Dice Shame - 2-85 | 'Every Mother's Son'

Episode Date: April 11, 2024

Alex 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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Starting point is 00:00:00 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.
Starting point is 00:00:13 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.
Starting point is 00:00:29 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.
Starting point is 00:01:01 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?
Starting point is 00:01:24 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
Starting point is 00:01:35 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
Starting point is 00:01:49 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.
Starting point is 00:02:01 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.
Starting point is 00:02:26 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?
Starting point is 00:02:41 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.
Starting point is 00:02:56 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.
Starting point is 00:03:19 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
Starting point is 00:03:56 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.
Starting point is 00:04:11 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
Starting point is 00:04:33 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
Starting point is 00:04:46 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
Starting point is 00:05:00 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
Starting point is 00:05:10 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
Starting point is 00:05:37 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
Starting point is 00:06:21 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
Starting point is 00:06:41 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.
Starting point is 00:06:54 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.
Starting point is 00:07:04 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
Starting point is 00:07:26 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.
Starting point is 00:07:58 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
Starting point is 00:08:14 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.
Starting point is 00:08:27 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,
Starting point is 00:08:47 $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
Starting point is 00:09:03 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.
Starting point is 00:09:24 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.
Starting point is 00:09:42 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.
Starting point is 00:10:01 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.
Starting point is 00:10:25 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.
Starting point is 00:10:49 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.
Starting point is 00:11:07 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.
Starting point is 00:11:26 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.
Starting point is 00:11:36 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.
Starting point is 00:11:46 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.
Starting point is 00:11:57 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.
Starting point is 00:12:14 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.
Starting point is 00:12:27 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.
Starting point is 00:12:42 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.
Starting point is 00:12:56 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?
Starting point is 00:13:22 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.
Starting point is 00:13:33 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.
Starting point is 00:13:47 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.
Starting point is 00:14:42 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
Starting point is 00:15:11 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,
Starting point is 00:15:36 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
Starting point is 00:15:53 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
Starting point is 00:16:07 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.
Starting point is 00:16:46 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
Starting point is 00:17:14 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?
Starting point is 00:18:03 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?
Starting point is 00:18:42 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.
Starting point is 00:19:55 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.
Starting point is 00:20:20 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.
Starting point is 00:20:34 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
Starting point is 00:20:48 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
Starting point is 00:21:09 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.
Starting point is 00:21:30 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?
Starting point is 00:22:02 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,
Starting point is 00:22:23 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.
Starting point is 00:22:33 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.
Starting point is 00:22:53 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.
Starting point is 00:23:23 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,
Starting point is 00:23:40 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.
Starting point is 00:24:02 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
Starting point is 00:24:18 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.
Starting point is 00:24:55 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.
Starting point is 00:25:14 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
Starting point is 00:25:29 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
Starting point is 00:25:42 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.
Starting point is 00:25:54 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.
Starting point is 00:26:13 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.
Starting point is 00:26:33 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?
Starting point is 00:27:04 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.
Starting point is 00:27:20 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.
Starting point is 00:27:40 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.
Starting point is 00:28:14 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
Starting point is 00:28:50 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.
Starting point is 00:29:21 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,
Starting point is 00:29:40 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.
Starting point is 00:29:59 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.
Starting point is 00:30:17 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.
Starting point is 00:30:36 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
Starting point is 00:31:18 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
Starting point is 00:31:39 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
Starting point is 00:31:55 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.
Starting point is 00:32:22 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
Starting point is 00:33:10 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
Starting point is 00:33:39 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
Starting point is 00:33:52 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
Starting point is 00:34:13 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
Starting point is 00:34:40 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?
Starting point is 00:35:07 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
Starting point is 00:35:44 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
Starting point is 00:36:03 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
Starting point is 00:36:22 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
Starting point is 00:36:39 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?
Starting point is 00:37:19 He was responsible for the darkness that lost your brothers in the mountain. What? What? Jordan. It's... Yes, Doren. It's... What?
Starting point is 00:37:41 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.
Starting point is 00:38:20 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
Starting point is 00:38:38 say, You're right. I am going to kill him. Thank you to our wonderful patrons Adam Frye Afflicted Adina Aizu Yuckeye Alison Wrights Merlin
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Starting point is 00:39:14 Crow Daniel, Dippity, Flynn, Gareth Bradshaw, Haley, Haley, Hap of the Mox, J.D., Joy Robinson, Julie Holderman, Jury, KR, KM, Cade, Lizana, Last Ruth on the left, Leader J, Liz, Lorelei Feldman, Manderpants, Merrick's Moon, Matilda Rushing, Melinda Curley, Moon, Oakland, Quill Bennett, Regan, Ren, Scotty, Shannon Waldner, S-ray 96, Tegan, Tea Kettle, Tony Pepperoni, Trin, Waffle 427, Xander Morning Dove, Zach House, and Zephyrus. Thank you so much. With a shaking hand, she begins to write. Dwarvish script. What? The mind makes a little.
Starting point is 00:40:19 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.
Starting point is 00:40:35 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.
Starting point is 00:40:54 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
Starting point is 00:41:43 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.

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