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Curse of Strahd Ep. 14: Live, Laugh, Love, Lathander
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Once, he was Vesz'rak Baen'val, Acolyte of the Spider Mommy. Now, recently arisen as D'issan, our boy Tommy interrogates Dorru with the conviction of Lathander newest acolyte. Can the Light's freshest Paladin see into the blood-thirsting heart of this cursed man?
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Transcript
00:00:00
Trevor
You.
00:00:02
bladesedge
Hello and welcome back to the blades edge D and D actual play podcast, or we are playing through curse of Strahd. Now, if you were with us last time, we had our very first for everybody involved, myself included our very first ever TPK.
00:00:19
bladesedge
Now, if you've here, rest in peace, if you've, yeah, rest in peace to, um, our original group, the point of year gang to Gilman graves, Roy Halovich, Valerius moonstone.
00:00:19
Alma Graves
peace.
00:00:32
bladesedge
And Vesrak, Beinval also perished. However, if you've played Curse of Strahd before as a player or as a DM, you know that this is this place is a bit wibbly wobbly with souls and leaving um and time in general. So we we pick up 78 years in the future in the village of Barovia. We were looking at the graves of our four adventurers.
00:00:57
bladesedge
Every night at midnight, these ghosts, these specters of all these dead adventurers who have come to Barovia, which, by the way, I should mention your guys's characters graves were probably the oldest. You guys were like the first to do it. yeah You were the first ones. These specters of them and other people were raising every night at midnight. Still do every night at midnight.
00:01:23
Alma Graves
Off we go.
00:01:23
bladesedge
Charge Castle Ravenloft, just to make it to the very top of the spire and jump off. But Vesrak, Bane Val, hand coming through the grave, as if to say, is this guy a zombie? Pulls himself free, reborn in the light of Lathander, given another shot, another chance, while his soul is trapped to this realm.
00:01:52
bladesedge
his body, his mind, his new body, his new rippling, muscly, daddy, naked body.
00:01:58
Alma Graves
Oh yeah, he's jacked.
00:01:59
bladesedge
He's jacked.
00:02:00
Tommy
Still naked.
00:02:01
bladesedge
Still naked, though.
00:02:04
Alma Graves
Hog check, hog check.
00:02:04
bladesedge
He, hogjack, hogjack, he, what was the, what's the, what's the car?
00:02:08
Trevor
D12?
00:02:10
bladesedge
A D12, gracious.
00:02:12
Alma Graves
the Yeah, yeah, yeah.
00:02:13
bladesedge
Yes, so gracious, dude.
00:02:14
Trevor
ah
00:02:14
Tommy
ah All right.
00:02:14
Alma Graves
Now it's a D12 and there may be a DA girth.
00:02:16
bladesedge
Yeah.
00:02:16
Tommy
D12. D twelve de coming at you.
00:02:16
bladesedge
um
00:02:17
Tommy
D12.
00:02:18
Alma Graves
Okay, okay, okay.
00:02:18
Tommy
10.
00:02:18
Trevor
who
00:02:19
Tommy
10. Oh, hey.
00:02:19
bladesedge
He's very hot.
00:02:20
Alma Graves
Oh, hold on, hold on.
00:02:20
Trevor
Slangin' dude.
00:02:20
Tommy
Hey.
00:02:21
Kyle
Oh my god.
00:02:21
Trevor
God damn.
00:02:21
Alma Graves
We need a girth check, girth check, girth check.
00:02:22
Tommy
I have been reborn in more ways than one.
00:02:23
Trevor
Jesus Christ.
00:02:24
Tommy
Let me tell you.
00:02:26
Alma Graves
D.
00:02:26
bladesedge
What's the what's the car in Halo?
00:02:29
Alma Graves
Uh, warthog, awardy
00:02:29
Tommy
Warthog.
00:02:30
Kyle
Warthog?
00:02:30
bladesedge
Warthog. OK, OK, not a warthog.
00:02:31
Kyle
What?
00:02:32
bladesedge
That'd be bad. OK, never mind. That would be bad. No warts on this hog, even though you were you were buried for 78 years.
00:02:35
Alma Graves
hog. Yeah.
00:02:39
Tommy
Hey, I'm clean, I'm clean.
00:02:41
bladesedge
Uh, Vesrak, Bainval, he's clean.
00:02:41
Alma Graves
Tommy, maybe give me a D eight.
00:02:43
Tommy
Nah, no going back.
00:02:46
bladesedge
He's naked. He's ripped. And he's holding the son's sword. This magical weapon prophesied by Esmeralda to be one of a few things to aid in the foretold destruction of Strahd von Zarovich.
00:03:03
bladesedge
Upon coming out from the grave, you saw these items, this ring on Valerius' tombstone, the blood spear ah next to Roy Halovich's tombstone, and the shadow coming off of Gilman's grave.
00:03:20
bladesedge
and through each one of those things released somebody something somebody with Valerius the entity living in his ring this Shatter Kai named Inabi with Roy releasing from the blood spear um this half-orc barbarian named Ash
00:03:41
Kyle
Bash.
00:03:46
bladesedge
and the shadow detaching itself from Gilman Graves' grave. um His sister, his long lost sister, Alma Graves.
00:03:56
Alma Graves
Oh she's back.
00:03:57
bladesedge
Now, you guys have a lot on your plate, a lot that you can do. um i'm good This is gonna be full sandbox. I'm just gonna start you out by saying, standing in this graveyard behind this church,
00:04:15
bladesedge
You see that bash. Before you were imprisoned or sent to be in this spear, however that happened, I'll let that story be yours to tell. But however that happened. Before that, you were a warrior who did not. Wheel the spear, you were a warrior who wielded a great axe.
00:04:41
bladesedge
And as you stand there, the spear being pulled from the ground by Vesrak, rippling muscles, and and it pops into the air, your body um appearing, catching the spear. You see the spear almost unravel from the top. Like imagine the top half of the spear, like maybe the size of your hand, the very top of the spear unravels in both directions, as if it was like a rolled up piece of paper.
00:05:08
bladesedge
And when it reaches the end of that sort of another hands without maybe two hands without three hands without as it rolls out and stops, it materializes the body of the spear becoming this long handle and the top now manifesting itself as your usual weapon, your great acts.
00:05:29
Trevor
Fire.
00:05:30
Alma Graves
Oh, yeah.
00:05:32
bladesedge
Um, and so you have that, um, I will say I'll make a, um, home brew for all my DMS out there.
00:05:32
Kyle
That's fire.
00:05:40
bladesedge
You know, that life I'll make a home brew version of that weapon for you. Um, I know we already talked about you put it in your inventory as a plus two great acts, which is correct.
00:05:51
bladesedge
Same as the blood spear, but, um, it doesn't, it does an extra thing, which obviously it won't say in your plus two, which is that if you reduce a target to zero hit points. Uh, you gain two D six temporary hit points.
00:06:05
Alma Graves
Mm.
00:06:06
bladesedge
So just mark that down. Just write that down somewhere for yourself.
00:06:08
Trevor
Fire.
00:06:09
Alma Graves
Yeah, rip and tear until it is done.
00:06:11
Kyle
That's huge. ah So reduced to zero, I get 2d6.
00:06:13
bladesedge
Um, yes. Yes. If you're reducing characters, zero hit points. So whether that's killing a character or downing a character, um, you get two D six temporary hit points, temporary hit points don't stack.
00:06:28
bladesedge
So like if you killed a guy in one swing and then your next one you kill another guy, you won't have four D six 10, 10 pit points. You'll have the second set of D six.
00:06:36
Kyle
Gotcha.
00:06:41
bladesedge
Um,
00:06:42
Kyle
Awesome.
00:06:43
bladesedge
But as we, the camera zooms out, these four, this shatter Kai, this T fling, all my graves, this half work. Uh, I don't know. I don't know if, and, and not be, or bash have said last names or have last name. So I'll let that be your guys's sort of a story to tell, but the four of you stand in this graveyard and the night beckons.
00:07:13
Alma Graves
The best thing we can do now is finish what those before us started. Let's hunt down Strahd.
00:07:25
Kyle
Let's do it. I think there was a... Wait, did we know about... Did we get the information about the tarot card reading? I think that should probably be our first move.
00:07:36
Tommy
Yeah, we need to go find someone named Madam Ava who will go give us a Taroka card reading.
00:07:43
Alma Graves
That sounds great. um Should we head into town?
00:07:50
Kyle
and maybe Maybe look for an in, someone who can give us some directions.
00:07:54
Tommy
I'm going to head into the church and try and find some clothes. Still naked and it's raining.
00:08:01
Kyle
That would be our real first priority.
00:08:04
bladesedge
It's raining. There's fog. You see these this. Almost like bright luminescent green. um We're talking brat summer meets the green ooze guy from Ghostbusters.
00:08:19
Alma Graves
Hell yeah.
00:08:20
bladesedge
Off in Castle Ravenloft in the distance, this whole village, this village of Barovia living in the shadow of Castle Ravenloft.
00:08:31
bladesedge
High up above the hill. Um, and you are going to go, yeah, go ahead and you guys have access over your tokens, right? New token to this.
00:08:40
Alma Graves
Yes, we are on the starting screen, though.
00:08:41
bladesedge
Oh, oh, oh my gosh. like Sorry, sorry, sorry, sorry, sorry.
00:08:43
Alma Graves
All good.
00:08:45
bladesedge
Village of Provia in the graveyard.
00:08:49
Tommy
Hey Brian, I'd like to before I kind of leave, can I look inside my grave to see if like my spell book was in there?
00:08:58
bladesedge
Um, you, uh,
00:09:05
bladesedge
Hmm.
00:09:07
bladesedge
It's all black and you need token permissions. That's right. So you guys need, Oh yeah. Let's really quickly go over your, your dark vision. Not that it'll matter for this page, but in Abhi, what's your dark vision of that big shatter kind of energy.
00:09:16
Alma Graves
Sure.
00:09:17
Trevor
Right, 60 feet.
00:09:20
bladesedge
Can you see now Alma, what is your 60 feet?
00:09:22
Trevor
Yes sir. Nice, thank you sir.
00:09:24
Alma Graves
60 feet.
00:09:27
bladesedge
60 feet gang. Don't disappoint me. I better be a 60.
00:09:30
Kyle
i got I got great news for you, Brian.
00:09:31
bladesedge
I hear from you. Yeah. What is it?
00:09:34
Kyle
It's 60 feet.
00:09:35
bladesedge
Oh, that's huge.
00:09:35
Trevor
but Let's go.
00:09:35
Alma Graves
Oh yes, baby. You be seeing.
00:09:38
bladesedge
Um, and Vess rack yours is one 20 or was, was that only in your previous wizard form?
00:09:45
Tommy
No, it should still be 120.
00:09:47
bladesedge
Cool. I actually think that that's a pretty fun. That's pretty fun because Inabi is a wizard who can learn wizard spells that Vess rack you do.
00:10:01
bladesedge
Find your old spell book in your, um, coffin where you were buried. And I'll let you, if you want to write down, make a list of all the spells that were in there and the levels of the spells, uh, you can send, send that in our discord.
00:10:19
Tommy
Okay.
00:10:22
bladesedge
If, if that is something you want to end up giving to Trevor, to be, uh, those will be things, Trevor, that you can learn.
00:10:27
Tommy
Okay.
00:10:30
Trevor
Oh, okay. Sick.
00:10:31
bladesedge
Cause yeah, with the wizard, every time you level up, you learn two new spells automatically.
00:10:32
Alma Graves
Hell yeah.
00:10:33
Trevor
Fire.
00:10:35
bladesedge
But if you want to learn more, just got to find him and then cost a little money.
00:10:37
Trevor
Right. Right. Fucking sick.
00:10:40
bladesedge
But yeah, with his old spell book, you'd be able to learn any of the spells in there.
00:10:47
Trevor
Fire.
00:10:49
Kyle
Um, fried egg.
00:10:49
Alma Graves
My breakfast is so Barovia core right now.
00:10:52
Kyle
What is your breakfast?
00:10:53
Alma Graves
Bread, butter, apple cider.
00:10:54
bladesedge
grits Grits.
00:10:56
Kyle
Oh wow.
00:10:56
bladesedge
Bread, butter, apple cider. Yeah.
00:10:58
Kyle
The three, the three food groups.
00:10:58
Alma Graves
Yeah.
00:10:59
bladesedge
Listen, Apple cider would be a is a delicacy and bro.
00:11:03
Alma Graves
The BBC, yeah, Breadbuttersider.
00:11:03
bladesedge
Yeah.
00:11:05
Trevor
Wow.
00:11:07
Kyle
Brian, I got a quick question.
00:11:08
bladesedge
yeah
00:11:09
Kyle
um Obviously, feel free to say no, but um since you homebrewed the ah temporary hit points from the Blood Spear, would you also be down to homebrew the...
00:11:18
bladesedge
Yes.
00:11:22
Kyle
Because I think the plus two only... Nevermind. Nevermind. It was a dumb question. I don't know how to read. It's fine. Everything's fine.
00:11:30
bladesedge
talking about the bracers.
00:11:30
Kyle
I answered my own question. No, no, I was talking about the great. There was a quality in the blood spear. I didn't think applied to great X plus two, but it actually does. And I just saw that.
00:11:39
bladesedge
Yeah.
00:11:39
Kyle
i be
00:11:39
bladesedge
Yeah. The main difference was that the blood spear, you only get the plus two if you're the chosen of Kavan. Whereas you just now have a plus two great acts.
00:11:46
Kyle
Gotcha.
00:11:49
Kyle
Yeah, I thought the plus two only applied to the, um, to hit and not the damage.
00:11:55
bladesedge
No, dude, that's for the the to hit and the damage.
00:11:56
Kyle
No.
00:11:58
bladesedge
Um, and I will end a plus two and also a good thing about that.
00:11:59
Kyle
i
00:12:02
bladesedge
I don't believe it requires attunement. So, um, big, big upgrade for you in terms of weapon.
00:12:04
Kyle
It is not. If anyone wants to swing around a great axe. Feel free.
00:12:13
Trevor
That looks way too heavy for me It is
00:12:16
Kyle
It is.
00:12:18
Alma Graves
It looks very heavy.
00:12:19
Tommy
her
00:12:19
Alma Graves
Yeah.
00:12:22
Tommy
ah yeah but
00:12:22
Alma Graves
Yeah. Alma is, uh, why don't, why don't one of you guys do a perception check on Alma?
00:12:29
Kyle
I'd be scoping you out.
00:12:33
Kyle
ah
00:12:34
Alma Graves
Yeah. We got a 14 from an AB 15. Yeah. You guys can see, um, composes herself. Like she's, she's very strong and tough, but actually has a minus two in strength.
00:12:47
Tommy
Yeah.
00:12:48
Alma Graves
Just a heads up.
00:12:50
Tommy
Classic VES right behavior.
00:12:52
Alma Graves
Classic Vessarac behavior. But she is very beautiful. I am very beautiful. Thank you.
00:13:00
Tommy
Um, yeah, Brian, I'd like to reach down into, uh, my grave and like, uh, fasten my spell book, like kind of like to my waist. Um, and before leaving, uh, I noticed on my tombstone, uh, the guy kind of written really small, it says died trying to bring a new dawn to Barovia.
00:13:22
Tommy
And like my thumb etches over the word Don and I'd like to go by the new name of disan, which means Don in under common. Further separating myself from, uh, the drow wizard of love.
00:13:40
Kyle
So you're going by Desan, that's your name.
00:13:42
Tommy
yeah dasan d Yeah.
00:13:44
bladesedge
And you, you tell them this, this sounds like something you should tell them.
00:13:46
Tommy
Yeah. Uh,
00:13:51
Tommy
um I just introduced myself as Desan. I don't think I actually said my name, but you guys would know it was Vessdrack if you guys were like watching through these like artifacts, but... ah Okay.
00:13:58
bladesedge
Yeah. They'd all, they all know who you are.
00:14:00
Tommy
um
00:14:00
bladesedge
Everybody knows exactly what happened.
00:14:03
Tommy
Okay, all right. Everyone's up to speed, and I guess I'd look at the party and just go, um I'd like to shed my old identity onto something new, filled with hope. ah Something inspiring, like a new dawn. So please call me Desan from now on.
00:14:21
Alma Graves
I like that.
00:14:22
Kyle
Beautiful.
00:14:23
bladesedge
As you say that holding the hilt of the sun sword, the spell book you fasten to your belt buckle burns off your belt buckle and hits the ground.
00:14:34
Tommy
Ouch. ah
00:14:36
bladesedge
You look down and see the old but familiar symbol of the spider queen on front of the spell book.
00:14:48
Tommy
Well, if I can't carry it, can I just can I bury it again in my grave?
00:14:54
bladesedge
you You tell me, what do you do?
00:14:54
Tommy
Or.
00:14:55
bladesedge
You see it laying there on the ground.
00:14:56
Tommy
um I'd like to pick it up somehow. um to carry it, but I'm not wearing anything. um yeah i look over i can anyway ah Can anyone grab this for me?
00:15:06
bladesedge
That's right. Yeah. You didn't even have a belt to put it on.
00:15:14
Tommy
um
00:15:15
Trevor
I'll reach down and try and pick it up.
00:15:17
bladesedge
You pick it up.
00:15:21
Trevor
What do you want to hold onto this for?
00:15:21
bladesedge
You have it.
00:15:24
Tommy
ah just You know what? I don't know. I i guess just for safekeeping.
00:15:35
Trevor
You sure you want to keep this?
00:15:39
Tommy
ah I don't know. I just feels like a part.
00:15:45
Trevor
ah why If he's like, if I sense that he's like, if you're kind of toiling with the decision, I would throw in the hole that you climbed out of, I would just toss it into the bottom of the hole and say, how's that feel?
00:15:45
Tommy
I don't know.
00:16:06
Tommy
Not good. i ah Yeah.
00:16:08
Trevor
This is going differently than I thought.
00:16:14
Tommy
ah Maybe. ah Yeah. I'll leave it here. i That seems that seems right.
00:16:23
Trevor
We can come back for it if you need it, but you always know where it's at.
00:16:27
Tommy
Yeah. Can I like rebury it?
00:16:31
bladesedge
Sure. You want to spend some time reburying it.
00:16:33
Tommy
Sure, yeah, I'll rebury the spell book.
00:16:36
bladesedge
Okay.
00:16:36
Trevor
I'll help.
00:16:39
bladesedge
All right. You rebury it, making it look like you're making it look like your grave was never disturbed, which actually might be pretty helpful if ah whoever buried whoever buried you with the sun sword to keep it hidden, uh, were to ever return here. It now looks like you never burst forth from this grave.
00:16:59
Tommy
Perfect.
00:16:59
Alma Graves
Yeah, love that.
00:17:01
Tommy
All right, that's all I got.
00:17:09
Alma Graves
and Then I'm gonna make my way into the nearby town.
00:17:16
bladesedge
Okay.
00:17:16
Kyle
I will follow suit
00:17:18
Trevor
Yeah, I'll put my ah put my arm over, like my hand on Deson's shoulder her and just say, yeah, let's let's go get you dressed.
00:17:28
Tommy
Desperately, in need of some clothes.
00:17:32
Alma Graves
Yeah, we can do that.
00:17:33
Trevor
do i so Do we see like the grave keeper around anywhere by any chance? Is he out or
00:17:39
bladesedge
Make me a perception check.
00:17:46
bladesedge
um You know that Donavich, who is the sort of priest of this church that you're buried behind. Donavich is not, do not see him um around. you You see a light inside the church. You get the sense that he is in there. With a 17, maybe you see through a window that maybe he's the only one in there. You only see one.
00:18:14
bladesedge
um sort of shadow in there and also with a 17 you see that the church sits atop this a hill kind of so you guys are kind of like looking down like a little like a little bit of a rise looking down over the town from where you are so atop this slight rise against the roots of the pillar stone that's just like
00:18:45
bladesedge
So the pillars of stone that support Castle Ravenloft are right here. Like we're talking 50 feet away.
00:18:58
Trevor
Mm.
00:18:59
bladesedge
um So there's, there but there's this, you're looking at this gray sagging edifice of stone and wood, this church, ah this church that has obviously weathered the assaults of evil for centuries on end.
00:19:00
Alma Graves
Oh shit.
00:19:13
bladesedge
Uh, or maybe not centuries, but at least 78 years. Um, it's worn, it's weary. A bell tower rises from the back and a flickering light shines through the holes and the shingled roof and through the windows.
00:19:30
bladesedge
Um, although most of the windows seem kind of boarded up, uh, the rafters strain feebly against their load and you do not see, you do not see the guy that you're looking for.
00:19:39
Alma Graves
Yeah, I'd make my way in.
00:19:43
Trevor
Okay.
00:19:48
bladesedge
Okay. So you guys see Alma heading towards the front of the church. Is that what you guys want to do?
00:19:54
Trevor
I would probably go. Did you say I saw his shadow through a window?
00:19:59
bladesedge
Yeah. Like, you know, he's inside.
00:19:59
Trevor
It was shedding some light.
00:20:01
bladesedge
Yeah.
00:20:01
bladesedge
There's a light inside.
00:20:01
Trevor
Can I peek?
00:20:02
Trevor
Could I peek into the the window if I'd see a room where he may be? if there is a I know you said most of the windows are boarded up, so I don't know if I can see through any of them enough. But if I could get eyes on him, I would knock on a window to try and get his attention to come out.
00:20:19
bladesedge
Okay. So you go to one of the windows. All my, you said you're heading just straight for the front.
00:20:25
Alma Graves
yeah
00:20:26
bladesedge
Okay. But what are the rest of you guys doing? Let's get on the same page here. Let me know what you guys are doing.
00:20:35
Kyle
Um, yeah, I will, I will also do the same, but before I do, I will, um,
00:20:36
bladesedge
So I'm going to put and not be you're here in the back again.
00:20:42
Trevor
I can't see you again, it's all black for me.
00:20:42
Kyle
Oh yeah, same.
00:20:44
bladesedge
god Why? I already did this on the last page. Hold on.
00:20:49
Alma Graves
Yeah. Dangle roll 20.
00:20:51
bladesedge
Siri?
00:20:56
bladesedge
Well, that's so, that scared the shit out of me. I said, sorry. And like, uh, like a, and Siri popped up.
00:21:01
Alma Graves
Siri pop up.
00:21:03
bladesedge
Yeah. And it scared the shit out of me.
00:21:05
Kyle
Sorry.
00:21:05
bladesedge
Cause I just heard from somewhere in the room.
00:21:06
Alma Graves
I'm always listening.
00:21:08
bladesedge
I just heard, Hmm.
00:21:11
Alma Graves
Oh yeah.
00:21:11
Trevor
Siri, fuck off.
00:21:12
bladesedge
Can you guys see now? Yes.
00:21:14
Trevor
Yep, perfect.
00:21:14
bladesedge
You can. Okay. All right. And now be, I've placed you at the back.
00:21:17
Alma Graves
Mm hmm.
00:21:18
bladesedge
All my place you at the front. ah Bash and naked Desan who mentioned wanting to go in as well. Where are the two of you?
00:21:27
Tommy
i'd I'd be following just because I'm naked, I'd be following.
00:21:30
bladesedge
Following who?
00:21:31
Kyle
yeah
00:21:32
bladesedge
Alma or Nabi?
00:21:33
Tommy
I'll follow Amma.
00:21:35
bladesedge
What about you, Bash?
00:21:36
Kyle
Before we head in, I'll say, uh, uh, I'll say, Hey, dison wait before you go in. And, um, I'm going to take off my shirt. I have a set of, uh, common clothes. I'm just going to take off my shirt and say, maybe wrap this around your waist. I don't know if a, uh, religious temple is going to want to see you like that.
00:21:58
Trevor
Nice.
00:21:58
Tommy
I mean, yeah, I like, I like tie it. I fastened around my waist and ah just pick, well, I'm a paladin of Lathander now. So hopefully they'd be somewhat accepting.
00:22:12
Alma Graves
That's, you know, that's, that's America's ass.
00:22:12
Kyle
I don't want you on any lists.
00:22:15
Alma Graves
That's Lathander's hog.
00:22:18
Tommy
It's true.
00:22:19
Kyle
The hog of lathander.
00:22:21
Trevor
Jesus Christ.
00:22:22
Tommy
Renaming the Sunsword hog of Lathander.
00:22:27
Alma Graves
Oh, fuck.
00:22:27
Trevor
Kyle, we're gonna need a D12.
00:22:27
Kyle
Yeah, and then I just.
00:22:27
Alma Graves
Yeah. Yeah.
00:22:31
Alma Graves
Okay. Um, then I'm going to knock.
00:22:33
Trevor
Jeez!
00:22:33
Kyle
o
00:22:34
Alma Graves
Oh, shit.
00:22:34
Tommy
to 10 boys.
00:22:36
Alma Graves
Two tens.
00:22:36
Trevor
Goddamn.
00:22:37
Alma Graves
Yeah.
00:22:37
Kyle
Swanging.
00:22:37
Trevor
Also, if everybody was going the same spot, I was just gonna knock to try and get his attention to ask if, you know, if he came to the door to get close, but if everybody was going through the front, I would have just followed them.
00:22:45
bladesedge
Yeah. Totally. Yeah. Yeah. That's why I was saying, yeah I mean, yeah, you were asking me where he was.
00:22:48
Trevor
Yeah, yeah.
00:22:51
bladesedge
I was trying to address what you wanted to do.
00:22:53
Trevor
Yeah, for sure.
00:22:53
bladesedge
So, okay.
00:22:54
Trevor
No, yeah, you're good. I think the rest of the party went that I just follow.
00:22:57
bladesedge
All right. You go to do that and then everybody else just goes around the building and you go in the building as well.
00:22:58
Trevor
Thank you.
00:23:01
Trevor
Yeah.
00:23:02
bladesedge
Okay.
00:23:03
bladesedge
Um, all right. Uh, when you approach the church, the heavy wooden doors to the front of this church are covered with claw marks and scarred by fire.
00:23:03
Alma Graves
Yeah.
00:23:17
Alma Graves
Yeah, I knocked three times.
00:23:20
bladesedge
Um, you knock three times and you see the door just eek open when you knock.
00:23:33
Alma Graves
I'll step in, strut my way into the ruined church.
00:23:36
bladesedge
Okay. All right, as you guys you get to about there, the doors open to reveal a 10 foot wide, 20 foot long hall leading to a brightly lit chapel. ah This hall is unlit, however, and it reeks of mildew. There are four doors, two on each side of the hall, which lead to adjacent chambers, you imagine. You can see that the chapel up ahead is strewn with debris.
00:24:08
bladesedge
And as you guys, know the door opens because of your knock, you hear a soft voice from within reciting a prayer, but suddenly as you're walking through this hallway, is it just Alma walking through this hallway?
00:24:22
Tommy
I will follow.
00:24:22
Kyle
um
00:24:23
bladesedge
Okay.
00:24:24
Tommy
I'll follow at least.
00:24:24
Trevor
All right, can I, Anavi would look around to see if anybody's watching, it like has eyes on us or something.
00:24:24
bladesedge
all wait right
00:24:33
bladesedge
Yeah. Give me a perception check.
00:24:37
Trevor
22.
00:24:39
bladesedge
Doesn't seem like anybody's watching.
00:24:40
Trevor
Okay, cool. Then I would step in.
00:24:43
Kyle
Not even Strahd.
00:24:45
bladesedge
As you guys are making your way through this hallway right about here, you hear this, you hear a soft voice from within reciting a prayer, but suddenly the prayer is blotted out by an inhuman scream that rises up from beneath the wooden floorboards you're walking on.
00:25:07
Alma Graves
Oh, shit.
00:25:07
bladesedge
Uh, sounds a little something like, yeah
00:25:12
Alma Graves
Oh, we've heard that before.
00:25:13
Trevor
Mmm.
00:25:16
Kyle
I don't like it.
00:25:18
bladesedge
and you may, you may continue moving as let's just, uh, okay.
00:25:18
Alma Graves
um
00:25:22
Alma Graves
I'm move over here and try to see if I can get a look at whatever might be under the floorboards.
00:25:30
Kyle
I'm just gonna stand kinda in this corner against the wall.
00:25:34
bladesedge
Cool. As you guys enter the chapel, this is what the chapel is. The chapel is in shambles. The chapel is overturned and there are broken pews littering the dusty floor. ah Dozens of candles mounted in candlesticks and candelabras light every dusty corner in a fervent attempt to rid the chapel of shadows.
00:26:01
bladesedge
At the far end of the church, you see it's a claw scarred altar, behind which there was a priest in soiled vestments.
00:26:12
bladesedge
Completely soiled.
00:26:12
Alma Graves
yeah
00:26:13
Trevor
oh shit
00:26:13
Alma Graves
Soil investment, so no.
00:26:14
bladesedge
ah You know that this is Donavitch. This is the the priest and the caretaker of the pallbearer, all of the things above for the graveyard.
00:26:16
Trevor
so
00:26:23
bladesedge
ah Next to him hangs a long thick rope that stretches up into the bell tower. Uh, Alma, if you'd like to look through the floorboards, you can give me a perception check.
00:26:34
Alma Graves
Sure. Plus zero at six.
00:26:41
bladesedge
Right. Um, as you approach, uh, Donavich Dassan and Alma gets down hands and knees to look to see if you can see, you can't see through, but maybe you put your ear down.
00:26:53
bladesedge
And as you approach Donavich Dassan, from beneath the chapel floor, you all hear, Alma, maybe startling you the most since your ear is the closest, you all hear a young man's voice cry out. And the voice says, Father, I'm starving.
00:27:15
Alma Graves
Mm, sounds like someone's hungry down there. I don't know what he wants to eat though.
00:27:20
bladesedge
saw on it's about this point You've stepped up, you see Donovich sees you approach within five feet of him and stops praying and looks up at you.
00:27:30
Tommy
Mm hmm.
00:27:30
bladesedge
Can I help you?
00:27:31
Tommy
Hi. um Is this this is a what's happened here? This is a is this a temple of Lathander?
00:27:42
bladesedge
may It is, it is a safe haven for those who are not
00:27:51
bladesedge
corrupted by Strahd completely. We've been here for decades.
00:28:03
Alma Graves
decades.
00:28:03
Tommy
why is it Why is it destroyed? what Everything is in shambles. The pews are broken. The altar you're praying at is cracked and molded over with bad wood.
00:28:14
bladesedge
And we are constantly under attack.
00:28:15
Tommy
what
00:28:20
bladesedge
the werewolves, the vampires. We are so close. Everybody in this town is afraid.
00:28:34
Alma Graves
Oh.
00:28:38
Tommy
ah what Is there anything that we could we could do to help? is there like What could we do? How could we be of service?
00:28:49
bladesedge
Father freed me.
00:28:55
Alma Graves
Yeah, what the hell is that? what What's that thing down there, buddy?
00:29:00
bladesedge
He begins to sweat nervously and says, Oh, that is my son.
00:29:13
Alma Graves
And, and I ah want to do just like a gentle persuasion, put my hand on his shoulder and just say, you can tell us we're here to help.
00:29:22
bladesedge
Dragon in prison, Jack.
00:29:26
Alma Graves
It's a 19 persuasion.
00:29:28
Kyle
Beautiful.
00:29:29
bladesedge
ah You do that and his body sort of relaxes. He says, my son. A little a little more than a year ago. My son, Doro. And hundreds of other villages. Stormed Castle Raven often revolt.
00:29:54
bladesedge
They were lured there by a wizard. A wizard in all blue, dark blue, who came to Provia from a faraway land long ago. It's not the first time this wizard has attempted to start a revolt against Strahd.
00:30:22
Alma Graves
The Mad Mage.
00:30:24
bladesedge
He, uh, his head sort of like, like snaps at that. He goes, precisely. But by all accounts, the wizard died by Strahd's hand. And by all accounts, so did my son. But my son returned to me.
00:30:43
bladesedge
as one of them and sort of points lazily out the window that you kind of can't really see out of, but you get the sense he's pointing towards Castle Ravenloft insinuating that his son was turned into a vampire.
00:30:57
Alma Graves
Oh man, I'm terribly sorry.
00:31:03
Tommy
Is there anything that we could do to, uh, help your son? What is, uh, uh, how does, how does bash and, um, Trevor, what's your guy's name again? And I'll be, I need to write, I need a big bold letters. Uh, how, what, what about bashing a knobby? What do you guys, how you guys feeling? What do you guys want to do?
00:31:32
Kyle
Well, you said we're here to help.
00:31:33
bladesedge
Bring them to me.
00:31:39
Trevor
um I think an abbey would probably look fairly detached from the whole situation. just you know i't I'm not sure what we could do.
00:31:52
Alma Graves
Do any of you know anything about vampires and vampirism?
00:32:02
Kyle
Oh, history is intelligence. Nope.
00:32:04
Trevor
Hey Bri, what I happen to being like a,
00:32:04
Alma Graves
specific
00:32:05
bladesedge
I actually, I bash, I think you would have advantage on that role. Uh, given the, uh, family lineage and stuff.
00:32:15
Kyle
Okay.
00:32:17
bladesedge
If if you'd like, and then I'll be over here saying.
00:32:17
Kyle
Yeah. Okay. yeah
00:32:19
Trevor
I was just going to say is something like, uh, the spell remove curse, is that effective on like what I know if that's effective on somebody who's been like fully turned, you know what I mean?
00:32:32
Trevor
Versus like, Oh
00:32:33
bladesedge
Yeah, sounds like a great use of an arcana check.
00:32:36
Trevor
yeah.
00:32:38
Kyle
I rolled a dirty 20 on my history check. What do I know about vampires and what I could potentially do to help?
00:32:45
bladesedge
um I'd say that the two of you mulling this over, maybe chatting about it lightly in the back of the room here, as the Desan and Almar up at the altar talking to Donavich, you two sort of listening from the back. ah Chatting about it. The two of you are able to determine that this Without looking without seeing him. You don't know what kind of a vampire he is. There are different stages, basically um There are different stages there are ah varying degrees of severity um But as far as you know bash There ain't no way back
00:33:23
bladesedge
As far as you're concerned with a dirty 20, I mean, there's while there that doesn't mean to say that there isn't one.
00:33:25
Kyle
wow Yeah.
00:33:32
bladesedge
But you've never seen somebody.
00:33:37
bladesedge
Become a vampire or and then come back from being one.
00:33:42
Kyle
Gotcha.
00:33:43
bladesedge
I'd actually say i ah I'd say you. ah Yeah, OK, that's all. but Yeah.
00:33:48
Kyle
So I'll just, um, if, was it, um, dishonor Alma that looks back and asks, uh, asks for input, which one of you asked.
00:33:59
Alma Graves
We kind of both did. Desan kind of brought you guys into the fold and I asked if you knew anything about vampirism.
00:34:07
Kyle
Gotcha. I'm kind of just, uh, I'm leaning against the wall with my hands resting on top of my ax. And I just look up at both of you guys and just shake my head. No.
00:34:18
Kyle
Oh, in a way that conveys. I don't think there's anything we can do for the poor child.
00:34:25
Alma Graves
Sure. um but then I would tell him, you know, is' not there's not much that we can do to help undo this vampirism, but we can potentially give you new life if you want us to send your son to the afterlife.
00:34:47
Alma Graves
From death, new life, you can live without having to worry, rebuild this church full of thunder and be a beacon of light for your people in this village.
00:34:59
Alma Graves
I can only imagine the toll it's taken on you to watch your son in this way.
00:35:06
bladesedge
There must be some way. The morning lord will tell me how to save Doru without destroying him. There must be.
00:35:19
Alma Graves
If that's your will, we we both believe in the morning Lord as well. And if that's your hope, that Lathander will give you light in this struggle. We wouldn't take that from you.
00:35:39
Tommy
Uh, before we go, Donavich, tell us the truth. How are you feeding your son?
00:35:48
bladesedge
Um, make an insight check.
00:35:53
Alma Graves
And I would also be like helping him out to try to give advantage, just being kind to, oh shit, there it is.
00:36:00
Trevor
o
00:36:02
Tommy
Dirty 20.
00:36:03
bladesedge
Sure. You can roll advantage because, uh, Alma said she was helping you.
00:36:07
Trevor
That's my initiative.
00:36:08
Tommy
Okay, here we go.
00:36:10
Trevor
Real quick, it's casual.
00:36:11
Tommy
18, I wish, I wish.
00:36:14
bladesedge
Um, he looks at you and says what the next thing he says, you believe him with a hundred percent, um, certainty, at least he says, uh, Doro hasn't fed since he's been imprisoned here. I trapped his son. I trapped my son in the undercroft while he remains to this day. He hasn't been fed since he was in prison. He cries out at all hours.
00:36:44
Alma Graves
That's pretty brutal, Doru.
00:36:52
Alma Graves
um
00:36:56
Trevor
Damn, Dean, that sounds tough.
00:36:58
Alma Graves
Yeah, man, that sounds tough. um Well, is there anything in the city that we can help out with that you know of or in the village rather? um Otherwise, it looks like you have things under wraps here.
00:37:14
bladesedge
ah He looks at you just on and says oh if you're looking for clothes. Bill drafts mercantile.
00:37:28
bladesedge
Bill drafts mercantile. He says if you're looking for a drink to escape this nightmare. Blood of the vine tavern.
00:37:45
bladesedge
um And then he says, I don't know who you are or why you're here, but adventurers have come and perished for as long as I can remember.
00:38:05
bladesedge
But. If you want to make a difference.
00:38:13
bladesedge
need to get Irina Kolyanovich as far from Castle Ravenloft as possible.
00:38:24
Alma Graves
We know of Irina.
00:38:27
bladesedge
With the dirty 20 as well, this on not only would that help Irene Kolyanovich, which obviously makes sense, but with ah that insight check, you get the sense that maybe this town's getting a little bit of extra ire from Strahd because this this woman is here.
00:38:46
Alma Graves
Aha.
00:38:47
bladesedge
You bring her somewhere else, maybe all of this destruction and mayhem that is consistently being brought upon this town will be brought somewhere else.
00:38:57
Tommy
Okay. Um, before we go, Donavich, do you have any, um, I'm sort of a new worshipper of Lathander. Do you have any like tenants or like some sort of like 10 commandments kind of a thing or like words to live by live, laugh, love type, uh, thing for Lathander.
00:39:17
bladesedge
Live life.
00:39:17
Alma Graves
With laugh love, yeah.
00:39:18
bladesedge
Live life, love, lathander.
00:39:19
Tommy
Yeah. Something I could.
00:39:20
Kyle
Is he giving live laugh love to you?
00:39:20
bladesedge
Always good. Four L's. Live life, love, lathander.
00:39:26
Tommy
Oh, the four L's I forgot.
00:39:27
Trevor
The four L's.
00:39:28
Alma Graves
Yeah, the four L's, yeah.
00:39:28
Tommy
I look, I turned around and and like above like, uh, etched into stone is live, laugh, love, Lathander.
00:39:29
Trevor
Oh, that's good.
00:39:36
Tommy
I go, Oh, of course. I knew I saw that somewhere.
00:39:38
Alma Graves
Of course.
00:39:38
Kyle
Incursive.
00:39:39
Alma Graves
What else could it be?
00:39:40
Tommy
Yeah, of course. Um,
00:39:42
bladesedge
yeah um He gives you a um pamphlet that looks like they hand out to people all the time that has Lathander's Tenants of Faith. I'll put it in loot and info.
00:39:53
Tommy
Okay.
00:39:56
bladesedge
Watch each sunrise, each day is a gift. Always age, ready to aid, cultivate, inspire, support all living things, bring hope wherever you go, nurture life, perfect oneself, illuminate darkness, abhor evil, rules are secondary, plays more important in actions to help others than to restrict adherence to rules, rituals, et cetera.
00:40:16
bladesedge
he hands you that seems very um you're new to it almost not Alma you recognize that as you know maybe something that you'd also give like kids in Sunday school like that's very entry level.
00:40:29
Alma Graves
Right, and the very last one, rules are secondary, place more importance in actions that help others than in strict adherence to rules, rituals, and the dictates of your seniors. That's kind of why I'm allowing this ah situation with his son to um to overlook it, in a sense.
00:40:50
bladesedge
Yeah, natural dirty 20 insight check that you helped on while that while you may overlook it and you guys can definitely do that. This guy could not stop you.
00:41:02
bladesedge
You can do whatever you want.
00:41:02
Alma Graves
Yeah.
00:41:03
bladesedge
You get the sense in here. ah This there's nobody here to stop you from doing what you want. This guy is. ah For all intents and purposes, nine health, 10, 10 AC like. Priest.
00:41:18
Alma Graves
Yeah, well, he shares the the hope of Lathander within him and I'm inclined to be optimistic.
00:41:30
bladesedge
okay
00:41:35
Kyle
I think we leave him be.
00:41:37
bladesedge
Okay.
00:41:38
Kyle
We go to the mercantile.
00:41:41
Alma Graves
Yeah, it seems like you could use a ah set of fine clothes, my friend.
00:41:42
Tommy
Yeah. Please. It's close. Slang and dong over here. I need to get out of here.
00:41:52
bladesedge
Okay. You guys head out.
00:41:54
Alma Graves
yeah
00:41:56
bladesedge
Father.
00:41:56
Tommy
Yeah.
00:41:58
bladesedge
No.
00:42:01
bladesedge
As you leave. Where to.
00:42:14
Alma Graves
Well, to the mercantile, I suppose.
00:42:19
Kyle
Yes, sir.
00:42:22
bladesedge
Okay. As I.
00:42:27
Trevor
It's also probably what, like 1, 2 a.m. right now?
00:42:31
bladesedge
Yeah, it's it's it is the middle of the night So
00:42:31
Trevor
we
00:42:35
Trevor
Yeah.
00:42:39
bladesedge
you guys yeah good point yeah you guys head to the the mercantile and it is closed That e1 I just placed on the map that is the mercantile and
00:42:41
Alma Graves
Well, I mean,
00:42:44
Alma Graves
Yeah, i I think I would actually like to head back to the church and see if we can spend some time this night um cleaning it up.
00:42:59
Alma Graves
Excellent.
00:43:00
bladesedge
So for your own notification, um, you know, you not know where it is. Okay. So you guys go to leave and almost going to decide to stay and help clean it up.
00:43:14
Trevor
Cool.
00:43:15
Tommy
Uh, yeah, I, I need clothes, man. I'm naked as fuck.
00:43:18
Kyle
Yeah.
00:43:18
Tommy
I'm so sorry. I would help go, but I need clothes.
00:43:21
Alma Graves
It'll be about eight hours before the shop opens up.
00:43:23
Trevor
All the... I'll go, I mean, if you really want to go look for clothes, even knowing the mercantile shop is closed, I think an hobby would go with you to try and find something if you just want to like look around town and see what options there are, but.
00:43:41
Tommy
No, I'll stay. We'll wait and go in the morning. um Yeah, let's just stay.
00:43:47
Trevor
Okay.
00:43:47
Tommy
That's fine. But yeah, be close.
00:43:53
bladesedge
Okay, um you guys, I'll move you back to that map. um
00:44:01
Alma Graves
Yeah, I think I would try to um pick up some of the the shattered pews, move them to the other side of the room, um and then we can see what we have in the back that might be able to ah be repaired with like a mending spell.
00:44:18
bladesedge
Sure. um Why don't you guys each pick a room is four rooms and I will describe what is in them as you guys spend the night here helping clean up and then sleeping.
00:44:32
Alma Graves
Sure, I will pick this, oh, sorry, I'll pick ah this room.
00:44:41
Kyle
I'll be down here in the bottom left.
00:44:43
bladesedge
Okay.
00:44:44
Tommy
Um, I'd like to go down underground and check out Donavich's son.
00:44:51
bladesedge
Okay. Um, you, so that would be this room then you'd go into this room.
00:44:57
Tommy
Okay.
00:44:58
bladesedge
So that leaves you with this one, Trevor. Are you okay with that?
00:45:01
Trevor
Yeah, yeah, yeah, absolutely.
00:45:03
bladesedge
Okay. So Alma, first and foremost, you are in a.
00:45:10
bladesedge
Do this is this looks like this dirty room contains a wooden bed with a straw filled mattress next to which rests a small table with an oil lamp burning brightly on it. Mounted above the bed's headboard is a ah wooden sun shaped symbol. You know that this is the symbol of Lathander. This seems as though it is Donavich's room.
00:45:35
Alma Graves
I see. um And is there like a like a bedside table or something that might have like a notebook or a set of scrolls?
00:45:44
bladesedge
Yeah, you see the bedside table and the only thing on it is the, um, oil lamp, uh, burning brightly.
00:45:53
Alma Graves
Okay. um Can I look under the bed?
00:45:56
bladesedge
Yeah. Yeah. You look under the bed and there's nothing.
00:46:01
Alma Graves
Okay. um is the be Is the bed made?
00:46:02
bladesedge
ah
00:46:06
bladesedge
No.
00:46:07
Alma Graves
No, I'll make the bed.
00:46:08
bladesedge
Okay.
00:46:09
Alma Graves
Fluff the pillow.
00:46:12
bladesedge
Um, the bash. This dirty lightless room contains a wooden bed with a straw filled mattress mounted above the bed's headboard is a wooden holy symbol. You would imagine that this look, this looks like it hasn't been used in a very long time. It's probably his son's room.
00:46:33
Kyle
That's pretty clean in here, not super messed up or anything.
00:46:37
bladesedge
Uh, it's dusty, very dusty.
00:46:40
Kyle
Dusty. I'll uh... What's the word? I'll flap the sheets and kind of pat down the pillow that removes some of that dust off the bed.
00:46:52
bladesedge
OK, but you know, one of you will probably be sleeping in if you stay the night here.
00:46:59
bladesedge
Inabi. You're you're in a room with an old desk and chair, stand an old desk and chair stand against the south wall, a wooden holy symbol mounted above them, a sunburst.
00:47:01
Trevor
easier.
00:47:12
bladesedge
You see a 10 foot long iron rod attached to the north walls stands bare, suggesting a tapestry once hung there. Against the far wall stands a wooden cabinet with four tall doors.
00:47:30
Trevor
and Okay. um
00:47:37
Trevor
Yeah, I'll open the cabinets. I'll start there.
00:47:40
bladesedge
Okay. You open the cabinets and you see that there is a tinderbox, a few wooden boxes full of candles. Two well-used books, you see one says hymns to the dawn, a volume of chants to the morning Lord like songs. And you see one that says the blade of truth, the uses of logic in the war against diabolist heresies as fought by the almost inquisition.
00:48:08
Kyle
Yes.
00:48:09
Trevor
Oh, damn. Okay. Um, I would take both books out and I would throw, you said there was, what else was on the wall to my right?
00:48:16
bladesedge
Yeah.
00:48:21
Trevor
There was a, uh, the big, the 10 foot rod that held the tapestry at one point. Was there another, um,
00:48:30
bladesedge
There's just the desk and chairs.
00:48:31
Trevor
like desk? Okay, cool.
00:48:32
bladesedge
There's the iron rod attached to the North wall stands bare suggesting that a tapestry once hung there. And then against the far wall stands a wooden cabinet.
00:48:39
Trevor
and Okay, I'll throw the Blade of Truth on the desk, and I will ah walk out of the room with the hymns to the Dawn Book and go find Disaun wherever he went.
00:48:43
bladesedge
Okay.
00:48:50
bladesedge
Okay.
00:48:54
Trevor
ah
00:48:54
bladesedge
Nice. So this will all be happening at the same time. So we'll do that.
00:48:58
Trevor
Oh, okay, cool.
00:48:58
bladesedge
You guys are all helping clean up, taking different places at the same time. So to sign. The room that you've gone in is a time and neglect have punched holes in the ceiling of this moldy room, which contains a few broken roof shingles amid puddles of water in one corner set into the floor is a heavy wooden trap door held shut with a chain and a padlock. A young man's screams of anguish can be heard through the door.
00:49:29
bladesedge
Brrr! Father! Let me out!
00:49:38
Tommy
ah Okay, is.
00:49:39
bladesedge
How could you do this to your own son?
00:49:41
Tommy
I'd like to walk up to like the trap door.
00:49:45
bladesedge
Yeah, padlock.
00:49:46
Tommy
Is it do I see a lock on it?
00:49:49
Tommy
um
00:49:49
bladesedge
Heavy wooden trapdoor held shut with a chain and a padlock.
00:49:52
Tommy
I'd like to. Take out my son sword and shit to life.
00:50:00
bladesedge
Okay.
00:50:03
Tommy
And I'd like to cut the lock.
00:50:05
bladesedge
Okay. ah Roll me an attack roll.
00:50:13
Tommy
25 to hit.
00:50:15
bladesedge
Okay. Um,
00:50:16
Tommy
New muscles rippling.
00:50:19
bladesedge
You can cut the chain. So it's about at this moment that Alma, ah you've finished making the bed bash. You finished dusting the room and you're walking out with the book in hand as the three of you hear from the room that the sun is in a chain being cut. You're.
00:50:45
Trevor
Cool, I'll pick up the pace a little bit.
00:50:46
bladesedge
Cool.
00:50:51
bladesedge
All right.
00:50:57
Tommy
Oh, go for it.
00:50:58
Trevor
Yeah, I would knock on Dishon's door.
00:51:01
bladesedge
Yeah, I think I think it's open unless, yeah.
00:51:01
Tommy
I think it's open, yeah.
00:51:02
Trevor
Oh, okay, cool. um that And this is the room that I heard the chain breaking from, right?
00:51:07
bladesedge
ah You walk in and see that the chain is broken atop a trap door on the floor.
00:51:08
Trevor
Yeah. ah
00:51:15
Trevor
Thinking about going down.
00:51:20
Tommy
I have to see for my own eyes if Donavich's son is believes that he can be saved if he can see the light of a new dawn.
00:51:35
Trevor
OK. I'll follow behind you.
00:51:44
Tommy
And ah yeah, I'll go downstairs.
00:51:48
bladesedge
Okay. You open the trap door into darkness and a Navi follows bash. What are you doing?
00:51:52
Trevor
Uh, how far real quick, how far down does it look?
00:51:58
bladesedge
Very good question.
00:52:01
Trevor
Because if it's like kind of a shallow basement, I might even just close it behind him and stay in the room. Just watch out for her. Anybody can, you know, okay.
00:52:12
bladesedge
Yeah, it doesn't go too, it doesn't go too far. It goes 15 feet down state and there are stairs. It's not like a ladder situation going like a hundred feet down.
00:52:25
Trevor
oh okay god
00:52:27
Kyle
um Can I see the sun as well as the sun like through the floorboards?
00:52:34
bladesedge
I'm not, I haven't put him down there yet because I'm letting you guys as a group decide things that happened before. I just decide people doing things. So like when he cut the lock, you heard him.
00:52:44
bladesedge
If you're right there in the hallway, you see him about to go down. So he is not down.
00:52:49
Kyle
Okay.
00:52:50
Trevor
Oh, okay, got it.
00:52:50
bladesedge
See where you're so you can see him right there.
00:52:53
Kyle
Gotcha. Well, I'll just... ah and can see i I'll walk to the the to the door entryway and say, do you think going down there's a good idea?
00:52:59
bladesedge
Hmm.
00:53:05
Kyle
He's starving. He might immediately try to attack you.
00:53:10
Tommy
If he immediately attacks me, then he cannot be saved. He is shrouded by dusk.
00:53:19
Kyle
Do you not want to respect the wishes of Jonovitch to believe in a lie? If it makes him more comfortable?
00:53:37
Tommy
Kind of right, honestly. um
00:53:45
Trevor
I would, I would put my hand on your shoulder again and just say, it's your, you can do what you want. Go look if you need to look. But I think bash is right in that it may be his father's decision. Ultimately what happens to him.
00:54:07
Kyle
I don't think there's any winning in this situation. You either let Donovitch have his way and allow the son to suffer, or you do the son a favor and allow Donovitch to suffer.
00:54:26
bladesedge
Bars. That was hard.
00:54:29
Tommy
God, Kyle, what are you doing to me right now, dude?
00:54:32
bladesedge
God, what's what's Bash's wisdom at?
00:54:32
Tommy
Oh, my gosh.
00:54:34
bladesedge
Jesus Christ.
00:54:34
Kyle
i I was, okay.
00:54:35
Tommy
This is dude.
00:54:37
Kyle
So earlier I, earlier I looked at my wisdom.
00:54:40
Tommy
Oh, my God.
00:54:41
Kyle
I'm like, would bash be saying this? I think that should be saying this.
00:54:45
Tommy
That's just saying whatever you you want him to say, brother.
00:54:46
bladesedge
Oh, yeah.
00:54:48
Kyle
Nah, nah, bash got 14 wisdom. My guy.
00:54:51
Tommy
ah Oh, I mean, still enough.
00:54:53
Kyle
He may be stupid, but he is wise.
00:54:53
Tommy
Yeah, he's been bars. I don't know.
00:54:56
bladesedge
Is.
00:54:56
Trevor
but he is
00:54:57
Tommy
um I'd like to look down at the pamphlet that was given to me and look up at the two of you and say, illuminate darkness, shine bright and true on those who dwell in the darkness and bring those who are lost back to the light.
00:55:18
Tommy
I think this is a test from Lathander and I want to see for myself. I'm sorry.
00:55:26
Kyle
i I don't say anything. I just watch waiting for you to do whatever you feel is right.
00:55:38
bladesedge
All right, you head down.
00:55:42
Tommy
Yeah, now I'm second guessing myself because of Bash over here.
00:55:45
bladesedge
OK, you pause for a second, then head down.
00:55:46
Tommy
But yeah, I had to.
00:55:52
bladesedge
OK, I have moved you. If you zoom out, you can sort of see.
00:55:57
bladesedge
um You as you get down there.
00:56:05
bladesedge
The church's undercroft has rough hewn walls and a floor made of damp clay and earth rotting wooden pillars strain under the weight of the wooden ceiling. and Candlelight from the chapel above slips through some cracks here and there allowing you to glimpse a gaunt shape in the far corner.
00:56:34
bladesedge
yeah
00:56:37
Tommy
I ah slowly make my way down the stairs, um, not breaking eye contact. Do I see if he's chained at all?
00:56:47
bladesedge
Now you actually, I'm looking at where your token can see, you cannot see him from where you are.
00:56:50
Tommy
Okay.
00:56:53
bladesedge
You see, like you see pieces and make a production check from right there. You see these pillars are kind of in the way. You see this dark gaunt shape in the corner.
00:57:02
Tommy
15, Brian.
00:57:03
bladesedge
ah Not chained.
00:57:07
Tommy
Uh.
00:57:10
Tommy
Oh, no armor, out um as I kind of like make my way through the pillars, keeping eyes with this monster, reading off the tenants of Lathander, I say.
00:57:15
Trevor
Hey!
00:57:16
bladesedge
I can smell your blood.
00:57:31
Tommy
um
00:57:34
Tommy
Do you believe that you can nurture life? do you believe Are you a follower of Lathander? Can I bring you back to the light?
00:57:48
bladesedge
You say it from all the way over there at the stairs.
00:57:50
Tommy
Yeah, yeah, yeah. Can you yeah can you hear me? oh like i've kind of like I'll shout shout it if it helps, but like kind of like as I'm might kind of like walking towards him.
00:57:56
bladesedge
Yeah, you said maybe the first the first time you said it, he said. I can't hear you.
00:58:07
Tommy
ah Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. As I'm walking towards him.
00:58:13
Kyle
That sounds devious.
00:58:15
bladesedge
You're walking towards him. Sun soared out. The only light really in this room besides what's coming through the floorboards. You watch a spider dart from one pillar to the other in front of you.
00:58:31
Tommy
I make my way towards.
00:58:36
Tommy
Just recanting the pamphlet that I had read.
00:58:36
bladesedge
I can smell your blood.
00:58:42
Tommy
Promote the betterment of yourself and those around you, encourage creativity, artistry, innovation. And I hold up my son's sword as I round the corner of this pillar and hold it up aloft and say, illuminate the darkness. Tell me the truth. Can you be saved? Or are you blinded by the dusk of your own past?
00:59:04
Kyle
Mars.
00:59:05
bladesedge
Um, as you get there, he steps forward for the first time in front of this pillar and says, can be saved. You'll save me. Roll initiative as he starts to run towards you.
00:59:33
Kyle
Um, can I ask a, um, technically question?
00:59:36
bladesedge
Mm hmm.
00:59:37
Kyle
Is Desan on bed?
00:59:40
bladesedge
No.
00:59:40
Kyle
Okay.
00:59:41
bladesedge
Ooh, what's your decks?
00:59:42
Kyle
Oh, he's got just normal human blood.
00:59:45
Tommy
ah Dex is a 14 plus 2.
00:59:48
bladesedge
You go a second.
00:59:49
Tommy
oh shit
00:59:50
Trevor
Row, row.
00:59:51
Tommy
ah row
00:59:52
bladesedge
Uh, Doru, uh, very gaunt hasn't been fed in a very long time runs straight at you. And without hesitation, your naked body torso with a shirt on it without hesitation, arms go to your shoulders, teeth come out, goes to bite your neck.
01:00:13
Kyle
Who could have possibly seen this coming?
01:00:13
Tommy
Oh Shit
01:00:15
Trevor
ah
01:00:16
bladesedge
That's a 17 to hit.
01:00:18
Tommy
Oh, shit.
01:00:20
Kyle
Oh, Lord.
01:00:20
Tommy
I'm going to die down here again. ah Yeah, yeah, yeah, that is for sure.
01:00:23
bladesedge
Okay. You take six points of piercing damage and four points of necrotic damage.
01:00:27
Tommy
OK.
01:00:31
bladesedge
And your hit point maximum is reduced by four.
01:00:36
Tommy
OK.
01:00:36
Trevor
Do I hear, the second I hear anything like this, I'm going down by the way.
01:00:37
bladesedge
Not yet.
01:00:40
Trevor
I'm just, I don't want to jump the gun.
01:00:41
bladesedge
Yeah. Yeah. You don't hear anything yet.
01:00:42
Trevor
Okay.
01:00:42
bladesedge
I mean, you heard him talking. You heard him shouting rope head. Do you repent?
01:00:45
Trevor
Right.
01:00:46
Tommy
Yeah, yeah, yeah. um
01:00:52
bladesedge
Your turn.
01:00:55
Tommy
Yeah, I'm just going to stare at Doru and get to the last headed that just says a bore evil and I'm going to swing.
01:01:04
bladesedge
Okay.
01:01:07
Tommy
Swinging.
01:01:08
bladesedge
So I.
01:01:10
Tommy
It's a 26 to hit.
01:01:11
Trevor
Oh, Jesus.
01:01:12
bladesedge
And he and he is undead, so he'll take the extra damage that your sensor will roll.
01:01:12
Kyle
Nice.
01:01:18
Tommy
Okay. Um, here you go.
01:01:23
Kyle
Oh my.
01:01:25
bladesedge
That is.
01:01:26
Tommy
So that was two-handed. ah And then I'm going to pump a Divine Smite into him.
01:01:28
bladesedge
Over 13. Yeah.
01:01:35
bladesedge
Okay, your first use of divine smite. As you do saying this last tenant and you divine smite this creature, a UCA spider dart behind him from one pillar to the next.
01:01:50
Tommy
ah So at our first level, we'll just Divine Smite. for an extra nine radiant damage.
01:01:56
bladesedge
I believe you get an extra DA because he is undead.
01:01:59
Tommy
Oh, hell yeah.
01:02:00
Kyle
Jesus.
01:02:03
Tommy
An extra six damage.
01:02:04
Trevor
Peace!
01:02:04
bladesedge
Okay.
01:02:06
Kyle
um
01:02:06
bladesedge
That is a lot. That's 1528 points of damage.
01:02:11
Tommy
um I look at him and I say, I can save you if you give me a chance.
01:02:23
Tommy
What is you and in response to that book?
01:02:24
bladesedge
um Make it I'll get I'll let you make an insight check.
01:02:28
Tommy
Okay. Let's check 22.
01:02:32
bladesedge
This is a this is a starved.
01:02:32
Tommy
This is a brand new character, by the way. I'm crushing.
01:02:34
Kyle
It was nice.
01:02:35
bladesedge
This is a starved vampire spawn. This is somebody who hasn't eaten in like.
01:02:39
Tommy
ah
01:02:43
bladesedge
ah A very, very, very long time. That while he may not have attacked a full group of people, he doesn't look stupid.
01:02:55
bladesedge
He looks like he knows his limits. One person down here with no armor, there's no talking to this guy. He's going to kill you to save himself because him killing you saves his life. Him drinking your blood is going to save him.
01:03:17
bladesedge
No, but and no, I mean, just nobody yelled anything. There's no clang of metal against metal. There was just on went down.
01:03:27
bladesedge
You guys heard him 15 feet below yelling some stuff. Then when he got closer, he stopped yelling. Then this guy bit him. He swung his son's sword once in six seconds. There's been no shout.
01:03:38
bladesedge
There's been no clang of metal.
01:03:42
Tommy
Okay, and I must.
01:03:42
bladesedge
Yeah.
01:03:42
Kyle
if if it's i
01:03:46
Tommy
Second attack, I'm swinging again.
01:03:47
bladesedge
Okay.
01:03:48
Tommy
Sun sword.
01:03:51
Tommy
22 to hit.
01:03:52
bladesedge
Yes.
01:03:56
bladesedge
Yeah, I mean, it's it's up to Tommy. Really? If Tommy wants to alert you guys that something thing has happened, he's got to call out.
01:04:03
Tommy
Yeah.
01:04:03
bladesedge
This is not something where you guys would just like magically sense it or.
01:04:06
Kyle
Well, how long has it been since I last heard, cause I could hear their conversation.
01:04:11
bladesedge
No, you couldn't hear their conversation.
01:04:12
Kyle
How long?
01:04:13
bladesedge
You could hear when Desan was yelling when he was across the room, sing, yelling his repents business.
01:04:20
Kyle
Uh huh.
01:04:21
bladesedge
But as he got closer and they were they they started chatting, you did not. And they've only not been talking now for six seconds and not even that, because Desana is talking while he's attacking.
01:04:34
bladesedge
and Nice.
01:04:35
Kyle
Gotcha.
01:04:35
Tommy
Uh, okay. Uh, that'll be another 14 damage, Brian.
01:04:39
bladesedge
He takes all that.
01:04:42
Tommy
Um,
01:04:45
Trevor
Is it an extra d8 every hit against them?
01:04:46
Tommy
I'm so conflicted. Yeah. That's my.
01:04:49
Tommy
Oh dear. Yeah.
01:04:51
bladesedge
No, it's only if he, if he's smites.
01:04:51
Tommy
No, that's what it does.
01:04:53
Trevor
Oh got it
01:04:55
Tommy
Uh, am I allowed to smite every single hit?
01:04:58
bladesedge
Yeah, yeah, you can use your that's just you're just using a spell slot to do it.
01:05:00
Tommy
Okay.
01:05:02
bladesedge
So.
01:05:03
Tommy
Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Then I'll burn another spell slot and I'll divine smite again as I say Abort evil one more time ah That'll be a 12 smite damage
01:05:07
bladesedge
Cool.
01:05:14
bladesedge
Mosh.
01:05:21
bladesedge
Well, my damage, his skin burning from this radiant damage. ah skin that looks unnatural skin that looks like it's kept him alive before um somehow some sort of regenerative vampire property in this radiant damage in this the light of the sun from the sword not functioning.
01:05:45
Tommy
ah Prove to me that you're worth saving. Get back. Get back and I will spare you and I will come and save you. Show me you are worth saving.
01:05:58
bladesedge
Um, okay. He's, he's not budging as long as it's one character, any
01:06:05
Tommy
Okay.
01:06:12
bladesedge
more than one character, and he does his best to avoid them and tries to escape, but just one of you, you want your blood. All right. His turn. And yeah, Tommy, it's completely up to you.
01:06:24
bladesedge
If you're, if the guys are going to hear that there's a struggle.
01:06:28
Tommy
I would, yeah, yeah.
01:06:28
bladesedge
That that won't be my that's not my call to make.
01:06:31
Tommy
i I would say that they would hear me. there There's a struggle. I mean, I'm like shouting this kind of Adam.
01:06:35
bladesedge
OK, at the end, so now you're shouting.
01:06:36
Tommy
So yeah. Show me you're worth saving is what I'd be shouting.
01:06:41
bladesedge
And how how does that how does that just sort for our own mind palaces? How does that um how is that different than what you were saying before you guys started fighting?
01:06:50
Tommy
Um, this is,
01:06:51
bladesedge
Like, how does that change the tone of now we're fighting?
01:06:55
Tommy
Um, it's kind of more like a, um, one was like a more like proselytizing kind of like, you know, like reading the, like reading the pamphlet prayer sheet and like kind of more of a hope. And now it's a kind of more of a shouting at antagonistic show me you're worth saving. Now we're fighting. Um, yeah. Does that make sense?
01:07:20
bladesedge
Sure. Yeah. I'm an easy, I'm an easy sell. You just gotta, you just gotta, to you just gotta to give me a raise. Gotta to give me something and then we're good. All right. You guys hear that you want to roll initiative.
01:07:27
Kyle
ah Upon hearing that, I'm going to call out to Desan and just say, Desan, everything okay?
01:07:30
Trevor
oh yeah
01:07:36
Trevor
Hell yeah.
01:07:39
Tommy
Uh, I don't know if I would, uh, yeah, up to you guys. If you guys want to come down here, I mean like you, yeah, you guys hear me shouting seemingly at this guy and.
01:07:49
Kyle
Yeah, if you don't answer to that, then I would come down.
01:07:51
Trevor
For sure.
01:07:54
bladesedge
Okay. Well, and Abby, you're up next then.
01:07:56
Trevor
Hell yeah, let's go. um Let's see, blades singing for my bonus action.
01:08:02
bladesedge
All right.
01:08:04
Trevor
Whoa, sprinting downstairs.
01:08:06
bladesedge
So five to get there, which is douche five. Now you can zoom out and you'll see where you are.
01:08:14
Trevor
Nice, 10, 15, 20, 25.
01:08:24
Trevor
um 30, 35, 40, and from here... That's probably not gonna do much, but... Fuck it. Can I... from can i actually I'll take out...
01:08:55
Trevor
My, I'll take, oh no, just kidding, I will not do that. Can I throw any of those at him? Chill touch is 120 feet.
01:09:05
Trevor
This probably isn't gonna do much because it's necrotic, but from here I'll just try and chill touch on him.
01:09:11
bladesedge
Cool. Is that a roll to hit for you or is it a cons game for me or before it's nice.
01:09:13
Trevor
Yep, yeah, roll to hit 24. Four, for and this is necrotic damage for six necrotic.
01:09:21
bladesedge
You see him take half that, but she'll touch does something else.
01:09:23
Trevor
Okay.
01:09:25
bladesedge
Correct.
01:09:28
Trevor
Good question, let's see, let's see. And it can't regain hit points until the start of your next turn.
01:09:34
bladesedge
Nice. Which is what it's bite does. We're getting some points.
01:09:36
Trevor
Nice.
01:09:37
bladesedge
Um, okay. Uh, is that your turn?
01:09:42
Trevor
That's my turn.
01:09:44
bladesedge
Upon seeing in Nabi enter the room. Doru.
01:09:52
bladesedge
The word. I don't want to die. I don't want to die. Goes ah five. Ten. Fifteen. Twenty.
01:10:03
bladesedge
Twenty five. Thirty. Thirty five. Forty.
01:10:05
Tommy
I was going for the door.
01:10:06
bladesedge
Thirty five.
01:10:09
bladesedge
Bash. You see popping out of the trap door. Fifty. This guy. Yeah.
01:10:21
bladesedge
You own.
01:10:23
Kyle
And I will attempt.
01:10:24
bladesedge
Fifty five.
01:10:25
Kyle
Oh, wait, no, it's initiative.
01:10:25
bladesedge
Sixty. That is his full dash to sign. You get an opportunity attack that bash. You also get an opportunity that.
01:10:37
Tommy
um
01:10:37
Kyle
Can I use that opportunity attack to grapple?
01:10:40
bladesedge
Fortunately, not.
01:10:41
Kyle
ah
01:10:45
Tommy
I won't I won't swing on him
01:10:49
bladesedge
be
01:10:53
Kyle
um um um um um
01:10:59
Kyle
I don't know if I want to deal the final blow because this is exactly what I was trying to avoid. I'm gonna yell out to Donavich say Donavich your son.
01:11:13
bladesedge
Here's ah here's the the art, pretty cool. See how gonty he is.
01:11:19
bladesedge
It's pretty rad.
01:11:21
Trevor
Yeah, that looks sick.
01:11:22
bladesedge
Um, okay. You, you shout out to Donavich bash. Um, and standing Alma, maybe you see him standing, his eyes go glassy and he drops to his knees and begins sobbing.
01:11:44
bladesedge
No, the sun is your turn.
01:11:56
bladesedge
He's moving, but I think maybe he's either muted or not narrating what he's doing.
01:11:59
Tommy
Oh, I'm muted. Sorry. Yeah. Um, I, I use my 30 feet. Um, I'm not up. Am I like up there?
01:12:06
bladesedge
No.
01:12:08
Tommy
Uh, and then I, okay. Then I'll dash after him.
01:12:10
bladesedge
Okay.
01:12:12
Tommy
So, uh, that's five more can I like squeeze by him?
01:12:13
bladesedge
So five, 10.
01:12:22
bladesedge
No, unfortunately he's blocking the doorway.
01:12:24
Tommy
Okay. Um,
01:12:30
Tommy
I'd yell out at bash, ah grab him.
01:12:37
bladesedge
All right. All know you're up.
01:12:37
Tommy
ah That's all I got.
01:12:47
bladesedge
Okay. You embraced Donavich, which that will go ahead and get you a, you have an inspiration, a DMS inspiration, a heroic inspiration. They're calling it in D and D 24.
01:13:08
bladesedge
Uh, which you can use now or whatever. And
01:13:23
bladesedge
All right. Bash.
01:13:27
Kyle
Well, I will, um, attempt to grapple. The boy.
01:13:34
Trevor
Good boy.
01:13:35
Kyle
Um, and my grapple is.
01:13:39
bladesedge
Let the ball watch.
01:13:41
Kyle
Let him watch. He needs to learn. Uh, where's my, oh, here, um, tiger must succeed on a strength or decks save, which is going to be, uh,
01:13:56
bladesedge
So are using an ability or are you just grappling him?
01:13:59
Kyle
It's it I'm just grappling. It's an unarmed strike. Yeah, yeah, it's just grapple.
01:14:06
bladesedge
I'm wondering why you have a DC for that.
01:14:06
Kyle
um
01:14:09
bladesedge
There should not be as always a contested role. Let me go look at your.
01:14:15
bladesedge
That's what I thought, but we were talking about last night and.
01:14:20
Kyle
I switched it. We're
01:14:27
bladesedge
Or that's why just pen and paper, maybe that's the way to do it.
01:14:28
Kyle
Okay. All right, so what do you need me to do?
01:14:34
bladesedge
Easiest. Cool. Yeah, that's 2024 rule. See how it says topple and sap and cleave and stuff. So I'll have to help you make your character again because your character is made with using the 2024 rules.
01:14:43
Kyle
Okay.
01:14:50
bladesedge
um Yeah, I'm even looking at going into your character creation. And when I click class, you've just clicked barbarian from core rules, which is incorrect.
01:15:03
bladesedge
You have to click barbarian from legacy, including 2024 rules, which you have not done.
01:15:08
Trevor
Oh yeah, you gotta like scroll it down.
01:15:09
bladesedge
So go in there and switch those out. Um, but we can just make a post strength checks. He's got a plus three, still a vampire spawn.
01:15:18
Kyle
Okay, so am I just rolling by strict just straight strength?
01:15:21
bladesedge
Yeah, you can roll athletics just because that'll add your proficiency bonus of your person in it, which is nice. Give me 12.
01:15:27
Kyle
26.
01:15:29
bladesedge
You succeed.
01:15:30
Trevor
Damn do.
01:15:30
bladesedge
You grapple him.
01:15:33
bladesedge
Um, which is technically just one of your attacks. So if you want, you want to do anything else, the other attack you can, or you tell me.
01:15:39
Kyle
um I do not want you to do anything else.
01:15:44
bladesedge
Okay.
01:15:46
bladesedge
Um, and then, yeah, you could maybe use this time to go back in there, just go ahead and click your character thing, go to class and character builder, uh, and go ahead and switch it from the core rules, barbarian to legacy includes 2014 rules, barbarian. So you'll see core rules and there's a little arrow. You click that arrow to minimize it. And then you'll see the 20 to 2014 versions, which is what we play with.
01:16:14
bladesedge
Um, all right. He's grappled in Abhi.
01:16:18
Trevor
All right, one five, 10, 15, 20, 25, 30.
01:16:25
bladesedge
Whoop.
01:16:26
Trevor
Popping out that trap door.
01:16:26
bladesedge
Third five.
01:16:27
Trevor
Nice. ah for um And I think I will, if he's grappled um before I do anything, I just say, what's the what's a plan?
01:16:32
bladesedge
Okay.
01:16:43
Tommy
I'm going to zone of truth him. I want to know how he feels. I want to see if he could be saved.
01:16:51
Trevor
Okay. Okay.
01:16:53
Tommy
My intent is not to kill him. I just want to know his truth.
01:17:02
Trevor
Okay. I'll hold another, I'll hold my action to Chill Touch again ah if he goes for a bite on anybody.
01:17:19
bladesedge
OK.
01:17:21
Trevor
That'll be my turn.
01:17:25
bladesedge
OK. He bash, he's going to use his action to end the grapple. He's going to try and become un-grappled from you.
01:17:36
Kyle
Okay, is it another strength check?
01:17:38
bladesedge
Yeah, i I'm going to roll his taxes for funsies for if they're both personally, it doesn't matter. But just for um narrative sake, I think he's like trying to wiggle out using his emaciated frame. Eight.
01:17:54
Kyle
ah
01:17:57
Kyle
Sorry, I was on my... Okay, so am I rolling decks or am I still rolling athletics?
01:18:00
bladesedge
To get. The athletics.
01:18:08
bladesedge
Okay. He cannot escape. That is his action. He cannot move. He has no bonus actions. That is his turn. Um, um, cool. We can talk about. So what is the plan here? Gang. Otherwise this is this combat is going to be the same. Every time you get around to his comp, his thing, no insight check required. He's going to try and break the grapple. He's going to try and run away.
01:18:36
Tommy
Essentially, I'm trying to just get at the heart out of he I want to zone of truth him and I want to know if he believes that he can be saved That is that is my intent
01:18:46
Trevor
I would take, if that's the plan, I would eventually start taking out some like rope to, you know what I mean, to try and just like restrain him fully so he can't get out.
01:18:49
bladesedge
Yeah.
01:18:56
Trevor
and We're not just making these checks back to him while he's grappled you know with the help of Bash, just try and like you know tie the ropes around his legs and his hands.
01:19:02
bladesedge
Yeah.
01:19:07
Trevor
um
01:19:09
bladesedge
Yeah, we'll exit. We'll exit initiative. Doru tied up in the room ah bash. You maybe got a hand on his shoulder just in case. Just me letting you know he's not going anywhere.
01:19:23
bladesedge
um
01:19:26
bladesedge
ah You cast zone of truth to song.
01:19:29
Tommy
I do.
01:19:30
bladesedge
Alma, would you like to be here for this?
01:19:40
bladesedge
Okay. Bash and Inabi. Do you want to willingly fail? Meaning you cannot tell a lie or do you want to contest it?
01:19:47
Trevor
Yeah, now I can fail.
01:19:47
Kyle
Mm-hmm. Yeah, I can fill as well.
01:19:51
bladesedge
Okay. Doru also fails. Dusan and is staring up at you eyes wide, sucking the blood from between his teeth from that one bite that he got on you trying to get whatever's left.
01:20:07
Tommy
Yeah, I would like to, the way the zone of truth appears, I would like to draw a diagram of a sun around this like sacred place. So you see like a circle with like little like wavy lines. um And I would like to lean down to Doru and say, I'm not here to harm you or to hurt you. I was once like you,
01:20:37
Tommy
Shrouded by darkness, obsessed with what blood could benefit for me, the magic, the power, and the strength. I need to hear you say that you believe that you think you can be saved from this ailment just like I was. you Is your faith strong enough in the morning, Lord?
01:21:02
Tommy
you
01:21:06
Tommy
Think you can beat this.
01:21:09
bladesedge
Um, I'm going to, I'm sending a gif. Should you guys, uh, for when he says this answer, he looks at you straight in the face and says, no.
01:21:31
bladesedge
The pen is blue. Royal blue.
01:21:40
bladesedge
Uh, Doru looks to you straight in the eyes and says, no.
01:21:49
Tommy
Do you wish to continue living like this down in a drab basement or do you wish to be set free?
01:22:00
Tommy
Maybe you can see a new dawn.
01:22:02
bladesedge
Send me free.
01:22:06
Tommy
I mean to kill you, doru not to to set you free.
01:22:10
bladesedge
misleading.
01:22:12
Tommy
yeah yeah and Your honor misleading the witness.
01:22:13
Trevor
That is leading.
01:22:13
bladesedge
I take back take my answer.
01:22:18
bladesedge
Just set me free. I don't wish to die. But do I think that I'm the one special I'm going to be the first ever bitten by Strahd to come back from it? No.
01:22:32
bladesedge
I would be naive. That ego I do not possess. I did not wish for this to happen to me. But it has happened. I don't want this to live the rest of my days in a basement. Either set me free or put that blade through my head.
01:23:04
bladesedge
Yeah, he seems we say he's like rocking back and forth in his in his soiled vestiments.
01:23:15
Tommy
ah
01:23:15
Trevor
You're spilling shit.
01:23:17
Tommy
ah You smell like a lot of pee Yeah, we should definitely we should definitely kill this kid
01:23:20
bladesedge
yeah we We came in here to get, to sign some clothes and then we saw yours and went, there's definitely no clothes in here.
01:23:27
Trevor
We We should kill this dude's kid.
01:23:29
bladesedge
yeah
01:23:38
Trevor
Wow.
01:23:44
Tommy
Oh, man.
01:23:46
bladesedge
Any more questions? You've got 10 minutes. of And literally, any any of you too, Bash and Abhi, he has to answer.
01:23:50
Tommy
Yeah, is anyone anyone want to add in here? I don't want to be like the full fucking guy here. I don't know.
01:23:58
Kyle
Look, I didn't even wanna... I didn't even wanna mess with it.
01:24:04
Trevor
Yeah, and obvious just staring right at you, letting you make the decision. Supporting you either way.
01:24:14
Tommy
Gosh, dang it.
01:24:21
Tommy
Um, yeah, I looked down at the pamphlet in my hand and I leaned down to Doru and I say,
01:24:45
Tommy
We will find a cure for this. I refuse to believe that you're beyond saving. And I'd like to look at Bash and Obby and say, put him back in the basement. And I'd like to like unwoosh my sun blade. and
01:25:01
bladesedge
you
01:25:10
bladesedge
Okay.
01:25:10
Tommy
Yeah, that's all I got.
01:25:15
bladesedge
All right, he's tied up. You want to put him back in the basement?
01:25:18
Tommy
Back in the basement.
01:25:19
Trevor
Yeah, let's do it.
01:25:22
bladesedge
Okay. So you put him down there tied up.
01:25:28
Tommy
Yeah.
01:25:29
bladesedge
OK, and then you close the trapdoor, which no longer has a ah lock and chain chain on it.
01:25:35
Tommy
Has a lock on it. Yeah, um we need to find a new lock.
01:25:40
bladesedge
He is tied up, but there is no now now there now there's no lock and chain on the thing.
01:25:42
Tommy
Yeah, yeah, there's.
01:25:43
Trevor
Yeah.
01:25:46
Trevor
Also, would it have been fair to say that I would have used like five feet of rope for both the hands and the feet? Does that make sense?
01:25:54
bladesedge
Yeah, yeah, um'm I'm doing putting my hands out in front of me right now.
01:25:54
Trevor
Or would it have been? I know, I feel like five feet of rope.
01:25:58
bladesedge
Yeah, yeah, yeah, totally two, two and a half free for each.
01:26:02
Trevor
Yeah, for each.
01:26:03
bladesedge
Yes.
01:26:04
Trevor
Does that make sense? All right, I'm just gonna customize the rope that's in my...
01:26:05
bladesedge
Yeah.
01:26:10
Tommy
Can we say before we throw him back into the basement tied up, I'd like to ah place my hand on his forehead and um give him like five points of lay on hands and
01:26:19
bladesedge
Okay.
01:26:27
bladesedge
okay
01:26:33
bladesedge
ah You also saw during that interrogation, you saw the wounds that you had made on his body closing themselves up. On their own.
01:26:43
Tommy
OK, so he's healing. OK, more of a gesture than anything.
01:26:46
bladesedge
Yeah.
01:26:46
Tommy
um
01:26:48
bladesedge
um As you put your hand on his head, you can't help but remember yourself the last time you had consciousness, using your blood and the blood of others to fuel your magic. Now looking at this person bound, being thrown in a basement for something adjacent.
01:27:23
bladesedge
This spider crawls by when you toss him back down there.
01:27:32
Tommy
I'd like to leave the room and yell over at Donavich and say, Donavich, we have spared your son. You'll need a new lock for the basement. See that you get it first thing in the morning. He lives.
01:27:51
bladesedge
Just sort of rocking back and forth. Was nodding even before you started talking and just continue to just continues to nod.
01:27:59
Tommy
Do I get the sense that like my words like hit home or like that? He's just like incoherent.
01:28:05
bladesedge
Make an insight check advantage
01:28:12
Tommy
Okay. Okay. Okay. Um,
01:28:16
Tommy
ah nineteen brian
01:28:20
Tommy
okay um
01:28:21
bladesedge
He heard you. I mean, it's what a, what a terrible life this man must lead.
01:28:26
Tommy
yeah, it's sad.
01:28:26
bladesedge
Uh, and there is no right answer. Uh, and he didn't know some guy was going to pop up out of the graveyard in his backyard, come in and his son almost gets away.
01:28:38
bladesedge
He doesn't get away. And it's now it's done down there with the nice guy. He can do lock it's it's a lot, you know, but he heard what he heard you.
01:28:43
Tommy
yeah
01:28:44
bladesedge
Yeah.
01:28:45
Tommy
okay um
01:29:06
bladesedge
You, um, you also, you realize too, that if you guys are going to the store tomorrow, you could also pick up the lock.
01:29:06
Tommy
Yeah.
01:29:10
Tommy
Okay. Um,
01:29:19
Tommy
Yeah, I just, I have no money.
01:29:22
bladesedge
Yeah. I hear you. No, I mean, I hear you, but, uh, if you have build, build drafts, mercantile would have it.
01:29:29
Tommy
Okay, alright.
01:29:29
bladesedge
Um, you guys are going to go, are you guys are going to go there anyway. Uh, he, he, you get the sense he'd give you the money for it. Yeah. Maybe he even knew he even now without even saying anything like shaking hand, um, comes out and hands you Alma.
01:29:50
bladesedge
I don't think this part, this specific thing is in adventuring here, but let's go ahead and call it. Sorry, better.
01:30:03
Kyle
Yeah.
01:30:05
bladesedge
Leaning looking trying to find this. Um.
01:30:12
bladesedge
um
01:30:15
bladesedge
He hands you 10 gold. Which is how much he estimates the chain and lock will be.
01:30:19
Kyle
Wow.
01:30:24
bladesedge
Alma.
01:30:33
bladesedge
You guys see off in the distance, uh, Clouds obfuscating the moon. It's probably around 3 AM m at this point.
01:30:54
bladesedge
Yeah, he just nods, staring off into space.
01:31:08
bladesedge
Yeah, that's his room. But I'd say even as you get up, you see him like pass out from exhaustion out there. So his room is his room is open. OK.
01:31:21
Kyle
I'm going to go back into the lower left room that I originally went into.
01:31:26
bladesedge
OK. Alma gets a long rest bash. Gets a long rest. But Inabi and Dassan, what are you guys doing?
01:31:42
Trevor
I will, I'll leave that have that book that I originally was gonna hand him the ah Hymns to the Dawn.
01:31:54
Trevor
Let me just say, you know, I know you're trying to learn more about this Dawn. Father, maybe there's something in here. ah Go back to my room and spend four of those hours in a trance-like meditation, long-resting, and then any extra, yeah, just fucking blast in a progressive house. And then the other four hours, I'd be reading some of the Blade of Truth and just seeing what I can glean from that in what, you know, see if there's any info in there that would help us in what we're about to embark on.
01:32:33
bladesedge
Nice.
01:32:37
bladesedge
Um, yes. You can read the other book and hems of the dawn.
01:32:37
Tommy
And, uh, oh, sorry.
01:32:41
Tommy
I would read the, yeah, I would read the hymns of the dawn and I would stay in the room where Doris, um, uh, drop door is trap door is.
01:32:52
bladesedge
Yeah.
01:32:54
bladesedge
Um, as you read in Abby, uh, the blade of truth, the uses of logic in the war against Diabolus heresies as fought by the Ole Miss Inquisition. It's a strange book that mixes like logic exercises with a lot of lurid descriptions of fiend worshiping cults. Um.
01:33:19
bladesedge
But it does give you insights into. ah The almost inquisition. Which is like a sort of shadowy organization that has spread to a few regions, most notably in domains of dread, as you're starting to piece together the Barovia is. um They.
01:33:47
bladesedge
um They can travel through the mist they talk about, which is something that not a lot of people can do. That is something giving them the title of mist walker. They explore and try to thwart or investigate the works of werewolves and vampires.
01:34:09
bladesedge
um Their origins can be traced to a city called Malataine. which seems to be a city in Barovia that you've never heard of.
01:34:25
bladesedge
um
01:34:30
bladesedge
And yeah, it's there. They seem to be, you know, if there's a ah line in there that says evil lurks everywhere with our minds, we will unearth it. We will plumb its depths and we will annihilate it. Seems the priests of.
01:34:47
bladesedge
ah The Olmest Inquisition seemed to be um a it was founded by a psychically gifted priest of somebody named Olmed. And the Olmest Inquisition seems to be an order of psionic inquisitors that seek to discover the wickedness hiding in people's souls. They seemed to have been in Barovia before Strahd.
01:35:12
bladesedge
And their mission was clear, to destroy the infernal powers that had corrupted the world and to ensure that those powers never rose again. There is talk in this book of them fighting, hunting fiends, undead aberrations, and they were a tireless foe of the cult of Osiris.
01:35:35
Trevor
Ahh.
01:35:36
bladesedge
When Strahd fell into darkness, Almed was heartbroken at his friend's transformation and changed the Inquisition's mission. Instead of focusing on hunting monsters, it would also hunt the seeds of evil that can corrupt a person.
01:35:53
bladesedge
um And it mentions it mentions a place. A place in Barovia. Known as the Amber Temple.
01:36:07
bladesedge
As a place filled with dark power.
01:36:14
Trevor
Oh, interesting.
01:36:14
bladesedge
ah That's that's what you find in a nice little four hours of reading.
01:36:20
Trevor
Sick.
01:36:22
bladesedge
And to sign, you are reading the book hymns of the dawn, right?
01:36:29
Tommy
Yes.
01:36:30
bladesedge
You look at the cover.
01:36:34
bladesedge
Bare chested shirt wrapped around your. you ten inch dawn
01:36:38
Trevor
Barbecue sauce on my teeth.
01:36:40
bladesedge
You're sitting down. You hear the anguish of Doru beneath you and you you try to read it just on, but I think you're so tired that you need the eight hours.
01:36:54
bladesedge
Unless do you only also sleep for four? Are you a trans trans guy?
01:36:57
Tommy
um Yeah, I'm a drow, so I think I am. and I'm pretty sure I am a trans guy.
01:37:03
Trevor
Sasha and Digby?
01:37:04
bladesedge
You let me know.
01:37:05
Tommy
Yes, I should. Let me double a check. ah Yeah, you don't need to sleep, but meditate for four hours, correct. Yeah, I'm a trans guy for sure.
01:37:14
Trevor
Hell yeah.
01:37:15
bladesedge
Okay. You are a trans guy. You begin reading this book and make a insight check for me. How quickly do you realize?
01:37:28
Tommy
Uh, six, not good.
01:37:31
bladesedge
Takes you a while. I think maybe by the time you're done reading, uh, you realize that you, you are looking, um,
01:37:46
bladesedge
uh you're looking and you're seeing you're reading this hymn the palace gates are to the east beyond the jousting green a garden greets you soft and sweet where lark and songbirds sing fair maidens take you by the arm and promise pure delight they say their mistress would be pleased to dine with you tonight Opulence and majesty encompass and surround perfection is the picture here and none better can be found. You're brought into her chamber. Confection for the eyes. Hold on. hey What am I reading? Exquisite is her countenance, but what do eyes believe?
01:38:34
bladesedge
Chorus, she's a deceiver, a spinner of lies. She's a soul stealer. She'll consume your mind. She's a flesh eater. She'll feast on your cries, evil, conceiver, all mankind's demise. You close the book. You look at the cover, hymns to the dawn. That's not what it says. It says limbs of the spawn.
01:39:00
Trevor
Oh!
01:39:02
Tommy
hard. Everyone's fucking got bars. What the hell? um I like throw it out the window.
01:39:10
bladesedge
You throw it out the window and you can't tell if this is your delirious mind or if this actually happens, but as you throw it out the window, you see it land in the grass.
01:39:11
Trevor
More of a metal guy.
01:39:22
bladesedge
Eight legs pop out of it. The book crawls away.
01:39:26
Trevor
yeah
01:39:27
Kyle
Ugh.
01:39:28
Trevor
brother o
01:39:33
bladesedge
Dora from underneath the floorboards. really
01:39:37
Trevor
Yeah, there's zombies and guts and the spider is what does it for us
01:39:42
bladesedge
Um, you guys are all long rested and it is the morning.
01:40:00
Kyle
um I've spent the entirety of this episode looking through the UI trying to figure out how to change it and I've Looked at every legacy option and think I've enabled everything. Um, nothing has changed on my character sheet.
01:40:11
Kyle
I'm gonna freak out oh You know, you just want to wait till I
01:40:13
bladesedge
Yeah, you're going to have to fully, you're going to have to fully remake it.
01:40:14
Trevor
I'm going to freak out.
01:40:16
bladesedge
So what you're, what we're going to do here, you're going to fully remake it. So I'm going to create an unassigned pre-made character. We'll do this on the pod. We can either cut this out or not. Um,
01:40:29
bladesedge
no, cause you might need it. So I'll, I will create an unassigned character.
01:40:31
Kyle
Okay.
01:40:32
bladesedge
I'll just put you at level five and then you can do everything else. Cool.
01:40:36
Kyle
Okay, sorry for the complications. That's crazy that you have to do that.
01:40:38
bladesedge
You're good.
01:40:38
bladesedge
You're good. You're good.
01:40:39
Trevor
How dare you?
01:40:39
Tommy
That's all good.
01:40:39
bladesedge
We're very in level five.
01:40:40
Tommy
Yeah.
01:40:40
Trevor
How dare you?
01:40:42
bladesedge
Uh, background was soldier, correct?
01:40:45
Kyle
Correct.
01:40:46
bladesedge
So even when you go to background, see, I was this core rules and in the near, you got to scroll down legacy.
01:40:56
bladesedge
So you'll have to still go into your class and, um, click everything. I didn't click anything. I just put it. I just got you the the correct barbarian. I just got you the correct soldier background, but I didn't click anything.
01:41:08
bladesedge
So you still have to pick your tool, preferences, et cetera. ah And your species, um, yeah, close core rules, close expanded rules, and then go down to a half-orc legacy confirm.
01:41:10
Kyle
Okay. Yeah, I can, I can go through and copy everything.
01:41:19
bladesedge
You'll have to go through that or no, actually that's all good. Abilities is empty equipment empty. What's next empty? um
01:41:29
Kyle
ah you You made the temp character. Are you able to link it?
01:41:32
bladesedge
um It should be in so if you go to our a campaign Go to the campaign where you can see everybody's characters you should see There is gonna be a
01:41:41
Kyle
Ah.
01:41:56
bladesedge
Brian, Sam, Mrs. Brian, Sam, Mrs. Character and unassigned characters. You'll see a little flag there that says claim.
01:42:09
bladesedge
You see that?
01:42:10
Kyle
Okay, one sec. I see I see players. I don't see characters.
01:42:14
bladesedge
So you're at, you're on D and&D Beyond, correct?
01:42:17
Kyle
Oh, no, hold on.
01:42:20
bladesedge
Yes. D and D beyond is where all this is happening. D and D beyond campaigns, cursive straw at the beginning.
01:42:23
Kyle
Okay, okay, okay.
01:42:27
Kyle
All right, I got it here.
01:42:31
bladesedge
All right. The very bottom there, you'll see unassigned characters. See Brian Samus's character.
01:42:36
Kyle
Yeah.
01:42:37
bladesedge
See the button, the little flag that says claim.
01:42:43
Kyle
there's view user profile and view yeah i'm only able to view maybe do i need i probably need a space
01:42:51
bladesedge
Um, which is weird because I see on Kyle, I see you can claim it on the little screenshot you took.
01:43:02
bladesedge
Cool. I'm going to send you this link again. So this is the link to the, to this campaign. Go ahead and click that link. And when you click it, it should prompt you to pick a character and one of the characters you can click available characters in this campaign. Go ahead and click Brian Samus's character.
01:43:24
Kyle
ah Dude, maybe pause because like like of course this isn't working.
01:43:26
Trevor
Oh, I should have cleaned mine, should I?
01:43:32
Kyle
Hold on. I'm not even able to select any character.
01:43:34
bladesedge
Okay. I'm pausing.
01:43:39
bladesedge
It is morning in the village of Brovia. The town is your oyster.
01:43:51
Tommy
I too need some clothes.
01:43:56
Trevor
Yeah, let's do it.
01:44:22
Tommy
Can't imagine who.
01:44:27
Tommy
And then we also, Brian, do we know if Irena is in this town? She is, right?
01:44:34
bladesedge
Seems like from how he was talking about it that she is.
01:44:37
Tommy
Yeah, she's here. Okay. So step one, go to build your ass market tile. Step two, find information about Kolyana.
01:44:47
Tommy
Is there anything else that anybody wants to do in town or any errands or chores? What other people want to do?
01:45:11
Tommy
Okay. Well, if everyone's on board, let's head to the, uh, bill dress Mercado.
01:45:17
Kyle
Let's do it.
01:45:36
bladesedge
OK. The sparse light from Bill drafts mercantile spills out from behind drawn heavy curtains, a sign over the door creaking on its hinges reads Bill drafts mercantile. Establishment looks about 70 feet long, 40 feet wide. And it seems to be open.
01:46:00
bladesedge
As you ah are walking through the streets as well. um This is this is an end. I quote the saddest place in the land. ah You do not see anybody out and about the residents of this town seem terrified of Schrod and whatever's happened here. You walk you walk from the church to the mercantile shop and do not see another soul.
01:46:47
bladesedge
You actually don't, I mean, you you don't know. You don't necessarily know if people aren't out and about because there's not that many people, but the people seem to be terrified. So if they are here, they are in their homes. Afraid to go outside, but both may be true. portican nolisto
01:47:16
bladesedge
Sound a little quiet there at the end.
01:47:41
bladesedge
Cool. In route to Bill just mercantile. You guys also pass by this place here. I'll show you on the map. E2 that right there is blood on the vine tavern. So just just for your own edification so you know where it is. um You guys pass by that on your way to Bill just mercantile.
01:48:15
Trevor
let's do it.
01:48:18
Tommy
Sounds good to me. So yeah, we go into the shop.
01:48:21
bladesedge
OK, you go into the shop and you see that there is a male human behind the table um behind the the the front desk. um Looks like ah sort of a hunched over five for overweight um sort of strands of hair coming down, but it looks pretty thin and sparse. um He says.
01:48:50
bladesedge
Oh, I'm Bildreth. Bildreth Cantamere. How can I help you? Looks like, ah, looks like you appear to buy a shirt. yeah
01:49:02
Tommy
And some pants.
01:49:05
bladesedge
Ah, the ah shirt wrapped around the waist isn't doing it for you.
01:49:09
Tommy
A little bit of a breeze.
01:49:13
bladesedge
A little bit of a breeze. I like that. That's good. All right. Well, is that is that actually what you're looking for? How can I help?
01:49:22
Tommy
ah you yeah You don't happen to sell our is our armor around Brian.
01:49:28
bladesedge
ah Yeah. Yeah, he looks like he has ah he has armor. He has not a lot. And they don't look like they're in great shape. He's got weapons. Not a lot. don look They're in great shape. And he's got Uh, everything that one might find in an adventuring gear, which is just, uh, everything from an abacus or an acid vial, ammunitions to locks, to bells, to blankets, to ropes, to shovels, to spy glasses, to torches, to wet stones, to water skins, to healers, kids, to hammers, to fishing tackles, et cetera. If there's anything you're looking for, you might have it.
01:50:06
Tommy
i hate I hate to ask this newly formed party, so I have no money. and I know we have a little bit of gold to buy the lock and the chain. um If it's too much to buy the armor, just clothes would be fine. I guess I already have a shirt. I guess I would just need pants.
01:50:38
bladesedge
Um, not really. Mostly adventurers except who seem a bit, um, lost, to be frank.
01:51:06
bladesedge
Yeah, you can do a persuasion roll. Okay.
01:51:26
bladesedge
Love that. And what does your talisman look like? Is that your holy symbol? Love that.
01:51:35
bladesedge
Give me that D four.
01:51:39
bladesedge
Okay. The 12 12 total.
01:51:42
Trevor
I do really like that. I heard that as son of a child son and I like the idea you're just pulling a kid out of your backpack. That's your talisman.
01:51:53
bladesedge
Give me that D four. You shake his head and a dice falls out of his mouth.
01:51:58
Trevor
yeah
01:52:00
bladesedge
Um, Bill addresses. Oh, I am. ah Yeah. and Absolutely. Any businesses, good business. I can definitely give you a deal.
01:52:19
Tommy
A plate would be preferable if he has it no matter how ragged.
01:52:25
bladesedge
Okay. He is going to give you guys a 50% discount. Half off, half off of plate is 750 gold.
01:52:38
Kyle
Oh my goodness.
01:52:39
Tommy
F
01:52:40
bladesedge
Half off of splint armor, which is heavy armor is a hundred gold. Half off of chain mail is 32.
01:52:50
bladesedge
Half off of ring mail, which is also heavy is 15.
01:52:54
Kyle
I have 10 gold.
01:53:02
bladesedge
Mm hmm.
01:53:09
bladesedge
Yeah, character creation gives you gold, depending on the background you pick.
01:53:09
Trevor
yeah true i
01:53:16
bladesedge
Yeah, whatever your character creation gold gave you, that's how much gold do you have.
01:53:33
Trevor
Yeah, true.
01:53:40
bladesedge
And what would you like to use that heroic inspiration to do?
01:53:49
bladesedge
more More than 50%? OK, sure. Yeah, roll me another persuasion check. Now you just have another roll, just one extra roll.
01:54:03
Kyle
Nice.
01:54:03
bladesedge
OK, so the price is going to stay the same for all of them, but it whatever you buy, ah whatever you decide on, ah he's he's going to throw in all your starting gear.
01:54:19
bladesedge
Tommy.
01:54:20
Tommy
Thank God.
01:54:21
bladesedge
No matter what which one you buy, he just there's a little bag on the table of some dead adventurers gear and whatever is in there is whatever you'll pick as your starting gear. So like other, whether it's like javelins to throw or a holy symbol, a reliquary, a set of common clothes, et cetera, whatever comes in the character creation stuff, uh, we'll all be in that, but you do still have to buy the armor.
01:54:33
Tommy
Okay.
01:54:44
Tommy
What was it was is chain.
01:54:48
Trevor
Chain was 32 33
01:54:49
bladesedge
Chains 32 ring mail is 15. Uh, splint is a hundred.
01:54:56
Tommy
OK, Remail gives me 14 AC.
01:54:59
bladesedge
Shame mail will give you 16 splint. We'll give you 17 hundred.
01:55:03
Tommy
How much was the split again? Sorry.
01:55:06
Tommy
Let's just do the chain. I don't want to go for broke here.
01:55:11
bladesedge
Cool. Yeah. There's always ways to get armor. It's always ways to upgrade armor down the road.
01:55:16
Tommy
Yeah. Yeah, so let's just do the chain. um
01:55:23
Tommy
i I do like the puppy dog eyes at the party and I kind of like do like a little sway and I'm like, thank you.
01:55:33
bladesedge
Yeah, he.
01:55:36
bladesedge
He gives you the chain mail to sign. He gives you ah the bag full of all the rest of your starting equipment. And I mentioned, I assume you guys mentioned that you needed the lock.
01:55:46
Tommy
Yeah. The walk and the chain.
01:55:47
bladesedge
ah He includes the lock and the chain for free. So you get to keep the 10 gold that Donovan gave Donovan.
01:55:52
Tommy
Oh, hell yeah.
01:55:56
bladesedge
ah
01:55:57
bladesedge
Above and beyond that, he does say, oh is there anything else that you need? I've got, if it's in your starting equipment, when you go to like add starting equipment, then yes.
01:55:57
Tommy
So do I, does that include a shield Brian?
01:56:04
Tommy
Sorry.
01:56:09
Tommy
Okay. Got it. Got it. Thank you. Okay. That was it.
01:56:12
bladesedge
Um, yes, I have buckets and Caltrops, candles, chests, clamors, kits, robes, a sack, a scale, ceiling wax, component pouch, crowbar, fishing tackle.
01:56:33
bladesedge
Teach a man to fish, they say.
01:56:40
bladesedge
ah The fishing tackle is normally one gold, but half off would be five silver. OK. You can add that to your curve sheet.
01:57:10
bladesedge
She looks around expectantly if anybody else needs anything.
01:57:18
Trevor
No i'm not he's just like doing little laps around the perimeter of the like kind of like along the outside walls and just like checking out what kind of thing she has in the shop and on display.
01:57:19
Kyle
I'm good
01:57:31
bladesedge
Yeah, just all this stuff from adventuring gear.
01:57:34
bladesedge
So backpacks, barrels, pouches, sacks.
01:57:34
Trevor
cool.
01:57:38
Tommy
Um, after grabbing a lock and chain, Brian, could I run back to the Abby and be like, I'll meet you guys back at, uh, at the blood of the vine tavern.
01:57:39
bladesedge
Lantern's naps. Yep.
01:57:48
Tommy
And I'd like to like pretty like hastily run back. Cause I feel like that's like pretty pressing to like relock the trap door for Doro.
01:57:55
bladesedge
OK. Dishon takes his new armor. Do you put your armor on before you go?
01:58:00
Tommy
Yeah. I'll put my arm around before I go.
01:58:01
bladesedge
Nice. Wearing your new chain mail and have all your starting equipment now. um
01:58:07
Tommy
and No, I'll give it back. I'll i'll give you everything back.
01:58:23
Tommy
OK.
01:58:23
bladesedge
All right.
01:58:23
Tommy
So yeah, that's what I do. I run back and I go, I'll meet you guys at the button tavern.
01:58:25
bladesedge
Desan, as Desan runs back, what are the the rest of you three doing? and
01:58:44
Trevor
Um, do we, uh, is this, this is Bill draft. Yeah. That we've been talking to this whole time.
01:58:53
bladesedge
Yes.
01:58:55
Trevor
Cool. Did he see it when we were all chatting or was he pretty friendly towards or just kind of like, Hey, new people we just met like, you know, with, uh, Alma's persuasion and stuff that it looked like they were getting on pretty solid
01:59:08
bladesedge
Yeah, make an insight check.
01:59:15
bladesedge
Um, you guys seemed pretty imposing business is bad. So he gave you guys a deal.
01:59:23
Trevor
Okay.
01:59:23
bladesedge
Seems like a nice guy, but seems like, you know, in maybe in better times, he also seems like maybe the kind of guy who was like, if you want it bad enough, you'll pay for it since he has no competition in the village.
01:59:32
Trevor
Right.
01:59:33
bladesedge
Um, but he's not the evil by any means.
01:59:37
Trevor
ah if we're Before we like totally leave, I'd kind of like lean down to Alma and just say, hey, do you think it's worth asking this guy about Irena?
02:00:03
bladesedge
um He says, ah, well, she's the adopted daughter of the burgomaster. um But you can, if you really want to know more about her, you should speak to her brother.
02:00:24
bladesedge
Ismark. is Mark, but some some call him is Mark the Lesser, but I wouldn't i wasn't dare to call him that to his face.
02:00:34
Trevor
Sounds fucked up.
02:00:36
bladesedge
They say he's lived in the shadow of his father most of his life, but he is Mark Koyana.
02:00:51
Trevor
Where might we find Izmark?
02:00:53
bladesedge
He says, probably about the tavern, to be honest. Most people spend their time there.
02:01:02
Trevor
Thank you.
02:01:03
bladesedge
Of course.
02:01:15
bladesedge
Okay.
02:01:19
bladesedge
Three of you head over to the tavern, a single shaft of light thrusts illumination into the main square, its brightness looking like a solid pillar in the heavy fog. Above the gaping doorway, a sign hangs precariously askew, proclaiming this to be the blood on the vine tavern.
02:01:43
bladesedge
Um, as you guys enter, um, there's a blazing fire in the hearth, giving a scant warmth to the few huddled souls within, including the barkeep, three robed figures all sitting together and a man sitting at the bar that you could only guess. Show you guys him right now.
02:02:13
bladesedge
is Is Mark.
02:02:17
bladesedge
My name is Mark. Oh, hi, Mark.
02:02:19
Trevor
It's like, oh, that's.
02:02:22
bladesedge
As you enter and he sits there to sign, you head back to the.
02:02:29
bladesedge
Church post haste, you enter, Donavich seems to be laying down, what do you do?
02:02:37
Tommy
I'd probably not wake him up. I'd probably just go straight to the trapdoor and replace the chain in the lock.
02:02:44
bladesedge
Okay. You replace the chain and the lock. What is your next move?
02:02:53
Tommy
Do I hear any like groaning from the basement?
02:02:59
bladesedge
Make a perception check.
02:03:07
Tommy
That'll be a 13.
02:03:08
bladesedge
yeah Yeah, you hear groaning, although it seems a bit more defeated now that there are ropes around is less. Less bold.
02:03:17
Tommy
OK. Is Donavich awake?
02:03:22
bladesedge
um you You'd have to go. He seems like he's laying down in his room.
02:03:25
Tommy
OK.
02:03:25
bladesedge
You can go check.
02:03:27
Tommy
Yeah, I'll go check really fast. I don't want to I don't want to speak. Hey, I replaced the the lock in the the chain on. on the trap door.
02:03:39
bladesedge
Yeah, you, uh, you, you tell him that and he's just sort of like, you see his eyes are open, just staring at the ceiling and he just says, um, he says, uh, thank you. Thank you very much. I appreciate it. May the light of the morning Lord guide you.
02:04:01
Tommy
And to you, brother. um One last thing before I leave. um I'm also looking for a person, I don't know if it's a boy, a teen, or a man named Jimothy.
02:04:15
bladesedge
Um, he shakes his head. He goes, I do not know this name.
02:04:22
Tommy
Okay, I'll like tuck him in. I'll like give him the old tuck in.
02:04:26
bladesedge
Oh, very nice.
02:04:27
Tommy
Be like, all right, go back.
02:04:28
bladesedge
Oh, thank you.
02:04:28
Tommy
Of course. Give him a little kiss on the forehead. I'll be like, all right, we're gonna go, we're gonna we're gonna leave. Bye.
02:04:38
bladesedge
Says he says goodbye and. Rolls over eyes still open, though.
02:04:48
bladesedge
You head to the tavern.
02:04:50
Tommy
Yeah, I head to the tavern.
02:04:52
bladesedge
Nice on your way to the tavern.
02:04:58
bladesedge
You hear the sound of small wooden wheels rolling across damp cobbles. You haven't seen anybody outside this entire time.
02:05:10
bladesedge
Donavich in the graveyard. Maybe you just met the mercantile shop, man. But you hear the sound of small wooden wheels rolling across damp cobbles. You trace the sound to a lonely hunched figure bundled in rags, ah pushing a rickety wooden cart through the fog.
02:05:39
bladesedge
And see, she's going from house to house or knocking on the door.
02:05:48
Tommy
I, yeah, I not seeing that anyone's out. I kind of, I'd like jog over to her and be like, try to get our attention and wave. Cause I haven't seen anybody else out. Hey.
02:06:03
bladesedge
um She turns the cowl falling back on her face and says. She says, well, hello, handsome man. Oh. She goes, you look divine. It is such a sad time in this village.
02:06:26
bladesedge
um You look like you could use one of my pastries, pulls the a sheet back from the cart and you see that there are these pastries lining this cart.
02:06:41
Tommy
I like, grip my sword, I'm like, but pastries.
02:06:47
bladesedge
She goes, yes, just one gold piece.
02:06:54
Tommy
Pastries.
02:06:56
bladesedge
Yes.
02:07:00
bladesedge
The people love them. I go to house to house every now and then and sell my pastries.
02:07:12
Kyle
wait wait wait wait wait wait
02:07:22
Tommy
Where do you make these pastries? Do you make them in the windmill on the hill?
02:07:30
bladesedge
She looks confused that you know that no insight check required cocks her head and goes Yes, yes, I do yes me and my sister and my mother Oh, no, just me I am the one here pedaling my wares
02:07:48
Tommy
Oh, are they are they also selling The pastries in town.
02:08:02
Tommy
Oh, wonderful. What great entrepreneurship you have. Uh, just breaking out in like a cold sweat. Uh,
02:08:23
Tommy
i I I think I should go I gotta go
02:08:28
bladesedge
Okay. You leave and as you do the camera pans out as her hand goes up these long curled fingers, pinky ring finger, middle finger, forefinger in that order, waving goodbye, slow motion. Bye bye. See you soon.
02:08:57
Tommy
I'm just dead sprinting. I'm sprinting.
02:08:59
bladesedge
dead sprinting as we pan out her waving creepily behind you running to blood of the vine tavern where inside is Mark and the rest of the group awaits. And that's all for this episode of blades edge curse straws 2.0 chapter two electric boogaloo. Thank you for joining us and we'll see you guys next week. Bye bye.