#### Character Sheet D&D Beyond Character Sheet #### Quick Reference #### Appearance #### Ability Scores #### Divine Contact Celestian, god of stars and wanderers. Encountered in the Astral Sea during her decades of drifting. ### Contacts - #### Divine Contacts Iradel has two divine contacts (Greyhawk deities reaching her through the Mists): Istus, goddess of fate, and Celestian, the Star Wanderer. Both are additive — not a choice between them. Istus shows where the thread leads; Celestian helps her not give up following it. --- ##### Istus — the cold thread Fate · destiny · divination · honesty · true neutral How she comes to you: not a voice so much as a sensation. A tug behind the sternum. A knot you didn't tie. A color at the edge of a dream. Impartial to the point of chill — not on your side, not against you, she simply knows. > "You came to me already cut, little thread — curious. Most are spun whole before they fray. Ask, and I will show you where your strand runs. I will not tell you to follow it." What she offers a dhampir: foreknowledge, not protection. Omens. The shape of a choice before you make it — whether a road ends in a knot or a frayed end. And something pointed: where most see undeath as a severed thread, Istus sees a thread knotted and re-spun — not ended. Your "death" was a turn in the weave, not its close. What she asks: honesty. You cannot lie to fate, and she despises those who try. And know the burden — once she shows you a thread, you carry the knowing. She reveals; she does not rescue. --- ##### Celestian — the true star in a false sky Stars · space · wanderers · travel between worlds · neutral good How he comes to you: as light and direction. A clean cold wind. The pull of a horizon you can't see. And — rarely, preciously — one genuine star glimmering wrong-but-right through the borrowed sky, because he is god of the night and the dark, and does not flinch from a creature made of them. > "I see you, wanderer, even here under this stolen sky. The true stars have not forgotten this place — they only cannot reach it. Steer by me, and you will not lose your direction. I cannot walk the road for you. I can keep you from forgetting there is one." What he offers a dhampir: hope and orientation. Where Istus is cold, he is kind. He treats you as a traveler, never a monster. When you're lost or despairing that there's no "out there," he's the reminder that the real cosmos still exists beyond the Mists — that your spirit isn't caged even when your body is. A bearing to steer by. What he asks: keep moving. Keep seeking. His one quarrel is with surrender. His reach here is faint — a flickering star, not a blaze — so he asks you keep your eyes up even when he's hard to find. --- ##### How to play them together - Turn to Istus when you need to *know* — before a fateful choice, when reading a person, when you want the shape of what's coming and can stomach a cold answer. - Turn to Celestian when you need to *endure* — when you're lost, when hope is thin, when you need a direction or the will to keep walking. She tells you where the thread leads; he helps you not give up following it. For a half-living thing in a place that runs on fate and won't let you leave — one lifeline to the truth, one to the way out. > Open question for the DM: what does a divine contact mechanically grant — intervention odds, a granted omen/spell, a roleplay conduit to petition? That determines how these two get used, not just admired. #### Languages Common, Celestial, Sylvan, Elvish, Draconic, Druidic #### Backstory Iradel was born under a sky that refused to stay still. The stars above the village twisted into spirals the moment she drew breath, and the night itself seemed to bend around her. Light curving where it shouldn't, shadows pooling where none were cast. The midwife called it a blessing. Everyone else called it a warning. She grew up watched but unwanted. The village tolerated her because her mother begged them to, but no one met her red eyes for long. When her mother died, taken by a fever Iradel's healing hands came too late to stop, the village's tolerance died with her. She left before they could make her. She drifted. First through forests, then through places that had no name, and eventually into the Astral Sea itself, pulled there by a current she couldn't explain, as though the stars she'd bent at birth were calling her home. Time lost meaning in the Silver Void. She wandered for decades that felt like days, camping on the husks of dead gods, learning to read the cosmos like a language. It was there she met Celestian, the Wanderer, god of stars and travelers. The encounter was brief. He said nothing she could repeat. But when it was over, she understood something she hadn't before: the stars didn't bend because she was wrong. They bent because she was listening. Eventually the Astral Sea released her, or she released herself, and she found the druids. They didn't flinch at her eyes. They looked at the sky above her and saw what Celestian had seen: not a curse, but a conduit. They taught her to shape what she'd always felt, to channel the constellations instead of merely pulling at them. She chose the name Iradel. The old one belonged to a frightened girl in a village that didn't want her. This one belongs to the stars. #### Session Notes Add session notes here as the campaign progresses. Can homebrew dhampir, just need to list the race specific stuff. Dhampirs are humanoid-vampire hybrids, often featuring vampiric, dark-gifted abilities like darkvision, fangs, and unnatural speed. Common traits include a "vampiric hunger" for blood or similar substances, resistance to necrotic energy or diseases, and the ability to climb walls (spider climb). They are generally faster and more seductive than humans but often carry a stigma of fear and mistrust. Reddit +4 Core Racial Attributes (General/D&D 5e): - Creature Type: Humanoid. - Size: Medium or Small. - Speed: Typically 35 feet (faster than average). - Darkvision: Usually 60 feet. - Vampiric Bite: Fangs allow a special unarmed strike (1d4 + Constitution modifier), allowing the player to heal themselves or gain a bonus to attack rolls/ability checks. - Spider Climb: A permanent, unnatural ability to climb difficult surfaces, including upside down, without needing to make ability checks (often available at level 3). - Ancestral Legacy: Some versions allow retaining specific skills or a swimming/flying speed from a previous race. - Trace of Undeath: Resistance to necrotic damage. YouTube +2 Pathfinder Specific Traits: - Ability Scores: +2 Dexterity, +2 Charisma, –2 Constitution. - Negative Energy Affinity: Similar to undead, they are healed by negative energy and harmed by positive energy. - Light Sensitivity: Dazzled in bright sunlight. - Manipulative: +2 racial bonus on Bluff and Perception. Key Characteristics: - Lifespan: Long-lived, similar to elves. - Apperance: Generally human-like, often pale or possessing intense beauty, with sharpened teeth. - Hunger: A constant, driving need to feed (blood, dreams, or psychic energy).

Character: Session 0

Session Zero: Curse of Strahd ###### Action Items - [ ] DM to share Dropbox with campaign maps - [ ] Group to finalize scheduling (every other week, start time - 2pm works for everyone) - [ ] Players to complete any remaining character sheet details before next session ###### Character Introductions Grae (Gnome Arcane Trickster Rogue) - A completely deadpan, emotionless character who was kicked out of the temple of Garl Glittergold (god of laughter and trickery) for being unable to laugh or show any emotion. Seeking to learn how to laugh so they can return to the temple. Character is grayscale in appearance. Jables (Paladin) - Inspired by Jack Black, charismatic character who picked up Gray at a tavern and is trying to make them laugh. Considering Oath of Devotion or Vengeance. Iriadel (Dampir/Aasimar) - A half-vampire, half-celestial outcast with an uneasy feeling about their situation. Joined the party because the others didn't hate them. ###### Character Creation Discussion The session focused heavily on character creation mechanics, including background selection, spell choices, and equipment. Key discussions included: - Magic Initiate feat - Multiple characters took this, with extensive discussion about cantrip selection (Toll of the Dead, Thaumaturgy, Mending, Produce Flame mentioned) - Background options - Players discussed Acolyte, Entertainer, and the special "Haunted One" background available for this gothic horror campaign - Languages and proficiencies - The party collectively knows many languages including Draconic, with discussion of how proficiency bonuses work - Dice mechanics - DM explained D100 rolling and basic dice mechanics for newer players ###### Campaign Setup and Resources The DM shared information about campaign resources and previous sessions: - This campaign uses high-quality digitally remastered maps that fans created for Curse of Strahd - The group uses D&D Beyond with shared content purchased by Eric so all players can access materials - Discussion of dice collections, including loaded dice jokes and a D100 die shaped like a golf ball - Brief mentions of previous campaigns including Planescape Torment and a Star Wars homebrew ###### Initial Gameplay: Entering Barovia The Approach - The party found themselves on a road in beautiful mountains and woods, but noticed fog creeping behind them and an eerie silence (no birds or animals). The fog followed at a consistent distance, preventing retreat. The Gate - They reached massive double doors with decapitated statues, slightly ajar. Gray used Detect Magic but sensed nothing unusual. As they entered, the doors closed behind them and fog enveloped the entrance. The Village - Walking through black pools of water and muddy roads with giant trees looming overhead, they reached the outskirts of a small, lifeless village. The fog opened up to reveal a specific house. ###### Meeting Rose and Thorne Two children appeared in front of the house - Rose (age 10) and Thorne (age 7, crying and clutching a stuffed animal). They claimed: - There's a monster chained in their house basement - Their parents (Gustav and Elizabeth) have been gone for a long time - Their baby brother Walter is in the third floor nursery - They hear the monster screaming (though the party heard nothing) The party was immediately suspicious, with perception checks revealing something "off" about the children, though they appeared real. ###### Exploring the House First Floor - Grand foyer with ornate wood paneling showing vines, flowers, nymphs, and satyrs - but with serpents and skulls hidden in the designs. A longsword hung above the fireplace. Second Floor - Covered in cobwebs and ash, appearing abandoned for a long time despite the children claiming to live there. The party found: - A family portrait 50-60 years old showing parents with Rose, Thorne, and baby Walter - the children looked identical to those outside, even down to the stuffed animal - Master bedroom with rotting tiger skin rug and dusty four-poster bed - Vanity with jewelry box containing gold rings and platinum necklace with topaz pendant - Sweet floral perfume scent despite the decay The party realized something was very wrong - the house's age (50-60 years of decay) didn't match the children's appearance. The Nursery - Following the perfume scent, Iradel opened a door to find a nursery with: - Stained glass door leading to a balcony surrounded by fog - The children had disappeared from outside (only Jables' lute remained on the ground) - A single unlit lamp and a crib covered with a black shroud - Inside the crib: a baby-sized bundle wrapped in black cloth ###### The Specter Appears As Jables used their greatsword to poke the bundle, a spectral woman manifested behind the party, saying "Don't touch my baby" and preparing to attack. The session ended on this cliffhanger with initiative about to be rolled. Grace and Travis are having coffee for you guys want a water coffee or anything else? You brought your own water? Water would be amazing. Okay. Thank you. You said something about manual. You said there's a PDF version. Is it something I can just look online and download? So yes, let me, or do you have discord on that? I do not because I just don't even really use it. Easiest way and or you could probably email it to him. You can just go to adventure.vadej.com. Yes, there you go. Vadej, V-A-D-E-J. Yes. Yes. E-J. E-J. Oh, yeah, yeah, okay. And then .anythingelse.com. And that is a searchable version. So whatever you want to look up at any point, and then you can also, there's a navigation on the side and below. Yes. Yes, thank you. If you scroll down, 2024 is below it, and then there's two expansions. I know virtually nothing about how to actually play. I have watched like bits and pieces of some sessions online, and I have watched That's the example of knowledge. See, I haven't watched Stranger Things. It's funny that you're not the first person to bring that up. That was me like a year or two ago. It's also me even though I built the searchable on your handbook. That's part of why I built it. I was like, I'm going to need to be able to look stuff up. I will not know the answer. If you want to send any of those my way, feel free. I'll add them to the repository. We have a huge Dropbox. You can put a lot of this stuff on. I'll just show you the Dropbox with you. Hell yeah. Yes, yes. You said you were a paladin, yes? What is your name? That's the only thing I haven't done. I'm figuring out the name. I have an idea, but I can't figure out. I can't pin it down. Which is crazy, because it's a human. I can't get it. I can't get it. A human paladin. I know, right? Okay. The only thing I will request is if you can formulate what your character would look like. And send that to me before the end of today. I like to custom make the files and print them to be guys. It's what those two are right there as well. That is Travis in the red and that's another character in the blue. I did, there's like programs you can go on with like really awesome free records, but I did like slightly model those, which is nice. Which is very nice. Questions you have, Austin, feel free. What about me? What if I got questions? I know you'll ask me questions. Of course, of course. - It's always really fun. A bit more complex. Very, very fun. - Thank you. - You can have a lot of fun with the martial classes as well. Some of them do javelin magic. - So when I was using the D&D Beyond, it didn't have Danfyr as an option. - Yes, because that's a-- - Expansion. - Yeah. - So I just picked one that was close enough to keep my lore similar enough to feel good. You can also manually add it to kind of quests or racial bonuses you can do as well. You can drag it down on the sheet. Okay. What is that again? It's half vampire. Well, half undead. That is so appropriate. You know this guy made Curse of Stride. It's a vampire campaign. I did not know that. Actually when I just decided to go there, right? This is called cursed strut. It's one of the more well-known D&D campaigns, but it is like a gothic horror campaign a lot of fun I'm very much looking forward to it. Okay. I'm used to like running Travis knows some very kind of a Lot of campaigns tend to be linear. I have done the opposite and this one is a Very nice, because it is linear, but it also has a nice little environment that is good to roam. That's kind of what I had in my head. I just was like, I had a thing in my head, and I was like, I want to make sure that I'm thinking along the same lines. So yeah, this works great, because I've been using Gray Man and gray-related things for a lot of stuff, and it's all gray. You're going to see a lot of fucking gray in this campaign. Yeah, I just clicked on it. Twin? And you're also using Notion. I mean, I literally just... - Clicked on whatever. - Oh, oh, that's my notion. Okay, that makes way more sense. - Because everyone clicks on your stuff and says, "I have no idea what this even is." - Yes. - Yeah, so Notion's a note-taking app, but it allows you to publish stuff so that you can access it on the web. So the 2026 OCR that I did, Because Grace was kind enough to lend me her book for like a month because I kept getting distracted by other things. It was all there, like in order. And then I chunked it and then created the semantic search for that. Yeah. I just honestly like I don't even know anything about the classes that are available like I some of them like I kind of recognize but I don't know the particulars about stuff. So I can walk you through the classes very briefly. I had in my head that along with the name I tend to use things involving just like gray man is like a usual thing that I have and in my head I had it that it would be some sort of like disguising, stealthy kind of guy. Literally just, I'm gray. I fit into the background and you can't find me. You would probably, that sounds like Rogue. That was my thought. And yeah, that's like Rogue was kind of what I was thinking would be it, but I haven't looked into any of the details. Rogue is a lot of fun. Rogue is a lot of fun. In my opinion, you really can't go wrong with the anti-glasses, but like Rogue, and in particular Arcane Trickster Rogue, Like a rogue that specializes in a lot of illusion magic and especially sneaky sneakers and stuff. Yeah, that's kind of what I was thinking. Like I've literally, my thought was going along the lines of just being like, like I said, like gray, like just being able to kind of blend into the background and not be distinct. So rogue, dexterous, expert, and stealth and subterfuge. So, you know, you'll get some like sneak attack, It's been a while. So you get stuff like sneak attack, like you'll get extra damage on your like, when you're dealing damage if you're already stealthy. You get like different kinds of weapon mastery with like daggers. You guys, we'll start as level one. Which is hilarious in itself. Level one, you're kind of always one Arab to the chest away from dying. I've seen it. Oh, I've seen it. But who knows? Maybe that won't happen. Maybe I'll be just fine. I saw the health that I had. I was like... Did you have like 12? 10. I have not smoked very much today. I'm about to load a freshie. I'm trying to get rid of that. There you go. I was like, I feel like one good hit could take me out. You want to hit this? Yeah. Yeah. I'll just take it out like that. Pull the room too hard. Is there a button I have to press? I still have. There's an amount of this one. I don't know. I'm hoping to not use much more of it today and use the rest of it at the show I'm going to. But I would like to also get another couple because I've got a stacked couple of months coming up. I think I'm doing six shows in the next two months. You caught me in a lucky position because typically when I get them I use them all but I have like, I think Travis sees the cup I have on my desk of them. Um... Somebody brought some goodies? I'm really bad at finishing them. Yummy. She got snacks too. So there's snacks in the kitchen. Thank you. But I also have three ones that I haven't touched yet if you wanted any number of them. I like Snack Up Cool. And I think I still owe you money for the last couple times. I trust your judgment on that. - I told him. - I already wrote that out. - I'm pretty sure the last couple of times have also been like you've come over and you started tripping soon after. So I'm pretty sure Eddie thought of paying for things and just kind of disappeared immediately. - Exactly. - Yes, he smashes psychedelics in one piece and you forget all about the, I forget all about it too, that you smoke so much. - That's a dangerous combination for sure. - It is. Eventually Travis and I will start watching One Piece again. It's been like three weeks. I'm telling you, when y'all get to Wano, take action. I've already seen everything up to episode 850. So you're just taking him up. 12 hours. I'm crying. But we tripped in like peak Wano. So we got in weekend like peak Wano. During the fight where he beats Kaido and like actually gear 5 for the first time. Okay, that'd be pretty cool. And you get to see like the trippiest episode where he's literally dancing in the rain. Is this a whole episode? I would be pissed if I wasn't tripping on you. That was the plan the whole time. They know their place. He knows. He knows. Yeah, I've been nice to Travis. I haven't made him watch Boss Luffy or, you know, those asides. Michael never skips fillers. I remember one time I suggested it on a show that Moki and I had already watched twice. I don't remember what show it was, but it was like, he was like, I was like, it's cool, man. I'll watch it. It's fine. It's fine. You know? Just throwing it out there. Yeah, looking through... I haven't seen him in ages. I think it's definitely going to be a rogue. That's really good because Travis is healing and physical damage. You're good healing and magical damage. And then you're good... Well, rogues are a good source of utility, but you're more damage-focused than... I don't know. Did you think about the subclass? I haven't got that far back. Hey, that's level 3 code. Thank you. Yeah, I haven't done any subclass research, I'll be honest with you. You don't have to. I just, I always do. I also don't, I don't have a problem with this game. That's something I might want to think about regarding backstory, though. Stuff like that, because I can factor into things. Is one of them vengeance? Of course it is. Of course one of them is vengeance. You got any of your backstory book out? No. Well, yes and no, but no. What happened? Like, skeleton outline? General direction? I don't know. What are you? I'm just trying to get a lay of the land. Get a lay of the land. God, this blog is so huge. - You're still toying with ideas. - I definitely like the idea of doing magic along with my stuff. - He said that's fine, he said you just said I like it. - Sorry. - I would still. You're good. Your best friend will be reading. Reading and asking questions. The amount of reading I fucking do only to realize I read it wrong is astounding still after playing for like six years now. There's just so much to it, which is awesome because there's so much depth and flexibility. Exactly. There's a lot of interpretation. But it's a lot to know or find out when you need to find it out. I understand. I'm so salty because in one of our other games, I drive down to Oklahoma. Oh, sorry. No, I walked around. I could have taken it. One of my new friends... Have you met Eric? I have talked to him in Discord a couple times. So, Eric DMs a game down in Oklahoma. And he's a fucking... Sometimes I'm a fucker. I love Eric to death, but he's also... He's incurred my wrath on multiple occasions. He... It's actually my character's fault because I failed a bunch of these wisdom saving throws. I failed three actually. You only had to pass two of them. I failed all three of them. And he's like, okay, well, the enemy takes total and complete control over your body and tells you to kill your friends. And I look around at the table and I'm like, guys, you ought to put me down. Because I was the sorcerer of the party and that's just like straight. All right, bonus action fireball. Action fireball. But, uh... It was a session where we've never had everyone take apart the mechanics of every single action I was taking, because invisibility is a thing and holding your action is a thing. So he literally-- they grilled me so hard about invisibility that Eric changed how he did it in the middle of a fucking turn because of how pissed off everyone was getting. Tensions have never been that high when Eric fucking had me start putting people down. But it's like one of those things where we knew exactly how it worked, but it's just like when you really got down to the degree of it, invisibility is kind of bullshit. We have a lot of homebrew rules and things that we've established in our own tables. I won't be taking you through any of that this time, because I usually take people through at least one vanilla before I start throwing extra mechanics on top of it. He's experienced some of those. I don't mind a little homebrew if you feel it. If you're feeling frisky. I'm going to give you at least a few sessions. Normally. Yeah, right, right. I just meant, you know. In general? Yeah. Oh, yeah. Yeah. Yeah, I'm taking them all through space right now. Pretty much a homebrew space adventure campaign. That's pretty cool. That's why he's been printing me ships and stuff. It's been torture. But... *cough* The amount of work I've given myself. What's the next- should I be making another one? Yes. Okay, I'll text you later. It's not like a rush, but... Yes. *burp* Right, 'cause I pulled it. So this is... *cough* Pure white batter stuff from... Gemma? What's up, dude? Chillin'? You know it. What's up, Austin? What's up, Travis? Chillin', man. You've been doing some scrimm-scrimm with Alec? Scrimm-scrimmin'? Gotta keep him away from the Edgemen. He doesn't have an eye-mail, does he? I don't think so. When he used to joke and make the gun noise, it was his chair. Discord. That's on you. Yeah. You're gonna wanna pack it. I'll pack it. I'll put it on my shirt. Thank you. I fucking hate this word. Yeah, just for sharing stuff about this, if we're going to use it, or if we can use something else. Just saying, I'm hosting an alternative. We could use that. We could. Just throwing it out there, you know, people are open to it. All right, so I'm looking through like the or rogue traits and some of the features and stuff trying to figure stuff out about what's going on yep i was looking through it says to choose four of the skill proficiencies is that the thing so i think it's like a list so skill proficiencies choose for acrobatics athletics okay yeah so yes so you choose four out of that list and if you go to the character sheet You should see your core stats, like dexterity and all that good stuff. These skills will fall underneath them. Hopefully in your character sheet on D&D Beyond it's organized in a way that makes sense. Yeah, I was wondering if there's anything special I needed to check off on any of this, on the character preferences. Those are your rules, right, Bruce? The first page? The first page, it's like all of this stuff. That's why I stopped, because I saw this and I was like, I don't know what any of this means or what needs to be included, so... So, turn off the homebrew. Oh, I left that shit on. You're fine. It kind of just bogs it up. You want the core rules, you want the expanded rules, you want to turn that off. By the expanded rules. Legacy, non-core, yep. Nope. Yes. Are you going to resume right now? optional class features. Don't worry about the advancements. What about the origin part? Oh yeah, if you want to customize your origin, you can do that. Might as well. So the hit point time. There's two ways that you can determine technically your core stats and your hit points. In fact, I was going to talk to you guys about that too. I don't know if you've already chosen your array. So there's standard array, which is 15, 14, 13, 12, 10, 8. Or you roll. I did standard array. You did standard array. Standard array is the normal thing to do. If you're unhinged, you can sit here and roll. Do you ever do the point by system or no? No. I've thought about it, but no. I was just curious. If you want to take the average of your hit dice per level, that's the same thing. If you want to declare that every single level when you level up, you either take the average of your hit dice or you roll. One more time? So like every level, like you have how much health now? Ten. So you'll gain more health. I don't know if I should be telling the DM how much health I have. I know, I'm kidding. If you wanted to roll for your hit dice or take your average, you have to declare that when you first start. So like you can roll maximum or you can roll one. Average is what? Oh, OK. So it's face-dive and hit-dice. Which is a 1D8. So do you want to roll for your hit-dice, Austin, or do you want to take the average? Roll. That's what that means. I usually take the average. I'm average. Yeah, I'm just going to take that. Whatever makes it easier. So fixed? Yes. Fixed. Multiclass requirements? Yep. Show level scale spells? Yeah, go ahead. Use encumbrance? That won't matter for this, but yes. Ignore coin weight, yes. Modifiers, what are the options there? Scores, Tom. Oh, I think that's just the arrangement of the one there, so that's fine. And then, yeah, I can't do it. Okay, so that's fine. All right, I think that's everything on the first page. And now you should get to go. It's funny that we typically don't let people roll because our nephew Barrett has had two campaigns where he hasn't started below a 15 with one stack. That's crazy. How did he roll that high though? That's crazy. We watched him do it. We watched him do it. Those kind of roles I have to like watch you do not because I don't trust you just because yeah Oh, no. Yeah, why can't you do that cash it night rain? I don't even bring it up to me anymore. I'm going to Fucker into the night with two fucking items Two items I got that when I didn't have friends I You played an entire game and said nothing. I just noticed it when we were like going into the final boss and I was looking at all that shit and I'm like, dude's over here. You have two items and he says they all have trash stats. He's like, these are the only ones I use. He says something. Say something! But... Big boy lives. That's another game. Big boy lives. Also, like, some stats is better than no stats, even if they're trash. Is there something that... Yeah. What those proficiencies specifically are, because I've chosen some based specifically on... Do you want to read my initial flavor text while he's reading this? Did you write it? Collaboratively. Collaboratively? I don't do anything myself these days, Travis. I'm just curious, you know? It was a rough draft anyway, you know, so it's like... This is what I want put into the text. Say, I want to see what's around me. I'll make you make perception checks, and so you add higher bonuses to that. Insight is telling if someone is lying or being dishonest to you. Stealth is pretty straightforward, trying to hide, be stealthy. You said sleight of hand? Yeah, sleight of hand. That one's going to be really important. That's doing stuff like picking locks, being dexterous, robbing someone. What was another one you said? I got perception, insight, stealth, and flight. So those four would give you more proficiency in those areas. So it's pretty straightforward. Insight was the only one that we kind of fucked up at the beginning because it's like, it's your ability to like receive like lies. No notes. Where am I supposed to go? But it's actually the intelligence to discern illusions. Okay, so it's... No notes on my no notes? I'm looking for notes on how to note stuff. I've never been a note... Anything that you feel like doesn't fit with... That's not how I got that far either. No. Just going through basic stuff. I'm playing a campaign with Nicolas Cage. Yeah, this isn't that off the wall. As long as stuff isn't, you know... This is how it is because it is because it says so. Close. I'm fucking zooted. 86. - Usually like going, I think, halfway because they get a lot of very interesting stuff. - Okay. I'm just gonna cotton. - These guys are also Aasimar. They're both Aasimar, which is funny that it's in these species. It wasn't always. - How about Aasimars? - Mm-hmm. - Again, they used to be the extra. - Now they're right there. They're the first fuckin' race. - Well, AA. Yeah, yeah, Goliath. A-A-Ron. A-A-Ron. Yeah, that was the one that I had to fake. There's another A-A-Ron. Yeah, here is another one. That's what this guy is, too. That was unusual. We went in to buy Grace's laptop. She's wearing this hoodie. She's got them right now. Make your own sugar, be your own daddy, right? And all this stuff, and so... I think I've already decided that a used product would be better for her. She's an excellent person. That's for productivity. When he comes back out, dude, he's got somebody on with him. See, that might work. I haven't gone down to looking at that. I mean, I'm a good person. That's what you think. You get advantage on saves, ranks, your grades. You can move through a space-time creature that is larger than you and you are small. So almost all creatures are larger than you. Max Friedman is part of the friends group because Knightsman is. Yeah, yes, that's the Knightsman. So when you roll a 1 on a d20, you can re-roll the dice and you have to re-roll. - That man, that man is just so much more tense. - So there's like, On a D20, there's like critical failures and critical successes. When you roll the nat 20, it's kind of like you get a best case scenario kind of roll. And the nat 1 is the emphasis. So like, happens, can't, I guess critically fail. Unless you roll two nat 1s in a row. But it was like next to me, I'm like a manager. Like, hello, manager? And of course, the naturally stealthy. Take hide action even when you are scared. But they preach it. Microsite is an interesting place. Which it sounds like both of them are. 15, 20 minutes. And that also is part of it. I need to start actually just going down on this. She was doing it one by one. Do you want me to give you the number? I'm still way behind. I haven't even picked my expertise. I'm jumping around by looking at other things. Let me pick which two I want to start with expertise in. I think it's going to be stealth and sleight of hand. Maybe... I'm trying to think. I don't do stealth and perception actually. I'm going to start with that. Are you still smoking cigarettes, Charlie? Yes, ma'am. Okay, I'll get you an ashtray on that. Oh, thanks. So I need to pick one other thing. Do you need to review my character sheet to see if I missed anything or made any errors? Sure. I trust your judgment, but I would like to... You're Reddell, okay? AC-11. What kind of armor do you have? Light. Leather armor? I'm trying to think, what's your dex? It's only a plus one, okay, that action might be... Leather armor gives you 11 plus your dex modifier, so your IC should actually be 12 instead of 11. Which isn't too much higher, but every single point matters. Oh, so it didn't automatically update for that? I'm not sure. Because you might not have the armor equipped. Oh, maybe not. Because it's just in my inventory right now, I think. Yeah, certain items and armors you have to actually go and, like, toggle. That's probably what that is. That happens to the best of us. Yeah, personal favorite. You gotta have them herbs, man. Yeah, you know what? Fuck ton of languages. Yeah. Nothing wrong with that. It just kept telling me to pick languages. I was like, okay. Sure. I was gonna say, oh, you know, I'm looking between gnome and halfling. Those are both good things. I need to... Does that look right? Just enable them like that? I don't use D&D Beyond. I know you don't. But yes, it does. I have never seen that screen, but yes. If my backpack isn't checked, does that mean I don't have my backpack on? Maybe. Check it. Yes. Okay. So that only matters if we were using, like, encumbrance. It matters specifically if we were using... Because I could leave my backpack at the hotel. Yeah. And you can't, like, have... Or whatever. The inn. A full set of armor in your backpack and not be encumbered, but... But I can. Yes. No. No, you can't. You're having a bag of holding. We do that, but I don't nickel and dime you like, all right, you're at 100 pounds here. You're encumbered. Because that would fucking suck. Skyrim style? Yes. You pick up one too many flowers. We've had 100 pounds of meat on this before and none of it was questioned, so somewhat. I mean, 100 pounds of meat, you find the strength, you know? There's several people you carry. You figure it out. So now it's telling me 14 actually, Grace, instead of armor class. That makes more sense. Yes. It shouldn't be 11. I also put on my shield. Yes, yes, yes, yes, yes. Because like 11 would make more sense if you were a sorcerer. Because that's the fucking struggle. How did you get a magic initiate for you? I think that was... Acemar. It's part of your Acemar species traits? I believe so. That's fucking sick. What? You just get the cleric magic initiate? Let me double check that. What? Oh god. Acemar is more powerful than I thought. Yeah, I was looking into why people don't, like, play it as much. They gave it a lot of love in 5.5E. Apparently, it wasn't always like this. We were just kind of there. Maxis the first level spells at level one you have to level one spell to yeah, do you? Do you know you have prepared? I don't recall. It looks like you have every single spell that you would have access to at level one here. I thought I had selected some, but I may not have. Let me see if I can find that spells. You probably have a few. I can hand you the sheet back in and kind of look through them, but it's probably better for you to be able to pull up the... This is what I'm seeing on D&D. Okay, yeah. Then you do have preparers bills, yes. It doesn't show you on here, so I wanted to make sure. That's also something. I appreciate that, because Travis also said the same thing. I was like, I swear I picked them. Who did that fuck over last session? Was it... Who I wanted? Oh, did you want to see them? Since you didn't see them earlier. There we are. Their group up in... Oklahoma kept someone stable by shoving good berries up their ass. I believe it. They've gone into a magical coma, yes. They were in a coma. Oh my God. They needed to be sustained. Do you want to go ahead and pin that one into a four? I can do that. I was just planning on using, because I'm already going to have my iPad anyway. I just wanted to have something tangible with me so that I could like, Right scratch nets or whatever. Glad we did it. I can 11 ACs rough. Especially with 10 health. That extra 3 is the difference between the life and fucking death. Yes. Still just slowly going through things trying to figure out what things even are. So now I know I'm at the point where I'm choosing an origin in the D&D Beyond thing. I dig that. Did you choose between, or which one did you choose, GNOME or Capsule? I ended up going with GNOME, but that's actually number three, but I decided that because I wanted to choose my languages, and I wanted to make sure that that made sense. Second grade? Yeah. So I have no idea about that. Yeah, no, take your time. Take your time. Let me know if you got any questions. I'm thinking about just breaking down and going with Jables. Jables. Jables, my boy. Jables. What's the inspiration for Jables? It's better that you don't know, honestly. Because you do know. You've probably seen the movie. You're gonna look it up, you cheater. You cheater. - Within roughly six feet of me. - There's one under the table right here. I can probably. Not that old yet, Grace. You know, I had to offer. I had to offer. Appreciate it. Since you've looked it up, they'll also give you an idea of what he looks like. Yes. A paladin. A paladin. A paladin. I wonder if he had a name in... Hold on. And... yes, I'm going to do it. Eddie Riggs - Yeah, I like that name better. Yeah, did you ever play Brutal Legend? That sounds familiar. It was a game where the main character was voiced by Jack Black, but he was named Eddie Riggs in that game. But he looked a lot like Jack Black because he was voiced by Jack Black. And he was a dude that played guitar and swung axes and killed demons and shit. Good stuff. It's good stuff. This one's still going. You really do it though. This thing might be on its last legs. The button almost doesn't work anymore. You have to hit it in exactly the right spot and put a lot of pressure on it. Damn. I think that phone's still going too. It is. It is. - So the very top of the list that I may end up just leaving. There's a lot of good options. Good backgrounds. I think I want to do... I want to do something that ties into the magic and the gods that are related to the rooms that it talks about on the page. I want to do something related to that if I can for the background. But I can't find anything that specifically jumps out except for... So that seems kind of close. Is that living in a service of a temple, formed rights in honor of a god or pantheon, studied, or whatever, or something like that. So I feel like I was a devotee to a specific one of those gods. I don't know anything about any of them, though. The gods are pretty cool. As far as the gods of an arcane trickster, it would all depend on your alignment. Since you aren't shneevle. That's a 4.25. Love you, love. I was having a hard time figuring out how I wanted to plan some of my things and being Jack Black really helped. Being Jack Black really helped. It's good inspiration. I had to change my instrument because it was a viol and they don't have a guitar. But they have the lute, you know. It's basically old guitars. You can flavor it as an electric lute. Okay, I'm going to go with the light for my background, I guess. Excellent. What does that give you? Let's see. Nothing. I did these boys a solid because I went entertainer. So in long rests and short rests, I can use my musical instrument to play a song and give a number of allies up to my proficiency heroic inspiration. That's really it. And since I'm a human, I can give myself heroic inspiration. Don't gotta rely on you to give me inspiration. I'm kidding because I won't be you. No, I know. I don't even hate it, you know? Because every now and then you get it, and then it's like, I did something. I did something. So it looks like I get one choice. It gives me religion, and then I get one other choice. And it gives me a bunch of stuff. I see Arcana listed on there, and I think I want that based on a lot of the magic stuff that I want to do. I want to give myself as good of a chance of... - Yeah, more jerk stuff. - Yeah, religious and our final would be two very good ones and interesting ones. I've run especially in aesthetic. - And it gives me magic initiative as a feat. - I also should tell you guys that you have access to one, I don't know if it's gonna give you access to this is, there's like a special background called the haunted. I'm probably not going to dab, no offense to that. I will dab, I will dab. Sunset OG or Green Crab? Or Green Crab? Yeah. I like both of those. I don't know, what are you feeling? What are you... Oh, there's a little bit of both in there already. I've got this in my hand, so I guess I'll just go with this one. That's what that puts in your hand. It's the Sunset OG. Oh, yeah. This one's a more... Yeah, the only reason I'm saying no is because I have to work when I get home. Somewhat functional. - Particularly slow in my setup today. - How dare you. - Background. - So that's a cool background. - Is that haunted? - The internet's a scary place. Haunted one, I think might help you out. - Yes. - No. - Yes. You want to share with the class? I'll find a better place to read it, Fred. Spelled out one, O-N-E? Yeah. Because I don't want to just read the AI overview out and then say I have a bunch of shit that's wrong across three different versions. I actually have it right here. So essentially your background is unique. You're haunted by something so terrible you dare not speak of it. You try to bury it and run away with no avail. So essentially it gives you a little bit more gothic flavor to this gothic war campaign. You choose one out of Arcana Investigation, Religion, Survival, one Exotic Language, a Monster Hunters Pack, which is a unique equipment, one Trinket of Special Significance. So what the Monster Hunters Pack is a chest, a crowbar, a hammer, three wooden stakes, a holy symbol, a flask of holy water, a set of manacles, a steel mirror, a flask of oil, and tender rocks and their treasures. Yes. Wooden Stakes. It doesn't say much. And Woolly Water. This is a vampire entertainment. I know. That was my problem. I don't know if Strahd goes to 20. I don't want to find out before I play it. But the two oaths I was between. It's Vengeance. Which is awesome. And then I forget the other one. It's Wrath or something. But at level 20 your aura... Produces sunlight Which is pretty handy around vampires. You want me to tell you? No, I don't want you to tell me. That's the problem. Is that the problem? Uh-huh. I could have already looked it up. Is that in some facet? Well, I have plans. They differ. What edition is that background? I'm just curious. It's 5E, so you might actually have to go back to your character sheet and re-click the 5E and list the content. I'm not planning on using it. I was just wanting to read it. Yeah, no, it's there, though. Cool. I actually left everything selected when I was doing that. I was like, oh, this is, I assumed it was your rules. And I was like, cool, she's already pre-populated. It's also because I think Eric is bot. This is Eric's, like... campaign because we give him money to buy because these stupid greedy motherfuckers like even if you buy the books you have to buy to access the content of your character sheets like on dnd beyond you have to buy it like visually as well because they just want your money and they suck so we like we've given him money to buy a bunch of the shit so that when we do these campaigns he goes to the mail all the content available to everybody that's pretty nifty dnd beyond yeah I was trying to make a character builder. I didn't have to use it, but it did not get finished in time. I tried to use the one that Travis gave me, but I had a little bit of difficult time getting the scripts to run. I just didn't have time to fiddle with it. for sure next time okay i have no idea what mine is definitely had this one and when i chose the arcana part and now it's like underneath that magic initiate stuff i just don't know what any of this is trying to tell me I've tried, like, I can't even find quick Google that explains that well enough. So, the two cantrips? Yeah, what is a cantrip? So, a cantrip is essentially an at-will spell. So, come down here and you'll be able to actually choose these cantrips. Okay, I also tried looking for these and I don't know where to find just a nice easy list of those exact ones. So... Do I just search them individually in the list here, I guess? It should be right... There. So are you at just on D&D Beyond? Yeah, do I just have to search them individually? That's kind of annoying. It'd be nice to just like have that explain each of these here. It's not designed for beginners. Oh, does it actually? Okay, yeah. It's just that's a lot of clicking. I'm one of those people, I prefer less clicking if I can. If you were... It's going to take a while for me to go through all these and figure everything out. But I've been looking through... I'm trying to look through a bunch of reading stuff that end up not being part of the show, so it's not relevant to what I'm looking at here. you Let me know if you got any questions. It isn't, unfortunately, the most beginner-friendly website. It is not. It is not. What's the future to you and the cricket? Light on yours as well, which is a good one. Yeah, light, produce flame, sacred flame, spare the dying, and thorn wood. Those are good ones. It sucks because if you were the cleric, you would have a list of all your cantrips and be able to read what they are. You had the option of preparing the cantrips and shit like that, which sucks. They don't give you that when you take it through an origin feed. Bastards. At least a lot of the cantrips are pretty self-explanatory. That just sounds nasty. Toll of the Dead. Toll of the Dead. That one is good. D12, 30 damage, which is a lot of damage for a cantrip. Oh, cool. That works with what I want as well, the Thaumaturgy. It's basically just like distraction illusion kind of thing. What fighting style do you normally take for Paladin, or do you normally just do Blessed Warrior? I've never been a Okay. I have looked at it though. The idea of bending down. Mending is funny. Very, very good in a lot of situations. Because I'm trying to be sneaky and I feel like that could be extremely useful for sneaking. So I might actually not use the pull of the dead. I might skip that one. I might do mending and amateur duty. I think you get mage hand as well by default whenever you become an arcane trickster. Yeah, I haven't gotten to choosing the specifics of that yet. We'll get there. Yeah. We'll get there. So... You don't have a PDF online anyway, do you? It's on the next slide. I can send you the link. - The player's handbook? - Mm-hmm. - What do you wanna know? - It's just easier looking up spell lists, you know, when, and-- - At least they do a way better job in this player's handbook and they have the spells you would know next to the character, whereas in the last one they were all like bunched in the back. Pelton's spell list is 112. - Oh no, it's just, uh. Not the paladin spells that I'm looking for, sadly. Really? Yeah. You only get level 5 as a paladin? Shit. They do paladins dirty in a couple of ways. You don't get 8 cantrips. I know. That's part of why they suggest going Blessed Warrior, which is a fighting style. They only offer paladins, and it's because you get to use 2 cleric cantrips. If you do that, then all three of you will have cleric cantrips. Which is funny. It is. It's strange. The Cleric Magic Initiate? Um, yeah. Strange. Good, but strange. Even on these fucking wikis, they only... Paul's going to take Detective Magic. Only got half of them fucking explained. That one's good. That one's funny. Do you get level one spells? Or do you get spells? I get one with the magic initiate. It's two punches, one level one spell. Hilarious. free type option. So there is. Stop right there. Trying to decide between Garl Glittergold or Fire of Arklow's Shadow being like the god that I follow. I will 100% fix that. Yeah, Oath of Devotion was the other one that I was thinking of. Because at level 20, you can imbue your aura with holy power, granting the benefits below for 10 minutes, yada yada. But of those, one of them is a holy ward. It also does radiant damage, and the aura is filled with bright light that is sunlight. Bright light! It'd be cool to walk into a bunch of vampires and be like, "Right, right." Oh-ho! It'd be ironic to, uh... be a worshipper of... gargoyle glitter gold as a person known as Grey. Maybe that's why I'm not still in the, uh... still in the monastery or whatever. Or town board or whatever it is. Thank you. What is your character's name, Joe? Actually, no, I saw him. Iridel. I need to get like tiny little, hello, my name is blank cards for the table. Oh yeah, I actually really like this because a lot of the description makes it extremely ironic for... I'm gonna be kind of like... dead cam a little bit as well. I'm just gonna go all out on the gray thing. And a lot of Garg Littergold's thing is about wit and jokes and... There's a whole ritual on the 13th of the month where they hold a communion of laughter and everything. So I think I'm a four. I like that. I like that. It kicked me out because I couldn't remember. They kicked me out for being too great. I'm going to make painting a mini very easy. I'm going to go with modest because that's the middle option. Just leave your mini like several tones of gray. - Gray and maybe some white here and there for things, yeah. - That would be hilarious. That would be hilarious. - I'm a gnome, so how tall should I be? What's average you're gonna be? - I mean, when I was reading about halfling, you were small and that's two to three feet tall. So. - Between three and four feet, so I'm gonna be exactly three and a half feet tall. Three and a half goddamn feet tall. How tall are you as an ASMR? Six feet tall? I'm shorty. Five two. Really? Yeah. I'm going like a, you know, was never accepted type. So kind of like. Off the beaten... You're like the black sheep kind of ASMR. Right. You might have a tall party. No, because Jack Black is a tall guy. All the good, all the better for... Is this about to be a short gig? Oh. I didn't say he was short. I said he wasn't tall. I just made the connection. Jack Black, tables. That's his name in the pick of destiny. Yeah. I don't know why I didn't think of that when you said it the first time. I also was like, oh. I knew what this was. The drugs were getting to me. I was too sober. That was my problem. The bong started waking you up to it. The bong of destiny. The bong of destiny. So if I considered an adult at around age 40, if I considered an old breast at 150, - It should be like what? I listen 23, but that's aesthetically It's a lot of aging Like 170 years or something like that. 160 years. And if you fail to save, it ages you up until like a week. Until you naturally die. That's crazy. I remember he only was saved by the fact that his character was immune to aging. That was Amelia. Was it Amelia? That was Amelia. Amelia got saved by that. Because Amelia, as a high-level druid, you can give yourself immunity to things that would alter your form and age you forcibly. Brian, no. Oh no. That's right. Brian didn't have that bonus. That's right. He was a bard. And in that instance, he gives you a lot of debuffs. A lot. I mean... Age is just a number until... Until it's a week before your death. So it's giving me a section for the personality characters. I imagine you had that cast on you and you did the change. Oh my god. - Yeah, okay. - That's a really good point. - Which I think I'm actually gonna do a little bit in there. I just wanted to make sure it wasn't like a specific mechanic or anything, so it's just, you know, spot on. - I forget what that spell's called, but whenever it's, like when someone fails, they should almost have to roll a D-100 to see if their character, like, unbeknownst to them, naturally had D&D brain cancer and was gonna die in a month or so anyway, you know? - Oh no. You know what I'm saying? Because it's like natural death. It's specified. That is a natural death. Brain cancer is you killing yourself. Brain cancer. No. Brain cancer is going to be no. You can get a player's brain cancer and use you. Bye-bye, Dom. There's always new things that we're discovering when we're playing. Like people asking if they have brain cancer. You know, like we're discussing mechanics I've never even considered all the time. All the time. I remember reading it, but how do you roll a D100? I have a D100. Oh, you actually have one? Yeah. Okay. I'll show you. I do. And you can also roll. Do you guys have dice? I have some. Yeah. Mmm, dude. Richard brought me my glasses, which I'll wear them. I definitely didn't AI generate that. No. I would say... There's two 10s. Definitely AI generate that, but... So, like, that would have been a 17. Okay. That's what I thought, because... Yeah, so one is the 10s. Yeah, and then to get a 100 would have to be... Do you have that, Austin? Maybe? Good news? I believe so. Yeah, yeah. That would make sense. Probably not the kind that I need. I need to dig around. I have a bunch of random dice that I got with. Good news. I have a bunch of dice that you can use. Yeah, because you can't get a zero. I'll show you guys. I'll show you guys. Could you imagine? Oh, my God. I'd have already rolled it. I wouldn't have to imagine. You'd live in it. Choose from any of those guys if you want some early guys. These things have been waiting so long to be used. Those D4s just ask to be stepped on. You know what I mean? We'll take you with it. I know. They're like the Legos? Scoot over. Those are fucking caltrops with numbers. Without a doubt. I only have a few guys. I just got this bag. I will let you gaze upon the dice that will determine your fate. Where's your big old de hundo? It's pretty crazy. It is. It really is. It's just a bolt. In fact, I'll show you the newest set I got. The fact that it's all flat sides is crazy to me. When it stops, you have to like look. Yeah. Bring out the like compass. I've seen it roll a hundo though. It's cut from a gemstone. It's a... I gaze upon it. It's loaded. I think someone did witness it roll. No, it was my other new set of dice. Also, pink is shady. But it rolled two nat 20s back to back. And then I picked it up and I rolled a nat 20. And then they were questioning me whether it's loaded. I'm like, it's not loaded. It's a piece of shit. Loaded with good vibes. Exactly. It rolls exactly what it needs to roll. I'm sure you all come to acquire mini dice. This is the way. That's crazy. That's insane. I'm sure you guys know. Oh yeah, this is the one. The glitter ones? Yeah. All the glitter. That one is the next one. I don't know if you've seen that one, but... I'm just kidding, it's not the coffee dice. No. Coffee dice? Yeah, she's got coffee dice. Yeah, I have... These are my pink dice, and I have an entire, like, five sets of coffee pink dice. All loaded, you know? Those are the ones. Every single one of them. I've been asked not to use them. I'll bust them out whenever I want to, but I like looking at the pink ones, which-- Yeah. I know, I just finally finished filling out all of the stuff on the background. I wanted to write down my notes on stuff in there too, in case I don't have this laptop with me, my other notes on it when I come back. Yep. Notes, notes, notes. I need to be better about taking notes as a player. I'm the worst. The worst. I have a ton of notes actually from my other campaign because I've been trying to get better about it. There's just always someone else going to write it down, and then you get really high, and you're like, oh, I haven't been writing anything down. But first off, I think this is Tracon, you know, which I still have to give you some stuff for him, but it's okay. It's okay, we'll worry about that later. That's Lorde. That's other campaigns. I'm gonna be totally honest, I'm not entirely certain what I should be doing right now. In terms of what? Engaging with the... Oh, and you did all the stuff that I do now already, so... You're doing good. The session zero is normally at least... Someone's normally at least making the character from scratch. Yes. Yes. But I'm pretty sure Austin's not too far from being done yet. You've chosen class, race, most of your background stuff. You're Stata Ray? All that's really left is abilities and equipment. There you go. And then-- You've made the hard choices. It's just chores now. And then if y'all want to decide whether or not you guys have like a-- or tell me how you guys met each other, because you would be in a scenario where you would know each other. You would be relatively familiar with each other. And then I'll give you more context when we actually begin. I'm gonna know a lot of languages. It seems like you're not the only one who's gonna know a lot of fucking languages out here. Cause y'all know languages. We're just gonna be able to talk to everyone. I'm the only one who doesn't know that many languages. It's fine. You speak the third most Italian. I don't speak any Italian. Like I said. Nice. Nice. Small people. Racist. Gotta love that movie. You know it's about time to rewatch it. Seems like every couple years, you know? Who knew? I do have one language y'all don't know. I got Draconic. I have Draconic. You have Draconic? You have Dwarvish? No. Get out of here. Get out of here. I wasn't the language that I thought. 14, 13, 14, 8. Let me see if I can find that list real quick. Your dex is your highest. What's going to be your most important step? Grace was making fun of my notes from the last campaign. Was I? Yeah, you were making fun of my drawings. You don't remember making fun of it? I don't. I remember. I remember. Lord. I usually never have constitution as a low stat, because whenever you make those rolls, it's usually... - Pretty fucking important. - So can you just pick whatever number out of those numbers? - Yeah. - Yeah, and you just assign them to whatever you want instead of rolling. - So I want to make sure you get the highest, yeah. - It should automatically-- - I wanna be very intelligent too. I want my guy to be like really smart, but just like deadpan, zero emotion, what kind of deal? - We all look too dead. - Constitution, what is constitution? Your ability to withstand things like... Okay, so that's like basically endurance. And it determines your health score in a way. Well, on the time of the little thing. Unfortunately, it's not going to be very high. What about wisdom? It's like your perception. I think I'm not going to have very much charisma. Where is languages on the character sheet? For me, it's up here. Under proficiencies, okay. Keywords should be similar at least. What do you think of this? Does it make sense? I want to be... You've got a paladin in the party, so you've got someone with high charisma. As long as your constitution doesn't have a negative modifier, you're fine. Charisma, it sounds like your buddies will have that in check, so that's good. There it is. And there, the opportunities later on for you to add more points into these stats. You said dwarvish, right? That's when I said no? Yeah. But you still have the opportunity to roll decently, but you'll... I mean, it makes sense. Decent selection? I think some of those are granted to me. Basically not really any equity in there. Just kind of like race class. I know the... I can always speak to animals, right? In a way, it fits into the gray thing because you just completely... He's very blank in every way possible. So that adds to that as well. So that kind of... That's going to have zero charisma. He's the kind of guy that like when you've got... - Yeah, the dramatic. - Yeah, I'm gonna love that. But definitely, I love the role play. - That's a nice equipment. DC-15 would be what? If you're... If you roll... Huh? It's, um... Others can spot the hidden message that druids can leave in druidic with a successful DC-15 intelligence investigation check. So, over here, under this... I forget what the... Under the skills category, the investigation... goes off of your intelligence bonus see my hands eight because i'm you know paladin so i got a minus one to it and i'm also not proficient in it so i don't get to add my proficiency bonus so like if i rolled for it boom i'd have just got a three because you get minus one to roll but i get plus one to my roll there right yeah Exactly. And then so like if you're proficient in it as well, you add your proficiency bonus. Which our proficiency bonus is two at level one. It'll go up as we level. I forget what it is. If you are, you can be doubly proficient in something. It's like called an expert in it instead of proficient. And you get double proficiency bonus. And that's one that, yeah. So when you say if you have a proficiency... That little button as we go. The filled in bullet point. Oh, okay, okay. That's why those are plus five and plus three. That's because it's automatically adding this one. Right. Okay. So I just get the plus one because of my int, because I'm not proficient at it. And I get minus. And I get minus on it. Nothing? Nothing? You'll have an eight and something. Strength. That doesn't apply to anything. Athletics. Oh, athletics. Yeah, it's minus one. And there's going to be one more. I only see one. Is it just athletics? It is. It is just athletics. Because acrobatics is dense. Strength is the only one that has just one. Carry me, senpai. That's better than my one though. This is my second highest stat. My strength and my con are both 14. I want wisdom for my highest. Yeah, my charisma is at 17 right now. Mine's at 10, so. So we can talk to anyone, but you are convincing them. They love the Jack Black. I don't know what this guy's saying, but I like it. *cough* So I got my character sheet totally put together, but now... I'm not going to be chaotic good. Because I have to be good. It doesn't work out well. Yeah, I want chaotic good. Or just chose it. Yeah, you're good. That makes us a good pair. And I don't think I could make J.B.'s waffle. That doesn't work. No. I can't rip the bottom of the rest of your waffle. Listen, sometimes the law isn't what's deetic. Right, exactly. Is that our common string? Is that we just, none of us actually believe in the law? Is that what you want to say? You are whatever you say you are, right? Well, and then, so, like, you, you, you have, what's your cleric, don't you have, you have magic initiated from being a celestial, that's what it is. And then... Are you still taking the Acolyte background? Yeah. That actually begs the question, so if I did want to, like, just, you know, like, slap Dampier on this, is it replacing Acemer? Because Acemer is a humanoid, so they could be caught between life and death. Damn period. Exactly. I'll pull it up for you. They were in the Van Richten's Guide to Ravenclaw. We just burped. Cash, I'll fix it. ...arise from encounters with vampires, all manners of recovery, bargains, necromantic influences, encounters with serious immortals, might have changed the character of the board and the tables of justice. I guess since it's five and a half. Oh my god. This is funnily enough, like, you've picked something that's going to be really interesting in this campaign. And yes. Yes, I can just laugh about it. I can be both. Dampir ASMR. You could. What benefits are you getting from Dampir? Dampir has Spider Walk. I have the notes. You can, for flavor-wise, be both, but as far as the benefits you gain from that race, you have to pick one. If you want to gain the dampier benefits or the ASMR benefits. But you can be flavor-wise and dampier and ASMR, because I think that's hilarious. Because if the dampier is spider climb, the dampier is bite. Yeah. Probably would want to stick with ASMR. The move speed though. Can I get the move speed? No. But I'm a half vampire. You are, but you're also a half celestial. Okay. Which gives you the ability to naturally heal, right? Can we divide the difference? No. Bargaining? Bargaining? powerful in their own way. Can't blame a guy for trying. You can always do that. I did go into my inventory on the page and put things so that they're actually, like, effective. Yeah, excellent. And now when you go back to your main page, you should see your AC be what it needs to be. And then your weapons should appear as your, like, actions. So you can, like, look at them right there instead of having to go to your sheet in the back. Although you will be navigating all over that sheet. So does anyone have any other character related questions? It is 7:42. I do have things prepared. We want to go ahead and hop right in if everyone's ready to do a little bit of intro stuff. I do have an intro that will take you guys to three before going into the campaign at large. Oh, fucking Christ. I'm dying, that is. Ew. What if I did die? Would I then be more undead and therefore have... Because technically, how do you kill an undead? You would no longer be undead, you would be dead dead. That's how you kill an undead. We need to pick a couple of different kinds of anything. D20s are important. You'll need a D20, a D12, two D10s, which you'll look for the ones that have like a zero or like two digits and then one digit. And that'll be your D100, your good old D6s, D8s, and then D4s. That should have pretty much all of them in there. Yeah, I just have no idea what I should do. I don't use dice for anything. So if you pour them all out, I'll walk you through them. Oh, yeah. So you said... Yeah, in fact, there's going to be one that looks like this that has two digits on there. Like a zero in it or another. 12. So when you roll these two together, that is the same as rolling that golf ball that you saw. And then there's your B20. That's your bread and butter. D12, the next smallest one. You roll this for damage more often. Like a train. - I didn't even miss your set. - Oh yeah. The white ones? - Yeah, the white and the gold. - Yeah, that's funny. I have another, I have a Zach set in here that's white and gold. You might be able to find a bunch of white and gold in there, right? Or in here? - Yeah, I'm looking this way. I like this one. Oh, you might have a deep voice. What all do I need again? Sorry. Uh, D12. D20. You got two D20s, which is good. You'll need to roll quite a few of those. You need one more of these bad boys, and then a D8. I'll just take this one with the zeros on it. Yeah. And you said a D8? D8. Thank you. So many guys, so little time. That was awesome, Ari, actually. Because it's a, it's like a coffee dice. Because I bought like a cream and sugar dice and one of them is like the white dice with gold and the other one is brown. It's amazing. It's an amazing dice. I'll use this one. Yeah. Do you like that set? This will work. I think there's a whole set of like the suspended skull. That is pretty cool. It's a little hard to read though. Trust me, once you get the bug, you'll be buying some dice. There's so many cool fucking dice out there. It's crazy. That covers all of it except for the regular ear. Yeah. There you go. Yeah, I'll just use this little set. I guess I've got one cover. It's funny, these ones glow in the dark. Would you be rolling dice in the dark? I'm not happy yet. If you're using black dice, that would be a good game to wear. It would make sense. If you're rolling the dark stuff, you'd be carrying a black dice. Mm-hmm, mm-hmm, mm-hmm. That's Tearsprite, by the way. Take a look. You guys take a look through my... I don't know if I should move my laptop on there. It might be too heavy. Yeah, we'll have food pretty much every time. I'm going to sit now. Every week. Finally done getting through the character stuff. Are we doing every week? We're doing every other week? Bride play... I just figured it was a good time to double check the plan. I thought it was every other time. Yeah, yeah. Would I play every Easter campaign? Yes, but that is a very quiet time for me. I know we had to do it at 6 today because Easter stuff, but if we need to do it earlier or a different time. Typically we start at 2. How does that work for everybody? That works perfectly. I don't know if I can do 2. Okay, I know you can't do that. I know you can't do that. 13. 13? Rookie numbers. For a rogue, it's not bad. No, for a rogue. No, for the first time in my life, I'm starting off with a high AC. I know. I know. My sorcerer right now has a 19 AC, but it's the first time I've, like, multi-classed a draconic fucking sorcerer with a warlock. A warlock. It's pretty fucking... It's pretty nice. Oh, menace. Detect magic, speak with animals. Gnome-ish lineage. You can also speak with animals. That's fine. I think you can too. He's a gnome. What's his charisma? About me? Low. What's his worst stab? That's exactly what I described. Nine. Nine. So really, we throw you in first with the three-leafed Italian. He's intelligent and dexterous. Butter them up. And then we can explain what you want. That's what it is. I always have strength as my dumb step. - It's basically a Jack Black movie. - 100%. - The whole deal behind my character is that he's gray. The whole thing about him is gray. He's vittled the ground completely and everything. No empathy, not really, no sense of humor. Deadpan pretty much the whole time, everything that happens to him. Basically, if he's got his arm chopped off, he's like, "Shit." Completely deadpan, that's it. Which makes it even funnier that he was a follower of Carl Glittergold, the whole laughing gnome god. Which is why he got kicked out of this tournament. That looks good. That looks good. All right. I guess for right now we can use these three minis as y'all. This is just catching the start. No, no, no, no, no. She's like, all this work. I'm just going to wipe you today anyway. You're going to start all over. We'll see. I might not. I might not. She's going to try it. I'm going to try it. Have I killed you yet, Travis? I don't want to answer that question. I disintegrated him at least once. Yeah, but you had to kill everybody. I was about to say you were planned to die, so I don't count that. Like, what's it gonna do? It's going to stop the inevitable march of time. Maybe. That'd be cool. How's your relationship with your deity right now? I don't know. I don't have an oath yet. This is our starting map. I wonder what apps she uses to make her maps. Do what? I wonder what apps she uses to make her maps. It depends. Because some of them are just pictures and such. But then I know for one of the dungeons we did, there was actually like Someone had made the dungeon in a fucking other viewer and it was all 3D and everything. It was insane. Actually, it was this dungeon. Because I had to draw parts of the map for it. These are all just, this was the big ass room. As it is. Athlete's names. Are those like to scale? No. Guestimate. It started on grid paper, so it was all in my head to grid paper scale. It's entirely reasonable. As long as you can, you know, visualize it too. I was gonna eventually-- I was asking Travis, but since you're back, how do you-- where do you usually get your maps? Um, there's a lot of places. Oftentimes when I'm doing like-- when I'm reading stuff, I'll screenshot and use the maps. I've made my own maps, um, on like different kinds of websites that let you generate it and like actually do a lot of cool stuff. There's one called Ink Permanent. It has a lot of really awesome, really artsy tools that let you make some really cool maps. These ones in particular, when I was looking up Curse of Strahd, people liked this campaign so much that someone took the time to digitally remaster pretty much every single encounter and every single map. So these are going to be some really high quality maps you're about to see here. They were a delight to find. It took a considerable amount of time to download them all. If I share the Dropbox with you, you'll be able to see all of them. Now that's part of the reason why I'm so excited about this too, because there's a lot of really large castles and stuff you'll be able to go through later on, and each room is just like done very, very quickly. That's why I said it depends. I didn't have the in-depth though. That gave me enough surface knowledge to know that I wanted to know more. There's a few websites that I subscribe to that had like animated maps and stuff like that. And I subscribed for a month and downloaded over like 6,000 maps. You didn't just set up the... Put them on the Dropbox and I subscribed. It's the strat. It was $50 a month, but they were so... They're just counting on the ten people that are not willing to do that, or, you know, and then the two people that don't, you know, don't care about the money. In fact, if we're being honest, I got high and forgot, so they got it two times. Like, ah, dang, I double paid you. And you got what I wanted. Well, like, maybe in a year they have a bunch more. They're developing an entire, like, sci-fi futuristic style of maps, which... I might go ahead and download and get, because Eric wants to do another Star Wars campaign. Star Wars campaign? Yeah, it was one of the first campaigns Eric ever DMed. It was like an entire homebrew Star Wars campaign. It was so amazing. It was really so amazing. Why don't you guys get further and we're caught up. We should do a one piece. One piece? We tried to do a One Piece campaign, kind of. It was one of my first ones and I did it poorly. But it was a One Piece and I have been wanting to do another one. I want it to be over so I don't... Hey, she wants it to be over. The show, goddammit. I know. It'll happen. It's getting closer. It's accelerating. You should see the latest chapter. In fact, if you don't mind being spoiled, I might show you a screenshot of the latest chapter. I know you guys, it won't make any difference to you guys. There's so much of that show I haven't seen. There's so much of that show I have. 800 is a considerable amount. Twice what I've seen. And then you're at like a thousand. Not quite. Pretty much a thousand. Workforce 70 or something like that. So little time. Or so much time, depending on... Close to half. Well, that room should be here today. Closer to half than not. Oh. Anime for Elbaf, I'm pushing, started this weekend. There's one episode now. Shit. So, next time we get together to watch Church of the Lost, I'll have it. One piece to watch again. We have a single episode. It's called like-- 40 minutes or something like that, I think, for JoJo. Have you heard? It's like a two part series. What was the one I told you about last night, Travis? It was "Damons of the Shadow Realms." It's the creator of FMA. And he made a-- like the manga of this thing just celebrated its five years. And it's their first episode out. And it looks dank. It looks really gory. Highly recommended. OK. What was it? It was called Daemons of the Shadow. Of like the Linux statement? Mm-hmm. Yes. *Dramatic music* *Mutual Duel* - I understand. The monsters, the Yuma, the Iggy, the Slither. They are your servants. I do also have to say that whole time I was watching that I was also musing about the fact that for the first time in probably a long time I was in a room full of people that responded immediately to my Linux analogy. This is where we're starting? So, not quite actually. I need to pull up another map. Okay. Because y'all aren't quite there yet. I'm probably going to grab a quick smoke of Rito. That's okay. Yes. If anyone wants to get any food or drink or do anything before we begin. Absolutely. Take your time. And then we'll dive in and play as much as you are able, jogging. Well, we should have a decent amount of time, because it's only 8. Yeah, probably an hour or so. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Let's get something. - Bro. I forget. Yeah. I get too high again. You said there were a couple of pens I could use. Yeah, I'll look at them. See which ones you want. I'm excited for next week. I'm going to check out that new control room place. I'm going to see 1991. She and me are out fucking the game. I'm excited to try out the new place. They have like open call for DJs on their website and I don't think I'm quite there yet. If this was like a year from now, it would be the perfect time and I would absolutely throw my name in, but I'm not quite there yet. Sorry, just two of them. That's perfect. Two is actually what I was hoping to do. Nice. That's the style, the one I'm using right now, and that's the one you're familiar with. Yeah. And... Thank you for those two and for How did I do it last time? Did I do Zelle? Do you have Zelle? I do have Zelle. Zelle? Okay. So then I definitely did Zelle last time. Oh, yeah. You are in my list of donations. So I owe you for two and then... What? Two because I think I also owe you for the previous time for one. I think the two previous times I've had one from you and not. I trust you, Jensen. I'm almost certain, in any case. So four is not much. How much for one? 40. 40? I need to do math with the calculator. I don't trust high brain to do basic arithmetic that I hated in elementary school. I'm almost certain that I actually have a little bit of dyscalculia actually. My nephews make fun of me for liking math. I like the logic part of stuff. I liked a lot of algebra stuff, but sometimes things got a little bit jumbled. But I always hated the basic multiplication stuff because My brain would always like jumble up some of them, like I just couldn't quite keep it straight. And I'm thinking back, I'm almost certain there's a little bit of dyscalculia there because I also have trouble remembering longer numbers of any kind. It's very possible. Thank you. Which row takes us to level 3? We will. If we survive. Yes, but is it prerecorded? Is it prerecorded? And who knows? I have the utmost faith in you guys. You know, I've been told that before. Have you? Have you? And then I was turned into a pile of ash. You were incinerated? I was disintegrated. Thank you very much. Oh! It was a ray of sort. But you were one of the ones incinerated. I was the only one not incinerated. There you go. That says something. I saw them all get incinerated. Yeah, the last campaign before this with Derek, Amelia, and Troy, it was very mean early because it spawns you in the basement of a mortuary. And like you literally, if you go straight down the hallway, the next hallway is an incinerator room. Designed if you step in there, there's a zombie on the other side that's going to come and he pulls a lever and he closes the doors and he pulls another lever and he incinerates you. It's just his job. That's so fucked up. It is literally his job, and he has a little nameplate that says Carl on it or something. And you have pretty much 10 seconds. You have one action to try to not have that happen. None of them except Travis was able to save themselves. I tried to save him. You did. But that was a really fun first session. About five minutes in, all of them... It was like, alright, so now bring out your other characters. Cause we all had three ready to go. I did have them correctly. Cause you figured that might happen. It's a unique campaign. You kinda cycle between the three if you die. Yeah, like you're caught like a cosmic fracture that prevents you from truly dying. You just reincarnate as another version of yourself. Interesting, okay. And then later on you like figure out what's happening and you're able to like become your true self and like gain a bunch of levels and then you can die. Okay. Interesting. Yeah, that last campaign I did was called Planescape Torment. It was kind of like a multiverse of madness kind of thing because you were in this wacky fucking spot that was like whirling all over the place. It's like a gate world. Yeah. Are you serious to see the One Piece spoiler from the current manga page? No, no. This is just giving you a hint of what we're looking at for the end of Elbaf. Wow, he doesn't look stupid. Devil? So he just turns into the devil. That's some really good shit right there. Wow. Yeah, pretty cool. Are they about to face off? Unknown exactly what's about to happen. Just showed up. But uh... Loki has... There's some crazy shit going on. I can't wait to watch it. There's a lot of shit. You might want to learn a little bit more about the people with the horns, like why some giants have the horns and why the ancient giants were gigantic and everything. You might want to learn a little bit more about that kind of stuff. There's a lot of really awesome shit. I'm excited. I'm excited. And I know they're going to do it justice when they animate it. They've been doing so much really, really awesome stuff. I'm not sure. So is everyone ready? Got their character sheets good? We have Gray Man. Just gray. Gray? Yeah, just gray. With an E. With an E? Yeah, with an E. You want me to tell you what it starts with? Yes. An I. Ear. Ear Dell? Yep. And then... Yes. Gray, Iridel, and James. At least that's not too many names. I've had to remember up to five names poorly. I gave you an easy one this time, too. So you guys would be adventuring around. I don't know if you... I don't want to describe how you would meet each other or how you would know each other, but you guys do know each other. I don't know if anyone wants to bullshit anything right now. We all know each other. You at least wouldn't be strangers. A human, a damn pure ASMR? Are you both? Well, yeah. Flavor. I'm a gnome. You're a gnome? Yeah. I'm literally a grayscale colored gnome. A grayscale colored gnome. A gnome that goes by the name Gray. And I'm a charismatic as fuck paladin. I think I'm probably going to be like, The weird pet follow along guy that you guys just kind of picked up because I don't really care what's going on and you guys were somehow protecting me long enough or keeping me alive long enough to do shit. Cause who was your, uh, the god or whatever that you were? It was, um, let me go back to him. His name is Garl Glittergold. He's a joker, holds special dominion over luck protection and trickery. So it defends its people in battle. Okay. A lot of out-thinking. Generally prefers peaceful and friendly manner of living, encourages cooperation, blah, blah, and has friendly relations with other gods who are kind of aligned with his. Basically just tricks and illusions, that kind of thing, quick thinking. And what was your involvement? I was kind of growing up in a temple that worshipped him. And because of my... deadpan literal great nature. - The temple was like-- - I got, yeah, they were like, yeah, get out. You can't even laugh, they have like every month, 'cause every month on the 13th, there's the whole like communion of laughter thing where they get together and they're like reveling in that jumps and laugh. And I'm over there like, they're jumping around, dancing, laughing, and I'm just like-- - Jables keeps this guy around 'cause he wants to try and make him laugh, is what's-- - Well, and actually, and what's funny, my goal is to be able to actually like Learn how to laugh and be so that I can actually go back to my temple. That's it So that actually works, okay that works Literally you picked me up in some bar because I was there alone like basically like out of money because I don't have Yeah, basically don't show any value to anyone That works not sure how you came along to that picture though But we at least have an origin vampire celestial sort of outcast I think probably I'm just heading the same direction that you are we happen to meet at a tavern and you didn't hate me yeah and I'm still deadpan that it literally didn't matter to me so it's like kind of nice to not be that might be it yeah You saw me first and I was like, hey. And you were like, no reaction? Really? And then this fucking guy. This fucking guy. Yep, I'm with it. I dig it. So y'all would be traveling the roads in these pretty, beautiful-looking mountains and woods. But as you continue, you would notice, well, everyone make me a perception check. I rolled an 18 if you would like to inspect I'm not gonna touch it and I have a plus 5 Perception. Excellent, excellent. That's a 23. Iridell sees a lot. It was a 13 for me, and what does that mean? You gave yourself proficiency in it, so you'll probably be adding... So I look at my, I just look down at the list here, and is that what I'm saying? Plus six, so plus six perception, so 19 total. Nice, 19, 23. So Iridel and Gray are going to pretty quickly notice that, you know, the fog seems to be creeping behind you guys, following closely, almost breathing down your neck as it envelops the path behind you as you walk down this road. And I'm just spaced out like... You are. You don't even notice. The air becomes a little colder and, uh, you know, the trees become a little bit more bare. Uh, is there, are there any objects nearby that no one is wearing or holding? Just laying on the side of the road? No. No objects. Not with your perception. You would see brush. You would see, you know, vegetation as you would, you know, normally recognize, but... Not really any objects. No creatures either? Nothing that a man might be able to... No, in fact it would be odd the stark lack of like even the sounds of birds in these floors. There's almost like a deathly quiet that's settled along with this thick fog. So the fog is kind of like we can't see through it. We just see the edge of the fog creeping up on us as we turn back? Yes. Can I produce flame? Yes. It's a cantrip, right? Yeah. You can hear those feet. So I would like to do that and point it towards the fog to see if it reacts. It continues to come towards over the flame? Yes. So like if you're turning around and trying to like stick your hand in this fog, you would do so and the flame is still there and your hand is in the fog. It feels cold like as your hand is enveloped by it. Okay, I take my hand back. I turned around to Jables and was like, Jables probably should start moving. Why not? Let's move forward. So we start booking it. Gray, you coming? Oh yeah, I'm running after you as fast as I can. As you book it, you would notice the fog is following you at a consistent distance. It's not like actually coming up to you, but if you go back to it, it's not giving you any room to advance backwards. Seems like we're going in the right way. You are. And you would eventually find yourselves at this Picture right here. An incredibly large set of double doors, slightly ajar with these incredibly huge decapitated statues at each corner. Being deadpan as I am, I haven't said a thing this whole time. As it's been coming up, I noticed it, but I was like, huh, and I just didn't say anything. Same thing with I noticed all the animals, and I was just like, oh, cool, no animals either. Cool. Extra quiet. Nice. And then I just kept kind of going. You said to come after you and run, so I was like, okay, so I just kind of followed. And now I'm sitting here staring up at these things, and I've just got a completely blank look on my face the whole time. But I'm taking it all in. I'm still just kind of just dry. What do you guys do? Something about it feels a little bit reminiscent. I'm not sure why. So I'm scanning the area. Huh? Make me a history check. All right. With advantage because you're in a dance here. And that's still a D20, right? History. You got a one. I met one? I did. It does feel reminiscent, but you can't tell. It doesn't make sense. You're thinking, this is kind of reminiscent. I can't really tell if it is. I really can't tell. I can't put my finger on it at all. I've seen you guys are heading through these doors. Yeah. I mean, I'm probably just going to absentmindedly start walking forwards towards them. Are they, like, closed and locked, or are they, like, sitting ajar and open? They are sitting ajar. If they're sitting ajar, I'm probably going to absentmindedly start walking towards them, but I think I'm going to stop right as I get to the edge of them, because despite being as deadpan and kind of non- The feeling is I am, I am going to be smart enough to think, maybe I should double check real quick. I am going to use detect magic. Okay. Just to just kind of quick check, just see if there's anything. And you can ritual cast that, right? Does it have a little R next to it? It's a little C. C is good. C is concentration. Concentration. I don't see an R anywhere. It just says use. Yay. If you use detect magic, you won't feel any magic in your direct vicinity. Other than your magical buddy right there. Another buddy right there. Detect magic can be ritual. It can in some circumstances. I'm not sure. Because I think you have it as a background feature, right? Or a ritual feature? Yeah, it was part of my magic initiate stuff. There you go. You can probably use it once per day, which makes sense. - That's pretty good, that's pretty good. - That's cool. - Seemed like a good enough time to use it coming to large gigantic decapitated statues with big doors that I'm about to walk through. I'm just gonna like, that's my little bit of intelligence coming through. - I'll make it work. - I'll go ahead and at least be a little bit cautious. - You sense no magic though, as you guys go through these doors. - That means that I'm gonna continue walking through, yeah. If I use the tech magic and there's nothing that I feel, I'm just gonna keep walking through. Yeah, just staring around. Unless anybody tells me to stop doing things, that's probably what's gonna happen. Just so you guys know, I'm just gonna be like, keep walking through, unless my intelligence kinda snaps in and I'm not seeing anything crazy. - I hesitantly follow 'cause Gray's perception seems pretty good, but I'm still very cautious because of that uneasy feeling. And I'm wondering how far into the doorway I can see as I'm starting to pass through. You can see the trees actually change a little bit as you, like, peer in. They seem a little bit different. They seem a little bit lacking in color. They seem a little bit more barren. But, like, you don't, I mean, you see the fog definitely. It bars, you're probably seeing more than, like, - 50, 60 feet, actually in the doors. - Okay. And it's just like a hallway? - It is kind of like a wooden pad like you've been walking on. - Okay. I see what you're saying. For reference, it's not like I'm walking quickly through. I'm doing that kind of thing that people do when they're like admiring architecture and I'm like walking and like looking up all the walls and just like, yeah. So if there's like anything notable that I would have observed when I'm staring at all of the walls and looking around, that's kind of my deal. So I'm just going to be walking around just kind of like taking it all in. Okay, that's a nice ceiling. Is everyone walking in? Okay. You would see the fog, of course, as you're predicting, like, billowing out and swallowing up the doors, and you are going to hear them close behind you. Okay. Very large doors. First thing I say is, like, well, we should have expected that to happen. Guess there's only one direction to go. Yep. You said it's just like a wooden path, just kind of going forward, and that's all, it's just the walls on the other sides, and just moving forward, that's all we can see so far? Yes, yes. You can see black pools of water stemming like dark mirrors in and around the muddy roadway. Giant trees loom on both sides of the road, their branches clawing at the mist. So the fog's not following us anymore? It's kind of enveloping? Oh, it for sure is. Is it still kind of doing the same thing where it stops when we try to go back towards it, but as we move forward there's like a set distance that it kind of follows us? No. You can actually move backwards now. You can move up to the gates. It does move kind of more freely with you now. Okay, so it's more just like a straight radius around us. Yes, precisely. Quick question: Does detective magic... So that's just like magical effects. Does that include like spiritual type stuff? Or is that strictly magic? Or are those two kind of like the same thing? It's basically the same thing. If someone dabbles in anything that's like extraordinary or like miraculous, it tends to be detectable in some way. Okay. I just wanted to double check that. Absolutely. Make sure that was a good difference. As you guys continue down this little road, it would not take you very long to eventually reach the outskirts, should I say, of a village. How big of a village are we talking? Very, uh, well, from what you can see, it's not very big. Like, single road looking kind of deal? A little bit bigger than that. A little bit bigger than that. Do we see anyone moving around in the village? Or is it the same kind of, there ain't nothing going on, just the fog around us still? It does seem to be too foggy to see who's in the houses directly around. But, as you approach this one house in particular... Oh, man! Wooo! This is the first house you would get to. And there's no signs of life anywhere? No. No animals, no birds? Not currently, no. Is a thick fog still following us into the village, or are we kind of moving into the general fog of the village? And the thick fog is at the edge. As you move into the village. Oh. It's going to kind of open up and you're going to be able to see this house in particular fully. Okay, so it's still been in this radius, but then we get towards this house over there. It's like inviting us to this house, basically, as we get there it fully opens up. In this instance, maybe. I say that like, just I'm imagining in my head that that's how the fog is opening up. It's like, okay, you get to this house and it's like, well, this spot's open so you can go there. Yeah. Are you guys good with those three minis right there? To be your temporary maze until I create you a new maze. Works for me. Perfect. Perfect. So... Where do we want to use this going? Exactly. Designate that and we should be good to go. Well, my two cents would be this is the only girl so that would be my character. This looks like a paladin-ish to me. For sure. And then that would make you the gray man. Gray. The gray red man. So I'm the one with the Looks like fire in his hand right now. No. No? That works. I'd be okay with swapping too, but I just... That works for me. - Guys. - I'm touching it a little dry. - Because I assume you're approaching this house, yeah? - Yes. - Yeah, I figure we got, see nothing else going on. If it seems like this is where we're going, this is where we're going, I'm the one that's just gonna kind of follow where things are following. - I think I'm kind of drawn to it, even though it is very ominous that the fog would suddenly allow us to see something is pulling me towards the door. It is ominous. It is very ominous. I'm like peeking through the window. I rolled my eyes. As you guys start approaching the house, a soft whispering draws your eye toward a herd of children standing in the middle of an otherwise lifeless street. So there are going to be two... I'm going to use these dice as the children because I don't have minions that don't look like horrible monsters. Children aren't horrible monsters. They are. Are they horrible grotesque monsters, though? Sometimes. You would see a 10-year-old and a 7-year-old. Okay, so the children are at the house, okay. They are standing right in front where those dice would be. The little boy is weeping and clutching his stuff, Dom. I was going to ask what they were doing. I was just going to ask what they were doing. There you go. They look normal, aside from the crying. Perception check. Anyone who wants to give them a look. I'll give them a look. I'll give them a look. I'm just going to say. Something about them. I'm glad someone else is getting eyes on this situation. I rolled a nine. That's still better. So 14. 14. I rolled a 10. This many. So, Ken, do you still have the six? - 16. - Yeah, 16. - So five, 14, 16. - Sounds right. - I have been keeping an eye on things as we walk around, so I'm definitely eyeing these children as they show up. I'm like, uh. - There definitely does seem something off about these children, but no one's able to really see like, oh, this is like an illusion based off of magic. They do seem like real children. Although their clothes are tattered I assume you're approaching can I do I like see their eyes? I know the boys crying Do I see the girls eyes what they look like? Like piercing blue I hang back No I'm going to be the deadpan guy that's going to stare at them and be like, hey, what are you kids doing standing out here crying? This is kind of weird. Where are the adults? As you address her, she notices you. She's going to shush the boy and turn to you guys and say, there's a monster in our house. And then she turns and points to the house up there. Its windows are dark, it has a gated portico on the ground floor, and the rusty gate is slightly ajar. The houses on either side are abandoned, their windows and doors boarded up. How does dark vision work? So essentially, dark vision lets you still see in like gray scale whenever things are considered dark. So if you are in a dark room and don't have dark vision, you're like essentially blind. But it doesn't work through like windows. No. Even if I'm up against the window. Well, you can see through a window. And if it's like dark inside, you can see inside. Okay. So I also have dark vision. Yeah. That's what you're asking. Oh, because I did say the windows are dark. Well, you can just tell that there's no light on in any of the rooms in the house that you can see. No signs of movement, no flickers of something. Y'all live alone? No. This is our mom and dad. Where are they? Well, I said that earlier. I asked where the adults are. You didn't answer that question the first time. Why did you have to wait for them to answer? Okay, so your parents, where are they then? We don't know. We just know there's a monster in the house. While that conversation's going on, I'm kind of moving to the side of the house to see if I can see anything, like, behind it. Like, you're moving yourself, like, over here? To the edge, yeah, to look around, to see if I can see anything through those windows or in the backyard or anything like that. As you, like, start to move around the house, I guess make me a perception check a lot. 23, 22. You'll see something similar as you go around the house, like no movement in any of the windows. You don't see any lights. You don't see smoke from the chimney, very little. It's almost like a death silence is settled over this area. No, I didn't work very good. Do you guys feel like monster hunting? Trust these kids is a stretch, but monster hunting, I could be convinced. And I'm just going to say, well, I mean, it's not like we have a lot of money or anything. Maybe this can earn us a little bit of something to get us started. I need some help getting back to that temple. It's a far way away. Parents keep the monster trapped in the basement. So they keep it trapped in the house, it's not just loose in the house? But you also don't know where your parents are. We don't. We hear it scream, it's a terrible house. Doesn't sound like a threat though. It's kids that are scared of the monster noises in the basement because their parents are gone and they're home alone. Unless they're monster kids that want to eat us even, you know. Maybe we can distract the kids instead. Like play a game or something. i'm trying to think we did also just get to this village and we're stopped at the first house maybe you're just gonna leave two kids one crying on a patio i mean i guess we have decided we have also decided that they're super suspicious and i'm the kind of guy that's gonna be like you know this is kind of like this is weird i don't like it they said that the The monster's chained up too. Yeah, the monster's chained up. Sounds like it's not a real issue. They're just scared of it. Also, they keep saying that they don't know where their parents are, but the parents are the ones keeping the mon- nah. Maybe we can figure out some more. We need to figure out where the hell their parents are. You said just the two neighbor houses were kind of boarded up. Yep, but as you go to leave the general vicinity of the house, the fog blocks your path. Do you kids know about this fog? Can I try talking to it? The pod? Yes. Is it an animal? No. Does it speak any languages? The fog's only letting us see these two, or I guess these three houses. There's one house, and you can see, like, the other two that are in the fog. Right. Just kind of silhouettes of them. I got bad news. I got bad news. You know? Alright, I tentatively walk up to the girl and ask her her name. I keep... at least six feet of distance. My name is Rose. Alright, Rose, what are your parents' names? And your brother? My brother's name is Thorne. My dad's name is... Would a little kid know their dad's name? Ten-year-old? Yes. With piercing blue eyes. That was also a quick fucking... I mean, I guess you're right. I don't know. This kind of a gothic thing, it seems like they would probably be on like a first name basis with father. Or they would be calling him father specifically. My dad's name is Gustav and my mom's name is Elizabeth. What was the brother? Thorne. Thorne. So you said you don't know where they are. When's the last time that you saw them? Long time. Monster still just changed up in your basement. It is. I look at the party members back and forth. With concern in my eyes, not willing to ask the question that I feel like we all should be asking. I'm staring deadpan everywhere. You have to tell me what the question is so that I can answer it. Ask it, like, ask it. I'm hoping Jack Black is going to. Jables. It could be one of the two of us. Either me, just out of sheer, like, blunt, it's going to, like, piss people off or something like that. Or... No filter. That's what I'm relying on. Right. If it's, yeah, I mean, if both of you have the question or the answer or the statement at the time. I intentionally don't say words. I'm gonna look at the kids and be like, yo, did you master eat your parents? When was the last time you saw them? You said that they locked them up. I don't know. We hear it screaming in the basement. The last time you saw your parents. We don't know. It's been a while. When they left, did they leave or did you just stop seeing them? You know what I'm saying? Like you were doing something and then your parents weren't there when you were like, hey, yo, mom, dad. Like they weren't there. I'm just staring at him incredulously. I'm gonna laugh for like a month to say. Well, I'm trying to think of exactly how she would word this. So basically trying to ask if they know their parents left or if they just were like, oh, hey, mom, dad aren't here. We think they left. Yeah. Think they live. Okay. What makes you think they live? Leave a note. Like, yo, we gotta go to the store. Did they say not to go to the basement? They did. So, I'm gonna look over at both of you guys and for a split second, I'm gonna be like, are the parents just fucking in the basement? Oh, God. Have y'all checked the basement? Ever? No. My problem is I'm so neutral that I'm kind of indifferent to whether or not we actually save these kids. I don't really care. I'm just like, this is weird, you're probably not safe, but also if there's a monster we could totally kill it and it'd be cool, but also... We just got here, so... I think it's kind of up to you guys to... We're so much trapped by the fog. Yeah, so we're trapped by the fog. So I'm like, well, I guess we got to go in one way or the other. We can't go, can't do anything else. The question is, is somebody going to stay out here with the kids? Are we going to take the kids in with us? I don't think there's any means. We're going to go back inside. We're scared of the monster. So have you guys just been standing out here on the porch basically the whole time? How long, like for days, hours? Have your parents told y'all anything about the monster? Did they ever say it was weak or anything? Did they ever tell you what it was? No, it's just totally clueless children. They told us, they would tell us scary stories about it, or tell us scary stories about it. About eight people. Eight people? Where is, I was just going to ask, where is the basement? I asked the kids, where in the house is the basement? Where's the door for it? How do you get there? As we're sitting here still talking to these children and we're like, well, I guess there's nothing else to do. I'm going to start walking kind of towards the house and like inspecting the door area. And by inspecting, I mean just kind of like looking around at the door area. How did you describe it again? You said you described kind of like a gate area. Did you describe like the actual front door? Because that's where I'm looking now. So you're actually approaching the door. Yeah, like I'm actually approaching. Like if I would be... Like at this point, are we still standing all over here kind of past the gate? I would be kind of like up near like this gate area, like kind of starting to approach them because I'm like, there's nothing else we can do. I'm going to start walking that direction at least a little bit to get it a little bit closer to the look. You can see that there's a very rusty unlocked gate that is separating this first section, kind of the entrance. Like a full height? Gate or like a half gate? Mid-level gate. So gate here and then where is the door? It's actually right here. Let's go ahead and transition to the next map. I don't see every room. OK. What room? Exactly. And that would be pretty much right. That's what I was thinking, so that top left over there. It's like the front porch in that mansion, right? Yes. This is the half gate, or this is a door, and there's a half gate here? Yeah, that's the half gate. Okay. That's the half gate. Yeah, because that's what I'm walking up to. I'm just going to be like, at this point, I'm walking up to it. Are the kids inside this half gate, or are they on the outside of it? Nope, they're standing pretty much exactly where those dice are. So they're standing on the outside of the house. And you would see that, you know, there's a little area. Okay, so yeah, as we were doing that last bit of questioning, I'm definitely like walking up and kind of like, not walking through the gate, but I'm like looking around and kind of excited. And you would see a set of open doors. I want to ask the kids if they remember any of the stories that they were told and if they could tell me one of them or not, you know, about... Persuasion check. Hey kids, can you tell me some of those stories? It's terrible. There's a nine. They do not. They do not. I kind of look at the patio itself over the gate and see what I see other than the door. Like I look at the sides. I'm just saying the sides of it. Yeah. See if I see anything there. Chains, a lot of this stuff is very rusty and seems worn. But nothing out of the ordinary in this whole section. I go ahead and touch the gate. Just touch it, I don't push it. A light touch. Uh, it's going to, you know, it's gonna let out a shriek as the rusty hinges, you know. And unusual, that kind of thing. But other than that, it opens normally. As it does that, I'm gonna be like, hmm, need some oil. Just like deadpan, like, oh, it needs maintenance kind of thing. It does. Because that's going to be my shtick a little bit. It really does. I would ask the kids if there's anything we need to know about their house before we go in there. Is this a home alone situation? Have you kept Kevin McAllister at the place? This one's a 21. A 21. Well, they actually can tell you. Bless you. Baby brother Walter is on the third floor nursery. We are worried about him. On the third story? On the third floor nursery. I put my ear up against the door and listen as hard as I can to see if I can hear anything. That's crazy. At this point, so at this point we're all inside the little rusty gate. We're not fully inside the door though yet. We're just kind of staring. We're still at the open doors. And are they, at this point I'm just gonna say, so the door's unlocked. We can just go in. You guys, you kids just left it open for us. 'Cause the little boy-- - Go crying or anything? - He would be like sniffling a little bit. - I'm like reaching up towards the door, like my hand might be like on the door, like we haven't walked in yet, but I'm like, look, the kid's gonna be like, hey, you can just go in. I'm doing like a final, just like-- - The door opens and you go in. - Final like permission ask, like looking at the kid, like we can go in, as my hand touches it. - If you help us kill the monster, sure. Like I said, my hand was touching the door to push it, so I just kind of like press it a little bit. I'm going to take the loot, my loot, and I'm going to give it to the boy because I'm going to tell him, I'm going to say, I'm going to play you a song when we get back. I'm saying, because we're coming back. The little boy is going to have a little bit of his hands confused with his stuffed animals though. Hands a little bit full. Exactly. As you guys, I assume everyone's pretty much moving in to this first room. Yeah. It would be a pretty grand foyer that you would walk into. Everyone made me a perception check. Okay, six. I couldn't read it and I touched it and I'm pretty sure it just rolled over. 17. 17. So-- Plus your modifier, right? Yeah, plus 6. Excellent. Everyone would pretty much notice that the wood panels-- or the wood paneled walls are ornately sculpted with images of vines, flowers, nymphs, and satyrs. Everyone who got over a 12 on that perception check, if you like-- Look more closely at it, you'll see serpents and skulls inconspicuously woven into the designs. So there's some kind of very interesting, like almost hidden imagery in some of these ornate decorations in this first room. My first thought is going to take me back to my religious upbringing. I'm going to think about just because a lot of that felt a little bit Forest gnome-ish a little bit in a way, and the idea of the vines and the more happy looking things, but then a few little spooky things made me think of the other gnome god, the cloak shadow one that's similar to Glittergold, but a little bit more nefarious minded in a way. So that's literally my thought is just I'm just making that connection because I've got that religious underdog. Nice, nice. Anyone else want to do anything before we go to the next room? Or I assume y'all are basically just... Is there a door? There is. There is a door right here. Pretty much the same thing. What does the door look like? It's just an oak door? It is another oaken door, much similar to the first ones. I go ahead and open it and walk in because we're already here. You go to the right. Not locked. Nothing like that. So this is a very fancy main hall you're going to walk into. You are going to see, mounted on the wall above the fireplace, is a long sword. Very nice. And there's also a large spiral staircase on the far end and several doors. I'm still listening out for screams because they said they could hear it scream. Make me a perception check. 11. I'm also a listener, but mine's only 13. You also don't hear screams. Same for me. I guess might as well everybody listening. 15. No. Plus the six. No one hears any screams. I'm actually just going to say that out loud. I was like, you know, those kids said they were screaming. I'm still not hearing anything. It's going to make it hard to find the basement. It's too quiet. Quiet. Too quiet. Which one of these doors do you want to go up to? Or the staircase? Is there any difference between the doors that I notice? They look very, very similar, all of them. Do I see anything up the stairs? Just kind of peering up like you would in a without taking a step. You would be able to immediately see that it does go up. Green. Three stories. But we don't see a way down. Not currently, no. But the little brother is supposed to be on the third floor. On the third floor. Yeah, we just go up and see if they even have a little brother on the third floor? Yeah, I think we see if they've been lying to us from the start. We're already in the house, so we might as well know what we're dealing with. And considering it's a little baby boy and they were talking about a monster and they were outside scared, probably a good idea for us to check in on that baby first. Yep. Alright. Yes, sir. So really fucking small for some reason. Yeah. I guess I'll go ahead and show you as you continue up the staircase, you will briefly see this room right here on the second floor. Everyone make me a perception check as you briefly stand on this floor. 8. 8 plus-- 24. 24, 8. That's 24, or 14. 14, okay. I had to do math while I was learning. You got computers for that these days. I got computers for that. But there is cobwebs littered all over this floor in particular. The first floor looked relatively well maintained, but this one looks like no one has been here in a very long time. Evidence of ash and cobwebs. But the baby's on the third floor. Yes, as you travel up to the third floor as well directly. Nobody's been on the second floor in a minute, but-- We keep the babies on the third floor. So all we're really noticing is just that it's particularly dirty because all the doors and everything are closed, I guess. It's just dirty. That's really what we're noticing. So I was actually mistaken. You would only see this staircase descend two floors. So you would be on this floor and you would be standing there. Okay, so we're on this floor and we noticed that this floor is covered in cobwebs, but this is the second floor But he did say that we're supposed to be a third floor so yeah, we're like confused and it's dirty and they said the third floor So I'm also just kind of say it outright and be like yo this at third floor Are the lamps lit? They I have a feeling I'm going to have to find another loop, guys. Another loop? What type of lamps are they? Are they also oil lamps? They are. They are very gothic oil lamps hanging from chains. How many feet in any direction is this? So the ceilings are 20 feet high. It is an additional 20 feet down. So the staircase is overall 40 feet, but the ceiling in this room here in particular is 20 feet. The ceiling is 20 feet away. Are the lamps reachable? Yes. I use produce flame and light one of them. Okay, you would light one. Does it reveal anything? No, it just kind of lights up dirt and dust. You would actually be able to see now much more clearly hanging above the mantelpiece right about here is a portrait of what you would assume is a The family, because you would see a man and a woman, and then the two small children you would recognize as Rose and Thorne. We don't see a third? You do actually see Cradle in their father's arms as a swaddle baby. Okay. So, beetle baby in the father's arms. Baby on the third floor, monster in the basement. But yeah, so we're noticing the portrait. I kind of lightly touched the canvas. and muse about how old the painting must be because of the cobwebs that are on it. - Give me a, Give me an investigation check, actually. Alright, investigation... This one... 21. 21. That is also a nat 20 roll. Does that give me advantage? Does that count? Is that a thing? Is that only in combat? Nat 20. It does definitely give you bonuses. It just is a different kind of result than being able to get a bunch of damage. But you would be able to see that this painting is probably at this point, if you were to guess, I don't know how you have painting expertise like this, but it is very old, at least 50 to 60 years old. I've seen a lot of things. I've seen a lot of things. I've done a lot of things. I've been a lot of places. I've been nowhere. I've been everywhere. 50 to 60 years old. And the... Is it... That these kids look exactly like the kids that were outside? Like 100% identical? They do. In fact, the kid even has the stuffed animal in his hand a little bit. Which room calls your name boys? There would be multiple. There would be this one, this one. You just want to start opening doors? I'm opening a door. I'll follow you. Move your minis to whichever spot you would be in this scenario. Can we go to different doors? Five. Yeah. Do we have to go through them if we open them? Tell me exactly what you're wanting to do. I would like to be able to open a door and look into a room. Okay. And you're this person? Yes. Okay. Which one do you go through first? I look into – let's see. So we just came up here, right? Yes. And I looked at this lamp. I saw that portrait. Yes. So I would probably do this door because I can see it. Okay. So, as you go to that door, you just kind of want to peek your head in there. Hope that one of the dark vision people is doing that. That's why I was like, I'm trying to, yeah. I probably should give a look. You said you lit this lamp right here? Yes. Oh. When I came up the stairs, I would have also, as you lit the lamp, I'm probably also looking at the portrait. I probably would have said something dumb like, at least they didn't lie to us about how many family members they have, because they're telling, saying that they're lying to us about stuff all the time. There you go. So I would probably say something like that, but if he's opening that door, I'm probably following him. And since there's another door, I'm probably also just going to open that one. So you would be able to briefly see Dustin Cobwebs shroud in elegantly appointed bed room. What makes it brief? What? You said I could briefly see it. So you were like opening the door and looking at it. So then me reclosing the door is what's briefly or what makes it briefly? Are you trying to like peek your head in there and close it again? Well, I'm trying to look in to see if I see anything. Because we're looking for a kid. And now I'm particularly skeptical because of this 50 to 60-year-old painting that's, like, oddly reminiscent of time seeming to stand still, which is something that I've experienced. It is something, right? So if you're actually going into this room... You would see just that. You could see does cobwebs, an eloquently appointed bedroom, and you would even kind of see a very nice fireplace as well. Is there any like scent that I might smell? It is like, you almost smell faint aromas of like womanly perfumes and things of that nature. It almost smells sweet, like flowers. I'm listening for movement like a small child, just, you know, still looking for that baby brother that is depicted in the painting. And there's no cries of small children or large monsters. Or small monsters or large children. Or a lot, yeah. You would not hear any noises whatsoever. Like this entire house, other than y'all's footsteps, has been relatively quiet. Where exactly in this room are you going? Are you like looking in anywhere? I'm standing exactly where my character is and I turn back to the group. So from where I am, I turn around to the group and tell them this is a bedroom, but I don't see anything initially. Back in this room, you turn around and walk along. That's basically what I was about to ask. If y'all want to check that room, I'll barge in there. The room inside of this room? But if y'all want to check another room, we can open another one. I said that I was going to open this other room, but it was right next to it. Since it was right next to the lamp that was lit up and next to the painting. Because he said he was going to go in this room. Since the painting was right here and this was lit up, I'm probably just going to reach for the doorknob that's right there. Crack it open. Crack it open, yeah. So that door in particular you're right next to is a storage room with dusty shelves lined with brooms, folded sheets, blankets. Like soap and stuff. Okay. Fair enough. I'll probably just open it up. I'll probably just be like, yep, just a closet. Close it. I'll probably turn around. Close. I'm doing the whole deadpan just like, oh, okay, yep, just a closet, closet, turn around, walk away. I'm not going to see, I mean, because I've got the dark vision too, so unless there's anything that was like hidden in a dark corner or something. Because I'm not going to like walk into the closet necessarily because I'm going to open it and see it's a closet and be like, no. You don't see anything immediately open or bad, you know. Usual toiletries. Okay, so yeah, that's going to be... That's going to be the extent of my look, unless maybe do like a perception check in my walk-in or something, but I don't know if that... With the lamp lit, if I'm looking around, would I see the double doors lit up at all? Here? Mm-hmm. You would see these, you would see this set of doors. You would. Yeah, but like would I be able to tell it's like just double doors and they're like... Yeah, they're all pretty normal double doors. They look different here because this guy embellished some things. Okay. Yeah, that's why I wasn't sure. Uh... Yeah, with the trigger, it was like stained glass or something. Mm-hmm, mm-hmm, mm-hmm. So I'm going to check in on the double door room. And I'm just going to open those doors up. I'm just going to swing them open. Mm-hmm. You're going to this room. Wait, I'm telling them, like, all right, guys, I'm going to open this one. If, you know. I mean, we did all just kind of, like, start walking towards doors and opening them and just kind of, like, saying what's behind them. So it's like the split up and open doors and yelling at each other. Before we do that, do you want to do anything else in this room? Like looking in the doors? Well, I was going to say, since I've determined that mine is a closet. I'm probably going to be following him because I have been following him. So I'm probably at this. Yeah, I'm following him over. Wrong hand. Another one. Oh, sorry. Okay, yes. Because remember, we have done this after each door has been a dud. I kind of roll my eyes at him embellishingly opening those doors and walk further into the bedroom and kind of like. Look warily at this door trying to decide if I want to open it waiting to hear what he says As you guys bust open this room, it is very obviously a master bedroom You would see of course dusty cobweb filled master beds burgundy drapes furnishings include a four poster bed embroidered curtains tattered glossamer veils Quite a bit of things. And also a rug that is... Does it say it's tiger skin? I think it does actually say it's literally a tiger skin rug. It's a rotting tiger skin rug, even better. Holy shit. Everything is just pointing to this house being very old and those kids being very much not alive or something. So... Yep. I wonder, is there something I can do to... Kind of noticed just like pay attention this back. I don't know Can I kind of use a perception check just to kind of put things together a little bit about This being way too old of a place for these kids to be living in Well, you can uh, you can already assume that yeah, y'all are now investigating like what exactly is going on, you know Yeah, so I guess i'll probably just kind of remark on it out loud and be like, okay, so It's looking like this place is definitely, like I'm going to kind of confirm it out loud to myself. I don't know how suspicious you have been of it at this point, but I'm going to confirm it to myself out loud. I was like, okay, so everything's pointing to something being really wrong here. These kids should be way older or something else is wrong here. This place is not the right age for what's going on. Years aren't adding up. I don't know. I'm a little high to say words, right? Yeah. I said the room's empty to us. If the room's empty to us, my plan is just to walk over back towards Iridel to tell them that that's the master bedroom, but it's empty. And then, you know, I see them looking at the door. I'm going to start tearing this room apart. I'm still inside. I'm coming back to it. Yeah, he's still coming back. I'm still inside the room. I'm going to say I'm actually still inside the room a little bit. And I've looked over at this mirror. Is this actually like said to be here? Is that an actual thing? I'm just kind of like looking in this direction at the fireplace area. Yeah, I think there is actually a mirror in that room. Let's see. Yeah, so you're looking at a vanity with a wood framed mirror and you would see that thing sitting on top is a jewelry box. Okay, I'm absolutely going to be... I'm opening the jewelry box, but I'm not going to be just like dumb about it and like open it up. I'm going to be like, you know, kind of open it up, take a little peek, just making sure that there's nothing going to immediately jump out and like spider attack my face kind of deal. Uh, as you open the box, uh, make me a constant. No, I'm just kidding. Nothing happens. Nothing happens. Anything in there? Uh, yes. Uh, It itself was made out of gold and silver. You would see three gold rings, a thin platinum necklace with a topaz pendant. There would be jewelry in that box. Okay. I'm not going to do anything with it because I'm not trying to steal it, but I'm taking note of that because it could be payment. A rogue stealing? No, it's like could be payment. Yeah, that's what you're a rogue, right? Yeah, but I'm not necessarily trying to go the stealing route. Okay. You did. As I was saying earlier, I did notice, you know, the more dark parts, and I was thinking about that other gnome god, and he might be a little bit more prone to stealing. So maybe that might come into hand, but I'm more thinking about it as potential reward for when we defeat this shit. Maybe we could be like, hey, saw some jewelry up there. We could take some of that shit, you know. Not stealing, just, you know, bartering. Yeah. Blackmail, kind of, but... Yeah. I'm literally just looking for something I can ask for. Now we know that they have something we can ask for for payment. We know that they're not just dirt freaking poor. Back to y'all in this room. If they're even real things that we can ask for payment from. And if not, then it's not stealing. Yeah, and it's not that they're not stealing. I'm trying to figure out if I can tell where that perfume scent is coming from because it's odd that there would be a perfume scent in such an... Whole bedroom? Exactly. Unkept. Unkept. Particularly from this door to the nursery. Oh, from this door that you're looking at. Fuck. Is door labeled nursery? It's not, but... What was I saying? Is there anything else about that area that I was looking at besides it's just a mirror and a vanity and there was nothing, like, identifying necessarily? Not necessarily. Okay. I think at that point I'm probably also going to follow back. I was just checking that because it was literally right there when we walked in the door and being the... I go ahead and push open the door that has the scent coming from it. I'm also going to mention the jewelry to these guys, by the way. As I walk in, I'm going to be like, hey, by the way, they got some nice jewelry you can ask for as a reward. As you push open the door, it's a nursery. I'm proud. So, so we, like, we can't tell if the crib's empty or? Um, currently, no. You'd have to walk up to it and, like, fart the shrub. Y'all want to see what's behind door number one? I'm going to say as I, like, you know, walk closer towards it about, like, you know, let's say I'm, like, right from the... I'm going to walk in and make some really stupid, dumb joke about how that's actually door number. How many doors have we looked in now? Probably... Okay, if we count the gate one, front door two, there was a second front door three, five, six, seven, this is actually eight. I'm gonna walk in here like, well actually this is door number eight. Because if there's a basement, this could technically be for three, you know, kids are stupid. That's... I take stock of all the exits to this room, as is my... - Are you holding the door open? - I am holding the door open. I am looking for other exits and entrances. - So you would take note of the stained glass window that leads out into a balcony in this room. Other than that and the door you came in, there's no other entrances or exits. - Does the stained glass window look like it opens? - Or the door? Yes, sorry. - The stained glass door, okay. - Yes. Yes. Can I see the patio through it? I know it's like colored and distorted, but do I see anything on the patio? Can I see the ground in front of the patio through it? Make me a perception check. 22. You do slightly see very dark ground, but you know, you also see the fog looming right outside of this house, right outside of this window as well. Are the kids still there? I'm not going to be able to see the kids. Oh, you're looking for the kids down there? Can you see that from where you are? So this technically would be My left corner would be right above the front door. Yeah, because this is right where we entered. If you move a little bit farther over here, you can make an attempt to look down there. Not quite from where you are. Like from here? Yeah. Because he's moving here, right? Yeah, I'm waiting to pull the veil back. Also moving into the room, looking through that, because I'm looking for egress. What was your roll again? 22. 22? You don't see the kids. Does he see my loot? Yes. It's just like laying there. I make a comment about his loop being on the ground. And I am visibly relieved. Is someone, I guess, going to go up and check and see what's inside of this crib? I'm going to... So, I should have asked this earlier, but my proficiencies were long sword, great sword. Do I have one of each? Your starting equipment should have specified how many weapons you were able to choose. The likelihood of you being able to have multiple is high. You likely were having to choose between just one. Thank you. You can start with the following or you can forego and spend $150 on your While he looks that up, I call out to Gray over here to hold the door. Okay, yeah, because I've been behind them the whole time. I was literally, I was about to say, like, I've been kind of, like, hanging around the doorway area. I haven't fully entered yet because they're not, it's not a huge room and they're kind of just inside. I've been trailing behind a little bit. So that's, so yeah, I guess I'll be here holding the door open, just kind of, like, in the doorway. Okay, okay. Does that mean you're going to pick the crib while he's doing that? I was looking for the kids. And all I can see is, like, fog. Like, is it, like, right up against the edge of the patio? Mm-hmm. It's, like, hugging the house now all the time. So I've caught up I'm standing in the door, I guess I'm gonna kind of ask for like a catch up on things because I guess I haven't been here so it's basically like, you know, is glued on the ground. You can see the kids, kids are gone. The lutes there. So, and I've walked in the door and I can obviously tell that it's this crib there. Is there anything else in the room? Is it basically just empty except the crib like it looks like in the picture? Or is it like furnished a little bit? Is there pictures on the wall? Anything else? Because, you know, like I've been saying, I'm the kind of guy that's walking in. Do you need to know that before you check the crib? That's why I didn't check the crib. - Is just this crib and a single lamp. - You have single lamp, okay. - Unlit lamp. - Unlit lamp has not been lit, okay. - Unlit lamp and a single crib with a black shroud. - All right, well I mean, and I've just walked in and I've got the caught up and I'm looking at them like, they're like, seeing that there's a crib, I'm just gonna say it out loud with the blunt dip pen. And I mean, I was like, well, there's a crib, didn't they say that there was a baby? They said third floor, but. We had that discussion earlier about maybe including basement. This is the third floor and they talked about the basement with the monster. So I'm just kind of making observations out loud, trying to drive the decision. I'm standing at the door. I'm also going to ask, can we light that lamp? It's pretty dark in here. I'm just going to ask the question. I walk over to the lamp and light it for him and make a comment about the kids having disappeared and making sure we watch our backs. Is anything changed with the lamp lit? You can see much more clearly in the room, but no. Nothing changes. If I'm able to use the 150 gold on my starting stack instead of this bullshit that they give me, I can totally do it. Can I do it? Sure, yes. Sure, yes. It actually maps out really nicely. Javelins could be cool. Should probably head out in about 10-ish minutes, though. In fact, if we get to this next part right here, it would be a good spot to kill it. So, now that you know that you have your weapons, are you uncovering the Shrek? I was going to use my greatsword to peel back the veil. Okay. I don't trust it. I don't trust this 50-year-old, you know what I'm saying? 50-year-old baby. As you uncover this veil, you will see a tightly wrapped, baby-sized... Bundle laying crib in black blankets. We just see the bundle and that's it? There's nothing, no visible face on it or anything? No, it's wrapped. Fully wrapped. I'm probably going to say out loud, is it dead? I say, I think it's too late for this anyway, and start to walk towards these doors because I'm very interested in what's going on outside the house. You guys don't want me to poke it? You can do it if you want. It's just like a little bundle of clothing. Did I see? It's a little bundle, baby-sized bundle of black cloth. From what you can tell. And does it look like it's actually wrapped around anything? Or does it look... You would have to... I'm gonna try and turn it over with my... You're over there like... And of course I'm standing further back. And I'm short as... I'm short as shit, so I probably can't see in the crib. The moment you go to move the baby with your greatsword, you are going to hear this spectrum voice appear behind you guys as a literal specter is going to manifest of a woman. And she's going to say, don't touch my baby. And she's going to attack you. Oh. So we can call it right here. I'm just going to remove this. Yes, good stuff, guys. Good stuff. Wait, question. Yes. If she appeared behind them and I'm in the doorway, am I behind her? Yeah, so she's right. So she's between us. She would be coming in right now. Okay, so it would be like between all of us because I'm in the doorway and he's kind of over here Okay, just I was just trying to get in my head Interesting. There we go. So me this will be fun See how this goes Indeed baby brother on the third floor.

Character: Session 1

D&D Session: Death House Exploration ###### Locations Explored - Pantry and Secret Passage: The party discovered a secret tunnel in the pantry area - Second Floor (Previously Skipped): The group decided to explore the second floor they had bypassed earlier - Servant's Room: Found an undecorated bedroom with straw mattresses, footlockers, and servants' uniforms, plus a dumbwaiter - Library: Discovered a well-appointed library with floor-to-ceiling bookshelves, mahogany desk, and hundreds of books on history, warfare, and alchemy - Secret Room Behind Library: Found by pulling a fake book, revealing necromantic texts about the "Priestess of Osybus" and a chest containing a skeleton in leather armor - Conservatory: An elegantly appointed music room with a harpsichord and harp, where the party took a brief respite to play music - Master Bedroom: Located and looted jewelry from the room - Dungeon/Crypts: Descended via secret staircase to find family crypts for Gustav, Elizabeth, Rose, Thorn, and baby Walter ###### Important Discoveries - Iron Key: Found on the library desk, appears to match the crude lock of a door the party had previously picked - Letter from Strahd von Zarovich: Discovered clutched in the skeleton's hand, revealing the tragic story of the house's master - he abandoned his wife for another woman, sired a stillborn son, and was rejected by Strahd - Books and Scrolls: Party acquired various books on alchemy, poetry, warfare, and combat, plus three spell scrolls (Bless, Protection from Poison, Spiritual Weapon) - Legal Documents: Found deed to the house, deed to a windmill, and a signed will - Jewelry: Silver jewelry box containing three gold rings and a thin platinum necklace with topaz pendant - Fake Necromancy Books: The books about demon summoning and bringing people back to life in the secret room were all determined to be fake - Family Crypts: The party realized Rose and Thorn (the children they had burned earlier) already had prepared crypts that were now empty ###### Combat Encounter - Four Ghouls: The party was ambushed by four ghouls in the dungeon - Gray took heavy damage early and used Cunning Action to disengage and attack from range with shortbow - Iridel cast Entangle (which failed to restrain the ghouls but created difficult terrain) and Bless on all three party members - Jables was paralyzed temporarily by a ghoul's attack but was healed by Iridel's Healing Word - The party successfully defeated all four ghouls through coordinated ranged and melee attacks ###### Character Developments - Gray's Archetype: Now playing as a rogue, still adjusting to the role and mechanics like Sneak Attack and Cunning Action - Jables' Oath Decision: Needs to choose a paladin oath and plans to do homework on the options - Party Coordination: The group demonstrated effective teamwork with Iridel providing support spells while Gray and Jables handled damage ###### Strategic Decisions - The party chose to take a long rest in the crypts after the difficult ghoul encounter - They moved a heavy stone slab to block the entrance to their resting area for security - The eight-hour rest passed without major incident (rolled 69 and 38 on random encounter checks) ###### Action Items - [ ] Jables to research and choose a paladin oath - [ ] All players to ensure character sheets reflect long rest recovery - [ ] Continue exploration of the dungeon in next session Exactly where you guys left off. If you have any questions, ask me now. So you are Gray. Go tell me your name. Tell me your name. Iridel. Iridel. What did you roll? That's what my deck added. Yeah, but like, what's your deck? Plus one. Okay. The reason I'm asking, I'll go ahead and tell you, is that you and the specter got the same initiative, and the person with the higher overall deck stat was first. Oh, overall deck stat is 13. Yeah. You said what? Overall deck stat is 13. Okay. And you only have a plus one? Yeah, that's what it says. This must be calculating it differently for the specter. I believe you. I believe you. It must have a plus one to count. Okay, that's good. That's good. You actually look great. Jable's got a nat 1 for a cumulative 2. You said you were a... Sorry. 10. Yeah, I rolled a 10. 10? She's my head on what the hell would I do against a ghost. What do you do against a ghost? She does not look happy. She's an unhappy looking ghost. She is looking directly at Jules at this moment. Am I poking her baby with a sword or something? Yes. Okay. Yes, in short. Sorry, I'm going to have to take a second to kind of look at what I've got here that I can do. And you said the cantrips are ones that you can just kind of use whenever or however. They are actions, unless specified. Like some of them are going to be bonus actions, but a handful of them. I can move and then attack, right? You can move and then attack and then move if you still have movement speed. Yes. Yes, there's no, like, end or beginning phase. There will be times where we're rolling potentially. How big is your room? Huh? So, like, a square like this is, like, five feet. So if you, like, move yourself, like, one little tick, that's five. Yeah. People use grid. I don't like grids. Life doesn't come with a grid, damn it. I mean, you can move diagonally. You can move... Up, down, you know. Up, down, up. The distance is all that matters, you know, at the end of the day. Exactly. Standard is like an inch is five feet. Yes, actually. It doesn't translate very well in that regard. Cool. Well, you decide. It makes it pretty easy to, like, guess where I would land. When I was making all those ships, I had that in mind because I was always like, God damn, there's a big boat. My boat is 23 inches long. 10 inches. This is a 110-foot ship. That's a mega yacht right there. Fucking crazy. The only thing I can think of to do that would be... maybe i've got something in books somewhere that i will or something send it you know it's the only thing i can think of information's power man you'll never get me telling you not to do something that gives more info you can always do something like see if you remember if you know how to fight ghosts or something and she'll have you take like a history or a religion check or something like that yeah i think that's what i want to do all right i'm back sorry Alright, I've decided what I want to try to do. I want to study. I want to see if I can remember something from my studies in my temple or whatever about how to fight ghosts. Alright, maybe a history check. Alright, so... You just want to go over and click history? Yeah! Easy peasy. So... Twelve. Twelve. What's your background that gives you insight into ghosts? You said temple? Yeah, because I was in a temple for the god that I was following. Specters are actually a fairly common form of ghosts seen around. People who typically die under very excruciating circumstances will remain on their plane as a specter. You remember that damaging specters like this is Not very straightforward. You can slash it with a sword, but do you remember your master telling you that it was not the best way to do it? You don't remember too much other than that. What else did I turn? What do you think of? I don't know. I was just... You can. That was the only thing I could really think of. That was considered a free action because you sat there and you thought for a moment. So that didn't really take too much of your time. Okay, so I still can... You can actually hurt it with a sword. It's just not exactly the best thing to do. I guess you're sharing that with your comrades? Yeah, I'll share it out loud with everybody. Basically, yeah, what I just... It's like well we can hit this thing with our swords, but it's not gonna do much It's like a little still do something it's just not Yeah, that's all I can do although, but I could do Right now. I actually I don't have I dagger and a short sword in both hands. I do have my short bow in one hand and I guess I could try to hit it with that, just like distract it. Since you guys are like right next to it and I'm a little further away. Yeah. I don't know if that would be... So I will say when it comes to ranged attacks, you make it with like a certain kind of distance. Normally, if you are right up on something, you make ranged attacks with distance. Okay. Oh, really? Yes. What is range? You'll specify. Okay. Like a bow and arrow, a throwing dart, a javelin. Any kind of thrown spell, like firebolt and stuff like that. So what's the threshold for the disadvantage? Is it like half? Five feet. So if I'm within five feet and it's any range, then I get disadvantage. But as long as you're at least ten feet away, it's not considered touch. Okay, so definitely. It's like touch distance. That's really good to know because that changes the order of what I do. Okay, and this is a pretty small room, so I'm definitely within that range. Close quarters combat has its own advantages and disadvantages. Like, it's what Jables wants to happen. It's not quite what you guys want to happen. That's what I was thinking. I was thinking about that specifically because I have... I was thinking about that specifically because I have the sneak attack thing. Yeah. And I was thinking potentially to do that, like, just because... From what I can tell, I'm maybe behind it, maybe not directly in its field of vision. Sneaky Tag is you rolling additional damage whenever you gain advantage. So, like, at this moment, the specter, like, showed up and she, the mini might not be facing towards you guys, but she's aware of all of you guys. Okay, got it. She's looking at Jables. Huh? She's looking at Jables. Yes. So, like, if you were to get, like... Directly on the other side, like if she's facing Jables and attacking, if you get on the direct other side, you get a flanking bonus, which would give you advantage, which gives you your dice. You can also do things like hide. If you take the hide action and then attack, like you'll be able to hide in the bonus action here in the next several levels, so your action economy will change a little bit. Okay, cool. That helps me understand how to use that too. Okay, that makes sense. Yay! Well, honestly, I can't really think of anything to do and since I'm not necessarily right next to it, I think I'm just gonna go with just my thinking and talking out loud. You do have 30 move speed. So if you want to move to the other side of it, if you want to get that flanking bonus, you can move there now. That's true. Okay, yeah. You have the movement for it. That's a good call. Is this true? Yes. That was first combat. I promise you, I won't be hitting it in this fight. Just wait until he gets the spectre shirt. Yeah, I'm gonna... I'll go ahead and... I love it. So since I'm standing... You know, but I am standing in the door, which is kind of a... Yeah, so that's the decision. Like, do you leave the door to move to get the flanking bonus for the next thing, or do you stay in the door? And I can't tell you which one to do. I just wanted to make sure you knew what was available to you. Yeah, good call. I wasn't thinking about that. But I think... I think I might actually stay in the doorway, because I think that's a good spot to be in case... Somebody needs to GTFO for whatever reason. You might still be 10 feet from it in the doorway so you can shoot with your bow if you want to. Yeah, that was going to be 5 inches. It looks like about 10 feet. Exactly how big is this room? More than 5 feet. Yeah, an inch is about 5 feet, so you're at least 2 inches from him. I think it's like 20 feet, 15 feet. If you're like in the doorway. This is like 25 feet. The only one that's within 5 feet right now is Jables, right? Okay, so yeah, so I actually am kind of. Okay, so I'm actually maybe outside of the five foot range then. Yeah, I just confirmed with Grace. Only Jables is within five feet. Okay, cool. Well, I was going to say, in that case, I might as well go ahead just to do something and get a shot at it while it's trying to do things to us. Might as well attempt to make some damage. Sure, sure. I just made more coffee. Since I've got it equipped, I'm sure I would be surprised to be like, oh, shit. I would say this out loud. We can hit it. It's not going to do much, and I would definitely be the one to just go ahead and still shoot anyway. Hit me with your attack roll. All right, so, yeah, I'm going to go with that. I was thinking about doing that originally, so. Oh, no. Unfortunately so. Does that mean I'm up? Is that your turn? Because you can still take your movement or do anything that's considered a reaction or bonus action. I'm going to stay where I am, see anything that can be an action or bonus action. You probably don't have anything right now because you're hard pressed even at higher levels to find good bonus actions, so yes. Could I also go ahead and do search as well? You already searched once, right? No. You did a history check. Yeah, I did a study. You did. Was that a yes or a no? Is that your turn? I'm saying yes. Okay. Yeah, yeah. Yeah, I know there's stuff you can do, but yes, it is now your turn. Okay. So I start my turn with Sacred Flame. Good choice, good choice. And that's a 1d8, and it says dex 13. I don't know if that's, like, my base attack or what. No, so when it comes to that attack, it's not actually an attack. You're imposing a save on me. So I make a dex check. Okay. 13. Fuck. I'm going to drop my dex on the ground. Okay. So I failed. So I take the damage. But if I were to pass, I take no damage. So I rolled a 5. Is that the damage? On the d8? On the d8. It's a 1d8. It's the roll. Pretty sure. Okay. Because I don't think you'll be adding any modifiers to the level of the mantra. No, I don't have any modifiers right now. What? Sacred Flame's radius damage, right? Sacred Flame is... This is VS... Flame-like Radiance descends on the creature that you can see within range. The target must succeed on a Dexterity saving roll or take 1d8 Radiant damage. And then I will go ahead and position myself between Jables and the Crazy Witch. Alright, what did I miss? Sorry. Is that acceptable to you? That takes it to the Spectre. So, oh, sorry. Is that your turn? Well, I'm going to make a slight comment of, I've seen things like this before. And that's it. I like it. I like it. Got a little flavor? Yeah. So that takes it to the Spectre, who's not happy. You're the only one who's damaged her so far, so she is going to take her life drain attack against you, your Dell. Okay. I assume 19 hits. Hit me. What do I roll the? Oh, AC. Okay. Yeah, it's 14. So. Okay. Okay. So because I got a 19, I'm going to hit you. If I were to have gotten a 14, it's half damage and anything lower would have missed, of course. Okay. She is going to deal some necrotic damage to you. I have resistance and necrotic damage, right? Do you? I believe so. As an ASMR. Where would I check that? I remember reading it, but I don't know where it's at. If you go back to your main page, it'll be at the top. Yeah, defenses, necrotic, resistance. Necrotic and radiant. That's really fucking good, because I rolled well. That's why I jumped. Half of 11. So five? Yes. Thank you, thank you, Michael. Your hit point maximum is also going to be increased by this damage. So my max goes up to 15? It goes down. Oh, my max also goes down. Yes, so when she hits you with this attack, you can feel the life and vitality drain from your body. Is your hit point maximum is going to be reduced by this? Damn. That's rough. Is that the necrotic damage part that does that, or just a special effect of this ghost? It is a quality that ghosts typically have, because necrotic damage, by default, won't do that to you. It did in earlier iterations of D&D, but they considered it too powerful. Oh, I wonder why. With that, so, like, are you bloodied? I just realized that you would have killed me in one hit if I didn't have that resistance. That's level one. How would I know if I'm bloodied? Under half, but I reduced your maximum. So no, I'm at 100% health. I'm at 100% health of five. So I'm not bloodied. It's going to... I got you, Jables. She's going to look at you guys and she's going to say... Is there anything in the crib? Like that black bundle that you like... That I unraveled with my sword. You didn't unravel it, you poked it. I just poked it. Yeah, you didn't unravel it. You need your fucking hands to do that. Thank you for pouring me coffee, mother. I'm pretty dexterous with a great sword. Huh? I said I'm pretty dexterous with a great sword. You gotta do what you gotta do, right? I'm proficient. So, shh. So she's looking at Jonathan. She's looking straight at Iridil right now. She's got like his life, like half of it, I think, literally in the palm of her hand. Oh. - We have tons of options. So I'm just gonna, we're gonna surround it. I'll give myself advantage with a luck point because I need, you know. Yeah, yeah, this is the time. It doesn't need to be flagged, it just needs luck. You have resources, this is the time. All right. That'll be 17 to hit. And as my bonus action, I'm going to smite it. Excellent choice. Excellent choice. It's taken 8 damage so far. I guess I'll do my greatsword first. Good battle music. I got quite a repertoire at this point. This one's good. And this would technically be a Fiend or Undead, correct? Yep, she is definitely an Undead. She's gonna take an extra D8, though. This is the good time to bring out all the fucking D8s. That's going to be 18 radiant, 5 slashing. 18 radiant damage? 18 radiant damage to this D8. 18 radiant damage to this D8? Nice. Because it's two D8 and then another D8 since she's undead or fiend. Wow, that's a low-level smite ability? Level 1. Divine smite. You divine smite her down. I hope so. Nice. That was the time. That was the time. That was the time. I'll mark my love for it. I'll mark my special love. Nice. I had a plan for what I was going to do if nothing else worked. Do I get my max health back now that she's down? You don't. How do I get it back? You'll learn. No. Because I can't heal it back because it's my max, right? You dealt some damage to it to help. And then you fucking survived, which was... Oh, no, it was the right call. I just gotta know how to recover. I would have been at one, and that would be my max health. It was the right call. I'm not questioning my action in any way. I just need to know how to recover from it. We'll figure that out. We'll figure that out. You know, this is very... What was that? It wasn't even a full round of combat, so that was six seconds. Y'all are fucking around this room poking at this blanket and this specter appears and nearly fucking kills Irital in a single hit. We got a good group makeup, I guess, for some of this stuff. Yeah, and then fucking, I guess, Jables brings the hammer down on her. I didn't really end up doing shit except for... You only have one turn. Yeah. You only have one turn. And I think it's good that Travis read the room. Oh, man. That was a good call. My plan for what would be next if none of that worked was either one of these two cantrips. I could have done something with a phantom sound kind of deal, or an illusion sound, and I was going to make a baby cry come from the bathroom. That would have been very interesting. That would have been very interesting. You know, I'll tell you guys out of game, but specters are... resistant to most non-magical forms of physical damage. And there are quite a few forms of magical damage. - As soon as I heard you can hit it with a sword, I was like, it can be smitten. - You can, which is good. Radiant damage is what you do. Also, not to retcon, but I was incorrect last time. So when I was reading the names for these maps, the fucking savage who put this together, so you have a three-story house, right? What do you name the stories? First story, second story, third story, right? The person who put this together was ground floor, first story, second story. They work in a hotel, for sure. I was like, what? Yeah, that person works in a hotel, for sure. A lot of European languages, that's just the standard of how you name it. Starts at zero. We technically don't have to change anything because y'all did exactly what you set out to do, which is go to the third floor and then fuck around. You would have just... You wouldn't have talked shit about the kids because they technically were correct with their rendition of their baby brother being on the third floor. That's the only thing that would change. Well, still no one would sign up a basement, so we still would have talked shit about those kids. Moving on. Right. Right. But, yes, just keep that in mind as well. But I had to come clean because I was doing research because I'm like, I know I read this. I know there's three stories. Y'all would be left, of course, in this room. It is now eerily silent after this quick battle. - Do we check what's waddled up in this crib? - In the black bundle? - Yeah, I think so at this point. Yeah, see what caused the fuss. See if there's anything after there, yeah. I'm just gonna continue standing in the door. I am gonna remark at how that was incredibly lucky. That was over so fast. I was like, man, I just shot at that thing completely missed and then now it's dead. I blinked. What the fuck? Six second fights. Fights never go that fast. Yeah, I would have been loath to kill one of you guys in your first combo, but I would have done it. I saw. I would have done it. You tried to do it. You tried to question my resistance to still do it. I was like, damn, we're going to survive if someone's going to die. Is that gonna be the start? Yeah, guys! It's okay, I'm prepared for that. Someone did die, it was just who we all hoped for. The intended individual did die, yes. It was a great success. So, y'all want me to unravel this baby since I don't have five max health? You're already there. You're technically closer now. You were the one that was also poking at it. I just assumed it was still on you. Uh, as you go to unravel this bundle, Mom is on my sword now. That sounds strange. The mom is on my sword? Lord. Hold on now. Like, it's true, but it's a strange way to put that. Why won't you let me grab this, you son of a bitch? You said my sword was on the baby. It's okay. I was responding. Yes. I was responding. I was saying it into the microphone. Are you using the restroom? Yeah. I should also use the restroom real quick. I'll be right back. The seven cups of coffee have caught up to me. Give me one, Mama. I guess I'll grab a brownie bite. Yeah, these are dank. They're very gooey. I'm going to have to get rid of my plate and not go back for long. They sell like a pack of them at H-E-D. It's like a, it's got like somewhere between four to six of them. You like to dad? Which device do you want to have? Is there a bell for me right here? Uh, no, I need that little bell patch. And typically, when it comes to combat... Check out this move right here. Oh. What fucking move is that? Typically, when it comes to combat, we try to have it go quickly to have everyone's turns be quick. Okay. It makes sense. I wanted you guys to ask all the necessary questions because that was your first combat, and I'll be in an extremely deadly combat thing. I feel like it went pretty quick. It did. Yeah. It did. It did. But, uh... A lot of times in combat it's just very important, bottom line, for you to know what you can do. All you can do. Because there's a shit ton you can do. Do you have any offensive level 1 spells? Way too many. You'll know next time to start blasting. Well, it's Thunderwave and Entangle, so I just figured that my cantrip would be better with the radiant damage for the rest. That was an excellent call. That was an excellent call. Yeah, I basically... You want me to take a nick break? Go for it. I'll load a quick pull here. I'm back in another D&D group where they all smoke. I'm not going to lie, y'all. I was reading that specter all last night, I was like, "What if I kill someone in a single hit?" I don't even know. When we stopped the last session, and it was us fighting a specter, I was like, "Oh man, are we gonna show up and someone's gonna fucking die?" That's not what I wanted, but then I knew that that was, that was, uh... I've been for two weeks waiting to lucky strike this thing and smite it. That's good. That's a good thing for everybody involved. Yeah, I kind of, I need to, now that I don't have that party looming, I'll actually have time to think about this a little bit more. I was really digging into preparing for that for a couple of weeks. It was worth it. It was worth it. It was good shit. Yeah, I still need to decide what I, how I'm going to deal with the recordings. So I'm jobbing. I think I might actually split them up. I like the genre section because I did like 45-ish an hour of deeper minimal then I moved into a little bit more tech house and a little bit of bass house for like 30-45 minutes then I did drum and bass for like 30 minutes something like something like that I'll need to go through and actually do it I counted the software keeps a history of the tracks that you played it was a 60 total tracks over the course of the night it was about three and a half hours hell yeah I got fucking chair walked at one point. Oh, dude, I was standing up next to the fridge. I ripped this joint. I passed the joint. I start getting lightheaded. Things start dimming. I was like, I need water, and I'm going to sit down. I was like, that's what's going to. Whiteheaded. They almost got me. They almost got me. So I was sitting down. They were trying to pass the joint back to me, and I was like, I'm good on that one for now. You said no to a joint? I did. I wish I was there to witness. Do you want to see this, Austin? Oh, it's all painted up and shit now. Nice. It's still so fucking heavy. Yeah. This hand, because you kind of have to, like, hold it weird to get all the nooks and crannies. Like, you would cramp. I'd be like, I'd put this down. You might need to, like, drill a hole in here and, like, hollow it out. That is hollow. And then, like... This is. Really? Oh shit. The only thing that isn't are the side pieces. But this entire thing is an 8mm-ish thickness. And that's still. Still is that heavy. I know it probably would be, yeah, the full thing. Richard walked up. It's almost a workout. Yeah, Richard walked up and like tapped me with it and it hurt. It hurt me. Yeah. You're like, that's a weapon. It does, it does. ...together with silly glue, like, you'd get one really good hit off of it. Oh yeah, no, no, the shooter would be pissed. The police report, glorious. I wouldn't even clean the blood off it afterwards, you know what I'm saying? Maybe the eyeball would blink afterwards, like it does in the game, you know? I was showing this off to my nephews when you sent me one of the videos. A lot of fun doing it. Didn't even take a lot to pick. The hardest part was figuring out how to angle it so it fit on my fucking 3D printer. Each segment to nine hours four segments four segments I was about to ask my dad. He's doing a preheat. You can hit it before it hits zero, but I would wait till it hits zero. Oh yeah. No, I believe in the preheat on these things. And it's on the max temperature. I found that the max temperature is really the only way that it actually gets really baked decently. Otherwise, it feels like it just kind of cools up in there. I got a pretty good hit off it last night. Yeah, but this thing hits really slow in the smile. - And then I basically don't cough. - Yeah, it's all the weight is in there. - That's so funny. - Push something down. - Oh yeah, just the bumps on it is like a button principle. So it's just kind of like oddly balanced. - Mm-hmm. - Radiability. which is perfect for Dark Edge of Insanity. The only thing I have to do is clear coat it now. Eric also had a detail he wanted me to add. He said-- I know where you live. Eric said that whenever I guess you get the weapon, it has an enchantment on it that turns the blade's edge white. So I was going to try to do that. Like not white, but like shimmering white. You can do that with microfiber. Because he's right. Because you put crusader on it and stuff. In the game, it was my favorite PvP axe that I ever get because it has a unique chance on hit as well that no other weapon in the game has. It has this chance on hit for three seconds to make your opponent be, I forget the flavor text it used, but horrified. And so for like three seconds they just lose all control of their character. They're standing there screaming at a little bitch as you wind up the next one. It's a 2.6 second swing. - So yeah. - Wow, wow. - I got you for three minutes. - Three minutes. Welcome back, welcome back. We're getting stoned. In fact, I should load you a little bit, 'cause now, actually there's still some in here. - I ain't no snobby. - Well you. - You can do what I do, steal the pen too. - Smoke all the things. That is an option. I have a couple of them right here, 'cause I have a problem. - Well you may want to hear it, but you need to kill me. I'm going to kill it, but I'm going to keep it. You don't have any fresh ones, do you? You've been doing me a favor, huh? You don't have that many fresh ones, do you? I don't. That's the hardest thing for me to have around. When you do, if you could let me know, you know, if you have an extra. No pressure. This is going to. No pressure, but some pressure. Yeah, a little bit of pressure. Brian's been cracking me the fuck up because he's like, I'm going on a weed hiatus. And then next week he's like, "Okay, can I buy a pen from you?" He's been telling me that since college, so... Yeah, I'm going on a weed hiatus and then he comes over and he's like, "I just need a little bit. One gram a day. Just one gram a day." I'm like, "Okay, Brian. Just take as much as you want. You want a pen too?" But he's fucking... I might have to buy some weed soon. Like today. But... You got weed. Yeah, I'll figure it out before I leave. You got weed. Today fits the definition of soon. I need it for midnight. It's important. 420. Oh, oh. Today's bike day. That is true. I should have brought my Jesus costume. Is it really bicycle day? It's in a little foil pack in the Jesus costume. Okay. Music is sad instead of suspenseful, which is my intentions for it. Is it supposed to be suspenseful, opening the baby carriage? Uh, yeah. In the spectra, it was all supposed to be kind of suspenseful. You get high. You get high. Is it supposed to be sad that we just slaughtered a mother? It is. Well, she's already dead. Then how is she? What is it? I'm dead? What was it? She did. You guys put her out of her literal misery. A lot of this hallucinogenics, they help a lot. I think it's really good for anxiety and depression. I think it's been known. Because they'll give it to them and it works. Ibogaine is one that I've noticed has been really good for addiction specifically. There's been a lot of people that have like, they take Ibogaine and then as soon as they're done, it's like, yeah, whenever they're addicted, you're just immediate, totally done. Sometimes even no withdrawals and stuff like that. Karrut will have a similar effect too, but it takes three days. So, you know, Ibogaine's a better option. Yeah. Although I hear the whatever kind of trip is... goes along with it is not exactly pleasant. Anything that's a significant life change, you know? But at least it's only a day and not three days. Okay. I unraveled the baby. You unraveled the baby? What did we see? Nothing. Is there no baby? Can I, like, check? Yeah, you can. See if there's anything in the room that, uh... What am I rolling? Uh, perception. Everybody who's... Everyone who wants to see, like, generally the room, if you guys want to look for something specific, that would be an investigation check. Uh, 25. Not 20. If there's anything to see, you tell me right now. You tell me right now. Where do I roll that? Perception. Is it one of these? Oh, no, just down here. I'm not doing perception. 19 for you. 25 and a 19. 25, 19, what was yours? Yeah, you know. Yeah? So with the 19, you're not really going to see anything out of the ordinary. Like, this was a room that solely had just this crib, and then now what you guys have produced is like an empty bundle of black blankets. There's no, like, indent in the crib or anything? No. I just had to, you know. No, yeah. I wish. But no. So... Tell me your fucking name. You just smoked two bowls and slapped me. Start with an I. You're Adele. Yes, yes, yes. You're Adele. Standing positioned in the door. Because I say so. You're going to kind of look back in both rooms, and you are actually going to see a small indent behind the mirror in the main room. Something's off about that mirror. In fact, I kind of, you know, I love Walmart, but. Okay. Where is the mirror? Is it like, it's the mirror? Yeah, so you, I'm going to move you subsequently. All right. Flavor text question. Yes. I am a damp air. Yes. Can I see my own reflection? You can see the ASMR side of you in the reflection. Okay. So to me, that's normal. Yeah. And I'm standing in front of the mirror. Yes. You are going to notice that there's actually a secret door behind this room. I opened the door. or on a budget. I love it. So you are going to be able to go into this room. Even though this is the third floor, you are going to find a staircase leading up. Up? Yep. Okay. Do we go to the ghost attic, guys? Research everything else. Yeah. So I guess... Yeah. I think you guys haven't searched this room technically because I do not remember you guys opening this room unless you did and I forgot. No, because I think we went in here and I think by the time when we were in here something else happened over here and we left. So, I think we ended up skipping that. We can go to that room if we want. We can go to the attic. I'm game for either. I'm feeling pretty weak. Yeah. I'd say... And I'm usually one of the ones to just kind of follow along where someone is leading. To me, this is pretty interesting that there's a hidden staircase behind here. You know, we were always suspicious of those kids and the layout of the house didn't seem to make sense based on what we were... Yeah, the house didn't seem to make sense based on like the layout of what we were talking about. You know, we were expecting a basement that we never found. Maybe there's an attic that we weren't told about. I'm going to be saying... So with this out loud. I mean, maybe something's in the attic that can help with whatever that specter did. Yeah. I'd say we just keep going. I'm down for just continuing upward with whatever we've found now, and we can backtrack and look at other stuff later if we feel like we need to. So I'm hearing a yes. Yes. All I know is I'm not leading. I can walk up first. I'm okay with that. All right. Yeah, we'll just keep going up. I'm down for that. Do you have it auto hide or what setting do you have? It should be auto hide. Sometimes if you just click on it and then click back on the main program and then just sit for a second. Yeah, I just gotta let it sit for a second and go away. Or double click the program or you can click the very top of it should give you a little arrow and you can drag it down. Sometimes. Windows so you know all of that is caveated. Yeah, the taskbar is not Linux multi-window task get on my level grace I guess we're having you leave I And I'm just taking it off the roof. The door, is it locked or unlocked? It's unlocked. Well then, guess what I'm about to do? Kick that bitch open. Well I'm gonna just hold on now. Kick that bitch open, bop, bop! I touched some blankets or something. I almost killed it you guys. Go brazenly into every single room. That is what I want. That means that we should not do that. Okay, good. Clocked. Understood. You guys would find yourself... Oh, fuck. You wouldn't see that. You guys would find yourself in a dust and cobweb chotope. I'm sensing something, gang. Something we're not supposed to see. I know. That's why you... Get the boxes! Well, we got some doors. You do. You have three doors. Four doors. Four doors? Yes, you do have four doors. One, two, three, four. Do we want to pick or do we want to let a dice pick? What do you boys pick? Start with the closest one, right? I'm always in favor. Yeah, I was going to say, I'm always in favor of just clockwise, whichever we see first and then go from there. I'm assuming this is counterclockwise, I guess. Yeah. Give a knock on the door. Room service! Do you really? You will hear nothing and the door is locked. Room service! That's exactly what happens. - The next one, we break, wait, what were we? How good are you at picking locks, Mr. Rowe? - Did you start with these tools? Very lightly. I did, yes. I did. So if you want to go ahead and make me a dexterity check, 15 or better. Is it straight dexterity? I'm just curious. I never pick locks, I break doors. I think for tools, you get to add your proficiency to it. That's the bonus of tools. Yeah, it's sleight of hand, right? Yes. Well, that's why I just said a dex check, not a sleight of hand one. - Yeah, 'cause it just says dexterity. - It says these tools and the successful DC 15 dexterity check. So it's not sleight of hand, it is dexterity, but because it's a tool you get to add your proficiency, which is the same thing, basically. - But different. - Same difference, yeah. - Okay, so I'm gonna click on my dexterity thing up this top row, and then is it just plus whatever is listed in the proficiency window? So I would do... It's this one, right? Because it's Dex plus mod. I would ask her, because I've not done this before, but I'm just guessing. So you have proficiency with these tools, let's see, you add your proficiency bonus to ability checks, you make your disarm traps or open mods. So yes, you just go ahead and roll that, add your plus time. And whatever your dex. Yes. Proficiency. Dex save, dex check. Okay, that's dex check. Dex check. Okay, so it's this one. Yes, yes. Okay, so I actually, I rolled two. If you want to roll. I'll just roll another one. Yeah, roll another one. Unless you click on the right one. Yeah, because that's the right one. Those other ones were crashes. Yeah. Well, because it was telling you what it is. Oh, yeah, so down here, dex check 12, yeah. And plus two for proficiency 14, we cry. Just, yeah, just short. Just short. I crack my knuckles and look at this door as I watch. I was like, well, sorry guys, I'm pretty new at this part. Do we want to just check all the other doors or do we want to go ahead and try to force this one? Might as well check the other doors first. He's saying this and I'm looking at the door and I'm like, oh. We'll give it a warning this time. Let it off with a warning. As you guys continue down the hallway, I'm assuming, with the two doors on either side of you, that is going to be... Are you going to go to the one on the left or the right first? Well, I'm following him. I think we're going to pick opposite doors, so whichever one you want to... You're going to want to open two doors at once? That's a good question, actually. That sounds like an excellent idea. See, that's the kind of shit that scares me. It's true. These walls. So left? Or right? I want to listen through both doors. Perception check. Just one? You can go ahead because you're standing right next to both of them. Shit. I guess we're probably arguing over which door we want to open and he's... I got an 8. She said I could do it, so I'm doing it. I got 18. Is that a perception check? Yes, yes. Since you guys are all standing right next to each other. 8, 18. 16. 16. All you guys hear is dead silence. I'll call you in a minute. This could tell you on the same wall. Same wall down here. It might just be another door to the same room. Oh my God. As you open into this room, you will see a web filled room that contains a slender bed, a nice stand and a rocking chair. It seems to be a spare bedroom or so. Not recently used. You said a web filled room? Yes. Like an ab in the horrible world of cobwebs? No, not like huge fat webs, but like... Good. Oh my god. Alright, are we entering this room? I guess we've only just kind of opened it to check in. I think... and take a good look around. Do another. - You wanna go ahead and give me a perception check? - Yeah, give me a perception check. - There's no button for this, right? - Or anything specific. - No button, yeah. - I guess I'm gonna look for anything that's reminiscent of the kids or the people that we've seen in the portraits. Anything that kind of matches up with what I saw in those portraits. So I'll go ahead and save you the check. This room looks like it was probably used now that you're looking by like a survey. Everything is very plain. There's only like a single small stove and everything seems to be extremely real quality. So nothing resembling anything you've seen so far. In fact, that master bedroom y'all were in just a moment ago, you in particular was very lavish. The one where you found all those jewels and stuff. Okay, so I might note the comparison and be like, wow, that's very lavish. My check was a 23 as well. Yeah, yeah, you definitely yield all that. Okay, fair enough. Next one. Not much in there. Yeah, so we're going to do the room across the hall next. So the room across the hall is a storage room. See this dusty chamber packed with old furniture under white sheets. So you can see like the silhouettes of dressers, chairs, tables. Like once again, everything's filled with cobwebs. Very, very quiet and very still. Nice and creepy. Nice and creepy. Nice and creepy. Did you say there's desks and stuff? Yes. Okay. Anything with some kind of ticing-looking drawers? You know, as you continue to mosey around the truck, I'm thinking y'all are all entering, right? Yeah. Okay. As you walk around and start actually inspecting these, you're going to see near one of the iron stoves is an unlocked wooden trunk containing the skeletal remains of... One of the skeletal remains that are like half out of the trunk. So you can kind of see them like peeking out. Okay. But it's all under a sheet. So you have to kind of get closer to like tell it all. That's cool. What up? Hey, don't eat the cupcakes and the foil thing. from the 420 party. Other than that, it's all pretty much normal for him. So, I guess we're definitely going to remark on the skeleton. I might, yeah, I think we should definitely do a general... I could use the trusty, dusty, great sword. To, uh... Oh my god. I might actually say out loud, Jables, want to do the honors with your sword? I do, I do, honestly. I do. So... Lord have fucking mercy. So that's not... So you're walking up. You're doing what again? You're trying to open it and like... Okay. The chest opens. The sheet removes. You get to see that it is likely a woman because they're wrapped in like a... Or they're dressed in a blood-stained dress. Does the skeleton just, like, stay there? Does it fall? If you broke it with your sword, it just crumbles to the ground. Are you going to inspect the skeleton? Yeah, I am. Yeah, I think so. After it doesn't attack us, yeah. Yeah, I think, per reception, my guess is that this is... The woman from the painting, the wife, the same, maybe the lady that was the specter that we just saw. I'm gonna just kinda do perception. I'll just kinda check if that's what I'm seeing. So I'm gonna hit that button. And it's a 12, it's not so great. - 12, not bad. - Maybe it's further behind. - Is this perception? - Yes. Or if anything more specific, you can tell me the wrong one. - It's a 19. - 19, what'd you get? - A 10. - Okay. - And the cat just came back. Good. The collar is somewhere around here. Oh, you have the tracker? Yeah, the collar is all here, ready to go. Suzanne has it. What's an inside check? Inside, like, let's say, for example, someone was trying to lie to you. It's almost like the antithesis to a deception check. What about medicine? Would that work on a, like, would that yield anything on a skeleton? In this instance, yes. If you wanted to make a medicine check instead, you could. I would like to do that. Yes. Oh, instead of the perception check. So it would have been that same roll, but lower modifier? Yes. Okay, it would be an eight. Yes. So, you got a 19, you said? So, we'll do the perception first, because y'all's rolls wouldn't yield anything too, you know, what's the word I'm looking for? Fuck, I'm stumped. Not too specific. With your eight, you would be able to see that there's blood all over, but you wouldn't Really be able to pick out specifically what's going on here. Jables is going to notice that there's actually what appears to be multiple stab wounds in the dress. In fact, Jables can see that she was stabbed to death at least ten times. He's also going to like actually peer into the chest that she was reaching into and there's gonna be like the lifeless very thin skeletal remains of what is probably like no bigger than a newborn. It's the baby. It's the baby. We gotta go take a look. The whole scene. Jables just kind of takes in the whole scene as you were like poking with your fucking brain. You were the one that was right there in front of it, so it makes sense that you'd be the one to see the most. And I'm a little gnome further away. I feel like we gotta go bury these skeletons or something. You know what I'm saying? Yeah. Locked away up here. Yeah, this is definitely... And me is like a temple guy. That's something that I'm thinking about as well. It's like in every religion, you bury the dead or you do something. Yeah, you do. Yeah, you do something with that. It's not this. This isn't right. My thought is gonna be like as a gray face, you know stone face, you know not being necessarily empathetic. What I'm gonna say out loud is I'm like well this explains the haunting. That's all I'm gonna say. I was like well this explains all the ghosts. Eridol would say in my experience touching the dead is never a good idea. Well we got it. And I'm staying. You guys do what you want from me. I'm wrapping them on a machine. You can do just that. I'm going to stay in the room for a second as you start doing that. And I'm just going to kind of start looking around. We just kind of beelined it directly for that. I guess I'm just gonna continue around and was there anything else that's openable in this attic? Like drawers? Because I know he said he was looking for drawers or cabinets and that kind of thing. Anything on the walls? Yeah. Is that gonna wrap them and get them ready to carry while we're... You know, because I don't want a Scooby-Doo. Let's split up. Yeah. No, what? You don't want to split the party? What are you guys in Canada doing? I don't know. I just keep looking at that window. Personally right now, maybe I'll like make my way towards that window and look at it just as like I'm looking around just walking that direction Is it a glass door? It is a window as he described. It's not actually a door. So you see a balcony outside but you cannot access it from where you are Just to make sure I have the orientation of the house correctly. Is that where we came in? Or is where we came in the other side over here? This is where you came in. This is, okay. Yeah, so this is looking over where we originally saw the kids. So I guess I'm kind of looking out here down as well. You still just see Jables' moving on the ground. So I'm going to remark that out loud again. I was like, hey, Luke's still there. Good. Still there. Upon several of you guys taking a moment to further inspect the furniture, pretty much every single drawer is bare, There's not really a whole lot going on in here. It's just a spare bedroom. Other than that lovely little scene that you guys took a look at. Kicked up a lot of dust. Good. Lord. All right. Well, yeah, I guess at this point we'll exit this room and... Are you carrying the bundle now? Are we going to... Yeah, if we're going down, yeah. Yeah, are we going to just go ahead and make a beeline now if there is still one other door that we haven't opened? There's the unopened one and there's the locked one. Yeah, and then the locked one. I'm going to point out, I was like, hey, there's still one other room we haven't checked. Are we going to come back up later or what's the plan with that? I mean, I'd be down to do either. Maybe do a quick check and see if there's anything in here right away that we can see and... Then make the plan of what to do from there. Yeah. Okay. Okay, yeah, we'll go ahead and try opening this door as well. It is unlocked. While we're still holding the bundle. We're able to easily get into this room. Okay. You can see that much like the other one, this is what seems to be a spare bedroom. Dust choked, of course, containing one slender bed and a nightstand. This one, unlike the other one, has a writing desk with a stool, an empty wardrobe, and a smiling doll in a lacy yellow dress that sits in the northern window. Creepy. Cobwebs draping it like a wedding veil. Is there anything? I want to kind of check out this writing desk. Yeah. What type of writing is this? You would be able to find basic stuff like inks, wills, paper. I'm more interested in what they were writing. It is a few notes from one of the servants. Apparently the head butler was the one who stayed in this room. He kept a few notes of his like day to day things. Nothing too extravagant. Nothing cool. - That there's only one locked door in this whole house. - Yeah, I am gonna say something about the doll while we're in here since we've noticed it. I'm just gonna be like, man, that's a creepy ass doll. I mean, I gotta at least remark on it. And I kinda wanna do a... Do a perception check while like directly looking at the doll. I don't think investigation is the right check. Investigation, if you were trying to like... That's like if you're trying to like learn how something works is what it says in here. Yeah. So I just want to do like a perception check specifically on the doll because you mentioned it and I'm feeling like it's out of place or might be somehow significant because wasn't there the little girl out there? There was. Well the little boy had the stuffed bear. Yeah, the little boy had the stuffed bear. I mean, and this is a doll. We didn't see the girl with anything in her hands. I don't remember that being anything mentioned. I'm just gonna, I'm thinking about that when doing this perception check. I might be thinking about grabbing that. Okay. Yeah, make me the check. While he's doing that, I have a question on healing hands. Yes. So the healing hands can't go over max HP, right? Yes. There's some things that grant temporary hits. It just didn't list it here, so I wanted to double check. I assumed that that's how it operated, though. It kind of broke it, otherwise. You might have access to spells later on that will say, like, Restores hit point maximum if reduced. That'll be another specific word you can use. I'm sure that's what you need. I was just curious, because I was looking at it, you know. That's all. With your 22... The only thing that you really find weird is that... Did you share the fact that this was a butler's room? Yeah. Which I thought it was kind of weird that the doll was in the butler's room. That's the only weird thing that you're going to think of when you kind of take a look at this room. It's obviously like a man's room. But everyone's into what they're into, right? Yeah. But... No, I am thinking about it because I know you originally gave your loot to the kid as like a comfort thing. And I'm thinking about that same kind of thing and thinking about, because part of what I'm trying to do is learn how to be a more empathetic person. So I'm trying to follow an example. And I'm like, I'm going to think about that. And I'm going to pick up this doll. And I did a perception check. Am I noticing that it's like damaged or anything like that? It is damaged. OK, so it's still in good condition. It's all just dusty and topsy. Yeah, I think I'm going to pick it up. And I'm just gonna kinda carry it with me. I don't know that I'm gonna say out loud that I'm taking it for the little girl though. I might just grab it. - Do you wanna try to give this door one more hint on your way back or with your tools? - Uh. - It is something you could do multiple times. Now if you sit there and you try to like force a lock by doing it over and over again, things will happen. - You have a chance to like break your tools and stuff. - Can I intimidate the door? - Not like this time. In the cancel shaker zone. I'm gonna laugh. You do that at some point, it'll actually work. It works. But wait, why did it open? The door gives a little beep, and then unlocks it. Props open. Yeah, I mean, if it doesn't unlock this time, I'd be down to try and break it open, but I'd want to bury these two first. Yeah, okay, so as we're walking out, I was like, well, we still got that locked one. I'll go ahead and give it another shot. And yeah, I don't have him giving a shot. So which one was that again? Just dex check that you get to add your proficiency. Yeah, dex check. 19 and then plus two, 21. Nice. So this time around, you're able to successfully take this course. This room contains a bricked up window flanked by two dusty wood-framed beds sized for children. Closer to the door is a toy chest with windmills painted on its sides and a dollhouse that is a perfect replica of this dreary edifice in which you stand. These furnaces are draped in cobwebs. Lying in the middle of the floor are two small skeletons wearing tattered but familiar clothing. The smaller of the two cradles, a stuffed doll that you also recognize. Do I sense anything before I enter the room? Yeah, some ghost shit. He's entered, right? Because he opened it. Yeah. You said some ghost shit? No, you said stuffed doll. Is that like the stuffed toy that the boy was holding? If you take a look at both of these skeletons, you immediately recognize it to be the two kids that you talked with in the beginning. They're clothed. They're the same. The doll is the same for the seven-year-old boy. It is just now their skeletons draped on the floor. Also, one more thing to note is that you would see that they had a dollhouse that is a perfect replica of this house that you've understood so far. What do you guys do? I examine the dollhouse. I want to see if there's anything different from what we've seen. Per second, Jack. I'm, uh, 11. You see that there's quite a few rooms that you guys haven't been in, but you don't really see too much that you haven't already noticed. Not with an 11. Right. Yeah, that's right. That's right. Roll better! I blame your little roll train here. Is it yours? No, it's not mine. Yeah, it's your roll train. Yeah, I blame him on roll train. I am blaming your roll train. Notice I roll on my notebook. Yeah, see? He knows. He knows it's the problem. So what is everyone else doing in this room? - I mean, I got a fucking, you've paired these ones. - Yeah, and you've got your bundle thing. And my first thought is literally what I was just talking about where I was taking the doll for the girl. And if this is the girl and that was the boy and he's got his toy, my thought is I'm gonna be walking over and I'm just gonna immediately set the doll down with the girl. I think that's what I'm gonna do first thing in here without really saying anything. 'Cause like I said before, like I'm thinking about before like trying to be better with the whole empathetic thing and all that and i'm trying to be true to my temple origins and that kind of deal so that's yeah that's what i'm doing i'm just going to immediately set the dog on there i'm going to be helping you wrap now because if i've got the mom and the baby wrapped in the sheet i'm going to put like unwrap so that i can put them all together maybe maybe we both have to work together to carry it out i'm not sure if that's like a I'm pretty easy. Okay, yeah, sorry. That's right, I'm pretty tiny. I don't think I'm going to be very useful to them. Yeah, children's bones, right? Yes. Airedale still does not touch the dead. That's true. Fair enough. A lot of dead now. As you go to handle the remains of these two children, you are actually going to see them in their spectral forms up here before you guys. I try to talk to them. Like our dollhouse? It's impressive. Are you going to take this away? Where are you trying to go? I guess we died. What can help you rest? You know, and I guess I'm standing there. I just assumed that this was her doll. I'm going to be the way that I am. I'm going to be like, this is your doll, right? I'm just going to ask that question out loud. It's actually not my doll. Is the butler, like, really creepy? Yeah, that's going to make me pause for a second. I was like, oh, it's... I'm going to immediately question him like, oh, it's... Are you talking about Uncle Butler? No. Sorry, that's pretty funny. She will not... She doesn't remark on the father. That's funny. All right, now... Here we go. I was going to say, yeah. I think we should leave them. Because they don't know anything and they don't know how they can rest. So how can we help them? You want to leave us? No, I'm hot as hell. Not you, but thank you for that. I feel compelled to at least properly bury these because I feel they deserve it. They've been nice to us. I'm also going to agree with that. I understand Iridil's apprehension. And that's why we were saying we can handle this. You don't have to worry about this. I understand you're nervous about it. At this point, there's nothing else that we can really do on this floor. We checked out the dollhouse. You said that was that just like a toy chest, you said? So they did have a toy chest, and then they had the dollhouse. Iridel took a look at the dollhouse. And we haven't looked at the... We saw basically nothing, except that there's rooms behind the ceiling. I don't know if anyone else was looking at the dollhouse. Yeah. The dollhouse. Well, they did specifically say, did you like our dollhouse? And I'm already now I'm like confused about the doll and it not being hers and then the dollhouse. So I might take a look at the dollhouse because now, I don't know, like I still want to bury them, but now like I'm suspicious again. Like at first I was like, oh, we solved it, but then there's acting weird again. So, and yeah, I'm not necessarily pathetic, but I'm also not stupid, so I'm noticing it. So I'm also, I'm going to take a look at the dollhouse, I think. Perception? Perception. - Looking at either one of these things. - Have I successfully packed up bones? - Easily, yeah. Their skeletons are done. - I just wanted to make sure that that was done. - 16. - I've left the new doll out of the pack up because I'm like, it's not her side. - Right, it wasn't theirs. - Yeah, like I've set it aside at this point. - You said 16? - Yeah, 16. - So with the 16, that is actually enough for you to notice that there's multiple secrets. Areas in this house that are hidden behind like dressers and walls and stuff, but you were able to find them all. Okay, all of them. Are there any on this floor that we could see and where are there entrances? There is! Okay, so I'm going to be... There was one in that room y'all were just in. Yeah, I'm going to immediately like say something like, man, I thought we checked out that room, but look at this. I'm going to point it out in the... I'm gonna point out all of these to everybody in the dollhouse as I as I find them If you guys go to other floors I'll reveal the secret ones. Okay, so maybe as we go down the floors They are still in the room with you guys I want to ask how I'm gonna be like you have these secret doors and stuff Do y'all know where they go? Do y'all know they just go to the other floors or is there? Have y'all ever taken them? Were you told not to because there was a monster at the bottom? Yeah, would you believe? There's a monster in the basement. Would I believe that the people who locked their children up to start death would say something like that? Yeah, maybe. All right, so yeah, as I'm doing this, so I'm looking for specifically how to get into the one that's on this floor, and I'm going to say out loud how we get in. Easily done. In fact, upon... Fuck. Upon you guys making it there, you would notice that there are grooves in the small bit that there wasn't before. Allowing you to open a hatch and make it into this secret staircase. You guys would all level up. Level up? Yep. You guys all level to upon finding this. And your hit point maximum will be restored. I don't know if it normally is, I've never had someone level up before at point-based. I'm gonna be nice and say it's restored. So how do we do this? How do we level up? So you're gonna go back to your character builder. Do you just literally move to level two on this little thing here? Yeah. So like this, so just right here? Yep, precisely so. And you should be able to scroll down and see anything that you've gained. If at all. You might not gain a lot until three, but you at least get your health, which it should automatically calculate. Yeah, it doesn't, I don't think there's anything like that. Wild companion. You can summon a nature spirit that assumes an animal form to aid. Did increase my... As a magic action, you can expend a spell slot or use wild shape to cast a fine familiar spell without material propellant. Optional feature... Yeah, I don't... We'll get another one. One more. Yeah, everything else stayed the same, I think. That's fine. You got cutting attack. Oh, did... Oh, yeah. That's... Yeah, so that's... There you go. Quick thinking. Okay, so now I got it. It's a little bit faster stuff. Ooh, I got some more bonus actions. Dash, disengage your hide. Nice, that's good, because the only bonus action I had before was the second hand attack thing. So, is it the fixed HP? It didn't automatically calculate. So is it the fixed HP that I'm going to? It should be fixed, yes. It would raise you to what? You were at 11 before? I was at 10. 10 before? This is 13 for the fixed HP, so that's what I was asking. It feels like you should be getting more. Well, you did drop from the thing. Does that affect it? Did you actually put in your reduced hit point maximum in there? Yeah. You might have to do that, but yes, it should give you five sounds right. Five per level sounds. Okay, so I should be at 15. Yes. What's your con? My con is 15. Oh, and do I heal back to max too? So I'm at 15 health with 15 health. Nice. Appreciate you. Walking around with five was getting real, real concerning. Well, yeah, of course. I mean, you know, it's like when you get a, when you get like three loot chests with all the health pots in them, you know, in an RPG game. Yeah. Question for. Are we going to keep carrying these bodies as we investigate this? Well, that was going to be my question. Do we want to go down these first, or can I go bury these guys and get my fucking milk? Yeah, because I know since we've looked at the dollhouse, we know the whole layout of the house. I'm also thinking it might be a good idea to at least get outside. And maybe attempt to bury them. Maybe we just bury them really quickly, like right outside the house or something, and then go back to finish investigating if we can pull that off. It's just a quick six-foot hole. Or four. Because I would like to get my loot back, so it's convenient to bury them and get it back at the same time. Yeah, yeah. I'm down for that, yeah, because we have kept checking for it. And then I can keep my promise after we bury them. I can play them. It won't be the greatest eulogy in the world, but a little tribute. Yeah, you know. A little tribute. Just a tribute. You guys did not do that. First floor, right? Sorry, what? You guys didn't actually go into any rooms. You went in here and then you went straight up the stairs, yes? I believe that's correct, yes. Okay. Yeah, I think. I don't remember. All we would know of it is whatever they noticed from the dollhouse. You guys are leaving and burying them? So you guys are going all the way down to the first floor? I'm just burying them in the front yard. Yeah, because we're going back and forth. Right by my room. Yeah. And then I'm going to play them a little ballad because I promised the kid I would. How long does it usually take to dig 650 holes? I guess I should do it properly. I should do it properly. But also, they're all bones already, so they don't take up the full... They don't take up... Yeah, no, it's not like, yeah. It's not like a whole big thing. So tell me exactly what you're doing, how much time you're willing to invest in these holes. Just lay it out. Paint me the picture. It's true. Let me think. Do we have anything... Do you even have a shovel in your bag? I might be noticing this when I get out there with the bag of bones that I'm not equipped to dig a hole. I might just have to play them the song. I might put the bag in the bushes. We're having this debate out loud as we get down there. We're like, oh, shit, so how do we dig this hole? How do we dig a hole? I have a shovel with me. I was like, well, I'm a gnome. Do gnomes have, like, a natural... I'm gonna... I'm gonna... Here's my plan. Here's my plan. I got a new idea. I have a very new plan. I think everyone can get on board with it. I'm gonna grab my loot, and then we're gonna go back inside, and I'm gonna take the bag of bones and put it in the fireplace. Oh, cremate them. Boom. We can do fire shit. Boom. Boom. And if not, if there's no fire, if there's no log... I have fire though. Cantrip. Are you willing to help us out with this? You were talking about Nani wanting to touch the dead. I'll set him on fire. Okay. Don't get rid of him. Yeah. Fire is purifying. Yeah. I agree with that. We'll go for that. Yeah. Because we are wanting to kind of purify the whole thing. And then as they're burning, I can... Yeah, play them. Give them their tribute. Yeah, yeah, okay. Yeah, this is a plan. We've discussed this outside and we're, we're, we literally. It'll take 12 hours. We're probably, yeah, we're probably like. I suppose in character, I would say, I can help at this point. You know, technically, if no, if they're not doing completely strenuous things for the 30, if we can consider it a short rest. If I play my musical instrument for my allies during my short rest, I can give them inspiration. So you guys come back inside, throw them in the fireplace. Iridel's hitting them with the control flame. Yeah, produce flame. Produce flame. You're starting to burn it up. I guess maybe I'm doing a prayer from my temple faith as it's happening. Okay. And then you can maybe get started with your loop plan and we'll solve it. And Aragel is just curled up in the corner. As you guys do this... Kind of looking like a feral animal. Once you guys roll a d100... A what? Who wants to roll the d100? We're rolling a d100? Mm-hmm. Is there any advantage? Any modifier? No, it's just a d100. Okay. Well, you know, you have the D-100. Yeah, I'm looking forward to it. Do you want an actual D-100 or? No, no. That's a trap. That's a trap. I got 45. Right in the middle of the chart. Y'all think to try to attempt a short rest. Happens. Yes, happens about incident. Nothing comes out of the walls. Yeah, okay, cool. So we get our short rest and we've done our little thing. It was like, well... And y'all both have inspiration at the moment from me playing my... What does that do specifically? Is that something I can add in here, like a condition? Yeah, so if you go right here, it's called heroic inspiration. You can click it. Oh, heroic inspiration. And it's essentially just a free reroll. Oh, okay. You can give yourself advantage. Neat. Uh... I get it. Wait, hold on. I marked the heroic inspiration? Okay. Because you technically already had one from your sneeze. You can only have one, right? You can only have one. I might have accidentally checked restore maximum health and it may have put it to 17. That's fine. That sounds right. Okay. I just wanted to check in on that because... Those numbers sound too low. You're a druid and druids are relatively safe. Oh, yeah. So I just click short rest and then what else do we do? Reset maximum HP... Yeah, nothing happened to me so it doesn't matter. It's 15 and then it has a plus 2. Does it tell you what your hit dice are? I think it's an 8. I mean your hit point dice. Oh. Off the top of your head, do you know if druids are a d8 hit point? I think it's a d8. Yeah. See, so because then, so yeah, so first level. Yeah, that would have been 10 health. So that is crazy. But then, so like since you have a D8, average health just since you leveled up is the only time you average up, because it's half of your D8 plus one, so five, plus your card, seven, so it's four while we're down here. Yes, we were going to go just right back to where we were. It's the only time you get to round up. Because it's just this one and then above, right? And that's all we've seen so far. But now I'm based on that we haven't seen the entrance, but I - So otherwise the trunk-- - I've seen in my dollhouse. - You've now thoroughly searched the third floor in the attic. The attic is where you found that staircase. You really haven't come to the first or the second floor. - Right, okay. - But you would know, given that you studied the anatomy of the dollhouse, that that staircase in the attic spirals all the way down through the house. So that's kind of what you're able to perceive right there. - Okay, so I'm gonna be like, I'll be thinking about that, I'll be saying out loud as we're finishing up, So that spiral staircase that we were about to go down, it's right over here on this wall, as we're kind of staying there looking at it. It's right over here by this wall. It goes all the way down even below this floor. You know, we never really checked anything else out on this floor. You want to go see the monster? Yeah, do we want to go straight to the monsters in the basement before we investigate everything else? We can check this floor if we want. Maybe there's some potions or something. Who knows? Yeah, first floor, maybe there's a kitchen. Maybe there's something we can get to. Maybe there's another specter. Maybe there is. A room that wants to fight and a paladin that wants to loot. Because we did. Because we did. We did have the mom and we saw the kids. We haven't seen the dad. And there's also the talk of the monster. Is the dad the monster? I don't know. In retrospect. My intelligence is 8. I don't have much input on that. - No, I was just kind of thinking out loud. I was like, do we want to check any of the other floors? I'll basically defer to you. Like I said, I'm not pushy on things. So I'm asking this out loud. Do you want to check this floor or do you just want to go right back to, 'cause you were saying you were drawn that way. Do you just want to keep going? - I didn't say that. - Or no, was that? - I said it was curious that there was a palette and that wanted to loot. And a rogue that wants to fight. I don't know about that. No, I was talking about it. I was remembering something else. I was remembering from before when we were in that other hallway. Okay. I don't know. - Two, three, four. - I'm saying that and I was talking about and kind of looking near the wall where that spiral staircase is since I saw the layout of everything. So I'm looking at that door that's closest to the fireplace on the opposite wall. - This one? - Yeah, that one. 'Cause that's the door I'm closest next to. - So if you attempt to open this door, it will open right up and it reveals a dining room. - Ooh, dining room, cool. Is the table set? Like, what are we now? It is a fully set table. No food. Cobwebs is the only thing on the menu. What type of, what else on the? Well, what's above the fireplace? Is that a portrait? Is that a portrait? Or is there, like, anything on the mantle up there? Anything of note? Anything we can see? You're noticing that there's a crystal chandelier above this huge table. Quite a few of these different things are covered with resplendent silverware, crystalware polished at one point. Mounted above the marble fireplace is a mahogany framed painting of an alpine veil. So that's what you're seeing there. You're also noticing the wall paneling - Wall paneling is carved with elegant images of deers among trees. - Okay. - So this area, while being old, is very lavish. - Okay, is it still, you said it's still like dusty and cobwebby, same kind of not maintained like everything else? - Yes. - Yeah. Can I roll just like a general perception check and see if I notice anything? out of the ordinary in terms of things sticking out of the walls or whatever. Because I had noticed secret passages before. And I noticed basically the whole layout when I was looking at the dollhouse. That's right. So I'd be looking-- This room does not have any secret rooms. Yeah, so I would just be looking for anything that's just out of the ordinary like that. Because I saw secret rooms on there. Maybe there's some other secret rooms that weren't on there at the dollhouse. Perception. What's everyone else doing? I want to kind of look around. Kind of see what the silverware section looks like. I'm trying to see if I can find like either stuff made out of silver. It's all made out of silver. It's all made out of silver. How many, can I yoink some of these silver knives? How many can I yoink? The table is set for eight people, so you can yoink probably 12-ish knives. So a dozen knives. Silver knives? Yeah. So I'm gonna pack them up. What was your check? I think it was a seven. Seven? Yeah, it was real bad. You know that this room is nice, but you're not noticing anything that really sticks out to you? Yeah, pretty obvious. What do you need? Is that like curtains all across the side there? Yes. Luxurious red velvet ones, yes. I examined those. Okay. Perception. Perception. 18. 18. You see that they are, you know, extremely nice, albeit old. You're also going to notice that, you know, at the very bottoms, the embroidery that you saw that was very elegant kind of sticks out to you now as like having skulls. Interesting. And you notice some really kind of cryptic, very subtle detailing in some of these curtains. And then you notice that on the walls... You notice it kind of almost silverware to. The mark of death is everywhere. It is. I say that out loud so that everyone can hear. At this point I might already be backing out and... I'm like tucking the knives away and just like... I'm also noticing him taking the knives and... How did you make these coasters? Did you buy them this way? I had someone play during grade one for me that were... I told him I wanted them to be inappropriate. He applied. It's quite successful, I'd say. Y'all are back out in this main route, I guess, main area. Y'all going up the stairs? Y'all investigating any of these other rooms? We wanted to check the more rooms, or we want to... Yeah, I say we're just going to be checking rooms. We may as well continue. Yeah, next room. I guess we're standing right outside that door. This one? Did we check the small closet? Yeah, the small closet, yeah. On the way to the... You'll open it to notice the dumbwaiter. The dumbwaiter? Okay. Dumbwaiter. How dumb? How dumb is he? And nothing in the dumbwaiter, just totally empty. Yes. But that's good to know because that means it could go up or down. Whoever knows how many floors could be useful. It usually does. So I just take note of that maybe. And at this point, I'm going to go directly across the hall to the other floor. Yeah, that's the direction I'm walking. All right. Is y'all on? Yeah. As you walk up to this room, the door opens easily. It reveals... This oak-paneled room looks like a hunter's den. Mounted above the fireplace is a stag's head, and positioned around the outskirts of the room are three stuffed wolves. Two very nicely padded chairs draped in animal furs face the hearth with an oak table between them, supporting a cask of wine, two carved wooden goblets, and a pipe rack, a candelabrum as well. This room, you guys will immediately notice, is not cobwebbed. It is very nicely maintained. Almost seems like it was cleaned recently. You would also see two cabinets standing against the wall. I inspect the wolf that's closest to the door, the stuffed wolf. The taxidermy is excellent. Very lifelike. I tried talking to him. I did walk in the door first and I'm gonna be, I guess I'm just gonna start. What do you say to the stuffed wolf? Sorry. I'm gonna be walking towards the end. You can continue your stuff first actually while I'm thinking about what happened. I would say, what have they done to you? What have they done to you? The wolf stares back with I'm going to be dumb, blunt, gray at this point. I'm going to say, you've never seen taxidermy before? I'm just going to say that out loud like a dummy. Damn. Erdogan rolls her eyes. I'm interested in that pipe. I might check and see what that is. It looks like it's been smoked recently. What's been smoked out of it? You know, I'm very interested. Give it a good sniff. It's not like warm to the touch, but it is loaded. With? I guess common knowledge is pipe tobacco. I'm going to, you know, is there a lighter? Yeah. Just gonna start squirming this way. I think there would be a way to light it. You can definitely take it. Do I have a coin on me? I'm gonna flip a coin. Flip a coin on why you're gonna do this. Just roll high low. Here we go, Swede. Yeah, high as heads, tails as low. And on heads, I gotta take a hit, you know? Wasn't meant for me. Some bush weed. Wasn't meant for me. That's funny. I might start inspecting some of these cabinets that are against the wall. While also saying out loud, this is obviously the dad's room. It looks clean though. Like I said, these things that we've noticed I'm going to be saying out loud sometimes just like, no. I respect it. I respect it. Always good to reinforce out loud in case other characters aren't noticing. Yeah. So what else are y'all doing? - That's what I meant by like investigate, I'm like. - Okay, so if you open the cabinets, sorry. I am stoned as fuck. - I, I, I, I. - I shouldn't, I shouldn't smoke that much weed. - What the fuck? - And I have weed loaded right there. Two cabinets. As you open them, you'll see one of them holds a heavy crossbow. One of them holds a light crossbow and a hand crossbow. That's a lot of stuff. Say them again. There's essentially a heavy, light, and a hand crossbow in these two cabinets, in addition to a shit ton of bolts. I think we take them. Yeah, I was going to say... We're about to go to the basement. The kids said there was a monster in the basement. How much of it can we grab? And you said that this hand crossbow, that's probably the right size for me. Yeah. So I'm going to grab that and... How many bolts are there, you said? There would be enough for each to have 20. Okay. And would we be able to just carry that and not even shoot, I guess? You would. Okay. Yeah. So I'm just, yeah. I say I'm just going to grab, say we should split this up evenly as I'm walking there, looking up. I'm definitely grabbing the hand one for myself because we need it. How do we how would we add something like this to the inventory? So you go all the way to the side? I don't think it's to... I don't believe so. I mean, you know, so, you know, I can... I can use anything. I want it. Yeah. You use it. How effectively? It's true. God, all things are possible. How do you know if you can use it, I guess, if you have the proficiency for it? It would be on your character sheet under proficiencies, just on the front page. Yes. So I think that's considered like a simple one. Yeah, weapons cross-throw is listed under weapons. Okay, I'm proficient with simple and martial, but I think I just pick... Which two? Don't I? You're proficient with all of them if you have that proficiency. Oh, okay. I have that as well. I have simple and martial. I think crossbows... We'll have to see. I was just looking over it. Under my left side, under weapons, it just says crossbows specifically. I don't know if that means I can... It might. Fuck, it might. Crossbows are kind of its own thing. But... Can we just add them to the party inventory to examine them and then distribute them from there? Absolutely. Absolutely. Easily done. What were they again? There's a heavy crossbow. Light crossbow, and he's adding the hand crossbow to his inventory, so you would only have to add the heavy and the light. Heavy crossbow of warning. Dragon slayer heavy crossbow. That one. One of these days. One of these days. One of these days. This is what I'm saying, Grace. You tell me which one of these is like, how do I get to the type of crossbow that you have spawned in front of me? So for some reason, I clicked on common, and I erased everything except HEA, and I see heavy crossbow. Nice. So I'm going to go ahead and bam, add it. I'll do it with the regular crossbow too. Perfect. There's some things about D&D Beyond that I fail to understand. Search is a hard thing to get right. It is, especially when you have so many items. And every website does it differently too, so you have to know how that website handles it. Right, yeah. Because it's how it decides semantic is semantic. Right. Should be on. So yeah, and then the light crossbow is simple. Two-handed slow range. And the heavy is two-handed push range. Does strength matter for the weight at all? We could split these however you want, Travis. However Jables wants. I assume Jables wants the heavy one. Because it looks particularly cool, but that's just an assumption. - It might be versatile. - It might be random. - Damage is 1d10 plus one. Damage type is piercing. Weight is 18. Cost is 50. Properties, ammunition, heavy loading range, two-handed push. I don't see anything that says how it scales. - Yeah, no. I'm seeing the exact same. So I mean, maybe I can use the strength. I don't know. We'll see how God rules it, you know? I'm probably gonna smoke a squirrel shit in the bathrooms. Let's see if I can hit this button to charge. Say, I like it when they let you. Yeah, I wish it did. I was gonna load this thing up, it got very sudden. I hope my best factory didn't kill us. Yeah, that was nice. I got to see what's my wish. I wish I had thought about doing the baby cry thing earlier on. Yeah, you're right. It seems fun right now. Otherwise, it'd be a chore. I'm not gonna lie, first time smiting something, pretty cool. It was a good time to just... Smite's a cool one. All in. Is it an undead? Perfect time to be undead. Yeah, I had 22 health. Jesus. Sorry, it had eight damage still. It had twice my health. It did. It had twice your health. What's its CR? One? It's not one. One. It's one? They call that a CR1? These guys. These guys are crazy. No AC? You hit it, right? Yeah, what's the JC? 12. Oh, okay. It's not too high. Okay. Yeah, I know, but I had the 17. I was like, please, God. Please. They set it up to where there's a very small chance that you don't have that encounter before you get to level 2, so you literally have... It has two D6s as its attack. So it rolled... Almost max against Joe! That's crazy. One off max. One off max. And then it reduces your health by that much and of course you just straight up die. And you start shriveling away. Yeah, it's great. It would only be better if it added that to its own health, but no, they're not that cruel. I thought it was gonna do something like that, just with the way the attack was worded, the name of it, I forget the name of it. Lifetrain? Yeah, and then when it, you know, capped the max health, I was like, oh, look at the different kind. It's the bad kind. It's the really bad kind, but it's good. Somehow. I've been walking around with one health. I probably would have rolled my ice against you, though. If it did, that would have done it. You'd have hit me, too, because I had my greatsword out, so I was only at 16 AC, but even with my shield, I'm only at 18 AC. I got a 19. It rolled really well. That's why when it said 19, he was looking at his AC. I was like, no, it's going to be good. I didn't want to break it so roughly. I was like, that's going to be it. I know. Last night, I was reading the rest of this. I'm like, am I going to have to kill someone? Am I going to have to kill someone right away? I'm glad I didn't. That would have been the second time I've had to do that. I haven't put you guys in the incinerator room yet, it's flagged. I have some cruel starts to these campaigns, but they're great. All of them. You know, it's way easier making a character the second time. My work one note two, it's not a bad tool for the boxes. So for level two, never mind, never mind, that's dumb. But so these fighting stances though, you've never done with paladin? No, but I could read about it if you want advice on it. No, probably just going to go with blessed warrior. Ah, like which one's the best? Choose the one that your heart desires. Well, it's just the fighting styles are weird. Because that sounds more like a fighter than a church candidate. The perfect time like for the music to get very sober is you continue to find the bodies of children. Perfect. So you guys successfully looted this room, looked around, stared at the text and are like, what are y'all doing? So if we've already alluded everything, there's nothing else particularly of note other than that it's pretty obviously what we think is the dad's room. Yep. And at this point, we've got one other room on this floor. Do we want to go ahead and check it out? We've got this little other door over here. I say we go ahead and open up that room. You guys think? Let's go for it. You guys come over here to this room. It is. Yes, it is locked. Did we divvy up the crossbows yet? Oh yeah, did we? Did you guys decide? Because I picked up the one that's going to be good for me. Yeah, because I took the hand one because that just makes sense for somebody my size in my opinion. I don't know how much all of us would be able to use it, but it's like. We might as well split them all up. There's three of them and three of us. If we're expecting a monster. Yeah, if we're expecting a monster. Only a little bit of monster, actually. But I'll let you guys dig those up. You would have 20 crossbows each. As you open the door to this room in particular, you would notice that it is a pantry. Pantry, okay. Yeah, I see we got the stove. Is that an extra door that I see over there as well? Actually, no, this is a kitchen. Sorry. If you went over in here, this is a kitchen. Yeah, okay. Fair enough. You know, not a lot going on here other than, you know, a lot of food that seems... I was going to say, yeah, I'm going to, like, check out this food and, like, is it fresh? Is it, like, falling apart moldy? This is all, like, it's all very obviously, like, falling apart and... "Mome" isn't quite the word. It almost seems to be in like a state of almost petrification. Okay, interesting. So like almost magical. Yes, it's some weird way between stale and not stale. You're not sure about any of it. But it is not a really well-stocked pantry, but there are some things here and there and there and here. My first thought was like, if there's anything in here that seems decent, I might like absolutely pick it up and eat it. But I'm definitely going to be like, that's looking a little bit funky. And so I'm not going to do that. You would not feel compelled. Is there nothing in here of value? I know he was looking for silverware or anything like that. And he's been looking for things like that. And I've still got those jewel, that jewelry on the other floor in the back of my mind. And I'm thinking about that, wondering if I should just go ahead and grab it. Me being, From the temple being new to the whole rogue thing and still being a little bit not too keen on the stealing. So looking around this room, you say you're looking for like silverware or things like that? Yeah, just because that's what he was doing before and my mind is just kind of, I'm learning from him about things, so I'm learning that thing as well. You'd see a lot of cookware and some dishware, but the things in this room in particular aren't silver. That was more for the very nice plate setting out there. Makes sense. But if you wanted to find any kind of kitchen item, you'd be able to have it. Stealing. If you're going to do something, never do it for free. I can't think of anything that I would need. I was just thinking along those lines because I'm starting to think about getting into a little bit of stealing stuff. Stealing. You keep using that word. I mean, borrowing. Picking up. Picking up. Did we clean up their house? So with that, y'all have more or less sussed out every room on this floor. Do y'all want to do anything more in the kitchen? Did we exercise the specter? No, I don't think so. Not on this floor in particular, but you did. Yeah, I think it's time to go upstairs. A little silver heater, some crossbows there. That's... If you guys are ready, I think it's time to go up to the floor. I have a question for you. The spell attack plus five, is that supposed to be added to my... So like whenever you... You know how when I'm... So if I were to roll for my greatsword attack, I add like my strength and my proficiency bonus. You get to add plus five like to your d20 roll when you make a spell attack. So what spells you got? Okay. That are... The d20 is just to see if it hits, right? So that's just more likely to hit. Yeah, yeah. See, because this one's off. The modifier is like your actual spell attack modifier. So what are you using for it? Is it intellect or is it wisdom? Oh, so that's why it's supposed to fire. What's your wisdom at? Okay, so that's why it's plus three. Yeah, see? Okay, okay, okay. Yeah. It's already applied. Yeah, and then so that plus five is just adding your proficiency with it because your spell attack, yeah. Yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Cool. Appreciate it. What are we doing? No, you're good. I think y'all were deciding whether or not you wanted to head up because you had kind of figured out. What was happening on this one? Yeah, there's that. We already did all the perception. We checked that back room and everything. This right here, yeah. It was a kitchen and a pantry. Not a life-giving. Pantry, the food was kind of like, it's not moldy, but yeah, not like, yeah, it was kind of like petrified-ish. Secret passage? I'd say time to go. Secret tunnel. So you want to go all the way up to the top? I was going to say just up one more floor. You want to go check out the jewelry? Yeah, just because I'm thinking about that and that's... The jewelry? Yeah, because we didn't. Oh, we didn't. Oh, we never looked at floor two. Yeah, you guys went straight up all the way to floor three. It's because we skipped it. Yeah, we just decided to skip it. I'd say if we have to go all the way to the top to go back down, do we want to go ahead and investigate this one or do we want to save it? There's a door, like, right here on the stairs. That's true. I'm going to, like, you know, check the knob. Is the knob unlocked? As you're walking. Now that y'all are deciding to stay on the floor, let me give you a little description. Unlit oil lamps are mounted on the walls of this elegant hall. Hanging above the mantel place is a wood-framed portrait of the Durst family, Gustav, Elizabeth, and you see their two smiling children, Rose and Thorn. Cradled in their father's arms is a swaddled baby, which the mother regards with a hint of scorn. Very specific, but you would pick up on it. You would also see what these things are right here. Our suits of armor lining the walls. Is their armor nicer than mine? It's very, it's pretty nice. You know what I'm getting at here? You're really taking a look at yourself. So now I'm wearing some chain mail. I'm a human. What size are these guys? What's this armor situation? Is it looking just like decorative armor? It's more like decorative armor. It is, it's like the standing suit's a very decorative armor, like, could you attempt? I got my hopes up for nothing. Like, they're not mounting, like, really nice sets of plate mail on the wall, though. You could always ask. I did. Yes. So that, was that door locked, unlocked, that one that was right on the edge of the staircase? This right here? Uh, yeah, that one there, because he was, yeah, he was checking. I was gonna like, oh no, fall into it, you know. It is not locked. Going in? Yes. So you would find an undecorated bedroom containing a pair of beds stuffed with straw mattresses. At the foot of each is a footlocker and tiny servants uniforms hang from hooks in a closet that you can see. Servant room. Servant room. Closet. Are we gonna check out the closet? I mean you just kind of fell through the door. I figured we were gonna... We might as well. You said the footlocker's there. We're gonna open the footlocker's. So the footlocker's are both empty and upon opening this right here I'm assuming, right? You find the dumbwaiter. Oh. Dumbwaiter. That makes sense. So the servants never have to enter the main hall and be seen by the people. They can go directly from bed down into or up to the kitchen or whatever. If that makes sense. And I'm assuming that's just wall along the black box there, both sides. Yep. Yep. This is a pretty small room. Fair enough. I'll go to the next one. Nothing important. Which one? Left or right, guys? Right. Right? Okay, stick it on the same wall. Negative. Yes. Okay, we confirm it's not right here. Yep. There's just another shape around it. There's no reason to hide this because you would know the existence of this room now. Upon stepping into this room, let me move you guys over here. It's a library. It is. Red velvet drapes cover the windows of this room. An exquisite mahogany desk and a matching high-backed chair face the entrance of the fireplace, above which hangs a framed picture of a windmill perched atop a rocky crag. Suited in the corners of the room are two overstuffed chairs. Floor-to-ceiling bookshelves line the south wall. A rolling wooden ladder allows one to reach more easily the higher shelves. Airedog gets really excited and kind of squeaks, books, and runs to the bookshelves to investigate. Okay. There's hundreds of books on this bookshelf. I'm walking directly forward into the room, straight towards the desk, because it's prominent right there in front of me, so it's the direction I'm going to go. I'm going to investigate everything on the desk, see what I can find. If there's drawers, I'm going to open them. We're all met. Okay. Okay. So you're going to the books, you're going to the desk, where are you going? Join me in a minute. - I'm interested in some of these. If he's already on the desk, I might be interested in some books as well. Just looking through book titles. - Okay. - Everyone give me perception checks to take looks at their respective areas. - 20. - Not 20? - No, 15 plus five. - 19. - 19, excellent. - 12. - 12, all right. With the 19 you got, you would see that the desk is pretty much empty, all except for an iron key. Okay, so I'm grabbing the iron key, and I'm going to out loud say, hey guys, I found a key. Just so everybody knows. If it goes to that room, you already picked the lock. Okay, good question. We'll find out. Is that something that I would be able to tell looking at the key? Maybe a history check to see if you remember the log super well. Okay, I'll go ahead and do that. Recall. History check? Okay. - 17. - Yes, it looks very similar to kind of a crude or it looks similar to the crude lock of that door that you ended up picking. So it matches aesthetically at least. - Okay, so I'm gonna say that part of the logic. I was like, yeah, it kind of makes sense. That looks like that door for the door that I picked. - With the 19, as you look all around the bookshelf, You'll notice that he or this person had tomes on history, warfare, alchemy. Is this for me? This is a 20. Yes. Oh, sorry, 20, yes. You got a 12, right? Yes. So you would be able to see that he has tomes covering all of those. He even has multiple shelves containing first edition collected works of poetry and fiction. So this guy had an extremely vast collection of tomes. One in particular is going to stand out to you. It's red with a blank spine. It looks fake to you. I note that to come back to it. But am I able to take any of the alchemy and poetry books? You can definitely acquire a few. You can find one that's on general alchemy. You can find one's How many do you want? I'm wanting four total books, one poetry, three practical. Okay, okay, you can grab those. Is there specific ones I should add to my inventory or does it not matter? Do I just say it's books? One moment. No, just right now say this. Legacy gear, adventuring gear, add to... And then I pulled down that interesting fake looking book. So it would reveal a fake room. We're now able to open. Guys? This room, as you, I assume, walk into it, right? Take a little peeky-peek? Yeah, take a little peeky-peek. Okay. I was walking towards the books. And I called out to them. So I'm following you. There you go. There you go. This secret room would contain bookshelves packed with tomes describing fiend-summoning rituals and the necromantic rituals of a cult called the Priestess of... Osiris. - How do you spell that? - O-S-Y-B-U-S. You would also see a heavy wooden chest with clawed iron feet standing against the wall, lid half closed. Sticking out of the chest is a skeleton in leather armor. - What are you doing? - I'm not gonna lie to you guys. I don't feel as compelled to bury this guy. I don't know who he is. Is it the father? - Is he wearing the leather armor? - He is. Actually, in like a painting? Or like the-- - You said it was physical leather armor, so the skeleton armor has that leather armor. I know this is just in the thing, but if we go and look at him, do we see a letter near him like that? Yeah, if you go to inspect you'll see in his hand he's clutching a letter. I've been practicing my words. I'll read the letter. He's got a letter in his hand, he does! That's why I like this map pack. If you go to pick up the letter, As you go closer to the skeleton, you'll see that there's three darts stuck in his ribcage. Kind of like he opened the chest, and then fell over. It's a pretty straight line to see what happened here. As you remove the letter and go to read it, it says, My most pathetic servant. I am not a messiah sent to you by the dark powers of this land. I have not come to lead you on a path to immortality. However many souls you have bled on your hidden altar, however many visitors you have tortured in your dungeon, know that you are not the ones who brought me to this beautiful land. You are but worms writhing in my dirt. You say that you are cursed, your fortunes spent, You abandoned love for madness, took solace in the bosom of another woman, and sired a stillborn son. Cursed by your darkness, of that I have no doubt. Save you from your wretchedness, I think not. I much prefer you as you are. Your dread lord and master, Strahd von Zarovich. Good old Strahd. Does that name stir anything for me? Oh, it does. Can I investigate that feeling? Sure. You can make a history with advantage. History with advantage. Also... Nine was the roll plus... Did you roll two dice? No. With advantage, you get to roll two and take the higher. Nice. So 11 plus one is 12. With a 12... It would be a name that you heard in, like, stories, like, scary stories people would tell of, like, folktales and, like, mythic vampires stuck in faraway lands, trapped in mists of sorts. You would be able to recall these kinds of stories as well. Of that you were sure at the moment, like, were just stories, right? It seems like Dracula. You would also find in that chest three blank books with leather, three spell scrolls, one of bless, one of protection from poison, and one of spiritual weapon. You would find the deed to the house, the deed to a windmill, and a signed will. Remember the windmill from the picture in the office study area? I can't say that again, but you guys would acquire all these things if you wish to take it. I think we'd take all of them. Look at me, Zoiberg. Homeowner. Yeah. I'd say at this point we're just kind of deciding that we're going to kind of gather up everything and figure out what to do from there. Yeah, just add it to the party inventory for now. So you said three, just three generic books? Yep, three blank books. Okay, so three of those. Probably find that or add the custom item and just say blank books. I just add books. Perfect. Differentiate these from the other books that you took. Yeah, the books that I took are in my inventory. These are in party inventory. Perfect, perfect. Don't ask why. I figured there would be a why, but we would find out. Blank books in a chest is not normal. Do you want me to say the spell scrolls again as well? Yes, please. Bless. Bless. Not sure what appeared. Custom item, I guess? Yep, it's probably... I think they kind of cook you and have it as a common item, and you just have the common spell scroll, and then you have to know that it's something. But you can just have the common item. Is Bless a cantrip? It's a level spell. So, Bless, protection from poison, and spiritual weapon. Are they first level, or do we know the level? I'm fairly certain these are all first level. Okay, blast protection from poison. Spiritual weapon is just... So that's like an attack. What were they? I got bonus. Hold on. I'm updating the spell scroll still. What were the other two? Protection from poison and bless. Or spiritual weapon. Yeah. Bless, protection from poison, spiritual weapon, and then deed for... Bless is good. House... Spiritual weapon can be good. That's what I'm looking at. Windmill... ...from poison is probably pretty straightforward. Yeah. Spiritual weapon? Yep. Unable to be poisoned, hopefully. Spiritual weapon? Yes. Spiritual weapon. That's a second level spell. It is. That made more sense. Because it's pretty fucking good. Okay, well it's in our inventories level one, but we'll know when we go to use it anyway. It doesn't really matter in terms of that, because it's I figure as long as we know that it's there and what its name is, we'll be good. And then deed to the what? Deed to the house. Deed to a window. And then the signed will. Why are you doing this? The house. - We've been scooting seeing this guy's unfortunate end, but benefiting from it nonetheless. - Do we know if that's the father? Are we able to deduce if it looks like it's? - You know, it-- - Is he wearing any of the clothes that we've seen in the pictures? - We're only like an insight check. - I'm gonna cut you off again next time you talk. - Okay, I'll say insight. I'll do an insight check. 24. It rolled a B. It rolled a 1. Ha! I beat you! This is 6. So we got two single digits and a 24. So Gray is going to kind of look and y'all are like, is this the guy? Is this the husband? And you're thinking like, would the owner of the house die to his own booby traps? Is it the butler? That's a really good deduction. I have no idea. The reader looks at the books because they're about bringing things to life that were dead, and that is interesting. Yeah, so, um, maybe an arcana check. Okay. Take a look at some of the more... Eleven. Huh? Eleven. I'm thinking along the same things because I haven't been looking at any of the books yet and I'm gonna have to think about the books too so next one, go ahead. With an 11 you're not able to really determine anything. You do open up and see that several of them seem to be about demon summoning and trying to bring people back to life with the dark powers of the arcane but seem to be very interesting and very complex. You're going to also try to take a look at them? Yeah, you mentioned when you were talking about everything, I thought it was like I wanted to check and see if there's something I can remember from what I know of my time in temple that would... Makes sense about this. I don't know if that would be a history check. You mentioned Arcana. I hadn't looked at that one. And that makes sense because it's recallable about spells and things like that. If you want to also, with your buddy, kind of take a look at these books, make me an Arcana check as well. I'll go ahead and do that. We can both try to assess what's happening here. A 15 for me. Excuse me. With a 15... You're actually able to determine that these are all bogus. Okay, interesting. So I'm going to say that out loud just so everybody knows. You'll be like, all of these books are fakes. Not one of these is any kind of actual spell book or any kind of real magic. Iridel then puts the books back. All of these have been lost. Of course, yeah, and I'm saying that like blank face as you're taking them down. I was like, yeah, none of these are real, you know. So yeah, you're going to be like... I'm going to be like, I knew that. That's why I wasn't looking at them. As I say that, since now that I've known that none of those are real, I'm immediately backing out. I'm looking at some of the other books because I haven't looked at those yet. I immediately went from the desk in here because they weren't looking at stuff. So I want to check some of these other books and see if there's anything that might be useful for me. Um... It's like a road. I don't really know exactly what to look for specifically. You can grab one or two books on combat and warfare. That would be good. Would there be anything that might help with... Because I've been talking about wanting to do more illusion and stealthy stuff. Is there anything that might... Not really books on magic and stuff like that. It's more like practical history and the art of war and shit like that. Fair enough. Okay, yeah. I'll go ahead and grab a couple of things like that. Is there a copy of the art of the girl running around? Absolutely. It's in the fireplace. Not anymore. It's in your fire. I'm just adding, like, custom books. It's already gone. If you want to go ahead and see that, like, two books on warfare and combat. Do we want to define my books while we're here, or do we want to wait on that? Let's wait on that. Let's wait on that. I hung out with Wade. Whatever you say, God. *laughter* It's waiting for the best possible moment to spring out during the year. You've been carrying three mimics. Should I put that in my backpack? More than that, I got four books, he's got two books, we got three books. So I got two books, so I need to make a note on what they are? So I just know that my books are about combat and warfare and that's why we're making them. *cough* Zoom upon getting your books and figuring out what's going on here. Y'all are venturing to the other side of the room. Oh, yes. All right. Y'all with me? - This is my room. - A conservatory. Gossamer drapes cover the windows of this elegantly appointed hall, which has a brass-plated chandelier hanging from the ceiling. Upholstered chairs line the walls, and stained glass wall hangings depict beautiful men, women, and children singing and playing instruments. You'd see a harpsichord? - Yep. - With a bench, a harpsichord with a bass, The bench rests in the northwest corner. Near the fireplace is a large standing harp. Alabaster figurines of well-dressed dancers adorn the mantelpiece. I was going to ask if those were actually on the mantelpiece or not. Those were. Are these right here? It's funny, yeah. Yes. I'm going to immediately push past everyone to go sit down and inspect the harp. - Uh, give me a perception. - Perception? - Or investigation. You're trying to glean something specific, like what are you trying to-- - I'm gonna end up, well I want to play the harp, that's the only-- - Yeah, perception, investigation. - Perfectly playable. - Perfectly playable. - This room is actually pristinely kept. I don't care what anyone else is doing in this room, but while everybody's in this room, I'm just going to sit here and try to play this part. This performance. You are very, very well versed at the harp, apparently. Apparently? It's a lot like the lute. Yeah, I was going to say that worked out very well. Like a large lute, right? That's exactly what it is. Nice. I kind of glide over to the harpsichord and sit down to play. Is that what this is? Yeah. It's like a... That's a string piano. Oh! Remember the old school, when you think really old school Mozart stuff where it kind of sounds... I might be walking forward to investigate those things on the mantle a little bit more closely to see if there's anything particularly interesting about them. As you actually walk up to closer inspect, they are well-dressed skeletons. Oh. Yeah, so back to the theme of everything being death here. I'm gonna remark on that while you guys are both playing. I'm gonna be like, "Hey, these guys, all these things on the mantle are all skulls." You can see lots of skull stuff around here today, including real skulls. Including real skulls. But y'all's music is beautiful as you take a moment to play in this room. That's all that matters. Yeah, we're just kinda chillin'. We got just, we're very distracted in this room now. We got very comfortable in this house. Well, - We have the deed. - That's true, we do kind of own this house. - You can't kick me out of my house. I'm playing My Heart right now. most shit i've ever gained by level two ever the old woman of the house you know burning the kids remains like this is ours we left the butler that's you know the letter is for whoever yeah i know i think about this too the letter was for maybe the If that's not the dad, maybe the dad was the master and that guy is the apprentice that the letter was for. And he got his comeuppance or whatever. Or it's a letter to the dad talking about how he's wasted all of his family's money and everything. Trying to follow this cult where it's like, bro, fuck you, you dirt. Well, I mean, and you know, that's the thing. If he was following some kind of cult, it may not have been his own booby trap. It may have been set by somebody from the cult, set in his own what he thought would be his private room. True, true. That's me. It serves us none to speculate. No, I love the consideration. I'm a little high. A little high. All the pain. All right. So this one takes us about six minutes. This doesn't quite qualify as a short rest, right? No, that'd be fair. So we're just going to go ahead and continue on to the next floor. Yeah, the next floor. The third floor, y'all have gone, I think, pretty much everywhere except the one floor? Yeah. Or one or two rooms? Well, we got the jewelry that you wanted to... Yeah, and while we're on this floor, I'm going to remember... It's ours now. Yeah. While we're on this floor, I'm going to go back to the dollhouse and think about the other secret rooms and things that we haven't been to yet. And will I remember any of like secret entrances or anything in this place that I haven't noticed before? No, I won't say that they're exactly secret. So, because you looked at the house, you would notice that this is the dumb waiter, of course. Yeah, that's right. This, you would have noticed, of course, is the... Oh, yeah, that's the spiral, yeah. Yeah, this is what you discovered, the spiral staircase hidden down from the attic. You would have noticed that this right here is the bathroom. This right here is a balcony. Okay. So nothing super special. - And that's the desk with the jewelry, right? - Yeah, that's the one with the jewelry in it, yeah. - You wanna revisit some jewelry? - Yeah, I'm thinking about that. I've been thinking about that the whole time since now this place is ours. I'm also gonna say this out loud because nobody else saw this stuff and were like, "Hey, there was some really nice jewelry "in this room over here." So I'm gonna say that out loud and I don't know if Jables is gonna take the opportunity to run in there before me, but I'm gonna start walking that direction. Okay, so I guess whoever wants to add, you guys are going to go straight to the jewelry and you're going to loot it? Yeah. You would have... The jewelry box, so it itself is a silver jewelry box. It will contain three gold rings, a thin platinum necklace with a toe pass pendant. So we can just take the jewelry box, right? And then it has that in it. Precisely so. So three gold rings, a platinum pendant with what? A thin platinum necklace with a topaz pendant. And the jewelry box itself is silver. gold rings platinum necklace is that right yep did we feel any sort of way about the jewelry box when we hold it in our hands just feels like a silver jewelry box since anything weird about the jewelry inside of it pick up each item individually am i able to pick up one of the rings i just they feel Well, now that we've noticed, like, that we've gone through the whole house, we've seen a lot more of it, are we able to tell who's going to be in the house? This is definitely the master bedroom, so this would have been, like, the Mr. and Mrs. in the house. Okay, so that's pretty obvious, so I'll, like, say that as I'm grabbing this, and I'm like, well, I guess we kind of... Found the mother and her baby, and maybe we're putting them to rest. Maybe we can take this as payment. I'm saying that out loud as I pick it up because I'm, like I said, I'm still new to the rogue and stealing business, and I'm a little, an adventuring business. I'm a little bit apprehensive about doing that. Keep saying this S word. I came from, you know, I came from the temple. It's stealing to me still. So that letter. I'm just thinking about that, but yeah, I'm still grabbing it. Some of the wording, you know, you abandoned love for madness and took solace in the bosom of another woman and sired a stillborn son. So that lady that you saw upstairs, the one that was stabbed to death. Oh, yeah, maybe that was, yeah. It's not the missus of the house that had that room that you guys were in. Okay. That was a woman's room. Just things contextually you could have put together with everything you were given so far. Yeah, that makes sense. So that would maybe have been, I'm thinking that may have been like a servant that he may have. A mistress, perhaps? Yeah, something like that. That makes sense. Something like that. And you also would have noted that the mother would have been regarding that baby with contempt in the painting as well. The actual missus of the house. So it's all real good stuff happening here. Yeah. So I'm not feeling terrible about taking it necessarily, but yeah, but I'm definitely, yeah, like I said, just for story reasons, that's just what's going on in my head is I'm thinking like, I'm new to all this. I'm not, I'm still unsure about doing this, but I'm taking it because I know we need one. So I assume y'all are heading straight up to the attic after that, yes? Yeah, we're just going to continue right up. I don't see any reason to stay any further. I was just going to stop by and grab that. I'm The secret tunnel. Secret tunnel. I don't need a metagame, but I saw the word upper. This is all I'm teaching you to know about. I've drawn maps before. Yeah, I'm not making you do that this time. I didn't even have to last time. You didn't have to, but you did. I have not been paying attention to the time at all. Does and doesn't have dark vision. I do. Dark vision? Dark vision. We both do for sure. Do you? Dark vision. Dark vision. No dark vision? Listen man, who needs dark vision, you know? I do. I'm a human, you know, we kind of have dark vision. We see dark shit all the time. You ever heard of 9-11? It's not even that dark in Red Redemption's Island. Oddly enough, kind of connected. Allegedly. Like, it's real sympathetic to show him. You know me. Hold on, hold on. They're going to come for me. They're going to come for me. Just connect the Wi-Fi right now. How's it going to handle this in the summer? Need to have a light of some sort as you descend this long staircase because it is very, very dark. I produce a light for devils. Very nice. A very, very nice appeal with the range of that light. Uh, 20 feet. How far do I need to be able to see? Well, you guys can see black and white like you normally would, but Jables will be limited to the range of that light in particular. Okay, and how far, like, how far can I see in black and white? Like, what's the, because we're just right inside the cave, right? So I can see to the wall, walls, how far? Like, 15 feet? It would be that, so it would be... What's it called, produce light? There's light and produce flame. Oh, okay. Light does 20 feet. Produce flame does 20 feet plus 20 dim feet. Each of these segments, like that right there, is 5 feet. And then this other one right here, 5 feet. So it's like 5, 10. Okay, so yeah, I just do produce light. Very close. Or just, I just do light. Yeah, it has heads up. Like 20, 20 or 30, 30? 20. If needed, I do have other ways of having more permanent light. It's light in an effective way, cantrip-wise, to get that done. Yeah. As you guys get in here, go to the right spot. So the moment you arrive in this dungeon, you are going to begin to hear an eerie, incessant chant echoing throughout. It's really hard to gauge where the sound is coming from exactly, but it is very, very unnerving. And I assume you guys are walking forward in the first or second round. So as you guys walk forward-- Multiple different ways you can go. So there's this way over here, this way over here, this way over here. In fact, you're standing right here and it's 20. So you would also slightly illuminate this chamber right here. Do we see on the walls any unlit torches or anything? Sconces? Yeah. Name it. Boo. I mean, light should be fine. I can cast it again and do another 20 feet. Any preferences on which way to go? I'm usually the guy to want to just go to the closest thing always. But that's just me. We can see in there, right? If you were to walk this way, this is a more accurate representation of where you're actually standing. So if you were to go right here, your light would then shine into this room right here. And it would look like some empty crypts. The blank stone slab made to seal this crypt leans against a nearby wall. The crypt is empty. Oh. Who would have kept Jesus in there? So that's this one. This one right here would also be empty, but it is named, or etched into the name, is Walter Durst. I think he's related to Fred, I don't know. That we could tell we could look down here and one peak roll everyone. Roll me history check. History check. Also, what's the highest one? Eight. I got eight. What'd you get? Nine. We all paid attention in school. Wow, wow, wow. History is a strong suit. We roll well for it. I got negative one on it. You would vaguely remember that the kids referred to the baby as Walter. Oh, I do have that written down. Baby brother Walter. So it seems like these are like family crips. I assume you guys are-- I'm not there. Yeah, I do go ahead and step into that next space to peer down that hallway. Excellent. So, Diane. There's that leaf. What seems to be a little bit larger of a room. Don't tease me, man. Like a full story of? Not quite. Looks like a different level? Okay. Not quite. No reason to not continue forward. Okay. But that's just me. I've been falling behind everybody, so. Are you good with continuing forward? Do we want to check the other direction? This way or this way? Oh, yeah. This way? You could easily double back. You want to see what's in that room? I'm okay with whatever. This way? Let's say... Yeah, I want to at least see what's down this hall, the hallway down this way. Oh yeah, continue to see if we can see a little further down the line. Yeah, for sure. Do you have glasses for water? Before we start investigating other rooms? Yes, we're in the cabinet right next to the fridge. Yeah. Man, my allergies make my ears itch. It's like deep in my ear and my sinuses. I feel that. It's freaking annoying. I feel that. So peering closer into these two... Little options. They are each trips with actual coppers in them. Do you have any names? I sure do. These two right here, Gustav, Elizabeth. These two right here, Rose, Balda, and Thorne Gold. OK. So-- So that's the rest of the bag. Yeah. And you can see that Rose and Thorne's are open and empty. I almost took one of those desserts out of the tin. I'm going to find myself in that safe. Hold on. I might need to take one. I've read about it. I just ate one, it was very chewy. They look delicious. They are delicious is the problem. That's the dangerous part. You can't even really taste the wheat. Did you hear what I said as far as that goes? There was the rest of the family. Those were the kids' names, weren't they? Yes. So my thought is now I'm going to say, well, we burned them, but they had graves already. How could we have known? Yeah. How could we have known? Yeah. I may not say it quite that boldly. I'll say it like, looks like they had graves already. I got on that, but I respect the intentions there, you know? If only you had just waited. We didn't want to just carry them around the whole time. Although if we had just continued carrying them from that point and went right down, we would have immediately found where to lay them to rest. I'm not going to say anything. You guys have to do what you want to do. If I could go back, I'd burn them again. I don't feel like we made the wrong choice. It's not like you disrespectfully burned them. You just didn't exactly know they had a crypt that you were about to stumble upon. They could have told us. Maybe we asked the kids where they wanted to go. We had no idea what the crypt was. Evidently. What you I mean if they were dead locked in their rooms and they maybe never actually got to use the trips they're gonna be built before They're just scared of the basement because they're supposed to be a monster down there. You just needed me. Oh I did? Who's on the floor next to you I think. Other side. I think the gun grabbed onto the-- That poor Minnie. Whose Minnie was that? Nick. Well-- OK, good. Thank you, Austin. Thank you. Is that it? Yes. It's attack, yes. OK, good. That Minnie is Nick Cage. He was definitely always coming back then. Yeah. And his gun is the noisy cricket. Looking closer into this room, you are going to see - This is a dilapidated dining hall. This contains a plain wooden table flanked by long benches, mostly humanoid bones lay strewn on the dirt floor, the remains of the cult's vile penguins. - So we know they were eating people. - The fact that there's like actual human bones now strewn amongst like a dining table, yes. If we look deeper, is there anything else to see? There is. See in the middle of this wall right here is a darkened alcove. I'm going to have that all blocked off as one thing. Yes, you are going to see kind of like a tiny little dark alcove that is particularly steep in bones. Other than that, and the exit through here, and the exit through here, nothing much more in this room. Yeah, I don't even know what to say out loud for my character at this point. I feel like there's something that he would say that would be terribly out of taste, but... That in itself at this moment is kind of funny to say it's out of taste. I'm sure it is. I thought of that, like, as you started talking all the way ago, that was terrible to actually say out of taste. Four days. Ariel kind of looks around and says, how vile. That's good stuff. In this situation, yes. Are you guys going up? Are you going to the side? Yeah, you have thought tables? I can't see shit. I'm thinking. That's true. I mean, I do have dark vision for 60 feet. I'm gonna level up and change one of my cantrips to light. See? I have dark vision for 60 feet. Oh yeah. So... I don't know. I was just thinking outline. I don't know how far I can go. You guys would be able to kind of see, but because it is so dark, I'm having to kind of be like, we're going to deal with the light. What's your dark vision? 60 feet? A typical dark vision. Okay. Yeah, I wasn't sure if there was a difference between ours. Okay. If you guys are cool with that, I'd say we continue with the left and this one. I feel like it doesn't really matter which way we pick because we're the type of people that are going to check every room anyway. Yeah, that's true. What a statement that is. So, not untrue. As you guys make your way, I'm just going to kind of move one person easier to navigate. So as you guys move through this kind of network right here, you would find yourself at another crossroads. Multiple crossroads. So long stretches of this dungeon are still upon you as you stand right there. What do you think guys should we follow May's rules? Left wall? Well I mean I think we can see our pathways so we don't have to be as... That was just me like in terms of making the decision without having to think too hard and just follow the left path first. So in this moment I actually will have you guys place yourselves precisely where you would be on this grid. No particular reason. I'm gonna move you guys down here with one character to make it easier. Actually, place yourselves. I assume you're probably behind us if you can't see shit. Probably behind me specifically because I'm holding the light, right? Yeah, I probably just got my hand on your shoulder or something. Same five foot block. Okay. Because I can give you guidance pretty much at will if something pops up. This is just a cantrip that lets you add a D4 to a roll. Yeah, I guess I'm holding up the rear. Okay. Like usual, as the tiny guy I am. Okay. Because then you'll be able to see behind us too, at least. So. So you can see in front of me and behind me. Which way are you going? Dark vision. Mm-hmm. Left or right? Are you going this way? I guess I'm leading, huh? Yeah. Yeah. So you can make your decision. I think this way. So as you take that step. Well, I... That's good, that's good. Of course. I had to make sure. The moment you take that step, you are gonna see four ghouls. Rise up from the ground and they're gonna attack you guys. What can I find out about these ghouls just from seeing them like right off the rip? I guess y'all can make me a brief perception check. And can I give him like a reaction guidance as they pop up? You know what I mean? Is guidance a reaction? No, but I've been having my hand on his shoulder this whole time waiting to get a guidance. We are connected for that purpose. He did call it out. Sure. Give the man a D4. I can't fucking see. Maybe one. Maybe one d4. My perception was a 14. 16 on mine. Add a d4 to 20. Oh, roll a d4. What'd I get? Two. So 18? I got a 15. Anyone get over a 19? Nope. I'm up. We got a man at 18. Mine was a 14. You guys know that ghouls are bad. Ghouls are bad fucking news. That's about right. Okay. I guess we're in combat. Oh, you guys are in combat. We're definitely in combat. Light? You touch? Okay. What'd you cast light on? Oh, this is what I'm doing. I am right. Yeah. Yeah. Mm-hmm. Color it as you like. Yeah, if we can make a ramp. It's already gone through my head. Useful in a performance situation. I wish we all fight for your life in a dark dungeon against ghouls. I can see now their foot. Did I gain a spell slot? Please tell me I did a vote. Are my party members creatures? Or is that like a different class of thing? What's the specifics? Bless. Yes. You can definitely bless your friends. Is that what you're asking? Yeah, because it says you bless up to three creatures within range, so that's why I wanted to know. In that regard, yes. Sorry, yes, yes. It's just because you can cast it on things that aren't your party members as well. Some things will specifically say allies. Yeah, and I've seen like animals. That's why I wasn't sure if creatures was just anything living. And that's what's weird is sometimes yes. Right. For English language. Right. Yes. All right, what's everyone's initiative? Just put it through the cup. I rolled a 20 and then I have a plus one modifier. I had to make up for your cup roll. Six. Excellent. Strong on these fucking... Yeah, at least I designated that I am wearing my shield. So a lot of our roles are working out in ways that work for the RV. Like you have a really bad initiative and that's being in the dark, you're not being able to see. It's funny when it works out that way. - So let me get two spell slots. - Okay. - That's very well. - He's gonna start with gray at the top of the round, not surprisingly. So, if these ghouls pop out of nowhere. - That's cool, that's too smart. - It's like they were waiting for you guys. - Yeah. So since we both rolled 20s, did we get any advantage or anything in the first attack? - Unfortunately not. - Okay. - Just the fact that we're going first. - Yeah. - Let me think about my, Honestly, my first instinct is to just have my character be surprised and immediately just like shoot at it without really thinking Whichever one's closest Like maybe am I gonna notice the one behind me my face in that direction? Is there something we need to check to do that or can I just decide that I want to? Yeah, you would see this one this would be the only one readily apparent to you and you would have heard it kind of - Okay, so yeah. I'm just gonna say that I'm surprised and my first instinct, very first thing I'm gonna do is I'm gonna shoot it with the new hand crossbow I have. - Okay. - Because I definitely have that in my hands right now because that's the first thing I did with it. - Lock it down the hall. - New weapon, yeah, like new hand crossbow, exactly. - Good, I mean, good job. - Cool, so just run the-- - Weapon attack? - Yeah, so. - Weapon attack? - Where are these goblins? - Boom, boom, boom, boom. They're the four that aren't y'all. So they're surrounding us? Yeah, the four balloons. Oh, Lord. Yeah. Okay. And I just attacked the one behind me. You got an 11? Yeah, not great. This one? Yeah. So I missed, which, fair, I'm surprised, and it's a new weapon that I've produced. You gotta go for it, right? Yep. What are you doing other than that? Why are they so far apart? You know, they'd be ghouling. I say, can I... Yeah. Why are they so far apart? Yeah. It was a rhetorical question. Oh. Plus, no. I respect it, you know? I do. I kind of want to do the, uh... Can I study? I want to do a study and see if I can remember things about ghouls again, because I know our first instinct is more just, no, these are bad news. What kind of experiences do you have that would let you know what ghouls and undead are? Question. If not, you can make me the check, but you wouldn't have any advantages. I'm on the check. So when it says a 15-foot cube, for me, that's five feet each direction cube, right? What are goals? Three, one, two, three, one, two, three. Right, but with me in the middle. So if I'm here, it would be this, this, this, this, this, this, this, this, up, down. I think so, yeah. I'm going to go with my religious background. I'm just looking at what I got. That should give you some kind of knowledge of undead things or stuff like that. Something that I can draw on to maybe know the best way to go about attacking this world. I was reading it. Like I said. I'm just checking them out. Advantage. You know, do that. - Trying to figure out That's awesome. So just this one? Yep, and roll it twice. Take the highest one. 17. Four, so 17. So 17. With the 17, you would remember ghouls do some pretty straightforward stuff. They're going to try to bludgeon you guys to death. You remember that being something commonly done. Okay, so I'm gonna me being a small person I'm gonna try to stay far back again, so it's a good idea to use the crossbow That's the kind of thing that I'm looking for. Is that your turn? Yeah, I'm gonna say that's my turn. I don't know what else to do first off. Your turn. The crossbow attack first? Um... Boo! So far not very effective in combat. So I'm gonna cast Entangle on this 20 block right here. that's grasping plants spread from the ground at a 20 foot square within range which is 90 feet uh these for the duration these plants turn the ground into an area into difficult terrain they disappear when the spell ends each creature other than you in the area when you cast the spell must succeed on a strength saving throw or have the restrained condition until the spell ends and a restraining creature can take An action to make a strength check against your spell save DC. On a success, it frees itself. What's your strength? Or what's your DC in this one? DC. It'll be under your spellcasting spell. It is 13. Oh, 13? They both pass. So they're, what, free? Both free? Yes. Neither of them are restrained. It will be difficult terrain. It is still difficult terrain. For everyone but me. No. It's harder for them to move through it, right? It costs double movement. Yeah, but they have to physically attack it, so that still has a benefit. I gotta use that spell. And then I still get either a bonus action or a free action, right? Yes. Precisely so. For my bonus action, I produce flame. Okay. When can I do the hurling? of the fire from that. I think you have to use your action to do that. You can take magic action. Okay, so it would be the next turn. Yes. That's what I figured, but I just wanted to make sure. Cool, and that would be my turn. Takes it to Jables. The ghouls rode that low? The ghouls rode that low. Wrecked. They'll take their turn in due time. If I sniff the air, which ghoul smells the most like a bitch to me? Do you want to make a perception check or is that a rhetorical question? Yeah, it's a 20. They're all equally bitchy. Are you sure? Alright. Oh, man. Probably one of these two, right? Yeah, these are the ones I'm thinking of. Because you don't want to go to them. I'll help you out over here. I'm going to step by my man. I'm going to say what's up, good looking. Huh? Is it coming around? Did I... I probably didn't get my luck point back when we leveled, did we? You can drive. You can drive. No, I've still got one. I'm just not using it. I'm just not using it. That's probably not fair. That's going to be 15 to hit. I hit? Oh, fuck. one lots of We'll take seven slashing. All right. Seven slashing to that one-year standing right in front. Mm-hmm, mm-hmm, mm-hmm. I have a feeling that was me. I'm gonna, I'm gonna say, I'm gonna, free action, I'm gonna spit in his face. Oh yeah, he loves that. I'm gonna sit there with my shield, my sword. Okay. That takes it to all four ghouls. I only got one spell slot left. The ghouls are gonna start ghouling. Let me smite him. I have two. I forgot I leveled up. I'm smiting him. I'm smiting him. You won. I'm sorry. I forgot that I... You know, you didn't give me my luck back, and then I forgot that I got my spell slot back. Don't blame me for this. It's my fault because of those reasons. It's my fault. 100% it's my fault. It's only 13 radiant, okay? It's only 13 radiant. Because I assume he's undead. He is undead. So that is the extra deal. The ghoul is undead, yeah. See, now I don't have to erase my spell slot thing. It's still marked off. It was my fault. It was my fault. The ghoul is dusty from that. I didn't think it would kill him. I know, bloody's not quite the right terminology for that either. So, these ghouls are going to start ghouling towards all of you guys individually. I feel like I will get ghouled. For that. There's... What ramifications? Never. Never. So they're each going to take two attacks. We're gonna go ahead and start with the ones that are gonna go against gray because there's gonna be Unfortunately, there's four. So two of them are gonna come against you. One of them against you and one of them against you. Sorry, I'll tell you. He sent two after the squishy? That's funny. Brutal. Tactical strategy, damn it. They're ghouls. How strategic are they going to be? I'm right in front of them. Damn. That's what I get for missing, too. - You're abbreviating something like that. Armor class? - Yeah, sorry, sorry. - 13. - Yeah. - Yeah, sorry. The first one's gonna hit. The second one's gonna hit. So one of them's gonna hit both of them against you. I'm gonna go ahead and roll that damage. The first one's going to do five piercing damage and five necrotic damage. So, 10 total ones? Yep. So the next one is going to take a bite and a claw attack against you. Actually, no. It can only take a single claw attack. Okay, that's what I was reading. So the other one's going to take a single claw. You said 13 was your AC? Yeah. Lucky for you, this one's going to miss. Cool. Cool. Are you bloody? I would be half healthy left. Well, I don't know how any of that works. So yes, since you took 10 damage, you only had 13 max HP, you are considered bloody. Yeah. You only have to take 7 damage to be considered bloody. So how does the AC work? Is it basically just the determination of whether I get hit or not? Precisely so. Precisely so. And then whether you get hit or not, you just take the damage regardless of the AC. Yes. I just wanted to make sure. And if they hit exactly at your AC, you would take half damage. Okay, got it. Got it, okay. Makes sense. Makes sense. So yeah, I'm a lot hurt. We got some beat-up beat-ups over here. Although those were two barrage of attacks. The zombie is going to take the single claw attack against you, Iridil. Okay, I have AC 14. Ooh. He misses you lucky dog and the last one's gonna take its multi attack two bites against you I can fit more. Yeah With your seat 18 oh the first one's gonna be a glancing glow That was actually unfortunately a nat 20. I got a feeling when you say old one. I can't use luck to make you re-roll one, can I? I don't think so. I think it could. I said that, you know. Oh, it's written down over here, but I'm going to bet it says no. Oh, I could give you disadvantage, but I mean, giving you disadvantage, I'd have to say that before the roll, I feel. You would. Because it doesn't say as a reaction, you know. I just have to use the luck point before I attack. I'm not gonna do that. So we'll see. Hopefully I roll low. We'll see. Let's see. Four piercing damage and three necro. - Roll really low. Is that gonna be enough though? What's your max HP? - 20 total. - Ah, oh. You've taken five? So you'll take eight, six. - That's 14. - 14. Plus an additional two, 'cause I rolled really low. - So what, 16? - Yes. - Total? - Yes. - Okay. - From both Barrage and attacks. - Okay. - So you're at four? - I'm at four. And you're a three. And that's all the goals of text. That takes it to you, Greg. Well, I'm about to cut down the one that told me. I'm trying to think what would be best. I guess all of my stuff would technically do the same amount of damage, right? Um, you'd be able to roll. Do you have Sneak Attack yet? I do have Sneak Attack, yeah. - Cunning action so you can bonus action disengage? - Mm-hmm. - That might be a play like bonus action disengage, try to go to a spot where you can get advantage on one of the ones your friends has already attacked. I won't normally give you advice, but. - Yeah, no, I definitely need it. I don't, I haven't been in any. - There's a few different things in there. You getting that cunning action is super important to your action economy. I feel that too. - With the dash disengage or high. - As a bonus action. - Yeah, it's huge. It's like I used to be able to do that as a monk, but I had to spend resources to do it. And it was always worth it. It's usually worth it. Yeah, I mean... Disengage is large. Yeah, I'm going to go ahead and do that. That's what I want to do. Get out of the way because I'm getting hurt bad. I want to get as far away as I can. In which direction? You can't move directly through your enemies, but you can pass through your allies. I can? Yeah. Okay, so which one's... That's your friend. That's your friend. Okay, so if I wanted to, I could get over in this direction? Yeah. Okay, yeah, that's the direction I'm running. I'm running through that way. You've got the gravity thing. How far can I go? Does that matter? You have 30 feet of movement. Yeah, 30 feet. Each little section you move yourself is five. Five? Okay, now it's here. I'm just going to move all the way over here out of the way since I've got some ranged stuff. I want to be out of the way as much as I can, like right at the edge of that. Okay, cool. So there's a wall there. So I'm like, yeah, that little turn. And can I do anything else after that? You can, because that was your bonus action. You can still take an attack. Okay, yeah. So I'm going to go ahead and take an attack, and I want to use my short bow. Okay. I'm just going to, I guess, just vote for that. Yes. If you attack this one right here, that has made its attacks against Iridum, you'll be able to make it with advantage and give yourself your sneak attack points. Yeah, I went ahead and did it for whichever was the closest because I'm trying to get out of the way. Let me see what that was. It's already off screen. It was a 20 total, 16 plus 4. That'll do it. Did you roll two? Roll one more just to make sure you don't get a 9 point. 20 total and then you said plus what? Oh, yeah. Oh, your sneak attack bonuses will actually be your hit. You should, when you roll your damage dice now, you should be able to add like a d6 or 2d6. Yeah, so I add an extra 1d6. As you level up later, it'll be more d6. So now that I've done that, That's the next one. I'm still way too fucking high. You're good, so you hit. Now you'll be able to roll your damage dice. Okay, so now I hit the one next to it. And then I can do two of them now because I hit. So you'll do that, and then you'll be able to add an extra d6, which you can roll on this side. For your sneaky deck. Four, so two of these. Yeah, but the d6 one, yes. Four and one. Okay. Okay, okay, so five damage. Yeah. - This way. I have the menus for that one. Bam. - Got high enough now that it's like... - I get you, I get you, I get you. That's fine, that's why you play games with your friends so we can get high, too high together. - 100%. - Speaking of which, Penn. - Yeah. You're gonna need my pen back, you wanna try another one? - I mean, it was over here, you know. - Ooh, this one's delicious. - Yeah, the orange one, yeah. - I like this one. It is your turn, Uribelle. Take your time if you're got the brain. Do you have a grinder? I do, it's on my bed right now. The big black one. The big black one. Oh hey, uh... I also, since I was using the shortbow, I have Vex. Is that like a thing that just happens automatically? If you hit a creature with a short bow and deal damage to it, you have advantage on your next attack roll against that creature before the end of your next turn. Yes, keep in mind those different kinds of weapon properties and abilities. So I've got to remember that, that I have the dex on that same ghoul for next time. What was the effect for that one? Since I've hit it, I have advantage on my next attack roll against it before the end of my next turn. So I'd like to move to here. You would provoke one attack of opportunity. I would. I don't want to move. I just want to use Bless on all three of us. You would be able to do so easily. That makes it so whenever any of us makes an attack roll or saving throw before the spell ends, which is one minute, so ten rounds, right? Yes. You add a d4 to attack roll or saving throw. That's pretty good. That's pretty good. We've been doing those quite a bit. Don't we also gain temporary health? No. Unfortunately not for Bless. Sure. I have the text right here if you want to read it. Do you? Oh, I'm thinking of heroism. Yeah, I was going to say it's either heroic or heroism. I'm thinking of heroism. Because that's felons. I was thinking, well, I have heroism. That's why I was thinking of heroism. That's why I was thinking of it. Is that your action or bonus action? That is my action. It's a spell. It's one of my spell slots. Oh no, it's just use. Yeah, it didn't take up a slot. Nice. And that is not the spell scroll that we had just for clarity. That is from my skills. Oh, okay. So you knew this already. I did. That's why I figured I should clarify. Okay, that would be something Give me an option for that kind of defensive It probably feels a little weird though just because of the you know, I'm not really like a nice Neutral good Feels a little awkward. Well, you're the only person in your group that didn't burn the remains of children, so... It did start the fire. Yeah. You struck the fucking match. It was our idea. It was our idea! I just didn't want to carry them around anymore. You were like, fine, can we just get out? That'll be... Because that's a full action, right? So I can't attack or anything. Uh, It specifies it's a bonus action, which I know many people will. And I can already see everything that we can see, so there's no point in casting the produce flame again, so that'll be what I do. Jambal. Luck point, attacking that man. This is a little bit near, but probably... Maybe use the roll. Probably just enough for me to kill real quick. It's going to be another 15. Yep, that is. I forget my charging key. That'll be three. That's enough. That's enough? That is enough. I forget my charging key. For my bonus action, I'm going to lay my hands on myself. You're going to touch yourself? In front of your friends. In front of my friends. How much of mine? You said that for private time. What the f*ck mine do I want to use? I've got ten total. I used five of it for now. Okay. I won't be- You need a little 5 HP? Oh god, I will be bloody if I still use five. I should probably just use all of it. No! I'm just gonna use all ten of it. Selfishly heal myself. All ten of what? I'm gonna save... one. Nine of it. Nine of what? My Lay on Hands healing points that I get to refresh every long rest. Okay. Reasonable. Now I've got one left. It's nice to be able to stabilize someone. So that's action. That's bonus action. To provoke opportunity attacks, I have to like move through. If I stop next to him, it doesn't provoke it, right? Yeah. Because I'll just put myself... I'll run up and I'll just tell them, yeah, I'm going to yell, I can fit more of you. You know? I ain't hearing no bell. Well, they're going to do exactly what you think they're going to do. They're going to take their taxes. In fact, the one in the back can't even really get up in the party right now, so he's got to go around. We gotta try to kill Travis real quick. She might succeed. You should hit the ball first. First? Yeah. Ice the dice a little bit. I swear to God, she wasn't at 20. I gotta charge him, right? She's driving you home. The threats start coming out. Listen, I'm taking that gamble, you know? I believe. I believe. The first zombie is just going to take a single claw attack. What's your AC? 18. It does not hit. The first one. Second one's going to also take the single claw attack. So it'll be found. The third one. *Barking* You're a dill. Oh, that's low again, you lucky son of a bitch. Nine? Yeah, 14. Nine. Okay, good, good, good. So that makes sense. Sorry. So there's going to be one... Oh, I forgot. Oh, that's right. Yeah, there should have been D4s out of your deck as well. There's going to be a half damage hit on you, and I'm pretty sure every other attack missed. Yeah. And one of them is dead. Yeah, just the half hit. Okay, let's see. Oh, it did half hit you on a slash, though, so... It's actually a... deal six slashing damage to you. So free? Yes. Are you an elf? No. I'm a human. Constitution saving throw. DC 10 or better. Which I get to add ID 4 to. Because I'm blessed. You are paralyzed until the end of your next turn. You made me worried. Can't move which feet. Maybe attacks have advantage. Until whose next turn? It's next turn? Until the end of its next turn. So I think that's your next turn. So you are paralyzed. I lose one turn. And that is going to be its turn. Let's check the next degree at the top of the round. What is a concentration? Does that mean that I have to continually cast it during that minute? No, so if you cast a spell and take damage while casting that spell, you'll have to roll a dice check to make sure that you can hold on to that spell. Okay. Do I get the d4 with that as well? Yes. It's a constitution saving throw. Okay. So right now I have advantage against that one that I attacked before because of that's... I want to go ahead and just attack it again the same way I did before. Okay. So what all do I get to add to that? Do I just roll the usual? You just roll two with advantage. Okay, so it's just two of the same dice. Is this good now? You take whatever's the highest and that's how it works? Yes. I feel like your usual modifier is two is real. Just checking to make sure I'm understanding correctly. Oh, that's a 24. That's a nat 20. Nat 20, wow. Excellent. I'll be in the same group as you. So I'll take that. Does it matter if I-- I guess what I would do next, yeah. So for the nat 20s, you'll roll everything you would normally, and then you'll calculate additionally whatever maximum damage that attack could do. So what are you doing? Like 1d6 plus 1 plus your sneak attack? I don't know what I was saying. It's showing-- Yeah, he did. So it's showing... I'm not going to take care of one of them. Is that correct? Yeah, it's two. I just rolled that. There you go. So I think it would be correct because you're rolling one for your sneak attack and one for your regular. So it would be 2d6 plus two, which that was eight right there? So ten? Yeah. So it would be ten damage, and then it would be plus 14. So 24. 24 total damage. Okay. In D&D, rules is written you should have twice as many dice, but there's been a lot of occasions where you just roll a bunch of ones and twos and then you want to shoot yourself in the foot. Or even crit. So we usually just do it that way. It's tough when you get crit. All the extra modifiers and stuff are confusing. That is enough to murder that one, though. So that one is done. That one's down. So there's just these two left. Have either of them taken damage? Can you tell us that? you want to do Sorry. I was just thinking, I don't know if there's anything else I can do that will be particularly helpful at this point. Let me look at my bonus actions. Anything that's useful. Uh, no, honestly I don't think there's anything else I want to do. I just kind of want to hang where I am. Maybe if I get an opportunity on my next turn, I will do more ranged attacks for now. That was a very effective turn. You're done. Do I know what their healths are at? They would... You would see that Gray is bloodied still, right? Yeah. You would know that he's not doing super well. I used to like, uh, I am bloody again. Yes. So he was okay. Bloodied. Okay. Again, now bloodied again. Right. So yes. So, let's see, let me see. - These ghouls are gloomily. - Would he know I'm paralyzed? Would he see me when he know that that was my condition? - Is he standing right next to you? - Yeah. - Probably suspect that you're like, there's something wrong with Jable. More than usual. I'm not sure if your bud can help you out. He could have hired all this. Yeah, I don't have anything for Stun. Yes. Do you like that right now? Yes. Hit the two! That's good. I can... - Morning to pick up my PC and my old one that I was giving to him. And Ashanti came out from underneath the couch all the way up to him to sniff his hands and let him go. - Wow, she likes dudes. - I guess so. I remember her being pretty good with Derek when we came over as well. Maybe not quite letting him pet her, but getting pretty close. She's also, she's been getting better with my little sister too. Apparently last time my little sister came over, she didn't kiss at her at all. Didn't have like scared looking eyes or anything either. No scary face. So she's getting a little better about it. Okay. So I use, I cast Healing Word on Jables. Okay. The two d4 plus three... It'll be your triangle guy. Top right corner. Oh, this is... Okay, and then this, right? Yeah, they look terrible to step on. Yeah, this is a funky outcome. Okay, so six plus three, so nine. Excellent. Get him out of healing. Are you bloody? No. Okay, I bet you're not bloody. Still paralyzed. I'm not bloody. And then I move to here. Then I... So that's 5-10. Weren't you standing right next to Jables? You might have taken one attack of opportunity. Just one. Okay, what would that effect be? He would make an attack early against you. Could potentially miss, could potentially hit. He'd make a single bite. Move I don't need to move it's not really worth taking that I'm just gonna do my bonus action if that's okay? Absolutely, yes. And I will keep that in mind for the future because I now understand how that works. But for my bonus action, I use the Pearl Fire. It's usually at least three. Typically, it's uneven. Oh no, that's a magic action. I cannot do that. Once you get bonus actions out of cantrips, you'll be able to splice them. Where you start getting leveled spells that are bonus actions and you can do action captures. Wait, Healing Word can be a... Healing Word's a bonus action. Bonus action. Yeah. So you'd still have a... So I still have a primary action. So I can use my magic action to throw the fire. You just wouldn't be able to use another leveled spell even if you could. Right. So you can throw the fire. So I hurl fire at... Okay. That's like a ranged attack, right? You will make it if it is managed, but you can still make it. Is it a ranged attack? A ranged spell attack, yeah. Is this guy in this square? He's within five feet. These are both within five feet. So it would be a disadvantage either way. It's more like 10 feet away, but you would have to be, it would be perilous to be attacking through kind of two other units. And then, so what is disadvantage exactly? Take the lower roll. Fuck it. I'll take the disadvantage. Yeah, sometimes disadvantage is worse. Hey man, you can roll two points. I've seen it. You could roll again. Four sixes. It's a 10 and a 19, so a 10. So 50. Did you write 5 here? Yeah. Did it? Yeah. Okay, so it does 1d8. Yeah Yep, I just wanted to fortify her. Excellent, better than nothing. I just appreciate another target standing there while I'm paralyzed. It is a nice thing to do, isn't it? I wonder what their turn is going to consist of. Well, at least you end your turn before they get their turn, so you definitely won't be paralyzed when they attack. You'll be paralyzed before your turn. Oh, I'm just paralyzed until the end of my turn? Your turn. So I could move like here and like block this guy from attacking Jables, right? By the time they're hitting, I won't be paralyzed anymore. Okay, so it wouldn't matter? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, I am at turn. Jables, you would have whatever restrictions you would have that paralyzing poses during your turn. Can you do anything? No. No actions, no reactions, no movement? Well see, because the cool thing is, the first thing of paralyzed is incapacitated. Oh, which is no action. And then after that, it adds on to the things you cannot do. Well, alright. I didn't know they knew that. So no, I'm gonna say that my turn. I'm unparalyzed though, which is fucking huge. When you're paralyzed, enemy attacks within five feet are auto-crits. That's why I was like, "Are you healing me for fucking nothing?" That's why you were like, "Fuck paralyzed isn't too much." And I'm sure you read a little bit. Okay, now hold on. And then you fully read it because I knew. But it is until the end of its next turn. It is going to, or should I say, they're each going to take two attacks against each of you two. They're going to multi-attack this time? They are. They're going to take their bites. So the first bite to hit on you is a 23. On me? You. Do what now? 23 to hit. I assume that hits. Yeah. Second bite attack is 12? That does not hit. Okay, so you're gonna have one bite land. So you're going to take a cumulative 8 damage. 8 damage. Nice. Nice. One of these days, one of these days, and that's going to be, takes back to you, Rick. Cool. All right, well. Am I in a position where I can still hit one of the others without hitting somebody on my team? Because it looks like I'd be shooting through Jables. Because if it's okay, I would like to just continue with my long shit, but I don't want to risk hitting Jabez. You would risk that from his direct angle. Especially since it's like very close combat with that thing. Okay. And I've got pretty low hit points. I don't know what really I want to do in terms of getting close to do anything, so. We were only mad around a critical fail, right? If he hits me? Pretty much. Okay, so it's not like a... If you roll a one, you're definitely going to hit me. Unless I roll a poor one. He healed me. Unless I do a lot of damage to you. Another net. Yeah. Yeah. Net one and a perfect roll. It's like the only time it really would matter. I don't know that anything I can do right now otherwise would be useful. That was the thing I'm looking at. So an attack rule is the d20 to determine if the attack hits, right? Yeah. - Three health, right? - Yeah, I meant like three health, but I don't wanna get any closer, it's not ideal. Since they're just like clawing and biting, I wanna stay far back, but I don't wanna, I don't know if there's anything I can do that would waste. That's what I'm trying to do. I'm trying to think about, I'm looking at my other actions. - I think you're a fucking marksman. - Yeah. - Didn't go for it? - Yeah. I've had pretty good luck so far, so... I've still got other healing spells, so... Alright, I'll go for it. I think this man is gonna fucking thread the shot through my legs and hit that ghoul right in the dick. Alright, well, I guess I'll just do that again, yeah. I'm just gonna aim. I gotta decide which one I'm aiming for. Can I... Can I see this one at all? Am I able to aim at that one? Okay, so I can only shoot at this. I'm telling you, trick shot it between my legs. Alright, well, I'm gonna go for it, I guess. I'm just gonna roll that hit, and... Are we still blessed? Yeah. Yeah. Okay, so. So I can do four. Can I just add that to the regular roll as well? Yeah. Okay, so let me do this roll. That's 15 plus four. It's 19. We're going to add the D4. I'm just going to roll that separately here. And that gives me three. So what was that again? Was it a 19? 22? Yeah, 22. That's negative. 22 and then just roll one whatever for my damage. The sneak attack, because it's attacking Iridil, technically. So you would add your additional d6. Okay. Four's it says six them you probably had plus two that oh So six was and it was adding plus two so eight I would do eight plus two I Rolled two fours it would be one be six plus two plus your additional d6 so you would only have to be two Exactly, so it only be two d6. You wouldn't have the plus two modifier two Yeah, so it'd be 10. Okay, yeah, so it'd be 10, yeah, because I rolled two fours. So yeah, 10. Okay, yes, okay. Okay, so 10. All right, cool, so 10. So that one right there in particular, it is dusty. And we will canonically say that we did exactly what he was hoping, right? Shot it through and hit that little right in the dick. I see it. It's right up, it's gotta be like pretty close to my head. How tall is your character? I'm a human, so I mean, I mean, Jables, he ain't tall. Well, I mean, I'm like three foot six. Yeah, I'm like five foot eight. Oh yeah, I'm just crouched down in a little human. Wow. Done. Excellent. Again, I don't want to get closer and there's not really much else I can do, so I'm gonna leave it at that, to be honest. You're dumb. I feel the breeze. Okay. He's still standing after that? He's dusty. He's dusty, but he is still standing. He's not even bloody? Well, that's bloody for them. Oh, okay. You know, ghouls and blood. That's fair, yeah. Reasonable. Okay. So... Uh... Sacred flame. Oh, no. I'm the guy that's closer to me. It's Dusty. Is that what I'm... Shagone. This is a save on his part, I believe. It is. DC-13. Because I know his stats, because I'm in here. Okay, we got that out of the way. I know, it's a disappointment. For you. Could have gotten that on an attack roll. I got a nat 20 to snip out which one was a bitch, okay? You did. You also had one against you directly as well, so they would have come out. So he doesn't take damage. He does not, unfortunately, for a cantrip. Your higher level, like leveled bells will do half damage on a badass. Okay. So then... That just takes my action though, right? Yes. So then I can... Do I want to... I'll go ahead and do my bonus action of putting my... Producing the flame. Okay. Just in case they're still around next time. You produce that flame. Jables. Dusty one is going to get... I'm going to swing at him. I'm going to swing at him. Those are actions. We're swinging. Only an 11 to hit. Negative. This is a bonus action. - Spell Sloth. I'm just gonna save my bonus action for now. More like save my spell slot. That takes it to ghoul boy one and two. I still got a bonus action that I'm not gonna use. I spit on him. On the dusty one. He looks like he needed it. You know, he's gonna take that in stride. As all ghouls do. And they're gonna take their attacks. Similarly to how they took them before. They're gonna take their multi attacks. They're gonna go out swinging. So the first two coming against you, Iride. - Gonna be a 19 and a 20, unnaturally? - They both hit. - And the two against you. 17 and 19. More spit, but one hit. One hit? We're gonna do the two against Iredell first. First one's going to be a cumulative... six damage. Second one's going to be a cumulative... Oh, you're fucking lucky I'm low... low... low... Rolling low! Four damage. Dead? It still takes me to negative. - Was it, were any of those necrotic damage? - Yes. - Parts of it, 'cause he takes half necrotic. So the first one, the necrotic was the highest. So the first one you would reduce by three damage. The necrotic was six of them. So it's three and... The next one you would reduce the necrotic by two. So three and two is the damage that I take. Well you would reduce the damage that I just told you overall by that. Thank you guys. That's why once you started saying combined, I was like, hold on now. He just said negative. Let me start pulling out the stops. So you're still up? Yeah. But you're... I'm bloody. Okay. And now they got one hit on me. They did. Eight piercing and one necro. Cool. Nine. And that's going to be their turns. Which takes it back to Greg. Back to me again. Alright, I'm just gonna do the same thing. There's nothing else I can really do. Exactly, you need that roll. So. You need that roll. Alright, one more short throw roll. My boy is - Toby with the bow. - Oh wait, no, and I can still add the D4 to that too. - Yeah, we can. - I'm gonna remember that. So I'm gonna roll the, I'm gonna roll a 20 and then add the D4. So, 22. That hits. That hits. That hits. Again. Hey, Melodic! Is this still giving me the sneak attack? Yes. Cool. So I'm going to do... He splits the arrow that was already in the main attack. Robin hits that. So six total... Six total and what was it that I added to that? Six total and then it's plus what? That would be 2d6 plus 2, won't it? Plus 2, yeah. Yeah, sure. Let's go back into the history again. So, 1d9, 2. So, it was 4 plus 2, so 6 damage. Okay. And that's on the bear-looking one with the big shit stick. You said 4? 6 total. 6? 4 plus 2. That would be just enough. Nice. Yeah, just enough. Just enough. Just one ghoul boy now. Who I do not believe has been harmed. No. I still have the spell slot. That you do. Just gotta hit him. That you do. Okay - Okay. I am going to take a step back. I'm not going to go all the way back. I had a little distance. Standing on top of the other cool boys? Yeah, just teabagging them. Yeah. Yeah. It's not sanitary, but... You're going to help me carry the fucking remains? Teabagging the ghouls. They're very different things, you know. You want this one? I definitely throw the fireball. Yes. Yes. I'm throwing it like this. As I use my magic action to hurl fire at a creature or object within 60 feet of me, make a ranged spell attack on hit. The target takes 1d8. So. What do you do with your roll? So 16 plus, okay. So I don't have to worry about my modifier then. And then I can just roll my 1d8. three okay and so i'm bloody and gray's bloody right we're all bloody yeah we're all bloody yeah pretty soundly now but it's all good bro I got myself far out of the way as soon as I could. The good old disengage. The road classic. Yeah. So if I were to use Goodberry right now, the berries appear in my hand. But then it just says, a creature can take a bonus action to eat one berry. So I could then, in theory... So I'm going to Goodberry, eat a single Goodberry? Right. But then they could each... I mean, I've already used my action, so I'm just reading it and trying to make sure I know how it works. So after they're in my hand, could either of them... then just use a bonus action to eat one? I've heard. It's not like it's my opinion of the book. Not in that way. I don't, I mean, you can still take it as a suppository if you want to. To stabilize them on hand. Right, right, I remember hearing about this. Of course you did. That will be my turn. It's not even the worst thing to happen. No. That's not even the worst or most deprived thing to happen. This guy's getting swung on. I wish I had more luck points. You want to give me another luck point? Sure. Roll me like two death saving throws. Nah, nah, nah. You can plus d4s on them, right? I'm good with that. No, actually. They're saving throws, no? Yeah, but they're not like, they're death saving throws. They're death saving throws. Good luck, have fun. Oh, yeah. I don't hit him. It's always good for me, but... Um... Because it's a 10. Negative. Negative goes right. Does it just stand here again? Must I stand here once more? Protecting my bloody friends while I'm tying myself in bloody. Oh! So he has against you in particular. He has it's about to it's about to be his turn again. It's like I want to save my bonus action for a smite, but I could shield of faith myself. Decisions, decisions. Do I stand here and spit in his face and just wait? The worst that happens, I go down, I stand here, I spit in his face, and I wait. The worst that can happen. He's going to take a single flaw deck against you, and be overturned to silver. Sixty? Yeah. Alright. He shot his shot, trying to paralyze you in the last moment, and kill you. That takes it back to you, Rick. Back to me. Can I see that Ghoul at this point is it still behind the doorway? I can't see it You can pass through without Provoking it even if you felt like you needed to run by it. You could just disengage with bonus. Okay Yeah, and I've got 30 feet So and you said each one of these like blocks is five. Yeah, okay. Yeah, so I think what I'm gonna do is I'm gonna reposition and Fire my bow again. I've been doing very good with this thing so far. So, 10, 15, 20. Yeah. Just gonna reposition back over here. That way we're huddled together with our ranged attacks back here. And then I'm gonna do the same old short bow again. So, roll that and then add my D4, which I desperately need because that was a 7. I spread my legs wide. Plus 3, so it's a 10. Unfortunately not. Nope. Okay. Miss. Misses my legs though. And I appreciate that. Do you know how many times Derek has shot me? I've been shot by Derek almost more than he's shot the enemy. That's hilarious. He's fucking barred and every time he was like, and I'm going to use my bow, I'd always be like, all right, let's not lose. I'm not going to win this. At least I have proficiency in mastery with the short pose. Is that you turning the light? Let me double check and see if there's anything else I can do that would be... I don't think there's anything else I can really do right now that would be worth it. You're done. Sacred Flame. Sacred Flame. You're doing a roll poorly. Please, take the hit. Take it. You know you want to. You know you want to. You know you want to. Oh! It's a what save? 13. Oh, he fails it. He fails it. Alright, so... deal 1d8 damage. 4 radiant damage. Excellent, excellent. Quatro. He's not dusty yet though, is he? No, I think he's only taken like 3 damage other than this. That's what I thought. Yeah. But every little bit counts, right? Every little bit counts. Do I get to swing again? Is that your turn? I'll go ahead and produce flame just in case I need it next turn. That's a 21. That does hit. He's also going to get smitten. Smitten? So the DA for the slashing is going to be 3 slashing. And then... Since he's undead, we'll do 3d8 for the Divine Smite. 11 radiant with 3 slashing. 11 radiant and 3 slashing? Yes. Yes, that's enough. Good job, guys. Good stuff. I thought that would really be a TPK there for a moment. We edged it out. A little resistance is here. Some healing there. Until I get my AC up somehow or something. Your AC will go up from your dex, I believe. Okay, yeah. Until I just get that stuff up a little bit, I think I'm going to stick with doing the ranged things. I always like doing ranged shit better. And plus for being a concealing illusion kind of guy, that works out. Well, it's nice as rogue having the disengage because you can go in, do a hit, and then disengage to get out. Like if you ever have some strong weapons. Mm-hmm. That leaves you guys exactly where you are. The opportunity attacks are what really suck about moving in and out of combat. So I guess something I could do, I didn't think about it, I was too afraid of getting hit because I had a little bit of health. If I had higher health, I'd think about going in with my dagger and my short sword and going in, doing the double hit that I could do, and then disengage, get the fuck out. I also have spells that I could get later. Right now it's not worth it for the utility for me, but I can grab spells that force things to attack. Or force things to not run away and stuff, so they couldn't chase you. Y'all are bloodied in the dark. You don't have light right now. It lasts for an hour. Oh, it does last for an hour. Okay, so it's definitely still going on. It's on my shield. Yeah, it's definitely still going on. You know what? You know, I'd really like to take a rest. Those crypts are looking pretty comfortable. I'm just gonna turn and look. I don't have any spell slots, but I would have to like really fucking sleep to get those back. But I mean, I could short rest, long rest, open them, whatever. Long rest is what I would want to do. Tell me what you guys want to do. Because then they have one open spell slot. That's true. Would you feel like we could long rest in there? Airedale does. I don't feel that way. In this instance, you don't feel any forces preventing you from resting. That's definitely a thing later on, but not right now. Gotcha. That's like that. I've got EGSV right now. Cool. Well, we already examined those crypts, right? So we would have known that already. Yeah, I'm down for that. So I guess we would just kind of post up and maybe have one person move to the card. Whatever, I don't know. Yeah, we can post up in there and do whatever kind of rest we need to do. Because you guys need your bloody asses black. These children's crips. You would notice that there are large stone slabs, like these right here, that are kind of off to the side right now, but are meant to seal the crips. I don't know if any of you guys are strong enough to move them. But you almost could get it and seal it in there. Is that something where somebody could try to move it and we could do a help thing and try to help them move it? Maybe we could reposition them to block the pathway out into the hall so we could be a little bit more secure in here. Yeah, like try to move one of them to here between the three of us. Yeah, something like that. Between the three of us, could we do it? I'm not that strong. So you're trying to move it from here to here? Yeah, as a group, if Jables is down. Because we need tables. Athletics. Athletics. Athletics. Athletics. Athletics. That's not good for me. 17 actually. A little better than I did. I did. 413. Thank you. Pretty good setting. So you know, all of you guys combined are able to scoot this heavy slab over to the section that you guys designated. Cool. Where do we move it to technically? My thought was... You guys claimed to move it like right here, right? Yeah, that was my thought, yeah. Exactly. That's what I was hoping. Yeah, just kind of blocking it off there, giving us a little small space where we could sit and be secure for a second. Okay, well you do just that. You do just that. Excellent. So, I am going to have you guys roll me two checks, just to see what happens over these eight hours, because eight hours is a little long. Okay. So, for the first four hours you guys are in this crypt resting, someone roll me a D-100. I'll do it. Anyone can do it, yeah. This is a D100, right? That's one of them. And then this is the other one. Yeah. Sixty... Nine. Nice. 69! Very nice. First D100, 69. The first four hours... Pass without incident. You would hope, you know. We also didn't specify who was up. I guess you guys could all be doing non-stradio activity during this time, not necessarily. Yeah, we're all kind of hoping that our slab works. So, on that note, we're all going to do 200, some of somebody. I can roll with you. I want you to roll it. Go for it. We'll take the real dice. 38. Oh, no. Usually in the horror bag when it's like super low. And you will have the next four hours happen with that incident as well. Some of the tables are going to be random. So you need a lot rest. You get everything back. So how does this work? So if you go to the top. I'm going to take that. So what do I need to do? So recover all hit back. Recover all hit back. - And then just reset Maximate Feet here and that's it. Take one rest. - You have to click it twice at a time. - Yeah. - There you go. - Cool. Just wanted to make sure I chose the right settings for the rules. - Yeah. - Let me see if I want to change up. Like, 23 more minutes, we got? Yeah. Getting into some good stuff, we're finally in the... ...figured around the long rest would be a good stopping point. You want to stop right now? I mean, it's up to you guys. I was just thinking. I'm tired. We could. We could. Let's see how Joplin feels when he gets back in. It's not a bad stopping point. It's not. Y'all have had some interesting and dangerous encounters this time around. Days when you guys are up for it though, I can definitely play for pretty long periods of time, depending on the timing. Yeah, I'm a scumbag. I'm a little particularly tired this weekend, but maybe another weekend. Just thinking for me, just going out Thursday and then streaming Friday and then doing an army Saturday. We played for a solid four and a half hours, so that's good. Got down to the nitty gritty of combat, which is good. It's both fortunate and unfortunate that both scenarios of Y'all's early combat are deadly. Those fights were deadly, but it's good. It's good learning opportunities, you know? You really suss it out. Yeah, they were not very helpful. No. Neglected children tend to not be. But I mean, they were fucking ghosts. They can, like, go through walls and shit. Come on, man. - I will say, one of the tougher enemies you'll face is one of Travis' favorite enemies ever. Wait, what? I'm reading oath stuff because there's so many oaths. I said one of the tough enemies you guys are going to face is one of your favorites. Is it a really tall skeleton or is it a shambling mound? *laughs* Do you happen to have a USB-C charger? I can probably take this one from my lunchbox right here. yeah i'm cool either way i could We could call it or keep going if everyone's down, but if you're tired, force it. Let's go. Let's go. Let's go. We'll just do that. It's a good spot. Just long rest. It is, but everyone make sure you long rest on your character sheets so you know that you've got all those resources back. So give me some time to do some homework on oaths. I'm stuck between a couple of them. Got homework, eh?

Character: Session 2

D&D Session: Death House Ritual Chamber ###### Session Overview - Party explored the lower levels of Death House and discovered a ritual chamber - Encountered 13 dark apparitions chanting "One must die!" demanding a ritual sacrifice - Major combat encounter with a shambling mound creature ###### Combat Encounter: Shambling Mound Battle - Party entered a 40-foot square ritual chamber with murky water, stone altar, and refuse pile - Dark apparitions appeared when Jables stepped onto the ritual dais, chanting demands for sacrifice - Shambling mound awakened when party stepped off the dais - Party learned shambling mound is resistant to fire, heals from lightning damage - Multiple party members knocked unconscious during battle due to lightning damage from the mound's engulf attack - Iridel went unconscious twice during the encounter - Party used healing potions and Lay on Hands to keep teammates alive - Combat ongoing at end of session ###### Key Tactical Moments - Jables used Shield of Faith for 21 AC, successfully dodging many attacks - Gray landed critical hit with silver arrow for 26 damage - Party coordinated familiar's Help action to grant advantage on attacks - Used Bless scroll to enhance party's attack rolls and saving throws - Iridel used Sacred Flame and healing spells to support the party ###### Loot and Items Acquired - Smoky crystal orb worth 25 gold pieces (can be used as arcane focus) - Retrieved three silver arrows from previous shadow encounter - Gold ring (25 gold value) found on skeleton in prison area - not taken due to caution - Cast-off chain shirt (medium armor) - cannot be used by druid - Four healing potions distributed among party ###### Important Game Mechanics Discussed - Death saving throws and unconsciousness rules clarified - Character dies if damage exceeds double their max HP - Potions can be administered as bonus action in 5.5e - Familiar can take Help action independently on its own turn - Shambling mound's engulf ability imposes grappled, blinded, and restrained conditions ###### Character Status - Iridel: Currently unconscious, has been knocked out twice - Jables: Bloodied, using Lay on Hands and spell slots - Gray: Healthy, maintaining distance with ranged attacks - Shambling mound: Bloodied and heavily damaged - The party escaped from the house using a hole in the wall created by Iradel. - Upon getting outside, they all fell unconscious ###### Exploration Notes - Found secret passage between prison area and ritual chamber - Iron portcullis with switch mechanism discovered - Room contains relics and oddities in cubbies (determined to be worthless) - Natural cave alcove contains the shambling mound - Party previously cleared most other areas of the dungeon Move everything over to this new virtual tabletop, which is what we used to play online a lot. But Eric let me use his account to make this right here. And as you can see, it's a tool that allows me to actually have lighting and control vision, I guess, a bit more accurately. Make doors, make walls. So I'm not just removing boxes. And one note, it also allows me with my WAC to actually move. That's pretty sexy. Yes. And if anyone, I guess everyone with a laptop here, technically I could invite and y'all could run this on your laptop. I could make you your own person and you can move it as well to control your own visual perspective. But we're not there yet. You're not there yet. But yes, y'all would find yourselves still after this long rest hanging out in these groups. What would y'all do? A lot of the cryptos. Because we did a couple of double backs a little bit. We went one direction and saw that there was a room, and went back another direction and saw there were more rooms. We definitely did. I get to give myself an inspiration. Because I'm a human. When we get a long breath. Yep, yep, humans are OP that way. They should still have their inspiration. They gave them when we did some singing. Some instrument playing. Singing. - Body burning? - Well around the neck. Um. I guess I need to give Jables the ability to see. Yeah. Yeah, so I need to cast it on an item. Because it is worn out. It is... 20 foot radius and dim light for an additional 20. I got 20-20. So I did put the light in here correctly. So I'm doing 20 foot dim or 20 foot bright. We immediately editing the scripts in order to continue to explore. I think so. I think that was our plan. We really just needed the rest because we needed to like... We needed the health. Yeah, we needed the health and all that kind of deal. We've just backed around a little bit, you know. That was hot. I think we go to the right. To this way? That's my boat. Yeah, I know that. Because it was the other direction we went first, right? Yes. Yeah. Yeah, because this is where we went up and we just kind of looked and we were like, nah, let's turn back for a second. So yeah, I agree. Let's go this way. So as you come right about right here, I'm just using this thing. Everyone give me perception. Oh, I didn't bring my dice. I forgot to get mine out. Oh. 14 14 still not bad. 17. 17. So collectively, Jables and Iridell are going to notice that this room, like many of the other rooms, seems not to have been used in a very long time. It seems rather dilapidated as well. Gray is going to kind of also notice that the silence is very pronounced in this area. Other than, of course, the chanting that you've been hearing as you've been coming down in this dungeon, like this kind of rhythmic chanting that you can't really discern the direction from. But other than that, you're not really hearing the noises of other individuals. But you would find yourself in this room, which is a room with a wooden table and chairs. It seems to be like a meek living quarters. Tell me where you guys would go. Seems pretty open for the most part. You see a couple little doorway areas. Yeah, as you-- So which one would you want to look? I assume this one first, right? As you go and inspect this little alcove, you would see a moldy pallet. Yep, and you would see something similar in all these little alcoves, moldy straw pellets. Okay, so definitely. Kind of over there. If there were certain quarters above, these would be more like certain quarters maybe or something. That's my initial thought. Yep, and these cultists were not living ladders lives. What's around the corner? Because that was the whole thing, yeah. Yeah, so I guess this looks more like a... Yes, so, yes, this would lead you to another room if y'all are just continuing on. Yeah, I don't see any reason to really inspect any of it right now anymore. So as you guys would head in this room, you would immediately see a well in the middle of this larger room. And everyone give me a perception check once again. That's a six. 24. Damn. Something's blocking my perception in this area. I must have had a really good sleep. You must have not had a good sleep. There you go. Jables is able to tell that this room is similar to the last one, but Gray is able to really make out the fact that each one of these tiny rooms does look like kind of more... There is five of those. Do we want to go ahead and check out each of these little alcoves again? I'm kind of interested about the fountain in the middle. The well? Yeah, we'll check that out first. Maybe get a little closer to the well. Maybe peer in. I rolled a six, so I'll be the one to look. I have no idea what's going on. So you would notice that much like wells that you're used to seeing, there is a bucket hanging out. Thank you. inspect something more specific about this well i was just curious about the condition of it and also maybe looking down let's see if we can see the bottom down there see the bottom you can actually Yes, you can. You also have light cast right now. So you can see that looking down in this well, it's only 30 feet from what you guys can tell is probably water. It's kind of hard to tell from this distance away. Yeah, when we drop the bucket. You're easily able to drop down the bucket and pull up a bucket of water. Is there anything interesting about the water? Is it a weird color? Does it have a weird smell to it? It's regular water. I drink some of it. You are now hydrated. Yes. Hydration is very important. I waited to see if somebody else would drink it first, and now that it seems safe, I'm also going to drink some. Mine as well. Anyone who wants to drink this well water is 100% able to. What's the worst that could happen drinking well water? Well, we all played Oregon Trail in my elementary school, right? You have died of dysentery. Lord, and is he dysentery? Oregon Trail is... No, why don't they... A-plus programming right there. I need to make my nephews play it. It's an important part of education. So, which one of these rooms are y'all venturing into first? I want to just go... Clockwise, top, counterclockwise. Yeah, I'm cool with that. As you go to this one, you're going to see this room contains a chest. Is it locked? It's not. There you go. You get 11 gold pieces and 60 silver pieces in a pouch made of human skin. How do you know it's human skin? Do we want to split up gold? Or do we want to keep it? Is it obvious? Is it hairy still or something? Yeah, it's like you can see someone's like hairline on this so it's like someone has skelped. And they're skelps of the... Do we want to split the gold or do we want to stockpile it in one spot? Yeah, because we've got a lot of stuff that's just kind of in like a group thing right now, don't we? Like a lot of the books. Yeah, or group inventory. Anyway. - We got stuff to like maybe try to sell later and things like that too. - I still can't hear you. - A bag of holding. - I was also unsure what you said just a moment ago. Bag of holding makes more sense. Bag of holdings are bags of holding. - Is there anything else notable about the area or the bed or anything like that? Just that there was a chest and we got the stuff in it? - Yep. I think we split up the gold. You can tell that the living quarters are in better condition. They are still very much like... This is a dungeon room. Melody, dank dungeon room. But you guys don't see too much other than that. So you can go straight to the next room after getting your pouch made of human skin. There was 11 gold and 60 cup. I guess we just put that in the team inventory for now? Yeah. Yeah, we'll see what all of these have. This room also has a chest. Oh, so you can open it? Yep, if it's unlocked, I figured I'd go ahead and open it. It is. None of these chests are locked. This one contains three moss maggots folded in a piece of black cloth. Three moss egg - A-G-A-T-E. - Yes. - Okay. - Yes. I know that because of video games. Warcraft. Is not cooperating with me. Much like the last room, that is pretty much all you're going to find. Pray tell me there's another chest in room three. Oh, well, you are in luck, Travis. This room does contain a chest, which as you go to unlock it, it is not locked. This one is going to contain a black leather eye pouch. Eye patch. - Too many. This one has a carnelian sewn into it. But if you wanted to just put black leather eye patch, Dungeon Colt. And that, much like the last one, is pretty much all you're going to find in this chest. So this one has a chest unlocked, which is going to contain an ivory hairbrush with silver bristles. Why do these cultists have these things in these chests, you might be asking yourself. We'll never find a clue. Nope. Yeah, this one is, that's a little bit more... It's silver bristles. Silver bristles on an ivory hairbrush. Interesting. As you inspect this room further, you're not going to find anything else of note. As soon as we go into the last one. So this one is going to contain a chest, much to your surprise. And this chest is not locked. This one is going to have a silvered short sword. The silvered means that it has some special properties against certain monsters? It will. It will. I'm pretty sure Iridil would know the implications of the silvered short sword. Yes. I can't touch the tip of that without it hurting. It would hurt you, I know. Do I notice anything else about it? Do I notice anything else about any of these items that we found? So I can have Iridil shed some light on that. What did you say? That I have to be very careful touching silver things because it hurts. You do. So as Iridil would. --is official fighting stuff. So Iridel would be able to tell you guys that some monsters have immunity or resistance to non-magical weapons, but are susceptible to silver weapons. So it's like lycanthropes, undead, a lot of different kinds of creatures from the void. So this is like a monster-killing weapon, in essence. Would it be effective against ghouls like we came across earlier? Yes. So werewolves, devils, spirits, and undead would be affected by these kinds of factors. That's what I kind of had in my head. I just wanted to make sure that I was thinking the right thing. So if you were to prick his finger, he wouldn't die, but he would be feeling more than a finger prick. Although you're not undead, you're just half vampire, so... Right. It just hurts more. Yeah, exactly. Exactly. It's like having an allergy. I could hold on to it. I was going to say, which one of us wants to hold on to that? Because either one of us could really make use of that. I would say maybe you, because you're just a sword man in general. What's your weapon proficiency? I was simple in martial. Which means you can use pretty much anything. What would the stats of the short sword be if I was swinging it? It's just the silver shortsword, right? It's a 1D6. Thank you. Are you looking at 5E tools? Uh, sources Dungeon Master's Guide, page 304. As long as we're looking at the same thing. I don't know if I'm looking at how we're supposed to reach. So reach 5 feet, 1d6, plus 1, piercing, weight 2. That makes sense. Just pulled it from the . I don't use the character sheet, so I don't have D&D ground for that. The other rooms, not a lot in this one other than this chest with this silver short sword. The same thing, tortilla chips and queso. Yes, yes. In fact, I was going to let it go to bowl because I do also have certain needs. And I'm fairly certain that that one is cash. It is not, actually. It's not? And I believe it is your hit, Travis. You hit this right now. I think so. Travis the bowler. It's a dangerous one though. The lewet? Yeah. Yeah. Very efficiently. I know. And he's also got a lot of room on the other side as well. Not at all. Not at all. *laughter* - I think to assume that short sword uses strength. - Do short swords? - Lead up. I should know more about short swords, but I don't. Because I use magic. Because that really will be the definer. If it uses dex, we'll give it to... It's got finesse, so I think you can juice. Oh, it does have finesse. Good thing about short swords. That's cool, because that also means we can pass it around. Precisely. Finesse weapon's huge. I suspected, I just needed to confirm. I had no idea. About the weapon properties? Well, yeah. So that one. Weapon properties are huge. Like the Vex. God, this is so neat. What is? The Vex. Giving yourself advantage on successive attacks against the target. Not gonna lie, I'm still having a whole lot of trouble picking my oath. It's coming up. It is, it is. You don't want help, do you? No. There you go. So I get to just watch you suffer. Well... Yeah, that just came in handy for me against those ghouls. Yes, yes. And you get to start doing arcane trickster stuff next fucking level too, so everyone starts to really feel the flavor of their classes. - I haven't tried your cookies and cream one yet, but it tastes really funny. - No, I haven't opened those yet. - Really? - I couldn't have my, so the ones that weren't bought when I went over to Travis's, that pretty much starts. - Still haven't finished this one, I'm about halfway on it. - Nice, nice. - But I was eating this hard all last, or not last night, the night before. - Yeah. I need to finish mine off too. - I went up to, yeah. I'm one of those kind of people where I can go up to Silo at 9 o'clock and stay literally until 2, so that's what I did by myself. I was there, there were like literally 10 people on the dance floor when I got there. That's a good shit though, because you actually get to kind of like just vibe, and then you get to vibe assholes. And then as I started getting drunker, it started getting crazier, and it just worked out very nicely. Hell yeah. I ran into a guy who was friends with the owner. Back in like high school and college, or not high school, back in college days in New Orleans, because they both went to LSU and were frat brothers and stuff. So he knew him back in those days when he was doing underground reggae and shit like that. I dig that. I dig that. It was pretty cool. It was probably not going to taste great immediately after having spice and ketchup. You know, you're probably right. You're probably right. - Still tastes really good. I followed up immediately with the court. You got to, right? You got to. I still haven't even had much chance or need to use my cantrips at all. Because mine are all just kind of weird. At least at this moment. The minor wonder things and then... Welcome back, welcome back. So, you guys finished inspecting this fifth room and you find yourself back in the main room. Like, goop in these fucking cultists a little bit. Just a snitch. Well, I just realized what I was putting my root beer on. That is definitely a dick in the heart. That's my favorite one. Because if you're not clued into it for like a second, it can definitely take a second to realize what the fuck you're looking at there. Good stuff. Surprise he came through with. Yeah. You need to let me get some. Yeah, did not disappoint him. I made it. Didn't want to grab your poker. All right, let's get it on. Y'all going to continue on? There's only one way for us to go, right? There is. Might as well. As you guys walk down this hallway, let me confirm, I'm not pretty sure. I didn't get the gold and silver. How much did we find of that? 11 gold, 60 silver. As you guys mosey your way down, you will be able to see, kind of as the model says, you can peek in and see that the room that would be straight, I guess, to your left, seems to be that room with all the bones and signs of cannibalism that y'all had been in before. Okay, so that's the one where we went. What would be down looking on the map and we started running into it. Y'all haven't been down yet. Sorry, I'll head you down. Did we give somebody the short sword? I do believe that Jables took it because Vanessa loves him. Down this hallway, you're going to get to another crossroads, which is going to be familiar to you again. As you remember this as the hallway to your left, the one that you guys were attacked by ghouls in. And then there's a way down that you stop a bit. You will hear, though, from this way that y'all haven't been, the chanting will grow louder. So based on the way that thing's facing to our right, we're hearing the changing. If we're facing-- so yeah, so that-- You're hearing the changing from down here. OK, yeah. But then the other way, that's where we ran into the ghouls. This is where you guys had the ghoul party. Yeah, we didn't explore any of the other little outlets from there after that point. We just kind of immediately backed off, right? Yeah. Do we want to check out what was past the rules that way, or do we want to just keep going... Basically where we're hearing the chanting. I mean, we did find some goop. There might be more goop. There might be more goop. More ghoul goop. It sounds like y'all are going this way, yes? I'm going to look for ghoul goop. All right, y'all will walk over the corpses of those ghouls that you did see. find two directions. You can continue to go straight or you can go down. You haven't been either way, I do not believe this. Which one of the first two guys? Uh, I mean, we're already facing to the right, maybe. Alright, as y'all would find yourselves in this room, perception checks. 16. 12. 12, 4, okay. So... That's a big money shot there, Trim. Thanks. This room is festooned with moldy skeletons that hang from rusty shackles against the walls. A wide alicove in the south wall contains a painted wooden statue carved in the likeness of a gaunt, pale-faced man wearing a voluminous black coat. Cloak. God damn it. His pale left hand resting on the head of a wolf that stands next to him. In his right hand, he holds a smoky gray crystal orb. This room exits in the west north walls. Chanting can be heard coming from the west. So back away, y'all gang. You are continuing to hear the chanting. So that was the only exit? Is that the way we came? No, so down here. I thought I was feeling down there. Is there anything about the statue of the guy that like, is it nostalgic in any way? Does it feel weird? History with the advantage. And with year 16 perception. Ray would be the only one to notice that there is actually a secret wall in this room. There's a secret wall. A secret tunnel. Me. That was, yes. Oh, God. So the advantage is I roll two dice and take the higher? Yes. Because of his backstory. 21. 21. Excellent. And it was a roll of 20 if that changes anything. It wasn't that 20? Yeah. It does. It does. So you would recognize this as strud. I'm high, and I just put a wall there. But you guys would be able to tell that in this area right here, you're able to push this kind of moldy clay in and reveal a secret chamber. Secret tunnel. Secret tunnel. And as you go in, you're going to see a very brief staircase that leads up to a hatch. So we got a couple options. Well, so I mentioned that that's Strahd to the group because I'm the only one that would have known that. Yes, yes, that is undoubtedly the likeness of Strahd. The statue? Yes. Okay, that's what I was wondering as well because I know we had heard that name and I was like, well, if he's a big figure, maybe that's it. We've seen him like in books, read you when you were a kid so you remember the pictures of his body. Very prolific figures. What else are y'all doing? Are you going to open the hatch? Do we want to check the hatch? Do we want to... What was the thing you said, Chris? Something about the statue? Since we recognize it, I guess we could walk closer and inspect it. Am I hesitant to touch the statue for any reason? Why would you be? Well, I mean, potentially based on that history check, you know, like what did it, you know, am I, am I concerned by what I remember of Strahd? You're deep. Well, you are, but not necessarily in ways that would make you scared of a statue of them. But you know, your stories were, weren't pleasant. Um, the stuff that you heard, it was kind of like almost the boogeyman. Um, He would take you in the dead of night. You would be trapped in his misty lands until he, you know, took your soul. But, you know, you know. Creepy. *cough* Is it a... Can we do a... Investigation? Yeah, investigation. Is that a real crystal orb, or is that also just like... Because you said the statue is like carved wood. It is. Yeah, give me an investigation to see if you can really take a good, close look at this crystal orb. Oof. Can I also... Yeah, you guys can inspect this orb. What's wrong with it? Investigation. 14. 14. Yes, you guys look better than me. With your two 14s, you would be able to tell that this is an actual smoky crystal or rather large. It's like the size of a cantaloupe. Take the word. Is it independent of the statue? Did you go to pick it up? That's a scary question. She was excited. Did I look excited? So more places to explore and everything too. Yeah, we can always come back. Let's go to Secret Tunnel. Secret Tunnel? Okay. Yeah, because it goes up to a hatch. It might go to something on the first floor. Because I'm Mokey Crystal. I'm supposed to know about all of the secret passages and stuff because I looked at the dollhouse. This one in particular, you wouldn't have seen, interestingly enough, because it actually didn't reveal anything about this dungeon or the basement. Exactly. Yeah, but I'm wondering if the secret hatch comes up in one of the other secret passages or something. It comes up in the middle of that werewolf den you guys experienced on the first floor. So you would find yourself back in like the very first floor of the house. Where you got all those crossbows. Okay, so a good way out. Yeah, a good quick way out. That's good to know. But since it just goes there, I figure we're just going back down, but we'll... I'll have mentioned, yeah, we'll... Oddly suspicious that there's an exit to the outside right from the statue. Oh yeah, from this close where all these people are chained up, it is a little... It's a suspiciously close access. There's a lot of suspicious shit in this fucking house and statue. Well, I'm gonna... And we know... Didn't we... Did we assume that that was the father's room? Well, yeah, it's like this study or something at least. Yeah, so it's going to be, this is going to be just me being the gray character is probably just going to out loud say, well, this is even just more evidence against the father. But then... These are real good people. Lost their kids up to starve to death. Had people dying in their basement. Ate people. Worshipped a vampire lord like... Who wouldn't like these kind of guys, right? Like, they seem wholesome. It's kind of weird that they worship a vampire lord but have silvered weapons. That isn't a very interesting observation, is it? Oh yeah, and the hairbrush with the silver, that was just two of the people that were in that little area. Yeah. Why would they, though? I'm taking questions. I mean, I guess if you're hanging out with creatures of the dark, you got to protect yourself. I didn't think there was one in there. From here, we're probably just going to, do we want to go down and just continue exploring before we steal shit? You're listening to... I wouldn't say accurate, you know? It implies a lot. It is the implications though, right? Finders keepers really steal them. Question is the question. Yes, thank you. God is with you. Robert, are you grabbing root beer? Thank you, sir. Never mind, Jonathan. I gave you, or I gave him yours. You have been thieved. Yes, I know. We're going down the passage. - Not doing anything else in that room, right? - Yeah, maybe a little hesitant to steal the orb. I'm gonna just continue checking this out. - Okay, I like that. You're gonna turn this corner and there's gonna be a door. - What is your marching order? Like who would be first? - I mean, I should probably be, should be in the front. - Yeah, I'll probably be right next to you, just a little bit behind. - Okay, and I assume you're gonna go see if this door is locked? - Yeah. - Yeah, we'll check it. - Okay. As you go to grab the handle of the door, you are going to become adhered to it. Because this isn't a door, It's a Mimic. I told you! I didn't hear anything about that. Mimics can be dorks? What all can Mimics be in D&D and what I know? We're gonna handle that after this combat. Okay. You know, you make some rolls. We're just going to do this here? Roll the AC. Initiative? Yeah, initiative. Sorry, I'm already high as tits. Six. Six. Two sixes? Ten. always having bad initiative on our battles? I've had a good one, I think once. It's either really good or really bad. There's no in between from what I've experienced personally. We have two sixes, and which one of y'all's dexes is higher? Mine's 13. 13. 15. OK, so I mean, that makes sense. We got a road. Mm-hmm. But-- except of the minute we don't know which girls we don't pretty simple creatures um but the most exposure i have to mimics was in a career which is basically just her getting her face like that and being chewed on while her butt jails in the camera in my defense i joked that it was a mimic because i thought there was no way it was a minute What's the worst that can happen, right? What was yours again, Jables? J-Bull's at the top of the round. You are effectively grappled by the skeptic. Right. - So it basically just works like grapples, so can I use my action though? - Yeah, athletics check. - Is that what it would be, athletics check? Can I use a luck point to get my self advantage? You'll be making with disadvantage, so your luck point would make the roll right there. Yes. I'll just do it with disadvantage on the special. Sometimes you have disadvantage in life, you know, with a rapper. - Probably a 13. Oh yeah. Just enough. But you're able to pull yourself away from this mimic. That was Jack. It was. I should have let them down. Although I'm going to guess sacred flame is in action. Just um - Reaction spit on the mimic. - Okay. Reaction spit, excellent, excellent. - I guess I'll, I don't wanna give it an opportunity. - And it will take the opportunity to do that. - I know. I'll kinda just try to like, if I can just hug the wall to be out of the way for, you know, the friends wanting to attack. Like I'll just have my shield. - Okay. I don't have a bonus action able to dodge. If that's your turn, that takes a degree. All right. Well, I guess-- Maybe I do a history check to see what I know about mimics before I start attacking. Maybe a history check. Let's see what I know. Oh, no. Nine. You know that they turn into things. And you now know that they adhere to people. Okay, cool. Is it still in the shape of a door? Yeah. But now is it like a door in the mouth or what? What is the door made out of? What material? It was like a dilapidated wooden door. Um, for right now, when it takes its turn, it'll take it, it'll do some stuff, but it looks like a door right now. And it didn't, like, bite you. It just, like, I was just, blah. You were, like, glinting to it, and you were like, fuck! Like, right on the door. Like a Venus flying trap. Exactly. But, uh, Alright, well, shit, maybe I don't want that time, and I don't know what to do. Um, You can have range attack it. Yeah, I've got the short bow, so I think-- since I know for sure it's a mimic at this point, since I've done a history check, I'm like, OK, so I guess this is a mimic. Yeah, I guess I'll just go ahead and shoot it with my short bow, just out of reaction. Because I'm like, oh, a bad guy thing? Shoot, because that's great. So just roll for the hit. Yep. Roll me an attack roll. That's eight. This is unfortunate. perception check is really good. What do you use for the attack roll? Uh, this right here. - Be different too. Because, yeah, my spells don't have a thing like that. I assume that's your turn on the bus? You're going to turn your off in? Well, my offhand is a dagger. I don't want to... I'll just take a really bad shot at a door and completely miss a door with my short bow. You accidentally hit the wall instead of hitting the door? Yeah, and I might back up a little bit because I've been having good luck with my ranged attacks so far and I don't know that much about mimics aside from making changes to things. You were the purple guy, right? I don't know which one was I. No, I was the... You were the red guy. Yeah, I think so. You're going to back up just a little bit? Yeah, so I'm going to back up to basically just as far back against that wall as I can be. There you go. You're able to do so successfully. Yeah, I'll just leave it at that for now and see how the rest of the fight goes so I can figure out what's going on. You're done. This seems to be my thing for now. So I just want to make sure that I understand before I decide what I want to do. So you can do one action, which is either an action or a spell, and then a bonus action. Is there anything else that you can do? Like a... But just those two things. You can do one action and one bonus action? In the short of it, yes. You can do reactions, but those you should have triggering effects to do. Right. Okay. Okay. It's like talking and some item interactions could also happen, but this is Okay, well I will use my thorn whip to attack. 21. So now I do the damage roll, right? Yeah. Five. And then for my bonus action, I do produce flame. - To my boy, the mimic. He is going to use one of his bonus actions and he's going to shape shift back into his true blob form. So it is no longer a door, it is actually now a blob. And then it is going to take an attack against Jables, who is the one still standing directly in front of it, yes? - Mm-hmm. - Okay. There we go, let's hit you with that roll. That's cracking me up. So the first attack is going to be-- Swing and a miss, you know what I'm saying? Swing and a miss. Damn. Damn. Okay, so it's going to try to hit you with an attack. Or it did hit you with an attack. So you are, are you, you're medium, right? Human. What's human? Medium? Oh, your size. You're a medium-sized creature, right? I believe so. You are grappled. What's that like? It gives you a hug. It gives you the most painful hug of your entire life. And it's going to deal seven bludgeoning damage to you and five acid damage to you. Here's the description of grapple if that helps. Oh, I've got it. And that is going to be his turn. I'll be bloody. And that takes it back to you, James. At the top of the round. Oh, yeah, that's right. He was still getting picked. What size is the blob? ...to you guys. But a blob. Am I still considered medium? I'm not small? You're probably small. I think gnomes and halflings are small creatures. Yeah, I am small. I had to find it on here. Monster medium. I do not believe there are any innately large races. I'm not seeing any disadvantage to attacking him or anything. Him? I don't think. Are you trying to look up what grapple does? No, I mean I'm looking at what grapple does. Speed zero ends when they're incapacitated or when they move out of their reach. But like, I should still just be able to hit him with the sword that I'm holding, right? Yeah, 100%. Especially since he's like, yeah. I'm using the look point and I'm hitting him with the sword that I'm holding in my hand. I'm also going to use my Paladin Smite to Divine Smite him when I hit him. Yeah, it's funny that I grapple doesn't do a lot, but some creatures grapples also like Restrain and Incapacitate. That's when you're all fucked up. A long sword will just do four. And then... How does a blob grapple if it doesn't have hands? Is it a fiend? Like on a water droplet? I don't think it's a fiend. It's like a... It blobs on you. Exactly. It's like a hug, except a painful hug. A hug that tries to kill you. - And 16. - 16? - Yup. - Wow. - I maxed it out. - That's what she's running for? - Let's get stuff, let's get stuff. - A spin arm again. It's bloodied this time, but it's spit nonetheless. - Would you be surprised to hear that the medic's into that? - I don't even care. It's about sending a message. Thank you. - Did you see Jables get grappled to bloody? - Yeah, I'm bloody, yeah. - That wasn't really a door that I have waiting for you guys in here. - But I slapped him for 20. How's he looking? He's not bloody? - No. - Cool. - He is being bloody. - Strange enough, was it blind? - It is. - All right. I mean, I guess at this point I'm just gonna continue with my shooting with the short bow, now that I'm a little further away and feel safer. What else did you expect from that at this point? That is a good move. I'll just do that first and see how that goes. Twelve. That would be a glancing buff. Good afternoon. Three or two? Oh wait, no, does it... The plus two means you roll it twice? Oh no, no, sorry, yeah. It was five. It was a three and then plus two is a four. Leave it for three, so... Bam! Bam! Okay. Doesn't show the five on the screen. Yeah, because it says one do six plus two and then, yeah, get five. Excellent. Yeah, since it was glancing. Okay, that makes sense. Since it was glancing. Okay, yeah. That's your turn? Yeah, I guess I don't have anything else to do. I'll just call out. I was like, at least I hit that one. At least I kind of hit that one. I hit that one, guys. Ear though. We'll cast Healing Word on Jables. Good move, good move. I'm going to get an 8. Total. Can I get any help? Yeah. I'm not bloodied right now. I'm not bloodied right now. Do you have, like, 20 of them? Maybe. Maybe that's exactly what I have. Total. Is that what I'm back at too? No, but that is... That's all right. This guy's only trying to do like 13-ish damage to you per turn, but not 12-ish. Yeah, it could be immediate. Probably. Yeah, it's kind of what I feel. I was like, you know what? He can hold on to me. I'll be his ass. His teeth are right there. Especially since this is like surprisingly deadly. Find a mimic in the dark alleyway. Dark dungeon. I'm trying to see if there's anything else I can do. Oh, you healed him. Sorry, yeah. Sorry, sorry. I freaked out. I was like, wait. You didn't damage it. The Lord's work is what they do. Bonus action, right? Healing word is... It is a bonus action. Oh, it's a bonus action? It is. You can action can't shift this motherfucker. Exactly, I was about to say, you did take a bonus action last round to do produce flames. Yeah, so I'm going to throw that fire. Just right at the blob. You're going to do it with disadvantage where you're standing because you are with a fight. As you can see, I'm using my best possible menu right there. I mean, you can back up and not be disadvantaged, right? Yeah, I jump back 10 feet and throw my fireball, my flame. Thank you. Because this isn't a very large birthday yellow, right? It's a 1v8. What was your roll to hit? I have not rolled it yet. The VA, right? Mm-hmm. Well, you rolled a d20 to hit. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. And what does disadvantage mean again? You don't have disadvantage now. Oh, okay. Disadvantage means you roll two hits on the lowest. Okay. 17. Yeah, that hits. That definitely hits. Okay. Disadvantage is not nice. Six. Excellente. Six damage. Let me see. I did things. You did. Lots of things. That was a very productive turn it was. Everybody smacked him up in that round. Is bloody actually? It's bloody. It has or less, yeah. Pretty sure I've asked that before. Sometimes if I'm close to bloody but not quite, I'll joke around and say I'm bruised. It actually is. It is just bloody. Good. Just bloody to the last. - That is your turn, right, Jables? Or not Jables, you're down? - That would be the end of my turn, 'cause I took an action and a bonus action. - Yep, and that takes it to my boy, The Mimic, who has you grappled, yes? - Yeah, I'm grappled. - Nope. I just hit speed zero, he's holding on to me. Unless, yeah, unless he's got some flavor, you know, I don't know that. I'm about to tell him. - Can he move with you grappled? - I don't know how that works. I wasn't bothering to look that up or anything. I imagine if he wanted to move while I was grappled, he might have to check the grapple again or something, I don't know. - He's actually mad that he adhered to him as the thing. Interesting. No, he doesn't actually because that's his item form. He just has you grappled. Maybe in that athletics check. So it'll be tough to slow it down and move less distance. Terrible. A seven. A seven? He unfortunately, as he starts moving, is able to maintain the grab one. Going to hit his globular form. He's going to walk up and he is going to take a single attack against you, Irdil. As he's moving, can I, like, he's technically moving past me. I can do him. He's moving with you. So, like, you're moving with him. Can I not do an opportunity attack? No. If you're moving around me? If you would have gotten better on that athletics, you would be out of it. But you rolled Doctrine. There's nothing about I can't take opportunity attacks from grapplers. Well, you're not taking an opportunity attack. That's what I'm at. I mean, he moved past. If he was here, he was going to move in. No, you're moving with him. I just didn't move your mini. I get it. I get it. I can't put, like, you want me to put him in between your leg? I mean, the other way around? I can do that. Because that's essentially what's happening right now. Being... blob. That attack against you, Iridil, is a 23. So that's against my AC, right? Yes. That hits because it's a 14. That hits. Excellent. So that's going to be seven bludgeoning and five asses, and you are also grappled. Seven and five, so 12. It doesn't say he can't have, or he can only have one person grapple by this at a time. I can feel the liquid life leaving me. It's globular now. That's all you can do. So that's going to be his turn. That takes it back to you, Jables. I'm going to assume you're bloodied as well. Yep. I'm bloodied, decidedly. So are Jables and I like touching now? Like we're within reach. Yes. And capable. Because you're inside of the same blob. And it's funny that the blob is only medium-sized, so you would definitely be making contact. In my head, it's looking like a Dragon Ball Z Super Galaxy donut. Oh, my God. Wait a second. You're bleeding right now, teacher. Boo with one of his blocks coming off and wrapping around you or something. It is kind of like that. I love that. Let's get imagery right. This is a blob bludgeoning me so hard. Like, blobbed me into the wall. Cracked my head on the wall. Exactly. It's just like the force of the liquid. I guess if somebody smacks you in the face with a gallon of water, it would hurt. A gallon of water trying to strangle you to death. Doesn't a gallon of water always do that, though? Not like this one. Next level water. Like having a truckload of Jell-O drop on your face. Would I know if it would be more damaged by the silvered sword if I were to smack it with it? There's only one way to find out though. What? Yeah, I might as well. The image isn't that different from the other sword that I was using. It's free action to switch weapons once, right? Yes. Yeah, so I'll just use the fucking sword on it. And I'm going to use another luck point. ...to attack with advantage on this bastard. Damn, I was one-off from a fucking... So that's a... 21. That doesn't hit. Terrible. Three from the short sword, but I'm smiting this hell. Okay. Trace from the short sword. I'm smiting this hell. Darkship, but it's all right. Five from the smite. And I can't move. So I think that will be it. I spit on him again. I carefully try not to spit on your dog. But I'm sorry, 100% spit on the dog. Trying not to spit on your dog. Yeah, if I have to make a check, I have to. Maybe a performance check. Oh, I can do that. That's a fucking net 20. What are you talking about? I'm proficient in my performances. I've been in the hot... - I've been saving this one up. - Wow, wow, is that your turn? If I can, I spit again. But yeah, I spit my turn. Alright. Yeah, my first thought is I want to move the maximum distance I can across the room that we're in. Since I'm kind of in the doorway, I want to back out into the bigger room just to get distance on him so he's further away from me. But then immediately, same thing, I just want to try to shoot with my short bow again. And I want to ask, did my glancing blow still count enough to give me effects? Because I just have to do damage to it. So you would try to move back here a little bit? Yeah, I would move back there. I'd move, I don't know, how much distance is it to the center of the room? You could definitely move to the center. Yeah, because I would be like, I would want to move back here, like a good distance away. Because it's right there, right? Yeah, because I can still see it from right there. Actually, we'll keep everyone right here just to preserve the intensity. of this clusterfuck right now. - Yeah, yeah. So I would move back there and then I would definitely hit him with my short bow. And so now I have advantage and that means two and then keep the highest, right? - Yep. - Okay. - Two dice and take the highest. - And that's just for the hit, right? - Yes. - Okay. So short bow, let's see what we get here. Oh, that's not 20. So 24, that's 20. So I'm just gonna keep that and then roll my, - 11. - So what's the normal? - It's like 1D6. - It rolled two for me. So I got a five and a four. It gave me two, yeah. When I got the nat 20, it gave me two to roll. It gave me a five and a four. It just told me. - That is rules as written. Usually what we do is you would roll once and then you would take the maximum. - Okay, so in that case it would be five. 5 plus your rule in like 1d6 plus... Plus 2 is what it says. Perfect. So 5 plus 6 plus 2. - So like you roll a d6. The fact that it's a nat 20 is like you would take the maximum of your potential damage on it. - Yeah, rules is written, you would roll it twice, but you can roll ones on both of those, and then it's like why the fuck did I crit in the first place? - That's a house rule that we use. - Yeah, so the house rule is that one of the first d6, you don't even roll it, it's just automatically a six. And then you roll the next one. - Okay. - This is with the wind. - The double-edged sword of this? - That was the part that I-- - That's how it works when we get crit too? - Yeah. - I didn't catch that part. That was the part I was confused about. - Thank you for explaining that better. - I was like, where did this sword come from? I didn't hear the sixth part. Makes sense though, okay, got it. - Yeah, it feels way better when you crit than being like, "Wha-fah!" - I just have to be a nitpicker as I'm looking at this. When you're giving us visibility for the dark vision, are you giving us 60 feet for that? Yes. Well, yes. Some things, it's mostly just turning corners. And as well, stuff like that. I was just curious. Because I don't think we had seen much that was like 60 feet away. That's true. We've also got the... Yeah, nothing's really been out of my 20 foot range yet. Right. It's kind of a tight... Yeah, so it even it even goes way just none of these none of these corners have been very long at all, but right Now I just curious because Yeah, so I think I mean that was a good shot so I think I'm just gonna kind of leave it there because I Got the way you got the hit in Is it plus two or plus four it was plus two on the total I - It would be plus four overall. - So it'd be 15. - Yeah. That's an excellent hit. Excellent hit. - One short of perfect, you know? - Yeah, yeah actually. But that's your turn, Gray. It does scream out in pain, that big a hit like that. - Nice. - That's with me? - Yeah. - Yeah, wow. Yeah, wow. You know what? I'm going to... Sacred Flame is a primary action, right? Yeah. I'm gonna do that. And for here, this is Dex. Dex, are you okay? Yeah, so it'll be whatever your DC is. It passes, unfortunately. So that means I hit? No. Oh. So you make it roll a dex saving throw and I got a good roll. Enough that you don't even have to ask where my dex is. Not at this level, I'm not. Okay. And since I'm touching it, when I produce flame, I can do damage the first time. Is that like your rule now? Because this says I can't. Repeat the spell. A flickering flame appears in your hand that remains there for the duration. While there, the flame emits no heat and ignites nothing. Okay, never mind. So that's the damage for the second action only. Exactly. If it wasn't, it would be a magic action to make an attack against it. That's why you couldn't do it. Even if you're touching it, it would come down to like a melee, if anything. Okay, that's perfectly fair. And I will still do that as my bonus action to hold that flame in my hand. Yeah. - Yeah, you look, you would be able to produce that flame? - Is it bloody there holding that flame? - Yes, sir. - It's a threat. - I respect it. - It's coming. - I spit on it real good. - It's basically my version of that, you know? The bloody flames, they burn a little bit more red with a little white edge. - They do? - That's my turn. - Okay. Each of you make me athletics checks with disadvantage. What's the disadvantage for both of them? Because you're grappled. No. That's not a part of grapple. No, it is this guy. Eleven. Part of his. What was the disadvantage on you guys right now? You said athletics? Yeah, it's just a nine. Damn. It was a nat 20 and then a five. Damn. Mine was a 17 and a 12, and I have a minus one. Take both of you guys with him as he moves over to grave. It takes his pseudo-partite against him. Music change would be a good time for this too. Let's see how well this attack is gonna go. Oh, that was dog shit. I assume a seven doesn't hit you. No? Okay. Damn. What did you have all three? You grabbed one of them. I got so lucky. You did. He rolled really bad. That's all he can do, right? Yep. And it's on the tables. Yeah. I'm in a good position to repeat my back the fuck away in long arrows. Did I notice that it didn't take any more damage to me visually from the silver sword versus my regular one? No, actually. This guy in particular. What color is the blood? Like transparent gray? Opaque gray? Opaque gray. I decided to be a part of it. It's how he's escaping. It doesn't know the difference. Maybe that's why I missed the first time in my actual first hit was a glance of Lowe. I was a little afraid that it was like, he's a brother. A brother in the grave. How are you describing? Oh my god. I'll switch back to my regular longsword then. I'm swinging at him. Excellent, excellent. Hit me with a roll. Hopefully it's good. Yeah, that would be 17. Excellent. Don't even roll any damage. Great god, get down to 180. As we continue to run around and set you guys... able to strike it down fuck that thing More amorphous, lifeless love. I'm not anymore. Not anymore? Yeah, just me now. I'm getting hit because it probably would have killed me pretty quick. Based on how much damage it was doing. I'm going to try to show you a good time for blobs. I'm blobbing good time. is over here. Let me see my proficiency. We need the next. It leaves you cool cats in this hallway once again. With there now being no door. Where'd the door go? I mean we could always take a short rest if you want to get some health back so you can roll some hit dice. I'm trying to see if I have anything that I can get help back quickly. I mean, short rest is just 30 minutes. Yeah. I mean, I'm cool with short rest. Okay. Maybe do a quick perception check on the new room, and then it looks like it's got table chairs. Maybe just sit down. Is that actually there? Yes. So as you guys head into this room, you would see there's a chandelier suspended above this table with two high-back chairs in the middle of this room. Which has an empty clay jug and two clay flags on top of it. So this is kind of like a much better furnished room and there's some candelabras over here too that are provided or that would have provided that. I still have the flame in my hand right? Can I use that to light them? You absolutely could. So this room is now lit. Cool. See that and I'd say yeah if we want to take that short rest we got some chairs you guys can sit down and take the rest. I'm good. And I'm down for a short rest. So I can just kind of-- I wish I got more back, but I'm going to heal myself. Give me a single d100 for this 30 minutes that y'all are going to take to collect yourself some games somehow. I rolled two d8s. Is that right? It would actually be two d10s. Your d100 is like two. Oh, no, I meant for the healing. Oh, for the healing. It's however many hit dice you want to spend. So, yeah, it would be two d8s. I'm sorry. I was already processing that as happening, you know. I was like, next on the stack is. If you want to roll it for real, I would just do it on that. I believe in you. That was a 37. So now I roll my. Plus two. So seven to nine. And then a 1, so 3, so 12. So you would see two ways out of this room. A way kind of to your north and then a way kind of to your west. And I just add that 12 back to my health rate. And at the end of our short rest, I play a song. And they still have their inspiration, but if I could, I would give them another one. Excellent. Excellent. I would do it. You can provide a lot of inspiration, can't you? Yep. Wow. You guys should be using that then. Basically gives you advantage on any role that you choose. Ability checks, support attack roles. Yeah, I keep forgetting about that. You can just be like, I'm going to use it. Mm-hmm. Is it like a use it once and then it's gone? And it's gone until, yeah. Okay. But it's good for if you're in like a desperate situation. Oh, yes. And I can give them to y'all at the end of any short rest or long rest, but I can only give it to myself at the end of a long rest. So, which way would y'all want to investigate? It's just a, it's just a, you get advantage. Oh, you just get advantage. Yeah. So, based on my mental math, The top route would just go back to that crossroads that we were at before where we decided to go right instead of down. So I say we just kind of ignore that and continue left. What do you guys say? I'm fine with that. So y'all want to continue this way? Reception checks as you guys all enter this room. You had some fucking... Several 20s, though, so... 23. Yeah, it's just been... 23? 7. 7. So... Shables and Grey enter this room and everyone would notice a large bed. This is kind of the nicest bedroom you've actually seen. You'd see a rotten wardrobe, you'd see some candlesticks in this room. Iridell is going to be the only one who notices. Also a footlocker, sorry. But Iredell would be the only one to notice that there's multiple sections of the wall that looks as though they're caved in slightly. Secret tunnels, secret tunnels. I'd go to interact with the closest caved in wall. To interact with the wall, two ghasts are gonna pop out of the tent, you guys. Shitty tunnel. I'm having a better feeling about the silver sword against these guys. Oh, yeah. Yeah. Ghast sounds like... Yes. So, let's move you guys back in here. Place yourselves wherever you would be. I'm... I would have been in the rear once again. I think that's the canonical reason for my bad perception role because I'm tiny. I was behind you guys. I was going to be peeping up in that footlocker. I'll be back up for a locker. I'm just, I got short wherever you want to be. You were interacting with the wall, right? It's right there. Yeah. These two things are guests. And as you guys-- They're right here. Yes, because they're kind of in the wall right now. And everyone, roll me initiative. Really nice, nice. Six. Hold on to that real quick. I'm going to refresh my page. Sometimes you're wondering like the dog shit online rolls. You feel better about when it rolls dog shit like in real life. Thirteen. It's nice to be able to choose. Yes, I completely agree. Do I trust real life right now or do I trust the simulation? How am I feeling? I like throwing number rocks. I also like my pretty pretty rocks. I have many of them. So I must roll them. See I probably wouldn't use it if I had to have one set of dice. Then when you're not feeling your dice... Now I think about giving myself a good set. You know what? Can I give you a... ...birthday present for myself? You'll start seeing them everywhere. This made me think of infected mushroom. I am very much looking forward to that. That's going to be very fun at the end of the month. Nat 20 for your initiative. Jables is probably going to go first. Top of the round is suspect of a safe roll. If Nat 20 right here, right now. That's my decimals, Your Honor. Six, I think. That's why I referred to my age. What was your number? Thirteen. It is J. Wilson, but that's right. I got one more of as good points as I ever was, you know what I'm saying? Y'all got that one covered, so I'm just walking up to this guy. As I jump up to him, I'm just switching to the silver sword, you know? It's just like all dramatic. I'm gonna use my... All dramatic! Yep. As you walk up to this ghast, you recognize it as Miss Durst from all the paintings that you've seen in the house. So she's the lady of the house. The lady who was starving the children. Yes, that locked her children in the attic. I used my inspiration. I'm going to get advantage on this one. If you two facing this one would notice this is Mr. Nurse. Thank God, I just did that. I'm just checking the dodge. There would have been a nat 1. That's only going to be an 8. Negative, unfortunately. Wow. Who's next? It's actually going to be this gas tank in front of you guys. The one right in front of us. Unfortunately. Well, at least J-Will got a chance to swing first. Yes. Yes. I respect it. She's definitely that. That takes it to the Mr. Nurse guest, who is the reverse centaur. He... Law attack is you here, Dil, for disturbing his howl. Okay. See how well he rolls. It's not going to hit. Nice. That's going to be its turn. It is going to actually move out of the little hole in the wall. And directly next to both of you. Which takes it to Miss Durst. And she is also going to do the same. She's going to move out of the wall. She's going to take a similar claw attack against you, Jables. Let's see if she rolls any quicker than her husband did. No! No, no, no. She did. So that's a dear no. This is our house now, you know? Yeah. So, because you started your turn within five feet of this ghast, You're gonna notice that this thing smells incredibly bad, so roll me a Constitution saving throw. That's... The stench begins to permeate your nostrils. I think fighting against stench is a great reason to use my inspiration. Do you want to give, like, the stench, Deebo? Not particularly, no. I consider myself a relatively clean person, you know? Well, you know, half person. You said constitution saving throw. I'm trying to find that on here so I know what I'm doing. Okay. I'm at 20, 22. Excellent. You definitely passed. You definitely passed. Do I like purge some of this tension away? I'm kidding. You're definitely more like, no! Awesome. Awesome. And then I'll use Bless. Huge. Um. Just about does Bless do. So we get to add a d4 on attack and saves? Mm-hmm. Nice. Okay. That's right. I remember that. Okay. We used it before. And then I'll go ahead and go in my trusty Pretty's Flame. Excellent. Excellent bonus action there. And that'll be it. Great. You got assaulted with stench. In fact, you'll have to make the same check of the third return. You'll be blessed for it. You will be blessed for it. Okay, so I do that, and then it's plus a d4 you sold? Yes. So 10 plus a single d4, and then plus your con modifier here. Three. Ten plus three. 13, I don't have a modifier on my custom shoes. - That's enough. You also are able to overcome the stench. You don't let it get to you. - Cool. I'm going to do my old trusty back the fuck up move first off and I'm just going to move to like back here kind of like in the drug I see you mean bonus action disengage yeah yeah disengage yeah because that's you're the only one who can do that as a bonus action so unless you every time you want to move away without getting an attack of opportunity you'll have to bonus action disengage but typically you have that action economy available yeah Yeah, because I've done that a couple times, yeah. So I gotta get the fuck out of there. So I'm gonna do that and then... Short bow. There you go. Am I still... Does the bless thing still work on this? Yeah. I wasn't sure if that was a one-time thing. No, because as long as you're here, they'll concentrate on it. So that was 16, and then plus the d4 makes it 20. Definitely is. Extra D4 on the damage tier? No. Okay, 4. Unfortunately, no. That would make it very hard. Just 4. People would be yelling at you when you don't cast it. Yeah, it was just a 4. Excellent, excellent, excellent. So let's do something to it, hopefully. Back to Jables, who makes me a constitution saving throw. Starting his turn, close to this smelly gas. Oh no, I'm gonna fail it. You're gonna fail it? Yeah. Uh, that's a six. You are unfortunately poisoned. Oh, that's fine. I could be poisoned. Disadvantage on abilities. Attack roll. Destroy. Until the start of your next turn. Until the start of my next turn? Yep. What does poison do? You just have disadvantage on attacks and ability turns. Oh, okay. I'm still gonna attack this ass. You can definitely. You can definitely. Piss me off. So that's going to be not enough, but it's going to be a 10. Unfortunately, that won't hit. Spit on him. Well, there you go. That takes it to my boy, the guest number one, Mr. Gustav Durst, who's going to take his claw attack. Hopefully it's a better attack than it was previously. I'm hoping not. I got moves like Neo. 13. Does not hit 14. Damn. Damn, he's not Robert. That leads to Elizabeth Durst. Third place is going away. No, keep it, keep it, keep it, keep it, keep it. You see what I'm doing? Keep it. That also does not hit. But that's her turn, which takes it back to Irindel after two unfortunate turns. As you take a peek. Hey, it's all fresh air, you know? That Nat 20 is holding true. I'm just going to swing fences at Mr. Dursty over here, who keeps swinging at me. So Sacred Flame for my magic action. That's a deck saving throw. 13. Does one to get. Two. It's one d8 radiant rolled two. - Roll a two? I'm gonna throw that flame. Oh, that... Huh? Excellent, excellent. Okay. That's gonna be with disadvantage. Yeah, okay. But I get my d4, right? Do I roll a d4 on both rolls or do I roll it once and then apply it to whichever is the winning roll? Can't roll worse than this. A nat 1? Yeah. You could technically roll two nat 1s. I'm sorry. I did technically roll two nat 1s. Really? Because this is a 1 and this is a 1. Oh. So I don't feel like it's fair for me to re-roll anything. Roll me a d100. You throw in your flame? Yeah. Is that an action or a bonus action to throw in? A second flame is an action. A second flame is an action. That's a good point. It's a magic action, so I can't do it. You can't throw it at your own feet then. So I can't do it. That's what I was looking at. You are genetically correct. Thank you Travis. Okay. Crisis averted. You have a bonus action available though. You know what? I'm going to forgo my bonus action as a payment for messing that up. And call it good. Is that fair DM? Happy little accident. Excellent, excellent. I got nothing else to do. I'm out of the way and it's worked for me and I'm still too squishy to want to be anywhere close. I feel like that's going to be like, that should be the case. So I'll just roll that real quick. Nice. Nice, 22. I think you'll also get sneak attack against this guy because he's up. Oh. That's true, yeah. They're pretty good. Yeah, so it's an extra D6. Oh, it says if I have advantage in all the worlds. Oh yeah, because I hit it last time. Exactly. Those are so good for you. Alright, so... So what does that mean? I already rolled my attack to her, my hit, so I know I hit him. Did you roll with a bench? It's good to roll two jams. Yeah, you know, I did. Okay, yeah. So, roll a second one. The second one's a 10, but the first one was a 22. Well, you get a D4 plus on that, too. Oh, yeah, that's right. No, you definitely get it. I forget about that shit every time. It's like 1D6 plus 2, so it'll be 2D6 plus 2. - One and three, so one and three plus two. Is that how I would do it? - Yes. - Okay, so four plus two is six. - Six, excellent, excellent. Y'all are chipping away at this dude. He's not playing though. - I don't see any reason to move, so yeah, I'm also just, I'm just gonna leave it at that. I don't have anything else I can do. - Jables, come. Do I have to do another concept? You do. You do, actually. We're gonna be dog shit. It's gonna be a 10. That is just enough. Nice. I'm swinging on him. That's hilarious. I'm swinging on him. This is less dog shit. It's gonna be a 19. That is? With my silvered short sword. What benefits does it gain against undead? I don't know. I just wrote down one of these things. If nothing, it's fine. This one lists against shapeshifted opponents. This is an old one, but it says it deals 1d4 extra damage to undead. That sounds right. That was for 5e. The D6 regular damage though, right? So you're saying plus one D4? That'll be... terrible. That'll be, uh, three, it'll be five DM-oosh. Five DM-oosh? I mean, it's more than... no DM-oosh. But it's also gonna get smitten. Okay. Smit. I'm going to assume they are undead. Yes. Safe assumption. Oh, yes. Oh, yes. I'm gonna figure out if I bust out and I'll fire you, D-A. There it is. Hell yeah, two of them maxed out. 18 radio demos. You're good, you're good. That's a big smite. Yeah, it was my last spell slot, so I'm happy that it wasn't my... Right. Oh, a flop. I'm trying to resist the stench. It just kept coming for you. It's painful. Travis did a lot of damage to the misses over there. The smite 18 radiant. her. Did you ask? No, I did not. So it'd be them, right? You know, it's the only... It's... I'm not gonna, you know, respect their, uh... Yeah. No, they're getting assumed. What's the start to children? Yeah. It's not okay. We're doing some crazy shit down in this fucking here dungeon. That's your turn. Yeah, let's just stand. Yeah, I like it. That's right. That's right. Every single time you say you spit on them, that is essentially the player's turn. That's a good point. So, Mr. Goosestomp is going to continue his unsuccessful onslaught of attacks. 12 doesn't hit. He's got 14. Come at the mundo. He's got that druid AC. That takes it to Miss Gustav, who's going to try to hit you with a 19. Just barely. Just barely. Okay. I'm going to deal 10 slashing damage to you and make you a constitution saving throw. Dog shit. Nine. Can't constitution save for my life. You are paralyzed. Until the end of your next term. Until the end of my next term? Mm-hmm. Okay. You're done. Okay. She's bloodied. He's bloodied. He's dusty. Not yet. Oh, never mind. She's dusty. Think I sacred flame her I - He'd be in range, right? Yes, he's gonna be. Then I... Does she have like disadvantage because she's an undead? I don't believe so. It doesn't list it. It'd be cool, but I don't think so. No, that would be cool. That would make sense too. It gets no benefit from cover for the saving throw. Yeah. I will go ahead and use Healing Word on my boy Jables. That's an eight. Yes. Sorry, was it my turn? Sorry. All right. Let's see. Yeah, still on the same position, same situation. Yeah, same thing for me. Do get it out, yeah. Yeah, I'm just going to do my short bone, and I'm going to remember that I had the d4 this time. So it's 12 plus 2, so 14. Did it? Did it? Cool. Want to leave in Brownsburg? Want to leave? Yes. Excellent. I guess this, that is just enough to have him also be Dusty. If that is your turn, that takes it back to Jables, who is paralyzed. And that takes it back to Mr. Goose Doctors. As I become unparalyzed, I spit on them. 23 to hit you with his claw attack. Good lord. That hits. He's going to also be dealing 10 slashing damage to you. and then constitution saving from. Constitution throws 17, no, 14, 14, sorry. Okay. And 10 damage is what I take. I start by responding to that second attach by spitting blood at her. Because, fuck that bitch. And then I go ahead and do Sacred Flame again. On the one by you. Go ahead and produce flame. Get that shit ready. Hizer. Okay, back to you again. I'm going to do my usual. I'm just going to keep shooting at this motherfucker. Excellent. Until I can get him to go down, as long as he's keeping him worried. Would it still be a sneak attack if he's not actively attacking me? Yes. Yeah, I forget what that adds. Let me... Yeah, it's an extra D6. Okay. Yep. And I do have advantage because I did it last time. Okay, cool. I have advantage, so I roll twice, right? Mm-hmm. Take the highest. Nice. That helps a lot. So 18. That definitely hits. 19. And then I get one extra d6 when the sneak is back? Yes. So 2d6 plus 2. So 4 and 4 plus 2. That's 10 total. 10 total. Very nice. Very nice. That is a secret. Thank you for some of the terrible roles earlier. If that is your turn, it takes it back to Jables. Go after Kong, Sam. You passed the last one, right? Yeah. No. You're welcome. Okay. I like what's been happening. That is a 15 to hit. That does hit. Silver sword, I will do, nice, maxed out, 10 damage. 10 damage with this silver sword, excellent. Another big fucking hit. Hell yeah. Hell yeah. Nice. All right, is that your turn? We're getting fired up on this one. Guidance isn't a bonus action, it's an action. It is definitely an action. Actually, isn't it a reaction? No. I don't think it was a reaction, I think it's just an action. Um... - As soon as we air, and sit down soon. Google things on the robot. No, that's an action. Uh, so... Okay, you're keeping to that motif. I appreciate the consistency. I have to run to my boy again. So are you bloodied here or down? Yeah, oh yeah. Thank you. Didn't dodge that one. Yeah. At least you passed the concept. That's cool. I'm just spitting. All right, that takes it back to Gustav. Not hideous, though, and that takes it back to... He's standing right there and keeps just missing. Can only hit me once, you know? 19 against you. Yeah, barely. Okay, so she's going to be able to deal that 10 slashing. Woody. Come save. I passed it last time. This is not for the stitch. I know. I know. I know. I'm sorry. Too high. I have to answer it genuinely. I'm going to pass it. It's going to be fine. 16. Good, good, good. It's a 10 or better. I figured. I'm sure you've done that. This is funny. What is her turn collectively? Which, what are you at? Me? Actually, no, don't answer. You're bloody, right? I'm bloody. Okay. We're doing the metagame. Yeah, she's bloody, right? They're both dusty. Everyone involved here is bloody. Except for Gray. Yes. I've been staying out of those. He's decided to be Gray, not Red. Yes. I got the flame in my hand so I'm gonna throw that bitch. You can't with disadvantage. Which one are you throwing it at? The close one or the far one? If you're throwing it at the far one, it's not with disadvantage. I'm throwing it at the far one. Same one I attacked last time. Which is the one in front of Jables over there. So you're just letting Ray deal with the one that's trying to kill you right now. Yeah, because as long as it's focused on me, he gets to hit it harder. And, you know, it's only hit me once, so I'm not that afraid of it. It's been rolling with advantage against you now that you're talking shit. It's been working out so far. 1921. Did it hit? Yeah. Definitely. And then it's 1d8. That is fire damage. Man can dream. I know. It's already in my hand, you know, I gotta throw it. Yeah, it's flame damage. Two. Two damage! This is a big hit. More than nothing. She's still kicking though, unfortunately. I'm gonna go ahead and healing word my boy Jables over there. For eight. You're not bloody! He's been back and forth across the day. My combination is working out very well with this, like, you guys. My gloves are stained. Back and forth with me just out of the back, just kind of like... I'm out of spell slots, so... Before I do my turn, I cough up more blood. Great! Like, yeah, like teacher, in Full Metal Alchemist Brotherhood style. Just... 19 plus 4. Definitely hits. Definitely. This is, yet again, a sneak attack. Yes. So it is seven plus two. It is nine. Nine to that one? Yep. Nine to Mr. Reverse Center. Always my favorite when you can be sneaky from that far away just because they're a little bit focused. How am I getting damaged? Somehow my back really hurts. How am I taking damage? No! That is going to be... That was difficult for me to do that simple math right there. That's gonna be just enough to kill Mr. Gustav as he slumps his smelly corpse hitting the ground. Lord. I'm surprised it worked. It did. It did. I think I might stick to long range as like my main thing. That's your turn. Yeah, I'm going to stop there. I don't have any reason to move forward because I believe I can still see everybody else. Jables. I'm swinging. Might be missing. It's an 11. That misses. I had a feeling. Spittin'. I'm going to position so that my friends can see her. And all of her spit-blooded glory. I want you to be right between the arrow and the gas. I've learned lessons between the arrows and their targets. Hey, we did pretty good on that one shot I did. Hey, I had faith. Because I went right between the legs and got them in the nuts that one shot. I had faith, 100%. I remember that specifically. Oh, yeah. There was a lot of leg spreading in that one moment. Okay. I said go wider. That was literally verbatim. In there. Make sure. Gassed, whatever it is. Gassed, yes. She is going to miss your dice tray. No. And that is going to be Iridel. That's her dusty ass turn. She's not happy with that. She's going to have to roll a dex save. The sacred flame is coming her way. 13 just saves. It's it hoots. Eight. Eight radiant. Eight radiant. That should be... That's not... Pretty close. That's not enough. That man was a bitching person to her. Actually, wait. Well, you know. Mental math. Well, yeah, because I'm just writing the numbers thanks to each other until it gets to be too big of a number for me. If they didn't have the same health, then it's just, I was like, damn, she had more health than him. I was like, that's crazy. Were you doing the math? I try not to. I mean, she got hit for 18 early on, right? 18 right in. That was enough to make her dusty, so I guess you could technically from that. Good job, guys. You failed these two, guys. Nice. Us? Yeah. You killed him. You just put him down right here, right now. Oh, and I thought we were the upright, morally just owners of the house. No, that was me being egregious about these two people that you just put down. But you are now, you were the owners before, but you are now very much the owners, which would leave you in this room. Um... I assume you guys would go to open the footlocker as you had planned before. Yeah, we planned to do that. It did have my attention. It did. So you would find multiple things in this footlocker. Be ready to write this down. You would find one cloak of protection. Very important. You would find a small wooden coffer as well, unlocked. Containing four potions of healing, regular ones. Jane shirt. - That's cute. Flask of Alchemist's Fire. A bullseye lantern. A set of thieves tools. Spellbook, which has a number of spells, but I'll tell you guys these items a few times before we get into the spells in the spellbook. I think there's one, only one that I missed. The last one? Uh, no, it was somewhere in the middle. So, wooden coffer, four potions of healing, chain shirt, mess kit, alchemist's fire, old eye lantern, thieves tools, and then a spellbook. Okay. Which none of you guys can utilize wizard spells anyway, so. But I'll still tell you exactly what's in the spell book. I'm pretty sure I already have a set of thieves tools. I wanted to make sure. You never have too many, right? Yeah. So this spell book would contain disguise, so identify, mage armor. Magic Missile. Protection from evil and good as its level 1 spells. Spells, you would have dark vision, cold person, invisibility, and magic weapon. Sorry, can you do the LTs again? Dark vision, cold person, invisibility. Do we know the rough value of this spellbook given the spells in it? Right, right. That's what I'm saying. So we'd have to find somebody and see what they're willing to pay for. We can't just kind of gauge roughly how many gelled. For this one, though. Other items, like all the previous items, you could quantify those into gold easily. They had a lot of shit. You'll probably be able to kind of tell contextually that they likely had been looting these items from other adventurers. The people that they had lured into this dungeon and murdered. Yes. You get all the goop from this room. You goop this room entirely. Should we put the cloak of protection on someone? The plus one AC is probably pretty nice to have. It's huge. You wouldn't need to do it too much, which is over a long rest, unfortunately. Well, we probably should do a long rest anyway. I'm out of spell. I'm out of everything. Would you try a long rest in this room? Um... With a bed room. We all just climb up in there. Back to the pile. Have we finished exploring the room? Is there anything else that we can kind of perceive, things, drawers that we can check? So, in this room was the wardrobe. When you look in the wardrobe, which I assume you will, you'll find old robes, more candlesticks. There's actually also that open crate you see in the corner containing a lot of torches. And there's also a leather sack with a lot of candles. So if you wanted any of those items in particular, you can help yourself. But other than that, The two tiny little hideaways of these guests were kind of lurking in as they hopped out. Tried to kill you. Did Miss Owner of the House in her crypt bedroom have pretty robes that Eridel might find some sentimental attachment to due to the design work or... color or material used. You'll find that these in particular are lacking any kind of fashion or taste. Like, they're all black. They're all very worn. I consider setting the wardrobe on fire and think better against it. Do we want a long rest in here? Do we want to, is there another place we would feel more comfortable? Than the room where we just murdered the really smelly old inhabitants? I mean, we can move the smell out. You wouldn't know that the room is clear. I'm cool with it. I think it makes sense. I'm cool with it. We could always push the dresser in front of the doorway or something. Yeah, for extra security. I'm not against that like we did with the thing before, although I'm not sure. It'll at least make noise and slow them down awake as well. Yeah, that's my thought. Okay. You're able to do just that. Are you guys taking watch or who's taking the first watch in this little bit of sleeping? I'll take the first watch. I've been unharmed for a lot of the time. I've just been Roll me the D-100 for this first four hours. It's your two buzz. I'm assuming both of you guys are attempting to sleep at this time. Yeah. Yeah, I guess I'll just roll it in virtual. So you can use these if you want. I also have a golf ball. Actually, yeah, I'll do it. I'll do it. I'll do it. - I see a 50 and a four. - 54? The first four hours go without incident. Are you staying up for the next four hours or are you waking up your buddies? - Good question. For long rest, we just have to do non-strenuous stuff for the eight hours, right? I mean, you can wake someone up if you want to sleep. It's four hours. Yeah, because I stayed awake and I didn't do anything during the short rest. So, yeah, I'll go ahead and I'll wake somebody up, too. I'll wake Jables up and then rest for the other day. I don't have anything to recover necessarily, but just for the sake of lore-wise, taking some sleep is a good idea. You let Iredel get the full eight hours of sleep, so Jabil's making the next B100 roll. I do have some stuff I might want to do, Durin. Some non-strenuous, but it's going to be a 20. That would still be enough to have this... ...hours happened with that incident. Are you wanting to attune to the cloak of protection? Uh, well, I was trying to... Who did want to attune to that? I mean, one person would, if y'all want to do that, but they specify. I assume it would be one of us, since we're the ones that get hit the most, right? Yeah, definitely one of the guys who are... I mean, I'm squishy, but I stay awake. Right. Definitely one of you guys who are more likely to be up close to it. Yeah, I'm cool with either of us. I'm not, uh... No, I wouldn't... What's your AC? Mine's 14. Because mine will stay at 18. There's not much I can do aside from paying items. Mine grows over time, right? As I... Yeah, Dex, which I want to because at least one of the cantrips and I think one of the later ones are both Dex saves. Well, that's just against your DC, which has nothing to do with your DEX. It'll be whatever your spellcasting modifier is. So you want to get your wisdom higher if you want your saves to be higher. Okay. And that'll make your attacks more likely to hit you several different ways. I mean, I'm cool either way. Yeah, I'm cool. I think you're the one that walks in the room the first most of the time, you know? I mean, fair. Do you use a shield? Me? No. Oh, I do have a shield. I have a shield. Leather, light armor, and a shield. An adventurer's cloak. 13. 13. Okay, way on. So when I hit long rest on here, it has two things, two long rest rules, 5E and 5.5E. 5.5E. Okay, so recover all hit dice. Yes. Do I have to do anything special to a Tundra? Or do I just basically have to wear it throughout the long rest? The thing I wanted to do though is I have those 12 silver knives on me. Is there anything around the room that I could see that I could maybe make my homie Gray some silver arrows while I'm-- Out of like dinner knives? I've got these dinner knives. There's some wood around the room. If I need feathers, I'm going to cut them a pillow, bro. And I've got, I assume I've got rope. I don't know, I mean, if not... Oh, we have bolts, right? You could maybe use the stick from the torches for the arrow shafts. Oh my god, yeah, there are torches. Yeah, I could just snap some of those. Yeah, and I've only got 12 of these, you know, so I've only got so many attempts. Also... I figured it might be non-strenuous. Also happy to give up whatever bolts are on my... Oh yeah, I haven't used the crossbow very much, but that's just because right now I've got a... I just wanted to ask if I could, if I could attempt to make some. I'm contemplating. Give me two sleight of hand checks. Can I give myself guidance? Yes. That first one's gonna be a nine. Second one's gonna be a 14. And I had 12 silver knives total to start with. So as you go to start like making these very crude, um... Very crude? Um, silvered arrows, um... It's like more like an improvised silver arrow. Roll me... Well, - Thank you for the tower. Eleven. Eleven? A D-fucking-twelve. You're able to make... You're able to successfully, out of the twelve actual pieces you have, you're only able to make four. Four? You do make him four silver, improvised silver arrows. And I no longer have the knives. I assume. You took all the knives to make the four. They have a silver version of the bolt and the thing So would that be, yeah, so you just want to find the bolts? And there should be a check mark that you can add to modify it. What are they called exactly? What was made? Like improvised silvered arrows, which aren't a real million arrows. It's not an actual item. He just like threw together a MacGyver kitchen knife silver arrow. We Jack Blacked it. Just do maybe an arrow and then add a note to it maybe instead. There should be a check mark to modify it. So when you click on it. Because my whole plan was for the four hours I wanted to make those arrows while thinking up The song I was going to make. Oh, it's in the crossbow. You can list that you have four silvered for the next day. I appreciate the commitment. Probably just the custom one's the easiest one. Yeah, yeah, I'm just doing the custom. Rest, you wake up. You said there's four of them? Yes. You're rested. You're not like super well rested because like the room's kind of dirty and it's kind of smelly, but you know, there's a bed which y'all definitely utilized. I assume you would start backtracking. Yeah. I mean, yeah, there's another way to go, right? Is there, there's no secret doors in that room. Those walls that have the caved in spots, do they... They were not like tunnels. They were just like little hobbles that they did. Okay. I accept this. Would you go back to the room with Crystal Lord or would you continue back down the tunnel? Something's driving me to that Crystal Lord. It's our house. It's our Lord. Right. Yeah, we're going to have to... Because we were hesitant before. We're going to go up through the trapdoor. I'm going to go ahead and touch it because I feel like if it's anything, it's, yeah, if it's anything, it's necrotic. I'll know right away and I have resistance to that. So I'm just going to kind of touch, poke it. Just a gentle, you know. Come hither. As you touch the crystal orb specifically, nothing happens. It is just a crystal orb. So, we could, we could, we could, like, Indiana Jones this thing. Right, the exits are right there. Well, and there's skulls and stuff. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, swap, swapy, yeah. You want to toss me a skull? I'll grab you a skull. Which, is there a skull? I want to eyeball a skull that looks like it weighs about the same as this crystal. Sure, like there's skeletons everywhere. Well yeah, but which one, you know, you know. Roughly the same size, weight, and mass. That's my goal. I don't know if you need to check it. You'd have to find one that's very close. Okay, that's the first one. I'm going to say as all this is going on, I'm walking up towards that other, the special exit up here, and I'm At least opening the way. I'm in that doorway or over that direction. Okay. As casually ready to run as Gray can be. Well, also, I'm not interested. I'm just like, okay, we've killed all the shit. This is next. I'm standing right next to you. I don't know which one of us is doing the swap. A little coordination, you know? Since you said, you know, You do have the necrotic resistance. Yeah, I'm already holding it. I figure I'll pick it up, but that's what I was saying. Toss it to me. I could just with my slightly faster than normal reflexes that I get from being a half a vampire. Great. I like that. I like that. How great is the race? That's how I dodged all those gas hits. That was my divine protection, you know? The wanderer was looking out for me today. Someone was. My luck was Thank you. Actually pick up the orb fully in your hand. Five shadows are going to form around you and the statue and they're going to attack you. We're all going to roll initiative. But the shadows are going to get a single attack. Actually, yeah. They're going to get a single attack. So we're back in initiative. Six. I'm gonna prepare myself for the battle. Yes, yes, yes. This is... I wonder if y'all are gonna touch that fucking door. You gotta, it's, you know, it's college. Yeah, you do have to, though, you do. Those are bad news. So they touch the orb, and now they're getting attacked. Yeah, I heard that. Yes, yes. I heard shadows. Are we just at shadows for now? That's all we've heard? They are shadows. They're like shadowy spectral beings. Oh, okay. So voila. It's going to be. Those silver arrows are going to come in handy. Oh, yeah. I'm going to hope a lot that I don't miss. I also hope that you don't miss. For y'all's sake. I have not, but I definitely will take one. Kind of in the fuck box as well, Jables. You specified you were standing right next to him. Thank you, thank you. Couldn't my boy do it alone? What'd you say? Couldn't my boy do it alone? No, no, he's gonna be grateful that you're there with him after this onslaught of a text. And you're lucky that it doesn't specify that each get an attack. They just attack, so we're not going to have them each take an attack against Iridel. I think that would result in his immediate death. You know what I am going to do, though? I'm going to look for more gold. Y'all have been navigating this fairly difficult combat well though. I'm interested to see how you fare against these shadows. Yeah. So far the strategy of me just staying back and lobbing arrows has been working. I've been getting good enough hits, or at least having the initiative and advantage and all that every time because of it being a sneak attack because they're always fighting everybody else. There you go. I think it's Jabba's turn to green this. He'll get to do that when he gets back in. Until I level up a little bit more and get some more health and armor. But in any case, I'm liking the idea since I was wanting to do arcane tricks or stuff for illusion and shit anyway. I was wanting to use that as like a way to hide more and get further away and... all that kind of thing anyway. That will be a good strat in some of the battles that you'll face. I wrote my 14. 14, excellent. Throw the plate away. Take a hit from my pen. And then roll. Excellent. Excellent. Sounds like a plan. Well, it is your green's job. Yep. Anyone that tickles your fancy. I did roll a six before I went outside, but I don't know if you want to count that or not. Would it be a cumulative six even with your initiative? Damn. Damn six. What did you say? Bro. I had to try, you know? I also had to be honest about it. Someone's got to go last. Someone's got to go last. I'm grateful you were honest. That's integrity, right? - By the way, I did sing their song about my silvery knife making. - I'm feeling very inspired. - When we woke up. - I like that. What's your dexterity, Greg? - What? - 14, right? No, it's like 16, right? - 15. - 15, so you're getting there. - I think, is that including-- - Thinking about the song inspired me. - Yeah, just know your overall stat. - Okay, the plus two is if I'm rolling on that button. - Is it your hit? Or no. We'll do the circle. The black cherry soda somehow makes me drink more of the root beer. The root beer is very good though, thank you. This brand is really good. It is. Take it to one of these shadows at the very top of the route. In fact, the shadows roll well for their initial-- I'm gonna take a draining swipe attack against you. Here I go. Blaine ain't got nothing on me. We're also going to take their two attacks against you here, Adele. Okay. So, 19? Yeah, 19 hits. There you go. He's gonna hit you with one of your draining swipes. Sofary bar. Get the fuck out of here. You're gonna be hit by five necrotic damage. And roll me a d4. Okay, I have necrotic resistance as well, so it's half, right? There you go, yeah. How does that shake out? Two? Is it truncate or is it round? I did three last time, so go ahead and do three this time. Okay. And then what am I rolling again? D4? Yeah, roll me a D4. What is that? Two. Two? Your strength score is reduced by two. How do I modify that? Other modifier, minus two. And then I take how much damage? Three? Yes. Three to cry. Those are going to be both of your turns, and that takes it to Jables. Well, I think I'm going to hold on to that silver story as I start to wind up. Luck points are long rests, right? Or is it every day? Is Lucky long rest? Yes. Okay. For some reason they didn't have that on there. Oh yeah, there it is. It's written right there. So I'm going to use my luck point then. One of them. Who am I? Who am I? Which of these have already gone? Everyone. The three by him, basically. Yeah, so it was these three that just took all of their turns. All three of those went for him? Pretty sure it did. I think there's one more in there. Do you want this, Travis? Yeah, I'll rip it. Do I work point do that or do I other stuff right now? I don't want to get hit. We're doing some ho shit right now. That's a bonus action anyway. I'm not going to use my look for it. I'm just going to swing it out. Okay. Hit me with the roll. Are you using the silver sword? Silver sword, yes. That's going to miss. That was a two, so it's going to be a four. Damn. Thank God it wasn't a one. Thank you. For my bonus action, I'm going to Shield of Faith myself. Okay. Good spell. Good spell. It's your turn that takes it to Mr. Gray. Spitting on this guy. I expect nothing less. That's gonna be in the drop-down. Alright. Well, I'm guessing I'm able to sneak attack because none of them are paying any attention to me. - Oh, their eyes are all on Gary now. You can see that. He has the orb of fire. - Yeah, yeah, so that's all. I'm just gonna take, I guess, whichever one is for this back, and I'm gonna start shooting at it. - Okay. - I'm seeing what's happening, and I'm like, well, all right, I guess we're fighting again. - Like the damage? - Yeah. - Are you trying out one of those silver arrows, or? Oh yeah, that's a good call. Yeah. Would be a good time. Yeah. They're in the fuck box right now. Yeah, so I'm going to use one of the silvered arrows and I'm going to shoot my short bow. It says with advantage, that means I roll twice, right? Yes. So let's see. 17. 17. Medently it's. Cash on the line. Okay. Oh, it would have been higher if I had managed to include my d4, which I didn't, but... So, yeah, I just added a 1. No, and then it's the sneak attack, so it's 2, right? And what does the silver do? Is it another d4? Yeah, another d4. So, 6 plus 2 plus a d4. - Nice, nice. Two other guys. - Yeah, I picked this one in the back specifically just because that was one of the Four of those arrows, right? Yes. That means I'm down to three of my quiver. I'm going to make a note of that just to figure I should. Something I might be thinking about trying to retrieve. That's what actually gets out of the line. You'll come back. you I think. Yeah, I don't see any reason to move from where I am. So yeah, I'll just do that for now. And yeah, we'll just leave it there. That's all my comments, but as far as just the dead fans standing in the back just shooting arrows, that's the rest of the fights happening, just as Greg would do. But it takes it to the two remaining shadows in their group, and they're going to take each of their attacks against your dog. Is that it? I think Grace's little man-of-hatch is rolling against me. That is the same. That'll be half, which is quarter. Yeah. Yeah. So each of these swipes, it'll be, we determined it's three, right? It'll be a total of six damage. Okay. Which is already half. One of them gets half-half, right? Yeah, so it'd be... Yeah, so, yeah. We're going to say it's one. So you're going to take what? Four. And then roll me 2d4. I'm going to stay with my D4 right now. Strength score is decreased by five. Okay. What is it? What is it? It's one. You're down to one? Yeah. Carry on. I'm a pretty weak friend now. I believe it. Is it my turn now? It is. I know that you mentioned that. It is. I feebly call upon the gods to bless my friends and myself. We are now blessed. Does Bless Mount use one of my spell slots? It does. You have a spell scroll as well that says. Okay, okay. That's why I didn't auto-mark it. But I want to use my ability. And then... So I'll go ahead and produce the flame. And I'll draw the orb closer into my chest. Nestled in my bosom. Because clearly it's valuable if six things showed up and just started swinging at my face. Five, but... Okay. Just five. Five. That's your turn. That takes it back to the single shadow. Where is my d4? There it is. Your strength score is really at one already. Was it not that high? Was it already your dumb stat? It was already my dumb stat. It already decreased it by seven. Is this mask gonna do it? Is it gonna continue to attack you? Let's see. It's gonna actually change targets. It's gonna attack at the same time as you were attacking. Oh. Unfortunately, net 20. I had a feeling when you said, oh. Shit. Wait, can't I use luck to make him disadvantage from his attack on me? If the condition is that if they roll a 20 that you can give a disadvantage, how would you know that advance? Well, You have to say like, when you give yourself the luck point, you have to declare before you roll it. When you give yourself the advantage. Yeah, my issue with this is the roll. Yeah, I'm going to attack Jables and then rolls it. Yes. Yeah. Yes. I was quick on the roll. Pretty much said it within a couple seconds. Yeah, you did. You did. It was pretty quick. But I will. I will. God damn. I'll try to be faster. I'll do my danger. I will. I'm a warrior. Which passes its turn, which takes it to the two other shadows, the ones in that line. So this one right here that's closest to you, Jables, is going to take its attack against you. And this one right here is going to take its attack against your doll. James J. Wilson's first. This one... Oh. Oh, two sixes. So neither of those attacks are gonna hit. Which takes it to you, James. I'm gonna huff and I'm gonna puff and... Is Iridale bloody? No. So, make me a perception check. Oh, because, well... Make me a perception check. How did you look at Iridale? It's not that good. It's not that good. It's a five. A five? It's a five. I'm distracted. She. I miss gender in Eridon. Oh, sorry. It's funny because my characters are always men in the ending as well. It's just hilarious. Gender bending is fun, you know. It is. It's fancy. Am I? - Do you have a faith on one person? - Isn't it? - It's a concentration. - Okay, yes. - That's what I thought. I knew Derek had thrown it pretty loosely around, but I just never looked at it before. - There are some of them that aren't concentration. Like there's one that isn't, that Claire is getting. - Okay, okay. - It's called something else, and it just gives you a plus two. - That's cool. - How it is for now. I might do more overall. I'm gonna keep the Smite in my pocket. Thank you. I'll swing first. I'm gonna swing on the homie that got hit with the silvered arrow. Yeah, the one that's like right next to you trying to hit you as well. Yeah. Yep, yep, yep, yep. Makes sense. Yeah, that hits. 21. 21 definitely hits. Do I smite him? Thinking I smite him. When would one use a ritual? Like out of combat? They're usually done without spell slots, but it takes you 10 minutes casting time instead of instead. If it says it uses spell slots, then it uses spell slots. Well, you can oftentimes not ritual cast, but which one are you looking at? I'm just looking to find familiar. So you can cast that. Out of combat without using spell slots as well. Or during combat. And is that persistent? Like once I've done that, I have that familiar period? Yes. And I can't, but if I use find familiar again, it would replace that familiar? Yes. Okay. Yes. Very good spell. Yeah, I'll smite him. Okay. So that'll be the six from my sword, my silvered short sword. Yep. Yep. And then you get additional D8s as well because of his undead status. I was hoping he was undead. Yeah, I know. 13 radiant. That is going to be enough to murder his ass. He explodes. The radiant seems particularly effective. And that will be my paladin's might that can do once a long rest. You know what I'm doing. Is that your turn? It is my turn. Alright, that takes it to Gray. And also make me a perception check, as you look upon your comrade, Iridel, upon her taking multiple hits from these shadows. Twelve. Oh. So it's funny that you were able to perceive a little bit better when you're standing further away from Jables. As a ranged person should. I was blinded by the, you know... You were at it. You can't see the forest from the trees. You're going to notice that she's not bloody, I don't think. But all the colors drain from her face, and she looks like her vitality has been seriously drained. She looks like knocking on death's fucking door. But not bloody. I'm a Oh, that one got killed. Yeah, smoted. I will just work my way forward and shoot yet another silver arrow. Yeah, a carpet-looking one. And that's Sneak attack, so with advantage, so roll twice. Yep, yep. 22, I think, and I'll need to roll twice. I'll just leave it. It's fine. So, and then it's also... Big attacks of extra six and two again. Four and three, seven plus two, nine. And it's the silver thing, so whatever was added because of that. Plus a D4 as well. Plus a D4. What did I just say was that number? Nine. So nine plus a D4. Plus three, 12. 12. 12 on the carpet. - Actually just enough to kill that one as well. - Nice. - I'm a bad wiener. - There's three left? - Yes. - I'm definitely gonna attempt to retrieve these arrows from these things' corpses. - That's a good move. That's a very good move. Is that your turn? - Yeah, I'm gonna leave it there. I know what I'm gonna try next if it's not dead already. - Okay. That takes it to the final two. One is going to take its attack against Jables and the other one's gonna take its attack against you or Adele. It's on you, whatever you want. Finish this. Or no. I'd be doing the same. No, it's not gonna hit you, Jables. I'm going to pull out the coffee dice. Coffee dice are failing me. I'm going to do the coffee dice. The coffee dice are still on my side, you know? Nothing you can do about it. You leave those things out of it. You leave the coffee dice out of it. That is going to take a D, Mirabelle. I like the one with the coffee and the D20 as well. I've got a lot of brown dice. Can I feel like I can use the orb for anything in this fight? Can I draw from it? Does it have a life essence that I can pull from? It's not a magical orb, it's just smokey quartz. They care so much about it. Okay. Okay. I'll use my fire because it's already in my hand. disadvantage because they're all pretty much right up in your-- And... But it's not here. So I'm gonna have to keep neo-ing with some flame in my hand. I'll use produce flame again. Okay. That'll be my turn. Produce flame. That would have taken it to carpet, who's dead, which takes it to the other guys, who's gonna take their attack again. So let's see. 13? Does not hit. I mean, I like you. The wanderer sees me. That's my turn? It is. I thought you were trying to do things for me. I mean, next turn. Three of them left, huh? There are three of them left. Hmm. Hmm. Trying to remember who's been hit the most. Who's been hit the least. We'll swing at this guy closest to me, I guess. ...the lock point when I swing at him. Being 18 to hit. That hits. That definitely hits. I assume you're doing the brown guy. This is closest guy to me. Yeah. I'll use my last spell slot to swing. I think I wait. I think I wait. That'll be seven silver sword Dimash. Excellent. He is... I don't know if a shadow can be bloody, but this one is. It's kind of starting to dissipate a little. Exactly. We need a corporeal form that dates it to you, Greg. I'm shooting. Here's my bird. I have two more of these arrows, so I'll do this again. And it is once again, 14 6 plus 2, 8 plus whatever for being solar. Not yet. So 9? 9. Nice, that one is also beginning to shift a little bit. Is that your turn? Yep, well actually, I'm gonna start moving a little bit. I'm gonna move myself a little bit more because if that one dies I need to be starting to get closer to the other side to hit the others. Excellent. So that's going to be it after a little bit. That takes it to the other two that are going to spread their attacks as they did before. One to Jables. And the other one to Iridel. She's not going to hit. It's going to be another 12. Call me Muhammad Ali. Fucking float like a butterfly. Stick like a beast. The rules are very unfortunate. I don't know what that means. Um, here we go. Um, alright. I'm gonna try the Sacred Flame. It's a dex save. So it does have... Is that a pass? There's no glancing blow. Yeah, I think it passes with that. Okay. Fairly a pass. So that would be... That's an eight for the roll of radiant damage. I don't believe they take damage... Because that's a cantrip, right? Yeah. They won't take that. Because it passed. It passed the save. Oh, it passes the same, so it doesn't take any damage. Gotcha. Okay. I was thinking my roll passed. Right. So. No, you're good. You're good. You unfortunately passed. And then I kind of crouched down because that's all I can do at this point. What you're carrying right now has never felt heavier than in your entire fucking life. Yeah, my arm feels like it's going to fall off. My legs feel like they're wobbly. Exactly, yes. So I'm kind of like on my knees. Which takes it to... Yeah, that's my turn. Perfect. That takes it to skeleton tone. Going to be another, sorry, I was reading something. Number 12, which is not going to hit. Jace looks really upset she hasn't killed me yet. We're all in this because I can't fucking believe it. Jables. We've got Mr. Dusty. We've got Mr. Dusty. And that one over there is like untouched, right? Yes. The one on the other side of... Here it goes. I'll swing it as close as Mr. Dusty, I guess. Mm-hmm. Brom-man? Brom-man? Thinking about using luck or not. You only have two of them, right? Yeah, I've used one. I should have used it. It's a nine. Bonus action. A lot of spitting. A lot of spitting. Great. I think I'll be chilling there. Assume you're taking an arrow bolt against a skeleton man. We're still blessed, right? Yes. Yes. Oh, we're blessed? Yes. I was going to say that, but I had my mouth full. Sorry. I didn't want to speak with a human mouth full. Was it a nine? It doesn't have it on yet. Does it change it if it's a 12? Glinting bolt. plants and blood. We're not going to smite him. We're not going to smite him. We're going to do, so it'll be half of nine. With my silver sword. Okay. Either for or fight, however you want to do it. I have unfortunately taken a very large bite of this cookie, and that could not speak. Yeah, I realize that comes at a bad time. I totally forgot we were blessed. I totally forgot. - Your deal hasn't taken a single attack against, or hasn't, yeah, taken a single attack since he cast a blow. So you haven't had to take a fucking constitution saving throw either, which is fucking miraculous. - And when he does it, he blasts it. - All right, so I'm gonna go ahead and do, yeah. - He still blasted until he drops it. - So it's my turn now, actually. And yes, I am gonna do the arrow. And I think this is my last silver arrow, if I'm not mistaken. No, no, I was saying I had two, but I hadn't used them yet. So I gotta use... You got two more. Yeah, two more. So I'm gonna use this one. So it's, again, sneak attack. Also advantage because of Vex. No, because I haven't shot this one yet, so I don't have Vex. You still have advantage because it's attacking Iredell right now. She's the person of interest for these shadows. 23, I don't even need to add the d4. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Okay, so. No, no, no. Yeah, you've been rolling pretty consistently against these guys. Which is good. Someone's rolling well. Oh, and I think it's just a one roll this time for damage, right? So it's just three. You get the plus d4 for it, right? Because of the silver. Yeah, so it should, shouldn't it be 2d6 plus 1d4 because you get the sneak attack. Okay, three, and then I'll let it go. So... You're broke with sneak attack. Three, three, and one more roll. Two. So a cumulative... A cumulative eight. Excellent. Did you add your plus two to that as well? Yeah, that's with the plus two. Perfect, so eight. Let's see, and that shadow you just attacked for nine last... that's gonna be just enough nice so scary time's done again Three lucky silver arrows I'll have to try to take back for sure. Make sure I can recover that shit because they have been effective. Definitely, definitely, definitely. Is that your turn? I've seen things like that break before, but I've seen them not break before. I wonder. I wonder. This is me, right? Yes, sir. Is that your turn? Okay, is it going? To the left. If that is your turn, we will take it to the two remaining shadows. And they're each going to take attacks, as they have been before. We'll see if they'll hit this time. One against Jables. Yeah, I'll use dice I haven't used tonight. I'll dig deep in the bottom of all my dice. 30 Is that a no or is that a yes? Boy, I have 21. You have 21 AC? With Shield of Faith, you have 21 AC? Okay. Ear dome. Nice. 13? Doesn't hit. We just start striking fucking JoJo poses. Um, okay, so this one's kind of translucent now. This one's still corporeal. Yes. I'm gonna use the, um, sacred flame on this one in front of... On the bloodied. Yeah. Dusty. Kind of see-through. More see-through. The, uh, the foggy, the smoky. Oh, we did, uh, complete this one, right? So Dex save and throw for the Dusty Krusty. 13 is the DC. It doesn't make it. 1d8 radiant. 6 radiant. 6 radiant? Yes. To the one that hasn't been damaged yet? To the one that is damaged. Okay, that definitely kills it. Yes. And that's it. That's all I can do. Oh, man. Oh, man. Make sure you get it far enough on the other side so I can hear it. Give it a shot. I'm using my inspiration to get some advantage on this bitch. So blessed. Yeah. Thank Christ. Because that could be the difference between hitting the mess in here again. Does a 13 hit? Yes. Oh yeah, 12 is a glancer. 12 is a glancer. And I am going to smite it this time. With my last spell slot. Nice. So with the silvered short sword, they'll pay... and Let me get these my... Radiant. It explodes. Nice. Good job. If your strength had been reduced to zero by these attacks, you would have died. Yeah, that's what I was afraid of. Me too. Outright death. No saves. No saves, just gone. Just dead. But the dodges were there. I kept getting rattled by my arrow hits and they were like... All you got to do is you got to be the bless. As soon as you do that, the gods see your favor and they seek to provide. I was hoping I could show the faith both of us after I did it. It's interesting that the second time I brought you to near instant death in these comments, it's different to your maneuvering these well. It's fine. Irredill's no stranger to near death. Seems so. Seems so. It's kind of like, you know, a pattern for her. She's very used to it. Very used to it. This actually looks toast. Isn't the grinder sitting over there? No, that's what it's like. I'll go ahead and load it. Yeah, just ground some up in there. That leaves you in this room. You now have Iridel. I thought you were going to say level 3. My bad. Not yet. You now have a smoky crystal orb worth 25 gold pieces. Nice. And you can use it as an arcane focus, but it's not magical. You gave me a life worth 25 gold pieces. Almost. I lived. Almost gave you Put it on the line. Yeah. Yeah, I mean, those shadows popped out and just each took several, I mean, attacks. So I don't know how y'all are feeling. Not as fast. Yeah, and, you know, I'm real tired. Real, real, real tired. Am I able to do Find Familiar... During the long rest? Yeah. So you're trying to go back above? First things first, I do want to retrieve all of the silver arrows that I shot. Is that something I need to do anything special for, or can I just say I have to go back? Because I want those things back. Make me an investigation check with advantage. You gotta take a hit for the luck. Alright, so it was an investigation with advantage, and so you roll twice. What were you investigating again? He's trying to find the silvered arrow. Oh, okay. You're able to find three of them. Nice. The fourth one unfortunately broke. Oh, I only shot three. Oh, that's right. You found three of them. Sorry, sorry, yes. Yeah, so I get all three of them. Nice, awesome. So I'm back to all four. They have survived the fight and now I'm back to this. Perfect. Good deal. Thank you for making those. I wouldn't have even thought about it. They were our knives, you know. We just had them laying around the dining room. So... I don't want to buy them, but... This is going to move you guys. Are we going upstairs? Yes. Are we resting in the house proper? Is that the plan? I think so, because we're right below the... Don't pay attention to the green stuff. I'm kind of looking at some of the green stuff. I'm looking at some of the green stuff. Right, it's this way around. The exact spot that you were in before. Yes. So, I mean, what, we should probably just go to a bedroom, yeah? Or something? Or do we just long rest in here, or what? You could potentially do that. You did just long rest a moment ago, right? Yeah. You could long rest again, though, if you needed. There's a lot of need. Yeah, that was some pretty heavy battles and stuff. We've got to do it at one strength. My thought was maybe we spark a fire in the fireplace that's right in this room if we can. You can. This is a well-stocked den. There was like high bleeding shit in this room as the table does depict. But yeah, you could. I think it makes sense to do it here. I also do want to go ahead and find my familiar at the very, like, just the start of it. Spend that ten minutes getting a crow. So I assume you're, Del, other than that, you're trying to sleep for a bit as well. Can we lock the door? You could. We'll lock the door. You could lock the door. How did we, where's the secret passage that we've been going through? In this corner right here. Is it like a thing on the floor, or is it like a... Yes. Yes, there is now. You will notice that... The floor did not look like this to give you guys this first pass through around, so it seems to have somehow modified upon you guys opening it from the bottom up. Because there's clearly a hatch door here now. And it knocked the seam loose or something, you know? Yeah. Okay. Yeah, do we want to try to put something on top of it? Whenever I rest, I'm just going to scoot a chair on top of it and sit on top of it. Roll me two D hundreds for the cumulative eight hours you guys are going to try to rest in this room. Because I'm going to start by sitting in that chair and playing us a ballad of our great battle before I pass out to give you guys some inspiration. Did you guys use your inspiration? I have not. I used mine. I have not used mine. I'm going to keep doing it. Inspiration's good. Paul wants to roll the hundreds. You can go for it. That's terrible. That's an 8. That's an 8. An 8? I believe that's an 8. It's two 0s and an 8. Shoot. That is an 8. - Nothing still happened. - Someone else roll up. - I did pretty good on my roll, but yeah. - Go for it. - I got 52 last time, I know it's pretty good. - I got some pretty bad hundreds today. - With my strength, I'm not thinking I can put stuff on my back right now, you know what I mean? - Hey, that's twice what I do. - You got to trust what that is. - So how does the familiar work? - That was inspiring. - At this point. It's essentially within 100 feet of you, you can use an action to share consciousness with it. It's pretty useful. But it just joins us as part of the party, right? Yes. And I get to choose the type and the form. Yes. So if it finds, you can have it scout ahead and then use your perception as its perception and see stuff. It's very good. I don't think it really can attack, but it can use the help action, which can help give you and your allies advantage on attacks in some scenarios. Depending on which one you summon, it might be able to do a low-level attack. It's very good. It's got like a lot of fucking tech. How do I know what actions it can take in battle? Because it does say a family I can't attack, but it can take other actions as normal. So they're referring to like the helmet. Okay. So like it could peck something's eye to like distract it or something. Do it. Like, nothing that does damage, I would assume, since it says it can't attack. Yes. I'd have to look at it again, but I... But it's kind of like also a shield because it takes damage. It can. It's based on the creature's stats. You guys, once you long rest, you're coming back down the hatch into this area once again, yes? Well, did we... We pretty much explored everything, didn't we? You didn't go down a flight of stairs where you heard strong... Oh, yeah, that's right. Yeah, I completely forgot about the chanting, to be honest. And it was right up here. Yeah, I forgot about that. I was completely... I got sidetracked by the... I kind of looked at... Which direction was the chanting coming from? Just from the left over there, right? Yeah, it was that direction. It's very strong to the west, which you know to be kind of a general vicinity. We pretty much cleared out everything in all of the other areas. That was really the only place left to go, I'm pretty sure. So we just need to make our way back that direction if we want to clear the rest of it out. I did assume that my strength went back to normal. That'd be crazy at level 2. Getting hit once is game ending, basically, if it's persistent. You couldn't even technically wear the things you were wearing. At one strength, you would be like an infant strength. I'm already a weakling. Yeah. Gray makes a good point. We should go ahead and go that direction. What do you think, Jules? Yeah, I'm down. I'm going to go check out the chanting. Yeah. I'll go ahead and navigate you guys back all the way over here so you can see. You want to give my shield light again after we go down there? Yeah. And you would see more stairs down. Because it's free. It's free. I also have a... torch i can give you i prefer i know i'm just saying for those moments when i'm not around oh yeah we should have we completely forgot about that in that bedroom we could have grabbed you like a few torches to actually use i've got candles and stuff and you know light is just the i could technically when i level give myself to me well oh yeah yeah yeah we're just doing this well i gotta remember too i also have a cantrip where i couldn't make Light and brighter if we need to do that at any point. But I think what we have so far fills up all the rooms we've been in. I just keep thinking I need to remember that because that can be useful. If you've got flames or something you've got in your hand, I can brighten them up. Ghostly chanting will very strongly emanate from the stairs in this room. Y'all are about to be in. Ghostly. Perception check. 10 Thank you. Sorry, perception checks. 14. Because everyone got over it today, at least, thank God. You can really start to kind of discern a few dozen or so voices saying over and over, he is ancient, he is the land. So you can kind of actually make out the chanting that's been happening this whole time. You are also going to notice this room is filled with relics in each of these little cubbies, as you can see right here. Small mummified hands, a carved knife out of human bone, a dagger, varnished orbs, folded cloaks, bags of weird things. So this is kind of like a room of road queries. You can find yourself in. After everything else you named it, there was bags of weird things on top of that? Yes. Okay. Bags of bag one of... Oh. You know, I didn't ask. You said weird things. That's weird shit. If I'm being honest. But that's just a few good little snippets. What do y'all do? Do they seem valuable at all? I'm just curious. Make me a... Investigation check. I'm gonna do that too. Sure. Fifteen. They seem like fucking junk to you. Okay. I have five minutes, so I'm just kind of probably just like the last step of that and immediately dismiss them. You're taking Airedale's word for it. Yeah. Yeah, fourteen. Yeah, these seem like fucking... This is trash. I think we just keep moving, right? Gotta figure out why these people are chanting in our house. In our house! We gotta clear this shit out so we can sell it, man. We gotta tell everybody it's clear. They're gonna roast us on Zillow if we don't. Yeah, really? So you would see... I feel like there's two ways out of this house. Or out of this room. So you would have options. Alright, you got two options. You wanna do a high blow roll? Leave it to chance. I'm cool with that. I'm cool with whatever. You decide that because I know the number. No, I saw the number. Which, high right or high left? Right. Then we're going right. I had to make it fair. That's why we just sent that out. I know it. She's saying there might be one left. Right as this one? Yes, because high is right. Because we are high. So if you go down this, you would find yourself in a large, rusty, iron portcullis that is blocking your path. Can I somehow see if it's in any way a mimic? I'm doing anything in interaction with it. Let's do some perception checks. Does it seem alive? Okay, investigation. I'm definitely doing the same thing. That's a smart idea. We're all traumatized. Oh, God. I only got a six. It doesn't seem like a mimic. I got an eight. It doesn't seem like a mimic to you all? It seems like you're a poor case. Can we touch it? With my silver short sword, I give it a... Smart. It sounds like metal, as the iron portcullis should be. Before we open any doors, do we want to check the other path? That's what I was thinking. I kind of want to check the other path before we go through a door. Rusty portcullis is kind of... That seems like the next area, you know what I mean? The chanting was incredibly strong from there, too. It seemed almost like they were on the other side. Yeah, that definitely makes me want to not go there just yet. You would find yourselves now in kind of a prison area, quickly seeing, as you do right here, shackles. Mounted to the walls. Is that like an opening in there? Do you see it? None of these are openings as of yet, but there is a long hallway. I green the last one, so somebody else can. That'd be awesome. I did the one right before that. And you would be able to come down and see that there is just a bunch of shackles. And you do see one skeleton. Wait. Like laying on the ground inactive? Yeah, this one is right here. Other than that, you can see most of these are just empty shackles. Looking closer at the skills. Do you have an Olympic cannon? Yes. Also, everyone make me perception checks before you look at the skills. 19. 7. Excellent. 7. Not the best. Can I pet you? I let you in. You're a sweetie. And he was like, sure, I guess. I got to walk by you, but I don't want to walk. 19. Thank you for having me. I've been rolling horrible on those all night, so it's about time. So you and Jables would both see a secret door. I know I put that one in. Hey. Insider information. We found a secret door, Jabels. I'm gonna remove myself from it. We found a secret door. Secret tunnel. Secret tunnel. Uh, can I still look closer at the skeleton before we do anything with the secret door? You absolutely can. Um... Find the skeleton is in a tattered black robe. The only thing of value you would find on him is a gold ring on one of his fingers. With 25 gold. With 25 gold? So it's worth as much as that quartz thing? I don't think I'm going to touch it. You guys can grab it if you want. That's probably not a better. I was thinking I would probably grab it immediately if it was worth as much as the thing that we just did all that for. Are you going to do the go-drink jambles? Is there an extra investigation check I can do to make sure it's not... Shadow tracked? I mean, something like that. Would detective magic be something that would help with something like that? Possibly. I'm gonna go with at least an investigation on it, though, quite first, just to see if anything feels extra off about it. 'Cause I know you said you're just avoiding it outright. I'm just a little traumatized at the moment. It's not bad, 15. It seems normal to me. What do you think? Are you gonna investigate it as well? No. Yeah, if you want it, I'm here. I'm gonna leave it. Maybe if we feel like we're feeling good later. Now he stands up and comes after us. Yeah, that ring is ours. No. No, no, no. Yeah, we decided. Jeez, you see how fucking excited she seems? I think we made the right choice. Yeah, it sounds like it. No, no, no. It was not booby-trapped. Goddamn. I am not a crypt. So I assume you guys are... And then you guys see the door. Yeah, it does end down there, right? There wasn't anything else. It does. It does. You guys would see mostly empty little prison cells with shackles. Does the secret door also sound like the chanting is really strong coming from it? 100%. Okay, so this seems like an alternate entrance to that other door that we were wary about, but we're ready to just go through. I haven't seen a mimic be a wolf. or a fake door thing. That's true. Well, and rusty metal doors would be pretty loud, so... That's very true. Everybody would sneak up. Yeah, so we enter and stay real close to the wall. Maybe peek through instead of just walking right through. So... The chanting stops as you peer into this 40-foot square room. The smooth masonry walls provide excellent acoustics. Featureless stone pillars support the ceiling, and a branch in the west wall leads to a dark cave heaped with refuse, which is back here. Murky water covers most of the floor. Stairs lead up to dry stone ledges that hug the walls. In the middle of the room, more stairs rise to form an octagonal dais that also rises above the water. Rusty chains with shackles dangle from the ceiling directly above a stone altar mounted on the dais. The altar is carved with hideous Depictions of grasping schools and disdain with dry blood. Because of lengthy description. But this is essentially a pretty nasty ritual chamber you guys have found yourselves in. I don't know if I want to stop in that water at all. I'm going to stay on the lintels. Is there anything that I can-- I'm pretty sure it might be like just deep on me. Oh, yeah. Can we tell how deep that water is? If you walk one step closer, you can tell that the water is two feet deep. Oh, yeah, so I would be underwater, and I'm not walking in that. I will stay on the ledges, guys. Are you only, like, three feet tall, four feet tall? Let me look at my stuff again just to make sure. You can always ride on your shoulders. I think I'm three to four feet. I can't even stack. - I have one person carrying another carrying a bag. - There you go, there you go. - I didn't write like a specific height or anything, but, or no, yeah, I did, three feet six inches. I'm three feet six inches tall, that's what I wrote down. - So yeah, it's like your nose above water. - If you think right here, that's about it. Literally my head and that's it, probably. - So, what do I do? - Future personal ones? - Before we do that, is there anything that indicates where the chanting might have been coming from that just stopped? - It sounds like it came from the very center of the room. And what was the description saying was down to the bottom there was like some kind of room with junk in it or something? So it seemed as though there was like a small hobble with some like refuse. Okay. So like it was a dark, more natural cave. You couldn't get very good vision of it. I was going to say, my initial reaction is that before going forward, I might start kind of walking around the outside edge a little bit. So I might start walking up towards the top because we didn't really hear a description of what was up there, except for the door. On the dice? No, not towards the dice, like up towards the top of the screen. You guys make your way up there. Just to... Just to see if... You would see an iron portcullis. Yeah, which has the backs of the door and that is that. Switch to the portcullis that you did not see on the other side. Okay. But there would be more of that kind of like smooth masonry all the way around. Okay. That's really all I wanted to do, just move a little closer so I could see what was up there. Good to know that there's a switch to open the door, because... Might not be a quick escape. Maybe, maybe. But what are y'all going to do? Is anyone going to attempt to go to the dais in the middle? Can I send my raven? Can I go check it out? You can. I'm going to do that. - You just have it kind of fly around? - Yeah, kind of fly, find like an area right near the ritual spot, potentially like land or, you know, look to see what it sees there that it couldn't see from next to me. - Okay, maybe a perception check. 17. As you fly with your raven and see through its eyes and try to get a close and personal look at this dais, it does seem to be just like a ritual sacrificial slab in the middle of this chamber. Nothing much else stayed up to you other than that. Am I able to tell if the blood that I can see is now dry or wet? It's dry. Can you be all attempting to go up there? Sorry, I was, uh... Is there anything that we can tell about the wall? Blinking at your cat. Just blinking. Yeah, we're afraid of it. Do we want to go maybe check out that other, a little more natural cave area? Since up top is just the door, we're going to go investigate that a little more before we get too close to the guys. I'm afraid of that shit. Also, I don't think I'm gonna even go to it. I'm definitely gonna stay on the outside while you guys go in. I can lob shots if battle ensues. Sadly, I think what's gonna end up having to happen is I'm gonna have to walk over there to it. So you try to go over here? And see what's in this? That was my thought. If that's... I just wanted to... I just wanted to see what the hell was down here before we started doing anything else. 24. Excellent, excellent. Iridel is seeing a lot. Because mine ended up being 8, even though that's what I wanted to do. 11. 11. So Iridel is the one that really gets a good look at this naturally formed alpha. You'll be able to recognize this half-submerged pile of refuse as a shambling mound. What does that mean? Don't go near it is what I would say very quietly. I've only vaguely heard of that. Is that something maybe we need to do a history check on? Sure. Everyone give it a shot. I don't want to like, you know. I am going to say don't go near it. I got a good roll on that one. That's not bad. 18, not bad. You said history? Yes. Thank God y'all are here. Your deal can make it with advantage because you're a druid and this is kind of a 0-5. Okay. Terrible. 19 plus 120. Oh, 20. So what was yours again? Greg? 18. So y'all two, you're not able to really recall anything even though Travis recalls a lot. But you two... They're able to kind of recall histories, and, you know, the Shambling Mound is a very formidable forest creature that has a lot of health, naturally resistant to lightning. In fact, heals from lightning. Okay. It's just, it's, it's... Okay, I'm just like... So we're, so I'm glad that I... Is it, like, naturally... - Violence towards everything, everything. - It's a creature of consumption. It's very much a natural force, not something to be reasoned with. - Yeah, 'cause the name to me makes me think like, yeah, it's gonna shamble over to you and it's gonna take you in as part of its mound. - Is it an aberration? I forget what they are. - Are they just monsters? - Maybe, look at the staff. - Monstrosity, maybe. 'Cause I know they're large as well. - It's a plant. Okay, so we should head back the other way. Yeah. I don't want to touch the altar because I think that's why my thought was definitely to come up and just kind of begin. I just wanted to see what it was. So that makes me wonder that maybe they're sacrificing things to the Shambling Mound is my guess. That's a great guess. And I'm not happy with that and I don't want to fight this thing. And that checks out with the monster in the basement that the kids are talking about. Yeah. Big facts. Big facts. To test that theory, we still have that bag made of human flesh, right? Could we put a book in that and toss it at the altar and see what happens? You could try whatever you want. Are you taking the money out, putting a book in and tossing it? I would take everything out. If that's what we're planning on doing, I want us to have the entrance/exit for the secret tunnel open. We should watch it from there basically. My idea is, as I've been doing before, stand in a doorway, stand far away, my arrow's at the ready before we're about to fire. That would be a really good strategy. We could also go two exits open. therefore reducing the chance that it gets the full party if something does happen. My question is for that door that's up at top, it has that switch to open it. Do we need it to lock it again? Yeah, I don't know. Or would it lock automatically once closed? Because we could have it cracked open and maybe we could even have ourselves peeking out through the secret entrance so we could see what happens and have the familiar come in through the other door. After it's open or something, I don't know something like that one of those kind of variations something where the shambling mount might think it's Wherever we are is a different direction Or we could just block off this whole section not tell anybody about it when we sell the house and see if we can get enough money You have to go all the way into the attic and then take a secret blank eye Right. Staircase tunnel all the way to the bottom. The chance they find it on accident. And this is down... You can't, like, fix the glitch. This is down a couple levels. It's not our problem anymore at that point. Right. This is down a couple levels, right? We're in, like, the lower dungeon, right? Because if we take care of everyone who's feeding it... Yeah. And then we don't feed it. Mm-hmm. Is there anything we could, like... Nah, because I don't want to piss it off and not kill it. Is there anything we could do to, like, potentially... I would like to personally interact with it as little as possible. I just feel like a mythic plant at level 2 is not a great idea. Yeah. I'd be okay with weaving. I mean, there's no real... Unless we're just like dying to find out why there's still some mystery shaking going on. There might just be some ghost or something that's going to fight us and then we'll have to fight a ghost and a shambling mound at the same time and I'm not into that. I'm down to see what story blocker makes us come back. This room's important. So what exactly are you trying to do? Leave. Are you trying to leave the house entirely? At least go upstairs. Yeah, well, we got to go upstairs and account for all of our loot and stuff and think about what we... Sort stuff out. Sort stuff out, think if we want to go sell stuff, and then we can try leaving the house. Keeping us in the house. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, we don't know. The only way to find out is to check, you know? You guys climb up to that den area. You're able to get easily from there to, like, the entrance of a house that you're familiar with. The mist does restrict you from leaving the vicinity of the house as it did when you first arrived or came here. Even when I wave the smoky quartz orb at it? Do something. I'm trying to think if there's anything we haven't done aside from like, oh wait, me? Because I'm pretty sure we've explored most of all of the areas. If this is like the last little room thing, that could be the very last thing we've got to do, but we're definitely not. I don't think we're ready to do this. We've got to deal with that thing. We did level one. But that room changed, you said, right, earlier, so at least from the perspective of the hatch opening. Do we notice any other differences in the areas of the house that we've already explored on our way to attempt to leave? You do not. Yeah, I think we've checked all the secret passages, I think. Which actually, that's something, can I do some kind of check? Because I know I've seen all of the secret passages. Can I do a check to make sure that we've actually gone through all of them? Yes, you guys can. Can I use Bless before a battle? I think we're going to have to have you just go to the dance. I don't think we have any other story options available to us. Wait, you think we're just going to have to man up to it? Yeah, I think so. So I could bless us before you walk across the water just to be safe. I think I have my self-shield of faith. Right. Because there's also, I think I have 10 minutes left. We talked about having the familiar. Yeah, that should stay attended. So at least I have that for them. Ah, second. Did we want to try to be weird extra cautious and do the thing with the skin pouch and the familiar taking it over there while peeking through the secret tunnel door first? We could if we wanted. Do that as a quick check just before sending an actual person over? You know what would be funny? Um, we have that flask of Alchemist's Fire. Yeah, we do. Oh, yeah, that's right. I wonder. So we could, like, we could drop the bag. I got oil, too. The alchemist's fire is a liquid that once it exposes to the air, catches fire. I wonder... It does very little fire damage, but that's what it does. I was going to say, if the Shambling Mound is a plant, would that maybe be really effective against it, actually? Lightning's not, but, uh, you know, uh... One hit, the target takes 1d4 damage at the start of each of its turns. I don't think James would know anything about that. We did pretty good on our history check on that. I did. What would you remember on our history check on that? Is that something that we would be able to know? It was a dirty 20 and an 18. Yeah, I think we were still got over 20, I think. Oh, yeah, 23. Would we know that fire would be effective against it? Or whether fire would be extra effective against it? Like this alchemist's fire? I actually don't even know what that is. It would... You would know that fire is not good. Okay. I didn't want to... Okay, I just wanted to... You never know. If it's plant-based, sometimes you can have a fire. This is like... This is like a dank... It's like a walking swamp. Yeah, okay, yeah, swampy kind of thing. That makes sense. It consumes wherever it fucking walks on to. It looks like refuse, so it looks... Do you have your mini? The one I made for this shambling man? Yes, I'll have to bust him out. But y'all aren't finding the shambling man at this moment, so... It's just a good representation, in my opinion, is why I asked. Oh, I'm glad you think so. I'm glad you think so. Can I find it? Just wanted to double check and make sure. Yeah, you seem to have lost your seat. Yeah, I'm conducted. Lightning, fire is not that great against it. I forget what is good against it. I probably wouldn't say it even if I remembered. Just because... I don't have many good memories of it, I don't think. No, no, my character would not. Any memories at all? I would have known enough, I feel, to say, oh fuck, it's a shambling mound. How many minis? No idea whether or not it's the same thing. It's good that we have a moment because you guys are deliberating on who wants to start walking into the dais. Have you guys decided? Oh my Christ, she's making us do it. I told you. It is the only path. I'm going to end up shielding myself whenever we do it. Before we do it, you wait. You wait. Going to hit. Now, before we get into this, I should strategize a bit and see if I can actually use some of my spells. He's like, what the fuck are you trying to do over there, mother? You're disturbing my chill. Your little kitty cat? Yeah. Actually, I'm going to double check and see if I can see her on the camera. Thank you. - Yep. Standing in the corner of my bedroom window. Keep them with my regular trees. I have two of them, but... Amen. - people's chairs and their boots. I've been chewing through it though. My back the fuck up and chewing dead strategy has been working so far. I'm going to put a lot of focus on my ranged skills from now forward, I think. Y'all are doing a good job taking quick turns too. Once you know what your turn is going to be. Yeah, for me right now there's not a whole lot else I can do. As long as I get back out of the way, it's just... Position myself correctly and hope I roll good. Once I get a few better spells and start doing some actual class-based stuff, probably it'll make a big difference. Exactly. These are one of the best. I need so many of these. No, I'm not surprised all the hot dogs you got in those were good. I also didn't eat basically anything else today. I had a little protein. Fair amount of protein. There's a lot of protein, but it's only 150 calories. It's all I had. Besides, I'm still going to eat a lot. Exactly. That'll get you hungry. What do we think, Gary? Are we gazing it? I'm standing in the open secret passageway with my bow at the ready. Do we want to see what it does if we put a bag of flesh out there, or do we want to just walk out there and say, let's do this thing? I think those are the two options. I mean, what are we going to do with the bag of flesh? Let's test it out and see what happens. That way we're not standing out in the middle of the deep water when shit goes down. Yeah. We take everything out of that right first and then have the raven go drop it over on the... Are we going to... We don't need to put anything else in it because it's just... The raven probably just dropped the raw flesh over there. Yeah. You can just fly over and drop it on there and fly back. Just like drop it on the table and fly back. Are we going to do this while we're, are we going to be fully inside the room or are we going to be behind the room with it kind of cracked open? It didn't matter. Nothing happened. Nothing happened. Sorry. Okay. Okay, well, shit. I've got my book ready. yeah i think uh do we want to use the bless thing so i still have my spell slots or that's probably the scroll oh yeah we could do it by the scroll the bless with the scroll yeah that's a good idea let's also take a look at some of the rest of the uh This stuff that we have in Slythene, the rest of it was useful. Because didn't we have, like, a chain shirt? Did we give that to anybody? Well, I already have chain armor on. The druid can't wear metal. Is that something I could wear? It might slow me down a little bit. It's medium armor. I believe. Or maybe it's heavy armor. I don't know. Chain shirt? Armor class 13. Weight 20 pounds. You can doff this armor as magic action. Oh. A chain shirt? That's what it's... Cast off chain shirt, is that right? Is that the right thing? Hmm. What did you say? I don't know if it was a cast off chain shirt, but it definitely was a chain shirt. Um... Didn't give a lot of specifics on it yet. Let me see. We do have... I do have to use this as a regular chain shirt. Or health pot. It seems like the same thing. That might have... Or it's medium armor, yeah. Yeah. Okay. They are different, so I'm going to switch it out. Yeah. Switch one out. What is it? What I have in our party inventory to the correct thing. I was like, be careful putting that in the middle. Yeah. We have four health pots. How do we want to hold on to those? Yeah, good call. I'm far enough out of the way. Maybe it might be good for me to have one just in case since I can't do any healing actions. Yeah. I have one on me just in case. Okay, I'll add that to my inventory. Good job. We have that four from that one chest. Yeah, did we put that in the group inventory already? I just had it written down, I don't know. What was it? The health box. Yeah, I have those potions of healing for... Yeah, I was saying, how do we want to split them up for this? I was thinking one to me, maybe just because I don't have any other way to heal and I'm far away from the main action a lot of the time. But then the rest for you guys to split up. I would also be okay not having one if you guys just want to split them both up. I think everyone should have one. Yeah. Maybe two for me because I can heal you. Yeah, that makes sense to me. I can also, if I end up needing to, I can bonus action heal myself with Lion Hands. So hold on to one of them, you hold on to two. And Gray's got one of them. Yep. How's the bullseye lantern? I should have looked that up earlier. I don't think it'll help us with this. It's adventuring gear. It burns oil as fuel, casts bright light in a 60-foot cone, and dim light for an additional 60. Very bright light. Okay, so maybe whoever's going out there carries it with them because it'll fill up the whole room. Not a bad idea? I believe the whole room was filled up with the light from my shield anyway. Yeah. What were we thinking about for the chain shirt? Is that something I could wear? What are your armor proficiencies? It's a good proficiency. No, it's just light armor. Never mind. So I can wear it and you can wear it, right? Well, I'm wearing better stuff already because I have chain mail. So should I go ahead and put it on underneath my leather? You can. Can't really wear metal as a druid. It's got like a whole thing. Do you think it does specify that? I believe you, but I do want to see it. It would be like it's under your natural armor definitions. specifically on your character sheet as much as it is in the PHV. OK. Then I guess it just stays in the inventory because there's no need for us to use it. We'll just sell it later. This is light armor and shields. Yeah. Change that in five Well, the chain shirt's a medium anyway, right? Yeah. Because this says light armor for druids. The item says that I have proficiency in it. This is the only thing that I'm seeing. Seems like it's a druid belief thing based on the lore stuff that I'm seeing. It's not that you lack the ability to wear metal stuff, you choose not to wear it. Yeah, that's what I was saying. It's part of your identity as a domestic order. Okay. Then I would not put it on, even though I can see benefits and I can see that I could wear it. It seems like it only, from what I was reading, it only applies to weapons and shields specifically. Like you can use, or not weapons, shields and armor. But you can use weapons and wear jewelry, that's fine. It's weird. I guess it's because the others are more like wearing and they cover more of your body. But jewelry is smaller. You could find bones. That's pretty good. I did say at one point or another you may get access to a medium armor. We're using the blessed scroll, right? Yeah. That's only a minute concentration, right? You want to hold on to that until you guys actually get into combat? You could if you want. It's an action. It's a magic action. Yeah, just do it as the first thing. I'm gonna do my shield of faith before I walk out there but because it's ten minutes. I don't have anything I can do that will help right away. Okay, so you're the one going out in the middle? I mean, yeah the person with health and armor, yeah. We haven't done it yet. We're still strategizing. I know you're really antsy to fucking throw a shambling mallet at me. That's why we're strategizing. Can I ask how big this room is? Like, dimension-wise? I'm thinking about the range of my arrows and where I could maybe be standing when we start this. Because I'm thinking about, like, I'm standing in the doorway right now, but it might be better to be standing on the very upper side of the screen up there where I'm thinking. You put the wrong me in the middle. Oh, yeah. So it's roughly like a 40 by 40 cube. 40 foot by 40 foot? Okay, so that's fully within my range. You put the wrong knee in the middle. Force a habit. I know, I know. I can't fault you guys. I will end up out there. I guess you two place yourselves as you would accordingly in this instance. As you strategize. I will be one spell slot down when I go out there. You know what I was thinking? Maybe instead of me being in the secret entrance, me being over here by this so I can be ready to open this door and get out that way if needed. Because up here I can still hit everything. I'd be out of your way. That was my thought, just because I've got a lot of range. This put him between you and the mound where it is currently. Oh, yeah, that's right. Yeah, the mound itself. I think we need to worry about the second way out. It was just a thought. Unless it looks like the tunnel behind us is going to somehow collapse. And it's not like that door was locked or anything. We didn't even try to open it. That's true. We heard the chanting and we're like, well. That's true, yeah. All right, I was just thinking about it. But yeah, I'll stay in the, standing in the. doorway so I would be not quite all the way at the edge here more like right at the edge here Silver, okay, silver arrow. Overcomes magical resistance, but I don't think that's gonna be much of an issue for arrows. Yeah, yeah, so I'll be using my regular arrows. It's not like a wraith or something, you know? It's a shambler. It's a shambler. It's a shambler, little kink, eh? Is that where you want to be in this engagement, Iredel? I'm thinking about it. Did we decide if I should be using that scroll before or during? I mean, it's... Are you going to be in the water? I think I'm going to be in the water so that I'm able to move to wherever I need to or see both of y'all clearly. If you use it now... Would it, like, potentially wear off before we get into battle? It lasts a minute. Each round of combat is six seconds, so it technically lasts ten rounds. Okay. And you could also still use Bless otherwise if we needed to in combat if we ran out, right? Right, that's why I wanted to use the scroll, because then I still have my three spell slots, so I could still use it in battle if that happens. Okay, yeah. So let's go ahead. We can go ahead and do that. If you want to use it as soon as I touch the altar, you can. Right. You can do whatever you want. Because if there's a non-combat saving throw, that's the thing that I'm concerned about as well. Because it would still give you the d4 for that. Right. So I think we used it. Yeah, I'm cool with that. Since I have it as a... It makes sense. Do it. Sounds good to me. Cool. Okay, so we're going to use that. I wanted the information. Would you mind putting one of those shambling mouths on this map, Austin? No, for no reason. For no reason whatsoever? I'm just gonna make sure it's over in the... Look at that ugly fuck. Oh, hell yeah. You can get it right where it needs to be. I'm sorry, dude. Looking like some refuse for sure. All right, so is that where you want to be, Iridel? In the water? Would you rather be towards the mound or towards up here? I think towards, I don't know, this one. Like this, maybe? Maybe like right here on the steps. You want Hermione to go towards me, not you. Yeah. Like right behind you on the steps over here maybe. Okay. The moment that Jabil climbs onto the top of the dice, you guys are going to hear the chanting rise once more as 13 dark apparitions appear on the ledges overlooking the room. Each one resembles a black robed figure holding a torch, but the torch's fire is black and seems to draw the light into it. Where you'd expect to see faces are voids. One must die! One must die! One must die! They will chant over and over again. Where are they? Like on these things here? Yep, they're all around. These are just columns that are like going up to the ceiling, right? So they're on the same outside ledge that I'm on. So I might be like behind one of them or something. They're chanting that over and over again. One must die. Does that count as one of them? Can I shoot one of them in the head? Probably not, no. I'm not gonna stop you though. Right. I don't like these things. I was thinking about using Sacred Flame on one of them. I mean if they're shadow things again, that makes me want to use the silver again. Everyone in the room give me either a religion or an insight check. Nat 20 plus five insight. A 12-inch light. Six. Or an 11-inch light. Uri Del immediately recognizes that these re-hears want a ritual sacrifice. So they're essentially wanting one of you guys to die, or someone to die, on this altar. They can't do anything about it, right? They haven't made a move, they're just standing on these things. Can I trick them into thinking something gets sacrificed? That bag of flesh is still there, right? You have what? I can create an image of an object or something. There's no larger than a five foot cube, but interaction would reveal it to be an illusion, but I could make like, I could make a fake dead me because I'm smaller than the five foot cube. I could make a fake image of me being dead on the, on the thing. Would I be able to, can I, if I make the image, can I make it like go from where I am? Like if I go back into here and hide and make it, could I make it walk out over there? Can I do that with my, Minor illusion? It only lasts a minute. I think you would be able to do something like that, but they're not going to be fooled by your vision. No. If you attempt it, you actually are able to pull it off. Well, you are able to, because minor illusion is pretty good as it can be. Based on my insights and religious backgrounds, is there anything else that I can draw upon to think of things that would fulfill the requirements that they're looking for. They want a soul to be sacrificed. A life to be given. Okay, I mean, my familiar... Who would my familiar qualify? No. You would know that, you know, the spectral beings would not... I'm about to just sacred flame one of these fuckers, dude. Okay, I mean, if we're sacred flaming, I'll sacred flame him. They're not affected by the sacred plant. So they're not real. They are chanting. You can't listen to every voice. There is that dead body in the other room. Yeah, but they want a soul. Yeah, that's true. I mean, we didn't touch the ring. Maybe there's something with the ring. What do we have that is equivalent to the human soul? Sick rock ballad. Give them that smoky quartz sphere. Play them some soul music. Can we pull a... Go, my girl. exactly where you guys are standing i'm sorry we're there yeah we're on our spot because yeah it was just sacred flaming for me yeah same just like oh i see you i see you i have continued if they haven't noticed me or if they even can notice i'm behind them so i'm just kind of staying Okay, so I spit on the altar. I do have I could use spare the dying. So we could technically take somebody down to a death save and immediately stabilize them. I want to look at the things that are yelling at us and just be like, does that thing have a soul? Right? The shambling mound? Oh, yeah. Can we sacrifice the mound? That would be, yeah, that would be maybe fulfilling. That would suck. That's what we have to do. We were expecting that to find me exactly what you're trying to do. I'm asking them if that thing has a soul as a point towards them. They will not respond to your question. They won't respond to my question. I Amazon support. Can I literally any support analyze the situation further and the things within the room that might qualify this without sacrificing one of our party? A lot of murder has happened. A lot of murder. Murder is everywhere. In fact, the evidence of murder in this entire dungeon has just been rampant. Grab that ring. We might as well go grab the ring. We'll get that ring first. Maybe it's... She got the ring and we should also grab, I tell you, we should grab the corpse and see if we can at least throw it as a distraction. Maybe it'll slow the mountain down. Maybe it has to absorb that thing first before it comes to us. I mean, I imagine all three of us would be going to grab the ring. Yeah, I don't think we'd go individually. Disrespect these things. Yeah. They have disrespected us. Yeah, they're like, all right, well, uh... We'll be right back. We got you. We got you, fam. We got you, fam. So, the moment that both Jables and Iridil step off of the dais, you are going to hear them say something else. Now they give us feedback. Hmm? They're going to say, "The end comes! Death be praised!" And the Shambling Mount is going to awake. No fucking shit. And start attacking you. Oh, of course. How long did that take? What? That whole... From the time we stepped onto the dais to the time we stepped off and they said that and he woke up. That's true. 30 seconds? 15 seconds? Something long enough for the blast. How long y'all been on this dais overall? We've been sitting here like y'all been talking about like the different things and thinking about stuff, sacred claiming, so it's, it's, are you asking for your 10 minute shield of faith? No, I'm asking, no, I'm just curious. It's not just like 30 minutes or anything like that, but it's been at least like five now to seven minutes that y'all have been kind of like doing different things and asking questions on this dais. So you said he's active and you said initiative. Is that what you said? Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. Eighteen. balancing between nat 20 and god 2 so 4 total At least I'm in the furnace today. Watching it teeter. Just get robbed. That's fresh, isn't it? Is it? Oh, shit. Oh, yeah, I think it was mine to hit, and I was busy. All right. Six. Six. 18. Four. Four. Shit. Maybe kind of. So we're only out. Let me put on some music for me to try to hear with his mouth more. So, not surprisingly so, it's going to be Iridel at the top of the round. I'm gonna use Bless. Okay. On the three of us. That's a good first turn. And then... Yes, I'm produced flame. It's ready to go if I need it. Okay. That'll do it. Sounds good. That takes it to the mail. Jamble. On over to you guys. It is a little bit further back here, so it's going to have to take its full movement to get right about here. And then it's going to use its action dash to get right next to both of you guys. And that is going to be its turn, which takes it to Jamble's. At least I'm in a good position for worship. Shambles around the weekend. Shambling man. Gotta open up a Luck Point swing. That gives you advantage, right? Yeah. I was trying to decide about silver versus my regular long sword. Because I don't know if it has any resistances I really need to over call. I guess since I don't know, well no, because it's also not undead so I won't get the power. Yeah, I'm just gonna use my regular one, so... God, that hits. It's 23. Yes. It's your desk. Should I have rolled initiative for the familiar? Yeah, just, yeah, makes sense to me. It'll be 8 Dimash. What manner of damage? It's a long story, but I'm just flashing. Flashing, guys. What? You don't have two-handed weapon fighting, do you, right? As a paladin? Two-handed weapon fighting? What do you mean? Like holding one in each hand? Yeah. Oh, no, I've got a shield in one hand. I've got two weapons. That's right. I have two weapon fighting. You're the one with two weapon fighting. I've been swapping them out. Yeah, so I could dagger in short swords. I wish I had so many more spell slots. It's such shit. They didn't give me an extra one when I leveled up. Hopefully you get some more fun in level 3. I do. I do. I'm gonna spit at it. Okay. The mound loves that. I bet. Gray. It's not focused on our boy Gray. It's not. It is not. *music* Yeah, so nothing special regular - Do I have advantage if it's attacking the others? - Yeah. - Okay, so. - You guys have eyes on your friends right now. - So I'll go ahead and do the usual two and we're blessed, correct? - Yep. - So the usual two and then the usual two afterward. Let me take this. - You just wait until it's like three or four D6 for sneak attack. - Jesus. - Yeah, yeah, it adds up. - Yeah. - You get a crit, yeah. So you get more of them at like level 5 or like level, you know, different levels. Alright. Good thing I have two because that one was an 8. 11 plus, what do you need? You guys cashed. Alright, cool. 11 plus 1, 12. You want to try it? Sure. It's a 12. I'm glad I had all the extra stuff because of that. I don't know if I need a 12. Dang, missed the first shot. I don't have anything else to do. I'm just going to stick where it is. If it hasn't noticed me because I missed, I'm going to stick nice and in. No, no, it's got its eyes on the prize. I'll just do my usual function of being the extra damage happening in the background for the rest. Thank you. Sacred Flame. Okay. Dex save on my part. I need 920. Okay. Do what? He gets a 9. 920? Good time for that. Yeah, yeah. Goody's getting out of the way now. That's it for that. I don't really have any bonus actions to take, but I guess it would be the familiar, so I send it to distract before Jables' next turn to try to get him advantage. Okay. There's the help action. To the mound, he is going to make his multi-attack. He's going to make one tendril attack against you, Jables, and then he's going to try to engulf you, Geardum. So let's do the attack first. Engulf. It's a sham burn. It is a sham burn. - Uber 20? - How much are we? 16 plus 7. Yeah, yeah. Yes, that will hit. So he's going to do his little attack against you. It's going to do 5 bludgeoning and... I really miss my berserker's rage sometimes. Resistance to bludgeoning and pursuant slashing. Yeah. Yeah, I can see why. Your bludgeoning is going to do three lightning. Skeleton. I'm going to impose on you, Iridel, a DC 15 strength saving throw. DC 15 strength saving? Yes. Do you have inspiration and bless? I will definitely use inspiration on this one. Thank you. That's just two of these and a d4. Yes. The highest number. So that's a 19. Beautiful. Excellent. Excellent. So you were able to overcome and in this turn take it from Jables. Nice. And I have advantage on the attack already? Yes. Yes. Because of your ability. I know what I'm doing. One off, man. It's gonna hit, though. It's like 25. 19? Yeah. Yeah. Mm-hmm. Give me the digital. I'm going to be six slashing. And for my bonus action, I'm going to do lay on hands, give myself five health. Before I spit on it. Great. Of course. The mound is probably just gonna absorb that shit. It's not lightning spit, so it won't heal it. Yeah, is my turn again? Yep, sure is. All right, so yeah, and then I've got the whole advantage thing, so I'll roll twice and see what happens. I got a nat 20. Distracting the familiar's huge. So yeah, I got the nat 20 on that, which I'm assuming... You got a nat 20 on your... Well, I rolled two of them. The second one was a nat 20. That's what the advantage is for. You can get the nat 20s today. You get the sneak attack as well, so it's going to be whatever you roll plus 14. Gave me two dice, both were fives. Give me two d6s, both were fives. Actually, that works because you roll sneak attack anyway, so you'll take 10. So it'd be the two fives plus two. So it's 12 plus 14, so you deal 26 damage to it. Nice. Smack him. Smack him fucking hard. He does not like that. I assume that's going to get angry at me. - Okay, can I assume it's your turn? - Yeah, I'm not gonna do anything else at this point. I'll just take that as a very good hint and I'll say, okay, and then wait. - Yes, here we go. Um. I'll go with that sacred flame one more time. At 13, so it's safe. And I'll go ahead and do that help action again, get some advantage going if successful. Is it familiar? Now it's the mount's turn. I assume that's your turn, yeah? Yeah. I'm going to see if it notices that that damage came from behind it. It does not. So it's going to continue to do what it did before, and it's going to take its tendril attack against Jables, and he's going to try to engulf you again. Okay. DC 15. And he misses Jables this time. The only reason I said for the over 20, I do have 21 AC right now. Oh, yes. Yes. Yes. Which I know is a lot. You tried to make it a lot. We did this on purpose. Six. You are engulfed. So you are now pulled inside of the shambling mound. Yep. And you are essentially grappled. But this grapple is also going to impose blind and restrained. We know you're a disadvantage on deck saving for attacks of disadvantage enemy attacks everything and Blind and restrained are super similar. Yes. Like, the only extra thing blind adds is you can't see. Yeah, automatically availability checks without quaresight. Exactly. Are these put on just me? And, like, could I telepathically see through my familiar? You can using your action still, yes. You're the only one who's a ghost. But I could do that with their action if I needed to. With my failure's help action. I think read, because I think you actually have to use an action or a bonus action, if it doesn't specify it's a free action, to impose control over it. When you're out of combat, usually it doesn't matter. You can do that kind of stuff for you. So what I'm reading for 5.5e is the familiar gets an action, a core combat action on the turn, like its own turn. that it can do help, deliver touch spells, dash, disengage, hide, and interact with objects. It can mimic, it does mimicry, has high mobility, flight and scouting, and just that there's no attack action. So based on my read, the telepathy is persistent and the Familiar gets its own action independent of the actions of, which is like how I've been doing the help actions. Yeah. It's a bonus action as well, but you can telepathically communicate with it freely. So that's my answer there. Yeah. If you wanted to see through its eyes, though, and hear what it hears and take over its perception for a moment, that's a bonus action. Okay. Sounds good to me. So it could just tell you what's going on or if you wanted to do the bonus action. You can continue to freely tell it, like, do X. The familiar spell is just so good. But that is going to be its turn, so it now has that happening to you, and that takes it to Jables. And I still have advantage from that last... from what you did on your familiar last time, right? Yes, because the familiar would still be doing its... So does Bless automatically break here or do I have to do like a save to keep it going? Not too much damage. Oh, nice. Nice. Nice. That's where I went to the stats before. I was like, oh, what happened? I was like, oh. I need to run the restaurant real quick. 20. Would have been cool. Would have been cool. It's going to be 18 to hit. That is. I'm thinking about just throwing out a smite this time, but like... God, I've only got so many. I was surprised at how much damage I did without hitting. That was such a... That was a very good, lucky hit. Do I have to declare smite before my damage roll? When do I have to declare my smite? You know what I mean? Immediately after I hit? Like, before I roll my damage for my attack? I'm just curious. I've never... Because I know, like, I have the spell written down, which is just, it's a bonus action, you know, after a hit. So I assume it would be before I did anything else, but... Mine is fine. Yeah, yeah, yeah. That is the one I'm using. Must be declared immediately after you hit a creature with a melee weapon attack. Yeah. That's what I thought. That's what I thought. That's what I'm thinking before I roll this damage. So we can have these two in, so he makes the hit before he uses it. Immediately upon hitting, he's using a bonus action, right? Yeah. That's what I thought. What? Oh. Oh, choices. I'm going to sit on it for now, I think. Okay. So you're just going to do regular damage? Just regular damage. Hit me with that regular damage. Three. Three. Three sessions. Three, three, three. Because I rolled a goddamn one. Damn. You hate to see it? See, but I hate to see it even more if I was using a fucking spell slot. That would also have been... My turn. Just back to the plain old... Air shot? Yeah, sure. What did we get here? 13. That was with advantage and blessed? Oh no, I did not use blessed. 13, blessed, and that was with advantage, but add 3, so... 16. That hits. Nice. So I'm talking about, and then it's still the sneak attacks, so it's an extra d6. My third round, which that's good. That brings me to six plus two, eight damage. Ojo Damone, very good, very good. Okay. I see that's your turn. Yeah, I'm just going to stick with it. Did anybody take damage while it was gone, right? No. Going to take a little bit of damage on the start of your turn, Iridil, because you are inside of this thing. 17 lightning damage. What? You take 17 lightning damage at the start of your turn because you're inside of 60. And there's nothing I can do about that? It's just like, I just take the damage? Do you have like lighting absorption? No. It did roll back. No, you said a little and I saw how many dice you picked up. I was like, that's not gonna be a little. Uh, so, how did death saves work? Uh... You're unconscious? I'm at zero. Okay. What was your max health? Seventeen. Damn. You don't have any kind of reactions to absorb, like, elements? Is it true? I have necrotic and radiant defenses. I have, I don't, there's like herbalism kit tools. Absorb elements would be a spell. For spells I have, I have good berries, healing word, speak with animals, thunder wave. Reduce flame, sacred flame, spare the dying, thorn whip, and light. Cool. Well, you're going to be making me death saves on the beginning of your next turn. Okay. So... So we see Eridal go unconscious, huh? Yes. Will you be able to see the parts of his body that are not inside of the Shambling Mound? Or like... Shit. Oh. He gets, as he gets gotten pretty badly by that. Does his familiar get to do anything? Yeah, his familiar still have turns. It's last command that it was given by you is to like attack this thing or help action this thing, right? Then it would continue to do that. Well, that's useful. Yeah. But you won't have to do anything right now. It'll be on your next turn. And you'll keep them... To yourself. Exactly. Which I think passes above 10, fails below 10, right? Yes. Is 10 a pass? It's a pass, right? Yes. 10 or above is a pass? Yes. I'd have to look it up. So I keep whether they're a pass or a fail from everyone. Yeah. I mean... I track it. If you fail three times, you should go very slow. But if I fail three times, then... Yes. Well, I figured that was the case. Or if I pass three times. If you pass three times, you stabilize. If you fail three times, you die. Or if someone comes and attacks you, it's automatically two failures. Okay. All right. Yeah. I assume that's my turn. That is a point. Here is a point. Thanks to the is going to take its attack against you, Jable. Cool. That's 12. Negative. All right. That takes it to Jables. Am I within touching range? You could, you could like... Okay, well first I'm gonna swing at this thing. One of his legs are like hanging out? While I've got the advantage. I'm guessing I don't have bless right now. Negative. You gotta ask. 18 to hit. It's gonna be six slashing on the motherfucker. My bonus action. I'm going to do a Lay on Hands to give Iridel And I can really hold this a couple ways because even just giving him one will stabilize him. Right? Can you go negative? Yes. So like technically I shouldn't know that he's just at zero, correct? Yeah, no, he can't go negative in that way, but you can take damage that. I see what you're saying. Okay, so I'm going to give him one then from my lay on hand. I'll give him one. I'll keep on that. What, what, you want me to give him five? You give him all five? You saw him take damage at the beginning of his turn. Oh, well... Considerable amount. He's gonna take damage again. Oh my god, the save! You take him to one! Saves him from doing a death save. Got a few of those, you know? Matter of fact, attacks you. Oh right, yeah, 'cause it's two. What happens if you're stabilized and it takes damage? Same thing myself. We're going to cross that bridge. And what would be the proper way to communicate that in the future? Because obviously, I gave the specific numbers because I'm still new, but the party wouldn't know that, those specifics, right? Like what specifics? Like when I go unconscious. You can definitely say I got knocked unconscious or like I was bloody or things like that. Like, yep, I'm down. Or yeah, I'm unconscious. Definitely something you can say, really, if you are unconscious. Cool. Now... I just didn't know how the mechanics worked on it initially, so that's why I wanted to... I thought 17 was going to bring you down. I got two sixes and a five. This is brutal. It's because of all those dodges I got earlier today. I was astounded. I was like, oh my god! It was brutal. Why? The number was like... Minimum three? Now I can really metagame it? Thank you. Damn it. Fucking stupid. That's fucking... I don't like that. You think he's going to take minimum damage? Am I able... How much is a regular health pot? Do I have to use an action though to give him one? It would be an action. Potion is a magic item. As a bonus action... I was telling her not to Google it. I have it right here though. What is it? As bonus action, you can drink or administer it to another creature within five feet of yourself. The creature that drinks the potion gains 2d4 plus two. 2d4 plus two? Yeah. And it is a bonus action, not a primary. It's written on there. It says, bonus action, I can give it to someone within five feet. You can look it up. I don't know. That's what it said on his DMV me on. Okay. Yeah. Of course, ultimately, it's your fault. Well, yeah, yeah, yeah. That's the other. That's just news to me. I mean, potions are one of the things that's changed the most. The source on this one is Dungeon Master's Guide. I believe you. What were you saying about the potions? I'm gonna give Java a motherfucking healing potion. Well, you can't see it's a heaven. Huh? Because that's not in there because it would be suffocating. So you would be able to... I'm gonna ask how about anybody else want that last burger patty that's in there? Because if not, I'm gonna snag it. I'm good. So then he can roll this 2d4 plus 2. Do you want to roll that? Uh, I don't know. I mean, it's his health, you know? Who do you want to roll it? You are the one administering it to me. So you want me to roll it? That's all you got to say? That's all you got to say? What are you rolling? Your health, for the health question. Oh, please. Great, that's five. That would have been the maximum I could have given you if I lay on hands anyway. That's why I had one of the health potions. And now we can pray. So that brings me back to five, right? Yes. Yeah, pretty funny. I hate shambling, man. So much. Shooting that bitch. I expected as much. Shooting that bitch right now. Still blessed, so two rolls, top of the two, and then whichever, and then the thing, so 18 plus... 18 definitely hits. 18 plus two. It's still a sneak attack, right? Because they didn't figure out that I was getting attacked. So, one, two. Seven plus two, nine. Nine, nine. It's bloody. It's bloody. If a plane could be bloody. In fact, it was bloody like an attack or two ago, but we're just going to gloss right over that. Other stuff was happening. Now you guys would really know this is bloody. Why do I have a feeling it's just going to shock our man unconscious again? Shock who? Our man unconscious again. The odds are not in his favor. I'm going to be real honest. I know. Five health on three D6s. But they can't do enough to just kill him with it right there. That's the nice part. It would have to also swing on him and waste his death saves and stuff. Exactly. Yeah, if I do the average, he goes down. You would have to really want to kill him. You'd have to be like your full job. Do I? Do I? I don't know. You might. I don't know. I think those shadows would have... You might want to send a message. I don't know. If I wanted to kill Jabba, those shadows would have done it. I don't have them. Oh, yeah, have them all just do a sneak attack before... Exactly, take your fucking strength all the way down to zero and just kill you outright. I love that. I love that. What an enemy that is. They just put level twos against that. The grips are fun. The first one y'all ever fought was also, like, I was reading that stat block, like, God! Does what? Yeah, they don't fuck around down here. I'd like to take a little bit of something from you. You know, I like it. Yeah, I've read that this is a good beginner campaign. Here they are. They're just like, hey, by the way, you can fucking die in this game. It's a real introduction. It teaches you not to be too attached to your character. This is true. This is true. So, it is your turn here, Dom. - You hit it, nice. - Did you already do the bullshit? - No, I was waiting until he sat back down. - How do the mechanics work on, so your health can only go to zero. - Well, you're at five right now. - Well, the way it works is that-- - I'm just trying to make sure I understand the mechanics of it. - When you go to zero, you start making death saves. Now, if there's an instance where, let's say for example, if you had five health max and you take 10 damage, Like turn, you like that. So like if you were to take 34 negative, since you have 17. Okay. So that's the only instance you have to worry about. Yeah, if you go, sorry. Okay. Since I know you know math, if you go double your health negative, then you're done. There's also some spells like disintegrate, where like if it reduces your health to zero, it's in the text of the spell, like you just turn to dust. That's something similar to the specter. But there's some crazy shit like that too. Let's see if you don't go down because of this. And also like that whole constraint has been reduced to zero. I rolled two twos and like that's not looking good for you already. Yeah, because the next one has to be a one. It is a one. Oh, so I go limp. I wondered if I had just rolled one one instead of two twos. You have to roll almost in your main thing. Almost. But not in your main thing. I might have rolled one more on the... So you go down. The familiar does the same thing. It takes it to the mound. The mound, for 20, it doesn't have like a bite down attack. It just says 10 growths. It's a shame. It is going to attack 14. No, it's not going to hit. So it misses the attack. Jason to James. If I don't quit, I'll figure something out. I don't know why I wrote that. Wishful thinking. I missed. That's an eight. Okay. Yes. Use a spell slot to do Cure Wounds on Iridel. Oh, excellent, excellent. 2D8 plus my charisma modifier. Hell yeah. Eight plus seven plus three is going to be 18. Nice. Nice. Nice. Nice. Beautiful. I put my hand on him. I fucking heal him to full. I look over to the plant. I'm going to have to go back to that well. 19. I hit? I forgot to add that. Still a hit. We're not blessed right now anyway. It's a sneak attack. Ooh, 10 plus 2, 12. Nice. Nice. Looking good. Iridel. You get to take a turn, maybe. Is, uh... Do you still have to... Yes. Are they bloody? The plant is bloodied. The plant is bloodied. It's been bloodied. And you take ten. You're alive. I am alive. He's up. He's bloodied. She's bloodied. She's up. She's bloodied again. She's up. Oh. You got any good stuff? Now is the time. I don't really have much. I guess what I got is Sacred Flame, Dex save. It roll. Yes, it wants me to do it in real life. Three. Trace. Trace radio. All right. And I'll produce flame. That takes it to the mound. You're still doing the help action. Excellent. It's going to 26 the attack against you, so I'm pretty sure that's going to hit. Seven. Then it's going to deal the seven bludgeoning and six lightning. Okay. I am bloody. And then it takes it to you, Jibs. I'm really happy with this thing. But at least I get advantage on it. I wrote two 13s. That's a 15 to hit. Glancing blow. Glancing blow. Half of three. And I'll lay on hands myself for my five. Okay. I'm still bloody, but... Let's see if you can do the final blow on this thing. My little sister was hoping she would be able to feed my cat, but... It's not the case. We could end here... We could end probably right after the battle if we finish it soon. But also, I could just give her dry food from her automatic feeder from right here and not worry about it. I'm thinking about doing that. There we go. The future. The future is now. She usually gets wet food, but... It's been a weird weekend. She's been getting weird. She likes the dry food better anyway. You guys want to watch on the camera on my phone when I send it out? Sounds adorable. Yeah. Yep. Cool. Yes! She likes the dry food better than the wet food, but she eats the wet food. What's weird is I found she'll eat the wet food better if I open the can directly in front of her and then hold it in my hands while she eats out of it. Otherwise, she won't touch it, mostly. But do it that way, and she'll eat, like, the whole can out of my hands. It's ridiculous. It's that bonding moment, man. Anyway. I don't want it, but. I'll see you here. Exactly. I will go ahead and roll twice. Highest is 13. And then we're not blessed right now, right? Right. 13, unfortunately, does not... Don't you add your dex to it? Or is there like a 13 on the dice or something? Well, it was 13 and then it... It adds a plus four, I think. So that was your weapon attack. Yeah. Well, damn. Sorry. If it hasn't noticed me still... I don't want it to necessarily notice me, but if it's close to dead, I'm considering moving closer. Give it one more if you want. Super afraid. One more round of Irredale getting shot. I'll just hang out. I'll just take my shot and hang out back here. I've done pretty good so far. I'll take a miss. Yeah, bring it. Bring it. I just don't have any gas. You'll know when I tell you what happens. I'm sorry. I need a mess, so I think you're at seven. Okay. There's nothing else I can do much. No, it wasn't. Yes, it was a six on one of them. Oh, my God. And then a two, so. Yeah, I'm knocked out. You want to take it to the mound? I take it to the mound. Are they attacking me? It's attacking the bucket. With disadvantage. At least you're not having a real good time. Because of luck, I'm sorry. So it misses. You got two tens? Uh, Jables. And I assume the familiar is doing the same thing. Oh yeah. It's trying its hardest, you know? It's watching me go in and out of consciousness. I finally got the net toy. I'm smiting the fucker. Love it. Make up for my miss. You're about to say it better. Thank Christ. There's no way. You can roll me and give me the complete damage just to see. Just to see? I'm pretty sure. So the sword damage... The 16 on the sword damage and... Dog shit roll on that, but it would still be 19 on the smite damage. So what? 35 overall? Okay. You obliterate this thing. It deserved it. At least I got in there and did a good first hit because that miss was... Nice job, y'all. Nice. Did you do the shame like that? Now we gotta tend to Iridel. Yeah. Yeah, Iridel's not... So what are you guys gonna do immediately? Because Iridel is gonna make me at least one death saving throw as you guys start pulling her out of the shambling mouth. Pray to the gods for level three on me. I will say, if we're able to do this next little bit, and if y'all get out of the house... So... We could always take a... One of the health pockets out of... Oh, yeah. I'm sure they would be fine with us rummaging through them. Yes. So you're able to easily pull Iridel out, rummage through her pockets, and, like, chug one of the... Do I have to roll the... Can he roll it this time? Yeah, if you're administering the potion. You give it to him. I've got bad hands. What am I rolling for that? 2d4s. 2d4s? Alright. Yeah, I mean, that's okay. There's a little B4 right there. Let me see. I don't even know how to read these. One's easier to read than the other. I missed the other. That one's four. I'm sorry, three and two, five. Plus two, so seven. Seven, okay. No, it was way better than what I rolled. Yeah. Cool. Because I rolled a one and a two, so he had five. Thank you. That was a rough one. You got very unlucky getting engulfed. Mm-hmm. You know, it could have been worse. It could have been worse. That first shot of mine, I missed that very first one, but that first one that actually connected was cool. If I could have crit like two rounds earlier, three rounds, four rounds earlier... And on top of yours. You can feel the atmosphere of the entire dungeon change. You feel very cold and very sad as you kill the shambles. So all the shadows, all the shadow people are gone? Gone. I'd stand in the middle and yell, are you not entertained? Are you guys going to go to leave? I'm going to say, yeah, if there's nothing else, we can't, like, pull anything valuable out of this fucking shambling mound. As usual, the shambling mound is probably just made of gross shit, yeah? It's refuse. You guys took a look in there, it's refuse. Cool. Yeah, I'm cool with getting the fuck out of here, because I'm pretty sure we've thoroughly investigated everything down here. Fuck that ring. Fuck the ring. Yeah. So, I assume that you guys are going to go back to the upper dungeon, of course. Mm-hmm. And from here, you would take... Yeah, or we could even just go up to the wolf room. From here, you would know the quickest way. Instead of going all the way up and having to descend all three staircases from the attic, you could easily go to the den from right here. So I assume that's what you're going to try to do, yes? Yeah, that's the plan. All right. We're done with doing-- Sorry. As you guys head to that floor, you are going to see that there have been a few architectural changes since you were here last. - Sounds pretty dope. You know why? - The room now, I know, it's funny, I could have turned it off if I had anticipated y'all actually going into this, but I got very high. But this room now, instead of being the very calm, clean den that you were in before and rested in, The fireplace is now billowing black smoke. And we are going to actually enter an initiative count. As you guys attempt to leave the house, and it tries to kill you on your way out. Good news, you guys are pretty much right at the exit. We don't really have to roll initiative because it's just the house at the end. But we're going to go, and y'all are going to declare where y'all are at here. Because there's going to be things that happen if you're in turn in certain spaces. My house is about to try and kill me, dude. I don't have anything, bro. This house is going to kill me. So y'all would start right here. And you would have your full turns to do and declare what you're doing as you're leaving. You would also notice that instead of the doors being there, they are now slashing scythe blades. So you're in a room full of Poisonous black smoke as well. You're able to take... You're able to take your full turn. You won't take damage from the smoke until you end your turn inside of the smoke. So, who wants to go first? That did answer the question. You guys can decide amongst yourselves who wants to go first. Or we can do it by decks. I'm not able to walk back into that hallway and take a short rest and use some hit dice. Right now, if you guys wanted to take a short rest before we did this, take a short rest. I'm for a short rest. I'm 100% for that. Yeah, let's do that. Or this house might kill me. It might kill me anyway. Same. Same. Doesn't really make a difference for me, of course. I've been staying so far out of the way, I don't want to get hit at all because any kind of one hit from that thing probably would have killed me immediately. It was doing a lot of damage. It was doing like 12 damage on average. Yeah. What are the rules for the heal? So it's whatever your hit dice are, and you have two of them. So yeah, I think it's eights for you. Can you regain all your hit dice on a long rest? Which we haven't short rested since our last log in. Cool. All right. So now that you all have had a chance to roll your dice-- Then you add your con modifier to whatever you roll as well. - One, two, and then two, so 11. - Well you get to add it to both of them. So nine and four. - 13. - Yeah, yeah. 'Cause you don't have to use all your dice, each one's a different, you know what I'm saying? - Mm-hmm. - The cool thing about the hit dice during the short rest. - So, who's going first now that y'all have been able to regain your health? Move yourselves where you can go, it roughly does translate square-wise. Um. And the doors are sides? Yes. Where you just dragged to, basically. Yes. What about windows? What are the windows look like? Windows are boarded up and bricked up. And bricked up? Like I can see in between the slats, I see bricks. That's not cool. Yeah, my first thought was definitely check for the windows first, but then the fireplace is billowing the smoke. There's not really much we can directly do about that. We don't have anything in there. I don't know what's going on first, but... Yeah, yeah. - Anybody dying to go first? Not particularly, but I will if we need to. Same thing, just so I can tank some of the booby traps if need be. How long did it take us to get up here after fighting the fucker? I'm done with this. Wait, what was the question? Which one? No, the one that was answered not very long. How long it had been since we fought the guy, but we took a short rest, so it's been 30 minutes. Getting back on short rests yet except half of it's fine. Yeah, I can go first if y'all want. It don't matter to me. Yeah, I'm kinda at a loss what to do. I will cast Guidance on myself, uh, 'cause that seems like one of the most helpful things I can do for myself right now. And then... I'll start moving. So we can check this bitch out. Is the whole room filling with smoke or is it just mainly right around here right now? Did it's poisonous smoke, toxic smoke? Yep. You're not feeling good about the smoke? Not feeling good about the smoke. I'm going to move a bit, start triggering some stuff. You don't really want to fuck with the dives. I don't remember if there's anything useful in there, I bet everything's changed. Move to about here for now. Promise action-wise, I can't, will you let me move anything in the room, or what's, uh... Are you not gonna try to just run straight out? What, straight into the fucking sights? I mean, they're, like, swinging back and forth, but you could probably jump through it. Okay. Well, I had a different, I had a different idea of it. Yeah, I was imagining, like... No, like... More like a Okay, so the classic like the classic fucking blade beyblading the entrance like I was like, oh That's about as far as I can go right there you I give myself guidance That way I have a d4 for my next minute you are going to take a DC 10 Constitution say it though. Guess what? I've got guidance. He's going next. What is-- oh, is it just damage? Yep, seven points of damage. Oh, OK. You guys make this mad dash out. Do you have an idea of what you want to do? I'm still thinking a little bit. Okay. Yeah, now that I know that fucking... Yeah, no, I was going to say, I'm going to... I've got a question that I want to ask you. Yes. Is there a potential that I'm short enough that I'm underneath the smoke that's filling the room? No, unfortunately. Oh, damn. I was like, maybe I could be underneath it and... No, I'm not safe for that, no. Okay. Um... I'll just go ahead and go. Um... Through the middle of stuff, I'm just gonna... I would just go through directly this way as I would go through. And I have 30 feet. How much is each square? Five. Five? You have roughly... You can get exactly where your buddy is because you have the same movement. If you want to dash, you'd be through the doorway and all the way out the doorway. Okay. So... You can dash to use double your speed. I just used it. Yeah, so I would get here and then I would be watching the timing of the thing and then dash to get through the blades. Okay, as you action dash, you walk up to the blades, make me a DC 15 Dexterity saving throw. Okay, would that just be clicking on this one over here, I guess? So it gives me a plus four, so 20 with the plus four. You pass and pass through the blade doorway without incident. Nice. So from 30, 5. That is this that you pressed? 15, 20. That would be like right there. So you could get in here and you would be able to see that all of these, actually these two are also. Same thing? Okay. The last one's on. Fine. I will call that out to everybody, too. It looks like all the doors are like this. I'll say that out loud so everybody knows. Because the room you're in currently, I'll go ahead and move this guy over a little bit. There is also a fireplace in this room, so you will have to still make me the DC-10 Constitution saving throw. Okay. I got 20. Nice. You do not take any damage from the poison. You are good to go. Yes. So, Iredel, what are you doing? Making the dash? Do you have a bonus action dashing as well? I kind of, now that I know that there's, you know, bladed doors all the way across, I'd like to kind of investigate this area over here to see if there's any other egress that might be Available. Yeah, because you can see there's some... Because if I can bypass those by getting through here, that would be ideal. So, as you use about half your movement to come right here to really get a good look at this interior wall, you'll notice that the exterior walls are like solid brick, but the interior walls at some points seem like rotted. Okay. Do I know which points? Like... like it all seems sad we could even is this an exterior wall these are this so exterior - Yeah, 'cause if that other, yeah, I see what you're getting at. If that corner area is still considered inside, then there would only be, is this, you said all of these doors, does that include this? - Not this last one, 'cause this is like a hinged gate. - These are big wooden doors. - Oh, okay. - So this is the main door, and then this is the door to this foyer, whatever you call this. - So what would we be able to? Like, does this count as interior wrongs? I'd say that would count as interior. I want to swing my staff at this. This section right here. You need your full movement to get all the way to the corner, and you're going to swing your staff? Yep. All right, let me read something real quick. Maybe I can just dash right back through that one and not have to deal with going through the others. Okay, roll me an attack roll. 6-7. Three. No, you need to do 20. Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, for success, for attack. Gotcha, gotcha, gotcha, gotcha, gotcha, gotcha, gotcha. 13. Yeah. So now we're on the damage as well. But it will be double damage because you're attacking. But that is just enough to actually break open this section of the law. Thank you. Thank you. But I'm out of movement, so I can't pass through it yet. 18. And you're good. And so that was everyone once. So now everyone make me their decisions again. I see him breaking that wall and that sounds awesome. So it's like 5, 10, 15, 20, 25 to get over here. Is there already a hole? Yes. Like I can just finish busting through it by just running through it? Yes. Because then it would be 30 to get right here. I could dash out. But I mean, can I hold my dash as I wait for my friends? Wait and dash out with them? Yes. Like how I would hold an attack? Sure, yes. Yeah, I don't want to leave them behind. It feels like a bitch if I leave them behind. You finish busting through and you're basically standing in the hole like, come on, guys. So Jables has effectively escaped the house alive. What are the other two doing? For my turn, I'm basically, I mean, I came over here to check this. I've heard what's going on here. I don't want to run through to you. I'm gonna take my chance with just one and I'm gonna... Run action dash? Yeah, I'm gonna do the dash. Can I do the rest of my movement after the dash? So dash through and then, yeah, that's what I'm gonna do. Yeah, so make me the deck saving throw again with advantage because you just passed through that same door, right? Okay, so run through two. Two of these throws. Let's see what happens. Good thing. I got a nat 20 on the second roll. Right through that shit. So yeah, I'm as far as I can go. And I think I can get out the door because I've got 30 feet. Yeah, I've got 30 feet. I go through the hole that I made that everyone else already went through. You guys successfully bust out of the house and you are going to see it actually catch on fire and like burn down to the ground almost in kind of like an odd magic like way too fast kind of deal. Yes. Cool. Cool. Glad we looted as much as we did. I wonder if we can still sell the land with that deed. Most of the loot that you took, like for example the fancy jewelry from like the coffers in one of the bedrooms, that stuff immediately ages to dust. Dang. The only things that don't are the magical items, the potions, the spell book. Unfortunately, all the regular books that you took also turned to ash. The leather-bound ones that were blank don't turn to ash. And then that golden-- actually, no, you haven't turned that gold green. That did not turn to ash. But you guys would level to three. And upon leaving the house, you would also go unconscious Fall to the ground after that ordeal. And we're going to call it there. Good job, guys. Good job. There was a real threat of y'all dying if you even tried to go from the attic all the way down and having to pass through all those doors and all those rooms. So we'll just deal with all the level-ups stuff next time. Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. Hopefully you guys like this. It's been fun. So confirming the deed to the house due to the windmill. Moss agate. So the stuff is. So the stuff that you looted from the dungeon sting, but anything that you had looted from like the house itself, like any jewelry you had taken from any of the bedrooms and stuff like that. Okay, so we still have the ivory hairbrush. Yes. Okay, yeah. I have no idea. I haven't been keeping track of that as well. We'll be able to sort that out as well. Good job, guys. Didn't let yourself get shambled or shadowed or gassed in or... Yeah, fuck those shambling mounds, bro. It was pretty close. It was some good teamwork for sure. Good teamwork, some good lucky crits and stuff like that too. What level were we when we had those three shambling mounds after us? Were we level three or... It was somewhere between three to five. I have no idea. It was devastating. Why a little up? Multiple shambling mounds at that level? Jeez, man. - Not enough, yeah. - That'll, not enough. - Shambling mouth. - That doesn't look awesome to you? fun to deal with pretty cool from like design perspective objectively not involved with it directly yeah i get that i get that found out as a fire breathing dragonborn that fire didn't do much against yeah yeah at least you're right about that welcome back mother They weren't lying about the monster in the basement. They were not. That's what I was saying. Everyone was like, well, yep, checks out. They were actually right. We were so angry at them. We were like, where's lying gets? Lying to us? Like, these kids are bullshit. I got very close to killing you. You tried real hard. I did. I did. You didn't die. You didn't die. You were friends. Jesus Christ, my house is cold. Your food was excellent. It was delicious. Thank you so much. Yes, yes. We needed a plane until 8. The movie was crazy. Well, not crazy because it had like a plot. I guess it wasn't, I didn't realize horror movies had so much of a plot. Like, there's a lot of plot with this movie. Some do say, no. They promote Evil Dead, which is not the kind of movie this was, thank goodness, because that's what it would have been. But they had people in, like, bunny costumes, and all of a sudden you go, bang! Just, you know, the one shot. But that didn't make me... Move everything over to this new virtual tabletop, which is what we used to play online a lot. But Eric let me use his account to make this right here. And as you can see, it's a tool that allows me to actually have lighting and control vision, I guess, a bit more accurately. Make doors, make walls. So I'm not just removing boxes. And one note. It also allows me with my WAC to actually move. That's pretty sexy. Yes. And if anyone, I guess everyone with a laptop here, technically I could invite and y'all could run this on your laptop. I could make you your own person and you can move it as well to control your own visual perspective. But we're not there yet. You're not there yet. But yes, y'all would find yourselves still after this long rest hanging out in these groups. What would y'all do? A lot of the cryptos. Because we did a couple of double backs a little bit. We went one direction and saw that there was a room, and went back another direction and saw there were more rooms. We definitely did. I get to give myself an inspiration. Because I'm a human. When we get a long breath. Yep, yep, humans are OP that way. They should still have their inspiration. They gave them when we did some singing. Some instrument playing. Singing. - Body burning? - Well around the neck. Um. I guess I need to give Jables the ability to see. Yeah. Yeah, so I need to cast it on an item. Because it is worn out. It is... 20 foot radius and dim light for an additional 20. I got 20-20. So I did put the light in here correctly. So I'm doing 20 foot dim or 20 foot bright. We immediately editing the scripts in order to continue to explore. I think so. I think that was our plan. We really just needed the rest because we needed to like... We needed the health. Yeah, we needed the health and all that kind of deal. We've just backed around a little bit. That was hot. I think we go to the right. To this way? That's my boat. Yeah, I know that. Because it was the other direction we went first, right? Yes. Yeah. Yeah, because this is where we went up and we just kind of looked and we were like, nah, let's turn back for a second. So yeah, I agree. Let's go this way. So as you come right about right here, I'm just using this thing. Everyone give me perception. Oh, I didn't bring my dice. I forgot to get mine out. Oh. 14 14 still not bad. 17. 17. So collectively, Jables and Iridell are going to notice that this room, like many of the other rooms, seems not to have been used in a very long time. It seems rather dilapidated as well. Gray is going to kind of also notice that the silence is very pronounced in this area. Other than, of course, the chanting that you've been hearing as you've been coming down in this dungeon, like this kind of rhythmic chanting that you can't really discern the direction from. But other than that, you're not really hearing the noises of other individuals. But you would find yourself in this room, which is a room with a wooden table and chairs. It seems to be like a meek living quarters. Tell me where you guys would go. Seems pretty open for the most part. You see a couple little doorway areas. Yeah, as you-- So which one would you want to look? I assume this one first, right? As you go and inspect this little alcove, you would see a moldy pallet. Yep, and you would see something similar in all these little alcoves, moldy straw pellets. Okay, so definitely. Kind of over there. If there were certain quarters above, these would be more like certain quarters maybe or something. That's my initial thought. Yep, and these cultists were not living ladders lives. What's around the corner? Because that was the whole thing, yeah. Yeah, so I guess this looks more like a... Yes, so, yes, this would lead you to another room if y'all are just continuing on. Yeah, I don't see any reason to really inspect any of it right now anymore. So as you guys would head in this room, you would immediately see a well in the middle of this larger room. And everyone give me a perception check once again. That's a six. 24. Damn. Something's blocking my perception in this area. I must have had a really good sleep. You must have not had a good sleep. There you go. Jables is able to tell that this room is similar to the last one, but Gray is able to really make out the fact that each one of these tiny rooms does look like kind of more... There is five of those. Do we want to go ahead and check out each of these little alcoves again? I'm kind of interested about the fountain in the middle. The well? Yeah, we'll check that out first. Maybe get a little closer to the well. Maybe peer in. I rolled a six, so I'll be the one to look. I have no idea what's going on. So you would notice that much like wells that you're used to seeing, there is a bucket hanging out. Thank you. inspect something more specific about this well i was just curious about the condition of it and also maybe looking down let's see if we can see the bottom down there see the bottom you can actually Yes, you can. You also have light cast right now. So you can see that looking down in the swell, it's only 30 feet from what you guys can tell is probably water. It's kind of hard to tell from this distance away. Yeah, when we drop the bucket. You're easily able to drop down the bucket and pull up a bucket of water. Is there anything interesting about the water? Is it a weird color? Does it have a weird smell to it? It's regular water. I drink some of it. You are now hydrated. Yes. Hydration is very important. I waited to see if somebody else would drink it first, and now that it seems safe, I'm also going to drink some. Mine as well. Anyone who wants to drink this well water is 100% able to. What's the worst that could happen drinking well water? Well, we all played Oregon Trail in my elementary school, right? You have died of dysentery. And is he dysentery? Oregon Trail is... No, why don't they... A-plus programming right there. I need to make my nephews play it. It's an important part of education. So, which one of these rooms are y'all venturing into first? I want to just go... Clockwise, top, counterclockwise. Yeah, I'm cool with that. As you go to this one, you're going to see this room contains a chest. Is it locked? It's not. There you go. You get 11 gold pieces and 60 silver pieces in a pouch made of human skin. How do you know it's human skin? Do we want to split up gold? Or do we want to keep it? Is it obvious? Is it hairy still or something? Yeah, it's like you can see someone's like hairline on this so it's like someone's a skelp. And they're skelps of the... Do we want to split the gold or do we want to stockpile it in one spot? Yeah, because we've got a lot of stuff that's just kind of in like a group thing right now, don't we? Like a lot of the books. Yeah, or group inventory. Anyway. - We got stuff to like maybe try to sell later and things like that too. - I still can't hear you. - A bag of holding. - I was also unsure what you said just a moment ago. Bag of holding makes more sense. Bag of holdings are bags of holding. - Is there anything else notable about the area or the bed or anything like that? Just that there was a chest and we got the stuff in it? - Yep. I think we split up the gold. You can tell that the living quarters are in better condition. They are still very much like... This is a dungeon room. Melody, dank dungeon room. But you guys don't see too much other than that. So you can go straight to the next room after getting your pouch made of human skin. There was 11 gold and 60 cup. I guess we just put that in the team inventory for now? Yeah. Yeah, we'll see what all of these have. This room also has a chest. I'll see if you open it. If it's unlocked, I figure you go ahead and open it. It is. None of these chests are locked. This one contains three moss maggots folded in a piece of black cloth. Three moss egg - A-G-A-T-E. - Yes. - Okay. - Yes. I know that because of video games. Warcraft. Is not cooperating with me. Much like the last room, that is pretty much all you're going to find. Pray tell me there's another chest in room three. Oh, well. You are in luck, Travis. This room does contain a chest, which as you go to unlock it, it is not locked. This one is going to contain a black leather eye pouch. Eye patch. - Too many. This one has a carnelian sewn into it, but if you wanted to just put black leather eye patch, Dungeon Colt. And that, much like the last one, is pretty much all you're going to find in this chest. So this one has a chest unlocked, which is going to contain an ivory hairbrush with silver bristles. Why do these cultists have these things in these chests, you might be asking yourself. We'll never find a clue. Nope. Yeah, this one is, that's a little bit more... It's silver bristles. Silver bristles on an ivory hairbrush. Interesting. As you inspect this room further, you're not going to find anything else of note. And as soon as we go into the last one, so this one is going to contain a chest, much to your surprise. And this chest is not locked. This one is going to have a silvered short sword. The silvered means that it has some special properties against certain monsters? It will. It will. I'm pretty sure Iridil would know the implications of the silvered short sword. Yes. I can't touch the tip of that without it hurting. It would hurt you, I know. Do I notice anything else about it? Do I notice anything else about any of these items that we found? So I can have Iridil shed some light on that. What did you say? That I have to be very careful touching silver things because it hurts. You do. So as Iridil would. --is official fighting stuff. So Iridel would be able to tell you guys that some monsters have immunity or resistance to non-magical weapons, but are susceptible to silver weapons. So it's like lycanthropes, undead, a lot of different kinds of creatures from the void. So this is like a monster-killing weapon, in essence. Would it be effective against ghouls like we came across earlier? Yes. So werewolves, devils, spirits, and undead would be affected by these kinds of factors. That's what I kind of had in my head. I just wanted to make sure that I was thinking the right thing. So if you were to prick his finger, he wouldn't die, but he would be feeling more than a finger prick. Although you're not undead, you're just half vampire, so... Right. It just hurts more. Yeah, exactly. Exactly. It's like having an allergy. I could hold on to it. I was going to say, which one of us wants to hold on to that? Because either one of us could really make use of that. I would say maybe you, because you're just a sword man in general. What's your weapon proficiency? I was simple in martial. Which means you can use pretty much anything. What would the stats of the short sword be if I was swinging it? It's just the silver shortsword, right? It's a 1D6. Thank you. Are you looking at 5E tools? Uh, sources Dungeon Master's Guide, page 304. As long as we're looking at the same thing. I don't know if I'm looking at how we're supposed to reach. So reach 5 feet, 1d6, plus 1, piercing, weight 2. That makes sense. Just pulled it from the . I don't use the character sheet, so I don't have D&D ground for that. The other rooms, not a lot in this one other than this chest with this silver short sword. The same thing, tortilla chips and queso. Yes, yes. In fact, I was going to let it go to bowl because I do also have certain needs. And I'm fairly certain that that one is cash. It is not, actually. It's not? And I believe it is your hit, Travis. You hit this right now. I think so. Travis the bowler. It's a dangerous one though. The lewet? Yeah. Yeah. Very efficiently. I know. And he's also got a lot of room on the other side as well. Not at all. Not at all. *laughter* - I think to assume that short sword uses strength. - Do short swords? - Lead up. I should know more about short swords, but I don't. Because that really will be the definer. If it uses dex, we'll give it to... It's got finesse, so I think you can juice. Oh, it does have finesse. Good thing about short swords. That's cool, because that also means we can pass it around. Precisely. Finesse weapon's huge. I suspected, I just needed to confirm. I had no idea. About the weapon properties? Well, yeah. So that one. Weapon properties are huge. Like the Vex. God, this is so neat. What is? The Vex. Giving yourself advantage on successive attacks against the target. Not gonna lie, I'm still having a whole lot of trouble picking my oath. It's coming up. It is, it is. You don't want help, do you? No. There you go. So I get to just watch you suffer. Well... Yeah, that just came in handy for me against those ghouls. Yes, yes. And you get to start doing arcane trickster stuff next fucking level too, so everyone starts to really feel the flavor of their classes. - I haven't tried your cookies and cream one yet, but it tastes really funny. - No, I haven't opened those yet. - Really? - I couldn't have my, so the ones that weren't bought when I went over to Travis's, that pretty much starts. - Still haven't finished this one, I'm about halfway on it. - Nice, nice. - But I was eating this hard all last, or not last night, the night before. - Yeah. I need to finish mine off too. - I went up to, yeah. I'm one of those kind of people where I can go up to Silo at 9 o'clock and stay literally until 2, so that's what I did by myself. I was there, there were like literally 10 people on the dance floor when I got there. That's a good shit though, because you actually get to kind of like just vibe, and then you get to vibe assholes. And then as I started getting drunker, it started getting crazier, and it just worked out very nicely. Hell yeah. I ran into a guy who was friends with the owner. Back in like high school and college, or not high school, back in college days in New Orleans, because they both went to LSU and were frat brothers and stuff. So he knew him back in those days when he was doing underground reggae and shit like that. I dig that. I dig that. It was pretty cool. It was probably not going to taste great immediately after having spice and ketchup. You know, you're probably right. You're probably right. - Still tastes really good. I followed up immediately with the court. You got to, right? You got to. I still haven't even had much chance or need to use my cantrips at all. Because mine are all just kind of weird. At least at this moment. The minor wonder things and then... Welcome back, welcome back. So, you guys finished inspecting this fifth room and you find yourself back in the main room. Like, goop in these fucking cultists a little bit. Just a snitch. Well, I just realized what I was putting my root beer on. That is definitely a dick in the heart. That's my favorite one. Because if you're not clued into it for, like, a second, it can definitely take a second to realize what the fuck you're looking at there. Good stuff. Surprise he came through with. Yeah, did not disappoint. I made it. Didn't want to grab your poker. Y'all going to continue on? There's only one way for us to go, right? There is. Might as well. As you guys walk down this hallway, let me confirm, I'm not pretty sure. I didn't get the gold and silver. How much did we find of that? 11 gold, 60 silver. As you guys mosey your way down, you will be able to see, kind of as the model says, you can peek in and see that the room that would be straight, I guess, to your left, seems to be that room with all the bones and signs of cannibalism that y'all had been in before. Okay, so that's the one where we went. What would be down looking on the map and we started running into it. Y'all haven't been down yet. Sorry, I'll head you down. Did we give somebody the short sword? I do believe that Jables took it because Vanessa loves him. Down this hallway, you're going to get to another crossroads, which is going to be familiar to you again. As you remember this as the hallway to your left, the one that you guys were attacked by ghouls in. And then there's a way down that you stop at. You will hear, though, from this way that y'all haven't been, the chanting will grow louder. So based on the way that thing's facing to our right, we're hearing the changing. If we're facing-- so yeah, so that-- You're hearing the changing from down here. OK, yeah. But then the other way, that's where we ran into the ghouls. This is where you guys had the ghoul party. Yeah, we didn't explore any of the other little outlets from there after that point. We just kind of immediately backed off, right? Yeah. Do we want to check out what was past the rules that way, or do we want to just keep going... Basically where we're hearing the chanting. I mean, we did find some goop. There might be more goop. There might be more goop. More ghoul goop. It sounds like y'all are going this way, yes? I'm going to look for ghoul goop. All right, y'all will walk over the corpses of those ghouls that you did see. find two directions. You can continue to go straight or you can go down. You haven't been either way, I do not believe this. Which one of the first two guys? Uh, I mean, we're already facing to the right, maybe. Alright, as y'all would find yourselves in this room, perception checks. 16. 12. 12. 4. Okay. So... That's a big money shot there, Trim. Thanks. This room is festooned with moldy skeletons that hang from rusty shackles against the walls. A wide alicove in the south wall contains a painted wooden statue carved in the likeness of a gaunt, pale-faced man wearing a voluminous black coat. Cloak. God damn it. His pale left hand resting on the head of a wolf that stands next to him. In his right hand, he holds a smoky gray crystal orb. This room exits in the west north walls. Chanting can be heard coming from the west. So back away, y'all gang. You are continuing to hear the chanting. So that was the only exit? Is that the way we came? No, so down here. I thought I was feeling down there. Is there anything about the statue of the guy that like, is it nostalgic in any way? Does it feel weird? History with the advantage. And with year 16 perception. Ray would be the only one to notice that there is actually a secret wall in this room. There's a secret wall. A secret tunnel. Me. That was, yes. Oh, God. So the advantage is I roll two dice and take the higher? Yes. Because of his backstory. 21. 21. Excellent. And it was a roll of 20 if that changes anything. It wasn't that 20? Yeah. It does. It does. So you would recognize this as strud. I'm high, and I just put a wall there. But you guys would be able to tell that in this area right here, you're able to push this kind of moldy clay in and reveal a secret chamber. Secret tunnel. Secret tunnel. And as you go in, you're going to see a very brief staircase that leads up to a hatch. So we got a couple options. Well, so I mentioned that that's Strahd to the group because I'm the only one that would have known that. Yes, yes, that is undoubtedly the likeness of Strahd. The statue? Yes. Okay, that's what I was wondering as well because I know we had heard that name and I was like, well, if he's a big figure, maybe that's it. We've seen him like in books, read you when you were a kid so you remember the pictures of his body. Very prolific figures. What else are y'all doing? Are you going to open the hatch? Do we want to check the hatch? Do we want to... What was the thing you said, Chris? Something about the statue? Since we recognize it, I guess we could walk closer and inspect it. Am I hesitant to touch the statue for any reason? Why would you be? Well, I mean, potentially based on that history check, you know, like what did it, you know, am I, am I concerned by what I remember of Strahd? You're deep. Well, you are, but not necessarily in ways that would make you scared of a statue of them. But you know, your stories were, weren't pleasant. Um, the stuff that you heard, it was kind of like almost the boogeyman. Um, He would take you in the dead of night. You would be trapped in his misty lands until he, you know, took your soul. But, you know, you know. Creepy. *cough* Is it a... Can we do a... Investigation? Yeah, investigation. Is that a real crystal orb, or is that also just like... Because you said the statue is like carved wood. It is. Yeah, give me an investigation to see if you can really take a good, close look at this crystal orb. Oof. Can I also... Yeah, you guys can inspect this orb. What's wrong with it? Investigation. 14. 14. Yes, you guys look better than me. With your two 14s, you would be able to tell that this is an actual smoky crystal or rather large. It's like the size of a cantaloupe. Take the word. Is it independent of the statue? Did you go to pick it up? That's a scary question. She was excited. Did I look excited? So more places to explore and everything too. Yeah, we can always come back. Let's go to Secret Tunnel. Secret Tunnel? Okay. Yeah, because it goes up to a hatch. It might go to something on the first floor. Because I'm Mokey Crystal. I'm supposed to know about all of the secret passages and stuff because I looked at the dollhouse. This one in particular, you wouldn't have seen, interestingly enough, because it actually didn't reveal anything about this dungeon or the basement. Exactly. Yeah, but I'm wondering if the secret hatch comes up in one of the other secret passages or something. It comes up in the middle of that werewolf den you guys experienced on the first floor. So you would find yourself back in like the very first floor of the house. Where you got all those crossbows. Okay, so a good way out. Yeah, a good quick way out. That's good to know. But since it just goes there, I figure we're just going back down, but we'll... I'll have mentioned, yeah, we'll... Oddly suspicious that there's an exit to the outside right from the statue. Oh yeah, from this close where all these people are chained up, it is a little... It's a suspiciously close access. There's a lot of suspicious shit in this fucking house and statue. Well, I'm gonna... And we know... Didn't we... Did we assume that that was the father's room? Well, yeah, it's like this study or something at least. Yeah, so it's going to be just me being the gray character is probably just going to out loud say, well, this is even just more evidence against the father. These are real good people. Lost their kids up to starve to death. People dying in their basement. Eight people. Where's the vampire lord life? Who wouldn't like these kind of guys, right? Like, they seem wholesome. It's kind of weird that they worship a vampire lord but have silvered weapons. That isn't a very interesting observation, is it? Oh yeah, and the hairbrush with the silver, that was just two of the people that were in that little area. Yeah. Why would they, though? I'm taking questions. I mean, I guess if you're hanging out with creatures of the dark, you got to protect yourself. I didn't think there was one in there. From here, we're probably just going to, do we want to go down and just continue exploring before we steal shit? You're listening to... I wouldn't say accurate, you know? It implies a lot. It is the implications though, right? Finders keepers really steal them. Question is the question. Yes, thank you. God is with you. Robert, are you grabbing root beer? Thank you, sir. Never mind, Jonathan. I gave you, or I gave him yours. You have been thieved. Yes, I know. We're going down the passage. - Not doing anything else in that room, right? - Yeah, maybe a little hesitant to steal the orb. I'm gonna just continue checking this out. - Okay, I like that. You're gonna turn this corner and there's gonna be a door. - What is your marching order? Like who would be first? - I mean, I should probably be, should be in the front. - Yeah, I'll probably be right next to you, just a little bit behind. - Okay. And I assume you're gonna go see if this door is locked? - Yeah. - Yeah, we'll check it. - Okay. As you go to grab the handle of the door, you are going to become adhered to it. Because this isn't a door, It's a Mimic. I told you! I didn't hear anything about that. Mimics can be doors? What all can Mimics be in D&D and what I know? We're gonna handle that after this combat. Okay. You know, you make some rolls. We're just going to do this here? Roll the AC. Initiative? Yeah, initiative. Sorry, I'm already high as tits. Six. Six. Two sixes? Ten. always having bad initiative on our battles? I've had a good one, I think once. It's either really good or really bad. There's no in between from what I'm like, strength, personally. We have two sixes, and which one of y'all's dexes is higher? Mine's 13. 13. 15. OK, so I mean, that makes sense. We got a road. Mm-hmm. But-- except of the minute we don't know which girls we don't pretty simple creatures um but the most exposure i have to mimics was in a career which is basically just her getting her face like that and being chewed on while her butt jails in the camera in my defense i joked that it was a mimic because i thought there was no way it was a minute What's the worst that can happen, right? What was yours again, Jables? J-Bull's at the top of the round. You are effectively grappled by the skeptic. Right. - So it basically just works like grapples, so can I use my action though? - Yeah, athletics check. - Is that what it would be, athletics check? Can I use a luck point to get my self advantage? You'll be making with disadvantage, so your luck point would make the roll right there. Yes. I'll just do it with disadvantage on the special. Sometimes you have disadvantage in life, you know, with a rapper. - Probably a 13. Oh yeah. Just enough. But you're able to pull yourself away from this mimic. That was Jack. It was. I should have let them down. Although I'm going to guess sacred flame is in action. Just um - Reaction spit on the mimic. - Okay. Reaction spit, excellent, excellent. - I guess I'll, I don't wanna give it an opportunity. - And it will take the opportunity to do that. - I know. I'll kinda just try to like, if I can, just hug the wall to be out of the way for, you know, the friends wanting to attack. Like I'll just have my shield, you know, which I'll-- - Okay. I don't have a bonus action able to dodge. If that's your turn, that takes a degree. All right. Well, I guess-- Maybe I do a history check to see what I know about mimics before I start attacking. Maybe a history check. Let's see what I know. Oh, no. Nine. You know that they turn into things. And you now know that they adhere to people. Okay, cool. Is it still in the shape of a door? Yeah. But now is it like a door in the mouth or what? What is the door made out of? What material? It was like a dilapidated wooden door. Um, for right now, when it takes its turn, it'll take it, it'll do some stuff, but it looks like a door right now. And it didn't, like, bite you. It just, like... I was just... You were, like, glinting to it, but you were like, fuck! Like, right on the door. Like a Venus flying trap. Exactly. But, uh... Alright, well... Shit, maybe I don't want that time, and I don't know what to do. Um... You can have range attack it. Yeah, I've got the short bow, so I think-- since I know for sure it's a mimic at this point, since I've done a history check, I'm like, OK, so I guess this is a mimic. Yeah, I guess I'll just go ahead and shoot it with my short bow, just out of reaction, because I'm like, oh, a bad guy thing? Shoot, because that's great. So just roll for the hit. Yep. Roll me an attack roll. That's eight. This is unfortunate. perception check is really good. What do you use for the attack roll? Uh, this right here. - Be different too. Because, yeah, my spells don't have a thing like that. I assume that's your turn on the bus? You're going to turn your off in? Well, my offhand is a dagger. I don't want to... I'll just take a really bad shot at a door and completely miss a door with my short bow. You accidentally hit the wall instead of hitting the door? Yeah, and I might back up a little bit because I've been having good luck with my ranged attacks so far and I don't know that much about mimics aside from making changes to things. You were the purple guy, right? I don't know which one was I. No, I was the... You were the red guy. Yeah, I think so. You're going to back up just a little bit? Yeah, so I'm going to back up to basically just as far back against that wall as I can be. There you go. You're able to do so successfully. Yeah, I'll just leave it at that for now and see how the rest of the fight goes so I can figure out what's going on. You're done. This seems to be my thing for now. So I just want to make sure that I understand before I decide what I want to do. So you can do one action, which is either an action or a spell, and then a bonus action. Is there anything else that you can do? Like a... But just those two things. You can do one action and one bonus action? In the short of it, yes. You can do reactions, but those you should have triggering effects to do. Right. Okay. Okay. It's like talking and some item interactions could also happen, but this is Okay, well I will use my thorn whip to attack. 21. So now I do the damage roll, right? Yeah. Five. And then for my bonus action, I do produce flame. - To my boy, the mimic. He is going to use one of his bonus actions and he's going to shape shift back into his true blob form. So it is no longer a door, it is actually now a blob. And then it is going to take an attack against Jables, who is the one still standing directly in front of it, yes? - Mm-hmm. - Okay. There we go, let's hit you with that roll. That's cracking me up. So the first attack is going to be-- Swing and a miss, you know what I'm saying? Swing and a miss. Damn. Damn. Okay, so it's going to try to hit you with an attack. Or it did hit you with an attack. So you are, are you, you're medium, right? Human. What's human? Medium? Oh, your size. You're a medium-sized creature, right? I believe so. You are grappled. What's that like? It gives you a hug. It gives you the most painful hug of your entire life. And it's going to deal seven bludgeoning damage to you and five acid damage to you. Here's the description of grapple if that helps. Oh, I've got it. And that is going to be his turn. I'll be bloody. And that takes it back to you, James. At the top of the round. Oh, yeah, that's right. He was still getting picked. What size is the blob? ...to you guys. But a blob. Am I still considered medium? I'm not small? You're probably small. I think gnomes and halflings are small creatures. Yeah, I am small. I had to find it on here. Monster medium. I do not believe there are any innately large races. I'm not seeing any disadvantage to attacking him or anything. Him? I don't think. Are you trying to look up what grapple does? No, I mean I'm looking at what grapple does. Speed zero ends when they're incapacitated or when they move out of their reach. But like, I should still just be able to hit him with the sword that I'm holding, right? Yeah, 100%. Especially since he's like, yeah. I'm using the look point and I'm hitting him with the sword that I'm holding in my hand. I'm also going to use my Paladin Smite to Divine Smite him when I hit him. Yeah, it's funny that I grapple doesn't do a lot, but some creatures grapples also like Restrain and Incapacitate. That's when you're all fucked up. A long sword, we'll just do four. And then... How does a blob grapple if it doesn't have hands? Is it a fiend? Like on a water droplet? I don't think it's a fiend. It's like a... It blobs on you. Exactly. It's like a hug, except a painful hug. A hug that tries to kill you. - And 16. - 16? - Yup. - Wow. - I maxed it out. - That's what she's running for? - Let's get stuff, let's get stuff. - A spin arm again. It's bloodied this time, but it's spit nonetheless. - Would you be surprised to hear that the medic's into that? - I don't even care. It's about sending a message. Thank you. - Did you see Jables get grappled to bloody? - Yeah, I'm bloody, yeah. - That wasn't really a door that I have waiting for you guys in here. - But I slapped him for 20. How's he looking? He's not bloody? - No. - Cool. - He is being bloody. - Strange enough, was it blind? - It is. - All right. I mean, I guess at this point I'm just gonna continue with my shooting with the short bow, now that I'm a little further away and feel safer. What else did you expect from that at this point? That is a good move. I'll just do that first and see how that goes. Twelve. That would be a glancing buff. Good afternoon. Three or two? Oh wait, no, does it... The plus two means you roll it twice? Oh no, no, sorry, yeah. It was five. It was a three and then plus two is a four. Leave it for three, so... Bam! Bam! Okay. Doesn't show the five on the screen. Yeah, because it says one do six plus two and then, yeah, get five. Excellent. Yeah, since it was glancing. Okay, that makes sense. Since it was glancing. Okay, yeah. That's your turn? Yeah, I guess I don't have anything else to do. I'll just call out. I was like, at least I hit that one. At least I kind of hit that one. I hit that one, guys. Ear though. We'll cast Healing Word on Jables. Good move, good move. I'm going to get an 8. Total. Can I help? Yeah. I'm not bloodied right now. I'm not bloodied right now. Do you have, like, 20 of them? Maybe. Maybe that's exactly what I have. Total. Is that what I'm back at too? No, but that is... That's all right. This guy's only trying to do like 13-ish damage to you per turn, but not 12-ish. Yeah, it could be immediate. Probably. Yeah, it's kind of what I feel. I was like, you know what? He can hold on to me. I'll be his ass. His teeth are right there. Especially since this is like surprisingly deadly. Find a mimic in the dark alleyway. Dark dungeon. I'm trying to see if there's anything else I can do. Oh, you healed him. Sorry, yeah. Sorry, sorry. I freaked out. I was like, wait. You didn't damage it. The Lord's work is what they do. Bonus action, right? Healing word is... It is a bonus action. Oh, it's a bonus action? It is. You can actually can't shift this motherfucker. Exactly. So you did take a bonus action last round to do produce flames. Yeah, so I'm going to throw that fire. Just right at the blob. You're going to do it with disadvantage where you're standing because you are with a fight. As you can see, I'm using my best possible menu right there. I mean, you can back up and not be disadvantaged, right? Yeah, I jump back 10 feet and throw my fireball, my flame. Thank you. Because this isn't a very large birthday yellow, right? It's a 1v8. What was your roll to hit? I have not rolled it yet. The VA, right? Mm-hmm. Well, you rolled a d20 to hit. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. And what does disadvantage mean again? You don't have disadvantage now. Oh, okay. Disadvantage means you roll two hits on the lowest. Okay. 17. Yeah, that hits. That definitely hits. Okay. Disadvantage is not nice. Six. Excellente. Six damage. Let me see. I did things. You did. Lots of things. That was a very productive turn it was. Everybody smacked him up in that round. Is bloody actually? It's bloody. It has or less, yeah. Pretty sure I've asked that before. Sometimes if I'm close to bloody but not quite, I'll joke around and say I'm bruised. It actually is. It is just bloody. Good. Just bloody to the last. - That is your turn, right, Jables? Or not Jables, you're down? - That would be the end of my turn, 'cause I took an action and a bonus action. - Yep, and that takes it to my boy, The Mimic, who has you grappled, yes? - Yeah, I'm grappled. - Nope. I just hit speed zero, he's holding on to me. Unless, yeah, unless he's got some flavor, you know, I don't know that. I'm about to tell him. - Can he move with you grappled? - I don't know how that works. I wasn't bothering to look that up or anything. I imagine if he wanted to move while I was grappled, he might have to check the grapple again or something, I don't know. - He's actually mad that he adhered to him as the thing. Interesting. No, he doesn't actually because that's his item form. He just has you grappled. Maybe in that athletics check. So it'll be tough to slow it down and move less distance. Terrible. A seven. A seven? He unfortunately, as he starts moving, is able to maintain the grapple. Going to hit his globular form. He's going to walk up and he is going to take a single attack against you, Irdil. As he's moving, can I, like, he's technically moving past me. I can do him. He's moving with you. So, like, you're moving with him. Can I not do an opportunity attack? No, um, If you would have gotten better on that athletics, you would be out of it. But you rolled Doctrine. There's nothing about I can't take opportunity attacks from grapplers. Well, you're not taking an opportunity attack. That's what I'm at. I mean, he moved past. If he was here, he was going to move in. No, you're moving with him. I just didn't move your mini. I get it. I get it. I can't put, like, you want me to put him in between your leg? I mean, the other way around? I can do that. Because that's essentially what's happening right now. Being... blob. That attack against you, Iridil, is a 23. So that's against my AC, right? Yes. That hits because it's a 14. That hits. Excellent. So that's going to be seven bludgeoning and five asses, and you are also grappled. Seven and five, so 12. It doesn't say he can't have, or he can only have one person grapple by this at a time. I can feel the liquid life leaving me. It's globular now. That's all you can do. So that's going to be his turn. That takes it back to you, Jables. I'm going to assume you're bloodied as well. Yep. I'm bloodied, decidedly. So are Jables and I like touching now? Like we're within reach. Yes. And capable. Because you're inside of the same blob. And it's funny that the blob is only medium-sized, so you would definitely be making contact. In my head, it's looking like a Dragon Ball Z Super Galaxy donut. Oh my god. Wait, so you're bleeding right now, teacher? Boo with one of his blocks coming off and wrapping around you or something. It is kind of like that. I love that. Let's get imagery right. This is a blob bludgeoning me so hard. Like, blobbed me into the wall. Cracked my head on the wall. Exactly. It's just like the force of the liquid. I guess if somebody smacks you in the face with a gallon of water, it would hurt. A gallon of water trying to strangle you to death. Doesn't a gallon of water always do that, though? Not like this one. Next level water. Like having a truckload of Jell-O drop on your face. Would I know if it would be more damaged by the silvered sword if I were to smack it with it? There's only one way to find out though. What? Yeah, I might as well. The image isn't that different from the other sword that I was using. It's free action to switch weapons once, right? Yes. Yeah, so I'll just use the fucking sword on it. And I'm going to use another luck point. ...to attack with advantage on this bastard. Damn, I was one-off from a fucking... So that's a... 21. That doesn't hit. Terrible. Three from the short sword, but I'm smiting this hell. Okay. Trace from the short sword. I'm smiting this hell. Darkship, but it's all right. Five from the smite. And I can't move, so I think that will be it. I spit on him again. I carefully try not to spit on your dog. I'm sorry, 100% spit on the dog. Trying not to spit on your dog. Yeah, if I have to make a check, I have to, but you know. Maybe a performance check. Oh, I can do that. That's a fucking net 20. What are you talking about? I'm proficient in my performances. I've been in the hot... - I've been saving this one up. - Wow, wow, is that your turn? If I can, I spit again. But yeah, I spit my turn. Alright. Yeah, my first thought is I want to move the maximum distance I can across the room that we're in. Since I'm kind of in the doorway, I want to back out into the bigger room just to get distance on him so he's further away from me. But then immediately, same thing, I just want to try to shoot with my short bow again. And I want to ask, did my glancing blow still count enough to give me effects? Because I just have to do damage to it. So you would try to move back here a little bit? Yeah, I would move back there. I'd move... I don't know. How much distance is it to the center of the room? You could definitely move to the center. Yeah, because I would want to move back here. A good distance away. Because it's right there, right? Because I can still see it from right there. We'll keep everyone right here just to preserve the intensity. of this clusterfuck right now. - Yeah, yeah. So I would move back there and then I would definitely hit him with my short bow. And so now I have advantage and that means two and then keep the highest, right? - Yep. - Okay. - Two dice and take the highest. - And that's just for the hit, right? - Yes. - Okay. So short bow, let's see what we get here. Oh, that's not 20. So 24, that's 20. So I'm just gonna keep that and then roll my, - 11. - So what's the normal? - It's like 1D6. - It rolled two for me. So I got a five and a four. It gave me two, yeah. When I got the nat 20, it gave me two to roll. It gave me a five and a four. It just told me. - That is rules as written. Usually what we do is you would roll once and then you would take the maximum. - Okay, so in that case it would be five. 5 plus your rule in like 1d6 plus... Plus 2 is what it says. Perfect. So 5 plus 6 plus 2. - So like you roll a d6. The fact that it's a nat 20 is like you would take the maximum of your potential damage on it. - Yeah, rules is written, you know, you would roll it twice, but you can roll ones on both of those, and then it's like why the fuck did I crit in the first place? - That's a house rule that we use. - Yeah, so the house rule is that like one of the first d6, you don't even roll it, it's just automatically a six. And then you roll the next one. - Okay. - This is with the wind. - The double-edged sword of this? - That was the part that I-- - That's how it works when we get crit too? - Yeah. - I didn't catch that part. That was the part I was confused about. - Thank you for explaining that better. - I was like, where did this sword come from? I didn't hear the sixth part. Makes sense though, okay, got it. - Yeah, it feels way better when you crit than being like, "Wha-fah!" - I just have to be a nitpicker as I'm looking at this. When you're giving us visibility for the dark vision, are you giving us 60 feet for that? Yes. Well, yes. Some things, it's mostly just turning corners. And as well, stuff like that. I was just curious. Because I don't think we had seen much that was like 60 feet away. That's true. We've also got the... Yeah, nothing's really been out of my 20 foot range yet. Right. It's kind of a tight... Yeah, so it even it even goes way just none of these none of these corners have been very long at all, but right Now I just curious because Yeah, so I think I mean that was a good shot so I think I'm just gonna kind of leave it there because I Got for out of the way. You got the hit in that's Yeah, I'm on five is it plus two or plus four it was plus two on the total I - It would be plus four overall. - So it'd be 15. - Yeah. That's an excellent hit. Excellent hit. - One short of perfect, you know? - Yeah, yeah actually. But that's your turn, Gray. It does scream out in pain, that big a hit like that. - Nice. - That's with me? - Yeah. - Yeah, wow. Yeah, wow. You know what? I'm going to... Sacred Flame is a primary action, right? Yeah. I'm gonna do that. And for here, this is Dex. Dex, are you okay? Yeah, so it'll be whatever your DC is. It passes, unfortunately. So that means I hit? No. Oh. So you make it roll a dex saving throw and I got a good roll. Enough that you don't even have to ask where my dex is. Not at this level, I'm not. Okay. And since I'm touching it, when I produce flame, I can do damage the first time. Is that like your rule now? Because this says I can't. Repeat the spell. A flickering flame appears in your hand that remains there for the duration. While there, the flame emits no heat and ignites nothing. Okay, never mind. So that's the damage for the second action only. Exactly. If it wasn't, it would be a magic action to make an attack against it. That's why you couldn't do it. Even if you're touching it, it would come down to like a melee, if anything. Okay, that's perfectly fair. And I will still do that as my bonus action to hold that flame in my hand. Yeah. - Yeah, you look, you would be able to produce that flame? - Is it bloody there holding that flame? - Yes, sir. - It's a threat. - I respect it. - It's coming. - I spit on it real good. - It's basically my version of that, you know? The bloody flames, they burn a little bit more red with a little white edge. - They do? - That's my turn. - Okay. Each of you make me athletics checks with disadvantage. What's the disadvantage for both of them? Because you're grappled. No. That's not a part of grapple. No, it is this guy. Eleven. Part of his. What was the disadvantage on you guys right now? You said athletics? Yeah, it's just a nine. Damn. It was a nat 20 and then a five. Damn. Mine was a 17 and a 12, and I have a minus one. Take both of you guys with him as he moves over to grave. It takes his pseudo-partite against him. Music change would be a good time for this too. Let's see how well this attack is gonna go. Oh, that was dog shit. I assume a seven doesn't hit you. No? Okay. Damn. What did you have all three? You grabbed one in one! I had some lucky. You did, he rolled really bad. That's all he can do, right? Yep, and it's on the tables. Yeah! I'm in a good position to repeat my back the fuck away in long arrows. Did I notice that it didn't take any more damage to me visually from the silver sword versus my regular one? No, actually. This guy in particular. What color is the blood? Like transparent gray? Opaque gray? Opaque gray. I decided to be a part of it. It's how he's escaping. It doesn't know the difference. Maybe that's why I missed the first time in my actual first hit was a glance of Lowe. I was a little afraid that it was like, he's a brother. A brother in the grave. How are you describing? Oh my god. I'll switch back to my regular longsword then. I'm swinging at him. Excellent, excellent. Hit me with a roll. Hopefully it's good. Yeah, that would be 17. Excellent. Don't even roll any damage. Great god, get down to 180. As we continue to run around and set you guys... able to strike it down fuck that thing More amorphous, lifeless love. I'm not anymore. Not anymore? Yeah, just me now. I'm getting hit because it probably would have killed me pretty quick. Based on how much damage it was doing. I'm going to try to show you a good time for blobs. I'm blobbing good time. is over here. Let me see my proficiency. We need the next. It leaves you cool cats in this hallway once again. With there now being no door. Where'd the door go? I mean we could always take a short rest if you want to get some health back so you can roll some hit dice. I'm trying to see if I have anything that I can get help back quickly. I mean, short rest is just 30 minutes. Yeah. I mean, I'm cool with short rest. Okay. Maybe do a quick perception check on the new room and then it looks like it's got table chairs. Maybe just sit down. Is that actually there? Yes. So as you guys head into this room, you would see there's a chandelier suspended above this table with two high-back chairs in the middle of this room. Which has an empty clay jug and two clay flags on top of it. So this is kind of like a much better furnished room and there's some candelabras over here too that are provided or that would have provided that. I still have the flame in my hand right? Can I use that to light them? You absolutely could. So this room is now lit. Cool. See that and I'd say yeah if we want to take that short rest we got some chairs you guys can sit down and take the rest. I'm good. And I'm down for a short rest. So I can just kind of-- I wish I got more back, but I'm going to heal myself. Give me a single d100 for this 30 minutes that y'all are going to take to collect yourself some games somehow. I rolled two d8s. Is that right? It would actually be two d10s. Your d100 is like two. Oh, no, I meant for the healing. Oh, for the healing. It's however many hit dice you want to spend. So, yeah, it would be two d8s. I'm sorry. I was already processing that as happening, you know? I was like, next on the stack is... If you want to roll it for real, I would just do it on that. I believe in you. That was a 37. So now I roll my. Plus two. So seven to nine. And then a 1, so 3, so 12. So you would see two ways out of this room. A way kind of to your north and then a way kind of to your west. And I just add that 12 back to my health rate. And at the end of our short rest, I play a song. And they still have their inspiration, but if I could, I would give them another one. Excellent. Excellent. I would do it. You can provide a lot of inspiration, can't you? Yep. Wow. You guys should be using that then. Basically gives you advantage on any role that you choose. Ability checks, support attack roles. Yeah, I keep forgetting about that. You can just be like, I'm going to use it. Mm-hmm. Is it like a use it once and then it's gone? And it's gone until, yeah. Okay. But it's good for if you're in like a desperate situation. Oh, yes. And I can give them to y'all at the end of any short rest or long rest, but I can only give it to myself at the end of a long rest. So, which way would y'all want to investigate? It's just a, it's just a, you get advantage. Oh, you just get advantage. Yeah. So, based on my mental math, The top route would just go back to that crossroads that we were at before where we decided to go right instead of down. So I say we just kind of ignore that and continue left. What do you guys say? I'm fine with that. So y'all want to continue this way? Reception checks as you guys all enter this room. You had some fucking... Several 20s, though, so... 23. Yeah, it's just been... 23? 7. 7. So... Shables and Grey enter this room and everyone would notice a large bed. This is kind of the nicest bedroom you've actually seen. You'd see a rotten wardrobe, you'd see some candlesticks in this room. Iridell is going to be the only one who notices. Also a footlocker, sorry. But Iredell would be the only one to notice that there's multiple sections of the wall that looks as though they're caved in slightly. Secret tunnels, secret tunnels. I'd go to interact with the closest caved in wall. To interact with the wall, two ghasts are going to pop out of the deck, you guys. I'm having a better feeling about the silver sword against these guys. Oh, yeah. Yeah. Ghast sounds like... Yes. So let's move you guys back in here. Place yourselves wherever you would be. I'm... I would have been in the rear once again. I think that's the canonical reason for my bad perception role because I'm tiny. I was behind you guys. I was going to be peeping up in that footlocker. I'll be back up for a locker. I'm just, I got short wherever you want to be. You were interacting with the wall, right? It's right there. Yeah. These two things are guests. And as you guys-- They're right here. Yes, because they're kind of in the wall right now. And everyone, roll me initiative. Really nice, nice. Six. Hold on to that real quick. I'm going to refresh my page. Sometimes you're wondering like the dog shit online rolls. You feel better about when it rolls dog shit like in real life. Thirteen. It's nice to be able to choose. Yes, I completely agree. Do I trust real life right now or do I trust the simulation? How am I feeling? I like throwing number rocks. I also like my pretty pretty rocks. I have many of them. So I must roll them. See I probably wouldn't use it if I had to have one set of dice. Then when you're not feeling your dice... Now I think about giving myself a good set. You know what? Can I give you a... ...birthday present for myself? You'll start seeing them everywhere. This made me think of infected mushroom. I am very much looking forward to that. That's going to be very fun at the end of the month. Nat 20 for your initiative. Jables is probably going to go first. Top of the round is suspect of a safe roll. If Nat 20 right here, right now. That's my decimals, Your Honor. Six, I think. That's why I referred to my age. What was your number? Thirteen. It is J. Wilson, but that's right. I got one more of as good points as I ever was, you know what I'm saying? Y'all got that one covered, so I'm just walking up to this guy. As I jump up to him, I'm just switching to the silver sword, you know? It's just like all dramatic. I'm gonna use my... All dramatic! Yep. As you walk up to this ghast, you recognize it as Miss Durst from all the paintings that you've seen in the house. So she's the lady of the house. The lady who was starving the children. Yes, that locked her children in the attic. I used my inspiration. I'm going to get advantage on this one. If you two facing this one would notice this is Mr. Nurse. Thank God, I just did that. I'm just checking the dodge. There would have been a nat 1. That's only going to be an 8. Negative, unfortunately. Wow. Who's next? It's actually going to be this gas tank in front of you guys. The one right in front of us. Unfortunately. Well, at least J. Will got a chance to swing first. Yes. Yes. I respect it. She's definitely that. That takes it to the Mr. Nurse guest, who is the reverse centaur. He... Law attack is you here, Dil, for disturbing his howl. Okay. See how well he rolls. It's not going to hit. Nice. That's going to be its turn. It is going to actually move out of the little hole in the wall. And directly next to both of you. Which takes it to Miss Durst. And she is also going to do the same. She's going to move out of the wall. She's going to take a similar claw attack against you, Jables. Let's see if she rolls any quicker than her husband did. No! No, no, no. She did. So that's a dear no. This is our house now, you know? Yeah. So, because you started your turn within five feet of this ghast, You're gonna notice that this thing smells incredibly bad, so roll me a Constitution saving throw. That's... The stench begins to permeate your nostrils. I think fighting against stench is a great reason to use my inspiration. Do you want to give, like, the stench, Deebo? Not particularly, no. I consider myself a relatively clean person, you know? Well, you know, half person. You said constitution saving throw. I'm trying to find that on here so I know what I'm doing. Okay. I'm at 20, 22. Excellent. You definitely passed. You definitely passed. Do I like purge some of this tension away? I'm kidding. You definitely were like, no! Awesome. Awesome. And then I'll use bless. Huge. Um. Just about does Bless do. So we get to add a d4 on attack and saves? Mm-hmm. Nice. Okay. That's right. I remember that. Okay. We used it before. And then I'll go ahead and go in my trusty Pretty's Flame. Excellent. Excellent bonus action there. And that'll be it. Great. You got assaulted with stench. In fact, you'll have to make the same check of the third return. You'll be blessed for it. You will be blessed for it. Okay, so I do that, and then it's plus a d4 you sold? Yes. So 10 plus a single d4, and then plus your con modifier here. Three. Ten plus three. 13, I don't have a modifier on my custom shoes. - That's enough. You also are able to overcome the stench. You don't let it get to you. - Cool. I'm going to do my old trusty back the fuck up move first off and I'm just going to move to like back here kind of like in the drug I see you mean bonus action disengage yeah yeah disengage yeah because that's you're the only one who can do that as a bonus action so unless you every time you want to move away without getting an attack of opportunity you'll have to bonus action disengage but typically you have that action economy available yeah Yeah, because I've done that a couple times, yeah. So I gotta get the fuck out of there. So I'm gonna do that and then... Short bow. There you go. Am I still... Does the bless thing still work on this? Yeah. I wasn't sure if that was a one-time thing. No, because as long as you're here, they'll concentrate on it. So that was 16, and then plus the d4 makes it 20. Definitely is. Extra D4 on the damage tier? No. Okay, 4. Unfortunately, no. That would make it very hard. Just 4. People would be yelling at you when you don't cast it. Yeah, it was just a 4. Excellent, excellent, excellent. So let's do something to it, hopefully. Back to Jables, who makes me a constitution saving throw. Starting his turn, close to this smelly gas. Oh no, I'm gonna fail it. You're gonna fail it? Yeah. Uh, that's a six. Ooh. You are unfortunately poisoned. Oh, that's fine. I could be poisoned. Disadvantage on abilities. Attack roll. Destroy. Until the start of your next turn. Until the start of my next turn? Yep. What does poison do? You just have disadvantage on attacks and ability turns. Oh, okay. I'm still gonna attack this ass. You can definitely. You can definitely. Piss me off. So that's going to be not enough, but it's going to be a 10. Unfortunately, that won't hit. Spit on him. Well, there you go. That takes it to my boy, the guest number one, Mr. Gustav Durst, who's going to take his claw attack. Hopefully it's a better attack than it was previously. I'm hoping not. I got moves like Neo. 13. Does not hit 14. Damn. Damn, he's not Robert. That leads to Elizabeth Durst. Third place is going away. No, keep it, keep it, keep it, keep it, keep it. You see what I'm doing? Keep it. That also does not hit. But that's her turn, which takes it back to Irindel after two unfortunate turns. As you take a peek. Hey, it's all fresh air, you know? That Nat 20 is holding true. I'm just going to swing fences at Mr. Dursty over here, who keeps swinging at me. So Sacred Flame for my magic action. That's a deck saving throw. 13. Does one to get. Two. It's one d8 radiant rolled two. - Roll a two? I'm gonna throw that flame. Oh, that... Huh? Excellent, excellent. Okay. That's gonna be with disadvantage. Yeah, okay. But I get my d4, right? Do I roll a d4 on both rolls or do I roll it once and then apply it to whichever is the winning roll? Can't roll worse than this. A nat 1? Yeah. You could technically roll two nat 1s. I'm sorry. I did technically roll two nat 1s. Really? Because this is a 1 and this is a 1. Oh. So I don't feel like it's fair for me to re-roll anything. Roll me a d100. You throw in your flame? Yeah. Is that an action or a bonus action to throw in? A second flame is an action. A second flame is an action. That's a good point. It's a magic action, so I can't do it. You can't throw it at your own feet then. So I can't do it. That's what I was looking at. You are genetically correct. Thank you Travis. Okay. Crisis averted. You have a bonus action available though. You know what? I'm going to forgo my bonus action as a payment for messing that up. And call it good. Is that fair DM? Happy little accident. Excellent, excellent. I got nothing else to do. I'm out of the way and that's, it's worked for me and I'm still too squishy to want to be anywhere close. I feel like that's gonna be like, that should be the case. You know. So I'll just roll that real quick. Nice. Nice, 22. I think you could also get sneak attack against this guy because he's a... Oh. That's true, yeah. They're pretty good. Yeah, so it's an extra D6. Oh, it says if I have advantage on the world. Yeah, if I have advantage on the world. Oh yeah, because I hit it last time. Exactly. Those are so good for you. Alright, so... So what does that mean? I already rolled my attack to her, my hit, so I know I hit him. Did you roll with a bench? It's good to roll two jams. Yeah, you know, I did. Okay, yeah. So, roll a second one. The second one's a 10, but the first one was a 22. Well, you get a D4 plus on that, too. Oh, yeah, that's right. No, you definitely get it. I forget about that shit every time. It's like 1D6 plus 2, so it'll be 2D6 plus 2. - One and three, so one and three plus two. Is that how I would do it? - Yes. - Okay, so four plus two is six. - Six, excellent, excellent. Y'all are chipping away at this dude. He's not playing though. - I don't see any reason to move, so yeah, I'm also just, I'm just gonna leave it at that. I don't have anything else I can do. - Jables, come. Do I have to do another concept? You do. You do, actually. We're gonna be dog shit. It's gonna be a 10. That is just enough. Nice. I'm swinging on him. That's hilarious. I'm swinging on him. This is less dog shit. It's gonna be a 19. That is? With my silvered short sword. What benefits does it gain against undead? I don't know. I just wrote down one of these things. If nothing, it's fine. This one lists against shapeshifted opponents. This is an old one, but it says it deals 1d4 extra damage to undead. That sounds right. That was for 5e. The D6 regular damage though, right? So you're saying plus one D4? That'll be... terrible. That'll be, uh, three, it'll be five DM-oosh. Five DM-oosh? I mean, it's more than, you know, DM-oosh. But it's also gonna get smitten. Okay. Smit. I'm, I'm going to assume they are undead. Yes. Safe assumption. Oh, yes. Oh, yes. I'm gonna figure out if I bust out and I'll fire you, D-A. There it is. Hell yeah, two of them maxed out. 18 radio demos. You're good, you're good. That's a big smite. Yeah, it was my last spell slot, so I'm happy that it wasn't my... Right. Oh, a flop. I'm trying to resist the stench. It just kept coming for you. It's painful. Travis did a lot of damage to the misses over there. The smite 18 radiant. her. Did you ask? No, I did not. So it'd be them, right? You know, it's the only... It's... I'm not gonna, you know, respect their, uh... Yeah. No, they're getting assumed. What's the start to children? Yeah. It's not okay. We're doing some crazy shit down in this fucking here dungeon. That's your turn. Yeah, let's just stand. Yeah, I like it. That's right. That's right. Every single time you say you spit on them, that is essentially the player's turn. That's a good point. So, Mr. Goosestomp is going to continue his unsuccessful onslaught of attacks. 12 doesn't hit. He's got 14. Come at the mundo. He's got that druid AC. That takes it to Miss Gustav, who's going to try to hit you with a 19. Just barely. Just barely. Okay. I'm going to deal 10 slashing damage to you and make you a constitution saving throw. Dog shit. Nine. Can't constitution save for my life. You are paralyzed. Until the end of your next term. Until the end of my next term? Mm-hmm. Okay. You're done. Okay. She's bloodied. He's bloodied. He's dusty. Not yet. Oh, never mind. She's dusty. Think I sacred flame her I - He'd be in range, right? Yes, he's gonna be. Then I... Does she have like disadvantage because she's an undead? I don't believe so. It doesn't list it. It'd be cool, but I don't think so. No, that would be cool. That would make sense too. It gets no benefit from cover for the saving throw. Yeah. I will go ahead and use Healing Word on my boy Jables. That's an eight. Yes. Sorry, was it my turn? Sorry. All right. Let's see. Yeah, still on the same position, same situation. Yeah, same thing for me. Do get it out, yeah. Yeah, I'm just going to do my short bone, and I'm going to remember that I had the d4 this time. So it's 12 plus 2, so 14. Did it? Did it? Cool. Want to leave in Brownsburg? Want to leave? Yes. Excellent. I guess this, that is just enough to have him also be Dusty. If that is your turn, that takes it back to Jables, who is paralyzed. And that takes it back to Mr. Goose Doctors. As I become unparalyzed, I spit on them. 23 to hit you with his claw attack. Good lord. That hits. He's going to also be dealing 10 slashing damage to you. and then constitution saving from. Constitution throws 17, no, 14, 14, sorry. Okay. And 10 damage is what I take. I start by responding to that second attach by spitting blood at her. Because, fuck that bitch. And then I go ahead and do Sacred Flame again. On the one by you. Go ahead and produce flame. Get that shit ready. Hizer. Okay, back to you again. I'm going to do my usual. I'm just going to keep shooting at this motherfucker. Excellent. Until I can get him to go down, as long as he's keeping him worried. Would it still be a sneak attack if he's not actively attacking me? Yes. Yeah, I forget what that adds. Let me... Yeah, it's an extra D6. Okay. Yep. And I do have advantage because I did it last time. Okay, cool. I have advantage, so I roll twice, right? Mm-hmm. Take the highest. Nice. That helps a lot. So 18. That definitely hits. 19. And then I get one extra d6 when the sneak is back? Yes. So 2d6 plus 2. So 4 and 4 plus 2. That's 10 total. 10 total. Very nice. Very nice. Thank you. Go after Kong, Sam. You passed the last one, right? Yeah. No. You're welcome. Okay. I like what's been happening. That is a 15 to hit. That does hit. Silver sword, I will do nice, maxed out, 10 damage. - 10 damage with this silver sword, excellent. Another big fucking hit. Hell yeah. - Nice. - All right, is that your turn? - We're getting fired up on this one. - Guidance isn't a bonus action, it's an action. - It is definitely an action. Actually, isn't it a reaction? - No, I don't think it was a reaction, I think it's just an action. - As soon as we air, and sit down soon. Google things on the robot. No, that's an action. Uh, so... Okay, okay, you're keeping to that motif. I appreciate the consistency. I have to run to my boy again. So are you bloodied here or down? Yeah, oh yeah. Thank you. Didn't dodge that one. Yeah. At least you passed the concept. That's cool. I'm just spitting. All right, that takes it back to Gustav. Not hideous, though, and that takes it back to... He's standing right there and keeps just missing. Can only hit me once, you know? 19 against you. Yeah, barely. Okay, so she's going to be able to deal that 10 slashing. Woody. Come save. I passed it last time. This is not for the stitch. I know, I know, I know. I'm sorry. Too high. I have to answer it genuinely. I'm going to pass it. It's going to be fine. 16. Good, good, good. It's a 10 or better. I figured. I'm sure you've done that. This is funny. What is her turn collectively? Which, what are you at? Me? Actually, no, don't answer. You're bloody, right? I'm bloody. Okay. We're doing the metagame. Yeah, she's bloody, right? And they're both dusty. Everyone involved here is bloody. Except for Gray. Yes. I've been staying out of those. He's decided to be Gray, not Red. Yes. I got the flame in my hand so I'm gonna throw that bitch. You can't with disadvantage. Which one are you throwing it at? The close one or the far one? If you're throwing it at the far one, it's not with disadvantage. I'm throwing it at the far one. Same one I attacked last time. Which is the one in front of Jables over there. So you're just letting Ray deal with the one that's trying to kill you right now. Yeah, because as long as it's focused on me, he gets to hit it harder. And, you know, it's only hit me once, so I'm not that afraid of it. It's been rolling with advantage against you now that you're talking shit. It's been working out so far. 1921. Did it hit? Yeah. Definitely. And then it's 1d8. That is fire damage. Man can dream. I know. It's already in my hand, you know, I gotta throw it. Yeah, it's flame damage. Two. Two damage! This is a big hit. More than nothing. She's still kicking though, unfortunately. I'm gonna go ahead and healing word my boy Jables over there. For eight. You're not bloody! He's been back and forth across the day. My combination is working out very well with this, like, you guys. My gloves are stained. Back and forth with me just out of the back, just kind of like... I'm out of spell slots, so... Before I do my turn, I cough up more blood. Great! Like, yeah, like teacher, in Full Metal Alchemist Brotherhood style. Just... 19 plus 4. Definitely hits. Definitely. This is, yet again, a sneak attack. Yes. So it is seven plus two. It is nine. Nine to that one? Yep. Nine to Mr. Reverse Center. Always my favorite when you can be sneaky from that far away just because they're a little bit focused. How am I getting damaged? Somehow my back really hurts. How am I taking damage? No! That is going to be... That was difficult for me to do that simple math right there. That's going to be just enough to kill Mr. Gustav as he slumps his smelly corpse hitting the ground. Lord. I'm surprised it worked. It did. It did. I think I might stick to long range as my main thing. That's your turn. Yeah, I'm going to stop there. I don't have any reason to move forward because I believe I can still see everybody else. Jables. I'm swinging. Might be missing. It's an 11. That misses. I had a feeling. Spittin'. I'm going to position so that my friends can see her. And all of her spit-blooded glory. I want you to be right between the arrow and the gas. I've learned lessons between the arrows and their targets. Hey, we did pretty good on that one shot I did. Hey, I had faith. Because I went right between the legs and got them in the nuts that one shot. I had faith, 100%. I remember that specifically. Oh, yeah. There was a lot of leg spreading in that one moment. Okay. I said go wider. That was literally verbatim. In there. Make sure. Gassed, whatever it is. Gassed, yes. She is going to miss your dice tray. No. And that is going to be Iridel. That's her dusty ass turn. She's not happy with that. She's going to have to roll a dex save. The sacred flame is coming her way. 13 just saves. It's it hoots. Eight. Eight radiant. Eight radiant. That should be... That's not... Pretty close. That's not enough. That man was a bitching person to her. Actually, wait. Well, you know. Mental math. Well, yeah, because I'm just writing the numbers thanks to each other until it gets to be too big of a number for me. If they didn't have the same health, then it's just, I was like, damn, she had more health than him. I was like, that's crazy. Were you doing the math? I try not to. I mean, she got hit for 18 early on, right? 18 right in. That was enough to make her dusty, so I guess you could technically from that. Good job, guys. You failed these two, guys. Nice. Us? Yeah. You killed him. You just put him down right here, right now. Oh, and I thought we were the upright, morally just owners of the house. No, that was me being egregious about these two people that you just put down. But you are now, you were the owners before, but you are now very much the owners, which would leave you in this room. Um... I assume you guys would go to open the footlocker as you had planned before. Yeah, we planned to do that. It did have my attention. It did. So you would find multiple things in this footlocker. Be ready to write this down. You would find one cloak of protection. Very important. You would find a small wooden coffer as well, unlocked. Containing four potions of healing, regular ones. Jane shirt. - That's cute. Flask of Alchemist's Fire. A bullseye lantern. A set of thieves tools. Spellbook, which has a number of spells, but I'll tell you guys these items a few times before we get into the spells in the spellbook. I think there's one, only one that I missed. The last one? Uh, no, it was somewhere in the middle. So, wooden coffer, four potions of healing, chain shirt, mess kit, alchemist's fire, old eye lantern, thieves tools, and then a spellbook. Okay. Which none of you guys can utilize wizard spells anyway, so. But I'll still tell you exactly what's in the spell book. I'm pretty sure I already have a set of thieves tools. I wanted to make sure. You never have too many, right? Yeah. So this spell book would contain disguise, so identify, mage armor. Magic Missile. Protection from evil and good as its level 1 spells. Spells, you would have dark vision, cold person, invisibility, and magic weapon. Sorry, can you do the LTs again? Dark vision, cold person, invisibility. Do we know the rough value of this spellbook given the spells in it? Right, right. That's what I'm saying. So we'd have to find somebody and see what they're willing to pay for. We can't just kind of gauge roughly how many gelled. For this one, though. Other items, like all the previous items, you could quantify those into gold easily. They had a lot of shit. You'll probably be able to kind of tell contextually that they likely had been looting these items from other adventurers. The people that they had lured into this dungeon and murdered. Yes. You get all the goop from this room. You goop this room entirely. Should we put the cloak of protection on someone? The plus one AC is probably pretty nice to have. It's huge. You wouldn't need to do it too much, which is over a long rest, unfortunately. Well, we probably should do a long rest anyway. I'm out of spell. I'm out of everything. Would you try a long rest in this room? Um... With a bed room. We all just climb up in there. Back to the pile. Have we finished exploring the room? Is there anything else that we can kind of perceive, things, drawers that we can check? So, in this room was the wardrobe. When you look in the wardrobe, which I assume you will, you'll find old robes, more candlesticks. There's actually also that open crate you see in the corner containing a lot of torches. And there's also a leather sack with a lot of candles. So if you wanted any of those items in particular, you can help yourself. But other than that, The two tiny little hideaways that these guests were lurking in as they hopped out. I tried to kill you. Did Miss Owner of the House in her crypt bedroom have pretty robes that Eridal might find some sentimental attachment to due to the design work or... color or material used. You'll find that these in particular are lacking any kind of fashion or taste. Like, they're all black. They're all very worn. I consider setting the wardrobe on fire and think better against it. Do we want a long rest in here? Do we want to, is there another place we would feel more comfortable? Than the room where we just murdered the really smelly old inhabitants? I mean, we can move the smell out. You wouldn't know that the room is clear. I'm cool with it. I think it makes sense. I'm cool with it. We could always, like, push the dresser in front of the doorway or something. Yeah, for extra security. I'm not against that like we did with the thing before, although I'm not sure. It'll at least make noise and slow them down awake as well. Yeah, that's my thought. Okay. You're able to do just that. Are you guys taking watch or who's taking the first watch in this little bit of sleeping? I'll take the first watch. I've been unharmed for a lot of the time. I've just been Roll me the D-100 for this first four hours. It's your two buzz. I'm assuming both of you guys are attempting to sleep at this time. Yeah. Yeah, I guess I'll just roll it in virtual. So you can use these if you want. I also have a golf ball. Actually, yeah, I'll do it. I'll do it. I'll do it. - I see a 50 and a four. - 54? The first four hours go without incident. Are you staying up for the next four hours or are you waking up your buddies? - Good question. For long rest, we just have to do non-strenuous stuff for the eight hours, right? I mean, you can wake someone up if you want to sleep. It's four hours. Yeah, because I stayed awake and I didn't do anything during the short rest. So, yeah, I'll go ahead and I'll wake somebody up too. I'll wake Jables up and then rest for the other day. I don't have anything to recover necessarily, but just for the sake of lore-wise, taking some sleep is a good idea. You let Iredel get the full eight hours of sleep, so Jabil's making the next B100 roll. I do have some stuff I might want to do, Durin. Some non-strenuous, but it's going to be a 20. That would still be enough to have this... ...hours happened with that incident. Are you wanting to attune to the cloak of protection? Uh, well, I was trying to... Who did want to attune to that? I mean, one person would, if y'all want to do that, but they specify. I assume it would be one of us, since we're the ones that get hit the most, right? Yeah, definitely one of the guys who are... I mean, I'm squishy, but I stay awake. Right. Definitely one of you guys who are more likely to be up close to it. I'm cool with either of us. I'm not... I'm not, uh... No, I wouldn't... What's your AC? Mine's 14. Because mine will stay at 18. There's not much I can do aside from paying items. Mine grows over time, right? As I... Yeah, Dex, which I want to because at least one of the cantrips and I think one of the later ones are both Dex saves. Well, that's just against your DC, which has nothing to do with your DEX. It'll be whatever your spellcasting modifier is. So you want to get your wisdom higher if you want your saves to be higher. Okay. And that'll make your attacks more likely to hit you several different ways. I mean, I'm cool either way. Yeah, I'm cool. I think you're the one that walks in the room the first most of the time, you know? I mean, fair. Do you use a shield? Me? No. Oh, I do have a shield. I have a shield. Leather, light armor, and a shield. An adventurer's cloak. 13. 13. Okay, way on. So when I hit long rest on here, it has two things, two long rest rules, 5E and 5.5E. 5.5E. Okay, so recover all hit dice. Yes. Do I have to do anything special to a Tundra? Or do I just basically have to wear it throughout the long rest? The thing I wanted to do though is I have those 12 silver knives on me. Is there anything around the room that I could see that I could maybe make my homie Gray some silver arrows while I'm-- Out of like dinner knives? I've got these dinner knives. There's some wood around the room. If I need feathers, I'm going to cut them a pillow, bro. And I've got, I assume I've got rope. I don't know, I mean, if not... Oh, we have bolts, right? You could maybe use the stick from the torches for the arrow shafts. Oh my god, yeah, there are torches. Yeah, I could just snap some of those. Yeah, and I've only got 12 of these, you know, so I've only got so many attempts. Also... I figured it might be non-strenuous. Also happy to give up whatever bolts are on my... Oh yeah, I haven't used the crossbow very much, but that's just because right now I've got a... I just wanted to ask if I could, if I could attempt to make some. I'm contemplating. Give me two sleight of hand checks. Can I give myself guidance? Yes. That first one's gonna be a nine Second one's gonna be a 14. And I had 12 silver knives total to start with. So as you go to start like making these very crude, um... Very crude? Um, silvered arrows, um... It's like more like an improvised silver arrow. Roll me... Well, - Thank you for the tower. Eleven. Eleven? A D-fucking-twelve. You're able to make... You're able to successfully, out of the twelve actual pieces you have, you're only able to make four. Four? You do make him four silver, improvised silver arrows. And I no longer have the knives. I assume. You took all the knives to make the four. They have a silver version of the bolt and the thing So would that be, yeah, so you just want to find the bolts? And there should be a check mark that you can add to modify it. What are they, what are they called exactly? What was, what was made? Like improvised silvered arrows, which aren't a real million arrows. It's not an actual item. He just like threw together a MacGyver kitchen knife silver arrow. We Jack Blacked it. Just do maybe an arrow and then add a note to it maybe instead. There should be a check mark to modify it. So when you click on it. Because my whole plan was for the four hours I wanted to make those arrows while thinking up The song I was going to make. Oh, it's in the crossbow. You can list that you have four silvered. I appreciate the commitment. Probably just the custom ones, the easiest ones. Yeah, yeah, I'm just doing the custom. Rest, you wake up. You said there's four of them? Yes. You're rested. You're not like super well rested because like the room's kind of dirty and it's kind of smelly, but you know, there's a bed which y'all definitely utilized. I assume you would start backtracking. Yeah. I mean, yeah, there's another way to go, right? Is there, there's no secret doors in that room. Those walls that have the caved in spots, do they... They were not like tunnels. They were just like little hobbles that they did. Okay. I accept this. Would you go back to the room with Crystal Lord or would you continue back down the tunnel? Something's driving me like Crystal Lord. It's our house. It's our order. Right. Yeah, we're going to have to... Because we were hesitant before. We're going to go up through the trapdoor. I'm going to go ahead and touch it because I feel like if it's anything, it's, yeah, if it's anything, it's necrotic. I'll know right away and I have resistance to that. So I'm just going to kind of touch, poke it. Just a gentle, you know. Come hither. As you touch the crystal orb specifically, nothing happens. It is just a crystal orb. So, we could, we could, we could, like, Indiana Jones this thing. Right, the exits are right there. Well, and there's skulls and stuff. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, swap, swapy, yeah. You want to toss me a skull? I'll grab you a skull. Which, is there a skull? I want to eyeball a skull that looks like it weighs about the same as this crystal. Sure, like there's skeletons everywhere. Well yeah, but which one, you know, you know. Roughly the same size, weight, and mass. That's my goal. I don't know if you need to check it. You'd have to find one that's very close. Okay, that's the first one. I'm going to say as all this is going on, I'm walking up towards that other, the special exit up here, and I'm At least opening the way. I'm in that doorway or over that direction. Okay. As casually ready to run as Gray can be. Well, also, I'm not interested. I'm just like, okay, we've killed all the shit. This is next. I'm standing right next to you. I don't know which one of us is doing the swap. A little coordination, you know? Since you said, you know, You do have the necrotic resistance. Yeah, I'm already holding it. I figure I'll pick it up, but that's what I was saying. Toss it to me. I could just with my slightly faster than normal reflexes that I get from being a half a vampire. Great. I like that. I like that. How great is the race? That's how I dodged all those gas hits. Yeah, he's also rolling fucking dog shit, so there was some... That was my divine protection, you know? The wanderer was looking out for me today. Someone was. My luck was Thank you. Actually pick up the orb fully in your hand. Five shadows are going to form around you and the statue and they're going to attack you. We're all going to roll initiative. But the shadows are going to get a single attack. Actually, yeah. They're going to get a single attack. So we're back in initiative. Six. I'm gonna prepare myself for the battle. Yes, yes, yes. This is... I wonder if y'all are gonna touch that fucking door. You gotta, it's, you know, it's college. Yeah, you do have to, though, you do. Those are bad news. So they touch the orb, and now they're getting attacked. Yeah, I heard that. Yes, yes. I heard shadows. Are we just at shadows for now? That's all we've heard? They are shadows. They're like shadowy spectral beings. Oh, okay. So voila. It's going to be. Those silver arrows are going to come in handy. Oh, yeah. I'm going to hope a lot that I don't miss. I also hope that you don't miss. For y'all's sake. I have not, but I definitely will take one. Kind of in the fuck box as well, Jables. You specified you were standing right next to him. Thank you, thank you. Couldn't my boy do it alone? What'd you say? Couldn't my boy do it alone? No, no, he's gonna be grateful that you're there with him after this onslaught of a text. And you're lucky that it doesn't specify that each get an attack. They just attack, so we're not going to have them each take an attack against Iridel. I think that would result in his immediate death, so. You know what I am going to do, though? I'm going to look for more gold. Y'all have been navigating this fairly difficult combat well though. I'm interested to see how you fare against these shadows. Yeah. So far the strategy of me just staying back and lobbing arrows has been working. I've been getting good enough hits, or at least having the initiative and advantage and all that every time because of it being a sneak attack because they're always fighting everybody else. There you go. I think it's Jabba's turn to green this. He'll get to do that when he gets back in. Until I level up a little bit more and get some more health and armor. But in any case, I'm liking the idea since I was wanting to do arcane tricks or stuff for illusion and shit anyway. I was wanting to use that as like a way to hide more and get further away and all that kind of thing anyway. That will be a good strat in some of the battles that you'll face. I wrote my 14. 14, excellent. Throw the plate away, take a hit from my pen, and then roll. Excellent. Excellent. Sounds like a plan. Well, it is your green's job. Yep. Anyone that tickles your fancy. I did roll a six before I went outside, but I don't know if you want to count that or not. Would it be a cumulative six even with your initiative? Damn. Damn six. What did you say? Bro. I had to try, you know? I also had to be honest about it. Someone's got to go last. Someone's got to go last. I'm grateful you were honest. That's integrity, right? - By the way, I did sing their song about my silvery knife making. - I'm feeling very inspired. - When we woke up. - I like that. What's your dexterity, Greg? - What? - 14, right? No, it's like 16, right? - 15. - 15, so you're getting there. - I think, is that including-- - Thinking about the song inspired me. - Yeah, just know your overall stat. - Okay, the plus two is if I'm rolling on that button. - Is it your hit? Or no. We'll do the circle. The black cherry soda somehow makes me drink more of the root beer. The root beer is very good though, thank you. This brand is really good. It is. Take it to one of these shadows at the very top of the route. In fact, the shadows roll well for their initial-- I'm gonna take a draining swipe attack against you. Here I go. Blaine ain't got nothing on me. We're also going to take their two attacks against you here, Adele. Okay. So, 19? Yeah, 19 hits. There you go. He's gonna hit you with one of your draining swipes. Sofary bar. Get the fuck out of here. You're gonna be hit by five necrotic damage. And roll me a d4. Okay, I have necrotic resistance as well, so it's half, right? There you go, yeah. How does that shake out? Two? Is it truncate or is it round? I did three last time, so go ahead and do three this time. Okay. And then what am I rolling again? D4? Yeah, roll me a D4. What is that? Two. Two? Your strength score is reduced by two. How do I modify that? Other modifier, minus two. And then I take how much damage? Three? Yes. Three to cry. Those are going to be both of your turns, and that takes it to Jables. Well, I think I'm going to hold on to that silver story as I start to wind up. Luck points are long rests, right? Or is it every day? Is Lucky long rest? Yes. Okay. For some reason they didn't have that on there. Oh yeah, there it is. It's written right there. So I'm going to use my luck point then. One of them. Who am I? Who am I? Which of these have already gone? Everyone. The three by him, basically. Yeah, so it was these three that just took all of their turns. All three of those went for him? Pretty sure it did. I think there's one more in there. Do you want this, Travis? Yeah, I'll rip it. Do I work point do that or do I other stuff right now? I don't want to get hit. We're doing some ho shit right now. That's a bonus action anyway. I'm not going to use my look for it. I'm just going to swing it out. Okay. Hit me with the roll. Are you using the silver sword? Silver sword, yes. That's going to miss. That was a two, so it's going to be a four. Damn. Thank God it wasn't a one. Thank you. For my bonus action, I'm going to Shield of Faith myself. Okay. Good spell. Good spell. It's your turn that takes it to Mr. Gray. Spitting on this guy. I expect nothing less. That's gonna be in the drop-down. Alright. Well, I'm guessing I'm able to sneak attack because none of them are paying any attention to me. - Oh, their eyes are all on Gary now. You can see that. He has the orb of fire. - Yeah, yeah, so that's all. I'm just gonna take, I guess, whichever one is for this back, and I'm gonna start shooting at it. - Okay. - I'm seeing what's happening, and I'm like, well, all right, I guess we're fighting again. - Like the damage? - Yeah. - Are you trying out one of those silver arrows, or? Oh yeah, that's a good call. Yeah. Would be a good time. Yeah. They're in the fuck box right now. Yeah, so I'm going to use one of the silvered arrows and I'm going to shoot my short bow. It says with advantage, that means I roll twice, right? Yes. So let's see. 17. 17. Medently, it's. Cash on the line. Okay. Oh, it would have been higher if I had managed to include my d4, which I didn't, but... So, yeah, I just added a 1. No, and then it's the sneak attack, so it's 2, right? And what does the silver do? Is it another d4? Yeah, a d4. So, 6 plus 2 plus a d4. - Nice, nice. Two other guys. - Yeah, I picked this one in the back specifically just because that was one of the Four of those arrows, right? Yes. That means I'm down to three of my quiver. I'm going to make a note of that just to figure I should. Something I might be thinking about trying to retrieve. That's what actually gets out of the line. You'll come back. you I think. Yeah, I don't see any reason to move from where I am. So yeah, I'll just do that for now. And yeah, we'll just leave it there. That's all my comments, but as far as just the dead fans standing in the back just shooting arrows, that's the rest of the fights happening, just as Greg would do. But it takes it to the two remaining shadows in their group, and they're going to take each of their attacks against your dog. Is that it? I think Grace's little man-of-hatch is rolling against me. That is the same. That'll be half, which is quarter. Yeah. Yeah. So each of these swipes, it'll be, we determined it's three, right? It'll be a total of six damage. Okay. Which is already half. One of them gets half-half, right? Yeah, so it'd be... Yeah, so, yeah. We're going to say it's one. So you're going to take what? Four. And then roll me 2d4. I'm going to stay with my D4 right now. Strength score is decreased by five. Okay. What is it? What is it? It's one. You're down to one? Yeah. Carry on. I'm a pretty weak friend now. I believe it. Is it my turn now? It is. I know that you mentioned that. It is. I feebly call upon the gods to bless my friends and myself. We are now blessed. Does Bless Mount use one of my spell slots? It does. You have a spell scroll as well that says. Okay, okay. That's why I didn't auto-mark it. But I want to use my ability. And then... So I'll go ahead and produce the flame. And I'll draw the orb closer into my chest. Nestled in my bosom. Because clearly it's valuable if six things showed up and just started swinging at my face. Five, but... Okay. Just five. Five. That's your turn. That takes it back to the single shadow. Where is my d4? There it is. Your strength score is really at one already. Was it not that high? Was it already your dumb stat? It was already my dumb stat. It already decreased it by seven. Is this mask going to do it? Is it going to continue to attack you? Let's see. It's going to actually change targets. It's going to attack at the same time as you were attacking. Oh. Unfortunately, net 20. I had a feeling when you said, oh. Shit. Wait, can't I use luck to make him disadvantage from his attack on me? If the condition is that if they roll a 20 that you can give a disadvantage, how would you know that advance? Well, You have to say like, when you give yourself the luck point, you have to declare before you roll it. When you give yourself the advantage. Yeah, my issue with this is the roll. Yeah, I'm going to attack Jables and then rolls it. Yes. Yeah. Yes. I was quick on the roll. Pretty much said it within a couple seconds. Yeah, you did. You did. It was pretty quick. But I will. I will. God damn. I'll try to be faster. I'll do my danger. I will. I'm a warrior. Which passes its turn, which takes it to the two other shadows, the ones in that line. So this one right here that's closest to you, Jables, is going to take its attack against you. And this one right here is going to take its attack against your doll. James J. Wilson's first. This one... Oh. Oh, two sixes. So neither of those attacks are gonna hit. Which takes it to you, James. I'm a huffing, I'm a puffing. Is Iridale bloody? No. So, make me a perception check. Oh, because, well... Make me a perception check. How did you look at Iridale? It's not that good. It's not that good. It's a five. A five? It's a five. I'm distracted. She. I miss gender in Eridon. Oh, sorry. It's funny because my characters are always men in the ending as well. It's just hilarious. Gender bending is fun, you know. It is. It's fancy. Am I? - Do you have a faith on one person? - Isn't it? - It's a concentration. - Okay, yes. - That's what I thought. I knew Derek had thrown it pretty loosely around, but I just never looked at it before. - There are some of them that aren't concentration. Like there's one that isn't, that Claire is getting. - Okay, okay. - It's called something else. And it just gives you a plus two. - That's cool. - How it is for now. I might do more overall. I'm gonna keep the Smite in my pocket. Thank you. I'll swing first. I'm gonna swing on the homie that got hit with the silvered arrow. Yeah, the one that's like right next to you trying to hit you as well. Yeah. Yep, yep, yep, yep. Makes sense. Yeah, that hits. 21. 21 definitely hits. Do I smite him? Thinking I smite him. When would one use a ritual? Like out of combat? They're usually done without spell slots, but it takes you 10 minutes casting time instead of instead. If it says it uses spell slots, then it uses spell slots. Well, you can oftentimes not ritual cast, but which one are you looking at? I'm just looking to find familiar. So you can cast that. Out of combat without using spell slots as well. Or during combat. And is that persistent? Like once I've done that, I have that familiar period? Yes. But if I use find familiar again, it would replace that familiar? Yes. Okay. Very good spell. Yeah, I'll smite him. Okay. So that'll be the six from my sword, my silvered short sword. Yep. Yep. And then you get additional D8s as well because of his undead status. I was hoping he was undead. Yeah, I know. 13 radiant. That is going to be enough to murder his ass. He explodes. The radiant seems particularly effective. And that will be my paladin's might that can do once a long rest. You know what I'm doing. Is that your turn? It is my turn. Alright, that takes it to Gray. And also make me a perception check, as you look upon your comrade, Iridel, upon her taking multiple hits from these shadows. Twelve. Oh. So it's funny that you were able to perceive a little bit better when you're standing further away from Jables. As a ranged person should. I was blinded by the, you know... Yeah. You were at it. You can't see the forest from the trees. You're going to notice that she's not bloody, I don't think. But all the colors drain from her face, and she looks like her vitality has been seriously drained. She looks like knocking on death's fucking door. But not bloody. I'm a Oh, that one got killed. Yeah, smoted. I will just work my way forward and shoot yet another silver arrow. Yeah, a carpet-looking one. And that's Sneak attack so with advantage so roll twice. Yep, yep. 22, I think, and I'll need to roll twice. I'll just leave it. It's fine. So, and then it's also... Big attacks of extra six and two again. Four and three, seven plus two, nine. And it's the silver thing, so whatever was added because of that. Plus a D4 as well. Plus a D4. What did I just say was that number? Nine. So nine plus a D4. Plus three, 12. 12. 12 on the carpet. - Actually just enough to kill that one as well. - Nice. - I'm a bad wiener. - There's three left? - Yes. - I'm definitely gonna attempt to retrieve these arrows from these things' corpses. - That's a good move. That's a very good move. Is that your turn? - Yeah, I'm gonna leave it there. I know what I'm gonna try next if it's not dead already. - Okay. That takes it to the final two. One is going to take its attack against Jables and the other one's gonna take its attack against you or Adele. It's on you, whatever you want. Finish this. Or no. I'd be doing the same. No, it's not gonna hit you, Jables. I'm going to pull out the coffee dice. Coffee dice are failing me. I'm going to do the coffee dice. The coffee dice are still on my side, you know? Nothing you can do about it. You leave those things out of it. You leave the coffee dice out of it. That is going to take a D, Mirabelle. I like the one with the coffee and the D20 as well. I've got a lot of brown dice. Can I feel like I can use the orb for anything in this fight? Can I draw from it? Does it have a life essence that I can pull from? It's not a magical orb, it's just smokey quartz. They care so much about it. Okay. Okay. I'll use my fire because it's already in my hand. disadvantage because they're all pretty much right up in your-- And... But it's not here. So I'm gonna have to keep neo-ing with some flame in my hand. I'll use produce flame again. Okay. That'll be my turn. Produce flame. That would have taken it to carpet, who's dead. Which takes it to the other guys, who's gonna take their attack again. So let's see. 13? Does not hit. I mean, I like you. The wanderer sees me. That's my turn? It is. I thought you were trying to do things for me. I mean, next turn. Three of them left, huh? There are three of them left. Hmm. Hmm. Trying to remember who's been hit the most. Who's been hit the least. We'll swing at this guy closest to me, I guess. ...the lock point when I swing at him. Being 18 to hit. That hits. That definitely hits. I assume you're doing the brown guy. This is closest guy to me. Yeah. I'll use my last spell slot to swing. I think I wait. I think I wait. That'll be seven silver sword Dimash. Excellent. He is... I don't know if a shadow can be bloody, but this one is. It's kind of starting to dissipate a little. Exactly. We need a corporeal form that dates it to you, Greg. I'm shooting. Here's my bird. I have two more of these arrows, so I'll do this again. And it is once again, 14 6 plus 2, 8 plus whatever for being solar. Not yet. So 9? 9. Nice, that one is also beginning to shift a little bit. Is that your turn? Yep, well actually, I'm gonna start moving a little bit. I'm gonna move myself a little bit more because if that one dies I need to be starting to get closer to the other side to hit the others. Excellent. So that's going to be it after a little bit. That takes it to the other two that are going to spread their attacks as they did before, one to Jables. And the other one to Iridel. She's not going to hit. It's going to be another 12. Call me Muhammad Ali. Fucking float like a butterfly. Stick like a beast. The rules are very unfortunate. I don't know what that means. Um, here we go. Um, alright. I'm gonna try the Sacred Flame. It's a dex save. So it does have... Is that a pass? There's no glancing blow. Yeah, I think it passes with that. Okay. Fairly a pass. So that would be... That's an eight for the roll of radiant damage. I don't believe they take damage... Because that's a cantrip, right? Yeah. They won't take that. Because it passed. It passed the save. Oh, it passes the same, so it doesn't take any damage. Gotcha. Okay. I was thinking my roll passed. Right. So. No, you're good. You're good. You unfortunately passed. And then I kind of crouched down because that's all I can do at this point. What you're carrying right now has never felt heavier than in your entire fucking life. Yeah, my arm feels like it's going to fall off. My legs feel like they're wobbly. Exactly, yes. So I'm kind of like on my knees. Which takes it to... Yeah, that's my turn. Perfect. That takes it to skeleton tone. Going to be another, sorry, I was reading something. Number 12, which is not going to hit. Jace looks really upset she hasn't killed me yet. We're all in this because I can't fucking believe it. Jables. We've got Mr. Dusty. We've got Mr. Dusty. And that one over there is like untouched, right? Yes. The one on the other side of... Here it goes. I'll swing it as close as Mr. Dusty, I guess. Mm-hmm. Brom-man? Brom-man? Thinking about using luck or not. You only have two of them, right? Yeah, I've used one. I should have used it. It's a nine. Bonus action. A lot of spitting. A lot of spitting. Great. I think I'll be chilling there. Assume you're taking an arrow bolt against a skeleton man. We're still blessed, right? Yes. Yes. Oh, we're blessed? Yes. I was going to say that, but I had my mouth full. Sorry. I didn't want to speak with a human mouth full. Was it a nine? It doesn't have it on yet. Does it change it if it's a 12? Glinting bolt. plants and blood. We're not going to smite him. We're not going to smite him. We're going to do, so it'll be half of nine. With my silver sword. Okay. Either for or fight, however you want to do it. I have unfortunately taken a very large bite of this cookie, and that could not speak. Yeah, I realize that comes at a bad time. I totally forgot we were blessed. I totally forgot. - Your deal hasn't taken a single attack against, or hasn't, yeah, taken a single attack since he cast a blow. So you haven't had to take a fucking constitution saving throw either, which is fucking miraculous. - And when he does it, he blasts it. - All right, so I'm gonna go ahead and do, yeah. - He still blasted until he drops it. - So it's my turn now actually, and yes, I am gonna do the arrow. And I think this is my last silver arrow, if I'm not mistaken. No, no, I was saying I had two, but I hadn't used them yet. So I gotta use... You got two more. Yeah, two more. So I'm gonna use this one. So it's, again, sneak attack. Also advantage because of Vex. No, because I haven't shot this one yet, so I don't have Vex. You still have advantage because it's attacking Iredell right now. She's the person of interest for these shadows. 23, I don't even need to add the d4. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Okay, so. No, no, no. Yeah, you've been rolling pretty consistently against these guys. Which is good. Someone's rolling well. Oh, and I think it's just a one roll this time for damage, right? So it's just three. You get the plus d4 for it, right? Because of the silver. Yeah, so it should, shouldn't it be 2d6 plus 1d4 because you get the sneak attack. Okay, three, and then I'll let it go. So... You're broke with sneak attack. Three, three, and one more roll. Two. So a cumulative... A cumulative eight. Excellent. Did you add your plus two to that as well? Yeah, that's with the plus two. Perfect, so eight. Let's see, and that shadow you just attacked for nine last... that's gonna be just enough nice so scary time's done again Three lucky silver arrows I'll have to try to take back for sure. Make sure I can recover that shit because they have been effective. Definitely, definitely, definitely. Is that your turn? I've seen things like that break before, but I've seen them not break before. I wonder. I wonder. This is me, right? Yes, sir. Is that your turn? Okay, is it going? To the left. If that is your turn, we will take it to the two remaining shadows. And they're each going to take attacks, as they have been before. We'll see if they'll hit this time. One against Jables. Yeah, I'll use dice I haven't used tonight. I'll dig deep in the bottom of all my dice. 30 Is that a no or is that a yes? Boy, I have 21. You have 21 AC? With Shield of Faith, you have 21 AC? Okay. Ear dome. Nice. 13? Doesn't hit. We just start striking fucking JoJo poses. Um, okay, so this one's kind of translucent now. This one's still corporeal. Yes. I'm going to use the sacred flame on this one in front of... On the bloodied. Yeah. Dusty. Kind of see-through. More see-through. The foggy, the smoky. We did complete this one, right? So Dex save and throw for the Dusty Krusty. 13 is the DC. It doesn't make it. 1d8 radiant. 6 radiant. 6 radiant? Yes. To the one that hasn't been damaged yet? To the one that is damaged. Okay, that definitely kills it. Yes. And that's it. That's all I can do. Oh, man. Oh, man. Make sure you get it far enough on the other side so I can hear it. Give it a shot. I'm using my inspiration to get some advantage on this bitch. So blessed. Yeah. Thank Christ. Because that could be the difference between hitting the mess in here again. Does a 13 hit? Yes. Oh yeah, 12 is a glancer. 12 is a glancer. And I am going to smite it this time. With my last spell slot. Nice. So with the silvered short sword, they'll pay... and Let me get these my... Radiant. It explodes. Nice. Good job. If your strength had been reduced to zero by these attacks, you would have died. Yeah, that's what I was afraid of. Me too. Outright death. No saves. No saves, just gone. Just dead. But the dodges were there. I kept getting rattled by my arrow hits and they were like... All you got to do is you got to be the bless. As soon as you do that, the gods see your favor and they seek to provide. I was hoping I could show the faith both of us after I did it. It's interesting that the second time I brought you to near instant death in these comments, it's different to your maneuvering these well. It's fine. Irredill's no stranger to near death. Seems so. Seems so. It's kind of like, you know, a pattern for her. She's very used to it. Very used to it. This actually looks toast. Isn't the grinder sitting over there? No, that's what it's like. I'll go ahead and load it. Yeah, just ground some up in there. That leaves you in this room. You now have Iridel. I thought you were going to say level 3. My bad. Not yet. You now have a smoky crystal orb worth 25 gold pieces. Nice. And you can use it as an arcane focus, but it's not magical. You gave me a life worth 25 gold pieces. Almost. I lived. Almost gave you Put it on the line. Yeah. Yeah, I mean, those shadows popped out and just each took several, I mean, attacks. So I don't know how y'all are feeling. Not as fast. Yeah, and, you know, I'm real tired. Real, real, real tired. Am I able to do Find Familiar... During the long rest? Yeah. So you're trying to go back above? First things first, I do want to retrieve all of the silver arrows that I shot. Is that something I need to do anything special for, or can I just say I have to go back? Because I want those things back. Make me an investigation check with advantage. You gotta take a hit for the luck. Alright, so it was an investigation with advantage, and so you roll twice. What were you investigating again? He's trying to find the silvered arrow. Oh, okay. You're able to find three of them. Nice. The fourth one unfortunately broke. Oh, I only shot three. Oh, that's right. You found three of them. Sorry, sorry, yes. Yeah, so I get all three of them. Nice, awesome. So I'm back to all four. They have survived the fight and now I'm back to this. Perfect. Good deal. Thank you for making those. I wouldn't have even thought about it. They were our knives, you know. We just had them laying around the dining room. So... I don't want to buy them, but... This is going to move you guys. Are we going upstairs? Yes. Are we resting in the house proper? Is that the plan? I think so, because we're right below the... Don't pay attention to the green stuff. I'm kind of looking at some of the green stuff. I'm looking at some of the green stuff. Right, it's this way around. The exact spot that you were in before. Yes. So, I mean, what, we should probably just go to a bedroom, yeah? Or something? Or do we just long rest in here, or what? You could potentially do that. You did just long rest a moment ago, right? Yeah. You could long rest again, though, if you needed. There's a lot of need. Yeah, that was some pretty heavy battles and stuff. We've got to do it at one strength. My thought was maybe we spark a fire in the fireplace that's right in this room if we can. You can. This is a well-stocked den. There was like high bleeding shit in this room as the table does depict. But yeah, you could. I think it makes sense to do it here. I also do want to go ahead and find my familiar at the very, like, just the start of it. Spend that ten minutes getting a crow. So I assume you're, Del, other than that, you're trying to sleep for a bit as well. Can we lock the door? You could. We'll lock the door. You could lock the door. How did we, where's the secret passage that we've been going through? In this corner right here. Is it like a thing on the floor or is it like a... Yes. Yes, there is now. You will notice that... The floor did not look like this to give you guys this first pass through around. So it seems to have somehow modified upon you guys opening it from the bottom up. Because there's clearly a hatch door here now. And it knocked the seam loose or something. Yeah. Okay. Do we want to try to put something on top of it? Whenever I rest, I'm just going to scoot a chair on top of it and sit on top of it. Roll me two D hundreds for the cumulative eight hours you guys are going to try to rest in this room. Because I'm going to start by sitting in that chair and playing us a ballad of our great battle before I pass out to give you guys some inspiration. Did you guys use your inspiration? I have not. I used mine. I have not used mine. I'm going to keep doing it. Inspiration's good. Paul wants to roll the hundreds. You can go for it. That's terrible. That's an 8. That's an 8. An 8? I believe that's an 8. It's two 0s and an 8. Shoot. That is an 8. - Nothing still happened. - Someone else roll up. - I did pretty good on my roll, but yeah. - Go for it. - I got 52 last time, I know it's pretty good. - I got some pretty bad hundreds today. - With my strength, I'm not thinking I can put stuff on my back right now, you know what I mean? - Hey, that's twice what I do. - You got to trust what that is. - So how does the familiar work? - That was inspiring. - At this point. It's essentially within 100 feet of you, you can use an action to share consciousness with it. It's pretty useful. But it just joins us as part of the party, right? Yes. And I get to choose the type and the form. Yes. So if it finds, you can have it scout ahead and then use your perception as its perception and see stuff. It's very good. I don't think it really can attack, but it can use the help action, which can help give you and your allies advantage on attacks in some scenarios. Depending on which one you summon, it might be able to do a low-level attack. It's very good. It's got like a lot of fucking tech. How do I know what actions it can take in battle? Because it does say a family I can't attack, but it can take other actions as normal. So they're referring to like the helmet. Okay. So like it could peck something's eye to like distract it or something. Do it. Like, nothing that does damage, I would assume, since it says it can't attack. Yes. I'd have to look at it again, but I... But it's kind of like also a shield because it takes damage. It can. It's based on the creature's stats. You guys, once you long rest, you're coming back down the hatch into this area once again, yes? Well, did we? We pretty much explored everything, didn't we? You didn't go down a flight of stairs where you heard strong chimes. Oh, yeah, that's right. Yeah, I completely forgot about the chanting, to be honest. And it was right up here. Yeah, I forgot about that. I got sidetracked by that. I kind of looked at it. Which direction was the chanting coming from? Just from the left over there, right? Yeah, it was that direction. It's very strong to the west, which you know to be kind of a general vicinity. We pretty much cleared out everything in all of the other areas. That was really the only place left to go, I'm pretty sure. So we just need to make our way back that direction if we want to clear the rest of it out. I did assume that my strength went back to normal. That'd be crazy at level 2. Getting hit once is game ending, basically, if it's persistent. You couldn't even technically wear the things you were wearing. At one strength, you would be like an infant strength. I'm already a weakling. Yeah. Gray makes a good point. We should go ahead and go that direction. What do you think, Jules? Yeah, I'm down. I'm going to go check out the chanting. Yeah. I'll go ahead and navigate you guys back all the way over here so you can see. You want to give my shield light again after we go down there? Yeah. And you would see more stairs down. Because it's free. It's free. I also have a... torch i can give you i prefer i know i'm just saying for those moments when i'm not around oh yeah we should have we completely forgot about that in that bedroom we could have grabbed you like a few torches to actually use i've got candles and stuff and you know light is just the i could technically when i level give myself to me well oh yeah yeah yeah we're just doing this well i gotta remember too i also have a cantrip where i couldn't make Light and brighter if we need to do that at any point. But I think what we have so far fills up all the rooms we've been in. I just keep thinking I need to remember that because that can be useful. If you've got flames or something you've got in your hand, I can brighten them up. Ghostly chanting will very strongly emanate from the stairs in this room. Y'all are about to be in. Ghostly. Perception check. 10 Thank you. Sorry, perception checks. 14. Because everyone got over it today, at least, thank God. You can really start to kind of discern a few dozen or so voices saying over and over, he is ancient, he is the land. So you can kind of actually make out the chanting that's been happening this whole time. You are also going to notice this room is filled with relics in each of these little cubbies, as you can see right here. Small mummified hands, a carved knife out of human bone, a dagger, varnished orbs, folded cloaks, bags of weird things. So this is kind of like a room of road queries. You can find yourself in. After everything else you named it, there was bags of weird things on top of that? Yes. Okay. Bags of bag one of... Oh. You know, I didn't ask. You said weird things. That's weird shit. If I'm being honest. But that's just a few good little snippets. What do y'all do? Do they seem valuable at all? I'm just curious. Make me a... Investigation check. I'm gonna do that too. Sure. Fifteen. They seem like fucking junk to you. Okay. I have five minutes, so I'm just kind of probably just like the last step of that and immediately dismiss them. You're taking Airedale's word for it. Yeah. Yeah, fourteen. Yeah, these seem like fucking... This is trash. I think we just keep moving, right? Gotta figure out why these people are chanting in our house. In our house! We gotta clear this shit out so we can sell it, man. Gotta tell everybody it's clear. They're gonna roast us on Zillow if we don't. Yeah, really? So you would see... I feel like there's two ways out of this house. Or out of this room. So you would have options. Alright, you got two options. You wanna do a high blow roll? Leave it to chance. I'm cool with that. I'm cool with whatever. You decide that because I know the number. No, I saw the number. Which, high right or high left? Right. Then we're going right. I had to make it fair. That's why we just sent that out. I know it. She's saying there might be one left. Right as this one? Yes, because high is right. Because we are high. So if you go down this, you would find yourself in a large, rusty, iron portcullis that is blocking your path. Can I somehow see if it's in any way a mimic? I'm doing anything in interaction with it. Let's do some perception checks. Does it seem alive? Okay, investigation. I'm definitely doing the same thing. That's a smart idea. We're all traumatized. Oh, God. I only got a six. It doesn't seem like a mimic. I got an eight. It doesn't seem like a mimic to you? It seems like you're a poor case. Can we touch it? With my silver short sword, I give it a... Smart. It sounds like metal, as the iron portcullis should be. Before we open any doors, do we want to check the other path? That's what I was thinking. I kind of want to check the other path before we go through a door. Rusty portcullis is kind of... That seems like the next area, you know what I mean? The chanting was incredibly strong from there, too. It seemed almost like they were on the other side. Yeah, that definitely makes me want to not go there just yet. You would find yourselves now in kind of a prison area, quickly seeing, as you do right here, shackles. Mounted to the walls. Is that like an opening in there? Do you see it? None of these are openings as of yet, but there is a long hallway. I green the last one, so somebody else can. That'd be awesome. I did do that right before that. And you would be able to come down and see that there is just a bunch of shackles. And you do see one skeleton, though. Wait. Like laying on the ground inactive? Yeah, this one is right here. Other than that, you can see most of these are just empty shackles. Looking closer at the skills. Do you have an Olympic cannon? Yes. Also, everyone make me perception checks before you look at the skills. 19. 7. Excellent. 7. Not the best. Can I pet you? I let you in. You're a sweetie. And he was like, sure, I guess. I got to walk by you, but I don't want to walk. 19. Thank you for having me. I've been rolling horrible on those all night, so it's about time. So you and Jables would both see a secret door. I know I put that one in. Hey. Insider information. We found a secret door, Jabels. I'm gonna remove myself from it. We found a secret door. Secret tunnel. Secret tunnel. Uh, can I still look closer at the skeleton before we do anything with the secret door? You absolutely can. Um... Find the skeleton is in a tattered black robe. The only thing of value you would find on him is a gold ring on one of his fingers. With 25 gold. With 25 gold? So it's worth as much as that quartz thing? I don't think I'm going to touch it. You guys can grab it if you want. That's probably not a better. I was thinking I would probably grab it immediately if it was worth as much as the thing that we just did all that for. Are you going to do the go-drink jambles? Is there an extra investigation check I can do to make sure it's not... Shadow tracked? I mean, something like that. Would detective magic be something that would help with something like that? Possibly. I'm gonna go with at least an investigation on it, though, quite first, just to see if anything feels extra off about it. 'Cause I know you said you're just avoiding it outright. I'm just a little traumatized at the moment. It's not bad, 15. It seems normal to me. What do you think? Are you gonna investigate it as well? No. Yeah, if you want it, I'm here. I'm gonna leave it. Maybe if we feel like we're feeling good later. Now he stands up and comes after us. Yeah, that ring is ours. No. No, no, no. Yeah, we decided. Jeez, you see how fucking excited she seems? I think we made the right choice. Yeah, it sounds like it. No, no, no. It was not booby-trapped. Goddamn. I am not a crypt. So I assume you guys are... And then you guys see the door. Yeah, it does end down there, right? There wasn't anything else. It does. It does. You guys would see mostly empty little prison cells with shackles. Does the secret door also sound like the chanting is really strong coming from it? 100%. Okay, so this seems like an alternate entrance to that other door that we were wary about, but we're ready to just go through. I haven't seen a mimic be a wolf. or a fake door thing. That's true. Well, and rusty metal doors would be pretty loud, so... That's very true. Everybody would sneak up. Yeah, so we enter and stay real close to the wall. Maybe peek through instead of just walking right through. So... The chanting stops as you peer into this 40-foot square room. The smooth masonry walls provide excellent acoustics. Featureless stone pillars support the ceiling, and a branch in the west wall leads to a dark cave heaped with refuse, which is back here. Murky water covers most of the floor. Stairs lead up to dry stone ledges that hug the walls. In the middle of the room, more stairs rise to form an octagonal dais that also rises above the water. Rusty chains with shackles dangle from the ceiling directly above a stone altar mounted on the dais. The altar is carved with hideous Depictions of grasping schools and disdain with dry blood. Because of lengthy description. But this is essentially a pretty nasty ritual chamber you guys have found yourselves in. I don't know if I want to stop in that water at all. I'm going to stay on the lintels. Is there anything that I can-- I'm pretty sure it might be like just deep on me. Oh, yeah. Can we tell how deep that water is? If you walk one step closer, you can tell that the water is two feet deep. Oh, yeah, so I would be underwater in action. I am not walking in that. I will stay on the ledges, guys. Are you only, like, three feet tall, four feet tall? Let me look at my stuff again just to make sure. You can always ride on your shoulders. I think I'm three to four feet. I can't even stack. - Yeah, I have one person carrying another carrying a bag. - There you go, there you go. - I didn't write like a specific height or anything, but, or no, yeah, I did, three feet six inches. I'm three feet six inches tall, that's what I wrote down. - So yeah, it's like your nose above water. - If you think right here, that's about it. Literally my head and that's it, probably. - So, what about the other one? - Future personal ones? - Before we do that, is there anything that indicates where the chanting might have been coming from that just stopped? - It sounds like it came from the very center of the room. And what was the description saying was down to the bottom there was like some kind of room with junk in it or something? So it seemed as though there was like a small hobble with some like refuse. Okay. So like it was a dark, more natural cave. You couldn't get very good vision of it. I was going to say, my initial reaction is that before going forward, I might start kind of walking around the outside edge a little bit. So I might start walking up towards the top because we didn't really hear a description of what was up there, except for the door. On the dice? No, not towards the dice, like up towards the top of the screen. You guys make your way up there. Just to... Just to see if... You would see an iron portcullis. Yeah, which has the backs of the door and that is that. Switched to the portcullis that you did not see on the other side. Okay. But there would be more of that kind of like smooth masonry all the way around. Okay. That's really all I wanted to do, just move a little closer so I could see what was up there. Good to know that there's a switch to open the door, because... Might not be a quick escape. Maybe, maybe. But what are y'all going to do? Is anyone going to attempt to go to the dais in the middle? Can I send my raven? Can I go check it out? You can. I'm going to do that. - You just have it kind of fly around? - Yeah, kind of fly, find like an area right near the ritual spot, potentially like land or, you know, look to see what it sees there that it couldn't see from next to me. - Okay, maybe a perception check. 17. As you fly with your raven and see through its eyes and try to get a close and personal look at this dais, it does seem to be just like a ritual sacrificial slab in the middle of this chamber. Nothing much else stayed up to you other than that. Am I able to tell if the blood that I can see is now dry or wet? It's dry. Can you be all attempting to go up there? Sorry, I was, uh... Is there anything that we can tell about the wall? I'm blinking at your cat. He's blinking. Yeah, we're afraid of it. Do we want to go maybe check out that other, a little more natural cave area? Since up top is just the door, we're going to go investigate that a little more before we get too close to the guys. I'm afraid of that shit. Also, I don't think I'm gonna even go to it. I'm definitely gonna stay on the outside while you guys go in. I can lob shots if battle ensues. Sadly, I think what's gonna end up having to happen is I'm gonna have to walk over there to it. So you try to go over here and see what's in this? That was my thought, if that's okay with you. First time she checks every Monday. I just wanted to see what the hell was down here before we started doing anything else. 24. Excellent, excellent. Iridel is seeing a lot. Because mine ended up being 8, even though that's what I wanted to do. 11. 11. So Iridel is the one that really gets a good look at this naturally formed alpha. You'll be able to recognize this half-submerged pile of refuse as a shambling mound. What does that mean? Don't go near it is what I would say very quietly. I've only vaguely heard of that. Is that something maybe we need to do a history check on? Sure. Everyone give it a shot. I don't want to like, you know. I am going to say don't go near it. I got a good roll on that one. That's not bad. 18, not bad. You said history? Yes. Thank God y'all are here. Your deal can make it with advantage because you're a druid and this is kind of a 0-5. Okay. Terrible. 19 plus 120. Oh, 20. So what was yours again? Greg? 18. So y'all two, you're not able to really recall anything even though Travis recalls a lot. But you two... They're able to kind of recall histories, and, you know, the Shambling Mound is a very formidable forest creature that has a lot of health, naturally resistant to lightning. In fact, heals from lightning. Okay. It's just... Okay, I'm just like... So I'm glad that I... Is it, like, naturally... - Violence towards everything, everything. - It's a creature of consumption. It's very much a natural force, not something to be reasoned with. - Yeah, 'cause the name to me makes me think like, yeah, it's gonna shamble over to you and it's gonna take you in as part of its mound. - Is it an aberration? I forget what they are. - Are they just monsters? - Maybe, look at the staff. - Monstrosity, maybe. 'Cause I know they're large as well. - It's a plant. Okay, so we should head back the other way. Yeah. I don't want to touch the altar because I think that's why my thought was definitely to come up and just kind of begin. I just wanted to see what it was. So that makes me wonder that maybe they're sacrificing things to the Shambling Mound is my guess. That's a great guess. And I'm not happy with that and I don't want to fight this thing. And that checks out with the monster in the basement that the kids are talking about. Yeah. Big facts. Big facts. To test that theory, we still have that bag made of human flesh, right? Could we like put a book in that and toss it at the altar and see what happens? You could try whatever you want. Are you taking the money out, putting a book in and tossing it? I would take everything out. If that's what we're planning on doing, I want us to have the entrance/exit for the secret tunnel open. We should watch it from there basically. My idea is, as I've been doing before, stand in a doorway, stand far away, my arrow's at the ready before we're about to fire. That would be a really good strategy. We could also go two exits open. therefore reducing the chance that it gets the full party if something does happen. My question is for that door that's up at top, it has that switch to open it. Do we need it to lock it again? Yeah, I don't know. Or would it lock automatically once closed? Because we could have it cracked open and maybe we could even have ourselves peeking out through the secret entrance so we could see what happens and have the familiar come in through the other door. After it's open or something, I don't know something like that one of those kind of variations something where the shambling mount might think it's Wherever we are is a different direction Or we could just block off this whole section not tell anybody about it when we sell the house and see if we can get enough money You have to go all the way into the attic and then take a secret blank eye Right. Staircase tunnel all the way to the bottom. The chance they find it on accident. And this is down... You can't, like, fix it forever. This is down a couple levels. It's not our problem anymore at that point. Right. This is down a couple levels, right? We're in, like, the lower dungeon, right? Because if we take care of everyone who's feeding it... Yeah. And then we don't feed it. Mm-hmm. Is there anything we could, like... Nah, because I don't want to piss it off and not kill it. Is there anything we could do to, like, potentially... I would like to personally interact with it as little as possible. I just feel like a mythic plant at level 2 is not a great idea. Yeah. I'd be okay with weaving. I mean, there's no real... Unless we're just like dying to find out why there's still some mystery shaking going on. There might just be some ghost or something that's going to fight us and then we'll have to fight a ghost and a shambling mound at the same time and I'm not into that. I'm down to see what story blocker makes us come back. This room's important. So what exactly are you trying to do? Leave. Are you trying to leave the house entirely? At least go upstairs. Yeah, well, we got to go upstairs and account for all of our loot and stuff and think about what we... Sort stuff out. Sort stuff out, think if we want to go sell stuff and... And then we can try leaving the house. Keeping us in the house. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, we don't know. The only way to find out is to check, you know? You guys climb up to that den area. You're able to get easily from there to, like, the entrance of a house that you're familiar with. The mist does restrict you from leaving the vicinity of the house, as it did when you first arrived, or came here. Even when I wave the smoky quartz orb at it? Do something. I'm trying to think if there's anything we haven't done aside from like, oh wait, me? Because I'm pretty sure we've explored most of all of the areas. If this is like the last little room thing, that could be the very last thing we've got to do, but we're definitely not. I don't think we're ready to do this. We've got to deal with that thing. We did level one. But that room changed, you said, right, earlier, so at least from the perspective of the hatch opening. Do we notice any other differences in the areas of the house that we've already explored on our way to attempt to leave? You do not. Yeah, I think we've checked all the secret passages, I think. Which actually, that's something, can I do some kind of check? Because I know I've seen all of the secret passages. Can I do a check to make sure that we've actually gone through all of them? Yes, you guys can. Can I use Bless before a battle? I think we're going to have to have you just go to the dance. I don't think we have any other story options available to us. Wait, you think we're just going to have to man up to it? Yeah, I think so. So I could bless us before you walk across the water just to be safe. I think I have my self-shield of faith. Right. Because there's also, I think I have 10 minutes left. We talked about having the familiar. Yeah, that should stay attended. So at least I have that for them. Ah, second. Did we want to try to be weird extra cautious and do the thing with the skin pouch and the familiar taking it over there while peeking through the secret tunnel door first? We could if we wanted. Do that as a quick check just before sending an actual person over? You know what would be funny? Um, we have that flask of Alchemist's Fire. Yeah, we do. Oh, yeah, that's right. I wonder if we could throw that. I got oil, too. The alchemist's fire is a liquid that once it exposes to the air, catches fire. I wonder... It does very little fire damage, but that's what it does. I was going to say, if the Shambling Mound is a plant, would that maybe be really effective against it, actually? Lightning's not, but, uh, you know, uh... One hit, the target takes 1d4 damage at the start of each of its turns. I don't think James would know anything about that. We did pretty good on our history check on that. I did. What would you remember on our history check on that? Is that something that we would be able to know? It was a dirty 20 and an 18. Yeah, I think we were still got over 20, I think. Oh, yeah, 23. Would we know that fire would be effective against it? Or whether fire would be extra effective against it? Like this alchemist's fire? I actually don't even know what that is. It would... You would know that fire is not good. Okay. I didn't want to... Okay, I just wanted to... You never know. If it's plant-based, sometimes you can have a fire. This is like... This is like a dank... It's like a walking swamp. Yeah, okay, yeah, swampy kind of thing. That makes sense. It consumes wherever it fucking walks on to. It looks like refuse, so it looks... Do you have your mini? The one I made for this shambling man? Yes, I'll have to bust him out. But y'all aren't finding the shambling man at this moment, so... It's just a good representation, in my opinion, is why I asked. Oh, I'm glad you think so. I'm glad you think so. Can I find it? Just wanted to double check and make sure. Yeah, you seem to have lost your seat. Yeah, I'm conducted. Lightning, fire is not that great against it. I forget what is good against it. I probably wouldn't say it even if I remembered. Just because... I don't have many good memories of it, I don't think. No, no, my character would not. Any memories at all? I would have known enough, I feel, to say, oh fuck, it's a shambling mound. How many minis? No idea whether or not it's the same thing. It's good that we have a moment because you guys are deliberating on who wants to start walking into the dais. Have you guys decided? Oh my Christ, she's making us do it. I told you. It is the only path. I'm going to end up shielding myself whenever we do it. Before we do it, you wait. You wait. Going to hit. Now, before we get into this, I should strategize a bit and see if I can actually use some of my spells. He's like, what the fuck are you trying to do over there, mother? You're disturbing my chill. Your little kitty cat? Yeah. Actually, I'm going to double check and see if I can see her on the camera. Thank you. - Yep. Standing in the corner of my bedroom window. Keep them with my regular trees. I have two of them, but... Amen. - people's chairs and their boots. I've been chewing through it though. My back the fuck up and chewing dead strategy has been working so far. I'm going to put a lot of focus on my ranged skills from now forward, I think. Y'all are doing a good job taking quick turns too. Once you know what your turn is going to be. Yeah, for me right now there's not a whole lot else I can do. As long as I get back out of the way, it's just... Position myself correctly and hope I roll good. Once I get a few better spells and start doing some actual class-based stuff, probably it'll make a big difference. Exactly. These are one of the best. I need so many of these. No, I'm not surprised all the hot dogs you got in those were good. I also didn't eat basically anything else today. I had a little protein. Fair amount of protein. There's a lot of protein, but it's only 150 calories. It's all I had. Besides, I'm still going to eat a lot. Exactly. That'll get you hungry. What do we think, Gary? Are we gazing it? I'm standing in the open secret passageway with my bow at the ready. Do we want to see what it does if we put a bag of flesh out there or do we want to just walk out there and say let's do the thing? I think those are the two options. I mean, what are we going to do with the bag of flesh, man? Let's test it out and see what happens. That way we're not standing out in the middle of the deep water when shit goes down. Yeah. We take everything out of that right first and then have the raven go drop it over on the... Are we going to... We don't need to put anything else in it because it's just... The raven probably just dropped the raw flesh over there. Yeah. You can just fly over and drop it on there and fly back. Just like drop it on the table and fly back. Are we going to do this while we're, are we going to be fully inside the room or are we going to be behind the room with it kind of cracked open? It didn't matter. Nothing happened. Nothing happened. Sorry. Okay. Okay, well, shit. I've got my book ready. yeah i think uh do we want to use the bless thing so i still have my spell slots or that's probably the scroll oh yeah we could do it by the scroll the bless with the scroll yeah that's a good idea let's also take a look at some of the rest of the uh This stuff that we have in Slythene, the rest of it was useful. Because didn't we have like a chain shirt? Did we give that to anybody? Well, I already have chain armor on. The druid can't wear metal. Is that something I could wear? It might slow me down a little bit. It's medium armor. I believe. Or maybe it's heavy armor. I don't know. Chain shirt? Armor class 13. Weight 20 pounds. You can doff this armor as magic action. Oh. A chain shirt? That's what it's... Cast off chain shirt, is that right? Is that the right thing? Hmm. What did you say? I don't know if it was a cast off chain shirt, but it definitely was a chain shirt. Um... Didn't give a lot of specifics on it yet. Let me see. We do have... I do have to use this as a regular chain shirt. Or health pot. It seems like the same thing. That might have... Or it's medium armor, yeah. Yeah. Okay. They are different, so I'm going to switch it out. Yeah. Switch one out. What is it? What I have in our party inventory to the correct thing. I was like, be careful putting that in the middle. Yeah. We have four health pots. How do we want to hold on to those? Yeah, good call. I'm far enough out of the way. Maybe it might be good for me to have one just in case since I can't do any healing actions. Yeah. I have one on me just in case. Okay, I'll add that to my inventory. Good job. We have that four from that one chest. Yeah, did we put that in the group inventory already? I just had it written down, I don't know. What was it? The health box. Yeah, I have those potions of healing for... Yeah, I was saying, how do we want to split them up for this? I was thinking one to me, maybe just because I don't have any other way to heal and I'm far away from the main action a lot of the time. But then the rest for you guys to split up. I would also be okay not having one if you guys just want to split them both up. I think everyone should have one. Yeah. Maybe two for me because I can heal you. Yeah, that makes sense to me. I can also, if I end up needing to, I can bonus action heal myself with Lion Hands. So hold on to one of them, you hold on to two. And Gray's got one of them. Yep. How's the bullseye lantern? I should have looked that up earlier. I don't think it'll help us with this. It's adventuring gear. It burns oil as fuel, casts bright light in a 60-foot cone, and dim light for an additional 60. Very bright light. Okay, so maybe whoever's going out there carries it with them because it'll fill up the whole room. Not a bad idea? I believe the whole room was filled up with the light from my shield anyway. Yeah. What were we thinking about for the chain shirt? Is that something I could wear? What are your armor proficiencies? It's a good proficiency. No, it's just light armor. Never mind. So I can wear it and you can wear it, right? Well, I'm wearing better stuff already because I have chain mail. So should I go ahead and put it on underneath my leather? You can. Can't really wear metal as a druid. It's got like a whole thing. Do you think it does specify that? I believe you, but I do want to see it. It would be like it's under your natural armor definitions. specifically on your character sheet as much as it is in the PHV. OK. Then I guess it just stays in the inventory because there's no need for us to use it. We'll just sell it later. This is light armor and shields. Yeah. Change that in five Well, the chain shirt's a medium anyway, right? Yeah. Because this says light armor for druids. The item says that I have proficiency in it. This is the only thing that I'm seeing. Seems like it's a druid belief thing based on the lore stuff that I'm seeing. It's not that you lack the ability to wear metal stuff. You choose not to wear it. Yeah, that's what I was saying. It's part of your identity as a domestic order. Yeah. Okay. Then I would not put it on, even though I can see benefits and I can see that I could wear it. It seems like it only, from what I was reading, it only applies to weapons and shields specifically. Like you can use, or not weapons, shields and armor. But you can use weapons and wear jewelry, that's fine. It's weird. I guess it's because the others are more like wearing and they cover more of your body. But jewelry is smaller. You could find bones. That's pretty good. I did say at one point or another you may get access to a medium armor. We're using the blessed scroll, right? Yeah. That's only a minute concentration, right? You want to hold on to that until you guys actually get into combat? You could if you want. It's an action. It's a magic action. Yeah, just do it as the first thing. I'm gonna do my shield of faith before I walk out there but because it's ten minutes. I don't have anything I can do that will help right away. Okay so you're the one going out in the middle? I mean, yeah the person with health and armor, yeah. We haven't done it yet. We're still strategizing. I know you're really antsy to fucking throw a shambling mallet at me. That's why we're strategizing. Can I ask how big this room is? Like, dimension-wise? I'm thinking about, like, the range of my arrows and where I could maybe be standing when we start this. Because I'm thinking about, like, I'm standing in the doorway right now, but it might be better to be standing on the very upper side of the screen up there where I'm thinking. You put the wrong me in the middle. Oh, yeah. So it's roughly like a 40 by 40 cube. 40 foot by 40 foot? Okay, so that's fully within my range. You put the wrong knee in the middle. Force a habit. I know, I know. I can't fault you guys. I will end up out there. I guess you two place yourselves as you would accordingly in this instance as you strategize. I will be one spell slot down when I go out there. You know what I was thinking? Maybe instead of me being in the secret entrance, me being over here by this so I can be ready to open this door and get out that way if needed. Because up here I can still hit everything. I'd be out of your way. That was my thought just because I've got a lot of range. This put him between you and the mound where it is currently. Oh, yeah, that's right. Yeah, the mound itself. I think we need to worry about the second way out. It was just a thought. Unless it looks like the tunnel behind us is going to somehow collapse. And it's not like that door was locked or anything. We didn't even try to open it. That's true. We heard the chanting and we're like, well. That's true, yeah. All right, I was just thinking about it. But yeah, I'll stay in the, standing in the. doorway so I would be not quite all the way at the edge here more like right at the edge here Silver, okay, silver arrow. Overcomes magical resistance, but I don't think that's gonna be much of an issue for arrows. Yeah, yeah, so I'll be using my regular arrows. It's not like a wraith or something, you know? It's a shambler. It's a shambler. It's a shambler, little kink, eh? Is that where you want to be in this engagement, Iredel? I'm thinking about it. Did we decide if I should be using that scroll before or during? I mean, it's... Are you going to be in the water? I think I'm going to be in the water so that I'm able to move to wherever I need to or see both of y'all clearly. If you use it now... Would it, like, potentially wear off before we get into battle? It lasts a minute. Each round of combat is six seconds, so it technically lasts ten rounds. Okay. And you could also still use Bless otherwise if we needed to in combat if we ran out, right? Right, that's why I wanted to use the scroll, because then I still have my three spell slots, so I could still use it in battle if that happens. Okay, yeah. So let's go ahead. We can go ahead and do that. If you want to use it as soon as I touch the altar, you can. Right. You can do whatever you want. Because if there's a non-combat saving throw, that's the thing that I'm concerned about as well. Because it would still give you the d4 for that. Right. So I think we used it. Yeah, I'm cool with that. Since I have it as a... It makes sense. Do it. Sounds good to me. Cool. Okay, so we're going to use that. I wanted the information. Would you mind putting one of those shambling mouths on this map, Austin? No, for no reason. For no reason whatsoever? I'm just gonna make sure it's over in the... Look at that ugly fuck. Oh, hell yeah. You can get it right where it needs to be. I'm sorry, dude. Looking like some refuse for sure. All right, so is that where you want to be, Iridel? In the water? Would you rather be towards the mound or towards up here? I think towards, I don't know, this one. Like this, maybe? Maybe like right here on the steps. You want Hermione to go towards me, not you. Yeah. Like right behind you on the steps over here maybe. Okay. The moment that Jabil climbs onto the top of the dice, you guys are going to hear the chanting rise once more as 13 dark apparitions appear on the ledges overlooking the room. Each one resembles a black robed figure holding a torch, but the torch's fire is black and seems to draw the light into it. Where you'd expect to see faces are voids. One must die! One must die! One must die! They will chant over and over again. Where are they? Like on these things here? Yep, they're all around. These are just columns that are like going up to the ceiling, right? So they're on the same outside ledge that I'm on. So I might be like behind one of them or something. They're chanting that over and over again. One must die. Does that count as one of them? Can I shoot one of them in the head? Probably not, no. I'm not gonna stop you though. Right. I don't like these things. I was thinking about using Sacred Flame on one of them. I mean, if they're shadow things again, that makes me want to use the silver again. Everyone in the room give me either a religion or an insight check. Nat 20 plus five insight. A 12-inch light. Six. Or an 11-inch light. Uri Del immediately recognizes that these re-hears want a ritual sacrifice. So they're essentially wanting one of you guys to die, or someone to die, on this altar. They can't do anything about it, right? They haven't made a move, they're just standing on these things. Can I trick them into thinking something gets sacrificed? That bag of flesh is still there, right? You have what? I can create an image of an object or something. There's no larger than a five foot cube, but interaction would reveal it to be an illusion, but I could make like, I could make a fake dead me because I'm smaller than the five foot cube. I could make a fake image of me being dead on the, on the thing. Would I be able to, can I, if I make the image, can I make it like go from where I am? Like if I go back into here and hide and make it, could I make it walk out over there? Can I do that with my, Minor illusion? It only lasts a minute. I think you would be able to do something like that, but they're not going to be fooled by your vision. No. If you attempt it, you actually are able to pull it off. Well, you are able to, because minor illusion is pretty good as it can be. Based on my insights and religious backgrounds, is there anything else that I can draw upon to think of things that would fulfill the requirements that they're looking for. They want a soul to be sacrificed. A life to be given. Okay, I mean, my familiar... Who would my familiar qualify? No. You would know that, you know, the spectral beings would not... I'm about to just sacred flame one of these fuckers, dude. Okay, I mean, if we're sacred flaming, I'll sacred flame him. They're not affected by the sacred plant. So they're not real. They are chanting. You can't listen to every voice. There is that dead body in the other room. Yeah, but they want a soul. Yeah, that's true. I mean, we didn't touch the ring. Maybe there's something with the ring. What do we have that is equivalent to the human soul? Sick rock ballad. Give them that smoky quartz sphere. Play them some soul music. Can we pull a... Go, my girl. exactly where you guys are standing i'm sorry we're there yeah we're on our spot because yeah i was just sacred flaming for me yeah same just like oh i see you i see you i have continued if they haven't noticed me or if they even can notice i'm behind them so i'm just kind of staying Okay, so I spit on the altar. I do have I could use spare the dying. So we could technically take somebody down to a death save and immediately stabilize them. I want to look at the things that are yelling at us and just be like, does that thing have a soul? Right? The shambling mound? Oh, yeah. Can we sacrifice the mound? That would be, yeah, that would be maybe fulfilling. That would suck. That's what we have to do. We were expecting that to find me exactly what you're trying to do. I'm asking them if that thing has a soul as a point towards them. They will not respond to your question. They won't respond to my question. I Amazon support. Can I literally any support analyze the situation further and the things within the room that might qualify this without sacrificing one of our party? A lot of murder has happened. A lot of murder. Murder is everywhere. In fact, the evidence of murder in this entire dungeon has just been rampant. Grab that ring. We might as well go grab the ring. We'll get that ring first. Maybe it's... She got the ring and we should also grab, I tell you, we should grab the corpse and see if we can at least throw it as a distraction. Maybe it'll slow the mountain down. Maybe it has to absorb that thing first before it comes to us. I mean, I imagine all three of us would be going to grab the ring. Yeah, I don't think we'd go individually. Disrespect these things. Yeah. They have disrespected us. Yeah, they're like, all right, well, uh... We'll be right back. We got you. We got you, fam. We got you, fam. So, the moment that both Jables and Iridil step off of the dais, you are going to hear them say something else. Now they give us feedback. Hmm? They're going to say, "The end comes! Death be praised!" And the Shambling Mount is going to awake. No fucking shit. And start attacking you. Oh, of course. How long did that take? What? That whole... From the time we stepped onto the dais to the time we stepped off and they said that and he woke up. That's true. 30 seconds? 15 seconds? Something long enough for the blast. How long y'all been on this dais overall? We've been sitting here like y'all been talking about like the different things and thinking about stuff, sacred claiming, so it's, it's, are you asking for your 10 minute shield of faith? No, I'm asking, no, I'm just curious. It's not just like 30 minutes or anything like that, but it's been at least like five now to seven minutes that y'all have been kind of like doing different things and asking questions on this dais. So you said he's active and you said initiative. Is that what you said? Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. Eighteen. balancing between nat 20 and god 2. So 4 total. At least I'm in the furnace today. Watching it teeter. Just get robbed. That's fresh, isn't it? Is it? Oh, shit. Oh, yeah, I think it was mine to hit, and I was busy. All right. Six. Six. 18. Four. Four. Shit. Maybe kind of. So we're only out. Let me put on some music for me to try to do this now. So, not surprisingly so, it's going to be Iridale at the top of the round. I'm gonna use Bless. Okay. On the three of us. That's a good first turn. And then... Yes, I'm produced flame. It's ready to go if I need it. Okay. That'll do it. Sounds good. That takes it to the mail. Jamble. On over to you guys. It is a little bit further back here, so it's going to have to take its full movement to get right about here. And then it's going to use its action dash to get right next to both of you guys. And that is going to be its turn, which takes it to Jamble's. At least I'm in a good position for worship. Shambles around the weekend. Shambling man. Gotta open up with a luck point swing. That gives you advantage, right? Yeah. I was trying to decide about silver versus my regular long sword. Because I don't know if it has any resistances I really need to over call. I guess since I don't know, well no, because it's also not undead so I won't get the power. Yeah, I'm just gonna use my regular one, so... God, that hits. It's 23. Yes. It's your desk. Should I have rolled initiative for the familiar? Yeah, just, yeah, makes sense to me. It'll be 8 Dimash. What manner of damage? It's a long story, but I'm just flashing. Flashing, guys. What? You don't have two-handed weapon fighting, do you, right? As a paladin? Two-handed weapon fighting? What do you mean? Like holding one in each hand? Yeah. Oh, no, I've got a shield in one hand. I've got two weapons. That's right. I have two weapon fighting. You're the one with two weapon fighting. I've been swapping them out. Yeah, so I could dagger in short swords. I wish I had so many more spell slots. It's such shit. They didn't give me an extra one when I leveled up. Hopefully you get some more fun in level 3. I do. I do. I'm gonna spit at it. Okay. The mound loves that. I bet. Gray. It's not focused on our boy Gray. It's not. It is not. *music* Yeah, so nothing special regular - Do I have advantage if it's attacking the others? - Yeah. - Okay, so. - You guys have eyes on your friends right now. - So I'll go ahead and do the usual two and we're blessed, correct? - Yep. - So the usual two and then the usual two afterward. Let me take this. - You just wait until it's like three or four D6 for sneak attack. - Jesus. - Yeah, yeah, it adds up. - Yeah. - You get a crit, yeah. So you get more of them at like level 5 or like level, you know, different levels. Alright. Good thing I have two because that one was an 8. 11 plus, what do you need? You guys cashed. Alright, cool. 11 plus 1, 12. You want to try it? Sure. It's a 12. I'm glad I had all the extra stuff because of that. I don't know if I need a 12. Dang, missed the first shot. I don't have anything else to do. I'm just going to stick where it is. If it hasn't noticed me because I missed, I'm going to stick nice and in. No, no, it's got its eyes on the prize. I'll just do my usual function of being the extra damage happening in the background for the rest. Thank you. Sacred Flame. Okay. Dex save on my part. I need 920. Okay. Do what? He gets a 9. 920? Good time for that. Yeah, yeah. Goody's getting out of the way now. That's it for that. I don't really have any bonus actions to take. But I guess it would be the familiar. So I send it to distract before Jables's next turn to try to get him advantage is the help action. To the mound, he is going to make his multi-attack. He's going to make one tendril attack against you, Jables, and then he's going to try to engulf you, Geardum. So let's do the attack first. Engulf. It's a shamble. It is a shamble. - Uber 20? - How much are we? 16 plus 7. Yeah, yeah. Yes, that will hit. So he's going to do his little attack against you. It's going to do 5 bludgeoning and... I really miss my berserker's rage sometimes. Resistance to bludgeoning and pursuant slashing. Yeah. Yeah, I can see why. Your bludgeoning is going to do three lightning. Skeleton. I'm going to impose on you, Iridel, a DC 15 strength saving throw. DC 15 strength saving? Yes. Do you have inspiration and bless? I will definitely use inspiration on this one. Thank you. That's just two of these and a d4. Yes. The highest number. So that's a 19. Beautiful. Excellent. Excellent. So you were able to overcome and in this turn take it from Jables. Nice. And I have advantage on the attack already? Yes. Yes. Because of your ability. I know what I'm doing. One off, man. It's gonna hit, though. It's like 25. 19? Yeah. Yeah. Mm-hmm. Give me the digital. I'm going to be six slashing. And for my bonus action, I'm going to do lay on hands, give myself five health. Before I spit on it. Great. Of course. The mound is probably just gonna absorb that shit. It's not lightning spit, so it won't heal it. Yeah, is my turn again? Yep, sure is. All right, so yeah, and then I've got the whole advantage thing, so I'll roll twice and see what happens. I got a nat 20. Distract him. He's huge. So yeah, I got the nat 20 on that, which I'm assuming... You got a nat 20 on your... Well, I rolled two of them. The second one was a nat 20. That's what the advantage is for. You can get the nat 20s today. You get the sneak attack as well. So it's going to be whatever you roll plus 14. Gave me two dice, both were fives. Give me two d6s, both were fives. Actually, that works because you roll sneak attack anyway, so you'll take 10. So it'd be the two fives plus two. So it's 12 plus 14, so you deal 26 damage to it. Nice. Smack him. Smack him fucking hard. He does not like that. I assume that's going to get angry at me. - Okay, can I assume it's your turn? - Yeah, I'm not gonna do anything else at this point. I'll just take that as a very good hint and I'll say, okay, and then wait. - Yes, here we go. Um. I'll go with that sacred flame one more time. At 13, so it's safe. And I'll go ahead and do that help action again, get some advantage going if successful. Is it familiar? Now it's the mount's turn. I assume that's your turn, yeah? Yeah. I'm going to see if it notices that that damage came from behind it. It does not. So it's going to continue to do what it did before, and it's going to take its tendril attack against Jables, and he's going to try to engulf you again. Okay. DC 15. And he misses Jables this time. The only reason I said for the over 20, I do have 21 AC right now. Oh, yes. Yes. Yes. Which I know is a lot. You tried to make it a lot. You did this on purpose. Six. You are engulfed. So you are now pulled inside of the shambling mound. Yep. And you are essentially grappled. But this grapple is also going to impose blind and restrained. We know you're a disadvantage on deck saving for attacks of disadvantage enemy attacks everything and Blind and restrained are super similar. Yes. Like the only extra thing blind adds is you can't see. Yeah, automatically availability checks without quaresight. Exactly. Are these put on just me? And could I telepathically see through my familiar? You can using your action still, yes. You're the only one who's a ghost. But I can do that with their action if I needed to. With my failure's help action. I think read, because I think you actually have to use an action or a bonus action, if it doesn't specify it's a free action, to impose control over it. When you're out of combat, usually it doesn't matter. You can do that kind of stuff for you. So what I'm reading for 5.5e is the familiar gets an action, a core combat action on the turn, like its own turn. that it can do help, deliver touch spells, dash, disengage, hide, and interact with objects. It can mimic, it does mimicry, has high mobility, flight and scouting, and just that there's no attack action. So based on my read, the telepathy is persistent and the Familiar gets its own action independent of the actions of, which is like how I've been doing the help actions. Yeah. It's a bonus action as well, but you can telepathically communicate with it freely. So that's my answer there. Yeah. If you wanted to see through its eyes, though, and hear what it hears and take over its perception for a moment, that's a bonus action. Okay. Sounds good to me. So it could just tell you what's going on or if you wanted to do the bonus action. You can continue to freely tell it, like, do X. The familiar spell is just so good. But that is going to be its turn, so it now has that happening to you, and that takes it to Jables. And I still have advantage from that last... from what you did on your familiar last time, right? Yes, because the familiar would still be doing its... So does Bless automatically break here or do I have to do like a save to keep it going? Not too much damage. Oh, nice. Nice. Nice. That's where I went to the stats before. I was like, oh, what happened? I was like, oh. I need to run the restaurant real quick. 20. Would have been cool. Would have been cool. It's going to be 18 to hit. That is. I'm thinking about just throwing out a smite this time, but like... God, I've only got so many. I was surprised at how much damage I did without hitting. That was such a... That was a very good, lucky hit. Do I have to declare smite before my damage roll? When do I have to declare my smite? You know what I mean? Immediately after I hit? Like, before I roll my damage for my attack? I'm just curious. I've never... Because I know, like, I have the spell written down, which is just, it's a bonus action, you know, after a hit. So I assume it would be before I did anything else, but... Mine is fine? Yeah, yeah, yeah. That is the one I'm using. Must be declared immediately after you hit a creature with a melee weapon attack. Yeah. That's what I thought. That's what I thought. That's what I'm thinking before I roll this damage. So we can have these two in, so he makes the hit before he uses it. Immediately upon hitting, he's using a bonus action, right? Yeah. That's what I thought. What? Oh. Oh, choices. I'm going to sit on it for now, I think. Okay. So you're just going to do regular damage? Just regular damage. Hit me with that regular damage. Three. Three. Three sessions. Three, three, three. Because I rolled a goddamn one. Damn. You hate to see it? See, but I hate to see it even more if I was using a fucking spell slot. That would also have been... My turn. Just back to the plain old... Air shot? Yeah, sure. What did we get here? 13. That was with advantage and blessed? Oh no, I did not use blessed. 13, blessed, and that was with advantage, but add 3, so... 16. That hits. Nice. So I'm talking about, and then it's still the sneak attacks, so it's an extra d6. My third round, which that's good. That brings me to six plus two, eight damage. Ojo Damone, very good, very good. Okay. I see that's your turn. Yeah, I'm just going to stick with it. Did anybody take damage while it was gone, right? No. Going to take a little bit of damage on the start of your turn, Iridil, because you are inside of this thing. 17 lightning damage. What? You take 17 lightning damage at the start of your turn because you're inside of 60. And there's nothing I can do about that? It's just like, I just take the damage? Do you have like lighting absorption? No. It did roll back. No, you said a little and I saw how many dice you picked up. I was like, that's not gonna be a little. Uh, so, how did death saves work? Uh... You're unconscious? I'm at zero. Okay. What was your max health? Seventeen. Damn. You don't have any kind of reactions to absorb, like, elements? Is it true? I have necrotic and radiant defenses. I have, I don't, there's like herbalism kit tools. Absorb elements would be a spell. For spells I have, I have good berries, healing word, speak with animals, thunder wave. Reduce flame, sacred flame, spare the dying, thorn whip, and light. Cool. Well, you're going to be making me death saves on the beginning of your next turn. Okay. So... So we see Eridal go unconscious, huh? Yes. Will you be able to see the parts of his body that are not inside of the Shambling Mound or, like, left? Shit. Oh. He gets, as he gets gotten pretty badly by that. Does his familiar get to do anything? Yeah, his familiar still have turns. It's last command that it was given by you is to like attack this thing or help action this thing, right? Then it would continue to do that. Well, that's useful. Yeah. But you won't have to do anything right now. It'll be on your next turn. And you'll keep them... To yourself. Exactly. Which I think passes above 10, fails below 10, right? Yes. Is 10 a pass? It's a pass, right? Yes. 10 or above is a pass? Yes. I'd have to look it up. So I keep whether they're a pass or a fail from everyone. Yeah. I mean... I track it. If you fail three times, you should go very slow. But if I fail three times, then... Yes. Well, I figured that was the case. Or if I pass three times. If you pass three times, you stabilize. If you fail three times, you die. Or if someone comes and attacks you, it's automatically two failures. Okay. All right. Yeah. I assume that's my turn. That is a point. Here is a point. Thanks to the is going to take its attack against you, Jable. Cool. That's 12. Negative. All right. That takes it to Jables. Am I within touching range? You could, you could like... Okay, well first I'm gonna swing at this thing. One of his legs are like hanging out? While I've got the advantage. I'm guessing I don't have bless right now. Negative. You gotta ask. 18 to hit. It's gonna be six slashing on the motherfucker. My bonus action. I'm going to do a Lay on Hands to give Iridel And I can really hold this a couple ways because even just giving him one will stabilize him. Right? Can you go negative? Yes. So like technically I shouldn't know that he's just at zero, correct? Yeah, no, he can't go negative in that way, but you can take damage that. I see what you're saying. Okay, so I'm going to give him one then from my lay on hand. I'll give him one. I'll keep on that. What, what, you want me to give him five? You give him all five? You saw him take damage at the beginning of his turn. Oh, well... Considerable amount. He's gonna take damage again. Oh my god, the save! You take him to one! Saves him from doing a death save. Got a few of those, you know? Matter of fact, attacks you. Oh right, yeah, 'cause it's two. What happens if you're stabilized and it takes damage? Same thing myself. We're going to cross that bridge. And what would be the proper way to communicate that in the future? Because obviously, I gave the specific numbers because I'm still new, but the party wouldn't know that, those specifics, right? Like what specifics? Like when I go unconscious. You can definitely say I got knocked unconscious or like I was bloody or things like that. Like, yep, I'm down. Or yeah, I'm unconscious. Definitely something you can say, really, if you are unconscious. Cool. Now... I just didn't know how the mechanics worked on it initially, so that's why I wanted to... I thought 17 was going to bring you down. I got two sixes and a five. This is brutal. It's because of all those dodges I got earlier today. I was astounded. I was like, oh my god! It was brutal. Why? The number was like... Minimum three? Now I can really metagame it? Thank you. Damn it. Fucking stupid. That's fucking... I don't like that. You think he's going to take minimum damage? Am I able... How much is a regular health pot? Do I have to use an action though to give him one? It would be an action. Potion is a magic item. As a bonus action... I was telling her not to Google it. I have it right here though. What is it? As bonus action, you can drink or administer it to another creature within five feet of yourself. The creature that drinks the potion gains 2d4 plus two. 2d4 plus two? Yeah. And it is a bonus action, not a primary. It's written on there. It says, bonus action. I can give it to someone within five feet. You can look it up. I don't know. That's what I said on his DMV MeOn. Okay. Yeah. Of course, ultimately, it's your fault. Well, yeah, yeah, yeah. That's the other. That's just news to me. I mean, potions are one of the things that's changed the most. The source on this one is Dungeon Master's Guide. I believe you. What were you saying about the potions? I'm gonna give Java a motherfucking healing potion. Well, you can't see his head. Huh? His head's not in there because he would be suffocating, so you would be able to... I'm gonna ask how about anybody else want that last burger patty that's in there? Because if not, I'm gonna snag it. I'm good. So then he can roll this 2d4 plus 2. Do you want to roll that? I don't know. I mean, it's his health, you know? Who do you want to roll it? You are the one administering it to me. So you want me to roll it? That's all you got to say. That's all you got to say. What are you rolling? Your health, for the health question. Oh, please. Great, that's five. That would have been the maximum I could have given you if I lay on hands anyway. That's why I had one of the health potions. And now we can pray. So that brings me back to five, right? Yes. Yeah, pretty funny. I hate shambling, man. So much. Shooting that bitch. I expected as much. Shooting that bitch right now. Still blessed, so two rolls, top of the two, and then whichever, and then the thing, so 18 plus... 18 definitely hits. 18 plus two. It's still a sneak attack, right? Because they didn't figure out that I was getting attacked. So, one, two. Seven plus two, nine. Nine, nine. It's bloody. It's bloody. If a plane could be bloody. In fact, it was bloody like an attack or two ago, but we're just going to gloss right over that. Other stuff was happening. Now you guys would really know this is bloody. Why do I have a feeling it's just going to shock our man unconscious again? Shock who? Our man unconscious again. The odds are not in his favor. I'm going to be real honest. I know. Five health on three D6s. But they can't do enough to just kill him with it right there. That's the nice part. It would have to also swing on him and waste his death saves and stuff. Exactly. Yeah, if I do the average, he goes down. You would have to really want to kill him. You'd have to be like your full job. Do I? Do I? I don't know. You might. I don't know. I think those shadows would have... You might want to send a message. I don't know. If I wanted to kill Jabba, those shadows would have done it. I don't have them. Oh, yeah, have them all just do a sneak attack before... Exactly, take your fucking strength all the way down to zero and just kill you outright. I love that. I love that. What an enemy that is. They just put level twos against that. The grips are fun. The first one y'all ever fought was also, like, I was reading that stat block, like, God! Does what? Yeah, they don't fuck around down here. I'd like to take a little bit of something from you. You know, I like it. Yeah, I've read that this is a good beginner campaign. Here they are. They're just like, hey, by the way, you can fucking die in this game. It's a real introduction. It teaches you not to be too attached to your character. This is true. This is true. So, it is your turn here, Dom. - You hit it, nice. - Did you already do the bullshit? - No, I was waiting until he sat back down. - How do the mechanics work on, so your health can only go to zero? - Well, you're at five right now. - Well, the way it works is that-- - I'm just trying to make sure I understand the mechanics of it. - When you go to zero, you start making death saves. Now, if there's an instance where, let's say for example, if you had five health max and you take 10 damage, Like turn, you like that. So like if you were to take 34 negative, since you have 17. Okay. So that's the only instance you have to worry about. Yeah, if you go, sorry. Okay. So to let you know, Matt, if you go double your health negative, then you're done. There's also some spells like disintegrate, where like if it reduces your health to zero, it's in the text of the spell, like you just turn to dust. That's something similar to the specter. But there's some crazy shit like that too. Let's see if you don't go down because of this. And also like that whole constraint has been reduced to zero. I rolled two twos and like that's not looking good for you already. Yeah, because the next one has to be a one. It is a one. Oh, so I go limp. I wondered if I had just rolled one one instead of two twos. You have to roll almost in your main thing. Almost. But not in your main thing. I might have rolled one more on the... So you go down. The familiar does the same thing. It takes it to the mound. The mound, for 20, it doesn't have like a bite down attack. It just says 10 growths. It's a shame. It is going to attack 14. No, it's not going to hit. So it misses the attack. Jason to James. If I don't quit, I'll figure something out. I don't know why I wrote that. Wishful thinking. I missed. That's an eight. Okay. Yes. Use a spell slot to do Cure Wounds on Iridel. Oh, excellent, excellent. 2D8 plus my charisma modifier. Hell yeah. Eight plus seven plus three is going to be 18. Nice. Nice. Nice. Nice. Beautiful. I put my hand on him. I fucking heal him to full. I look over to the plant. I'm going to have to go back to that well. 19. I hit? I forgot to add that. Still a hit. We're not blessed right now anyway. It's a sneak attack. Ooh, 10 plus 2, 12. Nice. Nice. Looking good. Iridel. You get to take a turn, maybe. Is, uh... Do you still have to... Yes. Are they bloody? The plant is bloodied. The plant is bloodied. It's been bloodied. And you take ten. You're alive. I am alive. He's up. He's bloodied. She's bloodied. She's up. She's bloodied again. She's up. Oh. You got any good stuff? Now is the time. I don't really have much. I guess what I got is Sacred Flame, Dex save. It roll. Yes, it wants me to do it in real life. Three. Trace. Trace radio. All right. And I'll produce flame. That takes it to the mound. You're still doing the help action. Excellent. It's going to 26 the attack against you, so I'm pretty sure that's going to hit. Seven. Then it's going to deal the seven bludgeoning and six lightning. Okay. I am bloody. And then it takes it to you, Jibs. I'm really happy with this thing. But at least I get advantage on it. I wrote two 13s. That's a 15 to hit. Glancing blow. Glancing blow. Half of three. And I'll lay on hands myself for my five. Okay. I'm still bloody, but... Let's see if you can do the final blow on this thing. My little sister was hoping she would be able to feed my cat, but... It's not the case. We could end here... We could end probably right after the battle if we finish it soon, but also I could just give her dry food from her automatic feeder from right here and not worry about it. I'm thinking about doing that. There we go. The future. The future is now. She usually gets wet food, but... It's been a weird weekend. She's been getting weird. She likes the dry food better anyway. You guys want to watch on the camera on my phone when I send it out? Sounds adorable. Yeah. Yep. Cool. Yes! She likes the dry food better than the wet food, but she eats the wet food. What's weird is I found she'll eat the wet food better if I open the can directly in front of her and then hold it in my hands while she eats out of it. Otherwise, she won't touch it, mostly. But do it that way, and she'll eat, like, the whole can out of my hands. It's ridiculous. It's that bonding moment, man. Anyway. I don't want it, but. I'll see you here. Exactly. I will go ahead and roll twice. Highest is 13. And then we're not blessed right now, right? Right. 13, unfortunately, does not... Don't you add your dex to it? Or is there like a 13 on the dice or something? Well, it was 13 and then it... It adds a plus four, I think. So that was your weapon attack. Yeah. Well, damn. Sorry. If it hasn't noticed me still... I don't want it to necessarily notice me, but if it's close to dead, I'm considering moving closer. Give it one more if you want. Super afraid. One more round of Irredale getting shot. I'll just hang out. I'll just take my shot and hang out back here. I've done pretty good so far. I'll take a miss. Yeah, bring it. Bring it. I just don't have any gas. You'll know when I tell you what happens. Yeah, I'm sorry. I need a mess, so I think you're at seven. Okay. There's nothing else I can do much. No, it wasn't. Yes, it was a six on one of them. Oh, my God. And then a two, so. Yeah, I'm knocked out. You want to take it to the mound? I take it to the mound. Are they attacking me? It's attacking the bucket. With disadvantage. At least you're not having a real good time. Because of luck, I'm sorry. So it misses. You got two tens? Uh, Jables. And I assume the familiar is doing the same thing. Oh yeah. It's trying its hardest, you know? It's watching me go in and out of consciousness. I finally got the net toy. I'm smiting the fucker. Love it. Make up for my miss. You're about to say it better. Thank Christ. There's no way. You can roll me and give me the complete damage just to see. Just to see? I'm pretty sure. So the sword damage... The 16 on the sword damage and... Dog shit roll on that, but it would still be 19 on the smite damage. So what? 35 overall? Okay. You obliterate this thing. It deserved it. At least I got in there and did a good first hit because that miss was... Nice job, y'all. Nice. Did you get ashamed like that? Now we gotta tend to Iridel. Yeah. Yeah, Iridel's not... So what are you guys gonna do immediately? Because Iridel is gonna make me at least one death saving throw as you guys start pulling her out of the shambling mouth. Pray to the gods for level three on me. I will say, if we're able to do this next little bit, and if y'all get out of the house... So... We could always take a... One of the health pockets out of... Oh, yeah. I'm sure they would be fine with us rummaging through them. Yes. So you're able to easily pull Iridel out, rummage through her pockets, and, like, chug one of them. Do I have to roll the... Can he roll it this time? Yeah, if you're administering the potion. You give it to him. I've got bad hands. What am I rolling for that? 2d4s. 2d4s? Yeah, I mean, that's okay. There's a little B4s right there. Let me see. I don't even know how to read these. One's easier to read than the other. I missed the other. That one's four. I'm sorry, three and two, five. Plus two, so seven. Seven, okay. No, it was way better than what I rolled. Yeah. Cool. Because I rolled a one and a two, so he had five. Thank you. That was a rough one. You got very unlucky getting engulfed. Mm-hmm. You know, it could have been worse. It could have been worse. That first shot of mine, I missed that very first one, but that first one that actually connected was cool. If I could have crit like two rounds earlier, three rounds, four rounds earlier... And on top of yours. You can feel the atmosphere of the entire dungeon change. You feel very cold and very sad as you kill the shaman. So all the shadows, all the shadow people are gone? Gone. I'd stand in the middle and yell, are you not entertained? Are you guys going to go to leave? I'm going to say, yeah, if there's nothing else, we can't, like, pull anything valuable out of this fucking shambling mound. As usual, the shambling mound's probably just made of gross shit, yeah? It's refuse. You guys took a look in there, it's refuse. Cool. Yeah, I'm cool with getting the fuck out of here, because I'm pretty sure we've thoroughly investigated everything down here. Fuck that ring. Fuck the ring. Yeah. So, I assume that you guys are going to go back to the upper dungeon, of course. Mm-hmm. And from here, you would take... Yeah, or we could even just go up to the wolf room. From here, you would know the quickest way. Instead of going all the way up and having to descend all three staircases from the attic, you could easily go to the den from right here. So I assume that's what you're going to try to do, yes? Yeah, that's the plan. All right. We're done with doing-- Sorry. As you guys head to that floor, you are going to see that there have been a few architectural changes since you were here last. - Sounds pretty dope. You know why? - The room now, I know, it's funny, I could have turned it off if I had anticipated y'all actually going into this, but I got very high. But this room now, instead of being the very calm, clean den that you were in before and rested in, The fireplace is now billowing black smoke. And we are going to actually enter an initiative count. As you guys attempt to leave the house, and it tries to kill you on your way out. Good news, you guys are pretty much right at the exit. We don't really have to roll initiative because it's just the house at the end. But we're going to go, and y'all are going to declare where y'all are at here. Because there's going to be things that happen if you're in turn in certain spaces. My house is about to try and kill me, dude. I don't have anything, bro. This house is going to kill me. So y'all would start right here. And you would have your full turns to do and declare what you're doing as you're leaving. You would also notice that instead of the doors being there, they are now slashing scythe blades. So you're in a room full of Poisonous black smoke as well. You're able to take... You're able to take your full turn. You won't take damage from the smoke until you end your turn inside of the smoke. So, who wants to go first? That did answer the question. You guys can decide amongst yourselves who wants to go first. Or we can do it by decks. I'm not able to walk back into that hallway and take a short rest and use some hit dice. Right now, if you guys wanted to take a short rest before we did this, take a short rest. I'm for a short rest. I'm 100% for that. Yeah, let's do that. Or this house might kill me. It might kill me anyway. Same. Same. Doesn't really make a difference for me, of course. I've been staying so far out of the way, I don't want to get hit at all because any kind of one hit from that thing probably would have killed me immediately. It was doing a lot of damage. It was doing like 12 damage on average. Yeah. What are the rules for the heal? So it's whatever your hit dice are, and you have two of them. So yeah, I think it's eights for you. Can you regain all your hit dice on a long rest? Which we haven't short rested since our last log in. Cool. All right. So now that you all have had a chance to roll your dice-- Then you add your con modifier to whatever you roll as well. - One, two, and then two, so 11. - Well, you get to add it to both of them. So nine and four. - 13. - Yeah, yeah. 'Cause you don't have to use all your dice. Each one's a different, you know what I'm saying? - Mm-hmm. - The cool thing about the hit dice during the short rest. - So, who's going first now that y'all have been able to regain your health? Move yourselves where you can go. It roughly does translate square-wise. Um. And the doors are sides? Yes. Where you just dragged to, basically. Yes. What about windows? What do the windows look like? Windows are boarded up and bricked up. And bricked up? Like I can see in between the slats, I see bricks. That's not cool. Yeah, my first thought was definitely check for the windows first, but then the fireplace is billowing the smoke. There's not really much we can directly do about that. We don't have anything in there. I don't know what's going on first, but... Yeah, yeah. - Anybody dying to go first? Not particularly, but I will if we need to. Same thing, just so I can tank some of the booby traps if need be. How long did it take us to get up here after fighting the fucker? I'm done with this. Wait, what was the question? Which one? No, the one that was answered not very long. How long it had been since we fought the guy, but we took a short rest, so it's been 30 minutes. Getting back on short rests yet except half of it's fine. Yeah, I can go first if y'all want. It don't matter to me. Yeah, I'm kinda at a loss what to do. I will cast Guidance on myself, uh, 'cause that seems like one of the most helpful things I can do for myself right now. And then... I'll start moving. So we can check this bitch out. Is the whole room filling with smoke or is it just mainly right around here right now? Did it's poisonous smoke, toxic smoke? Yep. You're not feeling good about the smoke? Not feeling good about the smoke. I'm going to move a bit, start triggering some stuff. You don't really want to fuck with the dives. I don't remember if there's anything useful in there. I bet everything's changed. Move to about here for now. Promise action-wise, I can't, will you let me move anything in the room, or what's, uh... Are you not gonna try to just run straight out? What, straight into the fucking sights? I mean, they're, like, swinging back and forth, but you could probably jump through it. Okay. Well, I had a different, I had a different idea of it. Yeah, I was imagining, like... No, like... More like a Okay, so the classic like the classic fucking blade beyblading the entrance like I was like, oh That's about as far as I can go right there you I give myself guidance That way I have a d4 for my next minute you are going to take a DC 10 Constitution say it though. Guess what? I've got guidance. He's going next. What is-- oh, is it just damage? Yep, seven points of damage. Oh, OK. You guys make this mad dash out. Do you have an idea of what you want to do? I'm still thinking a little bit. Okay. Yeah, now that I know that fucking... Yeah, I'm going to say, I've got a question that I want to ask you. Yes. Is there a potential that I'm short enough that I'm underneath the smoke that's filling the room? No, unfortunately. Oh, damn. I was like, maybe I could be underneath it and... No, I'm not safe for that, no. Okay. Um... I'll just go ahead and go. Um... Through the middle of stuff, I'm just gonna... I would just go through directly this way as I would go through. And I have 30 feet. How much is each square? Five. Five? You have roughly... You can get exactly where your buddy is because you have the same movement. If you want to dash, you'd be through the doorway and all the way out the doorway. Okay. So... You can dash to use double your speed. I just used it. Yeah, so I would get here and then I would be watching the timing of the thing and then dash to get through the blades. Okay, as you action dash, you walk up to the blades, make me a DC 15 Dexterity saving throw. Okay, would that just be clicking on this one over here, I guess? So it gives me a plus four, so 20 with the plus four. You pass and pass through the blade doorway without incident. Nice. So from 30, 5. That is this that you pressed? 15, 20. That would be like right there. So you could get in here and you would be able to see that all of these, actually these two are also. Same thing? Okay. The last one's on. Fine. I will call that out to everybody, too. It looks like all the doors are like this. I'll say that out loud so everybody knows. Because the room you're in currently, I'll go ahead and move this guy over a little bit. There is also a fireplace in this room, so you will have to still make me the DC-10 Constitution saving throw. Okay. I got 20. Nice. You do not take any damage from the poison. You are good to go. Yes. So, Iredel, what are you doing? Making the dash? Do you have a bonus action dashing as well? I kind of, now that I know that there's, you know, bladed doors all the way across, I'd like to kind of investigate this area over here to see if there's any other egress that might be Available. Yeah, because you can see there's some... Because if I can bypass those by getting through here, that would be ideal. So, as you use about half your movement to come right here to really get a good look at this interior wall, you'll notice that the exterior walls are like solid brick, but the interior walls at some points seem like rotted. Okay. Do I know which points? Like... like it all seems sad we could even is this an exterior wall these are this so exterior - Yeah, 'cause if that other, yeah, I see what you're getting at. If that corner area is still considered inside, then there would only be, is this, you said all of these doors, does that include this? - Not this last one, 'cause this is like a hinged gate. - These are big wooden doors. - Oh, okay. - So this is the main door, and then this is the door to the foyer, whatever you call this. - So what would we be able to? Like, does this count as interior wrongs? I'd say that would count as interior. I want to swing my staff at this. This section right here. You need your full movement to get all the way to the corner, and you're going to swing your staff? Yep. All right, let me read something real quick. Maybe I can just dash right back through that one and not have to deal with going through the others. Okay, roll me an attack roll. 6-7. Three. No, you need to do 20. Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, for success, for attack. Gotcha, gotcha, gotcha, gotcha, gotcha, gotcha, gotcha. 13. Yeah. So now we're on the damage as well, but it will be double damage because you're attacking. But that is just enough to actually break open this section of the law. Thank you. But I'm out of movement, so I can't pass through it yet. 18. And you're good. And so that was everyone once. So now everyone make me their decisions again. I see him breaking that wall and that sounds awesome. So it's like 5, 10, 15, 20, 25 to get over here. Is there already a hole? Yes. Like I can just finish busting through it by just running through it? Yes. Because then it would be 30 to get right here. I could dash out. But I mean, can I hold my dash as I wait for my friends? Wait and dash out with them? Yes. Like how I would hold an attack? Sure, yes. I don't want to leave them behind. It feels like a bitch if I leave them behind. You finish busting through and you're basically standing in the hole like, come on, guys. So Jables has effectively escaped the house alive. What are the other two doing? For my turn, I'm basically, I mean, I came over here to check this. I've heard what's going on here. I don't want to run through to you. I'm gonna take my chance with just one and I'm gonna... Run action dash? Yeah, I'm gonna do the dash. Can I do the rest of my movement after the dash? So dash through and then, yeah, that's what I'm gonna do. Yeah, so make me the deck saving throw again with advantage because you just passed through that same door, right? Okay, so run through two. Two of these throws. Let's see what happens. Good thing. I got a nat 20 on the second roll. Right through that shit. So yeah, I'm as far as I can go. And I think I can get out the door because I've got 30 feet. Yeah, I've got 30 feet. I go through the hole that I made that everyone else already went through. You guys successfully bust out of the house and you are going to see it actually catch on fire and like burn down to the ground almost in kind of like an odd magic like way too fast kind of deal. Yes. Cool. Cool. Glad we looted as much as we did. I wonder if we can still sell the land with that deed. Most of the loot that you took, like for example the fancy jewelry from like the coffers in one of the bedrooms, that stuff immediately ages to dust. Dang. The only things that don't are the magical items, the potions, the spell book. Unfortunately, all the regular books that you took also turned to ash. The leather-bound ones that were blank don't turn to ash. And then that golden-- actually, no, you haven't turned that gold green. That did not turn to ash. But you guys would level to three. And upon leaving the house, you would also go unconscious Fall to the ground after that ordeal. And we're going to call it there. Good job, guys. Good job. There was a real threat of y'all dying if you even tried to go from the attic all the way down and having to pass through all those doors and all those rooms. So we'll just deal with all the level-ups stuff next time. Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. Hopefully you guys like this. It's been fun. So confirming the deed to the house due to the windmill. Moss agate. So the stuff is. So the stuff that you looted from the dungeon sting, but anything that you had looted from like the house itself, like any jewelry you had taken from any of the bedrooms and stuff like that. Okay, so we still have the ivory hairbrush. Yes. Okay, yeah. I have no idea. I haven't been keeping track of that as well. We'll be able to sort that out as well. Good job, guys. Didn't let yourself get shambled or shadowed or gassed in or... Yeah, fuck those shambling mounds, bro. It was pretty close. It was some good teamwork for sure. Good teamwork, some good lucky crits and stuff like that too. What level were we when we had those three shambling mounds after us? Were we level three or... It was somewhere between three to five. I have no idea. It was devastating. Why a little up? Multiple shambling mounds at that level? Jeez, man. - Not enough, yeah. - That'll, not enough. - Shambling mouth. - That doesn't look awesome to you? fun to deal with pretty cool from like design perspective objectively not involved with it directly yeah i get that i get that found out as a fire breathing dragonborn that fire didn't do much against yeah yeah at least you're right about that welcome back mother They weren't lying about the monster in the basement. They were not. That's what I was saying. Everyone was like, well, yep, checks out. They were actually right. We were so angry at them. We were like, where's lying gets? Lying to us? Like, these kids are bullshit. I got very close to killing you. You tried real hard. I did. I did. You didn't die. You didn't die. You were friends. Jesus Christ, my house is cold. Your food was excellent. It was delicious. Thank you so much. Yes, yes. We needed a plane until 8. The movie was crazy. Well, not crazy because it had like a plot. I guess it wasn't, I didn't realize horror movies had so much of a plot. Like, there's a lot of plot with this movie. Some do say, no. They promote Evil Dead, which is not the kind of movie this was, thank goodness, because that's what it would have been. But they had people in, like, bunny costumes, and all of a sudden you go, bang! Just, you know, the one shot. But that didn't make me...

Character: Session 3

D&D Session: Fortune Reading and Vampire Spawn ###### Vampire Spawn Encounter - The party decided to mercy kill Donovich's vampiric son in the church basement - Iridel persuaded Donovich to consent by explaining their half-vampire nature and that the son could never be in the presence of their god while undead - Donovich agreed after hearing his son scream again, saying "maybe it is his time" - Combat with the vampire spawn was challenging - the creature had 90 hit points and drained maximum health with its bite attacks - Jables was grappled and bitten, losing both health and maximum HP - The party coordinated attacks effectively: Iridel used guiding bolt for radiant damage , Gray cast chromatic orb with fire damage , and Jables escaped the grapple - Jables delivered the killing blow with Divine Smite, dealing 16 radiant damage - Donovich thanked the party and said he would handle the burial preparations himself ###### Travel with the Vistani - The party met with Ismark and Ivan as planned and departed Barovia village with the Vistani caravan - Travel took approximately five days without incident - During a night around the campfire, a Vistani told the story of a wizard who challenged Strahd a year ago and was killed after an epic magical battle - Jables performed a song about the priest who lost his son to vampirism and the paladin who put him to rest, which greatly moved the Vistani ###### Fortune Telling with Madam Eva - Madam Eva welcomed the party to her tent, saying she had been expecting them since they entered the domain - She offered the reading for free, warning that "the knowledge will take its own toll" - The party drew five cards revealing critical information: Card 1 - Master of Coins (History/Knowledge): "I see a nest of ravens. There you will find the prize." This will help the party understand their enemy. Card 2 - Master of Glyphs (Protection/Holy Symbol): "You will find what you seek in the castle, amid the ruins of a place of supplication." A holy symbol of great hope located in Ravenloft. Card 3 - Five of Coins (Weapon of Vengeance): "I see a dark room full of bottles. It is the tomb of a guild member." This is the location of the Sword of Sunlight. Card 4 - Don Jon (Ally): "Search for a troubled young man surrounded by wealth and madness. His home is his prison." This person will help greatly in the battle against darkness. Card 5 - The Innocent (Enemy's Location): "She dwells with the one whose blood sealed his doom. A brother of light snuffed out too soon." This reveals where to find Strahd. ###### Party Discussion and Theories - The party discussed the meaning of "nest of ravens" - could be literal ravens, a location, or possibly referring to a group of people - When asked if "ravens" refers to the Vistani, Madam Eva gave a cryptic response: "Ravens take many forms, nest in many places, see many things" - The party speculated that the Don Jon and The Innocent cards might refer to the two brothers (Ismark and Ivan), particularly given the mention of "brother of light snuffed out too soon" - The "tomb of a guild member" in a dark room full of bottles was flagged as an important location to watch for ###### Other Notable Events - During the first night of rest at the mansion, Iridel witnessed a ghostly procession of ethereal warriors emerging from the graveyard with an eerie green glow around midnight - The spirits marched silently down the road away from the village, showing no emotion or interaction with the living - Iridel attempted to flirt with Ivan during the journey, with mixed results ###### Next Steps - [ ] Follow up on fortune telling clues, particularly the "nest of ravens" for ancient knowledge - [ ] Locate the troubled young man surrounded by wealth and madness (potential ally) - [ ] Search for the Sword of Sunlight in a dark room full of bottles (tomb of guild member) - [ ] Find the holy symbol in Castle Ravenloft's ruins of a place of supplication - [ ] Investigate the meaning of "brother of light snuffed out too soon" to locate Strahd Fortune teller reading History - the knowledge of the agent better understand - master of coins - nest of ravens - there is where we Force for good and protection - Master of glyphs - find what you seek in the castle. amid the ruins of a place of supplication Power and strength - sword of sunlight - 5 of coins - dark room full of bottles. Tomb of guild member. Sheds light on one who will help greatly - don jon - search for a troubled young man, surrounded by wealth and madness. His home is his prison. Your enemy is a creature of darkness - lead you to him - the Innocent - He dwells with the one whose blood sealed his doom. A brother of light snuffed out too soon. All right. Yes. Okay, ready? All right. So as you guys regain consciousness after leaving this death house and falling asleep, you would wake up to very interesting sounds, sounds of laughter, of music playing, that everyone would feel like oddly... We're looking for comfortable as you guys are all going to wake up in your cots in a camp. Surrounded by people who look like Italians. For lack of a better word, fantasy Italians. Can we like hear their mustaches or something? How do we know they're Italian? They're talking like a beast. Like hello. They notice you guys are up. Oh, oh. Where are you? You are in Barovia! Barovia! Do we know anything about Barovia? History check. With this bandage, just you. If anyone else wants to make it, they'll make it normally. What was the... History. Figure out where we are? Yep. Well, he just said the words Barovia, and we'll see if y'all can read that. Negative? Well, nine isn't a number. That's... Thirteen. Thirteen? With the edge? Yeah, I rolled twice. Seven. Seven. So... Iridel is the only one who is going to remember, and this confirms your fears after coming face to face with that statue and seeing and hearing the name Strahd Banzarovich while in that death house. This confirms that this is the place that you heard about as a kid. It's like a legendary land that was lost in the mists of time, trapped. by an evil vampire lord. It's kind of like the story of the buggy man, especially amongst your dampier and or vampire kin. But you know, in the stories that you would have heard, it's a land that was lost to another dimension 600 years ago. How would I best communicate that with the team? You could be like, guys, guys, how's it going? Because this Vasanti is still sitting there fighting. He's like, yes, yes, you're in the bottom of the room. So, yeah, I lean over to Gray and Jubals. Like, hey, guys, we really need to talk about that. We really need to talk about that. That was a lot of it. And I kind of whisper to Gray because Jubals can be kind of loud and give him the quick synopsis of the history that I know and then just kind of look at Jubals and kind of nod my head as I turn back to the person that we're talking to and try to distract them. Let the Jubal slide this time, but I'm not from Israel. Jabal's. I'm going to slide this time. You know, that's a great way to remind me because now I won't forget. Not that kind of paladin. This man is going to introduce himself. He's like, "Where are my manners?" I can't hear the fucking accent now. I got two-spilled. "Where are my manners? My name is Yzik." Yzik, pleasure to meet you. I'm Iridel. Yes, yes. You are free to do as you please. We do not want to leave you in the streets. I really appreciate that. We just want to get our bearings. Is there somewhere that we can find you in like 15 minutes? We'll be here for at least the next day. Okay. Thanks. Because they're all camping as well. They have a full camp set up, tents, carts. But he's in our tent right now, right? So that's what I was asking. Well, you're not actually in a tent. You're just in your cots on the ground. Okay. So they kind of just put you guys in the corner. Okay. Okay. This would be roughly where you are. You would find yourself on the outskirts of a very dismal looking village. But you guys with this-- We use that as your party marker. What was that dude's name again? You said Izek? Is it just like I-Z-E-K? I-S-E-K. I-S-E-K. I ask you, Sik, if there's anything that we need to know about the area or places that we shouldn't go. I kind of bat my eyelashes a little bit to see if, you know. Oh, persuasion check. Eleven. Slightly above average. Slightly low. Listen, you know, I'm half vampire. Makes up for all the lack of talent. I'm trying. Just for reference, this is what these Italians look like right now. Oh, this is my other left. Can you give me the quick summary of that? I heard something about 600 years or something. My brain was like-- So actually, he wasn't referring to the town as much as the land at large. He referred to it as Barovia. OK. A-R-O-V-I-A. This, as you can see up there, not really spoilers, just the village of Barovia. Yeah. So-- And it was the area of Barovia, Iridel remembered, was rumored to have been lost 600 years ago at the time in the mists of time. It's kind of, she explains that there's an understanding that it exists outside of the realm and time doesn't flow normally there, that kind of thing. Okay, that's kind of what I thought I heard with the lost 600 years ago, but I wanted to make sure that I wrote it down right so I could remember it properly. And if you, upon you asking him about where not to go, he's going to say, we travel? Thank you, that's great to know. Yes, yes. And he's gonna go back to drinking. You've seen their old drinking wine. Of course they have. All right. So obviously, Erindel then turns back to the group. And asks Gray if he told Jables yet what she told him. I'm sure Gray would have the opportunity to kind of relay this general information. You know, do you have a moment? Yeah. Yeah, I'll just say I've gone in and talked to him and caught him up on the situation, so we're all caught up. Just for a visual reference, this is... Ooh, what did I like that? Oh, you got it up on the screen. It did. It really didn't work. That's fucking cracking me up. Hey. Let's try that one more time. This is what these guys look like. Okay. They're gypsies. Yes! In fact, that's the better word, not a town. Gypsies. That would also explain the camp outside of the main village, too. CFP flashback. So what are y'all... I have a question outside of the campaign but related to it. Yes. So part of my back story, I'm not sure if it should be canonical, but what I had kind of come up with was that there are periods of Iridel's existence where she spent time in realms outside of time. Would that be canonical and could I share information about those experiences with the team? Outside of time? Yes. Drifted, found the Wanderer, brought back to the real world. Okay. Okay. I'll roll with it. However you want to roleplay that, I'll allow it. Okay. As long as it doesn't give you some really OP in-game features, that's fine. No, it's... That's really all what it comes down to. It would just be kind of how... Generally, her understanding is of spaces outside of time typically functioning. Definitely flavor that now. I forget again. This is what I was going to keep telling you. Thank you. You only sell someone so much money for D&D. I disagree. As a dungeon master, there is no limit. Your imagination is the limit. But yeah, Yeah, so then I guess what do we want to do, guys? How do we want to approach this situation? Because we're basically, from my understanding, stuck here until we can find a specific method or person who is able to reconnect us with standard time, if this is the Barovia that I'm thinking of. My thought is, first thing is maybe we should, I know we've spoke to this one guy just for a little bit. We've woken up in this camp kind of outside the town. Should try to talk to a few more people in this area before we get into town to see if we can find out more about how specifically we ended up. If there's anything that can maybe give us a little bit more clue of where to start. Because how we were found in this area could be a clue of where we could start looking. Yeah, like if someone brought us here, it would just appear. Yeah, that kind of thing. That's my thought. Yeah, I'm open to that. Based on my experience with gypsies, we want to make sure that we have goods and gold to barter for information if they ask. So let's get that prepared just in case in advance. Maybe the first thing we should do is kind of take stock of all of the loot and things that we still have on us from whatever we just went through and... See what we have, see what's worth money that we can get, see how much money we have. And what we want to keep, what we want to make sure we don't get rid of. Exactly, all that kind of stuff. So this is half. And I'll put the call in, so we'll see if he comes before you leave or if you want me to owe it to you. She comes over sometimes, right? Yes, so I can deliver it to you whenever. That would work perfectly. Thank you. Thank you. As long as he goes to more drugs. My neighbor Totoro's got the... Totoro's holding... Just between you guys and me. So you guys are going to try to talk to more of his son? Or these gypsies? Yeah, I think so. I'll let them take the lead on that. I think first things first is that we're going to... Oh, you guys are going to look at your stuff. Yeah, we're going to look... That's right. You know, somewhat look at all of our inventory and make sure we know what we have. As you guys start looking at your stuff, you would notice that pretty much all of those jewelry bits and anything valuable that wasn't those scrolls, potions. I don't know if you acquired any magical items. Well, I have the cloak of protection that we got from him. That would be fine. But I've been wearing it. There was... The deed would be fine, although notably aged. All of that property stuff that you guys found would be still existing, but really aged. That empty leather-bound book worth 25 gold pieces would have sustained, but would be heavily aged. Was that the spell book? There was a spell book and then there was a blank book. Both of those would be in the same general community. Like all those necklaces, rings that wasn't funnily enough, that 25 gold ring that you guys did pick up. You'll never know that anyway though. So like all of the just random books that we got from like the library in the place? Those would all have turned to ash. Okay. What about the, so like the moss agate turned to ash? Yep. Um... Wait, where did you get that moss agate? From the chests from... That would be fine. A room. Because there were the three moss agates, the black leather eye patch, the ivory hairbrush with silver bristles, and the silver short sword. Consider all that stuff that you got in that dungeon fine, but any items that you took from the house proper would have turned to ash. Does your party inventory match mine? I'm just curious. Yeah, I was wondering that too. It does. I think so, yeah. I'm pretty sure because I haven't been keeping that up to date. You... I just would notice that your loop now has this pattern of a rose with thorns on it. Sick. You know what? I think I actually already put this stuff in my inventory that had been disintegrated. So I think I'm good. Because I don't see any of it. Also, give me an arcana check. Me? Yes. OK. We-- Leveled up at the end of the last one. Yeah, we should be level three. I did not do any of my level up stuff. Definitely level. We can keep role playing here in a moment as you level. We'll be talking and just messing around. Eleven. Eleven. With an eleven, as you see that your loot is now different, when you go to further inspect it, it occurs to you that it is also now a holy symbol. All I have to do is just It's a holy symbol. Hell yeah. I actually get to choose my subclass now, so I'll have to do all of that stuff. It's a mess. It's a mess. Go ahead. Ignore me for a second. Make sure I'm not ignoring you as well. So what are you good gents doing? I'm just looking at both of them like they're idiots. Kind of takes stock of what I see around the campsite. How many people I see, anything that stands out, number of children, women, and How their dispersion is as they are kind of going around and compare that to the number of tents that are in the area as well. So you see seven people in total, an even mix of men and women. They're all gathered around a large fire right now, talking and drinking and actually being very boisterous. There are overall only three carts and about four tents. So you'd be- Probably one big family. Exactly. Are they, it seems like they're partying, having a festive sort of situation? Yes. I want to go up to them and ask them if they want to hear a song on my new freshly ornated loop. My plan is to sing a ballad about our trials in the house and in the dungeon, and then at the end, kind of end it on a, how the fuck did we get here? You know what I'm saying? And see if any of them... They would be delighted to hear you play. In fact, several of them will actually join in with you because they all whip out instruments. That's what I'm talking about. So give me a performance check with advantage. That 20. Wee wee wee wee wee wee wee wee. Very nice. It was a 3 in the 20. Gotta love that advantage. You ended up playing the best song in the world. Yes, it was the best song in the world. Or was it just a tribute? It was definitely a tribute to our dungeon crawl. It was. It was excellent. Uh. You absolutely regale these Vistani as well with your masterful loot playing. It almost seems like at this moment, like the loot itself like envelopes in like this holy light. As you almost like start channeling whatever energy through your god. But yes, yes, you also get inspiration for that. You didn't already have it. I think I did, but. Sorry, I'm trying to learn all the new bits of my subclass that I just got. You'll get quite a bit as well, yeah. Some new stuff here. What do you do after just... It almost brings a tear to your fucking eye. Did they answer our question at all when we ended it? Like, how the fuck did we get here? Is there anybody who seemed to react at all? Well... Because I'll stop after the play on deck. No, really, guys. How did we get here? Did you sneak in a verse in your song asking the people to tell us how the fuck did we get here? That was how I said I wanted to end it. Like, ending it on the how the fuck did we get here? Seriously, though. As you go to ask them that seriously, they're going to, or are you going to? Are you addressing the dude that had already talked to you? I'm addressing all of the rock stars that we just, you know. Give me a persuasion check with advantage. As you now go to ask them seriously, I would be here. It's an Antoine. Again? It was on the other dice this time, though. Wee, wee, wee, wee, wee, wee. I'll take those. I'll be rolling some horns of combat later. It's okay. I don't want to be mercy. I don't want to happen to them. You're going to see Isaac walk up to you. He's like wiping tears off after listening. He was playing the flute while you guys, or while you were playing your lute. And he's going to kind of pull you guys to the side, make your fire, and say, man, I can't tell you how to get here. It's very easy to get there from here. You must simply walk through the mist. Only the most unfortunate moves are themselves here. It is leaving. I'm sure you've seen it. It is very persuasive. There is but one way to leave Byronia. I'm going to tell you this, because I like you. Thank you. Only one person can give you salvation, believe Barovia, because it's master, Strahd. Strahd. Strahd. Thank you for that information. So, Strahd is here in Borogin? Where would we find him? He is going to point up. Up. Yes, let me actually pull this up real quick. This is a perfect rendition. So as he points up towards the sky... You are going to see now plainly even through the mists, you guys are down here, you are going to see this large, extremely imposing castle atop this huge mountainous cliff. Castle Ravenloft. Castle what? Ravenloft. - And that's Strahd's house, basically. - I get a very strong, like, nervous feeling in my stomach and excuse myself from the conversation. You know, kind of go a little bit of a ways away and then direct my familiar to take a flight around as close to the castle as it can comfortably get. So you can only control your familiar from up to 100 feet away. You can give a command. And how far is the... Yeah, that's what I'm talking about. I probably get to go do that. As comfortable as I can and come back and report. Is that acceptable? It can't necessarily communicate with you like that because it is an animal. So it's not like a sentient animal that can speak. Okay, so I'd have to have the telepathic connection at the time to get the information. Is that a five and a half E thing? The familiars? For druids? They... Like, in what way? They had it for a while. Find familiar is just a really good fucking spell. Like warlocks. And a few other classes get two. It's very, very broken. Like, if you were to give it specific commands to fly around, it could execute those commands. It just can't exactly. Yeah, relay that information. So if I had, like, an action that I wanted it to take more than 100 meters away, that would be fine because I could pre-program it to do that. Yes. But because I'm looking for data, that's where the gap is, which makes sense. Because otherwise it would be pretty bright. Like, hey, go fly, like, six cities away and tell us what's going on there. It would make it so extremely powerful, right? Like, the sentience would be the thing. Mm-hmm. You're not going to be a super tech. To be fair though, ravens are pretty smart. Yeah. They can't speak. Well, if you can speak to animals, they can. Well, some ravens can speak any language. Which both Gray and I can. Speak to animals. But I think even when it comes to speaking to creatures that aren't very intelligent, you can speak and communicate, but their way of communication would be more like emotions and raw emotions. feelings of like a wild animal though. Right. But I mean that could be very valuable information to still get. You know. Like what are the vibes that you're getting? I mean obviously with the castle that's irrelevant because we already have the vibes. But like in other situations you know is it is there significant danger in that area is a very easy question to answer. Yeah. Yeah. If you parse it down that way and use it synergistically like that I could see that working. I could see that working. In fact, I've probably done shenanigans like that. In another campaign, Travis is telepathically linked with a space manta ray that can communicate thoughts, emotions, and images. That ray is like an uber-pimp creature. It's crazy. Yeah, I don't know why they gave the space man the ability to manipulate time to teleport. All I know is that Brian's character is insanely jealous that mine is the one linked to it. Brian's character has been in a coma, so he can't say shit. That's what he gets for leaving the country. We all have heroic inspiration right now, right? You should. You should. I'm pretty sure you guys do. Because I give it to you all during rests when I play my instrument. Yes, yes. Definitely make sure to use that as often as you feel. Yeah, I figured we just got it from the... I want to make sure I'm understanding this. When I give it to myself at long rests. So when I get Arcane Trickster, it says I know three cantrips may change into others. Does that mean I get three more in addition to whatever I already have? Yes. Okay, that's what I just wanted to make sure. So I need to choose two of those and then also I didn't. It says spells, right? Yeah, it says three spell slots. So how does that work? Do I just pick three different spells that I can use? So yes, you can see that little learn button right there. Yeah, yeah. Can't trip zero out of two and prepare to zero. Okay, I just wanted to make sure that this was... I was reading this correctly, so I do get to pick two cantrips that have three spells. Yes. That's a lot of... And that's not spell slots, that's your prepared spells. I think you might only have one or two spell slots, which means you'll be able to do those. Yeah, there you go, two. Perfect. So you'll have two spell slots. And we can take a short break, since I've been driving to smoking a cigarette. Yeah. You can finish up. Sorry, I need to... No, you're good, you're good. I should have reminded you guys of your homework. Yeah, I did not think about that. I got here and was like, oh man, at least I decided what oath I wanted. That's what you were doing? I already knew what I wanted for my subclass, but I did not look through all the spells and cantrips, and I have no idea what I should actually be thinking about. So I can help you parse through some of that. So what kind of questions do you have? Let's look at your cantrips. I've got it filtered out. Let me show you what I have right now. Mage Hand is the one that I get automatically for being this. I already have many... Excellent. You have no damaging, so let's pick you some damaging ones. That's what I was thinking. I wanted some damaging ones. Where's the... Yeah, here it is. So I've already got it filtered for the cantrips. Acid Splash is good. Cone, AoE, Acid Damage. Blade Ward is going to give you, I think... Because that's protection, right? Yes. Mine is a D4. Shield touch is good. That's actually, I think, necrotic damage. Touch spell. Dancing lights, elements. Yeah, I was wondering about which damaging ones would be good to take. I kind of like the idea of blade ward just to have something that will... I think you should do with that. Scantrips are good. I'm just going to add that one. This one's probably really good too. Super long range, 120 feet. And I'm liking really long range. Like how much range is this one? It's actually... Yeah, actually no, that's not a cone, that's a circle. Sorry, I was... It's still pretty good. I must have changed it. A 60 feet is good. Chilt touch will be touch, of course. Scroll down just a smidge. Poison spray, that might be the one I was thinking of, a cone from yourself. Mind slipper is also good. I was thinking, because I want to do... I still want to get some damaging stuff, but I also want to try to keep to what I'm thinking, like, with my theme is the character being... The whole idea of being gray was to blend in and do things without being noticed. So I kind of like the idea of doing the psychic damage thing. Psychic damage is excellent. This one you might like too at the bottom, Toll of the Dead. I remember looking at that one at some point. It's good. It's a D10, and then if they've taken damage, it's a D12. Very few other cantrips will do a D12 at any. Excellent 60-foot necrotic. Chill touch is also something you might like because if you're successful with it, you get to subtract, I think, 10 movement from the target as you chill them. As a spellcaster, I usually like to check an array of things that are attack rolls and then one or two things that impose saving throws because you'll encounter enemies that are better at one than the other. Alright, so I already took the blade ward, so I can only choose one of these. You have three, right? Blade Ward, Mind Sliver, and then one more you're saying? Well, one more is the Mage Hand that I get automatically. So it's Mage Hand, then plus two, and then three spells, which I was going to look at, filter for the level one, separate. Oh, yeah, that's smart. That's smart. Oh, that's smart. You've got some good options, though. You've got some good options. So, Toll of the Dead or Mind Sliver. The dead's good, but then the firebolt is I feel a little bit more Fireball is my bread and butter 120 goddamn feet they don't even see Bible firebolt Fireball is still 120 feet Right now I've got One more slot to pick. I already picked Blade Ward to give me a little bit of protection because I'm squishy. But I'm between Firebolt and Toll the Dead for my other choice right now. I personally really like Fire Spells, but that's just my own pyro instincts. I'm trying to also stick with... I like the ranged stuff, but I'm trying to also stick with my... Not be seen and fire is a little bit I mean If you're a hundred and twenty-three way, yeah, yeah, that's true. They'll see me don't worry about that. Yeah, I see me I Think I'm gonna go ahead and go with that at least for now just because we need long distance long distance good We'll do that okay now I've got I I wish I got three cleric cantrips instead of two. Just two cleric cantrips, eh? The Blessed World. If I had a third one, life would be good. I kind of like that. That's interesting. I love Chromatic Word. That's funny, but that's like opposite. Yeah, it's very obvious of being hidden, but... Chromatic Orb is one of my favorite spells. It is excellent. Just having that chance to do extra shit on any spell is... God, I love living it up to the clicky-clacky number gods, you know? Yeah, because it says you can choose the type for the orb you create. So, for whatever situation, if you know... - - Ooh, also disguise self could be good, 'cause I'm trying to, like I said, disappear. I'm actually just gonna add that one on reflex because, yeah, because I'm gray, I wanna disguise and disappear. So adding that one for sure. I like chromatic or-- - By the whole, if you roll the same number on two or more of the d8s, it leaps to another target. So, as you guys are all hanging out still, I'll say that we took a short pause after having that conversation with the Vistani dude. But he would still be kind of hanging out with you guys. You would ask, so, so, I see you. Are you a vampire? It's a difficult question to answer. No. Is it a yes or no? I'm half. Oh, so, yes. - You have found yourself in an interesting place. - I know. Is there anything that I specifically need to be wary of, given my lineage? - Well, as you go and look around, you see like, yes, it's day, but like the typical feelings you get from making direct sunlight, you can feel like this is not direct sunlight. - Okay. - There's like a-- - Does it feel artificial? No, it just feels like a gloom is cast over everything. Like, sure, it's bright, but you don't really see the sun. Okay. Spread your hand to this side. Um. Nobody else was tripped up by the fact that he just acknowledged like made me acknowledge that I was half vampire Like cool, you know Yeah, I'm gonna go ahead and say that I don't think it's that odd to ask someone if they're a full vampire if they look kind of vampire, you know just just to be just a on the side of things. Okay. But I think he had a very... As Iredell, I'm very confused that this group is completely fine with that information because usually people freak out when they find out that I'm a vampire. He did just tell you that a vampire lord is the only way to get out of here too, so you know. You found yourself in a very interesting spot. Yes. He's going to continue drinking. You all sit there. So we're here literally just because we walked through the mist. Literally, yes. Yeah. We're stuck until we can convince Strahd to let us leave in some way. I realize that that is going to be a very difficult uphill battle because of my understanding of the history of the place the person Vampire lords? What? Yeah. Terrifying people. Oh, really? Look. Devotion. Is there any coffee left in that? There's about, the answer's yes. Smidge-malidge? Sorry, I'm super sucked into it. Does Issac have any information about the town for us? Like, if I ask him, like, hey, like, what can you tell us about the town itself? that we see over the horizon. How does it, you know, what is its relation to Strahd? What should we know about it? You know what? I'm going to do it this way. My second roll. Nine. It was a double nine, actually. I don't know that I picked it up and sent it down to you. I don't know. I rolled it in here. You hate to see it, right? It was still called a nine either way. It was just funny that it went like that. So, nine. Here it is, here it is, here it is. So if you're going to ask about the town, with a nine he's going to tell you the people in this town are miserable. Or destitute. Not much more I can do. So I pressed him a little bit more on his use of the word people. What kind of people? Human pets. If we run into any trouble, I can actually use Disguise Self to make myself look like a human. Thank you. Sorry, what else? I was going to say, I just got myself Disguise Self as a spell. So knowing that information, I could potentially use that if we need to make me look less different. I can tell you there's nothing that will keep those people from shunning me. or potentially running from me but if you want to go check out the stocks we can do that you can go check out the stables you don't think they're gonna talk to me yeah they'll talk to me I'm confident I could get information out of them if there's information we had out of them. Is that right? Is that right? Yep. There you go. What do you guys do now? Where are we now? Are we still in the same spot? So we're at Green Dot, right? Yeah, okay. We've been hanging out in this cave. Where's Castle Ravenloft from where we are? Because I know in the picture we saw it. Yeah, it was up. Which way would it... From here, it would almost be like... Northeast or something? A bit northeast, yes. Like on the other side of the village? Like past the village? Yes, you guys would have to go all the way around a sheer mountain cliff. So it's actually not accessible from the-- I can put it back up. It's fully off map. We're just trying to figure out the location of it on the-- OK, I see. So yeah. OK, so-- I see. And we're like-- You guys are right here. OK, so it's kind of towards-- OK, on the left of the-- Because I think this is that Northeast Church thing on the map. Right. Yeah, that's what I'm thinking too. Okay, so that makes sense. I'll leave this up until you guys decide to go into the town. Or is that on the other side? That looks like the church with the little... Yeah, that's what I was thinking. It's the thing in the top left of the map that has the little thing around it. So it's like northwest of us. Yeah. So the town is not between us and it. It's basically just grasslands and that road. And then, you know, it looks like 500 feet of cliff. So we could be sitting there. Well, it looks like the way, like she said, we'd have to go around somehow. This is 300 feet, 325 feet. So I'll let that be up to you. What, just that tower? That means my estimate was pretty close. Yes. Well, three to five. Roughly, yeah. It's probably closer to 700 feet of cliff. Mm-hmm. Yeah. What's an extra 200, though? Right, I mean, when you're just eyeballing it, that's pretty good. I think. Go see if anyone at the church knows anything that could be useful. I'm confused by the fact that there is a church in a place. Is that what it is up there in the top left? It kind of looks like a church. I don't know what's going on. It looks like a cemetery church type situation. Are you guys going to venture over there? Is that not what it is? Does it not look like a chapel? You would be able to see on the map, but you guys, I mean, in the distance... I mean, I'm down to venture that way. In the distance, you do see something that looks like a chapel, actually. It would stick out amongst the silhouettes of some of these lower-grade houses. If y'all are not opposed, at least, that's what's got my eye. Yeah, I mean, it seems like a big building. Well, I mean, it's usually a good central point for anything in... Any village, usually the church is a focal point. I would express my caution that religion here definitely doesn't look like it does back home. Copy that. All right. So is there a point to this church? I worry only about my oath, you know. Atop a slight rise against the roofs of the pillar of stone that supports Castle Ravenloft stands a gray, sagging edifice of wood or stone and wood. This church has obviously weathered the assaults of evil for centuries on end and it is worn and weary. A bell tower rises towards the back and flickering light shines through holes in the shingled roof. The rafters strain feebly against their load. We bought the map of the church. Now what? This virtual tabletop fucking hates moving over my monitors. But it has no choice. We're at the front of the building right now. But outside of it. You are still on Sunday. What general vibe am I getting? I know you described how it works and everything, but like... You're getting a bad vibe. I'm getting a bad vibe? You're getting a bad vibe. Can you tell me anything about life? You see that the heavy wooden doors of this church are covered with claw marks and scarred by fire. - You guys are about right here. You've gotten like 10, 20 feet away. - I didn't think about this. Is there any indication of what kind of church? In order to say it looks like a church or chapel, but like there's lots of different religions and gods and stuff like that that we know of. And plus, as far as we know, we're in some sort of alternate time, as Iredella told us before. Is there any kind of indication of that on the outside? Currently, no. This church, while being recognizable architecturally as a church, is devoid of any kind of like-- Denomination? Yes. And/or decoration. Very plain, very dilapidated almost. Do we see any lights on? Any candles? Dim lights you do see. So it's not unoccupied just by looking like it's been fought by monsters and burnt down. Do you guys have an endless motherfucker? Do we want to go in? Do we want to try to go around and see if there's an alternate entrance? See if we can find out more? Um, you said we're about like 20 feet from the door? You are. You are. You are. I can get him back with short rest, so I'll do one. I'm going to do Chain of Divinity for Divine Sense. So, yeah, for 10 minutes, for 60 feet around me, I can sense any or detect undeads, fiends, oh, I guess celestial is the other one. 60 feet? Yeah. I know the location of any creatures of those types within 60 feet of myself, and I know its creature type. And then within the same radius, I can detect the presence of any place or object that has been consecrated or desecrated. Nice. Does it go through stone? Does it specify? As long as it doesn't specify, it does. It does not specify. God, I'm having a hard time using my brain power here. 60 feet is kind of a lot. I know. I know. It's amazing. You do sense the presence of a single undead. Where? I know the location of any creature of those types within 60 feet of myself. It seems like it's underground. Okay. Not super deep underground, but almost as though it's not on ground level with you. It's almost like this place has a basement. I will relay that. Guys, there's an undead underground somewhere here. Just a single one. It's not hollow. But just a single one so far, being able to sense it while outside, that's not a good sign. It does go 60 feet. It basically encompasses this entire journey. Are vampires considered undead in this universe? Well, I sense you because you're also part ASMR. No, but you're not. Like blades. Right, right. I was, yeah. I meant like the ones in the. Yes. What do y'all do? Y'all heading in this church? I'm following the Paladin's lead in this instance. Is Jables ending in this church? Well, do you all want to find out more about it, or do you want to go right in? I'd like to find out as much as we can before. We could go ask someone about it, since it doesn't seem like a normal church. Yeah, it doesn't seem like a normal church. My first thought was to at least maybe take a walk around a little bit and see if we can see more in from another angle, see if you, since you've got your thing active now, see if we start sensing more and more undead as we walk around. Right, and like see what we can see on their side of it. Yeah, this as well, right. Yeah, that was my thought. So as you guys start walking the perimeter, you're gonna notice, of course, there is a fence for the graveyard. Are you guys gonna jump this fence back here? It's not very high. I wasn't sure about doing about inside the fence. I was even thinking about just like around the whole outside of the fence. That was my thought, but it's up to... You're not gonna see too much outside of the fence as it wraps around. That was my thought, but I mean, it's up to... There is a window right here, y'all. Let's see. I'm gonna hop the fence. I say I'm okay with it. Y'all hop on the fence. You want to sneak up and look through the window, stealthy like? Yeah, and I'm short so I could walk up to him. How tall is the window? Like, if we're looking over the fence, can we look at this window and decide how we're going to look through it? How high up is the window sill? Would it be something I could sneak up under and like, or do I need to hold him up? You would be able to see through the window sill if you stand on your tippy toes. Okay, which is perfect because I would want to stand there and like tippy toes up and sneak. So yeah, I'm gonna do that myself. I'll walk over there. So I'll let him look through it and I'll just kind of be like on the wall, back to the wall. Still just sensing stuff for him. Me perception check? Yep, perception check. All right, let's see what happens here. 19. 19, that's excellent. As you look inside of this room... We are going to have to use the old minis because your minis didn't want to print for me. This chapel is in shambles with overturned and broken pews littering the dusty floor. Dozens of candles mounted in candlesticks and candelabras light every dusty corner in a fervent attempt to rid the chapel of shadows. At the far end of the church sits a cloth-scarred altar, behind which kneels a priest in soiled vestments. Next to him hangs a long rope that stretches up into the bell tower. He's kneeling and praying. And I don't sense that it's an undead or anything. Him? No. Him? No. It's still underneath you guys. No. No more undead since we started walking around. Still just that one. I would be sensing them. And you want to keep doing the rounds just to See what might be behind the church. There are other windows we can kind of look through as we walk around, see if we catch anything else. It's just a lone priest. There's three of us. We could probably go talk to him. We could. You guys, as you go around, you don't see too much. How long did it take to run the building? Maybe ten minutes. Okay. Ten minutes would be the length of my thing. You guys might as well go back in the room. I mean, that's all we saw in the one undead that we're feeling is underground. I wouldn't be against going in, but I also wouldn't be against either heading back to that same camp or even going through the town and just asking anybody, the first person we come across, about, hey, what's up with this church? Before you walk in there. Because my first thought was that the church might be a good source of information, but it might not be a friendly source of information. I think it's the closest thing to... - That was partly why I was hoping we could get some info. You know what I mean? - Mm-hmm. - If we do want to ask someone about it, we could take like a powwow to ask you about it. 'Cause if I take a short rest, I can get my channels of energy back. So if you wanna take 30 minutes to figure out what we want to... - I'm with that. And then we can also get some food. - Yes. Yes, let's do that. Let's do that. Because I have a feeling something's going to happen as soon as we go through the doors. Yeah. I was talking to us. Our ball game was really slack. I've been in here even without you. I don't want to make any decisions. You decide. Take a little food break as well. Whether we want to do, get information back at the town camp. The popcorn is so good, it's insane. Oh, it's good. Good pizza, too. The focaccia you picked out there. Yeah. Absolutely. Absolutely. Flavor's on. It's a new one. It's called Death Island. It's got some kind of tropical something in it. It says tropical flavored tea. I don't know what it's actually supposed to be like. I haven't seen that one yet. It has both black and green tea. Oh, yeah. But it definitely tastes like it might have like a deep, punchy type of something mixed in or something like that. It's pretty good. So you guys were going to go back, rest for 30 minutes, and then go into town and ask questions, yes? - Mm-hmm. - All right. - We can like strategize at the campfire where we're gonna go in town, you know? It's not strenuous activity. - You guys could easily double back to that pistani camp, hang out, they are still all there drinking. See if we can ask for some more detailed. Maybe almost even everybody's got like a map we can bother for town or at least ask for specific landmarks within the town that would be good to visit. Something like that give us somewhere to go. The Bastani. Yes. I mean, if we see him right around the campfire and stuff, it might be worth asking him while he's there. You do. You do. I'm gonna tell him, be like, "So, I could feel that there was an undead underneath that church up there, and just like one lone priest in there. What the hell's going on up there?" And I'm going, "Didn't exactly feel like a normal warm welcome situation where we should knock and say hello." I really know my short part of the people of this village. Okay. Respect. I am not surprised you would stand in the presence of a man like that. Why are you not surprised? I'm just saying. Is it a graveyard? There he is. My experience usually is that things in the graveyards, you know, they're not really moving around. Usually is. This place defies... Delicious, thank you. Yes, yes. You're welcome, thank you. - Not much since he doesn't know. - Yeah, he doesn't know much about the evidence. So say maybe if he knows if there are any shops for supplies or I don't know, any place that we can-- - Sell our junk. - Yeah, sell our junk. - I know he said the town is poor and destitute, but is there anywhere that, you know, in town that would be a market? - That he's won. Head down the main road and you will see it. You want to go to the market? Yeah, figure why not. Head to the market, see what's available there, see if we can offload some of our stuff or something more useful. Maybe once we're in the market, we can see some more people, ask some more specific questions about that church, maybe. All right, so as you guys head in, I'm assuming you're heading over here and going to the square. Everyone make me a perception check. Oh. 14. It was threatening to be in there. 21. 21. 4. The streets of this town are empty. There's almost an uncomfortable silence that blankets this town. As you walk to the town square, you are going to see a building marked "Bildraths Mercantile." Sparse light from this building spills out from behind drawn heavy curtains. A sign over the door, creaking on its hinges, reads "Bildraths Mercantile." Nice seeing you guys today. Yeah. You are going to see a man Roughly in his 40s, he's in worn clothes, attending to a variety of goods. Well, not really a variety of goods, some goods. Smattering. Yeah, exactly. That's a much better word, smattering. So what did we have in our inventory that we were going to try to sell? We do have that leather book that has nothing in it. Yeah, the leather book. We got that book. We got the Masa Gates. We got... Did that hairbrush, is that still... It's still with us, yeah. Okay, cool. So yeah, we can try to get rid of that. I'll try to see if I can tell how good this guy would be at appraising stuff. Insight. Sure. 11. He seems good enough from what you can tell. Is that something I can also check? Sure. What was that roll again? Inside. It was inside? Okay, because I've got pretty decent inside. Oh, my roll was a nat 1. A nat 1? He also seems pretty capable in your eyes. I don't know. Like, great shop. I walk in as he's got three things on a shelf. It looks like the shelves in Zelda. It must be a good shop. Like, is there anything about how he's acting? Because now three people have just walked into his shop and he didn't say hello, right? He did not address you guys. He's not even acknowledging you guys right now. Is he looking at us? Can he see us? Or is he, like, doing something? He's, like, hunched over behind his crown. I want to look at the wares. He has. A few vials of what you guys would recognize as like acid. What kind of acid? He's got like a backpack or two, some ball bearings, a basket, some bedrolls, some blankets, a few books, old books. A bunch of mundane stuff like buckets, he's got some caltrops, candles, some chain, he's got one climbers kit, travelers clothes, a crowbar, So, off the rip, the climbing gear looks relatively interesting and the chain. What was the last thing you said? Before or after Empty Class? Crowbar? Empty Class. Crowbar. Crowbar. Before Empty Class. The old books, do I recognize any of the titles? Any of them look particularly interesting? No. They don't. Very mundane books. Very boring books. So perfect with the sound of climbing gear considering the council. As I see them eyeballing the climbing gear together, I'm going to go and put my hand on the counter and be like, hey man, you might need some help over here. He's going to turn around and address you kind of scruffling. Oh man, what do you want? I want to ask him how much for the climbing goods and the chain and the crowbar. The climber's kit will be 250 gold. The chain will be The chain will be 50 gold. What else? At this rate, I'm going to need, do you have any Vaseline? No, I got talcum powder, though. That's not going to do it. That's not going to do it. What the, you know? A chain worth 50 gold. How much does that crowbar worth? What the hell? Like, just try to shit him out of himself or something? Like what? Yeah, sure. Whatever you want to do. I'm not going to try and hide my voice at all. And as I turn and be like, I don't know how useful this guy's going to be for stuff. I was like, I mean, I got a crowbar in my backpack. Maybe we sell it to him and see if he'll give us one quarter portion. And, you know, I'm going to look back at him and be like, can you do you have information? But like, do you know things or do you just rip people off? I don't know anything. I don't know anything. After hearing those surprises, I've also just kind of like said everything down and just started walking towards the door at this point. My other thought was maybe try to grab something on the way out just to spite him, but that's not my character. I'm supposed to be just neutral. Just to spite him. What are y'all gonna do? He did give you the ultimatum, why is he looking at you? Let's go. I might need to find someone else more useful in this game. Now we know the shop is useless. This guy is a wellspring of information. You better not need us for customer service. If he does, our price just went up. What's that conversion ratio, like 20x? Do we see, the streets are just empty, aren't they? Yes. Any houses nearby with lights on or people moving inside them or anything? So, we're setting. Any other businesses? This would also be an opportunity where I could connect with my familiar and look at a hundred foot radius around this, right? Yeah, you could. I'd do that. You would see a bunch of houses. It wouldn't see any people out of the streets. You got a net 20 in your perception chart? Building across the street that looks like a tavern. I've heard you say. You would see the smokestacks rising out of a bunch of these different houses, but it is eerily quiet and very lifeless. Even around the tavern? Yeah, even around the tavern. No movement, no animals, no... I will point out the tavern and things. Yeah, yeah. I mean, that's how we met, right? Might as well go in and... Have a seat. The next 20 would also allow you to hear a moaning sob floating through the still gray streets, coloring your thoughts with sadness. The sound flows from a dark two-story house, so you are going to Jables hear from down here that moaning and crying. That does intrigue me. But it will be there after it drinks. Will it? Will it? That's fair. Y'all doing this goddamn pound square? I want to at least see the building that that morning came out of. You know what I mean? Yeah. We've seen the tavern. Tavern hopefully not just disappearing. Let's see what this unexpected... So you are going to go closer to this two-story house. You're going to notice it's boarded up and barricaded. You are going to hear the crying of a female coming from inside of the house. Are there any lights on in the house? There are lights on in the house. What kind of crying? Despondent weeping. And the house is all boarded up? The windows are. Oh, the windows, okay. Why would you just go in there? Do we do y'all want to knock to y'all? I mean if we could hear the wailing from outside the tavern, maybe we'd go in the tavern and be like, hey, you guys ever hear that girl wailing over there? Is that like a common thing? I'm down. I'm down. I'm always down for a drink. Alright. Yeah, let's go in and see if we can get any kind of info. Specifically, just mention the whaling and see if anybody's... If anybody's even at the fucking town. Right, if anyone's there, yeah. That's what I was thinking. It's a little quiet for... That's why I wanted to at least walk over there. It was like the whole fucking town's been dead except for the dickhead at the fucking general store. So... That's Greece that we saw praying. You didn't love that? I'm sure it's great on your side. You guys make it to this tavern. A single shaft of light thrusts illumination into the main square, its brightness looking like a solid pillar in the main hall. Above the gaping doorway, a sign hangs precariously askew. Proclaiming this to be blood on the vine tavern. And you're going to notice that it was at one point, you can see an N scratched over with the F. So instead of blood of the vine, it's now blood on it. Enter this tavern. Give me perception checks. This one's better. Oh, I should not have even said that. Mine was a seven. I got a 20. I've just gotten no perception right now. I got a four. Collectively, what'd y'all get again? Mine was seven. 31 collectively. 20 for me. I got a four. He got a seven. Wow. Okay. Uh, That was pretty good on average, so let me set up some midis just so you can see. You're going to see a person behind the bar. You're going to notice three of what you now know as Vestanti sitting in this table over here. I'll stand those up in a moment. And then you're going to see a single dude. Thank you, thank you. Sitting over here. The Vestanti are the gypsies, right? Yes. Good. Learning that name didn't trigger anything new, right? For like things I would remember. Mistani? Yeah, because if they're able to come and go from this place, I would imagine that there is boogeyman stories about them. There's actually not, or not that you can remember. Maybe they're more like the machine elves. Yeah. Mistani? Perfectly. Oh, thank you. Or the hat man. What are those? Mochi. Green tea mochi. Matcha. I'm alright, thank you. Try one. You guys are doing this fine. This is the barkeep. Yep. This is just a random patron. And then these are Vistanti. Yep. Oh, I guess it's a bar. Right. Yeah. They are drinking. Everyone is drinking except the barkeep. We're going to start with the barkeep probably. Gotta order a drink. Gotta be normal. They say confidently. I meant, oh, I see. I got a hacking hormone. Oh! Oh! Okay, that makes more sense. Yep, come in. We order a round. Everybody gets a drink. So, as you walk up to him, he is cleaning a glass with kind of a glazed look on his eye. What exactly do you say to him? I ask him how much for a round. Small glass costs one copper piece. A pitcher of wine costs one sub-piece. Give me a picture in three glasses. He does so. He goes back to cleaning glasses. I'm going to give him an extra silver for his tip. Where are we going to sit? Are we going to stay sitting at the bar? Are we going to move to the other side further away from all these people currently? Does the bartender look chatty? I mean, you say he has it glazed over. He doesn't look like a very welcoming individual? Maybe. Maybe. Are you gonna try to speak to him, Naveen? He didn't really say more than those words to you when you spoke to him. As you guys are kind of looking at this bar, he goes to put down a glass. It's funny because as you stand there looking at him, he like cleaned the glass, put it down, picked up another one, cleaned it, put it down, picked up the same one again. It's like a robot NPC. I'm considering just being the blunt, gray character that I am and just straight up saying to his face, hey, we're new in this area. Can you tell us anything about that weird church with one priest and nothing else going on? He looks at you, cleans glasses, and says nothing. He says nothing. Okay. Do I notice anybody else react to his questioning? Well, you do actually. So the young man sitting by himself on the other side of the bar will hail you guys over like, hey, hey, he's not very chatty. You want to go sit with me? I know you guys are new here. I've never seen you before. Will you go sit with him? You think, well, I'm the one who just blurted it out, so. Just in the corner, yeah, and we'll bring the pitcher and the glasses, you know. Yeah, if he's got his own glass, maybe offer him a pour. Yes, yes. In fact, he's going to say, Eric, one more pitcher, please, now that we have several people. And he'll pay for an additional pitcher. As you guys all are drinking this wine. It's not the best wine you've ever had, but it gets the job done. Typical random tavern in random town. Say yes. My name is Ismark. I-S-M-A-R-K. Ismark? Ismark. His name is Ismark. I won't ask you what brings you here, because typically that answer is not very good. Have you been in Borovia? One really long afternoon. - Because you've long rested several times in that house. It's been at least two weeks. - True, true. You were asking the bar key. What business do you have with the church? Nothing in particular. We just happened to walk by and we're a little creeped out by it. So. Wonder what was going on. Trying to keep it on the script, but... *coughing* Did you ask him again? What was up with that church? That's right, that's right. Yeah, like if it was just general, it was a general what's up with that church, that's all. You know... Mentioned that we were creeped out by it. I haven't been to that church in a very long time. I hear that, uh... The priest, though, keeps to himself. I haven't seen his son in a very long time either, which is... strange, but... You know, I, I... Typically we keep to ourselves in this land. But can I ask for y'all's help? Never hurts to ask. You know, you seem to be adventurers from a far land. You might be capable warriors, able to... Request. I'm still not sure. But yes, would you hear me out? We still got wine. Yeah, we still got wine, I'd say, sure. So... For some reason, my brother... being targeted by Strong. He's already at multiple times come to our residence, managed to worm his way in. And we fear that he might try to turn him soon into one of his vampires. So we want to take him to a much more secure location. There's a village far from here, still in Borovia, called Crest. Rumor is that it's more fortified and they're much more ready to defend against Strahd. I need help though because he will be vulnerable while he travels. As you know, Strahd needs to be invited into a residence in order to enter. Road. What do you say? Can you help me out with this and I'll be indebted to you? And we'll try to aid you in whatever way I can? Before I agree to anything, I need to know more about what's going on with this town and the surrounding area. Anything that Ismark can tell us? Yeah. Also, what is Ismark's brother's name? Yeah. Ivan. Ivan. Ivan. Did we get any specific info about the castle that was up on the top? Just that Strahd's place is really all we... Um... I'll give you information if you agree to help. Do what? I'll give you the information you want if you agree to help. The other thing is, do we want to do church stuff before escorting this guy? Or do we want to... I'm cool with either. Yeah. This sounds like it could be something that's not. Yeah, I think if we agree, it's when we're ready to leave town. Yeah. Well, we, you know, we can, we can potentially do that when we're ready to, to kind of. Right. I'm down for that. Yeah, I'm down for that. Because I definitely am interested in doing that because it seems like it's a good chance to, would be like me traveling. Yeah. More across this area, which sounds like it would be nice. I mean, if that other city is more fortified to fight against Strahd than this one, they might have more information on him. More information, more people. It's more fortified. But the paladin and then kind of wants to put that undead to rest underneath that church. I sensed him. It was his grave mistake. More chances to level up potentially finally. Good chance for me to learn how to use my powers a little bit more. I could be down for that, especially maybe if there's anything else, because that's the only place, only other place we've checked out in this town we have. We've only... Kind of scratches the surface. Maybe there's something else at the top we didn't... Yeah, we also have that crime. Yeah. But... Which we could ask this guy about as well. Yeah. See if he can say anything about that. Yeah. I'd say let's... Because we could agree to help him. Yeah, agree to help him. But tell him that there's stuff we want to do around town. Yeah. Mention the lady and then say that we definitely... We want to help, but we got stuff to do at the church. Yeah. Okay. What do you think? As you guys have this little powwow right in front of him. Oh yeah. He's drinking his wine, he doesn't give a fuck. I mean, we're all drunk, you know. It's a big favor. You better be patient about it. Yeah, I mean, sounds... Yeah, I'd say we just tell him. Tell him that we would agree. Okay. But we have other stuff around town we want to do before we like venture out to Kresk. Yeah, I'll be here. I'll be here. What questions did you want to ask me? About the church? Or just about that time now? I mean, you know, you know, if... If there's more you know about the church than sick. Okay, so no, you didn't ask. Because you asked him a question. Because we had already asked him about the church. In response to your question, and yeah, he told you that. But I forgot what you exactly asked him. Aradela had said that just that we couldn't agree really until we knew more about the surrounding area. But he said that he wouldn't even tell us that. I remember, yeah, that first question that I had asked about the church was just kind of like, what's up with that? Yeah. I remember that he just said he just knows the priest and the kid. Yeah, because he said he hasn't been there in forever. Yeah, so... But that doesn't... So I will ask him about... Did you know about this crying girl? Like, you know, a block down. Persuasion. In a two-story. With advantage, because you've already agreed to help him. 17, 19. 19, excellent. That's Mad Mary's town. She's been like that now for at least three weeks. No one cares enough to go in there and look. Why is she called Mad Mary? She got that name after whaling for three weeks. Okay, so this is a new nickname. Okay. She used to just be right for everyone. Now she's a mess. There you go, good faces, right? Includes just to why she's like this. So you just said she's been like this for three weeks. It's no one knows why no one checked. No one's bothered to go. Keep to themselves. Yeah, that's what he said about the priest too. I probe a little bit more about the church, specifically asking if there's a basement that he knows about. None that I'm aware of. Probably is one. At this point, let's just ask him if there are any other places worth visiting around town. And then maybe as we say that mention, like we stopped at that shop across the street and that dude was a jerk. Yeah. Yeah, he can be like that because he has no competition. He's lucky he doesn't have anything worth, really. Yeah. Or else someone might set him straight. So you've been to Bilgarath Mercantile and you've been to the church. Other than the Burgomaster's Mansion, which is actually my residence, there's only really people's houses in Barovia, or in the village of Barovia. I guess we'll check out the mansion when we come get you and your brother. Yes. Yes. Yeah, so. I'll be able to show you that person. Did he tell us anything about the surrounding area from that original question? Talking surrounding area, like around outside the village. Yeah, because he's asking us to leave the village with the brothers, so that was part of the information scan today. Yeah, what kind of stuff can you assess? So, we Go to my mansion. I'll be able to show you a map of the lands. We'll be able to plot our journey. I strongly suggest we stay to the road the entire time without exception. But traveling, even on the road, sometimes is dangerous. We're likely to be attacked by wolves. Regular wolves? - Some. - There's unfortunately also a problem with werewolves. There's... It would be dangerous. Sticking to the road does our best, but no fires at night. Okay. No fires at night. Is it the light or the heat? Oh, the light. That's good. Yeah. If you want to do whatever you have... Drinking is really all Baroagians have. So we drink. I'll drink to that. I'll drink to that. We've been drinking this all time. Cool. So you say is there, maybe we want to ask if there's a place to stay in town that we could use periodically throughout our time here. That'd be good to have a good base camp to go back to to rest. Or are we just going to go back to that outside what's the people's name again i just assumed that you put us up in his mansion if he's if we need to yeah we need to sleep for a night because we're taking a lot of risks and plus we could protect the brother and him yeah so while we're there ask him that or at least mention that that way we have some options in between church and lady depending which When we choose to go to first if we need to. We can, but Irodo will assume that that's the case and expect it. We can put you up in the main campus. That was my only real concern before we do anything else. I would be down to just continue drinking until we run out of drink and then maybe wait until we're not drunk and then do some Okay, okay, everyone give me a constitution saving throw. I rolled a 3, but it's a 1 plus 2. I got a 19. You rolled a 1, a 2, anyone else? I got a 19. 19. 13. 13. So Jables and Gray hold their liquor. Iridel is actually fucking plastered at this moment. I don't know what it is, the wine has just hit you. If you haven't been drinking wine like this in a while, I guess, you're going to be effectively poisoned for the next Rome 2D4. 2 plus 2, 4. You're going to be drunk like this and considered poisoned for the next hour, or four hours. OK. And I am not poisoned. Disadvantage on attack rolls and ability checks. How long is a short rest? 30 minutes. 30 minutes. You said I'm supposed to until a short rest? Four hours. For four hours. Okay. That's a long time to be that drunk. Is it any way different? Do we want to call it a side effect from you having to have so many potions and being nearly dead? Okay, that makes sense. Weird reaction. Just came back to life. It's been like a day. I haven't really eaten much and first thing you do is drink a shit ton of wine. This is true. I don't know when the last time y'all had a meal was. That's true. Is there any food here? Does that matter? Is there food here? Let's see. You guys asked that? Is Mark is gonna say there is not actually food here, but I could feed you at my residence whenever y'all are ready. I mean, could be a good way to spend some of the four hours that he's poisoned making our way up to the mansion. We could get a chance to see that map before we go any further and do things. Maybe he's got some equipment there that we could potentially borrow. Yeah, I mean, it's up to... I mean, if Iridella doesn't want to be sloshed going into the church, then yeah. I can still fight. I can still fight. I can still fight. I ain't here no bell. The church? Erdo leans heavily on Jables, putting her entire weight on his shoulders. No reaction? Well, I'm not carrying this thing to the church, you know? The mansion's probably pretty far, too. How far is the mansion from here, yeah? Ask a man. How far is your mansion? I mean, it's not too far. Five-minute walk? Something like that? Ten-minute walk? It's not like a three-hour walk? No, no, no, no, no. Heavens. It's maybe five minutes. The mansion's right there. Oh, it's the one down... Okay, down that road. I wasn't sure which one would be the mansion. Oh, it's the really big one. Yeah, so it's pretty close and we would pass by the Mad Mary's house. Yeah, we do pass by Mad Mary's house. There you go. So is that a yes on that? Yeah, that's my thought is yeah, we just go down to the mansion for now to sober up and get some food. As we pass Mary's house, we hear the wailing. I just shout, "Mary!" Alright. I'm gonna stand outside their window for a moment and pull out the lute and say, "Mary, are you okay? Are you okay, Mary?" Oh my god. As we go by. I mean, we're not poisoned, but we're still pretty drunk. Alright, fucking meters. And she just cries through the whole thing? She does. She does. She didn't even answer the call of the rock. Unyielding. So as you guys get closer to the mansion, a weary-looking mansion squats behind a rusted iron fence. The iron gates are twisted and torn. The right gate lies cast aside while the left swings lazily in the wind. The stuttering squeal and clang of the gate repeats with mindless precision. Weeds choke the grounds and press with menace upon the house itself. Yet, against the walls, the grove has been trampled down to create a path all around the domain. Heavy claw markings have stripped this once beautiful finish of the walls. Great black marks tell of the fires that have assailed the mansion. Not a plane, or not a pane, nor shard of glass stands in any window. All of the windows are barred with planks, each one marked with stains of evil omen. I'm trying to get it closer so that when I go, I can see it more. So, this mansion looks like it's been fucking assaulted. Yeah, it's fine. In short, yes. Everyone? Everyone? Give me a perception check as you guys walk up on this mark. 19. 19, very good. 11. 11. I'm pretty drunk and short. And once again, roll the 1, which is plus 5. Holy shit. You're a harsh member. Yeah. You don't see too much here, though. You're like... You're wanting Jables to hear you, so you're kind of like just walking, do it wrong, leaning up against him. Gray and Jables are going to notice the ground is trampled with what seems to be scores of wolf paw prints and human footprints. I was going to say, like, am I... - Usual frankness, I probably would have just bald-faced asked like, "Hey, what's up with the claw marks and the burn marks?" I probably would have said that regardless, but also being drunk, I'm definitely going to just no filter ask this dude, "Hey, what's up with the claw marks and the burn marks?" I'm gonna give you a straight answer. - I'll be able to tell you more once we get inside and talk about this, but we can give you the full summation. - That's just definitely something that I would be saying as well. I would be asking that straight up. Seeing those again after seeing them on the church. Yes. So he'll walk up and knock on the door, and you'll hear a voice from within. Who is there? Oh, it's Mark. It's Mark. And the door will open, and you will see... this Yeah, do we, yes. And you will see this man open the door. you I'll leave this up here so I can look at that. Say hello, hello! That's essentially Erindel's drunken reaction as well. But, um... Let's say, Ivan, Ivan, you brought friends with you. What have you, everyone. Come in, come in quickly, I must close this door. And as you guys head in, I'll close the door behind you, you will notice... The interior of this mansion is well furnished, yet the fixtures show signs of great wear. Noticeable oddities are bordered up windows and the presence of holy symbols in every room. The Burgomaster is in a side drawing room of the floor lying in a simple wooden coffin surrounded by wilting flowers in the faint odor of decay. So as you guys walk in, you are going to be able to see the mansion, all these holy symbols. And then in the next room, you're able to see someone lying in a coffin. But Ivan is going to issue you guys into a room and sit you all down. So please, please. I assume my brother has told you someone of our clients. If you're here, I also assume you agreed to help us. I was going to say, yeah, yeah, but for now we're here just to sober up a little bit. We had a little bit much to drink at the bar. Is that what I'm saying? I have a question. You said he sat us down. Did he seat us down in specific places? Like what's the seating arrangement like? Or is it just like he just invited you to have a seat? Yes. And then he sat down? Yes. So while he's explaining that, Iridel sits on his lap. All right. Quiet says, yes, of course we'll help you. He lets it happen. Works perfectly because I'm just claiming that we're trying to sober up because we had a little too much to drink. You said, I see. That's what I'm seeing as sitting down on you. I see. As she's sitting down on you. I see. That's what I'm seeing. He is awesome. And you will notice that they do actually have a few people attending them. Like, please, can we make these guests a meal? And in the next few minutes, they will bring you essentially a simple meal of meats, cheeses, and more alcohol as well. But a good, like, meats, cheeses, bread meal, like typical, you know. Perfect. That's good because I'm not sure the last time we had food. It might not be much, but you're welcome to help yourselves. And you will be able to be well fed or gain the well fed life. Cool. Is that something we can add in? Can we add it in defense? I don't know if you can add it into your character sheet, but you can just take note that for the remainder of this day you will be well fed. I am going to use the restroom for a quick moment. I'll be right back. Momentum. Momentum. Rick hit me with last night. We're drinking for George's birthday. We're standing out front of George's house. I've seen Rick holding someone and they just like clobbered him, unaccidentally. It's like several hundred pounds. - into the street while I fall over laughing. It's at the Duck Books too, so. You said no, Derek and I? No, as far as I know, they are still going. So that's... Me and them at least. I was going to drive down to their place and then drive them over and back. I wasn't planning on drinking, but I was going to bring the DMT bin. Oh, yeah. Maybe have one drink once I get there since I'm lightweight anyway. I didn't see one. I wasn't specifically looking out for it, but I didn't notice one. But I know they also, I'm pretty sure they don't sell posters for those shows either, which is kind of disappointing. Six of the posters now so far. Got a couple of frames the other day. I'm going to pick a couple to put in frames and then use those to figure out where in my apartment and how I'm going to stage out the rest of them. I'm also considering going to It'll Do on Saturday night. Because there's this one guy that actually I just started watching his podcasts and I did listen to his music for a while. But he's got some really good podcast interviews with all kinds of DJs and producers and stuff like that. So I've been watching those for a while. But he plays a kind of a, it's a little bit more of a techno-y tech house. Which is pretty fun. It's more of like the rumble kicks and that kind of deal in some ways, at least from what I've heard from his producing. But I figured that'd be really fun. Plus he's, in all of his, Will Clark, with an E at the end, he's bald with a big long beard. Oh yeah. But yeah, he talks a lot of shit in his podcasts about the commercialization of stuff and how the smaller club culture is disappearing. So it's good to see him come to town and play in It'll Do instead of Sunlow or something like that. So I'm really heavily considering to go see him. It'll be a fun one to go to. Yeah, I love It'll Do. I've only been there that once and I really loved it. I kind of wish I decided to go for Simon Doty and give a couple other people a reason to go, but it would have been four weeks in a row and I was too tired already, so... But I could do two back-to-back with one day with no work in between. I can do that. Because that's actually, it's more like two full days in between because late night. I'm heavily considering it. The tickets are only like $20. That's the other thing that it'll do. Yeah. Because it's always cheap. So, I don't know. So now the message is if anybody else wants to join, I would want to do that one by myself. I'm not comfortable enough to go to Ittle Dew by myself just yet. Maybe a couple more times before I do that, but. Pretty happy to go to SILO by myself because the crowd's really big and it's much easier to manage as one person. Because I also, unlike a lot of everybody else, I want to be there the whole night. So I'm showing up at like 9.30 or 9 o'clock. Like I went for my birthday, I showed up, I think I showed up after 9.30-ish. So it's a little late. Yeah, what kind of thing you're starting? Like AI consulting for small to medium businesses, building out solutions for them, helping to elevate their business in a way that's accessible and obtainable because a lot of the market doesn't really know anything. Her old boss, the one that moved out to Phoenix, when he left there, he went to subscribe or sell AI to individual businesses and that was before or around the time People under her were using AI and she had to kind of bring that to account and they bought it for them. They bought it for us. It's on our apps. They bought it. Brian bought it. So everybody buys it now. Every company is. So that's a real, we're really on the way there. Everybody wants their own AI and knows how to use it. I wish I knew how to use it. And that's the hard part. There's so much and it's always changing. You don't know what to do. track of what to do and so offering that service to people like hey we have that knowledge we can help build this out for you so you don't have to think about it. So it's useful. The only system that's going to be... A lot of people also only know it for like just going to chatbg.com or gpt.com just like just to ask the question they don't know how to use it for actual workflow stuff. And we can because of our laws and her laws and Brian's FAA laws these lockdown companies so it has to be a closed system because I can't be Given that your children's date of birth, you know, and potentially their social security number. The reason my team does it is a lot of time and effort. My job specifically is we're taking literal Excel CSV spreadsheets of people's customer data and all of their equipment history, and we're having to transform it and edit it so it fits into the content that we can import into our system. We can't, like there is some stuff you can do that's like, on the site that will work for that. But a lot of security reasons, it's better to just... So last year... But then also it's like, are we going to trust AI to not hallucinate when we ask it to do something? And then you have to check through it. And right now that's just, we don't have... the approved tools for us to use. - Right, that's a lot of infrastructure and giving it guardrails, making sure that it follows-- - They bought Google Gemini. They told us just use Google Gemini because as a subscriber, they're paying for my G.R.I.S.D. And something about that locked-- - It's her turn. - It's her turn. Yeah, companies do that too. Google does that and Anthropic does that, where if you're on certain tiers of subscription, your data doesn't go to their regular servers. It goes to dedicated encrypted servers. It gets deleted faster. It's never used for training data. The school AI was like for a teacher. Not that I didn't use it too, but most of them say, I like the errors in this paper because that's what I use for my papers. I have a little Johnny's name and James paper or something because I have Frankenstein and But anyway, there's people who use it to write emails and use it all day long. So that sounds great. Good luck on it. It'll take a minute, but it's... We're almost finishing it at Indiana Jones, so if we time it right, we might be playing it last to make sure when you show up or something. Did you see that they just released a trailer? Kena of Bridge of Spirits, they're doing a sequel. Really? I'm excited for that. That was a great game. It looks... You thought that last one was good looking? This one's gonna blow your fucking mind. She's also a little bit older. I remember that one game being so fucking good. Dude, I actually, it's one of the few games I never beat. Oh, you didn't actually beat it? I did actually end up finishing it. I played it on the second hardest difficulty. If you get to the last box... That's probably why, yeah. I played it on, I usually play games on the straight middle difficulty level. And sometimes if I do that and I'm playing a boss or two, I'm just like, "Okay, I'm done with this shit. I just want to actually play the game. I'll take it down with me for the night." I don't mind playing on lower difficulties. It's one of those games where it's deceptive. Especially if I'm trying to be a real stone while I'm playing it because it's a really pretty game. In that case, I'm more than happy to lower the difficulty a little bit so my stone bass can actually complete the game. Exactly. Dude, I should have known because the first time playing it on the second hardest difficulty and the second to last boss took me days. Like, how am I going to do this? Oh, Callum. But, you know what? No, it's still here. Yay, thank you, thank you. So... What could I have said? Are you guys long resting at this spot? Just hanging at this spot until Iridel's no longer trashed? I mean, I wonder how much time would you say is probably the time that we've come in and done what we've done so far and actually eaten whatever food? Um, I'll say however long. It didn't take them very long to bring you guys the food, so you can chill for however long you'd like to. We'll probably just wait a few hours and head to the church, right? Yeah, just wait until you're It was early morning because you guys did get the opportunity to sleep during the night after passing out. So it would be, you would have time and it would be probably. So we did some early morning heavy drinking. Early morning reconnaissance. Yeah. Everyone you've encountered has been drinking. That's the only thing they do. That's right. It's just like Dallas. We're just winning Rome. Perfect. We're supposed to assimilate. So you guys hang, wait four hours. Is there anything else you wanted to ask Ivan or Bismarck? During the four hour... They mentioned letting us see a map of the lands at some point. Do we want to look at that before we head out? Yeah, we can look at it while we're chilling. Yeah, might as well. So if we can see that while we're here. Ivan is also going to address you guys. I think it's good that I remember this. He's going to say, before we go anywhere, I'm sure you've noticed the dead man in the other room. Oh, yeah. So about that. About that. I'm sure you noticed the outside. We were attacked for several weeks on end. And unfortunately, he died as a result of the stress. We made that coffin ourselves in order to lay him to rest. But the villagers are all very weary of the fact that I'm sure you know, you've been told that I'm being targeted by Shroud. So we need someone to help us take his body to the church and have him buried. I can't leave the village knowing that he hasn't been laid to rest. I mean, we're going to the church anyway. You did say that, so I figured I would go ahead and just throw that in there as well. I'm sure Ismark can also help you out. Yeah. That just gives us more reason to go to the church first. And then maybe do... What am I supposed to do with the cash? You know. And then maybe do Mad Mary. Mad Mary, huh? No, it's got to be that kind of game. I mean... She's into dance. She's into the little guys, Joe. Jesus Christ. So, they would also show you this map of Barovia. Cool. Alright, so we're in the village. We're in the village. They wouldn't go all the way to Crest? Castle Ravenloft is the castle that we were seeing in the other picture. Yep, yep, yep. Okay, cool, cool, cool, cool. We passed the castle on the way. Not really if we take the main road. Yeah, we would have to double back after... Because, yeah, if we... They said follow the road, so we're not going to, like, go down the river or anything. We're not going to try to go down the falls. The road's pretty windy. It goes down, and then it curves around like a roller coaster. Yeah, I'm just saying, you know, the cat's going all the way down the road. It's true. I don't think we should go there. But... No, yeah. Maybe after we do this big favor for Ismark, maybe... Maybe he'll join us in the castle. Because this dude wants to go from here. Yeah, all the way over there. All the way here. Yeah, that's what I thought. Yeah, so across the whole shit. So yeah, we have to go through... That's how we will end up getting that way. We have to go through the mill. Where the fuck is that old Spalitz road? It's all, yeah. The road that you came in on is called the old Spalitz road as well. Okay, so that's just the road then. Yeah. Durst Mill. Wait, is that the one that we have the deed for? Durst Mill? So we can go check out our property on the way. Yeah, we could visit our property. You know, hippity hoppity. Our property. Tell them to get off our property. That could give us a good central point for branching back out to Castle Ravenloft. We might go back that way before... Yeah, I think we definitely need to understand the land and everything. That was mainly joking at the castle. Yeah, but... So Crest is the closest town, it looks like. There's just checkpoints on the way. There's also Vallaki. Oh yeah, okay, I see that. Right next to the Lake Zarevich. We estimate how many days it would take if we just traveled, no stops. To get to Crest? Yeah. Yeah, I guess, I mean, we're standing here talking to Ismark and Ivan, so I guess we can ask them all to look at the map. Like, hey, so what were you talking about for travel time? So this right here is a dam. Huh? Your little mini-moving is a day. That's a day? So we're talking like two months. Oh yeah, we're talking a lot. It'll take some time. Not quite two months. But it'll take several weeks. Okay, so we gotta maybe bank on not coming all the way back to this village for sure. It's probably not going to be a good day. That's why we're going to do the church. Yeah, do that shit first. Maybe blow up Moaning Myrtle or whatever her name is. And then... They went from doing to blowing up. That's an escalation. That was her name, Matt Mary. I like that you went through morning. Same shit. I don't really mean blowing up, but maybe. Blowing out, maybe. I thought you were sober now. I'm just not poisoned anymore. That kind of drunk where $12 later you're still a little... Yeah, I know that feel. Okay, let's help these guys get their dad over to the grave and check out the church. You don't have to. That sounds like peer pressure. I got like most of the way there. We're going to, you know, with Ivan, or not Ivan, Islark, one person's going to have to hold one side, or he's going to hold the front of this coffin, as y'all have to ask for. You're going to carry the whole coffin? Yeah, in fact, several people might have to help me carry the coffin. I stand underneath the center of it. Yeah, I mean, I'll carry one side of it, you know, if he's underneath it, you know what I mean? What are y'all's? 14. 12. 8. You can watch. That actually works out perfectly. It's funny that for being a small individual, you're not the weakest individual. Tiny but mighty. Funny and numb. Yeah. I mean, yeah. Everyone make me an athletics check. Just to see how well you did. - Uh, 10 for me. - I got a five. - 10, five, well you wouldn't have to because you're not carrying anything. - Right. - 23. - 23, so. - Nice, I mean you being at the end, that makes more sense. You're just kinda, maybe you guys are holding up a little too high for me to be really doing anything. - Well let's see how well Whismarck does. Collectively I'll do more than well enough to carry this coffin. Are y'all gonna stop at Mad Mary's town now? No, we gotta cough in our hands. We still hear her yelling? Yeah. We do. So y'all are gonna go straight to this church? Yeah, we gotta cough in, you know? Gotta get rid of this dead weight. Very pallid of me, have you? What do you mean? I don't know. I thought it was good. Was it not good for you? It was good for me. Excuse me, I'm going into the stream. Is Mark, he doesn't seem any sort of nervous about just walking up into the church. I assume we were letting him lead the way since we... Yeah, if he seems like it's normal, we'll just go. Take it in stride. Take it in stride? All right. Be right back. I feel somewhat responsible. I saw the opportunity and took it. So we all... The doors open to reveal a 10 foot wide, 20 foot tall, long hall leading to a brightly lit chapel. The hall is unlit and reeks of mildew. Four doors, two on each side of the hall, lead to adjacent shades. You see that the chapel is strewn with debris and you hear a soft voice. From within, reciting a prayer. Suddenly, the prayer is blotted out by an inhuman scream that rises up from beneath the wooden floor. I won't scream, but use your imaginations. That's beyond dad. Yeah. You said blood-curdling scream? Yes, an inhuman scream. An inhuman scream. Like a banshee? Yeah, yeah. But you're going to see that produce still... Right there praying. He was the source of that soft prayer. And Ismark doesn't interact with this priest at all, even though we're carrying his dead dad into the church. Ismark, upon hearing that scream, is going to say... I make a comment about him saying there wasn't a basement. That he was somewhere. Just kind of snarky. Maybe this is why. But he is going to say, let's leave the coffin outside. I'll stay here. Y'all ask the priest what's going on here. His name is Donovich. I do know that. Do we have to talk to him to bury the father? Yes. Okay. Only because we need to get his approval to use the grounds. I think he's done with some of these. But just go talk to Don, which it didn't look like he was the source of the screaming, at least. He was going to be looking around. Please, please. Will you all oblige it? We're talking to Donny boy. Yeah, I guess so. Might as well. All right. We're going to set the coffin down somewhere. Yeah, he's standing with the coffin outside. Ismark is. Yeah, y'all are just going to start making me dead things. Ismark bitched out and was like, you guys handle this. I'll be outside. Ismark said. Basically happened. Right. So, you were going to walk up and the priest is going to be just kind of reciting prayers meticulously over and over and over again. You're going to actually notice his voice is a bit worse. Moments after and before you get completely to him, you will hear from beneath the chapel floor A young man's voice cry out, Father, I am starving. Oh, cool. Just before we actually interact with him, is there anything that we can tell about the religion or teachings or followings of this particular church? Yes. So as you enter this church, you notice that inside of the chapel, you start seeing symbols of the sun and sun rays. Make me a religion check. Anyone who wants to try to see if they know anything about baptism? I rolled a one. It was a plus three, but I rolled a one. Your bill's not on it today. Five for me, which is surprising. Another one. Considering that we come from a religious background. Well, give your paladin two, so that's appropriate. What's your religion? I'm 19 with my minus one. Oh, you have a minus one? Still a nat 20. I have a plus three. I don't. I didn't get kicked out of my priest order, so I guess that was very good. No surprise I wouldn't be staying back. Notice this as holy symbols and different symbols of a god that you would refer to as the Morning Lord, also known as Lathamru, which is like a god of good sunlight. He is symbolized by the rising sun. - What was the thing you called him before that? - The morning lord. Kind of like morning more. God of dawn represents the potential of a new day. The God of open beginnings. We'll relay that to the others. You're like, oh, the morning war. I guess I just casually point up at the rising sun holding symbols. I'll remark that it's interesting that the outside had no symbols. I'll just say that out loud because we checked outside. It could have been destroyed or something. This whole place has been attacked. It's true. It makes sense. He might even... Be stuck chanting whatever streaking down there, you know, it's also probably not a good idea to advertise that you worship the God of the Sun in Strahd's land. Yeah, probably. There might be why they've been getting attacked. Are you guys talking to this priest? Well, we're kind of talking right next to him. You are. He does not notice you. He is reciting prayer the entire time. All right. Given the religious alignment, I probably should not be the one to talk to him. Yeah, I can walk up to him. You're the one who recognized the religion. Yeah, I can be like, hey, Donny boy. I'll be like, it looks like you might need some help over there. We kind of need your help as well. And that's just kind of how all. And yeah, exactly like that, Donny boy. Donny boy. He, gosh. He is going to stop praying and turn around and look at you guys. Sorry, I did not notice you there. I was in the midst of prayer. You said you needed help? What do you need? I'll describe that we have Ivan and Ismark's father's coffin out there that we need help with. And then on top of that, I would like to, you know, be made, you know, at least make him aware that I would like to know or handle, make sure the situation's handled on the undead that I know is here. Because it's here. He's going to like, the moment you mention undead, you see him like become extremely flustered. He's looking side to side, he's like, no, no. Yes. If you want, we can freak out about the undead dude after the coffin. It's fine by me. We can freak out about it before. I assume he's freaking out as I autistically shout these things out. Yeah. So he does have a moment where he loses his composure, but he gets it back. And he says, I apologize, son. I'm sure you heard the screaming as well. That is my son. He foolishly joined the insurrection against Strahd. What a powerful wizard. Make sure I'm saying this right. Yes, he joined a powerful wizard that ended up being trapped in Barovia against an insurgents, against Strath. He unfortunately was never seen again, but my son returned a vampire spawn. I've been praying day and night. Praying to the morning Lord. for a way to save myself. I have not heard any prayer. It troubles me very much so. If you need help laying the burgomaster to rest, I can help you very much. What's your long-term plan with that down there, though? He's not going to be able to answer that. I do not know. I've been praying for a whole year now. And you're going to hear the Inhumane screaming again. So... We can bury the dead first. Yeah, let's just handle that first and then we'll deal with everything else. We have to wait until dawn. We have to wait until dawn? Leave him here and then we bury him at dawn. Oh, I guess for religious reasons because... You say he's a vampire spawn so he's not he's not a vampire he's like a Well do we want to go ahead and Get the coffin inside and bring his mark in since now that we know that priest is not totally cuckoo nuts Yeah, I mean we can go and bring it in. Fill in Ismark. Yeah, that was my thought before we start doing anything else. Okay, you know, it's whatever you can come up with. Yeah, since now we're known, we have to wait for Don. Okay. As you guys double back and kind of give him, what exactly do you say to Ismark after having these conversations with Don? I just kind of explain the general situation. So, like, hey, so... There's some going on here, but Priest seems kind of still competent enough to handle the burial, but we also have to wait until dawn. Do you want to bring it inside? Are you still cool? Do you still want to stay out here? I'll basically ask him this, but with more gray. With your money, you know what I mean? He's going to say, ah, ah. I guess no one in this land is safe. I guess let's bring it around the back of the church. No need to bring his body in. He should be fine as we wait the day. And as you guys go to carry it and you set it around back, he's going to say, I will leave you two to do whatever you need to do since there's plenty of day left. We will meet back here at dawn, yes? Dawn, yeah. You'll now be able to hear the scream again from like outside the back of the church now that you know what's happening. Did we see any sort of... Yeah, is there anything, now that we're kind of out in the back of the church. Yeah, is there anything that would look like a way to go under the church or like a storm cellar? There were four rooms that you had not investigated in the main hallway. And that's it, nothing outdoors that looks like. Yeah, nothing you guys would have been able to see, especially since you've now gone around the perimeter once and not back again. We're not, you know, did... Is Mark didn't say why he didn't want to bring it inside the coffin. It's kind of weird to not bring it inside when the priest said bring it inside. Did you ask him before he left? I would have, yeah. Because that's just weird. Yeah, that's true. Like, we could do that, but why? Let's just say that. Okay. Maybe I'm a little biased. He's gonna take on the long, hard look. No, I'm just kidding. But yes. Yes. Are you guys gonna go back into the church and search any of these rooms? Do we wanna do that or do you still wanna go do Mary? You're gonna do Mary? Wow. We could go check on Mary if you wanted. Yeah, no, we don't. 'Cause I mean, like, I feel bad murdering this guy's son if he's trying to find a way to bring him back. You know what I mean? Even though, in my opinion, there's probably not a way to come back. My question was, I mean, yeah, we felt the undead, but would the vampire spawn still be able to, like, form words in sentences? Like, have that level of intelligence? You heard him say, Father, I'm starving. Yeah. In fact, Iridel, roll me a history check with the village. I just don't know. I personally just don't know about how any of them work. Anemone? No, 19. What kind of trick was it again? It was a history, but it was for Iridel because Iridel is a half-vampire. That's true. So as you guys are sitting here pondering upon this, Iridel, of course, is going to know that there is no cure or a way to reverse vampirism short of things like a wish belt. Yeah, like divine intervention. Precisely. Short of the power of the gods. But, you know, he is praying to a god. So he's working on his best chance. Yeah, yeah. Maybe the morning Lord will answer. He can only pray. Yeah. But I guess that doesn't... That doesn't mark it as solved to me, just because I... Yeah. I haven't seen the dude down there. Yeah, I guess my question specifically was, like, can the vampires spawn, like, still... Are they still, like, fully intelligent? Because you said it was vampire spawn, or is that different from just a vampire, or is that a different thing? I don't know. Would I know? Would Airedale know? Well, Airedale would know that there are tiers... of vampires, so it's not kind of like all one thing. So Strahd would be considered like a greater vampire. He would be able to create lesser versions that he would have controls over, similar to like thralls. So yes, he's still sentient and intelligent. Okay, so it would still be able to actually say, my thought was that maybe the sun is not the thing that we were feeling as the undead. That was just my... Would be considered an undead. Vampires are considered undead. My thought was that maybe they were separate things though. Maybe there was the vampire spawn or an undead and then he's just got his son held captive for some other unexplained reason. That was my thought I was trying to clarify. Okay, so we are confirming that they are the same. Yes. So my understanding is the vampire spawns would just be new baby vampires basically. Okay, so interesting. So we all searching these rooms while you're still in the church Yeah, as they have the priest does not protest. The moment y'all walked away, he turned around at his altar and began bringing up. So yeah, let's see what we got. See if there's anything useful or anything. Where do you want to start? My thought was top left. Let's go for it. Top left, yeah. - Let's enter this room. The dirty room contains a wooden bed with a straw-filled mattress, next to which rests a small table with an oil-filled lamp burning brightly on it. Mounted above the bed's headboard is a wooden sun-shaped holy symbol. - It's real simple, empty. - Nice, okay. - Yep. - Nothing special. So, next. - This one? - Yep. Thought. Looks like the same thing, but no table, no lamp. - Yes, so this dirty, lightless room contains a wooden bed with a straw-filled mattress mounted above the bed's headboard is a wooden holy symbol, but it seems like it has not been used in a very long time. Across the hall. So, time and neglect have punched holes in the ceiling of this molding room, which contains a few broken wolf shingles amid a puddle of water. In one quarter, set in a floor, is a heavy wooden trapdoor held shut with a chain and a padlock. A young man's screams of anguish can be heard through the door. That's where he is. Yep. All right. That's the entrance there. Might as well check one more room. Yep. Go ahead and see what's in the other room. Definitely not ready to go down there yet. If at all. An old desk and chair stand against the south wall. A wooden holy symbol mounted above them. A sunburst. A ten foot long iron rod attached to the north wall stands bare, suggesting a tapestry once hung there. Against the far wall stands a wooden cabinet with four tall doors. I'm gonna, probably gonna snoop. - Going up to the cabinet? - Yeah, let's snoop in the cabinet. - So, for its size, the wooden cabinet contains very little. It will have a tinderbox, a few boxes of candles, two well-used books, Hymns to the Dawn A volume of chants to the morning Lord and the blade of truth. The uses of logic in the war against diabolist heresies. A strange book in addition to a book of hymns. So, the blade of truth, the uses of logic in the war against diabolist heresies as fought by the Ulmest Inquisition. Okay, interesting. The title of that fucking book. Thank you. Sounds like he was using that to fight back against the philosophy of Strahd or attempt to... Are y'all taking any of these items? I don't see any reason to. I don't wanna steal 'em. Nah, I was just curious. One time you guys don't wanna steal. It's not really... It belongs to a living person. I guess you're right, I guess you're right. You don't necessarily steal on this campaign. Do we confront him talking about how the, you know... The padlocked celebrant. You see it is locked. Do we want to... We know that now that we've kind of all chatted about it, we know that there's not really a way to... Save his son except for potential miracle. I know we were thinking about maybe leaving him alone for that. Do we want to... Do we want to talk to him more and see if... He's willing to... Let us do something about or... Or talk to him? Like, you know, you're half vampires or anything... Anything we can do? I don't know. Trying to see if there's other options besides just leave him alone or... down there and fight him anyway. Yeah, pretty much given my stance on it, there's nothing we can do for him. And, you know, he probably sees me as problematic because of, you know, the specific deity that he worships. So anything that I would say would come across as disingenuine and potentially rude. My worry is that it becomes a problem later. You know what I mean? Like, we don't deal with it, and it gets stronger down there, breaks out, and is now a problem. Well, it sounds like he's not feeding him, so the chance of it getting stronger is not very high. For me, it's that that soul is in torturous pain just through existing right now. If we want to do anything about it, I think that should be our motivation. That's also fair. But it is his son, so it's his call if he wants to, you know, let him ride the pain. hoping that his God saves him. Alright, well then let's ask him. Let's ask him. Let's ask him. That's fine, it's fine. It's fine. But I guess it's gonna be probably me talking to him. Persuade him with a song about it. Yeah, because I don't think, I don't know that they said that they're not too fond of any kind of outsider, non-human here, so I don't, even coming from a Oh man, I could do it in a song for him. Even coming back from a past priest order, I don't think there's anything that I could do to really appeal to him about that. Plus, I'm also extremely blind. Trapped under the church, waiting for a miracle or a sweet release. That's my plan. I'm going to ask him if I can play him a song. And yeah, I'm going to sing him a ballad about the tortured soul underneath the church whose father was waiting for a miracle that may or may never come and about how they wish the pain would go away somehow. I'm going to do your performance check with advantage. I'll do that. See how well you do with that. 22. 22. Nice. God, it was with advantage. You do see he's somewhat moved by your tale. He definitely puts the pieces together in his work. He'll look at you guys and say, what would you have me do? I can do a lot of radiant damage, bro. I cannot bring myself to kill my only son. He's too important to me. He's already gone. Why do you say that? You can tell he's not ready to go to church with that statement himself. He does not acknowledge that. He's like, I must continue to pray. Well, we are coming back at dawn. We could revisit the conversation then and let him sit on the information for a little bit. Especially maybe after burying somebody who's very obviously dead. Maybe we can try to do something with that. Maybe you can sing another song then. Oh yeah, I'll sing it. I'll sing it for their dad. 100%. Okay, so with that, you're gonna leave? Might as well. We don't have to press him on it yet, because we're gonna be back. And that bitch is still yelling at the windows, you know? Go check on her. All right, so you head out. And I'm hearing you're doubling back to Mad Mary's townhouse? Yes. Mm-hmm, yeah, go. Sorry. So, in fact, you're right. Y'all make it to Madame Mary's townhouse. Is she doing the usual? Yeah, she's still crying. It's very consistent. Is that all we hear is crying? We don't hear her, like, saying any words or anything about the... An intelligible cry. So as you head inside, uh, the front door's not locked. We just went in. I didn't say that. Okay, sorry. Sorry. Do y'all go inside? We knock. We knock. I would knock. You hear the crying continue. Mary? You okay? Anything we can do for you? Mary? The crying continues. Being my size, is there a way I can, I guess they're actually not even just being my size, is there a way we can do a perimeter walk on this one? I know we said, didn't we say like the windows were boarded up? Yep, every single one. But let's, uh. There's no, as you guys like do a little perimeter walk, there's no way inside of the house, other than the front door. Okay. Unless you wanted to unbar a window. I can't just walk in. Can you not? I mean, not, you know, morally. Oh. Not sure if there's a real reason that that moral is a very strong guidance for me, but it is something that I feel strongly about. Yeah. I get that. I get that. Are we able to hear, as we do a perimeter check, like where in the house... Specifically, like if it's louder near a certain window, crying or anything. Anyone who wants to also try to see if they can glean this information, as you all do a perimeter search. 22. 22, excellent. Perception rate, 23. 23, 22. Nine. Nine? Yeah. So, Eridel and Gray can tell... From the crying, the pretty consistent crying, she seems to be on the second story in like a bedroom in the back of the house. Rocks at her window. I mean, it's boards. Yeah. It's like a basically a drum, you know. Little pebbles. Yeah. Trying to get her attention. Just continues. Yep. Unyielding. Please. There's still no animals around? How tightly boarded up are these windows? Quite. Like no air gaps? No, you know what I mean? Not really, in fact it's layered. Okay. Kind of an ad-havid way that it is, but... Can't even like peek through them. Yeah, that's what I was hoping was that like, you know, he could use his familiar to peek through it or something at least. I was also curious if I can use my familiar to like, to be the creature that I use guidance on. Because it says it has to be a willing creature, so I don't know if that relationship... The familiar is considered a willing, like if I ask it something, if it's willing to do it or if it's compelled to do it. You could use guidance on it. I've never thought about the implications of using guidance, but you can use guidance on other summon creatures. So it ends up being a summon creature by the end of the day. Now the implications of the second question you asked, which was-- willingness versus compulsion. - The willingness, now that I don't know, that's a moral debate right there where their willingness are propelled. I think it all comes down to being willing as well. Your allies are usually willing. - You mentioned that, I wasn't thinking about this, but if there's a fireplace in a chimney, is there smell coming out of it? Could we send the familiar down to take a peek in and then report or something? Or... Because I know you've got... Yeah, with your familiar, you've got some pretty good recon power. You're out here playing D&D in 3026, dude. Oh, my God. There's a chimney, there's not smoke coming out of it. So, you know, it's not lit. It could be a way to at least get some insight of the situation inside before we decide if we even want to bother with it. Would you be interested in sending your familiar on such a... I will, yeah. I can send... I could even absolve you morally of anything happening right now. You ready for this? I'd be like, Mary, Mary, keep crying if you want us to come in. Well, the familiar is just a bird. It's not really, you know, putting an ender in space. There's no moral concerns there for me. Well, animals enter spaces all the time that aren't. They don't have the same sense of boundaries. Yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Think about a cat, right? You open up a door with a cat nearby, the cat's just going to go inside. It doesn't have any reason not to. It's like, ooh, this thing's open now. What's on the other side? Go in right. You know? Yeah, right. But I do feel weird about looking myself at what the familiar is looking at, but I'll do it for the party. Yo, Unibirt, who? Bear that burden for the party? Bear that burden for the party. And for Mary, because she's crying so hard. Yes. So as you send your crow down this chimney, it finds itself in a pretty... But it seems like it hasn't been well kept for a while. The furnishings are pretty sparse. As it flies around, it will notice, of course, that Mary is on the second floor in her bedroom. - On the floor of her upstairs bedroom, in the fetal position, touching a metaphor doll, lost in her sorrow and despondency. Touching a doll is always nice. What was the name of that little girl at the house when we first got? I'll find out. All right, so familiar as not seeing any other threats aside from whatever might be going on with Yeah. Are we talking about the girl's name? It's in here? No, it is. You're not worried about that. We're here to have a little conversation. Have a little conversation about the history of things we've done. People's names. So, what are y'all doing? You did keep crying, so I said if you want to keep, you know, you know, you're not able to speak till you're familiar, are you? Nope. You can't cast up spells. Okay, so it's only the windows that are boarded up. The door is not boarded up. It's not? It's not. Do we want to just... Board on in? Yeah, just see if we can open the door. If not, I'll try to pick it. Door is not locked. Alright, we walking in. I think he's seeing if there's any spells he wants to cast via touch. Yeah, nothing at the moment. Yeah, I mean, might as well let ourselves in. I kind of hesitate at the doorway, but go ahead and follow you guys. You can wait at the doorway if you want. We can always cry out for help if we need it. It's always good to have one person a little bit out of the action than I had been doing in the past. Yeah, I want you to hang back in the doorway while we- My familiar's in there to help them anyway, so I can see what's going on if they need me, I can run- You've got eyes on the situation. Okay. Yeah, I don't care about it. So as you guys head in this house and head up, you see exactly what Irinel was describing. As this woman is on the ground crying, So we've just gone in and there's nothing, I guess we're going in on the first floor, there's nothing on the first floor, we're just skipping right up to it. Well, it's a pretty modest abode. They don't really have a lot of furniture or possessions. I figured it was basically just like one big room and then second floor, one big room, that was my guess. More or less, yes. How are you addressing her? I feel like you're kind of standing right next to her as she's crying. a little bit wary of approaching being as her slumped over on the floor is probably as tall as me oh my gosh they're probably high level what would jake was he doing you see she's like holding a are we able to see the doll that she's holding um i know you had said when the With the doll of a little girl wearing a strange sackcloth dress. So many strange little dolls here. Yeah, I'm trying to think what the gray character would do, because it's supposed to be a full neutral character. Yeah, I guess. You're on the first floor. Can you even see what's actually going on? Well, the familiar, right? Oh, yeah. The familiar's in the room. That's true, yeah. So can I have my familiar, like, perch on Mary's head? Yeah. Yeah. - Look at this. Does that. That's how it tries to get her attention. - She seems to not respond to it. Yes. Oh yeah, it's in the fridge. I was going to wait for a little bit later, but feel free to open it. Is your crow doing anything else or just hanging out? So no response. Is there anything else I can do? She's crying. Is there anything else in this room? I know she's pretty much the only... There's no like other there's not like chests or drawers or cabinets or anything like that that we can She is in a single it seems like a bedroom. There will be like a dresser But other than that, there's not a lot of furniture in here Pretty modest bedroom It does seem like a child's bedroom I just want to, you know, it's technically a raven. Good distinction. I do understand that the functionality is probably very similar. There is like... Raven will be quite a bit... Connotations that they change. And also... Yeah, size. Good size raven. Big as hell. So it kind of calls out, well, because like... These guys are trying to figure out what the heck they're doing. It makes bird sounds. She's just not reacting. Maybe like, you said there was a desk next to her? Yeah, I might just... So it moves from her head to the desk and kind of walks around on the desk. I might move around just so that I'm like kind of in front of her a little bit. So I'm like looking at face to face. Is there anything I can see like expression wise on her face and her eyes, anything like that? Or is she like... She's like fetal position against the wall. Against the wall. You can see her face twisted in like a face of pain, but she's trying. She's been waiting this whole time pretty much. And as your raven walks around, there's toys and stuff. Anything like shiny or like important or like have like a special aura that catches its eyes? No. What kind of toys? Like child's toys? Yep. There's no child. You guys have seen... Yeah, how old is Mary? She... How old does she look? She's in her mid-30s, 40s. She's not... She's holding a doll. And there's a bunch of child's toys around the room. That's so sad. If I... If I... waste one of my channel divinities for divine sense do i sense any undead uh celestials aside from my mind my buddy or fiends i'm saying i've got i know desecrated or consecrated objects or nothing of the life At least there's no undead. At least there's no undead in this episode. But I can't, like, detect magic. I can. I was wondering if I needed to use that. I'm not sure. I'm glad you used that first. If there's nothing like that going on, maybe there's something magical going on. I think I should go use it. Might as well, if you want. I mean... What will probably end up happening is whenever we're done with this fiasco, we'll... Rest before waiting for the dawn Because mine is a sir that's right, yeah, I guess it's might as well blow stuff now to China might as well Yeah, I'm gonna go ahead and use detect magic as well Because detect magic It's for the duration. I sense the presence of magical effects within 30 feet. If I sense any effects, I can take the magic action to see an aura around an invisible creature or object in the area that bears the magic. And if the magic, or if the effect was created by a spell, I learn the spell's school of magic. Blocked by, put a stone, dirt, wood, inch of metal, sheet of lead. But yeah, it's within 30 feet of myself and the duration is up to 10 minutes. Is anyone speaking to her? While I got up into her face, I may have said hello. Just being kind of like, hello. Hello. It seems like that hasn't been doing anything anyway as we've been saying things. Getting close. As you go to say hello to her, she'll stop. Crazy. And she'll go look at you. You can definitely see that she's not in a good state, to say the least. Yes. But she will address you and say yes. Could you keep it down? It's past the curtain. It's quiet out. I guess, I don't know what to regard your attention. I'm just going to be the gray that I am, and I'm just going to straight up ask, why are you crying? Because I got her attention just saying hello, being in her face. I'll be like, why are you crying? That's it. My beloved daughter, Gertruda, she's run away. I feel the worst. Missing daughter. He says like little kids toys. Maybe just simple, what's her name? She said her name, but I forgot her name. Intruda? Intruda, yeah. Maybe, what's your name? Because we don't get it without her name. My name is Mary. Oh yeah, that's right. Yeah, I'm dumb. I'm a little high, maybe. Oh no, no. No. Is Jiggles over there saying anything? Yeah, I was watching the interaction go down. I was entertained. But I would ask her. It's me just being like that. It's like, hello? Hey, why are you crying? I would ask her, like, you have no idea where she may have gone? No. None whatsoever, no? Your straw got his hands on him, though. Oh. You should lock your doors. It's kind of a crazy town. I don't know if you know that. I welcome death at this point without my millennial dear true. Christ, I mean, you got any money? I'm going to be, still being the way I am, I'm going to say, like, did you ask anybody for help? Because... As far as we know, it's been three weeks and nobody's come to ask for help, but she also maybe has just been sitting in here screaming and crying. The people in the town keep to themselves. They're all... That's true. That's annoying, but... You've got all these people that's been hearing you scream for three weeks. Anyone who's interesting gets targeted by Straw, and at this point she doesn't care if she gets targeted, so... You know, you know, that's a good observation there. Anyone who's interested gets targeted by a straw man. She's going to start kind of tearing up as you guys are talking to her. What makes you think she was targeted by Strong? He plays on young girls. Oh, what up? Yeah, no thanks. Simple enough. Okay. I've heard enough. Get him in the seat. Shit, she said no clue where she went so she's not gonna be helpful to us anyway No, she's gonna be on the lookout for a Gertruda now and that's a hate her mom's doing freaking nuts in the town go home So people can sleep Yeah, we could tell her that we'll be on the lookout for yeah, we're about to be traveling Thank you Can you describe her more than just her name so we maybe know what to look for? She has brown hair. So she's got brown hair, blue eyes, and she's about 15 years old. Put on an Uber Alert. Every contact stung within the next 50 miles is going to go crazy. Uber Alert? Oh my God, that's oddly appropriate. And y'all don't even know why. So, with that, you say that you're going to try to find her, Trudy. You know, you can kind of see her... Sober up is not the right word. She's going to pull herself together a little bit. That little bit, I hope, can straighten people up real quick. This is true. This is true. I guess we know a little bit about her. Maybe I'm just thinking too much. My thought is maybe if it's not too much to carry, there's something of hers we can bring as proof that, yes, your mom sent us. Maybe something to help convince her to come back. A little trinket, something. If you ask her that, she's going to give you the doll she's clutching. She's like, it was once mine, and I gave it to your Truda. Considering how ugly it is, it's very recognizable and unique. I assume this will do the trick. It is ugly. And that's something that we could just easily just carry in our inventory and it wouldn't really take up space or be too comfortable. For sure. As you go to take this doll, you will notice it's stitched into the hem of its dress. It's a frayed tag, varying the words. It is no fun, it is no blitzky. No fun is no what? Blinsky. B-L-I-N-S-K-Y. Is no fun is no Blinsky. Interesting. Formed on a strange year and where's a set cloth dress? What was it? Say what you just said again. I was typing in my brain. I couldn't hear you and also some of the words I was typing. I gave you a brief description. So the malformed doll has a strange leer and wears a sackcloth dress. Are you guys going to try to ask for anything else? It's going to be a funeral by morning if you're interested. Who's past? The Barry and the Old Burger Man. Oh, no. Not the Burger Master. That's right. Burger Master. My fucking word. I feel like that's exactly how Jables would have said it. Oh, my God. We were trying to pump her, I thought. I thought that was wrong. While they're doing that, does Airedale see anything out on the street? Anything weird going on? Any movement people? Anything? It seems dead quiet. Still as... Still as things that are still. We're just like racking up things to do later. Right, well, I mean, no, I guess we've got something to help us recognize Gertrude and also her to recognize us and maybe potentially help convince her or also just make her angry. Maybe. If she ran away on purpose. Yeah, I don't know. Yeah. Well, Yeah, I guess there's nothing else we can do. Now she's calmed down a little bit. I don't know. Maybe she won't be screaming as much. Even if she is, it's like really as no. Yeah. I'm going to laugh. I'm going to laugh. We walk out the door, we close the door, and as soon as we close the door. - Yeah, I've got nothing else. - Yeah, I don't know what else. I'll look at Eridel's familiar and just kind of be like, you got anything? Just to make sure that they're, you know. They could have at least gestured to me with the crow if there's something, you know. But if you're good, we'll leave them. Alright, you guys leave. I don't know what else to ask. Huh? I just don't know what else she would know. That the other people... Well... This is true. You never know unless you ask, right? Yeah, I mean, I guess that would be the question. Do you know anything else that we should know in this campaign? But I can't really tell you that. Well, yeah, I mean... Rip. That's like a metagame question. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, we asked her the best question possible. Oh my god, alright, you fuckers. So I assume no questions. Unless you just want to ask her a general question. But I assume no. No, I mean, at this point, we told her about the funeral. I guess we asked her... We just got their reaction about the Burgermeister. Is there any other info about that that we could ask her? Were you a friend of old Burgerman? Yeah, I guess let's continue down that line of questioning. Since we got a reaction sheet, at least we knew the guy. Right, it'd be nice to get some information about that family from outside the family. Yes, good call. Let's do that. The Burgomaster was a kind man. He was almost like the mayor of the city, you could say, looking after people. Yes. I know that Ismark is his son by birth, but Ivan is not. Okay. So... Is Ivan, like, his, like, stepson? Adopted. So, not related to Ismark by blood. And notable that Ivan's the only one being target question. So, he wasn't long for this world. How long has Ivan been here? He showed up mysteriously as a child. Okay, this is good See an interesting family dynamic over there. As far as we know, there's nothing else notable in this town to even bother with. Yeah, maybe maybe she would know. Is there who is there anyone in town? Like, the most outgoing individual or someone who actually... Who would you go to for the best gossip in town? Right, yeah, basically, yeah. Like, is there a social butterfly of the town? For the best gossip. Yeah, is there that one lady who knows everybody and everybody's secrets? person? It seems like everyone in the town just keeps to themselves, so that would be like, you know... That would be the coal mine. So, that dice flung itself into Olivia, and that's a problem for later. Um... Um, with that question, she's going to look and say, uh... You know, the Burgomaster's sons would probably be the most knowledgeable with the - That's what I'm gonna do. - Okay. - I have heard rumors though, that there is a Bastani, You can see people's futures and tell your fortune. Interesting. Interesting. Maybe we go pay the Togastanis a visit before we... Because we have to round about some stuff, but that's maybe something a little bit more specific you've got to talk to the right people about. Is there anything more? I'm going to go a little bit more terminated. Is there anything more you know about this rumor? Just that there's somebody? It's a It's an elder. An elder woman. I will also warn you, though, that many suspect the Vistani also served the Devil Strahd. Yeah, they've got something to do with them. They alone are allowed to leave for England. I also noticed there's a raven in this room. You just now noticed? I did just now notice that. You should lock your doors. No, I still think it's alright if death takes me away. But I will say, I know that that raven is real. Never harm a raven, lest go foolish and befall you in Barovia. I will tell you that as well. Good choice of familiar that could be very useful in the future after hearing that. The raven gets a little prideful and like, fluffs itself. I can just imagine it. Puffs up its chest a little bit, looks important for a second. Absolutely. That's funny. Let's go find the Gypsy fortune teller. I'm down for that, yeah. We've got time until, I guess my question is how much time is it now? Because that's important for us. We definitely... It'll probably be only a little after midday because you guys hung out for that four hours. Did not take you very long. We got until sundown, I think. Once it starts getting closer to sundown, I think we should make our way back to the mansion for the night. Because I'm afraid of being outdoors at night around here with all the claw marks and fire marks. Yeah, there's no point in risking. All right, so y'all heading back to the Fergie's mansion? I think we're going to head to... We're going to find the... - The Gypsy portion town. - Yeah, we're gonna head over to the Gypsy camp. We're gonna, the Vistani camp. We're gonna hang out over there again. The place where we woke up, we're gonna be, say hello to again. - So, as you guys head back to that Vistani camp, they are all still there, hanging out. As y'all go to ask them about the seer, Izzik, the person who's been kind of talking to you guys this whole time, is gonna say, "Yes, yes." Oh, yes, yes. Madam Ava. He is going to show you guys where she is on that. Madam Ava? Madam Ava. What's that? A-V-A or? E-V-A? That's what I thought at first. Oh, she's not in the village. Nope. Oh, God. And I actually double checked, a day is more like two of these. Okay. So it would be a couple days travel. So that's a maybe we're going to stop by that seer on our way to actually. Well, I mean, yeah, that is two days of trekking off of the main road, though. Well, it depends. It is. It's technically a shortcut also. Right, but it's dotted. I know, it's not the main road and we're told to stay on the main road. And I'm fine with it. I just want to make sure that we're aware that that's two days of side road, potentially. Yeah. Could be, I was just saying, could be really worth it for such a long travel and with these people that we don't know, we might get some insight from one of their futures that could, I don't know. Yeah, and there may be some level of protection if she's out there anyway, like for that area. It could be at least a little safer than just going straight into the woods. Yeah, what's cool is we can tell when we're there, too. Well, we leave the bar of boning going straight there, actually. Sorry, I dropped the accent. We leave for Madagascar. It's about three days' travel to get there. Actually, no, it's probably closer to four days' travel. Yeah, so we'll get there in about four or five days. Travel with us, travel with us. We need them all. We will have a guest with us, is that okay? That should be fine, as long as they can handle drinking. Yeah, they should be fine. All right, well, again, more things due later. We keep stacking these up. This is okay, huh? We're just getting set up for the bigger area. And what time are you leaving? Because we do have a burial in the morning. We have a burial at dawn. We won't be leaving at dawn. We drink too much. Okay, fair enough. Awesome. Fair enough. Cool. It sounds like we've got a pretty good plan for the next day. Pretty good itinerary. It's getting dark in my lungs. That didn't take too long. Are we just going to... Hang out with these guys a little bit more since we're going to be traveling with them. Maybe. What are they doing? Are they chilling? We should probably go tell the burger guys. Burger guys. Yeah, that's a good point. Is that Bolo? Hey, Ruby. These are not going to let down. - It's already rush time. - Yo, there's fuckin' Harry still. Some of our other groups don't quite, uh... A lot of action, not a lot of game planning. It works in our favor, sometimes. And sometimes it doesn't. We're the opposite. We're gonna, like, now we're gonna clear out everything, and we're gonna be like, okay, do we really want to go in this house, or are we gonna go around it three times, look in all the windows, and then send in a familiar through the freaking... For a single man? Single and safe? Free? He's in his fucking undead son. Ugh. Yeah, that pretty little dead sun is still a problem. That's a very palatable thing of you to say. I came up with a terrible idea. I'm going to explain it to you guys in a little bit. Is it more killing that son? Mm-hmm. Sound and minor illusion. We need somebody to get into my car. That means our stuff's here. We see him in there. We're going to open and close it afterwards. Kill him as quietly as we can. I make this fake. We leave. His son magically, we stage some sort of illusion to make him think that the miracle happened to save his son while actually killing him. That's the end. Because you've got magical illusion capabilities. They may be pretty limited, but if it's just for the instant that we need to make it look like his son had the miracle and disappeared, especially if he's just up there praying and it happens while he's down there and they're just doing it with sound. I don't know. I'm just trying to be crafty. You could try. Hell yeah, we can. I'm just trying to be crafty. Maybe if you like... Use your loot to play some sort of like, heavy sounding song where it gets magically saved. That's just the general, I'm at the early stages of maybe. I mean, he's always deep in fire. He didn't even notice us until we got quite a while ago. I'm just saying, like, I can't really break that lock. I can try to pick it. I can try to pick it. I do have that skill. I just, the big question is how effective the illusion stuff I could do would actually be. Which is something, that's where we can like get into the details and discuss and think about. Because none of it looks like it lasts very long, so it would be like a, it'd have to be technically a pretty quick thing. Like all in one, maybe we kill him and do the illusion at the same time. if we can figure out a way to make it auditorial. Thank you. Let me see here, because I've got... Because what's cool is we would actually have time to scheme this up in the mansion. So, yeah, minor illusion, sound, create a sound, its volume can range from whisper to a scream, can be my voice, someone else's voice, beating of drums, any other sound, continues unabated through the discretion where I can make a bunch of different sounds before the sound ends. So I could stage... I could stage a whole one-minute illusion of some sort of crazy, like, auditory thing happening, basically, with the minor illusion. Using Thaumaturgy, I could maybe do phantom sound or booming voice to aid in that a little bit. Tremors, harmless tremors in the ground, we could add that into it to make it seem like there's some sort of crazy miracle happening. I think it's either we go the route of him trying to make him think the miracle has happened, or... We go the route of murdering this guy and using your illusion so that he thinks that he's still just hunky-dory or whatever until we leave. And then it just disappears. And then if he goes down there and checks him, he's obliterated, but we're gone. It's not our problem. I think those are two solid options. Because either one is totally doable with That's not what I'm talking about. We're gonna kill this kid. Oh. Okay, I'll help. You know, the vampire kid. So, here's my thought, because I have minor illusion and thaumaturgy. Priest is just up there praying. All he can hear is the continued screams. With both of those... I can do things where I could... One, we could either stage the miracle that he's wanting to happen and then kill the kid and just make it seem like the miracle actually happened and his kid's been saved. Or we can kill the kid, make an illusion that sounds like the kid's still there and we're sneaking in, sneaking out, doing this and then we're gone and he still thinks his kid's down there and then we're out by the time... - If the illusion disappears and he doesn't know. - Okay, I have no moral objection to applying capers. - Either of those two options. - In my world view, they enjoy being locked in. - So we can either feed into his illusion or we can just do the selfish thing that we wanna do and kill the kid and then just make it not our fault. - One of the two. I'm also going to get on it. Close the pot. I have an issue with that. Thank you. Yes. That is what was happening. It's probably better if I don't know. I'll find out. Just a little bit of premeditated tomato. Oh, my God. Hmm. I love it. It's so funny. It's a kitty cat story. They call me Mr. Mischief. I'm writing about what it is. After all the things he's done to us, the cruise and everything else, they say write what you know. He's a fucker. I've got lots of material. I have been internally laughing about how much of that has lined up. There's no way he knew what was going to happen in this campaign, but it's like... Yeah, it's like his character's deeply entwined in this story on accident. On accident, dude. There are no accidents. This part's good. But hey, we're hanging out. Key on Pi is fucking... I haven't had some in a minute. There have been multiple years in a row where instead of cake, I have asked my mom to make me quail egg pie for my birthday. I got a Mother's Day cake from an Asian bakery. It was probably one of the best cakes I've ever had in like 10 years because it was like a lemon swirl. A jelly roll. Yes. It was a roll on its side, and it had this really delicious lemon cream. - It was swirls, but on the inside it had lemon jam. So it was like-- - So swirl lemon cake was lemon custard lemon jam. It wasn't overdone, it was all-- - The Asian cakes aren't very sweet, so the tart and the lemon-ness was just-- - Lemon desserts are also really easy to, you know, they're almost always really easy to eat way too much of. I don't feel them in my stomach as much. It was good that we didn't have too much of it, so only one slice. But I still think about that cake at night. In moments of weakness. So the person with Pedro's HIV phase. We all did decide to go back to the Burger Master's mansion and just hang out. Yeah, we've got to fill them in on the fact that we're going to be traveling with those gypsies for a few days. It's Dante. That's the name. We also got to discuss while we're there. Probably not use the derogatory term. We also got to decide. We decided that I think we are going to try to do, like, definitely kill that kid in that instance. Oh, yes. And then somehow we're going to trick the priest. I'm not sure which way we're going to go. But we got to decide which way we're going to go. And also, when are we going to do that? Because we've still got to go through. Yeah, we've got to go through the burial. So we just do the burial, and then as soon as that's over, once he goes back in and starts praying again, we just immediately do that before we skip town? I think so. I'm down with that. Are you going to discuss that in front of Ivan and Ismar? That's a good question. How do they feel about vampires? Because they did, that was the whole reason that His mark was kind of hesitant about going in and everything, right? What's what, the screaming? Yeah, the screaming and everything. He didn't want to go inside once he filled in on the situation. I don't know what y'all think. Do you think we speak about our premeditated murder in Hush Hush? Maybe we talk about it on the way back. We should talk about it in Hush Hush first at least. Yeah, let's talk about it on the way back to the mansion before we get there, and then we walk in and we... Ivan does need to know that there is going to be a period of time where we will not be available between the burial and when we're supposed to meet the party that we're moving with the next day. I imagine that they'll probably want to do the burial and then come back and gather things to prepare for that night. So maybe what we can say is, okay, we'll do the burial, and then you guys go back and prep and meet at the... We'll meet at the gypsy camp. We'll tell them that that should be the plan. So we'll meet at the, um, the Stani camp after you guys get an hour. Yeah, like an hour or two hours or something like that. It won't take very long to do the stuff. All right. We can just keep them out of that. I can take your lady. Thank you, sir. Take it, please. You're awesome, you're awesome. Yes, yes. Travelling together with your own self. Yeah, we're out there. Might as well clear shit. Out there with your right grass roots. Yes. So you guys head back to the mansion. You're going to drink, hang out, eat. Ask Ivan and Ismark any questions. But the day passes. Let me know specifically what you guys want to do over this long rest that you guys are able to take before the next one. Here, they'll try flirting with Ivan again. Yes, he's very handsome. We're going to be together for a while, so why not have some fun? Christ almighty. Alright, sorry, what did I miss? I'm hearing something. No. You'll get it. You didn't miss anything. I guess I've been spaced out looking at the architecture of the rooms, I guess. They're rich. This is a mansion. I'm sure they've got lots of portraits and shit on the wall. Maybe I've just been staring into these. They do have some pretty good-looking furnishings compared to any of the houses that you've been in, especially Mad Mary. She didn't really have... Anything by way of like decoration. Is this my head even? I think it's cash. It's almost cash. I'm going to kill it. But let me actually pull this up real quick. Yeah, that's going to be good. It's about to scream. Thank you. find most things, fineries in here, that you would be accustomed to. Anything particularly of note? Is there like a big family portrait that maybe contains more than just the men of the family that we're seeing? Uh, yes. There is a portrait of all four of them. Is there anything I can maybe glean from that? If I do any kind of like perception check or something or whatever? Since I'm obviously not paying attention to whatever happened over here, I could be absorbed in something. Give me an insight check. Insight check. I wasn't sure which one to do. Insight, okay. And it's in that 20. Oh, wee, wee, wee, wee, wee, wee. As you go to look at this portrait of what you know is the man and woman of the house, plus what you would recognize as Ivan Ismark. But Ivan looks nothing like the rest of the family. Of course, not to y'all's surprise at this moment. But, uh, There's nothing really else to glean from his portrait. Okay. So that would have just been a clue that he wasn't family, but we figured that out already. Oh, okay. Well, I guess after that I'll turn around and then realize that I've obviously missed something. Oh my gosh. But, uh... Dog of shame, dog of shame. The night would pass without incident. Are you guys all sleeping at once? Are you guys staying up and taking a watch? What would y'all do? I think that depends on how things went with Ivan, you know? What would be the performance check? What's the advantage? Performance? That's crazy. 18. 18. 18. That's not bad. That's not bad. How does he do? Did he underperform? You know, sometimes it happens. It happens. He rolled a what? They did say this town was prejudiced against non-human, so... Maybe he was a little bit... He's got performance anxiety for his debut show. He's already been preyed upon by one vampire. He's like, oh god, this is a similar feeling coming over me now. But no, you can definitely tell he's a flirt. As well as being an extremely attractive man. Of course, I'm going to pull his fingers back up. What's that actor's name? I should know this. What? The actor that this is based off of. I'm nervous because I used the prompt to AI generate him. I had to Google it. But, yes. You guys would flirt. You guys aren't going to do it. Do anything other than that, of course. Is it the guy that plays Ross? Yeah, it's Kerry Elwes. Ross or Elwes? Kerry Elwes. No, it's Robin from Robin Hood Men in Tights. Okay. I forget what else he does. He's been in a lot of stuff. He has been in a lot of stuff. That's based on more of like a late 80s, early 90s version of him or maybe mid-90s version of him or something. Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. Are you staying up? Things did go well. Better for you than for him. I'm going to sleep half the night, you know? Okay. Okay. Sleep half the night? Well, you know, he wasn't that into it, so it's not like we're going to do it multiple times, you know? All right, so Iridel. - For the first half of the night and then sleeping for the second half. What's everyone else doing? - I see no reason not to sleep the whole night because it wasn't the whole deal that they were safe here in the house, but they needed protection during travel. So there's no reason to not feel safe here, I feel like. - Yes. - So yeah, I see no reason not to just sleep the whole night. - Okay, so great sleep of the whole night. What about James? - I'm doing my best to sleep based on what I'm hearing. I'm trying. I'm trying to sleep, you know? Oh, roll... Roll a constitution saving throw. If I use a luck point for advantage, do I still get my luck point back after the rest? Sure. I didn't use any during the day. Yeah, I'm glad I used that one point. You said a concert? Thirteen. Thirteen. Way better than a three. You know, you do manage to stuff enough cotton in your ears where you don't hear anything. You try to block out all the thoughts. And you do sleep successfully. Jesus Christ. Iridell, as you are up for the first part of the night, roll me Perceptual Jump. Seven, which makes sense, you know? I'm a little distracted for that half the night. You are. As it gets closer to the stroke of midnight, you're about to turn in and go to bed yourself. You are going to see a green glow illuminate your window. Creepy. That's not good. I go look at the window to see what caused the glow. You open the window? No, no, no. I look through the window. It's a window. I don't have to open it to see what's on the floor. All right. All right. The best kind. You open the window and say, come on in? All right. You are going to notice, because you can see a decent amount through the town through this window, an eerie green light suffuses the graveyard. From this light emerges a ghostly procession, wavering images of dowdy women toting greatswords, woodwise men with slender bows, dwarves with glittering axes, and in our Archaically dressed mages with beards and strange pointed hats. All these and much more... Yeah, all these and more march forth from the graveyard, their numbers growing by the second. So you're gonna notice from your window there is like this line of dead people. Like ethereal people or like... Yes, ethereal, yes. Like ghosts. They're just silently marching down the road. Away from you. Yes, so you would know them to be marching this way. The way that we're about to go. Yeah, I mean, we were told at night, no fires, no light. Yeah, that's true. I think the fact that they're heading away from us, I kind of watch for a minute to make sure that that stays the case and take note to talk to somebody about it in the morning because What else you got to do? Okay. So, you know, as you watch them for a few moments, they're not interacting with anyone, saying anything, showing any signs of, like, emotion. But they march forward nonetheless. Does it look like a religious ritual? Is it something that I would recognize as that? Or, like, is there anything that kind of stirs? It does not seem religious in any way. Okay. It does not seem religious. Yes. Are you able to sleep after seeing something like that? Would you be shaken by that? Half vampire, half celestial. Yeah, not really, yeah. It didn't seem dangerous, it just seemed a little odd. It's something I want to tell people about and ask about. Yeah, it's probably something you can easily suss out whether it's dangerous or not. I'm like, oh, finally, something I recognize. Spirits. Spirits. And they're not hostile, so we're good. At least not right now with us where we are. Which is also why I did not open the window. That would have been so much more fun. For you. Like, um... I don't know. Being a honey for the flies. I think... Okay. Oh, yeah. It's going this way. I changed it up. That one was on me. That's why I was trying to keep... I was like, hold on. I was thinking about it. I was like, wait a second. Yeah. As you see that, take note of what you see. You're able to go to bed and sleep ...for the rest of the night, so everyone gets the benefits of a long rest. I guess I played my instrument for them, but they probably still have the heroic inspiration. I think they used it. Yeah, I haven't used mine at all yet. I've got mine for being a human. Everyone make sure you use your inspiration. Y'all have been rolling pretty well though so far so, you know. Inspiration is just advantage on one roll, right? Like any D20 roll. Yeah. Any roll you choose. I haven't been in a dire enough situation where I felt like I needed it. The good news is you can use it once a day no matter what. So I'll give it to you when you're long rest and stuff. It's just always good if you roll shit, you know, if you roll that shit. Because all I got to do as part of our log rest is play my instrument for us. I might just start using it as like a... Especially in any battles, once anybody starts getting bloodied, I might start using it a little bit more first off. Yeah, if you don't have like a sneak attack advantage, it's a nice way to get another chance for a crit. I do usually have sneak attack advantage though, being what I've been doing. Oh, and I'm going to keep trying to be in their face, so you will hopefully keep getting that chance. Alright. I hopefully get more and more in there. Well, what was my decision to try to be sneaky and long-range? So, as dawn breaks, both Ivan and Ismar are going to accompany you guys to the church to bury the Burgomaster. We're going to see Donovich do prayers and make some offerings to the morning Lord. The overall ritual does not take very long at all. You know, be plucking along, darn it. Very somber me. Make me a performance check of a bitch. Nat 20. Nice. Nat fucking 20. Nice. Yeah. Dude, you're... I'm gonna drop my greatsword in front of this fucking vampire kid, though. So... Shit. Break the hilt or something. You are absolutely... You sing a quite, well, you're not singing, sorry. It's all good. I couldn't be singing. You'd just be singing some, oh, it's in the background while the priest was saying his prayers. So you don't interfere with the prayers, but still give them a go. Thank you. As you know, the dawn breaks and you're burying this dude. And he's got his holy symbol out of the morning lard. And you're praying along with him in this song. The lute is going to light up again and shed like a dim glow. I would give you guys all inspiration, but you already have inspiration. That's what I'm talking about. But yes, Donovich is absolutely moved by your performance and your aim in this burial. He's going to turn to you and he's going to say, that was very beautiful. You wiped away tears. You are free to do what you will now. Ivan and Ismar are going to take their leave. You are going to notice that it does not look like Ivan got a very good sleep last night. Yes, they're going to say, come meet us. We're going to pack and then we'll be on our leave with the study. Before they go, I asked them about the green glowing light procession of... Ghosts. Let's ask if that's something that happens near their house frequently. That makes sense. Okay, we'll see you at the camp. I did it this point. Jables is just like writing down song that you're in. Unable to listen. That was great. The mist. ...for just a moment, seeming to kind of be taking in the morning rays on this kid. Alright, so what are the specifics of how we're going to go down there and kill this thing? Because I almost feel like with his reaction this morning, the inspiration that we gave, maybe I should go talk to him and just be completely real about, like... what my recommendation is. We'll do that first. If he likes it, then we can do it, no problems. If not, we can still do it, and I'll just do the illusion that makes it seem like he's still there, just screaming, and then we can leave, and then he can just... Maybe I can set the illusion to, at the end, make it sound like some divine miracle happened or whatever. Because I've got a full minute that I can do using both of those, so... Alright, so I go over to the priest and have an earnest conversation, acknowledge my half-vampirism and explain that all I want is for his son to experience peace and he should want that as well. Even in not being able to leave the realm in the afterlife, it would be better than starving as a vampire locked in a cellar. with no chance for survival. And we want to help him to release his son to be in the presence of their God, where right now he can never see the son that they worship. So I'm going to roll for how he reacts when you tell him you're a half-vampire. I'm hoping the song can help. He actually tastes it. He tastes that in stride. Nice. Fake the sun. Now, roll me a persuasion check. Can I give him guidance? Oh, you can. Which is a d6? d4. d4. 20. 20? Dirty 20? Dirty 20. Let's see. You will seriously consider... I'm not charismatic at all. My precision's considered. You're not, yeah. Because wisdom is my skilling factor. I've got a minus one. He's going to ask you, half vampire, do you not deal with the thirst, with the madness? Fortunately, that's not one of my common side effects. Is there no way for him to live that kind of life? I have not found one. Now you know. He is going to think very, very hard. And as he hears his son yell one more time on him, he heard from the graveyard, which y'all are standing in. He will agree. He's like, maybe it is his time. We're going to go return to the morning morning. He will consent. That makes it a lot easier. Yeah, I don't have to try. It would have been cool to try my illusion stuff, but we don't have to. Am I aware of any particularly humane ways to, like, off a vampire? Is there something maybe we could coordinate? Like, if they're willing, it's, like, not as bad for them. We don't have to just, like, smack damage at them. Uh, you would think that a willing creature would let you, like, do... - A lethal hit, there's not really anything rules is written on that. We'll cross that bridge when we get there. - Okay. - My thought was gonna be, otherwise we could try to make it as quick as possible and-- - I could try to make it pretty quick. - Yeah, we have a lot of, we have a lot of range. - I actually have some decent, I actually have some decent range stuff that I could do. That would be useful too, so we could like, my thought was just coordinate as much attack and just try to do it so that we all attack at the same time and reduce the time that we suffer. I mean, anything that we do is better than an eternity starving in a basement cellar. I would like to think we have the capability to make it be over in a flash. So... We might feel kind of bad if we find a way that we could have saved him at the end of the day. But the priest didn't consent. And I was honest. I didn't say that there wasn't one. I said, well, not that I have found. He is going to give you the key to that lock. And he is also going to say, I cannot bring myself to take part in it, but... Make his suffering as little as possible. You have our word. I assume you guys are pretty much going to go straight to that basement. Yeah. We got things to do. Don't look at all of those names. Look at the many, many names. Okay. All right. So, I assume you guys are going to go straight down and straight in. I don't see any reason to hesitate at this point. We need to be quick about it. Yeah, I mean, not that quick. I probably won't wake up until like 11 or 12. True. The church's undercroft has rough-hewn walls and a floor made of damp clay and earth. Rotting wooden pillars strain under the weight of the wooden ceilings. Candlelight from the chapel above slips through the cracks allowing you to glimpse a gaunt shape in the far corner. So, I'm gonna go ahead and put y'all's minis where they would be at the top of this staircase. If you guys want to go ahead and specify your marching order or who is actually going down and down. I'll go first. Yeah, I'll be right behind. This Is it gonna be dark down there as we like open the door? It's pitch black. So do you want to cast light on my shield again as we have done? Yeah. In the oven. Yes, I will. Because y'all can see, I think. Y'all both have dark vision. Yeah, neither of us has a problem. If I stay... If I stay at the top of the stairs does that give me a little bit better for like a vantage point to see from my ranged attacks? Or would like the railing be in the way? Is that something I would need to consider? Uh, you would be fine railing wise. It's a- I mean, because I'm also 3'6", so I would probably be like head high to the top of the railing at best. My thought is that maybe as you guys go in I might stay kind of towards the top of the stairs just so I have Good. As clear as I can vision of the whole room for my ranged attacks. Okay. If need be. One thing you would also notice is that the screaming would stop the moment you guys slipped into the basement. Yeah, I just thought about this, but maybe the food source shouldn't be in front going into this. What, me? Yeah, because you're a human. Why would it be? And it's a hungry vampire. Okay. What is it? Is it cash? Yeah, it's cash. It's toast. Hopefully it's some sort of... Okay, so do we see him? You do. He's behind your tablet. He's over here in this corner. Oh, okay. Yeah, I was about to ask if it's chained up or anything, or would you see it? He is not chained up. He's just down here loose. I'm so glad we did this. Oh, shit. He is so loose. Yeah, I just kind of assumed maybe chained up. I did not think to ask a priest before we did anything. I like try to talk to him. I call out his name. Yeah, from where we are right now, I just call out his name and start explaining. Should we ask what his name was? I thought he told us. His name is Donovich, but I don't know if you asked his son's name. Yeah, I don't know that we actually asked it specifically. I call out that Donovich sent us. and ask him his name. - Say your father's name. - What's your name, boy? What is disadvantage again? You roll two dice and take the lower. Didn't think about asking the kid's name. Probably because we decided pretty early we were going to kill. Hilarious right around the same time. Five. Five. You are going to hear... I don't cast Shield of Faith on myself. to bless us. There's a note I've got my bow up and drawn. Well, maybe not fully drawn, but like up and ready to draw at any moment. Just as a thing for what I'm doing and being cautious back there. He's gonna start walking up a little bit and find a pillar. I try calling out again like, hey, we're here to help you. I'm going to touch my familiar and use guidance. Is that cool? It's cantrip at will. On yourself? Yeah. Yeah, you can. Sorry. You said my familiar. That's what... Yeah, you touch a willing creature and choose a skill. So I'm using my familiar to touch a creature. Okay. Okay. And that's plus a d4. - I feel like I've tried but I can't. Did you move into the room? Yeah, I moved down to just the bottom of the stairs and kept my back to the wall. What else are we looking at? So that's Jables, this is Gray, and this is Iridar, right? Yeah. How far can I move? So each of these is five, and you should probably have like a thirty, so... Thirty, yeah. Can you move fewer? I'll kind of move to this, like near this pillar right here, right up against it. there. Yeah, I think that's fine, because Gray's got my back from there. You can plainly see that this dude is like wrapped in really soiled garments, tattered, hair unkempt. Your typical greasy looking starved and ragged kind of deal? Precisely. Precisely. One more chance to like, I mean, I guess, unless you guys would address him again, he would continue to kind of go behind this pillar right here. Oh, yeah, there's that. I've got a blind spot of gold over into that corner. But that doesn't matter so much. Because to get to anybody, he has to get into my line of sight. To get to anybody, he has to get into my line of sight. So I think it's still good if I stay where I am. Yeah, that's amazing. I would try one more time something along the lines of don't lose yourself to the hunger. Okay, can I do the guidance thing again? Yes, but you can just touch yourself and give yourself guidance. Oh, because I'm a creature. Yes. That's what confused me the most about what you said. Word. I got it. To give guidance. Yep, that tracks. Okay, cool. That makes sense. Probably not going to be lower. Yeah. Three. Three? I watched it happen. Yeah. Could have been a two. As I ready my shield and hold my sword, I look at him and say, my sword says the same thing. I'm going to remark out loud that like, hey, I'm just playing back up here. Let me know what to let loose. And I don't know if you guys want to keep continuing to try and persuade. I'm ready to... Do we have anything on us? Start letting fly at any point. So I also... I'm basically just ready to hit him whenever he gets close enough as my own. If he, unless he keeps his distance until initiative starts. It's funny that you say that because he is going to say, I can't take it anymore. And he's going to rush and attack. But we're going to roll initiative. Initiative. Very nice, very nice. Hold those numbers in your head real quick while I push this up. Decide what's going to be the most useful thing to do with my first move. So this is number and this is type of dice? So four d6s. Okay, so. Yeah, guiding both the hits. I'm considering trying out Chromatic Void for the first time as my first attack here. How do I, 'cause I know that it was, if I'm not correct, I get to choose what effect I'm wondering how do I choose that? I think you just declare it. Yeah, you just declare it, I believe. Yeah, because, I mean, on here there's a way, like, it seems like it's defaulting to acid. Ultimately, Grace is tracking it. That's true. I was just thinking, like, from my experience. Yeah, I think if you click it on that list, it probably switches. It would be my guess. But I haven't had to do that yet. And then the... Oh, yeah. Mine... You got an Eclosive. Seven. Seven? Yeah. Damn. Six. Zew! Oh, jeez. That's cool. So, you know. At least he gets to go first. Not surprisingly, it's great to double up. Yeah. Alright, so what were the options here? And this is a vampire, so what would be the best thing to do that? Probably Radiant or... Which doesn't exist for that one, sadly. No, I don't know. I've got fire, acid, I've got lightning, poison, thunder. Thunder is different from lightning? Yeah. It's more like concussive force. Okay, that makes more sense. I was thinking, is it talking about actually the sound of thunder, like the concussive force? - Kind of thing, 'cause it's a shockwave. - Yeah, I don't know if any of that has any extra effect other than the extra effect that it would have. - I may just go with fire on the off chance that he catches fire, 'cause that would be fun. Yeah, I'm gonna do that. Yeah, that's my first attack. I'm just gonna try out this since I've just learned this attack. I have been standing back there with my bow poised, but oh wait, no, I've got silver arrows. Does that do more against vampires? How much more does that do against vampires? It does an additional, what, d6 against the undead? Okay, so that would be 2d6 plus 2 versus... The Quranic word is 3d8s, though. I'm still just gonna try Chromatic Warp because I want to try it, so... Alright. And it's with advantage, so I roll twice to take the highest? Is that correct? Yes. I just want to make sure I have some added advantage. If it's... Nice. 20. 15, and I chose fire. All right, 15 fire. Nice. That's all I'm gonna do at this point. I'm just gonna say. - I'll wait for you guys to . I don't think there's anything else I should do. I'm gonna stick where I am. 15 solid. - Yeah, no doubt. - I'd be bloody. - Yeah, no doubt. - Is that your turn? - Yeah, I'm just gonna stick there for my turn. - Okay. If that takes it to him, who rolled better than a six and a seven. We'll skip him. You can hit it next. He takes two attacks? He does. He takes one of them with disadvantage, and then he's a what type? - Go something, actually. - Is it advantage? - 'Cause we have less, we have less, right? Just a reminder that we are still blessed. I don't think you got the hit. You sat down and you had your mouth full. It was just there, you know, I couldn't not. Second one is 24. 44. I'm going to deal some slashing damage to you. you He's going to deal 9 slashing damage, and you are now grappled. Grappled? Okay. Fuck that, I don't even matter. He's then going to use Fight. It's actually, it's a constitution saving throw. Yep, constitution saving throw. You just have to grab it. You should grab it. So a con save? Yes. Yes, purple board. DC 14 con saving throw. Let me use my inspiration for some advantage. Do you do your d4? Oh. Do what? I said do you do your d4? Just to make sure I understand what you're talking about. So for spell slots, that's like any time I use one of my first spell slots? You can only use them for slots that have just long rest or whatever it says on the spell? Precisely so. Just wanted to make sure. That's what I thought. Do you want to pass me some tricks? There's a moment coming. Am I you? What was your, uh, say? I think it's gonna be just below. I think it's 12. Damn. So... A real horrible wow. Take five additional piercing damage. And you're also going to take ten to chronic damage. The 10 necrotic. Yeah, yeah, yeah, I'm bloody, but I'm up. Your hit point maximum is also unfortunately going to decrease by the 10th. Okay. When that happens, is that just until a long rest? Yeah. Okay. Because I know that's happened a few times. That is going to be his turn, which is going to take it to Iridel. You see Jables get the best. So I'm going to use... I'm gonna go ahead and use the level 2 guiding bolt. That's... Oh, sorry. 16 for... That's just enough to hit. Word. So then it's 5d6. Yeah. That's hilarious. Yeah. I walked by and I was like, wait a second. Yeah. It's AI Wednesday from the Netflix show. Did you? Yeah. Which is perfect. 13 radiant. Nice. That's he, woman. He's definitely still kicking. Oh yeah. Um, and then I use Healing Word as my bonus action. I'm a boy over here. Okay. Is Healing Word a leveled spell? Yes. But I only have level one. Well, I like his Guiding Bolt. It's awesome. Oh, I can't do two level spells at the same time. As much as I'd love healing. Uh, hold on. Am I within? Hold on, where is that? The only bonus action I have is produce flame. Okay. James. *Decisions decisions* You are in the grips of this uh... individual. I do get advantage on my attack from the gunning port though. You do. This one is. I gotta hit him just as hard as I can. That's what I think. That's probably a solid option. I want to kill him. You don't have disadvantage hitting him on the back, which is interesting. I know, which is great. I actually have advantage. During my attack action, I'll go ahead and get it started. I'm going to use Channel Divinity to do Sacred Weapon. So... Because it's on attack action, do one of my channel divinities to imbue my weapon for 10 minutes. I get to add my charisma modifier to my attack rolls. And you can choose to deal normal or radiant damage with the weapon. It also emits light. 20, 20. I can do it early if I want. Interesting. Would you like to hit this alien limit? Man. It actually tastes pretty decent. It's going to end up being like... 21, 24, 26 to hit. No, I had a feeling. Yeah. I had a feeling. Now I gotta think about if I want to smite it or heal myself. I am pretty low on health. Yeah, it's uh... I'm not going to lie. It's not stopping as well. I didn't think it would. you Oh, dark shit. I suppose I guess it's... Three radiant damage and all bonus action heal myself to my current maximum I will try Unfortunate wording there. Yeah Is that your turn? I spit Great. Directly in its mouth So. I'm gonna try a fire bolt. I'm gonna do that once. Just for the sake of doing more fires since I threw a fire chromatic orb. Okay. You can do it in my role. Actually, before I do that, I do want to mention that as my bonus action, I'm gonna use Steady Aim to give myself advantage. Just in case I didn't already have it. I'm not sure if I did it or not. Does that apply to magic spell attacks? Actually, no, that's a good question. I don't know. It just says advantage on the next turn. It doesn't say anything about... But also, now that I say that, do I even need it? Yes, yeah, because I don't get sneak attack or anything like that. - Want to be made a damage. I think yes, actually. It doesn't have to say it's not a magic attack roll. Yeah. I never even found any indication of that. Specifically, yeah, it says as long as it uses an attack roll. Wow! At least what I saw from Quick Goodle and whatever that AI says. Cool. I don't need that. So I'm going to do that. So that means I get two rolls wise for my fire. You may not even need it. It's just 22. Yeah, 22. Definitely hits. Definitely hits for a minute. I didn't even include the blast, but yeah, that doesn't matter. At least 23. Only ended up doing five. Okay. Is that your turn? Let me take a look. Nobody's really moved at this point, have they? No. No. No. All right. I think I'm done playing with magic, but yeah. I'm going to stop doing that at this point, and I'll just stick with my... I don't know what's going on. I'll wait. Take two, you boy. Who is going to... He's only got one thing he's gonna do. He's gonna try to continue his onslaught against Jables. He is going to try to hit you with both claw attacks. There's one. Low. It's not going to hit. Second one. What's your AC? 21. Oh, both of them are not going to hit. Both of them are very low. So he is unsuccessful there. He is going to try to bite you again. So DC 14 con saving throw once again. I'm going to use A luck point? Good time to use a luck point. - Were those both low? - Yeah. That one rolled off again. - You can re-roll that one since it rolled. I'm rolling a tray, yeah. - Oh well, actually that's gonna be 14 exactly. - Okay, so that does make it. That does make it. - It would have been another 13. - Man, oh man. - I'd still have a little bit of max though. Yeah, shhh. I'd have a little bit. So, you don't take any on the pass, so you managed to completely avoid the onslaught this round. Thank you. That takes us back to Ghirardot. Um... I think I'm gonna switch back to my bow and... Are you still bloody? I am technically at full health. Okay. And then the leveled spells, that's just one per round, right? Right, right, right. But I can use all of my slots until a long rest. Yeah, yeah. Yeah, the spell slots replenish on long rest. That they do? Yeah, that's why I'm not... Some classes can replenish some during short rest. That's why I'm not willing to do another chromatic war. No, he's not. No. I don't know that we'll be able to long rest necessarily on the road, although I guess once we finish the first day's travel. Yeah, but I get a fair number of slots. Yeah, you've got one right now. I guess for my action, I'll just go ahead and hurl this flame that's in my hand because it's just sitting there, you know, I've got to get rid of it. Okay. 9 To hit. I'll go ahead and pass. What'd you hit him with? Nothing. Nothing? Attempted to hurl a flame, but unsuccessful. He was gonna let some fire on this guy. Fire is... Can you have more than your max health in health? You can. So you can give yourself both temporary hit points and increase your hit point maximum with the aid of certain magic. Okay. And how do you know if that applies? So, like, any time that there's healing, you can overheal? No, it has to stop. Okay. But if it's regains, then it can't be over here. Yeah, I probably am. I'm just seeing if I can do anything to give myself. You want to use your action to escape his grapple. Okay, as well. Superb, man. Thank you. on that stupid first attack and all the goddamn 24 I fucking hate this guy um those last three though were not good too sorry Yeah, I guess I'll try and break his grapple for now. Is that something I can choose to help with? Or would I have to have like said that I was gonna try to help? You would also have to be a little bit closer. Okay. Yes, you might have been able to specify something like that. Okay, yeah. My thought was like to jump in and help and after helping disengage, but I don't think I can do the move since it's not my job. 14. I would have had to be there. DC 13. So you escape his grapple. Son of a bitch. Oh. If only I had cool bonus actions. That is the thing, right? I don't right now. That is the thing. I think I have to just use like a bonus action spit in his face. That's a real big one. Yeah, like I'm... Alright, alright. Cool. I... I am going to shoot my bow here, my short bow, and I should already have advantage for... Is sneak attack advantage? Or... No, I need advantage to use sneak attack, right? But he's attacking... I should have had advantage, right? I'm so confused. Yes. Yes. His attention is fully on James. Oh, I don't need advantage if now I'm in five feet. Okay. So, yeah, I'm going to do my bow and have that be sneak attack. He's trying to get rid of the psyche-sexy dick. He's going to have to latch back on. You know, he's going to fucking try. But he's going to get real gray. That's a 10. Dang it. Dang it. Oh, no, I did not include it. It's less than a D for it. That adds two. What was that? So 13. 13. Also known. Valiant attempt. - What'd you do? Yeah, I don't see any reason to go any closer now that Jables has broken free. Alright. So, yeah, I guess that's it. I'm just gonna miss with my belt. So, upon it becoming its turn, it's gonna take both of its claw attacks against Jables once again. You said 21 is your AC? Mm-hmm. You're lucky bastard. His first one's an unnatural 20. The next one is at 18, so both of his claw attacks will miss. Praise be to the sun. Praise the mighty God, here we go. I'm gonna use a level one guiding bolt. My man, my man. - That's 10. Inspiration. Oh yeah. I got my inspiration, I could use that. - It's a good time to use it. - So I can use it right now? - Yeah. The lucky feat you have to declare beforehand, but inspiration you can choose at any moment, you just have to decide before damage dice are rolled. Or any kind of end result is decided. - So that would be a 17. - Yes, that does hit. - Yes. - Man. My man. I've seen one hell of a song later. 21. Radiant. Wow, nice. All right, he's bloody from that. No one else is bloodied right now, right? I'm not. Nope. I have nothing. So, Jables doesn't look bloodied. He looks like, yes, his very vitality has been slightly set. So he... He's a different kind of not alright. However... Wait, that's his turn. It's your turn, Erica. Can I have my familiar just try to distract him? The, uh... Enemy? Help action? Absolutely. I will give the next person to attack an advantage. Oh, wow. The guiding bolt already gives me advantage. Yeah. That's really the only use of the familiar, although it's an excellent use. Okay. So that would be good next time, or... Yeah. Because it's just the next person that goes, right? And the familiar always goes when I go. You would think, because, like... Would it apply to like both of the advantages would be used at once or like one advantage would be used and then the other advantage would be used afterwards? Like two different instances of having something have an advantage. We'll discuss that later. But it applies now, right? Are you having your familiar use of health action even though Guiding Bolt happens? If so, who will cross that bridge now? If not, we won't. I mean, I can do the help action every turn, right? So, I might as well, to figure out what happens in that situation, you know? There's only one way to know, is to do it eventually. Is it going to be like a double advantage, you just add one dice or something? I would say it's double advantage. That just makes it easier to think about. It does. So, like, what, three? Because then you could stack it. No, so... So, you just add one extra dice, so you would... Roll three total. I was thinking that the next two attacks would add a Q. So yeah, just Qs it. It adds it to the Q. Yes, instead of both of them being consumed. See, that I can 100% get behind. I'm fine. But, your turn, your turn. Yes. Jace. Spraggan. Captain. Son of a bitch. Son. dog shit rolls mount daedalus i rolled all the 20s already i told you i told you when it comes to playing the lute you would be getting oh my god yeah but uh right now that's how we should have persuaded him i thought about that Again, it's not the end of the game. I could stare at my spell this long during the battle. Is that your turn? I guess so. Great. All right. He probably spits at the end of his turn. Yes. Sadly. It's a sad spit. He does it because he has to. That's what they all say. So, just to make sure, I do not currently have the advantage. You technically do. Do you have one more advantage? Oh, okay. Well, you have advantage anyway because Jables is standing right next to him. Yeah, he's attacking me. Okay, so that actually automatically just gives me advantage. I know it automatically gives me the sneak attack, but that's just extra damage. Anytime you get advantage, you have sneak attack. Okay, so I just wanted to make sure. So I'm not going to bother. Sneak attack's like an augment to advantage with rogue. Pretty much. Yeah. Way too much. Because I also have steady aim and all that does is give me advantage. It just means that I can't move. But that could be good if I'm actively fighting somebody. I was trying to think about how I needed to use that, so I'm not going to bother with that. You've got a lot of fun ways of using it. Yeah, exactly. I'm just going to go ahead and roll twice for the short bow. And 21. Yes! Yes! All right, so let's do that. And this is sneak attack so I can actually get two of these. So five plus two is seven. How many rounds of the spider are we? This is going to be like round four. Yeah, I'm just going to turn that for now. I have nothing else that I can do that would be useful. Actually, I might. If we're going to stick with the. I might take a cue from Jables disrespect and for my bonus action. I'm actually going to. conjure an invisible mage hand and backhand. Excellent move. Excellent move. I like that. I like that. It's funny that your main hand is invisible yet. I can't even see it. Yeah, that's the best part of the disrespect. Me just being him, just like invisible disrespect. Excellent. I'm glad to see Jables being a bad influence. That was the whole point is that I was going to try to take influence from you. Kind of lean away from my pure neutral to maybe a little bit more. Chaotic neutral or something is what I've been heading for. Because I'm true. Because I started out true neutral. I'm trying to maybe go chaotic neutral or something like that. Just a little bit more towards the chaotic direction. Well, in good fashion, this vampire spawn is going to take its two attacks against you, James. Prepare yourself. Oh, wow. They're both bad. Good. I need that. I need that one. - Drop his fingernails or something? - I was thinking about that. He's gonna go prone and he's just gonna use half of his move that's being the stand back and go again. He's woefully unsuccessful. Irredo. I guess, you know, guiding bolt, right? Does that have advantage or did the queue get cleared? Including his allies being right next to us. 19. That hits. That hits. Looks like everyone's able to hit except the vampire and Jables right now. Jables is... We're like at point-blank range. Just missing. 10 radiant. Getting hit from other sides. That's... And radiance. Swing it with this advantage from the fucking guiding bolt. I don't got anything else to give myself that so I'm appreciative. I will be taking it for myself. That's gonna be a lot. Okay, 22. Yes, yes, you landed the check. That's more than 24. Yep. He's getting smithed. You smitten him? I have to. I can't go this long and not smitten him. So it's going to be a Divine Smit. A Divine Smit. I'm going to assume he takes that extra 1d8 for being undead. Yes, he certainly does. So my sword will do 5 radiant, and then... The dungeon obviously still in question. No, it's actually a basement. You're having a dirty dunk out in a basement. I'm good, but thank you. That looks really good. And then 16 radiant. 16? That is literally one point enough to murder this guy. He was smitten. You do. You smite him down with Divine radiance as he crumbles to the ground. Good job. I wonder if I'm not even going to feel bad if we find a way to play. So if he gets his claws in you, things can go south like real quick. But You never know, right? He could just roll single digits. Four turns in a row. That's what I'm saying. Her voice is way too sweet. I don't know. I don't believe you. Mine? Mine. Me? Nah. - Your pure at all times. Pure as a mountain stream. - Good job guys. - That easy is mine. - I did just get spit actually. - It's full on spit. - My thought is We did get permission from the priest, and he was all like, yeah, maybe it's good to lay him to rest. Do we want to leave it to the priest to have to deal with his body now? Well, what happened to the body? Yeah, we got time. Yeah, what happened to the body? Is it still there? Is it still there? Are those divine smile, like, does it reduce you to death? It doesn't say. Okay. Well, then he's still there. Okay. Do we want to help a little bit with that? Do we want to at least bring it up? Do we want to... Is there like something identifying on the body that we can take and be like, okay, and at least be, I don't know, if we want to talk to him again or do you just want to? Yeah, I mean, do we want to ask him? Yeah. Then we could offer to help. We could ask him. I mean, we probably still got a little bit of time before we got to. Yeah. They're not going to leave without us. I don't imagine that battle. We'll see him on the road if they do, you know. Yeah. Okay. I assume you guys are going to go back upstairs and then we talk to Donovich. Yeah, we'll go back up there and be like, hey. - You wanna, okay. - We've laid him to rest in one way, do you want us to help fully lay him to rest? You guys. I'm going to say thank you. I laid his soul to rest and now I'll tell him to lay his body to rest. Don't worry about the rest of the preparations. I will make sure he's very done. Alright, so we're good to head out. You guys would be good. You guys would be good. I thought I was going to kill Jables right there. Well, I didn't even worry. Yeah, that's something I'll say. Well, I didn't even worry. He would have seen my greatsword glowing when he came up as well. It glows for the ten minutes unless I don't want it to. Very nice, very nice. Lady Gracie has a longsword. The greatsword is too keen. If you failed the con one more time, I'd give you an 8x help. If you failed it again, I was going to roll. I've been taking averages. So... That's such a fucked encounter, because that vampire spawned at 90 health. That's crazy. It's a lot of health. And then reduced your max health. He would have also healed his health. It was a chronic damage. He reduced your max health. Are you fucking kidding me? Because I played this campaign briefly way early on, and Jacob straight up was the morally good character in our group. He volunteered to go down there himself, alone. I don't know why we let him go down there alone. It's because the dad really didn't want us to play. The DM was a bit more of an asshole at the time as well. So Jacob straight up died to that dude down there while we were all watching. To this day, I'm like, oh my god, it was a very traumatic moment. That could easily be like, yeah, okay, I'm going to eat your bread. I'm going to make you watch. But don't worry. There will be no more encounters like that. Oh, yeah. That's the only one. No more. The only one. Take my word for it. Don't be offended when I don't. I sit here with my new max out. Welcome back, welcome back. The conversation with the priest was brief. He volunteered to handle all of the arrangements and bid you all farewell in your journey. Anything else in particular before you leave? Is Mark and Ivan? Is there anything else that interests us in the city? Anything that we want to go check out before we're on our way? What time is it? It would still be kind of in the early morning. Battles are very, very quick. And you guys bury him at dawn. Or bury the dude at dawn. So it's like if that fight was less than a minute. Bet they're not awake yet, based on what they said last night. Oh yeah, at the camp, yeah, they're probably, they'll be awake until the, the sun has been up for quite a while. Plus they've also got to, as they're being in camp, they've got to pack up their camp before, yeah, so. You're probably going to wait for them pretty safely. Yeah. That's a, We said we were going to meet at the camp, right? Yeah. Yes. We can go over there and just kind of hang out and maybe help them out packing up and then just wait until the meeting. Nothing else to do. Just head over there and wait. You can do just that. Yeah, town's kind of... It's picked through. - They seem like lovely people. - Yeah. - Like that merchant. - I think we've seen what we needed to see. If I go back into the merchant's place, I'm gonna get in trouble. - But you're easily able to join the Vistani in their camp as they pack up, get ready, and all of you guys hit the road. - Is our boy Ismark? - Yeah, Ismark and Ivan. So, as you guys travel, with the Bastani in your company, you travel without incident the entire way. It does take one day, two days. You can go ahead and restore your man's health. Anything you guys want to do, stay during this time? I'm just going to run a long rest. It would take like five days pretty much to get here. I mean, we have casual conversations with everybody and the thing, right? Yeah. Are we going to mention to Ismark and Ivan that we know that Ivan's adopted, that we found that out? Or are we just going to kind of let that be mentioned by them at their pleasure? Because we do, we learned quite a lot from... I mean, I feel like that's a personal decision, you know? Do you want to ask about it or not? No, so we'll just leave it to them to bring it up. I'm not going to say anything. Unless there's some situation where it makes sense to mention it and Gray would just blindly say it. you Like 7.45 we got a call so I can head home to feed my cat. Sounds good. Sounds good. We've got just enough time to do this. This is a good little encounter right here. Not how bad. No, I shouldn't have said that. - You guys, after traveling in the night, would find yourselves at this camp. With Vestandi all around, tents, I believe, you would find a camp kind of at the side of the river that y'all have been traveling right next to. They are, of course, gathered around, not surprisingly, drinking, sharing stories, - For some reason having a fire at night, even though we were told not to do that. Not on the road. You would be joined in the company of twelve Vesandis, standing and sitting around the fire, telling stories and good, like wine. If no one wants to tell a tale, there would be one Vista in particular who would tell one. Would you all allow it? Yeah. I just want to make sure Jael did one of our galas as well. I'll listen. Use this as fuel for a new song. A mighty wizard came to this land over a year ago. I remember him like it was yesterday. He stood exactly where you're standing. A very charismatic man he was. He thought he would rally the people of Barovia against the devil Strahd. He stirred them with thoughts of revolt and bore them to the castle in mass. When the vampire appeared, The wizard's peasant army fled in terror. A few stood their ground and were never seen again. The wizard and the vampire cast spells at each other. Their battle flew from the courtyards of Ravenloft to a precipice overlooking the falls. I saw the battle with my own eyes. Thunder shook the mountainside and great rocks tumbled down upon the wizard. Yet, by his magic, he survived. Lightning from the heavens struck the wizard, and again he stood his ground. But when the devil's straw fell upon him, the wizard's magic couldn't save him. I saw him thrown a thousand feet to his death. I climbed down to the river to search for the wizard's body to see if, you know, he had anything of value, but the river had already spirited him away. Nice. Epic DBZ battle, basically, is what it sounds like. True story. It was there. It was there. Anyone have anything else they want to add? Any stories they want to regale these with? You gonna sing a song? You gonna sing a song in this campfire? Yeah, I'll play. I'll play them a song. I'll play them a song, you poo. I'm gonna sing them a song about a priest who lost his son to vampirism, who was then smited down by the handsomest paladin you've ever seen. Oh my god. Maybe a performance check with advantage. That's a 21. 21. Nice. Always getting high rolls on these performances. My God, I know, right? You absolutely brawl the pistana around the fire as they hear this tale. You know, Ivan and Ismark are also like, Is that what you were performing like? But they're not going to be offended by that at all. That's what happened. You'll gain inspiration. You already have it. I will inspire my fellows by playing my instrument as is tradition. I felt very inspired. After telling that tale, the Vistana that told the tale before you guys said it was actually the hero's tent. Madame Ava is waiting for you in her tent. And it is the large tent right here that he gestures towards. You guys gonna go see our futures? Let's do it. Is this including, is Mark and Ivan? No, just you four. Or you three, sorry. Okay. Just you three. You might have thought it would be interesting to have them included in the gates of incisor. So, magic flames cast a reddish glow over the interior of this tent, revealing a low table covered in black velvet tassels. Glints of light seem to flash from a crystal ball on the table as a hunched figure peers into the depth. As the crone speaks, her voice cackles like dry weeds. At last, you have arrived! Cackling laughter bursts like mad lightning from her wicked lips. She ushers you in. Hi! Come sit, sit, sit, sit, please. I've been expecting you for a while now. Expecting us? Yes, yes, yes. Ever since you entered this domain. I'd like to know your futures. What's the cost? Oh, for free, for free. Nothing's free. Oh, no, the knowledge will wait and take its own toll, but the cost of my reading is free. I like that that's your very first, very quick question. There is no hesitation. I was like, okay. So... I guess I could be interested in my future. Are you seeing me off in set yet? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, don't. Oh, wait, we're not doing it. So, let me read this real quick to make sure I do this right. Cool. So... Go ahead and draw me some cards. Do what? This is a card reading she's about to do for you guys. To the sacred future. Have fun. Yes, it actually will be very fun. I love this. - The first person on the deck, y'all will draw me three cards. of us or one card each? That's up to y'all. Okay, so. Don't look at them, you just, yeah, just hand me three cards from right there. I don't know the best way to hand it to you guys over this large table, but I'm going to fan it out. Are we going to do one each or does one of us feel lucky and have to pull all three? Pick a card. That's up to you all. I'm definitely pulling a card. I'll do, yeah. I think it would be best for everyone to pull one. Excellent. Hold on to that real quick. You said don't look at him yet? Don't look at it yet. I'll place it in the middle and there's a whole thing we're going to do. Do you guys hand me that card without looking at it? Or hand me that card? Then you're going to draw me two cards from this portion of the deck. Feels lucky for a second time. Only two people this time. Yeah, go for it. Your watch, Dayton. The universe is talking to you right now. All right. So each of you guys hand me that card without looking at it as well. Thank you. Thank you. So So she's going to flip over a single one of these cards. This card tells of history, the knowledge of the ancient will, or the knowledge of the ancient will help you better understand your enemy. Master of coins. Let me look that up real quick. She lays this card down and names the Master of Coins. She says, "I see a nest of ravens. There you will find the prize." Let me know if I need to repeat anything. What was it that you said before you flipped it over and said that it was Master of Coin? There was the history slot. History slot, okay. I knew I was missing something important. The history of the ancient. I will read it all again. We actually pull it up right here so it will be on two. This card tells a history. The knowledge of the ancient will help you better understand your enemy. She's going to flip over the second one and read. This card tells of a powerful force for good and protection, a holy symbol of great hope. Master of Glyphs. You will find what you seek in the castle, amid the ruins of a place of supplication. Amid the ruins of what? Amid the ruins of a place of supplication. What was the slot about again? I heard holy symbol of great hope and something about power. This card tells of a powerful force for good and protection. A holy symbol of great hope. Master of Glyphs, Master of Coins. So she's going to turn over the third card. Five of coins. Anything about this one? Yes, sorry. I should have read this one first. This card tells of power and strength. It tells of a weapon of vengeance, a sword of sunlight. The Five of Coins. She says, I see a dark room full of bottles. It is the tomb of a guild member. What was the name of the card again? Five of coins? Five of coins. You also have the transcription that'll get it all perfectly. Thank fucking God. That's actually going to be really useful, referencing this specifically. So with this card, she's going to pick it up and read. So I'm just trying to chicken scratch on it. I'm just taking notes on them so it knows these are important. This card sheds light on one who will help you greatly in the battle against darkness. And you did get the Don John. And she will say, search for a troubled young man surrounded by wealth and badness. His home is his prison. Trouble young man, something wealth and madness, what was that? Search for a trouble young man surrounded by wealth and madness. His home is his prison. What was the name of that card? You said Don John? Is that like Don as in? D-O-N-J-O-N. Don John. Okay, D-O-N. And the fifth and final card, she will read... Your enemy is a creature of darkness whose powers are beyond mortality. This card will lead you to him. And for this one, you've got the innocent. Let's see what all that means. with the one whose blood sealed his doom, a brother of light snuffed out too soon. He dwells with the one whose blood sealed his doom. A brother of light snuffed out too soon. That was sealed as doom. Sealed as doom. With this information, you should have some insight on where to go as you travel Borogia. See you later. See you. I assume we're all just kind of like stupefied and trying to take it all in at this point because that's a lot. It's a lot of information. Yep. Let me know if you got any questions in or out of game. Call it after this as well because it is 7:35. Good spot. You just got a lot of information. A lot of information. Yeah, I'm not sure what else we would do after this. We would probably just continue partying and then go to sleep. So-- Then we got to-- because I guess we're parting ways with the here. Yeah, finishing the track, too, then. I mean, yeah, is that, can we get more info on this? She's not just, I assume a lot of cases of the fortune tellers are like, well, these are the cards, and that's it. That's all I can tell you, so. That's my history. That's my history with it. Can you guys think of any more specific questions you would have for this year? Well, the nest of ravens one sticks out to me because, I mean, that could mean several things. Are we literally looking for, like, a nest of raven, like, in trees or in a house or something like that? I don't know. That one seemed... Worth getting more information on if we could. Exactly how are you asking? I asked her, what does it mean by a nest of ravens? Ravens take many forms, nest in many places, see many things. Ravens may not be literal ravens. There may be a kind of person or something that are referred to as ravens or could be thought of as ravens based on... Well, I'm just thinking, right? Churning... Ravens doesn't refer to the Vestanti, does it? Like I asked her that. Because you could make that connection potentially. You guys collectively got... measure flips Really interested in a couple of these things, but I think it's more just for discussion and not questions to ask the person. We can discuss anything I want to before we call it. I don't know. Something about... To me, something that jumped out was just something about The Don John and then the Innocent. It's making me wonder if when we learn a bit more about these two brothers, if one or both of them might be these people. Especially the Innocent. Dwells with one whose blood seals his doom. Brother of light snuffed out too soon. There's something about that makes me think it might be one of the brothers. I don't know. That card reading, though, was for... Me just being suspicious. This is the... Yeah, I know. But for... Yeah? I was just laughing. Definitely going for the knowledge for the Ravens. Seems like. Looking forward to doing this card reading. No one yells fate. I could hear... It could have been way worse. I heard... Just know. I heard sword of sunlight, and I immediately just thought of you taking a sword of sunlight, thinking of that literally... I wonder if that is literal. Not that this year would know. Find this sword of sunlight and find out, and I won't check. The tomb of a guild member. Seems like a good one to flag for if we came across something like that. Yeah, what was the full description for that one again? It was five of coins. A dark room full of bottles. The tomb of a guild member. Okay, so that's all it was. Okay. Okay. I can't think of any specific questions that would be helpful, so... You're good. I'm gonna go ahead and spoil the fact that she's gonna give you a bunch of really cryptic answers anyway. Yeah, sounds about right. You should be ready to... That's why I was like, there's nothing I could ask that would get a good answer because it's a seer and they're gonna give some wishy-washy bullshit kind of thing that's not specific enough to help. Good job, guys. I thought I was gonna kill one of you at least with that. Very surprising. Vampire. Sweat?

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