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Curse of Strahd Ep. 11: A Reasonable Mad Mage
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Oh, we are soooo back. The Pointy Ear Gang experienced a temporary setback at the hands of the BBEG that torments every adventuring party - the notorious Demon Lord Sche'du'ling - and have escaped their dreaded clutches to bring you episode 11 of our Curse of Strahd campaign.
The gang was triumphant atop the precipice of Yester Hill, thwarting the plans of Strahd and preventing Wintersplinter from coming into form. The effigy crumbled to the ground at the hands of Vesz'rak, who seized the Gem, hopefully securing a future for Wizard of Wines. We befriended the Druids of Yester Hill and the Berserkers of Kavan, as as the scope of our allies grew larger, so too did the bonds between our heroes.
We hope you enjoy the episode as we make our way eastward towards the village of Barovia.
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Transcript
Introduction of Characters and Setting
00:00:04
bladesedge
Welcome back one and all to the blade's edge. I am joined by Tommy McMillan, Vesrak, Bainval, Kyle beans, Gilman graves, uh, cow Gerard, Roy Halovich, Trevor Christensen, Valerius moonstone as we jump directly back in.
00:00:28
bladesedge
peek behind the curtain for those of you listening. Been in minutes as we recorded.
00:00:32
Gilmund Graves
It's been 100 years.
00:00:33
bladesedge
So a little bit of grace goes a long way.
Battle on Yester Hill: The Magical Gem
00:00:39
bladesedge
But we're picking directly back up post battle on yester hill where the pointy eared gang, you guys, came to find a magical gem from the Mardukov family.
00:00:43
Gilmund Graves
Oh, man.
00:00:59
bladesedge
Mardukov family owned Wizard of Wines. And without these gems, the production of wine would be impossible. Each gem doing something different. You have found one while these druids were conducting this ritual. And these earthen, almost druidic-like warriors, these berserkers attacked you to stop you from disrupting the ritual. But you did.
00:01:29
bladesedge
yeah claiming the gem out of the burning effigy. um The gem sits in Vesrak's hand. Gilmond is face to face with a one of these druidic warriors, one of these, you know, sort of mountain men kind of looking guys Roy Valyrias Roy's Beast his his pets Ray the Raven and Valyrias is spiritual weapon floating around this mountain man that you guys are with and as the gem is grasped by Fez rack the druidic chanting stops
00:02:17
bladesedge
Shoulders seem to loosen up on the mountain men who start to look around as the Druids look towards you. And Tom, the Druid, looks at you, Vesrak, and says, what have you done?
Peace Talks and the Blood Spear Discovery
00:02:33
Tommy
i I pull out my knife and I hold the gem out of I'm out of spell slots And this is the only thing I have I go back off back up. I'll destroy it. I'll do it. I'm crazy Hey Brian, I won't need it.
00:02:46
bladesedge
Uh, making an intimidation check for me. Let's say with the gem, you could have advantage.
00:02:55
Tommy
That's a nat 20
00:02:55
Gilmund Graves
Oh, we we are so back.
00:02:56
Trevor
oh
00:02:56
Tommy
First of all, Hey, Hey, we're, we're back.
00:02:57
Trevor
jesus
00:02:58
Kyle
We're snowback.
00:02:59
Tommy
Hey, the gym, I'm keeping this gym, by the way, hey this has granted me nat 20 abilities.
00:03:01
bladesedge
Uh, everybody, everybody here before we started recording me, like I'm at 10 hit points.
00:03:02
Gilmund Graves
Yeah. ah
00:03:03
Trevor
yeah
00:03:05
Tommy
I'm keeping the gym.
00:03:10
bladesedge
I have no spell slots. I have this, I have that not 20.
00:03:15
Tommy
I don't need spell slots where we're going.
00:03:17
bladesedge
You roll a nat 20 and Tom says, Whoa, whoa, whoa.
00:03:20
Trevor
Oh,
00:03:24
bladesedge
Don't do anything to it.
00:03:24
Trevor
Jesus.
00:03:27
bladesedge
There's the the ritual stopped. He looks back at the other guys on two dead druids on the grounds. Is it two or three dead mountain men?
00:03:38
bladesedge
Three, three dead berserkers on the ground. He'll stop.
00:03:42
Gilmund Graves
for actually
00:03:43
bladesedge
Hey. Four, yes. So let's just stop this. ah Enough, enough people have died. It's over. We can't start the ritual again anyway.
00:03:58
bladesedge
Roy, you notice the guy, the mountain man by you sort of lower his great acts. And with his left arm reach out and back like backhand slap the spear. In your hands. As he does, he goes. Where did you find this?
00:04:26
Kyle
It's none of your business where I found this. And I hold I hold it up and as I'm ah I hold it up as if I'm about to stab him with it. But in like a I'm not actually I'm just going to intimidate him with it.
00:04:37
bladesedge
Sure. Um, yeah, go ahead and roll, uh, roll a, I'm actually going to ask for something here. I'm going to ask you for a persuasion check. I know that you're going to intimidate him, but holding up this spear that he seems to recognize, um, go ahead and roll me that at advantage.
00:04:52
Trevor
I dare you.
00:04:56
Kyle
Oh, wait, hold on, I got to get this thing out of my way. Okay. Uh, at advantage.
00:04:59
Trevor
Double die. Oh, it's close.
00:05:01
Kyle
So close.
00:05:01
Tommy
So you didn't have the gem.
00:05:02
Kyle
I i rolled a 19, man.
00:05:04
Gilmund Graves
Oh yeah.
00:05:06
Trevor
True.
00:05:06
Gilmund Graves
yeah
00:05:07
bladesedge
A 19 for a total of 23. You see, as you hold it up, his eyes go wide and he drops to a knee and he says blood spare of Kavan. We thought this was lost.
00:05:23
bladesedge
Um, you notice Gilman, the guy by you, uh, you know, maybe like has a part of your shirt in his fist. You have your dagger up. He's got his action one hand and and at this, he's looking past you, grip loosens. And that guy says, come on. You guys found the blood spear.
00:05:49
Gilmund Graves
Hell yeah, we found the blood spear. Now let go of me.
00:05:53
bladesedge
He lets go.
Druids' Intentions and Plan to Confront Strahd
00:05:55
bladesedge
um The Druids seem to have relaxed. And they walk over.
00:06:06
bladesedge
um As this guy Gilman who kind of moves around to you and picks up um his Italian mountain man friend.
00:06:18
Gilmund Graves
I'm not ugly.
00:06:20
bladesedge
and lays him, brings him over to this grave and sort of lays him in it and begins to do it with another guy.
00:06:29
bladesedge
um
00:06:29
Gilmund Graves
Oh, it's like that, huh?
00:06:30
Tommy
They had, they had pre-dug graves.
00:06:33
bladesedge
Yeah, there were these graves around here that this whole when this whole thing started, you actually saw these guys pop out of graves that they were ah were sleeping in.
00:06:39
Gilmund Graves
Huh.
00:06:39
Tommy
Oh, that's right.
00:06:40
Kyle
Mm.
00:06:40
Tommy
Oh yeah.
00:06:41
Gilmund Graves
It's another good album title, pre-dug graves.
00:06:45
bladesedge
With the one guy kneeling in front of Roy, Tom says to you, Vesrak, Well, well, listen, it's over. You saved my life. We don't want to fight anymore.
00:07:01
Tommy
All right, Tom, but what was Strahd? What did, what's it, what did he want with the gem? Just give it to me straight buddy. We go way back level with me.
00:07:11
bladesedge
ah He points at a massive, the massive gothias tree that you guys passed on your way up here. Um, he says, uh, that ancient tree is called winter splinter. With our ritual, we were going to bring winter splinter to life. When winter splinter is rooted as it is here, it can give life to the, the blights you've fought and seen the needle blights, et cetera. We were going to bring it to life and
00:07:50
bladesedge
give it to Strahd to use how he pleases, but we cannot do that now.
00:07:52
Gilmund Graves
if Good.
00:07:59
Tommy
Uh, all right. So I guess this is settled, huh? I don't want no more winter spunter for you guys. All right. Are we all agreed?
00:08:09
bladesedge
he's He nods and says, well, I don't want any more of my friends to die today. So let's just call it here. sort of raising his hands as you know, I mean, it's like a small halfling druid guy, but raising his hands as if to say. Peace, white flag.
00:08:32
Trevor
peace among worlds
00:08:32
Gilmund Graves
I'd walk over, I'd walk over towards Vess rack and say, we're going to need some help. Potentially destroying that tree. That's creating all the blights, the, uh, goal Thias tree. Right.
00:08:44
bladesedge
um Tom says without the gem, it won't be creating anything.
00:08:51
Gilmund Graves
Okay.
00:08:52
Tommy
ah Sick ah get out get out played idiots All right, so we're just gonna we're just gonna we're just ah leave that peacefully
00:08:53
Gilmund Graves
Yeah. All right. That's good.
00:08:56
Gilmund Graves
Yeah. Get outplayed get rotated.
00:08:58
Trevor
Peace among the worlds.
00:09:00
Trevor
roed
00:09:08
Kyle
um Before we leave, I want to ask because I'm still holding my spear to the guy kneeling on the ground.
00:09:08
bladesedge
Um, yep. Yeah, this guy's still kneeling. Yeah, this guy.
00:09:17
Kyle
I'm gonna say what do you what do you want with this spear anyways?
00:09:22
bladesedge
Um. He looks almost dumbfounded at the question as he says. a I wouldn't know what to do with the spear. We've been looking for the spear for years. It shows itself for those who are chosen. It is not mine to wield. It is yours.
00:09:46
Kyle
Okay, well, why would your people be looking for this?
00:09:53
bladesedge
Kavan was the chieftain of our tribe. Ancient. Chieftain of our ancestors up in the Balanak Mountains, centuries before even the arrival of Strahd von Zarovich.
00:10:11
bladesedge
He slept during
Return to Wizard of Wines and Gem History
00:10:12
bladesedge
the day. He hunted at night. He drank the blood of his prey. And we lived underground back then. He wielded this spear stained with blood.
00:10:32
Kyle
I see. Well, it's mine now.
00:10:39
Gilmund Graves
The ancient spear that they've been searching for forever is now in the hands of a guy who says, well, it's mine now.
00:10:46
Tommy
Real, ah real, real Indiana Jones moment right there.
00:10:46
Trevor
Finders keepers, bitch.
00:10:47
Gilmund Graves
Why don't you hit him with and with a bucko?
00:10:48
Kyle
man
00:10:50
Gilmund Graves
Hit him with a bucko.
00:10:53
Kyle
Um, real quick. I was, I was spoken to when I picked this spirit, was it Kavan speaking to me?
00:10:59
bladesedge
Mm hmm. Um, yeah, I don't know. You don't know. ah You don't know. Yeah, you didn't ask. You don't know. Come on. Sounds like ah you're still holding this beer, though.
00:11:12
Kyle
Oh wait, i but I do remember what they said, which was my spear hungers for blood.
00:11:17
bladesedge
Mm hmm.
00:11:20
Kyle
I'll tell them that and say when I pick this up, I heard a voice in my head. Was that Kavan speaking to me?
00:11:28
bladesedge
he He looks as though like you're revealing information to him.
00:11:31
Gilmund Graves
Mm hmm.
00:11:34
bladesedge
ah he He just looks and says, whoa, you're telling me K'Vaun's spirit is stealing the spear? How fortuitous.
00:11:52
Gilmund Graves
and's sir That's interesting. Binding souls to objects or something like that.
00:11:58
Kyle
Yeah, I did not expect him to not know about this. Oh god.
00:12:06
bladesedge
um Yeah, no, I mean, no insight check needed. You're you're talking to a nine intelligence. A nine intelligence, you know, a 10 wisdom.
00:12:19
bladesedge
ah Guy here, this is not somebody this is not like an ancient librarian or somebody with a ton of knowledge.
00:12:24
Kyle
Sure.
00:12:25
bladesedge
This is a mountain man.
00:12:29
bladesedge
um Who's probably never read a book in his life, but I just heard about Kavan through throughout the years.
00:12:34
Tommy
So do they just serve whoever, or is it like Strahd specifically or the wi the, or potentially the wielder of the spear?
00:12:44
bladesedge
Sound like phenomenal questions that you could ask them.
00:12:49
Kyle
Uh, did you say that out loud or do you, shall I ask?
00:12:54
Tommy
ah Yeah, I started yelling. I'm yelling from across the battlefield.
00:12:57
Gilmund Graves
ah
00:12:59
Tommy
I'm over by Tom.
00:12:59
Trevor
Just sit and massage in your feet.
00:13:00
Kyle
Um, okay.
00:13:01
Tommy
and the effort.
00:13:01
Gilmund Graves
I have a question!
00:13:01
Tommy
yeah I have an important question. ah
00:13:07
Kyle
Okay. So, um, yeah, you, you worship Kavan and now you seem to worship Strahd. Did Strahd have anything to do with this spear?
00:13:19
bladesedge
No, I mean he sh sure he shrugs. No, not to my knowledge.
00:13:29
Kyle
Do you worship whoever wields the spear?
00:13:32
bladesedge
huh No.
00:13:36
Tommy
Rats.
00:13:37
Kyle
Oh, okay.
00:13:38
Gilmund Graves
yeah
00:13:39
Kyle
Okay, I get it.
00:13:40
Gilmund Graves
No army for you, Roy.
00:13:41
Tommy
Thought I was cooking for a second.
00:13:42
Gilmund Graves
Yeah.
00:13:44
Trevor
Hit him in the reverse.
00:13:45
Tommy
Come on, Brian. Give us an army. Come on. We're level five. We're level four. Give us an army. Come on.
00:13:49
Gilmund Graves
Minions, minions, minions.
00:13:50
Trevor
ah
00:13:53
bladesedge
Um, with your, uh, when you, with your natural 20 and your, um, 20, that's 20 for 21 intimidation, your 23 persuasion. Um, you haven't asked them this, but I would just ah assume this is where you were getting at. And, uh, Tom says to you, Vezrak, he goes, listen, how about we have, we make up the deal here. You leave.
00:14:19
bladesedge
Continue on your way in this land. I've seen this place eat up many adventurers. People come here and die all the time. But if you're serious, and you guys are the real deal, if you amass enough power, and you are the ones which legend has foretold will face Strahd,
00:14:48
bladesedge
He goes. ah You can call on us.
00:14:55
bladesedge
And you see the two mountain men are not looking at Vesserak as as Tom and the Druids are talking to Vesserak.
00:14:56
Trevor
Let's go.
00:15:01
bladesedge
The two mountain men are looking at Roy specifically ah looking at the staff in Roy's the spear in Roy's hand and both the mountain men say. um Or what one of them just says ah you can free us.
00:15:17
bladesedge
From these this land. as, you know, maybe he picks up a spear um just to, he picks up a spear and chucks it like as hard as he can. And you see him chuck it towards the mountain range where there was this wall of fog and his spear goes in the fog. And a second later, you see the spear come out of the fog. He says, yes like Tom said, if you can, if your end goal is to take on Strahd,
00:15:50
bladesedge
When that time comes, you can call on us as well.
00:15:59
Gilmund Graves
Fuck yeah.
00:16:00
Kyle
That's fire.
00:16:07
Kyle
Alright, well we have this gem.
00:16:10
Gilmund Graves
Yeah, we're gonna need to get it back to the Wizard of Wines.
00:16:14
Tommy
Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. Okay. We don't have to be too hasty with the gym.
00:16:20
Gilmund Graves
I think one nat 20 is a accident.
00:16:20
Tommy
I'm just, we don't have to move too rapidly with the gym. I feel like.
00:16:27
Gilmund Graves
Two nat 20s is a pattern.
00:16:32
Tommy
All right.
00:16:32
Gilmund Graves
So, okay.
00:16:32
Tommy
Uh, all right. I'm going to roll a d20. Uh, if I roll a d20, I'm keeping the gym.
00:16:37
Gilmund Graves
Heard.
00:16:38
Tommy
Please. I've never wanted anything more in my life. Please.
00:16:42
Gilmund Graves
I would honestly, you would have used up your entire luck for the year. It's like, it's like when a hockey game wins a game nine to two and then they lose the next four games.
00:16:53
Tommy
All right. Three, two, one ah to two.
00:16:53
Kyle
i Whoa.
00:16:55
Gilmund Graves
Oh, it's a two classic.
00:16:55
Tommy
Okay. All right.
00:16:55
Trevor
Oh.
00:16:55
Kyle
Very little.
00:16:56
Tommy
or All right.
00:16:56
Gilmund Graves
Okay.
00:16:56
Tommy
All right.
00:16:57
Kyle
You're one digit off.
00:16:57
Gilmund Graves
That's, that's it. That's it. Yeah.
00:17:00
Kyle
Yeah, you had the first half.
00:17:01
Gilmund Graves
Yeah.
00:17:01
Trevor
That's true.
00:17:02
Tommy
Okay. All right, mr. Jim, you win this round. All right. Let's go back to the Druids or let's go back to the, the Marta coves.
00:17:08
Trevor
This gem's broken.
00:17:10
Tommy
I think I broke it. I kept the net to any intimidation. I used up all the juice.
00:17:14
Gilmund Graves
ah
00:17:14
Tommy
I already siphoned.
00:17:14
Trevor
Magic's gone.
00:17:16
Tommy
Hey, if Hey, I found your gym already siphoned all the nat 20 power out of it.
00:17:16
Trevor
I'm sorry.
00:17:19
Tommy
You could have it back.
00:17:21
Trevor
Honestly, didn't have a lot. I don't know what the fucking level was about.
00:17:25
Tommy
I'd like to return it. Do you have a receipt for it? Oh, no.
00:17:29
Gilmund Graves
A gem that only gives the wielder Nat 20s would be a fun thing to throw into a do a campaign.
00:17:36
Trevor
Be insane.
00:17:37
Kyle
ah but Just no no strings attached. What's the caveat?
00:17:41
Tommy
Yeah.
00:17:41
Trevor
Yeah.
00:17:41
Tommy
What's like the Midas touch of the gym?
00:17:42
Gilmund Graves
Everybody wants it.
00:17:43
Tommy
That's it. That'd be kind of cool.
00:17:45
Kyle
Ah, I see.
00:17:47
Tommy
Hey, Brian, hey can we make that gym this gym? but
00:17:50
Kyle
but
00:17:51
Trevor
Idea. but
00:17:55
Gilmund Graves
Brian's just nodding his head back and forth.
00:17:57
Tommy
I just picture Brian writing in his notebook being like, kill Tommy. Kill those right.
00:18:02
Trevor
yeah Don't give...
00:18:03
Tommy
Take the gym.
00:18:04
Gilmund Graves
I'm pretty sure that's the beginning of of the first page of any of the books notebooks that he has.
00:18:10
Trevor
yeah Don't give Tommy any gems.
00:18:10
Tommy
Too soon, dude. Too soon.
00:18:12
Gilmund Graves
Too soon.
00:18:12
bladesedge
I know I love how you think i I'm the reason you rolled that ones on death saves and not the fact that right when you get a little bit of luck you just want to roll a d20 for fun just to get a nat 20.
00:18:17
Gilmund Graves
No.
00:18:21
Tommy
All right, look at that.
00:18:24
bladesedge
It's the opposite of like when people are like oh I'm glad I'm missing all my shots and warm up that means I'm getting them out of the way for the game.
00:18:27
Gilmund Graves
I was
00:18:31
bladesedge
You're like hitting all your shots and warm up going this is great it's gonna be like this all night.
00:18:31
Gilmund Graves
like, no, no, no.
00:18:34
Trevor
Yeah.
00:18:34
Tommy
You, you've never seen a more efficient practice, sir. Let me tell you when it comes to practice, I'm on when it comes to game time. Nat ones.
00:18:45
bladesedge
um All right, so you guys have the gem. You have the ability ah when the time comes to call on the Druids of Yesterhill and the Kavan tribe, as we'll we'll call them for your own edification. So make sure to write that down when the time comes so that you don't forget.
00:19:04
bladesedge
And ah you see Tom and his druids gets to um cleaning up the place, ah burying some of their friends. And um you see some more druids from far off coming along. ah Same with the mountain men begin burying their friends. Valerius, your spiritual weapon eventually fades.
00:19:32
Trevor
Yep.
00:19:33
bladesedge
um And as it does, um you swear that it as it sort of goes away, it's like the bottom part of the spiritual weapon curves up in a circular pattern up to the top of the spiritual weapon as if a snake eating its own tail as it disappears.
00:19:55
Trevor
Oh, that's sweet.
00:19:58
bladesedge
um And, uh, it's the, the floor is your guys. You guys are going back to the wizard of wines. Is that the plan?
00:20:07
Gilmund Graves
Yeah, I think ah that that's kind of what we set out here to do was to come and um get the gem back and then set off eastward.
00:20:08
Kyle
We should definitely rest up when we get back because your boy is struggling.
00:20:20
bladesedge
Okay.
00:20:26
Gilmund Graves
Yeah, we can definitely have a sleep.
00:20:30
bladesedge
All right.
00:20:30
Kyle
What time is it right now? Sorry.
00:20:32
bladesedge
Um, it's like perpetual dusk here. So it's kind of hard to tell what time it is.
00:20:39
Kyle
Gotcha.
00:20:40
bladesedge
Um, but I would say you guys woke up in the morning, went to, uh, in Kresk, went to Wizard of Wines, spoke to the Mardukovs, came here, battled.
00:20:52
bladesedge
It's probably nearing yeah the end of the day, maybe 5 p.m. ish.
00:20:58
Gilmund Graves
Yeah, by the time we make our way back, we'll maybe be able to have a little bit of food, something to drink and then zonk out.
00:20:58
bladesedge
6 p.m.
00:21:04
Kyle
Hell yeah.
00:21:10
bladesedge
Okay. So you guys are heading back to the wizard of wines.
00:21:13
Gilmund Graves
Let's do it.
00:21:14
Tommy
Yeah, visitor ones.
00:21:15
bladesedge
All right. Um, and if there's anything you guys would like to do while you're there, please let me know, but just to sort of, uh, narrate and smooth over, um, some parts of it, you guys head back. Um, uh,
00:21:29
bladesedge
The Kreskoff family is super grateful for your guys' help. um They don't have much to give you guys, but they do give you eight gold, which seems like a lot for them, considering um
00:21:42
Gilmund Graves
money to go to each boys.
00:21:48
bladesedge
That business has been pretty slow. um They go on. You guys each get too cold. They go on to let you guys know that the history of this place is that that there is there were originally three gems. At the Wizard of Wines. An unknown party that they don't know about a decade ago.
00:22:16
bladesedge
took a gem that corresponded to their best blend, something called champagne doula stomp, which they could never make again. um And then these their last two gems were both taken recently.
00:22:31
bladesedge
Um, one they believe was stolen by a, uh, woman known as Babala saga.
Symbolic Dreams of the Team
00:22:39
bladesedge
And one was stolen by the, uh, Druids, um, venerating, uh, Strahd. They placed it inside that but effigy that you got it out of. Um, so they do let you know that there are still two missing, one that's been missing for 10 years, one that is recent, um,
00:23:00
bladesedge
And obviously it would be very grateful for your help, but, um, in retrieving said gems, what
00:23:08
Gilmund Graves
Okay. Um, so there's, I think it would be that we, we don't need to seek them specifically, but as we venture forward in our journeys, it would probably be smart to keep our ears open for the things that, you know, make us think about that.
00:23:11
bladesedge
do you think your response would be to that?
00:23:28
Gilmund Graves
We were going to head to the actual village of Barovia, weren't we?
00:23:35
Tommy
yeah I think we were goingnna thought we passed around the idea of keeping the horses to go to Barovia, but ultimately I think we returned them.
00:23:43
bladesedge
Oh, yeah, why don't you guys roll me a let's get Valerius and Gilman.
00:23:44
Gilmund Graves
Yeah.
00:23:49
bladesedge
Why don't the two of you each of you roll me a persuasion check?
00:23:52
Gilmund Graves
Absolutely.
00:23:57
Gilmund Graves
Minus one persuasion.
00:24:00
Gilmund Graves
That's a 12.
00:24:01
Trevor
and a five.
00:24:02
bladesedge
OK, they're they they're not letting you take tenacity.
00:24:07
Gilmund Graves
Oh, Jack Black, Kyle Gass.
00:24:08
bladesedge
They need it.
00:24:08
Tommy
oh
00:24:08
Kyle
Yeah.
00:24:09
Tommy
Even after we return the gem?
00:24:11
Gilmund Graves
Aw.
00:24:12
bladesedge
Um, even after you return the gem, it seems, uh, planting this gem, he, they go on to let you know, will, um, make the ground fertile once again, to be able to start producing wine for the despondent citizens of this dreary realm. Uh, but they will need the horses to deliver said wine.
00:24:33
Gilmund Graves
Yeah, you guys see my, um, my ominous shadow on the wall, flipping off, um, the family with both hands.
00:24:43
Kyle
Can they see that?
00:24:45
Gilmund Graves
Oh yeah, they probably can, but it's behind them.
00:24:47
Trevor
Peace among worlds, druids.
00:24:49
Kyle
That's fire.
00:24:50
Tommy
Can I ask some articles, how much the horses are gold wise, but the, but tenacious D how much is tenacious D Brian.
00:24:55
bladesedge
Um, they can tell you how much horses are, but theirs are not.
00:25:01
bladesedge
Theirs are not they a horse, a draft horse such as this is usually goes for 50 gold.
00:25:07
Tommy
Okay.
00:25:08
bladesedge
So two horses would be a hundred gold.
00:25:08
Tommy
but I tell them, mark I'm going to cut.
00:25:12
bladesedge
But you are looking at this. Does this, is this map still not working for you guys? I know I sent it to you. Let me just try again.
00:25:22
Tommy
Nah, it's still not working.
00:25:22
bladesedge
Um, let's see, reveal, do, do, do, do, do reveal button.
00:25:23
Kyle
It is black.
00:25:27
bladesedge
Not working over here. Explorable darkness, permanent, explorable reset.
00:25:39
bladesedge
ah Okay. It's not working. You guys have a map, um, separately, but from where they are, they're the premier wine deliveries for all of Barovia.
00:25:52
bladesedge
Um, so with those low persuasion rolls, they are not willing to sell their horses.
00:25:57
Tommy
Uh, can I ask them, uh, if I come back with two different draft horses, could I trade them to you for tenacious D?
00:26:05
bladesedge
Uh, make a persuasion check called a DC 12.
00:26:10
Tommy
I should not have handed over the gym. Uh, persuasion plus one.
00:26:15
Trevor
Trying to see that jam real quick.
00:26:15
Gilmund Graves
Perhaps if they are draftugh dr draft bye draft spiders?
00:26:16
Tommy
Oh, 13, 13, 13. We're okay.
00:26:21
bladesedge
Yeah, he's they seem perplexed as to what's so special about these two horses and they are like they seem like. Yeah, I mean, whatever. We just need horses to carry the wines around Barovia.
00:26:33
Tommy
I look, I looked in HSD square in the eyes as I pet their main and I just go, I'm coming back for you. I'm not leaving you here.
00:26:42
bladesedge
Making an animal handling check.
00:26:45
Tommy
Come on, baby. Plus two, a 10.
00:26:48
Kyle
He needs the gem.
00:26:50
Tommy
I need the gym. Can yeah and I just rub the gym really fast?
00:26:54
bladesedge
ah You see one of them is looking at you all one is grazing and as it's looking at you um It sort of just goes
00:27:04
Tommy
Yeah, I'm going to bring you home buddy.
00:27:08
Gilmund Graves
ah
00:27:09
Trevor
I love you. I wanna take you away from all this.
00:27:11
Tommy
ily i love who I'm writing down in my notebook, buy two draft horses, rescue tenacious D.
00:27:19
Trevor
Heck yeah.
00:27:22
Gilmund Graves
Top quest, everything else is ancillary.
00:27:22
Kyle
Take them away from all of this.
00:27:25
bladesedge
Um, they, they let you stay at Wizards of wines. If you guys wanted to, uh, stay there, they have rooms for you.
00:27:32
Gilmund Graves
Yeah, let's say the night.
00:27:35
Kyle
Yeah.
00:27:35
bladesedge
Cool. You guys may, may long rest.
00:27:40
Trevor
go
00:27:41
Kyle
A few things give me a ah dopamine rush as much as clicking the long rest button and watching my HP go back up and all my spell slots come back.
00:27:48
bladesedge
yeah
00:27:48
Trevor
yeah
00:27:51
Trevor
That shit still hits.
00:27:55
bladesedge
um You guys are. Sorry. Able to.
00:28:01
Kyle
So back.
00:28:04
bladesedge
You guys long rest in the morning when the morning comes, the Martikov family all seem to be out of the house, they are all cleaning up the entire farmland that was kind of destroyed, not only by the fire, but by.
00:28:18
bladesedge
the evil druids, um, and the triants and all the stomped shit, trying to salvage what they what they can.
Journey to Valaki and Deception at the Gate
00:28:24
bladesedge
So as morning comes, the day is yours. What is the plan?
00:28:31
Gilmund Graves
um If we went back just a little bit during um during the settling in at night before we went to bed, I would have knocked on ah Roy's door.
00:28:43
bladesedge
Okay.
00:28:47
Kyle
You knock on my door?
00:28:48
Gilmund Graves
Yeah.
00:28:49
Kyle
I awake?
00:28:52
Gilmund Graves
I've got two cups and a bottle of wine.
00:28:52
Kyle
And I- Beautiful.
00:28:59
Gilmund Graves
You wanna drink?
00:29:00
Kyle
Let's do it.
00:29:03
Gilmund Graves
um Yeah, and I would just come in and I'd sit on the sit on the floor, pour a couple glasses, and you looked incredible out there yesterday, or today, I guess.
00:29:17
Kyle
I feel like it's a stroke of luck.
00:29:21
Gilmund Graves
I saw the way you put yourself in between Vess Rack, the Druids, and the Barbarians. It was really brave. I wanted you to know that.
00:29:32
Kyle
Thank you. i I take care of the people that I care about.
00:29:36
Gilmund Graves
I like the way you do it because I do it in a different way and I'm learning.
00:29:44
Kyle
How would you say you do it?
00:29:46
Gilmund Graves
You know how. I don't want to do that again.
00:29:51
Kyle
yeah everyone has something to uh that they need to work on and some are some are worse than others i guess
00:29:53
Gilmund Graves
ah
00:30:01
Gilmund Graves
I pound the rest of my drink and pour a little bit more and say cheers to that. And then I leave the bottle and one of the cups with you and I head back to my room.
00:30:12
bladesedge
I finally figured it out you guys should be able to be looking at the map here.
00:30:15
Tommy
Oh, there we go. Yeah. I just, I just imagine in Valerius and Vazrak's room, we're like at the foot of our bed and I'm just like, Hey, Valerius in my dream journal, I think about horse spiders.
00:30:16
bladesedge
um
00:30:17
Kyle
ah beautiful
00:30:27
Tommy
Do you ever, dream do you ever dream about the moon sometimes?
00:30:30
Kyle
It's like a bunk bed.
00:30:30
Trevor
That's really cool, man. I really wanted to go to sleep right now.
00:30:36
Tommy
yeah
00:30:36
Trevor
I'm so tired. How are you awake? It's 3 a.m.
00:30:43
Tommy
I have a new goal in life and I want Tenacious D back.
00:30:47
Trevor
I fully support you, you know.
00:30:49
Tommy
So if we go to Barovia do you think we can raise enough gold to buy him back?
00:30:53
Trevor
We can certainly try.
00:30:56
Tommy
I just imagine we're having a sleepover while the other two are like drinking wine heavily at 3am.
00:30:56
Trevor
better
00:31:04
Trevor
throw cheese at each other.
00:31:07
Gilmund Graves
yeah
00:31:07
Trevor
but That's good.
00:31:10
Gilmund Graves
um All right, so back at the Wizard of Wines is up here, or let's see, Yesterhill is here.
00:31:16
bladesedge
bill I'll put a non descript token on the map to show you where you are, you're here.
00:31:24
Gilmund Graves
Oh, okay, excellent. Ooh, very nondescript. It looks to be a handsome wizard pondering an orb.
00:31:29
Trevor
Oh, doth thou ponder thy orb, good sir?
00:31:29
bladesedge
It is. You guys are over here. This is yester hill or the, sorry, that was yesterday hill right there where you were ah right to the north, right.
00:31:40
bladesedge
There is there.
00:31:43
Gilmund Graves
Okay.
00:31:43
bladesedge
I'll make this a little smaller so you can see. Um, and then I will give you guys control over this token.
00:31:55
bladesedge
Um, all players have control over it. So when you guys decide where you want to go.
00:32:03
bladesedge
Um, you can go and each of these hexagons is a quarter mile.
00:32:10
Gilmund Graves
Okay.
00:32:11
bladesedge
Um, so, okay. So that, this is you talking about the next day.
00:32:15
Gilmund Graves
Yeah.
00:32:16
bladesedge
Cool. So a couple of things, um, uh, each of you has a dream. The, the past night, Roy in your.
00:32:29
Kyle
yeah sir
00:32:31
bladesedge
dream. You are surrounded by creatures, tiny little critters, squirrel, jackal, an owl, a wolf.
00:32:47
bladesedge
And you find yourself shrinking and these creatures getting bigger and bigger and bigger and bigger and bigger until eventually you are an ant looking up at them before you, their shadows putting you in complete darkness. And you wake up.
00:33:18
bladesedge
Valerius, you see a church and an altar and a priest talking to a congregation.
00:33:38
bladesedge
But when you look out at the audience, everybody's face is completely blank, like a mannequin's face.
00:33:49
bladesedge
Except for two, um we'll call it like like teal but leaning green eyes, not coming out of a socket, just a light over where their eyes would be, staring directly at where your dream vision is coming from, directly at camera. When you wake up.
00:34:17
bladesedge
um
00:34:19
Trevor
Sorry, real quick.
00:34:19
bladesedge
vsra
00:34:20
Trevor
Did you say it was two people?
00:34:22
bladesedge
No, as a priest and then a whole bunch of people, a whole congregation.
00:34:22
Trevor
Or right. But the oh, it was just the one person with the T-alliances.
00:34:27
bladesedge
No, every person in the congregation, every single person, mannequin face, wooden mannequin face, green glowing eyes.
00:34:30
Trevor
Oh, got it.
00:34:37
Trevor
Wow, OK. Crazy.
00:34:38
bladesedge
The person whose face you did not see was the firsts the priest at the front, or sort of from behind him.
00:34:42
Trevor
OK, got it.
00:34:45
bladesedge
vzra
00:34:48
bladesedge
You dream, and initially your dream is of Tenacious D, these two horses. You dream that one horse makes a joke about killing their owners and the other horse doesn't find the joke funny and thinks that they should break up the band and not beh horse and not be horses together anymore.
00:35:04
Tommy
Oh no, there's already trouble.
00:35:10
bladesedge
um But as you dream about that, you feel your vision being pulled and pulled deep, deep, deep underground.
00:35:22
bladesedge
And you see spiders passing by, spiders and more spiders and more spiders until they cover your entire body. And you hear
00:35:36
bladesedge
all of them speaking the same two words to you. Amass power. Amass power.
00:35:59
bladesedge
And Gilment, you dream of your sister.
00:36:06
bladesedge
As if she's right next to you, as if you can touch her and you reach out. And as you're about to grab her shoulder, you wake up from your dream and you're sitting up in bed and you're reaching out towards a candle in your room. That's lit. And you're about to touch the candle. Fingers a little wet, like with saliva as if you're about to.
00:36:32
bladesedge
put the candle out, but as you do, you see the candle is casting a massive shadow of your figure on the wall and its hand has come off and has grabbed your wrist.
00:36:52
bladesedge
Not allowing you to put out the candle. And with that,
00:37:02
bladesedge
It is the next day. um Who drew this? Get rid of this. How can I get rid of that?
00:37:11
Gilmund Graves
Oh, that was me. I i will stop the linger.
00:37:16
bladesedge
Yeah. Cool. And the day is yours. You guys are at Wizards of Wines. They're working on the farm. What is the plan?
00:37:34
Kyle
That is an excellent question.
00:37:36
Gilmund Graves
Yeah, well, we know we want to get to the village of Barovia, at least was the last thing that we had kind of talked about as like a far reaching destination. That's pretty far away to the east. So pulling out the map, what's what's the name of this little like city on the on the lake here?
00:37:59
bladesedge
um You see that that is a town called Valaki.
00:38:08
Gilmund Graves
Velocchi. Okay.
00:38:09
bladesedge
Yeah, right underneath a place called Lake Zarevich. You see there's a place right here called Lake Baratok. This right to the north. North of you is Kresk.
00:38:29
bladesedge
This is the Svalich Woods.
00:38:34
bladesedge
And then we've got this river here.
00:38:43
Gilmund Graves
Lake Baratok, Lake Sarovitch. Yeah, I would ask the folks around the Wizard of Wines, if anyone knows much about Velaki and what they can tell us about it.
00:38:56
bladesedge
They seem to be they as you wake up, you see they're all gone. They're all out and about.
00:39:02
Gilmund Graves
Oh.
00:39:02
bladesedge
They're all off. um Yeah, they're they're cleaning up the farm. So as when you guys wake up, you're like sort of in the house by yourselves.
00:39:10
Gilmund Graves
Oh, okay. um Well, I don't think there's anything I particularly need to do at Wizard of Wines. Have a little breakfast and then do some light stretching ah before we embark.
00:39:27
bladesedge
Okay. Gilman does some light stretching.
00:39:29
Kyle
Um, we did the, uh, tarot reading and there was a couple places, a couple things that we were tasked with. Is that stuff that is, that we know where to go for. There was a mad dog's crypt. Um, and then the seer that waits in a place of wisdom.
00:39:51
bladesedge
Um, yes, that is the only information you have.
00:39:57
Kyle
Well, shit.
00:40:00
bladesedge
That which you seek lies in the womb of darkness, the devil's lair, the one place to which he must return. Number two, find the mad dog's crypt. The treasure lies within beneath blackened bones. Number three, I see a lonely mill on a precipice. The treasure lies within. Number four, look for an entertaining man with a monkey. This man is more than he seems. And number five, he waits for you in a place of wisdom, warmth, and despair. Great secrets are there.
00:40:24
Tommy
do Do the Mardukov, could we ask the Mardukovs if they know of a place, of like a windmill on a hill?
00:40:31
bladesedge
Um, yeah, like I said, they're there, you wake up and they're all off.
00:40:34
Tommy
Oh, they're just not here.
00:40:35
bladesedge
They're off repairing the farm. Yeah.
00:40:38
Tommy
I mean, maybe we just go to, like maybe we just...
00:40:41
bladesedge
So you can, you can, if you want to spend time to go search them out, uh, search out like the the dad, cause a lot of them were like kids.
00:40:43
Kyle
and Do we we also look on the map for mill?
00:40:50
bladesedge
Um, you can take some time to go search up the dad or.
00:40:58
bladesedge
Yeah. You absolutely can't, you don't see one that's like marked or anything, but ah afraid and yeah feel free to zoom in on the map too, if you want to look around.
00:41:06
Kyle
yeah
00:41:06
Tommy
we We could also probably ask for it in the next town too. like If we like start heading towards Vlaki, I'm sure like a bigger settlement of people would like have that information.
00:41:19
Gilmund Graves
Yeah, I think maybe we just, uh, we just set out towards Lake Baratok and then head East towards Lake Zarovich and Valaki. And then when we get there, maybe we'll have some ability to get a little more clarity on our purpose.
00:41:34
Tommy
I'd be down for that.
00:41:34
Kyle
and Sounds good to me.
00:41:38
bladesedge
Okay.
00:41:40
bladesedge
um All right. You guys find that the old Svalich Road, the road that you're on, meanders and eventually enters into a valley, ah overwatched by dark,
00:42:03
bladesedge
brooding mountains to the north and south. So this town is sort of in a depression in between two mountains. The woods recede, revealing a sullen mountain burg surrounded by a wooden um palisade.
00:42:19
bladesedge
Thick fog presses up against this wall as though looking for a way inside, um hoping to catch the town of slumber. The dirt road ends at a set of sturdy iron gates.
00:42:31
bladesedge
with a pair of shadowy figures standing between them planted in the ground and flanking the road outside the gates are a half dozen pikes with wolves heads impaled on them.
00:42:44
bladesedge
Uh, so you are at a, the town is gated.
00:42:45
Gilmund Graves
Ooh.
00:42:50
bladesedge
Um, and, uh, there's heavy iron chains with iron padlocks that keep the gates shut.
00:42:56
Gilmund Graves
And this is Valaki?
00:42:58
bladesedge
Yep.
00:42:58
Gilmund Graves
Oh, okay, cool.
00:42:58
bladesedge
Yeah. Yeah. You guys, you guys feel free to move your. to hooking over there. And you see there are two guards inside um the gates carrying pikes.
00:43:12
bladesedge
um that They look like long enough to stab somebody through the gate.
00:43:18
Gilmund Graves
Wild.
00:43:18
bladesedge
um And as you approach, one goes, hi, who we got here? Who are you?
00:43:28
Gilmund Graves
um Judging by the wolf heads out there, can I assume that the um the people that live here ah hate werewolves or hate wolves?
00:43:38
bladesedge
that yeah you can assume whatever you'd like.
00:43:41
Gilmund Graves
Can I do an insight to see if that's what I would discern?
00:43:44
bladesedge
Sure.
00:43:47
Gilmund Graves
and Yeah, I hate wolves too, and it's got me a little bit rattled, because the first time I ever got knocked down was when a wolf ripped into me.
00:43:58
bladesedge
Yeah, with ah with a natural one, I mean, you see wolf heads on pikes. That is what you make of that is completely yours to determine.
00:44:12
Gilmund Graves
Well, I'd say, ah you know, We're pretty good wolf hunters, but we're a lot more than that. If you'll, uh, if you'll hear us out, the point of your gang.
00:44:22
bladesedge
All right. Speak your business then. Who are you lot?
00:44:30
Gilmund Graves
I'm Gilman. This to my left is Roy. Um, left is Valerius and Vess rack.
00:44:39
Kyle
Hello.
00:44:41
Tommy
Yeah, we actually go by peg for short.
00:44:45
bladesedge
Okay. And I don't know you lot. What do you want here?
00:44:54
Tommy
I'm here to earn a hundred gold.
00:44:59
bladesedge
ah More money than I've ever seen in my life.
00:45:05
Tommy
Well, with talents like these and I can i do dance, can I do like can i do dancing lights, Brian?
00:45:11
bladesedge
Yeah, yeah, you can do it whatever you want.
00:45:12
Tommy
Yeah, I'm gonna do I'm gonna do dancing lads go whoa And then I'm gonna do at will like a minor illusion of like hands clapping and be like whoa Huh?
00:45:21
bladesedge
um He goes and looks at you and says, are you the mad mage of the mountain?
00:45:34
Tommy
yeah Yes I am.
00:45:35
Kyle
Oh no.
00:45:38
Trevor
<unk>
00:45:39
Kyle
Oh no.
00:45:40
Tommy
I like, I lean over and now I didn't have it before but now I try to like act like I have a prominent hunch in my back. ah And I go, and yeah I I am now.
00:45:53
bladesedge
I wrote me a deception check.
00:45:58
Tommy
Please, come on.
00:45:59
Trevor
Can I pat him on the back and give him a guidance?
00:46:02
bladesedge
Sure.
00:46:02
Tommy
Okay, thank God. All right, what does guidance give me?
00:46:04
Trevor
I think it's just like a d4 or something. Yeah, yeah, d4.
00:46:07
Tommy
I rolled a nine, I'm gonna need it.
00:46:08
bladesedge
mean give me a Give me a three or a four on that D4.
00:46:11
Tommy
Yes, a four, let's go, let's go.
00:46:12
Trevor
Let's go!
00:46:12
Kyle
oh
00:46:12
Gilmund Graves
Yes!
00:46:15
bladesedge
um
00:46:15
Tommy
I'm the Mad Mage.
00:46:19
bladesedge
um he says um he says uh you know quite the character we heard lots of stories about you ever since you how many peasants died when you tried to fight straw hut
00:46:36
Tommy
Um, so, so many.
00:46:37
Kyle
Roll a d100.
00:46:41
Tommy
D100. 81 to be exact.
00:46:44
Kyle
oh my
00:46:45
bladesedge
As are. You don't seem so mad to me, knowing the exact number still. They say that you've been up in Mount Baratok. What's the deal? Why are you here?
00:46:57
Tommy
It's where I can practice all my mad magic.
00:47:05
bladesedge
um
00:47:07
bladesedge
Um...
00:47:07
Trevor
Did he say Mount Bear talk, bubbly?
00:47:08
Kyle
Oh my God.
00:47:08
Tommy
if i If I go, ah I could even prove I'm the i'm not the i'm the Mad Mage, he goes, what do you think the Mad Mage's favorite color is?
00:47:09
bladesedge
Yeah.
00:47:18
Tommy
And I want to cast a tech thoughts on him.
00:47:21
bladesedge
OK.
00:47:24
bladesedge
Are you trying to do that subtly or what are the components for.
00:47:28
Tommy
ah ah it's veral It's verbal somatic of material, so a copper piece, I'll take out a copper piece.
00:47:29
Gilmund Graves
the
00:47:34
bladesedge
OK.
00:47:35
Tommy
And I go, and I go, look at the copper piece.
00:47:35
bladesedge
um
00:47:38
Tommy
And I go, ah what's your, i all right. what What's the Mad Mage's favorite color?
00:47:45
Trevor
Depending for your thoughts.
00:47:45
bladesedge
OK. Why don't you roll me.
00:47:51
bladesedge
as you cast this spell, you succeeded your deception check. So he, they they both see you cast a spell, but let's get going to give me a persuasion check at advantage.
00:48:02
Tommy
Here we go. First roll is an 11, not great, come on baby, come on! Two 11s, Brian, what does that give me?
00:48:10
Kyle
Oh my god.
00:48:11
Trevor
Wow.
00:48:12
Tommy
What does that give me, huh?
00:48:13
Trevor
I think you just rolled a 1,111.
00:48:13
bladesedge
Um, you successfully cast your spell and you're trying to probe this guy's mind.
00:48:21
Tommy
Yeah, because I'm gonna try and, I'm trying to figure out what he knows about the Mad Mage so I can act like the Mad Mage.
00:48:26
bladesedge
OK, so he immediately your because that that gets you surface thoughts and then you can probe deeper if you'd like. um If you want to link detect thoughts here, I believe you you know surface thoughts automatically and then you can probe deeper, which will they need to make a wisdom saving throw. um if If they they succeed, the spell ends, the target knows that you're probing into its mind.
00:48:51
bladesedge
um
00:48:54
bladesedge
If you if you want to probe deeper but for surface thoughts you get That he's nervous about you because the mad mage what you're so getting from his story and from his thoughts Mad mage who he says everybody talks about living in Mount Baratok once led an army of peasants to try and defeat Strahd and and got all of the peasants killed and he was cast off the cliffs off the cliffs of Ravenloft but survived. um In this fall, so the story goes, he lost his staff, his spell book, and his mind um driven mad.
00:49:39
bladesedge
ah So he is, ah you know given that story, he's like nervous about you um because the Mad Mage of Mount Baratok isn't necessarily a yeah that like a good thing.
00:49:50
Tommy
Like a, like a good guy or like a, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
00:49:53
bladesedge
Yeah.
00:49:53
Tommy
ah Um, I want to be like, uh, I'd like to like go up to like the, the bars and be like, have you seen my staff? Have you seen my staff? I've been looking, I found my spell book, but I'm looking for my staff.
00:50:03
bladesedge
um
00:50:07
bladesedge
As you go up to the to the the gates, one of them, like, gently pokes you with the pike, and goes, ah back get hey, get back.
00:50:14
Tommy
Oh,
00:50:15
bladesedge
Get back. Get back.
00:50:16
Tommy
oh
00:50:19
bladesedge
Not doing any damage, just enough to be like, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. What are you doing?
00:50:23
Tommy
I'm being, I'm being crazy.
00:50:26
Gilmund Graves
yeah I'm mad. I'm hopping mad.
00:50:29
Trevor
little wacky little cookie.
00:50:31
Tommy
I go, do you, ah sir do you think, do you think this fence can contain the mad mage? If I wanted it, I would just walk in, let us in, open the gate for my friends.
00:50:42
Gilmund Graves
He might do something even crazy, like just walk up the side of it without even skipping a beat.
00:50:47
Tommy
Would you want to see me do that?
00:50:47
Gilmund Graves
He doesn't care.
00:50:48
Tommy
Would that prove that I'm crazy? That I'm mad?
00:50:51
bladesedge
Why would I want to let a crazy person into my town? I'm supposed to protect the town. And you're telling me you're crazy.
00:50:58
Tommy
No, but it'll be.
00:50:59
bladesedge
How does it sound like the type of person I want in the town?
00:50:59
Kyle
He went to therapy.
00:51:00
Gilmund Graves
But I'm crazy for you.
00:51:00
Tommy
yeah yeah But. ah yeah ah Open the doors or it'll be a bad thing.
00:51:03
bladesedge
You're succeeding. Listen, yeah all of your roles are successful. You're succeeding. You're letting me know that you're crazy. That's just not a good thing.
00:51:18
bladesedge
Um, okay. Um, how do I undo something? Is it shifts control Z?
00:51:25
Tommy
ah Yeah, good.
00:51:25
Gilmund Graves
Usually, yeah.
00:51:28
Tommy
how do you and How do I undo me being the Mad Mage? Control Z, Control Z.
00:51:34
bladesedge
Um, no, sorry. I, um, no.
00:51:37
Trevor
fit
00:51:38
bladesedge
Okay. Um, so you're trying to intimidate him to open the gates for you.
00:51:43
Tommy
ah yeah i guess Yeah, I guess that's kind of how it came out. um Yeah, i'm ah i'm a or where's the gem when I need it? Yeah, I'm ah i'm intimidating him. Oh, oh open the k open the open it for me and my friends or else, or so help me.
00:51:57
bladesedge
All right. But you had a successful deception check and then a failed persuasion check. So it's going to be a straight intimidation role. And the DC is going to remain at 12.
00:52:07
Tommy
OK, intimidation check rolling.
00:52:09
bladesedge
Mm hmm.
00:52:10
Tommy
Come on, baby. Escalators, escalators, escalators, 14, Brian.
00:52:16
bladesedge
ah He looks at the other guy and he says, have you tell anybody ah the mad mage into the town? I'll fucking kill you. and the other guy says, listen, as long as we don't have to talk to him anymore, just get him in there.
00:52:27
Tommy
Your secrets, your secrets safe with me, I won't tell us all.
00:52:27
bladesedge
I think, think he'll be fine. ah They unlock the gates of the town of Valaki and on you you look in and you see there is um a decent amount of, let me see if I have a map.
00:52:49
Gilmund Graves
While we're still walking in, Vestrac, is your detect thoughts still rolling?
00:52:56
Tommy
Uh, yeah, I guess.
00:52:57
Gilmund Graves
For one minute, as long as I say it quick.
00:52:58
Tommy
Yeah. Yeah. It's a concentration up to a minute.
00:53:00
Gilmund Graves
And I want to ask the guard, do you know the name Carol?
00:53:01
Tommy
Yeah.
00:53:06
Gilmund Graves
K-A-R-I-L.
00:53:09
Tommy
Baskin, Carol Baskin.
00:53:11
Gilmund Graves
Co-baskin, damn, that's an early pandemic throwback.
00:53:15
bladesedge
um
00:53:15
Kyle
She killed her husband.
00:53:16
Kyle
We're looking for her.
00:53:17
Gilmund Graves
Brian, that's the leader of the werewolf clan.
00:53:22
bladesedge
ah he He says, no, no, I don't know what you're talking about.
00:53:22
Kyle
Carol Baskin.
00:53:28
Gilmund Graves
Does vesrax detect thoughts, correlate that?
00:53:31
bladesedge
ah Yes, yes, he does not.
00:53:32
Gilmund Graves
Corroborate rather.
00:53:34
bladesedge
This guy does not know.
00:53:35
Gilmund Graves
okay
00:53:37
Tommy
ah but I go, ah where's the windmill? Show me the mad mage needs a windmill.
00:53:44
bladesedge
Um, well, let's roll.
00:53:45
Kyle
yeah
00:53:46
bladesedge
See if he knows that.
00:53:50
bladesedge
Uh, he, he goes, I don't know.
00:53:50
Kyle
Oh, brother.
00:53:53
bladesedge
And you get the sense that he's telling the truth.
00:53:53
Tommy
as this guys This guy sucks.
00:53:54
Kyle
Yes.
00:53:57
Tommy
ah I mean, he does think I'm the mad mage.
00:54:02
bladesedge
Um, this should be a good, you guys should be able to see everything on this map as I move you here. So this is the town of a lucky. You guys are entering in from the West, which you see there is Olds Follett Road.
00:54:27
bladesedge
um Here's a little key for you, just in case you want to. This isn't really a battle map, but.
00:54:33
Gilmund Graves
Oh, okay. Well, it's a big city.
00:54:35
bladesedge
Um, yeah, pretty big, pretty big city here. Uh, you see that there's a road that goes north. Um, there is, and then there's a road that goes east. Um, and you guys enter and these guards, um, who are actually both right here on the map. Uh, let you, let you through. You guys should, can you guys move your tokens or no?
00:55:04
Gilmund Graves
Let's see, I can.
00:55:08
bladesedge
Okay. Oh, um, the town is yours. As you enter, you see all of these houses. You see, um, the first place of, I mean, you guys can just keep walking and I'll just call out when something of note, uh, passes.
00:55:33
Gilmund Graves
Yeah, I think I wanna find out more about why the wolf's ah heads are on pikes.
00:55:39
bladesedge
OK.
00:55:43
Kyle
There's like an inn we could find
00:55:44
Gilmund Graves
Yeah.
00:55:45
Tommy
Looking for a place to get money.
00:55:47
bladesedge
So the first place that you're passing by right here, it looks like it looks to be a church. It's called St. Andrew's Church.
00:55:56
Gilmund Graves
Okay, St. Andrew's.
00:55:58
bladesedge
St. Andrew's Church a slouching centuries old stone church has a bulging steeple in the back.
00:56:05
Gilmund Graves
Oh, yeah.
00:56:06
bladesedge
ah The walls lined with cracked stained glass windows depicting pious saints. um A fence of wrought iron encloses the garden of gravestones next to the church. ah Thin mist creeps among the graves.
00:56:23
Gilmund Graves
Interesting. um Hey, Valerius, should we we check out this church?
00:56:32
Trevor
sure
00:56:33
Gilmund Graves
Does it have like a designation for what deity it is?
00:56:33
Trevor
Sure.
00:56:35
Gilmund Graves
Can I investigate that?
00:56:37
bladesedge
Yeah. Give me an investigation from outside.
00:56:40
Gilmund Graves
Yeah.
00:56:42
Trevor
Can I like help him?
00:56:43
Gilmund Graves
21.
00:56:43
bladesedge
Yeah. Yeah.
00:56:44
bladesedge
Go ahead. And is that, uh, do you want him to roll twice or would you like to also roll?
00:56:44
Trevor
Oh, doesn't even need it.
00:56:49
Trevor
Yeah. Yeah. You can roll twice.
00:56:50
Gilmund Graves
how How about you also, Raul?
00:56:51
Trevor
I'll just, I'll just, what do I just give you?
00:56:52
Gilmund Graves
I've succeeded once.
00:56:53
Trevor
I'll just give you guidance as a way to help.
00:56:55
Gilmund Graves
Yeah, sure.
00:56:55
Trevor
So you just add it.
00:56:57
Gilmund Graves
Yeah.
00:56:58
bladesedge
Well, yeah, before you can also roll at advantage of, uh, cool.
00:56:59
Gilmund Graves
Oh, yeah, it's a 25 investigation.
00:57:00
Trevor
Ooh.
00:57:03
bladesedge
You want to also roll at advantage or.
00:57:06
Gilmund Graves
Uh, sure.
00:57:08
bladesedge
to get the.
00:57:08
Gilmund Graves
Just in case, you know, it's 11.
00:57:10
bladesedge
Yeah.
00:57:13
bladesedge
OK. um
00:57:20
bladesedge
The this seems to be a church of. Let me just. ah Yes, this is a church of the morning lord.
00:57:34
bladesedge
One word, the Morning Lord is a um an alias of the solar god Lathander.
00:57:34
Gilmund Graves
Oh.
00:57:46
Gilmund Graves
Yeah, I have this this new ring that I have on that I got from Kresk from the church grounds up there was also shown to me um through the light of Lathander.
00:57:46
bladesedge
Lathander, yeah.
00:58:02
bladesedge
Yes. It seems to be, I think, no insight check needed. Probably that's the go-to religion. You're looking around dreary, place you're in, fog everywhere, sullen attitudes. People looking for hope um in all of Barovia seem to turn to the Morning Lord.
00:58:20
Gilmund Graves
and third
00:58:27
Gilmund Graves
Well, shall we go in?
00:58:30
Trevor
Sure.
00:58:32
Gilmund Graves
Let's cruise in.
00:58:34
bladesedge
Okay. Um, you guys head in. I don't exactly have a map for this.
00:58:41
Trevor
That's
00:58:44
bladesedge
So, uh, but I do have information for you.
00:58:45
Trevor
alright.
00:58:49
bladesedge
So, uh, you walk in and, um, Kyle G.
00:58:56
Kyle
User.
00:58:57
bladesedge
Um, Mr.
Exile from Valaki and Decision to Visit Windmill
00:58:59
bladesedge
Roy, roll me 2d six plus six.
00:59:09
Kyle
11.
00:59:09
bladesedge
Okay. Uh, you walk in as you guys enter this church, there are 11 people in there. Um, you see, there is a, uh, a priest, um, finishing up his sermon. Um, you see that there's this, there's sort of priest, um, and like a little or like a little orphan sort of altar boy helping him out. Um,
00:59:40
bladesedge
And then you see, um, there's like a guy who maybe just came in from the graveyard with like a shovel with some dirt on it. Uh, brawny guy, um, olive skin, uh, with sweat on him looks to be maybe the groundskeeper who digs graves and such. So priests orphan boy, uh, groundskeeper. And then there are 11.
01:00:04
bladesedge
um people who look like they are um praying and no insight check needed. They all seem pretty distraught.
01:00:18
Gilmund Graves
Well, I'm not very good at consoling people.
01:00:24
bladesedge
And do you hear the priest end his end his sermon with, and all will be well, all will be well. remember Okay. And he sort of steps down to no applause, no noise from the straw people.
01:00:43
Gilmund Graves
That's right. Go tell the kids about spiders.
01:00:48
Tommy
Oh, I could do that.
01:00:52
Gilmund Graves
I just kind of sit back and just watch whatever Vess Rack does.
01:00:58
Tommy
I like to like walk past the father or the ah the priest or whoever.
01:01:03
bladesedge
Hmm.
01:01:06
bladesedge
Yeah.
01:01:07
Tommy
I go up to the altar. I'd like to open ah my wizarding book.
01:01:12
Trevor
ah jesus
01:01:13
bladesedge
Okay. Yeah. So far, I'd say the only person who even notices that you're doing this is the guy with the shovel, the sort of buff, like, you know, maybe late teenager, early twenties, 10, 10 skin guys, sleeves, cut off sweating with the shovel is just sort of looking at you watching you do this.
01:01:32
Tommy
a Uh, thank you all for coming here today. I know you guys all are you, tough are you people tired of living in a dreary, dark, malevolent, uh, land?
01:01:37
bladesedge
Every head whips up, looks at you, the father stops and turns around.
01:01:39
Trevor
Oh Jesus.
01:01:42
bladesedge
little The little orphan boy like is like looking in shock. He's like very scared. You can continue.
01:01:56
Tommy
Well,
01:01:56
bladesedge
ah ladies Ladies and gentlemen, do not listen to this. i All will be well. All will be well is the message. No, and nothing is really dreadful. Excuse me, sir. ah you This is a place of worship to the morning Lord. I need you to to to please step off my altar.
01:02:17
Tommy
And I am the mad mage of Mount bear talk
01:02:20
bladesedge
You see like little kids, two little kids, two little kids, two little kids straight up scream and I need you to roll initiative.
01:02:22
Kyle
Oh my god.
01:02:28
Tommy
ah yeah yeah
01:02:31
bladesedge
Uh, yeah, just, just, and this isn't for some massive combat.
01:02:33
Tommy
Just, just, just for fun.
01:02:35
bladesedge
This is, this is just between you and one other person.
01:02:38
Tommy
12.
01:02:40
Tommy
Is it me myself? I rolled a 12.
01:02:43
bladesedge
No.
01:02:43
Trevor
You gotta roll it again.
01:02:45
Gilmund Graves
It's the buff, the buff hunk.
01:02:45
bladesedge
Um.
01:02:48
bladesedge
Yeah.
01:02:49
Trevor
You gotta get there.
01:02:50
bladesedge
All right. With it, with a 12, you say that and you see, you saw this guy who was kind of smiling, laughing at what you said until you said you were the mad mage and he flipped his shovel up and is about to take a swing at you.
01:03:03
Tommy
ah
01:03:04
bladesedge
But you go first.
01:03:05
Tommy
um I'm gonna cat. Oh god. Okay. I this thing's already popping off um I'm gonna I'm gonna cast hold person on this person ah DC 13 wizzy Correct.
01:03:14
bladesedge
Okay.
01:03:18
bladesedge
There's no way he's going to, I mean, straight D 20 rule.
01:03:24
bladesedge
He fails. What are the, what are the, what are the, uh, is it verbal somatic material?
01:03:31
Tommy
Yeah, and I'd like to kind of like very
01:03:31
bladesedge
Okay. Cool. So we're, we're out of initiative. He's, he freezes in midair.
01:03:36
Tommy
I would like to like like Jedi mind trick, like hold my hand out and just like kind of close my hand around him and like very like a lot like Darth Vader.
01:03:44
bladesedge
ah You see the father immediately go, oh dear, everybody run, run for your lives.
01:03:44
Tommy
Let me...
01:03:51
Tommy
Let me all tell you about the mother of lusts, the weaver of destiny.
01:03:53
bladesedge
11 people get up.
01:03:58
Trevor
ah oh jesus christ
01:03:59
Gilmund Graves
yeah
01:04:00
Tommy
a lady of chaos and the queen of spiders. And I, and I'd like to hold up. I forget my, my is tried like to hold up history in my head.
01:04:12
bladesedge
the The only people left in this church as you hold them up are the four of you and the man who you have holdpersed.
01:04:19
Tommy
And I go, look at the raw power. Don't live in this dreary God forsaken place.
01:04:25
Trevor
Oh, Jesus Christ.
01:04:28
Tommy
Give into your hedonism.
01:04:28
Trevor
I start, I start walking up to them.
01:04:32
Tommy
Give in to your lusts.
01:04:33
Trevor
Hey, Vez, they're all gone.
01:04:34
Tommy
Serve the queen of spiders.
01:04:36
Trevor
Vez, they're gone. there you're You're just talking to this guy at this point.
01:04:40
Tommy
but like to they guy yeah i'm like like Look over the guy at the force.
01:04:42
Gilmund Graves
I, uh, disarm him yeah and I'll walk up and try to just pry the, uh, shovel from him.
01:04:46
Tommy
and I go, what do you know about the windmill?
01:04:49
Trevor
but
01:04:52
Trevor
He's got a good question.
01:04:53
bladesedge
Um, make an intimidation check at advantage. Yeah, you do.
01:05:02
Tommy
Okay, it's invitation check it and finish.
01:05:09
Tommy
It's a 16.
01:05:11
bladesedge
Okay. He says, um, he says.
01:05:13
Trevor
what but
01:05:18
Gilmund Graves
He is the Mad Mage after all.
01:05:19
Trevor
That's so funny
01:05:20
bladesedge
Uh, he goes, um, there's, uh, there's one on old Svalich road. It's in between here and, uh, the village of Barovia. Why?
01:05:32
bladesedge
why
01:05:33
Tommy
Because the Mad Mage needs that information.
01:05:37
bladesedge
He's like looking over his shoulder at the window. Um, as you say that, and he goes, okay.
01:05:45
Tommy
um And I'm the Mad Mage.
01:05:48
bladesedge
Oh.
01:05:51
bladesedge
OK. So eyes keep darting towards the window.
01:05:58
Gilmund Graves
I'm gonna walk towards the window.
01:06:00
bladesedge
OK.
01:06:03
bladesedge
You see the father out the window over by the gate talking to the guards um and do you see and do you see that there's go ahead and chaos and show the one looking go ahead and we'll be to be six plus six.
01:06:10
Tommy
Oh shit. um
01:06:17
Gilmund Graves
Yeah. Okay, whoops. 16. sixteen
01:06:26
bladesedge
Uh, you see 16 guards over by the, uh, Western gate are looking over as the father and this little orphan boy are like talking to them and he's pointing back at the church.
01:06:27
Tommy
Oh no.
01:06:38
Tommy
ah what What is your name, sir?
01:06:41
Gilmund Graves
Isn't this the stage?
01:06:42
bladesedge
He, uh, Milavoj.
01:06:48
Tommy
Milvaj, let me bestow upon you a gift from the Queen of Lust, from the Weaver of Destiny, from the Lady of Chaos.
01:06:52
bladesedge
I am free. I'm okay. Honestly, I,
01:06:56
Trevor
ah but
01:06:56
bladesedge
Honestly, I won't tell anybody.
01:07:00
bladesedge
I won't tell anybody what you did.
01:07:00
Tommy
and i No, no, no, trust me and I'd like to kinda like, um Voldemort, you know how he touches Harry Potter's like forehead in the Goblet of Fire?
01:07:02
bladesedge
I don't want it.
01:07:08
bladesedge
Sure.
01:07:08
Tommy
I wanna cast Spider Climb on him and just be like, voila, go forth and live your hedonistic dreams, praise be the weaver.
01:07:13
bladesedge
OK.
01:07:22
Trevor
Holy shit.
01:07:23
bladesedge
um He at the as you touch his head and cast a spell, he tries to run out the door.
01:07:29
Tommy
All right, but it's also a concentration, but now I'm concentrating on spider climb and I go, go spread, go spread the good news.
01:07:36
bladesedge
Yeah, he, he like, as he's running towards the door, like somebody's in the aisle. So he tries to jump onto one of the like, um, benches that people were praying on to like, get around, like jump on the bench, then jump off.
01:07:48
bladesedge
And as he jumps on the top of the bench, his next step goes onto the backside of the bench. Cause he has spider climb on, uh, and he like trips and falls and then, uh, gets up and runs out the door.
01:07:54
Trevor
she's like yeah
01:08:00
Tommy
That's the spirit! Go on, Milovich!
01:08:05
Trevor
milk
01:08:05
Gilmund Graves
ah Hey guys, there's gonna be about 16 guards in here in a second.
01:08:07
Tommy
We should leave.
01:08:09
Gilmund Graves
We need to get our story straight. ah You thought this was a theater. That's right, you thought this was a theater.
01:08:14
Tommy
Ooh, okay, okay, okay. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
01:08:15
Gilmund Graves
You're practicing, you're practicing your art. You didn't realize, you didn't realize that this was a church.
01:08:20
Kyle
monologue.
01:08:21
Tommy
I'm off.
01:08:23
Gilmund Graves
You need to just stick to that and we're here to cheer you on.
01:08:23
Trevor
She's like, yeah.
01:08:29
Tommy
And just for the record, I am out of second level spell slots.
01:08:33
Gilmund Graves
Great news. great news
01:08:38
Trevor
It's so funny.
01:08:38
Tommy
I just thought that would be important to know before the guards go.
01:08:39
Trevor
Holy shit.
01:08:44
bladesedge
All right.
01:08:45
Trevor
but Also, I am so tired.
01:08:45
Kyle
Is a building surrounded or is there like a Is there anywhere that we can ah like sneak sneak out the back
01:08:45
bladesedge
Um,
01:08:55
bladesedge
you can certainly try to. Yeah. I mean, they're, they're um like out front at this point, um, about to enter, but if you guys want to make a ah run for it, you can.
01:08:57
Gilmund Graves
Great news.
01:09:02
Tommy
ah but What if we, uh, no, no, I like the theater idea. Let's try it. Let's, lay let's, the let's play the ball as it lies off of Bigfoot's foot over there.
01:09:10
Kyle
so yeah We're 100% not getting out of church. I was just curious.
01:09:15
Tommy
All right. All right. Everyone get ready. Okay. I'm waiting for the guards to come in, Brian.
01:09:21
Trevor
yeah
01:09:22
bladesedge
Okay. um
01:09:24
Trevor
Valerius is just like sitting on like the edge of like this diet the stage kind of like you know what I mean like just kind of leaning up against the side of it 1d6
01:09:24
bladesedge
the
01:09:34
bladesedge
um Go ahead and roll me a Valyrias, roll me a d6.
01:09:39
Trevor
got you a 5
01:09:43
Trevor
one d six yeah a five
01:09:46
bladesedge
Cool. As the door opens, you see five of them, five of the guards have set up a perimeter on the outside as the remaining 11 walk through the front door, ah the father who went and told them at the back in between two guards as they're bringing him here as they're bringing him in. ah You guys immediately recognize two of the guards as the guards from the gate.
01:10:15
Gilmund Graves
Thank you.
01:10:16
Tommy
Oh, no. As they come in, I go and scene. Thank you, everybody.
01:10:23
Kyle
I stand up and start clapping.
01:10:23
Tommy
I'm going to be I'm going to be I'm going to be I'm going to be passing a hat around.
01:10:24
Gilmund Graves
Incredible.
01:10:26
Kyle
Amazing work.
01:10:28
Tommy
Feel free to tip as you may like. I don't have a hat. I don't have a hat.
01:10:34
Kyle
yeah
01:10:34
Tommy
Sorry to give you that. but yeah yeah
01:10:38
Gilmund Graves
you just got You just have your your spider upside down just grabbing all the coins.
01:10:43
Tommy
Yeah, I flip over Istra and I go, I'm going to be passing around a spider. Please give your coins to the spider.
01:10:51
bladesedge
Um, uh, the guard who let you in, uh, as the orphan boy, who's with father Valaki, he looks at you and he says, I'll see you the mad mage, huh?
01:10:53
Trevor
hilarious.
01:11:04
Tommy
Ooh.
01:11:06
bladesedge
He looks at the little kid and says, kid, tell him what you told me. And the kid says, You're not the Mad Mage. I saw him skulking along the north shore of Lake Zerevich. He was shooting lightning bolts into the water to kill a fish. So if you're him, why don't you shoot lightning bolts out of your hand?
01:11:25
Tommy
I'm out of spell slots. um i um i could ah like The mad mage can change magic whenever he wants. Look, and and I'd like to blast off a fireball.
01:11:37
Tommy
I don't have anything lightning.
01:11:39
Gilmund Graves
Yeah, and all and I'll try to embellish it with a thaumaturgy.
01:11:39
bladesedge
Okay, what are you throwing a fire bolt at in this church?
01:11:42
Tommy
Oh, fuck. um Just like at the ground, I guess.
01:11:46
bladesedge
OK, the stone ground you throw it.
01:11:48
Tommy
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
01:11:51
bladesedge
OK, both of you cast spells ah loud noise, big ah light show. The ground gets hit with this fireball. The ah ground at your feet seems scorched.
01:12:03
bladesedge
The kid goes, well, that's not what I saw you do, but that is pretty cool. And the guards make a persuasion check at advantage.
01:12:15
Tommy
Come on, baby.
01:12:15
Kyle
Why are we trying to persuade the guards that you are the Mad Mage?
01:12:17
Trevor
I don't know.
01:12:19
Tommy
but ah We're doubling.
01:12:19
bladesedge
I have, I have no idea either.
01:12:20
Trevor
yeah
01:12:20
Kyle
We just...
01:12:22
Tommy
We're doubling down.
01:12:22
Kyle
We just said you're um doing a theater monologue and you immediately go back into it.
01:12:25
Tommy
14.
01:12:27
Trevor
Yeah.
01:12:28
bladesedge
ah
01:12:29
Tommy
Every time I get back, they pull me right back in.
01:12:31
bladesedge
He, he once again believes that you're the mad mage.
01:12:34
Kyle
Dude!
01:12:34
bladesedge
Um, and he, and he says, ah, well, listen, you might be the mad mage and all that, but this is unacceptable. Okay. So listen.
01:12:34
Gilmund Graves
He's a method actor.
01:12:46
bladesedge
You have it, I don't know who your friends are, but you haven't disrupted our village in a long time, okay? You go back to the mountains and we'll call this even Steven. And you see him dangling some handcuffs. He says, I'll let it go this time. And he seems to put the cuffs away as if to say, I will not arrest you if you leave the town.
01:13:09
Tommy
um ha Okay. um How about if I cause any more disturbances, then I get arrested.
01:13:20
bladesedge
ah He says more than ah Sneaking into the town coming at me making me making me let you Yeah, make you convincing me let you in the town just to come in here only 50 yards away go into the church of the morning law where people are already afraid can't you see the looks on their faces and then scare 11 good citizens and Cast some magic on the boy
01:13:25
Tommy
Who snuck into the town? You let me in.
01:13:47
Tommy
Okay. Okay. All right. Okay. Look, I'm a reasonable mad mage. Okay. What I can listen. Okay. Is there, is there an offering basket anywhere for the morning Lord? Can I make it? Can I make a donation? Cause you know, no hard feelings.
01:14:05
bladesedge
ah He draws his pike as do the other 10
01:14:08
Tommy
Fuck, okay. ah Not because you told me to, but the mad mage will um go back to the mountains.
01:14:20
Tommy
and i'll i'll maybe Maybe I'll make my way. ah'll i'll start I'll start leaving the town, full transparency. I'll just start leaving.
01:14:26
bladesedge
Yeah, I mean, they're there. The persuasion check was to not be thrown in jail. They believe that you're the mad mage and that you thought you were doing your performance in the wrong place. However, that's still.
01:14:36
Tommy
You know, I just I can't stick to one storyline, Brian. All right. Oh, I'm going to lead in to Gil and just be like, I'm going to I'm going to head back to the Mardukovs maybe and maybe look for a disguise.
01:14:48
bladesedge
Oh, you they're ushering all of you out of town.
01:14:49
Tommy
um Oh, oh, all of us. Oh, fuck. I got us all kicked out. um ah
01:14:56
Kyle
Brilliant performance, Mad Mage.
01:14:58
Tommy
mark yeah Hey, we can.
01:14:58
Kyle
Brilliant.
01:14:58
Gilmund Graves
Brilliant performance, Mad Maid.
01:15:00
Tommy
Hey, guys, we can go to the mill that Milavitch told us where the mill was.
01:15:03
bladesedge
Sure. Yeah, you wanted to know where the mill was. You did. You did find that out.
01:15:06
Tommy
so
01:15:07
Gilmund Graves
Yeah, I mean, hey, great success.
01:15:07
Kyle
Wow.
01:15:07
Trevor
that's true That's true.
01:15:09
Gilmund Graves
Very nice.
01:15:09
bladesedge
Yeah.
01:15:10
Tommy
what if What if we find and I can disguise myself?
01:15:12
bladesedge
I love that. I'm going to go into the town and find out. Okay. I'll name off the places as you pass them. So this first place is a church. Cool. Let's go in there.
01:15:19
Gilmund Graves
ah
01:15:21
bladesedge
Oh, all right.
01:15:21
Trevor
She's like as good as place is anything.
01:15:21
bladesedge
Um, should we? Yeah. Should we ask anybody who it is? No, no, no. I'm going to go up there and and just do give a monologue for the spider queen.
01:15:30
Tommy
I let a guy do it. Look, Milovich, I can tell from the day one, he's going to be a great servant.
01:15:37
Gilmund Graves
Oh, man.
01:15:37
Tommy
What can I say? That guy's life is turned around for sure.
01:15:38
bladesedge
um
01:15:40
Gilmund Graves
i well I wish we had like an animator on staff because there's so much funny shit that I've been seeing on the internet, people animating their D and&D sessions.
01:15:46
bladesedge
um
01:15:50
bladesedge
Milovich returns, grabs his shovel.
01:15:53
Tommy
He's still spider climbed, by the way.
01:15:54
bladesedge
Yeah. um You see him testing it out a little bit.
01:15:58
Tommy
I give like, does he look over at me? I give him like a thumbs up, right?
01:16:02
bladesedge
Yeah.
01:16:02
Trevor
but you winked at him.
01:16:03
Tommy
Yeah, yeah, you have a big wink.
01:16:06
bladesedge
um And they are ushering you guys out of the Western gate unless unless anybody wants to try anything.
01:16:16
Tommy
You know, I'm done. I mean, I'm going to just you guys. I've already fucked it up and I'm I'm just going to take it. I would just take a breath here. I'm going to take a step back.
01:16:24
Trevor
No, we'll do it. Let's go try and find the, ah the that one meal.
01:16:30
Gilmund Graves
Yeah, let's go.
01:16:31
Trevor
We can also go try and find the actual Mad Mage too, if we want.
01:16:37
Kyle
I think that's the only way we're gonna be able to get back into that town is if we bring them the real Mad Mage and be like, see? It was just acting.
01:16:44
Trevor
Yeah.
01:16:44
Tommy
I'm an actor. Well, the kid said he was ah skulking around Lake Zarovich at night, killing fish.
01:16:51
Trevor
Yeah, the north side of Lake Sarabish.
01:16:53
Tommy
So what if we go camp out there tonight and we wait for him and then we ask him?
01:16:58
Gilmund Graves
Yeah, sure.
01:16:59
Kyle
madage The The mage who lost his mind?
01:17:01
Tommy
Yeah, from one mad beige to another.
01:17:02
Gilmund Graves
Mad Mage who lost his staff in his spell book and now has none of those things.
01:17:03
Tommy
what What could go wrong?
01:17:05
Trevor
Oh, wait, where? Oh, you know what we could try to do first is spitball on here. wait Do we know where? Like what? I don't know if I remember the details of this. He was fighting Strahd and got like thrown off a cliff. Right. And that's but he survived the fall but lost his staff and spell book. Do we know like what cliff he fell off of? You know, like where?
01:17:31
Trevor
he would have thought, like, would we be able to go try and find either his spell book or staff?
01:17:34
Gilmund Graves
Oh.
01:17:38
Trevor
Like, I feel like if we return something like that to him, it might.
01:17:41
Gilmund Graves
To me it sounded like he got kicked off from inside Strahd's Manor.
01:17:46
bladesedge
Yeah, kicked off the cliff, which Strahd's Castle resides.
01:17:51
Trevor
Okay.
01:17:52
Gilmund Graves
Is his castle, go ahead.
01:17:52
bladesedge
um And also, it's it sounds like it was a long time ago. So you are you're more than welcome to look, but it doesn't sound like it was like yesterday.
01:17:58
Trevor
Right, right.
01:17:59
bladesedge
Yeah, the way these guys were talking about it.
01:18:00
Gilmund Graves
Is Strahd's Castle like Castlevania where it's constantly moving around?
01:18:06
bladesedge
No.
01:18:07
Gilmund Graves
No? Oh, it's so it's in one place?
01:18:08
bladesedge
Yes.
01:18:09
Gilmund Graves
Do we know where that is?
01:18:10
bladesedge
Yeah. Yeah, you guys have seen it. Um, in the distance, um, you know, it's over, uh, West by, by village Brovia, almost.
01:18:26
bladesedge
You'd place that you would be, that you would pass by in theory.
01:18:26
Gilmund Graves
Oh shit, okay.
01:18:34
Gilmund Graves
Well, then if we want to look for the Mad Mage, we could, but otherwise following Old Zvolloch Road towards the village of Barovia might have the windmill in sight.
01:18:46
Trevor
Yeah, let's do it.
01:18:46
Kyle
that's That's a much prom much more promising idea.
01:18:49
Gilmund Graves
I think let's hunt it down.
01:18:51
Trevor
the ah
01:18:53
Gilmund Graves
Well said.
01:18:53
bladesedge
Okay. So you guys are heading to the windmill.
01:18:58
Gilmund Graves
Yes.
01:18:59
bladesedge
Okay. Um, that I do have a map for me to get that. Okay. Um, as you guys make your way, since you can't go through Olds Falls road, that goes straight through Valaki, you have to either go through the woods.
01:19:18
bladesedge
Or you could go up north and take the lakefront. You tell me, how are you getting around the town of Valaki?
01:19:25
Trevor
But if I remember correctly, there were like, there were hills on the south side of the blocky too, right? Like...
01:19:30
bladesedge
Yeah, Valaki is a depression. So it's like a valley. So to the north and the south, it is higher ground.
01:19:34
Trevor
Yeah.
Forest Route Debate and Wolf Corpse Discovery
01:19:37
Tommy
Oh, okay.
01:19:37
Trevor
Okay.
01:19:41
Gilmund Graves
I would say heading along the lake could be interesting.
01:19:46
Trevor
Yeah, true.
01:19:48
Kyle
I will say that I am um very familiar with the forest and there's much less of a chance of us being surprised or getting lost if we're in the forest.
01:19:59
Gilmund Graves
That is true. Yeah, I trust your elf ears.
01:20:05
Trevor
Heck yeah.
01:20:08
Kyle
Oh, I vote the forest, but...
01:20:10
Trevor
We can do that. I think the only reason I would go with Lake Zarovich is on the off chance that we can, you know, we can keep our eyes peeled while we're moving along it and see if we see any weird mad mage related activity.
01:20:23
Trevor
You know what I mean? But if we're not worried about that right now, then forest 100%.
01:20:29
bladesedge
You tell me.
01:20:30
Gilmund Graves
Yeah, Forrest it is.
01:20:32
Trevor
Let's do it.
01:20:33
Tommy
Forest boys.
01:20:34
bladesedge
Okay. What lovely bunch of coconuts, D-L-E-D. I need, I do. All right. So, um Roy.
01:20:57
Kyle
yeah sir
01:20:58
bladesedge
First, I'm gonna get a couple rolls from you. The very first that I'm gonna need is a survival check.
01:21:09
Kyle
ah
01:21:12
Kyle
Let me see. Okay. This is wisdom. So my proficiency is doubled because the forest is, uh, my preferred, my favorite terrain type. Oh, but I, okay. Nevermind. I'm not proficient in survival. We're getting it.
01:21:31
bladesedge
Okay. Um, I need you to roll me a D 20.
01:21:40
Kyle
or
01:21:41
bladesedge
Okay. Um, and then why don't you go ahead and roll me a, only one D 12, a one D eight, please. Okay.
01:22:01
bladesedge
your trip through the woods. Um, you want to, you want to draw me the route you take?
01:22:10
Kyle
Oh, yeah. We're going to. Oh, wow, this is like I'm really drawing.
01:22:16
bladesedge
Yeah.
01:22:17
Kyle
I'm just going to cut into the forest a little bit and just sort of. No stop back up to the road. We clear the ah clear the village.
01:22:27
bladesedge
Probably right about right here.
01:22:31
bladesedge
Right here. give You a see that little red dot there?
01:22:36
Kyle
ah Yes.
01:22:37
bladesedge
You pass by a corpse.
01:22:42
Kyle
move on Is it a human corpse?
01:22:45
bladesedge
There's a, um it seems to me, would you like to inspect it further?
01:22:49
Kyle
I would First of all, i I want to take a look from a step back and make sure it's actually dead and not like undead this count as like being related to forest?
01:23:00
bladesedge
Okay. Roll me and a perception check. Yeah.
01:23:14
Kyle
So instead of a plus, this'll be a plus 2 to this.
01:23:20
bladesedge
Okay.
01:23:23
Kyle
Well.
01:23:25
bladesedge
12 or made D six, please.
01:23:38
bladesedge
um ah two Two this um As you get closer this thing is dead and it's not even a human it was like bone So it was hard to tell this corpse belonged to a wolf And it seems like it was killed by spears and crossbow bolts.
01:24:04
Kyle
Okay, is there anything around it?
01:24:06
bladesedge
I No, just ah with a twelve perception, just looks like it was killed a long time. A wolf killed a while ago by spears and crossbow bolts. But, ah you know, to Gilman's ah inquiry at the town, ah looks like a wolf, like a dire wolf.
Approach to Windmill: Eerie Signs
01:24:30
Gilmund Graves
Yeah, i think I think what would be interesting to start paying attention to is just how frequent we encounter these these wolves.
01:24:30
bladesedge
Not a werewolf. Looks like a wolf wolf.
01:24:40
Gilmund Graves
And knowing that there are 12 members of the werewolf clan, um maybe there's someone else looking for them too.
01:24:49
Kyle
um As I'm looking at this corpse, can I kind of look around and see if there's anything or any movement in the tree lines around us to like a 360 scan, see if we're being followed.
01:25:00
bladesedge
Yeah, you don't, you don't see any movement in the trees. You look around the only movement you see or high above in the tree branches, these little shadowy figures following your guys's trail.
01:25:13
Kyle
Gotcha. He said this is a wolf, not a dire wolf.
01:25:17
bladesedge
Um, I think a pretty big wolf.
01:25:23
Kyle
Why is it so scary right now?
01:25:28
Gilmund Graves
Uh-oh.
01:25:28
Kyle
Why'd I just get chills down my spine, dude?
01:25:28
Trevor
Do we notice the soundtrack change as we're going through the forest?
01:25:30
Gilmund Graves
Dude, yeah.
01:25:33
Kyle
That's a shiver down my down Roy's spine.
01:25:35
Gilmund Graves
Yeah, you got hit by a BRAP.
01:25:37
Kyle
some Yeah, something's not right.
01:25:37
Trevor
Did you guys hear that sub drop?
01:25:42
Gilmund Graves
um Yeah, can I investigate the the the corpse further and see what might've wounded it, what might've killed it?
01:25:45
Kyle
Just don't disturb the bones.
01:25:50
bladesedge
Sure.
01:25:53
Trevor
They are their money.
01:25:55
Gilmund Graves
that's The bones are their money.
01:25:58
Trevor
So are the worms.
01:25:59
Gilmund Graves
So are the worms. um Nine.
01:26:04
bladesedge
It's like a dead wolf killed by spears and crossbow bolts.
01:26:08
Gilmund Graves
Interesting, interesting.
01:26:09
bladesedge
but it's just It's just bones, which is why you initially thought it was a, uh, maybe a human when you went to go check it out, Roy, but as upon further inspection, just seems to be a, seems to be a, uh, old long dead wolf.
01:26:16
Gilmund Graves
Yeah.
01:26:25
Gilmund Graves
Well, good find. Should we continue onward?
01:26:33
Kyle
yeah Yeah, I see no reason to linger.
01:26:41
bladesedge
Okay. You guys continue on to the windmill.
01:26:47
Gilmund Graves
Yes, we do.
01:26:48
bladesedge
Okay. One of you guys can go ahead and move that token over to right here.
01:26:55
Gilmund Graves
Oh, that is the windmill.
01:26:57
Kyle
Oh, shit.
01:26:57
Gilmund Graves
Huzzah.
01:26:57
bladesedge
Yes.
01:27:01
bladesedge
All right.
01:27:03
Gilmund Graves
Into the windmill.
01:27:03
bladesedge
um
01:27:06
bladesedge
Okay. okay
01:27:16
Gilmund Graves
Trevor, I've been watching the the show Detroiters.
01:27:18
bladesedge
Here we go.
01:27:19
Trevor
Heck yeah, I got ah feel like I may have started that a long time ago, just never finished it.
01:27:25
Gilmund Graves
It's too fucking funny, man.
01:27:25
Trevor
Because that's ah Tim Robinson and what's his name, right? um Yeah, yep.
01:27:28
Gilmund Graves
Yeah, Sam, Sam, something else.
01:27:34
bladesedge
So the old Svalich Road here transitions from being um a winding path through the Balanok Mountains, which is, you know, if you look at this um map here, you can see all of these are representative of, you know, little hills and mountains, much like a topography map.
01:27:34
Trevor
Yeah, that shows great.
01:27:52
bladesedge
um So you see that you're sort of this this old Svalich Road winds through ah the mountain. um You guys can can you guys see that red line?
01:28:04
Gilmund Graves
Mmm, red line.
01:28:05
Kyle
ah
01:28:06
bladesedge
The old Spalich Road or no?
01:28:08
Gilmund Graves
No.
01:28:09
Kyle
Oh yeah, you can only see the name.
01:28:10
bladesedge
OK. Cool. No worries. But this road goes through this this mountain range. So here this winding path through the Balanak Mountains ends up going to a lazy trail that hugs the mountainside as it descends into a little fog filled valley here.
01:28:32
bladesedge
And in the heart of this valley, you see a walled um ah a walled town near the shores of the Great Mountain Lake. As you wind around and look, you know this town is Vlaki. Waters dark and still. A branch in the road ah leads south ah with a sign that says Barovia, town of Barovia.
01:28:58
bladesedge
And a another sign that seems to have been ripped off um that looks to have been pointing west to a ah promontory, a top which is perched a dilapidated stone windmill. It's warped wooden veins stripped bare.
01:29:19
Gilmund Graves
Ooh.
01:29:26
Gilmund Graves
um
01:29:30
Gilmund Graves
Yeah, what time is it? It's night, right?
01:29:33
bladesedge
No, no, you guys came here right in the morning.
01:29:34
Gilmund Graves
Oh, it's not?
01:29:38
bladesedge
You went, you went to Valaki and then you came here.
01:29:39
Gilmund Graves
Oh, shit.
01:29:41
bladesedge
So it's probably one, one PM, maybe, maybe a roommate, roommate D four just for the, for just, just for the travel through the woods and everything.
01:29:51
Gilmund Graves
Sure.
01:29:53
bladesedge
Yeah. We'll say it's four. So almost, almost what would be sundown if the sun ever even shown here.
01:29:54
Gilmund Graves
It's four o'clock.
01:30:01
Gilmund Graves
Sure.
01:30:03
Kyle
Is there any signs of recent entry on the ah windmill?
01:30:07
bladesedge
Would you like to get closer? So you're sort of at the, this little fork in the road here.
01:30:10
Gilmund Graves
I think we could observe from a distance for a little bit just to see.
01:30:14
Kyle
Yeah, for sure. I want to see if there's any ins and outs.
01:30:18
bladesedge
Um, sure. Make me a perception check.
01:30:24
Kyle
wa ah Oh, so close. 30-20.
01:30:31
bladesedge
Dirty 20. This, the onion-domed edifice of this windmill leans forward and to one side, as though it were trying to turn away from the stormy gray sky itself. ah You see gray brick walls and dirt covered windows on the upper floors.
01:30:53
bladesedge
And you see a decrepit wooden platform encircles the windmill above a flimsy doorway that you would guess leads into the building's interior. ah With a Dirty 20 perception check, you see perched above the wooden beam. Perched on a wooden beam above the door is a raven.
01:31:18
Kyle
The humming.
01:31:22
Gilmund Graves
Sorry, what was perched above the wooden door? My internet seemed to have a raven.
01:31:26
Trevor
It's a raven.
01:31:27
Kyle
Yeah, Raven. It's not my Raven, is it?
01:31:32
bladesedge
Uh, no.
01:31:36
Gilmund Graves
Well, the windmill is one of our prophecies, so maybe maybe we just go take a look.
01:31:48
Kyle
It is indeed.
01:31:48
Trevor
Yeah.
01:31:49
Kyle
Can you remind me of what the, uh, what the, uh, a hint riddle, yeah, the tarot card said?
01:31:52
Gilmund Graves
Taroka Karb said.
01:31:58
bladesedge
Um, it is in info and loot section of our discord.
01:32:02
Kyle
Oh, okay.
01:32:02
Gilmund Graves
Yeah, let's see. um me Let me scroll up.
01:32:05
bladesedge
Uh, number three was, um, to do, uh, I see a lonely mill on a precipice.
01:32:06
Gilmund Graves
oh
01:32:15
bladesedge
The treasure lies within this was supposed to be treasure that would help you. Um,
01:32:25
Trevor
in the fight, right?
01:32:26
bladesedge
yeah. Number three.
01:32:30
bladesedge
was um a card of power and strength. um It tells of a weapon of vengeance, a sword of pure sunlight. I see a lonely mill on a precipice the treasure lies within.
01:32:48
Gilmund Graves
wow
01:32:49
Trevor
Well,
01:32:49
Gilmund Graves
Well, I'm interested in treasure.
01:32:51
Tommy
Yeah, so we gotta go inside then.
01:32:53
Gilmund Graves
Yeah. um
01:32:56
Gilmund Graves
Let's see, is there anything we have that can help us see what's in there before we go in there? Anybody got any interesting spells?
01:33:06
Trevor
or like familiar as your creatures or something.
01:33:06
Gilmund Graves
I can stealth. um I think I would wanna try to stealth around and get like a view of the perimeter.
01:33:16
bladesedge
Okay.
01:33:19
Tommy
I could cast Faerie Fire like on the entrance to and light up anything.
01:33:19
bladesedge
Yeah.
01:33:23
Trevor
Would you want to send, is it Mistral? Would you want to send your spider in there to just take a look? You want to like.
01:33:28
Gilmund Graves
Bistra.
01:33:29
Tommy
Yeah, we could do the trust fall.
01:33:29
bladesedge
yeah He wishes that his familiar was the God of magic herself, Mistra.
01:33:35
Trevor
Hahaha.
01:33:37
bladesedge
Uh, not Istra.
01:33:37
Tommy
I mean, yeah. i that's an ah I mean, that's an option.
01:33:38
Trevor
Istra.
01:33:41
Kyle
I would like to cast a spell.
01:33:45
bladesedge
and Okay.
01:33:46
Kyle
I want to cast Prime Evil Awareness, which it allows me to sense whether any aberrations, celestials, dragons, elementals, fames, fiends, or undead are present within one mile um for for one minute.
01:33:48
bladesedge
What spell would you like to guess?
01:34:01
bladesedge
Go ahead and link that for me.
01:34:04
Kyle
I can do that.
01:34:07
bladesedge
but but papa but poppa
01:34:14
bladesedge
Primeval Awareness, what a good spell. What a good use for it, finally. like a very A very cool ranger thing that never gets able to be used.
01:34:20
Kyle
Yeah.
01:34:23
Kyle
Yeah, I feel like it's so hard to use if we're like in a town or something.
01:34:24
bladesedge
um
01:34:27
bladesedge
Per level of the spell slot. So what spell are you? Are you doing just the first level?
01:34:32
Kyle
Yeah, just so just first level.
01:34:39
bladesedge
um So are you doing it? Are you in your favorite terrain? What's your favorite terrain?
01:34:45
Kyle
My favorite terrain is, uh, forests.
01:34:49
bladesedge
Yeah, we'd say you're in your favorite terrain. So this is actually up to six miles.
01:34:54
Kyle
Oh, can I, I'd like to focus it a bit more.
01:34:59
bladesedge
um
01:35:00
bladesedge
Unfortunately, I don't think you can.
01:35:00
Kyle
If possible.
01:35:03
Kyle
That's a big ass area. Oh my God.
01:35:06
bladesedge
It's a big area. um So you can sense whether the following types of creatures are present within one mile of view.
01:35:15
Kyle
This like defeats.
01:35:15
bladesedge
Aberration slash those dragons, elementals, fae, fiends, or undead. This feature doesn't reveal the creature's location or number.
01:35:25
bladesedge
um
01:35:25
Trevor
wait
01:35:27
Kyle
It says within up to six miles.
01:35:27
Trevor
Interesting.
01:35:30
bladesedge
Okay.
01:35:32
bladesedge
Cool. So you want to, you want to do it just as a mile.
01:35:34
Kyle
I want to focus it in. Yeah.
01:35:37
bladesedge
OK, cool.
01:35:37
Kyle
I don't mean to argue semantics here, but that's
01:35:40
bladesedge
Yeah. um No, totally.
01:35:42
Kyle
what the spell says.
01:35:45
bladesedge
It's technically a pretty underpowered spell, so I like that you have a little more control over it. um Yeah, exactly.
01:35:53
Trevor
Did she just get a big yes?
01:35:55
Kyle
Yeah, just yup.
01:35:56
bladesedge
um You.
01:35:58
Gilmund Graves
They're here!
01:36:00
bladesedge
um
01:36:00
Trevor
Where?
01:36:00
Trevor
I don't fucking know.
01:36:04
Kyle
It's just a vibe
01:36:04
bladesedge
You.
01:36:05
Trevor
Yeah.
01:36:07
bladesedge
to do
01:36:10
Trevor
Sure seems like it.
01:36:11
bladesedge
you You ping within a mile radius. um you
01:36:22
bladesedge
um um'm just I'm just double checking here. You do get ah you do get a ping.
01:36:30
bladesedge
I'm just trying to determine.
01:36:31
Trevor
but
01:36:32
Kyle
I mean, this is kind of all hocus pocus. We are going to walk into the windmill and find out regardless.
01:36:37
Trevor
True.
01:36:37
bladesedge
Right. But you do, you get to, you get two pings. So you get a, you get a fiendish ping and a fae ping.
01:36:43
Kyle
get
01:36:49
Gilmund Graves
Oh.
01:36:50
Trevor
He's
Exploration Inside the Windmill
01:36:53
Gilmund Graves
Oh.
01:36:53
Trevor
vaping.
01:36:55
bladesedge
Um, and I don't know if, let me see, this is what I was wondering about. So.
01:37:09
Trevor
I don't know why I just love picturing it as a little ghost that shows up when you cast the spell and he's just munching on a fucking sandwich.
01:37:09
bladesedge
No, okay.
01:37:11
Gilmund Graves
distances
01:37:17
Trevor
Yup, yup, they're here. It's like, oh, cool, how do you know where? Nah, I don't know.
01:37:23
Kyle
Nah, I mean I do, but I'm not gonna tell you.
01:37:23
Trevor
You know anything else? Yeah.
01:37:27
bladesedge
So you get um a fae and fiend ping and Gil, you were doing the rounds about this place, right?
01:37:27
Kyle
I know exactly where they are.
01:37:40
Gilmund Graves
Yeah, um I think that kind of just flanking around the outside looking to see like what's what's surrounding the outsides here or is it solely the windmill or is there are there windows up on the higher floors of the wind of the windmill?
01:37:55
Gilmund Graves
you know what's a
01:37:58
bladesedge
um you know you see and
01:38:03
bladesedge
here's ah Here's a decent sort of
01:38:08
bladesedge
picture I guess. ah You see like there's almost like the Stonehenge looking thing. Um, that's like, that's just like nearby. I'm including a picture. This is not from anything, any published content. This is just to give you some sort of a vibe. You see like sort of a us a stonehenge looking like four massive uh stones that are erected um that are like you know near the entrance but not like right up against it or anything um and you you see several ravens uh circling over that
01:38:50
Gilmund Graves
Okay.
01:38:58
Gilmund Graves
Interesting. Well, a couple of ravens. We know, we know a little bit about, about ravens. Um, but I think I'll go back to the group and be like, you know, it doesn't look like there's anything to, uh, I dunno.
01:39:19
Gilmund Graves
unlike Barovia out here, so what'd you find out, Roy? um
01:39:27
Kyle
Yeah, I'm definitely catchin' a vibe. I got two pings, I got ah one for fae and one for a fiend. white What is Gilmond?
01:39:42
bladesedge
Not a humanoid.
01:39:43
Kyle
Okay.
01:39:43
Gilmund Graves
Yeah, I don't ping fiend because I was not born in the Hells.
01:39:48
Kyle
Gotcha, gotcha, gotcha, gotcha. Alright, yeah, I mean, within a mile, there's... there's something, so keep your wits about you.
01:39:58
Gilmund Graves
Okay. Well, let's, uh, let's go for it then, huh? What do we think?
01:40:02
Kyle
Yeah, I think we head in.
01:40:05
bladesedge
Okay. Um, you guys head towards the entrance. Let me just go ahead and move you onto this map here. Um, and so what you're looking at here is sort of the, that's the outside of it.
01:40:20
bladesedge
You see what I'm saying?
01:40:21
Gilmund Graves
and
01:40:23
bladesedge
Um, okay. And that you're, you approach the door.
01:40:31
bladesedge
Um, which um let me go ahead and read this for you.
01:40:42
bladesedge
ah You approach and. You see this raven above the door, and as you get closer, um as you get close, the raven ah sort of starts to hop about above the door frame and go, ah, ah, at you, ah.
01:41:06
Kyle
Uh, do I have any animal things?
01:41:16
Gilmund Graves
Yeah, I don't really have very good animal handling.
01:41:23
Tommy
I mean, I did help whenever tenacious to you. Maybe I could give it.
01:41:26
Gilmund Graves
That's true. Yeah.
01:41:28
Tommy
No, not no, no, no, I'm just kidding.
01:41:28
Gilmund Graves
Give it a shot. Nihilothu, dude. Nihilothu.
01:41:31
Tommy
No, no, no, no, I'm just kidding.
01:41:35
Gilmund Graves
The mad mage.
01:41:36
Tommy
Roy. I mean, you're, you're the, you're you're the Raven guy.
01:41:39
Gilmund Graves
Hey, you're the animal guy.
01:41:39
Tommy
Get in there. Yeah. you're there
01:41:40
Kyle
I am the I am the Raven guy. ah I'd like to hold my hand up and try and and just like stick my my finger out to try and get it to land on my hand.
01:41:45
bladesedge
OK.
01:41:52
bladesedge
Yeah, he jumps off the roof and just kind of flies flies over to your hand and packs your hand and then flies back to the top of the door and goes, ah.
01:42:00
Kyle
yeah What the hell, man?
01:42:06
bladesedge
No, no, no damage or anything. It didn't it didn't make a full attack. It just.
01:42:10
Kyle
Yeah.
01:42:12
bladesedge
Gave you a little.
01:42:15
Kyle
Um, can I summon Ray? Maybe they could, maybe they could be friends.
01:42:20
bladesedge
and Okay.
01:42:21
Kyle
Maybe I can communicate with the, uh, with this Raven through my Raven.
01:42:26
Gilmund Graves
And we need Lancelot on the page too.
01:42:30
bladesedge
Yeah. Well, you only have Lance a lot if he chooses Lance a lot.
01:42:34
Kyle
I only get one editor.
01:42:37
bladesedge
He gets to, he chooses one.
01:42:37
Gilmund Graves
Oh yeah, that's right, that's right.
01:42:37
Kyle
yeah
01:42:38
bladesedge
Yeah.
01:42:44
bladesedge
um Okay.
01:42:45
Kyle
Can it can like Kim Rae can
01:42:45
bladesedge
Yeah. You, you summon Ray Ray's with you.
01:42:49
bladesedge
Is Istra with you as well, Tommy?
01:42:53
Tommy
Um, I, yeah, it's just still here.
01:42:56
bladesedge
Is that a, did you, did you, ah okay, cool.
01:42:57
Tommy
As, as ritual. Yeah.
01:43:01
bladesedge
Istra, bring it over. Okay.
01:43:05
Tommy
Sorry. I kind of like how I kind of half said that history was there like at the church.
01:43:08
bladesedge
No, you're good. No, I loved it.
01:43:09
Tommy
Yeah.
01:43:09
bladesedge
Yeah. You, you did summit. I just forgot if it was like, all right.
01:43:12
Tommy
Now you're fine. Yeah.
01:43:13
bladesedge
You summon Ray.
01:43:16
Kyle
Can Ray do an insight check on the Raven to see if he's like, um,
01:43:26
Kyle
what is he inciting? Does he not want us here?
01:43:29
Trevor
like whether or not he's being like hostile or like warning us or something.
01:43:30
Kyle
Does this. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.
01:43:35
bladesedge
Um, sure.
01:43:35
Kyle
Like trying to get us to not go in.
01:43:38
bladesedge
Sure. Give me a insight check ah using raise stat block.
01:43:46
Kyle
Oh, boy. Oh, God. ah
01:43:50
bladesedge
Insight is wisdom. So if he doesn't have the insight skill, it would just be a straight wisdom check.
01:43:58
Kyle
Inside his wisdom. Yeah, I don't think he has.
01:44:02
bladesedge
Yeah, a lot of other people's deadlines don't have specific skills like a P.
01:44:05
Kyle
So, so to roll just a gotcha, to roll just a straight wisdom check, what would I do?
01:44:06
bladesedge
That's like a PC thing.
01:44:11
bladesedge
You'd roll a D20 and add his yeah but his wisdom score.
01:44:11
Kyle
Just a d20 and then pluses. Gotcha.
01:44:20
Kyle
It's a four.
01:44:21
bladesedge
um Ray can't tell because Ray is not a real Raven. Ray is like a summoned entity of yours. looking at this raven, there's like you know two different people trying to communicate.
01:44:35
bladesedge
um It's ah the it's the the the two Mickey Mouse dogs looking at each other.
01:44:43
Kyle
Yeah.
01:44:44
bladesedge
One can walk around and talk, and the other one is somebody's dog. He doesn't know.
01:44:50
Kyle
yeah I'm just gonna like slowly head like walk towards the door Okay
01:44:56
bladesedge
OK. Yeah, he's just he's just above the door, calling at you as you do. But he does not. It doesn't. It doesn't attack you. But he's just. Oh, oh.
01:45:08
bladesedge
My cat's right here, baby.
01:45:08
Gilmund Graves
um Give us a noise Bean.
01:45:09
bladesedge
My cat can give you a noise. Give him a noise, Bean.
01:45:13
bladesedge
There you go. This is what everybody's going. He's out in a run.
01:45:19
Trevor
Morel?
01:45:19
Gilmund Graves
um
01:45:19
bladesedge
He'll be back.
01:45:20
Gilmund Graves
Roy, I'd beckon for you to move over just a little bit to the outside of the door. And with my extended reach of my shadow, I will push open the door myself.
01:45:33
bladesedge
Okay. Door opens. Not locked. Not trapped.
01:45:45
Kyle
Mmhmm.
01:45:46
Gilmund Graves
I'll take the first step in.
01:45:48
bladesedge
Okay. The ground floor of this windmill has been converted into what looks like a makeshift kitchen.
01:45:49
Kyle
And I'll walk in behind you.
01:45:57
bladesedge
um But the room is filthy. Uh, baskets and old dishware are piled everywhere. Adding to the clutter is a peddler's cart. Um, like what somebody would sell, uh, bacon wrapped hot dogs after a Kings game, for example.
01:46:14
Gilmund Graves
Oh wow, hot dog, hot dog, hot dog.
01:46:16
bladesedge
Yes.
01:46:17
Tommy
Very yummy.
01:46:18
bladesedge
A peddler's cart, a chicken coop, a heavy wooden trunk, and a pretty wooden cabinet with flowers painted on its doors. In addition um to the clucking of chickens, you hear toads croaking. um You all get the sweet smell of pastries, um but blends pretty horribly with a another stench that burns your nostrils. that That awful odor is coming out of an open upright barrel in the center of the room. um And then warmth issues from a brick oven against one wall.
01:46:58
bladesedge
And a crumbling staircase ascends the wall across from it. um You know that the ceiling is eight feet high. um And you hear from upstairs.
01:47:12
bladesedge
um Shrieks and cackles.
01:47:16
Gilmund Graves
Oh, sheesh.
01:47:17
bladesedge
um And the old mill itself seems to shudder as you hear.
01:47:25
Gilmund Graves
Oh, no. no um Can I look through some of this stuff to see if there's any flour?
01:47:26
bladesedge
Somewhere above.
01:47:31
bladesedge
Sure. You're going to investigate for some flour. What are the rest of you guys doing?
01:47:36
Kyle
Um...
01:47:37
Trevor
Valerius would be outside looking up to see how many stories it feels like, that like how high this thing goes up and see if there's like windows and stuff.
01:47:45
bladesedge
Um, yes, there are four, uh, one, two, three, three stories and a roof. And you do see windows. I mentioned them before that caked with dirt.
01:47:55
Trevor
Okay.
01:47:57
bladesedge
Um, uh, Gilman, go ahead and roll me a, uh, investigation check. And what are Vezrak and Roy doing?
01:48:06
Gilmund Graves
19 investigation.
01:48:10
bladesedge
Vezrak, Roy, what are you guys doing while he's investigating and Valerius going outside?
01:48:12
Kyle
um Yeah, I'm just inside um kind of just looking at like surveying the place but not really looking at anything in particular just kind of observing and making mental note of the area.
01:48:20
bladesedge
Cool.
01:48:24
bladesedge
Um, yep.
01:48:24
Tommy
Can I?
01:48:24
Tommy
Oh, sorry.
01:48:25
bladesedge
No, you're good.
01:48:26
Tommy
Can I detect magic as a ritual?
01:48:29
bladesedge
Yes, you can. Let me just look at something here. Detect magic. taste So it takes a minute.
01:48:44
Tommy
ah Yeah, I think it takes ah ah one action plus 10 minutes. oh Well, 10 minutes.
01:48:51
bladesedge
OK. um So Gilman and Roy, what both of you see just from looking around the room are as you start to look around the room, you see small human bones litter the flagstone floor. ah They're everywhere, but they're like pushed underneath things like a zip to clear a walkway.
01:49:13
Gilmund Graves
Yikes, they just...
01:49:13
bladesedge
So you begin to see, uh, human bones. You do find flour as in this oven that is warm currently baking seem to be like pastries.
01:49:26
Gilmund Graves
Yeah, I was going to take the flour and some water if it's around and quickly make some fresh pasta.
01:49:33
bladesedge
Okay. Um, how long does it take to make fresh pasta? And not you, Kyle, a guy who's not a chef.
01:49:42
Gilmund Graves
ah
01:49:44
Kyle
That's like a six minute ordeal, surely?
01:49:46
Gilmund Graves
I mean, it would it would be about eight eight minutes of kneading to get to the point that we want to be at.
01:49:47
Kyle
For al dente?
01:49:53
bladesedge
Mixing needing and resting. It says can take around 40 minutes.
01:49:57
Gilmund Graves
Well, resting is a whole different step, yeah.
01:49:59
bladesedge
Okay. Um, well, yeah, you, you begin to do that. veszraq You cast detect magic, uh, as a ritual, which is, um, 10 minutes.
01:50:11
Tommy
Yeah, 10 minutos, please.
01:50:13
bladesedge
Okay. So I'll, I'll let you know when that 10 minutes is up.
01:50:14
Trevor
if This is so funny.
01:50:17
Tommy
I just, I just take a seat.
01:50:17
Trevor
We're just moving in. this way we
01:50:20
Tommy
I take a seat next outside on the steps on the stoop, like next to the Raven.
01:50:22
Trevor
Take my sh-
01:50:23
Tommy
And I'm just kind of just like flipping through my spell book, being like, to detect detect magic to detect magic, detect magic, detect magic.
01:50:28
bladesedge
So you're casting that. Gil is beginning a process that will also take about 10 minutes of doing something. um As Gil is making fresh pasta and Vesrak, you are about to cast Detect Magic. um Roy and Valyrias, what are the two of you doing? Valyrias, your glance around probably only takes a couple minutes. And Roy, you just said you were looking nondescriptly, so you just noticed those human bones on the floor.
01:50:58
Kyle
Yeah, is this is this up here to the left? Like, is that a chest?
01:51:04
bladesedge
Yeah. So you see that there is a peddler's cart, a chicken coop, a heavy wooden trunk, a pretty wooden cabinet with flowers painted on the doors. And then there's an awful order coming out of an open upright barrel in the center of the room and warmth issues from a brick oven on the wall.
01:51:24
Kyle
Gotcha. Um, Yeah, first thing I'd like to do is see if that trunk is unlocked and ah take a look at what's inside.
01:51:36
bladesedge
Okay, the trunk you said.
01:51:38
Kyle
Yes.
01:51:40
bladesedge
ah Okay. um You lift the, um you just open the top of it.
01:51:51
Kyle
Yes.
01:51:52
bladesedge
As you open the top of it, roll me 2d6.
01:52:02
Kyle
Then.
01:52:03
bladesedge
10 frogs jump out. Ribbit ribbit and who begin jumping around the room is the door open Yeah,
01:52:13
Kyle
I didn't close it behind me.
01:52:16
bladesedge
they start making their way towards the door do you close the lid
01:52:21
Kyle
I close the lid of the trunk.
01:52:25
bladesedge
Cool, because as you opened the lid, you were looking at like hundreds of toads, or maybe a hundred croaking toads.
01:52:25
Kyle
And then I see.
01:52:29
Kyle
OK, yeah, yeah, yeah.
01:52:31
Trevor
that could affect the decisions.
01:52:32
bladesedge
As you lifted the lid, 10 of them jumped out immediately um and made their way, Vesrak jumping past you, richly casting your spell, Gilman right past him, making his pasta.
01:52:36
Kyle
Okay.
01:52:45
bladesedge
Valerius, you see 10 toads. Ribbit, ribbit, ribbit, ribbit. ah bounce outside and begin to hop away in search of water.
01:52:55
Trevor
when i If I see those toads hop out, I'd probably step in. or look around, look in here and step in and go, where do those tote, and then immediately smell that insane smell?
01:53:08
bladesedge
Yeah.
01:53:08
Trevor
Then if I'd see it's coming from a barrel, or if i if that if I do end up noticing that, I'd probably end up walking over to the barrel, just kind of like peeking over into it to see where that smell's coming from.
01:53:19
bladesedge
Yeah, you look inside that barrel um and it's it you see it's a glistening greenish black liquid glistening greenish black liquid in there.
01:53:33
Trevor
Ugh.
01:53:35
bladesedge
um
01:53:35
Gilmund Graves
yeah
01:53:36
bladesedge
And.
01:53:39
bladesedge
Yeah. That's what you see, and it smells it smells like God awful.
01:53:41
Trevor
Holy.
01:53:44
Trevor
Ugh.
01:53:45
Gilmund Graves
I look over at Valerius and say, hey, you see any herbs over there? Oils, maybe?
01:53:51
Trevor
No, uh, no. How, are you cooking right now?
01:53:55
Gilmund Graves
Yeah, man. I mean, I smelled pastries in a wood-fired oven. What do you think I'm gonna do?
01:53:59
Trevor
You smell, you didn't smell what's coming out of this barrel?
01:54:03
Gilmund Graves
I have selective scent.
01:54:05
Trevor
That is why I'm wildly jealous of that.
01:54:09
Kyle
I do just want to quickly mention that it does seem that we are inside of a witch's hut that is most likely currently occupied.
01:54:16
Trevor
Yeah.
01:54:19
Gilmund Graves
Shit.
01:54:19
Kyle
So maybe we don't cook pasta and maybe we sneak upstairs and try and take care of whatever's living here.
01:54:28
Gilmund Graves
all All ladies love pasta.
01:54:28
Kyle
They're not going to be happy.
01:54:30
Kyle
Well.
01:54:30
Trevor
Um, I think I'm with Roy on this.
01:54:33
Trevor
I think that they got their food covered by cooking the pastries. I don't think they need any more carbs. Should we start heading upstairs altogether?
01:54:44
Trevor
I'll, so I'll step over this way and come out to the, I'll
01:54:46
Gilmund Graves
I've got another minute. I got another minute of kneading and then yeah, we can we can go. We'll go up there.
01:54:52
Trevor
come out here and see how v is doing.
01:54:53
Tommy
Uh, you just
01:54:55
bladesedge
Bezrak, your tech magic comes online here. And the first couple of things that ping for you are as you look inside the barrel, um which gives you a um divination and conjuration, both.
01:55:08
Tommy
Uh huh.
01:55:19
bladesedge
You ping both of those on this, on the barrel.
01:55:20
Tommy
Okay. In barrel. divination.
01:55:24
bladesedge
divination, conjuration, um and then you also ah didoo do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do.
01:55:44
bladesedge
Let me just, sorry.
01:55:54
bladesedge
um
01:55:58
bladesedge
Yeah, you get remnants, you get a very faint enchantment magic off of the pastries in the oven.
01:56:10
Tommy
ah Hey, Gil? Those pastries are enchanted.
01:56:17
Gilmund Graves
Yeah, they smell great. They're absolutely enchanting.
01:56:20
Tommy
No, I mean like there's magic possibly in the pastries.
01:56:25
Gilmund Graves
Oh shit.
01:56:26
Tommy
Like someone has altered them magically.
01:56:28
Gilmund Graves
I'll walk over to the to the hearth and I'll see what stage of the cooking um they're in.
01:56:31
bladesedge
Mm hmm.
01:56:37
Gilmund Graves
If they're like, are they browning up nicely right now?
01:56:40
bladesedge
Oh, yeah, they look about done.
01:56:43
Gilmund Graves
ah Can I find a tray or something?
01:56:47
bladesedge
I'm sure, yeah, you find a little tray.
01:56:50
Gilmund Graves
Yeah, well then I'll use the ah whatever tool they have to to take them out and I'll place them on the tray.
01:56:55
bladesedge
OK.
01:56:57
Gilmund Graves
um And should we go ah take them upstairs to see if our ah our our guests will appreciate people showing up not empty handed?
01:57:07
Kyle
Our guests?
01:57:08
Trevor
Our guest, what do you mean by that?
01:57:09
Gilmund Graves
I mean, wait a second, wait a second, wait a second.
01:57:11
Kyle
where Where we have broken and entered?
01:57:13
Gilmund Graves
Yeah, sorry, I got too comfortable. I got too comfortable. This happens to
01:57:16
Kyle
I know!
Dangerous Enchantment and Session Conclusion
01:57:17
Gilmund Graves
me sometimes.
01:57:18
bladesedge
The the ah cackling and shrieking from upstairs stops.
01:57:23
Gilmund Graves
ah
01:57:26
Gilmund Graves
Uh... Should we run?
01:57:29
Tommy
No, what about the thing in the windmill?
01:57:30
Kyle
and
01:57:31
Gilmund Graves
Ah shit, the treasure!
01:57:32
Tommy
We need the treasure, the treasure.
01:57:33
Gilmund Graves
What if the treasure is the- what if the treasure is the pastries?
01:57:34
Tommy
and What if the treasure's the friendship we made along the way?
01:57:37
Kyle
I draw my my my ah blade. but not my bla
01:57:41
Gilmund Graves
I just- I just hold the tray of pastries in both hands and look at the stairs.
01:57:43
Kyle
My staff.
01:57:43
Trevor
Yeah, I'll grab out my staff.
01:57:49
bladesedge
You see Cressing down the stairs, a very old woman who ah looks at you hunched over and says, oh, visitors, how lovely.
01:57:51
Gilmund Graves
Oh no.
01:57:56
Kyle
oh
01:57:58
Trevor
Oh, God.
01:58:09
bladesedge
Oh, you've come to do business. Oh, you've come to do. I see you've seen my latest back. of pastries. Would you like to buy one?
01:58:21
Gilmund Graves
Ha Yeah, yeah, absolutely. In fact, um they are positively enchanting. The smell got me working up a flurry to try to ah see if I could do a little bit of an exchange with you.
01:58:34
bladesedge
He says, Oh, wonderful. Well, I charged one gold for a whole batch.
01:58:42
Gilmund Graves
I'll give you a gold.
01:58:43
Kyle
We do like half a dozen maybe?
01:58:46
bladesedge
ah She says, lovely, thank you so much. They're a big hit in Barovia. Go ahead, try one.
01:58:59
Gilmund Graves
Yeah, I immediately bite into one.
01:58:59
Kyle
right
01:59:02
Gilmund Graves
Like it's it's the thing that I've wanted to do all day even before I got here was eat a fresh baked pastry.
01:59:02
bladesedge
um
01:59:08
bladesedge
Make a constitution saving throw for me.
01:59:10
Gilmund Graves
Yeah, absolutely. I knew that was coming. And that's gonna be a seven.
01:59:17
bladesedge
Okay, um, I said what's up to you.
01:59:18
Kyle
Really?
01:59:18
Tommy
Are we all watching pastries?
01:59:20
Kyle
No, I'm not.
01:59:21
Trevor
Absolutely not.
01:59:24
Tommy
i mean gil solo adventure and a by I'm just doing I'm just doing a temperature check in the room is all.
01:59:28
bladesedge
You, you, you paid, you paid for um
01:59:32
Trevor
I think we're all looking at Roy like he's going nuts right now.
01:59:35
Kyle
I'm watching Gilman to eat this.
01:59:36
Tommy
Yeah. Yeah.
01:59:36
Trevor
Or sorry, sorry, Gil, Gil.
01:59:37
Tommy
Roy Roy have one.
01:59:37
Trevor
Yeah, yeah but Roy, what are you talking about?
01:59:38
Kyle
Yeah.
01:59:39
Tommy
Come on. what do you We just bought him.
01:59:41
Kyle
I'm like breaking into a sweat watching Gilman eat this just like
01:59:43
Trevor
This is great.
01:59:45
Gilmund Graves
This is the first person in all of Barovia that has a sense of taste and culinary class.
01:59:46
Trevor
Yeah, 100%.
01:59:51
Gilmund Graves
And Gilman is all about that.
01:59:54
Kyle
Mm.
01:59:56
bladesedge
She. um I'm going to we're going to end tonight on a little bit of um narration here.
02:00:07
Gilmund Graves
Gilman's head explodes.
02:00:08
bladesedge
Gil.
02:00:11
bladesedge
You look and see from behind this lady. Your sister.
02:00:20
Gilmund Graves
What?
02:00:21
bladesedge
And she peaks around and says, Gil.
02:00:27
Gilmund Graves
Alma?
02:00:29
bladesedge
Runs down the stairs over to you and bear hug, almost tackles you. And grabs you and looks up at you and says, Where have you been?
02:00:40
Gilmund Graves
I've been looking for you. ah was about That pasta was your favorite dish.
02:00:45
bladesedge
Dad's dad sold me off, but I knew you'd find me.
02:00:52
Gilmund Graves
I know, I know what dad did and rest assured you're happy.
02:00:56
bladesedge
But it was the best thing that could have ever happened to me. Gil, I'm beyond happy. And I know that you will be too. And I just want to say I'm so proud of you. And I'm so thankful that you're here. I'm so grateful and she buries her head into your chest and starts sobbing happy tears um as you feel like a lightness in your chest Gil from finally seeing your sister again.
02:01:23
Gilmund Graves
Unreal.
02:01:25
bladesedge
Um, you feel an overwhelming sense of joy and elation.
02:01:37
bladesedge
The rest of you Roy takes a bite of this pastry.
02:01:41
Gilmund Graves
Gil takes a bite.
02:01:42
Kyle
Wait, no he doesn't.
02:01:44
bladesedge
He'll takes a bite of this pastry.
02:01:46
Kyle
I was like, no!
02:01:46
bladesedge
Sorry.
02:01:47
Trevor
I just did the same thing.
02:01:49
Tommy
It's just, it's Gil shoving, it's Gil shoving a pastry into Roy's mouth.
02:01:51
Trevor
Sorry, dude.
02:01:52
Kyle
I was like, no, no he doesn't, he does not take a bite.
02:01:53
Trevor
ah yeah
02:01:55
Trevor
No, no, no, no, no.
02:01:57
bladesedge
Oh, no, I'm sorry. Gil takes a a bite of this pastry and you all see him turn around. Open the oven. And crawl inside. As the lady on top of the stairs, a huge grin. Goes across her face and she says. ah Well.
02:02:25
bladesedge
Morgantha's dream pies always work on one. The rest of you. And she says, the rest of you, Roy, your eyes can't help but be drawn to the bones, the human bones on the ground. She says, well, the rest of you can go in the next batch. She calls upstairs at this moment and um
02:02:54
bladesedge
says,
02:03:03
bladesedge
let me get there.
02:03:04
Gilmund Graves
Did you say Morgantha's dream pies?
02:03:07
bladesedge
Morgantha's dream pastries.
02:03:09
Gilmund Graves
Dream pat pastry, okay.
02:03:11
bladesedge
Dream pastries. um And as Gilman crawls into the oven, She says this to Roy, a wicked smile crosses her face. She calls upstairs and says, well, Bella Ophalia. We've got more bones. Camera fades out from here.
02:03:40
bladesedge
As Gil climbs into an oven that is on.
02:03:41
Gilmund Graves
oh
02:03:44
bladesedge
The three of you look up at this old lady with a wicked smile across her face and the realization comes to you that this lady is baking by the looks of the bones, Roy. This lady is putting children in these pies.
02:04:07
Kyle
Wow.
02:04:07
Gilmund Graves
Yuck.
02:04:08
bladesedge
And that's where we'll pick up next time.
02:04:10
Gilmund Graves
All right.
02:04:15
Trevor
I'm glad you're a Tiefling.
02:04:16
bladesedge
Oh boy.
02:04:17
Gilmund Graves
Yeah, for real.
02:04:17
Kyle
I'm just I am I am dumbfounded.
02:04:22
bladesedge
Uh, it was very, it was very fun. That's what I guess, uh, like a month or two off of recording will do. The goofs were the goofs were off the charts.
02:04:29
Kyle
I can't believe it.
02:04:30
Tommy
Goofs are off the chart today.
02:04:32
Gilmund Graves
Yeah.
02:04:35
Gilmund Graves
I'm happy with it. I loved it.
02:04:36
Kyle
We got kicked out of a town.
02:04:37
Tommy
I'm so sorry.
02:04:39
bladesedge
I will, I'll say this just because I don't know how often we've been recording and I want the listener to know what I'm about to say to you as this is a horror D and D podcast. After all, when we meet next, I want and expect all of you to show up with a backup character in mind.
02:04:39
Trevor
That was amazing.
02:05:05
Kyle
Oh my god, bro
02:05:06
Tommy
no come on come on
02:05:07
Gilmund Graves
All right. All right.
02:05:09
bladesedge
And I'll leave you on that note.
02:05:09
Tommy
ah
02:05:10
bladesedge
Thanks everybody for tuning in to the Blade's Edge.
02:05:10
Gilmund Graves
Yes. Happy Halloween.
02:05:13
bladesedge
Happy Halloween. We'll see you guys and next time.
02:05:15
Gilmund Graves
Yes.
02:05:30
Tommy
No, come on, come on.