Transcript
bladesedge: Hello. And welcome back all you ghouls, gas, gargoyles and gremlins. I'm Brian Samus and I'm your ghost host through this spooky Dungeons and Dragons journey. Welcome back to the Blade's Edge. Welcome back to Curse of Strahd. Welcome back to Barovia, even. It's spooky and it's not just spooky in game, it's spooky at a game. One of the one of the spookiest things I've ever seen is the ah trying to get five people on the same recording schedule. And also spookily trying to get this recording to work, but we did it.
Gilmund Graves: Hey, computers.
bladesedge: Computers.
Gilmund Graves: Computers, am I right? Hey, and you forgot goblins.
bladesedge: I did forget goblins less spooky than the other things I mentioned, but also a G.
Gilmund Graves: Yeah, true.
bladesedge: ah Where we left off last time, we met our heroes for this journey. Vesrak, Bainvall, Gilmond Graves, Roy Halovich, Valerius Moonstone in the town of Daggerford. Each of them approached by somebody, whether it be a group or somebody, a friend even, to investigate some werewolf attacks. The gang set off into the woods and were enveloped by mist, coming upon a house with two children out front asking for help. Their names rose and thorn. The characters entered the house, which appeared to be haunted.
bladesedge: went all the way where we resume now into the attic and found the deceased remains of the same kids that they talked to out in front of the house. The kids asked to join with the party to ghostly enter the minds of two of our players and be with them for the remainder of their time in this house.
bladesedge: And we pick up from there.
Gilmund Graves: Freaky.
Kyle: very weird
Gilmund Graves: Yeah. You guys are getting jaggered by some kids right now.
Trevor: Do you feel me inside of you?
bladesedge: You guys have, you guys have full control of yourselves.
Gilmund Graves: ah
bladesedge: You're not being Yeager Roy with Rose, Valerius with thorn.
bladesedge: In this moment, as you give Thorn a hug, Valerius. You, Roy, you hear, hey. Can you grab? I know this might sound weird, but. Would you mind taking our bodies?
Kyle: Taking your bodies is, are they just bones?
bladesedge: Yeah, you look in the middle of the floor and there's two sets of the children's bones in the middle of the floor.
Kyle: um What do you want me to do with them?
bladesedge: I don't know. Doesn't feel right leaving it.
Kyle: Do you just want them out of the house?
bladesedge: With us.
Kyle: Let me see if I have a backpack.
bladesedge: god
Gilmund Graves: Yeah. And as yeah questions, you don't, everything's fine FBI.
Kyle: Can I fit two two sets of children's bones into my backpack?
bladesedge: And listen, if that question isn't Dungeons and Dragons, I don't know what else.
Kyle: and
Gilmund Graves: Don't worry about it.
bladesedge: Yeah, you can you're allowed to Google that as long as at the end of it, you put D and &D five.
Gilmund Graves: Yeah.
bladesedge: Yeah.
Kyle: and D 5E is doing a lot of heavy lifting to not put you on a list.
Trevor: Yeah.
Gilmund Graves: Yeah, hashtag asking for a friend hashtag everything is fine for real.
bladesedge: yeah
bladesedge: um You. yeah Yeah, you absolutely could.
Kyle: ah Okay, then, then I mean, we've come this far, I have the voice of a little girl in my head, I will pick up the sets of moms and put them into my backpack, unless unless someone else could take one set.
bladesedge: There's your room in there.
Gilmund Graves: We've all got a little girl's voice in our head. True.
Kyle: And then I could just take one of their sets and put them in my backpack.
Gilmund Graves: Yeah, I'd happily
bladesedge: Well, that the Valerius, you're in this room ah with the other child in your head, Thorn, if you would like to each respectively take the bones of the specter within you.
Trevor: Yeah, yeah, I'm fine with that. Yeah, and that's chill.
Kyle: yeah
bladesedge: Maybe maybe you guys use a blanket from the bed to wrap it up, hobo style.
Kyle: Yeah.
bladesedge: um You know, they're walking out of the train tracks with the stick through the.
bladesedge: The sack.
Gilmund Graves: Got all the things I need.
Kyle: Slug over my shoulder. Yeah.
Gilmund Graves: um I would help them make sure that the the bones were taken care of properly because I've i've helped bury people, um like embalm stuff and properly like care to the the the way you're supposed to put put people to rest, you know?
Kyle: I do think that when we get out of the house, we should find a spot and just give them like a proper burial.
Gilmund Graves: Agreed. yeah
bladesedge: Um, you guys, you hear in your head, Roy, this, this toy mansion on the ground, this, this doll house, it's a, it's a perfect exact replica of the house. If you have any questions, you could look through it.
Kyle: I'd like to look down at the basement and see because we we did see a door that went that led downstairs right when we went.
Trevor: you
Kyle: We first got into the house. Do I see that staircase in the toy house?
bladesedge: Yes.
bladesedge: um Yeah, make me an investigation or perception check and you have advantage because you have accepted the specter into your mind.
Gilmund Graves: you
Kyle: um
Kyle: Okay, sorry, it was a perception you said.
bladesedge: Or investigation.
Kyle: Okay, at advantage. Yeah.
Kyle: Boy, boy, am I gonna need it? Alright, 18.
Gilmund Graves: Nice.
bladesedge: So you see down on the first floor, um, there was, uh, there was potentially a way down. I don't think there was one that you had fully come across, but in this moments, you see that on up here. Uh, in the attic right over here where I'm pinging on, right? Sort of out of this room.
Kyle: Mm -hmm.
bladesedge: If you went out of this room and made a right, there's the sort of the end of the hallway.
Kyle: Yeah.
bladesedge: There's two doors down over this way. There's a door to the, to the north and a door to the south. And then there's this wall, but the wall itself is a, uh, there's a staircase within that. that goes from the attic all the way down to the basement. The door to it, however, is in this south room. And as you sort of are doing that, Gil and Vesrak, you guys see Lancelot, the dog move through your guys legs, nuzzling up, uh, Vesrak against your like inner thigh and then Gil rubs up against yours as it moves between your legs and gets to this door and it starts growling.
Gilmund Graves: What is it, boy? I walk over towards the door and just try to take a peek underneath it, see if there's anything over there. Do you smell Jimothy, boy?
bladesedge: Sure.
Gilmund Graves: Do you smell him?
bladesedge: His head cocks to the side. hi
Gilmund Graves: and Jimothy? I look over to the dollhouse, I go, where is that kid?
bladesedge: um You yeah make a perception check for me, Gil.
Gilmund Graves: Absolutely.
bladesedge: Just straight.
Gilmund Graves: We're looking at a seven, sir.
bladesedge: Kind of looks like, like there's stuff in this room. That's like, like draped in sheets. I mean, you are in the attic, you know, so it's like stuff that, you know, is not being used that has like sheets over it.
Gilmund Graves: Sure. Yeah. Mm -hmm. Protecting it. All right. Well, I'll look back at at Roy and Vessarac and say, hey, I think that the The right thing to do is just make a choice, go through one of these doors. Lancelot says this one. Well, what do you guys think? I think we follow Lancelot.
Gilmund Graves: But anything but could be behind the other door.
Kyle: I agree.
Gilmund Graves: Yeah, anything could be.
Kyle: Yeah, just...
Gilmund Graves: It could even be another door. Oh, shit.
Trevor: oh
Kyle: Remember there's - there's two...
Gilmund Graves: If Brian put us in a two -door situation. It could be another dead kid. Most doors take about 40 minutes to reconcile when a D and &D party encounters it, right?
Kyle: Uh...
Gilmund Graves: the scariest boss of them all, an unlocked, untrapped door. um Yeah, I um would open the door.
bladesedge: Okay.
bladesedge: Lance Lawton moves back.
Gilmund Graves: Cautiously.
Trevor: Oh, shit.
bladesedge: You open the door and can enter the room. um As you do.
bladesedge: Uh, it's a dusty chamber. Packed with what you can only assume as old furniture, maybe chairs, coat racks, standing mirrors, dress mannequins and the like all draped in dusty white sheets. Uh, there's also an iron stove in there.
Gilmund Graves: Yikes. I'd like to cook up some stew.
Kyle: You said there's there's draped mannequins in here?
Gilmund Graves: um
bladesedge: I like dress mannequins.
Kyle: Grass mannequins, I see.
Gilmund Graves: Yeah, the things that they would put dresses on so they don't get all messed up, probably.
Gilmund Graves: Yeah, I'd walk around over towards the stove and see if, uh, if there's any like evidence that has been used anytime soon, if there's like, or anytime recently, maybe there's some burnt out logs. Um, I've worked around a lot of fires so I can kind of get the relative age of the ah charcoal, let's say with
bladesedge: Sure. Go ahead and make an investigation check for me.
Gilmund Graves: pleasure plus five.
bladesedge: As, as he's doing that, Roy, when you enter the room, you see a one of the sheets move and you arm yourself, reach for your, reach for your sword and popping out its its head, popping out, looking at you as the familiar, completely shadowed face of a jackal. as he runs past you to the corner of the room back here in the Northwest. And as he does slams into the wall, you notice the secret door that heads from the attic to the basement.
Kyle: I'll take a deep breath, and then chastise the jackal for scaring me like that.
Gilmund Graves: Dammit, Jackal.
Kyle: Dammit, Jackal, you can't keep doing this.
Gilmund Graves: Classic Jackal.
Kyle: Um... Okay, yeah, i'll I'll walk over to this door here. Um... Anything special about it, or is it just a a door with a handle on it?
bladesedge: It's actually not you don't even see a door with a handle on it.
Kyle: Hmm.
bladesedge: You see this wall that now that you've looked and you've inspected the ah toy in the kid's room and your jackal has pointed you in this direction that the wall should you press in on it will sort of move to the side revealing some stairs.
Kyle: Gotcha. Well, I think that's what I'm going to do. I'll just press my hands against the wall, push firmly, and then try and move it out of the way.
bladesedge: Okay. As you're doing that Gilman, you are investigating the stove and, uh, Valerius, um, Valerius and Vess rack.
Trevor: Yes sir.
bladesedge: What do you think you guys are doing? You guys just watching or.
Gilmund Graves: you
Trevor: Yeah, I'd be looking in. I was considering going back to the the little toy house and just doing another overall.
bladesedge: Mm hmm.
Trevor: I know we're in the attic, but ah if there's any other hidden Like there's a thing that goes down in the basement. If there's any other hidden rooms that we didn't notice either on the first floor or on in this like attic that we're in. um Kind of wanted to go check that out to see if there's anything else that we're missing before we go down to the.
bladesedge: Mm hmm. Yeah. Absolutely. You want to go give me a ah investigation or perception check?
Trevor: Yes, sir. ah Yeah, I'll give you a persep... Wait, would this be at advantage now that Thorne is inside me?
bladesedge: Yes.
Trevor: Let's go.
bladesedge: Yeah. Thorn in your head. No, look, ah look again.
Trevor: Oh, wait, wait. Okay, okay.
Gilmund Graves: Nice, nice.
Trevor: 19, nice. Thank you, Thorne.
Kyle: Nice.
bladesedge: Doesn't point you in any direction, just says, just try, just try harder.
Kyle: Oh, so close.
Trevor: Yeah, do it again.
Gilmund Graves: Be better.
bladesedge: um Okay, Roy pushing on the door, Gilman inspecting the oven, Valerius looking at this ah children's model of the house, Vesrec, what are you doing while all of this is happening?
Gilmund Graves: I think I'd like to ask for. what the sounds we heard downstairs. Cause we heard glasses clinking coming from what I would assume is like a dining room. So I'd like to also check the doll house to see if there's anything, like if there's any people, like are there little figurines moving around? Like it sounds like they're having a party, but also in a question to thorn, like, are there people downstairs?
bladesedge: Cool.
Trevor: Hello, yeah.
Gilmund Graves: Are you the only people here? What's going on?
bladesedge: Cool. ah Yeah, you you do that. So we'll roll over that 19 perception. But we're going to go in order here. Gil.
Gilmund Graves: Yes.
bladesedge: As you are inspecting this oven, um you open it up and inside are um there's a a tattered bed sheet wrapped around something with stained dried blood all over this bed sheet.
Gilmund Graves: <unk>ling
bladesedge: inside
Gilmund Graves: Um, yeah, I'd look over at Ryan and say, Hey, uh, watch my back.
bladesedge: inside.
Gilmund Graves: I'm going to take this thing out. Found something weird in here.
Kyle: Crap. Yeah, and I'll keep my ah my long bow extended.
bladesedge: OK.
Gilmund Graves: Yeah.
bladesedge: As you do that, Roy, you pressed on the door. The door slides open, and you see a spiral staircase that heads down as you take a look down at not only to the basement, but to every floor. um It goes all the way down to the basement. As that's happening, Valerius and Vesrak, you inspect the house and Valerius, you don't see much that you missed. um You get the sense that there is a There's a secret room on the second floor that looks almost like, like in this little toy version, there's like bookshelves in it.
Trevor: Okay.
bladesedge: Um, there's like a little chest in the room and there's bookshelves, uh, and there's, uh,
bladesedge: um
Trevor: Hmm.
bladesedge: Yeah, there's like a there's like a hand like a skeletal hand on the ground holding a piece of parchment.
bladesedge: um Other than that, the only other thing that you notice is that the only other way down into the basement is on the first floor in the room you guys saw from outside, which sort of looked like a hunting room. It had these um these wolves, these stuffed wolves in there. You see in there, one of the floorboards is a trap floorboard that could open and go to the basement.
Gilmund Graves: Oh, ah like it opens up and out instead of like down it and in.
Trevor: Okay.
bladesedge: Uh, but it, it almost looks like it's supposed to be coming from the basement out rather than being on top going in. Right. But you do, you do see that. Um, and you don't see any figurines in this toy house and thorn, uh, lets you guys know that, I mean, he's, I'm not, I'm not sure we were locked in her room and we've starved to death.
Gilmund Graves: Oh,
bladesedge: I don't, I don't know if anybody else is in here.
bladesedge: Just the monster.
Kyle: Well, there's two family members that are unaccounted for.
Gilmund Graves: the momster. Yeah.
Trevor: Yeah.
Gilmund Graves: The monster.
Gilmund Graves: Um, do we see the mom in the toy house?
bladesedge: Um, you don't see any, there's no people in the toy house.
Gilmund Graves: Do we see like not nothing?
bladesedge: There's no little figurines of any people.
Gilmund Graves: Yeah. Spooky.
Trevor: Kyle, are you talking with the uncle and the mom?
Kyle: No, wasn't there like the baby?
Gilmund Graves: Baby Walter.
bladesedge: They did have a younger brother named Walter.
Gilmund Graves: Yeah.
Kyle: Yeah. And I don't think we've seen any trace of him.
Gilmund Graves: Not yet. Baby's in the basement.
Kyle: ah We did hear a ah crying baby, which thinking of that now, do I still hear I think I heard that on either the second or the third floor. um Do I hear that now?
bladesedge: You don't hear that now, but as Gil, as you take out this um sack from the oven, you quickly are ah aware that it is remains.
Gilmund Graves: Oh.
Kyle: Oh.
bladesedge: Go ahead and give me a medicine check.
Gilmund Graves: Yeah.
bladesedge: Gilment.
Kyle: Oh.
Gilmund Graves: It's a nat one. Am I too disgusted?
bladesedge: OK, then that one you take this bundle out.
Gilmund Graves: Either or.
bladesedge: And as you pull it towards you, it is just bones at this point. And one of the bones slides out the left side of it. And hits the floor. to And you hear. As the sheet in your hands comes to life and swinging up in front of you is this image of a specter. And I need everybody to roll initiative.
Gilmund Graves: Oh shit.
Trevor: Ooooh.
Kyle: Oh.
Kyle: Um, can I switch to my?
bladesedge: this incorporeal, what's up?
Kyle: Oh, wow. Um, I was just gonna ask if I could switch to my short short story.
bladesedge: Yeah. Yeah, you see this purple ish specter figure, angry, unfettered spirit of a humanoid that has been prevented from passing on to the afterlife. You see stab wounds all in the incorporeal form of this thing. Maybe that's how it died. And it is wearing the clothes of a nursemaid.
Gilmund Graves: Yikes, ghostners.
bladesedge: So um you guys would know that a nursemaid is a a woman or girl employed to look after a young child.
Gilmund Graves: Damn.
Kyle: Hmm.
bladesedge: OK. As this specter.
bladesedge: Unfortunately, it goes first, it rolled a 17 initiative.
Kyle: Uh...
Gilmund Graves: Mm hmm.
Trevor: Turf.
Gilmund Graves: Such is life.
bladesedge: tough
bladesedge: The, the nurse made specter yeah reaches a spectral hand out at you, Gil, that goes through your face and Roy, you see the hand coming out the back of his head towards you and Gil, I'm going to make an attack. I roll the six plus four is a 10.
Gilmund Graves: That's going to miss.
bladesedge: It misses and it stays there in agony yeah screaming. Valerius, you hear this scream from the other room.
Trevor: um yeah shit i'm running um let's see five 10 15 20 25 30 and i'll try and hit this thing with my quarter staff see if i can swing through it yeah oh yeah the wait is that the oven
bladesedge: Okay.
Kyle: he did Just standing on top of the oven Yeah Yeah
Gilmund Graves: and Yeah, it's not on He's perching on the oven like at the other Torrey, yeah
Trevor: oh
bladesedge: That's also, that's also right where Gil's standing too.
Trevor: Oh, weird. I'll go right here then. Sorry. yeah Gil was right here for me, like right below me for some reason.
bladesedge: Oh, weird.
Trevor: Then I just moved. So I'll go here. um And then, yeah, I'll try swinging at him with a my silvered quarter staff.
bladesedge: Okay.
Trevor: Ooh, for a name.
bladesedge: A nine misses, but not by much. You swing your silver quarterstaff through it. And when you swing through the incorporeal body, it's almost like you're swinging a quarterstaff through water.
Trevor: Okay.
bladesedge: As it like slows down in its body.
Kyle: Hmm.
Trevor: Okay.
bladesedge: um Any bonus actions or additional movements?
Trevor: ah No, no bonus actions. I will stay put.
bladesedge: OK. Gil Graves.
Gilmund Graves: Yeah. So I, I see this site of this, this small pile of bones in this bundle. Um, and I want to put it in the bone that dropped to the ground back into the furnace and
bladesedge: OK.
Gilmund Graves: attempt to like, I wanna like put my hands out to the Spectre and just see if I can like back off with the disengage action.
bladesedge: OK.
bladesedge: So is that your actions disengage?
Gilmund Graves: um Yeah, well, I guess I'm gonna use it as a bonus action to disengage.
bladesedge: OK.
bladesedge: Oh, OK. You have that ability as a rogue.
Gilmund Graves: Action to put it back away. Yes, I do, my cunning action.
bladesedge: Love that you you put the bones away and the the sheets back in there, the the stab wounds, ah you disengage and you walk away from this thing. But it looks like this thing ah is in this either to ah kill you guys and continue haunting this area of the house or to be killed and finally set free into the afterlife.
Gilmund Graves: Ah, OK. Then I do move away still just because that's what I was going to do.
bladesedge: Yep.
Gilmund Graves: ah And if I get that as my my vibe from attempting to put the thing back where it came from or so help me. ah
Trevor: and nice
Kyle: Sick reference bro.
Trevor: Nice Your references are out of control man
Gilmund Graves: um I'll. Add a control refs, bro. ah Yeah, then I'll just pop out my my short bow and see what happens.
bladesedge: OK. Well, you used your action and your bonus action this turn, so cool.
Gilmund Graves: Yeah, okay, then that's my ah my knowledge gaining for the for the encounter.
bladesedge: Got it. Um, all right. Are you going to stay there?
Gilmund Graves: Yeah, I'll stay right there.
bladesedge: All right. Roy, you are up. You had your bow in hand, the door open behind you and the specter of this nurse made as Rose, um, says into your house. I know her.
Kyle: Can you tell her to stop, please?
bladesedge: I don't, I don't think it'll help.
Kyle: Um.
Kyle: Okay, so.
Gilmund Graves: She's pissed.
Kyle: Right now there's this oven right between us.
bladesedge: Mm hmm.
Kyle: ah This oven stove thing. I'm gonna do ah a bit of a silly.
bladesedge: OK.
Kyle: I'm gonna vault. Over the oven. Over to here.
bladesedge: OK.
Kyle: And as I'm sort of passing the Spectre, I'm just gonna swing both of my short swords as I'm passing the Spectre.
bladesedge: I love that.
Kyle: Let me roll.
bladesedge: As you do, ah you you hear Rose like almost trying to shout at her as if to as if to help you says like
Kyle: Mm -hmm.
bladesedge: Doreena, stop.
Kyle: Arena. All right, rolling the hit. That is brutal. ah Natural one for my first attack.
bladesedge: OK.
bladesedge: But that's what about that second one?
Kyle: Uh, the second 115.
bladesedge: OK, that 15 hits. Go ahead and roll damage for me.
Kyle: Um, seven piercing damage.
bladesedge: Okay. Seven piercing damage. You see it only takes half that damage as the damage is non -magical.
Kyle: ah Um...
bladesedge: As your sword slipes through it, it's like water. And with that nat one, as you somersault over the thing at the end of your turn, your ankle rolls and you hit the ground and you are prone.
Kyle: um Awwww. Awwww.
Gilmund Graves: Worst time to get a twist at an angle.
Kyle: Okay.
Kyle: I have certainly got it twisted. Um, and standing up is an action, yeah?
bladesedge: I know standing up tip requires half your movements.
Kyle: Oh.
bladesedge: So you've moved five. Ten.
bladesedge: um
Kyle: Yeah. Um, I don't know where where my movement is, but I would presume I have more movement than 20 feet Oh, yeah, it's like 35 feet.
Gilmund Graves: should be under your walking speed to the left of your hit points on D &D Beyond.
bladesedge: All right. We're going to go.
Kyle: Yeah, I'm just gonna stand up
bladesedge: So you you you stand up, not one, but the attack, not brutal. ah You just, you just, the cool movie did twist your ankle a bit.
Kyle: Just wasn't cool.
bladesedge: Yeah.
Gilmund Graves: yeah
Kyle: rose kind of like Rose kind of giggles in her head.
bladesedge: yeah
bladesedge: Yeah. Yeah. Giggles at you. We'll say for your next turn, you have five less feet of movement as your ankle hurts a bit. um Not that I imagine you're going to be using that much.
bladesedge: uh, Vesrak on your turn, uh, Lance a lot comes up and sort of nudges your spider familiar whose name is.
Gilmund Graves: Istra, I -S -T -R -A.
bladesedge: Istra nudges Istra giving whatever Istra does the help action and it is your turn.
Gilmund Graves: You know what? You're not too bad, Lancelot. Eight legs for the, it's all math. Halfway there. dogpi I take a step into the room and I rip off a fireball.
bladesedge: OK.
Gilmund Graves: Where's Walter Darina?
bladesedge: Fire.
bladesedge: um
Gilmund Graves: 21.
bladesedge: Fireball absolutely hits and with that hit, make me an intimidation or persuasion check.
Trevor: Whoo.
Gilmund Graves: We'll do intimidation.
bladesedge: As it as it takes all of this damage.
Gilmund Graves: Oh, yes, baby.
Trevor: Oh, shit.
Gilmund Graves: That 20.
Kyle: Mmm.
Gilmund Graves: Let's go. She's shaking in her boots.
bladesedge: um Dorena takes this entire fire damage that you were about to roll. And as ah you do, you see a tear come out of Dorena's eyes um and looks down as if to looks down, but then to the stairs that go to the basement.
Gilmund Graves: Uh, the kids downstairs.
bladesedge: And a tear, the tear, I would say with that intimidation, um With an intimidation, roll me an insight at advantage.
Gilmund Graves: Okay. Here it comes.
bladesedge: Seven fire damage.
bladesedge: A 19 is great.
Kyle: Mm.
Gilmund Graves: 19 second roll. I'll be a 19.
bladesedge: With a 19, you get the sense that Walter meant more to Dorena than just being ah than her just being its nursemaid.
Gilmund Graves: Oh no.
Trevor: Mmm.
Gilmund Graves: About to put you to rest.
bladesedge: um
Gilmund Graves: or you I'm so so sorry. Are we sensing an affair?
Kyle: Yeah.
bladesedge: Any, uh, anything for Istra?
Gilmund Graves: It's just coming in.
bladesedge: Okay.
Gilmund Graves: Five, 10, 15, 20.
bladesedge: He's just coming in. and He wants the world to know.
Gilmund Graves: Spiderfang's out.
bladesedge: Okay.
Gilmund Graves: She's scurrying. She's skittering. She goes over the oven. She's going for the jack for the jugular.
Trevor: good
bladesedge: Okay. And he can roll the advantage because of Lancelot. We'll say for narrative state Lancelot, uh, came in with Istra and his. Oh, that's a natural 20, huh?
Gilmund Graves: Oh my God. Spider's going crazy. Spider's gone nuts.
bladesedge: Spider goes to bite and, um, you see Dorina attempts to move backwards, even in the incorporeal form and something about Lancelot nudging this ghost from behind moves it forward into the pincers and roll that damage.
Kyle: hahaha
Gilmund Graves: Wow. The animal tag team.
bladesedge: All right. That is ah two and three is five takes all that massive turn.
Gilmund Graves: and boys
bladesedge: Great turn.
Gilmund Graves: by boys
Trevor: Fucking sick.
Kyle: I just imagine Istra riding the back of Lancelot everywhere they go and then hopping off to attack.
Trevor: yeah
Gilmund Graves: Yeah, the way I remember it, uh, Istra was rioting on Lance a lot, holding onto her collar, fight something, you know, Gorilla tactics.
Trevor: yeah but
Kyle: ah
bladesedge: Darina on this turn is going to move and give Roy an opportunity of attack as Darina moves through Istra and over to Gilman's.
Kyle: Uh, she's gonna go for the door, isn't she? I'm just gonna be like...
bladesedge: And you can make an opportunity attack Roy.
Kyle: Yeah. Um, as she's leaving, I'm just gonna go and try and slice down her back with my short swords. Uh, first - God, the first roll! I'm doing terrible. Seven?
bladesedge: Yeah, first and only role actually with an opportunity attack is just a single attack role.
Kyle: Oh, it's only one? Gotcha.
bladesedge: Uh, slices through, but that ankle hurts. Uh, you put a little more weight on it than you meant to. You miss and Dorena, uh, coming face to face with Gil Graves. Um, the Nat one on the remains, you get the sense that there's a grudge here as Dorena tries once again to reach through your head.
Gilmund Graves: Absolutely.
bladesedge: Vesrak, you see from where you're standing, just Gil, and then you see a ghostly purple hand come out the back of Gil's head.
Gilmund Graves: a Duck.
bladesedge: And on an eight Dorina fully misses, uh, the hand goes through, you feel a chill gill, almost like a very minor brain freeze.
Trevor: Let's go.
Gilmund Graves: Yeah, sending shivers down my spine.
bladesedge: But that, that is Dorina's turn. Filarious.
Trevor: Valerius is going to cast Word of Radiance. So Darina has to make a con save of 13.
bladesedge: Nice. Uh, what is that word?
Trevor: Uh, the word would be Kala, which is Elvish for light.
bladesedge: Okay.
Gilmund Graves: Ooh, love that. Wow.
bladesedge: Uh, natural three. Wow. Look at, let's look at Dorena's rules real quick.
Kyle: Wow.
bladesedge: Her heart's not in it. A six, a four, and a three. Listen, the the tears are flowing.
Kyle: It's been a while.
bladesedge: This is somebody who wants to move on to the afterlife.
Trevor: How do you know what happened to damage?
bladesedge: Uh, fails the save.
Gilmund Graves: Wow.
bladesedge: Two damage, two damage, but she takes, but she takes both it.
Gilmund Graves: Beautiful.
Kyle: if She wants to move on.
Trevor: Schmacked.
Kyle: Why is she being such a dick?
Gilmund Graves: Nobody's stopping you.
bladesedge: She takes both all that damage.
Trevor: Nice.
bladesedge: Uh, many movement bonus actions.
Trevor: um Nope, I'm going to... No, I'm just hanging here.
bladesedge: Okay. All right, Gil.
Gilmund Graves: Yeah, so i I drop my bow on the ground and then I pull my daggers out from my, um what's called, from my vest. And I'm going to make my first attack with the dagger.
bladesedge: Okay.
Gilmund Graves: That's a 12.
bladesedge: A 12 is Dorina's AC.
Gilmund Graves: Excellent. This is going to be for 12 total damage with six of it being sneak attack.
Kyle: Oh my god.
bladesedge: Nice. So as you stab into Dorena, you see your shadow on the wall behind Dorena. You and you alone see this as your shadow stabs and you almost feel when your blade enters this, you feel it hit something on the other side. Your your shadows blade as Dorena screeches.
Gilmund Graves: Oh. The blades are touching tips.
bladesedge: And passes on.
Gilmund Graves: Wow. who I fall back onto my butt on the floor and be like, man, that was fucked up.
bladesedge: Another very scary. Combat. That absolutely could have.
Kyle: Lawless.
bladesedge: Murdered you guys had Doreen's heart been in it.
Gilmund Graves: I just wanted us to say, Walter, everyone's on the team.
Kyle: Yeah.
Gilmund Graves: Save the baby.
bladesedge: Yeah, the tears, the tears, more tears than natural.
Kyle: Yeah.
Gilmund Graves: oh Will, we catch up, Vestrak.
Kyle: She's exhausted.
Gilmund Graves: Vestrak says save the baby. And unfortunately, the baby cannot be saved as I go back to the furnace and take the bundle out. um and put it in my pack to bury it. That's the baby? With his older brother and older sister.
bladesedge: No, you get the sense that the but the bones were Dorina's.
Gilmund Graves: Oh, the bone arenas.
Kyle: Oh, okay.
Gilmund Graves: Oh, I thought they were small bones.
bladesedge: Mm hmm. No, no.
Kyle: Yeah, I thought they were as well.
Gilmund Graves: Oh shit, okay, yeah.
bladesedge: No, no, no. The bones were Dorina's. They were disturbed because of your because of your nat one.
Gilmund Graves: Oh. I see, okay, cool, cool, cool.
bladesedge: That.
Gilmund Graves: Yeah, well then, hey, maybe maybe Walter's still alive. um Operation save order. Save Walter. Engage.
Kyle: but Also, who put her bones?
Trevor: Engage.
Kyle: Who put her into the oven?
Gilmund Graves: it's true corpse fire likes That's That's a cool death metal band name, Corpsefire.
Kyle: Yeah.
Kyle: Corpse fire, that is pretty sick.
Gilmund Graves: Take it for free.
Kyle: um
Gilmund Graves: It's yours.
Kyle: Well, we have a door leading to the basement. All floors, actually.
Gilmund Graves: Yeah. um I'm going to go and look out the window. um And from where we are, can we see down to that shed where we had the um the twins originally or the siblings originally?
bladesedge: um That's a good question from that window. No, you're looking out to the entrance of the house. So you look down and you see where you guys walked through the front door.
Gilmund Graves: Okay, and they're like over here, right?
bladesedge: I know they would be on the east end of the house.
Gilmund Graves: Oh, the east end. Okay, cool. um
bladesedge: Was that was the shed? Yeah.
Gilmund Graves: And is it still raining and thunder, but thunder, lightning?
bladesedge: Hmm.
Gilmund Graves: Okay. All right. Well, what do you guys, what do you guys think? And do we take this spiral staircase down? Lancelot, what do you think? Pat Lancelot.
bladesedge: He pet him, his head cocks to the side. oh
Gilmund Graves: Distress, so riding Lancelot, rodeo style. I think we got a team. Yeah, we got a squad for sure.
Kyle: I think it's only right given how afraid these children are of this monster in this house that the dad so desperately tried to shield them from. I think it's only right that we um clear that from this house to give the children some peace of mind.
Gilmund Graves: I agree. Yeah, we've got to, we've got to avenge these, these kids in what seems to be a pretty tragic situation all around. A lot of sadness in this house. A lot of death.
Kyle: We should take some of that away. Let's head downstairs.
Gilmund Graves: Yeah.
Gilmund Graves: Sounds good.
bladesedge: Okay.
Kyle: And I and will head towards the spiral staircase.
bladesedge: All right.
Gilmund Graves: I'll bring up the rear.
bladesedge: Roy's heading in first. Who's behind Roy Gilman's behind Roy.
Gilmund Graves: I'll be behind Roy.
bladesedge: Valerius. And then Vess rack. Um, I'm going to put you on this next map here.
Gilmund Graves: so who
bladesedge: Um, and it's a bit tight quarters. So yeah, I moved you forward a little, but obviously I'm not, uh, presuming that you move.
Gilmund Graves: Okay.
bladesedge: We'll say Isra and Lancelot are right behind you. vzra As you guys head down third floor, second floor, first floor basement.
Gilmund Graves: okay
bladesedge: As you enter in the basement, you're
Kyle: Oh.
bladesedge: down here before you move your tokens. Why don't we get a little sense of, um, I want you to go Vess rack. What are you feeling? Um, in, in this moment.
Gilmund Graves: I'm feeling sick to my stuff my stomach.
bladesedge: Okay. How so? Why don't you just grab that for us?
Gilmund Graves: The fact that these kids died and they just don't, I don't know, it's just sad.
Gilmund Graves: Yeah, I mean, clearly something went on with the mom and the dad.
Kyle: Yeah.
Gilmund Graves: The dad turned into something wretched, something gross, um but was able to, what? kill himself before he fully turned, leaving the kids alone.
Gilmund Graves: Leaving the kids alone to starve death. Yeah. Brutal. it's ah That's a horrible situation.
Kyle: ah Yeah, what choice did he have?
Gilmund Graves: um What choice did he have?
Kyle: He had to pick lesser of the two evils.
Gilmund Graves: Yeah. and Yeah. um And then it it seems that we can infer that the mom is fully transformed into whatever this creature is. um
Kyle: Yeah.
Gilmund Graves: So yeah, I mean, we can get the sense that
Gilmund Graves: There's probably no coming back from this for her. So like saving her might not be a might not be an option, but it doesn't mean we can't try. um I don't know. What do you guys think? I'm not much of a ah cleric. What do we think?
Kyle: I mean, we kind of have to figure out what we're dealing with. We don't even know what this creature is.
Trevor: Yeah.
Gilmund Graves: True. And I would take out a ah candle and tinderbox and kind of light up a candle so that we can see a little bit more easily down here. I guess technically I have i have dark vision, but I don't know.
bladesedge: Yeah.
Gilmund Graves: Role -playing with a candle sounds a little nicer.
bladesedge: As you guys are heading down the stairs, uh, talking amongst yourselves, going over what the heck's going on here was only, you know, yesterday that you were in Daggerford, or was that even, was that today?
Gilmund Graves: I think that was today.
bladesedge: Um, this wooden spiral staircase from the attic ends here. You see a narrow tunnel stretches, uh, southward before branching east and west. And you all hear ghostly chanting. oh
Gilmund Graves: Yikes.
bladesedge: oh
Kyle: Can I? is Does it sound like it's coming from any place in particular?
bladesedge: um It seems like from where you're currently standing, it's kind of impossible to gauge where it's coming from and what it's saying. ah Just from where you're standing, you hear it from all directions. But in moving about, you could be able to ah figure this out.
Gilmund Graves: Yeah, I think I would like to recommend when we move around stealthily. um How do we, how do we think about that?
Kyle: I agree.
bladesedge: Cool. You guys want to roll me a group stealth check.
Gilmund Graves: Stealth, coming at you.
bladesedge: Uh, and Fez drag, you can roll me at advantage for Isra and that'll be for Isra and Lancelot.
Gilmund Graves: Okay.
bladesedge: 21, 24, 18, 12.
Gilmund Graves: 12.
bladesedge: Uh, well, you got to give me one for Isra as well.
Gilmund Graves: Oh, right, sorry.
bladesedge: So 12 is for you. What's a, what's a spider's X 11.
Gilmund Graves: Ooh, Spider has a plus four.
bladesedge: Cool. I guess we're pretty stealthy, stealthing down the stairs. They're creaking a bit. You've entered into this massive basement below the house. and
Gilmund Graves: Yeah, so with our recollection of looking at the dollhouse, do we have an idea on where like the largest room in the basement is?
bladesedge: So the only part that was not on the doll house was the basement.
Gilmund Graves: Oh, okay, cool.
bladesedge: It was the, it was the top four floors and it should do how to get down, but the doll house itself like ended at the first floor.
Gilmund Graves: Okay.
bladesedge: There wasn't like an underneath part of the toy.
Gilmund Graves: I'm interested in like and looking for the trap door for the hunting room for a quick escape. Oh, I like that. Just in case.
Kyle: Yeah, that's a good idea.
Kyle: Well, who has a candle? They should lead.
Gilmund Graves: Yeah, I've got the candle um and I'm happy to pop out front.
bladesedge: Okay, ah which ah direction would you like to go?
Gilmund Graves: I think we'll, I'd like to just walk north here in this hallway.
bladesedge: Okay, give me one.
Kyle: and I'll be behind.
bladesedge: ah Give me one second.
Gilmund Graves: Yes sir.
Gilmund Graves: Thank
bladesedge: um
bladesedge: Okay. So you head north and you look to the west and as you do, you see, um, there's a wooden table and four chairs that stand at the east end of this room.
Trevor: you
Gilmund Graves: you.
bladesedge: Um, and but as you see, uh, there's, you know, it goes. ah You see a hallway that goes more west and you see that it also goes, this room goes further south as well.
Gilmund Graves: OK, so I whisper back to Roy and say, hey, there's ah there's a room back here. It's got table and chairs. Looks like it extends further south. And I walk forward. Or actually, I think I've got like an invisible wall here, Bri. um Can't drag my character across it. Excellent. um Yeah, and then I would peek around to the southern section of this room.
bladesedge: Okay. Go ahead and head on in and give me a perception check.
Gilmund Graves: Excellent.
Gilmund Graves: Persepi.
Gilmund Graves: That's a 14.
bladesedge: You should be good now. Vesrak to move your token, uh, with a 14, uh, to the, to the South in this room, you see that there are four alcoves each containing moldy straw pallets.
Gilmund Graves: Sorry, I was stalling in the stairwell.
Gilmund Graves: Moldy straw pallets.
bladesedge: Cots.
Gilmund Graves: Okay, that's short.
bladesedge: Beds.
Gilmund Graves: Well, I wonder if this is maybe where like the staff lived. Maybe they lived in the basement down here, set up upstairs in the kids' bedrooms and the parents' bedrooms and stuff like that. Those were all accounted for, so.
Kyle: um is there Is it just these straw palettes? Nothing else around them?
bladesedge: Uh, nothing else around them. You do see, there is a hallway that goes continues going West.
Kyle: Gotcha.
Gilmund Graves: Yeah, I'm gonna continue through this west section and just look to see what's in this next area.
bladesedge: Okay.
Gilmund Graves: I'm gonna be staring up at the roof looking for that trap door.
bladesedge: Okay. You don't, you do not see it currently as rack. Uh, Gilman, you, uh, you look to the South and you see another, uh, kind of big room.
Gilmund Graves: Okay, um there's another kind of invisible barrier on the map.
bladesedge: Hmm. Gotcha.
Gilmund Graves: Cool, I can pass through now. Nice, and I'll i'll peek around the corner.
bladesedge: Okay. ah You peek around the corner and you see that there is a well, a four foot diameter well shaft with a three foot high stone lip descends um into the floor. See a wooden bucket hangs from a rope and pulley mechanism bolted to the cross beams above the well.
Gilmund Graves: Okay.
bladesedge: um And you see five so so like other like rooms in here. You see a couple to the south, you see one to the west, you see two to the north.
Gilmund Graves: Okay.
bladesedge: ah each Each one seems to have a bed and like a footlocker at the foot of the bed, little chest.
Gilmund Graves: Sure. Okay. um Well, guys, it looks like there's a well in here. We can check that out. Did you guys want to take a peek at the other room first? I just wanted to make sure that we weren't going to get like, you know, stuck up on by some spooky mommy.
Trevor: No, uh, this is fine.
Kyle: ah Yeah, I kind of want to take a peek into that well and see how far it goes down Yep,
Gilmund Graves: Sure, I'll step into the room. Is the bucket all the way descended like into the water all the way down?
bladesedge: No, it is fully ascended is all the way at the top.
Gilmund Graves: like Okay.
bladesedge: All right, Roy, you're checking it out.
Gilmund Graves: Okay.
Kyle: I will stick my head over and see if I can see the bottom see if there's water in it
bladesedge: Cool. Go ahead and give me a perception check.
Gilmund Graves: Go ahead and make me a death saving throw.
Kyle: Yeah.
Gilmund Graves: but And you roll your other ankle.
Kyle: I also.
Kyle: Do I get um advantage from rose for these?
bladesedge: Yeah.
Kyle: Okay, because I also have advantage from borrowed eyes from a little jackal.
bladesedge: Yeah. Rose.
bladesedge: Oh, okay. Yeah. They don't stack unfortunately. So you just have advantage.
Kyle: Okay, that'd be so far.
Kyle: So 15 or nine.
bladesedge: That's okay. Nuclear. There's not much down here. You look at it. See, you see that it goes 30 feet down to a water filled cistern. So it is, it is full. There is water down there.
Kyle: Gotcha.
Kyle: Well, it's a well.
Trevor: True.
Gilmund Graves: Anyone need to refill their canteens?
Kyle: I don't know if this is water I want to be drinking. I'm going to be honest.
Gilmund Graves: You don't want to drink spooky house water?
bladesedge: um Valerius as they but were both looking at the well, what were you doing?
Trevor: ah Probably just walking around the outside of this place and just like peeking in all of these room I see there's like beds with the chests, you know, like you were describing earlier just kind of checking those beds out and then checking like Spizz I think the whole time that I'm walking through with everybody Valeria should be looking at the ceiling um and looking for that ah Secret drop -down
bladesedge: OK. and okay
bladesedge: Um, love that you you you don't see it anywhere in here. Um, as he's doing that, vzrock what do you think you're doing?
Gilmund Graves: I think I'm looking for signs of Walter, any like baby clothes, cradle type stuff, anything that would point us in the direction of a small baby.
bladesedge: Yeah, make an investigation check for me.
Gilmund Graves: Could you imagine if he's just a giant baby? I don't think I'm mentally prepared for that.
Gilmund Graves: What is my man up to today?
Kyle: Ooooh.
Trevor: Holy.
Gilmund Graves: He comes into my house, he takes all my roles.
Kyle: Okay.
Gilmund Graves: It was the breakfast sandwich I had this morning, I'm so sorry.
Trevor: Yeah.
bladesedge: With a natural 20 you, the the, the, the chest in this room is open and inside this chest, you see that there's a pouch, but you can immediately tell that this pouch is made of human skin.
Kyle: Oh my god.
Gilmund Graves: Yeah. oh
bladesedge: And there's something, there's something in this pouch.
Trevor: yeah
bladesedge: In addition, the pouch is sitting on top of a black robe. You you recall seeing numerous I think it was actually you should recall seeing four black robes in the closet on the first floor of this house.
Gilmund Graves: That's right upstairs.
Kyle: Mmm.
bladesedge: The robes in here and the robes up there. They are they're giving ah very culty vibes now now that you're sort of putting it together. It's not a road that you just go out in the rain with. It's not a normal black cloak. It is a full black robe with a hood. um This is not the fashion sense.
Kyle: It's giving cult.
bladesedge: It's giving cults.
Gilmund Graves: Yeah.
bladesedge: It's giving plenty. um ah And yeah, it's it's.
Kyle: and
bladesedge: ah This is I mean, there's also more there's more beds down here than people who worked in the house. As far as you were concerned, you saw one room for a nursemaid. uh, presumably the same nurse made that you found later in the attic. Uh, and so far down here, you found nine beds.
Gilmund Graves: Shit. There's only room in this house for one cold. And that's the cold of the spider mommy. And that's all I gotta to say about that. Hell yeah.
bladesedge: Yes. Yes, my child.
Gilmund Graves: um Praise be. Praise be, yeah. Praise be, spider mommy.
bladesedge: As you say, as you say that you see Istra, uh, is crawling over your, your shoulders.
Gilmund Graves: I'll... I
bladesedge: Okay.
Gilmund Graves: dab her up.
bladesedge: okay
Kyle: Sick.
Gilmund Graves: okay
bladesedge: The spider, the spider naps you up eight times.
Gilmund Graves: You got to do every leg.
bladesedge: Yeah. One for each leg.
Kyle: Oh my god.
Gilmund Graves: you know You know, like when people hit a home run, they cross on plate, they point up to the sky. We point it we point down towards the ground. ah
bladesedge: Or you could be Bryce Harper yesterday, who, when he got on first base, he did the Hawk Tua.
Gilmund Graves: They got spit on that there.
Trevor: Oh my God.
Kyle: Oh my god.
bladesedge: Crazy, crazy.
Gilmund Graves: That's my favorite sound by it.
bladesedge: this so That'll be such a dated meme by the time anybody's hearing this. So I apologize.
Kyle: Real be ancient.
Gilmund Graves: yeah
bladesedge: That'll let you know when we recorded this.
Gilmund Graves: Honestly though, that one hit hard and it was very funny. So I can...
bladesedge: It'll be gone. It'll be gone.
Gilmund Graves: The fact that Bryce Harper did that is just awesome. Yeah.
bladesedge: Crazy.
Gilmund Graves: Hit all that thing.
bladesedge: Um, all right. So Valerius checking out the things. Vesrak, you see that in this room. Roy, you see the water in the bottom of the well and Gil, you said you were going to do something.
Gilmund Graves: Yeah, I'm gonna head over to the Northwest over here and peek into this room.
bladesedge: Okay. Yeah, it's a room that you see a like a little chest on the ground.
Gilmund Graves: Yeah, I'll investigate the chest.
bladesedge: and Okay. Doesn't appear to be locked nor trapped, but it is closed.
Gilmund Graves: Okay, I open it up.
bladesedge: Okay. Uh, let me D five, please.
Gilmund Graves: Oh, d5, yeah, sure. That's gonna be a three circle.
bladesedge: A three. So you look inside this and inside this chest is a black leather eye patch. um With.
bladesedge: ah It's a black leather eye patch with carnelian woven into it, so carnelian is a brownish red mineral commonly used as a like a stone. It's like ah it's like a reddish orange.
Gilmund Graves: Whoa.
bladesedge: Think of blood orange. So it's a eye patch with this blood orange, uh, like gem, like sewn into like the middle where the eye would be. Um, really it's like something you'd find at the rent fair.
Gilmund Graves: Yeah.
bladesedge: Um, and then there is a journal in there.
Gilmund Graves: Okay.
bladesedge: Um, almost looks like a log book, uh, that you could check out if you'd like as well.
Gilmund Graves: Oh, yeah.
Gilmund Graves: Yeah, I'll go back to the group with that and let them know what I have, but I come out wearing the eye patch.
bladesedge: Okay.
bladesedge: OK, while you're while you're wearing it, you have a disadvantage on perception that is sight.
Gilmund Graves: Wait a second.
Gilmund Graves: But the next question is, do I look cool?
bladesedge: Um, roll a performance check for me.
Gilmund Graves: Yeah, absolutely. um Performance minus one, minus one.
bladesedge: Straight, straight performance roll.
Gilmund Graves: Shee, 16. It looks good.
bladesedge: That's good. Yeah, it's like almost like your like reddish skin and then this blood orange ah stone. um Yeah, it looks pretty cool. Definitely not function not functional for you because its in ah making site related perception checks you'd have or site related investigation checks you'd have disadvantage but it does match.
Gilmund Graves: yeah hit
Gilmund Graves: Yeah. Sure. so
bladesedge: It matches your vibe.
Gilmund Graves: Sick. Well, I'm going to keep it. Um, and I'll just keep wearing it while I am saying, Hey, um, when I look over at Valeria, I'm like, you guys, uh, want to help me check out this notebook. It seems like there's some, some, some information in here.
Trevor: yeah
Gilmund Graves: I hand it over.
Trevor: I'm reading.
bladesedge: Okay, Valerius, you open it up and this journal maintains a list of names, physical descriptions, and details of some sort of event um that occurred here. um You get the sense that they were cultists and that ah this was the book of one of the head cultists that maintained this as a record of victims. Uh, so the list of names, you get the census, a list of victims names. And then there's a second column, which maintains the physical description of each victim, uh, named in the first column.
Trevor: Whoa.
bladesedge: And then there's a ah third column, which bears some pretty gruesome details describing sacrifices, such as struggled profusely or no sedative given.
Kyle: We should look and see if the parents names are in this book.
Gilmund Graves: Brutal and the kids' names. Yeah.
bladesedge: ah You you look and that they are not.
Gilmund Graves: Hmm.
Kyle: Well.
Gilmund Graves: We should hold onto to this though. here Yeah. Let's hold onto that notebook and I take the eye patch off and I put it in my pocket.
Trevor: Can I look for Dorena?
bladesedge: I'm not in there.
Gilmund Graves: Hmm.
Kyle: What about Walter?
Gilmund Graves: That's how it thickens.
bladesedge: Not in there.
Trevor: Jimmothy.
Gilmund Graves: What about jim Jim? It's so true.
bladesedge: Romeo D20, that'll be a Trevor role since you asked first.
Gilmund Graves: me to the plunge Your student, Jimmothy.
Trevor: And now one.
Gilmund Graves: Does that mean he's in there or is not in there?
Trevor: Yeah, this could go.
bladesedge: Uh, you, yeah. So here's the thing. You see a jimothy in there, but it's like one of the first five names.
Trevor: OK.
Trevor: Okay.
bladesedge: So it seems like it was kind of a long time ago.
Gilmund Graves: It's 37 year old Jimmothy.
Trevor: Okay. Yeah.
bladesedge: So, so either there's some timey wimey wibbly wobbly stuff going on or they've killed jimothy came here.
Trevor: Physical description. Okay.
bladesedge: What, like how long ago is just a week ago and they've killed all these people in a week, but you do see the name jimothy in there.
Trevor: okay Got it.
Gilmund Graves: Yikes.
Kyle: They took jimothy senior
bladesedge: Yeah.
Gilmund Graves: Yeah. Oh, SR.
bladesedge: Yeah, as she does, it says, jimothy, the first.
Gilmund Graves: so There's a whole separate campaign of Jimmothy trying to avenge Jimmothy senior going on side by side with ours.
Kyle: Yeah, his great great great grandfather.
Trevor: and
Gilmund Graves: We're all different eras of Jimmothy.
Trevor: That's so funny.
Kyle: um Wait, did we did we find out what was in the skin sack?
bladesedge: vzra you That is your room, I believe.
Kyle: Did we open that?
Trevor: Skin thick.
bladesedge: Did you, did you grab that or no?
Gilmund Graves: Yeah, I will open the skin sack.
Trevor: Microplastics.
bladesedge: All right. Uh, you open the skin sack and you find 11 gold pieces and 60 silver pieces.
Trevor: Damn.
Gilmund Graves: Holy shit.
Kyle: Oh.
Gilmund Graves: Blood bunny.
Kyle: That's that skin sec money.
Gilmund Graves: You never know what you're going to find in the skin sack, honestly. It could be anything. That's some cheddar.
Trevor: gold gold is stored in the skin sack
Gilmund Graves: Such a sweet treat.
Gilmund Graves: yeah
Gilmund Graves: um I'll pocket it for now and then we'll re -disperse it once we're clear of the house. Oh yeah, I don't want any of that scrotum coin. We'll watch it offline.
Kyle: Okay, I'd like to walk over to this south southeast area
bladesedge: OK. You do see on those coins, by the way. ah There is. ah A guy's face. On some of them, ah they look like this.
Gilmund Graves: Do I recognize it at all?
bladesedge: ah You do not, but you see they look sort of like this is like a guy's face on it. It seems like he maybe has long hair.
Gilmund Graves: Hey, there's some ah funny money in the skin sack here.
Trevor: Don't say.
Gilmund Graves: Oh.
bladesedge: I would say you you get the sense that it is ah ah it's real gold and real silver. So like who is on it? It shouldn't matter. You know what I mean?
Kyle: Mm.
bladesedge: um But it looks like wherever you are. um And then on the on the flip side of the coin is this crest, which is like a ah like a raven in front of a banner. um And here you here's what that looks like.
Gilmund Graves: I'd like to show the coins to Roy and be like, hey, do you recognize these Ravens? You're kind of a Raven guy. It seems like your thing.
Trevor: Do you know this, Raven?
Gilmund Graves: Yeah, have you seen this, Raven?
Kyle: um And I will take a look at the coins as well as the ah jackal and a couple spiritual black misted ravens circling around me and we will take a look at the coin.
bladesedge: Nice. Yeah, you do not recognize the man and nor the crest, but you do know that this ah is this money's good. This is this is you you could you real silver, real gold.
Gilmund Graves: Real silver, real gold.
bladesedge: You could use this wherever.
Gilmund Graves: Perfect.
bladesedge: And then you also notice that the skin sack is apps is made out of human skin.
Kyle: but
Gilmund Graves: Oh, brother.
Kyle: that Um, yeah, I'm going to hand it back and just be like, just as I thought this is made of gold.
Trevor: Jesus.
Kyle: And I'm going to walk back over to the Southeast corner.
Gilmund Graves: He's so cool and mysterious.
bladesedge: Okay.
Trevor: Holy shit.
bladesedge: Uh, you see, um, you see some stairs going up and some stairs in the, uh, like going up on even another level, like the stairs go here and then there's a hallway that goes south and then there's stairs that go here. And then it goes south from there as well.
Kyle: um Yeah, I'll look back and just say, I think we should keep moving, see what else is down here.
Gilmund Graves: I'll follow you, Roy. Yeah, I wanna take a second to look at one more lockbox here.
bladesedge: Okay.
bladesedge: Okay. Are you investigating it or are you just opening it?
Gilmund Graves: i'm and I'm investigating it.
bladesedge: Cool. Um, rolling an investigation check for me.
Gilmund Graves: Yes sir, that's a 22.
bladesedge: This one also not, uh, trapped, but this one is locked.
Kyle: nice
Gilmund Graves: Okay, let's see. i to do I have my thieves tools and so I'd pop those out.
bladesedge: Okay.
bladesedge: All right, so roll me a sleight of hand check, we'll call it. And the DC for this is going to be a 12.
Gilmund Graves: Yeah, that is a 13.
bladesedge: Nice.
Kyle: Beautiful.
bladesedge: i You pop this thing open and roll me a D3, please.
Gilmund Graves: D3 coming at you.
Gilmund Graves: too
bladesedge: two ah there As you open this, there's an ivory hairbrush. with silver bristles and the bristles seem like they're real silver.
Gilmund Graves: Oh.
bladesedge: um And the handle of the hairbrush, the ivory bit seems like it is made from human bone.
Gilmund Graves: Wow. Gnarly.
Kyle: This place is fucked.
Gilmund Graves: This place is fucked up.
Trevor: This whole this whole basement, I just imagine people going into rooms and just hearing.
Gilmund Graves: It's such a so gross. Get me out of here.
Trevor: Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, like yeah.
Kyle: Ew, oh god!
Gilmund Graves: ah sorry yeah I start taking my staff and like poking every tile of the roof.
Kyle: What the hell?
Trevor: Yeah.
Gilmund Graves: Like, where is it? Where is that dude driving?
bladesedge: I Lance a lot is dry heaving.
Gilmund Graves: yeah ah yeah My cat on my bed at 3 a .m.
Trevor: Doing the dog dance.
bladesedge: who Yeah. Yeah. yeah
Gilmund Graves: Yeah.
Trevor: So funny.
bladesedge: Yeah. Yeah.
Gilmund Graves: ah Yeah. Hey, guys, believe it or not, that room fucking gross.
bladesedge: Yeah.
Gilmund Graves: ah And so I take the I take the hairbrush made of bone. and I put it in my pocket.
bladesedge: yeah
Gilmund Graves: Can we put the human hairbrush bone in the skin sack?
Kyle: That'd be huge.
bladesedge: Uh, it's, it's, it's bigger than the skin sack.
Gilmund Graves: Oh, so it's a pretty small skin sack, got it.
Kyle: That's pretty small sack.
bladesedge: Yes.
Gilmund Graves: Just more to marinate, more to think about.
bladesedge: Yeah.
Gilmund Graves: Cool, cool, cool.
bladesedge: Like a, like a coin pouch, basically.
Kyle: Oh.
Gilmund Graves: Yeah, I'm starting to get the right size.
Trevor: offer
Gilmund Graves: I think you can all picture how big the skin sack is.
Kyle: Yeah. Okay. I'm gonna go ahead and get out of this room.
bladesedge: Okay.
Kyle: I'm gonna walk up these first stairs.
Gilmund Graves: ah Freaky house getting us all weirded out Don't
Trevor: Oh shit that's funny.
Kyle: Right here.
Kyle: I feel like we're in the catacombs right now.
Trevor: Fuck them kids get me out of here.
Gilmund Graves: show the kids to show the kids
bladesedge: OK, so you see that the stairs there go go to the south, but they also continue going back east.
Kyle: Gotcha. Um, can I take a sec and listen? Do I still hear the ghostly voices or do I hear anything that isn't us?
bladesedge: You absolutely hear the ghostly chanting is discernibly louder. ah Make me a perception check real quick.
Kyle: And with advantage, oh dude, that was so close to a natural 20, but it was a dirty 20.
Gilmund Graves: 30, 20.
bladesedge: oh
Gilmund Graves: Oh.
bladesedge: oh
Kyle: Dirty 20.
bladesedge: oh um You you hear the ghostly chanting, it's definitely louder.
Kyle: Oh God, I hate this.
bladesedge: You still can't um You still can't tell what it's saying. With a 20, though, you notice that there is an absence of footprints in this hallway to the south. And I would say you see that there is. um
bladesedge: ah With that high of a roll, you see that there is a.
bladesedge: Rotten wood planks, 10 feet to the south of you.
Kyle: Rotten wood planks 10 feet like just like a pile of rotting wood planks Gotcha Okay Um Okay, I have a choice to make
bladesedge: Like as if, like if you stepped on them, you'd potentially fall through them.
Trevor: Hmm, like floorboards kind of.
bladesedge: Mark them right here. Yes. It's the, the wood is rotted.
Gilmund Graves: Oof.
Gilmund Graves: Who knows what this house is built on?
Kyle: Okay, I kind of want to walk up to the edge of those wooden planks.
bladesedge: Mm
Kyle: And then if I could maybe take like my, my short sword and not necessarily stab through it, but try and get under like the edge of it kind of like a crowbar and try and lift the planks up to see if there's anything underneath it.
bladesedge: Super easy to do any form of weight would have collapsed and the person on top of it would have fallen and they would have fallen 10 feet deep into a pit with sharpened wooden spikes at the bottom.
Gilmund Graves: Ouch.
Kyle: Oh my god.
bladesedge: So you, this was, this was a trap.
Kyle: Well, they should maintain their traps a bit better.
Kyle: Okay, well then I'm going to put a pin in that for a second and I would like to continue up these stairs. Go up here.
bladesedge: Okay.
Kyle: Come here and just sort of peek around the corner.
bladesedge: Sure. Roy Halovich, the wood elf ranger peaks around this dank dark dungeon underneath this house and do you peer into, um, like there's a plain wooden table flanked by long benches reminiscent of like maybe a dining hall. Uh, there's moldy humanoid bones strewn about the dirt floor.
Gilmund Graves: MHBs?
bladesedge: Um, and then you also see that there is, uh, ah there is a pathway that goes North. There is a little, um, I guess what you would call it like like alcove to the East, a pathway that goes South. Um, and yeah, you are in a old moldy. Dining hall.
Kyle: We are deep in this basement right now.
Kyle: um Okay, i'll come I'll come up to the north right here.
bladesedge: OK.
Kyle: Take a look down the hall.
bladesedge: um You you feel and see Rose's Rose's arms come out of your chest and reach forward and go. If you and Valerius could take. Me and my brother this way.
bladesedge: Please. Um, but before that happens, Gil, my man.
Gilmund Graves: Yeah, what did I do?
bladesedge: Well, you came within five feet of the larder um As you come over and check out this alcove you walk by this alcove and within it there is this creature that um You see it's it's a worm like it's like the body of a worm like a pretty a pretty large A large worm, the size of you. So that's, that is large to you, but you know, technically size medium, but this large worm, almost like a snake's body.
Gilmund Graves: Oh, that's a big worm.
bladesedge: And then at the very top of it, where there would be a snake's head, there's a beak.
Gilmund Graves: ah the e Oh no, there's more.
bladesedge: Like a bird's beak and coming off the bird's beak, uh, coming off the bird's beak at the top left and the top right, the bottom left and the bottom right, almost in an X formation are tentacles.
Kyle: o Oh my God.
Trevor: yeah
Gilmund Graves: Oh God, please tell me it has a funny hat.
bladesedge: or tentacles, tentacles coming off this thing.
Gilmund Graves: Does it have a funny hat on?
bladesedge: And it does. What is your passive perception?
Gilmund Graves: Oh, my passive persepy is 15.
bladesedge: A 15. Okay. I'm going to let you, I'm going to let you make a perception check real quick for this thing to not get a surprise round on you.
Gilmund Graves: Yeah, I will.
Gilmund Graves: 15.
bladesedge: Okay. With a 15, it is going to get a surprise round on you.
Gilmund Graves: Gross.
bladesedge: It is not high enough as you guys see.
Kyle: Oh.
Gilmund Graves: Oh, it's gross.
Kyle: He sees us and just all of us go, Oh God.
Gilmund Graves: but but ah I don't like you.
Trevor: None of us see this thing just sitting in the corner of the room.
Kyle: Oh.
Trevor: Hey, guys.
bladesedge: ah Hiding in the alcove ah you may all roll initiative as This monster ah down here is going to make one beak attack. It's beak comes out and bites at you Gil It's only a 14 And as that that misses it goes for your head
Gilmund Graves: Ugh, Gil, the shit stirrer.
Trevor: a
Gilmund Graves: Yeah, ugh, I duck. I have a 15 AC.
bladesedge: ah goes for your head. you get this that you As you look at this thing, it almost is blending in with the stone. Like why you didn't see it is you get the sense that this thing has some sort of innate stone camouflage built into whatever kind of creature this is. um
Gilmund Graves: Damn.
bladesedge: And here is its initiative. A 10.
Gilmund Graves: What kind of weird cult has this worm tentacle thing downstairs when they're sat by some kids? They're just doing experiments. Yeah.
bladesedge: And first up Roy, you hear this little come out as this beak is chomping rapidly at Gil's head as he ducks.
Gilmund Graves: Tasty.
bladesedge: What would you like to do?
Kyle: So as Gilman ducks, I'm going to turn around, pull out my bow and take a shot for its nasty little beak.
bladesedge: Nasty little big.
Kyle: Oh, wait, wait, what?
bladesedge: Go for it.
Trevor: Damn.
bladesedge: You roll your other ankle.
Kyle: Dude, it is literally
bladesedge: ah
Gilmund Graves: These guys, look at his arranger with two busted angles.
Kyle: Dude, it was on 13. What?
bladesedge: Ruke.
Gilmund Graves: Uh -oh.
Kyle: Why? It wasn't a natural one. It was a 13.
bladesedge: Well. ah You it regardless, you you shoot your bow and it clatters into this little alcove and you miss any bonus actions or movements.
Gilmund Graves: Yeah.
Gilmund Graves: Person that grows, dude.
Kyle: um um um ah my my mom um my my mom Um, no.
bladesedge: OK, Valerius, standing across the way, you see this thing camouflaged in the stone, come out and try to bite Gil. What would you like to do?
Trevor: Um, I'm going to try and swing it. I'm going to go five, 10. I'm going to try and jump over this thing. 15, 20.
bladesedge: OK.
Trevor: Get right here and try and like, I'm going to tell guild duck again, and I'm going to swing my quarter staff like over his face and into the, yeah.
Kyle: Eel's just doing squats and in front of this creature.
Gilmund Graves: Yeah, I'm holding it.
bladesedge: Yeah.
Trevor: but yeah
Gilmund Graves: I'm um horse horse stance.
Trevor: yeah yeah
bladesedge: So you this high elf with long white hair and long flowing robes starts to run across the room jumps up on the bench, then on the table, then back down onto to the other side of the bench onto the other side of the room as you swing at this monstrosity.
Trevor: for 22.
Gilmund Graves: Oh, baby.
Kyle: Ooh, nice.
bladesedge: Twenty two absolutely hits this thing.
Trevor: I'll say it was one handed because I'm like reaching around the thing. So three damage.
bladesedge: OK, smack this thing for three points of bludgeoning damage right in the face. um Your silvered quarterstaff bypassing ah its resistances, dealing the full three damage.
Trevor: to
bladesedge: And is that your turn?
Trevor: That's my turn.
bladesedge: All right, Gil. It missed with its first beak. And so one of its tentacles coming off of its head tries to whip at you around your neck and grab your head to bring it back in for another beak attack.
bladesedge: That's a 19 to hit.
Kyle: Oh.
Gilmund Graves: Oh, it's got me. It's got me. It's got you by the neck.
bladesedge: Not only does it have you by the neck, I have absolutely horrible news for you, which is that you take nine points of slashing damage.
Kyle: um What?
Gilmund Graves: Out, out, out, out, out, out, out, out, out, out, out, out.
bladesedge: Uh, you are still up, but if, if that attack hits, he gets to make one big attack against the same targets.
Gilmund Graves: Oh my God. Wow.
bladesedge: Uh, and so here is his second attack.
Kyle: but
bladesedge: That's another 19.
Gilmund Graves: Oh, fuck. Out, out, out, out, out.
bladesedge: Uh, you have six health left, right?
Gilmund Graves: Yes, sir.
bladesedge: I'm rolling a one D six plus two. So you want the D six to be a three or less.
Gilmund Graves: Or lower. It's gonna be a five.
bladesedge: It's a five.
Gilmund Graves: Oh, yeah.
Trevor: Ooh.
Gilmund Graves: Oh, no.
bladesedge: The tentacle grabs Gil's head, brings it in, and the beak ah right where Gil was wearing that eye patch earlier pecks right into his eye as his body goes limp.
Gilmund Graves: ah
bladesedge: And Gil, would you please roll me a private death save?
Gilmund Graves: ah Absolutely. For my, what, second time?
bladesedge: Thank you for that roll.
Gilmund Graves: Yezer.
bladesedge: Vesrak and Isra, you, uh, you see Gilman go down and Lancelot is going to, uh, roll run over and, uh, give Isra the help action again. It's your turn, Vesrak.
Gilmund Graves: Oh, man. OK, I open my spell book and I open the page to magic missile and I want to blast them.
bladesedge: Nice. Yeah. What are your magic missiles look like?
Kyle: Ah, smarter blastin'.
Gilmund Graves: They're little black and purple spiders think. um Yeah, there's little black purple spiders.
bladesedge: I love it. They shoot out and they auto hit this creature.
Gilmund Graves: Here.
bladesedge: So roll that damage, baby.
Gilmund Graves: I'll be your first one, four, a three, o and two.
bladesedge: Seven so far.
bladesedge: OK. For a total of nine.
Trevor: Can you roll another one just to see if you roll one?
bladesedge: Yeah.
Gilmund Graves: Let's just see if I have one.
bladesedge: and He can't get this plus one, nine points of force damage to this guy straight to the dome, right in the beak as it's tend to go drop skill to the grounds.
Trevor: yeah Ah, shit.
Kyle: Ah.
bladesedge: Um, any movement or bonus action.
Gilmund Graves: No bonus action. Yeah, I got nothing on the bonus action. I'm gonna take a few steps back and send Istra in.
bladesedge: Okay. Extra has advantage.
Gilmund Graves: Come back a little bit. And here comes Istra. Show me spider.
bladesedge: Riding on the back of Lancelot.
Gilmund Graves: Show me the spider, mommy.
bladesedge: 18 hits.
Gilmund Graves: Woo!
bladesedge: 14 would also hit.
Gilmund Graves: 1d4. It's your riding on the back of Lancelot. Ready to chomp.
bladesedge: Uh, three points of damage to this thing. It's looking pretty bad, Roy, Roy and Valerius. You get the sense that the two of you might want to try and put this thing down before it gets to go again.
bladesedge: Roy, your app.
Kyle: Oh man, I have a choice to make.
Gilmund Graves: Two busted ankles in a dream. Championship game.
Kyle: Um, okay. I'm going against my gut and I'm going to go for another attack with my longbow.
Gilmund Graves: Hell yeah.
bladesedge: OK.
Kyle: Natural 20.
Gilmund Graves: My man.
bladesedge: Let's go.
Trevor: Oh.
bladesedge: All things, you shoot this and both of your ankles magically roll back into place.
Kyle: Oh my god!
Kyle: yeah
Gilmund Graves: Unrolled ankles. I cast.
Kyle: is
bladesedge: and Go ahead and roll that damage, baby.
Kyle: Is... You... You hear two...
Gilmund Graves: Wow.
bladesedge: It should auto do it for you.
Kyle: You hear two cracks from across the room as Roy locks in.
Kyle: Um, so...
Gilmund Graves: Literally.
Kyle: It's a 1d8 plus 3.
bladesedge: Yeah, so it's it's another D8.
Kyle: Do I double the 1d8?
bladesedge: So that's already 10 points of damage.
Gilmund Graves: Come on, baby.
Kyle: So it's...
bladesedge: I got news for you. Roll a two or higher.
Trevor: Come on.
Kyle: Wait a minute, wait a minute. Sorry, what do you mean?
bladesedge: You roll a D8. One more D8.
Gilmund Graves: Escalators, escalators, escalators.
Kyle: oh gotcha gotcha gotcha
bladesedge: You've already done 10 damage. You just need to do two more. But if you roll a one, ah, nice.
Trevor: Let's go.
Gilmund Graves: Oh yeah, escalators.
bladesedge: Where do you shoot that? How do you kill this? How do you kill this monstrosity?
Kyle: so as He's sort of looking down at ah Gil on the ground, ah presumably ready to just end his life. As he sort of opens up his beak and screeches, I fire my arrow straight across the top of Gilment into its ah beak, into its mouth, and it pins it against the back wall as it hangs there and loses consciousness.
bladesedge: pins it against the back wall. And. Valerius, I assume you since you were a next step, you probably either give Gil the help action or do you have anything to heal him?
Trevor: Uh, yeah, yeah, absolutely. I do, but I would, I want to try to help him first. I want to, yeah whether it's a medicine check, I want to try and get him up without magic if I can.
bladesedge: Oh.
bladesedge: Yeah. Well, a medicine check would just stabilize him. So he'll stop make death saving throws, but he will still be at zero hit points.
Trevor: Right. Um, I want to start there if I can.
bladesedge: Cool.
Kyle: I will walk over to Gil and put my hands on him and just be like, Hey, come on, get up.
bladesedge: Hmm.
Kyle: And I'll cast cure wounds on him, uh, which will heal him for eight
Gilmund Graves: Oh, let's go.
Trevor: Nice.
bladesedge: Nice. So yeah, roll that roll that then as this Valeria stabilizes him.
Gilmund Graves: Oh, yeah, that's been huge.
Trevor: Huge. Let's go.
bladesedge: Nice.
Gilmund Graves: Love that.
bladesedge: And Roy, where do you think you're healing Matt? Where do you think your magic comes from? How does that manifest within Roy? This would help Ranger.
Kyle: I think it manifests in a very natural way. So as I put my hands on him, um you see sort of like leaves and vines curl around my hands and fingers um as it sort of glows green and breathes life into him. And you get like this, this like herbal smell around my hands as he comes back to life.
bladesedge: Gil, you're back with eight HP.
Gilmund Graves: Hell yeah.
bladesedge: You all noticed that when Gil went down, uh, he landed on the ground, the light nowhere to be found. So his shadow when he went down disappeared, but upon you regaining consciousness, Gil, the shadow returns.
Gilmund Graves: Whoo, also bars. That was a a little rhyme right there. Didn't do it on purpose.
Kyle: yeah
Gilmund Graves: Maybe you did, I don't know. I liked it though. And I look over at that thing and I'm like, I don't know what is the fucking beaky blinder over there.
Trevor: Hm.
Gilmund Graves: I don't, I don't like it.
bladesedge: You could, uh, if you'd like to roll a maybe history or nature check to try and determine what that is.
Kyle: Yeah.
Gilmund Graves: Yeah. I'm going to do a bit of a nature check and that's a four.
bladesedge: Cool.
Gilmund Graves: So I know. Yeah.
bladesedge: Uh, you've never seen anything like that in your life.
Kyle: Can i and I also roll a nature check to see if this is something I've found on my encounters?
Gilmund Graves: I do not like that thing.
bladesedge: Sure.
Kyle: Well.
Gilmund Graves: and
bladesedge: Uh, you haven't and you get the sense you haven't because you're a wood elf. I spent a lot of your time outs outside in the woods and stuff. And you get the sense that because this thing can blend in with rocks and stones, that is probably more likely found in caves and caverns and dungeons and underground.
Kyle: Gotcha.
Gilmund Graves: Absolutely freaky. Freaky as fuck, guys.
Kyle: Freaky, indeed.
Gilmund Graves: um Yeah, and then I reach into my bag and I pull out a potion of healing.
Gilmund Graves: And I drink that thing down.
bladesedge: and
bladesedge: 2d4 plus two Max Roy you get um Roy you find your hand on Valerius's shoulder as Rose in your head says please bring my brother this way and your left hand you look is pointing down the hallway to the north your arms just moved
Gilmund Graves: Oh, my big.
Trevor: Hell yeah.
Kyle: Oh nice.
Kyle: My left hand. Okay.
Gilmund Graves: They got more power over you and you than you think.
Kyle: Can i ki I do an insight check on Rose and and just figure out kind of if she's trying to steer me, like lure me a certain way, or if she wants something.
Trevor: but
Trevor: Make it charisma food.
bladesedge: Hmm.
bladesedge: Oh, maybe it is a check.
Kyle: ah Okay.
Kyle: 13.
bladesedge: um She's definitely trying to steer you a certain way, but you don't get the sense that that way is nefarious.
Gilmund Graves: Can I keep checking for trap door? Checking for trap door? Hanging on the roof?
bladesedge: You do not. Yeah, you don't see it over here.
Gilmund Graves: Dammit. I thank Roy for getting me up.
Kyle: well
Gilmund Graves: I think that's the second time that he's helped me after I've gone down.
Kyle: Well, I'm used to it at this point, it's okay.
Gilmund Graves: Yeah, I don't want to get used to it. There's got to be an exit here somewhere. Just another scar.
Kyle: um Okay, so I'm gonna relay that to Valerius if he didn't hear that or didn't see that um and then I'm just I'm gonna ask Rose in my head before I go down this hallway like Where exactly she wants me to take her?
Trevor: Yeah, I'll follow ya.
bladesedge: I don't know. I just I feel like me and my brother belong here.
Kyle: In the basement
bladesedge: I just feel it. It's just a feeling.
Kyle: Okay, then I will slowly begin to walk down this hall. And I want to take another listen to those ghost voices. Are they any louder?
bladesedge: ah No, in fact, as you head north, they're they're getting softer.
Kyle: Okay. Well, I will just say just let me know which way you feel you're being pulled towards as I slowly walk down this hallway.
bladesedge: Yeah, you, you, as you do, you notice that there's two ways to go, uh, East and West and both have, um, these doors, there's four doors, you see two to the left, two to the right.
bladesedge: But you get the sense that it's, it's, you're here yeah somewhere here.
Gilmund Graves: I got your six.
Kyle: I'm going to pull over to the left and go up to the northern door.
bladesedge: Okay.
bladesedge: Okay.
Kyle: I'm going to slowly open the door.
bladesedge: You open the door and do you hear in your head, as you picked correctly, you see a stone slab etched with the named Roosevelt, the Durst.
Gilmund Graves: oh
Kyle: Rosifold the Durst.
bladesedge: You see that there is an empty coffin.
Gilmund Graves: Oh my god, what's the dad's name, Fred?
bladesedge: This is, this is the family crypt.
Kyle: Hamlet Crypt is crazy.
bladesedge: And do you see, you see an empty coffin with her name on it?
Kyle: Is this where you would like to be, Rose?
bladesedge: Did you grab my bones?
Kyle: I did. I sort of pull out this ah pile of bones wrapped in ah in a cloth, in a kid's blanket.
bladesedge: Okay. And what would you like to do?
Kyle: I'd like to walk up to the coffin um as i'm as I'm laying her bones into the coffin to say thank you for all the help and I hope you feel a bit more at peace than you did the past however many years you were trapped in that room.
bladesedge: She placed the bones in there. You see this ghostly specter float out from your body. You see this ghostly version of this little girl in front of you sort of grab you by the shoulder and look at you and just say,
Gilmund Graves: Thank you.
bladesedge: You're a good man, Roy. When I was in there, I could see not just what you saw, but I could see a lot about you. You're a good man. Please let my brother rest as well. And good luck.
Kyle: I just say thank you with my eyes sort of welling up.
bladesedge: The ghosts.
bladesedge: goes and lays over the bones you've put in the crypt. The top of the coffin sort of moves and closes the top almost magically as it seals in place. You are no longer quote unquote possessed by Rose. She has been fully put to rest and you Roy Halovich have inspiration.
Gilmund Graves: Let's go.
Kyle: oh
Gilmund Graves: Great job, Roy.
Kyle: Thank you.
Gilmund Graves: You did right by that kid.
Kyle: Let's, um...
Kyle: Let's find Thorne's coffin.
Trevor: Ah, Valerius will check this door to the south.
bladesedge: You open it and there's an empty coffin with ah the name Thornbolt Durst on it.
Trevor: Alright, um, I guess I'll ask him in my head, um, is this what you want?
bladesedge: I don't know. Where's Rose? I'm scared.
Trevor: This is, this is the direction to her. If you also like slowly start taking that. Wait, did I take the bones or did somebody else grab the bones?
bladesedge: I think you did.
Trevor: I think, okay.
Kyle: and Yeah, we both respectively took the guns.
Gilmund Graves: yeah you've got you've got the bone
Trevor: Okay. Perfect. Perfect. Yeah. I'll slowly start taking them out of my pack. Um, and not, not quickly, but slowly start placing the bones like in the coffin and say, this way you can, you can, you can finally rest and be with your sister forever.
bladesedge: OK.
bladesedge: His body floats out, noticeably a smaller ghost as he was a smaller child.
Gilmund Graves: Yeah, you've got the bones.
bladesedge: And he he looks at you and says, Hey, but thank you. Whatever happens, uh, just know that we really appreciate it. And thank you. I can finally be at peace.
Trevor: I'll give him a little nod and smile at him.
bladesedge: Ghostly form floats down, you being a teacher have dealt with a lot of kids. um So seeing this kid finally be at peace ah reminds you of all the good that you've you've done in your life, teaching the youths as it rests over the bones, the top of the um coffin magically closes on top of it. ah You are no longer possessed and you have inspiration.
Trevor: Let's go.
Gilmund Graves: Hell, yeah.
Kyle: Um, one thing I would like to do, uh, as I sort of, as I finished placing her bones in the coffin, um, and I step out and sort of take a deep breath, I want to rip off a piece of the blanket that was carrying, that I was carrying her bones in and want to wrap it around the top of my bow.
bladesedge: Hmm.
Kyle: Just so I kind of always have a piece of her with me.
Gilmund Graves: Oh, righteous.
bladesedge: Nice. Love that.
Trevor: I just imagine like opening up the coffin and grabbing like a little bone. yeah yeah remember you by Just to remember you.
Kyle: Carving, carving.
Trevor: but
Kyle: Yeah.
bladesedge: um I'm going to say in this moment, you that a bit of magic happens here where that's.
bladesedge: That bit of the blanket tied around your bow. You see it turn into a seed and sprout almost in like those time lapse videos of a flower blooming.
Gilmund Graves: you
bladesedge: Into a rose. On the top of your bow. and then wilt a bit. And on the top of your bow affixed there permanently is sort of this dead rose.
Kyle: that beautiful
bladesedge: And do you like you feel Roy and Valerius in this moment, you maybe feel truly alone as you had a little bit of help and a little bit of guidance. And now it is silent except for the distant. no
Kyle: That's beautiful.
bladesedge: oh
Trevor: Hey, would you shut up till we're trying to have a moment?
Kyle: Yeah, Roy feels a bit confused because all that's happened is he's returned to what his normal subconscious has always been like, which is just him inside of his mind. But for some reason, it feels extra lonely being the only one in there.
bladesedge: You guys contemplate what's next. You see to the north, that's where you came down. you And you exited from that doorway right there. And you just headed north, whereas now you're looking the south direction.
Kyle: I think we head back to where that ah trap plank, the rotting planks were and make our way through that hallway.
Gilmund Graves: That might be the right direction, yeah. Yeah, heading south.
Kyle: Yeah.
Gilmund Graves: There you go.
Kyle: ah As I approach this,
Kyle: I'm gonna sort of take a step back and just try and leap over to the other side.
bladesedge: Cool, Romy, acrobatics or athletics, whatever you prefer.
bladesedge: not not a high Not a high DC since you guys have located exactly what's here and it's just a little five foot jump.
Kyle: That could could have been bad.
bladesedge: um You jumped successfully to the other side.
Gilmund Graves: and
Kyle: I'll step right here as well.
Gilmund Graves: And I'm right behind him. I'll do acrobatics.
bladesedge: Cool. And Roy, right from where you're standing, you see a staircase going up to the east and a staircase going down to the south.
Kyle: Okay.
bladesedge: Gil, you successfully jump over.
Trevor: We'll give you a little acrobatics. I'll hop over as well.
bladesedge: Nice.
Gilmund Graves: you
bladesedge: Roy and Gil, you guys would have to move for Valerius to have somewhere to land.
Kyle: Okay, I'll move up this stair, just stand on the stairs here.
bladesedge: Okay. Trevor, that is totally good. As you stand there, Roy, from that direction to the east, the ghostly chanting is noticeably louder, the direction that you just stepped up towards.
Kyle: Mm -hmm.
bladesedge: And there's a stench that you could only describe as the stench, the stench of death enveloping your nose.
Kyle: Ew.
bladesedge: Something nasty is this way.
Kyle: Oh.
Gilmund Graves: It gets grosser.
bladesedge: to the To the east, where you Roy, where you're currently walked up that one step, you know, that way there's something nasty, a decomposing body, perhaps, ah but you do hear scratching noises.
Kyle: Yes.
Kyle: Oh.
bladesedge: In that direction.
Kyle: I hate this. I truly hate this. um um um um umm um
bladesedge: Whereas, whereas Gilman, as you took a step on the stairs going down, you do not hear that is not something that you're experiencing as well.
Gilmund Graves: Aberration.
Gilmund Graves: and
bladesedge: It's purely what you are experiencing right from the room to the east.
Kyle: I'm gonna say behind me, and I'm gonna whisper, I'm gonna be like, I hear some scratching. It also, it smells like shit. I think there's something this way.
Gilmund Graves: That's the smell of death, brother.
Kyle: Just as I thought.
bladesedge: Vesrak with an eight, you make it, although it probably doesn't look as nice. The DC, since you guys figured it out, it was only a five. um
Gilmund Graves: Thank God I slept on my robe, but I still make it.
bladesedge: Yeah. yeah
Gilmund Graves: ah Shorter robes, we should have invested in shorter robes.
Trevor: hahaha
Gilmund Graves: Like knee height, like kilt size, kilt size robes.
bladesedge: Uh, you, you look, you look behind you and you see extra doing the opposite of like putting a web together. He's like at the edge of your robe, like taking pieces of like the silk out and shortening it.
Gilmund Graves: yeah it's starting into a It's slowly turning into a kilt, you know, just above the knee.
bladesedge: Yeah, he's, he's good. It's like almost corn on the cob, like left to right as it's getting shorter.
Gilmund Graves: Oh, my image, my image.
Kyle: and Well, I'm going to take out my short swords. Short swords akimbo and slowly, quietly move forward and peek around these corners here.
bladesedge: All right. Investigation or perception check as you're the little critters um ah come from the northern section into this room.
Gilmund Graves: My man.
Trevor: God damn.
Kyle: and's so That's a natty 20. Wait, roll for the double, roll for the double.
Gilmund Graves: Show me if they tell. Oh, baby, a triple?
bladesedge: Um, you see, so with that, you're able to notice that there is a room all the way to the east. If you went that way. Um, and there's a, and there's a room to the south, but in this hallway, almost waiting to ambush you. Should you enter? You look at the ground and do you see that there are three areas that you can currently see on the ground. where there's something underneath it with a natural 20 on one of them, you see like a grayish hand, like it's popping out like ready to like spring out and attack. Should you head this way?
Kyle: If I attack, do I get a surprise attack on them or?
Gilmund Graves: Okay.
bladesedge: Yeah.
Kyle: Okay.
Kyle: i'mnna I'm gonna turn around and let them know that I see these gray hands on the ground. I think that we're in this hallway, it's kind of a tight space. Wait, can you can you point out where they are specifically, like which tiles?
bladesedge: This one right here in the middle, this one down below, and then one on the other side you barely see.
Kyle: Yep.
bladesedge: And the hand I'll say is this one right in the center.
Gilmund Graves: huh yeah i mean i uh i can try to get a sneak attack off on it too with my short bow i think at this point we shoot first ask questions later question the dead hands the gross hands who knows what they're connected to
Kyle: Okay, then... What do you guys think? Should I pull out my bow and get a little aerial attack on him before he expects me?
Kyle: and Okay. Yeah, you just wanna... Agree.
Kyle: ah you want to Do you want to ready our bows at the same time and just count from three?
bladesedge: Yeah, Gil, so Gil, to get sneak attack on this, you're going to need Roy within five, something within five feet of it, or you with your dagger, because it's technically prone and arranged attack on prone figures technically as disadvantage.
Kyle: Take a shot.
bladesedge: So the surprise attack would give you advantage, but it would just cancel the disadvantage.
Gilmund Graves: Oh, okay.
bladesedge: You just be rolling a straight roll. So you wouldn't get your sneak attack unless you snuck up to it and use your dagger or somebody got within five feet of it.
Trevor: I'll go within five feet of it.
bladesedge: All right. You will have to, so you will have to stealth up and beat its passive perception.
Trevor: o Okay, where is it to if Roy's pointing at it? Which square is it like not the square?
bladesedge: The middle one. um being I think I pinged it.
Trevor: Okay, got it Okay
bladesedge: Yeah. Okay.
Gilmund Graves: I'm quite a bit more stealthy, I think. um I'm happy to get in there and stab it.
Kyle: I'm gonna, before, um, Valerius goes in, I'm gonna, uh, touch him on the shoulder right before he goes in and just be like, just be extra quiet.
Gilmund Graves: yeah
Gilmund Graves: So I will make a stealth roll, Bri.
bladesedge: Yep. Stealth throw, if you want to get within five feet for that dagger action.
Gilmund Graves: Okay.
Gilmund Graves: It's a 23.
bladesedge: Yep.
Kyle: Oh, beautiful.
bladesedge: You're able to get right next to it. And you guys are able to do a a surprise round.
Gilmund Graves: Okay, and it's, sure. And then, sorry, could you ping it one more time?
bladesedge: and to Right here.
Gilmund Graves: There we go, okay, cool. Yeah, so I'll, ah sure, excellent.
bladesedge: So you wouldn't be able to be on that token to do it. You'd be right next to it.
Gilmund Graves: Yeah, then I will ah go at it with the dagger.
bladesedge: All right, so as Gil attacks Roy, you are also shooting.
Kyle: Yes, you said I have disadvantage with this.
bladesedge: But you advantage because surprise round, you have disadvantage because you're making a ranged attack on a prone creature. So it's just a straight roll for you.
Kyle: Gotcha. Great roll.
bladesedge: Whereas Gilman with your ah melee attack, this is advantage.
Gilmund Graves: okay
Kyle: Go ahead, Gil.
Gilmund Graves: At advantage, um it's gonna be a 13.
bladesedge: Thirteen does hit.
Gilmund Graves: Okay.
bladesedge: Let's get your role as well, Roy.
Gilmund Graves: Seven piercing, four from the sneak attack.
bladesedge: Nice. Seventeen also hits Roy.
Kyle: Or 7 damage. damage
bladesedge: Nice. Another seven. As you shoot this creature, Vesrak and Valerius, you two from the hallway here. sure As a longboat yeah goes off, a a dagger sinks into something and you hear. yeah yeah As in front of you guys. These creatures burst from the ground. ah The one in front of you looking pretty.
bladesedge: ah hurts, ah but these look like. um yeah As it as it pops up, it's got a a humanoid leg in its hand that it's been gnawing on.
Trevor: Bye.
bladesedge: It looks akin to like a zombie or something of that nature. ah As these things pop up, ah Gil, you also see from your perspective, there is one to the south.
Gilmund Graves: Oh shit.
bladesedge: That was a little too far away.
Gilmund Graves: There's four of them. Oh shit.
bladesedge: And I need you guys to roll initiative.
Gilmund Graves: Goodness gracious.
Kyle: i I... First of all, roll the natural one. That's terrible. I'm a little spooked right now. I'm not gonna lie. Especially since Gil's in front and has two enemies on him and Gilman has a reputation of going down.
Gilmund Graves: Yeah. Don't say Gil doesn't stir up shit.
bladesedge: Well, luckily, ah Gil, you get to go before any of them go. um And it is your turn.
Gilmund Graves: Yeah, so go ahead.
Gilmund Graves: Yeah, so I'm going to make a dagger swing on the one to my east that we've already laid into a little bit.
Kyle: Bye.
Gilmund Graves: First one coming at it.
bladesedge: OK.
Gilmund Graves: It's gonna be a 27 piercing.
bladesedge: A 20 hits. 7 piercing. As you do that, you fell this creature. It falls to the ground dead.
Trevor: Let's get off.
Gilmund Graves: Sweet, I slice it up. um And then I'm gonna take the, um Next attack swing on the one to the south.
bladesedge: All right. Bonus action dagger.
Gilmund Graves: That's just a nine.
bladesedge: A nine misses.
Gilmund Graves: Nine misses. Okay, um and then I am going to just stay where I am.
bladesedge: OK. Vesrak, you hear the sound of these ghouls in the other room bursting from the ground. And what would you like to do?
Gilmund Graves: I just want to find this kid and get out of here.
Kyle: Okay.
Gilmund Graves: 10, 15, 20. I'm going to shocking grass with a zombie in front of me.
bladesedge: Okay, the one to the south.
Gilmund Graves: I'm going to do, yeah, I do a little drive by here.
bladesedge: Okay.
Gilmund Graves: Uh, reach out my hand, lightning, tickling my fingertips. Come on, baby. That'll be a 20 to hit 30, 20.
bladesedge: 20 hits, 20 hits.
Trevor: Oh, yeah.
Gilmund Graves: Um, I put my palm on its face. I like move around the meat that it's in its mouth i go and I shock it. Yeah.
Trevor: indeed
Gilmund Graves: Yeah.
bladesedge: You shock it for seven lightning damage when you remove your hand. There is a palm sized ah shock print on its face like Wilson.
Kyle: I was gonna say.
Gilmund Graves: ah know
Kyle: The first thing I thought of.
bladesedge: um And then you yeah, you have to keep moving because you can't end on Gilman's location.
Gilmund Graves: and then i
Gilmund Graves: yeah i'll ah Go back one. Actually, I'll just hide around the corner. That's all my movement. That's 30 feet.
bladesedge: Cool.
Gilmund Graves: And that's my turn.
bladesedge: And yeah, he cannot, uh, take an opportunity attack because of your thing, but it is his turn now. Um, and this guy is going to, uh, he brings his claw out almost, almost like swiping for, uh, Vesrak, but being too slow because of this lightning. So coming at, uh, Gil, that's a 16 to hit.
Gilmund Graves: 16 will hit.
bladesedge: Okay, so Gil, in addition of taking eight slashing damage as this claw, this claw rakes across your chest and bottom part of your throat.
Gilmund Graves: Oh my god.
Gilmund Graves: yeah
bladesedge: um I also need you to make a constitution saving throw.
Gilmund Graves: Let's see. Oh, that didn't come out. Come on. It's not rolling. Oh, roll a d20 plus 1.
bladesedge: All right.
Gilmund Graves: That's a five a yeah Oh no.
bladesedge: With a five, you guys see as this thing's claws rake against Gilman Graves chest and throat. Gil fully seizes up. Gil, you are paralyzed.
Trevor: yeah
bladesedge: um It is then going to move ah to right. It's going to go right on the other side of Gil. Vesrak, you see it come up into this little hallway with you.
Gilmund Graves: Stop, stop, stop, stop.
bladesedge: Valerius, you're up.
Gilmund Graves: Wilson, I didn't mean it.
Trevor: OK, let's see. I'm going to go 5, 10,
Trevor: 15, 20, and cast a word of radiance.
bladesedge: OK.
Trevor: um Again, so it'll be a consave from those two of 13.
bladesedge: Nice, you've got one to your north and one to your south. The one to the north rolls a five. The one to the south rolls a two.
Trevor: And let's go.
Gilmund Graves: Let's go.
bladesedge: As the.
Gilmund Graves: What was the word again?
Trevor: You good to me? Kala.
bladesedge: Call of the Elvis word for light, they both take four points of radiant damage.
Trevor: Hell yeah. And that is my turn. I'll stay right there.
bladesedge: OK. um This ghoul from the south starts running full speed and is going to attempt to reach around the corner. Roy, a claw comes around the corner at you.
bladesedge: That's a 17 to hit.
Kyle: 17 hits.
bladesedge: You take five points of slashing damage as this claw reaches around the corner and rakes against your belly. And I need you to make me a constitution saving throw.
Kyle: Why is it not rolling?
Gilmund Graves: Yeah, I was just having issues with that.
Kyle: Wait, hold on. I'm not sure what I should do.
bladesedge: You just roll me a d20, go look at what your constitution saving throw is and you can, uh,
Kyle: ah
Kyle: 16.
bladesedge: 16. Thank God. I was getting nervous for you. Uh, you are not paralyzed.
bladesedge: Um, he goes there and, uh, Valerius, this one that you just word of radiance is going to ah run up, uh, right next to you. And this guy, his, his face reaches towards you as he attempts to, he's hungry for flesh.
Trevor: Okay.
bladesedge: He attempts to bite at your right ear.
Trevor: Okay.
bladesedge: This is only a plus two natural one.
Gilmund Graves: Oh, let's go.
Trevor: Hell yeah.
Gilmund Graves: Thank God.
bladesedge: So it did not even matter which one he tried. ah He does that and misses, but ever so slightly like bites off like you had a little bit of long ear hair. Just from being like an old elf and he cleaned it up for you.
Trevor: You.
bladesedge: It's like just like a razor just sink.
Trevor: Did he twist his ankle?
bladesedge: Yeah, he twists his ankle, cleans up your ear.
Trevor: Oh yeah.
bladesedge: Roy, you are up.
Kyle: Alrighty, um, um.
Kyle: Okay. I'm gonna have, I have my short swords in my hand.
bladesedge: Mm hmm.
Kyle: So as I'm sort of looking at down this hallway, and there's one to the left and one to the right, I'm gonna flip around the short swords, so I'm sort of holding the the blade to the back of my hands.
Trevor: See
Kyle: And I'm gonna stab around one corner. And then stab around the other corner and try and get, um, try and get both of them.
bladesedge: All right. Which one is which because I think the first attack gets your modifier and the second doesn't.
Trevor: you.
Kyle: What do you mean by modifier?
bladesedge: Uh, with two weapon fighting, your bonus action attack is just the damage dice.
Kyle: ah Okay.
bladesedge: So it would just be, if you hit with the second attack, it'll just be a D six rather than getting the plus.
Kyle: Okay. Gotcha.
Kyle: So the one on my left, the one North is going to be the first sec.
bladesedge: Okay.
bladesedge: And don't forget you have inspiration, but a 23 hits.
Kyle: Okay. That's 23 roll attack. and Be five piercing damage.
bladesedge: Nice. Swipp it, whip it around the corner.
Trevor: Thank
bladesedge: The knife goes right through its head. Still alive, but looking bad.
Kyle: Then same thing on the right.
Trevor: you.
bladesedge: ah And.
Kyle: What's uh, what's the inspiration die?
bladesedge: It's just a reroll.
Kyle: Hmm. And I'm not gonna use that here.
bladesedge: OK. It is any movement.
Kyle: No, I'm gonna stay here.
bladesedge: All right, uh, Vesrak, it is Isra's turn. I don't know their movement speed though, and it's pretty clogged in here.
Gilmund Graves: Yeah, it's 20 feet, so it won't be able to get to any of the enemies. Istra is looking for the way out. Istra, for the love of Lowell, get me out of here.
bladesedge: Okay. You do not, Isra does not see it.
Gilmund Graves: And that's Istra's turn.
bladesedge: Okay. So at the start of the next round, Gil, at the end of your turn, I need another constitution saving throw to rid yourself of the paralyzed condition.
Gilmund Graves: All righty, DE 20, that is a nine.
bladesedge: A nine will not do it. And I'm sure if you'd like, yeah.
Kyle: Can I use my inspiration die to have him re -roll, or is that just for me?
Gilmund Graves: We've developed a bit of a bond, a bit of a friendship, right?
Kyle: I'd like - I'd like to do that, I'm just gonna be like, try as hard as you can.
Gilmund Graves: Ah!
Kyle: Pfft!
bladesedge: After one.
Trevor: Damn.
Gilmund Graves: Nat one. Damn. Whoo!
bladesedge: i Roy's ankles and yours switch places.
Gilmund Graves: Damn.
Kyle: No!
bladesedge: You now have two busted ankles.
Gilmund Graves: Fry, also my shadow, my ominous will after I make an ability check, saving throw, et cetera, my shadow exerts a will of its own.
bladesedge: Yeah.
Gilmund Graves: um And so I need to roll a d4.
bladesedge: And you want it to be even a rod.
Gilmund Graves: It is even, and if it is um even, increase the total by the number rolled. So it would still be just a three, but you know, my shadow tried.
bladesedge: Okay. Uh, yeah, what we'll say, since the inspiration gives you advantage, we'll say the eight becomes a 10, which is the DC. You are no longer paralyzed.
Trevor: Let's
Gilmund Graves: Oh, hey, we like that.
Kyle: Let's go. We janked our way, we crawled over the finish line but we got there.
bladesedge: Uh, yeah.
Gilmund Graves: Let's go.
bladesedge: Roy helped the shadow helped. You are no longer paralyzed. However, that does happen at the end of your turn.
Gilmund Graves: Totally fine. and Thanks, Roy. And I look on either side of me and it's just slavering ghouls just munching on carcasses.
bladesedge: la
Gilmund Graves: And I'm just like, ah
Trevor: go
bladesedge: love Vess rack.
Gilmund Graves: Yeah, I'd like to pull out my ceremonial dagger and try to thrust it through its jaw.
bladesedge: OK.
Gilmund Graves: The zombie that's on top of me.
bladesedge: I love that.
bladesedge: You give me an attack roll.
Gilmund Graves: 23.
bladesedge: Ooh, yes, Sharlow car hits.
Kyle: Charlokar Nice He's
Gilmund Graves: ah For five damage.
bladesedge: Five damage, you put your knife right through this thing's jaw as Roy reaches around reaches around the corner with his and stabs it through the head and this thing goes down.
Gilmund Graves: Let's go. Nice. and And I pull it in closer, and I just go, Fezrak is home.
Trevor: Let's go
bladesedge: It looks at you with this with its last dying breath and just goes, what?
Kyle: so cool
Gilmund Graves: Abe's strong together.
Gilmund Graves: No, sorry. Spider's strong together. Spider's strong together.
bladesedge: Any movement or a bonus action?
Gilmund Graves: I'll stay right there. That'll be my turn.
bladesedge: All right. Valerius.
Trevor: Let's go. Um, I think I'm just hitting another, uh, yeah, another word of radiance where I'm at right here. Not going to move con 13.
bladesedge: Okay. Yeah. You'll hit two of them. Uh, the one to the East and the one to the South one to the East rolls a 10 and the one to the South rolls a six old reliable.
Trevor: Hell yeah. Let's go. Hold reliable for three damage.
bladesedge: Okay. Three to him. Three to him.
bladesedge: Lovely. And, uh, any bonus action?
Trevor: Nope, nope, that's my turn.
bladesedge: Okay. Uh, this Google to the south is going to attempt to bite, uh, Gil. You're right in front of it. It it it clawed, uh, Roy, and then it's going to bite Gil.
Gilmund Graves: Absolutely.
bladesedge: Good news. Good news is only has a plus two on this. So it's 12 to hit.
Gilmund Graves: Woo, I'm good.
bladesedge: All right.
Kyle: and like As he goes to bite, I want to try and thrust my sword and have the ghoul just bite down on the sword right before he gets to Gil.
bladesedge: You are. Yeah.
bladesedge: Love that. Absolutely. Yeah. Bites the sword. Stopping its mouth. Well, the one on the other side that I had tried to bite Valerius and miss now brings his claw up in an uppercut to hit Valerius.
bladesedge: Oh, with a six misses with completely.
Gilmund Graves: Let's go.
Trevor: Nice.
bladesedge: And Roy is your turn.
Kyle: Okay, so as I did the, uh, the stab to the left and the stab to the right, I'm gonna do the same thing, but take both and just slam them to my right and just try to do as much damage to this bitch ass ghoul as I can.
bladesedge: OK.
Kyle: Uh, short sword.
Kyle: Only two to hit.
Gilmund Graves: Show me the money, baby.
bladesedge: OK, you hit with 22.
Kyle: Okay.
bladesedge: Absolutely.
Kyle: Or eight piercing damage.
bladesedge: Love that.
Gilmund Graves: Edge.
Kyle: Second sword. 24 almost almost a natty 20.
Gilmund Graves: Oh, yeah, baby.
Trevor: God damn.
bladesedge: Absolutely hits.
Kyle: Uh, and then it ignore the role.
bladesedge: This is just a D6.
Kyle: I'll just tell you what this is. This is a five.
bladesedge: Cool. Other five damage. Looking pretty rough, that guy.
Kyle: And that'll be my turn.
bladesedge: All right, Istra.
Gilmund Graves: and Isra is going to come in. Spider time. Kill secure. Five, ten. Spider mommy bust me. Spider attack bite, here it comes.
bladesedge: At advantage because of Lance a lot. That hits.
bladesedge: Okay.
Gilmund Graves: See for one damage, one spider damage.
bladesedge: and then ah And it has to move out of that space.
Gilmund Graves: It will move north and I'll say this Lancelot Putting in his resume for the Spider Mommy. Absolutely. That's all I gotta say.
bladesedge: Um, as.
Gilmund Graves: I'm sure we could add four legs on the Lancelot somewhere.
bladesedge: As Isra moves past this school down here that just missed a bite attack on Gil is going to take a claw opportunity attack on Isra.
Gilmund Graves: Arner. Are you sure about that?
bladesedge: That's a 10 to hit.
Gilmund Graves: Oh. Spider AC is? Well, no shot.
bladesedge: Misses Gil, you're up no longer paralyzed.
Gilmund Graves: Yeah, um I see the spider get an attack in and ah while it's like skittering between my legs, I take two dagger swings. First one, coming at it, 18.
bladesedge: Okay. 18 hits. You will get sneak attack on this.
Gilmund Graves: Okay, sneak attack for one damage and the actual dagger damage is eight, so nine total damage.
bladesedge: Nine total damage. You absolutely kill the school to the south.
Gilmund Graves: Absolutely. And then um just because I'm a hustler, I'm moving past to this one. And as I do, I drag at my left dagger across its throat.
bladesedge: Okay. Go ahead and make that attack 13 beats.
Gilmund Graves: 13.
bladesedge: It's 12 AC. However, you can't move past it into the other room. So you can move up to Valerius's and then back. You can only move through friendly tokens.
Gilmund Graves: oh Oh.
bladesedge: Uh, unless it was paralyzed or something.
Gilmund Graves: Oh, yeah, that's right. Sure, I mean, I guess I'd take an opportunity attack at that point, but um yeah, I could probably just, and I do not, no.
bladesedge: Well, up to you. If you want to take the opportunity to take or not.
bladesedge: Okay.
Gilmund Graves: So I will stay put and catch my breath, take a beat.
bladesedge: All right. um That is your turn. Vess rack. There's only one left.
Trevor: Thanks.
Gilmund Graves: I'm gonna drive by Firebolt this one. So I'm gonna run through the hallway as I pass through it, point out my left fingers, Firebolt this guy and just keep running.
bladesedge: Okay.
Gilmund Graves: just
bladesedge: Roll an attack.
Gilmund Graves: 30, 20.
bladesedge: 20 hits.
Gilmund Graves: That will be a five fire damage.
bladesedge: Five takes all of that straight to the face. why You keep running and Valerius, it is your turn.
Gilmund Graves: And I keep running.
Trevor: Heck yeah, I'm going to, I'm going to just try and smack them with my, uh, my quarter staff this time.
Gilmund Graves: Let's go, buddy.
bladesedge: Okay.
Trevor: Oof, four to six. Not very good with this quarter staff.
bladesedge: Uh, six is a miss. You do have inspiration if you'd like to use it.
Trevor: Oh, heck yeah. Let's do it.
Trevor: Oh, wow.
Kyle: Let's go.
Gilmund Graves: That will do.
Trevor: Holy.
bladesedge: The ghost of thorn comes in and lifts the quarterstaff to strike this thing.
Trevor: dying for 15.
Kyle: um my right o white Oh, Oh, shit.
bladesedge: Oh my God. Jesus, you oh ah dude.
Gilmund Graves: Who is this guy?
Trevor: oh
Gilmund Graves: Holy shit.
bladesedge: Dude.
Gilmund Graves: Ugh!
Trevor: e
Gilmund Graves: Ew!
Trevor: yeah
Gilmund Graves: What'd you do to its head, dude?
bladesedge: ah ah With 10 health left, how do you kill the last ghoul?
Trevor: e
Trevor: um I just turn around and like ah like an orange with a bat just explode its head against the wall.
Gilmund Graves: Oh my God.
Kyle: Oh my.
Gilmund Graves: not Very visual.
Trevor: i didn't I honestly did not know I had that in me.
Gilmund Graves: Very dead island of you.
Trevor: You know what I mean?
Kyle: That is crazy.
Trevor: yeah I came out of nowhere. where I didn't realize.
Gilmund Graves: For those at home, 15 damage from a quarter staff?
Kyle: That was, that was Thorn. That was Thorn's rage.
Trevor: ah Yeah. Yeah.
Kyle: wow
Gilmund Graves: Unreal.
bladesedge: Valerius, as his head explodes, you all hear from down the stairs, the way back this way, you hear chanting, and you start hearing the words.
bladesedge: He is the ancient. He is the land. He is the ancient. He is the land. He is the ancient. He is the land. He is the ancient. He is the land. As the camera pans back from a party covered in ghoul guts, eyes wide, pupils large, you get the sense that the way forward is down as you hear that chanting
bladesedge: We follow your eyes back upstairs to an empty house, silent, outside, to a shed in the back filled with the boots of former adventurers who had come to Death House. All of the names on the list in the book you found.
bladesedge: That is where we're going to call it for this episode.
Gilmund Graves: hoo Wow.
Kyle: Wow Damn
Trevor: Let's go.
Gilmund Graves: Wowee.
bladesedge: Thank you all for coming by and checking it out. Thanks for listening. ah The gang has survived and I truly cannot believe it. Honestly, it has been absolutely insane. I thought if Roy, you were going to fail that paralyzed check. I thought it was, it was curtains for the group.
Gilmund Graves: I got that feeling in my chest where I knew bad things were gonna happen.
Kyle: Yeah, as soon as the ghouls popped up, I was like, I no longer feel confident about what is happening.
Trevor: Yeah.
Gilmund Graves: If we killed it on the first little sneak round, then I would have been like, okay, yeah, maybe we're okay.
Kyle: Yeah, that would have been huge.
Gilmund Graves: But then I was like, oh Jesus, I'm back in the shit again.
bladesedge: Well, you guys bloody bruised,
Kyle: Yeah.
bladesedge: maybe some psychological damage. ah We zoom out on the edges of this mist realm. That your characters have entered. albeit not to their knowledge quite yet. And we will see you guys next time. I want to thank all you gas gargoyles and gremlins and goblins and ghouls. Ghouls times two for the ghouls we saw in the episode today. We will see you next week. by Bye bye.
