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[0:09] Emily Clark: Previously on Once More, with Dragons!

[0:13] Jesse McAnally: Uh, it looks like a very, very small lighter, like a Zippo lighter.

[0:18] Emily Clark: And you pick it up. There's certainly something weird about it or magical about it.

[0:22] Jesse McAnally: But you flip it around and it has this ornate engraving on the back of it.

[0:25] Emily Clark: And in the middle of this ornate engraving are three letters.

[0:28] Jesse McAnally: And those letters are RPW.

[0:33] Emily Clark: RPW.

[0:35] Jesse McAnally: Ah, PW!

[0:37] Christi Esterle: Um, and in front of you, you see a tall, scraggly elf in a laurel green tweed suit jacket with elbow patches on it.

[0:45] Jesse McAnally: He's got a paisley tie, and he's got a suitcase with him.

[0:49] Tommy Nolan: Oh, I'm so sorry. The name's Leon Crumb. Are you okay?

[0:53] Jesse McAnally: Well, um, yes, Dus, I know the rumors of Caroline Chandler's involvement in the show have been making the but none about that.

[1:04] Tommy Nolan: Mo Pumpernickel here. Uh, you gave me your name today, um, and mentioned you are interested in auditioning for a brilliant new show, Dear Elvin Hansen.

[1:13] Christi Esterle: D'Syraeah, your flame also happened to break the window open of the door.

[1:18] Jesse McAnally: Um, and so as the cloak's trying to put out its shoulder, it notices this, and it turns back around to look at the three of you, and then turns and then flees out the doorway into the air.

[1:29] Emily Clark: Dee, you lost my coat!

[1:30] Jesse McAnally: Uh, and out of Tim Taylor's store.

[1:32] Emily Clark: Your coat tried to kill Evelyn!

[1:34] Jesse McAnally: It looked nice.

[1:37] Tommy Nolan: Once more with Dragons!

[1:39] Tommy Nolan: Arc 1, the Lights of Imperia, Chapter 3, Something's Afoot.

[1:56] Christi Esterle: You find yourself exactly where we left you, gathered around a table at the Petink Inn in front of a quietly sobbing Caroline Chandler.

[2:06] Emily Clark: Uh, her bright white teeth glimmer in the twinkling glowing fire light on the wall, and she kind of pulls her head up and looks at the three of you and just kinda sniffles a little bit and goes, "Can I—oh no, that's not what she sounds like, you know what she sounds like?"

[2:24] Christi Esterle: "Can I help you wish you're much better, my friend?"

[2:29] Jesse McAnally: It's like she's in the room with us.

[2:30] Emily Clark: Oh, poor dear.

[2:31] Jesse McAnally: Do you like, do you like happen to like cats?

[2:34] Emily Clark: I've got a little cat here. You can pet him if you'd like.

[2:36] Christi Esterle: And she sniffles a little bit and goes, "I've never met him."

[2:39] Emily Clark: Oh, he's so cute.

[2:42] Christi Esterle: Oh, isn't she? This is Lord Adamidas the 14th, and he is a sweet, snuggly baby, aren't you?

[2:48] Emily Clark: Yes, you are. Oh, look at his little whiskers. They're so adorable.

[2:55] Christi Esterle: And as she says that, she notices that Lord Enemed is walking on a piece of parchment that she has unraveled on the table and she goes, "Oh, excuse me."

[3:06] Christi Esterle: Uh, and she grabs that and quickly stuffs it inside of her cloak.

[3:10] Jesse McAnally: Oh Caroline, you all right there? Is there something you wanna talk about? You seem pretty upset.

[3:15] Emily Clark: Tell us what's wrong.

[3:20] Christi Esterle: Oh my goodness, you can't.

[3:22] Jesse McAnally: Is it clean? You know me.

[3:24] Christi Esterle: Is it a clean handkerchief? Make sure that's a clean handkerchief.

[3:27] Emily Clark: Yeah.

[3:29] Christi Esterle: And she takes the handkerchief somewhat reluctantly.

[3:32] Christi Esterle: Um, but she blows her nose in it and goes, "Oh, thank you so much, sir."

[3:40] Christi Esterle: She hands it back to you and goes, "You know the stresses of being a leading lady could get to anyone, but it's just been a rough day, you know."

[3:52] Jesse McAnally: Uh, do you want to talk about it?

[3:55] Christi Esterle: Uh, and she kind of eyes you a little bit, Evelyn, and she goes, "Do you work for the theater?"

[4:09] Emily Clark: I hold up the outfits we got today. I quickly slap that down and say, "Yes, in a manner of speaking, we work for the theater."

[4:20] Emily Clark: But you know what? Uh, we are good at keeping secrets as we are all performers and we understand.

[4:26] Christi Esterle: Yes.

[4:27] Christi Esterle: Yes, you must be under.

[4:28] Tommy Nolan: So you can confirm.

[4:30] Emily Clark: Evelyn, I'm gonna need you to roll persuasion.

[4:32] Emily Clark: Oh, all right. I can do that.

[4:35] Christi Esterle: Um, okay. Um, that's a nine perspective.

[4:42] Tommy Nolan: All right. I don't think a nine is gonna do it.

[4:44] Christi Esterle: Um, I don't think so, but I try.

[4:47] Christi Esterle: She eyes the three of you and she goes, "I'm sure you understand, but I—until we open, there are some things I just can't talk about yet."

[5:01] Christi Esterle: And she starts sobbing again and her head hits the table and she's going, "I tried."

[5:07] Jesse McAnally: One of you asked me with.

[5:08] Christi Esterle: Oh dear, dad, would you like a drink?

[5:10] Jesse McAnally: Oh yeah, it would be very nice. I've had several already.

[5:14] Christi Esterle: And a girl.

[5:14] Emily Clark: I hand her my orange with a straw in it.

[5:18] Jesse McAnally: I think we need a little something stronger, Gregory. What will we have, dear? Some of this nice ale, maybe?

[5:23] Christi Esterle: Oh, ale would be delicious.

[5:25] Christi Esterle: And she just skulls the whole ale in like one go.

[5:28] Jesse McAnally: Oh lord.

[5:30] Christi Esterle: The whole thing is close.

[5:32] Christi Esterle: And then wipes her mouth, "That was delicious. Thank you so much."

[5:37] Christi Esterle: But I think if you must know, and you have to promise you can't tell anything.

[5:44] Jesse McAnally: Oh, my lips are sealed, my dear.

[5:46] Jesse McAnally: One tell us all.

[5:47] Christi Esterle: You can trust me.

[5:48] Christi Esterle: She is loud, but she's honest.

[5:50] Christi Esterle: And she looks at you, Gregory.

[5:52] Christi Esterle: Whatever they say.

[5:53] Christi Esterle: You can trust me.

[5:55] Christi Esterle: Uh, and Gregory, she contemplates you for a second.

[5:58] Christi Esterle: I mean, if I was in your position, uh-uh. You make your own choices, but whatever you're comfortable with.

[6:05] Jesse McAnally: You're not helping.

[6:08] Christi Esterle: Um, and Caroline contemplates you for a second and goes, "Well, I received this note this morning."

[6:18] Christi Esterle: And she pulls that piece of parchment out from her jacket, and she says, "Yo, I received this note this morning."

[6:31] Christi Esterle: And she holds it out in front of you, and it's got very nicely written. It's in a very quaint script.

[6:36] Christi Esterle: Um, and it says, "Dearest Caroline, it is with deepest sorrow that I must insist that you do not under any circumstance perform tomorrow night. Your very well-being is at risk."

[6:55] Christi Esterle: Oh, and then underneath it, it's signed a dear friend.

[7:00] Jesse McAnally: Is this one of those dear friend letter clubs?

[7:02] Christi Esterle: No.

[7:03] Christi Esterle: Um, and she goes, "And I just don't—I don't know what to do. This—do you have—does this handwriting look like anybody you would know?"

[7:15] Christi Esterle: I've never seen this script before. Not a lot of people know I'm staying here at the Petink Inn, but it's just—it's a mystery to me, but it seems it made me scared.

[7:30] Emily Clark: Can I do an insight check and see if maybe I have any recollection of this handwriting?

[7:35] Tommy Nolan: Sure.

[7:35] Emily Clark: Alright. Um, yeah, roll insight.

[7:38] Christi Esterle: Um, okay, four plus two, six.

[7:42] Tommy Nolan: Oh six. Um, uh, yeah, you could have seen this handwriting before or not.

[7:49] Emily Clark: You really don't know. That sure is handwriting. It's definitely someone wrote something—that's all my head.

[7:56] Jesse McAnally: I'm looking very intently like I'm actually doing something when I'm staring at the light.

[8:00] Jesse McAnally: You're like holding it up to the light and like trying to look through the paper.

[8:04] Jesse McAnally: Greg, anything master of deceit, this guy.

[8:09] Christi Esterle: You guys take a look. Did it look familiar to you, D'Syraeah?

[8:14] Christi Esterle: I'll examine it, certainly.

[8:16] Jesse McAnally: Alright. Do you want me to do what kind of check should I be making here?

[8:18] Jesse McAnally: Greg, what did I make your roll?

[8:20] Jesse McAnally: Insight?

[8:20] Christi Esterle: Insight.

[8:20] Jesse McAnally: Yeah. Let's do insight as well.

[8:22] Christi Esterle: Alright, insight as well.

[8:24] Christi Esterle: I think I did even worse. I got a six.

[8:27] Jesse McAnally: None of us are very insight.

[8:28] Christi Esterle: My eyes are not what they used to be.

[8:30] Christi Esterle: Oh dear.

[8:31] Christi Esterle: And I think Adamidas kind of stepped on my glasses.

[8:34] Jesse McAnally: Uh, and D'Syraeah, at this moment you notice you're actually holding the whole thing upside down.

[8:39] Christi Esterle: Um, my goodness.

[8:41] Christi Esterle: See, what's wrong with you? I told after about 500 years, you know the eyesight, it kind of goes.

[8:48] Emily Clark: Evelyn, uh, you want to go for the hat trick?

[8:51] Emily Clark: Alright, alright. Since I'm the youngest out of all of us, out of Spry 150, I will—what am I rolling for?

[8:59] Christi Esterle: Insight.

[9:00] Emily Clark: Insight.

[9:01] Emily Clark: I like how we're just the golden girls.

[9:03] Christi Esterle: Oh, oh, check me out.

[9:06] Emily Clark: 22.

[9:07] Christi Esterle: A 22.

[9:08] Jesse McAnally: Did you roll a Nat 20?

[9:09] Emily Clark: I rolled a 20, and I got a plus two on the website page.

[9:15] Tommy Nolan: A 20 is always a critical success. So with a 20.

[9:18] Christi Esterle: Alright, with a Nat 20.

[9:19] Emily Clark: At least one of us is useful.

[9:20] Emily Clark: You once you do recognize this handwriting. Um, you can't place it. Um, you but you know it's not something from your distant past.

[9:31] Emily Clark: This is handwriting you've seen recently. Um, and you just like you're scanning back through the day, and like so many things have happened. You've been attacked by a coat, you auditioned and won. Um, because you win at auditions, and you're just trying to run that tape back through your day and like trying to find the part where you recognize it.

[9:50] Emily Clark: You just can't land on it, but you are positive you have seen this handwriting sometime today.

[9:56] Emily Clark: I am positive that I have seen this handwriting today. I don't know where the things we've had written down. Where have we seen writing today, people?

[10:08] Jesse McAnally: Earlier today, we saw the dear old Luchansen fellows. They had all the paper strewn all about.

[10:13] Christi Esterle: Um, we had the—

[10:14] Tommy Nolan: And as the three of you are having this discussion, you see Caroline Chandler's face go pale and she goes, "You—you three tricked me. You led me to believe you weren't very involved in the theater, but you ran into producers today, and you had an audition today."

[10:34] Christi Esterle: This—and she grabs—Well, we didn't say anything about no audition.

[10:37] Jesse McAnally: You're making things up.

[10:39] Christi Esterle: Uh, and she picks that up through ESP because the dungeon master in the sky told her. Um, she grabs the piece of paper back from you and stuffs it back in.

[10:51] Christi Esterle: I am quite young with the three of you, and then she storms out and heads up a staircase in the back of the bar that you assume leads up to the rest of it.

[10:58] Emily Clark: Can I still follow her?

[11:00] Tommy Nolan: Uh, sure.

[11:01] Tommy Nolan: Uh, is everyone else going with you?

[11:03] Jesse McAnally: You're gonna split the party.

[11:04] Christi Esterle: Um, I want them to come along, so I gesture, but I take the lead.

[11:08] Tommy Nolan: Okay. Um, so you're gonna head up the staircase?

[11:11] Christi Esterle: Yes.

[11:12] Christi Esterle: I hang back, but I'm keeping him in sight.

[11:15] Jesse McAnally: Okay, that's okay. Probably the best. Because I don't trust my— I don't trust my aching limbs, and also I don't trust him.

[11:21] Tommy Nolan: Okay, so uh, yeah, I'm going with him because this seems like a bad idea.

[11:26] Tommy Nolan: Um, so you wait the requisite amount of time and then try and follow Caroline Chandler up the staircase.

[11:33] Christi Esterle: Does it have a handrail?

[11:34] Tommy Nolan: It does have a hand.

[11:36] Jesse McAnally: I grip it.

[11:37] Tommy Nolan: Hold the handrail, Greg.

[11:39] Tommy Nolan: Um, you make it up the staircase just in time to see a door on the second floor shut. Um, that door, you head up to it, and you see it says 2D, and do you wanna—what do you want to do?

[11:57] Jesse McAnally: Is there a keyhole or anything like that?

[12:00] Tommy Nolan: Sure. There's a keyhole.

[12:02] Jesse McAnally: Can I stick my eye through that? But the other eye, not the guy I used earlier.

[12:05] Tommy Nolan: Absolutely. You're your non-black-eyed eye.

[12:09] Tommy Nolan: Um, will you roll a stealth check for me, Gregory?

[12:15] Jesse McAnally: Okay, 10 plus 2, 12.

[12:17] Tommy Nolan: 12.

[12:18] Tommy Nolan: Okay. So with a 12, you're able to do this without alerting her suspicions. Um, and you see with your good eye that Caroline Chandler has ripped open all of her dressers and drawers and is very frantically packing all of her things into carpet bags.

[12:35] Jesse McAnally: Oh.

[12:35] Jesse McAnally: She's gonna get out of town.

[12:37] Jesse McAnally: That means a roll might be opening up for us.

[12:40] Christi Esterle: Oh no, we gotta wait, hold on. We gotta find out what's going on.

[12:44] Christi Esterle: This feels like not safe to me.

[12:46] Christi Esterle: Maybe we should knock on the door.

[12:47] Jesse McAnally: I feel like the last thing she wants to do is see us.

[12:50] Christi Esterle: So maybe—

[12:50] Jesse McAnally: Well, she might not want to see you.

[12:53] Christi Esterle: Um, and uh, Evelyn, will you roll a stealth check for me, please?

[12:59] Emily Clark: Oh, sure. Hold on, I mean stealth. You know I'm very good at stealth.

[13:04] Emily Clark: And by good, I mean I am a four.

[13:09] Tommy Nolan: Um, so uh, as you say very loudly, she might not want to see you. Um, Gregory, you see Caroline Chandler absolutely hears that and goes and grabs her half-packed carpet bag um and kind of in a frantic frenzy moves to crawl out the window of this hotel room.

[13:30] Jesse McAnally: Can I push the door open like with all my weight and all that? Like kick it open, so to say?

[13:35] Tommy Nolan: Sure. Uh, roll strength.

[13:37] Jesse McAnally: Strength. Alright.

[13:38] Jesse McAnally: Okay, so 15.

[13:39] Tommy Nolan: So, because I'm a negative one.

[13:41] Tommy Nolan: 15th.

[13:41] Tommy Nolan: Alright, so I'll give you that. Uh, it takes you some effort, but you kinda wiggle the doorknob and lean on the door and you burst it open, kinda off its hinges, um, just in time to see the tail of Caroline's dress kind of flutter away through the window.

[13:57] Jesse McAnally: Um, there's a bunch of her coutre moss strewn about.

[14:00] Jesse McAnally: Uh, well, I am not climbing down that. I run to the window and scream, "Caroline."

[14:05] Christi Esterle: Uh, you run to the window and do that, but you can't see her. Wherever she went, she's gone.

[14:09] Jesse McAnally: Well, what are we gonna do now? It's not like she has an understudy.

[14:11] Christi Esterle: They're not in town anymore.

[14:14] Jesse McAnally: So they say.

[14:15] Christi Esterle: What about the leader randers?

[14:18] Jesse McAnally: What are they gonna do?

[14:19] Christi Esterle: Well, they got us, don't they?

[14:22] Jesse McAnally: Make a fine point. But to another theater person.

[14:25] Christi Esterle: Are they seriously going to cast the lead from the usher from an usher?

[14:28] Jesse McAnally: No.

[14:29] Christi Esterle: I mean, would you like to be able to do that?

[14:31] Jesse McAnally: When did you teleport up here, D?

[14:34] Christi Esterle: She came up with the city.

[14:35] Christi Esterle: I walked very slowly.

[14:37] Christi Esterle: I had to collect my cash.

[14:38] Tommy Nolan: She rolled Nat 20s on all her stealth.

[14:40] Tommy Nolan: Um, I feels like there's an edit in the story where someone just cut something out and you're here now.

[14:50] Emily Clark: Oh my god.

[14:51] Christi Esterle: This is a realistic animal.

[14:53] Jesse McAnally: You are so noisy, you didn't notice me.

[14:55] Emily Clark: As you're very true.

[14:57] Christi Esterle: That is happening to me a lot.

[14:58] Tommy Nolan: As you all are contemplating the meta aspects of your life existence.

[15:02] Tommy Nolan: Um a fear bull appears at the door and kind of knocks on the door frame.

[15:09] Tommy Nolan: Um, and it's uh Mandy Patink.

[15:11] Tommy Nolan: Um, and he's uh holding a uh tray with kind of a silver thing over, and he goes, Uh, miss Chandler, your your your room service is everything okay?

[15:22] Jesse McAnally: Uh hey, Petink.

[15:24] Jesse McAnally: And I try to do my best performance to say that uh I I am Miss Chandler's agent, and she had to go for a run, but she said that we are free to use her two 2D suit.

[15:39] Emily Clark: Good one, Greg.

[15:40] Tommy Nolan: And that's for sure gonna be a deception check.

[15:45] Tommy Nolan: Alright.

[15:47] Tommy Nolan: Um, 10 plus one.

[15:49] Tommy Nolan: A 10 with an 11.

[15:52] Tommy Nolan: Mandy goes, wait a minute.

[15:54] Tommy Nolan: Didn't I see the three of you downstairs just a second ago?

[15:58] Tommy Nolan: You can't you're her agent?

[16:00] Tommy Nolan: Well, what what happened to this door?

[16:04] Tommy Nolan: Is Miss Chandler even here anymore?

[16:06] Tommy Nolan: What's tell me the truth?

[16:07] Jesse McAnally: We we made a promise we can't.

[16:11] Christi Esterle: That's right.

[16:11] Jesse McAnally: We promised Miss Chandler.

[16:13] Tommy Nolan: And uh uh he kind of sighs and goes, uh I see you've joined the club.

[16:19] Tommy Nolan: Well, um your room's ready.

[16:21] Tommy Nolan: Uh if you'd like to go uh head up.

[16:24] Tommy Nolan: Um it looks like uh I'm gonna have to fix this door and uh eat eat these oranges all by myself.

[16:30] Tommy Nolan: Uh and he pulls the cover off the tray and it's just got like six oranges on it.

[16:35] Emily Clark: Um is it with you in orange?

[16:39] Tommy Nolan: Um what room are we in, Mr.

[16:42] Tommy Nolan: Patink?

[16:43] Tommy Nolan: He says, uh uh I think I put you on the fourth floor.

[16:46] Tommy Nolan: You're in a uh uh f uh four Q.

[16:49] Jesse McAnally: Do we need keys or anything?

[16:51] Tommy Nolan: Uh no, it's a magical hotel.

[16:53] Tommy Nolan: You just walk up to the lock and it lets you in.

[16:55] Jesse McAnally: What are you?

[16:55] Jesse McAnally: Born yesterday?

[16:56] Tommy Nolan: Obviously not.

[16:57] Tommy Nolan: Look at me, gosh.

[16:58] Tommy Nolan: All right, let's go, guys.

[17:00] Tommy Nolan: Let's go to four Q.

[17:02] Tommy Nolan: Um all right, and the three of you uh head out of the room, uh up a couple more staircases with handrails.

[17:07] Christi Esterle: Yes.

[17:08] Christi Esterle: Yes.

[17:08] Tommy Nolan: Um to uh the fourth floor of um the Patink Inn, uh where you find a door labeled four Q.

[17:17] Tommy Nolan: Evelyn, as you reach your hand out and you uh try to twist the doorknob, it just opens because it recognizes you.

[17:23] Tommy Nolan: Uh and you find a uh very well appointed room.

[17:25] Tommy Nolan: Um there's a uh uh main common area in the middle with a a nice view of the city, um, which is dark but still certainly lit up.

[17:34] Tommy Nolan: You can see the glow of all the neon lights um kind of illuminating from below.

[17:38] Christi Esterle: Got it.

[17:39] Christi Esterle: Um and then off to the left are two doorways to bedrooms, and to the right is a doorway to a bathroom and another bedroom.

[17:45] Christi Esterle: Um it just it seems very nice and quaint and homey.

[17:47] Jesse McAnally: Pretty homey and quaint, wouldn't you say, guys?

[17:50] Emily Clark: I like it here.

[17:51] Christi Esterle: I agree.

[17:52] Christi Esterle: I think we'll be very happy here.

[17:54] Jesse McAnally: What's gonna be the the sleeping arrangement here here, guys?

[17:58] Christi Esterle: I'm an elf.

[17:59] Christi Esterle: I do not require sleep.

[18:00] Jesse McAnally: What's the bed situation?

[18:01] Christi Esterle: Okay, what's the sleeping arrangement for the two people that do sleep?

[18:04] Jesse McAnally: Dragons need sleep, I assume.

[18:06] Christi Esterle: They do.

[18:06] Christi Esterle: Well, technically, uh Elves elves meditate.

[18:10] Christi Esterle: Technically, I do trance, and I would like to be to have a private area for that.

[18:14] Jesse McAnally: She needs a trancing colour.

[18:16] Emily Clark: Can't we just have like a slumber potty, a cuddle puddle of sorts?

[18:19] Christi Esterle: No.

[18:22] Jesse McAnally: Greg, you remember the last time that happened.

[18:25] Jesse McAnally: 75 years ago.

[18:26] Jesse McAnally: Fanna, Fana, Fanna.

[18:27] Jesse McAnally: My poor seventh wife, she never recovered.

[18:29] Christi Esterle: All right, so do Actually, I think I only have six wives.

[18:32] Jesse McAnally: Anyway, it's pretty good.

[18:34] Jesse McAnally: One of them was not very happy with you after that was done.

[18:36] Jesse McAnally: Uh we go back too long.

[18:38] Jesse McAnally: Not that I'm sitting here thinking about it.

[18:40] Christi Esterle: We know each other way too well.

[18:42] Tommy Nolan: So uh the three of you retreat to your rooms for the night.

[18:46] Tommy Nolan: Um and turn in.

[18:48] Tommy Nolan: Uh, this is a long rest, so y'all can uh recover your spell slots and heal all the way back up to fall if you're not.

[18:53] Jesse McAnally: Cool beads.

[18:54] Christi Esterle: Peel.

[18:55] Tommy Nolan: And uh, how do you how do you all sleep slash trance?

[18:59] Tommy Nolan: Is it is it restful?

[19:01] Jesse McAnally: I snore very loud.

[19:05] Christi Esterle: I sleep like a rock.

[19:07] Christi Esterle: I don't move, I barely breathe, my head hits the pillow, and just I get up four or five times for the restroom.

[19:15] Tommy Nolan: Okay.

[19:15] Tommy Nolan: But let's say uh D Sarea, because you're just uh trancing as elves do.

[19:22] Tommy Nolan: Yes.

[19:22] Tommy Nolan: I would like you to roll a perception chart.

[19:26] Christi Esterle: Oh, interesting.

[19:31] Christi Esterle: I got a twenty three.

[19:35] Tommy Nolan: Oh, okay.

[19:36] Tommy Nolan: Um so uh as you're trancing, um, it's you know, maybe the middle of the night, things have calmed down.

[19:41] Tommy Nolan: Um you've heard uh Gregory's snores uh fit and start here and stuff sound and he also laughs in his sleep apparently.

[19:49] Christi Esterle: I must remind myself to tell Gregory to check himself with sleep apnea.

[19:54] Christi Esterle: Mystical sleep apnea.

[19:56] Christi Esterle: Whatever mystical sleep apnea is.

[19:58] Christi Esterle: That's yeah.

[19:58] Christi Esterle: I forgot my CPAP spell at home.

[20:03] Tommy Nolan: Um but then uh D Sarea, you uh hear something else, uh a sound uh that you didn't expect.

[20:13] Tommy Nolan: Um and it sounds like this.

[20:15] Tommy Nolan: T- tap- tap tap tat tap tat tap.

[20:18] Tommy Nolan: Um and then it it stops for a second.

[20:21] Tommy Nolan: Uh and then you kinda wait for maybe longer than you think, but once again you hear tat tap tip tap.

[20:30] Tommy Nolan: Um and it seems to be coming from the common area.

[20:34] Christi Esterle: What do you do?

[20:35] Christi Esterle: I pull on my dressing gown and I, as carefully as I am able at my age, I open the door to my room and look.

[20:44] Tommy Nolan: Kind of crack it open.

[20:46] Tommy Nolan: So you crack the door from your bedroom.

[20:49] Tommy Nolan: It even though I believe elves do have night night vision, it still takes you a second to kinda look around.

[20:54] Tommy Nolan: Because you you don't see um any anything to begin with.

[20:58] Tommy Nolan: Um uh it certainly looks like someone has left the window open, um, and the fabric next to the window is is kind of billowing in it.

[21:05] Tommy Nolan: Um and you look around, and you know, this room has like a couple chairs and like a coffee table looking thing and a couple places to be.

[21:11] Tommy Nolan: Um, and from uh uh a darkened corner of the room, um where some of you had dropped some of your satchels and other things, uh, once again you hear ta tap tap tap ta tap tap.

[21:23] Christi Esterle: Hmm.

[21:25] Christi Esterle: I go over and examine the corner.

[21:27] Tommy Nolan: Um all right.

[21:28] Tommy Nolan: Uh you go over to examine the corner.

[21:30] Tommy Nolan: Um in this corner is where uh you all had dropped your respective satchels and carpet bags.

[21:35] Tommy Nolan: Um it's where uh Lord Addy's uh a little uh tote uh and he's uh kind of sleeping away and purring and snoring.

[21:43] Tommy Nolan: Um and just behind uh him uh you see um something you don't recognize.

[21:48] Tommy Nolan: You see two tap shoes uh just kind of sitting in the corner.

[21:53] Tommy Nolan: Um they're not moving, uh they're not doing anything.

[21:56] Tommy Nolan: Uh they're just kind of sitting there.

[21:58] Christi Esterle: Hmm.

[22:00] Christi Esterle: Two tap shoes.

[22:02] Christi Esterle: I would like to make an arcana check on these tap shoes.

[22:06] Tommy Nolan: Alright, um, go ahead roll arcana.

[22:08] Christi Esterle: Let's see.

[22:09] Christi Esterle: I got a 21.

[22:11] Tommy Nolan: A 21, which is a great arcana check.

[22:14] Tommy Nolan: Um, so was that an at 20 or was that a dirty 20?

[22:17] Christi Esterle: No, that was uh 17 plus four.

[22:19] Tommy Nolan: Alright.

[22:19] Tommy Nolan: Um you're really good at Arcana.

[22:21] Christi Esterle: Um I've been around a long time.

[22:23] Tommy Nolan: So uh you uh lean closer and closer in uh to these tap shoes to look at them, and you recognize these.

[22:31] Tommy Nolan: These are um magical items.

[22:33] Tommy Nolan: Um it's been a long time since you've seen anything like this, uh probably centuries, but um, they certainly uh were a part of uh one of your the great old shows you were part of.

[22:44] Tommy Nolan: These are tap shoes of invisibility.

[22:48] Tommy Nolan: And the moment that thought hits your brain, one of the tapshoes reels up and kicks you in the face.

[22:56] Christi Esterle: Ow!

[23:01] Tommy Nolan: Um and as you go reeling back, these tap shoes go tap tap tap tap tap tap tap.

[23:07] Tommy Nolan: Um and suddenly a bunch of things start happening.

[23:09] Tommy Nolan: Uh all of your um uh belongings that were on the floor suddenly start getting rifled through.

[23:15] Tommy Nolan: Um uh, you know, uh piece clothes start flying everywhere, items start flying everywhere, there's quite a ruckus.

[23:23] Tommy Nolan: Um also it all it sounds as if the wind has picked up outside, and the the the fabric next to the window is kind of picking up in speed, and we'll just like there's danger in the air.

[23:34] Christi Esterle: Um what do you do?

[23:36] Christi Esterle: What do I do?

[23:37] Christi Esterle: I scream at the top of my lungs, which is not quite as loud as Evelyn, but still very considerable.

[23:43] Tommy Nolan: Alright.

[23:43] Christi Esterle: And I make a grab for the taps shoes.

[23:46] Tommy Nolan: Alright, you scream.

[23:47] Tommy Nolan: Um go ahead, roll dexterity to see if you can grab the tapshoes.

[23:50] Christi Esterle: Rolling dexterity.

[23:53] Christi Esterle: Uh 19 plus one is 20.

[23:55] Tommy Nolan: 20.

[23:55] Tommy Nolan: So you are able to grab one of these tapshoes and you grab on it and you hear hitting the ground a thump.

[24:01] Tommy Nolan: Um, and between that thump and the scream, uh, Gregory and Evelyn, uh, I believe you both wake up and start awake.

[24:08] Jesse McAnally: Become running out.

[24:11] Jesse McAnally: We both um get in here, somebody's trying to steal our things.

[24:15] Christi Esterle: Let's go!

[24:16] Emily Clark: Okay, we're coming.

[24:17] Christi Esterle: Some invisible person seemed to have fallen in that general direction.

[24:21] Christi Esterle: I've got their shoes.

[24:22] Emily Clark: Can they get up?

[24:22] Christi Esterle: What?

[24:23] Christi Esterle: I got you got magical tap shoes!

[24:25] Tommy Nolan: And uh, as you all are having this argument, uh this this tap shoe argument.

[24:30] Tommy Nolan: D Saraya seems seems to uh wrestle itself away from you.

[24:35] Tommy Nolan: Um, and with that, now that we're all in the same room, I'm gonna need us to roll for initiative.

[24:40] Tommy Nolan: Rolling for initiative.

[24:42] Christi Esterle: Sixteen.

[24:43] Jesse McAnally: Uh eighteen.

[24:44] Christi Esterle: I got fifteen.

[24:45] Christi Esterle: And 15 for D Sareya.

[24:48] Tommy Nolan: And I need to roll.

[24:50] Tommy Nolan: Um, all right.

[24:51] Tommy Nolan: Uh, Evelyn, the scene in front of you.

[24:54] Tommy Nolan: Um there's uh uh uh D Sarea has just lost hold of one of these tap shoes.

[25:00] Tommy Nolan: Your stuff has been thrown everywhere.

[25:02] Tommy Nolan: You've been awoken with a start.

[25:04] Emily Clark: Oh, my stuff!

[25:05] Tommy Nolan: Um and you go first, top of the order.

[25:07] Emily Clark: Oh, God.

[25:08] Emily Clark: Wait, these magic tap shoes?

[25:10] Emily Clark: Oh god, I just think drive me crazy.

[25:12] Emily Clark: Okay, uh I wanna do something to these taps.

[25:15] Emily Clark: Oh, can I can I she's got one of them, right?

[25:17] Tommy Nolan: Uh it wiggled her, it wiggled itself away.

[25:19] Emily Clark: Um, these tap shoes are standing in front of the open window um next to the billowing curtains, and uh the I think the three of you kind of have a half circle around them.

[25:27] Emily Clark: Are these tap shoes uh clearly attached to someone, or are they like working on their own as own separate beings?

[25:35] Tommy Nolan: That's uh great question.

[25:37] Tommy Nolan: Um why don't you roll why don't you also roll an arcana chapter?

[25:41] Emily Clark: Okay, all right, doing it now.

[25:45] Emily Clark: Four.

[25:47] Tommy Nolan: Oh man, they sure they sure do look like shoes.

[25:50] Tommy Nolan: Those are shoes.

[25:54] Christi Esterle: Yes, thank you.

[25:54] Christi Esterle: One of them just kicked me in the nose.

[25:57] Christi Esterle: Do something.

[25:58] Emily Clark: Uh is it still me to do something?

[26:00] Tommy Nolan: It is it is still you.

[26:01] Tommy Nolan: Um I'll give you an action if you want to take it.

[26:03] Emily Clark: I'll do an action.

[26:05] Emily Clark: I'm gonna get an action going.

[26:07] Emily Clark: I wanna do let's let's do one of this here crossbows.

[26:11] Tommy Nolan: Okay.

[26:14] Tommy Nolan: I'm gonna shoot at it.

[26:15] Tommy Nolan: Alright, so uh you took your crossbow to bed.

[26:18] Emily Clark: Um I never leave without it.

[26:21] Emily Clark: It's a ve it it's a very dangerous city.

[26:23] Tommy Nolan: You can't be too careful.

[26:24] Tommy Nolan: It's true, it's true.

[26:26] Tommy Nolan: And because I'm still a baby, um, it says 1D eight through 1.

[26:29] Tommy Nolan: So is that the eight sided dice?

[26:31] Emily Clark: So, uh first you gotta roll to hit.

[26:33] Tommy Nolan: Okay.

[26:33] Emily Clark: Which will be uh D20 plus, it'll say like plus to hit or something.

[26:37] Emily Clark: Okay, oh yes, I see that.

[26:38] Emily Clark: Okay, got it.

[26:39] Emily Clark: Okay, plus to hit.

[26:40] Emily Clark: Uh that's nine.

[26:42] Tommy Nolan: Okay.

[26:43] Tommy Nolan: Um, a nine misses.

[26:45] Tommy Nolan: Um, so you uh No damage!

[26:47] Tommy Nolan: You let loose uh a crossbow, um, and it uh sails uh entirely past these tap shoes and kind of pins uh one of the curtains to the wall.

[26:56] Emily Clark: Ah, well I got the curtain.

[26:57] Tommy Nolan: And uh next in the order is uh Gregory.

[27:01] Jesse McAnally: Alright, I'm gonna try to athletically slide my feet into those tap shoes.

[27:07] Tommy Nolan: Okay.

[27:08] Tommy Nolan: Um let's let's call this acrobatics.

[27:12] Jesse McAnally: Alright.

[27:12] Jesse McAnally: Definitely.

[27:15] Tommy Nolan: Alright, so uh 17 plus two, so 19.

[27:20] Tommy Nolan: Alright, so uh you do it.

[27:22] Tommy Nolan: Um you uh do you flip?

[27:24] Jesse McAnally: Yeah, I do a jump in the air like I I'm a younger man.

[27:28] Tommy Nolan: You you do a jump in the air and uh you're aiming your feet to try and get in these tap shoes.

[27:33] Tommy Nolan: Uh, but seemingly in midair, you answer Evelyn's question uh because you run into a very solid being that you absolutely cannot see.

[27:42] Tommy Nolan: Um but as you make contact with whatever this thing is, um the other two of you, Disarea and Evelyn, you see these tap shoes kinda uh stumble to the side, and I will uh make the tap shoes take some damage.

[27:55] Tommy Nolan: Will you roll what's your um go ahead roll a D4, and we'll say it's D4 plus one.

[28:00] Jesse McAnally: Alright.

[28:02] Jesse McAnally: Um I landed on the one, two, three, one.

[28:05] Tommy Nolan: So what's the number on the top?

[28:07] Jesse McAnally: Um, it was two on top.

[28:09] Tommy Nolan: Okay.

[28:09] Tommy Nolan: So uh three damage.

[28:10] Tommy Nolan: Cool, cool.

[28:11] Tommy Nolan: Alright.

[28:12] Tommy Nolan: Um and this thing, whatever it is, uh, seems to get knocked away uh uh kind of towards the window on those curtains.

[28:20] Tommy Nolan: And uh up next in the order is uh D Sarea.

[28:24] Christi Esterle: Well, I definitely do not want this thing to be escaping out of the window.

[28:27] Christi Esterle: So I cast minor illusion to create the sound of whatever the local constabler is shouting up at the window, hey you, what are you hey, hey, stop.

[28:39] Tommy Nolan: Okay.

[28:40] Tommy Nolan: Um, so you and Minor Illusion's a cantrip, right?

[28:45] Christi Esterle: Uh so uh you do that.

[28:48] Tommy Nolan: Um, and uh all of you hear from below uh a very Irish man's voice go, who are you there?

[28:55] Tommy Nolan: That's my Irish uh accent.

[28:56] Tommy Nolan: Did you like that?

[28:57] Tommy Nolan: Oh right, what's all this then?

[29:00] Tommy Nolan: And uh then he yells the ho is after me, lucky charms.

[29:02] Tommy Nolan: Um my voice can see me higher.

[29:06] Tommy Nolan: And uh you uh you see if there was uh uh some kind of uh humanoid in these shoes, you see them turn uh tips towards the window, uh as if the thing was looking out the window to see where that sound came from.

[29:21] Tommy Nolan: Um and we are because that just distracts the shoes, we're back to the top of the order with Evelyn.

[29:26] Emily Clark: Oh, um I want to do something.

[29:31] Emily Clark: Um, oh I I have um I want to do like a gust.

[29:41] Emily Clark: Okay. Can I do that? Um do you have any I don't know. Let me look. Uh let's see what you're doing. A gust with a window.

[29:49] Christi Esterle: Oh, you do have gust.

[29:50] Jesse McAnally: What does gust do?

[29:51] Emily Clark: If you click on it, it'll tell you. Uh that's what I'm assuming. Um, it's gonna be pushed five feet away from me.

[29:59] Jesse McAnally: Alright. Don't do that.

[30:00] Emily Clark: Don't push it out the window.

[30:02] Christi Esterle: Well, he's trying to kill us!

[30:03] Jesse McAnally: Why not?

[30:04] Emily Clark: Fuck that guy.

[30:06] Jesse McAnally: He'll escape, and then we'll never get those cool tap shoes.

[30:09] Christi Esterle: Got him.

[30:10] Emily Clark: Oh, uh, okay. Then let me do uh something.

[30:16] Christi Esterle: Well, like like some I don't know, I'm trying to keep him here. Can I grab at him? Can I just grab?

[30:19] Emily Clark: Just like try to grab him and hold him there?

[30:23] Christi Esterle: You do whatever you want. If you want to gust him.

[30:25] Emily Clark: I'm just gonna grab this guy.

[30:27] Jesse McAnally: Alright. Um, so you you run up to kind of the form where you think this uh being might be, um, and you run up and grab, and will you roll.

[30:37] Emily Clark: Let's do uh dexterity contest.

[30:39] Jesse McAnally: So I'm gonna roll for decks and you're gonna roll for decks and whoever wins.

[30:44] Christi Esterle: Alright.

[30:45] Emily Clark: Okay, uh I got a an eight.

[30:49] Jesse McAnally: I also got an eight.

[30:52] Christi Esterle: And so I'll I'll give that to you. I think that goes to Challenger, although I'm sure some DD pedants will correct me at some point.

[30:59] Emily Clark: And uh you reach out and you grab onto this uh somewhat invisible looking form. Um do you what? Do you yank it backwards?

[31:05] Christi Esterle: Um yeah, I'm putting to hold him back.

[31:09] Emily Clark: Okay. Trying to pull him back towards my my group. Um and uh as as you yank it backwards, uh, you can see just for a second, um uh you didn't see it there before, but suddenly uh by the left tap shoe, you very briefly see a heel pull out of it.

[31:26] Jesse McAnally: Um and then attach to that heel, suddenly you see a leg uh with pants on it, of course.

[31:31] Emily Clark: Um, and then uh pants continue to form around the other leg uh and they uh move further up uh and they begin to form a a laurel green tweed suit jacket uh with elbow patches.

[31:45] Jesse McAnally: Um and then above that suit jacket uh you see the head of a scraggly looking elf man start to form.

[31:52] Emily Clark: Um and at this moment you can only see the back of his head.

[31:56] Jesse McAnally: And uh Gregory, you're up next.

[31:59] Christi Esterle: I impulsively grab my dagger and stab him in the chest.

[32:01] Emily Clark: Alright.

[32:03] Christi Esterle: Um you reach for your dagger, and uh I'm gonna need you to roll.

[32:11] Emily Clark: Let's have you roll dexterity for this.

[32:13] Christi Esterle: Eleven plus two, uh thirteen.

[32:15] Emily Clark: Thirteen.

[32:16] Christi Esterle: Alright.

[32:16] Emily Clark: Uh so you lunge forward with your dagger towards this figure.

[32:20] Christi Esterle: Um and with a 13, uh, you approach the back of this figure and you can feel the tip of your dagger start to enter whatever this thing is.

[32:28] Emily Clark: Um, but then suddenly you feel your arm is stopped.

[32:32] Christi Esterle: Um for whatever reason, it seems like the curtain to the right of you has wrapped around your arm.

[32:40] Emily Clark: Um, and you turn to the right uh to look at this curtain when you realized uh pinned to the wall by Evelyn's uh crossbow that she missed is in fact not the curtain that she had shot, uh, but a half burnt cloak with a phoenix.

[32:56] Jesse McAnally: Oh my goodness!

[32:57] Christi Esterle: You've returned to me!

[32:59] Jesse McAnally: This feels familiar somehow.

[33:01] Emily Clark: Back again has arrived this cloak and uh Jess does a 19 beat your AC.

[33:08] Jesse McAnally: Oh, definitely.

[33:09] Christi Esterle: I'm a 12.

[33:10] Emily Clark: Alright.

[33:12] Emily Clark: Um so this cloak grabs you by the wrist, um, it the one with the dagger in it, and it pulls you back and it slams you onto the ground with more strength than you think a piece of fabric should have.

[33:24] Christi Esterle: And I'm gonna need you to take seven points of damage.

[33:28] Jesse McAnally: Oh great!

[33:29] Emily Clark: Oh and next to the order is D'syraeah.

[33:33] Christi Esterle: You got it, Dave.

[33:34] Christi Esterle: Oh.

[33:35] Christi Esterle: Alright. Uh since um Evelyn is grappling the um uh figure, I attempt to take off the tap shoes.

[33:43] Emily Clark: Okay.

[33:43] Christi Esterle: Um so you reach down um and uh go ahead roll uh dexterity.

[33:49] Emily Clark: Uh five.

[33:51] Christi Esterle: Five.

[33:51] Emily Clark: Okay.

[33:51] Christi Esterle: I'll give you I'll give you because we had already kind of gotten one of the tap shoes off with the the gust or with the with the grabbing.

[33:58] Emily Clark: Um you can you fully remove this figure's left tap shoe.

[34:03] Christi Esterle: Um and uh you see it kind of turn around.

[34:06] Emily Clark: Um uh Evelyn, you look up to it. Uh you're pretty next to it because you're holding this thing.

[34:11] Christi Esterle: Yeah.

[34:12] Christi Esterle: Um and you recognize this man.

[34:14] Christi Esterle: This is Leon Crumb.

[34:15] Emily Clark: Um, the assistant to uh Max Pumper.

[34:19] Christi Esterle: I knew I recognized that tweet quote here in your hotel room.

[34:24] Emily Clark: Um and uh he looks at all of you uh and he's up first.

[34:28] Christi Esterle: Um and he's not good gonna attack.

[34:30] Emily Clark: Instead, um he rolled a really great dex roll um and is going to wrestle himself away from you, Evelyn, and dives into your um pile of your bags and stuff.

[34:46] Christi Esterle: Nice.

[34:46] Emily Clark: Um reaching for something that he seems to have been searching for, and uh he comes out with that golden lighter that you all found in the alleyway so many uh hours ago.

[34:57] Christi Esterle: Um and he pulls it out and uh he starts running for that window, one shoe on, one shoe off.

[35:03] Jesse McAnally: So it's just tap, tap.

[35:05] Emily Clark: Um and up next is Evelyn.

[35:07] Emily Clark: I'm gonna go, I'm gonna go try to grab him, I'm gonna go try to stop him.

[35:10] Christi Esterle: Well, okay.

[35:11] Emily Clark: Um run at him.

[35:12] Christi Esterle: He's trying to tackle him.

[35:14] Emily Clark: He had just wrestled himself away from you, so you're between him and the window.

[35:18] Christi Esterle: Oh, okay.

[35:18] Emily Clark: Then I'm just gonna try to block him then.

[35:20] Christi Esterle: Alright, let's say you are gonna block him.

[35:21] Emily Clark: Um let's make this a strength contest.

[35:23] Christi Esterle: Alright, alright.

[35:26] Emily Clark: Okay, that is uh 11.

[35:31] Christi Esterle: An eleven.

[35:32] Emily Clark: Well, Leon rolled a natural 20.

[35:34] Christi Esterle: Um So unfortunately for you, Evelyn, uh Leon, being long and gangly like he is, uh, kind of uh uh recoils his legs backward and then launches himself up into the air over your head um and kind of like tuck dive and rolling, uh, launches himself out of the window.

[35:54] Jesse McAnally: Hey, and uh again into the night.

[35:57] Christi Esterle: Um we are still in the order because uh Gregory, you're up now.

[36:02] Jesse McAnally: You've just been slammed on the ground by this cloak.

[36:05] Jesse McAnally: I get up, wheezing. Uh um, and is the cloak still in the room?

[36:10] Emily Clark: Uh the cloak is uh standing over you.

[36:12] Emily Clark: It is still, it's uh using its other arm to try and pull the crossbow bolt out of its shoulder.

[36:18] Christi Esterle: It's still kind of pinned to the wall um because of that misfire.

[36:21] Jesse McAnally: Now, how far away is the other fella from the window and all that?

[36:24] Emily Clark: Uh so uh Leon jumped out the window.

[36:26] Jesse McAnally: Um that's the last you saw.

[36:28] Jesse McAnally: Okay, like how long has it been? Is it like he just hit the ground?

[36:32] Jesse McAnally: I jump out and chase after him.

[36:33] Emily Clark: Oh god, okay.

[36:34] Emily Clark: Um breaking arms.

[36:39] Emily Clark: You're on the fourth floor.

[36:40] Jesse McAnally: Uh yeah, you're on the fourth floor.

[36:42] Emily Clark: Um, let's roll um acrobatics to see if you can are you because you're on the floor, so you're gonna like quickly jump out of the window.

[36:49] Jesse McAnally: Yeah, I like kind of push myself out and wave myself through a window.

[36:52] Emily Clark: Alright.

[36:54] Emily Clark: Okay, we'll we'll we'll we'll roll acrobatics and and call this how like quickly you can get up and get out the window.

[37:01] Jesse McAnally: Uh fuck.

[37:03] Jesse McAnally: Critical fail.

[37:05] Emily Clark: Alright.

[37:06] Emily Clark: So uh here's here's here's what happens, Gregory.

[37:10] Emily Clark: Um you you get up, you get to your feet, um, and uh you like start walking towards the window in an effort to chase uh Mr. Crumb.

[37:19] Jesse McAnally: Oh but you miss uh uh judge the distance and you accidentally like step on the taps, the one lone tapshoe that's on the ground, and you kind of step on it wrong, um, and you barrel over sideways, and in the process you uh grab the bolt that had been pinning the cloak to the wall and rip it from the wall with the cloak still attached.

[37:39] Emily Clark: Um and the whole thing kind of just starts wrestling around, like the cloak is attached to the arrow that's in your hand, and it's like fluttering in the wind, like when a plastic bag gets attached to your windshield wipers.

[37:51] Christi Esterle: Um just trying to like wretch itself free from this.

[37:54] Emily Clark: And Gregory, I'm gonna roll a strength contest with you as the cloak.

[37:57] Jesse McAnally: Okay.

[37:57] Emily Clark: I got a 14.

[37:59] Jesse McAnally: I got five, so uh, so this cloak is all also able to wrestle itself away.

[38:05] Emily Clark: Um it's one shoulder burnt, one shoulder with a hole in it, um, and it kind of uh retreats a little bit, and just for a second, it hovers in the middle of the room, and you can see this phoenix kind of contemplate the three of you, and it like turns and looks at you, Evelyn and turns, it looks at you, D'syraeah, and then turns, it looks at you, Gregory.

[38:23] Jesse McAnally: Hey.

[38:24] Emily Clark: And then it turns and flies its way out of the window.

[38:26] Emily Clark: And we are out of initiative.

[38:28] Jesse McAnally: Gone again.

[38:29] Christi Esterle: I'm going to burn that thing one day.

[38:32] Jesse McAnally: Lost it again.

[38:33] Christi Esterle: I swear to God, that Phoenix looked at me like it knows me.

[38:37] Emily Clark: Like it's gonna remember my face.

[38:40] Jesse McAnally: How can anyone forget your face?

[38:42] Christi Esterle: And my voice!

[38:54] Tommy Nolan: Hi everybody! Surprise! We're releasing the episode a week early.

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[39:56] Tommy Nolan: Our troop this week, as always, is Evelyn Forte, the brassy mouthed dragonborn sorcerer.

[40:00] Tommy Nolan: She is played by Emily Clark.

[40:02] Tommy Nolan: You can find Emily over at Stealing Focus on YouTube.

[40:05] Tommy Nolan: D'syraeah the Magnificent, the high elf druid and daughter of theatrical royalty, is played by Christi Esterle.

[40:10] Tommy Nolan: You can find Christi, aka the Diva at Musical Hell on YouTube.

[40:14] Tommy Nolan: Graygory Highland, the two time and dwarfish rogue, is played by Jesse McAnally.

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[40:22] Tommy Nolan: And I am Tommy Nolan, your dungeon master, musical theater mash in all places online.

[40:27] Tommy Nolan: Our artwork is by Derek Trost.

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[41:01] Tommy Nolan: Our next episode will be up on Wednesday, March 25th.

[41:05] Tommy Nolan: Talk to you then.

[41:13] Tommy Nolan: The three of you find yourself staring once again out of an open window, just having watched uh the cloak that seems to continue to torment you fly away.

[41:24] Emily Clark: Um sick of open windows.

[41:27] Tommy Nolan: It's it's still pretty late at night. Um, you all are welcome to return back to bed.

[41:32] Tommy Nolan: Um, and uh, Gregory, if you want to re-heal those points you lost or anyone else or your spell slots, you're welcome to.

[41:39] Jesse McAnally: If I go to sleep, won't I heal myself or is that yeah, you'll heal yourself.

[41:43] Jesse McAnally: Okay, I'm going to sleep.

[41:44] Christi Esterle: Night, folks.

[41:44] Tommy Nolan: Alright.

[41:45] Tommy Nolan: Do you do let's go back to the street?

[41:47] Tommy Nolan: Do you all say anything to each other before you turn in?

[41:49] Christi Esterle: Sorry.

[41:50] Christi Esterle: Next time, Gregory, do not stab at them first.

[41:54] Jesse McAnally: I think it would have worked.

[41:56] Jesse McAnally: I think it would have worked, honestly.

[41:58] Christi Esterle: You could have killed somebody who knew you could have killed the person who could have told us what was going on.

[42:02] Jesse McAnally: Yeah, but he also might not have hurt someone else.

[42:04] Christi Esterle: So think about that.

[42:06] Tommy Nolan: Well, what I want to know is D'syraeah, what did you hear?

[42:09] Christi Esterle: Like you got woken up by shoes?

[42:12] Christi Esterle: First, I only need to trance for four hours a night, so.

[42:16] Christi Esterle: So you were awake?

[42:17] Christi Esterle: I was already partially awake.

[42:19] Christi Esterle: Okay.

[42:19] Christi Esterle: And second, they were taps shoes.

[42:22] Christi Esterle: Tap shoes are designed to be heard.

[42:24] Christi Esterle: Whoever designs taps shoes of invisibility, it kind of defeats the purpose.

[42:28] Emily Clark: I mean, you're not wrong.

[42:30] Tommy Nolan: That is one more thing.

[42:31] Tommy Nolan: Um, the three of you, and you can decide who gets this, are now the proud owners of one half of a pair of tap shoes of invisibility.

[42:39] Christi Esterle: Dee, I think it should go to you.

[42:41] Christi Esterle: You did the most.

[42:41] Christi Esterle: You did the most work.

[42:44] Christi Esterle: I will I will pocket it because I ha I suspect that I might come across the owner of the other half and we will have words.

[42:53] Jesse McAnally: Well, we know it was Crumb, right?

[42:54] Christi Esterle: And I might slap him in the nose with this thing.

[42:57] Tommy Nolan: Um, and I I will tell you that the full pair will, as you've noticed, turn an entire being, uh an entire humanoid invisible, save for the loud noise of the tap shoes as they walk around.

[43:08] Tommy Nolan: One of them will, as you expect, turn exactly one half of you invisible.

[43:13] Tommy Nolan: You can decide how your body's divided in half.

[43:16] Christi Esterle: Whether you're walking pants, just the left half.

[43:19] Tommy Nolan: Um, the part of you that is invisible must be in contact with the shoe.

[43:22] Christi Esterle: Alright.

[43:23] Christi Esterle: And so this is a magic item at your discretion.

[43:26] Christi Esterle: So if you put it on your head, would that make your head invisible?

[43:29] Tommy Nolan: If we get to that point, I'll figure something out.

[43:33] Christi Esterle: Okay.

[43:34] Christi Esterle: This will be this will come in very specific handy.

[43:38] Jesse McAnally: I imagine I have one tapshoe of invisibility.

[43:44] Christi Esterle: I'm not sure how I mark that on my spell sheet, but there you go.

[43:47] Tommy Nolan: We'll figure that out at another day.

[43:49] Tommy Nolan: Same with my cornet of lisping.

[43:51] Tommy Nolan: Y'all are y'all are getting suited up.

[43:53] Tommy Nolan: Um, all right.

[43:54] Tommy Nolan: The three of you turn in uh for the night.

[43:56] Tommy Nolan: Uh you wake at a a reasonable hour and kinda go about your morning.

[44:00] Jesse McAnally: 4 50 in the morning.

[44:01] Christi Esterle: Let's go.

[44:02] Tommy Nolan: Four at 4 50 in the morning.

[44:04] Christi Esterle: No, at a reasonable time in the morning.

[44:06] Tommy Nolan: Um the uh three of you uh find yourself down in the tavern.

[44:11] Tommy Nolan: Um, once again, uh Mandy Patinkin is behind the bar, uh kind of cleaning some glasses and uh uh walking around and picking up uh what's left of from the night.

[44:21] Tommy Nolan: Um one of uh the things that is left over from last night is uh that green-skinned half orc man uh who was telling a story at the end of the bar last night.

[44:30] Emily Clark: He is exactly where he was, uh passed out over on the bar.

[44:34] Christi Esterle: Um Mandy kind of gives him a little poke every time we walk past him to try and wake him up, but he seems to be not roused yet.

[44:42] Jesse McAnally: And other than that, the chairs are up on the tables.

[44:44] Emily Clark: Uh the tavern's pretty clean.

[44:46] Tommy Nolan: Um you know previously that uh you were invited to two things today.

[44:51] Tommy Nolan: Um and there's other things going on at your discretion, but you were invited to an audition with Mo Pumpernickel.

[44:56] Tommy Nolan: Um and today is supposed to be the opening night of Hello Dragotha, uh, your first night as Ushers.

[45:02] Tommy Nolan: All right, so guys.

[45:04] Jesse McAnally: All right, what time is our audition?

[45:06] Tommy Nolan: Um your audition, uh, Mo said was in the morning, so probably in about an hour.

[45:09] Emily Clark: We should probably do that first.

[45:11] Jesse McAnally: All right.

[45:11] Christi Esterle: Well, I was gonna give you guys a pitch. We could either legitimately try to star in a show, or we could try to steal Dragotha from uh Miss Miss Ch Chandler.

[45:21] Jesse McAnally: Uh yes, Miss Chandler, Caroline Chandler.

[45:23] Christi Esterle: I can't even remember her name.

[45:24] Jesse McAnally: How are all three of us going to play the lead role in Hello Dragotha?

[45:28] Christi Esterle: I mean Well, it's clear that only one of us should, but that's neither he nor I.

[45:33] Jesse McAnally: I think it could be all three of us.

[45:34] Emily Clark: Have you seen the original version of Avita?

[45:36] Jesse McAnally: There was like nine girls playing a Vita.

[45:38] Christi Esterle: I think since the show is later tonight, then going to the audition right now would be the best playing.

[45:45] Jesse McAnally: All right.

[45:45] Christi Esterle: Yes.

[45:46] Tommy Nolan: It is best to have as many irons in the fire as possible.

[45:49] Jesse McAnally: Oh, yeah.

[45:49] Christi Esterle: Or whatever the world equivalent of this is a spray.

[45:52] Jesse McAnally: You never know what's gonna happen.

[45:53] Tommy Nolan: All right, what theater we going to?

[45:55] Tommy Nolan: Uh you recall that you're uh supposed to head to uh a room in the Lutonophone theater.

[46:01] Tommy Nolan: Um and so uh you head out the front of the Patink Inn uh and head down the street.

[46:06] Tommy Nolan: You know the Lutonophone because you passed it earlier yesterday.

[46:09] Tommy Nolan: It uh there's nothing on the marquee for the Lutonophone right now.

[46:12] Tommy Nolan: It seems like it's dark currently.

[46:14] Tommy Nolan: Um and you head back to the stage door um in the alleyway.

[46:20] Tommy Nolan: Um as you head back there.

[46:21] Tommy Nolan: Let's see.

[46:22] Tommy Nolan: I need everyone to roll a perception check.

[46:24] Christi Esterle: Oh, goody.

[46:26] Emily Clark: Sixteen.

[46:27] Jesse McAnally: As usual, I am a three.

[46:30] Christi Esterle: Let's see.

[46:30] Christi Esterle: Perception.

[46:32] Christi Esterle: I have got eight and four is twelve.

[46:35] Tommy Nolan: All right.

[46:35] Tommy Nolan: Um, so uh Evelyn, you're just really distracted by the not lit lights on this marquee in your uh Wow, what's wrong with these lights?

[46:45] Tommy Nolan: You're having some uh grand memory of a uh another show long past, uh, and you can remember your name up there in lights so many years ago.

[46:52] Emily Clark: I remember the day.

[46:54] Tommy Nolan: While uh uh Evelyn is uh uh waxing upon times long past, uh, Gregory and Disarea, um, you see uh two figures um kind of uh behind the pulled blinds in the box office window, one of those like glass windows with a little hole in it, uh just in the front of the Litonophone.

[47:16] Tommy Nolan: Uh you can see their shadows.

[47:17] Christi Esterle: It kind of looks like they're um can I do a stealth check and see if I can like sneak a little bit closer?

[47:22] Tommy Nolan: Sure.

[47:23] Christi Esterle: Um go ahead, roll stealth.

[47:26] Christi Esterle: Um, that is uh 12 plus um how much is my stealth?

[47:30] Christi Esterle: I know.

[47:31] Christi Esterle: Uh plus 12 plus two, 14.

[47:32] Tommy Nolan: 14.

[47:33] Tommy Nolan: Okay, so uh you kind of crouch down um to kind of uh sneakily sneak up to this window.

[47:38] Tommy Nolan: Um the the little talkie hole is open.

[47:40] Tommy Nolan: Um and uh you talk that's technical.

[47:43] Tommy Nolan: That's what it's called.

[47:44] Tommy Nolan: Uh and uh Gregory, you hear from behind this window a voice go.

[47:50] Christi Esterle: You mean you wrote that note?

[47:53] Christi Esterle: You have a lot of explaining to do.

[47:55] Christi Esterle: Um and you hear another voice, you hear another voice go, but d dear, I was just looking out for you, and I know this is difficult for the two of us, but it's I really meant it.

[48:07] Jesse McAnally: Guys, guys, guys.

[48:08] Jesse McAnally: Miss Chandler's talking to the person who wrote the note.

[48:11] Christi Esterle: I remember when I played Dorpsy over 35

[48:17] Jesse McAnally: What?

[48:18] Christi Esterle: Okay, okay, forget that.

[48:18] Christi Esterle: I want to try to stealth my way into the window.

[48:23] Jesse McAnally: I before he does that, I would like to listen to see if I recognize the other voice.

[48:28] Tommy Nolan: Okay.

[48:28] Christi Esterle: Um go ahead uh roll let's say uh insight.

[48:35] Tommy Nolan: D Sarea.

[48:37] Christi Esterle: Insight.

[48:40] Christi Esterle: I got a natural one.

[48:42] Jesse McAnally: Oh man.

[48:43] Christi Esterle: You might have heard a voice like this somewhere.

[48:48] Jesse McAnally: I think I remember when my name was up in lights and this the answer myself.

[48:53] Christi Esterle: Oh yes.

[48:55] Jesse McAnally: Um Gregory, I'll let you roll insight too if you want to see if you can figure out how to use it.

[48:55] Jesse McAnally: All right, let's see if I know this voice.

[49:01] Jesse McAnally: Um that is a seven.

[49:04] Christi Esterle: A seven?

[49:04] Jesse McAnally: Yeah.

[49:05] Jesse McAnally: Um you know this person for sure.

[49:10] Tommy Nolan: Um.

[49:12] Tommy Nolan: All right, all right.

[49:13] Tommy Nolan: Uh I'm you absolutely recognize this voice.

[49:16] Christi Esterle: Okay.

[49:17] Tommy Nolan: Um forgive me if this is asking too much.

[49:20] Tommy Nolan: Is it a friendly voice or uh you can tell in this moment that uh the voice certainly both voices um are you know panicked and rushed in what they're doing, um, but are speaking to each other in friendly tones.

[49:32] Christi Esterle: Okay.

[49:32] Christi Esterle: Um so I'm a knock on the window, um, just like knuckle knock.

[49:37] Tommy Nolan: All right.

[49:37] Tommy Nolan: Uh do you do any like patterns knock, or do you just like knock knock or um I did sign a haircut?

[49:43] Christi Esterle: I was like I mess up the beat of two bits, so like bop bah.

[49:51] Tommy Nolan: And uh with that you you hear two gasps that go um, and then uh you see um uh first at first two fingers opening the blinds just to peek through, and then you see four eyeballs uh kind of peeking out.

[50:08] Tommy Nolan: Two eyeballs you absolutely correctly recognize belong to uh Caroline Chandler.

[50:12] Emily Clark: She's got great eyes.

[50:13] Tommy Nolan: Um and then uh the So big uh the other two eyeballs kind of look beady uh and bloodshot, um, as if they've been awake for a very long time.

[50:22] Jesse McAnally: I flash a smile and a thumbs up.

[50:26] Tommy Nolan: That oughta work.

[50:27] Christi Esterle: Um uh let's say you're gonna have to roll persuasion and it's gonna be hard to beat.

[50:34] Tommy Nolan: Persuasion or performance.

[50:36] Christi Esterle: I'm gonna go with persuasion on this one.

[50:38] Christi Esterle: Um that was a 19 plus one.

[50:40] Tommy Nolan: So oh my god.

[50:43] Tommy Nolan: Um you see someone grip the cable um to pull the blinds up, and they pull the blind up, and you see finally these two figures revealed.

[50:54] Tommy Nolan: The first is Caroline Chandler, and the second is Leon Crumb.

[50:57] Jesse McAnally: What?

[50:58] Jesse McAnally: In his green tweed jacket.

[51:00] Jesse McAnally: This guy just tried to kill us.

[51:02] Christi Esterle: Well, considering Gregory, it was the other way around, but Hey, I play a cool, and I still my smile gets bigger.

[51:09] Jesse McAnally: Uh your smile gets bigger, and uh you see Leon kind of go, who uh and then he closes the blind really quickly.

[51:15] Tommy Nolan: Um and then uh you can see him kind of uh uh push and shuffle Caroline Chandler uh to pick up whatever she's left on the ground and they kind of uh flitter away what you can tell back into um the uh recesses of the um uh box office there and they disappear from sight.

[51:32] Christi Esterle: I think these two are in cahoots.

[51:34] Christi Esterle: Let's not let that ruin our audition.

[51:36] Jesse McAnally: Let's go, guys.

[51:36] Tommy Nolan: Um all right.

[51:37] Tommy Nolan: Uh so you head around to uh the alleyway on the side of the Lutonophone, just like at the Dense Oenstein, there's a a door labeled stage door there in uh magical writing.

[51:48] Tommy Nolan: Um the three of you head in.

[51:49] Tommy Nolan: Uh this one, there's just a long hallway.

[51:51] Tommy Nolan: Um you don't have to walk too far before you see uh uh sign on one of the doorways on your right that says Auditions for dear Elvin Hansen this way.

[52:00] Tommy Nolan: And uh you're outside that door.

[52:03] Christi Esterle: What do you do?

[52:04] Jesse McAnally: Um let's just go inside, guys.

[52:06] Jesse McAnally: I mean, there's nothing to fear.

[52:08] Jesse McAnally: Like, let's just do it.

[52:09] Christi Esterle: I never pass up an audition.

[52:11] Christi Esterle: Shouldn't we should we knock first?

[52:13] Jesse McAnally: No.

[52:15] Christi Esterle: Oh, right.

[52:15] Christi Esterle: They're expecting us.

[52:17] Jesse McAnally: That implies that we need to.

[52:19] Christi Esterle: Like we got a call asking us to do this.

[52:21] Jesse McAnally: Very true.

[52:22] Tommy Nolan: Um Gregory taking the lead.

[52:24] Tommy Nolan: Uh his confidence over or his uh uh trepidation around doorknobs having passed.

[52:30] Tommy Nolan: Grips the doorknob to the audition room and opens it up.

[52:34] Tommy Nolan: Um and in this room you see a pretty quaint room.

[52:36] Tommy Nolan: Uh there's a long table with one chair at it.

[52:38] Tommy Nolan: Uh one figure sat behind it.

[52:40] Tommy Nolan: You recognize him as Mo Pomper Nickel.

[52:42] Tommy Nolan: Uh on the table is uh rotary dial phone.

[52:45] Tommy Nolan: And there's a smattering of chairs and props on the wall.

[52:49] Tommy Nolan: But that is all you see in this room.

[52:52] Tommy Nolan: Mo is actually standing at this table and is kind of shuffling through papers.

[52:55] Mo Pumpernickel: Oh, my new friends, you made it.

[52:58] Mo Pumpernickel: I'm how how delightful.

[52:59] Mo Pumpernickel: Welcome, welcome to the audition.

[53:02] Mo Pumpernickel: Lives are changed here.

[53:03] Mo Pumpernickel: People are changed here.

[53:05] Emily Clark: Oh, I give him a big bear hood of grimo. It's good to see you.

[53:07] Mo Pumpernickel: Oh, we've done it.

[53:10] Mo Pumpernickel: I said friends, but it was a formality.

[53:12] Mo Pumpernickel: It takes a step back from you.

[53:15] Mo Pumpernickel: And he sits down and he says, uh, well, um, I've been uh waiting for my compatriot all morning.

[53:20] Mo Pumpernickel: Um, but uh it appears we may have to soldier on alone, as they say.

[53:24] Mo Pumpernickel: Um uh have you uh who would like to go first?

[53:27] Mo Pumpernickel: Is someone have something prepared for us?

[53:29] Christi Esterle: Evelyn, I think you should go.

[53:31] Emily Clark: Well, gosh, I don't know.

[53:32] Emily Clark: I mean, I haven't really prepared all right.

[53:35] Emily Clark: So I'm gonna step forward, and I am going to uh ask if he wants me to sing or uh to do act first.

[53:45] Emily Clark: Or both.

[53:46] Emily Clark: I can do both.

[53:47] Mo Pumpernickel: Um he says, well, yeah, uh uh DL Van Hansen is a very uh experimental piece, as you may have heard.

[53:54] Mo Pumpernickel: Um so we're we're looking for unique and interesting takes on the art form.

[54:00] Mo Pumpernickel: So whatever you think is a unique and interesting take on the art form.

[54:07] Emily Clark: Fantastic.

[54:11] Emily Clark: Well, I know you've seen me, I'm sure, in many, many, many shows.

[54:16] Mo Pumpernickel: Of course.

[54:16] Emily Clark: And you know I can hold notes for a very long time.

[54:20] Emily Clark: But did you know that I was also in uh quite a few Stephen Saund health shows?

[54:27] Emily Clark: And I am very good at what they call patter.

[54:33] Emily Clark: So it's a dragon breath thing.

[54:39] Tommy Nolan: Um dragon breath.

[54:41] Emily Clark: Uh so I am going to do my best uh Stevenson Elf song and do a little patter for you.

[54:50] Emily Clark: Uh getting marred today.

[54:54] Tommy Nolan: All right.

[54:55] Tommy Nolan: Uh let's say um go ahead roll a performance.

[55:00] Tommy Nolan: Uh roll performance.

[55:02] Emily Clark: Okay, hold on.

[55:03] Emily Clark: Performance.

[55:04] Emily Clark: Okay.

[55:05] Emily Clark: Oh, I got a 14.

[55:06] Tommy Nolan: All right.

[55:07] Tommy Nolan: I think we're with a 14.

[55:10] Tommy Nolan: Uh, this goes very well for you.

[55:12] Tommy Nolan: You take your mark um and uh you open your mouth, and uh the most delicate little bits of flame start dancing out of your mouth to in time.

[55:21] Tommy Nolan: Um it's almost like Morris Code, how it comes out, and it seems there seems to be like quite a rhythm to it.

[55:26] Tommy Nolan: It's like uh uh uh the beginning of the music man.

[55:30] Tommy Nolan: Um all these pieces of fire kind of dance around you as uh you have this wonderful little uh patter moment um and then you end it all with a little ha-cha-cha.

[55:39] Tommy Nolan: Umda and uh uh Mo sits there for a second, and uh he's taking some notes uh and he looks at me and goes, very good, thank you, thank you very much.

[55:49] Mo Pumpernickel: That was uh quite delightful, Evelyn.

[55:51] Mo Pumpernickel: Um thank you.

[55:52] Mo Pumpernickel: Uh any anyone else?

[55:54] Christi Esterle: Do you want to go or do you want me to go?

[55:55] Jesse McAnally: I'll go.

[55:56] Jesse McAnally: I step, I stride forward to the table, and removing the single taps shoe from my satchel, I place it in front of him.

[56:06] Mo Pumpernickel: Uh-huh.

[56:06] Jesse McAnally: Um do you recognize this item?

[56:09] Mo Pumpernickel: God damn.

[56:10] Tommy Nolan: Will you do a persuasion check?

[56:12] Tommy Nolan: That seems close.

[56:13] Tommy Nolan: Like you're threatening someone.

[56:16] Jesse McAnally: Alright, 14.

[56:18] Tommy Nolan: 14.

[56:18] Tommy Nolan: Okay.

[56:19] Tommy Nolan: You put that tap shoe in front of him.

[56:21] Tommy Nolan: Um and you see Mo Pumpernickel turn white in the face.

[56:24] Mo Pumpernickel: Where?

[56:26] Mo Pumpernickel: Where did you find this?

[56:27] Jesse McAnally: It was on the foot of your compatriot who was rifling through our belongings last night.

[56:33] Mo Pumpernickel: Leon?

[56:34] Mo Pumpernickel: What what would Leon be looking for in with your stuff?

[56:38] Jesse McAnally: You tell me.

[56:39] Jesse McAnally: Hey, I don't care as long as I get the pot.

[56:42] Jesse McAnally: This is gonna make my audition a lot harder, D.

[56:46] Mo Pumpernickel: You nearly stabbed Leon.

[56:48] Jesse McAnally: I don't care.

[56:50] Tommy Nolan: Um and uh Mo um reaches out to uh look at uh and grab uh this tap shoe.

[56:58] Tommy Nolan: Um and then uh kind of bizarrely, he like smells it for a second, which is weird.

[57:03] Tommy Nolan: Um then he sets it back down and then looks up and goes, yeah, that's Leon.

[57:08] Mo Pumpernickel: Something.

[57:09] Mo Pumpernickel: And you'll pardon the expression, something must be a foot.

[57:12] Christi Esterle: Um, nothing.

[57:15] Christi Esterle: I thought that was I thought that was anyway.

[57:18] Christi Esterle: Are we just gonna let it go that are we just gonna let go that he could judge it was Leon just by smelling a shoe?

[57:24] Jesse McAnally: We're just gonna let that fly past, I guess.

[57:27] Christi Esterle: This is a magical world.

[57:28] Christi Esterle: I've seen stranger things.

[57:30] Christi Esterle: My first husband, for example.

[57:32] Tommy Nolan: Oh gosh.

[57:33] Tommy Nolan: Um Mo looks at all of you and says, so, and this is very important, just to clarify.

[57:38] Mo Pumpernickel: You have seen Leon recently.

[57:42] Christi Esterle: Yes.

[57:44] Christi Esterle: This morning.

[57:44] Christi Esterle: It depends on how late it was.

[57:46] Christi Esterle: We saw him.

[57:47] Christi Esterle: We saw his.

[57:48] Christi Esterle: We literally just saw him five seconds ago, if I remember right.

[57:50] Jesse McAnally: Yes.

[57:51] Christi Esterle: Oh, yeah, that's right.

[57:51] Christi Esterle: We saw him in the alley.

[57:53] Mo Pumpernickel: You saw you saw Leon in the alley?

[57:55] Tommy Nolan: And uh Mo uh I believe he is in this very theater if he has not already run away with his tail between his legs.

[58:02] Mo Pumpernickel: He was threatening this k Caroline Chandler.

[58:04] Mo Pumpernickel: Mo uh looks at the three of you and says, And, and this is very important.

[58:04] Mo Pumpernickel: The three of you saw this happening.

[58:11] Christi Esterle: At least two of us did.

[58:15] Christi Esterle: We hide it.

[58:15] Jesse McAnally: We hide some.

[58:17] Tommy Nolan: And Mo uh Mo sits there for a second, um, and uh you can see the color come back to his face, and it goes from white to kind of red.

[58:25] Tommy Nolan: Um and he he looks like he's getting a little aggravated for a second.

[58:28] Tommy Nolan: Um, but then he calms himself and goes, Well, uh, needless to say, auditions are done for the day.

[58:33] Mo Pumpernickel: Thank you all.

[58:34] Mo Pumpernickel: Uh thank you, Gregory, for coming.

[58:36] Jesse McAnally: Wait, wait, wait, wait.

[58:37] Jesse McAnally: I was the only one that didn't get a chance.

[58:39] Christi Esterle: No!

[58:40] Tommy Nolan: And uh uh with all of them, he kind of rushes out the door um and uh back into the hallway.

[58:47] Jesse McAnally: I think I got the park.

[58:53] Jesse McAnally: I think I nailed it.

[59:00] Tommy Nolan: Keep on moving, don't stop, don't stop, don't stop.