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Curse of Strahd Ep. 2: Death House Pt. 1
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Greetings to all you ghouls, goblins, ghasts and gargoyles... last week, our intrepid adventurers met up in a tavern and met some of the major players in the region - The Zhentarim, The Harpers, the Lord of the Lions or Lord's Alliance? Who's to say! All I know is, we love Vesz'rak and he must be treasured/protected/gotten help. One of the three, or all of them!
Together, the group got their feet wet in the rains of Daggerford, setting out to find a lead on the werewolf attacks... turns out, actual-ass wolves are scary as shit too. The Pointy Ear Gang survived the encounter, only to face Death again very, very soon...
As always, we've got more fun content, character art, and more on our Patreon!
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Introduction to Blade's Edge Podcast
00:00:03
bladesedge
Hello, one and all. And welcome back to the Blade's Edge D and&D actual play podcast, where we're going to be playing through some modules. Our first one up is Curse of Strahd. And this is my first actual welcome to you, the audience, because if you've listened to our episode one, titled Daggerford, I jumped straight in. I wanted that immersion for us and for you. off the rip. um So ah before we jump into tonight, um we do have a meet the players episode and a character creation episode as well as a session zero all out on our Patreon. um We're filming this so far in advance that, hey, they might be out in the end of the free feed, but.
00:00:50
bladesedge
Um, if they aren't, go ahead over to our Patreon, if you'd like to check those out and, um, you guys don't have to to go into too much detail, but just before we jump in here, since this is the first, uh, hello from you guys on the, uh, main feed for the main.
Character Introductions
00:01:05
bladesedge
Adventure. Why don't we just go through and everybody just you say who you are and, uh, who you're playing. And then we'll, we'll jump right into the second episode. Travis could start with you.
00:01:16
Trevor
Yeah. Hey, guys. i'm Trev, I play Valerius Moonstone. He's a high elf cleric.
00:01:25
Kyle
What's up, I'm Kyle Durod and I'm playing Roy Halovich, the Wood Elf Ranger.
00:01:31
Vesz_rak
Hi, I'm Vesrak. I'm playing the Drow Wizard.
00:01:35
bladesedge
You're Vesrak playing a draw reserve.
00:01:35
Gilmund Graves
Hey, Oh yeah. No, he's become the character.
00:01:38
bladesedge
ah
00:01:39
Trevor
Man, this is a meta.
00:01:39
Vesz_rak
and I am the character.
00:01:40
bladesedge
I'm Vesrak.
00:01:40
Gilmund Graves
He's transcended the game.
00:01:41
bladesedge
I'm playing...
00:01:42
Vesz_rak
ha
00:01:43
bladesedge
My name is Vesrak.
00:01:43
Trevor
Holy Yeah.
00:01:44
bladesedge
I'm playing Tommy McMillan.
00:01:45
Vesz_rak
i
00:01:45
Gilmund Graves
Yeah. Oh shit.
00:01:46
Vesz_rak
I'm Tommy McMillan playing Vesrak from Drow Wizard.
00:01:47
Gilmund Graves
Assuming direct control.
00:01:50
bladesedge
<unk>
00:01:50
Gilmund Graves
Oh yeah. Hey, and I'm Kyle beams. I'm playing Gilman graves, the feral tiefling rogue.
Gathering at the Happy Cow Tavern
00:02:00
bladesedge
Where we left off last episode, our adventurers met for the first time at a tavern called the Happy Cow in a town called Daggerford on the Sword Coast, a bit south of the ah famous city Waterdeep. um Each character there for their own reasons, whether it be Valerius teaching in that town, but it being ah ah the summer, ah whether it be Gilman Graves coming to meet a Zhentarim contact, um whether it be Vesrak up from where he's from in the Underdark exploring the world, or Roy Halovich, a wanderer.
00:02:43
bladesedge
um You each met with these different factions, whether it be the Order of the Golden Lion, ah the Lord's Alliance, the Zhentarim, the Harpers, ah each ah looking to solve a problem that's been happening lately.
Mission Brief: Werewolves and Kidnappings
00:03:03
bladesedge
You've heard about werewolf attacks. You've heard about kidnappings. ah Poor Jimmothy. um you
00:03:10
Gilmund Graves
And the Lord of the Lions, of course.
00:03:12
bladesedge
And but yes.
00:03:12
Vesz_rak
We're gonna save Jimothy.
00:03:13
Kyle
Of
00:03:14
Vesz_rak
We're gonna save that boy.
Rescue the Dog, Lancelot
00:03:16
bladesedge
um And you all sort of, ah not necessarily reluctantly, but you were all approached and it seems to tickle all of your interests in a specific way, whether it's knowledge or whether you were promised something like property or gold, um or whether it's just the life of adventure or even revenge.
00:03:36
Gilmund Graves
The taste of revenge will be sweet.
00:03:39
bladesedge
Yes. um You guys all went 30 miles east to the misty forests where you saw a dog with a collar on that said Lancelot being attacked by four wolves. You hid, but then at the last second before this dog could be murdered, you thought, ah we're gonna save this thing.
00:04:02
Gilmund Graves
Save that dog.
00:04:03
bladesedge
Let me save that dog.
00:04:04
Trevor
I'ma save that dog.
00:04:04
bladesedge
um um miss said
00:04:06
Gilmund Graves
Can I pet that dog?
00:04:07
bladesedge
who And you guys, you guys did, um, in that combat Gilman graves went down as they only saw
Lost Tracks and a Muddy Road
00:04:16
bladesedge
two of you. Two of you were hiding, um, uh, before your actions. Um, the two of them attacked Gilman one attack Roy, but you guys killed these wolves, all four of them.
00:04:27
Gilmund Graves
Another scar for the collection.
00:04:27
bladesedge
You saved the dog. Exactly. You saved the dog. You headed further into the forest to investigate. following some tracks that Roy Halovich, the ranger, saw. Eventually, the woods darkened as the trees began to close ranks behind you. Is it playing tricks on your mind or is this actually happening? Their needle covered arms interlocking to blot out the moon and the sky above.
00:05:00
bladesedge
The mist that covered the ground started turning into thick, creeping walls of gray fog that silently enveloped you and your party until you couldn't see more than a few feet in any direction. Soon, even the werewolf tracks disappeared,
00:05:23
bladesedge
but eventually you find
00:05:27
bladesedge
Roy, why don't you roll me an investigation check at advantage since you had a hold on those on those tracks, buddy?
00:05:35
Kyle
Um, yeah, sure. I also is a 12 and seven.
00:05:41
bladesedge
Mm hmm.
00:05:43
Kyle
So it's gonna be 12 plus another four because I'm it's doubled the natural Explorer.
00:05:52
bladesedge
Hmm.
00:05:53
Kyle
um So 16.
00:05:56
bladesedge
Turn the rain down for you there. Nice. Yeah. It's got it over here in roll 20. It's got it as a 16.
00:06:05
Kyle
Oh, really?
00:06:06
bladesedge
Yeah. Has your investigation plus four roll the 12 plus four 16.
00:06:08
Kyle
Oh, cool.
00:06:11
bladesedge
So with a 16, even better.
00:06:13
Kyle
Oh wait, no, then it should, sorry, it should be 20 then. Cause there's another plus four on that.
00:06:19
bladesedge
So you have lost. track of these, these, these footprints in the mud. It's still raining, but the trees begin to become more sparse and you find what you can only surmise is some sort of road, but it's worn and it's muddy and your boots are sucking into it.
Meeting the Children: Rose and Thorn
00:06:45
bladesedge
As they go too far in and you take another step, Lance a lot trotting along beside all four of you.
00:06:55
bladesedge
But this worn and muddy road leads you around a bend, and when you get around that bend, it reveals an iron fence, its rusted frame encloses a large four-story house, and a few other dilapidated sheds besides it. Next to the entrance of the fence, you notice a young boy and a young girl clinging to each other. ah you You want to make a jimothy check?
00:07:30
Vesz_rak
Yeah, I would love to make a jimothy check.
00:07:32
Gilmund Graves
Yo, let's make group, group, jimothy check jimothy.
00:07:34
bladesedge
All right, group group jimothy checks.
00:07:34
Vesz_rak
Jimothy!
00:07:35
Kyle
Thank
00:07:36
Vesz_rak
Jimothy!
00:07:37
bladesedge
Valerius, you knew him. You can make it an advantage.
00:07:39
Vesz_rak
timothy
00:07:40
Kyle
you.
00:07:42
bladesedge
Perception, probably, or just a flat d20 roll.
00:07:42
Gilmund Graves
Come on, baby. Come on, baby.
00:07:48
Vesz_rak
Jimothy! That'll be a 10.
00:07:51
Gilmund Graves
Oh yeah.
00:07:54
bladesedge
A 10 kid doesn't look like a jimothy, but you never met him. Um. Um, did you want to make one trip?
00:08:02
Gilmund Graves
Jimmothy in my mind has a pretty huge forehead.
00:08:04
Trevor
yeah yeah
00:08:06
bladesedge
We can make one at advantage since you knew the the kid.
00:08:09
Trevor
nine or
00:08:13
Gilmund Graves
Oh, baby.
00:08:13
Vesz_rak
24.
00:08:13
Kyle
Mm.
00:08:14
bladesedge
Twenty four.
00:08:14
Vesz_rak
He's an, edge he's an educator that cares.
00:08:14
Kyle
We roll.
00:08:15
bladesedge
You are. You are certain this is not. Jimmothy, you're also certain these two children as you round the corner, you see this iron fence, you see this four story house. ah It's like a mansion to most of you looking at this thing ah with these dilapidated sheds.
00:08:29
Trevor
Yeah,
00:08:32
bladesedge
You don't recognize the young boy or the girl.
00:08:32
Trevor
yeah, yeah.
00:08:35
bladesedge
They're definitely not enrolled in Daggerford.
00:08:39
Gilmund Graves
Can I look down at Lancelot and see if he is eager to go see those kids or if he's staying with us?
00:08:39
Trevor
Mm.
00:08:45
bladesedge
Yeah, sure. Yeah. Make a ah insight check or animal handling probably.
00:08:49
Gilmund Graves
Yeah, I'll do an animal handling.
00:08:50
bladesedge
Yeah. that
00:08:53
Gilmund Graves
um And that's going to be a 12 on all Lancelot.
00:08:57
bladesedge
So before the rain, when you saw Lancelot, he's bandaged up, he's bandaged up. Now he has the markings of a dog that is taken care of. I mean, he has a collar and the collar you see where it says Lancelot it's written in pure gold on his, on his collar.
00:09:05
Gilmund Graves
Yeah, he's got a collar. Yeah.
00:09:12
Gilmund Graves
Whoa.
00:09:13
Vesz_rak
Mmm.
00:09:14
bladesedge
More his colors worth more than Roy Halovich has in his pockets.
00:09:18
Gilmund Graves
Yeah.
00:09:19
Trevor
Damn.
00:09:19
bladesedge
ah
00:09:20
Vesz_rak
Don't steal it.
00:09:21
Kyle
Hey, I don't care about money.
00:09:21
Gilmund Graves
yeah
00:09:21
bladesedge
um You turn and and no, he does not. The dog does not seem to be affected by these kids. He sort of looks at the kids and looks up at you. This boy and these this boy and this girl are are clinging to each other outside this house. And as you guys round the corner, the girl looks over
00:09:22
Kyle
I don't care about money.
00:09:44
bladesedge
and shouts over, please, please, you have to help us.
00:09:51
Trevor
what I would i'd probably start slowly walking up to them and ask what's wrong.
00:09:58
bladesedge
Uh, you see the, yep.
00:09:59
Gilmund Graves
Uh, Oh, I was just going to say, can I do an insight and see if they're freaky kids or if they're just normal kids?
00:10:05
bladesedge
Okay. Yeah. Make an insight check.
00:10:07
Gilmund Graves
Yeah. Freaky kid check.
00:10:08
Kyle
I was gonna do an arcana check and see if they're even real.
00:10:09
Gilmund Graves
Oh, that's a 15.
00:10:12
bladesedge
Yeah. You can make an arcana check, Roy.
00:10:15
Vesz_rak
Don't worry, we're with the Lord's Alliance.
00:10:17
Gilmund Graves
Yeah. No, the whole i I am actually the Lord of the lions.
00:10:18
Kyle
yeah
00:10:19
Trevor
yeah The Lords Alliance is here to save you.
00:10:21
bladesedge
Uh, with it, with a 15, um, they seem, they seem to be very distraught. Their distraughtness seems real. And with a seven arcana, they seem to be real.
00:10:32
Gilmund Graves
Okay.
00:10:33
bladesedge
The girl, as she shouts over, please, you have to help us.
00:10:34
Kyle
gotcha
00:10:37
bladesedge
ah You ask what's wrong and you see the little boy. The boy's a little younger and it's sort of buried in this girl's chest. to The boy's maybe five years old. The girl's probably 10. Um, she says, please, our parents had a parents and our our little baby brother still inside the house with the monster.
00:10:58
Trevor
which Which house oh It's just this one but Sorry for some reason I thought we were in a town and I was like which fucking okay.
00:11:00
bladesedge
ah She, she points behind her to the only house you see the. the
00:11:06
Gilmund Graves
ah
00:11:08
Kyle
Which one?
00:11:10
bladesedge
No, you've you've just exited this forest.
00:11:10
Trevor
yeah Yeah, yeah, yeah God I gotta to go yeah
00:11:12
bladesedge
ah You followed the muddy road. It's still raining and you do see this four story house and you you see some other. um Like like ah maybe that's a little. That done for you.
00:11:29
Trevor
cooking.
00:11:32
bladesedge
ah Yeah, you did there's some dilapidated sheds besides the house, but there's just this one four story house on this road.
00:11:39
Kyle
Are there any lights on in the house? Can we
Exploring the Haunted House
00:11:41
Kyle
see through any of the windows?
00:11:42
bladesedge
Um, yes, you do see that there are lights on in the house. You actually can, there are windows on the first floor that you can kind of see through from where you are, but you'd have to get closer.
00:11:54
Gilmund Graves
And the sheds, how high up do those go and are any of them in a decent angle for me to climb upon in attempts to get visibility on the second floor?
00:12:05
bladesedge
Um, it's possible. You could certainly try.
00:12:08
Gilmund Graves
Sure.
00:12:09
Trevor
ah Can I ask the kids if they know if there's anything in the sheds or if the sheds are safe?
00:12:15
bladesedge
Um, she, she looks at you and says, Oh, I think they're safer. ah the The monsters in the house, our parents managed to lock the monster in the basement, but our parents and our baby brother haven't made it out yet. ah Please.
00:12:29
Vesz_rak
What's your baby brother's name?
00:12:30
Trevor
can i oh yeah
00:12:32
bladesedge
Um, ah was what i'm sorry, she she was actually just looking right at you and she was just, because she was just saying, um, please, sir. As if to ask your or last, your, your name. Please help us, sir.
00:12:47
Trevor
Oh, man sorry, Valerius, you should come with me and I want to take them by the hand, if that's okay, over to one of the sheds and just put, like, I want to check it first, like, you know, set them next to it and then open the shed, maybe perception check or something, just to see if there's anything in the shed that would, you know, another monster in there, essentially.
00:12:57
bladesedge
got She.
00:13:10
bladesedge
she
00:13:10
Gilmund Graves
And I have a hooded lantern that I would give to them as well, just so they feel a little safer.
00:13:15
bladesedge
Um, I don't, okay. I think with this, we'll need a group persuasion check.
00:13:21
Trevor
Okay I said Valerius Rose and thorn
00:13:22
bladesedge
Um, as you, as you do this though, and you say, you said your name was Valerius. Or did you say moonstone? There is to say, ah thank you sir. Valerius. And then they turn to you. vzrac And she says, my little baby, baby brother, his name is water. Um, I'm Rose and this is thorn.
00:13:40
Kyle
you
00:13:44
Trevor
oh she
00:13:44
bladesedge
Rose thorn, and then the little baby brother inside is Walter.
00:13:48
Gilmund Graves
Some Anthony.
00:13:51
Vesz_rak
Rose, Thorne, have you guys, have you seen a little boy about yay high?
00:13:52
Trevor
Not STEM.
00:13:53
bladesedge
I only have two persuasion checks here. So a group persuasion check means I need you all four to roll.
00:13:56
Trevor
Yep, yep, yep.
00:14:01
Vesz_rak
His name is Jimmothy, kind of buck teeth, snotty nose.
00:14:06
bladesedge
Uh, they look confused. He goes, Nope, I don't know who that is. Uh, she does take the lantern, uh, from you Gilman, she takes your hooded lantern. Uh, but they don't, ah instead of grabbing your hand, Valerius, they do follow you, but she's got one hand holding her little brother's hand and now one hand on the lantern.
00:14:24
Trevor
Okay. Okay.
00:14:27
bladesedge
ah She does follow you over to the shed.
00:14:30
Trevor
Okay, cool. Yeah, my intention and goal here would be to just make sure there's nothing dangerous in the shed and then put them in there for them to just stay safe and not out in the open.
00:14:42
bladesedge
Nice. Um, you go over there, the sheds open and it's kind of like a worn down. It seems like it's safe from the rain. Um, but there's like gardening tools in the first one that you, that you go to just gardening tools inside.
00:15:00
Trevor
um Okay, yeah, that's fine. Is there just is there any like haystacks or anything that they'd be able to like sit behind or next to or something?
00:15:09
bladesedge
Um, yeah, make an investigation check for me.
00:15:12
Trevor
Got you, I got you, investigation.
00:15:14
Kyle
Can I head over to the house?
00:15:16
Trevor
Oof, a four.
00:15:19
bladesedge
Uh, this house, they don't have any animals in the yard, so you don't find any hay stacks, but there's like a bench in like the, one of the, one of the other sheds.
00:15:25
Trevor
Okay.
00:15:27
bladesedge
It's just like a woodworking shed and there's a bench in there.
00:15:31
Trevor
All right. Uh, I'll, I'll set them on the bench and I'll take, uh, probably this, uh, the smallest tool that I see.
00:15:38
bladesedge
Hmm.
00:15:39
Trevor
Um, that the older, you know, the girl would be able to wield in some way and hand it to her and just say, um, if anything happens at all, use this and scream as loud as you can, and we'll try and get to use fast as we can. Okay.
00:15:55
bladesedge
Uh, she, she like lets you put it down next to her, but her hands, once again, still both full, but as she sits down and she just nods.
00:16:00
Trevor
Okay. Yeah, that's fine. That's fine.
00:16:04
Trevor
Cool.
00:16:04
bladesedge
It's okay. And, uh, Roy, what were you saying you were doing?
00:16:08
Kyle
Sorry, yeah, I just wanted to head over to the outside, like to the to the edge of the house.
00:16:12
bladesedge
Okay.
00:16:15
Kyle
And take a peek inside the windows and see if I can see anything.
00:16:18
bladesedge
OK.
00:16:22
bladesedge
So I hear I do hear somebody typing just a heads up.
00:16:25
Trevor
Oh, sorry. My bad.
00:16:26
bladesedge
You see.
00:16:31
bladesedge
ah You rejoin the park, okay you rejoin the party, you closing the bar door behind you. um You see Roy, a ruster, a rusted wrought iron gate. As you approach the house, a rusted wrought iron gate reflects the moonlight and sort of a sinister green.
00:16:48
Trevor
Yeah.
00:16:51
bladesedge
It hit its hinges shriek as it swings open in the wind, the rain hitting its oil lamps hang from the portico ceiling behind it like this sort of entryway um flanking a set of oaken doors. As you approach, um as you look in through the windows, you see like an oak paneled room or with like a desk. See, like there might be a fireplace.
00:17:27
Vesz_rak
Thanks.
00:17:27
bladesedge
And I'll move you guys over to this map.
00:17:28
Kyle
Okay.
00:17:31
Gilmund Graves
Let's go.
00:17:37
bladesedge
Um, do, do, do. Here you go.
00:17:48
Vesz_rak
Spooky. Are there any like holes like in the windows where I could um have my spider familiar crawl through?
00:17:59
bladesedge
Um, yeah. Yeah, absolutely.
00:18:03
Vesz_rak
I'd like to send Istra on a scouting mission to kind of just poke around and as I send her out I would also like to cast Mage Armor on myself.
00:18:14
bladesedge
Okay.
00:18:15
Trevor
Things huge I don't think that's been through a window What
00:18:16
Kyle
That's so big.
00:18:16
bladesedge
Sorry, it's not that big.
00:18:17
Vesz_rak
yeah i
00:18:20
Gilmund Graves
That's the spider that Brian killed it outside is ah outside his house.
00:18:20
Kyle
Yeah.
00:18:24
Kyle
yeah
00:18:24
Vesz_rak
i turn ah yeah I turned to Valerius with like my hands like smaller and i I like, this is the size we agreed upon.
00:18:25
bladesedge
I actually cannot actually can't make it any smaller than that right now. So it's like the same size as you, but just know that it's a tiny little spider.
00:18:41
Vesz_rak
And then I sent it ah through the window.
00:18:41
Trevor
what
00:18:47
Trevor
How are we down with New York?
00:18:47
bladesedge
Okay. Yeah. It, you see that it enters the window and it's, you can get, you can count, you guys can kind of see it in in the window. It's, uh, it's in this, this den.
00:19:02
Gilmund Graves
Nice, and then um you mentioned that there were some dilapidated sheds around the perimeter.
00:19:07
bladesedge
Uh-huh. Yeah. Valerius already went to two of them.
00:19:09
Gilmund Graves
Okay, um and then um which one would get me closest to the house where I could potentially climb up to the second story?
00:19:17
bladesedge
Yeah, it's probably the first one that he walked over to, which is just full of like gardening supplies.
00:19:22
Gilmund Graves
oh Okay, yeah, I'd like to ah climb on top of that and see if I can
00:19:24
Trevor
you
00:19:27
Gilmund Graves
ah leap towards the mansion um and find a way into the second floor.
00:19:33
bladesedge
OK. Go ahead and roll an athletics or an acrobatics check to jump from the shed to the second story.
00:19:43
Gilmund Graves
Yeah, absolutely. I'm gonna roll Acrobatics um and the score is an eight.
00:19:51
bladesedge
Okay. And why don't you go ahead and make me a dexterity saving throw 20
00:19:55
Gilmund Graves
Yeah, absolutely.
00:19:56
Vesz_rak
Uh-oh.
00:19:57
Gilmund Graves
Plus six deck save soft 20.
00:19:59
bladesedge
is great. So you jump, you get on top and you jump, but as you jump, it's wet. So you don't jump up to the second store window.
00:20:07
Gilmund Graves
Yeah, it's been raining.
00:20:09
bladesedge
You go to jump and you slip off and fall and hit the ground. You don't take any damage, but, um, it didn't quite work jumping from the shed to the house.
00:20:20
Gilmund Graves
Okay. Yeah. Noble effort. Doesn't always work on the first try. Uh, I rejoined the group.
00:20:26
bladesedge
Okay.
00:20:29
Kyle
um I'm gonna mention to the group that I don't see anything upon immediately looking into the windows. But there's no way of knowing if the monster still in the basement. So it might be good to go upstairs first rather than downstairs.
00:20:45
Gilmund Graves
Yeah, that was, that was my suspicion. Um, I have thieves tools and I can get us in somewhere.
00:20:47
Kyle
Yeah.
00:20:50
Gilmund Graves
If, uh, if there's maybe a back door that might be locked.
00:20:55
Kyle
Well, should we try the front door?
00:20:57
Trevor
Let's see, Vez, did you say you were sending your spider on a little um mission for us to scout?
00:21:03
Vesz_rak
Yeah, he's go he's in the living room right now. He's kind of scurrying around.
00:21:08
Trevor
Maybe we should wait for the spider to make sure that the first room's clear.
00:21:15
Gilmund Graves
Yeah, fine by me.
00:21:16
Trevor
Should we do that?
00:21:17
Vesz_rak
I'm actually, I kind of want to send him to the basement. They might be holding a baby down there with a monster.
00:21:25
Kyle
That is true.
00:21:25
Trevor
We should plan our route though first, yeah?
00:21:26
Gilmund Graves
Yeah.
00:21:29
Trevor
Because the spider's not going to be able to save him by himself. We should get there, but we told them we've got to make sure that this accident is so hard.
00:21:39
Gilmund Graves
ah
00:21:40
Trevor
Holy cow, there's so many words.
00:21:41
Gilmund Graves
ah duy
00:21:41
Kyle
It's great though.
00:21:42
Trevor
where I'm like, how do you say this?
00:21:42
Vesz_rak
You're locked in.
00:21:43
Trevor
but
00:21:43
Vesz_rak
You're locked in.
00:21:44
Kyle
It's great.
00:21:44
Vesz_rak
You can't change it now.
00:21:45
Trevor
um
00:21:45
Gilmund Graves
Bingo, bye-bye there.
00:21:46
Trevor
Why, you just fall and bomb me.
00:21:52
Trevor
We have to make sure that our path is clear and we can get there safely.
00:21:58
Trevor
So should we wait for the spider to let us know what it looks like between us and the basement? Does that make sense?
00:22:10
Vesz_rak
Yeah, I mean, yeah, like it makes sense. we should Maybe we could go in and stealth around and you know try to be as sneaky as possible.
00:22:21
Gilmund Graves
Yeah, and I'll um'll check the front door to see if it's locked.
00:22:21
Trevor
Okay, out of out of like in game question for you, to do you have like a connection with this spider where it can communicate like with you if there's danger or does it have to like come back to you and relays? You know what I mean?
00:22:35
Vesz_rak
Um, well, it is my familiar, I don't, I mean, it can't really talk to me. It just obeys my commands and it acts, and it acts on its own.
00:22:40
Trevor
Oh, okay, got it, got it, got it. Okay, I see. Cool, cool, cool.
00:22:48
bladesedge
So, Vesrak, as you take out a piece of cured leather to cast mage armor on yourself, what does your mage armor look like?
00:22:55
Vesz_rak
Yeah. You see this, um, kind of red alpha, uh, afforescence. ah This like shimmering reddish mage armor kind of takes ah the form of this like ah heavy male plated armor that kind of just goes along my whole body. Essentially I'm wearing this like suit of red armor kind of on the exterior. It's kind of an exoskeleton, if you will.
00:23:24
Trevor
That's sick.
00:23:25
bladesedge
Nice. And that makes your AC 15.
00:23:28
Vesz_rak
Correct.
00:23:28
bladesedge
Cool.
00:23:29
Gilmund Graves
Wicked.
00:23:31
bladesedge
Um, all right. You can link find familiar. I do believe there is something with find familiar that you can see through its eyes and hear through its ears. If you'd like to link the spell and we can read it together.
00:23:41
Vesz_rak
Yep, also my AC is 16, sorry.
00:23:44
bladesedge
Hmm. Love that.
00:23:47
Vesz_rak
There's the spell.
00:23:49
bladesedge
Awesome. Um, yes. While you're familiar with a hundred feet of you you can communicate with it telepathically. Additionally, as an action, you can see through your familiar's eyes and hear what it hears until the start of your next turn, gaining the benefits of any special senses during this time, you are deaf and blind with regards to your own senses. Um, cool. So you could send him in and then you go deaf and blind as you look through his eyes and hear through his ears.
00:24:16
Gilmund Graves
Kind of like warging in Game of Thrones, yeah.
00:24:19
bladesedge
Yeah.
00:24:20
Vesz_rak
ah I go over to look Valerius and I kind of wrap my arms around him and I go hold on I'll be right back and I I'd like to warg into my spider as I'm like hugging Valerius from behind I'm just like I'm dead waiting on do It's locked Okay, yeah, yeah, I'm gonna go through that yeah, yeah i'm gonna
00:24:31
Gilmund Graves
Throws his head back, whites of his eyes just go, what the fuck?
00:24:35
bladesedge
Yeah.
00:24:36
Trevor
want you my
00:24:38
bladesedge
And you go into this den through the windows, you can see, right? OK, I got you. I'm just saying that's where you're going.
00:24:46
Trevor
Look over the spider and the spider gives a little thumbs up.
00:24:46
bladesedge
Cool.
00:24:50
bladesedge
um And what is the spider's dark vision and just vision in general and stuff?
00:24:51
Trevor
yeah
00:24:55
Vesz_rak
Oh man. It is... The suspense, the suspense. 60, speed of 60 feet client, or sorry, speed of 20 feet, climb of 20 feet, darkvision 30 feet, passive perception 12.
00:25:14
bladesedge
Cool. Um, as you enter this room, you look through the spider's eyes, everything looks all bulbous and glassy. Um, and as you're in this room, it is a. It's a, you know, for sure. This is like an oak paneled room. It looks like a hunter's den. You see mounted above the fireplace is a stag's head and positioned around the outskirts of the room are three stuffed wolves.
00:25:35
Vesz_rak
Hmm Not good Okay, well hunters den wolves, I think we're in the right track might be some werewolves um I'd like to try to make my way to the basement if possible
00:26:00
bladesedge
Okay. Well, you tell me where you go. You're looking at the map. So you see a door on the north end of the room.
00:26:14
Vesz_rak
Can I slip and slide under underneath this door here?
00:26:17
bladesedge
Um, I think so. Yeah. Why don't you just go ahead and give me Romeo D 20.
00:26:21
Vesz_rak
You got it.
00:26:22
bladesedge
Anything but a one.
00:26:24
Vesz_rak
Classic. A nine.
00:26:28
bladesedge
You, uh, slipped through this door. Um, and you said your vision was what, as I give you your token vision here, 30 feet.
00:26:33
Vesz_rak
30 feet.
00:26:36
bladesedge
Okay. Um, now you are in a, a hallway, uh, sort of a warm interior illuminated by a black marble fireplace. Um, and then you see this, this, uh, sweeping red marble staircase going up, um, mounted on the wall above the fireplace. You see is a long sword. Um, ah there might be more to that, but I'm just giving you the broad notes.
00:26:58
Vesz_rak
Okay.
00:27:03
bladesedge
Uh, the wood paneled walls are um ornately sculpted with the images of vines, flowers, nymphs, and satyrs. Um, and the decorative paneling follows the staircase as it trickles upward towards the second floor.
00:27:17
Vesz_rak
I'd like to work back out of my spider.
00:27:20
bladesedge
Hmm.
00:27:21
Vesz_rak
go ah The coast is clear. We should go in.
00:27:27
Trevor
Are you alright?
00:27:29
Vesz_rak
ah ah love the I love the feeling of being inside my spider companion's body.
00:27:30
Gilmund Graves
That was fucking weird, dude.
00:27:35
bladesedge
OK, OK.
00:27:35
Trevor
You do.
00:27:36
Gilmund Graves
Wait a second.
00:27:36
Kyle
Yeah.
00:27:36
Gilmund Graves
Wait a second. Wait a second. Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa.
00:27:39
bladesedge
Oh, you hear a you hear a female's voice very faintly in your head.
00:27:39
Trevor
Good.
00:27:39
Gilmund Graves
Hey.
00:27:45
bladesedge
bezraco ah
00:27:50
Trevor
You've got to find a different way to phrase that.
00:27:51
Gilmund Graves
Wrong.
00:27:53
Trevor
Wrong.
00:27:53
Kyle
Roy just grumbles and heads to the front door.
00:27:57
Gilmund Graves
Yeah. I go with him and I take my these tools out from my from my tool belt.
00:28:05
bladesedge
Okay. Um, you guys go this. So this first one right here, this is just the rot iron. Um, fence that you guys saw a rusted rot iron gate reflects the moonlight and sinister green.
00:28:16
Gilmund Graves
Okay.
00:28:18
bladesedge
It's hinges shriek as it swings open in the wind. Uh, oil lamps hang from the ceiling behind it. It's flanking a set of open doors.
00:28:28
Gilmund Graves
Okay.
00:28:28
bladesedge
These are the doors.
00:28:30
Gilmund Graves
Nice. Then I will open the door.
00:28:33
bladesedge
Okay.
00:28:36
bladesedge
Um, you're able to move past this, right?
00:28:39
Gilmund Graves
Yep.
00:28:40
bladesedge
Cool. Cool. Cool. Yeah. So you open the door. yeah Bang. Bang. Uh, the doors open and inside, um, you see, uh, a f a foye and in this foye you see a shield emblazoned with a coat of arms. This coat of arms is a stylized golden windmill on a red field.
00:29:05
Gilmund Graves
Golden windmill on a red field. Does that resonate with me?
00:29:07
bladesedge
Mm hmm. I would say no, it does not.
00:29:11
Gilmund Graves
Hmm. Interesting.
00:29:13
bladesedge
It's just a coat of arms of this, whoever you know, Rose and Doran's family, presumably um flanking this a shield is framed portraits, portraits of like stony faced aristocrats.
00:29:18
Gilmund Graves
Yeah.
00:29:28
bladesedge
um You see like a man and a woman.
00:29:34
bladesedge
Um, and then you see another set of double doors in front of you.
00:29:34
Gilmund Graves
Hmm.
00:29:41
Gilmund Graves
Okay, I'll investigate the doors.
00:29:44
bladesedge
Okay. I'm gonna roll an investigation check.
00:29:46
Gilmund Graves
Yeah, absolutely. With my expertise.
00:29:48
Kyle
But also...
00:29:49
Gilmund Graves
ah ah That's a natural one investigation for the guy with expertise in investigation.
00:29:53
Kyle
Oof.
00:29:56
bladesedge
All right. And do you have any natural one things with your view?
00:30:00
Gilmund Graves
I do. um It's once per short rest, but with my, uh, notes, notes, notes, my living shadow, I have ominous will after I make a ability check and roll a one. My shadow will exert a will of its own and could assist or hinder me or those around me.
00:30:18
Trevor
Oh yeah.
00:30:19
bladesedge
Nice. So it'd be the next role. So they just go ahead and um remember that we'll wait to roll it, though.
00:30:25
Gilmund Graves
Yep.
00:30:25
bladesedge
um With a natural one, you go to lean against the door to listen onto the other side and check for the lock. And as you do, your weight pushes the door open and the door as it opens, ah like flings to the side with the weight of your body and slams against the wall behind it, ah reverberating throughout the house.
00:30:46
Gilmund Graves
Not so subtle, Gil.
00:30:50
Gilmund Graves
And then I see the fucking spider.
00:30:52
bladesedge
Yes.
00:30:53
Gilmund Graves
I resist the urge to stomp it.
00:30:55
Vesz_rak
Come on.
00:30:57
Gilmund Graves
I resist.
00:30:57
bladesedge
In in this warm interior, this is you enter into a warm interior illuminated by a black marble fireplace and flanked by a sweeping red marble staircase. Mounts on the wall of the fireplace is a long sword. And on the hilt of that long sword, you see that same windmill um like engraved into this long sword.
00:31:17
Gilmund Graves
Hmm, interesting.
00:31:18
bladesedge
um The wood paneled walls are ornately sculpted with images of vines, flowers, nymphs, and satyrs. The decorative paneling follows the stairs as a trickle upward to the second floor.
00:31:29
Gilmund Graves
Can I try to investigate the sword and see if it's ah stuck to the wall in any um precious way, like if it's locked in there or if it's just hanging on the wall?
00:31:39
bladesedge
Yeah. Roll me an investigation check.
00:31:41
Gilmund Graves
Yeah, investigation. 16.
00:31:45
bladesedge
And then roll me a D four, please.
00:31:46
Gilmund Graves
Yeah, D4 coming at you. The D4 is a four.
00:31:53
bladesedge
So what the other party members don't see as it happens so fast, but what you do is as you go up to inspect this thing, first of all, you know that this is just a long sword. It's not a magical long sword. um And when you're thinking about is it attached to the wall, you bring your hand close to it as if to touch it. But before your hand can the fireplace has your shadow on the wall behind and the shadows a little bit longer than your arm and the shadow You see it come off the wall for a second and poke this long sword and it jiggles and the shadow goes back into the wall and you know that the long sword is, it's, it's, it's freestanding.
00:32:29
Vesz_rak
Thank you.
00:32:33
Gilmund Graves
Interesting. Yeah, I'll i'll take the longsword.
00:32:36
bladesedge
Okay.
00:32:38
Vesz_rak
um I'd like to try and start poking around to see if I can't find the way to the basement.
00:32:45
bladesedge
Nice. Uh, what are you, go you can make an investigation or a perception check. I'll give you advantage because of Gilman's high check in this room.
00:32:53
Vesz_rak
Okay, ah two perception checkies.
00:33:00
Vesz_rak
First roll, 23.
00:33:03
bladesedge
That's great.
00:33:05
Vesz_rak
Second roll, 23.
00:33:08
bladesedge
So first of all, what you notice is that you see um serpents and skulls inconspicuously woven into this wall design. So the wall design was of vines, flowers, nymphs and satyrs. But now as you start looking around, you start noticing patterns and there's serpents and there's skulls in the wall design. You also see four doors in here. You see a door right here. You see a door right here, and then you see a little hallway here with two doors. And then there's also the staircase going up.
00:33:45
Vesz_rak
Okay, I'd like to send Istra into this door going this way, to the right.
00:33:51
bladesedge
Okay.
00:33:53
Vesz_rak
And then I'll check the door that's right in front of me.
00:33:56
bladesedge
Okay. Um, first of all, roll a D 20 for Istra.
00:34:02
Vesz_rak
D20. A nine?
00:34:05
bladesedge
Okay. So, uh, extra goes in that door, but you're not looking through extra size. So I'm not going to move your token. Uh, and then you said you were going to check out this door.
00:34:13
Vesz_rak
Okay.
00:34:15
bladesedge
What do you mean? Check it out.
00:34:17
Vesz_rak
I'm going to open the door. I'm going to open this door that I'm in front of.
00:34:19
bladesedge
Cool. You open this door and what you see is a, like a cloak room. Uh, like a closet, like a place that you would hang your jackets or something, but instead of, you don't see any jackets in there. The only things that you see in there are a Romeo D six, please.
00:34:46
Vesz_rak
A six.
00:34:47
bladesedge
You see six black cloaks hanging and in this cloak room. There's six black cloaks and on the, on the high shelf in there, you see a top hat.
00:35:01
Vesz_rak
Ooh.
00:35:04
Kyle
ANSI.
00:35:04
Vesz_rak
Is the top hat small enough to fit a spider?
00:35:09
Trevor
ah
00:35:10
bladesedge
No, but you're a but wizard.
00:35:11
Trevor
good
00:35:14
bladesedge
and Anything's possible.
00:35:15
Gilmund Graves
That's where I can immediately gets to work on, uh, Barovia's first shrink ray.
00:35:15
Vesz_rak
but
00:35:20
Trevor
yeah yeah
00:35:21
bladesedge
ah
00:35:22
Vesz_rak
um I'd like to like run my hands across all the cloaks Does anyone need a new black cloak?
00:35:29
Trevor
Eh.
00:35:30
Vesz_rak
I know a little bit more inconspicuous a little bit, you know These are kind of nice
00:35:37
Trevor
Eh.
00:35:38
Gilmund Graves
Nope.
00:35:38
Trevor
i I think we wait to see how the family's doing before we start taking the clothing.
00:35:39
Gilmund Graves
I've got mine.
00:35:39
Kyle
Not I.
00:35:48
Vesz_rak
I close the door, I go, okay, I guess I'll- Hey, sorry, I even said it.
00:35:49
Gilmund Graves
Uh...
00:35:49
Kyle
Um.
00:35:54
Vesz_rak
I look over at Valyria's and I look over at Valyria's and I go, trust fall, and then I- I'd like to work into my spider.
00:35:55
Trevor
who They do look nice though. They do look nice.
00:36:01
Trevor
I catch
00:36:02
Gilmund Graves
yeah
00:36:06
bladesedge
Um, you do catch him.
00:36:07
Trevor
them. yeah
00:36:08
bladesedge
Okay.
00:36:08
Trevor
Oh yeah, I'll catch him.
00:36:10
bladesedge
As he catches Vess rack, who goes into his spider senses, Roy, ah as, as you've, as you've been walking around this main hall, you start to hear a collection of subtle noises.
00:36:10
Trevor
I'll try to catch him.
00:36:15
Kyle
Yeah, I am.
00:36:26
bladesedge
As Gilman is taking the sword off the wall, you hear a muffled scream coming from the floorboards below you.
00:36:36
Kyle
I'm gonna turn around quickly to the party and just go shh.
00:36:41
bladesedge
It's about this time that, um, uh, your shish is. Drowned out by this out of the door, closing as the direct was closing the door. And as he closes the door, you hear the sound of a crying baby above you.
00:37:00
Kyle
Okay.
00:37:00
bladesedge
And lastly, as Vess rack goes into his work body and falls back and Valerius catches him, you hear the sound of clinking glass.
00:37:00
Kyle
um
00:37:11
bladesedge
laughter and muffled conversation from the room with to the Northwest door.
00:37:20
Kyle
From the room to the northwest door.
00:37:21
Gilmund Graves
Oh, shit.
00:37:21
bladesedge
Hmm.
00:37:22
Gilmund Graves
This one right by me?
00:37:25
Kyle
Okay. um
00:37:27
Gilmund Graves
Thanks.
00:37:27
bladesedge
It is.
00:37:30
Kyle
and I'm just gonna go. Do you guys do you guys hear that?
00:37:35
Trevor
Do we?
00:37:36
Kyle
Yeah.
00:37:38
bladesedge
I know the two of the two of you were busy doing other things.
00:37:38
Trevor
Nothing.
00:37:41
Trevor
Okay.
00:37:42
bladesedge
Roy was just just watching. um
00:37:46
Trevor
like if i Okay, got it.
00:37:49
Kyle
And I say, um, I think the baby is upstairs, but there's also noise coming from the room on the upper left. So I'm not sure where we should go. Should we go to the baby first? Should we see what's happening in this room? I kind of want to just head upstairs and make sure that this baby's okay.
00:38:08
Gilmund Graves
I respect your hunch.
00:38:10
Trevor
i can't I can't leave Vez. I'll stay with him. and
00:38:16
Trevor
I'll drag Vezrak, if I can, like into this little corridor right here and just sit with him so we're just like kind of not be as inconspicuous as we can be, I guess.
00:38:25
bladesedge
Yeah, so. um
00:38:32
bladesedge
Nice. um So as you go into that room in your spider's eyes. ah You are in what you know as like a kitchen
Unsettling Discoveries and Noises
00:38:42
bladesedge
and pantry.
00:38:42
Vesz_rak
Ooh, okay.
00:38:45
bladesedge
So as you go in here, you see. A tidy kitchen with a work table, shelves and an oven. And then there's a door at the far end of the room.
00:38:55
Trevor
Hmm.
00:38:57
bladesedge
That ah your spider sees. um
00:39:05
bladesedge
And then, yeah, behind this door, right, right over here in the corner of the room in the southeast corner of the room, you see that there is a dumbwaiter. A two foot a wide stone shaft that appears to go up to the floors above. Uh, hanging next to the dumb waiters, a tiny brass bell attached by wires. Looks like a way that you like could move food between stories of the house.
00:39:33
Vesz_rak
Could I have Istra climb up the dumbwaiter?
00:39:37
bladesedge
Sure.
00:39:38
Gilmund Graves
Sure he's a nice guy. You don't need to call him names.
00:39:41
Vesz_rak
Oh, she's a very nice lady.
00:39:41
Kyle
hahaha
00:39:42
Trevor
How dumb can he be?
00:39:47
Vesz_rak
Okay, I'd like to send her up the dumbwaiter.
00:39:51
bladesedge
Um, okay. To what floor of the house, it could go to the second floor.
00:39:55
Vesz_rak
ah how ah
00:39:57
bladesedge
It can go to the third floor.
00:40:00
Vesz_rak
I'll go to the third floor and just kind of see what I see. And then I'll come back.
00:40:03
bladesedge
Okay. All right. But that is taking some time to do that. So as that's happening, hilarious.
00:40:08
Vesz_rak
Correct. Yeah.
00:40:11
bladesedge
You've sat down in this corridor with Vess rack, who is blind and deaf currently. And what are the rest of you doing?
00:40:22
Gilmund Graves
ah Roy, I'd be ah inclined to follow you upstairs.
00:40:22
Kyle
um
00:40:24
Gilmund Graves
so
00:40:26
Kyle
Okay, I think we should and if there's any signs that anything is potentially bad, then we come back downstairs and let the rest of the group know.
00:40:35
Gilmund Graves
Yeah, absolutely.
00:40:36
Kyle
um So I'm going to pull out my my bow and just have it ready as I'm coming up these stairs.
00:40:41
bladesedge
Hmm.
00:40:42
Trevor
Thank
00:40:44
Gilmund Graves
I do the same thing with my daggers and I put the long sword in my belt loop.
00:40:48
Trevor
you.
00:40:51
bladesedge
Okay.
00:40:51
Kyle
And I am gonna be sneaky about this, so...
00:40:55
bladesedge
Okay.
00:40:55
Gilmund Graves
Yeah, same.
00:40:55
Kyle
Do you want me to roll a stealth check?
00:40:56
bladesedge
Yeah, you both can roll a stealth check Gilman. I'm going to say you're going to have disadvantage on yours because of the door situation earlier.
00:41:03
Gilmund Graves
Sure. No problem. Rolling with disadvantage. ah It's going to be a 10 with disadvantage.
00:41:11
bladesedge
A 10 and a 16. The two of you walk up the stairs. Let's go ahead and just put you guys right here. As you guys walk up the stairs.
00:41:29
bladesedge
um You are in this upper hall, this the unlit oil lamps are mounted on the walls of this elegant hall. um
00:41:42
bladesedge
Let me just...
00:41:46
bladesedge
Make sure I'm in the right place. Yes, I am. OK. Hanging above this, the mantelpiece is a wood framed portrait of a family, a mother, a father, two smiling children who you recognize as Rosenthorn, cradled in the father's arms in the picture is a swaddled baby. um And why don't you both make an insight check at this portrait?
00:42:14
Gilmund Graves
Absolutely.
00:42:18
Gilmund Graves
17.
00:42:18
Kyle
13.
00:42:22
Gilmund Graves
13
00:42:22
bladesedge
And what did you get?
00:42:26
Gilmund Graves
for Roy.
00:42:27
Kyle
Oh, yeah, sorry, 13.
00:42:28
bladesedge
Cool, cool. Yeah. Yeah. Oh, yeah. Announce that for the people at home listening as well.
00:42:32
Kyle
I think I did, but my mic not have picked it up.
00:42:33
bladesedge
Oh, you're good. um You see the mother kind of is regarding this swaddled child with a hint of scorn.
00:42:39
Gilmund Graves
Hmm.
00:42:43
bladesedge
ah You see these standing suits of armor ah that flank wooden doors in the east and west halls. Um, each suit of armor clutches a spear and has a visored helmed shaped like a wolf's head.
00:42:58
Kyle
Hmm.
00:42:58
Gilmund Graves
Interesting.
00:42:59
bladesedge
You see all the doors in here, uh, to the north and to the south are carved with dancing use.
00:42:59
Gilmund Graves
Yikes.
00:43:00
Kyle
Interesting.
00:43:09
bladesedge
You is you feel a cold draft coming down from the upper floor of the red marble staircase as it continues to go up to the third floor. And you both. Notice this, you both notice the smell of blood. And the sobs and muffled gasps of a woman in pain emit from the first room from the stairs.
00:43:41
Gilmund Graves
This one right here. Oh, shit. This one.
00:43:42
bladesedge
Yeah, don't click the doors, please.
00:43:43
Gilmund Graves
Yeah, sorry.
00:43:46
bladesedge
um Yes, that one.
00:43:48
Gilmund Graves
OK. Well.
00:43:55
bladesedge
And as you as you just to decide what you're going to do, um we're going to go right back over to Valerius. Are you doing anything with Vess rack as he's in this state or no?
00:44:07
Trevor
Probably just trying to be perceptive of what's going on around me listening out for you know the rest of the party and or other things coming towards us
00:44:17
bladesedge
Nice as they headed upstairs. Um, they've just reached the top. They're looking around inspecting a thing. You, you heard their footsteps and the minutes that they went upstairs and you were alone down here with Vess rack. You did start to hear a muffled scream from the floorboards below you, the soft crying of a baby above you and the sound of clinking glass, laughter, and muffled conversation from the door to the west of where you currently are out here.
00:44:46
Trevor
Okay. Did it sound like, like to me, the way that I perceived it, did it sound like those things just started happening or like I just started picking up on them?
00:44:57
bladesedge
You just started picking up on them.
00:44:57
Trevor
You know what I mean? Okay. Okay. Cool.
00:44:59
bladesedge
Yeah. Like other stuff's been going on. And now that talking has, has stopped and they've walked upstairs.
00:45:04
Trevor
I can hear.
00:45:05
bladesedge
It's all so faint that now you can hear these things.
00:45:07
Trevor
Okay. Got it. Got it. Got it.
00:45:11
bladesedge
ezra
00:45:15
Vesz_rak
Yeah, so I see through the eyes of Istra and I would like to just peek, just take a quick peek about in my surroundings um and then I would like to warg back into my own body.
00:45:31
bladesedge
Nice. um Make a perception check through the eyes of your familiar using the stat block of your familiar.
00:45:39
Vesz_rak
Okay, plus zero.
00:45:39
bladesedge
So you use a spider. That block.
00:45:43
Vesz_rak
ah plus zero, here's a d20, 15.
00:45:46
bladesedge
15 pretty good. um You see a room, a large bedroom. um
00:45:58
bladesedge
Let me see something. um Let me just make a check real quick.
00:46:06
Vesz_rak
Ominous.
00:46:07
Kyle
hahaha
00:46:08
bladesedge
um Let me check some.
00:46:08
Trevor
What are you checking?
00:46:10
bladesedge
everybody ah You see that. OK, so it's a a dusty cobweb filled.
00:46:17
bladesedge
Bedroom large ah bedroom. um
00:46:23
bladesedge
You see ah furnishings include a four poster bed with embroidered curtains and tattered gossamer veils, a matching pair of empty wardrobes. ah You see a vanity with a wood framed mirror and a jewelry box and a padded chair. um You see a rotting tiger skin rug lies on the floor in front of the fireplace, which has a dust covered portrait of what you can only assume are the mother and father hanging above it. um A web filled parlor in the southwest corner contains a table and two chairs resting on the dusty tablecloth is an empty porcelain bowl and a matching jug.
00:47:07
bladesedge
um There's a door facing the foot of the bed that has a full length mirror mounted on it. Uh, you've come out of the dumbwaiter and last but not least, your spider sees a figure hanging before you next to the bed. It's neck gripped tight by a noose. It's pale green skin reflects the moonlight as it's long tong hands, uh, It's it's it's long hands hang down past its warps jaw a dagger like fingers extend below the knees and a small piece of parchment is clutch in its right hand held tight by rigor mortis.
00:47:53
Vesz_rak
Okay, I would like to see if Istra can grab the parchment from its hand and then I'll command it to come back to me and I'll work back into Bezrak.
00:48:05
bladesedge
Make a strength check using the stat block of the spider.
00:48:11
Vesz_rak
Not great, we got a minus four.
00:48:13
Gilmund Graves
Gonna be the strongest spider alive.
00:48:14
Kyle
Oof.
00:48:16
Vesz_rak
It could be the strongest spider of all time. and ah Not good. I think it's a four.
00:48:27
bladesedge
um
00:48:27
Vesz_rak
It's a three. God, I'm so bad at mental math.
00:48:29
bladesedge
That's a nine minus six.
00:48:33
Vesz_rak
Wait, no, it's not it's a five. I'm so sorry. Don't look at me.
00:48:36
bladesedge
vibi Um, he a can't, it is just, it's clutched tight.
00:48:45
Vesz_rak
um Okay, then I would like to work back into vesrac and command is try to come back.
00:48:52
bladesedge
Okay. As, as you work back and Israel begins to climb back down the dumbwaiter, we pop back up to the second floor, uh, Roy and Gilman's.
00:49:04
Kyle
Hello. um I have a question.
00:49:07
Gilmund Graves
Go.
00:49:08
Kyle
I don't know if this is an applicable use of this trait. um But I have what's called a favored enemy.
00:49:18
bladesedge
Yes.
00:49:18
Kyle
um And I have advantage on survival checks to track your favorite enemies. So what I would like to do is just kind of like get down towards the ground so I can smell the draft coming in from under the door and just like look around on the ground and see if I can detect any presence of an undead um in this house.
00:49:31
Vesz_rak
you
00:49:39
bladesedge
Okay, um so it gives you advantage on what kind of check?
00:49:43
Kyle
On survival checks to track your favorite enemies.
00:49:46
bladesedge
Nice. So make a survival check at advantage.
00:49:52
bladesedge
And Gilman, what about you as he gets down and starts doing that?
00:49:55
Trevor
Ooh.
00:49:56
Gilmund Graves
I would be, um, walking a little further into the room. Can you actually grab my token? I think I'm stuck in the collision.
00:50:02
Kyle
ah let me just probably cause of me um
00:50:04
Gilmund Graves
Um, yeah. And then just kind of looking to see up the next set of stairs, if there's anything up there, any, any torn clothing or fragments of, uh, signs of a struggle, something like that.
00:50:17
bladesedge
I see you did have you did notice the smell of blood in the sobs and muffled gasps of a woman in pain emit from the first room from the stairs.
00:50:25
Gilmund Graves
Right.
00:50:25
Kyle
Oh, let me,
00:50:26
Gilmund Graves
Um, and there, is there any sign that maybe like a blood trail led from upstairs into this room or is it just from that room?
00:50:29
Kyle
it's probably because of me.
00:50:35
bladesedge
What's this door right here that you heard it from?
00:50:37
Gilmund Graves
Right.
00:50:38
bladesedge
um ah You do not notice any blood going upstairs.
00:50:42
Gilmund Graves
Okay. Seems like, uh, seems like the blood might be just coming from that room. What do you think?
00:50:49
Kyle
It's tough to say. There's a lot going on in this house.
00:50:53
Gilmund Graves
I think we go in.
00:50:53
Kyle
I also... I think so too. Should we let the other people know?
00:50:58
Gilmund Graves
They've got their own thing going on. Um, and all, uh, I'll extend my hand, Brian, and my hand, like kind of, it's like a glove coming off as a mage hand goes to open the door.
00:51:01
Kyle
Alright.
00:51:11
bladesedge
OK.
00:51:12
Trevor
Sick.
00:51:13
bladesedge
You know, without a doubt, Roy, that with a 21 survival, this whole floor of the house you're on,
00:51:23
Kyle
Mm-hmm.
00:51:23
bladesedge
I'd say you are absolutely certain that on that first floor and on this floor with a 21, you don't sense any. Undead. Like you would have sensed it downstairs. You would have sensed it here. You don't sense any.
00:51:38
Kyle
Okay.
00:51:42
bladesedge
All right.
00:51:42
Kyle
Um...
00:51:44
bladesedge
So Gil, can you move your token or no?
00:51:44
Kyle
Alright.
00:51:46
Gilmund Graves
Yeah, I just, it's my mage hand opening the door from here.
00:51:49
bladesedge
Okay. Uh, the door opens.
00:51:50
Kyle
And I have my bow ready, looking at the door.
00:51:54
Gilmund Graves
And I have the mage hand cantrip through my dark gift, the living shadow.
00:51:59
Trevor
Yeah, that's sick.
00:52:00
bladesedge
Nice. So Roy, you probably see, uh, Oh, it was, but it, but it's not your shadow.
00:52:06
Gilmund Graves
No, it's not my shadow, it's the mage hand cantrip that was granted to me by the dark gift.
00:52:07
bladesedge
It's not your shadow. Okay. Cool.
00:52:11
bladesedge
Hmm.
00:52:14
bladesedge
Um, the door opens and you see like the foot of a bed, I think is what you guys can see.
00:52:18
Kyle
Yeah.
00:52:22
bladesedge
Yeah, you see a foot locker at the foot of a a bed. Looks like a straw, a straw stuffed mattress.
00:52:29
Gilmund Graves
Okay. I would like to stealth fully look around the, um, the door, just trying to see what's in there a little bit better without fully exposing myself.
00:52:38
bladesedge
Cool. Now go ahead and roll a stealth check if you'd like. um as you enter in. ah You see an undecorated bedroom containing a pair of beds with straw stuffed mattresses at the foot of each bed is a footlocker that you quickly find out are both are empty.
00:52:44
Gilmund Graves
19.
00:52:46
Kyle
Nice
00:52:58
bladesedge
You see tidy servants uniforms hang from the hooks. Um, in the closet, as you enter this closet here, the door is like a slightly a jar. Um, you see the tiny servants uniforms hanging from hooks. Um, and you notice in the Southwest, Southeast corner of the room, there is a, uh, dumbwaiter that goes up and down. And you see right next to that dumbwaiter is a button on the wall next to it.
00:53:25
Gilmund Graves
who
00:53:32
Gilmund Graves
Interesting. Um, yeah. Can I further investigate the closet and see if the, um, I kind of just yank around on some stuff, see if there's anything like hanging around in there that could be like just hiding.
00:53:47
bladesedge
Yeah, no rule necessary. You go through it. There's nothing in there. There's just two tidy servants uniforms.
00:53:50
Gilmund Graves
Huh.
00:53:53
Gilmund Graves
Interesting.
00:53:54
Kyle
Hmm. Hmm.
00:53:55
bladesedge
And as you guys are doing that Vess rack, your are back, your eyes open, you are backing your body.
00:53:55
Gilmund Graves
Uh.
00:54:02
Vesz_rak
a I like reach up to Valerius and I go, hey, what I said earlier about loving being in this part, it's just, i I think I just need to make a clarifying statement regarding that.
00:54:08
Trevor
I'd class my hand over as fast as I can.
00:54:17
Trevor
Shut the fuck up.
00:54:20
Vesz_rak
It just, it's real.
00:54:20
bladesedge
You see the dog Lancelot is looking it's looking at you differently now.
00:54:21
Trevor
Shut the fuck up.
00:54:26
Vesz_rak
No, yeah what I was trying to say is that it's just, no, just let me say let me say this, let me say this.
00:54:27
Trevor
Shut the fuck up. Shut the fuck up.
00:54:32
Vesz_rak
It just, it's really cool.
00:54:33
Trevor
Shut the fuck up. Shut the fuck up. Then I try and get him to notice all the sounds that I'm hearing, like the, from the basement and the clinking and everything.
00:54:36
Trevor
Shut the fuck up. Shut the fuck up. Shut the fuck up. Shut the fuck up.
00:54:39
bladesedge
Mm-hmm.
00:54:42
bladesedge
Yeah. The minute you stop talking, vzrak you do hear a baby crying upstairs, a scream from the basement and the sounds of people toasting and glasses and clinking from the room right to your north. Actually right above you, Valerius seems like the door right above you, Valerius and the door out here, both go to the same place.
00:54:58
Trevor
Oh, wait, the door, the door here and the door here.
00:55:03
bladesedge
Right now, the door, the door right to your north and then the door all the way back here.
00:55:07
Trevor
Yep.
00:55:09
Trevor
Okay. Got it. Got it.
00:55:10
bladesedge
Go to the same room.
00:55:12
bladesedge
you hear you So you hear those sounds right on the other side of that door.
00:55:12
Trevor
Okay.
00:55:12
Trevor
I see.
00:55:16
Trevor
Okay.
00:55:17
Vesz_rak
And maybe we should grab everybody else. Also, I think I found their parents' room and the dad is dead. He hung himself and there's a parchment in his hand. Maybe we should grab everybody else. I don't know.
00:55:32
Trevor
Yeah. Let's let's link up with the others. They went upstairs.
00:55:36
Vesz_rak
Okay, I'm just gonna follow you.
00:55:38
Trevor
right
00:55:41
Trevor
ah Yeah, and I'll ah try and I'll go this way and just go up the stairs, keeping an eye on Vez. A little Lancelot if he's following us. Nice Spidey's all with us. And yeah, try and be a little quiet going up these stairs.
00:55:55
bladesedge
Yes.
00:56:01
bladesedge
Cool. Gilman and Roy as, as Gilman, as you're looking through that closet and you notice that it's just servant uniforms. Uh, you begin to hear some conversation from downstairs. What would you guys like to do?
00:56:17
Gilmund Graves
Um, yeah, I would probably come back out into the hallway, tell really what I found. Um, there's no one in there.
00:56:27
Gilmund Graves
Didn't see any blood either.
00:56:28
Kyle
Was this the the door was this a door that had the blood next to it or which door was it?
00:56:33
bladesedge
You smelled blood.
00:56:34
Vesz_rak
you
00:56:34
Kyle
You smell blood.
00:56:34
bladesedge
You never saw any blood.
00:56:38
Kyle
I think
00:56:38
bladesedge
You smelled blood and you heard the sobs and muffled gasps of a woman in pain.
00:56:44
Gilmund Graves
Hmm.
00:56:47
Kyle
something is playing tricks on us.
00:56:48
Gilmund Graves
I think something might be playing tricks on us. This place is weird.
00:56:53
bladesedge
It's at this moment that's Valerius. Vesrak, Lancelot and Isla make their way upstairs.
00:57:03
Trevor
nice Nice.
00:57:06
Gilmund Graves
um You guys find out anything down there?
00:57:13
Trevor
Yeah, i'll I'll look at this.
00:57:15
Vesz_rak
There's a dead body upstairs with a parchment in his hand.
00:57:20
Kyle
on this floor?
00:57:21
Vesz_rak
No, top floor, third floor.
00:57:21
bladesedge
you
00:57:25
Gilmund Graves
OK.
00:57:25
Kyle
Are are you okay?
00:57:27
Trevor
ah you
00:57:27
Vesz_rak
I don't, I just, I'm fine.
00:57:32
Kyle
Okay.
00:57:32
Gilmund Graves
Hey, what do you guys think we ditch this guy once we get into some new town, huh?
00:57:37
Trevor
He's a squirrely motherfucker.
00:57:38
Gilmund Graves
He's fucking confused. Yeah, he's squirrely. He's a loose cannon. He's a wild card.
00:57:42
Kyle
Yeah.
00:57:43
Gilmund Graves
And what he said about spiders. I don't know. I don't know.
00:57:48
Kyle
Um, can I listen for the baby cries?
00:57:49
Gilmund Graves
Go ahead.
00:57:54
Kyle
Can I tell which, uh, where those are coming from? Are they on this floor or so upstairs still?
00:57:59
bladesedge
um Yeah, you as you hush everybody and start really listening, you hear them ah from the floor above you.
00:58:10
Kyle
Okay.
00:58:12
Gilmund Graves
Up is the way.
00:58:12
Kyle
Um, up is the way.
00:58:17
Kyle
Should we bother checking out these doors or do we just head straight upstairs?
00:58:22
Gilmund Graves
Well, Vez saw something, so let's ah let's start with that.
00:58:28
Kyle
Okay. I think we continue upstairs. I'm going to do the same thing. I'm just going to go up real quiet with my bow ready.
00:58:38
bladesedge
Okay.
00:58:42
bladesedge
Roy heads up first. Yeah. What's the marching order here? I gotta put you guys on these stairs.
00:58:46
Gilmund Graves
I'll be right behind Roy.
00:58:49
bladesedge
Okay.
00:58:54
Kyle
Oh.
00:58:55
Trevor
um I can, I can go behind.
00:58:55
Vesz_rak
I can. You go Trev.
00:58:57
Trevor
Okay.
00:59:00
bladesedge
Okay. Let's see. I got you all up here. Spider. Lance a lot.
00:59:13
bladesedge
um As you guys ah get to this third story, you round the top of the staircase and you can't help but look down and see the floors below through its open center.
Battle with Animated Armor
00:59:28
bladesedge
But in front of you on this floor is nothing like you've seen previously in the house. The floor up here is covered in dirt and cobwebs. There are cracks in the floorboards, walls, and ceilings. There are bugs skittering in and out of the cracks in the walls. ah You see a suit of armor covered in cobwebs stands before you with two doors on the left and a hallway on the right.
00:59:55
bladesedge
Oil lamps are mounted on the oak paneled walls, which are carved with woodland scenes of trees, falling leaves, and tiny critters.
01:00:05
Gilmund Graves
Mmm.
01:00:07
Trevor
Are the lamps lit?
01:00:10
bladesedge
Uh, no.
01:00:14
Trevor
Can I light them with Prestidigitation?
01:00:20
bladesedge
Yeah.
01:00:21
Trevor
Is that possible?
01:00:22
bladesedge
Yeah, you light the candles in the room. um And as you do. um Roy. You see. Much like the paneling on the first floor. As you look at these walls, the scenes of trees, falling leaves and tiny critters. In that you see some of the critters are made of shadow.
01:00:49
Kyle
Okay.
01:00:53
bladesedge
and are moving and remind you of these shadowy creatures you've seen in real life following you. And you notice in this same paneling, tiny corpses hanging from the trees in the paintings and worms busting up from the ground in the paintings.
01:01:15
Gilmund Graves
ah so
01:01:17
bladesedge
And as, as all of these lamps light, and you're looking at this, you're looking at the wall and Gil, you see the suit of armor with cobwebs all over its head turn and look at the back of Roy's head.
01:01:36
Gilmund Graves
Oh no, I jumped in front of him.
01:01:39
bladesedge
And I need everybody to roll initiative.
01:01:41
Kyle
Oh, shoot.
01:01:42
Trevor
Oh, shit.
01:01:42
Vesz_rak
o
01:01:42
Kyle
and Oh my Lord. It was so close to one.
01:01:51
Gilmund Graves
Wow.
01:01:51
Kyle
It was teetering.
01:01:53
Trevor
Whoa.
01:01:54
bladesedge
All right. I'm going to clear this turn order. Cause you guys are on there from last time. So just roll. And then you can add your number that you rolled this time.
01:02:03
Vesz_rak
okay
01:02:05
Gilmund Graves
Okay.
01:02:07
Kyle
Wait, I'm, are we ever just rolling again?
01:02:07
Trevor
I like that one better, actually.
01:02:10
bladesedge
Yeah. Roll again, but you can, you can edit it in the turn.
01:02:10
Vesz_rak
her Yeah.
01:02:11
Trevor
Yeah, but then you can just edit it to what you rolled originally.
01:02:13
Kyle
Oh, okay.
01:02:16
Gilmund Graves
deal with a 23.
01:02:20
bladesedge
Love that. Um, uh, All right, you see this suit of black plate armor draped in cobwebs ah looks at the back of Roy's head and ah doesn't have a weapon in its in its hands, but like raises a gauntleted fist to slam him in the back of the head.
01:02:53
Kyle
Oh my god.
01:02:53
bladesedge
But you all notice this, and Gilman, you are up first.
01:02:58
Gilmund Graves
Yeah, so um I am going to take out my ah well, I guess I already had my daggers out. I'm going to move past Roy. um And I'm going to see if I can find a ah weak spot on this on this creature, knowing where normal weak spots would be on an armored man in the in the sides. I'm going to go right underneath the armpit on the right side with my first dagger.
01:03:21
bladesedge
All right. Make an attack roll for me.
01:03:27
Gilmund Graves
Twenty three.
01:03:28
bladesedge
A 23 hits. Roy is technically within five feet of this thing. So you do get your sneak attack.
01:03:38
Trevor
Let's go.
01:03:39
Gilmund Graves
Excellent. So for 12 damage, I pump into this thing.
01:03:39
Vesz_rak
nice nice
01:03:42
Kyle
Beautiful.
01:03:44
Gilmund Graves
Piercing damage.
01:03:45
bladesedge
All right. um As you pierce this guy for 12 points of damage. Let me see something.
01:03:59
bladesedge
OK, this. ah You do 12 points of damage to the suit of armor and you see that you did indeed find a weak point in it.
01:04:03
Vesz_rak
Nice, nice
01:04:08
bladesedge
It takes all 12 points of that damage and.
01:04:11
Gilmund Graves
Mm.
01:04:12
bladesedge
It sort of reels as it has a right hand going for Roy. You see it begins to bring a left upper cut for you.
01:04:21
Gilmund Graves
Oh, OK. And ah then I slink over a little bit more to its other side, leaving the dagger in the side of it. And use my other dagger in my left hand to try to go for the other side.
01:04:32
bladesedge
Nice.
01:04:34
Gilmund Graves
For an 18.
01:04:35
bladesedge
And 18 is pizza pizza just hits meets. It beats it.
01:04:39
Gilmund Graves
Oh, let's go.
01:04:41
bladesedge
Uh, so this will just be your, uh, I believe it's just your, the damage on the left.
01:04:41
Kyle
Wow.
01:04:49
Gilmund Graves
Just the piercing damage. So another six piercing coming at him.
01:04:52
bladesedge
I do believe you don't add your modifier on your second attack, unless you have taken two weapon fighting.
01:04:59
Gilmund Graves
Oh, okay. Let's see.
01:05:01
bladesedge
Go ahead and look at that in your bonus actions.
01:05:05
Gilmund Graves
Bonus action. I have two weapon fighting.
01:05:07
bladesedge
Okay. So does that, when you click on two up and fighting, does it say if you hit, you add your modifier?
01:05:10
Gilmund Graves
Let's see.
01:05:12
bladesedge
Cause I know that that.
01:05:13
Gilmund Graves
It says you don't add your ability modifier to the damage of the bonus attack unless that modifier is negative.
01:05:19
bladesedge
Right. So that on that second attack, you do two.
01:05:23
Gilmund Graves
Two damage, hell yeah.
01:05:24
bladesedge
So an extra two of which it takes both its arms now coming like a pretzel, the right going away, right.
01:05:25
Kyle
Hahaha.
01:05:31
bladesedge
The left going under the right to you the other way.
01:05:33
Vesz_rak
Mmm, it's getting tied up
01:05:35
bladesedge
Uh, and, and is that your turn?
01:05:37
Gilmund Graves
um Yes, that's gonna be my turn.
01:05:41
bladesedge
OK, Valerius Moonstone.
01:05:44
Trevor
All right. I think Valerius is just going to look down the stairs at Lancelot. I just got to go. Lancelot, stay. And try and run up the stairs to get up in front of this guy. I can't move my token for some reason.
01:06:00
bladesedge
Sorry, I got you. Can you move it now?
01:06:01
Trevor
Yep. ah Yes, sir. Thank you, sir. um And he's just going to swing his quarter step over his head and try and hit this thing in his non-existent face.
01:06:14
bladesedge
Absolutely love that Lance a lot.
01:06:15
Trevor
Oh, that's good.
01:06:16
bladesedge
As you tell him Cox's head as if not understanding, I think a six makes this creature look like what the art is on that.
01:06:22
Trevor
Uh, six.
01:06:28
bladesedge
You guys are seeing on, on roll 20, which is you do hit his head and it takes off the helmet of the armor and inside you see nothing but smoke pouring out.
01:06:39
Trevor
Okay.
01:06:39
Vesz_rak
Ooh.
01:06:40
Kyle
Very cool.
01:06:41
Trevor
Yeah, that's cool.
01:06:44
bladesedge
Um, and is that your turn?
01:06:45
Trevor
That's my turn.
01:06:46
bladesedge
All right. Roy, you see this thing has an arm cocked up, ready to come at you.
01:06:54
Kyle
um Is it an is it two actions to unequip something, unequip a weapon and then equip another weapon or is it just one action to do both those in one turn?
01:07:05
bladesedge
It's generally just a free action. Like if you were like, Oh, I have my bow out, but I would like to switch to my sword, my short sword. I would let you just do that as a free action. I think if it's something. I think we've ruled before that if it's something sizable or if you're picking something up off the floor or like taking something from an enemy, it's a bonus action or an action. But I think if you have a bow and a sword, uh, you're like Legolas man. You just quickly put the bow behind you, grab your sword, you know,
01:07:34
Kyle
Cool. Yeah, so that's what I'm gonna do. I'm gonna quickly throw my bow behind my back and at the same time unsheathe my short sword. um And then on my upswing, how do I make sure it's equipped? yeah Oh, here we go. Okay, and on the upswing, I'm just gonna swing at its smoky little head.
01:08:02
bladesedge
Love that.
01:08:05
Kyle
Ten.
01:08:05
bladesedge
A ten misses.
01:08:06
Vesz_rak
o
01:08:07
bladesedge
It swipes through. You actually go for the smoke coming out of the neck hole and your sword just goes right through that.
01:08:14
Trevor
We got to stop going for his head.
01:08:16
Vesz_rak
ah already we've already We've already knocked it off.
01:08:16
Kyle
Yeah.
01:08:17
bladesedge
ah
01:08:18
Trevor
but but Yeah, there's no.
01:08:19
bladesedge
I just I just narrate every missus.
01:08:20
Trevor
heading yeah Why do you keep doing this?
01:08:21
bladesedge
I mean, you went for the head again. What do you expect?
01:08:24
Gilmund Graves
ah
01:08:25
Trevor
Yeah.
01:08:25
bladesedge
ah um And is that your turn?
01:08:29
Kyle
um Yeah, I think it's gonna be it.
01:08:32
bladesedge
OK. Looking at your bonus actions, by the way, I do believe you also might have something like Gilman's two weapon fighting, which is if you have if you had two short swords, which I'm not sure you do.
01:08:45
Kyle
i I do have two short swords. I was looking for that trait in my features and traits and I didn't happen to see it.
01:08:51
bladesedge
But it is in your bonus actions.
01:08:52
Kyle
um It is in my bonus actions.
01:08:54
bladesedge
So it is, it, you could put your bow away and then right hand, left hand, you know, X in front of you, grab both short swords and take two attacks.
01:09:00
Kyle
Yeah.
01:09:04
Kyle
Okay.
01:09:04
bladesedge
It's the second one is just the number you roll on the D six though.
01:09:05
Kyle
Yeah. that No, no.
01:09:08
bladesedge
If you hit.
01:09:10
Kyle
Yeah. It's one D six plus, plus three. So it's just the D six.
01:09:13
bladesedge
Yeah. If you hit.
01:09:14
Kyle
Okay.
01:09:14
bladesedge
So you have to roll to hit first.
01:09:15
Kyle
Cool. Yeah. Let me roll.
01:09:19
Kyle
17.
01:09:20
Trevor
Let's go.
01:09:20
bladesedge
17 just misses.
01:09:20
Trevor
Let's go. Oh, let's not go.
01:09:22
Vesz_rak
Oh, you aim for the head again.
01:09:24
bladesedge
Yeah.
01:09:25
Gilmund Graves
Hey, you went for the head, dude.
01:09:25
Trevor
dude but How many times?
01:09:25
Kyle
I, I, so I.
01:09:25
Vesz_rak
We just went over this.
01:09:26
Gilmund Graves
Come on.
01:09:27
bladesedge
Yeah.
01:09:27
Gilmund Graves
Yeah, we were talking about that.
01:09:28
Vesz_rak
Guys.
01:09:28
bladesedge
You actually swung at him and it hit his arm and then bounced off back through the smoke in the head.
01:09:32
Trevor
yeah
01:09:32
Vesz_rak
ah
01:09:33
Gilmund Graves
ah
01:09:34
bladesedge
What were you going to say?
01:09:35
Kyle
No, I pull out both my swords in like an X shape, and I swing the first one, it goes through the head, going whoosh!
01:09:40
Trevor
Nice.
01:09:41
Kyle
And then I swing the second one, not realizing what just happened, whoosh! Nothing.
01:09:46
Trevor
nine
01:09:46
bladesedge
ah That's your special sound effect forever.
01:09:49
Gilmund Graves
I like that sound effect.
01:09:50
Kyle
Whoosh!
01:09:50
Vesz_rak
I love it. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
01:09:52
bladesedge
Um, and is that your turn?
01:09:52
Kyle
Watching the smoke dissipate for a short time. Yes, that is my turn.
01:09:55
bladesedge
All right. Vess rack on the stairs.
01:09:58
Vesz_rak
rushing up rushing up top of the staircase, five, 10. Spooky, am I able to slink through here?
01:10:07
bladesedge
Yeah, you can move through. If you have the movement, you can go through your character or your friendly tokens, but you can't end on the same token.
01:10:11
Vesz_rak
Yeah.
01:10:16
Vesz_rak
Okay. No problem. Uh, so as I'm running through here, I'm just going to do a drive by shocking grasp, not at the head. I'm just going to place my palm in the middle of its chest and give it a little zap and on shocking grasp, I get advantage. If they're wearing metal armor, does that apply here?
01:10:34
bladesedge
Oh, baby.
01:10:35
Trevor
who
01:10:35
Kyle
Ooh.
01:10:36
bladesedge
Yes, it does.
01:10:37
Trevor
that's cool
01:10:37
bladesedge
Which which you're going to need because you're moving past him and he will take an opportunity attack if you do not hit this.
01:10:38
Kyle
Easy.
01:10:43
Vesz_rak
You know, just just for me, I'm also gonna put my second hand on it and I'm just gonna give him a little zap, give him a little zappity zap.
01:10:45
Trevor
whoa stop the shit out of it let's
01:10:49
Kyle
Let him cook.
01:10:49
bladesedge
OK, let's see.
01:10:51
Vesz_rak
All right, at advantage.
01:10:52
bladesedge
You know that you need an 18.
01:10:55
Gilmund Graves
Oh, let's go baby.
01:10:55
bladesedge
Oh, baby, a 20 dirty 20 and a nine.
01:10:56
Kyle
Easy.
01:10:56
Trevor
go
01:10:59
Vesz_rak
20 will do it, place my both hands on his chest and you see lightning flicker across it.
01:11:04
bladesedge
Oh.
01:11:05
Vesz_rak
is Five damage and I just take one giant step backwards.
01:11:10
bladesedge
As he would have absolutely like maybe taken a knee straight to your ribs with an opportunity attack, but with shocking grasp, that is one of its its best features. No opportunity attacks.
01:11:22
Trevor
That's so tight.
01:11:22
Gilmund Graves
Huge, sick.
01:11:23
Vesz_rak
and then And then I'll and then i'll um maneuver Istra up 20 feet and they'll end right here.
01:11:23
Kyle
That's awesome
01:11:32
bladesedge
All right.
01:11:34
Vesz_rak
Right next to the body of armor, ready ready to bite, little chomps.
01:11:39
bladesedge
Um, Oh, right here. He said, okay.
01:11:41
Vesz_rak
Yeah, right there.
01:11:41
bladesedge
Well Lancelot goes to the top of the stairs, but we'll wait. Doesn't look like, I mean, he has a dog stat block. So I think like max damage. He could do his one. Um, he's still injured. He's still behind. He's not going to, uh, be in this. I actually know, he you know what he is going to do is he's going to give Roy, since you're right next to him on your next attack, Roy, you will have advantage.
01:12:04
Kyle
Cool.
01:12:05
Vesz_rak
I forgot to roll the hit for Istra and she misses her bite attack.
01:12:06
Trevor
Thank you.
01:12:10
bladesedge
Okay. Um, this Ben chills, this,
01:12:11
Gilmund Graves
Benjels is on the sideline. He must be injured.
01:12:15
Trevor
Yeah, come on Oh
01:12:15
Gilmund Graves
Jules, get loose.
01:12:17
bladesedge
this fisted gauntlet comes at your face, Roy, with a natural one baby.
01:12:27
Gilmund Graves
Let's go.
01:12:27
Trevor
oh
01:12:27
Gilmund Graves
In the presence of Roy Halovich.
01:12:28
Kyle
As, as he swings towards my head, I like move my head back and go.
01:12:30
Vesz_rak
Not in my haunted house.
01:12:37
Trevor
and i said
01:12:37
bladesedge
ha nice bring back ah You know what I'm going to say?
01:12:38
Trevor
the
01:12:39
bladesedge
I'm going to say instead of Lancelot giving you advantage on your next attack, because he came up here and sort of nudged you forward, he came up and like put his paws on your back and pushed you forward. And the fist just missed you because he pushed you forward. I will allow you as a reaction to take another short sword attack if you'd like.
01:12:56
Trevor
Oh, good boy.
01:12:57
Kyle
Yeah, let's do it.
01:12:59
Gilmund Graves
Wow, Lancelot, great dog.
01:13:00
Kyle
um
01:13:01
Trevor
What a good boy.
01:13:02
Kyle
Not at his head this time I'm just gonna take my short sword and just try to drive it into ah into his chest 18
01:13:05
bladesedge
Smart.
01:13:06
Trevor
Smart.
01:13:09
bladesedge
Nice. So just a straight roll, no advantage, but 18 hits baby.
01:13:12
Gilmund Graves
Oh, baby.
01:13:13
Trevor
Nice.
01:13:13
Vesz_rak
Hey, let's go.
01:13:14
Kyle
to hit For eight damage
01:13:14
Trevor
Let's go.
01:13:15
Gilmund Graves
That's what we're talking about.
01:13:15
bladesedge
And you will get this. Hate damage. Jeez Louise. Um, you guys are the strongest level one party I've ever seen in my life.
01:13:27
Vesz_rak
Maybe we don't even need to level up. Maybe we just do the whole campaign as level one.
01:13:28
Trevor
ah
01:13:30
Gilmund Graves
Tommy, Tommy, Tommy, Tommy, Tommy, Tommy.
01:13:31
bladesedge
This, uh, this, uh, the armor, his left arm comes around and does attempt to and knock your block off Gilman with his second attack.
01:13:32
Vesz_rak
just I'm just saying, what a twist.
01:13:40
Gilmund Graves
Yeah.
01:13:43
bladesedge
And that's only an eight.
01:13:43
Gilmund Graves
ah
01:13:45
Trevor
wow
01:13:46
bladesedge
All these attacks he comes by.
01:13:46
Vesz_rak
You need it. You can't see Brian.
01:13:49
bladesedge
You can't see he needed his helmet.
01:13:50
Trevor
Wow You've got my head
01:13:51
bladesedge
He's he misses both and then immediately bends over and his hands are like searching the ground for the helmet.
01:13:51
Vesz_rak
Yeah, i guess he's fighting blind out there.
01:13:52
Gilmund Graves
He's made out of smoke. He ain't got no eyes, Lieutenant Dan.
01:14:00
Gilmund Graves
I can't find my glasses.
01:14:01
bladesedge
ah I can't find my glasses with
01:14:03
Trevor
all four oh shit oh please yeah oh it's so funny
01:14:04
Kyle
Oh, where's my helmet?
01:14:06
Gilmund Graves
ah
01:14:08
bladesedge
a, with a pretty honestly, a pretty deadly enemy for level one characters.
01:14:10
Kyle
a
01:14:14
bladesedge
He doesn't even hit. He's taken significant damage. And at the start of round two, Gilman graves, you're up.
01:14:22
Gilmund Graves
Yeah, so as he swings at me, I take my left-handed dagger and I wanna swipe right against his stomach as I make my way back towards my other dagger that's in his armpit. First attack coming in.
01:14:34
bladesedge
of it.
01:14:36
Gilmund Graves
That's gonna be a natural one.
01:14:38
bladesedge
Wow. Another nat one. You might have taken the crown so far.
01:14:41
Kyle
Ah.
01:14:43
Gilmund Graves
Look, Gilman's lived a tortured life. He revels in it.
01:14:47
bladesedge
So as you make a nat one, I'm going to say something here that's going to maybe have ramifications for the rest of the campaign.
01:14:53
Gilmund Graves
Oh boy.
01:14:53
bladesedge
I'm going to say that this is the moment that the rest of you who are all on the other side, looking this way, you see as Gilmond misses, you see his shadow, not making the exact same movement that he's making. As Gilmond moves, his shadow did not move.
01:15:12
Gilmund Graves
Yeah.
01:15:15
Gilmund Graves
Stay put.
01:15:16
Trevor
whoa Whoa.
01:15:17
Vesz_rak
What the fuck?
01:15:19
Trevor
Did you see that?
01:15:20
Gilmund Graves
Um.
01:15:20
Kyle
Yeah, i just take note of that, but don't say anything. Obviously we're in a huge fight.
01:15:24
Trevor
Hey, everybody stop.
01:15:25
Kyle
Hey, what the hell was that?
01:15:25
Trevor
Everybody stop. You see that? You see that?
01:15:27
Gilmund Graves
What the hell was that?
01:15:27
Trevor
Don't pause. You want to hit me.
01:15:28
Vesz_rak
Hey, time out, time out, timeout time out.
01:15:28
Trevor
I want to hit you. I'm out.
01:15:29
Kyle
i
01:15:29
Trevor
I'm out. You see that shit?
01:15:31
Gilmund Graves
I'm just a little guy.
01:15:32
Kyle
um
01:15:33
Trevor
Go, Scott.
01:15:33
Gilmund Graves
Don't worry about it.
01:15:34
Trevor
What are you making it?
01:15:34
bladesedge
Um, and you do, you do see, you all see the shadow then as Gilman is going to make his second attack.
01:15:35
Kyle
um
01:15:40
bladesedge
The shadow does come around. Like as if like those under Gilman's armpit and you can't tell if this is going to be to push Gilman's arm forward to help him hit, or if the shadow is going to be detracting from this next attack that he makes.
01:15:55
Gilmund Graves
Right.
01:15:55
Kyle
Hmm.
01:15:56
Gilmund Graves
And so I'm going to be using the dagger that is currently stuck within the armored entity. And I want to just like pull it downwards as if I were cutting into like a sheet and pulling it down.
01:16:10
bladesedge
love that.
01:16:11
Gilmund Graves
Um, and here's the swing with just a 14 with a four.
01:16:16
bladesedge
Okay, and then roll a d4. And ah if you get a four that hits the shadow, you go and you yank it and it for a second it doesn't move down and all of you see the shadow come off the wall behind him and grab his arm and pull it down.
01:16:22
Vesz_rak
Ooh.
01:16:22
Kyle
Wow.
01:16:24
Trevor
Let's go.
01:16:24
Kyle
Wow, wow, wow Jeez
01:16:25
Trevor
That's so sick.
01:16:25
Gilmund Graves
Let's go.
01:16:38
Gilmund Graves
And I get my sneak attack um for a total of 10 damage.
01:16:38
Trevor
That's so tight.
01:16:38
Vesz_rak
Mm.
01:16:43
Gilmund Graves
Five piercing, five from the sneak attack.
01:16:44
bladesedge
And, and we've narrated this thing beautifully, but Gilman, how do you want to do this?
01:16:45
Kyle
Let's
01:16:48
Trevor
Let's go.
01:16:50
Kyle
go
01:16:51
Gilmund Graves
I rip through it with it ah with my dagger and I like get right to its core. What I perceive would be the core of this like spectral entity um and my dagger gets stuck in it and the thing just dissipates and the armor clanks to the ground.
01:17:08
bladesedge
The armor clanks to the ground. I put in chat, but you know, I won't always do this, but it's worth noting this thing had an 18 AC. This thing had 33 hit points. It had two attacks and was a very deadly for level one characters. And you guys didn't take a single point of damage.
01:17:26
Kyle
We didn't take a single point of damage I don't think First first one's free Yeah
01:17:30
Gilmund Graves
Not this time.
01:17:32
Trevor
Not this time.
01:17:33
Gilmund Graves
Wow.
01:17:35
Trevor
Yeah, everybody gets one.
01:17:36
Vesz_rak
Yeah.
01:17:36
bladesedge
The armor.
01:17:36
Gilmund Graves
Yeah.
01:17:37
bladesedge
As the armorer clanks to the ground, no role for you necessary, Roy. You absolutely are now pinging on this floor. You said it was undead.
01:17:51
Kyle
It was undead.
01:17:51
bladesedge
I will say I'll use one of my favorite words in the world here to tell you what you are actually. um
01:18:01
bladesedge
You are. Sensing poltergeists.
01:18:06
Kyle
Holtergeists.
01:18:10
bladesedge
You are, you are sensing that, but you are sensing, uh, disembodied spirits, supernatural forces, et cetera, et cetera.
01:18:11
Gilmund Graves
No.
01:18:17
Gilmund Graves
Yeah. Rest in peace. Patrick schwayze.
01:18:19
Vesz_rak
Aww.
01:18:20
Kyle
Yeah.
01:18:21
bladesedge
Uh, the movie, the movie ghost.
01:18:24
Gilmund Graves
Yeah, man.
01:18:24
bladesedge
Was that movie? Who's in? Oh, right.
01:18:25
Gilmund Graves
He was a fucking ghost.
01:18:27
bladesedge
That's right.
01:18:27
Gilmund Graves
Poltergeist.
01:18:27
bladesedge
Yes.
01:18:28
Gilmund Graves
I don't remember.
01:18:28
bladesedge
yes
01:18:29
Gilmund Graves
He had great hair.
01:18:29
Kyle
um Am I sensing this from a specific door on this floor? Like, do I get a sense of the directions coming from?
01:18:35
bladesedge
No, just, like just this floor in general.
01:18:39
Kyle
Just the vibe.
01:18:40
bladesedge
just the vibe in general, I think you're ah I think now you're getting this from the whole house um and from this whole experience in general, but this ah encounter with this suit of armor that, you know, was being fueled by, you know, maybe a disembodied spirit um makes you realize that there's there's more than meets the eye.
01:18:40
Trevor
Spectral Wives.
01:18:41
Kyle
Getting a poltergeist vibe.
01:19:06
Gilmund Graves
Hmm.
01:19:07
Kyle
I'm gonna turn to the group and I'm gonna be like, well, house is haunted.
01:19:07
Gilmund Graves
Fascinating.
01:19:07
Vesz_rak
Transformers.
01:19:11
Gilmund Graves
hu Moon's haunted.
01:19:14
bladesedge
What'd you say? Moon's haunted.
01:19:15
Kyle
Cox gun.
01:19:16
bladesedge
Yeah.
01:19:17
Trevor
ah
01:19:20
Gilmund Graves
hey Yeah. Neil Armstrong. Lance Armstrong.
01:19:26
Kyle
um
Grotesque Discoveries and Revelations
01:19:27
Kyle
Okay, whoa.
01:19:27
Gilmund Graves
Louis Armstrong. Think about it.
01:19:30
Kyle
Damn.
01:19:31
Vesz_rak
Bri, could I?
01:19:32
Kyle
we
01:19:33
Vesz_rak
Open the door above me to try and find the room that Istra found.
01:19:38
bladesedge
Yes. um You open that door, no problem at all. You immediately see the decrepit tiger rug makes sense. Now, as you were looking through its eyes, as this whole room was really gross and downstairs kind of wasn't downstairs. The first two floors seemed like normal, like a family had been living here and this floor definitely feels like, Hmm, time has passed.
01:20:06
Vesz_rak
I'd like to just go into the room and try to grab the parchment from, i'm so now that I'm closer, am I presuming that it's the father of the house?
01:20:18
bladesedge
No. So now that you're in there, you actually are are catching up on something I maybe didn't didn't say a loud enough or or emphasize enough. The creature that is hanging is pale, has green skin and has long arms that go past like longer than your arms and hang down.
01:20:34
Vesz_rak
Oh, i Okay, yeah.
01:20:38
bladesedge
um And then ah It has a long tongue to hanging out of its mouth. It goes down underneath its jaw, which is warped. And the fingers are long, like the size of daggers that extend below the knees. This is like this is like a creature and it is holding a parchment in its right hand.
01:20:59
Vesz_rak
Okay.
01:21:02
Gilmund Graves
Sounds fucking gross, dude.
01:21:04
Vesz_rak
Okay, I, yeah, I got like the long fingers, but okay.
01:21:04
bladesedge
Very gross.
01:21:05
Trevor
Yeah.
01:21:07
Vesz_rak
All right, so I would like to go up to this creature and I'd like to do two things. One, try to grab the parchment out of its hand. And two, I would like to take the knife out of my, like that sheathed it under my robe.
01:21:21
bladesedge
Hmm.
01:21:25
Vesz_rak
And if there's any blood, I would like to kind of cut its skin, take a little bit of the blood and put it in my spell book.
01:21:34
bladesedge
ah Make a medicine check for me for that.
01:21:36
Vesz_rak
Medicine check. ah That's an eight.
01:21:42
bladesedge
Within eight. This looks like I think you're going to put some stuff together. This is going to be and a way that you're going to you're failing forward here. umm
01:21:55
bladesedge
ah This is this this miss this seems like the guy in the photos you've been seeing. This looks like the husband.
01:22:04
Vesz_rak
Okay, but it's,
01:22:04
Kyle
Mm.
01:22:05
bladesedge
But it looks like a warped version of him. It looks like he's been dead for no more than a few hours.
01:22:10
Vesz_rak
Oh, no.
01:22:11
bladesedge
But this seems like a manifestation of what's going on in this house. And this is not correct. Like at now that you're not, your when you were your spider, you maybe thought this was the guy. Now that you're up close to it, it's not the guy, but it's supposed to be.
01:22:29
Vesz_rak
I look at I look back at Valyrias, I'm just.
01:22:29
Gilmund Graves
Oh interesting.
01:22:33
Vesz_rak
Is this making sense to you? ah
01:22:37
Trevor
No, no, it's all I'm just gonna start looking around the room at whatever else is this is like a desk right here.
01:22:44
bladesedge
Yeah, you see all the stuff that I had told him before, which is a large bedroom, a figure hangs next to the bed.
01:22:48
Trevor
Okay.
01:22:50
bladesedge
That's that person.
01:22:51
Trevor
Yeah.
01:22:51
bladesedge
um You also see. A burgundy drapes four poster bed curtains, gospel veils, a matching pair of empty wardrobes, a vanity filled with a wood frame mirror and a jewelry box, a padded chair, a rotted tiger skin lying on the floor, um which is a rug.
01:23:02
Vesz_rak
Thank you.
01:23:12
bladesedge
um fireplace with a dust covered portrait of the husband and wife hanging above it.
01:23:22
Gilmund Graves
Brian, as the son of a mortician.
01:23:22
bladesedge
Um, uh, empty porcelain bowl and matching jug.
01:23:24
Gilmund Graves
Oh, go ahead.
01:23:25
bladesedge
Sorry. Uh, and then a full length mirror, a door facing the foot of the bed has a full length mirror mounted on it.
01:23:38
bladesedge
That's what you see. Hilarious.
01:23:39
Trevor
okay
01:23:42
Kyle
Did we see what the parchment was?
01:23:46
Vesz_rak
I think I'm trying to grab it out of its hand.
01:23:48
bladesedge
Yeah, give me an athletics check.
01:23:48
Kyle
Okay.
01:23:49
Trevor
Okay.
01:23:49
Vesz_rak
I don't know if I'm strong enough. I brace my foot i brace my foot off of this guy, and I'm two hands on the parchment, foot on this guy's like leg or hip bone, and I'm i'm pushing, I'm pulling back.
01:23:53
Gilmund Graves
Yeah.
01:24:04
bladesedge
OK. Yeah, Vesrak, what happens as you net one?
01:24:04
Trevor
Can I like help him with it?
01:24:06
Kyle
Oh my God.
01:24:07
Gilmund Graves
How well is athletics' role in history?
01:24:08
Vesz_rak
Oh, no.
01:24:08
Trevor
Oh, shit. yeah
01:24:09
Vesz_rak
So I go.
01:24:11
Trevor
that's oh funny
01:24:15
Vesz_rak
So I'm pulling this parchment back and my, I, I slip, I fall. My vision goes black and I, I feel myself falling, but not falling through the floor. I'm falling deeper and deeper, deep below the air surface. I'm sorry. I'm panicking. Oh, where am I?
01:24:36
Trevor
That's so funny.
01:24:37
Vesz_rak
And I opened my eyes and I'm back in Menzo brands and and then I. I wake back up and I'm on the floor in this master bedroom on the ground, knocked my head, big bump on the back of my head and...
01:24:51
bladesedge
I'll also say, I think with a k nat one, you put your foot on this thing to pull. And as you come to, you're holding the parchment. You're also holding this guy's entire arm.
01:25:01
Vesz_rak
Ah, but
01:25:01
Kyle
Haha.
01:25:01
bladesedge
And on the, on the bed, uh, falling back off the news, cause he was hanging, it hung himself on the bed is this creature missing an arm now.
01:25:01
Vesz_rak
ah, ah!
01:25:01
Trevor
yeah
01:25:02
Gilmund Graves
Yeah. Does he got slime on him? Did he get slimed?
01:25:12
bladesedge
Uh, and you have the, you have the parchment. And ah as you have ripped the arm off, I'll say the fingers, the rigor mortis, you're able to get it out now, but you've desecrated this corpse in the process.
01:25:26
Vesz_rak
I passed i pass ah i pass the note over to Valerius and I'm gonna throw up, I'm gonna throw up, I'm gonna throw up.
01:25:35
Trevor
Yeah, I'll take it from.
01:25:38
bladesedge
It says, My beloved children, I wish I could do what all fathers do and tell you that monsters aren't real, but it wouldn't be true. Life can create things of exquisite beauty, but it can also t twist them into hideous beings, selfish, violent, grotesque, monstrous. It hurts me to say that your mother has turned into one such monster inside and out. And I'm afraid the disease that afflicted her mind has taken hold of me as well. It sickens me to think what we've put you through. There is no excuse. I only ask you, though I know I have not the right to do so, to try and forgive us. I despise what your mother has become, but I love and pity her all the same. Rose, I wish I could see you blossom and into a strong, beautiful woman. Thorn and Walter, I wish I could be there for you.
01:26:36
bladesedge
But I can't. This is the only way. Goodbye.
01:26:45
Gilmund Graves
Brutal.
01:26:46
Kyle
Wow.
01:26:47
Gilmund Graves
Hey, do we think his kids can read?
01:26:50
Kyle
I hope not.
01:26:55
Gilmund Graves
Yeah.
01:26:56
Kyle
um
01:26:57
Gilmund Graves
Um, Brian, having a traveled the the lands, burying people and building caskets and all that kind of stuff.
01:27:08
bladesedge
Mm hmm.
01:27:10
Gilmund Graves
Can I
01:27:13
Gilmund Graves
Can I do like a little bit of like, uh, preserve for burial kind of thing with some of the bedsheets that are here, just kind of like wrap them up a little bit to make sure that no bugs are getting
The Search for the Baby and Monster
01:27:23
Gilmund Graves
to him. And, uh, you know, the carrion birds don't come through the windows and start pecking at him.
01:27:25
bladesedge
Yeah.
01:27:29
bladesedge
Sure. Yeah, definitely wrap them up, take the sheets, which are pretty disgusting in themselves, but.
01:27:31
Gilmund Graves
Yeah.
01:27:37
bladesedge
um You do that.
01:27:43
bladesedge
And what about the rest of you?
01:27:44
Gilmund Graves
Okay.
01:27:47
Kyle
Well, it seems that the mom has suffered a similar fate in becoming a monster, but I think she's still in the house.
01:28:02
Gilmund Graves
Yeah, she's definitely still in the house. Probably the monster in the basement.
01:28:08
Kyle
Do I still hear the baby crying?
01:28:12
bladesedge
Um. You. Is it such a good question? Um. Let me see something real quick.
01:28:29
bladesedge
Um. Yes, you do.
01:28:36
Kyle
Do I know which door it's coming from?
01:28:38
bladesedge
Um, it seems a little amorphous up here. You hear it coming from, uh, a room on this floor though.
01:28:50
Kyle
Okay. I think we should try and find this baby. And then once we have that figured out, bring the baby outside, the rose and thorn, and then see if we can get the mom taken care of.
01:29:06
Gilmund Graves
I think that's a great idea.
01:29:06
Vesz_rak
Let's just get, let's get out of here. Grab the baby and get.
01:29:10
Trevor
Go
01:29:12
bladesedge
So Roy, as you are, as you are, um, doing this, why don't you go ahead and make me a, uh, or I'm going to call it a perception check.
01:29:12
Kyle
Also an option.
01:29:27
Kyle
Um, before I do that.
01:29:29
Trevor
ahead.
01:29:31
bladesedge
Or investigation.
01:29:33
Kyle
Can I, can I influence the presence of these creatures that follow me?
01:29:36
bladesedge
Yes.
01:29:43
bladesedge
Oh, yeah.
01:29:45
Trevor
Mm
01:29:47
bladesedge
Are you, would, would you like to narrate that or would you like me to.
01:29:47
Kyle
Oh, it's an action, but there's no like... um You can.
01:29:58
bladesedge
Um, Vesrak, as you stand by this window and Gilmond, as you, you head over here and you sort of close this door that opens up to a balcony right here that was open.
01:30:10
Trevor
hmm.
01:30:11
bladesedge
Um, that you saw bugs coming through. And that's right. You're over there standing by the window, thinking about what just happened to you.
01:30:19
Vesz_rak
Dabbing to throw up off my mouth.
01:30:20
bladesedge
That's right. Make a dexterity saving throw.
01:30:23
Vesz_rak
Oh, man.
01:30:25
bladesedge
Uh, Gilman, I'd like you to make one as well.
01:30:26
Trevor
Yeah.
01:30:28
Gilmund Graves
Oh man.
01:30:29
Vesz_rak
22 for Vezdrag.
01:30:31
bladesedge
Oh, no.
01:30:32
Gilmund Graves
15 for Gilman.
01:30:34
bladesedge
vzrack you flinch but duck as you see a raven flying straight at the window, straight at your face, ready to break through the window. And as it goes to collide with the window, you flinch but you duck. Gilman, you're going to close this door, but you see these like they're like rabbits and rodents and and carrion feeder birds come through this door. ah But they're all like blacker than black. They're shadow. They're like the reminiscent of your shadow. And you're able to like some of them are on the ground. Some of them are up there and you sort of roll back against the other thing, except to Bezrak. The window never shatters.
01:31:16
bladesedge
And Gilman, ah you see these things pass through the wall.
01:31:21
Gilmund Graves
Whoa!
01:31:21
Trevor
Sick.
01:31:22
bladesedge
And Roy, you see filling this hallway now are. ah Ravens, crows. um
01:31:35
Trevor
Cravens.
01:31:36
bladesedge
Cravens, bros, no, um there are Ravens, there are vultures, there are crows and there are jackals.
01:31:37
Vesz_rak
Hehe.
01:31:38
Trevor
Brunch. ah
01:31:46
bladesedge
But they are all made. So these jackals are sort of like what we're on things on the ground looks sort of like a little wolves, but made of full of shadow stuff. And they're all in this room looking at you, but you see one particular jackal sitting in front of the rest. The same one that you saw in the bar looks at you Cox's his head and smiles and the smiles like too big. It's just like a little too big.
01:32:14
bladesedge
as they look at you expectantly.
01:32:17
Kyle
Yeah, so you guys basically just see Roy close his eyes um and I'm just focusing on this rumbling sound in my head and I concentrate and let the rumbling get louder and louder until finally it snaps and it I break through and suddenly I have an incredible amount of mental clarity with the assistance of these shadowy figures. um So I'm going to make you said either investigation or perception.
01:32:47
bladesedge
Yes.
01:32:48
Kyle
I'm going to make a perception check at advantage.
01:32:51
bladesedge
Love that.
01:32:55
Kyle
Five or 12 or sorry, 11 or 12.
01:32:58
bladesedge
Okay. So you notice a ah door right here in front of you, there is a door. ah to the south that goes to a room that like a bigger room down here. There's another another the tiny door right to your south of the tiny door right down here next to this bigger door that looks like so it goes to some sort of bedroom. um However, you do find.
01:33:27
bladesedge
um
01:33:32
bladesedge
You do find as you're looking around, you notice all that stuff and the little Jackal made of shadow stuff. One of the crows flies and lands on its back as it saunters over to this wall down here.
01:33:48
Kyle
Hmm.
01:33:51
bladesedge
And yes, now you're good.
01:33:51
Kyle
I'm going to, uh, sorry, go ahead. I'm gonna follow that one. I'll let everyone know that I'm heading down to this, uh, bigger door down here. Um, you set up against this wall, right?
01:34:05
bladesedge
And as you get there, the ah all that he sort of steps into the wall and all the creatures that were around you sort of follow him into this wall.
Level Up: Finding the Attic
01:34:15
bladesedge
And do you see a door?
01:34:17
Gilmund Graves
Oh, baby.
01:34:18
Kyle
Oh, wow.
01:34:19
Trevor
Oh damn.
01:34:25
Kyle
Okay, I'm going to.
01:34:26
Gilmund Graves
I like those little guys.
01:34:29
Kyle
Yeah, me too.
01:34:29
Vesz_rak
Everyone hates the spiders. They love the squooky birds. They hate the spiders.
01:34:36
Kyle
um I'm going to slowly open this door.
01:34:41
bladesedge
Okay. You open the door and do you see a dusty cobweb filled wooden staircase leading up to the attic?
01:34:44
Kyle
Oh.
01:34:56
Kyle
oh God.
01:34:57
Gilmund Graves
Oh, to the attic we go.
01:34:59
Vesz_rak
More confined spaces.
01:35:00
Kyle
The attic. Yeah.
01:35:02
bladesedge
Um, and at the risk of wasting some of our precious time, as we only have ah maybe 25 more minutes before we're going to go today, finding this staircase, Roy. Canonically in the adventure advances you to level two.
01:35:20
Kyle
um Wow.
01:35:20
Gilmund Graves
Whoa.
01:35:21
Vesz_rak
Oh.
01:35:21
Trevor
Oh let's go
01:35:24
Gilmund Graves
Level two, baby.
01:35:25
bladesedge
And you can all maybe just do a quick.
01:35:30
Gilmund Graves
Oh yeah, no question.
01:35:30
bladesedge
I don't think level two is too crazy for anybody. Vesrec, for you, it might be the craziest as a wizard. I believe you get your subclass right now.
01:35:39
Vesz_rak
I do get the subclass right now.
01:35:41
Gilmund Graves
And I just got cunnilingus, I mean, cunning action.
01:35:45
bladesedge
Cunning Glingis, cunning Lang action.
01:35:47
Gilmund Graves
Cunning, yeah, yeah, cunnilingus action.
01:35:50
bladesedge
Um, and do you, would you like to explain your, your, your subclass as record? You want to let that be a little secret.
01:36:00
Vesz_rak
oh um yeah so ill I'll let it play out. I'll find a good good time to share it with everyone.
01:36:08
bladesedge
Okay.
01:36:16
Trevor
Sweet. Just multiclass into a Hexblade Warlock.
01:36:17
Gilmund Graves
Yeah, I was I would be absolutely not surprised.
01:36:18
Trevor
I'm ready to go.
01:36:18
Vesz_rak
Yeah, I'm one level wizard.
01:36:21
bladesedge
ah Took one level of that, and then you just go, all right, straight back to the guy I was.
01:36:24
Trevor
yeah
01:36:27
Gilmund Graves
I'm not going to play warlock again.
01:36:27
Vesz_rak
Yeah, one level, one level wizard just for the arcane recovery and then level now i'm it full monk actually.
01:36:28
Trevor
yeah i mean
01:36:35
Trevor
a
01:36:36
Gilmund Graves
but
01:36:40
bladesedge
um any Any fun features for any of you guys you want to talk about while we're waiting for everybody to?
01:36:40
Gilmund Graves
Wow.
01:36:44
Kyle
um I unlocked spell casting.
01:36:48
bladesedge
Let's go. that Hey, that makes sense in this in this moment.
01:36:49
Gilmund Graves
Beautiful.
01:36:49
Kyle
That's pretty cool.
01:36:50
Gilmund Graves
That's huge.
01:36:51
bladesedge
that narratively makes a lot of sense.
01:36:53
Trevor
oh wait i think
01:36:54
Vesz_rak
i I would say with the with the with with the from the blood of um the the father or the monstrous Daddy, I don't know, of like hanging there. ah You see me like cut my arm as I fall and I'll take a little bit of piece of my own blood and put it into the center of my leather bound tome.
01:37:18
Trevor
Oh wait, I think I can help.
01:37:20
Vesz_rak
I am now fully coming into my own as a blood wizard.
01:37:25
Trevor
Moo!
01:37:25
Gilmund Graves
Wow fully coming and monstrous daddy.
01:37:26
Kyle
Mmm.
01:37:27
bladesedge
and then I think as you do that, as you do that, the blood you couldn't find before is there.
01:37:35
Gilmund Graves
Ooh.
01:37:36
Vesz_rak
Ooh, now I can sniff it out. and i can sniff I have blood sense now, I guess.
01:37:41
bladesedge
I also love that you're just like, yeah, the father are hanging in there, or I guess monstrous daddy. I don't know.
01:37:48
Gilmund Graves
but
01:37:48
bladesedge
What the fuck? ah
01:37:51
Vesz_rak
you said it was the You said it was the dad, but it was a little little spookier, a little not so right.
01:37:55
bladesedge
Yeah, you, you get the sense from his, his, his thing that it's just something bad, something very bad happened to this man.
01:38:01
Gilmund Graves
Yeah.
01:38:02
Vesz_rak
Something like very bad happened to the mom.
01:38:02
bladesedge
It doesn't look like the guy in the photos at all, but but you get from the monstrous daddy.
01:38:06
Vesz_rak
He turned into a monstrous daddy.
01:38:08
Gilmund Graves
Yeah, he did. I, uh, I take my two daggers and I clink them back together to become a pair of scissors, put them on my, um, on my like kind of chest belts, the kind of bandolier shaped belt.
01:38:10
Kyle
Up.
01:38:19
bladesedge
Yeah.
01:38:20
Gilmund Graves
Um, and, uh, advancing to level two gets me cutting action. Um, so despite having gotten. Womped by wolves, absolutely thrashed to that armor, um, starting to understand how to fight a little bit better. And this will allow me to be even more nimble and more creative.
01:38:39
bladesedge
Nice. So what are your current hit points now? I think Roy and Gilly are still not at full, but your hit points will be higher now. So what is it?
01:38:44
Gilmund Graves
Yeah, I'm at 12 hit points, maximum of 15.
01:38:47
bladesedge
Love that.
01:38:49
bladesedge
And Roy.
01:38:50
Kyle
um I'm at 22 max, but it changed my current to 21 should that should I change it back to what it was Yeah, so this this makes sense I keep it at 21, okay Yeah
01:38:56
bladesedge
That's right. Cause you, yeah, you were at, you were already a a hit point down. And Valerius.
01:39:09
bladesedge
current hit points.
01:39:09
Vesz_rak
I think he stepped away for a second. My, uh, for Vezrak AC 13 current hit points, 15 max 16.
01:39:17
bladesedge
Nice. Your ACE is actually 16 right now because of major armor.
01:39:20
Vesz_rak
My bloody mage armor.
01:39:23
bladesedge
Um, love that. And so as you guys, you feel this power surge, this, these dark gifts that each of you have this, this voice in your head of Esrak as you have this vision. This voice in your head says, Oh, it's making more sense. The picture is coming in clearer.
01:39:51
Vesz_rak
as I feel the burning, so I try to rub away the burning sensation that's going on right beneath my ah right behind my eyelids.
01:39:59
bladesedge
And, uh, uh, Valerius, what's your current hip points now?
01:40:04
Trevor
My current HP is about 17.
01:40:06
Gilmund Graves
Ho-ho, he leveled up into a southerner.
01:40:09
Trevor
Yeah, so multi-classed into a Texan.
01:40:10
Vesz_rak
I'm getting whiplash.
01:40:10
bladesedge
17, as you level up, you feel, uh, you feel an imperceptible growth to anybody else, but that ring on your left finger, you went a little from the pain as it grows ever so slightly, both outwards and into your skin.
01:40:11
Gilmund Graves
Yay!
01:40:35
Trevor
Ooh.
01:40:37
bladesedge
Tiny bit of blood trickles down your pinky Gilman's your shadow. You, you see it. ah Maybe it's the light in here that Valerius, you know, lit all these sconces with, but your shadow grows ever larger.
01:40:53
Gilmund Graves
Mm hmm.
01:40:57
bladesedge
And Roy, you found this door and what would you guys like to do now?
01:41:06
Kyle
I'm gonna just look back at the party and not say anything.
01:41:12
Vesz_rak
Big thumbs up, big thumbs up from Bezerak.
01:41:16
Kyle
Are we going up?
01:41:16
Gilmund Graves
I give him a little little finger guns pointing upwards. so
01:41:20
Kyle
I say, I just shake my head up and down and I slowly, quietly head up the stairs.
01:41:28
Gilmund Graves
Right behind you, not looking up your elf skirt, not looking up your elf skirt, not looking up your elf skirt.
01:41:28
bladesedge
Okay. Gilman is right behind him. Who's behind Gilman's?
01:41:38
Vesz_rak
ah
01:41:40
Vesz_rak
I think, uh, Valerius and then Bezrak.
01:41:42
Trevor
Yeah, I can go.
01:41:43
bladesedge
Okay. I got your, I got your guys tokens. Don't worry. I'll move you.
01:41:48
Trevor
How's everybody's, uh, everybody got dark vision? Yeah.
01:41:52
Kyle
Yes.
01:41:52
Trevor
to get Okay.
01:41:52
Gilmund Graves
Mm hmm.
01:41:53
Trevor
Cool.
01:41:53
bladesedge
And you've come to a door at the top of the stairs, Roy.
01:42:00
Kyle
um Is there a gap between the door and the floor?
01:42:05
bladesedge
Um, roll a d20.
01:42:13
Kyle
Seven.
01:42:13
bladesedge
Yeah, there is a little gap.
01:42:17
Kyle
Can I see through the gap? Can I see anything?
01:42:20
bladesedge
Yeah, you look through and you see floorboards, but nothing else. You don't see feet or anything like that.
01:42:27
Kyle
Do I hear anything on the other side of the door?
01:42:31
bladesedge
Um, you do not.
01:42:34
Kyle
Okay. And I'm going to open the door.
01:42:45
bladesedge
You open the door, immediately see a window right across the way. As you're now on the, you you saw it was a four story house.
01:42:53
Vesz_rak
Thank
01:42:53
bladesedge
You're on the fourth story of the house, the attic.
01:42:58
Kyle
Um, I have my swords in my hands. I took them out as I was, uh, walking up the stairs and I'm going to peek my head, um, around the corner before I walk into the room, peek to the left.
01:43:11
bladesedge
Yeah, as you look in this room, you see, uh, this, it's like a hall and it's choked with dust and cobwebs.
01:43:19
Vesz_rak
you.
01:43:21
bladesedge
Um, you see, there's a window to the north. As you look around, you see that there's a couple of different rooms and then most notably there's a padlock on the door to the north over here. You can't quite see from where your character token is, but you just see it's a bear room.
01:43:35
Kyle
I'm walking in. Okay. I'm going to walk over to the door with the padlock on it.
01:43:46
bladesedge
Okay.
01:43:46
Gilmund Graves
And I'm right behind you.
01:43:52
Kyle
What does this padlock look like?
01:43:54
bladesedge
Um, it looks like a padlock.
01:43:55
Gilmund Graves
Ooh, crazy.
01:43:59
bladesedge
I know where it's just trying to suspend disbelief here, but listen, work with me.
01:44:03
Gilmund Graves
Yeah.
01:44:04
bladesedge
Um, no, this looks like, it just looks like a normal, uh, padlock, like a, I mean, am I forgetting what a padlock looks like? Just big metal thing.
01:44:14
Gilmund Graves
No.
01:44:14
Vesz_rak
That's big metal lock.
01:44:15
bladesedge
Yeah. Yeah. Big metal lock that requires a key.
01:44:19
Kyle
Gotcha.
01:44:20
Gilmund Graves
And you say requires a key.
01:44:20
Kyle
Well.
01:44:23
Gilmund Graves
I say it requires a master's touch and I whip out my Thebes tools.
01:44:27
Kyle
And I'll step aside.
01:44:31
bladesedge
OK.
01:44:32
Gilmund Graves
And I'd like to attempt to pick this lock.
01:44:37
bladesedge
I love that. So this is another thing we didn't talk about in in our session zero, but I think, so in the dungeon master's guide, rolling a thieves tools check is a decks check plus your proficiency bonus. However, that's generally not that great for people. So I know a popular homebrew rule is to, if your sleight of hand is higher than that, Uh, because you might have expertise or something.
01:45:07
bladesedge
You can also choose to do that, but at the very least it's a D 20 plus your decks, plus your proficiency bonus.
01:45:09
Gilmund Graves
Yeah. Yeah, so I'll use my sleight of hand. It's a plus six. I have proficiency but not expertise.
01:45:20
bladesedge
Cool. So yeah, it'd be a plus six, even if it was just a straight role for the thieves tools.
01:45:21
Gilmund Graves
i
01:45:26
Gilmund Graves
Right, yeah.
01:45:26
bladesedge
Cause that's just your decks and your personal.
01:45:30
Gilmund Graves
Alrighty, we're gonna give it a go.
01:45:31
bladesedge
Okay.
01:45:34
Gilmund Graves
So 13.
01:45:36
bladesedge
That was a 13. This is, it's locked. It's tough. You get the sense that you could try again, but in trying again, something's in there and your thieves tools might break.
01:45:50
Gilmund Graves
Hmm. Well, I think I'm going to give it a go again because I'm an optimistic guy.
01:45:58
bladesedge
Cool.
01:45:59
Trevor
Um, can I put a, if I did maybe sensing it didn't work the first time I'd put a hand on his shoulder and just say like, take a deep breath.
01:45:59
Gilmund Graves
Things don't always go right on the first try.
01:46:08
Trevor
You can do this and cast a guidance. I'm giving him a D four on it.
01:46:13
bladesedge
you You can add a D four to your role.
01:46:16
Gilmund Graves
Okay. Coming in.
01:46:20
bladesedge
All right. Let's get the D four.
01:46:23
Gilmund Graves
ah fourteen
01:46:24
Vesz_rak
ah Oh!
01:46:24
bladesedge
Okay. With a 14, your lock, your key goes in.
01:46:28
Gilmund Graves
of 14.
01:46:30
bladesedge
but You found it. You found it. You're pulling. You feel the metal in your hand bend and the lock clicks open.
Grim Truth of Rose and Thorn
01:46:40
Gilmund Graves
Oh, yeah.
01:46:40
Kyle
oh
01:46:41
Trevor
Whoa.
01:46:42
Kyle
Wow Wow
01:46:43
Gilmund Graves
I give a thumbs up to hilarious.
01:46:46
Trevor
Holy.
01:46:49
Gilmund Graves
Um, and then, While still kneeling on the ground, I turn the handle and open the door.
01:46:57
bladesedge
OK. So a. It's OK, yeah, you guys, if it's if there's a door, just let me know if you're clicking it or I've been clicking it, but they've just been closing immediately because we're going at the same time. Oh, good. um So as you open this door, a puff of dust falls from the lock as you hear this clicking noise, as you slowly open the door, it's hinges painfully grown. The room inside was locked from the outside and it is sparsely lit by the moonlight revealing a child's room with two beds. You see a chest overflowing with toys sits in the middle next to a doll house. Everything is covered in cobwebs laying next to the doll house are two small skeletons.
01:47:56
Gilmund Graves
Oh no.
01:47:59
bladesedge
wearing tattered but familiar clothing.
01:48:02
Trevor
God damn it.
01:48:02
Kyle
Oh my god.
01:48:04
bladesedge
The smaller of the two cradle is a stuffed doll. It's the same stuffed doll that you saw Thorne had outside.
01:48:10
Trevor
Yeah.
01:48:13
bladesedge
You know that these are the bones of Rose and Thorne.
01:48:13
Kyle
Oh my god.
01:48:18
Vesz_rak
What did we put in this shed outside?
01:48:21
Gilmund Graves
What are we putting the fucking shed outside?
01:48:23
Vesz_rak
What's in the box?
01:48:24
Trevor
What did we put in the shed outside?
01:48:25
Kyle
Ah.
01:48:28
Gilmund Graves
Jesus, I...
01:48:28
Kyle
ah
01:48:29
bladesedge
last Lance Lance a lot where where are the shuttle.
01:48:29
Gilmund Graves
ah it a lot you You can talk?
01:48:32
bladesedge
So.
01:48:33
Trevor
Yeah, thank you.
01:48:34
Vesz_rak
So true Lancelot.
01:48:35
Trevor
You can talk.
01:48:37
Vesz_rak
He can talk this whole time?
01:48:38
Gilmund Graves
ro Row, row.
01:48:42
Gilmund Graves
I reach down and I pick up the stuffed animal.
01:48:45
bladesedge
OK. As you pick up.
01:48:57
bladesedge
um
01:49:01
Kyle
Mm hmm.
01:49:02
bladesedge
As you pick up the stuffed animal, you see that this stuffed animal is missing an eye and some stitching under the arm is, uh, open busted and there's some filling out that was on the floor with them. And as you pick up the doll. You see to your left, right behind this doll house, right, right to your left.
01:49:34
Gilmund Graves
Oh,
01:49:36
bladesedge
You see that there's a figure behind it and a small pale spectral boy stands up.
01:49:39
Gilmund Graves
oh no.
01:49:46
bladesedge
His face blush from crying. As he runs to his bed in the corner, as you your eyes follow him, you now see sitting on that bed is a young spectral girl, embracing him.
01:49:50
Kyle
you
01:50:01
bladesedge
And she looks at you and says, what are you doing in my room?
01:50:08
Vesz_rak
Oh no, is this Rosenthorn?
01:50:10
Gilmund Graves
Well, I
01:50:11
bladesedge
You're looking at Rose and Thorn and the little boy points at you holding his stuffed animal. And says, he says, Rose, he has my stuffed animal.
01:50:18
Gilmund Graves
came here to fix your doll.
01:50:23
bladesedge
Get it back. Please fix it. Fix it, Rose. And she places ah her hand out as she looks at you.
01:50:35
Gilmund Graves
um And I looked through my bag really quickly. to see if I have anything that I can use. I have some string. um Hey, does anyone have a needle?
01:50:48
Kyle
Umm...
01:50:53
Gilmund Graves
Can I take one step further into the room?
01:51:02
Gilmund Graves
um
01:51:02
Vesz_rak
No need to
01:51:03
Gilmund Graves
And you said this is a chest overflowing with toys.
01:51:07
bladesedge
Just overflowing with toys. Why don't you make, I'm going to need you to make a persuasion check as you walk into the room.
01:51:12
Gilmund Graves
Absolutely, persuasion check coming in, minus one. It's a 12.
01:51:18
bladesedge
Okay. You come in and you see the boy just like moves further into her arm. Uh, no insight check needed. These people, these kids do not recognize you or any of you. They look past you.
01:51:31
Gilmund Graves
Of course.
01:51:31
bladesedge
You are, you are a complete stranger to these kids.
01:51:33
Gilmund Graves
Of course. um Yeah, I take the string out and I start looking through here to see if I can find
01:51:37
Trevor
Thank
01:51:41
Gilmund Graves
something I could use to sew the doll up and maybe repurpose to fix the doll.
01:51:47
bladesedge
Um, you, you find something, you find something that looks sort of like Vess racks spellbook, but it's, but it's small and it's pink. Um, and it's got like a, uh, a unicorn clasp on the front. And as you look through, you that's the only thing you find.
01:52:03
Trevor
you.
01:52:06
bladesedge
And the little girl looks at you and goes, sir, I can do it. Give it to me.
01:52:12
Gilmund Graves
Um, okay. Yeah. I, uh, I hold it out for her to grab it.
01:52:17
bladesedge
You she she grabs it um and casts a spell that's through the door looking from behind Roy. That's right. You would recognize as the mending spell.
01:52:31
Vesz_rak
Ooh!
01:52:31
Gilmund Graves
Wow.
01:52:34
Vesz_rak
Great spell!
01:52:37
Gilmund Graves
Can you just hear from behind Roy?
01:52:37
Trevor
ah
01:52:37
bladesedge
She sort of. She sort of shrugs and goes, yeah, I'm a little bit of a novice, but. I know a couple of things mending. I know how to do light. She snaps and a light turns on her finger and then she does.
01:52:50
Kyle
Mmhmm.
01:52:52
bladesedge
And I, I last time, last time uncle Dymov snuck into our room, I was ready and I shocked him bad. And her hand crackles with, uh, the same lightning energy that your shocking grasp did.
01:53:06
Gilmund Graves
Wow.
01:53:06
Vesz_rak
I like hold up both hands from behind, righty and I go, sick! And I do shock and grasp too, just to the air.
01:53:13
Gilmund Graves
ah I actually don't even know how to sew. Glad you helped me out. Would have been kind of embarrassing.
01:53:21
bladesedge
It's OK. Who are you all? What are you doing here?
01:53:28
Gilmund Graves
Name's Gil. That back there is Roy, Vesrak, and Valerius.
01:53:32
Kyle
to walk in.
01:53:34
Gilmund Graves
And the dog, Lancelot. Lancelot.
01:53:37
bladesedge
Again, I'll check and I'll show you these what they look like as well.
01:53:39
Gilmund Graves
Yeah.
01:53:42
bladesedge
These two kids.
01:53:43
Kyle
i
01:53:43
Gilmund Graves
That's a 12 animal handling.
01:53:44
bladesedge
Whoops.
01:53:46
bladesedge
Cool. He.
01:53:48
Vesz_rak
Valerius.
01:53:50
Trevor
What's up?
01:53:50
Gilmund Graves
Oh, shit.
01:53:51
bladesedge
here's Here's rose.
01:53:51
Gilmund Graves
They look cool.
01:53:52
Vesz_rak
Go ask him about who Daimav is.
01:53:56
bladesedge
And here's thorn.
01:53:57
Trevor
That's the uncle that she mentioned, right?
01:54:00
Vesz_rak
Yeah, but that why was he trying to sneak into their room?
01:54:01
Trevor
Okay.
01:54:04
Trevor
Yeah, that's kind of fucking weird.
01:54:06
Vesz_rak
That's super weird.
01:54:07
Trevor
Extremely sus.
01:54:09
Vesz_rak
Not good.
01:54:09
Gilmund Graves
Yes, incredibly sus.
01:54:10
Trevor
Not good.
01:54:10
Kyle
um I want to look at the kids and I want to ask how long have you been in this room?
01:54:18
bladesedge
Um, she looks at you and then she looks down at the skeletons on the ground. She says, we, we died here.
01:54:34
Kyle
Did your parents put you in this room?
01:54:41
Gilmund Graves
since instance
01:54:43
bladesedge
um As you say that, you see the boy sort of like pushes his way into his sister's arms a little further. um And she nods.
01:55:00
Gilmund Graves
Jeez.
01:55:07
Gilmund Graves
Okay. Well.
01:55:13
Gilmund Graves
Um.
01:55:15
Kyle
Do we call CPS? What do we do?
01:55:17
Gilmund Graves
Yeah, I think we call CPS dude.
01:55:19
Vesz_rak
What did we put in the shed?
01:55:23
Gilmund Graves
What's in the shed.
01:55:23
Kyle
Can I, can I look, is there a window in this room or is it completely barred off from everything?
01:55:25
Trevor
Honestly, though.
01:55:28
bladesedge
As you this room contains a bricked up window, flanked, flanked by flanked by two dusty wooden bed frames sized for children close to the door is a chest with ah windmills painted on its side and a dollhouse.
01:55:32
Gilmund Graves
Oh, it's bricked up.
01:55:33
Trevor
Damn.
01:55:33
Kyle
A what?
01:55:34
Gilmund Graves
Yeah.
01:55:34
Trevor
Hey, yo.
01:55:46
bladesedge
um And as you look at the dollhouse, Roy, in this moment, you see the dollhouse is a perfect replica of the house you're in.
01:55:55
Gilmund Graves
Oh, shit.
01:55:55
Kyle
wow
01:55:56
bladesedge
ah The furnishings are all draped in cobwebs lying on the floor of the two small skeletons. um
01:56:03
Kyle
Do I see the room that the dad was in?
01:56:10
bladesedge
um yeah Oh, in the toy house, um you make a perception check.
01:56:10
Kyle
And is the dad in that room?
01:56:14
Kyle
In the and a toy house, yes.
01:56:23
Kyle
um One sec, one sec.
01:56:25
Vesz_rak
Do you think they know where Jimmothy is?
01:56:28
Kyle
So I still have it. Has it been less than an hour? Yeah, it's been less than an hour. I still have um advantage on perception checks.
01:56:36
bladesedge
Cool.
01:56:41
bladesedge
um As you look, you don't see anything moving in it.
01:56:42
Kyle
Seventeen.
01:56:42
Trevor
Bye.
01:56:44
bladesedge
It's not like there are things moving through the house like Marauders map on that.
01:56:46
Kyle
Right. Yeah.
01:56:48
bladesedge
um So there's nothing in this, but most importantly, what you do see as you're looking through is. um You you as and as you're looking through and she goes on to answer the question where they say. as Yeah. Our parents locked us in here to protect us from the monster in the basement. We died from hunger. um And as as you're looking through the house, she says absent-mindedly while you're facing it, she says, there's a secret door in the attic.
01:57:14
Kyle
wow
01:57:14
Vesz_rak
Oh, God.
01:57:14
Trevor
Damn.
01:57:25
Kyle
There is. Do you know where it's located?
Spirits' Request and Secret Door
01:57:29
bladesedge
Um, she says, um, I can show you, but please don't leave us here. Not like mama did. Um, you blink and they've moved from the bed and they're right in front of you, Roy.
01:57:46
Trevor
Oh, shit.
01:57:47
bladesedge
Um, and you, you see the, uh, the little kid with the doll is right in front of you, Gil. And the girl is right in front of you, Roy. And they both have their arms outstretched to both of you as if they are about to hug you.
01:58:02
Gilmund Graves
um Yeah, I use my um bonus action to disengage.
01:58:10
bladesedge
Okay.
01:58:11
Kyle
Okay. Um.
01:58:14
bladesedge
And do what?
01:58:16
Gilmund Graves
ah And be like, nah, sorry, I don't hug ghost kids.
01:58:21
bladesedge
OK.
01:58:21
Kyle
I will, as this 6-2 wood elf towering over this kid, see the look in their eyes and see how desperate they are, I will extend my arms out to give them a hug as well.
01:58:38
bladesedge
You um you hug this a girl and as you do. Um, you, the rest of you stop seeing her, but you hear her in your head. Um, Roy, as she says, thank you. We can't leave my brother.
01:59:04
Kyle
Um, should I give him a hug too?
01:59:06
Trevor
Thank you.
01:59:10
bladesedge
um you yeah As you ask her that, you don't you don't get the sense that she knows, but the answer is probably not.
01:59:24
Vesz_rak
but now we've got two kids we have to go save
01:59:24
Trevor
Roy,
01:59:28
Trevor
ro let's what's going on in here?
01:59:28
Vesz_rak
um ah
01:59:31
Kyle
Well, I gave Rose a hug and she seems to be within my mind now, as far as I can tell. But she doesn't want to leave her brother.
01:59:48
Kyle
Someone needs to save him as well.
01:59:49
Vesz_rak
So now we got two kids we have to go save.
01:59:53
Trevor
ah you You feel all right?
01:59:55
bladesedge
You see this, this little kid now that the girl is, is gone. You see this little spectral boys like crying. Uh, now that he doesn't see her and Gilman's has walked away from him as he tried to hug him.
02:00:07
Gilmund Graves
Thank
02:00:08
bladesedge
You see, he's crying and looks at you.
02:00:10
Kyle
I feel fine
02:00:12
Trevor
um Well, all right. I'll reach my arms out and offer a hug.
02:00:24
bladesedge
Both of you, when this happened, their hands go into you. You feel the cold embrace of this tiny hand desperately seeking the warm embrace of another soul as these children's frail voices beg you to take ah to take them with you.
02:00:28
Gilmund Graves
you
02:00:43
bladesedge
The two of you will have advantage on all checks relating to the house, whether it's perception, investigation, ah History or kind of anything that comes up while you're here. ah You can both communicate with them in your head. um And Rose in your head. Roy says. Let's go find it. I'll help you.
02:01:19
Kyle
Thank you. I'm not gonna let anything happen to you.
02:01:23
bladesedge
I like to think in this last moment, we see a closeup of your face saying, thank you.
02:01:25
Trevor
Bye.
02:01:28
bladesedge
I won't let anything happen to you as it turns from color to black and white. And the camera pans away to see you talking out loud to no one.
02:01:41
bladesedge
We go through the window, the rain hitting the outside of the house and the camera pans down to a shed with woodworking tools and a bench with a hooded lantern and a small tool laying on it.
02:02:00
Trevor
Hell yeah.
02:02:01
bladesedge
And we'll pick up there. We'll pick up there next time in the attic.
02:02:03
Trevor
see Let's go.
02:02:05
Gilmund Graves
Wow.
02:02:07
bladesedge
Woo.
02:02:07
Kyle
The amount of chills I just got from that ending, wow.
02:02:12
Trevor
That was fire.
02:02:12
Vesz_rak
We gotta save those kids.
02:02:14
bladesedge
Let's go.
02:02:14
Kyle
Beautiful.
02:02:16
Gilmund Graves
Fantastic.
02:02:16
Vesz_rak
We can start a school with all these saved kids.
02:02:16
bladesedge
i
02:02:17
Trevor
I love kids.
02:02:20
bladesedge
What's what's funny is that you ah you could have done like so much more stuff in the house before leveling up.
02:02:20
Gilmund Graves
That's right. I got bad news for you.
02:02:21
Trevor
you
02:02:22
Gilmund Graves
Okay. I got bad news.
02:02:31
bladesedge
So finding it at the time you guys did is amazing.
02:02:36
Trevor
Heck yeah.
02:02:37
bladesedge
We love it. The dice tell the story.
02:02:37
Kyle
Yeah.
02:02:39
bladesedge
There might be hope for this group, this pointy eared gang to live another day.
02:02:46
Gilmund Graves
Eh.
02:02:49
bladesedge
But hey, thank you all for coming by and checking out this haunted story that we are all telling together. Curse of Strahd, what I've been lovingly calling the beginning chapters of the Curse of Strahd. You guys, we will pick up next week in the attic of what is leveling referred to in the Curse of Strahd community as the death house.
02:03:16
Gilmund Graves
Oh, the death house.
02:03:16
Trevor
Oh, heck yeah.
02:03:17
Kyle
Wow.
02:03:19
Gilmund Graves
Wow.
02:03:19
bladesedge
See you guys next time.
02:03:20
Trevor
So we, wait, we level up again, right? Is that what you're about to say?
02:03:22
bladesedge
ha
02:03:22
Gilmund Graves
Yeah, yeah.
02:03:23
Trevor
Is we hit level three?
02:03:24
Gilmund Graves
Yeah, call an ambulance.
02:03:26
bladesedge
You do not, but but we'll see all you guys next time and thanks so much for listening.
02:03:28
Trevor
Give it a shot.
02:03:32
bladesedge
See you next week.
02:03:32
Gilmund Graves
Love ya.
02:03:34
Kyle
Woo!