Dice Shame - 56 | 'Playing for Keeps'

Episode Date: November 5, 2020

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Why are they being stubborn? Why didn't they just stay in? They don't understand. Jack scared himself just by getting here, telling all these ghost stories. Something's going on. I don't know who we can trust right now. I was sorely tempted to betray you. You don't need anybody else.

I wish I had you in Borovia. Oh, what the hell is Red doing? They stand tall to their full height and draw wicked-looking longbows. How about evens the odds, not Kralath? Jack, look at what you did. Welcome back to Dice Shame, episode 56, playing for keeps. MVP this week is their Ravenborn for their iTunes review. Thank you so much, Thayer.

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Yeah, let's do it. So we established last episode that dwarves all sleep in one giant pile. Poppy pile, I believe, is the technical term. Absolutely. It's so cute. They're little dwarf butts all sort of in faces and faces and bucks. No, I'm imagining like their beards just twine together, just intertwined. Oh, man, how many wake up and they're like Velcroed?

Or like using the beard as like a blanket? Oh, yeah. Give me your beard. They all sleep in a line. and when they all turn, everybody's beard goes over to the other person beside them. And they all turn at once?

There's something very Disney about this vision of dwarves. Very Disney, but I love it. Yeah, no, it's great. And very Doran. I'm glad that you had the opportunity to make this room the proper sleeping quarters

for yourself, finally. Yeah, yeah. And I don't think it was because I'm a dwarf. I think I did it because of the situation, the mood, kind of everything

that's been going on. You just figured that everyone needs some time together. Yes. Slumber party time? I mean, it's been established that Doren has never had, like, a best friend. Like, he mentioned that he was, like, a lonely dwarf. So the idea that these people have now become family or friends is probably, like, really important to Dorn.

It is. Yeah. Oh, by himself. Let's see how it all plays out, shall we? Yeah. Because who knows? Who knows how many of you will make it back to the inn tonight? Uh-oh.

Uh-oh. Those hunt lords are coming to get us. Yeah, right. Red and Doran and B and Oren are all in the nearby tavern, the inn, the Whiteheart Inn. Doran sits back uneasily as the door to the inn closes, and Kraloth and Jack are no longer in the room. Give me that, and he takes a cigarette from your hand and tries to take a puff. This is terrible. Why would you do this?

Oh, Red. Take this back. It's terrible. I'm a little concerned here. Why, why did they leave like that? Makes me a little uncomfortable that we see two of our companions break off like this, and they're going to go and, what, fight some undead on their own? I don't know, Doran, but look, Craylath isn't,

Craylath isn't the same person since we left Gred Hogg. I don't know if you sensed it as well, but he and I had a conversation in Belyard, and there's been some other things that I, I don't know. Tell me you see it. Doreen kind of leans forward into the conversation and puts his elbows on his knees. Well, I know Crayloth's been struggling a bit with having to kill that hamperat woman. I think that weighed heavy on him.

He wasn't feeling like himself when we were in Beliard. I don't know, Doreen. I feel the opposite. I feel like it didn't weigh heavily on him. At least what he said to me on that road was that he didn't feel enough. He's had this sort of distant, sort of. of this gaze as if he's looking through us. And there's something else.

And this has to stay between you and me and Jack. Jack knows, obviously, because Jack and I are besties now. Of course. I caught him the other night trying to steal something from the bag of holding. I mean, obviously, he's welcome to it any time, but the way he did it, it was when he was putting me to bed at the other inn. He waited until I was asleep, and then he tried to grab something from my bag, the cloud giant's hair.

Hmm. I just, I just, I don't know if we can trust him. Doran kind of stands up and walks towards the fireplace pacing now in front of Red. You know, I haven't said anything, but I was afraid I lost that silver ring. You know, the one that says, uh, Stoneheart's never bleed. I don't lose many possessions, but it's, I can't find it. You don't think. I'm not, I'm not saying it's Greyloth, but things don't fall over these pockets. Red stands up and says, hold on.

maybe we can find that ring or at least where it went and red pulls out the rod of the vaughanod which if I remember correctly doesn't just locate adamantine objects but it locates mundane objects too like I remember it casts that spell so obviously

Jack is attuned to it so I mean we have time here I'm going to pull it out and I'm going to put my hands on the rod and I'm going to begin attuning to it sure yeah you want to take the hour yes cool So Avgar, Philroy brings out a little cart filled with cloches, the silver, like, half moons that sit on top of food on like a fancy place.

Oh, I don't know the word for those. Nice. So he brings out enough for everybody and he realizes that Jack and Kralath are missing. And he's like, oh, I'm sorry. Did you... It's okay. They'll be back later. Just, uh, why don't you put it here on the table? table and my apologies i'm so sorry he puts them down crayloth and jack you leave the white heart in and you are in the middle of noanar's hold this small sleepy village in the shadow of this boarded upkeep at the very edge of the high forest kralov is taking lead and almost walking with purpose but at the same time kind of walking aimlessly he every now and then will stop and stoop down

and look at the cobblestone and at one point he looks up at jack and he says uh do you think they have hunts every night i don't know it maybe maybe there's bigger ones on full moons that seems like a thing that could happen it could be every night though if it i think it's maybe it's more that the the ghosts are hunting and that's what keeps everybody inside every night and the hunts happen you know, on a periodic basis. It's quiet out right now. There are some birds, the sounds of nightbirds, some crickets chiming in as the sun starts to set over the land.

And you realize that all these cottages are closed up. The curtains are closed. Doors are closed. You don't really see anyone walking around. You also don't see any signs of the noble brothers that had left about half an hour ago. So they seem to have made themselves pretty scarce. The sounds of your footsteps are just echoing around this quiet village.

Well, how many hours of daylight do you think we have left? Evening's coming on, but until it's full dark, we've probably got an hour or two. So I guess maybe come up with a route you want to patrol tonight? Yeah. Is Kieran reached the keep, and is there any activity going on there? Do you want them to come back to you before they gave a report? I think they can hang out there and we can telepathically

brain-meld. Master, I saw those three boys leave the inn. Oh, yeah? They visited the stables and now they're gone. Gone how? Like, just drove off in a direction

or disappeared? They drove on their horses far away. They rode north. Understood. Maybe they are hunting giants. That seems like a strange. The castle is dark.

Yeah. If they're undead, they probably don't need a lot of light. There's a whole. here. A hole? The ceiling of the keep is partly collapsed. Perfect. Thank you for the update. Yeah. And I'll sort of give Kralath the

updates. It looks like those noble boys rode off north of here up to the ever everway trail. But Kieran's found a way into the keep that doesn't use the doors. There's a hole in the roof, I guess. And Kralath nods. And he's just looking for any signs, any clues of

things that have happened in the streets. And he's just kind of looking around at the roads and I'm going to do a perception check. Sure. That's a 16. Kralath, as you look down at the surface of this cobblestone walkway, there are worms everywhere. And as you watch, you see more of them starting to pull themselves up out of the dark, moist earth, writhing around on the walkway. Now that you've seen them, you realize you've been stepping on them this whole time. They're just pulling themselves out of the earth and writhing around on the ground.

Yeah, Jack, there's definitely something strange going on here. I mean, Jack's scared himself just by getting here, telling all these ghost stories. Like, he's ready to see a ghost at any minute. We've definitely already seen some undead sipping chalises in the keep over there. Like, this place is haunted, legit. Back at the Whiteheart Inn, Red, Doran, B, and Orin, I guess, are there, too. And you guys are all enjoying some dinner, and Red, you're cradling this.

At a manateen rod. Yeah, so I'm just like, my foot is like just sitting on the rod of the on endot on the floor. And Red has his eyes closed for like a minute and then he just opens them again. Sort of looks to Doran and sort of nods and looks back down to his plate and continues eating. Doran is eating for sustenance. You can tell he's not hungry, though. Normally the plate would be completely polished off. And right now he's like, you know, half of a big piece of meat is not eaten.

You're like pushing vegetables around your plate a little bit. Yeah, my mind is kind of distracted. Yeah, and Red even pushes his plate away after a little bit. He's like, ah, I can't eat anymore. You know what, Red, I don't feel right about this. I feel like we should be out there, at least supporting them. They're fine. They're not that far, right?

I just checked. And that's what he was doing when his eyes were closed. He was doing primable awareness. He's kind of got like a tab on his friends a little bit. He's kind of like, I just, I could tell that they're not too far. The two of them are still moving around. What are we doing? Why are we being stubborn? Why are they being stubborn? Why didn't they just stay in?

I don't know. Something's happened with Krayloth. He's not the same man I met in Waterdeep. He's acting all weird. And Red's eyes fall to Orrin, remembering him the other night, how he sort of spun around in circles. Doran, and I say it like right in front of B and Orrin, I turned to Doran. I say, the other night, Orin was walking around in circles, very weirdly, acting very bizarre, talking to himself. in the middle of the woods at two in the morning. I told you, I was... Oren, the sleepwalking. Yes, but too much is going on right now.

Maybe it's the setting, maybe it's Kralov's distant nature, but... Something's going on. I don't know who we can trust right now. Orin, is there something you want to tell us? We're all friends here. Don't let us down. He puts his fork down. He's basically almost done eating.

His plate is almost clean. He puts his fork down, and he looks at you, Doren, and his eyes. start to fill with tears a little bit. Like, no. Nothing. There's nothing. Can I persuade? Yeah, sure.

You can roll with advantage because he loves you. Persuasion. So on 11. Oh. Orin. Whatever it is, I'm sure it's not that big of a deal. You watch as he hangs his head and these fat droplets of tears just start falling on the table as he's like quietly crying.

Master Doran, I was sorely tempted to betray you. You're all the family that I've ever really felt was true to me. But I've been visited by a demon. A demon? Yes. A sweet-tongued demon. A creature who wanted to offer me everything I'd ever wanted. But I had to betray ye, and I couldn't do it.

Do you remember, Red, and he looks up at you? tears streaming down his face. And Red's face is like, angry, almost. Do you remember when Jack got taken by the stone giant? And I was left behind when we retreated, and then you came through for me. You found me in the rain, and you carried me on your back all the way to safety. I'll never forget that as long as I live. I see the ways that you care for each other.

Just the little things. The way that you ride your horses side by side. and chat for long hours of travel. The way that you save each other's lives. I would be a fool to break this, this trust. And I'm sorry I didn't tell you. I was told by this demon that he would find me a home, somewhere that I could set down, put down roots,

find a good woman, make a family, But he asked of me something I couldn't do. And that's when I realized, Master Doran, Master Red, young B, that you're all the family I could ever want. Orrin, I put my hand on Orrin's shoulder, wipe the tears from his face, and then I give his cheek a little bit of a slap. Listen here, I appreciate your honesty, and you said it yourself. You don't need anybody else. We can help you get what you need even more than any demon

could ever pretend. That's right. And Red takes a big sigh. You see the anger. The anger that's been sort of mirrored in that evening with Kralath and seeing Kralath reach from the bag,

the anger that sort of appeared a few times in red, and you see it in his eyes for a moment. And he breathes a long sigh. And you can see the muscles in his face relax. I think what we need now as a party and as friends is more forgiveness. You're right. We are a family. And you have a home.

You've got to tell us who was this demon? And what did they ask of you? This demon was a creature who called themselves Shazel. I can't remember. It was so late at night and I was so afraid. It asked me to take something from each of you. It wanted me to take Kralas tambourine, especially. And I just, I know that he loves that tambourine, and I couldn't do it.

Oh, right. Oh, right. Did you take my ring, Oren? No, no, Doran, I swear to you, I didn't take anything. Hmm. You see, B is like idly sort of pawing at her neck where her necklace used to be. Well, it seems like the demon convinced somebody to take. some things, and he looks towards Dorn. Now that you mention it, I'm missing my best

quill. And Red sort of looks to Dorn and then says, well, maybe this will answer some questions, and he steps out of the booth and kneels down next to this massive rod, and he puts his hands on it. And I'm going to cast the locate object spell, which will allow me to sense the direction of an object's location. All right. That's familiar to me within a thousand feet. What are you looking for? The ring that Doren

possessed. Um, yeah, so it's silver. It's not made of adamantine, so that makes the range a thousand feet. You do not get a ping, unfortunately. Jack, as you are wandering these ever-darkening streets with Kraloth, maybe you're making your patrol, and you hear the clatter of a shutter somewhere nearby that's not been tied down properly. It's just banging in a rhythmic way against the side of the house. You feel a strange feeling. You've lost the attunement to a magic item that you once had.

Oh, what the hell is Red doing? Crayla, something just happened with the, you know, that Rod of the Vonundad. I'm not connected to it anymore. Someone else has used it. Do you have it on you? No, Red had it in the bag. Right, right. This is when the last fingers of sunlight recede from the horizon as night truly draws on.

And as the sunlight dims and night draws close to you, you hear the telltale sounds of the wooden doors of the key. And from a distance, you hear the clattering hoofs approach you down from the keep on the cobblestones of Noanar's hold. You see them, the hunt lords, a stride skeletal, warhorses, five of them towards you, the only quarry out on the streets this time of night. One of them reaches out a skeletal hand and points at you, Kralov, and then they move to meet you. Are you guys ready to roll some initiative for me?

Oh, let's do it. Okay, Kralov, what did you get? I got an 11. Uh, Harlan, what did Red get for his initiative role? 12. Doran. Doran got a five. Oh, Jack?

Jack got 20. 20. Nice, Jack. Jack, top of the round. So Jack sees these hunt lords on their awful skeletal faces on their awful skeletal horses and suddenly like snaps into focus and pulls out this magic orb. And you can see inside it this radiant light starts to boil and bubble. And he like decides to start off with a bang throwing every,

single bit of energy he's got into this thing and a streak of bright white light goes and blossoms into this huge explosion of radiant energy around them as this radiant fireball. Guest with all the magic he can possibly be put into it just erupts shaking all the shutters in town with like bright holy radiant light. Well, I'm going to put fireball at the fourth level and change it to radiant light. DC15 dexterity saves I need and I got to find a pile of dice. So I have two six Three successes, three failures on these hunt lords, and let me roll for their steeds. Roll for the steeds. Samezies. So two successes, three failures on the steeds also.

So I'm going to say that all the three that are sort of in the rear contingent, they're the failures. All right. So I have a stupid pile of dice in my hands. They are 9 D6s and 2D10s, Wow. Full of radiant and force damage, ready to blast some fucking skeletons. Holy shit, guys. Team corpse inspectors on the patrol. 48 radiant and force damage to each of them and half of that for 24 to those who passed. Wow.

All right. Well, you kill three of the hunt lords outright, and the two skeleton horses underneath the front two hunt lords buckle and turn into dust. And then the hunt lords atop of them are all so terribly injured. You're not hunting us. We're hunting you. Nice. Now we're right. How about evens the odds, not Kralath?

I wish I had you in Borovia. Well, you got me now, buddy. Let's do this. Yeah. In a horrific sight, this huge fireball just blooms in the background. It's caught one of the trees nearby on fire. One of the nearby huts is also on fire. And there's just carnage.

undead carnage bones fly everywhere as this fireball explodes and then terrifyingly these two hunt lords stand from the wrecked corpses and armor of their mounts they stand tall to their full height and both of them draw wicked looking long bows they both take aim directly at you jack and they fire I rolled the same number on both of my attacks so 22 to hit you oh yeah it's all 22 yeah, that's it. They just hit. Yeah, both of them are 22s. And then the other one, that's the 17. I'm going to throw up my shield and have to react to the second one. So the first arrows start coming at me and I put my hands up in the air and this another shield of force buckles through me, sort of like the first few arrows are passing through molasses, but they

get through and stab into my person, but it catches the other two and deflects them just enough. So you take nine points of damage from the first arrow and then 11 points of damage from the second arrow, and then you manage to throw up this shield and the other two are deflected. Oh! Then they move towards you across the square.

Red, you hear this terrible explosion from outside. Yeah. Doran and Red are still standing in the bar after checking the rod of the Bonnod, and Red, like, quickly begins moving the rod back into the bag of holding. And he looks to Doran and sort of nods with wide eyes, and then looks to Orne and says,

Sounds like they're in danger, at least in combat. We save each other's lives. We save each other's lives. We save each other's lives. Let's do this. And he begins moving towards the front door with this bow drawn. And I'll move my full action. In fact, I'll use feline agility.

Yeah, so that gets you definitely to within sight of the explosion site. If not, I don't think you can see your friends right now, but you do see these two undead creatures with their bows drawn. Maybe you even see them loose their arrows at Jack. Amazing. Kralath, what do you do? Kraloth sees Jack take the bolts, and he's going to step towards him and say, Jack, hold on.

And he's going to cast warding bond on Jack. So you're going to get a plus one to your AC and resistance to all damage. Amazing. And he's going to keep walking forward, hefting his mace, and shaking his head as he walks towards these undead. And he says, you should listen to my friend. Maybe you should turn and run. Doran, it's your turn.

I feel like the explosion is not only audible, but the fire, place also does like a whoosh with the pressure of the air passing by the building. Oh, cool. Yeah. And with that, Red kind of stands up and says, you know, we're all friends and we stand up for each other. So Doran races out behind him moving twice, full movement, 50 feet. Cool. Jack, it's your turn. You want to do that fireball thing again, Jack? That seemed to work pretty good. Jack marches up behind Kralath and extends his hand again.

This time it's holding Dizan's wand that he got from his friend's belongings. And he points it out at these two and a loud ringing painfully loud snap shatters the quiet of the night. So they're just following up on that boom and this sphere explodes out with thunder damage catching the two of them, I hope. but they need to make constitution saving throws. Okay. One failure with an eight and then one success. All right. So 16.

Thunder damage and so eight for the one that's at. You see like the cottage beside you. There's sort of like a rustling at the window as someone like looks out for a second and then the curtain moves again and they're gone. These undead hunters loose another volley of arrows at you, Jack. Even 20 to hit for the first. first volley. I'm going to throw up my shield again. So my AC becomes 21 with the warding bond. And this time I'm ready for their arrows. Yep. All four of them sink into this

geloid shield that you create. Yeah. And I mean, Jack's really channeling this like, he's starting to feel indignant in that way a wizard can be like, maybe I don't need everybody else. Maybe I can just throw myself into work. What a red door and doing anyways. They left us out here. But I've got all this power. It's, you know, maybe it's okay that I made a deal with this imp for extra power, because we need it to fight back against injustice like these hunt lords who have been terrifying this, like just justifying to himself, all of the, anything he can while he is just throwing all of his magic at these hunt lords. And then as their arrows fail to gain purchase in your flesh, the hunt lords bolt. One of them heads north, the other one's south behind these

buildings. And they disappear from view. We're on the hunt now. And Kieran, follow the one to the north. Sounds like you guys are participating very gladly in the sport. Red, it's your turn. So Red is now in line of sight, you said, of the other two? You can see your friends now. Red is going to head towards the other two. I'm going to take both my actions to move 60 feet, and I'm going to try to get behind cover.

And then I'm going to shout out, We're here to help! Where are they? One to the north and one to the south. Kralath, what do you do now? Krayloth, with this smug look on his face, is just going to keep walking forward like he's own in the place.

It's just like, I like your town! He's going to swing his mace over confidently and cast spiritual weapon, and his scythe is going to appear right beside the building as he's pursuing this hunter that's gone to the south, and he's going to send his spectral weapon down to slash at the fleeing undead creature.

Sure. Not so fast. He casts it as a level four, and as this spiritual scythe appears in front of the undead, it swipes at him. And I'm going to use my advantage, my inspiration. Oh, yeah. Excellent. Inspiration. That's going to be an 18 to hit?

Yeah, that hits. Oh, yes. Nice. Beautiful. And it is going to take 12 points of radiant damage. Oh, yeah. You cut this creature down. Nice.

And as you do, you watch. As this bow rolls out of its hands, this obsidian black weapon. Doren, it's your turn. Doren continues to kind of run following Red, though he sees Red run behind a building, and Doren, he runs more to the front of the building. Jack, you watch as your friend Krala hunts this creature, starts toward the building and just you,

you hear the sound of the scythe being summoned. What do you do next? Does Kieran have eyes on the one that ran north? Mm-hmm. Yeah, so he can see it behind this building and through my familiar senses, I can see it. And so I look back at Red for a minute and then hold my oarabout and look forward

and five arrows, just like Reds, appear in the air made a force, flying, shimmering, unerringly around the building to where Kieran can sense this guy and the magic niff was striking. Sixty-one. It turns into dust and floats away on the wind. Ha ha!

I'm going to walk up aside, Kralath. He's done. The hunt lords taken down and just high-fired. What? What? This town don't truck with no undead when the Knights don't tour here. Yeah. Chusts up, like looking around.

Strutton. Strutton, that's right. Duren and Red sort of run into view and there's nothing around. They're gone? What hunt lords? This town is free. We've saved these people. Someone's garden is, like, smoking.

embers from your fireball. I guess you might want to go talk to Amrath. Yeah, definitely. He's probably still left in that castle. We're not finished yet. And Kralath is going to walk over to that bow that he saw fall down. He reaches down and picks up this bow and he looks it over and looks at how fine it is. It's magic.

He senses it and he shakes his head and he stashes it behind his backpack, a little bit, obscured and hidden. And then he stomps on the skeleton's head, crushing it, and then turns to meet back with his friends. Oh, you did it. You didn't even need us. Yeah, I mean, there's definitely that archaeological part of Jack

who can't stop but help it look over the bones and just, like, pay more attention to them than the friends who decided not to come and help. I heard you, uh, I heard you exclaim that this is now, uh, now your town Kralath. It's, uh, it's a mighty

mighty mighty proud statement there yeah it sounds a bit to unlike you bud we still have to make sure that the fort is clear and i sort of share a look with dorin and like who are these two people like these cocky sort of braggadocious yeah these like bros we just walked up to who are like chest bumping each other full of full of eagle yeah and i sort of turn to dorin i'm like what did what did kralov mean when he said we have to deal with the dwarf in the castle uh maybe we should talk to him. You know what, Doran and I, we were left out. Why don't we go deal with that Amaranth in the castle?

Yeah. Let us take care of that for you guys, because... Get our beaks wet. You've done all this work so far. I've started this. I'm going to keep on this path. And I sort of give a weary look to Doran, like... Mm-hmm.

I don't think that dwarf was undead. He might try to kill him. Well, I mean, that doesn't see. seem right, does it? Well, let's follow and make sure. We'd better. I mean, they seem like they're out for blood tonight. As we walk past Jack who's like staring over a corpse

with like... Definitely a focus to us tonight. Yeah. You walk up the path that's lined by these pine trees all the way up to the keep. It's foreboding. The oak doors are closed tightly and it's

dark here. There's no sign of life from within. I think I'm going to do my primeval awareness on the inside of the door and just sort of see if I can detect any humanoids. Mm-hmm. You do. You detect one humanoid. And I turn it door in and like with the sleight of hand I sort of hold a finger up like

there's one in here. With a heavy fist, Kralov knocks on the door three times. Open up. You don't hear anything from within the dark castle. I imagine they're locked up because of the hunt that's supposed to be going on tonight.

Kralath, do you want this door removed? Open up! The hunt is over. Your masters are dead. Open up the door. We'll show you mercy. You hear from inside like a little... And then the eyelit at dwarf level opens up in the door,

and you see the same little kind of cloudy old eyes look out at you. What do you mean? Your masters are dead. They won't be ruling over this town anymore. He just shuts the eyeslit again Let's just go He's fine Well what do you need to deal with

Well there's nothing else to do here Let's let's just Krayloff knocks on the door again It opens again What? What do you want? Get out of my sight I'm looking for more undead There's nobody here

Just me Do you want to kill me too Kralov just let him go It doesn't matter We did what we came here for You're undead or dead Amirath wasn't He just looks up at you

Hatred in his eyes Any other undead creatures that you may be harboring are going to be under the judgment of Kalimvore. And I'm here to exact that judgment. Now open the door. This is my castle. I think Doran steps up and he looks through the pole and he says, Hey, listen here. My name is Doran.

And these are my fellows. Trust them. Trust them as you would me. I'm another dwarf. Well, listen to me, fellow dwarf. I've lived here for 200 years. Until tonight, when you decide that you should have the right to come here, bang on my door, demand entrance? Absolutely not.

This is my home, and I will defend it as such. Now, get off of my front porch. Light, you don't understand. Get rid of the door, Jack. Get rid of the door. Please. Everybody stand back. I don't need help.

Get back from the door. Jack steps back and pulls out DeZan's wand and points it at the door. and Jack unleashes this powerful blast of magic and with like a huge thunderous boom, the door shatters. These heavy oaken doors, they're like reinforced with metal. At the power of your magic, Jack, they are blown off their hinges away from you and they fall heavily on the entryway floor in this dark keep.

And then there's a moment of quiet as your shatter just echoes through the dark recesses of this building, and you don't hear anything. Then you realize Amarov did not move away from the door. His body lies broken, bleeding underneath these doors. You've killed him. Kralov hesitates momentarily. And then he shakes it off and says,

In the name of Kallumvore and the Knights of the Eternal Order, I have been sanctioned to investigate this house and rid it of any undead abominations. And Kralov steps over the dead body and makes his way into the mansion. I think Red is just mouth agape. He watches this friend enter, friend. He watches this person enter.

and he sort of slack jaw just almost ghost like walks in as well and just stands by the body looking down. Right behind you. As Jack passes, Red's kind of like, Jack, look at what you did. And he like looks down to the old dwarf at his feet. There's just like a curled, wrinkled hand extended out from underneath one of the doors. That's all you really see of him.

200 years serving the undead doesn't lead to a good end. Let's go, Red. Oh, just stay here for now, if that's right. Doran's also a bit taken back by the entire situation. He's, he kind of looks at Red, and he's just kind of bewildered and kind of stands still for a while. Kralath, this is a dreary place. There are still a couple of lit candelabras on the banquet table in the far room that's beyond. this entryway. That's where you saw these hunt lords first feasting. Apart from that,

there really isn't any light source to speak of. So maybe you put your goggles on. No. In this moment, Kralath is almost transported back to Borovia. He forgets about the goggles that are sitting right on his head. And he reaches back and he pulls up his lantern. And with a word, he casts light and it glows on the inside. And he begins walking inside. To the left and Right in the banquet hall, there are a couple of feasting tables here long forgotten. Everything in this keep is wreathed in cobwebs smelling of rot and termites. There's a door behind the Huntlord's feasting table that opens into a huge cavernous, dark room. And Kralov stops at the banquet table and looks at this feast.

and he grabs one of these chalices and looks inside. It's empty. There's just dust. And he throws it on the ground with a clatter and spits as he makes his way around the banquet hall towards this door. Looks like maybe it was once in armory. There are a few discarded, rusted pieces of metal on the ground, a broken scabbard here. And there's a chest pushed up against the far wall.

Are you guys coming or what? Yeah, Jack's got a scowl on his face. And a lot of that, like, hyped energy of destroying the hunt lords has sort of drained away from him. And it's in this somber moment. He's behind Kralath because he believes in this mission of the moment. But this doesn't sit well with Doran, this sort of situation. To Doran, there's no real justification for this onslaught because the 500s have been killed

now, vanquished. And so I think Doren's play at this point is to sort of loosely stand guard, I guess. You know, he sits on a big piece of rubble stone that's right next to the door and he rolls up another cigarette and... Just looking out of the night coming on. Yeah, and kind of taking in the cool night air. I think Red, seeing this, he sort of looks towards Dorn, he looks towards Kralov, he looks at Jack who are now moving around the room and sort of going to the deeper parts, he's a bit speechless and almost like a child mimics the way their dad goes to work. He begins trying to lift pieces of the oak off of the body

of this dwarf. And how he's seen and sort of ignored Kraloth and Jack do multiple times. He tries to bury this body. Nice. He like lifts it. You see him. He's so weak. He's like sort of struggling trying to lift this old dwarf through this rubble, Doran, as you're like rolling your cigarette. And he stands up and he's like, I'll be outside. And he begins walking across like the bridge holding this dripping corpse out to the front of the castle. Doren watches Red kind of uncover the body

and begin to drag it. And as Doran finishes his cigarette and eats the butt, he stands up and walks over to Red and begins to kind of help. and he lifts the body by the feet as Red kind of picks up under the arms and I say, let's go bury him over there.

Yeah. And Red nods. And yeah, the two of us carry the corpse out. You know, Red, I don't really know what is driving those two. I don't know. With all that Orrin told us and what I saw Kralath do

with everything that happened with Orin and everything that happened with Kralov, I don't recognize him right now. Krayloth and Jack, you're in this keep. Yeah, I think Kieran's flown down and landed on my shoulder and weighs a million pounds of lies. Mm-hmm. As I follow Kralas sort of watching his back. Mm-hmm.

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