Chaotic Naturals

Curse of Strahd - Episode 17 'Baba Lysaga'

Chaotic Naturals Season 1 Episode 17

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The long awaited battle with Baba Lysaga takes an unpredicted and unfortunate turn in this intense episode.

SPEAKER_19

Thank you all for joining us for episode 17 of our Curse of Strahd adventure. Last episode began as the players left Rictavio's Tower and headed for Argonvostolt to see what secrets lie within and what assistance they could get from Vladimir, the leader of the Order of the Silver Dragon. So they left, they arrived. It seemed like a very empty, dilapidated, worn down castle, showing its age very much. Went inside, saw a bunch of busts and portraits of uh the altar egos. Not to mention the huge knockers on the door.

SPEAKER_04

Yeah, huge knockers, many busts. Yeah.

SPEAKER_19

Um went along, saw all the altar egos of Argonvost, the silver dragon for which this castle is named.

SPEAKER_04

Um That's what that is? You didn't tell us.

SPEAKER_19

I did.

SPEAKER_04

Yeah.

SPEAKER_19

Oh. You did. Sorry, I wasn't feeling good last time. And the the main guy uh was Lord Argonvost that he that the dragon transformed into. Very handsome man. Um quickly uh found a uh this little dragon dust meffit dragon type thing uh in a chimney uh or a fireplace that shot out um and was able to communicate with you. Told you that Vladimir was just upstairs, so uh very quickly uh found Vladimir upstairs, communicated with him. He was very wary of giving you assistance because it seemed like you guys wanted to kill Strahd. He was right. Um so you tried to negotiate with him, he was not having it. He really doesn't want Strahd to die, he really wants Strahd to suffer in this hellscape that he's created for himself. Um and so he was not going to let you leave without a real plan on how to defeat Strahd without killing him. So uh he pointed you in the direction of possible information, which you did find as uh a little journal entry uh that described Argenvast and his bones, and how his bones uh if they are in Argenvostolt in the correct place, create a beacon of hope. So uh clearly Argenvost's bones are not here. Went back, spoke with Vladimir. He said maybe they're in Castle Ravenloft. Of course. So he let you leave based on the fact that you told him you would retrieve Argon Argonvost's bones from Castle Ravenloft, bring them back, and light the beacon. That would piss Strahd off. Mm-hmm. Um so you've you've got a couple different things to do in Strahd's castle other than just fighting Strahd. You've gotta get Argonvost bones, you've gotta get his brother's sword, you if if you want to find that uh mechanical man that Blinksy wanted you to find. Right, and fucking daughter, yeah, Gertruda. See if she's in there. And then one more that you found out about at the werewolf's den, Emile. Oh, her hubby, right? Who is your new compatriot that um was foretold by Madame Eva Zulika Torinescu.

SPEAKER_13

We have to find Emile before he becomes Emile.

SPEAKER_19

Yes. She fears that uh that her husband Emile, uh both of them werewolves, um, that her husband Emile is either dead or trapped in Strahd's castle. You have not found out why. It was kind of a quick operation. Um, but yeah, as you snuck around, uh you snuck yourselves all the way through the werewolf's den uh with the help of some ranger magic. Um convinced her that uh you would help her get her husband back if she helps you um get there, essentially. Um she's pretty strong, she's a werewolf, so uh you're about to see how strong werewolves are as you uh her her she made two requests, and if you complete these two requests, she will join you uh on this journey. The first one being rescuing Emil, uh which obviously will have to happen eventually. Uh the second one being kill and supplant uh Kiril Stoyanovich, who is the pack leader of this werewolf den. Fuck that beat. He is now arriving back at the den. You have been hiding in the trees right next to the entrance to the cave, to the den waiting his return. And you see him along with six other werewolves and nine regular wolves approach the werewolf den back from their hunt. Uh, and before we start, before we roll initiative, uh, I do have to clear up a thing that I I misspoke last time. I believe I said that the children were there captured to just be eaten, um, which was incorrect. They are there, uh, they capture these children, and Emile as a leader uh wishes for them all to be turned into werewolves so that the pack can expand and they can be safe from Strahd. Uh Kirill, however, has allied himself with Strahd and he is a bit more violent. He has them fight to the death with weapons, and the one that comes out on top get gets the honor of being turned into a werewolf. Jesus. So somehow worse? The children, yeah, not neither one very good. Uh, though a life as a werewolf in Barovia might be a safer one than just the life as a normal person. Who knows? Um, they seem to be uh they seem to think that uh as werewolves they are the chosen of mother night. Uh you saw that uh shrine that uh that Zulika was praying to, uh the the shrine of Mother Knight. Um so they they think that being a werewolf is a very high honor and something that uh comes with great respect and power. So and with great power comes great responsibility. Um you guys you guys uh Leo is readying an action for when they get within 30 feet, when Kirill specifically gets within 30 feet to cast his spell. Uh you wait in the shadows of the trees, your um your spell by by now has worn off, um, but your stealth check uh remains the same as you are in this deep forest. Um they walk past without noticing you, without smelling you, and are just within range. So after Leo's attack, I'm gonna have everyone roll initiative. We're gonna get into combat. Oh god.

unknown

Oh my god.

SPEAKER_19

So you see a scattered group of nine wolves, six werewolves, and Kiril at the very center of it. What attack are you making?

SPEAKER_08

I am making my Lyriel Silverland. So they all have to, all of the ones that are in a line have to make a strength 15 saving throw.

SPEAKER_19

Okay. Uh this is going to get this is going to get one werewolf, Kierol, and two regular wolves. So I'll roll the first werewolf. You said a 15?

SPEAKER_10

Yes.

SPEAKER_19

That's a 14 for the first werewolf. A 15 for Kiril. Oh.

SPEAKER_09

Does he take half? Yes. Okay.

SPEAKER_19

And a big old miss for both of the wolves. Okay. Excellent.

SPEAKER_15

Okay.

SPEAKER_03

32 damage.

SPEAKER_21

Nice.

SPEAKER_03

For the ones who uh failed and half as much on success.

SPEAKER_19

Okay, so 16 damage to Kirill. Uh the wolves are gonna get knocked the fuck out by 32 damage. Good.

SPEAKER_04

That's force damage, by the way. I don't know. Amazing. That matters.

SPEAKER_19

Uh, and then 32 damage to the other werewolf that gets hit. Uh very hurt. Not quite bloody, but very hurt. These werewolves are pretty tough, but that 32 is a lot of damage. Um the two the two were the two regular wolves in the back row that get hit by this silver lance just a burst into uh blood and guts as they scatter across the rest of the forest. Kirill, however, gets uh with his strength uh pushing back against this silver lance, turns to you and growls.

SPEAKER_08

I'm gonna hide behind a tree and I'm gonna go, what's that awesome guys? Try not to throw up.

SPEAKER_02

Alright, do we take out do we take out the wolves? Yep, I got it.

SPEAKER_19

Oops.

SPEAKER_08

It was really good. Good job. Oh my god.

SPEAKER_19

I did already roll initiative for everybody else. Leo.

SPEAKER_05

Five.

SPEAKER_19

Oh yeah. Leary?

SPEAKER_05

Fifteen.

SPEAKER_19

Okay. Quick draw. 18. Alright. Um, Kirill. Uh, you see, all of the werewolves are in their human forms at this point. Um, Kiril is going to act first. He's going to use his bonus action as he continues that growl at Leo as Leo tucks back. Uh, he looks over and sees the rest of you. Growls and rips his shirt off as he shifts. He didn't got to do all that.

SPEAKER_13

He locks you down a scared and hawning.

SPEAKER_19

Uh and then Jesse uh he just sprints in as fast as he could.

SPEAKER_08

Just scared, just scared. No, no, no, no, no, no, no. No, thank you. Oh my god. Why is he about he's right behind me in the right?

SPEAKER_19

He dashes his full 60 feet of uh dash movement and gets right behind everybody.

SPEAKER_02

So does that not provoke an opportunity attack? Because he is five away from me now.

SPEAKER_19

I just I misplaced him. Okay. Darn it.

SPEAKER_04

Larry Hell! It's gonna be behind me.

SPEAKER_19

He just rips through these trees and forest. Uh you guys are have all tucked yourselves behind these trees, getting uh this half cover from the trees. We should have spread out. He just uh comes up behind. He cannot use an action because he uses action to dash. Um so he is just uh kind of Tokyo drifts through the dirt and leaves and arrives right behind Quick Draw, who's up next. Okay. Uh fuck it.

SPEAKER_02

Yeah, I'm going, I'm going right for him. Uh bonus action hunter's mark on him. Uh 17 to hit for the first attack. That'll hit. Nice. The second one's an 18 on the die, so that will also hit. AC is eight uh is 15.

unknown

Oh.

SPEAKER_12

10. 12.

SPEAKER_02

14 plus 14 plus 8 is 22 damage.

SPEAKER_19

Alright. Two Kiril. 22 damage. Uh with this is with your simtars. No, he oh, right. Because you don't have your disadvantage from close range anymore. Uh just point blank sink into his thick uh werewolf hide. That's only your face. Is that your turn? Yes. Okay. I am moving. That'll bring it to the remaining seven wolves.

SPEAKER_05

We're all gonna run in here.

SPEAKER_19

Um, they are. Uh they have they're a bit quicker because they're a bit smaller. Uh, but they still most of them will still probably have to dash to get to you. AoE would be awesome right now.

SPEAKER_20

Uh I could probably pick off the wolves if you guys if you focus.

SPEAKER_02

Yeah.

SPEAKER_13

Yeah. Please do.

SPEAKER_02

I could probably pick off the wolves if I go one into each. I could probably kill them.

SPEAKER_13

Can just regular werewolf like grunts, can they turn us into wolves, or does it have to be the leader? I really sounded like I was from Lancaster County there.

SPEAKER_03

That's not where I'm from. Don't dox me. I doxed myself.

SPEAKER_08

Um barely heard myself, it's freaking me out.

SPEAKER_19

So all but one of them are going to make it without their dash. They're 40 feet of movement speed uh as these wolves surround you. Um to answer your question, uh, wolves cannot turn you into a werewolf because they do not have the curse of like anthropy. They're just wolves.

SPEAKER_08

Okay, but the werewolves themselves, it doesn't have to be a leader.

SPEAKER_19

Uh yeah, any werewolf can turn you. Uh so they, these wolves are all gonna get advantage because of pack tactics. Yep. Uh they're all gonna go for bites. Wolves get pack tactics. Oh, that's gonna be a lot of bites into me. Um, so that's going to be two bites into everyone except for it's gonna be two bites into Leo, two bites into quick draw, one bite into Leary and uh Zulika. So I'll start with Quick Draw. What's your AC right now? 16. Uh that's a miss for the first wolf. And that's a hit for the second. So one hit into quick draw. For five damage. And you are knocked prone as this wolf sprints up to you and bites you and tackles you to the ground. Leo, two attacks. What's your AC right now?

SPEAKER_13

16.

SPEAKER_19

Okay. One hit, two hits, eight piercing from the first one, and eight piercing from the second one. And you are also knocked prone.

SPEAKER_03

Okay.

unknown

Oh crap.

SPEAKER_04

Keep falling on my eye.

SPEAKER_19

Muriel, one attack.

SPEAKER_04

Keep falling on my eyes.

SPEAKER_19

It's gonna miss. And Zulika, one attack, is going to miss.

unknown

Okay.

SPEAKER_19

So even with advantage, they missed most of their attacks.

SPEAKER_08

I know what that's like.

SPEAKER_19

But they have successfully attacked Leo and Quick Draw, knocking them both prone. Get off me. That is going to be the wolves' turn. That'll bring it to Leary. Get his ass. I'll get the wolves.

SPEAKER_07

Okay. Um.

SPEAKER_08

Yeah, turning around, immediate vow of enmity to give myself advantage. And two sword swings at him.

SPEAKER_07

It's a slutty 20 to hit the first time. And a 17 to hit the second time.

SPEAKER_17

Okay, both are gonna hit.

SPEAKER_08

I am going to use my last second level divine smite on the one. But slashing first.

SPEAKER_07

16 slashing, and then Kirill is now bloody.

SPEAKER_08

Thank God.

SPEAKER_19

Very, very quickly.

SPEAKER_08

This feels incorrect. Um was he not before? What's that red? Or is that your hunter's mark? It's hunter's mark. Um last second level divine smite is 3d8.

SPEAKER_02

Maybe I'll just kill it. Fuck the wolves. Maybe they'll run away.

SPEAKER_08

That's 16 Radiant.

SPEAKER_02

Shh.

SPEAKER_16

He is hurting.

SPEAKER_19

I'll have advantage on my hits because of Vex. I'm fucking going for him. Is that your turn?

SPEAKER_05

Um, yes. Yeah.

SPEAKER_19

Okay. That'll bring it to Zulika. Uh she is going to try and get these two wolves uh that are next to her. Um the first attack. Uh, well, she's gonna bonus action, she's gonna turn into a wolf. Um sound like that.

SPEAKER_13

You sounded like um the guy from King of the Hill when he jumps into the I was trying to growl as a I was trying to growl as a zero.

SPEAKER_08

Yeah. Do you want to sound like that? Sorry, not the time. No, not the time.

SPEAKER_19

Oh, yeah. She's a wolf now. She's a hybrid. Uh she will get pack tactics from all of you guys. I can't say that fucking word. Pack tactics. Um, and she is going to what's up?

SPEAKER_12

Yeah, because we're all within five. 3d6 per hit, bitch.

SPEAKER_19

You didn't use sneak attack last time? Uh no, because they weren't. Oh.

SPEAKER_20

You could have, could've. Fuck. Because yeah, he was right there.

SPEAKER_19

God damn it. Um she's gonna scratch the one in front. Natural 20.

SPEAKER_15

Yeah. Yeah, he's done. Let's fucking yeah.

SPEAKER_19

And then she is going to scratch the one behind. And a 19 on the die. Damn.

SPEAKER_08

Please help us with Trump. You have to stay with us forever. Please.

SPEAKER_13

I will show you and your husband a night like no other.

SPEAKER_22

Um pass me around.

SPEAKER_19

Use me if you bust. The non-crit is going to kill this wolf, the uh the crit.

SPEAKER_08

I'll never forget she said that. As pissed off as I am at her back, that's the funniest thing she's ever said. Use me if you bust. Wipes at me, darling.

SPEAKER_19

Uh so she wipes out both of these wolves. She wipes her ass. She wipes wipes the floor with the ass. Um, and then she is going to run into the fray and attack.

SPEAKER_11

Do you think that's a good idea? She's gone.

SPEAKER_19

Over here. Uh, the two werewolves that pat that she passed, or the one werewolf she passed is going to get an opportunity to.

SPEAKER_13

How would she do that?

SPEAKER_19

Uh that's a one and two on the die.

SPEAKER_08

Are you asking me that from the floor? Um why is she doing that?

SPEAKER_19

She can attack twice. No, that was an opportunity attack. Oh. She attacks twice. Um all right, that's gonna be Zulika's turn that's gonna bring it to uh the other werewolves. They are all going to simultaneously use their bonus actions to turn into werewolves. Uh just wait, patiently waiting their turn to turn.

SPEAKER_20

It's too many werewolves. Yeah, maybe they'll split if we kill the pack leader.

SPEAKER_08

I think. If we like land like a good kill.

SPEAKER_02

If like once we kill him, Zulika will be like, yo, batam bitch. It's me now.

SPEAKER_05

Yeah. Yeah. Oh, hi. Hello.

SPEAKER_19

Okay, we're gonna have two attacks at Zulika. We're gonna have two attacks at Lyriel.

SPEAKER_04

Okay. Lyriel's gonna wolf out.

SPEAKER_19

Uh Zulika's gonna get hit by the first.

SPEAKER_04

Hell yeah.

SPEAKER_19

Oh, actually, not two attacks. Two werewolves are going to attack twice. So four attacks.

SPEAKER_08

I should have blessed everybody. Did she get double like anthropomorph? Yeah, she's no longer a hybrid. She's full wolf.

SPEAKER_19

So the first two attacks are gonna hit Zulika. The second two attacks are gonna hit Zulika. Um so that's gonna be eight d6 plus twelve. Gee.

SPEAKER_08

You hear those sirens outside? Let's run. Oh god. Okay. All of the uh werewolves should howl at them. Quick, do it. Voice it. Start the howl.

SPEAKER_19

There's no way the mic's gonna hear the anybody else? Alright.

SPEAKER_13

Just me?

SPEAKER_19

Just you. She's gonna take 37 damage. Damn.

unknown

Jesus.

SPEAKER_19

Uh from these two werewolves. That will bring her to the bloody condition where she ran around trying to protect uh quick draw as he focuses on uh Kirill uh but uh takes the brunt of the damage. Oh, I should say I am using silver bolts. Yes. Just to clarify. So that'll um that will if you roll a crit, uh you get an extra damage die. That's what that does. Oh! Excellent. Um I thought I had to because they're werewolves. Yeah, in 2014 rules, yeah, but they changed a whole lot with like the magical, like resistance. Magical resistance and bludgeoning, piercing, slashing stuff. So um, yeah, so silvered weapons just that's that's what they do. Okay. You got a 5% chance of an extra damage die. Let's go for it. But on a crit, that's that's pretty crazy damage. Um where was I? Okay, so four slash attacks do 37 damage to Zulika. Uh they're gonna there's gonna be a bite and a slash and a bite and a slash at Liriel. Bite it's cocked. Does a 15 hit.

SPEAKER_10

No.

SPEAKER_19

Bite misses. Slash, not twenty. Second bite. Twenty-one and a fifteen. So one bite and one slash are gonna hit. That's fine. Uh the bite.

SPEAKER_08

That Pen Badgley thing when he was the sorry.

SPEAKER_19

Uh the bite is gonna do six piercing damage. I need you to make a constitution-saving throw. There it is. As you feel this sting of like anthropy sink into your bloodstream.

SPEAKER_08

Do you still have um inspiration? I don't think it stacks.

SPEAKER_19

It does not stack.

SPEAKER_08

No, because I still had it before we got it for the wine from something else, so it doesn't stack.

SPEAKER_19

So you would still have one though, right?

SPEAKER_08

I think so.

SPEAKER_19

No, because she used it right before. No, she used it after you guys would have got it, or at like the same time.

SPEAKER_08

I had I had inspiration already. We got it again, but I hadn't used it right from the city.

SPEAKER_19

That's what I meant to say. Uh so it's a DC 12 con save.

SPEAKER_08

12?

SPEAKER_19

That's not bad.

SPEAKER_07

That is a 12 on the die, so 17.

SPEAKER_19

Okay. Uh, you are now immune. Oh, wow. For the next 24 hours. Oh, okay.

SPEAKER_08

Damn. I feel amazing. You won't end up like my father after all.

SPEAKER_19

Uh you can't get it. I told you I was better.

SPEAKER_08

She's like raw. I told you I was better than him.

SPEAKER_19

Purge it out of your body.

SPEAKER_08

Um that's not hard to do. Her pure like stubbornness is like, no, I I will not.

SPEAKER_19

As you manage to do that, you get hit with a slash for uh for a scratch for six more damage.

SPEAKER_08

Okay. Um just cut through my attempt HP super good.

SPEAKER_19

Okay. Um yeah, the rest of the werewolves are still out of range as they were kind of in the back of the pack. So they are not. I'm not gonna dash with them.

SPEAKER_08

You're okay, points? Too excited, and I spot coffee wrong.

SPEAKER_19

No, I will dash with them, actually.

SPEAKER_08

Jesus.

SPEAKER_19

Okay.

SPEAKER_08

One of my only notes for tonight is gonna be I'm immune.

SPEAKER_19

Alright, that'll bring it to Leo. Last up.

SPEAKER_08

I am conflicted because I either want to cast Spirit Guardians or I want to heal our girl.

SPEAKER_19

Spirit, dude, spirit guardians.

SPEAKER_08

Okay. I'm spirit guardian.

SPEAKER_19

That'll really hurt him. Are your allies immune to this?

SPEAKER_08

Yes.

SPEAKER_19

Okay.

SPEAKER_08

So they all have to make a wisdom 15. Anybody that's within 50. It's a 15-foot emanation.

SPEAKER_19

Would you like to stand up?

SPEAKER_08

Yeah.

SPEAKER_15

No.

SPEAKER_08

No, I'll do it from the floor. He's like Diva Death Drops. Oh wow, that's spirit goddess.

SPEAKER_02

That's all the surrounding ones, save for the ones.

SPEAKER_19

Yeah, wow. That's gonna be everyone, but a a single werewolf and a single wolf. Oh my god. Uh, wisdom save what's the DC?

SPEAKER_08

15.

SPEAKER_19

Okay. So that's gonna be one, two, three, four, five werewolves. Aoe is our friend right now.

SPEAKER_03

How much?

SPEAKER_19

Uh four wolves and Kiril. So I'll do Kirill first because that's the most important. Give bug. Sorry, you said a wisdom what?

SPEAKER_04

15.

SPEAKER_19

What are you doing?

SPEAKER_04

Damage rolls so good.

SPEAKER_19

Uh that's a nine for Kirill. Damn. And he's already very hurt. Uh the four wolves. Fail. Fail. Fail. Those were dead. Fail. So safe to assume those guys are dead. Hold on. Werewolves. Four werewolves. Or five five werewolves? Five werewolves. Fail. Fail. Fail. Fail. What the fuck? Yo! What's going to be there after this? Out of all of those saving throws, I rolled two double digit numbers. Oh my god. Wow.

SPEAKER_08

I know you said you stood up, but I do like to think that he's still death-dropped on the floor. That's really funny, actually. Can we say that he is still death-dropped on the floor? No, because they're all gonna fire one.

SPEAKER_19

Spirit guardians are like clipping through the ground like if it's a video game.

SPEAKER_08

Um, so I rolled 23 out of 24 damage. Oh my god. It was 3d8.

SPEAKER_19

I rolled two eights and a seven. Holy shit. Dude, how much damage?

SPEAKER_08

So that's 23.

SPEAKER_19

23.

SPEAKER_08

And then it's half as much on a success. Ain't nobody succeeded.

SPEAKER_19

Yeah. Yeah, wolves wolves are dead. All of the wolves are dead.

SPEAKER_13

Oh yeah, Genny's gonna be so happy to hear about that.

SPEAKER_20

And they have to make this save at the end of their turns, too.

SPEAKER_13

Yeah.

SPEAKER_20

Dude, Spirit Guardians is so good.

SPEAKER_16

Yeah.

SPEAKER_19

So all but one of the werewolves takes 23. They're all very hurt. The one is very bloody, the one that already got hit by your silver lance or uh Lyrial Lyriel's Lance, whatever you want to call it. Kirill. With 20 hit points remaining. Oh my god. How do you want to do this? Let's go.

SPEAKER_13

He burns in my holy fire and just screams and falls to the ground.

SPEAKER_08

He's dead.

SPEAKER_12

Avenge me!

SPEAKER_08

Yeah, exactly like that. No, bitch! I flip him off. Seemed a bit easier than I thought. I mean, I know it's the flight tank.

SPEAKER_19

Um, okay.

SPEAKER_08

Um, their speed is also halved of the emanation.

SPEAKER_19

I don't think they go in a way.

SPEAKER_03

Um let me just read this to make sure they didn't change anything.

SPEAKER_17

Is that the end of your turn though?

SPEAKER_03

Yes.

SPEAKER_08

Whenever the creature, whenever it enters a creature space, and whenever a creature enters the emanation or ends its turn there, it remakes the save.

SPEAKER_19

Uh you see, as Kiril falls, the strongest of all the werewolves, their alpha, their pack leader, uh, falls flaming and uh ignited by this radiant energy. Uh you see uh all of the wolves kind of yelp and kind of back up slightly. Uh the werewolves uh kind of look around at each other, uh, and you see Zulika um stand up tall.

SPEAKER_21

Your leader has fallen. You best be in good shape when we're back.

SPEAKER_19

And they all kind of look at each other uh sink down a little bit. Uh they're all pretty wounded. Um start to lick their wounds and and kind of sink back uh with the intent of going uh back into the cave. Lyria's still like I'm immune. You want to take any opportunity attacks, you certainly can, but they seem to be bowing out of this fight.

SPEAKER_08

We'll let them live. I'm gonna cancel my spirit guardian. She called them off.

SPEAKER_19

Shall I shoot him? Shall I finish him off?

unknown

No, no.

SPEAKER_10

Lyria, I can feel it. But what about his wife?

SPEAKER_21

What about Kirill's wife, Bianca? She will submit.

SPEAKER_19

Are you sure? I think she will submit or die. Oh, I die. Yes, mate. Okay. My husband Emile is the true leader of this pack. Kirill's only the alpha because of a Strahd.

SPEAKER_04

I am the grandson of Infraim Black.

SPEAKER_13

I am the grandson of that shape.

SPEAKER_19

What are you doing right now? Twilight. Uh oh.

SPEAKER_08

Get it together, folks.

SPEAKER_19

Uh I go search his burnt pockets. Okay.

SPEAKER_10

Do you think anything is going to be in there?

SPEAKER_19

You find looking. Uh 12 strahd coins. See?

SPEAKER_08

It sounds so funny to me. That's like as ridiculous as dogecoin. Twelve straud coins. Congratulations. Um I get sued for saying that.

SPEAKER_14

I haven't even used any yet. I have 112 now. Sued by Doge.

SPEAKER_07

Because the only place we've we would have been using them is at the the tavern, but they're letting us stay things for free.

SPEAKER_08

Do you think after Strahd is dead, they'll like convert the currency?

SPEAKER_19

I think so. Possibly. I would hope so. Melt it down and reprint. Yeah. Yeah.

SPEAKER_04

Put my face on it.

SPEAKER_19

Oh. Zulika has come out of her hybrid form and is back into her human her human form.

SPEAKER_13

No, you for carpet, because you got red hair.

SPEAKER_19

Doesn't seem that you needed me much.

SPEAKER_08

I was I'll be honest, I wasn't expecting him to f to fall that quickly.

SPEAKER_19

I thought he was gonna be stronger.

SPEAKER_08

He was weak.

SPEAKER_19

He is quite strong, but uh taking the brunt of all of our attacks uh proved very difficult.

SPEAKER_13

Would you like some healing?

SPEAKER_19

I would.

SPEAKER_13

Okay, I'll heal her.

SPEAKER_19

Uh and she turns around and you see these deep gashes from two scratch attacks from these werewolves.

SPEAKER_08

It is good. This is gonna be a crazy ask.

SPEAKER_14

Oh god.

SPEAKER_08

Because she is a good aligned werewolf. Can I pray first to Saluna and ask her for like a blessing for her as well?

SPEAKER_19

I wouldn't say she's good aligned.

SPEAKER_08

She isn't.

SPEAKER_03

Okay. Well that's fine. I will cast a second level.

SPEAKER_08

I always forget which one is which. Which one's better? I'm gonna cast a second level Heroes. She'll get 27 back, and I will get four back.

SPEAKER_19

Alright, she is back up to 61 out of 71.

SPEAKER_08

Wait, I might get three back. I think I may have misread that.

SPEAKER_19

Oh, thank you. Feels much better. Uh you can see most of the wounds have been sealed by this magic healing.

SPEAKER_04

You need a little more.

SPEAKER_19

You better save it there, but are you guys okay? I'm good. I have five temp HPs.

SPEAKER_18

I don't want you to waste your magical energy on me. We got places to go. That's up to you. I I have pledged myself to the three of you, and as long as we go to Castle Ravenloft sooner rather than later to retrieve my husband Emile, that is that is all that I care about.

SPEAKER_07

We'll save the energy then. Yeah. We have uh just a few more things to uh take care of around here before we uh head there. But you tell me if you need help.

SPEAKER_18

I I will. What is first on the agenda?

SPEAKER_14

You were going to do we're going to the ruins of Barres.

SPEAKER_19

Ah should be um a bit of a journey, but not one that's too much.

SPEAKER_18

Uh what business do you have there?

SPEAKER_20

There's one more magical seed that we must retrieve for our friends back in Villachie. Baba Lasaga lives there, the quote mother of Strahd, and she has it.

SPEAKER_19

So we need to get that from her one way or another. I've heard the name, but Mother of Strahd.

SPEAKER_01

Yeah, she's some kind of I don't know, weird witch girl, or I don't know.

SPEAKER_18

Well, if she uh allies herself with Strahd and calls herself the mother of him, then she must die. And she will.

SPEAKER_19

And if she has something of yours or your friends, then I will help you retrieve it.

unknown

Yeah.

SPEAKER_19

Once we get that seed planted, we'll have so much wine. Ah, the seed is for the winery. Yes. It is, yeah. It got destroyed.

SPEAKER_15

Yeah.

SPEAKER_19

We don't get much wine uh in the werewolf den, so yeah, no, and you know what?

SPEAKER_20

Uh not a lot of other places get wine either. Because you know what?

SPEAKER_07

It's o it's all right.

SPEAKER_22

Cresk's Abbey, little abbey up there. Yeah, they hoard it.

SPEAKER_20

And they told nobody.

SPEAKER_07

He feels very strongly.

SPEAKER_20

It's a commune over there, and it's oh yeah, I it's I'm gonna kill the abbot. Oh, I'm gonna kill very smiled up like that.

SPEAKER_07

She has she has a hand on your shoulders. It's okay. He feels very strong. We all feel very strongly about it. He's very vocally.

SPEAKER_18

Well, uh, I do worship Mother Knight, and uh I I am assured that the abbot worships the morning lord.

SPEAKER_11

Yes, he does.

SPEAKER_18

So we have that in common, but if he is stealing wine from the people, then uh yes, yeah, he must die. And he's a freak. Some deluded manager.

SPEAKER_21

A freak in what way? A necromancer. Yes, he stitches people together.

SPEAKER_07

Yeah. He was well, I mean, they asked for it, but technically he also he took a very strange interest in myself and one of our other companions. It was it was a lot. I didn't quite like it first.

SPEAKER_20

He created a faux bride for Strahd.

SPEAKER_08

My it's very disturbing. Yeah.

SPEAKER_19

Like from scratch, I think. From other people's bodies.

SPEAKER_18

Yeah.

SPEAKER_07

More than likely, yeah.

SPEAKER_18

And I thought Kirill was a monster.

SPEAKER_07

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_05

Uh there's some weird people in this town. That's an understatement.

SPEAKER_14

There are what? There are fouler things than than werewolves in the deep places of the world.

SPEAKER_13

Damn. It's all I really feel.

SPEAKER_02

It's uh Lord of the Rings reference.

SPEAKER_13

Oh. Well, you cracked your hands. Not that you cracked your head when you said that. I was like, well, you little shit. You have so much fun saying that to me.

SPEAKER_00

I had to.

SPEAKER_08

What did I say about you? I was like, you get a sick, you get a the sick thrill out of us doing this shit.

SPEAKER_14

I do.

SPEAKER_07

I do. Yeah, so we feel very strongly about Crest.

SPEAKER_19

And um they're they're commute. I mean, they're right next to us.

SPEAKER_18

We could head there now, unless your business with this Baba the saga is control yourself.

SPEAKER_07

I think immediate. I think we need to do the I think we need to get the winery up and running first.

SPEAKER_08

And then I think we need to go back to the tavern just for like a little bit. Oh, I wonder what one.

SPEAKER_20

We got time. It's only I've got uh I've put my fingers up to the sun. It's only uh about midday.

SPEAKER_08

How long does it take to get to Babula Saga and back to the tavern?

SPEAKER_19

Blah blah blah blah blah and well uh Benz of Borez are kind of on the way from here.

unknown

Okay.

SPEAKER_19

You have to take like the southern route uh where the where there's crossroads.

SPEAKER_07

But um Listen, I'm not even really worried about the I do want to ask you if you if we get back there and she is there, are you going to go to the Burgermaster's house or we're going to be Oh no, she's coming to the inn. So we're going to be sequestered to the bar for the evening?

SPEAKER_08

Because I'm not staying next door to hear that. Correct.

SPEAKER_20

No, I'm not. Uh uh no.

SPEAKER_08

But you don't want to hear me have fun. No.

SPEAKER_20

No. I could almost hear I can almost hear something in the wind when you're at Gibgenys.

SPEAKER_08

Yeah. The windows were open. Quite a lot of smoke. Were you alright?

SPEAKER_20

Oh, yes.

SPEAKER_08

Oh, you told me that the candles vanilla was on.

SPEAKER_20

I got a whiff of vanilla in the air. Good.

SPEAKER_08

That's crazy. Yes.

SPEAKER_20

Are you sure we can't make a pit stop to Chris?

SPEAKER_13

We have so much time to do that.

SPEAKER_20

Alright, alright. Let's go get Bobla Saga.

SPEAKER_19

But I'm gonna kill that abbey and take all them barrels on Jaquis.

SPEAKER_05

We can kill you.

SPEAKER_19

You could climb on my back and I could carry you up.

SPEAKER_05

Hold hold on.

SPEAKER_18

Carry me up straight to the Abbey.

SPEAKER_08

Hold on. No, no, no, no, no. That's not necessary. Are you offering for all of us?

SPEAKER_20

Just I don't know if I can carry the both of you, but we gotta take Jaquis. The horse in the wagon to carry all the barrels.

SPEAKER_18

You named him that?

SPEAKER_07

No, actually. He named himself that.

SPEAKER_18

He was apparently named that. Interesting. Kind of sounds like Jaundice.

SPEAKER_15

No!

SPEAKER_00

I literally I did almost say jaundice the first time.

SPEAKER_08

Oh my gosh. It's so funny every time. It'll never be not funny.

SPEAKER_18

Alright, well, uh, let's set off for Berez then. Yes. Yeah.

SPEAKER_19

And as you hop into the wagon led by Jaqueese, you'll level up.

SPEAKER_04

I can finally get permission and instruments. Oh my god. That's all you wanted.

SPEAKER_17

Alright, we'll be right back after they level up to discuss what they tick.

SPEAKER_04

What we tick?

SPEAKER_17

What does we tick?

SPEAKER_08

Can I go first out and last last one?

SPEAKER_19

Yeah, alright. Level eight. What's Leo got?

SPEAKER_08

He is now proficient in musical instruments. Fucking finally. I didn't realize the last couple of times that he played instruments that he will not come in handy at all. Listen, now I can have fun.

SPEAKER_19

It's for character.

SPEAKER_08

Yeah, it's for fun. So I am now proficient in um the fiddle, the clarinet, and the piano/slash organ. Clarinet is the most exciting one for me because it's so funny. Yeah. Of course. Clarinet is his main instrument.

SPEAKER_04

He's playing that ever since he was a child.

SPEAKER_16

I hope so.

SPEAKER_08

Um I can also now I can also now bardically inspire um my allies with an encouraging song. Sorry, it's heroic inspiration. Good God. So you will have um if you finish a long or short rest, you can play a song on a musical instrument and give heroic inspiration to up to three allies.

SPEAKER_19

So that's our Wait to do this. So it's it's literally after every rest, like in the mornings when you wake up or like after a short rest, just yeah.

SPEAKER_08

And then you get inspiration and then you just think you're down to George.

SPEAKER_19

But if he has the fiddle, it's just like does everyone have inspiration right now? I do.

SPEAKER_08

I do.

SPEAKER_19

Okay.

SPEAKER_08

Oh, I also took um I took away silence because I thought I got rid of it last time and for some reason I did not.

SPEAKER_03

Um what did I give myself?

SPEAKER_14

Unprepared.

SPEAKER_03

What did I give myself? I don't remember.

SPEAKER_19

I gave myself forgot the spell silence and learned how to play a bunch of instruments.

SPEAKER_07

It was the most Leo shit I've ever heard of. Yeah. I no longer know how to be silent. Oh no. I know how to do silent.

SPEAKER_19

Fighting werewolves really taught me how to play the fiddle.

SPEAKER_03

I got Guardian of Faith and Remove Curse.

SPEAKER_19

Nice. Nice. Very nice.

SPEAKER_18

Very good, very nice. Quick draw.

SPEAKER_02

Uh I took uh Rogue level three. So now Gloomstalker 5. Now I am an assassin rogue. Uh my sneak attack damage went up to 2d6. Uh let me see here. So I also have uh if I can find it. Steady aim as a bonus action. I can give myself advantage on the next attack roll or on the current turn, provided that I have not moved during that turn. So I have to stay still and use it. Uh with assassinate, I gain advantage on initiative rolls now. Uh during the first round of each combat, I have advantage on attacks against any creature that hasn't taken a turn. And if my sneak attack hits that target, any target during that round, the target takes an additional three damage of the weapons type.

SPEAKER_19

That's it. Alright.

SPEAKER_07

That's it.

SPEAKER_19

Leary.

SPEAKER_07

Yeah. Um, I did an ability score improvement, so I bumped my strength up by two, so I now have 18. Um buff as fuck. She's feeling real good after being immune to fucking lycanthropy.

SPEAKER_08

Let's go.

SPEAKER_01

Your muscles just grow bigger out of nowhere.

SPEAKER_07

Yes, they did. She's been walking them out. Um, so my It shows. My to hit is now plus seven.

SPEAKER_08

Good extra damage for slashing as well. I also unprepared a spell because I never used it to purify food and drink. I thought we would need it for the winery and we didn't. Um, so I got rid of that and I put back in uh Wrathful Smite just so I have another smite to do. That's it. Woo-hoo! Woohoo! Woohoo! You guys are gonna be inspired after every short rest. Isn't that exciting?

SPEAKER_02

I can't wait to hear how it's gonna sound it's gonna be it's gonna be real exciting at first, and then after a while, it's gonna be like nails on a chalkboard for a quick draw.

SPEAKER_08

He's gonna play all of your favorite songs, and your favorite song is now I Wanna Go by Britney Spears.

SPEAKER_19

Okay.

SPEAKER_04

My name is Baby No Coin.

SPEAKER_19

Try to get um try to get the rights to a barredcore version of that or whatever.

SPEAKER_08

Yeah. I beg anybody give me give me a cover of I Wanna Go by Britney Spears on the clarinet. I'm begging. Specifically.

SPEAKER_19

Specifically on the clarinet.

SPEAKER_08

Yeah.

SPEAKER_19

But I don't think they have that.

SPEAKER_08

Yeah, I Wanna Go by Britney Spears on the Clarinet is very specific.

unknown

Yeah.

SPEAKER_19

Well, you can just play it in real life, and we'll use that.

SPEAKER_13

I did ask Rachel if she could if she could do that for me.

SPEAKER_19

She's a bit busy tending to a newborn.

SPEAKER_13

I asked her like a year ago.

SPEAKER_19

Like Leoborn.

SPEAKER_13

Leo has played the clarinet in my mind for well over a real year. So I'm glad to find out.

SPEAKER_02

That's what's going on up there.

SPEAKER_08

Yeah, it's all clarinet music. Nothing else.

SPEAKER_02

Yeah. Oh man.

SPEAKER_08

It's nothing but clarinet music. Yeah.

SPEAKER_02

Clarinet for him makes so much sense.

SPEAKER_04

Doesn't it? That's his main, that's his main instrument. He kind of looks like maybe this song will jog your memory music.

SPEAKER_20

It's gonna be, he's gonna be like he's gonna be like uh Lyrio. Maybe this song will jog your memory about that one night in Bandcamp.

SPEAKER_04

Exactly. God.

SPEAKER_19

The now level eight party. What's your guys' HP up to now?

SPEAKER_08

68. 59.

SPEAKER_19

73. Okay, quick draw. Just beats out. Uh Zulika for highest HP. Oh, it's 71. Um well, 61 right now, but max. Uh the tough new level eight party. Uh, you head uh towards the ruins of Berez, south and then east, and then south again, and then east again, and then south again. Um managing to avoid all encounters.

SPEAKER_16

Whoa.

SPEAKER_19

Uh over the overall of us traveling.

SPEAKER_08

Oh god, I'm scared. Okay.

SPEAKER_02

We go a bit further away from the den, and Quick Charles has the reins, and he goes, You mind taking the reins?

SPEAKER_10

What? Sure.

SPEAKER_20

Thanks. Okay.

SPEAKER_02

And he's gonna he's gonna scooch away from Lirio a little bit, and then just kind of lean down and lay his head on her lap and shut his shuts his eyes for a little a little rest.

SPEAKER_13

Oh Leo looks to you guys and goes, you kid's behaving back there.

SPEAKER_08

I mean in front over there. Back there.

SPEAKER_07

Back there.

SPEAKER_08

You cut that.

SPEAKER_07

No. Who are you asking to cut? What?

SPEAKER_19

Cut what?

SPEAKER_13

I said back there, I meant in front.

SPEAKER_19

I like to imagine that you are facing the back of the wagon. And so they're behind you. Okay, yeah.

SPEAKER_10

Leo, who are you talking? Who turn around?

SPEAKER_07

Look at me when you're talking to me.

unknown

Look at me when you're talking to me!

SPEAKER_04

This is I had so much caffeine today.

SPEAKER_07

Yeah, as he's going to do that, just gonna be like, Do I I don't actually know how to does he know where he's does Jacques know where we're going?

SPEAKER_21

He does.

SPEAKER_07

Okay.

SPEAKER_21

He knows.

SPEAKER_07

Okay.

SPEAKER_09

Not sure how comfortable this would be with metal, but you know.

SPEAKER_20

Oh, it's fine. Okay. I needed this. It's been very stressful the last couple of days. How comfortable what'll be with metal?

SPEAKER_08

He's lying on my if he's laying on my leg.

SPEAKER_20

Oh, okay.

SPEAKER_13

Just don't cast heat metal on it, and I think you'll be okay.

SPEAKER_21

It's been very stressful last days, and this this is nice.

SPEAKER_05

Okay. Well, if anything extremely bad happens, I'll wake you.

SPEAKER_21

I'll sense it.

SPEAKER_05

Oh, yeah. The step ins.

SPEAKER_21

Yeah.

SPEAKER_05

Okay.

SPEAKER_19

The trail hugs the river for several miles. The dirt and grass soon turn to marsh as the trail dissolves into spongy earth, pockmarked with strands stands of tall reeds and pools of stagnant water. A thick shroud of fog covers all. Scattered throughout the marsh are old peasant cottages, their walls covered with black mildew, their roofs mostly caved in. These decrepit decrepit dwellings seem to hunker down in the mire, as though they've they have long since given up on escaping the thick mud. Everywhere you look, black clouds of flies dart about, hungry for blood.

SPEAKER_04

Ew.

SPEAKER_19

The fog is much thinner on the far side of the river, where a light flashes amid a dark ring of standing stones. What would you like to do?

SPEAKER_08

This place is disgusting. As they're pulling up, if you're still out or like resting, um she'll kind of whisper two jaquees.

SPEAKER_07

Like I'm going I don't I don't know if you understand this. I'm going to let go of the reins now. I think we're where we need to be. Um and she'll like kind of sit the reins down and kind of very gently, like kind not pet, that's not the word I want.

SPEAKER_08

But very gently just kind of like touch your face till I kind of wake you up. You sleep well.

SPEAKER_20

You're already.

SPEAKER_07

Yeah. It's fairly easy. No run-ins with anything or oh thank God. Yeah.

SPEAKER_20

See, Jaquis knows where he's going.

SPEAKER_07

I think we worked well together. I think we did. We avoided any, you know, big disasters.

SPEAKER_22

But you're coming hunt with me. He says to the horse. Just like that.

SPEAKER_08

But good. Do you feel good?

SPEAKER_22

We get out of this.

SPEAKER_20

Yeah, I'm taking Jaquiz with me.

SPEAKER_08

Will we be able to?

SPEAKER_20

We better. That's my buddy.

SPEAKER_08

That's true. Yeah. He's my sweet cheese. My good time boy.

SPEAKER_01

A good time boy.

SPEAKER_07

Yeah, find a way to. For sure, take him back with us.

SPEAKER_03

Um, can we have short rested during that?

SPEAKER_19

Uh yeah.

SPEAKER_03

Okay.

SPEAKER_08

And also, um I softly played my clarinet to soothe quick draw to sleep. So you are now all inspired. Yay!

SPEAKER_00

Even though I already was.

SPEAKER_08

I played the lullaby song. I played Twinkle Twinkle Little Star over and over again until Lyriel hit me.

SPEAKER_07

Like, I'm trying to focus. I've never driven the cart before.

SPEAKER_08

Okay.

SPEAKER_13

It was out of tune for a while because he hasn't played it.

SPEAKER_07

I can't need to practice this somewhere else.

SPEAKER_13

You played it the first time, out of tune. Tuned it a little bit, played it a second time. Still a little off tune. Okay.

SPEAKER_07

It's getting better.

SPEAKER_19

Twinkle, twinkle, little flat.

SPEAKER_06

Yeah, it's getting it's getting better, but you need to twinkle little star.

SPEAKER_04

By the fifth time, all was well. It was great. That inspired them.

unknown

By the fifth time.

SPEAKER_07

Thank you. As long as it took you to get there, thank you. You're quite welcome.

unknown

God.

SPEAKER_08

Anytime, you just let me know. Alright. No bit.

SPEAKER_19

Where is this damn hag? Difficult to see because of this fog. You can uh the squares on this map are a hundred feet. Uh you can't really see what's ahead past a hundred feet. Uh the only thing that you really see uh are like the outlines of some rough shapes of buildings uh further along this trail. Uh and then across on the far side of the river, uh the light flashing uh and a dark ring of standing stones uh across this river, which is a few hundred feet wide. So would not be able to take Jaquez with you. No, I didn't think so. Or Jaque.

SPEAKER_20

I was actually just about to say, like, all right, you stay here now. I'll give him I'll give him a little apple from a Rad's. All right, you stay here now, don't go nowhere. You find a nice tree to sit down under, and we'll come back for you.

SPEAKER_10

Do you have anything to say, Jaquez?

SPEAKER_19

He's just munching on that apple.

SPEAKER_10

Nice.

SPEAKER_20

All right, let's head towards head towards a head towards those rough-shaped buildings.

unknown

Yeah.

SPEAKER_14

And that dark ring of stone.

SPEAKER_11

Yeah, doesn't it?

SPEAKER_19

Well, which way? The buildings are on one side, the the flashing light and the ring of stone are on the other.

SPEAKER_02

Um Quickdraw's instinct is telling him to go towards the ring of stone.

SPEAKER_19

Okay.

SPEAKER_02

See what that's all about.

SPEAKER_19

Everyone in agreement?

SPEAKER_03

Sure.

SPEAKER_19

All right.

SPEAKER_03

Why not? I trust the ranger to do rangery things.

SPEAKER_19

All right, so you guys uh plunge into this uh water. It's very slow. The the river of is moving very slow, so it's not difficult to get through. Uh quick draw, it's a little deep for you, so you're kind of up up to your shoulders almost.

SPEAKER_08

I'll I'll have an arm down you can hold on to.

SPEAKER_19

Quick draws is like bobbing up and down.

SPEAKER_08

But you hold on to my arm, darling, and I'll drag you across.

SPEAKER_19

Once you do get across, covered uh in this yucky river.

SPEAKER_03

Yucky river.

SPEAKER_19

Um you see a dozen moss-covered menires form a near-perfect circle in the spongy earth. These weathered stones range in height from fifteen to eighteen feet. A couple of them lean inward as if to share some great secret with their inscrutable neighbors. A wary-looking peasant woman lurks behind the tallest stone, a rusty lantern clutched in one gnarled hand, easy now. And a dagger clutched in the other. Easy now. Oh, she sees us.

SPEAKER_01

That's my good tails man who's who are you? That's who we're looking for.

SPEAKER_06

Possibly.

SPEAKER_09

Hello What are you doing?

SPEAKER_18

Hiding from everything.

SPEAKER_02

Everything. What's out here?

SPEAKER_18

Scarecrow. Baba La Saga? Yes.

SPEAKER_06

Where is she?

SPEAKER_18

Bugs, insects.

SPEAKER_20

We're looking for Bobble the Saga. She has something that we need to retrieve. And she must die. Just gonna put it out there.

SPEAKER_10

Okay, well sure.

SPEAKER_18

And you did That's that is true. Um do you three intend to kill her?

SPEAKER_19

Yes.

SPEAKER_08

Do you want us to?

SPEAKER_19

Uh four, actually. Oh yeah, yeah, that's something with you.

SPEAKER_18

Um Well, uh, her hat is is right across there.

SPEAKER_19

Uh and she kind of points to the middle uh of where you all that saw all of those buildings.

SPEAKER_18

But uh she does have scarecrows guarding everything. Uh no, one won't be no trouble.

SPEAKER_06

With the dead birds inside.

SPEAKER_18

Yes. Lovely. She's crafted them and raised them. They they are not mere scarecrows, they live and attack with their blades. I've managed to run away and hide, but um we've run into a few of those before.

SPEAKER_20

And look up in her eyes and squint a little bit as if trying to find something.

unknown

Right.

SPEAKER_14

An inside check. And I'm gonna ask her, what are you doing out here anyway?

SPEAKER_21

I'd say fifteen.

SPEAKER_19

Um you get the sense of fear in her eyes. Um not of you, but of what she's described.

SPEAKER_18

Um What is your name?

SPEAKER_21

I'm called Quick Draw. I thought as much.

SPEAKER_18

You thought you must be Lyrielle and you must be Leo.

SPEAKER_22

Whoa, whoa, whoa, take a bag pedal here, kill the motor.

SPEAKER_18

How do you know that? I am friends of the Martakovs.

SPEAKER_04

Oh, oh yeah, God. God, you scared us! God, I know. I was about to kill you. Oh my god.

SPEAKER_16

His shoulders drop. Oh, great, awesome.

SPEAKER_18

Uh, with your descriptions and uh just gotta describe that. You're um I'm glad you're here. What are you doing out here? Uh I am spying on Babble Saga for the Martikovs and their associates.

SPEAKER_11

Okay.

SPEAKER_18

I am from Volaki, but uh I I don't really belong there. I like to live on the outskirts, but this place is not necessarily for me. I d I I tried to get close, I tried to scout her out, but it I I fear that I cannot hold my own the way the three of you can, and I'm assuming the fourth of you can. Yes. And uh she she goes, Yeah. We can hold our own.

SPEAKER_10

Leo, I'm having a crisis.

SPEAKER_20

Leo, I'm having a crisis.

SPEAKER_13

Miriam, welcome to the club.

SPEAKER_18

Well, if you're looking for Baba Lasaga, she lives in a hut in the middle of the village. Um but uh when she's not there, which she sometimes isn't, uh she tends to fly around in a giant skull.

SPEAKER_08

Oh, that's wow, that's extravagant. I don't Is it a human skull?

SPEAKER_18

I don't know what to say, but that doesn't matter. Quite bigger than that.

SPEAKER_07

Yeah, but I mean like the look of it. Does it look like like a just a giant version of a human?

SPEAKER_18

I saw it inducting cover, so That's fair enough. That's I get a bit crazy. Uh you it seems as though you've already encountered her scarecrows somewhere.

SPEAKER_11

Yes.

SPEAKER_18

Yes or a borrowed.

SPEAKER_19

I guess I don't need to describe those to you. Watch out. Oh while back. Yeah, they ain't nothingness.

SPEAKER_07

Um speak for yourself. That's right, you didn't you got a bit wrecked, didn't you? Yeah.

SPEAKER_18

Uh I the only other thing that I can remember she has trapped several mountain goats in a pen near the ruins of the old Burgermaster's mansion. Um I assume she either eats them or is preparing some sort of wicked ritual, but uh I go I could not tell you.

SPEAKER_15

Okay.

SPEAKER_19

That's so interesting information.

SPEAKER_20

What is your name, by the way? I'm sorry, I never asked.

SPEAKER_19

Oh, uh my name is Muriel.

SPEAKER_20

Muriel. Well, pleasure to meet you, uh, Muriel.

SPEAKER_19

It is it is very nice to meet you. Yes. You should get out of here and get yourself somewhere safe.

SPEAKER_18

Yes. I would prefer to stay here and watch over just in case uh I need to get word back to the Martikovs about whatever happens with the four of you and Bob and Osaka. Just watch over, but I'll stay on the side of everything.

SPEAKER_07

Yeah.

SPEAKER_18

Away from harm's way.

SPEAKER_07

Yeah, if we take care of her and you decide that you want to tag along back, I believe we're going back to Volaki after this if you'd like a ride home.

SPEAKER_18

It's alright. I have my own means of travel.

SPEAKER_07

All right.

SPEAKER_01

I got a horse over there if you want to sit with him.

SPEAKER_06

His name's Jaquis.

SPEAKER_01

A fine name.

SPEAKER_08

Yeah. We're so sorry if any of the officers' name is Jaquis.

SPEAKER_21

We're connected. We're bonded. Are you? We are.

SPEAKER_06

They probably are at this point.

SPEAKER_21

He'll feel it in his soul if I die. Well, Jaquis and I will watch over you.

SPEAKER_07

Don't bring that up. That happened too too short a while ago.

SPEAKER_05

Sorry, sorry. He'll feel it if I die, probably, honestly.

SPEAKER_19

Um Quick Draw. As you, a ranger, are uh kind of standing at the center of all these menires, uh, these standing stones. Um you recognize that uh there are weather worn glyphs carved into each of them that represent different angles. Animals. The smaller ones uh have bear, elk, hawk, goat, owl, panther, raven, and wolf. Uh glyphs carved into them. Interesting. Um doesn't seem to hold any information apart from that, but um they are must be ground for a druid or something. Very, very ancient.

SPEAKER_08

Oh, the the druids! The druids! The druids like from the winery.

SPEAKER_19

Well, hopefully not. They did come from Babla Saga. Yeah, exactly. Exactly.

SPEAKER_13

That's why I'm thinking of it.

SPEAKER_19

So, uh under the guidance of Muriel, which place do you want to head up first? You gotta cross the river again, uh, but you can go to those abandoned cottages that you can see the outline of. She also told you where Babble Saga's hut is uh as well. Oh my goodness. As well as the former Bergamaster's mansion. So if you want to go straight for Babblea Saga, you might want to you can do that. Uh you might hit some scarecrows first, but uh there's also some other buildings you can hit up first.

SPEAKER_05

Yeah, do you want to check out the mountain goat thing first?

SPEAKER_20

Just a pen of mountain goats, right?

SPEAKER_08

At the yeah, they might be where mountain goats.

SPEAKER_20

I think we should let him loose.

SPEAKER_09

Yeah, absolutely.

SPEAKER_20

Let him let him roam. Maybe they'll find their way back to Balagi. Maybe they'll find Jaquis and sit with him.

SPEAKER_07

And we're all to sit with him.

SPEAKER_20

Well, he's just Muriel's going over to see. He's all alone. So I had I'm glad Muriel's going over. I don't like leaving him alone out here in this wilderness.

SPEAKER_08

Build a connection with him, didn't you? He imprinted oh yeah. He imprinted on Jaquis. You imprinted on Jaquis.

SPEAKER_01

Yeah, let's go check out that goat pen. Yeah. I'm gonna set him loose. Alright.

SPEAKER_19

What? Alright, first order of operations, free the goats. Yes.

SPEAKER_13

We need to get back to Mira.

SPEAKER_19

We have to get to the game. It takes two seconds to open a gate. Okay, so the goats are at the Bergmaster's mansion. They don't have a poseable thumbs here. We have to help them. Uh so you cross. It's not even an evening yet. Cross the river, uh, headed towards the mansion. Make a perception check for me, please.

SPEAKER_08

Do you want to have you roll the dice, Hades?

SPEAKER_02

Oh, that's a one.

SPEAKER_05

Twenty-two bundles.

SPEAKER_02

Reroll sixteen.

SPEAKER_08

What is my modifier? Probably I can do math. Twenty-one. Oh.

SPEAKER_19

Twenty-one. Two twenty-one. So you see uh next to the mansion, right as you're coming around the bend, a one of the scarecrows uh keeping watch outside. I'm gonna take the hide action and fire twice into it.

SPEAKER_02

Okay. There's only one? There is only one. Okay, great. Yep. Actually, I'm gonna steady aim. Uh that is a 23 to hit for the first one. Yep.

SPEAKER_19

It's 11.

SPEAKER_02

And that one will hit two. That's 11 on the die.

SPEAKER_22

Uh no, this is only 1d6.

SPEAKER_02

4 is 8 damage.

SPEAKER_19

8? Yes. Did you add your sneak attack? Yeah, is that your sneak?

SPEAKER_05

Add your sneak. Oh, because I you have advantage.

SPEAKER_02

Yes. Yep, that's that's in the ether. I dropped it. Uh so that's four more d6.

SPEAKER_08

I literally don't know where it went.

SPEAKER_04

It's on the way to fry one.

SPEAKER_02

Uh another 12, so 20 total damage.

SPEAKER_09

It's over there. It's on your other side. Yeah, it is.

SPEAKER_21

Surprise, bitch!

SPEAKER_12

Thank you.

SPEAKER_08

You're welcome. Do you hear him?

SPEAKER_02

Oh my god. Damn.

SPEAKER_08

Like in here? No.

SPEAKER_02

He's loud. He purns. He's purring away.

SPEAKER_19

Diesel boy. Um. Okay. You shoot this scarecrow for 20 damage. Uh, you see a bunch of fluff and these dead ravens come pouring out uh of its body as it turns to you. Can I bonus action hit it again? What? Can I bonus action hit it again? Yeah, did you not already do that? No. I don't know why I didn't. Okay. Uh turns to you, growls. Oh, that's gonna it's very, very hard. Oh, actually that's a hit. 11. Nice.

SPEAKER_02

Uh another 17 damage. Holy fuck. Two sixes and a five. How do you want to do that? Two sixes and a five.

SPEAKER_11

Alright, hold state now. Okay. Hold still. I'm not moving.

SPEAKER_22

Good.

SPEAKER_19

It's gone. To shreds. That's hot. Uh it tips over and falls to the ground in a blow on the tips of his hand crossed bows.

SPEAKER_20

I shoot so fast as smoke.

SPEAKER_21

You see that?

SPEAKER_08

Laryl says that's hot, and Leo goes, Am I allowed to say that? He's my father. That's my dad. Ew. That's my dad. Yeah, you go, I shoot so fast, but did you see that? Yeah. Yeah, I did. I saw that.

SPEAKER_07

Yeah, I did.

SPEAKER_08

That was great. Quick draw.

SPEAKER_22

Thanks, Leo.

SPEAKER_08

Pat you on the shoulder.

SPEAKER_20

He'll flip his hand crossbows and falls right now.

SPEAKER_08

You should teach me that.

SPEAKER_22

I will.

SPEAKER_08

Yep. I think I think Le Riel really liked that. That was good. What was that, Leo Rio? The goats. We should go to the goats. Yes? I think so.

SPEAKER_16

I look at Leo with a shit-eating grin on my face.

SPEAKER_08

Like I look at Quick Draw. I'm just like, yeah. She stuttered over her words so hard, and she is walking wordlessly towards the goats. I give Quick Draw a pat on the back.

SPEAKER_01

It's funny when she gets all flustered.

SPEAKER_13

Like he goes, like, you dirty dog, pat you on the back.

SPEAKER_01

I love getting her flustered. It's funny. Um.

SPEAKER_02

Alright.

SPEAKER_04

Also, ew, that's my sister. I would like to sneak over to the He's very conflicted between, yeah, my sister and oh God.

SPEAKER_19

That's my sister. Uh 26. Alright. Uh, as you continue up, you see another uh scarecrow uh by the entrance of uh the mansion. Okay. You can go that direction, or you can try to scale up the side of the mansion here if you do not want to try to attack this other scarecrow.

SPEAKER_14

That would be an athletics check, wouldn't it?

SPEAKER_08

You could kill the other scarecrow. There we go, watch this.

SPEAKER_02

Since my athletics sucks, I do want to try and scale this acrobatically. Okay.

SPEAKER_19

Um if there's like boxes or something on it, uh, I'm gonna do like uh it's mostly just stone and rubble, but stone and rubble, okay, okay.

SPEAKER_02

Uh yeah, I'm gonna run up get some footing on some of the stones that are sticking out, maybe, get a few steps running up the wall, and lurch myself into a spinning front flip over the edge. Alright.

SPEAKER_19

That's a ten. Okay. Um feeling good for killing the scarecrow in three shoots. You do uh get up, um, and as you reach the top, uh, you are hanging off the edge of one of them. You make a jump and grab on, and you start to slip off. The marsh is very wet and the fog is making everything sticky, so I'll need an athletics check to try to hold on and fall and alert anyone who may be watching. That is a five for a total of two four. Okay. Uh so you're grabbing onto a high point uh on this stone wall, and you try to reach up both your hands to grab, uh, but it is just too slippery with this fog and the marsh, and you begin to fall. Uh it's not a far drop. Yeah. Uh only twenty feet. Um, you'll take seven bloodshed damage.

SPEAKER_12

Oh fuck! Are you all right?

SPEAKER_19

And you do make quite a bit of noise as you do that. I get winded. And you see the scarecrow uh turns back. I'll need another stealth check for you. No problem. Disadvantage, please. Fuck. Uh, 17.

SPEAKER_18

Okay.

SPEAKER_19

Beats his perception check. Uh, you see the scarecrow hears this thud and whips its uh jack-o'-lantern head around. Jack-O'lantern. Um, and looks around. By the time he does Quick Draw is already hidden beneath some rubble.

SPEAKER_02

I am against the wall like this, looking over at the rest of my party.

SPEAKER_03

Um, I give you a thumbs up.

SPEAKER_22

I give you a thumbs up back. Holding my back in pain.

SPEAKER_19

Yeah, that doesn't matter. Uh I'm going to as you're on the ground, you begin to hear the bleeding of goats. Goats. You have found yourself right next to the goat pen. Oh. Perfect. You see nine goats are trapped behind this fence. Um, but there's no gate. Okay. Uh I'm gonna try and take out this other scarecrow.

SPEAKER_21

Okay.

SPEAKER_02

You are currently hidden. Great. Steady aim. Mm-hmm. That will hit 17 on the die, and then I will hit him two more times.

SPEAKER_14

That's cocked. Okay, that'll hit eleven on the die.

SPEAKER_22

And natural twenty. All right, so first hit twelve sixteen twenty six. And then God.

SPEAKER_19

Uh fifty-four damage. Holy shit. Total for all three hits. That's enough to kill it twice. How do you want to do this? Uh I'm gonna shoot it three times in its head, one in each eye hole and one in its mouth hole. It explodes as it topples. Not as it sinks into this marsh. Um, that leaves five scarecrows remaining. As you pop your head up to do this, uh, not only do you see these nine goats, but on the tops of the fence posts are fifty human skulls mounted and spaced ten feet apart. Disgusting. Just circling this uh this go pen. Yeah, he's there. They don't seem to notice you. Oh, the skullheads mounted?

SPEAKER_20

Don't seem to notice me? No.

SPEAKER_04

Huh?

SPEAKER_02

Oh, the the scarecrows.

SPEAKER_00

Wait, what?

SPEAKER_08

What does it notice?

SPEAKER_00

What would you like to do? Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait. I need clarification here.

SPEAKER_22

The mounted skullheads don't seem to notice me, right? Something doesn't notice you. What the fuck?

SPEAKER_12

What the?

SPEAKER_22

He's definitely got the creeps. Would he know that they're like watchful, I guess?

SPEAKER_19

Megnarcon eject.

SPEAKER_22

Fuck. Uh nope, that's not gonna do it.

SPEAKER_02

It's a five on the die.

SPEAKER_22

Strange.

SPEAKER_02

He's definitely got the creeps. Um he's gonna continue sneaking up to the fence. And is it kind of like that old style fence where you can like remove like the middle things? Okay, he's gonna do that since there's no gate. Okay.

SPEAKER_19

And kind of uh I'm gonna do that. As soon as you begin to remove the fence post, you hear all 50 of these skulls.

SPEAKER_13

Ew, ew, ew, ew, ew. That gave me the creeps so fucking bad. I hate that so much.

SPEAKER_19

Oh my god. That alerts not only all the scarecrows, Baba La Baba too. But in the distance, you see a giant skull begin to float.

SPEAKER_08

As soon as yeah, as soon as the skulls make noise, Leary's busting ass over there. She's running.

SPEAKER_19

I'm running towards you guys too. Okay. Um rolling a shoe.

SPEAKER_12

That was so freaky. I hated that.

SPEAKER_07

I mean, the other the scarecrow thing was But the skulls was bad. That's bad. That's unnatural 20 minus one for 19.

SPEAKER_02

Uh 27.

SPEAKER_03

Seven six seventeen. Slip.

SPEAKER_02

Seventeen thirty eight.

SPEAKER_03

I can do math, guys. I promise.

SPEAKER_19

Seventeen thirty eight.

SPEAKER_03

Just not very well.

SPEAKER_19

Alright. Quick draw, Leary Leo. You see one scarecrow running at you, you see four in the distance, in the long distance, alerted by these loud skull heads, uh howling. Um, and you see, uh quick draw, you see in the distance a giant skull lifting up out of where you know Babla Saga's head. That's so insane.

SPEAKER_08

Do you have a picture of that? I need to see it.

SPEAKER_19

I don't.

unknown

Okay.

SPEAKER_19

Stinky. Babble saga's skull?

SPEAKER_08

Yeah.

SPEAKER_19

Maybe go for it.

SPEAKER_21

He's 40-50 away. Alright.

SPEAKER_15

Yeah.

SPEAKER_20

What was that? Yes.

SPEAKER_08

I'm gonna stay there. Whoa, it says you're not my dad. Congratulations.

SPEAKER_16

I'm going on the art?

SPEAKER_08

Yeah. It says you're not my dad on the art. That's weird. Bala Saga is not your dad.

SPEAKER_02

Thank God. Oh, and so.

SPEAKER_04

Then I would have to drive skull. Yeah. What am I gonna do with a skull? I don't know how to drive skulls.

SPEAKER_05

Or oh, oh, oh.

SPEAKER_02

Nope.

SPEAKER_04

What is this for?

SPEAKER_02

I'm not going to do anything.

SPEAKER_03

For my dad?

SPEAKER_19

Look at it!

SPEAKER_03

Blue tack.

SPEAKER_19

There's a heart on it. Jesus Christ. Alright, what are you doing? How's it? Uh, nothing, actually. What do you mean? I don't want to move. I don't want to go towards him. You don't want to attack? It would be a disadvantage.

SPEAKER_11

So?

SPEAKER_19

You don't want to steady aim and get and make it as true.

SPEAKER_08

Boom!

SPEAKER_19

God.

SPEAKER_08

I don't play rogues. I lived and died by steady aim. During Vecna.

SPEAKER_20

Yep. It's gonna be flat.

SPEAKER_08

The only reason I got any shit then is because I didn't move.

SPEAKER_20

Net 20? One. Gonna re-roll.

SPEAKER_04

Oh, yeah.

SPEAKER_02

Because I wanted a full fucking drinking. Yep, that's gonna hit. That's a 13. Mm-hmm. I so I don't have advantage, but I made it advantage to make it flat, but I still would not get the sneak attack on this, right?

SPEAKER_19

Right, because you're not hidden. Previously you were hidden, so you did.

SPEAKER_02

Yes. Little 1d6 for you. Eight. I mean six damage. Total? For the first hit. Okay. I forgot. Oh yeah.

SPEAKER_20

God. What's going on? Uh nine damage for the second hit. Christ. And fucking bonus action.

SPEAKER_19

Third. But did you use your bonus action to steady aim?

unknown

Oh.

SPEAKER_19

Yes, I did. Okay. Thank you. Uh bloody. That is so nine and yeah, whatever that is. Nine and six. 15 damage. He is bloody as he continues to steamroll as fast as he can. Uh Leary.

SPEAKER_05

Okay. Um, I can't do it.

SPEAKER_19

Your man is in trouble.

SPEAKER_05

I can't do much, but you can run. Yeah.

SPEAKER_08

Okay. I can directly behind.

SPEAKER_02

How far away is the uh from you, 45 feet.

SPEAKER_08

Uh perfect. Um gonna need a Dex 14.

SPEAKER_16

Hello? What the hell are you doing? Looking for these.

SPEAKER_19

Oh, to mark the pen. Um, but walls just in case anyone wants to use them. Obi. Uh okay, uh 14 decks.

SPEAKER_06

Yeah.

SPEAKER_19

Ooh, what's this?

SPEAKER_06

Sickwood flame.

SPEAKER_19

Sickwood flame. Nine. Bitch. This is radiant damage?

SPEAKER_08

Yes. Eight.

SPEAKER_19

Okay. Very, very hurt.

SPEAKER_08

She runs up behind and just goes, I was about to I was about to tell you to duck.

SPEAKER_12

You know what? Not the time. What?

SPEAKER_11

What do you want to say?

SPEAKER_16

Leo.

SPEAKER_08

I just I think the pressure option litter dropped or something because all of a sudden my entire body feels like I got hit by a truck.

SPEAKER_02

You did. Go that weather though today.

SPEAKER_08

Oh.

SPEAKER_04

Yikes, owie. Okay. Um, can you move me up?

SPEAKER_02

Summon my oh Jesus. Did you summon's mark him? This is a this is a bloody thing, I thought.

SPEAKER_19

No.

SPEAKER_05

Oh, that's just for you then.

SPEAKER_19

Hunter's mark. I didn't hunter's mark. I know. I'm giving it to you. Eventually do. Gotcha.

SPEAKER_16

Yeah, I'm gonna use that bullshit on Bob's size.

SPEAKER_13

Do you think that's 60 feet?

SPEAKER_08

I can't see from here. From where I'm standing. It's 50 feet. Yeah, from where I'm standing, it's 50. Okay, I'm gonna cast a sacred flame, so that's dex 15. I know that it's a dex save. I know it. I know it. Yeah, because I just did it. I just also did it.

SPEAKER_16

What an idiot.

SPEAKER_19

Failing at saving throw.

SPEAKER_08

Radiant damage.

SPEAKER_19

How do you want to do this?

SPEAKER_08

Just explodes. Just explodes.

SPEAKER_16

It just explodes. Explodes.

SPEAKER_08

Let's say explode.

SPEAKER_16

I went to uh billion twillion pieces.

SPEAKER_08

I run up sacred flame it. You run up again and go bam! Double fucking unit.

SPEAKER_21

Um I didn't know you could cast that to oh hey Leo.

SPEAKER_07

Hey, look at me. I almost told him to duck.

SPEAKER_00

He just looks like he turns around with like a little like angry like what?

SPEAKER_08

Look me in the eye and pretend you're so angry.

SPEAKER_20

He turns around. Fine.

SPEAKER_08

I'm joking. I'm joking. I'm joking. I'm joking.

SPEAKER_19

Alright, the next scarecrow is going to uh dash towards you uh within ten feet of quick draw. Um and the one behind just behind, behind, behind, behind.

SPEAKER_20

Scarecrows ain't nothing to me, man. Yo, Leo, set that bitches on fire.

SPEAKER_04

I'm going to do my best.

SPEAKER_19

They're weak to fire. Um, okay, so I think two scarecrows join uh visibility now. Uh one of them, uh both of them dashing into the fray. Uh one of them now 40 feet from quick draw, the other one 10 feet from quick draw. They did use dash as their action, so that is their action. Uh two more are close behind. That will bring it to uh Zelika. Uh she is going to turn into her hybrid wolf pharaoh.

SPEAKER_11

Meow. Oh!

SPEAKER_08

It's different every time. Um, and it's like a stri uh a toy with a pull string on the back. You should write that down.

SPEAKER_19

Actually, scratch that. She is not going to scratch. Uh, yeah, she will.

SPEAKER_03

Oh my goodness, he needs fangs around.

SPEAKER_19

Um she is going to turn into the werewolf, uh, and she is going to dash her 60 feet and run up to this first scarecrow. Uh again, dash doesn't have an action anymore. That'll bring it to quick draw.

SPEAKER_22

Oh you're blinding him.

SPEAKER_02

Uh, okay. I'm legally blind. Steady aim. Bonus action. So I only have an airpoint.

SPEAKER_01

Nice. That'll hit. 11 on the dive. Second attack. 13 on the dive. That'll hit.

SPEAKER_21

Yeah.

unknown

13.

SPEAKER_15

Twenty-one.

SPEAKER_19

Twenty-one damage? Yes. Alright. Very hurt. Very bloody. Uh this scarecrow. Um, as it charges in, trying to guard for Baba Lasaga. Is that your turn? Baba. Alright. I need to remember that that's a steady aim is a bonus action.

unknown

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02

That's once per turn, right?

SPEAKER_05

But since you've hit him, you can just have Vex for your advantage.

SPEAKER_21

Mm-hmm. Oh yeah.

SPEAKER_19

Course. God. Getting mixed up here. Sorry, I'm gonna add one more thing to the He's so fast.

SPEAKER_05

That's what I would do with other Lyrielle was steady aim the first round and then hope to God that I hit so that I can just keep using Vex to get advantage.

SPEAKER_02

I forgot about I always I always forget about Vex.

unknown

Yeah.

SPEAKER_08

Vex saved my ass because my rolls are always bad.

SPEAKER_21

God, my roles are just so hit.

SPEAKER_19

Okay.

SPEAKER_08

Mine are for real. Which is why I need as much advantage as I can get, and I just like it.

SPEAKER_19

Soaring overhead. That's fine. We'll kill her ass. Uh Baba La Saga in the head of the skull of a giant. Flying.

SPEAKER_11

You've come to defeat me, have you? Yes. I mean, yeah.

SPEAKER_19

Damn, that's really good, Dallas. You scared Hades. She is going to. She's gonna cut fireball.

SPEAKER_07

Well, you all you have a plus three to your save if we have to make one.

unknown

Yay!

SPEAKER_19

She is going to summon two swarms of insects around you. Uh or all three of you, I should say. Um on each side.

SPEAKER_12

What do they eat? Dun them, my Britties? Oh, wicked way. What do they eat? Well, they can't get hobbit.

SPEAKER_02

That's a Fellowship of the Ring reference, by the way. For Lily.

SPEAKER_04

God damn it. I want to be mad at you when you do that, but it makes you feel laugh. I say that.

SPEAKER_02

It's when they're walking, you know, through the marshes and Strider's leading them.

SPEAKER_13

Sure. I'm gonna be so honest, though. I've watched the first two movies so many times, and I can tell you about three things that have happened. That's wild.

SPEAKER_20

Yeah, that's because you're not paying attention.

SPEAKER_13

To be fair, I do think only three things happen.

SPEAKER_20

Alright.

SPEAKER_13

It's mostly them just walking through the woods and eating bread and cheese. And morning to kiss me. No!

SPEAKER_06

It's just bugs.

SPEAKER_08

No, Lyriel hates bugs. Take me instead.

SPEAKER_19

She's bugs. Thirteens do not hit.

SPEAKER_08

No. Oh, never mind. Take her. She can take it.

SPEAKER_07

This is more annoying than it is.

SPEAKER_19

A swarm of these bugs surrounds you. Both swarms of bugs just surround you and start to try to bite you but cannot penetrate the armor. As Babble Saga commands them to feast. Lyrielle, it is your turn.

SPEAKER_07

Oh, that's just annoying.

SPEAKER_14

Um can you hit a swarm a bit? Oh, I guess you can.

SPEAKER_07

Yeah. You know what? Yeah. Um, both of Hello. Um, both of the swarms con 14.

SPEAKER_16

Both?

SPEAKER_08

Yeah.

SPEAKER_16

Well.

SPEAKER_08

If it's a five-foot emanation.

SPEAKER_19

Yeah, you hit them both. Yeah. So B-O-A.

SPEAKER_08

Ward of Radiance.

SPEAKER_19

Both uh one of them succeeds.

SPEAKER_05

Okay. So.

SPEAKER_19

B-O-A.

SPEAKER_16

Both.

SPEAKER_08

Okay, succeed or take, so only one swarm will. Well, that fucking sucked as two radiant damage.

SPEAKER_19

How do you want to do that? Uh is it save or suck?

SPEAKER_08

Yeah.

SPEAKER_19

Okay. Uh beat. You kill two of these bugs as they uh get swatted out of the air. I don't want to talk about it. Leo.

SPEAKER_08

Um, can I like get in between them so I can have a five-foot emanation situation going on?

SPEAKER_22

You can.

SPEAKER_03

Okay. Um, I'm gonna cast a word of radiance. It's con 15 for both of them.

unknown

All right.

SPEAKER_03

I'm just trying to one-up me.

SPEAKER_19

You can do the same thing to have you. Con 15? Yeah.

SPEAKER_07

You did you did double the damage on the sacred flame.

SPEAKER_16

Damn it. Ah your words mean nothing to me. She goes, the insect.

SPEAKER_07

She goes, I know we're in I know we're in battle, but you've that felt good.

SPEAKER_08

Lurielle, you jinxed me. It felt good. You bitch.

SPEAKER_20

You know, that kind of thing only works once, I think.

SPEAKER_04

Okay, go ahead. Next. Next your turn.

SPEAKER_08

You can't even defeat bugs.

SPEAKER_19

Is that your turn?

SPEAKER_08

Yes. You sound like me in the death hat. Actually, can you put me no, yeah.

SPEAKER_19

He is perched. Alright, uh, both scarecrows. Uh, the one is going to run up. Um, and both are going to attack uh Zulika. Zulika with their fearsome claws. One of them hits for nine damage to Zulika. Um, and she is now frightened of him.

SPEAKER_13

Oh. What?

SPEAKER_19

Uh from the fearsome claw.

SPEAKER_08

What was the word that you used in that one episode to describe the scarecrow that we all laughed about? Stuffed.

SPEAKER_13

No.

SPEAKER_08

No.

SPEAKER_19

Rictus.

SPEAKER_13

Rick. Ricktus.

SPEAKER_19

Yes.

SPEAKER_13

Ricktus Davio over here.

SPEAKER_19

Ricktus and Morty. He's got his rictus out. Thanks.

SPEAKER_13

He's got his rictus out.

SPEAKER_19

I shot him right in the rictus. Um, she is going to finish off uh the one bloody scarecrow, hopefully.

SPEAKER_04

Sorry.

SPEAKER_19

Uh her first attack is going to hit um two three, nine, twelve. That'll wipe out this bloody scarecrow. Oh, the other one.

SPEAKER_07

It's bloody scarecrow, isn't it?

SPEAKER_19

Bloody ging bing. Uh uh, and then she's going to bite the other one. Sink her teeth into it.

SPEAKER_08

Interesting. It's got to taste terrible. Uh I know I kind of want to ask her, but I don't want to know. Maybe maybe I'll bite it and see what happens.

SPEAKER_20

No, only six days.

SPEAKER_07

Well, actually, no, I'll try it. No, not that you want me to, I'm not gonna.

SPEAKER_19

If she bites it, that'd be sick.

SPEAKER_07

Warecrow, nobody asks.

SPEAKER_19

Well, they got wear ravens.

SPEAKER_06

Um yeah, why did I say that?

SPEAKER_19

No, because scare. No, I got it. Okay.

unknown

Oh.

SPEAKER_04

Wolf how, but nobody asks how. He always asks wolf how, but nobody ever asks how wolf.

SPEAKER_19

Nobody asks wolf how.

SPEAKER_03

Yeah, so it's funny.

SPEAKER_19

It's funny because the entire setup is incorrect. Because of the because of the implication.

SPEAKER_08

Because of the implication.

SPEAKER_19

Quick draw, you are up.

SPEAKER_08

Dennis Finald is in my head. He lives in my brain.

SPEAKER_19

Gonna hit that scarecrow over there.

SPEAKER_02

Yeah, 26 to hit. And that's gonna hit 15 on the die. And that's also gonna hit for 11. So three hits. That's yep.

SPEAKER_19

This is that the scarecrow? Yeah.

SPEAKER_02

Oh, that's fat. What's six times four? Twenty-four?

SPEAKER_05

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02

What's six times five? Thirty?

SPEAKER_05

Yes.

SPEAKER_19

If it's over twenty-one. I know it is.

SPEAKER_02

Forty-two plus twelve is fifty-four damage. Nice edge.

SPEAKER_19

Uh the source of Zulika's uh fright is wiped immediately off the face of the earth. Over top of your head, you just hear like uh Zulika turns to you and goes, thanks. I got you.

SPEAKER_05

Yeah.

SPEAKER_19

Uh and she looks up to Babble Saga and she goes, Now how are we gonna get her down?

SPEAKER_13

I could do a Lyrial Silvalance at her.

SPEAKER_19

Uh we're just gonna. Is that the end of your turn, quick draw? Any movement?

SPEAKER_22

Um actually, yeah. I'm going to move. No, I'm not gonna- Yeah.

SPEAKER_02

I'm gonna attack of opportunity. That's fine. I'm gonna move towards Babble Saga.

SPEAKER_19

Your full movement?

SPEAKER_02

Yes, which is 40. I've confused 30, I'm sorry.

SPEAKER_05

I've confused my lady as I thought I had command.

SPEAKER_08

I do not. That's the other one.

SPEAKER_19

Uh all right, at that's the end of your turn. Uh Babble Saga looks down at you, perched in her flying skull, floating. Uh 50 feet above, looks down to you. Get down here.

SPEAKER_12

Don't move.

SPEAKER_19

And as as you are as you have posed yourself with your crossbows forward pointing at her, there is nothing you can do. As she casts power word stun.

SPEAKER_03

Oh god!

SPEAKER_19

I got so scared. You are stunned.

SPEAKER_03

I knew I should have taken freedom of movement.

SPEAKER_19

Um, so you have the incapacitated condition. You automatically fail, strength and deck saves, attacks against you have advantage. Shit. Yeah, I shouldn't have moved.

SPEAKER_08

Is that concentration?

SPEAKER_19

Uh it is not.

SPEAKER_08

Okay.

SPEAKER_19

I think you uh you make a constitution saving throw at the end of each of your turns. Okay. Um is that as an action? At the end of your turn. Yeah, you can't do it because you're incapacitated. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Um that's great news. Great news for me, guys. Just fully like bricked.

SPEAKER_22

Bricked! Bricked! Oh my god.

SPEAKER_08

My god.

SPEAKER_22

If you're gonna be frozen or die, you best do it in a cool pose.

SPEAKER_08

What's your what are you add to con to save?

SPEAKER_05

Three. Okay. June, you will have six.

SPEAKER_02

What?

SPEAKER_05

So you have six.

SPEAKER_02

My aura. If you get up here, yeah.

SPEAKER_05

I can.

SPEAKER_19

If you do your turn, she's going to fly uh even further up. She is 90 feet in the air. Bro, get out of here.

SPEAKER_22

How louder do we have to make this fight?

SPEAKER_08

I can't get down here. I can't do anything to her unless she literally gets on the ground.

SPEAKER_19

I can't shoot her.

SPEAKER_08

I don't have anything.

SPEAKER_19

Her insect swarms are going to attack uh twice at Leo.

SPEAKER_15

Oh.

SPEAKER_19

She's um Oh, yeah! Hit Leo! Uh that's a nine and a three to hit.

SPEAKER_08

No, bitch. No. Lyriel feels crazy today. She's like real worked up about the scarecrow thing.

SPEAKER_02

He blew the heads off of like four scarecrows.

SPEAKER_08

Yeah. Yeah, he did.

SPEAKER_02

Um head?

SPEAKER_08

I'm gonna just deal with the opportunity attack.

unknown

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02

You get two.

SPEAKER_19

Run up there. My god, I'm switching dice. No, no, no. Keep up.

SPEAKER_11

No, don't keep the dice. You're not allowed.

SPEAKER_19

I'm using the Soldar dice. No! No, no, no, no, no!

SPEAKER_15

You're gonna fucking kill us, you asshole!

SPEAKER_19

Panic and Will's fish. Because he always fucking rolls at least.

SPEAKER_02

That's a matter of 20 per turn.

SPEAKER_11

And sometimes two.

SPEAKER_08

Free shits and giggles.

SPEAKER_02

Oh man.

SPEAKER_08

Oh my god. We should have harmonized our nose.

SPEAKER_20

I'm gonna lose your movement. We have to set these goats free. Maybe she'll flip out and come down.

SPEAKER_06

I think we're past. Isn't aren't they over here?

SPEAKER_19

Girl, I don't know. Uh they're within movement distance, yeah. Probably 30 feet away from you.

unknown

Okay, no. No, no right there.

SPEAKER_08

Um scarecrow that's running. Yeah, Leo, get the goats. Um the scarecrow that's running, Dex 14.

SPEAKER_19

Okay. Save. Oh my god.

SPEAKER_12

See?

SPEAKER_06

Okay.

SPEAKER_19

That was a 15.

SPEAKER_06

Um, let me check my bonus actions really quick.

SPEAKER_16

It's just a scarecrow. He can't do shit. He does shit for damage. Poopy butt for damage. You have 20 won't mean anything. Um shit ain't nothing to me, man.

SPEAKER_08

I think. Oh fuck. Um yeah, no. I was thinking I was considering doing Hunter's mark on it, but I don't think it's gonna be worth it. Nah. Uh no. You have Hunter's mark? Yeah.

SPEAKER_20

Vengeance, baby. I took it. Right.

SPEAKER_08

I took it for character, and also it just happened to work out.

SPEAKER_20

Alright. Leo. I think you just get it from Vengeance.

SPEAKER_08

You get to choose, but I chose it. Saga. Can you move me like 30 feet?

SPEAKER_19

What's your range on that?

SPEAKER_08

120 feet.

SPEAKER_19

Out of range.

SPEAKER_08

What? Even if I move 30 feet? 5, 10, 13, 20.

SPEAKER_04

5, 10, 15, 20, 20, 30, 35. Plus 90.

SPEAKER_19

Oh, never mind. You're good. Uh you don't get to attack up opportunity to spin the swarms.

SPEAKER_08

Yeah, the bugs. Her bugs.

SPEAKER_19

The bugs.

SPEAKER_17

Does a 15 hit?

SPEAKER_08

No.

SPEAKER_17

Okay.

unknown

Fuck.

SPEAKER_08

Okay, that's a um 19 to hit her.

SPEAKER_19

Alright, a 19. Uh we cast that twice. She is shielded by the skull.

SPEAKER_08

No!

SPEAKER_19

So you hit you do hit the skull, but she is running away.

SPEAKER_08

Knock it out of the fucking sky. I'm going to try. Going to try.

SPEAKER_03

Okay. That sucked. I'm not gonna lie.

SPEAKER_21

What'd you guess?

SPEAKER_08

Guiding bolt.

SPEAKER_21

Oh, nice.

SPEAKER_08

Ten radiant damage.

SPEAKER_19

Okay.

SPEAKER_03

Um, and the next attack has advantage.

SPEAKER_19

Nice.

SPEAKER_03

Um.

SPEAKER_08

That's my turn. Did it did it do anything?

SPEAKER_19

You did 10 damage to the skull. Yeah. You see a small crack form.

SPEAKER_03

Okay, well, that was not worth it.

SPEAKER_19

Alright. We need to get that skull, yeah. We need to get that skull out of the air. Need to get that skull, yeah. Um, okay. Uh the scarecrow is gonna run up.

SPEAKER_08

How much movement does it have? Oh, it dashed.

SPEAKER_17

30 feet.

SPEAKER_19

So it used its regular movement. Um, it's going to uh as you hear the footsteps of it running up, your your eyes turn back to it, and you catch its glare as it tries to work its way into your mind.

SPEAKER_03

Okay.

SPEAKER_19

Frightful. Getting a wisdom saving throw. DC is 11.

SPEAKER_10

Add three to it.

SPEAKER_03

Um. Yeah. Add three. Fourteen.

SPEAKER_19

Okay.

SPEAKER_03

Just sorry, it's actually more than that.

SPEAKER_19

Oh, okay. Um you are not afraid of its terrifying glare. Yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_08

Flip him off. I'm behind I'm behind you. That's how I'm my aura. Flip him off. Do it! Yeah, yeah, I'm going to with both hands.

SPEAKER_12

I'm not afraid anymore.

SPEAKER_19

Ooh, you are just out of the range of the other scarecrow's terrifying glare.

SPEAKER_04

Somehow grew a third hand, and I'm flipping it off with that one.

SPEAKER_19

I d what?

SPEAKER_07

Where this is a very important question, Leo. Where is the third hand coming from?

SPEAKER_13

You take a look. Nope. I refuse that look.

SPEAKER_19

You take a I mean Zelika's going to bite and scratch at this uh uh this scarecrow that's within range. Gonna hit on both.

SPEAKER_04

Why are you why are you seizing?

SPEAKER_19

I don't know.

SPEAKER_04

I don't know. Did you see him? No.

SPEAKER_19

14 slashing from the scratch. And nice. 15 piercing from the bite. Beat him up. Beat him up. That leaves one scarecrow remaining as it runs in from the distance. Useless. That'll bring it to quick draw. The incapacitated stunned quick draw. You will need to make a bar. Constitution save DC 17. What is that?

SPEAKER_13

I can't tell. I think it's a two.

SPEAKER_19

That was a two on the die.

SPEAKER_20

Yeah, fuck me. That's a two.

SPEAKER_08

But I'm inspired. I'm inspired. You're welcome. The clarinet came in handy. You guys said it was useless. I didn't say it was useless. I thought it was funny. I didn't say it was useless.

SPEAKER_04

Okay. Someone said it was useless. 18! My own husband.

unknown

Yeah.

SPEAKER_04

See, not useless.

SPEAKER_19

Oh my god. Uh, so you managed to with with the help of uh as you as you remember Leo's beautiful song uh as you were riding in the wagon that lulled you to sleep. And as you feel the magical aura of your crutch of Leary, uh her magical aura.

SPEAKER_05

Oh.

SPEAKER_21

I'm back.

SPEAKER_20

I'm back, baby.

SPEAKER_05

Welcome back, Donning.

SPEAKER_20

You need a what?

SPEAKER_19

Leo. Nothing. Leo, I need you to make a red as fuck. DC 17 Constitution series.

SPEAKER_03

Oh, as 20, not 20.

SPEAKER_19

Uh she floated down. Uh she floated down back to 50 feet above the ground, and she pointed to you, and you see this ray of necrotic energy as she points her finger of death to you.

SPEAKER_12

Finger of death!

SPEAKER_19

And you take it. You power through, you're still gonna take half damage. Nice.

SPEAKER_08

I could take anything, Tommy.

SPEAKER_19

Oh nice.

SPEAKER_08

We're doing this with our long rest.

SPEAKER_20

We got this!

SPEAKER_08

My smites, my fucking death? She's Leo! She's trying to think you!

SPEAKER_04

I don't want to be picking to death!

SPEAKER_22

You don't want to be fingered by an old hag now, do you?

SPEAKER_19

Well, I just have an extra d8. I only have six. Thank you. How many? This is gonna be seven d eight plus thirty.

SPEAKER_04

Plus thirty? Half half. Wait, wait, wait.

SPEAKER_19

Plus thirty? Yes.

SPEAKER_21

What the fuck in fuck is that coming from?

SPEAKER_13

That's like a level 9 spell.

SPEAKER_21

Jesus. I hope to God that's well once a day.

SPEAKER_08

You've had the gall to say, you know, it's gonna be fine. You can do it. You can get back to Velocki tonight.

SPEAKER_06

I didn't know!

SPEAKER_20

No guys, it's like two o'clock.

SPEAKER_19

We're fine. I'm gonna be on bloody. 58 damage.

SPEAKER_22

We have one hit point left!

SPEAKER_19

29 necronic damage.

SPEAKER_04

29 by Schmidt. Jesus Christ. I have 59 hit points. It's fine, it's fine.

SPEAKER_19

It's fine.

SPEAKER_04

Sorry, I'm scared and had a lot of cat feed.

SPEAKER_19

Her swarm of insects going to chase you down.

SPEAKER_04

Do you think they were like some bloody and die? Battered.

SPEAKER_08

Probably.

SPEAKER_04

I know what woman doesn't.

SPEAKER_02

What's that song? Dance of the Bees?

SPEAKER_08

Flight of the Bumblebee.

SPEAKER_02

Dance of the Bees. That's the one that we can use. The other one's copyrighted. Yeah, Dance of the Bees, that's all I hear when they're coming up for the city.

SPEAKER_13

That was so fucking scary. Jesus.

SPEAKER_19

Yeah, 78 plus 30 is crazy. That better be a fucking thing. Sapphire had that spell at level 20. I think there were three ones in that roll, fortunately. Alright, two attacks.

SPEAKER_03

That hit of that Vic stick from that.

SPEAKER_19

Two attacks.

SPEAKER_03

This is why it's a good one.

SPEAKER_19

Vic's what? Both are going to miss. The bugs swarm around her. And do not do any significant damage to her. Leary. Leary is Leo on the back.

SPEAKER_08

The bugs are like pinging off her arms. Like just die. Just give up. Die. It's not going to work. I know how you can see Jesus. Die! So she's still 50 feet up. She's still 50 feet up.

SPEAKER_19

Yeah, she's still 50 feet in the air.

SPEAKER_08

Fucking down here! Um. I forget. We used like angle math.

SPEAKER_19

If you're right below her, it's 50. From where you are, uh, it's probably like angle math?

SPEAKER_04

The Pythagorean theorem. Whatever.

SPEAKER_19

You're probably 60 or 70 feet away.

SPEAKER_08

Can it be 60?

unknown

Sure.

SPEAKER_19

You can move up. I mean, you can move up a little bit to help him.

SPEAKER_08

Um. Yeah. Just I'll be directly behind Quick Draw. I don't want to get anybody out. Just behind him. Because I don't want anybody out of the aura.

SPEAKER_19

Alright.

SPEAKER_08

Um It's not gonna do Bugs miss.

unknown

Okay.

SPEAKER_08

Fucking bugs. It's not gonna do much, but I'm hoping. Should I just should listen, if we bust the skull, it'll see, but the thing is, the only ranged shit I have, can the skull make a dex save? Or a wisdom save? Like, does the skull have anything like that?

SPEAKER_21

No.

SPEAKER_08

Okay, so then I am going to. She has to make a dex 14.

SPEAKER_16

Okay. You mean the skull?

SPEAKER_08

No.

SPEAKER_16

She.

SPEAKER_08

The only ranged stuff I have is saves. That's literally it. Unless she gets on the ground, I can't do anything.

SPEAKER_21

Yeah, her dex is probably shit.

SPEAKER_08

She's in she can't go uh she can't go many places. She's in a skull.

SPEAKER_20

Man, I wish I really wish I really wish we had uh command.

SPEAKER_08

I have command.

SPEAKER_20

Oh nice. She's probably wise as fuck, though.

SPEAKER_08

Yeah.

SPEAKER_11

Yeah, it's it. Your beauty spell casting does nothing to me. Oh.

SPEAKER_08

I'm going to I'm I'm above and behind you. I'm going to go to the game. I'm going to command her to.

SPEAKER_20

I'll get her down for you so you can.

SPEAKER_08

What command word should I use? Approach? Gravel. Drop? Gravel. Or drop. Command grovel.

SPEAKER_19

Yes, grovel will make them fall prone.

SPEAKER_08

But she'll fall prone will the skull.

SPEAKER_19

She is flying in a skull.

SPEAKER_08

That's what I mean.

SPEAKER_19

So I'm going to just do it on the skull.

SPEAKER_08

That's what I just try to do with Sacred Flame.

SPEAKER_02

You could command approach, so that way she'll come over here.

SPEAKER_08

I want her to be closer to me.

SPEAKER_02

Well, we want her down here.

SPEAKER_08

I need her to I need her down to the door.

SPEAKER_20

So if you command approach, she herself will have to come down.

SPEAKER_04

Fine, I will do that. Command approach. She might even have to walk out of the school.

unknown

Okay.

SPEAKER_19

22. Fuck you.

SPEAKER_10

Fuck you.

SPEAKER_11

Like I said, your spellcasting is no match for mine.

SPEAKER_04

I'm scared. I run and I hide behind the wall.

SPEAKER_07

I'm pissed. Get on the ground.

SPEAKER_19

Alright, final scarecrow is going to run it. Uh and I should have healed myself. Uh and cast, or not cast, but uh cast its gaze on to you. Wisdom 11.

SPEAKER_08

Oh fuck, you went behind the wall. You're too far away.

SPEAKER_04

Ten.

SPEAKER_19

You are now frightened and paralyzed.

SPEAKER_04

No, I'm not, no, I'm not. No, I'm not. Fuck out of the one!

SPEAKER_19

You used your inspiration. Damn, that's it. You hide behind the wall. Uh afraid.

SPEAKER_15

Unluckily oh no.

SPEAKER_19

And as you turn the corner and tuck yourself behind the wall, press your back up against it. You lock eyes with this scarecrow as it twists its neck. And you are shot with Leo, my aura!

SPEAKER_08

I'm like Nick Miller in the haunted house.

SPEAKER_19

Just a chill down your spine as you cannot move. So you are now frightened and paralyzed until the end of this scarecrow's game. You can't move, but he is screaming.

SPEAKER_03

Leo, where'd you get that Beatha shit?

SPEAKER_19

Um. Don't worry. I'll take out the scarecrow.

SPEAKER_13

Oh, please do! Can I talk? If I'm paralyzed?

SPEAKER_19

Uh sure. You might be able to get some words out. Um one of the bugs hits.

SPEAKER_15

Okay, I'll say it for you.

SPEAKER_19

Zulika as she runs away. Opportunity attack.

SPEAKER_13

Um that made me think of the video I watched yesterday of the girl ordering a whopper with her mouth closed.

SPEAKER_19

Oh my god. Five. You gotta stop talking about things that aren't DD because then I just have to cut it off.

SPEAKER_13

I know you are. I'm making a reference. Go ahead.

SPEAKER_19

Five damage to Zulika as an opportunity attack. Zulika is going to um is going to bite and scratch. At the scarecrow. And scratch. Uh is going to hit with both. Nine damage with the scratch. And ten damage with the bite. Scarecrow is still up. Um. And that is Zulika's turn. Quick draw. Back to you. I can fire at her, right? Um. Or is the skull in the way? She has three quarters cover. Fine. So it'll be harder to hit her, but you can hit the skull. I'm gonna hit I'm gonna hit the skull.

SPEAKER_02

Uh yeah. I'm gonna bonus action steady aim. Does a twenty-seven hit? AC is fifteen for the skin. Then that will hit as well.

SPEAKER_21

Um tray.

SPEAKER_05

You look like you're getting bag met every time you do math.

SPEAKER_02

Thirty-four damage.

SPEAKER_12

Nice.

SPEAKER_19

A huge crack forms in the skull. It is still afloat, but just barely. You can see Babla Saiga's long toenails peeking out of the bottom of the skits. Down here.

SPEAKER_22

I'll do what I want, little man. Spells are having a hard time getting you, but how about these bolts, bitch?

SPEAKER_13

Oh my god. Yeah, bitch.

SPEAKER_19

Behind you.

SPEAKER_11

No!

SPEAKER_19

But you hear in the distance.

SPEAKER_11

Fuck is that?

SPEAKER_19

Whoa! Whoa! Whoa! Whoa, whoa! Um, you see pass out Strad von Zarovich walk out of this through mist with a handful of auburn hair. As you see, Irina. She fucking she I bet you anything. She did. I bet you anything she tried to fucking tears. You see her face is red. You see a fresh bite on her neck. Oh my god.

SPEAKER_13

No, no, it's not real. It's not real. Is it real?

SPEAKER_19

You see Strahd walk up.

SPEAKER_21

You've all failed your mission. Umbaba Lasaga.

SPEAKER_19

Finish them. As he holds his sword to her throat, watching this battle. Why the fuck would he want to do that? Why would he want to he wouldn't want to kill it?

SPEAKER_21

Why would he want to kill her?

SPEAKER_08

Yeah, I d I think that I think it's fake. I think it's fake. Not real. Not real. That's our biggest fear.

SPEAKER_19

Not real. Our mission is to fucking kill your ass.

SPEAKER_04

Wait, was this a this place was misty, right?

SPEAKER_19

You do remember that to turn into a vampire, you have to be bitten and then die. Yeah.

SPEAKER_04

I don't believe it. He said, her soul is mine, but her body is her own. I don't think he would be turning.

SPEAKER_19

Yeah. Um You are Ah. That bitch ass.

SPEAKER_13

Here's the thing.

SPEAKER_19

On your turns, you can make an investigation check to see. Fuck no.

SPEAKER_04

He's over there, where the mist probably is.

SPEAKER_13

And Soldar said, Don't believe anything you see in the mist. It is not real. Is it misty over there?

SPEAKER_19

It's misty all around you.

SPEAKER_03

Yeah. There's our answer.

SPEAKER_19

I don't know, man.

SPEAKER_20

I think Irena tried to dip without anyone noticing and tried to go to the pool again, and Strahd was like, gotcha, bitch.

SPEAKER_04

But like, she's died so many times, I don't think he would do that.

SPEAKER_02

Well, he's gonna kill her so she becomes a vampire and stays with him forever.

SPEAKER_04

Okay.

unknown

Okay.

SPEAKER_19

Then we'll just have to kill her too.

SPEAKER_04

Well, she can live as a vampire.

SPEAKER_19

Quick draw, you're gonna take five damage from the swarm of insects. Okay.

SPEAKER_08

So insignificant right now.

SPEAKER_13

They're just annoying.

SPEAKER_19

Leary. I fucking Leo on deck.

SPEAKER_13

I you make the investigation check because you can't really do anything.

SPEAKER_08

Why are you?

SPEAKER_06

I had a shenanigans thought and I want to see if it's.

SPEAKER_08

She's still 50 feet up, right?

SPEAKER_15

Mm-hmm.

SPEAKER_08

Okay. Just on the off chance if she lowers herself anymore. Is there more? Gotta word this question correctly. In the skull that she's in, is there enough room for, say, another person to get in there?

SPEAKER_22

No.

unknown

Okay.

SPEAKER_08

I was gonna hope she was low enough and then Missy step in and throw her out.

SPEAKER_16

Oh my god. That would have been great.

SPEAKER_08

Okay. That was funny. Yeah, I'll do, because I can't really do anything else, I'll do an investigation check on the straw vision.

SPEAKER_09

Alright. I don't believe a shit. You have a minus one to this.

SPEAKER_12

Oh.

SPEAKER_08

I am gonna use my inspiration to reroll that.

SPEAKER_12

Ooh.

SPEAKER_08

And it was almost worse. Um, can I guide myself on this?

SPEAKER_19

Uh sure. It's a cantrip. Oh. Yeah.

SPEAKER_11

Oh yeah.

SPEAKER_19

That's a bonus action guidance. Fuck. Is guidance an action? I don't know. It's oh I should know it's a kin trip.

SPEAKER_08

It is an action. Fuck. Never mind then. Um so that is that is a six.

SPEAKER_19

Fuck. I shouldn't be the one shocking. Uh very hard to tell. Um plus three. But you know that she wasn't really sure about your plan.

SPEAKER_08

Can I she did this to herself? Could I could I yell something?

SPEAKER_19

Uh yeah. It can be very quick because you already used your.

SPEAKER_08

Why did you find her? He would know that.

SPEAKER_19

She wandered outside of a locky.

SPEAKER_18

Yep.

SPEAKER_08

That would make sense if she was real. I was hoping he would say some shit that we're like, we didn't even go there.

SPEAKER_19

He's smarter than that.

SPEAKER_08

I'm gonna heal myself first and foremost for 17.

SPEAKER_19

Okay.

SPEAKER_08

Yeah.

SPEAKER_19

First and foremost. First things first on the healist.

SPEAKER_08

Nice. I am gonna continue to hurt the fucking skull though.

SPEAKER_04

Like sorry, Arena, that was your own damn fault.

SPEAKER_08

Honestly, at this point, Larry's like, it's a sacrifice I'm willing to make. Yeah.

SPEAKER_03

I'm gonna cast a um I'm gonna cast a big I'm gonna cast on fire.

SPEAKER_08

I'm sorry, but we might have to let your infatuation die. 14.

SPEAKER_19

Miss. Seriel, I've been over.

SPEAKER_13

Fine.

SPEAKER_19

Is that your turn? You have inspiration.

SPEAKER_13

Yes. I used it.

SPEAKER_19

Oh, wait. You shouldn't have even been able to do that. Why? Because you're stunned. No, she's frightened and paralyzed. Yeah, frightened.

SPEAKER_08

Okay, can I make my check then? And I'm paralyzed.

SPEAKER_19

You do not have the healing.

SPEAKER_08

That's fine. I'm still gonna make my check.

SPEAKER_19

Wait, hold on. If you're paralyzed, you can't hear it, hear your sheriff. Uh you have incapacity condition if you're paralyzed.

SPEAKER_08

So I made a constitution save of 16.

SPEAKER_02

That would be at the end of the. Wait, what?

unknown

No.

SPEAKER_02

Hold on. What? She's making the save at the end of her turn, so she didn't get the healing or anything.

SPEAKER_19

Um you have it, you have it until the end of the scarecrow's turn.

SPEAKER_03

Fuuuuuuuuu! No, I thought on my turn I get to make the constitution check.

SPEAKER_19

No. Not for later. It's a wisdom save that you failed.

unknown

Yeah.

SPEAKER_19

It's the one time. It lasts until the scarecrow. You're thinking of what happened to Quick Draw, which is a completely different thing.

SPEAKER_03

I am thinking of that. Well, that's bullshit, and I hate that actually.

SPEAKER_19

Remove that healing.

SPEAKER_03

Give me my spell slot back. Give me my spell slot back, Jordan.

SPEAKER_19

Uh yeah, because you can't take any action, bonus action, or reaction. Your concentration's broken, can't speak.

SPEAKER_22

Oh, what is he bubble? Bob slugger enough.

SPEAKER_19

Back Jordan.

SPEAKER_13

Can I make an investigation check?

SPEAKER_18

That's an action.

unknown

Okay.

SPEAKER_13

Yeah, but I can look with my special eyes.

SPEAKER_19

I have special eyes. Um, alright. So mad. Uh the scarecrow is going to uh go fuck itself. How about that? Make a terrifying glare at uh Zulika.

SPEAKER_08

Sorry, girl. Don't look at it. You're too far. Yeah, that's my aura.

SPEAKER_19

Twelve is going to succeed. Thank God. Um she growls as she uh proves her bravery.

SPEAKER_08

I think they do share a look on that.

SPEAKER_19

Like and then bites down on the scarecrow. Did you make that noise? Um I did, yeah. And scratches it.

SPEAKER_05

Scratches it.

SPEAKER_19

Oh, it scratches. Scratch is gonna kill. Uh kill it!

SPEAKER_05

Scratch is going to kill.

SPEAKER_19

All of the scarecrows are now dead. It is now you guys, Strahd and Arena.

SPEAKER_11

I don't know. She's choosing to believe that it's not Strad for my sanity.

SPEAKER_19

She is going to look over uh to you, Leary, and go. Should I attack the woman or the man?

SPEAKER_08

Oh, this is what's her face?

SPEAKER_19

This is Uliga.

SPEAKER_08

Okay. I thought you met Bobble, so I'm gonna say what the fuck is she looking at? Um, him.

SPEAKER_19

Alright. Holy shit. Turns heel and starts sprinting over.

SPEAKER_04

I'm the elpha. I'm the leader.

SPEAKER_19

Uh does she have more than 30 as a werewolf though? No.

SPEAKER_04

Poopy.

SPEAKER_19

Poopy. Quick draw. You're up.

SPEAKER_02

You should have stayed in a church. And I'll turn back around and fire at the skull. Okay. Uh, I have hit the skull already. So this will be a flat roll because it's what 60 feet from me? Mm-hmm. Okay.

SPEAKER_13

It's also midday.

SPEAKER_19

Yeah.

SPEAKER_13

The real Stradvan garbage would not. Be here. Yeah.

SPEAKER_19

There's no sun. It's so cloudy.

SPEAKER_13

He still has to sleep at some point.

SPEAKER_19

It's always cloudy in Barovia. 16 for the first attack.

SPEAKER_13

It's never sunny in Barovia.

SPEAKER_19

16 hits.

SPEAKER_02

That'll hit. And that'll hit. Excellent. 12 and a 9 on the die. That's 9.

SPEAKER_13

Hey, did you hear that? You're weapon.

SPEAKER_20

Oh, so I oh no. I get sneak attack because Leary's next to me. That's not how that works. Oh, it's it's the next enemy. Right. Okay.

SPEAKER_02

That's fine.

SPEAKER_08

You just get my company. Yeah.

unknown

Please break it.

SPEAKER_05

Please break the skull. Love of God.

SPEAKER_13

It's gonna shiver.

SPEAKER_20

Twenty-nine. Twenty-nine image.

SPEAKER_13

I gotta shiver watching mass.

SPEAKER_19

Oh god. And Baba La Saga starts floating down.

SPEAKER_04

Why do you even need the skull?

SPEAKER_19

Uh flare. As the uh while floating was a bad word. She starts falling down. Oh, okay. Uh with the skull and lands softly into this marsh. Gotcha, bitch.

SPEAKER_10

Second time. Well.

SPEAKER_19

Uh that's only gonna be six damage from the falling. Uh as she plummets 50 feet down uh into this soul. She looks to you.

SPEAKER_18

I'm on the ground now.

SPEAKER_19

What are you going to do to me?

SPEAKER_20

I'm just gonna lob your head off, is what she's gonna do. I like this back and forth you have.

SPEAKER_06

With who? Bob and the saga?

SPEAKER_13

Yeah. What are you going to do to me?

SPEAKER_08

You're standing around the corner. You can't see that. I'm not anymore. Scarecrow's dead. Oh. You're standing around the corner. I'm pretending you can I have ears.

SPEAKER_19

Oh my god.

unknown

There we go.

SPEAKER_19

Just then she is going to cast a fireball. Yep. There it is. On her insects. I need a deck save from everybody. Okay, plus three.

SPEAKER_05

Yeah, just you do.

SPEAKER_19

Yeah.

SPEAKER_05

Mmm. That's bad. 18. 12.

SPEAKER_02

What the fuck? Right.

SPEAKER_05

Twelve.

SPEAKER_19

Twenty-four. Alright. Uh Leary is the only one to fail. Damn. Clanker. The insect succeeded. Um.

SPEAKER_21

It's only 86.

SPEAKER_08

I have 30 hit points. I did succeed.

SPEAKER_02

You are in cover. Not really. But. Centered it here. Yeah.

SPEAKER_19

Of course you did.

unknown

Okay.

SPEAKER_19

32 fire damage. Okay. Uh halved to 16. That's fine.

SPEAKER_09

That's nothing.

SPEAKER_19

The insects are still up.

SPEAKER_09

I'm at exactly half, but it's nothing. It's fine.

SPEAKER_19

Uh yeah. Uh a few buzzing around remaining useless.

SPEAKER_08

Get out of here.

SPEAKER_19

Um. And she is going to run.

SPEAKER_12

Oh, you bitch. You bitch.

SPEAKER_19

She's gonna run to a bit of cover uh away from harm's way. Uh the insects are going to attack Leary. One of them is going to hit.

SPEAKER_10

Okay. For what?

SPEAKER_19

Two. Two. Oh my god. I'm psychic.

SPEAKER_05

Good job.

SPEAKER_19

Leary.

SPEAKER_05

Good job, you guys. Um 15, 20, 25, 30.

SPEAKER_20

Wait.

SPEAKER_08

Oh, I can get up to over 30. Yeah. If I can move through Leo, yeah.

SPEAKER_20

Oh fuck yeah.

SPEAKER_08

Can you get me?

SPEAKER_20

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Can you No. Lily. Can you move Leary L right in front of uh baba baba boba?

SPEAKER_07

I foamin'.

SPEAKER_01

Ba la bop bop.

SPEAKER_07

Um, okay. Two sword slashes coming at her.

SPEAKER_08

Um I do not have advantage because I've used both of my channel divinities.

SPEAKER_12

You got this.

SPEAKER_05

Smacked the mic so fucking hard.

SPEAKER_08

Um eighteen to hit the first one.

SPEAKER_19

Hits.

SPEAKER_08

Twenty-three to hit the second. Hits. Uh, one of these is gonna be a divine smite as well. First, we're gonna do these twenty-two slashing. Thirteen radiant.

SPEAKER_22

Nice.

SPEAKER_19

All right. Big damage. Uh she uh you slice her across uh the face and across the chest, and she wipes the blood from her face.

SPEAKER_08

That's what I'm going to do now. Interesting.

SPEAKER_19

Thank you.

SPEAKER_18

Finally a taste of mine own blood and not.

SPEAKER_08

You're welcome.

SPEAKER_18

Others.

SPEAKER_08

You could have done that anytime. Sicko. Well, now that you're on the ground, expect more of that.

SPEAKER_19

Leo.

SPEAKER_03

I'm gonna um I shouldn't really heal myself, huh?

SPEAKER_19

Yeah, do that. I should really heal myself.

SPEAKER_08

I should probably heal myself.

SPEAKER_03

I'm gonna cast a cure wounds.

SPEAKER_08

A cure. I'm gonna cast a healing word on myself because that's a bonus action. So that is 15 back at me.

SPEAKER_05

Back it to me.

SPEAKER_08

And then I'm going to cast a um I'm gonna cast a sacred flame at her. So Dex 15.

SPEAKER_19

It's probably real. That's a natural one.

SPEAKER_08

Oh Lyriel has been prepared to say goodbye to Irena for two episodes. Like seven.

SPEAKER_19

Yeah, Irina's being a little crying. Seven damage bitch. Being an idiot and knowing full well, still fine. Not bloody in the church.

SPEAKER_13

Um, can you stupid ass.

SPEAKER_19

You're by far the closest.

SPEAKER_13

Not used to that.

SPEAKER_19

Where are you going?

SPEAKER_13

Over here.

SPEAKER_19

Over here.

SPEAKER_11

Over here.

SPEAKER_04

Hide.

SPEAKER_20

You can take it. Oh hide.

SPEAKER_04

I hide. I get to outside of range of fireball.

SPEAKER_08

I have purse.

SPEAKER_14

I don't think you do.

SPEAKER_08

Hope I do.

SPEAKER_19

That's your turn?

SPEAKER_08

Yes.

SPEAKER_19

Alright. Uh, that brings it to Zulika. But not Zoom. Get him!

SPEAKER_08

Get him, girl! Please.

SPEAKER_19

You see she runs full bore into the street.

SPEAKER_11

What if she is real and he kills her fast?

SPEAKER_19

Holding arena. That would suck. Dives with her mouth agape. Her f fangs.

SPEAKER_20

Bet you anything. I'm gonna call it. I'm gonna call it.

SPEAKER_12

She can go through it. She's gonna go right through it.

SPEAKER_20

Right through.

SPEAKER_12

Bitch!

SPEAKER_13

Fuck yeah! I got so fucking scared when he's gonna be.

SPEAKER_20

But wait, this is do be doing that shit.

SPEAKER_08

This is an apology for uh editing Dallas. We've peaked the mic like four fucking times tonight.

SPEAKER_19

Scream so loud.

SPEAKER_08

Because I can kind of hear it.

SPEAKER_19

Editor Dallas.

SPEAKER_08

And when we all start yelling, I can kind of hear it in here, and it just is like a wall of fucking sound.

SPEAKER_13

That genuinely scared me so fucking bad.

SPEAKER_20

What, Strahd or me going? Yeah, yeah. What is it saying? Strahd is like all teleporting and shit, so that might have actually still been real.

SPEAKER_12

Who knows?

SPEAKER_06

Yeah. I was scared because he was here, but I'm like why don't they just get rid of our vanishes?

SPEAKER_19

Was that did that look like uh teleportation magic or something? Uh it looked like an illusion. I knew it. Zulika goes, What the fuck? And turns around uh and runs the rest of Master Illusionist! Runs the rest of her movement back towards you all.

SPEAKER_07

Good! You found out what we wanted to find out. Good job.

SPEAKER_19

Thank you. Quick draw. Alright, um God.

SPEAKER_08

Look how far back my twinger.

SPEAKER_19

Yes, stop. I'll kill you.

SPEAKER_08

That's like impressive, actually.

SPEAKER_22

Oh no, I can hit her for sure. Without taking an attack of opportunity. Um bonus action, hunter's mark.

SPEAKER_20

Uh that's uh 22 to hit and a 23 to hit. Yeah, those will both do it. Oh, and I get sneak attack.

SPEAKER_15

Yeah.

SPEAKER_20

So sneak attack, regular, and hunter's mark.

SPEAKER_02

That's forty-six per hit.

SPEAKER_16

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00

Ten I do forty damage.

SPEAKER_02

Damn.

SPEAKER_04

Mitch.

SPEAKER_19

She is bloody.

SPEAKER_02

That is my turn.

SPEAKER_19

Uh as you sink these crossbow bolts into her, she pulls them out one by one.

SPEAKER_06

Oh, I don't like being this close for that.

SPEAKER_19

Snaps them in her hands.

SPEAKER_06

Oh.

SPEAKER_07

I don't like being this close to her.

SPEAKER_16

You're bobble of more like Bobble of Freak. Am I right? That's a good one.

SPEAKER_06

You lock her grind. Seriously. I don't I regret now being this close to her. I don't like it.

SPEAKER_16

Her aura of freakiness.

SPEAKER_08

Oh, also I forgot, since I hit her, uh, her speed is reduced by ten. Hamstring.

SPEAKER_19

Hamstring. Hamstrung. Hamstrung.

SPEAKER_08

Rum ham. Um I forgot that that happens.

SPEAKER_19

She looks at you, Liriel.

SPEAKER_08

Now fuck me.

SPEAKER_19

And don't sniffs.

SPEAKER_18

I recognize of love inside of you.

SPEAKER_10

What? What are you talking about?

SPEAKER_18

Kill him.

SPEAKER_10

No. Ah this is This is the fucking thing.

SPEAKER_19

I need you to make a wisdom save.

SPEAKER_10

Okay.

SPEAKER_11

That's fine.

SPEAKER_19

Uh that's fine. DC is 17. Uh yeah.

unknown

Okay.

SPEAKER_12

You have a plus three.

SPEAKER_05

It adds it automatically. I think it does. Yeah. Pretty sure.

SPEAKER_02

Yeah.

unknown

Come on.

SPEAKER_02

Oh no. That doesn't look good.

SPEAKER_11

It's only a nine. Run.

SPEAKER_19

You have been charmed. Shit.

SPEAKER_08

Wait, are you immune to charmed? You're an elf. I know. I have an advantage. I have an advantage against charmed, because I'm an elf. 15!

SPEAKER_12

Yeah! DC was 17. This is 17.

SPEAKER_19

The three's already in there.

SPEAKER_10

It already adds, it adds automatically. Fuck me! God damn it!

SPEAKER_19

You have been charmed to kill Quickdraw.

SPEAKER_08

How does that end? Yeah, hit me. Hit me. Slap me.

SPEAKER_02

I think it's well, I don't, I don't. Quickdraw doesn't know. I know. I think.

SPEAKER_19

You just have to do it. Shit. If you don't do it, bad things happen.

SPEAKER_08

Is this concentration?

SPEAKER_19

Uh I don't think it is. It is not. It's not concentrate. Concentration, not a curse. Not concentration, not a curse. It is charmed and it lasts for 30 days.

SPEAKER_08

How the fuck do you stop that?

SPEAKER_19

Kill her.

SPEAKER_08

This is like what happened to other Lyrial when I got fucking charmed for like a month. What did we do?

SPEAKER_04

What did we do?

SPEAKER_08

Call emotions?

SPEAKER_19

You have to kill her. And she is then uh going to turn and get more distance away.

SPEAKER_08

Ten less than usual. Thank you. Oh, here we go. I got you. I did do something before she fucking tickets to me. Wait, never mind.

SPEAKER_19

Uh her swarm of insects. Just get out of here.

SPEAKER_15

Go away.

SPEAKER_19

Go ahead. I'm going to attack Quick Draw once and Leo once. Oh, Nat 20, baby.

SPEAKER_04

This is not a fun fight.

SPEAKER_19

This is actually a really fun fight. Actually, no, I hate it.

SPEAKER_04

I'm uncomfy.

SPEAKER_19

Uh Nat 20 for Leo. Oof. It's just bugs. It's the bugs. Six damage. They feel really good about that. Four damage to Quick Draw. Ow.

SPEAKER_08

I bet they feel really good about that.

SPEAKER_19

Ow.

SPEAKER_08

Not her calling out something in Lyriel that she doesn't even know is there.

SPEAKER_13

You could kill him though, and we could take him to the necromancer or revivify him.

SPEAKER_19

Shit. You can go attack Quick Draw, or you can try to disobey the commands.

SPEAKER_08

Is it another role to disobey or do I just not do it?

SPEAKER_19

I don't recommend. Don't do it. I'll tell you what happens.

SPEAKER_02

I would not recommend disobeying. I don't think I didn't think that was possible. To try and disobey it.

SPEAKER_19

Does Quickdraw know what just happened? I'll tell you above table, it's the gaus spell.

SPEAKER_13

The gayest?

SPEAKER_19

Oh yeah.

SPEAKER_08

The gayest. Gaias.

SPEAKER_02

Jeez.

SPEAKER_08

I don't know what that is. I think it's a geus.

SPEAKER_02

Gaius. Gaius, yeah.

SPEAKER_08

On or above table. I have no idea what the fuck that is.

SPEAKER_17

Alright, there we go.

SPEAKER_19

Quick draw.

SPEAKER_13

It's what it's what the guy in the cruel prince gives to Jude so that she can lie.

SPEAKER_19

Does Gesh or Geish? Yeah. Right. Yeah. Googled it.

SPEAKER_01

Can move Metagame, you motherfuckers. No, I Googled it for two.

SPEAKER_19

Does Quickdraw know that she has been charmed? You heard exactly what she said. Oh, okay, okay. And then you see Lyriel turning to you with murder in her eyes.

SPEAKER_07

Yikes!

SPEAKER_08

I think it's kind of the same thing that happens during fights when she vow of enmities. It's that like dead, like shark eye fuck. Like type of thing. Okay.

SPEAKER_22

Hey, you don't have advantage.

SPEAKER_08

I I have two attacks.

SPEAKER_22

Oh, right, yeah.

SPEAKER_20

Six sixteen or higher. You rolled a nat fucking twenty, didn't you?

SPEAKER_08

No, no.

SPEAKER_20

Son of a bitch.

SPEAKER_08

I rolled a nat 20 and then I got an 18 on the die for 25.

SPEAKER_19

Do you have any uh smites left? Yeah.

SPEAKER_08

Do I have to use it?

SPEAKER_19

You gotta try to kill him with all your might.

SPEAKER_13

If you kill him, I have revivify. I can just revive him and then your curse is done. I would assume, right? If she kills him, that's done.

SPEAKER_02

No. No, she's still gonna be charmed until I think if if it's the geish spell, it's probably when Babla Saga dies.

SPEAKER_19

Not when um we You can figure that out when it happens. I'm not gonna tell you every little detail about it. I just I as women am trying to remember, but again, quick draw no quick draw.

SPEAKER_08

Emily feels physically ill. I feel nauseous.

SPEAKER_04

It's like, come on, this ain't you. She's bloody, right? You're in there somewhere.

SPEAKER_08

I don't even know how to God damn. Okay. Of course, of course, of course, a nat 20 that I get when I don't have advantage for the first time is against you.

SPEAKER_02

That's hilarious.

SPEAKER_08

Um I'm gonna do this.

SPEAKER_05

This is gonna take a hot second.

SPEAKER_09

Um I'm gonna do this hit by hit, I think. Okay, there's that's a lot of twos.

SPEAKER_05

I forget, does the plus get doubled as well?

SPEAKER_15

No.

SPEAKER_08

No. I will save my third level of a five for you.

SPEAKER_01

We'll see what happens.

SPEAKER_08

Do I choose which hit the crit happened on?

SPEAKER_09

Or which uh smite the smite happens first.

SPEAKER_14

I guess the first one.

SPEAKER_09

I rolled them at the same time. But it did hit an 18 before it hit a 20.

SPEAKER_19

Um you gotta do what you gotta do. You're trying to kill him.

unknown

Fuck.

SPEAKER_11

I all of my smites are pretty much the same.

SPEAKER_02

Yeah, I think you only have like what one or two left?

SPEAKER_09

Divine smite is the one that does the most damage.

SPEAKER_08

Well I have my other D8 back.

SPEAKER_19

Yes.

SPEAKER_08

The red one. Oh, this is traumatic. I'm upset.

SPEAKER_19

You would have to do 119 damage right now to kill him.

SPEAKER_08

I know. But I just I don't feel good about it. Feels feels bad. That's actually pretty bad.

SPEAKER_02

Um you could still revivify to get me awake.

SPEAKER_08

Okay. Up. So it's 22 slashing and 17 radiant.

SPEAKER_19

What is that?

SPEAKER_08

39 total.

SPEAKER_20

So he's still up. I'm still up. I have seven left. Let's go. Oh god, I feel sick. Uh Quick Draw knows that it's not. It's not really her that's doing this. But he's still like scared as fuck because she knows he knows how strong she is.

SPEAKER_01

I'm never gonna let you live this down.

SPEAKER_19

You feel what you've seen many times towards your enemies, but never towards yourself. The divine smite of Lyrielle to your chest. I see this. Her sword raised up fuck.

SPEAKER_08

And somewhere deep inside her own head, she's like, no, no, no.

SPEAKER_19

Alright. Leo.

SPEAKER_03

I have a question. By command uncharm or disenchant.

SPEAKER_19

Is that a command word?

SPEAKER_03

No, it's DM's discretion. Would that work?

SPEAKER_02

To use a different word than what's listed, it is DM's discretion. Like we've used command vomit before on monsters.

SPEAKER_03

Command vomit. And you have allowed that.

SPEAKER_02

So it's it is your discretion.

SPEAKER_19

Um the the geish spell would take priority over your command. Yeah. Oh my gosh.

SPEAKER_03

I guess I gotta try and kill Bobble La Saga.

SPEAKER_10

I can't believe I rolled a fucking net 20 on you.

SPEAKER_02

Yeah, that's crazy. For some reason, I had a feeling that might happen.

SPEAKER_08

I feel ill. I am going to. Oh god, and the fact that he heard her say that too. Fuck! Daddy cast Illyriel silver lance on her strength 15. It's gonna be so awkward when she's arranged on that?

SPEAKER_19

Okay, never mind. Strength what?

SPEAKER_08

15.

SPEAKER_19

Yeah, she probably had the weakest foot. 23. Fuck you!

SPEAKER_08

It's still half. Okay. She's bloody, right?

SPEAKER_19

She is. Everybody is.

SPEAKER_08

Five, six, seven, fifteen. Now is not the time to laugh. Half of twenty-five.

SPEAKER_19

Okay. Twelve. She's hurt. You're all hurt. Really hurt? You're all very hurt.

SPEAKER_04

Oh Jesus.

SPEAKER_19

Fuck. Hanging on by a fucking thread.

SPEAKER_02

Yeah, I don't think.

SPEAKER_03

Sorry, I tried to kill her.

SPEAKER_02

I don't think if I hid Lariel that it's gonna break her out of it.

SPEAKER_08

Guys on you can try.

SPEAKER_02

No.

SPEAKER_08

Try.

SPEAKER_19

I was gonna try one.

SPEAKER_08

Alright.

SPEAKER_19

Yeah. Uh the insects are still there. Oh my god. Nobody's hit them. Yeah, because they got hit by the fireball.

SPEAKER_20

It's like a couple bugs flying around. Watch those fucking kill me.

SPEAKER_08

Now it's yeah, now the bugs are just like part of the ecosystem. Yes.

SPEAKER_19

Alright, Zulika. This sucks.

SPEAKER_08

I feel sick. This morning they almost died, and she was traumatized by that. And now she's watching herself in her own head kill him.

SPEAKER_19

Alright, Zulika's coming in clutch. Dash. Uh so that's her actions. She's gonna dash towards Babula Saga. Um growling and snarling as she does as she sees this uh magic take over uh her new ally. Um that brings it to Quick Draw. Okay.

SPEAKER_02

I'm going to try and hit Liria once. I'm going to uh uh bonus action steady aim. Okay. Hit her once to see if it breaks her out of it. I don't think it will. But we will try. I'm a child of divorce, you have to stop that is a 19 to hit. I would would I get sneak attack because I'm right there? Or no. No? Okay.

SPEAKER_19

That's fine. Well, did you have advantage on the attack? Then yes. Oh yes.

SPEAKER_02

Okay, okay. So oops.

SPEAKER_04

This is very bad.

SPEAKER_02

Uh 15 damage to Liriol. Sorry, sorry, sorry, sorry.

SPEAKER_04

This is traumatizing everybody.

SPEAKER_02

Yeah, fucking knew it.

SPEAKER_20

Alright, second attack into Baba Love. Fuck you.

SPEAKER_19

Uh, that's only a 15. 15 just hits. Okay. Oh my god.

SPEAKER_22

Uh I do not get sneak attack. Wait.

SPEAKER_06

You steady aimed. If you have two, if you steady aimed.

SPEAKER_19

Give me that sneak attack. You do have something that removes the disadvantage from being in melee range, right? Yeah. Okay. I do. I thought so. I just wanted to confirm.

SPEAKER_08

I think it's either called that.

SPEAKER_02

20 damage to Baba La Saga. Okay.

SPEAKER_08

Fuck you, Bobble Baba.

SPEAKER_19

And that is she is very hurt. You see, as you shoot an arrow in, this time she doesn't even have the strength. Give her back! She doesn't even have the strength to pull it out. She like grabs it. You regret that. And she is going to. Oh fuck. I'm going down.

SPEAKER_03

Timber. Oh, I wish Clary's got counter spell.

SPEAKER_19

Um, she is going to cast Cloud Kill over you all. Fuck me, dude.

SPEAKER_08

Does my aura still do anything? Because it's not it's just a part of me. What's the range on it?

SPEAKER_10

10 feet.

SPEAKER_19

I mean, I'll so Leo's just out.

SPEAKER_10

Yeah.

SPEAKER_19

Yeah.

SPEAKER_10

I will still probably get out.

SPEAKER_19

I have 78 feet. It might help. It's a 20-foot area radius. Um yes. So that's going to get uh I'm gonna fucking die. Yeah, I am too. So this is gonna suck. That's gonna get everybody. Including Zulika. Zulika, it's literally up to her. Um so that's gonna be a con save uh DC 17.

SPEAKER_03

Nope. I'm gonna go down.

unknown

Okay.

SPEAKER_02

Yep. That's a fair. 13. Fuck me.

SPEAKER_11

19.

SPEAKER_02

All right, I'm down.

SPEAKER_08

Oh my god, are we gonna be sick?

SPEAKER_19

Max plus current uh 33 halved to uh 16.

SPEAKER_08

I have one hit point.

SPEAKER_19

I'm down. Zulika saved.

SPEAKER_13

Good. Kill her, Zulika.

SPEAKER_19

So she takes 16 damage. She is not bloody. She's still good. She's fine. She's fine. You have one HP. You're down. Yep. You're down. Leary is the only one up.

SPEAKER_08

She yeah, she has to break her concentration.

SPEAKER_02

Um case she's in concentration. It's just like, do this.

SPEAKER_08

No, her concentration on cloud kill. Because it happens after every uh turn.

SPEAKER_19

Oh fuck. That's that's right. 10 minute concentration.

SPEAKER_13

I'm so scared.

SPEAKER_19

That'll just make us fail a death fail a death save. Uh each swarm of insects is going to Oh my god!

SPEAKER_13

Dude!

SPEAKER_19

Uh hit, Leo, and quick draw. So that's one death save fail for each of you.

SPEAKER_13

You are a motherfucker.

SPEAKER_19

Baba La Saga, baby. Uh that'll bring it to Leary's turn.

SPEAKER_08

What is she gonna do? I'm gonna throw up.

SPEAKER_13

She's gonna kill you.

SPEAKER_19

I'm de I'm dead. Uh you. It's up to you. You can either attack quick draw, give him another death save fail. Or see what happens if you disobey.

SPEAKER_04

If you disobey, you're gonna be.

SPEAKER_08

Bobble of saga, your charm might end.

SPEAKER_02

I feel like if you disobey, you'll fucking die.

SPEAKER_01

I wish I knew.

SPEAKER_13

If I could get back up to her if I relax. If you get back up to her, she you die or get hurt from it. But you kill her, Zulika Zulika or whatever can come revive me and I can heal you all.

SPEAKER_06

If she kills me though, I can revive you.

SPEAKER_03

As long as Zulika kills her and then saves me, I can save you guys, but I don't know if that's gonna happen.

SPEAKER_19

What's the initiative order? Uh Leary and then Leo. And then uh so from the top down, quick draw, babble saga, insects, Leary, Leo, uh, Zulika.

SPEAKER_02

Okay. Okay.

SPEAKER_19

So Leo's on deck, Leary's up right now, and Zulika's after. In the hole.

unknown

In the hole.

SPEAKER_08

I know from I literally, like, my heart is in my throat. This is like!

SPEAKER_22

Fuck you.

SPEAKER_08

I know character-wise. She would try to fight it.

SPEAKER_11

But I if it kills me, then you're all fucked.

SPEAKER_22

If it kills, then he has revivify.

SPEAKER_08

Yeah. And I can take you to the necromanction. But what if something worse happens? Like what if it what if it makes terrifying?

SPEAKER_19

And we try to tie you up and remove curses. You do have multi-attack.

SPEAKER_07

Yeah.

SPEAKER_19

So you hit him twice twice, he is dead dead. And somebody would need to get Leo up within one minute in combat and then out of it to cast her vision. Well, there's also the necromancer. So you either kill, kill, quick draw.

SPEAKER_08

He just might keep his medical parts.

SPEAKER_19

You see what happens if you disobey this kill. Because I'm not gonna tell you until you do it.

SPEAKER_08

If she does two hits, how many hits do you get? Three? Two.

unknown

Okay.

SPEAKER_19

If I hit if I hit He's already has one fail. If you hit her twice, that might kill her.

SPEAKER_03

Yeah, that's what I mean. And Zulika is next.

SPEAKER_21

What would Lyria? What is Lyria doing?

SPEAKER_08

As long as a giant AoE doesn't come through and kill us all. And if this goes really poorly, we can make Dallas re-record the episode.

SPEAKER_04

That's what that's what I'm saying.

SPEAKER_19

It's not happening. There are ways for us all to be alive. The abbot to offer.

SPEAKER_04

Yeah, that's what I mean.

SPEAKER_19

We have a cleric that can get us stable. I need that decision.

unknown

Fuck me. Okay.

SPEAKER_06

I think about have being I'm gonna throw off.

SPEAKER_09

Being me too. Being down to one hit point.

SPEAKER_08

And I think seeing Quick Draw go down by something that she didn't do under this charmed spell, seeing it be something cast by Babble Saga. Somewhere deep in her subconscious, there's a resistance.

SPEAKER_09

And she remembers how this morning, just this morning, he was almost killed. And she is gonna use everything that she can to turn away from him. And with my full movement, I can get right up next to Babble Saga. And she's gonna hit her twice.

SPEAKER_20

Oh my god.

SPEAKER_03

What's gonna happen?

SPEAKER_20

Okay. She probably takes either takes a shit ton of damage for resisting or dies.

SPEAKER_19

As you do that, as you walk up and you swing your sword back to hit her, Babula Saga looks at you, blood covering her. She's got holes and slashes all over her, bleeding out of her mouth as she opens it to go. No, no, no. And you take five d10 psychic damage. Yep. Yep.

SPEAKER_20

Oh my god, what's the fucking change? What's your current one? No, no, I mean your max.

SPEAKER_08

68.

SPEAKER_20

It's not gonna get that.

SPEAKER_08

But I no matter what I Zulika, I went out.

SPEAKER_19

It's up to Zulika. And succeeding death savings. Uh 25.

SPEAKER_08

I mean, yeah, I'm down. It doesn't even matter, I'm down. Um as I fall, I fight to get out to Zulika.

unknown

Kill heart.

SPEAKER_19

She Leo, I need a death save. Don't get a one.

SPEAKER_04

Fourteen.

SPEAKER_08

Wait, I'm not supposed to say.

SPEAKER_19

That's all right.

SPEAKER_08

Frankly, for the purpose of a podcast, you probably should say 14. I succeeded. So that means I can't die.

SPEAKER_19

Julica has two attacks. Hopefully. She better not fucking miss back tactics.

SPEAKER_22

She's an ally.

SPEAKER_19

No. Um she has a plus five, so she just needs one of these to be a 10. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I'm gonna ask that. That's 15 and a 19 on the die. Both are going to hit.

SPEAKER_13

My left arm hurts.

SPEAKER_08

You're giving me a goddamn heart attack. Dude, I'm gonna throw up.

SPEAKER_20

I'm shaking in my face.

SPEAKER_10

Look at my I'm not doing that. I don't like this.

SPEAKER_19

Babla Saga is going to take twenty-seven damage with five remaining.

SPEAKER_04

Oh, thank you. Five remaining.

SPEAKER_15

Kill her bugs.

SPEAKER_19

Her bugs fall dead.

SPEAKER_15

Oh god.

SPEAKER_19

Fucking finally. The only thing left to do is see if she becomes a werewolf. Oh no. That's a net one. Bobla saga falls dead to the bite of Zulika and raises as a werewolf.

SPEAKER_15

What the fuck?

SPEAKER_12

What the fuck? What the fuck?

SPEAKER_00

With how much health I'm la I I I I I I Oh God.

SPEAKER_11

What is your fucking problem? With how much health? Is it like one? Please think it's one.

SPEAKER_02

Can Babble Saga even become a werewolf? I'm just fucking with you.

SPEAKER_12

I quit.

SPEAKER_22

Nat 20. 40 million psychic damage.

SPEAKER_10

I am sweating. I'm sweating profusely.

SPEAKER_19

Uh so the real only thing left to do is that Zulika used her turn to attack. So quick draw, I need you to make a death save. Okay. Leary, I need you to make a deck death save. Don't kill the one. Leo, I need you to make a death save. Zulika's going to make a medicine check. Um on Leary. You are stable? She's going to run over to Leo. I need another death save. Leary. I need No, you're fine. You're stable. Leo, I need another death save.

SPEAKER_08

Don't say I think the podcast is really good. Like how like are you?

SPEAKER_19

Zulika is going to run over. Uh continue to run over to Leo. Make a medicine check. Success. Leo, you are stable. She's going to use the rest of her movement to walk over to Quick Draw. Quick draw, I need a death save. I'm awake.

SPEAKER_02

With three successes. Okay.

SPEAKER_19

As you she rushes over, and just as she's about to try to help you up, you cough up this blood from the blows and the uh this cloud kill that has now dissipated with Babla Saga's death. Ugh. Where's Lyrielle? Uh she has come out of her wolf form and is in her human form. She uh she's she's over there next to Babla Saga's dead body. Um do you have any healing items or anything?

SPEAKER_04

I'm gonna cast.

SPEAKER_19

Yeah. You are you are unconscious still, but you're stable. Gimme up to her. Uh actually, give me up to Leo. She carries you maybe puts you puts you uh next to Leo. Alright, Leo, hang in there, buddy.

SPEAKER_13

He's moaning and growing up the crowd.

SPEAKER_19

He's moaning and growing up. Uh in the meantime, uh Zulika is gonna run over to Lyriel and check her body for any m uh healing items. 15 HP to you, Leo.

SPEAKER_03

Oh, thank you.

SPEAKER_19

Leo.

SPEAKER_04

I immediately cast mass healing word. And everybody gets 14 back.

SPEAKER_19

Okay. Everyone is up. Holy fuck. As life. And there's no sign of Strahd. Fucking bitch.

SPEAKER_02

Uh, quick draw as he's up and he's like kind of stumbling over towards Lirio alongside Leo, he just like falls into her and just full like tight wrapped around her.

SPEAKER_08

No, no, get away.

SPEAKER_02

Hug.

SPEAKER_08

And he's she's freaking out. Like she's like, she's not like her hands are not, she is not touching him.

SPEAKER_22

Put your arms around me, damn it.

SPEAKER_08

I almost kissed.

SPEAKER_10

I was I was going to kiss I you did nothing.

SPEAKER_20

And I'm just hugging her neck and shoulders, just you did nothing. I'm good.

SPEAKER_01

We're good. I'm good. I'm so sorry. Everything's fine.

SPEAKER_09

And she's gonna finally put her arms around everything's fine.

SPEAKER_10

I'm so sorry, I'm so sorry. I could see myself doing it, and I couldn't make myself stop. I thought I was going to kill you for real.

SPEAKER_22

I knew you wouldn't.

SPEAKER_07

I had to, I had to.

SPEAKER_09

I had to, I fought I fought against it, and I had to it it that's what that's what got me. She retaliated, but see, I knew you wouldn't.

SPEAKER_01

I knew you wouldn't kill me. Even under such a charm.

SPEAKER_11

That I almost did.

SPEAKER_22

Yeah, you did.

SPEAKER_08

Oh yeah, she's she's she is hugging back, but it's not nearly as like uh tight as it was this morning. Like she she is scared to touch you.

unknown

Yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_13

Leo comes up to you too, and he puts his hands on both your shoulders. Well, guys. Let's not do that again. No, let's not.

SPEAKER_18

I sure am glad I came with you.

SPEAKER_19

Leo Hunter, we are eternally indebted to you. I thought Kirill was going to be quite the fight, but That's exactly what I thought.

unknown

Oh my god.

SPEAKER_19

Barbara Fassaga. These magic bastards.

SPEAKER_10

She got in my bre she said.

SPEAKER_18

Could you imagine if Strahd was really there?

unknown

Oh my god.

SPEAKER_18

Uh yeah.

SPEAKER_08

I don't even want to think. I would have let him take Arena. Honestly, yeah. Honestly, yeah.

SPEAKER_18

Well, a powerful spellcaster like that must have impeccable loot.

SPEAKER_04

You're so right, let's look.

SPEAKER_20

Bet you're bippy, that's where I'm headed.

SPEAKER_04

She's a woman!

SPEAKER_20

You bet your bippy. You're red rocket. You bet you're bippy that's where I'm headed.

SPEAKER_08

You can't say that while you're hugging me.

SPEAKER_16

Like that. Bet your bippy.

SPEAKER_08

Is everybody still bloody?

SPEAKER_16

I'm at 14 health, yeah.

SPEAKER_08

I'm also gonna um use my preserve life on everybody so we can all split 40 hit points.

SPEAKER_19

What a dudo.

SPEAKER_08

We all get back 40? No, we all split. Oh, oh, oh, gotcha. What's to 10?

SPEAKER_19

Do you want to split it with Zulika as well? Yeah.

SPEAKER_03

Sure. Yeah, but it's sure.

SPEAKER_19

Yeah, she could get it. She had well, she had fifty one, and you healed her back for 14.

SPEAKER_04

Yeah.

SPEAKER_19

So she's up to 65 out of 75. Oh, so she can't have she could get it's all bloody creatures. What's 40 divided by three? Uh 13.

SPEAKER_09

So another three. Um and then as they're still, I imagine still on the ground. Yeah. She is going to pull back from the hug a little bit and hold your face and say Let me return a little bit of what I took. And her last five charges of lay on hands to give you five health back.

SPEAKER_14

Why are you giving this to me? Because I always gave it to you.

SPEAKER_09

I need to I need to rever reverse it somehow. I will I will never be able to make it up to you? Apologize. I don't know. I don't know what it is.

SPEAKER_01

I don't need you to. I don't want you to. You didn't do nothing, alright?

SPEAKER_10

How can you believe that though? She she overtook. Yes, she is. But she o she overtook my m uh she got in my head.

SPEAKER_21

Right. Which is why you didn't do nothing. It's all her fault.

SPEAKER_20

She did it.

SPEAKER_11

I don't know.

SPEAKER_20

You're fine.

SPEAKER_11

I don't know.

SPEAKER_20

And I'll take I'll take her face in my uh her face in my hands. It's okay. Everything is fine. All right.

unknown

Okay. Okay.

SPEAKER_19

Now let's go uh let's go turn out her pockets.

SPEAKER_16

Of course.

SPEAKER_19

Uh she doesn't seem to have much on her body. Gold, gold, gold, gold, butt.

SPEAKER_03

Where the hell?

SPEAKER_19

This bitch broke.

SPEAKER_03

In her house.

SPEAKER_19

But she does have a hut nearby. Yeah.

SPEAKER_02

As we go to the hut, I'm going to take apart the fence and set the goats loose.

SPEAKER_15

Bye, goats.

SPEAKER_19

Uh the skulls uh were screaming for a minute. Having all that.

SPEAKER_16

Oh my god, I forgot. They were just having the whole time.

SPEAKER_19

Um, and it seems like most of Babla Saga's magical protection died along with her.

unknown

Oh my god.

SPEAKER_19

Uh if you'd like, you can go straight to the hut or you can examine this uh this castle first. Uh I would assume you want to go straight for the hut and just get that loot. Yeah, get the loot and then go back to Velocki.

SPEAKER_05

Yeah.

unknown

Yeah. Okay.

SPEAKER_02

You're gonna have a nice 4 p.m.

SPEAKER_16

fuck.

SPEAKER_04

Hopefully Yavgeny doesn't see. Um in the No Yavgeny can join.

SPEAKER_08

If it was okay with that.

SPEAKER_19

Uh you see this ramshackle wooden hut on a stump of what was once an enormous tree. The rotting roots of the stump thrust up from the mire like the legs of a gigantic spider.

SPEAKER_03

This is gross.

SPEAKER_19

An open doorway is visible on one side of the hut, beneath which floats the upside down. Oh, nope, skull's gone. Skull gone. Uh flanking the hut's doorway are two iron cages that dangle like hideous ornaments from the eaves. Scores of ravens are trapped in each one. They squawk and flutter their wings excitedly as they approach. Yes, yes, yes. Um I'm gonna let them out. You uh pop open the locks, uh they breathe.

SPEAKER_13

You're welcome.

SPEAKER_19

Uh they thank you in raven, uh, and then fly away, uh, stretching out their wings. Um, inside of the hut, uh fifteen feet on each side, and packed with old furniture, including a wooden cot, a wicker cabinet, a slender wardrobe, a wooden table, a stool, a barrel-topped wooden chest reinforced with brass bands, and an iron tub stained with blood. Gross. In the middle of the room is a ghastly wooden crib with a small angelic child sitting in it.

SPEAKER_13

What?

SPEAKER_19

What? All the furnishings except for the crib are bolted to the floor. Beneath the crib, green light seeps up through the cracks between the ryeing floorboards.

SPEAKER_06

Hey, what the fuck?

SPEAKER_19

What the reveals in this are so wild.

SPEAKER_06

Does she get reborn as soon as she does?

SPEAKER_16

What's in the chest? What what the fuck?

SPEAKER_06

Am I but isn't it with the babies in this fucking game? You're you're both seeing that, correct? Yeah, it's a baby. Okay. Goo goo gaga.

SPEAKER_19

I love babies. Make an investigation check.

SPEAKER_03

Okay. I love babies, but I don't trust it.

SPEAKER_08

I got myself with my minus one fucking four.

SPEAKER_19

17.

SPEAKER_08

Nat 20. I'm too focused on how I almost.

SPEAKER_19

On your nat 20, you put your hand down and wave it. The crib and the baby f float away. Another one of her programmed illusions.

SPEAKER_06

Why does she have this?

SPEAKER_19

That's such a weird ass fucking. On that nature, you also see on the wooden chest a glyph of warding.

SPEAKER_04

Careful.

SPEAKER_19

What?

SPEAKER_04

There's a glyph of warding.

SPEAKER_19

What's that?

SPEAKER_08

It's like if you go and you touch it, it's going to try and kill you. Uh does anybody have dispel magic?

SPEAKER_20

You should.

SPEAKER_13

We need to long rest. I'm not long resting.

SPEAKER_20

You can't you can't disarm a glyph of warding, can you?

SPEAKER_02

Uh unless yeah, I think you just have to dispel it.

SPEAKER_19

Yeah.

SPEAKER_16

Frick.

SPEAKER_02

Uh we may just have to.

SPEAKER_16

I wonder. Ooh!

SPEAKER_02

Can I try casting ensnaring strike on oh. That's AoE, isn't it?

SPEAKER_13

Ensnaring strike?

SPEAKER_02

Uh-huh. To cause damage to the chest to make it explode.

SPEAKER_06

Oh yeah, if it's inside the hut, probably not.

SPEAKER_19

I mean, you could try and shoot it from afar. That's true. I'm gonna do that. Alright, stand back.

SPEAKER_08

Everybody out. Everybody out of the hut. Leaves, he runs.

SPEAKER_02

Uh 15 did.

SPEAKER_19

The jail hit. 5d8 of thunder damage explodes, ruining everything outside of the chest.

SPEAKER_06

Okay. I was gonna say, would it not blow up what's inside?

SPEAKER_19

Inside of the chest, you see uh flying out four crawling claws that would have fought you but have been reduced to nothing from this explosion. As you walk back into the hut, you see laying on the floor where the chest once was one thousand three hundred gold, five massive gemstones. Oh man. A vial containing some sort of clear gelatinous oil that has tiny silver shards.

SPEAKER_04

Ew.

SPEAKER_19

Uh two spell scrolls, one of mass cure wounds and one of revivify.

SPEAKER_03

Get me.

SPEAKER_19

Nice. Nice. A pouch containing ten plus one sling bullets.

SPEAKER_22

Sling bullets. Interesting.

SPEAKER_19

A uh a polished agate that is carved to look like the head of a cat. And my computer just died. Oh no. Um fuck. I got it opened up on my comp on my phone now. You say one thousand three? One thousand three hundred.

SPEAKER_06

Are you happy?

SPEAKER_19

He does not respond.

SPEAKER_06

Can't even look at me.

SPEAKER_16

He's like pupils are just huge.

SPEAKER_05

Interesting.

SPEAKER_01

I've never seen so much money in my life.

SPEAKER_08

Lyriel is still with because I wrote like a four on my investigation. She is still like, she's not present at all. She's just like, I don't know.

SPEAKER_15

Oh my god.

SPEAKER_13

Leo at this point, like, wants to be sad that all that happened, but he's like, Well, this happened so many times now I am traumatized and whatever we're alive.

SPEAKER_19

Whatever we're alive. Um, and then the last thing that you see is two bones tied together by black and red string. One of the bones seems to have holes cut into it, much like a flute.

SPEAKER_03

Gimme! Gimme! Gimme!

SPEAKER_19

Skin flute and actually that's gross. It has these bird skulls with carved runes on them with glowing red eyes.

SPEAKER_03

Ooh, I wonder what happens if I if I blow on this.

SPEAKER_06

That's a question you ask a lot, isn't it?

SPEAKER_03

Yes, it is. I'm going to cast attack or uh protection from good and evil on myself, and then I'm gonna play it.

SPEAKER_19

Okay.

SPEAKER_03

Okay.

SPEAKER_19

Um stand back. An eerie spellbinding tune comes out of these pipes. I need you to make a wisdom 15 save throw.

SPEAKER_03

You motherfucker. All of us? I'm still guided. No, that's a saving throw.

SPEAKER_08

And you have plus three.

SPEAKER_02

Say all of us or just three? Fuck.

SPEAKER_08

You have a plus three.

SPEAKER_02

Uh yay. I'm good. Oh seventeen.

SPEAKER_13

Eighteen.

SPEAKER_19

Eighteen. What did you make us do? Uh that was uh 18 as well. So everyone succeeded.

SPEAKER_13

It's a death, is it like a death whistle?

SPEAKER_19

Uh you feel frightened for half a second, but then you kind of shake yourself out of it. It it would cause on a fail, cause you to be frightened of that. Well, I have advantage on those.

SPEAKER_10

I mean, I that could be useful. Yes, but Leo, I've had enough of things trying to enter my mind.

SPEAKER_19

You recognize that you could probably uh only target certain people and leave others unharmed. Definitely not straw. It's probably a new one. So if you wish, now that you have played it, uh if you wish all creatures in the area that aren't hostile towards you automatically succeed on the saving throw.

SPEAKER_08

That is a disgusting abomination. I'm going to be hostile towards you. Stop playing that flute.

SPEAKER_19

Three charges uh that uh recharge at dawn. I play uh yeah, what recharges one 1d3 expended charges daily at dawn.

SPEAKER_03

I play I want to go by Britney Spears in a minor key.

SPEAKER_19

You're gonna play it again? No, because it's playing. In a minor key. So these are the pipes of haunting you identify as you play.

SPEAKER_03

Are you putting this in our inventory or who's doing that?

SPEAKER_19

Well, you guys have to cast identifying things or spend a short rest or a long rest focusing on them.

SPEAKER_08

Why don't we short rest in in this bitch and then leave?

SPEAKER_09

Let's leave. Oh, we could just leave and short rest on the wagon. That's true.

SPEAKER_19

Well, quick draw wouldn't be able to because he's you know driving it. I would drive it. Unless you swap turns. Yeah, we'll do it.

SPEAKER_06

Or I could just drive, it's fine.

SPEAKER_20

Well, you need a rest too. So we'll take turns.

SPEAKER_13

I if cars were real, I think Lyrielle would back out like a man, like those videos that are like, who needs a boyfriend when your homegirl backs out like that?

SPEAKER_08

Yeah.

SPEAKER_19

All right. Uh headed back to Velocki. Yeah!

SPEAKER_08

Please, we need to we need to end with Vera because I need to be happy.

SPEAKER_19

This is such a long episode.

SPEAKER_08

I don't care. I have to go to sleep.

SPEAKER_19

I work to leave her. Um you head back out. Uh you see two and a half hour session. No, we started at 7 30. 7 30, yeah. Oh, just kidding. Four. Four perhaps. I like three. I like a long episode. This was a really good session all the way through. What was her name? Muriel. Uh you see Muriel and Jaquis hanging out. Hi, hique.

SPEAKER_18

She goes, I saw um uh a bunch of ravens uh flying away. Uh I'm assuming that you uh that you freed um everyone.

SPEAKER_20

Um Yeah, well, yeah. Uh a bunch of ravens were in the hag's hut. Set them free. Good.

SPEAKER_18

Um and Bablo Saga is is perished?

SPEAKER_19

Yes.

SPEAKER_18

Did you catch what you were after?

SPEAKER_20

Yes, I think one of these massive gemstones must be the seed that she had.

SPEAKER_19

I'm gonna double check them. They don't look like the other one that you had. Where the fuck is the seed? Ah, fuck, we gotta go back. You go back, and again, an eerie green glow comes from under the floorboards. Oh.

SPEAKER_05

Oh, goddammit. Duh.

SPEAKER_19

Pry that shit up. Uh you pry up the floorboard and find the second magic seed for the winery. I bet you anything. Strahd has the third one.

SPEAKER_08

Oh, yeah. Probably. That's why he has champagne.

SPEAKER_22

Champagne. Yeah.

SPEAKER_09

Yeah. As they're walking back to the wagon, uh, she is still fighting you and just driving the whole time herself.

SPEAKER_20

There he is.

SPEAKER_09

Just let me please let me.

SPEAKER_20

You listen to me. We're gonna take turns driving the wagon. And that is final.

SPEAKER_21

Is it? It is.

SPEAKER_20

Thank you very much.

SPEAKER_04

Wisy movie. Fine.

SPEAKER_20

I need you well and rested.

SPEAKER_04

I could drive.

SPEAKER_03

No.

SPEAKER_20

No.

SPEAKER_19

Zulika goes, I could pull the wagon. You know where we're going. I wouldn't want to make do that.

SPEAKER_06

I don't want to make you do that. No, no, no. Would that be fun for you?

SPEAKER_18

No, it's it was a joke. I'm sorry.

SPEAKER_06

No, it was it was I'm sorry.

SPEAKER_18

Everyone else seems to be.

SPEAKER_08

I would, I would say. I'm so sorry. I'm not familiar with your culture. He is.

SPEAKER_13

He's a little too familiar with her culture.

SPEAKER_07

I would I would laugh if I didn't feel like this.

SPEAKER_19

So uh everyone um heads off. Uh you see uh fuck Muriel. Um Muriel walks off, she goes, uh goodbye.

SPEAKER_08

Are you sure you don't have to?

SPEAKER_19

And then a few minutes later, as you walk off, you see another raven fly overhead.

SPEAKER_08

Um as they're driving, whether she's driving first or they're switching, whatever, on the bench in the front, she is sitting as far away from QuickDraw as possible.

SPEAKER_20

What are you doing? You're so far away. I don't like it.

SPEAKER_11

I don't I don't I I can't Your seat. Trust myself.

SPEAKER_20

I will take her hand and physically pull her arm towards me. You your spot as an aside from the rest of the wagon, your spot is here.

SPEAKER_11

How can you trust me so easily after that?

SPEAKER_20

Now light my cigar, please.

SPEAKER_11

You are insufferable.

SPEAKER_20

I know.

SPEAKER_11

How can you trust me so quick quickly again after that?

SPEAKER_20

Because I know you. You resi you resisted. Such a powerful spell. Not many people do that. Not many people can do that and live to tell the tale.

SPEAKER_11

I know. But she look she looked in and she saw something that I don't quite want to get into, but then we won't.

SPEAKER_14

We'll just drive.

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Okay. Okay.

SPEAKER_14

Come talk to me when you're ready, alright? I'll leave you alone.

SPEAKER_09

I don't That's the thing, is that I don't want that either. Good. I just I don't know.

SPEAKER_21

Good. Sit here.

SPEAKER_09

Okay.

SPEAKER_21

Good. Leo.

SPEAKER_11

Would you like a song?

SPEAKER_01

I would love a song.

SPEAKER_04

Clarinetta fiddle.

SPEAKER_01

I think of fiddle would be nice.

SPEAKER_06

Yeah, that would be nice actually.

SPEAKER_04

If Leo wouldn't go for British.

SPEAKER_19

And as that relaxing tune plays as you head back for Lockheed, we will level up yet together.

SPEAKER_06

Oh my god.

SPEAKER_19

And that's where we're gonna end our session. Thanks for sticking with us for such a hefty, hefty episode. It was good. You guys loved it.

SPEAKER_08

That sucked. That was also great.

SPEAKER_19

That was fantastic. All right.

SPEAKER_08

It's such non-derogatory. Yeah, that was so fuck. My neck hurts. Just stressed out. Bye-bye.

SPEAKER_10

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