1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:02,160 Dumbgeons and Dragons will begin in a moment. 2 00:00:02,800 --> 00:00:04,480 Let's go to the basement. Maybe there's a dragon. 3 00:00:04,960 --> 00:00:07,719 If that's what she thinks down there, let's head on down. 4 00:00:08,040 --> 00:00:09,439 Absolutely. Well. 5 00:00:11,320 --> 00:00:14,720 I feel like we should like just try a couple more things in this room before we go. 6 00:00:15,439 --> 00:00:17,080 Yeah, right. We move some things around. 7 00:00:17,080 --> 00:00:19,519 Yeah, that did some stuff. 8 00:00:19,519 --> 00:00:23,080 And then we'll do like the rapid fire round, just see if anything takes. 9 00:00:24,080 --> 00:00:26,280 Yeah, OK. Look, look, look. 10 00:00:26,320 --> 00:00:29,160 And I open up the ledger and I say, 11 00:00:30,120 --> 00:00:33,079 this one, this one, nobody signed it. 12 00:00:34,079 --> 00:00:37,039 Is there a pen or do you have a pen in your bucket 13 00:00:37,359 --> 00:00:39,399 in the bottom with some mints and stuff? 14 00:00:39,399 --> 00:00:42,240 I gave you some writing utensils that should be in there. 15 00:00:42,480 --> 00:00:43,880 OK, who wants to sign it? 16 00:00:43,880 --> 00:00:47,400 I don't know if anything I sign is legally binding. 17 00:00:47,560 --> 00:00:49,159 That's a great point. 18 00:00:49,159 --> 00:00:51,760 I feel like you also maybe are a student. 19 00:00:52,760 --> 00:00:56,439 Because of the thing with the pending to the present, maybe I'll sign. 20 00:00:56,439 --> 00:00:57,799 Hold on. Hold on. Hold on. 21 00:00:57,799 --> 00:00:59,719 Wait, wait, hold on. Is it finished? 22 00:00:59,719 --> 00:01:01,960 It's penned. What do you mean? 23 00:01:02,280 --> 00:01:03,359 Look at the other pages. 24 00:01:03,359 --> 00:01:05,200 Did they finish the day? 25 00:01:05,200 --> 00:01:06,480 I flip through. 26 00:01:06,480 --> 00:01:08,519 It's the same, right? It just isn't signed. 27 00:01:08,519 --> 00:01:12,200 It says attendance complete, dismissal complete, transition complete, 28 00:01:12,400 --> 00:01:14,799 continuity maintained on every other page. 29 00:01:14,799 --> 00:01:17,959 You see that continuity is also complete. 30 00:01:19,000 --> 00:01:21,799 Oh, but this one says continuity maintained. 31 00:01:21,799 --> 00:01:24,159 Oh, no, I guess that is different. 32 00:01:24,479 --> 00:01:28,719 So do we need to complete continuity? 33 00:01:28,759 --> 00:01:31,239 How do you? I don't know. 34 00:01:31,239 --> 00:01:33,519 OK, maybe we sign this at the end. 35 00:01:34,799 --> 00:01:37,479 Oh, God, do we have to do a school? OK. 36 00:01:37,479 --> 00:01:39,799 Well, we're in a school continuity. 37 00:01:40,199 --> 00:01:42,599 She gives him a look like, I'm just going to sign it. 38 00:01:42,599 --> 00:01:43,759 Let's see what happens. 39 00:01:43,759 --> 00:01:45,879 I mean, we don't know what it even means. 40 00:01:45,879 --> 00:01:47,000 I'm going to try to sign it. 41 00:01:47,000 --> 00:01:48,719 You sign the page, try to sign it. 42 00:01:48,719 --> 00:01:52,280 Yeah, you take your pen, put it to paper, you sign your signature. 43 00:01:52,280 --> 00:01:53,480 It's on the page. 44 00:01:53,480 --> 00:01:56,799 You hear from the basement 45 00:01:56,799 --> 00:01:59,599 that low grumble, the low rumble again. 46 00:01:59,719 --> 00:02:03,560 OK, the heavier gears that you don't hear those. 47 00:02:03,560 --> 00:02:06,960 It's just that same kind of comes up and then down. 48 00:02:07,000 --> 00:02:10,560 OK, so we got some kind of reaction there, and that's something. 49 00:02:10,560 --> 00:02:12,080 That's information. 50 00:02:12,080 --> 00:02:14,039 What else should we do in here? 51 00:02:14,039 --> 00:02:16,439 Oh, let's write on the chalkboard. 52 00:02:17,159 --> 00:02:20,280 Oh, sometimes when it's cold outside, 53 00:02:20,280 --> 00:02:22,599 our teachers would let us draw pictures and stuff. 54 00:02:22,599 --> 00:02:24,520 So me first. 55 00:02:24,520 --> 00:02:26,599 And I draw a picture. 56 00:02:26,599 --> 00:02:30,639 I write, Hi, my name is Alydin. 57 00:02:31,280 --> 00:02:35,240 And then I draw some hearts and the flower and then a sleeping guy. 58 00:02:35,719 --> 00:02:37,560 Is that supposed to be me? Yeah. 59 00:02:37,560 --> 00:02:41,879 Oh, the likeness is uncanny, especially the Z's above his head. 60 00:02:42,560 --> 00:02:44,840 That's how I that's I figure that's how I knew. 61 00:02:44,840 --> 00:02:46,360 It's evocative. It's very good. 62 00:02:47,040 --> 00:02:50,440 Uh, nothing happens to the board. 63 00:02:50,440 --> 00:02:52,360 Nothing happens. 64 00:02:52,480 --> 00:02:54,640 OK, any other ideas? 65 00:02:54,640 --> 00:02:57,000 Anything else we want to like poke or prod or? 66 00:02:57,840 --> 00:02:59,760 I'm looking around. I don't see anything. 67 00:02:59,760 --> 00:03:01,680 Door. The door that. 68 00:03:01,680 --> 00:03:04,200 Yeah. Joe went into Joe 2.0. 69 00:03:04,200 --> 00:03:06,600 This is not the same Joe. 70 00:03:06,600 --> 00:03:07,920 Our Joe is nice. 71 00:03:07,920 --> 00:03:12,640 Everybody had starts heading back into the attendance room. 72 00:03:12,640 --> 00:03:14,960 And Alydin, you place the chalk back down. 73 00:03:14,960 --> 00:03:15,960 And as you take a step, 74 00:03:15,960 --> 00:03:18,719 you see that your writing begins to erase on the board. 75 00:03:19,280 --> 00:03:21,400 Ah, rude. 76 00:03:22,719 --> 00:03:23,719 That's rude. 77 00:03:24,200 --> 00:03:26,719 Yeah, this place is just kind of rude. 78 00:03:26,719 --> 00:03:28,719 Joe's rude. The chalkboard's rude. 79 00:03:30,560 --> 00:03:34,000 The names keep, I guess I'm just going putting getting putting back. Yeah. 80 00:03:35,480 --> 00:03:37,680 Well, maybe that's because that's what I'm supposed to. 81 00:03:37,680 --> 00:03:40,080 I'm just going to rudely walk into this door. 82 00:03:40,080 --> 00:03:41,600 It's possible. 83 00:03:41,599 --> 00:03:45,120 The educational philosophy here is more self-encouraged, 84 00:03:45,120 --> 00:03:48,680 so maybe we just need to step up and start doing shit. 85 00:03:50,039 --> 00:03:52,680 Bizarre things is like a Montessori school. 86 00:03:52,879 --> 00:03:56,199 Like you really need to be self-motivated to do this one. 87 00:03:56,680 --> 00:03:58,400 Everyone goes at their own pace. 88 00:03:58,400 --> 00:04:00,639 It's interest based learning. 89 00:04:00,639 --> 00:04:02,319 Let's explore. 90 00:04:02,639 --> 00:04:06,240 Dumbgeons and Dragons is a D&D actual play podcast, 91 00:04:06,240 --> 00:04:08,840 and I'm your dungeon master, Russ More, he him. 92 00:04:08,960 --> 00:04:12,280 Also with me today is Amy More as Alydin, she her. 93 00:04:12,280 --> 00:04:15,080 Super rude. You're putting me back into a classroom during summer break. 94 00:04:15,080 --> 00:04:18,040 Carla Maxted as Bonwyn Everbane, she her. 95 00:04:18,040 --> 00:04:19,800 Let's go find him. He never forgets. 96 00:04:19,800 --> 00:04:22,720 Tom Laird as Kavlaran Goldweave, he him. 97 00:04:22,720 --> 00:04:24,040 Pop that floorboard up. 98 00:04:24,040 --> 00:04:27,000 And Kyle Claset as Bizard the Wizard, he him. 99 00:04:27,040 --> 00:04:28,840 I think somebody's maintaining it back there, 100 00:04:28,840 --> 00:04:30,160 so we don't have to worry about that shit. 101 00:04:30,160 --> 00:04:35,240 Dumbgeons and Dragons is a Patreon supported show made possible by listeners like you. 102 00:04:35,560 --> 00:04:39,040 Join us today at patreon.com slash Dumb Dragon Cast 103 00:04:39,040 --> 00:04:42,319 and get a free seven day trial to try everything out over there. 104 00:04:42,639 --> 00:04:45,120 And now, fuck it, let's play. 105 00:04:46,319 --> 00:04:48,280 Well, let's try both doors. 106 00:04:49,360 --> 00:04:51,840 What if it was just a random click? 107 00:04:51,840 --> 00:04:56,120 I run to an exact door that Joe 2.0 went through. 108 00:04:56,199 --> 00:04:58,639 There you go to open that door and it is locked. 109 00:04:59,319 --> 00:05:01,560 Kind of just jerk, hit into it. 110 00:05:01,639 --> 00:05:03,319 Let's let's try the other one. 111 00:05:03,319 --> 00:05:08,120 It opens and cav as you're following behind. 112 00:05:08,120 --> 00:05:10,319 So the door opens into another room. 113 00:05:10,319 --> 00:05:12,439 I'll describe that in a moment. 114 00:05:12,439 --> 00:05:16,240 But cav, you're looking at the wall and. 115 00:05:17,399 --> 00:05:20,480 For a brief moment, this entire wall. 116 00:05:21,360 --> 00:05:24,719 It to you resembles a complete record 117 00:05:25,000 --> 00:05:28,319 rather than a collection of names, which you guys can kind of move 118 00:05:28,319 --> 00:05:31,000 any things around as you reach for the door. 119 00:05:31,079 --> 00:05:33,839 You hear that same soft click. 120 00:05:33,839 --> 00:05:37,240 And as you turn the handle, you feel like it's unlocking 121 00:05:37,240 --> 00:05:40,040 as you're going through above the doorway, 122 00:05:40,560 --> 00:05:44,279 a freshly polished brass plaque 123 00:05:44,639 --> 00:05:47,120 almost appears out of nowhere, cav. 124 00:05:47,120 --> 00:05:49,639 And as you're kind of following in behind, you see it. 125 00:05:50,680 --> 00:05:54,399 It reads observation. 126 00:05:54,639 --> 00:05:55,800 Just observation. 127 00:05:55,800 --> 00:05:59,240 Observation. Just observation. Just observation. OK. 128 00:06:00,240 --> 00:06:03,519 It's just when we go in, it's just like a wall of TV screens 129 00:06:03,519 --> 00:06:07,240 with security cameras showing everywhere in Vindersmith. 130 00:06:07,240 --> 00:06:09,680 And it is creepy as fuck. 131 00:06:09,680 --> 00:06:11,319 Pretty startling for. 132 00:06:11,319 --> 00:06:15,280 Yeah, like it's it's creepy and also kind of breathtaking. 133 00:06:15,360 --> 00:06:18,560 So we've never seen anything like this. 134 00:06:18,560 --> 00:06:20,800 Could be Janelle's office. 135 00:06:20,800 --> 00:06:22,000 Hmm. 136 00:06:23,840 --> 00:06:28,920 That sunlight again spills through tall classroom windows. 137 00:06:29,600 --> 00:06:33,199 Every desk in this room has been carefully aligned. 138 00:06:33,920 --> 00:06:38,319 Slate tablets, sharpened pencils and neatly stacked lesson books 139 00:06:38,319 --> 00:06:42,319 remain exactly where their students previously left them. 140 00:06:43,519 --> 00:06:47,160 Across a chalkboard in the room, someone has written 141 00:06:48,040 --> 00:06:50,439 Observe before concluding. 142 00:06:51,280 --> 00:06:53,759 Record before judging. 143 00:06:54,680 --> 00:06:57,560 Maintain before repairing. 144 00:06:58,240 --> 00:07:02,040 Children's drawings cover nearly every wall in this room. 145 00:07:02,920 --> 00:07:06,839 At first, they all appear to depict this very classroom. 146 00:07:07,480 --> 00:07:09,480 But at second glance, 147 00:07:09,480 --> 00:07:13,560 there's something different about every single drawing. 148 00:07:15,079 --> 00:07:19,639 Each drawing appears ordinary until you get close to it, 149 00:07:19,639 --> 00:07:23,600 and every child appears to have noticed something different. 150 00:07:23,920 --> 00:07:27,200 The windows, a simple drawing of the classroom windows 151 00:07:27,200 --> 00:07:29,720 written beneath it, say Mrs. 152 00:07:29,720 --> 00:07:32,240 Vail says sunlight changes first. 153 00:07:33,360 --> 00:07:37,000 The shadows in this drawing no longer match the room. 154 00:07:37,000 --> 00:07:40,560 Instead, they point toward the floor beneath the teacher's desk. 155 00:07:43,120 --> 00:07:44,520 The floorboards. 156 00:07:44,520 --> 00:07:49,439 One child carefully shaded a single floorboard darker than the others. 157 00:07:50,439 --> 00:07:52,960 Nothing about it appears remarkable. 158 00:07:52,960 --> 00:07:56,880 Also, in this room, you see 159 00:07:58,120 --> 00:08:01,280 there's a homework basket filled with observation journals. 160 00:08:02,360 --> 00:08:05,640 You see all of these student drawings. 161 00:08:05,640 --> 00:08:11,520 You see the teacher's desk neatly organized rather than abandoned. 162 00:08:12,000 --> 00:08:16,760 And the classroom, as previously mentioned, is perfectly preserved. 163 00:08:16,760 --> 00:08:19,680 No dust or decay. 164 00:08:19,680 --> 00:08:22,440 And then the writing on the chalkboard. 165 00:08:22,519 --> 00:08:26,560 I want to go look at the the homework hand in bin. 166 00:08:26,839 --> 00:08:29,399 Also, Amy would just like to say super rude. 167 00:08:29,399 --> 00:08:31,560 You're putting me back into a classroom during summer break. 168 00:08:35,039 --> 00:08:38,120 Look, Alydin moved from holes in the ground to classrooms. 169 00:08:38,120 --> 00:08:40,799 OK. Right. 170 00:08:40,799 --> 00:08:42,679 Step up, I guess. Step up. 171 00:08:42,679 --> 00:08:44,399 Yeah, no, I mean, it's a pretty big step. 172 00:08:44,399 --> 00:08:47,639 I mean, yeah, from a we're just going to end up in the basement anyway, 173 00:08:48,480 --> 00:08:51,399 which is essentially a hole. Yeah. 174 00:08:51,439 --> 00:08:53,279 But I would like to check out like the 175 00:08:53,279 --> 00:08:57,840 sure the notebooks or journals or whatever they're in the homework 176 00:08:57,840 --> 00:09:00,079 basket with all of these journals. 177 00:09:00,079 --> 00:09:04,000 Each assignment begins with the same instructions. 178 00:09:04,799 --> 00:09:09,000 Instructions are observe something adults overlook 179 00:09:09,759 --> 00:09:11,840 as you begin to flip through them. 180 00:09:12,919 --> 00:09:15,319 You see one that says, Mr. 181 00:09:15,319 --> 00:09:17,879 Hollow counts every loaf twice. 182 00:09:18,200 --> 00:09:19,559 Another says Mrs. 183 00:09:19,559 --> 00:09:22,799 Vail checks the weather before opening every window. 184 00:09:23,320 --> 00:09:26,960 Another the hall monitor says goodbye to every classroom. 185 00:09:27,360 --> 00:09:30,960 Another says the hinges squeak every Tuesday. 186 00:09:31,600 --> 00:09:36,039 A final one that you open says, I think the lake moved. 187 00:09:36,879 --> 00:09:40,080 The teacher's response beside the final entry simply reads, 188 00:09:40,480 --> 00:09:44,399 continue observing, tell no one until you are certain. 189 00:09:44,759 --> 00:09:46,000 What's the name on the book? 190 00:09:46,000 --> 00:09:46,919 Whose book is it? 191 00:09:46,919 --> 00:09:48,120 Is it Janelle's book? 192 00:09:49,559 --> 00:09:52,479 That one is is Janelle's. 193 00:09:52,679 --> 00:09:56,039 We are in the observation room and exactly. 194 00:09:56,039 --> 00:09:58,559 She was the observation person. 195 00:09:58,679 --> 00:10:00,439 Janelle observed. 196 00:10:00,439 --> 00:10:04,759 Can I flip in her book to see other observations that Janelle has done? 197 00:10:04,959 --> 00:10:10,959 Most of them, as you kind of flip back through appear rather mundane. 198 00:10:11,399 --> 00:10:13,959 More like the loaves of bread one. 199 00:10:14,720 --> 00:10:20,440 You know, this is Becky picks flowers from her garden bed on Wednesdays. 200 00:10:20,480 --> 00:10:24,280 Yeah, that's the I mean, there's the hinges squeak every Tuesday. 201 00:10:24,800 --> 00:10:27,759 I think the lake moved is the one that stands out the most. 202 00:10:29,240 --> 00:10:32,600 You said that we saw pictures on the walls. 203 00:10:33,280 --> 00:10:36,600 Yeah. I want to go 204 00:10:37,400 --> 00:10:41,200 back to the one that has a floorboard colored a different color, 205 00:10:41,200 --> 00:10:43,640 and I want to see if that's in this room. 206 00:10:43,640 --> 00:10:46,960 Is there a floorboard that is slightly darker or lighter? 207 00:10:47,280 --> 00:10:49,400 Does this correspond to something? Yeah. 208 00:10:49,400 --> 00:10:51,640 Sure. I was going to look over that as well. 209 00:10:51,640 --> 00:10:54,759 We have the same idea that had a name of a student on it or not. 210 00:10:55,000 --> 00:10:56,480 Oh, smart. 211 00:10:56,920 --> 00:11:01,800 None of the none of the images do have names on them, but 212 00:11:03,160 --> 00:11:04,400 the floorboard. 213 00:11:04,400 --> 00:11:07,840 So again, again, the floorboard one one child carefully shaded 214 00:11:07,840 --> 00:11:10,600 a single floorboard darker than the others. 215 00:11:11,400 --> 00:11:14,400 Nothing about it in the image appears remarkable. 216 00:11:15,800 --> 00:11:22,200 As you examine it closer and you begin to look around the room, 217 00:11:22,960 --> 00:11:26,080 you look back at the picture and it appears that 218 00:11:27,240 --> 00:11:32,040 they've tried to depict that perhaps it was lifted or replaced. 219 00:11:32,200 --> 00:11:35,280 And as you look to the same place in the room, 220 00:11:35,280 --> 00:11:40,640 you do see a singular floorboard that does appear darker than the rest. 221 00:11:41,720 --> 00:11:45,320 I'm going down there with like the screwdriver in my bucket. 222 00:11:45,320 --> 00:11:47,480 And I'm like, pop that floor. 223 00:11:47,480 --> 00:11:49,600 I'm trying to pop that floorboard up. 224 00:11:49,600 --> 00:11:52,640 Anybody else with a bucket and a screwdriver would have done the same. 225 00:11:52,640 --> 00:11:53,400 Totally. 226 00:11:53,400 --> 00:11:56,840 Everybody sees Alydin rush over to this one floorboard, 227 00:11:56,840 --> 00:12:02,000 which does appear slightly different than the entire entirety of the room. 228 00:12:02,640 --> 00:12:05,360 You get your your wedge or your driver 229 00:12:05,360 --> 00:12:09,040 and like cracks as you kind of pull it up. 230 00:12:09,240 --> 00:12:11,439 And you my wedger, my driver, my golfing. 231 00:12:11,439 --> 00:12:13,639 Yeah. OK. Nice thinking. 232 00:12:13,639 --> 00:12:15,919 I was like, wow, we're really throwing around the golfing terms. 233 00:12:15,919 --> 00:12:17,319 Hey, those are the two. 234 00:12:17,319 --> 00:12:19,240 This is the only two close. 235 00:12:19,240 --> 00:12:21,159 Oh, you know, Potter is true. 236 00:12:21,159 --> 00:12:22,719 I know Potter. 237 00:12:22,719 --> 00:12:24,279 Wood. That's one. 238 00:12:24,279 --> 00:12:26,079 Yeah. Yeah. Iron. 239 00:12:26,079 --> 00:12:27,639 Wait, that's not all these. 240 00:12:27,639 --> 00:12:29,120 Just put a number in front of iron. 241 00:12:29,120 --> 00:12:31,360 And I think you're good. Yeah, you're right. 242 00:12:31,399 --> 00:12:36,799 You hear the kind of seam on the floorboard crack as it pulls up. 243 00:12:37,560 --> 00:12:40,280 There's no hollow space beneath it. 244 00:12:40,280 --> 00:12:43,960 The inference you can make is that the child simply noticed a repair. 245 00:12:43,960 --> 00:12:45,440 No one else saw. 246 00:12:45,440 --> 00:12:47,560 I want to look on the underside of the board. 247 00:12:47,560 --> 00:12:49,760 It looks like the underside of a hardwood plank. 248 00:12:49,880 --> 00:12:52,400 Son of a bitch. 249 00:12:53,920 --> 00:12:56,000 I put it back down 250 00:12:56,000 --> 00:13:00,280 and like hammer the nails back down with the end of the screwdriver, like 251 00:13:00,519 --> 00:13:04,839 whiff, whiff, whiff, whiff, whiff, whiff. 252 00:13:04,839 --> 00:13:08,319 Not me ripping up the flooring in this very nicely cared for school. 253 00:13:09,159 --> 00:13:13,399 OK, not not all ideas are good ones, but how do you know till you do it? 254 00:13:13,399 --> 00:13:14,959 Right. Could have been a stairway under there. 255 00:13:14,959 --> 00:13:16,959 We didn't know. Could have been a tiny stairway. 256 00:13:17,240 --> 00:13:21,600 I wonder what happened to that piece of wood that needed it to be repaired. 257 00:13:22,159 --> 00:13:26,639 Because according to the mantra, maintain before repairing 258 00:13:26,960 --> 00:13:31,159 something drastic had to happen for it to be needed to be repaired. 259 00:13:32,039 --> 00:13:33,639 That's my understanding. 260 00:13:33,639 --> 00:13:36,000 I look up at the ceiling directly above. 261 00:13:36,199 --> 00:13:37,600 Is there water damage? 262 00:13:37,600 --> 00:13:40,199 Is it to do just have a leaky roof? 263 00:13:40,199 --> 00:13:42,000 No. Are we focusing on the wrong thing? 264 00:13:42,000 --> 00:13:43,399 No, absolutely not. 265 00:13:43,399 --> 00:13:46,919 There's there doesn't appear to be any water damage in the room. 266 00:13:46,919 --> 00:13:52,439 If it looks, you know, it looks well-worn, but nothing out there. 267 00:13:52,559 --> 00:13:55,519 There isn't like a hole in the ceiling directly above 268 00:13:55,519 --> 00:13:57,600 that would explain why it needed to be fixed. 269 00:13:57,799 --> 00:14:00,879 Yep. Mentioned there's stacks of sorry, stacks of paper 270 00:14:00,879 --> 00:14:03,360 and writing utensils and that sort of thing. 271 00:14:03,480 --> 00:14:05,319 Desks, too, like the whole setup. 272 00:14:05,319 --> 00:14:06,079 All right. 273 00:14:06,079 --> 00:14:08,480 I'm going to take a couple pieces of paper 274 00:14:08,480 --> 00:14:11,399 and sit down at a desk with some colored pencils and 275 00:14:11,879 --> 00:14:14,679 and I just sit there for a second because I can't think of what to draw. 276 00:14:15,199 --> 00:14:17,720 As Alydin does that to everybody else looking around, 277 00:14:17,720 --> 00:14:20,439 there are a few more drawings that stand out to others. 278 00:14:21,399 --> 00:14:25,399 There's a sketch of the Academy Bell Tower. 279 00:14:26,279 --> 00:14:31,439 Written underneath it is the phrase, I think bells remember. 280 00:14:32,519 --> 00:14:35,439 There's a teacher response on this one that reads, 281 00:14:35,720 --> 00:14:37,720 Excellent observation. 282 00:14:37,720 --> 00:14:39,559 Continue watching. 283 00:14:39,559 --> 00:14:44,639 You notice that several children drew a corridor outside. 284 00:14:45,600 --> 00:14:49,199 Each picture includes a tall mechanical figure 285 00:14:49,199 --> 00:14:51,759 standing patiently near the classroom doors. 286 00:14:52,879 --> 00:14:55,360 You can presume that it's the hall monitor. 287 00:14:55,360 --> 00:14:56,680 The one that you've seen. 288 00:14:56,680 --> 00:15:00,519 And one student added, He always says goodbye. 289 00:15:01,720 --> 00:15:05,120 And another simply wrote, He never forgets. 290 00:15:08,200 --> 00:15:11,120 There's one final drawing. 291 00:15:12,120 --> 00:15:15,360 Zarden, Bonwyn, you kind of come to it at the same time. 292 00:15:17,000 --> 00:15:19,840 And it does not depict the classroom at all. 293 00:15:20,960 --> 00:15:24,440 Instead, it shows the Academy from directly above. 294 00:15:25,080 --> 00:15:28,800 Beneath the building, hidden below the classroom, 295 00:15:28,800 --> 00:15:32,880 someone has carefully illustrated a network of corridors 296 00:15:32,880 --> 00:15:35,440 surrounding a large circular chamber. 297 00:15:36,720 --> 00:15:41,720 A staircase descends from somewhere near an eastern hallway. 298 00:15:42,960 --> 00:15:45,480 Written in careful handwriting says, 299 00:15:45,480 --> 00:15:49,000 Teacher says we help downstairs after transition. 300 00:15:50,120 --> 00:15:53,400 The teacher's reply is, Excellent observation. 301 00:15:53,959 --> 00:15:56,360 Please wait until your lessons are complete. 302 00:15:57,559 --> 00:16:02,279 Meanwhile, I have drawn an elephant like a paper elephant, 303 00:16:03,679 --> 00:16:07,759 like a mockery of the hall monitor with a clipboard. 304 00:16:08,199 --> 00:16:10,360 Like, it's very obviously him. 305 00:16:10,480 --> 00:16:13,000 I have written Joe 2.0 on him. 306 00:16:13,840 --> 00:16:16,360 And then he's got a speech bubble that says, I never forget. 307 00:16:19,159 --> 00:16:21,759 Sorry. It's my drawing. 308 00:16:21,759 --> 00:16:24,759 Russ, is there a bell tower at the school still? 309 00:16:25,439 --> 00:16:26,559 I didn't remember that. 310 00:16:26,559 --> 00:16:28,439 Yes. Yeah. Describing walking up. 311 00:16:29,879 --> 00:16:32,679 OK. I can give you that description. 312 00:16:32,960 --> 00:16:35,039 That was in February. We walked up to the building. 313 00:16:35,039 --> 00:16:37,039 I can't remember. Yeah, fair. 314 00:16:38,039 --> 00:16:46,559 There is a bell tower, but the bell itself looked like it was tied up. 315 00:16:47,840 --> 00:16:50,080 Like rope wrapped around it kind of thing. 316 00:16:50,320 --> 00:16:52,120 Mm hmm. OK. 317 00:16:52,120 --> 00:16:54,759 Yeah. Well, those are doing something, so. 318 00:17:02,759 --> 00:17:07,559 OK. I had a thing, a Patreon name. 319 00:17:07,799 --> 00:17:08,920 It's over here somewhere. 320 00:17:08,920 --> 00:17:12,319 Because when you're a Patreon member, a middle is dedicated to you. 321 00:17:12,319 --> 00:17:14,160 And that's how this middle is starting out. 322 00:17:14,160 --> 00:17:15,799 We're starting with. 323 00:17:15,799 --> 00:17:17,840 We're starting with the in-media res. 324 00:17:18,399 --> 00:17:20,359 The old Reverso. 325 00:17:20,359 --> 00:17:22,679 Oh, that's right. I like it, Kyle. 326 00:17:22,959 --> 00:17:27,240 I mean, maybe we should maybe we should do the old flip, flip the script. 327 00:17:28,039 --> 00:17:32,119 You know, that way you get more episode actually dedicated to you. 328 00:17:32,519 --> 00:17:34,039 It's not. That's a very good point. 329 00:17:34,039 --> 00:17:35,759 It's not really your time code. 330 00:17:35,759 --> 00:17:37,439 More episode. Right. Exactly. 331 00:17:37,439 --> 00:17:40,439 OK. Are we making people listen to see? 332 00:17:40,439 --> 00:17:42,079 Is it me? Is it me? 333 00:17:42,079 --> 00:17:43,559 Or are they just turning it off? 334 00:17:43,559 --> 00:17:46,000 They can't just ride that 15 second skip button. 335 00:17:46,039 --> 00:17:47,799 No, no, no, no. 336 00:17:47,799 --> 00:17:49,480 Yeah, you can't do that. Not that you would do. 337 00:17:49,480 --> 00:17:51,640 No, they would never. Why would you do that? 338 00:17:51,640 --> 00:17:55,279 Why would you go to Spotify and skip ads like you can't? 339 00:17:55,400 --> 00:17:57,759 Yeah, you should. You shouldn't do that. 340 00:17:57,759 --> 00:18:01,680 No, it's funny is we've taken a long time to even reveal who it is. 341 00:18:01,799 --> 00:18:03,839 So we're kind of at the same point. 342 00:18:03,839 --> 00:18:05,960 Yeah, we're doing the same thing as we were before. 343 00:18:05,960 --> 00:18:09,160 Yeah, maybe this episode's 344 00:18:09,319 --> 00:18:13,440 patron can let us know if they liked it when we pretended 345 00:18:13,440 --> 00:18:14,960 we were going to say their name right away 346 00:18:14,960 --> 00:18:16,720 or when we do what we normally do. 347 00:18:16,720 --> 00:18:19,120 Oh, yeah. A little bait and switch. 348 00:18:19,120 --> 00:18:20,640 Hit us up. Yeah. 349 00:18:20,640 --> 00:18:22,960 Blank or us say name now. 350 00:18:22,960 --> 00:18:25,079 Colin Murray. 351 00:18:25,079 --> 00:18:27,480 Colin Murray. Thank you so much. 352 00:18:27,480 --> 00:18:28,680 Thank you, Colin. 353 00:18:28,680 --> 00:18:30,799 Colin Murray pays in pounds. 354 00:18:30,799 --> 00:18:34,799 So I'm only assuming that they are from across the pond. 355 00:18:34,920 --> 00:18:37,720 Oh, no, sorry. That's OK. I like that. 356 00:18:38,519 --> 00:18:40,200 He wasn't specific. 357 00:18:40,200 --> 00:18:41,680 No, I mean, I did. 358 00:18:41,680 --> 00:18:45,440 I, you know, assumed that we were talking currency. 359 00:18:45,720 --> 00:18:47,519 Yes. You should have said great. 360 00:18:47,519 --> 00:18:49,360 I still am. Great for you. 361 00:18:49,360 --> 00:18:51,360 That old J.B.P. 362 00:18:51,360 --> 00:18:56,240 Then Macaub Amy leaning into spooky season 363 00:18:56,240 --> 00:18:58,759 wouldn't have immediately made it crazy. 364 00:18:58,759 --> 00:19:00,240 I have a spooky heart. I can't. 365 00:19:00,240 --> 00:19:02,360 It's a great way to kick off spooky season. 366 00:19:02,360 --> 00:19:04,880 You know what? It's also a great way to kick off spooky season. 367 00:19:04,880 --> 00:19:08,560 What? Redo in the Patreon with new 368 00:19:08,559 --> 00:19:10,839 tears and things you can see. 369 00:19:10,839 --> 00:19:12,519 We're mixing it up. Yes. 370 00:19:12,519 --> 00:19:13,639 We're mixing it up. 371 00:19:13,639 --> 00:19:17,599 So you get the episode dedication, but we also have new entry points. 372 00:19:17,599 --> 00:19:21,119 We've got a lovely if you just want to come join, 373 00:19:21,119 --> 00:19:22,799 toss a little support to the show. 374 00:19:22,799 --> 00:19:25,279 But you don't care about nothing else going on over here 375 00:19:25,279 --> 00:19:27,519 that we've been talking about ad nauseam for years. 376 00:19:28,079 --> 00:19:30,720 We've got to support us here for just two dollars. 377 00:19:31,639 --> 00:19:33,480 That's like I don't want any of your nonsense, 378 00:19:33,480 --> 00:19:34,919 but I want you to keep nonsenses. 379 00:19:34,919 --> 00:19:38,079 Yeah, I don't. Yeah, I don't want to. 380 00:19:38,119 --> 00:19:40,159 It's just to set it and forget it. 381 00:19:40,159 --> 00:19:42,599 I like your primary nonsense. 382 00:19:42,599 --> 00:19:44,240 Keep doing that primary nonsense. 383 00:19:44,240 --> 00:19:46,599 If that if this helps that, which it does. 384 00:19:46,599 --> 00:19:47,480 It always does. 385 00:19:47,480 --> 00:19:49,199 Always does. Absolutely. 386 00:19:49,199 --> 00:19:50,119 Now and forever. 387 00:19:50,119 --> 00:19:53,119 And we appreciate you till the end of time. 388 00:19:53,839 --> 00:19:56,720 But if you do want to support at a higher tier, 389 00:19:56,720 --> 00:20:02,079 we've got bonus audio, we've extracurricular nonsense. 390 00:20:02,079 --> 00:20:04,480 Yes, that's off the books. 391 00:20:04,919 --> 00:20:07,039 After hours, nonsense. 392 00:20:07,039 --> 00:20:08,119 That's right. 393 00:20:08,119 --> 00:20:09,879 We've got backstage shenanigans. 394 00:20:09,879 --> 00:20:12,000 World input. 395 00:20:12,559 --> 00:20:14,680 I we're bringing that back. 396 00:20:14,680 --> 00:20:16,839 NPC names. 397 00:20:16,839 --> 00:20:20,159 We've got Discord channels opening up for 398 00:20:21,480 --> 00:20:22,799 actual back and forth, 399 00:20:22,799 --> 00:20:26,399 talking about the lore of the world that we live in, 400 00:20:26,399 --> 00:20:28,759 which I have written down somewhere, 401 00:20:28,759 --> 00:20:31,799 what the name of the world is, but I don't have it at the. 402 00:20:31,799 --> 00:20:33,079 That's in a Google doc. 403 00:20:33,079 --> 00:20:35,519 It is in a Google. It survives in a Google doc. 404 00:20:35,960 --> 00:20:36,680 I just. 405 00:20:36,680 --> 00:20:39,039 What email address is it attached to? 406 00:20:39,039 --> 00:20:40,639 Who knows? 407 00:20:40,639 --> 00:20:42,440 This is what we need your help for. 408 00:20:42,440 --> 00:20:44,480 So Patreon.com slash Dumb Dragoncast. 409 00:20:44,480 --> 00:20:46,400 Join today. Get a seven day free trial. 410 00:20:46,400 --> 00:20:47,559 And we hope to see you over there. 411 00:20:47,559 --> 00:20:49,960 OK, I love you. Bye. 412 00:20:50,359 --> 00:20:51,759 Love you. Bye. Bye. 413 00:20:51,759 --> 00:20:53,599 Especially Colin. 414 00:20:55,720 --> 00:20:58,160 Bonwyn, do you think this looks probably similar 415 00:20:58,160 --> 00:21:01,240 to what the layout would look like going down to 416 00:21:01,240 --> 00:21:03,680 Joe's room back in Vindersmith? 417 00:21:04,560 --> 00:21:05,720 Yeah, maybe. 418 00:21:05,720 --> 00:21:08,759 I mean, I didn't spend as much time down there as y'all, 419 00:21:08,759 --> 00:21:12,320 but it seems so we would know exactly where to go 420 00:21:12,320 --> 00:21:13,920 if that were the case. 421 00:21:13,920 --> 00:21:17,200 Yeah, so I think maybe we just go ahead and. 422 00:21:17,200 --> 00:21:18,279 Well, why don't you take the picture? 423 00:21:18,279 --> 00:21:20,080 Go find him. He never forgets. 424 00:21:20,080 --> 00:21:21,160 Take the picture off the wall. 425 00:21:21,160 --> 00:21:23,160 It's a map. You're right. 426 00:21:23,160 --> 00:21:25,360 I write at the bottom of my picture. 427 00:21:25,360 --> 00:21:28,799 Joe 2.0 is not as nice as Joe. 428 00:21:30,160 --> 00:21:32,680 1.0 and I put it in the hand 429 00:21:32,680 --> 00:21:35,560 and then in the homework bin. 430 00:21:35,560 --> 00:21:38,120 Good observation. Keep watching. 431 00:21:40,640 --> 00:21:41,840 Cap, what are you doing? 432 00:21:41,840 --> 00:21:44,840 I mean, not much at the moment. 433 00:21:44,840 --> 00:21:47,840 There is also the teacher's desk. 434 00:21:47,840 --> 00:21:52,320 Alistair seems to be just examining the pictures, 435 00:21:52,600 --> 00:21:55,039 all the drawings along the wall. 436 00:21:56,400 --> 00:21:58,480 You can see that he's like doing one of these 437 00:21:58,480 --> 00:22:01,039 like red string kind of mentality things, 438 00:22:01,039 --> 00:22:02,440 like trying to piece things together. 439 00:22:02,440 --> 00:22:04,720 But really getting nowhere at this moment. 440 00:22:04,720 --> 00:22:07,240 But yeah, there is the teacher's desk 441 00:22:07,240 --> 00:22:08,320 also in the room. 442 00:22:08,320 --> 00:22:10,039 Sure, I'll take a look at that. 443 00:22:10,039 --> 00:22:12,880 The top of the desk has the homework bin, 444 00:22:12,880 --> 00:22:14,759 stacks of books, some notepads, 445 00:22:14,759 --> 00:22:17,080 nothing really out of the ordinary. 446 00:22:17,080 --> 00:22:19,039 Off the top, there's a couple drawers. 447 00:22:19,039 --> 00:22:21,360 And as you pull those open, 448 00:22:21,360 --> 00:22:25,320 there's one folded letter inside an envelope. 449 00:22:25,320 --> 00:22:28,000 And the envelope, it's titled, 450 00:22:28,000 --> 00:22:29,640 written on the envelope, 451 00:22:29,680 --> 00:22:32,600 is municipal continuity office. 452 00:22:32,600 --> 00:22:33,440 It's right up his alley. 453 00:22:33,440 --> 00:22:35,920 Oh, I'm gonna have to read this. 454 00:22:35,920 --> 00:22:39,960 You pull it open and pull out the paper. 455 00:22:39,960 --> 00:22:42,400 And it says, teachers, 456 00:22:42,400 --> 00:22:45,520 continue encouraging documentation. 457 00:22:45,520 --> 00:22:47,920 Discourage assumptions. 458 00:22:47,920 --> 00:22:51,040 Prepare students for transition day. 459 00:22:51,040 --> 00:22:54,240 Observation remains our greatest defense 460 00:22:54,240 --> 00:22:55,480 against forgetting. 461 00:22:56,960 --> 00:22:59,520 The document ends without any explanation 462 00:23:00,400 --> 00:23:01,240 or signature. 463 00:23:01,240 --> 00:23:02,759 Forgetting what? 464 00:23:03,960 --> 00:23:05,599 I read it out to the crew. 465 00:23:05,599 --> 00:23:07,000 So it seems like they realized 466 00:23:07,000 --> 00:23:09,519 something crazy was going on, right? 467 00:23:09,519 --> 00:23:10,720 Absolutely. 468 00:23:10,720 --> 00:23:12,799 Yeah, so they knew. 469 00:23:12,799 --> 00:23:15,680 Don't people just write history books 470 00:23:15,680 --> 00:23:19,519 about stuff instead of training children? 471 00:23:20,519 --> 00:23:23,480 But sometimes those things aren't as, 472 00:23:23,480 --> 00:23:25,599 they're smaller things in the personal life 473 00:23:25,599 --> 00:23:26,799 that's more important. 474 00:23:26,960 --> 00:23:29,079 Looking back on Banh Nguyen, 475 00:23:29,079 --> 00:23:32,559 your situation with the forge. 476 00:23:32,559 --> 00:23:35,639 Yeah, yeah, I mean, you're right. 477 00:23:37,599 --> 00:23:41,839 Alydin, you come to a bit of a realization. 478 00:23:41,839 --> 00:23:44,519 A lot of the notes from the teacher, 479 00:23:44,519 --> 00:23:47,319 a lot of the notes that the students have written, 480 00:23:47,319 --> 00:23:51,000 you see anywhere where there's seemingly praise 481 00:23:51,000 --> 00:23:52,240 given to the students, 482 00:23:52,240 --> 00:23:55,720 that they're never praised for cleverness 483 00:23:55,720 --> 00:23:57,680 in any of their notes. 484 00:23:57,680 --> 00:24:01,240 They are always praised for paying attention. 485 00:24:01,240 --> 00:24:06,240 This is not how June is running the school back home. 486 00:24:06,640 --> 00:24:09,480 All this stuff is really obvious stuff. 487 00:24:09,480 --> 00:24:10,920 Yeah. 488 00:24:10,920 --> 00:24:12,720 Like these kids are getting gold stars 489 00:24:12,720 --> 00:24:14,680 for saying, you know, 490 00:24:14,680 --> 00:24:18,039 Jimothy has his shoelaces tied every day. 491 00:24:19,360 --> 00:24:21,200 That's so stupid. 492 00:24:21,200 --> 00:24:24,640 But what happens the day where Jimothy shows up 493 00:24:24,640 --> 00:24:27,080 and doesn't have his shoelaces tied? 494 00:24:27,080 --> 00:24:28,960 Maybe that's what they're watching for. 495 00:24:28,960 --> 00:24:30,280 Like the lake moving. 496 00:24:31,320 --> 00:24:32,400 That was a change. 497 00:24:32,400 --> 00:24:33,920 It's like same, same, same. 498 00:24:33,920 --> 00:24:36,600 Well, I think shoelaces and lake are... 499 00:24:36,600 --> 00:24:37,440 Oh, I agree. 500 00:24:37,440 --> 00:24:39,600 The scale of the change of those two things 501 00:24:39,600 --> 00:24:41,280 is quite different. 502 00:24:41,280 --> 00:24:44,840 But is there a copy of Portals, Portals, 503 00:24:44,840 --> 00:24:45,960 Portals on the desk? 504 00:24:45,960 --> 00:24:47,840 Are there any pictures or anything 505 00:24:47,840 --> 00:24:51,520 that have like negative feedback? 506 00:24:52,519 --> 00:24:55,799 Like, I think you've missed the mark on this one. 507 00:24:55,799 --> 00:24:56,639 Try again. 508 00:24:58,639 --> 00:25:00,799 No, where there is... 509 00:25:00,799 --> 00:25:01,960 Just poor. 510 00:25:03,359 --> 00:25:04,680 You idiot. 511 00:25:06,039 --> 00:25:07,480 Musta rolled a one. 512 00:25:07,480 --> 00:25:10,400 No, you see anywhere where there's a teacher 513 00:25:10,400 --> 00:25:12,759 who's written a note to the student, 514 00:25:12,759 --> 00:25:17,759 it is positive in the instance of good observation, 515 00:25:18,000 --> 00:25:19,400 excellent attention, you know, 516 00:25:19,400 --> 00:25:21,119 keep watching, that sort of thing. 517 00:25:21,960 --> 00:25:23,600 Anywhere where they've written something 518 00:25:23,600 --> 00:25:28,600 that doesn't seem to align with that sort of thought, 519 00:25:28,640 --> 00:25:31,760 it's just left blank or there's no comment left. 520 00:25:34,200 --> 00:25:35,600 This is a Montessori school. 521 00:25:35,600 --> 00:25:37,240 It's so positive. 522 00:25:37,240 --> 00:25:38,960 Is there another door in this classroom 523 00:25:38,960 --> 00:25:40,760 to like continue further? 524 00:25:40,760 --> 00:25:42,800 No, just the door you entered. 525 00:25:42,800 --> 00:25:45,480 I think we should find a way down to the basement, 526 00:25:45,480 --> 00:25:48,520 see if there is that passageway behind a bookshelf 527 00:25:49,440 --> 00:25:54,440 and get to the bottom of this. 528 00:25:54,960 --> 00:25:56,279 Cause we're going to the basement. 529 00:25:56,279 --> 00:25:57,119 Yeah. 530 00:25:57,119 --> 00:25:57,960 Good one. 531 00:25:57,960 --> 00:25:58,799 Yeah. 532 00:26:00,799 --> 00:26:03,559 Is there anything to indicate which desks 533 00:26:03,559 --> 00:26:04,720 belong to which students, 534 00:26:04,720 --> 00:26:07,920 or they are all like totally clean and pristine without? 535 00:26:09,160 --> 00:26:10,279 You're thinking nameplates? 536 00:26:10,279 --> 00:26:11,440 Personal effects. 537 00:26:11,440 --> 00:26:13,799 Yeah, yes, no nameplates. 538 00:26:13,799 --> 00:26:16,680 You see, you know, there's books and papers 539 00:26:16,680 --> 00:26:17,519 and that sort of thing. 540 00:26:17,519 --> 00:26:18,480 There are some names. 541 00:26:19,440 --> 00:26:21,640 Of the ones that you recognized before, 542 00:26:21,640 --> 00:26:24,160 you see kind of scattered throughout this room. 543 00:26:25,039 --> 00:26:27,039 No real assignments on their desk. 544 00:26:27,039 --> 00:26:28,480 Everything's either been handed in 545 00:26:28,480 --> 00:26:30,319 or is up on the wall at this moment. 546 00:26:30,319 --> 00:26:31,519 Okay. 547 00:26:31,519 --> 00:26:35,039 See what other crazy observations Janelle's making, 548 00:26:35,039 --> 00:26:37,319 but I guess she already shared them all 549 00:26:37,319 --> 00:26:38,160 with the teacher. 550 00:26:38,160 --> 00:26:40,440 There's no inside of the desks? 551 00:26:40,440 --> 00:26:42,079 No inside of the desks. 552 00:26:43,360 --> 00:26:44,200 Okay. 553 00:26:44,200 --> 00:26:45,559 I was ready to rifle. 554 00:26:45,559 --> 00:26:46,680 Yeah, no, me too. 555 00:26:47,600 --> 00:26:48,920 Let's see what these kids got going on. 556 00:26:48,920 --> 00:26:50,759 Look at these desks. 557 00:26:50,759 --> 00:26:51,600 I agree, Bizard. 558 00:26:51,600 --> 00:26:56,600 Like, let's go find Joe 2.0. 559 00:26:56,640 --> 00:26:58,880 See if we can find that room if it's the same. 560 00:26:58,880 --> 00:27:00,799 Yeah, as you finish examining the room 561 00:27:00,799 --> 00:27:02,240 and you begin to head out, 562 00:27:02,240 --> 00:27:03,960 what's everybody's passive perception? 563 00:27:03,960 --> 00:27:04,799 I'm just gonna write that down. 564 00:27:04,799 --> 00:27:05,640 10. 565 00:27:05,640 --> 00:27:06,480 12. 566 00:27:06,480 --> 00:27:07,320 10. 567 00:27:07,320 --> 00:27:08,160 15. 568 00:27:08,160 --> 00:27:09,000 Damn. 569 00:27:09,000 --> 00:27:09,840 All right. 570 00:27:09,840 --> 00:27:10,680 Fuck. 571 00:27:10,680 --> 00:27:11,519 Yeah. 572 00:27:11,519 --> 00:27:12,360 I got one of you. 573 00:27:12,360 --> 00:27:13,480 I'm so quiet. 574 00:27:13,480 --> 00:27:14,320 He's just looking. 575 00:27:14,320 --> 00:27:15,160 I want one of you with me. 576 00:27:15,160 --> 00:27:17,080 Smart, but lots of wisdom. 577 00:27:17,080 --> 00:27:19,120 Kav, do you take the letter with you? 578 00:27:19,120 --> 00:27:20,360 Do you leave it there? 579 00:27:20,360 --> 00:27:22,120 I'll take it with me. 580 00:27:22,120 --> 00:27:23,240 Okay. 581 00:27:23,240 --> 00:27:26,000 You're putting the letter back in the envelope 582 00:27:26,000 --> 00:27:27,200 and following behind your friends. 583 00:27:27,200 --> 00:27:30,160 And as a couple of them filter out, 584 00:27:30,160 --> 00:27:35,160 you think you hear water dripping somewhere below. 585 00:27:37,279 --> 00:27:40,400 You hear it once, then again. 586 00:27:41,080 --> 00:27:46,080 Sound is echoing up through the floorboards. 587 00:27:48,480 --> 00:27:50,360 And at nearly the same moment, 588 00:27:50,360 --> 00:27:52,560 that final drawing I described, 589 00:27:52,560 --> 00:27:57,560 the one with the bird's eye view of the school. 590 00:27:59,880 --> 00:28:01,240 Bon, when you took that one, 591 00:28:01,240 --> 00:28:03,080 is that what I heard or did you leave it? 592 00:28:03,080 --> 00:28:05,840 Yeah, because it kind of seemed like it was mappish. 593 00:28:05,840 --> 00:28:06,920 Mappish, yeah. 594 00:28:06,920 --> 00:28:09,400 Kav, as you hear this water, 595 00:28:09,400 --> 00:28:12,160 do you do anything to notify your friends or call out? 596 00:28:13,400 --> 00:28:15,480 I try to pry up some floorboards 597 00:28:15,480 --> 00:28:19,480 to see if I can get a visual on it before I call out. 598 00:28:20,360 --> 00:28:21,480 Okay, so. 599 00:28:21,480 --> 00:28:23,680 Action Jackson over here. 600 00:28:23,680 --> 00:28:24,519 Right. 601 00:28:24,519 --> 00:28:26,960 Perhaps you go to the floorboard 602 00:28:26,960 --> 00:28:31,960 that Alydin had started to pull up, easier access. 603 00:28:32,360 --> 00:28:36,880 You hear wood creaking behind you, everybody else. 604 00:28:36,880 --> 00:28:37,720 What do you do? 605 00:28:37,720 --> 00:28:38,559 Turn around. 606 00:28:38,559 --> 00:28:39,799 Yeah. 607 00:28:39,799 --> 00:28:42,039 You turn around and you see Kav pulling 608 00:28:42,039 --> 00:28:43,759 at the floorboards. 609 00:28:43,759 --> 00:28:45,160 What are you doing? 610 00:28:45,160 --> 00:28:46,279 You okay, buddy? 611 00:28:46,279 --> 00:28:47,559 What's going on? 612 00:28:47,559 --> 00:28:49,400 Oh yeah, totally fine. 613 00:28:49,400 --> 00:28:52,039 I just, I could hear some water down there 614 00:28:52,039 --> 00:28:55,519 and I just wanted to see if I could like get eyes on it. 615 00:28:55,519 --> 00:28:58,160 Immediately as a child would drop to the ground. 616 00:28:58,160 --> 00:28:59,600 I know, I was like, I pause and open my eyes. 617 00:28:59,600 --> 00:29:01,519 My floor's against the ear. 618 00:29:01,519 --> 00:29:02,759 Really wide. 619 00:29:04,120 --> 00:29:06,600 I hear floors against the ear. 620 00:29:06,640 --> 00:29:08,000 Everybody's ears to the floor. 621 00:29:08,000 --> 00:29:09,840 Okay, have you maybe stop just for a moment 622 00:29:09,840 --> 00:29:12,160 to give them a little silence to hear over top. 623 00:29:12,160 --> 00:29:13,280 You begin hearing that. 624 00:29:13,280 --> 00:29:16,000 And Bon, when you have this map, 625 00:29:16,000 --> 00:29:18,480 map like drawing in your hand 626 00:29:18,480 --> 00:29:22,760 and you see it begin to change before your eyes. 627 00:29:22,760 --> 00:29:26,680 The faded blue lake surrounding the archive entrance 628 00:29:26,680 --> 00:29:29,200 has almost completely disappeared. 629 00:29:30,240 --> 00:29:33,120 The stone doorway now stands exposed 630 00:29:33,120 --> 00:29:35,400 within the dried basin. 631 00:29:35,440 --> 00:29:38,240 The water's outline flickers. 632 00:29:38,240 --> 00:29:43,240 One corner fades entirely before slowly returning. 633 00:29:43,240 --> 00:29:46,640 Guys, the map's changing. 634 00:29:46,640 --> 00:29:49,040 Cool, cool, cool, cool. 635 00:29:49,040 --> 00:29:50,480 Like that. 636 00:29:50,480 --> 00:29:53,560 So it shows us what's going on with the door? 637 00:29:53,560 --> 00:29:54,720 I guess. 638 00:29:54,720 --> 00:29:59,720 So the lake on the map is disappearing 639 00:30:00,080 --> 00:30:01,360 or sorry, appearing. 640 00:30:01,360 --> 00:30:04,160 So it was previously, it looked like a lake 641 00:30:04,200 --> 00:30:07,440 and it transitioned and faded from a blue lake 642 00:30:07,440 --> 00:30:10,040 to the dry lake bed that you see 643 00:30:10,040 --> 00:30:14,880 and like the actual doorway location is now, 644 00:30:14,880 --> 00:30:15,720 what did I say? 645 00:30:15,720 --> 00:30:18,560 Fades entirely before slowly returning. 646 00:30:18,560 --> 00:30:22,040 So it's doing what you've experienced 647 00:30:22,040 --> 00:30:24,400 out there in the real world outside. 648 00:30:24,400 --> 00:30:25,240 Gotcha. 649 00:30:25,240 --> 00:30:26,360 Well, that's neat. 650 00:30:27,360 --> 00:30:30,519 Not as good, it means we have a way to keep track 651 00:30:30,519 --> 00:30:32,680 of if we're like hot or cold. 652 00:30:32,680 --> 00:30:33,560 Yeah. 653 00:30:34,480 --> 00:30:36,679 Yeah, between this and like your little 654 00:30:36,679 --> 00:30:38,159 string-a-ling-a-ding-dong, 655 00:30:38,159 --> 00:30:40,960 we got all kinds of signs telling us 656 00:30:40,960 --> 00:30:42,799 we should probably keep exploring this school 657 00:30:42,799 --> 00:30:44,519 and not worry about the portal. 658 00:30:44,519 --> 00:30:46,359 I look hopefully at my friends, 659 00:30:46,359 --> 00:30:50,319 but they know I don't really mean it. 660 00:30:50,319 --> 00:30:51,799 Alydin's on board with this. 661 00:30:51,799 --> 00:30:53,399 For now at least, yeah. 662 00:30:53,399 --> 00:30:55,159 For now. 663 00:30:55,159 --> 00:30:56,599 For now. 664 00:30:56,599 --> 00:30:57,440 For now. 665 00:30:57,440 --> 00:31:00,919 So the dripping sound is, 666 00:31:00,960 --> 00:31:03,960 can I see the lake from the window in the classroom? 667 00:31:03,960 --> 00:31:06,880 Okay, I just wanna go and take a little peeky peek. 668 00:31:06,880 --> 00:31:10,920 You see the doorway and it is actually 669 00:31:10,920 --> 00:31:14,279 much more visible than you saw it before 670 00:31:14,279 --> 00:31:16,720 and it's holding it a lot longer than it did before, 671 00:31:16,720 --> 00:31:20,400 but its edges you can see are wavering. 672 00:31:20,400 --> 00:31:24,360 They appear to be noticeably less stable. 673 00:31:24,360 --> 00:31:26,560 When it did fade in and out like it was, 674 00:31:26,599 --> 00:31:31,159 it felt to you like visibly it was a solid piece, 675 00:31:31,159 --> 00:31:32,919 but now like there's this wavering 676 00:31:32,919 --> 00:31:34,919 that's happening to the stone archway. 677 00:31:34,919 --> 00:31:38,079 Remind me, the double doors went into the attendance room 678 00:31:38,079 --> 00:31:39,359 or they went into the classroom? 679 00:31:39,359 --> 00:31:41,639 Double doors are into the attendance room. 680 00:31:41,639 --> 00:31:42,639 So you came in, 681 00:31:42,639 --> 00:31:44,839 double doors went into the attendance room. 682 00:31:44,839 --> 00:31:46,960 You went into the right door, 683 00:31:46,960 --> 00:31:49,759 which is now this room that you're in. 684 00:31:49,759 --> 00:31:50,960 And the left door was locked. 685 00:31:50,960 --> 00:31:51,960 And the left door, 686 00:31:51,960 --> 00:31:54,440 which is where the Joe figure went in, 687 00:31:54,440 --> 00:31:55,919 but it was locked when you tried it 688 00:31:56,160 --> 00:31:57,840 at this kind of the same time. 689 00:31:57,840 --> 00:31:58,680 Great. 690 00:31:58,680 --> 00:31:59,920 I can open a locked door. 691 00:31:59,920 --> 00:32:01,200 I can certainly try. 692 00:32:01,200 --> 00:32:02,039 Same. 693 00:32:02,039 --> 00:32:03,800 I wanna keep going. 694 00:32:03,800 --> 00:32:04,880 Yeah, sure. 695 00:32:04,880 --> 00:32:06,960 Yeah, should we unlock that door? 696 00:32:06,960 --> 00:32:09,560 I think we have to, right? 697 00:32:09,560 --> 00:32:13,120 I mean, you're enrolled here. 698 00:32:13,120 --> 00:32:15,960 You should get to go into the rooms that you learn in. 699 00:32:15,960 --> 00:32:16,800 That's true. 700 00:32:16,800 --> 00:32:17,640 We have to learn what's back there. 701 00:32:17,640 --> 00:32:18,480 You try the door. 702 00:32:18,480 --> 00:32:20,000 We have to observe what's back there. 703 00:32:20,000 --> 00:32:20,840 Yes. 704 00:32:20,840 --> 00:32:22,640 We need to observe before concluding 705 00:32:22,640 --> 00:32:25,640 that there's nothing of worth back there. 706 00:32:26,400 --> 00:32:27,440 And then we can record it before we're judging. 707 00:32:27,440 --> 00:32:28,720 Is it actually worth it? 708 00:32:28,720 --> 00:32:30,720 Someone read the school brochure. 709 00:32:30,720 --> 00:32:32,520 I think somebody's maintaining it back there, 710 00:32:32,520 --> 00:32:34,200 so we don't have to worry about that shit. 711 00:32:34,200 --> 00:32:35,040 Okay. 712 00:32:36,520 --> 00:32:38,960 I go back up to the door and I try it again 713 00:32:38,960 --> 00:32:40,480 and I assume it's locked. 714 00:32:40,480 --> 00:32:41,880 As you all leave the classroom, 715 00:32:41,880 --> 00:32:43,720 you're the first to kind of head out there. 716 00:32:43,720 --> 00:32:48,360 Everybody hears like a ruffle of the pages in the room, 717 00:32:48,360 --> 00:32:50,560 like the drawings on the walls. 718 00:32:50,560 --> 00:32:55,200 You look and it's like a small gust of wind 719 00:32:55,200 --> 00:32:58,440 came through the room and like resettled everything. 720 00:32:58,440 --> 00:33:00,880 If it was a skew, it's now back in place. 721 00:33:00,880 --> 00:33:02,640 Does it rip the page out of my hand 722 00:33:02,640 --> 00:33:05,160 that I took down off the wall or I still have that? 723 00:33:05,160 --> 00:33:06,400 Does not, you still have that. 724 00:33:06,400 --> 00:33:07,240 Okay. 725 00:33:07,240 --> 00:33:08,080 Oh my God. 726 00:33:08,080 --> 00:33:09,279 And as you step out into this room 727 00:33:09,279 --> 00:33:11,319 and as you move towards that door, Alydin, 728 00:33:11,319 --> 00:33:15,200 you hear that same gear, mechanical sound 729 00:33:15,200 --> 00:33:17,440 coming from below you. 730 00:33:17,440 --> 00:33:20,799 This time, however, they don't appear to be stopping. 731 00:33:21,799 --> 00:33:25,279 Above the next doorway across the room 732 00:33:25,279 --> 00:33:28,200 where the Joe hall monitor went, 733 00:33:28,200 --> 00:33:29,240 where the hall monitor went, 734 00:33:29,240 --> 00:33:30,240 cause it's not Joe. 735 00:33:31,440 --> 00:33:36,119 The next doorway hangs another polished brass plaque 736 00:33:36,119 --> 00:33:38,159 that says, memory. 737 00:33:39,639 --> 00:33:43,000 You hear a soft click as you go to reach for the door 738 00:33:43,000 --> 00:33:44,200 before you open it. 739 00:33:45,919 --> 00:33:47,359 Oh, I open it. 740 00:33:47,400 --> 00:33:51,720 It swings open and the room smells faintly of dried flowers, 741 00:33:51,720 --> 00:33:55,160 old paper and polished cedar. 742 00:33:55,160 --> 00:33:57,960 Rows of desks face a chalkboard 743 00:33:57,960 --> 00:34:00,080 covered in careful handwriting. 744 00:34:01,000 --> 00:34:05,120 Above it are three simple lessons. 745 00:34:05,120 --> 00:34:09,720 Remember accurately, share generously, 746 00:34:09,720 --> 00:34:13,000 forget only with purpose. 747 00:34:13,000 --> 00:34:16,039 Shit, that last one. 748 00:34:16,039 --> 00:34:16,880 Amy. 749 00:34:18,320 --> 00:34:20,039 Cannot. 750 00:34:20,039 --> 00:34:21,320 Each student. 751 00:34:22,840 --> 00:34:25,120 I would excel with that middle one. 752 00:34:27,120 --> 00:34:28,200 That is where I would excel. 753 00:34:28,200 --> 00:34:30,160 I would not be accepted to this school. 754 00:34:30,160 --> 00:34:31,960 I would not. 755 00:34:31,960 --> 00:34:33,680 Each student's desk contains 756 00:34:33,680 --> 00:34:37,680 a small wooden keepsake box engraved with a name. 757 00:34:38,680 --> 00:34:43,120 Hundreds of tiny glass bottles hang from the ceiling. 758 00:34:43,960 --> 00:34:48,960 Inside every bottle rests a single folded slip of paper. 759 00:34:49,119 --> 00:34:50,559 Well, I want one of those. 760 00:34:50,559 --> 00:34:51,679 Right? 761 00:34:51,679 --> 00:34:54,759 Like, are they reachable or are they like up high? 762 00:34:56,759 --> 00:34:58,759 Can I just go up to Cav and be like, upy, upy. 763 00:34:58,759 --> 00:34:59,880 I was gonna say, 764 00:34:59,880 --> 00:35:03,639 Cav or Bizard could likely reach them. 765 00:35:05,159 --> 00:35:06,880 You can reach them. 766 00:35:06,880 --> 00:35:07,719 I see you looking. 767 00:35:07,719 --> 00:35:08,960 You have the ability to reach them. 768 00:35:08,960 --> 00:35:11,719 You just need to magic hand it. 769 00:35:13,799 --> 00:35:14,639 Oh. 770 00:35:15,839 --> 00:35:17,639 She like hates that he's turning this 771 00:35:17,639 --> 00:35:19,480 into a lesson right now. 772 00:35:19,480 --> 00:35:22,759 I'm already at school and you're making it school? 773 00:35:22,759 --> 00:35:23,599 Oh. 774 00:35:23,599 --> 00:35:25,440 God damn it, Magic Daddy. 775 00:35:25,440 --> 00:35:26,359 Okay. 776 00:35:26,359 --> 00:35:27,199 All right. 777 00:35:27,199 --> 00:35:28,019 Nobody look at me. 778 00:35:28,019 --> 00:35:29,319 Don't look at me. 779 00:35:29,319 --> 00:35:31,759 Okay, I'm gonna start looking for names I recognize 780 00:35:31,759 --> 00:35:36,480 on the desks while very obviously not looking at Alydin. 781 00:35:36,480 --> 00:35:37,319 That's right. 782 00:35:37,319 --> 00:35:38,519 Everybody look busy. 783 00:35:39,199 --> 00:35:40,039 Okay. 784 00:35:41,440 --> 00:35:46,440 And I reach my hand out and I like screw my face up 785 00:35:47,519 --> 00:35:49,920 and I'm concentrating the shit out of this thing 786 00:35:49,920 --> 00:35:54,599 to cast Mage Hand to grasp, 787 00:35:55,480 --> 00:35:57,759 I don't know, a blue bottle 788 00:35:57,759 --> 00:36:01,079 that I see hanging from the ceiling nearest me. 789 00:36:01,079 --> 00:36:04,960 Mage Hand flickers into existence 790 00:36:04,960 --> 00:36:07,759 and it begins slowly moving up towards the bottle 791 00:36:07,920 --> 00:36:11,400 as Bon, when you're examining the desks and the boxes 792 00:36:11,400 --> 00:36:16,240 and some names that jump out to you are Janelle Foisen, 793 00:36:16,240 --> 00:36:18,520 Heron Linger, 794 00:36:18,520 --> 00:36:20,800 Malin Everbane. 795 00:36:20,800 --> 00:36:24,640 There's one that stands out because there is no name 796 00:36:24,640 --> 00:36:28,800 but it appears still that whatever the activity was 797 00:36:28,800 --> 00:36:30,800 has been completed at this desk. 798 00:36:30,800 --> 00:36:33,080 There's an open empty box 799 00:36:33,080 --> 00:36:36,080 with a single folded card in front of it. 800 00:36:36,079 --> 00:36:38,079 Got it, got it, got it, got it, got it, got it. 801 00:36:38,079 --> 00:36:41,960 Your hand unhooks from the string 802 00:36:41,960 --> 00:36:43,519 that's kind of holding it up there 803 00:36:43,519 --> 00:36:45,960 and you pull it down and pop the top off 804 00:36:45,960 --> 00:36:49,679 and pull out a note inside. 805 00:36:51,199 --> 00:36:53,679 And the note says, 806 00:36:53,679 --> 00:36:57,279 we all waved goodbye to the hall monitor today. 807 00:36:57,279 --> 00:36:58,239 She's having a hard time, 808 00:36:58,239 --> 00:37:02,880 not like just like, ugh, rolling, rolling her eyes. 809 00:37:02,880 --> 00:37:06,960 Like I worked so hard for that. 810 00:37:08,160 --> 00:37:10,360 Bon, when do you go for any one in particular 811 00:37:10,360 --> 00:37:11,200 of the names I listed? 812 00:37:11,200 --> 00:37:13,200 I'm gonna go the one that's open 813 00:37:13,200 --> 00:37:17,160 with the card in front of it and see what that says. 814 00:37:17,160 --> 00:37:18,320 Sure. 815 00:37:18,320 --> 00:37:21,960 You go again, the box is empty, 816 00:37:21,960 --> 00:37:25,400 it bears no name on it and this folded card, 817 00:37:25,400 --> 00:37:28,599 you open it up and it says, 818 00:37:28,599 --> 00:37:31,400 some memories are still being written. 819 00:37:33,640 --> 00:37:37,240 Dumbgeons and Dragons, season four, episode 64. 820 00:37:37,240 --> 00:37:39,320 Starring Amy More as Alydin, 821 00:37:39,320 --> 00:37:41,599 Carla Maxted as Bonwyn Everbane, 822 00:37:41,599 --> 00:37:43,800 Tom Laird as Kavlaran Goldweave, 823 00:37:43,800 --> 00:37:46,280 Kyle Claset as Bizard the Wizard, 824 00:37:46,280 --> 00:37:48,920 and Russ More as your dungeon master. 825 00:37:48,920 --> 00:37:50,559 Dialogue, editing and sound design 826 00:37:50,559 --> 00:37:52,760 of today's episode is by Russ More. 827 00:37:52,760 --> 00:37:55,200 Our community manager is Jessica Babyok. 828 00:37:55,200 --> 00:37:57,079 Music is from Epidemic Sound 829 00:37:57,079 --> 00:37:59,160 and sound effects are from Epidemic Sound, 830 00:37:59,160 --> 00:38:01,320 Boom Library and Sound Ideas. 831 00:38:01,360 --> 00:38:04,120 Our amazing cover art is by Matt Garba. 832 00:38:04,120 --> 00:38:06,519 A huge thank you to our supporting producers, 833 00:38:06,519 --> 00:38:08,760 Gabriel Lynch, Jessica Babyok, 834 00:38:08,760 --> 00:38:10,760 Angaron Kierzen, Perry Matey, 835 00:38:10,760 --> 00:38:13,039 Cat Waterflame, Jacob Madden, 836 00:38:13,039 --> 00:38:16,680 Old School Gamer D, Craig Zeiss and L.A. Branton. 837 00:38:16,680 --> 00:38:19,240 Dumbgeons and Dragons is a Patreon-supported show 838 00:38:19,240 --> 00:38:21,559 and because of our Patreon supporters, 839 00:38:21,559 --> 00:38:24,000 we get to keep telling bigger, weirder, 840 00:38:24,000 --> 00:38:27,120 more heartfelt stories in this world we love. 841 00:38:27,120 --> 00:38:29,039 And honestly, that's something 842 00:38:29,039 --> 00:38:30,960 we will never take for granted. 843 00:38:30,960 --> 00:38:34,079 Join us today at patreon.com slash dumb dragon cast 844 00:38:34,079 --> 00:38:37,519 and help us tell the stories that you want to hear. 845 00:38:37,519 --> 00:38:39,240 We hope to see you over there. 846 00:38:39,240 --> 00:38:42,119 Have a great week and we'll talk to you soon. 847 00:38:42,119 --> 00:38:45,079 A cogsworth, crackleton dragon. 848 00:38:46,079 --> 00:38:46,920 I don't know. 849 00:38:48,240 --> 00:38:49,960 I hate that you did this to me. 850 00:38:49,960 --> 00:38:52,260 Oh, I'm gonna fight now. 851 00:38:53,240 --> 00:38:54,159 Why are we in the fight? 852 00:38:54,159 --> 00:38:56,199 Cause I'm too hot to pick up where I left off 853 00:38:56,199 --> 00:38:57,480 and I don't listen to me. 854 00:38:57,480 --> 00:38:59,280 Well, you did it, it's fine. 855 00:38:59,280 --> 00:39:02,840 I was just waiting for anybody else to respond to you. 856 00:39:02,840 --> 00:39:05,440 Dumbgeons and Dragons is a Dumb Dragons production.