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Ep. 88 Part 2 Gribblies Fanged! - De Profundis
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The encounter with the vampiric hosts continues, as the party explores deeper into the haunted mansion...
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Transcript
Opening Jokes and Podcast Introduction
00:00:00
Speaker
I'm just calculating the sneak attack damage bear with me. On an abacus? If anyone calculates damage on an abacus it would be Darren.
00:00:47
Speaker
Hello everyone and welcome to this week's episode of Fuck Will. No, uh, this is the episode of... We are. We are. We are. We are.
00:00:58
Speaker
That's not the name of the podcast. That's not the name of the podcast. It should be. That's the new special. It's a very different podcast. I'm sorry. I'm keeping this
Character Introductions and Pop Culture References
00:01:13
Speaker
in. This week's episode, I set the tone, obviously, of The Fellowship of the Tabletop. We are a live play. 5E D&D podcast set in the magical homebrew world of Aerith. My name is Mark. I am the Dungeon Master and also with us for today's Mid-Vampire.
00:01:26
Speaker
Midnight Special. We have Darren who plays the human fighter rogue Robin. Gaga Lulu La. I want their bad romance. I don't know why I was going with that. I'm sorry. I tried to find the song that was vampire-ish and I panicked. Lady Gaga, not bad. Yeah, I like it. I like it. Lady Gaga. Lady Gaga. Change that intonation. We've got Danny who plays the human cleric Claude.
00:01:50
Speaker
I'm not sure that works, Darren. It doesn't. You find a song about a vampire, it's really hard. There's a few. We've got Casey who plays the human champion, Helena Slootgard. Because this is thriller. Boom. There you go. Boom. Yeah, I did for the last time. More vampire. Yeah, we did do it. Still. Hello. Oh, hi, Casey. We've got Ian who plays the dragonborn barbarian paladin, Drago. Fuck you, Will.
00:02:19
Speaker
I also felt like I said, instead of paladin, I said palindrone, which isn't, anyway. Or pal. Our pal, our pal Drago. We've got Will, who plays the human bard, Karstan. Gonna put a spell on you. Ooh, nice. And we've got Callum, who plays the unknown sorcerer, folly, fizzlebang, the ninth. I keep getting forget, and hello everybody.
00:02:40
Speaker
You can forget and I'll leave the best till last. Forget and forgotten, if you will. Really? Forgetting isn't even... Yes! It's so hard to go last on the intro because I had like two ideas that I could have done for the intro and they both got tucked in the pill up to me in prill. Was one Gaga Lula La one with that?
00:02:57
Speaker
I'm really sorry, mate. I'm really sorry. Darren, Darren, you've stolen it. I've had that written down for weeks, Darren, and you've stolen it. Good lord. Well, I'll make sure. I like finishing on Folly Fizzlebang the 9th. Do you now? I don't like that. What can I say? I work in high order.
00:03:22
Speaker
Uh, on last week's, wow, what the fuck was that? Um, that was brilliant.
Mission Recap: Vampire Mansion
00:03:27
Speaker
Uh, what was the last week's episode? The fellowship was able to, we, um, we had a fight. We are knee deep in this mansion, this old mansion and the many windowed mansion, um, trying to find a bracelet for an old cod Codger who says he knows something about the book, the world away.
00:03:43
Speaker
and he'll only tell the party the information if they find this bracelet for him which is somewhere in this house upon entering the house some weird things have taken place the heads on the plinths on the walls are these two large oversized elk
00:03:58
Speaker
kind of came to life and one of them bit Helena on the leg. They started to explore a little bit and then from this kind of eking, slow, ethereal mist, these three vampires formed and attacked the parties. We find ourselves separated in two different rooms. In the room closest to the door, to the entrance of this mansion, we have Claude, Helena, Drago, surrounding one of the vampires who has hold person cast upon it with Claude's ethereal weapon floating on its other flank.
00:04:28
Speaker
We also have Folly Fizzlebang the 9th in that room as well, keeping some distance and casting some magic.
Combat Begins: Vampires and Strategic Moves
00:04:34
Speaker
In the room to the south of it, we have Carstan and Robin and a vampire all on their own. It's a smaller room. This is a room filled full of tomes and books, kind of a library-esque space, a personal library with a big pile of books in the very center of the room on the floor with a kind of 15-foot long table with a single chair sat behind it in this smaller L-shaped room.
00:04:57
Speaker
We're halfway through combat at the moment and we're going to pick up mid round as well because we left things on a precipice if you will. We find one of the creatures, one of the vampires, its long pointed teeth, its gaunt cheeked pale skin now staring out just over Helena's shoulder. Its eyes aren't moving, it's absolutely still.
00:05:20
Speaker
as you know something, as he's controlled this creature and stopped it from moving absolutely still. Helena, it's your turn, what do you want to do? Yeah, her leg's going to feel a little fucked, but she's going to be sort of putting her weight on the other leg, the upstanding leg, and she's going to get her flail and angrily, yeah, going to start swacking into this vampire-esque
00:05:45
Speaker
okay yeah go ahead roll to hit and you will be rolling with advantage if it's how you do have advantage because it has hold person and also just fyi any attack that hits the creature that negates my thing but yeah you get advantage on any attack that hits the creature anyway that's good to know thank you
00:06:08
Speaker
Okay. Well FYI, I got a 19 and a natural 20. Yeah, but even so, that's brilliant. That's just 19. Just one away. It's just Casey, with the 19, that is just one away from a crit, so just be aware of that. Fuck you! Fuck you! Is it 19 with a crit for Casey? 19 with a crit for Casey. Oh shit, it is a crit! She's got a double crit!
00:06:30
Speaker
Oh shit. He's only been playing in your campaign for a year Mark, it's fine. Oh right. Oh salty page. Salty probably. It's because of that mage hand. 17 points. 17 points of damage on that first one please.
00:06:45
Speaker
17 points of damage. Nice hits. This flail comes in. Oh, the face hits in the neck. It catches in there. It doesn't even flinch. It doesn't even move. You just see this ichor start to leak from its neck, but the rest of the body stays perfectly still. You see one eyelid twitch ever so slightly. That's all the movement. Carry on. You've got more hits. Yeah, I'm going to do another hit with my other hand. That's a 28 to hit. Yeah, that hit. Holy moly.
00:07:10
Speaker
No, keep in mind whole person is still in effect. So as long as you beat the AC, it's always a critical. So make sure you roll for all your extra. Brilliant. Thank you.
00:07:21
Speaker
Yeah, a whole person paralyzes somebody. So basically... That makes it always a crit when you hit them. Any attack that hits the creature is a critical hit if the attacker is within five feet of the creature. Holy shit. Wow. So there you go. So when I left last week's episode and I said it's a vampire slaughter, it really is. This guy is here. It was. That's a 20 point damage then, please.
00:07:49
Speaker
20 points. I've only got like six more hits to go, Casey. No, I've got one more hit. Oh, is it two? No, two. Sorry. One more, and then you've got your offhand. That's 27 to hit. Yep, it is. Drag is getting turned on. Up, up, up, up. 12 points of damage. Yep. I'm just going to add these up afterwards. I'll do some quick mental arithmetic and your offhand hit your final bonus. And then a dirty 20 to hit.
00:08:16
Speaker
Ooh, nice. Which is still a crit. 14 points of damage. And your flails are all silvered, aren't they? They're naturally, magically occurring. Yeah, they've got plus three on them anyway. So there's no removal of damage, well, as far as you're aware. That's 63 points of damage in total, Casey.
00:08:39
Speaker
So you literally just punching bag style, just absolutely hitting down there. It's almost like back at your training at the Heral Empire, this bag of meat just doesn't seem to move as you continue to hit into it. It still stands there, unmoving, unflinching, except this one lid that seems to twitch every now and then.
00:08:56
Speaker
but he is still upright. That's the end of your turn. Drago, it's your turn. Sorry, I've just said you've seen this Helen just absolutely pummeled into it. You can see a spectral weapon floating just off the creature's shoulder behind you and Clauda stood to your left, Helen stood to your right. You have surrounded this creature and you are just, I imagine like some kind of anime beat down. That's what's happening right now.
00:09:18
Speaker
Yeah, I'm feeling Goku right now. I'm going to just grab End God's Deception. If I can rage out and slice down, feeling good from watching Helena smash the shit out of this guy. I'm going to hit with an unnatural 20. Yeah, that hits. 25 points of magical slashing damage for the first hit. Nice. Very nice. It still comes slashing down across its midsection down its side, cutting it open slightly. Yep. Next here. Heart quaking in, energy pulsing, bouncing on heels, just going for another hit.
00:09:49
Speaker
For a 26 to hit. Yeah, that hits. That's 20 points of magical slashing damage. Zero attacks, that's 45 points of damage against that creature. Callum, whole person, four! It's kicking ass at the moment. And it's not even the creature's turn this time at the moment. It's the other vampire's turn next. Is that everything you wanted to do, Drago?
00:10:13
Speaker
Yes. Yes, yes, yes. Yeah, I'm good. Okay, so what's going to happen? The vampire that's down in the room with Karstan and Robin, he's just been constantly chasing Robin for the last couple of turns and is pissed. He looks between the two creatures that are now in his domain, so to speak. You can see Robin and you can see Karstan and he's going to 5-10.
00:10:37
Speaker
make his way over to Kastan and back him into the corner and he is going to try and hit you. First we have a 2-1 against your armor class, Kastan. That hits. I rolled really well. That's 26 points of slashing damage. Oh, Lord. The next hit is a natural one, motherfucker. That hit me.
00:11:08
Speaker
It's got a modifier of 24, so yeah. No, natural one. So it's first claw, it was clawing attack. The first claw comes almost down your face, down almost to the side of your neck, down your chest. The second one wildly misses as you duck down to defend yourself, catching the bookcase that's just next to you. Claws slamming into the side, a bit of the sideboard of the wooden
00:11:28
Speaker
bookcase comes kind of firing away really showing the speed and veracity of these creatures attacks and that is the end of that creatures turn cast and it is your turn for a retort.
00:11:39
Speaker
Apologies, could you just repeat the damage I took? 26. Thank you. Sorry. That's all right. D&D Beyond was being really silly. Okay, having taken these slashes to my face, I am going to cast synaptic static on him. Nice. No, I'm going to do dissonant whispers on him instead. So can he make a wisdom saving throw, please?
00:12:05
Speaker
17 plus to 19 you motherfucker sorry that Passes that that was a fifth is it not even any half isn't only half damage Uh decent with a lot of bad spells, but double check. Oh, yeah, you take the half damage Thank you. Just I thought so. I'm sorry the other one makes you run away, which is quite Yeah, very useful so this takes
00:12:31
Speaker
25 points of psychic damage okay now that's halved jesus yeah sorry sorry sorry i've not halved that yet oh right that's a 25 rolled apologies i hadn't rolled that yet i hadn't halved that i'd say that'd be an incredible spell that's 50 points of uh seven is 76 so yeah um
00:12:54
Speaker
So yeah, so it gets 13 or something like that. I can't remember. And yeah, that is my spell. I'm then going to use my bonus action to disengage.
Turning the Tide: Strategic and Magical Attacks
00:13:10
Speaker
Yeah so having cast a spell to try and fry his brain I've then sort of ducked around him and sort of skipped away from any attacks as I move away and I've sort of leapt over the corner of the table and I've sort of swapped places with him.
00:13:26
Speaker
Nice, good stuff. So you got some distance away from the vampire again. Moving up to the other group now, we return to the other vampire. Am I right in thinking, Folly, that there is a saving throw I can make to try and free him? You would indeed be thinking how it happens at the end of each of its turns, you make a wisdom saving throw. Okay. Fifteen. That's a fail.
00:13:55
Speaker
He stays absolutely still. That is the end of his turn. Claude, this vampire continues to stand, continues to stand. Tali's taken over. Continues to stand perfectly still with his back to you facing towards Helena as you've seen your two martial friends, Drago and Helena, pummel into him. What would you like to do?
00:14:17
Speaker
I'm going to do a quick scout of the room and be like, one, seven, four, three, we're good! I'm just going to turn to my shield and say, you get them, Shieldy! And I'm going to, as a bonus action, cause my spiritual weapon to strike the stunned, paralyzed vampire who, if it hits it crits, is that right? That's correct. Yeah, if it hits it crits.
00:14:41
Speaker
19 hit the beastie. That hits. Yes! 18 points of force damage as this shield just reanimates and knocks him in the throat. Very nice. Hitting him in the throat. Nice bonus action. 15 for a bonus action. That's sick. Good stuff. And then I'm going to run with all my might and dash and I'm concerned for people in the other room. So I'm going to run in.
00:15:07
Speaker
using all my action, open the door, see a vampire, and be like, ah, nuts. And that's my turn. Amazing. Thank you very much, Claude. Robin, you've just heard the word nuts from the room, the entrance of the doorway, just to the north of you, where this vampire now is, has cast and ducked and dived and moved out of the way of this vampire. It still currently has us back to you as you're behind it. It's kind of facing Claude's way. What would you want to do?
00:15:35
Speaker
Suddenly, as Claude emerges right next to this vampire, Robin will kick back into life and will just charge down on this vampire and take two swings at him. Nice, roll to hit. The first one is a 23 to hit. Yep, that hits. 26 points of slashing damage. Let me add some radiant to that for Ghostbane. And two points of radiant damage.
00:16:02
Speaker
28 points in total. That is nice.
00:16:06
Speaker
As the sword comes in with Robin's right hand, his left hand is just going to form and rumble with force energy. And he's just going to slam his palm into the side of this creature's head and try and move him in the direction of the bookcase to the left, send him crashing into that. He takes an additional eight points of force damage and needs to make a strength saving throw, please.
00:16:36
Speaker
6 so now I assume that's a fail. He's going to crash into the bookcase next to Claude so he's just like that and Robin will then and is then going to take a second swing at him.
00:16:49
Speaker
nice okay so this creature has been slammed into the bookcase books have fallen a couple of them hitting him one or two cling clanged off Claude as well and you're kind of at a diagonal line with cast and safely behind you you and then the vampire and then Claude in front of it so you're kind of slowly starting to encapsulate and surround it yeah roll that roll to hit
00:17:10
Speaker
I'm gonna get so much shit for this but I've rolled a 19 which gives me a 30 overall. That hurts but it's not a crit unless you're Helena.
00:17:19
Speaker
It's one-off a crit, isn't it? It is indeed. I think so. I think 19 is one-off a crit. I kind of feel like, you know, in Ultron, where Captain America says language at the start, and just throughout the rest of the film, he gets shit for that? I'm not going to be able to live this down until the end of this campaign. Are you comparing yourself to Captain America? I am, and I'm fine with it. Four and four is... Eight. Yes. That's our...
00:17:43
Speaker
That there is some quick maths. I was just adding my modifier onto it, all right? We could use your indulgence. 14 points of slashing damage. 14. And let's add some radiance. How much, sorry? 14. 20 total of another six points of radiant.
00:18:00
Speaker
Lovely. Nice. So again, this creature slams in and almost, it doesn't have a chance to turn around as you come in with the second attack, kind of slicing through its abdomen area, not quite getting through the vital organs of the middle, but literally piercing through the body, through the skin. And you can see it kind of, its back arches up and lets out this.
00:18:19
Speaker
scream lovely thank you very much robin for that folly you just seen clawed run past you into the other room as you see the rest of your party members in the room above just hailing hellfire down on this totally still vampire as you continue to concentrate on the whole person spell what would you like to do folly seen clawed from pasty you say and he's just gonna
00:18:46
Speaker
see the other kind of vampire that Helena and Drago have been wailing on for the last two turns and he's freaking out a little bit he feels very surrounded so we're just going to kind of move north as much as he can in line with one of the vampires but just kind of enough distance away so he doesn't feel too threatened at the moment and he's basically going to point his quarter staff towards this
00:19:12
Speaker
a vampire that I've got a whole person on, and he's going to chant to himself as he focuses on, no fire, no fire, no fire, no fire. And he's actually going to cast Firebolt, but I'm going to spend a sorcery point, one of my many sorcery points, to transmute Firebolt. And what's actually going to come flying out of Follis Staff is not fire, but lightning, just for a change.
00:19:42
Speaker
very nice okay um transmute does that have the properties of lightning then uh transmute permits me to change the element um of spells to that of a different spell uh different element and lightning is one of them so that's what he's going to do he's kind of he wants to try and do it he wants to attack and he wants to do some damage he wants to help out um but he's very apprehensive about using fire at the moment and so he just
00:20:07
Speaker
desperately trying to focus all his energy through his staff into something other than fire, because fire's all that he's known for so long. Shit man, that's beautiful. Yeah, roll to hit. Okay, he's still got advanced generally, so 23 to hit. Yep, that hits. Roll that damage. Critical damage. So double die.
00:20:29
Speaker
it's not critical because it's um i think it's not it's a range one isn't it i do think you will screw you will but still thank you um 27 points of lightning damage on the nasty vampire
00:20:49
Speaker
Lovely. This lightning courses in through its back, down its neck, into its spine. You can almost see almost cartoon-esque. The bones almost light up from within it, but it still stays absolutely stationary. Anything else you want to do, Folly? No, no. Folly's just going to kind of look at his staff a little bit in disbelief and it just almost a smug look comes across his face and they say,
Vampires in Mist: Frustration and Pursuit
00:21:12
Speaker
And that's all I was just going to end this term. Very nice. Helen, are you just seeing this creature kind of spark into life almost, but through electricity? It's your turn. What would you like to do?
00:21:24
Speaker
Yeah she's going to do what she did before and then she's going to hit again and this time she's going to try and push back with her hits so that she's sort of getting a little bit of, as she's pushing him back with her hits he's sort of getting stuck in between that big stone statue at the same time so hopefully giving her a little bit of advantage. Okay yeah cool, roll to hit. Oh no that's a 22 to hit.
00:21:52
Speaker
Only a 22 does unfortunately hit, yes it does. And any hit a crit? You get a crit and you get a crit. That's 22 points of damage. Holy shit, yeah nice as your flail comes in into the neck you can almost see as it continues to stay perfectly still you aim for the neck you want me to take this creature's head off by the looks of things and you can see bone but the creature continues to stand.
00:22:19
Speaker
Okay, fine. And again, she's gonna go in for another hit on the other side, if her other flail. 30 to hit, that was a crit. Shit, yeah, I guess so. Holy shit. So when you guys roll well, it's, it's deadly. That's a 14 points of damage.
00:22:38
Speaker
The creature on that second hit, as your flail comes down, as you go to take your third hit before you get a chance to do it, as you swing down on it, the creature just turns to mist and it literally evaporates off.
00:22:54
Speaker
And all this air is wrapping itself around you, moving at an incredible speed. And then all of a sudden, it shoots off towards the door to your left. So to the east from where you are, the door that you tried last episode that couldn't open, Robin, and goes underneath the small, small gap under the thick oak door and disappears from sight.
00:23:17
Speaker
So Helen is just gonna shout, again, standing on the one leg that's the strongest. Fuck, we lost him. Awesome, thank you very much, Helena. The creature, Drago, has just disappeared in front of you. Helen's just said that, you've got the spectral weapon eyeing you up and you've got Folly behind you. What do you want to do? Oh, fuck. Okay, because he's vanished in front of my eyes,
00:23:46
Speaker
Ah, shit. I was looking forward to hitting him. Drago is going to. That's, to be fair, I'm dumbfounded that the vampire moved. So that's my go. Just kind of just cursing incessantly, just going fuck and getting angry that I wanted to hear it because I'm raged anyway. So that's it. Okay. Fair enough. Thank you very much. I need more time to think about my move, which is what Drago is trying to do right now. He's thinking about his next move.
00:24:14
Speaker
Fair enough, thank you very much. So the creature that's next to Claude, it's going to turn around towards Robin, the last vampire that's currently with us, and he's going to roll to hit. That is a 26 against your armor class, Robin. Hit. That's 18 points of slashing damage on you, Robin. Thank you. Yep. And the next one is a... I feel like a 31, I think.
00:24:42
Speaker
25 points of slashing damage on that one as well. He's then going to spin around and use his last legendary action to basically regain the action.
00:24:57
Speaker
And it's going to do the same against Claude, he's going to turn, and he's just swinging, flailing as he slowly becomes surrounded, trying to take someone down with him. If I go down, I'm taking you with me, so to speak. That's a 22 against your armor class, Claude. That hits. Okay. That's 15 points of slashing damage. And 21 against your armor class. So I'm rolling really well.
00:25:23
Speaker
21 points of slashing damage. Awesome. Lovely. Thank you, me, for that great turn of damage. You're welcome, mate. You're welcome, mate. Vampire 2 is missed etherealness. Claude, it's now your turn. No, it isn't. It's cast on turn. Sorry. Apologies, cast on. Apologies, apologies.
00:25:41
Speaker
When Darren slammed the vampire into the bookcase, did the bookcase break at all? Yes, there are. Well, earlier on, when he swung at you, he knocked out a portion of the bookcase by the swing that missed, the natural one. When he got slammed, nothing's broken off that, but there are books on the floor. Okay. Are there bits of wood on the floor?
00:26:06
Speaker
Correct, from the initial hit where he tried to get you, yeah. Right, so Karstan looking a bit bloody at this point and wanting to act brave because that's what Helena told him to do. She wanted him to, he needs to redeem himself. He's going to sort of leap over the table. I'm going to grab a piece of wood and because he's seen it in books, he's going to stab the vampire with a stake in its heart. That's what he's going to try and do. Okay, yeah.
00:26:35
Speaker
Improvised weapon roll to hit? That's a 10. That does miss, but you are now in range with it with a stake in your hand. He parries you, he parries you, he's kind of literally like Wile E. Coyote, not Wile E. Coyote.
00:26:52
Speaker
a cartoon reference, insert a cartoon reference here of a creature spinning around, Tasmanian devil, there you go, with his claws out and you just happen to, as your state comes in, the hand gets kind of hit away in a defensive position. I like your thinking though, Carstan, that's some sexy ass stuff. Nice, anything else you want to do, Carstan? No, as a bonus action, I'm going to give Bardic Inspiration to Darren.
00:27:17
Speaker
Nice. So Robin, you've got a Bardic Inspiration 1d10 for any d20 role, I believe. Yeah, for 10 minutes. For 10 minutes. Lovely. Very nice. Double Inspiration, Darren. Double ID. Double D, baby. Anyway, right. Thank you very much, Castan. Good stuff. I really like your thinking on that. Claude, your turn. You're face to face with a vampire who's just swung some sick damage at your face. What do you want to do? Can I just take a quick look at Castan? Does he live okay? Give me a perception check.
00:27:47
Speaker
17. Yeah, he looks... or Carson, how do you look? He looks half as healthy as he would be normally, at least. That's usefully specific. Would you allow me to also extend the same cheque to Robin's state of health?
00:28:08
Speaker
As you look over at Robin, you can see that he has taken quite a sustained bit of damage. There are a couple of open lacerations, one very nasty one across his face. If you were to put it into a weighted term, like Carstan, about half of the world as he normally looks. Given that I think Carstan is out of his depth being this close with the wooden stick, I'm going to
00:28:34
Speaker
rush to the aid of Kastan and I'm going to cast Cure Wounds at fourth level who recovers 29 points of healing. Nice. Thanks, I might look foolish but I feel really cool. I trust that Robin in this position is probably very quick to be okay. I will cast Spare the Dummy on Robin. Lovely, that means when he hits zero we go back up to one.
00:29:00
Speaker
Yes, just in case anything bad happens. So I basically like reaching my arm out with my shield across to Robin and then stealthily putting a little cure poke on Kastan's nose. Cure poke.
00:29:13
Speaker
So I'll step in between the vampire and Karstan, kill Karstan on the nose, step in between the vampire and Robin, and cast a little protective measure on him, and then I'll just be at his southern flank, leaving the northern doorway entrance to the big room at the mercy of whoever comes in next. That is my turn completed. Thank you very much. I suppose before it's not the kind to shoot past and give a nice healing pat on the bum as he passes. No, he isn't a Randy fellow.
00:29:45
Speaker
Not in combat, anyway. Thank you very much, Claude. Good stuff. Into round five now. Lovely. Robin, it's your turn. You just had a little pat on the bum from... Okay. Yeah, great. Lovely. It makes you feel certain that if you're almost dead, you'll be 1% away from death. Okay.
00:30:07
Speaker
Castan, on your left, and I'm going to bait and switch with Castan if he is willing. If he is willing, me and Castan swap places, and he gets a boost to his AC until the start of my next turn, which will be equal to what I roll on the D10. Castan gets a seven bonus to his AC. Wow. And you have to swap places with me, though. I assume you're fine with that. I do. And probably like a kind of dance. I'm going to grab your arm and dance with you around. It's going to be a nice little twirl.
00:30:38
Speaker
Like round a maple. Absolutely. That's really sick. I love that maneuver. Awesome. Good stuff. So, Karsten, your party members coming to your aid and pulling you out of the fray, despite you heroically throwing yourself in. Really nice. Anything else you want to do, Rob? That says 17, but I will add that D8 that Karsten said. What's your bardic inspiration now? D10. D10. Sweet. It's now a 24 to hit.
00:31:08
Speaker
That hits. That's four more on the critical take. I've just given you a plus seven to AC, don't give me shit. Give him shit. Give him shit. It was worth it. I'm just calculating the sneak attack damage, bear with me. On an abacus? I'm just not very good at that.
00:31:36
Speaker
If anyone calculates damage on Abacus, it would be Darren. It would be, it would be. It's 24 points of flashing damage, followed by 4 points of radiant damage, so 28 total. Well done Darren. And 12 points of damage from getting shit from your fellow players. Oh no Socrates, good job.
00:32:02
Speaker
I just really hope that you do have an abacus off there. I'm going to buy you one. I've got so many things we could get you. Lovely. That's some really good damage though. That's really sick. And I love the bait and switch. I think that's really cool. Yeah, it's a really good maneuver. Cool. Lovely.
Taking Control: Immobilizing the Vampire
00:32:17
Speaker
Anything else? Yeah, go for it.
00:32:19
Speaker
That is a 29 to hit. That hits. 14 points of flashing damage and 9 points of radiant damage. So 23 total. Robin, good stuff. Thank you very much, Darren. Folly!
00:32:34
Speaker
watching, waiting, commiserating. Say it ain't so. What are you doing? Not much of a healer. We could see Helena and Drago still kind of standing, so it's not going to be too bothered about them. I'm just going to move south a little bit towards where the final vampire is. And just for lols, he's going to try and cast Hold Person on it again. Nice. Go for it. What do you need me to roll? Wisdom saving throw. 14.
00:33:04
Speaker
Oh, sweet. It's paralyzed. Fuck's sake. You and my damn vampires. Love it. So Folly is just going to put his hands out and he's focusing on this. He's not bothered about any spells or anything like that. He's just going to put his hands out and he's going to just churn a little bit of energy and just kind of grasp it around it. So this vampire just kind of feels these invisible hands just clenching around it, paralyzing it. And Folly is just going to go.
00:33:31
Speaker
Amazing, yeah, and this creature has just suddenly, it's been flailing around and suddenly, perfectly still, kind of claws still up, a look of absolute hatred in its eyes. It seems to also be looking directly at you, Folly, which seems odd, given that it was just Tasmanian deviling, not a second ago. Or Folly will meet the Steyr. Folly's petrified and shitting himself when he's still meeting the Steyr. Nice, awesome, good stuff, Callum, thank you. Anything else you want to do with your turn?
00:34:01
Speaker
No, no, that's fine for now. Lovely, thank you very much. Helena, this creature that was in front of you in the Northern Room has just disappeared. It's you and Dragos. Dragos are swearing a lot. The spectral weapon's still floating there. Claude's disappeared. So I'm going to then jump over Claude's shield and dash 20 feet to the east over to this door. And yeah, she's going to be chasing it through this door. So she's going to try the door.
00:34:28
Speaker
This is the door that Robin tried earlier. The door does turn on its hinges. Sorry, the handle turns and you manage to push, but it stops hard against something blocking it from the other side. It clears the edge of the door by about a couple of millimeters almost. So you know it's not locked, but the door won't move.
00:34:50
Speaker
Can I give it a good fucking push on my, as like an action? Can I give a strength fucking push or something? Yeah, absolutely. What you could do, you've got the movement for it. You could even take two steps back and do a fucking running shoulder barge or drop kick or- Yeah, barge. Yeah, fucking, let's do that. So let's take two steps back then, and then as I run up, I'm just gonna shoulder barge it. That's what she's gonna do. She's got her full armor on, so that's gonna probably be better than injuring her little head. Absolutely. All right, give me an athletics check then, please, Casey.
00:35:20
Speaker
That's an 18. Oh, I set the DC at 17. Nice. Yeah, the door slams open. You end up on the other side of the door and you realize that a long bench had been propped up behind this door, blocking the entranceway. There's a hefty oaken bench there that's been moved. What you enter into, you see directly in front of you,
00:35:48
Speaker
20, 30 feet away, it's a large square room with three coffins that seem to have been placed in the room after the fact. To your right there are three large red blood red sofas surrounding a now cold fireplace with wood next to it. There is a rug in the kind of centre south of the room, a bookcase and a collection of single-seated chairs that have seemed to have been stacked up in the far corner of the room. There also is an open kind of
00:36:15
Speaker
an open doorway to the south leading to another part of the mansion. Yes, that's all you see. You've probably got like five feet of movement left, I think, after all, you're kind of lollygagging around. And no sign of this vampire thing. There is no sign of the vampire at all. Okay. I'm just going to then use my action to, I'm staying where I am and I'm just going to shout, in here, whoever's free.
00:36:43
Speaker
Okay, nice. Thank you very much, Helena. Drago, you just heard in here, if anyone's free, as Helena rightly said, and just before that, you also heard the squeak of Folly. What would you want to do? With the squeak of glee, right? Yes, the squeak of glee from behind you. Yeah, of course not. The squeak of a laugh. Could you remind us the sound so we can interpret it normally? I think I've made that sound when I've caught myself in my flies, actually.
00:37:15
Speaker
Oh, like she's got Mary style. Yeah. That image burns into my mind. She's got Mary. She's got Mary. See what I said? Isn't it? There's something about Mary. Something about Mary. Did they say she's got Mary? She's got Mary. She's got a male and there's something about Mary. She's combined. There was nothing. I was like, what? That isn't a thing. I'm pretty sure. Anyway, she's got Mary. It's a sequel. No one wanted.
00:37:38
Speaker
Okay, so I'm just going to respond to Helena and go into the room after it. I'm no longer raged because I've dropped it after being inactive for around. So 5, 10, 15, 20, 25, 30.
00:37:53
Speaker
35? 40. I just step into the room beyond Helena and I take in everything that you so elegantly said last round. End of my go. Lovely. Thank you very much, Drago. The vampire that's currently embroiled with three of our party members will try and break out a bit and doesn't. He rolls a six, so plus two is eight, which I'm assuming Folly does not break the concentration of your iconic magic. I reiterate,
00:38:24
Speaker
He's gonna burn one of his legendary actions to negate the parrot paralysis and therefore breaks out of it and is going to Let's go. He's gonna turn around and he's going to smite Robin squarely in the jaw Why because he's throwing him into a bookcase and he has pride, you know, that's a 19 against your no. Yes a 19 against your armor class Defensive jewelers that misses
00:38:52
Speaker
It's going to then try again. That is a 22 against the Rama class. That one hits. Let me just check if defensive duel this holds for the whole round. Let me check my Abacus. Let me check my Slab. My Mesopotamian lore. Mesopotamia.
00:39:14
Speaker
I'm reading Sapiens by, I've forgotten the guy's name, and I'm just on the bit about writing, so that came up. Oh, nice. Was writing first recorded in ancient Mesopotamia? No, I just can't remember the name of the people that we have the first record. Sumatrian people, I think. They used the numerical system in sixes, so they had numbers for six, 10, 100. That one hits. That one hits. Lovely. I was doing a history lesson, but anyway. I know, that was so good.
00:39:45
Speaker
Goodbye the books, every good bookstore. Now the bookstores are open. 16, 17, 21 points of slashing damage. Owie wowie. Yowie wowie. You know what he's gonna do? He's gonna spit.
00:40:00
Speaker
Just a little bit. And it's like, it's not even like, it's not even like vicious. It's just a little bit long. Where does it land? I saw him on the lapel. Just like, just on his collar a little bit. Like just where you just, just can't see it out of sight. Like, I can see out of the corner of my eye, but I can't quite see it. It's just not very nice. It's not damage. No damage apart from, you know, your, your, your pride is big old Lugi. Cause he like crane his neck back and hoof it. No, it's even more pathetic than that. It's just a,
00:40:28
Speaker
And Kastan, your turn. There's vampires just spat on Robin. What do you want to do? So having felt a little bit deflated at the fact that he's tried to stab the vampire with his stake, and it's not worked, and then Robin danced him out of the way, which he was very grateful for. And clearly, Robin has some good footwork. He's clearly good in the party. Kastan is going to duck and weave around
00:40:55
Speaker
Robin to get the other side of the vampire to the other side of Claude and then like a sort of bravosi he's gonna he's gonna sort of drop the stake pull out his rapier and Show off the fact that he has been to fencing school And I'm going to use my rapier to stab at the vampire and have at the demon Roll to hit We'll have the 22 to hit
00:41:24
Speaker
You're welcome, Carol Vorderman. I think that hits, yeah. That's an old reference there. That isn't even like up-to-date countdown. That is old countdown. Rachel Riley now, mate. Rachel Riley, there you go. Yeah, that does hit. And then that's eight points of normal piercing damage. Two points of piercing damage. That's ten in total.
00:41:52
Speaker
Lovely. This creature is not looking well at all. But yes, that does hit. Good stuff. And then I'm going to give Claude some Bardic Inspiration. Thanks. You get Bardic Inspiration. You get Bardic Inspiration. Beat you to it. Top of the round, Claude, you have got Bardic Inspiration. You feel inspired, not by your deity, but by a ditty. Hey! What would you like to do?
00:42:20
Speaker
I will make good on my promise of last turn and I will ensure Robin is feeling better to the sum of 24 points of healing. Lovely, thank you. Well, that is lovely. You make it hard for me to kill you all off when you heal them, you know? Yeah, that's the only thing I really do. And you hug trees, don't forget that.
00:42:46
Speaker
You haven't given us a good tree problem in a while. I know. If you throw trees too often, Greenpeace will get on my ass, you see. It's a tricky spot, mate. I wouldn't want to be in position. I really wouldn't. I will just use my bonus action to command the shield to follow Helena wherever she needs to go. And the shield will just move into the room with Drago and Helena.
00:43:08
Speaker
Nice. It's just off to the left flank, closest to the set of three coffins that are in that room. Nice. Shit, everyone. Good. Thank you. So now we're on to Robin. Robin, your turn. This creature is now surrounded up against the bookcase. It does not look particularly healthy after getting stabbed by a bravosi finesse pincer prick.
Mysterious Mist and Coffin Discovery
00:43:31
Speaker
What would you like to do? I'm going to take two swings at it. The first one is a 19 to hit. That meets a beat. Wonderful.
00:43:39
Speaker
I feel like that's Robin's favourite number. I'm gonna get my t-shirt with that's one off a crit written on it. Yeah, I feel like that.
00:43:48
Speaker
And an abacus. And an abacus. It should have a dice with 19 and then on the back it'd say that's one off a crit. Oh no, even better. It's an abacus with 19 of the Fellowship of the Tabletop logos on one side and one on the other. It's one off a crit. Perfect. 26 points of slashing damage and then 9 points of radiant damage. 35 total.
00:44:13
Speaker
Darren Page, how do you want to do this? How do you kill me? Okay, so as Robin feels Claude's radiant touch sire through his body, he is just going to give the vampire a steely kind of glare as Wolverine style some of his wounds start to close up and is then just going to
00:44:39
Speaker
go with a straight thrust straight through the gut and this time ghostbang comes out the other side and then there's just that real kind of as he pulls the blade back out.
00:44:52
Speaker
And as you do that, this creature does kind of slowly turns round to you and starts to collapse down to its knees. And then as it's kind of facing chest hit the ground, again, it just turns into dust and kind of shoots past you and makes its way out of sight. It goes through the door to the east of you where you haven't yet explored and disappears.
00:45:17
Speaker
that creature has been slain or out of initiative order. Just as that happens, and there's a kind of a silence, the dust settles across everyone, Drago and Helena and the spectral weapon, as you slowly are creeping into this dim room, with again, only small bits of light entering through. These windows have been blotched out with some thick, almost tar-like substance across the windows. There is a thick amount of dust in this room. It hasn't been entered, it seems, in quite a while.
00:45:44
Speaker
you can see the long shaft of light shown by the dust and you see from the entrance down to the south this you hear this enormous gust of air kind of shoot up and into the far left coffin this mist this air this soul this presence seems to kind of fire into the coffin
00:46:06
Speaker
And then it's still, again, the dust doesn't seem to have moved in this whole process, but this mist seems to have shifted into the coffin closest to you. What do you want to do? What the fuck was that? I don't know. Is it in one of these coffins? Do you want to open the one that it went into? Yeah, of course I couldn't think of anything better.
00:46:33
Speaker
Well, yeah, okay. Otherwise, I'll be one of those things that you just kind of wonder about and always go back to maybe I should have opened it or it could be even worse and then we don't open it. I mean, we came into this room for a reason. So let me go and check. I'll get my sword at the ready. Move into the first coffin that she sees. Yeah. And are you opening up this up?
00:47:03
Speaker
Is that the one that the mist went through into? She's going to just give it a little bit of a bash on the top of the lid. She's not really going to sort of lift and move. She's just going to bash it on top of the lid to see if the lid actually comes away from the rest of the coffin. And Drago stood next to her with dengue contraception high up above his head, both hands on the hilt, just getting ready to strike.
00:47:31
Speaker
coffins are actually held on kind of struts.
00:47:35
Speaker
held above the ground, almost at hip height, so it sits quite high up, but slightly precarious. And as you knock it, it does the whole thing, seems to tip one way than the other, then one way than the other. And you think for a second, it's about to tip over into the other one in domino effect, but it doesn't. It just kind of writes itself, gravity pulls it back in and it's stationary again. However, in that first initial hit, you did see the lid kind of rattle a little bit as the rest of the coffin moved.
00:48:04
Speaker
I feel like you should open it. Um, sure. She's just going to get her elbow and sort of nudge it from underneath the, um, from where the lid is and really try and move it along.
00:48:18
Speaker
Nice, a COVID secure way of opening a coffin. I like it. And as you elbow this coffin, you do manage to kind of get an elbow under it. And you notice these coffins seem to be a very different wood to anything else in the area. It doesn't seem to match a lot of the decor that's here. These coffins have been...
00:48:37
Speaker
They seem dated in some way, but dated in a strange and almost anachronistic way. As you nudge it open, you do see, as you push it off, the same creature you were previously fighting, lying on its back, face up, eyes closed, still in the coffin. Unmoving. Unbreathing. Poke him. I'm not fucking poking him. You fucking poke him. Not something to see if he's alive. Well, why don't you just shove your deception thingy into him?
00:49:13
Speaker
Fine. Okay. I will... Plunge it. Plunge it. Do it. In the heart? In the heart? Yes, fucking in the heart. Fuck it in the heart. Okay, I've got you. I'm deploying that adjective wrongly. I'm glad you're not here, fuck off. Try again.
00:49:31
Speaker
Drago in his hands turns dengled to deception 180. So that is a very fucking huge stake. And just straight over the heart, pushes down as hard as possible. It pushes through the creature as hard as possible, breaking through the bottom of the coffin until it hits into the ground below and that you hear like the crunch of the ground below stopping the tip of the blade.
00:50:01
Speaker
As you pause there for a minute, and then I assume withdraw the blade, the creature doesn't move, nothing seems to happen. Blood on my sword, anything? None. To note? That's freaky. I mean, it wasn't breathing before, was it? No. I mean, should we try the other coffins as well? I don't know, I feel like that's killed it. I think that's probably a good idea, though. We don't know what's in them. Okay.
00:50:30
Speaker
Okay, I'll cock you back. You open, I'll slash. Okay. Fuck it. Whatever you, whatever term, you open, I'll do. Okay. Helen is going to walk over to the second coffin that she sees, and with her hands this time, she's going to shove the lid from the one coffin off.
00:50:52
Speaker
And as Drago sees the shove, he gets down to do the same stabby effect. It's empty. Like a well-oiled machine at this point, open stab with like vampire slayers. It's empty.
00:51:03
Speaker
It's empty while the sword would still go through it. It slams through the bottom of this ornate looking coffin and hits the ground below. You actually break one of the legs of the stand and the whole stand kind of collapses down. Just the coffin is now on the ground. Shit. Interesting. She's just going to look to the left of her again to just see if the body's still lifeless in the box and nothing's changed. It has not moved at all.
00:51:33
Speaker
Hasn't done an Undertaker, interestingly. Comes off. Sure, then we're going to go to the final coffin to the east and she's going to do the same thing. Shove the lid off the top.
00:51:46
Speaker
Sword goes straight down. And as you go to push it off, we'll just pause you there for just one second and go over to the rest of the group to come back to you guys.
Aftermath: Recovery and Unraveling Mysteries
00:51:55
Speaker
So Castan, Robin and Claude, this creature just disappeared as it hits the ground slain by Robin's hand. And then this mist has disappeared. You're stood internally looking at each other five feet apart of the bookcase just to your left. What do you guys want to do? Claude will instantly drop to the floor, holding his gut.
00:52:22
Speaker
I'm not feeling very well. I feel like that vampire took a lot of my vitality away from me.
00:52:37
Speaker
uh okay i don't know what to do about this um for everyone's reference i took 70 points of damage and that creature reduced my maximum hit points by 30 i think so or 29 or something like that i've got it here um yeah i'm hurt yeah we need to we need to robin let's let's get him back with the others and as he's saying this castan's also grabbing like the pieces of wood because he thinks steak's gonna be useful because of vampires
00:53:03
Speaker
He's gonna he's gonna have this bundle of kindling now before we do that Robin is just going to Did the mist disappear behind the door off to the east? Yes, so to your yeah. Yeah to the east The door you haven't been in because the door to the south in the library room takes you to a long kitchen But it wasn't that door. It was another door to the east that you haven't explored yet Robin will go
00:53:31
Speaker
Yes, I just want to see where that vampire went. I'll catch up with you and I'm just going to go over to that. Thanks Robin for your concern.
00:53:50
Speaker
Casta, this guy that probably weighs whatever he does, the heaviest when he's wet, tries to help lift up, help poor Claude stand and try and sort of hobble him into the main hall to try and find the others.
00:54:07
Speaker
Robin, you prick. I've literally just gone to open the door. I don't know. I saw the vampire go through it. I just want to see if it's in there. And as you start to do that, Karstan, you do see in front of you, Folly, I guess you're inquisitively heading towards the doorway that Helena and Drago has gone through. What's Folly been up to? Folly's going to try and help Claude a little bit at this stage. He can't particularly do much, so he's going to kind of wander over to him and he's just going to try and
00:54:38
Speaker
keep him up with his quarter staff, so he's kind of poking him up with his quarter staff, almost like being like a crutch on the other side. So Chloe's got one, Folly's got the other. Folly, have you got any potions or doodads or anything like that in your satchel that can help him? A doodad? What on earth did doodad? It's like a thing of me, Bob, but different.
00:55:02
Speaker
What's the thing in me, Bob? It's like a gribbly. Yeah, it's like a gribbly. It's a whatchamacallit. A whatchamacallit? What language are you speaking? Now, this is a language I understand. Thank you, Claude. God, I'm doomed. I'm doomed. All my potions, I'm afraid of, the majority of these are gluing things up. I've never actually made one to heal. That's not what we want to do. We don't want to blow him up.
00:55:30
Speaker
I don't fancy one of your special brews today. Tell me, Claude, I can see that you're rather weak, but do you have any sense of where you might be able to just move yourself here and make it slightly easier on you? I could if you'd like to make you fly.
00:55:47
Speaker
I don't know if flying will make me feel better. Last time induced panic and serious concern. You won't crush Kastan if you fall. If the DM will permit me, I could try and conjure up a quick health potion.
00:56:02
Speaker
Well hang on, hang on, Folly, I've got a, and Carson's gonna pull out, I've got a 2d4 plus 1 healing potion and I'm gonna sort of own stopper it and sort of hold it for Claude to try and drink from. So you have a potion of healing and you're still asking if I have one? What the hell is wrong with you? I only just remembered I had it. Remember things better.
00:56:25
Speaker
I'll take it, but what I'm trying to get at is this is not a regular feeling that I can just heal away. It hurts my soul. I can sing you a song to make it better, but I don't think that would quite work. I like six verse songs.
00:56:47
Speaker
Have you heard of Jesus of suburbia? Like a 10-minute ditty, please? No, but you do... You mean a kiva of suburbia? That's the one. Oh, I rolled four. Do you get nine points of healing back? Thank you. Why? Because I just gave him my healing potion. Oh, OK, right. And I rolled... It's 2d4, and I rolled four and a four, and it's a plus one. So you didn't sing him a song of healing or anything? No, not yet. OK.
00:57:18
Speaker
Thank you very much. I'm assuming Claude's still looking pale at this point. Yeah. I thought he's just going to kind of turn to Karsten with this. That's okay for surface scratches and wounds, but yes, I think I see what Claude is getting at now. He's got something, well, not something that standard health can heal him, not something standard time can heal him. I think he needs to see a professional.
00:57:47
Speaker
OK, Helena, Drago, Claude's not very well. And I'm going to be shouting this in the hallway. And as that gets shouted in, this is all going to kind of happen at the same time. Robin, you would have stepped through into another large room. The room is...
00:58:05
Speaker
has a massive huge dining room table, a banquet hall, if you will, but a smaller kind of squat version. Thick dust is in the air, and two of the windows at the far end of the room, as you look into it, have dark, kind of blue, dark blue curtains blotting out the bright sunlight of the golds you day. On the table in front of you, it seems like something has been rushed, something has been finished very quickly.
00:58:32
Speaker
Four of the chairs around this long table are strewn about, pushed back like in a hurry. There are three placings for dinner with rotten food on them untouched. At the far end of the table is the chair of the head of the table. And there next to it, oddly, is a candle and some paper and a quill and some parchment.
00:58:53
Speaker
This table and chair area at the far end seems to have been used after the fact these eight chairs have been moved around. There's dust and everything over those eight chairs but the chair at the end seems to have been used more recently. Is there anything you'd want to do? There's also two bookcases flanking an entrance to the north which matches up with where Drago and Helena are in. Anything you want to do Robin?
00:59:14
Speaker
Robin's plan was just to open the door and see if the vampire was in here. Upon not seeing the vampire, he was going to turn back to Claude and Carstan. But I'm guessing all this has been happening in situ. Does he hear Drago and Helena? Because I assume there's no door on the room adjacent. Is there a door here or is this open?
00:59:39
Speaker
There's no door, it's just an open kind of alcove through into the next. Give me a perception check, please, Robin.
00:59:45
Speaker
If I hear them, I'll go to them. If I don't, the plan was going to be what Robin was doing and turn back. 17 plus two, 19. You do hear them and you can hear the thud of Dengon's deception down through wood and crumbling of wood and probably Bellinga going, Jesus, for fuck's sake, Drago or something along those lines to the north of you. With that perception check, you also notice that
01:00:11
Speaker
there is only one sheet of parchment walking past and taking in the scene. At the end of the table, there is just one piece of parchment in front of this chair where the quill stood just next to it with writing on it. And you can see that quite clearly as you walk past. Do you want to just head straight into the room? I'm guessing with that perception role, it's enough to notice that there's something significant about it. Is that why? Yeah, it's notably
01:00:40
Speaker
It's been used much more frequently than the rest of the room seems to have been used. That's why I've been making a point of it, because it does stand out. There's no dust in this part of the room. The chair seems to be in particular as you place this, no dust on the chair. It seems odd in comparison to the rest of the room. A moment of curiosity hits him as he notices the notepad. And I'm just going to go over and very, very carefully just peer at it, aware of the fact that peering at literature before has had very bad results for me.
01:01:11
Speaker
What you seem to be looking at is a page of a diary. The last page of a diary, the last entries of a diary. And as you quickly scan over it, you read the following. The experiment is close. It's already longer and our folly will reach us. Desmond and Pellen have returned with the necessary supplies from clear guard. Jennifer did not make it. The blight took her.
01:01:36
Speaker
Nonetheless her sacrifice will not be in vain if I can successfully transmute these elements into their formative form. A complete replication of what I have seen in the past will allow for a volatile state powerful enough to tear through.
01:01:51
Speaker
Well, I don't know what it will tear through. Only we three shall know." And then there's like a gap where obviously this is a second entry. The writing changes slightly quicker, hasty, slightly more unkempt. All time is out of joint. A rip, a tear has occurred. My experiments have failed to an extent in as much as it did not complete their purpose, but found another. This tear is through a fabric of existence.
01:02:19
Speaker
This will allow me access to planar travel, a feat not successfully completed in a millennia. There's another gap. Writing is more fervent, more jaggedy, more scrawly.
01:02:32
Speaker
Three beings have arrived. They are three. They are not meant to be here. Their presence offends nature and I offend their presence. They are powerful. So very powerful. Their energy bends the minds to their will. I have secluded them in the retiring room for now, but I feel their physical detriment will not subdue the storm that approaches. Another gap.
01:02:59
Speaker
More fervent. They have broken out, passing through the door as easily as wind through an open window. They are formless. Their will resolute. Desmond has gone. He is no longer of the living. However, he is not one of the blight. He is something more arcane, more anachronistic, more dangerous. I searched out the servants to aid us. They have perished. The door was jammed by a fallen piece of masonry.
01:03:26
Speaker
The house seems to be working against us. I feel our fate is tied with this old mansion. A gap. The writing out almost illegible. Pelon has disappeared. I'm sure that he is alive somewhere. I'm going to explore the kitchen for supplies before looking further afield. Small gap. No sign of them. No sign of anyone. I have one last chance. Just enough powder left to leave this place.
01:03:55
Speaker
I leave this here as a warning to those who enter here or find this letter. Leave this place. And if any of the gods exist, let them guide you safe from harm. You'll need it. And that's the end of the diary entry. And on that, Robin, as you just bring the letter down, that's what we're going to end it for this week's episode of the Fellowship of the Tabletop.
01:04:22
Speaker
Oh shit! God damn it! God damn vampires! Killed the vampires, guys. That was like an episode of Buffy the Vampire Slayer. That was... That was awesome. That was a sick little fight, guys. I'm glad I got to... Did some actual damage to you guys for once. Did some mega damage. Mega damage. Nearly all of the party care about it.
01:04:46
Speaker
Yeah, nearly. One person decided to walk off. Hey, you wanted to explore all the rooms. I totally get it. I totally get it. And the vampire disappeared, and I was high on adrenaline. And you gave me the opportunity to give this little diary entry as a nice ending point of the episode, so there you go. And do you call dragon a barbarian? Just a shaky claw coming up to... I'm hurt. I'm hurt. Fuck you, I'm off. Hi, what's behind that door?
01:05:14
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I get it, Darren. I get it. I get it. We all get it. And hopefully everyone at home, you get it too, just like you get this episode. And because of that, we thank you very much for tuning in and listening, making us a party every day week. We love you. If you want to keep up to date with the podcast to find out all the longer ends and stuff like that, you can do so. And our Twitter page, which is at fellowship table. And if you wanted to go one step further and follow us individually, you can do that too. I'm at, I rolled a one Darren's at page six.
01:05:42
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Will is at... Natural 20 Will Callum is at... The D20 Gamer Danny is at... At Total Party Thrills Casey is at... Spit on the clit Wow! OK! I can't, I can't, that's brilliant Spit on the clit
01:06:09
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Well, have fun deciding if that's... Oh, wow. That is amazing. You win. You win everything. And our DM is out. I don't know where I'm at anymore. I just don't know. I'm thinking about hastily rolled DM. I'm shocked. They're all done now. They're all done. All this and more tune in next week.
01:06:39
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That's it, until next time guys.