Dice Shame - 2-85 | 'Every Mother's Son'
Episode Date: April 11, 2024Alex Nursall's Writing: https://medium.com/@alex.nAlex Guthrie's Band: https://wearenodirection.bandcamp.com/Imagine your best game of D&D. The shocks, the twists and turns, the moments that can�...�t be caught because you just had to be there. That’s Dice Shame.Join our DM Jo, her husband Harlan, their brother Alex & their best friends Rob and Alex as they experience those unmissable, gut-wrenching, heart-aching, joy-filled moments.This legendary AP releases a brand new episode every Thursday morning at 1:20 am!Content Warning: animal death, swearing, violence, claustrophobiaPart of the Rusty Quill Network Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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Doran, what did you do to go to it?
Why is it important to go to you to end your family line?
Dastardly and manipulative.
What do we do now?
Tell us, Dorin!
Whoa!
What a huge mistake I've made.
It's nothing I've seen before.
Hands are like onions!
Like if anybody can untie the knots that are holding that there?
I'm not stealing this from you.
This brutality!
Oh my god!
That's all I know about it. It's a bad time.
Is anything clouding your mind, maybe?
She shakes her head.
Shakes it yes or no?
Tell us, Doreen
Welcome back to Dishame.
This is Season 2, Episode 85, Every Mother's Son.
MVP this week is Calibur from our Discord.
Calibur just wrote yesterday that they have three episodes left before they're caught up,
and they're addicted to the show in the best way possible.
I hope this makes your day, Calibur.
You are this week's MVP.
Hell, yeah, you are.
All right, should we play some D&D?
Yeah, let's do it.
Ow, ow!
So, Alex, you got a new mic there.
You said this was for recording vocals for music.
When have you been doing music?
Tell us about this.
This is new.
Do you sing in Doran's voice?
So.
Doran, it's your time
Oh yeah
Doran, it's my time
Turn the Doran up
Well, okay
So it started
Almost three years ago, I guess
2021, yeah
My cousin Courtney
Our cousin Courtney was home
With her husband Patto
Oh yeah, we're related
Yes
And Patto
And I were like
We should do a jam
And then I was like
Hey Roman we should do a jam
and Chris Avlos, our other cousin.
These are all cousins and siblings.
We're like, oh, let's do this jam.
And so we got together for a jam and we decided, like,
Roman was trying to get recording and him and I were talking about doing some recording
and stuff together, right?
Anyways, a long story short is we decided, okay, we're going to record this jam.
So we went in, like, blind and just recorded, like, a full beginning to end album of, like,
pure improv.
And I'll send you guys the jammy songs.
Cool.
It was called strawberry jam.
No, that's great.
Peanut butter and jam.
To jam.
Then we did it a second year in a row, and that was 2022.
So, sorry, your first improv record, was that just you and Roman?
Or did you have Chris and Pato?
No, it was Chris and Pato and Roman and I.
Cool.
So obviously Chris is playing percussion.
Yeah.
I think I heard one of the songs from one of those jams, actually.
What were the rest of you playing?
I know that you play guitar.
Well, I was, I'm singing.
and playing the guitar
and Romans on the bass.
Yes.
It's all improvised.
It's all percussion.
It's a D&D session.
It's actually like I laugh because I think it's pretty impressive.
Like as a musician, if I tell you other musicians that this is an album that was no ideas went into it.
It was just like off the floor.
Like it's a little bit more impressive than if you heard it and went, what the fuck is this shit, you know?
sweet so you're saying that regularly if you listen to it you'd go what the fuck is this shit
well maybe but know that we were faking it as we made it you know making it up as we go along
we're just kind of feeling it out that's pretty good that's pretty good it's the Oterer shit
you know it's like oh this is an experimental film like you got to under the oh the band's name
is no direction exactly wait you're gonna charge me 249 for this what the hell
297 what's the name my price well I'll name a price
Yeah, you don't have to pay for it at all.
This is all, listen as you, listen as you made.
Isn't it no direction that, isn't that already taken?
I was just what I said it's no direction.
Oh, it's kind of a joke.
Ah.
You're like, was that the fan that Harry Stiles was in?
No direction.
No, just Harry Alex.
Is the album called Special Sauce Cup?
No, it's, uh, I was just trying to come up with an album cover.
Uh-huh.
And that was a, a screenshot I had, like a pizza order.
and I like snagged the special cup
and it was three for 297
and then Roman slapped no direction on it
and made it four because there was four people in the band
That's perfect
And then the second album we did with his
His Roman's brother too
Who plays the keys
The piece of the synth
He's like really good
Well there you go ladies and gentlemen
Check out
We are no direction.bancamp.com
Yeah
To buy the no direction
double album
Or send is a gift
Or send is a gift
Just buy it for us
None of us are paid for it
There's two albums
There's no direction
Eponymous
And then there's no direction
The second album
No Expectations
You're looking for the perfect Christmas gift
This year
No Expectations is your expectation
Valentine's Day is coming up
Just tell your friends
To have no expectations
Get that perfect something
for that someone. Valentine's Day already happened. There's actually a really interesting project done back
in like 2008, 2009 by this one producer where they would bring in three different artists who
would never work together every like one day a week and they would get like eight hours to
write a song together and they made a full album called Record of the Week Club. Yeah, it's called No Expectations.
Well, it's funny you say it because they used to do this a lot back in the 70s and
stuff. I was talking to the neighbor who's also a music teacher and a Google.
Traveling Wilburys. Well, no, more like Toto and stuff like Quincy Jones. And he'd have like a bunch of
other major artists play. And you wouldn't know, but they're in the background kind of like
playing other stuff. But they'd write songs together in the studio and like put together these
ideas and like, you know, just just kind of neat. And my neighbor was saying how it's kind of sad that
we've gotten away from that.
Now everybody just releases like pop singles.
Like you'll have a band that releases one song.
Bastards.
I guess it depends what you mean by everybody's doing anything.
Because certainly I think that the big labels are doing one thing.
Yeah.
But then you've got more opportunities than ever for people to have decent
equipment and record something.
A hundred percent.
And put it out there.
So I think more music is probably being recorded now than.
You're absolutely right.
before.
Yeah.
More music by more amateurs.
And that's not such a bad thing.
I mean,
they could be very,
very talented amateurs,
but I'm just saying like,
I don't even know what I'm saying.
I love it.
I'm all about it.
I don't want to be around anymore.
The barriers to answer are different.
Any time someone is creating something,
instead of just consuming something,
I think that's really amazing,
you know?
So many people are,
just reading things that other people write or listening to things that other people record or
watching TV shows or whatever, but to like actually be putting some creativity in the other
direction out into the world, even if it's just, you know, four or five guys doing like a jam band
thing once a year, I think is amazing and good for you. All right. You've convinced me. Let's record an
episode of Dishame. Yes. Or like five people come together to create something new. It'll be 250 a down
load for this episode
2.97? What was the
If you're listening, you will have already
paid the present mission.
That's we are no expectations
dot bandcamp.com.
This has been a fishing scam this entire time.
We have stolen
so many credit card numbers.
What a disappointing name for a fishing scam.
I really wish some
bass or pike would be coming in the mail
but nope, just credit card stuff.
Holy stupid anchovies.
Andrews are great.
Funnily enough,
so I release all my malevolent music on band camp.
And I...
Oh, do you?
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
But I got a notification and they were like,
oh, you've passed like this benchmark as an artist.
And I sold over $500 of songs just from the malevolent soundtrack.
But it totally came out of nowhere.
Like, I didn't expect it.
It's just like this kind of talent.
There's only like four or five songs on there or something like that.
So, but it opened this new thing where it's like,
$500?
I could say I'm...
a very, very minor recording artist.
Totally.
If there's a, if there's like a sliding scale of like, here's where you're at and here's
where you can be.
Yeah.
I'm like right before the first, I'm, I was going to say right before being getting on
the chart, but I'm technically on the chart and the smallest percentage.
You're in the starting blocks.
I mean, 500 bucks is a little more than beer and pizza money for, right?
Like, that's the next level of, it comes in drips and drabs, but it felt, it felt really weird
to get because, like, the email that they send you is like,
Congratulations, you know, artist.
And I was like, artist.
Whoa.
It's like, hello.
I like the feeling like that.
How shiny this feels.
You get a message through band camp.
It's like, hey, someone commented on your, on your no direction band website page.
It's like, hey, I'm, I race there.
And it's like, who the heck is Rob D?
Ha, ha.
Good one.
It's like a buddy of my.
Classic.
That's good.
I publish writing on.
on my articles have to go up on Medium.
And the weird thing about that is that to earn money on there,
you have to have like a hundred followers, basically, on there of your account.
And so that means that every time you're like just sort of like slowly watching that number tick up,
like, come on, man, come on.
I'm sitting at like, I'm in like, I've stalled out at like, I don't know, like 92 or something.
There you go.
Ladies and gentlemen, non-binary friends, head to.
Oh, I don't.
www.adim.com slash Alex.
I wasn't ready for this blog.
Yeah.
You can read my stuff like David Sedaris's fight club and...
I don't think he wrote Fight Club, Alex.
You've been misinformed.
No, he did not, but I wrote it.
I rewrote the opening as if David Sedaris wrote it in a personal essay.
And, or things like a paranormal dating bestiary.
It's medium.com slash at.
Like the symbol, Alex.N.
I wish it was longer and more awkward.
I wish both of your URLs were longer, more awkward to be funny.
So much more punch.
GeoCities dash.
Angel fire backslash semicolon.
Tilden.
XX angel underscore 69.
Sweetie baby fire.
But yeah, so medium.com slash at.
Alex.
What's the N stand for?
No, just narwhal.
Nice.
And Rob, you don't have a site to boost, but we'll boost you.
Just die shame.
Just send Rob.
Just send Rob money.
Send Rob Uber Eats money.
Yeah, sure.
Buy him a, buy him a bonnie sandwich.
Yes.
Fix his car.
Yeah.
Fix Rob's car.
Bon me.
Bon me.
Cool.
Yeah.
So no expectations.com and medium.
It's no direct.
I'll just say it.
We are no direction.
bandcamp.com.
I already did it.
You kept calling no expectations.
Oh, I'm sorry. Did I really?
I wasn't trying to do that.
I was trying to do that.
I was just saying it.
I know, that's why I was saying it.
Well, you know, if you're looking for a name change, yeah, well, you weren't entirely wrong.
It's just that's the name.
I was just that you were making shit up full whole cloth.
You were making up this whole intro anyways the whole time.
We're just in the spirit of the.
We're just riffing.
We're just improving.
That's right.
And download malevolence music at malevolent.
bandcalf.com, probably.
Yeah, and fix Rob's car.
And FixRob's car at fixroxRog's car.com.
Fix Robcarscar.
Fix Robcar.
FixRobcar.
I want to go to that website.
Keep clicking the button just for, like, see you when the car gets fixed.
It's like a cookie clicker.
No, there's no fix robcar.com.
Which means the URL's available.
Yes.
Fix robcar.com.
Someone buy it.
Buy it, buy it, buy it.
Quick, quick.
$10.
Oh, I should not tell Andy he will buy it.
I mean, this.
I've spent more for a bit.
Man, we used to have a bit all the time when Chris was on the Invictus stream called
Don't Do What Chris Do.com.
I was so tempted to be like to buy it, but I never committed to the bit fully.
You had a lot of fake URLs that you were promoting.
Yeah, I like the fake URL gag.
It's just always funny to me to be like, oh, you know, fix robcar.com.
Yep, fix robcar.
Speaking of fix robcar.com.
Have you ever been to WeShish Robcar.
I should play d&D now.com?
I've never been.
I've been to Dishamepodcast.com.
Have you guys ever been to
who the fuck is my d&D character.com?
Yes.
Yeah.
I think you miss my joke though,
honestly, guys.
No, we got it.
We all got it.
It's like,
for that and more amazing content,
go to we are no direction,
the dot vancalf.
Go to fix Rob Car.
Improv.
but yeah let's do d and d let's do it red jack dorin marie and ellister all stand in dorin doreen in dorin iron iron fist's bedchambers this frail older dwarf is lying in bed
and she is clasping Doran's hand weekly.
Red, you've just gone through Gautier Brighthelm's backpack
and found a very interesting letter.
The broken seal on the paper is a black wax stamp
in the shape of a rolling wave.
Red slowly opens the letter in his hands.
We appreciate your generosity next target.
acknowledged.
Sources suggest he's traveling to water deep
where we can have an agent waiting to intercept.
Considering military background, the payment is 500 gold.
We await confirmation.
Doran, and red like folds the letter and kind of
tucks it away and just says,
I think Oteer is the one who hired me
to try to kill you.
Hired you to kill him, what?
I mentioned a few times.
I used to work for the Dark Tide.
They hired me to kill Doren,
and I had a change of heart.
But I think it was Gautier that hired me, Doran.
Doren looks up slowly from his mother,
almost not taking his eyes off of her.
I, and Red sort of steps back.
and puts a hand on his head
I don't know what to say
I guess
I don't know
and he kind of looks to Jack for a second
a bit hollow
we knew someone did
but just happened to be Guter
right? Yeah but
I mean
look Doren
you've done a bunch of staff
in your life staff that is
questionable you know
and I guess
part of me always thought that
there was somebody from your past that you wronged, you know, someone from Stunted Danlin's Peak
or an old military body that you, a bad cold got his arm chopped off, but it makes me wonder how
many of those people that I, you know, I mean, how many of them were just scorned lovers or
poor friends, cousins who, what did you do to him, Doran? What did you do to go to here to
to warrant this kind of, this brutality.
And Red kind of like, head spins for a second.
I just, it doesn't make sense.
It doesn't make sense.
And Red walks over and kind of sits in the corner.
Mari's just not sure what to think and just kind of looking at Red as he starts to sort
of spiral out and then looking at Jack, like, what do we do now?
Jack is sort of pensive wheels spinning in his head.
He's really vividly remembering that moment.
glimpsed thanks to our mushroom friend of Gautier and Doreen talking and how Gautier talked about
ending the iron fist line and the last of the iron fists and that was something sort of a thing he
said his goal was in that moment. Dorn, is there, why is it important to Gautier to end your
family line or anything? Are you set to inherit something that he wants? Is there, does Doreen have
something that he wants to inherit that, that would get in the way if, if tradition were to stand true?
Doren, not really taking his eyes off of his mother, continues to gently clasp his mother's hand.
Jack, I have no clue why Gautier would want me dead, or to torture my mother in such a, such a brutal way.
She's so old and frail.
What the hell has he been doing to you?
Mom, is there any reason why Gautier would want me dead?
tears begin to well in her eyes and as one rolls down her cheek she opens her mouth to speak but is unable to do so
and so she finishes with kind of a dejected shrug I want to find out what she's trying to communicate
she's trying to communicate that she doesn't know with a shrug or she trying to say that she doesn't know
how to tell me something.
Ah, so that's an insight role.
Okay.
It's going to be an eight total?
She seems sad and frustrated.
I snatched the letter and flipping it to a blank area.
I reach across her bed to her side table and there's a pencil there.
If I put it in her hand, can she try to scribble something down for me?
Yeah. So you give your mother this letter, this assassin letter. And on the back, you flip it over and you give her a pencil. She holds it in her curled hands and then looks up to you expectantly for a question she might answer.
Is there another reason why Gatir would want to kill me other than, of course, my missteps?
With a shaking hand, Doreen begins to scrawl in Dwarvish script, two words.
And each word seems to sap strength from her, that at the end, she pushes the piece of paper towards you on her lap and closes her eyes for respite.
And Dorian, you read the shaky words, my fault.
Mm-hmm.
Brutal.
That's brutal, Mom.
Mari, do you have a sense of what ails her?
Is she just that old?
Or do you think that she really has a rock plague?
I don't know if it's rock plague, but it's certainly.
And she goes a little closer and can I do a medicine check?
You absolutely can
And she coughs directly to
Marrisesau.
Yeah
Whatever she's got, I've got it now.
Constitution saving, bro.
You love to see it.
Ooh, I rolled
a, I rolled a 27.
Oh, holy shit.
Yes.
Mari, this woman is not suffering
a case of the old.
She's also not
suffering from any kind of
communicable disease
that you can tell.
they're you know she doesn't have a fever she's not
she doesn't have any kind of rash
you know you're running through these like
lists of things in your head that it could be and
nothing applies
can I see any there are any marks on her body
or that I can see like on her hands or arms
or face her neck or anything
she's got pentagrams in the back of her hands
yeah I was going to say she's got a sweet tramp
Curst, and we'll list us.
Yo, Dora, your mom is sick.
No, she doesn't have any strange markings to your knowledge.
Jack, I don't know.
I can't.
I'm trying to think through everything, every kind of disease that I've dealt with,
every sort of sickness that I've worked out.
I've tried to help heal, and I don't know what this is.
And Doren sort of overhears this and breaking his silence from deep.
thought, he turns up to you and looks at you, Mari, and says,
So what you're telling me, she's not just incredibly old or ill?
There's something, like a spell that's been cast on her?
Something is wrong.
It's not, it's not age.
I mean, your mother is old, Doren, but this isn't, that's not what's causing it.
And it's nothing mundane.
It's nothing I've seen before.
So have we got like a healing potion or something?
we just let her take a drink from?
I mean, my options are like,
hit her with the staff of healing,
see if that helps.
What else do I got?
I got it.
Hit her.
Greater restoration?
I don't know.
Oh, that, see, that might do the trick.
I've got the lesser version in a charm.
Yeah.
Red stands up in the corner.
He walks over.
She said that it's her fault.
You don't know what.
What's ailing? It's not medical.
No.
Doreen, and Red walks over, and the paper's still there, right?
Doreen, do you hear any voices?
Is there anything clouding your mind, maybe?
She shakes her head.
Shakes a yes or no?
Tell us, Doreen.
Roll insight.
It's a non-committal kind of waggle.
Oh, really?
Yeah, almost like she's a baby with a weak neck.
No, I'm just kidding.
She shakes her head.
Very weakly, no.
I think it probably...
And Red's eye falls to her for a second.
And then he turns to Doran with kind of a quizzical look and he goes,
Dornan, is your mom wearing anything, any jewelry or anything that seems out of place for her?
And looking at her, is she wearing...
any of you jewelry or?
She is wearing her
standard set of earrings
that you know her to wear.
She's got a couple of rings
on as well. No necklaces.
I'm not stealing
this from you, Mom.
Doran slowly removes
the jewelry from his
mother. Her earrings
are not a problem.
And as you
remove the rings from her
right hand you recognize the ring that your father gave her 50 years ago on an anniversary of some
kind you recognize another ring a family heirloom and then you come to a ring on her left hand
that you do not recognize it's gold inlaid with a square red ruby and no matter how you try you
are unable to remove it.
Whoa.
Whoa.
Hold on.
Look at this.
It's not coming off?
It's not coming off.
And it's also not one that I recognize.
I mean, these are heirlooms.
And, and, and, and, and, but this one is, hold on, red ruby.
Doreen's face has gone ashen white.
Doran, stop.
Yeah.
And no, Dorn, I think that's, she takes Doreen's hand like very gently.
And I imagine it's like very light
And like that kind of like onion skinny feel
Ew
What the fuck is wrong with you?
Get the butter
Like it's very
Smells like onion
Onion skinny hands
I'm just saying they have layers
Like onion skin?
Do you know where he like flakes off
It like falls to the floor
You know
She means like translucent
You're trying to peel it old person
It's just in Japanese paper
Yeah
Someone in the audience is
Paperies
People have thin hands, but it's not dry like onion skin.
It's like...
Yeah, a win.
I hope.
You pick up her hand and it just blows the way in the wind.
Oh, God.
It's all in my backpack.
I should have gotten my grocery bag.
Hopefully the ring isn't attached to anything anymore.
God, there's a weird smell.
Your mom's weird.
Hands are like onions.
Old people have.
You can do all kinds of things with them.
Oh.
Oh, so you take her hand, very gently.
Yeah, so I'm assuming she can tell it's magic.
Yes, Mari, as your hand closes over Doreen's hand, you feel that this ring does possess magic.
Can I do a history check on it?
Yep.
Roll history.
I rolled an eight.
You don't recognize this ring.
Guys, this is, it is a magic ring, and it's not coming off, and I could try something to maybe
get her to unattune from it to get this to to stop working.
I could try to help, but I don't know.
I'm a little, I'm a little.
What if it's the only thing that's keeping her together at this point?
It's like the ribbon around the neck story?
The green ribbon.
I can help too, and Red holds up a knife.
Get off her finger.
Whoa.
Do what you can, Mari.
I think, look, we're here now.
We might not get another opportunity.
Who knows what Gautier has waiting for us?
And you could do it this time.
There's no one who knows magic rings like you do.
Jack says touching the ring on his finger
that makes magic that you wove together
and put into this meteorite band.
Like if anybody can untie the knots that are holding that there,
you've got the skills for this.
Okay.
And she holds Doreen's hand,
and sort of puts both hands on it,
and closes her eyes and starts to concentrate and there's this light that starts to form
around sort of around her chest and it flows down her arms and into her hand and you can sort of hear
the voices of you know other women kind of whispering in the background as all of this magic
starts to pour out of her into Doreen into her hand and tries to push it like into Doreen's body
to try to heal her.
You feel it first in the temperature of her hand.
It warms perceptibly.
And then as color begins to return to Doreen's skin,
this strange substance, almost like ash,
begins to peel off of her face and her arms and her hands,
and it disintegrates to dust as it hits the floor.
Doreen looks up at you,
with clear eyes and then looks around the room almost as if for the first time
until her eyes land on Doran and she says my son mom oh thank you thank you thank you
and he turns to his mother and kisses her on the cheeks and on that face and
Mari, the ring drops off into your hand.
Here, Red.
Oh.
Got another ring for you.
She slips into it.
Well, Alistair, you needed to do.
Here, Alistair.
Will you promise to be mine?
Does it look any different?
The ruby in it, this square cut gem glistens like spilled blood.
Here, Mari, pull in this, and Red grabs one of the boxes,
the infernal puzzle boxes that was open.
Nice.
And he holds it out to, like, kind of,
drop it in like we're hot.
Can I take a look at it quick before you seal it away?
Are you sure that's wise?
Jack, your magic's so wild right now.
I don't need to touch it.
I just wanted to take a look and see if I recognized it at all.
I can't wait to find out who you guys put this ring on because they're going to get
fucked.
Zulken.
Absolutely.
Rob, you can roll a history check for me.
How about 24?
Okay.
Something tickles the back of your mind.
and you remember having read about a ring like this,
you think that it's called the ember ring, possibly.
You know that it's not fatal to the person who wears it,
but it's definitely going to give them a bad time.
Do I know what happened to the last person who wore it?
Yeah, Mari uncursed them.
Right here.
History, 24.
No, you don't recall.
Okay.
I think Jack just does the wizard thing and goes,
the ember ring as red is sealing it away inside so mysterious oh that's all i know about it it's a bad
time i think we all got that red puts the puts in the infernal puzzle box and shuts it doesn't lock it
but it might be good to use if we have a need to uh you know and red puts it in his bag of holding
Doreen, his eyes welling with tears of joy
Oh my God, I'm so happy that you're
This was just a cursed ring and you're not actually sick
Doreen grabs you around the shoulders
And pushes you back and holds you at arm's length
And gives you like a deep look in your eyes
and then she says
It's been so long
It has been
And he clasps her shoulders
As she's clasping his
Dorin
My son
And you see her eyes
Just darting all over your face
She's taking in the details
She's looking at the
gray hair
That are popping up in your beard
And on your temples
She's looking at
You know, the flex of blood, at your armor.
She's like, you watch her absorb you.
Every day, I hoped that you would walk through that door.
Mom, I'm sorry.
I'm sorry that I left.
I'm sorry that I stayed away for so long.
I just, I couldn't face you any longer after Goren and Lauren.
And there's nothing else I can say other than, you know,
it was always a mistake.
sake. It was never meant to happen. I don't even know what happened to them. And, and, you know, these
are my very powerful friends. I mean, look, look what my friends I've made. This is, that's red. And
that's Jack. And this is Marian. And that's Ellister. There's so much to catch up on. I'm,
I'm just, I'm sorry that I ever left you.
You look like a hero.
Do you see pride in Doran's eyes and I knew that that you were going to make me proud
I've been making a name for myself mom I really have why did it take you so long to
come home I was I was afraid and I was I was embarrassed
about
the mistakes that I've made
and
how I'm
how I represented our name
and I was afraid that you might not
want to see me again
in fact
I almost never did come home
because I was certain
that you never wanted to see me again
but
now I see you and I realize
what a huge mistake I've made
son I told you
from when you were a small boy
learning the art of the forge
that even when you miss fire
an instrument
when you make a mistake
it's about learning
and doing better next time
and that there's nothing you could do
really
that would
take you from my heart
and it saddens me to think
that you forgot that somewhere along the way
and he puts his hand on your cheek and he says
no more sadness
no more sadness
let's move forward
I'm here with you now
and you're you're much better than you were
thanks again to
my very powerful friend Mari here
But I'm afraid, Doran, that this is my own stupid fault.
Why would you think that?
You know your cousin has always had his own ways.
Of course.
You haven't been home for such a long time that you didn't see him rise to power in the community, but...
Well, I long suspected he was using illicit means
Getting rid of his competition, blackmail, that kind of thing
And I wrote a letter
Before the election
To the council to warn them of my suspicions
But Gautier intercepted it somehow
And he came to see me
It was ugly
At first
At first
I just laid it all bare
And I asked him to do better
But he flew off the handle at me
There was some miscommunication
This was only a few months ago
But I've relived that night
Every day since
Yeah but mom
It was never your fault
That you were trying your hardest
you had the right thinking
your heart was there
you were just trying to do good
the fact that he intercepted it
just shows
how cruel
and terrible a person he is
how dastardly and manipulative
thinking about how he slept in his house
Doran
you don't even understand the half of it
and she gives you
this
painful
look. Doran, that night, things escalated. He admitted a terrible truth that he'd been carrying
for many decades. That it was him, Doran. So long ago, with Gorin, with Lauren, he was him.
What?
He was responsible for the darkness that lost your brothers in the mountain.
What?
What?
Jordan.
It's...
Yes, Doren.
It's...
What?
On hearing that, I lost my mind.
With rage.
and fury.
And I promised him that you would avenge your brother's death.
And that was too much for him to know. You were always his better.
And he knew that if I told you the truth of this, that it would be his death.
And so he ruined me with this ring and kept me.
prisoner in this house.
He promised
me he would
kill you first and that I would know it.
In the silence, the others in the room
can nearly hear my teeth grinding
against each other.
And I look
up to my mother and I
say,
You're right.
I am going to kill him.
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With a shaking hand, she begins to write.
Dwarvish script.
What?
The mind makes a little.
Just
D.
She draws.
She draws a dick butt.
I just know I just like it's like
nothing, you know, like nothing.
Like really.
And he's like, oh, mother.
There's a hill.
A hill nearby?
It all makes sense to me.
That's good.
That's really funny.
She draws one of those.
asses.
Mom, that's so cool.
She just draws one anime eye.
And then big tits.
I want you to put this at the end of that episode.
I love you to the Wikipedia page.
Just calls it the cool s.
oh my god she draws that picture where there's a guy looking over the edge of something
it's just his nose and his oh man sorry just a peace sign of smiley face and a ying yang
fuck you you deserve it doran
me to try to kill you hired you well oh it's my whole back story i don't know if you
right sorry sorry sorry sorry sorry that's marie marie can say that you can't that is our word
that is our unknowledged i was thrown for a second sorry that's okay threw me there i'm like
is that your letter and then as color begins to
return to Doreen's skin, this strange substance, almost like ash, begins to peel off
of her face and her arms and her arm.
Sorry.
I was going to go there, but I was just, she was on a roll, but.