Strahd 12: Trust Fall

In a. Land plucked from time and space, surrounded by a fog that let's not escape. Be wary every adventure for the dangers hidden in every corner. To the castle you must go to throw an ancient evil on your own. But cautiously. He knows you're coming. He smells the flesh blood you're carrying. Trust no one in this land of twilight, and you might survive to see true sunlight against all odds. If you prevail. Heroes true, they will sing of you to end your tale. But if you fall heavily, your soul is now trapped.

High atop a mountain peak sits Rainbow Loft Key. It's grand old doors open with you. An invitation so tarry not. There should be no delay. The Master awaits you this day. Welcome laws, ladies, nobles and thirst. Prepare your spirits to be mad as we enter the curse of. Stride again thing in 3/2. Welcome everyone to another. So professional, sorry. Until until you, until you're interrupted, Yes, thanks for that. If I'd have done that, it'd hit me. Welcome everyone. Cut fucking rage. Welcome everyone to Is that A6 or 9A DND podcast made by I think we.

Should start that again. I'm sorry DNS, they're just talking. Oh, yeah, sorry. OK, fun. OK, he's right. Right? Sorry. Let's try again. Ready 3? Nope, let's do 3/2. Welcome everyone to is that a six or nine, you absolute fucking belt? Sorry, someone's going to kill someone.

Give Will half a chance. He's done it once before. He can do it again. It's not will. You've got to worry about this. Your wife.

Right. Oh yes. So hey, welcome all to Is that a six or nine D&D podcast? I was going to be nice and say that we were no longer idiots, but no, we're still pretty idiotic. I know I am. Our premise is to be idiots, so if we were no longer idiots it would be a problem. We could fake it. You are wholeheartedly, my friend, an idiot. No, you are a Gumba. What? Do you mean? He means you're an idiot. I know I am. It's the only setting where we're allowed to be idiots. Embrace it. I. Don't want to be an idiot.

Get out, hate. Fine. Hate to break it to you only.

Idiots into this household. What? That's your household he's talking about. We're in your. Kitchen. Yeah, it's a roof. Yeah, I dare you.

Kick your ass, I ain't that done. Yeah. Exactly. So yeah, it's been a week. How are we all doing? Yeah, yeah, reasonable, isn't it? Been a reasonable week I think. I'm fine. Everyone's just struggling and looking blunt so. I was fine and then I got called flubber. You called yourself. Flubber, I didn't. You did. No, I didn't. I swear to God, we were sat here and you said he. Called me. Flubber. No, no, he said. I don't mean Flubber. You said I didn't say Flubber, you said I throw you down the stairs.

Yeah, you and I said. So what? She bounces? And then I made the joke like flubber because all humans bounce. It doesn't matter if you're like big old space skinny. All humans bounce. Just not as over exaggerated as what? You said that now your first point said I don't mean flubber, you've just put yourself further. In no, because I did say like flubber. Somebody get in a ladder. Jesus Christ I like zoned out halfway through this conversation as well so I genuinely all I know is that something about.

Anyway, we probably cut it all out because nobody. Needs to know, Yeah, no. It stays in posterity, right? So yeah. I have a trap nerve in my back. Oh wow, yeah, it really hurts. I have a job interview on Tuesday. Awesome, who's this with I? Don't want to say because don't get it. Oh, OK. Or in case they find this podcast and then I don't get to keep it. Do you not put this on your CDI? Do actually I put up they are there was a section for what? What do you do for a hobby? This is. This is your work experience.

I have a side hustle. Anyway, a burgeoning podcast, DND. Sure, something interesting has happened to me this week. I could go play in the actual DND at my friend's house. That was fun. Because this is an actual DND. And then you deleted a whole episode. So I did, but we're 4 episodes down the line at this point and so everyone's already heard and forgotten about it. I'm just here to remind them. Yeah, well. These things happen. Yeah, well, I was quite pleased with it. As I was saying earlier, I woke up early in the morning to make sure I got it finished in time to post on the Internet on Spotify and whatnot.

Press save. The programme crashed. I opened it up. I could see the back, the backup file in the computer. It wouldn't let me use it as an actual file, and so I ended up hastily writing down a bunch of notes. Then I had to go to my friend's house to play actual DND. And then I came back absolutely off my tits and recorded it in the garage at 5:00 in the morning so no one would no. Question what do they all drink when you go? Or is it just like you are just sad, lonely traces me? Is it actually? Jeb can't drink because of his health conditions and more fuss has to drive me so I can drink.

And the host. Oh, it's his house. Yeah, he can drink. Yeah, so he drinks. No, he drinks diet caffeine free coke. Anyway, I look forward to winning some audio book prize for my various. Talking about goobers. Oh God, yes anyway. So last time on the Curse of Strad, things happened, incredible things happened, things that even I didn't foresee happening happened. Will killed everyone that. Was the episode before that? And Madam Eva brought everyone back. Yeah, there you go. But yeah, well, went on the killing spree, you guys got to the to Madam Eva's camp, you got your tarot reading which sets up the rest of the campaign and that's that's really it.

Like not a lot happened after the killing spree. Well got tied up and is awaiting trial. Sorry. I think you forgot that I was repeatedly being turned into inside out over and over again. Oh. Yeah, and I got a torn strategy. Prayer deal with it. I was being cartwheeled through my own body. Oh yeah. Yeah, yeah, but that was your choice because I'm. Not weak. I'm not weak. Weak minded. Everyone's picking on me today. I'm having a really hard time with it. With the Tower reading over, Madam Eva retires to her bed because you guys are inside her like her tent.

Anyway, she just kind of like rolls over and has a sleep. Crazy. Bitch, what was? Still in there? You're welcome. To sleep, I'm done with. You're more you're more than welcome to sleep. On the wall next to the behind her. Am I still gagged? Somewhere, yes, you're still gagged and tied to a tree. No, we took your gag off, I remember. Yeah, we took your gag off, but we did allow you to be cursed. So to receive a truly bad. Breath. Really bad breath. Oh yeah, Yeah. Sorry, it's been quite a while. Since it's been, it's been, it's been a while.

A mad, wacky week. Did we have a week off? No, it's just been a week. Yeah. Crazy. Feels like longer. Does feel a lot longer? Yeah, it's a long rest is a good idea. You guys rest up. How do I get rid of my bad breath? Brush teeth. You'd have to ask. You'd have to ask one of the people in this camp who don't like you. Oh yeah, the move curse spell Greater Restoration. Right. Who can I? Well as a paladin, if I live it up high enough I can learn what spells who can I, but I'm not going to do this. Absolutely.

Who can I work on to like, try and persuade them that I'm a victim? Unfortunately, no one in this camp. How do you know? Because I'm the DM you. Didn't even give me a chance. Don't hit me with because I'm the DM, that's why, yeah. That's what I say to Sam and it's even when I do, I know it's not a good argument. OK so he doesn't look at me absolutely baffled when I say go to bed and when he says why and I say because I said so and he says why and I say because I'm the DM he does look at me like I'm insane all.

Right, So what an what an actual and you have. To -8 off your. Roll right. -8. So just cuz so no, no one in this campus is, is actually going to help you because Malice stumbled out of her tent and tried to run away from you while you were still actively killing. Her I'm just sat there then screaming for help really annoyingly loudly, other noxiously. Not first. This is not the first time for them Help. I'm not going to do that a lot because I don't want to upset your neighbours, but. Add infinitum help here.

I'm going to have really peaceful sleep hearing that. Says the one who thinks they got on. They got out from hell unscathed. No, she came out thinking that she's even better than she is. Like her curse was that she's just even more up herself, which is you couldn't have written it any better, but it's really annoying. I like my curse that I'm now like carefree and can't take anything seriously. I know, that's quite funny. Like it's a complete personality. Each time we die, we get another curse to add to our set of curses.

As well, I don't plan to die anytime soon, but if I do, Oh well. Well, you better be nice to me then, because they already proved that I can do it. Yeah, because you've got us when we were low. Yeah, you'll be low again. That opposite Will throwing marshmallows. I'm going. What's you going to do, Will? Huh. What's you going to do? I tilt to grab them in my mouth. What make it acrobatics check? Woman saw acrobatics, Yeah. Could I roll to hit? Yeah. 13. Hang on, I've got I proficiency with range stuff 18.

Yes. Do I get a marshmallow? Yeah. Yeah, I do, yeah. Good shot, good catch, well done. Very well done Malice will be disappointed she didn't see this. Help. Oh OK, you want another marshmallow? This is great. For real though, you should. You could untie me. I probably could, but I kind of like this and I've heard another marshmallow. One of the we're. Being real, what's the purpose in keeping me tied up? Why I'm quite enjoying this team building exercise we're doing.

Yeah, but I could be a lot more useful to you if you untied me. Yeah, but it's it doesn't really it it goes against the rules of the game. Yet to be seen. For a marshmallow, you see, it doesn't feel like more of a challenge when you're tied to a post to have to catch the marshmallow in your mouth. Like role persuasion or something for the next one I think. Not against me. Malice has opened her tent and is made it a war room and is getting all the the lucky in the place. 15 I know, I know that. One of the thinking about letting me go.

One of one of the one of the guarding Valaki does actually lean down like just observing all of this. As much as we do like the company, we will be moving out shortly to fresh lands to camp on. Oh shit, you can't we could we. You can't come with us, but you can't stay here. This is the situation. Can I, can I? What about what about we? We do my trial now then, so that because otherwise we don't. Even no, we told them that it doesn't matter and we'll sort it. Out. Yeah, they cursed you in lieu of trial.

OK, so. You didn't specifically kill any of Astani. We will. We will untie you in the morning. Which it now. Is it sounds like they're taking the post with them. Huh. They're taking the post with them. I run.

That's scary. I stick my. Leg out, I've got no hands to break my fall. Exactly where? Heading to what was the bigger place that we have to go to? We'd go to Valaki. Yes, it is Valaki. This is the camp. Originally. Originally, you were supposed to be leading Irina to Valaki. That was the only. Reason. That wasn't the only reason of wanting. To the only other reason we need to go there was to get my curse removed, which we've done. I think we should go to Valaki anyway. OK, well we do have we got some.

We've got some stuff to find first. Got some? Assistance from Madame Eva, didn't we? Oh, we didn't tell you about that. No, I have no idea what's going on. You left me. No. You were sitting with us. You left. Dragged. Oh, OK. Yeah, we. Dragged you in? I don't know. I've had a very traumatic night in this camp. And I brought you in with us and then ties you to a post again apparently. You brought me back out and tied me back up because you're monsters. To be fair, it's not really you, it's malice.

Being funny, will. You did kill us. Which the herbal tea, don't you? Met Straudge. You saw how scary he is. I I openly mocked him to his face. You're twice the height of me. That's a big guy to a like gnome. Yes, Yeah. Well. Next time, next time you see Ivan twitch at the thought of taking, of casting a prayer, then you just remind him, oh, Mr. Big Shot, let's go to Strada. He'll only laugh anyway. That's. Right. Oh, morning, Lord, I Oh yeah, I remember. It's Stroud. Is it morning OK? And you see, you see a bunch of the Vasani Asan till I pack down there turns to move on to 1st ground.

I go up and use my scimitar to cut the rest. Of the binding off I desperately. Oh, OK. I see I I I desperately itch my nose. All night, all bloody night. Oh God. No wonder he's lost his mind. That's better. OK so we're we need to find a House of a St. I do say to will. I say I'm willing to put this behind us. If you try to kill me again, I will kill your dog. Do you understand? Gonna kill my undead dog, Yes. Scary. She's. I will. Say the fuck away from matchstick or I will end you. And the dog is in us.

So where? Where is our first stop? Where do? Where are we going? Malaki Malaki shows fun. I like this. Let's go and like because there'll be Taverns and there'll be shop. If at an incredibly stressful day, we could do with some retail therapy, you know? You must look for a wealthy you must won't look for a wealthy woman, a staunch ally for the devils. She keeps the treasure under lock and key with the bones of an ancient enemy of. Course, some very holy of you. No questions. In Malaki, she was down to the business.

I'll just want to have a drink and do some shoplifting and have a good time, you know? Like, sounds nice. Yeah, right. We've all got a plan. We'll go find some bones, if I remember right. Matchstick. Woofs are the where bones. Matchsticks action robbery.

Can you make him say Malice is a bitch?

I love the stuff are. You asking, are you asking anyone about like the law of the area? Are you asking for paint and Roma or are you just hitting the road? I reckon we could possibly ask which direction. Well, like he is. He was like, let's. Go. Where are you going? Will I? Don't know, I don't get the hell out of Dodge, but I've not had a good time here. Oh really?

If one scratches the knife wound at his neck, you had a bad time. That you will. Malice, tie me to a tree.

Oh, what a way she did that Malice. It's not very nice, it occurs to me, staring at Will's fetching T-shirt, which is covered in Cowboys. I need to find myself a cool hat. Because you have an undead horse. Now I have a cool horse that I can summon at will. I have well once a day I can summon at will. I've got a cool duster that I wear and a big gold gun. Can. I Let's go to the lackey and steal a hat, yeah? Let's go get a hat. Can I make a Perception hat? Check for a cowboy hat.

Just one randomly in the forest. Starley might be wearing one, but I'd rather not steal it from them. I'll steal it. That's not. Sure, that's a great idea, but go for it. 17. So there is one. Shall I roll to steal it? It's like a. Hand it's on the head of a Vastani so easier just to ask him when he bought it. Can I roll to steal it? I'm. Already. Deep. Here anyway. You can indeed roll the steel.

22 perhaps coming with me. Through 3 misdirection. I stand. There we go. Oh, did the wind just really just go straight? Everybody hold on to your hat. Oh no. You start you, you perform a really old trick, a trick that you haven't actually done since you were a child. It was a 2 bit trick along with with matchstick. It's how you used to make your living as a as an off as like your street urchin in the city. And every winter you play with matchstick and you pick up a stick and you throw it towards the Vistani and the matchstick will jump just a little bit higher body check the Rastani and then run away with the stick.

And as you chase after your dog like pretend continuously pretending to play, you swipe the hat and you shove it inside your shot and. I wink. Ivan finger guns. Now that we've committed another crime, should we carry on? Yeah, let's get out of here now. It's going to. Notice in a minute that it's hat is missing. I'm not. Going to wear the hat. I do ask the one that we stole the hat from, what way to Falaki? Why would you pick that one? Why would you ask the one that we robbed? So we don't look suspicious.

A bloody dog. Valaki is to the North West. I'm not sure he knows. Hold on. He doesn't seem to know where he is. Yes, Northwest. Northwest it is. To the northwest, it is about 12-13 miles away on foot. He actually pointed NW 13 miles. I've got impressed. That was sheer chance he happened to be sitting. Yeah. I think we have quite a way to go, so we should probably. Go. Go. Yep, Start. Moving. As we. Start with my horse. As we clear our way out of the camp, though, I give a flourish and present you with the the cowboy hat.

Because I'm trying to get you back on side. Because you're an easier target to me than malice. I grab it and like, stuff it inside my coat and just like looking around desperately making sure that one's sore. It is a It is a wide brimmed leather hat with. Feathers and werewolf tooth band on the on the I. Was about to say, like my cowboy hat and my cowboy hat. I'm assuming this gives me like advantage to charisma or something. On the inside and on the inside there is like a, you know, like how balls have like those like stamp markings.

Oh yes, like I'd. Like a brand. Brand, Thank you. I couldn't, couldn't do the one. There's like a brand. There's like a branding on. The my husband, the farmer, ladies and gentlemen. Fucking chicken farmer. Chicken farmer. Do people brand chickens very often? No, but we when we. Their lives were bad enough as it. Is when we lived in Wales we had a herd of Aberdeen Angus that he did. That I did. Look, we've never branded. Also lovingly inscribed on the inside of the hat from the owner's wife saying this is the last thing I'll ever be able to give you.

I love you so much. Handcrafted Handcrafted from the Hunters of Crusk. Crusk.

Well, Krusk sounds like a great place to go and get a new hat. I could get one of my own, however. This is excellent. I'm not saying. The one I got. You're not good enough. What the hell? Greatly appreciated. You're very welcome, couldn't have your head getting cold. But I have this whole aesthetic I need to. I know you've got to look the part. I've got your back mate. What are you doing to help with my new vibe? Absolutely nothing. She's a selfish cow. You've got to stop, gotta stop. Malice has treated me absolutely appallingly.

Well you did steal from Tuvastani the first time that she met him and then as soon as you got the free chance she did kill her. And then to try and win over Ivan, you then proceeded to steal from more Vastani. Oh, I wonder why I. Remember correct, the reason Stride in intentionally tried to kill you first is because you stole from him. You stole. You stole from the Vastani. Sorry you. Steal from the Vastani, you steal from him. I think that's how he sees it. Malice isn't much better because she wanted to sleep with him.

I never told him that I saw him in my. Head well. His head as well to be fine. I I wait for the Vastani to disappear over the over the rise of the hill and then rear my horse up, wave my hat in the air and shout. Yeah, let's go, my friends. Performance check. Yes, 21. Textbook.

I shout yeah, and I I dig my spurs into my undead zombie horse and we take off down the road. And then we stop after 10 paces, remembering that everyone else needs to catch up. I have stopped to pick some wildflowers on the wayside to try and get back into malices with graces. Are there a lot of flowers on the wayside? Forests have flowers. In Borovia. Yeah, I didn't say they were pretty. Dead, wilted flowers. There's a lot of. Like a bits of wheat. Malice's aesthetic is just dark. There's wheat.

It's very gothic. You don't actually know a lot about like the flora and fauna of Borovia, but it is a land that is kind of like constantly cursed in autumn, in winter. So you're looking at like Hardy, Hardy weeds, small flowers for nature or survival foraging. 23 I get her a lovely bunch of flowers. Friendship weeds. So after some crazy reason, you've managed to like cross hatch some beautiful ribbon to put round it. I don't have to roll persuasion to see if you like them. Can I give him? Can I help Madison?

Lovely was really trying to make amends. You find 11, you find 11. Flowers, three of which are black, are like black roses in full bloom. Wow, that's like the most notable. It is like shuffle to catch up with malice and I go malice. You're hidden by like the side of my dress. Malice. Malice. She. Like lifts the dress. Up I I produce the the bunch of flowers from behind my back and Ioffer them to you and I go I'm really genuinely from the bottom of my slightly now cold dead heart. Very sorry I. Think he really means it?

Not just for killing you, but for being a salty little bitch boy. Genuinely. Didn't think. I'm not asking you to be my best friend, I'm just asking you to try and be civil and tolerate me. She looks through her. No, I'm joking. She. I'll rob persuasion it not have to. Constitution safe. Constitution safe. Yeah, Constitution. Yeah, fuck. What? The fuck is going? On you guys don't seem to remember that Will has offensively bad breath. He's speaking right at you. Constitutional. I'm trying. It was like.

We did forget. Detrimental day? Well, rather than malice, but fine. It's hitting malice, not me. I I awakened your resolve. You want me to leave. I see the I see the like that you're trying and I very, very like politely put my shirt up over my nose and I say very kind. I am sorry for calling you a petty. I she really, it really hurts.

I. Take very psychic. I appreciate that so much you. Wilt my roses I. Think my zombie horse just farted. Disgusting. She she tasted smells and she plucks one out and she puts it in her body and then she wheels heart grew 2 sizes per day and then she stands. I feel like she was kind of like she lowered herself a little.

Bit we're about to pull out again. Eyes watering as you realise the mistake of that. You're like, oh, OK. And then I. How Carl and Isabel talked to me. I I turn, I turn away and I go and then walk, but I'm still I've put my flowers in my rucksack. With a tiny bit enamoured I've I've no. He no, no. He knows. He knows he had. Absolutely. So good. And we're sitting on my horse and we're going to be making up a. Finger You would find it absolutely hilarious under my dress I. Have like the like leather Garter things yes right, it's Canon.

So she she tucks it became one of those and put the dress over. It's so I can roll my dress up in combat. Will's impressed. I think Will just has a healthy respect for you and he's not like he knows he doesn't stand a hope and hell, but he's like. He's just of course it doesn't stand the hope. And hell, this one's targeting Strat. Baby, I know he's just appreciating malice, that's all. So we're friends again. But wait until Stride makes us hate us all again. So you both, you may not trust me, but you both hate me a fraction less we.

Appreciate the sincerity. Sincerity of trying to apologise, even if it is you. Could do anything, I don't care as long as I get this hat. You've got the hat. Excellent. You could do what you want, then I. Guess yeah, should we just we'll keep. Let's keep going to wherever it was we're going to crash to buy new hats. New hats, bouquets of black roses, which are my favourites. Fuck yes. You follow the river to the base of a Canyon, at the far end of which a great waterfall spills into a pool, billowing forth clouds of cold mist.

A great stone bridge spans the Canyon nearly 1000 feet overhead. It's like high up. It's like a whole mile probably. I could really understand feet. Maybe it's like 10 yards. There's a big waterfall do. You want to get up there OK. We need to. We can cross over though. The waterfall is here. That's 1000 feet above from where you are. OK, so this is the bridge. We can cross the bridge, cross the bridge. If you're on the High Road instead, which I do, no, the bridge is 1000 feet over you. You're underneath it.

You have to go up. You have to go up and then. We'll. Swim ski. Now we got to swim up the 1000 foot waterfall like a fucking South. Dive in and out, it would really impress me. Here's a climbing speed as well. So if we combine the 2. So we're at a waterfall, Yes, OK. I guess we'd go to. We'll have to. We'll have to go through the forest. Maybe. Next to this bridge. I suggest you wash all the blood from your murders off yourselves. I couldn't get my dress away. Yeah, you'd have to take it off.

It's not where I was going. With that, but this daughter? Incredibly subtle. You could have just like. Is it? Is it like when a teenage boy bullies a girl because they like? No, I literally didn't think about the fact that you would have to take a dress off. Yeah, yeah. Even as you were saying it. Yeah, I was just like, just wash yourselves. Curious. I didn't say I was going to wash you. I just said wash you. Never in my mind. I just said wash yourself. I. I like. Well, you need to stop I. Crouch down into the water and I wiped like the blood on my skin.

Hey Ivan, it got a ladder. I am in a hole. I don't know. I think she might. She, I believe her. She dressed up. And cooked it into her. So side eye malice and then back back to will I think a result for maybe starting to crack I'm. Fucking working on it my friend. We'll be away into those. Tracks I matchstick is my. Next way of water getting there? Freeze. You're going. To get matchsticks break his cracks softener up once she realises he's a great little dog. I don't. Have an issue with the dog?

He's a great dog, right? As you guys bring anything, as you guys are washing off the blood in the in the pool of the and right underneath the Sir Falls, you hear a bunch of howls. Anyone have any soap? Coming from the self spit on your.

Hands malice storeys up perception. Check. No, no. I'm trying to get you back on side. I wouldn't actually. You do that, I'm going to. I'm going to do a perception check to see if I can figure out what the Hells are I. Give the help action. I don't. I roll A2.

I have no idea and I'm so sure I can't tell. A dirty 20. A dirty 20. You see them, you fucking see them. You fucking see them. I band them. It's them. That's where the noise is coming from. There's a band of direwolves as they descend down the hill and charge after you. So you've been seen 21. So yeah, as you guys are mid bathing, you are kind of but not really ambushed by pack of direwolves. There were six of them and they are charging down the hillside heads kind of. We're not running out like an ambush.

It's going to take a time for them to get within like attack range, but they are charging at you. OK, fair enough. You don't scare me, you're supposed. To be laughing, I. Don't have to laugh, I just don't take it seriously. Yeah, but I'm not afraid of these fucking wolves. Matchstick, like all those little hair goes off. His little hackles rise. He's like. Really growling, he starts charging. Yes, matchstick, Matchstick. I like that energy. Rolls her shoulders back. She like sticks her chin out a bit.

Will gets his bow ready and you have my bow and. Then you have my bow. This. And we walk. And they walk, walk, walk, walk. We'll show you. Afterwards I don't look worried. No, you'll love it, I promise. Yeah, you will, You will. All right, Malice, you go first for. Sure. How far away are they? Just outside of they're just outside of like attack range. So like next turn they'll be on you. OK, cutting. Action Hide first. OK. Pussy to give myself advantage. That's right, Malice. We'll take Malice. Malice.

So I'll. Do again with the hiding. 15. Past the perception of 15 meets beats fuck. That passive perception is 15, yes. OK, well then I'll just throw a blade at them. 13 + 821 5:00 and then I'm gonna attack your games. I get another one with Psychic Blade 17 in it. So we're doing it. 5 again, then I'm going to stand there because I can't meet. Now the the die wolves, they charge, they charge 450 feet. Ivan Yalta, I'm just going to show. The wolf that's coming towards me. They they travel, they're just charging downhill as a pack.

There are two leading the front. And then? There's like triangle formation for the for like the other 4. Shoot the dog at the front 25 to 8, seven damage, which I have advantage on now because I have decks. Yeah, definitely. It's 6 damage. Well, they're far enough away to use my long way. Yeah. 1818 hits. I thought it might. So 8 damage, 8 damage and then I get another attack 11. Does not help. I'm not shocked by that at. All killers, right?

OK, I come up to like the shoulder of this thing. The rest of the wolves kind of they charge for but they kind of spread out. So 236 they've got got even like a box formation with the 2 front wolves are like taking damage like so there's like a good there's like a perimeter of like 5 or 10 feet around from one wolf to the other as they slowly like move into you wait. OK, one D8 plus my deck. So they actually took a bit more damage. That's 2. So they did. Another two damage to malice. Which one? Are they?

They are now in range when they took a movement to get in range, so they can't well. The one that attacked me? No, the one that I attacked yes. Is that in front of me? Yeah, right, perfect. Right. So that's advantage right 'cause sleep attack is ally within 5 feet right. It's twenty. I'm not sure 19 damage that's. One dead. Perfect. And then I can throw another one that's seven damage to the other one that's. That's his. Back on it. So I can come in and finish. It Ivan your time. I'm going to try and help.

I'm going to shoot two different walls so. I just start blasting. Yeah, exactly. Yeah. 26. Hits. And a 16 first one is 14 damage, so I'll shoot. The one right in front of us has got damage, isn't it? No, they're both dead. Oh, Mouse.

She's feeling really good about herself. So I shoot 1 to the one to the left. Yeah. Bang and then quickly spin around, jam the bullet down the barrel and then turn on my heel and shoot one behind me. OK. 4 9 damage. So obviously my hunters mark again is that 6 or 9 +6 is 12. 12 does not hit. 16. 16 hits. I do have my Slayer thingy too. Yes, do. You one of the ones I just shot. 21. 21 damage. Fantastic. Who dies? Who number one had the least damage? So you've got, oh, the one is fine, the one behind Ivan.

One I just did 9. Damage. Yeah, that one, OK. That is also dead. I reach up to high 5. I like fist bump. It's a misread it. I like cabbage. I wrote a performance check to make sure Malice doesn't see it's a seven fuck. 14. She's definitely. Still there. She is judging. We step away from each other just a little bit, just like. Trying like, you know, I throw myself under the waterfall. You know, like when someone falls over and they try and style it out, we're like just like Peacock in a little bit.

The direwolves, they the three remaining direwolves split off into a very tight triangle and they box you all in. They have fight. They have a 5 feet 5 feet between them. Except that's so chubby. Perfect. Between them, the the one, the one still surviving that Ivan shot lunges at him. Oh. He's a little bitch. And he gets advantage because of pack tactics. Yeah, standing back-to-back to back, probably super smart. But it looks cool. Come on. I know, we look so badass. That's how we were standing.

Yeah, I've got my like blades, you've got your thing and then but we're standing in a really cool, like my back, Yeah. It's all like back-to-back. Epic music playing in the background. That's not 20. Fuck off. Who are you aiming for? Ivan. OK, Rob. You've been OK. I have kill wins, you're fine. 14 points of piercing damage and you want our prone what? Oh, would that make a save or anything? If the target is large or smaller creature, it has the prone condition. You do not save. This but don't even make a fucking save.

What is this bullshit? OK, fine, absolutely fuck you. Ouch. We're. Going to shoot this. Dog the can you just. Make a note of how fucked you are. Yes. How many? Notes. I like the notes from last session. Me equals dead, capital letters underscore. Read book. These are the notes that we need. The dire wolf on the left goes to attack Will. That's 23 to hit, 13 points of piercing and JIRA prone, and the last one goes for malice, no? It fucking doesn't. I'm going to use a luck point so I don't want to go prone.

So now you have to roll a disadvantage on your attack. OK, OK, misses. So it's Malice's Go. Yes, I get sneak. Attack Damage. They're kicking well in the head because he's struggling. So OK, I get sneak attack damage, Chris. Oh, do you know what? I'm having a wonderful day I. Feel like it's not ideal for us all to be on the floor, but. They're all you. Know doing the same thing together. So I can get my advantage things. In nature. So that is a 21 perfect.

No way. No funny. 22 damage. The one that Ivan shot, the one that attacked him, is now dead. Gorgeous. And then because it's Psychic Blade, I get another attack. It's 19 + 8 hits 24. Excuse me? That's six damage to the one that's. Ivan, there is no wolf attacking you. However, you are prone. Yeah, there's nothing attacking me. There's one on Will. Yes. One on mouse, yeah. Or either of them hurt. Yeah, the. One attacking me. Oh, the wolves. I'm hurt.

I sort of get up on twin me and then shoot the one that's attacking Will. OK. I'm going to use a thunderous mite. Awesome, that one. OK, so I'm going to try that again. Is that awesome on that horse? No. It's a seven, OK, but it becomes a 16. OK Damn. Damn. Yes. I'm good with my gun. Yeah. Cool. So yeah, I'm going to do a thunderous Mite. So because you have 13 damage, it's the one attacking Will, and then it has to make a strength save 18. That's a pass. Sorry Will, I did try to do it. OK, that's my turn.

Well, real time. Well, on my first attack I rolled on one and it doesn't get much more disadvantaged than that, so I'll just roll for my second attack. Yep, doesn't. I lay on the floor and scream like a bitch. Yep. The wolf with the second damage. It takes a biting action against Malice 15, doesn't it? Second one, that's on Will 19. I'm assuming that heads. Yes, little head will. Eight points of piercing, and that's Malice's time. Cool, so I'm going to attack the one that I attacked last. Time, OK.

18 + 8 heads, yeah, 17 damage, and then I will bonus action use my other psychic way. 9 + 8 hits, it hits something. We've done this one before, that's 34567 damage. Very, very injured, very nearly, Ivan got. I'm just going to shoot the wolf. Hopefully. It's it's a hit six damage. Cause yes, as you're washing off the blood and presumably skinning the dire walls for their fires. Why would you assume you mean that? Looped. I I. Mean so you have something to sell when you get to civilization I because you're don't the the only like money that you have is the money that you came in I'm.

Just going to keep making psychic blades, sell them and then they all disappear. Genius. I'm getting it. I got it from Will SO. Malice So you're planning to we want to skin these wolves. Is that what you said? Could do with a new throat. I I'm just thinking logically, you guys are going into heavy civilization and from here on out the monsters I'm in here only going to get stronger. I have no you. Don't have potions and you don't have armour? OK, I'll skin the six Star Wars. I have no, yeah, I guess survival or something or.

Survival and survival and animal handling. Because you are you are handling the antibody of an animal. 18 for survival go. 12 on survival and a nine on animal handling. That's your You're a Ranger. You're the only one who should be able. To do this. I know I've got a gun, that's it. So see how this goes. +4 on survivors I. Use one of my psychic blades so I don't have to get blood on my other knives. I got 19 on a survival or animal handling. It's the same either way. Will hopes you'll share. You will.

He lifts the tails up. Thank you, that's most useful. You're welcome. I quite enjoy scaring these animals. We thought they could take us. Do you want to do a second set? Second round? You guys have got 6 wolves, you've only done one each so far. Go ahead. We've got the 10 on that one. We've got some nice meetings. 22 On Survival 15. OK, So you have one pristine perfect pout that which will net you 100 gold pieces somebody. Make a note of this. I'm glad. Looking for more wolves. Yo wolfy wolfy wolfy.

I am a defenceless. Rabbit matchsticks are like. I'm a wolf. You've got 2 pelts which will net you 75 gold pieces and you've got 2 pelts of good quality which is 10 to 15% which Nets you 10 gold pieces and one skin of of poor quality after the after the skinning. Yes. You've harvesting the pelts and obviously the meats. You follow the direwolf foot. The direwolf tracks tracks uphill to a footpath that leads up to the stone bridge, which is 1000 feet above you. This. Is where we were going excellent.

I. Put my hands on the side of the bridge. There's 1000 foot drop, all of you, all a history check. I go to 9 who wants guidance. That's funny. You know, guidance. AD 4 It's not going to help. Me, Alice was the only one paying attention to the story the other night. Well, I definitely wasn't. This is the bridge where the great wizard was had his fight with Strad and where he was cast down, and this is also where Doru went missing.

I wonder. If there's any. Can I do like a? Evidence of Yeah. Can I do like a perception check? Is there any like engravings on like the bridge or anything like that? What's your perception? Yeah, you can Mole investigation. If you keep searching, that's kind of. OK, why would you ask? Because if you had higher then you could. Do that, you're going to have higher than that. I love it. OK, it makes noise though. I can give you guidance, OK. I'll take. Can you just give me the whole accent? We'll take you jump off.

We'll say, we'll say we'll gives. You the whole action, We'll give you the whole action and. Then you have guidance. So 13 + 619 and then what's guidance? 34. 192021202323. The Boulders in the pool at the base of the waterfall, scarred and scorched with lightning. Sick. Which came from the the battle between Strata and the wizard. I know we just have to walk all the way up this big ass hill, but I kind of want to go down. There. I go back down the hill, I jumped. Oh shit. I jump into the place one day.

No, wait. Actually put your arms out. Malice. Malice is 1000 foot. This is 1000 foot, so yeah, you're in the water would. Be like diving into concrete. You can't do that. Or maybe you should. Yeah, jump malice. Do it for it. She'll get cursed again. I'll lay on hands you at the bottom. You could take a chance and roll to see whether you die at the bottom. Or do myself. Wait, wait, I can't do it. Wait for me, Malice. Wait for me to get to the bottom. OK. Like if you surely if you jump, you roll surely.

My dress is big enough to be. I say like, I say like odds she survives. No odds she dies. Even She survives and if she dies she gets another curse. I mean, she doesn't necessarily die instantaneously, there are rules for how to. Do some fucking damage. I would argue she takes full damage from hitting the water from 1000 foot up we've. Just climbed up here. There are there are there are rules about that? There would be like 20D6 if she takes her her full health twice in total she would have died I. Don't know how.

I'm going to break her back. Going for a swan die? I don't know. Why we're I wasn't actually going to jump off. That's sad. But you know, and the singers you're here, you may as. Well, the rest of your group were really excited, even even Ivan was.

Oh man, who did the math? We could push her. We've heard her her total hit points were only 37, whereas yours are 50. 4000 Foot. And like he would die, I. Think we could push her? You push me up, push your. Drops at 10. Whoa.

A created of fours takes 1D6 bludgeoning damage at the end of it, a four for every 10 feet. 10 feet, so 10. D to A. Maximum, so that's 100. 100, it's 1000 drop. To a maximum of 20D6. Oh, so the most you could think is 120? Damage, damage, right? Well, I have 37. Well, you have 50. Three. Well, those guys, I don't. We just had a thing. I took a Monstrum by a direwolf. I have 30. Two, can I just walk all the way back down? Yeah, and. Go and have a look. Yeah, I only have 30. Two die out, right? Can I do a harder check?

Yeah. You going back So I. Can roll pure sixes would be fuck. You rolled pure sixes. I would say it was still worth it all the. Way back down. They're still they're still arguing the shit. So now that you're like up, Oh, you were, Maybe I'll do it. No, I thought you were like on the bridge you've now got. To have another guy. Down the hill and walking up towards like the base of the pools where the water falls. Wait. Wait, wait, now this is the bottom. We're having a bet. He's bet me that I won't do it and I'm like, will you forgive me if I if I jump?

I want to. I want to jump with. Mouse is on the bottom. She has no idea what's gonna happen. Wills gonna jump, I'm gonna go in. How many defects do I need? 20 you. Need 20. Why are you doing that? Remember, don't forget that Ivan. Don't forget that Ivan makes every serious situation like he takes it really lightly. So I walk back down. So you were here. You've now walked back down. You know, like you've gone underneath the bridge. As you walk underneath the bridge because you notice that the Cosm's walls are slippery and sheer, and they can't be scaled without the aid of magic or climbers kit.

The bridge is slick with moisture, but it's safe to cross the North Road and the North Road cuts to the mountainous area up north. So there are gargoyles on the on the sides and the undersides of the bridge, but they are hot. Yeah, I'm gonna do like an Arcana check or a history check or something like that just to fuck. I'm gonna I'm gonna roll one of my neck dice to. Try and you could luck point it. Huh. You could luck point. It I could luck point it, I just didn't want to use my last one. I'll luck point it.

19/20/21 Yeah that's I'm doing Arkana. So you spend, you spend, you spend a good 15 minutes digging around in the in the rock pools where the the scorched rocks are. And you do come across a hat that is being weighed down by a skull. It would appear that the Vistana I was not as lucky as you were when you. When he went to go look at the battle site, she found the wizard's hat. The Yeah, it's just called the wizard hat isn't. It yeah, with Hat of Wizardry. The hat of Wizardry. So I can just like cut, try and cast even though I don't know them.

Yeah, yeah.

Nice and happy Christ. So funny. Oh my God, I'm going to cast a major's hand. And as you as you put it on, you receive a. Yeah. It's got to be. Can't be all buff. All buff, no fluff. You can't be as you put it on, you get your your as you, as you put the hat on this like blue white light flashes before your eyes and you are taken back a year to the night where the wizard was having his jewel with Strad. And you're from your from your perspective. You're up on the bridge and Strad like the heck claps his hands together and you feel like this, like a surge of energy and light lightning kill you from the underside of your rib cage and throw you over into the pool.

You know when the hat falls off as you fall into the water. We go back up to the bridge. OK, cool.

I think you should do it. Will. I think it'll be funny. It's not that. Look, I can kill. I've got Leon hands. I can. Do you think that Malice will forgive me if I do something this heroic? No, yeah, look, she's down there right now because the price she'll be which gets covered in water. You see Malice like looking at her new hat. I jumped. She seems really pleased for some reason. Into the water from 1000 feet up on the bridge. That's a lot of. My dude, that's a lot. Of weight, Oh my God, 569. Do you know what?

She didn't double her score though, so technically she's rolling deaf so. Yeah. It's OK, don't worry. We'll. Oh shit, how am I going to get down there? I look up and I point up there and. Malice, did you find anything? I try and cross my jihad the. Malice is just. Like what the fuck? As you as malice like as you as malice like gets up out of the water and she like shakes off as if it was some fucking hallucinogen or dream. She hears this Thunder smack behind her. Well, but he's. Turn around and just floating face down in the water next to you.

What the? Fuck did.

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Coming a good like 5 minutes. I was like Oh my God, I've been saying Marius like the whole time. It's so bad. I was like, did you find the cheques there? Last time I was like, how did he get jam all over the floor? It wasn't. It was red wine vomit. And I could not find him anywhere. He was in the bathroom dying. I did that one. I had to get him up a flight of stairs to bed, right? And then the next day he was like, what time did I come to bed? I was like, come to bed. I had to fucking drag you up the stairs on your hands and you fell over and threw up in the bedroom doorway.

You don't even come to bed. My. Arm When we lived in Fakenham years and years ago, there was a pub literally within like you could, like you got to the end of our road and there was a pub there. It was a Hungry Horse. Yeah, it wasn't good, but it was there. And they used to sell like bottles of wine for like £6, like an entire bottle of wine. And it was quite nice. And I think, I can't remember, we must have been with someone because I think between me and Ruth, we drank like literally 10 bottles of wine of this fucking red wine, like colossally fucked up.

And then during the night, I, I got up to be sick, but I think I made it as far as like, I think, I don't think, I think I literally woke up joking. Oh my God. So I, like, I'd run through the bedroom and Ruth was so fucked that she didn't wake up, but I was like, I'd thrown up all over everything. So like, I ran to the bathroom, threw up in the bathroom, and then somehow staggered into the kitchen because the layout of the house is weird. It was a weird house and. It like got to the kitchen, threw up all over the floor and then just passed out there and that was just red.

The bed is soaked in red. It was blood red handprint on the door, the bedroom. And she's like, Oh my God, what's going on? And it's just like this because it was great wine. And so there's blood red stains fucking everywhere. She's like, Oh my God, what's happened? She gets to the kitchen and I'm passed out on the floor in this pool of red and she's like, Oh my God. She holds me up and I'm just absolutely.

I was like, it was in my ear and like all over my face. And you've met Dad? Dad's quite put together. I'm sorry for telling the story. Dad, when he was younger, he went on a night out with some friends and he was staying at their house and he got really drunk and he got up in the night to go to the bathroom. But he was so drunk that what he actually did was just pissing that cupboard. But they were in. Bedroom. They were in the room watching him. He walked into open the wardrobe and pissed in it.

His friends just sat in the bed light. We do it. That's not how you ride a horse.

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