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Curse of Strahd Episode 20: Festival of the Blazing Sun
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20 eppies, that's big time folks. Hope you're continuing to enjoy the show. Blood and broken bones are abound in a battle that is gonna to be a banger. The Baron, Call the Lightning, The Watcher Family, Rictavio and Buttercup the Sabretooth Tiger - chaos ensues, the gang decides everyone sucks, but the question is, who sucks the least? Thanks to all out Patrons, tune in to hear your name shouted out!
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Transcript
Introduction to the Podcast
00:00:03
Speaker
Hello one and all and welcome back to the Blade's Edge D&D actual play podcast where we are currently playing through Curse of Strahd. Last we left off probably a good one to go back and listen to if you've just popped in on this one.
Character Introductions
00:00:17
Speaker
um I will move all of my characters here over to the town square and as I do Let's go one by one and just give me a snapshot of what your character's, who what your name is, what your character's name is, and what they look like, just a brief, what they look like in this moment. Last we left off, Dusan, you have so you stood up, you have alighted the Sun Sword.
00:00:53
Speaker
In that moment of getting the entire crowd to calm down, you see a commoner is dead on the right.
Chaos Unleashed in the Town Square
00:01:00
Speaker
One of you saw one of the Watcher boys do that with blaming it on a guard. On the left, somebody attacked a guard and the guard stabbed him through the stomach. You see on the left, there's Baron, the Baron of the town Baron Vargas Valakovic.
00:01:15
Speaker
Uh, his markets, Lydia Petrovna, ah she is all triangles. There are two mastiffs. Um, and you see, uh, his right hand man, funny that it's right hand man, uh, Isaac Shrosny. Oh crap. Who one of his arms is completely deformed. He's been Google touched. Very demonic. You see there are guards everywhere. These are the commoners. Uh, don't pay too much attention to how many commoners are on this map. The place is flooded with commoners. Uh, it wasn't going to overheat everybody's PCs by putting a million tokens on the map.
00:01:55
Speaker
You see on the other side of this blazing sun, you see Lady Fiona Watcher. Hey, hey. And you guys, but only you guys have clocked two of the people in the crowd as her twin sons, Nikolai and Carl. Well, well, well, you know, the four Nat 20s in a row.
00:02:16
Speaker
You guys are on this roof.
Confronting the Saber-Tooth Tiger
00:02:19
Speaker
There are some ravens on the roof with you down below out the front door is is Mark holding Irena Kolyana as he's taken a step back once they were called out. And you see in the distance, as the sun as you stood up and lit your sun sword in the distance, a saber tooth tiger has broken free of its cage to hurt or killed the security guards who are keeping watch. Good boy. And is running in the direction of this pandemonium. and Let's go to some. Why don't we on this sheet here? I have you guys sort of left to right, which just was totally random. But let's start this on. We'll start with you and we'll head left since I was just doing that. Just give us a brief um who you are, who your character is and what they look like in this moment.
00:03:14
Speaker
Okay, hi, I'm Tommy McMillan. I'm playing Desan, a drow paladin. um Five foot nothing, ah dark skin, buzz cut hair. I'm wielding a sun sword, kind of like a lightsaber that I can bish on and off. um Ear protected people, ah pretty stereotypical paladin, but with a dark ah spidery past.
00:03:40
Speaker
Anyway, I'm going to clock this saber tooth tiger, uh, jump down and start sprinting full arm, pumpy sprinting, dashing 60 feet, uh, to stop it from getting to, uh, the citizens. Oh, okay. Yeah, we can do that. We can do that. well well You guys can each do something. and go and in addict You are up on the roof.
The Baron and the Undead Conflict
00:04:04
Speaker
So to jump down, you'll be jumping down 20 feet, just meaning you will, you will take some damage.
00:04:10
Speaker
Uh, yeah. Uh, superhero action role. I just saw the Superman, uh, trailer and I'm feeling pretty super manny. So I'm jumping. Okay. Uh, you jumped down, you take six points of bludgeoning damage as you hit the ground. Um, and you start, um, yes, you can just move your token right there. And then you get full dash 60 feet. Um, through the crowd, you can't move through the ball.
00:04:40
Speaker
That is the ball that's on fire, which Inabi sent out some scorching rays to light up this big wicker ball, of which the Baron immediately took credit for, noticed you guys, and said, Lady Watcher's trying to pin all of the shortcomings on me, I see these guys, I'm gonna pin it on them.
00:05:01
Speaker
Yeah, so I jumped down, sun soared out, lightsabering. I'm making my way through the crowd, kind of shoving some commoners out of the way, trying to get to this ah in between the saber-toothed tiger and the rest of the commoners and guards. Yeah, I am going to say, given what baron the Baron has said and that the guards are on his side, both guards you passed are going to make opportunity attacks on you.
00:05:25
Speaker
That is sad. Okay. yeah I mean, if you want to take it back, you definitely knew that they were working for the Baron. You've just lit up your sun sword, jumped off a roof and started sprinting into the crowd. Hell yeah. I, Brian, know your intentions. They do not. I said it. That's what happens. Go ahead. Hey, swing. Hey, I dare you. Spear two handed.
00:05:52
Speaker
That is a 16 and a 10. Those both missed, but hey, Brian, I want you to mark these two guys. People don't forget. Okay. Can you mark them? Can you mark both these guys? I swear on me. People don't forget. Sure. I think you, can you mark them? Uh, I don't, can you not click there? I can't click there. Can we draw a little dot on them? But then if you moved them, it would be, yeah, I know this is the guard, uh, MPC, but I'm going to remember these guys's faces.
00:06:17
Speaker
Yeah, let's see if I can sometimes tokens have your MacGruber writing down the license plate in his notebook. Yeah, exactly. Yeah. I'm a visit but yeah i'm a visit these guys later is what it's going to happen. Yeah. A 10 fully misses you. Maybe you hop over the spear. A 16 is pretty close to your AC. So this guy actually does connect with you, but he wasn't swinging it hard enough or this guy's not a pro. I mean, you guys are pro adventures practice swing.
00:06:43
Speaker
Yeah, she was up. He waited way too long. You got close. He had no leverage to two hands, swing a spear. So while it did connect with you, there was no weight behind it. i gave You sort of bowl right through it. Get parried casual. And that's my turn. OK, um ah to the left of the song is in Nabi. Who are you? Who you playing? And what do you look like in this moment? or What are you doing?
00:07:07
Speaker
Yeah, I'm Trevor. I'm playing Anabi. He's this Shatterkai elf dude who just popped out of a ring not a while long ago, ah but he looks like a...
00:07:19
Speaker
He's looking like a ninja of maybe ah an albino bald ninja kind of vibes. ah Sort of tall, very lanky. um Like wraps all over him. um And he's... I'm sort of a bald ninja if you even care. What's that? I'm just a bald ninja if you even care. Yeah.
00:07:40
Speaker
yeah ah You know, he's got to like the ninja thing on his over his mouth like bandana over his mouth vibes like very very ninja looking and a shadow ninja vibes He's he's staring right at the Baron and I think in this horse he does not really feel anything for this town. ah he's He's in a bit of a dark place mentally maybe, not like sad dark but like not caring dark because it feels like everybody in this town sucks for him. And so he kind of ah maybe in this moment unfortunately doesn't necessarily care what happens to the town but especially it wants to
00:08:25
Speaker
Uh, watch the Baron and his squad burn, uh, because he tried to help them and he, yeah, he threw it back in his face. So he's, uh, eye contact with the Baron. And, uh, yeah, are we, that's where he's at right now. Are we doing like an action motivation thing right now? Or are we, if you want to, yeah if you have something in mind that you would like to do a hundred percent, yeah um, this isn't the most.
00:08:54
Speaker
It'll be a little wibbly-wobbly, same with like Dusan like jumping, taking a little damage, the guys attacking him, like there might be a little wibbly-wobbly
Calming the Chaos with Magic
00:09:00
Speaker
depending on what you want to do since we're not rolling initiative, but... Cool, yeah. ah if If possible, i would if I have a bonus action and action, I would use those... i would I'm staring the Baron in the eyes and making sure he sees me, and I would reach back ah to grab those two new swords that you gave me, those no dachis.
00:09:21
Speaker
And as I pull them off my back, they like ah the metal like slides against each other or like the blade slide against each other and that and whatever tone those make, he starts like humming super softly like in his chest to himself and he casts blade song. Nice. I like to think for Inabi like the like the air almost buzzes. You know what I mean? Oh, yeah. Yeah.
00:09:50
Speaker
Yeah, vibrations. And then as he, ah once the swords are out, he winks at the Baron and casts Slither, and he turns into Shadow, essentially.
00:10:05
Speaker
I'm a snake. I'd say the last thing you see as you cast Slither is you're looking at him in the in the eyes of the camera had locked in on the Baron's face and so stepping directly into frame to lock eyes with you before you cast that is this guy who stands right in front of him.
00:10:27
Speaker
I'm not even looking at him. I'm just looking at the mirror. Awesome. Also, I just need to take a victory lap here. You said this. You said I don't care for this town. The people here suck. And that is a rite of passage when fronting Curse of Strahd. Tommy. Tommy will remember when I said those exact same words to him.
00:10:47
Speaker
These people do in fact, they do, in fact, suck. Hell yeah. Everybody is miserable. And that is, I remember, yeah, what is it? Five year, almost five years ago at this point that mid session with Tommy in Vlaki, I was like, why does everybody here suck? That's so funny. We're the fun guys. We're the fun guys. So it's written. I didn't do it. Come on, man. Did you guys still like me?
00:11:16
Speaker
Inabi does that. um Next to Inabi, the hulking ah form of Bash. Who are you? Who you plan? What do you look like? Is there anything you'd like to do?
00:11:28
Speaker
Yeah, uh, what's up? My name is Kyle Gervard. I'm playing Bash Bloodsinger, the half-orc barbarian son of Kavan. Um, your boy was essentially reborn from a staff, a spear. Um, and, uh, yeah, don't really know. My relationship is complicated with my dad. I don't know.
00:11:49
Speaker
I don't know how to feel about that guy right now. um Yeah, I have some ah pale green skin, long black hair, protruding tusks coming from the bottom up. And in this moment, um I think I immediately lock in.
00:12:10
Speaker
With the saber-toothed tiger. I think I know my strengths and my strength is strength so I think I'm gonna Try my best to make my way towards the tiger without Causing a scene like I know it's kind of chaotic and people are like rioting at the moment. Mm-hmm I want to kind of try and like blend in with the crowd While making my way towards the towards the tiger just to not you know, arouse any specific suspicion from the guards or anything like that Go you are so you're 20 feet up on a roof. So you got to get down you could jump like the Sun did Is there a safer way to go down I You can climb down, but if you don't have a climb speed, which I don't think you do, it's your double your movement. So climbing down 20 feet would be 40 feet of movement.
00:13:03
Speaker
What about um this bush right here? Could I hop into this bush and break my fall a little bit? It's only one way to find out. Yeah, I'm going to hop into the bush and break my fall a little bit. Okay. You jump off the roof, take four points of lifting damage.
00:13:21
Speaker
as your The weight of your massive body falling 20 feet, ah you crush every bush you land on and slam straight into the ground. It's fine, it's fine, everything's fine. Okay, so do I still have one move? That's exactly the gift that I was thinking about talking.
00:13:39
Speaker
it's the yeah for the first the off building um Okay, yeah, you you jump down, you take ah four points of bludgeoning damage.
00:13:54
Speaker
And you can move your token there. If you want to move stealthily, you won't be able to dash. You'll use your action to sort of roll a stealth check. Otherwise you can. You will just be potentially incurring opportunity attacks again. I think I'm going to stealth over there. I'm going to land this bush stealthily from a 20 foot tall building. OK, so you hit that. There's a lot of stuff going on. Roll me a stealth check.
00:14:24
Speaker
All right, I'll even tell you what you want to beat. Oh, wait, did. Did I end to have been long rested since I had exhaustion? No. Oh, my God, I still have a I still have disadvantage on everything. You guys have not long rested, but you did level up. Oh, cool. I think was ah important to note going into this that ah It's been a it's been a long day for some of you guys that that crazy fight with the with the vampire spawns was today earlier today. Yeah. Yeah. I wasn't anticipating I were just going to watch it like a parade, you know.
00:15:12
Speaker
Um, okay. So I guess I gotta pull two, two back to back natural twenties out of my ass real quick. Here's the first one. DC is 12. That is, that is the guards passive perception.
00:15:25
Speaker
No, I have a minus one and I rolled a 12. Okay. All right. That's fine. All right. Um, you still have your movement, which is pretty, pretty, pretty but Uh, far for you, right? Barbarian, uh, 40 feet. Um, do are we counting the movement from the roof or starting at the bottom here? Um, I'd say you have four 40 left. Cause you just had to move right past and not be to jump down that way. And then can you mark the guards for me real quick? They're all these guys. This, this, this, this token here, those of you at home, just generic guards.
00:16:05
Speaker
ah token The only real tokens on the map are just the key players in this on the left side, the Baron on the right side, Lady Fiona Watcher, the guards in a semi-circle, all of the commoners also in a, sorry, not a semi-circle, a full circle, around this blazing sun. ah There are some guards at the far end of a bridge. ah Don't ah hold me to my exact word with this map. I just found ah a map here. therere There's not a river in the middle of the village. um ah But and then far off in the distance, there's a saber tooth tiger with blood on his tusks making his way.
00:16:48
Speaker
um You just a good boy, right? This is Fiona right here, right?
00:16:54
Speaker
All right. I'm going to walk past the guard here, and but as I'm walking past the guard, I'm going to say, Oh my God, Fiona. Hi. You know, how are you doing? Okay. Does the guard attack me? Yes. Yeah. The guard, the guard does take a spear attack at you two handed for 17 to hit you. That is.
00:17:21
Speaker
ah You take five points of bludgeoning damage. He did not attempt to stab you with it. He attempted to swing it and hit you with the butt of it. ah So it was a non-lethal hit and it was not piercing damage. It was bludgeoning damage as you walk past him and he just sort of ugh and smacks you with it as the guards ah work for the Baron. When and we left off, the Baron was throwing this festival. Lady Fiona Watcher came to say the Baron's doing a bad job.
00:17:51
Speaker
ah We need new leadership. Look to me. You guys know she's friends with she's friends with Strahd. Maybe she has a picture of Strahd in her house. She wants power. ah The Baron didn't like that. She was challenging him. He challenged her back. Unruling this came with the crowd and Nabi lit up the thing in the center, which let Baron be like, I'm going to use a scapegoat and she's trying to point the finger at me. I'm going to point at these guys. And it was at that moment the tiger got loose. So a lot of funky stuff going on.
00:18:24
Speaker
All right. um That guy hits you with the butt of his thing and says, order, order. Are we I mean, are we like a tag? Are we throwing attacks out right now?
00:18:38
Speaker
Do you want king? you're You're your own man. You want to be the you want to be the first one to kill somebody? Oh, God, I guess some somebody killed a a commoner and blamed it on a guard. Wasn't a guard, but blamed it on a guard. You're the only one who know that who noticed that bash.
00:18:53
Speaker
And then a guy on the left side ah tried to attack a guard um In all this commotion and the guard ah stabbed him through the chest but you can see the guard that like eyes wide almost like just reactive stabbed and accidentally killed a commoner and This guard order order and smacks you. What do you do? If I attack him or all the other guards just immediately gonna sick me like a dog I What do, that is a and a great question that is impossible for me to answer. So true. I'm gonna swing on it. Hell yeah. Oh my God, I have disadvantage for this entire fight. This is so gnarly. Swing on that thing. Well, you have one level of exhaustion, right? Oh, is it just, is that just ability checks? Ability checks, yes. Disadvantage on all your ability checks. Unless you have, do you have one layer of exhaustion or do you have three for some reason?
00:19:49
Speaker
No, no, it's just one. Okay. Cool. And you're good. Speed halved three is attack rolls like that and saving throws. Gotcha.
00:20:01
Speaker
That's unfortunate. That's a natural one. OK, you swing your great acts at this guy who straight up screams like this. This this kid was like, Oh, you said he was. And the only reason you miss is because he slips down and like accidentally falls to a knee as he like slipped on a rock. ah So he's he's like down on a knee looking up at you.
00:20:25
Speaker
Gotcha. I'm just going to tell him to be quiet. ah you You have a second attack if you'd like it. I do. Yeah, I'm gonna swing on him again.
00:20:39
Speaker
23 to 8. That's... You are not raging, so you won't add your rage damage, but... That's still gonna be 8 damage. OK, you guys see Desan jumps off the roof, runs through the crowd with a sun sword towards this the the saber. ah Two guards ah try to whack at him with the butts. Order, order. ah Bash Inabi draws his swords and disappears. ah Bash jumps off the roof, ah runs over this guard, swings in him. Order, order. Bash swings at this guard who stumbles and falls to a knee and Bash raises his great axe and chops the head off this guard.
00:21:20
Speaker
Sorry, bud. And it is at that moment ah that Bash, Alma, and Nabi dison everybody. You instinctively see every single person here's attitude change. You see Isaac goes from like, like ah protecting the Baron to he furrows his brow and goes, no, has his axe up. Fire starts to ah erupt in his sort of demon arm.
00:21:47
Speaker
ah Both the Watcher brothers who were undercover, who were hiding knives, immediately draw them. Lady Fiona immediately starts to cast a spell. Every guard switches from butt-end position to spear-end position. Oh, no. The Baron immediately says, Lydia, to me. we didn' Isaac, who must get out of here now? And the crowd immediately start to disperse. Moving through the crowd now will be ah difficult terrain, as the crowd is just actively going to try and disperse.
00:22:18
Speaker
Um, lovely. Alma, would you like to know who you are? Hell yeah, boys. I've killed the party. Sorry.
00:22:28
Speaker
um Alma graves. Is your mic working? Don't know if I can hear you, Kyle beams. Unfortunate. That is very unfortunate. I am going to pause pausing.
00:22:46
Speaker
Hello and welcome back. Sorry for the little the the little cut right there. We are moving along. Bash has just beheaded a guard. Alma Graves, who are you? ah Who are you playing? What are you doing on the roof right now currently? Yo, this is Kyle. ah We're here playing Alma Graves, the tiefling cleric to Lathander. And I'm standing on top of a roof after we were watching this. This is what was supposed to be a celebration turned into this absolute fiasco. I look at Bash, just chop the head off of a, how old was this kid probably? Let me get a little persepy.
00:23:24
Speaker
The guard. Yeah. Sure. Give me a quick perception check. Yeah. ah That's that's a 13. Roll me a D6.
00:23:42
Speaker
That's four. i Seventeen years old. All right. So he just chopped the head off of a 17 year old a reservist. just a kid. Um, and I'm like, man, he swung at me. Yeah, true. True. He did throw hands first. Well, I'm thinking that the right thing to do is take care of Irina. So I'm going to try to climb down. Okay. All right. So climbing down is double movement since you don't have a climb speed. Uh, we'll say since there's that little lift 15 feet down, so that requires 30 feet of movement to get down there.
00:24:23
Speaker
Yeah, so I would just move right behind her. um And I'm gonna cast False Life on myself okay with one of my Eldritch Invocations to gain. Well, it's 11 health because I always benefit from the max. But it's 11 temp HP. Nice. And then I say, Irena, we need to get you to to to safety.
00:24:45
Speaker
um ah You see Izmar who currently has his arm around her and is backing up ah says ah ah to you he goes ah Absolutely I'm going to I'm bringing her inside He like knocks on the door and says Irwin open up. I'm bringing my sister in oh ah So you can accompany them. ah But at the very least, you do know that Ismark and Irena, whenever they get a turn, are going to head back inside, barricade themselves in their room. Then I'm going to wait and then I'm going to close the door um behind them and then guard the door. OK. All right. Now that everybody has gone, the last thing I'll say before we roll a pretty massive initiative here is.
00:25:41
Speaker
Let me just let me just grab some real quick. It's going to be that kind of day. We're going to get blood and broken bones.
00:25:54
Speaker
OK, OK. Hold that. Hold on. Hold on. Golden. Golden. OK, you see as they knock on the door, the door opens and come flying out of the door immediately past Irena and his mark, as he says. um ah Excuse me, excuse me, excuse me, excuse me, excuse me, excuse me. ah Moving past you guys, you see this guy.
00:26:34
Speaker
Hell yeah. ah Somebody who you guys have not seen before. This is a guy who was inside the tavern. um You guys know that there was only one other room being rented, ah but you had not met who was in that room. It's possible this is that individual. Interesting. He scooches out.
00:26:55
Speaker
Um, excuse me, excuse me, excuse me. It's not safe out here, man. It's not safe out here. Get back inside. Um, as he, as he reaches there, he's, um, he looks off into the distance. No perception check needed for Alma. Uh, and maybe Inabi as you're right there. You see him look off into the distance all the way to the tiger. Um, and he says, no, no, no. Buttercup, no. Buttercup, heal. Heal. Buttercup. Good boy.
00:27:25
Speaker
I'm going to kill that buttercup butter. cup butter um As he says that we are going to get a pretty massive initiative role here. So Kyle Gerard, you ever get your team to be on to work? Yes. OK, awesome. Roll for bear the Baron and his wife will share an initiative.
00:27:49
Speaker
Isaac Strassney is rolling. The guards will all share an initiative.
00:27:56
Speaker
The Watcher Brothers will also share an initiative. I'm gonna roll. Again for them, okay. Lady Fiona Watcher on the initiative. Ismark and Irena will share an initiative only for the sole purposes of getting inside. And then this guy... I just have to...
00:28:28
Speaker
Link his thing here? Okay. This guy has a nat 20 on the initiative for me. Nice. Yeah. What did everybody get as I'm rolling all these initiatives? I got 11. You got a 21? 19. Okay.
00:28:51
Speaker
um
00:28:56
Speaker
Um...
00:29:02
Speaker
OK.
00:29:05
Speaker
ah um All right. Here we go. Yes, yes, everybody, everybody sucks as you guys as this as this kicks off. I think the one question to ask yourself is everyone sucks. Who sucks the least? ah You have one side who wants to run the town who currently runs the town.
00:29:30
Speaker
ah ah who sort of threw you guys under the bus. ah The other side who wants to run the town may or may not be in league with Strahd.
00:29:41
Speaker
It's it is to turtles all the way down. So what if we run the What if we're the bad guys? If everybody sucks, maybe we all suck. You can't beat him. Wait, wait, wait, wait.
00:30:00
Speaker
Um, okay. Uh, dis on, you are for, let me just have to change a couple. Somebody roll me a D 20 for is Mark and I'm going to roll a D 20 for the guards. I'll do the D 20 for his Mark. Okay. Let's roll out above a three. Okay. So he will go is Mark Google for the guards. And then why don't you roll me a D 20 for the watcher brothers and I'll roll a D 20 for your unnamed guest. Well, higher than that one, I'm rolling low.
00:30:30
Speaker
Nineteen. OK, so this guy will go. That's just so that we don't have people in the same initiatives, and I have to look at people so I can decks. All right. Dishon, you are up first. Sunsword is out running through the crowd. Two guards as you passed the two that are right behind you. No need to mark them. They're on the eastern side of the map. They posted. Stop orders. Stop. And you've run past. It's your turn.
00:31:00
Speaker
Uh, yeah, I'm going to grab, uh, these, as I pass these two guards, uh, as I'm making my way south, I'm just going to like do your job, protect the citizens, do, you know, kind of like shoving spears, like into chests and like, stop the saber to tiger. He'll kill everybody. As I kind of make my keep making my way past, uh, all of them trying to like like garner like, Hey, like, come rock. Like we got to stop the saber to tiger. Like this is like our job here. Cool.
00:31:29
Speaker
And where are you moving? I'm going to move past these guards over the bridge. Only got 30 feet of movement. and I'm going to go stand next to the guards closest to the saber-toothed tiger who hold my action. If the saber-toothed tiger comes within striking distance, I'm going to hit it with my sun sword ah trying to rally these guys around me. OK.
00:31:54
Speaker
um In trying to rally them around you it does not work both of those guards attempts to attack you these guys Suck and you have so you have noticed that because of the beheading their actions have gone from Non-lethal to lethal so the two guys who originally tried to hit you were using the butt ends of their spears The minute the bash beheaded a guard the guards are now in kill mode. You're with that guy Here are their attacks Okay, so they don't even care about protecting the citizens. Is that what I'm hearing? That's not what you're hearing. That is a separate conclusion you are drawn. They are trying to protect the citizens from you. It's a 17 and a 15. 18 AC, shield up, there get All right. Action held. That's all I got. Yeah. and let me Let me see if I can... Can I roll a token for the commoners? we Let's show up.
00:32:52
Speaker
See, it does. That's awesome. They're a little like non token token. This thing shows up on the initiative now. Whoa. That's cool. He's huge. Oh my God. Yeah, he's massive run. Huge. We also got a bigger problem going on. to It's the wall, Titan. OK, so Desan has moved through the crowd to the bridge. Colossal Titan, not a casual, sorry.
00:33:19
Speaker
pass the guard who are loyal to Baron Vargas. um Alma, ah the the door opens. You get the sense Ismark and Irena are about to dip inside as this guy ah comes out through the front door and says, Buttercup, Buttercup, please. and No, no, no, no, no, no. Right past you. It is your turn. All right. And Buttercup, the Sabretooth Tiger is way too downrange for me. So I'm thinking.
00:33:49
Speaker
Um, Hey, maybe this guy could, could do something good with, uh, um, with helping that, uh, that scene down there. So I'm going to cast the aid spell, um, to make sure that he gets just a little bit closer. Things in this town are getting a little dicey, so he might need to take a hit or two. So aid is going to be 15 bonus hell or a temp HP.
00:34:15
Speaker
OK, and that is sorry for 15 max HP and current HP. Sorry. And that you can do it to a number of creatures within your range. So you have to three creatures. It's going to be bash. It's going to be this guy and it's going to be Irena. OK, so they all three get 15 max HP and current HP. Nice. You hear that bash? Yes, sir. OK. And then for my bonus action,
00:34:45
Speaker
Um, I am not going to do anything. I'm going to wait here. Okay. Um, ah love that Inabi you have cast.
00:35:01
Speaker
slither now remind those uh those at home what that does yeah here i'll just read off the uh this spell description so you momentarily become a shadow a humanoid shaped absence of light not the undead creature of that name you can slide under a door through a keyhole or through any other tiny opening all of your equipment is transferred with you you can move up to your full speed during the spell's duration While in this form, you have advantage on Dex checks made in darkness or dim light, and you are immune to non-magical bludgeoning, piercing, and slashing damage. Cool. You can dismiss the spell by using an action to do so. And then a bunch of... If I dismiss it and I'm in a space that's too small, I take a lot of force damage. Nice. And go ahead and just VTT link it for me. Awesome. Cool. And we try to do it. It is your turn.
00:35:59
Speaker
As a wall of text, that's the force damage right there. Yeah. Yeah, that's a force damage. That's not going to feel very good. um Yeah. So while a shadow, I think I'm just going to go. Five.
00:36:19
Speaker
And 15. And drop off here. OK. Is that 20 or 25? 20. OK, 20, 25. As you drop, you are immune to non-magical bludgeoning, piercing slash damage, which a fall would technically be non-magical. So you take no damage from that fall. Hell yeah. 20, 25, 30, 35. This is going to get squirrely. 35.
00:36:56
Speaker
fuck 40. Let me know if I can do this. I want to go like 45, 50, 55 right here. I want to go like through these people's spaces. Yeah. Well, you can get you know what i mean like the keyhole, right? Right. Right. yeah Absolutely. Okay. Just like a a shadow moving car feel the hedgehog right now, dude. That was 55, 60. I'm going to move to right. Bald Sonic. Nothing personal.
00:37:28
Speaker
And I actually can't, hang on a second. I need to see Okay, I have a question for you. yeah So while in this form, it says I can't interact with objects, which is fine. It doesn't say anything about casting other spells.
00:37:52
Speaker
If I, if I have a spell like spirit trap, oh, wait, wait, wait. It does. It says you cannot attack or cast spells. Oh, just fucking can't attack. In addition, you can't attack or cast spells while in shadow form. Oh shit. Actions revert back. Yes. Okay. Got it. Got it. ah Then.
00:38:10
Speaker
Well, shit, I could probably just, yeah, I'll just come out now, fuck it. Yeah, I'll use my action to come out of shadow form, like right behind the Baron, kind of. What does that look like? It's literally like a, wait, do you guys know that scene in Game of Thrones where the, who is it that gets stabbed by that shadow of a Bolton guy?
00:38:42
Speaker
oh shit You know what I'm talking about? he like ah The red woman like gives birth to that shadow demon creature thing, and then it like pops up behind this dude and stab him. It looks like that at first, but then I materialize, but yeah. Super spooky.
00:39:01
Speaker
oh Yeah, so i'll everybody at home knows what you're talking about. Yeah, you'd be pop up right next to Baron. The shadow disappears. Yeah. And then I cast spirit shroud with my bonus action. Nice. And what does spirit shroud do again?
00:39:17
Speaker
Spirit Shroud is you call forth spirits of the dead, which float around you for the spell's duration. Spirits are intangible and invulnerable until the spell ends. Any attack you make deals an extra d8 when you hit a creature within 10 feet of you. And it'll be radiant damage as well. I think you get to choose between cold, necrotic, or radiant when you cast it. and so Nice.
00:39:37
Speaker
Um, I would like to think that the spirits of the dead that you cast ah manifest in the original party, you see, Valerius Moonstone. Oh, sick. Really? How did you get the grades as the spirit of the dead? Surround you. Fire. All right.
00:40:02
Speaker
And it is your turn. Uh, yeah. And I'll just say the Baron, I don't, uh, well, I guess the Baron and this guy, the right hand guy, both of them will start, if they start their turns here by the time it gets to them, which I assume they will within 10 feet of me, their speed will be reduced by 10 feet. Okay. Cool.
00:40:30
Speaker
on Awesome. As you end your turn, the guy with the big arm says, ah you don't know what you're doing. This is a mistake. I got a quick question. Yes. How do the townspeople in general feel about the Baron?
00:40:53
Speaker
but Make a make a retroactive insights check for me.
00:41:01
Speaker
Disadvantaged on cuz you are hmm about 16 seems pretty good. Um Hard to say I mean you haven't dealt with the Baron much you don't really know what he does or doesn't do He runs the town the town sucks But does the town suck because the town sucks is the town suck because Barovia as a whole sucks.
00:41:21
Speaker
um Bash remembers the memories of Roy ah when Roy had for at least the times and Roy had the staff bash remembers what it was like back in the day. A lot of Barovia sucks. um It's this vibe is not novel to the lucky. This vibe is everywhere.
00:41:44
Speaker
People are upset. the The real person that a lot of people are unhappy with and they hate is Schrod. He is the reason things are how they are, how they feel about Baron. I mean, I think he's in charge. So they say shit's bad. You're in charge of our town. Make it better. They don't particularly like him. Obviously, Lady Fiona had stirred the crowd's, some of the crowd's vibe against him.
00:42:14
Speaker
He had stirred some of the crowd's vibe against you. You guys have stirred some of the crowd's vibe against him. um I think the crowd's pretty. At this point with a 16 insight, you know that that thought is not in any crowd members mind. They are getting out of here. yeah They're dispersing. They're scared. um Right now.
00:42:36
Speaker
ah But I mean, they all showed up. This was this festival. of The Blazing Sun is a festival for Lathander, the Blazing Sun, and was supposed to, in in the Baron's mind, inspire hope. But you get this just by saying, everything will be OK, which you get the sense he says all the time. And things aren't OK, which is yeah Lady Watcher took this moment to be like, I'm going to make I'm going to make a big scene and rally the people against him.
00:43:05
Speaker
ah He then tried to deflect that onto you. And now change in regime um is Mark's turn. He's going to grab Irena move past you Alma um as he does. He heads inside. You see them disappear into the blue water in. ah You close the door behind them. Yeah, I do.
00:43:27
Speaker
Nice, you see the flocks of Ravens ah move up um and you see two of the flocks of Ravens like land on the windowsill of or like on the door frame like in a you get the sense almost in a protective manner um as the other flock of Ravens stays on the roof of the building. ah The door closes is Mark heads inside and it is the guards turn now.
00:43:55
Speaker
ah The guards are going to do a couple complicated things here. I think these closest guards, Inabi, are going to close in on you. Okay. 10, that guy was 5, 10, this guy goes 5, 10, 15, 20, 25, 30, 35 to right there.
00:44:16
Speaker
um These guys on the east side of the map are going to ah They move this way. This guy moves over to you, Bash. I have 10, 15, 20. This guy also goes 5, 10, 15, 20 because of the rough terrain on you. This guy, however, goes 5, 10, 15, 20 up to the Watcher Brothers as they have drawn knives. And one of their knives is bloody from killing the commoner and trying to blame it on the guards.
00:44:50
Speaker
ah These guards down here, um this guy will take a protective stance. We'll go 5, 10, 15. This guy will go 5, 10. Protective stance. And then these guys are going to collapse on Yudasan.
00:45:12
Speaker
All right, well, that's all right. That's cool. Hey, by all means. Um, okay. So now to resolve some of these attacks. Um, bash coming to you first. Um, these are both coming in two handed and they are coming in. Uh, now the first guy who attacked you with the button, these are now coming in lethal. Uh, the guy to the left, uh, rolls a 16 and a seven.
00:45:48
Speaker
ah Sixteen hit seven. OK, you take five points of piercing damage from the one guy from the one attack. I'm going to have to hit you. ah Now, the guy below you. Was a natural one and an eight. This guy's heart's not in it. This guy scared you. This guy to the bottom. You're not even raging yet. And this guy is actually pretty. He's scared because you just beheaded his friend. This kid also is about like 17. This guard is going to attack.
00:46:19
Speaker
Nikolai Watcher, who will say is the one with the bloody dagger. He's going to attack him twice. Nikolai who is 17 and a 16 beats his AC. We're going to roll this damage here. um Why don't bash? Why don't you roll me a one D eight plus one and ah other Kyle will get two cows and I'll just only a one D eight plus one. Yeah, you got it.
00:46:48
Speaker
Six. Three. All right. Six and three is nine. That is the hit points of Nikolai Watcher. This guard comes up to Nikolai Watcher with his knife out bloodied and goes, no, stop. Put your weapons down. Weapons down. And stabs Nikolai Watcher twice, who falls to the ground bleeding, grabbing his chest. And his brother goes, no. And his mother, Fiona,
00:47:17
Speaker
says that is the all the on the eastern side moment. You get what you fucking deserve. Western side. ah ah Both these guys in Nabi, the guy that on the top is going to take attacks on you. Yep. That's a twenty one and a twenty two a shield.
00:47:39
Speaker
OK, which makes them both this? Yes, sir. Yeah, those guys both miss ah this guy back here. He has a spear. He can attack you through ah friendlies, which all of these people are. So he will take his two attacks as well. A 10, 21, which still misses, right? Because of this, sir. Nice. And now the guy to the left of you, ah eight and a 15. They all a lot of those maybe would have hit you. But what is this? What is your shield look like?
00:48:06
Speaker
um Honestly, I feel like my shield for me is just like crazy dexterity. Like it's not an actual shield. It's just me like being so like extra dodgy. Okay, super dodgy.
00:48:22
Speaker
Uh, aided by this magic. Um, this one guy down here is going to hold his action on the west side of the map. And then Desan, you've got five guys on you, uh, who each are going to take attacks on you. Pretty cool. Five guys, two attacks each. Uh, okay. Here we go. Two attacks each. 19. Yeah, that'll do it. That one. Five. 21. Two so far.
00:48:53
Speaker
19. Yep. 10. Okay. 20. These guys suck, dude. These guys suck. 15. Miss. Last guy. 4 total. That one. 17. 17 hit? No, no, no. Okay, so 4 hits. Each hit deals 5 piercing damage to you.
00:49:13
Speaker
20 points of damage shit as you go here ah you see maybe maybe one of the older guards is down here Who says ah who as he makes a point to as he stabs you he emphasizes the where he says citizen stand down I Got a fucking lightsaber dude who the fuck is this guy I think he's talking to right now Haha now the watcher fucking so rich I'm here The Watcher brothers. One is dead. The other one is going to. ah He has a rapier in his hand, not a. ah Dagger, but he only makes one attack on this guard. Immediately tries to stab him. See if he hits. Nine. His heart's not in it. Just saw his brother die. Shock on his face. OK.
00:50:14
Speaker
this old man who just exited the tavern, Alma. ah You see he's got this cane, but in this moment where he's saying, buttercup, buttercup, no. um Excuse me, excuse me. ah You see no insight check needed.
00:50:35
Speaker
This guy was definitely putting on a show of being kind of older with the cane. You see him run down these stairs very easily. Far too nimble, huh? Far too nimble. Oh my God. It's Willy Wonka. Yeah. Oh my gosh. And you see him ah take out a leather strap. Well, he's got a strap. And he bands it around his arm and pulls it tight. um And as he does, do do.
00:51:07
Speaker
Uh, he begins to move a little faster and a little freer. Interesting. And he is going to move. Does he react at all to getting the benefit of my aid spell? Uh, yeah. As he does that, he briefly looks back and says, thank you very much. Time to go save my kitty cat and protect the people. Kitty cat comes first.
00:51:33
Speaker
Five, moves there. Full dash and you see whatever he just cast. He cast a spell. ah Let him move through the difficult terrain without being slowed down by it.
00:52:04
Speaker
as he As he gets here, he sees all the guards attacking T'San, but you can see his eyes are moving all past you guys straight down the road to the beast coming that way. I know he said everybody sucks. This guy might not suck. He might not suck. i much kind of time He seems pretty dope. He likes his kid cat. To be determined.
00:52:25
Speaker
He already was not you not telling the truth, so who knows? Bash, I need to know something on your turn. I'll roll an Insight check, though.
00:52:41
Speaker
ah do to do I have a Polish. She has a Vantage and plus seven. Oh, that's way. ah what are What are your intentions with Lady Watcher? Because you came up to her and said, Lady Watcher or whatever, what are your intentions with that? um I was just trying to like...
00:52:58
Speaker
make it seem as if I wasn't causing a scene and I was just like walking up to her and turn you come to public square riots often. Yeah. Well, you've just you've just beheaded a guard at the culmination of this was you understand her doing the reason why it is escalated to this point is because of her and because of her and then her son killed a guy, which is really what brought it to the next level. So what is your, are you intending to fight her or are you siding with her or neither? Um, cause I need to know if I'm, if I'm getting away from you or if I'm fighting you or if I'm fine where I am. Yeah. If she's kissing you might do later either. Maybe it was like a, an I can fix her type moment, you know,
00:53:51
Speaker
OK, so it's it's neither. You're neither with her or against her. Correct. Your first demonstration on the road to recovery is to chop a child's head off. Hell, yeah. Nice. I am getting away from you then. If that is if that is it. If you're not with me, you're against me. OK, so you do. OK, she.
00:54:16
Speaker
um She take you saying you're not with her against her. She's going to move.
00:54:26
Speaker
Which would mean if you're telling if you're telling me the truth in that 20, you wouldn't take an attack on her, right? Yeah, I'm not taking an attack on her. Okay, she can move back this way. This guard is. This guard is going to make an attack. And this is just a miracle because her AC is very low. She's wearing robes. ah she The imp around her neck comes off. And as it does, you see that she says something And I think you're too far away, Desan. So Bash, let me ask you this question. Do you speak Undercommon? ah No. Great. She casts a spell in Undercommon, under her breath.
00:55:16
Speaker
um i said don't It's the last word she says and you see all three dead people around you rise sick righteous Including her son but That's not righteous that was But they're not it's not like oh hello not like Alive again. No, I mean the the guy who you just beheaded Rises up with no head
00:55:51
Speaker
What have I gotten myself into? Um, and then, well, I need you to do the hash. You've done it again. like the I don't even know where to begin to even attempt to get out of this situation. They are going to go on her turn and they are going to aid you in attacking the guards. Uh, so the beheaded guard stands up.
00:56:18
Speaker
and takes his spear and is going to to attempt to ah disembowel the guard to the north. With a seven, he misses. ah The one down here is going to attempt to disembowel the guard who killed Nikolai.
00:56:36
Speaker
Natural 20, he just may get his wish. Which will be a, it's a d8 plus two.
00:56:49
Speaker
Got a real pretty high on this D8 to kill him. Oh, but i I'm not 20. OK, nice. Perfect. ah That guy does exactly that. The guard stabs Nikolai Watcher in the chest twice. He falls to the ground bleeding out, hits the ground. His mother takes a step back, casts a spell and his body gets back up um and takes. Oh, I'm sorry. He did not have.
00:57:20
Speaker
This guy did not have a spear, he had a dagger, which would be a d4, it should be fine. Yeah, it's okay. Raises up with his dagger and stabs this guard with it, this guard falls.
00:57:36
Speaker
In the neck. Then this last one um is going to... move, uh, take five steps up and make a, uh, grapple as it was a commoner being raised. Skeleton does not have a weapon. Gonna attempt to grapple this guard here, which will just be up. Okay. It does not do so that one waste turn. That is Fiona watchers turn. Her little imp is going to,
00:58:17
Speaker
You see the imp, uh, go invisible and it's going to move, but you don't know where.
00:58:32
Speaker
Okay. Okay. Big complicated initiative here, but we're, we're doing it. We're doing it. It's working. Um, we're, we're, we're 12 on the initiative now.
00:58:43
Speaker
I know this is just still the first round. I would love to see this combat, but in um like the Baldur's Gate three style at the top of the screen. OK, that was Lady Fiona Watchers bash Europe.
00:59:00
Speaker
I'm so conflicted because I'm trying to like can like I know the citizens are like dispersing. But I'm just trying to think of what would be best for the citizens.
00:59:13
Speaker
Like, are the citizens fine under this Baron's reign? Would the citizens be worse off if Fiona Watcher took reign?
00:59:25
Speaker
um
00:59:29
Speaker
Let me just, let me just put this ah gift from Wedding Singer.
00:59:42
Speaker
True. We're not. Yeah, I don't think nobody. Yeah, we don't know. yeah You're a bit late. I think it's definitely important to to figure out what it is you want to do, but you you have kicked it off. So shit is shit is popping now. ah It wasn't a dude. I couldn't just let someone swing on me like that.
01:00:01
Speaker
I love it. Yeah, I think that that that tracks for like, I mean, son of Kavon, you guys are like wild hill barbarians who like eat raw meat and like, you know, slept outdoors and hunted and survived that. You see this like rosy cheeked boy take a swing at you and you just immediately swing your axe back and cut his head off like intentional or not. You're just like, well, you swung up, he has one of you. But it is your turn. Yeah.
01:00:42
Speaker
Can I can I pick up is the guards head still there? Like sure is that yeah Yeah, yeah you see his head. I'm gonna pick up the head Okay, and I'm gonna tell the guards to stay back and like kind of like try and back up Does that do does it intimidate them at all are they it depends what is your Is your intent in doing that to say, if you continue, I'll kill you? Or is your intent to say enough blood has been shed? I'm done.
01:01:21
Speaker
um The second one. Because I don't think I intended to kill the guard off rip. He just attacked me. Okay, make a persuasion check.
01:01:33
Speaker
Also, I'll just make it a straight roll you won't have you won't have disadvantage on this as you are holding the head of the guy you just right, this is this is my if Okay, I'm gonna use a luck point to re-roll this. Kick the head away or something, pretend they didn't see it. Throw open the head. I'm gonna use this luck point and if I don't make this persuasion check, then this is how it was always meant to be. Yeah, the DC is 12. Four net 20s to two net ones. Oh, please net one again, that would make me so happy. Oh, 19. All right, all right, all right. Okay. Almost good.
01:02:31
Speaker
You persuaded these two guards, these two guards who are being attacked by skeletons. ah These guys are went from a big burly manly orc who chopped their friend's head off to like three dead people rising up from the ground. You have successfully persuaded them that they're not going to attack you. They will instead on their turns attack the skeletons. That's fine. Given the sense, given the fact that you have ah said that you are not going, if you're persuading them, you're not going to attack them. Hey, b Brian, uh, totally random question. How do I get the guards around me to do that?
01:03:14
Speaker
Same, same thing. Probably. No, I'm just kidding. I'm going to, um, I have all my movement. Um, I'm going to run down towards Vess rack down there. Okay.
01:03:30
Speaker
It's it's ah your movement is halved once you enter the crowd. So once you get there, that's 10 feet. Every five feet from then on, it costs 10 instead of five. Oh, when you have something Can I dash? Yeah. And then once you get out of the crowd, it'll go back to normal.
01:03:59
Speaker
And 20, is this out of the crowd, so this is 25? Yes. Five, 30, 35, 40.
01:04:08
Speaker
And that'll be my turn. Okay, cool. On this, I'm going to say the crowd successfully is going to disperse. I'm going to move their tokens after I, sorry for whoever was doing that, just giving me your thing.
01:04:22
Speaker
um
01:04:25
Speaker
Whoever's doing that has gotta stop for one second while I click these tokens. Sorry, sorry. It's okay. I'm just gonna move these tokens off into buildings or whatever. um Whoever's by there, if you were wanted to take an opportunity to attack, you can. These guys did not disengage. I don't i don't think anybody's nearby, nor do I think anybody would necessarily want to do that. but Uh, these people dash into buildings, whoever's buildings they were, uh, let them in. Uh, they can't go south, which is the way back to town. So they just run into these buildings. That is their turn. Hell yeah. It is buttercup's turn. Good job civilians. Excellent. Dispersional technique.
01:05:16
Speaker
ah Excellent dispersal techniques. Unless there was somebody who was trying to kill the civilians and then they would have all gotten an opportunity to actually probably killing all of them. um Meat grinder. A meat grinder. Meat shot as they say in Red Rising. and Yes. Here is Buttercup's turn. Buttercup the Sabretooth Tiger is going to move 5, 10, 15, 20, 25, 30, 35.
01:05:45
Speaker
40 how fortunate for everybody involved that ah Buttercup could not get to anybody on their turn um Not even planned by me I'm gonna say
01:06:12
Speaker
Let me just line something out real quick. 10, 15, okay. Does Sabre2Tiger have AOE spells? What's that? What are you lining up with? That is, I think that's... I think wiping rectangles on the board. That's not me, that's Tommy. No, that's me. Tommy's the guy putting rectangles on the board. I've been the guy deleting all of them.
01:06:37
Speaker
He's gonna dash and you watch him this works with his pounce ability as well as his strength score ah You see buttercup runs full speed Through runs seeing this guy calling its name leaps over every single person here so and lands right at the feet of Bash and this unnamed man, who you see the unnamed man smile and and says, good girl, good girl, as he ah pets the side of ah this thing's face, who seeing ah this this man seems chill,
01:07:23
Speaker
unless seems like it is not ah going to attack anybody now that it is by him for unless it is attacked. OK, the Baron is going to and his wife are going to he's going to disengage. but And he is going to move in an attempt to flee, which was what he said to Isaac right prior to things popping off.
01:07:54
Speaker
He's going to disengage and go five, 10. And then this guard was holding his turn, so they are going to go 15, 20, 25, 30 to about. He's going to subtract 10 feet. Oh, OK. So they move right to where this guard is. I'll just move the guard slightly standing right by this corpse here. Oops. How do I just get the corpse? OK.
01:08:21
Speaker
So they go there minus the 10 feet. ah The mastiffs one will ah enter in here in obvious. You have come up upon his owners and he this dog will hear try and make a bite attack on you. Your shield is still up, ah which means his 18 will miss true. ah This other one will take a will trail behind him and take a held action who holds action. um It is now Isaac's turn. Let's have some fun cracking my knuckles. Now it's time. Now give me somebody who can cook and do all the shit you guys are doing. OK. Isaac, the flame curled up in his hand is going to wheel it back like a baseball player and throw it in an obvious face.
01:09:23
Speaker
And this is... Okay. 24 to hit. Ooh, pizza pizza. Okay. ah As it hits you, the flame erupts and you take 13 points of fire damage. Okay.
01:09:39
Speaker
on He then turns with his second attack, makes these in in succession, one at you. He turns, sees Bash all the way down there, who has beheaded a guard who started all this, takes it and throws a flame at you, Bash.
01:09:59
Speaker
It's only an 11. Mrs. Okay. Harriet with my ax. Yeah. You see it coming like a baseball. Yeah. I swing. I swing my ax. Make a make performance check. Home run. Pretty premium. Oh, Nat 20. So close to a natural 20 baseball back at him. It's a foul ball. And then he, uh, You see with his bonus action, he looks at as he moves ah five, 10, 15, this guard will move there. And as his bonus action, he casts something um and the a shroud of mist envelops both the Baron and his wife as he stays right where he is.
01:10:59
Speaker
as they are attempting to flee town. All right, Desan, you're up. Oh, man. um
01:11:11
Speaker
Shroud of Mist, can I get a little bit? Can I ask for a better de description on that, or is that is that all I get? What's happening with the Baron? He's something about what whatever Isaac has done is in in a protective nature for the Baron and his wife. I'm just going to do what I said, what I thought I was going to do.
01:11:30
Speaker
I was originally gonna cook something else, but I pull out a new plate and I'm gonna misty step 30 feet towards the Baron. And I'm gonna walk up to him and as an action, I'd like to grab the Baron by the neck. like yeah I need you to make a wisdom saving throw. okay I'm really good at these famous last words. That's a seven, Brian, how is that?
01:11:57
Speaker
Um, with a seven, um,
01:12:04
Speaker
that's also my last spell slot for any of you you keep the track at home. No more spell slots for the song. Uh, with that, um, you must choose a new target. Uh, you cannot, you cannot grab the Baron and grab him grabbing the wife. Okay. Uh, so move your token there, grab the wife.
01:12:24
Speaker
OK, as you go to grab the wife, I need you to make a wisdom saving throw. but Hey, right. I'm really good at these.
01:12:36
Speaker
ah Twenty one. OK, you can grab the wife as you do. You trigger the held action from this guard who attempts to stab you. OK. Nineteen. God bless America. Yeah. Take five points of piercing damage as he slices it in your underneath your armor.
01:12:53
Speaker
Not good. Anyway. And i now that you can, whoever's doing this, you've got to stop. Is this still you, Tommy? Do what? We're making the squares. Oh, no. That was me. It says it's not broadcasting to others, though. I don't see the squares. OK, I was broadcasting to me, and then it's it's stopping me from clicking tokens. Oh, I'm not. Oh, shit. Sorry, dude. Yeah, you're all good. um That's me who keeps clicking them off. um Yeah, that wasn't me. Hey, hey. Now that you're attempting to, ah you must make a... ah A strength check.
01:13:24
Speaker
um
01:13:28
Speaker
With with hers, as I as I find her staff, the square man, sorry. Hey, Brian, if you just want to let me drag, grab the Baron. Hey, what happened? OK, cool. Yeah, yeah. Just just a contested as you go and she goes, ah, get off me. I'm going for a way to end all this. Here's my shot. You got to beat six. Thirteen. OK, you grab her.
01:13:49
Speaker
Grabber, that's my action. um And just stop this. As I ah pull the wife kind of away from the Baron, kind of close to me, a very hostage negotiation. ah Everybody put your arms down. Weapons down. And I like, <unk> the sun sword. I'm trying to get everyone to stop. Everyone stop. Hell yeah.
01:14:16
Speaker
um um okay and And what is your intention?
01:14:24
Speaker
I'm hoping I'm threatening the Baron's wife and I'm hoping by everyone seeing this they will put their weapons down because nobody wants to see her die. What is your intention? To stop the fighting. I'm trying to get everyone to stop. That is my intention. To stop anybody else from dying.
01:14:40
Speaker
Yeah, I'm trying to stop everybody from fighting, including the Baron. Or is this is say I'm trying to find out if this is deceitful or not. If you're like, no, no, no, no, no. Fighting. And then you guys are going to assassinate the. I am not going to assassinate the Baron. I just want everyone to just chill the fuck out. that's So that is why it's turned into a persuasion check or an intimidation check. However, I need to gauge the temperature to determine what the DC for this will be. I need to gauge the temperature of bash in Nabi and Alma.
01:15:05
Speaker
So on Alma's turn, um I was going to do something to help with this type of action. OK, so cool. So you agree. Bash. Yeah, I don't want to kill anyone. I don't want to see anyone else get killed. OK, Anabi. Anabi is still pretty heated, but if he's watching Bash stop, I would.
01:15:31
Speaker
Start simmering down ah He has no one to he's not looking at these guards like wanting to kill them His eyes are still on the Baron, but he would wait to jump over there until you know to see how this played out. Okay um Yeah, well, all right to sign we'll go we're gonna go ahead and call that a ah We're gonna call it a DC 13 don't roll it yet.
01:15:53
Speaker
OK, it was going to it was going to go up depending on everybody else's vibe. ah Twelve was the baseline, put it at 13 just because I'm obviously unsure. But Alma, it is your turn and whatever you do, then you'll roll this on and we'll we'll see how this affects what's going on. Excellent. Well, the reason I was drawing the squares is because I cast a spell in a 30 foot square centered on the Baron. Okay. And that spell is hypnotic pattern. Okay. And so with hypnotic pattern, a pattern appears for a moment and vanishes, everyone must make a wisdom saving throw or be charmed. And when they are charmed in this way, they are incapacitated and have a speed of zero. Yeah. So let me just tell you where that where that makes what that makes me think of. If you succeed, and the Baron and Isaac specifically are charmed,
01:16:53
Speaker
No need for just not even rule. If you fail and Isaac, let's say, sees that you're trying to charm them. That, I would say, would bring the D.C. way up. Sure, I'm i'm doing this because this is supposed to be a day of Lathander and this is not at all the way that people who are ah devout to the life of Lathander should live. I think we should come together at the table and set up on the battlefield and talk about how we can Find a more equitable solution to this. ah What's your what? So here's what we're going to do. What's your DC? My DC 17. OK, so the first I'm going for somebody that does not matter for this 17. Let me just check this person's stats. Is it the dog? Are you on for the dog? I am not. It's a wisdom.
01:17:48
Speaker
Yeah, a little person in here. ah Somebody fails. Oh, is your DC 17? Yes, it fails. OK, now here we go for all of the people. Go ahead and draw that square again so I know who's rolling. Yes. Is it every single person there, including a nabi and a son? Or is it in the way that you're drawing that square? Is it the corners? You see it now? Yeah. OK, cool. So one. So two guards are out of it. Yeah. OK, here's what I'm going to do.
01:18:15
Speaker
That's one, two, three, four, five, six, seven people rolling for it. For each person who succeeds to son, your DC is going to go up by one. If Isaac succeeds, it's going up by 10. Okay. who ok Okay. Okay. That is significantly larger than one. Okay. d ten Here here is the the guard up top. Fail at the straight 12. All right. Shout out ah the mass days all about the mastiff succeeds. The DC is the DC is now 14. Oh, OK. Here's the guard at the south of of the of the massive ripple of the mastiff failure.
01:19:12
Speaker
All right. Hey, both guards. Here's the other dog. Failure. um I should just mark who succeeds. No, I should mark who fails because then I'll get confused. All know what's a good color to represent you? um Gold. Think gold. OK. Yellow is as good as I can do. um Boom, boom. Boom. OK. Here's for.
01:19:43
Speaker
Uh, Baron. Who? Let me grab a stat block. I have a billion stat blocks open. OK. Bask in the radiance of Lathander. Um, boom, boom, boom. Attack or harmful spells. OK. Here is Baron.
01:20:10
Speaker
Oh, did that roll for you guys? Oh, he met 20. Oh, boy. 15 is now that he's overbarked. Here is his hero inspiration from last session that I ever used. No, unfortunately, those don't carry over sister sesh. Oh, no. So make sure you guys use those. Yes, this is deleting mine off my character sheet. Oh, yeah. um This is the life.
01:20:39
Speaker
Fail.
01:20:42
Speaker
Now the big, big dog. So the DC's 15, which I guess that that makes sense that the wife would fail because she's the one who's being held, who's being threatened now for the big one. The guy who has magic. The guy who will fight, who will fight.
01:21:00
Speaker
um Who cards above the table? Lucky it's wisdom because he has advantage, but his wisdom is nothing plus zero.
01:21:12
Speaker
Oops, my roll 20 just closed. Did that happen to you guys? Nope, still here. Edge my seat though, Brian. Edge my seat, yeah, absolutely. It wouldn't be a pod record unless something like that happened. Come in, shift T. There's always something goofy going on. Okay, here we go, I'm back. We hear you, loud and clear. He Beautiful. Hell yeah. There's Charles. DC is 15.
01:21:40
Speaker
uh disan or no did did you get that guard at the bottom two no you didn't right those two guys are not yeah the charms um so it started it it was 13 the original then two yeah ah a dog dog isn't the twolips a dog and then the baron Oh, yeah. Damn. Yeah. Just because you have a he hypnotic pattern is visible. I mean, he's he's visibly. ah Yeah, I'm asking. Whisting color. So people know that you are now trying to charm them. um All right. So address them. Desan persuasion check. DC 15. All right. Stand it up. Desan is not ever failed at all. Hey, hey, hey, hey.
01:22:27
Speaker
Stand it up. Spirit bombs. Stand it up.
01:22:33
Speaker
Persuasion check. Plus five. Coming in. Okay. Okay, so you see, if anybody takes damage who is charmed, they will be out of it, or if somebody uses an action to shake them out of their stupor. OK, so you cast that the swirl of colors and you see around the battlefield.
01:23:08
Speaker
um Specifically around this side of the battlefield, around the western portion of the battlefield and the south, you see the guards have sort of like stow their weapons as if waiting to see what happens.
01:23:23
Speaker
ah yeah On the east, you see the guards also looking like they want to steal their weapons, but there's three there's three undead humanoids where it's hard to gauge where they stand. Right. And then I'm going to use my movement because it's still my turn to walk over here. OK. And I am going to look at Madam Watcher. and We must. Work together and figure out how we can make this town a better place. Rod wins if we all kill each other.
01:23:57
Speaker
Okay,
Negotiations and Betrayals
01:23:58
Speaker
is that your turn?
01:24:02
Speaker
um Okie dokie, making a small note. Okay, Inabi, you are um surrounded if your intention is not to be ah hostile moving through these guys is just a rough terrain or or whatever. Uh, yeah, no, I'm not trying to be hostile, but I will. Oh, but make a motherfucker. Yeah, I'll smack. I swear to God. I get a change of of music here to kill.
01:24:56
Speaker
Which from Requiem to. This sinister. No, there's some. ah Blessing of the Raven Queen. Misty step. Onto the roof up here. OK. And then hold.
01:25:22
Speaker
In action, I'm going to hold a.
01:25:37
Speaker
But yeah, I'll hold a cantrip if ah anybody here tries to swing on. Dishon or pull some fuck shit. OK. I'm lasting cantrip held is Mark does nothing is Mark will stay. um Where he is.
01:26:06
Speaker
um I think on the guards turn. I think these guys. Are going to sort of. Clear a path on the bridge so they move out of the way specifically because it looks like this guy has this beast under control.
01:26:27
Speaker
um They move out of the way. This guy who's not charmed because everybody who's charmed speed is zero. This guy is not charmed is just going to walk over here as if to he's going to escort the Baron. He'll also hold he'll hold an action just in case anybody tries anything. um These guys up in the in the northeast are going to they're going to make non lethal attacks on like zombies raised from the ground. It's like they don't really want to touch them, but they know they got to do something with them. Yeah. And I also think that's them showing like we're not we've been told not to attack. Everybody seems to be relaxing. So I'm just going to try and put this zombie thing down. That's a hit. That's a hit.
01:27:22
Speaker
um OK, it does not. It's not enough.
01:27:28
Speaker
That guy has that much health left. OK, this guy is going to attempt to hit the one. So yeah even even if he connects both times, which does not up from down. But it is non-lethal. OK. On the Watcher Brothers turn.
01:27:50
Speaker
He's going to move in front of his mom and hold an action.
01:28:00
Speaker
Okay. On this stranger's turn, he begins to pet the animal and says, there, there tiger tiger. Everything is okay. Buttercup.
01:28:19
Speaker
This guy loves his fucking tiger. Hell, yeah. And he's he begins petting it, petting it and says, it's OK. Rick Toveo is here. Hey, that's Rick Toveo.
01:28:32
Speaker
um Yeah, he takes I think he's taking advantage of. This situation and um no insight check needed bash. He he hops on the back of this tiger.
01:28:49
Speaker
Like jumps on the back of it and he says, he says, I think we've seen enough of this town. Time to go home. And ah him and the tiger will start to ride off on the tiger's turn and you get the sense not back to the wagon out of town. Interesting. Somewhere else. Peace, dude.
01:29:19
Speaker
Now for the fun. It's.
01:29:29
Speaker
OK. So I chose this song. Oh, geez. As it's about to restart, but the title of this song is plot twist. Oh, no.
01:29:47
Speaker
And as Alma, you make your way over and say, if everybody dies, Strahd wins. Lady Watcher looks at you and smiles and says, exactly. At that moment, um you see
01:30:16
Speaker
All three of these skeletons attack these guards. The one without a weapon picks up the dead ones off the ground. um That one miss hits. OK, so one of these guys is.
01:30:36
Speaker
Let's see how high I roll. This guy is killed. As everybody starts to put their weapons down, one of these the skeleton of Nikolai Watcher takes a spear and stabs upward through this guy's chin. Oh, fuck. Killing a guard.
01:30:59
Speaker
And. Carl's held action. um He takes a dagger out and throws it at this other guard. Missing. And Fiona. As she begins to back up.
01:31:26
Speaker
um
01:31:35
Speaker
Is going to cast.
01:31:40
Speaker
As you're all going to see. The line I draw. Oh, no, an absolute fucking missile. Fire erupts in her hand and she wheels back and says something in under common. And at this point.
01:32:01
Speaker
um Desan, as you are watching her wheel back with this fire in her hand, You almost feel like one arm around this woman. You feel your left arm. Justin, this is just bear with me for the ah sake of the description. Grab the back of the Baron and lift him up and forward as if to make it easier. Oh, ah you look down and you're holding.
01:32:40
Speaker
the the what the woman with both arms. And as you look back, what the fuck is going how is this happening? You have six other arms protruding from your back. Oh, no. Oh, Oh, shit. This ah this flame is coming for the Baron. Above board. Let's let's do this. Let's let's do this all above board. She's going to have to rely on damage If she even hits plus five to hit one shot,
01:33:17
Speaker
Barron's AC is 15. Yeah. Roll 10 or higher. She hits. Yeah. Dirty 20. Now I roll to D 10 for this fire bolt.
01:33:39
Speaker
You need each of those roles to be less than a five. Two fours will do it. Two fours is fine. A five and a four.
Resurrection and Hope
01:33:50
Speaker
Not fine. The Baron will be sniped. Let's go one at a time.
01:34:00
Speaker
And obviously, if this first one is a 10 or nine but or nine, four. four Oh, first one. OK, it's so you're saying there's a chance heading towards the Baron. Oh, geez. This has got to be a four lower.
01:34:23
Speaker
Oh, he's toast. He's toast. She wheels back. Looking at Alma, who said in your yard with her, if we all kill each other and she smiles, says.
01:34:36
Speaker
Just to you just between everybody over there in the top top right, she says exactly as she smiles. A firebolt comes through and like a sniper shot just ah burns a hole straight through the Baron's head. Yikes. He falls to the ground.
01:35:00
Speaker
All right, Bash, yeah.
01:35:09
Speaker
Kyle? Yeah, no, I'm here. I'm just just taking in. um What has just happened? While you're taking it in, I do have a question for you, Bri. ah when you Did you say somebody had held the Baron up to make it easier? Who was that? i You don't. You don't see that. That did not happen okay to you. Oh, OK. Got it. In your mind, not not happened at all. Got you. OK. And in dasant from Dassan's point of view. God, it was tied to the The extra six arms, but OK, which you you don't see. You look at the sun and right. Maybe you see the sun's like like like looking around like he's like a little confused. OK. Yeah. As if he feels like there's something on his back. Got you.
01:35:54
Speaker
um Is Lady Watch, is she leaving? Yes. Yeah, I actually say just for just for the sake of this, she then would have used her movements to go. 10, 15.
01:36:09
Speaker
An additional 15 feet after that back.
01:36:21
Speaker
Yikes. Yeah, she's she's out of here. She's gone. She's living, yes. While she may have done what needed to be what needed to be done in her mind and none of the commoners we were here to see it.
01:36:38
Speaker
ah Wait, none of the commoners saw it. They're all gone. Commoner gone. These guys i thought they were like watching from like the like the windows like on the inside of the building to two guards saw or three guards because everybody else who could have seen it is hypnotized. Oh, right. Right. Right. And is incapacitated. Their speed is zero. And the dog saw it and the dog saw the dog saw it. Three guards.
01:37:03
Speaker
um And then. She left. I mean, you get the sense that this wasn't necessarily the plan. um Me neither. But you got to improvise. Yeah, baby. I should have done the other spell I wanted to do. Oh, well. OK. Are the skeletons. Skeletons and Carl look like they're staying. Carl's brother is dead. He's like crying. ah He looks like he looks like he's at least going to stay to kill this last guard.
01:37:38
Speaker
as same with the skeletons. I mean, the skeletons don't like they have a choice.
01:37:46
Speaker
um
01:37:48
Speaker
Bash has. So like incomprehensible things going through his head right now, watching the Baron get sniped, there's so much uncertainty.
01:38:00
Speaker
in his mind to the point of essentially a mental break. And he looks at his bloodied hands that are bloodied from holding the head of a 17 year old guard that he unintentionally killed.
01:38:15
Speaker
um
01:38:17
Speaker
kind of Like kind of kill them instinctively. um And so He's going to feel that and then see these skeletons attempting to and the Watcher Brother attempt to kill this last guard. He's just going to sprint towards them as fast as he can. Cool. I'll say I don't. can Can you get there? Because I was going to say if no you can, right? Oh, yeah, I can. OK, cool. I was going to say, like, if you couldn't, we'll say that, you know, Rick tovio or the saber-toot tiger give you a little push. it like I think I didn't want you to just be running around in the whole time.
01:38:54
Speaker
He's running. But you can make it, so. Yeah, angrier and angrier. Bonus action rage. hey Just so he's seeing red. Where's my rage? I thought you had this chick on lockdown, man. Nope. Yeah, I mean, Ken. Yeah, to go flow with it, bro. Come on.
01:39:20
Speaker
I was, I was blinded by love. and needs it She was open. She was, yeah, she was, she is your guy's ally. Yeah. Uh, okay. So i'm right now he's kind of musics he's's she's not mad at you guys. He's, he's stoked right now. A little bit. This said nothing i'm had nothing to do with you guys. If anything, you guys getting involved helped.
01:39:46
Speaker
I'm going to swing at this first skeleton. Okay. If you hit it, it's going to be dead. It's got three health. Absolutely. what do you How do you, how do you kill this first skeleton? Um, I slice. Is there any flesh on this? Is it just pure skeleton? Oh yeah. Yeah, there is. Cause they, they just died. This one actually looks like a commoner. Uh, he's so holding a spear of a dead guard. Hmm.
01:40:11
Speaker
First, I slice through the clavicle. Nice. It drops to the ground and I continue swinging at its head over and over and over again until its bones turn to dust. Nice.
01:40:26
Speaker
and then um That was Jimmy. That's for flavor. I'll take my second attack on the other skeleton. Yeah, Nikolai, the the body of Nikolai Watcher stand 19. I think that's and real roll damage. You should probably do it. Going to be a plus two on top of this. So 10 damage. Not quite. God damn it. And yet that's slashing damage, right? Not bludgeoning.
01:40:56
Speaker
Cause you have a great ass. Yes. It's slashing. Got it. Okay. Cool. All right. You slash into that guy. Yes. Sorry. I killed that guy. I gained 2d6 temporary hit points. Fuck. Yeah. Fuck. Yeah, you do. All right. Got nine. Not that I need it.
01:41:17
Speaker
Um, all right. Is that your turn? power and Yeah. Famous last words. Um, the tiger is going to fully dash. With Rictavio out of here, out of here, not even just out of here, out of town. Um, and you see, uh, I'll let you guys all know this. You see him head east or start, you see him head west. Fucking why do I mix that up? My five years old. Classic.
01:41:47
Speaker
OK, it'd be like that sometimes, Brian. It is the wife's turn. She is ah being held and and is now dazed looking up at the stars above her. um As is Isaac. The son. Oh boy. ah Yeah, seeing these spider like limbs hold up the Baron, very icky feeling.
01:42:17
Speaker
um I'm gonna see if I can't pump some Leon hands into the Baron to kind of resuscitate to resuscitate him. So I'll let go let go of lady watcher ah CPR It just start and just pump some Leon hands and with each like ah beat of like CPR like against his chest I'm gonna pump one one point of lay on hands to point of lay on hands three point of lay on hands four points and I only have four points to be to give I OK, I like this. Normally this this would not be doable, but I do like this as you shake off this feeling, the spider queen esque limbs and immediately revert back to lathander healing light. Hope. And you do this, we're going to make it a roll and I'm going to say we're going to keep with DC 12. OK, I'm going to let you roll.
01:43:15
Speaker
a religion role or a medicine role, and you're gonna add a four for the four points of lay on hands that you've done. Okay, and I have one lay on hands left just to keep it above the line. I got one left in the chamber, but I'm not gonna use it, so I'm gonna add a four. So I'm gonna stand up again. brian Medicine or religion check, and you're gonna add a four to see if in this moment,
01:43:38
Speaker
of the Spider Queen taunting you and letting you know she's still here. To if Lathander can come. I love that. All right. All right. Stand it up now. Okay. Religion plus three adding a four.
01:43:55
Speaker
Okay. So you're adding seven. You're rolling up. He's 12. You got to roll five or higher. Come on, baby. Come on, baby. Who is with us in this place today? Is it the spider mommy or is it Lathander? Let's find out together. show Let's find out. Yeah. Tune in. Or is it live? Laugh? Lathander. Here we go. Yeah. Lathander. That's a 13, Brian. Wow. Nice. A plus four 17. It's not live. Laugh. Well,
01:44:20
Speaker
And not today, not in this moment in time, it is not live, laugh, laugh. As you do that, ah he is at for health on the grounds.
01:44:33
Speaker
um OK. I'm just i hey, hey, you're OK. Just breathe. Just breathe. um He looks up eyes wide.
01:44:48
Speaker
as the hole in his head ah he reaches up to touch it and there's a scar there. um And is that your turn? ah Yeah, I think because Leon hands is an action, so I think but I'm just going to try to like help him up and kind of put my arm under his and help support his weight. And um yeah, that's my turn. Nice. I'm going to say, hilariously enough,
01:45:19
Speaker
I don't think Lady Watcher saw that. Yeah, but hey, but the dog, the dog kid and these guys these guys, hey, these guys, I know I'm just saying like she's leaving here thinking he's dead. Yeah. Oh, man. Interesting. And everyone around was also incapacitated and they didn't see it. And you brought him back.
01:45:40
Speaker
um All right, Alma, you're up. There's still. Yeah, a couple of skellies. There's Carl, who looks like at the very least he's covering his his his mommy's retreat. I am going to move right here and I'm going to be firing off an eldritch blast at this one right next to the guard. OK. Repulsive. Creature 17. Oh, that's going to do it. ah yeah Broke damage. You do add anything to yours? You do end damage. Yeah, you add five force for my charisma.
01:46:11
Speaker
Nice. What does it look like as you kill this? um Which one was this? This was the headless. This was the headless guy. ah So no head on this guy. I just blow his hips out. Explode his hips. Falls right over. His hips go flying. Yeah. um And then a lion. And then we're firing at the south. OK. And that one is Nikolai Watcher's dead body. Oh, baby. Oh, yeah. That's going to do it. 18 force damage.
01:46:40
Speaker
ah What does it look like when you kill the Nikolai Watcher Skelly? I actually do this one gently because I'm I'm locking eyes with his brother knowing that this is the, you know, reanimated body of his brother, not just by some freak necromancer, but by his own mother. um And I would I would move towards him and go to just like embrace him as I fire off an eldritch blast into this thing. OK.
01:47:10
Speaker
Yeah, no insight check need. I think this guy this guy is going to die here. See, as you go to to hug him, he's going to attack. Yeah. um He has he twin brother watch his brother die ah covering his mom's escape. He is he's here to the bitter end. Oh, yeah. Which will be very soon. You should do his attack right now. It'd be pretty cool. ah He'll be soon. Right after Anabi and that one guard.
01:47:41
Speaker
I saw a knobby you're at. That's my turn.
01:47:46
Speaker
I think a knobby is going to do the same thing that he did last turn and just kind of hold his action. He's going to be a little like kind of like kind of like bitchy or pouty right now. He's just going to be like that's go like shrug it off and be like pacing back and forth because he he was kind of pumped to watch the Baron die. So I should come back as a little like this is bullshit.
01:48:08
Speaker
ah Just because he's being a little bitch about it, but he just pays him back and forth but keeping an eye down here making sure nobody tries to attack Well dishonor All right, yeah you and you should be good um Should be good depending on depending on one small thing which will which will will find out tune in next week and Um, is Mark is inside. He's not doing anything. This guard will five, 10, 15, 20, get up on Carl. These other they guards, some of the other guards now that these guys are gone, we'll sort of trickle back in. Um, maybe some of them are going to head up towards where Carl is and see where that is. Some are heading over towards the Baron. Um, let's see if this guard can do it. He's got to beat a 15 AC plus three to attacks. Oh, Oh.
01:49:03
Speaker
Oh, OK. It's going to be a big, big good night for Carl Watcher. Although I will say this guy goes in non-lethal. Oh, we're capturing him. We're capturing him, maybe. Carl Watcher as he brings the butt of his ah spear around and hits him once as he stumbles and then hits him again in the forehead. Carl Watcher goes down. Damn. OK.
01:49:28
Speaker
ah It's his turn. It's his no longer his turn. Rictavio's gone. ah Lady Watcher watches her son get knocked out as she dips and heads back towards her house. So you know where she was you know where she went.
Conclusion and Next Steps
01:49:42
Speaker
um And that, I think, is. Yeah, it's not only. Yeah, OK. It's not only going to do it for this combat.
01:49:55
Speaker
But we are going to pick up next week with all of with all of you beautiful people um in the aftermath of the Festival of the Blazing Sun showdown. There are some dead people, but not as many as there could have been. I think that's an important note here. There's one, two, three, four, five, six people have died.
01:50:23
Speaker
Uh, out of the, you know, hundreds who at one point were here as the rain continues to pour down and the fire continues to burn in the center of this square. The Baron stands up. ah You watch her leaves back to her abode, Rick Tovio, the with the saber tooth tiger leaves town to the west.
01:50:53
Speaker
The gang still has much to consider. The aftermath of this for certain. And then after that, where to next, what's next for the gang? Obviously, there's stuff in town and there are things that call the lightning have to do in their inevitability of their face off with Strahd, whether it be items, knowledge,
01:51:21
Speaker
potential allies, Mad Mage, et cetera. So we will see you guys next time. Listen to that. What a combat. You do that. Yeah. A little blow behind the scenes for everybody back home. The person who who who failed the saving throw and the hey, naughty pattern was the invisible imp. That's what I thought. He was supposed to be the one who was going to do the assassinating, but he could not because he failed.
01:51:51
Speaker
Well, well, well, how about that? Hey, not a pattern. Not a pattern. but and And we will see all of you guys next time. hi And happy, happy New Year. Oh, yeah, depending on when this comes out. Happy New Year. Happy New Year, I think. Bye bye.