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Curse of Strahd Ep. 24: Back to the Woods
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Call The Lightning bravely sets off from Vallaki only to return half an hour later. Over at Bloodbath and Beyond, we're tempted to become Disciples of Steve, but resist. Maybe next time! Onward, to Von Richten's Tower!
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Transcript
Introduction and Patreon Thanks
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The Blade's Edge
Hello, one and all, and welcome back to another episode of The Blade's Edge, a D and&D actual play podcast where we are currently running through the module ah Curse of Strahd. We're using a lovely little Zen caster this morning, 9 a.m.
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record. We use a lovely little Roll20. Everybody joined the Roll20.
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Alma Graves
Yeah, we're in there, baby.
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The Blade's Edge
For those of you listening, I wanted to say first and foremost, thank you as always to our Patreon subscribers. If you haven't yet go over there and and join us at patreon dot com slash the blades edge. And a special shout out to Ryan Baum Lewis Alameda Brandon Granada Dane Copsey gray haired gamer Jonesy ah arson Nazarian. um For now every week I am giving a shout out some of our patreon people.
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The Blade's Edge
So thank you guys so much for doing that. And if you haven't yet, go over there, it
Enhancing Storytelling
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helps out. You get the episodes early and we're working on some ah Patreon exclusives as well.
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The Blade's Edge
Um, secondly, before we get into this, I am going to make, this is my promise to you, the, the, uh, fateful listener, my promise. And I hope also everybody else in this is promised where I'm going to try. I was listening back to the last episode, the end of it. And I fell into a bad habit that I will do sometimes on this pod where I was like, and Trev, you see this.
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The Blade's Edge
And that's all I said. So if you're listening, you have no idea what I, what I showed him on discord.
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Alma Graves
Bro, this could be anything.
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The Blade's Edge
So that maybe that's fun. Maybe that's the horror of it all. The horror is your imagination coming up with whatever I showed him, but
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Alma Graves
It's just a gigantic hundred foot tall tickle me Elmo.
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Trevor
confused
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The Blade's Edge
Yes, it it if you are coming off of ah last week, they were um they were humanoids ah covered in these tattoos, wearing white garments with sort of ceremonial daggers, ah the skull with the snake in a circle, the symbol of Osiris. These were priests of Osiris. And I'm going to this is my My commitment to you the listener to do a better job of moving a here on of being a bit more descriptive to paint the picture in your mind and um everybody else here I assume as well will help me out on that.
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The Blade's Edge
and
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Alma Graves
Absolutely.
Character Introductions
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The Blade's Edge
And before we jump in for the exciting next chapter of where it is, where do Desan, Alma Graves, and Nabi and Bash Bloodsinger go from here? Let's go around the horn. Let everybody know who you are and who you're playing. We'll go top down from the Zencaster list. So Kyle G.
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Kyle
Yeah, uh, Kyle G, you said it best. I'm playing, uh, bash blood singer, the barbarian, half-orc barbarian.
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The Blade's Edge
For barbarian descendant of Kavon trapped in the blood spear now freed.
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Kyle
Yeah, Kavon has Woodway, my dad. And so you might want to be careful.
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The Blade's Edge
It's literally my dad's.
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Alma Graves
He's went away, my dad.
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Trevor
So, what do we?
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The Blade's Edge
oh You're just the guy in brother who's like, dude, my dad could beat up your dad, dude.
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Alma Graves
He's went away kind of a big deal.
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Kyle
Yeah.
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Alma Graves
Yeah, my dad works at Microsoft.
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Kyle
but they when they won't let me into the tavern.
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Alma Graves
Yeah, I'm going to get you banned off Call of Duty.
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The Blade's Edge
Of.
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From one monster slurping Kyle to another Kyle B.
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Alma Graves
Oh, yeah, that's me. Hey, monster slurping. I like that. Sign me up.
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Kyle
Amen.
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Alma Graves
ah Kyle B. Alma Graves. We are excited for the next chapter of this journey as we leave Vlaki and a lot of good moments behind in that city.
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Alma Graves
I quite enjoyed Vlaki.
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The Blade's Edge
Cal beams you're playing all the graves who is a celestial warlock.
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Alma Graves
Oh yeah, that's Celestial Warlock Tiefling.
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The Blade's Edge
Tiefling.
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Alma Graves
Yeah.
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The Blade's Edge
beautiful, the, uh, hot mommy of the group.
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Alma Graves
Hell yeah, that's me.
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The Blade's Edge
Um, the tread skis and obskis.
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Alma Graves
Everyone better called me that.
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Trevor
How do you do? Yeah, my name is Trebskis. I'm playing Inabi. He is a Shatterkai blade singer. Little ninja dude. Inobskis.
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Trevor
Yeah, Trebskis.
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The Blade's Edge
I am tread skis.
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Trevor
Playing Inobskis. Is it Shidarskis?
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skis.
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Alma Graves
And i I got a big question for you this morning.
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Trevor
Blade Singskis.
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Alma Graves
What are you snacking on?
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Trevor
I got just kind of like breakfast burrito.
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Alma Graves
Ooh, what's in it?
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Trevor
Yeah. Uh, chorizo, some, some cheese, hash browns, eggs, you know.
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Alma Graves
Okay. All right, that's all I needed to know.
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Trevor
Oh yeah.
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The Blade's Edge
ah Last but not least, Tommy, Tommy M.
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Vesz'rak
Hello, how's it going, Tommy? Playing Desan, formerly Bezrak, the ah Paladin of Lathander, maybe Paladin of Loth, who knows?
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The Blade's Edge
We're figuring it out.
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Vesz'rak
But figuring out as we go, just like you, I don't...
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The Blade's Edge
It's killing me slowly, but we're figuring it out.
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Vesz'rak
Every episode, where're we're taking one further step in the mud closer to you.
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Kyle
but
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The Blade's Edge
Yeah. Yeah, one of these people is going to eventually kill me if I don't make a decision, but we're figuring.
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Trevor
Um, I'm not going to lie. It feels like I, I don't know about everybody else. I am maybe slightly more invested in that storyline than killing Strahd.
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The Blade's Edge
but
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Trevor
Like that's going to be fun and it's going to feel good, but the day that he figures his shit out is going to be crazy.
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Vesz'rak
ah
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Trevor
I know I can feel it's going to be wild.
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Vesz'rak
No, no, no, no. I've been playing with...
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Alma Graves
It's his he-man, I have the power moment, but what color sword does he really raise?
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Vesz'rak
Right, right.
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Trevor
Mm-hmm.
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The Blade's Edge
It would just be like if Vegeta one day was like, you know what? I am a good guy who loves people and is full of positive energy.
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The Blade's Edge
Um, all right. Well, and you are playing a, uh, you're a drow paladins vengeance palette. Is that correct?
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Vesz'rak
Yep, vengeance, paladin', drow, five foot nothing. Still looking good though. I wear it well, you know?
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The Blade's Edge
He wears it well and.
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Alma Graves
Look, we stan a short king.
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The Blade's Edge
We Stannis Baratheon, a short king.
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Trevor
Wow.
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The Blade's Edge
um As we pick up here, we zoom in through the clouds, through the mist, the ever present mist, to a rainy morning.
Journey to Lake Zarovich
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The group coming off of a nice little party. Yevgeny asking out Alma. There may be a date in the future there.
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The Blade's Edge
um Bash an Irena with some chemistry. um Desan and two powerful gods and a threesome?
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Kyle
Mmhmm. Damn.
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The Blade's Edge
You know, who knows?
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Vesz'rak
Hey, hey, what can I say?
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The Blade's Edge
Inabi sort of remembering some of his past, some of his ah priest of Osiris brethren. Um, towards the end of the episode, but we, we come through the clouds through the mist. It's raining on the blue water in the quiet morning. You guys are long rested. Uh, you guys are in the, um, the foyer. You guys are in the, in the bar area. It's still closed. Doesn't open until later. Um,
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The Blade's Edge
their Erwin and his family are, you know, nurse and hangovers are taking it easy today. So it's just you four down there, um, with the day ahead of you.
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The Blade's Edge
You guys have many options for where to go next and what is next for this group, whether it's, um, powerful items from the Madam Ava reading, powerful allies, uh, other threads that need or want to be pulled.
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The Blade's Edge
Uh, but as you guys sit there, maybe having some breakfast, drinking some coffee or some tea, what, uh,
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Alma Graves
Yeah, some hash browns.
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Kyle
Some good, some real good hash brands.
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Alma Graves
I'm good. yeah Hey Brian, we need a hash brown roll.
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The Blade's Edge
Yeah. So let's go around the, uh, we'll go around the horn and we'll get a hash brown roll from everybody. But then you also let me know what is so, so Kyle G what's bash having in the morning, sitting there before heading out pack at his side.
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Alma Graves
Five dungs and eggs.
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Kyle
Um, yeah, no, bash is having a real real protein heavy breakfast. I don't know what kind of tubers they got here in Barovia, but definitely some hash browns, whatever, whatever they're made of. um I don't know what the chickens are up to. Hopefully they're laying some eggs.
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Kyle
um
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The Blade's Edge
Yeah. So there's so the eggs are so sad. Uh, I'm just kidding.
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Kyle
That's unfortunate.
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The Blade's Edge
Um, roll me a D 100. See how the hash browns are. You had a hash brown experience in real life. We're going to test and see if that transfers over.
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Kyle
Yeah, I don't know if we talked about that when the recording started, but for context, I was really looking forward to some diner hash browns and they turned out to be terrible and it ruined my day.
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Kyle
We're going to roll a D100. I really hope there's some good crispy in sliced hash browns.
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Alma Graves
oh fifty they're the most average hash
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Kyle
They are the most average hash browns ever.
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Trevor
Damn.
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Kyle
I rolled a 50.
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The Blade's Edge
Which probably probably makes sense. Place isn't open yet. It's kind of like you guys are able to use Erwin and his family's supplies. You guys have saved this town more than once.
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The Blade's Edge
um So maybe it was up to you guys to do it. And you guys are, you know even if you're OK at cooking, you're better at fighting.
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Kyle
Um You gotta be sick, do you think
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The Blade's Edge
You're better at adventuring.
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Alma Graves
Oh, 50.
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The Blade's Edge
You're better at pulling at the threads of mystery in each of your lives.
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Alma Graves
They're the most average hash for us.
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The Blade's Edge
So you're having some hash browns. You're having a lot of eggs, some hash browns. What are you what are you sipping on?
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Kyle
how so How's a coffee in Barovia? Would they even be growing coffee?
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The Blade's Edge
Yeah, there's definitely coffee. Um, it's probably pretty.
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Alma Graves
Evil coffee.
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The Blade's Edge
Yeah. It's supers. Yeah. The, the coffee's so sad.
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Kyle
Damn.
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The Blade's Edge
No, I'm just kidding. Um, it's a, yeah. Romeo do a hundred. How does it feel to be in charge of how the food tastes?
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Kyle
So this one... If it's bad. Okay, it's good. I made the best out of a bad situation. The beans aren't the freshest. But you know, I i put together a nice a nice cuppa.
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The Blade's Edge
Right. There is enough, uh, rain here for the right kind of farmer to grow things correctly. Uh, the coffee's good. The hash browns are okay.
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Kyle
Was a 72 by the way.
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The Blade's Edge
You're having some eggs. He sent me two for those of you listening. Um, uh, Kyle B she's sipping on what you eat this morning.
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Alma Graves
Oh, yeah, um I'm sipping on some ah lemon lime soda.
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The Blade's Edge
Let's head out.
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Alma Graves
ah That I I conjured magically.
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Kyle
Interesting, they got 7 up here?
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Alma Graves
Yeah, they got squirt here, believe it or not.
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Kyle
Yo!
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Alma Graves
Yeah. um And then I probably would have just thrown some some tomatoes just on the vine in a pan through it on the through on the stove. um Just with some bread, small of oil, maybe some herbs, whatever they have around, just having a little like a bruschetta.
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The Blade's Edge
Nice having some bruschetta with side of squirts. The flavors mixing strangely, ah but.
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Alma Graves
Yeah, I needed a citrus element.
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The Blade's Edge
There you go.
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The Blade's Edge
Um.
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Kyle
the acidity ah Squirt bro.
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The Blade's Edge
Yeah, is it squirt? Is it donkey piss? Who's to say? It's Barovia. You're never going to know. um Listen, and if it tastes like squirt, what's the matter?
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Kyle
I'm telling you both
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The Blade's Edge
Um, uh, in Navi, what do you, what do you, what's your ninja ass eating and drinking this morning before you guys head out?
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Trevor
Ninja ass drinking. move and Probably some of my green tea and a turkey leg. You know what I mean?
00:11:59
Alma Graves
A turkey leg, yes!
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The Blade's Edge
Wow.
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Trevor
Yeah, yeah.
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The Blade's Edge
Wow. Very, very demure at first green tea, turkey leg.
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Trevor
Yeah, yeah, yeah. And then switch it up with the turkey leg. I felt like I needed a little more sustenance, nourishment, Toro's meat or something.
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The Blade's Edge
Nice.
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The Blade's Edge
rope a dope. Yeah. Love that.
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Kyle
A sick reference, bro.
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The Blade's Edge
Yeah. Turkey leg.
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Trevor
Did you? Thank you. Fuck yeah.
00:12:21
Kyle
That was a fantastic reference.
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Trevor
I was like, I don't know if this is gonna win. Hell yeah. Thank you.
00:12:26
The Blade's Edge
So quite the smorgasbord you guys have here, all different foods, all different drinks. Nobody's having the same thing. It's a nightmare kitchen.
00:12:33
Trevor
Oh yeah, wait, do I have to roll for that?
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The Blade's Edge
Uh,
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Trevor
See how good this...
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The Blade's Edge
Yeah, I think it's probably pretty good. I think this is like classic medieval stuff. So give me a D. ah Give me 2D 100 and we'll take the higher role.
00:12:45
Kyle
I don't know, man. The turkey leg in Disneyland?
00:12:46
The Blade's Edge
Let everybody know what you roll.
00:12:46
Alma Graves
It's definitely a reheated turkey leg, because nobody was up smoking that thing.
00:12:50
Trevor
OK, I rolled a 2 on the first one.
00:12:50
Kyle
Oh my god!
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Trevor
Let's try it again.
00:12:52
The Blade's Edge
Because it's probably infested with maggots.
00:12:53
Kyle
On a D100?
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Alma Graves
Yeah, well, Desan has a bowl full of spiders.
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Kyle
Oh my god!
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Trevor
Yo, an 8.
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The Blade's Edge
Oh, my God.
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Alma Graves
Oh my god.
00:12:59
Trevor
Holy shit. the worst he ever at i just wanna keep wrong This is These are just for me.
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The Blade's Edge
All right. Getting the you're getting the bad rolls out now, not only is he led. Yeah, one more.
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Trevor
Don't worry.
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The Blade's Edge
Yeah.
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Trevor
OK.
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Kyle
Hi.
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The Blade's Edge
OK.
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Trevor
OK. That's good. That's good.
00:13:12
The Blade's Edge
With an eight, yeah, the turkey leg, you're probably having like some leftovers from the party the night before that was just left out uncovered. Flies were all over it two seconds before you came downstairs and grabbed it.
00:13:26
Alma Graves
We've all been there, right? We've all been there.
00:13:28
The Blade's Edge
Yeah. Maybe there's a lot on your mind. You didn't even second guess it. Also being trapped in a ring for however many years, uh, maybe you're just taking any foods, good food right now.
00:13:41
Trevor
Yeah. Hell yeah.
00:13:43
The Blade's Edge
Uh, design, uh, newly branded, um, by the lightning. Uh, what are you eating? What are you stepping on?
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Vesz'rak
ah Definitely having some coffee with some honey butter on toast and some bacon, and all of it is just like heated up by the sun sword. So lay the sun sword on the table, light it up, and I'm sizzling some bacon ah on the sun sword.
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The Blade's Edge
I see you as you're eating and you retract the sun sword, you've burned the whole table as well.
00:14:18
Vesz'rak
Hey, it's worthy for some good quality breakfast.
00:14:19
The Blade's Edge
If it's hot enough to cook your food, it's hot enough to burn the table.
00:14:20
Vesz'rak
eat
00:14:23
Kyle
there There's a sun sword shaped burn in the table.
00:14:25
The Blade's Edge
Yes.
00:14:25
Vesz'rak
yeah Hey, sorry about your table, but you know.
00:14:28
Alma Graves
that's That's how they know we were here.
00:14:30
Vesz'rak
Yeah.
00:14:31
Alma Graves
They'll be happy to have it someday.
00:14:32
Kyle
Or that's our calling card.
00:14:34
Alma Graves
Yeah.
00:14:34
The Blade's Edge
It'll kind of be like Walt Disney's table at the Tamo Shanter. If you're familiar in L.A., there's a table that Walt Disney used to ah frequent in the years to come. People will come to Blue Water Inn and they'll request the Sun Sword table.
00:14:51
The Blade's Edge
I love that. Well, as you guys are sitting here, you're all enjoying your food and drink. The morning is quiet morning rain outside. You guys want to chat about
Travel Plans and Logistics
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The Blade's Edge
what's next? What's the plan? I'll put you guys on the map here. ah Many locations we've marked. We've marked Valaki, where you currently are, Lake Baratok, where Richtavio,
00:15:14
The Blade's Edge
a.k.a. Van Richten is, Argan Vossolts, the Amber Temple, Schrod's Castle, the Windmill with Revenge, the Svalich Woods to the north of Lake Zerevich,
00:15:28
The Blade's Edge
where ah supposedly the Mad Mage is. um Where are we heading? Well, you guys are sitting there at this table.
00:15:38
Alma Graves
um I would i'd be looking looking around at the group and be like, I think it's time that we stretch our legs and head out to meet that Von Richten. I think he's more than he and he says he is. More than he seems.
00:15:54
Kyle
Hmm.
00:15:56
Trevor
Yeah, that's he's over at that, is that he at the tower?
00:15:57
Kyle
Which Yeah, which direction is he at?
00:15:59
Alma Graves
Yeah, West.
00:16:00
Trevor
Rodan.
00:16:01
Alma Graves
That's West towards that little building on Lake Bartok.
00:16:07
Trevor
Yeah, down.
00:16:07
Kyle
Gotcha. And do we have any information or what information do we have on the location of the Mad Mage?
00:16:17
Trevor
These legs are a bitch, right?
00:16:19
Alma Graves
Well, there was that there was that one kid that said that he saw somebody on the northern shores of Lake Zarovich a couple sessions ago.
00:16:19
Trevor
nor
00:16:26
Vesz'rak
Yeah.
00:16:26
Kyle
Mhm.
00:16:28
Alma Graves
And then we kind of marked this as a potential location where we would want to check out.
00:16:34
Trevor
Yeah, I'm kind of down to like, if we hit the, cause I'm interested in checking that out too, but if we started at the tower, we could just circle up from there and hit the north side of the the lake and then just, you know, do a little.
00:16:34
Alma Graves
But.
00:16:35
Kyle
Gotcha.
00:16:39
Alma Graves
Yeah.
00:16:39
Kyle
Yeah.
00:16:43
Alma Graves
And.
00:16:48
Alma Graves
We would have to ford the river a couple of times um or figure out a way to cross it. But that sounds interesting to me.
00:16:55
Kyle
I think our best course would be because I wouldn't want to go so here, and then like cut through the woods here because there's a lot of wilderness out here.
00:17:07
Alma Graves
You're the wilderness king, though.
00:17:07
Kyle
And then in a ah so sad, it is so sad.
00:17:08
Alma Graves
You can get us through there, no problem. Or wait, no. That was Roy Halovich. Rest in peace. Rest in peace.
00:17:16
Kyle
Um, yeah, so we don't have Bear Grylls on our team anymore. Um, I wouldn't want to go through the wilderness up here, especially when there's, you know, this is werewolf country we're talking about.
00:17:27
Trevor
Damn.
00:17:28
Alma Graves
That's true. I mean, we also found a werewolf body um kind of on the road around here, didn't we?
00:17:28
Kyle
So.
00:17:37
Alma Graves
Or oh, no, it was wolf bodies, not a werewolf body.
00:17:39
Trevor
Oh wait, wasn't that our, that was our previous characters too, right?
00:17:42
Kyle
yeah.
00:17:44
Alma Graves
Uh-huh.
00:17:45
Kyle
What?
00:17:45
Trevor
Yeah.
00:17:46
The Blade's Edge
Yeah, I think you guys you guys retain your memories of what they went through as you guys were all sort of.
00:17:46
Kyle
Oh, yeah, yeah.
00:17:48
Alma Graves
Yeah.
00:17:51
Kyle
Yeah, the lines blur a little bit.
00:17:53
Trevor
Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, true.
00:17:53
The Blade's Edge
Yeah, Desan is Vesrak. You were in the ring. He was in the spear. Alma was.
00:18:03
Alma Graves
powered by God, don't worry about it.
00:18:04
The Blade's Edge
Yeah, powered by God.
00:18:04
Kyle
Alright, technically Roy did not have the spear when we found that body.
00:18:05
The Blade's Edge
No, you were in that. ah
00:18:09
The Blade's Edge
Uh, well, it's maybe this is dishonor relaying, uh, the memories to you all letting you guys know of the the journey.
00:18:09
Kyle
Sorry.
00:18:13
Alma Graves
Yeah.
00:18:17
Kyle
Yeah.
00:18:17
Vesz'rak
Yeah, let's, let's not lose the plot, huh? Don't forget, Jimmothy. Keep that at the forefront.
00:18:21
Alma Graves
Oh, true.
00:18:22
Vesz'rak
We gotta find Jimmothy. It's the whole reason we were here.
00:18:26
Alma Graves
Well, yeah, we'll have to ah we'll have to see if we can find his tracks somewhere.
00:18:30
Kyle
yeah
00:18:30
Vesz'rak
Big underlining in my notebook. Find Jimmothy.
00:18:32
Alma Graves
yeah
00:18:33
Kyle
I think we, we go to the tower and then we'll have to do a little bit of backtracking, but maybe we can like hug the coast here and continue up and just take our shortest and safest path, you know, from the road and just veer off the road as little as possible over to this area and then explore.
00:18:40
Alma Graves
yeah sure
00:18:52
Vesz'rak
Is there like a boat rental, Brian, that we could get, like a Velocchi?
00:18:52
The Blade's Edge
Yeah. just um
00:18:56
Trevor
Yeah, Perum.
00:18:56
The Blade's Edge
um You've never actually visited the lake. yeah there There may be, but you guys aren't sure.
00:19:00
Alma Graves
Yeah, sure.
00:19:01
Kyle
Well, how far is the village for, is it not like on, is this not like just right next to the lake?
00:19:01
The Blade's Edge
um
00:19:06
The Blade's Edge
No, no, it's not. Each of the squares of the map that you guys are looking at is one quarter of a mile. So if you zoom in on this hexagonal hexagonal map, ah each one.
00:19:14
Kyle
R.
00:19:19
Kyle
Yeah.
00:19:20
The Blade's Edge
So if you're in the center of town right here, ah that would be basically a half mile north would be the would be the lake.
00:19:22
Kyle
yeah
00:19:30
The Blade's Edge
um and you guys have never ventured north out of Valaki onto the lake also keep in mind the the X that you guys have placed on the map for where to look for the mad mage is it that's not necessarily where he is he could be in any one of these this whole wooded area to the north of Lake Zarovich
00:19:30
Kyle
Gotcha.
00:19:46
Alma Graves
Right.
00:19:50
The Blade's Edge
Um, all you've heard is that he was seen on the north end of lakes are of it. So I know there is an X.
00:19:56
Kyle
I see.
00:19:57
The Blade's Edge
So if that, uh, you know, is making you be like, Oh, let's go west to Lake Baratok to find Ben Richton, then let's come all the way back east. Cause that's where the X is.
00:20:06
The Blade's Edge
Just know that, uh, that X doesn't necessarily mean anything.
00:20:06
Kyle
Gotcha.
00:20:07
Alma Graves
Yeah. If I remember, it had something to do with Mount Baratok being near that as well.
00:20:09
Kyle
Okay, here's the... Hmm.
00:20:15
The Blade's Edge
Mount Baratok is the, uh, top of the map, uh, which fades into, I think you can see the little tag for Mount Baratok here fades into the mist.
00:20:19
Alma Graves
Yeah.
00:20:24
Alma Graves
Yeah.
00:20:26
The Blade's Edge
Yes. The north end of the entire map is Mount Baratok, which fades into the mist.
00:20:27
Alma Graves
Cool.
00:20:31
Kyle
ah Here's a new idea. Before we head off to the tower, what if we come up here and we just stop by the lake?
00:20:43
Kyle
And we just do like a general observation and see if there's any sort of signs of um anyone living out in that area.
00:20:51
Alma Graves
Yeah.
00:20:52
Kyle
Maybe we see like a billow of smoke, um maybe even a tower or something like that.
00:20:54
Alma Graves
Sure.
00:20:58
Alma Graves
Sure. Fine by me.
00:20:59
Kyle
And then, yeah, just just while we're on the way to the tower.
00:21:02
Alma Graves
Yeah, we're so close.
00:21:07
Alma Graves
I'm down.
00:21:08
Kyle
That's my plan.
00:21:09
Alma Graves
Yeah, that's a good plan. Let's do it.
00:21:11
Vesz'rak
um Sounds good to me.
00:21:13
The Blade's Edge
Okay.
00:21:14
Alma Graves
And I finished chugging my ah my squirt.
00:21:17
The Blade's Edge
As the four of you ah colloquially known as called a lightning, um leave blue water in for the last time, who knows, hopefully not, but and head out of the town north.
00:21:34
The Blade's Edge
It's raining out. ah You guys have all your packs. You're bringing all your gear on this trip. You look up. there The sky is cloudy. You had a half mile to Lake Zarvich. And, as you do,
00:21:57
Alma Graves
Godzilla springs up from below the depths of the lake.
00:22:00
Kyle
Yeah.
00:22:03
The Blade's Edge
At the foot of a mountain nestled in the misty forest is a large lake. You look forward and you see this massive mountain in the distance where you can't see the peak because of the mist nor how far it goes. You see a dense forest at the foot of this mountain shrouded in mist and in in front of that forest, you see a large lake.
00:22:28
The Blade's Edge
The water is perfectly still and dark, reflecting the black clouds overhead like a monstrous mirror. Pulled up along the south shore are three small rowboats. They are um pulled up onto the south shore so they're not in the water.
00:22:51
The Blade's Edge
um And let me go ahead and just to see if I have a map for this area. I don't think I do, which is totally fine. We do not need one. um Cool. Lovely.
00:23:04
The Blade's Edge
um mountain in the distance, forest at its feet, lake, three row boats pulled up onto shore. And as you guys look out onto the lake, you see a fourth boat can be seen in the middle of the lake with a lone figure sitting in it, fishing pole in hand.
00:23:26
Alma Graves
Oh, fishing pole in hand, I see.
00:23:27
Kyle
It's the guy from holes.
00:23:31
The Blade's Edge
So I'll maybe just draw on our map here.
00:23:33
Alma Graves
Let's do that.
00:23:35
The Blade's Edge
ah Maybe, you know, halfway out.
00:23:35
Vesz'rak
Stanley Yillnats.
00:23:40
The Blade's Edge
On the lake.
00:23:42
Kyle
Who's the guy with the peaches?
00:23:42
The Blade's Edge
You see this.
00:23:43
Kyle
I remember his name.
00:23:47
Alma Graves
Millions of peaches.
00:23:48
The Blade's Edge
Peaches for me. um
00:23:50
Trevor
James? That was just one big one though.
00:23:54
The Blade's Edge
ah
00:23:56
The Blade's Edge
Smile.
00:24:00
The Blade's Edge
Oh, ask mile. Um, you guys look out onto the lake. This little thing I've drawn here it just shows in and the middle of the lake. There is a row boat with a, a lone figure in it and three row boats, uh, on the shore.
00:24:13
The Blade's Edge
Um, what would you guys like to do as you guys, you stroll up and boots kind of sinking into the mud.
00:24:18
Alma Graves
Oh.
00:24:22
Alma Graves
Someone's doing a great drawing.
00:24:22
Kyle
How far... How far out of T?
00:24:24
Vesz'rak
You're welcome, you're welcome.
00:24:25
Alma Graves
Wow, that's art.
00:24:30
Kyle
How the guy from the shore?
00:24:32
Alma Graves
About what, three quarters of a mile?
00:24:34
The Blade's Edge
ah He is about ah make me a survival check. And I will say that Alma will give you advantage on this as she's also sort of guessing.
00:24:39
Kyle
Ah, I'm so good at surviving, dude. Gonna be a 19.
00:24:48
The Blade's Edge
19 is pretty good. ah Your ah militaristic mind very quickly notices his his boat is probably 400 feet from the nearest shore.
00:25:01
Kyle
If I yelled really loud, would he be able to hear me? I don't know how far 400 feet is. I'm kind of stupid. It's like a football field, ah but like, like more.
00:25:12
The Blade's Edge
um you can certainly
00:25:13
Alma Graves
Yeah, it's a little more than a football field, yeah. It's a football field plus one third of a football field.
00:25:16
The Blade's Edge
yeah
00:25:19
Kyle
If I yelled at someone at the other end of a football field,
00:25:20
The Blade's Edge
um
00:25:24
Alma Graves
Yeah, I feel like you could. And water, or ah your voice will travel over the water.
00:25:33
Alma Graves
Hey, you guys.
00:25:35
The Blade's Edge
Um,
00:25:35
Kyle
yeah
00:25:38
The Blade's Edge
you can certainly.
00:25:41
Alma Graves
You gonna holler at him?
00:25:41
Kyle
I mean it's not we I was I was gonna ask if we could use the boats but we're not using the boats right now we're just scoping it out does this guy look look mad or like insane in any kind of way like what's this
00:25:49
Alma Graves
I mean...
00:25:54
The Blade's Edge
I'm making make an insight check um from 400 feet away.
00:26:00
Vesz'rak
I'm using my hands as binoculars.
00:26:00
Alma Graves
If this guy looks insane from 400 feet away, we're leaving immediately.
00:26:04
The Blade's Edge
Yeah, you can make an insight check or I'd say a perception check.
00:26:05
Kyle
What's his aura?
00:26:05
Trevor
a That's actually so funny.
00:26:09
The Blade's Edge
ah Either one of those will work to try and discern if somebody is insane from 400 feet away.
00:26:13
Alma Graves
if If I...
00:26:14
Trevor
but Wow.
00:26:14
Kyle
That's gonna be a dirty 20.
00:26:15
Alma Graves
Oh!
00:26:20
The Blade's Edge
um Do you say anything or you're just looking?
00:26:22
Kyle
I'm just looking.
00:26:23
The Blade's Edge
Okay. Um, you look out and you see a, it's a man. Uh, it looks like a, it looks like a human man.
00:26:31
Kyle
Mm hmm.
00:26:34
The Blade's Edge
He's fishing on the lake. Um, and he doesn't seem to be moving much, just kind of looking forward, sitting still, uh, fishing line out at a certain point.
00:26:46
The Blade's Edge
You go like, Oh, he hasn't moved. And then he you know reels it in, pulls the line back. throws it out and sits there looking forward, unmoving, fishing.
00:26:59
Alma Graves
Yeah, and you hear him whispering things like, the finale of Dexter is peak television, and the Pacific Room sequel is better than the original.
00:27:05
Trevor
and
00:27:09
Kyle
Game of Thrones Season 8 is my favorite season.
00:27:11
Alma Graves
He's clearly insane.
00:27:13
Kyle
ah Guys, we gotta get outta here.
00:27:13
Trevor
seems pretty normal i don't know
00:27:16
The Blade's Edge
yeah all that All that to say, with a 20 from 400 feet out, he's just sitting still, fishing, ah unmoving.
00:27:26
Vesz'rak
Why don't we, don't we just take one of the boats and go out and ask him if he's seen somebody skulking along like the shoreline at all.
00:27:26
The Blade's Edge
Doesn't seem to notice you guys. It's raining, which is, I mean, he's out there in the rain, but it rains a lot here.
00:27:41
Alma Graves
Hey man, are these your boats? We borrowed them, we'll give you some money.
00:27:48
Kyle
Yeah, but like, yeah.
00:27:49
Vesz'rak
Maybe they're public use boats. I don't know.
00:27:52
Alma Graves
Public use boats, yeah.
00:27:55
Kyle
I mean, if you guys want to make this a thing, we can make it a thing.
00:27:55
Alma Graves
P-U-B.
00:27:58
Alma Graves
We can absolutely do it, follow follow our hearts.
00:27:58
Kyle
I was just, you know, must not buy and like truly.
00:28:01
Trevor
Yeah, are we already getting derailed was the point to go to the tower first.
00:28:02
Alma Graves
Let's get on.
00:28:08
Alma Graves
We can get on the boats.
00:28:08
Kyle
Yeah.
00:28:10
Alma Graves
Who's gonna carry the boats? Who's our David Goggins?
00:28:15
Vesz'rak
I mean, yeah, we don't have to get sidetracked by this or just by some random guy in the middle of the boat.
00:28:19
Trevor
I'm also, I have a real quick question. Are we still, but we're still like right next to the Locky, right? Did we kind of just like hop out and look ah over across the, okay, cool.
00:28:29
The Blade's Edge
You're a half mile north of a lucky or right where this token is on the map.
00:28:33
Kyle
It's like a five five minute walk.
00:28:34
Trevor
Yeah, I see it. Okay. Yeah, I might, if we go back this direction to go to the tower, if we swing through town, I actually wanna swing by, if anything, if shops are open by the time we go through, I wanna swing by like a little, ah like a magic or a component shop if we get a chance.
00:28:54
The Blade's Edge
Okay.
00:28:57
Trevor
If not, I'll all gee.
00:28:59
The Blade's Edge
Yeah.
00:29:01
The Blade's Edge
Um, so what are you guys doing? You guys are standing at the, uh, standing at the lake still. You talked about, you talked about yelling.
00:29:08
Alma Graves
We're all like, there's a guy over there and menacingly fishing.
00:29:11
The Blade's Edge
You talked about taking the boats out. You've talked about going back into town.
00:29:17
Vesz'rak
I think we don't get sidetracked. We go back through town and just go to our original plan, which is like the tower.
00:29:23
Alma Graves
Yeah, we we know that there's boats.
00:29:23
Vesz'rak
I feel like we've scouted. i we got We got the lay of the land.
00:29:28
Trevor
yeah
00:29:28
Alma Graves
Maybe he'll be back in later. Yeah.
00:29:33
Alma Graves
Well, so we're going to head back into town and then hit the road.
00:29:33
Kyle
yeah yes sir Yeah, no, no.
00:29:36
The Blade's Edge
Okay. Uh, how long were you guys there? Do you think?
00:29:40
Alma Graves
What it's a quarter mile to get there Yeah, I Don't know probably like five minutes ten minutes, yeah
00:29:43
The Blade's Edge
Yeah. How long were you when you got to the the edge of the lake and you were watching this guy? How long were you there? Contemplating.
00:29:50
Kyle
I'd say like 10, yeah, 10 minutes.
00:29:51
Trevor
Yeah.
00:29:52
The Blade's Edge
Okay. As you turn to go, uh, you see this man in the boat and put his fishing rod down, reach down into the boat, pick up a, uh, pick up a
00:30:04
Kyle
um a bazooka.
Suspicious Activities at the Lake
00:30:07
Trevor
That dude strapped?
00:30:07
The Blade's Edge
He picks up a fairly large burlap sack and goes to the side of the boat and drops it in the water.
00:30:15
Kyle
Oh, no, he's acting weird.
00:30:19
Alma Graves
Oh, surely we have to do something about this.
00:30:24
Kyle
Why would he say it? Like, why would Brian say that?
00:30:28
Vesz'rak
Are you trying to lure us out of the middle of this lake, Brian?
00:30:29
Alma Graves
Yeah, are you trying to lure us out in the middle of the lake, huh?
00:30:29
Kyle
Why would he do that?
00:30:32
The Blade's Edge
I am trying to do nothing. I did not even know you were coming to this part of the map.
00:30:32
Trevor
Yeah, what's in this leg?
00:30:36
Vesz'rak
yeah
00:30:37
The Blade's Edge
I asked you guys multiple times. What are you guys going to do? It's like a prep.
00:30:41
The Blade's Edge
I think you immediately went to one place I didn't prep for. So I am ah reading.
00:30:41
Alma Graves
ah
00:30:44
Alma Graves
Hilarious, hilarious, hilarious, hilarious.
00:30:46
Trevor
I don't know why we're here.
00:30:47
The Blade's Edge
Yeah, so you this is what happens. You come here. You see this guy is boats, three boats. He's four hundred feet out after several minutes. ah You saw him reach down, pick up a burlap, fairly large burlap sack, two handed, go to the side of the boat and drop it in the water.
00:31:03
Kyle
Listen, that's none of my business.
00:31:04
Trevor
That seems like a and seemsly a later problem.
00:31:04
Alma Graves
Yeah, it's none of my business. I think it's time to go back to Valaki, get another squirt and wait for this all to boil over.
00:31:11
Trevor
Unless that body dumped in the lake was Strahd's body?
00:31:12
Kyle
Yeah.
00:31:14
Trevor
I'm not really. That's having a heck of a, you know, I think we keep moving.
00:31:18
Alma Graves
Alright, so back to Valaki.
00:31:23
Trevor
Yeah, let's do it.
00:31:25
Kyle
Yeah.
00:31:26
Alma Graves
Nice little nature walk, you know, after breakfast fart walk.
00:31:26
The Blade's Edge
Okay.
00:31:30
Trevor
Yeah, team.
00:31:30
Kyle
Yeah, just keeping our DM on his toes.
00:31:32
Alma Graves
yeah
00:31:32
Trevor
Team building.
00:31:33
Alma Graves
Yeah.
00:31:34
Trevor
That is actually so funny. We'll do the tower.
00:31:36
Kyle
like can making sure he's not flipping.
00:31:37
Trevor
All right, we're going to go to the lake.
00:31:38
Alma Graves
All right. First, we're going to go see what this fucking guy is doing, though.
00:31:41
Trevor
That's so funny.
00:31:46
The Blade's Edge
Okay.
00:31:46
Alma Graves
All right. What are you getting here?
00:31:49
Trevor
I would just say, like on our walk through town towards this direction, I would just keep my eye out for some sort of like magic component shop. Anything that sells like, you know, spell components or...
00:32:01
The Blade's Edge
Yeah, what are you looking for?
00:32:02
Trevor
I am looking for...
00:32:06
Trevor
10 gold pieces worth of charcoal incense and herbs but ah and a brass brassiere.
00:32:18
The Blade's Edge
a brass brassier.
00:32:20
Trevor
yeah
00:32:21
The Blade's Edge
Absolutely. You definitely will find that stuff. As far as the name of the shop, we came up with a couple names of magic shops. If you remember correctly, I'm having a hard time locating exactly what those are.
00:32:33
The Blade's Edge
I'm looking back arelu and info.
00:32:34
Alma Graves
Hold on hold on I think they.
00:32:34
Trevor
Did we write them on the map?
00:32:38
The Blade's Edge
Oh, we might have. Well, no, we we marked the I'll put you guys back on the town of Locky just for a second.
00:32:45
Trevor
Yeah, sorry to bring us back here immediately.
00:32:46
The Blade's Edge
Uh, we, no, we did mark the delirious bunny, which was the coffee shop.
00:32:47
Alma Graves
Miss yeah, Mr.
00:32:49
The Blade's Edge
Um, yeah, taste tentacle is a sushi restaurant.
00:32:49
Alma Graves
and Mrs. Smith and the tasty tentacle.
00:32:53
The Blade's Edge
Mr. and Mrs. Smith is a smithy.
00:32:54
Trevor
That's an armor, yeah.
00:32:56
The Blade's Edge
Uh, we did however, come up with a couple, uh, magic shops.
00:33:00
Trevor
Bloodbath and beyond.
00:33:00
The Blade's Edge
I think there was like one bloodbath and beyond, I believe was the one here it is right here.
00:33:05
Trevor
Yup, I see that one.
00:33:05
Alma Graves
Yeah, true.
00:33:06
Kyle
Shit.
00:33:09
The Blade's Edge
Um, I just moved it so that we could see where it was, but cool. So yeah, so you had to, um, let's just go ahead. Bloodbath and beyond, uh, is the magic shop in Valaki, which I remember we had talked about is not the four, you know, you walk in there and it's not like the foremost magic shop. If anything, it's pretty, probably pretty bare.
00:33:32
The Blade's Edge
um But spell components is something that they definitely have.
00:33:38
Trevor
okay
00:33:38
The Blade's Edge
So you as you head in there, bing, bing, bing, the door goes and you see a small gnomish man behind the the counter.
00:33:39
Trevor
Okay.
00:33:49
The Blade's Edge
And he's currently looking at something and looks up and goes, Hey, how's it going?
00:33:54
Trevor
Good, how are you?
00:33:55
The Blade's Edge
Pretty good. Welcome to Bloodbath Beyond. I'm Steve. Book it. What did you need? He needs some stuff.
00:34:01
Trevor
Hey, Steve. um Yeah, I pull out my spell book and be looking through and be like, I need, it looks like I need some charcoal incense and herbs. um And then if you happen to have, I know this might be a weird ask, a brass brassier as well.
00:34:18
Trevor
That might be, you know, a size that I can travel with. That would be amazing to be checking off all the boxes in one spot.
00:34:25
The Blade's Edge
Um, Yeah. you go Okay. So 10 gold for the charcoal's herbs and incense. Uh, brass, brassier. I might have one of those.
00:34:35
The Blade's Edge
You throw in another two gold and I got you.
00:34:39
Trevor
Yeah, that'd be amazing.
00:34:39
The Blade's Edge
Um, it was lovely. What brings you into town? Oh, you, are you with the, uh, the call to lightning?
00:34:48
Trevor
yeah Yeah, that's us.
00:34:49
The Blade's Edge
Nice. Oh, fantastic. I missed out on the parade. Thank goodness. But I heard about what happened.
00:34:55
The Blade's Edge
Crazy.
00:34:55
Trevor
Yeah, i was just that was rough.
00:34:58
Trevor
Didn't go how we expected, but yeah.
00:35:01
The Blade's Edge
Crazy. Uh, what were you up to now?
00:35:05
Trevor
ah Good question. We're heading heading west. We're going to figure it out when we get there, I think. I don't even think we really know.
Visit to Bloodbath and Beyond
00:35:12
Trevor
We're about to get ourselves into. I'll pass him 13 gold as well.
00:35:15
Trevor
I'll give him an extra little tip.
00:35:16
The Blade's Edge
Nice. He goes, Oh geez, starting cold. Praise Steve. Thank you so much.
00:35:20
Trevor
Right, Steve?
00:35:22
The Blade's Edge
Yeah, no, not me. I worship Steve.
00:35:26
Trevor
who's Who's Steve?
00:35:28
The Blade's Edge
ah Steve is a guy steve is ah is a god that some of us worship. And if you weren't part of the tenants of worshiping Steve, you'd have to change the name to Steve.
00:35:39
Trevor
That's crazy. That's wild.
00:35:41
The Blade's Edge
Yeah, well, it's kind of nice.
00:35:41
Trevor
What was...
00:35:42
The Blade's Edge
I mean, it makes it simple. It's like if, you know, if you're a cartoon character in every outfit, it's the same. I don't have to think about it, you know?
00:35:48
Trevor
I love that. What was your name before you converted, Steve?
00:35:55
The Blade's Edge
i shall not I shall not say.
00:35:56
Trevor
All right, yeah, that's great.
00:35:56
Vesz'rak
You can't just ask a man that, come on.
00:35:57
Kyle
You can't dead name him.
00:35:57
Trevor
I understand.
00:35:58
Alma Graves
Yeah, you can't get dead name dude don't dead name him
00:35:58
The Blade's Edge
and
00:35:58
The Blade's Edge
There's a pennant of steed.
00:35:58
Kyle
What are you talking about?
00:35:59
Trevor
I understand.
00:36:03
Vesz'rak
Under my breath, class for me.
00:36:03
The Blade's Edge
But it's pretty it's yeah it's pretty good. it's pretty good ah You seem pretty interested. you Would you like some information? there orar Oh, OK.
00:36:10
Trevor
No, no, I honestly, I've just, i've I've never heard of Steve before. Well, yeah. i got Do you have like a pamphlet or something?
00:36:17
The Blade's Edge
I don't have a pamphlet.
00:36:19
Trevor
All right.
00:36:19
The Blade's Edge
That is good. I'll bring it up at the next meeting. We should make pamphlets.
00:36:22
Trevor
Yeah. Easy.
00:36:23
The Blade's Edge
um But if you're heading out of town next time, you're in town.
00:36:23
Trevor
You know?
00:36:27
The Blade's Edge
Uh, yeah, come back here to blood bath behind and I'll, uh, we can talk about Steve.
00:36:32
Trevor
Sure.
00:36:33
The Blade's Edge
I can introduce you to, uh, I can introduce you to Steve.
00:36:33
Trevor
Yeah. Yeah.
00:36:38
The Blade's Edge
That's Steve. I get introduced to Steve. Um, it'd be great for you to meet Steve.
00:36:43
Trevor
Yeah, I'd be down.
00:36:44
The Blade's Edge
Yeah.
00:36:45
Trevor
Yeah, that sounds good.
00:36:47
The Blade's Edge
Perfect.
00:36:47
Trevor
How are Steve's doing?
00:36:49
The Blade's Edge
Pretty good. Steve's doing great. Steven. he He needs a little talking to, but Steve's doing good. And, well, no, he can't.
00:36:56
Trevor
You could do that, Stephen.
00:36:59
The Blade's Edge
That's why he needs a little talking to, him right?
00:37:00
Trevor
Yeah, all right. That makes sense.
00:37:02
Vesz'rak
What about Stefan, is he okay?
00:37:04
The Blade's Edge
ah We don't talk about Esteban.
00:37:06
Trevor
Haven't heard of Stephanie in a while.
00:37:06
Vesz'rak
What about, what about, yeah, what about Esteban?
00:37:11
The Blade's Edge
Yeah, well, Esteban, well, that's the story, the classic story of Esteban, who followed the mad mage into battle and died.
00:37:16
Vesz'rak
Oh, okay.
00:37:17
The Blade's Edge
Yeah. Yeah. which That's what we use as a warning.
00:37:22
Vesz'rak
Okay, good yeah, for for younger for younger Steve's.
00:37:22
Kyle
um
00:37:23
The Blade's Edge
Yeah, things, yeah, things not to do.
00:37:23
Kyle
ah
00:37:27
The Blade's Edge
Don't do that.
00:37:28
Vesz'rak
Got it, got it, got it.
00:37:29
The Blade's Edge
Yeah.
00:37:29
Kyle
Don't be Esteban, got it.
00:37:30
The Blade's Edge
Needless to say, Vic or Jim and the, and the church of the fan who doesn't love us being here, but, um, you know, we're not hurting anybody.
00:37:42
Trevor
Is he lying? Can I make an inside check?
00:37:43
The Blade's Edge
Yeah. they inside
00:37:44
Vesz'rak
See my head.
00:37:45
Kyle
That was like...
00:37:48
Alma Graves
Yeah, if you're ah interested in yeah the the human parts trade, we've we've got that too Suspicious
00:37:49
Trevor
16.
00:37:51
Vesz'rak
yeah
00:37:54
The Blade's Edge
um With a 16 insight, not only is he not lying, I think everything about this guy seems very vanilla. ah He seems vic very middle of the road. ah You look at his his shirt and it's not too nice, not too shabby.
00:38:13
The Blade's Edge
um You look at his entire shop and he has, you know, just enough stuff, ah but not too much. Nothing ostentatious, but it's not.
00:38:24
The Blade's Edge
um He charged you a fair amount right down the middle.
00:38:28
The Blade's Edge
um ah So he seems very vanilla and down the middle kind of guy neutral.
00:38:28
Trevor
Sweet.
00:38:32
Trevor
Cool. Love that. I like this guy.
00:38:36
Kyle
This guy reminds me of the vault in Fallout, where I don't know if anyone's played Fallout, but there's a vault. And in the vault is an entire population of guys named Gary.
00:38:47
Kyle
And all they say is, Gary! And that's the whole vault.
00:38:53
Trevor
That's amazing.
00:38:54
Kyle
That's where this guy's from.
00:38:56
The Blade's Edge
yeah
00:38:56
Kyle
But he was revolting against Gary, and started his own religion called Steve.
00:38:57
Trevor
For sure.
00:39:01
Trevor
He's way speaking at Rick and Mort, yeah, yeah, yeah, that's exactly, that's so funny.
00:39:08
The Blade's Edge
um He he hands you uh the uh brassiere with all of the the stuff in it and says um well yeah uh Lovely to meet you guys. Um, Hey, could I, uh, you know how sometimes you go into a diner and they'll have like, uh, you know, a picture from 1990 of like Billy Baldwin or somebody like that. And it's like, he ate here. Um, would you mind if I, the newspaper, uh, today has you know called the lightning saves the day on it. Would you mind signing this? I can hang it. Say you shopped here.
00:39:43
Trevor
Uh, yeah, yeah. Uh, I, I don't, I don't mind. I think. Do we guys, do we mind? Is that.
00:39:50
Kyle
Umm...
00:39:50
Alma Graves
Yeah, as long as you give us a lifetime discount.
00:39:54
The Blade's Edge
um
00:39:54
Vesz'rak
I start placing the sunsword on the desk about to turn it on.
00:39:57
Trevor
yeah Hey, whoa, whoa, whoa.
00:39:59
The Blade's Edge
Whoa, okay. Nevermind.
00:40:00
Trevor
Hey.
00:40:00
The Blade's Edge
I'm right.
00:40:00
Vesz'rak
No, no, no, no, this is what we...
00:40:00
The Blade's Edge
i don't I don't want no trouble. No, I want to stay out of all of it.
00:40:03
Vesz'rak
It's like a call... No, it's like a calling card.
00:40:03
The Blade's Edge
I don't Yeah, I Also with the discount of it all I would where our prices are set right down the middle.
00:40:05
Vesz'rak
It's fine.
00:40:06
Alma Graves
It means we've been here.
00:40:07
Vesz'rak
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
00:40:13
The Blade's Edge
That's what we do That is what don't want attend to Steve. You'd be normal. It's just to be super duper normal. We want normalcy and I'm not, I listen, I'm not scared right now.
00:40:23
The Blade's Edge
I can't be scared. I'm also not mad. I'm also not not scared. I feel, I feel perfectly fine right now.
00:40:31
The Blade's Edge
Okay. Praise Steve. That's okay. I'll just tell people. We don't have to decide it. Don't believe me. You guys have been, I don't think you need to do that.
00:40:31
Kyle
This dude.
00:40:37
Vesz'rak
Are you sure all I have to do is just press this button and it turns on it's really easy It's more of a brand it's like a stamp it's like a stamp you ever get like a passport you ever stamp your passport it's like that Yeah, come on Can I try and persuade him i I really want to but I don't want to make him angry can I try to pursue
00:40:41
The Blade's Edge
It seems like a day. It seems like a weapon to be honest. And with it, with Steve, I, I don't believe in fighting. I also don't believe in pacifism. It's right in the middle.
00:40:54
Alma Graves
Let us just sear the blades edge in.
00:40:57
The Blade's Edge
Yeah, no, I think that's okay, but I honestly I appreciate what what you're trying to do I Know That's the first time i've ever said no I Know I know you can't you can't forbid this guy.
00:41:08
Kyle
or no What?
00:41:09
Trevor
ah no yeah
00:41:14
The Blade's Edge
He's not gonna leave seriously or you or you just can do it He's not gonna do anything
00:41:16
Trevor
That's so funny.
00:41:18
Vesz'rak
No, no, no, hey I look i'm I've better No, i choose I choose not to believe that ah okay, see if I'll respect your wish No, no, I put hey I put the sword away if you do hey if he doesn't want it
00:41:20
The Blade's Edge
He won't be mad. You're in. Listen, when you're in bloodbath and beyond, there's no consequences because.
00:41:26
The Blade's Edge
ah This guy's not going to hold a grudge, but he's also not going to love you.
00:41:27
Kyle
I'm like
00:41:33
The Blade's Edge
Yeah, he's not going to charge you more, but he's also not going to give you a discount.
00:41:35
Vesz'rak
If he doesn't want to get his desk branded, he doesn't have to get his desk branded, OK?
00:41:38
The Blade's Edge
Yeah, well, he doesn't want his desk branded, but he also doesn't not want it branded.
00:41:43
Vesz'rak
OK, a lot of mix, a lot of mix.
00:41:43
Kyle
Dude, I'm like fascinated by this, this space right now.
00:41:48
Trevor
Yes Steve might be my favorite.
00:41:49
The Blade's Edge
The church of Steve.
00:41:50
Kyle
Yeah, dude.
00:41:53
The Blade's Edge
as well if you age it Yeah, I mean, listen, super go with the flow and you have to go with the flow, but also don't let the flow carry you.
00:41:53
Kyle
I see so easy going. So go with the flow.
00:42:03
The Blade's Edge
you know ah Create your own destiny, but also let let good things happen to you.
00:42:03
Vesz'rak
Right.
00:42:04
Kyle
Yeah.
00:42:04
Trevor
Bars.
00:42:10
Trevor
Hard.
00:42:10
Kyle
Oh, okay.
00:42:13
The Blade's Edge
Yeah, try, but don't try too hard.
00:42:13
Kyle
Honestly, he's he's kind of I'm kind of starting to like this Steve belief system.
00:42:20
The Blade's Edge
Yeah, exactly.
00:42:20
Kyle
I might have to adopt it.
00:42:21
Vesz'rak
Yeah.
00:42:22
Trevor
yeah Are those the tenants?
00:42:23
The Blade's Edge
Yeah, you don't want to get don't ever give up, but also don't fight too hard.
00:42:28
Vesz'rak
Yeah, but if you but if you do get caught, swim to the side, kind of like a rip current, right?
00:42:29
Trevor
but
00:42:29
Kyle
oh
00:42:30
Trevor
ah fight more
00:42:33
The Blade's Edge
Yeah, exactly. Yeah, you're gonna you're gonna want to go out there and you're gonna want to seize destiny, but you're gonna want to take your time.
00:42:41
Trevor
Work hard and hardly work, you know.
00:42:41
The Blade's Edge
There's no rush. Yes. Take a load off, but don't like relax too much.
00:42:49
Vesz'rak
Sounds like he's really in between me burning his desk or not. You see, it's really fine in the middle of a path here.
00:42:54
The Blade's Edge
Yeah, I prefer I prefer you to not burn it, but at the same time, I i would I enjoy things happening.
00:43:03
Trevor
Does this dude, uh, this is my, this is a pretty honest question. Does this dude seem like pretty happy? Like he's chilling or does he seem like he has no idea what the fuck is going on and has?
00:43:12
Kyle
Do you not know what the answer to this is gonna be?
00:43:13
The Blade's Edge
ah He's. Yeah, he's not he's not happy, but he's not he's not mad either.
00:43:18
Vesz'rak
he
00:43:18
Kyle
I can come on!
00:43:18
Trevor
yeah Right.
00:43:18
The Blade's Edge
He's not miserable.
00:43:19
Alma Graves
Hilarious, hilarious.
00:43:20
Kyle
and
00:43:20
Vesz'rak
Okay, you know, you know i'm branding I'm branding the desk and walking away.
00:43:20
The Blade's Edge
Yeah.
00:43:21
Trevor
Yeah. Okay. I don't know why I asked that.
00:43:22
Kyle
Why did you ask?
00:43:23
Trevor
That was stupid. I don't know. know I Fucking dumb.
00:43:26
Vesz'rak
I don't care. I don't care. Hey, we were here, by the way.
00:43:30
Alma Graves
ah
00:43:31
The Blade's Edge
Okay. You branded the desk and he goes, so okay. And that just happened. Nice. And I'll see. I don't know if people are going to take that as ah like if people were going to come in here and they're going to be like, Oh, did he threaten you?
00:43:43
The Blade's Edge
And I'm like, well, no, he didn't threaten me, but I also didn't tell him to burn the desk.
00:43:46
Vesz'rak
Guys, let's leave.
00:43:47
The Blade's Edge
You know what I mean?
00:43:47
Vesz'rak
Guys, let's just get out of here. let's We're gonna get caught up in a thing. Let's just go. Let's just, while he's talking, let's just get out of here.
00:43:55
Trevor
I'll shake his hand and just be like, Steve, thank you. We'll be back, I'm sure.
00:43:59
The Blade's Edge
Of course. And this, honestly, my desk, my desk being burned, it's not a blessing, but it's not a curse.
00:44:00
Kyle
Hey, keep on steeping.
00:44:06
Vesz'rak
Yeah, and we might, hey Steve, we might be back, but we most definitely won't be back.
00:44:06
The Blade's Edge
You know what I mean?
00:44:06
Trevor
Okay, yeah, yeah, we'll roll over.
00:44:08
The Blade's Edge
Yeah.
00:44:12
The Blade's Edge
I hope I never see you again, but at the same time, if I do see you again, I'm going to be happy to see you.
00:44:14
Vesz'rak
Yeah, exactly, yeah, exactly.
00:44:16
Alma Graves
yeah
00:44:17
Vesz'rak
Hey, I'm gonna leave your door slightly open, but it might be closed as well.
00:44:21
The Blade's Edge
Nice. And when you leave, I'm going to close that door, but that's going to open another door in the back of my place.
00:44:25
Kyle
Okay.
00:44:26
Vesz'rak
It's gonna open a window, yeah.
00:44:27
The Blade's Edge
Yeah. It's nice to have a breeze, but I don't want to be too chilly.
00:44:29
Kyle
okay
00:44:32
Vesz'rak
Get out of here, we gotta go.
00:44:35
Alma Graves
Hilarious.
00:44:37
The Blade's Edge
OK.
00:44:37
Trevor
students best
00:44:39
Alma Graves
Yeah.
00:44:41
The Blade's Edge
I'll put some of some of that info and loot and info so we don't forget.
00:44:46
The Blade's Edge
OK. And you guys are heading to.
00:44:51
Kyle
the Finally, well hopefully finally, the tower.
00:44:55
The Blade's Edge
OK.
00:44:58
The Blade's Edge
um At Yeah, I mean, yeah, after going to the lake coming back from the lake going to the shop heading out from the shop, it's probably a five mile six mile trek on your guys's way.
00:44:58
Alma Graves
Yeah, let's go to the tower 50 minutes later.
00:45:01
Kyle
Yeah.
00:45:15
The Blade's Edge
And on your way.
00:45:20
The Blade's Edge
Can I go ahead and everybody go ahead and just roll me a D 20. And are you guys taking this road the whole way west? There's the road, but there's also, you could go through the forest. You could go south and over. Are you guys going up and over? What what are you guys doing?
Werewolf Mystery
00:45:40
Alma Graves
Uh, it sounded like the road was, um, what we were interested in taking.
00:45:40
Kyle
Be like...
00:45:43
Trevor
Yeah.
00:45:44
Alma Graves
I think that Northern path there that's being marked out. Yeah.
00:45:47
Trevor
Yeah, yeah, I agree.
00:45:47
Alma Graves
Through the woods and Alma rolled an 18.
00:45:47
Kyle
Uh, bash roll the two...
00:45:50
The Blade's Edge
Okay.
00:45:53
Vesz'rak
Big three from Desan.
00:45:54
Trevor
12 from Anabi.
00:45:57
The Blade's Edge
Okay. Um, go ahead and Alma roll me a to do. Uh, it is daytime.
00:46:07
The Blade's Edge
Go ahead and roll me. Uh, a D 12.
00:46:13
Alma Graves
Yeah.
00:46:14
The Blade's Edge
And then who will the second highest? That would be you, Trevor, Trevor, only a D eight.
00:46:21
Alma Graves
That's a two on the D12.
00:46:22
The Blade's Edge
Okay.
00:46:26
Trevor
eight on the d8.
00:46:28
The Blade's Edge
Okay.
00:46:28
Trevor
I don't know that's good or bad.
00:46:29
The Blade's Edge
For a 10 total. um Lovely, lovely, lovely. As you guys are um ah ah working your way across the road, um about halfway You guys see in the middle of the road, a leather wrapped bundle. It's sort of actually like on the side of the road, not in the middle of the road, but like it's right to the side, kind of like. ah You see it, you see this leather right bundle, it's like hidden in the underbrush.
00:47:04
The Blade's Edge
um Poorly, and then like. ah um Yeah, you see you see this this this hidden leather wrapped bundle.
00:47:17
Alma Graves
Can I use my thaumaturgy to kind of just whip it open?
00:47:24
Kyle
Just gonna open it off rip.
00:47:25
The Blade's Edge
Whip open the bundle.
00:47:26
Alma Graves
Yeah, just like ah with magic.
00:47:30
The Blade's Edge
Okay, yeah, you you do that and the the brush from it flies open and you see that this leather wrapped bundle is like wrapped up and like tied shut.
00:47:38
Alma Graves
Ah, OK.
00:47:39
The Blade's Edge
Yes, this bundle, this bundle is like tied.
00:47:40
Alma Graves
Well.
00:47:40
Kyle
Does it look like someone like put it there, like they're trying to hide it or they just like threw it?
00:47:45
The Blade's Edge
Yes. Yeah, they yeah somebody tried to hide it and did so ah poorly.
00:47:50
Kyle
Orly, okay.
00:47:53
Vesz'rak
Yeah, you're getting divine sense for sure, Brian.
00:47:55
The Blade's Edge
OK. Uh, you cast divine sense and you do not, uh, your, uh, the brand on your hand starts to tingle and, uh, you do not, uh, sense the presence of strong evil.
00:48:10
The Blade's Edge
You do not sense the location of any celestial fiend or undevident 60 feet of you.
00:48:10
Vesz'rak
OK. Seems pretty harmless.
00:48:19
Alma Graves
Yeah, I'll go. ah I'll go investigate it.
00:48:22
The Blade's Edge
Okay. Yeah. Roll me an investigation check.
00:48:24
Alma Graves
Yeah, absolutely. Investigation coming in plus one da da da da. It's a five.
00:48:31
The Blade's Edge
Yeah, it seems just like a small leather bundle, maybe the size of like a um like like look smaller than a briefcase and not rigid, like it looks malleable, like whatever is inside this bundle is not stiff and or rigid.
00:48:41
Alma Graves
OK. Sure.
00:48:49
Alma Graves
then I will ah carefully open it.
00:48:51
The Blade's Edge
Okay. You carefully open it and you find inside a loose shirt. And baggy breaches. Uh, you have found a set of common clothes sized for a human adult.
00:49:08
Alma Graves
Interesting.
00:49:09
The Blade's Edge
And we've lost Trevor in the Zen caster.
00:49:12
Alma Graves
Trevor.
00:49:16
Alma Graves
Let's see.
00:49:17
The Blade's Edge
Uh, let's see if he comes back in here.
00:49:19
Kyle
Pause.
00:49:23
The Blade's Edge
I'll pause right now. One sec.
00:49:28
The Blade's Edge
Sorry for the little hiccup there folks, but we pick up on the road. We are on the road from Vlaki to ah Lake Baratok. The gang about halfway has found a leather bundle, ah which has has a set of common clothes.
00:49:46
The Blade's Edge
Uh, human clothes, it looks like human male clothes, a loose fitting shirt and some breaches that were stashed. Uh, for one reason reason or another, you have uncovered that, uh, what would you like to do with it?
00:50:00
The Blade's Edge
And yeah, give me a, give me a nature check.
00:50:02
Alma Graves
Can I smell it? Nature coming in. That's a 14.
00:50:13
The Blade's Edge
um With a 14, they are sized for a human man, or a humanoid man, I should say. um But you do, give me, roll me a D20.
00:50:26
Alma Graves
D20. 13.
00:50:32
The Blade's Edge
ah You smell something ah the else as well on the clothes, something maybe, Um, like the smell of a wet dog.
00:50:46
Alma Graves
Yeah, and that's kind of where my hunch was leading. It kind of confirms maybe a suspicion that I have that, you know. Could this be someone who's who's shed their clothing and gone on a ah midnight wolf romp?
00:51:01
The Blade's Edge
Um, totally, totally viable.
00:51:05
The Blade's Edge
Maybe maybe with that with calling it out like that, maybe you're that's where your hunch is. So you're looking over the clothes and you ah you see a a long gray hair ah near the collar of the shirt ah that you pluck up.
00:51:05
Kyle
Wolfrump.
00:51:19
The Blade's Edge
that looks ah it's it's It's too coarse to be a human gray hair.
00:51:25
Alma Graves
Sure. and And so I look up at the guys and I'm like, I think this might be the, uh, the clothing of, of a werewolf.
00:51:35
Alma Graves
What do we think about that?
00:51:35
Kyle
Hmm and they'd like stash it away do to the mood night dance be
00:51:38
Alma Graves
They stash it away hastily. Yeah. And what time is it right now?
00:51:46
The Blade's Edge
ah Probably, probably closing in on noon.
00:51:49
Alma Graves
So the person who owns these things, us knowing that werewolves ah change at night I wonder if they are coming back for this soon.
00:52:04
Alma Graves
Should we should we wait and watch for a little bit?
00:52:04
Vesz'rak
Could it be I mean we're on the way to his tower right?
00:52:08
Alma Graves
Put it back.
00:52:15
Vesz'rak
and This is on the way. Maybe Rictavio's werewolf.
00:52:20
Alma Graves
I mean, could be, but.
00:52:21
Kyle
Maybe we give it like an hour or two if we would just want to chill here for a bit.
00:52:26
Alma Graves
Yeah, the sneakiest person is definitely Trevor, right? So maybe. Yeah, maybe we. Set up like a nice way to potentially ambush someone who's coming back here.
00:52:42
The Blade's Edge
Okay.
00:52:43
Kyle
Yeah.
00:52:44
The Blade's Edge
Are you guys going to hide in the trees?
00:52:45
Kyle
Let's post up.
00:52:46
The Blade's Edge
So the north, south, or how where are you guys going to hold up?
00:52:48
Alma Graves
All I'll hide in the truth. I think we hide in the trees to the north here.
00:52:53
The Blade's Edge
Okay.
00:52:54
Kyle
Yeah, if we, if we stumbled upon it and we were like walking, walking West, I would go back East probably like 20 feet and then up into the trees.
00:53:08
The Blade's Edge
Okay. Um, is that what everybody's doing?
00:53:13
Alma Graves
Oh, I like it.
00:53:27
The Blade's Edge
Cool.
00:53:31
The Blade's Edge
Nice. Yeah. Yeah. What spell are you going to cast ball or what you guys are posting up here for you?
00:53:37
Alma Graves
Hell yeah.
00:53:40
Trevor
if that makes sense.
00:53:41
The Blade's Edge
You said an hour or two.
00:53:42
Alma Graves
Yeah.
00:53:43
The Blade's Edge
Okay. So 10 minutes passes. Absolutely. You, you cast this spell hidden in the trees. Um, go ahead and let ever us know what you're familiar looks like and what kind of familiar it is.
00:54:01
The Blade's Edge
Yeah. Yeah.
00:54:08
The Blade's Edge
Cool. Um, so what's your owl look like? What are we talking? We're talking, uh, head wig. We talk in.
00:54:23
Alma Graves
can it just be a penguin
00:54:30
The Blade's Edge
I love that.
00:54:34
Trevor
I can be sneaky.
00:54:41
Vesz'rak
Check.
00:54:42
The Blade's Edge
Um, ah does your familiar have a name?
00:54:48
The Blade's Edge
Yeah.
00:54:53
Vesz'rak
What about Steve?
00:54:57
Vesz'rak
yeah It could be, yeah, anything.
00:54:58
The Blade's Edge
Yeah, it could, it could be Steve and hell. It could even be Steve. Yeah. And honestly, I, those were bad suggestions, but you could do Steve.
00:55:12
Kyle
I do like pressing out of that.
00:55:15
Vesz'rak
you know You know what they say, when Steve closes the door, Steve ah also opens the window.
00:55:15
The Blade's Edge
Yeah.
00:55:15
Trevor
yeah i'll follow yeah Yeah, I'll go hide with everybody else. I will also, ah in this time, if we're about to post up and just be like, hang in for a second, I would be taking out all those ingredients that are just purchased and take 10 minutes to cast a spell ritualistically.
00:55:20
The Blade's Edge
Yeah. But Steve didn't, he didn't close it, but he also didn't leave it open.
00:55:23
Vesz'rak
Okay, don't name it Steve.
00:55:24
The Blade's Edge
Yeah.
00:55:25
Vesz'rak
tell its i can do I can't this.
00:55:25
The Blade's Edge
Yeah. Um,
00:55:29
Vesz'rak
I can't keep doing this.
00:55:34
The Blade's Edge
ah Yeah.
00:55:37
Vesz'rak
ah you know
00:55:37
Trevor
ah Find familiar.
00:55:38
The Blade's Edge
Nat 10s.
00:55:39
Kyle
you
00:55:40
The Blade's Edge
Um, well, as you guys do that and, so and Steve comes out, uh, what, everybody give me a stealth check. You're, you're. As your owl comes out and you guys spend some time, let's get a self check.
00:55:53
The Blade's Edge
right
00:55:54
Alma Graves
That's a 16 stealth from Alma.
00:55:56
Kyle
15 for the bash.
00:55:57
Trevor
Um, so I actually have a question for you. Is it set with fine familiar?
00:56:00
Vesz'rak
ten for us on I'm wearing plate mail.
00:56:01
Trevor
Can it be a different familiar each time you cast it?
00:56:02
The Blade's Edge
cool and then why doesn't um uh in why doesn't everybody give me another straight d20 okay eight eighteen two three so disan
00:56:05
Trevor
Yeah. Okay. So for this, uh, I want it to be an owl.
00:56:10
Alma Graves
You'd want me to roll d20s?
00:56:10
Trevor
Um, so yeah.
00:56:11
Alma Graves
You got it, baby. up eight
00:56:15
Vesz'rak
18 for Desan.
00:56:18
Kyle
Don't.
00:56:19
Trevor
Um, yeah, maybe inverted head wig, like all black with like bright orangish gold eyes, you know,
00:56:28
Trevor
No, I cannot.
00:56:32
The Blade's Edge
Um, can you go ahead and roll me a D 12?
00:56:33
Trevor
Yeah, like a shadowy, blackish, grayish owl with like bright, orangish eyes.
00:56:36
Vesz'rak
OK.
00:56:37
The Blade's Edge
And who was the second highest role there? Uh, Alma go ahead and roll me a D eight.
00:56:42
Trevor
ah
00:56:43
Vesz'rak
10 for Desan on the D12.
00:56:43
Alma Graves
Yeah, eight for Alma on the D8.
00:56:47
The Blade's Edge
Wow. So 18.
00:56:48
Trevor
ah No, not yet. It's new and I i just met it, but maybe it'll it'll get a name at some point.
00:56:52
The Blade's Edge
Um, okay. Let's go ahead and.
00:56:55
Trevor
um
00:56:57
The Blade's Edge
Um, over the next, ah we'll say it's an hour.
00:56:57
Trevor
Oh fuck, that's it that's a fucking good idea, holy shit.
00:57:02
The Blade's Edge
Um, you guys.
00:57:03
Trevor
Ah, Wilkins.
00:57:06
Trevor
Ooh, Steve sounds
00:57:07
The Blade's Edge
are chilling.
Encounter with Wildlife
00:57:08
Trevor
good.
00:57:08
The Blade's Edge
You're waiting for somebody to come back, maybe pick up these clothes. And about an hour and a half in, you see crossing the road from the southwest to the northeast, but missing you guys, also not seeing you.
00:57:13
Trevor
Oh, true. I'm shocked I didn't think of that one fucking right out the gate. Another Steve opens.
00:57:27
The Blade's Edge
So whatever happens here is completely up to you.
00:57:29
Trevor
Don't Steve this.
00:57:29
The Blade's Edge
um You guys see crossing the road.
00:57:31
Trevor
ah we'll see We'll see how he rolls.
00:57:32
The Blade's Edge
These
00:57:34
The Blade's Edge
ah creatures that Desan you've seen before. ah The rest of you maybe have vague memories of your your ah the person who carried your soul this past life.
00:57:34
Trevor
If he rolls a lot of very, very average, like right down the middle rolls, it'll be Steve for sure.
00:57:41
Trevor
Yeah, exactly, exactly. um Yeah.
00:57:48
The Blade's Edge
These medium sized creatures that almost look like plants or trees.
00:57:49
Trevor
He just is Steve.
00:57:54
The Blade's Edge
um humanoid in form factor, but with this needily skin bark like texture, uh, you know, that these are, these are a needle blights.
00:57:59
Trevor
12. 12 from Anabi.
00:58:02
Kyle
Aww.
00:58:04
Alma Graves
They're back.
00:58:05
Trevor
I'm casting a spell.
00:58:10
Alma Graves
Did the gothias tree grow back?
00:58:10
The Blade's Edge
Um, and you see four of them crossing the road from the Southwest, ah heading Northeast ish. You guys looks like your stealth roles are higher than their passive perception, your group stealth role.
00:58:23
Trevor
Just a d20. Hang on, sorry, so sorry, sorry.
00:58:24
The Blade's Edge
So they're just going to pass by you. And the only reason they wouldn't is if you guys did anything.
00:58:28
Trevor
Three.
00:58:30
The Blade's Edge
What do you do?
00:58:33
Alma Graves
They're not our targets, but I am concerned that they're back, considering I thought that we destroyed the Golthias tree, didn't we?
00:58:41
Vesz'rak
We did do that.
00:58:42
Kyle
And they're just casually strolling.
00:58:46
The Blade's Edge
ah Yeah, I mean they like looked both ways down the road before crossing
00:58:51
Kyle
Well, also keep in mind that while we did kill everyone and everything at that specific place, that doesn't mean that there weren't already like these guys could have been somewhere else, you know, that we didn't know about.
00:59:04
Alma Graves
True.
00:59:05
Kyle
So it's not like they made more.
00:59:07
Alma Graves
I thought that the gothias tree also like, you know, you kill the gothias tree and the things spawn from it died, but maybe not.
00:59:15
Kyle
How was that?
00:59:16
Alma Graves
I don't know.
00:59:16
Kyle
Is that the case?
00:59:16
Alma Graves
I don't know. I don't remember how it went.
00:59:18
The Blade's Edge
I don't think you guys know that information.
00:59:20
Alma Graves
Yeah.
00:59:20
The Blade's Edge
It's just a ah hunch that.
00:59:22
Alma Graves
Yeah, they could be some lingering.
00:59:23
The Blade's Edge
Yeah. Yeah. These hunched figures lurching through the mist. They're gone to bodies covered in needles.
00:59:30
Alma Graves
And they're heading to the north.
00:59:31
The Blade's Edge
Yeah.
00:59:33
Alma Graves
Mm.
00:59:34
The Blade's Edge
Northeast from Southwest and they are currently passing by you guys with a passive perception of nine.
00:59:35
Alma Graves
Northeast.
00:59:41
The Blade's Edge
Not even they don't even notice the songs lowest stealth role of 10.
00:59:45
Alma Graves
Well, we could try to hang out here for a little bit more and then try to pick up their trail. I wonder where they're going.
00:59:54
Kyle
um
01:00:04
Kyle
Um...
01:00:04
Alma Graves
OK, I think wait it out or
01:00:05
Kyle
Yeah, i'm I'm for that option, to be honest.
01:00:10
Kyle
Yeah, because I think the... Yeah, we wait it out. Because I think that... We wanted something of interest to us, which would have been like a werewolf or something that we can talk to or a guy acting weird, but they're just needleblights.
01:00:28
Alma Graves
Right.
01:00:32
Vesz'rak
And don't forget, we are still looking for Mother Knight, who is supposedly the werewolf leader.
01:00:39
Alma Graves
Right.
01:00:44
Kyle
Hmm. Yeah, I don't think we need to do anything.
01:00:45
Alma Graves
Yeah, I think we keep waiting for, for werewolf info fine by me.
01:00:49
Kyle
Yeah.
01:00:52
Kyle
And did they see- they didn't see the, uh... Is the sack still there? We didn't touch that, did we? We didn't move it.
01:01:00
The Blade's Edge
You tell me, did you guys take the sack or did you leave it there?
01:01:05
Alma Graves
Yeah.
01:01:07
Kyle
Yeah, if someone's coming back to it.
01:01:08
Alma Graves
yeah
01:01:09
The Blade's Edge
Well, yeah, you left it. They didn't pay it any mind.
01:01:12
Kyle
Okay.
01:01:14
Kyle
Yeah we keep waiting.
01:01:21
The Blade's Edge
Okay.
01:01:21
The Blade's Edge
So you guys let the, you let the needle blights pass by. They've now they've gone. It's been a minute or two. You know they are definitely out of out of sight. What is next? You guys are just going to get back on the road and head ah west.
01:01:21
Alma Graves
Yep.
01:01:40
Alma Graves
Yeah, two hours.
01:01:41
The Blade's Edge
It's been an hour and a half. So if you want you want to continue to wait.
01:01:44
Alma Graves
yeah it Let's wait another half hour and see what happens. And then if it doesn't ah work, it doesn't work.
01:01:49
Kyle
Yeah.
01:01:54
The Blade's Edge
Sure. Yeah.
01:01:58
Trevor
I say we either, ah my vote is either we do something about them right now or we just wait this out and we keep going the direction that we originally planned, which is the tower.
01:02:01
The Blade's Edge
Yeah, North.
01:02:11
The Blade's Edge
Cool. Yeah, yeah. So so further into the Spalich Woods to the north. Cool. um I love that. Go ahead and roll me a perception or investigation check.
01:02:48
Alma Graves
Yeah baby.
01:02:52
The Blade's Edge
Nice. So as your um owl heads north into the trees.
01:02:55
Trevor
Yeah, how long?
01:02:59
The Blade's Edge
um and An owl with with eyesight normally pretty good. It is daytime. Maybe it's a little better at night, but it catches the scent of something.
01:03:06
Trevor
Maybe we probably would have left it if we were...
01:03:09
The Blade's Edge
And as your owl swoops down on the trees, um you it hears a what you guys hear, too. But your owl is sort of a little further off. Here's a a wolf howl.
01:03:23
The Blade's Edge
And then another until there is the five, um, sounds of howling your, uh, within that 20, your, um, owl tracks that and comes across five massive wolves, which, you know, would be dire wolves, massive hulking.
01:03:23
Kyle
Oof.
01:03:37
Trevor
Yeah, so is if it's been, I mean, how long did we want to give this an hour? Two hours? Two hours?
01:03:46
The Blade's Edge
There are five of them. And then there are 20 normal wolves. who have all congregated to a specific spot where these five dire wolves have now um coalesced and are howling.
01:03:52
Trevor
Yeah, can I have my familiar do some scouting? Like,
01:04:00
Trevor
Just check around in these trees, maybe see if it sees anything around us.
01:04:00
The Blade's Edge
ah
01:04:01
Kyle
God.
01:04:06
The Blade's Edge
Yeah, north probably a mile, probably since you guys are waiting another half hour.
01:04:06
Trevor
Yeah, yeah, yeah. And then if nothing, I'll have to come back to me and then maybe come check down here in this pile of trees.
01:04:11
The Blade's Edge
It's ah probably during that you guys hear it very faintly, but your one, two, three, four, probably be this square right here.
01:04:16
Trevor
ah
01:04:21
Trevor
Yeah, yeah, not too far. Keep it within relative distance, I think, but.
01:04:23
The Blade's Edge
Uh, let me go ahead and change that to freehand. Uh, one, two, three, four. but but That on like that square basically is where your outlet.
01:04:33
Trevor
how ah perception is what wisdom does it have perception oh perception plus three can I roll it straight from here no oh 20 let's go plus three or 23
01:04:34
The Blade's Edge
That's where it hears the howling. Um, and as you guys hear that while you guys are waiting out in the next half hour, let me get a D 20 rule from everybody who is currently in the trees.
01:04:43
Alma Graves
Let's go. but Wait, what is that? What is that button? Is that it? Why does my button look weird?
01:04:50
Kyle
Oh my god. Perfect.
01:04:58
The Blade's Edge
<unk>
01:05:01
Alma Graves
1545. Uh oh.
01:05:03
The Blade's Edge
at 1545, you would think rolling a natural won't be bad.
01:05:04
Kyle
That's insane.
01:05:09
The Blade's Edge
and Nothing happens.
01:05:11
Alma Graves
Wow.
01:05:11
The Blade's Edge
The the remaining 30 minutes goes by. I guess that's not necessarily good news. You were waiting for somebody to come claim these clothes, and nobody seems like they're coming to claim these clothes. But you do, yes.
01:05:25
The Blade's Edge
You hear that howling from up north is is all that happens in that next half hour.
01:05:47
Trevor
Okay.
01:06:02
Trevor
Okay, what in which direction did we pick that up?
01:06:03
Kyle
Yeah.
01:06:04
Alma Graves
I mean, Von Richtoven, yeah.
01:06:07
Trevor
Just north of us, essentially?
01:06:11
Trevor
Okay.
01:06:15
Kyle
Yeah, just keep going.
01:06:17
The Blade's Edge
Okay, the owl returns. ah You hear the the howling from about a mile north, but you guys are saying no to that and just heading straight to Lake Baratok and the.
Arrival at the Stone Tower
01:06:30
The Blade's Edge
ah Van Richten. Tower.
01:06:32
Alma Graves
Yes, yes.
01:06:33
Kyle
Yeah.
01:06:33
Vesz'rak
Yep.
01:06:34
The Blade's Edge
OK. um Wish you guys on a different map here while I read to the rest of.
01:06:38
Trevor
Okay.
01:06:43
The Blade's Edge
ah You guys, what it is you see so.
01:06:49
The Blade's Edge
Um, do, do, do. OK, so ah you guys come to a cold mountain lake.
01:06:53
Trevor
Whoa.
01:06:59
The Blade's Edge
It's a bit colder over here than it was in Valaki, Chile.
01:07:01
Trevor
That's crazy.
01:07:03
The Blade's Edge
Maybe those of you who have cloaks are pulling them closer. Those of you who don't shiver runs across your body goosebumps all over. Vesrak for a second, you swear you feel
01:07:14
Trevor
hell yeah okay I'd have the owl come back sorry yeah go ahead go ahead yeah I'd have the owl return I would relay all of that I know we all heard it but I would relay the location of it maybe suggest that
01:07:17
The Blade's Edge
eight legs on your neck. ah But as you immediately put a hand up, you realize you're just cold and you have goosebumps covering your body.
01:07:29
Vesz'rak
Don't like that. Next question.
01:07:31
The Blade's Edge
ah You come to a cold mountain lake enclosed by misty woods and rocky bluffs. Thick fog creeps around the dark still waters. The trail ends at a grass covered causeway.
01:07:42
Trevor
This might just be one pile. that Something tells me if we were to look around, maybe we'd find even more piles of clothes.
01:07:45
The Blade's Edge
So sort of a um where the road ends and you see this lake you see sort of far like into the lake you see this tower and there's like a strip of land that goes from the outside of the lake into the lake that is the causeway um you see uh this yeah grass covered causeway that stretches a hundred yards across the lake to a flat marshy island with a stone tower on it
01:07:50
Trevor
so It seems like there might be a pretty solid ah congregation or meetup of these things happening up. about a mile north of us in these woods.
01:08:02
Trevor
I think maybe it'd be best that we just, you know, keep going, head over to that tower. I'm sure if that's where the, yes, yeah. I'm fond of Beethoven, Mike. I don't know more about it, yeah.
01:08:16
Trevor
Yeah, agreed.
01:08:16
The Blade's Edge
um I will stop there. Actually, do you guys cross this causeway to the stone tower?
01:08:21
Alma Graves
Hell yeah.
01:08:23
Vesz'rak
Yes.
01:08:24
The Blade's Edge
OK, the tower looks old and decrepit with collapsing scaffolds clinging to one side ah where a large gash has split the wall. Time worn griffin statues, their wings and flanks covered with moss are perched atop buttresses that support the walls.
01:08:47
The Blade's Edge
on moss covered marshy swamp vibes in the middle of a lake stone tower old decrepit parked near the base of the tower within sight of the entrance is a barrel topped wagon spattered with mud.
01:09:04
Alma Graves
Is that the wagon we've seen before?
01:09:07
The Blade's Edge
Go ahead and make a perception check.
01:09:08
Alma Graves
I would love to. buteppi ah
01:09:16
The Blade's Edge
Um, hard to tell because it's, it's, uh, it's spattered with mud. Like there, if there was a, uh, logo on the side or whatever you saw previously, the whole, this, this wagon looks like covered in mud.
01:09:30
The Blade's Edge
Maybe there's some tree branches on it too. Some moss on the wheels.
01:09:34
Alma Graves
Giuseppe!
01:09:34
The Blade's Edge
Uh, you can't really tell same shape.
01:09:38
Alma Graves
ah Well, only one way to find out.
01:09:43
Alma Graves
<unk>t enough um I would start walking forward to check it out.
01:09:49
The Blade's Edge
OK. Zalma goes and checks out the to check out the WAG, and what are the rest of you guys doing?
01:10:02
Kyle
there's no There's no... Is there any windows?
01:10:09
Kyle
Wait, there we go.
01:10:10
The Blade's Edge
On the tower?
01:10:10
Kyle
Um, yeah.
01:10:12
The Blade's Edge
um Good question.
01:10:15
Kyle
Doesn't seem like there is on the front.
01:10:17
The Blade's Edge
Good question. Good question. Uh, there are, yes. As you, as you look up the tower, the tower stands 80 feet tall.
01:10:27
Kyle
Hmm.
01:10:28
The Blade's Edge
It looks like it as judging by the windows, it looks like it has four levels and each level seems to be 20 feet high. Um, do.
01:10:43
The Blade's Edge
um And you see arrow slits on every level, except for the uppermost level. ah It overhangs the level below it, so it's like wider than level below it mushroom tipped, and it has window boxes in addition to arrow slits.
01:11:02
Kyle
What are arrow slits?
01:11:04
The Blade's Edge
Arrow slits are like tiny holes that old castles used to have and things where you could fit an arrow through it, you could shoot arrows through it. But it's like, you know, not wider than your face.
01:11:13
Kyle
Oh, ah is it like the tall like line looking things?
01:11:21
The Blade's Edge
Yes.
01:11:23
Kyle
Oh, that's fire.
01:11:24
The Blade's Edge
These are arrows so that people can people can ah defend their position without it being a ah way to enter.
01:11:24
Kyle
I didn't know that's what those were.
01:11:34
Kyle
Gotcha.
01:11:38
The Blade's Edge
All right. So bash is ah given a once over to the tower. What about Nabi and Dassan? What are you guys doing? and
01:11:53
The Blade's Edge
Okay. Okay. As you do that, you give it a knock and come back to you. Dassan.
01:12:05
Vesz'rak
I would say I would have went up with the Navi to go check out the front door.
01:12:08
The Blade's Edge
OK.
01:12:11
The Blade's Edge
OK. Come back to you guys.
01:12:14
Vesz'rak
Yeah, I mean, he's expecting us, I mean.
01:12:16
The Blade's Edge
Sure.
01:12:16
Vesz'rak
Right?
01:12:16
The Blade's Edge
First.
01:12:16
Vesz'rak
I mean.
01:12:19
Alma Graves
Yeah.
01:12:21
The Blade's Edge
ah Alma, you go check out the wagon. You were first to act.
01:12:27
Alma Graves
I sure do. That's where the Sabretooth Tiger was, maybe.
01:12:30
The Blade's Edge
Cool. So um as you get closer, you're just sort of are you going up there to like wipe the mud away and.
01:12:37
Alma Graves
Yeah, and just to see what it is.
01:12:39
The Blade's Edge
ah Under layers of mud, this wagon sports a fresh coat of purple paint. Its wheels have fancy gold trim. ah You see a brass lantern hangs from each corner and red drapes cover a tombstone shaped window on each side.
01:13:01
The Blade's Edge
A steel padlock secures the back door, hanging from which is a cheap wooden sign that reads, keep out with an exclamation point. This is not Van Richten's wagon. Definitively, this is a different wagon.
01:13:17
Alma Graves
Oh, interesting. Well, if it's here, it might be a guest of his, so I'm just going to leave it alone.
01:13:19
Kyle
Mmm.
01:13:25
The Blade's Edge
Okay. ah Okay, you walk up, wipe that off. Anabi and Dassan, while he's doing that, go ahead and roll me an arcana check.
01:13:39
Vesz'rak
Arcana. The big four war from the sun.
01:13:45
The Blade's Edge
Cool. ah The tower door as you approach is made of iron with no visible handles or hinges.
01:13:49
Trevor
I would probably, I think a knobby would just walk up to the door um and give it a knock.
01:13:53
The Blade's Edge
In the middle of the door is a large embossed symbol, a connected series of lines with eight stick figures set around it carved into the lintel above the door is a word that says Kazan.
01:14:05
Trevor
Cool.
01:14:13
The Blade's Edge
And I will go ahead and go ahead and put that there.
01:14:14
Alma Graves
Kazan.
01:14:18
The Blade's Edge
um And you guys said you knocked on the door.
01:14:20
Trevor
Yeah, I think this is we got the letter from this person, I think.
01:14:22
Alma Graves
Yeah.
01:14:23
Vesz'rak
Yeah.
01:14:24
The Blade's Edge
Cool. Yeah. so um So this is while Alma's checking out the wagon. Bash has given it a once over to it. The two of you walk up, you knock on the door, dum, dum, dum. The k knock sounds pretty dead. Nothing happens. um By the time Alma is done checking out the wagon, nothing has happened. ah Bash, what are you doing during this?
01:14:46
Kyle
Um, yeah, are there any windows on the first floor that I could like peer into?
01:14:52
The Blade's Edge
No, the only windows are on the top very top floor.
01:14:55
Kyle
Oh, only on the top floor.
01:14:56
The Blade's Edge
The second and third have arrow slits and the top also has arrow slits, but it has a, uh, yeah.
01:15:02
Kyle
Okay. And this ladder right here right in front of me, where does that go up to?
01:15:09
The Blade's Edge
Um, good question. You see rotting wooden beams support the scaffolding, which groans and creeks with the slightest breeze, a series of ladders and platforms lead to.
01:15:23
The Blade's Edge
um
01:15:26
The Blade's Edge
This like, let me see if I can get rid of the fucking. I don't know why it's off again. I didn't get rid of this without getting rid of the blue.
01:15:37
The Blade's Edge
Yeah, let me get rid of this real quick. ah do Okay. You can see it better now, right?
01:15:44
Kyle
Yeah, yeah.
01:15:46
The Blade's Edge
There's, so there's like a ladder that goes up and then like scaffolding on the outside.
01:15:46
Trevor
Big five from Anabi.
01:15:56
Kyle
Um, it could I keep, I'm gonna keep walking around to this side.
01:16:02
The Blade's Edge
Okay. All right.
01:16:04
Kyle
I just want to see how far the ah scaffolding goes around without actually getting on top of it.
01:16:09
The Blade's Edge
Cool. Um, yeah, make me a perception or investigation check.
01:16:21
Kyle
Gonna be a 13.
01:16:22
The Blade's Edge
Cool. I'll come back to you. Uh, and Nabi Desan Alma, you're at the front door.
01:16:25
Trevor
Yeah.
01:16:27
The Blade's Edge
You knock Alma goes up and joins you guys. You, that's the door. The knock sounds pretty dead. Nothing else happens. Nobody answers.
01:16:36
Alma Graves
What do all these symbols mean out here? It looks like they're all connected to each other on this door. I'm like kinda trying to research it. I'm like, it looks like stick figures.
01:16:52
Vesz'rak
I see an upside down bat. that's That's what I feel like the lines make.
01:16:57
Alma Graves
Upside down bat, I could see it.
01:16:58
Vesz'rak
Yeah, upside down bat.
01:16:59
Alma Graves
But it looks like it's like the two two hands up and then one hand down, one hand up. And then you kind of move around and you got all these different goofy-ass arm movements. Yeah, maybe it's like the lock to the door.
01:17:17
Vesz'rak
Oh, I didn't even think they even look like stick figures. I thought it was like,
01:17:20
Alma Graves
yeah They look like stick figures to me. Except for they're doing moves. But where do you where do we start? I'm going to try to follow the lines here and do these these moves.
01:17:38
Alma Graves
yeah i'm good Yeah. I'm going to do like the one in.
01:17:41
The Blade's Edge
I even, I even describe them as stick figures.
01:17:44
Alma Graves
Yeah.
01:17:44
The Blade's Edge
They are definitively, they are definitively stick figures.
01:17:45
Vesz'rak
Oh, my bad. and
01:17:48
The Blade's Edge
Yeah.
01:17:48
Alma Graves
Yeah, so.
01:17:50
The Blade's Edge
Yeah. You guys see a bunch of stick figures. I'm thinking it's like stick figures. Really? I don't know.
01:17:50
Vesz'rak
there yeah ah gra Yeah.
01:17:55
Alma Graves
Hey, what a good hunch, bro.
01:17:57
The Blade's Edge
I'm not convinced about the whole thing.
01:17:59
Alma Graves
What a hunch.
01:17:59
Vesz'rak
Yeah, I grabbed the piece of paper and I go, wait a second.
01:18:03
Alma Graves
Wait a second. OK, so I.
01:18:04
Vesz'rak
you're telling You're telling me. Yeah. ah It says start here on one of those.
01:18:12
Alma Graves
ah
01:18:14
The Blade's Edge
Okay, so Alma, as you approach, what are you attempting to do?
01:18:17
Alma Graves
Yeah, I want to start with the one at 11 o'clock there with both hands up in the air.
01:18:22
The Blade's Edge
Why don't you describe to us and the listener what you do?
01:18:26
Alma Graves
Yeah, so I spread my legs out and I put both arms, one out to the right, one to the left like I'm making a field goal sign. And then I put my left arm down and then I put both arms out to my side. And then I put both arms in the opposite of the first position with both arms pointing down. And then I go both arms up again, right arm down, ah both arms out again.
01:18:56
Alma Graves
and then put both arms facing down and that's all of the shapes.
01:19:02
The Blade's Edge
Okay, as you do that, um going back to bash real quick. So bash, you see that this scaffolding goes up. um
01:19:11
Trevor
Can you shake it all about?
01:19:12
The Blade's Edge
ah The scaffolding goes up all the way to the third floor. And from where you're standing, it looks like there's a hole in the wall on the third floor that this leads to.
01:19:16
Kyle
Hmm. And it seems structurally, it seems pretty weak. Like if I were to climb on top of this, would this just immediately topple over?
01:19:34
The Blade's Edge
Uh, it, it, it is moving with the very, uh, with the, uh, breeze of the wind.
01:19:39
Trevor
Oh yeah, 100% they look like stick figures.
01:19:40
The Blade's Edge
I mean, it is scaffolding. It looks like it could support some weight.
01:19:45
Kyle
Yeah, but I'm like, I'm, I'm big boss over here.
01:19:48
Trevor
You see stick figures?
01:19:50
The Blade's Edge
Yeah. How much do you think batch weighs?
01:19:51
Trevor
They look like stick figures.
01:19:54
Kyle
Like two, two 20.
01:19:57
Trevor
I don't know about you guys.
Exploring the Tower
01:20:00
The Blade's Edge
Okay.
01:20:01
Kyle
10 to 20.
01:20:01
Trevor
What are we doing here?
01:20:03
Kyle
He's not confident that he would be supported by the scaffolding. But I will take that information and come back over to the gang and just sit.
01:20:08
The Blade's Edge
Okay.
01:20:08
Trevor
they're like labeled on the door stick fingers
01:20:12
The Blade's Edge
You, you round the corner and you see Alma doing like robot dance moves, like the guys who are, uh, on Venice beach.
01:20:13
Trevor
yeah
01:20:23
The Blade's Edge
Um, and as Alma, as you finish the dance moves, um,
01:20:30
The Blade's Edge
uh, one second.
01:20:37
Trevor
They're like labeled on the door stick fingers.
01:20:38
The Blade's Edge
Um, Cool.
01:20:44
Alma Graves
I keep dancing and I keep repeating it over and over and over again.
01:20:46
The Blade's Edge
Yeah. So really quickly. So, um, I, okay. So we're going to, we're going to, I'm going to backtrack just two seconds. We're going to say this, this happened right before you did the dancing.
01:20:58
The Blade's Edge
Who knocked.
01:21:01
The Blade's Edge
Right.
01:21:01
Vesz'rak
Anabi, I think.
01:21:02
The Blade's Edge
I need a deck saving throw from anybody within 10 feet. Uh, of the tower, which I think might've been everybody, but Alma and bash at the time of the knock.
01:21:09
Kyle
Of the door?
01:21:10
Alma Graves
Uh-oh.
01:21:14
Vesz'rak
Rats.
01:21:15
The Blade's Edge
So dison and a knobby. I need deck saves.
01:21:21
Vesz'rak
Eight for Desan.
01:21:22
Alma Graves
That's an 11.
01:21:23
The Blade's Edge
Okay.
01:21:23
Alma Graves
I'm going to use my pack to the talisman to try to roll a d4 to turn it into a potential success.
01:21:27
The Blade's Edge
Alma, you don't need to roll. You were back at the wagon while this happened. You and bash and not need to roll.
01:21:31
Alma Graves
Oh, Yahoo.
01:21:32
The Blade's Edge
Just knobby and the son.
01:21:33
Alma Graves
Yeah, baby.
01:21:34
The Blade's Edge
Uh, dison, you rolled disadvantage because you are wearing metal armor, correct?
01:21:38
Vesz'rak
uh i don't think so i think that's stealth perception only you're just i am wearing i'm wearing chain mail yeah oh okay oh sorry no bro come on sorry
01:21:43
The Blade's Edge
No, I'm asking you if you're wearing metal armor, you are, right?
01:21:49
The Blade's Edge
You are making this at disadvantage. Yeah, you're all good.
01:21:56
The Blade's Edge
The tower as as you touch it, the tower and 10 feet out from the tower envelops enlightening.
01:21:58
Vesz'rak
sorry
01:22:04
The Blade's Edge
And ah you and Nabi, you will take half this.
01:22:10
Vesz'rak
Why do I keep getting shook by lightning man?
01:22:11
The Blade's Edge
Just yeah, just so on you take 26 points of lightning damage and Inabi you take 13 as the as you knock on the door the tower zaps you guys which Maybe that leads to Alma approaching and trying the dance move um And as the ah and Do As the
01:22:13
Vesz'rak
but but but
01:22:16
Alma Graves
What?!
01:22:16
Kyle
Oh my...
01:22:23
Vesz'rak
the
01:22:41
The Blade's Edge
dance moves happen, the iron door. ah Opens.
01:22:48
Alma Graves
Holy shit, I did it!
01:22:57
Vesz'rak
literally smoking here.
01:23:02
The Blade's Edge
And bash, you let them know about the ah scaffolding as well.
01:23:03
Trevor
think i did and abi
01:23:05
Kyle
Yeah, yeah, I mentioned that there's a scaffolding goes up to the third floor. There's a hole if we want to sort of flank flank the back.
01:23:19
Vesz'rak
I mean, he knows we're coming, right? I mean, like i mean we were invited, right? I mean, we have and do we have to sneak in if we were invited?
01:23:23
Alma Graves
We were invited. Yeah.
01:23:27
Alma Graves
Well, nobody answered the door. So maybe whoever's wagon this is, is given the business.
01:23:29
Trevor
I think I did, and I'll be well.
01:23:32
Alma Graves
So let's move, ah assuming that maybe he needs a little help.
01:23:38
Vesz'rak
given me the business.
01:23:38
Alma Graves
but i'd I'd walk in.
01:23:40
The Blade's Edge
Okay.
01:23:41
Trevor
Uh, oh.
01:23:43
The Blade's Edge
All right. Uh, you walk inside and you see the flagstone floor is strewn with debris and a few old crates stand near the East wall.
01:23:57
Trevor
No, I'm not.
01:23:58
The Blade's Edge
A torn curtain to the south partially obscures the tower of vestibule.
01:24:00
Trevor
Telling you I'm not.
01:24:03
The Blade's Edge
This is a curtain that you walk through. A five foot square indentation in the center of the floor contains four pulleys attached to top iron chains that stretch up through the similarly sized hole in the rotted ah rotted wooden ceiling.
01:24:22
The Blade's Edge
Standing next to each of the four chains are four tall clay statues.
01:24:29
Alma Graves
Oh, and there's four of us. I'd walk in and take a step onto this thing. And then look up and be like, is this like a pulley system?
01:24:40
The Blade's Edge
These are the clay or four of them.
01:24:42
Alma Graves
Oh, what's up, boys?
01:24:50
Vesz'rak
Welcome to the Salty's Badoon out to Faria.
01:24:52
Alma Graves
Mm hmm.
01:24:57
Alma Graves
Yeah, I would i'd investigate those and see if they look like like what purpose are they serving? like What are they here for?
01:25:06
The Blade's Edge
Sure. Give me an investigation check.
01:25:08
Alma Graves
yeah Investigation or Arcana?
01:25:13
The Blade's Edge
You tell me, what are you trying to, you trying to figure out what they're for or how they were made?
01:25:17
Alma Graves
I'd like to know what they're um used for like magically because they look like there's something made of magic.
01:25:24
The Blade's Edge
Cool. Well, with an investigation check, you don't get anything magic necessarily. You see these four clay, uh, statues and they're definitely with a 14. They're definitely used to pull the police to lift this five foot thing on the floor. Like an elevator.
01:25:39
Alma Graves
Oh, OK. I wonder if there's a code word.
01:25:41
Kyle
Mmm.
01:25:42
Alma Graves
um Hey, guys, come in here.
01:25:47
Kyle
Yeah, I'll...
01:25:47
Alma Graves
buts Let's see if we can go up the lift.
01:25:48
Kyle
I'll walk in.
01:25:51
Alma Graves
This is a small elevator.
01:25:53
Kyle
Oh!
01:25:54
The Blade's Edge
Yeah, it's just a platform. There's no like walls to it. Five foot square wooden platform.
01:25:59
Alma Graves
We're going to need to. We're going to need to snuggle up on this thing.
01:26:09
Vesz'rak
Yeah I'll walk in, take a look.
01:26:09
The Blade's Edge
Okay.
01:26:11
Kyle
stand on this side over here.
01:26:28
The Blade's Edge
Okay.
01:26:38
The Blade's Edge
Cool. Make a perception check for your owl. Familiar. Uh, with the 21, no one's following you. You don't see anybody following you. You don't see anybody like watching from a distance. Um,
01:26:58
The Blade's Edge
all quiet on the Western front.
01:27:02
Alma Graves
Um, yeah, if everybody's on the, uh, Ooh, Hey, that looks pretty cool. If everybody is on the elevator, I would like look at one of these golems or whatever and just be like up.
01:27:15
The Blade's Edge
Okay, who's on the central platform as you say up?
01:27:21
Alma Graves
Snuggle up boys.
01:27:21
Kyle
I mean, we you can't fit, can we?
01:27:23
Vesz'rak
Yeah. Are we all able to fit on the.
01:27:25
The Blade's Edge
No.
01:27:26
Vesz'rak
Yeah. One at a time.
01:27:27
Kyle
Well, I'm not, definitely not.
01:27:27
The Blade's Edge
Definitely not. Yeah, you can do maybe two of you if you wanted to to attempt it.
01:27:33
Alma Graves
I'll go up.
01:27:34
The Blade's Edge
I'll give you control of this, Trev.
01:27:38
Vesz'rak
Yeah. After getting electrocuted, I think I'm just going to take a breather and probably stay down here.
01:27:42
Kyle
but
01:27:45
Vesz'rak
Uh.
01:27:45
The Blade's Edge
There you go.
01:27:46
Alma Graves
Yeah, I'll give you a couple of my healing hands. Let me and we mark those down real quick. ah what Let's do a hot, I'll do 3D6 for you.
01:28:03
Alma Graves
a Roll.
01:28:06
Alma Graves
That's 11 healing coming in for you, Desan.
01:28:09
Vesz'rak
ah Okay, I'll take that. I'm gonna burn some, I'm gonna burn some healing for myself.
01:28:12
Alma Graves
I'll be like, I'll see what's up there.
01:28:16
Trevor
um I would turn around and look up for my familiar scouting, if and if it
01:28:19
Vesz'rak
Use my Leon Hands Pool might as well smoke me if you got me to.
01:28:22
Alma Graves
Smoke him if you got him.
Discoveries and Theories
01:28:25
Trevor
isn't seeing any of that, I would have it like looking out to make sure nothing is like following us.
01:28:25
The Blade's Edge
Okay. So is it just, uh, you going up?
01:28:28
Alma Graves
I think so.
01:28:30
The Blade's Edge
Okay. Uh, you say up.
01:28:31
Trevor
And if it didn't see anything, just telepathically tell it to come back to the group.
01:28:33
Kyle
a piece.
01:28:36
Alma Graves
Uppies.
01:28:36
The Blade's Edge
Um, yes, you guys see all four of those clay statues immediately pull and, uh, you see the, um, pulley with Alma on it's goes to the second floor.
01:28:40
Alma Graves
Hey. They listen to me.
01:28:45
Trevor
This is plus 3. Oh, 21. OK.
01:28:56
The Blade's Edge
Alma on the second floor, dust and cobwebs fill this otherwise empty room.
01:29:02
Trevor
Sick.
01:29:03
The Blade's Edge
The wooden floor of which is badly rotted and partially collapsed.
01:29:09
The Blade's Edge
You see another five foot square hole in the floor, obviously that you came through and the ceiling, rusted chains near each corner.
01:29:09
Trevor
There we go.
01:29:19
Alma Graves
OK, OK, so we're going up ah and does it continue to ah go up or does it just kind of stay here?
01:29:20
Trevor
There we go.
01:29:27
The Blade's Edge
When you say up, it brings you right there.
01:29:29
Alma Graves
OK. I yell up again up.
01:29:33
The Blade's Edge
Okay.
01:29:35
Trevor
Oh, nice.
01:29:36
The Blade's Edge
You're brought to the third floor, and ah time and the elements have all but destroyed this chamber, leaving a gash in the northwest wall and slimy black mildew on the walls.
01:29:38
Alma Graves
Hello.
01:29:39
Trevor
Thanks.
01:29:46
Trevor
oh
01:29:52
The Blade's Edge
The wooden floor of this room is completely rotted and has begun to fall away in places. There is a five foot square hole in the floor that you came through and the ceiling with rusted chains in each corner.
01:30:04
Alma Graves
Then I would yell down, ah, please.
01:30:08
The Blade's Edge
Okay, I was almost doing this.
01:30:08
Trevor
shit
01:30:09
The Blade's Edge
What are the rest of you guys doing?
01:30:12
Vesz'rak
Uh, I'd go over and heal and Abby, the 13 HP that he took from the lightning so that we're both, uh, topped off. And I have, uh, seven lay on hands healing left.
01:30:26
Vesz'rak
For those of you keeping track at home. And I, I guess I'd kind of look, look over at the party and be like, should someone else go up with them or up there?
01:30:31
Trevor
Nice. Oh shit.
01:30:40
Kyle
We gotta, if someone wants to call the elevator back down.
01:30:43
Vesz'rak
Well, yeah, we would have to call the elevator back down and then to go back up, huh?
01:30:46
Alma Graves
Alma's Gil Gravesing right now.
01:30:51
The Blade's Edge
Okay.
01:31:09
The Blade's Edge
No, just on the third floor where Alma is, which you can't see the floor is like falling apart.
01:31:19
The Blade's Edge
Now, just the hole in the floor that she went through and the hole in the ceiling. So like when you look up, you see that there's a five foot hole in each floor that this police system is bringing her through.
01:31:32
The Blade's Edge
All right. um Bash, anything.
01:31:37
Kyle
I see these boxes over here um What are they are they just like crates or what's it was a vibe down here Can I open the top of one
01:31:39
The Blade's Edge
Hmm.
01:31:47
The Blade's Edge
Yeah, those are crates.
01:31:50
The Blade's Edge
Standing near the East wall. Um, yeah, you open, uh, the top of one of the crates and the smell hits you before anything else as there is a rotten food, like rotten vegetables. Waft out.
01:32:08
Kyle
Nasty, i I close it quickly.
01:32:11
The Blade's Edge
Cool. Yeah. Make me a, um, perception chip check.
01:32:18
Kyle
15.
01:32:19
The Blade's Edge
Cool. Um, you see in this, in this crate, it's it's rotten vegetables, but there's just like a, there's just like carrots and stuff on the top as like a layer to hide what's underneath.
01:32:22
Trevor
oh Shit, thank you, dude I Think it's Yeah, I'd be there
01:32:35
Kyle
There's carrots on top.
01:32:36
The Blade's Edge
You see there's something, you see that there's like the vegetables on top are to hide what's under it.
01:32:44
Kyle
Hmm.
01:32:47
Kyle
Okay. um Yeah.
01:32:49
The Blade's Edge
It'll smell strongly. It smells disgusting. hold The whole, the whole crate. But you know that these, these vegetables on top are hiding something underneath.
01:32:54
Trevor
Yeah, it seems like she's kind of on a, on a mission right now. I wish I could wait.
01:32:59
Kyle
Gotcha. I tell everyone to plug their noses for a sec.
01:33:00
Trevor
There's no way. Did you say there was another, so there was the, on the second floor, there was the five foot hole that the platform went through.
01:33:04
Kyle
And I open the crate again and I use my axe to kind of move the carrots away and like uncover what the carrots are sitting on top of.
01:33:05
Vesz'rak
in those part.
01:33:07
Trevor
Was there another one that had like decayed? There was like another hole in the floor. Did I?
01:33:15
Trevor
Right.
01:33:16
The Blade's Edge
You see there, you you see what is underneath them.
01:33:18
Trevor
Oh, okay. Okay. I thought I heard that on the second floor too, but I'm tripping.
01:33:21
The Blade's Edge
Um, but on top of all that underneath the carrots, but on top of what's underneath it, you see a little piece of paper and the piece of paper says, uh, doesn't work.
01:33:24
Trevor
Right, right.
01:33:32
The Blade's Edge
Um, and you see ah underneath the carrots, the rest of the crate is filled with rotten garlic and a big piece of paper sitting on top that says doesn't work.
01:33:32
Trevor
Right.
01:33:33
Trevor
OK.
01:33:40
Alma Graves
Ooh!
01:33:42
Kyle
Mmm.
01:33:43
Vesz'rak
you
01:33:47
Vesz'rak
So garlic doesn't work.
01:33:47
Kyle
so
01:33:50
Kyle
So... Wait, we know, we know Strahd is like a vampire.
01:33:55
The Blade's Edge
Hmm. Yeah.
01:33:56
Kyle
We know vampires don't like garlic.
01:34:00
The Blade's Edge
So the stories go.
01:34:01
Vesz'rak
Yeah, that's like the folklore.
01:34:01
Kyle
So the stories go.
01:34:03
Vesz'rak
Yeah.
01:34:04
Kyle
So, I'm wondering...
01:34:08
Kyle
does this garlic not work because it's rotten or did they try to use like that's a problem.
01:34:14
Alma Graves
I think Strad might be resistant to garlic.
01:34:24
Kyle
Yeah, yeah, yeah. That's rotting. Yeah.
01:34:28
Vesz'rak
Yeah, that's what I was. I would assume garlic works.
01:34:32
Kyle
Shit. And that's there's nothing below the garlic.
01:34:36
The Blade's Edge
No, no, the rest of it is filled with like a rotten garlic.
01:34:41
Vesz'rak
There's no like magic weapon under the garlic that says use this against.
01:34:47
The Blade's Edge
Um, I actually, no, no, but, but important note, and maybe it took you guys a while to realize this, but Desan and Alma.
01:34:49
Vesz'rak
Hello.
01:34:56
Vesz'rak
hello
01:34:58
The Blade's Edge
Um, both. Okay. Okay. So this would be a little bit of, a little bit of backtracking here as I apologize. Lot to remember on my account. Uh, Desan and Alma, both of you assumed you healed. You did not.
01:35:13
Kyle
oh
01:35:13
Vesz'rak
Oh, no.
01:35:15
Kyle
Oh.
01:35:16
The Blade's Edge
Additionally, Inabi when your, uh, owl came through the door, it vanished.
01:35:22
Vesz'rak
Oh, no.
01:35:22
Alma Graves
Oh, we got a little anti magic going on.
01:35:25
Vesz'rak
OK.
01:35:27
The Blade's Edge
So go ahead and, uh, yeah, take that healing back off.
01:35:28
Vesz'rak
Uh.
01:35:31
The Blade's Edge
Uh, you didn't use it.
01:35:32
Vesz'rak
OK.
01:35:32
The Blade's Edge
So you didn't like expend it and it didn't work. You didn't use it because you you went to use it and you like thought you did.
01:35:35
Vesz'rak
OK, OK, OK.
01:35:39
The Blade's Edge
And maybe this is like, yeah, like five minutes later, you guys are like, wait, hold on. I didn't work.
01:35:43
The Blade's Edge
I'm still hurt.
01:35:44
Vesz'rak
Wait, I'm still super hurt by the way, guys.
01:35:46
The Blade's Edge
Yeah.
01:35:46
Alma Graves
Yeah.
01:35:48
The Blade's Edge
Um, yeah.
01:35:49
Kyle
You like feel better for a sec, but it was just like placebo.
01:35:50
Trevor
Damn.
01:35:52
Alma Graves
yeah
01:35:52
The Blade's Edge
Um, and then all that, as you get to the top blur, which there you are. Um, here we go. Unlike the levels below, this room shows signs of recent habitation.
01:36:05
The Blade's Edge
And although the place reeks of mold and mildew, it has plenty of creature comforts, including a cozy bed, a desk with a matching chair, bright tapestries, a large iron stove with plenty of wood to feed it.
01:36:19
The Blade's Edge
Light enters through arrow slits, as well as through dirt caked windows with broken shutters.
01:36:21
Trevor
No, it almost feels like whoever was here got a bunch of garlic because that's what they had assumed, and that it didn't work, so now all of it's just been sitting here to spoil.
01:36:24
The Blade's Edge
These are the windows the bash saw. ah Other features of the room include a standing suit of armor and a wooden chest.
01:36:30
Trevor
Yeah.
01:36:31
The Blade's Edge
ah Old wooden rafters bend under the weight of the tower roof, which has somehow remained intact. Mounted to the rafters are pulleys ah around which hang iron chains that support the tower's elevator platform of which you came up on.
01:36:39
Alma Graves
Interesting.
01:36:47
Alma Graves
OK.
01:36:49
The Blade's Edge
So you're looking at a room that you can see.
01:36:50
Trevor
think you're holding it
01:36:51
Alma Graves
Then I would step off the elevator and say, down, come up, guys.
01:36:58
The Blade's Edge
Okay.
01:37:01
Alma Graves
Don't know yet, but it doesn't seem dangerous.
01:37:04
The Blade's Edge
The elevator system begins to come down. You guys see it lowering through the. Five foot hall. ah Five foot hole and it eventually reaches the ground.
01:37:16
Trevor
I think you're holding it.
01:37:19
Kyle
Who's next?
01:37:20
The Blade's Edge
Are you guys all planning on going up?
01:37:20
Trevor
Yeah.
01:37:23
Kyle
ah Eventually.
01:37:25
The Blade's Edge
Okay.
01:37:25
Trevor
Oh.
01:37:25
The Blade's Edge
Well, yeah, I'm just, we can skip all that.
01:37:28
Kyle
Yeah.
01:37:29
The Blade's Edge
Time passes. You guys make your way up. You're all up here. I'll focus paying you in a um room.
01:37:44
Alma Graves
Oh, nothing scarier.
01:37:49
The Blade's Edge
And you look around, you see everything I, everything I described.
01:37:54
Trevor
Yeah.
01:37:55
Alma Graves
I ah look carefully at the suit of armor, knowing that um in Death House, Gil almost had his head taken off by one or no, um Roy almost had his head taken off by one.
01:38:08
The Blade's Edge
ah Yeah, you look at it and it looks um like it's like it's just a standing armor standing suit of armor Yeah, give me an investigation check on the desk and I see does that order the rest of you guys done
01:38:15
Vesz'rak
Thank you.
01:38:17
Alma Graves
Um, yeah, then i'd I'd walk over towards the desk here and, um, investigate it and see if there's like, uh, when, when fishing, be back later or something message message. Yeah.
01:38:36
Alma Graves
12.
01:38:39
The Blade's Edge
Okay. Alma goes to the desk, Desan, Bash and Anabi. What about you guys?
01:38:52
Kyle
look at the walls yeah i also don't just want to like raid this place um what's that what's that what's that
01:38:57
Alma Graves
Now back to me, now look at the wall.
01:39:00
The Blade's Edge
Yeah.
01:39:00
Trevor
What's up? What's up there?
01:39:03
Vesz'rak
Yeah.
01:39:07
The Blade's Edge
Yeah, give me a ah perception check from Inabi, but Bash and Dusan.
01:39:18
The Blade's Edge
All right. Is that what you're doing as well, Bash?
01:39:21
Kyle
yeah Yeah, I'm not looking for anything in particular, so 23.
01:39:21
The Blade's Edge
Oh, OK. What about you, Dusan?
01:39:24
Vesz'rak
Yeah, I was, I was thinking about casting a spell, but realizing that it's probably not going to work.
01:39:25
Trevor
Yeah.
01:39:29
Vesz'rak
I'm going to forgo doing that. I'm going to look under the bed ah or I'm going to lift up the mattress.
01:39:32
The Blade's Edge
okay
01:39:33
Alma Graves
Oh no.
01:39:34
Vesz'rak
I'm going to look under the bed and lift up the mattress. That's where people hide stuff. I hear.
01:39:37
Alma Graves
Could you imagine inviting someone to your house and then they're like looking under your bed and shit like what a disaster.
01:39:42
Vesz'rak
Come on. Hey, come on. but i What would Steve do in this situation?
01:39:44
The Blade's Edge
Okay.
01:39:46
Vesz'rak
Huh?
01:39:47
The Blade's Edge
um You go to the desk and the desk is very bare um that with a 13 or with a 12 investigation check.
01:39:48
Alma Graves
True.
01:39:58
The Blade's Edge
um the The desk is pretty bare, but that leads you to look around the room and you see in the fireplace, you see burnt pages.
01:40:10
Alma Graves
Oh.
01:40:11
The Blade's Edge
And with the 12, as you maybe go over to the fireplace and sift through lots of burnt pages, notes and notes, journals burned.
01:40:17
Alma Graves
Interesting is.
01:40:17
Kyle
Mmm.
01:40:22
Alma Graves
I don't like that.
01:40:25
Kyle
Little nattie... Nattie 20?
01:40:28
Vesz'rak
Natty20 for the bed check, Brian.
01:40:31
The Blade's Edge
um So you check the desk. There's kind of nothing in the desk. There are writing utensils, and there is paper in the desk. um But there's also an empty map tube. So you see like a tube that would hold like a rolled up map that's empty.
01:40:47
The Blade's Edge
ah
01:40:47
Alma Graves
OK.
01:40:47
Trevor
Probably just general perception.
01:40:48
The Blade's Edge
And then you trace all the way to the fireplace, all these burned pages, burned even books, like like ah journal covers in there.
01:40:49
Trevor
Just see what I see. Like look at the walls. See if there's any like posters.
01:40:55
Alma Graves
Interesting.
01:40:56
Trevor
Yeah. I mean, I don't know what I'm looking at.
01:40:58
The Blade's Edge
um
01:40:58
Trevor
You know, it just looks like a room. I don't, you know, I don't.
01:41:00
The Blade's Edge
ah Then as Inabi and Bash, as he's doing that, you guys just do a a perception check.
01:41:02
Trevor
If you're looking at the. Right, right. I'm not trying to like take anything.
01:41:06
The Blade's Edge
Both of you notice the same thing.
01:41:06
Trevor
I just want to see if I see anything out of the ordinary or.
01:41:07
The Blade's Edge
And the only thing that and you really notice without having a perception check is that there is a lavender aroma that is emanating from the wooden chest.
01:41:14
Kyle
Mm.
01:41:16
Trevor
Twenty two.
01:41:18
The Blade's Edge
A very strong lavender aroma in this room that is emanating from the chest.
01:41:28
Vesz'rak
Honestly, one of my favorite smells. I'll be real about that.
01:41:31
Kyle
Lavender's great.
01:41:32
Vesz'rak
Love lavender.
01:41:34
The Blade's Edge
Um, and a natural 20 on the bed.
01:41:39
Vesz'rak
Yeah, I'm fully under the bed. I'm crawling under the bed.
01:41:42
The Blade's Edge
Okay. With a natural 20 on the bed. I think the only thing, so first of all, the wooden chest is at the foot of the bed. So with a natural 20, you also smell the lavender. Um, under the bed. You, the only thing you find is a.
01:42:00
The Blade's Edge
Small like parcel, like maybe the way that kind of like the thing on the road that you found. And with a natural 20, um, it's slightly open and you look inside and you see inside of it is a dress.
01:42:15
Vesz'rak
Okay. I'd like crawl out from under the bed and be like, I found the dress under the bed. So maybe not, ah who do you think owns the dress?
01:42:32
Trevor
Sheesh.
01:42:34
Kyle
um Definitely not our boy. I mean, maybe he does, I don't know.
01:42:40
Vesz'rak
Hey, yeah, maybe he does, I don't know, look.
01:42:43
Kyle
Maybe he's into that sort of thing.
01:42:49
Vesz'rak
ah But big smell of lavender coming from the trunk of this chest.
01:42:56
Kyle
Is it just the dress in there?
01:43:01
Alma Graves
Okay, okay.
01:43:04
Vesz'rak
okay i'll ah you all Okay, Brian, I'll bite. I'll go over to the chest. Don't don't don't strike me with lightning, please.
01:43:12
The Blade's Edge
Um, okay.
01:43:17
Vesz'rak
I'm just thinking out loud.
01:43:18
Alma Graves
Please, please.
01:43:19
Vesz'rak
I'm just saying it out loud.
01:43:20
Alma Graves
please
01:43:22
Vesz'rak
Please don't strike me with a lightning as I go to box the chi as it go to open the chest.
01:43:28
The Blade's Edge
OK.
01:43:29
Vesz'rak
Two times in two days is enough.
01:43:33
The Blade's Edge
um
01:43:36
The Blade's Edge
OK.
01:43:39
Alma Graves
Yeah, you get struck by fire.
01:43:42
The Blade's Edge
Yeah, dude, it's not lighting, I swear to God.
01:43:45
Vesz'rak
It's actually thunder.
01:43:49
The Blade's Edge
Yeah, you're totally good. I am going to need how many hit points do you have?
01:43:52
Alma Graves
a
01:43:54
Vesz'rak
You get teleported out of the tower, you fall 800 feet.
01:43:59
The Blade's Edge
Um, uh, Gotcha. Okay. You go over and you just open it.
01:44:09
Vesz'rak
Yeah.
01:44:09
The Blade's Edge
All right.
01:44:10
Alma Graves
Yeah!
01:44:10
Kyle
ah
01:44:10
Vesz'rak
Yeah.
01:44:11
Alma Graves
I
01:44:11
Kyle
Alright, excuse me.
01:44:13
The Blade's Edge
I love that.
01:44:13
Vesz'rak
but
01:44:14
The Blade's Edge
Um, you open the wooden chest, which is unlocked and as you open it, nothing happens.
01:44:17
Alma Graves
love
01:44:23
The Blade's Edge
Uh, it is unlocked and safe to open. You look inside of it and you see... Let me just look at something real quick.
01:44:36
Vesz'rak
It's calculating how much dice he needs to roll for the damage I'm about to take.
01:44:38
The Blade's Edge
No, no, no. You see the severed head of a man in the chest.
01:44:41
Vesz'rak
Yeah, yeah
01:44:43
The Blade's Edge
Its flesh has a waxy complexion. It's looked as if this head has been embalmed with magic oils.
01:44:51
Alma Graves
Oh, shit.
01:44:51
The Blade's Edge
It's these oils that smell of lavender.
01:44:54
Vesz'rak
o
01:44:57
Alma Graves
And surely, surely this isn't someone we know.
01:44:57
Vesz'rak
do it
01:45:01
Vesz'rak
yeah I like lift it up and I show everybody and I go, do we know who this is?
01:45:05
The Blade's Edge
had
01:45:06
Kyle
Oh, God.
01:45:07
Vesz'rak
um
01:45:07
Alma Graves
Oh, no.
01:45:08
Kyle
Oh.
01:45:09
Vesz'rak
What? What? What? What? What? What? What?
01:45:10
Kyle
What do you mean, what?
01:45:10
Vesz'rak
What? What? What? What? What? What? What? What? What? What? What? What? yes i just found it
01:45:17
Alma Graves
Can we do a, can we do a,
01:45:17
Kyle
Yeah, it's a hint.
01:45:17
Trevor
Deson, who are you talking to?
01:45:19
Alma Graves
ah
01:45:20
The Blade's Edge
ah You guys don't know this person no I've heard ah humanoid male head waxy complexion black hair on Yeah
01:45:21
Alma Graves
OK, we don't know the person good.
01:45:22
Trevor
Who's Brian?
01:45:24
Alma Graves
Still don't like when people just keep heads in there, you know what I'm saying?
01:45:26
Kyle
Yeah.
01:45:39
Kyle
Yeah. um Can I go you said there's a fireplace right with some burnt pages with like a lot of burnt pages.
01:45:43
Trevor
it were
01:45:47
The Blade's Edge
Yes.
01:45:48
Trevor
I am gonna need a death saver.
01:45:49
Kyle
Can I go over to that and see if there's any um anything that didn't get burned that I can make out on the papers.
01:45:58
The Blade's Edge
um Sure. Yeah. Why don't you and Alma both give me investigation or perception checks on just the pages of the burnt stuff?
01:46:07
Alma Graves
It's a four for mama.
01:46:07
The Blade's Edge
See if you get it.
01:46:11
The Blade's Edge
OK.
01:46:11
Kyle
going to be a 22 okay
01:46:13
Trevor
yeah
01:46:14
The Blade's Edge
Nice. um You see one word, which leads you to believe these were notes. You see the word and the word is Strahd. You get the sense that these papers were research on Strahd, notes.
01:46:35
The Blade's Edge
um In addition to that, with rolling over some of your guys' good roles, um You guys head, you guys maybe ah track a footprint that maybe was ah through ash heading towards a window. ah You maybe go over to that window and one of the windows is unlocked and you see right under the window is the wagon.
01:47:08
Trevor
put that down, dude.
01:47:09
Kyle
Okay, I have a theory.
01:47:09
Trevor
why are you Why'd you grab that? Ugh.
01:47:15
Kyle
And maybe this is just obvious to everyone.
01:47:17
Alma Graves
Do it.
01:47:18
Kyle
Someone has sabotaged someone does not like the work that Rictavio is doing here.
01:47:26
Kyle
And they destroyed all of this research.
01:47:29
Alma Graves
Or Rictavio kind of went nuts and was like, none of my work, none of my research is amounting to anything.
01:47:30
Trevor
Unsettling.
01:47:39
Trevor
Yeah, it's not a very Steve thing to do.
01:47:40
Kyle
But the wagon is not rictavio's correct.
01:47:42
Alma Graves
The wagon is not Rictavio's, but the jury is out to lunch.
01:47:47
Kyle
So yeah, I think that like, that is a very plausible thing.
01:47:47
Alma Graves
um Yeah.
01:47:52
Kyle
But at the same time, the fact that that wagon is not his, the fact that there's a window open a footstep leading out.
01:48:00
Kyle
Can I look around the tower? Is there anyone on the outside that is like nearby?
01:48:07
The Blade's Edge
Uh, no rule needed. There's not.
01:48:11
Kyle
So they just dipped.
01:48:16
The Blade's Edge
yeah You get the sense of whatever footprint that was and the window opening. It's no coincidence that it was above the wagon.
01:48:24
Kyle
Yeah. Did we did we look inside the wagon? Or no?
01:48:30
The Blade's Edge
No, it was locked with a padlock and a sign that said, keep out.
01:48:37
The Blade's Edge
I'd say um now that you guys have ah found that the note bash ah that said doesn't work, same handwriting as the note that says keep out.
01:48:50
Vesz'rak
oh
01:48:54
Alma Graves
Mmm.
01:48:59
Vesz'rak
Maybe we should leave.
01:49:03
Kyle
But it is this person like, is he lying about the garlic? Are they lying about the garlic? Are they trying to throw us off?
01:49:12
Vesz'rak
its It's like a reverse psychology.
01:49:15
Kyle
yeah Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Like, I don't know if I'm going insane here, but like, why is all of this work burned and sabotaged and damaged?
01:49:24
Alma Graves
It's a good question.
01:49:26
Vesz'rak
Maybe we just take some of the garlic just for a safe measure and prove it try to see it for ourselves.
01:49:29
Kyle
It's rotten, though.
01:49:36
Vesz'rak
Ooh.
01:49:37
Kyle
Guys, would you be mad at me if I went and broke that lock so we can see what's inside?
01:49:43
Alma Graves
No, I think we go take a look.
01:49:44
Vesz'rak
No.
01:49:47
Kyle
Yeah.
01:49:47
The Blade's Edge
All right. So you guys, one by one head down to the first floor. So you have to say down each floor, each one of you has to go down, give the third floor down. That's our down.
01:49:57
Alma Graves
Down, down, down.
01:49:58
The Blade's Edge
Cool.
01:49:59
Kyle
Okay, um down, down, down, down, down, down, down.
01:50:03
The Blade's Edge
You each get to the first floor. Um, and then bash you're going outside.
01:50:10
Kyle
I am going outside.
01:50:12
The Blade's Edge
Okay. What are you guys can all move your tokens? Let me know if you're going outside or what you guys are doing.
01:50:14
Alma Graves
I'm coming outside.
01:50:17
Vesz'rak
I'd go with Bash. Sword out though.
01:50:19
The Blade's Edge
and Okay.
01:50:19
Vesz'rak
Sword out.
01:50:20
Kyle
Yeah, I've got my axe in my hands.
Explosive Cliffhanger Ending
01:50:22
The Blade's Edge
So, yeah, but you see the, it's been sort of cleared of, of mud. It's fresh coat of purple paint wheels, fancy gold trim, brass, lantern hangs from each corner, red drapes cover tombstone shaped windows on each side.
01:50:33
The Blade's Edge
Steel padlock secures the back door hanging from which is a cheap wooden sign that reads keep out.
01:50:39
Kyle
Wait a minute. Is this Strahd's wagon? The wagon that we've seen him in?
01:50:44
The Blade's Edge
No.
01:50:45
Kyle
Okay.
01:50:46
Vesz'rak
I'm going around the back to in case anybody's in there to sneaks out, sort out.
01:50:49
The Blade's Edge
OK.
01:50:51
Kyle
um Is there any windows or anything that we could use to peer inside?
01:50:55
The Blade's Edge
There are two windows that both have drapes covering them from the inside tombstone shaped windows.
01:51:04
Kyle
Can I like use my axe to slice the the drapes?
01:51:10
The Blade's Edge
They're behind the windows you to break the windows.
01:51:13
Kyle
Oh, oh, oh, oh.
01:51:15
Alma Graves
I'm trying to remember.
01:51:15
The Blade's Edge
Yeah, the drapes are on the inside.
01:51:15
Kyle
And I just like.
01:51:19
Alma Graves
At the Vistani camp, wasn't there someone that had a purple cart?
01:51:26
Alma Graves
Do you guys remember when we had our Taroka card reading?
01:51:29
Vesz'rak
I can't remember.
01:51:30
Kyle
um I do not remember.
01:51:32
The Blade's Edge
I don't think you guys have seen this cart before steel padlock securing the back door.
01:51:34
Alma Graves
OK.
01:51:35
Vesz'rak
Do it, Bash.
01:51:35
Trevor
This is the only garlic in all of Barovia.
01:51:37
Alma Graves
Do it. Bust it open.
01:51:38
Kyle
Well, should I break the lock or should I break a window?
01:51:39
Trevor
Another option.
01:51:42
Alma Graves
I say it follow your heart.
01:51:43
Vesz'rak
Axe out.
01:51:45
Alma Graves
Yeah.
01:51:48
Kyle
um Can I look at the lock? Is it like a metal... metal guy? Just like...
01:52:05
The Blade's Edge
As you come outside, you're familiar, is there?
01:52:11
Vesz'rak
Uh, I don't know. I think Bash is going in this. I don't want to like be like, Oh yeah. And I do that. Um,
01:52:28
Kyle
yeah
01:52:33
Vesz'rak
yeah. True.
01:52:42
Kyle
Yeah.
01:52:42
Vesz'rak
Yeah, I'll do that.
01:52:43
The Blade's Edge
Okay. Um, so bash, are you, are you like percepting or investigating this wagon?
01:52:49
Kyle
Yes.
01:52:50
The Blade's Edge
Cool. Roll me a perception or investigation check. Is anybody helping bash?
01:52:55
Vesz'rak
I'm on the other side of the wagon, I can't see him.
01:52:57
The Blade's Edge
Okay. So you're not looking at it at all. Cool. You roll advantage bash.
01:53:04
Kyle
ah So 21 or yeah, 21.
01:53:07
The Blade's Edge
Cool. The only other thing you see is that there is a door on the underbelly of the wagon. Like almost like a trap door on the underbelly of it.
01:53:19
Alma Graves
Mmm.
01:53:20
The Blade's Edge
ah That looks like it swings.
01:53:24
The Blade's Edge
It would swing ah into.
01:53:30
Kyle
Yeah, I think I will crawl underneath and see if that's unlocked.
01:53:34
Trevor
Yeah, I don't remember.
01:53:35
The Blade's Edge
OK. um I'm going to ask you for a different check now. That is to notice it when asking you for an investigation check.
01:53:42
Kyle
Okay. Yeah. Plus zero on this. Three.
01:53:53
The Blade's Edge
ah Does not appear to be locked. um That little that little door.
01:54:00
Trevor
Ooh, before I forget.
01:54:00
The Blade's Edge
So your options now are padlock.
01:54:03
Trevor
The healing that did not go off in there decide you want to heal yourself now if we're outside.
01:54:05
The Blade's Edge
Windows door underneath.
01:54:10
Trevor
Oh Oh sick fuck yeah That's amazing, thank you, sir Okay,
01:54:11
Kyle
I don't like basically like standing up and not having a way out if I go through the under. So I think I'm going to go with my original idea of breaking that padlock.
01:54:25
Trevor
well I was to say I would say a knobby would say it I
01:54:26
The Blade's Edge
Okay. Um, you head that you scoot your way back out.
01:54:30
Trevor
Maybe specifically, how that like before we're going to break this thing open, if something comes out at us, you know do you want to be like topped off before that happens, you know just in case?
01:54:32
The Blade's Edge
Uh, you come to the padlock.
01:54:39
The Blade's Edge
Um, do. do
01:54:42
Trevor
Patch yourself up.
01:54:42
Kyle
Unless someone has lockpicks.
01:54:47
Alma Graves
No, I don't have any. That was more our more more the more the the rogues ah lifestyle.
01:54:49
Vesz'rak
I'm not that guy pal.
01:54:58
The Blade's Edge
Okay. So you're just, you're just swinging on the padlock.
01:55:01
Kyle
Yes.
01:55:01
Trevor
i'll have the I'll have the owl going over and help him.
01:55:02
The Blade's Edge
Okay. Make me an attack role.
01:55:07
Kyle
12.
01:55:08
The Blade's Edge
A 12 you swing and it hits the padlock lot loud sound. Bing ah reverberates out. Padlock is not destroyed.
01:55:21
Kyle
I take another swing 11
01:55:22
The Blade's Edge
Okay.
01:55:26
The Blade's Edge
You swing, bing, loud, reverberating out. You see some crows from some trees far off takeoff, designed. You thought the image on the door looked like an upside-down bat. You now see somewhere on the distance a swarm of bats fly off. Lock is still there, Bash.
01:55:44
Alma Graves
I come up.
01:55:44
Vesz'rak
Hey, don't worry that should happens to everybody okay
01:55:47
Alma Graves
yeah I come up and I have got like a Eldritch Blast in my hand like let me see if I can get a crack at this thing, huh?
01:55:55
Kyle
Yeah, go ahead.
01:55:55
Alma Graves
And I'm going to fire off an Eldritch Blast just hand right to the lock.
01:55:59
The Blade's Edge
Okay.
01:56:02
Alma Graves
For a 16.
01:56:03
The Blade's Edge
Pouring rain here, by the way, this is great news for those of you listening who have been worrying about the, uh, LA fires pouring rain right now. We love it.
01:56:09
Alma Graves
It's fantastic news.
01:56:10
Vesz'rak
We love to see it.
01:56:10
Kyle
I hear it out my window.
01:56:12
The Blade's Edge
Uh, 16 Eldridge blast. Uh, you shoot it at the padlock and as it hits the padlock, large ding sound, although it's not metal. Uh, this leads you to believe Alma that this lock is magically sealed.
01:56:26
The Blade's Edge
Your elders blast hits the lock, ping large sound goes off.
01:56:31
Alma Graves
Interesting, interesting. ah She said that there's a a latch underneath the wagon.
01:56:39
Kyle
ah There is, um but who's to say, you know, what's on the inside?
01:56:46
Alma Graves
I get down in the mud and I pull myself underneath like I'm looking at the underside of a car.
01:56:46
Kyle
that fun have a way out
01:56:55
Alma Graves
um And I like try to try to move the the latch and see if it moves.
01:57:01
The Blade's Edge
Yeah, it moves. It's not locked.
01:57:03
Alma Graves
Cool, I say, hey, i'm ah I'm gonna give this thing a look, um and I push it open.
01:57:08
The Blade's Edge
OK. This is where we'll end today's session.
01:57:13
Alma Graves
A guillotine springs forth.
01:57:17
The Blade's Edge
Unfortunately, it is much worse.
01:57:22
The Blade's Edge
Alma, as you push the door on the underside of the wagon, ah there was a wire looped around it. and the wire, as you open it, you see the wire was connected to a flask of alchemists fire hanging from the wagon ceiling.
01:57:41
The Blade's Edge
When you open the door, the flask falls towards you and explodes. And as you look inside, you see hanging from the ceiling of this wagon all over our 100 flasks of alchemist fire that dangle from wires, like ornaments from the wagons interior walls. I need everybody besides Inabi and his, uh, familiar to make me constitution saving throws.
01:58:08
Alma Graves
Oh no.
01:58:10
Kyle
Oh my god.
01:58:13
Trevor
Nice.
01:58:14
Alma Graves
That's a 14 and I'm going to just use my pack to the talisman to just add a D4.
01:58:20
Vesz'rak
Okay, everyone gets a everyone gets plus two, orura aura, aura, aura, aura,
01:58:21
Kyle
So 30, 30, 20.
01:58:23
Alma Graves
Oh yeah.
01:58:24
Kyle
Oh. Uh, 22.
01:58:26
Alma Graves
That's five. So that's a 19 for Alma.
01:58:31
The Blade's Edge
for Alma.
01:58:32
Vesz'rak
Bash doesn't get a Bash year one too far, but Alma does.
01:58:34
The Blade's Edge
21
01:58:35
Kyle
Okay, I'm, I roll a 20.
01:58:39
The Blade's Edge
for Bash.
01:58:40
Vesz'rak
18 for Desan.
01:58:42
The Blade's Edge
ah Each of you succeeds, so each of you takes half of this damage. Each of you takes 37 points of fire damage as this entire wagon explodes and erupts in Nabi from your perspective.
01:58:58
The Blade's Edge
um
01:59:01
The Blade's Edge
You are just knocked back, Anabi. You and your familiar are knocked like 10 feet back from the explosion, knocked prone. ah No damage taken, but you see a massive mushroom cloud.
01:59:17
The Blade's Edge
And maybe the loudest thing you've ever heard in your life ah explode as the smoke billows out and fire erupts. You cannot see Bash. You cannot see Alma. You cannot see Desan. Smoke billows out and Inabi. As you shake your head and look up at the smoke, what you do here is a much closer.
01:59:45
Kyle
Out.
01:59:46
Alma Graves
Motherfuckers.
01:59:47
The Blade's Edge
We'll see you guys next week.
01:59:47
Alma Graves
Uh, hey, do I? Oops, sorry.
01:59:50
The Blade's Edge
Thank you guys for tuning in.
01:59:51
The Blade's Edge
well the We'll go ahead and look at the aftermath of this ah next week. But thank you guys for tuning in. Don't forget to subscribe to our patreon at patreon dot.com slash sp blades edge.
01:59:51
Alma Graves
Yeah, fucking game.
02:00:05
The Blade's Edge
And we appreciate you guys listening and see you next time.
02:00:09
Alma Graves
Bye.
02:00:12
Trevor
Holy shit.
02:01:19
Trevor
God damn.
02:01:53
Trevor
God damn. Hell yeah. yeah