What begins as a cautious approach quickly twists into a surreal game of invitation and illusion, as the group navigates a fortress that refuses to behave like any ordinary place.
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[00:00:09] I walk up to the table. I noisily pull the chair back like it screeches on the floor. He makes known where he is.
[00:00:34] I sit down and I smell the glass. I realize this is memory, not poison. Are you specifically sitting at one of the sides? Choose one of the seats. Heads. There's four on each side. Is there a head at the table? There is right there next to the organ plane. Oh no, I don't want to sit next to it. Is that too far? That's where the head of the table is. The organ's right behind it. Okay, well I'll just sit here. Yeah. Right there's good? Well, that's Trayvion, but... Oh yeah.
[00:01:03] I'll sit somewhere around here and I'll start drinking. Where's everybody else sitting? I'm gonna stay in the hallway. I will drink and eat like a leg of lamb and then burp really loud. All right, closer or away from the organ? Closer. Closer? Okay. In between me and the music. Can I sit like farthest? At the very end towards the door where the rhino is? Yes.
[00:01:32] Is Dracula here? Whoa, he's playing. He's playing. Where are you sitting? You wouldn't sit right next to Dracula. Everybody's on the same side of the table. Wait, what time? Are you going to talk the oil armor? I learned from a pain and that's how it's supposed to work. Maybe like rub yourselves together to get some oil? No, that's weird. Greg, where are you? So I have two thoughts. How quickly can Greg think? As quickly as John. That's not one of the thoughts. I just want to know... What's your intelligence? Oh, that's a good question. I don't think it's Greg.
[00:02:03] I am just a... I have no brain. Just say, what's your knowledge? I'm literally the scarecrow. That's what I should have asked my father for as a brain. My intelligence... Knowledge base should be the four... Is negative one. Yeah, you don't think very fast. Alright, so I'm either going to go sit next to Dracula and enjoy his playing. Help him play. Or I'm going to go talk to me just enough. I think it would make sense if you talked to Armour.
[00:02:32] So I'm going to roll... Do you have a coin in the back of the way? What are you doing? I'm going to flip this coin. He's making this decision. It has nothing on it. Alright, it's clearly heads. Which means I'm going to go talk to the Armour. He's talking to the suit of Armour. And I'm going to do one of those things where I put my hand up against the wall like this. I'm like... Yeah, yeah, yeah. What brings you into the wall? Can we do a wall lean? Yeah! Nice! I hope this works out for y'all.
[00:03:01] You're looking extra shiny to pick. The light here oiled up. Can they're off? He's going to go flare with the Armour in the hall. I've never felt these feelings before. Got a little dust on your shoulder. No, I don't want to touch them. I'm still shocked. And that gives you a chance to arrest them. Yeah! You've got respect. Yeah. This is the Middle Ages for God's sake. You're just going to invade the personal space by doing the wall lean right up against them? How... How... How long have you known Dracula? I don't know. Are you in good standing with him?
[00:03:31] No! Are you Dracula's armor? Has Dracula been inside you? Now I don't want to talk to you. Just get a little ambience going. Sounds... Can we make requests? Can you play Caroline? Sweet Caroline! If Beethoven was a vampire, he'd be Bach.
[00:04:03] If he was the Terminator, he'd be Bach. Of all the vampire jokes in the entire world, you had to go there? Yes! Okay. I don't really think this is a living scenario. What are you doing, Greg? You guys have watched all the other Potter movies, right? Are you doing great? I'm doing what I said, but I'm doing it like a joke. He's laying on the wall, talking to the armor. But I know that it's not a lie like that.
[00:04:31] All those jokes in the entire world, you have to go with the holy? Well then you're all at the other end. Wait. You know that it's not. I know that it's not. Sweet! Sweet! Sweet! Sweet! Sweet! Sweet! Sweet! Sweet!
[00:05:02] Sweet! Special! Sweet Paul! Sweet! Sweet! And tournament assignments. Use this wedding isn't real good. for you and this yes it smells amazing and as you hear him as he continues to play and he does not turn to speak to you just continues playing as he did
[00:05:27] begins to speak he says my honored guests please eat you must be famished from your journey traveling to castle Dracula is no easy task and he continues
[00:05:46] playing some more I sit right over surprisingly place so did the did the armor's not doing okay I didn't I wasn't hoping what do y'all do I can talk if
[00:06:14] you want me to but it's probably better if one of us all right I'm gonna say who who's got the highest presence what's your presence so that's pretty good what about you trivia my presence is to my presence is to I'm gonna say that for
[00:06:43] rocks it as the highest presence that we could possibly have and we have now voted you our personal mouthpiece to speak to that that's not supposed to be dirty that's just how you say things what am I saying
[00:07:16] thank you for your hospitality Dracula yo dawg are you phantom of the opera are you Dracula what's your name how's it going tell us your life story we're here why are we here we're here to kill him right that's what I say out loud because I don't I'm asking I think that's what that's
[00:07:40] what we're like down the hall I can hear it yes they might not be able to hear me but now I'm Julie confused you can you can you can what's up yo I mean I'm not down the hall like I'm like I'm like you're you're in
[00:08:11] do you join us no I'm by the armor that will normally sit the other side of the hall you know I need to be old do you need some lube I need some oil to keep from rust all right who's lube in him the oil so don't don't we do that I'm not there all right I think she asked why we're
[00:08:37] why we're here what if I rub can why everybody like why are you invited like well not invited like what what is the purpose of if you expect that and you made us food what's the purpose of your face obviously he was expecting us what's your face so what are your intentions all right so he continues to play and as he does who's your chef he
[00:09:08] says can he be hired for us does he care what is this honey mead you've given us it tastes like memories well who's asking first her okay she's our representative all right well so he continues playing and as he does he says the castle sees few visitors these days
[00:09:36] now when I do have visitors I make sure that they're treated as they should be guests of honor hell's teeth it's cuz your driveway so damn long maybe treat them with some bio freeze for their knees and arthritis
[00:09:54] he says no man pack as he continues to play never missing a key by the way he tells you those who travel to this castle
[00:10:08] travel here with their own agenda their own purpose some try to steal from me others seek immortality to answer your question of why you are here I cannot answer that for you
[00:10:32] I think we're here to form a political alliance with you I hear you're looking for some jewelry we want to kill an archbishop realistically I think our interests could align with the presence of two
[00:10:53] I'm going to make the world to make him understand the world go ahead bro okay let's see if he takes it yeah if you're trying to persuade go for it I am bored with the number d10 and d12 so I'm gonna walk into the area I'm gonna get closer you guys
[00:11:16] let me see what I'm gonna see what I'm gonna come in to be with you guys 23 I'm bored with it okay 23 23 okay and he continues playing and he says yes the amulet
[00:11:45] the piece that is missing the piece that was stolen from me but I mean I'm still confused on this but like you do you have the stone or the setting for the stone nobody's been really upfront with me about this you've got the bloodstone and the other dude's got your necklace or you've got the necklace and the other dude's got your stone it says the stone was stolen so that bishop is a dick we're all on the same page no need to turn the page
[00:12:15] but the stone also is not as powerful without the amulet that it sits in right the thing you got so let's go get the stone back from dipshit bishop and you can fix everything because you seem like a genuinely nice guy he's not a guy we met his son his son likes him wait how did you have a can vampires reproduce I'm just curious
[00:12:44] maybe it was pre-vampiric we watched the wife get stabbed and then he started doing some magic I mean like I'm just curious all that works I think his vampiricism comes from like a magical thing rather than like he didn't get bit no he did some like blood I'm starting to like have all sorts of feelings right and I don't understand them that's gonna be for a while that turns into your age that's the drink
[00:13:14] also I have this this these iron filings coming out of my body they're up it's oil constantly leaking I don't have that is that gonna happen yes so he continues playing and as he does he says well let's speak face to face alright
[00:13:42] that is if you can find me well why wouldn't you just talk to us this is hide and go seek have you not played any games in a long time oh was that with hope or fear by the way oh it was not with hope that means you can't get any more
[00:14:12] yeah we just have to actually you know what hold on this is actually more on theme the red thank you for that it's all your fault that's more on theme thank you alright don't worry I'm sure he's close to the cat alright so if you're not face to face with us
[00:14:41] the player piano has a mystery cloaked fellow sitting there and you hear as the organ stops playing and as it does you hear him laugh and then as he laughs he disappears not into a swarm of bats but just vanishes
[00:15:11] and a gust of wind surges through the entire room through the entire room he has gone as it does it shuts the doors and then on the outside of it yeah you see all the torches go out he gets fludging the entire castle into darkness wait none of us can see now it's a good thing I already had poor eyesight anyway wait wait a second
[00:15:41] cause I don't see with vision so maybe I can sense everything because I am just a suit of armor somehow I don't know is that true? do you have any animals that have night vision? can I see at all? can I low? can you? you don't yeah you don't have okay I can't see anything guys holy shit I'm blind yeah we'll just follow the animal turn into something of night eyes sonar you had an owl in there you could be an owl
[00:16:12] does anyone have a fire jar? I almost got that that would've helped just got the stress to change are you just stressing yourself out to do all that shit? you just do it so willy nilly yeah oh god oh god so we're basically just gonna play Marco Polo all together hold on the doors closed from the inside so I can just push them back open yeah we have torches I do that oh cool yeah lights and markers
[00:16:43] it doesn't require a roll because they're not lock shed or anything okay so you just kinda nudge it with your horn and it opens yeah it just kinda opens as your horn just kinda comes through oh you're still a rhino yes oh thank god uh I take the torch Travion made a good point when most of us have torches I'm gonna take my torch out and zippo lit the zippo? shhh it's in my nomad pack
[00:17:12] I've collected a lot of modern day he throws fireballs I mean are you pyro? I literally have hairspray and a zippo that's how I've been doing it this whole time just yeah alright what do you next? blumber forth anybody that wants to get on? I'm getting on you can't I thought yeah I'm full now and then I will walk through the halls
[00:17:39] and eventually we'll see how well a rhino can climb stairs I drink like everybody's honey made so like I'm assuming he's not gonna be on the ground for the I am full maybe he's in the castle I love it that we have like a rhino to ride yeah a ride that just keeps us all together he doesn't have to ask us marching order because we're all yeah I'm just gonna move and I can just move to Rhino yeah and then move everybody else later I'll see one of the deck kicks off a Beatles song in my head
[00:18:09] yeah okay well sir yes you should sample that song I don't know what do you got that? where you got I was thinking a little more he's so heavy those look like wider stairs than these mm-hmm so I'm thinking we go that way he's heavy but he's still my brother yeah yeah yeah yeah I think we go that way actually that path seems more lit yeah
[00:18:37] can I roll to try and perceive the roll we're on your back yes you can your D10 D12 oh and I add one yep and that is dead it's actually hold on do you have advantage um actually let me share so that's a 25 locate I do gain advantage
[00:19:07] okay you don't roll an advantage okay you have disadvantage so because of the environment so it just cancels out okay cool that's what I was asking so yeah alright what'd you get so 18 plus 1 is 19 plus 7 is 26 with hope and that is with hope hope alright we'll take that down by 1 um
[00:19:36] because I've already spent 2 I just gained 1 spent 2 to activate the thing earlier I think it was I can't remember if it was the thorn skin or the oh yeah one of the things that I activated right requires 1 hope I spent 2 yeah yeah I spent 2 got it uh and then okay so what are you perceiving for or are you looking for
[00:20:06] just the environment so anything specific um probably going off of sounds can you smell anything and that's where the disadvantage part comes at so as you're kind of trying to navigate through here yeah you notice that there is this place is heavily um shrouded in illusion mm-hmm so you start walking and then you start going down the hall and then you start back wait what? did I just walk in circles?
[00:20:37] and then sounds you hear sounds right? yeah like coming off this one direction like running water you start going towards that direction and then it's coming from the other direction yeah so this place is heavily screwing with your senses mm-hmm I close my eyes and work just off of smell right and what smell are you looking for specifically? the smell that he had the smell that he had whenever he was in the room playing with people
[00:21:06] aging flesh and iron well he didn't have a smell oh what about the smell on the way? well what he did smell was the food and the drink uh can I roll to have recognized or to have marked his scent? mm-hmm in any way? he didn't have any scent he didn't have any scent so he was an illusion all along exactly
[00:21:36] he wasn't in there yeah he wasn't playing the piano that well could he just like sniff from like he didn't miss living dead things in general? do it like you know they gotta smell like their corpses right? this entire castle smells like death to the king hmm blood might be a good if he has any blood I don't know how good is your senses? I mean I have a plus seven to perceive is that like bloodhound level? yeah that's pretty good
[00:22:04] he can try to like single out you know if he turned into a shark if he wants to get specific like if you're looking for a specific like not just one like specific like trying to determine like the difference between the blood smells you know um you know you try and do that you kid you could try that that's where the disadvantage part comes in yeah which you get advantage of right? for perceiving for locating or right right right so you can't see each other out right
[00:22:34] like I think that if there is anything in this castle that wasn't made out of the castle itself it would have a different smell so you just smell for the different thing but the castle is part of him spiritually not not not like olfactory I think you got that now we drive a steak into the dining room maybe it's not so much as smell as it is sensing yeah
[00:23:03] I'm still able to work off of instinct for that you have a spell cast rate don't you? that is my instinct there you go so I am going to follow the basically look for the source of the energy that is pervading the castle exactly that's basically that's weighing down upon you yep there you go roll again yeah roll again okay so that's a 69
[00:23:33] yeah or is it 96? plus 2 plus 7 so that's also with hope takes it down and that's
[00:24:02] 12 plus 10 plus 2 plus 2 24 mm-hmm you have located it it the organ the organ the organ right back in the same room we left I walk over the table that's obviously fairy food crushing it beneath you that's mahogany man no it's fairy food mahogany mahogany
[00:24:32] sounds good yes the source of it is coming from the organ now the trick is I hold up one leg like this and then I just tell y'all the source is in there but I'm doing like a bloodhound thing so now someone could inspect the organ I recommend somebody with fingers what do you need to do to do that?
[00:25:02] oh it's a roll instinct or do well actually knowledge I'll do that um so I'll do a basic inspection and comprehension analyze and comprehend the organ and its surrounding mechanisms alright uh do you have advantage I have uh I've seen some shit which will give me a plus two oh that sounds good
[00:25:31] okay uh do we still have to spend two hope for that? yup that's still active so you still gotta spend an extra one so give me I gotta roll to disadvantage dog one one strange patterns with sedative four thanks to Chuck oh
[00:26:01] so give me a hope the total so that's twenty to analyze and I rolled with fear but I got a hope in thanks Chuck
[00:26:31] uh you said it was a twenty total? twenty total okay and I did roll one on the disemaniac so it's nineteen alright yeah and you said with fear mm-hmm alright so go ahead and mark a stress mm-hmm that really stressed me out um as as as you you succeeded with fear so you continue
[00:27:00] you check the organ you inspect it um as you do uh you get like feedback from like magical feedback basically you know as it uh travels like up your arm and it kinda like singes you almost hell's teeth boy put a magical spell on this thing to play music right sts sticking your finger in the socket yeah I got a splinter from something that's sort of a
[00:27:32] but you do find when you press one to pedals the the entire organ itself shifts it's a hidden doorway as it does you see stairway that leads down he was there what's not stairway ahead of you he wasn't an illusion he just jumped down the hidden doorway without a he's like Batman he's everybody
[00:28:01] follow me he's hiding under the table how wide the stairs uh you cannot fit in my room what do y'all think should I stay up here where I'm useless or drop rhino form drop rhino form become a spider monkey it's like a spider monkey with like eight legs uh goop it up
[00:28:31] I think I'll drop rhino form it was fun riding you for a while are you doing the spider monkey thing yeah he's gonna stress himself again to become another animal so let's just be oozed for now yeah stop stressing yourself out can the ooze move on its own okay it carries shields and stuff does it make that sound? yes it has been the whole time it just looked like a rhino
[00:29:09] spirit rhino? spirit rhino spirit rhino have you dropped it? we can't we can't ride him though can you do that? let's do that spirit rhino well he can spend some hope to still come in contact with us but otherwise he's an ethereal rhino so I am still a rhino oh man but I am dropping on the spirit all I can't think of now is young guns man we've been in a sphere around yeah I cannot keep up with the rate
[00:29:38] that you're doing your transformation sir I stayed rhino no no I'm talking pictures oh sorry there you go so what's wrong with this that'll get your hairs that's what you were riding the entire time yeah that'll get your hair I don't mark a stress okay gotta go shampooing that out no I don't mark a stress cause you need those because alright marching order
[00:30:08] um yeah cause we can't ride him anymore yeah all of a sudden y'all just kinda drop into me landing on the floor aww as they pass through like that slime yeah it's definitely put me in there no I can't actually interact with physical material world anymore so you won't actually feel me you just see me all around you until you walk out of me
[00:30:35] feels weird alright um go ahead and put me in the back yeah you can be in the back do you have any kind of like you're an elf right mm-hmm do you have like any natural vision and darkness or anything like that enhanced ability to I think it has I know that you had a thing that had
[00:31:04] it helped you find the way just white foot and I'm in the middle of the night and you're silenced mm-hmm I teared up alright well I'll go in front of you then cause I think my warmer's better than yours is to the HP
[00:31:33] so I'll go in front and then take Greg behind me so I can shift behind him if needed alright and then Sid will trade you on light bane honestly it's probably best if I'm in front because if something attacks us it would be immune right
[00:32:03] yeah but it would just go through you so that would just be a false sense of illusion and not declare it it doesn't say that it just says I'm immune to the attack yeah you're intangible you're immune to damage that type of damage yeah alright so you as you continue down down the stairs and follow
[00:32:34] it leads to just a spear it's floating down it leads to a giant door that's the door itself is different than the others it's decorative it's heavy
[00:33:02] I can't help you with that it is so heavy as you push forward through the doors you're greeted at the following dim light from the courtyard filters through the iron lettuce work of the massive west window
[00:33:32] the faint glow of lightning silhouettes and jagged shards don't cling into the frame the hall is enormous a cathedral of shadow in silence empty iron scones line the walls like hollow eyes cobwebs thick ancient undisturbed draped from the ceiling in heavy curtains
[00:34:01] hiding its true height dust drifts through the air like falling ash the wachobians speak of this place the heart of dust watches curse the chamber where the night sovereign renders judgment where glamours twist through where mortals kneel or die no one enters this hall without being seen known and measured and tonight you are the ones being measured at the southern end of the hall atop the marble dais stands a large wooden throne
[00:34:29] high backed card with snarling beasts and curling vines it faces south turned away from the room as if the occupant has no need to acknowledge those who approach but he knows you are there he has known since you cross dagger reach since you stepped into dust watch since you set foot in his castle the storm outside rumbles like a warning and then a voice smooth cold and ancient enter
[00:34:59] good here I am boo I also enter I will slide into I- we're going inside the figure on the throne shifts he rises with the grace of a falling shadow cloak trailing behind him like living smoke his silhouette is tall regal unmistakable matching the figure you saw perched against the blood red moon outside he steps toward the broken window
[00:35:28] the storm light outlining his sharp features his pale skin the dark elegant coat that clings to him like a second shadow in one hand he holds a goblet of fresh blood its surface swirling like liquid garnet he does not turn to face you not yet he gazes out into the storm into the courtyard below nobody's here nobody's here the castle is silent the air is still and the count speaks
[00:36:00] one one one without looking back he lifts the goblet slightly as though toasting the storm I wondered how long it would take you to reach my hall he slips slowly a quiet breath you have crossed my mountains trespassed in my domains and spilled the blood of those loyal to me he tilts his head watching lightning dance across the sky
[00:36:31] Val guards champions or so you believe yourselves to be he finally turns just enough for one crimson eye to meet yours tell me then as a faint smile curls at the corner of his mouth what judgment do you seek? what truth do you think you have uncovered? he steps closer to the window the goblet catching the lightning's glow
[00:37:01] speak your peace oh he turns fully now facing you the storm behind him the throne before him the hall trembling with his presence yeah bub well same story as above I assumed you were listening to me up there so I don't know about Val guard
[00:37:30] but we're definitely travelers we're passing through and it just so happens trespassing is equivalent to your realm is a stickly bush that we cannot get out of that not being my problem I'd like to make a deal with you bartering some of this and some of that we kill the archbishop get you your stone back and then you fix that damn tree and let us out
[00:38:05] yeah me too should I pull my sword out? hold off on that for now I got quick draw if necessary as he holds his goblet and takes another sip and where did you get fresh more? no it's a conundrum for me just wanted to know I've got to recycle this shit there's nobody around it's like drinking your own feed oh god
[00:38:35] probably it's not just blood dude the sand they have like the tubes going through his nose he walks from side to side he takes a goblet and looks at you and he raises it towards you and he says bring me the bloodstone Jim and I will allow you to leave Wachovia why is everybody so god damn lazy about doing shit
[00:39:03] I mean you want the stone anyway you come with us we're helping you we'll keep you safe from the scary old man anybody want to roll a knowledge? alright I do have actually or instinct either or let's see what my instincts are I have pretty good answers I'm going to roll instincts it's under your legs right? oh I need one person to roll yeah
[00:39:32] he has seven that's really high jeez that's high why am I still behind the baby wipes? oh wait I'm not even looking at the light that is with fear um plus seven is 26 you said with fear? yeah 26? okay yes they're conversating between the two
[00:40:02] you connect the dots the bloodstone Jim has been stolen for quite some time yeah and he's never gone after it he's never gone after it if he was capable of doing it himself he would have gotten it already instead he planted five vampires within the circle for his plan to retrieve it so he was using five of his own people and a master plan that he came up with in order to retrieve it
[00:40:32] which failed which failed because your involvement yeah well technically they probably would have failed anyway there's a ghostwriter there the revenant yeah and also the priest literally just yeah he was pretty good well the revenant was there because of you guys somebody sucked that fucker on us in the first place so I don't know I'm feeling like that was still the archbishop since he still controlled the thing
[00:41:00] but this is that's where you've connected these dots and so do you nudge me in spirit form and let me know this? I'll just say it out loud an ethereal rhino bullshit he can't do it himself he'd have done it already in that voice well the vampire in me is just shaking his head going up alright
[00:41:29] the human part of me that's still somewhat there is like whatever so this is my spirit animal you'll forgive him for his bluntness but so what's the issue bug? you can't leave the house or what? are you kind of like agoraphobic? you could say that he smiles as he looks at the spirit he says you are correct
[00:41:56] it appears that the belllark and I are at a still mate I cannot retrieve the item that I need from him and he can't retrieve what he needs from me at least not on a row what if we as a group take the two of you and he says meanwhile the blight continues to infect yes that's my problem
[00:42:25] and as he continues to drink he says what a fitting end if I cannot retrieve this myself I will allow the blight to consume us all well I mean you kind of started the blight buddy including her? you're pretty much poisoning your woman's spirit she's inside the tree and you blinded everybody you're drawing in entities from other realms
[00:42:53] I don't know if you've picked up on this or not buddy but like your nihilist way of looking at things is fucking things up Rhino agrees with me cause he's ooze poison ooze from that tree this is your not your child but it is your wife's child it's your product yes well it's your byproduct
[00:43:20] I was born to heal the blight I thought I was born to kill it he says the only way her spirit can be released from that tree is if I can restore her what do you need to do that? if I had the ability to do that that would have done it already right that's why I say what do you need to do that?
[00:43:49] unless you know of a way to restore her um that is the bargaining chip I can do regeneration I can do temporal manipulation I spent centuries trying to find a way to bring her back but like linear you're going in time that way further away from where she is what if we can get you back to her and then you stop effing with everybody else
[00:44:18] we just need a little plutonium that's different yeah great scott! he's onto something he says so unless you have a way of restoring her then you are stuck between two choices psst look we have her back! you might not like this Dracula but your kids are going to love it
[00:44:46] he says you could aid me and retrieve what I need or you could aid the bellart and retrieve what he needs after all that is why you have come here as he raises his goblin and takes another drink actually no I went there to kill that fucker and then he had some crazy kids and then somebody was like well if we just go talk to Dracula maybe we can create an alliance and kill that fucker anyway but you're kind of telling me that you need me to go talk to him again
[00:45:12] there's a lot of back and forth between you sassy little sillies and I'm starting to get tired of it you're a sassy silly a sassy silly do you still have that teleportation? it's an ss yeah well I can teleport if we need to this is a lot of travel yeah I know the place really well and I got a map of it oh yeah it's mine that I have to set a point no I just have to have been there
[00:45:42] his modifier depends on how well he knows the place I bought that map so that I would know it well I could set a point here for us to be able to teleport back to him you genius do that alright so our payment from you is that you'll let us escape your condemned realm yes if we get you the blood ruby
[00:46:11] and you're not going to try to use the blood ruby to rejuvenate your woman it doesn't work that way if that was how it worked well then what the hell do you even want it for to begin with anyway what's your goal? what's your end game man? he says you do not understand the power of the blood stone at all hell no I wear a temporal vortex around my neck
[00:46:38] have you ever thought to yourselves why the bell lark wants the blood stone because he's a creepy old man they all crave power why does he want it whole? for what purpose? do you really think he wants to heal the blight? no I don't want him alive or in power I don't trust the church he says this is the reason why I keep it this is why I guard it so you're protecting the realm is that what you're telling me? yes
[00:47:07] but the blight is your fault the blight is temporary temporary but it's been temporary for how long now? well time's all a measurement of fucking nothing alright well did you set that thing? I can't do it wrong right offhand can you do it in spirit form? here's the thing the bell lark is not in Valgar
[00:47:38] he's waiting for you guys at Ashgrave have I been there? no where the fuck is Ashgrave? so what's close to it? he told us on the move Ashgrave is right there so we're here where was that other place? that was over here? yeah Varnwick's over there so this is where I was and I have a map of that place
[00:48:10] he's over here we've been here? uh, Grief's Hall oh yeah, you went Saint's Path and then you went down here through a graveyard in the air I wrote a 6 then I wrote a map of the blue tower and what's going on?
[00:48:43] and you're still a ghost? and I'm still spirit form. And so, yeah, Ashgrave is where Mellark is waiting for you because he needs the other part of the bloodstone and he needs this place in order to perform the ritual needed to fuse him back. Alright, Dracula, let's get down to the nitty-gritty.
[00:49:12] What do you know about the old man? Weaknesses, how does he pull so much fucking magic out of his ass? I need to have something I'm working on here. There's no tactical plan without knowing why a creepy old dude has control over walking vengeance spirits. He says, Mellark commands
[00:49:42] holy power, if you want to call it that. I don't. That is how he controls the spirits. There's got to be some other way he's doing it. He must have something on him. Well, I guess it's the stone, right? The stone does amplify his abilities. It's basically like the Philosopher's Stone. Hey, he's got the Philosopher's Stone, guys. The bloodstone also... Holy shit,
[00:50:11] he's the guy in the first few episodes. The bloodstone also grants his own portion of my abilities. He's probably trying to turn canaries into people, too. Which is his connection to the spirits. We have to stop him before he tries to take your daughter and put her inside of a dog. This is getting me bad, quick, guys. Working for that
[00:50:40] because you are the dog girl. I'm a rhino boy. Yeah, the camera the whole time. But he says, well, the choice is yours. You can, as he shows the empty amulet around his neck, you can claim what you came here for or we can return
[00:51:10] empty handed and then claim what is mine. I mean, are you asking me to kill you and take that from you? Or, I'm giving you a whole platter of like, give me some information on this guy you've been fighting for 500 years. The best you got is he's holy. So, I gotta go take care of your business for you and then come back here and we'll talk about it. Then it's a barter.
[00:51:41] You hand over to Bloodstone and I will... Well, once I have the Bloodstone we'll talk about my hand and shit. He says, you hand over to Bloodstone to me and yes, I'll let every one of you leave this place. Civil, are you from here? I live here. I don't know. She's from here. I'm born. I'm not a girl. Civil is here. He, the, it. Thank you. Yeah, Civil's from here. So, the three of them are from here.
[00:52:11] You oozed out of here. But basically, Ulrich, myself, and Lena are stuck here for the moment. Okay. Not to mention poor Faust as a pet. Oh, you know, I am interested in travel though so I'm willing to come with you. You're willing to come with me? Yeah, yeah, yeah. That's cool. Would you just become a lump of metal if we took you away from this place? Well, how would you say that? Is this a Charlie 13 situation? Why would you say that? I want to know before I tell you.
[00:52:40] the last time that happened I teleported you away and you fell out like a useless one. No idea what would happen if he moved in. Charlie 13 didn't die. It was depressing. There was no idea. It was depressing. I asked Dracula if he knows how to cleanse the point. Yes. Oh, cool. Let's do it. Oh, he says yes? Yeah. The bell arc is correct. You can use the bloodstone to purge the blight. However, if you do, you will release
[00:53:10] her spirit. I do not mean resurrect her. I mean, you will release her. I don't know what that means. What would I say? He won't have her spirit trapped in a tree in the river. Because I've been released. Her spirit will move on. So that's good. No, he wants to resurrect her. The whole reason this realm exists. Yeah, the whole reason why she's in that tree is because he does not want to let her go.
[00:53:39] We need to get this guy a therapist. What happens if something happens to the tree? You know, the next game... He's drinking the therapist. The next game, I'm going to actually roll to be a therapist. I'm going to be like a magic therapist and just ask every single one of these guys, like, who hurt you? Let's crap. Let go. Tell me about the feeling you have. We stopped trying for this long. Stop being a douche. What if someone burnt the tree down? Would it be if you had
[00:54:11] the completed stone thing, would you be able, like, would you even then have the power to resurrect her? He said no. He told me no. So what was the point of keeping her spirit and her spirit? My ability and regeneration would I be able to? I've never had any of you. then it seems like you should give us...
[00:54:40] Would you be willing to work with me to try and rebuild the amulet and see if I can get her out of the tree? Into a body. Into a body. Now, she may still be pissed at you if she sees you again. He says, the agreement would be for you to leave this place, but if you're willing to sacrifice yourself... Him. Him.
[00:55:09] I was born from her anyway. That's mommy. You need more mommy. It is his mommy. He says, if it gives the opportunity for her to come back, then yes. My purpose is to cleanse the blight and the only way that we can do that is to resurrect her. He says, the bloodstone takes. I'm sure. It does not give.
[00:55:39] It's a quicklet exchange. Holy shit. This whole time. You understand that this will take from you to amplify. It can't take anything that I wasn't given for this purpose. It's his destiny, man. His density. It's also his density. Well, I'm not very dense right now. But yes, he says, yes, I will give this a try. Okay. So this is what you
[00:56:09] would like to do. If you bring me to blipstone and I can put it back together. Then you give him the amulet and we go to the tree, we take care of all this mess that you've made and then you'll let us go and he'll probably die. I will take you to the tree, yes. Well, I've been there. I've been taking it myself. I'm willing to make that sense. Oh yeah, no. He's, he gets to blipstone anyone like that.
[00:56:38] He's not giving it up. Well, how's he going to use it? He has to loan it to me for a bit. Yeah. So I can use the power. There's sacrifices. Well, he can utilize the blipstone power. Right. Like you can combine your like tag team so to speak. Sure. Think about that back then. You can do that, yes. Okay. Because just because you had the blipstone doesn't mean you know how to use it. Sure. Like he does, he knows how to utilize it and how to tap into his energy combined with your abilities. Anything that gives me a better chance
[00:57:07] of not becoming the dark phoenix trapped inside. the sun that she controlled. Anyways. That was a lot of property management. That was a lot. Blipstone part two. Go look for Mike. I mean, this shirt and that shirt and that shirt and that shirt. I'm going to become the spawn crystal. The search for Mike. The search for Mike. Side quest.
[00:57:37] All right. Except it's all spirit. There you go. It is the shiko jewel. All right. So you heard, man, drop your marker here. He's useless to us until we actually fix it. If he's willing to let me leave a rift marker here. Can we make a same point in your house? I'm assuming I'm assuming I'd have to do it in the courtyard. I'm assuming he would rather I do it in the courtyard so that he at least
[00:58:07] has a door. Remind me to get a telescope. Yes. I mean, you can put a point here. Like, it'll bang. Right outside. Sure. I have a potion that I can teleport anywhere I can see. Oh. Okay. So I will drop out of beast form since we are apparently not combat right now. Yep. And I will roll
[00:58:39] it is plus 7 12 plus 4 16 on my spell cast roll of 15. Wow. And that is with hope. Oh. Drops it down by one. So we're about to leave the environment but
[00:59:08] we're about to do a job for a try. I'm trying to give Dracula hope. I would like to ask for something from Dracula in exchange. So marking placed. And then basically you can do a recall over this. Yeah. On a success I place an arcane marking on the ground where I currently stand. The next time I successfully cast Riftwalker a rift in space opens providing safe passage back to the exact spot where the marking is placed.
[00:59:38] That rift stays open until I choose to close it before I cast another spell. Nice. All right. Here's a question for the Democratic team of slime walkers. Yes, sir. We can if I know the place well I can get a bonus to taking us straight there. we've been to Saints Path which doesn't seem
[01:00:07] to be too far from Ashgrave. Yeah. The closest place that you know really well is going to be Crow's Haven. If I've only been there once I can only get like a penance. If I visited the place infrequently then there's no modifier. If I visited the place frequently then I get a plus one. If I know it really well then I get a plus three. I recommend if you do
[01:00:37] Saints Path there's going to be a plus zero. Right. Because you just passed through. Can I ask you? Like I get to the closest. So we can do that if everybody's down for that. And then if we get a telescope and Greg can see Ashgrave through the telescope which I can pull out of my bag because it's a mundane object then he can teleport us there. What? That one works for him. Yeah. I can pull a telescope
[01:01:06] out of my bag and give it to him. Well no. It all works for me. Oh you would get there? Only him. Yeah. And I have to wait for you guys to show. Yeah. That's a horrible idea. Yeah. It wasn't my idea. Then we'll just get a set. I just want a telescope so just in case. Alright. Here's a telescope. You have one? It's in my pack. Yeah. Can I just give it to you? Yeah sure. You want to take an exchange? Speaking of that Jack the since I've been helping you out here can I have that suit of armor?
[01:01:36] I'm going to go ahead and use I want to put it on. I want to have my own armor. For a moment. I want to be inside that armor. But you as a suit of armor want to put on So since we're here only one hope won't do shit right? If we walk out the front door. But hang on It does. I can actually use my favors so I'll spend
[01:02:06] Oh wait hold on if you do saints path it's going to be a minus two because you want them in there once. Oh well Just want to clarify that. So as a favor one favor equals how many points to modify me? Equal to my that's the game. What does it say underneath the warlock because it's a warlock class ability. I think it's a plus two but
[01:02:38] plus two yep so each one you spend alright so you well yeah because you're going to spend one per roll one favor per roll yeah one favor per roll but you get to add it in addition to like experience on top of the experience exactly so you can spend a hope for the experience and spend a favor performing a warlock and get a hope I've only got one home I can drop out spirit form well yeah you are but like I can drop out spirit form and reopen the gate yeah you guys have given permission
[01:03:07] to leave the castle so you can actually leave castle Dracula and then you can tell them yeah let's go outside and then I'll use this in my experience so we'll do this refine away and then I'll so that takes out the penalty and then you spend the favor giving a plus two bonus and my second sphere of influence is space so actual space so that would be
[01:03:37] another plus two so that's plus four over my roll I marked my stress to drop my spirit form so we can let me see real quick but which one uh the warlock oh anytime you increase your tier the spheres get a permanent plus one bonus
[01:04:06] it's actually plus three oh sweet um before making action when it relates to one of your people yep yeah so it's actually plus three twice if you spend two favor so it's actually plus six
[01:04:36] I dropped down a spirit form so that I can open the gate so plus six to do this oh the gate would open on so he oh he opened it yeah then I don't drop down a spirit form and that's where your upgraded armor came from oily armor is mine oh the oil feels so good then I don't drop out a spirit form I stay what I stay in one of my boys
[01:05:05] I want to keep that I'm feeling really good about this armor 37 with hope so hope that's a success I mean because you're always a 16 right yeah yeah yeah to roll against it is a 16 so 37 right so there you go we walked outside and all of a sudden you're like
[01:05:34] so basically what y'all would see is I just take out it's like caster comes out real quick it goes up with a flourish and it will spin and then he takes it rolls it down his sleeve until the barrel starts spinning and then blue light starts to like leak out from it and I just point at the ground and go and then this huge envulping like blue blast comes out that teleports us nice alright hang on to your britches boys and you girl
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