And I'm gonna >> now I have to behave. >> Well, I don't know. I don't know if my four subscri YouTube subscribers will be offended by if you if you say the f- word one time. >> Disney will find out. >> Disney will find out. They're like, "You say the f word on a YouTube video." >> Dan's neck. >> They They got long tendrils. Is that right, Dan? >> Like Cthulhu. Um, all right. So, last time you guys were uh uh trucking around in the uh in the basement of Death House, but uh at the very end you guys were checking out the other places, looking through some of the um you know, some of the crypt, the Durst crypt, and you found another staircase going even deeper into the ground below. >> That's going to end well. And uh at that point uh your rogue and your uh and your frontline fighter basically vapored out uh leaving two clerics, a monk and whatever and whatever Dan is. So um which >> which is probably the perfect the perfect combination for whatever's down there. So So yeah. So you guys um so you guys are on so you guys start out you guys are on those steps uh and getting ready to go down. So first things first Tenzen give me a perception check and I'm going to move Velcro and Iggy down. >> I am going to also make sure that I'm still in my mountain stance. A >> wide stance definitely a good good idea. Uh uh you said perception correct? >> Yes, please. perception natural twanzo. Okay. Well, uh you >> you need those for saving throws. >> You >> I know or rolls to hit. >> So there is first you're stopping. You can the guys behind you are like making noise like what do we do blah blah blah that where did a cuda go? You know that kind of thing. And then from down the stairs you hear some noise. some sort of chanting maybe. It's very faint, but you can definitely hear it. >> It's lovely. >> It's a It's those aboriges with their with their uh >> digidos. >> Duros. There you go. >> It sounds It sounds like chanting. They're definitely voices. Um, but beyond that, you don't you're not sure what's going on down there, but you can definitely definitely hear. >> Can you move stealthily? >> Um, yes, I can. >> Might want to do that. >> You You want to try that? I mean, you don't have to. >> Yeah. No, you don't have to be crazy. start down the steps trying to be as quiet as possible. >> All right, >> guys. You know, just to remind you that that >> Faile can see invisible things. >> Natural 20 and then a one. >> What's that? Uh uh Dan Feline can see invisible. >> Yes. >> Okay. >> As a reminder, so if you want me to send her ahead, I will do that. >> Probably not a bad idea as a scout because Tenzen just tripped and fell down three times. Well, he slid a little bit on the steps. There's a little bit of moisture on those steps. He slid a little bit and didn't, you know, and but the worst part was he's, you know, missed a little step, shifted a little bit, and then reasonably loudly was like [ __ ] You know, as he was thought he was going to fall in stairs, hold himself up, and then he was like, "Wow, that was pretty loud, wasn't it?" Yeah. It didn't I don't know. >> So, yeah. So, okay, not great. Um, but you know, as turns and says, Be quiet. Be quiet. >> Uh, where is Failing? Oh, there she is. Okay. >> She's, as a reminder, she's flying and she's using Sonic. >> Sonic. Yeah, she's using like the her um her abilities. All right. So, are you are you sending her ahead? >> She is where I put her. I think that's the stairs down, right? >> And we'll start we'll start moving down if that's okay with everybody. Yeah, let's go ahead do that. >> What does does she see sense? Anything? >> She does. So, as you guys uh move down, and I've still got you guys in the in the order that you were. >> Uh she comes across it. The staircase goes down and it goes down >> quite a little bit. You're guessing probably at least 15 to 20 feet below the surface of this level. Uh and goes into I mean, it's dank down here. So, the first thing that that Bailey notices is there's a there's more moisture. The walls are are are white with that nitro potassium kind of things. Uh there's a there's a wet smell, a smell of rot almost. >> Um it's >> like the basement of a fraternity. >> It's a little uh it's a little like the basement of a fraternity house at somebody. So, I was talking about uh as a totally totally side note, I was somebody uh somebody was asking me like you know you know did you ever go to a Venture store when you were a kid? I said yes. When I first moved to Belleville, Lynn Hatcher took me to Venture, the one on uh 159 because I moved into this apartment and I had literally all of my personal possessions could fit in the hatchback of a Firebird uh with and there was plenty of space. So, I had I owned nothing. Um, and uh, I said I had to get a shower curtain. I had to get towels. I had to get dishes. And they were like, "A shower curtain? Why didn't you have a shower curtain? Where did you live beforehand?" I said, "I lived in a fraternity house. We had curtainless stalls." Uh, and they were like, "You must have lived like an animal there." And I was like, "Yeah." So, there you go. Uh, so in this in this uh, so this room the you could still sort of hear and it's not loud, but you can still hear those that weird chanting. It seems to permeate. It's almost like it's coming out of the very walls because you can know. I mean, you're looking around and you and Failen uh even Failen can't really pinpoint where the sound is coming from even with her affinity for noise and sound and sonic energy. It seems to be coming from everywhere and nowhere at once. The as she ends up the stairs kind of land at this at this sort of area and it's a strange sort of open area. The first thing she notices is that a lot of these things she uh you can see it's sort of you know the ground is very moist. Uh you know it's a dank air. There are pillars sort of in the in the middles of the place and everywhere. But what she sees mostly is like cut into the walls are like little aloves. Uh and they're all around the room. Uh and it you know and they're probably 4 feet above the ground and maybe go up to about 5 and 1/2 ft. So, it's like a little narrow almost like a a window that's carved into the stone. It's probably a foot deep. And in each one of these aloves, there are like things in them. It's hard to see from this from this distance what those things are, but there are definitely like looking across. Bailey is like looking across the room and she can see that there are like there are objects in those in those things. Yeah. >> Okay. And are those all support posts? >> Yeah, they're support posts. They're all just kind of sticking there. You can you can uh uh ignore them for the sake of continuity. >> Are are there al coes up here? >> Yeah, there are. >> Yeah, there's one right there. >> So, Failen, remembering that she's flying, is going to go a little further in. Okay. >> But she's going to try to stay away from the ales. She's just going to go to about here. >> Okay. Okay. Does she She has She has vision. Yeah. >> Yeah, she has night vision and then this sonic vision. Gotcha. Okay. So, is she like sonic visioning around like that kind of thing? >> Yeah. >> All right. So, the as far as she can tell, there's no invisible creatures or multiplaner creatures or anything like that. Although, still the she will explain to you. I I'm assuming you guys talk telepathically or >> I can never remember. Okay. So, yeah, she will tell you telepathically that the chanting noise is giving her pause because she can't locate the source. and she'll tell you it seems to be coming from the like almost like the very walls themselves down here. >> Okay. >> Although that can >> I pass it on to the rest of the group. I say she she thinks it's gross down there and there's chanting coming from everywhere and she can't pinpoint where it's from. She also sees that there is a rather than an al cove at this point here in the in the room that looks like not it's not an al cove. It looks like a little hallway going to the south and >> looks like that might be here too. >> It does. Yeah. Uh it looks like there might be another hallway there. Although there's an al cove in the middle. >> Got it. We'll convey that as well. I'm going to step forward then into the room next to her. >> Okay. >> Then she is going to go further into the room right about here. Oops. Here. >> Hey. Uh, Les, can you fix my character token? He can't seem to fit in the hallway. He's like, >> uh, you've got to hit your alt key when you move him, John. >> Yeah. Sorry. >> To the grid. >> Yeah. Otherwise, it'll snap to the grid. Yeah. If you move your if you hold your alt key down while you move them, you can put them anywhere you want. >> I apologize. The grids on this these maps >> do not I and I and I've tried to wedge them. Believe me, me. I've I have done my best here. So, uh but but it's be better. >> You notice you notice Velcro 3 is no longer wearing cloth. He's wearing chain mail. >> Chain mail. And he's got a shield. Maybe he's not a cleric anymore. He's velcro. Oh yeah. >> He's velcro three now. >> Electrical. >> Yeah. >> Alt key. >> Alt. Alt. >> I'm writing that down. Alt. >> Is the uh is the ground firm or spongy? >> Uh it's firm. It's stone. Um but it's just wet. Uh and you can I mean as you step into the room I mean the smell of moisture uh is much stronger here than it was upstairs. I mean it was sort of like dank and kind of cruddy upstairs but it was a it was dry. There wasn't any down here below I mean let's let's be honest uh the town and frankly Bovia in general is a rainy place. Um you don't know if you're deep enough in the ground where groundwater is starting to come up or what's happening or you're not sure. But um but it does it smells like water down here. Last >> I'm gonna look in this in this little >> Yeah. In the aloves are are there anything? Wait a second. I'm trying to remember what that >> uh >> so in the in the al cove that you're standing next to Zandarius that has a small box in it. >> Looking for an ambered shard. >> Okay. Give me a quick perception check. >> Tenzen and Zandarius. There's a little box in that one right next to you. And nearby this one over here. Uh there looks to be it looks like a folded cloth of some kind. >> Okay. I'm going to I'm going to um um bring up my shield and I'm going to use my neck splitter. I'm going to pull the box towards me. >> Okay. It's just it looks like a wooden box. There's no lock on it or anything. Just a little hasp. Uh, >> like I said, I'll pull that towards me. If I can flip open the the the top using my next splitter, I will. If I can, I'll use my hand. >> Gotcha. Okay. Yeah, they're inside. So, it flips open easily. And inside is a small. So, the box itself is maybe 10 in wide and another 4 in. It's not very big. You flip it open. Inside, it seems to be lined with some sort of leather. There's a distinct smell to that leather. You're not sure, but it's not it's not great. Uh, and lying on top of the leather is a dagger. Uh, the dagger doesn't look I mean it doesn't look masterwork dagger. It doesn't look all that fancy. Uh, but uh, instead of a guard on the dagger, the handle kind of comes out and it's wrapped with cord and that kind of stuff, but instead of a guard, it's like a big rodent skull >> uh, has been used for a guard. So, it's like it's like somebody took the the tang and a thing and and stuck it through this rodent skull and that's now the the guard for the thing. And it's just laying there. It's got It does It doesn't look I mean, it's just got like cord wrapped around it. It doesn't look fancy. It just is this skull on it. >> Gotcha. I I will uh I will save that for our our thief. That sounds like a weapon he might be interested in. >> Okay. Well, it looks like there's a dagger up here. >> Do you need me other I'm just going to put um rodent skull dagger. Is that okay? >> Yeah, sure. >> Okay. >> That one you're looking at, Tenzen. That other thing, it's a it's a knife. It's not a dagger. It looks like a knife. Um, but it's not made of metal. Uh, if anything, it looks like it's probably made of bone. Handle crossuard blade. It's it's it's made of bone and it's got that kind of gray look to it. Um, and it's not and it's not desiccated bone. Uh, it's still a little like it's not it doesn't have that sort of bleached whiteness that a lot of >> it's fresh found by Well, I don't know that it would be fresh, but it's it's sort of like gray. And you suspect without I mean, looking at it, the first thing that kind of comes to your mind is that bone's never been split, which means the marrow is probably still in it. >> Oh, so you're saying it's a snack. >> It could be a snack. Yes. T >> chewing on it. Uh, what is this object here in front of me? >> And that one. Okay. So, that is a bag. It looks like a leather bag, a satchel. Um, it Yeah, I mean, it doesn't look like there's there's nothing on it. It's just like it looked like a a leather satchel bag of sorts. >> Okay. We have uh our witch witch. He's a witch. um do a little um detect magic to see if any of these objects actually >> I can do that. >> And John, didn't you say you had detect traps? >> Negative. >> Oh, don't have that. >> I don't think Is that even a spell now? >> Was for clerics. >> Uh detect traps. I maybe not. I'll have to look. So, in keeping with Zezy Top's thing, if John's going as Velcro 3, can we call him Trace ombres? >> Absolutely. I I frankly I insist. >> I like it. >> He used to be fine, so I don't know if they have that anymore. >> Uh, hold on. Let me see if it's fine traps. I guess so far not. >> Trapfinder is a feat. Uh, so yeah, nothing. I don't see anything. Yeah, fine traps is not a spell anymore. We just have to do it the old fashioned way and blender into it. >> What What did the Chuck once call that? Finding traps the hard way. >> Yeah, >> actually it's the easy way. >> It hurts a lot more. >> So, I'm just going to uh put things down here uh you know next to the next to the thing. So, you guys can you guys see those? >> Mhm. >> Right. Okay. I I picked I picked it up though. >> Gotcha. Okay. Are you guys going to look at any other Oh, uh when was the uh what was the one you looked at it? Oh, it looked a bone dagger. >> Yeah, >> bone knife apparently. Yeah, it's not a dagger. It doesn't look like a dagger. >> It's a butter knife. >> It's to uh cut your caviar with. >> So, what else you guys looking at? I will >> these niches. >> Oh. Um, >> you taking a look over there? Iggy Velcro. You guys looking in those? >> Yeah. >> I'm casting uh detect magic. >> Yeah. >> Okay. Uh, all right. So, first things first. Detect magic shows nothing. None. None of the items in these aloves radiate any magic. >> I let everybody know. I will step over to the bag. >> Okay. >> And uh reach over and unfold it. >> Grab it. >> It's heavy. Uh and when you open it up, there's like a um it's filled with like a white powder uh which is clumped up a little bit. Uh and it has a it has a fairly pungent smell. Any wizards in the group right now? >> Well, you got the witch. >> Witch. >> I do know arcane. >> Huh? Can you do a uh witch? Can you do arcane spells? >> Yes. >> I'm sending you a message. >> Oh, never mind. Never mind. You can't. I know you can't. Uh yeah. So, it's it's a bag and it's full of this white powder. Probably a pound uh of this, you know, all things. I mean, it's it's kind of heavy. Uh, but it's this like white powder, but it's in clumps and it has like a ammonia smell to it. A potassium smell. >> Does it say Escobar on the uh >> No, it's as as far as you can tell, it's not cocaine. >> Velco, you want to chuck the alos above you, buddy? >> Yes. What do I roll? >> You can just look at them. >> Yeah. No, you don't have to roll that. You just look at it. Just tell me which one you want to look into. >> Stick your hand in there. >> This one right here. >> Okay. That one has a uh it Well, it has a small whizzed forearm. It looks like it was cut off of some creature about mid forearm uh and then dried in some way. There's also a piece of rope around the wrist just like tied there. It just looks like a old piece of rope. It's monkeyy's paw. >> Too small to be a human uh arm. Maybe it looks like it would be uh um sub. It looks like about the size of a kudawa's arm. H >> a monkey paw. You put that on. You can put on more magic rings than two. Checking that other one >> object less. >> Uh so that is a pendant. Uh you pick it up. It's on a leather thong. Uh it's a long long skinny pendant. Looks like carved from maybe ivory, but it has a ghoulish distended demonic face on it. I'll look at these two objects in the corner then. >> Okay. That one uh next to where you are now uh is a uh Oh, that's a head. Uh shrunken. Yeah, shrunken. Um and your guess is that it's probably was once a halflings. >> Was once a what? >> Belonged to a halfling or a hobbit. Oh, I thought maybe there's just more a kudawa spread around. >> Is that Is that a finger? >> That is indeed a finger. Uh, it's large. Larger than a than a human's finger, but smaller than say a giant's finger. Probably orcs sized, but definitely not orc. It's definitely not an orc orc finger. It's got a long and weirdly painted fingernail, which would lead you to believe that maybe it's a >> female >> female's finger. It's large. It's larger than a humans. >> H >> one of Xanderas's ex-girlfriends >> could be possible. >> There's certainly, >> you know, when I break off a relationship, I break it off. Hold on. I got to write that down. >> Speaking of, I just want to let you know that this week probably the top 64 quotes of 2025, the voting uh thing will come out. >> Okay, Velcro, you got another another niche above you. And I think a couple. >> Yeah, you got a couple off to the right. It looks like >> I'll check I'll check that one out, too. The one directly to my north when you get a chance. >> Eric uh just texted me. He said he will be here soon. >> All right. So, the north uh directly to the north of you. Uh so, this is kind of an odd one uh in that it looks like a stick. Uh, the stick itself is carved from a piece of wood obviously, but the weird part is that there is what is obviously the dried body of a frog tied to the stick. >> That be a wand of sorts. I'm not >> Well, it doesn't radiate magic, so I don't know. Maybe >> it's a wart wand. You take that and rub the back of the frog on people and they get warts. Uh, and Les, I'll check out these two here. >> All right. The one on the right is a uh, at first it's like a small uh, it looks like at first you're like it looks like paper, but you think it's vellum. It's like a little vellum envelope. Ah, here we go. Your boy Eric's joining. Uh, it looks like a little envelope, but inside looks when you open it up inside looks like the unmistakably a tongue of some sort. >> Wow. >> That honey. >> What's that mean? >> That's That's some weird stuff. >> Next to it on the left in there is what looks to be an immense eyeball. And it's probably as big around as a 12in softball. >> Holy cow. >> But it looks like it's been covered in some sort of varnish to keep it from rotting. So it's just sitting there. It's just an eyeball. >> That's kind of neat. >> Definitely definitely a a thing to put in your china cabinet as a conversation start. >> And what? just the >> Yes, >> that one uh just laying there. At first, it's about uh 6 in long. Uh it is a figurine uh of a humanoid creature, but it has been wrapped in these tattered wrappings uh that look like some sort of cloth. Honestly, the whole vibe that it gives off is mummy. Uh but it's like it's obviously a figurine. And the the figurine is is like this, but it's wrapped completely up with this brownish cloth. >> Tenzen, did you look at this object? >> Oh, was there an object over there? No, I didn't. >> Which one? >> One there and one there. >> The final one. All right. This >> This was This was like a a shroud. >> Yeah. You didn't really look at it. Looked like a pile of cloth of some kind. >> Yeah. uh or leather. Uh the last one uh in that final uh resting place over there is a um well, it's a large bone, perhaps the thigh bone of a some sort of creature. It has been whittleled down and drilled out. Um those of you who are clerics would recognize this as the sort of tool that priests might use to to throw holy water at people. >> Yeah. So, well, not a mace. Obviously, it's very much obviously not a weapon. Uh, but like sometimes, you know, when there's a blessing and they'll they'll sprinkle holy water on you. It looks like something like that cuz the holes are in it. There's obviously a reservoir that has been hollowed out of the bone, >> but it's made out of a bone. >> Aren't those originally called holy water maces? >> Uh, uh, I don't think they were made a m They're not a weapon at all. >> Yeah, it's definitely not a weapon. Eric, good to see you, brother. And I'll I'll take my ORC neck splitter and and pull on that cloth. Make sure there's nothing underneath it. >> Well, it's cloth and it's surprisingly thick. Um, let me do this real quick here. There we There's your boy. Um, so it's surprisingly thick. And as you sort of like move it along the line, at first you're like, well, it's not cloth. It's not a textile. More like a skin. Um, but it's a big piece of skin. It's like Edgar suit. >> Well, it's not a suit. It's more just like there's no head or anything to it. It's not like you would put it on. It's just cloth. But um well, not cloth. It's just like a big piece of leather tattered at the edges. Um but you're worried that if this creature was humansized when this cloth came off, when this leather came off of it, >> it's almost certainly dead now. >> Well, no worse than a softballsized eye, >> right? Well, whatever whoever's eye that is, it's definitely not human, but it's been varnished. And you can see there are layers of varnish on. >> I'm going to go over and give the rat dagger to Akudagawa. >> All right, Akudagawa. Uh uh Zenius comes over. He's like, "I found this. This looks cool for you." It's basically a small dagger. Uh but instead of a a metal guard for the hand, it's got a skull. It's the skull of some sort of rodent. Maybe a rat. But I'll tell you what, if it was a rat, it was a big rat because your hand kind of like fits in it. >> It's a New York City rat. >> It's a New York rat. Yeah. >> It's a New York rat. New York rat skull dagger. That's what we're calling it in the in the module here. >> Well, there it is. >> Since it's earlier, it'd be New Amsterdam skull rat, >> right? Good point. All right. >> And Tenzen, it looked like there was a a a passageway with a great >> Yeah. There's a a gate or something down. >> You look down there. Yeah. You want to take a You want to give me a quick perception? You going to go down there? All right. So, first things first, as you start going down, you realize immediately that this hallway is going on. No problem. Uh Eric, take all the time you need. We'll be here when you get back. Take care of the kids first. uh Tenzen as you're going down I mean the this thing goes down and about the last probably 8 feet of it water begins lapping at your boots in front of you is a porticolus which is which is down uh and you can see beyond there's a much larger room in there but it's definitely filled with water uh now you're not sure how deep your guess is you kind of stop when you hit the water and you're looking at the portal and you're guessing that probably it's no more than a foot, maybe a foot and a half deep. Uh, but you can't tell for sure because it's filled, it's got water. There's also some sort of, I don't know, plinth or or platform sort of in the middle. And you could see at the very edge, you could see uh, you know, there's like a cave entrance of some sort way down here and some stairs that go up onto what looks to be a platform that's overlooking the water, which about you know, 4t above the surface of the water or 3 ft above the surface of the water. So about 4T maybe 4 and 1/2 ft above the above the floor. Um you know there's stuff going on in there. >> Is there any place in this little hallway that I'm in to crank up the porcelus? >> There's no uh there doesn't seem to be any controls for the porticolus on this side. You look at it the porticolus is just like metal metal flat metal shavings. It's not very expensive uh or frankly very well made. Um and it's rusty. Obviously, the moisture down here is just a steel porticolus, an iron porticolus that has been oxidizing quite a bit. It's It's quite rusty. >> Well, Zezy, why don't you check that other space? Maybe there's a way to open it from that other side. >> Okay, I'll I'll walk down here and look. It appears it continues on. >> Yes. So, it turns to the your right uh and goes in there. One thing that you notice is hanging on this wall right here on what looks to be an iron spike just sort of knocked into the into the mortar between two of the stone blocks is a ring of an iron ring of keys. Very oxidized, very old, and just sort of lying there. In fact, the iron spike and the ring of keys may have oxidized to each other. >> Okay, gotcha. So, it looks like a a set of jailer's keys or watch keys. Yeah, it's not large. There's like three keys on it, but they're all very rusty. >> I'll I'll I'll walk down and and look down the hallway and then examine it after I look south. >> Okay. So, you look south and it looks like there's a central hallway going directly south and then ales off. You can see in several of these aloves are the unmistakable uh unmistakable sight of iron bars and doors. This could be some sort of >> jail. jail of some sort. You peer in the ones right next to you. I mean, if you like sort of just look in to these little aloves, >> it looks like there are skeletal remains, some of which are still attached to manacles on the wall. >> Gotcha. Yeah, there's manacles on both both walls. >> Yeah. >> And where are where are the gates for that? Just >> they're in there. Just Yeah, they're not on the mat. They're just sort of in the middle. >> Okay. Just in front of it. Okay. >> Yeah. They're none none of them seem to be closed. Gotcha. >> They're all sort of standing open. Some of them look like they've never really closed. The manicles sort of preclude the need for much additional security, but >> yeah. No, understand. Well, I'll I'll move down just there's just skeletons and in all of them and no >> uh in most of them. Yeah, there's one right next there's a skeleton right there next to you that you can see. Uh yeah, it's just bone but it's really just bones. Uh you know, a pile of bones that are laying there. It's not even It's not even hooked to the manicles anymore. The bones have slipped through uh over time. But yeah, skele definitely skeletal remains. >> Give me a quick perception check, Xanderas. >> Okay, >> 25. That's very good. Uh you do hear down at the very end, you hear what sounds like labored breathing. No, not No. Sort of some sort of like movement. Not panting. Maybe a little bit of panting. Kind of like um >> Isn't there a girl we're looking for? >> Oh, like like uh um disjointed painful sounds. >> Yeah. It doesn't It doesn't uh It doesn't sound Well. >> Yeah. Well, I'm I'm sure there's, you know, little girl down here all by herself. >> Oh, Arena. Yeah. So, you were that was the the little ghost girl told you that Arena was down here trying to avoid the monsters. >> I'll move down and peek around these corners. Are these bigger cells here? >> Yeah, some of those are bigger. There's more skeletal remains in the one to your left. Um the uh the the um the sound seems to coming look sounds like it's coming from all the way at the end of the hallway. >> Yeah. Well, again, I just I'm going to look before I >> Sure. >> walk on down. You want me to jump in front of you? >> Uh, not necessarily. More more um cells on either side here. >> Cells on either side. More skeletal remains this time scattered around. >> I will poke my head around and see. Looks like there's >> you hear >> more cells. as you look over and this is what you see. >> Trapped in one of the cells at the very end is what after your experience here you can only assume is a ghoul >> and it is chained. >> It is chained both legs and feet. It's in the last cell and it looks emaciated. Uh it looks at you and it has that little glow in the eyes. Uh and you can see it slavering a little bit. There's it still hasn't it's not so dehydrated that it it it won't salivate at the site of potential food. But you can see that it sort of begins to try and move forward and very quickly it sort of becomes uh completely uh completely exhausted. Uh it doesn't even sort of like throw itself against its manicles or anything. It can barely move >> when it looks at you. It's like >> pull out my crossbow. It doesn't even It doesn't even look like it's speaking or trying to. It's just groaning. You're not sure how long this creature has been here, but it looks absolutely emaciated. >> Well, at least they have light for him. >> That's a good point. >> Greetings. Can you hear me? >> Yes. >> Can do. Hey, Eric. >> Damn. I'm sorry I'm so late. It's been kind of a weird day. >> Yeah. No worries. No worries. We're glad to have you here. >> Still alive. >> Still alive. >> That's a good start. Me, too. >> All good. I'm glad to see you all. Hello, friends. >> Good to see you as well, man. >> I'm ready to kick zombie ass. >> All right. So, >> did you get the you got you got the rat skull dagger? >> I gave you a rat skull dagger. I'm I'm going to pull out my crossbow le and um >> in the head. >> All right. So, you take you take careful aim. Uh you get you realize you can get quite close to him without him being able to touch you. So, you end up plunking him from probably four feet away. It's a nonshot shot. Uh the go the crossbow not only hits him in the face, uh it goes completely through and you know, nothing comes out of the hole. His eyes roll up and he sort of falls backwards against the uh against the wall. Um but it's he's so desiccated that no blood comes out. you can just sort of see, you know, uh, you know, behind him if the the bolt is on the ground behind him and he just slungs back out of the thing, you know, >> and he's definitely uh um double mort. >> He's got a hole all the way through his head. >> Okay. >> So, yeah. And he's not moving. >> All right. I'm going to go and retrieve my crossbow and call a Gurudagawa forward. Maybe he's protecting a secret door. That's why they put him here. I don't I don't know. We've kind of run out of places to go. >> Well, through the great if we can figure out how to open the great. >> Yeah. >> Um if people are ready, I am delighted to show up in time to look for secret doors. >> Do it. >> Um what I shall do. >> It's um perceive. >> Well, you got to come all the way down. >> Uh yeah, perception. >> All right. And where am I? You are up in the uh room with all the the weird the weird uh the weird little museum that they have going up there. >> Yeah. >> Here. Great. Great. Great. >> Go all the way go all the way down. >> All the way down to the bottom. >> Ah. Oh, I see. I've missed a lot. I'm really sorry. No worries. >> It's all good. Okay. Um so I'm going to do perceive. I'm going to do um looking for secret doors. No. I have a silly question. It's >> the only kind I get. >> I have um that's actually the only kind I know. Um I have a perceive here and um then it says a box. It's a blue perceive box with white letters, a blue initiative box with white letters. Then a drop down and it has perception, stealth, deception, all the way down to thievery. >> Yeah, this isn't thievery. This is perception. >> Perception, thievery. Then here we go. I'm going to search for secret doors, my friends. >> 14. All right. Yeah. You search around the body of the ghoul uh and you don't uh find anything of note. This is definitely um a cell block of of of sorts. And having se seen the the skeletal remains, it sounds like well whenever this place was well, if it was if it was in turn abandoned, uh they left these people to die here. Uh if there are people, this this guy that's chained here looks like a ghoul. Uh, and now while he's a lot fresher than the skeletal remains that are in some of the other cells, he's not fresh. Uh, he's been here. >> Your guess, >> if there's a little girl, there's no way she could have gotten through that great, right? >> No, the great is probably the holes in the grate are probably >> so >> inch and a half. >> Unless she's already in that room. >> How How would she got in there? >> Well, yeah, but if they're the jailers, they know how to get her in. Well, the the keys are, you know, corroded to the wall. >> No. Yeah, but there they may have another way to get her in. >> Yeah. >> So, this doesn't look like a a way out from this room. >> Uh, no. You as far as you can tell, there's no way out from here. I would like to do a real thorough search of the whole place if I could. >> Yeah, absolutely. >> To the other space. Yeah. >> Okay. >> Let me see here. Um I'll just uh >> You're going to search all the cells, everything? >> I'm just going to search everywhere. Should I do a perception check again or >> Yes, please. >> Yes, sir. Here we go. 20 >> 20. All right. Yeah, you take your time. You search all the individual cells. you guys up in the in the museum room. Uh sort of hear him clanking around down there. Uh but yeah, Akuragawa, you don't find any secret doors. Uh no treasure or anything valuable of any kind. The only thing that you really learn from this, you know, searching these cells is that they had probably half a dozen people here at one time. >> Uh and they died here. >> That's horrible. >> They died in that prison. There was enough skeletal remains. You're probably thinking between four and six people that are just sort of scattered about. Uh some of them are still in their manacles, which means they probably starved to death. >> That's horrible. That you know, somebody who did that had a really bad attitude. >> Well, there's no water here, so they probably would not have starved. They would have dehydrated to death. >> Um >> No, I'm gonna drink some tea. >> Do you want to do a search of this room, Eric? We're trying to look for a way to open that Orcalus. Oh, >> okay. Unless we have to just brute force it. >> Um, less, if I may, I will search for traps first. >> I don't want any like falling stones or uh um what's the word for a big block of stone? There's a word for it. >> Not an obelisk boulder. >> No, there's a word for it. I forget. Never mind. Um uh I'm going to search for traps first. I may um I'm going to do perceive and 18 anything. >> No, you don't see any uh thing. How um I mean do you peer into room 38 at all or or any of that or you just searching the protocols directly in the >> right now I'm just searching for traps anywhere I see. >> Um next I'm going to search I'm going to peer. I'm going to look I'm going to just look for I don't know um a hidden lever or something. I don't know, >> anything to possibly open that door. And I roll a 15. >> You don't find any hidden levers or any or any traps. Uh it just looks like a porticolus that's been down. It's obviously got a mechanism that there. So there must be some sort of control somewhere. But wherever it is, you haven't seen it yet. >> Unless I'm going to dig around in my adventure backpack and I'm going to pull out a crowbar. >> Crowbar. >> Hand it to Tinsen. Okay, >> I'm going to step back and give >> Here, I got a universal key for you. >> I'm going to give Tenzen room to work. Actually, if there's room, I'll go up and try to help. I don't um Tendon's a big big guy. I don't know if I if I can fit in there. >> Sort of underneath between his legs. >> I'm a goblin, so I can like I don't know. Uh I'm not a strong guy. I'm a goblin. All right, Tensson, you want you want to try and I mean, what are you going to do? You try and like lift it up or you going to try pry the bars off? >> I'm going to try to pry up. That's the way it should be going is >> bring it up. Okay, gotcha. All right, go for it. Yeah, give me >> Would it be an athletics check or would it be just a strength check? >> Either will work. Tell you what, use the best Use the one that you're the best at. Uh >> in this case for strength jacket it would just be your strength bone. So probably athletics. >> Uh well yeah the athletics I think is better than just a straight >> straight strength. >> Straight strength. Yeah. >> Use athletics then. >> 26. All right. You get that crowbar down there and when you're sort of lifting it up from the bottom uh your hands are under the water so you're kind of like lifting it up. It does kind of scooch a little bit. So you think, "Well, I could probably do this." So finally, you you give up on the crowbar and you just get your fingers down under there, get them in between the things, and just start cranking up on that thing. And pretty soon, at first, it's slow going, but pretty soon you get that thing moving and it goes and it ratchets up. Now, your first you're a little worried that it's going to come slamming back down, but it looks like it's got a ratchet of some sort uh that's that's keeping it. So, yeah, you can get it four, five feet up in the air and it will stay there. >> Okay. >> I'm glad we got a strong guy. >> Do we have anything we can uh pop under it to keep it from dropping >> just in case? We can leave the dwarf here to do it. >> Yeah, Gilda. We can um >> I will go ahead and step sweep under it and step into the room then. >> Okay, go for it. >> All right. Couple of things that you see. First, to your left about 3 ft away >> is the wheel that you think controls the the porticolus. It's got a locking mechanism in place. Uh and if you go over there and sort of crank it, you can you can move the porticolus up and down. It does not move easy. It doesn't want to move uh because of the corrosion, but it will go up and down. >> I will get it all the way up then. >> Okay. >> So, so it's easier to move in and out. >> I don't want Zezy banging his head when he's going under. >> You need You better get that sucker up there. I'm 9 foot tall. >> That would be terrible. Uh all right. So, you find yourself and you are about >> The water is indeed about a foot and a half deep here. uh which means what uh thigh high on auda maybe just below the knee for for tenzen. Now there is as you can see there are these steps coming up out of the water that go onto a little sort of platform almost like an observation platform um that looks down and you can you can get up out of the water and you can stand and it sort of surrounds the whole thing. It's about 3 feet above the surface of the water. or so about 4 and 1/2 ft above what you make out to be the floor of the of the room, but it's filled with water. In the middle of the room is sort of a dis of sorts and on the dis is altar is putting too fine a point on it. It's more like a big stone table >> and it looks like it's a solid slab of block a block of stone that's just sitting there. and Tenzen from where you're standing and a Kudagawa from where you're standing as well you can see that there are obviously blood stains on it >> I will approach closer and >> okay uh beyond that you can see that there's a whole sort of cut in now this is different the this room I mean it's stone block it's uh it's done by masons right when that over there looks like it was just carved out of the wall and you can see sort of in there. There looks to be a pile of bones just thrown in there. It looks like a pretty substantial pile. It's coming up out of the water, so it must be at least a couple of feet high. >> You go over to the platform and you check it out. The platform is unadorned, raw stone. Uh it will carve stone and it's got two steps going up to the sort of top. So, it's almost like an in like a ziggurat almost. Um, the top area is probably 10 foot across at its widest. Um, but there is a space on here as you can see that it's just a stone block. The block is probably 4 feet high. Uh, and five feet 6 feet wide. Um, and there is definitely blood on there. Now, the blood on there looks old. Um, it's dark maroon. It's it's um well, not so much dry, but um but there's a but the one thing you notice about it is there is a lot of it. Uh from where you're standing on the rear of it there, there's also what looked to be lines of blood dripping down the backside of the thing. So Tenzen, in your professional opinion, more than one person died on that stone. Mhm. Um, Iggy, can you have um I forgot your >> baileen? I just moved her down there. >> Can you have her take a look in the bone area down there? >> Okay. >> South. >> So, Les is the She's using her sonic vision. >> Okay. All right. Give me a quick perception check. >> Okay. Uno momento. Get out of >> I have to Oh, I have to find not Iggy. I want pet familiar. There we go. And perception >> 14. That's it, huh? Okay, >> that's it. >> All right, Sonic. I don't know. 14 Sonic. Well, all right. So, where she's at, um, she senses something. At first, she doesn't sense anything. Then, she senses something. She thinks moving around maybe under the water over by the bones. >> Let the group know that. >> Like on the left side of the bones. Right side as we look at the map. Left side to you guys. >> Not surprisingly, she senses something back by those bones. But I'm not getting much of a of a shy about what it is. >> No, just the best that she can do is that something's moving under there. >> She can also hear >> what sounds like um so the bone movement stuff, the water something moving in the water is sort of on the left side. Sort of over here, maybe over here. It's on the left side of the bones. But she also hears something on the right side. Snuffling sound maybe. >> Oh >> no. Or kid. Or >> she moves a little bit closer so she can try to get a better feel. >> Okay. >> And maybe a reroll. >> Okay. Go for it. REROLL. I I'LL ALLOW A REROLL. YEAH, >> the suspense is killing me. 16. A little better. All right, so um first things first, uh she does see now she she does sense that thing under the water. She gets a better sense of it. Something is definitely moving around on there. It's not moving a lot. It's sort of nestled up against the bottom under the water next to the next to the pile of bones. And it sort of moves around a little bit and then it stops. Then it moves around a little bit, stops, kind of comes back and forth. It's not It doesn't look like it's like belining towards you guys. But the other thing uh she is is there's a creature in there sitting down like on a little ledge >> on the other side of the bones. >> All right, let everybody know that. And as a reminder, she's flying, so she's not in the water. >> All right. She hasn't said anything, right? Only talked to you telepathically. >> Correct. But I'm going to let these guys know here quietly. All right. We got a We got somebody in there over to the left. I It looks like >> Hey, can I see that from my vantage point or no? >> Uh, give me a perception check. It's pretty dark down there. >> I'd ask Iggy. Is it the little girl is what I'd ask when he said there's something somebody over there. Iggy, the vibe you get is it's definitely not a little girl. >> You can see something over there, but it's really dark. You can't really sense. You can't really see. >> Failen says it's a creature, not not a not a girl. >> Well, it looks like it's Radu Vali. >> [ __ ] Made a cheat. >> Whatever that is. >> Isn't that the guy who trained Batman? >> Could be. I don't know what you're talking about. Who's this Radu Valley guy? >> Uh, all right. So, Iggy, you and Failen are up on the top there. Um, Akudawa, you guys are over there. Um, anybody else? >> Anybody else looking for anything else? >> Um, let me uh do a quick search real fast. >> Okay. Of the like the platform where you are? >> Yes, sir. >> Okay. >> Um, 18. I'm just searching around whatever I can look for. See? >> Yeah. other than this sort of very sort of wet stone uh that's above the the surface of the water. You really don't see anything of note. There's no inscriptions or no uh no, you know, nothing on the thing. It just looks like that these this walkway that's on either side of this platform was there for people to get up out of the water and I don't know, potentially witness or watch what happens on the plinth. Didn't you say he was Well, somebody was sniffling. >> Do Do we still hear the chant? >> I think it was that. Uh, yeah, you definitely hear the chanting. It's again, it's diffuse. It sounds like it's far away. >> Tinsen, what do you think? You want me to tell the guy to show himself? >> Yeah, I was going to say call out to him if you >> there in the al cove of bones. Show yourself. Uh he at first there's no response and then he says if you've come to kill me then you'll have to come in and fetch me because I cannot come out. >> Uh we we are not here to kill you. Come on out. >> He has sent you to put an end to my sufferings. I can tell. >> I don't know who he is. >> Who is he? >> You know him. Him who rules him. >> My lord Lord and master. >> Oh, you said my lord and master. >> You come from him. I can smell it. >> Ah, no. Tenzen's right here. >> Is that what that smell is? >> Yeah. >> I've never smelled orc before. No, I'm kidding. >> But yeah, he's like, I cannot come to you as you well know. You will have to come and fetch me if you wish to murder me. >> I don't want to murder you. >> If you will. >> What are you doing down here? >> Uh, >> why ask silly questions? Come and finish your work. Otherwise, your master and mine will be angered at the delay. >> What? What is your name? >> You know my name. Otherwise, he wouldn't have sent you. >> We are down here looking for a little girl. >> Little girl? There's no little girls down here. Although, you might meet the baby at some point. >> The baby? >> The baby? Oh, we met the baby. >> I don't think you met the baby yet because he's snoozing around down here somewhere. >> Oh, baby. He looks He looks at me as if I might be food, but he has never as yet decided to take a bite. >> I look back to Velcro and I'm like, should should I uh fire a warning shot across his bow? >> You got your mute on, John. >> Um, yes, I would highly endorse that. Okay, as long as long as we're in agreement, I'm good with it. >> It's interesting. We have abandoned the house. >> Akuda, have you go Are you going into that room or are you standing next to the edge of the of the dugout area? >> I'm trying to stand right on the edge. >> Can I hit him with a 26 less? >> Uh, probably. Although that's going to be I mean, you're you're cutting the corners pretty hard. 26 will hit. So you hear him like a as uh uh you actually don't hit him, but you hit the wall next to him and a shower of of sparks and shards of stone and stuff rack him. Uh he's like, "Is that it? Is that what you're going to do to me?" Well, come and do it then. I have suffered in this pit long enough. >> I'm going to leave. You get >> I'm sorry. You're >> No, never mind. >> Okay. So, Tenzen, as you go closer, you get a better look uh at him. And Xanderas, as you move closer, you get a better look as well. And you can see potentially why he has not come out. And maybe you can't. >> Is he also chained? >> Cuz it's dark. He can't come out. >> Let's try this. There we go. >> Oh, I see. >> Oh, he's chained, huh? So, as you guys peer in there, you can see that there's like a little stone platform at the back of the cave, and the water is flowing in here, and he's just sitting on it, and he's covered in chains uh and and chained to the uh that there's like a little stone block uh that's sunk almost entirely in the water. There's trash and everything sort of surrounding him in the water. Uh and he's just sitting there. >> Do you have a drinking problem? Wow. >> Yeah. I don't know why. There's a lot of there's a lot of wine bottles in this picture. So, I mean, I think it's just trash that little >> His name is Jack and he's waiting for Rose to return. >> So, he he looks at you as you >> the door >> as you guys are peering in. He sort of looks at you. He's like his my master has uh found new tools and servants. I don't He He peers forward. He's like, "I don't recognize any of you. Where do you come from, Kresk? We don't serve you. >> Looks like a a vampire of some sort. >> Yeah, he does look like a vampire. >> Uh, excuse me, sir. Are you a a vampire? >> A vampire? Oh, a vampire? No. No, not a vampire. No. But uh I >> f then >> I do need blood to survive. So maybe you give me just a teeny little bit. And I'll tell you what I know. Kreskies. Uh those Pete Kresque, I know that you live in your in your little fort and uh uh uh historically everyone in Kresk has been enemies of my lord and master, but apparently you've switched sides to become his become his executioners. >> I was I was looking for the note. I remember um we had a note that said um um the house that um Strad had given the house to somebody else. >> Okay. >> And I can't find >> this one. Uh, >> my dear servant, Alco Dober, >> enclosed, you will find the deed to the house that I'm sure you will agree will not only full payment for your services to my estate, but also a deserving award for your good deeds and charity to my beloved Bovian people in the church. >> I I will ask him. Yeah, I will say, are you a Leo? >> I don't know a leo. Is he the man who owns this house that they decided to imprison me in and wait for me to die of starvation? Come, if you have any mercy in you, you'll give me just a teeny bit of blood before you chop my neck off, >> before you remove my head. I don't feel like donating blood today, but come on, little one. Just a little sip. >> Maybe some plasma. >> Just the teensiest bit. Just a taste of my old my just a little taste would be good. >> How about some brandy? Goblin brandy. >> I cannot drink brandy >> with all the bottles sitting around him. He's >> so um >> I'll drink some goblin brandy. >> So, uh Velcro, do you are you an undead specialist of some sort? >> I have undead lore. >> Give me some undead lore. One undead lore coming up. >> Hit me with some undead lore. >> Yeah, I'm trying to figure out what's going on here. So, let me just Zarius, did you just blast him again? >> Try to >> uh 20 will hit him. Did you want to hit him? >> I do. >> Okay. Uh undead lore. All right. So, uh first things first, uh you hit him. Uh and the lance. So you know he lets out a yell and falls backwards in uh in the chains. He first he looks dead. He falls backward. His head is is is in the water. He sits there for about a minute and it's like comes back. What's that? >> So this is this is a verm machine. >> So undead lore velcro. Uh as you as you look at this creature, you can see he's not a he was right. He's not a vampire, but he's definitely a spawn of a vampire of some kind. >> Do I know about spawns and what they're about? >> Well, vampire spawns. All right, so vampire spawns are typically servants of a vampire uh that will um they're not full vampires, although they do have to drink blood. They are um they are subject to light. Um they do have some of the powers of a vampire, but not it's they're not they don't have the same powers as a full vampire. Uh, typically a vampire can choose to make another full vampire, which is sort of a it's a it's a lengthier process. Or if they just flat out kill somebody by drinking their blood and then put a little bit of their blood back in them, they make a spawn. A lot of vampires, at least in the in the books that you have read back in Golaran, a lot of uh vampires will create spawns uh as servants, messengers, that kind of thing. Uh they're not they're generally not as powerful. They're generally not as intelligent um as vampires. They don't have the same kind of powers, but they are subject to the same kind of problems like need to drink blood, are subject susceptible to bright lights, the sun, they can't they can't exist in the sun very long. Uh that kind of thing. You suspect this guy is a is a >> I asked Vulra, does would this thing take damage from uh holy water? Blessed water? >> Definitely would. >> Well, I I mean I can whack I can whack this guy. Do we want any information out of him? Because I need to put him at rest. That's >> I was thinking about blessing the water since it's all continuous and making a big bless. as you guys as you guys are sort of uh as you guys are sort of talking about this he's kind of peering forward as he comes back and you know you could see his back like he looks down at the charring on his chest where you hit him and uh he's like you are not my master's servants who who are you who are you that have come to this place only my master's servants come to this place >> well we're trying to find a little girl and you can help us and we'll put you on at peace or what do you want what do you want >> don't help will make you into pieces. >> Yeah. >> What was this little girl's name? Perhaps I have encountered her in the past before my imprisonment. My unjust imprisonment. >> I forgot what the kids called her. Um >> Arena. >> Arena. >> Do you tell Radu that? >> Yeah. >> Yeah. >> He laughs when he hears the name Arena Kolana. Oh yes, I certainly know her name. my master's true love. Or so he claims. I know that he searches for her. If she was here, he would have had her long ago. >> I know the name. >> Well, we'll tell him that the Durst children >> told us she was here. >> I know of no children other than the baby who even now seeks you. Can you feel it? He says to Kudo, "About the baby." >> You feel the baby. >> The baby boy, my baby. >> A dingo. Eat more, baby. >> Here comes the baby. >> All right. Uh, >> here comes the baby. And out of the water, directly in front. >> Get us out of this picture, Le so we can >> directly in front in front of uh Akudagawa, something emerges quickly, scufflingly out of the water. And it looks like this. >> Oh jeez. Another another >> Let's roll for >> It's like a glibbering mother. initiative. >> Uh, don't forget to click on your guy to roll initiative. >> Baby alter. >> Was that the uh was that the baby from um what's his face? >> Another vampire. >> No. >> No. The the serv the uh babysitting girl. The um >> uh what? >> Walter was the baby's name. >> Mistress. Maybe this is the actual baby as opposed to the ghost baby that you guys ran into that blended into the thing upstairs. >> Yeah, the mistress. Wasn't that uh was it the mistress? >> Yes, >> the wet nurse. >> Wet nurse. There you go. >> I'm trying to find I'm slow. >> It's next to your perception. >> Thank you. Thank I even talked about it previously. Boy, >> nice. >> That baby's going to get going to go night night. >> Baby's got the drop on you, though. >> Oh, well, that's a fast baby. Jeez. >> Fast baby. >> That's a fast baby. >> This is the best of my This is my top top speed. This is the best I could do. Baby's faster, >> too. >> Get the Gakuda guy was like, "Get in my belly. in my belly, baby. >> All right. So, the baby comes emerging after Radu says, "Here comes the baby." >> The baby comes jumping out of the water and just like sploosh and leaps on AKUDAGAWA WHO IS LIKE BABY. Uh >> he doesn't want anything to do with him, but uh he attacks. >> Damn, baby got a 28. >> Oh no. >> Baby's tough. >> Yeah, nobody puts it in the corner either. So, so this baby, as you guys saw, has multiple mouths. >> Oh jeez. >> So, all of them are trying to bite you at various places on your body. >> Eric, was that a pun? This is going to suck. >> This is going to suck. >> All right. He gets four bite attacks. >> Oh my damn, >> that's a lot. >> Two 17s, a 22, and a 24. Which of those hit you? Um, >> I think his AC is your AC 19 or >> AC is 18. >> 18. All right. Two. >> It's 19 because you you went up last level is what I Either way, it's still two hits. >> 19. 19. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. >> No, no, no. 19. >> It's two of four hit. >> You take eight points of damage. >> Oh, wow. >> And the baby is now latched on to you. >> Oh, great. And you can mama. You could feel it kind of like, >> oh, that's >> it's trying to suck your blood out. >> Oh my god, that's horrifying. Eight points of damage points of damage badly. Um, >> but it's your turn. >> Frontline fighter. >> Uh, wow, that hurt a lot. Um, it's my turn. All right, I'm going to try to slice this baby off of me with my dog slicer. Um, >> you had it out so you don't have to draw. Slicer >> is >> all right. >> Here comes the dog slicer attack. Here we go. Um, dog slicer. >> 18 will miss. >> Oh man, >> that baby is moving fast. >> That's a fast baby. I I I'll try attack two. Here we go. >> Another 18. Another miss. It keeps dodging out of the way while still hanging on to you, >> boy. Here we go. A five. >> And a five. Three misses. All right. 10's in Europe. >> Get this baby off me. Uh, I will step forward. >> You hear a guy yelling out, "GET THIS BABY off me." >> And then I will, uh, do a flurry on it. >> All right. You just punch in the baby. >> Yep. Punching baby. >> All right. Here we go. >> Huh. Why didn't it >> I don't >> try this instead. >> 27 is a hit. >> And let's see if the second one hits. Nope. Uh, six is a miss. >> Okay. So, uh, baby needs to roll a fortitude saving throw or be stunned and lose one action point or one action. >> Go to stunned one. >> Yeah. >> All right. Fort save. Well, it's a baby, so fort save isn't super good. It's kind of a weird baby, though. >> To say the least. >> All right. What's the DC on that board safe? >> Uh, hang on a second. 18. >> Rolled a natty 19. So it is not stunned. >> Nope. >> It continues making sucking noises on Audawa's arm. >> Oh jeez. >> And can I move to this point, Les? >> Uh, there's wall there. You might be able to use an athletics or an acrobatics check to sort of leap over the baby. Well, I'm trying to get get it into a um uh so I'm flanking it for bonuses for >> you'd have to you'd have to sort of go around it which would require an acrobatics check to sort of like slip past it because the wall comes out all the way to this edge. >> Uhhuh. Okay. I'm going to have to I'm going to tell Ask Tenzen to when it's his turn to back up some so we can try to get it into a uh >> Oh, a kudawi. You mean? >> Yeah. Ask him to back up when it's his turn so that we can sort of flank it when we can. >> Well, it's attached to me. I think >> it is. >> So, it'll be easy to >> Yeah. It doesn't I MEAN, IT DOESN'T WEIGH THAT MUCH. It's a baby, you know. I mean, how much could it weigh? 20 pounds. So, is it technically in this space or is it in his space? >> Uh, both spaces. >> Probably. Yeah. You know what? It's small. I'm going to give it to you. You know what? That's That's probably right. It's attached to him. >> Small. >> It's on him. >> Then can I step into that space? >> Yes. >> Okay, that's what I will do. >> Do you want to step into that space or do you want to step past him? Because if you get into here by the bones, you still be flanking. >> Oh, really? Yeah. >> So, you're saying like this? >> Yeah. >> Okay. >> All right. So, you punch twice. Uh, flurry of blows. One one >> uh uh >> one attack. >> And that's one action, but I stepped forward previously. >> Oh, then I stepped again. So, >> right. So, that's three. Okay. So, that's your three. All right. Iggy. Shit's getting wild over at the game. >> Belone. I'm sorry. I don't know the name of your recctor. It's not clear though, but um do we think this is undead? >> The baby? >> Yeah, >> you could do it baby. >> You could you could do an undead lure. A quick one as a free >> reaction. Velcro that was aimed at you. >> Yeah. Um but it's not my turn. I don't know what I can do. >> You can do it as a free action. You can do another free action. >> Oh, I Oh, I can do that. >> Yeah. Yeah. Got it. Sorry about that. I thought you were >> I got that. >> Well, couldn't Zezy do it, too? Do you have that, Tom? >> Undead lore? You're not sure? >> I don't have undead lore. >> I mean, uh, >> that's what happens when you roll four. >> I mean, if it is undead, it's like no undead you've ever seen before. >> Well, okay. I'll give it a shot. I'm going to cast disrupt undead at it. >> Okay. >> Is there a spell? >> I'm going to guess it's undead. a scan trip. >> He needs a 18 Fortitude >> check. >> I think it's I think that's legacy, isn't it? >> Uh I can check. >> No, you cast this before, too. The disrupt undead, didn't you? >> Yeah. >> I thought we both had this. >> Um maybe right. I >> Zezy. Have you done it? >> Yeah, Disrupt Undead is one. >> I don't have that spell. No. >> No. >> Oh, gosh darn it. My bad. Sorry to interrupt. >> All right. So, you're casting disrupt undead. >> Yeah. >> It fizzles out. Although Radu is like, "Ah." Um, so if it's not undead, which you after you cast disrupt, you realize it is not. Um, does it still have I mean, it's a lance of energy. Does it still hit it? Does it still cause damage? >> That's interesting. That's the write up. It doesn't say it can only be against undead. So I think so. Disrupt and dead is the legacy EF2E, not the remastered. The remastered version is Vitality Lash. >> Oh yeah, it's Vitality Lash. That's true. So you demolish the target's corrupted essence with energy from creation's forge. Vitality damage. So yeah, it would not it would not affect it. >> Okay. So then the second thing I'm going to do is >> I do have vitality. >> Now that was wait a second. Uh that was a Yeah. >> Two actions. >> Well, hold on. Hold on. >> Two action spell less. >> Yeah. >> So, it targets one creature that's undead. >> Correct. >> Or otherwise has void healing. So, >> correct. >> We're seeing this guy blast him and nothing happens. >> Correct. >> All right. It's not undead. >> All right. So, you did a >> Nobody else needs to waste spells at it. >> That's That's called No, that's good. That's called Recon by Fire. >> It's just a regular baby. >> Exactly. Just a regular baby. >> There's nothing regular about this baby. Um, I will then cast a um a hex called Needle of Vengeance and I will name Audawa. >> So now every time the baby does anything hostile towards Akudagawa, it has to make a um DC18 will check >> and if it fails, it takes two points of damage. Interesting. >> So it is connected to him and trying to suck his blood out as we speak. Does that kick in immediately? >> Well, probably when it >> Yes. I mean, basically his next action. It has to be an action. So it's his next turn. >> Next action. Okay. All right. Wow. Okay. Wow. >> That's awesome. That's awesome. >> So you're trying to, you know, wean the baby off the mother stealing milk. >> Yes. Souring the milk. >> Sour milk. >> Speaking of sour milk, it's Zandarius's turn. >> That's pretty cool. >> That is cool. Weird, but cool. >> I'm going to divine I'm going to divine lance it. >> Lance it. The baby or Radu. >> Uh uh the baby. >> Okay. Lance me, baby. Two actions. Attack 11. That is a miss. The lance goes flying back into the cavern and you hear Radu like stop it. >> I'm going to step to get a little higher view of it. >> Okay. >> All right. That should be three. >> That is your three. Hey, Velcro. >> All right. Um, so I really can't see the baby. >> Yeah, he's right there. >> Oh, yeah. He's right here. >> Baby's right here. >> Oh, okay. Well, step up or stay right there. Um, we're going to uh >> decisions. Decisions. >> Yes. I'm going to read this spell. >> Okay. Would you like to share with the class? I tell you what, while you're doing that, let me take a quick quiz. I'll be right back. >> Obliterate baby. >> Perfect. >> Baby spell. >> Perfect spell called shut your mouth. >> Shut your mouth. >> Put that baby in the corner. I could have sworn that thing was undead, man. That thing looks like it's undead. >> Yeah, probably less didn't roll, so we know it's not dead. He didn't even attempt the same old glimmering milder. Yeah. >> So, I got to look. >> Man, did it get cold in Florida? >> It is not. You know, it was 88 today here. >> Wow. Damn. >> Yeah. It's pretty wild, isn't it? >> But it's going to go a low of 29 next Sunday. So, next Sunday, I'll be freezing my butt up. So, literally you are 80 degrees warmer today than I was. >> All right. Uh, >> Velcro, what are you doing? >> All right. I'm going to move on up and just crush it with my flail. >> Oh, you're going to flail it. All right. Just ring down on top baby's head. >> Uh, yeah, that's a flanking 24 will hit. Uh, all right. The flail comes crashing down onto the body of the baby. uh who is making sort of like weird sucking sounds in Auda in between Audawa going ah this is gross. Uh but the flail comes crashing down on the baby. Uh and the weird part is it feels so I mean it doesn't you've hit things with a flail before and it's like crunch you know when you hit flails. This is like it feels rubbery like there's no bones in it like it's amorphous. Uh but definitely the flail hit it and uh it um let me let me see if this will let me just roll. >> Yeah, he lets go of a Kudagawa. >> Okay. >> And begins making sort of like a weird kind of like noise. >> Did it look like he got hurt? >> Oh yeah. >> Oh, okay. >> You basically knocked him off of a Kurugawa. >> I like it. I'm going to do it again because it's so >> All right. attack. >> Oo, a miss. Sploosh. The flail. The flail goes into the water. Splashing tends gets in his eyes. E. >> Okay. Uh, that's my three actions. >> Uh, yep. Okay. So, that's the end of round one. Baby is getting even angrier. And this time he attacks Velcro, spins, and launches at Velcro. So, that's an action. Then he's going to get a single uh Oh, well. Yeah, he gets normally he gets like four attacks, but in this case he gets a single attack. So, one second. >> Just when you need a baseball bat, >> tennis racket >> 22 to hit you. Velcro. >> Oh, yeah. >> It does. All right. So, that is >> Hey, so how do we calculate armor class? Is it If I'm proficient in the armor, is it plus my level or no? >> Not. Yes. >> Huh? It's not taken. All right. All right, I'll figure that out later. >> Uh, give us damage. >> All right, first bite, uh, is four points of damage and then he gets another bite at you. 18. >> Um, >> oh, wait. 13. That's minus five. >> Okay, miss. >> 13 is a miss. Okay, so that will be its attacks. It did not get do enough damage to you to latch on. Although the the mouth that bit you has a bunch of these like lamprey like things and he's like >> as it's trying to get at you. >> Awesome. >> Auda, you realize that that lamprey thing was on your leg. You look down there's like these this like circular sort of semic-ircular wound on your on your leg uh where it got you and you can see there's blood sort of dribbling out and sort of a bit of yellow ooze around the edges. It's gross. >> Like a little leech. Okay, that's horrible. Is it my turn again? >> Yes. >> Yes, sir. Well, you know what? I I I'm just horrified. I I I'm shocked. I'm going to hit it again with my dog slicer. Here we go. >> Does he get bonuses to hit now? >> Flanking >> the flanking bonus. Yeah. >> Well, I rolled an 11. >> 11. Even with flanking bonus plus two, that's not going to be enough to hit your your dog slicer. now nicknamed the baby slicer. >> Uh, splashes into the water next to the baby. >> I have a hit. I'm not a frontline fighter. Um, I wish. >> Clearly, you could roll better than that, though. >> Yeah, that was what was that roll? It was a uh roll was a three. >> Hit him again. >> Or an eight. Sorry. >> All right, I will hit hit him again with a an eight. >> Yeah, that's not going to help. So, >> I'm gonna >> Wait a second. Wait a second. Why are you getting a minus4 modifier? >> I had no clue. >> Well, that's his second attack, so he loses. >> Oh, yeah. Never mind. That's it. >> Number three. >> Three misses again. That's three whiff. That's two whiffs in a row. >> I think we have >> very similar to my whole day. >> I'm sorry, dude. >> It's okay, though. >> Uh I think we have to take back. However, I don't know that legitimately you can call the dog slicer a baby slicer at this point because you have not you haven't sliced the baby. >> Nothing. >> Yeah, Tenzen. >> He rolled a three, a four, and a four. Poor >> that stinks. >> I rule. >> All right. Smack the crap out of it. >> And a miss. >> That's so >> Everybody's missing the baby. >> Oh, man. >> Another miss. >> Hit hit the baby. You're conf You're >> I'll give it A THIRD TRY. OH, NOTHING. >> NOPE. Three misses. >> Don't feel bad, Audawa. >> We can't even call Tenzen a baby puncher anymore. He's lost. He's lost it. >> All right, Iggy. Iggy, you're reeling from the realization that it's not an undead. What are you going to do? >> I hate the fact that it's not undead. >> Everybody's crowded around it, too. >> Go to the fire. >> That perfect is surrounded by people. You're like, blame all They won't. >> I I need to make a spell attack roll against the target's AC. >> Okay. >> To deal damage. >> What spell is this? >> Um, ignition. >> Ignition. All right. >> So, I get plus eight on the attack. I'll just roll a d20 plus eight. >> One second. >> Where is it? I don't see. >> If I hit it, it does 2d4 fire damage. >> Okay. Is it like a ray? >> Um, it can be either I either am shooting fire out of my fingers or I can use it as a uh touch attack. >> Okay, gotcha. So, you're just like, >> yeah. >> So, is Radoo laughing at us right now? >> No, he's not. Radu is watching the show. He's trying to figure out what the hell's going on. 20 is a hit. Huh? >> Barely. You slither a flame. So Tensson and BELER ARE LIKE, "WHOA!" as this like ray of flame, this little this little flamethrower like jet comes shooting through and does five points of flame damage. The baby lets out a as the flame hits it. It didn't like that. And it kind of ducks down and as it's doing so, the flame kind of turns to it and steams up a little bit of the a little bit of water next to it. It didn't like that at all. >> All right. Is it a >> third action? Yeah, that was two actions. My third action is to maintain my hex. Um, but now change the name to Velcro. >> Okay. Gotcha. All right. So, the hex is on Velcro now. The needle hex. >> Yep. >> Gotcha. Xandarius. >> Well, >> now I'm just going to say now time to do something super fun attacking. So, I'm going to move. >> Okay. >> Splash through the water. >> Sploosh. Sploosh. >> I'm going to go there. Xander is about to do something super funny. I can feel it. >> And I'm going to either chop off the baby's head or a kua's whichever comes. >> Okay, great. >> What are you using? What? I mean, what's the weapon? >> The orc neck splitter. >> Oh, neck splitter. You're going to split some neck. This baby weirdly does not seem to have any obvious neck. >> That makes it difficult. >> Yeah, it's just a baby splitter at this point. 22 is a hit. >> 11 >> 11 points of damage. The next splitter comes down and crushes that baby. Blood and other fluids begin flowing. It looks like regular blood. And you can hear Radu is over there. Uh Tenzen, you you look over and you see Radu is like he's watching. He's like >> uh as blood sort of pours out into the water. He's like, "Throw me the baby. Get in my belly." Uh but yeah, that was a significant cut from the next splitter. Now the baby splitter. >> What? Yeah, that baby split. The baby splitter. It's still uh kicking. >> Uh yeah, still up. >> All right, I'll take my third action. Second attack. >> Okay, 23 is a hit. More damage to the baby. Not quite enough to kill it, but it's got big slashes across it rubbery body. The >> the water around you is filling with blood. And Rad is you could see him. He's like, you could hear so tension, you could hear him sort of struggling at the chains. He's wanting to come through. It's potentially I mean, you're not an undead guy, but uh you think that maybe he's he's pulling at the chains trying to think. You're guessing that Radu hasn't eaten for a while. Uh because that blood in the water is making him go a little berserk. >> Wow. >> Velcro, now is now is the time. >> Finish it, Velcro. Finish it. >> Velcro to show his baby killing abilities. I shall kill the baby. >> Knock both her out. >> All right, I got that. I got that. I got that. >> Yeah, we're going to go and just whack him with the flail. >> Flail whack. Here it comes. You do get uh uh uh >> plus two. >> Oh, I didn't even think the flanking bonus. >> Well, you didn't need it. >> Yeah, 17 plus two is 19. Not quite enough, but it's a miss. Just barely. AC20. Wow. >> I know. That's pretty tough for a baby. >> That's one tough baby. >> He's just super fast and rubbery. I mean, he's flashing around, you know, biting people, biting you, biting a Kudigawa. Kudawa is still like my leg. >> Um, okay. We're going to go ahead and just cast a divine lance at him. >> The lancer and a miss. That lance goes in the water, steams up. >> And do you get the flanking bonus for that, too? 18. >> Yeah, but he needs a 20 to >> 20 to hit. >> Well, [ __ ] balls. Okay, >> I'm just asking for for future reference. >> Round two. Baby Valter's turn. >> Round three. Yeah, >> he's surrounded by potential delicious enemies. >> That's it. >> I'm going to roll I'm going to roll a D4 to determine who he tries to bite. Uh, one is a Kuragawa and then we go clockwise. So, here we go. This is C. Two is Xanderas. He's gonna try and bite Sandarius. All right. >> Seems logical. I just I just gave 19 crap out of him. Yeah. >> Yeah. So, he leaps uh well, sort of lunges forward. Uh and his first attack will be a delicious eight. That's going to be a miss. >> Yes, sir. >> His next attack, he's going to keep chomping. In this case, it's only this. And a seven. So, two misses, I'm assuming. >> Yes, sir. with a eight and a seven. Okay. Uh that is baby vter's turn and now it is a kudigawa. >> All right. >> Baby your reputation. Here it comes. Baby chop. >> All right. Here we go. And I'm going to do my dog slicer. >> A sun chop. >> Natural 20. So critical damage. You want to chart? It's not going to matter. 20. The the 12 points of damage is more than it has. >> Uh in fact, it has six point. Oh, but tons of people have hit it. So no verm chance here. Why is it a critical? >> Uh, he rolled a natural 20. >> Oh, natural 20s give you a critical. >> Yeah. >> Oh, okay. I thought you have to confirm it. >> Oh, yeah. No, I thought in the these new in the PF2 rules if you want to use >> Oh, no. That's that's that's fine. I didn't know. >> Yeah. So, we're going to we're Yeah, we're not going to confirm anymore. Uh, if you get a critical, it's a critical. You can take the chart or the damage. >> He took the damage. The damage was sufficient enough to kill it. He basically comes down hard with the with the dog slicer, reearns the title baby slicer, and chops the baby in half. Uh, the two pieces sort of fall together. Blood just pours out. You guys are standing in this muck, this water, and blood is just everywhere around you. It seems like twice, three times as much blood as might ordinarily be in a baby. Uh, it's everywhere and the two halves sort of float on the top for a minute and then sink below the surface. I was going to say before they sink, grab them up and take them over to the altar and stick them on the altar. >> All right. So, you're going to stick dead Walter on the altar. >> Y >> All right, no problem. You slash your way across there with the two pieces and and stick them up there. >> Uh, give me a perception check. >> Everybody or >> Yeah, everybody. >> See, >> I'm I'm here. Okay. Ah, >> Cuda with a 25 Xanderas. So, Auda really you're the only one. A Cuda as everybody's sort of tends and grabs up the pieces of the baby and sloshes over to the thing. You hear from upstairs, seems pretty far away, but it's above you. You hear sort of a weird rumbling sound. goes on for a couple of seconds and then dies away. Nobody else seems to have heard it. You definitely sound. >> Yeah, like a rumbling almost like rumbling. >> Like an earthquake, but it wasn't an earthquake. Nothing down here shook. Nothing like that. Uh it was just like a >> And it comes from where? >> Above you. >> All right, guys. Something It sounds like something heavy shifted above in the ceiling. Um >> you think not even the ceiling. You think way above? I mean, it sound like pretty far up. Maybe in the house. >> Are we still hearing that uh disembodied enchanting? Chanting. >> You still hear the chanting? It's It's gotten to be sort of like background noise, but you can definitely still hear it. >> Okay. Uh less actually. Um so Radu is probably like, "Hey, can I have some baby? >> I'll take some baby if you guys aren't doing anything with it." >> So yeah, Radu sort of sits back and he's I mean, you guys sort of see him. He hasn't said anything, but he's definitely looking as the blood in the water sort of dissipates and, you know, osmosises out into the, you know, sort of filters down and dilutes. Uh, he's staring at it. You can see there's a little bit maybe of saliva, sort of thick saliva coming in one corner of mouth and you can see him kind of like wipe it away uh as he focuses on you guys. He's like, "You are not my master's servants, are you?" >> We still don't know who you are. >> Who are you? Where do you come from? >> What gave it away? Killing the baby. >> Bunch of baby killers. >> I might be a vampire spawn, but I'm no baby killer. Uh, so he's like, he seems genuinely curious. He's like, "You're not here to slay me on behalf of my lord." No. Why are you here? >> To slay you on our own behalf? Well, >> I knew you I knew you'd come to I I assumed you'd come to slay me, but you play word games with me. Are you or are you not my lord and master's venture and slaves? >> I still don't know who your lord is. >> Velcro, I I I put a general message out there. >> We aren't anybody's slave, so it's pretty safe to say no. >> Do I know how to kill a vampire spawn? >> Give me a Give me a lure. Yeah. I mean, >> they die in the regular way. They I mean, you you plunge a steak in their heart and cut off their head. >> We'll destroy undead work on them. >> Sure. >> Somebody go back. >> But as you guys as you guys are sort of batting around is like, "Do you guys remember how to kill a spawn?" Oh, yeah. He's like, Rado is like, "Wait, wait before you slay me wait before you slay me. If you are indeed not servants of my master, I am now believing that you are not. >> And you still haven't told. >> I dare not speak. He says I dare not speak his name. Not here. Not in this place. >> But you know who I serve. >> Nope. >> The lord of the lord of this land. The count. >> The count. >> Always serve the count. >> Somebody go back and get a shitload of stakes. >> What's that old phrase? I saw it online. It was like uh somebody two people are talking. And it's like one person asked, "Who's your favorite vampire?" And the guy says, "Uh, the count from Sesame Street." >> Uh, and then or he says, "That guy from Sesame Street." And the other person says, "Well, I don't think he counts." And I said, "I assure you that he does. >> He actually >> So he said he basically says count." And you guys are you guys interpret that mean he's serves Strod, but somehow Strad decided or somebody decided to put him down here to starve. He's like, "If you if you release me, you have my word. I will not I will not harm you in any way. >> I will leave this place. You will never see me again." >> But >> what did you do to piss off him? >> Yeah. >> I failed in my mission, >> which was >> Go ahead. >> Uh I was to kill uh a certain a certain person who had outlived their usefulness. That person escaped me and my lord was not happy. And so he punished me by placing me down here to starve to death. >> How do we know you will not go forth in the land and cause great harm, great evil? >> What sort of creature do you make me out to be? Of course, I will cause harm and evil. I must feed. But I can tell you that I will never serve my master again. >> Look, it's looking pretty grim for you. I I'm I'm going to be just totally clear. Um I'm a goblet. I got a dog slicer. Um I'm I'm probably going to chop off your head. Um because I >> I'll just put you out of your misery. Don't worry. But um I uh listen uh can you tell us do you know any of the Durst family >> Xandarius? Was that a test? >> That is a test on the vampire spawn. >> You're shooting the vampire spawn with Vitality Lash. >> Yep. >> All right. >> Well, do I have a It's a fortitude save. >> Fortitude save. Yes, sir. >> All right. One second. >> Should that have gone up? That for two save or does that look right? >> No, that looks right. >> Uh, I don't know. >> Your DC looks right. Yeah. >> All right. Fort save. Oh, he's got a pretty substantive fort save. These guys are generally tough >> and a Kuragawa once he falls back dead, then go chop his damn head off. >> I will. I'm going. >> Uh, he made a save. Uh, so that's a basic. So, he takes half of that damage. So, okay. Uh, all right. So, he's talking. He's like, "Let me go and let me go and I promise I will not I will not be devil this place." Akudaga asks, "Hey, do you know the Durst family? Do you know the people who live here?" At which point, a blast of energy comes flipping by, crashes into this guy, and throws him back against the chains. Uh you see him sort of thrown back. He he his eyes roll up in his head, and he falls back again. He falls backwards into the water. Uh this time, you guys wait a few minutes. He doesn't seem to be moving. >> Huh. >> Okay. >> Cuz it cuz it goes after the corrupted essence. >> Yeah. He's just he's just laying there in the water. His head is sort of back in the Frank. If you if you peer over, you can see that his face, his neck has missed the edge of the stone block. And while his arms are sort of stretched out, his head is literally under the water. >> Good to go. Go >> chop it off. Go. I'm going to go forward and uh use my uh dog slicer or whatever it's called. Now, I'm going to slice off his head. >> All right. So, you go over there. You move through the trash and the water over to this box. And it looks like this stone block is carved. It was placed here and the chains are sort of, you know, lodged in it with these big sort of metal screws. Uh so, he's lying back. He's sort of you sort of wiggle your way to the back of the thing. You pull his hair up. Uh, and he's just like, you know, he looks he looks >> well deader than he was a little while ago. But, um, but yeah, you take your dog slicer and you begin chopping and it's like it's not working as good. You have to start sawing away at it and it takes up energy because I mean it's remarkable. He's really tough. But yeah, eventually you have to kind of crack through the vertebraes and that kind of stuff. But eventually you rip off his head and you have it in your hand held by the by the uh by his stringy gray hair. >> Okay. Wow. Okay. Um, >> throw it on the bone pile. >> Yeah. Actually, look through the bone pile just in case. >> Actually, can I do do a search of the room? >> Sure. Or >> you want to look around for the bone pile and stuff like that? >> Everything. I'm going to look around. >> Okay. Natural 20 on the perception. All right. Yeah. So, you kind of poke around in the bone pile. Uh, you don't see anything. Uh, uh, you don't see anything really valuable. There's a lot of bones here, though. There's probably, your guess is there's probably the bones of at least 15, maybe as many as 20 people, >> all different ages, sizes. Uh the bones are just sort of like disconnected. They're not connected to anything. It's just a pile of sort of dis disambiguated bones. Uh but it's definitely um I mean, you see you probably see you just looking at the top of it, you see half a dozen skulls of various sizes. So, uh, yeah, as you poke through there, you're thinking probably 15 people, maybe more, depending on how Yeah, I mean, I don't think you dig around in the water to try and get in your hand infected, you know, with bones and stuff. But, um, but yeah, a lot of people. They're they're old, though. There's no meat on any of these bones, any tendons. They're just bones. So either they the flesh and and and viscera were blasted away before the bones were stored here or they rotted here in this water. >> Huh. Well, it's kind of gross. >> Do we have another way to go or is this it? >> As far as you can tell, you haven't found any other doors. You haven't found any other thing. You still hear that sort of chanting down here. It seems to be centralized in this room. >> The chanting is >> The chanting is, but you don't see anybody. It's just and Failen will say the same thing. It continues to sort of like it's almost like it's emanating from the walls themselves. >> Did Did we examine that that slab that we're baby vters on >> other than taking a look at it? Yeah, you saw it's covered in blood. So, uh according to Ten Tenzen took a look at it earlier and basically he's like people died here more than one. >> Uh but beyond that, I mean it seems it's not it's not like an altar. It's not carved in any way. It's basically just a big sort of rectangular stone slab that got muscled up onto this onto this disas and people have been getting aced on it. >> Gotcha. Well, I'm I'm at a loss of where to go now. >> You said we heard a boom or something come. >> It was it was a distant rumbling sound as though many levels above. Um it it it sounded like maybe something heavy moved or um uh something heavy fell. Um did it sound like machinery less or rocks? >> No, it was not like rocks or machinery more like well the if there had been any vibrations around here you would chalk it up to like an earthquake. It was that sort of like a low rumble. >> Okay. Um >> um but it wasn't machinery. It was like it was it was earthquakey like uh something shaking but it wasn't here. It was else it was above you. Way above you. >> Does it repeat? >> No, it's just the ones. >> Just the one time. >> Yeah. With your perception, it happened just a few seconds after you bisected the baby. >> Oh boy. Um, possibly baby related event happened about us. >> Baby related event. >> Well, you guys remember when you were in that one room that you determined might have been the like wet nurse's room? Uh, and that weird little >> Ruby crawly baby ghost thing came after you guys and then that you guys guys killed it and it sort of blended into the bed and then the and then the little baby blanket thing reappeared in the in the changing room. Yeah. >> Um maybe that has something to do with this. >> Okay. >> Interesting. >> Uh less actually I'm going to u >> So can we can't set pork reset the porcelus? >> Not from outside. >> Could I hook a rope on it? >> Maybe >> go around the corner and give it a tug to see if it would drop it. Yeah, you can sort of like unhook the latch with the rope kind of thing. Yeah, you might be able to rig that up. >> Only reason I'm going to say that is I'm going to take the baby's head >> and put it in one of the al coes over here. >> Well, okay. Gross. Um, >> and then drop the thing so if the baby eventually tries to get back together with itself, it can't get through the pork list. >> So, everybody give me a perception check. Uh, >> the baby tries to come back together. They've had, can you see that? How sad would that be? The baby's body and the head are trying to They're like reaching out. Little tendrils going through the ports. >> Miss you. I miss you, head. I miss you, too, buddy. All right. Uh, >> I'm totally grossed out about him taking the baby's way. >> So, Velcro, Tenzen, and Audawa. as as Tenzin is walking off with the baby's head going, I'm going to go put it in the thing. Um, you you sense a subtle change in the chanting. So, before the chanting, all that that that chanting that you heard, it was weird, but you couldn't make out any of the any of the words, right? And you kind of, frankly, got used to it. uh with all the baby talk and the and you know with Radu killing Radu and all that kind of stuff. But now those three of you that that got uh above a 16. >> Yeah. >> You're going to hear words now and they're saying it's a phrase and they're saying >> one must die. >> Uhoh. >> One must die. And it begins to get louder. >> One must die. One must die. >> One must die. >> All right one. We'll kill it. >> Move through with the baby's head and bring it up. >> But we might have to might have to sacrifice somebody on the altar. I guess the dwarf's the only one that can't say no. >> Well, we the vampire. We sacrificed the vampire. >> It keeps getting louder and louder. One must die. One must die. >> You remember that? They remember that shaking noise, that earthquake noise. You hear it again. Stronger upstairs. >> Something's going on in the house. And this time it doesn't stop. Something is >> upstairs. One must die. >> Big. Um, >> what I'm going to do >> probably need to go upstairs. >> I'm gonna hide. >> You're gonna hide down here. >> Well, hold on. If it's coming down here and it might >> No, it it it's coming from upstairs. >> The sound is upstairs, but it doesn't seem like it's moving towards you. Although it is getting louder. Now all of you can hear it. Something is rattling, booming, kind of. >> It sounds like It sounds as if some sort of kaiju like King Kong has grabbed out of the house and is like shaking it. >> Wow. Wow. Okay. Um, >> Velcro, why don't you come out of the room and I' I would like to reset that if we can. >> One must die. >> Are these the stairs up? >> Yes. >> Um, okay. Are these stairs up here, too? >> Yes. >> So, if I go up these stairs, we see >> we'll be going into the next. Yeah, we'll be >> Can I stealth? Let's I want to do a scout mission. I want to try to stealth. I want to try to hide in shadows. Okay, go ahead and roll uh uh roll the that shadows thing as you guys are. So you guys So all of you as you move through thing now, did you do the porticololis thing? >> Yeah, I wanted to pull it to drop it again. >> All right, give me what skill would be used for something like that. >> Or can I get a Kudigawa to do it before I go? He's probably better at it. >> Uh potentially. Yeah. >> Okay. Um you know what? I will try that. What? What? What should I roll? I wanted to tie a rope to the the porkless. >> Well, no, no. Take take the rope and pass it through. So once you pull it, then you can regain your whole rope. >> So just loop it. >> Yeah. Well, I mean, we still have to pull it cuz I don't want to be on that side. >> No, I get it. Just loop loop the rope around and you have both ends and you bring it back through. And then once you pull it, then you let go of one end. Then you can pull the rope back up. So you don't lose your rope. >> Not my rope. Whose rope is it? >> Yours. >> Well, definitely use my rope. >> All right. Do you have like a a device check or some sort of skill? I'm trying to find a list of the all the skills and uh >> fevery would be the only one I >> Thory. Yeah, it's probably the best one. >> Would it be stealth roll? >> No. No, it would be thievery because you're rigging it up. >> It's either thievery or survival, maybe. >> All right. So, thievery. I I will do a thievery roll. Here we go. And I roll a 20. >> Mhm. >> Roll the 20. Okay. So, yeah, you managed to get that down. You rig a rope up and you get, you know, and you get over by the where the uh portal is. You give it a yank and the porticolus comes slamming down. At this point, the voices get louder. One must die. One must die. One must die. You hear all this. It's almost as if uh the foundations of the house is beginning to shake. Uh, as you guys are going through like the little museum area, there's dust and debris uh kind of like, you know, uh, falling from the ceiling. Something bad is happening to this uh, uh, thing >> to this house. >> You may need to get the heck out of this house. >> Yeah. Move up. Head upstairs. >> ONE MUST DIE. ONE MUST DIE. And the voices are getting like they were like humanlike voices, but now they're tortured, strange, and un unweird. This is getting weird. >> All right, so you guys running up the stairs. You get up into that that one room and you begin going through the that that area over to the over by where the crypt is. And again, if anything, it's even stronger now. Um you uh uh you feel like this house uh so pieces of stone begin falling off the ceiling in front of you, dodging around them, trying to get out of the way. Um it's almost if the house is trying to trap you. It's you feel like the corridors are narrowing like arteries. Uh, >> why don't we go up the one ladder, >> right? The escape the escape ladder. >> Puts us right onto the first floor. >> Oh, that's right. You want to do that? >> Yeah, I think so. >> That's what we'll head for. >> All right. You scoot over there. You get to there, blow that open. You can see the you look up, the ladder is still there. Everything's still there, but the the trap door is just like vibrating. Um, you know, as uh as as you guys go up the ten, I'm assuming you're in the lead. >> Yeah. You go up there, you throw open the trap door, look up, and at that the moment that you look up, you see a couple of glasses fall out of that thing because you guys are in the den, right? >> Um that one area. So that thing is over there, the car where the cards are, glasses fall over. It looks you look around, the whole house is shaking. Uh the moment he the rest of you, the moment he opens up that that doorway, you the noise suddenly it's a cacophony. Uh Tenzen, there's a there's a bad smell in here. You look over and you remember how the shutters were closed in many places. The shutters are now vibrating. They're >> knocking back and forth. Glass. You could feel the glass. You hear the glass break on the other side. >> I'm heading for the front door then. >> All right. So, you're cooking up. I need a reflex save from everyone. >> Whoa. >> Okay. >> Would All right. Acrobatics or athletics help with any of that? >> No. Got to be a reflex save. >> Okay. Is that just a straight? Oh, no. I see reflex. Never mind. >> It's got saving throws with reflex. >> Oh, there it is. Got it. >> Okay. Zanderas 14. Is that what you got? >> Yes. >> Uh, nine for Dan. >> Not good. >> Not good. That's a natty two. >> 21 for Velcro. Excellent. I'm trying to find my reflex. >> Saving throws are in the center. >> Go to saving throws and it says reflex right in the middle. >> H not good for me. >> 16. All right. Every Go ahead. Did I miss anybody? >> What I was going to say is uh uh I will use my hero point. >> Okay. >> Uh to get so Dan can get a roll out of it. >> All right. And >> beautiful. All right. So, um, everybody but Zandarius made his save. Uh, Xanderas, you want to use a hero point? Try and burn it up. >> Sure. >> Give it another try. There it is. All right. So, uh, Dan, you and Xanderas just barely make it past. There is stuff falling everywhere. The reflex save is to avoid tripping and falling and or getting hit by something coming down from the ceiling. You guys are in the house and it's like the house is coming apart. It's imploding. Uh things are falling. Things are breaking everywhere. Uh doors are slamming open and shut and that kind of stuff. You hear the clank of those armors back and forth, you know, out in the hallways, you know, those those thresh them and the door seems stuck. YOU YOU PULL AT IT AND you can hear the clanging of the of the iron gate out at the front. You finally get out the door. The door opens. You finally get out and you go outside and you get to the street, you turn around and you look back at the house and it's just sitting there still just like when you guys arrived hours ago. >> Nothing happened. >> It's not shaking. The glass seems fine and the windows, the shutters are all closed. >> Even the light is back on in the >> light. That's creepy. What a creepy house. What a creepy place. >> It is a creepy house. >> It gets worse. >> You guys catch your breath, knock the knock the dust, the stone dust, and the wooden splinters off of your armor. Look around and like, did we just do that? You guys realize that it's dark now? It's night time. Uh, and you're struck by how quiet everything is out on the street. You don't see any people. Although if you look down the street, you can see one or two lights on and houses, but there's no people anywhere outside. However, you do notice one thing that wasn't there before. >> Parked a few feet away. Jesus Christ. >> Rolls-Royce. Thought you were gonna have Norman's mother in the window. parked a few feet away with lanterns hung on each corner of it >> is a large ornate carriage >> and it's just parked there. No horses. >> Wow. >> No driver >> and it's just parked there. >> As you guys as you guys are watching, you're like, "Where did that come from?" Because it wasn't there when you arrived. >> You hear a click and the door opens. just sort of like kicks open about two inches, three inches. >> I'm stealing the wheels off of it. >> Bunch of degenerates from uh from Galleran. >> So yeah. So as you guys it's just sitting there and as you guys watch you hear a click and the door opens slightly just sort of it's like someone undid a latch and the door kind of like came away. It's not like somebody pushed the door open and it's not all the way open. It's just open a couple of inches. just like click and opened up. >> All right, Dan, throw a fireball in there. >> You can see there's lanterns on the sides and you can see there is a flickering light coming from inside the carriage. What do you do? >> As we hail the carriage, >> I will approach. >> There's no driver. There's no horses. It's just a carriage parked there. >> Okay. The lanterns are lit and the door just sort of kicks as just kicked open a little bit. The windows the the the inter the curtains inside. There's windows on the carriage. >> The curtain but the curtains inside are pulled so you can't see any light coming out of when the door opens. You see there's like a flickering maybe a candle lit inside. >> Okay, this is crazy. Um and spooky. Okay, Akuda is freaked out. Creeped out. Um um can I stealth up there, please? >> Sure. Give me stealth roll. >> Yes, sir. I just I want to use my stealth more. Oh, that's not so great. >> So, yeah, here your sore lampery leg is like sort of dragging along the cobblestones as you go through it. But yeah, you approach the door and as you get closer to the door, you can see that there is a flickering light inside uh that's that's coming out. Perhaps a candle, perhaps another lantern. You're not sure. >> That's fine. You know what? I'm going to pull out my doc slicer. I'm going to throw open the door. >> Okay. So, you open the door and you peer in. >> Yes. >> Okay. You see inside what looks to be a well looks to be the inside of a ornate very nice uh you know carriage. There are no there are no people inside. Although there are chairs and a table sitting around on the inside. >> Chairs and a table. Wow. which apparently all my images have done dynamic lighting on. So there uh it's a very ornate uh uh very well accutotered uh well a wealth this is a wealthy p person's carriage. The black curtains are all shut the table it's sort of like a booth table like in a in a diner that kind of thing. There's an ornate wine thing and glasses empty glasses sitting on the table. A lit candle is off to the side and there's a piece of paper sitting on the tape. >> Dan, I think you should read this because it says association associates of Mickey Mouse. >> I I think you need to read that again. >> It's hard to see. >> Mickey Mousse. >> Well, that's it. Says it says associates of M. Busith Cathir Kadira. >> Oh, does that name mean anything to us? >> Yeah, it's your employer. It was the It was the guy who sent you here. >> Cathir Kadir Ca is the capital of Kadira. This is Golerian. >> Huh? Okay. >> But the I mean Cadir and Kadira are places. That's where you came from. >> That's fine. I'm going to go in, pour a glass of wine, and sit down. >> Okay. The rest of you. >> Oh. Does he bother to tell us what it said? >> Yeah. Well, reach in and pull. >> Can the Can Cana read? Probably. Okay. >> Um I can read. You know, I I I had a really rough rough day. I really wanted a glass of wine. >> Gotcha. Okay. So, he pours a wine >> and uh there's a little bit of Oh, Jesus. >> It all goes black. >> It all goes black every time I switch >> the No. >> Uh All right. So, as you pour the glass of wine, there's a little bit of smoke that comes off of the wine, although it smells delicious. >> Uh, you all I'm assuming you all come into the carriage, sit down, >> pour yourselves a glass of wine, and then open the letter >> glasses appeared. >> That that can happen with AI generated. >> Um, all right. So, uh, you guys open the So, the message definitely says associates of M. Mousse, >> you know. Cathier Kadira, >> get Iggy to read it. >> Ready? >> All right. So, Iggy's going to read it. >> Yeah, I'll read it. >> I'm going to read it. >> Okay. All right. You unscroll it and you can see it is a letter and it seems to be on similar writing, similar ink as the ones that you found in the house, the old letters, stuff in there. And it says, "You have entered my land as thieves, but you survived so far as professionals. Perhaps now you will entertain me as my guests. Silver is a dangerous thing in Bovia, but so are creatures who control its availability and use. You came here as smugglers that threaten the order I have imposed on this place. But come, let us speak like civilized entities. You may yet prove useful. Let this carriage bring you to my castle. Speak and it shall be so. >> Nobody in their right mind would ever get in that car. >> Well, we weren't sure what to go to do next anyway. >> That's right. Well, >> well, I'll go in and make myself at home. >> I think I'd rather go see um Madame Eva >> from outside of the carriage. You hear Are you in there? Are you in there? Come out. >> Yeah, let's go back out. >> I want I wanted to see I want to go talk to Madame Eva first. I don't want to. >> So, as you guys get up, you're like, we're not going anywhere near that castle. >> I'm Dude, I'm assuming that you guys do not agree to go to the castle. >> I'm not going to the castle. >> Yeah, not unless we have no other choice. >> The smoke from the wine begins to as you you hear this like, "Hey, are you in there? COME OUT. COME OUT. AS YOU SORT of look over, the smoke from the wine begins to coalesce in sort of like a weird cloud above the table. And then you see this, which you probably won't see, of course, because the dynamic lighting is on. You see it coaleses and then you see a face. A face materializes in the thing. eyes looking at you and you hear a voice say, "You will come to me eventually." >> Well, then why did you bother with this whole thing? >> Then it disappears. >> And then right after you see that, you hear you hear, "Hey, >> get out. Get out of there. >> ARE YOU GUYS IN THERE? YOU GUYS got to get out of there." >> I'm heading out the door. >> All right. >> Um, >> is it Madame Eva? >> Uh, no. It's a male voice. Oh, [ __ ] >> Is that the guy who saved us in the first place? >> The ranger or something? >> Uh, no. Although he seems kind of like that guy. Uh, this is going to be a problem. I can see. Okay, hold on a second. I I still plan on taking the wheels off the carriage. So, jack it up and put it on blocks. All right, let's see if this works. Okay, outside and it's begun to rain. Outside of the thing, you see a man. He's dressed in uh he's older, middle-aged, got a gray beard, got a badges on his hat say uh in sort of this weird stylized script, but you kind of interpret it as saying constable. And he says, "Look, you've got to get off these streets. They're they're they're watching you. You've got to follow me. Come with me. My name is Vasha. Come with me." >> Vasha. >> Okay. >> Yes, we'll go with Vasha. >> All right. So he drags you away from the carriage and as you sort of like you get about 100 100 meters away from the carriage, you sort of look back and the carriage is gone now. Uh but he's like, "Follow me. Follow me." >> We did not hear it move. >> No, nothing like that. >> Okay. >> Just disappeared. Uh the rain is starting to come down. It's coming down quite a bit. Uh he's like, "Follow me." And he finally get to one of these little houses along this along this road. You cut through an alley, that kind of stuff. He kind of looks around. He's like, "The the servants of the count are everywhere. Please follow me." And uh he finally you get to a little small, very kind of modest house. He throws open the door, runs in, gets all of you guys in, throws the door shut, and then very quickly reaches into underneath this little coverall thing that he's got on, and pulls out something like a small amulet. >> Excuse me while I pull this out, dude. >> Excuse me while I pull this out. No, he uh he takes out a small amulet >> and hangs it on the door >> and it looks like that. There's a special brass hook on the door that it's obvious that he put there. Uh he takes it and he's like he hangs it over there and uh he, you know, rips open the thing. He's like, "All right, I think we'll be safe for now." He goes over, closes the uh the shutters on his on his one window and and uh uh and and pulls the lock down and he says, "All right, now we can talk." Okay. >> He pulls out a big bottle of wine and you know uh uh gives you more glasses and he says uh he says uh my name is uh he says my name is Vasha Daminsky. Uh and um you know they the the the ones that uh uh that are the servants of of of the count they've been watching you ever since you entered the house. Uh, I think they were waiting for you to come out, which is why I I came. I don't know where the carriage came from, but I suspect I suspect it belongs to him. >> Uh, it wasn't it wasn't here earlier, but uh you'll be safe here now. I've got I've got you off the off off the street. >> Are you injured in any way? Do you need uh do you need assistance? >> Uh, several of us do. >> Okay. So, he doesn't he's not doesn't have any magical or anyway, but he reaches into a cabinet, pulls out like cloth. Uh, he gets a you know, there's a there's a fireplace going and it's got one of those cauldrons in it and there's water in there, hot water. So, he pulls some of that out and he, you know, comes over, he's like, "Let me see your let me see your injuries." Uh, and begins sort of wiping the blood off, wrapping them up, you know, that kind of thing. You know, basic first aid kind of >> something that'll break ghoul fever. >> Yeah, I was going to say I asked him about that. >> Ghoul fever. One of them bit you, did they? And he looks at you, Tenzen. He's like, comes over and he's like kind of weird. He's like, >> oh yes, I can smell it. You have it. I do not have anything. Perhaps the priests at the at the at the at the Lightbringer's temple. The temple of the Lightbringer. >> Is that here in town? >> There's Yeah, St. Andals here in town. Uh they they may be able to help you, but I cannot. Not with not with this. >> Can you send for a priest or no? or should we go there? >> You'll have to go there. I don't think you should leave here tonight. >> Okay. >> They're waiting for you outside. They won't dare pass that. He points to the emerald. Uh >> do you have some Do you have some manacles that we can chain our friend up with? >> Well, what I was going to say, Tom, now is the time if we're going to be here eight hours to use your um >> my healing thing. >> Your healing thing with the uh >> Okay. Okay. What is that action? Your medicine bag, >> right? >> Uh and it will give me pluses to my save is what it'll do. >> Okay. I will I will do that so I can attend attend you for that time. >> Okay. So yeah, I mean uh uh you know he comes so when he comes up to you he basically is like yeah I can I can smell it. even even the rest of you now that you're out of the house, you can be you begin to uh you begin to you know you begin to notice that um you know it hasn't started but Tensson even you can tell that I mean you look at the place where you were bitten and it's already healed up. In fact, it's it's it's scabbed over and you're like that's that's far too quick. Uh but it's you know the the the knitting of the skin is sort of grayish at the edges of it. Uh it's not um and it has a it has kind of a it has kind of a smell to it. It's not decomposition necessarily, but like a little gang greeny. Uh >> so I will I'll do my medicine thing and I can't get better than that. So >> okay, natural 20. So what are you trying to accomplish with the medicine? You're going to try and I basically doing that medicine check and doing the ongoing thing if I recall correctly >> of cure disease. >> Yeah. gives the person. >> It gives me pluses to my saving throws. >> Uh, >> yes. If you spend at least eight hours caring for a diseased creature, attempt a medicine check. Natural 20. Uh, after you attempt, you can't try again until after that. Uh, this so natural 20 would be a critical success, which means you can make a new save um at plus four. >> Okay. >> All right. So, while you're doing this to help you with the with the natural 20, he gets he's like, "We can't cure it, but uh I do have some herbs that might be able to help him fight it off, you know, that kind of thing." He goes digging around and comes up with these like stanky herbs and stuff like that. >> Do you have guidance as well? >> I do not. I have it memorized. >> Okay. I do have a guidance, but I don't know if I can do them both at this point. >> I think uh yeah, um uh Gwyn's character had it, so that's why I didn't take it. >> Well, I mean, I know I do have, but I don't know if I can do that. and and spell at the same time or medicine check at the same time. >> I get a check. >> Tenzen, you relax. Your your mouth has like a metallic taste into it and it makes it hard to get to sleep. When you when you sleep, you dream. Uh you dream like of like that you're running on all fours. Uh you wake up. Uh your skin around the wound is very itchy. Uh and your stomach is growling. Uh like you're super hungry. the rest of you as he's sleeping you guys kind of like he smells unhealthy. Uh that kind of stuff >> worse than he did before. >> Yeah, he does. >> But I mean Xanderas is like I can work on him. I can I can fix them. Uh you know that kind of So you get guidance. You get a plus four. Is that is that right? Plus four. Oh no. Plus one status bonus. That's a five plus one. All right. So total plus five on your >> Okay. You want to take the shot? >> Somebody wants to use a hero point for them. >> Yeah, the hero point for me to give me uh two chances at it. >> All right. >> But somebody else will have to do it because I used my hero point >> and I think Tenzen used his, didn't he? >> Yeah, I used it on Dan. >> So somebody if somebody has a hero point they can share with them. >> Uh Velcro do it. >> All right. >> He uses a hero point undead lure. All right. So, you get two chances. Good to see it. Plus five. >> That's a 19. >> All right. That was a natural nine. All right. >> Take another shot. Hero point one. >> Uh, that would be 16. >> 16. All right. You guys watch him after after the application of the herbs, various kinds of things. Everybody's, you know, ministering over him. you've done some magical wards and things like that. You watch him sleep and it's obvious that his sleep is very troubled. He's got a uh uh uh Xanderas, he's got a significant fever um and uh thing. But about 3:00 a.m. after you guys have talked with uh with Vasha uh and he's made room for you to sleep in his in his very modest home. Uh you wake up about 3:00 a.m. covered in sweat, but you feel better. Uh your mouth doesn't have that metallic taste. Uh you take a quick cloth and wipe your thing. Xanderas up. He's like, "How do you how are you feeling?" And you're like, "You actually feel a little bit better." matters. Xanderas kind of leans over. He's like, "The smell seems to be seems to be going." If you examine the wound, um it looks like the the skin while still puckered around the thing, and it's going to be an ugly scar, but it does seem to have resumed the color, this normal greenish color of a of an orc. It doesn't seem to be going away. And and frankly, Jim, you feel hungry. >> Normally hungry, >> like your body has used up a ton. Yeah, I start reaching over and chewing on Xanderas's hand. >> Psych. Uh, >> still goal. Uh, no. I mean, you're hungry and, uh, so, uh, Vasha wakes up and he's like, "Here, try this." He has a a loaf of homemade bread and and a little bit more wine and you're famished. You eat the whole thing. Um, and he's like, "That'll you shouldn't eat much more." You regain your strength and almost immediately you feel hugely tired and you fall back asleep. But then you wake up the next morning and you think that your ghoul fever is gone. >> Oh. Uh, also before you go to sleep, Audawa was injured. >> So, he will try and uh and do uh basically he's doing medicine checks on on all of you. He's binding your wounds, that kind of stuff. Each of you will get back D4. Anybody who's wounded will get back from from Vasha. You will get back a D4's worth of hit points. >> Okay? >> And any wounds that you have may that may have been still bleeding will be will be the bleeding will be stopped. So Kuragawa, you get >> one point back. >> Anybody else injured? >> I I was I was down three. >> Four. >> Perfect. >> Another one for Velcro. >> He's not a He's not a medic. I mean, at best, you could consider this to be >> Can I have the DM reroll it? >> The DM just rolled it. >> I can't reroll against my own roles. >> That would be That would be >> When do you get your spells back? Go ahead and use a a a threeperson a three action heel and you should carry everybody up. >> Oh yeah, if we're going to rest. >> Yeah. Well, we're inists. So Vasha says you you guys are going to stay here. They're looking for you guys. Uh the countsmen, uh the Renfields, they're looking for you. He doesn't call them the Renfields. You guys call them the Renfields. But you immediately get you immediately get the idea that those guys remember you saw hooded cloaks, guys and cloaks that were outside on the thing. They were watching the house. uh waiting probably waiting to see what would happen. Uh but in the meantime uh you know he he like came up to the carriage he's like you guys got to get out of here uh and drag you to his house. Now his house is probably maybe 200 yards away from the Durst mansion. Uh so it's relatively close but he got you basically he was like you got to get off the street. Um and he's like look they were they were watching the house. They were watching you guys. And I'm not sure what they had in mind, but um he's he's he basically says, "Look, when I saw," he says, "When I saw you guys go into the house," he goes, "I was worried that you guys were with them." >> Uh but it became increasingly clear from their activities that you were not. Uh and so I posted up, I kept an eye on things. uh at least three groups of of the count servants >> um you know came at various times and were watching including some people out back uh you know um they posted up at the street. I think they had I think they were looking to take you I think they were looking to capture you if you you know if you headed back across the city which is why I stepped in. Um, let's see. >> We'll we'll account the tales of the house, what what we saw, what we went through, what happened. We're not sure if we were able to save the children or not, but there was no girl in the house that we could find. >> The girl, the little girl that lived there. >> Well, no, not not Rose and Thorne. >> Ah, yes, I remember them. Their ghosts told us that uh Sasha was in the house. >> Sasha arena >> arena >> arena >> arena. And he and he's like arena. >> Oh no. So the first thing he says when you guys are talking about the house he says I remember I was I was you know he's he's an older guy. He's probably late 40s early 50s. So he's got a gray beard. He's he's a constable. He's aian constable. He basically says, "Look, I remember the Dursts when they lived here about 15 years ago. They were wellto-do burgers, minor nobles, uh somewhat influential. Uh they a lot of their money came from the mill that they owned out of town. It's about 3 miles out of town. The old uh they used to call it the old bone grinder. Uh because it made this crackling sound when it went around. It was sort of like a running joke. Um, as far as I know, after they disappeared, as far as I know, no one ever took over the mill. Certainly, we no one got grain from it anymore. Um, as far as I can, as far as I've known for the last 15 years, it's sat there by itself un, you know, untouched. Nobody will go there. It's everybody thinks it's cursed. >> As far as who owns it, I have no idea. >> Well, I was going to say we would produce the piece of paper. >> Okay. >> That owns it. >> Well, that piece of paper said that it was to be delivered to the children, >> kids, >> right? >> He's like, he says, "Nobody has seen those children." >> Let me rephrase that. >> Saw those children. >> This this one here is Valter the the the boy. >> Uh he's like, "I don't know anything about a third child." He says, "I remember the two, the the the little girl and the little boy." Um, >> well, there was We'll tell them about the portrait inside. >> Mhm. >> Um, there was a third child. You couldn't see its face. We think it was from the servant uh are from the nanny. We >> He's like, "This is what?" He goes, "I've never heard any of this before." He says, "All right. Well, you guys are talking about the the the children. >> We'll pull out we'll pull out the paperwork and stuff like that that we acquired in there." >> Okay. So, he'll take he'll take a look at >> We found the servants notes back and forth. We found uh um Mrs. Durst's one letter that she wrote and >> okay, >> lay all the paperwork out so he can see this stuff. >> All right. So, the first thing he says about the Durst the Durst uh willing the mill to the children. He says the children, he says, "Look, the children haven't been seen since their they disappeared with their parents 15 years ago. We always assumed everybody." He sort of like he sort of looks over at the charm hanging on the door. He says, "Everyone always assumed that the count took them. Uh, >> we found their bones." >> No, they're dead in the house. >> Oh, that's that's a sad state of affairs, but one that that one that uh seems seems sensible. Now, there have been people in especially people in this neighborhood who said they have seen they've seen those children here or there, looking out of a window of the house, that kind of thing. Uh, but in my mind, it's always it's always been the Renfields that were inside uh doing Lord knows what. They use the house now as some sort of meeting place. They take their prisoners there. But I always assumed and and frankly most of us did that uh the count took the family away to the to the castle. And as you know, I don't know how much you know about this place, but if you go to the castle, you never come back. >> We did find the remains of uh Mr. and Mrs. Durst as well. >> Really? They did not disappear. He seems fascinated by this. You found the bones of the children. They had the the bones of the children. The parents were had become ghouls. There were six other ghouls in the house. >> At least six. >> Yeah. >> I knew it was a cursed place, a dangerous place. I'm I would never go in there, and I was worried, like I said, when you guys went in, I thought you were with the Renfields, but uh uh but it became clear after their behavior that you weren't. And so that's why I was waiting for you to come out. hopefully I would be able to render some aid, which I'm glad I was able to do so. But he looks at the document that you produced. He's like, "Well, it's obvious that the par that the Dursts left the left the mill to their children, to their heirs, but there's no You said you saw their bones." >> Yeah. >> Yeah. Well, >> and their ghosts. >> Their ghosts. >> Spirits. Yeah. And we're not sure if we were able to release them because uh >> we laid their bones to rest in their vaults, but um a battle ensued and and the children left when that happened. >> So when you guys tell this story, he's kind of like, "Okay." >> Yeah. >> He's a little he's a he's a con skeptical. >> Yeah, he's a little skeptical. And you guys were like, "Oh, yeah. We uh we saw the ghosts and we took their bones and took it down in the crypt and put them down there after you know all this. And he's like, "Okay, is that what happened?" >> Well, well, and then we'll even tell him about the baby and say, "Have you ever seen a a wound like this?" And show them on a cura. >> He looks at a kudawa's wound. He's like, "I have never seen a wound like this." He goes, "There are creatures that exist in in uh in Lake Zarovich that um in the in the depths of the coldest of the the coldest of the water that are eel-like creatures and have uh uh have a tendency to grasp onto uh other fish and sometimes and sometimes divers uh or fishermen and and they leave wounds like this, but nothing like nothing of the size." >> Did we ever get the name from the vampires pawn? The randon >> Raduis. >> Did he give us his name? Yeah, he >> he Yeah, he said yeah, he said about that name, too. >> Radu Ellis. Why do I know that name? >> Ratu Fellis. I haven't I think if it's the same guy I'm thinking of, this would have been 8, nine years ago. Maybe he was a local boy. Uh, one of the little cadre of of of shits going around, you know, vandalizing, petty theft, uh, young criminal. I know that I I never had any dealings with him, but I know that some of my some of my colleagues did. Um, generally speaking, uh, a uh, you know, a wanting uh, steal steal what he could, spend it on drink on the evenings, and then do it all over again. But I recall he disappeared. There was some, if I recall correctly, I recall there was some discussion as to whether or not he'd been knifed by one of his ones. You know, there is no honor among thieves even here in Akia in Aki. But uh I don't know. I haven't I haven't seen him for many several years. >> He he was also down there and and he said his former master the count. >> He was made into a vampire spawn. >> Oh well. So some of them are we have we have seen them. It's it's rare that you see them and live. >> So we need to condemn that building. Time to burn it down. >> Uh, I don't want you to start in a I would prefer that you not start a open fire in a largely wooden town. >> I didn't Yeah, >> Chicago. This ain't uh >> We thought it was going to We thought it was going to fall in on itself, but it stopped. >> So, basically, yeah, he's like I think I remember that guy. He was a kind of a you know, young kind of jackass uh petty criminal. um basically, you know, with, you know, petty thief, sometimes involved in, you know, assault. Uh nothing nothing substantive. Ran around with a bunch of uh fellow jackasses. And then then one day just nobody saw him around anymore. Uh and everybody sort of assumed that either he'd moved on uh to some other town or village or um you know, the reality is there's you know, sometimes these people get killed. It's possible now that you say this, it's possible that he got picked up or recruited by the Renfields or something like that. And you tell him the story about what he said like he, you know, he failed his master uh was supposed to kill somebody and and the guy got away or something like that and and that was why he was trapped down there. He says, "Well, certainly the cruelty the the cruelty of it would be befitting the count. >> He is a he's a cruel lord. None none would question that." >> Unless I don't know if you saw I gave him a gold piece for his trouble, but >> I saw that. Yeah, he's he's a little bit reluctant. He leaves it kind of on the on the uh on the table. Um he he seems reluctant to take it. >> Um but he hasn't, you know, he hasn't said anything about it. He's just sort of I mean he's sort of kind of he knows you can you can tell he knows it's there. He's sort of like pretending to ignore it, talk about it. When you guys talk about Arena, uh he basically says, "Oh, I I know of the name Arena." Um, Arena uh Kolana is who you're talking about. Um, she's she's from the village she's she's not from Aki. She's from the village of Bovia, the Kolanovich household. Um, I've met her. She was in Aki not long ago uh traveling uh but traveling openly. Um, >> how old was she when you saw her? She's in her mid20s. A beautiful young woman. >> Well, the the Durst kid said it was a child in the house, >> but they may have known her as a child >> when the Durst when the Durst disappeared 15 years ago. I don't know Arena's exact age, but she's in her mid to late 20s. It's possible. Yeah. 15 years ago, she would have been not much more than a child. maybe 8 years old, 10 >> when they describe she's a staunch woman. Uh polite uh but she doesn't she doesn't share much of her own personal business. Um she often uh she's come she she's recently came through Aki. I guess she's probably left about perhaps a fortnight ago. She was here for several days and then passed through. Um, but she always seems to have trouble following her. >> I don't know where she went after she left here. Uh, I can I could try to find out. >> Well, we probably need to go see uh Madame Eva. um in the daylight. >> Madame Eva, have you seen her already? >> Yes. >> Did she conver conversed with her? >> So, he's quiet for a second. He's like, you've already spoken with her. What did she tell you? >> You are obviously not from Balaki. I know not where you are from. But what what did the what did the madam say to you? What did she prophesy? >> She was the one who sent us to the house. >> She sent you there? It's almost as if she sent she sent you to the the lion's den. That house is very dangerous. Even you were saying yourself there were ghouls and things in there. >> Yes. >> Well, perhaps she knew better than I do what uh what powers and strengths you have. >> Well, aren't we looking for Can I Can I share with them that we're looking for the symbols of Raven Kind and the sun sword? >> She has told you of these things? >> Yes. >> What did she say? Did she Did she Did she perform the tooka for you? >> She did. Yes. >> What What news came from that? What did she say to you? >> And he goes he goes to the shelf and he's like, "You must tell me what she said. Let us and he pulls out a big piece of papyrus that he unrolls and puts out on the table." >> And of course, you can't see it >> because of the damn dynamic lighting. >> And it's a huge map. We'll talk to him about the uh for some reason it won't f Oh, there it goes. >> It's a huge map and he'll like you are here. Uh I can't see the things. So you are here in Aki on the near the borders of Lake Zarovich. The old mill. The old mill is here. That is the Durst Mill. We are quite near the Luna River crossroad. Maybe two miles, three miles away. So, what did she what did she say to you? >> Uh, we'll explain to him about the uh she drew five cards. >> Okay. >> Um something uh Miridon and the den of wolves. >> Okay. So, so there were five things that she drew for you that you would you would be able to tell them. She talked about the tome of Strod, a magical book that will help you to defeat the count. the holy symbol of Raven kind, a powerful artifact that will also help you uh defeat him. The sun sword, a sword that it that contains within it the power of the sun itself, a a weapon. He also it also said that you will find Strad's enemy, >> the innocent and then Strad himself and where final battle might occur. >> And where the final battle might occur. So what do you talk to him about first? The the So the tome of Strad is the five of swords, the merdon. Did you bring that up first? >> Yes. >> Yeah, that was what she brought up to us first. >> Okay. So, he uh uh he says, so you tell him about this, the Merdan, look for a den of wolves in the hills overlooking a mountain lake. The treasure belongs to Mother Knight. He's like, "Wolves, huh?" He's like, "Well, there are wolves that range the forests of Bovia. There's no question there. Uh, but if you are looking for a den of wolves in a hills overlooking a mountain lake, well, that certainly narrows it down. He kind of pours over his uh kind of pours over his thing. He says, as far as I could tell, >> Luna Lake, >> there's only there's only a couple of places that that would work. >> Or Lake Baraku. Luna Lake uh is is is there are hills surrounding Luna Lake down here in the south uh that could be the place or this lake barrier uh which is by the the the hills uh and not and not very far from here either. Um now when you talk about the treasure belongs to mother knight, mother knight is a common uh a common appellation for uh the reigning female of a a werewolf clan. And werewolf clans tend to be matriarchal. Uh, and it's just one of several appellations that a a a matriarch of a werewolf clan might attend to her. Uh, but if it was maybe there are other places the mo there are lakes in the moors that are kind of like there in the in the in the swamp. But honestly, Madame Eva, if she said that, I would say it would be either Luna Lake or Barat. That would fit the bill. >> It's closer. So that >> Yeah, it's closest. Yeah, that's what I was >> Mr. Mastersonson, have you looked at this map? There's the Amber Temple, Jester Hill, Wizard of Wines. >> From DDO. >> Yeah. >> Yeah. >> Yeah. All right. >> The old mill. Yeah, >> that's what he he thinks. Uh, so the next one that you got was in the Tookco was the holy symbol of Raven, the four of stars, the Abjurer. And that's the one you bring to him. I see. And Eva said, you tell him Eva told you, I see a fallen house guarded by a great stone dragon. Look to the highest peak. And he says a dragon. Did she say if it was a silver dragon? >> Did not. >> Lord Arganost. >> Yeah, that would be it. >> When Straw drove his enemies into the valley long ago, uh it and was determined to annide him, the last thing he expected to uh encounter was a silver dragon. This is a legend that all of us know. That dragon was called Arganvost and he came to the valley years earlier uh uh but not as a dragon. He had come as a nobleman and had lived here uh named Lord Arganvolt. Um he he didn't stay in the valley. Uh he he knew of a place called the Amber Temple which was a repository of of hidden knowledge. Now it's a it's a ruin as far as I know. Uh but Arganol wanted to stay here. So he he built a fortified mansion at a place called Argan Volstalt. >> Um he was extraordinarily wealthy, lived among the humans for a long time. Uh but uh he went to war. He formed an order of knights uh called the order of the silver dragon. Um his mansion was adorned with the shape of the dragon. Uh a fallen house guarded by a stone dragon. Frankly, that could only be that could only be Arganost. >> Okay, which is just that's just near the Luna River. And what is that land? Luna River Crossing. Okay. >> The Luna River Crossing is here. It's near Aaki. This is south of there. >> Yeah. So, basically take that big dip and then go south. >> Yeah, probably. There are other paths. You could see small paths. >> Morgan's Vault. Okay. I was looking further south >> when you said Amber Temple. Amber Temple's in in mouth Gok. >> Yeah. Um, remind me where >> the Amber Temple is to the south in the deep south of Bovia. >> What do you need reminding Eric? I'm sorry. >> Where are we? >> You're in. >> That's what I thought. >> Big Lake Zarovich. It's just more or less in the middle. >> I see. Yeah. >> Okay. >> And then the old mill, which is the Durst's Mill, is is a little south. It's about four miles south of the city >> of the town of look there. We need to look over by Lake Barto uh for a uh wolf den it sounds like or werewolves maybe. >> Well, that's the closest place >> it could be. It fits It fits the bill, but Lake Luna also fits the bill. And there are and he's like there are werewolves. There are werewolves in the Svalich woods. No question. Uh, he goes, "I don't know about by Luna Lake, but >> we need to do our research on what can harm werewolves because I think we may be fresh out." >> Well, your guess is that that little amulet that he hung on the door, you think that was made of silver? >> Oh, okay. >> I mean, it would be a small amount, not much more than would fit in a a single coin. >> Uh, from where you come from, you think it's silver? It's so definitely silvery colored. Um, we could do we ask >> Yeah, go ahead. >> We ask him. >> We do possess some silver coins. Is there anyone who can turn the turn them into say a weapon for us? >> Oh, it's possible. But silver, I mean, there are so many so many people who would immediately who would immediately uh tell the count. Yeah. >> In order to find out. Let me ask around. I know of no person this he goes that symbol was that thing belonged to my mother and it it came to me uh when she died uh and it is it does keep uh werewolves and spawns away >> uh from my door and has kept me safe as I've lived here for a long time but enough silver to make a weapon >> I don't know it's possible there are there are a couple of smiths in Aki let me let me make some discreet questions on your behalf I'll ask what else what else did Madame Eva say? >> Uh and we also need um >> suns sword wizard. >> The well no not um the uh chain mail that we found needs to be modified for um Groomhilda. >> Oh right. Okay. So, um, so basically, you tell him that, he's like, "Look, let me ask around if I can find somebody discreet, somebody that's willing to work with >> Well, and you can use the chain mail as the reason, >> right? Exactly. That's what I'll do. I'll ask around." He goes, I I don't know anybody off the top of my head. I know of no one who who has an actual silver weapon. But let me ask >> perhaps >> I'll ask would perhaps if it might be that they ask you to part with some of the silver >> so that they can do something for themselves but I don't know I I I don't know >> there are those of there are many of us who who fight against the count as we are able. Perhaps I can find someone uh someone of similar nature. I know I know of many. >> Sounds good. Uh then we'll tell him about the wizard and the sun sword. >> The master card. >> The sun sword is the master of stars. The wizard. Look for a wizard's tower on a lake. Let the wizard's name and servant guide you to that which you seek. One of he he looks thoughtful. He's like one of the men, this is legendary, but one of the men employed by Strad to build Castle Ravenloft in time, you know, centuries ago was an arch wizard named Kazan. After his work on the castle, this is some these are stories that all of us have heard. After the work on the wis the castle was complete, Kazan retired and built a tower for himself on Lake Barttok. >> Oh, great. >> Bartak see >> uh with the help of some engineers and laborers, he also built a causeway that connects the island on the lake with the shore. >> Yeah, you can you can see the little peninsula there sticking in the lake. In his waning years, Kazan visited the Amber Temple many times and discovered the the the the rumor was that he had discovered the method to become a leash, a lich. >> Oh. >> He returned to his tower and was able to complete his transformation and became an evil undead sorcerer. Years later, after Strad had taken over all of Bovia, Kazan went to Castle Ravenloft thinking to challenge Strod for rulership of Bovia. But instead, Strod persuaded to serve as an adviser. >> When he wasn't advising him, the Lich spent most of his time in the Amber Temple trying to master the secrets of magic and hope of finding a way to project his spirit beyond the confines of of Bovia, beyond this realm. Mhm. >> But the mythology goes that he would in in one of these experiments he he failed and ended killing himself. >> See, >> the only wizard's tower that I can think of would be the tower on Lake Barak. >> Gotcha. >> The tower of Kazan. >> Hey, if you all zoom in just to the left of Lake Bartoak, there seems to be a wolf's head in the mountain over a cave. in the mountain over the cave. >> Look to the left of Lake Bear attack. >> Mhm. You mean right here? >> Oh, I see it. Yeah. >> Yeah. >> I don't see it. Oh. Oh, yeah. Whoa. >> Whoa. >> There's also there's also the village of Kres. Kresque is a a fortified village and they are one of the few places where people who wish to go against the count can go and and be relatively safe. >> Okay. It is a fortified town and they have uh uh they have fought against the werewolves and the and the and the counts the town's servants for many years of >> road. Yeah. >> Okay. >> Wow. So do we since we're so close to the old mill, do we check the old mill first? Well, I mean, that kind of fits with the death house thing. Um, I'm I'm not sure because the different things he's telling us through the tarot reading um have not really mentioned the old mill. >> Yeah, >> we might find information there. Let's >> see. >> Wow. All right. >> Okay. Okay. The fourth card >> enemy the innocent. >> The fourth card is the innocent. >> Uh the fourth card is the innocent. Your en uh your ally against Strod. Uh Strad's enemy. This card sheds lights on one who will help you greatly in the battle against darkness. And it is evil's bride is the one you seek. >> He has he has no idea what that means. >> Um that's um that's Irena. >> That's Arena. I think >> Arena the young the young woman she is not she's not >> evil's bride arena is her name >> Kana >> what was the uh the vamp the spawn that we ran downstairs said >> yeah Radu >> what did he say >> he said that was uh Strad's beloved >> yes >> so uh about >> not not that it's reciprocating you know because it takes two to tango Uh he did know her seemed to react. So when you guys spoke to Roto and you mentioned her name, he did absolutely react. Uh and he said Straw desires her. >> Correct. >> Uh but he didn't know anything beyond that or didn't seem to. >> My guess is she's like a reincarnation probably. >> It's possible. But according to Madame Eva, she is destined to be your ally against him. She and he was like, "Look, I'm sorry, but uh uh you know, she left she was here in Aki." He was he says like a fortnite, maybe longer, maybe as much as much as 3 weeks ago. She had come to Aki, stayed for a couple of days. She's originally from Baro village of the village of Bovia. Her family still lives there as far as I know. >> Uh the Kolanoviches, but um she was here and then left. I don't know where she went. I mean, I could I could try to find out which road she took. >> Well, we might have to track her down. And then the fifth card is Stride himself and where the final battle might occur, which is, you know, probably his uh >> almost certainly his castle. >> His castle. >> At least that's the way you guys are interpreted. He knows no. Uh uh Vasha doesn't know anything about this. >> Well, we just got invited to his castle. And you are fortunate that you did not did you did you not go for those invited to his castle rarely if ever return. >> Let's see. >> He would have made he would have made slaves of you. >> Where is his castle on this map? >> Castle Ravenloft right here just to the northeast of Bovia. >> Yeah. I see. >> Oh, it's over here, Tommy. Yeah. >> Oh, I see it. Okay. So when you guys So you guys will remember that when you guys materialize, you were on the old Spalish road east of Bovia >> back that way >> where you were attacked in these in these woods and then the old hunter guy kind of brought you into Bovia and you guys hid out in the church uh the church of the lightbrer or whatever the hell call it, the dawn the dawnbringer or something like that, right? Uh, and then they had a sealed magical carriage and they basically during the day before the night came down because they were like, "You guys are way too close to Castle Ravenloft, you guys." And they took you this road uh, you know, across the Las River, all the way through here, past Westgate, and all the way to into Aki. It took almost the entire the entire day, >> right, >> to get there. But they got you here and that's and they were like, you know, that's it. We're we're done with you. >> Well, we need to go to the church in Vaki and go in the cellar and kill the uh the vampire spawn there. >> Is there one in there, too? >> Yeah, according to DDO. >> Well, according to DDO, that's fine. But you know that I play fast and loose with the source material. So >> there was there was there was rats in there and and a chest full of magic items. >> Awesome. All right. Uh we are beyond time. So uh Vasha basically says you will stay here tonight, tend to your friend with the uh with the ghoul fever and see if we can see if you can break it, which you guys successfully did. Uh and then we will begin in the morning at Vasha's next Sunday night because we got two Sundays in a row because of the B team issue. >> All right. So remember, we're we're back here next Sunday with this. >> Oh, okay. I'm glad you said that. >> Yeah, it I think it's the >> Okay, >> hold please. It is the 1st. Yeah, the 1st of February, we'll be back here. >> Okay. >> So, weeks the old mill. So, February is the 1st and the 22nd. >> 1st and the 22nd. That's correct. Yeah, it's B team on the 8th and then I'm actually >> Because we're switching with them. Yeah, we had to. Yeah, it was in the previous the email that I sent out on Wednesday basically to make it work with the other guys. Um, we switched uh uh we switched Strad and B team on the 1st and the 8th. I'm out on the 15th or forever. >> Just for February. >> Okay. >> We'll we'll go back to the regular schedule. >> And you you might want to follow up with with uh Gwyn on that because she may or may not know that. I don't know. >> Gwyn and Matt. Yeah. >> Okay. I'll let him know. So >> very cool. Thank you very much, Les. >> Congratulations on surviving death house. >> I did we saved the kids then? >> They disappeared. You're not sure. >> Bastards. >> Well, we put their bones to we put their bones to rest. That's about all we could do. >> True. The light was back on in the attic when you guys left, though. >> Was the light ever out? >> Uh, when you entered the attic, there was no light. >> Okay. When Failen flew up to the attic, there was no light. You guys could see light coming out, but when Failen was on the edge of the thing, she did not see any light inside. >> I mean, if you all want, we can research that again from the outside, but I don't know if that's a waste of time or what at this point. >> Uh, I don't really want to go back in there. >> Yeah. >> Can't can't blame you, old lamper. Lamper thigh. >> Lamper thigh. Auda. Yeah. >> All right, gentlemen. Thank you very much. I hope you had a good time. >> Have a good week. >> You as well. >> Did you get a bunch of snow, Erin? >> We got it. I I've been shoveling snow all day long and I ache from head to toe. Um that's why I'm kind of sitting here kind of drifting. >> Yeah. Yeah, I'm I'm with you. We had about I had about 13 inches here. >> Dang. >> And well, >> and it snowed with the hill and stuff. It kind of blows up, too. So, as I told these guys earlier, I had to put a bicycle orange bicycle flag on my wife when she went outside so I wouldn't lose her in the snow. >> Eric, uh, Tom's wife, Donna. Tom's a big dude. Donna is a tiny. She's like this big. Yeah. >> Yeah. She She's not even quite 5 foot. So, >> she's not quite 5 foot. She's She's bragging if she says she's 5 foot tall. >> Well, she'll say she's like 411 and 3/4. I mean, >> that's accurate. >> She is not big. Precise. Let's precise. >> All right. All right. >> See See you next time. >> I'm glad you all are well. >> Sounds good. We're glad to see you, buddy. >> Get some sleep, buddy. >> Take care, everyone. Good night. Night.