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Curse of Strahd Ep. 30: The Tsolenka Pass
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In the last episode, Call the Lightning met up with Jimothy and Yoch'Sizzler, who took a cosmic glimpse into our minds and struck a deal with the party. We took a nice break and long rested before heading out to the Tsolenka Pass en route to the Amber Temple. There, a heinous creature guarded our path across the chasm below...
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Transcript
Introduction & Patreon Plug
00:00:02
The Blade's Edge
Hello, one and all, and welcome back to the Blade's Edge D&D actual play podcast, where we are currently playing through Curse of Strahd, the very famous module that I imagine if you're listening this far in, you've probably played it or are thinking about playing it.
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The Blade's Edge
um So thanks for tuning in. As always, if you'd like to get the episodes early, ah head on over to our Patreon, which is patreon.com slash Blade's Edge.
00:00:27
The Blade's Edge
ah You'll get not only will you get the episodes early, But we are ah currently working on a nice little, I think what we're tentatively calling a four shot ah that Kyle Beams, our player here, ah who is playing Stalvadak, will be running.
00:00:40
Doc
Oh yeah.
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The Blade's Edge
ah Me, I'll be a player, and Tommy, who plays Vezrak, a.k.a. um What's Vezrak's current name?
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Vesz'rak
Dishan.
00:00:54
The Blade's Edge
on Sorry, your name your name in the call is Vezra. That's why i always I always default to doing that because I'll look down and see that.
00:00:58
Vesz'rak
and Sorry, man.
00:01:01
The Blade's Edge
um Yeah, he's going to play us through a little foreshot exclusively for you Patreon members. So if you're listening to this and want to get a taste of me being of a player character or what Kyle's got cooking for this little foreshot, head on over.
00:01:06
Doc
Mm-hmm.
00:01:17
The Blade's Edge
um ah That being said, shout out to some of our patrons. Zach Zimmer, Casey Winkleman, Milena, Marina Steinbrook, Mark, Arson Nazarian, Jonesy, Gray-Haired Gamer, Dane Copsey, Brandon Granada, Louis Alamea, ah Ryan Baum.
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The Blade's Edge
Thank you guys so much, just to name a few. But I digress.
Tarot Reading & Amber Temple Journey
00:01:43
The Blade's Edge
We...
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Doc
It's back. It's back.
00:01:44
The Blade's Edge
Yes. As we... fade back in through the mists onto a snowy mountainside. I will say that's been getting very frigid and very cold.
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The Blade's Edge
Where we last left off, the the gang, called the Lightning, was heading from ah the lake where Jimothy was at, along with Jimothy's patron, Yox Isler.
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The Blade's Edge
And you were heading up to the Amber Temple, where The Taroka reading, which is just a tarot reading. That's interesting. Have we ever looked at why that's different? um'll I'll do that.
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The Blade's Edge
That's the job for me. Your Taroka reading ah let you guys know that there was something here for you. There was something that you could find here that would aid in your quest.
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The Blade's Edge
um It was, this card tells of a powerful force for good and protection, a holy symbol of great hope. Seven of swords, the hooded one.
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The Blade's Edge
I see a faceless god. He awaits you at the end of a long and winding road deep in the mountains. as you guys have gone up Mount Gakus, you've come across the Salenka Pass, you went through the fiery gate where um or Dasan took some damage, and then the rest of you didn't.
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Doc
He's fine. He's fine.
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The Blade's Edge
He's fine!
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Vesz'rak
Hey, this is sometimes you accidentally walk through some green flames. It just happened
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The Blade's Edge
Yes! Yeah.
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Kyle
I've been there, man.
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Doc
There's no way it's going to hurt me.
Encounter with the Rock
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Vesz'rak
happens.
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Doc
No way.
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Vesz'rak
Sometimes you have to dump 25 points to lay on hands off yourself off the rip. But hey.
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The Blade's Edge
As we as we ah zoom back in through the fog to this bridge, we see a D'Saan, who eyebrows burned off from this green flame.
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The Blade's Edge
um
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Vesz'rak
Some like green dye.
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The Blade's Edge
Yeah. And the rest of the group crossing the bridge as this massive creature has begun to swoop down towards you.
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The Blade's Edge
Yeah. As it has done this, ah before we roll initiative and all that, why isn't everybody just very quickly as this thing makes its way towards you? Go ahead and just roll me a history check.
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The Blade's Edge
Because diving towards this bridge is a creature of unearthly size. A bird so monstrous that its wings blot out the sky.
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Doc
That is,
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Doc
ooh, that's an 18 history from Doc.
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The Blade's Edge
What'd you guys roll?
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Kyle
God,
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The Blade's Edge
Nice. I think this is probably not um not too uncommon that maybe you guys have heard about things like this. Like, this isn't a one-of-a-kind.
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The Blade's Edge
um This is known...
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Kyle
it's a bird
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The Blade's Edge
yeah
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Doc
It's Big Bird from Sesame Street, dude, we know.
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The Blade's Edge
Yeah, maybe Bash is the only person who doesn't recognize what this sort of creature is. um You guys, some people call these things these things Sky Titans. these are it's This is known as a rock.
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The Blade's Edge
An ROC, rock.
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Doc
Ooh.
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The Blade's Edge
um And as this thing is diving down towards you, um let's roll initiative. And as the initiative is rolled, Venificus, Ridley, ah Valentine rolling as well.
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The Blade's Edge
um When it gets to your turn in initiative, before you announce your turn, you starting off in a combat, let us know who you are and who you're playing and maybe what their expression is as this rock is ah flying towards them.
Strategic Planning & Camaraderie
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Doc
Hell yeah.
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Kyle
I just rolled two fives. That's incredible.
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Doc
Attaboy.
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The Blade's Edge
but Because you have advantage on initiative now.
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Kyle
I do have advantage, but apparently it doesn't matter.
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The Blade's Edge
Is that a... Yeah,
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Trevor
He's just looking at that plane, dude.
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The Blade's Edge
yeah yeah. Yeah, you're like...
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Kyle
um Let me see what that's from.
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The Blade's Edge
Yeah, I think i think you might have gotten just gotten that at level 9, which is funny, because you guys are level...
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Kyle
no No, I've had it. of
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The Blade's Edge
Oh, okay.
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Kyle
ah took Feral Instinct.
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The Blade's Edge
Nice.
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Kyle
I don't know if that's a tree a character trait.
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The Blade's Edge
No, you you get that. That's something you get with ah being a...
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The Blade's Edge
being a barbarian.
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Kyle
Yeah. I did get Brutal Critical though.
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The Blade's Edge
Um... Fuck yes.
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Kyle
Level 9.
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Trevor
Ooooooh.
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Doc
Yeah, buddy.
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The Blade's Edge
And you already have an extra dice from being half orc, so your crits will be crazy.
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Doc
Let's use it.
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Kyle
Mm-hmm.
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The Blade's Edge
um Yeah.
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Kyle
Throne of the Moon.
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Doc
about to pump, we salute you.
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The Blade's Edge
I also am going to, we're going to start doing something um pretty fun here, which is that you guys are now, you guys feel like connection with ah Mr. Valentine, the Mad Mage.
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The Blade's Edge
And that connection is going to allow you guys to have access to some of what he can do for you as you guys have gone on a ah lengthy mission to help him. So ah Ridley Valentine is a divination wizard.
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The Blade's Edge
So every day ah we as a group will roll two D twenties. We'll record the numbers rolled. So that would be ah helpful information for you guys to write down.
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The Blade's Edge
And we as a group, can use his portent rolls as he's sort of seeing into the future. um And you can replace either one of your guys' rolls with this number, and it's just the the base roll, or you can replace an enemy enemy's roll if it's like a natural one or something.
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Trevor
Fire.
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Kyle
um
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The Blade's Edge
um
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Kyle
Really
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Doc
Should we just give those to Tommy?
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The Blade's Edge
So, yeah.
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Doc
or
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The Blade's Edge
So he can...
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Vesz'rak
Like if you need somebody to look, look, yeah, I'll, I'll roll the first Valentine portent if you want a low one, but then I think Kyle beams roll the second one just cause we need a high one.
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Doc
Somehow both of them are not ones. Oh,
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Vesz'rak
you Just, just, just even us out, you know?
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Doc
okay
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The Blade's Edge
Sure, sure. So you you guys can use these, and it's two a day, so it doesn't come back on a short rest. These only are ah only able to be used twice in a day before a long rest. So yeah, Tommy, why don't you give us our first ever Mad Mage Portents?
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Vesz'rak
Yeah, low roll. Here we come. That's a 10. Hey, honestly, that's pretty good.
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Doc
Oh, hey, even Stevens.
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Kyle
Hey, middle of the pack.
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Vesz'rak
we Yeah.
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The Blade's Edge
that is that Is that good, or is it like when Pitchfork gives something like a 6.5 and you're like, I'd rather it you've given it a 0 than 6.5? Yeah, yeah.
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Vesz'rak
This is...
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The Blade's Edge
Well...
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Trevor
ah Yeah, that's very, is it Steve?
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Doc
It's an IGN, IGN seven out of 10.
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The Blade's Edge
yeah yeah
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Kyle
I was, I was gonna say, Trevor, this is the Steve roll.
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Doc
Yeah.
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Trevor
This is the Steve roll.
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Vesz'rak
this This is like my worst fear. It's like, okay, I'm here for the low roll. then I was like, oh, maybe it'll be high. No, just dead even. that's what I was thinking.
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The Blade's Edge
well
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Doc
Should I roll the other D20?
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Kyle
or Or it could be low.
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Vesz'rak
yeah
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The Blade's Edge
So maybe maybe save a 10 situation for like if you're doing something where what you're adding to the 10 is pretty high for you.
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Vesz'rak
yeah that's what i was thinking
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The Blade's Edge
Yeah, if you have like a plus 7 to something and you roll like a 2 or something, you could change it to the 10 and all of a sudden it's 17.
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Doc
Sure.
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The Blade's Edge
Especially if you know the DC. And then, yeah, Kyle, why don't you go ahead and roll us our second number.
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Doc
All right. Dropping that D20. That's a 15.
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Kyle
Watch this 11. Oh, um
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Doc
Yeah,
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The Blade's Edge
Nice. 15 is pretty good.
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Trevor
Okay.
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Vesz'rak
Those are good rolls, honestly.
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Doc
yeah that'll That'll do.
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Vesz'rak
Good rolls.
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Trevor
Wow.
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Doc
that'll do
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The Blade's Edge
So you guys have that in the bank. Obviously, you guys can decide as a group when you'd like to use those. ah I'm probably just going to go ahead and not use them for Valentine, unless you guys are like, we really want the thing that he was trying to do to work or something.
00:09:19
Doc
Yeah, his final ah his final death save, we give him that 10, you know what I'm saying?
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The Blade's Edge
um Yeah. Yeah, but I am going to try and like... ah make his stuff more about you guys.
00:09:30
The Blade's Edge
So there's less, uh, DM and PC stuff going on here and I can just sort of facilitate, um, what you guys can do.
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Doc
Yeah, super cool idea. I like it.
00:09:40
The Blade's Edge
All right. So with that being said, i have the unfortunate, unfortunate news.
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Trevor
Bird's hungry.
D'Saun's Heroics on the Rock
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Doc
of welcoming you to the chowing chamber, the butcher's bridge.
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The Blade's Edge
ha is that the, the bird is ah first Mount Gakas rock.
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Trevor
That's good.
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Kyle
Welcome to pound town. Hmm.
00:10:02
The Blade's Edge
um And as he is up first, we are going to do a little, um we are going to do a little roll off. And so Tommy, I know you roll, you rolled that 10 because you were waiting to roll a natural one. Now, as he dives towards the bridge,
00:10:17
The Blade's Edge
He is diving towards either Stalvadak, who is in the center of the bridge, D'Saun, who is near the center of the bridge, or Bash, who is sort of by the start of the bridge. I need you guys to draw straws for this.
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The Blade's Edge
So roll a d20 each, and let me know.
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Doc
All right.
00:10:31
Vesz'rak
All
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Doc
Tommy, count us down.
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Kyle
ah
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The Blade's Edge
Let me know what you're all...
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Vesz'rak
right.
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Doc
Count us down.
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Vesz'rak
On go. Three, two, one, go. ah sort of
00:10:42
Trevor
yeah yeah yeah yeah
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Doc
yeah
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Kyle
on rail.
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Vesz'rak
Why?
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Trevor
ah That's so funny.
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Vesz'rak
du Get me out of here give me
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The Blade's Edge
It's actually, it's actually kind of unreal.
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Vesz'rak
um kind of here.
00:10:52
Trevor
Wild.
00:10:53
Vesz'rak
I kind of expected at this point.
00:10:53
Trevor
That's so crazy.
00:10:55
Vesz'rak
Hey, if you're listening to this episode, we've been here before. We'll be here again.
00:10:59
Doc
Same bad time, same bad channel.
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The Blade's Edge
Yeah. Let, let the people know what you, uh, let the people know what you, what you ruled.
00:11:05
Vesz'rak
Yeah, I rolled three um at this point. To be expected. ah Lowest roll wins. I'm the lowest roll. Dusan, Sunsword out, Shield up.
00:11:16
Vesz'rak
Vrak coming in for me. I'm ready.
00:11:18
Kyle
I'm just so glad I'm not the low roll guy in in this campaign.
00:11:18
Doc
It is the best person that he could have hit.
00:11:21
Trevor
That was so funny.
00:11:21
Vesz'rak
Dude, it's so it's so painful, man.
00:11:23
Kyle
Because I was in the last campaign that we did. And it just feels good to relinquish that that role.
00:11:26
Vesz'rak
We were –
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Vesz'rak
Kyle, Kyle, Kyle, youe like when we started the pod, we were talking about, cause we were both low roll champions.
00:11:29
Trevor
There can only be one.
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Doc
I mean...
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Kyle
Yeah.
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Vesz'rak
And I was like, there's no, i was like, there's no shot. You beat me in ah in a low roll off. And like, I feel ah pretty validated.
00:11:41
Doc
Yeah.
00:11:41
Kyle
Yeah, no, I'm outclassed right now.
00:11:42
Doc
It's good to know your talents, right? It's good to know what you're about.
00:11:46
Kyle
Yeah, you're on a whole other level. It's unbelievable, Doctor.
00:11:49
Doc
I'm pretty sure actually in the character creation episode, we talked about that.
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Vesz'rak
you know, I thought it was my apart. I thought it was my apartment. I moved places. I did the incense thing. You know, maybe, I don't know. Somebody help me. Something's up.
00:11:59
Doc
it's It's a poltergeist in one of your um and one of your belongings, Tommy.
00:12:03
Vesz'rak
ah
00:12:03
Kyle
Yeah, you need an exorcism, I think.
00:12:05
Doc
You need someone to cast Remove Cursed.
00:12:05
Vesz'rak
yeah
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Trevor
One of the incense that you bought came with the poltergeist. I think you, you haunted yourself with the incense.
00:12:09
Doc
Yes, exactly.
00:12:10
Vesz'rak
oh Not my sandalwood incense. Come on.
00:12:13
Trevor
That definitely did it.
00:12:14
The Blade's Edge
a um he I will say, Kyle g when the difference is when you were rolling really poorly, we were on tour, and I got to consistently you see the look on your face.
00:12:29
The Blade's Edge
And you, in a big moment, would be like, here we go, baby.
00:12:31
Trevor
true
00:12:34
The Blade's Edge
Yes. Yeah.
00:12:35
Trevor
I can see you right now slouched in your chair with your ah hands between your legs, just like looking down.
00:12:35
Kyle
yeah yes that was a rough time in my life
00:12:36
Doc
Oh, God.
00:12:38
The Blade's Edge
yeah and
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The Blade's Edge
yeah
00:12:42
Trevor
so sad.
00:12:43
Doc
Dungeons
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Trevor
That's so funny.
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The Blade's Edge
um
00:12:47
Doc
Dragons, baby.
00:12:48
The Blade's Edge
Well, let's go ahead and I know I said when it was your turn, you would ah describe yourself, but Dasan, as this massive bird is flying towards the bridge, what is to that who are you, who are you playing, and what does your character look like in this moment?
00:13:03
Vesz'rak
ah How's it going? Tommy, I'm playing Dasan, the Paladin of Lathander. Sunsword in hand, shield, no eyebrows, um kind of shaved short, cropped white hair, about five foot nothing.
00:13:19
Vesz'rak
ah Ready to take on this flying bird and hoping I don't get yeeted off a bridge, Brian.
00:13:25
The Blade's Edge
um It is almost like you read its mind. um
00:13:29
Kyle
Oh no, why would- wait, what?
00:13:31
The Blade's Edge
As it comes in, its talons come straight towards you, Dasan, and go to ah go to but swipe at you and hit you and grab you
00:13:32
Kyle
Please.
00:13:47
The Blade's Edge
and take grab you off the bridge
00:13:50
Vesz'rak
Watch this.
00:13:50
The Blade's Edge
um what's your ac
00:13:53
Vesz'rak
AC's 18. Shield up.
00:13:55
The Blade's Edge
Your AC is 18. This thing has a plus 13 to hit.
00:13:58
Vesz'rak
Yikes. Yeah,
00:13:59
Doc
No, no, no, no, no. no no no no
00:14:01
The Blade's Edge
thats it That's a 25 to hit.
00:14:02
Vesz'rak
it is. Go on.
00:14:03
Kyle
What?
00:14:05
Vesz'rak
Okay. Okay.
00:14:06
The Blade's Edge
Okay, so not only do you take 29 points of slashing damage, ah you are grappled.
00:14:10
Vesz'rak
go on okay
00:14:13
The Blade's Edge
And as this thing comes through, the good news is that it comes through, it grabs D'Saun, and as it leaves the bridge's range, Stalvodok and Bash, you guys both have opportunity attacks.
00:14:24
Doc
Oh, yeah. And I will take it.
00:14:25
Kyle
incredible.
00:14:28
Doc
question actually because i I don't have ranged ah weapons very often can I make a ranged opportunity attack as he flies away?
00:14:34
The Blade's Edge
I do not think so.
00:14:35
Doc
Because I don't even have a melee weapon other than an unarmed strike.
00:14:37
The Blade's Edge
ah range
00:14:42
The Blade's Edge
um
00:14:45
The Blade's Edge
do do do do
00:14:47
Doc
Let's see opportunity attack blah blah blah.
00:14:49
The Blade's Edge
No, unfortunately. mean, I'll let you do it, but it'll be a disadvantage because the opportunity comes when it is like right next to you.
00:14:51
Doc
Okay well then
00:14:58
Doc
Yeah, sure. So I actually, I'm just going to try to reach my arm out to grab Dasan as an unarmed strike.
00:15:07
The Blade's Edge
Okay.
00:15:08
Doc
22 unarmed strike.
00:15:09
The Blade's Edge
A 22 hits the rock. Yeah.
00:15:12
Doc
Two bludgeoning damage.
00:15:13
The Blade's Edge
Okay. Two bludgeoning damage. It takes all that. um Bash.
00:15:22
Kyle
Yes, sir.
00:15:23
The Blade's Edge
Would you like to to take an opportunity attack?
00:15:24
Kyle
ah Let me just roll this natural 20 real quick.
00:15:26
Vesz'rak
I'm physically cringing right now.
00:15:29
Doc
Hold on, hold on. you have a plus 11? Should you use a portent dice?
00:15:34
Kyle
um I could just reroll because I have I have lucky.
00:15:35
Doc
Use that 10 maybe? I'm just saying.
00:15:41
Kyle
Which I will do.
00:15:41
Doc
Up to you.
00:15:42
Kyle
30 20.
00:15:42
The Blade's Edge
Yes, a 13 will miss. Not by much, but a 13 will miss. Not wearing armor, it's big ol' bird. It's a big ol' bird.
00:15:51
Kyle
thirty twenty
00:15:51
Doc
Oh.
00:15:52
The Blade's Edge
Alright, you use your first luck point of the day, Bash, and a dirty 20 will indeed hit this creature.
00:15:57
Kyle
Or... Fuck me for 8 damage.
00:16:01
The Blade's Edge
Okay, very damaged.
00:16:02
Kyle
I rolled a 1 on the die.
00:16:02
Doc
Also, for the viewers at home, when Tommy took that damage, he only took four off the maximum amount of damage he could take on that roll.
00:16:13
Doc
It's a hot roll.
00:16:14
The Blade's Edge
That's a hot roll from me.
00:16:14
Kyle
What?
00:16:15
Vesz'rak
Yeah. and There's one thing you need to know about Brian. He rolls hot.
00:16:18
Doc
It's four...
00:16:18
The Blade's Edge
A roll hot, yeah.
00:16:18
Kyle
Guys, are is are we gonna...
00:16:19
Vesz'rak
He rolls hot.
00:16:21
The Blade's Edge
This is
00:16:21
Kyle
I don't want to say the T phrase, but are we gonna get TP?
00:16:23
Doc
No, no, no. We don't... we don't we know No, it's it's not the beginning of COVID, bro.
00:16:25
Vesz'rak
No, hey.
00:16:26
Kyle
What?
00:16:27
Doc
We're not getting TP, okay? Okay.
00:16:30
The Blade's Edge
true.
00:16:30
Kyle
Ah, facts.
00:16:32
The Blade's Edge
Well, here is an interesting... um
00:16:36
Kyle
Funny you say that.
00:16:36
The Blade's Edge
Here...
00:16:37
Trevor
Yeah. Oh,
00:16:38
The Blade's Edge
is I need to look at a spell real quick and look at the range, because here's what's going to happen.
00:16:42
Trevor
it's so funny.
00:16:44
The Blade's Edge
is This thing it takes a massive talent attack on Utasan, snatches you off the bridge,
00:16:51
Vesz'rak
Yeah, hurting. I'm bloodied, by the way. I'm bloodied.
00:16:54
The Blade's Edge
right ah takes you off the bridge, and drops you.
00:16:57
Vesz'rak
Oh, yeah.
00:16:59
The Blade's Edge
ah You look down, and it is a 500-foot
00:17:03
Vesz'rak
but
00:17:04
Kyle
Oh.
00:17:04
Vesz'rak
the Yeah.
00:17:06
The Blade's Edge
Now, you are within. You're 55 feet away from your newest member.
00:17:14
Doc
I got you, Doug.
00:17:15
The Blade's Edge
And ah Ridley Valentine is going to use his reaction to cast Featherfall.
00:17:22
Vesz'rak
Okay. Okay.
00:17:23
The Blade's Edge
ah He can choose up to five falling creatures, so it's going only be you. So if this happens to somebody else, his turn will have to have come and and gone at this point. But your ah falling rate slows to 60 feet per round.
00:17:40
The Blade's Edge
So he dropped you, and you begin to fall very slowly and not fast towards your death.
00:17:40
Vesz'rak
okay
00:17:45
Vesz'rak
So do I fall – am I falling 60 feet through like the entire initiative order is it or is it like at the start of my turn I fall 60 feet or at the end of my turn I fall 60 feet?
00:17:53
The Blade's Edge
It's per round, so at the end when it comes back around to the rocks next turn, you'll be 60 feet down.
00:18:00
Vesz'rak
Okay. So I'm next to it right now.
00:18:00
The Blade's Edge
You are beginning to fall.
00:18:01
Vesz'rak
Okay. it. Got it. Got it.
00:18:03
The Blade's Edge
Yes, you are beginning yeah you are beginning to fall you want to take an attack on it.
00:18:06
Vesz'rak
got got
00:18:07
The Blade's Edge
That'll be its turn.
00:18:08
Vesz'rak
got it
00:18:09
The Blade's Edge
That is a spell slot. And we did use some spell slots for... um Mr. Valentine today. So let me just mark off. He had used but seven.
00:18:24
Trevor
Philip the Goat.
00:18:26
The Blade's Edge
Two, three, four. Five, six, seven. Cool. So he doesn't have doesn't a ton of spells left just for you guys keeping track at home. He's got ah three more first levels and three second levels.
00:18:40
Doc
Okay.
00:18:41
The Blade's Edge
um So his his higher spells were ah used to help you guys overcome the obstacles on this pass, specifically the fire. All right, that is the Rock's turn. On um Mr. Valentine's turn, that's not a concentration spell.
00:19:02
The Blade's Edge
So what he's going to do
00:19:12
Kyle
Doesn't he have like a kill bird spell or something?
00:19:14
The Blade's Edge
Oh, dude, I totally forgot about his kill bird spell.
00:19:16
Trevor
Power word, kill Bill.
00:19:16
The Blade's Edge
Sorry.
00:19:16
Doc
but Yeah, dude.
00:19:17
The Blade's Edge
Yes.
00:19:18
Kyle
Yeah.
00:19:18
Trevor
Or kill Bird.
00:19:19
The Blade's Edge
Yeah.
00:19:19
Doc
Yeah.
00:19:19
The Blade's Edge
Kill... Or kill bill.
00:19:20
Doc
our power word Power word bird?
00:19:22
Trevor
Power word, Bird.
00:19:25
Kyle
Bird is the word.
00:19:25
The Blade's Edge
Um...
00:19:25
Trevor
It is the word.
00:19:27
The Blade's Edge
He will make a magic missile attack at this thing. Just a first level magic missile for those of you at home. 120 foot range. And it just hits. And it does plus 1 three times. So 3d4 plus 3. Um...
00:19:43
The Blade's Edge
um This bird takes 9 points of force damage. um And he will just move 5, 10, 15, 20, 25, 30.
00:19:55
The Blade's Edge
He's going to enter the bridge area towards where you guys entered from the south. Phillip and Silo will also go there, but they're going to sort of hide in these little alcoves inside.
00:20:06
Doc
Get out of the way! Hide!
00:20:07
The Blade's Edge
Yeah, the bird cannot grab them.
00:20:09
Doc
They have one health.
00:20:11
The Blade's Edge
um Well, Phillip's got 4, Silo's got 2.
00:20:14
Doc
Oh, same thing. same
00:20:15
The Blade's Edge
yeah um Trev, trev who who are you, who you plan, and what are you doing for your turn?
Tactical Deliberation & Vortex Warp
00:20:22
Trevor
Hello, I'm Trevor. I'm playing Anabi, and he is a Shatter Kai bladesinger. ah Dark ninja vibes.
00:20:33
The Blade's Edge
Oh, yeah.
00:20:34
Trevor
He got dark robes on, couple blades, got one of those like bandana things over his mouth. You know, shadow ninja vibes. um
00:20:44
The Blade's Edge
Love it.
00:20:46
Trevor
He's going to try and kill this bird.
00:20:48
The Blade's Edge
Hell yeah.
00:20:48
Trevor
But he also might have to get try and get this sawn. Let's see. Hang on. How much movement do have? 30 feet. I'm going bonus action. I'm going to start blade singing.
00:20:59
The Blade's Edge
love
00:21:02
Trevor
Take out my swords. I'm going to
00:21:08
Trevor
Wait, can I go?
00:21:15
Trevor
What is that different distance for? Oh, nice. Okay. I'm going to go to here.
00:21:24
The Blade's Edge
Chatware is here for those of us listening.
00:21:27
Trevor
You know, just just somewhere.
00:21:29
The Blade's Edge
Yeah.
00:21:30
Trevor
Somewhere on the map, you know.
00:21:31
Kyle
Just over there.
00:21:31
The Blade's Edge
but Yeah.
00:21:32
Trevor
it Just over here. I'm going to go to the right...
00:21:33
The Blade's Edge
Over there. what don't you understand about that?
00:21:35
The Blade's Edge
Yeah.
00:21:35
Trevor
yeah ah Yeah, you can't just see it?
00:21:38
Trevor
I'm going to the right side of the bridge. um
00:21:40
The Blade's Edge
yeah
00:21:41
Trevor
like I guess the right side of the the yeah entrance to the bridge. And I can see Dasan falling into the river.
00:21:50
The Blade's Edge
Yes, but beginning to fall. He is feather fall, but he is about to fall 60 feet around to a total of 500 feet once he reaches the bottom.
00:21:55
Trevor
think.
00:21:57
Trevor
Okay, lit. Lit. Well, not lit, but that feather fall was very lit.
00:22:00
Doc
Screaming all the way.
00:22:03
Trevor
um I'm going to, at second level, cast ah Vortex Warp.
00:22:12
Vesz'rak
Yes!
00:22:14
Doc
Oh, you pre-warped me.
00:22:14
The Blade's Edge
Wow.
00:22:16
Trevor
On him. And I'm going to... Dasan, do you want to go? Do you want to be back up on the bridge? Do you want to be on the fucking bird? What are you... Are you trying to ride that bird? Or are you just... You want to...
00:22:26
Vesz'rak
Trev, think we both know what want to
00:22:26
Doc
You guys lock eyes and brain blast in this moment.
00:22:26
Trevor
What?
00:22:33
Vesz'rak
put me on that bird
00:22:37
Trevor
ah
00:22:37
Vesz'rak
Yeah, we lock eyes, dude. it's The static the electricity between us is real, and we both know the answer.
00:22:44
Trevor
You want to get on that bird.
00:22:44
Doc
It's like the Incredible Hulk nod.
00:22:46
Trevor
I know Doc's got your back.
00:22:47
Vesz'rak
Yeah.
00:22:48
Trevor
If something goes wrong with you being on the bird, he could he could get you back. So, i'll ah yeah, i'll I'll put you on that bird. I'll try vortex swarping you onto the back of the bird.
00:22:58
Vesz'rak
Yeah, like the nape of the neck, like i'm riding in Dragon, bro.
00:23:00
Trevor
Exactly. Yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Exactly that.
00:23:06
The Blade's Edge
Alright. And Featherfall for you, just so you know, Tommy, it lasts a minute regardless.
00:23:15
Vesz'rak
Yeah, that's what I was hoping for.
00:23:16
The Blade's Edge
Yeah.
00:23:16
Doc
Ha ha ha ha ha.
00:23:19
Vesz'rak
So we're, hey, we're playing the game.
00:23:20
Trevor
I was counting on it. That's funny.
00:23:25
The Blade's Edge
Alright, I love that. yeah Vortex Warp, Dasan, goes from falling to now he's on the back of the bird that is traveling mock speed. This bird with a movement speed of 120
00:23:36
The Blade's Edge
turn. um
00:23:37
Trevor
He was fast.
00:23:37
Kyle
name.
00:23:38
Trevor
o
00:23:39
The Blade's Edge
um Anything else, Inabi?
00:23:40
Trevor
Yeah, I'm probably just going to scoot those 20, 25, 30 back here until... thirty back here ah intel
00:23:50
Trevor
my owl to ah go find some shelter for this one.
00:23:58
The Blade's Edge
Okay.
00:23:58
Trevor
And I'm just going to send my bird like 30 feet into this tree or 25 feet up into that tree and just have them hang out in there.
00:24:08
The Blade's Edge
Love that. um Your owl goes and hides in the tree and stall the dock in the middle of the bridge. You are up.
00:24:17
Doc
Yeah, so I see my buddy get absolutely yoinked off of the bridge. I punch this rock. I realize, okay, it's way too fast, and Dasan is falling. ah cruise to the edge here, see that he gets war vortex warped onto the rock, and I'm going to try to support him.
00:24:33
Doc
So I'm going to use my action to summon my Eldritch turret, and as it crawls out from inside my body and walks onto the ground,
00:24:38
The Blade's Edge
Okay.
00:24:45
Doc
stands right by this crumbling bridge so it can kind of see a little bit below. um And
00:24:51
The Blade's Edge
Yeah, let me get you that token again. Sorry about that.
00:24:53
Doc
it's nice and deep down there, and it looks pretty freaky. um But I'm going to take a couple of shots with my cannon.
00:25:05
The Blade's Edge
Okay.
00:25:06
Doc
um So my Force Ballista uses my spell attack modifier.
00:25:13
The Blade's Edge
there go
00:25:13
Doc
And that's going to be 28.
00:25:15
The Blade's Edge
There go. 28 hits.
00:25:17
Doc
And that is going to be damage. um Let me roll that real quick.
00:25:25
The Blade's Edge
Hell yeah. What kind of damage?
00:25:26
Doc
Force damage.
00:25:28
The Blade's Edge
Love that.
00:25:28
Doc
Yeah, buddy. So they hide this stuff everywhere on the sheet. I'm just going roll through.
00:25:40
Doc
Oh, and we roll eight damage.
00:25:42
The Blade's Edge
Nice. Love that.
00:25:44
Doc
um So that's my action, my bonus action. And then I'm actually going to move further to the north over here. um
00:25:51
The Blade's Edge
Okay.
00:25:52
Doc
Up the bridge towards the other side of the water.
00:25:56
The Blade's Edge
Love that.
00:25:57
Doc
um
00:25:57
The Blade's Edge
All right.
00:25:58
Doc
Yeah, and then look back at the group and anticipate what happens next on D'Saan's turn.
00:26:03
The Blade's Edge
Nice. So where like you are, Stalvodok, and where like Bash is, you can tell that the fall from where you guys are, only 400 feet.
00:26:12
Doc
Oh, good.
00:26:13
Kyle
Oh, good.
00:26:13
The Blade's Edge
It's the middle is 500, and then these these arrows on the map underneath the north and south parts of the entrances of the bridge represent the mountain, like how high up you are.
00:26:23
Doc
Yeah.
00:26:24
The Blade's Edge
So each ring of those is basically right around like 100
00:26:28
Doc
Cool yeah that makes sense.
00:26:30
The Blade's Edge
um Okay, Stalvodok, that is your turn. Alright, Dasan, you are on the back of this thing. It is traveling. Mach speed.
00:26:38
Vesz'rak
Mock Jesus, okay.
00:26:40
The Blade's Edge
Let's go ahead and mock Jesus. Yeah.
00:26:44
Kyle
Ludicrous speed.
00:26:44
Vesz'rak
Yeah. yeah ah
00:26:47
The Blade's Edge
I once i knew this guy, and i this stays on the pod, and i ah nobody used this.
00:26:52
Kyle
The public podcast that we're going to be publishing on the the internet.
00:26:54
Vesz'rak
We're
00:26:56
The Blade's Edge
Yeah, exactly. But all you you guys are cool, right? Everybody listening, you are
00:26:58
Doc
Yeah, everybody's cool.
00:26:59
Vesz'rak
so cool.
00:27:00
The Blade's Edge
guys are cool, right?
00:27:00
Trevor
This...
00:27:02
The Blade's Edge
Yeah.
00:27:02
Vesz'rak
we so cool We're so cool.
00:27:03
The Blade's Edge
Nobody's going to, nobody's going to like call cops on me, right? No, I knew this guy who jokingly one day said that his, his DJ name would be Toshibi Christ. And I was like, I kind of think that's actually cool.
00:27:15
The Blade's Edge
I was like, that's actually going to dove dude. Toshibi Christ. Anyways, just on, you're on the back of this thing. Mock Jesus.
00:27:21
Vesz'rak
okay ah and Okay, so I don't need to make like a strength check or save to stay on the bird. Am I firmly planted? Alright,
00:27:31
The Blade's Edge
Oh, on its turn, you absolutely will.
00:27:36
Vesz'rak
so I put my shield on my back.
00:27:39
The Blade's Edge
Mm-hmm.
00:27:39
Vesz'rak
rip I'm going to first off cast third level, haste on myself as I pull out wosh the Sun Sword.
00:27:48
Trevor
Oh.
00:27:48
Vesz'rak
As I go, you've probably never seen it in your life, but let me introduce you to the warmth of the sun.
00:27:48
Doc
Yeah.
00:27:49
The Blade's Edge
Love that.
00:27:54
Vesz'rak
And I'm going to start swinging.
00:27:56
The Blade's Edge
Its head looks back at you on its back, just goes, Ah!
00:28:02
Doc
That's
00:28:02
Vesz'rak
i'm I'm glad we could come to an agreement. All right.
00:28:05
Doc
how I greet everybody these days.
00:28:08
Vesz'rak
Okay. ah First swing.
00:28:11
The Blade's Edge
that
00:28:14
Vesz'rak
Nat 20, Brian.
00:28:14
Kyle
Oh.
00:28:15
Vesz'rak
Nat 20, Brian.
00:28:15
The Blade's Edge
Wow.
00:28:15
Doc
oh
00:28:16
The Blade's Edge
oh
00:28:16
Vesz'rak
twenty brian
00:28:16
Trevor
Let's fucking go.
00:28:17
Kyle
Oh. We're online, boys.
00:28:18
Doc
oh Oh.
00:28:19
Vesz'rak
You know what?
00:28:20
The Blade's Edge
Love that.
00:28:21
Vesz'rak
for the love of the for the love of the pod, Brian, third level smite.
00:28:22
The Blade's Edge
This is a, yes.
00:28:23
Kyle
I felt it.
00:28:26
Doc
Oh.
00:28:26
Vesz'rak
I'm standing up. You hear me getting up?
00:28:27
The Blade's Edge
Wow.
00:28:28
Doc
Oh.
00:28:28
Vesz'rak
I'm standing up.
00:28:28
Trevor
oh let's fucking go.
00:28:29
The Blade's Edge
So is that, that's, is that 4d8 and then you'll double to Okay, cool.
00:28:30
Doc
Give me...
00:28:33
Vesz'rak
Yes.
00:28:33
Doc
Yeah, baby.
00:28:34
The Blade's Edge
and cool
00:28:35
Kyle
Oh, my God.
00:28:35
The Blade's Edge
Yeah, it is it is a monstrosity, so you you don't get that extra d8 from being undead.
00:28:36
Kyle
Please.
00:28:41
The Blade's Edge
um But you will do 8d8 additional damage after the sword's damage.
00:28:47
Vesz'rak
So I'm on the back of this thing, sword out.
00:28:47
Kyle
Oh my God.
00:28:47
Doc
Oh.
00:28:49
The Blade's Edge
Okay.
00:28:49
Vesz'rak
I'm going for the nape of the neck, Brian. I'm going to cut this thing clean off.
00:28:51
Doc
Oh.
00:28:54
Doc
Attack on Titan, Stylees.
00:28:54
The Blade's Edge
Okay.
00:28:56
Vesz'rak
All right, let's damage.
00:28:58
Doc
We've been playing Monster Hunter.
00:28:58
The Blade's Edge
Give me the sword damage first.
00:28:59
Doc
We've been playing Monster Hunter.
00:29:03
The Blade's Edge
Okay, so...
00:29:04
Vesz'rak
Two-handed, 15. I don't know, so many numbers.
00:29:06
Kyle
and there's so many numbers.
00:29:06
The Blade's Edge
It does, yeah, and so it does, it does, the that extra is against undead, extra, yes, so is you were two-handed or one-handed?
00:29:07
Kyle
That's all...
00:29:08
Vesz'rak
Yeah. Yeah.
00:29:17
Vesz'rak
Two-handed.
00:29:19
The Blade's Edge
Okay, so that's 15 plus another, plus nine plus
00:29:19
Doc
It looks like that's
00:29:22
Doc
Nine from the crit.
00:29:27
Doc
Ooh, and you haven't even smited yet.
00:29:27
The Blade's Edge
last
00:29:27
Vesz'rak
Okay. 24 damage.
00:29:30
The Blade's Edge
plus eighty eight
00:29:31
Doc
Come on, baby. Give me a 50+. Give 50+. 8 8.
00:29:33
Vesz'rak
You want the 8d8 or you want the Here, we're just going to do 8d8. Roll 8d8.
00:29:37
Doc
<unk>
00:29:37
The Blade's Edge
Yeah, ADA, yeah.
00:29:37
Kyle
eight 8D8 is big numbers.
00:29:39
Vesz'rak
For this smite damage, I'd like to imagine that as this smite goes in, you see a little ray of sun shined.
00:29:41
The Blade's Edge
Yes.
00:29:47
Vesz'rak
poke through the clouds. 88. 35 damage.
00:29:49
The Blade's Edge
Okay.
00:29:51
Vesz'rak
thirty five damage
00:29:51
The Blade's Edge
oh and so That's got to be our highest player character damage of the campaign at 59 total.
00:29:54
Doc
It's got be.
00:29:56
Doc
got be
00:30:00
Kyle
Damn.
00:30:02
The Blade's Edge
59 damage. ah You smite this thing. Light comes through the crowd the clouds. And just as quickly as the light comes through the clouds, the clouds cover up that light as this thing looks back at you and goes...
00:30:22
The Blade's Edge
ah it is not it is It is not even bloodied, but that is only your first swing.
00:30:26
Vesz'rak
I'm glad we can agree on something. I'm swinging again.
00:30:29
The Blade's Edge
ha Yeah, go for it. Another nat 20? 15 is pizza
00:30:32
Vesz'rak
I'm standing up again.
00:30:32
Kyle
Imagine. i've seen I've seen crazier things.
00:30:33
Vesz'rak
Why not even sit down? 15, oh,
00:30:35
Doc
If Tommy uses both his nat 20s right here.
00:30:38
Trevor
oh
00:30:40
Doc
Oh, it's a 15.
00:30:40
Vesz'rak
fifteen oh sitting back down.
00:30:41
Doc
But it's a plus nine.
00:30:41
The Blade's Edge
pizza.
00:30:42
Doc
Tommy, Tommy, Tommy, you can use the portent.
00:30:44
The Blade's Edge
15 hits.
00:30:44
Vesz'rak
Hold on, does the 15 hit Brian? I'm sitting back down.
00:30:47
Doc
Oh, beauty.
00:30:48
Vesz'rak
Oh, Brian, second level, Smy, second level.
00:30:49
Trevor
Let's go.
00:30:52
The Blade's Edge
Okay.
00:30:52
Vesz'rak
I'm beginning to believe.
00:30:55
Kyle
He's beginning to leave.
00:30:55
Doc
Let's go.
00:30:56
The Blade's Edge
Now roll that two-handed.
00:30:56
Vesz'rak
Two-handed. 14 damage.
00:30:58
Doc
It's...
00:30:58
The Blade's Edge
14. fourteen
00:31:00
Vesz'rak
Give me that Radiant.
00:31:00
Kyle
ah
00:31:02
Doc
Homies rolled... almost max damage on the D10 three in a row.
00:31:08
Vesz'rak
An 8 and 1. 8, 1, and 2. How close we fly to the sun. Call me Icarus. I'm on top of this bird.
00:31:16
The Blade's Edge
So 25 plus 59 is 79, 84 points of damage on your turn.
00:31:16
Vesz'rak
Smite.
00:31:24
Trevor
Jeez Louise. Let's
00:31:26
Kyle
Not bad, kid.
00:31:26
Vesz'rak
And I'm left hand gripping the mane of this rock, right hand on the Sun Sword.
00:31:27
Trevor
let's go
00:31:32
Vesz'rak
I just let out a, woo, Ric Flair, woo.
00:31:36
Doc
Yeah.
00:31:36
The Blade's Edge
I also, I appreciate the fact that we played such a heavy campaign with demons and stuff that you have rock on the bla on the brain, but this is just a classic rock, baby.
00:31:44
Vesz'rak
I'm sorry, said Brock like three times.
00:31:46
The Blade's Edge
That's okay. Vrox are a demon bird, so they're pretty close.
00:31:51
Vesz'rak
ah To me, this is a demon burn. Okay, that's my turn.
00:31:56
The Blade's Edge
84 points of damage.
00:31:58
Kyle
That is incredible.
00:31:58
The Blade's Edge
The good news is you're going to town on this thing. The bad news is it is Bash's turn, and this thing is not bloodied yet.
Aerial Battle & Team Effort
00:32:06
Kyle
um
00:32:06
The Blade's Edge
After taking 100... taken 111 points damage, I and eleven points of damage i think
00:32:17
The Blade's Edge
Yes, Bash.
00:32:18
Kyle
Um, yes. Yes, indeed. So I noticed that I'm a melee character.
00:32:25
The Blade's Edge
Oh, really?
00:32:26
Kyle
And this bird is kind of giving ranged a little bit.
00:32:26
The Blade's Edge
ah you sure?
00:32:32
The Blade's Edge
yeah Yeah, it's serving it's serving range.
00:32:33
Doc
it's giving range.
00:32:35
The Blade's Edge
Yeah.
00:32:35
Kyle
It's like it's serving distance and...
00:32:36
The Blade's Edge
yeah
00:32:38
Doc
Do want to get on top of it?
00:32:39
Trevor
yeah Yeah, you trying to get on the trying to get on that bird
00:32:43
Kyle
Dude, honestly... Could be... I do have javelins. I could throw some javelins at this fucker.
00:32:49
The Blade's Edge
Hell yeah.
00:32:50
Doc
Yeah, hell yeah, you could.
00:32:50
The Blade's Edge
How many javelins do you got?
00:32:51
Kyle
ah
00:32:52
The Blade's Edge
Because if you throw them, they will be gone because they're going to fall 500 feet.
00:32:53
Kyle
I've got... um
00:32:57
The Blade's Edge
So just as long as you're okay with expending javelins that you toss them, dude.
00:32:57
Kyle
Oh... Yeah.
00:32:59
Vesz'rak
Toss him. Toss me.
00:33:03
The Blade's Edge
yeah One of your javelins looks up at you and just says, toss me.
00:33:04
Kyle
Oh, yeah.
00:33:09
Vesz'rak
They're Gimli at Helm's Deep.
00:33:10
Kyle
Um...
00:33:10
Trevor
and rise yeah what's that What's that Rick and Morty game that's out where you're like walking around with a gun and the gun like talks to you?
00:33:10
Vesz'rak
Come on, toss me.
00:33:11
The Blade's Edge
Mm-hmm.
00:33:16
Kyle
The gun talks, yeah.
00:33:18
Trevor
Have you seen clips of that or played it?
00:33:19
The Blade's Edge
I have, Amber.
00:33:19
Doc
Yeah, um ah High on Life.
00:33:19
Kyle
Yeah.
00:33:19
Trevor
That shit looks pretty funny.
00:33:19
The Blade's Edge
That sounds cool.
00:33:22
Doc
It is very funny.
00:33:22
Trevor
Yeah. It looks hilarious. going to play that.
00:33:24
Doc
It was a free game on PlayStation last month.
00:33:25
Kyle
Yeah, I'm to toss some javies, I think. I don't think... and And, you know, anyone else can give me input. um I don't think I'm going rage for this fight because I feel like attacks for me are going to be few and far between.
00:33:41
Trevor
The only, ah yeah yeah, I do agree. If you wanted to get on that bird, we could put you on the bird.
00:33:48
Kyle
I'm going be real. I don't want to get on that bird.
00:33:50
Trevor
All right, then, yeah, maybe don't rage either. Yeah, I think your instincts were correct.
00:33:52
Kyle
um um I'm just, I'm not going to get the bird.
00:33:54
Trevor
That makes sense.
00:33:54
Kyle
Yeah, I'm
00:33:55
Doc
See, here's a fundamental difference between Dasan and...
00:33:59
Trevor
Yeah. yeah
00:34:00
Doc
One is insane and one is just a guy.
00:34:04
Kyle
going to throw some javelins. I've got, I've got nine or I've got four.
00:34:05
Vesz'rak
Wait, which one's which?
00:34:08
Kyle
I've got four javelins.
00:34:10
The Blade's Edge
Wait, dude, who's here, dude?
00:34:11
Vesz'rak
Yeah, who's the insane one and who's the normal who's the no i'm the know who's the normal guy?
00:34:12
The Blade's Edge
Wait, dude, who do you mean? Who's here, dude? What do you mean, dude?
00:34:14
Doc
What do you mean? oh
00:34:19
The Blade's Edge
Okay.
00:34:19
Doc
I'm trying to kill the rock.
00:34:21
The Blade's Edge
ah You're tossing a javvy?
00:34:21
Doc
ah It's a rock, bro.
00:34:23
Kyle
Yup.
00:34:24
The Blade's Edge
Toss that javvy.
00:34:24
Kyle
um
00:34:25
The Blade's Edge
How many you got?
00:34:26
Kyle
Oh, wait a minute. Wait a minute. It says 30 slash 120.
00:34:27
The Blade's Edge
but
00:34:29
Kyle
That's the range. What does that mean?
00:34:30
The Blade's Edge
That means up to 30 feet, normal roll. um Which this is thing is probably exactly 30 feet away. So you're you're good on normal roll.
00:34:38
Kyle
Okay, good.
00:34:38
The Blade's Edge
Up to 120, you could still throw at disadvantage, and then past 120, you would not be able to hit a target.
00:34:45
Kyle
Heard chef first roll coming in. That's going to be a 24.
00:34:55
Kyle
Before nine damage.
00:34:57
The Blade's Edge
Nine piercing damage. Love that.
00:35:01
Kyle
One Javelin into the body of the rock.
00:35:04
The Blade's Edge
Okay.
00:35:07
The Blade's Edge
Alright, is that your turn?
00:35:07
Kyle
Second attack.
00:35:09
The Blade's Edge
Second attack. Throwing a second javelin. Fuck these javelins.
00:35:12
Kyle
Second Javelin has hit the towers 23.
00:35:14
The Blade's Edge
That hits.
00:35:16
Doc
Bye.
00:35:16
The Blade's Edge
Yeah, that hits.
00:35:18
Kyle
ah For six damage.
00:35:20
The Blade's Edge
Six damage takes this thing into bloodied territory.
00:35:24
Kyle
I'm goaded. That's going my ah turn, I think.
00:35:28
Vesz'rak
I'm gonna kill that bird.
00:35:30
The Blade's Edge
All right. At the top of the next round, first and foremost, this thing is going to this way and then make U-turn.
00:35:36
Trevor
I have another vortex warp ready.
00:35:39
The Blade's Edge
45, 45. 20, 30, 35, 40, 20,
00:35:41
Vesz'rak
Is he gonna go inverted?
00:35:43
The Blade's Edge
it's gonna go it's gonna go this way and then make a u-turn and twenty thirty thirty five before
00:35:52
The Blade's Edge
It's going to this way. As it does, and it makes this U-turn, its head turns around to Saan and makes a beak attack at you on its back.
00:36:00
Vesz'rak
Oh, come on!
00:36:02
The Blade's Edge
ah This is a plus 13 to hit.
00:36:04
Vesz'rak
We're speaking the same language.
00:36:04
Kyle
my fucking god.
00:36:07
The Blade's Edge
That's a 31 to hit.
00:36:09
Vesz'rak
ah Yeah.
00:36:10
Doc
Probably not. I mean...
00:36:11
Vesz'rak
For sure, for sure, for sure, for sure.
00:36:14
The Blade's Edge
um as As this thing pecks you directly in the face, you take 31 points of piercing damage.
00:36:14
Trevor
Meets it beats it.
00:36:20
Vesz'rak
Oh, shit!
00:36:20
Kyle
yeah oh
00:36:22
Vesz'rak
ah Wait, we're still up, we're still up, we're still up, we're still we're still up. Hey, everyone, everybody relax.
00:36:25
Doc
What?
00:36:29
Doc
Holy...
00:36:30
Vesz'rak
Everybody chill
00:36:32
The Blade's Edge
are You are still up, but this thing is going to head back towards the bridge. And I will say, Stahl the Dock and Bash, I need the two of you to roll straws.
00:36:48
Doc
Yeah, I'm throwing my D20 out.
00:36:50
Vesz'rak
out! Oh, Brian, here...
00:36:50
Doc
Three, two, one, go.
00:36:52
Vesz'rak
Sorry.
00:36:54
Kyle
I'm not even worried. Fuck.
00:36:56
The Blade's Edge
All right, Bash. So Bash, as it reaches your your destination, um this is where Dasan, i will need i will give it I will leave it up to you.
00:36:58
Doc
You should be worried.
00:37:07
The Blade's Edge
You may make a dexterity saving throw to stay on this thing, or you can make a strength saving throw to hold on to this thing. The DC for either one of those things is going to be 15.
00:37:24
Kyle
Wait, we have a fucking... we have a we have a guy.
00:37:26
Vesz'rak
Yeah. Hey, Brian, watch this.
00:37:28
The Blade's Edge
Yes.
00:37:29
Vesz'rak
Strength saving throw.
00:37:30
The Blade's Edge
Okay, I'm watching.
00:37:31
Vesz'rak
Plus two to the save. Bonus.
00:37:34
The Blade's Edge
Okay.
00:37:35
Vesz'rak
Sorry. Strength save. Plus five.
00:37:37
The Blade's Edge
Yes. Okay.
00:37:38
Vesz'rak
Plus two.
00:37:39
The Blade's Edge
Even better.
00:37:39
Vesz'rak
Seven. i can do math. 22. 22. 22.
00:37:41
Kyle
What?
00:37:41
Trevor
What?
00:37:41
Vesz'rak
twenty two twenty two
00:37:42
Kyle
What did he just say?
00:37:43
The Blade's Edge
Yeah, what?
00:37:43
Doc
What the hell?
00:37:44
The Blade's Edge
Put from plus two to plus seven real quick.
00:37:45
Doc
Fucking Galileo over here calculating the fucking stars.
00:37:48
Trevor
He's just throwing out numbers.
00:37:49
Vesz'rak
got
00:37:49
The Blade's Edge
Nice. so
00:37:51
Trevor
but
00:37:51
Kyle
ah
00:37:51
Doc
What the hell?
00:37:51
Vesz'rak
No, the strength is plus five and I have plus two on saves because I'm a paladin.
00:37:53
Doc
ge
00:37:56
Vesz'rak
It's totaled seven. I get it. Hey, 22. on it, baby. twenty two i'm on a baby
00:37:59
The Blade's Edge
So, alright. So, Dasan, you are able to hold on to this thing.
00:38:01
Trevor
ah
00:38:03
The Blade's Edge
This thing is going to make an attack at Bash and then move through regardless. So, if it misses the attack, Bash, you'll get an opportunity attack, as will your Eldritch Cannon if it can take Reaction Stalvodok, as will ah Valentine.
00:38:17
The Blade's Edge
But, let's see if it grabs you, Bash.
00:38:18
Doc
Good question.
00:38:20
The Blade's Edge
It's plus 13 to hit.
00:38:23
Kyle
You know what's insane? It literally- there's no way for it to not hit me.
00:38:27
Vesz'rak
Don't say that.
00:38:28
The Blade's Edge
Natural 20.
00:38:29
Kyle
OHHHHH!
00:38:29
Vesz'rak
ah
00:38:29
Kyle
Okay, I'm- I'm using a luck point to impose disadvantage.
00:38:32
The Blade's Edge
Okay. Here is...
00:38:33
Kyle
I just don't want the fucking crit.
00:38:34
Vesz'rak
but flash of flash Flashback to Bash saying, you know what?
00:38:34
Kyle
Oh my god.
00:38:35
Trevor
Yeah.
00:38:35
Kyle
Dude.
00:38:36
The Blade's Edge
yes Yeah, yeah
00:38:37
Vesz'rak
I'm not raging this combat.
00:38:39
Trevor
Oh, yeah.
00:38:41
Kyle
Now I'm mad.
00:38:42
The Blade's Edge
yeah. Reroll. 10, which is a 23. Okay.
00:38:46
Trevor
oh yeah
00:38:46
Kyle
Yeah, that's fine.
00:38:48
The Blade's Edge
yeah So as the claw, as the talon hits you, you take...
00:38:57
The Blade's Edge
21 points of... ah Is it piercing or slashing? ah Slashing damage.
00:39:01
Kyle
That would have been doubled?
00:39:03
The Blade's Edge
That would have been yeah would've been doubled, yeah. Just the dice, not the 9.
00:39:05
Vesz'rak
It
00:39:05
Kyle
Good god.
00:39:05
The Blade's Edge
That would have been 8 and 6 plus 9.
00:39:07
Kyle
Or...
00:39:09
The Blade's Edge
um You take 21 points of damage not halved because you're not raging. um It has you in its talents. It flies over here with the sun on its back, and it drops you as you begin to fall 500 feet.
00:39:20
Kyle
I love that.
00:39:21
Vesz'rak
it
00:39:22
Kyle
love that, guys.
00:39:23
The Blade's Edge
Valentine is going to spend another first level reaction. He's not going to take the opportunity attack. He's instead going to use his reaction to burn his second to last first level spell.
00:39:31
Trevor
Nice.
00:39:34
The Blade's Edge
He only has second level spells and one first level left to cast Featherfall on you. um he takes out a small a feather. Each time this happens, he that has a feather in his component pouch.
00:39:47
The Blade's Edge
He goes, okay, I'll get hit or use this.
00:39:49
Vesz'rak
ah
00:39:50
The Blade's Edge
up Okay, you're going to it he use this. And you begin to you begin to fall, but you're falling 60 feet ah per round instead of 500.
00:40:00
The Blade's Edge
And when you hit the ground, you will not take fall damage because of feather fall. That is the rock's turn.
00:40:06
Kyle
Rock on.
00:40:07
Vesz'rak
Hey, Bri, before I forget, I need to make a con save for his.
00:40:10
The Blade's Edge
Cool. Yeah, make that con save The DC for that con save is a 15. Good. That
00:40:16
Vesz'rak
Come on, baby. 18.
00:40:18
Doc
ah Oh, you're exhausted.
00:40:19
Vesz'rak
Hey,
00:40:19
The Blade's Edge
would have been bad because when you lose concentration on haste, stunned.
00:40:22
Trevor
Yeah, that may have been worth using one of those port and rolls.
00:40:22
Vesz'rak
I know. Hey, hey, hey, hey, hey.
00:40:25
The Blade's Edge
Yeah.
00:40:26
Trevor
Like, nice.
00:40:26
Vesz'rak
I was going to use it.
00:40:26
The Blade's Edge
Yeah.
00:40:28
Trevor
Okay, nice.
00:40:29
Vesz'rak
For sure.
00:40:29
The Blade's Edge
um He is just going to go ahead and make a Ray of Frost attack on his turn, Ridley Valentine, which will reduce the thing's speed by 10 feet. so ah And it'll do 2d8 cold damage if he hits.
00:40:44
The Blade's Edge
He hits with a 24. I don't know why that rolled to me and not you guys, but 24 for 10 points of cold damage.
00:40:51
Vesz'rak
you
00:40:53
The Blade's Edge
And although this thing lives up in the mountains, it is not resistant to cold damage. It takes the 10. Its speed is reduced by 10. That is his turn. Inabi, you are up.
00:41:07
Trevor
All right, I'm gonna go, I'm gonna
00:41:13
Trevor
fucking... 25 feet. How far is he? Nice. I can do this at second level again, I think. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Another vortex warp.
00:41:25
The Blade's Edge
Okay, is this for Bash to be on the back of it now?
00:41:28
Trevor
ah Well, no, I don't know if Bash wants to be on the back of the bird.
00:41:33
Doc
He may have no choice.
00:41:33
Kyle
i mean, I don't want to be falling, that's for sure.
00:41:35
Vesz'rak
classic Classic normal guy versus crazy guy reaction to this situation.
00:41:38
Doc
i I was just envisioning that scene in my head.
00:41:39
Trevor
yeah yeah if i If I lock eyes with Bash, does it look like he wants to be on the bird? Or does he want to get away from the bird?
00:41:46
Doc
He's doing the complete opposite face that fucking Tommy was doing.
00:41:50
Trevor
yeah Please, please, please, please.
00:41:52
Vesz'rak
Nassad doesn't think he's doing it but he's actually doing like really crazy eyes like he hasn't blinked to this whole combat.
00:41:57
Doc
Get me out of here.
00:41:58
Trevor
yeah
00:41:58
Doc
Get me out of here.
00:41:58
Kyle
You know what? Keep me on the bird.
00:42:01
Trevor
Oh, you're going on the bird?
00:42:02
Vesz'rak
Oh, we're going bird boys.
00:42:05
Trevor
Let's fucking...
00:42:05
Kyle
I'm playing Monster Hunter now dude, get me on the bird.
00:42:07
Trevor
Let's fucking go. I'm so down. i' Yeah, I'll try and I'll send him up there next to, a next to this on.
00:42:09
Doc
Are you, though? Are you, though?
00:42:12
Kyle
i mean I still- i have Feather Falling, yeah.
00:42:14
The Blade's Edge
Yeah, so if you fall off the back of it, you'll still be falling slowly.
00:42:18
Kyle
i I've never fell off. Remember that.
00:42:22
Doc
Hell yeah.
00:42:23
Trevor
All right. He's going on the bird.
00:42:25
The Blade's Edge
He's on the back.
00:42:29
The Blade's Edge
um And is that your turn? sir.
00:42:32
Trevor
Um, 25, 30, 35. five thirty thirty five
00:42:41
Trevor
Yep.
00:42:42
The Blade's Edge
Okay, that is your turn. Stal the Doc, did we do, did you introduce yourself and your character?
00:42:48
Doc
Yeah, I did.
00:42:48
The Blade's Edge
Okay, you did. Okay, I think i think maybe we I forgot to ask Ash.
00:42:51
Kyle
Oh, I didn't. Yeah, I didn't introduce myself.
00:42:52
The Blade's Edge
That's okay, that's that's on me, that's on me. But you are up, Stal the Doc.
00:42:56
Doc
Yeah, so I see now there are two of my homies on the rock, and I'm running towards this other part of this dilapidated bridge, and my arms start to glow fiery orange as I am firing off a scorching ray.
00:43:11
The Blade's Edge
Okay.
00:43:12
Doc
um The first one is a 26 for seven fire damage.
00:43:15
The Blade's Edge
26 hits. 7 fire damage.
00:43:20
Doc
ah The second one is 11, which we'll miss.
00:43:20
The Blade's Edge
It takes all that.
00:43:24
The Blade's Edge
Which will miss.
00:43:25
Doc
And then the third one is an 18. Okay, so for seven more damage.
00:43:30
The Blade's Edge
hits.
00:43:35
The Blade's Edge
okay Okay.
00:43:36
Doc
And then i am going to use my bonus action to fire off an additional bolt from my Eldritch Cannon, which is a 13, which won't hit it.
00:43:36
The Blade's Edge
14 damage total.
00:43:46
The Blade's Edge
13 misses. It's 15 AC.
00:43:48
Doc
te And then that's my action, my bonus action. um And I'm not going to use any movement. So that's my turn.
00:43:57
The Blade's Edge
Okay, that is your turn, which means, D'Saun, you have successfully held on to the back of this thing. Now, this thing is large, but now that Bash is on the back of it,
00:44:09
The Blade's Edge
There are two of you. So on its turn, your saving throw is to maintain being on the back of this thing. The DC is going to go up to 18 for both of you.
00:44:19
Vesz'rak
Oh.
00:44:20
Kyle
it.
00:44:21
Vesz'rak
Hey Bash, welcome aboard. um Perfect. Tell you what, Brian.
00:44:29
The Blade's Edge
Yes.
00:44:29
Vesz'rak
I'm going to vow of enmity this thing.
00:44:32
The Blade's Edge
Bonus action, Vow of Emnity.
00:44:35
Vesz'rak
it gives me advantage on swings as a bonus action.
00:44:39
The Blade's Edge
Love it.
00:44:40
Vesz'rak
With haste, I get three attacks. Right? Yeah, three attacks. All at advantage.
00:44:46
The Blade's Edge
Yeah. Yeah. Did you use your haste last turn?
00:44:48
Vesz'rak
i yeah I cast it on myself as an action, and then I and then i swung.
00:44:53
The Blade's Edge
Oh.
00:44:56
The Blade's Edge
Right. Oh, okay. So you actually should have only gotten one attack last turn. That's okay, though. That's okay.
00:45:02
Vesz'rak
Oh, my mistake. ah
00:45:04
The Blade's Edge
Haste doesn't give you your full action. it just gives you one extra attack.
00:45:06
Vesz'rak
It's using one attack. Then we can, ill I can take one off of this turn then.
00:45:10
The Blade's Edge
Cool.
00:45:11
Vesz'rak
I want to, yeah, i want to be fair.
00:45:11
The Blade's Edge
Good.
00:45:12
Vesz'rak
Okay, so two attacks at advantage.
00:45:12
The Blade's Edge
Yeah. Two attacks at advantage. Love it.
00:45:14
Vesz'rak
I screwed it up. Hey, my bad. First time spellcaster, second time caller.
00:45:18
The Blade's Edge
That's right. You guys are doing great.
00:45:20
Vesz'rak
ah First attack. At advantage. 13. thirteen Not going to do it. At advantage. 11. Not good. Okay.
00:45:30
Doc
use use Use one of the dice.
00:45:30
The Blade's Edge
First attack misses.
00:45:32
Doc
Use one of the dice.
00:45:36
Vesz'rak
I kind want to save it for a dire situation.
00:45:38
Doc
Tommy, describe your situation presently.
00:45:44
Vesz'rak
Alright, I'll use the 10. I'll use the 10 on the portent. Fine, I'll use the 10 on the For the attack, yeah.
00:45:48
The Blade's Edge
Okay. I will, unless anybody vetoes that in the group, I'm marking it off.
00:45:52
Trevor
Huh?
00:45:53
The Blade's Edge
19
00:45:54
Doc
No veto.
00:45:54
Kyle
Wait, you're using a 10? Oh, for a total of 19? Yeah.
00:45:58
Doc
Yeah.
00:45:58
The Blade's Edge
will hit.
00:46:00
Vesz'rak
Okay, 19.
00:46:00
Kyle
yeah
00:46:01
Vesz'rak
Two-handed.
00:46:02
The Blade's Edge
Okay.
00:46:03
Vesz'rak
um already used my bonus action to Vow of Edmity, so I cannot smite. ah For... o 13 points of damage.
00:46:16
The Blade's Edge
It's only a seven if you were going two-handed. And somebody's phone is going crazy, yeah.
00:46:19
Vesz'rak
Oh, seven, sorry.
00:46:19
Doc
Somebody's phone's vibrating, just a heads up.
00:46:19
Vesz'rak
Sorry,
00:46:23
Vesz'rak
sorry that was my dad.
00:46:23
Trevor
I thought I was going nuts for a second.
00:46:24
Vesz'rak
No, that was me, that was me, sorry. It was right next to my mic. um Okay, first attack, second attack.
00:46:33
Kyle
Unreal.
00:46:33
Vesz'rak
What is wrong with me? I rolled three 11s in a row?
00:46:35
Kyle
Unreal.
00:46:37
The Blade's Edge
You rolled three twos.
00:46:38
Trevor
That's crazy.
00:46:39
The Blade's Edge
Three twos on the die in a row.
00:46:40
Vesz'rak
holy shit.
00:46:42
The Blade's Edge
Check in a tackle miss unless you use 15. All right,
00:46:44
Vesz'rak
I'm not going to use 15. I just look up at Bash.
00:46:46
Doc
That's...
00:46:47
Vesz'rak
I'm not blinking. Eyes are what wide wide open. and I you're up.
00:46:51
Doc
Remarkable.
00:46:51
Vesz'rak
i go you're up
00:46:53
Doc
ah
00:46:55
Trevor
yeah you
00:46:57
The Blade's Edge
Bash, you're on the back of this thing, and my mistake, go ahead and let people know who you are, who you're playing, and and then go ahead and tell us what your turn is.
The Rock's Retreat & Player Decisions
00:47:06
Kyle
Um, yeah, yeah. What's up, Kyle G, KG, Cage, whatever you want to call me. Better known as Bash.
00:47:13
The Blade's Edge
rage
00:47:15
Kyle
Bash Bloodsinger, son of Kavan. Goat of, uh...
00:47:22
Kyle
Yeah, um, so I'm going to...
00:47:23
The Blade's Edge
yeah i'm ah hold on i'm all that i'm listening go to what i'm sorry i don't think i missed it i think right i think i must have missed something you said go and i just thought there was definitely something after that is that is that on me or oh okay
00:47:25
Kyle
sorry.
00:47:26
Trevor
I think you're you're thinking Phillip.
00:47:28
Kyle
Uh...
00:47:35
Kyle
Yeah, so I think I think I'm gonna attack. No, what I am gonna do. yeah, yeah. yeah um Also, I have a plus three when I rage now for melee damage.
00:47:46
Kyle
I think it was plus two before.
00:47:49
The Blade's Edge
Yeah, that went up with ah level nine.
00:47:52
Kyle
That's so fire. um Yeah, I'm gonna rage because now I have consistent. ah Now I'm just on this dude. I'm gonna bonus action rage.
00:48:02
The Blade's Edge
yeah Love it.
00:48:04
Kyle
Mad as hell. Took 40, no, 20 points of damage. Fine, not even breaking a sweat.
00:48:13
Kyle
Uh... Yeah, I'm swinging. Hey, guys.
00:48:15
The Blade's Edge
Okay, swing away.
00:48:17
Kyle
Hey, guys.
00:48:18
The Blade's Edge
Net true is you got brutal critical.
00:48:18
Trevor
Let's go.
00:48:20
Kyle
Hey, I'm online.
00:48:20
Doc
My man, my man.
00:48:21
Vesz'rak
Are you standing up? You standing up?
00:48:23
Doc
was going to say, if you're the goat of anything, it's your rolling multiple crits back to back.
00:48:30
Kyle
That is true. Um...
00:48:31
The Blade's Edge
So you add, think it might do it for you. d and D beyond special. If you just click that, but we'll see.
00:48:36
Kyle
Yeah, so I'm going yeah, let me, I just click the great X
00:48:40
The Blade's Edge
Because it's it's it's a d twelve and then the critical is another d12, and then the savage attacks and brutal critical is 2d12. So it's 4d12 plus 7, and it did do that for a total of 37 points of damage.
00:48:49
Trevor
Oh yeah.
00:48:49
Kyle
here.
00:48:50
Doc
Yeah.
00:48:52
Doc
It did.
00:48:56
The Blade's Edge
Shoo!
00:48:56
Doc
G-Gunk!
00:48:56
Kyle
Yeah.
00:48:59
Kyle
Yeah, I'm thinking I'm back. I'm thinking I'm bash.
00:49:03
Doc
oh Oh...
00:49:07
Kyle
Um, cool.
00:49:08
The Blade's Edge
Bedbash from beyond? Sorry.
00:49:09
Trevor
Oh shit.
00:49:11
The Blade's Edge
No, and I'm sorry.
00:49:11
Kyle
That's fine.
00:49:11
The Blade's Edge
I am sorry. yeah
00:49:13
Trevor
Don't be, that was good.
00:49:13
Kyle
No, you don't have to apologize.
00:49:15
The Blade's Edge
Well, I am.
00:49:19
Kyle
Um, yeah, I mean, I'm no stranger to getting multiple natural 20s in a row.
00:49:27
Kyle
Dude, it was so close.
00:49:28
The Blade's Edge
Oh, my God.
00:49:28
Kyle
It was so close.
00:49:28
Doc
Oh, God.
00:49:28
Vesz'rak
Ha ha ha ha ha!
00:49:29
Trevor
Damn.
00:49:31
Kyle
Um, 25 to hit.
00:49:33
The Blade's Edge
Okay. Twenty-fourth.
00:49:35
Kyle
Dude, it hit the edge. Like, if it wasn't on the edge, I think it would have rolled over to a 20.
00:49:40
The Blade's Edge
Twenty-fourth.
00:49:42
Kyle
Um...
00:49:43
The Blade's Edge
Roll that damage, baby.
00:49:43
Kyle
Ooh, you... Wait. You know what it didn't account for? Because it doesn't know that I'm raging is the plus 3 damage.
00:49:48
The Blade's Edge
Oh, nice. So you did 40. Just a quick, even 40 damage on your first wing.
00:49:52
Kyle
40 damage?
00:49:54
Kyle
Yeah, and then that's gonna be 8 Well, 11 more damage.
00:49:59
The Blade's Edge
11 more. Nice.
00:50:02
Kyle
um
00:50:03
The Blade's Edge
51 points of damage.
00:50:06
Kyle
Damn, I could have broken broken the record, but unfortunately I'm not frenzying.
00:50:06
The Blade's Edge
Crazy.
00:50:12
The Blade's Edge
Ah, that's like okay. You used your bonus action to rage this turn anyway.
00:50:16
Kyle
Correct.
00:50:17
Vesz'rak
Yeah, put my hand on your shoulder and go, next time.
00:50:21
Kyle
Okay.
00:50:21
Vesz'rak
i um I imagine we're both like – I know we're both on the back of this f rock, but I imagine I'm sitting backwards and Bash is sitting forward so we're facing each other. that that that like
00:50:31
Trevor
That's so funny.
00:50:32
Vesz'rak
like That's how I'm imagining this in my head.
00:50:34
Kyle
ah
00:50:35
Trevor
I love that so much.
00:50:35
Vesz'rak
so i So I put my hand on his shoulder and I go, go get him next time. But also –
00:50:40
Trevor
Just have like ah your sword, you're just poking at him.
00:50:42
Vesz'rak
Yeah, we're both like stabbing in between our legs.
00:50:43
Trevor
just
00:50:46
Trevor
yeah
00:50:51
Trevor
So what do you think we're going to find after this?
00:50:54
Vesz'rak
ah you think we can take this to Ravenloft with us?
00:50:58
Trevor
Just digging in this thing's back.
00:51:00
Kyle
I should have attempted i wish I had like speak with animal speak with animals like a domesticated or something
00:51:06
Trevor
Oh shit, that'd be crazy.
00:51:08
The Blade's Edge
um As this thing makes another Yui, I need both of you to make either strength save or dexterity saving throws to maintain on the back of this thing or begin falling.
00:51:19
The Blade's Edge
The DC is now 18 because there are two of you.
00:51:25
Vesz'rak
Oh god, okay. You have plus two to that save?
00:51:30
Vesz'rak
you get plus two. You get plus two the save. You plus two the save.
00:51:33
Kyle
Wait, why do I get plus two?
00:51:33
The Blade's Edge
It is.
00:51:33
Vesz'rak
Because you're next to me. You're next to me.
00:51:35
The Blade's Edge
He has a paladin aura.
00:51:37
Vesz'rak
Yeah, am i paladed my my sunlight aura.
00:51:37
Kyle
Oh.
00:51:37
Trevor
Fire.
00:51:39
Vesz'rak
Okay, now I'm praying that...
00:51:41
The Blade's Edge
you do By the way, Kyle, that is a strength save, so i don't know if your strength save is higher than just your strength check.
00:51:42
Vesz'rak
Oh,
00:51:47
Kyle
Oh!
00:51:47
The Blade's Edge
Strength saving throw.
00:51:48
Kyle
Oh! I got a fucking plus nine to this shit on my save.
00:51:51
Vesz'rak
nice.
00:51:52
Kyle
Plus five.
00:51:52
The Blade's Edge
Nice. So you would have gotten a 21 plus 223. You maintain.
00:51:56
Vesz'rak
Sorry. Okay. Strength check, right?
00:52:00
The Blade's Edge
Strength save, or dexterity saving throw.
00:52:01
Vesz'rak
Strength save.
00:52:02
Trevor
That's actually crazy that you just rolled seven.
00:52:03
Vesz'rak
Okay.
00:52:03
Trevor
in both
00:52:05
Vesz'rak
I'm going to do... um Call me crazy. I'm going to do a dex save because I have advantage because of haste on dexterity saving throws.
00:52:12
The Blade's Edge
Cool.
00:52:13
Vesz'rak
So call me nuts.
00:52:13
The Blade's Edge
Great.
00:52:13
Trevor
Oh yeah!
00:52:14
The Blade's Edge
Smart. Smart.
00:52:16
Vesz'rak
Okay. First roll.
00:52:17
Kyle
You a min-max over
00:52:18
Vesz'rak
plus Plus two.
00:52:19
The Blade's Edge
Okay.
00:52:20
Vesz'rak
No, I'm just reading my character sheet. Hey, how's it going? It's like session 24. Okay.
00:52:24
Kyle
here.
00:52:24
The Blade's Edge
Yeah.
00:52:24
Kyle
Yeah.
00:52:25
The Blade's Edge
I think that, yeah, that's the opposite of a man.
00:52:25
Vesz'rak
ah
00:52:26
The Blade's Edge
That is somebody being like, Oh, I'm actually paying attention to what the rules of my guy are.
00:52:27
Doc
Yeah.
00:52:27
Kyle
ah
00:52:31
Vesz'rak
Okay, okay, first roll.
00:52:31
The Blade's Edge
I love it.
00:52:32
Vesz'rak
22, don't even need it.
00:52:32
The Blade's Edge
Yeah.
00:52:34
The Blade's Edge
Nice.
00:52:34
Trevor
Let's go!
00:52:34
Kyle
Unreal.
00:52:35
The Blade's Edge
Don't even need it. You guys both maintain on the back of this thing as it wheels back around. And as it comes at you, Stalvodok, I think you guys are maybe realizing at this moment that while you are certainly on track to kill this thing, the only other option for this would have been, let's get off the bridge as this thing is only attacking people on the bridge.
00:52:57
The Blade's Edge
um you get the sense that if, yeah, when you're off the bridge, this thing maybe maybe would have gone away as it's not even paid attention to Inabi, Valentine, Philip, Syla.
00:52:58
Doc
defending its bridge.
00:53:10
The Blade's Edge
um But it comes back towards the bridge, and as its head turns around, it is going to make a beak attack on either Bosh or Dasan. I need you guys to roll straws.
00:53:18
Kyle
Boss.
00:53:19
Doc
Bosh!
00:53:19
Vesz'rak
oh
00:53:19
Trevor
but
00:53:20
Vesz'rak
Oh, hey, hey, look, like, okay, I know, I know we were talking about the low roll king.
00:53:21
Kyle
Boss.
00:53:21
Trevor
you
00:53:21
Doc
Bing bang bosh, you know what I'm saying?
00:53:23
The Blade's Edge
was about that TV show, Bosh. Remember that, Isha?
00:53:28
Doc
What save am i doing? Oh, okay.
00:53:30
The Blade's Edge
You're not doing anything yet.
00:53:32
Vesz'rak
I know we were talking about who was the low roll king, but Baxter, I never needed anything from you in my life.
00:53:38
The Blade's Edge
don't know what this Giffith I just found, but that's cracking me up.
00:53:38
Vesz'rak
I need you to roll so, I need you to roll so much lower than me.
00:53:42
The Blade's Edge
Alright,
00:53:43
Trevor
Boss.
00:53:45
Kyle
Um...
00:53:45
The Blade's Edge
let's draw Strage for the beak.
00:53:48
Kyle
I mean, the problem is I'm locked in right now. So...
00:53:51
Vesz'rak
Oh
00:53:52
Doc
ah Oh, shit.
00:53:53
The Blade's Edge
D20 roll.
00:53:54
Kyle
How... Okay, how many hit points do you have?
00:53:54
Doc
Oh, no.
00:53:55
Vesz'rak
no. and I'm standing up for a low roll. I'm just going to roll it.
00:53:59
The Blade's Edge
Roll
00:54:00
Vesz'rak
Low roll wins. Come on. We're playing golf now. Please don't give me a nat 20 for the love of God.
00:54:08
Doc
and
00:54:09
The Blade's Edge
that
00:54:10
Vesz'rak
Shoot!
00:54:11
Kyle
I mean, i Do you want...
00:54:11
Doc
ah
00:54:11
Vesz'rak
Shoot!
00:54:13
Kyle
I can use a luck point to make sure you...
00:54:16
Vesz'rak
Use it. Please use it. I don't know. Hey.
00:54:18
Trevor
Or wait, actually, you could use that port and...
00:54:18
Kyle
Wait a minute. Wait, you're... He's attacking me, is he not?
00:54:22
Vesz'rak
No, we're rolling.
00:54:22
The Blade's Edge
Yeah. Yeah, he attacks the low roll, the same as the guys on the bridge.
00:54:23
Vesz'rak
Oh, I thought...
00:54:23
Trevor
Oh.
00:54:26
Vesz'rak
Oh, okay, sorry.
00:54:26
The Blade's Edge
he' Whoever rolls lowest, he's attacking.
00:54:27
Vesz'rak
i oh my I'm sweating. Sorry.
00:54:30
The Blade's Edge
um
00:54:31
Trevor
what
00:54:31
The Blade's Edge
Yeah, his...
00:54:31
Kyle
This dude has lost his damn mind.
00:54:32
Doc
Tommy's like 45 minutes into the bar exam realizing he didn't study.
00:54:37
The Blade's Edge
And he nat ones on the beak attack.
00:54:38
Trevor
Holy shit.
00:54:39
Kyle
It's so fucking sad because it still hits me.
00:54:39
Vesz'rak
I'm gonna...
00:54:40
Doc
Oh...
00:54:41
Vesz'rak
I'm gonna throw up.
00:54:43
The Blade's Edge
ah No, Nat1's auto-miss.
00:54:44
Vesz'rak
yeah
00:54:46
Kyle
Oh, hell yeah.
00:54:46
The Blade's Edge
Does not miss.
00:54:47
Trevor
but
00:54:47
The Blade's Edge
Does not matter what the plus is to that. It's an auto-miss.
00:54:50
Kyle
um
00:54:50
The Blade's Edge
on ah ah Yeah, it doesn't matter He could have a plus 30, but if he rolls a natural one, that is a failure.
00:54:56
Kyle
that ah Is that D&D rules or is that...
00:54:59
The Blade's Edge
Yeah, same.
00:55:00
Kyle
ah Okay, cool.
00:55:01
The Blade's Edge
That is called a critical failure. A natural 20 is a critical success.
00:55:04
Kyle
Yeah, get fucked, bird.
00:55:06
The Blade's Edge
However, the only homebrew that I do that most DMs do is that technically rules is written a natural 20 on an, ah on an ability check is not an auto crit and auto success.
00:55:19
The Blade's Edge
It's only an auto crit on an attack role.
00:55:22
Kyle
Gotcha.
00:55:22
The Blade's Edge
However, me and many other DMs out there will say, like, if you're rolling a history check and you natural 20, you get all the information, even if you're plus. If the DC was, let's say, 25 and you got a natural 20 with a plus zero, I would still give it to you, whereas rules as written, you would not get it.
00:55:38
The Blade's Edge
Yeah.
00:55:39
Kyle
gotcha
00:55:39
Doc
and likeam
00:55:41
The Blade's Edge
Okay, so beak attack misses, and then it's got blood in its eyes. It turns out it makes a beak attack into the air, and you can see that it can barely see you guys. It will make a talent attack on Stall of a Dock.
00:55:53
Doc
Greetings! You are not a werewolf.
00:55:55
The Blade's Edge
ah This is 16 to hit.
00:55:59
Doc
ah It does not hit with my 19 armor class.
00:56:00
The Blade's Edge
Okay. So it miss it it it passes by, which also gives you an opportunity attack.
00:56:03
Kyle
Damn.
00:56:06
The Blade's Edge
Stall the dock.
00:56:06
Doc
And I will punch it again. um Or actually, let's see, I want to try to high five D'Saan.
00:56:13
The Blade's Edge
Okay.
00:56:14
Vesz'rak
ah Yeah, i'm I'm flying backwards, so I'm reaching down backwards.
00:56:14
Doc
Okay.
00:56:18
Doc
Okay, here comes. Here comes. That's a 24 to high five.
00:56:23
The Blade's Edge
Yeah.
00:56:23
Vesz'rak
Yeah, I mean, that'll be my AC for sure.
00:56:24
The Blade's Edge
Yeah. You successfully high five.
00:56:26
Vesz'rak
Yeah, you rolled a natural 19 on the
00:56:27
Doc
That's all I wanted to do.
00:56:27
Kyle
Hell yeah. A thunderous clap echoes throughout this canyon.
00:56:31
Vesz'rak
yeah
00:56:32
Trevor
Thunder damage?
00:56:34
The Blade's Edge
Um, I will, I will say, so here's what's going to happen. He's going to make a Valentine's going to make another Ray of frost roll 17 hits for 12.
00:56:45
The Blade's Edge
This thing is still up, but I will give you some information here. Um, I think you guys all see this and not be before you go, this thing is not going to make another yeah U-turn. You get the sense that it is looking up in the mountains towards where it came from and it's headed back there.
00:57:00
Vesz'rak
Where did it, and and it came from the Amber Temple or just peak?
00:57:05
The Blade's Edge
don't know. I mean, i just came from somewhere higher up in the mountain and it being so low on hit points, you get the sense.
00:57:06
Vesz'rak
or a just a peek
00:57:12
Trevor
He's just trying to get out of here.
00:57:13
The Blade's Edge
Yeah. It's not going to U-turn again and come back and attack. It is now booking it. So you guys on the back have a decision to make at that point.
00:57:21
Trevor
Cool.
00:57:21
The Blade's Edge
It would totally up to you about a knobby. You are up first and then Stalvadak and then the guys on the back. So.
00:57:27
Trevor
Okay. um Yep. Heard chef of five.
00:57:37
Doc
It's my day off, bro. Don't go call me chef.
00:57:40
Trevor
35, I'll go 35 feet to here.
00:57:47
The Blade's Edge
And where is here?
00:57:47
Trevor
um
00:57:49
The Blade's Edge
Well.
00:57:49
Trevor
um I'm moving onto the bridge. um I'm getting closer to the burb.
00:57:52
The Blade's Edge
well
00:57:55
Trevor
um Seeing him dip, I'm going to look. Well, actually, I'll look at Doc and just be like, yo, you got the other one if I pull one of them back.
00:58:07
Doc
You look in my eyes and you see nothing but two orange fireballs. So
00:58:17
Trevor
So, yeah
00:58:19
Doc
that's a no, that's that's a no.
00:58:21
Trevor
shit. um Let's see. um Who, does somebody, if I look up there, does it look like,
00:58:32
Trevor
well, Dasan, do you have a way to get yourself, do you have any sort of way to get yourself back on the bridge?
00:58:38
Vesz'rak
ah Yeah, I can, I mean, I can misty step.
00:58:40
Trevor
Like, if you... were Okay, okay, cool. Then I will use my... I think it's my last second level spell. um Yes. My last second level spell slot to cast Vortex Warp on Bosh and bring him...
00:58:58
Kyle
Oh, hell Yeah, I go wherever the wind takes me.
00:58:59
Trevor
I'll send him up towards the end of the bridge. Yeah,
00:59:07
Trevor
yeah like over that direction. Right at the...
00:59:09
The Blade's Edge
Okay.
00:59:10
Trevor
Right at the end of the bridge.
00:59:11
The Blade's Edge
Then are you a willing, ah participant?
00:59:13
Vesz'rak
Thank you.
00:59:20
The Blade's Edge
All right. Monsieur, you can go ahead and put your token, over there, wherever he said to you, he vortexed for you too.
00:59:27
Kyle
ah So like up here.
00:59:28
The Blade's Edge
Um,
00:59:29
Trevor
yep
00:59:30
Kyle
Perfect.
00:59:31
The Blade's Edge
All right. as you As you do that, you're no longer on the back of this thing as it is flying ah northward, attempting to go up the mountain. um Is that your turn, Anabi?
00:59:42
Trevor
Uh, I'm just gonna have the my owl come and catch up with me.
00:59:47
The Blade's Edge
Cool. Out of the trees, up to you. Stalvodok, you are up.
00:59:52
Doc
All right, I run to the other side of the bridge, looking at the rock as it flies by with Dasan and and Bash on it. and as
Spell Strategy & Action Timing
01:00:03
The Blade's Edge
Bash is no longer on it.
01:00:03
Doc
bash yeah And as Bash gets Vortex warped off back to the bridge, I lock eyes with Dasan.
01:00:10
Vesz'rak
Still haven't blinked.
01:00:12
Doc
Are you in Carnage mode? Are you in Carnage mode?
01:00:13
The Blade's Edge
his eyes are His eyes are tearing up because he has not blinked.
01:00:16
Vesz'rak
yeah
01:00:17
Doc
As this thing starting to flow to fly away, I put both of my arms together and it starts to emanate with this big orange glow of magical energy. And just like Genos in One Punch Man, I am firing off a fireball in this thing's trajectory, but like up here.
01:00:33
The Blade's Edge
Okay.
01:00:36
The Blade's Edge
It will hit D'Saun. I'll tell you that much. D'Saun is on this thing. If it's hitting the thing, it'll hit D'Saun.
01:00:41
Doc
okay.
01:00:42
The Blade's Edge
Yeah.
01:00:42
Doc
um Well,
01:00:43
The Blade's Edge
There's no way, unless you have Sculpt spell, which is something that certain wizards have to carve out little pockets.
01:00:44
Vesz'rak
Do it.
01:00:51
Doc
Well, it has a blast radius, so if it's in the radius, but that's okay.
01:00:51
The Blade's Edge
He is...
01:00:54
The Blade's Edge
Yeah, but he's on it.
01:00:54
Vesz'rak
Do it.
01:00:55
The Blade's Edge
So if if it's in the radius, he's in the radius.
01:00:56
Doc
Sure. Sure, sure. um Okay, then I'm just going to cast Vortex Warp and bring you home.
01:01:03
Vesz'rak
that was going swing.
01:01:04
Doc
Well, I would kill you.
01:01:06
Vesz'rak
but
01:01:06
Doc
ah
01:01:07
Trevor
you could i should have You could do a, ah if if you wanted to, which I could have done with Bash, you could hold you could hold the action if you wanted to wait until D'Saun swings or something.
01:01:07
Kyle
All right.
01:01:08
Doc
You would just immediately die, so we got to do the boring action. That's okay.
01:01:14
The Blade's Edge
Well, I don't think it's boring.
01:01:20
Trevor
And then once he swings, Vortex Warp goes off.
01:01:20
Vesz'rak
Oh.
01:01:23
Doc
Yeah, we can do that.
01:01:24
Trevor
if you I could have done that with Bash too.
01:01:25
Doc
That sounds cool. No, that sounds cool.
01:01:25
Trevor
i just for I just didn't even realize until afterwards, but that could be fun.
01:01:29
Doc
Yeah, I don't usually hold actions, so yeah, we can do that.
01:01:29
Kyle
and
01:01:31
Trevor
I know, me neither.
01:01:32
The Blade's Edge
Sure, you can.
01:01:33
Doc
you're You're next in the initiative order, Tommy, so yeah, I'll hold the action to see if you get one more lick in, see if you can take this thing down.
01:01:39
The Blade's Edge
Sure, you can also hold your action to your use your fireball if he Misty steps off of it.
01:01:39
Vesz'rak
oh
01:01:46
Doc
Yeah, I didn't think about him missy-stepping.
01:01:46
The Blade's Edge
And that way, I'm not the bad guy who didn't let you do your fun thing.
01:01:49
Doc
No, no, no, no, not at all. No, that's fine. um
01:01:52
Vesz'rak
but Come on, come on, come on. but Kyle, cool guys don't look at explosions. Fireball it after I leave.
01:01:56
Doc
I want ah want to explode. Yeah, okay. I'll fireball after you, Misty. Step off then, Tommy.
01:02:00
Vesz'rak
Deal, deal.
01:02:00
Doc
Because that's the that's the battle plan.
01:02:01
The Blade's Edge
Cool. So you can go ahead and click you can click the spell slot, because as you hold a spell, ah it is used.
01:02:06
Doc
It's used.
01:02:07
The Blade's Edge
So you hold a fireball. ah Any other action for you?
01:02:12
Doc
um I'll use my bonus action for my turret.
01:02:18
The Blade's Edge
Sure.
01:02:19
Doc
So we'll fire that out. That's going to be an 18.
01:02:23
The Blade's Edge
That hits.
01:02:24
Vesz'rak
He doesn't miss.
01:02:25
Doc
We're doing...
Execution of Strategy & Combat Finale
01:02:26
Doc
3d8. 10 damage. Real low rolls from Mr.
01:02:30
The Blade's Edge
Okay. 10 damage.
01:02:31
Doc
Cannon today.
01:02:32
The Blade's Edge
Is that your turn?
01:02:34
Doc
ah I am going to move to brace my back against the um the side of the bridge here for my fireball.
01:02:45
The Blade's Edge
All
01:02:49
The Blade's Edge
right, Dasan, you were on the back of this thing. Fireball is coming.
01:02:53
Vesz'rak
Hey, ah so question about order of operations with haste. Do I go action, action, haste, or can I go action-haste action, haste, action? Because I want a Misty Step, but Rulis is written with haste. I can only take the attack action, no bonus actions with haste.
01:03:08
The Blade's Edge
You still have a bonus action. Your bonus action just can't be a haste.
01:03:12
Vesz'rak
Ah, okay, got it.
01:03:13
The Blade's Edge
ah You gain one additional action on your turn.
01:03:13
Vesz'rak
so
01:03:16
The Blade's Edge
So you still have your action. You still have your bonus action. You still have your reaction. But you get an additional action, which can only be used to take the attack action, which is one weapon attack only, dash, disengage, hide, or use an object.
01:03:25
Vesz'rak
Yeah, yeah.
01:03:28
Vesz'rak
I just want to make sure that I can swing, swing, swing, Misty Step away.
01:03:32
The Blade's Edge
You can.
01:03:33
Vesz'rak
Okay. right, so add advantage.
01:03:35
The Blade's Edge
Okay.
01:03:36
Vesz'rak
Sun Sword out.
01:03:37
The Blade's Edge
Okay.
01:03:38
Vesz'rak
Two hands.
01:03:39
The Blade's Edge
Okay.
01:03:40
Vesz'rak
Cool guys don't look at explosions. First one. 28 on the first one.
01:03:44
The Blade's Edge
That'll hit, but see if you crit.
01:03:45
Doc
Boom.
01:03:46
Vesz'rak
And then that one. Perfect.
01:03:47
The Blade's Edge
Okay, first one hits. It's
01:03:50
Vesz'rak
um How many... Oh yeah, I'm going to save a second level spell slot, so... Boom!
01:03:56
Doc
We have that second dice too, right?
01:03:58
The Blade's Edge
six.
01:03:58
Vesz'rak
Six. ah I'm going to pump a...
01:04:01
The Blade's Edge
Okay.
01:04:02
Vesz'rak
I'm going to pump a first level smite into him.
01:04:04
The Blade's Edge
Okay.
01:04:06
Vesz'rak
For... 11 damage.
01:04:08
The Blade's Edge
Okay. Two more attacks at advantage.
01:04:11
Vesz'rak
Second swing. 18. 23.
01:04:12
The Blade's Edge
Okay.
01:04:13
Vesz'rak
eighteen
01:04:14
The Blade's Edge
Hits.
01:04:15
Vesz'rak
and twenty three
01:04:16
The Blade's Edge
Hits.
01:04:17
Vesz'rak
um So I can smite and then on the next one i can Misty Step Away. Alright.
01:04:24
The Blade's Edge
You have three attacks. This is your second attack.
01:04:27
Vesz'rak
Alright. So 8.
01:04:30
The Blade's Edge
Okay.
01:04:30
Vesz'rak
First level smite.
01:04:31
The Blade's Edge
Okay.
01:04:32
Vesz'rak
Pumping. 11. Is he still up?
01:04:34
The Blade's Edge
Okay.
01:04:37
The Blade's Edge
He's still up. Yeah.
01:04:37
Doc
He's still up.
01:04:38
Vesz'rak
God, this guy is beefy.
01:04:40
Doc
ah
01:04:41
The Blade's Edge
Super BV.
01:04:41
Vesz'rak
ah Okay, last one.
01:04:42
The Blade's Edge
Rocks are no joke.
01:04:44
Vesz'rak
Okay, add advantage.
01:04:45
The Blade's Edge
It's like if you if you know what a rock is, the minute i would have described this thing coming towards you, you'd be like, oh fuck.
01:04:52
Vesz'rak
23 8 damage.
01:04:53
The Blade's Edge
The benefit of not knowing. Love it. Still up.
01:04:57
Doc
Let's go.
01:04:57
Vesz'rak
I gotta get out of here. So I start, so i I'm backwards on this rock.
01:05:02
The Blade's Edge
Okay. Mm-hmm.
01:05:03
Vesz'rak
After I stab into it, I use my sword to stand myself up it and I'm like running towards the back of it. And I'm like jumping off, ah skydiver style, and I snap my fingers to Misty Step to the Bridge.
01:05:17
The Blade's Edge
Okay, you miss sift the bridge, the fireball goes off. This thing has 16 health left.
01:05:22
Vesz'rak
Oh, rats!
01:05:22
Doc
Ooh. All
01:05:24
The Blade's Edge
Go ahead and roll your fireball, of which it will take all of it.
01:05:28
Doc
all right. Let's see. Fireball eight d six
01:05:35
Doc
23.
01:05:36
Trevor
Holy shit.
01:05:36
Kyle
Nice.
01:05:36
Doc
Ooh, just barely.
01:05:36
The Blade's Edge
fire damage.
01:05:38
Vesz'rak
Ooh.
01:05:38
The Blade's Edge
Why don't you go ahead and let us know how your fireball kills the rock?
01:05:42
Doc
um Yeah, it's basically just like a railgun of fire. Just e ah blast right through it.
01:05:52
The Blade's Edge
I blast right through it as this thing begins to fall after the fireball hits it.
01:05:53
Doc
explodes.
01:05:58
The Blade's Edge
It is
Post-Fight Recovery & Strategy
01:05:59
The Blade's Edge
featherless. You see a skinned bird, just the skin of a massive monstrosity falling from the air, dwindling before it eventually ah crashes 500 feet river into the river below
01:06:21
Doc
it's our first dragon. Fucking sick.
01:06:28
The Blade's Edge
Well done, lads.
01:06:28
Kyle
great.
01:06:30
The Blade's Edge
ah Very good. um Everybody okay?
01:06:36
Vesz'rak
yeah i'm ah on my back Yeah, I'm on my on my back staring up so and sort my hand shield on my back just going.
01:06:37
Doc
Tell me, how much health do you have?
01:06:38
Kyle
and um great
01:06:45
Vesz'rak
I have not blinked still. Just still super wide open. and Still under the hay spell. I'm like, I'm at 4 HP. four h p
01:06:54
Trevor
jesus Christ.
01:06:55
The Blade's Edge
Jesus. Jesus Christ, man. Well, listen, we are almost there. i can see the entrance to the Ember Temple ahead. Would you like to rest for an hour before we continue?
01:07:07
Vesz'rak
Yeah, at least a fiver, at least. At least a fiver.
01:07:08
Doc
At least.
01:07:09
The Blade's Edge
Yes, let's get off. Let's get off the bridge.
01:07:10
Doc
Yo, let me get you a Gatorade, bro.
01:07:11
Trevor
Yeah, let's let's get to the other end.
01:07:11
The Blade's Edge
Let's get off the bridge.
01:07:13
Doc
Let me get you a Gatorade.
01:07:16
Trevor
You're not you and you're hungry.
01:07:16
Kyle
I mean, I'm at 92, so...
01:07:19
The Blade's Edge
Yes, let me... I need to recover some of my arcane energy.
01:07:24
Vesz'rak
Yeah, for sure, for sure.
01:07:24
The Blade's Edge
Yeah.
01:07:25
Trevor
Ah.
01:07:26
The Blade's Edge
And I'm you guys take a short rest. He's going use our game recovery to get back a up to a fifth.
01:07:30
Doc
Hell yeah.
01:07:33
The Blade's Edge
But I still have he's still got his staff, which is very powerful. So we use that for a fourth.
01:07:39
Vesz'rak
I think I'm just going to use...
01:07:40
Doc
I think Tommy, you just soaked all the damage like a good boy.
01:07:43
Vesz'rak
yeah the guy
01:07:43
Trevor
Oh, wait, you
Entering the Amber Temple
01:07:44
Trevor
know what? might arcane recovery as well. A couple of those second levels back.
01:07:44
Vesz'rak
did
01:07:52
Doc
i would love to see that scene of Tommy wanting to be Vortex Warp
01:07:52
The Blade's Edge
you should.
01:07:59
Doc
Ash being like, get me out of here.
01:08:03
Trevor
Yeah, one's nodding yes, and the other one's shaking his head.
01:08:06
Vesz'rak
Oh man, I used all my... You know what? I'm gonna use the rest of my... late Not the rest, but I used all my hit dice to heal. then I'm gonna use the rest of my lay on hands.
01:08:18
Vesz'rak
Like six points. To heal.
01:08:24
The Blade's Edge
cool.
01:08:25
Vesz'rak
Eight more points to me, and I'm at full HP again, baby.
01:08:32
The Blade's Edge
All right.
01:08:32
Vesz'rak
Alright, we're so back.
01:08:32
The Blade's Edge
Uh,
01:08:35
Doc
Ha ha ha.
01:08:36
The Blade's Edge
as an hour passes, the cold is starting to sort of nip at you guys. It is, you know, it's very cold up on our, um, uh, up on this, the top of this mountain where it is snowing, um, the hour passes and, uh,
01:08:55
The Blade's Edge
Ridley says, right. ah we ah we Are we all ready to go? It is just ahead. I see it.
01:09:04
Vesz'rak
ah Alright, shall we? i pull my
Amber Temple Lore & Secrets
01:09:08
Vesz'rak
shield off my back, Sun Sword activated.
01:09:08
Kyle
I'm ready. right.
01:09:12
Doc
Hell yeah. I think my turret um only lasts for how long? An hour. It disappears.
01:09:23
Doc
Sweet. So I don't have a turret for the day. Just a heads up.
01:09:31
Kyle
we be
01:09:34
The Blade's Edge
Okay. You guys continue on and you eventually come to the um
01:09:46
The Blade's Edge
Outside of the Amber Temple, the road fades away under a covering of snow, but it takes you far enough to see the facade of some kind of temple carved into the sheer mountainside ahead.
01:10:00
The Blade's Edge
The front of the structure is 50 feet high and has six alcoves containing 20 foot tall statues in each alcove. Each statue is carved from a single block of amber and depicts a faceless, hooded figure, its hands pressed together in a gesture of prayer.
01:10:22
The Blade's Edge
Between the two innermost statues is a 20-foot-tall archway with a staircase leading inward and downward.
01:10:35
Doc
Okay, can I do a history check to see um if this like garb that they're in is known to me?
01:10:35
The Blade's Edge
have...
01:10:45
The Blade's Edge
Sure.
01:10:47
Trevor
Can I do the same thing? Do I recognize the faceless thing?
01:10:48
Doc
Ooh, that's a nat 20 history. Amber
01:10:51
The Blade's Edge
Sure.
01:10:51
Trevor
Oh, let's go.
01:10:52
The Blade's Edge
Yeah, you can do one as well, Anabi.
01:10:52
Vesz'rak
Let's go.
01:10:55
Doc
Temple, I know it all.
01:10:58
Trevor
Tain.
01:10:59
The Blade's Edge
um Anabi, you're not sure. They just kind of look like faceless hooded figures. But I will say, Anabi, as you are looking at them, ah they are you are filled with a sense of unease.
01:11:12
Doc
Ooh.
01:11:13
The Blade's Edge
ah creeping in the back of your mind.
01:11:13
Trevor
Hmm.
01:11:16
The Blade's Edge
I would also say, Enabi, just for you specifically, um do you have do you have like a locket or a medallion or anything ah since you from your and anything Osaibus related on you?
01:11:36
Trevor
Right, that's what I was trying to think of. I don't think so. um
01:11:40
The Blade's Edge
Cool.
01:11:41
Trevor
I think the only thing that I have is that ring that you gave me when I made this character, but I don't know if that was related or not.
01:11:45
The Blade's Edge
Yeah.
01:11:48
Trevor
um
01:11:48
The Blade's Edge
Yeah, definitely was related. And I want you to go ahead, roll me a D6.
01:11:54
The Blade's Edge
This is, this is all, this is not related to the history check.
01:11:58
Trevor
Four.
01:11:59
The Blade's Edge
A four. Okay. Um,
01:12:04
The Blade's Edge
Okay. um Trevor, you're you're a creative guy. me and you both have tattoos. I want you to describe what it looks like as you look down at your ring and a tattoo manifests itself on your hand crawling up your arm.
01:12:19
The Blade's Edge
What it is and all of that can be totally up to you.
01:12:19
Trevor
Whoa.
01:12:23
Trevor
Um, Oh, you know what? It's probably,
01:12:32
Trevor
it's probably some sort of like snake design, um, that starts, it like grows from the ring.
01:12:39
The Blade's Edge
Okay.
01:12:39
Trevor
So like the tail wraps around like the the top of his finger and then the body of it kind of like wraps down by his on like the back of his hand and then around his wrist and then just starts like slithering kind of up his arm, i would say.
01:12:55
The Blade's Edge
Love that little tattoo of a snake appearing on your arm as you approach this temple and look at these statues that make you feel unease with a natural 20. The stall of a doc, you know, for certain that these things are meant to represent the faceless gods.
01:13:16
The Blade's Edge
So in the, the card that your party had told you about the seven of swords, the hooded one, um The hooded one, you're getting the sense, are these creatures, these hooded ones.
01:13:24
Doc
Oh, yeah.
01:13:28
The Blade's Edge
And you you remember them telling you that on this card, it was, I see a faceless god. He awaits you at the end of a long winding road deep in the mountains. These are meant to represent faceless gods. So they're not meant to represent anything in particular, but a bevy of faceless gods.
01:13:47
Trevor
Like various faceless gods.
01:13:47
Doc
Okay.
01:13:47
The Blade's Edge
um Various faceless gods.
01:13:50
Doc
Well, that seems like we're heading to the right place then.
01:13:53
The Blade's Edge
I think in addition, um
01:13:58
The Blade's Edge
you had probably heard from ah Van Richten and all of this stuff, ah some history about the Amber Temple, which I will sort of lore dump on you guys right now. um So buckle in for a little lore dump on a natural community history.
01:14:07
Doc
Dump it out.
01:14:10
Vesz'rak
All right, pencil out.
01:14:11
Doc
Yes, sir.
01:14:13
The Blade's Edge
Years ago, a long time ago, a secret society of good aligned wizards built the Amber Temple in the Balanoc Mountains more than 2,000 years ago.
01:14:27
The Blade's Edge
ah They needed a vault in which to contain ah the evil vestiges, so remnants of dead, malevolent entities, that they had captured, um and the horde of forbidden knowledge that those people had amassed.
01:14:43
The Blade's Edge
They dedicated the temple to a god of secrets, ah whom they trusted to keep it hidden from the rest of the world until the end of time. Unfortunately for those good aligned wizards, ah even the will of a god couldn't prevent other evil creatures from learning about the temple's location.
01:14:59
The Blade's Edge
ah The wizards were forced to guard the temple themselves to keep its secrets from falling into villainous hands. ah The evil forces that they had imprisoned within the temple eventually had corrupted these wizards um and they were never seen again.
01:15:18
Doc
Interesting. interesting So
01:15:19
Vesz'rak
So it's it's a prison.
01:15:22
The Blade's Edge
um At one point, the original intent of this place, 2,000 years ago, ah was to be a place to hide a vault to contain remnants of dead malevolent entities and the hoard of forbi and knowledge forbidden knowledge that they had amassed.
01:15:42
Doc
so it's a prison library, Tommy.
01:15:44
The Blade's Edge
ah But it's secret it being secretive and ah hidden and all of that stuff didn't last.
01:15:45
Vesz'rak
It's tracking.
01:15:52
The Blade's Edge
And the wizards who ah once guarded this place at a certain point were never seen from again.
01:16:00
Doc
We should be very careful in here.
01:16:02
Kyle
Jeez.
01:16:04
Vesz'rak
In a different life, I would have loved this place.
01:16:04
Kyle
That's heavy stuff.
01:16:07
The Blade's Edge
Yeah, I think you even... do So do you share that information with them, Stalvodok?
01:16:12
Doc
Yeah, and then I also i look over at ah Valentine and think that it might have some significance to him being a very powerful spellcaster himself.
01:16:21
The Blade's Edge
He says, well, i I don't know much about this place. I've never visited here in my time, but so the rumor goes that Strahd once came here. Part of his power and who he is may originate from deep within this place.
01:16:48
The Blade's Edge
that is That is what the story says.
01:16:51
Doc
story says. Okay. Well, then we should head in.
01:16:54
The Blade's Edge
Yes, he's he's he's come here several times. sir I even remember my first foray into fighting him. I was trying to track him down and my search led me to the Slanka Pass where I witnessed Strahd coming back from this temple.
01:17:12
The Blade's Edge
So it is a place that he has visited ah frequently.
01:17:17
Doc
Oh, interesting. And as I learn all this information, I light a torch and place it just on my shoulder.
01:17:23
The Blade's Edge
Cool.
01:17:27
The Blade's Edge
um you guys, as you do that, with a natural 20 and with Anabi's sense of all this and sort of you guys having the Mad Mage with you at this point, I think as you guys approach and you get to sort of where your tokens are on this map at the front of this temple, I think all of you sense the presence of great evil
01:17:51
Kyle
And there's something we're looking for in this temple?
01:17:51
Trevor
Beautiful.
01:17:55
Doc
yeah Yeah, we're looking for the and an ally that's going to help us greatly in the battle against darkness.
01:17:57
Vesz'rak
Hmm.
01:18:02
Doc
It's the Taroka card that we've got.
01:18:05
The Blade's Edge
Yeah, you guys are not looking for an ally. You are looking for a like saror to up powerful force for good and protection, a holy symbol of great hope.
01:18:09
Doc
Faceless God, yeah.
01:18:14
Kyle
Why would something so good be hidden in something so evil?
01:18:20
The Blade's Edge
What a marvelous question. I imagine this place is...
01:18:21
Trevor
o
01:18:22
The Blade's Edge
Well, it's... it's Right, I mean, it's it sounds like its initial intent was secrets. A place to keep secrets. Knowledge, powerful knowledge, you know, maybe most of it's bad, but potentially some of it not bad.
01:18:40
The Blade's Edge
I'm not sure. But think about this. Bash. Bosh. It's Bash, right?
01:18:48
Kyle
Yes. Bash, bosh.
01:18:49
The Blade's Edge
Okay.
01:18:50
Trevor
Fish off.
01:18:51
Kyle
Mish, mosh.
01:18:51
The Blade's Edge
Yes, Pishposh. um Well, think about this. If you were me, right, and I come to this land too to fight Sol von Zervitz, to free the people of Barovia, and there's something that can help me, and he knows about it, could it not be that someone so powerful as Strahd would hide something
01:19:09
Vesz'rak
Hmm.
01:19:17
The Blade's Edge
The same way, Dishon, that they hid the Sunsword with you in your in your grave when you died. To keep it from others finding it.
01:19:30
The Blade's Edge
Could it not stand to reason, Bash, that if Strahd knew about this thing, he put it here. To hide it, to keep it safe from those who would seek it out and use it against him.
Exploration & Magical Discoveries
01:19:43
Vesz'rak
Yeah, who would wander up here?
01:19:43
Doc
and
01:19:44
Vesz'rak
Huh? Kind of spooky.
01:19:46
Kyle
makes a lot of sense.
01:19:50
Vesz'rak
Well,
01:19:50
Doc
well and we took out the vrock which is or the rock tommy
01:19:54
Vesz'rak
sorry, I got it. I got you. egg I'm cooking.
01:19:56
Doc
um got me with the rock um stands to reason that if other people wanted to venture up here in the future they would have far less of a deterrent if they knew ah thing wasn't defending the bridge so
01:20:11
Kyle
it seems that Strahd doesn't exactly know who he's dealing with.
01:20:16
Doc
yeah
01:20:17
Kyle
All the lightning, bitch.
01:20:19
Doc
ye Call the lightning. rock Rock rumblers.
01:20:25
Kyle
Rock rumblers.
01:20:25
Vesz'rak
and and with And with that, I guess um I'm going start the charge.
01:20:26
Doc
yeah
01:20:30
Vesz'rak
I'll go in first. I'm going to pop Divine Sense, Brian. Hold my Sunsword aloft for light, and I'll go in with the boys.
01:20:33
The Blade's Edge
Okay.
01:20:39
Doc
And I'll cast attack magic at first level as a ritual.
01:20:40
The Blade's Edge
All right.
01:20:41
Kyle
I'm ready.
01:20:45
The Blade's Edge
Okay, so that'll take 10 minutes to do so you guys will wait outside for a bit.
01:20:48
Doc
Sure.
01:20:50
Doc
ah Yeah, that's cool with me.
01:20:52
Vesz'rak
I start walking in.
01:20:52
The Blade's Edge
Well,
01:20:52
Kyle
ah Okay.
01:20:53
Vesz'rak
I see Doc sit down.
01:20:54
Kyle
Like, oh, i guess we're not doing it.
01:20:56
Vesz'rak
I go, oh, okay.
01:20:56
Doc
Sorry.
01:20:58
Vesz'rak
I turn around. I go, okay, sorry.
01:21:00
The Blade's Edge
um Okay, so as you guys head in, I will go ahead and read you.
01:21:06
Trevor
I'm doing something.
01:21:08
Doc
I'm doing something. Also, um I don't know if you guys have your dark vision on, but my character doesn't have dark vision, so that's why I use the torch, Bri. um I can't see anything the blackness unless that's what everyone else sees.
01:21:16
The Blade's Edge
Cool. and ah towardsrch a torch will give you, you will emit, is it 30 feet?
01:21:18
Vesz'rak
i got a hundred and twenty feet baby
01:21:20
Doc
Hell yeah. 20 feet?
01:21:25
The Blade's Edge
What is it, 20?
01:21:26
Doc
think it's 20. Yeah, let me check the in.
01:21:27
The Blade's Edge
Is it a bright light or low light?
01:21:29
Doc
It's 20 feet of bright light and 20 additional feet of dim light.
01:21:32
The Blade's Edge
OK, so you should see the 20 feet now, and you should see the low light as well.
01:21:41
Doc
Yep, got it.
01:21:42
The Blade's Edge
Cool. And you guys should also, be you know, his token is now emitting that light.
01:21:43
Doc
Heck yeah.
01:21:47
The Blade's Edge
So if you don't have it, ah it might have increased the range that even you can see.
01:21:54
The Blade's Edge
um
01:21:54
Doc
Delightful.
01:21:55
The Blade's Edge
OK, so detect magic and a what did you say?
01:22:00
Vesz'rak
divine sense
01:22:01
The Blade's Edge
Fine sense. Okay, so... As you enter, icy steps descend ten feet to a time-ravaged hallway with arrow slits in the walls.
01:22:15
The Blade's Edge
Beyond the hall lies a vast sepulchral darkness.
01:22:23
The Blade's Edge
um With your divine sense, I think you get just a general... Um, what's the range on that?
01:22:36
Vesz'rak
It looks like it, i think it's 60 feet.
01:22:40
The Blade's Edge
Okay.
01:22:41
Vesz'rak
and me take, oh.
01:22:43
The Blade's Edge
So from where you currently are, that would be...
01:22:44
Vesz'rak
Yeah, 60 feet.
01:22:48
The Blade's Edge
Okay, so from where you're currently standing, you get a general, like, ping of just, like, evil from this place, ah but nothing within 60 feet of you. ah detect magic, ah similar.
01:22:59
The Blade's Edge
ah You get the... the presence of magic within this place. um I would say from where your current, where your token currently is, um there's magic within this place, but nothing pinging quite yet.
01:23:16
Vesz'rak
Got it. ah Well, I'll lead the charge. Shield up. I'll i'll go in.
01:23:21
The Blade's Edge
Gentlemen, I'm going to tie up Phillip and Scylla and leave them out here.
01:23:26
Vesz'rak
Okay.
01:23:28
Doc
Yeah, sure. We'll be back for him. Probably.
01:23:34
Vesz'rak
If only we had some sort of bag that could hold them. But they do have to breathe.
01:23:40
The Blade's Edge
Yeah, you're not putting my my wife and child in a bag.
01:23:44
Vesz'rak
Look at... I'm already inside. Sorry. I can't see you.
01:23:55
Doc
Okay. They're tied up.
01:23:57
The Blade's Edge
you guys may continue.
01:23:57
Kyle
ah I got to walk in.
01:23:59
Vesz'rak
right. I'm going in.
01:24:02
The Blade's Edge
All right.
01:24:02
Doc
I'm following Bash.
01:24:04
The Blade's Edge
So, stall the dock. As you get to right in the middle of that hallway, your detect magic will ping that to the right, to the east...
01:24:15
The Blade's Edge
um you are getting a um magical uh ping from let me see exactly where it is to be okay from kind of like right on the other side of this wall that you're you see the arrow slits um in this wall for this this room right here um
01:24:40
Doc
Oh, those are arrow slits?
01:24:40
The Blade's Edge
ah
01:24:41
Doc
Cool.
01:24:41
The Blade's Edge
Yeah, there's... Yep. The ice steps 1010 feet to a time-rider's hallway. The arrow slits in the walls. Beyond the hall lies the vast sepulchral darkness. You see the arrow slits on the right and left. The arrow slits on the right. You look and see that there's a look like a wall, like a room in there. There's no guards in there or anything.
01:24:57
The Blade's Edge
um ah Two arrow slits are carved into the west wall of this. So you're looking in from the hallway, which is the west part of that room. The room looks like it's 10 feet high, 20 foot square.
01:25:07
The Blade's Edge
And you are getting a ping of magic from inside that room.
01:25:12
Doc
Okay. um I relay that to the group and say we could maybe start by going right.
01:25:14
Kyle
you
01:25:21
The Blade's Edge
Yeah, there is no door. There's a wall with arrow slits.
01:25:23
Doc
I mean, the path to the north and then to the east.
01:25:26
The Blade's Edge
Yeah.
01:25:26
Vesz'rak
To the right. Yeah, I point my sunsore. I see the doors are cracked open to the east. I see something in there, but I can't really make out what it is. It looks like something in the ground, maybe.
01:25:39
Vesz'rak
and then I see some doorways to the west.
01:25:45
Vesz'rak
And I see a big statue to the north with a huge statue with his hands kind of together.
01:25:52
The Blade's Edge
Sure, so from where you're standing, you're standing on a sort of an overlook, just on your little bit further in.
01:25:55
Vesz'rak
Yeah.
01:25:58
The Blade's Edge
You are on a 20-foot wide, geez, a 20-foot wide balcony of black marble. So as you guys enter this place, when you come down the icy steps,
01:26:10
The Blade's Edge
You are standing on sort of this very elegant, decadent black marble, like blacker than black marble. You look down at the floor and you're like, this is darkness beyond which I've ever seen.
01:26:26
Vesz'rak
Hmm.
01:26:26
Doc
Oh, freaky place.
01:26:26
The Blade's Edge
this
01:26:27
Vesz'rak
That's saying something.
01:26:27
Doc
Yeah.
01:26:28
The Blade's Edge
This balcony has a shattered railing which overlooks a vast temple. ah Black marble staircases at each end of the balcony descend 30 feet towards the temple floor.
01:26:39
The Blade's Edge
ah The vaulted ceiling is 30 feet above the balcony. So if you were on the floor, um you would be the the ceiling would be 60 feet above you. But because you're 30 feet above the ground, the ceiling is only 30 feet above you. Does that make sense?
01:26:55
Vesz'rak
Yeah, I getcha.
01:26:56
The Blade's Edge
Yeah. The walls and the ceiling are covered in an amber glaze. lending the room a golden sheen. So all the walls and the roof are all covered in this sort of amber glaze, similar to the
01:27:09
Doc
Amber has always been used for preservation.
01:27:12
The Blade's Edge
similar to the statues outside. A set of amber doors stands closed at the west end of the balcony. A similar pair stands open to the east.
01:27:23
Doc
wonder where they got all of this amber.
01:27:26
The Blade's Edge
And for the for the statue, since you can see it on your on your page here, um you see four black marble columns support the vaulted ceiling of the temple.
01:27:27
Vesz'rak
Uh,
01:27:40
The Blade's Edge
At the north end of which stands a 40-foot tall statue of a cowled ah figure in flowing robes. um the statue's stony hands are outstretched as if in the midst of casting a spell.
01:27:56
The Blade's Edge
ah Its face is a void of utter blackness. The ominous statue stands between two marbled ah black marble balconies. So you see balconies on the other far side of this room as well.
01:28:09
The Blade's Edge
One of which has a partially collapsed has partially collapsed and fallen onto the temple's black marble floor in front of an open doorway. ah The walls of the temple are sheathed in amber, and the doors leading from it are made of amber as well.
01:28:24
The Blade's Edge
Arched hallways coated with amber lead from the temple to the west and to the east. You're looking down from the balcony at this point. ah Flanking these exits are alcoves that hold white marble statues of robed human wizards with pointed hats and golden stabs.
01:28:41
The Blade's Edge
One of them has toppled over and lies shattered on the floor. That's what you see below you. ah You guys are currently on the balcony up here.
01:28:52
The Blade's Edge
um And that everything I just described was sort of over by that 40-foot tall statue down there.
01:29:01
Doc
Oh, probably be good to explore down there.
01:29:05
Vesz'rak
Yeah, there's doorways this way. Big black marble this way can hedge.
01:29:10
Doc
Hang of magic from around here as well for my detect magic.
01:29:13
Vesz'rak
So I'm going to head to the right to the east, Brian, towards the open doorway.
01:29:18
The Blade's Edge
Okay.
01:29:19
Vesz'rak
But mainly, I just want to kind of head downstairs because that seems like what we want to do.
01:29:24
Kyle
Wait, where was that ping of magic that was close to us? Like here?
01:29:27
Doc
Right here, just...
01:29:28
Vesz'rak
here
01:29:29
Kyle
But in front of us is a wall?
01:29:31
Doc
Yeah.
01:29:31
The Blade's Edge
Yeah, it's a wall with two arrows slits. You do not see a door.
01:29:37
Doc
I would be heading towards these open doors because I want to see if the hallway moves to the south in this room.
01:29:45
The Blade's Edge
Sure.
01:29:45
Kyle
just follow you guys.
01:29:46
The Blade's Edge
um Cool.
01:29:48
Vesz'rak
It looks like it does kind of go towards the south. Standing from the outside.
01:29:52
The Blade's Edge
So as you're outside that room and you look inside the room, ah this room is featureless except for a rough edged 10 foot diameter circular hole in the floor.
01:30:05
The Blade's Edge
So that's what this is it as a hole going downward in the floor.
01:30:05
Doc
Oh, sheesh.
01:30:05
Vesz'rak
ah boy. Oh, it's a hole.
01:30:09
The Blade's Edge
um you You see the 10-foot diameter circular hole the floor to the east, and an empty tor you see empty torch sconces along the walls. ah you As you just you know peek in, double doors of amber stand open to the ah ah north, as well as the amber doors that you're standing by that are also open.
01:30:31
The Blade's Edge
So as you just sort of peek in and look left, you see that.
01:30:34
Doc
Okay.
01:30:36
The Blade's Edge
That's what you see from where you're standing.
01:30:38
Doc
Yeah, um I would walk into the room.
01:30:42
The Blade's Edge
Okay, ah you see a single door to the south right here that is closed.
01:30:43
Vesz'rak
I'll go in as well.
01:30:48
Doc
Okay. So that might take us to the the room with magic in it. um And I have my torch and these are there are no torches in these sconces, correct?
01:31:01
The Blade's Edge
No torches in the sconces.
01:31:03
Doc
and Okay, no torches in Wisconsin. um I have torches in my bag. I could light them all up.
01:31:13
Doc
Put them in here, but maybe that's a little too Zelda of me to want to light every torch in a room.
01:31:22
Vesz'rak
Could just take a peek down the hole, Brian?
01:31:26
The Blade's Edge
Sure. Make a perception check for me.
01:31:32
Doc
as the legs of a Kraken rip you into the hole.
01:31:36
Vesz'rak
I hope not.
01:31:37
The Blade's Edge
twenty two um with With a 22, how long does your divine sense last?
01:31:43
Vesz'rak
ah One round, so six seconds.
01:31:45
The Blade's Edge
Okay, so it's probably gone by now.
01:31:47
Vesz'rak
Yeah.
01:31:47
The Blade's Edge
um the The hole in the floor forms a roughly hewn shaft that descends 20 feet, then looks like it breaks, like that shaft looks like it breaks through the ceiling of a room.
01:32:01
The Blade's Edge
So it looks like there's a room down there that you could just drop into or somebody could climb out of potentially. Seems like a pretty hard climb.
01:32:08
Vesz'rak
Yeah.
01:32:09
The Blade's Edge
Um, the shaft, however, has abundant handholds. So the climbing actually would seem pretty easy. Go down and up. This is a tunnel that leads from this room to some other room, 20 feet down below.
01:32:21
The Blade's Edge
Uh, with a 22 perception too, I think you maybe hear the vague whooshing of something.
01:32:23
Vesz'rak
Cool.
01:32:31
The Blade's Edge
You hear a vague whooshing sound.
01:32:31
Vesz'rak
Just something was just whoosh.
01:32:35
The Blade's Edge
You hear like a
01:32:38
Vesz'rak
Like wind?
01:32:41
The Blade's Edge
Like if somebody was holding a torch and very quickly like moved it from right to left, you know, the whooshing sound you'd hear from like the fire.
01:32:48
Doc
Oh, yeah.
01:32:49
Vesz'rak
oh yeah, yeah,
01:32:51
The Blade's Edge
That's what you hear.
01:32:52
Doc
ah I like that sound. yeah That was a good sound, Bri.
01:32:55
The Blade's Edge
Thanks.
01:32:56
Doc
um Cool. Then I'd look back to the group that's hanging out outside the doors and say, hey, I'm going to go check this door out.
01:33:05
Vesz'rak
I'll stand guard.
01:33:08
Kyle
I'm coming to the room here.
01:33:10
Doc
And let's see. I am going to investigate the door.
01:33:16
The Blade's Edge
Okay. The
01:33:18
Doc
Plus nine? The twenty one.
01:33:21
The Blade's Edge
door is not locked, nor is it trapped.
01:33:23
Doc
All right, I open the door.
01:33:25
The Blade's Edge
Okay. You open the door, you head into this
01:33:37
The Blade's Edge
I should note at this point that ever since you guys have entered this place, this entire temple, the Amber Temple, is a cold, dark place. It's carved out of a snowy slope of the snow-covered Mount Gakkas area.
01:33:54
The Blade's Edge
And as you guys enter in here, the temperature throughout this place, as you're sort of all in now, is ah roughly, if you're Fahrenheit, negative 10 degrees Fahrenheit Celsius.
01:34:07
Doc
Oh.
01:34:07
The Blade's Edge
This would be negative 23 degrees Celsius.
01:34:10
Vesz'rak
It's super cold.
01:34:10
The Blade's Edge
So i at this point, I do need everybody to make me a DC 10 constitution saving throw. Unless you somehow have resistance to cold damage or immunity, right?
01:34:20
Vesz'rak
Um...
01:34:23
Doc
25 from Doc.
01:34:25
The Blade's Edge
Cool. Doc, you're good. It's just cold. It's very cold, but you're good.
01:34:28
Kyle
Last seven.
01:34:29
The Blade's Edge
Anabi's good.
01:34:31
Kyle
Eighteen.
01:34:32
The Blade's Edge
Bash, you're good. ah
01:34:33
Doc
All right, Dasan.
01:34:35
Vesz'rak
Does it? I don't know if the sun sort of emits heat.
01:34:39
The Blade's Edge
It does not.
01:34:40
Vesz'rak
Okay. Well, rats.
01:34:44
Doc
It's okay, you got this, it's just a 10, right?
01:34:45
Vesz'rak
All right.
01:34:46
Doc
It's just a 10.
01:34:46
Vesz'rak
Yeah, it's just a 10. Colin, save, plus two.
01:34:49
Doc
Oh my gosh, 12, didn't need it.
01:34:49
Vesz'rak
12. Didn't need it.
01:34:50
The Blade's Edge
Ridley Valentine also rolled a 12. ah Nobody gets a level of exhaustion.
01:34:57
Vesz'rak
Oh, my God.
01:34:58
Doc
Oh, freak.
01:34:58
The Blade's Edge
But it is so cold in here that you get the sense like at the top of every hour, you will be making this check again.
01:35:06
Doc
Yeah, I feel my my joints are kind of creaky, but I'm focusing in on the magical energy.
01:35:06
The Blade's Edge
Stalbadok.
01:35:06
Kyle
Fire.
01:35:11
Doc
um that I noticed when I came into the room, or when I came into the temple for the first time. And I'm kind of trying to just like feel along the wall to see if I can get a sense of there being another room on the other side.
01:35:23
The Blade's Edge
With a detect magic still up because it lasts 10 minutes and with the 21 investigation check, ah you do see that there is a secret door set into ah the wall right here.
01:35:40
Doc
Oh-ho.
01:35:41
The Blade's Edge
ah That ah can be opened.
01:35:44
Doc
Okay, um I will check it to make sure that it's not tripped or trapped.
01:35:48
The Blade's Edge
Yeah, not locked or or trapped, but it just just hidden.
01:35:49
Doc
Okay, then I cruise in.
01:35:55
The Blade's Edge
right, as you cruise into this place, you see that this is X2B.
01:35:56
Doc
Oh, shit.
01:36:02
The Blade's Edge
Sorry, X2B guard room. Got it.
01:36:04
Doc
A wizard prison.
01:36:05
The Blade's Edge
ah You see that the two aerosluts are carved to the west wall of this 10-foot-high, 20-foot-square room. Slumped in the northeast corner is a skeleton wearing a blue wizard's robe and clutching a wand to its chest.
01:36:19
The Blade's Edge
The wand is what is radiating magic.
01:36:22
Doc
Oh, okay.
01:36:22
The Blade's Edge
You also get the sense that this is a wizard who froze to death.
01:36:22
Doc
i
01:36:27
Doc
Oh, shit. Yeah, well, I have a wand inside of my my apparatus, and so I would like to grab that wand, see if it's special.
01:36:36
The Blade's Edge
Okay.
01:36:38
The Blade's Edge
Nice. Yeah, you have the wand. If one of you guys has the identify spell, you can figure out what it is immediately, otherwise on a short or long rest.
01:36:48
Trevor
I do, I can do that as a ritual.
01:36:50
Doc
Sure. all come out back to the group
01:36:57
The Blade's Edge
Cool. Do you want to do that now?
01:36:58
Doc
and yeah do you want to do it Disan or sorry Inabi yeah no I got it let's check it out and I hand it over to you Inabi
01:37:01
Trevor
Uh, yeah.
01:37:03
Vesz'rak
Yeah, I ain't touching that thing.
01:37:14
Trevor
Cool, yeah. I will, uh, take the next 10 minutes to cast identify it.
01:37:20
Doc
Identify it. Cool.
01:37:22
The Blade's Edge
Cool. ah You guys have found a wand of secrets. The wand has three charges.
01:37:26
Doc
Ooh.
01:37:27
The Blade's Edge
While holding it, you can use an action to expend one of its charges. And if a secret door or trap is within 30 feet of you, the wand pulses and points at the one nearest to you. It regains 1d3 expended charges daily at dawn.
01:37:41
Kyle
wow
01:37:41
Doc
Wow. um And how many charges does it have presently?
01:37:42
Kyle
That's crazy, actually
01:37:44
The Blade's Edge
Three.
01:37:45
Doc
OK, cool.
01:37:46
The Blade's Edge
Enough dawns have passed since this guy died.
01:37:49
Doc
All right. um Inabi, do you want to hold on to that? Does that require attunement or is that just a...
01:37:55
The Blade's Edge
No, no attunement.
01:37:56
Doc
Cool. I'm happy to hold on to it.
01:37:59
Trevor
Yeah, that's fine.
01:38:00
Doc
Okay. So I will add Wand of Secrets to my inventory and then somebody else can do something.
01:38:08
Doc
Secret it.
01:38:08
Vesz'rak
Hey, Bash, are you still shirtless, by the way, are you wearing some sort of clothes?
01:38:15
Kyle
I remember. When did I take my shirt off?
01:38:19
Vesz'rak
You're – yeah, when – you got nips out in your portrait.
01:38:19
Doc
When did you put your shirt on is the question, yeah.
01:38:23
Vesz'rak
I'm just worried that you got to –
01:38:26
Kyle
Oh, oh, no, I could have sworn that like someone needed something.
01:38:28
Doc
His diamond cutters are out.
01:38:33
Kyle
So I had to take my shirt. Like, didn't someone need clothes? Wasn't one of you naked at one point?
01:38:39
Vesz'rak
Probably. That sounds like me.
01:38:40
Doc
That was you, Dasan.
01:38:44
Vesz'rak
But are you shirtless right now is my question.
01:38:47
Kyle
Um, yeah. Yeah, I can't lie.
01:38:53
Vesz'rak
Nips. How are nips feeling in this? What is it? Negative 23 Celsius.
01:38:57
Kyle
They're going through it. They're going through it right now. You ever seen that, uh, I think it was the Mighty Ducks where they go into the locker room and their jackets are frozen and he punches the jacket and it shatters.
01:39:00
Vesz'rak
yeah
01:39:10
Vesz'rak
Ugh.
01:39:12
Kyle
That's what would happen if you slapped on my nips right now.
01:39:12
The Blade's Edge
yeah
01:39:16
The Blade's Edge
um I'm going to say while you took 10 minutes to cast Identify, um Valentine is going to, he says, um I'm going to put something at the entrance of this place to let me know if somebody enters behind us.
01:39:34
Doc
very smart. Is that the alarm alarm spell?
01:39:36
The Blade's Edge
alarm spell ritual. He takes out a a tiny bell and a piece of fine silver wire. And for eight hours, if anybody enters through the front door of the Amber Temple, he will be alerted that that has happened.
01:39:54
Doc
All right.
Mysterious Encounter & Episode Conclusion
01:39:55
Doc
Good to know. Nice moves. Smart man.
01:40:00
Vesz'rak
yeah Okay, so we could either go down the hole, go back to the main area and go down the stairs go see the statue with the black void face, or there's this hallway down here, which looks like I can see like a series of doors in here with my dark vision.
01:40:17
The Blade's Edge
Yeah, there are a series of doors. Also at this time, detect magic is no longer up as we've taken 10 minutes to um do that.
01:40:24
Doc
Mm-hmm.
01:40:27
The Blade's Edge
You do see in front of you this hallway to San as you've been looking. You see glazed amber covers the walls of this 20 foot wide, 70 foot long arched corridor.
01:40:43
The Blade's Edge
ah You see the amber doors at both ends are open and there's a closed door in the middle of the east wall and three arrow slits are cut into the wall across from it.
01:40:53
The Blade's Edge
So you see like over here, like looking into the main area, you see other arrow slits.
01:40:56
Vesz'rak
Yeah.
01:40:59
The Blade's Edge
Cracks in the black marble floor run the length of the hall.
01:41:06
The Blade's Edge
So the black marble floor that you've been on in this hallway, the floor is very cracked.
01:41:14
Vesz'rak
Hmm.
01:41:16
Doc
This place is fucking cool.
01:41:19
Vesz'rak
I guess where do you guys want to go first? Like Bash and I'll be ready guys feeling.
01:41:25
Kyle
um Honestly, that super dark marble, like in the beginning, piqued my interest.
01:41:34
Vesz'rak
The big statue.
01:41:35
Kyle
Yeah.
01:41:36
Doc
Yeah.
01:41:36
Vesz'rak
Let's go big statue.
01:41:37
Doc
Let's check it out. Yeah, let's go.
01:41:38
The Blade's Edge
Yeah, so the super dark marble, just so that you're aware, Bash, is the floor.
01:41:42
Vesz'rak
Oh, you mean right?
01:41:42
Kyle
r R R R R.
01:41:43
Vesz'rak
Oh, right here. Let's jump down.
01:41:45
Kyle
It wasn't that wasn't it in like like downstairs over like in the main room? Or it's just this one?
01:41:50
The Blade's Edge
Yeah, downstairs there's ah there's a 40-foot statue that his whole face is is like blacker than black. ah But the black marble, that's the darkest thing you've ever seen. um'm just That was me just me describing the floor you're walking on.
01:42:02
Kyle
Oh, oh, oh.
01:42:02
The Blade's Edge
The floor everywhere. So the floor in here, the floor down there as well. The floor on the stairs, the floor in this room, although it's cracked. ah But yes, there is a 40 foot tall statue ah whose face is ah yeah very dark as well.
01:42:16
The Blade's Edge
But yeah, just so you know, totally down with you going in that room.
01:42:18
Kyle
Oh, gotcha.
01:42:20
The Blade's Edge
Just letting you know.
01:42:21
Kyle
Yeah, i'm I'm down for statue of other...
01:42:25
Doc
Let's do it.
01:42:26
Vesz'rak
Alright, statue time.
01:42:27
Doc
Good with me.
01:42:30
Vesz'rak
I'll walk ah down the stairs of the statue, bro. Let's go bash. Bird bros.
01:42:36
Kyle
I can't... Is invisible wall?
01:42:40
The Blade's Edge
Oh, you can't go down there.
01:42:42
Doc
Let's see, can we click and drag?
01:42:42
Kyle
No.
01:42:43
Doc
Can't click and drag.
01:42:45
The Blade's Edge
Interesting. I don't know. No, that is just a, ah that is a malfunction of whoever made this map. Let me go ahead and go now. You're good.
01:42:53
Vesz'rak
My stairs.
01:42:54
Doc
You shall not pass.
01:42:55
Vesz'rak
Oh, there we go. Nice.
01:43:00
The Blade's Edge
What's your passive perception in Abhi?
01:43:08
The Blade's Edge
Okay.
01:43:13
Kyle
Oh, echo, echo, echo.
01:43:15
Trevor
do you ask what's a
01:43:18
Doc
Damn. This is a big room. So now the ceiling is 60 feet above us, right?
01:43:22
The Blade's Edge
Now the ceiling is 60 feet above you. And going back to what I had said earlier, four black marble columns support the vaulted ceiling of the temple, the north end of which stands this 40-foot tall statue of a cowled figure in flowing robes.
01:43:34
The Blade's Edge
The statue's stony hands are outstretched in the midst of casting a spell. Its face is a void of utter blackness. The ominous statue stands between two black marble balconies. So you see that there is a balcony right here.
01:43:46
The Blade's Edge
And ah this over here that is crumbled is another balcony that has crumbled. um partially collapsed and fallen onto the temple's black marble floor in front of an open doorway ah open doorway.
01:44:04
The Blade's Edge
and The walls of the temple are sheathen amber. The doors leading from it are made of amber as well. Arched hallways coated with amber lead away from the temple to the west and east. um Let me go ahead and just...
01:44:20
The Blade's Edge
hit you with a five a That is where you are currently. ah Yeah, as you approach this thing, 40-foot tall statue. It looks to be carved out of granite. It depicts a similar faceless god, ah same as outside.
01:44:37
Doc
Interesting.
01:44:39
Kyle
The face is like, is it a dark material or does it just look like there's nothing there?
01:44:46
The Blade's Edge
um That is a good question. The
01:44:52
The Blade's Edge
ah you can make me some sort of check. You tell me what sort of check you'd like to make, whether it's perception or investigation or arcana or.
01:45:00
Kyle
um
01:45:04
Kyle
yeah um I mean, I'm just trying to to make sense of whatever I'm looking at here. So I'm just going to do a perception check.
01:45:10
The Blade's Edge
Cool.
01:45:12
Kyle
It's going to be a 24.
01:45:14
The Blade's Edge
With 24, that's high enough for you to know you travel with magic users. Its head, like where the face is that is a field of magical darkness.
01:45:25
Kyle
oh
01:45:26
The Blade's Edge
So it's like a spell. So it is just a magical darkness that fills the interior sort of of the head. It looks like the statue's head is hollow, but where the face is and inside the hood, it is ah just blackness.
01:45:43
The Blade's Edge
ah with a 24 perception check as well. um
01:45:50
The Blade's Edge
do You... Because you only need it with a 20. You know that at the base of the statue, um you see ah like two parts of the granite don't line up, and it looks as if there is a um
01:46:11
The Blade's Edge
uh like uh door secret door that would go you could open it to go inside the statue
01:46:17
Kyle
m
01:46:21
Doc
Oh.
01:46:22
Vesz'rak
Oh, secret door.
01:46:23
Doc
Can the strong man move it? Try to move it.
01:46:25
Kyle
Wait, where where is it on the... ah Where is it?
01:46:28
The Blade's Edge
on the statue right in front right at the base of the robes
01:46:29
Kyle
Like, which part? Okay.
01:46:35
Doc
up his ropes.
01:46:39
Kyle
Yeah, I'm going to walk up to the statue. And I'm just going to my hands... Wherever it seems like this thing is. and is is it like Does it feel movable?
01:46:52
The Blade's Edge
I feel like you could open it.
01:46:56
Kyle
I mean, if if this is someone's house, I don't want to disturb this whatever's living it. and I mean, they have a magical shroud of darkness on this. I'm sure they don't take kindly to solicitors.
01:47:06
Trevor
I think killed their plane.
01:47:07
Vesz'rak
Come on, get in there.
01:47:10
Kyle
Can I knock?
01:47:10
Trevor
plane
01:47:11
Doc
Howard.
01:47:14
The Blade's Edge
um
01:47:14
Kyle
I'm going knock.
01:47:15
The Blade's Edge
You knock on the door. OK. um
01:47:21
The Blade's Edge
okay
01:47:21
Doc
Maybe he's got good instincts.
01:47:25
Kyle
Well, there's ah there's a spell on this thing. Someone had to put the spell here.
01:47:30
The Blade's Edge
OK.
01:47:30
Doc
Yeah, maybe like a thousand years ago.
01:47:31
The Blade's Edge
um You knock and...
01:47:41
The Blade's Edge
um
01:47:44
Kyle
just want to see if I hear anything, any like rummaging around.
01:47:48
The Blade's Edge
um Yes, here is where we will leave off on today's session.
01:47:55
The Blade's Edge
You knock on the door and and you hear from within. you hear a voice respond and say, hello, who goes there?
01:48:09
Kyle
why
01:48:10
Vesz'rak
Oh no, spooky.
01:48:11
Doc
Oh, no.
01:48:12
Vesz'rak
Mad scientist asked.
01:48:13
Doc
It's a silly guy.
01:48:14
Kyle
Oh my God.
01:48:14
Vesz'rak
as for
01:48:15
Doc
Oh, good instincts. Good instincts.
01:48:17
The Blade's Edge
ah You have correctly identified somebody is inside the statue. the magical darkness, put magical darkness where the face is being where you heard the voice come from.
01:48:29
The Blade's Edge
um and we will pick up next time as the camera zooms out. I'll leave you with this. You hear, yes, who goes there from him? And then I'd say Inabi from where you're standing a little bit further back on the staircase.
01:48:45
The Blade's Edge
You hear a door close. somewhere behind you and to the west.
01:48:49
Trevor
I
01:48:51
The Blade's Edge
You hear a door close rather forcefully as you look and the voice rings out, echoing through this entire place. Who goes there?
01:49:01
The Blade's Edge
Who goes there? Who goes there? Who goes there? The frigid cold bashes, absolute diamond nips, a cutting through the tension,
01:49:10
Trevor
don't know.
01:49:12
The Blade's Edge
And we will pick up there next time. Thank you all for for joining us. um Once again, if you'd like the episodes a bit early or to ah see our upcoming a little foreshot that Kyle Beams will be...
01:49:29
The Blade's Edge
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01:49:32
Doc
Yes, sir.
01:49:41
The Blade's Edge
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01:49:55
The Blade's Edge
And we will catch you guys next time. Thanks so much. Bye-bye.
01:49:59
Doc
See ya!