we took so many pictures because we're so thankful
[894.8s] to Jess for taking all the pictures.
[896.7s] 100 percent. And Kyle and Jess live in Canada now.
[900.3s] Yeah, it's just it's just where they are.
[902.5s] Yeah, nothing wrong there.
[904.2s] No. When you do get out of no.
[908.5s] When you do move to Canada,
[910.4s] you get an episode dedicated to Canada.
[914.0s] Yeah.
[915.6s] When you do move to Canada and also become a patron,
[918.6s] you can pay in Canadian dollars, which is slightly more than US dollars.
[923.2s] Just the way the world works.
[925.6s] But you and you become a patron.
[927.8s] We got there at Patreon dot com slash Dumb Dragoncast.
[930.8s] You get an episode dedicated to you like today's patron.
[935.8s] My name is D.
[937.2s] D.
[939.0s] Heck yeah, D.
[940.3s] D is D.
[942.4s] D is a lovely human.
[946.7s] Absolutely. 100 percent.
[948.7s] One of the best.
[949.8s] Are we allowed to plug D's show?
[954.2s] I think we're allowed to do whatever we want.
[956.4s] No, absolutely not.
[959.9s] Absolutely not.
[961.4s] I'm so sorry, D.
[962.5s] I tried.
[963.8s] Yeah, look, I gave him a shout out.
[965.4s] He doesn't get a show plug. Come on.
[968.2s] Go talk to him about it on Discord yourself.
[970.8s] That's right.
[971.8s] Yeah, no, D and Jess and Kat from the community
[976.3s] and many others in the community, too,
[979.0s] all have their own actual play show, which is called
[982.0s] The Taramundi Chronicles, an improvised history of the universe.
[987.2s] Nailed it.
[988.4s] Got it. Jess threw up her hands.
[990.6s] No notes. No notes.
[993.4s] And you should listen to it.
[994.6s] You should listen to it. It's great.
[996.8s] Yeah. Wonderful people.
[998.4s] I helped with the first couple episodes on sound design,
[1001.0s] but then after that, D took over and now it sounds infinitely better.
[1004.7s] D's amazing. D's amazing.
[1006.8s] Agreed. Thanks, D.
[1008.7s] Be like D, which I'd say very honestly,
[1012.7s] everybody should be like D.
[1014.1s] Go to patreon.com slash dumb dragon cast.
[1017.2s] And now we'll get you back to this episode where things are happening.
[1022.4s] Oh, I love things.
[1023.8s] Can't wait for that.
[1025.2s] There are probably mushrooms.
[1030.0s] Animals.
[1031.2s] And there are problems to solve birds.
[1034.3s] Like probably birds might be birds.
[1037.4s] Calgary did have birds.
[1039.1s] Oh, good call out. Good call out, Carla.
[1041.9s] We probably opened the bird app to see what birds were in our area.
[1045.5s] 110 percent we did, which is not a dating app.
[1048.6s] I was. It's actual birds.
[1050.1s] Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.
[1051.9s] All right. Well, on that note, have fun.
[1054.4s] We'll talk to you soon. Love you. Bye.
[1058.6s] OK, so we only have like 10 minutes.
[1062.1s] Should we? Should we keep running?
[1063.8s] I mean, I want to get away from the bear.
[1067.0s] I want to know why they're blocking this path.
[1070.3s] So I say we go in this direction.
[1073.6s] Let's go. OK.
[1075.0s] Let us hustle. OK.
[1076.3s] Everybody tears through this tree, which ripples.
[1080.2s] And now you see a path before you.
[1083.1s] The illusion has broke.
[1084.3s] Oh, so we just need to get through that illusion and then we can see.
[1088.8s] It's like I get I was built for.
[1093.2s] What's a dwarf?
[1094.0s] I was built for sprints, but not marathons.
[1096.8s] You know, that's right.
[1098.2s] And you carry along this path with relatively minimal
[1102.9s] distortion effect at this point, like you still occasionally
[1106.6s] hear that sound, delay your footsteps,
[1110.0s] making a double tap or maybe not even hearing them.
[1114.6s] The the disappearing effect still is in place.
[1119.4s] So you'll take a few steps and then they'll they'll be gone from you.
[1123.6s] Um, you you continue on for
[1128.8s] a couple more hours and it's getting late.
[1131.6s] When you think you should be making camp,
[1134.6s] the trees ahead of you begin to thin.
[1139.2s] Beyond them, you see
[1143.0s] the lake or what's left of it.
[1148.8s] You see a vast basin come into view.
[1152.5s] Of cracked earth split like broken porcelain.
[1158.3s] There's a dam that stands at one end that appears to be intact.
[1164.1s] Water not burst through or even trickling through.
[1168.4s] At the center of the basin, faintly visible
[1171.5s] is a stone arch half submerged in dust.
[1176.1s] It appears to be flickering.
[1178.7s] Like a reflection trying to remember what it reflects.
[1184.6s] On the other side of the lake, you see
[1188.8s] the worn down city of Lingersville.
[1193.8s] You see buildings partially intact.
[1198.1s] There's a schoolhouse that's still standing.
[1201.6s] Vineyards charred and overgrown off in one direction.
[1206.1s] You hear wind cutting through empty windows.
[1212.9s] Oh, it's even creepier than I thought it would be.
[1215.9s] If I'm being honest, it's really creepy.
[1219.0s] It's like a ghost town.
[1220.7s] It's a ghost town, which I guess it is.
[1222.8s] But they're going to be ghosts.
[1225.1s] There's probably going to be ghosts.
[1227.1s] I don't know why.
[1228.8s] Did I mean, the arch, right, is that
[1232.1s] did we just find it, what we were looking for that easily?
[1236.0s] Is it? It looks like it's it looks like it's fading.
[1243.1s] Russ, does it look like, yeah, like what appeared in town
[1248.0s] in Vindersmith?
[1250.2s] From the distance that you're at, there are certainly similarities.
[1253.1s] It's a stone arch, which appears to be
[1256.4s] you'd be able to determine even from here.
[1260.0s] Looks like it's a different type of stone, more
[1264.3s] slate from the look of it.
[1269.8s] As previously mentioned, like it's half covered in.
[1274.0s] What did I say? Dust.
[1275.4s] Yeah. Yeah.
[1276.2s] Because like an old lake bed is like dirt.
[1278.3s] Yeah. Sediment is like built up.
[1281.0s] But yeah, there is a translucence to it.
[1284.2s] You can see it there and then like almost like it glows
[1288.0s] and then a bright light and seems to be fading away.
[1291.9s] Well, I was going to suggest we make camp,
[1293.7s] but now we're here. So. Yeah.
[1298.0s] Do we keep going or get a good night's rest and then face it tomorrow?
[1304.0s] What if it's not there tomorrow?
[1305.4s] Oh, goodness, I hadn't considered that,
[1307.2s] but everything is completely wacky here.
[1309.2s] So. Yeah.
[1310.8s] Or if we wake up somewhere else.
[1313.6s] Oh, God. OK.
[1315.2s] I'm going to pull out the spool of thread and see how it's reacting.
[1319.7s] Kyle's good at this game.
[1321.1s] Probably around the same time as like when when the lake came into view
[1324.8s] and maybe even a little bit before, like you felt the same pull
[1328.2s] and the like the cold.
[1330.7s] What did I say? Cold.
[1331.7s] It got cold towards it. Yeah.
[1334.0s] You felt it grow a little chilled in your in your breast pocket there.
[1338.7s] And as you pull it out, you see the thread spinning on the spool
[1343.4s] and a an extension of it is leading you
[1348.0s] not towards the stone archway, but to the city itself.
[1354.3s] Hmm. You see how it's flickering?
[1357.9s] Wonder if. Maybe we need to fix something
[1363.6s] because this thread's not taking us there.
[1370.0s] Hmm. Like fix what?
[1373.3s] I don't think it's anchored.
[1374.6s] I don't know if we go in like everything I've been reading,
[1377.8s] like if you go in and there's it's it's not.
[1382.2s] It's not set.
[1383.7s] It could close or move behind you.
[1387.5s] Wait, what would happen then?
[1389.5s] Like, are we just lost in there?
[1390.9s] I could only assume that we we would be trapped in there at best.
[1398.2s] I don't know.
[1400.2s] I don't have any reports of anybody getting trapped in there
[1403.1s] or not making it out because they didn't make it out.
[1407.7s] So should we just go where the thread's leading us to see what?
[1411.4s] We're talking about it being properly anchored and the thread is.
[1418.3s] Acting like a stitching from one realm to the next.
[1423.6s] So maybe.
[1427.4s] The thread will take us to whatever we need to put back together.
[1432.2s] Yeah, because the thread in town
[1434.8s] pointed us like where the, you know, where the entrance was, so. Right.
[1441.6s] I guess I trust the thread.
[1444.0s] I'd rather sleep inside,
[1447.0s] even if a place doesn't have any windows.
[1448.8s] Oh, I mean, we weren't going to have to really sleep outside.
[1452.6s] But, you know, if we don't want to go into the city, then
[1455.7s] we can make arrangements outside of the town.
[1457.9s] I say we just go in. We're here.
[1460.7s] Yeah, let's do it. It's pointing us here for a reason.
[1463.9s] And we came here to do it.
[1465.5s] And that doesn't mean we have to deal with it now.
[1467.6s] But we can at least find a safe place, like Alydin said, with like a real roof.
[1471.6s] And and. Yeah.
[1475.4s] OK, yeah. To the city, to the city, to the city.
[1479.9s] Is there a path around the lake or are we walking through the dry lake bed?
[1483.3s] There would be a path around.
[1484.9s] Of course, so scenic, beautiful, beautiful lingers.
[1488.4s] Or you could cut through your call.
[1490.9s] Seems creepy. Yeah.
[1492.9s] Downhill. I don't want to be like a hill.
[1494.8s] So now, oh, see that, too.
[1496.7s] I don't want to be like.
[1499.4s] Horse in never ending story.
[1501.8s] I know it's all dry, but I.
[1504.6s] This is why you didn't bring a donkey.
[1506.3s] Exactly, exactly.
[1508.8s] You can lose Alistair in the mud pit, but not a donkey. Yeah.
[1513.2s] I'd be sad.
[1514.0s] That's I know that says a lot about me as a person, but I would be sad.
[1521.3s] Oh, geez.
[1522.7s] OK, well, let's take the scenic path.
[1524.7s] You continue along the path around the lake and the the trees become thinner.
[1532.0s] The closer you get to the city, everything appears to be like dried up.
[1536.4s] Some of it charred like there was a fire at some point,
[1540.0s] and at least some of the area.
[1543.0s] But by and large, it looks just mostly like the source of life,
[1549.7s] the source of water for this area dried up long ago.
[1554.3s] What happened to the smoke in the distance?
[1556.1s] Is that coming from?
[1557.7s] You don't see it anymore.
[1563.0s] Cool. You get to the edge of town and it becomes clearer.
[1568.8s] But from what you saw on the other side, like a lot of the buildings
[1573.6s] are in a very serious state of disrepair.
[1577.6s] Windows smashed and graffiti across some of them, walls half torn down.
[1583.9s] Like it looks like at some point, a group of people, teens, probably teens.
[1590.1s] I don't want to start
[1590.8s] besmirching teens immediately, but probably teens.
[1594.7s] I mean, that said, it doesn't look like like a big raiding party.
[1598.1s] But yeah, perhaps a small group of people came and looted some things and then left.
[1603.4s] As you make your way down,
[1605.5s] what you can assume once was Main Street,
[1610.0s] it leads you towards the schoolhouse,
[1613.1s] which is the only building in this town that appears to be structurally sound.
[1621.0s] Huh.
[1622.2s] Do you think there's a, you know, like our friend in the basement?
[1627.0s] Paper face?
[1628.5s] No, no, no, I meant our actual friend, the caretaker,
[1634.0s] with the roll call and the.
[1636.6s] You know, at the school.
[1638.2s] Paper. Yeah, that was not the paper face we fought.
[1641.3s] Oh, OK, I thought paper face bad guy.
[1643.8s] We fought scary guy.
[1645.8s] And I meant nice Lake Automaton man. Right. Yes.
[1649.9s] OK. Joe, too many people named paper face.
[1652.2s] Everyone's calling their kids paper face these days.
[1655.3s] It's confusing.
[1657.8s] Maybe especially the ones P.A.Y.
[1660.2s] Right. P.A.R. Yeah, it's expensive.
[1664.0s] Maybe. Maybe there's one of them, one of one of him here.
[1670.6s] Good place to start.
[1671.6s] I didn't think I'd hear myself saying this, but let's go to school.
[1677.0s] Bizarre Beams with Pride. Let's go.
[1679.7s] Oh, you walk closer.
[1682.6s] And as you get closer, you see that the windows are intact,
[1685.8s] but opaque with some residue from from the decay of the town.
[1692.4s] You see a bell rope that's rotted off into off into the distance
[1699.9s] and a plaque that's half fallen, says Lingersville Academy,
[1704.8s] in pursuit of excellence.
[1708.0s] You step up the five stone stairs to the front entryway.
[1714.2s] And who goes to open the door, which is closed before you.
[1718.4s] Yvonne, when what kind of rocks are these?
[1720.9s] Mm hmm. Yeah, tell me about those stone steps.
[1725.1s] Anything interesting or something local?
[1728.6s] It appears to be local stone,
[1732.0s] nothing exceptional, but has held up considering everything around you,
[1736.5s] has held up incredibly well as far as you're concerned.
[1739.5s] Just like a local sandstone, Alydin, something,
[1742.8s] you know, probably from the quarry a couple of towns over.
[1746.6s] Nothing, nothing weird, just just normal.
[1750.3s] I thought there was a joke being made because it's a schoolhouse rock.
[1754.8s] But that's I don't know if.
[1757.6s] But you were wrong. I was wrong.
[1759.7s] Terrible, Kyle. Absolutely.
[1768.0s] I'll open the door.
[1769.8s] I ain't I ain't scared of no school.
[1772.7s] The door opens easily for you.
[1776.2s] It's weird considering it's been abandoned for so long.
[1779.5s] Yeah, someone oiling hinges here, that's.
[1783.2s] Feel strange.
[1785.2s] Well, I mean, if there is a worker down there, then.
[1788.6s] It makes sense.
[1790.4s] True. Good sign, then, maybe.
[1795.4s] Is the what's the thread doing now?
[1798.0s] Bizarre would have if you've kept it out.
[1800.8s] Yeah. And yeah, the thread has been.
[1805.2s] As you've walked around the lake, like it's kind of kept a clock
[1808.6s] and now it's been pointing you towards the school.
[1811.0s] OK, but nothing more specific.
[1812.8s] It's not like more, more, more, more elusive.
[1816.6s] It hasn't folded itself into a little arrow.
[1819.7s] In fact, as you get to the entry, Bizarre,
[1823.1s] you see that it respools itself now that you've reached the school
[1827.7s] and stop spinning.
[1829.6s] OK, tuck it back in a rest pocket inside.
[1834.2s] Warm air greets you as the front doors push open.
[1838.8s] Without resistance.
[1841.0s] The scent is dry paper, cedar shelves and polished wood.
[1845.8s] No dust hangs in the air.
[1848.4s] Brass coat hooks line one wall, each numbered
[1852.0s] except for one engraved simply monitor.
[1857.3s] Across the foyer, a chalkboard bears a single message.
[1862.0s] Welcome back.
[1864.0s] The instant the last of you steps inside,
[1867.1s] fresh chalk scratches across the slate by itself.
[1871.3s] It reads, visitors, please await classification.
[1881.2s] Dumbgeons and Dragons, season four, episode 62,
[1884.8s] starring Amy More as Alydin, Carla Maxted as Bonwyn Everbane,
[1889.2s] Tom Laird as Kavlaran Goldweave, Kyle Claset as Bizard the Wizard
[1893.9s] and Russ More as your dungeon master.
[1896.6s] Dialogue, editing and sound design of today's episode is by Russ More.
[1900.4s] Our community manager is Jessica Babyok.
[1902.8s] Music is from Epidemic Sound and sound effects are from Epidemic Sound,
[1906.8s] Boom Library and Sound Ideas.
[1908.9s] Our amazing cover art is by Matt Garba.
[1911.6s] A huge thank you to our supporting producers,
[1914.0s] Gabriel Lynch, Jessica Babyok,
[1916.3s] Angur Rangkirzan, Perry Matey, Count Waterflame,
[1919.6s] Jacob Madden, Old School Gamer D, Craig Zeiss and L.A.
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[1926.8s] and because of our Patreon supporters, we get to keep telling bigger,
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[1945.1s] We hope to see you over there.
[1946.8s] Have a great week and we'll talk to you soon.
[1949.7s] You guys know we can add item to party equipment.
[1955.9s] No, that we all share.
[1958.2s] Oh, is that news?
[1960.3s] Where's that party inventory?
[1962.3s] I'm like, oh, damn.
[1964.0s] We should probably start to put some stuff in there.
[1967.1s] Just knew that was there.
[1968.6s] Jess knows that, but that's not surprising.
[1971.0s] This is like 10 years ahead of the rest of us.
[1976.7s] I'm just saying we should put some of the shit in here
[1978.3s] because I'm like, when am I carrying antlers?
[1980.6s] Share the burden of remembering.
[1982.6s] OK. Yeah.
[1984.2s] Bizard, make a.
[1987.8s] What do we want to do here?
[1988.9s] Arcana, Arcana or don't itch your tattoo.
[1993.0s] I'm not itching it, I'm gently caressing it.
[1995.3s] Don't do it.
[1996.0s] And making your shirt rub against it.
[1997.8s] Quit it. It's not me, it's the shirt.
[2002.0s] A lot of semantics going on there, Russ.
[2004.5s] Yeah, I know. Right. It's itchy.
[2007.6s] God damn. It's a ten minute hour.
[2011.0s] They dampening cordial.
[2012.0s] Oh, yeah. One hour anchoring draft.
[2013.9s] No, no, I don't think they dampening cordial.
[2016.4s] Oh, then none of that happens.
[2018.5s] It was the anchoring draught draft.
[2020.7s] I thought we were talking about the anchoring draught.
[2024.5s] Yeah, that's what we were talking about.
[2026.1s] Is that what we were talking about?
[2027.3s] Oh, yeah. That's why my feet feel heavy.
[2029.6s] The fade dampening cordial.
[2033.1s] It would be more if you if there were charm effects.
[2036.8s] Yeah, well, let's just say it was a bottle of anchoring draught.
[2044.2s] I think we did.
[2045.1s] Well, I thought that's what we said.
[2046.6s] OK, great. That's what we said.
[2049.6s] OK, we're all on the same page. Great.
[2051.6s] I know Carla and I are on one page.
[2053.4s] You guys are on the other page.
[2054.0s] I like their page better right now.
[2056.0s] So I'm going to ditch my page and jump onto yours.
[2058.8s] What a great anchoring draft.
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