[0.0s] Dumbgeons and Dragons will begin in a moment.
[2.4s] Bonwyn, you walk over to this box on the desk and its nameplate has been removed.
[8.8s] Inside you pull out a note and read, some memories are still being written.
[15.7s] As everyone else looks around the room, there is a teacher's desk off into one side.
[21.0s] There is also another door in this room immediately to the right as you enter.
[27.6s] That's what you see at this moment.
[29.6s] So you've got the chalkboard, you've got the teacher's desk, you've got the bottles,
[33.1s] which seems like hundreds of them hanging overhead.
[37.0s] There are the keepsake boxes and the room itself is noticeably much more quiet than
[49.4s] every other room that you've been in so far.
[53.0s] I'd say Bizard would go over to the desk and see what kind of textbooks the
[57.0s] teacher would have ready for teaching class.
[61.7s] As you walk over to the desk, there's a chair that's tucked in and on top of the desk
[67.0s] there are cards, very similar to the one you see Bonwyn holding.
[72.9s] However, as you kind of flip them open, they all appear to be blank.
[78.1s] There are a couple of drawers, you pull them open, there's some writing utensils,
[83.0s] some more scraps, not scraps of paper, but stacks of paper.
[87.5s] But there aren't actually any textbooks.
[90.4s] I'm going to take one card and I'm going to write all these cards are blank and
[95.0s] put it apart from the stack and just walk away.
[99.0s] Your brain works differently than my brain and I like it.
[102.5s] I know.
[103.5s] It's so great.
[104.5s] Weird fucking riddley thing to try to riddley.
[108.0s] I know there's not a puzzle to solve, but it seems right to do.
[112.9s] I'm going to throw a reverse riddle at it.
[116.4s] I just tuck a reverse uno, reverse card right in one of the boxes and I walk away.
[122.5s] This is taken care of now.
[125.8s] Dumbgeons and Dragons is a D&D actual play podcast and I'm your dungeon master Russ
[130.7s] More, he him.
[132.3s] Also with me today is Amy More as Alydin, she her.
[135.3s] Yeah, if I take something though, I think it's just stealing.
[138.4s] Carla Maxted as Bonwyn Everbane, she her.
[141.2s] Things are on the ceiling.
[142.8s] This is not built for the shorts.
[144.8s] Tom Laird as Kavlaran Goldweave, he him.
[147.3s] No, I'm going to be stuck on this ball bearing for a little bit Russ.
[150.2s] And Kyle Clasett as Bizard the Wizard, he him.
[153.4s] And create a small needle that just juts right into my eye.
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[174.5s] So right beside you, Bizard is is another doorway.
[179.6s] Kav, what are you doing as you enter?
[183.2s] I guess Bonwyn as well.
[185.2s] You have like actually read a card.
[188.6s] So both of you in turn, what are you do?
[192.3s] I probably just like pick up the box, see like they're not attached to the desks, right?
[198.1s] They're all just kind of sitting there.
[201.0s] Yeah, I mean, how snoopy am I?
[203.1s] We're playing a game, so I need to be a bit snoopy.
[205.7s] Maybe I'm just like walking up and down and like kind of flipping them open,
[209.7s] seeing what's in there, if they all just have if they have notes there or people have
[215.1s] because you said they look like keepsake boxes.
[217.1s] Maybe people just have their little treasures in them.
[220.0s] The names match what we saw in the in the attendance room.
[224.5s] There were desks with boxes for Maylan Everbane, Heron Linger,
[229.5s] Janel Fosson and others.
[232.5s] But those were the ones we knew.
[234.0s] So I wrote them down.
[236.3s] Yes. Is there like built in shelves anywhere?
[239.1s] Can I go like test if those are sturdy or if they can move?
[243.9s] Maybe slide to the side.
[245.9s] Showing in a little door, like a little door that we could touch
[251.1s] along as you enter along the leftmost wall.
[255.6s] There is a series of big wooden drawers almost all the way to the ceiling.
[261.8s] There's a window above them.
[263.0s] So probably like a four or five foot clearance.
[265.8s] But yeah, there's lots of these drawers along the one side.
[268.8s] Bonwyn's just thinking, how did my short little dwarven
[272.2s] GGGGGG ma deal with this school?
[276.0s] Because I can't reach fucking nothing in here.
[278.0s] Things are on the ceiling.
[279.4s] This is not built for the shorts. Good observation.
[283.3s] Gav, as you walk over there, there's you start pulling some of them open
[287.6s] and they appear to be drawers that are assigned to the students.
[293.6s] And inside, there are things they would find around the town,
[299.4s] around nature, like there's sticks, there's a spoon in one.
[304.2s] There's a small stuffed toy.
[307.1s] Nothing inherently school related in these drawers.
[312.4s] OK, is there like a name plate to indicate
[315.2s] which student that each drawer is for?
[318.0s] Yeah, and you see a lot of the similar names that you've run into before.
[322.4s] And as you perhaps
[326.5s] reach for one, let's say, Heron Linger,
[332.6s] you pull them open and it's almost like there's a
[336.6s] a small breeze that comes in from outside.
[339.6s] And then you hear the clinking of the bottles.
[342.4s] Up above you, inside their specific drawer,
[346.6s] it is filled with what look to be well-worn river stone.
[352.2s] Okie dokie.
[354.1s] With the clinking above, does anything appear different?
[357.5s] No, it draws your attention in the light in the room.
[361.6s] Everybody sees fractals out among the room.
[365.4s] You see kind of this rainbow hue strewn about.
[370.4s] And inside
[375.3s] one of the memory bottles, you see as quick glance
[380.5s] you're looking all of them, as far as you can see,
[383.5s] have little folded up notes inside of them.
[386.7s] But there's one that you can see that looks like it has something else
[390.2s] wrapped up in a piece of fabric.
[395.8s] Oh, well, I'd like that one.
[397.6s] OK, you reach up your.
[400.8s] I mean, Cab's one of the tallest of all.
[403.2s] I was going to say as a tall, I just like grab that shit.
[407.0s] You can grab it. You try to pull it down.
[408.7s] You've got to untie it. So it takes you a second.
[411.8s] Alydin, what are you doing as Cab is doing that?
[416.1s] I'm I'm going around and I'm checking out all the boxes
[419.7s] on the desks and just kind of seeing what's inside of these things.
[424.9s] Yeah, you open one from Janelle Foyson
[429.0s] and inside is a pressed flower
[433.3s] that has a label on it.
[434.6s] And it says the day I wasn't afraid.
[437.7s] Is that the only thing in the box?
[439.0s] That's the only thing inside that box.
[441.0s] Bon, when you keep moving up and down the path
[444.4s] and you come across Malon's move to open the box
[448.4s] and inside is a tiny bent iron nail wrapped in cloth.
[455.0s] And you pick up the little card that's written with it.
[457.7s] And it says the first thing I repaired myself.
[461.6s] Have you managed to untie the memory bottle and pull it down
[467.1s] and you pop the top off and shake everything out?
[471.6s] And you unwrap the the I guess.
[475.6s] Do you read the do you read the note or do you unwrap the item first?
[480.2s] Oh, I didn't realize there was a note and an item.
[482.7s] I got to read the note first.
[484.0s] Absolutely. Is it like super rolled up?
[486.4s] Can I like unroll it like a tiny little scroll?
[488.7s] Absolutely. Yeah. Excellent.
[490.7s] So yeah, you unroll that.
[492.4s] And it says we all waved goodbye to the hall monitor today.
[497.9s] And you feel the item still wrapped up in your hand
[502.6s] and it feels spherical.
[504.3s] You untie it and open up the the fabric.
[508.4s] And it looks like just a small metal ball bearing.
[511.7s] OK, can I do like an arcana check or anything
[514.7s] to see if I get any vibes from it? Absolutely.
[517.4s] He's going to tell you you get vibes.
[519.0s] He's not going to tell you what kind of vibes.
[521.8s] So that is a 1212 on the arcana.
[525.6s] You get as you roll it around in your fingers,
[527.9s] you get distinct vibes that this is a ball bearing.
[531.1s] OK, chill. Yeah, it's.
[533.4s] Did we have something that said something similar to that in a previous
[539.0s] room that sounds familiar?
[541.1s] Something about ball bearings on a board?
[543.0s] No, no, something.
[545.3s] It appears to be a ball bearing.
[547.0s] No, something about saying goodbye to the hall monitor.
[551.1s] Yeah, one of the journals, one of the journals, one of the pictures
[554.9s] said like something like the hall monitor says goodbye to every student.
[560.4s] Oh, you're right. That is. Yeah.
[562.6s] See, why can I remember stupid shit like that?
[564.8s] That probably is very inconsequential ADHD.
[568.0s] What if it's the key to the whole thing?
[569.6s] It might be the most important thing we've ever had.
[572.3s] This case is blown wide open now.
[575.0s] We got the smoking gun.
[576.4s] The the exact one was in the last room that you were in.
[579.9s] And it was it said the hall monitor says goodbye to every classroom.
[584.3s] Yeah, you got it.
[585.2s] Steel fucking trap right here.
[587.3s] God damn hourglass.
[591.4s] I think about that once a week, once a week.
[594.8s] I think about that.
[596.1s] I spend far too long thinking about hourglasses.
[599.0s] I love it because I see them.
[600.6s] And every time I see one, it makes me think of you.
[602.9s] And I'm like hourglass.
[605.2s] Yeah, I love it.
[607.3s] There's more around than you would think.
[609.0s] Because it does come up like.
[611.8s] Semi-regularly, great.
[613.9s] I'm going to open that door.
[616.6s] We're trying to distinctly missing from this room.
[620.6s] Obviously, there is another door,
[621.9s] but you do not see the hall monitor that that did enter here.
[627.4s] And bizarre, you go to open the door and it is locked at this moment.
[637.3s] Like the door to exit the well, there's the door that you came in,
[641.5s] which is still a jar, but there's a door immediately
[644.6s] to the right behind the desk or beside the desk.
[647.3s] And that one is yeah, that one is locked.
[649.8s] OK, another locked door over here.
[653.4s] So and all of these cards are blank, except for this one.
[657.6s] You're finding anything of merit?
[660.9s] I don't know, just a little memento from from Malin.
[665.0s] First thing she repaired.
[667.8s] May just kind of hold it up.
[670.3s] That's a neat keepsake.
[672.3s] Yeah, yeah.
[673.5s] Are you going to keep it?
[674.6s] I didn't know if I should keep it.
[676.5s] I put it. This one had a flower.
[679.3s] And this is just my own justification.
[681.9s] But this is like my inheritance, right?
[684.2s] Like she would want you to have it.
[685.8s] She'd probably want me to have it.
[687.9s] Yeah, if I take something, though, it's I think it's just stealing.
[691.8s] Well, we don't know where these people are, if it's been like.
[695.4s] So many generations, I don't know.
[698.8s] What's the statute of limitation on?
[701.3s] Exactly. I would feel weird about just ransacking the place, but
[706.6s] what do you find, Cav?
[708.9s] I got this cool ball bearing.
[710.9s] Interesting. Mechanical.
[713.8s] Not a lot of mechanical stuff in here, except for
[717.9s] whatever we're like hearing, maybe.
[720.7s] Yeah, all right. It came with this note, too.
[722.6s] And I tell them the contents of the note, Russ.
[724.8s] So these all have little notes with them about
[728.4s] a memory or something that happened.
[730.4s] Yeah, it seems like it.
[731.6s] Should we open all of them?
[733.1s] Is there something important in all of them?
[736.0s] Well, you think like it like it's like one of those improv
[738.7s] games where everybody gets one word to tell a story.
[741.1s] Alastair, you hear a soft close of one of the boxes.
[745.0s] I forgot about that kid. Yeah, he's still here.
[747.6s] He's got to be bad news.
[749.0s] But that's for another time.
[751.4s] I'm I'm fine. He's fine.
[753.3s] He's not fine.
[755.5s] He you hear a close of one of the boxes
[758.7s] and he's holding in his hand.
[761.9s] Wait, Russ, did he put like Pretty Woman himself
[764.2s] where he like went to the box and then like.
[769.0s] Yeah, we just look over like, what are you doing?
[773.1s] He he closes and he's holding in his hand a
[777.5s] what looks like a broken pencil that's been carefully mended,
[781.2s] carefully glued back together.
[783.4s] It says I there's something that I'm having trouble piecing together.
[788.6s] This school, if it is connected to the archive, like archives
[792.2s] preserve events, whereas this school seems to be preserving.
[797.5s] Preserving people.
[798.6s] Yeah, I like the memories and the and the observations
[804.6s] that they all made in the last room and this one, certain memories.
[810.5s] Yeah, that's actually what I was interested at.
[813.3s] Bonwyn, you mind if I see MAlydin's nail? Of course.
[817.7s] And when I take that, I'm going to try to like
[819.6s] I've used that that spell in code thoughts before.
[822.3s] I'm going to try to see if I can evoke a thought
[824.5s] or memory out of the item using that spell.
[827.7s] Oh, oh, OK.
[831.0s] Tom and I are very impressed.
[833.7s] Always. And sorry, which was the pencil or the ball bearing?
[837.8s] It was the nail, the nail.
[839.4s] Sorry, yeah. Yeah, I figured I'd go for the person.
[841.6s] I've had the closest, closest connection.
[844.1s] Yeah, got it. Perfect. Yes.
[849.6s] OK, what do you how do you want to do it?
[851.6s] What do you want to do?
[853.3s] Essentially, like, you know, so for me, what I do is
[857.0s] I just kind of pull it out of my brain.
[858.6s] So what I'm going to try to do is cast the spell,
[861.9s] but pull it out of the nail at the same time.
[864.6s] Essentially, I'm altering.
[866.4s] I'm going to attempt to alter the somatic components of my spell
[870.7s] to redirect where the arcane energy is pulled from.
[875.0s] Instead of for me, it's being pulled from the nail.
[877.1s] I like it. Is there a check that you normally have to roll for this one?
[881.5s] I you could make me roll an arcana check if you want to see if that works or not.
[884.9s] That was going to be my my thing.
[886.4s] If you didn't have if you didn't have a normal check for it.
[889.6s] But no, this is this is me making bullshit up, man.
[892.3s] Love it. Let's roll an arcana check. Awesome.
[898.3s] That's going to be an 18.
[899.9s] I like it.
[901.6s] Just hang up off the call after we're done.
[903.6s] That's why Tom cares about me the most. He does.
[906.9s] Yeah, it's like I didn't even want you to try for a second.
[910.4s] You go to bed.
[911.0s] Don't even like just focus on getting through one
[914.0s] and know that you're done.
[915.0s] Welcome to the middle where we're setting expectation,
[917.3s] not talking about how many children somebody may or may not have.
[923.2s] That is how we did it, though.
[924.7s] Yeah, one and done. One and done.
[926.8s] It's OK. Welcome to the middle, everybody.
[928.9s] Hopefully you're having a great day.
[930.0s] And this episode that you're listening to is just wonderful.
[932.8s] I know because I listened to it, too.
[935.3s] And it was great. And I was in it.
[937.2s] So I was like, wow, look at this thing. It had to be. Yeah.
[941.1s] You got some prime, Amy. It's going to be good.
[943.5s] That's right. I got to stop.
[944.9s] I I swear to God, I heard Russ say Lepisode.
[948.2s] Yes, me too. He 100 percent did.
[949.9s] Like a death Lepisode.
[951.2s] I'm pretty sure it was like a nod to our like Patreon version.
[954.8s] Just let it slide.
[956.0s] Which if you want to understand that, you could go over to our Patreon.
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[964.2s] Yeah, you get.
[965.1s] There's a different middle over there and it goes some places.
[969.0s] Let's do no context drops.
[972.8s] Walker, Texas Ranger, Dr. Quinn, medicine woman.
[976.4s] These are the things that came up.
[978.4s] Feel good. Treat yourself. Treat yourself good.
[982.2s] Father in law talking about beavers and being a deaf head.
[985.8s] Yeah. And so it's it's a lot.
[988.3s] And it's fun. Get on over there.
[990.2s] Also, there's like this whole other show that Tom runs.
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[1021.2s] They're howling.
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[1026.0s] They're so excited.
[1028.0s] He's not. We're just talking about him and how great he is.
[1030.5s] It's true. So Jason, I'm going to embarrass my dogs
[1034.5s] right now when I say hi and they remember I'm home
[1036.6s] and they stop howling.
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[1041.3s] They're not embarrassed at all.
[1042.9s] They're embarrassed.
[1043.7s] Oh, they did. And they're like, yeah, wow.
[1045.6s] Yeah. It took them a second to realize the call was coming from inside.
[1049.0s] Damn it. Your dogs are so smart.
[1050.9s] Listen, Carla, I want you to really appreciate your dogs,
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[1060.4s] forgot where she put it.
[1062.4s] Lost her shit.
[1064.5s] All three of us had to go on a scavenger hunt for this bone.
[1068.2s] Where she tried to beat me up.
[1069.8s] Yeah, she got real pissy because she didn't want us to find it,
[1072.4s] but she also didn't know where it was.
[1074.0s] But she also needed to know where it was.
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[1084.2s] So your dogs are just angels.
[1087.1s] Unless I had actually left the house, or if Jason was here,
[1090.2s] that is basically would have been the reaction.
[1092.7s] But a lot of kissing as well.
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[1095.5s] Yeah, Jason, so kissable.
[1098.6s] That's what everybody says about Jason.
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[1104.8s] OK, let's not sexually harass the patrons too much.
[1108.2s] Look, your dog said it, not me, Carla.
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[1145.0s] Have a great time.
[1147.0s] Doing what you're doing.
[1148.4s] Listening to this episode.
[1150.0s] Probably doing taxes.
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[1159.5s] OK, describe to me what it looks like.
[1164.4s] So as I begin to cast the spell,
[1167.8s] instead of the typical like little like mind booger
[1171.1s] that comes out of me, the filings and rough edges
[1174.7s] of the nail begin to stand on and almost like affected
[1177.5s] by magnetism.
[1179.2s] And they begin to draw out and create a small, small needle
[1185.4s] that just juts right into my eye.
[1189.0s] Oh my god.
[1190.9s] Wow.
[1191.6s] And Bizard, are you OK?
[1194.7s] I take a moment and what if I see anything,
[1197.4s] what do I see?
[1198.3s] Everybody else sees that.
[1199.5s] And for you, Bizard, it's like time stands still
[1202.8s] as this needle enters your eye.
[1207.2s] So all of your friends are like reaching for you
[1211.6s] in panic, in fear, in trying to check you.
[1215.4s] And as they freeze in this moment,
[1219.1s] the wind picks back up from outside
[1221.1s] and those bottles begin to clink together again.
[1223.8s] And you, whether by force of the actual event
[1230.4s] or by arcane decision, look up into them.
[1236.4s] And these bottles clinking together
[1238.2s] begin to blur and fade into this vision.
[1241.3s] And you see who you can presume
[1244.6s] is a very young male in everbane,
[1248.3s] working at one of the desks along the side of the room,
[1252.3s] which you can see across the classroom from where
[1257.0s] you are now.
[1258.5s] You see her gently heeding and hammering
[1262.4s] and heeding and hammering.
[1264.7s] And while she doesn't say anything,
[1268.9s] she has a sense of accomplishment
[1273.1s] that comes across her.
[1276.6s] And you've seen this same look
[1279.3s] as she either finishes a job or hands over a gift or a job
[1285.5s] that she's done particularly well on in her eyes.
[1289.2s] While she doesn't say anything,
[1292.4s] you get a feeling that in this room,
[1294.7s] the children were trusted to preserve not only
[1298.6s] their own story, but one another's story.
[1301.4s] As this memory in and of itself
[1304.8s] finishes, your spell almost hops to the ball bearing
[1314.6s] that you see clutched in Kavlaran's hand.
[1318.3s] You feel a pull to it.
[1320.2s] And this memory begins to morph into the hall monitor.
[1325.8s] It's not Joe.
[1327.3s] It, in fact, looks like the same hall monitor
[1330.6s] that walked by that you've seen in this place.
[1335.1s] A lot of similarities there.
[1337.0s] But you get this sense of a fact
[1342.1s] that there is a fondness, almost a parental care
[1348.9s] that this monitor is presenting and giving to these kids.
[1353.3s] And they are, I don't want to say eating it up,
[1356.9s] but they're loving it.
[1360.1s] There's kids wrapped around his wooden legs.
[1364.7s] They're handing him cards.
[1366.4s] They're showing him their drawings.
[1370.0s] You can sense that this creature, this entity,
[1374.8s] is very important to every student who passed through here.
[1381.1s] And as one is going to hand the painting or the drawing
[1385.1s] to the hall monitor, he reaches for it,
[1388.1s] and then the memory sucks back.
[1391.6s] And the shavings that formed into a needle,
[1395.3s] you feel yourself crying them out of the eye.
[1401.0s] Your eye begins to tear up, and you
[1404.1s] can feel the shavings now dripping down your cheek
[1407.6s] as everything comes back.
[1409.3s] And the scene picks back up, and everybody's
[1411.1s] rushing towards you.
[1412.4s] Bizarre, are you OK?
[1413.9s] Are you OK?
[1414.8s] Oh, my.
[1415.6s] That was.
[1417.8s] No, I'm fine.
[1419.1s] But you see Bizarre's entire left eye is now just solid gray
[1424.0s] instead of being speckled.
[1425.6s] So it's more like a solid gray on one side,
[1428.0s] and the right side is green with speckles of gray on it
[1430.6s] now.
[1432.1s] I'm fine.
[1433.3s] I have a little bit of an eye ache.
[1435.2s] Look fine.
[1437.1s] I bet you do.
[1438.2s] She smacks her shiny eye and is like,
[1441.2s] not that I can talk about that,
[1443.1s] but it looks worse than it did before.
[1445.3s] Well, I did learn, at least, that how important Joe
[1451.1s] is to the school and to the people in it.
[1455.4s] And this room was meant to encourage the children
[1460.4s] to keep track of their own memories
[1463.1s] and help others with their stories.
[1466.5s] So it's so nurturing.
[1471.2s] It's a very, it's a different school environment.
[1478.2s] Sounds nice, actually.
[1480.0s] Yeah, it does.
[1482.8s] So we should definitely try to figure out where he went.
[1487.3s] Yeah, and if the kids aren't here,
[1492.3s] what's keeping him here?
[1494.7s] Is it just the sense of duty that they could come back?
[1497.6s] Is it that they are here just not in the same plane as us?
[1504.6s] Like, they could be standing, they
[1506.2s] could be sitting right there taking notes, as far as I know.
[1509.4s] And we just don't have the ability to see them.
[1512.2s] That's so creepy.
[1514.4s] Yeah, I don't love that.
[1515.9s] It's possible.
[1518.4s] I don't know if it's true.
[1519.4s] I just keep an eye out for things.
[1522.9s] Observe.
[1524.2s] Wink.
[1525.1s] Yeah, ow.
[1527.1s] But I didn't know if that would work or not,
[1529.0s] and sorry if it freaked you out.
[1531.0s] Well, yeah, it did.
[1533.6s] I mean, I just have a thing with eyes and foreign objects.
[1537.4s] It's just, yeah.
[1538.8s] Totally fair.
[1539.9s] I did not know what was going to happen.
[1542.4s] I was kind of freewheeling with magic.
[1545.4s] And Alydin, take that as a lesson,
[1547.0s] because you start freewheeling magic, figuring things out.
[1549.8s] You're not exactly sure what the end result is
[1551.8s] going to be.
[1552.6s] Positive, negative, injuries.
[1555.1s] Something in your eye.
[1556.4s] Yeah.
[1557.9s] Yeah.
[1558.6s] Experimentation's always fun, sometimes.
[1560.5s] OK.
[1561.6s] Alydin, as you are disturbed by the scene before, you kind
[1567.3s] of plunk yourself down in a desk and re-
[1571.2s] And then jump up and you just sat on some other kid.
[1573.8s] Right?
[1577.2s] Yeah, and jump up.
[1578.2s] And the desk you sit down at, the box is open.
[1583.6s] It's not one that anybody has particularly looked at.
[1586.9s] You look and you see the name Heron Linger on it.
[1590.0s] And inside, you see one small river stone.
[1593.6s] Can't read the note inside.
[1597.0s] Why?
[1598.0s] Because it's upside down.
[1599.4s] Oh, well.
[1600.4s] Pfft.
[1604.9s] Fuck you.
[1605.6s] It was written in invisible ink,
[1608.0s] and you don't have the little black light.
[1610.9s] OK, well, I guess I never get to read
[1612.9s] that note to upside down.
[1614.0s] We'll never know.
[1615.0s] You're reaching in.
[1615.8s] I have no way to solve it.
[1616.9s] And grab it.
[1617.8s] I am playing with the rock and looking at the note.
[1621.8s] It says, from the old shoreline.
[1625.1s] So when did this lake dry up?
[1628.8s] Hmm.
[1630.2s] I don't know.
[1630.7s] What was it, hundreds of years ago?
[1632.3s] I think, I mean, that's always kind of,
[1635.1s] I think, what we were taught in school,
[1636.9s] that many, many generations ago,
[1639.8s] there had been the settlement here,
[1641.6s] and then something happened with the lake,
[1643.7s] and then they had to make Vindersmith because of that.
[1646.6s] But it never, either we never learned,
[1649.3s] or I just don't remember exactly what happened.
[1653.6s] But it was a long time ago.
[1655.7s] Well, this one says, this rock
[1658.3s] is from the old shoreline.
[1661.0s] Huh.
[1662.8s] So before things went bad?
[1667.4s] I guess.
[1670.4s] Yeah, because it was over time that the water was poisoned
[1676.0s] and that they had to, I'm sure it just wind up dwindling.
[1680.9s] So do you think, we saw the door pulsing
[1688.9s] when we were messing with names.
[1692.5s] Mm-hmm.
[1694.1s] Do you think that manipulating or using these items,
[1701.8s] like, I want to, I'm curious if that flower you found
[1704.8s] and that stone, they come from the lake, we take them there,
[1706.9s] does it bring the lake to life in any sense of the archive?
[1712.4s] Because these are archived items.
[1714.6s] Right.
[1715.8s] By the definition of archive, technically,
[1719.2s] these have been archived.
[1722.1s] Do you want me to run them outside and put them down
[1726.8s] where the lake was?
[1727.8s] I think let's get behind this door
[1730.2s] and talk to old Joe first.
[1734.0s] So anybody can pick a lock?
[1737.8s] Anybody?
[1739.0s] I can, maybe.
[1740.5s] And I do, and after you.
[1741.8s] Have at it.
[1742.3s] Because I was going to offer, but let's get
[1744.6s] Alydin out there doing crimes.
[1746.5s] Absolutely.
[1747.1s] Alydin, do you keep the stone in your hand?
[1750.0s] I put it in my bucket, yeah.
[1751.9s] Yeah, you put it in your bucket.
[1753.9s] You put the lid from the box back down.
[1755.8s] You hear a soft click as it closes.
[1758.7s] And you begin walking over to the door
[1761.3s] that Bizarre was unable to open.
[1764.3s] What do you do to?
[1765.8s] Oh, I'm making a big show of it.
[1767.2s] I'm like, oh, cracking my knuckles.
[1769.8s] Like, yeah, OK, so it's been a minute because I haven't,
[1774.7s] not that I did it a lot.
[1778.9s] I haven't had to in a while.
[1782.4s] But I got some things.
[1785.0s] And I'm rummaging through my bucket like, yeah, no,
[1787.9s] it's like they're way down here because I haven't used them
[1791.3s] in like such a long time.
[1793.4s] And I take out my thieves tools.
[1797.2s] And I start to try to pick the lock.
[1800.5s] As you pull out the thieves tools
[1802.4s] and you begin to move towards the lock, you hear,
[1806.5s] everybody else hears it as well,
[1808.0s] but you hear the hanging bottles begin to chime softly
[1811.6s] together as like another breeze passes through.
[1816.4s] How does that make me feel?
[1817.6s] Is that like, is it like creepy or like wind chimes
[1821.0s] and kind of pretty?
[1822.0s] Yeah.
[1822.8s] Is it nurturing or is it foreboding?
[1826.6s] Did we determine where the breeze is coming from?
[1828.5s] No, we did not.
[1829.9s] Through the open door.
[1831.0s] So you're assuming from outside.
[1833.9s] Yeah.
[1835.2s] I thought it was a magical breeze.
[1836.7s] Me too.
[1838.0s] And I was just going with that.
[1839.3s] Like, oh, it's fine.
[1840.1s] It's a magic school.
[1841.1s] There's almost a sense of like nostalgia.
[1845.4s] So it's not good, not bad.
[1847.9s] And as you reach towards the door,
[1849.9s] before you even put the tools into the lock,
[1855.0s] you hear a soft click of the mechanism.
[1859.5s] I've done it again.
[1861.8s] Proud of you.
[1864.6s] Great work.
[1865.4s] Job well done.
[1866.4s] Thanks.
[1867.2s] As you're showboating.
[1869.0s] And anyone ever intimidate a lock open?
[1871.2s] I mean, I didn't even see her like use the tools, but.
[1874.3s] I'm gonna grab a card and write,
[1875.5s] this lock was easy to pick.
[1879.3s] Everybody else you see like over the top of Alydin.
[1884.9s] Bizarre, you didn't see it before,
[1886.8s] but it's definitely there now.
[1888.6s] There's a plaque on the door.
[1892.2s] Same as every other room you've walked into.
[1895.7s] And it says craft.
[1899.8s] Crafts.
[1901.5s] This is the parenthetical that was next to Malin's name.
[1904.2s] Yeah, it is.
[1906.1s] Oh, I wanna open the door.
[1909.1s] Let's get in there.
[1910.0s] You unlocked it.
[1910.8s] You opened it.
[1911.7s] Go for it.
[1912.5s] The door handle turns and immediately you're hit
[1916.0s] with a.
[1917.8s] Poison dart.
[1918.7s] Poison dart.
[1919.5s] It's been totally chill up to this point now.
[1922.2s] I should have checked for traps.
[1923.7s] Rule for initiative.
[1924.6s] Why am I like this?
[1926.7s] No, you are hit with the scent of cedar,
[1929.9s] oil and worked metal that fills the room.
[1933.5s] It reminds you a lot of the forge.
[1937.0s] Work benches stand in perfect rows,
[1939.8s] each holding neatly organized hand tools.
[1943.9s] They're half finished projects that rest exactly
[1946.7s] where their makers left them.
[1948.4s] Across there is a chalkboard and written on it.
[1951.3s] It says, repair what can be repaired.
[1955.5s] Replace only what must be replaced.
[1959.7s] Leave every craft stronger than you found it.
[1965.3s] Dumbgeons and Dragons, season four, episode 65,
[1968.7s] starring Amy More as Alydin,
[1970.4s] Carla Maxted as Bonwyn Evervane,
[1972.6s] Tom Laird as Kavlaran Goldweave,
[1974.9s] Kyle Claset as Bizard the Wizard,
[1976.8s] and Russ More as your dungeon master.
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