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Curse of Strahd Ep. 33: Momentum
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Last week on The Blade's Edge, while they dreamt across the Amber Temple, our heroes received numerous boons to aid in the battle against Strahd. Revitalized and emboldened with their newfound power, Call the Lightning sets their sights on Argynvostholt - the ancestral home of the legendary silver dragon, Argynvost. What was once a stronghold against the undead menace of Barovia now rests as a haunted shell of its former self. Come along for the ride as we close in on our final tarokka readings before taking the fight to Castle Ravenloft!
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Transcript
Introduction to Curse of Strahd Quest
00:00:02
Speaker
Hello, one and all, and welcome back to the Blade's Edge, a D&D actual play podcast where we are currently playing through Curse of Strahd. And we are going to jump right back in ah The gang has ah found themselves after ah finding the book um ah the with the necklace, ah the holy symbol of Ravenkind,
00:00:26
Speaker
ah They're on to their last. They found that in the Amber Temple. They're on to their last. Sort of Taroka card, tarot card, sort of things that can help you. They're not necessarily necessary. They're not mandatory sort of quests to do, but each one that you do makes the eventual inevitable a confrontation with Count Strahd von Zarevich, the ah ruler of this dreaded realm of Barovia, a little bit easier.
00:00:53
Speaker
guys
Encounter at Argenvosstholtz
00:00:54
Speaker
have found yourselves in a long ah abandoned haunted mansion known as Argenvosstholtz. ah You've just heard the story from Sir Godfrey Gwilum of the Order of the Silver Dragon and their fight against Strahd and how they lost him.
00:01:13
Speaker
and tell a lot of their, uh, soldiers, yeah you know, spirits still live on here. Sir Godfrey has even pledged, um, he sort of looks like a white Walker. Um, he sort of pledged his allegiance along with the rest of this undead order of the silver dragon.
00:01:36
Speaker
when you eventually go fight, try, which is great. Cause you guys actually had, um, You guys have like, like when you guys eventually go make your move on, on Strahd, you have the keepers of the feather at your back. You have the almost inquisitors at your back.
00:01:49
Speaker
You have ah Yach Sizzler and Jimothy at your back. on You know that every night the ghosts of Barovia from the ah the, the graveyard go into a quote unquote attack the castle at your back.
00:02:03
Speaker
ah So it's just
Tasks to Gain Silver Dragon's Support
00:02:04
Speaker
another ah force battalion to add to your army. ah he has said, if you can put the soul of Argenvoss to rest, as he's not currently at peace, not at rest, ah you would have there their swords in battle.
00:02:24
Speaker
right after that, the sound of thunder, and in life you see some lightning, you see an imprint of a dragon in the clouds far above, the rain pouring down through the cracks in the ceiling as you stand in this cobweb-laden room talking to these undead.
00:02:45
Speaker
If you can put us... soul to rest, you have our swords.
00:02:58
Speaker
Um, I, is there anything we would need to do other than maybe like vanquish it? Is there like a ritual? If I knew how to put his soul to rest, I would have done it already.
00:03:16
Speaker
i see. That makes, that makes sense. Um, we'll do it.
00:03:25
Speaker
We'll do it right Bash. We'll certainly and try our best. Takes his sword, pulls it out, puts a point down into the ground, and then sort of kneels and says, If you do, then I swear, the order of the silver dragon.
00:03:42
Speaker
When it short enforces, we call the lightning.
00:03:49
Speaker
I'd put my hand down to shake his hand. He shakes your hand, sort of forearm. ah handshake style and ah returns back to his seat at the table and says, when you're done, if you're successful, we'll know.
00:04:10
Speaker
All right.
00:04:13
Speaker
I
Exploration of Argenvosstholtz's Roof
00:04:14
Speaker
go back in and say, hey, so guys, we're going need to fight this dragon. Well, the echo of a dragon.
00:04:27
Speaker
Uh, where is it? For sure. Like, where can we find this Echo Shadow Dragon? Um, I mean, didn't we kind of get that it was kind of flying around as well?
00:04:42
Speaker
At the end of the... You look up at the towards the sky, you don't see anything. guys don't see anything. You just see the rain, thunder. Is there a way to get further up? ah There is one further... ah yeah there's There's one... ah the roof of this place you know exists. I mean, you you're looking... Right here, there's a big hole in the roof, so you see that there is a way... There is a roof, because this is all the debris from the hole in it.
00:05:09
Speaker
ah But it stands to reason that there's probably a way up there. Cool. I am going to cast Rope Trick and take a segment of rope
00:05:21
Speaker
and basically rope Continues to go up and up and up until it gets to, ah I think, 60 feet.
00:05:35
Speaker
And then we can like climb up and down it.
00:05:41
Speaker
So I think I would use it to like climb up through the hole. Okay. Okay.
00:05:51
Speaker
and then see what it looks like from above.
00:05:55
Speaker
Cool. I'll move your token.
00:05:59
Speaker
You're up here. um Just scroll up. As the rain is pelting down on you, you're at the top of the hole in the roof. You have this 20-foot diameter hole in the mansion's roof is directly above where you just came from.
00:06:16
Speaker
Floor is 20 feet below. ah The rubble on the roof surrounding the ewe is like difficult to rain. The roof is sloped, covered with crackstone tiles. um And ah yeah, you look as if to see like there used to be. like This is a little bit of an overhang that has since been destroyed by however made whatever made this hole.
00:06:38
Speaker
I would whistle down to the group and see if they want to come up or stay down there.
Discovery of Mausoleum Clues
00:06:45
Speaker
So you made... Essentially like a ladder to go up to the roof? Yeah, essentially. it's it's It's the rope trick spell. So we've always just had a like way to create It's like a portal with a rope coming out of it.
00:06:58
Speaker
You can crawl into the extra space at the top.
00:07:03
Speaker
Yeah, I'll come up.
00:07:07
Speaker
Yeah, I'll go up too. Okay. How about you and Abhi? Yeah. Am I getting the sense, though, that the closest we've been to this dragon thing was on the very first floor?
00:07:20
Speaker
um yeah You never saw a dragon on the first floor. You saw the shadow of a dragon on a wall. Right, and like heard the hissing of the dragon on the first floor. But like that since we've been climbing floors, we haven't heard or seen any dragon related stuff, right?
00:07:35
Speaker
You did just see a dragon through the window up in the sky. Oh, shit. You saw the silhouette of a dragon up in the Okay. Okay. Nice. You saw the silhouette of a dragon. Okay, tight.
00:07:47
Speaker
The dragon is dead. You guys know the dragon is dead. In the story he told you, Strahd not only killed the silver dragon, he chopped up his body and brought all the pieces to Ravenloft.
00:07:59
Speaker
Right.
00:08:03
Speaker
Okay. What are you guys doing once you're on the roof?
00:08:10
Speaker
So we're...
The Plan to Retrieve Argenvoss's Bone
00:08:12
Speaker
Are we trying to summon this guy or are we getting pelts down over where you are a bash over here? You see there's a destroyed ballista strewn atop the roof toward the front of the mansion is the wreckage of a ballista flanking. The wreckage are two stone turrets, which ah with conical rooftops and narrow doors.
00:08:36
Speaker
Just setting the scene. I see this, this dragon. so Is this a statue over here? Yeah, a statue of a dragon right over there. You see a ah perched on the rooftop overlooking the parapet is a silver-plated gargoyle shaped like a dragon wyrmling.
00:08:53
Speaker
I go check it out. Yeah, as you head over there, ah the the head of this gargoyle thing opens and the mouth moose starts to move and says... When the dragon dreams its dream within its rightful tomb, the light of Argenvast will beam and rid this land of gloom.
00:09:14
Speaker
And it goes back to being inert.
00:09:22
Speaker
When the dragon dreams its dream within its rightful tomb, the light of Argenvast will beam and rid this land of gloom.
00:09:37
Speaker
Or is it rightful tomb? Does that mean we need to bring its bones back here?
00:09:46
Speaker
Would we have to like... That mean going to Castle Ravenloft. Is it not... Is bones not in Castle Ravenloft? Is there a tomb here?
00:09:55
Speaker
You guys saw a mausoleum.
00:09:59
Speaker
Oh. Oh shit, let's go to the fucking mausoleum. Yeah, maybe we should go check that out. Yeah, yeah.
00:10:09
Speaker
Yeah, I would ah continue exploring to the north here and then think about that mausoleum idea. Okay. As you get up there, you see an ancient ballista rotted by time and weather stands behind the battlements on this tower rooftop.
00:10:28
Speaker
Whoa.
00:10:33
Speaker
I pretend that like I'm in the movie Reign of Fire. Let's go.
00:10:46
Speaker
And I just kind of look out across the land.
00:10:52
Speaker
Um, nice. You look out across the land. Uh, to the north and east lies, since you guys are kind of up on a hill, and to the north and east lies a mist shrouded valley with dark woods, a small town, and a lonely windmill on a precipice.
00:11:09
Speaker
To the south, a river flows through a foggy marsh. To the west, between rocky hills, you glimpse an abbey perched on a snowy mountainside beyond a long stretch of fog-smothered pines.
00:11:21
Speaker
Um, this is, all of this stuff reminds you guys all of sudden, you know, that town is Vallaki. The windmill is Old Bone Grinder where the hags are. The abbey is where the original crew started out this whole thing, the abbey of St. Markovia in Kresk.
00:11:35
Speaker
Um, But from this vantage point on top of this roof, you can kind of see it all.
00:11:44
Speaker
Man. What a place to be. How far you've come.
00:11:50
Speaker
Yeah, I would walk back over to Bash and look up at this dragon statue and think that it's a cool purpose. want to return this thing where it belongs.
00:12:05
Speaker
Yeah, I think we head to the to the mausoleum. That might be our best bet for the moment. You guys start to make your way back towards the hole in the roof. Lightning and thunder.
00:12:16
Speaker
And D'Saun, you see the outline of them before everybody else sees where they are. Standing on the rooftop, silhouetted by the lightning.
00:12:30
Speaker
You see a lot of these sort of phantom warriors with this guy standing at the front. A shadow, a ghost, a sketching of a man as he stands there.
00:12:48
Speaker
And he says,
00:12:51
Speaker
You wish to bring the bones back to the mausoleum.
Battle with Rahadin's Convoy
00:12:57
Speaker
You wish to sit Argenvast at peace.
00:13:08
Speaker
And who are you to be able to do such things?
00:13:12
Speaker
I lift my sun sword and kind of push it to life, like to give it to give us light because it's like kind of raiding and dark. And I go, we're called the lightning.
00:13:24
Speaker
We're here to rid the land of gloom. yeah He sort of approaches you very hastily and with a great sword sort of meets, you know, almost like he's not fighting. He's sort of like ah ceremonially meeting the sun sword in the air, hitting it with as he approaches you and he says, well, do you know who else had the sun sword last time we fought?
00:13:46
Speaker
Organvast did.
00:13:50
Speaker
Well, it's been passed down to me. Yeah. We saw how much good it did him, didn't we?
00:14:01
Speaker
Well, that's... What makes you so special, boy? What makes you all are so special that you can do what he couldn't?
00:14:12
Speaker
Nothing. We just continue to not give up.
00:14:17
Speaker
Isn't that the whole point of the sword?
00:14:21
Speaker
A new dawn? Something to look forward to?
00:14:28
Speaker
He says, all right, ladies and gentlemen, sorry for a tiny little edit point there, but ah this man says to you, hi.
00:14:40
Speaker
Well, if you wish to put him at ease, there's only one way.
00:14:47
Speaker
And we are bound to this tower.
00:14:53
Speaker
He looks out and you can see on the distance since you can see everything from up here. You see a carriage heading down the road quite a ways off, but heading to the Amber Temple.
00:15:08
Speaker
And he says, Hi,
00:15:12
Speaker
lads.
00:15:15
Speaker
Argenvoss was chopped up long ago.
00:15:22
Speaker
But they carry his bones around as a mockery. They carry his bones around. They think it gives them power.
00:15:31
Speaker
He points at the carriage and he says, Now that, lads, that's Rahadin.
00:15:42
Speaker
And he's going to the Ember Temper.
00:15:45
Speaker
He makes chips there. We can't intercept because we are stuck here until the beacon is lit. We've met Rahadin, haven't we? Yeah, it's the right hand of Shrod.
00:16:00
Speaker
That's true. He says, if you wish to light the beacon, we need a bone of Argenvost and Rahadin carries one on him.
00:16:13
Speaker
If you wish to have our help, and to steal the spirit of Argenvast.
00:16:24
Speaker
Intercept Rahadin on the road. Kill him. And take the bone.
00:16:33
Speaker
Ooh, I like that idea.
00:16:38
Speaker
We can definitely do that.
00:16:46
Speaker
I'm in.
00:16:50
Speaker
how are we goingnna How are we going to intercept him? He's in like horse drawn carriage, right? We could wait for him to go into the temple and then take it when he's not in his carriage.
00:17:04
Speaker
Does he keep it on him? I guess we don't know, huh? Yeah, he keeps it on him, lad. keep a thing on him You have to kill him to get it.
00:17:12
Speaker
My suggestion would be go down the road here and when he comes up draw him out. You won't be alone, but if you are truly the warriors who are meant to kill Shrod, should be no problem.
00:17:34
Speaker
Maybe we can set up a trap.
00:17:39
Speaker
What kind trap?
00:17:42
Speaker
I don't know, like a big rock trap or a spike pit trap or a... If we get an anvil hanging. if we can I want to draw a really Really realistic tunnel.
00:17:55
Speaker
Would we be able to use like the ballistas from on top of here and shoot down on them? Yeah, you could. you You get the sense you have about an hour and he and he passes right in front of this place. It's on the way.
00:18:06
Speaker
um
00:18:09
Speaker
So whatever you guys would like to do to prepare or whatever you guys want to try, ah let me know. if somebody wants to be on the ballistas, you can do that. You can try whatever you'd like. We have about an hour to prepare.
00:18:21
Speaker
Can I ask the guy that we're talking to if he can man the ballistas while we wait um down below? um He walks over to this ballista over here and says, ah this thing is ancient.
00:18:38
Speaker
You touch it and it'll to pieces. Could I try to use my mending spell on it and work on fixing it? If you'd like to spend the hour doing that, I could say you could fix one of them.
00:18:52
Speaker
What do think? Probably worth it. i'd say so yeah yeah yeah I I'll use mending on one of them. Okay, so Stalvadak is going to stand ah spend the hour, maybe with some of these phantom warriors of the ah ah Order of the Silver Lion, fixing one of these ancient ah ballistas.
00:19:11
Speaker
ah This guy, as he heads over there to do it, he says, I'm Vladimir Horngard. I was...
00:19:21
Speaker
joined the Silver Dragon at a young age. Quickly learned the friendship of Argenvoss. I traveled to distant lands to wage war against the forces of Eagle.
00:19:33
Speaker
I am.
00:19:36
Speaker
I am all that's left to lead.
00:19:42
Speaker
Then who is the guy we met downstairs? The knight, Sir Godfrey.
00:19:50
Speaker
Are you guys not the same? are you guys I mean, you guys are both Order of the Silver Dragon guys? Aye. Okay. Okay.
00:20:00
Speaker
Okay, but you guys are ghosts and they're undead. I got it. All right. You put one too many words in my brain to San's brain, not my brain. Let me be clear. Yeah, you kind of get lost in the saw sometimes.
00:20:14
Speaker
Yeah, just to be clear. Yeah, just to be clear as my character, not me. All right, Stalvodok has chosen what he is going to do for the hour. So when this whole thing kicks off, Stalvodok will be on the roof.
00:20:27
Speaker
My idea is to, or at least for myself, is to wait down on the main road and kind of be like the the front vanguard position. Because I can use my symbol of Ravenkind to hold vampires and also produce sunlight so that as an action I can spend a charge and vampires spawn within 30 feet of my holy symbol as it flares.
00:20:52
Speaker
um have to make a save or else they get paralyzed for a minute. Damn. So that's kind of my, that's kind of my plan.
00:21:05
Speaker
what What else has everyone else got? What were you guys bashing, Abhi? Yeah, I mean, I'm going to come down there with you and I'm just going to try and in just like main focus on Rahadin and just try just go straight for him while everything else is going on around me.
00:21:25
Speaker
Okay.
00:21:29
Speaker
Anabi, where do you want to be? I'll go with you guys.
00:21:36
Speaker
So is Stala Doc going to meet us after? can join you guys. I have ways to get down to the ground. Yeah. and And Doc is a primary spellcaster, so I don't... The roof might be safe for him.
00:21:50
Speaker
I don't know. It depends on how close the carriage gets to the castle. Yeah. Don't worry about me. I'll be able to join you guys in many different ways. I do have dimension door.
00:22:02
Speaker
So if somebody wants to be taken with or whatever, that is an option. Also, wait, how high up are we off of the ground up here?
00:22:14
Speaker
ah That's good question. yes um re storie time Yeah, you're on the roof. There's three stories and then you're on the roof. So does it tell me?
00:22:27
Speaker
How tall Argenvost is! I don't think it tells me how tall Argenvost is! Let's see... it did did do do do do
00:22:44
Speaker
but's see
00:22:52
Speaker
No, so we're gonna go big old mansion 20 feet us story 20 40 60 you're on the roof 60 feet up
00:23:08
Speaker
Cool yep for me that's vortex warpable or rope trip rope trip ah rope trickable Is it possible? I mean, I guess that this would just be a wing it kind of thing, but I think maybe when it comes to it, Anabi might try and like jump off and once he's about halfway misty step.
00:23:28
Speaker
Like as he's falling, you know? Sure.
00:23:34
Speaker
When do monks get reduced fall damage or is that a later damage or a later feature? He's also a wizard. is Don't you have multi-class in Monk or am I misremembering? That is Bah. Ah, that's Bah. Yeah. i'll ah I'll just start making my way downstairs unless I and don't think there's anything else that I could help with without up here.
00:24:03
Speaker
Cool.
Combat Intensifies with Rahadin
00:24:04
Speaker
um I'll go ahead and...
00:24:10
Speaker
Put you guys back on the other map. So it's. Anabi, are you coming downstairs? So it's it's boss. I'll just come with you. I was going to like stay up here and wait for him to show up, but I'll just come with you and try it.
00:24:24
Speaker
But maybe you find somewhere in like the bushes if there's like you're behind a wall or something down on the ground. Assassin's Creed. Yeah. OK, so ah Bash and Abidassan going downstairs. Doc is staying upstairs.
00:24:39
Speaker
All right, there are your guys' tokens. You guys are outside outside the front gate or the front door with Valentine, your wizard, ah companion friend, Mad Mage.
00:24:51
Speaker
um And for all intents and purposes, we can just go ahead and say this X I'm going to draw right here is where the carriage is going to be coming through. um okay so is theyre they're essentially coming from there and then looping down like...
00:25:05
Speaker
Yeah, let's just yeah try to pretend that road keeps going south. Yeah, this way. yeah Pretend this road keeps going. We
00:25:14
Speaker
down that way. OK. Nice. OK. Yes. So um ah what are you guys going to do stop the carriage?
00:25:26
Speaker
And sta I was thinking they just shot over here. The fucking horses.
00:25:33
Speaker
It was like shot the wheel or something. Yeah. I could also produce sunlight.
00:25:41
Speaker
have the one but web spell.
00:25:48
Speaker
The spell? Web. you could like cast web in the area that they're coming to Oh, we could light it on fire, right? Sure. i i used have web I used to have the web spell in a past life.
00:26:00
Speaker
You did. try to hit the horses with the web and light it on fire.
00:26:07
Speaker
anyone else heard Depending on how the horses are attached, we could just try and cut the ropes from the horses to the... True. I could make ah could make Bash invisible and he could try to sever the horses from the carriage.
00:26:22
Speaker
shit. I guess technically I can't because it's one of my charges from Wand of Wonder that I have to roll for, so I can't actually do that. Sorry. Just cast Wand of Wonder on Bash and hope for the best?
00:26:35
Speaker
ah Right. so da da and And you are starting the battle at the top of the thing. So when we roll initiative, you guys will have a couple, you guys will have ah probably 1d4 minus 1.
00:26:53
Speaker
You guys will have a round to stop it. Or going to just roll through. guys have figure out how you're going to stop it. This is what you guys have an hour to set and plan on. ah carried I thought we were going to shoot the fucking carriage with the thing and disable the carriage. Like shoot its wheel and and break it so it can't move.
00:27:10
Speaker
And then when that happens, we ambush it when it's stopped. I like it. yeah That's kind of what I was thinking we would too. hinges on the roll hitting.
00:27:22
Speaker
And if it doesn't hit, then just... Do we all have ranged attacks by any chance? No, I guess ah you know this token will represent the carriage.
00:27:35
Speaker
I could also cast darkness on the carriage to try to get it to stop, or it might just keep going through. I'm not sure what would happen. Or I could cast daylight and cast daylight, darkness, fairy fire. um fire ris As the carriage begins to crest the hill, and is in ah you can see that it is being drawn by two horses. Both the horses are wreathed in flame.
00:27:58
Speaker
Ah. Uh-huh. So fire might not be good. Like this.
00:28:05
Speaker
Oh, I could have ritually cast Fine Steed.
00:28:10
Speaker
That is what the horses look like. They are um dark and wreathed in flame. The hair on them are are flames. these are no These are no normal horses.
00:28:24
Speaker
Big true. Yeah, it's say maybe target whatever. are Are there like, does it look like there's rope or something like attached from those horses to the carriage?
00:28:34
Speaker
Yeah. Yeah, I think that's how you can even see on this sort of token here how a carriage is attached to horses. I think it is a bit of, ah there's that, see that wooden right in the middle that is held around their harnesses around their neck. And then there is um the ropes on the side that are also connected.
00:28:57
Speaker
Yeah, maybe... either Either that or whoever said like the wheel. I'd say, yeah, maybe we'd still just try to fuck up the carriage itself. Yeah, I think I'm going to aim for a wheel.
00:29:10
Speaker
If the ballista doesn't work, then um we just run up to the carriage and I can like swing ropes with my axe to sever the horses from the carriage.
00:29:22
Speaker
Yeah, I'll do the same thing. And I could Misty step onto the carriage and try to disable it. Hell yeah. Okay. Alright, well let's just go ahead and do it. As the carriage begins to approach...
00:29:35
Speaker
ah You guys get kind of one round at this. If you fail to stop the carriage, they will continue on. And this is was just a the tarot cards were never meant to be things you absolutely had to do. They were all side questable things to help at your initial attack.
00:29:51
Speaker
So if you fail, you fail. boom This is we're going to go ahead and roll initiative. Go ahead and click your token, roll initiative and let people know what you get.
00:30:04
Speaker
17 for Dasan. Please give me a high. That's a 19 for Stavadok. 14. 14 for for the carriage. the carriage.
00:30:23
Speaker
17 for the carriage. ah roll off Do I do a roll off with the carriage? ah You'd go before the carriage, so you'll have 18. okay
00:30:33
Speaker
um And as it approaches before before initiative starts, anybody it was anybody holding anything? yeah I would have second level scorching raid at one of the wheels on the carriage.
00:30:46
Speaker
Okay. So as it's coming as it's coming up, ah you can't see anybody on. Nobody's on the back holding the reins. You just see these two sort of nightmare ah horses like ah controlling this thing. And as they get close, you you let off your scorching ray on the wheels.
00:31:05
Speaker
Yeah. Go ahead and roll that. There's one, three. A 17 wheel hits three. Oh, that one for the last one. So the last one misses, but the other two both hit the carriage fire for seven and nine. Okay. Seven and nine.
00:31:29
Speaker
is 16 take 16 off the carriage HP. um Okay, so you've brought the carriage to about half health. So I would say at this point the the wheel ah the wheel that you aimed at shatters and part in one corner of the ah ah carriage hits the ground and it is sort of being slid but it is still mobile. Is anybody else holding anything?
00:31:54
Speaker
Yeah, I would definitely be using that as the sign to kind of aim aim towards that area. And so I'm going to move a little bit up to the right of my my aiming, try to hit the door of the carriage, see if I can bust the door open with this ballista.
00:32:13
Speaker
Okay. It's a plus seven for the ballista, and if you hit, it's 2d10 plus seven. Okay. Big damn. Come on. It's 22. 22 hits.
00:32:25
Speaker
2d10 plus 7? 2d10 plus 7.
00:32:32
Speaker
That's going to be 11 damage. 11 damage. Okay, so the carriage is almost at 0 hit points for the carriage. So you hit the door and you see there are 4 people inside.
00:32:44
Speaker
But the carriage is still has a couple hit points left, so it's going to be continuing to move at a half speed. It is almost at zero hit points. Is anybody else holding anything?
00:32:56
Speaker
No, I'm gonna wait for the ballista to go off before... Oh, the ballista just went off. just went so Okay, I'm going go to... Okay, I'm going to Misty Step onto the carriage and as a bonus action, and as my action, I would like to... it's not your turn, it's just a held action.
00:33:13
Speaker
Okay, Misty Step onto the carriage. Okay, so you... you You're on top of the carriage as the ballista hits the door frame and you see there are four people inside, including Rahadin. um That is your held action. So that just leaves bash.
00:33:28
Speaker
um Yeah. How each one of these squares is 10 feet.
00:33:36
Speaker
Yeah. Yeah. There's five feet in
Struggle and Strategy Against Rahadin
00:33:38
Speaker
the square here. ah Okay.
00:33:43
Speaker
oh My walking speed is 40 feet ah You could have put yourself five feet you could put yourself wherever you want I Didn't put you there.
00:33:53
Speaker
You also can throw stuff can't you? Yeah, but I do I mean i do have a javelin maybe i throw this is javelin Fuck yeah. Okay, so I'm gonna wait on I'll go like five fifteen has a range of thirty feet So I'm gonna throw throw this javelin that I have Nice, what are you throwing the javelin at?
00:34:20
Speaker
um
00:34:23
Speaker
Just like
00:34:26
Speaker
Not like the wheel, but kind of aiming for like the bottom structure yeah yeah of the car. So just like the undercarriage. Love that. Just try to do more damage to the chassis. Hell yeah. but but but but bupa Throw that thing. Throw this.
00:34:44
Speaker
Maybe a 23 to hit. 23 hits. I assume you're going to probably do enough. Let's roll that damage.
00:34:52
Speaker
yeah You throw it the carriage the under a carriage part is a Jostled off after the door was blown off a wheel was blown off now that's blown off and the carriage comes apart as it does you guys see
00:35:11
Speaker
First of all the two horses
00:35:17
Speaker
and spilling out of the carriage and tumbling along the ground of along with you, Dasan, as you were on top of it when it was dismantled.
00:35:29
Speaker
ah You see Rahadin himself,
00:35:37
Speaker
two of these sort of women consort vampires, and one more well-dressed older man a vampire who had looks like he had a book and a pen. and He was like writing something has like some glasses that just fall off his face as they start.
00:35:54
Speaker
um And let me go ahead and roll initiative for you have to make like a role for being on the wagon while it was being disabled.
00:36:06
Speaker
ah You know, you were on it and now the wagon has hit the ground and you and everybody else has fallen off of it. OK, wagon is in pieces on the ground. Just run double check. OK.
00:36:18
Speaker
Now, as we start initiative, Rahadin rolled the 24. Oh, shit. Okay. Here we go. It's go time. It's go time.
00:36:31
Speaker
You hit the ground and roll. Rahadin is prone. He rolls over immediately, gets on all fours, and looks at Yudasan and bears his teeth and goes... And then he does like a leap at you, like a ah somebody running on all fours, but the minute his feet hit and then his hands hit, he almost launches himself like he flies at you.
00:36:51
Speaker
Yeah, shield up. Yeah.
00:36:55
Speaker
And as he reaches you, um
00:37:02
Speaker
ah you as he gets close to you and he is up in in your business... You hear screams of thousands of people. no No, don't kill me.
00:37:14
Speaker
No, don't kill me. But he's just a boy. No, don't kill me. Screams of thousands of people as he enters within 10 feet of your range. And I need you to make a wisdom save.
00:37:27
Speaker
Okay. Whizzy. 11. Okay. You take 12 points of psychic damage.
00:37:37
Speaker
um And he is going to then attack you as he pulls a scimitar out. He's going to attack you three times. so Sure. Sure.
00:37:49
Speaker
ah That is a 26 to hit. ah Yeah. You take 12 points of slashing damage. Okay. 22 to hit. Yeah. You take 10 points of slashing damage.
00:38:02
Speaker
Hey, guys, I'm starting to think that this thing was not a good idea. And a 28 to hit. God. god Oh my God. And you take 10 points of slashing for a 32 total.
00:38:16
Speaker
in addition to the 12 you took before. so Yeah, cool, cool, cool, cool. cool cool cool cool cool cool cool cool um That is Rahadin's turn. You still hear the screams of thousands of people. um And then he immediately looks at one of these horses and says, Bucephalus, kill him.
00:38:31
Speaker
And this horse goes towards you, Bash.
00:38:39
Speaker
And Bucephalus is going to make a hoof attack. That's 16 hit. A 16 does hit, unfortunately.
00:38:50
Speaker
Nice. You take 18 bludgeoning damage and six points of fire. Holy fuck. As his hooves hit you and the fire scorches across your chest.
00:39:01
Speaker
ah You take all that bludgeoning because you are not yet raging. That is Bucephalus' turn. um Stall the dock on your turn. the You can also have the ah spirits.
00:39:13
Speaker
ah well One of them can load and one of them can shoot the thing at whoever you'd choose. ah You know what the the plus is and the to hit and that is just a free action on your turn. Cool. I'll start off by doing that and just aiming at Rahadin.
00:39:26
Speaker
Okay. So it's a D20 plus seven
00:39:35
Speaker
seven. 17. A 17 would just miss his 18 armor class. As he sees it coming, he sort of moves to the side when it slams in the we still have inspiration? You do.
00:39:46
Speaker
Oh yeah. Yeah, I'm gonna try it. Making note of that. Yeah. All right. so you You're using your DM inspiration. See if you roll higher than a 10. Just roll another Oh, perfect. 18 on the dot. 18 is pizza pizza. That will hit. 2d10 plus seven.
00:40:02
Speaker
Come on. Big rolls. Big rolls. 18. That's a good roll. He takes all that. is it ah do do um He goes to move out of the way and it sinks directly into his scythe.
00:40:18
Speaker
Yeah, and that's just the beginning because I'm going to use... Can I flavor it like this, Brian, and cast the catapult spell to fire off another bolt? Sure. Yeah.
00:40:29
Speaker
ill do that. And it's he needs to make a dex save and it's 3d8. What is the range of catapults? is 105 feet away from you. Is he 105? Oh yeah, he's he's far. So I'll have disadvantage because it's 60 feet.
00:40:43
Speaker
Probably won't be able to make it then.
00:40:46
Speaker
Okay. ah You can try and get closer. um Well, yeah, then I would have to jump all the way down. Let's see.
00:40:58
Speaker
I thought we were going to have the guys that were on the roof aiming the... They are. They did. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. That's right. He's just rolling it. I see, I see, I see.
00:41:11
Speaker
Yeah, so then I will ah vortex warp myself down to the ground. Okay.
00:41:20
Speaker
You disappear. Your oily black skin as you hit the ground.
00:41:28
Speaker
um And then, yeah I'll ah use my bonus action.
00:41:36
Speaker
to fire with my... isn't but Is it Vortex Warp a bonus action? Vortex Warp? No, Misty Step's a bonus action. Vortex Warp is a full action.
00:41:48
Speaker
Oh, cool. Actually, technically, I would need to twist space around another creature. I guess I did kind of treat it like a Misty Step.
00:41:58
Speaker
Vortex Warp is for somebody else? Yeah, I couldn't go there. Okay, so what I'm going to I'm going to cast Scorching Ray on him. on him Okay, and what's the range on Scorching Ray? 120 feet.
00:42:09
Speaker
Cool. Okay. Fire
00:42:15
Speaker
him Okay. 28 hits. Natural 20 hits. 25 hits. So 12. Oh. 12 plus 5 6. 23. 23. Takes that.
00:42:24
Speaker
oh
00:42:27
Speaker
twelve plus five plus six sort twenty three twenty three takes all that Cool, then My guy, my cannon is too far away.
00:42:42
Speaker
Okay, let me get you your cannon, by the way.
00:42:47
Speaker
What page has the cannon? length of pass has the cannon. Gotta be.
00:42:57
Speaker
yeah and Yeah, I'll just measure out where I went.
00:43:07
Speaker
right Okay, and there's your cannon. Cool, and that's my turn. Nice, and how did you get over there? Oh, sorry, sorry. Because you're on the roof. You're 60 feet up in the air. Okay, end of your turn. ah This, um he looks at this one and says, Lucretia,
00:43:30
Speaker
ah kill the wizards. And you see this ah girl is going to move... um She is going to
00:43:42
Speaker
ah begin moving and she's going to move 5, 10, 15, 20, 25, 35. five ten thirty five um And when she gets there she is going to throw
Bash's Rage and Battle Progress
00:43:58
Speaker
a poisoned dart She's going to throw one at ah Valentine and she's going to throw one at Anabi and Anabi you're going to have half cover so you have a plus five to your AC.
00:44:11
Speaker
Nice. All right so the one at Valentine ah is a 20 which is going to hit for 10 piercing and four poison.
00:44:24
Speaker
so he takes 14 and then she's going to throw one at you.
00:44:33
Speaker
That's a 20. Dirty 20. Misses. Misses. Hits the statue. She can't quite get you, ah but she is on her way to you. um And then he will look at this guy and he will say, Victor, kill the brute.
00:44:48
Speaker
With pleasure, sir. And Victor is going to...
00:44:56
Speaker
He's going to pop around this way and go... He has a fly speed, so he's to start flying. 15. 10, 5, ten fifty Oh, come on. You sure he doesn't want to pass right by me? Come on. forty five just want to run by me sixty 45. flies exactly his fly speed as he unnaturally hovers around the air all the way up to bash. And as he does bash, he comes in full speed towards you and and he is going to make a unarmed strike first.
00:45:34
Speaker
It's a 17 to hit. It hits. I'm gonna use a luck point to try and get him to miss. Okay, I'm gonna reroll. 18. Classic, man. It hits.
00:45:46
Speaker
Okay, he is not, doesn't do any damage. He's going to forego, the instead of doing damage, he can use it to grapple. So he rolls up on you and flies towards you, puts his legs around your waist, MMA style, wraps them over your butt, and is in front of you, almost like those little guys in Dragon Ball Z who attach to people and then explode.
00:46:05
Speaker
Oh no. And then he is going to reach down and attempt to bite your neck at advantage. That's 26.
00:46:17
Speaker
might use another luck point.
00:46:20
Speaker
Okay. I'm going to re-roll that. 11. Good re-roll. Thank God, man. Good re-roll. He has you grappled, ah but he misses the bite as you ah call upon the luck of your ancestors.
00:46:37
Speaker
ah That is his turn.
00:46:43
Speaker
um At the end of his turn...
00:46:48
Speaker
Uh, Rahadin is going to use a legendary action and D'Saun on yeah you. He's just going to make one unarmed strike with his other hand, not with the scimitar.
00:47:00
Speaker
All right. Shield up AC 18. Okay. 23. Uh, they do the math. yeah Comes across the other side of the shield and rocks you across the the chin for nine bludgeoning.
00:47:15
Speaker
I'm fucked up. And it's your turn. Okay, I'm going to change my tactics because I'm a good fighter, paladin guy. I'm going cast haste on myself, third level.
00:47:29
Speaker
you you use your sho shoes um So now I'm going super fast. And I don't want to take another hit from this guy because I'll go down.
00:47:42
Speaker
So I am just going to
00:47:49
Speaker
Oh, man. I will. Somebody else can really get me up. going to cast like was my second hasted action.
00:48:01
Speaker
I'm going to hasted action can only be used for an attack. It says and let me read it. um This action can be used only to take the attack dash disengage hide or use an object.
00:48:16
Speaker
Yes. ah Oh, so I can't lay on hands myself? No. Got it, okay. Use the Sun's sewn necklace. Yeah, I will. um Yeah, then I'll use the holy symbol of Ravenkind, use a one charge of it to hold vampires. Actually, I can expend one charge Present the holy symbol to make it flare with holy power.
00:48:39
Speaker
Vampires and vampires spawn within 30 feet of the holy symbol. When it flares, must make a DC 15 wisdom saving throw ah or be stunned for a minute. They can redo the save after their turn. I can get everyone except for the guy attacking Bash.
00:48:53
Speaker
Cool. ah Here's the the, these are of vampire spawn, the women. um Here's the vampire spawn ah to the left of Rahadin. Has a plus three. Natural one.
00:49:03
Speaker
All right. She's held. Held. And then here is the one on their way to Anabi and um Valentine plus three. 18. Okay.
00:49:17
Speaker
okay
00:49:20
Speaker
And Rahadin. And Rahadin plus seven.
00:49:29
Speaker
Uh, for a 13? thirteen Yeah, he's held. Okay, he will use his legendary resistance. Fuck. As he shakes it off. Uh, you see my smile? This is the first time that's been used against me. Where did you find that?
00:49:44
Speaker
Uh, smile goes to immediate panic. Now sweating. Uh, that's my turn. Okay. Uh, this one is held, but can make it at the end of its turn, right?
00:49:56
Speaker
Yeah, at the end of his turn, it could it can remake the save. It makes it. Cool, cool, cool, cool, cool. cool cool cool cool go go cool cool cool hey, hey, yeah she right she burned her. i I got a legendary resistance and I burned her action. So, hey.
00:50:09
Speaker
It's pretty turn british you're up
00:50:15
Speaker
It's pretty. This pretty gnarles. I can't even lie.
00:50:20
Speaker
Bonus action rage.
00:50:25
Speaker
Muscles bulge. I'm praying to God for a natural 20 because if I hit a natural 20, it's over. Can I also... Yeah,
00:50:36
Speaker
yeah i mean i'm ah I'm going to choose to frenzy, but obviously that won't work for this turn because I use my bonus action to rage, correct? Correct. Cool, cool, cool. So I'm going attack this guy that's next to me, not the horse.
00:50:50
Speaker
Victor. So, okay, so it's a plus three for damage, but not to the roll. 21 to hit.
00:51:01
Speaker
That hits.
00:51:04
Speaker
And then...
00:51:07
Speaker
That's going to be a plus three on top of that, so 13 damage. 13 damage. He takes all that. Cool. And then how do I get two attacks or three attacks per action?
00:51:18
Speaker
You get two. And then on your next turn and turns thereafter, you have three. 32 to hit 32 hits Yeah, that's gonna do it. That'll do it. I think it's gonna hit it. That'll do It might hit it. For 19 damage. me beat you guys real quick. Oh, you rolled a 32 to hit? Oh, let me check that.
00:51:38
Speaker
Yeah, pizza pizza, I guess. Pizza pizza? Yeah, I'm like, I asked. ah That hits he takes all that takes all that 19 damage on 19 nice extra three for that ah so 19 plus 13 is 29 32 damage And which of which he takes all of it blood flying hitting the ground And is that your turn Yeah, yeah, I think that'll do it okay
00:52:13
Speaker
um ah it's ah the This horse is going to go with Lucretia. Aphrodite is going to go with Lucretia. 60 feet this way.
00:52:32
Speaker
Inabi, this nightmare rounds the corner on you and is going to make a hoof attack. That's a 20 to hit. Shield. a Shield. Okay, shield. The hoof comes up and comes down and arcane force goes around you as the hoof hits the shield and it misses the attack.
00:52:53
Speaker
And it is your turn. And by the way, Inabi and Stalvadak, don't forget about your portents and that you can use them for enemies as well. Correct. tweet Yeah. and I'm going to reach up, grab both of my Nodachis off my back.
00:53:14
Speaker
ah Start blade singing. yeah And with my action,
00:53:26
Speaker
actually going to cast...
00:53:31
Speaker
I think it wait. Do I have this at this? No, I'm going to try a new, so going to cast fire shield by myself. Um, but it will be a like blue flames kind of, and it'll be like icy fire blue flame.
00:53:47
Speaker
Yeah. Blue flame shield. Okay. Love that. Um, and that's your action and bonus action was the blade saying and anything else?
00:54:00
Speaker
Uh, nope. Okay. i it Well, I guess i' I'll have the my owl, like, fly up and out of reach of the... little horsey in front of me.
00:54:11
Speaker
Nice. Um... I love that. Uh, he, uh, on... We're gonna burn a fourth level on Valentine's turn. Valentine's is the same level as you guys. Level nine.
00:54:25
Speaker
Um, and he is going to use a fourth level, um... Do do do do lightning bolts. He's going to line up ah both these guys and produce a 60 foot a beam of lightning to go right through Aphrodite and Lucretia who must make um deck saves. The horse has a plus two. That's going to be a success and Lucretia has a plus six.
00:55:03
Speaker
And it's a failure.
00:55:07
Speaker
So they're going to take 86 and half of 86.
00:55:11
Speaker
who
00:55:14
Speaker
You watch that Lucretia, the vampire spawn, take 32 points of lightning damage and Aphrodite, horse, take 16. at thee, I say. And that is his turn.
00:55:29
Speaker
and that is ah his turn It is now Rahadin's turn. Oh, no. He's going to begin walking past you, Dasan.
00:55:39
Speaker
Okay. when he And when he gets to here, just look back at you and go, this is what you plan to bring to Strahd? Pathetic. And he's just going to use his bonus action to just use the um Deathly Choir.
00:55:53
Speaker
So the thousands of people that you hear screaming that Rahadin has killed, you need to make a wisdom saving throw or take 3d10 psychic damage. Okay, what is he? 25. Ah, you succeed. So you take seven points of psychic damage.
00:56:07
Speaker
Okay. Still up? Still up. Okay, so let's just say for for story purposes, he will leave your range. He thought that would put you down. Yeah, and I'd make a... Sorry.
00:56:18
Speaker
I need to make a con save for haste, right? You do, or be stunned. Oh, please. Seven? Seven. failure. DM inspiration? ah Con? Yeah, the like came regional yeah, hey, hey. Haste is so sick and so fucking scary when you start making cons, dude. Yeah, using my reaction.
00:56:38
Speaker
Anyway, there goes my DM inspiration. Smile. Anyway, here's the Sun Sword opportunity attack. Yeah, by by the way, you did see at the beginning of Rahadin's turn, the ah ah bolt that was in his side popped out as his side healed.
00:56:53
Speaker
Yeah, i figured. Anyway, here's a Sun Sword straight at his neck. Okay. Oh! Shit! There it is. As he begins walk away, I fucking grab him by the collar and bring my Sun Sword into his neck for a nat 20, and I pull him back into my range. Oh my god. Love that.
00:57:16
Speaker
And then go ahead and give me that Dimaj, and he obviously, Rahadin, is an undead. yeah and can i can i smite Can I smite on this? Yeah, of course. do You smite on whatever track Oh, God, yeah. Oh, yeah. ah Yeah. ah Gotta save for Vivify as my third level. So second level smite coming at you.
00:57:35
Speaker
So here's the damage. Give me the damage.
00:57:39
Speaker
It's one handed, unfortunately, because I am holding a shield. 12 on the just the sword. And then... And then a smite second level.
00:57:51
Speaker
eighty eight Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. yeah You do a... You have to tell me what the sword does on radiant damage, because I can't determine what this box is. Oh, it is... ahead and read the sword for me.
00:58:08
Speaker
Damage 1d8 against undead targets an extra 1d8 against undead targets. Yeah, so go ahead roll me 2d8 2d8. Okay, is it that day would be? Critted all dice three nice direction drill big roll big roll huge 15 and now 8d8 for the second level smite nice because it was before doubled because of the crits
00:58:33
Speaker
31 damage so that's 46 points of damage in one swing oh my and you also that also will uh negate his healing next round yeah i pull i pull him back into my range um in game terms i can if i make an opportunity attack i can move up to my movement so i'm kind of moving to him he's moving to me and i go We're bringing the heat to Strahd.
00:59:01
Speaker
Tell him we're coming. And I, yeah, that's that's my reaction. As you slice him, he takes a step back, seeing that you're not down with his scimitar and brings the scimitar to your neck, about to attack you.
00:59:14
Speaker
And then he goes, you're lucky. You're lucky that he wants to be the person to do this. Otherwise it would be me. And he flips the scimitar around in his hand and he's going to attack you three times on armed strikes, non-lethally.
00:59:29
Speaker
What a bully. He doesn't have the guts. He doesn't have the guts. This is a unarmed strikes, non-lethally. That's a 14. Miss. Miss. nineteen 19. Miss, AC is 20 with haste. Okay. 15. 14, 19, 15. Wow. He looks like such an idiot right now. he swings um You're so dumb. Your shield comes up. burning ah He cannot get any of the attacks off and that's his turn.
00:59:59
Speaker
Yeah, yeah, yeah. You do syphilis bash on you as rears up and brings a hoof down. 15 to hit. It hits.
01:00:11
Speaker
I'm going to use another luck point. Okay.
01:00:17
Speaker
24. my god! Okay, yeah, it is. The good news is you're raging now, so the bludgeoning damage is halved. It would be 17, so you take 8. But you do take the full 11 fire for 19 to 12. Oh my fucking god, man. syphilis.
01:00:33
Speaker
Hoof! Hoof comes down on you. ah That is its turn. Stal the Dock and the ah Phantom Warriors. Yeah, docking phantoms.
01:00:45
Speaker
um First off, going to fire off fire off the bolt at Rahadin. 14, not going to do it. A 14 will miss.
01:00:57
Speaker
Right, and then i am going to fire off another Scorching Ray. ice at Rahadin? Yes, at Rahadin. Okay, first one's going to be a 12. That's miss.
01:01:09
Speaker
Second one. is gonna be 27. That hits. Third one, 22. That And it's gonna deal six and seven damage. Okay, he takes all that.
01:01:24
Speaker
13. then for my bonus action, I'm gonna send my guy moving 15 feet, so He's probably going to need know like either climb down the side or i don't know if he can just jump.
01:01:40
Speaker
don't know how durable he is. What's his hit points? He'll take 40 something HP. Okay, he'll take a D6 per 10 feet. you're 60 feet out. So he'll take 6 D6 falling damage. Okay.
01:01:50
Speaker
Let's see. You can risk it or he can climb down. But if you don't have a climb speed, it's your move it's half half your movement. All right. Yeah, he has 45 HP. Okay, so he's going to jump down?
01:02:04
Speaker
Yeah. Okay. Why don't you roll it? 66. That's how much damage it takes. Okay, 21 damage. Boosh! Jumps down.
01:02:16
Speaker
Hits the ground, but is now down there. Okay, and then i think I'm in range to hit this guy. Okay. So I will send off one of the Force Ballista attacks, which is twenty plus 7.
01:02:34
Speaker
So it's only gonna be a 15. 15 does not hit Victor. 15 one shy of Victor's 16 AC. Damn. Okay. um And then that's my turn.
01:02:46
Speaker
Okay. ah Lucretia will begin to close the distance again. 5, 10, 15, 20, 25, 30, 35. And she's just gonna throw a poison dart. One one act valentine and nabi eighteen That's a miss.
01:03:05
Speaker
That's a miss. Valentine, natural 20.
01:03:11
Speaker
That's going to be 11 piercing and 14 poison for 25. Okay, wait.
01:03:25
Speaker
Hold on, 12 and then 25.
01:03:32
Speaker
Got it. Valentine's bloodied. That is Lucrece's turn. Victor's turn. Bash, you are still grappled. And he is going to attempt to make ah one unarmed strike as he sort of claws at your back, digging his claws in, and then one bite as he goes for your neck.
01:03:55
Speaker
It's 22 for the claws.
01:04:01
Speaker
That's 11 half to five as he scratches across your back. And then the bite is a 25. Yeah. Okay.
01:04:13
Speaker
Which is for eight piercing half to four and 17 necrotic. Oh my God, man. And your hit point maximum is reduced by 17. Oh,
01:04:25
Speaker
oh
01:04:29
Speaker
So just make sure make a note of that.
01:04:33
Speaker
As you take you take 21, but your hit point maximum is only reduced by 17. Like your hit point maximum.
01:04:41
Speaker
All right. And that is Victor's turn.
01:04:46
Speaker
At the end of Victor's turn, Rahadin is going to make a legendary action on armed strike on Dasan. Come on. Oh, shit. Come on.
01:04:58
Speaker
uh 18 miss 20 with 20 with haste 20 with haste there go he rolled an 18 and his other role for that if he would have even had advantage of the natural one so when have son got hands oh yeah i'm fucking going toe to toe he misses and it's your turn i'm gonna keep the way you saw on victor's turn he also got some health back
01:05:22
Speaker
uh I'm gonna rotate around Rahadin to get in between him and the rest of the guys. So just to be kind of like a stalwart here. And I'm gonna use my action to bump 40 points of Lay on Hands into myself.
01:05:37
Speaker
Okay. So 40 into me. All right. And then add my hasted action. I'm going to present ah the symbol of Ravenkind again.
01:05:48
Speaker
But this time I'm gonna do sunlight instead. Nice. The clouds part, the sun beams down, all of the vampires in this area go... So, they each now do not get their regeneration.
01:06:08
Speaker
And that's within 30 feet of me is bright light, and 30 more additional feet is um dim light. Nice. For 10 minutes.
01:06:19
Speaker
Nice. ah Yeah, they all now can no longer regain hit points, even if they are not hit by the Sun Sword.
01:06:28
Speaker
And that's ah that's my turn. That was my action.
01:06:34
Speaker
Can I? it um ooh Tell you what, Brian, can i um retroactively? Actually, no, that's my turn.
01:06:46
Speaker
I'm done. ah Here's the other vampire spawn. She's a plus three to her wisdom to try and beat the. Is it paralyzed or stunned? Oh, she she saved, I thought.
01:06:59
Speaker
Oh, she did, but that was the end of her turn. Yeah, this is her first actual turn. OK, yeah, yeah. OK, she is going to begin to run. She's going to run 510, 1520, 2530, 35.
01:07:11
Speaker
ten fifteen twenty twenty five thirty thirty five attempting to loop around and ah help get the people in the back, and things are dropping off the roof.
01:07:22
Speaker
And as she does, she's going to throw two darts. She's going to throw a dart at Bash and a dart at Anabi. From this angle, Anabi will have a plus 2 to your AC.
01:07:33
Speaker
Okay. ah Bash. That's a 15 for the poison dart. it hits. Okay. Alright, take 9 piercing halved to 4 and 7 poison.
01:07:48
Speaker
Or 11 total.
01:07:52
Speaker
um And the poison dart at you, Inabi, is a natural 1. That hits. The opposite. That hits. I'm fucked up.
01:08:05
Speaker
Alright, that's her turn. And Bash. I would love to stop getting hit. Um, am I grappled? You are.
01:08:17
Speaker
What does that mean for me? Uh, that means you can ah use your action to escape the grapple, or you can keep the grapple, and this guy's on you. If I attack, can I attack?
01:08:33
Speaker
Mm-hmm. Yeah.
01:08:37
Speaker
You can. You can, and you have. yeah that so That just gives like the attacker advantage, I think, on attacks against you or something, right? I don't think it does anything for you your... Well, your speed is zero.
01:08:51
Speaker
You can't move. Oh, right. Yeah. Okay, gotcha. Your speed's zero. ah
01:08:59
Speaker
And yeah. Okay, then I'm just going to start swinging then. Okay. And I have three attacks because I'm frenzied. Noish, noish. And this guy can't heal anymore.
01:09:11
Speaker
yeah So, dirty 30.
01:09:16
Speaker
um For 22 points of damage. That's a lot of damage for one swing. Keep swinging. let me just Let me hit this nat 20. If I hit a nat 20, it's fucking over.
01:09:29
Speaker
26 to hit. Hits.
01:09:33
Speaker
That's going to be for 23 points of damage. Oh my god. You're rolling like max damage, basically? yeah He's catching a glimpse of his self. 25 hit.
01:09:46
Speaker
That hits. So far you've done 55 points damage. That's going to be for 14 damage. For a total of 65, 69. Hey, how about that? Nice. ah This guy is bloodied.
01:10:02
Speaker
um I love that. And is that your turn? That's his blood flying everywhere. Rajen's also bloodied, by the way. Yeah, yeah, he is. um Okay. And yeah, that's going to be it.
01:10:15
Speaker
Okay. Wow. Aphrodite on you, Anabi, will make a hoof attack.
01:10:26
Speaker
That's only an eight. Nice. Not going to do it. Okay. Aphrodite misses, but we'll stay there and it is your turn. um Fuck it. I'm going to go.
01:10:44
Speaker
Actually, how far is that? i think it's close enough.
01:10:50
Speaker
I can. Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. yeah yeah For sure. For sure. All right. Uh, I'm going up to the dude that's on bash. I'm going to leave Aphrodite space. ah Do I get an opportunity attack on that?
01:11:04
Speaker
Yep. Okay. 13 noise. Silly. thirteen noise so I'm going to keep 510. 15. I'm on this guy. I'm going to, ah with my bonus action, going to cast Spirit Shroud, third level. That's huge. um And then my Owl's going to do a little flyby action. Just come in. Scroo, scroo.
01:11:40
Speaker
um And give me advantage and I'm just gonna swing twice on this guy that's on bash Okay Swing away Advantage on the first 23 on the first that hits noise and 14 on the second 14 will miss.
01:12:02
Speaker
Oh fuck it. I'll use my inspiration. Okay. We'll see what happens
01:12:08
Speaker
What's a nat 1 get me? Is that going to hit? Not good. Okay, that's all right. And don't use the 6 because that'll only get you to 15 when this guy says he is a 16. Perfect. Okay. ah First one one, that hits 4, 6 damage plus a D8 of radiant plus 2 radiant.
01:12:33
Speaker
Nice. So 8 damage of which he takes all of it. Sweet. um and then i'll actually go another let's see wait what was that 5 10 15 20 25 30 i'll go on this side so i'm like in the way of that vampire throwing at ash okay um and is that your turn that's my turn All right, let's see Valentine by himself back here. i'm going to blow the gas key. doesn't want to die. 5, 10, 15 over here.
01:13:09
Speaker
we're going go ahead and level lightning bolt.
01:13:16
Speaker
fifth level lightning bolt through these two ah Aphrodite the DC 17 uh Dax save plus two that's a save again for the horse uh and then Lucretia only has a push is plus six goddamn okay so two saves but a fifth level is a 10 they'll each take half of 10
01:13:50
Speaker
They each take 16. are we. ah Lucretius bloodied and then he will just limp backwards another 15, 5, 10, 15. And that is his turn.
01:14:09
Speaker
start of the next round
01:14:15
Speaker
Now, ah he is, he's not going to do the Deathly Choir against you, Dishan, because he's trying to put you down non-lethally. Okay, he can try his best. He's actually going to say out loud to everybody, um don't kill them.
01:14:30
Speaker
He wants them alive. Give me your bones. He's going to attack you three times unarmed, not with the scimitar, non-lethally. Okay.
01:14:43
Speaker
ah First one's a natural one. All right. Good. Hey, he's looking real silly. 26. Yeah. Okay. All right. twenty six 26. He whiffs one as you duck under and then he brings an uppercut up for eight bludgeoning. Okay. bludgeoning.
01:14:59
Speaker
And then he's going to on his third one, ah natural one. I swear to God. Crazy. Yo. Natural one. Lathander. Crazy beam. and and Another natural one.
01:15:12
Speaker
um Okay, that are those are his. Con save for haste. Con save for the haste. Need to beat an eight. Seven. Why did I jinx it? Why did
Victory Over Rahadin
01:15:22
Speaker
I? Okay, that actually will give him advantage on his second hit because you're paralyzed.
01:15:27
Speaker
Right, right. You are stunned and you're stunned for a minute. Is that right? ah Yeah, let me double check. Go ahead and VTT that for me. Yeah, here you go
01:15:38
Speaker
Okay, when Spell and Insar, you can't move or take actions until after your next turn as a wave of lethargy sweeps over you. Okay. the sunlight is The sunlight would still be going because that doesn't need that's not concentration. Cool.
01:15:53
Speaker
Yeah. but yeah So give me that advantage. Wait, can i use port and roll on somebody else? Yep. If I give you that port and roll, do you save? Do you just need a 10? Yeah, I need a 10, so plus 4. Fuck yeah, take it. That's way better than being. Oh, yeah, baby. Port and roll.
01:16:08
Speaker
a Glimpse of the future through the eyes of Valentine, and you save. The haste is still up. The third attack still misses. um Bucephalus will make a hoof attack on you, Bash.
01:16:23
Speaker
14. 14.
01:16:26
Speaker
fourteen You motherfucker. Yeah, that hits. It's my AC. All right. 10 bludgeoning halved to five and four fire for nine total.
01:16:40
Speaker
All right. That is Bucephalus' turn. And Stal the Dock and the Phantoms, you're up. Okay. So I am going to jump off the ledge following my turret and take my damage.
01:16:53
Speaker
Okay. 66 falling. And as I do, i order those boys to fire. Nice. And who are they firing at? And they are firing at Rahadin.
01:17:04
Speaker
Okay. 20 plus seven.
01:17:10
Speaker
Whoops. That'll hit. It's a 15 plus seven. It was 22. Okay. 22 for 2d10. It's so hard typing without the use of my left pointer finger. I sliced myself at school this week.
01:17:23
Speaker
Ooh. You like that? Uh, 21 damage. Big damage. He takes all that. Okay. And as I land on the ground and I get eyes on the scene, i see my my buddy, Dasan on death's door, right?
01:17:41
Speaker
You're looking. I healed himself for 40. Okay. I'm, I'm Sean. Um, then I will use my action cast. cast
01:17:53
Speaker
um Let's see, I'll cast Shatter over here to hit these these guys. All right, Susie and Rahadin. Yeah. um Dex?
01:18:04
Speaker
Yeah, it's Khan save, actually. Khan save, okay. So Susie gets plus three. That's dirty 20.
01:18:12
Speaker
Rahadin has a plus seven.
01:18:16
Speaker
Fifteen. Okay, um so 17... is a success so she saves but half right half yeah all right and then he takes all of the 11 damage to rahuddin thunderous blow as a shadow of a dragon above you is the thunder and lightning uh claps as shatter goes off and then bonus action i'll command my turret to foyer nice and who is your turret firing at
01:18:47
Speaker
My turret is firing at this one. Victor, was it? Yes. And then that's going to be the three d six 3d6.
01:19:01
Speaker
what What is your attack to hit? ah It's a plus seven. Okay, so an 18 does indeed hit Victor. For 13 force damage. Nice, 13 force damage. still ah And that is my turn.
01:19:15
Speaker
Okay. ah Lucretia is going to start making her way towards you. But on her way, she's going to throw a poison dart at Valentine, and then she's going to throw one at you, Stalvodach.
01:19:32
Speaker
And Bryce, she just left the sunlight area. Okay, cool. um Here is the one at ah Valentine. That's a dirty 20 for seven piercing and five poison is 12.
01:19:46
Speaker
Okay, he's on. He has seven health left. Oh, shit. And then a poison dart is coming at you. you a dock.
01:19:59
Speaker
And that is 26 hit. That will hit. ah that will hit Nine piercing, five poison. okay Okay. 14 total.
01:20:13
Speaker
Take little bat. Lucretia's on her way. Victor is on you, Bash, and he is going to um he's going to attack you twice. Unarmed strike and a bite.
01:20:26
Speaker
The unarmed strike is going to be a dirty 20 to hit. It hits. Six slashing, halved to three.
01:20:39
Speaker
And then the bite is a dirty 20 as well. I'm using my last luck point. Okay.
01:20:48
Speaker
19. That's going to hit. So that's five piercing halved two and eight necrotic, which is also deducted from your hit point maximum.
01:21:00
Speaker
A 10 total on that second one. So a nine on the first attack, a 10 total on the second. 19 total damage, but your hit point maximum is reduced by eight. I am very low currently.
01:21:14
Speaker
Okay. That's his turn. At the end of his turn, Rahadon is going to use a legendary action. He's going to flip the scimitar back around Dishon and slash at your belly.
01:21:25
Speaker
Okay. Please don't. 25 hit. Yeah. Okay. yeah Ten slashing. so yeah Ten slashing. And then it is your turn.
01:21:35
Speaker
Con save. 16, thank God. Thank God. Okay, I'm going. Thank Lathander. Yeah. Hey, Lathander. Okay, I'm going to drop my shield. Okay.
01:21:50
Speaker
Clang's on the ground. Two hand the Sun Sword. Okay. Bonus action. um Vow of enmity on Rahadin. m Very nice. Giving you advantage.
01:22:03
Speaker
Correct. um Just hate in my eyes for this man, for Strahd. And I'm swinging. Sunsword, two-handed, at advantage.
01:22:16
Speaker
Okay. First swing. First swing. 22. We'll hit, but see if you crit. 27. Okay, you hit and just roll a damage.
01:22:26
Speaker
Roll a damage.
01:22:29
Speaker
Uh, six, uh, plus six rate 12 damage. 12 damage. Ouch.
01:22:38
Speaker
Not as much as bash, but here we go. It's honest work. Second attack at advantage. Skin curling back 25. Let's see if I crit. Nope. 25. Okay. Uh,
01:22:49
Speaker
hey
01:22:53
Speaker
ah for 19. Yes. 19 damage. Dasan, how do you kill Rahadin? Oh, baby. Been around forever. Here's a little handout for you. This big scar on his forehead as you guys see.
01:23:09
Speaker
Rahadin, the OG Dusk Elf, ah served Strahd's family for nearly 500 years. And you put the end to him right here. How do you kill him?
01:23:22
Speaker
Yeah, so on my first attack, I imagine that he, like, falls to his knees And right before I do ah the killing blow, I bend down and say, let all the people you tortured over these long years finally know peace.
01:23:37
Speaker
As I bring the sword up and cleave his head off right in right in the middle of the sunlight that's being emanated ah down and I watch his body sizzle and burn. His body sizzles and burns and you notably the thousands of voices that you were hearing slowly disappear.
01:23:58
Speaker
And then I'm going to use my movement. Yeah, I'll actually say, too, just for flavor, as he hits the ground, hits the ground and a it's a necklace, a bag around his neck because he chopped his head off.
01:24:11
Speaker
As this body hits the ground, this sort of leather cord ah pops up and this necklace sort of pops up in the air right in front of you. And it's just leather cord like a bag at the end of it. But you see tied around the bag is a silver string.
01:24:25
Speaker
Could I pick it up as a free action? Yeah, it just sort of pops up right in front you. You can grab that. Nice, I grab it. Feels like inside is probably a tiny bone. I'm gonna use ah my hasted action shield still on the ground to move up near Bash. Okay.
01:24:41
Speaker
And I'm gonna swing on the vampire that's on top of him. Okay. ah Two-handed, ah no advantage. Okay. 17.
Discussion on Combat Mechanics
01:24:51
Speaker
17 does hit. His AC is 16.
01:24:56
Speaker
14 radiant damage. Nice. And I don't think... That's my hasted action. i I can't smite because smite's a bonus action. No, smite's free. ah for you You can just choose to do when you hit somebody. Yeah, Brian, you bet your ass I'm smiting him.
01:25:11
Speaker
subject You just have to expand the spell slot and you're good to go. Okay, second level spell slot. As if, brother! You get the extra D8 because he's undead. Okay, second level a spell slot. So four d eight Yeah, he's gone.
01:25:24
Speaker
He's gone. Hey, buddy. Say hi to Rahadin for me. That's 25 smite damage. 25 smite damage. Massive roll. He's not dead. ah no!
01:25:35
Speaker
And that's my turn, baby. okay That's all I got.
Continued Battle with Vampire Foes
01:25:40
Speaker
That's all the juice. At the end of that turn, Susie's going to pop up right behind Inabi and Dasan here. And she is going to make two attacks as she gets closer. Claw attacks. She's going to put away the... ah Hi, Suzy.
01:25:53
Speaker
hey guys I just just really tried to get into the combat. they He really like he stopped me early on. It was like a bummer. I was like, dang, I was within in there. I saw you guys going. It was like, boom, bang. Yeah, you don't have to do this if you don't want to. It's like I spent a lifetime like not doing anything and I finally get to fight like sweet.
01:26:11
Speaker
Yeah, no, that's true. ah Claw attack at you and now be and then a claw attack at you, the son and no be 24. twenty four Yeah, I'll let that hit.
01:26:23
Speaker
I'm not going to shield. but Eight slashing. All right. D'Saun. She also takes a little bit. A 12, D'Saun's going to miss. Does she take fire shield?
01:26:36
Speaker
Yes. Blue flame. ah
01:26:41
Speaker
Wait, 2d8. Yeah, seven, but that's cold damage, not fire damage. Okay. Wait, or wait, cold? Where's the two d The 11 is the cold damage. Cool. She takes 11 cold damage for hitting you.
01:26:55
Speaker
Hiss is away. That's her turn. And Bash, you're up. I'll finish him off, baby. it's It's time to get rid of this guy. Clobbering time. Ooh, Papa needs a natural 20. Gonna be 23 to hit.
01:27:10
Speaker
23 hits. Fuck. For 13 damage.
01:27:16
Speaker
or thirteen damage How do you slice Victor up? Let's go. There we go. Yeah. How do I slice Victor up? um Yeah, I'm just gonna come over top with my greataxe and swing down in such a way that maximizes the amount of flexing happening in my pecs.
01:27:39
Speaker
And I kind look down at my pecs to see them flexing and I kind of like give myself a nod and swing down over top as hard as I can and just straight down the middle hot dog style.
01:27:51
Speaker
Nice absolute hot dog. um he He dies and his intestines are spilled everywhere. Non-fully formed shit spills all over the floor um along with his blood. And you still have two more attacks. Gross.
01:28:08
Speaker
Next question. After I kill him, I get 2d6 temporary hit points. That's right, baby. Thank God. um I guess I got to kill a horse now.
01:28:22
Speaker
I'm gonna go ahead and swing at this majestic creature. Okay. Oh fuck. 15 to hit. That hits. That hits?
01:28:34
Speaker
That hits. Alright. Horses ACM the same as the carriage, which is a 13. 22 damage. Okay. That's lot. And my final swing, Papa needs a natural 20.
01:28:46
Speaker
sixteen A 16. Also hits. For 19 damage. ah ah for nineteen damage Nice. Damn. Yeah, I put up numbers on the board, dude. That is crazy. Yeah, that extra strength damage not only adds to your hit, but adds your damage that you roll, too. Yeah, so that's going to be it. Dude, when I natural 20 someone, ooh, that is going to be a dark day for them. Yeah, when you're raging, the least amount of damage you can do is 13 in a hit.
01:29:17
Speaker
Yeah. Correct. Yeah, which is amazing. Okay, that is your turn. Now it's Aphrodite's turn, then Anabi. Aphrodite is going to, go 5, 10, 15, 20, 25, 30, and Desson. Low-key still might down.
01:29:32
Speaker
twenty five thirty and most you still might go down Uh, Dasan, this is coming to you. Come on, you don't mean it. hoof attack. Natural 20! Oh, shit!
01:29:43
Speaker
That's hilarious. Why didn't you start attacking the horses? Goes back and a fucking hoof comes down, bop, hits you on the head for, 12 bludgeoning? Gives me a big nod in my forehead. That's so funny. And these guys are not attacking, these are not,
01:30:01
Speaker
The vampires are not attacking non-lethally. These are lethal. So 12 bludgeoning and 11 fire. Fuck. Okay. I'm almost... Okay. I'm all right. I'm all right. Content. Six. yeah is yeah Hey, can I get... Hey, anybody get a fourth hand roll for me
01:30:19
Speaker
All right. You're stunned. I'm all out.
01:30:25
Speaker
And Abhi, you're up.
01:30:28
Speaker
Oh, shit, what are we doing? Am I swinging on the... Yeah, fuck it. I'll swing. ah you You sure you want to stick around? Do you want to finish this? I'm honestly having a great time. but Alright, don't let me get in the way. Have fun.
01:30:42
Speaker
You know? I'll have little... or I'll do little flyby. Taking a few swings at this. 27.
01:30:57
Speaker
That'll be six plus
01:31:05
Speaker
six. Nice. Roll another six.
01:31:10
Speaker
Roll another six, the devil will appear as the be a part of the campaign. I rolled a six, so I rolled six on my con save. Oh, wow. I didn't realize. Okay. As the dance will appear. Okay. Got you. What's that mean? You know what I'm about? Oh, yeah.
01:31:24
Speaker
Shoo-ba-dee-doo-bop. 27 also hits fire for dude. I keep rolling now. that's crazy. Six. That's a lot of. the chances?
01:31:41
Speaker
And for radiant. Okay. That for radiant, uh, it's put Susie and bloody territory. Nice. And then bonus action swing. 14.
01:31:54
Speaker
fourteen um Just misses. Vampire spawns or a 15? Sweet. Alright, let's see. ah
01:32:07
Speaker
I'll give another... ah he seems like ah It seems like he's lightning bolting it out right now. We'll give you guys another lightning bolt. go third level. Dex for both horses.
01:32:21
Speaker
uh bucephalus rolls an 18. aphrodite rolls a 19. that's hilarious a 16 on the die and a 17 on the die both keep saving i know it's like crazy he could have like helped so much more than he did like i guess he he still did ah a lot of damage but he's just worried about his family hey sometimes god sometimes you got it sometimes you don't you know yeah that's halved to 14 for both for both of them He's the flame alchemist when it's raining outside.
01:32:51
Speaker
ah Which puts them both into bloodied territory. ah He'll back up even more. Get back into the sunlight. um That's his turn. Rahadin is ah gone. Bucephalus will rise up and make a hoof attack on Bash.
01:33:16
Speaker
I'm tired, boss. eleven 11. Oh! He misses. He misses. Stalvodok and the phantoms. Huge. Yeah, so I signal my hand forward to fire at this vampire.
01:33:32
Speaker
Okay. Lucreche. Lucreche.
01:33:39
Speaker
That hits.
01:33:43
Speaker
For 19 damage. 19, okay. Throw it. Okay, and then I am going to send a firebolt at her. Okay.
01:33:58
Speaker
For 14 fire damage. Nice. How do you kill Lucretia the vampire spawn? um Yeah, I just sent a firebolt right through her head. I just mentioned the flame alchemist, and there we are.
01:34:11
Speaker
And then I'm going to use my bonus action on the turret to attack Persephone Aphrodite. Aphrodite is this one? Yeah. Aphrodite. Yeah. So that's a D20 plus nine.
01:34:26
Speaker
That's going to a soft 20 hits for three D8.
01:34:34
Speaker
16 force damage. Okay. Lovely. And that is my turn. ah Dasan, you are dazed until the end of your turn. Yep.
01:34:45
Speaker
ah So at the start of Susie's turn, you're no longer stunned, so no advantage, but your turn is forfeit. um She is going to attempt to She's going to make two claw attacks, one at Anabi, one at you.
01:35:00
Speaker
Anabi, that's going to be a 16. That's a miss. And a 15 at you, Dasan. Okay. Bash, you're up. Oh, actually, hold on.
01:35:12
Speaker
No, I'm 16. Okay. I'm not on my shield anymore. Bash. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. I'm just going to keep swinging at this horse. Yeah, which one? Right or left? ah Left.
01:35:24
Speaker
Docephalus.
01:35:29
Speaker
I just need him out of here. Hits. 28 to hit. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Okay, come on. 13 damage. Okay. Okay. your minimum damage. 19 hits.
01:35:44
Speaker
Or 18 damage. Bash is crushing damage and he just sounds so dejected. He goes, yeah, 13 damage. i right You get, you get one more swing. I should be chunking harder. Okay. I need another 15 on the die.
01:35:58
Speaker
ah and ah how do you kill the nightmare Bucephalus?
01:36:07
Speaker
Um, Yeah, as I swing at its neck, I'm basically like, not necessarily like a baseball, so it's kind of like halfway between like an overhead and a baseball swing. So like 45 degrees, I swing at its neck and as it goes through its neck, ash and sparks fly through down as my so as my axe goes through its neck um and the horse falls to the ground and crumples into
01:36:39
Speaker
ash crumples into ash and is that your turn? um Am I within range of the other horse to be attacked?
01:36:50
Speaker
Yeah. Yeah, yeah. but Okay, that's my turn. ah But it is it is attacking D'Saun. Oh, okay. yeah Hey, look. Hey, we don't gotta do this, huh? And D'Saun, that's it's only 10.
01:37:03
Speaker
Oh, thank goodness. Okay, AC 16. My temp HP doesn't stack, correct? Correct. Can I re-roll it to see if I get a higher amount? It actually just technically, rules as written, it replaces it.
01:37:16
Speaker
and No matter what your new role is, it replaces the old role. All right, please be higher. It is the same role, ladies and gentlemen. Nice. Hey. Inabi, you're up.
01:37:28
Speaker
There's only two left, a vampire spawn and one nightmare. Uh, the vampire spawns here, yeah. Yes. I'm go in between both of them. Gonna have a little birdie do a little flyby. screwker Okay.
01:37:50
Speaker
Twenty hits.
01:37:53
Speaker
For a limb. Okay. Plus. plus
01:38:01
Speaker
Plus three radiant. Nice.
01:38:08
Speaker
17. Hits.
01:38:11
Speaker
four 4. 7. Slice across this thing twice. Plus 1. Radiant.
01:38:20
Speaker
Oh, natural 20. Oh, 20. Give me some high rolls here and you can make this thing happen. 19. Oh, big demise. There it is. 19 plus...
01:38:32
Speaker
Oh my god, plus 16! Oh my god! It had a lot of greed. That was actually fucking insane That's huge roll. Yeah, you rolled double eights. Yeah. ah You absolutely, two Nidatchis, how do you kill Susie the Vamp?
01:38:46
Speaker
Oh, just slice her in a fucking... What, two? Slicer and two, and she looks at you and just looks at you and says, I'm still having a good time. it hits the ground.
01:38:59
Speaker
Sorry, sorry, sorry, sorry. Now I just feel bad. So yeah, yeah, try to make it speedy. And I'm going to say at this point, as there's only horse left.
01:39:12
Speaker
Can we try and convince the horse to just be our horse? Yeah, can I try and tame the horse? Yeah, that is, well, on on his, I was going actually do a spell. i was going to do, ah like, a spell from Ridley ah Valentine to try and...
01:39:34
Speaker
to to wisdom save on this thing, but here's the thing. If everybody gives me, I'll let each of you guys give me a animal handling roll, and for each roll above a 15, I'll take 1 off of Aphrodite's roll, and if anybody rolls above a 20, I'll give him disadvantage.
01:39:55
Speaker
Deal. And if he still succeeds after all this, you gotta fight it out.
Humorous Misadventures with Horses
01:40:00
Speaker
I watch this drive. Oh!
01:40:06
Speaker
Oh no. Oh yeah. Oh horses love Dasan. Can I use heroic inspiration? Yeah, you didn't use your inspiration yet? Yeah, we roll.
01:40:17
Speaker
You're like, I'm a horse guy. Yeah, big horse guy over here.
01:40:24
Speaker
Ugh.
01:40:27
Speaker
Trev? Oh no, you already rolled. Nobody has their a portent that's high, right? The only person who has a portent left is you. Yep. Just a six. um Okay.
01:40:38
Speaker
Here we go. Wisdom save. It's a 17. The horse has a minus. No, it's a plus one. Wisdom, which gets taken out because of the Sans Royals. It's just a straight roll.
01:40:51
Speaker
It'll be less than 17.
01:40:57
Speaker
Pizza, pizza. This shit is a joke, man. you're rigging you're You're using weighted die, I swear. Weighted online die, He's card counting. He's card counting. Alright.
01:41:09
Speaker
ah That is his turn. This horse will not be tamed. Stall the dock, you're up. I respect it. I charge at the horse and um in channeling my new slick oily hair i get down on all fours and i start sprinting at this thing and i jump at it and i want start biting and chomping on it with my robot mouth cool give me whatever whatever that is it's gonna be an arm strike for 13 pizza it hits okay it's gonna be two bludgeoning damage okay uh you have pretty uh dull teeth yeah your teeth do bludgeoning damage
01:41:48
Speaker
And then I'm going to fire off the turret bolt. my Bonus action for a 22. That hits. Are you want the phantoms to attack this guy also?
01:42:00
Speaker
It's 19. Oh, yeah, and the phantoms too. aye This poor horse is getting to is getting artillery blasted and chomped seventeen yes
01:42:12
Speaker
me twenty one i can give you 18. still got... Still got three left. I'm so sorry, Mr. Horse. That's my bonus action and my turret's action, so that's it.
01:42:26
Speaker
Alright, Dazon, you gonna kill his horse? Come on, bro. Okay, can I try to tame it? No. that's no was your That was your animal handling.
01:42:38
Speaker
Oh, but rolled so high. Yeah, which gave it a little bit of a like a little bit of a leniency on its wisdom save, so... Just for the record, I, Tommy, do not condone this. Dasad, however, sorry, little one Two-handed sunsword. This horse is from hell, man.
01:42:56
Speaker
Yeah, but we could have... I don't know. We could have had this race three. twenty five Okay, that's three. Things that could have been.
01:43:07
Speaker
Oh, no.
Silver Dragon's Acknowledgment and Support
01:43:08
Speaker
As the horse goes down... as the horse goes down The clouds part and an image grows closer and closer as you all look up.
01:43:25
Speaker
The sun beating down. It's raining, just not where you are. It's raining all around you. But you see flying down, sun glinting off of its scales and landing in front of you all.
01:43:45
Speaker
Sick. This massive... Looks crazy. Silver dragon... That looks at the pouch... In your hand, Dasan... And says... You found my bones.
01:44:05
Speaker
I did. We did.
01:44:09
Speaker
ah You look up to the balcony... And you see... um You look up to the balcony and you see, ah not only do you see Vladimir Horngard, you also see Sir Godfrey Gwilym, all of their soldiers looking on in reverence as the lightning strikes behind them. They're silhouetting against the thing.
01:44:37
Speaker
Yeah, you're holding bag. like to hold up the bag and gesture to the soldiers on the roof and yell, A new dawn! A new dawn! A new dawn! A new dawn!
01:44:48
Speaker
ah You see Argenvast in front of you, the silver dragon, says, ah puts a paw, a massive ah paw out and says, I will put the bones in the mausoleum and I will light the beacon.
01:45:05
Speaker
And you have my word that when you move on Strahd's castle, we will be with you
01:45:16
Speaker
Hell yeah. And he holds his paw out, waiting for the...
01:45:30
Speaker
the bones, Besson? Yeah, I hand over the bones. You give him the bones. He flies off his wings, making all of your hair ah fly up.
01:45:43
Speaker
Your clothes whoosh in the wind. He flies over to the mausoleum
01:45:52
Speaker
and as he puts the bones in the mausoleum, the beacon lights. The dragon's spirit transforms into a brilliant light that fills the room, fills the mausoleum, fills the mansion, and then flashes across the valley like the beacon of a lighthouse.
01:46:24
Speaker
The beacon can be seen in Vallaki. The beacon can be seen in Kresk. The beacon can be seen in Berez, at Old Bonegrinder, at Van Richten's Tower, at the Werewolf Den.
01:46:39
Speaker
The beacon's light can be seen and felt, even by creatures that are blind.
01:46:45
Speaker
You sense hope and joy washing over all of Barovia as the beacon is lit. Not only do you sense hope and joy, but you know that the evil creatures of the land find this light disconcerting.
01:47:06
Speaker
It is a beacon to those of you who wish to do good and a warning to those who wish to do evil. While the beacon shines,
01:47:18
Speaker
characters and other creatures that oppose strad gain a plus one bonus to their acs and saving throws for as long as they remain in barovia oh damn uh everybody has every yeah you guys got sticky note that everybody's got a plus one and saving throws um not only that but um ah Vladimir Horngard, Sir Godfrey, and the other revenants and ghosts that haunt Brovia see the light as zi as a reminder of all that was once good and noble about the nightly order to which they once belonged.
01:48:01
Speaker
Undead have let go of their hatred and their corporeal bodies leaving corpses behind as spirits find rest at long last. Henceforth, in this adventure,
01:48:14
Speaker
Any encounter with a revenant will be treated as no encounter as all revenants left in Barovia have moved on.
01:48:26
Speaker
Oh, wow. You see, um, as Argenvast returns and lands in front of you all, his forces up on the battlements of the tower, he...
01:48:42
Speaker
brings a book forth. And as we fade out for tonight's session, he begins reading you guys ah the Tome of Strahd, an ancient work penned by Strahd, a tragic tale of how he came to this fallen state. The book is bound in a thick leather cover with steel hinges and fastenings.
01:49:09
Speaker
When he begins reading this book and he shows you this book, You get an image in your mind of the tarot card, and you know that this was what you came to hear.
01:49:19
Speaker
This story. The pages are of parchment and very brittle. Most of the book written in a curious shorthand that is very unmistakably Strahd. Stains and age have made most of the work allud illegible, but several paragraphs remain intact and readable.
01:49:39
Speaker
He reads you this.
01:49:43
Speaker
And this is where we'll leave off tonight. From Shrad's journal.
01:49:50
Speaker
I am the ancient. I am the land. My beginnings are lost in the darkness of the past. I was the warrior. I was good and just. I thundered across the land like the wrath of a just god. But the war years and the killing years wore down my soul as the wind wears stone into sand.
01:50:09
Speaker
All goodness slipped from my life. ah found my youth and strength gone, and all I had left was death. My army settled in the valley of Barovia and took power over the people in the name of a just god, me, but with none of God's grace or justice.
01:50:24
Speaker
I called for my family, long unseated from their ancient thrones, and brought them here to settle in the castle Ravenloft. They came with a younger brother of mine, Sergei. He was handsome and youthful.
01:50:35
Speaker
I hated him for both. From the families of the valley, one spirit shone above all others, a rare beauty who was called perfection, joy, and treasure. Her name, Tatiana, and I longed for her to be mine.
01:50:50
Speaker
I loved her with all my heart. I loved her for her youth. I loved her for her joy, but she spurned me. Old One was my name to her elder and brother. Her heart went to Sergei.
01:51:01
Speaker
They were betrothed. The date was set. With words she called me brother, but when I looked into her eyes they reflected another name, death. It was the death of the age that she saw in me.
01:51:15
Speaker
She loved her youth and enjoyed it, but I had squandered mine. The death she saw in me turned her from me, and so I came to hate death, my death. My hate is very strong.
01:51:26
Speaker
I would not be called death so soon. I made a pact with death, a pact of blood. On the day of their wedding, I killed Sergei, my brother. My pact was sealed with his blood.
01:51:38
Speaker
I found Tatiana weeping in the garden in east of the chapel. She fled from me. She would not let me explain, and a great anger swelled within me. She had to understand the pact I made for her. I pursued her. Finally, in despair, she flung herself from the walls of Ravenloft, and I watched everything I ever wanted fall from my grasp forever.
01:51:58
Speaker
was a thousand feet through the mists. No trace of her was ever found. And not even I know her final fate. Arrows from the castle guards pierced me to my soul, but I did not die, nor did I live.
01:52:14
Speaker
I became undead forever. I have studied much since then. Vampyr is my new name. I still lust for life and youth, and I curse the living that took them from me.
01:52:26
Speaker
Even the sun is against me. It is the sun and its light I fear the most, but little else can harm me now. Even a stake through my heart does not kill me, though it holds me from movement. But the sword, that cursed sword that Sergei brought, the sun sword, I must dispose of that awful tool.
01:52:43
Speaker
I fear and hate it as much as the sun. I have often hunted for Tatiana. I have even felt her within my grasp, but she escapes. She taunts me. She taunts me.
01:52:54
Speaker
What will it take to bend her love to me? I now reside far below Ravenloft. I live among the dead and sleep beneath the very stones of this hollow castle of despair.
01:53:06
Speaker
I shall seal shut the walls of the stairs that none may disturb me. We fade out. through the clouds
01:53:20
Speaker
as you each level up. Wow. Let's go! What a brawl. ah you guys You guys level up. ah Your time at Argen Vostholt has come to an end. So try and think of what you guys would like to do next on your to-do list as we are right about here at the end of our journey. So...
01:53:45
Speaker
um We'll think about that and we'll see everybody next time. Thanks for tuning in. Bye-bye.