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Curse of Strahd Ep. 13: A New Dawn in Barovia
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There comes a struggle in every D&D player's life where what you want to do, what you have to do, and what the dice enable to you do collide in dramatic fashion. In our Battle at the Bonegrinder, our beloved Pointy Ear Gang had some of the highest highs, and the lowest lows of the campaign thus far. We left last week with death saves, bisections, unexpected allies and a whole lot of drama.
It's a new dawn in Barovia, and the story... goes... on...
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Transcript
The Party in Peril
00:00:02
bladesedge
Hello and welcome back to the blades edge D and&D actual play podcast. If you were with us last week, you know, we left off on a very precarious note where the level four party, uh, was making their way west to east came across this hags hut that had this famed sword engaged in combat with the hags, which has left.
00:00:25
bladesedge
aware Raven who, who attempted to help out dead, uh, Valerius moonstone, Roy halovich, and Gilman graves are all downed, making death saving throws on the first floor.
Vess Rack's Epic Victory
00:00:39
bladesedge
And there's Vess rack, Bainfall, who had an epic nat 20.
00:00:44
bladesedge
Uh, was brought to the roof by Morgantha and in an attempt to be thrown off to his death, found the sun sword, Nat 20 to cleave her in half, uh, went down, uh, two flights of stairs and met Ella sun bane, a second tag killed her as well.
Facing Ophalia Wormwiggle
00:01:03
bladesedge
And is now face to face with Ophalia worm wiggle, the third and last tag.
00:01:03
Gilmund Graves
Unreal.
00:01:09
bladesedge
They no longer have their spell casting. Ophalia, however, has not taken much damage. Uh, slight, we're running a slight little homebrew on this sword. He's not technically attuned to it, but we're letting it, we're letting it rock. I'm letting him use his intelligence for now, uh, to, to swing this thing. And on a nat 20, he's getting a little bit of a bonus from his downed comrades. Um, but things are not looking good. As we zoom back in through the fog, black and gray.
00:01:42
bladesedge
windmill old bone grinder we come down through the front door or right to the front door which is open and laying on the grass outside his face with a massive claw mark from the left side of his temple down to the right side of his chin there's Roy Halovich and Kyle Gerard Mr. Roy Halovich with one failed death save
00:02:10
Kyle
user.
00:02:12
bladesedge
No successes.
Struggle and Persuasion Attempts
00:02:14
bladesedge
Go ahead and roll us a death save and let us know how you're feeling.
00:02:17
Kyle
um Is the initiative so going? Okay, because it doesn't say the order for me.
00:02:27
Trevor
Oh yeah, I don't see it either.
00:02:27
bladesedge
Oh, I have right here.
00:02:30
Trevor
Nice.
00:02:31
Kyle
Okay, good.
00:02:32
bladesedge
Yeah.
00:02:33
Kyle
I still don't see if it's fine. Oh, yeah. Okay. Anyways, let me roll.
00:02:40
Kyle
is a 10 for success.
00:02:42
bladesedge
10 is a success, one failure, one success.
00:02:47
Kyle
To success. No, my, my first one was a success was it not? Wait.
00:02:52
bladesedge
No, your first one was a failure and you've only rolled two now.
00:02:55
Kyle
Oh, you're right. i I marked it incorrectly. Here we go. Okay. First one was like an eight.
00:02:59
bladesedge
Um, the camera goes from Roy bleeding outside. inside to Gilmond Graves. At a real make or break moment here, Gilmond at the foot of the stairs, covered in blood, full count, two successes, two failures.
00:03:15
Kyle
account.
00:03:20
bladesedge
Will he be stabilized or is Gilmond Graves' time with us gone?
00:03:26
bladesedge
cowbeams
00:03:26
Gilmund Graves
I look out, I look out the doorway at Roy and I say three words and I do my last role, which is a 12.
00:03:44
Trevor
Ooh.
00:03:44
Tommy
Oh, not today, brother.
00:03:45
Kyle
Oh my god.
00:03:46
Tommy
Not today.
00:03:47
Kyle
Not today.
00:03:48
bladesedge
Gil is stabilized, but down eyes closed his eyes closed but not in a way that is death a way that is.
00:03:58
Trevor
She's sleepy.
00:03:59
bladesedge
well
00:04:04
bladesedge
But he lives.
00:04:07
bladesedge
Now for the real beaten potatoes, that's rack at the top of the stairs. Oh, fall. Yeah. Looking at you having just cast a spell that would have all your attacks that would use a strength modifier.
00:04:22
bladesedge
You don't use a strength modifier.
00:04:23
Tommy
So true.
00:04:24
bladesedge
She saw you wielding the sword and assumed incorrectly, but it is your go.
00:04:30
Tommy
As I walk down the stairs to meet her, I would like to point my son's sword at her and say, your coven is broken.
00:04:34
bladesedge
Mm-hmm.
00:04:41
Tommy
Let this be a warning. Leave now, or I will smite you in the name of the morning Lord. It is a new dawn in Barovia.
00:04:53
bladesedge
Um, I love that we're going to go ahead and you're going to make me, you have three down compatriots and you've killed two of her sisters. You can make me a persuasion check at disadvantage. DC 20.
00:05:09
Tommy
Oh, man. All right. Persuasion check. Okay. Plus one. So I need I need 19. Disadvantage? Oh, rats. Okay.
00:05:19
bladesedge
Do you believe?
00:05:20
Tommy
I'm standing up, Brian. I haven't sat. I mean, I did sit down for a little bit, but now I'm standing up again.
00:05:23
Trevor
He double nat 20s this.
00:05:24
Kyle
He's back.
00:05:25
Tommy
Yeah, I would. Oh, my God. I would fucking throw myself off the top of the fucking windmill.
00:05:31
Gilmund Graves
a
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Tommy
and i
00:05:31
Kyle
Run back upstairs.
00:05:32
Trevor
would be so funny.
00:05:33
bladesedge
Like I'd go back and I'd do what she did.
00:05:35
Tommy
yeah
00:05:36
Kyle
yeah
00:05:36
bladesedge
I would just kill myself.
00:05:37
Gilmund Graves
Yeah.
00:05:38
Trevor
Holy shit.
00:05:39
Tommy
Alright, here we go.
00:05:40
bladesedge
Come on.
00:05:40
Tommy
First of all, I believe I'm standing.
00:05:41
bladesedge
Do you believe?
00:05:43
Gilmund Graves
You're kidding me.
00:05:43
Tommy
Brian! ryan and Brian!
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Trevor
Oh, oh, oh.
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Tommy
Brian!
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Kyle
but oh Why is
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Tommy
Brian!
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bladesedge
Okay.
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Tommy
Brian!
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bladesedge
Do you believe?
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Tommy
Brian!
00:05:48
Gilmund Graves
You're kidding me.
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Tommy
That's a Nat 20, Brian!
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bladesedge
And you got to roll one more on the disadvantage.
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Trevor
do it
00:05:52
Tommy
Oh my god, dude, I swear! I swear!
00:05:56
bladesedge
Do you believe?
00:05:58
Kyle
The only thing crazier than a nat 20 is two nat 20s.
00:06:01
Gilmund Graves
tune at 20s.
00:06:03
Tommy
Lathander? By the light of the morning, Lord, it is a new dawn. Here is another persuasion roll.
00:06:13
Tommy
No, it's not gonna do it. Seven.
00:06:15
Trevor
Damn.
00:06:15
Gilmund Graves
No.
00:06:15
Kyle
Fuck, man.
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Tommy
Damn, Brian, fuck.
00:06:16
bladesedge
OK.
00:06:16
Trevor
I mean, even if they get one of his wild.
00:06:18
Tommy
Oh my goodness.
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Kyle
Yeah.
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Trevor
Holy.
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Gilmund Graves
I mean.
00:06:21
bladesedge
All right. She seems ah she seems like if you survive this round of combat, you could potentially try again to talk to her with a different course of action. I think the wording of. The the threatening her in her hut when you look pretty bad and she looks pretty fine is where I think she's not seeing eye to eye with a seven.
00:06:44
Tommy
ah Okay, all right, I'm swinging I'm swinging Yeah, absolutely, I mean what else what are the recourses there All right d20 plus 5 and so I have three down compatriots now.
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bladesedge
Okay. So you're, you're taking a step forward and swinging.
00:06:54
bladesedge
Okay.
00:06:56
bladesedge
hu Nothing.
00:06:58
Tommy
So what does that add to my wibbly? No nothing Okay, so only if I you're Brian you're telling me why did I sit down I gotta stand back up Sorry, let me hinder
00:07:01
bladesedge
If you're not, if you're not 20, it adds to the damage.
00:07:09
bladesedge
Yeah. that's That's why you roll the seven. Cause you sat down.
00:07:12
Tommy
No, I didn't sat down that time. I was still standing. OK, I'm still standing. So hey, Brian, so ah i got I got a call earlier. It said you ordered a nat 20. It's right here.
00:07:19
bladesedge
Oh, sorry. You weren't on the right page.
00:07:20
Trevor
Oh, that was close.
00:07:21
Tommy
Oh, that was hot.
00:07:21
Kyle
Oh,
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bladesedge
a
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Tommy
That would have been fucking 23 to hit.
00:07:23
Trevor
one of its
00:07:24
bladesedge
23 hits. You're going to roll me a two D eight plus five.
00:07:31
Tommy
That's one.
00:07:32
Kyle
ah big damage, big damage.
A Renewed Fight Against Ophalia
00:07:34
Gilmund Graves
Oh boy.
00:07:35
Tommy
Oh, two nat ones.
00:07:36
Gilmund Graves
Oh my god.
00:07:36
Kyle
That is the opposite of big damage.
00:07:36
Trevor
Oh, damage, small damage.
00:07:37
Tommy
And I could not get any smaller damage than that. Um, uh, yeah, I can't, uh, yeah, I can't do anything about that. Uh, that's my turn.
00:07:52
bladesedge
Okay.
00:07:56
bladesedge
Um. Just because I'm going to drag this out ever so slightly, because I'm loving the story that we're telling here. Oh, folly, a bonus action. Opens the window.
00:08:15
Tommy
Hey! Hey! Hey!
00:08:18
bladesedge
And it's going to use her action to attempt to grab you and throw you out the window.
00:08:20
Tommy
Oh my god, dude. I'm a- Stop!
00:08:25
Trevor
Holy shit.
00:08:26
bladesedge
I need you to make a strength athlete athletics check athletics.
00:08:29
Tommy
Bro, bro!
00:08:30
Trevor
yeah
00:08:30
Gilmund Graves
Ah!
00:08:31
Tommy
Athletics or strength?
00:08:31
Trevor
ah
00:08:33
Tommy
It doesn't matter. I mean, it says they're both minus three.
00:08:34
Trevor
and
00:08:35
Tommy
They're both minus three.
00:08:35
Gilmund Graves
No.
00:08:36
Tommy
It doesn't matter.
00:08:36
bladesedge
She rolls a 19.
00:08:38
Trevor
That one?
00:08:38
Tommy
Jesus Christ! Okay. Nah, dude, the fucking-
00:08:43
Kyle
I mean yeah even
00:08:44
Trevor
Oh.
00:08:44
Tommy
unnatural or unnatural unnatural one. I read that for the four minus reason is a one I have 19 HP.
00:08:48
Gilmund Graves
Oh gosh.
00:08:50
bladesedge
Okay. She tosses you out the window. You're only on this. How many, how many help, how many hit points do you have? Let's keep let's everything above board here. 19. So this is not going to kill you, but talk shoot.
00:09:00
Gilmund Graves
oh okay yeah
00:09:02
bladesedge
She chucks you out the window.
00:09:04
bladesedge
I need you to roll me a dexterity saving throw to see if you're going to be prone or not.
00:09:04
Tommy
That's that's fucked up.
00:09:09
Tommy
That's 10.
00:09:09
Gilmund Graves
ah love that you could roll a natural negative too
00:09:14
bladesedge
Okay. You're not prone, but you do take as you hit the ground.
00:09:20
bladesedge
Eight points of bludgeoning damage.
00:09:22
Tommy
Fuck, man.
00:09:24
bladesedge
You land outside, you see Roy and Valerius's body at the doors, and then you hear movement inside as she goes five, 10, 15, 20, 25, 30.
00:09:35
Gilmund Graves
I love that you could roll a natural negative two.
00:09:43
Tommy
Oh, we're bringing out to the front yard, bro. Call the cops, bro.
00:09:45
bladesedge
She throws you out.
00:09:46
Tommy
We're fighting in the front, y'all.
00:09:46
Kyle
Taking it out outside.
00:09:47
Gilmund Graves
yeah
00:09:49
bladesedge
Walks out to the front as you hit the ground and stares at you. Valerius with two successes in one field.
00:09:59
Gilmund Graves
And it's Granny with a steel chair!
00:10:02
Trevor
Coming at you.
00:10:03
Kyle
From the top of the ropes.
00:10:05
Trevor
Oh, within that 20.
00:10:07
Gilmund Graves
Oh!
00:10:07
bladesedge
Oh, not only is Valerius not dead, but you are at one hit point and you have your turn.
00:10:07
Kyle
Oh!
00:10:08
Tommy
Oh, he's up.
00:10:09
Gilmund Graves
Oh!
00:10:09
Tommy
He's up. Oh, he's right there, bro.
00:10:18
Trevor
Oh my God, what the fuck?
00:10:18
Gilmund Graves
Oh my lord.
00:10:20
Tommy
So he started blasting.
00:10:20
Kyle
Wow Yep
00:10:22
bladesedge
What is going on?
00:10:28
Trevor
It's literally just this hab right here, right?
00:10:30
bladesedge
That's it.
00:10:31
Trevor
Oh, fuck. And she doesn't look all that hurt. Fuck.
00:10:37
bladesedge
Not at all.
00:10:39
Gilmund Graves
ah
00:10:40
Trevor
Not at all. um
00:10:47
bladesedge
I will even let you guys know. It's not something we've been really doing this campaign, but I will let you know when she is bloodied, which means she is about half her head points or below.
00:10:58
Trevor
Roy's getting a healing word for a d4 plus three.
00:11:00
bladesedge
Oh, wow.
00:11:02
Kyle
wow wow wow wow we're fucking back
00:11:05
Trevor
Hell yeah, seven.
00:11:07
bladesedge
Oh, my God. Valerius is up. Roy is up.
00:11:09
Tommy
Oh, yeah, baby. Oh, yeah, Brian.
00:11:10
Gilmund Graves
Oh my God.
00:11:11
bladesedge
Wow.
00:11:13
Tommy
It's a new dawn in Barovia.
00:11:16
bladesedge
Wow. Gilman is stable. This is wild. So that's your bonus action. You still have your action.
00:11:22
Trevor
Action, fucking quarterstaffing.
00:11:26
bladesedge
Okay.
00:11:30
Trevor
Damn, 14.
00:11:31
bladesedge
14 on this.
00:11:31
Gilmund Graves
Oh.
00:11:33
bladesedge
Uh, any movement.
00:11:35
Trevor
Fucking, nah, ah no.
00:11:39
bladesedge
Okay.
00:11:40
Trevor
Oh wait, hold up, hold up.
00:11:42
bladesedge
You'll have to remember to stand up from being prone from being down, but you still have 15 feet.
00:11:45
Trevor
Yeah, nah, I'm gonna sit there. I also, how does, I gotta figure out how, because spiritual weapon, how did we end up ruling that? Since that's not spells that get cast that aren't concentration, I assume stick around for the duration?
00:12:00
bladesedge
Yeah. So you still, yeah, you still have it for, uh, this round and two more.
00:12:00
Trevor
which is a minute.
00:12:06
Trevor
Okay, cool. It'll it'll stay there because I already used my bonus action, but I forgot about that.
00:12:09
bladesedge
Okay.
00:12:10
Trevor
It's weak.
00:12:11
bladesedge
All right. Roy, you're prone, but you are, you awake. You become woken up seven hit points.
00:12:20
Gilmund Graves
Could it be the clutch master himself?
00:12:23
Kyle
Yeah, I'm gonna I'm gonna pull out my blood spear.
00:12:25
Gilmund Graves
The Sultan of Swat?
00:12:26
Trevor
Fuck yeah.
00:12:28
Kyle
And I'm going to use half my movement to stand up.
00:12:32
bladesedge
Okay.
00:12:34
Kyle
um And I'm going to look around at my compatriots. And once again, say till the very end. And attempt to stab her with my blood spear.
00:12:49
bladesedge
Okay.
00:12:50
Trevor
You had 20 years. Fuck!
00:12:52
Gilmund Graves
ah
00:12:53
Kyle
x
00:12:54
Gilmund Graves
but he has advantage because he's hot.
00:12:54
Kyle
really needed
00:12:57
Trevor
Hard advantage?
00:12:59
bladesedge
The six misses and Vesrak, you see your two compatriots both stand up as you hit the ground and stand up from your jump from being thrown.
00:13:10
bladesedge
Rather you see Valerius and Roy stand up at the same time as you and the three of you stand will follow your warm wiggle in between you all.
00:13:14
Kyle
Six.
00:13:17
bladesedge
What do you do?
00:13:21
Kyle
Really needed that.
00:13:21
Tommy
I stand up, sword out, walking to her, swinging.
00:13:22
bladesedge
Okay.
00:13:26
bladesedge
Mm-hmm.
00:13:30
Tommy
It's a new dawn in Barovia. I gave you a chance at redemption, Ophalia, and you did not take it. Instead, you threw me out of a gosh-dang window.
00:13:43
Trevor
ah
00:13:44
bladesedge
Thank you for censoring yourself.
00:13:45
Tommy
You're getting smited. I cannot smite. I'm swinging, though.
00:13:50
bladesedge
Okay.
00:13:54
bladesedge
In theory, yeah.
00:13:54
Tommy
d20 d20 d20 plus five one oh that was hey hey brian i'm fucking dancing with the i'm dancing with the sun god 2d8
00:13:57
Gilmund Graves
Come on. Come on. Come on.
00:14:00
Kyle
Show me that.
00:14:00
Gilmund Graves
Oh my gosh.
00:14:00
Trevor
Oh, oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.
00:14:01
bladesedge
A little hit.
00:14:02
Kyle
Oh, big
00:14:06
bladesedge
2d8 plus five.
00:14:11
Tommy
plus five yeah baby yeah 20 points of damage
00:14:13
Trevor
Oh.
00:14:14
Gilmund Graves
Oh!
00:14:14
bladesedge
Oh, that's a big roll.
00:14:15
Trevor
God. Damn.
00:14:20
bladesedge
You swing. The sword cuts her a light, spreading out. Any ah bonus action?
00:14:28
Tommy
um i would just like to you I would just like to use every bit of bonus action wibbly wobbly to just keep her attention on me. um And just say, again, your coven is broken. I'll say it before and I'll say it again.
Tactics and Trials
00:14:45
Tommy
There's a new dawn in Barovia and you're not welcome here.
00:14:50
bladesedge
Okay.
00:14:54
bladesedge
Bonus action. um Received.
00:14:58
Tommy
Bonus action, yeah.
00:14:59
bladesedge
she Yeah, bonus action bonus action received. She ah focuses on you.
00:15:02
Kyle
However, the app.
00:15:06
bladesedge
um She.
00:15:11
bladesedge
Will make I got I got this I got one more thing I can do. I'm not going to do it yet. she You swing on her, you hit. She then takes her hand, claw, and swings back on you right at your head. 25.
00:15:30
Tommy
Bro, like if she could just roll, Brian, if you could just roll a little bit less.
00:15:34
bladesedge
what is your How many hip lengths do you have?
00:15:35
Tommy
Just like, just 11 hit points. I'm sitting on two uses of shield and I can't use them because he's rolled a 19 and an 18. What do you want me to do?
00:15:45
Kyle
That was tough.
00:15:47
bladesedge
The claw hits your head and you go down.
00:15:50
Trevor
Oh, Jesus.
00:15:52
bladesedge
Fez rack falls.
00:15:55
Gilmund Graves
Oh, valiant hero.
00:15:59
bladesedge
Valerius.
00:16:03
bladesedge
She slowly turns her head. Big smile on her face and looks at you.
00:16:14
Trevor
How's she looking? She bloodied it all?
00:16:15
bladesedge
Nope.
00:16:17
Trevor
Fuck.
00:16:18
Kyle
That's brutal.
00:16:18
Trevor
You know what? I'm going to this this may do fucking Jack. Well, actually, wait, I can. Hold up.
00:16:37
Trevor
If this doesn't work or OK, but if this works, there's a chance I'm going to. Action wait with my bonus action can at 5 10 okay nice ah What's my action cure wounds? Okay action cure wounds on fez?
00:16:57
bladesedge
Wow.
00:16:58
Tommy
I'm up, baby. I'm ready to swang.
00:17:00
Trevor
7 HP Bonus action with my spiritual weapon
00:17:01
bladesedge
That's huge. That's right. You have seven.
00:17:04
Gilmund Graves
Oh, geez.
00:17:04
Tommy
Thank you. Thank you.
00:17:13
bladesedge
Wow.
00:17:14
Trevor
And she's going to swing on the Wicked Witch of the West.
00:17:20
Gilmund Graves
Wow.
00:17:22
bladesedge
wow
00:17:22
Trevor
Oh, you're shitting me. It rolled right off of a nat 20. That's so sad. All right, Mrs.
00:17:27
bladesedge
All right, that misses. But Roy, you are there, standing blood spear of Kavan in the hand.
00:17:42
Kyle
I'm going to attempt to do something.
00:17:46
Kyle
um
00:17:52
Kyle
I'm going to look at her. What's her name? Aphalia.
00:17:57
bladesedge
We'll follow you a worm wiggle.
00:18:01
Kyle
I'm going to say hey.
00:18:01
Gilmund Graves
O'Reilly auto parts.
00:18:02
Kyle
Hey O'Reilly auto parts.
00:18:05
Trevor
Oh, oh, oh, oh Riley.
00:18:05
Kyle
um
00:18:08
Kyle
I'm gonna say I don't think you're understanding your story ends here. And I'm going to attempt to grapple her.
00:18:15
bladesedge
Okay. Make a athletics check for me. You gotta be a dirty 20.
00:18:23
Gilmund Graves
ah
00:18:24
Kyle
and Dirty 20.
00:18:30
bladesedge
Knowing, knowing, knowing she is shape changed her massive form peeking through the deception.
00:18:30
Gilmund Graves
Bonus action, yep.
00:18:41
Kyle
All right, well, that's it.
00:18:42
bladesedge
OK. You got it. Vesrak, you are prone. But it is your turn.
00:18:54
Tommy
I, you see me like plant the sword in the ground, hand on one knee, stand up, look at O'Reilly auto parts and I say, you can't put a cap on the morning Lord.
00:19:04
Trevor
but yeah
00:19:10
Tommy
It's a new dawn and I swing, swing.
00:19:13
bladesedge
She says, just describe to me who that is first. You tell me what you know about.
00:19:19
Tommy
Don't tell me how this light tell me how this lightsaber feels on your face That one fuck it was found oh no Hey right here old lady stay right here.
00:19:19
bladesedge
It feels very, I don't know. It just feels very new to me. I'm just saying.
00:19:29
Gilmund Graves
Unreal.
00:19:30
Kyle
ah
00:19:31
bladesedge
The luck has run out.
00:19:31
Gilmund Graves
Come on, you can do some wizard shit, right?
00:19:32
Kyle
and
00:19:33
Gilmund Graves
You can do some wizard shit. You got something?
00:19:35
Kyle
The morning Lord giveth and the morning Lord taketh away.
00:19:37
Gilmund Graves
Holy shit.
00:19:39
Trevor
That was so funny.
00:19:45
Tommy
I I'm pocketing two shield spells
00:19:49
bladesedge
She does not listen to your plea and turns her attention on the guy who's been healing people and getting them back up.
00:19:50
Trevor
hello
00:19:58
Trevor
Oh, that
Turning the Tide
00:19:59
Trevor
dude way over there. I saw that guy. Did you see?
00:20:00
Kyle
i I saw he went that way.
00:20:01
Trevor
it That was so weird.
00:20:01
Tommy
you ready
00:20:02
Trevor
you I think you he ran behind that tree over there.
00:20:02
Gilmund Graves
crazy He's like a quarter mile away.
00:20:03
Tommy
He's off in the woods, bro.
00:20:04
Gilmund Graves
There's no way there's no way she can hit.
00:20:07
Trevor
I don't know. I didn't i don't even get a good look at him, but I don't know.
00:20:09
Gilmund Graves
a Yeah.
00:20:11
bladesedge
She makes a claw attack. Unbelarious.
00:20:19
bladesedge
Not one.
00:20:20
Trevor
Ooh.
00:20:20
Tommy
Yeah.
00:20:20
Kyle
yeah
00:20:21
Gilmund Graves
Wow.
00:20:21
Kyle
yeah
00:20:21
Tommy
That's what I thought.
00:20:22
bladesedge
Not ones are flying right now.
00:20:23
Tommy
That's what I thought, baby.
00:20:25
Gilmund Graves
Holy shit.
00:20:26
bladesedge
First, it was the 20s. Now it's the nat ones.
00:20:29
Kyle
out
00:20:30
bladesedge
She swings.
00:20:30
Trevor
Nobody has any idea what's going
00:20:32
bladesedge
Mrs. As she's fighting off Roy, trying to grapple her and Vesserak swinging. She swings in the midst of all that and misses you, Valerius. And it's your turn.
00:20:41
Trevor
um
00:20:41
Kyle
Yeah.
00:20:44
Trevor
I'm going to, mofuckin', try and smack her with a Gorsha.
00:20:50
Kyle
Yeah.
00:20:51
bladesedge
Okay.
00:20:56
Trevor
How about another Nat 1?
00:20:58
bladesedge
No way. Three Nat ones in a row right now.
00:20:58
Kyle
Wow.
00:21:00
Tommy
What is happening, dude?
00:21:02
Gilmund Graves
What the hell?
00:21:02
Trevor
Should we go for four?
00:21:02
Kyle
Wow.
00:21:03
Trevor
Let's go for four.
00:21:04
bladesedge
The space is cursed.
00:21:04
Tommy
Oh my god, dude.
00:21:04
Trevor
Hang on.
00:21:04
Kyle
We can so we can certainly try.
00:21:04
Trevor
Spiritual weapon. Let's see. Let's see. Okay. Still misses, but no.
00:21:09
bladesedge
No misses. Unfortunately.
00:21:13
bladesedge
You swing two swings, miss Roy. It's your turn again.
00:21:16
Kyle
All right, I'm gonna just take an attack and and stab her straight through the chest with the blood spear of Kavan.
00:21:17
bladesedge
What are you doing?
00:21:20
Gilmund Graves
My God, man.
00:21:27
Kyle
Be for a 16.
00:21:28
Gilmund Graves
Fuck yeah.
00:21:28
Trevor
Damn.
00:21:29
Kyle
No, it doesn't hit, bro.
00:21:29
Gilmund Graves
Oh no.
00:21:29
bladesedge
This team just misses.
00:21:30
Tommy
No, that doesn't hit.
00:21:31
bladesedge
That just misses.
00:21:32
Tommy
What is happening?
00:21:35
bladesedge
Just miss yeah miss, miss, miss, miss, miss, miss, miss.
00:21:40
bladesedge
Uh, and Vesrak here at.
00:21:40
Tommy
Oh my God, dude.
00:21:43
Tommy
I could swing in with, why why am I not staying? Why don't I sit down again? I fucking, I gotta stand up.
00:21:48
Trevor
thing
00:21:49
Tommy
What am I doing? Stand up.
00:21:51
bladesedge
Okay.
00:21:52
Tommy
Get serious. D 20 plus five.
00:21:55
bladesedge
One more round after this, by the way, Valerius.
00:22:00
Trevor
Oh for the spiritual weapon? Cool.
00:22:01
bladesedge
Yeah.
00:22:02
Tommy
i got no more I got no more cool sayings. I'm fucking out of one-liners. I'm swinging. I don't know, dude. I'm out. um I don't even know who Lathander is, but I'm new to it. 22 to hit.
00:22:11
Kyle
There we go.
00:22:11
bladesedge
Only two hits, 2d8 plus five.
00:22:11
Gilmund Graves
Oh, yes.
00:22:17
Tommy
12 damage.
00:22:18
bladesedge
12 damage.
00:22:23
bladesedge
Um, let me just see, let me do some math here. If that is bloody or not.
00:22:30
bladesedge
No.
00:22:32
Tommy
Uh, bonus action.
00:22:32
bladesedge
OK.
00:22:33
Tommy
Yep. I'm still trying to get her to, uh, attack me.
00:22:37
bladesedge
Yeah, she absolutely, you got it. After hitting her with that, it's her turn. She swings on you. 9 plus 7 is 16.
00:22:45
Tommy
Hey, Brian, that'd be pizza pizza. Good thing I pull out my pocket shield.
00:22:48
Trevor
Oh, let's go.
00:22:49
Tommy
Hey, God, I've been burned through burning a hole in my pocket.
00:22:52
Gilmund Graves
Yes.
00:22:52
bladesedge
ay
00:22:53
Tommy
Shield, but instead of purple, low thunder, dark magic, it is now a brilliant yellow and white light.
00:23:00
Trevor
Sick.
00:23:03
Gilmund Graves
Ooh, I like that, as a matter of fact.
00:23:03
bladesedge
so Uh, you hear, you hear in your head, Vesseract from a voice very far away.
00:23:05
Trevor
<unk>
00:23:17
Tommy
I don't know.
00:23:18
Kyle
Who the fuck is
00:23:20
bladesedge
All right. Valerius.
00:23:23
Trevor
Same thing. I'm trying to hit her with the staff and hit her with the shwepen.
00:23:28
Kyle
This is where our roles turn around.
00:23:29
Trevor
Ooh, 20.
00:23:30
bladesedge
20 hits.
00:23:32
Tommy
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
00:23:32
Kyle
m Huge.
00:23:35
Trevor
For big three damage, fire, fire, huge, big shit, big numbers.
00:23:36
bladesedge
Okay. She takes three.
00:23:36
Tommy
Hey, it's so over and All right, let's go.
00:23:41
Trevor
We're pulling out the big guns. Ooh, 17, pizza, pizza.
00:23:43
Kyle
Nice.
00:23:43
bladesedge
um and pizza pizza that hey With five damage from the spiritual weapon.
00:23:44
Gilmund Graves
Oh, yeah.
00:23:46
Trevor
Let's see, give me some more big damage. Hell yeah, fine. Let's go.
00:23:50
Kyle
Nice.
00:23:52
bladesedge
She is considered bloodied.
00:23:53
Trevor
Oh, let's go.
00:23:57
bladesedge
Okay.
00:23:57
Gilmund Graves
And Gil is considered sleeping.
00:23:57
Kyle
All right.
00:23:59
Trevor
He's seeping.
00:24:01
bladesedge
Gil, sleepy Roy spear of Kavan to the chest.
00:24:02
Kyle
Same thing. Straight to the chest.
00:24:09
Kyle
Dude, it was so close! It was so close!
00:24:11
Tommy
Oh no.
00:24:13
Kyle
Misses. That's it.
00:24:14
bladesedge
The five misses as she, uh, switches back off the right hand was on Bezrak. The left hand was on Valerius. The right hand went back to Bezrak. The left hand goes back to Valerius.
00:24:26
bladesedge
Valerius 21.
00:24:27
Tommy
Wait, no, it's my turn. It's my turn. It's my turn.
00:24:31
bladesedge
Oh, that's right. Sorry. Sorry.
00:24:32
bladesedge
Sorry.
00:24:32
Tommy
Yeah.
00:24:32
Tommy
Get out of here.
00:24:33
bladesedge
All right.
00:24:33
Tommy
And he didn't let me bonus action.
00:24:33
bladesedge
All right.
00:24:34
Tommy
Yeah. Batter D 20 plus five standing up 2022 to hit.
00:24:36
bladesedge
All right. All right. Okay. Heter and she'll attack you. That is huge.
00:24:41
Kyle
Nice.
00:24:41
Trevor
Well,
00:24:43
Tommy
2d8 plus five. Come on, baby.
00:24:46
Trevor
big damn.
00:24:46
Tommy
16, 16. Hey, respectable, respectable, respectable.
00:24:47
Trevor
Let's go, let's go.
00:24:49
Gilmund Graves
Come on, come on, come on, come on.
00:24:51
bladesedge
You hit her, which successfully goads her back into attacking you for 16.
00:24:56
Tommy
Yeah, hey, shield, hey, flam, back up.
00:25:02
bladesedge
Okay. That is your, that's your last post.
00:25:03
Kyle
and
00:25:03
Tommy
That's my last one.
00:25:03
bladesedge
All right.
00:25:04
Tommy
i'm I am out of the shoes. I am out of battery.
00:25:06
bladesedge
Okay.
00:25:08
Trevor
ah
00:25:08
bladesedge
Uh, she misses Valerius your turn and the last turn for the spiritual weapon.
00:25:13
Trevor
I'll take it. I'll take it.
00:25:14
Tommy
Come on, baby.
00:25:15
Trevor
You know what?
00:25:15
Kyle
Come on.
00:25:16
Trevor
I'll start with spiritual weapon this time.
00:25:17
bladesedge
Okay.
00:25:18
Trevor
Just, uh, you know what I mean?
00:25:18
Kyle
Yeah, yeah.
00:25:21
Trevor
Where are we at? Here we go. Give me something good. That wasn't something good. Spiritual weapon.
00:25:26
Tommy
Hey, you're saving the best for yourself.
00:25:26
Kyle
That is unfortunate.
00:25:27
Tommy
I respect it.
00:25:27
Trevor
Why did, why did you do that to me? All right. Spiritual weapon yeah goes away. Silver Staff coming out.
00:25:35
Kyle
Snad for him.
00:25:36
Trevor
Oh, shit.
00:25:37
Tommy
ah Oh, no.
00:25:38
Trevor
ah Jesus Christ.
00:25:38
bladesedge
Oh, no.
00:25:38
Kyle
Oh, brutal.
00:25:38
Gilmund Graves
Wow.
00:25:39
Tommy
Guys, got hey yeah hey guy guys.
00:25:39
Trevor
and yeah We all said that we can't remember.
00:25:40
Tommy
Hey, guys, guys.
00:25:41
Trevor
I'm on like, NHP right now. I'm like, as I'm zombie in this whole fight.
00:25:44
Tommy
Oh no. Hey guys, guys, come on, come on, come on, come on.
00:25:46
Trevor
um
00:25:46
Kyle
Yeah.
00:25:47
Tommy
Hey, hey, hey, hey.
00:25:48
bladesedge
Oh, the swing, the heart and just not into it. Roy.
00:25:53
Tommy
Roy, we need you buddy.
00:25:56
Kyle
With each spear attack, I pull back a little bit further and I stab a little bit harder. Blood spear. 16, man.
00:26:06
Tommy
Oh my God.
00:26:07
Trevor
Damn.
00:26:07
Gilmund Graves
Another fucking 16.
00:26:07
bladesedge
us mrses
00:26:09
Tommy
Oh.
00:26:10
Kyle
That's so brutal.
00:26:11
Gilmund Graves
Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait. You have plus two.
00:26:13
bladesedge
I think it's already calculated into it.
00:26:13
Kyle
Huh?
00:26:15
Gilmund Graves
Shouldn't you have plus two? Oh, wait, no, nevermind. It's already factored in. Fucking hell, man.
00:26:18
Kyle
Wait a minute, wait a minute, wait a minute. What? ah Guys, when it un when I unequipped my blood spear, it unattuned.
00:26:28
Gilmund Graves
Oh.
00:26:28
Tommy
Oh my gosh.
00:26:29
bladesedge
Why did you unequip it?
00:26:31
Kyle
I put on my bow.
00:26:33
bladesedge
Oh, you're actually clicking on Roll20 to unequip stuff?
00:26:36
Gilmund Graves
That's hardcore.
00:26:37
Trevor
That is hardcore.
00:26:37
Kyle
Well, yeah, because if I if I um if it's not equipped, it doesn't automatically roll the damage. I have to like equip it.
00:26:44
Tommy
Yeah.
00:26:45
bladesedge
You can be equipped to all in roll 20. You can be equipped to all. Nobody's looking at your roll 20, but you, so that's just for you.
00:26:50
bladesedge
So you don't have to actually like click stuff.
00:26:50
Gilmund Graves
So that's well, that's your second 16 that you've rolled too.
00:26:53
Tommy
Equip it. Add the plus two. It's 18, Kyle.
00:27:00
Kyle
That is my second.
00:27:00
Gilmund Graves
Just saying.
00:27:01
Kyle
so If, if the DM allows, we know my last role was also a 16.
00:27:03
bladesedge
We're not, we're not going back in time.
00:27:04
Gilmund Graves
Yeah.
00:27:05
Kyle
Okay.
00:27:05
bladesedge
We're not going back in time.
00:27:05
Kyle
That's fine. That's fine.
00:27:06
bladesedge
Um, You could do, but you plus two, minus two.
00:27:08
Kyle
I can't believe that.
00:27:12
bladesedge
Yeah. So you, because of spear is.
00:27:17
bladesedge
Let's go. Let's find out. Let's find out if it already.
00:27:19
Kyle
I'm so sorry. I don't know why that happened.
00:27:21
bladesedge
Well, we're going to find out real quick if that is correct.
00:27:23
Tommy
Hey, it's I still love you.
00:27:24
bladesedge
I just equipped. I actually equipped it a spear to you and a spear would do plus three. Yes. That's plus five. So that hits 18.
00:27:31
Gilmund Graves
Oh God.
00:27:34
bladesedge
Stab. You stabbed even harder for five.
00:27:36
Kyle
five damage I hate that there's so much like damage left on the table
00:27:41
Tommy
Hey, we could have used it, but I got it right here.
00:27:43
Gilmund Graves
and it
00:27:45
Tommy
You dropped it, I picked it up, I swing. Oh, 14, that's not gonna do it.
00:27:49
bladesedge
Uh, you swing and having shielded twice, she turns her attention back to Valerius and attempts to put Valerius down.
00:27:51
Trevor
ah <unk>
00:28:02
Trevor
no so you not I'm gonna use a reaction, give her disadvantage.
00:28:04
Gilmund Graves
Hm.
00:28:08
Trevor
Shadows come up over me and try to blind her.
00:28:10
bladesedge
Nice. Cool. You still have that bad boy.
00:28:10
Gilmund Graves
Come on, baby.
00:28:11
Kyle
Nice.
00:28:12
Trevor
Oh yeah, I got one more of those too.
00:28:14
bladesedge
Let's go. so For a 24.
00:28:16
Gilmund Graves
Hm.
00:28:18
Trevor
I do it again, I'm just kidding.
00:28:21
bladesedge
Um, Valerius goes back down because you were at one, right?
00:28:23
Gilmund Graves
Shh.
00:28:25
Gilmund Graves
Oh.
00:28:26
Trevor
Yes, sir.
00:28:27
bladesedge
So let's start off your new death save track here.
00:28:31
Trevor
Oh yeah, I'm up. All right, here you go lads. What do we got? What are we working with? Well, 14 success.
00:28:37
bladesedge
He's rolling good for the death save.
00:28:37
Kyle
nice
00:28:39
bladesedge
That's success. All right. Roy, you're back up. Valerius goes down.
00:28:44
Kyle
All right, I back up even further and stab forward even harder.
00:28:50
bladesedge
Okay.
00:28:53
Kyle
Dirty 20.
00:28:53
bladesedge
30, 20 hits.
00:28:53
Trevor
Here they go.
00:28:53
Tommy
Let's go.
00:28:54
Trevor
Here we go.
00:28:56
Kyle
Another five damage.
00:28:58
bladesedge
OK.
00:28:59
Trevor
Pepper in.
00:28:59
Tommy
We're cooking
00:29:00
bladesedge
Another five damage um because we're down to the wire here, Roy. Roll your damage again.
00:29:10
Kyle
Okay.
00:29:11
bladesedge
DA plus three.
00:29:14
Kyle
Another five, that is three fives in a row.
00:29:16
bladesedge
Another five as the spirit of K'Vaun, rewinding time. You stab once, but she feels it twice, taking 10 points of damage.
00:29:29
bladesedge
era
00:29:30
Tommy
standing back up. D20 plus five. Come on, baby. Lathander. 12. No.
00:29:38
Gilmund Graves
yes Oh no.
00:29:40
Tommy
yeah Maybe I should be sitting down.
00:29:40
Trevor
P.S.
00:29:42
Tommy
I don't know.
00:29:46
bladesedge
You miss and in retaliation, her claw jumps out at you.
00:29:54
bladesedge
Natural funding you.
00:29:54
Trevor
Oh.
00:29:54
Tommy
Rats. Rats.
00:29:57
Trevor
Rat.
00:29:57
Tommy
Rats.
00:30:00
Trevor
Rat. Indeed.
00:30:02
Tommy
so i'm down
00:30:04
Trevor
ah yeah
00:30:05
bladesedge
Vesrak falls.
The Aftermath of Defeat
00:30:10
bladesedge
Valerius down, Vesrak down, Gilman down, Valerius roll me a death save.
00:30:16
Trevor
Yes, sir.
00:30:17
Kyle
Please not 20. Just not 20, please.
00:30:19
Trevor
Imagine it's a fail.
00:30:20
Gilmund Graves
Oh no.
00:30:22
bladesedge
Okay.
00:30:23
Kyle
Not like this.
00:30:24
bladesedge
A failure from Valerius.
00:30:29
Gilmund Graves
It can only be you.
00:30:29
bladesedge
Roy.
00:30:30
Tommy
Roy, maybe you can convince her to leave.
00:30:32
Trevor
Hell yeah.
00:30:33
Gilmund Graves
Yeah.
00:30:36
bladesedge
It's you.
00:30:36
Kyle
Yeah, I'm gonna use bonus word. Yap.
00:30:40
bladesedge
Bonus word.
00:30:40
Gilmund Graves
Bonus word. Yes. 100%.
00:30:44
Trevor
but
00:30:46
Kyle
Bonus? Why did I say bonus? i I combined power word and bonus action.
00:30:49
Trevor
Power Word, yeah.
00:30:49
Tommy
He's panicking. Wait, me too, brother.
00:30:51
Gilmund Graves
Hey, look, that's the, that's a level 10 spell is power word.
00:30:51
Kyle
I'm freaking out.
00:30:54
Gilmund Graves
Yeah.
00:30:58
bladesedge
Valerius down, Vesrak with that sword in his hand fallen. Gilman's down. What do you do?
00:30:58
Kyle
I'm gonna say to her, even if you did kill all of us, there's nothing left here for you.
00:31:11
Kyle
Your sisters are dead.
00:31:15
Kyle
Leave us alone and you'll never hear from us again.
00:31:20
bladesedge
Give you a persuasion check. Uh, DC 20.
00:31:28
Kyle
Martin.
00:31:29
bladesedge
Okay. It's your turn.
00:31:31
Gilmund Graves
ah Plus 10 because he's hot.
00:31:35
Trevor
pot bonus preemptively standing up
00:31:37
Gilmund Graves
Had to try, had to try.
00:31:43
Kyle
Yeah, I'm going to, uh...
00:31:47
Kyle
With all of my might and all of my power, try and stab as hard as I can straight into the chest of this hag.
00:31:55
bladesedge
All right, let me tell you something here, Roy. You listen.
00:31:58
Kyle
I'm listening.
00:32:01
bladesedge
I'm going to need you to roll me a natural 20.
00:32:06
Tommy
I'm standing up.
00:32:06
Gilmund Graves
Ain't no way, man.
00:32:07
bladesedge
The spirit, the spirit of Kavan towering over you, this giant barbaric figure, grabbing your arms from behind in an attempt to end this.
00:32:07
Gilmund Graves
Ain't no way.
00:32:07
Tommy
I'm standing up.
00:32:08
Gilmund Graves
Yeah, I'm standing.
00:32:08
Kyle
I gotta a stand up.
00:32:08
Tommy
I'm standing up.
00:32:09
Gilmund Graves
I'm standing.
00:32:09
Gilmund Graves
I'm putting on the hat.
00:32:09
Tommy
I'm standing up.
00:32:09
Tommy
I'm standing up.
00:32:09
Kyle
I gotta stand up.
00:32:10
Gilmund Graves
but on
00:32:24
bladesedge
I'm not saying, and I'm not saying a natural 20 is going to end this. The natural 20 is what you need for this to not end for you. That's what you need.
00:32:36
Tommy
You're due. Please do.
00:32:37
Gilmund Graves
Come on.
00:32:39
Tommy
Show no fear.
00:32:39
Kyle
I'm due.
00:32:40
Gilmund Graves
There's no way.
00:32:41
Kyle
I'm due.
00:32:41
Gilmund Graves
There's a way.
00:32:43
Kyle
Alright.
00:32:45
Tommy
I believe.
00:32:46
Gilmund Graves
Come on.
00:32:47
Kyle
With all of my power and all of my might, I strike the blood spear into the old ag.
00:32:47
Gilmund Graves
Come on.
00:32:56
Tommy
Ugh.
00:32:57
Gilmund Graves
No.
00:32:58
Kyle
And miss.
00:32:58
Gilmund Graves
Advantage because he's hot.
00:33:01
Gilmund Graves
yeah It's gonna work one day.
00:33:02
Tommy
Ugh.
00:33:04
Trevor
Just keep going. And he did it.
00:33:08
bladesedge
Phezrak, I need you to make me a death save.
00:33:11
Tommy
and red
00:33:11
bladesedge
Roll a natural 20 and you're up.
00:33:13
Gilmund Graves
Ugh...
00:33:14
Tommy
17.
00:33:15
bladesedge
17 is a success. All right.
00:33:15
Gilmund Graves
Ugh...
00:33:23
bladesedge
The camera pans back. Towns, people going about their lives. Two children locked in an attic. Two dead witches.
00:33:37
bladesedge
as one last witch outside raises her arm and an attempt to strike Roy Halovich down. Roy, what's your AC?
00:33:55
Kyle
AC is 14.
00:33:57
bladesedge
I need to roll a seven or higher to hit you.
00:34:01
bladesedge
How many hit points do you have?
00:34:02
Kyle
F7.
00:34:06
bladesedge
Okay, that means on the dice, I would need to roll two ones if I hit for you to live. So first, let's see if the hag hits you. Claw raised, comes down,
00:34:27
Gilmund Graves
fuck
00:34:28
bladesedge
connects with your face.
00:34:38
bladesedge
First D eight, camera pans out as
00:34:44
Gilmund Graves
Yep.
00:34:50
bladesedge
luck had run out for the point of year gang. Oh, yep.
00:34:58
Trevor
Hey, we still got death saves. What if we didn't have 21 of these bad boys?
00:35:02
bladesedge
Okay.
00:35:03
Kyle
Real.
00:35:03
bladesedge
Do you want to go?
00:35:03
Trevor
What what are the chances?
00:35:04
Trevor
Can we try?
00:35:05
bladesedge
Okay.
00:35:05
Kyle
Real.
00:35:05
Trevor
Can we attempt?
00:35:05
Gilmund Graves
yeah
00:35:06
bladesedge
I got rid of the turn order, but next was, so Roy, you're down.
00:35:08
Kyle
Yep.
00:35:14
bladesedge
Valerius, you're next.
00:35:19
Trevor
yeah
00:35:20
Gilmund Graves
Shit.
00:35:21
bladesedge
Um, then it's Mesrak.
00:35:21
Gilmund Graves
go oh
00:35:26
Tommy
Oh, man.
00:35:31
Tommy
19.
00:35:32
Trevor
Oh, it's so close.
00:35:32
bladesedge
Two successes.
00:35:34
Tommy
Give me one more shot, Brian. I swear to fucking God.
00:35:38
bladesedge
On her turn, um, Roy Valerius, one, two, three, Roy raises her claw, brings it back down.
00:35:42
Tommy
Go ahead, hit.
00:35:54
bladesedge
17 hits your downed body. Roy, you automatically take two fails.
00:36:04
bladesedge
And it's your turn, Roy. I need a death saving throw.
00:36:09
Kyle
I look over at Gilmond, um, unconscious body lying on the ground and I try for the life of me to make out those three words that he said, but in my, um,
00:36:32
Kyle
in my time of of my body fighting for its life I couldn't um I couldn't really understand what he said and I spent this entire time trying to figure out what it was or
00:36:48
Gilmund Graves
Yeah. um Oh, you succeeded.
00:36:50
Kyle
12 for success
00:36:51
bladesedge
12 is a success. Okay. That goes from Roy to, uh, Valerius. Is that what we were doing? What did I just do? I just, ah I just went Valerius, Vesrak, her, Roy.
00:37:10
Tommy
Valerius again, I think.
00:37:12
bladesedge
All right. Valerius one success, two failures rolls a 13. success two and two full count. Um,
00:37:30
bladesedge
well, as rack two successes, one failure.
00:37:38
Tommy
No, I have no failures.
00:37:40
bladesedge
Oh yeah. Zero fairs. Sorry.
00:37:44
Tommy
I mean, dude, we gotta get out of this somehow. There's gotta to be a way.
00:37:56
Trevor
rolling that 20 a day a day.
00:37:57
Tommy
I believe. Hey, fellows. I believe. Do you believe?
00:38:01
Gilmund Graves
I believe I've still got my hat on.
00:38:02
Trevor
I believe.
00:38:03
Kyle
Have a leaf.
00:38:03
Gilmund Graves
I'm still standing up.
00:38:04
Tommy
Hey.
00:38:07
Tommy
I believe this is gonna be an a nat 20. I believe this is gonna be a nat 20.
00:38:10
Gilmund Graves
um'm I'm from the future actually, and it is.
00:38:12
Tommy
All right, here we go.
00:38:16
Tommy
That one, fuck me.
00:38:17
Gilmund Graves
Oh my God.
00:38:18
Trevor
ah the
00:38:20
Tommy
Fuck me.
00:38:20
bladesedge
Which, which is, which is doubly, which is doubly because I have news for you guys as Ophelia worm wiggle, I'm going to roll a D three, but no matter who I roll, somebody dies right now.
00:38:20
Gilmund Graves
Oh no.
00:38:22
Tommy
Dude, not like this, dude. I just, I've got a new, come on.
00:38:25
Gilmund Graves
ah but yeah
00:38:26
Tommy
I got a new store.
00:38:30
Trevor
That's so funny.
00:38:38
bladesedge
Permanently because Roy has two failures. Vesarek has two failures and Valeria says two failures. So no matter who I hit, she is ending the life of one of you.
00:38:49
Tommy
Those are one one, two, three, read them out, Brian.
00:38:52
bladesedge
Roy your one vallarious you're you're two, Vesrak you're three.
00:38:56
Tommy
OK. Wow.
00:39:00
bladesedge
She looks down at the man with the sun sword who killed the other two hags in her coven and her claw presses against the soft tissue of your belly as it slowly digs in. She maintains eyecon eye contact with you.
00:39:24
bladesedge
scooping out your lower intestine, pulling it free, the skin stretching and ripping.
00:39:32
bladesedge
As she holds the entrails above your lifeless body.
00:39:33
Trevor
the
00:39:38
Gilmund Graves
Damn.
00:39:39
bladesedge
Fess rack, Bainfall. Guys.
00:39:50
Gilmund Graves
oh
00:39:52
bladesedge
Roy one success, two failures, or who, who, did you who just, who just went, what was I doing? She goes and then Roy and then Valerius and bes like then her.
00:40:02
Tommy
Yeah, it's Roy. Yeah, Roy.
00:40:03
Kyle
ah
00:40:04
bladesedge
Okay. Cool. So Roy, you're up. One success, two failures.
00:40:10
Kyle
Again, just playing, replaying that moment of Gillman saying those words to me over and over again in my head.
00:40:23
bladesedge
three words for a three on the die. As you think and you think the camera watches your eyes roll back.
The Ghostly Procession
00:40:38
bladesedge
That's Roy Halovich dies.
00:40:49
bladesedge
Valerius two successes, two failures, anything, but a nat 20 does you no good here.
00:41:00
Trevor
George, I'm gonna need you off my lap real quick. Daddy's gotta stand up.
00:41:05
bladesedge
Mars. I'm going to need you on my lap. What is this Mark dude?
00:41:07
Trevor
All right, just a quick nat 20, that's what we need.
00:41:08
bladesedge
You guys are fighting.
00:41:12
Gilmund Graves
Just a quick Nat 20 in and out.
00:41:14
Trevor
Quick super cash nat 20. Just a little, no, so close.
00:41:18
Kyle
Aww, man.
00:41:18
Gilmund Graves
Oh my gosh, I'm 19.
00:41:20
Trevor
Oh, damn.
00:41:26
bladesedge
The camera pans out. We hear the sound of bones being ground up. The sound of pies being baked as time passes in the realm of Barovia.
00:41:59
bladesedge
Ophalia, warm wiggle 23 HP.
00:42:07
Gilmund Graves
Oh, goodness gracious, brutal.
00:42:12
bladesedge
And with that story of the pointy year gang comes to a close.
00:42:13
Kyle
we We're so close.
00:42:32
bladesedge
Some time passes. Vesrak-Bainval. Romeo D100.
00:42:43
Tommy
Alright, D100 coming at you.
00:42:45
Gilmund Graves
That's 69.
00:42:47
Tommy
78.
00:42:49
bladesedge
78 years pass.
00:42:57
bladesedge
The camera pans up through the clouds. Life goes on outside of this domain of dread. But inside, not much changes. Things seem to be on a loop, never ending, stuck. Things seem stale. There is never hope.
00:43:29
bladesedge
There are churches of Lathander, snuffed out, reopened, snuffed out, reopened. There are werewolves bringing people in through the fog. There are adventurers who come and adventurers who go. And countless bodies litter the realm of Barovia.
Rising from the Graves
00:43:51
bladesedge
But as we zoom back in through the clouds, we make our way
00:43:59
bladesedge
to the town of Barovia, the village of Barovia. Go ahead and show you guys this map.
00:44:31
bladesedge
Okay, I'll figure that out in a second. In the village of Barovia, there is a church. A church of Lothander.
00:44:51
bladesedge
There is a cemetery in the back of the church. There's a fence of wrought iron. The rusty gate encloses a rectangular plot of land behind the dilapidated church. Tightly packed gravestones shrouded by fog bear the names of souls long past. All seems quiet.
00:45:21
bladesedge
Every night at midnight, an eerie green light suffuses the graveyard. from this light emerges a ghostly procession, wavering images of dowdy women toting great swords, woodwise men with slender bows, dwarves with glittering axes,
00:45:52
bladesedge
archaically dressed mages with beards and strange pointed hats.
00:46:00
bladesedge
An old grave maker and a ranger holding hands with a dog at their feet. A school teacher leading a procession of slain children. All of these people every night at midnight from this eerie green light march forth from the grave.
00:46:25
bladesedge
march forth from the graveyard, spectral green ghosts, their numbers growing by the second. Every night they attempt to complete their quest and each night they fail. They have no interest in the living. They can't be hit, damaged, turned. They don't communicate with anybody.
00:46:51
bladesedge
Every night, these spirits in this graveyard march towards Castle Ravenloft. They march straight to the chapel, up the high tower stairs, to the top of the tower of Castle Ravenloft. And each night, they throw themselves down the shaft towards the crypts where they disappear.
00:47:26
bladesedge
On this night, we zoom in on four gravestones.
00:47:35
bladesedge
Fezrak, Bainval, Gilman Graves, Roy Halovich, Valerius Moonstone.
00:47:51
bladesedge
On Vesrak's stone, we see the symbol of the morning lord. And it looks like somebody tried to put an X through it. On Roy's, you see embedded in the ground right next to his grave is a spear that is sort of sitting next to a tree. that's you know Some of the leaves have kind of grown around the spear.
00:48:21
bladesedge
and the grave next to that. You see Gilman and the moonlight shining over Gilman's grave from behind it creates the shadow, his tombstone's shadow, long on the ground. But it looks less like the shadow of a tombstone and more like the shadow of a person. Filarious moonstone.
00:48:50
bladesedge
beloved teacher, his tombstone sitting there with a necklace draped around it, this long chain, so that this single ring sits dangling over.
00:49:07
bladesedge
On this night, as the spirits of Valyrias. He crawls forth from his grave, his ghostly spirit, beginning to march towards Castle Ravenloft with an army of children. Roy and Gilman's ghostly green bodies come up holding hands. A dog at their feet begin marching hand in hand towards Castle Ravenloft. We pan from Valyrias's
00:49:42
bladesedge
to Gilman's, to Roy, these green figures who make their way up. And we stop at Fez-Rack, Bain Falls. No green spirit, no green ghost comes out. Never has, every night these spirits arise except for one Fez-Racks.
00:50:12
bladesedge
as the camera stops on vesrax grave a hand comes through the dirt pulling dirt away, having broken through.
00:50:39
bladesedge
a coffin that would make Gilman Graves roll his eyes. Displacing dirt. Fez rack. You find yourself conscious. Give me a perception check.
00:50:59
Tommy
Percepi coming in. A-two.
00:51:06
bladesedge
A two.
00:51:08
Gilmund Graves
oh that's our boy
00:51:11
bladesedge
You are.
00:51:12
Tommy
Just like I never left.
00:51:14
bladesedge
You are you are naked. You were buried in ceremonial garb robes that it's been so long.
00:51:29
bladesedge
youre You know, taking a look around the. um
00:51:34
Gilmund Graves
Oh that's our boy.
00:51:36
bladesedge
ah Graves around you, you know that it has been. roughly 78 years. As you look around, the garbs around you long since deteriorated, but you're not a skeleton. You are flesh. You are blood. As you pop up, what do you do?
00:52:03
Tommy
I pop up and I look around this cemetery and I go, I feel myself in the act of like swinging a sword on a hag.
Resolving to Defeat Strahd
00:52:16
Tommy
And I look around for my companions and I go, and I'm thinking to myself, I find myself thinking, we're gonna, we just have to kill this hag. We'll get out of here. Uh,
00:52:30
Tommy
And I look and I see the graves of my companions and I i fall to my knees and I go, what? No, we, no, we we we killed, we died?
00:52:45
Tommy
We died at the windmill?
00:52:49
Tommy
Oh my God.
00:52:49
bladesedge
that in that moment when you say we died go ahead and make me an insight check when you say we died you look up and you see far off over at the castle Ravenloft in the distance these green ghostly images of these figures making their way up jumping off the roof
00:53:00
Tommy
and eighteen
00:53:20
bladesedge
You look and you see that each grave is of an adventurer.
00:53:26
Tommy
and 18.
00:53:28
bladesedge
And with an 18 insight, you know that you did die. And that even as you are here, unfinished business, your eyes are drawn to the symbol of lathander on your tombstone.
00:53:46
bladesedge
You know that you, Fezrak, Bainval, In this moment, you realize you have been conscripted to a life never to leave this realm of Barovia, your soul bound here and lost forever. But Lathander, the god of new beginnings and of hope, has given you one last chance to help these people.
00:54:20
bladesedge
While you may not be able to help yourself, you know that you can do good for the people of Barovia.
00:54:32
bladesedge
What do you do?
00:54:36
Tommy
Vesrak openly sobbing, knowing that he is now trapped forever in this dark and dreary place.
00:54:49
Tommy
I look frantically at the ground and in the grave for the hilt of the sun sword.
00:54:58
bladesedge
You look around frantically searching, make me an investigation check.
00:55:09
bladesedge
Thirteen. You're digging around in your grave. And if I could get the rest of the group to roll me each an initiative check, everybody but Vessarac.
00:55:27
Gilmund Graves
Seven.
00:55:30
Trevor
18.
00:55:31
Kyle
eighteen
00:55:32
Trevor
Bye.
00:55:32
bladesedge
All right, um, Kyle and, uh, Trevor, Trevor, that's you first. So Trevor, you are watching this, maybe the same scene that you've seen every night for the last 78 years. Every night you watch.
00:56:03
bladesedge
From this ring, the wind picks up. You sort of get slammed against the front of the tombstone every night. Ding, ding, ding. As these ghosts rise up, and for the first time in 78 years, you're watching a different scene play out. After these ghosts rise from their graves, you see a hand
00:56:32
bladesedge
pop through, you see this naked drow move his way up. Look at all of the tombstones, the one that you're hanging on included, start weeping. You remember this man. This was one of Valerius's companion companions.
00:56:53
bladesedge
And as you see him, he begins to dig.
00:56:58
bladesedge
He's using this tool. he this He has this tool in his hand. He doesn doesn't even know that he has. it He's using it to dig. Scraping. Scraping. And I ask you now, Inabi, what do you do?
00:57:17
Trevor
uh good question do i feel any different than i have for the past 78 years like do i feel as though i could move um i assume yeah these past 78 years have just been and even before that you know on all of the leerius's adventures i was just an observer um trying to guide where I could and communicate with the wearer of this ring. um However, I could, you know what I mean? Be it small, you know, vibrations in the ring or other, you know, small, food but I was never able to come out of the ring. Do I feel as though that is changing now? Do I feel any different than I have?
00:58:04
bladesedge
I don't know. I think you've really not had anybody to communicate with. You've never really been sure what to do. You've only ever seen this man, the guy who runs the church, his name, Donavich.
00:58:16
bladesedge
You've heard people call him.
00:58:17
Trevor
Right.
00:58:18
bladesedge
I'm showing you guys his token right here.
00:58:22
Trevor
Oh,
00:58:24
bladesedge
Uh, tending to the graveyard, people don't really come here. People don't even really go to the church,
Journey to Barovia
00:58:30
bladesedge
to be honest. People seem to shun the church, but you're finally faced with another person as this Vesrak is digging.
00:58:40
bladesedge
He has this tool and he's scraping and he's scraping and he's digging. What would she like you like to do?
00:58:44
Trevor
Cool. I, I guess I would try to move the ring at all or try and make it glow if I could do anything to try and get, uh, get Vessarak to notice this ring in, in an attempt for him to notice it and maybe take it.
00:59:04
Trevor
And if he chooses to, to put it on so I could try and influence, um, and help Vessarak.
00:59:13
bladesedge
Uh, Fez rack in the 13 investigation, you're looking for the sword and you're looking for light and light catches your eye out of the corner of your eye.
00:59:13
Trevor
All right. Yeah.
00:59:27
bladesedge
You see moonlight glinting off the ring. on Valyrias's tombstone. You swear it just moved to shine the light directly at your face.
00:59:46
Tommy
I walk over there.
00:59:48
bladesedge
OK.
00:59:48
Tommy
I walk over to his grave.
00:59:51
bladesedge
You walk over, you see there's no wind currently, but you see the ring slightly moving.
00:59:59
bladesedge
Almost like a swing.
01:00:01
Tommy
I bend down and I pick it up.
01:00:04
bladesedge
You pick it up, you pick up this ring and you immediately recognize there's something different about this ring. You make me an arcana check those rack.
01:00:21
Tommy
arca thirteen Okay.
01:00:25
bladesedge
Okay. With the 13 there's more to this ring. But with a 13, it might and must be inside. You have to break it if you want to find out what's more there is to this ring, yeah to shatter this ring.
01:00:45
Tommy
Okay, I go up to Valyrios' tombstone and I go to break the ring across the tombstone.
01:00:56
bladesedge
In Abhi, you see him take this tool he was digging with and place the ring on the tombstone and bring it down. And as he does, you're not sure what's going to happen. Are you dead? Is this the end of your life? But as the butt of this tool that he has in his hand smashes the ring and the ring shatters, you feel your mind fracturing.
01:01:26
bladesedge
Close your eyes inside, seeing nothing. Sleep never came to you. And when you open your eyes, you're staring at a naked drow. As Vesrak, you see almost materializing as you hit the ring, almost made you flinch from the loudness and from the fact that you did it and it cracked and it broke apart into a million pieces and shards went flying as did you sort of flinched. And when your eyes open up from that flinch, standing in front of you is Trevor. If you'd like to introduce your new character.
01:02:07
Trevor
Yeah, yeah. In Nabi, he is a Shatterkai, a bladesinger, wizard, fighter. He's got like super dark robes on. He's got two katanas, like... kind of like in his back, you know, and it like sheathed in his back. um He has like a mouth, like ah a like a black cover bandana type thing, like over his nose and mouth. Really light. The robes are almost like a black leathery kind of, like a leather armor almost. Very thin straps everywhere. He's got like arm bands around his arms.
01:02:52
Trevor
And like a long, almost like a skirt, kilt looking thing that's also all black.
01:02:59
Trevor
um And a little mark in his forehead, like ah like a tattoo kind of thing or something that was placed there a long time ago. Yeah.
01:03:10
bladesedge
very very uh how did you describe him from Game of Thrones? What is that?
01:03:15
Trevor
Oh, yeah, kind of a very, one of those guys's names, the Daenerys.
01:03:21
bladesedge
The guys with the uh Dan Daenerys' guys were unsullied.
01:03:23
Trevor
yeah Unsullied, yeah, yeah, yeah.
01:03:27
bladesedge
Nice.
01:03:28
Trevor
Very unsullied vibes. And yeah, that's what you're looking at.
01:03:34
bladesedge
As you appear there in avi you um
01:03:46
bladesedge
You notice as it's been a minute since you've been here, since you've been alive, since you've been able to do in person, able to do anything. um And you notice. ah That you have a a ring on your hand.
01:04:10
Trevor
Mm. Okay.
01:04:14
bladesedge
This is.
01:04:18
bladesedge
and
01:04:21
bladesedge
This is a ah ring of protection.
01:04:24
Trevor
Oh, damn. Hell yeah.
01:04:26
bladesedge
Also in bonus to AC and saving throws while wearing this ring.
01:04:29
Trevor
Fucking sweet.
01:04:30
bladesedge
The same ring that you just shattered Vazrak right where it was shattered. You see a hand wearing the exact ring that you just broke and you look up and you see everything that he just described.
01:04:45
Tommy
I take a few steps back, um, probably like trip and fall because it's very startling.
01:04:53
Trevor
Um, I'd probably be at first, I probably would have been like almost curled up on the ground kind of, you know, like, cause I would have flinched from you, like, you know, seeing you about to break the ring. I would have like kind of curled up and flinched and like braced for whatever it was about to happen. So I'd be also curled up on the ground. Um, but yeah, if I saw him hesitant, I would probably, I'd probably look up, see that I'm still alive, you know, like flex my hands, you know, be looking at my hands, move my legs around.
01:05:24
Trevor
take a deep breath and stand up and like kind of brush myself off and reach a hand down to Vez and say, thank you, Vezrak, and offer a hand to help him up.
01:05:36
Tommy
I take it.
01:05:39
bladesedge
You take it, you you watch him and Abhi move the tool from his right hand to his left hand in order to grab your arm and you lift him up.
01:05:39
Trevor
Yeah, pull you up.
01:05:51
Trevor
um Yeah, I'd be looking him over
01:05:52
bladesedge
The sound of far away battle.
01:05:56
Trevor
i'd be yeah I'd be looking him over trying to understand maybe what happened because I saw you know everybody die, but he's standing here and crawled out of the ground seamlessly. So I'd probably be looking at you extremely inquisitively.
01:06:13
Tommy
ah I have no idea idea what's happening. um I look over and I go, if well, if that was the ring that Valyrias was wearing, I look over at Roy ah and Gilman's graves in like that.
01:06:31
Tommy
They have the spear there. Right. And then the ring that Gilman was wearing.
01:06:34
bladesedge
Mm hmm.
01:06:36
Tommy
Is that correct?
01:06:37
bladesedge
No, you make go ahead and give me a perception check.
01:06:40
Tommy
Oh, no.
01:06:42
Tommy
Persephone. Five, I can't see you.
01:06:46
bladesedge
Gilman's grave. I'd say with a five, you look and you can't see anything on Gilman's grave. You're not sure why, as the moon is currently behind a cloud. The cloud goes in front of the moon. The mist is too high. You can't. I'm not sure what is there for that, but you do look at Roy Halovich's grave and you see the blood spear of Kavan placed into the ground,
01:07:11
bladesedge
um almost almost like Excalibur style with some cement poured around it, tree leaves wrapping around this spear.
01:07:24
Tommy
Yeah, i'll I'll run over to it like pretty frantically. And I think to myself, well, if if it worked for the ring, maybe it'll work for the spear. And I and i go to like hastily pull the spear out of the ground, maybe Roy's ah around somewhere.
01:07:37
Trevor
while you're doing all of that, I would probably just be, I'd probably say like, how are you alive right now?
01:07:46
Tommy
ah i I can't even hear him. I'm frantic.
01:07:48
Trevor
Yeah.
01:07:49
bladesedge
Well, blah, blah, blah, blah.
01:07:49
Trevor
yeah
01:07:51
bladesedge
You put ah you walk over, you watch him and I'll be put to put this tool down and grab this thing and begin to pull and make me an athletics check. That's right.
01:08:09
bladesedge
Within 18, you pull the spear and you pull. And you pull muscles that you don't remember having when you were when you died. And to how many years ago you pulled muscles, tensing, sweat, dripping, place your feet firmly, grimace back.
01:08:36
bladesedge
The tension. paul And and. It comes free so suddenly that you loot, that you let go of it. You fall backwards again. Uh, you watch him and I'll be, as he falls backwards, his hand instinctively reaching out, grabbing this tool as he falls. This thing he was digging with, but as you let go of this thing and you fall backwards, Catching it in midair, standing where it was planted in the ground.
01:09:11
bladesedge
Kyle G, if you wouldn't mind describing your new character.
01:09:16
Kyle
Yeah, you you look up to see um a a six foot 200 pound half orc pale green skin ah yellow eyes pointy ears and some some teeth that whatever how do you describe these teeth teeth tusks coming from the bottom up
01:09:45
bladesedge
Tasks?
01:09:51
Kyle
And you see this man standing there, and he's looking at his hands, and and touching his hands to his chest, and touching his hands to his face. And he looks up and sees you, and he startled. And he sees you, Vess Rag, and he goes, it's you. You died, how how are you?
01:10:18
Tommy
ah I don't know. ah But is Roy in there somewhere?
01:10:28
Kyle
I don't know, last I heard he died as well.
01:10:36
Tommy
ah My friends are gone. and My companions are gone.
01:10:40
bladesedge
I think, I think, um, bash as you, as you, unlike Inabi, who was seeing through this ring for the past 78 years, you were in this spear.
01:10:44
Kyle
Bash.
01:10:56
bladesedge
This spear does not grant you vision, but instead grants you communication with those who wield it. So you know about everything that happened with Roy and the day that he died and everything on his journey.
01:11:08
bladesedge
But for the past 78 years, you have been communicating with the land, the vines growing around the leaves that have grown around the blood spear placed in the ground, the same blood spear that's now in your hand. You have been communicating.
01:11:27
bladesedge
directly with the Earth, knowing of some of the goings on, but not having direct vision over the last 78 years. But you know this man, as Vesrak Beinval, and you look and see um this Shatter-Kai elf as well.
01:11:53
Kyle
I see.
01:11:57
Kyle
I think, yeah, Bash would do ah kind of get an insight and and get a feel for Vesrak and what he's feeling in this moment. but za to you Do you think you're showing the emotions of someone who has made the realization that they're stuck here forever?
01:12:22
Tommy
um I don't know if Vesrak would know that for certain, but um yeah, I would say so.
01:12:23
Kyle
like Gotcha.
01:12:28
Tommy
I don't know if he like knows the full extent of it, but he's like beginning to learn.
01:12:34
bladesedge
You see as well bash that you you appear here blood spear in hand and you look and the last time that you were in a corporeal form was a very long time ago before your father trapped you in that spear. You stand there holding it and you notice these bracers that you're wearing. Two bracers, one on each arm that have the engraving of trees. You look to the tree next to you that you've been communicating with through all these years and the land around you. And on the right, Bracer is a tree. And on the left, Bracer is a um tombstone in front of a stump of a tree. ah These are bracers of defense that you can add to your inventory.
01:13:38
bladesedge
Ring of Protection for Inabi, Bracers of Defense for Bash.
01:13:48
bladesedge
um
01:13:49
Trevor
Fire.
01:13:50
Kyle
ah wow
01:13:53
bladesedge
You both are looking at this naked drow standing covered in dirt, sweating, both freed from these items.
01:14:06
bladesedge
holding this tool that he's used to dig, covered in dirt, caked in dirt, not bigger than probably his fist, his fist and his wrist, maybe.
01:14:15
Kyle
Oh wow.
01:14:21
bladesedge
Clinging to it for dear life as he's looking at both of you.
01:14:27
Trevor
Have I seen, have I seen this tool prior to this night?
01:14:34
bladesedge
I don't know. I don't it's it's hard to tell what it is. he's because He's been using it to dig and cover in dirt. So it's like it's like caked in this dirt and this mud. It's like slick and brown and. He's just holding on to it, slick and brown covered in mud.
01:14:54
Trevor
What are you holding there, Fezre?
01:15:00
Tommy
ah I don't know if i'm i if I know that I'm holding anything. I thought that I was like digging with my hands.
01:15:07
bladesedge
You look down at your hands, vzrack as it starts to rain.
01:15:20
bladesedge
The moon's still behind the clouds. You look and you see, see some of your fingernails are like torn off from digging, frantic digging, coming back to life, gasping for air. Eyes have been wide the whole time. Your neck has been bulging.
01:15:38
bladesedge
As the rain begins to come down and sort of wash off the dirt and the mud, you hold this tool up. Not a great tool for taking a tiny garden hoe. It looks like the size of a garden hoe. Holding it out in front of you. The moon trapped behind clouds.
01:16:08
bladesedge
You take a step forward, something calling you. You step behind Gilman's grave, Gilman Graves' grave, to where that to where the text of the grave is on the opposite side of the slab that your back is now facing, your back to back with his grave.
01:16:21
Gilmund Graves
Grave squared.
01:16:22
Trevor
Nice.
01:16:33
bladesedge
As you look, as the rain pours down, this half-orc barbarian, this Shatterkai, assassin kind of looking guy, fighter standing there, looking at you expectantly. Hold your arm out.
01:16:59
bladesedge
A beam of light pours forth as the handle of the Sun Sword reveals itself.
01:17:10
bladesedge
holding it tight, buried with you to hide it from other adventurers. Everybody who came here to try and fell Strahd had to find this, but it was buried in your tomb with you. As it lights up, the moon behind the clouds, the light from it creates a long shadow.
01:17:40
bladesedge
Of you, it's in front of you, of you, and then the tombstone, you turn around quickly, the light reflecting Gilman's tombstone, the shadow long, like a long pillar, but there's a break in between them as if they're legs that go so far and so long out of reach. And you see the shadow detach itself.
01:18:10
bladesedge
and in the blink of an eye, or once there was shadow. Kyle Beams, if you'd like to describe your new character.
01:18:19
Gilmund Graves
Yeah, so as the shadow breaks, daylight begins to form as blinding sunlight starts to radiate in front of you. And you hear the words, the morning Lord opposes the arrogance and I am here to humble them. My Lord asks, who shall I send? Who will go in our stead? And so I said, here I am. And stepping out from the light that was once blinding into dim light,
01:18:49
Gilmund Graves
is a tiefling woman with dark grayish purple skin, scarlet hair, and glowing golden eyes, staring out at you.
01:19:06
bladesedge
phzraq you recognize, you don't know how you recognize those sorts of words as, you know, you didn't grow up in the underdark worshiping Lathander, but the morning Lord, this person, this woman, this woman who looks an awful lot like Gil Graves just spoke the words of Lathander.
01:19:35
bladesedge
as you hold the sun sword in your hand.
01:19:44
Tommy
I plant the sword into the ground and I look her in the eye and say, I shall answer the call.
01:20:02
Gilmund Graves
And I'll look I'll look down at you um and then I'll look to Gilman's grave
01:20:02
Tommy
Here I am.
01:20:09
Gilmund Graves
um
01:20:12
Gilmund Graves
And I'll look across at the other graves and ask, were you a friend of his, of my brothers?
01:20:25
Tommy
I tried to be. In truth, I don't think I was.
01:20:29
Gilmund Graves
It was hard to become friends with him. I'm glad that his suffering is over because he suffered hard. What's your name?
01:20:43
Tommy
They used to call me Bezrak Beinval.
01:20:48
Gilmund Graves
And your name now.
01:20:51
Tommy
I'm unsure.
01:20:54
Gilmund Graves
I'll put my hand out to shake your hand. My name's Alma.
01:21:04
bladesedge
Alma, you have dangling from Alma's belt, maybe where one would hold a sword or a dagger in plain view, is this inscribed rod that has all these runes around it, these runes in celestial, a prayer to the morning Lord, a prayer from Lathander. And Alma, this is a plus one rod of the Pact Keeper.
01:21:33
Gilmund Graves
Hell yeah.
01:21:35
bladesedge
which makes your attack rolls with your spell modifier and your DC go up by one.
01:21:41
Trevor
Fire.
01:21:42
bladesedge
And as an action, you can regain a warlock spell slot once per long rest.
01:21:48
Gilmund Graves
Fuck yeah. Thank you.
01:21:50
bladesedge
um The rain falls on the barbarian, the fighter, warlock radiating celestial energy.
01:22:06
bladesedge
and a naked Vesrak sword in the ground, but like a lightsaber point in the ground, e radiating this yellow light across this entire graveyard.
01:22:24
bladesedge
Say they're all, I'd say with three different people that you've and intentionally or unintentionally freed Vesrak.
01:22:37
bladesedge
What do you do?
01:22:44
Tommy
I look over these people and I say, the plan hasn't changed. We're going after Strahd and we're going to kill him.
01:23:02
Gilmund Graves
I have a big smile on my face.
01:23:05
Trevor
Same.
01:23:07
Kyle
I just stand sturdy with the spear in my hand.
01:23:14
bladesedge
Stand sturdy as you look back. The village of Barovia. It was a long time ago, Vesrak, that you were tasked with coming here, but your next steps. Could potentially be found in this village. You know that there is. A um a letter that you guys received a long time ago, but.
01:23:45
bladesedge
about a mentioning a woman named Irena Kolyana. ah You also know that in order you you recall a distant, distant memory of Esmeralda giving you guys a tarot reading.
01:24:09
bladesedge
Uh, right before you, right before you poisoned and killed the burger master of Crest, but we'll skip over that part. Um, allegedly, um, you remember that and you know, now that to get these things, you look at the sun sword and you know that there's more, there's an ally here that can help you.
01:24:15
Tommy
Allegedly.
01:24:15
Gilmund Graves
ah Allegedly.
01:24:32
bladesedge
There are things. hidden, trapped, forgotten in Barovia that can help you, and that to find out where they are, there is a woman named Madame Eva, who you had heard about in passing, who can help you find out where those things are.
01:25:10
bladesedge
Four of you.
01:25:11
Gilmund Graves
Okay, Madam Eva.
01:25:15
bladesedge
Four of you sharing a look. A naked vesrak holding a sun sword planted in the ground. An Inabi with his ring and his swords. A bash with the blood spear and these bracers from the earth. And an Alma with this rod from the morning lords.
01:25:36
bladesedge
as you all sort of watch far off in the distance as the ghostly green souls of not only Gilman, DeRoy, Valerius, but also all these other adventurers as they take on Shrod night after night, futilely reliving some fever dream. Guys, look at the village of Barovia ahead of you and know that there's much to be done.
01:26:05
bladesedge
But as the camera pans back on these four individuals, we're going to go ahead and call it there.
01:26:15
Gilmund Graves
Ooh, session zero.
01:26:17
bladesedge
Quite the sesh. Quite the sesh. Rest in peace. Gil Graves, Roy Halvich, Valerius Moonstone. But hello, Bash, Inabi, and Alma.
01:26:34
Gilmund Graves
Let's go. Who's this egg fella down here again?
01:26:37
bladesedge
Hello.
01:26:38
Gilmund Graves
Who's this egg guy?
01:26:40
bladesedge
That would be Donavitch, I think, I think, and Nabi.
01:26:45
Trevor
He was like the grave keeper.
01:26:47
bladesedge
Yeah, the only I kept seeing the grave keeper.
01:26:47
Gilmund Graves
Ah, he looks like an egg head.
01:26:53
bladesedge
um Thank you all for joining us and we'll ah we'll see you guys soon. Thanks so much.
01:26:58
Gilmund Graves
Wow. Love it. Great job, everybody.
01:27:00
bladesedge
All right.
01:27:01
Gilmund Graves
Love ya.