[0.0s] Dumbgeons and Dragons will begin in a moment.
[2.8s] The heavy front doors open without resistance to the
[7.3s] Lingersville Academy.
[8.7s] Warm afternoon light spills across the polished wooden
[11.4s] floors untouched by dust.
[13.8s] Rows of neatly hung student coats line one wall.
[17.8s] Umbrella stands remain full.
[20.4s] A large slate chalkboard dominates the entrance hall.
[25.2s] Written in perfect white chalk are the words, welcome students.
[31.3s] Visitors, please await classification.
[34.9s] Attendance begins shortly.
[38.0s] Fresh chalk rests neatly on the tray below.
[41.0s] A polished brass bell hangs beside the board.
[45.2s] It has been wound, you can tell, recently.
[49.7s] Nothing here feels abandoned.
[52.2s] In fact, it feels expected.
[56.8s] As you walk into the room, you see two doors that are closed
[62.5s] behind the chalkboard.
[64.8s] As mentioned, there are coat hooks and a little like student
[67.7s] seating area, often to the left and right.
[71.2s] The wall is lined along the left and to the right.
[74.4s] There are five hooks all empty along a very similar
[79.7s] wooden coat rack.
[81.7s] Do we hear any noise?
[83.7s] Like, is there any sound as if there are students in a
[87.1s] classroom or does it seem abandoned?
[89.7s] You don't hear anything from further inside the building.
[93.8s] Not like a switch just hitting a kid.
[96.1s] Just, oh my God, it's from a different time.
[98.2s] They were really, they were punishment.
[101.3s] Wait a moment.
[102.1s] And then you hear, ow, stop, God, why?
[107.7s] I wasn't here before, but somebody recommended it.
[113.2s] I'm sorry.
[114.0s] And then they yes-ended it.
[115.9s] No, you don't hear anybody screaming.
[120.0s] Little Timmy's been here for centuries without rain getting
[122.7s] switched yet.
[126.3s] Dumbgeons and Dragons is a D&D actual play podcast and I'm
[130.1s] your Dungeon Master Russ More, he, him.
[132.6s] Also with me today is Amy More as Alydin, she, her.
[135.9s] You just wait until I turn this bucket into a bucket of
[137.8s] holding.
[138.4s] Carla Maxted is Bonwyn Everbane, she, her.
[141.4s] I hit control F.
[144.4s] Tom Laird is Kavlaran Goldweave, he, him.
[147.3s] Nobody thought there was Russ.
[149.4s] And Kyle Clasett is Bizard the Wizard, he, him.
[152.4s] You might be right.
[153.8s] Let's go.
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[166.9s] And now fuck it.
[168.4s] Let's play.
[170.4s] You don't hear anything as you enter the building.
[172.8s] How about smell?
[173.6s] Musty or like exactly the smell of a school that seems
[177.0s] to never change?
[177.8s] It does smell exactly like a school that's never changed.
[182.5s] It smells, it doesn't smell musty, there's no dust.
[187.4s] It looks as if this entire area has been fairly well kept up.
[197.8s] Like if you were to walk into the school back in
[201.8s] Vintersmouth, you'd say that's, you know, they were
[205.4s] expecting students tomorrow kind of thing.
[208.7s] Sure.
[209.1s] Okay.
[209.4s] Well, perhaps the attendant just needs to be summoned.
[215.1s] Going to ring the bell, see if there's like a little
[218.0s] hammer, it's got a clapper on it or something.
[220.8s] Yeah.
[221.1s] We had a good experience with the other ones.
[223.4s] So let's just, let's get them out here.
[227.0s] Let's get them out here.
[228.5s] Brazard, you walk up to the bell and give it a ring and
[232.4s] it rings this clear tone that you hear echo throughout the
[237.0s] entire space and several long seconds later, you hear a
[242.3s] second bell that answers from somewhere, what sounds like
[246.9s] below.
[248.8s] Doesn't sound like an echo though.
[250.9s] It sounds like a response.
[255.0s] Alastair looks at you and says, I think that came from
[257.9s] underneath us.
[259.6s] I mean, that makes sense.
[261.4s] The other guy was underneath, right?
[263.8s] So this guy might be the paper guy.
[268.0s] Yeah.
[269.3s] Right.
[269.8s] Yeah.
[271.0s] Do you guys think we should just wait here?
[272.8s] Like, that's what the sign says to do.
[275.2s] Oh, should we hang up our jackets?
[280.2s] I think it's a good idea.
[282.0s] Actually, it crossed my mind just instinctively from going
[286.8s] to school.
[287.2s] So look at you, you thinking about how to act in the
[291.4s] school.
[291.4s] I've been there a couple of times.
[293.2s] Yeah.
[293.3s] I'll take off my jacket and hang it up.
[295.4s] My two coats.
[297.4s] You take up all of them and leave none for anybody else?
[304.4s] Everybody who is wearing a coat, I assume everybody goes
[308.4s] and hangs up their jacket.
[310.4s] And every hook along the way has a carefully engraved
[317.2s] brass nameplate.
[319.1s] Yours, the ones that you're hanging up on, appear empty.
[323.0s] There's no engraving on them.
[324.4s] That'd just be weird if it had our names on it already.
[328.0s] I know.
[328.4s] Did you imagine?
[329.4s] It seems odd.
[333.5s] Do you think they expect visitors often?
[336.8s] Well, who is they?
[337.6s] There's not supposed to be anybody here.
[339.2s] That's true.
[341.6s] But nothing about this place in this town has seemed normal.
[347.6s] Can I do like a general vibe check?
[349.5s] Because for Carla, this seems fine.
[351.8s] Again, all based on that other attendant guy being chill.
[355.5s] Yes, absolutely.
[356.8s] It's the only reference point we have.
[359.2s] Even though we're in an abandoned town.
[360.6s] But it's like, this feels kind of OK.
[363.2s] It seems less scary than the portal door in the middle
[368.4s] of the empty lake.
[369.8s] I would take an abandoned, maybe not abandoned, school
[372.4s] any day over a random portal in a dried up lake.
[376.2s] There doesn't seem to be any immediate danger.
[379.5s] You can just look at anything you want.
[381.0s] So there's the the chalkboard, the coat hooks, the brass bell.
[386.4s] The floor looks immaculately clean.
[389.4s] What would you like to look at?
[391.0s] I am actually fine to hang up my coat.
[395.0s] And did it seem like one of those doors was closer
[398.7s] to where the sound was coming from below?
[401.8s] It did sound like it was coming up from beneath you.
[404.4s] So either either door at this point
[407.1s] doesn't really
[410.5s] it doesn't lean one way or the other right now for you.
[413.3s] What do you say, guys?
[414.6s] Both at the same time?
[417.2s] Cthulhu style.
[421.1s] If you don't get that reference, listen to Call of Cthulhu.
[423.7s] It's on our Facebook page.
[425.1s] And we make some really good decisions.
[427.9s] There's some choices we're made, absolutely.
[431.0s] Interesting choices.
[432.0s] Bizard, I will point out for you as you're running the bell
[435.1s] that the brass bell itself looks like it was recently polished.
[439.0s] And as you rang it, it did feel like warm to the touch.
[444.2s] OK. Yeah, I was curious if there's been some bells in the past.
[448.2s] I feel like there was something in the Feywild we were in there.
[450.7s] I was wondering if it was reminiscent of that or had that kind of essence to it.
[454.9s] Great question.
[456.0s] Trying to remember those bells specifically.
[459.7s] Nothing that gives you
[462.9s] nothing aside from it being a bell,
[466.4s] being the spaces looks like it's kind of out of place within the town.
[471.7s] Nothing that would specifically draw you back.
[473.8s] No runes, no banjo man kind of paraphernalia, nothing like that.
[479.5s] Not banjo man.
[481.0s] Banjo man is just standing there.
[482.9s] That was the second follow up question.
[485.1s] OK, does it have banjo man's face on it?
[488.5s] Like, is this a banjo man bell?
[491.3s] Is there a banjo on it?
[493.2s] Exactly. Yeah, it's a banjo bell.
[495.6s] Never look at banjos the same again.
[498.4s] I'm going to I'm going to take the response and say, you know,
[502.1s] I think we could go ahead and head on in.
[505.2s] I think so, too.
[506.3s] We should go to the office.
[507.8s] Well, that's where the visitors go.
[509.2s] That is. That's true.
[511.4s] That's where the but there's nothing labeled office, right?
[513.5s] We just see two doors.
[514.6s] Yeah, there's nothing, nothing indicating as you specify.
[516.9s] OK, well, maybe it's this one.
[519.4s] And I point right.
[520.6s] You might be right. Open the door.
[522.8s] Are you opening both or just the one?
[525.4s] Just just the one on the right.
[527.2s] So as as you all step towards the the door on the right.
[531.8s] Bonwyn, you kind of take the lead.
[534.5s] Alydin, I assume you can follow pretty quickly.
[537.8s] Cav, you and Alastair are farthest back in this room.
[542.7s] And as your friends reach the door and go to open it,
[546.7s] you see that the chalkboard appears to be like cleaning itself.
[551.7s] And a new phrase is being written on in chalk,
[556.5s] even though the chalk remains on the sill and it says attendance is ready.
[561.0s] And as you approach the door, the double doors,
[563.7s] you hear them unlock with a soft metallic click.
[567.4s] So did anyone notice the chalkboard has a new message on it now?
[571.8s] Oh, yeah, that's a look there.
[574.7s] That's how attendance is ready.
[576.6s] Attendance is ready.
[578.4s] Like haunted school. Is that is that what's going on?
[581.6s] I mean, we've seen things being written on paper.
[586.4s] Yeah. A lot recently.
[588.2s] Charmed, right? Just magic-y shit.
[590.7s] Just just magic-y shit.
[592.3s] Yeah. Yeah. Magic.
[594.1s] Everything about the Weeping Archive I've read is just
[596.7s] it's just littered with magic-y shit.
[598.8s] I mean, like, actually, there's something to be said here
[601.6s] when it comes to the potential for illusions.
[604.5s] Is. You have to question what you see as we move further into this.
[610.4s] I am giving this lesson to myself,
[612.9s] and I think it's important for everybody to hear it like.
[617.2s] Don't trust what you see.
[620.2s] Give it a second look.
[621.7s] OK, that seems like a really good idea.
[625.0s] Thank you. Just a good life thing.
[628.5s] Yeah. Yeah.
[631.1s] Still going to open the door.
[632.6s] Is it a door? Is it a door?
[635.3s] Is it a door? It's a mimic.
[636.6s] Fuck. Jesus, no.
[638.1s] Do we check for traps?
[639.5s] No, you didn't check for traps. No, we did not.
[642.0s] But yes, it is a it is a door and it opens into a chamber.
[647.1s] And as you kind of take a half step in there,
[649.7s] first one through Bonwyn, you were leading the way.
[652.8s] You look to your left
[655.6s] and this room, both doors open into this room.
[659.6s] Oh, the chamber is lined from floor to ceiling
[664.3s] with narrow brass tracks.
[667.8s] Hundreds of carved wooden nameplates rest within them.
[672.8s] Above the wall, five headings have been carved into the stone.
[677.6s] Present, absent, excused,
[682.0s] reassigned and preserved.
[684.8s] There are no desks in this room, no chairs.
[689.0s] No people. Only names.
[693.0s] So the names themselves
[696.6s] appear on the wall straight ahead of you as you walk in there.
[701.4s] As you step in, there's also a teacher's podium,
[704.7s] a leather attendance ledger and a brass, a polished brass bell
[708.6s] also sit on on this on this podium as you enter.
[712.3s] Another thing you notice as you step in
[716.2s] is that this room feels like a well treated voicing booth.
[723.5s] Like the sound of your footsteps, the sound of your voices
[728.3s] like quickly dissipates.
[729.6s] There's not a lot of echo in this room.
[731.4s] Oh, Alydin definitely runs up to the podium
[737.8s] and starts just like mocking teachers.
[740.8s] I mean, settle down class, settle down.
[744.9s] Who am I? And then I realized none of you go to my school.
[748.8s] I'm like, it's true.
[750.3s] Didn't take long for Alydin to turn on the whole school idea.
[753.4s] Hey, after we just got it started, the kids are already complaining.
[758.1s] Man. Yeah. Baby steps.
[761.1s] You're right. We got him in the building.
[762.6s] That's what counts.
[763.7s] I want to look over at the the present, absent, excused, reassigned
[768.0s] and preserved. How many like what's the number of people listed under each?
[772.2s] Mm hmm. And that's on the chalkboard.
[775.2s] It's on the roof.
[777.3s] Yeah, it's like there's like it's up on the ceiling.
[779.7s] Yes. So, yeah, the the the actual headings of them
[784.3s] up here above the wall.
[786.6s] And then the car there are, yes,
[790.3s] chamber lined from floor to ceiling with these narrow brass tracks.
[793.8s] So all along the wall in front of you are the are the tracks
[797.0s] with these wooden nameplates that looks like you could manipulate,
[800.8s] like a physical filing system that.
[803.0s] Yeah. Yeah.
[804.2s] Like how you put a nameplate on a door. Exactly.
[807.6s] I was imagining I hit not going to lie.
[810.2s] I was like tracks everywhere.
[811.8s] I wonder if there are cars with control left with just hot wheel tracks.
[816.5s] Yeah. That's right.
[819.0s] So this is a manually done thing.
[821.2s] Yes, exactly. So, yeah, you could if you if you were so inclined,
[824.7s] you could slide them off, move names around and do it that way.
[829.6s] So there are, as I mentioned, hundreds of names make
[835.4s] what's going to be a good one here.
[836.8s] Make a laugh for us.
[838.4s] I said I'd like to control F.
[841.0s] You hit control and I don't know.
[844.7s] Alladin, like what do we?
[847.2s] Yeah. What do we actually get to do?
[850.4s] Yeah, you begin to you begin to look through them
[854.3s] and you take some time.
[857.1s] And there are infinite names that you don't recognize.
[861.0s] But if you begin to stand out
[864.7s] more specifically to you, Bonwyn,
[868.1s] you see the name Malin Everbane with a denotion of craft
[874.4s] underneath her name.
[875.8s] And she is under preserved.
[878.1s] You see Heron Linger, which is a name that you've heard
[882.4s] in other documentation so far,
[885.2s] with the denotion of agricultural under reassigned.
[890.2s] You see Loris Harrison
[893.5s] civic studies under excused.
[897.3s] You see Elric River
[900.9s] with the denotion of surveying under preserve.
[904.2s] Junel Foyson observation
[908.7s] under present and A.
[911.8s] Grieves maintenance
[915.3s] also under present and cav.
[918.2s] I mean, the name Harrison has jumped out to you.
[922.0s] Sure. But also you see one that isn't a name.
[928.0s] It just says pending.
[929.8s] Am I able to get more information on that?
[932.6s] There's not really any more specific information at this point,
[936.6s] but it stands out because everything has a name,
[939.6s] has one of these several classifications,
[943.0s] I guess you could call them.
[945.2s] And this one does not.
[949.7s] Just pending.
[951.2s] I would like to flip through the ledger,
[953.6s] the leather ledger that's at my podium,
[957.2s] as I am pretending to be.
[959.6s] Sure. As you step up to it and it's on,
[963.9s] you're flipping through in the final completed page,
[967.0s] kind of where this book ended off.
[969.8s] You see that it reads attendance complete,
[974.0s] dismissal complete, transition complete
[978.3s] and continuity maintained.
[981.4s] The signature line on it remains blank.
[984.8s] As you flip back through,
[986.4s] you see all of these pages filled out very similarly,
[991.2s] all signed off in a signature that you can't really pick.
[995.1s] But then you can't tell what the name is based on the signature.
[998.3s] It's pretty sloppy.
[999.7s] Can I pick up the book?
[1001.7s] Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.
[1004.4s] Just going to take this with me.
[1005.7s] Pick it up. You have it. Oh, yeah.
[1008.1s] Well, you know, just in case.
[1010.2s] Hey, you're carrying a bucket.
[1011.4s] Why not put some stuff in it? Right.
[1013.3s] Absolutely. You just wait
[1014.4s] till I turn this bucket into a bucket of holding.
[1016.6s] It's got to happen at some point.
[1017.9s] Are our names up there?
[1019.2s] You spend some time looking through them
[1020.9s] and you don't see any of your names up there.
[1024.6s] And it was only the one pending, right, Russ?
[1027.6s] Correct. After a few moments
[1029.3s] of kind of painstakingly going through as many names as you as you can,
[1036.2s] you hear some soft footsteps in this room.
[1040.2s] There's doors off to the left and to the right.
[1042.3s] They are closed.
[1043.1s] You hear some soft footsteps off to the right.
[1045.2s] In that time, do we do a quick ballpark of, you know, count,
[1048.5s] count across and down and do a quick times table here in the school room
[1052.2s] and figure out about how many names are on on this bad boy?
[1056.2s] Yes, you could have done that roughly.
[1060.6s] There's some spots missing in, but between four and five hundred names.
[1065.3s] Hmm.
[1067.2s] Damn. More than I thought.
[1069.8s] I'm glad I asked and I was picturing like 50.
[1074.6s] I want to go and slide one of the nameplates out.
[1078.6s] OK, or try to slide one of the nameplates.
[1081.8s] I'm going to go ahead and try to hide as somebody is walking up on us.
[1085.9s] Sure. So the only place to really hide yourself
[1088.7s] is either on either side of the door or behind the podium.
[1091.8s] There's no desks, no curtains, no anything else in this space.
[1096.1s] So while you're determining where you want to hide,
[1098.6s] I will tell you what happens.
[1101.8s] So you just go to take it off then?
[1104.4s] Yeah, I just want to go like just slide it just because I'm perusing
[1109.6s] and I'm curious and it looks like like it's a manual thing you could do.
[1114.5s] So why wouldn't I?
[1115.4s] Do you go for any of the names that I listed or just can I reach them?
[1118.5s] Which names can I reach?
[1119.6s] Yeah, you'd be able to reach
[1122.4s] any of the names that I that I listed.
[1124.8s] There are all within your reach.
[1126.6s] I will I will look at the only name
[1131.0s] that I would recognize would be Everbane.
[1133.9s] Sure. So I want to slide Everbane's
[1138.4s] around and take a take a look see at that.
[1141.2s] So, yeah, you slide it out
[1143.2s] and you can hold it as a well carved and crafted solid piece of wood.
[1149.2s] It feels like a hard wood, perhaps an oak, a nice shellac on it.
[1155.2s] I sniff it, I go oak, I think. Yeah, this is yeah.
[1160.6s] And as you do that,
[1163.2s] Bizard, where have you hidden?
[1165.2s] I'm going to go from behind the door.
[1166.6s] OK, the door opens and in steps
[1170.9s] someone who appears familiar.
[1175.3s] It looks exactly like Joe, the hall monitor.
[1178.9s] OK, he steps into the room.
[1180.8s] He's carrying a clipboard.
[1182.2s] It's carrying a clipboard.
[1184.5s] Takes a few steps in,
[1187.2s] looks at everybody else in the room, not Bizard,
[1190.1s] because you're behind the door, but looks at everybody else
[1193.0s] and offers what appears to be the smallest, courteous nod.
[1199.0s] Hi, Joe.
[1200.9s] He looks down towards you, nods again,
[1205.8s] looks back to his clipboard and then carries on.
[1209.8s] Continues walking to the door on the opposite side of the room.
[1212.4s] Oh, I want to go like right in front of him and be like,
[1216.0s] Hey, do you remember me?
[1217.5s] He looks down.
[1218.4s] There's no response.
[1220.3s] He takes kind of a half step back as you as you as you get in front of him.
[1224.3s] It appears to just be, you know, protecting you from being stepped on
[1228.5s] more than anything, not startled or scared to me or anything.
[1231.3s] Yeah. It turns and regards everybody else in the room
[1237.6s] and then puts a puts a gentle hand on your shoulder
[1241.0s] and just kind of guides you to the side.
[1243.8s] And he continues to move forward towards the door.
[1246.5s] Rude. Towards where we came from.
[1249.3s] No, sorry.
[1250.7s] So you came in the double doors.
[1252.1s] There are two doors left and right.
[1254.2s] He came out of the right
[1255.2s] and is moving across to the other door to the left.
[1257.6s] See, he's carrying a clipboard, he said.
[1259.2s] Yeah. Yeah.
[1260.5s] Hey, am I on your clipboard?
[1262.3s] And he's still walking and I'm just like, yeah, he's still walking.
[1266.0s] He opens the door and kind of guards the door.
[1269.5s] Has my status changed?
[1271.0s] Looks down at you, offers a similar nod,
[1274.8s] walks into this other room and then closes the door. Rude.
[1282.2s] Welcome to the middle, everybody.
[1284.3s] We're here.
[1285.4s] Whiplash in the middle.
[1287.2s] So glad to see you here.
[1289.0s] That's that's so glad to see you.
[1292.2s] Glad to see you.
[1293.7s] Glad, glad and glad.
[1295.7s] We're making words.
[1296.5s] Yeah, that's that's all we're doing here.
[1298.6s] This is how language evolves.
[1300.5s] Everybody test out a new word on the show tonight.
[1303.3s] That way we can really just get take advantage of this.
[1308.0s] And what do we do?
[1311.7s] He wants to transition, but he just said take advantage of.
[1314.5s] And now it's like, no, yeah, that's not a segue I'm willing to take.
[1318.2s] It was a weird call to action.
[1321.0s] We would have stopped you.
[1322.0s] We weren't going to let you do that to yourself.
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[1513.0s] Hmm. Yeah, not as forthcoming.
[1517.8s] Hey, I don't think that's the same.
[1519.4s] Not as chatty.
[1520.1s] Joe's twin is like, yeah, I don't know.
[1524.1s] Evil twin.
[1525.2s] Evil. That's a big jump.
[1526.7s] Do you think so?
[1528.0s] No, I'm just being silly.
[1529.7s] Rude Joe.
[1530.4s] We can go.
[1532.1s] We can go where it came from and see what it could have been doing.
[1535.7s] OK. That is true.
[1537.5s] Hey, Bonwyn, do you want this?
[1539.0s] And I I hand her the plaque with her.
[1543.6s] It's her name on it.
[1544.4s] And I had been so nervous when Alydin was taking it down,
[1548.5s] but I didn't, you know, she needs to explore the world on her own.
[1552.4s] I would be like, don't.
[1554.1s] Um, but I don't know.
[1557.3s] I feel like until we know what's going on, maybe we should just put it back.
[1561.3s] And then if everything's cool, it would be a pretty dope souvenir.
[1563.9s] That would be pretty cool.
[1564.8s] OK, I'll put it back.
[1566.0s] I saw it back in exactly where I found it.
[1568.4s] Exactly where you found it.
[1569.0s] Exactly where I found it.
[1570.4s] OK, you slide it in exactly where you found it.
[1573.4s] And then you're going towards the door where this
[1576.6s] where it came from, where it came out of Joe, a look alike.
[1581.3s] OK, 2.0 Rude Joe.
[1583.7s] Cav, you're still kind of looking, trying to determine,
[1587.5s] you know, names on the board and that sort of thing.
[1590.8s] You see Alydin put hers back and everybody's making their way towards the door.
[1595.5s] And as you take a few steps away, that pending plaque,
[1599.5s] you see it shift from kind of this neutral position,
[1601.9s] not really in under any column.
[1604.8s] You see it slide across the wall and it lands under present.
[1609.2s] Huh?
[1610.7s] Uh, pending is now present.
[1614.4s] Oh, and I don't think their name is right.
[1616.6s] Fair, fair.
[1619.3s] That's very good, Alydin.
[1620.7s] Thanks.
[1621.3s] Um, do we I mean.
[1625.0s] Because you didn't do you think that is that you?
[1628.4s] Do you think you have status now because you're present?
[1630.7s] Because you didn't were unknown before, right?
[1633.8s] In the basement at the other school, me.
[1637.8s] Yeah, you know, so you think that's me.
[1640.3s] You think I'm pending.
[1642.5s] I don't know.
[1643.3s] I mean, you were pending and now you're here and pending.
[1646.4s] I don't know.
[1647.4s] It just seems like kind of a coincidence.
[1649.1s] I'm the only one out of all of us.
[1651.2s] You did just ask Joe who actually attends school.
[1655.8s] So I should be the least mystery.
[1658.2s] I'm just saying.
[1659.8s] Yeah, that's fair.
[1661.7s] Yeah, you have a point.
[1663.6s] Russ, can I roll an insight check on Alistair?
[1667.6s] Sure.
[1668.9s] Just see how his whole vibe is going.
[1671.1s] Yeah, seems pretty awake for a while yet.
[1675.0s] And now he's present.
[1676.4s] He has been awake for a suspiciously long time.
[1679.8s] He has been suspiciously awake.
[1681.3s] Suspiciously conscious.
[1682.8s] Actually, it's been like 10 seconds.
[1684.4s] We've walked into a room.
[1685.6s] That's all we've done.
[1686.7s] Well, no, I fucked around.
[1688.0s] Pretended to be a teacher.
[1689.2s] We looked around.
[1690.2s] We looked around.
[1691.0s] 500 names.
[1692.4s] We found Joe 2.0 when he found us.
[1696.1s] Yeah, Alistair, give me an insight roll.
[1700.2s] 17 plus 5, so 22.
[1702.9s] OK, I mean, you've been paying attention to the wall,
[1705.2s] but as things are changing, you look at Alistair.
[1709.8s] And Alistair, he's doing very similar to you,
[1712.8s] looking very pensively at all of the names on the board.
[1717.6s] You've seen him walk over to the door
[1720.9s] where this automaton has walked into,
[1723.9s] and it seems like the door itself was locked.
[1728.9s] He turns back, and he's got his hand on his head,
[1732.5s] and he says, schools record who's present, right?
[1739.7s] That's what this is.
[1740.5s] It feels like the attendance room.
[1742.4s] But he looks back towards the wall.
[1744.9s] They don't usually decide who belongs here, right?
[1752.2s] He looks equally as confused as everybody else around him.
[1757.8s] Everybody on this wall, there's names here
[1762.6s] that seem familiar from writings that I've seen,
[1765.5s] but he looks up to the ceiling, which
[1770.8s] seems like it goes on forever.
[1773.8s] There's so many people.
[1777.4s] And what happens when somebody's preserved?
[1779.8s] Yeah, great question.
[1782.2s] And I mean, even reassigned, do we
[1784.6s] think that means they just went to a different school?
[1787.7s] They just went to Vindersmith or somewhere else?
[1792.0s] I don't know.
[1794.1s] And where is Janelle and Reeves?
[1798.1s] They're here.
[1799.1s] That's what it says, is here is not the archive.
[1806.0s] The door outside is the archive, right?
[1809.0s] And he goes.
[1810.3s] Yeah, you're the expert.
[1811.7s] You should know.
[1812.4s] He goes back to the doors to the out.
[1815.4s] The doors behind you haven't closed or anything.
[1817.9s] You can still see out.
[1819.0s] And he goes to the front door, and he looks out.
[1822.9s] And Alydin, you hear a little click on Malin's name.
[1827.4s] It's like just slightly off center,
[1829.2s] and it clicks back into place.
[1831.8s] And at that same moment, and as Alistair kind of goes out
[1834.8s] to the front door there, a low vibration
[1839.4s] passes beneath everyone's feet.
[1842.9s] The bell below rings once again.
[1848.2s] And Alistair calls.
[1849.4s] He's like, hey, I think the door is brightening.
[1856.2s] I run over.
[1856.8s] Something new is happening.
[1860.0s] Want to see?
[1860.8s] You all quickly run outside, and you
[1863.0s] catch just the tail end of it.
[1864.3s] But what he sees is the stone frame to the doorway
[1867.8s] appears to sharpen in picture and becomes brighter
[1870.8s] than it was before.
[1872.3s] You see now more than just the door,
[1877.4s] a hallway begin to appear visible only
[1881.0s] for a few seconds behind the door.
[1884.0s] You can see walls beginning to form.
[1886.6s] Then it begins to fade once again.
[1889.2s] And Alistair stares toward the doorway.
[1891.8s] And he's, something about this place
[1898.1s] is certainly tied to that door.
[1903.3s] And something we're doing.
[1904.5s] Was it the bell?
[1906.7s] The bell made it brighter?
[1908.0s] The wall clicked.
[1908.8s] I'm going to go ring the bell.
[1910.7s] What do you mean?
[1911.6s] Oh, yeah, there was a click.
[1912.4s] What do you mean the wall clicked?
[1913.6s] Like where I took out.
[1916.5s] And replace the name?
[1917.5s] Yeah, I guess I didn't do it good enough.
[1920.1s] But it went back in and it clicked.
[1922.4s] And you were like, oh, the door.
[1925.3s] OK, I'm sure there's something we have to do.
[1928.6s] We have to go check some of these other rooms, I think.
[1931.0s] Well, it was MAlydin.
[1933.2s] They were preserved.
[1934.2s] So maybe it has to do with preserved energy in a way
[1939.2s] or something in a power sense.
[1944.9s] Can you guys watch?
[1945.8s] And I'll go move it again, maybe.
[1949.2s] OK.
[1949.7s] See if it happens again.
[1951.0s] Well, don't go alone.
[1951.9s] I'll come with you.
[1954.0s] What if you locked in there?
[1954.9s] Thanks.
[1955.8s] Do you do the same name or a different name or doesn't?
[1959.4s] Probably the same name.
[1960.4s] I want to recreate the same circumstances.
[1963.6s] Take it out, put it in.
[1966.5s] Wait.
[1967.0s] Shake it all about.
[1967.9s] Do the hokey pokey.
[1969.0s] Do the hokey pokey.
[1970.6s] That's right.
[1971.1s] Take it out.
[1971.7s] You examine it.
[1972.5s] See if there's any sort of mechanism on it
[1977.1s] that maybe was missed.
[1978.1s] It's just a wooden plate.
[1979.4s] They could have clicked, yeah.
[1981.4s] You slide it back in.
[1983.7s] Again, it rattles a little bit sliding in there.
[1987.3s] You leave it for a few moments.
[1989.4s] And then because it's slightly off center,
[1992.5s] clicks back into place.
[1994.4s] OK, click.
[1995.0s] Did it do anything?
[1996.5s] Everybody outside sees just the not quite as bright
[2000.2s] as it was before.
[2001.1s] But similarly, the doorway brightens again.
[2005.3s] That hallway appears for a few seconds and then disappears.
[2009.5s] What if there's more names that
[2011.3s] need to be put in to build up a whole?
[2015.4s] OK.
[2017.9s] I look around for a stack of these guys.
[2021.7s] I don't know.
[2023.0s] There's nothing.
[2024.3s] Yeah, because the back of the book
[2026.0s] said that attendance dismissal and transition
[2029.2s] are all complying.
[2030.4s] Real quick, Malin was a crafter.
[2035.8s] And when we put their name on, it builds something.
[2040.0s] So let's find other crafters and see if attaching them
[2043.5s] builds out more of the realm.
[2046.4s] Interesting.
[2047.2s] I like it.
[2048.0s] OK.
[2049.1s] Run back in with Bonwyn.
[2050.3s] Start looking for names.
[2051.6s] Start looking for more crafters.
[2053.0s] Yeah, you find, well, I mean,
[2055.5s] there's at least 100 names that kind of fall
[2058.3s] under that craft capability under different columns.
[2065.0s] You grab a few.
[2067.2s] Who's standing guard, so to speak, watching the door?
[2072.2s] I'll be there.
[2073.2s] OK.
[2074.5s] Bizarre, you and Alistair are at the door
[2077.1s] watching the fading in and out from the middle
[2080.6s] of the lake bed.
[2081.4s] And everybody is analyzing and moving
[2084.8s] all of these name plates around.
[2086.4s] I figure we're moving them to the preserved column,
[2089.9s] just because that's where her name is, right?
[2092.8s] That's where her name is.
[2094.2s] Yeah.
[2094.8s] That's the only one I remember.
[2096.1s] Let's try that.
[2097.1s] Yeah.
[2098.0s] So how many names total do you want to move?
[2100.2s] The names themselves aren't.
[2101.9s] Let's move one at a time and click them into place
[2104.9s] and see if anything happens.
[2107.2s] Sure.
[2107.8s] This is a controlled scientific experiment.
[2109.9s] I really feel like we're being very methodical
[2112.3s] about this.
[2113.1s] You grab one from under the reassigned column
[2117.2s] and move it into the preserved column.
[2119.6s] You stand and wait the same few seconds.
[2123.3s] Goes a little longer.
[2125.8s] And after you've given up on the same experience,
[2131.4s] you see the name itself begin to vibrate.
[2135.2s] And it slides itself across the track.
[2139.6s] The track itself almost gives the appearance
[2143.2s] that it's extending out and then slides across back
[2146.9s] to the reassigned column and snaps back
[2151.4s] into place over there.
[2153.8s] OK.
[2155.1s] Did anything happen to the door?
[2156.9s] Nothing out here.
[2159.8s] What if we mix up the ones in this row?
[2163.0s] OK.
[2163.6s] Like everybody in preserved, move them up and down.
[2167.9s] Move them around.
[2168.7s] I feel like this is one of those picture puzzles
[2172.6s] where you have to move the tile.
[2174.5s] Right.
[2175.2s] And there's the one empty space and you have to.
[2177.4s] Yes.
[2178.0s] Exactly.
[2179.6s] Bizard, you look back and you
[2180.9s] see everyone rearranging this column
[2183.6s] as high as they can reach, moving names around.
[2186.6s] And on the chalkboard, you see
[2189.8s] that it's changed since you guys left that room initially.
[2194.0s] It now says attendance accepted.
[2197.3s] Everybody else, as you finish reorganizing these names,
[2201.8s] you wait about the same amount of time
[2203.5s] as that secondary name that you had tried.
[2206.5s] And then you see these names begin to slide out of place
[2210.4s] and reorganize themselves within the wall
[2213.1s] until they all finally click.
[2215.8s] And then Bizard, back out in the lake bed,
[2218.0s] you see that doorway begin to glow again.
[2222.0s] And you see that hallway similar to before,
[2224.6s] similar to the first time that Alistair called you out.
[2228.4s] And then after a few seconds, begins to fade back down.
[2232.1s] And it gets like it fades the most it's faded so far.
[2239.7s] How about that?
[2240.6s] That do anything?
[2243.0s] Yeah, I think grab the coats.
[2245.3s] I think we need to get in there.
[2247.3s] We have to get in there?
[2250.5s] Go in the fading door?
[2253.4s] I have like eight more experiments
[2254.9s] I want to do on this wall.
[2256.9s] We didn't even go through any of the other doors.
[2259.4s] I don't know.
[2259.9s] If Bizard says we need to go, I think we kind of need to go.
[2262.9s] I honestly don't know.
[2265.7s] Oh, OK.
[2266.5s] As you guys are having this back and forth,
[2268.7s] everybody who's primarily in the building,
[2271.2s] you hear that low rumble again beneath your feet.
[2274.1s] What if there's a dragon in the basement?
[2276.1s] What if there's a dragon in the basement
[2277.8s] and it has to get free?
[2279.0s] And we're the only ones who know that it's down there.
[2281.7s] And then we'll have a pet dragon.
[2284.0s] Alydin, the door that the door.
[2289.2s] Fuck you, Kyle.
[2289.9s] Could be a dragon.
[2292.6s] I won't interrupt that back and forth.
[2295.5s] The door where the Joe figure came out,
[2298.6s] not where he went in, where he came out,
[2301.0s] you hear the faint.
[2303.0s] Actually, what's your passive perception?
[2305.4s] 10.
[2307.0s] I'm a G2.
[2308.7s] I'm an adult.
[2309.6s] OK, I'll I'll take that.
[2313.1s] OK, hold on.
[2315.1s] Never mind.
[2315.7s] You know, that's fine.
[2316.6s] Tom, what's your.
[2317.9s] No, it's OK.
[2319.5s] It's not it's anything you hear.
[2322.6s] You're not entirely sure from where you hear
[2325.3s] a similar faint click, similar to when the the doors
[2329.8s] then to this room unlock.
[2331.6s] Is anything happening now?
[2333.9s] I assume it's going to affect the door.
[2336.7s] It's fine.
[2338.2s] I don't see anything changing up.
[2341.4s] Alistair stay here.
[2342.6s] Keep an eye on it.
[2343.4s] And I'm going to head back inside to talk with everyone.
[2346.3s] OK, yeah, yeah, of course.
[2348.1s] I'll just stand.
[2348.8s] I'm going to ring the bell.
[2350.2s] I want to see if anything happens.
[2351.7s] It's the only other thing that happened kind
[2353.4s] of around that accepted.
[2356.3s] As you walk in, he Alistair sits down on the steps
[2360.6s] kind of coming up and you see him lean on one
[2363.5s] of the stone railways.
[2366.8s] You're ringing the bell as bizarre as you're coming back
[2370.5s] in bond when you're reaching for the bell, you ring it.
[2377.5s] Nothing immediately happens.
[2381.0s] Five seconds, maybe more pass than you hear again
[2386.0s] from beneath the Academy.
[2387.7s] You hear a single bell answer from somewhere below.
[2391.5s] However, unlike before, this reply
[2396.2s] is followed by the sound of enormous gears
[2399.4s] shifting into place.
[2401.4s] The machinery continues for several seconds
[2404.3s] before falling silent again.
[2407.0s] Oops.
[2408.6s] Alistair, anything with the door there?
[2410.8s] Huh, what?
[2412.0s] No.
[2414.6s] Sorry.
[2416.6s] No, no, nothing with the door.
[2418.5s] It's the same.
[2420.3s] Same fading.
[2422.0s] We shouldn't leave the narcoleptic.
[2425.0s] What if he falls asleep on the door
[2427.5s] and then falls through the door?
[2429.2s] Exactly.
[2429.7s] I didn't even think that could happen.
[2432.6s] I'm not touching the door yet.
[2434.2s] Not until we're done looking at the school.
[2437.3s] You were sleeping, weren't you?
[2439.2s] I just got a little sleepy.
[2440.4s] I was just resting my eyes.
[2441.4s] It's not your fault that you're sleepy.
[2443.1s] It's just we should know better than to have
[2445.8s] you be the person that needs to observe a thing.
[2448.2s] That's on us.
[2449.4s] That's fair.
[2450.8s] I think that's on us.
[2453.0s] I take full responsibility.
[2454.8s] I think Alydin's dragon is a mechanical dragon.
[2461.8s] And I look down at, oh, fuck me.
[2467.4s] Cogsworth Quackerton?
[2469.7s] Quackington.
[2470.5s] Quackleton.
[2472.2s] Cogsworth Quackleton.
[2474.2s] It's been since February.
[2477.7s] And I go, oh, a Cogsworth dragon.
[2482.8s] And that's where we're in today's episode.
[2486.6s] Just run bust through that other door.
[2489.0s] Dumbgeons and Dragons, season four, episode 62,
[2492.7s] starring Amy More as Alydin, Carla
[2495.0s] Maxted as Bonwyn Everbane, Tom Laird as Kavlaran Goldweave,
[2499.2s] Kyle Claset as Bizard the Wizard,
[2501.7s] and Russ More as your dungeon master.
[2504.3s] Dialogue editing and sound design of today's episode
[2507.0s] is by Russ More.
[2508.2s] Our community manager is Jessica Babyok.
[2510.6s] Music is from Epidemic Sound.
[2512.5s] And sound effects are from Epidemic Sound, Boom Library,
[2515.6s] and Sound Ideas.
[2516.8s] Our amazing cover art is by Matt Garbutt.
[2519.5s] A huge thank you to our supporting producers,
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[2554.6s] Have a great week, and we'll talk to you soon.
[2557.9s] This is recording.
[2559.8s] Check one, check two, still recording
[2561.6s] with decent levels, okay, good.
[2563.8s] Happiness.
[2565.4s] Say that again.
[2566.2s] Happiness.
[2567.3s] Happiness.
[2568.5s] Happiness.
[2569.3s] Happiness.
[2570.2s] Happiness.
[2571.0s] Happiness.
[2571.8s] Happiness.
[2574.2s] Okay.
[2576.4s] You all step up to the, oh,
[2578.0s] and if anybody has any notes from the previous one,
[2581.4s] I've changed the entire entry narration to the school.
[2584.7s] So disregard anything from the door opens.
[2588.0s] I know, Tom, that was the one note you took.
[2590.2s] Out of my mind.
[2591.1s] I have to throw so many notes out now.
[2592.9s] I'm worried specifically about you Tom, I don't know.
[2596.6s] Guilty as charged.
[2598.1s] Dumbgeons and Dragons is a Dumb Dragons production.