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listening to the Sands Pants Network. Alright,

1:21

here's the score. We're trapped here in Barovia,

1:24

right? Because even though there ain't a drop

1:26

of water around, it's like an ocean in

1:28

here. These bloody mists

1:30

surrounding us are like walls. And

1:33

bloody is right. Because our jailer,

1:35

none other than Strahd von Zarovich

1:37

himself. But don't

1:39

go concerning yourself with that just yet. Because

1:41

if we don't kill him, things

1:44

are going to get even more pear-shaped.

1:48

The door opens and the Burger Master steps

1:50

back out. I want to

1:53

burst out of the water trough

1:56

and then just spear straighten her back. Nothing

1:58

personal, kid. You

2:00

are all covered in gore. I go over to the

2:02

trough and I have a sippy of water. The

2:05

guards spot what has happened almost immediately

2:07

and... Awesome. Alright,

2:10

so we have three rounds. Yeah. Perion

2:13

said put on a show. Yes. First

2:15

round. Sip of water. Second round.

2:18

Sip of water. Third round. I'm

2:20

radiant solely. Well, that happens. I roll

2:23

off the roof onto the ground so

2:25

I'm more easy to arrest when the

2:27

time comes. Three spots approaching you are

2:30

four more guards and in their formation,

2:33

Perion also looks shocked that this is

2:35

happening is one of

2:37

the tall, thin creatures. I

2:41

guess it couldn't have been that easy, hey? Except

2:44

we do want to get caught, sir. But

2:46

we don't want to die. I don't want to get

2:48

caught by the thin, tall creature. Yes, you're very right

2:51

on that. Okay. Okay. Pip,

2:53

you'll be going first. Followed by

2:56

Hector. Mm-hmm. Followed

2:58

by It and then the

3:01

gun. That's awful. Awful

3:04

stuff, dude. Okay. So

3:06

what do we know about It? Hag.

3:09

Werewolf. Undead. Undead,

3:11

that's right. Hag, werewolf, undead. Anything else we know about that

3:13

one? I think it's just those three from memory. I

3:16

think it's just those three, okay. Okay,

3:23

maybe the Frankenstein is the

3:25

undead. Yes. Is

3:27

there anything else in there? Don't think

3:30

so. I don't think so. Not that we know of.

3:32

Not that we know of. Okay.

3:34

Okay. Well, Pip, it's your turn. Okay.

3:37

I'd like to pull out one of my silver arrows,

3:40

and then I would like to fire at the creature,

3:42

and I'd like to make it a precise shot so

3:44

both of them have advantage. Okay. This is my last

3:46

magic arrow. Fire

3:48

once. Critical hit.

3:50

Fire twice, myth. Find

3:55

an opening. You have maximum

3:57

damage, and you have advantage on attacks against the

3:59

target for... All. Three.

4:01

Ran as great Sorrow. Maximum damage

4:03

for you would be thirteen okay

4:06

of thirteen points of damage. I

4:08

can remember the can resist thought at all.

4:11

I've. Gone for the silver. was hoping

4:13

the whale part with Darby we do

4:16

about you so that it yet or

4:18

then it's definitely as the Silver get.

4:20

you definitely are hurting it. Nice Hector

4:22

it's your turn year. don't make flying

4:25

boy butterflies bit or thirty eight thirty

4:27

seats. you can't get them this round

4:29

how far away and get that you

4:31

may get within sixty feet of them.

4:34

The suffix I want to fly like

4:36

like opener at them to sixty feet

4:38

on star shadow was okay. you can

4:40

touch to and. The creature in

4:43

it plastic Summer Spell save Dc

4:45

is had M G movie like

4:47

that. Ah

4:50

million though I'm burning through my oh

4:52

yeah oh a silly given you go

4:54

to Syria. Or

4:57

more mom think we should do not make

4:59

their saving throws but the creature does not.

5:01

So how much damage the shutters. Is

5:04

a Three Eighty six that sounds

5:06

right? Yep, Three Thirty Eight Thirty

5:08

eight? right? That makes more sense.

5:10

Ah, ends at Sonics damage I

5:12

believe. Or thunder damage? It doesn't

5:14

matter. Been not resistant. Even one

5:17

of them are right. Had. A

5:19

points of damage to the creature

5:21

and four points of damage seats

5:23

god a sub bad not bad

5:25

at all for it is the

5:27

creatures turn it sprints towards you

5:30

my good friend sector and it's

5:32

and get to this fun and

5:34

guy So I've got some bad

5:36

news. Yes it was hoped it.

5:38

ah the what was going on

5:40

some the man who you are

5:42

in a lot of fucking trouble.

5:44

Okay oh Kiss it makes three

5:46

attacks. attack your Alma clauses sixteen.

5:49

He it's as if I was a cast

5:51

second a old as a reaction yeah would

5:53

would I be good? Well.

5:57

Yes, hectic way. another for selling. I have a

5:59

lot of. The car Shield ah

6:01

the first attack okay as reaction

6:03

well then sought know ah shield

6:06

is tossed five a sea surface

6:08

is like me. A second attack.

6:11

Miss certain tasks. Hits. Even

6:13

as the old boy. Scouts

6:17

weighing into you you can see

6:19

it's play. It doesn't have a

6:21

it's not like thought god did

6:23

you kill him like it doesn't

6:25

have a jaw suits. Pong is

6:27

just mauling offs one side to

6:29

side as and as it's a

6:31

puts his entire body into these

6:33

blows. The tongue know what was

6:35

most disgusting slaps from side to

6:37

side. Okay, This is

6:39

the one. Has done. Probably

6:41

would have preferred miss or tie. I

6:44

mean it could have been was you

6:46

could have been hit by the first

6:48

two attacks as well. Here that serve

6:50

civilized you takes. Or had similar

6:52

be as bad as had for a is fifteen

6:55

points of damage swift a suburb her are also

6:57

your maximum hit points are reduced by that amount

6:59

until you take a long rest. Was

7:02

was hadn't was you can be extremely

7:04

wait for the simple matter the food

7:07

so your maximum health point. Went

7:10

from seventy three down to

7:12

sixty fifty eight. That's.

7:15

Not so good. Sheath guy all

7:17

chi well. thankfully I'm fucked up

7:19

on that burrow. The and Martin

7:21

Prado so very good. Aubergine maxing

7:24

out I get a good boy

7:26

Cod My So's were have a

7:28

good voice odd. Reacts

7:31

hundred money again for your

7:33

that twice with us as

7:35

a center and causes okay

7:37

sars two of them are

7:39

going to and lumber like

7:41

crossbows and fire It's hip

7:43

again hip. you get hit

7:45

once you takes out a

7:47

have you cross was not

7:49

lights that's more than pyres

7:51

the same area. rapid

7:53

spread as it turned out as if

7:56

to say it's ah three going to

7:58

damage the bald spot Ah,

8:00

just clips. Yes! The second

8:03

one misses, then the other two gods

8:05

are gonna attack you. Oh no, they

8:07

can only get to you this turn.

8:09

So two gods attack, two

8:12

gods just reach Hector, then it

8:14

is back to the top. Pip,

8:16

it's your turn. Esme?

8:18

Oh shit! Esme,

8:22

whatever, I don't know why I rolled. Technically now

8:24

she's going lost. Oh,

8:26

with my shadow, could I have done the

8:28

radiant soul extra 9

8:30

radiant damage to one target? Okay,

8:33

well yeah, I assume you want to

8:35

deal it to the creature. Oh yeah.

8:37

Alright. Then, yeah, Esme's turn. She

8:40

is going to, god, she only

8:43

has one AoE spell and it's

8:45

not particularly helpful. So,

8:47

wait, is it? Buh?

8:50

It is! Okay! Okay!

8:55

Oh my god, yeah, alright. Esmeralda

8:57

throws her rapier into the ground,

8:59

throws her axe into the ground.

9:02

Hell yeah, better. And then she takes

9:04

from inside her belt, she takes a pinch

9:07

of lightning, she has

9:09

a bit of fur and a

9:11

rod of amber, she rubs them

9:13

together really furiously, and you see

9:15

a static charge build up until

9:17

she fires out of the amber

9:19

rod a bolt of lightning. Hector,

9:21

you're glad you're in the air.

9:23

It passes right underneath you. It

9:25

strikes two gods and the creature. They

9:27

all need to make saving throws. And

9:31

all of them fail. Nice. They will

9:33

take 86 lightning

9:36

damage. Okay. I think

9:38

the gods are going to die. Okay.

9:42

That just sunk in. 31 points of damage.

9:44

So two gods are vaporized immediately. Okay, well,

9:46

okay. And then it is

9:48

Pip, your turn. Alright, I'll just fire two bolts. I

9:50

can't do that again. Well, I can, but I shouldn't.

9:53

Focus fire on the creature. Oh,

9:55

everyone's focused on the story. I'm

9:58

kidding, she does it. I Will

10:04

like yeah fire to crossbow ball

10:06

at the creature these have advantage

10:08

as well right first attack goo

10:11

Come on Adam Second

10:16

attack hit okay all

10:19

right you putting any spice on these No,

10:22

I'm out of spice ten points of damage. Okay,

10:24

not nothing. It's not nothing But

10:26

I kind of don't want to kill all the gods That's

10:30

a good point That

10:33

was pip your turn Hector your turn okay,

10:35

so I got the Guy

10:37

in front of me the each creature I'm

10:40

there's two gods another 60 feet away

10:42

from you. Okay cool Well, I'm going

10:44

to just grab my spear and jab

10:46

it twice into the creature's head And

10:48

I'm gonna use heaven and hell with

10:50

burning with the fury of I hope

10:52

radiant Damage I'm

10:54

gonna turn it on to radiant damage all

10:56

right first attack hit second attack miss Yes,

10:59

and do that additional nine extras

11:02

Alright, so all of this is radiant damage.

11:04

Do you have any other damages to add?

11:07

I've done the weapon I've done your Halo

11:10

spice it up Second

11:15

level of second level all

11:17

right extra. Oh boy is

11:19

undead. Yeah, that's smart. No, it's

11:21

not fuck I didn't know that's a construct

11:23

fuck Well,

11:26

I was thinking either werewolf so or we

11:28

all go from Your

11:31

corny two points about where we'll well

11:33

you know you learn now. Yeah, they're

11:36

definitely not undead You

11:38

can see there is corpse in this creature

11:40

But when you strike at the corpse

11:43

in the creature it doesn't burn the

11:45

way undead should burn You

11:47

see instead of a black bile

11:50

or ikor or anything like what you're

11:52

expecting Yeah, so maybe actually this literally

11:54

tricked you so when you stab or

11:56

attack these creatures black bile comes out

11:58

of them You've always been

12:00

assuming that that's like, cause zombies, undead,

12:02

any type of creature like that, the

12:04

blood within them, the life force is

12:06

corrupted. So it becomes not always like

12:09

a black eye core, but it does.

12:11

There's some corrupted fluid or something. Especially

12:13

very, very apparent in the blood of

12:15

the creature. But when this creature bleeds,

12:17

this time specifically, maybe some of it

12:19

splashes back on you, gets in your

12:21

mouth. You're like, oh, that's oil. Oh,

12:25

that's not, that's oil. Oh no. Like, you know, just

12:27

the cogs going too fast and then being like, oh

12:29

yes, it's undead. It's made from a zombie. It is made

12:31

from this. Of course it makes sense. Smite

12:33

you. There's extra damage to the, well,

12:36

it didn't do it. On

12:39

the right side, you kill it. Oh, thank God. It

12:43

stops mid attack. Oh, that's so

12:45

weird. It's

12:47

just standing motionless. Just

12:49

like slapping my wings,

12:51

very confused. To

12:55

me and Esme, it's stopping like that. Does that

12:57

make us like take pause as monster hunters where

12:59

we're like, that's something a construct would

13:01

do. Yes, pretty much. You had already kind

13:03

of figured that out a bit, but like

13:05

to be like, oh, there it is. Yeah,

13:08

these are not undead. They are in

13:10

fact construct. Although yeah, it

13:12

looks like they're made with part undead or something.

13:15

Well, they're a construct comprised of

13:17

all these different creatures. You

13:21

hear the whistle again and you can

13:23

see more guards tracking you from different

13:25

positions. I'm going to, because the objective

13:28

of this is that you lose. So

13:30

I'm going to say that there's maybe

13:32

a little bit more of a scuffle,

13:34

but you surrender. I was going to.

13:36

Oh yeah, go on. Well, if you

13:38

want to do something stupid. Well, I

13:41

was just going to say with everything

13:43

going through and not in my body,

13:45

it was, and then the construct just

13:47

freezing, I think it would just be

13:49

the flapping of the wings and then

13:51

lowering down and then de-summoning the pack

13:54

weapon and then just sort of like

13:56

the angelifying and then sort of

13:59

Staring. That creature? Yeah, and you're

14:01

seeing what I could ascertain if

14:03

anything distillate like, look at it

14:05

like what? Was. The are

14:07

we dealing with? How could anyone

14:10

create something like this? This is.

14:12

A good. At all. and it almost like

14:15

this is beyond eleven of like comprehension

14:17

or yes homeless the son of an

14:19

evil with takes almost like uncaring yeah

14:21

like. A infecting people with werewolf

14:23

islam and then they get in the mix.

14:25

Automatic Hector If you don't know what

14:28

a blood transfusion in this I don't

14:30

think you're really capable of understanding or

14:32

that is on sale mean of this

14:34

it it'll completely completely alien to you

14:36

for yeah I guess me and as

14:38

they will run up alongside him and

14:40

then kind of yep put up a bit

14:42

of a sides but. Yeah. As more

14:44

and more gods com When then a

14:46

few more of these creatures beautiful and

14:48

lay down our arms you know your

14:51

equipment is taken from you. You are

14:53

arrested and dragged to. See. A

14:55

first year. A little afraid. Of

14:58

the both salvo seventy nine on the

15:00

guy was a fucking avatar done as

15:02

opposed to a little bit afraid that

15:04

you're going to get dragged would be

15:06

Abbott while, but then it's quite quite

15:08

apparent the you're actually being dragged to

15:11

the sheriff or the sheriff house against.

15:13

As you dragged away the three

15:15

of you sector use spot this

15:17

pip you do not. Looking back

15:19

over your shoulder you could see

15:21

this a it's pandemonium now that

15:23

kind of it's it's like the

15:25

it's like the bubble has burst

15:27

and now and now the the

15:29

locals are allowed to react. You

15:31

know screaming wailing people running around

15:33

is more. Though

15:36

the whistle as gods are communicating with

15:38

each other, people are around absolute chaos

15:40

in that chaos. Looking over your shoulder

15:42

you see pure and. Kneel down near

15:44

the bird your master and collect something

15:46

from her. K. K.

15:50

you just spot that thera her at

15:52

interesting intriguing intriguing may i ask him

15:54

about that later but they probably had

15:56

some on them via yes looting second

15:59

nature You

16:01

are dragged before the sheriff's house,

16:03

Sheriff Victor Streicher. He's

16:06

got a big bushy mustache. He

16:08

looks a little bit like

16:10

a sheriff in the Wild West. He's

16:15

got a visibly or an appearance-wise that,

16:17

but he dresses like a Barovian. He's

16:19

got like that hard

16:21

widow's peak with his hair combed

16:23

back. He steps out.

16:25

He also makes jangling noises as

16:28

he moves, but unlike the bells

16:30

that the Burger Master had, you

16:32

can see that it is from

16:34

a big golden chain that goes

16:36

from somewhere beneath his large overcoat,

16:38

overstretching to his pant pockets, both

16:41

sides. Looks like he's got something

16:43

tucked in each pant pocket. You're

16:45

not sure exactly what pocket it

16:47

is. Very impossible, yeah,

16:49

I think it could be, I suppose. You

16:52

can see on his hands he has

16:54

many, many, many rings. Each of his

16:56

fingers and thumbs have at least one,

16:59

if not several, bejeweled rings

17:01

on them. Obviously, he's decked

17:03

himself out as a man of considerable

17:06

wealth. The three of

17:08

you are dragged before him, and

17:10

one of the guards steps forward

17:13

and reads your crimes, which would

17:15

be two murders and then one

17:17

assassination, they would specify, obviously. And

17:21

destruction of property? What

17:23

property? The creature. Oh, and

17:25

you did kill some guards. No

17:27

guards, they call that, yep. So

17:30

four murders, one assassination,

17:33

and sure, yeah, they'll throw property at

17:35

you. If they didn't suggest, if they didn't mention

17:37

it, I would have said, and destruction of property.

17:40

It's a bit of a like, what was that thing? Yeah, what

17:42

did we say? What do

17:44

you have to say to the charges? This

17:47

is tricky, because obviously we have to thread the needle

17:49

here, because I feel like if we piss him off

17:51

too much, he might just kill us there and there.

17:53

Yeah, I almost want to be like, I'd do it

17:55

again, but... We

17:58

did what we did. to try

18:00

and free Kucherry. We

18:03

did what we did for the poor

18:05

adventurers and citizens of this

18:07

town. Your tyranny will

18:10

finally reach its end one day. If

18:12

we have anything to say about it, better

18:15

kill us. If

18:18

you must shoot me, shoot me in my heart.

18:22

Better kill us or exile us or whatever you

18:24

need to do. Put

18:27

them in this stockade. I will

18:29

decide what their punishment will be

18:31

tonight. Okay, well... The

18:33

Sheriff turns back around and goes back into

18:35

his house. The guards drag

18:38

you... The stockade is in the same vicinity

18:40

as the house. Yeah. You

18:42

maybe see a big... You see posters here. You

18:44

haven't seen them anywhere else around town. You might

18:46

have seen a couple posters around town. They

18:49

would say things like, Quiet lips,

18:51

keep Kucherry safe. Your

18:55

servitude is our pleasure.

18:58

Stuff like that. The ones

19:00

here say, Sheriff Victor Straker,

19:02

law and order for Kucherry.

19:04

Ah, that's great. You

19:06

are put into stockades. You don't feel

19:08

terribly comfortable when you see that the...

19:11

Where the head and hands go,

19:13

the stockade is a bit red

19:15

around there. I hope that's tomato.

19:18

I do not think that is... Yes, it's

19:20

tomato. You can see that there is a

19:22

separate gallows and also a place

19:24

for presumably someone to have their head

19:26

chopped off by an axe. Because they've

19:29

got all kinds of execute methods here.

19:32

There is also... Both of choice. There

19:34

is also a line, a

19:36

string that goes around the

19:39

sheriff's property of, I believe

19:41

this type of

19:43

execution is called exposure. If

19:46

you've ever seen those cages that just

19:48

dangle in the air with people

19:51

in various states of living and death.

19:53

Yeah, cool. So they... Was

19:56

there anything in the air, did parents say, that we had

19:58

to do to... to

20:00

ensure that we are exiled. I

20:02

think what he said was that

20:04

the crime of killing the Burger

20:06

Master, the punishment for that

20:08

would be exile. He

20:11

was fairly certain. Alright. Fairly

20:13

certain. I mean... I think...

20:16

Why would Dyrin do

20:18

anything bad? As well.

20:21

But he wants to get out of here just as bad as we do.

20:24

You're put into the stockades

20:27

and you remain there

20:29

for some time. Almost immediately it is

20:31

uncomfortable. The stockades are designed, it feels

20:33

like they're designed specifically so that a

20:35

creature of any size would be uncomfortable

20:37

in them. Can I like not actually

20:40

break out, but like just test it

20:42

to see how strong this is? If

20:45

we were to be like, okay, this is...

20:47

We're about to be hanged. We gotta stop.

20:49

I would first off let you know that

20:51

it's not a thick guard presence, but you

20:53

are always under observation. Okay. So you

20:56

give it... Well then I would not have asked about

20:58

it. Oh, never mind then. I would not have asked

21:00

about, Dyrin. I would have just kept

21:02

my mouth shut. Oh, you could have like a surreptitious... Okay.

21:05

Well yeah, I still like maybe just test, like flex my muscle

21:07

a little bit just to be like how... Put

21:10

a little pressure on it. How strong is this holding

21:12

us down? You test it and it doesn't have a

21:14

lot of give to it. You don't

21:16

think you'd be able to burst out of it. I

21:19

think they were expecting bigger

21:23

enemies than us. Yeah. Well,

21:25

or this is just designed to make

21:28

anybody deeply uncomfortable. One of the guards

21:30

who has no lips. Yeah, like a

21:32

lyeth. She kneels down next to you,

21:34

Hector. God, buzz her

21:37

out. Yes. I

21:41

hope to bother your guard. Oh,

21:43

I would like to see them. I

21:47

would love the opportunity. Perhaps

21:50

the sheriff will cut you into

21:52

little bits. She produces

21:54

a very handmade looking dagger

21:57

and waves it underneath your nose. The

22:04

She gestures there they would be all over the

22:06

place here as well banners with the flayed god

22:08

that Rearing headless dragon. I am

22:10

the head. I'm like, yep dragon under the

22:12

bebatoire Be

22:24

the last I Enough

22:28

give to headbutt her. No,

22:30

absolutely not No, you'd

22:32

I mean like even if you could it

22:34

wouldn't go I Mean,

22:37

yeah, you absolutely at the very least could try

22:39

but you're not very confident you'd get anywhere Do

22:41

I see how did it get it? I mean,

22:44

I don't know what my vision is like But

22:46

can I see that it's getting to Hector your

22:48

the way that your position is in

22:50

a line So you can't

22:52

actually really look to the left or

22:54

right and see each other but you

22:56

are Vaguely because it's happening

22:59

in your periphery. You're a bit aware of

23:01

what's happening under my breath or like through

23:03

gritted teeth I feel like tolerated Hector She

23:09

moves from you Hector to you pip

23:11

What a delicious looking skin

23:14

you have oh, yeah Okay

23:23

Yeah, she grabs your

23:25

head turns you a bit to the

23:27

side as much as she can and then

23:29

licks your cheek She

23:41

pats you a bit on the G She

23:46

moves on to Esmeralda as we're all just try

23:48

to headbutt her nice No,

23:52

as we're out of You

23:55

hear Esmeralda cry out in pain as she

23:57

very definitely strains her neck. No, you go

24:00

have tried. Oh good, good good

24:02

on you Esme. Grab one of us.

24:04

Neither of you see what happens, but

24:06

that guard, she just hisses in pleasure

24:09

and then Esmeralda screams again, but even

24:11

louder this time. The screaming goes for

24:13

maybe 10 seconds and then it stops.

24:15

You, Pip, because Hector you're on one

24:17

end, you can't see, you can't see

24:19

at all what's happening with Esmeralda. Pip,

24:21

you can just see it out of

24:23

the corner of your eye. You can

24:25

see that she's not got the hand

24:27

with the knife is not doing this.

24:29

The other hand is up against

24:31

Esmeralda's cheek like she

24:33

was holding you and she's doing something

24:35

to Esmeralda's head. Can I

24:38

be just like kind of trying to look

24:40

in like almost like thrashing against the stockade?

24:42

I think you'd literally have to break it

24:44

to be able to see. Yeah, you try

24:46

but you can't. It lasts 10 seconds and

24:49

then stop. Yeah, it stops. And

24:51

then Esmeralda's like, and you can

24:53

see Esmeralda's holding her head down

24:55

low like she just lost a

24:57

lot of energy. Oh God. That

25:00

guard, she climbs back down. You can see she wasn't

25:02

alone. There were a few other guards there as well.

25:04

One of the guards, he's

25:06

missing all of the skin on his

25:08

fingers and you can see those fingerless,

25:11

sorry, those skinless fingers are

25:13

tightening and loosening, tightening and

25:15

loosening around a leather whip

25:18

making up like

25:21

the sound of leather on leather. It

25:23

looks like he really wants to

25:26

use the whip on you. I

25:28

suppose Piren never quite clarified what

25:30

would happen before the exile. Now

25:32

that I think about it, perhaps,

25:35

so that it would happen. The

25:37

guards begin loudly speculating on what

25:39

punishment you'll receive. Punishments, the punishments

25:41

they're expecting, whether

25:43

or not they really believe that, you get the

25:46

impression that they're trying to needle you a bit.

25:48

Yeah, sure. But they seem a little confident that

25:50

any of these are possible execution or possible things

25:52

that could happen to you. Hung,

25:55

obviously, which they immediately,

25:57

a little one on

25:59

the end, probably a halfling but it's hard

26:01

to tell he's got so many parts missing. He

26:04

pipes up the woman with

26:10

no lips pipes up again. The

26:12

man with no fingers. No, no,

26:15

no. You only

26:30

like disembowelment because it leaves the

26:32

skin. Oh,

26:35

okay. So then I'm all eat

26:37

the skin. Okay. I

26:39

would like to somehow go

26:41

into a meditative state. Sure.

26:45

And maybe try to find penia

26:49

or a guiding light in these

26:51

trying times. Even

26:54

though the words of

26:56

as may as real just

26:58

echoing quite loudly in my

27:01

head, looking at the corner

27:03

of my eye being like,

27:05

fuck, Hector's dissociating. Hector,

27:08

you withdraw from yourself. You feel

27:10

a disconnection from your physical body.

27:12

Like what's happening to your body

27:14

is happening to someone else. You're

27:16

just observing it. Your

27:19

consciousness drifts slowly

27:21

above to a point where your

27:23

consciousness is looking down upon yourself,

27:25

upon PIP and upon

27:28

Esme. And you are

27:30

in a third person scene. What's happening while

27:32

you're in this space, you feel

27:34

a presence manifesting behind you. You

27:38

turn and well, you

27:40

it's all metaphysical. None of this is even

27:43

if it is real, it's not real. You know what

27:45

I mean? Yeah. I think I turned therefore I turned.

27:47

Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. The voice turned. You've always turned the

27:51

presence behind you is not penia,

27:53

but it feels similar. It's yender.

27:55

The moment you realize it's yender,

27:58

it looks like yender. Of

28:00

course nothing ever dies. Jänder,

28:03

I'm sorry for what happened to you. Hätter.

28:06

Yes. I'm sorry, but our time here

28:08

is limited. I... manifest

28:10

and like this for ya, even in this...

28:13

space. It's honestly, probably

28:15

the closest we'll come to conversing and it was

28:17

a million and one shot. Are you her? Am

28:20

I who? Are you Jänder? Am

28:22

I Jänder? Yeah, of course. It's not another trick.

28:24

Unfortunately, you won't know that till it's all said

28:26

and done. You can either trust me, or

28:30

you can give up. Those are your

28:32

options. So I guess it

28:34

is a leap of faith. It's always a leap of

28:36

faith. Look, let me get into it. Heck,

28:39

you ain't in the deepest of the darkness

28:41

and maybe you know that. Maybe you think

28:43

you're soon to be in the deepest darkness,

28:45

but that ain't it either. Things

28:47

are gonna get real bad from here

28:49

onwards. For you and for the people

28:52

you care about. It's gonna

28:54

seem like you ain't got no luck but

28:56

bad, no acquaintances but enemies. Here,

28:58

at what looks like the darkest place,

29:01

you'll see people at each other's throats and

29:03

I know it kills you. You

29:05

can't stand this bickering, I get that.

29:08

But heck, you just found yourself in

29:10

this darkness. These people were born in

29:12

it. All they know is this

29:14

and it's kept alive for this long.

29:16

You can't hold a light down here

29:18

and say you know the way out.

29:20

Firstly, because you don't, you

29:22

just know what you can see. And they

29:24

feel it. They feel

29:27

it in their bones because every inch of

29:29

this darkness is mapped out in their minds.

29:31

They don't trust you yet because they don't

29:33

know you. Not like I do. That light

29:35

you carry is foreign to them and it

29:38

scares them because it's the light they gotta

29:41

see with this light and they

29:43

see the place that they've only

29:45

ever felt. It recoils and

29:48

they recoil. Some of these

29:50

people, they're gonna be clever and they'll sort it out

29:52

quick. Those are your friends even if they're mad at

29:54

you. Others will take

29:56

some time and you gotta give them that. You push

29:58

them too hard and they'll snap. back at you

30:00

and some some will never see this light.

30:03

They prefer the darkness because you can't

30:05

control what you don't know and they

30:07

don't know the light. Okay. And

30:10

that sounds like it sucks because it

30:12

does heck. It does. But

30:15

what's really gonna suck is that there's

30:18

knowledge in all three of these groups

30:20

of people. And like the

30:22

people who are your friends but who hate

30:24

you, you gotta find the knowledge that you

30:26

hate and you gotta use it as well.

30:30

Heck, before I came to Barovia, I had a

30:33

vision. I came here not because

30:35

of a trick or a mistake. I came here

30:37

because Penny has spoke to me. She said that

30:39

someone needed my help. And I

30:41

came here to help that person and I

30:44

think that person was you Hector. And for

30:46

the longest time I didn't understand why. She

30:48

didn't give me anything more than that. But

30:50

I now reckon I know why. It's because

30:52

of this moment. This right here. Because of

30:54

this one in a million. Heck, I don't

30:56

know if we'll ever speak again. So I'm

30:58

begging you. Listen to what I'm

31:00

saying. Is Penny here? I can feel it in

31:02

you. You're having a little bit of your doubt

31:04

in yourself. Look, I'm gonna be honest with you

31:07

mate. You got reason to. Shit's

31:09

messed up and you are

31:12

not in a good place. You're not

31:14

going to a good place. Yeah? So

31:16

maybe Penny ain't here. Maybe she is

31:18

here. But damn it, you are here.

31:20

And I couldn't help you in life.

31:22

But I'll be fucked if I can't help you in death.

31:25

But if I have nothing else, I

31:27

believe in you. I got you this

31:29

much mate. Alright? I'm here. I'm always

31:32

here. You look behind you.

31:35

I'll be there. I got you back. I

31:37

believe in you. You don't know the answer

31:39

yet. And I don't know the answer yet.

31:41

But I believe you'll find the answer. May

31:44

dawn's light find you in the darkest

31:46

night. I will see

31:48

you in the next sunrise. Yender

31:51

metaphysically, perhaps

31:53

she always kisses you on the

31:56

forehead. As you return, as

31:58

you drift back down to your body. Every

32:00

part of you feels a little

32:03

sore, except just a

32:05

little piece of your forehead. I'll

32:07

stop disassociating. Ok,

32:09

he seems... he's bad. All

32:13

good? In a way, maybe. Ok,

32:16

ok. We

32:18

wait, I suppose. See what the

32:20

punishment is. And if the punishment isn't

32:23

getting exiled, we

32:26

think on the fly. Blame Piran.

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After a little while, you hear

34:29

the ching ching ching of the

34:31

Sheriff returning. It's nearly sunset, not

34:33

exactly, but getting close to sunset

34:36

as the Sheriff returns. You're on

34:38

a little bit of a hill.

34:40

You have noticed as well in

34:42

the last maybe 20 minutes, a

34:44

crowd has begun forming. The crowd

34:46

all have, they're all locals, so

34:49

no adventurers here. All those muted,

34:51

colored clothing. There's a bunch of

34:53

guards as well, and a handful

34:55

of those creatures. The people all

34:57

have their gazes averted, but the guards for

34:59

the most part have kind of smirks

35:02

or satisfied looks on their

35:05

faces. As the Sheriff reaches

35:07

the top of the hill,

35:10

you hear him, he's consulting with another

35:13

person. It feels a little bit like

35:15

a, just from audio only, it feels

35:17

a little bit like a worm tongue

35:19

situation or someone kind of like whispering

35:21

in his ear, my lord,

35:25

let it vote. Let the

35:27

people vote. They

35:29

would reward you, handsomely.

35:31

Okay, okay, okay,

35:34

okay. Very well. Then perhaps

35:36

if the

35:42

position of Berger Master makes

35:45

itself available. Perhaps

35:47

then, perhaps then. And

35:50

out of the corner of, actually no, he's

35:52

standing close enough or in such a position

35:55

that both of you can see, the Sheriff

35:57

looks over at the abattoir and you get

35:59

the idea that some

36:01

political, something political is going

36:03

on behind his eyes, but the

36:06

full extent of it is unknown. Yeah, for

36:08

sure. There

36:11

wasn't really, no one was really talking,

36:13

but the sheriff puts both of his hands up

36:15

as if to silence the crowd. Whatever

36:17

noise might have been happening stops

36:20

immediately. People, people

36:22

of Kuchari, there

36:24

has been a great crime.

36:27

An assassination committed

36:29

by people not of this

36:32

place. They

36:34

are outsiders. The

36:37

guards begin boo, and a bunch

36:39

of them shove locals who also

36:42

begin booing. Oh yeah, boo. Boo,

36:44

yeah, actually, yeah, boo. They

36:47

are adventurers. Boo, boo. It

36:52

happens again. It begins with the guards who bully the

36:54

locals into doing it. Very hard not to also join

36:56

in on the boo, but I don't join in on

36:59

the boo. And

37:01

most of all, they

37:03

refuse to work in

37:05

the abattoir. You

37:08

find that a bit funny, Hector, because you

37:10

did work in the abattoir. I

37:12

kind of like a little smile spread across

37:14

my face. The crowd

37:16

definitely does not seem to want

37:19

to boo at this one, but under

37:21

the watchful gaze of guards, they boo

37:23

as well. They think themselves better than

37:25

us, better than me.

37:28

You're brave and proud sheriff.

37:31

The boos continue. What

37:33

shall their punishment be? Should

37:36

it be exposure, the sheriff

37:38

gestures to the cages? There

37:41

is a bit of a rumble, a

37:43

murmur in the crowd started once again

37:45

by guards, but it's not

37:47

enough guards. All of the guards previously had

37:49

been forcing boos, now only a couple of

37:51

them. I

38:00

was like, they think we're better than us. And I'm

38:02

like, yeah, you know, cooling up, like, I still have

38:04

this. Or is it like, but I don't do, or

38:06

do is it, do we just have faith in

38:09

parents that he, I

38:12

guess it's just that least. What I

38:14

think what Pip is thinking is Pip's

38:16

like, it's in parents best interest for

38:18

us to go to the Amber Temple.

38:21

So I think that

38:24

is the foundation of my faith in him at this

38:26

moment. Perhaps it should

38:28

be disembowelment. I

38:31

know how some among you

38:33

like the skin. Is

38:36

that one God? Yeah! And

38:38

pretty much is just that one God.

38:40

And she is very, with

38:43

a lot of gusto trying to get the people

38:45

around her to see her. Yeah, for her. Yeah.

38:47

In another life, she would have

38:50

been the best woo girl. Oh

38:52

yeah, absolutely. Perhaps though banishment

38:55

to the Amber Temple. He

38:57

says I would like to like, bork, like I don't

39:00

want it at all. I would put it

39:02

on a performance like that's the one I'm

39:04

the least interested in. Yeah, like eyes wide,

39:06

like shut up. It's like shaking her head.

39:08

Your performances are drowned out as a bunch

39:10

of gods, all of whom are no

39:12

god, none of these gods have any

39:14

flayed or any missing skin or anything

39:17

like that. They look like the sort

39:19

of people who Piran might be able

39:21

to pay. All of those

39:23

gods cheer really loudly and you

39:25

get the distinct impression that the

39:28

locals near them are under, you

39:30

get the distinct impression that the locals near them

39:32

are cheering because they think they're going, they are

39:34

about to die. Yeah, okay. And

39:37

we'll just like, like, no, anything but that. Anything but

39:39

that. One face in the crowd

39:41

who's also cheering, putting his head up,

39:43

you, both of you recognize as Piran with

39:46

makeup on. Clown

39:48

makeup. No, no makeup to

39:50

make him look like, Like a

39:52

different Tiefling I guess. Yeah, just a different Tiefling. This

39:55

one is not as loud

39:57

as the booze, but it is the loudest out of

39:59

all. the punishment. Okay,

40:01

the sheriff puts

40:04

his hands up and this time actually does quieten

40:06

the crowd. He does actually have to make them be

40:09

quiet. Enough, enough, enough.

40:12

Clearly then you want to see

40:14

a spectacle this night. Light

40:17

the path! The sheriff gestures the- you

40:19

saw this the first day you came

40:21

to Koochree. There is a stone path

40:23

that makes its way, looks up towards

40:26

the tip of the mountain. As I

40:28

said before, Koochree sits on a large

40:31

plateau, a K2 if you will,

40:33

before the actual peak of Mount

40:35

Gakkis. And you see, as if

40:38

it was magic, lights flare

40:42

their way up along that stony

40:44

path. And now as well you

40:46

can see, previously there was no

40:49

visible defence or anything like that.

40:51

You can see the torch lights

40:53

of many guards stepping out, revealing

40:55

themselves from obviously hidden positions. He

40:59

the sheriff turns to the three of you, do

41:01

you have any words before your sentence

41:03

is committed? Do it

41:06

again. Chain them up, send

41:08

them to the peak. It's

41:11

a complicated feeling of relief

41:13

but also fear what will

41:15

find there. You are

41:18

released, you are- wow, you're

41:20

released from the- the- the-

41:22

the- the- the stock. You are

41:25

manacled, all three of you are

41:27

manacled hand to hand. And by

41:29

manacled I mean there's no fucking-

41:32

yeah. Your manacles are

41:34

attached to leg manacles as well. You know

41:36

like the chain gang type thing where you're

41:40

all very tightly bound. The

41:42

manacles feel very firm, they

41:44

are probably designed for adventurers.

41:47

Yeah. So you could once again

41:49

try to get out but you don't

41:51

think it's going to be an easy

41:53

task for sure. You also are the-

41:55

all three of you have one creature

41:57

either side of you marching you will-

42:00

along, they're quite clearly a bit worried that

42:02

you might try to escape. Are

42:06

they marching underneath the side of

42:08

us as we leave the town for the stone

42:10

bath? The entire way, at least to the base

42:12

of the stairs. I'm just concerned

42:14

that I don't know if we need to kill them

42:17

before we get our stuff back or if they're going to leave us. I

42:19

guess I'll just wait and see. Yeah, again,

42:22

look, Peyrin's figuring some of this

42:24

out. Peyrin, I guess, you know,

42:26

he pays. He's got us this far. Exactly.

42:29

Peyrin, we'll just march wherever

42:32

the order is. We'll just keep marching

42:34

towards the stairs. You walk single file

42:36

up the stairs. As you

42:38

get higher and higher, it gets colder and

42:40

colder. You hit eventually a point where there

42:42

may not always be snow, but there is

42:45

always a howling wind. It becomes a bit

42:47

perilous now. It's a very, the stairs, you

42:49

are walking single file, not because you want

42:51

to or because you're being told to, but

42:54

out of necessity. It's not wide enough for

42:56

two people and it is, there is no

42:58

railing and a sheer drop on each side.

43:01

There are the little stations where the guards

43:04

can stand, which you, when you get to

43:06

them, they seem obvious,

43:08

but from a distance in either

43:10

direction, they immediately hide themselves in

43:12

the natural nooks and crannies of

43:14

the mountain. When you get

43:16

to the base, those creatures form a single

43:18

line behind you and are marching you up.

43:21

Each time you pass a guard, they hit

43:23

something unpleasant at you. It might be a

43:25

threat or it might be just like telling

43:27

you that you're going to your death. Okay.

43:31

As we're going up, how

43:33

far up did you get Esme? Oh,

43:35

I got just to the base. Okay.

43:39

They stopped me pretty quickly. Ah

43:41

yes, I don't think this would have been good for

43:44

Orion's hoose. Right, yes,

43:46

Orion. I forgot their name. Yeah,

43:50

Orion really complained. I

43:53

thought I was crazy, but I

43:56

pulled rank. Okay. Pulled rank.

43:59

You're not sure. What's that mean? They developed

44:01

some kind of relationship isolated from the

44:03

rest of us. You think she

44:05

just didn't understand the nature

44:07

of your... This is something Esmeralda

44:10

does all the time. You get the

44:12

distinct impression she's just not really... If

44:15

it's not something she's directly interested in, she's

44:17

just filling in. It doesn't really matter. Yeah,

44:19

yeah, yeah. It wasn't actually a horse. You

44:22

could communicate. No, never mind. Yeah.

44:25

That's the plan. That's the plan. All right.

44:28

The sun is setting as you go up. In

44:30

the darkness, you see

44:32

constant figures moving around

44:35

you. It's like

44:37

there is... Instead of the sheer drop, it's

44:39

like there is space out on either side

44:41

of you, and the figures are running on

44:43

that land around you. You keep seeing these

44:45

shadows stop, turn, look at you. Sometimes

44:48

they point accusingly. Sometimes

44:50

they just run past. Sometimes

44:53

you feel like they're almost trying to communicate

44:55

with you, but you never feel like it's

44:57

anything positive. Do I recognize them as a

44:59

dark place creature? Yes. Well, you

45:01

don't think these are a dark place... You

45:03

think these are the result of a dark

45:05

place creature. Like evidence of one. Yeah. I

45:08

like the voice at some point. Like, oh, I'll just imagine

45:10

that... I don't know if... I

45:13

think I'm the only one seeing these at

45:15

this point. Unless you, as may, mention it,

45:17

then I'm like, I'm probably trying to keep

45:19

quiet, to be honest. So yeah,

45:21

I don't say much about them. You can

45:23

see a heavy fog is also clinging to

45:25

this place. Maybe

45:27

only just now, Pip, you're clocking that there's

45:29

always been a heavy fog clinging to the

45:32

peak of Mount Gakas. Okay. Maybe

45:34

it's like, hey, do you see them too? The

45:37

shadow creatures? Yes. Yeah,

45:40

I certainly do. Hmm.

45:44

A few of the guards that you

45:47

pass begin mentioning a creature at the

45:49

top now. The creature that presumably is

45:51

going to carry out your sentence. They

45:54

call it Death's Many Faces. I

45:57

hope you've always wanted to meet Death's Many

45:59

Faces. Death's many faces

46:01

greets all who come to him. I'm

46:04

gonna try and weedle information out of them,

46:06

but like without seeming like I am. Death's

46:09

many faces? What's that? The souls

46:11

of a thousand damned came together

46:14

to make one haunted creature, they

46:16

say. Mmm. Just

46:19

like the elves believed in.

46:21

One body but all faces.

46:25

One of them, yeah, just cryptically says one body but

46:27

all faces. Could this be a Death God? I

46:29

don't know. I can't

46:31

look at a manual actually. No. So

46:34

you know what, I'm looking through a manual here but

46:36

I shouldn't be, because I don't have it on me.

46:38

Its eyes are cold and dead things. Is

46:40

he describing a Death God? Could this be Aileen?

46:42

I mean maybe, I don't know,

46:45

God's the order part. I'll give you a

46:47

roll, Pip, because this is actually a pretty

46:49

significant Dark Places creature, you might have studied

46:51

it. Uh huh. Nineteen,

46:53

good job. Okay. Alright, so you know

46:55

it's a wraith. Okay. Just

46:58

to give you an idea of how hard this is, because

47:00

you would definitely have committed this one to memory. You wouldn't

47:02

put it in these terms, but a wraith has a challenge

47:04

rating of 22. Oh,

47:06

okay, alright. Mentally... What

47:09

does that mean? Damn it, Arty.

47:12

It would be a fair fight

47:14

for four, well not for four

47:17

level 20 characters, it would be

47:19

a bit tougher. It

47:21

would be a challenging fight for level 20

47:23

players. Okay,

47:26

it looks like Sunday lunch. Mentally,

47:28

your brain opens up, an

47:31

Emmanuel the Monster entry in

47:33

your brain mentally reveals itself,

47:36

that entry of wraith, you did well enough, you can

47:38

literally just read the entry out loud if you want.

47:41

Undead, falsely named. Soft.

47:43

Sometimes known as a wraith or wrath. When

47:46

enough souls are reaped within one place in

47:48

a short span of time, and if these

47:50

souls are vile enough, then the hells thy

47:52

selves might have turned them back. In

47:54

such matters, it can occur that the

47:56

souls collapse within thy selves and create

47:58

a being of pure love. fewer negative

48:01

energies. The race is the

48:03

antithesis of all life, whose destruction

48:05

it seeks to all measure. It

48:08

should not be sawn as one single

48:10

entity, and even all those many whose

48:12

forms it was collapsed from, once created

48:15

the wrath, is more a being of

48:17

negative energies than souls, though several friends

48:19

of mine, and I have a great

48:22

many friends too for my fiftieth birthday

48:24

party, was greatly attended with. So many

48:26

people sending me thy well wishes, that

48:28

this reporter's table, buckled under the

48:30

weight of them, have said that in

48:33

their seeing of a race they noted

48:35

that its visage transitioned

48:55

between a great many of thine souls'

48:57

faces, that it was made of. While

49:00

it may retain some memories, these are

49:02

echoes, not real. Thine souls'est,

49:04

who have been in the creations of

49:06

the race, can stillest be heard from

49:09

the race, and at a great distance

49:11

too. For thy savvy hunter, thy shall

49:13

find thine wrath, exists in a place

49:15

of strength for undeath, whether created by

49:18

thine wrath, or thine wrath is created,

49:21

shall here go unknown, as this rider

49:23

chooses noteth to know such things. Thy

49:26

landscapes around the race shall be

49:28

thus. Dark and

49:30

deadly figures haunt thy nights, and a

49:33

mist clings to thy chilled landscape, sometimes

49:35

known as a winter terrorland. The

49:39

race is capable of slaying with a

49:42

vitality draining attack, and any dead it

49:44

creates shall have their souls bound to

49:46

the race, in servitude in perpetuity. Thine

49:49

wrath is very scary, as it transitions

49:51

easily between this realm and its eye place, known

49:53

as the... If

49:55

you could see Pip's face now, he would

49:58

be scowling. dimension,

50:01

aka the ethereal plane, by some

50:04

bring scholars who never understood the importance of

50:06

a good campfire tale, and who have never

50:08

showed up to my rager of a party.

50:11

With many powers that allow it to pass

50:13

through at many times, thy savvy hunter shouldst

50:15

be capable of viewing into the ethereal if

50:17

thy wish to win. Okay.

50:19

Thine race is deadly at both distances

50:22

and also at not distances, sometimes

50:24

known as touching space, with

50:27

explosive fireballs of gold and attacks

50:29

that shalt shake thy hunter to thy

50:31

very core. I have balls of a coal. The

50:35

best way to prevent damages is

50:37

to make thyself avoidant of necromancy,

50:40

or to secure thyself of fortitude,

50:42

though these are not guarantees,

50:44

as certain idiotic, lame, and sexless

50:47

scholars who refuse to turn

50:49

up to my exciting party learned one day serve

50:51

them right. The race is

50:53

fearsome and immune to all weapon

50:55

attacks, poison, acid, fire, cold, necrotic,

50:58

lightning, thunder, psychic, and all conditions.

51:00

The race is resistant to attacks of radiance and

51:02

force. Maybe as I remember that I kind of

51:04

look back at Hector. Making

51:07

these the only two methods of normally harming it. As

51:10

it is resistant to all but

51:12

two damages, a savvy hunter would

51:14

be behooved to fight the race

51:16

with its only known weakness, genuine

51:18

sacrifice. A

51:22

mortal willingly giving their life to slay

51:24

the creature is capable of overcoming the

51:26

race's resistances, though not its immunities. It

51:28

has also been hypothesized by more learned

51:30

minds than mine that for there to

51:32

be a being of pure negative energy,

51:34

there must be a link to the

51:36

plane of negative energy, though where to

51:38

find and how to plug such a

51:40

hole is beyond this right. Manuel

51:43

closing in my mind. The

51:45

pip is pierced. Hates

51:49

that I had to memorize that whole thing. Was

51:52

becoming a monster on the word. This

51:55

goes back at last live. Perhaps

51:58

it's a bit of a death chord. Is

52:00

there something like that? Maybe. Hahahaha.

52:03

Hahahaha. Hahahaha. Hahahaha.

52:06

Hahahaha. Hahahaha. Dibb

52:09

would rather everyone die than

52:11

have to repeat anything from what

52:13

he just said. Hahahaha.

52:17

I'll explain more when we are

52:19

no longer in, you know, earshot.

52:22

You get to what must, what can only

52:24

be the last guard. Mmhmm. As

52:26

you pass him, he also makes

52:29

a snide comment, it was

52:32

nice knowing you. But then when

52:34

you get really close and pass him, he leans in

52:36

and says, at the end

52:38

of the stairs, turn left, there will be a

52:40

chest. Thank you. Um,

52:43

tell him to tell her to perform

52:46

the ritual. Go! He doesn't

52:48

let you finish. Just go! Do

52:50

it. Do I think it's necessary to get

52:52

rid of our, the two creatures with us?

52:54

I mean I suppose it is. Fuck.

52:58

Well sorry, six. Okay. Well

53:00

that's, we're not doing that. Yeah. Just

53:03

before the final leg of stairs, there is a bridge.

53:06

Once you cross, the creatures don't cross the

53:08

bridge with you. Once you cross the bridge,

53:10

that last guard pulls a lever and then,

53:14

the bridge turns to the side so that

53:16

it is no longer accessible. You

53:18

are, well I mean

53:21

obviously Hector, oh no you can't fly anymore.

53:24

Without the ability to fly, you would have

53:26

to climb down from where you are. Oh

53:28

god. And that looks, it

53:31

would look impossible with climbing equipment, but

53:33

without climbing equipment, you're pretty confident it's

53:35

just straight up impossible. Okay, alright. Should

53:38

not have died of interesting

53:40

morden. Yes. The

53:43

wind is blasting at you. It

53:45

is reasonably cold.

53:48

It will make. Sort of cold where you're going

53:50

to start needing to take checks. Like when they

53:52

stripped us of everything and our equipment, is that

53:54

including our warm weather gear? Yeah, yep.

53:57

Okay. Well then we're going to

53:59

run to that chest. He sprints to the end. Yep.

54:02

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54:05

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