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It's spooky season here on Tavern Watch, so we're playing something appropriately spooky -- Shadowdark! But a spooky old-school-esque system isn't enough on its own, so we're diving back into one of the most classic horror tabletop game modules of all time -- the original I6: Ravenloft for Advanced Dungeons & Dragons 1E. When new spooky rules meet old haunts, will our heroes survive the night?
Episode two finds our trio of adventurers exploring the dusty back hallways and secret corridors of Castle Ravenloft, meeting some unusual individuals -- some of whom have unusual tastes, while others just want to be left alone. Our brave adventurers include:
* Liz as Serl Sparrow (Halfling Wizard), whose destiny is it to enter Castle Ravenloft and emerge victorious.
* Nick as Ninir (Elf Thief), whose destiny is... to steal as much loot from the infamously rich Count as he possibly can.
* Chris as Faran (Elf Priest), a brave and doughty religious elf who will face the darkness or die trying.
This is the second in a three-part game of Shadowdark! You can check out the first episode here, and look for new episodes every Monday.
This game was played in Shadowdark, an Ennie-Award-winning tabletop RPG that marries the familiarity of D&D with the stripped-down, rulings-not-rules sensibility of older versions of the same game, yielding something that's fast, fun, and easy to play. Shadowdark places an emphasis on being easy to understand and easy to run, making it a great game to pick up and play -- even if it's your first tabletop game! If you're interested in picking up your own copy of Shadowdark, you can grab it at The Arcane Library. If you want to check out our adventure in Ravenloft for yourself, you can pick up I6: Ravenloft from the DM's Guild. (We're also using Venatus Maps' Castle Ravenloft Battle Maps to play in these episodes.)
The music in this podcast is "Some Amount of Evil" by Kevin McLeod (incompetech.com), licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License.
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[Music]
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Welcome back listeners to our special uh Castle Ravenloft visit here on Tavern
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Watch plays uh our intrepid band of adventurers. Uh well, let's let's just
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meet them and find out what they've been up to. Uh first off, let's go to Chris.
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Howdy. Uh so as Faren been making bad puns
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and removing wraiths from the adventure and trying to be cool. I'm not sure if
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it's actually working. It's very, very cool. Uh, next up, uh, Nick Marino.
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I am Nick and I am playing Ner, committerer of light lararseny
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multiple times as we make our way through uh, Strad's castle. It's true. I believe you've already uh,
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stolen some of the count's uh, dinnerw wear. Um, it's only fair he did threaten you. Uh, and last but not least, uh, Liz
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Harper. Hello, I am Elizabeth Harper and I am playing Sirill Sparrow, the
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halfling wizard, destined to come here and defeat Strod.
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Uh, speaking of defeating Strod, would you like to uh recap what you all have been up to so far, Liz, back in episode one in case people missed it?
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Uh, wow. I walked right into that one. Uh, so yes, we have entered we have
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entered Captain uh Castle Ravenloft on the invitation of Count Strod. We went
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to dinner, ate nothing just in case, and uh he threatened to kill us, you know,
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like like you do when you invite people to dinner, and uh completely vanished, leaving us in a dark dining room where
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we uh explored. I bravely killed a mannequin and got attacked by ghosts.
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And uh those two rescued me because I'm a halfling wizard and I'm very squishy.
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And now we sit at a stairway. We can go up or down. And Nir just flipped a coin
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to tell us which way we would go. Yep. And uh we ended the last episode uh
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going up. So our intrepid band of adventurers troops up the dusty gray
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stairs to find themselves confronted with a hallway that looks a lot like the last one you were in.
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Uh there are still more stairs. Uh there's a hallway out to the left. You can see another one of those uh archer
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turrets out to the far west. Uh much like the one where Sirill got ambushed by ghosts. Um and again more stairs up
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or down. Uh you remember seeing as you were riding up in the carriage that Castle Rivenloft has a few very tall
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spires. Uh let's go ahead and go with uh so Ner
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flipped a coin to end us off and set us up here. So uh Faren Chris, you're up first.
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Okay. Well, I think Fen is going to take the lead here. And it's going to head
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off down this hallway. Uh, if I can grab my character token. There we go. And
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it's going to stop right here. Um, at the edge of I guess this this crossroads
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here, looking into uh the the archer area here. Um, and it's gonna stop and
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just take a long moment to look and make sure that something's not gonna pop out of the floor. Okay. Um, go ahead and
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give me a um go ahead and give me a wisdom check on your way down the hallway. Also, yes, uh, don't forget to
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restart your light timer from last time we were playing. I did. I did. Uh, it looks like that's a
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12. Okay, that's fair enough. Uh, so as you're walking down this hallway, you're kind of looking for anything that might
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pop out and surprise you. Um, you get to you get to the end there and you peek
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around the corner and you may remember that on the first floor that was a uh kind of an archer area with uh you could
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say, you know, like arrow slits facing outside. Um, although the ones in the little square room were actually covered
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over with brick. Um, you don't notice anything there. You don't see any of the mirrors that the count used to cast his
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extremely practical illusion back when you were at dinner. But partway down the hallway, uh, something kind of catches
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your attention. And I'm going to just slide you back about here. Um, you notice that there's uh a curious like
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this whole hallway is set with like Greystone bricks. Um, but you notice an oddity in the pattern of the uh the
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bricks here as you pass them to the north. They they just look a little out of place.
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Um, uh, stopping before they get they
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they seem out of place. Uh, I'm going to take a moment to kind of check the walls
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right there. Okay. Uh, yeah. Go ahead and give me an intelligence check.
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Uh, an 11. All right. Um, yeah, you kind of feel around on the walls. Uh, you're not really sure what you're expecting,
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but you find a a little uh like a little mechanical catch uh situated into like
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set inset into the brick. It appears that you may have found a secret door into another room. Uh if you press it,
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you have a feeling you will open a door to the north. I pushed a button. You pushed a button. Okay. Uh so uh we
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will end your turn with that secret door uh groaning open and revealing uh an
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audience hall. Uh and with that, it is over to Liz.
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Faren finds all the secret doors. You really do, man.
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Man, why can't I find a secret door? I just find ghosts.
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I got to find the secret door to your heart. You just It's a secret door full of ghosts. What's wrong with that?
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H I want to peek my head inside and get attacked by ghosts.
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Do you actually I'm going to say I don't think you actually want to get attacked by ghosts, but Okay. But I do want to look around
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inside. I'm just preparing for the worst. Okay. Well, the worst would be worse than ghost. I I'd kind of like to see again,
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is this a wellused room? Is this an abandoned room? All right. Just what do I see sweeping my staff
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around that has the light spellcast on it? Okay. Uh so what you see is that this is
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a um you're guessing not a super wellused room. This is a uh this appears
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to be some kind of audience hall. Um there's um kind of so along the uh there
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there are what would have been uh fairly ornate windows along the wall except that a lot of them have been broken um
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and they're now just iron frames and rain coming in from outside. So this room is actually fairly windy come to
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think of it. Um the room itself is extremely dusty. Um there are cobwebs
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draping the corner. Uh there is a and directly in front of you on the southern end of the room there's a throne at top
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a raised platform. Oddly the throne is at the uh is facing the south. So when
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you open the secret door the throne is actually facing you. Um and on the opposite end of the room there are two
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downward staircases. This throne is quite ominous. It is a
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source of dark magic. Shoot it. to shoot shoot the throne. You
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going to cast magic missile on the throne? I'm thinking about it.
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Uh, up to you. You haven't taken an action yet this turn.
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It doesn't look threatening. It looks like a chair. Um, it's it's ornate. It's big. It's a
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dark It's a dark wooden It's like a dark wooden throne. Um, it doesn't look particularly threatening.
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Are you sure it doesn't look threatening? If you want to if you want to magic missile the chair, I'm not going to stop
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you. If you want to magic missile, if you want to attack the gazebo, I'm
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not going to stop you. All right, go ahead and give me a spellcasting roll. Uh, that's a 22.
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Okay, roll damage. 1d4. Give a four. It's going to be a
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four. Uh, there is now a a streak of magic
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bursts from your fingers and there is now a noticeable singe along along the back of Strod's nice chair.
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Uh, Ern looks over at Sorl and is like, "What do you have against inanimate objects?"
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Sorl is so jumpy. Uh, you you never know what can be possessed
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by dark magic. over to Ner.
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Nine is going to walk through the secret uh door frame and as he does he's going
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to with his free hand kind of like do the uh the night siring motion on Sorl's
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each of Sorl's shoulders equip I dubbed the Sorl Sparrow interior
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destroyer and before walking into the rest of the room. All right. It is a very important job. I am blessed
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to receive this title. Uh it's it's exactly as described. There's the the doors to the east, uh
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single door to the east, a double doors further to the northeast, two stairs down, broken windows in the northwest
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wall, and a singed throne on a platform right next to you. Chuckle as I walk past the uh nice chair
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over to the door. Okay. And just want to look since the rest of the room is raggedy. How's What shape is
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this door in? Uh this door is actually in fairly good
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shape. Um it's um you know it's not I mean it's a door. It's a nice door.
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Yeah, the the rest the the windows are the thing that probably look the most raggedy here. Like something clearly broke those windows, but um yeah, it's a
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it's a nice solid single door. Okay. Uh, keeping the card reading in
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mind, I'm just going to cautiously open this door. Okay.
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Uh, all right. So, you open the door. And you don't want What's I was going to say. You sure you
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don't want Sirill to blow it open with a magic missile? Only if there's another nice chair in
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here. Well, unfortunately, there's not a nice chair, but there is a nice desk inside
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this room. You see? Uh, so there's there's shelves is the first thing you
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notice about this room. Lots of shelves along the walls lined with scrolls and toms and scattered papers. Um, and in
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the center of all this of all this clutter is a giant desk with a ledger
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open on it. And there is a uh a a human man uh on a on a tall stool next to the
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desk uh with a he has kind of a uh he has a quill pen and he's scratching
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entries into the ledger. Um and there is a hole next to him uh in the ceiling
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from which there is a rope hanging down next to him. Uh so desk uh guy who looks
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like an accountant uh rope hanging from a hole in the ceiling. That's what you see. And it is Faren's turn.
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Yes. Uh so Faren's going to walk into the room around the throne the other
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way. Uh and on the other side of the throne, taking a look at kind of the north end of the room here.
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Um past where everybody else was. Just trying to to see I mean like obviously the broken window up there. It looks
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like there's another set of doors. If there's anything else that looks out of place. Uh, no. In fact, this room mostly just
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looks empty and unused. You get the feeling that if this is an audience chamber, Strod has not had an audience
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in a very long time. For as much as I would love to go and
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open that other set of double doors. Uh, no. Farah's going to go and um back Ner
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here. Um, and not not force his way past into the next room, but just kind of
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watching over Ner's shoulder to see what might happen next as that rope looks
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kind of ominous. Okay. Um, you will notice that. So, as you as a second
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figure appears at the doorway, the uh guy's kind of the the man at the desk kind of flickers his eyes up for a sec.
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He's He's noticed you, but he doesn't seem to really be reacting to your presence. Uh Liz, you're next.
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There's nothing suspicious about this chair. Chair,
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hit it again. You know those chair mimics.
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I do know those chair mimics. Hey, she hit it for four damage. If she was going to make it un chair mimic it.
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That would be it. It's Zombie Land rules. Double tap it. Double tap. Yep.
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The suspicious thing about this chair is I hit it with a magic missile for
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maximum damage and it's still here.
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It's a very sturdy chair. I'm eyeing this chair very suspiciously.
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I'm tempted to go up and look at the chair closer. I want to look at the chair closer. Uh,
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give me an intelligence check. That's an 11. Uh, you
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I I can't make those magic missile rolls every time. I was going to say, what is your what is your background, by the way?
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Uh, my background is actually ranger. God, I was I was I was really hoping it
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was carpenter. This is an important one to remember for anybody. Whenever you're making a role
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like this where you're not attacking, but you're like using what in other systems would be a skill or something, if your background is applicable, um you
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can have advantage on the role. So, uh that's that's why you all have a background on your sheet. Um but uh in
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this case uh in this case I don't think a ranger helps you but you do apply the
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the best of your halfling intellect and your wizardly knowledge and uh the fact that you're lower to the ground so it's
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easier for you to look under chairs. Um, you you inspect every every every angle,
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every every every nail, every board of this chair, and you are eventually satisfied that it is in fact just a
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really nice chair that you've shot a magic missile at.
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Ner, it's your turn. It's a suspiciously stout chair.
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She's going to steal his chair. I'm going to look at it.
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and just ask him, "Excuse me, sir. Are you just Yes.
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hanging out? I I am I'm keeping the master's books. Do Do you need something?"
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Yeah. Uh, we've got We're looking for something that your master may have for
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us. We he asked us to deliver it to him, but we seem to be, you know, unable to
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find where he's at or where or where he keeps any anything that he may want from
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other people. Do you think he could point us in the right direction? And he go ahead and give me a charisma
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check. Hey, that's a straight 14. Yeah. Uh, so he kind of looks up and he
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listens to your story about how you're supposed to be you're supposed to be delivering something to him from inside his own castle, I guess. Um, and he kind
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of snorts and he says, "Well, he certainly doesn't tell me where all he where he keeps all his treasures." And he taps the book in front of him. Just
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makes it makes it devilishly hard to keep his books if I don't know everything the master has. Uh, but but
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tell me what you're looking for and I'll if I know where it is, I can I can tell you where it is. uh his study. Uh the master I thought
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you were looking for a thing, not a place. You're looking for the master's study. Uh very well. Uh and he kind of
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he says, "What what exactly are you retrieving for the master in his own study?" That's he just kind of shakes
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his head and he says, "Give me just a second." Uh you notice as you're talking
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to him that he uh he's not like he's he he appears to uh he appears to be
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chained to the desk. Um and now you're going to have to give me just a second. And sorry Joe if
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you're going to have to cut this because I have to remember where his study is. Uh okay. he kind of uh points uh so I
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guess he doesn't know that you came in the secret door and he probably can't see it from that angle. Um so he'll give
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you the directions he'll give you are that the uh the master study lies uh I
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believe it's one floor up. Is it one floor up or is it on this floor? Uh yes.
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He says the master's study is one floor up directly in the center of the castle.
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Uh if you take any of the staircases up, you'll find your way there eventually.
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Um it's uh fairly hard to enter unless you are coming from the uh the most
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central staircase in Castle Ravenloft. However, uh rumor has it there's a secret way in or out, but uh I I'm
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obviously not privy to that myself, he says, and kind of jangles his chains.
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Uh one last question. Is he working in the dark? Uh, go ahead and roll me a wisdom check.
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14. So, you noticed, uh, I wondered if anyone would pick up on that. You noticed when you came in that he was
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just steadily, uh, scratching away at the ledger, writing entry after entry after entry. Uh, his quill is completely
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dry. So, sort of.
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Can I I just want to like move my to torch closer. just get a good look at
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him. Okay. Uh yeah, he is a uh he kind of
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shrinks back from the light at first. He's not like uh retreating like you would expect maybe like a vampire would.
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It's like, you know, when you step out into a bright light. Um he looks like he may at one time have been a nicely
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dressed uh man. His clothes have gotten shabby over time. Um, he looks a little
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uh malnourished um and otherwise looks like a perfectly ordinary accountant. He
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says, "What? You get that thing out of my face? You're going to light one of the papers on fire. Do you need
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something else from me?" How long have you been here? I um I've he kind of looks around and he
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flip flip flip flip flip flip flip flip. He like starts rapidly paging back in the ledger. He looks up at you and he
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says, "I don't know anymore. If you don't need anything, I'd ask you to leave, please." Uh, we'll cut over to
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Faren then. Yeah. Faren, watching this from the uh doorway. Uh, takes a takes a moment to
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look around the rest of the the room that he's in. Um just to see like I mean
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I'm looking at the map so you you you fill me in on what's in the south of the room there. Uh Phil
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uh more uh since so there's more uh more stacks of uh toms and ledgers and
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um more writing equipment uh for the accountant particularly. You do notice there are ink wells that aren't dry in
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the room. Um, and yeah, it's the the the room itself, even the south end is just
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kind of like lined with uh books and shelves and papers and it's kind of a
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mess. Like he he hasn't done a lot of uh good work
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tidying uh his office very much in the last however long he's been here.
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Okay. um with with that um and seeing that it doesn't look like the the
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doesn't look like this accountant is going to be any threat being chained down and what have you. Um Faren
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actually does back up and start going up towards that set of double doors. Okay. Um but one thing he's noticing as he's
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walking is the glow on his sword is starting to dim. Yep. Uh for listeners playing at home,
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we are playing uh Shadow Dark today, not traditional D and D 5e. And uh it is played in real time. If that light goes
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out, our uh players will be left in the dark until they can create a new one. Uh and things get very dangerous in the
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dark. I I guess I should probably end my turn with um casting light on my sword again.
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Uh yeah, go ahead and give me a spellcasting roll. Uh 14. Totally hits.
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Successful. Uh, go ahead and reset your uh your your torch timer.
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Uh, Liz, you're up next. I will do the same as Fen just did and
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recast Light, noticing him do it and looking at my own staff and seeing, "Oh, yeah, it's that time."
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Sure. Go ahead and give me a spellcasting roll for you, too. I rolled a 10.
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Uh, 10, unfortunately, is not good enough. the light on your staff uh gutters out
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completely when you attempt to refresh it and you find that you can no longer cast the light spell until you have had
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a long rest. Sirill is good at magic missile.
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Uh would you like magic in this place is powerful. Would you like to do anything else with your turn?
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Um I do have a lantern and some oil. I would like to light my lantern instead.
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Okay, if I can do that. Yeah, that's you can you can do that without any special checks or anything since there is still
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since there's still light in the room. You only really need to make skill checks to light uh lanterns and torches
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and ordinary things like that. If there's no light, like you're fumbling around trying to do it in the dark. So, with uh Faren still in the room with his
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lit up sword, yes, you can light your lantern. Uh
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uh Nick, you're next. all those all those years in wizard school and for
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what? Uh so as my I'm going to back away from
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just the accountant and just slowly close the door. Okay.
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Um and noticing my own torch starting to go out, I'm going to take out my secondary torch
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and light it so I have another source light source as well. Okay.
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And I'm going to look at the destroyed chair as I or the the semi-destroyed
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chair. Notice that this is my last torch. And I'm going to turn to Sorl and
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ask her if she can make me another torch out of this chair.
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Are you allowed to cast? She's a ranger. Are you Oh, that is true. I I do have the ranger background. Could I like
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break off a chunk of the chair on my next turn as a torch? You can give it a shot. Yeah.
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Uh, I can try. This is a very sturdy chair, though. I mean, just look at it.
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Exquisite construction. Well, we've gotten the better of it once. So, while Sirland and are discussing the
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virtues of this chair, Faren, what's up with you? Uh, so, so Faren looks back at the other
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two and then, um, comes up here and pushes this door open.
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All righty. Uh, uh you find yourself met with a hallway
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with another pair of double doors immediately across it. Uh it's kind of a 10-ft wide corridor. Um there are uh
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there's al coes to the north and south where uh it's incredibly dark, but you can kind of float your light over there
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and see it. Um and just at the very back, kind of at the edge of your site,
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you can actually see what look what appear to be humanoid figures. Uh, one to the north, one to the south. Uh, they
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do not they do not react to you looking into the room. Fen slowly closes the door.
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Okay. Fen nopes out of the room. Uh, okay. Uh,
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are you going to do anything else or are you good? Uh, he turns to the other two. Another
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hallway. Something here. All right. Uh, Liz,
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I'm going to try to break like maybe a leg off this chair and make a torch with
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whatever I might have on me. Okay. Uh, that's fine. So, give me a uh strength check with advantage for your
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ranger background. Oh, no. Strength check. Yeah. Unfortunately, that seems to be
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the best stat for breaking stuff, dear. But advantage, that's an 11. Uh
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yeah, I think poor Strod's chair. Um I think you I think you I think you
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managed to like pry a slat loose from underneath it. Um it has like it's one
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of those ones that got like a padded seat, but there's like wooden, you know, wooden planks underneath that support it. Um and obviously they're not as like
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wellmade as the top since they're never meant to be seen, but you kind of clamber under there with your halfling
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dexterity and like wrench a plank loose. Um, and you come back out with this piece of uh, importantly since Nadir
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wants to make a torch out of it, untreated wood, um, that you can proudly present him with
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and maybe I like wrap a piece of the cushion around it and it's like
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definitely a totally serviceable torch. Maybe that's true. Okay. Yep. Ner, you
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definitely have a backup torch again. Yeah, many thanks destroyer.
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I I don't like the sound of that. Definitely. But okay. Did Phil, did you
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expect today going in here to have this much conversation about a chair? I did not. Uh I did not expect the empty
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chair to be the topic of conversation here. I need light.
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Look, y'all y'all got to do what you want to do to survive. Uh Liz, where do you want to where do you want to go?
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I I will look up to uh Fred and ask, is it not safe in there?
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Hard to say. closed door before I could find out.
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Perhaps we should go back the other way. The other stairway. Yeah, keep go. We could keep going up.
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Were there no stairs there, Faren? Uh, just another door. Oh, why am I shocked?
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Only another door. That's definitely it. Another doorway in my castle. It's more likely than you'd think.
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Uh, well, since Sir, do you want to come and blow the other door open with a magic missile?
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That sounds like an amazing idea. Though, you know, one of these times I'm going to roll terribly on magic missile
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and then never be able to cast magic missile again. It's going to be very sad when you lose magic missile.
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It is going to be very sad. Okay. Are you opening this door for me
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to cast it on the next door? Is that what's happening? That that would be what's happening.
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Okay. All right. Last magic missile. Okay. Spell casting roll with advantage.
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And now we know why Strod is like, I'm going to kill you guys in my castle because you just got around breaking his
28:23
stuff. I imagine that you've been walk you've basically been going around Bovia for the past two weeks with this exact same
28:29
attitude. What' you get? What' you get? I rolled a
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one on, but also a 20. Nice. Okay. Uh that uh so since you have
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advantage, the 20 wins out and this is a uh you you hit um
28:48
that's I mean that's going to be a 23. So hopefully the door isn't trying to dodge.
28:54
Uh no, the door is not going to be uh getting out of the way at all. Um,
29:01
so you uh I also want to uh say this thing with the chair has entertained me so much. Sir, take a luck token at any
29:09
point. At any time you may cash in your luck token to roll any roll you just made or you can give it to a companion.
29:16
Uh anyway, the attack the magic missile automatically hits. Um and uh roll your
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damage. Guys, you are not going to believe what I just rolled. A four.
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It's a four. Uh, well, in this case, it's actually an eight because you crit the door. Um, with that
29:37
natural 20, I'm going to say that is good enough that you cast this magic missile, it hits the doororknob, and
29:43
just swings the doors open. Um, and beyond is another wide hallway.
29:50
However, this one, unlike the boring ones you've been seeing so far, uh is uh
29:55
decorated. That is a 20 foot wide hall, has a dark vaulted ceiling. Um and from
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within the hallway, you can you think you kind of see shadows dancing very very distantly, and you can hear a low
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moan like someone [Music] up and down the length of the corridor.
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Uh, worth noting that this is a very Oh, go ahead. Very unpleasant sound. That's it. A
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little a little concerning. However, it doesn't seem to be coming from the humanoid figures that Faren saw
30:28
to the north and south in this little narrow hallway. Um, in fact, they don't seem to have reacted to the magic missile in any way. Uh, Ner, you're up
30:36
next. Sorry, I was talking the whole time without my mic pressed. Uh, jeez, I'm
30:41
sorry. I'm gonna step into the hall and shine my light to the north and the south before I go into the moaning
30:46
hallway. Okay. Uh so this appears to have been a guard post at some point. And the
30:52
figures uh that Faren saw uh each of them is a skeleton that is held up by a
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spear that is stuck through it into the wall behind it. Jeez.
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I'm just going to grimace as I walk by. Uh, and then I'm going to step into this
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next hallway. Okay. Uh, yeah. So, you step into the,
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uh, the creepy hallway. Um, as mentioned, it is, uh, I said 20 foot wide. It's a bit long. Uh, you the whole
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time you're in here, that moaning sound is even louder. And, uh, now the, now that you've
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stepped in, the shadows appear to be, uh, flickering even harder. Um, it's uh,
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yeah, it's kind of a creepy experience all in all. Is there anything you want to do while you're in here?
31:45
Uh, what's immediately like to my left and right? Anything? Um, nothing. This is uh I I was reading
31:53
the wrong room description. Sorry when I said this is decorated all way. This is fancy fancy architecture, but not
32:00
decorated. It's uh just a vated ceiling. I came in here because I wanted to potentially
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steal decorations. Uh, no, I don't have anything else I want to do. Okay. Uh, in that case, uh, Chris,
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uh, so Faren is going to cautiously cross the hallway. Okay.
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Even though he knows the skeletons are there now pinned to the wall, he still doesn't trust that in this castle. Um,
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but as he comes up behind Na, he reaches out and touches Na's shoulder and in the
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process cast bless. Okay, give me a spellcasting roll. Uh, that's a 24. That
32:37
is successful. Uh, bless that, uh, one creature you touch gains a luck token.
32:44
So, congrats, uh, Nick. You now also have a luck token. You can cash it in in the future to roll a, uh, a dice roll or
32:52
give it to a companion. Uh, all right. And last, but not least,
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Sorl, is there any other furniture you would like to threaten on your way into this hallway?
33:03
I feel like I've thoroughly threatened the furniture in this area.
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And also, uh, after the ghost encounter last time, it feels best to stay with my
33:14
companions just in case. Okay. Uh, I will step into the hallway. Um, after noticing Fyron having found this
33:22
secret door, I would like to just check the walls on either side. Is there anything suspicious or any other
33:29
All right. Yeah. Go ahead and give me a uh go ahead and give me um an intelligence check to investigate this
33:34
hallway. That's a 20. Oh, that is not a natural 20.
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Oh, dirty 20. All right, that's plenty. Dirty 20. Yeah, about halfway down the hall. So,
33:46
two things happen. One, um you eventually figure out that the moaning sound is uh there are small cracks in
33:52
the ceiling and the walls, and the moaning sound is the wind uh howling by outside. The flickering shadows are your
33:58
own torches and lights. Uh, you're getting a little jumpy here, but you do find uh a thing. You find a
34:06
secret door to the south. Uh, you find a a suspiciously little
34:13
room. Uh, you peek in the door. It uh the first thing you smell even before you open the door, like you kind of you
34:19
kind of find this secret doorway and you find a little mechanism that opens and you kind of push it in. Um, and you
34:25
immediately smell like grease and welloiled wood and like other things you would associate with machinery.
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Uh, are you are you going inside or looking inside? I'm definitely looking inside. Okay.
34:37
I'd like to know what's there before deciding whether to go inside? Sure. Yes. Um, okay.
34:43
Whether it's whether it's anything I could cast magic miss. Uh, plenty honestly. Um, so it's a So as
34:50
you poke your head and you the that smell of grease and oil and wood uh just gets stronger and you look inside and
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the entire room is filled with very intricate machinery. Um, there are uh
35:03
gears and pulleys everywhere and little passages so you can like move around in here safely. Um, and then at the south
35:10
end of the room is honestly just a a shaft that continues both up and down.
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Um, you can't tell how far up or down it goes just looking from here. Um, yeah,
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but there is uh you a room full of machinery and a dark shaft uh at the
35:31
other end of the room. Uh, it's an elevator maybe. Uh, Ner, you're up next.
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Yeah, I I do want to look back at the others and say I do either of you know
35:44
anything about machinery. It's not really my area. No, I'm a humble jeweler
35:49
by day. Okay, Ner, humble jeweler, you're next. Um, so I think that I'll go into this
35:58
room. Okay. I want to see what what else. Is there anything else that I can roll to
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observe or is it just straight going up or down? Uh so you can if you're going all the
36:09
way into the room, you can look and you can see that the stone uh that the shaft just goes uh up as far it goes. It seems
36:16
to go up and it also goes about you'd guess probably 90 ft down. Um uh and
36:22
then just the mechanism in this room if you wanted to try to figure out how that works.
36:28
You know what? Yeah, I'll try and figure out how it works. Okay, in this case, it's actually just going to be a flat D100 roll. Can you
36:33
make a make that roll for me? Okay, that is going to be so clarify
36:39
before I'll roll the d00 and then a d10 to or any number in between. Uh, yes,
36:44
the zeros essentially. Yes. 49. Okay. Um, try as you might, you really
36:51
cannot figure out what this thing is supposed to do. like you you get the feeling it's going to lift something, but you can't exactly figure out how it
36:58
works. Um you you're just a humble jeweler by day. I am just a humble jeweler by day. Uh
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I'm going to get frustrated and fed up with it and walk back into the hallway towards the other doors.
37:10
Okay, sounds good for me. Uh pausing here. Chris, you back?
37:16
I am now. All righty. You are you're you're up next. Uh your your compatriots have uh
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poked around this room full of machinery. Farah doesn't seem to know what to do with it. Uh and has huffed back out into the hallway.
37:30
Oh boy. Um so have we explored the the like northern side of the room? I see
37:36
that that that there's machinery in the southern side. Uh yeah. So yes, they're all kind of covered uh most of this area trying to
37:43
find like secret doors and things and this was the only thing that's that jumped out at at them.
37:49
Okay. Um, then it's across the room we go to the other double doors. And in
37:56
typical Fen fashion, he just throws them open. And fair's like, I ain't bothering with a sheetery.
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Okay. Uh, so you will find uh an interestingly shaped little room here.
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Let me see what this is. Oh god, I see furniture. Get Sorl. Uh
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28. Okay. Uh so you have entered. So you
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throw open the door uh to a long balcony. Uh the balcony is overlooking a
38:31
room below that appears to be strewn with rubble. And in the middle of the balcony are two large ornate thrones
38:38
facing away from the uh double doors you just busted through. Uh,
38:44
well that's not suspicious at all. Not at all. Not in the least. What are you talking about?
38:50
Um, so I guess Faren will continue just brushing inside up to the back of those
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two thrones to take a look at them. Uh, give me a wisdom check. I ain't got no wisdom. Come on then.
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Aren't you the priest? The priest that was formerly a barbarian. Yes.
39:08
Yeah. Uh, let's see. Oh, that's not a great one. Uh, that's a wisdom of five. Okay.
39:16
Uh, yeah, you don't really notice anything other than these two chairs look really nice. Uh, actually, I guess
39:23
I should reveal the room below because you can see that as you start moving in here. Um, as mentioned, there is it the
39:29
balcony kind of overlooks a lower area with uh strewn with rubble. Um, but more
39:36
importantly, as you uh walk around the chairs, um, you realize that the chairs
39:41
are occupied. Um, from behind you, you hear a uh, no, you can you can go ahead and move in front of them. They won't do
39:47
anything until you're in front of them. Um, you hear a groaning sound and you turn around to realize that the chairs
39:54
are occupied um, by two um, fairly robust looking zombies um, who stand up
40:01
as you walk around onto the balcony. Um, I guess you haven't really taken an
40:07
action yet. Do you want to do anything? Uh, yeah. Uh, turning around. Oh.
40:16
Uh. Oh. Oh. He says this is awkward. Uh, and then he pulls
40:23
out his his holy symbol and cast turn undead. Okay. Uh, let me see it. Oh my god,
40:29
these are so Don't don't don't fail me now. Come on. Spell casting roll. uh 17.
40:35
Okay, so you cast that successfully and I now have to make charisma checks for each of them. Uh if they get a seven or
40:41
less, they are just immediately destroyed. These two zombies have the most RZ.
40:47
Unfortunately, they have a RZ of -3. Uh that one rolled a six
40:56
and that one rolled a 10. Uh, so one of them is immediately disintegrated in a
41:01
blast of holy light and the other one on its turn will have to spend its turn fleeing from you. Uh, with that it's
41:08
over to Surl. Well, hearing the commotion,
41:14
yeah, you uh you hear you hear uh you hear Faren go, "Oh." And you turn around to see him brandishing his holy symbol,
41:20
and you see that familiar flash of light again as an undead creature is just immediately dusted.
41:27
Wow, with nice chairs, huh? This place is full of nice chairs.
41:32
Liz, I almost spit water on my mic.
41:38
So, we still have one zombie to deal with. Yeah, it's uh it it's shielded from you
41:44
from this side by the very nice chair. Um, is is this like Dn D where I have
41:51
disadvantage on spellcast within melee range? Uh, nope. You can get right up on
41:58
it if you want to. I Well, I figure it's on the other side of the chair, so I kind of have to get
42:04
right up on it to see it. Yeah. Or I mean, if you like go to the north, you could a little bit you could see it around like the edge of the
42:10
chair, but So, like Nope. I'm just This is what I'm doing. Okay, let's let's do it. I assume you're
42:16
casting magic missile. I cast magic missile. Who's ready for one damage? Let's go. Just you can just assume that whenever I
42:24
say that I'm like raising my arms excitedly because I am.
42:29
Uh I rolled two natural 20s.
42:36
Okay. Uh yeah, go ahead and roll damage and then double whatever you get. That is a crit
42:43
in any in any on the dice. Oh my god, guys. She crits something that's not a chair. Um,
42:51
you blast the heck out of this zombie. Um, however, here's the weird part.
42:56
You're used to zombies kind of uh falling over. You've shot zombies at magic missile before.
43:02
I mentioned to fair that these zombies look a little more robust. And yeah, this zombie does look a lot healthier.
43:07
You magic missile it, but it's still up and kicking. Uh, how and now it kind of looks over
43:15
the arm of the chair at you.
43:20
That was supposed to work. That looked like it worked. It did work. Did anyone else It looked like it
43:25
worked, right? I'm just like looking at looking over at Farah.
43:31
Then Sorl, it's not a chair. Videir, you're next.
43:39
Uh, I'm just going to run in and take my sword out and just swing for whatever's
43:46
left of this thing. Okay. Uh, yeah, go ahead and take a swing at it.
43:53
Oh, that is a two with a minus one for one.
43:58
I still have a luck token. Oh, yeah. Don't forget that luck token you just got. Yeah, but I got to I What if it's the
44:04
difference between life and death? I got to save it. Okay. Well, uh, if you're saving it, I regret to inform you that the zombies do
44:11
not have an AC of one. And your sword thunks uselessly into the back of the chair.
44:18
With that, it is the zombies turn. And as much as he would like to stay and uh,
44:24
threaten Surl, unfortunately, he is compelled by the power of MadiRaa to
44:30
flee from uh, to flee from Faren. And so he kind of like awkwardly scrambles
44:36
around the chair and then starts running down the hallway that you all just came up. Uh fair, it's your turn again.
44:43
Uh Phil, I take it there's no attacks of opportunity in this one. Huh. No, there's not.
44:48
That's fine. I like the magic system in this better. I'll give up attacks of opportunity for that. For magic. That's fair. Yeah. Uh go
44:56
ahead. Uh Faren uh is like, "No, you don't."
45:02
and chases after with that long sword, which is a magic long sword, I should
45:09
add. Uh, which he's going to swing into the back of the zombie hopefully.
45:14
All right, give me an attack roll. Uh, two. It's a It's a D20.
45:21
It'll be a d20 plus your strength modifier plus the plus the magic bonus of
45:26
whatever the long sword has. Yeah, so the long sword has plus two. I have to do math here for a second. Hang
45:32
on. I have plus two to my attack rolls from being a level five priest and plus two
45:38
on my long sword and a minus one to my strength. So, it'll be a roll plus
45:44
three. Okay. Uh 19 19 hits. Uh go ahead and roll damage for me.
45:49
D8 + one. Uh that's nine.
45:54
Uh it had exactly nine hit points left after uh being blasted with magic missile. Uh, you chase it down and you
46:01
sink your sword into the back of this fleeing zombie who keeps like looking over his shoulder as you get closer and
46:06
he's trying to shamble away and you just cleave him cleanly in half with your magic long sword and and just kind of
46:14
falls to the ground in the hallway. It's the halls of reflection thing where like you're just constantly running away
46:20
looking over your shoulder at Arthus who's just slowly following behind you. Yep. Except in this case, it's a priest
46:26
of one of the gods of law. And yeah, you uh you cut this zombie down. There you
46:33
go. So, now that the immediate threat is over, you all kind of have a chance to look at your take in your surroundings a
46:38
little more closely. Uh, as mentioned, this uh room has two uh two thrones that
46:45
are kind of overlooking a vast like rubble strewn room. Uh the thrones were facing away from the doors, which uh is
46:51
how the zombies did not immediately spot you. Um this appears like at one time it
46:57
may have been a like a place of worship. Um but not so much anymore. The altar
47:06
doesn't appear to be consecrated to anyone or anything. And uh what's down
47:11
there below mostly appears to be wreckage and unused building materials. Uh Surl, you're up next. What would you
47:18
like to do? Uh, so we're on like a second floor. Yeah, you're you're on like a it's like
47:25
a long north south balcony overlooking this room below. Uhhuh. And how high up are we?
47:32
Uh, that is a good question. Um, I wouldn't suggest jumping is how I would
47:39
put it. Um, I don't have an I don't have an exact height. It's not as far down as the first floor. It's just kind of a
47:47
lower area. Um it's it's still Yeah. a second floor. Probably like a good 20 feet. It's
47:52
almost like a half floor. It's weird. Yeah. Um the the zombie corpse that's
47:58
sitting here, I would like to look at it. Okay. And just is there anything anything that
48:04
might identify the person this might have once been? Is this
48:10
uh doesn't have any identifying stuff? Uh let's find out. or you know any
48:16
awesome magic items that might help us defeat a creature of great evil.
48:22
No, that's fair. Yeah, I mean it's it's good to look for uh it's good to look for treasure. Uh yeah, let's let's say
48:29
he's got something in his pocket. Let's find out what it is. Um
48:34
sorry, I need the level of the zombie that you just killed here. Uh I'm and then I'm going to let you roll for what you get cuz that's always
48:41
fun. Oh boy. Um, okay. The zombie was level two, so go ahead and make me a d00 roll.
48:50
Uh, that is a that's a 69. Nice. Um, so so I guess so so I guess
48:58
based on where you're standing, you're actually looking for like what the one that Faren Dusted left sitting behind in
49:03
his chair. Yeah. Um, and what you find, and this is an
49:08
interesting treasure for a zombie to have had, um, lean. So, sitting in the chair and then also leaning against the
49:14
front of the chair is a matched trio of Warhammers.
49:20
Uh, the heads are silver and other than that, they are
49:25
Warhammers. Okay, I that's a little I did not expect that.
49:31
Surprise. Warhammers. I don't know that I could carry three Warhammers, so I may
49:36
just be if anyone here wants a Warhammer. This
49:41
zombie had three of them in its possession.
49:47
I think maybe like one is between the thrones. Maybe it was like their shared Warhammer. Maybe this maybe maybe that's
49:52
what it is. Maybe it makes a little more sense that way. A collection of Warhammers. There was once a third zombie here. I'm Sparrow is
49:59
here piecing together this story in her head. A trio of zombies. A family of
50:04
zombies once inhabited this place. Okay, so while s So while Sirill is
50:11
mulling over the Warhammers, Nineer, it's your turn.
50:16
So looking over this, um, it's just rubble and Ner's going to just look at
50:24
Sorl and Faren and say, should we keep finding like find another way up? I don't know if we want to go
50:31
down there. Yeah, it's worth noting that everywhere you can see from the balcony goes down. Like looking down at the uh the area
50:38
below, you don't see like any stairs or anything. And the set of stairs on this balcony goes down.
50:44
Yeah. Uh it is curious to find a place of worship in this dark place. Even
50:52
wrecked as it is, why would why would anyone have H? Well, it makes you think, what is he
50:58
worshiping? Hm. Is it worth it to find out?
51:03
And uh Sarah's still looking at the chairs or what were the people who lived
51:09
here before worshiping this. I have a reason to look at these chairs and the
51:14
former zombies that inhabited them. I actually have a reasonable thought. I am not just obsessing over chairs.
51:22
Listener, I'll leave that up to you to judge. Uh anything else you want to do? Nine.
51:28
Uh just going to float the group to the question. Do we want to go down and see what's going what's down here or do we
51:35
want to go back to the hallway and go back or continue onwards up? I will follow the will of the group. I
51:41
will follow the threads of fate. Uh okay.
51:48
I guess sorry. Go ahead. Oh, I was going to say because it's going to be my turn next. Am I making the decision for the group like you did
51:55
last time? It kind of sounds like it. Well, I flipped a coin. Well, that's not how Faren works.
52:05
All right. Uh, how does Faren work, Faren, since it's your turn? Well, Faren at the the zombie at his
52:11
feet again, as he's done multiple times now, he kind of kicks it with his foot,
52:16
looks back at the other two, and steps back into the hallway, looking up and down,
52:22
and says, "Uh, we should take the steps down. Look around. We don't want to be
52:27
here. If he shows up here, not a good place to fight. It would have grave
52:33
consequences. Yeah, Faren brings up a good point. Remember that the uh the count is uh the
52:39
count has told you that he will return uh for you wherever you are. And you you just have a feeling in the back of your
52:45
head that he can probably find you wherever you are in his castle. So, I think with
52:51
Yeah, that's uh Faren will lead the group down. He'll be the first through the door. Okay. Uh, in that case, we
52:59
will have to bring you down to a different map. Uh, as you go down the
53:04
stairs, maps the true enemy. Changing maps.
53:10
Maps and doors. Maps and doors. And apparently apparently furniture. Um, okay. So,
53:18
switching maps. Uh, Chrome users, you may have to refresh. I will move your tokens to where they
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are now after making it visible.
53:29
Yep. I have kidnapped your tokens and moved them to the northeast aways.
53:36
As you come down a uh a set of a a set of double stairs,
53:42
uh let me see what these are. 16. Okay. 28. Okay. All right. So, uh you find a
53:49
uh I said you can you find a set of Oh, wait. I can actually reveal this too cuz you guys have seen this.
53:56
Uh you've seen out in this area. Um yeah, so you you've found a set of
54:02
stairs that kind of winds back on itself. Um there's a pair of uh al coes.
54:07
Um and then you can see uh out there what you presume is the rest of that uh
54:12
chapelike area that you could see from the balcony. Um, peeking around the
54:17
corner, you can see a pair of al coes north and south at the bottom of the stairs. Uh, which have inside them a
54:24
pair of uh 8 foot tall uh shadowy figures. Uh, stone statues uh very
54:33
muscular um very like almost like just like Greek Grecian style like statues
54:41
just standing in aloves uh watching this hallway. Uh with that it is over to uh
54:46
see fair made a decision. So surreal statues look very suspicious.
54:53
These statues are toast.
54:58
Do I recognize these statues as uh of a particular deity or associated with a
55:05
deity? Uh go ahead and give me an intelligence chart.
55:10
Okay, that's just an 11. Um, nothing really stands out. Um, you
55:16
think maybe you've seen like uh maybe like at one you think maybe you've seen mentions of like local deities uh here
55:23
in Bovia. Um the the style is older, but then what's outside the castle and obviously
55:29
more ornate, but you think maybe you've seen something like them out in the country. So maybe like icons of like a
55:34
local god. Hm. Uh, I will continue past them into
55:40
the room. Okay. So, boldly striding through. Boldly striding through.
55:47
Not going to get attacked. That's fine. Uh, so you enter uh the uh
55:53
what appears to be an ancient chapel. Um, again, thinking over your knowledge of older religions as you enter here,
56:00
you uh enter the ancient chapel of Castle Ravenloft. Um you can see from down here that a lot of the stuff that
56:06
is jumbled on the floor is uh you know old pews and benches uh either covered
56:12
in centuries of dust or falling apart from disrepair. Um but interestingly there's an the angle I guess you think
56:19
to yourself now that you're down here. Um or maybe something else since it is still storming outside. You can see
56:25
through the stained glass windows, but there's still a single piercing shaft of light um that falls from you're not
56:34
really sure where it's falling from, but it falls directly on a small statue uh
56:40
laying on the altar. Um other than that, this room seems that nothing has disturbed it in centuries.
56:47
Madiraa, guide me on my quest for justice and law. But I'm I That's my turn.
56:53
Okay. Uh, Na. Okay, so Na's followed Sorl this entire
57:01
time. Okay. Uh, and well, we know what happens when they
57:08
uh frolic off by themselves. Yep. Ghosts mostly. Ghosts mostly. Um, I I want to get
57:17
closer to this center al cove and just try and make heads or tails of what's
57:23
there or if there's anything uh that catches my eye. Okay. Show me where you're going. Sorry.
57:30
All righty. So, you're going to So, that's the altar that has the little uh little statue on it that uh Sir notice
57:37
from a distance. Even from here, you can see this the light uh falling on it. Up close, you also notice that there are
57:43
what appear to be the remains of a uh humanoid figure. Um you can guess, you'd
57:49
kind of have to just deduce that though from the clothes that it was wearing. Um cuz it appears that this black black
57:55
clad humanoid figure in these ominous deep black robes. Um attempted to touch
58:01
the thing on the altar and was blasted to ash. It's just a pile of ash uh with
58:06
black robes, but you can see like the ash almost forms like the outline of hands trying to grasp uh the thing that
58:12
the light is falling on on this altar. H also there is a uh a mace on the ground.
58:20
Huh. Okay. Um can I try and make a roll to see where team might have gotten
58:29
blast this person might have gotten blasted from? Uh yeah, give me a looking
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at what's in front of you. Give me an intelligence check. Okay, that is going to be an 11.
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Uh yeah, it doesn't take much common sense to figure out that he was attempting to pick up this figure off
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the altar and whatever it was destroyed him. Oh, no, but like where it was coming
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from, like where he got blown from. Like is it do I notice are there any obvious
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like gargo heads on the wall for example that potentially could shoot back? No, no, no. The thing the thing on
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the altar was what blasted him into ash. Oh, it was the thing itself. Got it. Yeah.
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He touched You can guess. You can put together a little story. He touched it. It rejected him and he was destroyed.
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Mood big mood. Is it maybe since we're in a we're in a
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place of worship, one who has led warship in the past would be better off
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handling this. How convenient since it's his turn next. Indeed. Uh Faren, you're up next.
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So Faren uh comes through the middle of this al cove here and side eyeing both
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of the statues. You can't trust anything in this damn castle. uh
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then yeah makes his way over to the altar and uh takes a look at it and
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looking at the looking at the altar
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um as a priest what is it that I see
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okay uh remind me what your alignment is lawful okay yeah I think you're attuned
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enough to kind of the cosmic uh the cosmic uh laws of like law and chaos that you can kind of feel the law
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exuding uh like the power of law and good exuding from whatever this little statue is. Um and it occurs to you that
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maybe part of the reason as you're standing here and maybe Na pieces this together too, but the uh the ashes of
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the evil clerics still exactly where they lay when he died that this room gives like a weird sensation that like
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nothing has disturbed it and also that nothing in this castle is capable of disturbing it. Um, but yeah, this this
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altar, this this icon, which is just kind of a vaguely humanoid shape,
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although with uh wings on its back, is carved of purest silver and is exuding
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what you can feel as a sense of powerful uh law and good.
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Okay. Uh then the first thing Faren does is pick up the mace.
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Okay. You now have a silverheaded mace. Uh, we'll say it's a plus one mace.
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Okay. Uh, and then Faren looks over at Ner, takes a deep breath, and reaches
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out for the statue. Okay. And you confirm to me that your alignment is law. Correct.
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That is correct. Okay, good choice. Uh, yes. You pick it up and you holding your breath and it
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you you have a statue. You have in fact picked up the icon of Raven Loft. Uh it
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is a holy artifact of tremendous lawful good power. Uh it will give you an
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additional plus4 on your rolls to turn undead. And once per day it can heal
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somebody for 3d6 plus three uh healing.
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And when you pick that up, um, you like
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the whole room kind of seems to brighten, but other than that, you know, nobody gets nobody gets destroyed. And
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so you let out that breath and you're holding your holy icon. And that is where we're going to end episode two.
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