High Rollers DnD - High Rollers: Curse of Strahd #8 | The Dragon's Bite

Episode Date: June 2, 2020

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Alcohol and select markets. See app for details. Welcome friends to High Rollers Presents curse of strad a gothic horror adventure of chills thrills and many blood spills i am your dungeon master mark humes and the players joining me are as follows chris trott as yesper the vistani bard kim richards as shadows beyond the veil a tab, Kim Richards as Shadows Beyond the Veil, a Tabaxi cleric, Katie Morrison as Rose Vanendi, the Human Ranger,

Tom Hazel as Xeros Mistan, the Dragonborn Fighter, and Rhiannon Gower as Ziki Mistan, the Dragonborn Sorcerer. Having arrived in the walled town of Valaki, seeking respite and refuge from the evils and merciless lands of Barovia, our party have discovered that other evils lurk in the town. The new Burgomaster, Fiona Wachter, has taken control of the town with the aid of clockwork soldiers, vampire spawn,

and devils gained through deals with the god Asmodeus. After finding a temporary base in the abandoned Blue Water Inn and meeting with Father Lucian and the bones of St. Andrew, the party seek out the first clue given to them by Madame Ava before her death. They head to the Burgomaster's mansion and begin to explore, but find it is protected by fiends and undead yesper leads ismark upstairs whilst the rest of the party prepare for another assault by ghouls only for the pair to encounter more undead and a mysterious voice above and that is my friends where we are jumping straight into today um it's a tenuous situation

for certain um and i'm going to need to begin because it doesn't save i will need everyone to give me a new initiative as technically a new a new combat has begun uh awesome oh which will set things off well oh oh my god guys yeah let's start with

uh Ziki what was the total no 16 16 for Ziki Jesper total

initiative please 6 okay that's a nat 1 shadow beyond the. That's a nat one. Shadow beyond the veil. 18 for me. 18. I'm going to boost you to a seven

trot just so that you go before somebody who has the same initiative as you. Rose. Nine. Nine. And Zeros. Five, five, five, five, five. Huh. Nine. And Zeros. Five, five, five, five. Five.

Excellent. So I will set up the scene for you all. Currently, we have Zeros, Ziki, Rose, Shadow Beyond the Veil, and Irina, Kollyanna. Irina is the only one with a light source. Shadow Beyond the Veil and Irena, Kollyanna. Irena is the only one with a light source. Shadowbeard on the Veil has their darkvision. And you are currently in a spoiled

ruined kitchen. It reeks of rotten food. It clearly has been neglected, although very obviously abandoned in a hurry. There was still some food in the process of being prepared. And you would currently have a closed door that Zeros and Rose are semi

barricading. They are kind of holding closed for the time being, having seen that a number of undead creatures had attacked you from a hallway that the door connects to. Two of those undead creatures had been slain. One of them had been driven off by Shadow Beyond the Veil's ability to turn the undead. Irena, who is the first of everybody to act, will gesture towards the stairway that her brother Ismark and Jasper went up.

The kind of flickering golden-bery color of the torch uh the only real noise and light source in is mark are you okay having heard them sort of a voice echoing down the stairs like i i and then she doesn't seem to really take much actions, unsure of what to do. Upstairs, up a short flight of stairs, only about sort of 10, 15 feet high, Jesper and Ismark stand in another long hallway on the second floor. There are windows boarded to the side and two undead figures,

very clearly animated skeletons, are making their way towards you. They wield rattling, rusted short blades, and they come in a flurry. Do I have them on separate initiatives? I do, so... What are you laughing at? Thomas.

I'm sorry I'm really sorry what did I say did I say it rude was I being lewd a little bit skeleton A will rush forward and attack

the first thing it can see you can see yes but as it rushes towards you there's just this pale red light in its empty eye sockets. Its bones are unclean and soiled, dressed in tattered rags and scraps of armor, and it shows

no concern or care. It just almost rushes and thrusts forward with the short sword towards you. I'm really hoping that these rolls reflect the ire. Is that a 21 to hit you? Yes, but that will do it.

Four points of piercing damage as the skeleton just rushes forward and scrapes its blade along your side. Back downstairs, the other one is yet to act. Shadow beyond the veil. You can hear, yeah, some sort of clattering of blades. You hear something happening upstairs, not entirely sure of what.

Have we shut the door? The one Zeros is by. So the creature ran away, but I'm guessing we shut the door the one uh zeros is by so the creature ran away but i'm guessing we shut the door zeros zeros is in front of the door and i believe that him and rose had shut it and were kind of pressing against it with their bodies to keep it closed there was another door as well you did yeah you were basically moving some furniture as the the next combat begun basically um the other door there is another door in the room that jesper and ismark were in front of You did, yeah. You were basically moving some furniture as the next combat begun, basically. There is another door in the room that Jesper and Ismark were in front of. Jesper had rammed a chair under it and things like that.

But yeah, we're talking wooden tables and barrels and stuff like that. These aren't big, heavy bookcases. These barricades, any creature of substantial strength will be able to force them open if there's not somebody to oppose it. And I can hear stuff going on upstairs. I can hear, like, bangs and scrapes and bad stuff. Yeah, you hear, like, the sounds of battle, like metal scraping along Jasper's blades and armor and things like that. Probably hear, like, a thud, clattering bones.

Like a Harry Howson movie. I think our friends need help. And then I'm going to start moving 5, 10, 15, 20, 25, and I think 30. I can't go up. I can't find the upstairs map. I will put you up the stairs, don't worry.

There you go. So scroll up a little bit. I can make't worry. So scroll up a little bit. If you scroll up a little bit you can see it. So yeah, you see this skeletal figure ramming its blade into Jesper's side. I would like to

cast a guiding bolt. Can I cast Guiding Bolt on that? Actually, it looks like it's going to hit me. I will say you will, but it will have three quarters cover. So it will have a plus five bonus to its AC. What about the one that's down on the end of the corridor? You can see that one. I'll give it normal cover because their Ismark and Jesper

are kind of blocking the way as well. So I'll give it a plus two to its AC, but it's easier to hit than the one around the corner. I think what am I doing, I guess? I think I'm gonna hold my action, and if either of the boys look badly injured,

I will cure them, cure wounds them. You have to be able to touch them. Have you got enough space to get in there? And also keep in mind, mark is probably going to be blocked by jasper i will healing words them yeah healing word is fine that's that's all either look badly hurt like bad like bad okay so shall we say mechanically if they are under under half hp yeah under half hp healing words so we've got a mechanical thing of like what badly injured is all right cool uh ziki um after ziki is ismark uh and then rose will be the

next player after monsters cool uh so can i hear the noises as well yeah you can all hear the noises yeah you all hear the sounds of something happening upstairs. There was like a muffled voice that sounded a little draconic that called out, but it was muffled from between the floors. Okay, I'm going to, in a panic, rush to go and help them. So 5, 10, 15, 20, 25. I'm going to move there. Make my way. Yeah, so you get to the bottom of the stairs,

but you'll have to spend an action if you want to try and dash up the stairs. Let's dash, yeah. Let's dash. 5, 10, 15. That's 15 to get there. 15 and then you basically end up you push past shadow on the stairs and emerge just in front of

shadow basically. Protecting it. And yeah, you see the same thing you can see this narrow hallway there are no lights so by this point now you are almost in darkness um you just have a faint bit of flickering dim light and these red glowing eyes of these undead creatures peering out of the the looming shadows of the hallway as you emerge upstairs. Ismark, barely able to see more than a sort of like five feet around him.

I'm pretty sure that Ismark lit a torch last time because he was going upstairs without Arena. I'm pretty sure because he said, because Jesper has two hands for weapons and he said, I've only got one. Pretty sure. Do you know what? He does, because I set him to emit light,

so he does have a torch. Thank you for reminding me. It has been a week. Perfect. So he has a torch in one hand and his longsword in the other, and yeah, he kind of spins and sees these two undead creatures, and he also looks in the direction this voice is coming from which is just there seems to be like a corridor

leading down near one of the undead creatures. He can see that he's kind of keeping things blocked up so he will disengage and then he will use his movement to move up the corridor to engage the other undead. He'll probably turn around and be like

Jesper, do you have that one? I can take this one. I'll try. Okay. And then he'll disengage and then he'll kind of back up, keeping the torch behind him so that the others can see and keeping him in place. Somewhere

in this facility, a lone creature is still affected by turn undead for at least another 8 turns nice Rose Venandi hello I will move to

25 30 so I'm at the very bottom of the stairs um can I see any of them 5.30, so I'm at the very bottom of the stairs. Okay. Can I see any of them from... So, you are now on a very narrow, five foot wooden staircase.

The floors are creaking under the weight as three of you, you, Shadow and Ziki, are now crowded in this narrow stairwell, looking up at Jesper, who is fighting something that you cannot see. The height, the people in your way, you cannot see a creature beyond that. Now you can move through ally spaces.

I couldn't do this turn, so I think I'll just shout, Jesper, move! this turn, so I think I'll just shout Yes, but move! And I will hold just an I'll hold an action to if I see one of the enemies

to shoot it. If I get an opening, basically. This turn. You might get an opening, but it's going to be a difficult shot. It's going to have certain amounts of cost. That's fine. It's better than not doing anything. Absolutely. Because if I push past, I won't get

an attack anyway, so I'll wait out. You let me know when you think you might get that, and then I will try and let you know of the same as well. Right. The skeleton in front of Ismark will thrust its blade once more.

However, he manages to parry it to the side with a kind of expert warrior's motion, sending the blade scattering to the side. Jesper, your turn. I'm going to try and pirouette around whilst attacking this skeleton to try and make some spurs. Yeah. You've got a rapier and a dagger, haven't you, as Jesper? That's right.

And I'm going to be using a defensive flourish on this attack which allows me to add the number of a bardic inspiration to my AC. So let's do that. I'm going to do my attack now, here we go big time seven sweet great time that's a natural one uh so you thrust towards the creature but in the movement kind of spinning

around it to the side because of this way the creature is it's just these animated bones it kind of just pivots directly around with you, not moving in a natural way, and it throws the aim of your strike off, not quite expecting this creature to move in the way it does. Sadly, the blow goes wide. With the wording of Defensive Flourish, it doesn't suggest that I need

to hit to get this bonus. No, it's just when you make an attack. Yeah. You're kind of defending yourself with the attack. Sure. Boost your AC. That's a when you make an attack. Yeah. So I'm going to whack down D6. Yeah, you're kind of defending yourself with the attack. Sure. Boost your AC. That's a three. That'll do.

So increase your AC by three. How long does that last? Until the end of your next turn or start of your next turn. So I will double check whilst you do another turn. Okay, you have a double check of that. While I narrate what happens next. So you hear, coming from the corridor near where ismark and the skeleton are fighting you hear the sound of a door opening um and heavy footsteps 10 15 20 oh hello

25 the creature that comes emerging from the corridor is nearly six foot, it's about six foot three, six foot five, very tall, powerfully built red dragonborn. It is clad in black vestments like black noble's clothing and it carries

in one hand a long halberd with a jagged pointed spike and axe head. He comes around the corner. You would notice that he looks like a dragonborn, except for one thing. His eyes glow red in the darkness. His mouth, you can see this grin, this kind of stretched grin that goes up his long muzzle, and his two prominent teeth are

much larger than you expect them to be. They are much larger than Zeke and Xeros's. He emerges around the corner. What do we have here? Someone disturbing my work. Well, I was

getting bored. And he is going to... Let's see. 5, 10, 15, 20, 25. He will move basically next to Ismark. And then let's see what he does. Let's see if his attack hits first of all. Oh, dear.

Well, his first one is a natural one. So, he... Yeah, you see him move up, but the tight quarters, he slams one giant fist into the wall. Ismark manages to throw himself backwards, almost using the skeleton he's fighting to push himself off.

And the dragonborn's fist smashes through some of the wooden boards of the window, and he kind of, like, yanks it a few times. The wood breaks and snaps as he pulls it back. Your little quick one? This might actually be fun.

And then he will swing again, not rolling very high, unfortunately. And this time, Ismark manages to get the blade up and fend off the giant claw as it rakes towards his face, and he backs off. Zeros. So everyone kind of left. I'm like, except Ireena, I'm kind of down there,

like John Travolta right now. Like, where is everyone? kind of down there like yeah travolta right like yeah where is everyone um so i mean the is the door how blocked is the door furniture wise like there's a few barrels like you

grabbed whatever was nearby there was like a small table and some barrels so you probably wedge those that's good enough for now i think um so with 30 feet of movement i can go 5 10 15

uh 20 25 30 i can get to the bottom of the stairs That's good enough for now, I think. So with 30 feet of movement, I can go 5, 10, 15, 20, 25, 30. I can get to the bottom of the stairs. Okay. But I kind of want to be at the top. So, yeah, I'll use a dash to get to... So where does your first movement take you? My first movement takes me to the very, very bottom of the stairs. So 5, 10, 15, 20, 25, 30.

Okay. Well, the first step of the stairs. And then you can go another 30 feet from that. 5, 10, 15. Put me in front of the dragonborn. Well, you will provoke an opportunity attack from the skeleton if you want to do that. Oh, right.

In that case, I'll go back one. So I'm right next to Yester. Yeah, still not in range of that skeleton. Yeah. And that'll be, I guess, my entire turn. Action dashing, yeah. That is savvy. Unless there's a bonus action you want to take.

Not yet. Okay. Irina, now the only one still left downstairs, will join the gathered assembly on the staircase. Staircase party! Hello. Uncertain of what she can really do, because her only skills are in sort of close

combat fighting really um and she knows that it's already getting pretty crowded up there so she will simply ready ready in action that if um there anything comes nearby she will attack it um there's not much that she can do in this state then the skeleton fighting Jasper will strike at him again hitting him already once however the strike goes wide another natural one for me and Jasper you manage to parry the blow with your defensive flourish

you send the blow spinning to the side shadow beyond the veil in fact the skeleton will actually no he can't do that. He'll just stay where he is. Okay. I can't get to the other side of Skeleton A, can I? So I can't position myself...

No, you can't move through him, I don't think. Through him. I will say that it's so narrow, you would need to, like, shoulder... You'd need to make a strength check to like push past him i've got cat's claws can't i like spider you would like to try and make some sort of like acrobatics check to try and climb or it'd be more of an athletics really for climbing if you want to try and make an

athletics or acrobatics check to try and clamber over the skeleton, you may. I just want to kind of not contribute to the blockage in this corridor. Five, ten. I guess, can I, if I position myself, if I go through Jesper and then up in that corridor, is that technically? No, that's still clambering over, isn't it? And also, that's a hard corner. You can't move that diagonal. You have to move through the skeleton.

Okay, people can get through me, though, right? Everyone on the stairs can get through me at the moment. Yeah, yeah. I've never given you guys penalties for moving through friendlies. Tom's communicating something. Don't listen to Tom. Unless he's talking in character, just you do what you want to do jump

if people can get through me here I will jump cat can I sacred flame the spookums next to me please so could you make a deck saving throw? You can. It's ranged.

Ah, it's deck saving throw. Okay, that's fine then. Yes, deck saving throw of DC 13. That is... Despite this being a skeleton, he's quite a nimble boy. That's an 18. Well, he's a poopy hole. That's what he is.

Yeah. He kind of juts to the side as the holy fire soars past him. End of your turn? Yeah, I don't think I've got anything else. Sol's popped, guys. Cat's got done. I'm gonna

move up next to Jesper up here. Right, you will have an attack opportunity because you will be moving past the skeleton and then out of its threatened area. Is that okay? Yes, fine. It will take a swing at you.

That's an extra 20. Oh, God. Oh, Ryan. Of course. Of course it is. Can't, you know, the little skeleton is going to do more damage. Fuck.

I love that. Right, so using our crit rules, that's a six on the d6, and then I roll another d6 for a five. That will be 13 points of damage as the blade ruptures through a part of your side as this rusted short sword, you know, pierces into scale and muscle and flesh as you move past. That is its reaction

nice um i'm gonna cast color spray let's see if we can get five ten and i think i can target all of the baddies with that one so i shall roll so what is it what's is it a spray so it's like uh it's like the powder pigment that she uses for painting so it yeah but is it on the range is it does it say it's a 15 foot cone or what does it say it is oh it's a 15 foot cone so you will catch ismark in it if from your car oh i see because ismark is next to the vampire the sorry the dragonborn and the skeleton but all right uh never mind i will uh can i do ray of frost on the dragonborn guy instead oh yes absolutely i shall do that d20 plus five oh it's an 8 total for a ranged spell attack

so you kind of channel this frigid beam of blue light and the dragonborn just tilts its head to the side slightly as the beam streaks past frost never been a fan of ice and he looks towards

you and you can see this wicked grin just stretching across his muzzle and his bright red scales. After Ziki. End of your turn, Ziki? Yeah. Yeah? Yeah. Yeah.

Ismark will try and... Well, he's got a few attacks he's gonna try and shove this skeleton back so that he can kind of position himself a bit better so he's gonna make a roll the skeleton will make a roll the skeleton gets shoved five feet back um and then his mark will use his second attack to he'll try and skirt round and then he will try and attack the dragonborn with his long sword however this time he swings it down in like an overhead chop and the dragonborn just holds one claw behind him catches the blade and then throws it to the side behind him not even looking where the the attack has just come from um and you see ismark stumbles with the strength of this figure as the blow is just thrown to the side.

The lone ghoul in the far corner at the end of the room just sits on the ground and covers its face and just rocks back and forward as it is still turned. Rose, sadly,

nothing came into vision. No, there's no opening. So I'm going to have to take the attack of opportunity because I can't get past without... Well, the skeleton's used it now. The skeleton can't take another attack of opportunity. Perfect. I will cast... Yes? I will cast... Who...

Yes? I'll cast Slayer's Prey on the vampire. Dragonborn? Yes. And it says Dragonborn Vampire on the map, Mark. Oh! Oh! Oh!

And I will... I will take a shot. So... Okay. Nine, nine, nine, thirty, forty, fifty, seventeen. Just!

This arrow just barely manages to scrape past this um the dragon scales and he moves unnaturally quick but the arrow manages to catch him along the side of the face uh six points of damage from the arrow and then four points of damage from Sire's Prey. So ten total. You see that the blow barely managed. You think that it should have cut deeper than it does. His flesh seems unnaturally tough against non-magical things.

As it... And no blood trickles. You just see the arrow cut through the flesh separate the layers of muscle but he just kind of looks at it looks at you grins skeleton B will

move up behind Ismark and take a swing at Ismark Boris skeleton Boris this however is a miss. The skeleton bounces off of the breastplate that Ismark wears underneath his coat and

pings off Jesper. I'm going to have to deal with the skeleton next to me so I'm just going to go in for a straight 1-2. Okay. Here we go. Rapier. 16 to hit. 16, yeah, that hits the skeleton uh that's a 10 plus crit seven i don't know what that means what's that mean uh it's it's because it's it's rolling your crit automatically so it's it's rolling the critters so that we it saves time if he does it so the first number is the d8 plus four

so that's your damage okay it's 10 nice uh and then so with that blow you and it's uh what type of weapon is it it's a rapier okay so the blow you manage to kind of wedge the the point of the rapier um in between several ribs and you pull as you pull the blade free parts of the rapier in between several ribs, and as you pull the blade free, parts of the skeleton's rib cage just shatters and breaks. You can see all the ever-magic is holding it together, heavily, heavily wounded. I'm not going to say it's HP on roll 20, but yeah, this thing does not look like

it can take another one of those blows. Well, I'll go with my dagger. Bonus action. For a seven. Another seven to hit. Well, I'll go with my dagger. Bonus action. For a seven. And that one. Another seven to hit. This one, with the first blow, you leap forward to strike and take a moment of the opportunity,

but the creature doesn't sense pain, so it just moves normally. It just steps back, not reeling from the blow like a living creature would, which sets off your aim ever so slightly as you do so. Anything else else Jesper I'm not going to move because it's going to hit me so no okay the dragonborn on his

turn he'll take a he will step forward up towards Rose he'll take an opportunity attack from Ismark who will hit Ismark I'm correct Is hits uh that's a d8 plus three for his damage ah 11 points but very much like the arrow the weapon seems to do little against this creature's scales and flesh as it cuts down his back but the dragonborn doesn't even

take a moment to really pause as he steps up to rose you see him look down at you and his jaw opens and flame begins to roil in his mouth as he breathes a fiery breath over a 15 foot

cone which will be everybody he'd actually do it from if you wanted to catch everybody where's the best over a 15-foot cone, which will be everybody. He'd actually do it from... If you wanted to catch everybody, where's the best way of him doing this? Including Skeleton A, right? Oh, yeah, he'll... Yeah, he'll hit the skeleton, but he's going to hit all of you guys.

This is a dexterity-saving throw. Oh, my favourite. Eight. Zero to one. One? oh my favorite eight zero so one one not a natural one 16 the number to beat is 14 so

yeah rose is the only one who succeeds let's check for skellyman. Skellyman does not succeed. So, Rose, you take half damage. Everybody else is taking the full amount. It's only 2d6, don't worry.

It's only six points of fire damage. That's all right. So, three for Rose. Feels good. And then you see him. He has, like, a sling system and he just slings the the halberd behind his back and then he just flexes and cracks his muscles um and brings his giant claws uh ready in anticipation uh xeros anticipation um i'm trying i'm wondering where they got a dragonborn from, to be honest. But I'm going to...

That's a very good question. I'm going to go in. So I'm now kind of blocking Zeke and him. I guess, can he still attack Zeke from where he is? He could. Yes, he could. What a loser nerd. I'm going to bonus action. Use a second wind on myself, which is a d10 plus four healing nice seven healed so that's not too bad yep um good and then i want to whack him

once and then action surge and whack him again just before you do that, Tom Hazel, I forgot to mention that the wound Ismark and Rose had caused to him, when he began his turn, you see them seal up. Like, the flesh knits back together and begins regenerating. Okay, I'll just hit him twice as hard. Should we just go? If you want to try and go,

you can absolutely do that. Hey, bye. Right, so... I mean, if you can't try and go you can absolutely do that hey bye right so if you can't fight this guy you don't really have a lot of luck elsewhere it's okay I can't fight this guy so the first blow he just knocks your greatsword to the side with his arm

sends it careening into the wall fine I'll save it I won't do an action surge this turn end of your turn sends it careening into the wall. Fine, I'll save it. I won't do an action surge this turn. Okay. End of your turn? That's the end of my turn. I've done everything I can. Okay.

Irina will move up and... Skeleton's not gone again yet, so she will move into the space pushing past shadow and she will attempt to assist in dealing with this skelly man um she will make an attack with her rapier for 17 and she will hit d8 plus five six points of damage however and i hate doing this you know i hate stealing kills from you that is enough to render the skeleton a pile of bones upon the corridor they clatter to the ground she kind of reaches in with the pommel of her um rapier she smashes the creature in the skull already heavily wounded by jasper

and it clatters to the ground um i'm okay with that i thought you might yeah i'm fine with that uh and yeah then she she just turns in fact she'll use the rest of her movement to kind of back up into this corner um and take a sort of defensive stance as she does shadow um after shadow ziki um and then rose will be the next player character after that. Yeah, I'm going to try and Guiding Bolt this... This Scaryman. The Scaryman. Yeah, he will get a slight cover bonus. Slight cover?

Mild cover? Lame! Guiding Bolt is a d25. That is a 14 to hit even without the cover uh his unnatural agility is enough that the the golden light and glow of the scarab that you summon to send forth uh you see his eyes his eyes go wide at the sight of this radiant energy uh but he manages to kind of throw himself as the golden light washes over an impact along the wall but there's definitely an element of like he that

he was not afraid but was more scared of that attack than any other attack that's been launched at him so far um he seemed to be nervous about that one uh Anything else? What are you trying to tell us, Mark? You have a hint. Shadow, anything else? Nothing else? Zeke? No. I would like to cast Word of Radiance against the Dragonboy boy.

See if we'll play. Read Word of Radiance out, Lotus. Okay, so you utter a divine word and burning radiance erupts from you. Each creature of your choice that you can see within range must succeed in a con save, throw or take 1d6 radiant damage.

So con saving through just for him. I'm assuming you do not want to hit your allies. No, thank you. Are you in range of Skelly Bob B? I am. Oh, no. No, it's five feet around her. That would have been a 16 total, I'm afraid, Ziki.

Cool, no worries. So you watch as this radiant, this kind of white light erupts out of you, and he shields like, he's like, I must deal with you first, clan sister. This brings me no pleasure to kill my own kind. But that light, that accursed light! Anything else, Zeke? Do you wish to move?

Do you want to anything? Yeah, I think I'm going to move. Can I try and go in the room that he came from? You can. I'm going to remind you he will get an attack of opportunity if you move away from him. Oh, it's such a big... Oh, I'm going to take damage. I know how these go for you.

Yeah. I mean, he looks like he's going to attack you. Okay. I'm going to move up there. Well, he gets a 16 to hit you. Yeah, that hits. I've only got AC 10.

He's not going to do any damage, but what he does is he grapples you. As you go to run past him, he grabs you by the throat and lifts you up off the ground and pulls you into his range. He basically grabs you

and he has you grappled while you're there. And he's just like... Hmm... Yeah. Okay. Ismark sees this and he's like, Ziki! And he runs forward, ignoring the skeleton

and he's gonna take an attack opportunity which hits him for six points of damage. Eight points of damage actually. So he takes like a stab in the back but he rushes forward and he will he's gonna attempt to try and like shove

this guy so that he breaks the grapple on you. So he tries to like shoulder barge into the vampire on your behalf. However, he just smashes into his back and like he bounces off. He throws all of his weight and force into like a shoulder charge

and the vampire just barely nudges and just looks down. Pathetic. You humans are all the same. The only challenge here is these two and he's looking towards xeros and ziki the ghoul continues to be turned in the corner rose he's he's got like a minute right kim turn on dead is a minute right he's just he's done in fact actually no now that you've come upstairs he he moves 30 feet. He rushes down the stairs because you've come up closer.

He's like, ah, just runs. Oh, I'm contributing somehow. You're keeping this thing off you, dude. Yeah. Rose. So he's taken his... Reaction. Reaction. So I'm going to step... Oh, wait, he's there.

Yeah, I'm going to step back, and I'm going to take another shot at him from there. Sure. Absolutely no more disadvantage, because you are not next to him. Oh, a good hit. A strong hit the arrow 12 damage from 12 damage from the bow and six damage for it that was max damage from the bow six from primeval not uh slayer's Prey. From Slayer's Prey. It would have been 18 damage normally, but again, you see that the arrow

thuds into his side, and he just slams an elbow down and breaks the arrow off, and doesn't seem to be phased by it. I don't have anything else. Skeleton B rushes forward towards Zeros, the first target in its

forest. Oh my god. That's six, seven, eight, nine points of piercing damage against Zeros as this skeleton kind of runs down the corridor and just slams its short sword into the back of the top of your thigh. You manage to pull it out of the way

but a deep scrape along the thigh. Jesper. sort of like the top of your thigh. You manage to pull it out of the way with a deep scrape along the thigh. Yes, but... It's like Dark Souls, Tom. It's in a tight space. Just like Dark Souls, yeah. I'll try and engage eye contact with Dragonborn Man and say, Yes?

Isn't this whole situation just a little funny? And I'm going to cast Tasha's Hideous Laughter. Sure. Wisdom saving throw, please. Wisdom saving throw. That is a 19. Oh, good. Great.

No. I won't do it. He looks at you. That wasn't very funny. Ah, Avastani. You know, it is funny I've heard that well you won't be going anywhere anytime soon

and that does make me laugh well that was more than six seconds so I can't reply is that that's your action bonus action move action Chris Chris Trott? I'm going to let the Dragonborn kind of duke this out for a second

and then I'll be right in there. Straight after, I swear. You see, as Jesper calls it out, Rose, you notice that the arrow, he'd snapped off the shaft, but the wound around the arrow heals and it just pushes the arrowhead out of his body and he looks unharmed again uh and then he has he has ziki grappled so he will he pulls ziki in and attempts to bite down on her neck. That is an 18 to hit.

Technically, he has advantage, so that is a 22 to hit. Yeah, that'll do it. Yeah, that'll do it. Right, so there's some split damage here, Ziki, so you're going to take seven points of piercing. Yep. So you're going to take seven points of piercing. Yep.

And then you take nine necrotic damage. I'm out, you boys. That's it. Okay. Oh, shit. It's worse than that. Zeke, he bites into your neck and you watch as like, he sucks and you see Zeiki's scales and flesh.

Even though they're white, they take on a kind of almost reddish veined hue as it spreads through her body and her eyes turn black. If this reduces a creature to zero, the target dies and you just watch as oh and he pushes he throws your body to the ground ziki i will come back in a minute because that is not the end of that story um in fact actually i don't know with vampire spawn maybe it is i think it's only with you just okay you just watch the life the life fades from ziki I'm sorry you are dead it was gonna be oh my god oh my god wow

I mean look just before we continue with the combat I don't want to take away the mystery but that is a the natural crit on the opportunity attack the opportunity attack where he grabbed you and then yeah like you're taking some damage before then but yeah I, I'm sorry, dude. Like, this particular

the bite attack is if the if this reduces, because the target's hit point maximum is reduced by an amount equal to the necrotic damage taken. He heals, but he's already at full. The reduction lasts until the finish is long. The target dies if this effect reduces oh, if it reduces his hit point maximum

to zero. So you're not dead. You're not dead. That's my problem. I misread that. That is my fault. I put the fear in you a little bit. You can't do that. I'm helping you, but... I'll take that one.

I'll take that one. Yeah, I misread that. So basically, it's hit points reduced to zero. Yeah. Well, unfortunately, um yeah yeah well unfortunately because he's not a full vampire you wouldn't you wouldn't become a vampire that's the other thing i was reading no you see you see ziki's body go limp so we see ziki's body go limp and then he throws it to the ground his second attack is to punch Zeros in the chest.

17 to hit. It does. Oh boy. That is nine points of bludgeoning damage. Oh my god. As he just slams a fist into your chest.

Is this all that you have? And he punches me in the chest. What a jerk. Man, I am so glad I reread that ability. I'm so glad I reread that. That was a rollercoaster. What happened to Ziki then? So Ziki's unconscious.

She's at zero. She's dying. Okay, okay. Okay. Don't okay okay don't forget your hit point your hit point maximum is reduced by nine so you need to mark that on your character sheet as well rey oh cool your hit point maximum is down by nine yes is your blood your vitae has been drained by nine but guess what by the nine zero Yes, can you roll a d20 for me as well? Make a con save for me, please. And Zeros, you're next. Okay.

Oh, yeah. Cool. Mole, mole, mole, mole. Yeah, so injury check for Ziki and then I'll just do my monster turn. All right, roll another d20 for me, Rhi. Okie dokie. Oh, actually, yeah. What's your plus, actually? No, because the DC's only 10, so what's Okie dokie. Oh, actually, yeah, plus. What's your plus, actually? No, because it's the DC's only 10,

so what's your plus? Plus 5. 13. Oh yeah, you're fine. Yeah, no injury. Oh. No injury. Okay, um... And they're off. So, this skeleton next to me, he's got his reaction, like he used that. I want to duck

away one. Uh-huh. Yeah, he used it against his mark, so... Oh, did he not use it against me? Oh no, you not use against me oh no he's no he's he he had his turn again yeah so he does yeah he does get an attack opportunity uh he missed he misses okay cool um slammed blade into the wall oh it's only if someone damages me all right fine um i want to in that one movement attack once at the arm-holding Ziki. Oh, he's thrown Ziki to the ground. He bit Ziki and then he's thrown her to the ground.

Discarded. He's gaming it to move away from the skeleton to get the attack of opportunity and then just move back. No. Cool. That's tactics. You're like taking up his reaction so that other people can not worry about it okay i want to uh do a double sweeping attack um sure so i will attack with my

great sword uh boom 22 to hit the dragonborn that will hit hit, yes. That hits him. Again, the same thing of some of the damage is absorbed. Okay, and it's a sweeping attack. I will then expend a superiority dice to damage the skeleton as well. So I do two damage to the skeleton. Then I want to action surge

and do that again. Yeah. As long as you've got the superiority points, you can do it. 19 to the dragonborn. Yep. And 5 to the skeleton. So 14 to the skeleton. And the skeleton is...

Yeah. Yeah, the skeleton is badly damaged. The dragonborn kind of like as you pummel him with these slashes, you cut these huge swathes

down his chest and across his face, and you can already see they're beginning to slowly heal. He's just like, yes, a warrior at last, something to truly test my strength against. Oh. Ah.

Oh, that sucks. How rude. Slaying that. Oh, that sucks. How rude. Slaying it. Irina will charge forward like, how dare you do that to Ziki? And she kind of charges forward with her rapier, trying to strike a blow as well.

Of course, the NPCs can fucking pull off a crit crit can't they um as the creature turns to xeros as xeros is drawing his attention he doesn't even seem to notice irene dart forward and the blade kind of goes through parts of his neck um it's not a huge damage roll it's eight plus five plus three sixteen half um so eight points of damage uh as this kind of uh yeah yeah that all of these weapon attacks like all of your attacks against this creature they are not having the amount of impact that you think they should uh they are your weapons are not as effective against this guy um and you see she like struggles to pull the blade out as this wound on his neck that would normally be through an artery. There's just no blood that comes out.

He just kind of cricks his neck. I will deal with you in a moment, human. After Irina, Skeleton A is dead. Shadow be on the veil. It'd be nice if your spellcaster could hit. Can I reach Pinkie if i like squeeze by yesper and like i don't know you can't occupy the same space because you're not a small creature

so no you can healing words but you can't kill even if i just put my hand through his legs and i'm just like we use my tail no because you can't stop. You can't stop. If you could stop and then move away again, it'd be different. But no, like this corridor is so tightly packed. Well, it's going to have to be a healing word then. Okay, well, she's unconscious. Yeah, I'll cast healing word at level two. And because of my circle of mortality, it will be at full power. So that is 2d4 plus three, which is eight, nine, ten, eleven because of my circle of mortality, it will be at full power, so that is

2d4 plus 3, which is 8, 9, 10, 11 points of healing. 11 hit points back to Ziki. Well, thank you! You feel your eyes flutter open, you feel kind of weak and tired, Ziki. The blood literally drained from your body,

but you are conscious. And it is your turn, unless there's anything... That's only a bonus action, Shadow, actually. The healing word. So, action, can I cast a cantrip, then? Yes, yep. In which case, could you make a deck save of DC 13? Because I'm going to Sacred Flame this guy.

He dodges to the side. It's just... Even surrounded, he seems to have some sort of supernatural agility and awareness that he is just dodging these attacks that are thrown at him um so anything else movement uh i guess can i

just move up uh i'm gonna i'm just gonna tuck myself into the corridor a little bit. Just like this. Sure. I like lurking in the shadows. Then it's your turn to go. Yeah. Alrighty.

I'm going to cast Blur on myself. You are prone. Okay. Okay, I'm going to get up, cast Blur on myself. And then can I move back into the room that I was going to try and get into? I can. Again, you will provoke an attack of opportunity, but I think with Blur you have disadvantage.

Yeah, do you want to try that? Yes, please. Okay, let's see what happens. I can't move my dude. That's disadvantage. It's a disadvantage he tries to do exactly what he did before as you try and push past your brother and then

move through Ismark and then kind of get around he reaches out to grab you but he grabs the after image of Ziki caused by this blurration as this kind of you know shimmering image of yourself kind of dist this blurration as this kind of you know shimmering image of yourself kind of distorts and warps

around you he grabs that and you feel the brush of these cold dead claws Rhiannon you're stressing me out today you're stressing me out man so you can yeah you can get to here

and then... In fact, actually, this skeleton hasn't gone again yet so you can keep going. So you can go 5, 10, 15, 20, 25... You can get up to here, but do you want to go... Yeah. Do you want to go... Do you want to stop anywhere?

I think I'll stop there now. Zeke's just going to take a breath, reconvene. Well, Zeke is just going to take a breath, reconvene. Well, so you see where you are now. There is an open door and you don't have any dark vision and the light's kind of being channeled, you know, not fully into the room. But you think you're looking into something that looks like a library or a study, perhaps. Okay.

So that's what you see there. Ismark will try and finish off the skeleton that xeros has been fighting um to aid everybody he hits and hopefully this should be yes that is enough to finish off the the remaining skeleman um

hi boris boris uh he clatters to the floor ah well done you've killed a bunch of angry bones. The dragonborn calls out. Jesus. Ismark will just turn around like,

You'll soon join him, you abomination. And he will plunge his second attack, which is a natural 20. Spins it around to try and cut his head. So that's eight. I hate it when NPCs do too well. Oh my god. He spins it around to try and cut his head. So that's eight. I hate it when NPCs do too well.

I hate it. That's 10. That's 13. Look, somebody has to. Somebody has to do a good job. It's not that they're doing well.

It's that we're doing just terribly. Abysmally, yeah. You guys are just having the worst luck. So Ismark manages to cut like a deep cheek, scratch against his face.

And you can see the wounds are healing, but they're being generated so quickly, you don't think that they're going to be able to completely heal with his rate of healing. Ghoul continues to his fleeing away. Rose. Okay, seeing that, would Rose know anymore? Would Rose know about weaknesses from her experience

that she could communicate to everyone else? Yeah, I mean, you've kind of made this check a little bit before but make a make a this would be what's higher for rose is religion or nature higher they're the same arcana uh the same so it'd be a religion check then yeah there's some stuff you know like because you've already told the group that like i think you've already given some ideas of some things that will harm them okay 16 okay um so you and i'm not sure you might have a class feature that gives you actually more detailed information have a read through but um it does but it takes action so i want to see what i know right now so i would yeah i will say that like you don't know any like direct resistances and

vulnerabilities like no mechanical information but what you know of vampires you've kind of semi-communicated this before they can't enter places without an invitation um but abandoned buildings perhaps like this one don't hold that power like an abandoned building they can just go into as they wish sunlight is the best way to kill a vampire sunlight will destroy them if they're caught out in it a stake to the heart

will destroy them but it needs to be incapacitated and in its resting place so it needs to be in its coffin for a stake to destroy it and then running water will also harm it so if it falls into a river or a lake or something like that um it will cause harm it's like acid to a vampire and that's what i have seen i have seen that um its wounds aren't healing as quickly as we can do damage me you want to use your special ability to

learn more you can do that i'm gonna give you i will use hunter's sense uh i immediately learn whether i immediately learn whether the creature has any damage immunities resistances or vulnerabilities and what they are uh yeah i'll throw in i'll throw in a bonus one for you as well. So yeah, damage resistances. He is resistant to fire, to necrotic damage, as well as weapon attacks from non-magical weapons. So slashing, piercing, bludgeoning from non-magical weapons. So he basically needs magic,

but he's also resistant to fire and necrotic. Vulnerabilities, he doesn't have any, but he doesn't have any um but he doesn't have any immunities but i will also tell you that he has regeneration uh which is that he will regenerate hit points you don't know how many um but if he if it is as long as he isn't in sunlight or running water and if he takes any radiant damage or damage from holy water his regeneration doesn't work i'll tell you that for free can i relay that to the team in you uh like do this don't do this fire is not gonna help you guys magic myth and uh that is what in the six seconds you have that well that's exactly what you just said you you know you You can't give the detailed info,

but yeah, you can say the basics, as you just did. Hit him with magic. Anything else? Yeah. I will just... So, can I back up a little bit to here yeah

I'm good alright Jesper I'll continue to look mockingly at this dragonborn vampire and say oh you really want this spell to go up don't you at least I'm not a dragon man

with a stench so bad that I only keep rotten bones for company. And I'll cast Vicious Mockery. Got him. Oh, Vicious Mockery. Okay. Please. Very good.

Wisdom save. That is probably going to be a failure. Yeah, that's a 10. Yeah. 1d4 psychic that will do it but one point of damage but he gets disadvantage on his next attack too ah is that on the next attack or attacks does it say on his next attack because if he makes two then it only applies for the role right so if he makes two it only applies on the first one.

So you see him kind of like clutch his head. Your prattling is nothing more than an irritation. His eyes kind of scan around, looking in Ziki's direction. Your little friend seems to have vanished.

But no matter. She won't escape. I need to deal with you first, warrior. And he will turn both of his attacks against Zeros. And I think that he will actually withdraw his halberd for this. He senses a foe.

A foe. A true foe to make him draw his weapon. Oh god. A broadsword versus a halberd in this smaller corridor, this is going to be hilarious. Well, that's it, right? He's kind of holding it on the thing, but he's like, you know, you're having to swap the way

that you kind of fight and stuff like that. Technically, there's no rules. Yeah. But there are no rules in D&D that say you can't do it so we're gonna do no sure um yeah so uh he brings that to bear his first attack is with disadvantage that becomes a 16 to hit i would like to rip post because that misses me and i totally forgot i have okay okay so it's a reaction you So it misses you and you, like, collides it down.

Yep, so this uses your reaction, but you can make a melee weapon attack. Oh, nice! And I add a V8 to it. It's 10. Uh, 10? Don't worry. He thrusts forward.

Like, in a cool way, he thrusts forward. You dodge to the side and bring your weapon up in another blow, but he just as quickly brings the shaft of the halberd down to block the blow, and then it backs off, and the two of you engage as sparks fly between the two of you, these two hulking dragon men.

Oh, yeah. His second attack, however, no longer with disadvantage. You both sweating? Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah, that one hits hard. It does for 14 points of damage as he brings it down into your shoulder. Hey, I'm not just sweating.

I'm bleeding heavily, too. Yes. Bleed. Bleed. It's your turn. yes bleed bleed you need to stop sorry whose turn was it xeros i said but he was too busy making lewd jokes to notice he never listened to me

sorry um oh when he does hit me oh i I said, but he was too busy making lewd jokes to notice. He never listened to me. Sorry. Oh, when he does hit me... Oh, I used my reaction. Carry on. It's me still. You did? I'll just go with another attack. Do I know if breath counts as, like, magical damage?

The breath weapon. I mean, it doesn't... What type of damage does it do tom hazel it doesn't it does acid damage right but i'm just wondering if that would be more effective than right is acid piercing bludgeoning or slashing damage which is what i said he was resistant to yeah i know you said magic stuff's good once again tom Hazel doesn't listen. Kimmy's just like, for fuck's sake. I'm just thinking of when you came into my stream the other day, Mark, and you were like, why do you hate me so much, Kim?

And I was like, me? Me? And you were like, why do you make my life so difficult? I was like, me versus Tom Hazel? I rolled a nine to him. My greatsword. Is this with your greatsword? No he blocks it parries it to the side cool

good turn thanks he's on the other side Irina will skirt past to join her brother and then she will make an attack however that is going to be a miss he parries

away irena's attack as well skeleton a skeleton alan is dead uh shadow be on the bed um seeing xeros in a bit of a state uh can I scooch around towards him? And I guess as they're kind of sparring and fighting and all that, can I just be like, and then at the moment, when he's nearest to me, just slam my paw into his back

and cure wounds him at second level. So that's 2d8 plus 3? No, wait. I'll need to move to here. I want to use your reaction to hit back. Oh wait, she's healing me. I wasn't listening.

So that's 11 points of healing. 11? Yes. So 5, 10, 15. You've got 15 feet of movement left. Do I want to risk an attack of opportunity? That's the question.

Nah, I'm gonna... I'll probably regret this, but I'll stay here for now. Okay. Zeke. I'll regret it. And then after Zeke, Rose is the next PC. Cool. So,

quick question. Could I, theoretically, use... I love this. This might take a few turns to set up, if I can.

Sure. But, can I... Could I use Ray of Frost to make, like, a kind of, like, a lump of ice? Right?

And then gout a torch and use the torch to melt the ice and then use shape water to make a kind of, like lump of ice, right? And then get out a torch and use the torch to melt the ice and then use shape water to make a kind of like a little river system in the corridor. So it's like flowing water for the boy. I would say that to do... Well, none of you can talk about this.

I will say make an arcana check for me, Aziki. Okay. I'm just seeing a dragonborn with wet feet just being a bit perturbed by the fact that his feet are wet now. I'm just like, what? Plus 17. 17. You think that when Rose calls out and stuff like that

and you kind of have this scheme of making this running water, one, like, a five foot cube of ice is not going to be enough. This needs to be, you need to emulate a river, so you could spend a few turns, like, frosting up the area and creating a larger amount of ice, but you would need to

very rapidly melt it. That, you know, you would need to create something more impressive than just that five foot block of ice the idea in theory would work right yeah so you could if you could basically create enough ice which would probably if you've only got ray of frost that might take some time if you could do that and then create a flame and then control the flame to melt it quickly and then this would take quite a few turns to set up mainly because it's the amount of the idea is sound

you think that the idea would technically work because you would be creating running water and it wouldn't be like it would be a natural even though it's created by magic running water but the amount needed needs to be significant

sound idea needs perhaps the amount needed needs to be significant. Sound idea needs perhaps more powerful magic on your end to fully create. Cool. Okie dokie. But cool idea. I like the idea. I don't like... I'm not saying no, you could do it, but to create

the amount of ice necessary would be more than just one round. You'd probably need to do like, I don't something like climate change not quite but like a good sort of like 20 foot cube of ice like you know that's a lot of ice to then suddenly melt and then you need like yeah the equivalent of a river or like a big stream nice bird like four four turns to make it probably if it's like a five foot, and then one turn to melt it once. It'll be seven turns.

It would be. Yeah. It's a long time. Oh, my God. Time to start chipping away at that one. Cool. Cool. Okay.

I will then scooch up just a little bit, go five feet, and then I'll cast Bless at level one, so I'll get Irene, Xeros, and Shadow. Is Blur a concentration spell?

It is, yeah, but I've done what I need to do. So you'll lose Blur. Yeah, you'll lose Blur, but then Bless will come into effect. Okay, cool. So, Irene, Xeros, and Shadow has Bless active. Can you remind me what Bless is? lose blur but then bless will come into effect okay cool so irena xeros and shadow has bless active can you remind me what blesses again yeah uh attack rolls or saving throws yes cool cool thank you rose all right oh yeah three more rounds and that ghoul's free, baby. Three more rounds and he's going to come back.

Yeah, I've been seven. Zeke, have you? He runs out the house. You activated my trap card. He... Well... The problem is, is where you are, he can't get to the only open door. The problem is, it's where you are, he can't get to the only open door.

I will just attack him again, shoot him. Okay. 20 to hit. Yeah, even with the crowded conditions, you managed to strike him with the arrow 12 whoa what and 2 40 is 7 so again the arrow you are becoming a nuisance Archer as he smashes the arrow out of his side anything else sorry no not yet yes but i'm gonna man this is longer combat than i expected okay so yes vanishes. Everybody sees Jesper just vanish. I'll be back. And I'm going to start looking around for some form of help

that could destroy this thing. So can I go past people without attack of opportunity with invisibility? Or is it just a... Technically, I would say they'd have disadvantage because they don't know where exactly you are but they can sense you moving past the advantage double disadvantage he doesn't have disadvantage anymore oh no you've got me okay yeah uh i'm gonna look up this way then 10 is there a door here on the left you see yes you see, yes, there you see a few doors. Hang on.

So there is a door just on your left-hand side going down this particular corridor, which is where you first came up the stairs. There is a door on your left, and then you can see that there is another door on your left further down the corridor. And then there is a door at the very end of the corridor, but they are all kind of dimly lit without any light source.

Because do remember that Jesper doesn't have dark vision and your torches are currently around the vampire. I'll have a little peek in this close one then. Okay, so you open up that door. You can see the vague shape of what appears to be an empty, old, rusted bathtub. Well, not actually rusted. It would just be empty.

And you can see a little dresser with moldy, not even moldy, actually, because it's not been that long. Stale towels, like moth-eaten towels. And then there's another door. As you go in that door, there is a door to your right as well like immediately to your right i'll go through that one can i all right that's gonna pretty much be your action to open both of those doors really all right thank you um when you step into that room you as you step in there's a moment of alarm is next to you, you see what appears to be a bride dressed in a beautiful white gown with a veil kind of standing faced towards a dresser. Away from you, but just seems to be standing there looking away.

There's a heartbeat, a pulse for a moment before you realize it's a mannequin with a dress on it and then simulated arms for the gloves and everything else. But yeah, there's a moment where it just looks like this pale white ghost standing in what appears to be a fine dressing room. Okay. No like that. And that's all I can see. Yeah, in this room. There's another door. There's several doors, in fact, in this room there's a the door there's another door there's

several doors in fact in this room but you're not gonna be able to open any this turn um you can see one on the two on the far side of the room um to your north and then another door on your right uh just in front of you uh how much movement i got left so 5 10 15 20 yeah anything else in this room interesting useful you see a dresser um uh with a chair and several like brushes and makeup and little lotions of perfume judging by the dust a mirror used to stand here, but it's long gone. It's no longer here. Mirrors. Hmm. Moving up to this door?

And then I guess that's the end of my turn. You're not going to be able to open it this turn. Okay. All right. Yeah. You don't find anything which you think may be of use to you right now. of anything which you think may be of use to you right now. The dragonborn creature of the night will... Yeah, I should make you another token, actually, Trot.

There's like a camera or something for when Jesper goes off. Just move Jesper back and we'll remember where he is. He will look towards Shadow. Ah, some sort of healer. Best deal with you. and he will attack you one giant claw comes out oh that's probably gonna be a miss though 11 to hit shadow it does not hit me oh that's annoying let's see halberd you then. Yeah, he'll swing his Halberd at you on the next attack. That is a 25.

Yeah, just a little bit. 11 points of slashing damage as this Halberd comes smashing down. Help. Zeros. He's just having a whale of a time. Oh, he heals more at the start of his turn. Oh, he's not hitting a whale of a time oh he heals more at the start of his turn oh oh he's not hitting with radiant damage so

I'm trying I know you're trying I know we can't hit him we just can't hit that's the thing oh you have you've been hitting him you're just not with things yeah I know this is welcome to Barovia this is this is it this is the setting.

Spooky, but you guys can run. If you guys think that you can't fight and beat him as he is, you could run. If you need more supplies, if you want to make more preparations, like, remember, you can always run. You don't... It's not a video game.

You're not locked into the fight. How is he looking overall? Is he looking worse than when he started? Not really. Like, he has a couple of scrapes and cuts but the amount of wounds and attacks you've done to him like both of the arrows that uh rose has shot into him there's no evidence that the wounds are still there the cuts that you dealt to him a moment ago those heavy big slashing blows really just look like the scrapes of a novice. They look like you barely hit them

with any force. They're just healing very rapidly. He's wounded. It's not like he's completely unharmed now, but the damage is minimal. And he's just looking around in pleasure. Hmm. Okay. Vampire spawn. um um hmm

okay what does it cost to change my weapon from broadsword on the back to pulling out nah it's fine it's free as part of an action yeah if you want to do like lots of like shimmying equipment around but changing one

weapon for another I'm not bothered about okay I want to attack with my handaxe, and also I kind of want to try the Blade of Nessus on him. Sure. That sounds advisable. It does do fire damage, but yeah, so dual wielding. So attack

him with the handaxe first. Nine to hit. Parries this, or he doesn't even parry it he just dodges out of the way he just steps to the side as the hand axe swings low it's okay because this one's going straight into the middle of his forehead with the blade of nessus

13 to hit you know what I just throw him away this one he you go to you go to strike but he just kind of like punches you in the gut not enough to do enough damage but it throws off the attack and then he just kind of like punches you in the gut. Not enough to do enough damage, but it throws off the attack

and then he steps out of the way. Just kind of like knocks you back. Should we just come back when... Should we come back when roll 20 decides it likes us? It's been fine. Stop complaining about roll 20. You've hit loads of times. It's just... This is dice.

Tom, don't forget you have the d4 from Bless as well. You forgot the d4 from Bless. I mean, that still wouldn't have hit, would it? 13? Maybe. If you get a 4, maybe. If you get a 4, it would. Yeah.

I got a 3. Came super close. Don't forget about it.'s that that defaults nothing to sniff at um yeah i forgot about bless i wasn't listening uh irena will take a swing 15 which will hit uh with her blade uh for a good 12 points of damage, she strikes true. Though her rapier does not seem as firm as it once was. Shadow. Titans of combat, these two.

Don't forget, you've got Bless as well. Man, like, that attack when you action surged and did the sweeping attacks, you did a load of fucking damage to him. Rose's arrows and Slayer's Prey every time is doing, like, 16 points of prey every time he's doing like 16 points of damage every time but he is regenerating he is regenerating these wounds sustainable damage rather than one big or to shut his regeneration down yeah or his regeneration

needs to shut down but the one person the two people that are doing it can't hit him with it which is just unfortunate i know i dude i get it i get it well you've got bless um i'm gonna risk uh an attack of opportunity opportunity attack and move away okay that is a 19 he grapples you he doesn't do damage but he grabs you yeah no he grabs you like by the back of your throat uh as you're like grabbed and he's holding you firm can i sacred flame him you can do you want to try and escape the grapple or do you want to sacred flame him i should probably try and escape, shouldn't I? Yeah, let's do that.

Should we do that? Yeah, but if you damage him, then your friends can actually hurt him. If you don't damage him, then he's just going to regenerate. So what do you want to do? It's a gamble either way. Oh, I hate it when you do this bargain with the devil shit. Well, if you want to escape, if it's escape, you have to make an Athletics or an Acrobatics check, if it's escape, you have to make an athletics or an acrobatics

check. And there's a DC you have to beat. As you try and escape his raw strength. Alright. What are you going to make? Acrobatics or athletics? Athletics. Okay. I've also got a plus four to this.

Or a D4. So that is a 15. And then... Yeah, I think you get it. Yeah, but that's the saving throws. This isn't a saving throw. This is an ability check. Let me check.

It might be two ability checks as well. 15, if not. Attack, roll, or saving throw. You do not get blessed on this. Yeah. Okay. 15, however, is enough to break free of the grip um it is 14 the dc um so you managed to just like get your hands up you dig

your claws into his own hands and kind of like pry his fingers apart as you gasp and manage to get to your feet um can i still move? You moved 5 feet, so you have 25 feet of movement left. Okay. Then he grappled you, basically. Yeah, and then, so, I'm going to keep moving the fudge

away. Ziki, you're next. I'm going to lose from the top of the stairs. Um, I can't do any actions or bonus actions. Can I? I'm all... Your action was to escape.

Yeah, sadly. Yeah, okay. Yeah, I guess I'm going to lick my wounds in the corner over here. Yeah. All right, Zeke. So, next up. Zeke, oh, he's having a bit of a conundrum.

Bit of a moment. Bit of a moment. Man, I think, I guess she would have heard that struggle with Shadow, right? And like, hearing that going on. Shadow like, ah, yeah. Yeah. So, oh

man! I think... Yeah, she's just going to move back in again. Up that way. I'm going to try and cast Word of Radiance against him again. Just try and do something to help. Yeah.

That is... Nine! Nine points of damage yes that is 1d6 of radiant damage even if you roll a one it doesn't matter the point is that this radiant energy scorches the dragonborn

and you see the wounds that were healing up stop. They stop regenerating in their total. Nice. Yes, Rhiannon! Good job. End of your turn? Thank you.

That is the end of my turn. Ismark. Yes, well done. Well done, Siki, by the light of whatever god you worship. And then he begins swinging his blade twice, trying to get as many attacks in as he can. The first is parried. The second, however, connects.

Only for five points of damage, but this time it does not seem to be healing up. It's still resistant, but the regeneration does not take place. After Ismark, Rose. Strike now! 14 plus 8. That's a hit. That's a hit.

That's a hit. Damn it! 5 points of damage. 6, 7 altogether. The arrow is not hitting. It's not hitting. Any damage you do this turn won't be regenerated.

But yeah, the arrow clips in, but not as deeply as your other wounds. Jesper, you are off in another room. You are at this door over here. What's through door number two? Right in front of you?

Jesper's little side adventure you see if you come across another vampire spawn oh my god wouldn't that be interesting wouldn't that be something um Chris Trott can't use his stride knowledge now

uh no your stride knowledge will do nothing for you now Chris Trott in the dim shadows of have no in the dim shadows of this room in the dim shadows of this room because again you have no light and it is pitch black you think you can make out what appears to be a double bed um some pieces of furniture and the the wood of the floor in this room there are large splatters of dark colour stained against the wood itself

you can see torn and tattered sheets on the bed but it is so dark it is difficult for you to see anything if you want to explore it more thoroughly you can make an investigation check yeah I'll do that okay make it with disadvantage because it is

dark in the room seven yeah i'll do that okay make it with disadvantage because it is dark in the room seven you stumble around for a moment but you can't really see anything out of the ordering you do kind of find like bedside cabinet um you find the bed uh you kind of stumble around for a moment kind of moving around um but yeah you don't notice anything which might be obvious perhaps if there were more light in the room like anti-vampire device in the corner over here with a sticky oh yeah no you don't there's you don't

find any of that stuff but this room in that investigation is very clear that people were killed in this bed like you can see deep blood stains soaked into the mattress and the fabrics people were literally murdered in their bed probably while they slept and then their bodies

dragged out damn no coffins or sleeping arrangements for the dragonborn here right no doesn't appear to be cool done is there any more doors out of here cool done

is there any more doors out of here only the one that you can see that where you think it connects to the rest of the corridor which I will open up I'll pop back out the corridor then if that's okay yeah yeah sure you can

you can spend your turn dashing so you can run back down towards Rose basically yeah my side adventure's over your side adventure's over great because the dragonborn will turn his attention to Zeke that accursed light of whatever

god you've brought here will do nothing and he reaches out with his claws once more that is a 15. Poor Zeke's AC, I believe, is only a 10. Only a 10. He will grapple Zeke and then he will bite her

because then he can heal more. This guy's a real butthole. Oh my god. Natural 20. Natural 20. Natural 20. Nope. You are the worst.

Are you kidding me? Out of interest. Three. What's Siki's max hit points right now? 21 right now, Mark. Is the max hit points yeah this is the normal bite max is 22 okay 21

that's the important number that's the really important number so you're gonna take 12 15 points of piercing damage as he bites into your neck which I believe renders you unconscious then it's gonna be 12 max for the necrotic damage plus 2d6 more for the thingy.

That's 21 points of damage. Oh my god. 21 points of damage, which reduces your maximum hit points to zero. Oh, that's it. Crit rules. Oh my god! Oh, god! Oh!

Oh, shit! And he heals. He heals for the same amount. Did you have a bless or anything? He heals for a ton. He heals a ton. As you see him just drain. Zeke's body just shrivels and withers. You see, like, the fluid sucked out of her body her arms

become skeletally thin her chest deflates all around her face as life and joy in fact the joy that ziki had aimed to bring to barovia is sucked from her face in a few final moments um re just before you fall unconscious, is there anything Ziki says or does? I will let you have these precious moments. I'll probably just, like, I'll get, like, one final look at the party, look around desperately,

and then reach a claw out to Zeros and just utter a final just, Zeros, I'm sorry. And then just... You just watch as that hand becomes malformed and withered as the

life force is drained away as this husk of a body is just dropped to the floor. Ah. Ah. Ah. Zeros, it is your turn I mean

I mean I'm gonna go mental I'm gonna go crazy um how many times can I hit this dude in like one turn like four ten a hundred let me hit it a hundred times

hmm like four ten a hundred let me hit it a hundred times i will allow you to have a second use of your action surge seeing your sister die from prompts that energy to return to you and i will give you a second use of action surge so if you attack with two weapons in each hand, I'll let you make up to four attacks. How about that? Shit, I did not expect that to work. Hey, begging works. Dude, if you just hide in front of you, I'm going to give you some cool shit.

Okay, I'm going to stick a hand axe into him as best I can. Oh my god. Eleven to hit with a hand axe. With a bless. It's not going to be enough. Highest it will get to 15. Yeah.

So the hand axe, he just reflects to the side. Yep. This is the one you want to hit with. Bless. Oh, is that still not hit? Okay. And 20. That is a hit.

And you see that this time the blade, as it pierces his body, doesn't... There's no resistance there. Like, the whole impact, he absorbs it. The fire seems less effective, but he still is scorched somewhat by the flames. Okay. And I want to...

What is this weapon? I want to leave the blade of Nessus in his chest and then I punch the blade of Nessus into him as best I can. So another one. We'll just make it the same attack. 25 to hit, so 14 damage.

And then the last one is the fire attack. 25 to hit, so 14 damage. And then the last one is the handaxe. The fire is unobligated. The rest of it isn't. He doesn't take as much as fire. The dagger is like punched in. You pull it free. The flames scorch in the wound. And then finally, a natural one

with a handaxe. He catches your arm and your grip. Yes. He catches the hand and he looks you dead in the eyes, Zeros. He's like, yes, that range. I have taken something precious from you. Yes, use it. He says, I am Vixorus.

I will be your undoing irena can't take her eyes off ziki's body we can't we just we should run we should get out of here find another way he's going to do that to all of us uh but she will try and attack she will like in a desperate try and cause some harm. She does hit, but only does a small amount of damage. She scrapes her blade against his scales. Shadow. Okay.

So, Channel Divinity. You turn back just in time to see a body. Yeah. Yes. I only have one Channel Divinity at the moment, right? Because I used it on Turn Undead, but I also have Path to the Grave, but on my sheet, I don't have a little extra box to tick on it.

So I've... Right, yeah. No, if you've only used it, you've got it. No, no. You have a certain amount of channel divinities per day, and it goes up as you level up. Got it. Spare the dying.

Guessing it's going to do nothing right now. Yeah, you don't need to make checks to know that Ziki is gone. This isn't just death. She has been sucked of all of her blood and vitae. This is not something that can be healed. Only the power to bring back the dead will restore her to life. One day. Perhaps in this realm, such a power will exist.

Maybe. Guiding Bolt, level one. Let's go. Come on. Come on. Come on. Let's go. Level one.

Don't forget you get an extra D4. 17 plus four. 18, 19, 20, 21. What does it look like? Pure rage! Um, no. Yeah, yeah. I guess I'm probably, yeah, just the emotion

from seeing Zeke, this kind of wonderful, joyous creature. The purest of all of us, the best of all of us, you know, being defiled by this creature and seeing, I think, almost feeling Xeros' anger and despair. Like, Shadow's a very empathetic creature,

so she just channels all of that and throws out a paw and this kind of blinding gold light just smashes into this prick. Yes! So that is Burning Bolt. It's 46, isn't it? Yeah.

It is. And it's radiant. And it's radiant. Which is the key, then. 12 points of radiant Damageos. For the first time since you began fighting this creature, you see him genuinely wounded.

The scorch marks burn away much of the kind of black noble tunic that was covering his muscular form. Most of that's been burnt away, and you can see this pocked, ashen-like burn across his chest where the impact hits. His wounds stop regenerating, and he staggers, kind of blown back by the force of the radiant energy as he stumbles to the side.

And yeah, you probably maybe, in that moment as you strike this thing, you feel a touch of your mistress. You just feel like a satisfaction at seeing this thing suffer. You kind of feel that very weak, tenuous link to your mistress that you've had since you came here. There's a pleasure in it. There is an approval. Zeke, it would have been your turn, but I'm afraid

things have not worked out for the best. Do you want to roll a d20 for me? Do you want to roll a d20 for Ismark for me, actually, Rhi? We'll keep you in the front and have you roll Ismark's stuff. You can kind of guide Ismark. So his attack goes wide. He gets another one. d20 for ismark for me actually rey we'll keep you in the yeah go on and roll it um stuff you can kind of guide ismark uh so his attack goes wide uh he gets another one uh rey okie dokie swings twice trying to drive his sword home Where was that? No. Only the NPCs may have criticals.

In Barovia, only NPCs have criticals. That's going to be 8, 14, 17 points of damage, but it is still half, sadly. So 17 is 8. Is it half now that Shadow's done? Yeah, no. The radiant only stops the regeneration. It doesn't no. The Radiant only stops the regeneration. It doesn't stop the resistance.

It only stops the regeneration. It's a guiding bolt as well, so doesn't he have advantage? Wait, no, shut up. He had advantage on the first one, so he should get another. So reroll another d20? Yep, sure.

This is his second attack. Second attack 20, here we go. All right. I missed! I missed! I rolled on that one! Sure. Oh. This is his second attack. His first one. Nat 20. Here we go. Wow. Oh, he's finished. Oh, he's finished. Nat 1. She rolled a Nat 1. She rolled a Nat 1.

Nat 1. She rolled a Nat 1. Yeah. What is this game? What is this game? What is going on tonight? Rose. It's Rose's turn.

It's 20s. It's 20s. It's 1s. Oh, my God. It's either 20 or 1. There's like no middle ground, really. No 20s. It's 1s. Oh my god. It's either 20 or 1. There's like no middle ground really. 20. 1.

Unbelievable. Let's see if we get another one. I love this game. I love this game so much. It's so good. Rhi, I am so happy for your energy. This is what we need Like this is what we need. This is what we need.

All right, Rose, you're up. No, I missed. I rolled a fucking two. She rolled a two. I'm out. Anything else, Rose? Anything else? Any moves?

Any bonuses? If not, yes. Yeah, I moved right on out of there. I'm out. I'm gone. I'm out of the house. Yeah, just play it. Rose, do you want to move? Let's go. Scoot me out of here.

I think I'll just move. I'll move in front of Shadow. Okay, Jesper. I ran down this corridor and I'm going in for a big old swing. Nine. Natural one again.

He rolled another natural one. That's like your fourth natural one. Do we get fun coin? Do we get fun coin in this? There's something wrong with your roll. We would have had about 20 fun coins by now. Just roll a d20 because something's going on with your rolls. Likeot? We would have had about 20 fun coins by now. Just roll a d20, because something's going on with your rolls.

Like, it's doing something weird with them. It says that 9 is a critical attack. Yeah, and I think he's rolled at every attack. I do think there is something a bit weird by using the attack. Yeah, you need to roll just a d20, I think. Like, yeah. So what's the total?

What's going on with Josh? 11 plus a push attack tile. Plus 6, so 17. 17 hits. 17 just barely scrapes past his armor, his natural armor. Don't worry, it's a whole whopping 1d4 plus 4 coming up.

Ding dong 5. Is this with your dagger or your rapier? Sorry, that's 1d8. He rolled a 1 on damage! Now make your rapier attack. So just roll the d20. 10. And a d20 for the dagger.

23, yeah. I should do that more often. Yes, you should. I'm pretty sure that's been doing it all night that night only on trots though not on everyone else's on trots rapier yeah everyone else's has been fine but trots rapier attack has been messing up so dagger damage

I gave it two already did I not just roll it again because like I already added it I worked out the next attack's damage along properly so just roll damage seven No, I'm not. Just roll it again, because I already added it. I worked out the next attack's damage along properly, so just roll damage. Seven. Seven points of damage. Nice. So you swipe and

slash at this creature. The blows are shallow. They build up, but yeah, they lack the momentum that the other blows... His undead flesh is resistant to the attack, sadly. You can see him now kind of staggering back now also i was invisible just so you know when i made my so you would have had advantage i'll roll it just in case

just see 20 ding dong oh my god Of course it was! Of course it was! I'll add another 8 damage to him. I'll add another 8 damage to him. Yay. He can't regenerate because he hit my radiant. What is this fucking session, I swear? Right, he...

This entire campaign is just a series of, what are the dice doing? It's fine on Sunday. He is going to be really fucking annoying and is going to disengage and then he runs up onto the ceiling and

runs away. 10, 15, 20, 30. You can see heavily wounded. He is just like, we will finish this another day. I cannot fail here. And then he begins making his way down end of the corridor, but he uses

his action to disengage, so... Zeros. No, he fucking does not. I'm going all the way up to him. And I'm greatswording him this time time because I accidentally left my hand axe and blade

of nest in him, I think. So, okay. I'll do that back. Bring those back! You want to leave the blade of nest in him, sure.

Nah. But I will great sort him anyway. 23 to hit, 14 Dimagios. Yeah, the blade pierces through him and it causes

another deep wound. He's still alive, it's still semi-resistant to the attack, but heavily, heavily wounds him. Anything else? That's all I got. I'm all out of superiority and everything at the moment. Okay.

Irina basically collapses on her knees next to Zeke's body and just kind of holds the withered draconic face in her hands and she kind of lowers her head and that's all she does in her hands and she kind of lowers her head. That's all she does. Shadow behind the veil.

You see Xeros just like... What are you going to try? What are you going to try? I'm going to blast him with a guiding bolt. Yeah. Come on, rolls. Come on, rolls. Oh, a natural one! One.

One. I have a natural one again! I shoot my own foot. I shoot my own foot. Freya erupts behind him. I quit. I quit. Sorry, boo. That's all I quit. Sorry, Boo.

That's all I had. I'm furious. I'm furious. Ismark charges. You've got to remember that the Dragonborn is currently walking along the ceiling. It's like running along the ceiling beams as if they were the floor. Not climbing or scrambling, but running normally,

but just on the ceiling. Ismark runs up, jumps, and tries to grab him and, like, pull him down so that Xeros can finish him off. He just, like, leaps up and tries to grab him and pull him down. He's going to try and grapple him, basically. Ismark

rolls a four. A dragonborn shrugs him off. You can see Ismark is, like, trying to pull him down, trying to slow him down, but the dragonborn just throws him to the side off get off of me he throws him down rose you can see this desperate battle to stop the escape i don't assume motion hopefully slow motion arrow shot no i'm not i'm a role do too oh my god, again! Kill me! Kill me! Please give somebody a fun point! That's the second time you roll a two.

Mark's gone. Sorry. This is done. This is not okay. Can I roll a five? I'm done. I'm done. I'm done.

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I'm done. I'm done. I'm done. I'm done. I'm done. I'm done. I'm done. I'm done. I'm done. I'm done. I'm done. I'm done. I'm done. I'm done. I'm done. I'm done. I'm done. I'm done. I'm done. I'm done. I'm done. I'm done. I'm done. I'm done. I'm done. I'm done. I'm done. I'm done. I'm done. I'm done. I'm done. I'm done. The best game I've ever played. And the last time it was exactly the same. This is the worst. I love this. I'm fine. I quit. It's your turn. Oh man.

Oh it's my go. It's Jes's my go. Oh, man, it's Jesper's go. Oh, my God. Fucking two-two. This is such trash. It's not. It's just because it's the combination of everyone's terrible rolls.

It's just mind-boggling. It is amazing rolls. rolls yeah i keep getting that come on yes yes that will hit come on yes go fuck him up corn sun five yeah that was the dagger that was the dagger again you attack for the dagger again so now rapier attack just Just do a separate attack. Don't roll the damage. Just do the next attack as the rapier attack. Yeah.

That's a hit. Plus. Seven. Dead, right? Totally dead. You can see his body is like, even though it's resistant to your weapons, it's like falling apart.

Like the body itself is thingy but after yes for unless there's anything you can do because he wasn't hit by radiant damage he regenerates a small amount of his health um and you see some of those wounds he's still heavily wounded and injured but yeah he is he is still fighting fit he He will disengage again. 5, 10, 15. And then he will attempt to break out of this window and jump down to the ground. I hope he breaks his leg. 16. He might do.

He jumps through the window and lands outside. And I will... He'll take some damage. He'll take some damage for sure. Dead. Ah! Can you imagine if that's how he died?

That would be the perfect ending. I would very much enjoy it. I'm sure you would, but sadly he is still alive. Zeros. I mean, this might turn into an urban chase. You guys want to keep the chase? We are on the second floor, yeah. It's 20 feet down.

It's 20 feet down. 5, 10, 15, 20, 25. You can jump right below it. You could literally jump on him. Could I jump on him and also stab him in the downward like... Yes! The fall. Dragoon style. Can I jump on him and also stab him in the downward fall? Yes! Dragoon style.

I'm absolutely doing the jump. I'm chasing this guy down until he's pre-dead. So you'll have advantage on the attack roll, but you're going to take falling damage when you land. So advantage on the attack. What is that? I see in the stairwell. That's cool. Next turn, he's unturned he's coming back next turn oh my god he is

he is that's the turning end alright zero advantage that one ghoul is gonna be the death of all of us and not the vampire it'll just be this ghoul coming in and being like the vampire was the death of one of you, so I'll take it.

Yeah. 23. That's a hit. And 12 slashing damage. And I guess, do I take the falling damage? You will. Let me... So, I will add the falling damage to the damage

you deal because you are bringing like the weapon has my extra force because you're landing with the weapon right so the falling damage you take I will add an extra falling damage to him because yeah you're a huge giant dragonborn falling on top of him with another sword so

unbelievable 2-1 you only take 2 damage on top of him with another sword. Unbelievable. Two-one. I mean, you take two-four. Yeah, you only take two damage. It was five-four. It couldn't just be one. I don't know. Rhiannon is literally crying right now.

His game is cursed. What a cursed game. Can we even start can we get a do over no uh irina will basically irina looks at you shadow and is just like you should go i'll stay

with her for the minute but you should go and go and stop him um and then it's your turn shadow oh yeah watch out mate though there's a freaking ghoul about um oh yeah there is there might be this turn it's the most powerful ghoul in the universe a nat 20. He's coming. He's coming. He's coming. He will. It's the most powerful

ghoul in the universe. He's coming. I can't believe this. That is so funny. I'm going to use V-Line Agility. Oh, yeah. So you sprint on all fours.

25, 30. 5, 10. I'm guessing I can't see out this window, can I? Because I'm a bit too far see out this window can I? you can, it's broken, all the boards have been ripped off of it where you are, no, you can't see them on the ground I can't do it enough to do a little sacred flamey

not from here I've done 30 movement I've done 30 cat movement I'm going to dasharoo then 5, 10 now you can look out the window and you look down.

But that is your full turn. Yeah, I'll just wait. Wait until next time. I'm going to do a deck saving.

He's going to is Mark following his heroic friend will try and leap down and pin the vampire to the ground again. So I will roll ismark's falling damage.

And then he will make... I'll give him advantage on this for the strength check. So 13 is his highest versus vampire. Ismark lands on him and tries to grab him. The vampire just throws him over his shoulder. He's just like... Ismark goes tumbling to the floor as. The vampire just throws him over his shoulder. He's just like, woo! Is Mark

goes tumbling to the floor as Mark's just trying to wrestle this guy. Zeros is behind him. He landed sort of on him and then attacked him, but he's not grappled by Zeros. Zeros attacked him. Is Mark was trying to grapple him and stop him running. It's basically what it's turning into.

It's turning into that. He's using him as a trampoline. Here he comes! Here he comes! It's basically what it's turning into. It's turning into that. He's using him as a trampoline. Ghoul! Here he comes. Here he comes. 15, 20, 25, 30. Here he comes. Running up the stairs.

Whoa, here he comes. Watch out, boys. He'll chew you up. Whoa, here he comes. For fuck's sake. He's coming for the shadow. This ghoul comes running up the stairs towards you, but that's his whole turn. Rose, it's your

turn. Oh my god. This is so funny. What are these bits on the wall? Is this a window here? Sorry. You can't see it. No.

Over, Jesper, can you move? Is that a window there? No, it's like a little shelf. Oh, cool. That's annoying. This here is a little shelf. These are windows. You can't really see them, but that is a window.

Oh. This is a shelf. Wait, was I there? You were exactly here because you were in front of the window. 5, 10, 15, 20, 25, 30. You can get next to the window. You can literally get here with 30 feet. And then you look down at this chaotic scene with your bow.

Don't worry. Here comes the doom. If you roll another two, oh my god. No, I hit 17 plus 8. That's a hit. Let's see if you can do enough damage. 10 damage with

the bow and 6 damage from players. Hooray! So what was that 16 total so you pull the bowstring back and you see Ismark

he throws Ismark off his shoulder Zeros and the dragonborn vampire spawner rising to their feet Zeros is drawing the blade back but you can see this creature is about to spring off into the night and in a moment you wait, there's a heartbeat,

and you remember a few of your training, and you remember... And then the bowstring snaps. The snap seems to echo through the still night. The whistle of an arrow, Zeros, as you see him, this Vixorus, kind of shudder back as a long wooden shafted arrow emerges

from the center of his chest. He kind of clutches at it for a moment. My life, my honor, my oaths, all taken from me. And now you take this final curse. Yeah, you just like...

Do it, Tom, do it! I wanted to just decapitate the dude before I even said anything. Yeah, so as he just opens his mouth to speak, the momentary distraction, you just with a blade, and the head comes spinning off. Yes! Nice! And it just begins to turn to dust. The whole body just turns to dust and I believe

that is an excellent point for us to leave it for this week there is a we got the ghoul yes oh my god we're still in this combat that's who is re-rolling as

the ghoul the ghoul we'll see we'll see that was one of the most roller coaster sessions we have ever had of just dice being bananas like re almost dying and then i read the rules and i was like okay no she's not dead oh thank god phew and then actually fucking the same thing coming up again and then those dice the rules and I was like, oh, okay, no, she's not dead. Oh, thank God. Phew. And then actually fucking the same thing coming up again. And then those dice, man. I can't believe it was like exactly what was needed.

It was perfect. It was exactly. It was 21. Hang on. Yeah. Yeah. It was nuts. It wouldn't have killed her if it hadn't been a crit.

If it hadn't been a crit, it only would have done 2d6. So it was only because it was a critical. It was nuts. Nuts. I love it. Yeah, this entire encounter, I need an account of all the 20s, all the 1s, and then just all the regular rolls, all the in-between rolls,

and see how they actually stack up against each other. It must be like evens that we actually rolled. I started this fight, like the skeletons and him rolled like a bunch of ones and like fives and fours and then and you guys were rolling pretty well and then it just flipped like it just completely

flipped the other way where I was just like 20, 20, 19, 20 it was also Iringa and yeah and Ismark I hate it they have an absolute reason to be with you but i hate npc stealing the limelight but like i'm just like we needed it i know but i don't like it but re i'm so sorry re can we can we give a round of applause because riannon your attitude

towards things like character death and luck, that is what a D&D player should be to me. Like you attach to the character but you take it with you. You're like, hey, this is the story. This is the way it goes. And you're just going to run with it. And I love that. And it might not be the end of Siki. There might be, this is a mysterious land.

There are dark bargains that can be made. And perhaps this is what Madame Ava referred to so long ago that could happen. What will Zeke become? Don't give me hopes and dreams! Don't give me hopes and dreams!

Didn't Madame Ava talk about the loss of a sibling? Yes, she did. I believe that there were some very poignant messages about Xeros and Ziki and what the lengths one would go to and the loss of one and the loss of... I think you had words of,

I lost her once, I won't lose her again, I believe Xeros directly said to Madame Ava. Now I've got a sword that belongs to Asmodius. Now that's interesting, isn't it? There's a church in this town called the Church of the Ruby Rod That's interesting I'm just trying a desperate thing

What would Xeros do in the next session Because you know with Zeke down That's his goal right Well maybe you Perhaps Tom Rhee and I should have a talk About that ready for next week's episode Of Curse of Strahd. Yes, we will.

Yes, we will. Yes, we will. Yeah. We've got Ghoul Boris. Boris the Ghoul. He's back. Boris. We'll find out next week.

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