Strahd 8: Further F**k Ups

In a. Land plucked from time and space, surrounded by a fog that lets 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 death. Welcome laws, ladies, nobles and surfs. Prepare your spirits to be marred as we enter the curse of Stroud. Welcome everyone to another 6O9AD and D podcast made by idiots. You're very tired, idiots. Very tired. Look at Alex. She's asleep. It's. Because you're all stumbled up in blankets. It's chilly in the Guru, so I'm I'm wearing a blanket.

Let's dress and go. Cold last time. Last. Time. Oh yeah. See how everyone's doing or whatever. I mean, yeah, we can do. I guess we stay. Over 5 hours I've got nothing new to. Report. I'm tired. Let's go. I've managed to read an entire book between this session and lost. Well done. Thanks. How joking I was like you were on WhatsApp or whatever. It was like it was a kids book. It's like 5 pages. Come on. These are really. Hard please. I read 300 pages. Yeah, we read a call about bugs yesterday. They got from school.

That's why we were reading about ancient Egyptians or something. That's my boy and. It was talking about like the medicine they have saying like he was. He's watched like Horrible Histories and stuff. So yeah. Some of the ancient medicines were stupid. I was like, but actually some of them are really good. I said I like it, listed a bunch of stuff in books that was that worked. I said I also used to so like pregnancy tests, if a woman wants to find out she's pregnant, she pees on this little stick and has chemicals in it that like reads your hormones and stuff.

And so the ancient Egyptians did another thing. He went what it's like, well, I used to pee on something. What do you think they peed on? I don't know. I don't know. It's like they peed on frogs. He went what it's like and they peed on the frog to find out if they were pregnant and you laughed hysterically. You know what's amazing though? It works. It works. Do you know what? Now I can't remember if that's true. I think that was how like pregnancy tests were into the 70s or something. Was like used to inject a woman's blood into a frog or something.

Oh no, that was. Weak. The Egyptian. Oh yeah, that was you. Would pee. You would pee on wheat. If the wheat grew, then you were pregnant. Yeah, yeah. But the that. Would take forever to find. Out. No, there's not. There's a specific thing. Yeah, definitely be pregnant. Yeah, you're either going to be not, not. This is guaranteed 100% going to work. Anyway, I told him about the temple in I thought it was ancient roaring or ancient Greece. And I said there was a temple that they used to go to and they'd have to like, pray to the God.

And then it was like the priests would be looking after you. And so when you were healed, you intend to like, give them like a offering to say thanks. So sometimes it'd be money or like food or like a sacrifice of an animal. Some. But quite often people just get like donated like a clay statue of the body part that was fixed. So it'd be lots of like, feet or hands or whatever. It's like, do you know what the best thing is that the archaeologists found anyway? What it's like lots and lots of stone willies.

He actually lost his shit. That was a bad idea because that was like as I was putting into bed, so it became really difficult to. I think it was ancient Greece, but there was a temple that people would go to pray to and they were having visions. And anyway, hundreds of years later turns out it was over like a natural gas leak in the ground. So they were having visions. Oh yeah. But nothing spiritual about it. That's a really famous one, Delphi. Yeah. Yeah, he was Delphi. Yeah, Delphi, Yeah. The Oracle of Delphi I'll.

Find out. The Oracle of Delphi. I'll find out how you say it when I do my degree. Yeah, just huffing natural guests. Yep, break it out and say it's Delphi.

Right. Anyway, let's. Play the game recap Which? Was the one that they said something like you're going to be killed by a turtle or something and then he came out of out of this thing like that's stupid, how's that going to happen? And then an eagle dropped the turtle. Oh God, he was a philosopher, wasn't he? Is he Herodotus God? No, can't be whatever anyway. It was a famous one. I want to say it was Plato. Oh, it was Plato. No Homer. No, Homer's not even a real person. Homer's like a load of people.

Oh, Homer's Odyssey, yeah. Yeah, yeah. But Homer is probably like a whole bunch of people. No, we don't know who the true. Is what we listening to. Probably know that, yeah. It's the Homer's Odyssey. Yeah, Yeah. The first one. Yeah, I've got an audio book swin the first. One. Yeah. How many sequels did he do? There's there's three. Definitely not all written by Homer. It's not the longest book ever written. Because it because it tells because it tells the story like he, like the guy leaves, takes part in a war, fights gods, and then comes home.

Checking out man. By Iliad. Yes, we will hurry up. Alex doesn't care, so should we start? Tangent over, I was. I was. So yeah, you didn't look asleep. Sorry. You looked done, I'm not going to lie. Oh yeah, this is going to be a good episode because. Why don't you care about the ancient Greeks? Man, they're so important. I had like a hyperfixation on them for like a month and read too much and now I don't want to know. Fair enough. So anyway, so yeah, tangent over last time on the old Dund you. Didn't introduce us.

Oh, I'm sorry. Fucking hell.

Hi. She's being difficult. Who said? That she's feeling sassy. You've broken. I'm sorry. I'm trying. I'm I'm giving Matt editorial pause before I go on with it. Oh. We thought we. Thought you were just fed up because you didn't say anything. It's like, yeah, no, they'll shut up and then I'll be able to speak and then Matt will know where to I'm. Going to make you edit one of these one of these days. You can see what it's fucking like. I'm starting to be Hi, I am Carl Nicholson, I am your DM. I am a Carl Nicholson.

Yeah, I am. And with me is a Matt Court. Yeah, that sounds. Right. Who you playing? What? Who you playing? Oh. Yvonne Dine girl. And also with us today is a peculiar Maria Nicholson. I'm. Playing Wovie Shady. What am I peculiar? So weird looking. It's a peculiar thing. With the same jeans. You look like me. And finally, if you're very tired, I like Sherman. That's tired. Beastly. Alice Enfield. Someone. Something. Righty rue taps. Oh, that's going to be my next introduction for you. Righty Rue last time on DND.

Gross. Sorry, sorry. He was bullying. Me. I know. I saw. Satisfaction of the highest satisfaction. So yeah, last time on the DND, Will made a deal with quite literally the devil and came back from the dead. It wasn't. The devil. It was a vampire. Also known as the Dread Lord or the Demon Lord. I'll do it. Yeah.

Attacked the priest Donovich I. Was just starting to like make. Headway there after after Ivan tried so hard to gain some knowledge and some information about his Donovan's son Doru, who was a vampire spawn being held captive underneath the church. Not good. Obviously that line of interrogation can go no further. And because the priest is now an enemy, because of what Will's actions, Malice is still blind. And Irene, I will no longer travel with you. Oh my God, you are left alone at the steps of the church if we go in the church.

And he's running his dorm room. He's sort of angry anyway. And that is where we are now. Matchstick going back in. As part, as part of the deal, as part of the deal that you made with Strad, Strad agreed to restore a friend of yours to life, A4 legged creature by the name of Matchstick, who he promised that was somewhere inside the church. Donovich has no knowledge of this, of course, otherwise he probably would have thrown it out as well, but as it stands, the front doors remained locked. I just call my clever little pooch.

Will he not just find his way out to me? There's no way. Out. He's locked in. He's locked in. I'll kick the door in. I. Mean there is a way into the church. I'll kick the door in. You kick the door in. Yeah. Done. I'm in.

Ouch. Yes. OK. The doors rattle heavily and your foot bounces off. Matchstick. What is this? Matchstick. My best friend, OK. Ow, but also why is it in?

There I brought him back with me from the Ghostland spirit realm. Wherever I was, I bought him back for me. If I ask you something, I've become less confident. Stay with us. Matchstick. OK, I I guess I've got to try to open the door as well. You can try. I will kick it. I will guidance myself. I have not thrown malice. Has a lot they do actually. That's day 20. Well, it's a 16 possible. Thanks for your help, I'm blind. The first kick fails but the door like it gives way a lot more than when will kicked it.

So then you on the on the second kick the doors are burst open. Excellent. And what you see as the doors burst open, door room is standing over the deceased and drained body of.

Door, I was trying to give you the benefit of the doubt, he.

Let me out. Damn. It damn it door. I was trying to give you the benefit of the doubt. I throw my gun and I shoot the motherfucker. All right, we're all. In this 16 AH, you're useless. Go away. Nobody wants you here. I was the one opening the door. I was. Busy. Is there any way I can pick this dead free stuff off the floor and use him to cast magic? No, because you can't see. You're blind. Yourself in the face. Unblind. See you. How about you? You do go.

Put my arms out in front of me. OK, well I'm not going to get advantage on anything because I'm lying. So even if I sneak your tackle, do steady aim, it will just roll straight. So it's like you played out and I'm going to do steady aim so I can roll straight.

Something you wish to. Share the glass, Jordan, you don't want. To share. 2/17 do it.

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I just, I don't think I've done that in front of you.

And then I with my psychic blade I can bonus action throw another 1-7 damage. Well, your turn. Do I want to attack the vampire sport? That's up to you, aren't. We kindred spirits. You are both. I swear to God, if you don't attack, you are both. You are both. Spawns from the same sire. There was nothing stopping you. There could be benefit from not. I guess I rolled a hit. Eighteen hits. Five. OK, Dory hisses A hisses A malice, sniffs the air and knows that you are of the same lineage of Strauss and he kind of looks he looks at his own.

Why do you attack? We're we're the same, you and I. We are not the fucking same. We've both been given the gift. He jerks his head towards Malice and Ivan. They're. Looking at me. I have no. Idea he deserving, He deserving. Let us both feed and he lunges. Nervous. I want to know that I attacked him. Otherwise, on your side, you're

paranoid now. He's going to miss the first half to ring night. Yeah, it will be advantage. Though Oh yeah, because you're blind. Thank you. Yeah, OK, that's my bad.

Yeah, 21. Oh my. Yeah. 24 + 3. I tried I. Tried what? To stop him from. Oh. Yeah, Oh. Is that what you're? Doing he's batch it. You take 3 points. Slashing damage roll strength. Strength over disadvantage. Oh.

Yeah, definitely not well. 55 where after he slashes very like lightly at like your clavicle, his hand then reflexively lunges out and grapples onto your neck. He with his free hand he makes a second core attack which hits. He deals 7 points of slashing are. You done or are you talking? More oh, he has one more time to me, and with his other hand he, you know, gets the other side of your shoulders and now you're like fully pinned. He opens his mouth, snarl. Kick him in the. Balls and misses roll a constitutional saving.

I'm actually. Rooting for Mallon? No. I wouldn't. 30 no mallet. You take he, he bites into the side of your neck and you take five points of piercing and eight points of necrotic. I'm down and he has healed back up to 4. Oh no, yes, he does heal. However, your hip point maximum is decreased by 6 by 8 I'm down. I know you're down, but your hip point maximum has decreased by 8 so. He fucked. You right, The vampire regains. Hip, Ivan. Your turn. Does anyone have? Chill touch that was fucking dude and yell by the light of the Dawnfather.

I condemn the and I shoot him in the face. 19 to hit. Real hit. OK and I'm going to I'm going to divine smite him with my magic bullet. So I jam a silver bullet into chamber and blast him in the back of the head. I'm assuming that's an undead. He is medium or small, and yes, he is undead. An extra D8 fucking a 32 damage. Holy shit, how much? Holy shit he has one head point left. Fuck it. Though fuck you death row. Death row failed.

Failed. OK, well, your time. You get to death row though though like. Well. Hopefully never, but you get over here Malice. Or you get it's got one hit point. Left, I'll stab him. Cool. Yeah. We'll deal with you in a minute. Yeah, 19. 19 hits. I you I wouldn't even roll. Full he. Did he? Did is he though? Yeah, he is. Oh, OK. So do you just like, keep rolling now to see if you survive? Yeah, I'll heal. Yeah. I mean, if you don't stabilise me then I'll keep. Rolling plunge your dagger into the side of Dora's neck and.

He need to heal it. Snaps. He snaps his teeth at you as he as his eyes go blank, and then he falls lifeless to the floor. Does my does my Max point stay 15 or now that he's dead does it go back up? You all receive 1800 XP. At the end of the episode will level up. Yeah, I'll, I'll, I'll let you guys level up twice to account for XP that I've not given. I take the care, I kneel by malice and utter a short prayer to the Dawn Father asking for his assistance to keep my friend alive and use healing word and give you 3.

Wonderful. Do you know what? I'm alive. Look like it. Matchstick. You hear barking. Yay. Coming from one of the rooms on the left. I'm off. Let's go. Oh. Right. No, on the right, it's the top right one. I turn around and run the other way.

Scooby Dooby You get to the door, the doors unlocked, and you open it. There is an old desk and a chair stand against the South wall, a wooden holy symbol mounted above them. A sunburst, a 10 foot long iron rod attached to the north wall, stands bare, suggesting A tapestry once hung here against the wall against the firewall stands a wooden cabinet with four tall doors, and beside that cabinet is a little furry black with a white striped. Matchstick. Which is matchstick. Tell me matchy. Matchstick runs around.

He's like running in circles chasing his own tail, but then he sees you and he bolts and jumps up at you and gives your face loads of doggy kisses. Matchstick. This is matchstick. Who's a good matchy? Who's a good matchy? Inside dog Cute dog noises here.

Insert picture of Maverick on our Instagram as my inspiration.

Can I search the? Room. Yes, you may. I I'm going to investigate every fucking room, see if I can find like remove curse scroll or great restoration or money or anything investigation. I can't. I'm going to guidance myself.

It's a 10. There's an empty wooden pore box that rests on the seat of the chair. The desk drawers contain a few sheets of blank parchment, along with a couple of quill pens and some dried up jars of ink. The the third size, the wooden cabinet, contains very little. Inside is a tinderbox, a few wooden boxes full of candles and two well used books. Hymns to the Dawn, a volume of Chance to the Morning Lord and the Blade of Truth. The uses of logic in the War against Diabolist Heresies has fought by the Humanist Inquisition, which is a strange book that mixes logic exercises with Lords descriptions of being worshipping cults.

Might actually take both of those. And you know about the all the the Almost Inquisition. The Almost Inquisition came about during the time of the great of the the great sketch I. Would absolutely offer to look around. I fear it's not going to be very. Helpful. Will your elf hands bite?

The Almost Inquisition was a group of near on heretical followers of the Church of Dawn, and they were the ones who retaliated against the Church of the 9 Mother after attacks from them to try and separate themselves from the Church of the Dawn. Perhaps this offers some insight into what has happened here. The Dawn Father, perhaps even the rise of Strath. Flick through this when we have a rest. Are there any other rooms to? There are two rooms on the left that you guys have not entered, the room behind you on the right, there's the room down into the the trap door.

Was there anything else in that room? No. The the trap door room. No. OK, I'll go search the other two rooms. Apologising Proposed to the door. I'm so sorry. The dried light this dry This dirty lightless room contains a wooden bed with a Shaw field mattress. Mounted above the beds headboard is a wooden holy symbol. This room belonged to belonged to Doru Dolovitch's son. This hasn't been used in more than a year and contains nothing of value. You go into the room above that. This dirty room contains a wooden bed with a straw mattress.

Next to it rests the small table with an oil lamp burning body on it. Mounted upon the beds headboard is a sun shaped as they wouldn't some shaped holy simple. This is Dolovich's room of which contains nothing of value. Take a holy symbol. I suppose it depends how big they are. Might be something abused. There fucking bust. Yeah, maybe not. So he had his son down there for more than a year and didn't feed him. Because he's an abomination. You know, because. He's not that possible, but isn't there like a limit to like how long something can go without blood before it like?

Well, that's why he was. That's why he was crazy, because it was blood stined. OK, I'm with you now. I'm. Going to go to the altar. The Chapel is in shambles, with overturned broken pews the littering the dusty floor, dozens of counter candles mounted in candlesticks and candelabras like every dusty corner in a fervent attempt to rid the Chapel of shadows. At the far end of the church, it's a claw scarred altar, behind which is a thick rope that stretches into the bell tower. Bringing you have any significance to the town, do we think?

I I don't. Know I don't think it'll be good idea to allow the town to the recent death of their only priest. It's. Still. Out the back. Irena and is Mark are still at the the graveside. Yeah, they probably heard it's just gunshot fight. Can I search? Be hostile. Can I search farther to another and see if he's got anything that might be able to help Lady Malice's condition? Yeah, guidance myself again. Dirty 20. Aside he has in in his inside of his vestments like he has two black 2 little black books, one of which is like a portable book of like a smaller small portable book of like praise and sermons.

And the other book is like a journal. What holy days and like festivals and like when people are when, when marriages occur and when funerals occur. So he can like hold sermons as it were. Other than that, he has he has a necklace of the sun around his neck, but he holds nothing. He has. He holds nothing of significance or value. I'm going to pocket the pen. So as you thumb through the sermon book you discover a well worn page with lots of like ink quill scribblings and like lots of highlights describing the Crimson benediction, which is a revival ritual.

It tells how to how to cast, how to like, act, enact the ritual, what position the body needs to be lacing, sorry, facing. And it specifically states that in order for the spell to work, the body in life needed to be a follower of the the Mourning Lord, which is quite common for the land of Perovia. I guess it makes sense. Yeah, it's the presiding. Do I get the impression that this would have been able to help with Lady Malice's condition? This is what he was going to do on Will. On will Curious, I'll keep hold of this.

I will study it maybe of use yet. Is there anything I can find that lead me to believe he could do anything to help Lady Malice? No. Interesting. Nothing. At the very least, nothing in the. I go to the altar and light a couple more candles and I make a prayer to the dorm Father I I believe I've cleansed this place, although I've also spilled the blood of the holy man, although how holy he really was I don't can't really discern.

It's church appears to have been defiled in the past. Hopefully I've I've cleansed it for you. Oh my. God, what have you done what what have you done what have you done and is Mark appears in the doorway at the face of the church I ran my. Head on the other shit. I've been disgusted with the sight in front of her, draws her blade and she charges, probably all believing that it was him. We didn't do this door, didn't we? We'll actually close the. Door. We are leaving. We're leaving. We are leaving.

The judge was corrupted. We've dealt with that. You need to. Well, leave. Well, jump out a window or. Something something. See ya. Have you got your dog? Yeah. All right, leave. Let's go. I'm gonna dash. From from the altar, I don't know where malice and will are, but from the altar that are they? Never really went too far from the. Front door charged past you. They know you're blind. You probably didn't have anything to do with the attack. They charged past you and they engage well. That's ablest.

Roll on a. Ship I could shoot at the floor like in front of them to try and hold their charge to give everyone a chance to either calm the fuck down or run away like an intimidation you. Can roll from division. So scary I'm scared. Shiver me Timbers. I just think I'm a bad shot, huh? OK, well, I'm out of here. I just leave our side door. There are side doors in the altar. Oh, everyone follow me. I'm going out to the side door. I really. Head out the back of the front door and meet your other side.

OK. It is. It is Will's. No, it's not. It is Alice's turn. Yeah, I'm assuming she's not in my she's. She I'm not. Going to get like. 3 or 4? No, she's focused on. She's focusing well. OK, I'm going to cunning Action dash and then move my 30 feet as well, OK? Well, stumble your way out the door, down the step, full on. Like trying to get out. Of will your turn. So they're attacking us. They're attacking you? Yeah, specifically attacking you. We have run away because we want to be peaceful. There were there were two vampire spawns that they had recently learned of and now the only priest in town is dead and there's only one vampire spawn left alive.

These are smart people. They do have high intelligence.

So really my only way out of this situation is if they're dead, Otherwise they're going to keep tracking me. Down or you could leave with us. They're not going to actively chase you. They will kill your dog. I'm leaving. Come on, Matchstick.

He's a good boy. Matchstick we will be.

Very as you run by, they both take actions of opportunity to try and swing at you. That's only rogue thing, yeah. Fuck Irena rolled, you can. Disengage as in action. You can disengage as in action. And then you get your. Movement. Is it dark yet? No, no. To never get. Dark. It should be like half an hour. Yeah, it's like dusk, so it will be dark like in like an hour or two. But it's by the time we reach the tree line it will be dark. You can. You can use your action to disengage so they won't get a hit on you.

Yeah, and then run. OK, I'll do that. OK. You can hear the the crying. You hear like heartbroken sobs of the two nobles that you have left behind in the church.

Ways we have done. Such a patch off in this time. We have fucked up so bad we've left it 10 times worse than it was and it was a town of dead people. I'm seriously. Fucked in this. Arguably could not have gone worse. If you keep on running. Yeah, at least have started killed us. We wouldn't have done all of that. Donovan should still be alive at the very least. Like Coyland would not have been able to get to the church. But you know, please still be alive. I. I as soon as we I'm like fumbling. Yeah, we, we run over the trees.

We the town. Where are we? Where are we going now? If you say we run into the tree. Yeah, No, there is no, there is no like out of wall defences or anything. Yeah, yeah, you can just leave from here. If you run W, you can leave. You can escape. Do we remember roughly what direction Valaki is? Valaki. Valaki. Do you want a wall history? Yes please. I'd love to. That's 16. OK, you do remember that Valachi lies to the northwest of your current position? We're just honestly, we're just gonna have to leg it and do it by foot.

Yeah, there is no. No, the Sir Paul was somewhere we were meant to go, right? Eva's tent is here. Yeah, a Vastani that was going to offer his help or something. I feel like he is the Vastani who offers the card reading and that's you know where the relics are that will that aren't essentially needed to help you kill Strat. OK, let's just go that way and hope that none of them are in fucking Borovia. I mean, we're not necessarily fighting Strat tonight, so like it's not like that big a deal. But yeah, we'll hit that and then carry on to.

Yeah. What is a cell? I think a cell is like doesn't want to tell me. Tell you somewhere. Get to the lucky the quicker I get. Hopefully get my eyes like that maybe somewhere maybe this will be able to help. 01 hex is 1/4 of a mile. Fuck, how many hexes is it? 33 hexes, Oh my God. How long, How realistically, how long will it take us? Like a couple of days? Yeah, OK. Yeah, it's a couple of days travel from here to here to Valaki. It's about it's about a night's worth of travel. Well, should we head?

Back to the circle. Because we're going to have to come back here because here's where Strides Castle is, so we could do the other thing on the way back potentially. Yeah. Just I'm going to be so much more helpful when I can see it. Yeah, it's 2 miles. It's 2 miles from Borovia to the sub hall so you'll get there by nightfall. 2 miles. Yeah, 1 hex is 1/4 of a mile. It's 8 hexes away from Borovia. It's. Not that far. No, we can. We can go there. 1st If nothing else, we might be able to. Find show you left because you didn't follow the road out.

You ran essentially from the church. So you've gone into the southern end of the Svalich Woods and you'll be following that around into the the circle. You want to be heading in a W southwest direction. OK, it was to do a survival check to see if we know where the fuck we're going. I've got 5 in survival. You all Sprint away from the village and into the tree line and you continue running for a little bit longer to make sure that no one's chasing you. After a while you realise you are safe and you can actually take stock in your situation.

Am I rolling survival? Did you say you can roll survival if you wish? Yeah, some of our own nature is survival and figure out where we. Get 4 No 22. 22, Yeah. All right. OK. 18 on survival. You're looking like I don't know how. Nature will survive. I'm using my sense of. Touch and smell. Yeah, sensors. Do we do we have a rest or something just. You can have a rest Yeah, a. Short rest to start with and then make our way to surf fours. Yep. OK, who needs a short rest? I actually don't. The sun is starting to go down, He does it as well and the shadows are now growing thicker around the truth.

But I'll give you guys a good hour and it gives you like enough time to get as your Max amount of HP regain as you possibly can. Oh, yeah, age 15 because I need to do a long rest. Yeah. Can I also just say that I because I've got my telepathic communication with. Oh, no, it's well up by now, Forget it, Don't worry. Yeah. Just so we're not like talking necessarily out loud and like making ourselves known to anything that's around us. Could I do telepathic communication with these two so we can kind of keep our conversations to ourselves?

You would need a long list, would you not? No, I can do it with my Sonic dice. Oh, OK then, yeah. So I just, I just use one of my Sonic die. I tell you that I'm going to do it. So you know that when I talk in your head and you can reply in your head. So we don't send me that. What is he doing I. Hate it when I hate it when DM's roll ship out of like nothing. Yeah. Like what? The fuck are you rolling? OK, we roughly know which direction we're going to go. If we're going to go to this lake, maybe catch up with this Madame Eva.

Perhaps you'll be able to help us. And if nothing else, we'll get some shelter for the night. Maybe she can. Hopefully she can help in some way, even if it costs us. I can't believe that you can't even look at matchstick. Well. You're blind so you can't see how cute matchstick is. I like blindly reach down. He's like on the floor a little. He's. Basically I get I flew from my dress. Up bites you and like. Crouch and like hold my hand out. He licks you. Little scratch under the under. The chair, he's like the nice side of my personality.

That is a very sweet dog. Thanks. It's Matchstick. He's. Incredibly cute, I can't wait to see him. Can't help wonder how it is he's here. Is this a vampire dog? Dog a vampire? No, dog's not a vampire. Through the mist you see three large Ravens you know for fuck's sake, parched. On how large is large, are we talking like large for a Raven or are we talking like? Large for a Raven like large for a Raven like these things are huge are.

They, not that I can fucking see, but are they like clocking us? Have they clocked us? Through the mist, you see a black. You see a black bird circling overhead when it feels when it feels your eyes upon it there even flies away. But it's back before long, keeping its distance. And there were three of them. So instead they're just watching you on the patch. Should we maybe like stealth of it? Like do a group stealth through the forest? Yes, probably not a bad idea. Can we do like a group stealth?

Yeah, Star Trek. I'm. Not feeling very stealthy. I got the 12. 8 24 So the stealthiest 1 is the one that can't fucking see anything. I'm very loud on my feet. I may not be able to see but I'm very it's walking into trees. It just slowly sinks. Down I've got my hand. We turn around. She's like attached to a tree. Falling on all fours, she's fine. We've we've, I've got, I've had my hand. Once we started running I grabbed someone to try and figure out where I'm going. So middle is 12 right? So. Holy shit, I have a channel divinity thing where I could actually check whether something's been consecrated or desecrated.

I actually could have worked out what was wrong with the Chapel if there was anything wrong with it. God damn I'm stupid. How far are we into the forest now? You're about because you're all rolled like group stealths, you're sneaking. We're just going to slow you down. So I'd say you're about half a mile in. Did the sneak work? Did it. I rolled like a. Nine. Well, you're you, you're on a 12. So you're our middle ground. OK. Oh yeah, you're on a right. Like overall. You could see you first. Thing with with aid from everyone else, everyone succeeded.

OK. OK. Yeah, I think we just keep moving as quickly as possible, quickly and quietly as. Possible quickly and quietly. How's the fog? The fog is. Oh yeah. Fuck yes the fog. The fog is the further inland you go. The the the fog does seem to dissipate somewhat. It's not as thick as the other side of Spanish, but there is like a persistent mist. So as well, it's there to keep people in. Like 15, it's like a range of like 15 to 20 feet instead of like the thick fog which only gives you a range of like 5 so.

There's no point in taking those drinks. No. No, we're good. If it's dissipating, then we can keep moving. We'll be OK, we'll just keep moving. Yes, those. Drinks those. Those drinks pointing at will. However, the further inland, the further in the forest you go, the faster the sunsets. Will his Gloom Stalker abilities. Kind of begin to slightly activate and you both witness him kind of melt into the shadows in between the trees as they become like more and more like prominent and dark. Well, you're going to have to keep clicking your fingers so we know where you are.

OK, Fantastic. I will roll a dark charisma soap. 7. You do not style this one out. You have an anxiety attack as you witnessed for the first time that you are going invisible in and out of the trees. And you for an instant, you believe you're going to wake up in front of your dead body again. You for for an instant you kind of forget everything that happened. You're like, oh fuck, I'm going to die. I'm already decked. What the fuck? Where have my hands gone? I'm disappearing. What's happening? You've fade out, you've come on the other side of the tree and like, oh wait, fuck, nevermind.

Everything's fine. Don't worry about it. Don't worry about it. It's not everything's fine. Do you? Think Will's OK? No. No. Good? Absolutely. My hands. What? Are my hands gone? I can't see my legs. Oh my God. Oh, it's fine. It's fine. It's fine. Matchstick clocks his head at you like what the? I do like an inside jerk, yeah. Because you don't know necessarily, like, what abilities Will had before. Yeah, he met up with you. I like you begin to think, you begin to suspect the idea that maybe Strad had done something to Will other than just bring him back.

I mean, it's obvious that there's pieces of his psyche missing. I think I lean into Ivan and I go, well it was always a bit sketchy, but not this. Yes, it appears his travels to the other side done something to his brain. Yeah, it was maybe more to it than we maybe know. We'll keep an eye on it anyway, Yeah, we'll move on, yeah. You got to stop rolling dice. Nope. You got to stop doing it. Nope. Hey, hey, look at, look at me in the eye. Look at me. Stop. Nope, yes, you guys walk into the further into the forest.

The sun completely has set behind the mountain of that is that is the the pillar stone for Castle Ravenloft. So now it is like getting quite still quite light, but it's it's there's no more sunlight left, so it's dark. Not even the clawing fog can hide the stench of death that descends upon you. Something evil approaches. Its footsteps are betrayed by snapping twigs. We're still stealthing though. Right you you can try to hide so everyone make a stealth check got. An 18. You got an 1818 I've. Got a six?

You got so as Will is still like visibly freaking out about his condition he gets. Creatures can't see him. Oh. He's visible in the dark. Even visible in the dark.

Dark vision 60 foot What's your even if? They're visible, yeah. Invisible to dark. Vision invisible to dark vision. OK, cool. So depending on how you want to, depending on how Will wants to act on it. And so, being that he's invisible to them as he's like freaking out, he turns and sees you 2 drop down, he drops a little bit slower, and then he sees 8 zombies in a horde just shuffling through the other wood. Welcome to the land of Goravia, a proper party. This is the hell that awaits you, and you have a long journey ahead of you.

With that, I think we'll call it a session. Jesus. Christ, I feel like our best option is to just hide. Can I drink zombie blood? No, I imagine that would be absolutely fucking. Disgusting, said. It would be like infectious. It would be like drinking pus. In all fairness, I'm already fucked. I know, but you don't want to eat some disgusting, you want nice blood. Magic. White diet monster. You feeding off matchstick. No. All right. Thanks everyone for listening

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