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Vampire Infested Barovia III #12 Descent into Mount Ghakis

Vampire Infested Barovia III #12 Descent into Mount Ghakis

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Vampire Infested Barovia III #12 Descent into Mount Ghakis

Vampire Infested Barovia III #12 Descent into Mount Ghakis

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bluenile.com. You're

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listening to the Sands Pants Network. Though

1:10

you see no water for miles around you,

1:12

you are like me, nonetheless

1:14

maroon. We are castaways in

1:17

this terrible bad dream somebody decided to

1:19

name Barovia. To switch up the

1:21

metaphor, we are imprisoned and the fog is

1:23

the bars of our cell and our jailer

1:26

is Baron Von Strahd. As

1:28

far as I can tell, there's no way to escape other

1:31

than possibly by dying. Maybe

1:33

by being eaten by a wolf, let's say. There

1:37

is little marks carved over and

1:39

over and over again in many,

1:42

many different languages. If you seek

1:44

honor or power, turn back. In

1:46

many vessels below, the darkness

1:49

shelters a timeless evil. Leave

1:52

now before our damnation becomes yours.

1:56

Nothing ventured, nothing gained. The stairs

1:58

descend 500... 100

2:00

feet into Mt. Garkus

2:02

before finally plateauing out. You don't

2:05

feel like you're trapped, but

2:07

you do feel like you're

2:09

in danger. After

2:12

that plateau, there is, or on that

2:14

plateau, is a hallway. A

2:17

long hallway. On either side

2:19

are elaborate carvings that depict

2:21

the construction of the monastery.

2:23

Do you have darkvision? I

2:26

know, Hector, you do. But

2:28

you know what? Esmeralda does not.

2:30

I cast Light. Actually, no, I

2:33

summon my spear. And

2:36

I cast Light on that. You

2:38

attempt to summon your spear. Oh

2:40

no. Hector, you now realise, you

2:43

reach out, you cannot feel penia

2:45

at all. Any power

2:47

you get from being a

2:50

paladin is lost to you. But

2:53

any power you get from being

2:55

a warlock is now maximised or

2:57

rolled with advantage. You

3:01

still have hit points and

3:04

your proficiency bonus and anything like

3:06

that, but anything like Divine Sense

3:08

or Smite, things like that, they are gone

3:10

to you. So

3:13

the spear is a warlock thing, but

3:15

then we did that as a thing?

3:17

You can't summon the spear. You can't

3:19

summon the spear. Okay,

3:22

I then grab the

3:24

mace. Okay, that

3:26

I got from killing an angel.

3:31

It's a little

3:33

paltry. It hums with energy. And

3:35

then just cast Light on

3:37

that. You can feel that

3:39

this mace has become your

3:42

packed weapon, at least for now. Oh

3:45

dear. It speaks to you. Oh okay. Yeah,

3:47

with me. Let

3:50

me taste blood. Oh,

3:52

good to hear that. Good

3:55

to hear that. Hector, a part of

3:57

you cannot wait to use this thing.

4:00

I cast light on

4:02

it to lead the way.

4:05

The light is red, but casts

4:07

further twice as far as it might

4:09

normally. As

4:13

I said, there are elaborate carvings

4:15

on either side of you depicting

4:17

the construction of the monastery above

4:19

you. You see the

4:21

people of this place mining the

4:23

stone out of Mount Gakas to

4:25

build around the statue which was

4:28

always there, and always has been.

4:31

The statue being the one that whispered

4:34

to you. Cool,

4:36

cool cool cool. That's

4:39

the statue from up above.

4:43

It looks like they built a temple around it.

4:46

That's why I would explain why it was a different material.

4:49

You see that the monks

4:51

unearthed strange sarcophagi in the mountain,

4:54

buried in solid stones. The

4:56

carvings are detailed enough to show not

4:58

precisely what the material of the sarcophagi

5:00

are made of, but that they are

5:03

definitely not the same as the stone

5:05

around them. In time, you

5:07

also begin to see that

5:09

the monks begin to change as

5:11

well. The carved monks beginning to

5:13

take on horrific disfigurements. Warped

5:16

flesh, moulded as if it was

5:18

clay and visible bones poking through

5:20

their flesh. They start

5:22

wearing heavier and more concealing robes, but

5:24

the detail in the carvings shows them

5:27

for what they are. Initially

5:32

do we see what kind of monastery it was? Or

5:36

is it just more like a monastery? You

5:39

can see what the monastery once looked like,

5:41

but you don't get the purpose of the

5:43

monastery still. So they built

5:45

a monastery, it just happened

5:47

to be where the sarcophagus is.

5:50

Well if they built the monastery

5:53

around the statue, the statue might

5:55

have been because of the sarcophagi.

5:57

So who put the sarcophagi

5:59

here? Yeah. Some. Hurry Dumb! Some.

6:02

Point: As time continues,

6:04

conflict begins. In they

6:06

thought the monks began attacking each other.

6:08

This is all carved in stone. Committing.

6:11

Unspeakable acts of depravity and

6:13

cruelty to each other. One

6:15

such carving a trends six

6:17

you shows a monk bound

6:19

to a chair while several

6:21

others use a hand drill

6:23

to make holes in their

6:25

warped bodies. This is. Perhaps.

6:29

Is it looking like flayed? God? Ask

6:31

you. Something different? Is something else? Some

6:33

mental louder. So whatever was a. Corrupted.

6:37

And. Then. Is

6:39

it? Does it look like violence, Violence

6:41

sake or this like this is a

6:43

ritual like they are. They at the

6:45

Is. Is it look like this is

6:48

that version virus? Perhaps for violence sites?

6:50

you know, trauma her? There's no reason

6:52

given Cydia picketed Violence Rice around here.

6:54

At around that point the carvings begin

6:56

to lose their detail and become more

6:59

see Steve as if someone were in

7:01

a great hurried to record this history

7:03

or done only seconds before the engraver

7:05

themselves caught up in evil. Oh.

7:08

I did this her. They did

7:10

this as it happened to them.

7:12

Yeah, the very end of the

7:15

whole way has but one coughing,

7:17

a single surviving monks with malevolent

7:19

faces bearing down upon them. In

7:21

one hand, they hold a hammer.

7:24

And. Then the other hand at Sizzle.

7:27

Him outside automates pack they have

7:29

passed this whole way is a

7:31

lawyer but large chamber. The. Amber

7:33

Temple. It's doors a

7:35

slightly ajar. To. answer

7:38

your question yes it amongst the carved

7:40

here does bear a striking resemblance to

7:42

sell to make hello mate for helping

7:44

out the up stop stop you know

7:46

see than lethal from a slick is

7:49

that it's about sisters are about five

7:51

hundred meters or go five hundred meters

7:53

up so she says we're going to

7:55

be rawhide to get back here lived

7:58

distantly from somewhere they are I feel

8:00

like you can hear the wailing of a

8:02

thousand damn souls, which you know is the

8:04

noise of a wreck. Yeah, okay. Does

8:06

that mean he's loose and moving around or is he

8:08

maybe just going in? Moving around, yeah. Okay. You

8:11

know, it doesn't sound like getting closer, it sounds

8:13

more like just moving around. Just moving around. Yeah,

8:15

okay. That just reminds me again, what was

8:17

carved from the wall? Many

8:20

many different scripts again. By the way. What

8:23

did he say again? So he's a... Let's

8:26

see, he's a... They found a statue. Yeah. That's

8:28

a big spooky statue I listened to. Yeah. Yeah,

8:31

yeah, it's true. And they were like, well this is the perfect place to

8:33

build a monastery. This is great. Let's start

8:36

digging. Let's worship this statue maybe. We started digging,

8:38

maybe they were here already. We found some evil

8:40

sarcophagus. That can only be good. You've got to

8:42

drink that goo. Yeah. Only be good. Then

8:45

they started muttering each other. And transforming. And

8:47

transforming. Do you want the text to gather?

8:49

Yeah, and then only one remains. And then

8:51

with the chisel, because he was documenting us

8:53

all as it was happening. And then to

8:55

keep people away, or invite them in. We

8:58

don't know what it is. And then what...

9:00

It did sound inviting, yeah. No, it's

9:02

just with this given context, what did

9:04

he say again? If you seek honour

9:07

or power, turn back. So these walls

9:09

hold naught but doom. In

9:11

many vessels below, the darkness shelters

9:14

a timeless evil. The

9:16

danger is an infection of malevolent

9:18

divinity. Our arrogance and

9:20

folly forged this place into our

9:22

prison. Zoom

9:24

now before our damnation becomes yours. So

9:26

I guess he had a bit of

9:29

regret. Yeah. Yes, you might

9:31

be right. Can

9:33

I look down at... I'm assuming there's nothing.

9:35

But I look down at my alchemy kit

9:37

like, maybe I could make some kind of

9:40

tincture who would protect me. And then I

9:42

get back up again because I'm assuming I

9:44

have nothing good. You have no protection from

9:46

divinity. I have no protection

9:48

from your ingredients. The damned. Yeah.

9:51

I'll hoist my pack back on. Oh, by the

9:53

way, I don't know if we've properly established this.

9:55

I know I said when you were up on

9:57

top of the mountain it was called. It has

9:59

not got... any warmer down here.

10:01

So it is currently

10:03

around negative 23 Celsius

10:06

or negative 10 Fahrenheit if

10:08

you measure, if you're nasty.

10:10

You have cold weather gear

10:12

but it is not enough.

10:14

Cold weather gear could never

10:17

protect you from this. So

10:19

you will be suffering side

10:21

effects. I will

10:24

quickly chickety check what those side

10:26

effects are. But do you have

10:28

any quick questions about this? I

10:30

was just going to say so.

10:33

I'm cut off from many divine

10:35

spells. I've already used up. Yes.

10:37

Yeah you went sort of crazy on your little

10:39

cocaine binge. Oh yeah. Your Borovian marching powder made

10:41

you sort of burn through your. I'm already still

10:44

probably doing stuff. I'm trying to see. I've still

10:46

got a bit of a head

10:48

fog clear. I'm trying to see if I

10:50

have anything that will warm us up. At

10:52

the end of every hour you will need

10:54

to make a constitution saving throw. It starts

10:56

low. Oh and it

10:58

doesn't go up yet. So

11:00

it's only a DC 10. But

11:03

every time you fail that saving

11:05

throw you gain a level of exhaustion. Neither

11:09

of you have immunity to cold damage. No.

11:11

And if one already has say exhaustion. It

11:19

just gets worse baby. Yeah that's a disadvantage

11:21

to check right. Or is not quite. No

11:23

it's not saving throws yet. OK that's good.

11:25

Hey that's something. No you need

11:27

to. Oh when you get the level three of

11:29

exhaustion then you start making this check. Another quick

11:32

question. So I usually

11:34

because of that. Brandt plus five.

11:36

No. I'm guessing that's gone. Yeah

11:38

that's gone baby. Is there a

11:41

visible change in Hector. Yeah he's

11:43

not he's not casting light anymore.

11:47

You naturally cause not enough really

11:49

to see by but you glow

11:51

slightly faintly. Yeah you no longer

11:53

glow slightly faintly. And

11:55

well apart from that PIP you

11:58

wouldn't notice much. a

12:00

slight sagging of the shoulders like the

12:02

weight of the world is leaning a

12:04

little bit more heavily on Hector. It's

12:08

so funny to think that the best, the

12:10

moment that probably Hector felt the best was

12:12

the moment he stepped into the Apatva. That's

12:15

true. I thought he was at his peak. Looking

12:20

at, you wouldn't have noticed this if you

12:22

hadn't, Pep, you wouldn't have noticed this if

12:24

you hadn't been closely inspecting Hector right now,

12:26

but you can see the gap where his

12:29

thick gauntlet and

12:31

fur- and fur-lined glove where there's

12:33

a little gap where it meets

12:35

his, the sleeve of his shirt.

12:38

In between that you see not

12:40

wrist but skeletal. Well

12:42

just, yeah, you just see bones. Okay.

12:46

I'll clap a hand on your shoulder and

12:48

be like, hey, don't lose yourself buddy. I

12:53

didn't think I had. I'll

12:55

try my best. Alright, after you. Alright,

12:59

let's go. The doors lead you

13:01

down a series of steps. You descend

13:03

even further. It feels impossible at this

13:05

point to descend any more

13:07

than this. You must surely have gone

13:09

below sea level at this point. You

13:12

can see on either side of you, it's

13:15

a narrow passageway, single file. You can see

13:17

on either side of you there are little

13:19

arrow splits where defenders would fire at an

13:21

attacker. There's no one manning the arrow splits

13:23

right now, and you can gaze through into

13:26

either room. You see, just

13:28

as you're passing by, shards

13:30

of wood covering the floors of

13:32

frigid rooms, 20-foot square on either

13:35

side of you. If

13:37

this place had defenders, they are no longer

13:39

here. Are you cold? I'm

13:42

freezing. Okay. Can

13:47

we light a torch? Is that even possible? You

13:49

can, yeah, you can light a torch. I mean,

13:51

you have to, because... Oh wait, no, you have

13:53

dark vision. I love dark vision, and I was

13:55

casting light from that, My, uhm, base

13:57

again. It's a very, it's a very...

14:00

Light I'm used to have yet to

14:02

have theory a hellish read Gloria: ya

14:04

don't have doctors and drive or you'll

14:06

need a light already. Have come to

14:08

see. The warmth. To

14:11

this year has a good idea.

14:13

It provides barely anything as the

14:15

you have been in a situation

14:17

where you've been so cold with

14:19

a fire present that you've wanted

14:21

to basically put your hand into

14:23

the fire. Or it's that cold.

14:25

As her the. Flame gutter and did

14:28

looks like for a moment that they're

14:30

going to die but the port stays

14:32

what barely eat at it it it

14:34

got cold at the orphanage sometimes in

14:37

the winter we will kind of up

14:39

towards one of the and of posts

14:41

and they used to do these things

14:44

to us called pasta training where we

14:46

had to lean up against the abbey.

14:49

With. Many books on our heads in the

14:51

cold in the freezing. the undies stone. He

14:53

asked me i'd be stoned your back would

14:55

be I see your spine like I'm like

14:58

an icicle and I remember once Pop got

15:00

so angry about it so angry that he

15:02

had to do that is a nice he.

15:04

He snuck back into the abbey and he

15:06

punched the abbess in a safe for the

15:09

synthesis a as it was a thought that

15:11

maybe that he would never have to do

15:13

it again but instead he had to do

15:15

it for months Anyway this is worse yeah

15:18

I know is he had something. Similar

15:20

about reciting the difference between.

15:23

Is the Devil's and the demons

15:25

am selling a city that might

15:27

have caught. Did. You get

15:29

anything out of it and the

15:31

distances, endeavors and teams. My spine

15:34

substrate as in her house has

15:36

more old Us takes her a

15:38

text, her hands out of her

15:40

mittens, tuck sermons into a pocket

15:43

springs are now blew his hands

15:45

together, rub some abyss and. Lows

15:48

in between them and both of you see

15:50

spots in a little bit of flames and

15:53

he conjures a magical flame to try and

15:55

make her hands of get warm. A specific

15:57

Thank god I'm not cold blooded. largest be

15:59

so I think you are cold. Oh

16:04

no. Pip's getting

16:07

slow dude. At the end

16:09

of this little corridor, Pip, you spot it.

16:11

Well actually who's going first? Um,

16:14

well it depends. Me at the front but then

16:16

would uh, yeah it depends on- I said Pip,

16:19

you're probably- and then Esmeralda can bring up the

16:21

rear. Yeah it depends on if Esmeralda wants to be

16:23

running ahead. Yeah yeah. Well Esmeralda wants to be

16:25

running ahead, yeah. Yeah yeah. So I guess it would

16:27

be Esmeralda. Maybe I'll take up the rear. Yeah

16:30

yeah, we'll flip it. Esmeralda then points it out. As

16:33

she exits this little corridor into- I'll get

16:35

into it in a second- Yes. But

16:38

there's a little balcony that you walk out onto. She

16:40

taps on the right hand side of the

16:42

end of the corridor and you can see

16:45

four scratch marks, tally marks carved into it

16:47

indicating hard castle has been here. This is the way

16:49

then. Right. To measure where

16:51

you are. Actually as well there's

16:53

a little notation made next to

16:56

it in Dwarven's script is

16:58

harsh angles because it's often written in

17:00

stone. You don't get a lot of

17:02

curves in Dwarven's script. So

17:04

it- do you speak- do you know Dwarven? I'm

17:06

pretty sure I do. You immediately

17:09

make out it is a cipher that

17:11

hard castle uses. I won't make you

17:13

roll, you just know this. It is

17:15

a page indication. You can flip to

17:17

Bogman. Okay. I'm just

17:19

like, is Dwarven gibberish? Ah,

17:22

Bogman. Bogman, Bogman, Bogman. I'll

17:24

flip into Emmanuel and find

17:26

the page. Bogman

17:28

the- the- the- the- the- the idea. Yes,

17:31

the ones that keep biting us. Yeah. Yeah,

17:33

yeah, yeah. Bogman's frenzy? Yes.

17:36

Is there anything about the cipher that- do I think he's

17:39

effectively just telling me- Yeah, it's just a page reference. A

17:41

bit where Bogman. Yeah. Okay.

17:44

So there- yeah. Yeah, Bogman. We

17:46

fought Bogman before. Yeah. There's

17:48

not a lot of confidence in my voice because I

17:51

assume whatever Bogman are down here are

17:53

not so awesome. Um, yeah,

17:56

yeah, yeah. I

17:58

Can't connect to anything. From

18:00

the lights were I can can

18:03

connect from the other place it

18:05

you will. There's something. I.

18:07

Intense. Let me tell you Hector, that's

18:09

a real shame because as we know

18:11

bug men fucking hate the light but

18:13

this many other ways to take out

18:15

a bog men. oh people have been

18:17

killing bug men for years without being

18:20

a Andrew boys so I'm sure we

18:22

can figure it out. Com I'd like

18:24

to swallow. did we have to do

18:26

the and interrupt this one's suits me

18:28

to see some switch to hear your

18:30

switch their head and the a hot

18:32

as in and bury them. I mean

18:34

obviously we're not going to be doing

18:36

that. Ah. And if it doesn't work, With

18:39

Fox you step out onto the

18:41

balcony as Morale does stand by

18:43

the railing of the balcony and

18:45

the two of you approach her.

18:48

This area it's a large voltage

18:50

room. The ceiling is thirty feet

18:52

above uses quite high up and

18:54

you are on a balcony looking

18:56

down here. Lust and Rights are

18:58

sets of double doors. The doors

19:00

of this place for made of

19:02

or all made sorry of you

19:04

or iron him but they are

19:06

increased in amber. In addition all

19:08

of the bulls over the ceilings although

19:10

before everything here is made out of

19:13

a black granite which is with the

19:15

exception of the floors everything is in

19:17

taste. In embark it's it is as

19:19

if the Amber has grown over this

19:22

place and claimed it now. Or guess

19:24

a double duty left doubled or to

19:26

your rights theories a single door to

19:28

your left as well. So two sets

19:31

of doors on your last, only one

19:33

on the rights. The balcony has two

19:35

sets of swinging stairs that. Slide

19:37

around, curve around gay own

19:39

into darkness. Into that darkness

19:41

both of you cost of

19:43

both of your lights cost

19:45

down into it. As he

19:47

gaze into the darkness you

19:49

see half a dozen sets

19:51

of glassy eyes staring back

19:53

up at you. Silent until

19:55

this moment. The many adventures

19:57

who arrived here before you.

20:00

Now long dead, their corpses standing

20:02

in silent vigil until this moment

20:04

As one they raise their arms

20:07

and coal out you with a

20:09

hunger only a corpse wishing to

20:11

consume the living can summon. Oh

20:16

fuck up going to initiative for oh

20:18

fuck this case the kids you did

20:21

he thinks he am the monks built

20:23

the all can assist assist since know

20:25

it's real world hasn't the amber is

20:27

either a premise for to what the.

20:30

Effect as as was his mother doesn't

20:32

sorry I'm and something closer to twenty

20:34

cities and twenty. How. I

20:36

would not have had a chance between seeing

20:38

the page entry and the bog men to

20:41

cross the that what i literally to status

20:43

as oh goodness of the one of my

20:45

first turn them while they have to get

20:47

up there will get on with i'm gonna

20:50

you're gonna minutes where you have got a

20:52

minute a set me up the as sometimes

20:54

that move with a did they rolled really

20:56

have. A

21:00

right? it's the zombies

21:02

time first, and the

21:04

bug men see, say,

21:06

shards. Same.

21:12

As. A as a mass they move

21:14

up both sets of says is roughly

21:16

ten on each set of stairs make

21:18

their way towards use it is they

21:20

have turned to do that so they.

21:23

They. Are blocking both the Les Pauls

21:25

and the right pastel so you'd the

21:28

doors are all inaccessible to you. You

21:30

can retreat back the way you came

21:32

but that is or jump off about.

21:34

But those are your options at this

21:36

hotel and heck it's your turn. So

21:39

with both man it was what was

21:41

what do I remember? Let me see

21:43

size Pip didn't spare. Immune Joseph think

21:45

this would be stuff a year now.

21:47

At this point there are me to

21:50

poison resistant to bludgeoning and piercings you

21:52

gonna want to use. sloshing if

21:54

possible ah unfortunately you are

21:56

wielding a mace ah they

21:59

com pigs exhausted obviously

22:01

and don't let them bite ya. Yeah,

22:04

yeah right. Cool, cool, cool, cool, cool.

22:06

Okay, cool. Pretty much. Um, hmm, don't

22:08

have many options. How far away are

22:10

they? They'd be a scant 10, 15

22:12

feet from you on either side. Okay.

22:15

Um, um, are we backing up? Uh,

22:19

you're first. Okay, cool. I'm just

22:21

gonna cast, I hate this, Eldritch

22:23

Blast, Adam. Ah, yeah.

22:25

Cool. Um. You reach out

22:27

with your hand, and you

22:30

feel the energy channel

22:32

from somewhere else directly,

22:34

strikes you from behind, directly into

22:37

your heart, reaching along you. As

22:39

the energy courses through you, you

22:42

feel an exaltation. It feels incredible.

22:45

You love this. Oh, dude. Hector,

22:48

you see as the energy runs down

22:50

your arm, your arm bulges a little

22:52

bit as it cannot contain the energy.

22:55

You, with advantage, hit, and you deal

22:57

maximum damage. Whoa. You smote one

23:00

of the zombies pretty handily. Okay.

23:03

It falls to the ground. They have nothing that...

23:06

Okay. Is that, um, with... I

23:08

can, I can cast it. It's twice, isn't it? Yeah,

23:10

yeah. Two, two... Thunk. Yes,

23:13

you get two bolts. Cool. What does the

23:15

energy look like coming out of your hand?

23:17

Oh, a critical head. I mean, it doesn't

23:19

matter, but... Is it sickly and purple, is

23:21

that what it looks like? It feels sickly

23:23

and purple. But when it launches out of

23:25

your hand, it is a skull screaming as

23:27

it screams. As

23:30

it launches out from your hand,

23:32

the mouth opens to reveal teeth

23:34

of daggers. Whoa, dude. That's some

23:36

skeletal shit. That's awesome. You've smote

23:39

a second one. Fuck yeah.

23:41

Two go down. Okay.

23:46

You're very lucky I'm gonna be kind.

23:48

Technically, because you're in... You...

23:51

Well, the Amber Temple is the Amber

23:53

Temple. It's not the lair of the

23:55

wraith. But within a certain radius of

23:57

wraith, undead can't be killed. That

24:00

would be so bad, that's a fucking

24:02

hospital. You gotta kill the Wraith first. I feel it

24:04

back to the Wraith. But we're in the EberTepo,

24:07

it's different. I'm not counting this

24:09

as its lair, that would be presumptuous of the

24:11

Wraith. This is the lair to

24:13

an entirely different set of entities. Those

24:15

are the, yay. And

24:17

then, can I get out

24:19

my shield? Is that a bonus action? Or is that?

24:22

I would be an action. Oh no,

24:24

no, it's an interaction. Yeah, you can get

24:26

out your shield. Sure. I

24:28

guess I'll drop the torch that I was holding. I thought

24:31

you were shedding light from your mace? I was doing both.

24:34

Oh, okay. I was hoping you'd dual wield light sources.

24:36

Well, you drop the torch. Yeah, and I'll grab my

24:39

shield and I guess I will step

24:41

in front of my friends. And Marilda

24:43

drops to her knee, takes out our

24:45

chemical kit that she got from Van

24:48

Richten's supplies back outside, and you

24:50

see she quickly crafts something, she pours

24:52

it all very delicately into one of

24:54

those syringes, stoppers it up, and then

24:56

immediately... Yeah, that's so cool.

24:58

...injects it into her own neck. That

25:01

is, however, her action. That's pure cool. I

25:03

wish I had syringes. I'm gonna do a

25:05

far more embarrassing version where I just squat

25:07

down and open up my little arm and

25:09

go, okay. And

25:12

I would like to come... I'm imagining you're doing it in like

25:14

a little, like a shitty little

25:16

pot or something like that, where she's been

25:18

getting out beakers, swirling them around. I was

25:20

rolling my far more. She gets out a set of

25:22

goggles to put on. Yeah, I just shield my eyes.

25:25

I would like to combine Death's Night

25:27

Woe for Undead Bane, Hounding

25:30

Killer Hands so that it sticks to a

25:32

weapon, and then I'll go

25:34

Rope Tentacles for Seeking. So

25:36

that it gets... You

25:38

give yourself advantage and I'll say you

25:40

get five attacks. Nice. Are

25:43

you... Oh, five ammunition. It'll be fine

25:45

both, yeah. These five strikes will kill-kill the

25:47

bogman. Oh, fuck it, that's wrong. And you

25:49

have advantage on these five attacks. Hell

25:52

yeah. That is, however, your action. That was my

25:54

turn, yeah, yeah, yeah. And then it is... Oh

25:56

yeah. Yeah. Oh, dude.

25:58

The... The zombie? always wanting

26:00

brains is awful. It's so legitimately

26:02

upsetting. So much scarier than the

26:04

wanting meat. Then crack it

26:06

open your head for your sweet goopy

26:08

brains. No, I think meat is all-

26:10

they're like a screaming meat, also terrifying.

26:13

Oh yeah, scary, that's true. Three more

26:15

zombies, join the game. Oh, that's fucking

26:17

right. Fucking bock man.

26:20

You are now fighting more than you started with.

26:22

Fucking bock man. Alright, they get to you.

26:25

You're in a spot of luck as there's

26:27

only so many that can attack you. Yay!

26:31

That's something. So, Pip, would

26:33

you be- alright, so I'm

26:35

trying to get the battlefield

26:38

right now. So, the balcony

26:40

is ten feet across, which means the two

26:42

people can stand side by side. Who would

26:44

be standing- Esmeralda would have gone right to

26:46

the balcony. So Pip, would you have

26:48

gone all the way to the balcony? I was thinking that

26:50

I was kind of behind Hector. That was kind of where

26:52

I was going to be. Hector, would you have gone

26:55

all the way to the balcony? Of course, yeah. I was

26:57

going to grab shield and try to get in front of

26:59

the two of them. I'm just trying to work out who

27:01

can be attacked three times and who can only be attacked.

27:03

Okay. Esmeralda is going

27:05

to be attacked twice. Hector,

27:07

you're being attacked twice as well, from

27:09

two different sides, and Pip, you're getting

27:12

attacked once. Okay. So,

27:15

Esmeralda is fine. Hector,

27:19

you get hit. Oh fuck. Great

27:22

to hear. Critical hit. Also

27:24

good to hear. Dude, oh fuck. So,

27:28

to the good boy car. Do

27:31

you have anything to block an attack? I don't think so.

27:34

I'm 99% sure we don't. You gain

27:36

resistance damage from non-magical attacks. I'll just

27:38

start it to you next turn. Uhhh.

27:43

You know what? Let's use it. Okay. It's

27:45

a critical hit. I don't want to get bogman. What are

27:47

you doing? Oh, but is it a way- Is it a non-magical?

27:50

Does this count as a non-magical attack? Okay,

27:53

I'm gonna use this. You Gain resistance to

27:55

damage from non-magical attacks until the start of

27:57

your next turn. That Won't help. Never Mind.

28:00

Will do less damage but the

28:02

so you will take a d

28:04

four plus one damage Dad's you'll

28:06

half that a man you roll

28:08

for bug mans successor. Sad

28:11

story boss worker soldiers are it hit

28:13

me three different know whether you the

28:15

monks are just use the get behind

28:17

me take it all night out to

28:19

the public eye. Specifics of the i

28:21

got a chop off my fingers a

28:23

sign. Of is

28:25

on my head on Metropolis. Okay

28:28

so as world I didn't get

28:30

hit Hector Aldi first because you're

28:32

just regular damage see take four

28:34

point advantage that's okay or my

28:36

ah my healthy boy Ours is

28:39

twenty five as. Could sell

28:41

oil not out of stock in health and then

28:43

you need to make. A

28:46

strong boy? Yes yes yes dear. I

28:48

think you're Constitutions know make a Dc

28:51

twelve decks area A D C Twelve

28:53

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28:55

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loss. You're

30:22

fine. And then, poor

30:24

execution. I'm gonna force you to

30:27

re-roll this. Okay. I'm

30:29

spending a bad boycott. That's fine.

30:31

B-b-b-bullshit. That's good to hear. Oh

30:34

no. That's fine. Um,

30:36

did you say con? Yeah. Yeah, you

30:38

fail. Do you have anything for this? Where

30:40

does he get bit? He gets bit on the arm. Oh. I

30:43

mean, my con and decks are the same in

30:46

terms of, are they the same? Yeah.

30:54

Could I maybe use a re-roll any

30:56

deck space check with advantage? Well, you

30:58

had shoes to make a- I did

31:00

choose. That is on me. You

31:02

know what? That's fair. That's

31:05

fair. Um. I'll cop it.

31:07

I'll cop it. I'll

31:09

cop it. Yeah, I'll keep a re-roll over

31:11

there. I, if you want

31:13

though, I'll allow you to, this is, this,

31:16

take the offer now or don't. I'll

31:19

allow you to spend that card and

31:21

one other card of you, no, a

31:23

random second card. No. I'll

31:26

look. I'll cop it. I'll

31:28

cop this, uh. You're gonna- You've caught

31:31

Bogman's Frenzy. We might have to take your fucking arm.

31:34

Oh my fucking god. Or Flash

31:36

Rod, which is the actual name. It's the

31:38

real name, Bog. If you go

31:40

into a doctor, don't say Bogman's Frenzy. Say

31:42

Flash Rod. Um, alright. Then- Where

31:45

was I bit? You were bit on the arm. What bit?

31:48

Hector. How far up? Eyes

31:51

or lows? Oh boy. Let's go with lows. Eyes

31:53

or lows? Eyes or lows? Eyes

31:55

or lows? Eyes or lows? Clothes?

31:59

Clothes? Though hi I'm not

32:01

even georgian boys guy who supplies

32:03

okay going on ninety of of

32:06

day rather than suffer bring order

32:08

was what's your budget on the

32:10

shoulder for them as the as

32:13

the zombie when moods his towards

32:15

who is bowls itself over that

32:17

to throwing had sell side you.

32:21

It's about the land on your shoulder,

32:24

but then luckily you bring your arm

32:26

up in an awkward position. But nonetheless,

32:28

defense. You. Get be it's

32:30

i don't know what you call it but

32:32

mix of third knuckle yeah right at the

32:34

base of the phone said adding a dumb

32:36

ass sued that's hey lucky. Man,

32:39

Reseal the teeth sinks. Lose

32:41

your gauntlets. It's A goes

32:43

underneath your gauntlet you're yearning

32:45

home And on top it

32:47

sinks underneath him to your

32:50

a heavy bullen. Myths it

32:52

goes through that and you

32:54

feel teeth p A Skins

32:56

Okay, that's. Fantastic.

32:58

How long did the house find

33:00

yourself on how be opposed combat

33:02

close to here? We. If

33:05

we get there again arrived and

33:07

then oh no. No,

33:10

this is be a passing yeah. Own

33:12

eyes to the rubble monocles, triple damage

33:14

and you have this you both get.

33:17

While on the bright side, Because

33:19

of the name was a good bit on

33:21

the hands of get tips well triple damage

33:23

and you have disappointed from text based attacks.

33:26

Assets. For. Six.

33:30

Cents an hour or so with my and

33:32

it's oh so yes or no. You know

33:34

how the last time we have this conversation

33:37

of what we live the conversation the past

33:39

and I know it's upset you that you

33:41

had advantage from multiple sources? yeah and you'll

33:43

and one disadvantage cancelled by some ass and

33:45

I know I saw your face when we

33:48

had this conversation whenever he was his you

33:50

will like I'd very annoying but now you

33:52

have disadvantage for multiple sources said about it's

33:54

gone thought I got it for your be

33:56

vaccinated for him around be about of resources

33:59

or I'm soccer. Yes

34:01

so you just have yet so you

34:03

just get bit on the hand as

34:06

well as as you will take triple

34:08

this which. Fifteen.

34:11

Points of damage of course it's

34:13

maximum on max did you not

34:15

yet? Max on both See ah

34:17

many roles yeah everybody else of

34:19

their of just going. I have

34:21

a little cuckoo cuckoo weeks, the

34:23

city a good stuff or some

34:25

good stuff farm and yet the

34:28

disadvantages which whatever handful that's a

34:30

man you need to make a

34:32

con or dexterity. Saving Lotus your

34:34

choice. go slowly decks decks desk

34:36

you pass of. I got nice

34:38

though to fuck me. On this

34:40

got valets certificate that. Yeah.

34:44

You pause. And

34:48

sort of so forty pip get a bit be

34:50

like sided with the overt act as if got

34:52

it way worse. slices some on and off. for

34:55

sector it's your turn. To

34:59

fight. Looking at the bug man who is

35:01

currently on my hand and just summoning and

35:03

out a blast from that is into his

35:05

head.rots your yes. You.

35:07

Are this would be made a disadvantage Supporting

35:10

you know, because it's a ranged attack? I

35:12

am fine. Claims worth doing that. So of

35:14

course. You will unfortunately

35:16

miss because of that disadvantage and was

35:18

have something for an attack rolls and

35:20

I thought if I dissing nine five

35:22

mood and will get hit again you

35:24

com is is nowhere to move now.

35:26

Yes okay well out of attacked again

35:28

dismissed as nice. As

35:31

your azure of that a

35:33

critical. Fuck. Yes,

35:35

a critical foul by double

35:37

had. Been

35:40

fired. Up. Of the

35:42

effects of a smaller reverse the harmful

35:44

effects are applied to you. Wait, no

35:46

you don't have disadvantaged advantaged will visit.

35:48

That's right, I don't I thought that's

35:50

why Back on my oldest I read

35:52

all the first. the tasks. For. zoc

35:55

yes oh nice nine this year

35:57

maximum damage he blas to that

36:00

Clean off. Hell. Yes, very funny No, nothing

36:02

else does this no other type of enemy

36:04

does this but I'll mark down how many

36:07

enemies you're fighting on my I've got Scratch

36:09

paper that I just keep track of things

36:11

on and nothing else ever

36:13

like goes down and up 19

36:17

17 20 19 And

36:20

then you make your second attack That's

36:22

okay. I was at the one that

36:24

yeah tagging people. Sure. Yes the second

36:27

attack You smote two of

36:29

them nice Two

36:31

heads explode. Hell yeah, well cause

36:34

problems for swapping later, but Very

36:38

issue to consider it says more elders turn Hell

36:45

yes, okay Okay

36:49

three Zombies go up

36:51

in flames two of them pass but one fails

36:53

at saving throw even the ones the past Still

36:55

go up in flames as more elder burns three

36:57

of them to nothing. Fuck. Yeah, it's your turn

37:00

I'm gonna go to load one of my crossbow

37:02

bolts And then I'm gonna be like get your

37:04

head on straight and then I'm gonna turn around

37:06

and use my flame breath on some of The

37:08

other ones. Oh, yeah. Okay. Do you know what

37:11

the range of that is? It's 15 feet.

37:13

Is that correct? So it's not huge. Yeah,

37:16

that's okay. Yeah, because you still get You're

37:19

standing next to pips. You still get ten

37:21

two three you get six. Fuck.

37:23

Yeah. Oh wait Esmeralda

37:26

should have gotten a lot more as well. Actually, sorry

37:28

cuz it's got the same range. Sorry. She should have

37:30

gotten Six as well.

37:32

So another three go down. Fuck.

37:34

Yes, dude. Okay. Okay

37:36

you belch on Three

37:40

pass so half of them pass half fail

37:42

that is even with the past you kill

37:45

another six fuck. Yeah, fuck Yeah, fuck you.

37:47

You've got wow, that's good. You've gone down

37:49

to six More

37:51

coming They're on

37:54

the stairs though, so they will actually

37:56

just be spending their next turn getting

37:58

to you. Okay, you will have. The

38:00

higher time digital fuck yourselves I

38:02

got a right press. Press.

38:06

More join the point. Is

38:09

how many more way we see. Six

38:11

plus Eight is forty nine. Nine.

38:13

You find. Just. It

38:15

doesn't know that know which one I've heard

38:17

so I wrote a d Twenty had however

38:20

many zombies are in the area and if

38:22

that number does not meet. Sistine.

38:24

No more joined the party Clothes said

38:26

it's fourteen of asshole just don't forget

38:29

so I'm do not a good thing

38:31

over the balcony book and from off

38:33

but it's the zombies has the ones

38:35

that are still remaining a so far

38:37

by that they spend their time getting

38:39

to you get hacked up. To

38:43

more as hell didn't have

38:45

to do and it's it's

38:47

taken away so much of

38:49

me feel so you still

38:51

at. It's because they're often

38:53

you again. You're not wrong

38:55

with advantage or disadvantage. One hits

38:57

you smarter, smite, whatever a zombie

39:00

his ten that's a critical mass.

39:02

So do anything for a little

39:04

met at a loss. A loss.

39:06

New. Is good

39:08

news? bad news? Okay, give me that

39:11

bad news Out of here. All creatures.

39:15

The good news is

39:18

also old crysis detonation.

39:22

All breezes within fifty feet of you including

39:24

yourself must make a saving. Throw a party

39:26

to the spell on going to call it

39:28

a go at con. Yourselves

39:31

a D C which is seventeen

39:33

on a failed they take a

39:35

D Eight maximized didn't seem caused

39:37

by this. it's ass so a

39:39

D H force damage to everyone

39:41

within fifteen feet of you. Okay,

39:43

so let's throw your first concept

39:45

of seventeen you pass. Ah, that's

39:47

hundred am and sorry for years

39:49

if you say. You

39:52

take. Eight Points of Force Them It's

39:54

just too powerful down here. you're

39:57

too powerful you're on your of

39:59

fox Hahaha! Flog! Ah!

40:07

Ismael, still breathing heavy,

40:09

still breathing, ah! Hah!

40:12

Hah! Ismael,

40:14

the passes, no damage,

40:16

and then 15 feet in

40:18

both directions, so you are gonna get

40:21

10 zombies. No, there's only 5 left.

40:23

You get, all 5 of them get caught

40:26

in this. Well, it's good, I guess. If they, oh

40:28

no wait, if they save, they take no damage.

40:30

So any zombie that saves takes

40:32

no damage. There's one left. Hahaha!

40:37

Do I get flung? No, it doesn't

40:39

throw you. Oh no, no, it's like somebody punching

40:42

me. Yeah. Awesome. Hector!

40:46

Hector, as you're drawing the energy, as it

40:48

slams into the back of you this time,

40:50

you feel two

40:52

skeletal hands, one on each

40:54

shoulder, and then you hear

40:57

a whisper into the whisper

40:59

of a once lover, but

41:01

now vengeful assassin

41:04

into your ear. Let me out.

41:07

And then you explode. Hahaha!

41:11

There's one zombie left, Hector. It's

41:14

Esmeralda's turn. Esmeralda...

41:16

Zero. Hahaha! Esmeralda

41:21

brings her, oh it stabs with her

41:23

rapier and then brings her axe down.

41:25

The rapier and the axe together take

41:27

that zombie out. Okay.

41:30

Is there any more? Do

41:33

we need to switch the... I look at the exploited heads.

41:35

Sorry. Um, that's okay, we'll

41:37

do our best. Uh, Esmay, he was hit

41:40

on the film pretty bad. I

41:42

will deal with Hector, you... You will

41:44

also be... I'm fine, I can tell.

41:49

I'm getting a bad boy card for that. That's

41:52

so rude. Can I get a good

41:54

boy card for role player? What?

41:57

As Pip would do! Alright. No,

42:00

actually pip you get put it back.

42:02

You got a bad boy.

42:04

Okay, for for fucking doing whatever

42:06

you just did Whatever you want to call

42:09

it being rude being rude and as we

42:11

only get those big add one damage die

42:13

to the attacks of any Creature that could

42:15

be useful pretty useful. Yeah, I would specify

42:17

Not not us. Yeah, that's an

42:20

NPC Actually,

42:22

no, you can all before one

42:24

fight. Yeah one fight only. I'll

42:26

start swapping the bodies I'll do my best. Obviously some

42:28

of them are in states of massive

42:30

disrepair But I feel

42:32

like I'm better suited. It seems like as may

42:34

has a sort of medical bent to a monster

42:36

hunting Yeah, anybody's gonna do a yeah I

42:39

think I think any of you taken I guess

42:41

my is very much like a no no person

42:43

left behind Yeah, where's tips like? Oh, well You

42:47

a bit well, how many times you probably got it

42:50

we should probably shoot you in the head now Oh,

42:52

yeah, you don't want to tell pit in a zombie

42:54

apocalypse You don't want to be like I think I've

42:56

been bit if it had been your head Oh, yeah,

42:58

what would it mean my head exactly? Sorry,

43:00

buddy. We got a empty taste. Hi the was Most

43:06

all right fuck as Maro Inspects

43:08

your bite you have contracted

43:11

sheep Pulls the pulls the

43:13

sleeve of your shirt back to reveal

43:15

you can see your own veins You

43:17

know how you can always see the

43:19

blue ones. Especially you can see that

43:21

you literally watch as black Slowly

43:24

moves through them when this

43:27

gets to your heart you will die. I

43:30

have not the Alchemical

43:32

ingredients to help with this give me

43:34

your axe Let's

43:39

one moment. I Pip do

43:41

you have Healing powerful healing.

43:43

I mean I can have a look but

43:45

I think we got to take the thumb

43:47

is me Let's see

43:49

powerful healing. Hmm. Nope.

43:52

Not really I've got regular healing

43:54

immunity to energy. Give me

43:56

the regular healing Okay, I'll

43:58

pull out a Malachite,

44:02

maybe I'll go the malachite. I'll also give some

44:04

more Death's Night Woe

44:06

because it's Undead Bane. Just might help might charge it

44:08

up a bit and then I'm

44:11

sure I have more Healing.

44:13

Oh, yeah, and some co-ordal eggshells which are

44:15

healing too. Do they have legendary power? No,

44:17

none of them do. That's what

44:20

I mean. I don't know. So this

44:22

is a strained potion because it's It's

44:25

not as powerful as it should be so the role

44:27

is a disadvantage But if she gets it, you

44:31

don't need to lose the thumb. She off. Forgot

44:34

to take the lower number, but that's

44:36

still fine He manages to make a

44:38

bandage out of the oh, she just

44:40

takes a bandage mushes

44:42

the eggshells into it, pours the

44:44

or places the Death Knight's Woe

44:46

gently on it And then she

44:49

crushes the malachite Makes

44:51

a sandwich of sorts, presses it together

44:53

as hard as she can and then

44:55

wraps that around her hand Keep

44:57

this bandage on for at least a day.

45:00

It should stop the infection If

45:03

it does not, how will we know? If

45:05

you begin to see the infection spreading

45:07

out from underneath the bandage Then

45:10

we will consider taking the hand.

45:12

I'd say I'm on the

45:14

stairs. I'd say before it gets to your

45:16

elbow Because you want to

45:18

get it before the elbow because you don't want to

45:21

then you've got a little bit of motion range It's

45:23

easier to put a prosthetic arm. You could see it

45:25

moving but you could tell It

45:27

was moving slow enough that you can probably

45:29

keep it to the hand if you want

45:31

to. Yep. Yep So like it okay, cool.

45:33

Cool. Cool. Well, yes, like yeah As

45:36

may would know about As

45:39

my seems pretty confident with this. Thank you. Thank you. Thank

45:41

you It was not a

45:43

flesh rot But I have she

45:46

gestures to her where her leg

45:48

was I have experience with

45:51

removing disease Thank

45:53

you for helping both of you. Thank you

45:56

She's not good. Thank you and could have

45:58

been a lot worse. Yeah Okay,

46:01

right let's if you don't know Yeah

46:06

For the ones I can yeah the

46:09

ones whose heads are exploded. I mean Well,

46:12

we might be okay from that Um

46:17

I think you've actually got to the point pip

46:19

yeah, you can't fail this check anymore.

46:22

That's awesome I think

46:24

on the clap dude get a good boy card. Yes,

46:27

and that owner Free roll constitution

46:29

base check that would have useful Pip

46:38

you're pretty confident. It's good. All right. I think

46:40

they're fine. I'm coming back up How's

46:42

house? Oh, yeah, you got a bandage on him. It

46:45

seems absurd Did

46:47

you wonder is there anything these are dead

46:49

adventures, right? That's true I might be

46:51

anything on them I think in a

46:53

situation like this in a place like

46:55

this any resource helps Oh, yeah, that's

46:57

probably a good idea. Their equipment is

47:00

for the most part pretty fucking useless

47:02

You can peel armor and weapons from

47:04

the dead But there are the armor

47:06

and weapons are so badly damaged and

47:08

decayed to truck that to truck them

47:10

back It might just not be worth.

47:12

Oh, yeah, yeah for sure But

47:15

among their possessions you do

47:17

find some useful stuff you

47:20

find about not about

47:22

sorry you find exactly 225

47:25

gold coins among all of the corpses the

47:27

coins are Like a million

47:30

different types of minting You can

47:32

see from all over not just

47:34

candor not just Barovia from other

47:36

realms of existence, you know Features

47:38

on the coins that are completely

47:40

alien. That's all who's this old

47:42

lady with a crown I

47:45

don't know that look like any queen. I know Queen.

47:47

I know yeah paper

47:49

money Sure. Yeah, maybe it's

47:51

a Ben Franklin Some

47:54

of it might be paper money that would

47:56

not be included because the paper money would

47:58

not wouldn't even register. Yeah towards them.

48:00

Yeah, rotted by now. Yeah, true.

48:03

You additionally find two spell scrolls,

48:05

they're divine spell scrolls for what

48:07

it's worth, it won't matter too

48:10

much. One is of spider-climb and

48:12

the other sleep storm. Cool. Neither

48:15

of you can just cast them, it requires a

48:17

roll to cast either of the scrolls. Okay. Yeah,

48:20

Esmeralda as well, because they're divine.

48:22

They're kind of an annoying... Yeah,

48:24

an annoying type down here. They're

48:26

arcane type spells, but for their

48:29

prayer scroll. Yeah. So, no

48:31

one here has the connection necessary to

48:33

just cast them. Yeah, yeah. But anyone

48:35

can, it just requires the roll. If

48:37

I were to say upstairs, I

48:39

could cast these? No, no, no, you couldn't either.

48:42

You would need to have it as

48:44

part of your spell list. Oh, okay,

48:46

cool. Yeah, so you'd need to be

48:48

a very specific type of caster, it's

48:51

just randomly generated. Yeah, yeah.

48:53

I mean, the spider-climb you

48:55

pull off some sort of...

48:57

Actually, you know what? Fuck.

49:00

You pull the... This one makes sense,

49:02

spider-climb you pull off a fucking drow,

49:04

that makes a lot of sense. But

49:06

sleep storm was randomly generated. Okay. Oh,

49:09

okay. Fabulous. Yeah, anyway.

49:11

Hey, gotta accept this. Good

49:14

stuff, good stuff. Alright. Yes,

49:17

so two sets of doors to your left, one

49:19

is double, one is single, one

49:21

set of double doors to your right, and then stairs

49:24

that lead down into the darkness. You

49:26

can just make out a

49:29

hood of some giant statue

49:31

out of the darkness. Pip, you might

49:33

have gotten a closer look. Yeah. It

49:35

looks like there's somewhere in this chamber,

49:37

there's a statue of the same entity

49:40

that was outside. I mean,

49:43

we don't have a map or anything of this place. Is it

49:45

the kind of thing where we just... This makes

49:47

sense to me. We just descend until we find

49:49

what we're looking for. Potentially I was going to

49:52

check the doors to see if

49:54

a hardcastle had marked anything. That's a good

49:56

idea. Smart. No, you just see those four

49:58

notches and then the indication... of bogman

50:00

okay so he didn't if we

50:02

go over to the other doors nothing oh on

50:05

this level no you see no marks on

50:07

any of the no sorry I tell

50:09

a lie you do see a mark on the

50:12

single door on your left you see

50:14

a seven tally mark

50:18

this one has a seven that

50:21

means I would assume assume this is how it

50:23

works he's gone deeper and they'll be further marks

50:25

down yeah so he came back to this one

50:27

all right he's been here but this is not

50:30

the direct path that he followed no still let's

50:32

open it let's have a look oh okay

50:35

with the door and have a period

50:37

you see this was once

50:39

this room connects first off to

50:41

the arrow slit room where I

50:44

looking before this was

50:46

once probably some sort of barracks it

50:48

looks like maybe soldiers guards whatever were

50:50

stationed in this room and used it

50:52

as a rest spot while they were

50:54

doing shifts in the arrow slit room

50:57

okay there's nothing okay no yeah you

50:59

turn the room over nothing of interest no

51:01

no the marking no nothing I know marking in

51:03

that room night that room did come to

51:06

a dead end though the arrow slit room is a dead

51:08

end so hmm there was nothing on the

51:10

other two doors yeah so on this

51:12

way night nothing I could see I think

51:14

deep produce so hard

51:16

castle didn't seem to go into these ones

51:19

no but I didn't see any other any

51:21

other markings on those two doors see anything

51:23

the double doors on the left yeah two

51:25

doors on the left you see that they're

51:27

locked but other than that no

51:30

no markings does it seem weird that he

51:32

came back here but then we didn't find

51:34

like an eight marking anywhere further back from

51:36

where we came from you might find

51:38

it ominous meaning that maybe

51:41

that is where he met his

51:43

demise yeah I'm totally disappeared or

51:45

something but he could have

51:47

also come up seven going down again

51:49

yeah when you say that

51:51

the two doors on the left locked mm-hmm

51:53

are they like a padlock or is like

51:55

locked doors or it's an internal to the

51:57

door lock you give the doors an experimental

52:00

little push and you can tell that they

52:02

are barred. These are barred, I cannot even

52:06

begin to think how I would pick the lock.

52:08

I'm not very clumsy. I'm all

52:10

thumbs. The iron doors

52:13

in case in Ambra look pretty sturdy,

52:15

but you imagine given enough time

52:17

you could open them. I guess downwards.

52:19

Downwards we go. Downwards we go. You've

52:22

got to keep your eye out for notches and

52:24

bog men. I'll light a

52:26

torch again and... Yep. Oh,

52:28

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