#4: Renaissance Unfaire w/ Beth May
Gumshoes & Dragons
Gumshoes and Dragons
5.0 • 609 Ratings
🗓️ 15 September 2025
⏱️ 82 minutes
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Summary
This week our interpid detectives head to the King's Faire to eat some fried food, enjoy some libations, and probably attempt to solve a murder. And our friend Beth May is here too. Hmm, I wonder if she's going to end up being the murderer? You'll have to listen to find out!
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Guest Murderer
Beth May
Your DM
Anthony Burch
Starring
Adal Rifai
Editor
Casey Toney
Theme by:
Arne Parrott
Produced by:
John Patrick Coan
Episode Artwork by:
Paige Kilcullen
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Within the fantasy city of Golden Lake, the spells are expensive, life is cheap, and murders are everywhere. |
| 0:07.5 | These are the cases of the Fritz's soup-and-style detective agency. |
| 0:11.1 | This is Gumpchus and Dragons, starring Alarify as Brass Kemp, John Patrick Cohen as Spoof McNivins, and Aaron Keith as Moose. |
| 0:19.3 | This week's guest to murderer is Beth May. Well, in a pretty little city got Golden Lake, there's no policy of punishing the reprobates, so criminals solve crimes to rehabilitate, and that's what our heroes will do. You got brass kept, a minotore orphan, moose is a gnome who is covered in leaves. Smooth gibbets smooth a given there ain't no case can't be saw by these three |
| 0:40.3 | TRIA! |
| 0:41.3 | I give to crampuses established the stage's been lit |
| 0:43.3 | I cramped in all the exposition that these measures can fit |
| 0:45.3 | it's time to roll some dice and get this mystery fixed |
| 0:48.3 | gun shoes and dragons Dragon When we last left the Fritz's Sup and Salad |
| 0:57.0 | Detective Agency, you had just successfully solved yet another mystery. |
| 1:06.0 | And Moose was dealing with the fact that a fortune teller showed them that in the future, |
| 1:10.0 | they may or may not be responsible for the death of Brass Camp. |
| 1:15.1 | While you're mulling that over, oh yeah, and a fucking guy that Clow pointed at you and said |
| 1:19.0 | soon, because I'm a fucking hack, and that's how we foreshadowed things. |
| 1:22.8 | The next day, your Iven bursts to life and goes, |
| 1:28.2 | potential murder, potential maybe missing person. |
| 1:32.2 | Moose is sitting at his desk and he's trying to get a popcorn kernel out of its teeth |
| 1:36.9 | unsuccessfully. |
| 1:38.8 | Brass is probably in a corner somewhere doing push-ups. |
| 1:45.4 | 468, 4669, nice. |
| 1:47.8 | Why are you counting down from 4-70? |
| 1:50.3 | Because I hope to get all the way down to one. |
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