1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:02,399 Dumbgeons and Dragons will begin in a moment. 2 00:00:02,399 --> 00:00:08,759 Bonwyn, you walk over to this box on the desk and its nameplate has been removed. 3 00:00:08,759 --> 00:00:15,679 Inside you pull out a note and read, some memories are still being written. 4 00:00:15,679 --> 00:00:21,000 As everyone else looks around the room, there is a teacher's desk off into one side. 5 00:00:21,000 --> 00:00:27,560 There is also another door in this room immediately to the right as you enter. 6 00:00:27,560 --> 00:00:29,560 That's what you see at this moment. 7 00:00:29,560 --> 00:00:33,120 So you've got the chalkboard, you've got the teacher's desk, you've got the bottles, 8 00:00:33,120 --> 00:00:36,960 which seems like hundreds of them hanging overhead. 9 00:00:36,960 --> 00:00:49,439 There are the keepsake boxes and the room itself is noticeably much more quiet than 10 00:00:49,439 --> 00:00:53,040 every other room that you've been in so far. 11 00:00:53,040 --> 00:00:56,960 I'd say Bizard would go over to the desk and see what kind of textbooks the 12 00:00:56,960 --> 00:01:01,719 teacher would have ready for teaching class. 13 00:01:01,719 --> 00:01:07,040 As you walk over to the desk, there's a chair that's tucked in and on top of the desk 14 00:01:07,040 --> 00:01:12,879 there are cards, very similar to the one you see Bonwyn holding. 15 00:01:12,879 --> 00:01:18,120 However, as you kind of flip them open, they all appear to be blank. 16 00:01:18,120 --> 00:01:23,000 There are a couple of drawers, you pull them open, there's some writing utensils, 17 00:01:23,000 --> 00:01:27,480 some more scraps, not scraps of paper, but stacks of paper. 18 00:01:27,480 --> 00:01:30,400 But there aren't actually any textbooks. 19 00:01:30,400 --> 00:01:35,040 I'm going to take one card and I'm going to write all these cards are blank and 20 00:01:35,040 --> 00:01:39,000 put it apart from the stack and just walk away. 21 00:01:39,000 --> 00:01:42,519 Your brain works differently than my brain and I like it. 22 00:01:42,519 --> 00:01:43,519 I know. 23 00:01:43,519 --> 00:01:44,519 It's so great. 24 00:01:44,519 --> 00:01:47,960 Weird fucking riddley thing to try to riddley. 25 00:01:47,960 --> 00:01:52,719 I know there's not a puzzle to solve, but it seems right to do. 26 00:01:52,920 --> 00:01:56,439 I'm going to throw a reverse riddle at it. 27 00:01:56,439 --> 00:02:02,519 I just tuck a reverse uno, reverse card right in one of the boxes and I walk away. 28 00:02:02,519 --> 00:02:05,840 This is taken care of now. 29 00:02:05,840 --> 00:02:10,680 Dumbgeons and Dragons is a D&D actual play podcast and I'm your dungeon master Russ 30 00:02:10,680 --> 00:02:12,319 More, he him. 31 00:02:12,319 --> 00:02:15,319 Also with me today is Amy More as Alydin, she her. 32 00:02:15,319 --> 00:02:18,360 Yeah, if I take something though, I think it's just stealing. 33 00:02:18,360 --> 00:02:21,240 Carla Maxted as Bonwyn Everbane, she her. 34 00:02:21,240 --> 00:02:22,240 Things are on the ceiling. 35 00:02:22,760 --> 00:02:24,760 This is not built for the shorts. 36 00:02:24,760 --> 00:02:27,320 Tom Laird as Kavlaran Goldweave, he him. 37 00:02:27,320 --> 00:02:30,240 No, I'm going to be stuck on this ball bearing for a little bit Russ. 38 00:02:30,240 --> 00:02:33,360 And Kyle Clasett as Bizard the Wizard, he him. 39 00:02:33,360 --> 00:02:38,320 And create a small needle that just juts right into my eye. 40 00:02:38,320 --> 00:02:43,160 Dumbgeons and Dragons is a Patreon supported podcast made possible by listeners like you. 41 00:02:43,160 --> 00:02:46,540 Join us today at patreon.com slash dumb dragon cast where through the month of 42 00:02:46,540 --> 00:02:51,040 October you can get 50% off your first month or your first year. 43 00:02:51,040 --> 00:02:52,040 Check it out. 44 00:02:52,519 --> 00:02:53,519 Let's play. 45 00:02:54,479 --> 00:02:59,639 So right beside you, Bizard is is another doorway. 46 00:02:59,639 --> 00:03:03,239 Kav, what are you doing as you enter? 47 00:03:03,239 --> 00:03:05,159 I guess Bonwyn as well. 48 00:03:05,159 --> 00:03:08,560 You have like actually read a card. 49 00:03:08,560 --> 00:03:12,319 So both of you in turn, what are you do? 50 00:03:12,319 --> 00:03:18,120 I probably just like pick up the box, see like they're not attached to the desks, right? 51 00:03:18,120 --> 00:03:20,959 They're all just kind of sitting there. 52 00:03:20,960 --> 00:03:23,120 Yeah, I mean, how snoopy am I? 53 00:03:23,120 --> 00:03:25,719 We're playing a game, so I need to be a bit snoopy. 54 00:03:25,719 --> 00:03:29,719 Maybe I'm just like walking up and down and like kind of flipping them open, 55 00:03:29,719 --> 00:03:35,120 seeing what's in there, if they all just have if they have notes there or people have 56 00:03:35,120 --> 00:03:37,080 because you said they look like keepsake boxes. 57 00:03:37,080 --> 00:03:40,000 Maybe people just have their little treasures in them. 58 00:03:40,000 --> 00:03:44,480 The names match what we saw in the in the attendance room. 59 00:03:44,480 --> 00:03:49,439 There were desks with boxes for Maylan Everbane, Heron Linger, 60 00:03:49,479 --> 00:03:52,240 Janel Fosson and others. 61 00:03:52,520 --> 00:03:53,960 But those were the ones we knew. 62 00:03:53,960 --> 00:03:56,280 So I wrote them down. 63 00:03:56,280 --> 00:03:59,079 Yes. Is there like built in shelves anywhere? 64 00:03:59,079 --> 00:04:03,039 Can I go like test if those are sturdy or if they can move? 65 00:04:03,919 --> 00:04:05,919 Maybe slide to the side. 66 00:04:05,919 --> 00:04:10,800 Showing in a little door, like a little door that we could touch 67 00:04:11,120 --> 00:04:15,000 along as you enter along the leftmost wall. 68 00:04:15,599 --> 00:04:21,759 There is a series of big wooden drawers almost all the way to the ceiling. 69 00:04:21,759 --> 00:04:22,959 There's a window above them. 70 00:04:22,959 --> 00:04:25,519 So probably like a four or five foot clearance. 71 00:04:25,759 --> 00:04:28,800 But yeah, there's lots of these drawers along the one side. 72 00:04:28,800 --> 00:04:32,040 Bonwyn's just thinking, how did my short little dwarven 73 00:04:32,160 --> 00:04:36,040 GGGGGG ma deal with this school? 74 00:04:36,040 --> 00:04:38,000 Because I can't reach fucking nothing in here. 75 00:04:38,000 --> 00:04:39,399 Things are on the ceiling. 76 00:04:39,399 --> 00:04:42,360 This is not built for the shorts. Good observation. 77 00:04:43,319 --> 00:04:47,600 Gav, as you walk over there, there's you start pulling some of them open 78 00:04:47,600 --> 00:04:53,280 and they appear to be drawers that are assigned to the students. 79 00:04:53,560 --> 00:04:59,360 And inside, there are things they would find around the town, 80 00:04:59,360 --> 00:05:04,199 around nature, like there's sticks, there's a spoon in one. 81 00:05:04,199 --> 00:05:07,080 There's a small stuffed toy. 82 00:05:07,080 --> 00:05:11,879 Nothing inherently school related in these drawers. 83 00:05:12,400 --> 00:05:15,199 OK, is there like a name plate to indicate 84 00:05:15,199 --> 00:05:17,800 which student that each drawer is for? 85 00:05:18,000 --> 00:05:22,280 Yeah, and you see a lot of the similar names that you've run into before. 86 00:05:22,360 --> 00:05:25,280 And as you perhaps 87 00:05:26,520 --> 00:05:31,280 reach for one, let's say, Heron Linger, 88 00:05:32,600 --> 00:05:36,120 you pull them open and it's almost like there's a 89 00:05:36,600 --> 00:05:39,560 a small breeze that comes in from outside. 90 00:05:39,560 --> 00:05:42,280 And then you hear the clinking of the bottles. 91 00:05:42,360 --> 00:05:46,040 Up above you, inside their specific drawer, 92 00:05:46,560 --> 00:05:51,439 it is filled with what look to be well-worn river stone. 93 00:05:52,240 --> 00:05:54,120 Okie dokie. 94 00:05:54,120 --> 00:05:57,000 With the clinking above, does anything appear different? 95 00:05:57,480 --> 00:06:00,840 No, it draws your attention in the light in the room. 96 00:06:01,600 --> 00:06:05,400 Everybody sees fractals out among the room. 97 00:06:05,400 --> 00:06:10,360 You see kind of this rainbow hue strewn about. 98 00:06:10,439 --> 00:06:13,840 And inside 99 00:06:15,280 --> 00:06:20,520 one of the memory bottles, you see as quick glance 100 00:06:20,520 --> 00:06:23,520 you're looking all of them, as far as you can see, 101 00:06:23,520 --> 00:06:25,960 have little folded up notes inside of them. 102 00:06:26,680 --> 00:06:30,199 But there's one that you can see that looks like it has something else 103 00:06:30,199 --> 00:06:34,639 wrapped up in a piece of fabric. 104 00:06:35,840 --> 00:06:37,639 Oh, well, I'd like that one. 105 00:06:37,639 --> 00:06:39,919 OK, you reach up your. 106 00:06:40,839 --> 00:06:43,159 I mean, Cab's one of the tallest of all. 107 00:06:43,159 --> 00:06:46,959 I was going to say as a tall, I just like grab that shit. 108 00:06:46,959 --> 00:06:48,680 You can grab it. You try to pull it down. 109 00:06:48,680 --> 00:06:51,039 You've got to untie it. So it takes you a second. 110 00:06:51,759 --> 00:06:54,240 Alydin, what are you doing as Cab is doing that? 111 00:06:56,079 --> 00:06:59,719 I'm I'm going around and I'm checking out all the boxes 112 00:06:59,719 --> 00:07:04,680 on the desks and just kind of seeing what's inside of these things. 113 00:07:04,879 --> 00:07:09,000 Yeah, you open one from Janelle Foyson 114 00:07:09,000 --> 00:07:12,199 and inside is a pressed flower 115 00:07:13,319 --> 00:07:14,600 that has a label on it. 116 00:07:14,600 --> 00:07:17,439 And it says the day I wasn't afraid. 117 00:07:17,720 --> 00:07:19,040 Is that the only thing in the box? 118 00:07:19,040 --> 00:07:21,000 That's the only thing inside that box. 119 00:07:21,000 --> 00:07:24,439 Bon, when you keep moving up and down the path 120 00:07:24,439 --> 00:07:28,040 and you come across Malon's move to open the box 121 00:07:28,360 --> 00:07:33,360 and inside is a tiny bent iron nail wrapped in cloth. 122 00:07:34,959 --> 00:07:37,639 And you pick up the little card that's written with it. 123 00:07:37,680 --> 00:07:41,199 And it says the first thing I repaired myself. 124 00:07:41,560 --> 00:07:45,759 Have you managed to untie the memory bottle and pull it down 125 00:07:47,120 --> 00:07:51,639 and you pop the top off and shake everything out? 126 00:07:51,639 --> 00:07:55,560 And you unwrap the the I guess. 127 00:07:55,560 --> 00:07:59,000 Do you read the do you read the note or do you unwrap the item first? 128 00:08:00,199 --> 00:08:02,720 Oh, I didn't realize there was a note and an item. 129 00:08:02,720 --> 00:08:04,000 I got to read the note first. 130 00:08:04,000 --> 00:08:06,360 Absolutely. Is it like super rolled up? 131 00:08:06,360 --> 00:08:08,680 Can I like unroll it like a tiny little scroll? 132 00:08:08,680 --> 00:08:10,680 Absolutely. Yeah. Excellent. 133 00:08:10,680 --> 00:08:12,399 So yeah, you unroll that. 134 00:08:12,399 --> 00:08:17,480 And it says we all waved goodbye to the hall monitor today. 135 00:08:17,920 --> 00:08:21,920 And you feel the item still wrapped up in your hand 136 00:08:22,560 --> 00:08:24,319 and it feels spherical. 137 00:08:24,319 --> 00:08:28,279 You untie it and open up the the fabric. 138 00:08:28,399 --> 00:08:31,279 And it looks like just a small metal ball bearing. 139 00:08:31,680 --> 00:08:34,720 OK, can I do like an arcana check or anything 140 00:08:34,720 --> 00:08:37,399 to see if I get any vibes from it? Absolutely. 141 00:08:37,399 --> 00:08:38,960 He's going to tell you you get vibes. 142 00:08:38,960 --> 00:08:41,759 He's not going to tell you what kind of vibes. 143 00:08:41,759 --> 00:08:44,960 So that is a 1212 on the arcana. 144 00:08:45,639 --> 00:08:47,879 You get as you roll it around in your fingers, 145 00:08:47,879 --> 00:08:50,399 you get distinct vibes that this is a ball bearing. 146 00:08:51,080 --> 00:08:53,360 OK, chill. Yeah, it's. 147 00:08:53,360 --> 00:08:58,360 Did we have something that said something similar to that in a previous 148 00:08:58,960 --> 00:09:00,960 room that sounds familiar? 149 00:09:01,120 --> 00:09:02,960 Something about ball bearings on a board? 150 00:09:02,960 --> 00:09:05,320 No, no, something. 151 00:09:05,320 --> 00:09:07,000 It appears to be a ball bearing. 152 00:09:07,000 --> 00:09:10,600 No, something about saying goodbye to the hall monitor. 153 00:09:11,120 --> 00:09:14,920 Yeah, one of the journals, one of the journals, one of the pictures 154 00:09:14,920 --> 00:09:20,400 said like something like the hall monitor says goodbye to every student. 155 00:09:20,400 --> 00:09:22,560 Oh, you're right. That is. Yeah. 156 00:09:22,560 --> 00:09:24,840 See, why can I remember stupid shit like that? 157 00:09:24,840 --> 00:09:28,000 That probably is very inconsequential ADHD. 158 00:09:28,000 --> 00:09:29,560 What if it's the key to the whole thing? 159 00:09:29,560 --> 00:09:32,320 It might be the most important thing we've ever had. 160 00:09:32,320 --> 00:09:35,000 This case is blown wide open now. 161 00:09:35,000 --> 00:09:36,360 We got the smoking gun. 162 00:09:36,360 --> 00:09:39,880 The the exact one was in the last room that you were in. 163 00:09:39,880 --> 00:09:44,160 And it was it said the hall monitor says goodbye to every classroom. 164 00:09:44,280 --> 00:09:45,240 Yeah, you got it. 165 00:09:45,240 --> 00:09:47,320 Steel fucking trap right here. 166 00:09:47,320 --> 00:09:49,760 God damn hourglass. 167 00:09:51,400 --> 00:09:54,800 I think about that once a week, once a week. 168 00:09:54,800 --> 00:09:56,080 I think about that. 169 00:09:56,080 --> 00:09:58,720 I spend far too long thinking about hourglasses. 170 00:09:58,960 --> 00:10:00,560 I love it because I see them. 171 00:10:00,560 --> 00:10:02,920 And every time I see one, it makes me think of you. 172 00:10:02,920 --> 00:10:05,200 And I'm like hourglass. 173 00:10:05,200 --> 00:10:07,320 Yeah, I love it. 174 00:10:07,320 --> 00:10:09,040 There's more around than you would think. 175 00:10:09,040 --> 00:10:11,759 Because it does come up like. 176 00:10:11,759 --> 00:10:13,879 Semi-regularly, great. 177 00:10:13,879 --> 00:10:16,639 I'm going to open that door. 178 00:10:16,639 --> 00:10:20,560 We're trying to distinctly missing from this room. 179 00:10:20,560 --> 00:10:21,920 Obviously, there is another door, 180 00:10:21,920 --> 00:10:26,560 but you do not see the hall monitor that that did enter here. 181 00:10:27,440 --> 00:10:35,400 And bizarre, you go to open the door and it is locked at this moment. 182 00:10:37,320 --> 00:10:41,520 Like the door to exit the well, there's the door that you came in, 183 00:10:41,520 --> 00:10:44,640 which is still a jar, but there's a door immediately 184 00:10:44,640 --> 00:10:47,280 to the right behind the desk or beside the desk. 185 00:10:47,280 --> 00:10:49,800 And that one is yeah, that one is locked. 186 00:10:49,800 --> 00:10:53,080 OK, another locked door over here. 187 00:10:53,400 --> 00:10:57,600 So and all of these cards are blank, except for this one. 188 00:10:57,600 --> 00:11:00,920 You're finding anything of merit? 189 00:11:00,920 --> 00:11:05,040 I don't know, just a little memento from from Malin. 190 00:11:05,040 --> 00:11:07,800 First thing she repaired. 191 00:11:07,800 --> 00:11:10,280 May just kind of hold it up. 192 00:11:10,280 --> 00:11:12,320 That's a neat keepsake. 193 00:11:12,320 --> 00:11:13,520 Yeah, yeah. 194 00:11:13,520 --> 00:11:14,560 Are you going to keep it? 195 00:11:14,560 --> 00:11:16,520 I didn't know if I should keep it. 196 00:11:16,520 --> 00:11:19,320 I put it. This one had a flower. 197 00:11:19,320 --> 00:11:21,840 And this is just my own justification. 198 00:11:21,879 --> 00:11:24,160 But this is like my inheritance, right? 199 00:11:24,160 --> 00:11:25,759 Like she would want you to have it. 200 00:11:25,759 --> 00:11:27,879 She'd probably want me to have it. 201 00:11:27,879 --> 00:11:30,759 Yeah, if I take something, though, it's I think it's just stealing. 202 00:11:31,759 --> 00:11:34,240 Well, we don't know where these people are, if it's been like. 203 00:11:35,399 --> 00:11:38,080 So many generations, I don't know. 204 00:11:38,840 --> 00:11:41,280 What's the statute of limitation on? 205 00:11:41,280 --> 00:11:45,800 Exactly. I would feel weird about just ransacking the place, but 206 00:11:46,639 --> 00:11:48,920 what do you find, Cav? 207 00:11:48,920 --> 00:11:50,879 I got this cool ball bearing. 208 00:11:50,879 --> 00:11:53,799 Interesting. Mechanical. 209 00:11:53,799 --> 00:11:56,919 Not a lot of mechanical stuff in here, except for 210 00:11:57,919 --> 00:12:00,720 whatever we're like hearing, maybe. 211 00:12:00,720 --> 00:12:02,639 Yeah, all right. It came with this note, too. 212 00:12:02,639 --> 00:12:04,799 And I tell them the contents of the note, Russ. 213 00:12:04,840 --> 00:12:07,559 So these all have little notes with them about 214 00:12:08,360 --> 00:12:10,439 a memory or something that happened. 215 00:12:10,439 --> 00:12:11,639 Yeah, it seems like it. 216 00:12:11,639 --> 00:12:13,080 Should we open all of them? 217 00:12:13,080 --> 00:12:15,600 Is there something important in all of them? 218 00:12:16,000 --> 00:12:18,720 Well, you think like it like it's like one of those improv 219 00:12:18,720 --> 00:12:21,120 games where everybody gets one word to tell a story. 220 00:12:21,120 --> 00:12:25,000 Alastair, you hear a soft close of one of the boxes. 221 00:12:25,000 --> 00:12:27,600 I forgot about that kid. Yeah, he's still here. 222 00:12:27,600 --> 00:12:29,000 He's got to be bad news. 223 00:12:29,000 --> 00:12:31,399 But that's for another time. 224 00:12:31,399 --> 00:12:33,279 I'm I'm fine. He's fine. 225 00:12:33,279 --> 00:12:35,480 He's not fine. 226 00:12:35,480 --> 00:12:38,680 He you hear a close of one of the boxes 227 00:12:38,680 --> 00:12:41,360 and he's holding in his hand. 228 00:12:41,920 --> 00:12:44,240 Wait, Russ, did he put like Pretty Woman himself 229 00:12:44,240 --> 00:12:46,680 where he like went to the box and then like. 230 00:12:49,040 --> 00:12:52,080 Yeah, we just look over like, what are you doing? 231 00:12:53,080 --> 00:12:57,399 He he closes and he's holding in his hand a 232 00:12:57,519 --> 00:13:01,200 what looks like a broken pencil that's been carefully mended, 233 00:13:01,200 --> 00:13:03,399 carefully glued back together. 234 00:13:03,399 --> 00:13:08,639 It says I there's something that I'm having trouble piecing together. 235 00:13:08,639 --> 00:13:12,160 This school, if it is connected to the archive, like archives 236 00:13:12,160 --> 00:13:15,759 preserve events, whereas this school seems to be preserving. 237 00:13:17,480 --> 00:13:18,639 Preserving people. 238 00:13:18,639 --> 00:13:24,639 Yeah, I like the memories and the and the observations 239 00:13:24,639 --> 00:13:29,319 that they all made in the last room and this one, certain memories. 240 00:13:30,519 --> 00:13:32,879 Yeah, that's actually what I was interested at. 241 00:13:33,319 --> 00:13:36,600 Bonwyn, you mind if I see MAlydin's nail? Of course. 242 00:13:37,720 --> 00:13:39,639 And when I take that, I'm going to try to like 243 00:13:39,639 --> 00:13:42,120 I've used that that spell in code thoughts before. 244 00:13:42,319 --> 00:13:44,480 I'm going to try to see if I can evoke a thought 245 00:13:44,480 --> 00:13:47,399 or memory out of the item using that spell. 246 00:13:47,720 --> 00:13:50,959 Oh, oh, OK. 247 00:13:51,000 --> 00:13:53,679 Tom and I are very impressed. 248 00:13:53,679 --> 00:13:56,919 Always. And sorry, which was the pencil or the ball bearing? 249 00:13:57,799 --> 00:13:59,439 It was the nail, the nail. 250 00:13:59,439 --> 00:14:01,600 Sorry, yeah. Yeah, I figured I'd go for the person. 251 00:14:01,600 --> 00:14:04,079 I've had the closest, closest connection. 252 00:14:04,079 --> 00:14:06,559 Yeah, got it. Perfect. Yes. 253 00:14:09,559 --> 00:14:11,639 OK, what do you how do you want to do it? 254 00:14:11,639 --> 00:14:13,279 What do you want to do? 255 00:14:13,279 --> 00:14:17,039 Essentially, like, you know, so for me, what I do is 256 00:14:17,039 --> 00:14:18,639 I just kind of pull it out of my brain. 257 00:14:18,639 --> 00:14:21,919 So what I'm going to try to do is cast the spell, 258 00:14:21,919 --> 00:14:24,399 but pull it out of the nail at the same time. 259 00:14:24,639 --> 00:14:26,360 Essentially, I'm altering. 260 00:14:26,360 --> 00:14:30,719 I'm going to attempt to alter the somatic components of my spell 261 00:14:30,719 --> 00:14:35,039 to redirect where the arcane energy is pulled from. 262 00:14:35,039 --> 00:14:37,079 Instead of for me, it's being pulled from the nail. 263 00:14:37,079 --> 00:14:41,000 I like it. Is there a check that you normally have to roll for this one? 264 00:14:41,480 --> 00:14:44,919 I you could make me roll an arcana check if you want to see if that works or not. 265 00:14:44,920 --> 00:14:46,440 That was going to be my my thing. 266 00:14:46,440 --> 00:14:49,560 If you didn't have if you didn't have a normal check for it. 267 00:14:49,560 --> 00:14:52,320 But no, this is this is me making bullshit up, man. 268 00:14:52,320 --> 00:14:55,880 Love it. Let's roll an arcana check. Awesome. 269 00:14:58,280 --> 00:14:59,920 That's going to be an 18. 270 00:14:59,920 --> 00:15:01,640 I like it. 271 00:15:01,640 --> 00:15:03,560 Just hang up off the call after we're done. 272 00:15:03,560 --> 00:15:06,880 That's why Tom cares about me the most. He does. 273 00:15:06,880 --> 00:15:09,760 Yeah, it's like I didn't even want you to try for a second. 274 00:15:10,400 --> 00:15:11,040 You go to bed. 275 00:15:11,040 --> 00:15:13,880 Don't even like just focus on getting through one 276 00:15:14,039 --> 00:15:15,000 and know that you're done. 277 00:15:15,000 --> 00:15:17,320 Welcome to the middle where we're setting expectation, 278 00:15:17,320 --> 00:15:21,159 not talking about how many children somebody may or may not have. 279 00:15:23,159 --> 00:15:24,679 That is how we did it, though. 280 00:15:24,679 --> 00:15:26,799 Yeah, one and done. One and done. 281 00:15:26,799 --> 00:15:28,919 It's OK. Welcome to the middle, everybody. 282 00:15:28,919 --> 00:15:30,039 Hopefully you're having a great day. 283 00:15:30,039 --> 00:15:32,799 And this episode that you're listening to is just wonderful. 284 00:15:32,799 --> 00:15:35,320 I know because I listened to it, too. 285 00:15:35,320 --> 00:15:37,200 And it was great. And I was in it. 286 00:15:37,200 --> 00:15:40,080 So I was like, wow, look at this thing. It had to be. Yeah. 287 00:15:41,080 --> 00:15:43,520 You got some prime, Amy. It's going to be good. 288 00:15:43,520 --> 00:15:44,879 That's right. I got to stop. 289 00:15:44,879 --> 00:15:48,200 I I swear to God, I heard Russ say Lepisode. 290 00:15:48,200 --> 00:15:49,879 Yes, me too. He 100 percent did. 291 00:15:49,879 --> 00:15:51,160 Like a death Lepisode. 292 00:15:51,160 --> 00:15:54,759 I'm pretty sure it was like a nod to our like Patreon version. 293 00:15:54,759 --> 00:15:56,000 Just let it slide. 294 00:15:56,000 --> 00:16:00,600 Which if you want to understand that, you could go over to our Patreon. 295 00:16:00,600 --> 00:16:02,520 Spoiler alert, join the Patreon. 296 00:16:02,879 --> 00:16:04,160 Dumb Dragon cast. 297 00:16:04,160 --> 00:16:05,120 Yeah, you get. 298 00:16:05,120 --> 00:16:08,480 There's a different middle over there and it goes some places. 299 00:16:09,039 --> 00:16:11,800 Let's do no context drops. 300 00:16:12,840 --> 00:16:16,039 Walker, Texas Ranger, Dr. Quinn, medicine woman. 301 00:16:16,440 --> 00:16:18,360 These are the things that came up. 302 00:16:18,360 --> 00:16:21,080 Feel good. Treat yourself. Treat yourself good. 303 00:16:22,200 --> 00:16:25,759 Father in law talking about beavers and being a deaf head. 304 00:16:25,759 --> 00:16:28,320 Yeah. And so it's it's a lot. 305 00:16:28,320 --> 00:16:30,200 And it's fun. Get on over there. 306 00:16:30,200 --> 00:16:34,560 Also, there's like this whole other show that Tom runs. 307 00:16:34,560 --> 00:16:37,800 You get this episode not only with a different middle 308 00:16:37,920 --> 00:16:39,840 or ad free and early access. 309 00:16:39,840 --> 00:16:42,280 Early. Oh, ad free, of course. 310 00:16:42,280 --> 00:16:43,520 So there's a lot of stuff. 311 00:16:43,520 --> 00:16:45,240 There's some shenanigans. 312 00:16:45,240 --> 00:16:47,480 You also might get an episode dedicated to you. 313 00:16:47,840 --> 00:16:50,720 Like today's patron, Jason Quinn. 314 00:16:51,200 --> 00:16:54,120 Jason. Thank you so much. 315 00:16:54,600 --> 00:16:57,200 I don't know, Jason, if you can hear in the background, 316 00:16:57,200 --> 00:16:58,800 my dogs are just losing it. 317 00:16:58,800 --> 00:16:59,960 Oh, they're going crazy. 318 00:16:59,960 --> 00:17:01,160 They love you. 319 00:17:01,160 --> 00:17:03,160 They're howling. 320 00:17:03,160 --> 00:17:05,960 They're so there is Jason here. 321 00:17:05,960 --> 00:17:07,759 They're so excited. 322 00:17:08,000 --> 00:17:10,519 He's not. We're just talking about him and how great he is. 323 00:17:10,519 --> 00:17:14,519 It's true. So Jason, I'm going to embarrass my dogs 324 00:17:14,519 --> 00:17:16,640 right now when I say hi and they remember I'm home 325 00:17:16,640 --> 00:17:18,559 and they stop howling. 326 00:17:18,559 --> 00:17:21,279 Hi, guys. Puppies. 327 00:17:21,279 --> 00:17:22,879 They're not embarrassed at all. 328 00:17:22,879 --> 00:17:23,680 They're embarrassed. 329 00:17:23,680 --> 00:17:25,599 Oh, they did. And they're like, yeah, wow. 330 00:17:25,599 --> 00:17:28,960 Yeah. It took them a second to realize the call was coming from inside. 331 00:17:28,960 --> 00:17:30,879 Damn it. Your dogs are so smart. 332 00:17:30,879 --> 00:17:34,200 Listen, Carla, I want you to really appreciate your dogs, 333 00:17:34,200 --> 00:17:35,759 because what did our dog do today? 334 00:17:35,799 --> 00:17:40,440 She hid a bone and then 15 minutes later 335 00:17:40,440 --> 00:17:42,359 forgot where she put it. 336 00:17:42,359 --> 00:17:44,519 Lost her shit. 337 00:17:44,519 --> 00:17:48,200 All three of us had to go on a scavenger hunt for this bone. 338 00:17:48,200 --> 00:17:49,759 Where she tried to beat me up. 339 00:17:49,759 --> 00:17:52,440 Yeah, she got real pissy because she didn't want us to find it, 340 00:17:52,440 --> 00:17:54,000 but she also didn't know where it was. 341 00:17:54,000 --> 00:17:55,759 But she also needed to know where it was. 342 00:17:55,759 --> 00:18:00,240 And it was inside of one of Addison's clothes bins. 343 00:18:00,240 --> 00:18:04,119 Yeah, she like copped in and buried it. 344 00:18:04,160 --> 00:18:07,080 So your dogs are just angels. 345 00:18:07,080 --> 00:18:10,160 Unless I had actually left the house, or if Jason was here, 346 00:18:10,160 --> 00:18:12,720 that is basically would have been the reaction. 347 00:18:12,720 --> 00:18:14,520 But a lot of kissing as well. 348 00:18:14,520 --> 00:18:15,480 Yeah, of course. 349 00:18:15,480 --> 00:18:18,640 Yeah, Jason, so kissable. 350 00:18:18,640 --> 00:18:20,680 That's what everybody says about Jason. 351 00:18:20,680 --> 00:18:21,640 I didn't know. 352 00:18:21,640 --> 00:18:24,040 Seen it all over the Discord. 353 00:18:24,040 --> 00:18:24,800 Wow. 354 00:18:24,800 --> 00:18:28,200 OK, let's not sexually harass the patrons too much. 355 00:18:28,200 --> 00:18:30,640 Look, your dog said it, not me, Carla. 356 00:18:30,680 --> 00:18:35,000 OK, I'm just translating for our non-pop. 357 00:18:35,000 --> 00:18:36,160 Corgi kissable. 358 00:18:36,160 --> 00:18:39,000 It's a rough translation, but it's good. 359 00:18:39,000 --> 00:18:41,640 There's not the exact phrase to bring it across. 360 00:18:41,640 --> 00:18:43,560 It's a complex language. 361 00:18:43,560 --> 00:18:48,240 But yeah, you can join us like Corgi Kissable Jason 362 00:18:48,240 --> 00:18:51,160 at patreon.com slash dumb dragon cast. 363 00:18:51,160 --> 00:18:57,840 Where right now we have 50% off going on because it is October. 364 00:18:57,840 --> 00:18:59,840 And we're doing that and we relaunched everything 365 00:18:59,839 --> 00:19:01,480 and there's crazy things happening over there. 366 00:19:01,480 --> 00:19:02,399 Go check it out. 367 00:19:02,399 --> 00:19:03,159 New tears. 368 00:19:03,159 --> 00:19:04,159 Come see. 369 00:19:04,159 --> 00:19:05,039 All right. 370 00:19:05,039 --> 00:19:07,000 Have a great time. 371 00:19:07,000 --> 00:19:08,359 Doing what you're doing. 372 00:19:08,359 --> 00:19:10,039 Listening to this episode. 373 00:19:10,039 --> 00:19:11,039 Probably doing taxes. 374 00:19:11,039 --> 00:19:13,039 I don't know what season it is. 375 00:19:13,039 --> 00:19:15,000 Love you, bye. 376 00:19:15,000 --> 00:19:15,759 Love you, bye. 377 00:19:19,519 --> 00:19:24,359 OK, describe to me what it looks like. 378 00:19:24,359 --> 00:19:27,720 So as I begin to cast the spell, 379 00:19:27,799 --> 00:19:31,079 instead of the typical like little like mind booger 380 00:19:31,079 --> 00:19:34,720 that comes out of me, the filings and rough edges 381 00:19:34,720 --> 00:19:37,519 of the nail begin to stand on and almost like affected 382 00:19:37,519 --> 00:19:39,160 by magnetism. 383 00:19:39,160 --> 00:19:45,360 And they begin to draw out and create a small, small needle 384 00:19:45,360 --> 00:19:49,039 that just juts right into my eye. 385 00:19:49,039 --> 00:19:50,880 Oh my god. 386 00:19:50,880 --> 00:19:51,559 Wow. 387 00:19:51,559 --> 00:19:54,720 And Bizard, are you OK? 388 00:19:54,720 --> 00:19:57,360 I take a moment and what if I see anything, 389 00:19:57,360 --> 00:19:58,320 what do I see? 390 00:19:58,320 --> 00:19:59,520 Everybody else sees that. 391 00:19:59,520 --> 00:20:02,760 And for you, Bizard, it's like time stands still 392 00:20:02,760 --> 00:20:07,200 as this needle enters your eye. 393 00:20:07,200 --> 00:20:11,560 So all of your friends are like reaching for you 394 00:20:11,560 --> 00:20:15,400 in panic, in fear, in trying to check you. 395 00:20:15,400 --> 00:20:19,080 And as they freeze in this moment, 396 00:20:19,080 --> 00:20:21,120 the wind picks back up from outside 397 00:20:21,120 --> 00:20:23,760 and those bottles begin to clink together again. 398 00:20:23,759 --> 00:20:30,359 And you, whether by force of the actual event 399 00:20:30,359 --> 00:20:36,440 or by arcane decision, look up into them. 400 00:20:36,440 --> 00:20:38,160 And these bottles clinking together 401 00:20:38,160 --> 00:20:41,319 begin to blur and fade into this vision. 402 00:20:41,319 --> 00:20:44,559 And you see who you can presume 403 00:20:44,559 --> 00:20:48,319 is a very young male in everbane, 404 00:20:48,319 --> 00:20:52,279 working at one of the desks along the side of the room, 405 00:20:52,279 --> 00:20:56,960 which you can see across the classroom from where 406 00:20:56,960 --> 00:20:58,519 you are now. 407 00:20:58,519 --> 00:21:02,359 You see her gently heeding and hammering 408 00:21:02,359 --> 00:21:04,680 and heeding and hammering. 409 00:21:04,680 --> 00:21:08,879 And while she doesn't say anything, 410 00:21:08,879 --> 00:21:13,119 she has a sense of accomplishment 411 00:21:13,119 --> 00:21:16,639 that comes across her. 412 00:21:16,639 --> 00:21:18,440 And you've seen this same look 413 00:21:19,279 --> 00:21:25,519 as she either finishes a job or hands over a gift or a job 414 00:21:25,519 --> 00:21:29,200 that she's done particularly well on in her eyes. 415 00:21:29,200 --> 00:21:32,400 While she doesn't say anything, 416 00:21:32,400 --> 00:21:34,720 you get a feeling that in this room, 417 00:21:34,720 --> 00:21:38,640 the children were trusted to preserve not only 418 00:21:38,640 --> 00:21:41,360 their own story, but one another's story. 419 00:21:41,360 --> 00:21:44,799 As this memory in and of itself 420 00:21:44,839 --> 00:21:54,599 finishes, your spell almost hops to the ball bearing 421 00:21:54,599 --> 00:21:58,279 that you see clutched in Kavlaran's hand. 422 00:21:58,279 --> 00:22:00,200 You feel a pull to it. 423 00:22:00,200 --> 00:22:05,839 And this memory begins to morph into the hall monitor. 424 00:22:05,839 --> 00:22:07,279 It's not Joe. 425 00:22:07,279 --> 00:22:10,559 It, in fact, looks like the same hall monitor 426 00:22:10,559 --> 00:22:15,119 that walked by that you've seen in this place. 427 00:22:15,119 --> 00:22:17,000 A lot of similarities there. 428 00:22:17,000 --> 00:22:22,079 But you get this sense of a fact 429 00:22:22,079 --> 00:22:28,919 that there is a fondness, almost a parental care 430 00:22:28,919 --> 00:22:33,279 that this monitor is presenting and giving to these kids. 431 00:22:33,279 --> 00:22:36,879 And they are, I don't want to say eating it up, 432 00:22:36,879 --> 00:22:40,079 but they're loving it. 433 00:22:40,079 --> 00:22:44,679 There's kids wrapped around his wooden legs. 434 00:22:44,679 --> 00:22:46,359 They're handing him cards. 435 00:22:46,359 --> 00:22:50,000 They're showing him their drawings. 436 00:22:50,000 --> 00:22:54,759 You can sense that this creature, this entity, 437 00:22:54,759 --> 00:23:01,119 is very important to every student who passed through here. 438 00:23:01,119 --> 00:23:05,079 And as one is going to hand the painting or the drawing 439 00:23:05,079 --> 00:23:08,079 to the hall monitor, he reaches for it, 440 00:23:08,079 --> 00:23:11,639 and then the memory sucks back. 441 00:23:11,639 --> 00:23:15,319 And the shavings that formed into a needle, 442 00:23:15,319 --> 00:23:21,039 you feel yourself crying them out of the eye. 443 00:23:21,039 --> 00:23:24,119 Your eye begins to tear up, and you 444 00:23:24,119 --> 00:23:27,559 can feel the shavings now dripping down your cheek 445 00:23:27,559 --> 00:23:29,319 as everything comes back. 446 00:23:29,319 --> 00:23:31,119 And the scene picks back up, and everybody's 447 00:23:31,119 --> 00:23:32,439 rushing towards you. 448 00:23:32,439 --> 00:23:33,879 Bizarre, are you OK? 449 00:23:33,879 --> 00:23:34,799 Are you OK? 450 00:23:34,799 --> 00:23:35,599 Oh, my. 451 00:23:35,599 --> 00:23:37,359 That was. 452 00:23:37,840 --> 00:23:39,080 No, I'm fine. 453 00:23:39,080 --> 00:23:43,960 But you see Bizarre's entire left eye is now just solid gray 454 00:23:43,960 --> 00:23:45,600 instead of being speckled. 455 00:23:45,600 --> 00:23:48,000 So it's more like a solid gray on one side, 456 00:23:48,000 --> 00:23:50,560 and the right side is green with speckles of gray on it 457 00:23:50,560 --> 00:23:52,120 now. 458 00:23:52,120 --> 00:23:53,280 I'm fine. 459 00:23:53,280 --> 00:23:55,240 I have a little bit of an eye ache. 460 00:23:55,240 --> 00:23:57,080 Look fine. 461 00:23:57,080 --> 00:23:58,200 I bet you do. 462 00:23:58,200 --> 00:24:01,240 She smacks her shiny eye and is like, 463 00:24:01,240 --> 00:24:03,120 not that I can talk about that, 464 00:24:03,120 --> 00:24:05,280 but it looks worse than it did before. 465 00:24:05,279 --> 00:24:11,079 Well, I did learn, at least, that how important Joe 466 00:24:11,079 --> 00:24:15,440 is to the school and to the people in it. 467 00:24:15,440 --> 00:24:20,399 And this room was meant to encourage the children 468 00:24:20,399 --> 00:24:23,079 to keep track of their own memories 469 00:24:23,079 --> 00:24:26,519 and help others with their stories. 470 00:24:26,519 --> 00:24:31,240 So it's so nurturing. 471 00:24:31,240 --> 00:24:38,160 It's a very, it's a different school environment. 472 00:24:38,160 --> 00:24:39,960 Sounds nice, actually. 473 00:24:39,960 --> 00:24:42,759 Yeah, it does. 474 00:24:42,759 --> 00:24:47,279 So we should definitely try to figure out where he went. 475 00:24:47,279 --> 00:24:52,319 Yeah, and if the kids aren't here, 476 00:24:52,319 --> 00:24:54,720 what's keeping him here? 477 00:24:54,720 --> 00:24:57,599 Is it just the sense of duty that they could come back? 478 00:24:57,640 --> 00:25:04,640 Is it that they are here just not in the same plane as us? 479 00:25:04,640 --> 00:25:06,240 Like, they could be standing, they 480 00:25:06,240 --> 00:25:09,400 could be sitting right there taking notes, as far as I know. 481 00:25:09,400 --> 00:25:12,200 And we just don't have the ability to see them. 482 00:25:12,200 --> 00:25:14,360 That's so creepy. 483 00:25:14,360 --> 00:25:15,880 Yeah, I don't love that. 484 00:25:15,880 --> 00:25:18,400 It's possible. 485 00:25:18,400 --> 00:25:19,440 I don't know if it's true. 486 00:25:19,440 --> 00:25:22,920 I just keep an eye out for things. 487 00:25:22,920 --> 00:25:24,160 Observe. 488 00:25:24,160 --> 00:25:25,120 Wink. 489 00:25:25,120 --> 00:25:27,080 Yeah, ow. 490 00:25:27,079 --> 00:25:28,960 But I didn't know if that would work or not, 491 00:25:28,960 --> 00:25:31,000 and sorry if it freaked you out. 492 00:25:31,000 --> 00:25:33,639 Well, yeah, it did. 493 00:25:33,639 --> 00:25:37,439 I mean, I just have a thing with eyes and foreign objects. 494 00:25:37,439 --> 00:25:38,799 It's just, yeah. 495 00:25:38,799 --> 00:25:39,879 Totally fair. 496 00:25:39,879 --> 00:25:42,439 I did not know what was going to happen. 497 00:25:42,439 --> 00:25:45,359 I was kind of freewheeling with magic. 498 00:25:45,359 --> 00:25:47,000 And Alydin, take that as a lesson, 499 00:25:47,000 --> 00:25:49,759 because you start freewheeling magic, figuring things out. 500 00:25:49,759 --> 00:25:51,759 You're not exactly sure what the end result is 501 00:25:51,759 --> 00:25:52,559 going to be. 502 00:25:52,559 --> 00:25:55,119 Positive, negative, injuries. 503 00:25:55,119 --> 00:25:56,439 Something in your eye. 504 00:25:56,440 --> 00:25:57,920 Yeah. 505 00:25:57,920 --> 00:25:58,559 Yeah. 506 00:25:58,559 --> 00:26:00,519 Experimentation's always fun, sometimes. 507 00:26:00,519 --> 00:26:01,600 OK. 508 00:26:01,600 --> 00:26:07,279 Alydin, as you are disturbed by the scene before, you kind 509 00:26:07,279 --> 00:26:11,240 of plunk yourself down in a desk and re- 510 00:26:11,240 --> 00:26:13,840 And then jump up and you just sat on some other kid. 511 00:26:13,840 --> 00:26:14,360 Right? 512 00:26:17,160 --> 00:26:18,240 Yeah, and jump up. 513 00:26:18,240 --> 00:26:23,640 And the desk you sit down at, the box is open. 514 00:26:23,640 --> 00:26:26,920 It's not one that anybody has particularly looked at. 515 00:26:26,920 --> 00:26:30,000 You look and you see the name Heron Linger on it. 516 00:26:30,000 --> 00:26:33,600 And inside, you see one small river stone. 517 00:26:33,600 --> 00:26:37,040 Can't read the note inside. 518 00:26:37,040 --> 00:26:37,960 Why? 519 00:26:37,960 --> 00:26:39,400 Because it's upside down. 520 00:26:39,400 --> 00:26:40,400 Oh, well. 521 00:26:40,400 --> 00:26:40,900 Pfft. 522 00:26:44,900 --> 00:26:45,640 Fuck you. 523 00:26:45,640 --> 00:26:47,960 It was written in invisible ink, 524 00:26:47,960 --> 00:26:50,920 and you don't have the little black light. 525 00:26:50,920 --> 00:26:52,880 OK, well, I guess I never get to read 526 00:26:52,880 --> 00:26:54,040 that note to upside down. 527 00:26:54,040 --> 00:26:55,000 We'll never know. 528 00:26:55,000 --> 00:26:55,800 You're reaching in. 529 00:26:55,800 --> 00:26:56,920 I have no way to solve it. 530 00:26:56,920 --> 00:26:57,800 And grab it. 531 00:26:57,800 --> 00:27:01,760 I am playing with the rock and looking at the note. 532 00:27:01,760 --> 00:27:05,120 It says, from the old shoreline. 533 00:27:05,120 --> 00:27:08,800 So when did this lake dry up? 534 00:27:08,800 --> 00:27:10,200 Hmm. 535 00:27:10,200 --> 00:27:10,680 I don't know. 536 00:27:10,680 --> 00:27:12,320 What was it, hundreds of years ago? 537 00:27:12,320 --> 00:27:15,120 I think, I mean, that's always kind of, 538 00:27:15,120 --> 00:27:16,880 I think, what we were taught in school, 539 00:27:16,880 --> 00:27:19,840 that many, many generations ago, 540 00:27:19,840 --> 00:27:21,640 there had been the settlement here, 541 00:27:21,640 --> 00:27:23,720 and then something happened with the lake, 542 00:27:23,720 --> 00:27:26,560 and then they had to make Vindersmith because of that. 543 00:27:26,560 --> 00:27:29,280 But it never, either we never learned, 544 00:27:29,280 --> 00:27:33,640 or I just don't remember exactly what happened. 545 00:27:33,640 --> 00:27:35,680 But it was a long time ago. 546 00:27:35,680 --> 00:27:38,320 Well, this one says, this rock 547 00:27:38,320 --> 00:27:41,040 is from the old shoreline. 548 00:27:41,040 --> 00:27:42,840 Huh. 549 00:27:42,840 --> 00:27:47,440 So before things went bad? 550 00:27:47,440 --> 00:27:50,440 I guess. 551 00:27:50,440 --> 00:27:55,960 Yeah, because it was over time that the water was poisoned 552 00:27:55,960 --> 00:28:00,880 and that they had to, I'm sure it just wind up dwindling. 553 00:28:00,880 --> 00:28:08,880 So do you think, we saw the door pulsing 554 00:28:08,880 --> 00:28:11,480 when we were messing with names. 555 00:28:12,480 --> 00:28:14,079 Mm-hmm. 556 00:28:14,079 --> 00:28:21,839 Do you think that manipulating or using these items, 557 00:28:21,839 --> 00:28:24,759 like, I want to, I'm curious if that flower you found 558 00:28:24,759 --> 00:28:26,920 and that stone, they come from the lake, we take them there, 559 00:28:26,920 --> 00:28:32,400 does it bring the lake to life in any sense of the archive? 560 00:28:32,400 --> 00:28:34,599 Because these are archived items. 561 00:28:34,599 --> 00:28:35,799 Right. 562 00:28:35,799 --> 00:28:39,240 By the definition of archive, technically, 563 00:28:39,240 --> 00:28:42,120 these have been archived. 564 00:28:42,120 --> 00:28:46,759 Do you want me to run them outside and put them down 565 00:28:46,759 --> 00:28:47,839 where the lake was? 566 00:28:47,839 --> 00:28:50,160 I think let's get behind this door 567 00:28:50,160 --> 00:28:54,000 and talk to old Joe first. 568 00:28:54,000 --> 00:28:57,799 So anybody can pick a lock? 569 00:28:57,799 --> 00:28:59,039 Anybody? 570 00:28:59,039 --> 00:29:00,480 I can, maybe. 571 00:29:00,480 --> 00:29:01,799 And I do, and after you. 572 00:29:01,799 --> 00:29:02,319 Have at it. 573 00:29:02,319 --> 00:29:04,640 Because I was going to offer, but let's get 574 00:29:04,640 --> 00:29:06,519 Alydin out there doing crimes. 575 00:29:06,519 --> 00:29:07,039 Absolutely. 576 00:29:07,079 --> 00:29:10,000 Alydin, do you keep the stone in your hand? 577 00:29:10,000 --> 00:29:11,920 I put it in my bucket, yeah. 578 00:29:11,920 --> 00:29:13,879 Yeah, you put it in your bucket. 579 00:29:13,879 --> 00:29:15,799 You put the lid from the box back down. 580 00:29:15,799 --> 00:29:18,720 You hear a soft click as it closes. 581 00:29:18,720 --> 00:29:21,279 And you begin walking over to the door 582 00:29:21,279 --> 00:29:24,319 that Bizarre was unable to open. 583 00:29:24,319 --> 00:29:25,799 What do you do to? 584 00:29:25,799 --> 00:29:27,200 Oh, I'm making a big show of it. 585 00:29:27,200 --> 00:29:29,799 I'm like, oh, cracking my knuckles. 586 00:29:29,799 --> 00:29:34,680 Like, yeah, OK, so it's been a minute because I haven't, 587 00:29:34,680 --> 00:29:35,920 not that I did it a lot. 588 00:29:38,920 --> 00:29:42,360 I haven't had to in a while. 589 00:29:42,360 --> 00:29:45,000 But I got some things. 590 00:29:45,000 --> 00:29:47,920 And I'm rummaging through my bucket like, yeah, no, 591 00:29:47,920 --> 00:29:51,320 it's like they're way down here because I haven't used them 592 00:29:51,320 --> 00:29:53,440 in like such a long time. 593 00:29:53,440 --> 00:29:57,200 And I take out my thieves tools. 594 00:29:57,200 --> 00:30:00,519 And I start to try to pick the lock. 595 00:30:00,519 --> 00:30:02,440 As you pull out the thieves tools 596 00:30:02,440 --> 00:30:06,519 and you begin to move towards the lock, you hear, 597 00:30:06,519 --> 00:30:07,960 everybody else hears it as well, 598 00:30:07,960 --> 00:30:11,640 but you hear the hanging bottles begin to chime softly 599 00:30:11,640 --> 00:30:16,360 together as like another breeze passes through. 600 00:30:16,360 --> 00:30:17,600 How does that make me feel? 601 00:30:17,600 --> 00:30:20,960 Is that like, is it like creepy or like wind chimes 602 00:30:20,960 --> 00:30:22,000 and kind of pretty? 603 00:30:22,000 --> 00:30:22,799 Yeah. 604 00:30:22,799 --> 00:30:26,559 Is it nurturing or is it foreboding? 605 00:30:26,559 --> 00:30:28,519 Did we determine where the breeze is coming from? 606 00:30:28,519 --> 00:30:29,880 No, we did not. 607 00:30:29,880 --> 00:30:30,960 Through the open door. 608 00:30:31,000 --> 00:30:33,920 So you're assuming from outside. 609 00:30:33,920 --> 00:30:35,240 Yeah. 610 00:30:35,240 --> 00:30:36,720 I thought it was a magical breeze. 611 00:30:36,720 --> 00:30:38,039 Me too. 612 00:30:38,039 --> 00:30:39,279 And I was just going with that. 613 00:30:39,279 --> 00:30:40,120 Like, oh, it's fine. 614 00:30:40,120 --> 00:30:41,079 It's a magic school. 615 00:30:41,079 --> 00:30:43,559 There's almost a sense of like nostalgia. 616 00:30:45,360 --> 00:30:47,880 So it's not good, not bad. 617 00:30:47,880 --> 00:30:49,920 And as you reach towards the door, 618 00:30:49,920 --> 00:30:54,920 before you even put the tools into the lock, 619 00:30:55,000 --> 00:30:59,519 you hear a soft click of the mechanism. 620 00:30:59,519 --> 00:31:00,759 I've done it again. 621 00:31:01,799 --> 00:31:04,600 Proud of you. 622 00:31:04,600 --> 00:31:05,440 Great work. 623 00:31:05,440 --> 00:31:06,360 Job well done. 624 00:31:06,360 --> 00:31:07,200 Thanks. 625 00:31:07,200 --> 00:31:09,000 As you're showboating. 626 00:31:09,000 --> 00:31:11,160 And anyone ever intimidate a lock open? 627 00:31:11,160 --> 00:31:14,319 I mean, I didn't even see her like use the tools, but. 628 00:31:14,319 --> 00:31:15,519 I'm gonna grab a card and write, 629 00:31:15,519 --> 00:31:17,079 this lock was easy to pick. 630 00:31:19,319 --> 00:31:23,680 Everybody else you see like over the top of Alydin. 631 00:31:24,920 --> 00:31:26,759 Bizarre, you didn't see it before, 632 00:31:26,759 --> 00:31:28,559 but it's definitely there now. 633 00:31:28,559 --> 00:31:32,200 There's a plaque on the door. 634 00:31:32,200 --> 00:31:35,720 Same as every other room you've walked into. 635 00:31:35,720 --> 00:31:37,279 And it says craft. 636 00:31:39,759 --> 00:31:41,519 Crafts. 637 00:31:41,519 --> 00:31:44,159 This is the parenthetical that was next to Malin's name. 638 00:31:44,159 --> 00:31:46,079 Yeah, it is. 639 00:31:46,079 --> 00:31:49,079 Oh, I wanna open the door. 640 00:31:49,079 --> 00:31:50,000 Let's get in there. 641 00:31:50,000 --> 00:31:50,839 You unlocked it. 642 00:31:50,839 --> 00:31:51,659 You opened it. 643 00:31:51,659 --> 00:31:52,500 Go for it. 644 00:31:52,500 --> 00:31:56,000 The door handle turns and immediately you're hit 645 00:31:56,000 --> 00:31:57,799 with a. 646 00:31:57,839 --> 00:31:58,680 Poison dart. 647 00:31:58,680 --> 00:31:59,519 Poison dart. 648 00:31:59,519 --> 00:32:02,240 It's been totally chill up to this point now. 649 00:32:02,240 --> 00:32:03,720 I should have checked for traps. 650 00:32:03,720 --> 00:32:04,559 Rule for initiative. 651 00:32:04,559 --> 00:32:05,559 Why am I like this? 652 00:32:06,720 --> 00:32:09,879 No, you are hit with the scent of cedar, 653 00:32:09,879 --> 00:32:13,519 oil and worked metal that fills the room. 654 00:32:13,519 --> 00:32:17,000 It reminds you a lot of the forge. 655 00:32:17,000 --> 00:32:19,839 Work benches stand in perfect rows, 656 00:32:19,839 --> 00:32:23,879 each holding neatly organized hand tools. 657 00:32:23,879 --> 00:32:26,720 They're half finished projects that rest exactly 658 00:32:26,720 --> 00:32:28,440 where their makers left them. 659 00:32:28,440 --> 00:32:31,299 Across there is a chalkboard and written on it. 660 00:32:31,299 --> 00:32:34,380 It says, repair what can be repaired. 661 00:32:35,539 --> 00:32:39,720 Replace only what must be replaced. 662 00:32:39,720 --> 00:32:43,279 Leave every craft stronger than you found it. 663 00:32:45,279 --> 00:32:48,680 Dumbgeons and Dragons, season four, episode 65, 664 00:32:48,680 --> 00:32:50,440 starring Amy More as Alydin, 665 00:32:50,440 --> 00:32:52,640 Carla Maxted as Bonwyn Evervane, 666 00:32:52,640 --> 00:32:54,839 Tom Laird as Kavlaran Goldweave, 667 00:32:54,880 --> 00:32:56,840 Kyle Claset as Bizard the Wizard, 668 00:32:56,840 --> 00:32:59,120 and Russ More as your dungeon master. 669 00:32:59,120 --> 00:33:01,920 Dialogue, editing, and sound design by Russ More. 670 00:33:01,920 --> 00:33:04,160 Community management by Jessica Babyok. 671 00:33:04,160 --> 00:33:06,520 Music and sound effects from Epidemic Sound, 672 00:33:06,520 --> 00:33:08,840 Boom Library, and Sound Ideas. 673 00:33:08,840 --> 00:33:10,600 Cover art by Matt Garbutt. 674 00:33:10,600 --> 00:33:13,440 Dumbgeons and Dragons isn't possible without you, 675 00:33:13,440 --> 00:33:15,640 our lovely listeners and supporters, 676 00:33:15,640 --> 00:33:17,560 like our workshop producers, 677 00:33:17,560 --> 00:33:19,160 including My Name Is Dee, 678 00:33:19,160 --> 00:33:21,320 Ongurankirzan, Perry Matey, 679 00:33:21,320 --> 00:33:23,400 L.A. 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