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Curse of Strahd Ep. 29: Gazing into the Void
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Call the Lightning finally tracks down Jimothy at Lake Luna and learns what he’s been up to all these years. Turns out, he’s formed an unusual alliance with a mysterious creature beneath the lake, which we immediately renamed Yoch'Sizzler. The group shares stories, makes deals, and uncovers deep lore about the nature of Barovia and its strange, repeating cycles. Somehow, after a freaky brain-reading sequence, the party becomes a little more... unhinged than before. If that's possible.
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Transcript
Introduction and Welcome
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The Blade's Edge
Hello one and all and welcome back to Blade's Edge, a D&D actual play podcast where we are currently running through Curse of Strahd.
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The Blade's Edge
If you were with us last time, pretty exciting ep.
Revelation of the Mad Mage's Identity
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The Blade's Edge
We finally figured out the Mad Mage's true identity. Venificus Ridley Valentine, a um somebody who served apprentice of Mordenkainen, legendary mage, and of Azephia Stardock, another legendary mage.
Jimothy and the Lake Luna Creature
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The Blade's Edge
um We also found Jimothy. We finally found him. He is on Lake Luna.
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Kyle
My boy.
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The Blade's Edge
He has been, it turns out, ah forming some sort of bond and relationship with a creature, an alien-like creature that both um Dasan and Stalvodok, Vesrak and Stalvodok, saw underneath the lake.
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The Blade's Edge
ah That seems to
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The Blade's Edge
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Lake Luna Events Discussion
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The Blade's Edge
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The Blade's Edge
uh dane brandon lewis ryan thank you guys so much for supporting us over there and uh if you uh two are interested head to patreon.com slash blades edge ah but we pick back up uh mid-rain the snowing has stopped the mountain to your east covered in snow but it is raining where you see lake luna um you guys have maybe maybe at this point you guys can all move your tokens on the map over into the town maybe you guys have all made your way over there ah where you sit and you guys can either you guys can take a short rest if you'd like but you are here with the mad mage his his compatriots philip and sila as well as jimothy the person that um
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The Blade's Edge
Valerius Moonstone, at least, this was a big ah hook for Valerius Moonstone for coming into the fogs as werewolves for kidnapping children from the school that he taught at.
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The Blade's Edge
Now, while Valerius might have died, his memory lives on through you guys. And ah while Jimothy is no longer a child, you do see this...
Jimothy's Past and Escape Plans
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The Blade's Edge
you know, sort of 70 something year old Triton, ah red robes, blue skin, ears that look like fins, ah dark green hair, has invited you into his town.
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The Blade's Edge
You see that nobody else lives here. It is just Jimothy, Yock Sizzler, the guy underneath the water um ah that you guys fought to get here.
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The Blade's Edge
And, ah you know, every now and then you'll see a fish, a very weird looking fish pop out of the water and like walk onto land with like legs and come and like grab something out of a hut and then walk back and like dive in the water.
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Trevor
ah I was thinking like instant evolution. Like he grows legs, then immediately a torso with arms.
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The Blade's Edge
Yeah.
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Trevor
Holy shit.
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Kyle Beams
I don't know if any of our listeners has have ever watched the anime Gintama, but there's a character named Elizabeth that is essentially like a mascot chicken, and it looks like a chicken, but it's just got a guy inside it, pulls up its legs, or its um outfit, and it's just got big hairy legs, and the fish just walks up like that and goes back in the water.
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The Blade's Edge
Yeah, grab something.
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Trevor
That's so funny.
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Kyle Beams
Ha ha ha ha.
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The Blade's Edge
um he would have been able to ferry across your horse if you'd like to sawn.
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Vesz'rak
Yes, please.
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The Blade's Edge
Nice. ah he He sort of yeah brings over a makeshift, you know, just piece of wood that sort of floats that can hold some weight that he's used and ah brings you guys into his town. You guys spend about an hour short resting and chatting with Jimothy as he says. um Oh, hey, so it's a lot. You guys you guys know who I am.
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Vesz'rak
My god, we finally found him.
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Kyle
You've been missing for so long.
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Vesz'rak
that's like good i I go back to the beginning of my notebook.
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The Blade's Edge
What do you mean? I've been missing for so long. I've been here on Lake Luna for like 30 years.
Strahd's Oppression and Overthrow Plans
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Vesz'rak
Jimothy, you stopped coming to class. You were kidnapped.
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The Blade's Edge
Oh.
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Vesz'rak
Valerius Moonstone, Mommy Knight, the werewolves.
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The Blade's Edge
Like.
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The Blade's Edge
Bobby dad and that I don't know, but Valerius Moonstone, that was my teacher.
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Trevor
Mommy night.
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The Blade's Edge
How do you know my teacher?
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Vesz'rak
i he We came here 70 plus years ago to get you.
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Trevor
As much as I like the idea of Anabi still being out on the lake just fucking waiting. Like in the rain.
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Vesz'rak
okay.
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Trevor
ah i' say he's up here.
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The Blade's Edge
Oh, yeah, yeah. for Feel free to move your be token.
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Trevor
That funny.
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The Blade's Edge
um Whoa. ah you you You guys came here 70 years ago to find me, and you're just now finding me?
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Vesz'rak
look okay
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The Blade's Edge
That's not very good success rate. Not that I'm judging. I mean, thanks for...
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Vesz'rak
we're not We're not professionals, Jimothy.
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The Blade's Edge
Thanks for finding me. i Yeah, but 70 years, it's a long time. but
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Trevor
Well, your old teacher did die.
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Vesz'rak
I died. Valerius died.
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Trevor
Yeah. So.
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The Blade's Edge
Oh, he died. Valerius came here, and he died.
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Vesz'rak
yeah he died, like, right away.
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Trevor
Yeah, he's dead.
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The Blade's Edge
No. Right away, you said.
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Vesz'rak
yeah like, right away.
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Trevor
Pretty fast.
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The Blade's Edge
Jesus Well, i've lost thanks for this backhanded thing there, Mr.
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Trevor
Yeah. He got walloped. He was a teacher.
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Vesz'rak
Yeah.
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Kyle Beams
Also, my observation is that it's been 70 years and no one else has come looking for you.
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Trevor
He wasn't really cut out for this.
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Kyle Beams
You should be appreciative.
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The Blade's Edge
Robot, but I've been doing just fine on my own, thank you very much. I don't necessarily need your rescuing,
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The Blade's Edge
but
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Trevor
Random question.
Mind Reading and Its Effects
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Trevor
I've got a question for you. What, why were you kidnapped by werewolves? Is that how you were taken here?
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The Blade's Edge
Yeah, I was.
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Vesz'rak
Bye, Mommy Night.
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Trevor
What happened? What did, did they hurt you or?
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The Blade's Edge
Bobby Knight, that's new to me. Bobby Knight's new to me.
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Vesz'rak
it Well, the other colloquial term is Mother Night, but with that I don't think she goes by that anymore.
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The Blade's Edge
they Oh, yes. Mother Night. That I know. Mother Night. That is i mean it's not anybody that I've ever met. But so the werewolves. Yeah, they they were kidnapping children and they were bringing them here. And some children were being sacrificed to Strahd.
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The Blade's Edge
Some children were being like um sold to the Vistani.
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Vesz'rak
yeah that's bad.
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The Blade's Edge
Yeah, really bad.
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Trevor
Oh, God damn.
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The Blade's Edge
Some kids were being ah like raised here. Some kids were being turned into werewolves to join their clan. ah For me, they were going to sacrifice me. I was of them that was going to be sacrificed. But I i felt something. They were going to drown me in the lake, Lake Luna. And i I felt something, a presence And I called out and I asked for help. And that is how I met Yacht Sizzler.
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The Blade's Edge
And um we've been working together ever since. I've done a bit of traveling before i sort of settled down here on the lake. I have spent kind of most my life trying to get out of here.
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The Blade's Edge
or figure a way out of here, whether it's, you know, it could be for me or it could be for, you know, people down the road. But see that shipped out there i've actually ah um i i build ah ship a ship to sail the mists.
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Vesz'rak
ah can How? How are you going to sail that nobody can leave?
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The Blade's Edge
There are ways to leave. There are people who can leave, and I believe that we can – that there's a way that would be a yox sizzler put our hands together. ah We could do it. And listen, I don't mind getting my hands dirty.
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The Blade's Edge
you know i mean I'm not afraid of hard work. In fact, I prefer it. So if there's ah if there's a task at hand, I'm down to do it.
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Vesz'rak
Yeah, I get that.
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The Blade's Edge
It's just got to be perfect. It has to be perfect. It has to be perfect.
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Trevor
Respect.
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The Blade's Edge
It has to be exactly perfect. It can't be anything off perfect.
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Trevor
Yeah.
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Vesz'rak
and I get it. Hey.
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The Blade's Edge
Everything has to be perfect.
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Trevor
And who else could who else could do it?
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Vesz'rak
Look, I, so it ha, yeah, it's gotta be you.
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Trevor
It's got to be you.
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Vesz'rak
Nobody else. Yeah, exactly.
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The Blade's Edge
has to be an eye and it has to be perfect and I can I think I can do it I mean muddied waters muddied water always clears the away in time you know they say hey so yeah it's and if it's not perfect I won't try it you know maybe which is why I haven't tried it yet and I keep working on it but it's gonna be perfect
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Trevor
Fuck yeah.
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Vesz'rak
Right, right, right.
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Trevor
Same, same.
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Vesz'rak
So, okay, so let me get, so you don't want to go back home or you do want to go back home?
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The Blade's Edge
I think... i'd like to i'd like the ah I'd like the option. I mean, at this point, what, my parents back home are probably dead.
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Vesz'rak
I get it.
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Vesz'rak
Your teacher's dead.
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The Blade's Edge
by fred My my teachers dead, as you've said. Yes, that's very sad. Valerius Boots, don't pour one out. ob Yeah, i mean, I... i I wish to craft this boat to sail through the most dangerous of storms, to sail through the most dangerous of mists, to to give people a sense of hope and salvation. This is a pretty dark and dreary place, and you know I found my my friendship here with Yachs Sizzler.
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The Blade's Edge
Yeah, you know it's just me and Yachs Sizzler, two for 20.
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Vesz'rak
well well if you're trying to ah two ah Well, if you're trying to bring people hope and salvation, I mean, what better group to help you know help you out than, you know, and I kind of like tap my shield with the sun sword and be like, let's end her, right? I mean, that's what everyone seems to be gravitating towards, right?
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The Blade's Edge
Not from my experience, no.
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Vesz'rak
Oh, okay.
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The Blade's Edge
No. No, not not really. No. If anything, that Mother Night you said, Mommy Night, I don't know that one. But it's it's kind of catching on. Romain Persuasion Check.
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Vesz'rak
ah
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The Blade's Edge
TC15 to get Mommy Night going?
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Vesz'rak
Oh, for Mommy Night to get her going? All right.
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The Blade's Edge
Yeah.
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Trevor
This is what he crits on, I bet.
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Vesz'rak
Look, look, look,
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Kyle Beams
Oh
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Kyle Beams
um my gosh.
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The Blade's Edge
Funny about it.
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Trevor
Damn it.
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Kyle
God.
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The Blade's Edge
Mommy Night, as you said this, just a
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Vesz'rak
look.
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Vesz'rak
when i 21. Look, when it comes to the spider mommy and it comes to Mommy Night, look, I can't miss.
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Trevor
That is hilarious.
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Vesz'rak
But when it comes to...
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The Blade's Edge
You've kind of got to think for this. This Lathander guy you're pitching me, I'm not really feeling that as much. Kind of stuffy. It's like on a shield. It's like battle. It's like it's giving war and desperate times and like blah, blah, blah. On this Mommy Knight, on the other hand, like you've got a good thing going here with the branding.
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Vesz'rak
Yeah, yeah.
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The Blade's Edge
Like Mommy Knight, that's got something going to it. The werewolves worship Mommy Knight, not me so much, but I'm okay. Me and Yoxus have a good thing going here. I actually owe Yoxisler my life. So I, I, I, my, my work, my life's work is in servitude to, to, to building the ship, uh, and to Yoxisler, you know, I, I, I repair broken things, uh, to redeem what's, what's been broken in me, you know?
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Vesz'rak
I get that.
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Trevor
Jesus Christ did.
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Kyle
Bars.
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Vesz'rak
Some people, yeah.
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Kyle
Bars.
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Vesz'rak
Some people lean on technology, others, their faith in Lathander or Mommy Knight or Spider Mommy or whoever. ah Huh?
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The Blade's Edge
That sounds like three different things going on in your head. So I'm confused. So which one of those three is do you, is your kind of thing?
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Vesz'rak
What do you mean? I just said, I said one thing.
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Trevor
like
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The Blade's Edge
Right, okay.
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Vesz'rak
i said Lathander. What did you hear?
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The Blade's Edge
Right. Oh, no, nothing. Nothing, yeah.
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Vesz'rak
Okay.
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The Blade's Edge
Um...
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Vesz'rak
Uh, so where's what's your first destination after you get the ship all built?
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The Blade's Edge
I would probably go home. I would probably go home first and just sort of touch base in the real world, be at Yacht Zizzler, set up a home base for me and Yacht Zizzler in the real world, and then maybe establish a link and start trying to ferry people ah that ah that get trapped here back home if that's something possible that I could do.
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Vesz'rak
Uh
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Vesz'rak
huh.
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The Blade's Edge
ah you know i'm I'm obsessed. I'm obsessed with my boat. What can I say?
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Vesz'rak
Yeah, what is, what's the name of the boat?
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The Blade's Edge
Yeah. And why has to be perfect, right?
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Vesz'rak
It has to be perfect, that's the name of the boat.
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The Blade's Edge
That's the name of the boat. It has to be perfect.
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Vesz'rak
Okay. ah What Yawk Sizzler? What does Sizzlers get out of this?
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The Blade's Edge
ah Well, companionship, you know, me and Yak Sizzler, we share a link, you know, and we share knowledge. Yak Sizzler, I know if I know there's one thing I know about
Plan to Defeat Strahd
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The Blade's Edge
Yak, he loves to read.
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Kyle
Yuck.
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The Blade's Edge
Yak loves to read. Yak loves to learn. And I'm of a similar mind. So he's always looking for information and stuff. And I'm trying to build my boat. You know, it's got to be perfect.
00:12:27
Kyle Beams
Suddenly all Frenchmen just got terrifying to me because they're all, instead of being Jacques, they're Jacques.
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Trevor
They are here.
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Kyle Beams
Jacques Pepin, legendary chef of the underworld.
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Kyle
Yucky way.
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Kyle
um I have a question for Jimothy.
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The Blade's Edge
Yeah.
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Kyle
Do you know about Strahd?
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The Blade's Edge
Of course. Who doesn't? I mean, he rules Barovia, right?
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Kyle
What do you, uh, he does rule Barovia. What think you think he's good good ruler
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The Blade's Edge
um No. No, definitely not. I mean, it's evident, right? I mean, the people hate him and it's, it's all, it's all death and despair here. There's just, you know, the Vestadier serve him and then the werewolves serve him. And then there's those, those evil druids that used to be around that, you know, ah aren't really around as much anymore used to serve him, but just sort of like, you know, if you serve him, life's okay. And if you don't serve him, life sucks. And, you know, best case scenario, life is okay.
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The Blade's Edge
You know what I mean?
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Trevor
you
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The Blade's Edge
So obviously he's not, he's not very good. He's, He's been obsessed with, you know, he so he's constantly trying to find ah this woman, you know.
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Kyle
yeah well we definitely don't serve him as a matter of fact we want him gone
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The Blade's Edge
Oh, right on, right on. That sounds great.
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Vesz'rak
Yeah, how would you... So let me pitch let's pitch a job proposal, Sharks.
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Vesz'rak
What if there was a way to make the mistravels easier for you and Yock Sizzler?
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The Blade's Edge
Yeah, I mean, there could be, we're interested in that. I mean, Yach's talking to me right now my head. he's He's letting me know that he's saying in Strahd, obviously, if you guys attacked Strahd's castle or if you were trying to overthrow Strahd, there's obviously going to be knowledge in there, ah information that could help us traverse the mists.
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Vesz'rak
What's he saying? Yeah.
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The Blade's Edge
And if we were if we were able to get access to that information, I could finish, it has to be perfect.
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The Blade's Edge
And I could take you guys out of here unless any of your souls are stuck here. already if your soul is stuck here.
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Vesz'rak
Uh-huh.
00:14:30
Vesz'rak
Yeah. I don't think any of our souls are stuck here That sounds like a plan.
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The Blade's Edge
Make a deception check.
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Vesz'rak
No, no. Yeah, I think that all sounds good.
00:14:41
Trevor
Oh.
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Vesz'rak
18. 18. eighteen
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The Blade's Edge
That sounds great. ah That would be great.
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Kyle
Mm-hmm.
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The Blade's Edge
If you guys did that, we would be able to get information. So you'd get us the information. With that information, we'd be able to use the boat to help ah you guys leave Varovia.
00:15:00
Vesz'rak
What about like, what if the people of Vallaki wanted to leave Barovia? Would you also help them get out?
00:15:06
The Blade's Edge
It depends, right? Because some people aren't real. Has nobody told you that yet?
00:15:12
Vesz'rak
That's offensive, but What do
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Trevor
but
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The Blade's Edge
Is that news to you?
00:15:18
Vesz'rak
but you mean they aren't real?
00:15:20
The Blade's Edge
This place is like... I've seen it. I've been here long enough to see it. Me and Yach both. This place is like... It resets. People that die come back.
00:15:34
The Blade's Edge
But when they come back, now they're not alive anymore, but they're here. They're like images of their former selves, so they can't leave. They can't be saved. Very few people are originals, original copies.
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The Blade's Edge
Obviously, there are those that are originals that could leave and traverse the mists of Astani do it all the time.
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Vesz'rak
Thank you.
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The Blade's Edge
The werewolves do it. There are certain people, the Old Mist Inquisitors or the the the ah Keepers of the Feather, can do it, but a lot of normal people you see on the street, it's just, they're echoes of a former life, of a former self.
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Kyle Beams
Yeah, and you see Doc nodding his head.
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Trevor
okay
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Kyle Beams
I'm like, I don't know what version I am.
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Trevor
What, uh, how often does that happen?
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The Blade's Edge
I don't, honestly, I don't know. I think it's just like, when somebody dies, I think if you die here, your soul is trapped here.
00:16:26
Trevor
You die for real.
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The Blade's Edge
So if you die, if you die in Barovia, you eventually have another life. Almost like reincarnation in way, because it's not like you live the exact same life, but you're almost reincarnated as somebody else, but you're stuck.
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The Blade's Edge
Then that version of yourself can't leave.
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Vesz'rak
So I feel like what we're getting at is you would.
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The Blade's Edge
Why? none of you have died here, right?
00:16:55
Vesz'rak
No, of course not.
00:16:57
The Blade's Edge
can make another deception check.
00:17:01
Vesz'rak
Of course not.
00:17:02
Kyle
I stand there and I look down and I kind of just like tighten my grip on my axe.
00:17:05
Vesz'rak
Nat 20.
00:17:06
Kyle
Oh my god, dude.
00:17:07
Trevor
Oh, get wrecked.
00:17:09
Kyle Beams
He did it.
00:17:09
Kyle
Come on
00:17:09
Kyle Beams
He did it. it is
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Trevor
Holy.
00:17:11
The Blade's Edge
He goes, oh, perfect.
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Vesz'rak
Look, I look, I don't control it, okay?
00:17:14
Kyle
Come on, man.
00:17:16
The Blade's Edge
He goes, well, yeah, it's there. You're you're you're born into a new body. That's why Strahd, his whole thing is about finding his first love, Tatiana.
00:17:26
Vesz'rak
Yeah.
00:17:28
Trevor
Buss it down.
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The Blade's Edge
But Tatiana Tatiana died.
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Vesz'rak
Right.
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The Blade's Edge
So have you heard about him like pining after some sort of any eddie sort of female around here?
00:17:39
Kyle Beams
We sure have. Well, I guess ah ah Doc doesn't know that.
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The Blade's Edge
Yeah, what's her name? but
00:17:44
Kyle Beams
the rest of the group does.
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The Blade's Edge
Oh.
00:17:49
Vesz'rak
ah Not Ezmeral, the fuck. Hold on, hold on, hold on.
00:17:52
Kyle Beams
Ilyana?
00:17:53
Vesz'rak
I'm in my notes.
00:17:55
The Blade's Edge
Irina?
00:17:56
Vesz'rak
I think
00:17:56
Kyle Beams
Irina, yeah.
00:17:58
The Blade's Edge
Right, well this Irina, I'm sure, is, he's, he thinks Irina is Tatiana reincarnated. Which Irina would have no knowledge of, but it could be true.
00:18:12
The Blade's Edge
Right? His former love, his former bride, I think he has a sense for these sorts of things. But, so, I wouldn't be able to take, like you like you said, this the town of Wallachie out of here, because some people cannot leave.
00:18:19
Vesz'rak
i think
00:18:25
Vesz'rak
Yeah, that's a tragedy. But for the rest of us who could leave...
00:18:28
The Blade's Edge
Right, for all of us, everybody standing here.
00:18:30
Vesz'rak
and Yeah, everyone that's standing here could leave. Yeah.
00:18:32
The Blade's Edge
Right, us, this guy, Venificus, and also Yach, yeah, we could all leave.
00:18:33
Vesz'rak
Yeah.
00:18:38
The Blade's Edge
Philip and Sila, too.
00:18:38
Vesz'rak
um
00:18:40
Vesz'rak
What if we smuggled Irina out? Then what? you think Strahd just finds somebody new or do you think he comes after her?
00:18:48
The Blade's Edge
um Well, she can't leave, right? i mean, if she's Tatiana reincarnated, she wouldn't be able to leave.
00:18:52
Vesz'rak
Oh, right. Sorry. This whole thing.
00:18:54
The Blade's Edge
Right.
00:18:54
Vesz'rak
It's so foreign to me dying and coming back.
00:18:55
The Blade's Edge
I think the only thing, if you're trying to, right, no, me too, i have no idea.
00:18:56
Vesz'rak
It's like, I got it.
00:18:58
Trevor
He's
00:19:00
The Blade's Edge
If you're trying to save this woman, though, it sounds like, then it would align back with the goals of defeating Strahd and then letting me and Yacht look at his books and stuff in his library.
00:19:11
Vesz'rak
Right. So if we.
00:19:12
The Blade's Edge
Hey, do you have that you're getting rid of? Any of you guys? you need to offer a person?
00:19:18
Vesz'rak
it like for free.
00:19:19
The Blade's Edge
Yeah, just like I think you're you're getting rid of.
00:19:21
Kyle Beams
Yeah, I open up my chest cavity and a couple of different like bolts and screws and shit come out and I pull out like two daggers.
00:19:24
The Blade's Edge
oh yeah.
00:19:31
The Blade's Edge
Are you getting of those?
00:19:32
Kyle Beams
Yeah, you can have them.
00:19:33
The Blade's Edge
ah Yeah, you never know what so might be useful. Let me grab those.
00:19:36
The Blade's Edge
Okay. He tosses them into this massive bin that's maybe right over here. I'll draw on the map. I drew it in black, but can still see I can change it here.
00:19:36
Kyle Beams
Sure, yeah.
00:19:47
Kyle Beams
Two daggers, some nuts and some bolts.
00:19:49
The Blade's Edge
Yeah, he drives, he throws it in this massive bin that's just full of like the most random shit. Even like, there's like kelp. There's like kelp. There's like dirt. ah Now there's two daggers sitting on top.
00:19:58
Kyle Beams
Taco Bell Diablo sauce packet.
00:20:01
The Blade's Edge
Yeah, and he just goes, yeah, if you never know. but I might need it for, it has to perfect, so you never know.
00:20:11
Vesz'rak
So if we went to war with Strahd, could we count on you guys to be an ally?
00:20:16
The Blade's Edge
let me Let me talk with Yak. I mean, obviously we have a vested interest in doing that, but war, that is it. are Our deal is you defeat Straub, we get you out of here.
00:20:27
The Blade's Edge
But if you want us, Yak's telling me that if you want our help in defeating him, because he can sort of like raise armies of undead and skeletons and whatever.
00:20:41
The Blade's Edge
ah If you want our help, we need knowledge.
00:20:47
The Blade's Edge
He's already seen his, and he points at Bash. But Yach would need to look at all of your minds.
00:20:56
Vesz'rak
Ahhhh!
00:20:56
Kyle Beams
I would offer mine willingly having gazed at this thing and finding it to be the most like terrifyingly hilarious thing, knowing that there are things far more crazy than werewolves and vampires that were my, my main prey. Now I know there's other things out there.
00:21:14
The Blade's Edge
i completely agree. I mean, that's why me and Yox is our boys. I think the unknown, you know, my whole life has been decay and despair and evil ah that I meet somebody who is just other.
00:21:35
The Blade's Edge
You know, but that's what Yox says if you want our help. ah The fight. Hey, listen, I've been known to do a little. Yeah, yeah.
00:21:45
Kyle Beams
Yeah, I'm into it.
00:21:45
Vesz'rak
Yeah, what do you got?
00:21:45
The Blade's Edge
Well,
00:21:45
Vesz'rak
Show me. You do it.
00:21:46
Kyle Beams
i id let I'd let him let him feel me up.
00:21:50
The Blade's Edge
but I'm talking about me.
00:21:51
The Blade's Edge
I can do a little kick. Yeah, I'm not sure. I don't want fill you up.
00:21:51
Trevor
Well,
00:21:53
Kyle Beams
Oh, I see.
00:21:54
Vesz'rak
Pull your pants up.
00:21:54
Trevor
hey
00:21:54
Kyle Beams
so
00:21:55
The Blade's Edge
Right.
00:21:56
Trevor
you can fuck me.
00:21:56
Vesz'rak
Pull your pants up.
00:21:57
Trevor
That's fine. Whatever.
00:21:59
Vesz'rak
um
00:21:59
Trevor
can make out. That's that's chill.
00:22:01
The Blade's Edge
Well, if you mean, if you mean, if you mean Yach, I mean, yeah, Yach would like to take a look into your guy's mind.
00:22:02
Vesz'rak
pull you pull your pants up or your pan
00:22:08
The Blade's Edge
It's just some sort of
00:22:08
Kyle Beams
Yeah, that's what I thought was that Yach would want to gaze into whatever is in my mind.
00:22:14
The Blade's Edge
Yeah, absolutely.
00:22:15
Kyle Beams
I would allow it.
00:22:15
The Blade's Edge
But i ah we only sort of have a deal if everybody's sort of okay with that.
00:22:16
Kyle Beams
True.
00:22:22
Kyle Beams
true
00:22:23
Vesz'rak
I don't think you're going to like it. I'll allow it.
00:22:26
The Blade's Edge
Well, it's not me doing it. I won't know.
00:22:28
Vesz'rak
Yeah, I don't think he'll like it either.
00:22:28
The Blade's Edge
But Yach will know.
00:22:30
Vesz'rak
That's the problem.
00:22:31
The Blade's Edge
Oh, really?
00:22:33
Vesz'rak
It just might be a little icky. It's a little muddled up here, you know?
00:22:36
The Blade's Edge
Right. I mean, yeah, you said three things then you said you said one. So, like, I fully understand.
00:22:42
Vesz'rak
What are you talking about?
00:22:43
The Blade's Edge
Right. Yeah.
00:22:45
Trevor
Right.
00:22:45
The Blade's Edge
Hey, have you ever been, ah have you ever thought about a higher, obviously you've thought about a higher power, but what about a higher power that's tangible? You know you keep talking about Lathander you're talking about all this stuff, but Yach's here.
00:23:01
The Blade's Edge
You've seen him and he has power he could give you if only you give yourself to him instead of these ideas of daddy this, mommy that, you know?
00:23:11
Vesz'rak
Look, I feel like I feel like already got one of these, but like it it she looks way hotter. I'm and just going to be frank. I don't know. I look. I'm already – I'll let you take a look, but I've already – I look.
00:23:20
Trevor
Thank you.
00:23:24
Vesz'rak
ah Huh?
00:23:26
The Blade's Edge
Yeah, I mean, this I'm just as confused as you are.
00:23:30
Vesz'rak
All right. I'm in. what
00:23:31
The Blade's Edge
Did you have anything I could put in my bin? Because you never know what it might be useful.
00:23:35
Vesz'rak
ah Sure. Here's a... here's ah I just have... It's a labeled Spider Mace. I think it's the mace that...
00:23:41
The Blade's Edge
Right.
00:23:42
Vesz'rak
ah Yeah, here you go.
00:23:44
The Blade's Edge
Well, it grabs it, tosses it in. Perfect. if You never know.
00:23:46
Vesz'rak
Okay, well, not over there. not over there i mean, okay.
00:23:49
The Blade's Edge
Well, yeah, you never know what it might be useful.
00:23:51
Vesz'rak
Okay.
00:23:54
The Blade's Edge
What do you say?
00:23:56
Vesz'rak
You know what?
00:23:58
Vesz'rak
I'm in.
00:23:59
The Blade's Edge
cards on the table what do you say
00:24:01
Vesz'rak
Yeah, car... Yeah, car... but Yeah.
00:24:07
Kyle
What is going on?
00:24:11
The Blade's Edge
I think your friends having a stroke but I ah I'm just seeing if if you right well what do you guys what do you think
00:24:15
Kyle
think I'm having a stroke.
00:24:16
Trevor
I also feel like I might be having a stroke.
00:24:20
Kyle Beams
He rolled a nat 20 and deceived us all.
00:24:22
Trevor
Yeah.
00:24:22
Vesz'rak
Oh,
00:24:22
Trevor
Yeah. it
00:24:28
Kyle Beams
Are you basically trying to accept Yax Islar as your lord and savior over Spider Mommy and Lathander? Is that what I'm gathering here?
00:24:35
Vesz'rak
oh is that what was being proposed to me?
00:24:36
The Blade's Edge
No, no, he's he's asking to read your brains.
00:24:37
Vesz'rak
Yeah.
00:24:37
Trevor
No, I think it's just to read our brains.
00:24:38
Kyle Beams
No.
00:24:40
The Blade's Edge
He's asking. So what do you guys think about reading the brains?
00:24:42
Vesz'rak
No, you can read my... Look, I don't... and don't
00:24:44
Kyle
Well, he already read mine, right?
00:24:45
The Blade's Edge
Let's not be doing it. Yeah, not you, Ash.
00:24:48
Kyle
Yeah.
00:24:48
The Blade's Edge
He already read yours, he says.
00:24:49
Kyle Beams
Stahlvidak has his like head cavity already open.
00:24:56
Kyle Beams
Just looking at Dasan and Inabi.
00:24:58
Trevor
Yeah, it's it's fine. Can I do some sort like insight check just to see if like on this dude to make sure –
00:25:06
The Blade's Edge
Yeah, absolutely.
00:25:06
Trevor
Cause obviously I don't think ah my assumption is he doesn't even know why this thing is collecting information, but on the off chance that he does, and he's like lying to us, I'm trying to, that's where my brain is.
00:25:11
The Blade's Edge
you know
00:25:14
The Blade's Edge
Sure.
00:25:17
Trevor
Is he up to no good? What does 13 get Right.
00:25:20
The Blade's Edge
ah He is just, it's almost like you see him listening and then speaking. So he is saying this request has come from Yachsizzler.
00:25:27
Trevor
h
00:25:30
Trevor
right
00:25:30
The Blade's Edge
um And while, with a 13, while he might not know why, he doesn't question it.
00:25:39
Trevor
Okay.
00:25:39
The Blade's Edge
Whatever bond they have, he trusts it and he is trusting it when it says that's what it needs. He goes, that's what it needs. I don't know.
00:25:45
Trevor
Cool.
00:25:45
The Blade's Edge
I don't need to know why it needs that.
00:25:48
Trevor
Right, right.
00:25:48
The Blade's Edge
That is, yeah. Our agreement is just, I trust him. This is what he says the deal is. And I'll go with that.
00:25:54
Trevor
Okay. Cool.
00:25:57
Kyle Beams
Hell yeah.
00:25:58
Trevor
Yeah, I can look at my brain.
00:26:01
Vesz'rak
Yeah, again, you're not going to like what's up there.
00:26:03
The Blade's Edge
Well, it's, once again, it's not me.
00:26:03
Vesz'rak
but go Okay, I'm just saying.
00:26:06
The Blade's Edge
Sure, sure. um And how about you, old man?
00:26:12
The Blade's Edge
My brain has been the study of ages.
00:26:18
Vesz'rak
Here we go.
00:26:19
Trevor
Here we go.
00:26:20
Kyle Beams
Go off, gang.
00:26:20
The Blade's Edge
You think your mortal mind could comprehend what's going on here?
00:26:21
Kyle Beams
Go off, gang.
00:26:23
The Blade's Edge
Yeah, you can look at That's fine.
00:26:26
Vesz'rak
ah
00:26:27
Trevor
Yeah, that's John. I don't
00:26:29
The Blade's Edge
yeah To be honest, I don't even know exactly all of it myself. I'd like to have a word with this Yark when he's done. Maybe I'd learn a thing or two about the time I've missed.
00:26:39
Vesz'rak
How come you guys never look at him sideways when he says odd shit? but when I say odd shit, you guys look at me like I'm crazy.
00:26:43
Trevor
really care. Yeah.
00:26:44
The Blade's Edge
but might i My name is Beneficus Ridley Valentine, aka The Mad Maid. Your name is Dishon.
00:26:51
Vesz'rak
Yeah.
00:26:51
The Blade's Edge
You know what mean? Seems like you should shit together a little more than me.
00:26:56
Vesz'rak
I mean, we could we could only hope.
00:26:57
Kyle Beams
Are you dis on the Mad Mage?
00:27:00
Vesz'rak
i I was. i would Yeah, look, we don't. have to Look, just read my brain. Okay, just read the brain.
00:27:04
The Blade's Edge
He, uh, he takes his hat off and, um, uh, he says, uh, okay, cool. I'll, I'll, I'll get him up here. Hold on one second. Um, just for the those of you who haven't seen him yet, part of it's go to come up here. And, uh, if you don't want to sort of, uh, uh,
00:27:22
The Blade's Edge
maybe freak out, if you're prone to that, I would close your eyes. And when something touches your head, I would just let it happen. It's going to probably go through your ear or your nose. So, um, Just be heads up about that. and that So yeah, just close your eyes if you'd like, and I'll i'll call him up. and He goes over to the well and begins speaking.
Horrific Creature Encounter
00:27:41
The Blade's Edge
Bash and Abhi?
00:27:46
Kyle Beams
My eyes are so open.
00:27:46
Vesz'rak
What the fuck? What the fuck? My eyes are also open.
00:27:51
The Blade's Edge
ba and abi
00:27:52
Trevor
Open.
00:27:53
Kyle
Yeah, open.
00:27:54
The Blade's Edge
Okay, um as this thing crawls out of the well, what you see is
00:28:06
The Blade's Edge
Something that I can only describe as an indescribable horror. You see this this fleshy mass that ah is wet and malleable and the shape is never constant.
00:28:10
Trevor
Sook.
00:28:11
Kyle
jesus
00:28:22
The Blade's Edge
And it's slithering like a snake, but like a tentacle. And it's wet and it's briny and it looks like flesh, but almost like when you're in the tub too long and it gets like pruney.
00:28:34
Kyle Beams
Call it wet again. Okay.
00:28:36
The Blade's Edge
um and uh stall the dock and dasan i need two of i need you each to roll me d100 stall the dock i'll let you go first
00:28:49
Kyle Beams
coming at you. Seven. Hmm.
00:28:54
Kyle Beams
seven
00:28:56
Vesz'rak
Are you asked for 100? go. 79. seventy nine
00:29:00
The Blade's Edge
Okay. um Stal the Doc. I will read these out loud. This is a long-term madness. Roll me a 1d10.
00:29:10
Kyle Beams
Oh baby. Three.
00:29:13
The Blade's Edge
ah Times 10. This will last 30 hours.
00:29:17
Kyle Beams
Fantastic.
00:29:17
The Blade's Edge
So for the next 30 hours, Stal the Doc, you feel compelled to repeat a specific activity over and over again, such as washing your hands, touching things, praying, or counting coins.
00:29:26
Kyle Beams
All right. Stalvodok immediately starts dabbing.
00:29:30
The Blade's Edge
Okay, it's all about dabbing.
00:29:31
Kyle
dabbing
00:29:33
The Blade's Edge
He's dabbing, Dasan.
00:29:33
Trevor
I'm sorry.
00:29:36
The Blade's Edge
Roll me a
00:29:36
Vesz'rak
so All right. Mine's more intricate. That's a three.
00:29:42
The Blade's Edge
For the next 30 hours.
00:29:44
Vesz'rak
oh nice. 79.
00:29:46
The Blade's Edge
ah For the next 30 hours, and what did you roll? 79? 79.
00:29:50
Vesz'rak
Every time.
00:29:53
The Blade's Edge
um
00:29:58
Vesz'rak
every time
00:30:00
The Blade's Edge
Okay, this I have to DM you and you only, and you can start roleplaying this once I am done with Inabi and Bash.
00:30:07
Vesz'rak
Son of bitch.
00:30:09
Kyle Beams
who
00:30:15
The Blade's Edge
Inabi and Bash, these are short-term badges. It'll only last 10 minutes, but I need you each to roll me a D100. Wow.
00:30:21
Trevor
Wow.
00:30:21
Kyle
Oh, natural 100.
00:30:22
Kyle Beams
Oh.
00:30:22
Vesz'rak
Ooh. Wow.
00:30:25
The Blade's Edge
wow
00:30:25
Trevor
That's insane.
00:30:25
Kyle Beams
Oh.
00:30:27
Kyle
but 42.
00:30:28
Kyle Beams
Yeah, you get a message from Yak Chili's and they're competing against each other for your soul.
00:30:33
Trevor
Am I about to fucking multiclass?
00:30:33
Vesz'rak
Yeah.
00:30:35
Kyle
Yacht Chili's is insane.
00:30:36
Kyle Beams
Yeah, Yak Applebee's is also coming into the equation.
00:30:36
The Blade's Edge
um
00:30:37
Vesz'rak
you
00:30:40
The Blade's Edge
and Okay, and then Bash, you rolled a 42. So, Bash, um
00:30:48
The Blade's Edge
your body lights up, Bash. Electrical energy fills around you, and you feel like you have to scream. you feel like you have to roar.
00:31:02
The Blade's Edge
As you do, lightning claps down. Claps.
00:31:07
The Blade's Edge
Right next to you. And then the energy leaves your body. Inabi, as this thing makes its way and gets in between all of you and its tendrils go into all of your nostrils and ears. Inabi, as they reach into yours, you fall unconscious.
00:31:25
Trevor
Oh, damn.
00:31:29
The Blade's Edge
And it is sitting there absorbing ah your guys's – or you know not absorbing them from you, but just learning everything about you guys. You guys feel it flipping through the pages in your brain.
00:31:47
The Blade's Edge
And when it is done, it's – we can even say it you know it takes almost 10 minutes, at which point you guys are all just sort of, oh. just like standing there ah in stasis.
00:32:03
The Blade's Edge
And it finally slithers back, leaves through the well.
00:32:11
The Blade's Edge
And
00:32:15
Kyle Beams
ah
00:32:15
The Blade's Edge
um
00:32:19
Trevor
me, me, me,
00:32:20
Kyle Beams
Wow.
00:32:21
The Blade's Edge
I'm sending you something, ah Mr. Kyle G.
00:32:30
Kyle
I mean...
00:32:30
The Blade's Edge
And you
Mission Challenges and Dynamics
00:32:31
The Blade's Edge
can role play that as well.
00:32:31
Kyle Beams
And I'm just absolutely hitting the dab and then I actually actually I'm hitting the gritty gritty.
00:32:35
The Blade's Edge
Okay, he leaves and
00:32:37
Trevor
widow doy and thegudty
00:32:39
Kyle Beams
What are we hitting the gritty across the insane floor?
00:32:41
The Blade's Edge
and he goes, all right, is everybody is everybody okay?
00:32:49
Vesz'rak
Who are you?
00:32:49
Kyle Beams
I think I'm going to be doing this for the next 30 hours. thirty hours
00:32:53
The Blade's Edge
My name is Jimothy.
00:32:54
Kyle
i mean
00:32:55
The Blade's Edge
You know me. You're Dessaud.
00:32:56
Vesz'rak
Where? I'm just on.
00:33:00
The Blade's Edge
Right, yes. You didn't close your eyes, did you?
00:33:02
Vesz'rak
And.
00:33:05
Vesz'rak
I can't remember.
00:33:07
Kyle Beams
ah
00:33:09
The Blade's Edge
Uh, okay. ah Everybody else will be okay?
00:33:13
Vesz'rak
who are you guys?
00:33:17
Kyle
Uh, I very, I scared my mom scared me to be sick
00:33:18
Kyle Beams
Uh, wait, wait, wait, wait.
00:33:21
Vesz'rak
What's with the goat and the cat?
00:33:24
The Blade's Edge
Wait, what did you say?
00:33:24
Kyle Beams
Those are pets. Those are friends.
00:33:26
The Blade's Edge
Bash, are you okay?
00:33:27
Kyle
I said, yeah, I scared me to be sick You're my scared me scared me to be sick
00:33:30
Kyle Beams
Bash, you having a stroke?
00:33:31
The Blade's Edge
Okay. ah
00:33:37
Vesz'rak
Okay, um listen, you guys seem cool.
00:33:38
The Blade's Edge
um All right.
00:33:41
Vesz'rak
ah
00:33:42
The Blade's Edge
I'm going to give you guys 10.
00:33:42
Vesz'rak
um a I'm to go find the nearest town and just wait for this all to blow over.
00:33:43
The Blade's Edge
I'll be back in 10 minutes.
00:33:51
Vesz'rak
But I'm just going
00:33:53
Kyle Beams
And ah you see me just hitting the gritty behind you. I'm like, nah, nah, nah, dude. Hang out. Hang out with us.
00:33:58
Vesz'rak
No, you guys, I don't know.
00:34:01
Kyle Beams
Hey, we're homies.
00:34:02
Vesz'rak
Look, I don't know who you guys are. I'm just going to start walking this way. I'll see you guys. I'll say this the most Seattle way possible. I'll see you guys later.
00:34:15
Kyle Beams
Four months go
00:34:16
Kyle
What the hell just happened?
00:34:19
Kyle Beams
four four months four months go by
00:34:21
The Blade's Edge
ah Bash, your your speech ah comes back to you as Inabi, you wake up.
00:34:22
Vesz'rak
yeah
00:34:23
Kyle Beams
time he comes out for the first time.
00:34:29
Kyle
but the hell just happened
00:34:31
The Blade's Edge
Your friend is trying to leave. D'San, there's something in the water. You cannot go that way.
00:34:36
Vesz'rak
No, that's okay. I don't remember it anyway. Look,
00:34:39
The Blade's Edge
Well, I'm telling you that it is this it's there. I'm telling you that it is there and it's dangerous.
00:34:43
Vesz'rak
look, old man. Look, I'm just going to leave you.
00:34:46
The Blade's Edge
The name is Beneficus Ridley Valentine, okay?
00:34:49
Vesz'rak
is this my Is this my horse?
00:34:49
Kyle
Where are you going?
00:34:52
Kyle Beams
I cast web on you.
00:34:56
The Blade's Edge
Alright, make a dex save.
00:34:57
Vesz'rak
Next save? 15. ah
00:35:00
The Blade's Edge
Watch now, you start rolling so hot.
00:35:02
Trevor
Yeah.
00:35:03
Kyle Beams
i just nice you fail.
00:35:03
Vesz'rak
fifteen
00:35:05
Kyle Beams
i I barf out a net from my mouth but and you're just
00:35:07
Vesz'rak
Hey, look, i don't know who you guys are. i don't know why you guys are capturing me in this fucking hell of hole. I get out of here.
00:35:15
Kyle
mean you don't know who we are?
00:35:17
The Blade's Edge
You serve me, my vessel. You hear deep in the recess of your mind.
00:35:22
Vesz'rak
Huh?
00:35:24
Vesz'rak
Who's talking to me?
00:35:28
Kyle Beams
who i didn't I didn't say anything.
00:35:28
Vesz'rak
Give me another, give me another one.
00:35:29
Trevor
Hey, Bri, as far as um as far as I'm concerned, or as far as Anabi is concerned, did he just pass out and wake up?
00:35:38
The Blade's Edge
Yeah, you woke up and you, you you know, maybe you feel a little bit slime on your ear and your nose.
00:35:38
Trevor
Okay.
00:35:43
Trevor
Okay.
00:35:44
The Blade's Edge
But you saw that thing and then the minute that it got close to you and put its like tendrils in to your ear and your nose, you like passed out.
00:35:51
Trevor
and okay
00:35:51
Kyle Beams
I wake up and I feel even like the slightest thought of slime on me. I'm not in a good mood. No way.
00:35:59
The Blade's Edge
Deshaun, stop this at once.
00:36:03
Vesz'rak
Listen, um I don't know who you guys are. I don't want to be here anymore. You guys can't hold me here. It's illegal.
00:36:09
The Blade's Edge
it's
00:36:10
Kyle Beams
Actually, it is perfectly legal. i have the book.
00:36:11
The Blade's Edge
You forget who they are, but you know, but you still remember the law.
00:36:15
Vesz'rak
ah Exactly. It's an eight.
00:36:19
The Blade's Edge
Right.
00:36:19
Kyle Beams
You have innate knowledge of the law. Hell yeah. Yeah, I took that background.
00:36:25
The Blade's Edge
Why don't you just, why don't you just come this way and we'll all all say share one memory do we have of you. That sounds like a fun exercise. We'll each tell you
00:36:34
Kyle Beams
We could bring everybody over here because he's Webby.
00:36:36
The Blade's Edge
ah Sure, sure.
00:36:37
Kyle Beams
He's Webby boy.
00:36:37
The Blade's Edge
We'll each share one memory that we have of you, Dishon. And then ah hopefully if we each share one memory of you, then you will at least know who you are, right?
00:36:49
Vesz'rak
Alright, well better be one good memory.
00:36:50
The Blade's Edge
We can... Yeah, we can go around popcorn reading style. And each of us can can share with you a memory.
00:36:58
Kyle Beams
Can I start?
00:36:59
The Blade's Edge
Yes! Salva Doc!
00:37:02
Kyle Beams
Uh, Disan. I am Stalvidoc, you can call me Doc. You have your dead friend's ashes in your pocket.
00:37:10
The Blade's Edge
Wow.
00:37:12
Vesz'rak
My dead friend- my friend died?
00:37:12
The Blade's Edge
Wow. What are they?
00:37:14
Kyle Beams
Your...
00:37:14
The Blade's Edge
are They're not loose in his pocket, are they?
00:37:17
Vesz'rak
It's just loose ashes.
00:37:18
Kyle Beams
I don't know how he stored them, but your dead friend's ashes are in your pocket.
00:37:24
Vesz'rak
I'll reach in my pockets.
00:37:28
The Blade's Edge
You have a lot of pockets with a lot of stuff on you
00:37:32
Vesz'rak
I'll reach it in all my pockets. I'll pull out ah Alma's urn.
00:37:35
The Blade's Edge
you. you see it you You now know of all your inventory.
00:37:38
Vesz'rak
Yeah, yeah. Perfect, perfect.
00:37:42
The Blade's Edge
Lovely. So Starvedark shares that, which means you're obviously sentimental. You care about your friends. You wish to give your friend a proper burial. Lovely memories, Starvedark. Everybody hand for Starvedark. Hand for Starvedark.
00:37:54
Vesz'rak
I just start clapping.
00:37:54
Kyle Beams
Woo! I'm just gritty-ing. Doing the gritty. 30 hours.
00:37:58
The Blade's Edge
Okay, in Abbey Bash, what what would you like to share next?
00:38:01
Trevor
uh, some look over in that water right over there. uh, you jumped off a cliff. This was not even an hour ago. You, uh, jumped off that cliff up there.
00:38:15
Vesz'rak
Pretty cool.
00:38:16
Trevor
it was It was very cool.
00:38:16
Kyle Beams
And you're still dripping water, aren't you?
00:38:18
Trevor
And you ah you fought two gigantic tentacles that were sticking out of the water. When he says don't go in the water, he is trying to help you. And that means, well, there is a gigantic eldritch horror ah deep down in there. But you ah you fought that thing.
00:38:37
Trevor
And it was it was kind of badass, actually. was pretty cool.
00:38:43
The Blade's Edge
Lovely. Hark to a fart on that thing. Love that. D'Saan, see, your friend Nabi here cares about you. Retelling your heroic deeds.
00:38:54
The Blade's Edge
How much of a brave soldier you are. Um... ah Bash, would you like to go next?
00:39:02
Kyle
Sure, yeah.
00:39:04
The Blade's Edge
A memory about D'Saan.
00:39:04
Kyle
There was one time that you were playing a character so well you had an entire town convinced.
00:39:06
The Blade's Edge
Hmm.
00:39:12
Kyle
And not only the entire town, you had me convinced. You are one hell of an actor.
00:39:19
The Blade's Edge
and
00:39:19
Vesz'rak
i'm I'm an actor?
00:39:21
Kyle
Yeah, the best.
00:39:22
Vesz'rak
i'm a method am i a Am I a good method actor? Am I like i i Christian Bale?
00:39:26
Kyle
Your commitment to the bit is unlike anything I've ever seen.
00:39:31
The Blade's Edge
DDL style.
00:39:34
Vesz'rak
I'm an actor?
00:39:34
The Blade's Edge
In your day, Louis.
00:39:36
Vesz'rak
ah Oh, that's a better one. Yeah, Daniel Day-Lewis.
00:39:40
The Blade's Edge
Wow, see? Bash remembers things about your your deeds and your your ability to act, and how you how you can sway a room by your meal presence.
00:39:55
Vesz'rak
Alright, okay. You guys do seem kinda cool though.
00:39:56
The Blade's Edge
Lovely.
00:39:59
Kyle
We love you.
00:40:00
Vesz'rak
Okay.
00:40:01
The Blade's Edge
Yes, they love you.
00:40:04
The Blade's Edge
We've just met. I'm working my way there, but they love you.
00:40:06
Vesz'rak
ah Got it, okay. Well, look. I'll stick around, but...
00:40:13
Kyle
Thank you.
00:40:13
The Blade's Edge
You saved me, D'Son. I was, I was, I thought I was a mountain man. And then my mind was fractured. I was young. I was middle-aged. Now am who am, and you've helped me get to this point.
00:40:25
The Blade's Edge
You've done this.
00:40:29
Vesz'rak
Okay, well, i don't i don't recognize I don't remember or recognize any of you guys.
00:40:30
Kyle Beams
See? You're pretty cool.
00:40:36
The Blade's Edge
ah He's going to, he points behind you.
00:40:36
Vesz'rak
but
00:40:38
The Blade's Edge
ah He looks like he he sees something looming behind you and he goes, holy fucking shit.
00:40:39
Vesz'rak
I
00:40:46
Vesz'rak
i like and look behind me.
00:40:48
The Blade's Edge
Okay, he's going to whack you in the head and hit remove curse.
00:40:50
Vesz'rak
but
00:40:52
The Blade's Edge
He...
00:40:53
Kyle
okay yeah
00:40:56
Trevor
ah
00:40:58
The Blade's Edge
ah he
00:40:58
Vesz'rak
That even...
00:40:59
Trevor
That's so funny.
00:40:59
Vesz'rak
Oh,
00:41:00
The Blade's Edge
yeah
00:41:02
Kyle
Works every time.
00:41:03
Trevor
yeah
00:41:03
Vesz'rak
shit!
00:41:04
The Blade's Edge
ah He whacks in the head, hits remove curse. As he does, he goes, you there?
00:41:08
Vesz'rak
Fuck!
00:41:10
Vesz'rak
yeah Oh, shit!
00:41:13
The Blade's Edge
All right, back to business.
00:41:14
Kyle
no
00:41:14
The Blade's Edge
Jesus Christ.
00:41:15
Kyle
yeah this
00:41:16
Trevor
yeah
00:41:16
Kyle Beams
I'm crying.
00:41:17
The Blade's Edge
Powwow's over.
00:41:19
Vesz'rak
ah ah
00:41:21
Kyle
Oh my god.
00:41:21
Trevor
That's hilarious.
00:41:23
Vesz'rak
oh she
00:41:24
The Blade's Edge
I had to gain your trust somehow, Dishon.
00:41:26
Kyle Beams
I'll drop concentration on the web.
00:41:29
Vesz'rak
All right. Back to business.
00:41:33
Kyle
Are you back?
00:41:33
The Blade's Edge
Back to business.
00:41:34
Kyle Beams
I'm still gritting back towards the center of this.
00:41:36
The Blade's Edge
Yeah. he said He looks at in the end. He just goes, and this is normal for you, right?
00:41:42
Kyle Beams
Not normal. Malfunctioning.
00:41:44
The Blade's Edge
now it's functioning.
00:41:45
Kyle Beams
Malfunctioning.
00:41:46
The Blade's Edge
Oh, well, let me just hold on. Come over here. um he ah he He picks up a bucket off the ground, and he sort of throws it like at your head.
00:41:59
Kyle Beams
I don't dodge it.
00:41:59
The Blade's Edge
Like, you don't dodge.
00:41:59
Kyle Beams
No.
00:42:01
The Blade's Edge
Okay, it smashes you in the head.
00:42:03
Kyle Beams
Ah! Ah!
00:42:03
The Blade's Edge
He goes, he is oh, I thought you'd put your hands up to grab it, and then when your hand was up, I was going hit with my staff and cast Faker. Okay, ah Right. Right, okay, well... Alright, time to be hitting the old
Jimothy's Ambitions and Group Struggles
00:42:17
The Blade's Edge
dusty trail. Turns around, then pivots back around and just smacks you with the staff and hits removed curse.
00:42:22
Kyle Beams
You can just ask. Consent is cool.
00:42:23
The Blade's Edge
Ah.
00:42:26
The Blade's Edge
Yeah, well, you're gritty without your concern, so...
00:42:29
Kyle Beams
True. True.
00:42:30
Vesz'rak
All right.
00:42:30
The Blade's Edge
Um...
00:42:31
Vesz'rak
So, Jimothy.
00:42:31
The Blade's Edge
Alright, you guys are back. he is Oh, hey, you guys all good?
00:42:33
Kyle Beams
I'm no longer doing the gritty.
00:42:34
The Blade's Edge
Oh, yeah.
00:42:35
Kyle Beams
Hitting the gritty.
00:42:35
The Blade's Edge
Well, sorry about that. Seeing Yaxxas in his glory is pretty... It could change you. I know it's changed me. can't remember the last time i slept.
00:42:35
Vesz'rak
Listen.
00:42:46
Vesz'rak
Yeah, you got lot of bags under your eyes. You're not looking good
00:42:48
The Blade's Edge
Yeah, I don't really eat much either. Nah,
00:42:51
Vesz'rak
There's tons of leftover coffee pods in the well, actually.
00:42:53
The Blade's Edge
dad I'm okay. Thanks, though.
00:42:55
Vesz'rak
All right. um
00:42:56
The Blade's Edge
I gotta work.
00:42:58
Vesz'rak
So... We had a deal, right? So he touched our brains. And now you guys...
00:43:02
The Blade's Edge
Right, so here you go. So yeah, when you guys go and he so he's now psychically linked with you guys. um You can't talk to him, but can talk to you. But he can kind of see through you guys' brains and kind of see what's going on.
00:43:15
The Blade's Edge
So he'll know when you guys are making your final um ah assault on the tower. And he's just let me know that you guys already have the Mardukovs and the Keepers of the Feather.
00:43:27
The Blade's Edge
um ah Don't worry, their secret is safe with me. Yeah. and Yach.
00:43:33
Vesz'rak
Wait, so Yawksizzler knows everything about us?
00:43:36
The Blade's Edge
Yeah. everything Everything in your mind. He does everything. Your whole life.
00:43:41
Vesz'rak
Jesus Christ.
00:43:42
The Blade's Edge
Everything that's ever happened.
00:43:43
Kyle Beams
Everything that has happened or also everything that will happen.
00:43:43
The Blade's Edge
but
00:43:46
The Blade's Edge
Just that has.
00:43:47
Kyle Beams
Okay.
00:43:48
The Blade's Edge
says so he does all that, ad so he but he's also linked with you. So when you guys go and the Keepers of the Feather mobilize and the All-Mist inquisitors mobilize, we will also ah mobilize to help fend off the armies while you guys infiltrate.
00:44:04
The Blade's Edge
Sort of be like, you know, we'll be out there with the rest of the people in town fighting off the armies and such and such and while you guys infiltrate and take on Strahd.
00:44:04
Kyle Beams
Love it.
00:44:15
Kyle Beams
Beautiful. Epic.
00:44:22
Vesz'rak
Okay. ah ah Well, this was fun. right.
00:44:27
The Blade's Edge
Lots of fun. It's been a while since I've had anybody come by here. that And then, you know, normally people come by here and try to make it over here. Yacht just kind of kills them. So it's been nice to have somebody who could, like, hold their own against the SIS.
00:44:39
Kyle Beams
That's it.
00:44:39
Vesz'rak
Well, I'm just going to pull out my notebook. I'm just going to mark Jimothy found.
00:44:44
The Blade's Edge
I'm found, baby. I'm here.
00:44:47
Vesz'rak
Yeah, just like... Hey, could you... um and Okay, so... We've been to Luna Lake. Check. Timothy found. Check. um I think maybe we should leave.
00:44:57
The Blade's Edge
that but else you got all that What else you got on that list there?
00:45:01
Vesz'rak
ah
00:45:01
The Blade's Edge
Yacht knows. I just don't know. What do you got on the list?
00:45:04
Vesz'rak
ah Amber Temple. Argen Vostholt.
00:45:07
The Blade's Edge
lots' That's right over there. Up the mountain pass.
00:45:10
Vesz'rak
Mommy Knight. The Windmill. The Werewolf Den of Mommy Knight. And then Strahd, which is at the top.
00:45:19
The Blade's Edge
Sounds like a lot of fun.
00:45:21
Vesz'rak
yeah Yeah, you want to come?
00:45:24
The Blade's Edge
Nope.
00:45:25
The Blade's Edge
No, I got to work boat. It's going to perfect.
00:45:25
Vesz'rak
okay.
00:45:27
Vesz'rak
Okay. Well, it sounded like we were going to head up to Amber Temple. um
00:45:32
Trevor
What time of the day is it? Roughly?
00:45:35
The Blade's Edge
At this time, it's probably around 6 p.m...................
00:45:37
Trevor
it getting late?
00:45:40
Trevor
Should we like hang here before we fucking do any crazy? Like, i don't know. I feel like we got a little fucked up back there. Do we want to maybe take a little rest around? he Maybe just chill in town tonight? Would you be willing to let us stay here? Do you have space for If not, we can but you know find our own way ah for sure, but
00:46:04
The Blade's Edge
ah
00:46:05
Trevor
Do we feel like resting here is a good move before moving on?
00:46:08
The Blade's Edge
Well, you guys have taken a short rest.
00:46:11
Trevor
Oh, that that's fine with everybody, just short rest?
00:46:14
Kyle
Um,
00:46:14
The Blade's Edge
Oh, you mean a long rest?
00:46:15
Trevor
Yeah, yeah, yeah. Like, did we want a long rest before, if it's late enough?
00:46:16
The Blade's Edge
Oh. Yeah, do you guys want to stay here, you're more than welcome. I got a cabin
00:46:26
The Blade's Edge
They're harmless. They're just taking things to yawk and bring it back and stuff. and ah Feel free to, or if not, tell your call. going to be down there working on it. out It's got to be perfect.
00:46:39
Kyle Beams
Okay. um Yeah, it'd be cool to stay the night, and then I would also offer my services in helping him because I have Tinker's tools, Woodcarver's tools, Eve's tools, um and I would be able to cast the Mending spell to maybe see if I can help him in any way.
00:46:54
The Blade's Edge
ah Unfortunately, i have to do it.
00:46:55
Trevor
so
00:46:56
The Blade's Edge
I got it. I'm so sad. I don't get my hands dirty. I'm not afraid of hard work. In fact, I prefer it, and I got to do it. by i gotta It's got to be me because it's got to be perfect.
00:47:04
Kyle Beams
Okay. That's fine. It's got to be perfect.
00:47:08
The Blade's Edge
It's got to be perfect, ah but I'll be down there if you guys need me. I don't eat or sleep, which is terrible for me, and I feel really bad, but if you need me, just come and get me.
00:47:18
Kyle Beams
Fantastic.
00:47:22
Kyle Beams
All right. Well, ah
00:47:22
Kyle
Are we going to long rest or are we going to not do that?
Rest and Planning
00:47:26
Kyle Beams
I think we can we can have a long rest.
00:47:30
Kyle
Fire.
00:47:31
The Blade's Edge
Totally up to What do you guys want to
00:47:35
Kyle
um I don't need it as much as probably the spell boys might need it.
00:47:41
Trevor
I could use it for some spells, but I'm not like that. If we want to just keep, we could also just hit Amber Temple and maybe swing back by here. If we want, it's assuming Amber Temple isn't like a, I don't know what we're going find at the Amber Temple.
00:47:55
Kyle Beams
I'm very low on spell slots.
00:47:58
Trevor
Should we, yeah. Do we just want a long rest before we get going?
00:47:59
Kyle Beams
You see you see the indicators on Stalvadoc ticking that there are only two still lit.
00:48:06
Kyle Beams
Of seven.
00:48:11
Kyle Beams
That's it's me telling you I have two spell slots left.
00:48:11
Kyle
Yeah, maybe we ah we long rest then.
00:48:15
Trevor
Right, right, right, right. Yeah. I mean, um yeah. Shall we get some sleep?
00:48:20
Kyle
Let's do it.
00:48:21
Vesz'rak
I'm down.
00:48:21
Trevor
Sweet.
00:48:22
The Blade's Edge
All right, so it's 6 p.m.
00:48:23
Trevor
Yeah.
00:48:23
Kyle Beams
but
00:48:23
The Blade's Edge
Are you guys going bed right now? as you'll If you only take eight hours, you'll be up at four in the morning.
00:48:28
Kyle Beams
ah We could hang out.
00:48:28
Kyle
um
00:48:29
Vesz'rak
Early start on the day, huh?
00:48:31
Trevor
I'm kind of down. Just get, yeah, get started early.
00:48:32
Kyle Beams
Early start? Yeah, that's fine. Sleep doesn't matter to me.
00:48:34
Trevor
Especially since that Amber Temple area is super close.
00:48:39
Kyle Beams
Yeah.
00:48:39
Kyle
what if ah What if Jimothy shows us around for a little bit, like an hour or two hours?
00:48:44
Kyle
Maybe you should... Jimothy, you want to show us your ship? That you're working on?
00:48:49
The Blade's Edge
Oh, yeah, sure. I can show you the ship. So what I'm kind of doing here is it's got this ah this Eldritch technology that is going to allow it to fly.
00:48:59
The Blade's Edge
So it's not like a ship that goes on water. It can go on water.
00:49:02
Kyle
Oh.
00:49:02
The Blade's Edge
Right. But it's got this Eldritch airy where can fly. And then we're trying to instill some inhibitors here where when you go into the mist, a lot of times it just pops you right back out. Or when you go into the mists, you can't necessarily decide where it is you're going. like So we're sort of combining some technology of like teleportation circles and broom stone, which is sort of this, and it can make it ship stuff fly and sort of all this elder stuff. We just are missing a couple of key runes, which I think that he might have in his ah study. Once we get those runes that I think we can choose where we go.
00:49:41
The Blade's Edge
And then it's simple as that. Simple as pie. Hopefully there's no mist pirates out there. But ah yeah, that's pretty much it.
00:49:47
Kyle Beams
it Excuse me?
00:49:47
Kyle
Wait, what runes are you missing?
00:49:49
The Blade's Edge
The ones in Strahd's castle that you're going to let us rummage through his tomes.
00:49:51
Kyle
Oh.
00:49:56
Kyle
Gotcha.
00:49:56
Kyle Beams
And did you say mist pirates?
00:49:58
The Blade's Edge
While i' yeah I'm big yeah joking around, I hope there's not mist pirates.
00:50:03
Vesz'rak
So there's Mist Pirates?
00:50:05
The Blade's Edge
Right. I mean, if you're telling me there's missed pirates, then that's news to me.
00:50:07
Vesz'rak
Oh,
00:50:09
The Blade's Edge
it That is ah something that Yawk probably already knew from your brain, but I'm saying I hope there's not missed pirates.
00:50:14
Kyle Beams
Yeah, i that sounds crazy.
00:50:15
Vesz'rak
okay.
00:50:21
Vesz'rak
You know what?
00:50:21
The Blade's Edge
Right.
00:50:22
Vesz'rak
I and think I'm just gonna go to bed.
00:50:22
Kyle Beams
Okay.
00:50:22
The Blade's Edge
that That's the that's the the tour. Also in the town, we got food over here. well We got water over here, fresh water over here. Uh, we've got, uh, jug bid, which if you have any jug to throw in there, I can always use it. You never know when I'm going to need it.
00:50:38
The Blade's Edge
Uh, please give me some jug. Um, and that's pretty much it.
00:50:45
Kyle Beams
okay well I don't need any oil. I am fine. i will power down in the corner.
00:50:53
The Blade's Edge
Sure. Yeah. His, uh, his, it takes an hour walking you through the town and showing you the boat. about 7 p.m. but when you guys finally rest which you can take a long rest and you'll be up at 5 5-ish the next day
00:51:09
Kyle Beams
Okay, early start.
00:51:11
Kyle
Boom. Bang. a
00:51:12
Vesz'rak
Amber Temple.
00:51:16
The Blade's Edge
do do Amber Temple ba da da da um all right next morning you do not see Jimothy when you wake but the day is yours
00:51:30
Trevor
We're off to see the wizard, the wonderful Wizard of Oz.
00:51:32
Kyle Beams
Off we go.
00:51:32
Vesz'rak
Yeah. Get me the fuck out of here.
00:51:35
The Blade's Edge
Ah. Indeed, gentlemen.
00:51:37
Vesz'rak
Was it me or... Were
00:51:38
The Blade's Edge
Um, is...
00:51:38
Vesz'rak
three
00:51:40
The Blade's Edge
What?
00:51:41
Vesz'rak
I just thought Jimothy was going to be way cooler.
00:51:44
The Blade's Edge
Ah.
00:51:45
Kyle
I think he's pretty cool, what do you mean?
00:51:46
The Blade's Edge
Really, I think from what I had heard you guys talking about this, he was like a nerdy kid that was, uh, that was, like...
00:51:51
Vesz'rak
He touched our brains.
00:51:53
The Blade's Edge
Well, he didn't touch your brains. it as That was York's ears.
00:51:56
Vesz'rak
Okay. Tomato, tomato.
00:51:59
The Blade's Edge
There's no way that you're going to be that mad at the Sizzler.
00:52:02
Vesz'rak
Look, just get me out of here. Just get me out of here.
00:52:06
The Blade's Edge
ah Five booms.
00:52:09
Vesz'rak
Boom. Boom.
00:52:13
The Blade's Edge
OK, let just grab your guys' tokens.
00:52:17
Vesz'rak
the lightning.
00:52:19
The Blade's Edge
I thought he was going to be cooler.
00:52:24
Kyle Beams
ah thought it was pretty cool.
00:52:25
Vesz'rak
I thought he'd want to go home. doesn' It doesn't sound like you want to really go home at all.
00:52:28
The Blade's Edge
He's building the ship to go home.
00:52:29
Kyle
He's... he's he's
00:52:29
Kyle Beams
Yeah, he does want to go home.
00:52:32
The Blade's Edge
It's also been 70 years.
00:52:32
Vesz'rak
It's just different than what I thought it would be. yeah
00:52:38
The Blade's Edge
This fucking guy.
00:52:38
Trevor
I had our future planned out.
00:52:40
Vesz'rak
Yeah. We were gonna save Jubathy and I was gonna be a big hero!
00:52:46
The Blade's Edge
got big Okay, as we are bringing you guys to a new page here.
00:52:48
Vesz'rak
Huge!
00:52:50
Kyle Beams
Ovechkin hat trick. Wow.
00:52:52
Vesz'rak
Yeah, I just that.
00:52:56
Kyle Beams
What a guy. Dethroned Gretz.
00:53:01
The Blade's Edge
Hold on as I'm just shrinking your tokens.
00:53:10
Vesz'rak
Okay. Amber Temple time. No more weird tentacle monsters.
00:53:18
The Blade's Edge
Well, come on.
00:53:21
Vesz'rak
For now.
00:53:21
The Blade's Edge
Just one as a treat?
00:53:23
Vesz'rak
I mean, okay. We can do one. I can do one more. Max.
00:53:29
The Blade's Edge
OK, you still have your horse?
00:53:31
Vesz'rak
Yeah, horse is still there.
00:53:31
The Blade's Edge
Dred, you still have your owl?
00:53:33
Trevor
Yes, sir.
00:53:34
The Blade's Edge
Okledokle?
00:53:38
The Blade's Edge
Where is that owl?
00:53:41
Trevor
i had him perched up on the... He's right here. Here, I'll put him right next to me.
00:53:45
The Blade's Edge
Ha ha.
00:53:46
Trevor
Yeah, he's right. He's on my token now.
00:53:49
The Blade's Edge
Okay.
00:53:53
The Blade's Edge
Okay. Um, as you guys approach,
00:54:07
The Blade's Edge
all right, here we go.
Exploration of the Temple
00:54:10
The Blade's Edge
will read some stuff for you.
00:54:14
Vesz'rak
It's temple time.
00:54:17
The Blade's Edge
So reading sort of what I read you guys last time about the Salinka pass.
00:54:17
Kyle
Temple Tuesday, y'all.
00:54:23
The Blade's Edge
So, ah the shelf of rock on which the mountain road clings grows narrow to your left. There's the icy cliffs that rise sharply towards dark rolling clouds to your right.
00:54:36
The Blade's Edge
ah The ground falls away into a sea of fog and then the the lake. um Ahead through the wind through the wind and snow, as it's snowing this morning, you see a high wall of black stone lined with spikes and topped by statues of demonic vultures with horned heads.
00:54:53
The Blade's Edge
Set in the center of the wall is a closed iron portcullis, behind which burns a curtain of green flame. On the other side of the dark wall, Gripping the mountain's edge is a guard tower of white stone topped by golden statues of mighty warriors.
00:55:08
The Blade's Edge
I've put all of that in loot and info. If you'd like to read it, I'll bet you guys have come to the pass to a gate.
00:55:19
The Blade's Edge
That then leads up the mountain.
00:55:24
Vesz'rak
Open sesame.
00:55:24
Kyle Beams
Okay. Open sesame. Green flame.
00:55:31
Kyle Beams
Shelf of rock. Okay. Demonic vultures with horned heads.
00:55:33
The Blade's Edge
and gate house The gatehouse portcullis is 30 feet high. The adjoining walls next to it are 20 feet high, lined with stone spikes.
00:55:45
Kyle Beams
Oh, interesting. Ground falls away into a sea of fog. Wind and snow, high black stone. Can I do like a perception check on the demonic vulture statues?
00:55:59
Kyle Beams
Let's see.
00:56:00
The Blade's Edge
Sure.
00:56:02
Kyle Beams
Sound kind of and interesting.
00:56:08
Kyle Beams
ah That's going to nine.
00:56:10
The Blade's Edge
um Yeah, they're kind of like um long necked, big feathery wings, sort of taloned hands and feet, ah long neck with like a, you know, a large head with a beak and a mouth open with some spikes in their mouth. The spikes sort of around the head, the eyes are wide.
00:56:32
The Blade's Edge
It's like a very large sort of winged beast a statue.
00:56:38
Kyle Beams
Interesting. I haven't seen one of those before.
00:56:40
The Blade's Edge
yeah
00:56:41
Kyle Beams
i wonder who designed them.
00:56:43
Vesz'rak
I think I'm just going to ride my horse up to the port coast if anyone has any others if phone has any other suggestions.
00:56:51
Kyle Beams
You can do it.
00:56:53
Vesz'rak
thank you
00:56:54
Trevor
I would probably send my familiar like up into the sky little bit to see if you can get like a top-down view of what's going on with this.
00:57:05
The Blade's Edge
um I am so sorry. you guys are at the bottom of this map, not the top.
00:57:12
Kyle
oh
00:57:14
Kyle Beams
where wo Well, well, well.
00:57:14
The Blade's Edge
Right. My bad. Whoop. All right, we're down here.
00:57:20
Kyle Beams
Oh, okay, cool.
00:57:22
Vesz'rak
All right, I'm going
00:57:22
The Blade's Edge
That is the port list right there.
00:57:24
Kyle Beams
It's all checking out.
00:57:28
Vesz'rak
Riding up to the port.
00:57:30
The Blade's Edge
Okay.
00:57:33
The Blade's Edge
Here, I'll even show you what I can take away some of this lighting here. So the top wall of it, you can see what the sort of beasts look like on top, sort of statues of the beasts.
00:57:45
The Blade's Edge
Okay. um You ride up to it, and you see that there is a curtain of green flame that fills the archway behind the portcullis.
00:58:01
The Blade's Edge
um at So you just walk straight up to it?
00:58:03
Vesz'rak
Yeah, like ride my horse.
00:58:05
The Blade's Edge
Okay. As you ride up the the door of the portcullis, you hear it shrieking as you get within 10 feet of it.
00:58:17
The Blade's Edge
You start hear meh shrieking the sound of metal on metal as the door begins to rise on its own.
00:58:25
Vesz'rak
ah look back and I go, just another day. Another job well done. Am I right, fellas?
00:58:31
Kyle Beams
And now make a dexterity saving throw, Tommy.
00:58:34
Trevor
You ever see him get disintegrated?
00:58:38
Vesz'rak
Just like we drew it up.
00:58:39
Kyle Beams
Can I do and do an Arcana check on the green flame?
00:58:42
The Blade's Edge
Sure.
00:58:46
Kyle Beams
A nine. But I'm going my Flash of Genius to make that a 14.
00:58:50
The Blade's Edge
Okay. With a 14, it feels hot. you it's it's that That flame is real. That's not an illusion. you are You are certain that that is not an illusion.
00:59:00
Kyle Beams
I give you the that space that's bait, but that's damage. Don't touch that.
00:59:05
The Blade's Edge
curtain of Curtain of green flame fills the eastern archway of this gatehouse, and it looks it looks very much so hot and green and flamey.
00:59:05
Kyle Beams
That's hot.
00:59:15
Kyle Beams
Interesting. I would want to see, like is it connected to a mechanism or is there some device that looks like it might be creating this?
00:59:24
The Blade's Edge
No.
00:59:25
Kyle Beams
Interesting.
00:59:35
Vesz'rak
Wait, so I can go in.
00:59:35
Kyle Beams
um
00:59:36
Vesz'rak
oh So it's a curtain of green flame.
00:59:38
The Blade's Edge
Yeah.
00:59:39
Vesz'rak
I'm going to pass through it.
00:59:39
The Blade's Edge
you You can see it. You see it right there?
00:59:44
Vesz'rak
i'm like Look, I'm not going to get any tricks played on going pass through it.
00:59:48
The Blade's Edge
Cool. ah You pass through it. You and your horse pass through it, and you exit onto the other side. And you guys are definitely on the other side, ah but you both do take 37 points of fire damage.
01:00:03
The Blade's Edge
Whew.
01:00:03
Vesz'rak
Ah, okay. So...
01:00:06
The Blade's Edge
as you ride through a big curtain of flame.
01:00:08
Vesz'rak
I thought it was illusionary.
01:00:11
The Blade's Edge
I specifically just told Stalvodok it was not a illusionary.
01:00:13
Kyle Beams
Specifically said it was hot. Yeah.
01:00:15
Vesz'rak
Yeah, you know what, Brian?
01:00:15
The Blade's Edge
and
01:00:16
Vesz'rak
Look, we're in a fantasy land here. Maybe, look, there's a lot of stuff happening, okay?
01:00:21
The Blade's Edge
ah Does that take away your steed?
01:00:23
Vesz'rak
Oh, yeah, Steve's gone.
01:00:24
The Blade's Edge
Cool. So as you as you ride through, the flame ah hits you, and you see that you fall and hit the ground.
01:00:29
Vesz'rak
I was so certain that this was a trick.
01:00:31
The Blade's Edge
And you are now on the other side. I'll just put him over here in case you end up resummoning him or something. Uh, but you are, ah you are on the other side and you are next to the, uh, like it looks like a, like a, like a guard tower.
Perilous Path and Stone Bridge
01:00:47
The Blade's Edge
So on the other side of the green flame is the road continues up the mountain, but there's also this guard tower.
01:00:53
Vesz'rak
Okay, I'm gonna lay on hands myself.
01:00:55
Trevor
In my head, i was watching that, like, you know, when Jack Sparrow, like, goes onto the dock and his ship sinks, you know?
01:00:55
The Blade's Edge
Cool. Oh
01:01:03
Vesz'rak
but
01:01:04
The Blade's Edge
oh yeah.
01:01:04
Trevor
Like, that was you on your horse.
01:01:04
The Blade's Edge
Yeah.
01:01:05
Trevor
The horse is just fucking dissolving in fire, and you're like, this is chill.
01:01:10
Vesz'rak
God damn it, dude.
01:01:10
Trevor
Slowly, like, coming down your feet.
01:01:13
Vesz'rak
Every time I think it's a trick, it's not.
01:01:14
Trevor
Yeah.
01:01:14
Vesz'rak
Every time. Look, okay. Um...
01:01:16
The Blade's Edge
Also, as you guys are making your way up this up towards the this whole thing, it's like all uphill. So you're you're like beginning to climb the mountain, essentially, as you as you head through this way.
01:01:28
Vesz'rak
And there's a there's a door to my right. Okay.
01:01:30
The Blade's Edge
Well, a guard tower. Yeah.
01:01:35
Vesz'rak
Can I make a perception check and look see if there's a way to turn off the green flame for the boys? All right, perception.
01:01:40
The Blade's Edge
Yeah, make a perception check.
01:01:42
Vesz'rak
19.
01:01:47
Vesz'rak
Right.
01:01:49
The Blade's Edge
Um, i mean, it looks magical. So if there's a, if you have a magical way of turning it off, you guys can, otherwise it's just there.
01:01:52
Vesz'rak
right
01:01:59
Vesz'rak
We should just vortex warped. I was too hasty. and for that, i apologize.
01:02:09
The Blade's Edge
Um, do any of you have any way to get rid of magic like this? If it's something that he says can be turned off, um, um There could be something that could ah dispel of of some sort.
01:02:19
Trevor
dispel it sort of thing.
01:02:21
Kyle
I mean, you're the magic guy.
01:02:22
Kyle Beams
I can only detect it.
01:02:23
Trevor
or Honestly, same.
01:02:23
Kyle Beams
I cannot dispel it.
01:02:26
The Blade's Edge
Well, I... ah Unfortunately, I don't have that spell on me today. um i didn't know I'd need it, but here's what I can do. I can tap into some of the chaos that...
01:02:42
The Blade's Edge
I used to have, and I can attempt to cast it. It just might might drain me somewhat, but if it is something that we are certain we would like to do, I can do it.
01:02:56
The Blade's Edge
Yes?
01:02:57
Kyle Beams
I don't have any other way of getting through without expending a lot of my own stuff. So, yeah.
01:03:02
Vesz'rak
just Just walk through. It's fine. See?
01:03:05
Kyle Beams
Yeah, it's good, really. And you're like fried.
01:03:05
Trevor
yeah yeah Yeah, you have no hair left.
01:03:10
Kyle
Mm-hmm.
01:03:12
The Blade's Edge
um Okay, he's going to...
01:03:13
Kyle Beams
i do canonically see D'Saun with no eyebrows. so
01:03:16
Vesz'rak
but Those have not been there for a long time.
01:03:20
The Blade's Edge
He's going to tap into the weave and expend a little more power than he would actually need to, which is fine, so I'll mark all that off.
01:03:31
The Blade's Edge
And he is going to do that to cast Dispel Magic, but he's going to need somebody's help on this side. Who can cast spells on this side? Selvadak and Inabi?
01:03:40
Kyle Beams
I'll do it, yeah. Mm-hmm.
01:03:43
The Blade's Edge
Can you as well, Anabi?
01:03:44
Trevor
Yeah, yeah.
01:03:45
The Blade's Edge
Okay, so he's gonna as he does this, he's going to touch both of you, and the Dispel Magic is going to um push out of both of you. And I'm going to need both of you to roll a d20 plus your spellcasting modifier, whatever that is.
01:04:02
The Blade's Edge
um And the DC you're trying to beat is a 16, and need one of you to succeed.
01:04:03
Kyle Beams
ye
01:04:07
The Blade's Edge
Okay.
01:04:08
Trevor
I failed.
01:04:11
Kyle Beams
I failed.
01:04:13
The Blade's Edge
Okay.
01:04:14
Kyle Beams
DM advantage.
01:04:14
The Blade's Edge
Cuckoo. Cuckoo. He is going to say, okay. All right. One more time. Hold on. I'm expending. This is the last time I can do it, and I'm expending quite a lot of my shit to be able to do this.
01:04:28
Kyle Beams
Can i expel a spell slot to give myself advantage on it?
01:04:28
The Blade's Edge
Sure. Yeah.
01:04:34
Kyle Beams
Sure.
01:04:34
The Blade's Edge
yeah and first So if we're so small, give a small advantage. ah He expels some ah valuable resources, puts his hand on you guys, and...
01:04:41
Kyle
Oh my God.
01:04:46
Kyle Beams
So I get a 23 because it's a plus five and a plus um five from my Spark of Genius.
01:04:50
Trevor
Thank you.
01:04:53
The Blade's Edge
Okay, you only need to be a 16, but the Spark of Genius definitely helps. And the ah Green Flame... Goes away and he says, okay, I can tell from being a magician this long that it's not going to be down forever. You to get through within one minute.
01:05:13
The Blade's Edge
It'll be back.
01:05:13
Kyle
Oh.
01:05:14
The Blade's Edge
ah
01:05:17
The Blade's Edge
You guys need to make it through the door in the next minute. Okay.
01:05:19
Vesz'rak
Look what they need just a copy of fraction of my power.
01:05:24
Vesz'rak
Walking through.
01:05:26
Kyle Beams
i I walk by, I tap you, and I cast Mending on the absolutely smoldering portions of your outfit.
01:05:33
Vesz'rak
oh it's still on fire.
01:05:35
Kyle
no
01:05:35
Kyle Beams
Just padding out different embers.
01:05:38
The Blade's Edge
And then you guys see this, you see this guard tower with the door?
01:05:38
Kyle Beams
Yeah, you made it through, buddy.
01:05:44
Vesz'rak
We need to get into the temple. i don't know if we should be distracted by a guard tower, but maybe also maybe we also knock on the door and see what's up.
01:05:51
The Blade's Edge
Cool. I'm just merely telling you what you see.
01:05:56
Kyle Beams
um
01:05:56
Vesz'rak
What if we but if we just sprint to the temple?
01:05:59
The Blade's Edge
Sure.
01:06:00
Trevor
Let's keep going to the temple.
01:06:02
The Blade's Edge
Cool. By the time you guys get up here, you look down back on the lake, and you are about, like, 500 feet in the air.
01:06:11
Kyle Beams
Holy.
01:06:12
The Blade's Edge
It's a very, very, very steep climb up this hill.
01:06:12
Kyle
wow
01:06:16
Kyle Beams
This is a very narrow path too, right?
01:06:18
The Blade's Edge
Super narrow. Falling down on either side would be very dangerous. And as you guys make it to this sort of bridge over here,
01:06:30
The Blade's Edge
Um, I do do do.
01:06:36
Trevor
What is that thing over there?
01:06:38
The Blade's Edge
That is something you shouldn't see.
01:06:38
Trevor
You see that?
01:06:39
The Blade's Edge
That's just the inside of if you would have went in the tower. That's one of the that's one of the rooms that this map is showing you for some reason.
01:06:42
Trevor
Oh, gotcha. Oh, gotcha, gotcha.
01:06:44
Kyle Beams
put that thing back where it came from.
01:06:47
The Blade's Edge
um As you get to here, this is the Western Arch. As you approach this bridge, the snowy pass comes to a gorge spanned by a stone bridge. So this bridge is hanging 500 feet over water.
01:07:02
The Blade's Edge
So this this this these arrows are meant to tell you that this is the hill down here. And it's 500 feet down to the gorge over here. As you get to here and you look back, it's 1,000 feet up.
01:07:13
The Blade's Edge
ah You look back like behind you now and you can go, okay, we could go up a thousand feet climbing this place. We could pass over this, but this is 500 feet over water, this bridge.
01:07:24
Kyle Beams
wow
01:07:25
The Blade's Edge
um The stone bridge at each end of the bridge is a 30-foot tall, 30-foot wide stone arch. Atop each one of these are two statues of armored knights on horseback with lances charging towards one another.
01:07:40
The Blade's Edge
The wind bites and howls like wolves as it passes through the gorge. Whew! This bridge is 500 feet above the water, and the wind is whipping.
01:07:53
Kyle Beams
is a scary bridge.
Encounter with the Black Cloaked Rider
01:07:57
Vesz'rak
I'm not afraid of a dinky bridge.
01:08:00
Trevor
What's the, is this the white stone building that we had seen from down here the left? Or is that a crew?
01:08:06
The Blade's Edge
I know that was the guard tower.
01:08:08
Kyle Beams
The one we
01:08:09
Trevor
Oh, this is the guard tower.
01:08:11
The Blade's Edge
Yeah.
01:08:12
Trevor
Okay.
01:08:15
Trevor
Nope.
01:08:17
Kyle Beams
I would start to walk onto the bridge.
01:08:20
The Blade's Edge
Okay.
01:08:24
Vesz'rak
I'd follow.
01:08:24
Kyle Beams
And I'd be like, it's fine, really.
01:08:26
Vesz'rak
Bridge time. Hey, I said that about the green flame wall, but nobody agreed with me on that one.
01:08:30
Kyle Beams
Yeah, can I do a investigation on the bridge to see if there's places that look less broken or more sturdy than others?
01:08:30
Trevor
That doesn't even look half good.
01:08:34
The Blade's Edge
Sure.
01:08:40
The Blade's Edge
Sure. Give me investigation. Okay.
01:08:42
Kyle Beams
Plus eight. And then plus five for another spark of genius. I now have two left.
01:08:50
The Blade's Edge
Cool.
01:08:51
Kyle Beams
So looking at 19.
01:08:52
The Blade's Edge
The low walls that enclose the stone bridge have fallen away in a couple places, but the bridge appears intact. um You see a...
01:09:01
Kyle Beams
Oh no.
01:09:04
The Blade's Edge
ah So the low walls that enclose the stone bridge have fallen away in couple places. The bridge appears intact. What you do see is halfway across the bridge, standing in the middle of a bridge, on top of a horse,
01:09:20
The Blade's Edge
is a black cloaked rider on a charcoal colored horse standing in the middle of the bridge.
01:09:27
Kyle Beams
no
01:09:32
Kyle Beams
ah Hail and well met.
01:09:34
The Blade's Edge
You get no response.
01:09:36
Trevor
Question mark
01:09:37
Vesz'rak
Welcome.
01:09:44
Kyle Beams
I would just keep moving.
01:09:45
The Blade's Edge
Okay. You walk up to this. Black cloaked rider. Okay, you're standing right in front of it.
01:09:51
Kyle Beams
Yeah.
01:09:55
Kyle Beams
Is it moving at all? Looking at me?
01:09:56
The Blade's Edge
No.
01:09:59
Kyle Beams
Do I see anything inscribed on it?
01:10:02
The Blade's Edge
No. All
01:10:04
Kyle Beams
then I would just continue moving past it.
01:10:07
The Blade's Edge
right, as you move past it, part of your outfit brushes it and the entire thing breaks away like particles into ash. It
Giant Bird Attack
01:10:17
The Blade's Edge
was was solidified ash, and as you just touch it ever so briefly, the wind whips the ash away.
01:10:24
Kyle Beams
Whoa.
01:10:27
The Blade's Edge
And as you do,
01:10:31
The Blade's Edge
um
01:10:34
The Blade's Edge
you look up with a 19 investigation, and you'd probably be about here at this point.
01:10:45
The Blade's Edge
Right, right dead center on the bridge.
01:10:45
Kyle Beams
Okay.
01:10:46
The Blade's Edge
And where is everybody else?
01:10:49
Vesz'rak
I'd be right behind him.
01:10:51
The Blade's Edge
Okay.
01:10:52
Kyle
um Is this like a single file type beat or is it? Okay, yeah.
01:10:55
The Blade's Edge
The bridge is, yeah.
01:10:58
Kyle
Yeah, I'm just where I am currently.
01:11:00
Trevor
I'd be here coming up to it.
01:11:01
The Blade's Edge
Okay.
01:11:02
Trevor
Send him a bird to be checking it out.
01:11:05
The Blade's Edge
Cool. um And you see, ah have a picture for you.
01:11:18
The Blade's Edge
I will post it in a second in the general chat for us. But you see diving towards the bridge with the wind whipping.
01:11:28
Kyle Beams
oh.
01:11:29
The Blade's Edge
Diving towards the bridge is a creature of unearthly size. A bird so monstrance so monstrous that its wings blot out the sky.
01:11:41
Kyle Beams
That is not good. I said no Wyverns.
01:11:45
Vesz'rak
Oh, shit.
01:11:46
Kyle Beams
I said No Griffins.
01:11:49
Vesz'rak
You didn't say anything about big birds.
01:11:51
Kyle Beams
Griffins.
01:11:52
The Blade's Edge
As this creature ah reaches you guys on the bridge, diving in this wind-whipped area, um
01:12:02
Kyle Beams
Oh, shit.
01:12:04
Kyle
Oof.
01:12:04
The Blade's Edge
we will begin our next session with an initiative roll.
01:12:10
Trevor
Let's go.
01:12:10
Kyle Beams
Let's go.
01:12:10
The Blade's Edge
But you guys are on the Salenka Pass, headed towards the Amber Temple with...
01:12:11
Trevor
That's sick.
01:12:19
The Blade's Edge
um Ridley Valentine, the Mad Mage, in tow. um Jimothy left behind, but you've come to an agreement.
01:12:31
The Blade's Edge
And we will see you guys next time. Thank you guys for tuning in And once again, if you would like to subscribe to our Patreon, that's patreon.com slash blades edge.
01:12:42
The Blade's Edge
We
Character Progression and Wrap-up
01:12:43
The Blade's Edge
appreciate you guys so much. ah Go see, I'm going to date myself on when this ah episode comes up, but go see the monkey.
01:12:51
Kyle Beams
The monkeys among
01:12:51
The Blade's Edge
great little horror movie that is very, very fun and funny. And I had a smile on my face the entire time. ah Great use of practical effects and the right, just the right amount of CGI effects.
01:13:00
Kyle Beams
Always love that.
01:13:00
Kyle
earlier Let's go.
01:13:07
The Blade's Edge
um And yeah, we'll see guys next on this, this horror themed twisted journey through Barovia to the Amber Temple.
01:13:18
Trevor
Fuck yeah.
01:13:18
Kyle Beams
Love it.
01:13:18
Trevor
Level nine next time sick.
01:13:20
The Blade's Edge
Oh, you know what? Yes. Thank you for reminding me.
01:13:22
Trevor
No way. Actually, um I don't think i can get this far.
01:13:23
The Blade's Edge
I swear to God. I swear to God.
01:13:24
The Blade's Edge
Yes. Yes.
01:13:24
Vesz'rak
Ha ha ha ha ha.
01:13:24
Kyle Beams
Oh, ohd up.
01:13:25
The Blade's Edge
I was going to say, I think I've told you guys, I've accidentally told you guys that before off pod.
01:13:27
Kyle Beams
Wait a second.
01:13:31
The Blade's Edge
And I keep forgetting that that's an exciting thing to do on pod. So, uh, level nine next time, which is great because I believe for,
01:13:38
Trevor
Oh, let's go.
01:13:45
The Blade's Edge
um For Bash, level nine is pretty big because I think that's um your Brutal Critical.
01:13:56
The Blade's Edge
So now when you crit, Bash, not only will you roll another d twelve because of the feat you have, but you'll also roll an additional D12 because of Brutal Critical.
01:13:57
Kyle
Oh yeah.
01:14:07
Kyle
That is so fire.
01:14:07
Kyle Beams
ahha
01:14:08
The Blade's Edge
So now when you crit, you're rolling four D12.
01:14:08
Kyle
Do you know how?
01:14:12
Kyle
ah what I really want to do multi class into fighter. So I could have that one feat that is like you crit on a 19.
01:14:23
Kyle Beams
Oh, Champion Fighter.
01:14:23
The Blade's Edge
Oh, you'd have to get three levels.
01:14:23
Trevor
As a champion.
01:14:25
Kyle Beams
Level 3.
01:14:25
Kyle
The champion. I know, but like, God damn.
01:14:27
Kyle Beams
Could be fun. Could be fun.
01:14:29
The Blade's Edge
Yeah. um You get that. Tommy, you're you're still going Pally, right?
01:14:35
Vesz'rak
Yeah, so powder unless story beats dictate otherwise.
01:14:40
The Blade's Edge
Listen, you could have become Warlock of Yoxtes.
01:14:41
Kyle Beams
Same.
01:14:44
Vesz'rak
Look, I've got too much. i got too much dark energy floating around in my brain to be a yawk sizzler.
01:14:49
The Blade's Edge
You get ah third level spells. All of your guys' is proficiency bonus goes into a four.
01:14:54
Kyle Beams
Huge.
01:14:55
The Blade's Edge
ah You get third level spells. um
01:14:59
Kyle Beams
I get access to an exploding cannon.
01:14:59
Trevor
they speak
01:15:02
The Blade's Edge
Nice. Is that a ah specifically an Artillerist thing?
01:15:05
Kyle Beams
Yeah, it is.
01:15:07
The Blade's Edge
Noish. Yeah, level nine. Artificer gets a specialist feature and unlocks third level spells.
01:15:16
Kyle Beams
Yep. Fireball.
01:15:17
The Blade's Edge
and And Trevor...
01:15:18
Kyle Beams
Yes, I. Real bad man.
01:15:19
Trevor
ah Feet.
01:15:21
The Blade's Edge
Are you Wiz?
01:15:21
Trevor
I took. What's that?
01:15:23
The Blade's Edge
Wiz for this level?
01:15:25
Trevor
Yeah, yeah, yeah. Another wizard level.
01:15:27
The Blade's Edge
Wiz eight?
01:15:29
Trevor
ASI, yeah, yeah, yeah, wizard eight.
01:15:31
Kyle Beams
yes sir ri but
01:15:33
The Blade's Edge
Wizard eight is yeah, ability score improvement, another fourth level spell.
01:15:39
Trevor
I'm taking a slasher, I think.
01:15:39
The Blade's Edge
Slots.
01:15:41
Trevor
But my dex by one to get it to 18, and then i think if I like crit with doing slashing damage, they have like disadvantage on attack rolls.
01:15:42
The Blade's Edge
Slashed.
01:15:52
Vesz'rak
And we're not going to, and we can't take Vivify, right, Brian?
01:15:52
The Blade's Edge
Nice.
01:15:53
Trevor
Looks neat.
01:15:55
Vesz'rak
Or we can? Okay.
01:15:56
The Blade's Edge
You can, yeah. You just need to have the components, yeah.
01:15:59
Vesz'rak
The components.
01:16:01
Trevor
Spainstiff.
01:16:01
Vesz'rak
All right.
01:16:02
The Blade's Edge
um
01:16:03
Vesz'rak
Well, okay.
01:16:04
The Blade's Edge
Alright, we'll pick up next time, level 9, with ah Mr. Valentine, Mad Mage, making your way to yeah yeah maybe you way the Amber Temple as a massive fucking bird is attacking you on ah the road of Mount Gakus.
01:16:12
Trevor
Downtown.
01:16:22
Kyle Beams
Let's go, Mount Gakus.
01:16:24
The Blade's Edge
See you guys next time.
01:16:25
Kyle Beams
Peace.
01:16:25
The Blade's Edge
Bye-bye.