Not Another D&D Podcast - Trinyvale X Strahd - Ep. 13: Something Old
Episode Date: October 24, 2025The Triplets confront the Abbot of St. Markovia and attempt to stop a strange wedding ritual! Jens tests his blade, Nyack bags a big one and Onyx gets a god complex as the Trinyvale X Strahd ...crossover continues! Subscribe to NaddPod on Patreon! - Patreon.com/NaddpodCREDITSEditing by Brian MurphyProduction and Sound Design by Daniel Ramos (@Schubirds on IG)Logo Design by Chelsea LeCompteMUSIC INCLUDES:"Trinyvale Opening Theme" by Emily Axford"The Gate" by Emily Axford"The Tarroka Suite" by Emily Axford“Selfless" by Emily Axford"Strahd" by Emily Axford"Trinyvale Closing Theme" by Emily AxfordSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
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This is a headgum podcast.
Welcome to Trinneville.
Trinneville.
And also, Barovia.
Barovia.
That was a good one.
You guys are on fire.
And so are all my plans.
But that's okay, friends, because I am still your Dracula uncle,
aka Drunkle Caldwell Tanner.
And I'm joined, as always, by my pyrotechnic players,
Brian Murphy.
I conspire to set this place on fire.
Genslindel.
Yes.
Emily Axford.
Sent from the faith to blow them away.
It's Alex Lemire.
Yes, yes.
It's heating up.
And Jake Hurwitz.
Can we win this battle?
Let's see.
Because we're feeling pretty sexy.
Nyack of the Reddolloy.
Oh, yeah.
The code words have been unleashed as have the barrels.
Friends, before we burn this literal house down,
How about a quick recap?
Let's do it, please.
All righty.
When last we met, you three were making your final preparations
before your ascent to the Abbey of St. Markovia.
Bluetooth, who had been spying on the abbot,
flew back down to the Bergamaster's mansion
and retrieved the dream journal from under the Baron's pillow.
The journal revealed that the Baron was considering buying land
near the Wizard of Wines from a man named Dolter von Holtz,
and also that Izek was his bastard son.
Much to Jin's chagrin,
you added all this information to your to-do list.
They wanted to go deal with it immediately, which is wild.
Yeah, why not?
Priorities.
First thing in front of me most interesting.
It's just a different strategy, man.
You've got to prioritize what's important to you.
Onyx then expressed her pride in Bluetooth for completing his mission
and told him that he was just about ready to fly solo.
You then sent him on one final mommy mission to plant the dream journal under Irwin's bed.
Afterwards, Onyx contacted Ariana.
who rewarded her delegating skills by switching her pact from chain to blade.
She summoned a mall covered in phone charms and completed her preparations by disguising
herself to look like the morning lords.
Also,
I forgot that I looked at.
Oh?
Yes.
You insisted on it.
This was also to Jin's chagrin.
Next, Nyack snuck into town and stole donkey masks for you all to wear.
That was to Jens's grin.
Yeah.
I did tell you to do that.
With the mass on, you were able to easily get past the guards at the Abbey Gate and proceed up the hill.
After sneaking past the mutant welcoming party, you made your way into the east wing of the Abbey,
where you found an abandoned nursery, and the ghost of Marina's biological mother, Demira.
Demira revealed that she had died in this very room and was now charged by St. Markovia
with protecting a sacred weapon known as the Sunsword.
She also surmised that Marina's father might be Imrich the farmer, or Emmer Slick, as he's known to son.
Drowning in it.
Just absolutely gushing.
Do you need a snorkel, sir?
Once Marina pulled the sword from its hiding place and handed it to Jens,
Markovia herself appeared and somewhat reluctantly blessed the triplets mission.
You all made your way to the operating room where you found a fly-headed mutant in the process
of transforming Udo and the other lawbreakers into actual donkeys.
You interrupted the process, leaving Udo and the others transformed but free of the Abbot's mind control.
They agreed to help you fight and waited for the code word kind of sexy to be uttered.
Finally, you made your way to the morgue, where you found barrels of body parts left over from the abbot's creation.
Struck by inspiration, Jins hid all of your alchemist fire inside the barrels, and you walked into the abbey's main chamber.
Using your donkey masks, you attempted to sneak into the basement, where you suspected Esmeralda might be hidden.
But you were stopped by the abbot.
He seemed confused by your behavior and suspected that the zumanoid transformation process,
wasn't complete. As such, he asked you to remove your masks. Onyx did, revealing her
morning lord disguise. It's coming in big. Before the abacid process this though, you all launched
your alchemist fire barrels and Marina blasted the wedding party with a fireball spell scroll.
Onyx then screamed out every code word all at once and your allies crashed into the room as the
flaming barrels began to erupt. And that is where we are.
Now.
Boom.
Just a little housekeeping.
Yes.
I do have the actor feet.
So when I'm disguised as a real or fictional person, which we don't know which category
the morning Lord falls under, I have advantage on deception and performance checks to
convince others that I'm that person.
Oh, good Lord.
I don't know that that's going to come into play.
It might.
Thank you so much, Onyx.
I'm convinced.
It'd be crazy if that came into play, wouldn't it?
That's, hmm, we'll see.
So anyway.
The barrels of alchemist fire shatter against the stone walls of the abbey, sending spurts of green fire in all directions.
The noxious flames bathe the abbot's face in emerald light.
His eyes widen and his smile dissolves, but before he can act, a barrage of fireballs erupts from Marina's hand.
The abbot, Veselka, and Gorek will all need to make dexterity saving throws.
We have like five things to handle up before we go to an issue.
Yeah, before we even get there.
Yeah, we have three code words triggered.
Jensen's slow motion goes, oh wait, Esmeralda's in the basement.
And there's a baby wolf upstairs.
And that slow motion says, fire.
Let's roll them all at once?
Goric failed.
Big time.
Yeah.
Yes.
You see his shell starts turning red as you pelt him with fireballs.
Let's see.
This is a very low.
D.C. because it's using
Marina's intelligence. Not that she's not
intelligent, but she's not a wizard by trade.
Sure. Next one is going to be Vasilka, the
corpse bride. She also fails.
Yeah. The Abbott
passes, unfortunately. Whoa, just imagining
a priest doing a freaking backflip.
This is how you convert
people. He does a Count Duku
backflip. Yes, that is how
a priest would do a backflip. For a moment,
he looks like bad CGI.
What the hell?
Like, he bins a little too much, and then the flip is just too
smooth. Why not just have him have magic powers? Why is he doing flips?
How dare you? Um, he does take a little damage though. So, uh, Gorek and Vasilca are each
going to take 30 fucking damage. Yes, dude. Um, and the Abbott is going to take 15. All right.
15 damage ain't nothing. 15 damage ain't nothing. As soon as Vasilca gets struck, she starts freaking
out. You see her dress gets like covered in flames.
Oh, right, she's being sort of kept at bay by the loot.
She could have been on our side, kind of, but, you know, whatever.
She looks at her dress and her skin.
Her eyes go wide.
Fire!
Fire!
She jumps into the pool to try and cool herself off.
You see that Gorek, the lobster man, is on death's door.
He's still desperately clinging to his loot, trying to keep play.
so that Vasilka doesn't totally freak out.
Whoa, it's okay, Vasilka.
Calm down.
I know things are heating up,
but there's no reason to lose your head.
Keep it sewed on.
He is absolutely panicking.
The fireballs rip into the wedding party.
The Abbott, you see, kind of like,
throws up his brown cloak to block most of it,
but does still take some damage.
After this happens,
the abbot looks at you with this mixture of confusion and rage.
He starts trying to speak,
but once again is interrupted by the arrival of Stefan
or kill.
I hope you don't mind if I bring a plus one.
You see the assassin's shadowy form
appears behind the abbot
in the polished surface of the golden sun disk.
In an instant, Stefan's body wriggles out of the disc,
draws a black short sword covered in steaming Iker
and rushes towards Gorek.
He's going to make two attacks with advantage.
Let's see if we can take him out.
Gorec is so fucked.
Yes, dude.
Okay, you got it on the first one.
That is going to be, let's see here.
He's got to make a Constitution save for the poison.
He fails.
Oh, boy.
Garek is no more.
Guys, he takes 69 points of damage.
Yeah.
Oh, insane.
Jesus, Stefan.
Erkil.
Wow.
You see the blade pierced through his now red shell.
Black veins crisscross his body and his claws go limp,
dropping the loot with a discordant clang.
A moment later, the lobster folk drops as well,
and his body crumbles to dust.
Wow.
Stefan puts a finger to his lips and says,
Did I slew that?
I am in love.
Holy fuck.
Take me, Stefan.
He winks at you.
Stefan wipes off his knife, then looks towards Jens.
The job is complete.
Now to discuss the matter of my payment.
Oh, what?
Do you never say?
No, I'm just fucking with me.
You got me in so many ways.
I do this because I love it.
Onyx and a sense of humor.
Are you kidding me?
Oh my God.
He's got everything.
I do this because I love it.
You got it fine.
What you're passionate about.
Yeah, he gives finger guns to all of you.
He writes his phone number in the stone of the Abbey with his knife for you, Onyx.
and then climbs back into the mirror discs,
leaving you face to face
with an abbot who looks absolutely dumbfounded.
He palms his head in disbelief,
and as he does, you realize something.
His robe is covered in burn marks,
but his face and hands seem to have already healed.
Morning H. Lord, you've ruined everything.
I've been planning this for so long,
and you just fucking blew it all.
Oh! Who? Who are you? I demand you tell me right now.
I am so morning, Lord.
Onyx, the abbot looks around trying to suss out who is under these donkey masks,
and then he lays eyes on you wearing the guise of his god.
He squints, clearly skeptical, but you've caught him so thoroughly off guard that somewhere
deep in his heart, he thinks that maybe, just maybe, the morning lord has come calling
and is not pleased with him.
I want you to make a deception tech for me.
This is going to be very high.
The Abbott is obviously distrustful.
This is going to be a DC-23 deception check.
17 plus 7 becomes 24.
Oh, boy.
What the fuck.
We are God's soldiers.
Good job, morning, Lord.
We serve the Lord.
I do not like what you are doing,
in my name.
Cease!
Cease your doiling!
The abbot's lip quivers.
He drops to his knees and says,
Don, Father, forgive me for doubting you.
Since you sent me here,
I've worked tirelessly to bring your light to this land,
and I am so close.
I'm so close to completing my goal.
If you will but allow me to explain my plan,
I will show you how I aim to free this land
from Strad's cursed grasp.
Yes, I would love to hear your plan.
Oh, yes.
Yes, of course.
My ears are open, but my art is closed.
I will make you see.
I will make you see the beauty of it.
Tell me, you love me, child.
The abbot still on his knees,
points at Vasilka and says,
for long I have experimented with these zuminodes,
these hybrid creatures.
I thought that perhaps I could raise an army to defeat Strad,
but I realized that violence will never end up.
this cycle. It must
be love. The love
of you, the love of light,
the morning lord's provenance
brought here to these people.
What better way
to destroy a vampire's cold
heart than with the perfect bride,
the perfect wife
for strad.
A strad wife,
if you will.
So, this is
all to make Strad weaker?
Yes. When he's
sees this perfect bride.
He will set us free
from the curse. His heart will be
warmed and we will be free
and then I can return to be
with you. No one will be
banished anymore. Can I ask you
just real quick? Just want to make sure
everything is buttoned up.
Where did you get us the parts for the bride?
I collected them
from the graveyard. You know, they
their souls. Is that Magda?
There is
I did add in some, some of my own modifications.
You see he takes off the bride's wimple and she does have dog ears.
Well, huh.
Okay, that rocks.
All right.
Hi, Jen's paladin of the morning lore here.
Yeah, this is one of my favorites.
Hi, I'm a sword.
Absolutely champion of the light here.
I can see the oath glimmering on your face.
Why?
Strad was going to come here.
This is Strad's wedding.
Yes, Strad will be coming here to be wed, but not yet,
because their preparations are not quite complete.
You see, I need to put the soul in this vessel's body.
Vasilka is but the vessel.
You see, for Strada truly find her attractive,
there must be a willful, powerful soul to ignite this body and bring it to life.
And that tells Marilda.
You know her name.
The wizard's apprentice.
Of course.
I am the morning, Lord.
I know everything, and so do my paladin.
My lord, of course.
I know this.
Yeah.
Okay, bring her out.
Bring her out.
Yeah, bring her out.
Before this whole place burns down.
Yeah, quickly. Let's do it quickly.
Pop her out. We must be so quick, yes.
And brings a little wolf pop, too.
The wolf. Oh, you mean chompo?
Chompo.
Yes, pretty well.
We love this idea.
What are you waiting for?
The place is burning down to.
It looks like it burning down with my mansion.
Why have you set this place of lays, my morning, Lord?
Are you unpleased?
Because I am of the morning and the dawn is nothing but a purification of last night misdeeds.
It is so true.
Amen.
We must leave. We must leave the traces behind,
for we are to ascend as the mist lifts.
Very good, my lord. I shall fetch them both.
So he is going to go downstairs.
As this building burns, first of all, let's go ahead.
Murph, Emily, can you guys roll me D-4s?
Sure.
Yeah. Four.
Three.
Wow, good rolls.
So this building is going to burn down in four rounds.
Okay.
Okay.
We're not an initiative yet, but just hold that number in your mind.
Gotcha.
Okay, so he's going to go downstairs to retrieve Esmeralda.
Okay, so if that takes, like, a round or something,
then I'm going to use that round to cast hungering blade on my weapon.
Awesome.
Okay.
So he returns with a young woman bound and gagged with these thick metal chains.
You see long, dark hair spilling out of her red bandana,
and you catch a whiff of alchemist fire and horsehair emanating from her.
body. She walks slowly behind the abbot being dragged by these chains. You notice that one of her legs
has been replaced by a clockwork appendage made almost from the same materials as keychain.
She has these fiery eyes, but they do look very tired. There are rings under them. It seems like
she has been here without food and sleep for a bit and is not at full health. Okay, I will bring
Esmeralda into my arms
and the power of the morning Lord
is strong and I'm going to
cast healing hands.
Praise him. She just
gets four hit points. If this is what you wish
but... Amen. Yes, my lord, that is wise. We must
purify her soul before it goes into
Vesilca. Now, if you will wait here
a moment, I will retrieve the pup as well.
Yes, go. Please. Yeah, please go
get the pup. Please go get the pub.
Appears your morning lord.
While he's up there, should we make a trap to kind of
trap in this?
Oh, I have a net.
Yes.
Wait, Nyak, go hide.
Like, in the rafters and wait to drop a net on him after we secure the dog.
Should we check beyond the sutil as well?
Oh, yeah.
Yeah, we can do that.
I don't know if we have time to do all of this.
Let's go ahead, now that he's up here, let's go ahead and roll initiative.
Yeah, that makes sense.
Eight, I got a ten.
21.
Okay.
All right.
So I'll say that one round has passed.
There's three more rounds until the abbey totally burns down.
It would be appropriate if we tied in a fire that we set.
We just need to get suburb.
Yeah, Jen's pretending to be a proud balladden,
but he is sweating and looking around.
You see, Basilca, as soon as the abbot leaves,
does start freaking out a little bit and looks around.
She looks down at the broken loot and she's just going like,
Oh, pick up salute.
Jen's, wait, I have good performance, and I'm disguised.
Okay, I'm going to pick up the loot and try to play.
Give me a performance check.
Shred a gnarly tune, my lord.
Oh, wait, I don't have good performance.
Wait, I can do it if you don't have a good performance.
It's too late.
Each try, right?
Okay.
My lord, please.
I got a 15 performance.
15.
With a 15 performance, you just managed to hold her attention.
See her eyes kind of, her pupils dilate a little bit,
and she just remains kind of calm and still, and the Abbott returns.
In the distance, you hear just the,
screams from all of these zumanoids as the fire erupts around them.
I think that we should take Vizelka with us when we run out of you.
Okay.
I look at Vizelka.
And my lord, here is the were wolf pup.
There were others before, but I've drained them completely.
You see, their blood is essential to creating the zumanoid compound.
Oh, he's a piece of shit.
Oh, that's so interesting.
Ipapi, Ipapi.
Oh, hi there.
What's going on?
My name's Chompo.
Chompo Stoyanovich.
Are you here to rescue me?
I am a little good jams.
What's the fuck?
We already have a ducking dog.
We already have a ducking dog.
I know.
I have a talking dog.
His name is Tichet.
Does he have the same last name as the fucking Baron?
What's your last name?
Chompostoyanovich.
I'm the son of Carol Stoyanovich.
He's pretty important.
Do you guys know him?
Yes.
For sure.
You know what?
Yeah.
Come with us.
Come with us.
Come with us.
Okay.
Are you rescuing me?
We got to get out of here.
It's covered in fire.
Okay, great.
Eat net, Abbott.
Yeah.
What?
So, Nyack, this is going to function just as a ranged weapon so you can use your dexterity.
Go ahead and throw it, I guess.
Okay.
I leap forward and chuck this net.
Can I cast Zephyr Strike?
Yeah, if you must.
So, yeah, the gloom from my hands and shrouds the net to make it a little bit bigger.
Oh, my God, that's a 29.
Whoa.
Yeah.
absolutely catch the abbot in this net.
You snare him.
No, friends, we need to escape.
Why are you trapping me?
This is all seeming like a bit much.
This is perhaps too suspicious, I must say.
You're suspicious of the Lord?
I hate to question you, my Lord, but please, tell me.
You must speak to me of the history of the radiant realm.
Tell me where did you first take your angels for the chorus?
My first place that I took the angels for the chorus
was a little place called Applebees
because they have a really good happy hour
and nothing makes me happier
than when my angels are happy.
It was the foetilla on the radiant bay.
You imposter!
You imposter!
That's just a semantic difference.
Says the freaking guy in the net.
Also, what do you think they call?
I just try to stab him in the head.
If you see the Abbott thrashing around in this net, has wised up to your plans.
We've already rolled initiative.
Let's get into this proper.
Onyx, you are first to act.
Okay, you two are responsible for Veselka, the werewolf pup, and Esmeralza.
What?
I'm going to jump forward.
I'm going to attack him with booming blade.
Okay.
Oh, Onyx is back.
17 to hit.
That just hits.
Okay.
Do we know what, like, this?
DC is and stuff on getting out of the net,
because that will affect my strategy
if I just try to keep them in the net
or if I attack him or whatever.
It's a DC-10.
Oh my God, okay.
He's going to get out.
22 damage.
Wow.
He's surrounded by lightning,
and if he tries to move,
he'll take another D-8 of lightning damage.
And then with my bonus action,
I'm going to taunting step.
So he needs to make a wisdom-saving throw
or he'll have disadvantage on attacks
against creatures other than me.
but I've misty stepped now like outside or I've misty stepped that's close to the door
and I want to hide behind a pew for cover.
Yes.
What does he need to be?
15.
That's a 12.
Okay, so he'll have disadvantage on attacks against anyone but me and I've misty stepped away.
Oh my God.
At least 30 feet from here.
Okay.
So Onyx, you do that.
You stab into him surrounding him with a net of lightning on top of the regular net.
How do you taunt him as you step away?
I just say, you are never good enough for me.
You're God.
Amen.
Bite your tongue, imposter.
How dare you come to the house of the morning lord and wear this false guys?
You're wearing a false guy's.
You're old as hell.
And you look great.
Yeah.
And you're wearing a net.
I have many skincare routines.
How dare you?
Oh, I know all about skin care routines.
Nothing soaps the crow's feet.
So my friends tell me.
Jens is in the bathroom from.
45 minutes every evening.
Shut the fuck up.
Shut the fuck up.
What?
I turn in to Bilbo.
I'm saying you have a great routine.
I can see the cracks in your facade.
Yes, I remain pure for my love of the morning lord keeps me fresh.
Are you a vampire?
You have to tell us if you're a vampire.
Silence!
Silence!
So, Onyx, as you missed you step away, let me give you just a quick layout of the church here.
Number one, it's all on fire.
Yeah.
And I will say that...
Yeah, that seems the most striking thing.
I will say that because of the Zephyr strike and the net plan and everything like that, that was another round of combat.
So we're going to say that you've got two rounds left before everything burns down.
And by burns down, I mean, it will just be inhospitable.
There will be too much smoke and fire.
You can stay in there, but you're going to take damage every round.
Got you.
Got it.
Yeah, so give me a layer of the land because maybe I'll misty step somewhere more useful.
You got it.
So there's this big 50 by 50 foot room.
It's like a very elegant sort of sanctuary.
Big wooden beams reaching up to a high ceiling, vaulted ceiling with the belfry on top of it,
which is where the werewolf pup was being hidden.
There are rafters as well.
There is an east wing, which is where you found the nursery and the body parts and everything like that,
as well as Udo and his friends.
There's a West Wing, which is where you saw all of the zuminoids hanging out.
That's where you saw the fort with those two zuminoid starting to hit it off,
having a bit of a relationship.
Awesome.
In the center, behind where the Abbott and Vasilka and the now corpse of Gorek are,
there is this shimmering blue pool and a short stone wall.
Mounted on the short stone wall is this golden sun disk.
It's very bright reflective.
Can I Misty step onto the gold disc or right above it?
It's mounted on the wall, so I don't think you could stand on it,
but you could step right next to it.
I want to get out of the way, because he'll have disadvantage on attacks
other than me.
Cool.
So I'm just going to grab it.
Yeah, someone else can grab it.
So I'm just going to misty step behind a pew and take cover.
Awesome.
Great.
Okay, you're taking cover.
Additionally, on either side of this golden sun disk, there are doorways.
One leads down to the basement, which is where Esmeralda was.
One leads up to the belfry, which is where Chompo, the werewolf pup was.
And that's also where Vesilco was being hidden.
You saw that in your visions from Bluetooth.
Additionally, one less detail, rising up on either side, on kind of the left and right of the sanctuary.
these big stained glass windows, some of which are broken now from the wear ravens crashing in.
There's two were ravens kind of circling around this room as well.
In addition to Udo and his donk squad, who are all just being like, uh, what's the plan here?
Help, uh, get us, our new friends out, Werewolf Pump and Esmeralda.
Hi, nice to meet you.
We've heard so much about you.
I know you're tired.
Don't feel it.
Oh, yeah.
She's bound.
She's gagged.
She can't do much right now.
Makes sense.
Absolutely makes sense.
And gets his zoomenoids out safely.
What?
No, you don't need to do that.
They're bad.
I give them a thumbs up.
Wait, don't get the fucking zuminoids out.
So they'll need to act on their turn, but if you want to give them that verbal command,
Udo and the donk squad can help get all of your captives out.
Is that what you want?
Yeah.
Yeah, that'd be great.
Right on.
Okay, cool.
So that is going to bring us next in the order to Vasilka.
So Vasilca was calmed by you playing the loot, but as soon as you dropped it to stab at the Abbott,
she started freaking out yet again.
Oh, was she within five feet of the abbot?
Yeah, she was next to the Abbott, for sure.
And then she would have been affected by the taunting step as well.
Okay, okay, cool.
Okay, so she also was obviously taunted by you picking up this loot,
playing her a beautiful song, and then dropping it.
We've ruined her wedding.
But she looks around frantically.
You could see this sort of like panic building in her face.
Black tears start pouring down her pale white skin.
but then she looks at you again
and actually takes a good look at you
and sees your pristine wedding dress.
Oh no.
She looks down at her scorched red one
and then back at you,
thanks for a moment,
then points her finger and screeches.
Something old.
Something old.
Oh, geez, you wore white to a wedding.
People get mad about that.
I thought I was hiding behind Zupu.
It's such a dated faux pa.
Get up to the time.
It holds out her hands and then repeats, something old, something old.
You should point out Jen's if you're saying that.
Hey.
Stop, blah.
Turned into Bilbo again.
He's not that old.
Onyx, what do you do?
I think I just say, I am the morning lord.
If you want my dress, you can have it.
And I take off a dress.
Hell yeah, you take off your dress and give it to her.
She looks so happy.
I'm not close enough.
I am 30 feet away.
Okay.
So I'll just hold it out.
You hold it out.
You hold it out to her.
She like scrambles over, gets down on all fours, scrambles over, and just like grabs it, clutches it as if she's clutching like a wounded dove or something like that, holds it close to her and says, oh, thank you.
It is going to look so good on you.
You guys see that I'm wearing like weirdly intricate lingerie.
Damn morning, Lord, you're hung.
What did you expect to happen tonight?
literally what were you planning like it looks so uncomfortable it's the kind of lingerie you put on for 10 minutes before you take it off
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everybody so you see vasilka now that she has this wedding dress um looks for another target uh and
she's actually going to strike at the abbot instead whoa okay yes dude um okay so she has disadvantage
from the taunting step but the abbot is restrained so this is going to negate that so i'll just roll this flat
Yes.
First attack hits.
Yeah, dude.
Second attack hits.
Hell yeah.
How's that for a first dance?
Take your revenge.
Why did you not get me something pretty like this?
She holds up the dress and then like bashes the abbot with it.
No, Vasilka, stop.
You're not ready yet.
Seems like Fasilka, like, I don't want to say, you know, I feel bad for her.
She's got this, like, toxic idea that, like, getting married is going to fix her.
Yeah.
I do agree with that, but I think.
She's too into the wedding idea, not into the relationship.
Does she even like Strach?
Is she being a Bridezilla?
She's being a Bridezilla.
She's being a Bridezilla.
It was supposed to be the perfect day.
You've ruined everything.
From a Stradwife to a Bridezilla.
You see, she beats the habit in this bag.
And he takes 26 points of damage.
Jesus.
Amazing.
Okay. So that is Vasilka's turn. That's going to bring us to Keychain. Keychain is just like looking around, still wearing his donkey mask, being like, it's getting kind of hard to see. I might take this mask off.
Yeah, for sure. He takes off his mask and then says, okay, now, time to do my thing. And he's just going to produce three potions from his body.
Ooh. Good dog.
Now that his mouth is free of the mask, it opens extra wide and turns into kind of like a vending machine slot.
And he produces two healing potions and a boldness potion.
Roll 1D4 and add to every attack roll and saving throw for the next minute.
Ooh.
Loving this open bar.
Can I provide you with anything?
Yeah, give the boldness potion to Onyx.
Okay.
Oh, but you haven't attacked yet.
Okay.
Yeah.
I mean, give it to me.
Okay.
What was I thinking?
You seem pretty drunk already from all the margarine.
I am still a little drunk from last night.
We didn't get a time of sleep.
Would you like me to feed it to you?
Of course.
His hand turns into a funnel and he shoves it into your mouth.
Open your throat.
As wide as you can, it tastes terrible.
You're not going to want to taste this.
That's keychain's turn.
And next in the order is going to be Nyack.
I'm going to jump up onto a pew, take aim at the Abbott and say,
sorry I didn't get you anything off
the registry for this wedding
he's not you don't buy stuff for the priest
Nyack yeah sorry the fumes are getting to me
Nyack falls backwards and shoots an arrow
before he does that is a 25
to hit the abbot okay that hits
and I will use dread ambusher
to attack him twice sick
that's a 23 for the second one
nice I'll also mark him as my favorite foe
to add a D4
Go for it.
And I'm going to use the poison damage from my Darkwing bow.
Darkwing bow.
That is...
Let's get puncturing.
I'm so sorry.
54 damage.
It's just the internet getting stabbed.
I will not let my love of the morning lord end me.
I was right to believe you.
You, you are the temptress.
You are a foul false saint.
You made a registry and you're the priest, okay?
Yeah, that was so greedy.
I just feel like people should be tipping their priests.
They kind of do.
What kind of scam are you running, priest?
I don't get any of that money.
It just goes to the restoration.
Yeah, sure.
What restoration?
This whole place is on fire.
Holy shit.
Okay, so that, is that your turn?
Yes, but can I use my movement to run up like that short stone wall by the pool and the shield?
Yeah.
Okay.
And can I do a perception check to see if I can see anything like at the bottom of this pool?
Yeah.
Go ahead.
It's a 13.
13.
You do get a good look at the pool.
You don't see anything in there.
But with a 13, I'll say that this looks very similar to the pool at the base of the hill.
And you do see a clay pitcher next to it.
And it seems like you can infer that this is where the water that the Abbott was scooping from the pool is going.
That makes sense.
All right.
So it's the sun that's more important.
But we do know that St. Markovia does appear in this.
Okay.
Nyack still yells,
The pool is a portal to the outer world.
What?
I think it's a portal.
Oh, my God.
A pool portal.
These guys lie all the time.
A pool turtle.
You can do is lie.
A pool portal?
A pool portal.
A pool portal.
A pool portal.
A pool tool.
A pool tool.
A pool portal.
You're saying it's a pool portal.
Stop riffing.
Stop it.
Cool pool portal.
Great.
So next up is going to be the Ware Ravens and the Dunk Squad.
Great.
They're going to do, as you said, the two Ware Ravens are going to grab the
cage with Chompo the werewolf pup, and they're going to just fly him out of the abbey to
safety. Great. And then the donk squad is going to escort Esmeralda. Do you want us to try and
free her? Yes. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Oh, yeah, for sure. Okay, well, free her and then we'll just,
do you want us to wait outside? Yeah. Just, yeah. Get the fuck out of here, Udo. Okay. Don't be a
hero. Don't free her to the point where she runs away. Like, free her light, so she's still there
so we can talk to her afterwards. We can help if you want us to.
I think we're fine for now.
Okay, well...
I mean, does it take all of you to bring Esmeralda outside and cut the binding?
No, I think it could probably just be one of us.
Yeah, so maybe just one, and then the rest of you stay to help.
Yeah, you want a donkey kick the Abbott?
Okay, yeah, Udo's going to give instructions to one of his managerie.
Grigory, Gregory, you take Esmereld outside and get her freed, and we'll stay here and focus on the Abbott.
Grigory, go, don't be a hero, damn it.
I won't be.
It's scary in here.
I hate it.
Yeah, that makes sense.
You didn't choose any of this.
My hands are hooves.
It's bad.
Yeah, it's not good.
For sure.
So Grigory is going to take Esmeralda out of the Abbey to safety.
It's going to work on getting her freed.
Great.
Actually, we'll go ahead and handle that role now.
So the manacles that Esmeralda is wearing have 15 HP,
and the AC is 19
He could do a sleight of hand
But his hands are hooves
So I think he's just going to try and break it
Slight of hoof
Yeah he tries to break it
But can't
So he's going to keep trying
Okay I'll keep working on it
I'm going to go outside with her
And I'll keep working on it
Great, yeah I didn't
When I said don't be a hero
I didn't mean be useless Gregory
Okay I'll find my own path
Sorry no I snapped
Okay it's the fumes
I'm normally not like this
No you don't owe him an apology
You do not owe him an apology
A little apology would be nice.
So that's Grigory.
He's peeled off from the Dong Squad,
but I will let the rest of the Dong Squad attack the Abbott.
This is great because if he goes down now,
we can try to save the net for later.
Oh, yeah.
Oh, we're so confident we think we're going to save the net, do we?
This net seems highly flammable.
Yeah, let's try to finish this before the net burns up.
Yeah.
Can I have that net back?
They're acting as a swarm.
They don't do much damage,
and I'm going to subtract one point from their damage
since one of them is peeled off.
Sure.
So they're going to do three damage to the abbot.
Great.
You see they all just run up.
They're like gray-ford pecks rippling.
They've ripped off their shirts to reveal
just eight packs of abs and glistening shiny gray muscles.
And they all just kick the shit out of the abs.
Oh, oh, oh.
This is what you get for messing with us.
Yeah.
Dunk Squad.
All right.
You have a good corporate culture.
Yeah.
amongst you.
So you know how it was, you know, floated to save the zoominoids?
You guys did catch that.
They've drained a bunch of the other werewolves, right?
Are we cool with killing the zoomenoids finally, please?
Yeah, you know, I'm down to kill the zoo.
Well, it sounds like Onyx, do you want to kill the zuminoids or do you want to question them?
No, I kind of want to let them move into the forest.
Why?
Why?
Guys, what if they are cute?
They're not, though.
Remember the bug that was experimenting on people?
Yeah, we got rid of him.
Yeah.
Yeah, the Lutant is gone.
We don't know the other Zuminoyds might be kind of cute.
They all helped.
The Deng Squad is awesome.
The Dong Squad is awesome, but we saved them from being brainwashed.
Yeah, you got to remember that we are awesome because the process didn't complete and we're not brainwashed by the Abbot.
Thank you so much, Udo.
And this is why you're my guy.
Absolutely.
What if when the Abbott dies, the brainwashing is reversed and they're just cool cuties?
Is that a good question?
Let's leave all the museum alive until we find out.
Yes, you should leave me alive.
case that it reverts afterwards.
You should not kill me now.
What?
No, you're, you're, you're the worst.
Yeah, you're the worst.
That's the plan.
Oh, but maybe, but maybe I'm the only one.
I'm the only one that can't do it.
You're already dead.
As good as gone.
I want to kill everyone in this church
except for Udo and the baby werewolf and Esmeralda.
I'm even 50-50 on Nyackinonic.
Me.
You would kill Magda?
I don't know who Magda is.
Nyak.
Look,
his necklace.
All right,
you guys have to stop.
Who has two thumbs
and is named Magda?
Nyak points his index fingers at himself.
Nyak is named Magda.
You see, Vasilka's ears perk up at Magda.
Oh!
Oh, geez, you are just sad.
You are a freaking tragedy, Veselka.
So with that, the Dongk Squad finishes pummeling the abbot.
You see, blood is starting to pour out of him.
But strangely, it's not red blood.
His blood has more of an iridescent sheen to it.
And you see that the wounds heal almost as quickly as they're made.
Duh, but he does look quite hurt Jens, that is your turn.
Okay, what are you?
You werewolf, you vampire.
Yeah, what's up with your cool blood?
What's up with your cool blood?
Release me and I'll tell you.
I'll tell you everything.
Oh, I'll release you.
This can still happen.
I'll release you from life, dude.
You have no leverage out of this.
I'll just tap into him.
Okay, great.
Oh, you know what? Let's test this.
This bug scientist style.
And I try to stab him in the chest with the sunsword.
Okay.
Ooh.
And I got a 19.
Careful of the net, brother.
I take no care to save the net.
19 does hit.
Okay, great.
That is 12 damage.
Okay.
But I would get an extra D8 if he was undead.
Jins, as you stab into him with this radiant blade,
you see that the blade almost.
almost resists going into him.
This gleaming sword made of pure sunlight.
Eventually you managed to stab it through,
but it doesn't go nearly as deep,
and he's only going to take half damage.
Oh, he's a freaking werewolf.
You're a werewolf.
You're projecting onto other people.
You're killing baby werewolves,
and you are a werewolf.
Oh, my God, dude.
You are the worst.
Wow, it's so special for your blood.
Oh, my God.
I respect to the beauty of the world.
the gift of lycanthropy, but I am not that.
You cannot conceive of what I am.
Okay, and then I'll take a second attack.
And that is a 21 to hit.
Hits.
Great.
Okay, this one I'll do a flourish for defensive flourish to add to my defense.
And that one is 14 damage.
14 damage.
And this is with the non-sun sword.
Correct.
Great.
Okay.
You do 14 damage to him, and he,
drops. Whoa.
You will not interrupt my holy purpose.
I was put here for a reason,
and I shall fulfill it.
Jens, as you stab him,
you hear a rumbling from the West Wing,
and you see this swarm of zuminodes,
of every species burst through the door.
Fire drill!
We came to free you.
No, we didn't.
They are howling with these inhuman, baleful screams.
They're also getting covered in fire as they rush through the door,
so they're just enraged.
Nightmare fuel.
Just frothing at the mouth, ready to obey the abbot,
but they are going to hold their turn.
And then you see the abbot clutching these wounds,
which now are glowing almost with this sort of like pearly white iridescence stands once more.
If he stands, that's using five feet of moon.
And then he would take more damage.
You Cretans, you lowlives, you...
Eight. I got rolled an eight on the D-A. Eight thunder damage.
He starts jiggling and jolting as he gets electrocuted, but then just stops and says,
Enough! Enough! You have challenged my will to its utter limits.
The Abbott's voice grows deeper and seems laced with the sound of bells,
and chimes.
His eyes glow bright,
and from his back,
you see two enormous white wings
erupt from his robe.
What?
He's like,
he's like, you freaking werewolf,
you, excuse me?
He's an angel.
The morning lord sent me here
to watch this land
after he sealed it away.
And now, after 450 years,
I am on the cusp
of perching it of all evil.
I will not let you stand
in the way of my beautiful.
for reunion with the dawn father.
He shall forgive me.
He shall forgive me for my snide remarks
and welcome me back to the chorus
in the radium realm.
A bell gonged and a huge
golden handbell materializes
in the angelic abbot's hand.
He is going to attack Jens
who stabbed him most recently.
Great. We knew you were an angel
all along. It was so obvious.
When he did all this, did he rip
the net? Because I
really wanted to hang on to that.
He's still in the net
He's an angel in a net
He's going to roll a strength check
As his wings rip out
Don't rip it
Don't rip it
He got a 16
His wings
Rip the net in a shreds
As they expand
Oh you asshole
You ruined it
You ruined it
This guy drains werewolves
That was my net
That was my net
It belonged to me
See even he cares about
Some way
I have a registry
He cares way too much about the net
And everyone has way too many registries.
Just the bride, just the groom.
You see that his brown robe is ripped to tatters
and you see this beautiful silver skin gleaming beneath,
just like rippling with muscles.
His hair turns blonde and flows
as he strides towards you with this massive bell mace
and he is going to take an attack.
But with disadvantage, though.
Absolutely saw this coming.
It was so, so obvious you were an angel.
whole time.
I knew you were just going to shed your clothes and be a silver angel.
I fucking knew this.
Yes, it's so crazy.
You said, what if he's a wear angel?
And Nyack and I,
aka Magda, and I said, no.
Lies,
Lies, spill from your mouth like scarabs and beetles.
You are impure and you will not stand against my plan any longer.
Wait, did this guy just admit to eating scarabs and beetles?
That is so weird.
Do you?
You have a plague mouth as well.
what I'm saying. This dude eats caravs.
Do you have a beetle diet? I mean, I tried
one once. I eat carabs, not caribs.
That is just an 11 to hit, though.
It's slowly move out of the way.
But after he misses, he goes,
Zuminoids, come to me.
These people, they stand in the way of my righteous
plans. Dispose of them.
Deliver righteous fury
unto them, my precious zuminoids.
And you see the Zuminoid swarm is going to go now.
Oh, God.
So the way that the swarm works, it's massive.
So we can take three attacks, but at different targets.
Cool.
Oh, boy.
Okay, so I'll say that they will target keychain and Nyak and Jins.
Still like these guys, everyone?
Draining dogs of their blood and then trying to kill us.
You know, I was going to try to save all of you, but now you are really compromising that.
Let's get them.
These guys are so unrad.
I thought you were cool.
As soon as I heard you guys talk, I knew you had to go.
You guys don't like
Weirwolf blood?
It's what powers us.
See, these guys are so bad.
The abbot spikes our wine
with werewolf blood to keep us strong.
They drink so much wine.
It's just so out of pocket for the way they talk.
I like skateboarding
and I like shredding on my guitar
and drinking blood wine.
Yeah.
Now, 13 misses you.
15 just hits keychain
and Nat 1 misses Jens.
Woo.
So only keychie.
Okay. Hey, maybe they are cool.
Keychain, you see this swarm.
Let me roll a D8 to determine which part of the swarm is going to hit him.
That is a three.
Oh, that's funny.
A team of dark donkeys rolls up.
You see they've got like Squirtle Squad sunglasses on.
Yeah, we're the dark donkeys and we're going to kick the shit out of your robot.
Jeez, these guys are bad news.
They're wearing sunglasses inside.
He's not a robot. He's a dog.
What?
Take your glasses off.
He's not a robot. He's a dog.
Oh, my apologies, madam.
I'm going to kill your robot dog.
Thank you.
So, let's see.
Keychain's going to need to make a strength saving throw.
It would be knocked prone by this.
He fails that, so Keychain is prone, and he takes 15 points of damage.
Ow, ow, ow.
Okay, we have to leave him.
We have no choice.
Sorry, Keychain.
I know this is how you wanted to die, though.
I had just gotten used to being super tall.
I loved it.
And that is going to bring us to
marina
oh marina has been pretty quiet this whole time
just taking in this insane sight
but as she looks at the abbot
she pulls off her donkey mask
and points her silvered blade directly at him
her auburn hair shines in the firelight
and her eyes smolder with fury
you you foul angel
you killed my mother de mera
i don't know why you did it and i don't care
the blade of truth now guides my hand
and it guides me towards your inn.
However, as she speaks, with her face revealed for the first time,
the abbot's eyes glisten and a smile returns to his angelic face.
Demira was your mother?
Oh, morning, Lord, you too love me after all.
For you have returned the soul of Tatiana to me.
Yes, yes.
What do you mean?
I bear this soul, but why do you need that?
you already had this soul.
Oh, no.
That wizard's apprentice was only a backup plan.
You are the soul that was taken from me.
That wicked Ilana ran away with you all those years ago.
But Tatiana's soul, that is the soul that must be housed in Vasilka.
Oh, this is truly a blessed day.
It is not lost.
Everything can be restored.
Destiny has come full circle so that we might instrage tyranny once and for all.
From the folds of his tattered robes,
the abbot produces an enormous golden needle
with tubes and gauges.
Who could have not seen this company?
We knew you had a needle, angel.
Classic wear angel art of Mr. Alchemist.
You guys don't know shit.
It's a bad look. You're stupid.
Nice needle, Captain, obvious.
You may pull the donkey masks off your head,
but they still remain on your brain.
You've got ass brains, that's what I'm saying.
Forgive me, morning, Lord.
but they have the brains of an ass.
You are forgiven.
You eat scarabs.
I did that once, okay?
He admitted.
I was doing...
He admits it.
Yeah.
Doing a fear factor thing.
A minute ago, you said you didn't do it at all.
You see, he adjust a few dials on this needle gun,
and then points it at Marina with this sorrowful expression.
I truly am sorry to do this, Marina, but your soul is Perovius' final chance for freedom.
It is not a sacrifice I make lightly.
Get that away from me.
More of these foul.
Instruments, you are a wicked man.
The morning Lord has forsaken you for a reason.
Marina is going to take an attack against the abbot.
You see her Blade of Truth glistens brightly.
And that is going to hit.
Woo.
Yes.
I lean into Onyx and I can say,
do you think she knew that the Blade of Truth was going to come into play
quicker than the Sunsword when she took the Blade of Truth from me?
Like, that's kind of trashy, right?
Yeah.
It's tacky.
It's tacky, right?
It is, yeah.
She has a main character
She has a main character
She is a real cool move
But we're going to let's regroup after the fight, okay?
So it's going to be a debrief
I will not let him win
Yeah
None of us want to let him win
It's not just you that doesn't want to let him win
I also don't want to let him win
For one second I'm trying to deliver a monologue here
And I am too
Ever since I came
From my humble village
I left everything behind
I felt new truth
My dad wasn't that rich
Okay, and he died when I was 110.
Can you guys just let me fucking have this for once?
Oh, my God.
Okay, so Marina joins the fray.
She slashes into the abbot.
You see more of this pale, iridescent blood, like, leaks out of him.
But he does look like he still got a little fight left in him.
And that is the end of the round.
So now we have one round remaining.
You see the fire is creeping further up the wooden beams of this building.
things are starting to crumble.
It is getting a little hot,
but that brings us back to Onyx.
Okay, I'm just going to run up and attack him again.
Yeah, yeah, we for sure have to kill this guy.
I'm going to run up, try to attack him, try, and booming blade.
I was hoping to just kind of leave him in the burning church in the net,
but he's got wings, apparently.
Yeah.
Does another 17 hit?
That just hits, yeah.
Okay.
23 damage.
23 damage?
Nice.
Okay.
And then I'm going to do the same exact thing.
I'm going to taunting step to Misty step 30 feet back
as close to the door as possible to be ready to run out of here.
Okay, awesome.
You get over to the door and just outside,
you do see Grigory just still desperately attempting
to try and get Esmeralda free.
She's like rolling her eyes now.
Esmeralda is going to, once we are done in here,
which is going to be soon because it's burning down,
we're going to try to figure this out for you, okay?
I know.
Grigory is being so.
So silly.
Grigory's hilarious.
Does anyone have like a key or something?
I feel like that would speed this up.
Oh, Greg.
Yeah, no.
Yeah, we've got the key on us, Gregory.
God, it's like learned helplessness.
Okay, I'm just trying to solve the problem here.
Yeah, okay, yeah.
That's not really helpful.
It's like I'm instructed.
This guy's the king of queens over here, all right?
He doesn't know how to do anything.
But he's hilarious.
God damn.
Okay, so that's your turn, Onyx.
And that is going to bring us back to Vasilca.
Now that Onyx has left
She looks at her wedding dress
But she's in full Bridezilla mode
She wants more
She's gonna walk over to Jins
Oh jeez
It's not gonna you need
The relationship is more important
Than the wedding
Okay
Something new
What?
Something new
I don't have anything new
You have to give her something new
I don't look
I'll give her something old
I'll give you the stupid fucking sword
That apparently doesn't do anything
Was it on the registry?
I think about giving her the sunsort.
But I didn't pull it back.
She holds out her hands waiting for, waiting to be given something new.
I still have the jugs from the Alchemist fire.
It doesn't have Alchemist fire anymore.
A jug.
I'll give you a jug.
That's a brand new jug.
Brand new jug.
Because it didn't used to be empty.
I think Esmeralda loves Alchemist fire.
She's constantly having to get the new stuff.
This shit will hold fire.
Okay, this is a solid jug.
You got to understand.
Give me a persuasion check.
Okay.
You got to understand.
This is a Class A jug.
And it's a really old sword that he has.
That's not what you want.
I hold it in the fire.
I pull it out.
You ever seen a fireproof jug?
Zamori's stocking.
Some more I wants a jug.
Onick starts crying.
I got a 16.
16, that is just enough.
You see she plucks one of the flowers
out of a garland nearby and puts it in the jug.
Oh, that's idea.
Nice jug.
Yeah.
Thank you.
Hey, Basilica, cool jug.
She gives you a big smooch on the cheek.
Okay.
And then she's going to freak out and run into the Zuminoid swarm and beat them up.
All right, cool.
You guys better have something blue.
We should just leave her in here probably when the place burns down.
I don't think she's going to assimilate well.
Okay, so she takes two swipes at the Zuminoid swarm.
Does 27 damage to them?
Jesus.
She's so, she would have killed me with that.
She could have given her the sunsword to save my life. Jesus.
So you see, she manages to decimate, like, a whole squadron of the Zuminoid swarm.
And that actually mechanically means that they will do less damage on their next attack.
So that is going to bring us.
That was Vasilka's turn.
That is Keychain again.
He is going to use this movement to stand up.
I'm not used to being so tall yet.
I guess I must have fallen over when those donkeys kicked me.
Keychain just retreat.
Retreat.
It's over.
Are you sure?
Yes.
Run.
Otherwise, we have to leave you here.
Do you want me to deliver a potion to anyone?
Yeah, toss us potions just in case we need them.
Okay.
He's going to toss you the two remaining potions.
Do you want me to try and free Esmeralda?
Yeah.
Okay, great.
I think Grigory's got it.
It's not cute, okay?
The hell is just not cute.
Grigory is kind of sensitive, so just tipto around.
I feel like I'm just trying the best I can.
Yeah.
Make it seem like he did it, please.
Yeah.
Do it, but make you feel like.
You're feeding something.
You're feeding something here.
My body was hideously transformed just hours ago.
See, this is why Bluetooth is the way he is.
Because you guys let him get away with stuff, okay?
Gregory needs to learn.
Bluetooth is his old man now.
Bluetooth is three days old.
Would he be his own man if he is not learned?
I mean, it's true that I, you know, I was a bit of a stinker when I was a human,
so I don't know how you would have known that, but yeah.
So Keychain is going to head towards the door, but since he's used half his movement
standing up from prone.
He can't get outside yet.
Just like a dog waiting at the door.
I want to go out.
I need to make peepees.
Then go out.
I want to go out.
Then go out.
Whop, wharf, wharf, wharf, wharf.
He's scratching at the door, even though it's open.
Oh, geez.
It's open.
Great.
And that is going to bring us back to Nyack.
Okay.
Would you allow me an object interaction to see if I can yank on this shield?
Oh, yeah, the big disc.
Yeah, the big disc.
Give me a religion check.
Oh, my God.
Okay.
I lean over the wall and I catch my reflection in this golden disc and I reach out for it.
That is in 18.
Whoa.
18.
You reach your hands onto this sun disk and it feels hot to the touch.
Ow.
And as you try to grip it, you hear just the loudest clanging of bells directly in your ears.
Boom, boom, boom.
but you manage to keep your grip strong
and you twist this thing and yank it off the wall.
You have broken the Abbott's seal on this disc
and now you can see what is inside.
Whoa.
You find a couple of things.
You find, number one, a bundle of bones.
Uh-oh.
A potion of supreme healing in an electrum flask
and a beautiful silver sunflower pendant
with a purple gym at its center.
Jens is going to love this.
You don't know what this is, but I will tell you, Jake, this is the Dawn Flower Pendent.
Whoa.
It is one of the items you were foretold to receive during your card reading with the fortune teller.
Wow.
Hey, Abbott, got your disc.
Catch me if you can, loser.
No.
I'm going to jump off this thing and fire two arrows at him with Zephyr Strike and Dread Ambusher.
Okay.
That is a 25 and a 22 to hit.
Both hit.
I have one more poison damage from my bow, and with favored foe, that is 37 damage.
Nyack, finish this angel.
Oh, my God.
I jump off of this thing, sprinting down the aisle of the wedding with the disc, and after I fire two arrows at him, I realize that I'm dragging the net in my foot.
And I just, and I clip the abbey.
bit, and lift him up so he cracks his head on the floor.
No, no, my beautiful plan.
Dunn-in.
The morning lord will accept me again.
No!
We knew you were an angel.
You were no match for our net.
Saves the net.
You see the abbot falls to the ground, his wings limp,
pearlescent blood spilling out of his mouth.
And as he dies, he starts to laugh.
What?
I guess it is pretty funny.
You fools, don't you know you're too late?
Strad is on his way here.
For the wedding, I've already invited him.
Suddenly, from outside the door, you hear a single howl.
Then another, the more still,
until eventually the air is thick with the sound of hungry wool.
the howls grow closer until they seem to be right outside the abbey then they stop and at the blazing doorway of this quickly crumbling sanctuary you see a cloud of blood-red mist slowly descend the cloud hovers at the threshold then swirls and condenses until it takes the shape of a dreadful yet from
familiar face.
Straud von Zarevich.
Oh, dear.
Thank you so much for the invitation, your holiness.
It seems, however, he surveys the burning building
that I've arrived a bit late.
No matter, my werewolves and I are happy to help clean up.
And with that, Straud steps into the burning church.
oh no
and that's where we'll end our session
I hope you liked your appetizer
oh boy
we knew he was a freaking angel
we knew he was a freaking angel dude
yeah that was a lot of surprises
hope you enjoyed that
I'm excited to see
where things go from here
but wow that was a really fun battle
you guys did a great job
you took out the abbot way faster
than I was expecting
the net
the net
Clutch.
Yeah, dude.
I'm very excited to talk about this more on the short rest, which you can listen to at patreon.com slash nadpod.
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And now it's time to thank our benevolent council of elders, and they are.
Brad D., Jeffrey S, Lord of the Fjord, Later, McSgater, Matt M, Cutter, W, Jeff C, Daniel G, Danielle, the dastardly dame,
Carpe, Liam, Victor T, Balnor's Boy, Hoyd's friend, Justin I, Danny Danster, Tj M, Tray Lay the Cray, Christopher B,
Damiel, yes, Caldwell, Thanks only took six years R, Jordan L, cyborg version of Josh the Cobol,
Targot, Stevie Wags, Hellish Rebuker, the NBDM, Ph.D., Princess Yarr, Jory S, Jack L, Nicholas C, star of every film ever made in Bohumia.
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Trubhop dropper. Jack H. King of the Mule people under Iron Deep, dressed in blue,
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Druidic P. Carlin C. Omri. M. Noah, the gentleman, Fister. Hashtaghan,
honor the cock. James G. Everything bago, the Eladron who just wants to hang out with his pet badger,
Stripy, Reverend Chatterbones, Han, Eric B, Marcos, PhD, eventually, learns the balance druid,
Frida M, Maggie, Holly, the Green Laughing, Hina, Grim Waller, Executive Chef of Bohumia,
Aaron, B, Russell, H, a muck named Dilgo, yes, the whole thing, yes, every time.
Cody C, Lorelei, the succubai, and Kira, the succulent snack.
Cow go truckin, your friendly neighborhood, Yant and Uncle, Andrew and Sid.
of Unnatural Logarisms, John Adams.
James F. Wayfarer now has to do something with the trolls.
Get rid of them. Turn to page 42. Keep them. Turn to page 69.
Oreo. Barpo, Good Barrel, Bard, Berrien.
Charlie Brown's best friend.
Renee, the monster captain, Olivia, the enchanting bard,
and Jared the soap opera cleric who are playing the wedding March for Onyx.
Blue, Ash, Fico, Garrett, the artificer, Jay, K. Guard. Fancy, Matt.
The fairies have returned to debauchery.
and must now go to the carnal corner.
Cantrip Dumbledore, the bear onesie wearing Barbarian.
Lexi H. M.J. the BF.G.
Roger L. No-Drog, the pass-a-fist, barbarian.
John Luca. Leon K., legendary hero of Bohumia from a future campaign.
Shenanigans O'Connor, Josh, S.
Alexander, Lynn's, W.
Sky the Wise, aka the lone dungeon master.
The spud fucker himself.
Johnny Dude K.
The mischief of Natpods, Familiars.
Pabu Eskinaw, the Glyath Paladin, providing service with a smile.
Jake Well, Murphily, Tim M. Dragon Knight 86.
Strungle, the main event.
TR, MLG, Cheeto.
Shelby, Kenna's first favorite sprite girl going into the zone is Barry Six for Riva, Moss, Vegas.
Let's do some Kubla cane and get nasty, folks.
Jet S.
Snailist, who is infecting Worcestershire for Within.
Death to tyrants.
Mimaw Skides, Megan N.
Genevieve of the C.
Anthony B. Ballnor's best friend, Steve, Stephanie of House and Zunza, Benjamin A, Gimley
the Corgi, Pawpaw, and Foster's Kainine friend.
Mickle A, SSS tier, Crickwater, and Joyer, Josh Hull, Pilot of the Nightmareverse Flight.
The two crew blew through.
Kelsey A., Ethan, the mailman, Maple, the shy bookworm, Nick A.J., Ashesaurus, Seth, the Stroker,
bearer of all hog-related burdens. Billy B. Tori the tungsten Dragoose, accidental shareer of recipes, Michael L.S.
the second, Maui Kitten, Carl B. Plummer of the Realm, Ace Dregs, High Lord of Critsburg.
Raina S. Venn diagram. Catamilius, the Consumed. Cam, the Vampire Frogman. Dean, J.W. Hi, Mom. Tuesday
Cross, only here for the surf and mirf. Nadpot fan and Bar Mitzv Man, it's Dave O. Steve L.
Kyler, Mick M, Alex G, Zibby to Bakery, Kaylee, Katarina, C.
Misty, the Krispy Kitty really hates flame skulls.
Greg W., there's so many of us now, but hey, you're doing great and we love you.
Baruch Thunderhelm, 5th Generation Minotaur, working as an abandoned labyrinth tour guide.
Chupac Aubrey, Bonie is dead.
The Waterworth, your four-legged Greg companion.
Nick, Amy.
Agus Kunari, Ignition Class Petal Storm.
Not a DJ, but we'll still take the.
gig, DJ Drammamine, chef Julie B, Mama Mayhem, the happiest little Natpole, Jen rules
kinda, Caitlin H, buttwax, Thomas C, Dark Lotus Creations, Joshua H, Jacob M, Louis H, and of course,
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