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Curse of Strahd Ep. 15: Blood on the Vine
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The gang chugs some wine and ale with Ismark, we play a ton of poker hands and discuss our mutual disdain of Strahd von Zarovich.
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00:00:02
bladesedge
Hello and welcome back to the Blade's Edge D and&D actual play podcast where we are running through cursive Strahd. We are currently in the village of Barovia. The characters Desan, Inabi, Bash and Alma.
00:00:21
bladesedge
Are entering the blood of the vine tavern. In an attempt to find a man named is mark. um Dishon coming back from the church after just having. Rechained Doru son of Donovitch in the basement. On his way back, seeing a. A an older woman who he does not know, but who is.
00:00:50
bladesedge
reminding him of the death of him and his compatriots at the windmill old bone grinder. Uh, but as the four of you enter blood on the vine tavern, uh, you see the man behind the bar, uh, looks up and just says, well, we've got some newcomers. What can I get you?
00:01:18
Alma Graves
What do you have?
00:01:20
bladesedge
Um, he says, um, which this rings, um, a bell to all of you, but I mean, Fez rack to you, maybe specifically. Uh, but he goes, you know, we've got purple, great match number three wine. We've got a red dragon crush. And then I've just got a pint.
00:01:46
Tommy
Say that again.
00:01:48
bladesedge
He says, Purple Great Mash number three, Red Dragon Crush, and then I've just got a pint.
00:01:56
Tommy
Holy shit. The Martikoffs. And I start like scribbling down in like a notebook.
00:02:06
bladesedge
It worked. He brought back the production of the line. He says, so what can I do? What can I do you for?
00:02:19
Alma Graves
I think I'll just take a pint.
00:02:22
Kyle
I will also take a pint.
00:02:23
bladesedge
Alright.
00:02:26
bladesedge
but bla up bla but Pours up to pints of ale for you two gentlemen sets it down one copper per pint.
00:02:42
Trevor
Uh, could I just put like, uh,
00:02:49
Trevor
like four gold down for him and be like, what would this do to just keep all this coming?
00:02:52
bladesedge
oh
00:02:56
Trevor
Uh, in a knobby said he's been stuck in a fucking ring for 78 years and hasn't eaten or drank anything.
00:02:57
bladesedge
Ah.
00:03:02
Trevor
So he just wants to taste and indulge in whatever he can, he can do.
00:03:02
bladesedge
yeah
00:03:07
bladesedge
Totally.
00:03:09
Trevor
So he's hoping.
00:03:11
bladesedge
Yeah, this the pudgy pudgy little human man behind the bar says, All right. All right. Oh, my name's Arik, Arik Lonsack.
00:03:22
bladesedge
I tend to ball here.
00:03:22
Trevor
And Abhi.
00:03:24
bladesedge
He's cleaning the glass while he's talking to you. um He says, ah yeah absolutely. um He immediately pours up a pitcher of each wine. So you have a pitcher of each wine and he pours up two pitchers of ale.
00:03:43
bladesedge
Puts them all four of those down in front of you guys at the bar, puts down a cup for each of you. Uh, puts on a second cup too, just in case you want one for wine, one for ale, um, reaches back, take, doesn't seem, doesn't seem to have much food, but puts out like a plate of nuts, a plate of very Russian stylies, like some cold meats, just like some, some breakfast cold meats and beans maybe.
00:03:52
Trevor
Oh yeah. Sick.
00:04:09
bladesedge
Um, and, uh, He says, all right. Nice to meet you guys. Yeah. Thanks. but I'll keep it coming. Yeah. Enjoy yourselves. And, uh, anything else you need, just let me know.
00:04:21
Trevor
Hey, what was his name again?
00:04:23
bladesedge
His name is Arik.
00:04:27
Trevor
All right.
00:04:27
Alma Graves
Eric.
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bladesedge
Lonsack. Eric.
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bladesedge
Lonsack.
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Trevor
Thank you.
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Kyle
Um, how close are we to his mark? You said we saw him when we walked into the bar.
00:04:35
Alma Graves
Eric Long, sir.
00:04:43
bladesedge
Yeah, this place is not too big. This place is like, um, 60 feet square, you know, 60 on all sides. Um, so it's not too big. There's just three, there's three hooded people sort of talking in a corner, kind of maybe about a fire. And then there's this guy who you assume is this Mark, uh, just sitting at the bar alone, um, drinking a wine head up back straight, but by himself.
00:05:10
Kyle
Is there an open table for us to sit at?
00:05:15
bladesedge
yeah
00:05:16
Kyle
Cool. I'm going to pick up my pint and I'm going to say, anyone fancy a game of cards? And I'm going to look around and I'm going to try to make eye contact with Ismark and just ask if he would like to join into our group to play some cards.
00:05:34
bladesedge
Yeah, make a persuasion check. You get the sense. He's he's he's down. This persuasion check is for the three other individuals.
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Kyle
Uh, 17.
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bladesedge
All three of them look over an interest.
00:05:47
Kyle
Oh.
00:05:48
bladesedge
as As Mark also says. Honestly, that sounds like a great distraction. You guys are playing cards.
00:05:55
Alma Graves
The great game is a foot.
00:05:58
bladesedge
The grand game.
00:05:59
Kyle
The big game is on.
00:06:01
Alma Graves
The grand key at the big game.
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bladesedge
Big games on? Nobody told me.
00:06:07
Trevor
Okay, Broncos?
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Kyle
Um, cool. Yeah. and i'll I'll pull up a seat.
00:06:09
bladesedge
um your denver Your Denver is showing, Trevor.
00:06:13
Trevor
Yeah, yeah.
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bladesedge
ah What were you saying?
00:06:18
Kyle
Yeah, I'll pull up a seat at the table and pull out my deck of cards.
00:06:23
bladesedge
OK.
00:06:23
Kyle
Give them a shuffle.
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bladesedge
um Eric brings over the the the pints for gold, you know, enough to probably be for everybody puts them down, ah brings up another table. So there's two tables next to each other, puts them down, gets enough glasses for everybody, puts out some food. As Mark sits down and says, I'm as Mark, what's what's your name?
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Kyle
My name is Bash. Bash Bloodsinger.
00:06:52
bladesedge
ah You say blood singer, and he goes blood singer. Like. Like Kavan blood singer.
00:07:05
Kyle
Hang on, I'm mentally deciding if I want to lie to him or not.
00:07:11
bladesedge
Yeah, he doesn't seem like he's mad about it. He just is.
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Kyle
Okay, okay.
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Alma Graves
No relation.
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bladesedge
Yeah.
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Kyle
No relation, I'm just being sad.
00:07:17
bladesedge
Yeah.
00:07:19
bladesedge
It is really, it's given it's it is reminding me keeps I keep having this with D&D or keeps reminding you of that scene in Austin Powers when he's. Like, would you like to hit? And he goes, I'll stay. And they're like, sorry, I suggest you hit. He goes, I'll stay.
00:07:35
Kyle
um Yeah, I'll say ah yes, unfortunately, like Kavan.
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bladesedge
He nods, he goes, he goes, wow, that's the the stories. So with this, you were. The story is true. Are you a son? Where have you been?
00:07:57
Kyle
ah How much time do you have? That might be a story for another six nights.
00:08:04
bladesedge
He, uh, he goes, right. Okay. Okay. Uh, yeah, let's, let's, how about we just play some cards, huh?
00:08:11
Kyle
Good. And then I start dealing with cards.
00:08:15
bladesedge
Okay. Um, the other three hooded figures seem to be interested in playing. Are all of you guys going to play?
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Alma Graves
I'm in on it.
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Trevor
They all play.
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Tommy
Yeah. Yeah. If we're not putting any money on it, cause I have none.
00:08:31
Alma Graves
They're putting money on it.
00:08:32
bladesedge
They look like they're trying to put some money on it.
00:08:32
Alma Graves
I'm in. Yeah.
00:08:34
Tommy
Okay. Then I will not, i I got no money. Um, I'd probably, um, if I'm not playing cards, I'll probably like, um, position myself towards like a window to look for who I believe is like the hag selling the pastries.
00:08:48
Kyle
Mm.
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Tommy
And like, I'm also kind of like keeping an eye out of like any spiders that are around big paranoid energy coming out of the sun.
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bladesedge
Yeah, I say right now you don't see her out the window, you don't see any spiders.
00:09:01
Trevor
I think if Desan goes off and is looking at all distraught or anything, ill I'd follow over to his table and pass on playing, let them all play, and I would just pull out a, I have like a dragon chest set. I, Trevor, have no We're going to do how that game works.
00:09:20
Trevor
But I assume Anabi would. um And if he would want to teach him how to play Dragon Chess, if he doesn't already know it, if he does, see if he would like to play.
00:09:34
Kyle
Oh babes.
00:09:34
Tommy
Yeah, I'd play some dragon chess.
00:09:35
Trevor
Oh, yeah.
00:09:36
bladesedge
Well.
00:09:36
Kyle
Wait is that, that's a... Dragon chest? What is that?
00:09:39
Tommy
I think it's just regular chess, but I don't know.
00:09:40
Trevor
It's like, it's not, I looked it up and it's like, there's three like planes, like on top of you.
00:09:41
Kyle
Oh wow.
00:09:46
Trevor
There's like a board and then one above, and then one above that, and then all these different pieces that move differently.
00:09:47
bladesedge
Yeah.
00:09:47
Tommy
Oh, God, it's like.
00:09:52
Trevor
Similarly to chess, but yeah, yeah, literally.
00:09:53
Tommy
Yeah, it's like 4D chess, kind of. but like Literally, literally 40 chess.
00:09:56
Trevor
but it Literally it's 4D chess, yeah.
00:09:57
Tommy
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
00:09:58
bladesedge
Well, let's let's let's roll your guys's game first winner of your guys's game will get it will get inspiration for this session.
00:10:06
Tommy
okay
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Alma Graves
go.
00:10:07
Tommy
sir
00:10:07
bladesedge
So if the first player to succeed on three checks will win this game would be contested skill challenges.
00:10:11
Trevor
Oh, sweet.
00:10:13
bladesedge
Um, you can make, you can choose to make one of different of three different skill checks to play around an intelligence check. with proficiency if you're trained in Dragon Chess, if that was one of your tools.
00:10:26
bladesedge
A deception check or an insight check.
00:10:29
Tommy
Oh, okay.
00:10:29
bladesedge
So intelligence check with proficiency, deception, or insight. Players reveal which check they're making only to me, who then calls for roles as the check select requires. An intelligence check represents you're playing the game normally using wit, strategy, and foresight to attempt to outplay your opponent with sheer game skill.
00:10:49
bladesedge
Deception check represents the character playing deceptively feigning weakness or incompetence to try and trick their opponent into making mistakes. An insight check will represent your character playing by reading their opponent, searching for clues to their plans or their general confidence in their body language and nonverbal cues. Um, if you're not proficient in dragon chest, you'll only use half your proficiency bonus rounded down, uh, to deception or insight checks rather than your full bonus. So that's an interesting note there.
00:11:19
Trevor
Okay. So if it's, for example, an intelligence check, if you have a plus three, you would roll that and then add the three proficiency to that. Is that what you're saying? If you used just intelligent.
00:11:28
bladesedge
If you're proficient, yeah, if if you're proficient in dragon chest and you do an intelligence check, it'll be adding your proficiency bonus.
00:11:30
Trevor
Okay.
00:11:35
Trevor
Okay.
00:11:36
bladesedge
If you're, if you choose a deception check and you're not proficient in dragon chest, you use half your proficiency for your deception check.
00:11:43
Tommy
Okay. Let me see if vesrap was proficient dragons just.
00:11:45
bladesedge
Cool.
00:11:54
bladesedge
and A lot of this hinges on you guys. You'll whisper me privately.
00:11:59
Tommy
Nope.
00:12:01
bladesedge
You can do in, in roll 20, you do slash w space, my name, and you can whisper me, which check you'd like to make first, first to win three checks wins.
00:12:08
Tommy
Ooh.
00:12:23
bladesedge
Okay. So.
00:12:27
bladesedge
Um, okay.
00:12:33
Trevor
Do you want us to just DM roll you a D20 and whisper you what the modifiers would be?
00:12:34
bladesedge
This is sure, sure. You can just, yeah, you roll the D 20 to me and then you can announce your total for this.
00:12:45
bladesedge
You don't, nobody will know why Trevor, uh, both, you can both roll your, your thing. Let me know what you get. Trevor, you're rolling at advantage.
00:12:55
Trevor
Oh, okay.
00:12:56
bladesedge
Mm-hmm.
00:12:56
Tommy
Oh man.
00:12:56
Trevor
um Wait, and you want me to, you want everybody to see it or?
00:13:00
bladesedge
Or you can just roll the D20 in the end and then announce what your score is.
00:13:03
Trevor
Okay. Let's see.
00:13:05
bladesedge
As Vesrak now dison the Paladin of Lathander and Inabi sit down to play this game of three-dimensional chess.
00:13:09
Trevor
Oh, wow.
00:13:19
Trevor
13.
00:13:19
bladesedge
um me Tommy, you're rolling straight.
00:13:22
Tommy
Okay. Uh, no, ah no ads.
00:13:24
bladesedge
Are you proficient in dragon chess?
00:13:27
Tommy
I am not.
00:13:27
bladesedge
So not only that, but if you're proficient in the check that you're rolling, you'll only use half your proficiency.
00:13:34
Tommy
Okay, got it.
00:13:38
Tommy
So 17.
00:13:39
bladesedge
17. So this first round goes to you to son.
00:13:44
Trevor
Nice.
00:13:44
Alma Graves
Nice.
00:13:45
Tommy
All right.
00:13:46
bladesedge
You knock some of his pieces off the board on one of the three layers on the second layer. You both begin working away and please DM me, which sort of check you'd like to make.
00:14:04
Tommy
It has to be different every time.
00:14:10
Tommy
Uh, Brian, it has to be different every time.
00:14:12
bladesedge
It does not have to be different every time.
00:14:14
Tommy
Okay.
00:14:18
bladesedge
Okay. So, um, Trevor, you once again have advantage.
00:14:23
Trevor
Okay.
00:14:25
bladesedge
Go ahead and roll again.
00:14:28
Alma Graves
He's hacking.
00:14:30
Tommy
Hey, is hacking the game?
00:14:32
Trevor
Ooh, that's gonna be a 25, I think.
00:14:36
Alma Graves
Holy.
00:14:36
Tommy
Oh, shit.
00:14:38
bladesedge
All right. Let's get it, Tommy.
00:14:41
Tommy
All right. 16.
00:14:43
bladesedge
Okay. So we've got one for Inabi and one for Dasan third round.
00:14:51
Tommy
OK.
00:14:52
bladesedge
Let's go. First three wins the Emmy, what you're rolling.
00:14:59
bladesedge
OK, so now I need to do. um
00:15:06
bladesedge
OK, cool. ah Tommy, you are rolling with advantage.
00:15:11
Tommy
Oh, all right.
00:15:12
Alma Graves
So let's go.
00:15:12
Trevor
Ooh.
00:15:13
Tommy
All right.
00:15:13
bladesedge
And Trevor, you are not.
00:15:14
Tommy
Mix it up.
00:15:14
bladesedge
You're rolling straight.
00:15:16
Tommy
Who's rolling first? Does it matter?
00:15:17
bladesedge
Doesn't matter now, because you guys already chose.
00:15:22
Tommy
12 for Desan.
00:15:25
Trevor
That is a 24.
00:15:27
Kyle
Oh my God.
00:15:27
Tommy
Oh, my God.
00:15:29
bladesedge
There it is.
00:15:30
Kyle
We got Magnus Carlsen over here.
00:15:30
Tommy
Oh, no.
00:15:32
Alma Graves
Easy game, yeah.
00:15:33
Tommy
Yeah, dude.
00:15:34
bladesedge
Uh, Desan, but playing this first game, you know, uh, maybe has played before figuring out against maybe a guy who's been sitting in a ring playing this against himself for 78 years.
00:15:45
Tommy
He gets himself.
00:15:45
Trevor
Yeah, yeah, 100%.
00:15:46
Tommy
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
00:15:47
Trevor
Wait,
00:15:48
bladesedge
All right. Let's get these next roles. What are you going to do, Trevor?
00:15:53
Trevor
that was three rolls, yeah. Do we keep going?
00:15:55
bladesedge
Or it's first to three.
00:15:57
Trevor
Oh, got it, got it, got it.
00:15:58
bladesedge
Yes. First to succeed, three checks. If you get this, you will.
00:16:08
bladesedge
Cool. So, um, uh, Tommy, once again, you have advantage.
00:16:11
Tommy
All right.
00:16:16
Tommy
17.
00:16:18
Trevor
Oh, shit.
00:16:18
bladesedge
Okay.
00:16:24
Trevor
Oof.
00:16:25
bladesedge
The natural 20.
00:16:26
Trevor
And that's 26.
00:16:28
Tommy
Shit.
00:16:28
Kyle
My lord.
00:16:29
Trevor
And that 20, yeah.
00:16:30
Tommy
ah Oh, man.
00:16:31
bladesedge
The the first round of the game.
00:16:32
Tommy
All right.
00:16:35
bladesedge
um You see in Nabi using his intelligence of the game to play, and you we see Desan inciting him trying to determine where his moves go, but in Nabi, too familiar with the game.
00:16:52
bladesedge
had advantage on this role. The second round. Same way. Disarm was trying to insight in obvious next next moves, but his intelligence was too much when Disarm switched to deception.
00:17:07
bladesedge
His deception gave him. Advantage against the intelligence of an abbey. But it did not hold up all the way to the end as an abbey is victorious and an abbey you have heroic inspiration, so you
00:17:20
Tommy
And I'll be just that blasted, just straight intelligence every single roll.
00:17:20
Trevor
All right.
00:17:25
Tommy
He's like, yeah, I'm just doing it every roll.
00:17:25
bladesedge
Every role.
00:17:26
Trevor
Every time.
00:17:26
bladesedge
Yeah.
00:17:26
Tommy
He's like, I'm just going to.
00:17:27
Trevor
Yeah.
00:17:28
bladesedge
He did say that he DME was like, I'm doing this for every role.
00:17:28
Tommy
Yeah.
00:17:28
Trevor
right Yeah.
00:17:30
bladesedge
I was like, okay.
00:17:30
Tommy
Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I got a plus six to it and that's it. Game over.
00:17:34
bladesedge
Yeah. There's fun little rules about like, depending on what each player does, it gives, it could give somebody advantage or somebody, you know, disadvantage or whatever.
00:17:34
Trevor
yeah yeah
00:17:35
Tommy
ah
00:17:42
Kyle
and That's really cool.
00:17:42
Tommy
Uh, Yeah, I'll i'll give, uh, and I'll be like, you know, the handshake, you know, post chest mass handshake, and I'll go over and, um, position myself kind of like back towards the window, keeping an eye on the alleyway.
00:17:54
bladesedge
Cool. Uh, so Alma bash, the three hooded figures and is Mark sitting at the table is Mark says to you bash. He goes, um, Hey, have you played, uh, you ever played dead hand?
00:18:12
Kyle
I've not played dead hands. More of a blackjack guy myself.
00:18:17
bladesedge
He goes, well, what do you say you want to give it a go?
00:18:20
Kyle
Sure. Maybe one round of each.
00:18:24
bladesedge
Sure. He says, uh, dead hand goes like this. You draw as many cards as you want from the deck.
00:18:36
bladesedge
Uh, he gathers some more from Eric, the bar key puts them all together. There's like a million cards in this deck. Now ah he says you draw as many cards as you want and you add the numbers together.
00:18:48
bladesedge
Whoever gets the highest amount wins, but the catch is that if you draw an ACE,
00:18:52
Trevor
Oh let's go.
00:18:58
bladesedge
You lose automatically.
00:19:02
Alma Graves
that
00:19:02
bladesedge
If any of the cards you draw are an ace, you lose.
00:19:08
bladesedge
Which this game were represented in, ah you wrote D6s. You can roll as many D6s as you want to try and get the highest score. If you roll a one though, you auto lose.
00:19:20
Kyle
Gotcha. So now it's not d10s d6s.
00:19:24
bladesedge
D6s, yeah.
00:19:24
Alma Graves
in that head.
00:19:26
bladesedge
I guess it doesn't matter. We can do detends. It's the same shit. Yeah. Let's do detends.
00:19:29
Kyle
Yeah, if we're doing d10s for blackjack, then let's keep it
00:19:32
bladesedge
Sure.
00:19:34
Trevor
Should do D13s.
00:19:35
Alma Graves
Yeah.
00:19:36
Trevor
You know what I'm saying?
00:19:38
bladesedge
Yes.
00:19:38
Alma Graves
Sounds fun.
00:19:39
bladesedge
Your D fourteens. All right.
00:19:40
Trevor
Fuck it, dude.
00:19:41
bladesedge
Let's do D 52s.
00:19:43
Trevor
I would prefer a D68 and a half, but you know, we could do 52.
00:19:46
bladesedge
Um, and is Mark, uh, just puts, he puts a single gold piece. on the table, as do all three of the, uh, robed figures.
00:19:54
Kyle
Cool.
00:19:57
Alma Graves
As do I.
00:19:59
Kyle
As do I.
00:20:01
bladesedge
And do you hear them? Uh, the three robed figures, they look to all be women. Uh, one says, I am Mirabelle. The other one says, I am a Lenka. The other one says, uh, I am Serbia.
00:20:15
Alma Graves
um And as we go around the table introducing ourselves, I say, my name's Ahoma. And I um whisper out some words and then snap my fingers. And you see this kind of like um like halo style overshield kind of shimmer across my body as I cast my armor of shadows. Not necessarily trying to protect myself from harm, but more showing them that I'm putting on my ah like game face in a way.
00:20:46
bladesedge
Hell yeah. Um, we've got three, four, five, six, six gold in the pot. It's winner take all situation. Um, you guys don't have to tell me how many deeds, D sixes you're going to roll.
00:21:00
bladesedge
Just go ahead and get it lined up. Um, and I will choose sort of an arbitrary number for me.
00:21:12
bladesedge
Actually, I have a D 20 right in front of me.
00:21:13
Kyle
Wait, so we are doing D6s.
00:21:15
bladesedge
Uh, D10, sorry.
00:21:16
Kyle
D10s, okay.
00:21:18
bladesedge
You should tell me how many you want to roll. I'm going to roll a D20 in front of me real quick to see what they all want to roll. Is Mark's going to roll?
00:21:26
Alma Graves
We love that sound.
00:21:27
bladesedge
ah Okay. okay. Mirabelle's going to roll that. Okay. Alenca is going to roll that. And Sorvia is going to roll that.
00:21:38
bladesedge
ah so that That's hilarious And you'll see why. All right. Would you guys like me to roll first or do you guys want to roll first?
00:21:48
Kyle
Um, you can roll first.
00:21:52
bladesedge
Um, I actually think you guys, I think the two of you should roll.
00:21:55
Kyle
Okay.
00:21:57
bladesedge
You two should roll at the exact same time. So you can't change your number because I'm not going to.
00:22:01
Kyle
Okay.
00:22:01
Alma Graves
Sure.
00:22:02
Kyle
That's great. Yeah, I have mine.
00:22:02
Alma Graves
I already got mine typed out.
00:22:03
Alma Graves
So, so it's just slash roll and amount of D 10.
00:22:03
Kyle
Same.
00:22:03
bladesedge
Yeah, I'm not going to change mine.
00:22:05
bladesedge
So yeah.
00:22:07
Kyle
Yeah.
00:22:08
bladesedge
Slash roll space, however many detends you want, but if any of those rolled or a one you lose.
00:22:13
Alma Graves
Okay.
00:22:13
Kyle
Cool.
00:22:15
bladesedge
All right, three, two, one, go.
00:22:21
bladesedge
Oh.
00:22:22
Kyle
Oh my god.
00:22:23
Trevor
Holy shit.
00:22:23
bladesedge
Holy shit, dude.
00:22:27
Alma Graves
Let's go.
00:22:27
Kyle
Wow.
00:22:28
bladesedge
Alma ah drawing cards from the deck, your total equals 60, not one of them being an ace.
00:22:32
Kyle
What?
00:22:34
Trevor
wow
00:22:36
Alma Graves
90-10.
00:22:36
bladesedge
Kyle, you draw three less cards.
00:22:40
bladesedge
ah Sorry, bash. ah None of them being an ace, but only reaching 31.
00:22:40
Trevor
Wow.
00:22:46
bladesedge
Now I will start, I will start with Sorvias.
00:22:52
bladesedge
She rolled, she pulled one card thinking her strategy smart.
00:22:54
Trevor
Hell yeah. Playing it safe.
00:22:57
Kyle
i I raise one eyebrow as high as I can and look at her.
00:23:03
Trevor
It's off your face.
00:23:04
bladesedge
She looks at you and she says, uh, well, if everybody rolls a one, then I do well. No.
00:23:11
Kyle
Yeah, she's not wrong.
00:23:13
bladesedge
I mean, get the a, uh, a Lenka goes, uh, does it all happen at the same time?
00:23:13
Tommy
She's not wrong.
00:23:19
bladesedge
A Lenka also draw draws six Kyle for 35.
00:23:20
Kyle
who
00:23:22
Alma Graves
oh
00:23:24
Kyle
Yeah, would have just barely beat me out.
00:23:25
bladesedge
Also no ACEs have been drawn yet.
00:23:29
bladesedge
mirabelll
00:23:32
bladesedge
Mirabelle picks 17 cards gets an 83, but draws an ACE.
00:23:34
Kyle
oh
00:23:35
Alma Graves
Oh,
00:23:36
Trevor
oh
00:23:36
Tommy
ah Oh my goodness.
00:23:36
Kyle
Wow.
00:23:37
Trevor
oh
00:23:38
Trevor
Ohhhh! That's single A's.
00:23:42
Alma Graves
what a beast.
00:23:43
Trevor
That's crazy.
00:23:43
bladesedge
And, and is Mark rolling a natural 20 on the D 20.
00:23:47
Trevor
No way!
00:23:47
Tommy
Oh, no way.
00:23:48
Kyle
Imagine.
00:23:48
Alma Graves
Hilarious.
00:23:49
bladesedge
But before I rolled the natural one for Sorvia, which is hilarious.
00:23:49
Alma Graves
Come on.
00:23:49
Tommy
Go go ahead.
00:23:52
bladesedge
I wrote both, um, draws 20 cards out.
00:23:55
Trevor
Wow.
00:23:58
bladesedge
Big smile on his face.
00:24:02
bladesedge
Oh, sorry. Roll one D 20.
00:24:03
Alma Graves
Oops.
00:24:04
bladesedge
What the fuck am I doing?
00:24:04
Kyle
are
00:24:05
bladesedge
Uh, 20 D 10 Jesus.
00:24:07
bladesedge
Okay. I don't know. Um, he pulls.
00:24:07
Trevor
You can run all of these individually?
00:24:13
Trevor
Oof.
00:24:13
bladesedge
three aces, 102 total, but pulls three aces.
00:24:13
Alma Graves
Oh.
00:24:13
Tommy
Oh, man.
00:24:14
Kyle
am Wow.
00:24:18
bladesedge
So Alma six gold that goes to you in between the game is Mark sort of looks at you guys and says, uh, so what, what brings you guys to the biggest shithole in the world?
00:24:20
Alma Graves
Thank you, boys, ladies.
00:24:37
Kyle
um I look at
00:24:44
Kyle
Vesrak.
00:24:48
bladesedge
Desan sitting across the room staring at the window.
00:24:50
Kyle
Sorry, I didn't mean to deadname you, I'm sorry.
00:24:53
Tommy
car Is one ah Do you like call over to me I'm like looking out the window okay, I look over give you a wave
00:24:57
Alma Graves
and didn't mean to dead name you
00:25:00
Kyle
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
00:25:09
Kyle
e We...
00:25:13
Kyle
and see how to word this I just got here and all I know is that I have one mission to complete.
00:25:21
Alma Graves
I didn't mean to detonate you.
00:25:26
Kyle
I just happen to be along with this group.
00:25:33
bladesedge
What mission is that?
00:25:37
Kyle
We want to put Strahd's reign to an end.
00:25:43
bladesedge
He smiles and he gives you inspiration bash. So you, you know, have a D 20 you can reroll the session.
00:25:49
Kyle
ah Beautiful.
00:25:53
bladesedge
He passes long sword at his side as the other three people at the table look a little uncomfortable, but he pats his long sword at his side and says, uh,
00:26:04
bladesedge
been training my whole life to kill that motherfucker.
00:26:07
Alma Graves
Well, I like him.
00:26:11
bladesedge
He goes well.
00:26:11
Kyle
My, uh, my father was used by Strahd.
00:26:13
bladesedge
Yeah.
00:26:17
Kyle
And while I don't think my father was completely innocent,
00:26:23
Kyle
Strahd knew how to manipulate him. And I'm not going to allow that to happen to me or anyone else ever again.
00:26:33
bladesedge
He says, I got a couple more questions, but ah let's play your game. Let's play some let's play some blackjack.
00:26:42
Kyle
Okay.
00:26:42
bladesedge
um Eric, the bartender comes over and will act as the.
00:26:50
bladesedge
Dealer for this, somebody has to be the dealer.
00:26:51
Kyle
Cool.
00:26:54
bladesedge
Let me go ahead and just pull a. Over on them talking, I have here.
00:27:07
Kyle
I put a ah gold piece on the table just preemptively.
00:27:08
bladesedge
Here you go.
00:27:13
bladesedge
There she goes. There she is.
00:27:16
Alma Graves
oh yeah
00:27:19
bladesedge
This is this is Eric. The barkeep comes over and is going to deal.
00:27:23
Alma Graves
Oh yeah.
00:27:25
bladesedge
um I'll say Mirabelle and Alenka step back and begin like lighting up cigarettes just to watch the game, but Sorvia stays in.
00:27:36
Alma Graves
I'll stay in. How do we play Blackjack?
00:27:38
bladesedge
Are you saying?
00:27:39
Alma Graves
Are we just going to roll 2d10 or something?
00:27:41
bladesedge
Yeah. So, um, you'll roll it and you'll roll it privately to me.
00:27:48
bladesedge
Um, are you guys going to both play?
00:27:49
Kyle
Uh, yeah.
00:27:53
bladesedge
Is Mark says, um, he goes, I got a pretty busy day ahead of me. This will have to be my last game, but, uh, we say we make it a little interesting and he puts three gold on the table.
00:28:07
Alma Graves
I'm hot off winning I believe I'll win again.
00:28:11
Kyle
Yeah, I add two more gold pieces to my pile.
00:28:16
bladesedge
Sorvia does the same. OK. And I'll have to keep track of this pretty. pretty
00:28:29
bladesedge
but let's Let's actually have um Tommy.
00:28:33
Tommy
What up?
00:28:34
bladesedge
Uh, and Trev, we're going to have you guys roll for them.
00:28:37
Tommy
OK.
00:28:37
Trevor
good
00:28:40
bladesedge
Um, so just whisper roll me to D 10, a design you can roll for is Mark, uh, and Abby, you can roll for Sorvia.
00:28:49
Kyle
um Why do we have to whisper, isn't it? Like aren't our cards just face up normally?
00:28:56
bladesedge
Oh yeah.
00:28:56
Alma Graves
Well, one's one's down, one's up, right?
00:28:58
Kyle
Not for us.
00:28:59
Alma Graves
Or, oh, yeah, true.
00:29:00
bladesedge
No, not for you. That's right. That's right. That's right. Sorry. Okay.
00:29:03
Trevor
That's good.
00:29:03
bladesedge
Yeah. Just roll them out in the open. So Trav, you rolled 10 out of five.
00:29:05
Trevor
A 10 and a 5.
00:29:09
bladesedge
So maybe, maybe it's a so Trav, you have 15 showing.
00:29:09
Tommy
OK, so I'm not going to.
00:29:10
Tommy
All right, 2D10.
00:29:16
Tommy
I have 10 showing.
00:29:16
Kyle
Yeah.
00:29:17
bladesedge
Well, one is either a one or an 11.
00:29:18
Kyle
yeah
00:29:20
Tommy
OK.
00:29:21
bladesedge
So you would have 20 showing.
00:29:23
Tommy
Deal.
00:29:24
Kyle
I have a 19 chip.
00:29:26
bladesedge
19. Um, I forgot this is like money against the house. So Eric is down for all this.
00:29:31
Kyle
Yeah, I was just about to say is...
00:29:33
bladesedge
I know Eric's gonna lose much money. It's like okay. Um, he has it weirdly. Um, okay. I've got three roles. I need showing and the dealer is showing.
00:29:46
Alma Graves
All right, here it comes.
00:29:50
Alma Graves
Seven and a nine.
00:29:59
bladesedge
Oh, seven.
00:30:00
Kyle
You roll the 1d10. Oh, oh, showing.
00:30:03
Kyle
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
00:30:03
bladesedge
I know. Cause the dealer has one.
00:30:06
Trevor
one that's a shine
00:30:06
Kyle
Are you looking at the book?
00:30:12
Tommy
I'll stand.
00:30:13
bladesedge
Um, ah I have to Google something.
00:30:19
Kyle
What does the book say?
00:30:20
Tommy
The boys, the boys play blackjack.
00:30:23
bladesedge
Okay. Okay. get Good. Good. Good. Good. Good. Good. Good. Good. Good. Good. Good. Good. Good. Good. Good. Good. Good. Good. Good. Good. Good. Good. Good. Good. Good. Good. Good. Good. Good. Good. Good. Good. Good. Good. Good. Good. Good. Good. Good. Good. Good. Good. Good. Good. Good. Good.
00:30:26
Kyle
Yeah.
00:30:27
bladesedge
Good. Good. Good. Good. Good. Good.
00:30:31
bladesedge
Good. is smart with a fifteen
00:30:35
bladesedge
um sorry is mark with the ten of twenty sorry fucking um
00:30:41
Tommy
Yeah, I'll stand.
00:30:43
bladesedge
okay um sorvia with the fifteen
00:30:48
Trevor
That's who and i'm I'm rolling for, right? fit I'll fuck it. Fuck it.
00:30:54
Kyle
The book says to hit.
00:30:54
bladesedge
Tough one.
00:30:55
Trevor
I'll, I know it does. I'll hit.
00:30:57
bladesedge
Okay.
00:30:58
Trevor
Fuck it. I'm going.
00:30:59
bladesedge
Roll a G10.
00:31:03
Trevor
Oh, let's go.
00:31:05
Kyle
what Nice.
00:31:05
bladesedge
Oh, 20.
00:31:06
Trevor
Hell yeah. yeah
00:31:08
Alma Graves
Beautiful.
00:31:08
bladesedge
First Orvia. All right. Uh, 19 for bash.
00:31:14
Kyle
I stand.
00:31:17
bladesedge
16 for Alma.
00:31:19
Alma Graves
I hate, I'm gonna hit.
00:31:20
bladesedge
Go for it.
00:31:23
Alma Graves
Oh, fuck, I bust.
00:31:24
Kyle
Too many, okay.
00:31:24
bladesedge
Bust.
00:31:24
Alma Graves
I'm gonna bust.
00:31:28
bladesedge
All right. Um, dealer flips over her other cards to seven, another seven. So I didn't know if dealer could split. They can't. Um, so, which is a 14. So has to hit 18
00:31:42
Alma Graves
Oh.
00:31:43
bladesedge
has to stay, which means, uh, is Mark Sorvia and bash each get three gold.
00:31:44
Tommy
Classic dealer.
00:31:50
Alma Graves
Nicely done.
00:31:51
Tommy
All right.
00:31:54
bladesedge
and almost three gold gets taken.
00:32:00
bladesedge
um
00:32:01
Alma Graves
Life and death, winning and losing.
00:32:04
bladesedge
After that game is Mark um looks at you guys and says. He goes well. um You guys seem pretty capable. Saw you guys heading in buying some armor next door.
00:32:21
bladesedge
ah
00:32:25
bladesedge
Listen, my sister, Irina, Kolyana, my adopted sister, truth be told, not blood related.
00:32:40
bladesedge
um She's been hounded by. Strahd, he sort of looks up towards the castle outside. um He says, I want to get her out of here. But I need aid in protecting her. And escorting her to Valaki.
00:33:06
bladesedge
settlement in the heart of the valley beyond the view of Castle Ravenloft, and I hope beyond the reach of Strahd. And I know it's a gamble. He looks around at the cards all around the table. I know it's a gamble, but it's I've heard assertions that Velaki is well defended.
00:33:29
bladesedge
I don't know why, but for some reason, unknown reason to me, Strahd is attracted to Irina and desires her above all others. I want to get her somewhere safe. What do you say?
00:33:46
Kyle
I think we'd be willing to help, but I'd just like to know one thing.
00:33:48
Alma Graves
I think I'd be willing to help.
00:33:54
bladesedge
Yeah.
00:33:55
Kyle
It feels like my life's mission is to make sure Strahd can never hurt anyone again. And if it came down to it, I'd give my life if it meant that I was able to succeed. Would you be willing to give yours?
00:34:14
bladesedge
Yeah, mine in a heartbeat. Irina's never.
00:34:23
Kyle
Then let's go.
00:34:23
Alma Graves
I respect that resolve.
00:34:28
bladesedge
um As you as you get up, he says ah he like downs his drink really fast and goes. so Yeah, I'm coming with you, by the way. Five swords are better than four taps his long sword.
00:34:44
Kyle
I was hoping you would say that.
00:34:46
Alma Graves
I'll drink to that brother.
00:34:48
bladesedge
Um, he says, uh, she's, um, she's at the burger master's residence, the South of town. We'll have to get out of here, um, pretty quickly. Uh, but as he goes to stand up, Sorvia, the woman grabs his wrist and says, um,
00:35:14
bladesedge
um,
00:35:17
bladesedge
She looks up at him and then to us, uh, to you guys and says, um, you should see Madam Eva outside of town. She would be able to help you on your journey.
00:35:41
Kyle
I look at his Mark.
00:35:41
Alma Graves
No, we had that on our list as well.
00:35:46
Alma Graves
Go ahead.
00:35:47
Kyle
Yeah, I just look at his Mark and see what his, uh, reaction is to that info.
00:35:50
bladesedge
Hey, he's like, he's like, yeah, not bad. Like that kid who does like the thumbs up, the not bad look.
00:35:57
bladesedge
He's like, yeah, i mean that could be cool.
00:36:01
Kyle
Well, then maybe that's where we'll head first.
00:36:03
bladesedge
This is what it looks like.
00:36:03
Alma Graves
I love that shit.
00:36:06
bladesedge
Yeah. Okay.
00:36:09
Alma Graves
The classic.
00:36:10
Kyle
oh yeah
00:36:12
bladesedge
Uh, she says, um, you can find our camp at the tesser pools.
00:36:20
bladesedge
Uh, which, um, if I go back to this map of the whole place, you guys are over here.
00:36:34
bladesedge
Focus pain.
00:36:36
Kyle
Oh yeah.
00:36:36
bladesedge
And the tester pool is right here.
00:36:38
Alma Graves
the
00:36:42
bladesedge
You can even see their little, uh, wagons on the water.
00:36:50
bladesedge
See what I'm saying? You guys see what I'm talking about?
00:36:52
Alma Graves
yeah
00:36:53
bladesedge
Okay.
00:36:57
bladesedge
Um, he gets up and says, uh, what about your boys over there?
00:37:05
bladesedge
Motioning towards the two guys who finished playing dragon chess.
00:37:05
Alma Graves
They're with us.
00:37:13
Tommy
Yeah, sounds good. I mean, you're right. Five swords are better than four. Six is better than five. Eight's better than seven. Nine's better than eight.
00:37:24
Alma Graves
You're just saying numbers, my friend.
00:37:27
Tommy
Watch it.
00:37:27
bladesedge
He's, he's nodding along. Like you're making the most sense he's ever heard. 10 is better than nine.
00:37:33
Trevor
yeah
00:37:34
bladesedge
I've 11 is better than 10. Let me 12, 12 is better than 11. 13 is even better. 14 would be even better than 13.
00:37:45
bladesedge
Yeah, exactly. It's like, yeah, that white shrewd.
00:37:46
Trevor
yeah That'll obviously.
00:37:48
Alma Graves
yes innocent
00:37:48
bladesedge
Hmm.
00:37:49
Tommy
yeah yeah um Yeah, we're in. so So I guess we're heading to the Burger Master's house and then to the SARE pools for Madam Eva. We need to get a Taroka card reading.
00:38:05
bladesedge
Ah, he says, all right, sounds good. I'll, uh, I don't know if you guys get a closure tab or whatever, but I'll be outside. I'm going to smoke one.
00:38:14
Alma Graves
What are you smoking?
00:38:14
Tommy
I'll go ahll go outside with them.
00:38:15
Alma Graves
and
00:38:16
bladesedge
This seems to get a little rolled cigarette tobacco, whatever I can get to escape.
00:38:24
Alma Graves
Cool, I'll cruise out and have a seat with her.
00:38:26
Kyle
Yeah, I'll throw down a copper piece under the table for my pint and then an extra copper piece for the the bartender.
00:38:26
bladesedge
Okay.
00:38:38
bladesedge
Cool.
00:38:39
Kyle
And then head outside.
00:38:42
bladesedge
Sorvia. Alenka and Mirabelle stay.
00:38:49
bladesedge
You guys head outside, is Mark just like, you know, whenever you're ready, it's ah down there points to the.
00:38:56
bladesedge
Directly south, Guj.
00:39:00
Alma Graves
Okay.
00:39:01
bladesedge
E4.
00:39:05
Tommy
Hey, good job guys on getting that, uh, information, uh, pass. She said, did you say they call you black Jack bash? I feel like I'm starting to get it now.
00:39:17
Kyle
Well, they didn't call me that for no reason.
00:39:23
Alma Graves
Classic blackjack bash.
00:39:28
bladesedge
His mark leads you guys down the road with a ah cock sureness that you can only describe as refreshing, given the dourness of all the people you've met here, especially you just on how long you've been here.
00:39:45
bladesedge
um ah Refreshing and. ah Probably a little like a frat boy, bro. Maybe he should be a little more. Nervous seems a little too sure.
00:39:56
Alma Graves
He, he, he hasn't been humbled yet.
00:39:59
bladesedge
No. Well, okay.
00:40:00
Trevor
D12?
00:40:00
Kyle
he's He's... Hahaha.
00:40:03
Tommy
Roma D12, D12, Brian, D12, Brian, D12.
00:40:03
Alma Graves
Yeah. D12. Yeah. D12.
00:40:04
Kyle
Roll him a d12 right now.
00:40:04
bladesedge
D12 is crazy.
00:40:05
Alma Graves
D12.
00:40:06
Alma Graves
Yeah. ah twelve oh Wait a second.
00:40:06
Trevor
Damn dude, what the fuck?
00:40:06
bladesedge
Wow.
00:40:07
Tommy
Dude, we're all, we're all acting 10 in three.
00:40:08
Kyle
WHAT?! Dude.
00:40:10
bladesedge
Yeah. I think if you, I think when you enter Barovia, you become very well endowed.
00:40:11
Trevor
Holy shit.
00:40:11
Kyle
Is this part of Strahd's curse?
00:40:12
Alma Graves
The average.
00:40:17
Alma Graves
Well, now I'm terrified.
00:40:17
Kyle
That's fire.
00:40:17
Trevor
but
00:40:18
Alma Graves
What, what kind of, uh, I don't know.
00:40:19
Trevor
Yeah, most of Brovius sucks, except that's so funny.
00:40:20
Kyle
Yeah, go go ahead and roll a little, bro.
00:40:23
bladesedge
um You guys head to this a weary looking mansion squats behind a rusting iron fence. ah The iron gates are twisted and torn. The right gate lies cast aside while the left swings lazily in the wind.
00:40:41
bladesedge
ah 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 growth has been tramped down to create a path all about the domain. Heavy claw marks have stripped the once beautiful finish of the walls.
00:41:05
bladesedge
Great black marks tell of the fires that have assailed this mansion. Not a pane, nor a shard of glass stands in any window. All the windows are barred with planks, each one marked with stains of evil omen. Would you guys all give me a perception check?
00:41:23
Alma Graves
Yes, sir. Percepy show me that a salad. Oh, that's a five from Alma.
00:41:28
Kyle
Wow, that's a natural 20 on land, but unfortunately is a 13.
00:41:33
Alma Graves
natural twenty on land
00:41:33
Tommy
One. ah Twenty two for Dishon.
00:41:38
bladesedge
Okay. Um, you guys notice, uh, maybe with the help of Tucson and a knobby that these trampled weeds all around the mansion, um, are. The doing of, you see these wolf paw prints and human footprints, but the footprints look in human. And then there are all these wolf paw prints as well.
00:42:09
bladesedge
Um, you enter the front door, which looks heavily barred. And, uh, is Mark gives a little, uh, shave and a haircut ah the and door unlocks and you see opening the door from the other side.
00:42:37
bladesedge
This person who I am showing you.
00:42:41
Alma Graves
Uh-oh.
00:42:42
Kyle
Who is that?
00:42:44
bladesedge
And is Mark says, Irena. She looks. Dubious like the doors only open a little bit until she sees is Mark and then ah puts her hand out to stop him from entering and looks at each of you and says.
00:43:09
bladesedge
um
00:43:12
bladesedge
She goes one by one. She looks at you bash. Do you have an allegiance to Strahd?
00:43:19
Kyle
She asks, do I have an allegiance to Strahd?
00:43:22
bladesedge
Yep.
00:43:24
Kyle
I just give her a grimacing look and say, no.
00:43:32
bladesedge
and Okay. Uh, looks at you and Abby. Do you have an allegiance to Strahd?
00:43:37
Trevor
Of course not.
00:43:38
bladesedge
Looks at you Alma. Do you have an allegiance to Strahd?
00:43:42
Alma Graves
My only allegiance is to the morning Lord.
00:43:45
bladesedge
Uh, looks at you, Desan, do you have an allegiance to Strahd?
00:43:49
Tommy
Absolutely not.
00:43:53
bladesedge
Um, you, as you say, absolutely not. Um, your bright hands.
00:44:05
bladesedge
And Desan sort of jumps. Like when you're like, just touch something, you didn't know you're touching something gross and icky.
00:44:11
Tommy
Oh, it's like hot or yeah, you kind of like recoil.
00:44:12
bladesedge
No, you know, you look down and you, you were like, you're going to stay in the doorway, old dilapidated house weeds everywhere, blah, blah, blah. And your right hand just went through a spider web. yeah
00:44:22
Tommy
I like shake it off, right you try to like not think about it.
00:44:27
bladesedge
Yeah, you shake it off. um She says, OK, well, come in. See this young woman with a young striking woman with auburn hair. You see, she's wearing a scarf that um you well from what you've been told is because she's been bitten by a trod twice.
00:44:49
bladesedge
um The interior of the mansion is well furnished, yet the fixtures show signs of great wear. Noticable oddities are the boarded up windows and the presence of holy symbols in every room. um You see a very dire sight as in one of the ps side drawing rooms. You see what um Is Mark does a little, uh, you know, cross, you know, over his chest sort of thing silently. As you can see, the burger master, uh, is lying in a simple wooden coffin surrounded by wilting flowers and the faint odor of decay.
00:45:37
Alma Graves
How long has it been since he passed?
00:45:40
bladesedge
Um, she said, yeah, she says, um,
00:45:41
Alma Graves
I ask her Irena.
00:45:47
bladesedge
It's been, he died three days ago. Um,
00:45:55
bladesedge
she says, well, as Mark says, these are the characters I, these are the, the people I met that I was telling you one day would come that would take you out of here. I finally found them. Prophecy was foretold.
00:46:14
bladesedge
just as Madame Eva said it would be. It looks to you guys gives you a little wink. um
00:46:21
bladesedge
ah but She begins to tell you a bit about herself. um And ah she has a strong will for sure. But she goes to say, I don't remember my past. I don't know how I came to Barovia or where I'm from.
00:46:42
bladesedge
But most importantly, my encounters with straws so far have been fuzzy memories. He has something, this blazing hunger in his eyes that makes the encounters something I can't remember. Uh, she goes on to tell you guys, she goes, uh, there are wolves and other terrible creatures that have attacked our house night after night for weeks. Same with the cemetery up north.
00:47:07
bladesedge
The burger master's heart couldn't stand the constant assaults and he died three days ago. Strangely, since his death, our house has not come under attack.
00:47:21
bladesedge
um But she looks at his mark who's standing up straight and proud, and she says, uh, no one in the village has been brave enough to help his mark take Kolyan and Derevich to the cemetery for proper burial.
00:47:35
bladesedge
If you guys can help Ismark deliver my father's body safely to Donavich, I'll go with you guys wherever you want to take me." And he quickly says, Velaki, we've talked about this. He says, we can't go to Kresk. Kresk has overrun ever since the Burgomaster died 78 years ago.
00:47:54
Tommy
Allegedly.
00:47:56
Alma Graves
We're familiar with the cemetery in Donovitch. We can head back that way.
00:48:04
bladesedge
She says, ah I'll be waiting here if you wouldn't mind burying um my father, then I'd be willing to head out with you guys.
00:48:14
Alma Graves
You don't wish to be there when we lower him into the earth?
00:48:19
bladesedge
She says something she says, she smiles and goes. There is a thing.
00:48:27
bladesedge
Our transportation of me will be dangerous for a multitude of reasons. One of which being that, so the legend goes, it's true. Vampires, much like Count Strahd von Zarovich, cannot enter your home unless invited in.
00:48:48
Alma Graves
I see.
00:48:48
bladesedge
So while I'm in here. I'm safe for going to risk exposure. I'd rather limit it to our trip to Valaki. I said my piece. She puts her hand on the, on the, uh, coffin, which all my, you know, is so pretty poorly made coming from a family of coffin makers.
00:49:12
Alma Graves
Sure.
00:49:15
Tommy
Do you guys have some sort of like wagon or cart that we could use to transport the body?
00:49:21
bladesedge
um She says, Yeah, outside. um Years ago, my my father. um Traded for these two horses, tenacious D.
00:49:33
bladesedge
And he's there, right?
00:49:35
Trevor
oh
00:49:36
Tommy
There's no shot today. Since D is still alive 78 years later.
00:49:39
bladesedge
She says ah it's it's it's it's a title. It's a title, OK?
00:49:43
Tommy
ah Okay. Okay. Yeah. Yeah.
00:49:44
bladesedge
She said they're they're outside.
00:49:45
Alma Graves
It's a lineage, yeah, it's like Clydesdales, Tenacious D.
00:49:48
bladesedge
Yeah. Cause there's two of them outside with a wagon. Um, as Mark looks at you guys and says, yeah, this will be the same wagon that will take the Valaki or enter the tester pool as well.
00:49:59
Trevor
Ah ha ha!
00:50:01
Tommy
All right, well, let's, uh, slow them up and get them on out of here. How do you guys feel about that?
00:50:07
Alma Graves
That's fine by me.
00:50:07
Trevor
Let's do it.
00:50:08
Kyle
Sounds good to me.
00:50:09
Alma Graves
We can do right by the Burger Master.
00:50:12
bladesedge
Okay. You guys load up this coffin. You take it over to the church. Donavich helps you guys find a plot of land. Open, ready for burial.
00:50:34
bladesedge
You guys bury Kolyan in Dierwitsch. And as you do, his mark says,
00:50:54
bladesedge
Sorry for everything that happened to you pops. And for all the adventurers who got duped by those letters, all those letters that had your name on it, that adventurers kept finding.
00:51:03
Kyle
oh
00:51:07
bladesedge
I know sh straw was writing those.
00:51:10
Trevor
Oh.
00:51:10
bladesedge
I know it wasn't you.
00:51:11
Kyle
Wow.
00:51:14
bladesedge
I'll find him.
00:51:17
bladesedge
I'll kill him. We're going to get Irene to safety.
00:51:23
bladesedge
Gonna bring out a Valaki. Then we're gonna confront this guy. Head on. Wham! Give him the old one-two pop. Love you.
00:51:40
bladesedge
Does the first ah bit of dirt on top of the coffin.
00:51:44
Alma Graves
Hell yeah. I'll throw some on there.
00:51:49
Kyle
Yeah, I'll assist, I'll kind of use my great axe to push some of the dirt from the pile onto the coffin.
00:51:58
bladesedge
Push some of the dirt onto the pile.
00:52:00
Alma Graves
I'll be using my mage hand to not get my hands dirty.
00:52:06
bladesedge
Nice. You guys see, um, it's not, it's not late in the day by any means. It's probably, you know, 3 PM at this point, but you do see the, um, the starting the early, this, the the beginning whispers, the wisps of green.
00:52:28
bladesedge
Smoke begins to waft off all of the graves. Except for the one that you see to sign with the name Vess rack, Bainfall on it.
00:52:46
bladesedge
Is Marxist. All right. Go get our arena and head to the tester pools. What do you think?
00:52:53
Kyle
I'm ready.
00:52:53
Alma Graves
Sounds like a marvelous plan.
00:52:53
Tommy
Uh,
00:52:57
Tommy
uh, before we, I'm like glancing over at Vazrak's grave and I just, I have this sensation that I, I can't shake this like darkness lingering presence.
00:53:01
bladesedge
Hmm.
00:53:12
Tommy
So I think that I actually am going to take the book.
00:53:17
bladesedge
You did, you guys did make it look like you put all the dirt back, so you'd have to re dig it out.
00:53:19
Trevor
Oh, shit.
00:53:23
Tommy
Yeah, I'll ah I'll re dig it out and ah I just.
00:53:26
bladesedge
His marks are like, what are you doing?
00:53:29
Tommy
I. ah There's just I.
00:53:31
bladesedge
As a guy, as a guy buried here, man. Is this sacred? We're in a graveyard. You can't like dig up some guy's body.
00:53:39
Tommy
I just and bear with me.
00:53:41
Alma Graves
i'll do I'll do a persuasion, say it's a Lathander thing.
00:53:42
bladesedge
They.
00:53:47
bladesedge
Are you going to put a disadvantage as is Marcus wearing the symbol of the thunder?
00:53:51
Alma Graves
Sure, disadvantage.
00:53:54
Trevor
And what left the enter thing?
00:53:55
bladesedge
Yeah. And Donovan should write there.
00:53:57
Alma Graves
ah that's it that's That's a 10.
00:54:00
bladesedge
Um, he says, dude, that is, I don't know where you guys come from, but this guy, Fess rack, Bainfall, uh, and his group, they're the point of year gang, man. They were the first, so many adventures have come here after hearing about what they did for the wizards of wine and, uh, helping that family. They stopped the, you know, the.
00:54:27
bladesedge
with the great ballot of winter splinter that everybody sings. They stopped that from happening. You know, they broke up.
00:54:34
Alma Graves
i
00:54:35
bladesedge
There was supposedly there was some, some witches in these parts back in the day and they stopped it. No more witches. Never will be ever again.
00:54:44
Tommy
Are you sure about that?
00:54:46
bladesedge
A hundred percent. Never more sure of anything in my life.
00:54:51
Alma Graves
and
00:54:51
Trevor
i was there i saw it
00:54:52
Tommy
Yes, I'm still like kind of digging.
00:54:54
Alma Graves
i I kind of chuckle under my breath and say, so we did make a name for ourselves after all.
00:54:56
Tommy
I haven't.
00:55:03
bladesedge
Yeah. He goes, dude, hey he's like, I gotta actively try and stop you from digging.
00:55:08
Tommy
Oh, I'll just say he has a drow artifact on him. That is going to help us in the fight against fraud.
00:55:17
Trevor
It was there, I saw it, dude.
00:55:18
bladesedge
Okay. Make a persuasion check DC 15.
00:55:21
Tommy
Okay. Persuasion 24.
00:55:27
bladesedge
Nice. He goes, Oh, why didn't you say so travel artifact fucking sounds sick. All right. I'll be waiting at the car.
00:55:32
Trevor
ah
00:55:32
Kyle
Folds immediately.
00:55:33
bladesedge
I'll see you guys in a bit.
00:55:33
Alma Graves
but Yeah, yeah, hey that is no problem totally cool
00:55:34
Tommy
yeah yeah Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Um,
00:55:38
bladesedge
He goes, oh, yeah yeah, yeah, yeah. The legendary drow artifact that they've always talked about. Got it. Cool. I'll be by the car.
00:55:44
Tommy
Yeah. um And I go and I dig up and I, I, I assume I kind of get to the book and I just go seems like I can't hide away my past in a grave.
00:55:50
Alma Graves
yes um said
00:55:58
Tommy
I'll, I guess I'll have to take it with me.
00:56:07
bladesedge
As you say, I'll take it with me. Um, you grab it and it feel, you feel like you're being tickled. Like in the center of your palm by like the faintest finger. And you sort of like involuntarily like have to like o shake and you drop the book. It hits the ground.
00:56:30
Kyle
I'm gonna look at him and say sometimes it's best to let things go even if he says it shouldn't.
00:56:45
Trevor
I'll reach down and just pick it up and I'll be like, I'll like point at, uh, dis on with the book and be like, this is your decision.
00:56:48
bladesedge
Okay.
00:56:58
Trevor
Yes.
00:57:00
Tommy
Just like Doru in the basement, I choose to focus on the light of a new dawn, and I will work through this in the light of Lathander, and I go to grab the book.
00:57:12
bladesedge
You hear him say, I choose to work on this with the limbs of a new spot, the light of a new dawn.
00:57:21
Tommy
Yeah, the limbs of a new spawn, light of a new dawn.
00:57:21
Kyle
ones.
00:57:24
Tommy
and i
00:57:24
bladesedge
Yeah, like like you quickly directed yourself.
00:57:25
Tommy
Yeah, correct myself. Yeah. i'm like um And I'd like to clasp a book kind of like around my belt, like in a chain, you know, so it kind of hangs at my waist.
00:57:27
bladesedge
Yeah.
00:57:40
Tommy
um The darkness exists to be conquered by the light of a new dawn, spawn of a spider, spawn fact just like let's go.
00:57:54
Trevor
and That was good.
00:57:57
Kyle
Um, did we pay a visit to the tarot card lady?
00:57:58
Alma Graves
it
00:57:58
Tommy
We got to go.
00:58:03
Alma Graves
No, we're on the way there.
00:58:04
Tommy
No, we're yeah we're on the way there.
00:58:05
Kyle
Okay. Okay. Just making sure.
00:58:07
Alma Graves
Well, we need to get back to Irina first, but.
00:58:10
Kyle
Yeah.
00:58:10
Tommy
Yeah, let's lets let's head back before ah anyone else starts asking any questions.
00:58:14
Kyle
okay
00:58:16
bladesedge
Okay. You guys get back to the house as you exit the, um, uh, sort of wagon that you're on, you know, it's not very comfortable. It's just a wagon. Enough to hold the bodies for sure, but it's not like a, uh, it's not a covered wagon. Um, as you guys exit the, uh, wagon, uh, design, you get up and walk out and you look back and the.
00:58:42
bladesedge
book is sitting in the thing and you see where it was connected to the change. The chain is broken. It's sitting in the cart.
00:58:57
Tommy
I just let out a sigh and I just, God, Lathander dang it. Uh, I, I just, I go and I just like put it under my arm. and I just go, ah you're coming with me. I don't know what else to say.
00:59:15
bladesedge
Okay. Uh, you put it under your arm, you guys walk inside. Irina, um,
00:59:24
bladesedge
says, well, thank you for doing that. I, um, I'm glad that he finally got the burial that he deserved. Um, I do want to get out of here. So whenever you guys are ready to go.
00:59:44
Alma Graves
With all haste.
00:59:46
bladesedge
nice She seems decked out, by the way, as you come back, she's fully got armor on.
00:59:53
Trevor
Fire.
00:59:54
Alma Graves
Oh yeah.
00:59:55
bladesedge
And a sword. A breast, a breast plate and a rapier.
01:00:02
bladesedge
um And for anybody who did not have inspiration, you now do. Everybody should have a heroic inspiration from the DM now.
01:00:11
Tommy
Frick yeah.
01:00:12
Trevor
That is both exciting, but also makes me feel as though a second TPK is coming up, you know?
01:00:12
bladesedge
Yeah.
01:00:18
Alma Graves
ah
01:00:21
Kyle
Hey man, come on.
01:00:23
Alma Graves
na na na na no na na no
01:00:23
Trevor
yeah Cool.
01:00:25
Kyle
Wait, wait till you see what I can do, what I'm capable, what these hands are capable of.
01:00:29
Trevor
Let's go.
01:00:31
bladesedge
Is Mark gets in the, uh, in the wagon arena seems like she wants to be the last one on because she wants to just kind of like run out of the house straight to it.
01:00:38
Alma Graves
No,
01:00:42
bladesedge
As is Mark is like, you guys are ready to go?
01:00:43
Alma Graves
no,
01:00:44
Tommy
Yeah. Should we start like a slow, uh, like Cantor and like, she'll like run and jump in.
01:00:50
bladesedge
He looks at you though, Dasan, and he goes, are you, wait, are you going to bring the legendary drow artifact?
01:00:50
Alma Graves
no, no, no
01:00:55
Tommy
I go, what are you talking about? It's right here under my arm.
01:00:57
bladesedge
You look under your arm. It's not there. You look back and it's on the footsteps of the house.
01:01:02
Tommy
I go back and I go,
01:01:07
bladesedge
It's, it's actually, it's open. Um, it's open to a, uh, page in the book. It's like open to a very specific page.
01:01:17
Tommy
i I look at the page while bending down to pick it up.
01:01:21
bladesedge
It's a you see that a spell that you weren't able to cast yet, but that you had you knew like you knew about it. And it's a ah spell called Soul Cage.
01:01:37
Tommy
um Do I know about that spell, like what it does?
01:01:41
bladesedge
Yeah, you can't cast you couldn't cast it. You never could cast it, but you knew about it.
01:01:46
Tommy
OK.
01:01:46
bladesedge
Pretty, pretty under dark evil kind of spell snatches the soul of a humanoid as it dies and traps it inside a tiny cage.
01:01:52
Alma Graves
That's great.
01:01:54
bladesedge
um And then you can use the trap soul for stuff, steal life, ask it a question, borrow its experience, eyes of the dead, see what it saw in life.
01:02:03
Tommy
I go down to, I bend over to pick up the book, close the page on Soul Cage. And I find myself almost subconsciously whispering to myself, Ilja Lothu, Loth test me as I like pick up the book and like run back to the wagon.
01:02:23
bladesedge
Okay. Pick a book, run back to the wagon. Uh, is Mark begins to go at like a like a yeah slow gallop out and says, all right, are you guys ready?
01:02:34
Alma Graves
Let's roll out.
01:02:34
Kyle
Ready?
01:02:36
bladesedge
Everybody in.
01:02:38
Kyle
As I as I sit down, I grab my axe and I wipe the dirt off of it. And I pull out a dagger. And I start um etching, scratching into the metal around where it meets yeah the the hilt.
01:02:56
Kyle
Or the ah I don't know what was that called?
01:03:01
Trevor
Shaft.
01:03:02
Kyle
Yeah, the around where it meets the shaft, I just start etching into it.
01:03:06
bladesedge
Okay. Um, and what are you, are you doing anything in particular?
01:03:11
Kyle
No, that's just before we head off and as we're as we're traveling. That's what I'm doing.
01:03:17
bladesedge
Cool. Um, you guys make it there by nightfall. Um, it was already getting a little late and then you ended up, you know, re digging for that artifact.
01:03:37
bladesedge
Move your guys thing over here. to Do do do if you remember this little token. As you guys reach the tester pools, you look off into the distance.
01:03:52
bladesedge
Above you, even so, if you look at at this map here, you see how that where I'm pinging right now, that is Castle Ravenloft.
01:04:01
Tommy
Yep.
01:04:01
Alma Graves
Okay.
01:04:02
bladesedge
So these were the hills I was talking about to the east. So like the graveyard, you can see is right there.
01:04:12
Kyle
Mm hmm.
01:04:12
Tommy
So we're literally in the shadow of Ravenloft.
01:04:15
bladesedge
You were in the when you were in the village of Barovia. Now you're closer, technically, when you get to when you arrive, the tester pools, but you are coming around still much further, like the it's you knows it's very high up. It's above you.
01:04:30
Tommy
Okay.
01:04:31
Alma Graves
It's a dangerous place to be.
01:04:33
bladesedge
As it's getting late, you're starting to see these green ghostly figures speak in their march. From the village of Barovia. Up towards the castle.
01:04:46
Alma Graves
what What direction do they take? What path do they take?
01:04:49
bladesedge
ah They're ghosts, so they're just kind of like float straight up.
01:04:52
Alma Graves
OK. Cool, cool, cool.
01:04:55
bladesedge
You. easy um You guys reach the tester pools as you do, uh, you arrive do, do, do.
01:05:14
bladesedge
Here we go. You arrive to the road gradually disappears and is replaced by a twisted muddy path through the trees, which you follow. Deep ruts in the earth are evidence of the comings and goings of wagons. The canopy of mist and branches suddenly gives way to black clouds boiling far above. Some lightning even. No rain where you are, but lightning off in the distance. There's a clearing here.
01:05:45
bladesedge
ah next to a river that widens to form a small lake several hundred feet across. Five colorful round tents each 10 feet in diameter are pitched outside a ring of four barrel-topped wagons.
01:06:03
bladesedge
A much larger tent stands near the shore of the lake, its sagging form lit from within. Near this tent, eight unbridled horses drink from the river. This is where Ismark is bringing tenacious to eat your horses to um to stop.
01:06:21
bladesedge
um The mournful strains of an accordion clash with the singing of several brightly clad figures around a bonfire.
01:06:32
bladesedge
And he did he did he did he did he. As the Vistani encampment that you are, as Mark lets you know. Yeah, so these are the.
01:06:44
Alma Graves
Mmm, that is stony.
01:06:45
bladesedge
As you approach, yeah, he goes, they're wondrous, they're traveling about and horse drawn barrel topped wagons, they build them all themselves, you know, they're listen compared to most Barovians, they're flamboyant, just bright colors, laugh a lot.
01:07:01
bladesedge
uh, only people I know who feel at home here in Barovia. Um, some of them are silversmiths, copperfists, haberdashers, cooks, weavers, musicians, entertainers, storytellers, tool makers, horse traders. They also earn money by telling fortune, selling information. Uh, they got a lavish lifestyle. Listen.
01:07:20
bladesedge
they They display their wealth openly as a sign of prosperity, show their good fortune with ah family and friends, so let's get in good with them. I know some of them, as you guys met a couple of them today, but each family or clan of Vistani is its own little gerontocracy with the oldest member ruling the roost. The elder will carry the bulk of the responsibilities, enforcing traditions, settling disputes, ah settling the course of the group's travels, preserving their way of life.
01:07:46
bladesedge
The Vistani elders make all the important decisions, whether by choice or, uh, because of their age, they always tend to speak in cryptic flowing riddles.
01:07:56
Alma Graves
I honestly don't think I've ever heard the phrase gerotocracy.
01:07:59
bladesedge
Uh, Jaron talker season and in there.
01:08:01
Alma Graves
Jared.
01:08:02
bladesedge
Yeah.
01:08:02
Alma Graves
Yeah, sure.
01:08:02
bladesedge
Or maybe it's, it might be Garen talker secret. That's a G, but.
01:08:05
Alma Graves
I don't know. It's geriatric is what I'm assuming.
01:08:09
bladesedge
is yeah, these Visani families and their clients are closely knit. So they resolve disagreements through contests that end with the reconciliation, singing, dancing, and storytelling, sometimes even fighting. ah
01:08:19
Alma Graves
Dance fighting, I can get down with that.
01:08:22
bladesedge
they're They're quick to act and their lives sisters are threatened and they're merciless when they believe they must be. the Any Visani who knowingly bring harm or misfortune to other Visani are banished, the worst punishment as a Visani can imagine. It's even worse than death.
01:08:38
bladesedge
Um. Uh, he says, um, so just, uh, keep all that in mind. Let's get on these people's good sides. We're trying to get you guys a, uh, tarot reading for free here.
01:08:57
Alma Graves
Right. Well, capiche.
01:08:59
bladesedge
Capiche. Capiche. He looks at you bash and goes Capiche.
01:09:07
Kyle
Peace.
01:09:09
bladesedge
Capisce. That's what I'm talking about.
01:09:14
Alma Graves
That's what I'm talking about. Okay. Um, then I would like to make my way across also this, uh, soundtrack sounds like white noise.
01:09:28
bladesedge
don't Don't fall asleep on me.
01:09:30
Alma Graves
Yeah, I'm trying not to. Um, I would make my way towards, um, you said there was a purple tent.
01:09:38
bladesedge
Yeah. So as you guys park your horses, you finally arrive and do, dode do, do, do, do.
01:09:47
Kyle
who I start swinging.
01:09:52
Alma Graves
ah
01:09:53
Trevor
XP farm.
01:09:55
Tommy
Uh, Bash, Bash, you're originally from Barovia.
01:09:56
Alma Graves
XP farm, brutal.
01:10:02
Tommy
I mean, like maybe you could have some inside and talk with the Vistani. Do you think you guys, you would have been on good terms, like your, your people and their people would have been on good terms.
01:10:12
Kyle
It's tough to say.
01:10:13
bladesedge
za itbi da da it da so it out da it out i
01:10:17
Kyle
I think
01:10:20
Kyle
While I am from Barovia, I think my views differ from my people's by quite a bit. Can I do, can I do a history check and see if, if, uh, these people will get along with any of the Kavan warriors?
01:10:35
bladesedge
Yeah, give me a history check.
01:10:40
Kyle
It'll be a 15.
01:10:45
bladesedge
15, you remember some pretty interesting stuff as he asks you that takes a second, but you begin to remember, you begin to remember as you're already here, it's already parked. Many Vistani are straw servants.
01:11:09
Kyle
Mm.
01:11:12
bladesedge
ah the So the legend goes, during one of Strahd's many military campaigns before he was a vampire, years before he became a vampire, a group of Vistani rescued him after he was wounded in battle. These Vistani not only nursed him back to health, but also delivered him safely home. As a reward for their generosity, Strahd declared that all of Vistani had the right to come and go from his land as they please. And this privilege, you know, extends to present day, meaning that this fog that surrounds Barovia, the Vistani, can travel through to the outside world. They are not trapped here.
01:11:49
Kyle
Mmm.
01:11:52
bladesedge
Strahd honors his debt to them in part because he envies the Vistani way of life, that they have the freedom that he doesn't have. um Uh, but he, he ah he, he admires them. Um, the stony have allowed themselves. Many of the stony have been corrupted by shrub, which, you know, because your father was. So you, your father had dealt with the stony to help stride. Um, but it's not blanket. It's not all, um,
01:12:20
bladesedge
A lot of Vistani consider Strahd to be their king. Vistani who serve Strahd are usually less lively and friendly than normal Vistani. And their hearts are considered poisoned with dark intentions. And Strahd a lot of times uses the Vistani to lure adventurers into his domain and to keep him informed about the events occurring in lands beyond his reach.
01:12:48
bladesedge
um So you know that. Yeah, they would. They would know of your people for sure. But yeah, you know that some of them. Some of them worship him. Some of them are indifferent.
01:13:00
bladesedge
Very few openly hate him, but they don't all love him, but you do know that all that.
01:13:02
Kyle
Yeah.
01:13:08
Kyle
ah Yeah, I mean, I guess I'll say, does Izmark know this?
01:13:14
bladesedge
Uh, no, I mean, he did any and he andy didn't mention it.
01:13:20
Kyle
Yeah, I'm gonna relay a lot of that to the group and just say, if asked about Strahd, just try to keep it neutral. Don't give way to believing in him or opposing him. Just keep it friendly.
01:13:41
Alma Graves
I understand.
01:13:45
bladesedge
zaby da dabida dabi da da dabi da daby da da
01:13:50
Tommy
ah I guess we just jump in.
01:13:52
Alma Graves
I would, I would just start dancing around the fire.
01:13:56
bladesedge
Oh, yeah. You see the familiar, this is Sorvia over here. You see Sorvia again, Alenka, like where you gambled with Mirabelle.
01:14:08
bladesedge
um Yeah, is as Mark immediately goes over and starts talking with Sorvia, him and Irena both, um mention motioning over to you guys. um And that, do, do, do.
01:14:35
bladesedge
Um, one of the Vistani as you guys approach, uh, some of them just see you guys approach. Don't even question it. Uh, who approaches Alma is Mark.
01:14:45
Alma Graves
Alma.
01:14:48
bladesedge
Irena and Nabi dash into song. What about you three?
01:14:54
Kyle
um
01:14:54
Trevor
I'm not trying to jump into any conversation, I'm just being observant.
01:14:57
Kyle
Yeah, I'm also not trying to jump in. I am looking around. Did we see like a particular tent that looks like where we would go for the tarot reading, or is that here?
01:14:57
bladesedge
Cool.
01:15:10
bladesedge
Yeah. I mean, you see one, two, three, four, five, six tents.
01:15:10
Kyle
Okay, yeah.
01:15:14
bladesedge
One of them is bigger than the others. The one right next to you. This is the bigger one, but you see this one and there's this one over here. And then there's three to the, um,
01:15:27
bladesedge
West.
01:15:29
Kyle
Gotcha. Yeah, I mean, I'm i'm just gonna be kind of surveying the land, surveying the little small camp and then when it seems like everyone's done with their conversational kind of motion towards the ah the bigger tent.
01:15:47
Tommy
Yeah, I'd probably be on the outskirts, kind of like tapping my foot along to the music. um um I'm pretty paranoid right now, so I might actually ah use my Define Sense ability.
01:15:58
Tommy
So I'm detecting, ah detect good and evil until the end of your turn, sense anything affected by a hollow spell or anything in a location of, or know the location of any celestial fiend or undead within 60 feet.
01:16:09
Tommy
That's not behind total cover. um'm just I'm pretty on edge with like the hag, the book, and everything.
01:16:16
bladesedge
Yeah. Um. Slash of a fiener undead. What a good question. Let me get a little check. Although I think I have bad news for you. Well, good news, I guess. ah You use that. You don't think anything.
01:16:35
Tommy
Okay, I sigh in relief.
01:16:37
bladesedge
Yeah. Alma. Is Mark and Irene are all handed flagons of ale by Sorvia, Mirabelle and Alenka.
01:16:50
bladesedge
As they welcome you, Alenka maybe grabs your arms, Alma, and just starts dancing to the guy that's singing right now. fatty niy we hoy dlo And then all of a sudden he goes, somebody, somebody.
01:17:00
Alma Graves
Yeah, I'm dancing along.
01:17:04
bladesedge
Oh, and everybody stops dancing.
01:17:06
Trevor
What language is that?
01:17:07
bladesedge
And he says, um, what a good question. Let me check whichever they speak, because it'll be, it'll be that language. Uh, what the frick.
01:17:18
bladesedge
Any language of my choice? No. Tell me fuck any two languages. Fuck you.
01:17:23
Kyle
yeah
01:17:26
bladesedge
Uh, any two languages. Fuck you.
01:17:29
Alma Graves
Oompa Loompa!
01:17:31
bladesedge
Um, I'd say it's, it's, it's probably, uh,
01:17:39
bladesedge
Maybe like, let's see here. I got it. I got a good idea. It's, um, okay. They were singing a song in Sylvan.
01:18:01
Tommy
Nope.
01:18:01
bladesedge
Anybody speak Sylvan?
01:18:05
Trevor
I do not.
01:18:05
Alma Graves
No, I do not.
01:18:06
bladesedge
Okay. You'd recognize it as like the language of the fae realm mostly.
01:18:10
Trevor
Okay, sick.
01:18:12
bladesedge
um As they stop. soity tury They all stop and look at one guy who stands up on a box and says with big a lot of bravado, he says, a mighty wizard came to this land over a year ago.
01:18:31
bladesedge
Over a decade ago. Over a century ago, the story continues. I remember him like it was yesterday. He stood exactly where you're standing. A very charismatic man he was. He thought he could rally the people of Barovia against the Devilstrad. He stirred them with thoughts of revolt and bore them to the castle en masse.
01:18:57
bladesedge
But 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. sho wa 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. ah Lightning lit the space.
01:19:26
bladesedge
And great rocks tumbled down upon the wizard, yet by his magic he survived. Lightning from the heavens then struck the wizard, and again he stood his ground. But when the devil's shroud fell upon him, the wizard's magic couldn't save him. I saw him thrown a thousand feet to his death, I saw it. I climbed down to the river to search for this wizard's body to see if, you know, he had anything of value, as we do, right, right, right.
01:19:55
bladesedge
But the river, Iveless, had already spirited him away.
01:20:02
bladesedge
The Mad Mage. Just a little bow and everybody goes, yeah classic story.
01:20:10
Trevor
Classic starting. Charismatic wizard? It's normally a dump staff for wizards, right?
01:20:17
Alma Graves
specific
01:20:18
Trevor
I'm just kidding.
01:20:18
Alma Graves
you unless he's a sorcerer.
01:20:19
Tommy
but and Not this guy.
01:20:21
Trevor
True.
01:20:22
bladesedge
Um, it's at this time where is Mark and Karina, uh, Irena, when the story's done, uh, walk over with Sorvia who says, um, and Alenka maybe pulls you over Alma as well. And Sorvia says, um, yes, I told, uh, Madam Eva about your,
01:20:49
bladesedge
um approach approach she waits for you in the tent and points to the one ah to the east she says after you meet with her you may stay the night at our camp if you need we've got plenty of ale and food to go around
01:21:11
Alma Graves
Thank you for doing that. I'd make my way to the tent.
01:21:16
bladesedge
Yeah, as Mark looks at you guys, especially, uh, not be bashed just on right in front of him and sort of says like, after you, uh, I will follow your lead.
01:21:26
Kyle
Yeah, I'll head towards the tent.
01:21:31
Tommy
Yeah, I'll go on.
01:21:35
bladesedge
Okay.
01:21:40
Trevor
Ugh.
01:21:41
Kyle
Oh.
01:21:42
Trevor
Ugh.
01:21:43
Tommy
Oh, hell yeah.
01:21:47
bladesedge
See if I got a full.
01:21:52
bladesedge
I don't OK. You guys head into the tents, magic flames cast a reddish glow over the interior of this tent, revealing a low table covered in a black velvet cloth. Glints of light seem to flash from a crystal ball on the table.
01:22:17
bladesedge
as a hunched figure peers into its depths. As you guys enter the room, ah is Mark and Irena with you? As you enter the room, the crone speaks, her voice crackles like dry weeds. At last you have arrived. And then she looks at you and starts laughing.
01:22:46
bladesedge
Laughter bursts like a mad lightning from her withered lips. She says, ah, Inabi.
01:23:02
bladesedge
She looks in the crystal ball. Inabi, priest of Osiris. But on which side of the seesaw do you lean?
01:23:18
bladesedge
Or is your heart someone else's? Bash.
01:23:26
bladesedge
Bash. What's your last name? Bloodsinger?
01:23:29
Kyle
Bloodsinger, yeah.
01:23:30
bladesedge
Bloodsinger. Very cool. Bash. Bloodsinger. Son of Kavan. Bloodsinger. Oh, here.
01:23:42
bladesedge
To destroy his father's legacy.
01:23:49
bladesedge
I love it. To some, fizz rag pain vow, a complicated individual indeed.
01:24:03
bladesedge
The devil and the angel on your shoulder indeed, isn't that right?
01:24:10
Tommy
I feel the book in my hand ah wait like weigh a thousand pounds. And then I feel the sword. I feel like both the sword and the book in my left hand and in my right hand.
01:24:23
bladesedge
Yeah, you, the book's so heavy, you drop it. Lands on your feet.
01:24:31
bladesedge
Alma Graves, daughter of Dixter Graves, sister of one of the pointy eared gang. Wow. And a new champion of the morning lord. Mm.
01:24:53
bladesedge
Well, now that we are acquainted, I am Madam Ava.
01:24:59
bladesedge
um She says, she looks at all of you, the four of you, expectantly. She nods to Ismark and Irina behind you as if acknowledging that they're there and their importance, but knowing that this is for you, um looks at the four of you and says, well, do you want your fortune read?
01:25:21
Alma Graves
I would love to have my fortune read. I'm dying to know.
01:25:24
Kyle
and God.
01:25:27
Alma Graves
I'm dying to know.
01:25:29
bladesedge
dying to know.
01:25:33
Alma Graves
Choice words indeed.
01:25:35
bladesedge
Interesting. She waits for a audible response from the other people in the room.
01:25:44
Trevor
Yeah.
01:25:48
Tommy
ah Yeah, yeah, that sounds good.
01:25:51
bladesedge
Well, she puts four cards on the table. Instead of the five. When you originally did this.
01:26:06
bladesedge
There were five cards. Put on the table. Now there is just three.
01:26:12
Alma Graves
o
01:26:15
bladesedge
And she says, starts shuffling the cards.
01:26:20
Alma Graves
Ooh.
01:26:20
bladesedge
And looks at the four of you with four cards and says, who will decide their fates first.
01:26:31
Alma Graves
I'm happy to.
01:26:31
Trevor
I'll draw one.
01:26:32
Alma Graves
Oh, go ahead.
01:26:32
Trevor
Oh, go for it.
01:26:33
Alma Graves
Oh, no, you're all good, brother.
01:26:34
Trevor
No, you you you after you.
01:26:35
Alma Graves
We're we're both excited. We're both excited.
01:26:37
Trevor
After you.
01:26:40
Trevor
Anabi will take your card.
01:26:41
bladesedge
OK. And now the you draw a card. And.
01:26:54
bladesedge
Let me just make sure I have this up. Okay. As you draw this card, unlike the first go around, this is a T-shaped. The one is on the left. Two is up top. Five is in the middle. Four is down below. And on the right side, there should be another card, which she leaves empty.
01:27:19
bladesedge
As she does, your attention is brought to the sword on, um, ah formerly known as Vesrak side.
01:27:30
Trevor
Mm-hmm.
01:27:30
bladesedge
With the first one, she says, ah, this card tells of history.
01:27:34
Trevor
Yup.
01:27:38
bladesedge
This card tells of knowledge of the ancient that will help you better understand your enemy.
01:27:47
bladesedge
um She she says that which I will then go ahead and tell you right there. That's for number one and she flips over the card that you draw and She says the one of swords How apt this saw this sword they call the Avenger The treasure you seek
01:27:52
Trevor
Sweet.
01:28:17
bladesedge
lies in a dragon's house, in hands once clean and now corrupted." She looks at you as if expecting you to have a question.
01:28:38
Trevor
I'll just write this down.
01:28:53
Trevor
um of Swords, the Avenger. Treasure lies in a dragon's house.
01:29:04
Trevor
um
01:29:07
Trevor
Do you know which house this card speaks of?
01:29:13
bladesedge
She smiles and.
01:29:19
bladesedge
On your map, she puts she actually pulls out your you know, it's your map and you have no idea how she got it from whoever was holding it.
01:29:27
Trevor
Okay.
01:29:30
bladesedge
ah But she pulls out your map. And she marks. On its. um
01:29:41
bladesedge
Uh, do do do.
01:29:48
bladesedge
Um.
01:29:51
bladesedge
She marks on it right here.
01:29:58
bladesedge
I just it's Q. We.
01:30:02
Trevor
oh i see it this year
01:30:04
bladesedge
I mean.
01:30:10
bladesedge
As she marks it on the map, you hear, um, Ismark say, Oh, Argen Vastolt.
01:30:25
Alma Graves
I'm sorry, what did you call me?
01:30:27
bladesedge
ah sir
01:30:28
Trevor
Oh, I see it, I see it.
01:30:28
bladesedge
Argen Vastolt. That's what they call it.
01:30:36
Trevor
the location of the dragon.
01:30:40
bladesedge
the location.
01:30:44
bladesedge
He says, um, the, so the story goes when Strahd drove his enemies into the valley long ago, determined to annihilate them. The last thing he expected to encounter was a dragon. The dragon called himself Argenvost. He apparently had come to this valley years earlier in the guise of a nobleman named Lord Argenvost.
01:31:09
bladesedge
He didn't layer in the valley solely because of its beauty. He knew of a place called the Amber Temple, which seems to be a repository of dark power guarded by the voices of good. He wanted to make sure that whatever was trapped inside the Amber Temple wouldn't be allowed to escape. So he built his fortified mansion, Argenfostholt.
01:31:35
bladesedge
yeah He had ah an order, the Order of the Silver Dragon. which drove away many male factors searching for the Amber Temple. It also sheltered Strahd's enemies and proved more than a match for him first and his battle weary soldiers. But the early victories or so it goes, didn't win the war. knights His and him and his knights were ultimately overwhelmed when his reinforcements swept into the valley. After the dragon was slain, Strahd had his corpse hacked to pieces, stripped to the bone and transported to Castle Ravenloft as a trophy.
01:32:09
bladesedge
Since his death, people say Argan Vostalt has become a haunted ruin.
01:32:20
Alma Graves
Fascinating a dragon in Barovia I'll do it
01:32:25
bladesedge
Madameva says, ah, Senhuas, flip the second god. Okay. You come forth.
01:32:40
bladesedge
Let me go ahead and she says, this card tells of a powerful force for good and protection, a holy symbol of great hope.
01:32:58
bladesedge
She flips the card over.
01:33:07
bladesedge
She says, ah, speak of the devil and he shall appear. Seven of swords, also known as the hooded one.
01:33:22
bladesedge
She says, um I see a faceless God. He awaits you at the end of a long and winding road deep in the mountains.
01:33:39
Alma Graves
The hooded one, I see.
01:33:43
bladesedge
um
01:33:48
bladesedge
ah Trev, I think you are AFK. Yes. yes um She and and does not elaborate any further.
01:34:07
Alma Graves
Okay.
01:34:10
Alma Graves
Thank you for your telling.
01:34:10
bladesedge
Seven of us hold.
01:34:14
bladesedge
We'll draw the third card.
01:34:19
Kyle
I'll go.
01:34:22
bladesedge
Okay.
01:34:30
bladesedge
um
01:34:34
bladesedge
ah andnoy When she mentions the faceless God awaiting you at the end of a long and winding road deep in the mountains, you immediately think of Osiris.
01:34:42
Trevor
Mmm.
01:34:47
Trevor
Oh, okay.
01:34:52
bladesedge
All right, Bash, as you step up, as there is no third card, you go for the fourth card. And she says, yes, this card sheds the light on one who will help you greatly in battle against darkness.
01:35:14
bladesedge
Do you flip your card?
01:35:16
Kyle
I do.
01:35:21
bladesedge
She says... She flips it and almost lets out a very, uh, laugh.
01:35:34
bladesedge
ah i ah
01:35:42
bladesedge
ah
01:35:45
bladesedge
ah
01:35:45
Kyle
i start laughing
01:35:49
bladesedge
ah
01:35:52
bladesedge
Ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah. She flips the corn card and it says, ah, broken one, the king of diamonds.
01:35:56
Alma Graves
Ha ha ha ha ha ha.
01:36:08
bladesedge
She says, I see a man whose I see a man of faith whose sanity hangs by a thread.
01:36:10
Kyle
I start laughing.
01:36:21
bladesedge
um As she says that, everybody make me a wisdom saving throw.
01:36:25
Trevor
ah
01:36:34
Kyle
Wisdom saving throw.
01:36:36
bladesedge
Yes.
01:36:37
Alma Graves
ah That's an 11 and then I'm probably going to depending um I'm gonna use my pack to the talisman to add d4 That's a 12
01:36:44
bladesedge
Cool.
01:36:46
Kyle
Yeah, that's a.
01:36:46
Trevor
17 for Anabi.
01:36:48
Tommy
16 for Dishon.
01:36:49
bladesedge
Cool.
01:36:51
Kyle
Okay, yeah.
01:36:55
bladesedge
Um, you all feel a presence, a power, something within the fabric of the world itself. Shake and the card in her hand changes.
01:37:16
Alma Graves
Oh.
01:37:17
bladesedge
And she says, Oh,
01:37:21
bladesedge
And she looks at it and smiles and says, I am mistaken. Your greatest ally will be a wizard.
01:37:34
bladesedge
His mind is broken, but his spells are strong.
01:37:38
Trevor
Haha That's the she's talking about the mad mage isn't she?
01:37:44
Alma Graves
Interesting.
01:37:46
Kyle
I rolled a five on that wisdom saving throw, ah just so you know.
01:37:49
bladesedge
Cool.
01:37:52
Kyle
um
01:37:56
bladesedge
It would seem so. And then she says, uh, well, who is last to draw.
01:38:08
Tommy
Desan has been sitting, sweating this entire time, second Toroka card reading for him in his lifetime for sure. And I like slowly raise my hand, spell books still firmly planted on the ground between my feet.
01:38:23
bladesedge
um As you go to ah flip over the card, roll me a D14.
01:38:29
Tommy
Okay. D14. Seven.
01:38:37
bladesedge
Two, three, four, five, six, seven. She says,
01:38:46
bladesedge
About this card, she says, um, your enemy is a creature of darkness whose powers are beyond mortality. This card will lead you to him. And as she flips over the card, it is, ah,
01:39:08
bladesedge
the ghost, the king of hearts. And she just looks up at you. and locks eyes and says, look to the father's tomb.
01:39:32
Tommy
Who, who's father? Strads?
01:39:37
bladesedge
Is Mark says, whoa, that's heavy. I mean, if it is, if she's talking about straws father, then that means you're talking about King Barov, Queen Ravenovia.
01:39:53
Tommy
and What yeah is, is Mark, where, where, so where are they buried as Mark?
01:39:59
bladesedge
He opens the flap maybe on one side a little further and you see off in the distance castle Ravenloft. He points at it.
01:40:08
Tommy
ah Rats Okay, so he'll be at the tomb of his father in Ravenloft We need to find a treasure in a dragon's house a holy symbol in the mountains
01:40:11
bladesedge
He goes, well, when when we're ready to find him, that's where he'll be.
01:40:39
Tommy
ah Wizard who's gone crazy and let half the country do their deaths and easy peasy.
01:40:47
Alma Graves
Yeah, easy peasy.
01:40:49
bladesedge
He pulls up the map and says, um, well, all right. Well, let's, let's start marking off where we're going.
01:40:57
bladesedge
Everybody pick a different color, mark off of spaces. You can see, I'll do, I'll go first. So we're talking the locky.
01:41:02
Alma Graves
Vlocky.
01:41:08
bladesedge
This is where we're getting. Irina. Okay.
01:41:14
Alma Graves
I think getting her to Vlaki is priority number one. The longer that she's out and about here, the longer Strahd has to seek her out and potentially ruin everything.
01:41:17
Kyle
And.
01:41:27
bladesedge
100%. Then we've got Argan Vostalt right there. Okay. Now. A long and winding road deep in the mountains. Where do you guys think that is?
01:41:43
Alma Graves
Well, when I think mountains, I think either Mount Baratok or whatever's to the south. We haven't really been in this area, but I have this strange memory of something being down here from, from my brother.
01:42:01
bladesedge
Ah, sure. Why doesn't everybody make it? Everybody can make a history check.
01:42:08
Alma Graves
It's an 18 from Alma.
01:42:10
Kyle
15.
01:42:10
bladesedge
Nice.
01:42:11
Tommy
11.
01:42:12
Trevor
Five.
01:42:13
bladesedge
You remember indeed that right here where this X is, X marks the spot is the Amber temple.
01:42:22
bladesedge
You can even zoom in there. You'll see a little opening in the.
01:42:24
Kyle
Oh, wow.
01:42:25
Alma Graves
Oh, there's a little opening.
01:42:29
bladesedge
He says, Oh God. Okay. Vlaki, Argan Vostholt, Amber Temple. What's next? Nine Hells? Abyss?
01:42:37
Alma Graves
Yeah. Um, hu what do you know about these places?
01:42:38
bladesedge
My fucking mother-in-law's house? Come on!
01:42:40
Tommy
Says the abyss, I start sweating, I throw up.
01:42:42
bladesedge
Oh, are you okay?
01:42:46
Tommy
Yeah, I'm fine.
01:42:48
Alma Graves
We, uh, we have, well, I look over at best rack. I say we've had some acquaintances. stumble into places that were a little bit more brutal than they had anticipated. I'd like to mitigate that kind of situation in the future.
01:43:10
bladesedge
Here's honestly, I don't know. I mean, Argan and Vostol, they say it's haunted. So ah maybe let's let's bring our proton packs. The Amber Temple, there's no shot I would ever go anywhere near that place. ah They say that it is riddled with ancient and dark powers.
01:43:31
bladesedge
Uh, in Abby at the mention of that you, uh, you feel a presence inside you as if to say that is true.
01:43:41
Alma Graves
So we're not going to go to the Amber Temple until we've acquired some more artifacts and some more experience. um
01:43:46
bladesedge
Because we have lucky obviously. And then, and then they're talking about you guys have to meet a wizard. His mind is broken, but his spells are strong. This isn't the story that I was just talking about outside.
01:43:58
Alma Graves
I think that sounds quite familiar and, uh, well, uh, he led Doru to the, uh, to his demise.
01:44:02
bladesedge
What the hell? Guy who led Doru?
01:44:11
bladesedge
Psycho shit.
01:44:13
Alma Graves
Yeah. Within every psycho is someone with a lot of ambition.
01:44:15
bladesedge
You guys.
01:44:18
Alma Graves
So maybe we can channel that.
01:44:19
bladesedge
You guys really want to trust that? I would rather us stay with, you know, we all have really good sensibilities and he like pats, disaunts back. as he says ah
01:44:28
Alma Graves
i don't know
01:44:28
Tommy
Yeah, we all we all have good sense and sensibilities.
01:44:31
bladesedge
Yeah. He goes, yeah, we're all, we see more sound of mine. Hey, you got a little throw up right here. Let me get them for you.
01:44:36
Tommy
i Wipe it off.
01:44:37
bladesedge
Okay.
01:44:37
Tommy
ah Allegedly.
01:44:39
Kyle
The cards never lie though.
01:44:40
bladesedge
Hey.
01:44:40
Tommy
and every time someone Every time someone calls me Vesrak by accident, then one more page grows in the book.
01:44:48
bladesedge
ah Do we need to, uh, do we even really need that guy?
01:44:51
Alma Graves
I don't know. Have you experienced an issue with having too many allies and succeeding?
01:44:55
Kyle
if
01:45:00
Tommy
Didn't we we just talked about this? Eight is greater than seven, nine is greater than eight.
01:45:04
bladesedge
or 10 is greater than nine, 11 is greater than 10, 12 will be greater than 13.
01:45:05
Alma Graves
Exactly.
01:45:05
Trevor
ah
01:45:07
Alma Graves
It's true.
01:45:10
Alma Graves
You know it. You've said it.
01:45:12
bladesedge
He says, all right, well, what's let's make a, let's make a plan here. Let's make a, uh, it's like a plan of attack here. He says, what's of all the places he goes, okay, wait, so where is this?
01:45:26
bladesedge
Is this, is this mad mage?
01:45:31
Alma Graves
On the Northern shore of Lake Zarovich is where I believe him to be.
01:45:36
Trevor
Well, that was also 78 years ago. He could have been moving around.
01:45:41
Tommy
Maybe we could ask her.
01:45:43
Alma Graves
Go to places I need to start considering we're heading to Vlaki.
01:45:43
Tommy
Yeah.
01:45:46
Tommy
I guess we could ask around in Valaki when we get there and.
01:45:49
bladesedge
Yeah, you want to mark want to go ahead and mark where you would you you think he is though, just so it's on the map. So you guys now have a visual.
01:45:54
Alma Graves
Yeah, all market.
01:45:55
bladesedge
Now there's a visual representation of the places you could go.
01:46:00
Trevor
Yeah.
01:46:00
bladesedge
Oh, the places you will go.
01:46:05
Kyle
Yeah, let's go to the Velaki Church and start asking about the Mad Mage. I think that's a good idea.
01:46:12
bladesedge
Yeah, that feels like a good idea.
01:46:12
Tommy
yeah
01:46:13
Trevor
ah do Even better idea yeah
01:46:14
bladesedge
What if we pretend to be him?
01:46:17
Kyle
Is Mark?
01:46:18
Alma Graves
ah
01:46:18
Tommy
and don't i yeah I have a sneaking suspicion. You know what? Let's do it. let you know um And before we ah close the map, I'd like to point out um um the windmill on the map.
01:46:31
Alma Graves
I was just thinking the same thing.
01:46:32
Tommy
yeah and just be like
01:46:34
bladesedge
as you As you pointed out, he goes, what's that?
01:46:40
Tommy
i look ah Drow artifact.
01:46:43
bladesedge
Make a persuasion check.
01:46:45
Tommy
um and ah reg chair
01:46:49
Trevor
That should totally just auto work on this guy for now.
01:46:51
Tommy
15.
01:46:52
bladesedge
Yeah. I mean, that sounds great. This, this first one that you got is that is like, is like, it seems so, mad it seems so magical. It's really cool. It's like the book that like nobody can hold on to.
01:47:03
Tommy
Yeah, don't touch it.
01:47:04
Trevor
ae
01:47:04
Tommy
I slap his hand away.
01:47:05
bladesedge
Right. It feels like I'm not even trying to do it. It feels like it's it like when I watch you with it, it feels like you're holding something covered in butter.
01:47:16
bladesedge
That's like, and that's cool. That's like what it's supposed to do, right?
01:47:18
Tommy
I, no, I don't know what you're talking about. I go to lift it up and it slips out of my hands.
01:47:23
bladesedge
You go to the WK and lift it off the ground as if it was like a million pounds.
01:47:26
Tommy
Oh God, real sort of the stone action here.
01:47:26
bladesedge
You go to lift it and it won't even go.
01:47:30
Tommy
I go, I have no idea what you're talking about. I'm like, ah,
01:47:32
bladesedge
Are you, all right to be honest with me, are you putting together a tight five?
01:47:33
Tommy
yeah
01:47:37
Kyle
What?
01:47:37
Tommy
i what no, just, yeah.
01:47:38
bladesedge
A tight five. Like is this part of a stand up routine? Cause I'm liking it.
01:47:44
Tommy
yeah
01:47:44
bladesedge
It's very, this is very the curly Mo and whatever.
01:47:48
Tommy
Uh, yeah, it's all part of my hat stand up. oh Yeah. d
01:47:54
bladesedge
OK, all right.
01:47:55
Tommy
Uh, yeah.
01:47:55
bladesedge
So the windmill, there's another artifact there, so we'll stop there.
01:48:00
Tommy
But after we get to the lucky.
01:48:01
Alma Graves
Yeah, we'll head to Velaki first, then the mad mage. And then, you know, when it comes time to make our way to, um, Argan Spargans, um, we'll stop at the windmill.
01:48:13
bladesedge
OK. Madam Ava says, it's been a wonderful time talking to all of you. You may sleep here the night Good luck on your journey She smiles
01:48:31
Alma Graves
Thank you, Madam Eva.
01:48:37
Alma Graves
May the morning Lord bless you.
01:48:45
bladesedge
She smiles, and ah you guys can um yeah go go straight to bed.
01:48:46
Trevor
Sweet.
01:48:52
bladesedge
They give you guys your own tents, or if there's anything anybody wants to do.
01:48:54
Trevor
Yeah, CP time. Trans time.
01:48:59
Alma Graves
a
01:49:00
Tommy
I'm going to bed. It's been a long day.
01:49:03
Alma Graves
um pretty good
01:49:07
Kyle
Um, yeah, it I head over to my tent and sit down on my bed, cot, whatever they have for me.
01:49:08
Trevor
yeah cp time
01:49:10
Trevor
trance time
01:49:11
bladesedge
OK.
01:49:13
Alma Graves
you
01:49:20
Kyle
And I again, pull out my dagger and just begin etching continue, continue etching into my blade.
01:49:27
bladesedge
Okay. You etch into the blade. The morning comes. You all are long rested. um The ah half of these people are already gone in the morning. The other half are loading up their caravans and moving along as Sorvia says. I will see you guys um soon. It's nice to meet you all.
01:49:58
Alma Graves
Sure was.
01:49:59
Trevor
you as well.
01:50:01
bladesedge
Okay. So yeah, heads out, uh, is Mark and Irene are loading up tenacious D and the wagons. You guys ready to go?
01:50:15
Kyle
Right as I'll ever be.
01:50:15
Tommy
Yeah, just let's just get out of here.
01:50:15
Alma Graves
I think so.
01:50:15
Trevor
yep
01:50:20
bladesedge
All right, let's go.
01:50:27
bladesedge
Okay.
01:50:27
Alma Graves
Lays another trail.
01:50:31
bladesedge
You guys head to move your token to right here.
01:50:37
bladesedge
As you can see where I moved it, right?
01:50:38
Kyle
Uh-huh.
01:50:39
Trevor
Yep.
01:50:39
Alma Graves
isn it
01:50:39
Tommy
Yep.
01:50:40
bladesedge
Yeah. um As I read you something.
01:50:48
bladesedge
You um you follow the river up. um You see that's to the west. There is a waterfall spilling into a pool, billowing forth clouds of cold mist. A great stone bridge spans this canyon.
01:51:14
Alma Graves
Ooh, there's a waterfall.
01:51:14
bladesedge
um Yeah, right over here.
01:51:19
Alma Graves
Brian, can we do the ultimate video game thing? I wanna go underneath that fucking waterfall. Is there any any treasure hidden underneath the waterfall?
01:51:29
bladesedge
investigation check.
01:51:30
Alma Graves
Oh, I'm so excited. Give me a nat 20, baby.
01:51:32
Trevor
sharp rocks to the bottom.
01:51:33
Alma Graves
oh Ah, six.
01:51:36
Kyle
We still have inspiration to reroll.
01:51:36
bladesedge
Um, Yeah.
01:51:38
Alma Graves
Oh, I still got inspiration. I'm using it, I'm using it.
01:51:40
bladesedge
yeah
01:51:42
Alma Graves
Ah! ah That's an 11. I'm gonna use one of my packs. Give me something more than a one, please. Four, that's 15.
01:51:54
bladesedge
Nice. Roll me a D 10.
01:51:56
Alma Graves
D10, yeah, maybe.
01:52:01
Alma Graves
That's a seven.
01:52:05
Kyle
Seven rocks.
01:52:10
Trevor
yeah
01:52:13
Alma Graves
Oh yeah, let's go.
01:52:18
Alma Graves
And Trevor, I told I got your emperor's new groove.
01:52:21
Trevor
Let's go.
01:52:22
Alma Graves
19.
01:52:23
bladesedge
um You find there's like a little bag with 19 gold in it.
01:52:28
Alma Graves
Holy.
01:52:29
Kyle
BAM!
01:52:30
Alma Graves
What a score.
01:52:30
Trevor
Hamridge, lady.
01:52:33
Alma Graves
19. Thank you.
01:52:38
Alma Graves
Bounty of the morning Lord. He left that there for me to find.
01:52:42
Trevor
Put it on black.
01:52:47
bladesedge
You guys follow this dirt road um as it clings to um this bridge, mold encrusted stone that spans this natural chasm. Gargoyles cloaked in black moss perched on the corners of the bridge, their frowns weather-worn.
01:53:13
bladesedge
On the mountainous side of the bridge, to your right, to the east, um
01:53:20
bladesedge
there is a this pool, this river that meanders into the fog, shrouded pines, the blanket, the valley. And to the other side, the waterfall spilling into the misty pool, 1,000 feet below you once you're on the bridge.
01:53:36
bladesedge
so um The bridge slippery and sheer ah slick with moisture but safe to cross.
01:53:49
Alma Graves
Off we go.
01:53:50
bladesedge
Off you go. You continue up as you guys get right about here. You come across
01:54:05
bladesedge
Even here in the mountains, this windy path, the forest and the fog are inescapable. Ahead, the dirt road splits in two, widening towards the east, where you can see patches of cobblestones suggesting that the eastern branch was once an important thoroughfare,
01:54:31
bladesedge
and one going west.
01:54:36
Alma Graves
We ain't going east. That's for show.
01:54:40
bladesedge
As you begin to go west, fog spills out of the forest and swallows up the road behind you. Ahead, jutting from the impenetrable woods on both sides of the road are high stone buttresses looming gray in the fog.
01:55:00
bladesedge
Huge iron gates hang in the stonework. ah Dew clings with cold tenacity to the rusted bars. Two headless statues of armed guardians flank the gate, their heads now lying amongst the weeds at their feet. They greet you only with silence.
01:55:24
bladesedge
And there's a gate here in the way.
01:55:30
Alma Graves
who wants to investigate the gate.
01:55:33
Trevor
We go around it? No, I'm just kidding.
01:55:36
Tommy
Give it a big open sesame.
01:55:42
Kyle
Uh, does the gate seem locked just from this? I'm sitting in the wagon.
01:55:46
bladesedge
Give me a perception check.
01:55:53
Kyle
Oh, you bitch. Gonna be a natural one.
01:55:56
bladesedge
You're not sure.
01:56:07
Kyle
Did we come through this gate before?
01:56:12
bladesedge
78 years ago now.
01:56:12
Trevor
no
01:56:17
Trevor
No.
01:56:18
Kyle
Alright, well I'm going to hop out and try to stay as vigilant as possible and take a look at the gate up close.
01:56:19
Tommy
um
01:56:23
bladesedge
Okay.
01:56:28
Trevor
I'll jump out with him.
01:56:30
bladesedge
Okay.
01:56:31
Tommy
I'll go too.
01:56:34
bladesedge
As you approach the gates, it doesn't appear to be locked. It even begins to open as you approach it on foot.
01:56:48
bladesedge
But it begins to open. Now you maybe see why as it opens. A carriage is coming through the other way. A large black carriage drawn by two black horses.
01:57:03
Alma Graves
Ruh-roh.
01:57:09
bladesedge
Snorting the snort puffs of steamy breath into the chill mountain air. as this black carriage comes to a stop right in front of you. And the side door of the carriage swings open silently.
01:57:30
bladesedge
And we'll see you guys next week.
01:57:32
Trevor
Eeee!
01:57:33
Alma Graves
Oh,
01:57:35
bladesedge
Oh, really? We've got our new. Stuff. To go after.
01:57:44
bladesedge
And, uh, thank you guys for tuning in and, um, uh, mystic visions, dude, we'll see you guys next.
01:57:49
Kyle
Hm.
01:57:52
bladesedge
We'll see you guys next time.
01:57:52
Alma Graves
Yeah. Fucking mystic visions, man.
01:57:56
bladesedge
All right.
01:57:56
Alma Graves
Wow.
01:57:56
bladesedge
Bye bye.
01:57:56
Kyle
Geez.
01:57:57
Alma Graves
Later.