#5: Butler Off Dead w/ Elyse Willems
Gumshoes & Dragons
Gumshoes and Dragons
5.0 • 609 Ratings
🗓️ 29 September 2025
⏱️ 69 minutes
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Summary
This week our interpid detectives head a frickin' crime scene and see a frickin' corpse. Sound familiar? Well, that's the show, so it should be sounding familar. But this week there is a Butler involved, hence the cool pun in the title of the episode.
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Guest Murderer
Elyse Willems
Your DM
Anthony Burch
Starring
Adal Rifai
Editor
Omar Romolino
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 | In the fantasy city of Golden Lake, the owl bears may be grizzly, but the murders are even grizzlier. |
| 0:05.8 | These are the cases of the Fritz's Soup and Salad Detective Agency. |
| 0:08.9 | This is Gumshoes and Dragons. |
| 0:10.7 | Starring Alarify as Brass Kemp, John Patrick Cohen as Spoof McNivins, and Aaron Keefe as Moose. |
| 0:16.3 | This week's guest murderer is Elise Willems. |
| 0:20.4 | Well, in a pretty little Zinnigal, Golden Lake, there's no policy of punishing the reprobates, so criminal 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. Smoothic gibbets, smooth a given, there ain't no case can't be saw by these three. |
| 0:38.4 | Try it. |
| 0:39.4 | Yeah! |
| 0:40.4 | You do cremasses established, the stage's been lit. |
| 0:41.2 | I've cramped in all the exposition that these measures can fit. |
| 0:43.4 | It's time to roll some dice and get this mystery fixed. |
| 0:45.7 | Got shoes and drag-up. |
| 0:49.5 | A horse-drawn carriage takes the Fritz's Soup and Sal Detective Agency members through a magical forest. |
| 0:59.3 | I don't know why I mentioned that it's magical. |
| 1:00.4 | It's not relevant to what we're doing, but just know that it's magical, I guess. |
| 1:04.3 | Oh, I tuck my pants into my socks as soon as I hear it's magical. |
| 1:07.3 | Yeah, we all do. |
| 1:08.2 | We know how this goes. |
| 1:10.6 | You've been summoned to the manner of the Baron Darius Carius von Various, a millionaire |
| 1:14.6 | recluse who is known for never leaving his estate. What are you talking about on the way to the |
| 1:19.2 | manor? We are, we keep practicing saying his name over and over as to not appear rude once |
| 1:26.4 | we meet him. |
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