High Rollers DnD - High Rollers: Purs of Strahd | A 1980s Cats Protection One Shot!

Episode Date: March 26, 2021

We're raising money for Cats Protection in this 1980s Stranger Things Curse of Strahd adventure! Our characters transform into teenagers in a small Amerieuropean town and must escape teachers, rules and v-v-v-vampires to find all the missing cats! Love cats? Want to protect them? Please donate to Cats Protection here: https://tiltify.com/cats-protection/pawsome-players-kitten-appeal Support the High Rollers and get early access to podcast episodes (and more) on our Patreon: www.patreon.com/HighRollers Music courtesy of Epidemic Sound. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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In misty streets of this quiet town, a missing shadow cannot be found. At Ravenloft's edge doth a legend lurk, but Barovia's detectives club is hard at work. Welcome to a special Dungeons and dragons charity one-shot stream with us the high rollers uh i'm calling this one purrs of strad uh that's the best pun i could come up with uh pretty boo uh welcome uh we're gonna raise some money for some cats yeah yeah we're doing a little kind of one-off from our regular spooky curse of Strahd, and yeah, that's pretty much how it's all going to be going. Cats Protection. Did you know that Cats Protection is the UK's largest cat welfare charity?

And they are a whole 90 years old. How old is it? 90 years old! Wow! Nine zero. Older than me. That's an old charity. Rehoming cats, neutering cats, very important, and spreading information about welfare and cat.

Well, you just need cat information, right? Cat info. They are a really good charity. Cat law. They spread cat law. I appreciate cat law. What will your money go towards, you say? What will it go towards, Kim?

If you donate £2, that covers the cost of deworming a cat. Very important. £5 covers the cost of microchipping a cat. Very important. Super important. And it's crazy how that's only £5. £10 can provide specialist milk to keep a litter of orphaned kittens alive, which is, wow, you know wow you know we love kittens um

give them milk give them milk they're small and vulnerable give them 10 pounds for milk um 30 pounds goes towards the cost of a heated bed to keep cats warm and cozy i need a heated bed uh 42 pounds is the average cost of neutering a cat if you want to be super generous do you know what 180 quid is a health check vaccinations worming neutering a cat if you want to be super generous do you know what 180 quid is a health check vaccinations worming neutering and blood testing to get a cat ready for homing get a cat ready to get into your house the whole shebang 300 pounds the whole shebang 300 pounds could really help a cat who needs uh medical help such as like resetting broken bones you know any surgery things like that and reducing uh the kind of distress and pain a cat that needs help um so yeah there you go there's some little donation

targets for you back to you in the studio chris trot i want to help all the cats i want to help all the cats uh i will definitely for a microchip five pounds we could get trot microchips for five pounds i want to be my purchase so i yeah i just bought a microchip cat flap and so it opens for just uh ellie and bolero and also microchip oh is that how honestly i want to be microchipped if bill gates is going to microchip me so i can enter my house your front door has to be a novelty sized human flap Your front door has to be a novelty-sized human flap. You have to crawl through it.

A Tom Hazel-shaped cutout. A Tom's flap. Perfectly cutout. Shall we play some Dungeons & Dragons? Shall I give you a little rundown of what we're going to be doing? Sure. Let's do it. For this very special edition of Curse of Strahd, we are gone from the misty realms of Barovia and our grim, spooky story,

and instead we find ourselves in 1987 in the small, rural town of Ravenloft, a quiet town in a deep valley that's prone to mist and fog and has built up local legends of spooks, monsters, and mysteries over the years. The town was originally built as a prospecting town for the caves spread throughout the valleys, but it's also home to old ruins, dark woods, and much folklore. But one group of young teens and their talking dog, however,

have taken it upon themselves to protect Ravenloft from the natural and the supernatural. The Barovian Detectives Club are at hand. We are going to meet the members of the Barovian Detectives Club. Here we go. So we're going to start with Jesper, our kind, our punk rad, not punk, our cool rad dude. And each of the characters have got, I made custom little stat blocks for them.

So they are not playing their normal, you know, human bard or human rogue or whatever. It's, they have like a unique little stat block. So tell us a little bit about Jesper in this rad 1987 timeframe. Chris Trott. What can I say? I'm Jes yes per i'm cool as hell and i'm here to be cool all the time and make one-off catchphrases and whatnot and ultimately pose uh i have a leather jacket and on the back it's got an embroidered uh cat on the back nice okay perfect um i gave you uh i believe

that uh yes bad does have a skateboard uh he also has a pair of nunchucks uh because he's a cool rad radical dude i'm into nunchucks right now as soon as it's uncool i'm ditching those yeah exactly you'll get a yo-yo seen them they've been dead as their dragonborn forms for a while now however uh xeros and ziki are back this time as as cool human teens. Rhiannon, tell us about Zeke the human now. Okay, so Zeke's deal. You know when your mates go out to play and your mum's like, bring your little sister along. And you're like, oh

no. That's kind of Zeke's deal. So she's like super cute. She has like little pig tails. But you know those like plastic do-it-yourself hair extensions that you can get for like kids. She has like little blue and like pink ones she has like a backpack full of like painting supplies and like paint brushes and paint sticking out uh she has like a white graphic tracksuit jacket on jeans high tops of like paint all over it everything's just covered in paint

she's yeah she's very excited to hang out with her friends today. Nice. And accompanying her is her big brother, Zeros. Hey, leave me alone. God, Mom, you don't understand. I'm Zeros, the probably like two or three years older than Ziki, grumpy teen in a denim jacket with spikes protruding from the shoulder.

I've got like those black fingerless gloves on, also with spikes out the knuckles, and massive boots. I'm also wearing like cargo shorts for some reason. With a chain, like a chain wallet. Yeah, chain wallet. wearing cargo shorts for some reason. With a chain? Like a chain wallet? Yeah, chain wallet.

And I'm like flicking a lighter. Like one of those Zippo flippable lighter things. That's cool. Do I have a switchblade? I don't have a switchblade. I have a baseball bat. Yeah. Ugh, god. That's me, Zeros. And then we have the kind of de facto,

or the kind of like the, not the leader, but maybe the creator of the Barovians Detective Club. We have Rose, Katie. Do you have an idea of what little 1980s teenage Rose would be? Not really. Because I was working right up until the stream. It's a nice throw in.

It's a nice throw in. She's always prepared for everything. So she knows who everyone is. And she knows the whole town. So maybe she's probably a bit more of a popular kid because she knows who knows what. Kind of bit pre she like she knows who preppy knows what kind of

bit preppy preppy probably bit preppy yeah yeah and she's yeah yeah of course like matching outfit probably like pink pink and black like what like one of those little sweaters like the school sweater kind of thing like the kind of cardigan top yeah varsity yes yeah yeah but she knows everyone and um she she's always prepared she probably um is the one who tells people what to bring with them and stuff and she's got a little slingshot really good aim yeah oh nice perfect and then uh the the wonderful the classic mascot that nobody bats an eyelid that is able to talk. We have Dog's Body, the dog. The dog.

Kim. Rubble. Rubble. Rubble. So I've decided that I am going to be a glorious dog. I am the talking dog that no one talks about. I am a giant Tibetan mastiff. I am huge.

I am fluffy. I am gorgeous. Look them up. They're gorgeous. I am fur incarnate. Very dribbly, though. Very dribbly. That kind of like when I shake my head,

spittle everywhere. I'm just dribbling all the time. You could ride me. I am so big. I'm basically a horse. I'm a furry horse. That's me. I'm gorgeous. It's a big dog.

It's a big dog. Protector of the of the Beruvian Detectives Club and yeah, can talk. Nobody really seems to notice or mind

that the dog's body can talk. You all talk to dog's body all the time. You have all been friends for a while and you have got this club together.

I love it. Yes. Huge boy. But of course, I'm not kidding. One of my friends in school, in like primary school, had a dog like that

and it once chased me down the street and it was like this high on me and it was terrifying. Terrifying. That's me. Big boys. But of course... Can I chase you down the street in real life, Katie?

Why are you making this weird? Tom's made it weird already. Please don't make it any more weird. Dogs aside, because this stream isn't about dogs. This stream's about cats. So where are the cats? What's the cats come into it? Well, you have all woken up in your little town of Ravenloft.

And we're going to kind of jump ahead. But overnight, all of the cats in Ravenloft, including your club's beloved shadow uh a frequent visitor to your clubhouse and beloved uh pet of of rose um has gone missing and all of the cats seemingly in ravenloft have vanished overnight and this is a mystery for the barovian detectives club to solve you know the authorities are just gonna ignore it they're gonna chalk it up to just our cats are cats but you know something's happened something's gone down and it's up to you guys to solve it so we're gonna begin with you guys like

in your little hideout if you guys have an idea of what your hideout where it could be or what or you know please do say I think we should because we're not all that old we're kind of like some of us are teenagers and some of us are in our 20s I'd say like mid 20s at most I'm like 35 I reckon

you are definitely not 35 you're not even in your 20s you're like at most, at most 15. At 15 at most. All of us. Okay. I'm two! I'm a dog! I'm two! If I'm 15 I'm dead.

Sounds like Zeeky's the youngest, like Zeeky's the little sister and then probably like Jesper and Xeros are maybe the elder ones and then Rose is kind of like in the middle kind of thing. I think I'm bordering a little too old for this group and i okay you're the um what's his name steve in stranger things where he's hanging out with all the kids all the time yeah yeah yeah i reckon we should be in our local barovian village hall and oh right i think you're gonna say treehouse for some reason i was gonna say treehouse yeah We could be in the treehouse outside the village hall Ziki's treehouse I've painted it in everything

It's all paintings of your previous mysteries that you've solved like unmasking the fabled boogeyman of the Svalik woods and things like that and you know it was the groundskeeper that was the ground the groundskeeper again they weren't arrested zeros huh we can't keep hanging out in your stupid sister's tree house it's barely fitting all of us. Hey! It's not stupid.

It's not stupid. The dog is stinking up the place. I don't even know how it got up here. I'm going down there. Seriously, this treehouse is not going to hold us all for that much longer. I can feel it moving. You're too big.

It does stink of dog. You should go. You should go, Jesper. Why are you even here anymore? The dog stink is pungent. It does stink of dog. You should go, Jesper. The dog stink is pungent. It is tangible. Cool. I'm going downstairs. Whatever. The cats have gone missing. I'm on edge.

He's upset because of all the cats. Exactly. Yeah. And yeah, you guys, whether you've heard it from various adults or, you know, your own pets like Rose's shadow's gone missing, you guys, whether you've heard it from various adults or, you know, your own pets, like Rose, Shadow's gone missing, you know, you've learned about this thing, but you don't really have any clues to begin with.

You don't have any leads or anything like that. So that's going to be your first port of call is trying to kind of get a bead on, like, what could have caused this? And there's various places around town that you guys might know about. If you've got, like, do we know about this? Or do we know anywhere like this that we can go to or do we know any people that we can ask um i'll answer those questions uh but yeah other than that i i hand it over to you uh club

you've got to you've got to solve this mystery kids do we have any idea uh who strad is so i would say yeah there is my open question for you sure yeah no it's a great question on the very edge of the town of ravenloft uh is a sitting on a hill uh in the valley there is an old mansion there's this old gloomy dark mansion that looks down on the city and it's the the city that the mansion is the property of the person who owns the land here. They own all of Ravenloft and the mines and things like that. And supposedly the story goes that it's a man called Mr. Zarevich. And he's lived there for over 150 years.

But he doesn't look a day older than the day he arrived. And he never comes out during the day, only at night. And people, kids that have gone up there have gone missing. And there's an old rumor that he murdered his brother to get an inheritance and stay rich forever. And there's all these kind of spooky stories about this gloomy old house and this gloomy old man that live up on there.

Hey, you ever heard about old man Zarevich? Dude's creepy. Remember that kid, Stinky Meyer? He went up there the other day. Never came back. Haven't seen him since. Shit's weird, man. Shit's weird. You shouldn't be saying those swear words. You're a teenager.

What, mom's gonna catch me? Mom's gonna hear me in a treehouse? Outside of this town hall? I'll tell her. I'll tell mom you've been swearing. Well, you wouldn't. Well, you wouldn't. But you wouldn't. I would. I would tell her you've been swearing.

We've got more important things to talk about, you guys. Jeez. Sure. I'll tell her if you don't shut up. God, don't think I won't. I know everyone here. She would totally listen to me. I've given you guys too much power. I've given you guys too much power.

I've given you far too much power in this adventure. Well, I tell mom that you stole all those strawberry laces a year ago. Don't think I didn't forget. No, don't. No, no. That was a secret. You were supposed to keep that secret. No!

I'll tell her. No, don't. No, don't tell her! Don't tell her! Okay I won't tell her! Yeah you shut up and I swear. Fine! Fine! I swear I'm so cool. I start shaking the tree itself.

How much strength do you have? Come on Greg! What are you doing? What are you doing? You're shaking a tree that has a treehouse in it and you think you're gonna have impact as a ten year old or something? He's like shaking- he's pushing the wall. Nah he's pushing the wall.

He's like- I'm like hitting the floor of it with my crowbar. Like just trying to... Making noise and ruckus. Get down from there! We've got to save the cats! Particularly Shadow. It's what my whole embroidered leather jacket's based on! I'm gonna jump straight out of the treehouse and land on Jesper.

Oh yeah, the treehouse is actually only like you know five feet up it's not very high because ziki's a tiny child yeah you just jump off and land you land on like yes but you want to try and catch the giant dog's body like i'm gonna stand to the side sure give me a dexterity check make a dexterity save using your uh you will need dice yeah we've all got custom stat blocks these new characters uh my stats are better as this kid than xeros i did keep most of them uh 15 all right 15 yeah you managed to actually kind of dodge out the way dog's, you kind of belly flop, pause out, hoping to land on Jesper, but he quite agilely kind of like dodges out the way and you just belly flop into like,

maybe like a kind of like paddling pool that Ziki has set up, like a pink unicorn paddling pool. And there's just this kind of like splash of water as Ian kind of goes everywhere and drenches you. Ah, not again, Dog's body. Oh yeah, you get soaked, Jesper. Ah, everywhere and drenches you. Not again, dog's body! More wet dog smell for you! More wet dog smell for you, Jesper!

Ha ha ha! Get down here, you stinking twins! Get down here! Now we have to walk all over town and you're going to stink up the whole neighbourhood. That's fantastic. We've got some really important things to do, and you just stink now. Okay.

So, first things first, has anybody heard about any other cats going missing? Because I think that people have been having parties around here, and they might have seen something. I could totally check in with some people. Obviously, I'm invited

to all the cool parties, so I think I know a few people I can talk to. All of them. Recently. All at the same time. I'm not even- I go- I was invited, but I just didn't go. I go to all the cool parties. I get invited to these parties but where was your invite I didn't see it come through the letterbox golem I didn't go didn't want to that's so uncool I'm gonna bust into the virtual

and just start talking to people I know I'm gonna bust into the village hall you're a really cool guy also shows a lot about his first thing he goes to is village hall and that's where everyone goes to hang out uh you country boy um the village i would say uh that yes bro would would know uh that out um just near the highway that leads into Ravenloft, there is obviously, you know, where you grew up is there's like a kind of camp where a load of like traveling folk live with caravans and mobile homes. And Ava, she kind of looks after that whole place. And she's generally she knows a lot of what's going on in town. And she's a pretty clever woman.

She's a little spooky. She does seem to like there's lots of stories about her being a witch and doing magic and things like that but uh yeah ava ava always knows what's kind of going on in the town so she's somebody you could go and hit up uh katie or rose rose would know that there is a uh there's a pretty popular coffee shop in town the kids don't go to it but the adults love it and it's called it's called born grinders but everybody calls it bone grinders because the three owners uh are uh pretty pretty miserable and don't like kids so all the kids kind of call it bone grinders um that's generally a good place to like go and hear what the adults are talking about because uh that's where they all go and hang out um you've also noticed it's been pretty popular today when you were kind of

making your way over to the headquarters to the hideout uh more busy than usual uh definitely seemed to be a little uh off um but yeah those are two places you can go to there's also uh let me just read over my list of places uh there's there's blinsky's comic and games which is the local comic book shop uh run by the slightly creepy mr blinsky um you also have your high school, Van Richten's High School, that you can go and see if any of your teachers might be able to help you out. Yeah. I love this.

Where would you like to go? I love this so much. I had a lot of fun writing this. I had a lot of fun coming up with all this stuff. And living it. This is really cool. Can we swap strides for this? I would be very happy to maybe

return to this version of Ravenloft maybe for another one shot in the future but for now where do y'all want to go? There's a lot of different places a lot of places to go for clues gang Did you say Eva was here or in the village hall or has she often

been witchy somewhere? No so there's like a little campsite where all the kind of traveling community kind of hang out. And Ava's like the matriarch of it. She looks after that. As a point of notion, you guys can travel to any of these locations in the town and we'll just kind of be like, yeah, you arrive and then stuff happens rather than just one chance. So Jesper is going to go to Madam Ava. What he did when he busted into the village hall looking cool, kind of like saloon doors,

he goes over to the village hall snacking table, picks up a paper plate, puts some jammy dodges on there, some party rings, some hula hoops, some cocktail sticks, and then he takes it to Madam Ava. So he just loads up on food from the village hall,

where it's probably like somebody's birthday or something, and Jesper just goes in and rummages it all up into his jacket. It's like a four-year-old's birthday. That's probably what it is. It's probably a four-year-old's birthday, and Jesper just kind of goes in when nobody's looking. Yeah, make a stealth check for me, Jesper. See if you can sneak in and steal this children's birthday.

Apparently I'm a criminal. 15. You're not a criminal, but you're like a bad, you're like a yeah, you're a devious sneaky boy. Naughty boy. 15. 15, yeah, yeah. You managed to sneak in. The adults are too busy. A child's being sick

in the corner and while they're not looking, you kind of run up and you grab a party bag and you shovel all the crisps and stuff in and then you run out um a couple of party bags in hand a couple of slices of children's cake in there as well uh and yeah and then yeah do you want to grab the rest of the gang and all head over to ava's do you guys want to do you split up gang what do you want to do i can't partner in my mouth i'm like we should all split up and meet back at the treehouse as soon as possible. With our clues.

Because we're a team. You don't have to listen to him. If you're just like, no, that's stupid. Let's all go together. You can do that. You don't have to listen to him. Don't follow me. You're uncool. You're the one who just went into a kid's party and stole things. Honestly, I don't know how we hang out with you.

Like, why do we even bother with you? My dad pays tax in the town. I own it. We own the village hall. Okay, I know how it works. Can I just shake myself? I'm just going to shake right next to Jesper. I'm going to shake. Can I just shake myself? I'm just going to shake right next to Jesper. I'm going to shake.

I'm wet. I'm sopping wet from the pool. I've just gotten out. As Jesper comes out of the town hall, I'm just going to shake myself. Oh, it's disgusting. I'm soaking wet. My glorious fur just everywhere. It's all over Jesper now.

Soaking my hula hoops. You successfully drench Jesper in wet dog water. Yeah, you are. I'm a good boy. All right. Well, Jesper alone seemingly is going to go and talk to Ava. What are the rest of you guys doing? the rest of you guys doing can i uh use my keen hearing and smell to sniff around and see if i could smell any kitties yeah i mean around the treehouse probably not you will need you'll

definitely need to go somewhere else to start investigating like the the treehouse is there's no you know you're not just going to be able to pick up a trail from here you're going to need to find you know something a bit more substantial. Yeah. So you can go to one of these other places and have a sniff around there. You could go with Jesper. You could go with the rest of the party and then start using your keen senses elsewhere.

But there's not really anything to find in Zeros and Ziki's back garden treehouse at the moment. I will go wherever Ziki goes because Ziki's my girl and I must protect my girl. I'm a good dog. I'm a good dog. I'm a good dog. You're a good dog. I like the idea that

Dog's body is Xeros and Ziki's pet. It's the family kind of pet. I thought it was Roses. No, Shadow's Roses. Shadow is, yeah. Well, I'm going nowhere near the school. It's a Saturday and I had detention and I skipped it.

Interesting. I'll make a note skipped it. Oh, interesting. I'll make a note of that. Oh, shit. Oh, no. Tom, shooting his characters in the foot. No. That's insane. So you don't want to go to the school,

so you could go by the comic book store. You could go by Bone bone grinders the coffee shop um see what the adults are talking about i am so done with you guys right now i can't handle the immaturity so i'm gonna go to bone grinders and listen to what all of those grown-up people are saying the people that i fit in with my smokes so I can go there too. Even if you tried, you would never be able to. Just watch me? Just watch me? I'm gonna do it. I'm gonna do it. I dare you to. I double dare myself. I double black dare myself to do it. So how about that?

I dare you to do it. Get out of my face. I'll do it. Get out of my face. Just go. Get out of my face. 1987 like America or something. I like it. Get out of my face.

Get out of my face. Right. So it sounds like the rest of the gang is going to go to this coffee shop. Whether or not they want to go together is beside the point. What a great team. What a great group of friends. I'm certainly not working on a CD. You make your way on your little skateboard.

You skate through town and you head out to the kind of little campsite on the outskirts of town. When you arrive, out by the highway of the town is a large open space the outskirts of town. When you arrive, out by the highway of the town is a large open spot. Yes, Chris Trott. I don't quite... I take a bit of extra time, right, because I brought some block of wax because I can do some grinds on the way. Can I do that? Okay.

Sure. Do you want to make an acrobatic stick? Make an acrobatic stick for me. Let's see how good you can grind, Oli. Sure. 17. It's a sweet grind, dude. Like is anyone watching anyone watching let's find out hang on let mark carry on with his description of the grind i want to hear his? It was a California sunset grind. Working sunset.

6,000 points in Tony Hawk. I don't know. I don't know. Skateboarding? You've got all the letters for skate. Yes, but in fact, somebody was watching. Not just somebody, though. The most popular pretty girl in Van Richten High School

Irina Kolyana, her and her friends are walking past and they see you do a super cool grind along the thing and there's like a couple of them are just like he shouldn't be doing that but like Irina watches you go past and you look yeah you're super cool and you just skate on. They definitely noticed it

yeah. When you arrive the large open space that is the campsite is dominated by cheerful, colorful caravans and mobile homes. Around them, little gardens and vegetable allotments have been set up and various tanned men and women load crates of fresh produce. Big cooking fire sits in the center

of the little community. You can hear music from stereos blasting all sorts of different genres and sat around by the campfire jamming out to probably, I don't know, what's a good band? Black Sabbath. She's an older-looking woman. She's probably in her 50s, but she's wearing kind of cut-off jean shorts,

a kind of loose vest tank top, and she has all these bracelets and necklaces on and a big pair of sunglasses. And when she sees you come, and she just takes them off, and she's like, well, if it isn't little Jesper, and this is Eva Vistana, this is the matriarch of the family.

Well, if it isn't little, this little troublemaker, what are you up to today, huh? Hey, Eve, just, you know, grinding around the street, being badass and whatnot. You want a whoop? Sure you want.

No, I'm good, but if you've brought brought uh i can see where did you get those from where'd you get those bags it don't matter wait you know listen to me young man have you been stealing again are you stolen this from why don't you read my palm and you'll know already or maybe and she kind of like gets up and starts walking over to you and she's just like maybe i'll put a little curse on you because she with some pimples all over your face or maybe i can make your bio so bad that no girl will come anywhere near you for the next 10 years no i don't want that no ever please okay well you're going to take those bags back to wherever you took them from when you leave here what What did you come around for, anyway? The plate is shaking. You can hear the rattling of crisps.

She does take a bag of hula hoops. She takes a mini bag of hula hoops, but then she's like, you take the rest back. I got the squad back together. We're going through our season 3 crisis where none of us are getting along. But anyway, all the cats have gone. The shadow's gone missing. I've heard about that with the cats

going missing and things like that. I don't really know what's going on. In terms of the difficulties within your group, you need to like get them all together and do like a big rousing speech and make them all hang out. That sounds like girl stuff. You're all awkward teenagers. Yeah, probably. Still. Well, in terms of the

cats and things, I might have a few things that can help you out. I've got some books maybe you can look up. I know that some of your friends like looking up on some of all the magic and mystery stuff. Yeah, the bookworm girls will read that probably. Yeah, I have something else that might help, but you and your friends need to do something for me first. There's a few things I want you to go get from the woods. You bring them back and then I can help you.

Your spooky woods? Yeah, yeah, go into the sphallic woods. You bring them back and then I can help you. Your spooky woods? Yeah. Go into the Svalik woods. I need you... I want you to get me some junip... What? It's totally cool. I'm not scared or anything. No, of course. You're a big brave boy, right? You're a big brave boy. Yes.

Yeah. All you need to do is I want you to go into the woods. I need you to get me some juniper berries, some fresh ash berries, some fresh ash wood, some spring water, and a bunch of crown blossoms. You bring me those things, and then I can help you with your little mystery.

You cooking up another spell or something? Oh, maybe I am, and I'm going to put it on you. I skate away. Spooky. Okay, sure. You did a California sunset grind

while holding two paper plates of food? Yeah, it's pretty cool. Yeah, I did. So radical. Yeah, I did. Super radical. You skate your way back, and in the meantime,

we'll jump over to the rest of the crew. You guys make your way to Born Grinders, aka Bone Grinders, as the local kids call it. It's a coffee shop on Main Street of the town. You've always known it's quite unfriendly to kids to go inside. The three sisters that run it, Morgantha, Bella, and Ophalia, they talk about organic products in their coffees

and their bakery and stuff like that. They're very kind of new age ladies. But they don't like kids. And they're constantly kind of like hassling you and trying to get you out and cleaning and watching you thinking you're going to steal something. But you can see it's especially busy this morning when you make your way over there. And there's a

sign out front that says, fresh and new today, pork claw donuts uh and people are lining up people are lining up to get these uh and yeah there's a big old line out the door zeros like pulling you like can i have one can i have? Look at how yummy they look on the poster. I'm not going to give you money to give to the corporate overlords. They're going to take control of our lives. F the man.

That's what I always say. F the man. I'm not going to give it to those guys with their chain stores. They're not men. They're ladies. Dog wants donuts. They're not men. Those ladies, they represent the man, you know?

The man is a thing. It's an idea. F it. F the man you know the man is a thing it's an idea dog's body wants one can we get one for dog's body dog's body wants literally anything we can give it i'm so hungry it smells delicious it's like cinnamy creamy kind of fried smell coming from the store um along with this kind of like spiced uh very you know strong coffee smell you can see the three ladies inside they're all a little bit older um two of them are a bit younger kind of in their 30s and they're kind of

bustling around they've got like aprons on serving people and like you know getting coffees to go and things like that uh it's kind of on like a strip of town where there's like a little car park behind it um and then you've got the kind of coffee shop on the corner uh what would you guys like to do is there any seats like outside the cafe where people can sit and have a coffee i don't think so because this is kind of like a the town's prone to like mist and fog and stuff like that so i think that it's mainly indoor seating um and there's nothing stopping go inside you just know that the the sisters are they're gonna like be on you as soon as you go in just like what what do you want what do you okay are you buying something okay drink it leave like they're kind of like you know they hassle you uh to get out they don't like kids so well i'm gonna go in but uh ziki i don't think that you're gonna make it through because you

know you're quite small and they will kick anyone out who's not mature enough so maybe just wait in the car park that's me she's me. What if I stand on my tiptoes and be really big and go... I don't think it's going to work, but I'll bring you a donut or something if you want. You need to breathe, though. Please breathe. I want a pop of gin. You need to breathe.

But then I'll be small. I'm going to deflate. But then I'll be small! Deflates. Do you want to have Zeke and Dog's body wait out back then whilst Rose and Xerox head on inside? Give me a puppuccino. I want a puppuccino.

No chocolate. I'm allergic. Fine. Fine. Sure. Alright. Yes! Zero some rows. You guys make your way inside. Me, Dog's Body, and Ziki, if you guys go around to the car park,

you do see that there is like a kitchen door that seems to lead into the back of the coffee shop. But you guys make your way... Sniff, sniff, sniff. You guys make your way into the back and, sorry, into the main coffee shop. As soon as you get in, you kind of hear like the little ding-a-ling of a bell, like ding-a-ling as you step in, and the sisters kind of look up, you know, happy, about to greet a new customer, and then they kind of see you,

and their face kind of turns sour. Oh, hey, hey, kids. Yeah, what can we get you? They just don't seem to. It's pretty busy in here today. Not much seating. But if you want to get something to go, sure. Hi, that's okay.

We can just stand. We just wanted to get some of those donuts and a pappuccino, please. Oh, yeah. I'll take a, I don't know, seven-shot latticino

to go. I'm old enough, I can handle it. Right. Okay. Two pork claws, a puppuccino, and a seven-shot latticino for Mr. Mr. Grown-up over here.

He's a guy. She kind of smiles. for Mr. Mr. Grownup over here. She kind of smiles. They kind of look, you can get the vibe that they're really uncomfortable with you guys being in here. A few of the adults are kind of like, they kind of like nod their head to Rose. A couple of them kind of look at Xeros and then look away again, just like oh, this kid

causing trouble. Is there anyone else that I know in the shop at the moment? Like the adults. Is there anyone else that I know in the shop at the moment? Like the adults? Is there anyone that I know well enough to like maybe go in? Sure. I'd say that maybe one of your teachers is in here. In fact, actually. Oh, shit.

Yeah. Yeah. You see. Yeah. We'll see how we can come across that. You see Mr. Mordenkainen, your physics and chemistry teacher. Oh, no. He's got a bit of a nickname.

He's called the Mad Mage because he loves causing trouble in the chemistry lab and the physics lab. So he's got a bit of a nickname. But yeah, Mr. Mordenkainen's here. Big bald head, little kind of thin goatee, but this time it's a Saturday, so he's kind of wearing a pair of very loose cargo shorts like Xeros

and a Hawaiian shirt. And he's just kind of sat there, and he sees you, Rose, and he's just like, oh, yes, hello, Rose, how are you? What are you doing in here? He hasn't seen Xeros yet.

She's probably one of those people that actually does really well in school. So she's just not faced by seeing teachers like Ironbite. Yeah, you're the type of kid who's friends with teachers and is like, oh, hey, and sends them Christmas cards and stuff. Yeah. Yeah, suck up. Oh, hey. How's your weekend?

Oh, it's going all right, thank you. Yes, just enjoying a stop by for one of these fancy new donuts that the sisters are selling, and get my coffee, and I've got my copy of New Scientist. Just enjoying a lovely little Saturday afternoon. What about you? You shouldn't be in here. You should be out playing somewhere. Afternoon! What about you?

You shouldn't be in here. You should be out playing somewhere. Oh, no, I'm definitely old enough to be in coffee shops on the weekend. We're just going to pick up some donuts, a pappuccino for the road, you know, for the dog waiting outside. And then we're actually trying to find my cat at the moment. My cat's gone missing. I don't suppose you've heard anything about this? Yeah, Zeros, make a stealth check for me.

Yeah, okay. What is my stealth? Oh, do I have any bonuses to this? No. Okay. Just dex, just dex mod. Just a straight dex mod. Here we go.

Boom. Oh, 19. Ooh, 19. 19, okay. So you kind of blend in with the crowd at the counter where you've been chewing up for your... I'm not hiding behind the corner of the counter. Yeah, you're kind of, like, tucked away. One of the sisters does come over and is, you know, like, oh, that'll be, you know, 12 buck pounds,

whatever currency we use in this strange American England town. Buck pounds. Yeah, buck pounds. 12 buck pounds, whatever currency we use in this strange American England town. Buck pounds. Twelve buck pounds. Because, you know, you ordered a bunch of stuff. You guys ordered like two donuts, a puppuccino and a seven shot coffee. I mean, that's quite cheap. It's a seven shot coffee.

It's 80s, right? You've got to lower it down a little. Corporate scum. Yeah, I'll get it in a second. Oh, God. Are you just, like, trying to avoid paying as well as avoiding the teacher now? I'm waiting for someone else

to come up and distract her by serving, and she'll serve them instead while I fumble for money for a bit. Okay, all right. Mr. Mordenkainen turns back to you, Rose. Yeah, I heard something about... Even my cat... I'm assuming that they're just off in the woods somewhere,

but yeah, people have been saying their cats have all gone missing. It's kind of weird, isn't it? Town's pretty unusual for weird stuff like that happening. You know, it's very interesting. Cats, scientifically speaking, cats have a very acute sense of hearing unusual for weird stuff like that happening you know it's very interesting cats um scientifically speaking cats have a very acute sense of hearing and and senses uh so if it might be that maybe

maybe something's drawn them away or maybe they've gotten all interested in something like that did you know what the do you know rose what the name of a group of cats is called of a group of cats is called uh no like a collective noun of cats they're called a let me look this up here uh i wrote it down in your fancy magazine no no i learned this yes in's in the PDF. I'm reading it. I wrote it down because I independently researched it, and I want to use my independent research. Thank you very much. Right.

I think I might have deleted it from my document. It's called a clowder. From the back. It's a clowder. It's a clowder. It's called a clowder. From the back of the story, you hear a dog. Clowder. Clowder of cats.

Clowder of cats. Clowder. Yeah, interesting. Clowder. back to the story you hear a dog have you had one of these donuts by the way they're very they're strangely delicious there's something about them oh just these stuff's one of these fancy and they look like cat's paws they the donuts are shaped like a little cat paw with beans and stuff little chocolate beans i haven't had one um but you think they're in the woods that's like i mean it's very in there i mean it may be but you know cats are you know they're animals you know they're used to being around here especially the ones that grow up around these woods they're they're hunters and predators but yeah very interesting i'm sure it's all fine rose you're worrying about nothing um still get back to my crossword uh have a lovely saturday and just goes back to scrolling you too great to see you i love your shirt by the way oh thank you yes it's so my ex-wife didn't like it

very much and then he goes back to his little magazine okay uh yes but you probably skate up uh after that conversation happens and you see ziki and dog's body out back oh hey, what up? Dog. Hey. Yes, Puppuccino. They're not buying that for you, are they? What a waste of money. They are, they're taking forever. I'm hungry. They've been in there for ages. Give me a leg up.

I'll see if I can get inside and I'll get you one real quick. I'm probably getting beaten around the head by the owners with broomsticks. Hey, I haven't seen them. I can't hear them. Also, I'm not picking you up. You're too heavy. Hey! Come on.

Like a lead weight. Just go, Kim. They're going to keep going if you don't just interrupt them. What? What? I'm hungry. You want any snacks? I'm going to sniff.

I want to sniff. I like cats here. Can I smell cats? Get off me. Don't make a perception check. Make a perception check with advantage. 16 is the highest. Plus one.

Yeah. So you kind of sniff around. There's definitely some... You can smell fur. 19. Coming from 19. Okay. So you kind of sniff around. There's definitely some, you can smell fur. 19. Coming from 19. Okay. You can, yeah, you get a strong smell of kind of like fur, like another animal in the kitchen.

The back door that connects to the coffee shop here probably leads into a kitchen. You smell something baking. You smell like something cooking. You can smell like sugary sweet kind of smell coming from the back of this room. Jesper has a smell of like a kind of very exotic perfume, like he's been close to a lady or something like that. It kind of smells like the woods a little bit.

It's got like cake and hula hoops all over him. He's carrying two bags of food as well. He's got like party food in a couple of bags with him. But yeah, that's kind of what you get the gist of in terms of cats yeah no weird complete absence somewhere like this you'd maybe expect to smell cats out in like a car park like this so unless they were inside yeah can't can't detect anything so i'm uh i'm trapped between a teacher who knows i'm meant to be in detention and yeah and a woman who's expecting you to play the man and i want to get out of that situation um can i put a quarter into a gumball machine and i want to create a distraction and that distraction is rolling some

gumballs across the floor make someone slip over so i can run out the back through the kitchen you can certainly make it, you can certainly attempt to make a distraction. Yeah, there's like one of those, you know the globe gumbles? Yeah. But you'll like try and like wedge it open or something like that so that they all kind of

come spilling out in a comedic fashion. I have the money to buy like three, and three's enough to slip someone up. Right, okay, sure. All right, so you kind of like, whilst one of the sisters is distracted by another customer, you kind of dart over to this kind of glass gumball machine, start putting money in, crank it out, get like a handful of these little kind of hard sweets. Make a sleight of hand check.

Sleight of hand? Ooh, I don't have that much either. So just X then. Let's see. Just X again. Natural 20. Okay. So there's this kind of...

In fact, we'd say it's one of the sheriff's deputies. It's Sergeant Meyer, one of the sheriff's deputies. I didn't know I was going to be slipping up some of the cops as well. Oh, no. Because you just roll them towards the door, and the first person that comes in is Sergeant Meyer, one of the two deputies of the town. Okay.

And they kind of come in, and they do look like, you know, they definitely look a little bit rough around the edges. They look a bit hungover. They're kind of like rubbing their face and like they've got dandruff in there like you know half beard and things like that um and yeah as soon as they step in their big shoe just hits this like handful of these gumballs and you just get a whoa and then slams down um yeah everybody's is definitely diverted so and you make a dash for the kitchen door, right? I need to get out of here, this teacher can't see me and I also don't want to pay for my 7-shot latticino

okay, you dash for the door you burst out into the kitchen where you can see steam and a little bit of heat emanating from all these different ovens that have been baking there's also a giant vat of something set on a stove top that you can see but more importantly is a quite large looking doberman dog that is currently sat by the back door uh that kind of like its ears prick up as you step in um and as you kind of come to a

skittering hole in this kitchen uh it just gets up on all of its fours. Do you want to roll initiative for me there, Tom? Initiative? Well, I mean, let's see who goes first. It's just X again, isn't it? Just X, yeah. All right, here we go. Oh, not so good this time.

Six. Okay, you're still going before the Doberman. I roll a three. So you have like a split second. What do you want to do? Before this thing comes barreling towards you. I want to say, whoa, easy there. Easy dog, doggy, dog, dog.

Easy dog, doggy, dog. And try and calm it down. Sure, animal handling. Make an animal handling check for me. Of which you'll be happy to know I have a zero bonus on yet again uh so would that just be a wisdom bonus wisdom yep just straight up wisdom minus one i've got 12 12 you're like whoa there whoa there doggy nice nice doggy and it kind of stops for a second and then just comes charging at you full speed. I have to try and... Does a...

We'll give it like a plus three bonus. A 14. Does a 14 hit? It doesn't. Not because of my pump jacket. Okay, so it bites like the jacket of your denim jacket and its teeth don't kind of go the whole way through, but it's going to probably tear the sleeve off the jacket

as you're like, and you manage to kind of slip free. What do you want to do? It has sleeves on it already. Okay. okay and in case it grabs like the back and it tears like a section of the back off instead like it had a back anyway so i'm gonna um i still want to make it make a dash towards this back back door uh okay yeah so you'll just have to get past the dog so either make an athletics or an acrobatics check to try and, like, jump over the kitchen counter, or the other one I'd say is you won't have to make a check

if you knock over the big saucepan, the big vat of something. I think, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, sure. That seems like hinting towards something. I want to knock over the vat. No, I'm saying it's an option. I'm giving you an option of like, you can either make a check

and try and sort of like dart around the dog, or if you clamber up onto the surface on the sides. The dog will be distracted by the good smells. You're right. I will knock over the back. Okay, sure. This kind of thick, white, sugary, creamy sauce spills out and it smells very cheap. It smells like kind of thick, white, sugary, creamy sauce spills out,

and it smells very cheap. It smells like Costco bulk buy pre-made sauce. It just kind of goes and splashes all over the floor. The dog kind of yelps a bit as it backs off from this warm sauce that's been left on the soap side. Then it begins licking it up and it's just like delicious, delicious, sugary, sugary treat. The sound does attract.

You do hear the sisters out back like, what in tarnation is going on in there? And you can hear them begin coming, but you leap over and you go up to the back door. You have to slide the latch on it and then you burst outside where Dodgebody, Zeke and Jesper see you just kind of stumbling out, part of your denim jacket ripped off behind you as you kind of come stumbling out.

Meanwhile, Rose, you don't see Zeros do any of this, but you do see, like, the deputy fall over, and, like, everybody's, like, freaking out what's going on. They're checking to make sure he's okay. I think she would probably also help check if he was okay sure yeah yeah you go over nice and do that and she would probably also look for where is zeros and gone and if he if she couldn't see him and you just see the kitchen door swinging You see like the And if the coffee And then she'll pick up the coffees and the donuts

but she will put the money on the counter for them because she wouldn't steal it because she's she wouldn't steal the stuff. And then she'll go back out the front. I didn't pick up the stuff. Because she's not going near the back. Yeah. You make your way over.

Sergeant Meyer is fine. Probably a bruise coccyx uh but that's probably about it but yeah you make your way back out and uh you see that now you can see um two other officers the the sheriff sheriff is mark and the other sergeant other deputy deputy meyer uh both coming up as they've seen like you know the kind of thing uh sheriff is mark is just like oh sorry excuse me rose goes maya's done maya's tripped over again they kind of like skirt past you and they're like come on maya and they pick him up and uh he's like i don't know what happened sheriff was just i came in and just You can see that the other Maya with him, other Deputy Maya, is carrying a tank with a pet beetle in it. And she's just kind of nursing this giant case

of big beetles inside that she's just carrying with her all the time. Yeah, they kind of stumble past and help out. Yeah, you make your way to the back and you see a rather kind of sorry for looking for himself, Zeros, and all the rest of the gang. Puppuccino? Puppuccino! You want my Puppuccino? I want my Puppuccino!

No, we gotta get out of here. I don't know if Rose would immediately go right round the back because I think in her head she knows he's fucked up. He's done something, right? So you wait out the front. She'll probably just

loiter outside the shop. Probably taking a sip of the 7 Shop whatever coffee and trying to look just really cool. It's horrible. It's like She'll just hold it, you know and like say hi to people that pass by and then she'll get a minute and Listen to see if she hears sure anything

Well the rest rest of the gang what you want to do I'm gonna grab Xeros by the scruff. Hey, little Brad, what are you doing in there? Causing mischief? I was trying to get information, but you know, Big MM was in there, Mad Mage. It's easier if I just say his real name. Oh, I'm a pain in your backside?

Yeah, I was going to go in there with my token. I got six stamps from my mom, and I was gonna get a free frappuccino. But you go around through the kitchen, and they're gonna hate us. Hey, it's Lottuccino, okay? That's how it is. Fappuccino!

Technically. Why didn't you say that before? Why did you run into the village hall and grab a load of food? What'd you get from there, huh? What'd you get? What info did you get? I got some Jammie Dodgers. I got some cheese and onion walker crisps.

I got some hula hoops. I got loads of cool stuff, alright? You can't have any. Party rings? You got any party rings? You can't have nothing. Hey, I spoke to Ava and she gave me some good tips on how to find the- maybe we'll find the cats. We just gotta do a little job for her first.

How's Ava? She's so cool! No, she's not crazy! Ava's fine. She's weird. She's gonna cast a spell on you. She's gonna make you smaller. No! I heard she turned a cat into a frog the other day. Yeah, she said she'd turn you into a frog if you don't listen to everything

Jesper says and does everything he says. No, I'm lying. Why would she listen to you, though? You're a smelly, wet dog, man. Well, she trusts me. Puppetino! Yeah, you friggin' stink, dude. A dog's body's hungry.

We need to get dog's body's puppy. Yeah, you definitely hear that. I just start howling.'ll make my way towards the back because dog's body's being really loud you smell Rose and the food in her arms coming dog's body uh I'll give the donuts

and the puppuccino to Ziki because Rose will not be standing and holding the puppuccino for dog's body to eat it. So she'll hand that. Hey, go Dog's Body! Thank you! It's like gone in like a second.

It's like two tongue scoops and it's all gone and it's just all over your hands. He's got four manners and you do. Rose is going to look at the really torn sleeve that Zeros has now feeding. He's got more manners than you do. Rose is gonna look at the really, uh, the torn sleeve that Zeros has now and like, oh my god. Like, as if hanging out with you

wasn't already super embarrassing. What have you done? Gnarly, huh? Pretty cool. It's gonna be an awesome story for all my friends. And I have loads, by the way. Why can't you just dress well? Alright. We're losing overcast from my friends. And I have loads, by the way. Why can't you just dress well? All right. We're losing overcast

daylight, okay? We gotta get to the woods. And we gotta get some stuff for Madam Ava, and then she'll tell us exactly where the cats are. I heard that the cats were in the woods. Well, that's a bonus, then. Mr. Mardukainen said that they might be in the woods, and that they would probably

smelt something. Such a suck- teachers pet hey I find that information didn't I at least I wasn't the one escaping what we and then causing a scene yeah I heard a verse tells illicit stuff to just everyone around the town so do we really want to trust her she's I don't know what that means all right I trust mr. Martin to that they. What's that word? I trust Mr. Mardukainen and he says that they're in the woods, then we should go to the woods. Okay, we'll go to the woods. We need to get some ash.

We need to get some juniper berries. We need to get some other kind of crown flowers or something, I forget. We'll just grab a load of stuff from the woods and then give it to Madam Ava. She'll cast a spell on Zeke, make her real small, and then she'll tell us where all the cats are. But there's monsters in the woods.

What if we just don't do it? It's okay. I have a torch in my backpack. So I'm just gonna, and I'll just pull out the torch because I am prepared for anything. I can have anything in this backpack. You can go back and play with your Cabbage Patch kids

if you want. It's like a really small backpack. It's like one of those little, you know when those little inflatable backpacks that you used to get? Yes! It's like one of those with little flowers on it. And it's pink.

But you have a massive torch in it. Big old security mag life. Like a huge torch in it big old like security mag life like yeah yeah yeah so it's it's it's you know the sun is definitely beginning to go down but it's not dark dark yet you know you've got a bit of time and stuff um so is the plan you're going to try and follow up on this lead from mr more than kind and from ava do this job for Ava at the same time? Yeah, we'll bike down. I've got a card in my spoke. Yeah, you've got some bikes. You've got some cards in your spoke.

Jesper's got his skateboard. Zeke has to go on the back of your bike, though. You have to have her on the back of your bike. Zeke can go on my back. Zeke goes on my back. I'd say Zeke's the only one who's small enough to ride dog's body, but she can definitely ride dog's body.

And everyone else sucks. Rose probably has, like, a, you know, super pretty bike with, like, a basket on the front. I've got one of those really weird bikes that's, like, a massive front wheel. Yeah. Penny Farthing. No, not Penny Farthing.

I mean, it's like a Harley Davidson. It's like a Harley Davidson guy. No, it's Penny Farthing. I mean, it's like a Harley Davidson. It's like a Harley Davidson gun. No, it's a Penny Farthing. I got a Penny Farthing with a card in the spokes. So loud. Once a minute, it's like, It's like so slow because it takes so long to get around. You guys make your way.

I'd like to add a small detail that when I run, my big tongue is just hanging out and going over my shoulder and there's drool everywhere and Ziki just has to dodge the drool a little bit. She's already covered in paint, she'd just be like... She's the kind of kid who has handfuls of dirt and worms and is like,

Yay! You guys make your way. I think that Rose is like, she's got a varsity jacket and I'm imagining now like a plaid skirt a la Clueless. Yes, I was the Clueless vibes. Like a plaid skirt and maybe some like, but maybe

some high top converse and her little inflatable backpack. Makes sense. Yep, makes sense. Fluffy pen. You guys make your way to the woods and you begin gathering up these things from Madame Ava. Dog's body and the rest of you, you don't see any signs of cats walking

around. The woods are very quiet. Dog's body, you're kind of sniffing around, trying to follow trails. You don't... The cats left here. You do get... You pick up the sense that in the night at some time, cats did come through this way, but they're not here now.

As you guys are gathering up these things from Madam Ava, and you find the juniper berries and the ash wood and stuff like that, but you do come across, you see a group of young boys about your ages, and they're all kind of hanging out in the woods, and one of them you recognize as a fellow, as another student called Izzik, who's kind of a bit of a school bully. He's got a big birthmark across one side of his face and down his arm.

So he bullies all the other kids to prevent other people bullying him. And they seem to be looking over something that they found and they're all kind of like laughing to each other. And when they hear you coming, they quickly kind of like put it away and like turn to face the group of you uh and is it's just like what are you lot doing here this is that we're

get out this is our this is our bit of woods are these scary even to people like me and zero um i mean i mean they're they're all likes like is it is older is it's probably yes but kind of or maybe like zeroeros' age. He's a bit younger than Jesper, but he's big. He's like a big, big boy. He's probably like on a sports team. You can also see that him and his goons have all got like little weapons, like a bike chain and like a tire iron and stuff like that.

They're kind of like the ruffians of like the town. And yeah, they're just kind of squaring up. They're just like, what are you doing here, losers? We don't want no trouble, okay? We just want to get through, okay? Maybe trouble's found you. Maybe trouble's found you. You think you're so hard?

You're not hard. Yeah, we are. We're pretty hard. Yeah, right, yeah. He gets right up on you. Yes, we are. We're pretty hard. Shit, right, yeah. He gets right up on you. Jesper. He looms. He's younger than you, but he's probably bigger. I don't care.

Okay? Just get out of the way. He shoves you. You back off. He shoves Jesper. You back off. This is our bit of the woods. It's not for losers. It's not for losers. It's not for babies.

You're such a loser. You're all such losers. Nobody owns this part of the woods. Let us through. Look, everyone. It's all prissy fucking miss pants. What's the matter? You can't hang out with your teacher mates? I'm not very good at being a bully.

I'm sorry. I'm really bad. I can't hang out with your teacher mates. I'm not very good at being a bully. I'm sorry. I'm really bad. I can't do mean kids. I can't do it. Miss Pants. Prissy Miss Pants. Why are you hanging out with your teacher mates? You fucking

bitch. That's all you've got, isn't it? It's just to go, bitch. These guys are intimidating. They're being mean. Mark can't do it. So you just have to imagine that they're being mean. Alright? You just have to imagine it.

Oh my god. Prissy fucking missed like it. You're just jealous because you're about to get kicked off of the sports teams for being too dumb to pass your classes. And I passed all of them. Being in sports, you don't need to be good at classes and stuff. That's why I'm in the sports teams.

You get kicked off if you're not good enough. I'm trying to think of names here. Coach Casimir says that I'm fine. I'm going to be in the team no matter what. Unlike you, when you get out of school, you're going to be nothing. You're no one. Oh, I'm so clever. I can be whatever I want, actually.

I'm going to be a lawyer one day. Watch me. Yeah, her parents are going to pay for everything. You'll see. Hey, Isaac, what do you think about cats? Well, do you like cats or you have a dog? Yeah, we know you're a stupid dog I like cats yeah, what's it to you? I told you to get out of here He's like gonna. He's like

We're doing something leave Look I just want to remind everyone I'm really cool And I'm not really with these other guys Okay So if you You know Just want everyone to spread that around

Why don't you go in the forest on your own huh You're not with us I will Go in the forest on your own Yes I'll go in front of you And you can like catch up or not Totally I don't care.

Hey guys, you guys, watch Jesper walk into the forest on his own. He won't do it. He'll pee his pants. Yeah, get those flowers yourself. Do it. They all kind of like they look at Jesper like, yeah, go on then. Yeah, I'm not afraid of the woods.

I'll show you all. No, you know what you know what if he has been so hard and he's so brave I've got a fucking dare for you yes but why don't you go up to old man's are of itch's house knock on his door and say hello mr. Saravich and talk to the fucking vampire he's not a vampire stories hey yeah he comes into he comes into little kids' houses at night and he drinks their blood, he does. He's probably stolen all the cats in town.

Hey, I've got to ask, where are you from? Oh, so you do know about all the cats? I'm from here. I'm from here, mate. Where are you from? You're a weird voice. No, you're right, actually. You're right.

Yeah, that's what we talk like round in Ravenloft. Yeah, that's how we talk in Ravenloft, boss! Where's he from? Yeah, boss, get him! He's from Ravenloft! Get him, boss! Get him, boss! Get him!

Look, you gotta have to make a choice. You want me to walk in the woods on my own or go knock on mr Zarevich his door Vonnika time so why if I reckon you go I reckon you go knock on mr. Zarevich. She's door feel so brave. Whatever. I'll do it We're gonna do it now. I'll go skate. I'll skate towards I assume I know the way He's not gonna do it boss me As I'm scared I'm like, holy shit, I have no idea what I'm doing Yeah, yeah, sure well the rest of you do

He's kind of happy he doesn't want you guys around No, he's just like all right You can fuck off now Okay guys, you know, that's cool. Haha. We really got him. Okay They go back to looking at what they were looking at before you can't see what it is They kind of like pull something out of a bag and they're like snickering about it man. They're so cool is they kind of like pull something out of a bag and they're like snickering about it man they're so cool nah they smell cool they smell worse than they do smell yeah it's yes but by the way there's a drug he's being mean about my trees having my tree house at the start at the very beginning yeah take everything personally and the dog yeah and the dog

treehouse what do the rest of you guys do are you going to follow after Jesper or are you going to go on your own way are you going to go back to Ava what do you want to do do you know do you know what I'm doing Mark

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yeah back to him so what was yes has jesper gone to yes he's like left and he's going slowly he's going to the the far edge of town where is this gloomy spooky looking mansion house that looks out onto the rest of the town. I mean, it's above the valleys where there's all these kind of like caves and mines and all sorts of legends about monsters and ghosts and all that kind of linger. And it's generally left alone.

But yeah, Jesper starts making his way in that direction. You can follow. You can go off and return to Madame Ava. Jesper said something about Ava, you know, being able to help with finding the cats if you bring her the stuff that you've collected back. I'm skating very slowly

as if it's to be caught up. Waiting for them. Okay. So you're like, every now and then you're like, just stopping and looking behind you to see if they're following. Just eat a snack. Can I just look around at everyone and go, hey, hey, did you know that a domestic cat can run up to 30 miles per hour? Tell you what, though, that boy over there is going far slower.

I reckon we ought to catch up to him. Wow. That was very well done. So, Rose is a local expert, so she knows a lot of the history of the town. Is there some kind of thing that I can do to get any more information on Mr. Zarevich's

looming, dangerous-looking house? Yeah, sure. Make a history check for me. And you may re-roll that because of your local expert trait. It's just intelligence for you, I think. My highest was a six, so seven total. Seven? I rolled a one and a six.

The problem... So, the legend of Strahd Zarovich, the Zarovich family, very wealthy family that came from Europe, somewhere in Ameri-Europe. What? A very wealthy family. They bought the valley that Ravenloft was settled in.

They bought the valley, hoping that loft was settled in uh they bought the valley uh hoping that it would contain riches from the mines and for a time it was it was super wealthy they made a ton of money they built the town uh got people to move here and work as prospectors um but slowly mysterious things began happening in the mines when the mists would kind of descend into the valley people would go missing down in the mines or uh people long dead with they would say they would claim that they could hear the voices of the dead coming from the caves uh deep below then there was another story something about mr zarik one of the one of of the Sergey Zarevich, a brother, was supposed to come and take over,

but died in mysterious circumstances here in Ravenloft. And ever since, the house and the Zarevich family have always had these kind of horrible rumors and whispers about them. But there is definitely something supernatural as well uh zarevich never leaves his house during the day uh he's only ever been seen at night um he rarely interacts with people beyond that uh and the mists always manage to avoid the mansion at the top of the hill the mists never come close enough to encroach on the mansion itself. So that was Rose getting that information, right?

Yeah. I'm assuming she tells us to relate that. I heard Strahd is an archaeologist and he dug up an ancient artifact and it turned half his face into gold. And every time he looks at someone with his gold face they turn to gold and they die. That's what I heard.

Obviously not true. Have you seen anyone with gold on their face frozen around here? Duh, that's not happening. No, because he takes all the gold and he sells them. That's how he gets so much money. No, it's through the mines. They have all the mines. Have you never heard of them?

And his brother Sergei died and was never seen again why are we going there it's really i think what i heard is true you just see yes we're like further up the highway just like why are you guys following me i was totally gonna going to knock on Zarevich's door and now... We're not following you. You're totally following me. We're still here.

Bye. You're still back here. You're just still so close to us that you can still hear us. It's quite awkward, actually. It's a bit embarrassing for you. Whatever. I was totally going to knock on the door, but we're losing time and

we should probably go to the woods like anyway so whatever. I don't care either way. Yeah, Ziki's got to go home for bed soon so we've got to go. We could like watch him knock on the door. You have like a 7pm bedtime Ziki. I can stay up

as long as I want, actually. Says who? Says what, mom? I have to go to bed at 10. There's no way you stay up longer than that. I stay up like until like 12, I do. I barely sleep. I'm like a vampire.

I'm like Strahd. A vampire? He could be a vampire. Did you know that he's never ever been seen in the daylight? I'm like I'm like straw Did you know that he's never ever been seen in the daylight never so he could be a vampire oh my god Have you thought about that? Bunch of dweebs. I'm going to totally knock on his door. He's probably cooler than you guys are. Oh my god, we should watch him do it.

We should just watch him do it. There's no mist on that hill, so we could totally get a good view of him knocking on the door. Let's do it. Turn me into gold and sell me. And then we'll be the ones to see it actually happen because no one actually knows what happens when people disappear around here but we'll witness it we'll witness it happen all right so you guys follow yes but as yes but

very slowly makes his way to the zarovich mansion raven loft estate um yeah it begins to get dark the the sun is now basically set this kind of blood red cast set over the valley uh the moon just beginning to rise in its opposition and yes but you see this dark the windows like dark eyes staring out down onto the town below uh the mist kind of clinging to the ground, not daring to come close to this mansion. You do begin to hear something very strange as you get closer and

closer to the house, like a soft wailing. It's kind of high pitched drone. Ah! Just fades in and out. What do you do? Xeros, quit it It's not me

It's knocking on the door It's not knocking on the door, I'm scared Stop making weird noises, you're not scaring me There's no noises God, you're so weird I'm just gonna knock on the door now And then I'll be totally cool about it, and then we can all leave.

Just do it. Whatever. Just do it already. What if they turn my face to gold? Can I still skate if I turn to gold? I don't even know. We'll try and get you first. We'll sell you for loads.

We'll be rich. I'm going to get out my crowbar and reach to the door, stay as far away as I can from it. And just do a tiny flick of the door handle. And then... As soon as you touch the door, the door swings open. Ah!

Ah! This is our place! A large, fancy-looking hallway with a kind of curved grand staircase leading up beyond it. You can see suits of armor and stuffed deer heads kind of along the walls with these kind of faded tapestries

and curtains along the inside. And you see a cat. Single cat. A little tabby cat just kind of sat. It like walks it seems to be sat on the stairs it walks down, looks at you,

turns its head and then walks down into the rest of the house, disappearing down a little hallway. Guys! Guys get over here now! Cat! Cat! I must chase! I must chase! Cat chase i must chase friend hello

friend hello friend be my friend be my friend i'm chasing after the cat cool yeah dog's body just bursts into the house and starts running through the house oh dog's body is already inside what do you guys think he goes chasing after dog's body three older kids what do you guys think? Zeke goes chasing after Dog's body. Three older kids. What do you want to do? Zeke disappears down the hallway. If they're going to disappear into the house. I will walk into the house. But more quietly and cautiously.

Zeke! Zeke! Zeke's running after Dog's body. You hear something. Dog's body. You kind of knock into one of these armor stands and you hear like a rattle of metal. The cat kind of does run away from you, like seeing it being chased, it kind of darts off and begins running further down into the place.

Zeke, you're chasing after dog's body, yeah? Yeah. You guys begin making your way down this kind of long hallway. The cat runs into what appears to be like a parlor. You know, these long kind of sofas. You can see a writing desk, kind of wall of bookshelves. And the cat runs in and Dog's Body become immediately aware because there's a ton of cats.

You can start to see, you know, there's maybe a dozen cats in here. All kind of perched on, stretching out on chairs or curled up by a little kind of crackling fire. And they're kind of just lazing about the place, you know, seemingly unfazed by your presence. Ziki, you stumble in behind Dog's Body, who's like totally focused on all these cats. And the two of you kind of very quickly realize the cats aren't the only thing in this room.

Sat in a chair chair reading a book. He's a tall, quite darkly handsome, dark-haired man. It kind of pushed him back and slicked back around his head. He wears an old school style shirt with a kind of cravat with a little kind of pin in it. This is Mr. Strahd Zarovich. Kind of looks over, startled startled a very intense look on his face

what on earth are you doing here he looks and he stands up and the cats all kind of move away from around him and he looms like a tall stretching shadow dog's body you see this man and there's all these cats around what do the two of you do?

Friend? Sorry, Mr. Zarevich. Sorry, it's my dog. My dog ran away. We got him now. Okay, bye. Bye. He moves over. He's like, wait a moment, young lady. Calls out

to you and you almost feel your body, Ziki, just against its will. You just kind of freeze up in fear. The rest of you are still kind of creeping along the corridor, like you're kind of moving stealthily when you see the shadow of this man just turn the corner. You should not let your animal run so freely around. It is dangerous.

What sort of manners did your parents teach you I'm sorry I'm so sorry I'm so sorry but we've got him now we can go can we go now sorry um

yes but it's getting late I worry about you traveling back to town so late at night it is not safe to be outside especially near the woods uh the rest of you what do you do like he hasn't seen the three of you yet you're kind of in the corridor kind of maybe hiding behind one of these statues of armor kind of all pressed up against the wall i mean he seems to be trying to ziki and dog's body i'm like trying to grab the flashlight out of rose's hand i think we're both just battling over that okay so quit it quit it we need to go your sister's dead okay she's gone

okay you're gonna have to get used to the fact that you're just a lonely child now, and we have to go. Oh, your mom's gonna get you in so much trouble. She's turning to gold. Mom's gonna be so pissed if she's turned to gold. Gotta get her back. Gotta get her back.

We can come back. I'm gonna have another three weeks of detention. He's moving forward. He's actually kind of, he moves up and he just, he doesn't touch Ziki, but he's moving past Ziki, like as if moving past it to block, like, so Ziki, he's now between you and the corridor where you came in. Dog's body.

He kind of does pet you lightly on the head, dog's body. His hand is very cold when he like touches your head and kind of like strokes it a little bit. I'm a good boy. I'm a good boy. What like strokes it a little bit. I'm a good boy. I'm a good boy. What do the three of you do? I'm a good boy. I'm gonna try and run out the front door. Whatever, I'm ditching you dweebs.

Yeah. Who was there? He kind of calls out as you begin rushing. I'm not leaving without my cat, that's why I came here. With Jesper dashing, he sees Zeros and Rose. This is very rude. What are you doing in my house?

And you can see he's being agitated. Just throw it. Do you have it? It's still mine. Can I yank it out of her hands then? Sure, you can both make strength checks. Yeah, sure.

Xeros is pretty strong. He's like, you you know he's a bad boy I'm 15 okay yeah so so Xeros yanks out of his hand and then he throws the flashlight like a kind of spinning club through the air but dogs buddy you're gonna try and leap up and grab it sure make a um make a dexterity so like d20 plus just plus dexterity yeah because this is kind of like agility to try and grab it 14 14 i'd say you maybe don't grab it but you knock it so it doesn't hit mr strad like you kind of jump up and you knock it with your face and it clatters to the ground and he's stunned. He's not quite sure what's going on.

He's just like, why did you throw that? Boy! And he's like calling out... When I throw it, I also bolt as well. This was a scared thing. Throw the thing and then run. But not out the door. He reaches down and

picks it up and is holding the flashlight looking at it and he's like girl you there and he's pointing to you rose what what is going on here i just why why are there so many cats here i want my cat back i don't i don't know that the cats just look you've probably heard a lot of terrible things about me but you don't need to be frightened i'm not going to hurt any of you i i you've you've probably heard a lot of terrible things about me, but you don't need to be frightened. I'm not going to hurt any of you. You've broken into my house. I wanted to understand what was going on. How did you even get in here? I didn't get in here.

He was the one who knocked on the door and then went in, and then I had to come in because Ziki and Dog's Body came in. So now I've come in here, but I've seen there's lots of cats. Where's my cat? It's fine. Can I see Shadow? Not in this room, no. You don't see Shadow in this room. I'm afraid I don't know about yours, but the cats

arrived last night. They came in the dead of night, and they've been swarming all over the valley and the mines, and then several of them came here into my home. There's something down in the basement that seems to have attracted them. I don't quite fully understand it. Yes, they just didn't want to leave.

Truth be told, I'm a bit lonely, and I enjoyed having some company. I've been feeding them and petting them and the likes, and it's just been quite pleasant. Look, I was saying to this young lady here that it's dangerous for any of you children to be out late at night. These woods are very dangerous. I should

call your parents. I have an old telephone somewhere in the house, I think. I think they installed a telephone here. I think it may be downstairs. You kind of... Come with me and I'll call your parents so they can come and collect you you just want the cats back, I'm fine I don't need to call my parents, they know that I can

stay out late, I'm allowed to no, it's dangerous out here well, how about this there are other cats that are downstairs, you can come and look for your cat there and then I will call your parents he kind of goes to the door, how far do yesper and xeros run are you guys like bombing it away from this place i mean you went yes but went out the front door i ran

to a different part of the house and i don't really know okay okay no that's interesting so xeros uh yes but you're kind of like running down a hill through the fog, like just imagining your friends turned to gold or dead or zombified or something. Zeros, you dashed down and you found like a little kind of spiral stone staircase and you made your way down there. I was worried I went there. Yeah. When you hear all of this conversation, you see more cats. I was worried I did that, yeah.

You see more cats. You see like a little orange and white kitty who's kind of like walking along the corridor, looks up at you, and then continues going. Seemingly kind of like going into another part of this house. You begin to hear the same noise that Jesper did. This kind of high-pitched droning wail. Like this kind of

... ... ... Very faintly. You only just about hear it. It it's louder down here you didn't hear it when you were upstairs um shut up ziki shut up ziki's not with you ziki's still obsessed with star ziki's not with me yes oh god it's at Zeros, you are the first to hear it, but everybody in the house, yes, but very faintly you hear it. You hear like an immense metal cracking sound, like metal being like the screeching, the tightening of metal,

and then something heavy breaking and cracking. Mr. Strahd immediately looks concerned. Young lady, stay here do not come downstairs and he beelines for the stairs heading down uh xeros you see uh like dust and not smoke but like dust coming up from uh underneath a door that seems to be in this basement area um a quite heavy looking uh kind of metal-looking vault door, maybe? And it looks like the stone has actually come away and shifted, and you can just see light and dust kind of coming up from underneath it. Hmm.

So it's like an entryway to something that's just opened up. Maybe. And you hear footsteps. You hear Mr. Strahd coming from up above. Hmm. Hmm. How much do I want to be a fire starter? You know? That's one of my things.

If half gold face man is coming for me, then I'm going to go into the entryway that's just opened up. Okay. So you kind of put it. I don't want to be turned to gold. This door has kind of come off of its hinges, and it's cracked a little bit, and you can kind of pull it open and peek inside.

And you hear voices. You hear a like, Come on, Ma, hurry up. Where's this thing that we're supposed to be grabbing? Stella, where was it? Where did you say that he was keeping her? I don't know. I didn't come in here, Ma.

I think it must be, but this is the place. I think this is it. Yeah, I can see the sigils and the runes. And you kind of peer in and you can see five figures, an elderly-looking woman, a kind of much larger elderly-looking man, and then three young ish adults uh and they're all kind of hunched over this uh pedestal with this kind of black cloth draped over an object standing on it um and they're hunched over it uh and they're kind of

peering at it and you can see that they've drilled from uh below like they've drilled something into a metal floor and it's split open and ripped open. Old Man Zarevich is behind me! Old Man Zarevich is going to tell me to go and sell me! You're saying that to these people? Because they haven't spotted you yet. So you say that to them. They look up and there's a look of like,

oh, what? What's this kid doing? They kind of look up in surprise. They're like, deal with this kid! One of them turns around and says, Nikolai, deal with this kid! He's going to try and grab you. He does. That's 18 to grab you. He just literally bear hugs you and lifts you up off the floor

and drags one hand over your mouth. Mom, what are we going to do with this kid? He's got your hand over your mouth. So it's like, help me. My voice is breaking. Rose, Rose Ziki, dog's body. What do you guys do? Mr. Zarevich runs and is heading off downstairs.

You hear like this heavy metal crack sound. As soon as I hear my boy,'m running down there yeah you don't hear zero you don't hear him okay uh so you you you come running down like you you mr zarovich is making his way down but you can follow him if you want yeah yeah yeah yeah i follow okay okay you guys make you you follow he doesn't like pick up he see Mr. Zarevich is so focused on something, like he's frightened of something. He bursts downstairs and looks around, and he moves up to the door and pulls it open. As you see, these five figures are trying to drag a struggling Xeros,

who's kind of delaying them by struggling in their grip, down into this hole that they've dug. The elderly woman seems to be carrying something in her hands and mrs zarevich just looks like no you fools you don't know what you're dealing with and he reaches into his uh vest and he pulls out a slender looking wand like uh like a wand like a wizard's wand uh and he cracks it in the air and you see this swirl of green energy just picks these five figures up like holds them up by their hands. They drop Xeros, who's like, you kind of cough as you're released.

Did you think you could really steal from me? And he kind of flicks his wrist and all four of them get thrown into like a green window and vanish. I'll deal with them in a moment. You there, boy, are you all right? Don't tell me to go, Mr. Zarevich. I'll get out of here as soon as I can.

Please, don't sell me to some stranger. I don't want you to use me for money. Boy, I'm not going to turn you into gold. I'm a vampire! I'm not a vampire. I'm a wizard. I'm a wizard. I study spells. I'm not a vampire. I'm a wizard. I'm a wizard. I study spells. I'm not a vampire.

Can one of you... Is this your brother or friend? I'm going to go over and just lick Xeros' face. I'm just licking his face. I'm licking his tears. I'm like, friend! Friend! Don't be sad! Don't be sad! Don't be sad! Man! Man!

I'm a good boy i wasn't i wasn't scared i wasn't scared you're scared you're a brave boy it's a big brave boy just a wizard look i i don't know what exactly happened here but it seemed those those people were trying to steal something very precious to me uh and it seems that your intervention at least slowed them down long enough for me to realise what they were doing. He kind of like shakes his head and he helps you kind of offers you a hand and pulls you up kind of thing. Well, at least

we've avoided some sort of minor disaster. Now I do need to think about what you all saw this evening and perhaps I should let you in on a few secrets. I can keep a secret. I'm really good. I'm really good at keeping secrets. I'm sure you can.

I'm sure you can. Why don't you just tell people this, though? Because it's way better than people thinking that you're a vampire that kills people. I would much rather people avoid me because of fear than find out some of the more intricate matters of things. But we'll cross that bridge when we come to it. For now, we should...

Well, first of all, I suppose that it may... Cats. Cats are magical creatures. They can sense disturbances in the supernatural world. I have a feeling that these cats were drawn here because they sensed that something was wrong, that something was under threat. Perhaps they heard this, whatever they were using.

And he looks down and in the hole, you can see that there's this big drilling machine that's been used to drill through the mines and up into this vault. Or perhaps they just merely heard a sound. But I believe you said something about your cat was missing. Let's see if we can find that for you. And you can now see that where you've all rushed into this room

there is just this audience of cats that have just come out and they're just staring into this vault uh looking at you um and in the very center at the very front looking up you see a pure black cat with yellow eyes and a kind of little golden collar with a little golden scarab that sits as a little bell and it is indeed Shadow your cat. Rose is gonna go down to her knees and go pss pss pss pss

pss pss pss pss pss pss pss Is this your one? This one, she's my favourite actually she's been the one keeping me company the most uh definitely clever too clever sometimes i think uh and he kind of laughs but yeah all the other cats seem to kind of like walk around they let you pet them they swarm around ziki like this tiny child being like surrounded by a sea of cats uh as they just kind of swarm around you

several of them like jump up on dog's body's back, seemingly unfazed by the dog's presence. I'm just playing with them. I'm, like, very gently rolling around. Yeah, if you start playing with them, you kind of do the little nips and rolling around, and they kind of do little soft pats and taps and things like that, and, like, poop your nose and run away.

He's just like, well, I suppose that we should get you home, all of you. I don't know what happened to your friend, the one that ran off, but I'll get the rest of you home. At this point, the whole time Jesper's been building up courage, like, well, your friend's going to turn to gold. You've got to go save them. And he's going to run in with his skateboard above his head.

I'm going to kill you vampire you run in you kind of run you you head for the stairs you can hear voices you run down the stairs skateboard raised up he kind of looks sees you coming and with a flick of his wrist you just kind of get like thrown up and pinned to the ceiling by some a magical force he's just like no please no please Mr. Zarevich he ran away I don't want to die he's not a vampire it turns out hey

Mr. Zarevich now that we know your secret if we're gonna keep your secret can you do us like a couple favors well you know i could just erase your memory or perhaps turn you all into frogs perhaps that way you can turn us i thought that was a madame eva thing how about this why don't seeing as you know my little secrets and these thieves were after something very precious something quite dangerous and you all seemed interested,

or maybe it was fate that brought you here. How about I teach you a few things? Why don't you come by when you're not in school, and I can show you a few things about a world that you might not have believed would exist. Barovia is a strange country, and there are many magics and mysteries

and monsters out there. It's normally my duty to protect people from them, but it's getting harder. I could do with a few apprentices, shall we say. Oh, that would be awesome. I was going to ask for a new spare pair of jorts. I kind of ruined these ones when you

came around the corner. Ah, that we can... I probably have a pair of gym shorts that you can buy. Zeros! I thought he was going to eat me. And that's the comic kind of like Zeke's like, Zeros!

Zeros! Zeros! Zeros! Zeros! Everyone laughed. Credits. Credits. Yeah, absolutely. Man, that ended up going a very different way.

You guys definitely got more into the RP than I was expecting. How many notes did you throw out? How many notes did you just throw out? I didn't throw out that many notes. definitely got more into the rp than i was expecting um it was it was more just like you guys rp'd a lot more than i thought you would so there was a lot of uh mechanics like you guys i i had i had a potential fight down i had like some little mini fun encounters but you know you guys were having fun. That's all that matters so I wasn't expecting all of you like it kind of like by the time you all got warmed up I think like dogs bodies intelligence had like very fluctuating levels of like intelligent dog. I'm a dog. i'm an intelligent dog i'm a dog i'm an intelligent dog i'm a dog i'm just trying to get in there i was just trying to get into everyone else having a fight and i'm just like i'm a dog that was the other thing is like i thought oh i'll give them all a reason to like go and solve a mystery together like you're in a cool club begins with

your tree house is stupid i hate you i hate you hate you. You smell. We hated each other. I mean, we were just teenagers that just weren't friends. Also, Rose and Xeros hated each other. Zeke and Jester hated each other. It's not that different to the actual campaign. No, that's a funny thing. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Dog's body just trying to make friends.

Oh, look, not for Xeros to be friends with people no I love how you know exactly how a Kim one shot goes and you thought oh I'll be able to bypass that also your hormonal teenagers now and a talking dog well the only Kim one shot I've been in

was very productive maybe because I was the player in it. I don't know. I really love 1987 Ravenloft. Might be my new favourite thing. That's pretty cool. I love it. The town of Ravenloft.

You can imagine it with all sort of little cryptids. Like some supernatural mysteries, some non-supernatural mysteries. 90% of the time it's the groundskeeper. Why won't they arrest that man? Why does he keep wearing masks?

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