Curse of Strahd - Episode 25 'Hall of Bones'

Our heroes go on their last trip to Castle Ravenloft before their true final battle with Strahd. This time they are in search of the Bones of Argynvost and the missing little girl Gertrude.

Transcript

SPEAKER_03 0:00

Thanks so much for joining us for episode twenty-five of our Curse of Strahd podcast.

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Holy shit.

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Last episode we began in the catacombs. More specifically in Strahd's nope, in Strahd's brother's tomb, Sergei's tomb. As Lyriel lifted the sun sword from Sergei respecting her lawful good alignment. The sword floated up to her and made its desires known immediately that it needs to slay Strahd and get revenge on the man responsible for its previous owner's death. They then leveled up to ten, their final level of this campaign. The four continuing exploring Castle Ravenloft, this massive sort of mega dungeon of a building. They traveled up the highest peak and discovered the clockwork man that Blinksy had told them to look for. His name is Piddlewick II. And Lyriel.

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I love him.

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Lyriel quickly grew fond of this clockwork man who was utterly afraid and terrified of his life here, uh, living in Castle Ravenloft, and was very eager to help the first friendly faces that he's uh encountered in in quite some time. So he led you through the castle a bit further, uh showed you a secret entrance into the teleportation room, which you then used to travel back into the coffin maker shop in Villachy, returning Pittlewick to uh to Blinksy, um, and giving uh Pittlewick a a great home. Uh Blinksy was a very loyal uh follower of uh von Weerg, who was the the man who created Pittlewick, and uh he will take care of him and and hopefully uh be able to study him enough so that he can uh uh kind of continue that that clockwork uh trade and not just continue making stuffed monkeys for the rest of his life, but it did seem like he was doing good business uh after your recommendation. Uh so all is well there. He did also mention that uh what's his name? Flame Hand Guy Ezek. Um he do did also mention that Ezek had visited him and burned him uh after Leo revealed to Ezek that uh he was aware of the whole doll situation. Um Ezek returned. Uh but you guys know that Izak uh well at least what Ernst told you is that Izak is having these dolls made um as he searches for his sister. Um but uh you guys returned to the inn after Blinksy's um and Leo had a bit of fun with Vera uh and then with um Yevgeny uh a little discussion, a little proposal uh was had a little Parisian proposal, a little trip to a place called France. Um Soldar was there the whole time. He was, and he didn't know what to do.

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He really did have to write in front of it, yeah. Yeah, yeah.

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But now uh join we have uh snuck out of Velocki yet again, returning to Castle Ravenloft uh on this journey. Um kind of half to fetch uh Jaquis and half to continue looking for uh the skull of Argonvost and Gertruda, the missing young girl.

SPEAKER_04 5:14

Man, we should have just instead of teleporting back, we should have just walked out the front door and took Jaquis back with us.

SPEAKER_06 5:20

The front door? The one that nearly TPK'd us.

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Yeah.

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Yeah. Horrifying. That's all right.

SPEAKER_04 5:29

He's gonna be spooked. Annoyed, I'm sure. I'll just tell him to go back.

SPEAKER_06 5:33

Yeah. Feed him smaller.

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Hopefully we don't run into nothing.

SPEAKER_06 5:41

I hope not.

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Yeah, we do. Let's check for encounters real quick.

SPEAKER_04 5:54

So far, so good. Damn.

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You can stop.

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Wow.

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He's just rolling until he gets one.

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Nope, nope. I was rolling eight, and you succeeded in a quiet and peaceful journey until you reach the bridge of Castle Ravenloft, uh, where you find Jaqueese uh just gnawing on some tall grass and just kind of continuing to kick rocks as he waits for the three of you. Uh he turns around and as he hears these footsteps and uh's in excitement uh seeing the three of you and just kind of walks over. Yeah, I'll go over and pet his pet his little head, pet his nose.

SPEAKER_04 6:44

Hey, buddy, you should go back. Go back to Velocki. That way you're not out here all alone.

SPEAKER_03 6:50

You're at least somewhere safer. Uh he has a confused look on his face and he kind of like nuzzles into you for a second.

unknown 7:01

Yeah.

SPEAKER_04 7:03

Uh well, I felt bad leaving you out here twice instead of taking you back with us.

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You're welcome to stay out here if you want, but he kind of looks back and forth thinking about it. Um and then nuzzles into you for a second again, and and then uh we might we might actually need him.

SPEAKER_04 7:34

If we're looking for that skull, that must be a big old skull.

SPEAKER_07 7:37

Yeah, I imagine it's big.

SPEAKER_04 7:38

We gotta load her up on the wagon here.

SPEAKER_07 7:40

Oh maybe you should stay.

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Slams on the brakes, turns around, uh, and just kind of pulls up next to you and starts to eat some more grass. Yeah. I'll at least I don't even think I've unhooked him over. I'm gonna unhook him from the wagon so he can at least like sit down and uh chill if he wants to, and I'll give him uh I'll give him another apple or two. Uh he Yeah, he takes them uh and looks like he's ready to just kind of rest until you guys are ready for him.

SPEAKER_05 8:17

Jaquis, do you know anything about killing vampires? Speak up now, it'll be really useful.

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He just can continues gnawing on the grass.

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It's worth a shot. Worth a shot.

SPEAKER_03 8:28

I don't know. Yeah, no one gets reincarnated.

SPEAKER_06 8:30

Yeah, I don't know. Horses are for all, I think. Included.

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Men and their horses, they bond.

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Addiction is done with the tip of the tongue of the teeth. I've got PTSD from that.

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Where's that from?

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It's a warm-up.

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Oh you think that we'll have advantage if we all hold hands across the bridge?

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I think you just went to hold my eyes.

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You'd probably all fall together.

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Like monkeys in a barrel.

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Wait, one by one, one by one.

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I'm one fucking terrified. Did we use our inspirations?

SPEAKER_04 9:07

No, there's no inspirations for the third time.

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I'm okay though. It's just a one, right?

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Eleven. Okay.

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Get in my tray. Six.

unknown 9:27

Oh!

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We both rolled sixes.

SPEAKER_03 9:30

Two single digis. Yeah, but then you're not gonna be able to do as you cross the threshold into the castle again.

SPEAKER_01 9:42

Please, please, God. Okay.

SPEAKER_03 9:45

Would you like to go through the main entrance or would you like to again go through the side? I think we'll go through the side just to be safe. Yeah, I think we'll see.

SPEAKER_04 9:53

I don't want them red wyburns. Red wibern.

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Red rock tavern.

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I don't want them getting getting us.

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Although they might, maybe they won't because Strahd's command was well, I don't know if he issued a new one, but it was don't let them leave. Now that I'm holding his brother's sword on my hip, I think it's safe to go in the side. I don't want him to see that.

SPEAKER_04 10:22

Okay. I think we should try some upper levels. We were down further enough. Maybe we should try going up a few from the main floor.

SPEAKER_07 10:30

Yes. As much as I fucking hate that Vladimir.

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It's probably it's not for Vladimir.

unknown 10:40

I know. That's what I think.

SPEAKER_06 10:42

For the good of the town, there's a call. No good sounds.

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It's all for Barovian.

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When we take the bones back there, he says anything less than thank you.

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That's kind of shit even grin.

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He's whipping something though. No, I just I think it's funny that you hate him so much. It's really funny.

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He hates him. I think when we put that.

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I think when we put this skull back, he'll probably just fade away into dust. And if he don't, you can challenge him to a duel and have your way. I'll sit and watch. It'll be funny.

SPEAKER_07 11:24

Of course you would watch. Yeah, that'd be nice.

SPEAKER_04 11:30

Maybe he'll take you up on that. Just for shiggles.

SPEAKER_07 11:34

For what?

SPEAKER_04 11:35

Shigles.

SPEAKER_07 11:36

What's that?

SPEAKER_04 11:37

Shits and giggles.

SPEAKER_06 11:39

Oh, okay. That was good. I liked that. I might have to use that. Yeah. Pretty good. Shigles.

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Alright. So uh no need to roll. You lift up the portcullis, uh, go through the side door.

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Um You got a strong figure there, Larry. Yeah.

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As you open the doors to the servant's entrance, you see a familiar face.

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Oh fuck. Cyrus.

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The Dusk Elf Rahadin.

unknown 12:12

Oh.

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Standing next to the desk with the kind of sign-in sheet that you guys have passed uh multiple times at this point. Oh, we gotta sign in. Uh he says the three of you have come and gone thrice now.

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Okay.

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What is it that you're doing here?

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Sightseeing. A lovely castle.

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I'm looking for something.

SPEAKER_09 12:54

I really appreciate architecture.

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Well, the last time you came through here, you took something that did not belong to you. Uh Rahad looks down at the sun sword.

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She knows he's looking at it. She's still gonna take her cloak and just put it over top of the.

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She didn't even ask for it. It just floated up to her.

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That's true.

SPEAKER_03 13:20

That does not matter. This is not your home. And I would like it back.

SPEAKER_06 13:28

You would like it back. I didn't think he's going to like that for a while. It was in a crypt. For years and years and years and years and years. Did you ever use it? Do you even know how to use a sword, Rahaden? One guy's a good slave, and you're Jesus.

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I do.

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And he draws his slim tar slowly out of its sheath and holds it next to him.

SPEAKER_06 13:53

That's a nice blade. Look at his little stance. Great. Larry Ella's gonna look at Krypton and be like, give him a look that's like, I could just kill him.

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He steps forward towards you. Uh let's put your guys on the map here. Yep, I knew this was coming.

SPEAKER_06 14:07

Oh god. If he if he squares up with me, I'm kidding, I'm kicking his ass.

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I'm sorry I'm so sassy with authority figures.

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He was going to face us anyways.

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Yeah.

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Then I'm not sorry. Um, he steps forward towards you, and all three of you hear in your minds the screams of thousands of people that Rahadin has killed. Whoa. Damn. That's tough.

SPEAKER_00 14:39

Oh.

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This deathly choir fills your mind.

unknown 14:43

Okay.

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As he raises his sim tar points it towards where you have the sun sword.

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Yeah.

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If you'd be so kind. And then holds his hand out.

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What do we do? I know what I want to do, but I don't think it's a good idea.

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You think Strahd would really want this sword in his own home? He hates Sergei.

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Sergei is his brother.

unknown 15:20

Do you trust me?

SPEAKER_04 15:22

Why do you want it so bad? Why do you want it so bad?

SPEAKER_03 15:24

Strahd is my master. I am retrieving it for him. You have battled him on multiple occasions. I'm sure your end goal is to kill him. I cannot let that happen.

SPEAKER_06 15:42

I have an above-table question. He's a dusk elf. Is that similar to a drow in that, like pretty much? They have like a sunlight thing?

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Uh they have disadvantage of perception checks. They might have did away with that in 2024. Uh he does not. No.

SPEAKER_05 16:02

I was gonna click the He's a vampire though, isn't he? Oh, right, he's not. He's a weird freak.

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Yeah, he's a Dusk elf. I knew we would have had to face you at some point.

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So as he's he's holding his hand. He's holding his hand out towards Lyriel for the sword. Do you trust me?

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Yeah.

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I can show you.

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I I say I say yeah, and I pull my hands back to my belt.

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Lyriel will grab the hilt of the sun sword and hold it out as if she is going to hand it to him.

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To like he'll still like this. As he does as as you raise it up, he moves the simtar to your throat and holds his hand out even further towards you. I draw my crossbow and point it up at him.

SPEAKER_09 17:02

Nope. I'm alright. I could command. I'm okay.

SPEAKER_03 17:05

Easy does it. Exactly. Lower that blade there.

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Easy does it.

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And she is going to think I'll just let her use it on me without repercussions.

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She is going to want.

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Say the word.

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Do you trust me?

SPEAKER_04 17:24

Yeah.

SPEAKER_06 17:25

He can hear you say that. Yeah, I know.

SPEAKER_04 17:27

Alright.

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She's still holding it as if she's gonna hand it to him, like the hilt is facing him. Okay. And she is going to very quickly flip it and go to slice his hand off.

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Roll initiative.

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I knew we were gonna have to kill him at some point. Fuck.

unknown 17:49

Okay.

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20.

unknown 17:51

Damn.

SPEAKER_02 17:51

Okay.

SPEAKER_06 17:53

He's gonna be hard. Hey yo. Eleven.

SPEAKER_05 17:59

I'd really like the cuts and I'm sorry I keep making Aladdin references today.

SPEAKER_03 18:06

Was you saying 10 and Aladdin references?

SPEAKER_05 18:08

No. She said, do you trust me? And I immediately say I can show you the world.

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The yeah.

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Do you trust me?

SPEAKER_09 18:17

A whole new world. That's what it's called.

SPEAKER_03 18:20

Do you trust? Um so Rahadin is first to act. But as as soon as you switch- Are you sure we can't search anything? As soon as you switch that blade around. Fuck. Uh-huh.

SPEAKER_00 18:33

It's fine.

SPEAKER_03 18:34

His cimtar was readied at your neck. Yeah, whatever. He takes two slashes.

SPEAKER_06 18:38

Okay. Owie. Right on. Bitch.

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An 18 to hit.

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Yeah.

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And a 16 to hit.

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Yep.

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Fuck.

SPEAKER_06 18:47

See how that 17 will do me? What if those would have messed?

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Okay, it's fine.

unknown 18:53

It's fine.

SPEAKER_03 18:54

Maybe if we beat him up, he'll tell us where the skull is.

SPEAKER_08 18:57

We're fine.

SPEAKER_03 18:59

Uh, that is 19 total damage. Okay. Yeah. He was strong as fuck.

SPEAKER_08 19:04

It's fine.

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And then all three of you, I need a wisdom save DC 16 as you hear this deathly choir scream bloody murder in your mind.

SPEAKER_06 19:19

Are you charmed?

SPEAKER_03 19:20

This is not charmed.

SPEAKER_06 19:22

You have a plus three because you're next to me.

SPEAKER_03 19:23

Is this too frightened? No, it is just pure damage. Okay.

SPEAKER_06 19:27

I only rolled an 11. With my plus three?

SPEAKER_03 19:30

Yes.

SPEAKER_06 19:31

I'm scared.

SPEAKER_04 19:33

Fuck. That's a fail.

SPEAKER_06 19:34

Oh wait, wisdom use him?

SPEAKER_04 19:36

Yep. Oh, I'm inspired. 19. Should I use it right now? Probably.

SPEAKER_03 19:43

This is to save 3D10 damage. Yeah, no. I'm gonna no. So I fail. Okay.

SPEAKER_05 19:51

Did I use my inspiration? I did free up Getty. I did to uh convince them to go to Paris with me.

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Okay. So that's 21 on a fail, 10 on a save.

SPEAKER_05 20:10

The real I don't trust you!

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This is psychic damage as you so Rahadin sees you flip around the sword, goes, slashes you twice, doesn't quite get the throat as you uh kind of duck back, uh, but he does do quite a bit of damage uh across your chest and shoulders. Um and then you all three of you hear this deathly choir uh so loud in your brains that it hurts. Um we're gonna need sound effects with that. Um just layer that like a bummer.

SPEAKER_09 20:48

I'm gonna give it another one.

SPEAKER_06 20:54

Ow, don't kill me. The screens of the dance. Don't kill me!

SPEAKER_04 21:04

Ow.

SPEAKER_09 21:06

Ow, ow. We're in a really weird mood today where I'm silent unless I have something weird to say.

SPEAKER_03 21:11

That'll bring it to quick draw. Okay. Hunter's mark.

SPEAKER_06 21:16

Hunter's mark. Red rock cavern.

SPEAKER_04 21:21

Get that on him. Put that put that hunter's mark ring on him. Alright. Let's see what his AC is like.

SPEAKER_06 21:31

Ooh!

SPEAKER_03 21:32

That's fat.

SPEAKER_06 21:33

You can layer that too.

SPEAKER_03 21:35

Uh, what's 19 plus 11? 030.

SPEAKER_06 21:39

What's 19 plus 11?

SPEAKER_03 21:42

Uh my dumbass was gonna say 20 after I made that.

SPEAKER_04 21:45

That's that. So, sneak, hunter's mark, regular.

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Uh that's 18 damage. Okay. For the first attack.

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Got a strad comes to help.

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And 24 to hit for the second, and that's gonna be.

SPEAKER_03 22:19

Oh! I'm sorry, 23 damage for the first attack.

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Okay.

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And 15 for the second attack.

SPEAKER_01 22:27

Okay.

SPEAKER_03 22:30

I forgot to add my modifier. That just 38 total for the first round. You're goddamn right. Uh that hurts him quite a bit. Um, but he is located comfortable. Uh you could open the door behind you, and he'd get an opportunity attack if you run away. I mean, kind of anywhere you go would be opportunity attack unless you want to stay within his range. I really don't.

SPEAKER_08 23:00

Um Just get away from him and I can hear you later.

SPEAKER_03 23:08

Yeah. I'm gonna leap. Okay. I'm gonna go to the other side of the room. What's this? That is the table. Okay. I'm just gonna go over here. Can you not reach? No. Or maybe that's 20.

SPEAKER_04 23:27

I'll just go rear.

SPEAKER_03 23:29

Okay. He's gonna take an attack of opportunity with his Simtar. Sixteen? Nope. Alright. Uh he swings back, uh, but just over your head. Uh how tall I was. Uh his eyes locked in on Lirielle still.

SPEAKER_08 23:50

This is the second time this has happened.

SPEAKER_03 23:52

Quick draw, as you rush over there. Oh. From the ceiling. Three vampire spawns drop down surrounding you.

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Oh man.

unknown 24:12

Shh.

SPEAKER_06 24:15

I really need to kill him, but I also am wearing the fucking amulet that can stop them.

SPEAKER_04 24:20

One for each of you.

SPEAKER_03 24:23

Uh they all three of them are going to use two claw attacks and a bite. So I'm gonna roll six claw attacks, three bites. Jeez! Your AC is 17? Yes.

SPEAKER_09 24:44

What the fuck?

SPEAKER_03 24:54

That's only two hits from the claws. Okay. Oh, I don't have to roll for bite. Bite is um auto thing. Bite is a con save if you are restrained, which you will be from the claw. So, uh, from the claw attacks.

SPEAKER_07 25:19

You have daylight, right?

SPEAKER_03 25:21

Two of them hit. You will take eight from the first. And seven from the second. So fifteen total slashing damage from the claws. And then I need you to make I'm gonna take eleven. I'm gonna uncanny dodge the eight. So I will have that. Got it. Uh so that is 11 total. Yeah, 11 total for that. Uh, and then you should. And then three constitution saves. The DC is 14. 14. Okay. I need a 11 on the die.

SPEAKER_08 26:00

You're too far away from my oop, that's a one.

SPEAKER_04 26:03

I'm gonna re-roll that. That's a two. Oh!

SPEAKER_03 26:12

One success. Okay, two of them managed to sink their teeth deep in uh getting past your hood and cloak. Uh my luscious beard. So two bites. Eleven piercing. Ow. Oh, I already eat fuck. Use my reaction.

SPEAKER_02 26:41

Hey guys, I'm bloody.

SPEAKER_00 26:44

Okay.

SPEAKER_03 26:51

Stop. Twenty-one necrotic. Whoa!

SPEAKER_08 26:54

Jesus.

SPEAKER_03 26:56

And your hit point max decreases by twenty-one as well. As they suck the very life from you. Okay, I'm at 25 out of 89. Quick draw, quickly bloody in the corner as he runs away from Rahadden, unbeknownst to him, running directly into danger as they surround him. Leary.

SPEAKER_06 27:20

Maybe 64.

SPEAKER_03 27:21

Cornered by Rahadden. Uh his simtar biting at your neck. What would you like to do?

SPEAKER_05 27:30

Don't heal him.

SPEAKER_03 27:32

Oh god.

SPEAKER_06 27:33

Okay. I also. I'm you have stuff that can take care of the vampires.

unknown 27:42

Okay.

SPEAKER_06 27:42

Yeah, I need to keep it Healing and Vampires, I got it. I need to keep him focused on me.

SPEAKER_04 27:46

So Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_06 27:48

Um. She is over his shoulder going to see all that happen. And uh Rahadan, if he hasn't looked away, um, is going to see her deadeye, shark eye thing happen. Um and I'm going to take two hits with the sun sword. Oh. That is a natural one and a natural twenty. Jeez.

SPEAKER_04 28:20

Let's go.

SPEAKER_06 28:22

So I'm going to third level divine smite on the quit. Hello. Okay. So two D ten plus I forget. I always forget. I don't crit very often. The with a weapon when it has like a plus six, does that double?

SPEAKER_04 28:54

No, just the dice.

SPEAKER_06 28:55

So it's two d ten plus six. He's not undead, right?

SPEAKER_04 28:58

Right.

SPEAKER_08 28:59

Okay.

SPEAKER_06 29:03

Um twenty-three radiant. And then he's still not blown. This will be eight d eight for my divine smite.

SPEAKER_03 29:22

Well, he will be after this.

SPEAKER_06 29:42

It's not helping. Uh just also the fucking writing on these are hard to read. Um. And then another 38 radiant. Oh damn.

SPEAKER_03 30:03

Let's go. He is very hurt. Okay. Um. As you guys have pumped a hundred damage into him in just the first round.

SPEAKER_06 30:15

That's make the throw a lot better, actually. She doesn't even say anything. Yeah, she doesn't even say anything. She the dead eye shark eye thing happens and she just the whole store goes and she just like hacks into him a little bit. Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 30:31

Uh very, very hurt uh as the Sun sword just sphinx into him uh and Lucy for the first time. He's on death. Radiant kind of damage uh melt through him essentially uh as he screams. Uh his screams kind of blending into these this deathly choir that you're already hearing in your mind. Quick draw, you have gone out of range of it, by the way. You did not hear that.

SPEAKER_04 31:00

Yay!

SPEAKER_03 31:01

Um is that the end of your turn?

SPEAKER_05 31:04

Yes.

SPEAKER_03 31:04

Okay. Leo.

SPEAKER_05 31:07

Um I'm going to heal Quick Draw.

SPEAKER_09 31:11

Um one second. I had my spell up and then I got rid of it for some reason.

SPEAKER_04 31:18

Like neck bites are fine and all, but not when it's three gross undead bitches.

SPEAKER_03 31:24

What?

SPEAKER_04 31:25

It's crazy.

SPEAKER_03 31:28

Um because you're talking halfling.

SPEAKER_06 31:30

Yeah. She hears that she's like, what it shocks her into a different language.

SPEAKER_03 31:34

What are you talking? Yeah, he was totally he was totally speaking in halfling there. Because he's stressed, so you recall. He reversed to his native tongue.

SPEAKER_06 31:44

Did you forget that I can understand?

SPEAKER_02 31:48

Well no.

SPEAKER_06 31:51

20. Back.

SPEAKER_02 31:53

Oh.

SPEAKER_06 31:55

Um, and then I'm going to turn undead as well. Sigmaty. I'll move a little bit.

SPEAKER_04 32:01

Sarah and Zed.

SPEAKER_05 32:03

In case there's any more hiding. Any more ad.

SPEAKER_04 32:07

Yeah, yeah. They're in the other corner.

SPEAKER_09 32:18

Um, that's 19.

SPEAKER_06 32:22

If they fail, sorry. They have to roll. I was gonna say, um Yeah, they have to roll uh wisdom 16. I forgot Graves again! He should take another six fucking damage. Shit!

SPEAKER_03 32:33

Always the masteries. Uh so you said a 19 wisdom save.

SPEAKER_06 32:38

Oh my god, 16 wisdom save. I didn't vow of anybody either. So I could have had fucking advantage on this. God damn it!

unknown 32:46

Ah!

SPEAKER_03 32:48

It's only been the last couple of sessions where I have the one furthest members. The other two fail remember my vote.

SPEAKER_05 32:53

So those take uh ones that fail take the what did I say? 19 Okay. Yeah, they take 19 and they are incapacitated and frightened. And they have to move as far from me as they can on their turns.

SPEAKER_03 33:10

But somebody else do it.

SPEAKER_07 33:20

What did what do we need?

SPEAKER_03 33:22

Incapacitated. Incit bag up again. Inger babated. Alright, is that yours? In baby. Your turn?

SPEAKER_06 33:29

Um two of 'em. Two. Which two?

SPEAKER_05 33:34

The one furthest from me you said succeeded?

SPEAKER_00 33:38

Right.

unknown 33:39

Okay.

SPEAKER_06 33:40

Furthest from you? The two furthest from me?

SPEAKER_05 33:44

The one furthest from me succeeded. So the ones closest to me failed. Yeah, there you go, day go, did you go?

SPEAKER_06 33:54

I did it.

SPEAKER_04 33:55

Almost just the whacked my head on the are gonna run away. Well, two of them will.

SPEAKER_07 34:02

Yeah.

unknown 34:03

It's fine, it's fine.

SPEAKER_03 34:05

Okay. Uh Rahadin is going to continue attacking Leary.

SPEAKER_08 34:14

That's fine.

SPEAKER_03 34:20

That is three hits this time.

SPEAKER_06 34:23

Three! Okay. Why three?

SPEAKER_03 34:26

What?

SPEAKER_06 34:27

Why three?

SPEAKER_03 34:28

Because he hit three times. Last time he hit twice.

SPEAKER_06 34:31

I wanted to hit three. Fuck. Okay. I forgot that I also get five hit points back from healing quick draw. Yeah. Okay. Uh while you were counting that, I realized I forgot to vow of enmity, so I could have not had a matin at one.

SPEAKER_00 34:43

Oh my god. Remember your feet, remember your feet.

SPEAKER_03 34:50

27 slashing damage. That's fine. As he hits all three times. So terrible for all three.

SPEAKER_06 34:59

No, but I'm a twenty-five.

SPEAKER_09 35:03

No, no.

SPEAKER_03 35:06

As Leo, again, you hear the screams as he steps into range of you.

SPEAKER_05 35:14

Can I give him a sweet smile before he kills me?

SPEAKER_03 35:17

He's still locked in on uh on Leary.

SPEAKER_06 35:21

Oh, okay. This is my special talent making men angry at me, I guess.

SPEAKER_03 35:25

DC 16 wisdom save for both of you.

SPEAKER_06 35:28

Bitch fights with crazy overpowered people. Um that's a slady 20. 24.

SPEAKER_03 35:38

Slip.

SPEAKER_06 35:39

Slip.

SPEAKER_03 35:41

21 halved to 10 for both of you.

SPEAKER_06 35:46

I'm an 18 out of 84. Start fucking us up, dude. Yeah, it's fine. Fucking us up. Everything will be fine. I just wanted to.

SPEAKER_03 35:57

Last chance to give it up, willingly.

SPEAKER_06 35:59

You look a little worse for wear. Compared to the rest of us. You're going to I watched that happen and she's gonna point a quick draw, and you think I'm going to let you walk away?

unknown 36:10

Ooh.

SPEAKER_03 36:10

You can kill me, but there's still three others to deal with.

SPEAKER_06 36:14

And they'll be far easier to deal with without you screaming in my ear the whole time.

SPEAKER_03 36:18

Well, let alone Strat von Zorovic.

SPEAKER_06 36:22

Whatever. He's a runaway every time.

SPEAKER_03 36:25

He can be wherever he wants. Okay. Quick draw, you are at- Prophecy! Uh, I am going to I yeah, I can hit him, right? I can hit uh Rahuddin. Yeah, because you have the thing that doesn't give you disadvantage if you're in g if you're correct.

SPEAKER_04 36:51

Natural 20. Oh for the uh for the first attack. Would he still be up, say if I you know snuck attacked?

SPEAKER_03 37:06

Snuck attacked. Uh or should I roll some damage? I'll say it'll be close, so roll that. Uh yeah, let me roll that. So this will be sneak attack. Snuck attacked.

SPEAKER_04 37:20

Regular and hunter's mark. Yep, sneak attack doubled, regular doubled, hunter's mark doubled. That's uh 10 d6.

SPEAKER_06 37:38

Bye Rahad. Oh, bye vampire spawn. No, you shouldn't rahadin. Bye, Rahadin.

SPEAKER_01 37:45

It's gonna be close.

SPEAKER_06 37:49

If it doesn't kill him, use your other shots on the vampire spawn because I want to kill him.

SPEAKER_07 38:11

Twenty forty-one damage.

SPEAKER_03 38:20

Whoa. How do you want to do this?

SPEAKER_02 38:24

Uh he's he's like he's being held by these vampires, but he's like they'll take care of them!

SPEAKER_04 38:32

And I'm just gonna fire the one shot, right?

SPEAKER_03 38:38

Uh oh, it was.

SPEAKER_05 38:39

Holy shit.

SPEAKER_03 38:40

No, no, no, no, no, no. No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. I thought this was the crit with sneak a deck. No, I'm sorry. So for the one shot, uh take ten off of that. So thirty-one. That would not have killed him. Okay, so I will hit him.

SPEAKER_06 38:54

But no, but your other tight end of the vampire, I want to kill him.

SPEAKER_03 38:58

Too late.

SPEAKER_06 39:00

That's not too late. He didn't even roll.

SPEAKER_01 39:02

He did.

SPEAKER_02 39:03

He just said he did 41.

SPEAKER_03 39:05

That will hit um. So wait, what did the 41 damage come from? So 41 came from it was the crit. It came from sneak attack, a regular, and hunter's mark. That was 10d6 altogether. Right. Plus. Oh, I'm sorry, only plus five, so 26. 26 total, not 41? Yes, because I added uh all of the modifiers for three shots, my bad. Got it. Yeah. That was my mistake. Okay. Because big damage made me think I'd hit all three times. Okay, so the second attack hits with seven damage. The second attack hits with three, four, seven damage. That will kill him. Okay. And I will save my third for a vampire spawn. Okay. Uh uh, you see two of the crossbow bolts sink into the back of Rahad as he'll pay for this.

SPEAKER_08 40:08

Yeah, yeah, whatever. I had it.

SPEAKER_03 40:10

As he's stumbling, you just slightly push him over and falls last bolts onto the ground. Uh, last shot, I'll point it up into the under the jaw of the uh of this one of the spawn. The spawn that's not incapacitated. Okay. So he'll not wake up.

SPEAKER_04 40:37

Yep, that's gonna hit. That's a 19 on the die. Ooh, that's only six damage.

SPEAKER_03 40:44

Okay. Uh just barely graze this vampire as you kind of are focused on those first two shots, uh, really aiming in and hitting him perfectly. Vampires. Uh the two of them are going to move as far away as they can on their turn, right? Okay. Far away from Leo.

SPEAKER_04 41:09

So they'll just go in the other corner pretty much.

SPEAKER_09 41:13

If they took damage, it ends the effect.

SPEAKER_04 41:17

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 41:18

That's why I didn't want to hit them. Uh, you see them both run down uh the adjacent staircase. I guess they would dash as well. Uh, so even further down. They're they're completely out of sight at this point as they uh hurry and scurry kind of like across the walls, uh, making sure that they don't uh go past Leo. You can take an attack of opportunity at either one of them if you want, but that would not come out of the condition. Um scurrying down the stairs. The one that was not frightened uh that you just shot is going to uh seeing that he is outnumbered uh fully right now, he is going to go and attack the weakest one, which means Leary. Yep, in this case. Okay. No, he ain't. He has deathless agility, which means he can take disengage as a bonus action. Thank you. Um and he is going to Oh, I can take disengage as a bonus action. Could have done that without eating an opportunity attack. Uh he is going to. Well, you I think you used your bonus action on that turn to do Hunter's Mark. Oh, you ride. Yep. Um, so he's gonna make two claw attacks and a bite if he does hit with one of the claws. That's an 18 on the die and a natural 20.

SPEAKER_08 43:10

Yep, I'm going down. Anybody have anything? Nope, I'm going down.

SPEAKER_03 43:15

Uh so I'll do the nap twenty first. Yep. That's eleven slashing.

SPEAKER_07 43:28

Close.

SPEAKER_03 43:29

Uh you are then grappled. Eight for the second slash. Uh he has you grappled with both of his claws. Uh he can't go and bite someone else, so he's gonna sink a bite into you. Uh and uh another one. He did two claws. He still has a bite. Oh, still has a bite? Yeah.

SPEAKER_04 44:06

Oh, okay.

SPEAKER_03 44:06

Yeah. Sure. Um saving throw. DC is 14. I believe that's a disadvantage. Would it be? Let me just double check. I think being unconscious gives you disadvantage on everything. But I'm going to confirm.

SPEAKER_08 44:36

I sure hope it's not.

SPEAKER_04 44:47

What would cats do that?

SPEAKER_05 44:51

Somebody rolls over and has bangs around.

SPEAKER_03 44:54

Yeah.

SPEAKER_05 44:55

I took a really cute picture the other day of something like that.

SPEAKER_03 44:57

Oh doesn't look like it.

SPEAKER_00 45:10

Okay.

SPEAKER_03 45:12

That's good. No? Okay, so I'm gonna re-roll that shit. Re-roll that shit. So this is just a flat roll.

SPEAKER_08 45:21

It says 14.

SPEAKER_03 45:22

The DC is fourteen. It is a con save. Con save, yep.

SPEAKER_08 45:30

Sixteen.

SPEAKER_03 45:31

Okay. Uh somehow uh your unconscious body fights it off and he cannot get a clean bite.

SPEAKER_06 45:42

She's so stubborn that even in unconsciousness, she's like, you're not a fucking touch.

SPEAKER_03 45:47

He is, however, going to use his free object interaction to pick up the sword.

SPEAKER_04 45:54

Oh, no, no, no, no, no.

SPEAKER_08 45:59

That forget me, get the sword.

SPEAKER_03 46:01

We'll bring it to Leary for a death safe.

SPEAKER_08 46:04

Okay.

SPEAKER_03 46:11

Oh! Immediately up with one HP as you wake up to this vampire trying to bite you with its claws grabbing you and your sword now out of your hand.

SPEAKER_08 46:25

I don't think so. Can I grab it?

SPEAKER_03 46:27

Uh not on this turn, because you just you used your turn to make the death save. That was hot as fuck. You are up. Uh remind me how long the frightened thing goes.

SPEAKER_05 46:41

I think it's like a minute.

SPEAKER_03 46:43

Okay. I thought so. So they are still running down the stairs as fast as they can. Uh and you are up. There is one vampire uh who has only been hit uh by Quick Draw's latest bolt.

SPEAKER_04 47:01

Kill him.

SPEAKER_09 47:03

Kill it. Okay, I'm gonna do a guiding bolt.

SPEAKER_05 47:13

Thirteen.

SPEAKER_03 47:15

Miss. It shoots over his head and that's really upsetting, actually.

SPEAKER_05 47:21

Fizzles into the wall. Leary L you get um twenty-six back.

SPEAKER_04 47:38

From a healing word?

SPEAKER_05 47:41

Um, I cure wounds.

SPEAKER_04 47:44

Cure wounds isn't a bonus action. Sorry.

SPEAKER_05 47:47

You're right. I always get them confused.

SPEAKER_04 47:50

Oh, I hate to beat a wolf's boy off.

SPEAKER_05 47:51

No, no, it's good. I'm glad because I'm usually that person.

SPEAKER_04 47:54

I saw the D8s and I was like, hold up.

SPEAKER_06 47:56

Very do, very do. I didn't put it in yet, so.

SPEAKER_04 48:00

Yeah, I always got with Devron, I always got confused at it with Kierunes being not a bonus action.

SPEAKER_05 48:11

Fifteen back. And I will get two four back.

SPEAKER_04 48:20

I'm gonna rules lawyer again, if that's okay. I'm so sorry. That's two spell slots.

SPEAKER_05 48:25

I did use two spell slots. Oh my gosh, I'm having an off day! I'm having an off day. Shit, I'm sorry. Originally I was gonna do a sacred flame, and I was like, okay, if I do a sacred flame, I can do that. And then I was like, no, I'll kill him instead. And then I did my fucking guiding bowl today.

SPEAKER_02 48:40

I stopped even thinking about it because I thought by level 10 you guys would know how to play your character.

SPEAKER_05 48:44

I do know how to play my character. I'm having an off night. Will once be dead.

SPEAKER_02 48:48

Yeah, normally we do remember that. Well, you used a spell, you used an action.

SPEAKER_05 48:54

Standing there.

SPEAKER_02 48:56

Okay.

SPEAKER_06 48:57

I'll run behind the desk, actually.

unknown 48:59

Alright.

SPEAKER_03 49:00

No way, block his block his path.

SPEAKER_06 49:02

Don't he has my fucking sword in his hand.

SPEAKER_03 49:05

Or get or at least get up to him. So if he runs, you can smack him. Alright. With your mace.

SPEAKER_06 49:15

She's barely awake. Nail has my fucking sword.

SPEAKER_03 49:20

Back up to quick draw.

SPEAKER_05 49:22

People have a biffed all that. Biffed my whole turn.

SPEAKER_03 49:26

Hit him.

SPEAKER_05 49:28

Biffed my whole turn.

SPEAKER_04 49:29

Yep, that's gonna hit for 26. Uh I did not hunters mark him. Oops. So this uh eighteen for the first attack hits. I mean eighteen damage for the first attack. Okay. Twenty-six to hit. That's an eighteen on the die to hit. Ten damage.

unknown 50:10

Okay.

SPEAKER_03 50:11

And yeah, bonus action, one more.

SPEAKER_04 50:17

Uh nineteen to hit.

SPEAKER_01 50:19

Okay.

SPEAKER_03 50:23

Six. Still not bloody.

SPEAKER_05 50:28

Oh I what I wanted to do originally was command drop.

SPEAKER_03 50:33

Oh yes, it is. Okay. He is going to should his britches. Whooper. He's going to make another claw attack. Bro. At Leary.

SPEAKER_09 50:56

Okay. Whatever.

SPEAKER_03 50:58

Advantage. Yeah. She's prone and grappled. Uh that's gonna miss. So he's gonna do it again.

SPEAKER_06 51:06

I think I'm immediately going back down.

SPEAKER_03 51:11

A 21 to hit.

SPEAKER_06 51:12

Yeah, see ya. See you at least.

SPEAKER_03 51:15

I guess I don't really need to roll damage, but um. So that's both of his claws. Okay. Uh goddamn it. I'm just considering how mean I want to be. But he is a vampire. He did. Well, I could have been much meaner and had him bite you first. Uh, but uh he's going to try to bite you again. Yeah. Okay. Are you sure? Con save DC 14. Well, he can't bite anyone else because he doesn't have a claw to use to grapple them. No, I was saying I'd like to do them. Are you sure you want to do that? Okay. Uh he doesn't manage to get the bite off on you. Um. But he knocks you down.

SPEAKER_06 52:07

Um, remember how cool it was when I got right back up though?

SPEAKER_03 52:10

That was so cool.

SPEAKER_06 52:12

Just hearing from the corner. That was hot.

SPEAKER_03 52:14

He's going to run 30 feet. Chasing after his friends.

SPEAKER_05 52:21

Opportunity attacks for both of us. I'm dead. Unless it's doing its damn bone attack.

SPEAKER_03 52:26

Opportunity attacks. Disengage, bone attack.

SPEAKER_06 52:29

And he has my sword.

SPEAKER_03 52:31

Uh so he runs away with the sword, uh blood smearing his claws from Lyriel. Leo. No, my blood is delicious. Leary with a death save first, and then Leo.

SPEAKER_06 52:45

Do it again. That would be Command his ass. It would be so cool if you did it again.

unknown 52:52

Please do it again.

SPEAKER_06 52:56

It's a success, but it it's not an at 20.

SPEAKER_03 52:59

Okay. Uh Leary's still unconscious.

SPEAKER_05 53:03

God damn it.

SPEAKER_03 53:04

Leo.

SPEAKER_05 53:06

I want to heal her also.

SPEAKER_03 53:09

The vampire is at the very top of the staircase, so you can still see him. Command drop, free action. Pick that shit up.

SPEAKER_09 53:17

Wisdom 16.

SPEAKER_03 53:18

Okay.

SPEAKER_06 53:20

See wise. They usually fail my hold vampires. Which is only a 15 second.

SPEAKER_02 53:26

You command drop him. You can get up to him and pick up the sword as your free action.

SPEAKER_03 53:30

What's the save?

SPEAKER_05 53:31

16.

SPEAKER_03 53:32

15.

SPEAKER_05 53:38

30. I grab the sword and I look at him with death in my eyes, because he just made my friend unconscious. Bitch.

SPEAKER_03 53:48

He turns around, hisses at you.

SPEAKER_05 53:51

Yeah, that's okay.

SPEAKER_03 53:53

And looks down at the sword. Shelly. Uh turns around. Ready to continue this fight.

SPEAKER_09 54:00

Um.

SPEAKER_05 54:09

Hmm. Is mass cure wounds a bonus action?

SPEAKER_02 54:14

No. It should say bonus wounds. It doesn't.

SPEAKER_05 54:16

I have a spell scroll.

SPEAKER_04 54:18

Oh.

SPEAKER_05 54:19

I'll go.

SPEAKER_04 54:20

That is an action. Mass Healing Word, I believe, is a bonus action. But Mass Cure Wounds is not. That's a big one.

SPEAKER_05 54:35

My D beyond is so slow. Yeah, it's an action. Okay. Well, I can't really do anything else.

SPEAKER_02 54:45

Alright, quick draw.

unknown 54:46

Okay.

SPEAKER_04 54:46

Alright, I'm going to go that way so I can reach him. So I don't he doesn't have any cover. Okay.

SPEAKER_05 54:57

Here?

SPEAKER_04 54:58

Sure. Next to me. Right. Right on him. First hit. Probably.

SPEAKER_02 55:08

Uh 18.

SPEAKER_05 55:10

I've been hearing owls lately outside.

SPEAKER_02 55:12

Second hit.

SPEAKER_04 55:14

16 on the die.

SPEAKER_03 55:17

Third hit. Natural 20. Oh fuck. Do I get to choose which hit the sneak attack is on? 100%. Fuck yeah. You already know.

SPEAKER_02 55:32

So I'm just gonna do it to quit. We'll see what happens.

SPEAKER_04 55:37

This one's only plus five. 10 d6. Get in there.

SPEAKER_05 55:42

Double damage dice for a sneak attack, too?

SPEAKER_04 55:45

Oh yeah.

SPEAKER_06 55:46

Yeah. That's crazy.

unknown 55:48

Oh yeah.

SPEAKER_06 55:48

That's crazy. But near the end of Vecna, at one point I had like 20 d6. That's insane. I quitted.

SPEAKER_05 55:54

I just didn't know if it was like the plus situation where you couldn't know.

SPEAKER_06 55:56

Double that as well. Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 56:00

Just not the modifiers. That's crazy.

SPEAKER_06 56:02

Yeah, that's why I loved quitting as other than real because I was like 16d6.

SPEAKER_04 56:07

Uh three.

SPEAKER_02 56:19

That's a fat. That's that's fat. That's a fat.

SPEAKER_03 56:25

Four forty-four. Total from all three? From one. Incredibly hurt.

SPEAKER_04 56:36

Bitch. Well, all three attacks hit, so. No!

SPEAKER_03 56:42

Shit! Hold on. Son of a bitch. You added the modifiers? No, I added uh I added Hunter's mark. Okay. So just subtract the subtract two d6. Two d6. So what are your other attacks? So the sneak attack. No, what are your other what is your normal damage die? 1d6. So then that just never mind. So add the modify. What are the modifiers for the two remaining attacks? It's five and five. So ten extra damage. How do you want to do this? As I'm running, I will fire one into his quad, immobilizing him.

SPEAKER_04 57:32

One into his shoulder, right where his shoulder connects to his chest, so his arm drops, and one more right between the eyes.

SPEAKER_03 57:47

Falls down and begins to roll down this spiral staircase.

SPEAKER_06 57:51

He's gonna trip his friends.

SPEAKER_03 57:57

Uh you are now out of combat. Your friend Leary is unconscious on the ground.

SPEAKER_05 58:04

You know those bosses are going to tell Strahd. I say this as I'm healing her. Thank you. You're hurt too.

SPEAKER_04 58:20

I have forty-five of sixty-eighths.

SPEAKER_06 59:15

I forgot about the plus seven at first. That's why. I get three plus nice. Yeah. I think she wakes back up and just doesn't get up right away, just stays laying on the floor.

SPEAKER_04 59:36

All right, little lady.

SPEAKER_06 59:38

Did you get the sword back? It's right here. I hand it to her.

SPEAKER_04 59:42

Later got it.

SPEAKER_05 59:43

I I take her hand and I like I wrap her hand around the palm of the sing.

SPEAKER_04 59:50

Yeah, you got she sits. You got down, you got right back up, and then you went down again. I'm live. I'm dead. I'm live again. I'm dead again.

SPEAKER_06 59:59

Can we just remember the part where I got up right away? Because that was really cool. It was cool. I felt really cool doing that. It's okay. We all have our moments. Yeah.

SPEAKER_09 1:00:08

Strahd really got me the other day.

SPEAKER_06 1:00:10

I was moderately useful during that fight. No, you were great. You really uh really got that guy. What the fuck was this thing? You already forgot. Rodden. Rodden. My brain is going real regime.

SPEAKER_04 1:00:26

What?

SPEAKER_06 1:00:28

Thanks for real Rasheed. So where did they hide you when we're playing you real regime? Interview with a vampire. See, I like your mind. She's in his were better. Um Daniel's such a bitch. I miss him so much. Um Eric Pagoshian. From his let him speak, let him speak. He won't spoil anything when it's about to drop in like a week. It's fine. Um yeah, no, she sits up. Um yeah, she's embarrassed after that.

SPEAKER_04 1:01:06

Oh, come on, be embarrassed.

SPEAKER_06 1:01:09

The sword is making you embarrassed. It's not actually you're I was gonna kill him. And then I got taken down instead. He's trying to make you feel better by convincing you. I think why's the sword. I think my pure stubbornness is what woke me up the first time, but then after that, I don't know what happened. You're probably right. Stubbornness knows no bounds.

SPEAKER_04 1:01:30

You said it.

SPEAKER_06 1:01:32

You didn't have to agree. Ugh. What do we do now, guys? Are the rest of you okay after I went down what happened with the vampires? I'm mostly okay. Okay.

SPEAKER_04 1:01:41

I'm at 45 hit points.

SPEAKER_05 1:01:43

I can do a quick uh I can no, I can um You know, I think that preserve life channel divinity is stupid.

SPEAKER_02 1:01:53

Why? What's it do?

SPEAKER_05 1:01:55

As magic action, you expend a use of your channel divinity to restore 50 HP to bloodied creatures within 30 feet of yourself, which can include you, and divide the HP among them. This feature can restore a creature to no more than half of its hit point maximum.

SPEAKER_03 1:02:14

I mean it's definitely worse with a party of three. The more people you have in the party, the more useful it is. Yeah.

SPEAKER_06 1:02:21

Because you have 50 to split, but you could only give me 14. Yeah. Twelve. Twelve. Yeah. I think it's a bullshit spell.

SPEAKER_03 1:02:29

It's still healing without a spell slot, so I think it's bullshit.

SPEAKER_06 1:02:33

I can I can and her hands will start to glow. I can just do a little myself just to get the.

SPEAKER_03 1:02:38

I'm feeling myself. I'm feeling myself.

SPEAKER_06 1:02:40

She's not after that. She was again for one second when she got up right away.

SPEAKER_04 1:02:47

Sorry, I knew you could have killed him, but he was almost there, and I had bolts that had his name on him. He was mock quarry.

SPEAKER_06 1:02:56

Okay. So Mark Quarry.

SPEAKER_04 1:02:59

Who the fuck is Corey?

SPEAKER_06 1:03:02

So dramatic. I know, I know.

SPEAKER_04 1:03:05

Oh, I gotta mark a charge down of that.

SPEAKER_06 1:03:08

What?

SPEAKER_04 1:03:09

I gotta mark a charge down of 100.

SPEAKER_06 1:03:11

Mark a charge.

SPEAKER_05 1:03:13

Mark a charge. Yeah.

unknown 1:03:15

Yeah.

SPEAKER_05 1:03:16

Right?

SPEAKER_04 1:03:16

Alright, everybody okay? Fine enough. I'm about.

SPEAKER_06 1:03:21

I'm not. I mean, I'm doing pretty okay, but I'm half. My spell slots. I'm half okay. I'm doing okay as well.

SPEAKER_04 1:03:30

Feel the laugh has been sucked out of me.

SPEAKER_06 1:03:33

I could fix that. Yeah, they fully think it's a very high-level spell.

unknown 1:03:38

Oh.

SPEAKER_05 1:03:38

Greater restoration.

SPEAKER_06 1:03:40

You should say bad.

SPEAKER_05 1:03:41

Lester restoration.

SPEAKER_06 1:03:44

Wouldn't that take care of it? Wouldn't lesser take care of it? I almost fucking said Lester. I don't think so. I think only greater, but let me check. Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 1:03:51

Uh sorry, of what? Your lowered hit points? Yeah. That was a long rest. Yeah, that's what I feel. Okay. So I was reading stuff.

SPEAKER_05 1:03:59

Or greater restoration.

SPEAKER_04 1:04:04

Alright, are we ready to continue?

SPEAKER_03 1:04:06

So goddamn skull. From what you know of the place, uh, from being through here, uh you know that in the adjacent room there is a set of stairs that goes up. Obviously, in this room there's a set of stairs that go down, and from there you can find other sets of stairs that go up. Uh but this this leads you uh the set of stairs that the vampires went down uh leads you uh down to uh the floor above the catacombs.

SPEAKER_06 1:04:55

Before we leave, is there anything on his body? Like keys or anything?

SPEAKER_03 1:05:00

Keys, money. Nothing really of note. Uh I mean he has got a nice scimtar, but mechanically won't help you. And his money this is leather armor. He has no need for money. Of course he doesn't.

SPEAKER_06 1:05:15

Um I am going to cut his hand off.

SPEAKER_03 1:05:17

Okay.

SPEAKER_06 1:05:19

Give it to Ball. No. I just needed to do that because I told him I would.

SPEAKER_03 1:05:25

And I keep my word. He spends a hundred percent of his time here, so he has nice clothing, he has a nice simtar, but nothing on him that would be much of value to add money, pretty much.

SPEAKER_05 1:05:38

No, I just thought of something. He's probably chock full of straw blood. He could be raised. We should do something.

SPEAKER_03 1:05:45

Chock full of straw blood.

SPEAKER_06 1:05:47

Strahd's been probably drinking him. I'll cut his head off. I don't know. I shouldn't have said that like a second back.

SPEAKER_04 1:05:53

I'll cut his head off. Just real casual.

SPEAKER_06 1:05:56

I could do that, I guess. Do you want me to would that do anything? I could do that.

SPEAKER_04 1:06:00

I guess.

SPEAKER_06 1:06:00

Do I have a spell for that? She's mad. She didn't like that guy.

SPEAKER_04 1:06:05

Let's check him for bite marks to see if he actually would be.

SPEAKER_06 1:06:10

Just for you know check for bite marks. What is that spell?

SPEAKER_05 1:06:15

What spell is it where you you cast it and they cannot be raised from the dead?

SPEAKER_03 1:06:21

I have no idea. I don't know. Yeah, can I check for bite marks to see if he would be? Yeah. Um he does not have bite marks on him.

SPEAKER_09 1:06:40

I don't trust it.

SPEAKER_03 1:06:42

Don't trust what?

SPEAKER_09 1:06:44

I just don't trust it.

SPEAKER_03 1:06:45

You think that I'm lying to you? Above table?

SPEAKER_09 1:06:48

I just I have a feeling he can still be raised somehow.

SPEAKER_04 1:06:51

I don't think so. This was just another obstacle for us.

SPEAKER_08 1:06:57

If you're concerned about that, Leo, I can take his other hand off so that way if he is raised, he can't use his fucking sword.

SPEAKER_09 1:07:02

Maybe we should.

SPEAKER_04 1:07:03

Yeah, why don't you go ahead for good measure?

SPEAKER_09 1:07:05

Can I pray to the moon goddess?

SPEAKER_05 1:07:09

That his soul will not be reincarnated, also.

SPEAKER_03 1:07:13

Ah. Make a religion check.

SPEAKER_09 1:07:17

Can I pray to my own moon goddess for that?

SPEAKER_04 1:07:20

Didn't didn't priest Donovich do that and it doesn't work.

SPEAKER_09 1:07:24

Oh, not one. No, we felt like it didn't I tried I tried to pray to the other goddess. I tried to pray to the other moon goddess.

SPEAKER_04 1:07:36

Well, Leo, remember when when uh that priest Donovich did that?

SPEAKER_06 1:07:41

Yeah, the not hot one.

SPEAKER_04 1:07:42

Then we realized it didn't really work.

SPEAKER_08 1:07:45

I thought it did. Yeah, we weren't told that it didn't work. I know you did work.

SPEAKER_03 1:07:50

I know you don't believe in it. I mean there's no proof that it does or doesn't work, really.

SPEAKER_05 1:07:58

We proved that it worked.

SPEAKER_03 1:08:00

Yeah, but I don't believe it worked. I know. It doesn't necessarily mean that like it can't come back.

SPEAKER_06 1:08:07

Okay. Oh, I took his other hand. Like he has no hands now. Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 1:08:13

So he has no hands. Better visit the the abbot.

SPEAKER_06 1:08:18

Yeah, yeah. Take them. I'm not taking them. I'm leaving them.

SPEAKER_03 1:08:22

Let's go up them stairs right here. You're gonna go through the dusty, dusty room. Dusty.

SPEAKER_00 1:08:29

Dusty room.

SPEAKER_03 1:08:30

The servants' quarters, broken furniture, torn cloth, um and a narrow staircase with no railing ascends along the north wall, leading stupid to the servant's upper floor. Dirt caked windows allow little light to enter this upstairs room. Broken bed frames and torn bits of mattress litter the floors. A tall, dusty wardrobe, roughly shaped like a c coffin, its black doors painted with fay creatures, stands between two cracked full length mirrors hanging on the south wall. A staircase descends along the north wall, the one that you just came from, as well obviously.

SPEAKER_07 1:09:19

As well, obviously.

SPEAKER_03 1:09:22

Does anyone want to inspect this wardrobe?

SPEAKER_06 1:09:29

No, why not?

SPEAKER_04 1:09:32

It's got fae creatures on it. Can I make some kind of anything fee on? Yeah, you want to stay away from. Go for it.

SPEAKER_09 1:09:39

Or Arcana?

SPEAKER_03 1:09:40

Uh I'd say Arcana.

SPEAKER_04 1:09:42

I've heard a lot of stories in my times in the wild of people being trapped by Faye, never to return to the mortal plane.

SPEAKER_08 1:09:51

Are we even on the mortal plane right now?

SPEAKER_04 1:09:54

I don't know.

SPEAKER_05 1:09:55

14. God damn it. I can't do math today. My brain is not working. What are the best?

SPEAKER_03 1:10:03

You recognize Faye creatures in a sort of sense that possibly some magic could be within the carvings or within this uh wardrobe. It's also a servant's wardrobe, so likely nothing that's I'll open it. Okay. I should have. As you open the wardrobe, a plain white dress yellowed with age flies out of the wardrobe and begins to dance in the middle of the room. What the hell? The dress flaps around to the music of the storming rain.

SPEAKER_09 1:10:57

Can I dance with that?

SPEAKER_03 1:10:58

What is this part? Are you like grabbing it to dance with it, or are you just kind of dancing with the phone?

SPEAKER_05 1:11:07

I'll be a gentleman and I will put my hand out. Okay. May I have this dance with this freaky little ghost?

SPEAKER_03 1:11:15

Uh it kind of it continues its dance and then it's and then it uh leans down and touches your hand.

SPEAKER_06 1:11:24

What in Barovia, am I right? And you The way that I'm sitting is the way that Larry is standing and looking at you doing this.

SPEAKER_03 1:11:29

As soon as it touches you, it collapses into a lifeless heap on the floor. Nice going.

SPEAKER_06 1:11:39

There's the fucking dress, I guess, that the creepy Abbott wanted. Since I touched it, can I like have can I make an arcana check on it and see what is going on? Did you suck the ghost into yourself? I would know.

SPEAKER_09 1:11:53

Why didn't I ask?

SPEAKER_04 1:11:54

Yeah.

SPEAKER_09 1:11:54

Can I see why?

SPEAKER_03 1:11:55

Pretty much.

SPEAKER_09 1:11:55

Okay.

SPEAKER_03 1:11:56

Well, if that's it, then it's the fun little trick.

SPEAKER_09 1:12:01

Interesting. I kinda like that.

SPEAKER_04 1:12:04

It looks like we have to go back down the stairs and then down the other stairs following the vampires to find another staircase that goes back up to another floor. Make a perception checker for me. Unless there's another set of stairs around here that leads up.

SPEAKER_06 1:12:19

Well, fuck.

SPEAKER_04 1:12:21

Uh 13. There time, there dine, there time, thirdine.

SPEAKER_06 1:12:29

Twenty-four. Liriel has her eyes closed.

SPEAKER_03 1:12:34

Uh as you kind of are looking around, trying to figure out if there's something magical that you may have missed uh or like a cause of this dress to be dancing, uh, you catch uh yourself in the mirror for a second. Um and notice uh behind the hanging mirror west of the wardrobe is a secret door.

SPEAKER_09 1:13:04

It's a second secret door.

SPEAKER_04 1:13:07

I love secret doors.

SPEAKER_09 1:13:08

Second time a mirror is hidden a secret passage to I mean, why else would you have mirrors in this castle? I feel like cracks.

SPEAKER_04 1:13:17

I had a gold piece for every time a secret stair secret door was hidden behind a mirror, I'd have two gold pieces, which isn't a lot, but it's just weird to happen twice.

SPEAKER_03 1:13:30

As you go over and open the secret door, uh you find a closet choked with dust and cobwebs.

SPEAKER_07 1:13:39

Okay.

SPEAKER_03 1:13:40

And a wooden ladder that leads about 20 feet up to another secret door in another room. Clario, you go first. I'll go, I'll go after, and Leo, you hold up the You don't want to sneak.

SPEAKER_06 1:13:54

You don't want to sneak up. No, go up, whatever. And she'll start climbing. Oh my god, I can't believe I didn't see that. And she as she's climbing, she's like, yeah, why wouldn't you want to go f whatever. That was I can't believe I fell for that. Okay.

SPEAKER_04 1:14:20

As Leah's climbing the ladder under me. How's the view down there, Lear?

SPEAKER_06 1:14:25

That makes her realize, oh, you sick! Ridiculous. Uh it's nothing to write home about.

SPEAKER_04 1:14:35

Oh, come on. You know you like it.

SPEAKER_06 1:14:39

Oh my god. Maybe you two can share your room again.

SPEAKER_04 1:14:45

Not a Vera's there.

SPEAKER_09 1:14:47

Oh, you don't want to have fun.

SPEAKER_04 1:14:49

No, I don't.

SPEAKER_09 1:14:50

You've never been to France.

SPEAKER_02 1:14:53

I don't know what that is.

SPEAKER_09 1:14:56

It's when you love a man and a woman very much and you high five. Well, the top of the woman.

SPEAKER_04 1:15:06

Time and place, Leo. Time and place.

SPEAKER_06 1:15:10

He does that while he's climbing on the ladder and just fall off the wall.

SPEAKER_09 1:15:14

That's funny.

SPEAKER_06 1:15:16

No, he's curling, he's curling his toes.

SPEAKER_09 1:15:22

I'm in such a weird mood tonight.

SPEAKER_06 1:15:24

You don't need to call your toes if you have shoes on.

SPEAKER_03 1:15:26

Uh special shoes.

SPEAKER_06 1:15:28

Ugh.

SPEAKER_03 1:15:28

I have special shoes.

SPEAKER_06 1:15:30

Gripping the railing. Yeah, as soon as they get to the top of the ladder, Lyriel gets off the ladder and just turns around and just stares.

SPEAKER_04 1:15:38

I'm like, I'm looking up and immediately look back down.

SPEAKER_06 1:15:42

Do you enjoy your view?

SPEAKER_04 1:15:44

What can I say? What can I say? What can I say? What are you doing? This is not an or William original.

SPEAKER_06 1:16:05

That was so scary. Well, what's that?

SPEAKER_04 1:16:07

William and Grit moves. I forget who started, but some guy was just like, what can I say? What can I say?

SPEAKER_03 1:16:16

If you look it up on TikTok, you'll find it, I'm sure. Moving on. Yes. You ascend the ladder twenty feet up uh to the floor above and push through another secret door, revealing a mosaic floor that adds a touch of color to a otherwise dark, cold, empty tower that rises above you. A spiral staircase rises slowly into darkness, hugging the outer wall. In the center of the room, another set of stairs leads down. So you see this massive spiral staircase with a hollow center that has no railings and kind of connects the main floor of the castle to each level above it. So you being on the third floor, you see obviously two floors below you. As you step on to the spiral staircase, a reddish light flares high overhead, then settles onto a dull pulsing red glow. You see the full immensity of this tower. The spiral staircase circles up to the tower's full height. The tower, sixty feet wide at its base, becomes narrower as it climbs. At the pinnacle of the hollow tower, a large crystal heart pulsates with red light. Above the heart, the stairs continue upward. Whoa.

SPEAKER_00 1:18:07

What the hell is that?

SPEAKER_03 1:18:08

Like a literal heart? Uh it is a massive crystal heart. I'll show you. You did just say that. I'm so sorry.

SPEAKER_06 1:18:16

But I mean like because I'm is it like anatomically correct?

SPEAKER_03 1:18:19

Ohsing with this red light. What the hell?

SPEAKER_08 1:18:23

Yeah, let's it seems important.

SPEAKER_04 1:18:31

Wow, what the hell?

SPEAKER_06 1:18:32

I don't say this often because I'm usually dissuading Leo from doing this. I kind of want to touch it.

SPEAKER_04 1:18:38

Might not be the greatest idea, but uh dear.

SPEAKER_09 1:18:41

Maybe we should make an iconic check on it.

SPEAKER_03 1:18:44

Roll initiative, please.

SPEAKER_09 1:18:45

Initiative? Are we fighting the heart?

SPEAKER_04 1:18:48

Oh no. Whoa, guys.

SPEAKER_06 1:18:52

Fuck me, dude. I'm in half health and I rolled a goddamn eight. What are you getting a notebook for, you bitch?

SPEAKER_02 1:19:00

The track initiative.

unknown 1:19:02

Okay.

SPEAKER_06 1:19:04

Why? How many people are there? Twelve.

SPEAKER_04 1:19:11

Twenty-eight.

SPEAKER_07 1:19:12

Eight. Hey, what the how far are we from this heart?

SPEAKER_04 1:19:51

Okay. Was this another heart?

SPEAKER_07 1:19:54

What the hell is that?

SPEAKER_04 1:19:55

Another brain. Oh another, yeah.

SPEAKER_06 1:19:58

Got I got there. Thank you. Another region.

SPEAKER_04 1:20:05

Netheries nuts.

SPEAKER_09 1:20:07

I was gonna say that. Yeah.

SPEAKER_04 1:20:10

Got him.

SPEAKER_03 1:20:14

Shawdy gave me that nether brain.

SPEAKER_00 1:20:16

So from here. Anyways.

SPEAKER_03 1:20:23

From here we go the stairs go down fifty feet to a landing. Um and then uh from here ascend forty feet to another landing. Uh and then climb another a hundred feet after that to a landing right beneath the heart.

SPEAKER_05 1:20:50

Are we fighting the damn stairs?

SPEAKER_03 1:20:53

Quick draw, what would you like to do?

SPEAKER_04 1:20:58

Uh see if I get ill intent or a malicious my hunter instincts feel like I am being hunted by this heart.

SPEAKER_03 1:21:11

Uh make a survival or perception check for me.

SPEAKER_04 1:21:20

Ooh, that's not good. Fifteen. A plus nine.

SPEAKER_03 1:21:32

Um you recognize that the heart pulses every so often. Occasionally shaking violently enough to throw people off of this spiral staircase with no railings. Fuck. Alright.

unknown 1:22:02

Okay.

SPEAKER_03 1:22:03

Okay. With that, you can use your movement. Like I said, uh, it is. I mean, you could obviously you could go back down the ladder if you are uh not interested in dealing with this. Uh it would be a dexterity save. You would know that just based on you knowing how to play DD. This is like an above-table thing. Yeah. Um it's 40 feet to the next landing uh above you, 50 feet to the next landing below you. I am going to go up to the next landing. Um I'm going to move my go my full 30 feet.

SPEAKER_04 1:23:01

Okay. And then oh my god, I forgot about dreadful strike too. Last combat.

SPEAKER_08 1:23:05

Damn it.

SPEAKER_03 1:23:07

Um, and then I'm going to bla bla bla cunning action, bonus action, dash. Okay.

SPEAKER_04 1:23:16

So I'll move 30, and then I will dash, which will give me another 60, right?

SPEAKER_03 1:23:26

Uh well, you used your action to make that check. Oh, right. So but you can make it to that next landing above you. Yeah. Um you see. Come on, guys, steady now. You see two archways, uh, one uh leading out to kind of the outside. Uh, and then one at as you get to this next uh kind of layer of this uh castle, of this tower, uh down one hallway you see dark alcoves uh and a long hall uh with filled with rubble and statues on either side. And then uh there's another archway that leads uh out to a ten-foot-wide walkway that kind of encircles the outside of the keep. Uh the parapets of this keep. Um you can go into either one of those rooms, or you can stay off the stairs and kind of hug the wall while you wait for the friends. I yeah, I definitely want to stay off the stairs, but not go too far quite yet. Okay. Quick draw being off the stairs is not going to have to make this, but Leo and Leary, I need a DC 10 deck save. It's asking a lot for me.

SPEAKER_06 1:24:51

Josh asking a lot for me. Uh, if it's a deck save, can I guidance myself?

SPEAKER_03 1:24:56

Uh you can't guidance because we are in an initiative. Fuck me.

SPEAKER_06 1:25:00

I got good. Damn it. Okay. I'm gonna fall so far and die. Splat Leo. 16 minus one is a 15. Splat derogatory.

SPEAKER_03 1:25:09

Okay. Derogatory. Uh Leary, uh, you feel uh this glass crystal heart uh shake and shat and uh kind of thrum as it moves the entirety of this tower. Oh fuck. Uh you manage to hold on, but you see Leo tumble across and down fifty feet.

SPEAKER_09 1:25:40

Ow, ow, ow, ow, ow. Fuck.

SPEAKER_06 1:25:43

He does that every foot. That's gonna be a good one. If I could catch you, I would.

SPEAKER_09 1:25:51

I'll fucking die.

SPEAKER_03 1:25:52

19 bludgeoning damage. Not that bad. As you land at the base of this tower.

SPEAKER_09 1:25:57

Oh, I think I broke my leg.

SPEAKER_04 1:26:00

Well, luckily Fuck, we gotta go back now.

SPEAKER_06 1:26:02

Fix it yourself. And she goes, he can fix it himself. Fix it yourself. I was like, Eon doctor, Ion nurse.

SPEAKER_09 1:26:12

What emergency room nurse at the temple.

SPEAKER_03 1:26:15

That will bring it to you, Leo. Uh. As you find yourself at the bottom. Uh Leary is 50 feet above you. Quick draw. Um about a hundred or ninety feet above you on the next landing.

SPEAKER_05 1:26:32

Okay, well, I'm gonna set my leg.

SPEAKER_06 1:26:37

Certainly. Reaction is set my leg.

SPEAKER_05 1:26:40

And I'm gonna go ow, ow, ow, ow, for every step I take.

SPEAKER_06 1:26:45

Dramatically. Um He's definitely fine because he hasn't stopped talking. I'll dash up.

SPEAKER_03 1:26:53

Okay. Uh, how far does that get you? I guess to the next landing. Do you want to stop at the landing? Or do you want to continue on the stairs? I will stop on the landing. Sure. Please.

SPEAKER_06 1:27:06

Um this should be safe.

SPEAKER_03 1:27:08

I know Dix is asking.

SPEAKER_06 1:27:09

He says it's 50 feet to the next landing?

SPEAKER_03 1:27:11

40 feet from you.

SPEAKER_06 1:27:13

With my minus one?

SPEAKER_03 1:27:14

It was the first one's 50, the next one's 40.

SPEAKER_06 1:27:17

Okay.

SPEAKER_03 1:27:17

Uh, and then the final one is a hundred.

SPEAKER_06 1:27:21

Bonus action, I am gonna heal myself because owie.

SPEAKER_03 1:27:24

Okay.

SPEAKER_06 1:27:24

Owie's owie.

SPEAKER_03 1:27:25

Leary.

SPEAKER_06 1:27:27

Yeah. Um, after seeing that happen, uh I am gonna, I was being conservative with my uh lay-on hands, so I'm going to bonus action, give myself a little bit more. Um I'll do another twenty just to get me above half. Um as she watches the old fall, she just goes, Okay. Um, and then I will use my movement and To get up to the second landing.

SPEAKER_03 1:28:01

Okay. You arrive right next to Quick Draw and you see the same thing that he does. You see one archway that leads outside to the parapets and one that leads through this kind of hall of rubble and statues. I don't really.

SPEAKER_06 1:28:18

Yeah. Like I said, I know he's fine because he hasn't stopped talking. Did you hear him saying Alright? If Leo gets really hurt, he shuts up. Yeah, so I know he's the other time he's super dramatic. So I know he's fine. If he's dramatic, he's fine. Um have you have you've never seen him with a cold?

SPEAKER_05 1:28:35

So Leo gets the worst case of man cold in the world.

SPEAKER_04 1:28:40

I hope I never do.

SPEAKER_06 1:28:41

I don't like well if you're planning to stick around, you probably will. Um I don't like the look of the statues.

SPEAKER_03 1:28:48

Yeah, I I wanna I wanna know what they're all about. It is your turn, quick draw. Uh I will walk to the hall. Okay.

SPEAKER_02 1:28:59

And stop before I stop enough where I can look at the statues and see what they depict.

SPEAKER_03 1:29:07

All right. Uh you see as you walk through, you are able to look up. Uh overhead the beams of Ravenloff's roof are exposed here. Lightning from the dark clouds above sporadically illuminates the hall, lighting the faces of life-sized human statues in the alcoves. Each visage is frozen in terror.

SPEAKER_05 1:29:32

Seems like maybe they're not statues and they're actual people. Anyone got basilisk oil?

SPEAKER_09 1:29:44

That's funny.

SPEAKER_03 1:29:45

Is there a down this hall? Is there a clear exit? Yes. Okay. Uh uh it it ends in a in a stairwell that goes down, but you can also see it kind it turns to the left at the end of the hall. Uh it turns to the left, and and there's likely socks. Socks. Other room through there. I will go that way then. Okay. I will bonus action dash.

SPEAKER_04 1:30:14

All right. For the 60 feet. And then I will move 30 feet.

SPEAKER_03 1:30:21

Don't do that. Oh god, I love rolling dice with my friends.

SPEAKER_05 1:30:30

When we're here, we're enemies. Olive Garden.

SPEAKER_00 1:30:34

What? You and your family. I really appreciate Olive Garden.

SPEAKER_06 1:30:42

I appreciate I really appreciated the uh deep and meaningful eye contact when you said that. Thank you.

SPEAKER_04 1:30:49

Sometimes I'm awesome staring deeply into your soul. Evil Olive Garden.

SPEAKER_05 1:30:54

Every Olive Garden is an evil Olive Garden to me because I'm allergic to everything.

SPEAKER_03 1:31:01

Uh okay. Uh so you kind of turn and uh go past one of the the door is kind of hidden past the uh one of the statues on the left side, and you sneak past uh and open the door uh leading into a next room. Uh and there's sweet smells wafting from the delicately lit room. Before you can continue looking, uh the tower shakes yet again. You obviously are not even close to the stairwell at this point. The two of you are tucked on the landings and do not have to worry about falling.

SPEAKER_05 1:31:56

The way I am positioned the way that Dean from Supernatural was on the airplane that was being piloted by demons that was going down. He's holding on to the walls and just going, I saw it immediately.

SPEAKER_06 1:32:11

It's like full spread. I knew you would like that. I did like it. I did that for you. Yeah. I need to rewatch that. Um you can stop screaming. We're fine. Like, what are you doing? That scared me.

SPEAKER_03 1:32:29

Okay. Leo, what would you like to do with your turn? You are uh 40 feet below your friends.

SPEAKER_05 1:32:37

I will dash up to them.

SPEAKER_03 1:32:39

Okay. Uh and you see that um Leary is kind of looking down this hall of people, or not people, statues. Uh that was not like a Fordian slip.

SPEAKER_06 1:32:54

Um trigging up a hall of people.

SPEAKER_03 1:32:57

And you see that Quickdraw has kind of just tucked himself uh through uh kind of like a secret entrance.

SPEAKER_05 1:33:05

Hall of people.

SPEAKER_03 1:33:07

What would you like to do? You have enough movement to kind of like get into that area or uh the adjacent uh kind of arch that leads out into uh rain and storms.

SPEAKER_05 1:33:22

Follow my friends.

SPEAKER_03 1:33:23

Okay.

SPEAKER_05 1:33:24

Hi friends! He doesn't say that.

SPEAKER_03 1:33:28

Thanks for clarifying. Uh we will now that everyone is on the landings and obviously is going a certain way uh and is out of that hallway, we will cease our initiative uh runs and get back into exploration. The two of you, do you want to continue following quick draw down this path? Yes. Something smells sweet over here.

SPEAKER_05 1:33:54

I do wanna what? Before we do that, uh can I make an arcana or a medicine check on the statues? Sure. What would be better? You thought of something terrible. You have to tell me. What do you think would be better?

SPEAKER_03 1:34:09

Um Well, it depends on what you want to know.

SPEAKER_05 1:34:11

Yeah, 20. Okay. Are these real people?

SPEAKER_03 1:34:15

The ten statues that line this corridor depict ancient heroes. Um you as you get a close look at them, you notice uh when they're illuminated, they are uh these shock and horror faces. But then as as the lightning dissipates and you kind of squint your eyes and look at them through darkness uh with your dark vision, you see that the faces change into these stoic and expressionless face.

SPEAKER_06 1:34:52

So it's just for scare factor.

SPEAKER_03 1:34:55

That's cool. So when lightning flashes, immediate horror and then stoicism takes over what's the same thing. Spooky. You also on that next morning notice that these statues are imbued with the spirits of people. Uh these people happen to be Strahd's ancestors grieving the termination of their bloodline.

SPEAKER_09 1:35:26

And they said, You got no bitches.

SPEAKER_03 1:35:31

Each spirit will answer one question if addressed directly. Oh my god, ask it where the fucking skull is.

SPEAKER_05 1:35:43

Where is the skull of Agenvas? You have no context for what's going on.

SPEAKER_03 1:35:48

He's just looking at the There are ten of these. So you essentially, if you want to ask ten questions, um Who are you?

SPEAKER_05 1:35:56

Where are you just you just you have no context? You just see him squinting at this statue.

SPEAKER_06 1:36:04

I feel like we started walking down the hallway and then we did we just hear where is the skull of organboss?

SPEAKER_03 1:36:09

Quickly turns around.

SPEAKER_04 1:36:10

I don't know, Leo. That's what I'm looking. What are you talking to, Stan?

SPEAKER_06 1:36:15

Like we were yeah, we were saying something. We were walking it the same, like together, and I kept walking because I'm like, I need to find out what he's looking at. I don't realize you're not with me anymore. So I'm like, did you get what you did?

SPEAKER_02 1:36:30

Leo's talking to inanimate objects again.

SPEAKER_06 1:36:32

That's normal, but what is he saying?

SPEAKER_03 1:36:34

It looks like he's uh actually getting this one statue. It kind of looks sh shocked that you spoke to it. And it responds on the head of Argenvost, I would assume.

SPEAKER_05 1:36:51

Oh, you've been gone a long time out of the way. Thank you.

SPEAKER_09 1:36:57

I go to the next one. Leo. Is there a way to free your souls from these statues?

SPEAKER_01 1:37:08

I wish I knew.

unknown 1:37:10

Huh.

SPEAKER_09 1:37:11

These guys are funny.

SPEAKER_03 1:37:13

Oh my god.

SPEAKER_06 1:37:14

You can ask them things.

SPEAKER_03 1:37:15

They're talking. Alright.

SPEAKER_06 1:37:19

Are they answering out loud or are they answering in your head?

SPEAKER_03 1:37:22

They're stinking.

unknown 1:37:23

Okay. Cool.

SPEAKER_03 1:37:24

So you guys hear this faintly.

SPEAKER_06 1:37:27

Is he talking to someone?

SPEAKER_03 1:37:28

It's hard to hear when you're not right next to them because of the rain and the storm.

SPEAKER_06 1:37:32

Yeah. Come here. Yeah, I think we definitely hear you asking the question. Is he fucking talking to somebody? They're souls.

SPEAKER_03 1:37:37

Yes, I am.

SPEAKER_06 1:37:38

Oh no! That was enough. I'm missing a question. I wouldn't I wouldn't hear the status. It's like the DD movie.

SPEAKER_03 1:37:44

I'll go to a third one.

SPEAKER_09 1:37:48

This would be fourth. No, three. She's all the answer.

SPEAKER_03 1:37:54

You.

SPEAKER_04 1:37:56

Directly. The skull of Argonvost is kept somewhere in this castle. Where would it be?

SPEAKER_03 1:38:09

I would guess the Hall of Bones. Excellent. Number five. Where is the Hall of Bones?

SPEAKER_07 1:38:17

The Hall of Bones.

SPEAKER_03 1:38:20

Well, when I lived here, it was just a mess hall for the castle guards, but that little freaky fellow turned it into this hall of bones.

SPEAKER_08 1:38:38

Fucking Cyrus.

SPEAKER_01 1:38:40

Now where was it? I don't remember.

SPEAKER_03 1:38:46

Number six.

SPEAKER_04 1:38:50

Apologies, he's a forgetful one. Number six. Uh where's a hall of bones?

SPEAKER_07 1:39:02

The old mess hall, I guess we could call it.

SPEAKER_03 1:39:04

Downstairs, uh above the the catacombs, but uh below the main floor. Hmm.

SPEAKER_04 1:39:15

Excellent. This is great news. Oh, number seven. Is there a shortcut to the hall of bones from here? If so, where would it be?

SPEAKER_03 1:39:27

Yes, I seem to remember. Uh there's a stairwell um through the servant servants' quarters uh that leads uh down uh to a hallway.

SPEAKER_01 1:39:40

Uh if you go to the end of that hallway and through double doors, I I believe you will arrive there.

SPEAKER_08 1:39:46

Okay, so it's near where we were before. Excellent. Very helpful. Well, there's three more questions. Leo, do you have anything else you want to know?

SPEAKER_03 1:39:53

Two more. Wait, three more. Three more.

SPEAKER_08 1:39:56

Uh oh.

SPEAKER_03 1:39:59

Uh I don't have any more questions now. Fuck you!

SPEAKER_04 1:40:05

Wait, no, no, she wasn't addressing them directly. I'm just trying to fuck with you guys.

SPEAKER_06 1:40:12

I haven't addressed the statues directly. What?

SPEAKER_03 1:40:15

Uh okay, I'll give you two more. All right, let me address. Let me address that. I forgot that that was the thing.

SPEAKER_06 1:40:20

Maybe they can't.

SPEAKER_03 1:40:20

I'm just looking for you guys to ask questions. Uh like speak with the dead. There is number eight, you there is a little girl named Gertruda.

SPEAKER_04 1:40:36

If you know where she is, tell us.

SPEAKER_03 1:40:39

Where you were right there. What? And its eyes kind of dart to the door that you smelled that sweet smell through. Is she a I will start running that way.

SPEAKER_06 1:40:52

I'm running.

SPEAKER_03 1:40:53

Okay. Absolutely running. I'm running.

SPEAKER_06 1:40:55

I'm running. Hauling ass. There's a hag in there, and she's turning her into a pastry. Okay.

SPEAKER_03 1:41:03

Uh you run through the sweet smells waft. From this delicately lit room, a great arched window along the west wall is covered by heavy red draperies, their golden tassels glinting in the light of three candle obras sitting atop small tables about the room. Tall white candles burn with bright steady light. A large bed, canopied by silk curtains, sits with its headboard against the north wall. Carved into the headboard with great skill is a large Z. Lying amid the velvet and satin sheets and bedcloths is a young woman in a nightgown. One of her dainty slippers has fallen to the floor at the bed's foot.

SPEAKER_06 1:41:48

This is giving like snow white. This is weird. I don't like this.

SPEAKER_04 1:41:52

Here, Lyriel, you go wake her up.

SPEAKER_06 1:41:54

Why me? I mean I will.

SPEAKER_04 1:41:56

I don't know. You're a girl, she's a girl, you're girl bond. They don't want no hairy little halfling man going out there. Hey, wake up. That's probably a good one.

SPEAKER_06 1:42:05

I appreciate you trying, but that's really funny. Okay, sure. Um yeah, she will go over and is just before I like touch or tap or do anything. Is this like a I almost said medically induced? Is this a magically induced sleep? Is she like in a coma?

SPEAKER_03 1:42:27

Hard to tell. You can make a medicine check. Uh I'm assuming you want to do that without touching her.

SPEAKER_05 1:42:33

Yeah, just at first. Can I help? Or if you help one?

SPEAKER_03 1:42:37

That would you can either help and have one of you roll a flat roll, or you can both roll at disadvantage.

SPEAKER_05 1:42:47

I have a plus eight.

SPEAKER_03 1:42:50

So flat roll.

SPEAKER_06 1:42:52

And I'm gonna guide myself.

SPEAKER_07 1:42:53

She just pulls you over, Leo. What's going on before I touch it?

SPEAKER_09 1:43:06

Twenty-five.

SPEAKER_03 1:43:07

Damn. She has not been magically induced to sleep.

SPEAKER_09 1:43:15

Okay, perfect.

SPEAKER_03 1:43:16

But she has been charmed.

SPEAKER_09 1:43:19

But she's charmed.

SPEAKER_03 1:43:20

I wonder if that smell.

SPEAKER_06 1:43:22

Okay.

SPEAKER_03 1:43:23

That smell is going around, charming her.

SPEAKER_06 1:43:25

Well, if she's been charmed.

SPEAKER_03 1:43:26

Can I look for a source? You also do not see any bites. Perfect.

SPEAKER_04 1:43:32

Yeah, I was also just about to say, can I look for a source of the smelly smell?

SPEAKER_01 1:43:37

I don't really have anything.

SPEAKER_04 1:43:40

Like an incense burner or something.

SPEAKER_03 1:43:44

Uh it's um from the candles. Oh. Put them candles out.

SPEAKER_08 1:43:51

Put out the candles. I'm going to go and like.

SPEAKER_06 1:43:57

I don't want to be scary and be like over top of her. I will kneel. Good morning. No, I'm going to kneel next to the bed and just kind of like very gently like nudge her as the candles are snuffed out.

SPEAKER_03 1:44:15

Um as she rolls over, you see this young girl with bright blue eyes.

SPEAKER_06 1:44:27

Wait, I'm glad we found her.

SPEAKER_03 1:44:28

Groggy from sleeping for what looks like a few hours.

SPEAKER_01 1:44:41

Hello. Hello.

SPEAKER_08 1:44:44

Getr Gertruder? Yes, who are you? Perfect. We are friends of your mother.

SPEAKER_01 1:44:54

You've come to get me, haven't you?

SPEAKER_08 1:44:59

Yes.

SPEAKER_01 1:44:59

Bring me back home?

SPEAKER_08 1:45:02

Ideally, yes.

SPEAKER_03 1:45:05

Yes, I I figured mother would send someone after me.

SPEAKER_08 1:45:09

Have you been all right have you been here this whole time?

SPEAKER_01 1:45:13

Yes. I wanted to live out the fairy tale life I've always dreamed of, and this bed is so comfy and this room is so magnificent. It's I I was tired of living in that dusty old house.

SPEAKER_08 1:45:27

I'm sure. Um did you find y your own way to this room or were you placed here? Have you been harmed in any way since you've been here?

SPEAKER_01 1:45:36

Oh the m the master of this castle he brought me here. He said I could stay in this room. Okay. Okay.

SPEAKER_03 1:45:45

He is an evil man.

SPEAKER_05 1:45:47

No, he's been a loser.

SPEAKER_03 1:45:49

He's been nothing but kind to me.

SPEAKER_05 1:45:51

What does he want with you?

SPEAKER_03 1:45:54

He wanted to give me the life I desired, it seems. Oh great.

SPEAKER_04 1:46:00

I've been so happy as She's been so charmed.

SPEAKER_05 1:46:04

What the hell? Um Fuck. Strada's no longer hot to me. I've been gross.

SPEAKER_03 1:46:11

I've never been able to leave my small home, but now I have this castle that I can live in and All alone. No, I have there's other people here. There is?

unknown 1:46:30

Yes.

SPEAKER_01 1:46:32

The master, of course, and uh he has a funny little man uh named Cyrus. That's two. Uh a very tall uh elf, uh uh n Rahardin.

SPEAKER_08 1:46:46

Not anymore.

SPEAKER_01 1:46:48

Um That's three. And his his wives, of course.

SPEAKER_03 1:46:52

Um Well, I I haven't met them actually, but Oh my god, he's lying about having wives. I just uh I just know that um We saw their boys Strahd von Zero Pitches. He he uh said that th they would look after me uh if I needed uh you know, uh my mother would never come here. Um so I would need someone to take care of me.

SPEAKER_08 1:47:20

Yes. Um And I know that you uh wanted to leave your small home that you never left and you know, see the as you described it, have the life that you wanted, but do not miss her.

SPEAKER_06 1:47:39

I pull out the little stuffed bear.

SPEAKER_03 1:47:41

Oh she uh reaches out to grab for it.

SPEAKER_06 1:47:46

I'll give it to her.

SPEAKER_03 1:47:46

Uh she grabs it and holds it tight. I've been missing it, yes. And and my mother, of course.

SPEAKER_06 1:47:52

But I she misses you so greatly.

SPEAKER_01 1:47:56

I spent my whole life cooped up and looking at this m giant castle, dreaming about a life here, and it's been so much nicer than life back in the village.

SPEAKER_08 1:48:10

And I understand that, and I don't um If I can be a little real with you. Growing up my mother was not kind. She was not my caretaker, she wasn't what a mother should be. And I also grew up in a very small contained place as you did. And I would have given anything to have a mother who cared about me so much that she's been awake for days hoping that you would come home, asking anyone who comes by to come and find you and bring you back. Ultimately it's your decision. But if I had someone like that waiting for me, I would not leave them behind.

SPEAKER_09 1:49:05

I don't think it's her decision. She's a minor.

SPEAKER_01 1:49:07

I don't think you understand what it's like not being able to leave this small house because my mother's too afraid of everything in the world. He she was she told me so many stories about how evil the man was that lived here, but he's been so nice to me. She's so cautious about vampires and werewolves and and everything, and I I haven't seen but one.

SPEAKER_04 1:49:36

Well, can't you two get rid of this charm? She's obviously out of her mind.

SPEAKER_07 1:49:40

I think she's just little.

SPEAKER_04 1:49:42

I think she's just charmed.

SPEAKER_03 1:49:44

You did see that she's magically charmed.

SPEAKER_05 1:49:46

Oh, I thought the candles fixed that. I thought like the charm was her being asleep.

SPEAKER_03 1:49:49

No, the sweet smell came from the candles, but she's been charmed by Straught.

SPEAKER_05 1:49:54

Okay. And I will continue to look for a spell that fixes that.

SPEAKER_04 1:49:57

I It's called uh Dispel magic.

SPEAKER_08 1:50:02

I know that you I know that you dislike um probably hearing this as I recall not liking it very much either. But um Your mother is correct. We have been here for a while all across the area, and her stories are true. Um it is a miracle that he's been shall do air cords kind to you since you've been here, but his kindness and his patience will run thin. And I don't want you to be here when it does.

SPEAKER_01 1:50:43

Well I don't believe you.

SPEAKER_05 1:50:47

Um can I say as I hand her the doll um I touch her hand a little bit as I'm passing it off and I'm gonna cast greater restoration on her and it ends her charm condition.

SPEAKER_03 1:51:02

Does it say willing creature?

SPEAKER_05 1:51:06

Nope, it just says creature.

SPEAKER_03 1:51:08

Okay. Uh you touch her hand. And then she's saying, I don't believe you. Maybe being back with mother would be okay.

SPEAKER_08 1:51:32

And just think when you're back, you can tell her all of the stories that you've experienced here. Give give her a a taste of the life outside, even though you may not have thought it was as dangerous as she did. Give her a little bit of that.

SPEAKER_03 1:51:48

As the charm fades away, you see, uh, she kind of like sinks into herself.

SPEAKER_01 1:51:56

Um go home.

SPEAKER_06 1:52:05

That's a good idea. And also just Yeah. A little life lesson.

SPEAKER_09 1:52:10

Kind and nice does not always mean good.

SPEAKER_06 1:52:14

Especially when it comes to men in power like this.

SPEAKER_01 1:52:18

I've never met anyone but my mother before.

SPEAKER_08 1:52:22

Well, now you've met us, and Lyria will stand and kind of offer her hand to Gertruda.

SPEAKER_03 1:52:28

She cautiously uh reaches out and Okay.

unknown 1:52:33

Okay.

SPEAKER_04 1:52:33

Think about this. You'll have your own heroic tale to tell how you were bewitched by an evil man and stayed in this his luscious tower and were saved by three handsome heroes.

SPEAKER_06 1:52:46

Handsome, yes.

SPEAKER_04 1:52:48

Yeah. Okay. I think it well um twist it how you mu how you like, then.

SPEAKER_08 1:52:55

You said you wanted a fairy tale life, and I that sounds pretty textbook to me, if you were to write it down.

SPEAKER_03 1:53:01

I'll make sure to give you a happy ending. Not quite what I had in mind, but that's often not the case.

SPEAKER_01 1:53:09

Sure.

SPEAKER_05 1:53:11

So we are working on a way to uh make your mother less scared of the world, so that's good.

SPEAKER_03 1:53:17

Maybe uh she'll let me outside when I return.

SPEAKER_06 1:53:20

We'll we'll have a talk with her.

unknown 1:53:22

Yes.

SPEAKER_03 1:53:22

I'm sure she will. The world will change very soon.

SPEAKER_06 1:53:26

Yes.

SPEAKER_03 1:53:29

Thank you.

SPEAKER_05 1:53:30

Of course. Do you need are are you okay? Do you need any healing?

SPEAKER_03 1:53:35

No. I've been spending my days happily resting and eating my fill and uh.

SPEAKER_05 1:53:44

Can I check her? Can I check her stealth?

SPEAKER_03 1:53:47

You already made a very high medicine.

SPEAKER_06 1:53:49

Okay, so there's no bites. I missed that.

SPEAKER_04 1:53:54

Alright, we gotta go back to them servants' quarters, back down the hall, and through the doors down the stairs, whatever that thing said.

SPEAKER_03 1:54:00

Do you want to take her with you? Yes.

SPEAKER_08 1:54:04

Yes, I think if we can get both in one, that'd be good.

SPEAKER_03 1:54:07

Alright. I don't want her to wander in the castle alone. You go back through uh the statue hallway, uh uh down the steps strategically, avoiding being on the steps when the heart rumbles, especially with your uh newfound companion here.

SPEAKER_06 1:54:30

Yeah, who would not survive the fall. Yeah, Lyriel absolutely like keeps Gertruda's hand in hers as they're walking, and I think we'll give Leo a look um because he knows that she does not like she doesn't like to talk about her mother, and she doesn't bring that up lightly.

SPEAKER_00 1:54:49

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 1:54:49

So Okay. Um Navigate back down to the servants' quarters, down the ladder, uh, and then um down these this staircase. Uh you do not it's been long enough and you do not see signs of the vampires still being here. Um they must have run off and hid somewhere uh after they lost Rahadan and one of their own. Uh the two others probably hid to to either alert straws.

SPEAKER_06 1:55:27

I cover her eyes when we go back through the servants' quarters. I cut his hands off.

SPEAKER_03 1:55:30

Yeah.

SPEAKER_06 1:55:31

Oh yeah. And they were she was like she liked him. Yeah, she still is holding her hand and then the other hand just comes up. Just don't just trust me for a moment.

SPEAKER_08 1:55:39

Don't look at that.

SPEAKER_03 1:55:41

Uh as you reach the bottom of the uh stairs, you arrive in a wine cellar. You see arched frames of stone form a low wet ceiling over this area. Great casks line the walls, their bands rusting, and their contents long since spilled onto the floor. A few hungry rats make their home here, but upon your sudden arrival they retreat to the shadows. Uh Gertruda goes, Um I don't like rats. Bats alright, they're harmless, don't worry.

SPEAKER_08 1:56:25

Neither do I, honestly.

SPEAKER_03 1:56:27

I tried to make friends with them at home. I thought they were kind of cute when I first saw them, but uh they bit me on the fingers. Oh yeah and ate our food.

SPEAKER_05 1:56:37

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 1:56:37

Yeah, they'll do that.

SPEAKER_04 1:56:38

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 1:56:39

Don't worry.

SPEAKER_05 1:56:41

Maybe Quick Draw can teach you how to speak with animals. Tell them to go away.

SPEAKER_03 1:56:48

Um you can see that all of these casts are just kind of rotted and empty and disgusting, not really worth uh looking through them. Um as you move down the hall, like the statue told you to do, towards the double doors at the end of the hall. Um you arrive at the Hall of Bones. Dark stains cover the floor of this area. Large oak tables, scarred and beaten, lay scattered like toys about the room, their wood crushed and splintered. Replacing them are furnishings made entirely of human bones.

SPEAKER_09 1:57:34

Maybe close her eyes again. Yeah. What is that?

SPEAKER_03 1:57:40

Uh the walls and twenty-foot-high vaulted ceiling are a sickly yellow color, not because of faded or time-worn plaster, but because they are adorned with bones and skulls arranged in a morbidly decorative fashion, giving the room a cathedral-like quality.

SPEAKER_08 1:58:00

This feels blasphemous.

SPEAKER_03 1:58:02

Four enormous mounds of bones occupy the corners of this ossuary, and garlands of skulls extend from these mounds to sha to a chandelier of bones that hangs from the ceiling above a long table constructed of bones in the center of this room. Ten chairs made of bones and festooned with decorative skulls surround the table, resting atop which is an ornate bowl-shaped vessel made of yet more bones. Doors to the north and south are sheathed in bone, and the steel-banded double doors in the center of the east wall are not. Above the eastern doors is mounted the skull of a dragon.

SPEAKER_08 1:58:52

Well, the name is on the note.

SPEAKER_04 1:58:54

This is just another fun thing to add to your fairy tale here, Gertruda.

SPEAKER_03 1:58:59

Uh her eyes are being covered currently. Yeah. Uh, but she in the split second, she just saw this room full of just everything made of bones. Yeah. Disgusting, and you can feel her kind of like.

SPEAKER_06 1:59:13

The master really likes all Hello's Eve. The decoration. Do you see how how torn and strong I am? You'll be alright.

SPEAKER_03 1:59:22

Yeah, she grabs onto you. And that is where we're gonna end our session.

SPEAKER_05 1:59:30

Oh, how the hell do we navigate this little girl out of here? Because a bunch of shit's gonna happen when we grab these bones, I'm certain.

unknown 1:59:36

Yeah.