The party dares to split the board, sending a strike team into the jagged heart of the Dagger Reach while the rest hold the line at a sacred refuge that has already rewritten one fate.
Credit:
Bloodstone Logo and Theme (Crimson Crown) by Tony Stephens
[00:00:00] You're listening to a Saturday Night Gaming Podcast, Bloodstone, run by the Game Master, Scott Hibbard. Hope you enjoy!
[00:00:23] Last time on Bloodstone, the party stood at the edge of a storybook nightmare and chose to walk straight into the lion's den. At the foot of Castle Dracula, beneath storm-wracked skies and the weight of something ancient watching them, they made their final preparations and faced a choice laid out by Victor to count his estranged son.
[00:00:48] Rejecting subtlety, they marched through their front gates like a challenge thrown at the dark itself, stepping into a courtyard that breathed dread and a castle that knew they were there. Inside, reality twisted, feasts without hosts, music without a player, corridors that folded like a labyrinth dreaming of itself, until they uncovered a hidden descent into the castle's beating heart.
[00:01:13] There, in a hall of shadow and silence, they came face to face with Count Dracula, not as a monster in the dark, but as a cane bound by grief and stalemate. Words, not weapons, carried a moment. A bargain was struck. Retrieved a Bloodstone from the Bellark at Ashgrave, and returned freedom and perhaps something far more dangerous. Hope.
[00:01:35] And with that fragile alliance sealed, the Traveler tore open reality itself and the party vanished in a flash of light, hurtling toward Ashgrave, where fate, faith, and fire are about to collide. Three Fs. Yep. So, I'm trying not to make any rolls until we talk to the Bellark. Why?
[00:02:02] Because I want to use my presence at a plus eight instead of a plus three. Okay, but when? My Wild Surge gives my next action roll. Oh, okay. A bonus. Okay, so basically? So, ideally, y'all do the rolls up until we're negotiating with the Bellark. Okay. So, don't let you do anything until then. Ideally.
[00:02:32] I have teleported you to the action. Well, actually, it was Traveler that did that, and now he's tired. He's going to go take a nap. Yeah, he's winded from it, actually. And then, what's her name? Lena. Yes. I have a sister named Lena. I didn't have to do that. So, Traveler, Lena, and then also Travian. Yeah. They're all napping together. Well, yeah, because Traveler, he transported you guys halfway across Wachobia.
[00:02:59] But he's also securing the point that we need to teleport. The return point. Yeah. So, they're at the shrine right now, and he's winded, so he's kind of taking a breather. Lena is providing him aid, and Travian is providing guard. Yeah. With his cover. Yeah. With his little kitty cat. Little kitty cat. That has mauled assassins. His undead jaguar. There.
[00:03:29] Wow. What is a puma? Puma. That's right. Yeah. It's puma. You guys are at the shrine where you were reborn, Mike. Yeah. It's your birthplace. Rebirthplace? Rebirthplace? Yeah. Yeah. Something like that. Oh.
[00:04:02] So, Ashgrave is to the north. Short little journey north through the mountains. Okay. I need to focus. Phone down. Three of your party members are staying behind. Securing the exit point? Correct. Correct. And the other four of you are playing the extraction shooter. I mean, uh... Heading to meet the bell. That. Yeah. That. This is not an extraction shooter. We're definitely not shooting the bell.
[00:04:33] I mean, I can. I can shoot comets at him. Unless he says no. You're confusing me. I hope I'm just going to attack him and see you. No. You... You don't shoot comets at him. You light up the entire area with comets. That's very far. Can you do it as just a spectacle and not actually hit anybody? Oh, no. No, no, no. No, no, no, no. No, no, no, no. No, no, no, no. No, no, no. No, no, no. No, no, no, no. No, no, no, no. No, no, no, no, no.
[00:05:01] Yeah, you just use it and then everything in that area takes damage. Yep. You just chew a piece of gum and blow a bubble. It pops and everything falls. He picked up star drop. Oh. Can you time it? Yeah, that would be. Like, can you, like... Does it happen instantly? Just like that. As soon as it's consumed, it happens just like that. Okay. That's why I'm picturing it in my head anyways. He just pops a piece of bubble gum, chews it, pops it, pops a bubble and... He's all out of bubble gum. Sir Ulrich?
[00:05:31] Yes. I forgot to mention to you, you got an extra experience you need to fill in and you get a plus two on that one. Yeah, that's how I got the experience called XXX. Yeah. Yes, you did. Does it just make things explode? It's literally XXX. That's all the experience is called is XXX. And what's funny, I wasn't even referencing that.
[00:06:00] I was referencing Ben Diesel. But, double win. That's not where my mind went. I don't know what this one is for. I just... Oh, it's for the hexing. Yeah. True. It was supposed to be hex, hex, hex, and I'm like, let's just do XXX. Oh. It's easier to write. Yeah. X, X, X. X, X, X. What are you going to call your experience, sir?
[00:06:29] Strategic retreat. Oh, I like that. Nice. I could have called it something else, but that wouldn't have been in character with him. Run, bitch, run! That's funny, actually.
[00:06:55] What's even funny was when you said that, I'm watching a cheater run away from a lion. Oh, that's hilarious. That is perfect. That's great. All right. I'm trying to make sure this is the video that I learned that factored from. What happens when you're in a room with everybody with ADHD? Oh, yeah. Sorry, guys. Oh, wait. We were doing something other than watching Casual Geographic?
[00:07:25] Yes. We were moving to Ashland. Right? Ashland? Ashgrave. Ashgrave. Ashland is a different place. Yeah. Okay. So, this is going to get interesting.
[00:07:57] Welcome back to Dagger Reach. We're here. At least you can mark and know what to cut out. Right? Yeah. We all went on a list. All right.
[00:08:24] So, as you travel through Dagger Reach, you turn toward the mountains. The Dagger Reach rises like a wall of black granite and mist. Its peaks jagged as broken blades. The wind whistles through narrow passes carrying whispers that do not belong to the living. The Wachovia provinces describe this place as a crucible haunted by geists watched by vampires shaped by the land's hunger.
[00:08:50] You see flickers of hail light drifting between the rocks. Silent screams vibrating in your bones. The mountains are waking. And they await your approach. Don't be suspicious. Don't be suspicious. The mountains are waking. That's not good. Now, am I...
[00:09:20] Is that why I have to use star drop on the fucking mountains themselves? Don't worry about it. I'm a spirit of nature now. Oh. Emphasis on spirit. The mountains actually cannot interact with me. This may help. Wait, you're a spirit now? Yeah. He has a spirit form. Yeah. I am in spirit form right now. All right. You cannot touch me.
[00:09:49] Can't touch this. You guys are 90s kids. Yeah. You guys ready for this? I am waiting to hear that. Are you going to say stop? No. Because then I won't know if it's hammer time. Yeah. I need you to stop, collaborate, and listen. Give it up. Good strength's got cruel. And welcome to the climb. Uh-oh.
[00:10:19] We have to go up the mountain. We don't bring any climb equipment. I'm going to switch this over to here real quick. Why would he teleport us on this side of the mountains? Because that was the closest point that he knew. Correct. Yeah, we've got to go. That was the closest point. You need better intelligence. Well, you know. He's a wizard. I'm working on it. All right. So, as you make your way through the mountains here, you're going to have to do some scaling to the mountain and climbing at certain points.
[00:10:48] I recommend we do it by instinct. Is it possible for us to fall to our deaths? Yes. Awesome. I look full of things. Yeah, I'm not full of things. I'm flying. Wait. I'm just a suit of armor. I just get down. I'm so flying. Oh, wait. We have four. Wait. You can fly too, but you can't carry anything. Actually, I can. Oh.
[00:11:19] That's right. You can shapeshift into one, two, three people other than me going. So, I mean, that is an option. You will still need to make some rolls. Well, I mean. Yeah, obviously. Right, right, right. And that will kind of go with the climb countdown. So, basically, as you make these rolls, however you guys decide to do that, this countdown is a group, kind of like a group. Each time that a person makes a roll, succeeds or fails or whatnot, it's going to adjust this countdown.
[00:11:49] And then, basically, once it hits zero, you guys complete where you're at. So, what is the climb score based on? Strength. Oh, I'm pretty strong. I got a plus three. Exactly. So, you could carry everybody, and then you alone can make the rolls for the party. This is a flying character. Mm-hmm. Right. So, I can just fly. Yes. I'm still making the rolls. Right. That's what I'm saying.
[00:12:17] And basically, you could be the solo person to make the rolls. I can do that. That is the choice. Are you strong? Does strength factor into the fact that he's flying? Do what? That's all. It just says that I can carry up to three willing allies when I move. Because of how large I am. You're at the base of a mountain, and you're climbing. So, first we have to climb. Or fly. Climb or fly.
[00:12:44] The thing is, this high up, you've got the winds is what the main issue is. So, you've got the gusts. So, that's why you still have to make rolls. That's fine. Because I can use my wild surge on the fly check instead. Mm-hmm. I'm ready. I climb aboard him. Climb aboard him? I guess. Is that how? Oh, aboard him. Yeah. I thought you said, I climb of boredom. I climb of boredom. I've gotten out of here, guys.
[00:13:16] That's what I heard at first. I was like, okay, that's a thing. That is definitely something. Oh, my words. So, is that what you're going to do, Mike? Are you going to shift? Yes, I am going to shift. Wait, now once he's shifted, then I climb. And I shifted out of spirit form so that y'all can physically ride on me. Did you mark your stress? Did you have to? I had to on both of those things. But don't you have a thing about it? Oh, yeah. You're welcome.
[00:13:45] Wait, is this your first time rolling? These are not there. Oh. But I did have to mark stress on both of those. Now, I will be doing my first time rolling. Okay. Did you know that I have to use dice? So, you two climb aboard him? You do need dice to roll. Okay.
[00:14:15] Are you going to climb? So, basically, what's going to happen is, since he can carry everybody here, he's going to, my kid is going to transform into, what's the creature? A dragon. A slight dragon. Oh. Hell yeah. Oh. And he's going to attempt to fly everybody so that way y'all don't have to climb this mountain. He's going to attempt to fly everybody up. As long as it doesn't get in my hair, again. Well, he's made of it. He does not like it in the hair, guys. Anywhere else is fine.
[00:14:45] Just not the hair. Right now, until I make my next move. Are you a different color? Uh, green. I assume he's green. Can you change color? Uh, yeah, but... He was, well, I mean, he was red. Right now, I've got the wild surge covering me. I, uh, my coloration is like this. I don't see. I always imagine red. I know he was red at one point, so... This is my coloration. Okay. That's when he was enraged. Oh, okay.
[00:15:14] I saw you were red one time, so I was just like... I have black armor with gold inlay, but now I'm wearing armor on top of my armor, so I don't know what that looks like. What do you think it should look like? Armor on armor. You know, it came from Dracula. Yeah, because I'm wearing armor, but I am armor. You shift into your dragon form, everybody loads onto your back, and you take flight into the air. Yes. Your red armor? As the wind gun. This is Dracula's armor. Buffet you. So, what is your armor? All right.
[00:15:44] This is a progress countdown. Black armor and red armor. Meaning, depending on how well you roll, depends on what happens to the countdown. Whether it ticks down, it ticks up, or nothing happens to it. Yeah. So, your shirt. I just realized. Yes. Is that... Foreshadowing? For you? No, that's good. Bellmark.
[00:16:14] Whenever... I handle it. When I roll it in a way he rolls 20s, too. Never mind. It's not like the one when it rolls 20s. D20s. It's from Dracula. Yeah. There's more on there. Instant. That's the one I got from Dracula. Nice. I love it. All right. I'm okay. I'm going to end up marking that. That's canon, is what you said? Well, this is from Prime stuff. All right. So, you probably use agility. Yeah. It works off of finesse. Finesse? Is it finesse? Uh...
[00:16:44] The beast form... Oh. I accidentally opened the wrong thing. Don't do that. It gives me plus three finesse and plus four evasion. Ah, yes. And this form works off of finesse. Yeah. Okay. So, there you go. Finesse. Also, dead tip. Yes. That didn't do it. All right. So, roll finesse, sir. Are you trying to grace your lead? Uh...
[00:17:15] That one. So, right now, I have a plus ten. To this roll. So, ten on top of whatever you roll. So, eighteen plus ten is twenty-eight with fear. Twenty-eight with fear? Nice. Nice. I'm assuming that's success. I know. Is that with fear? That was with fear. Where are we going? We're flying. We're flying.
[00:17:46] Well, I don't know. Um... Are we already out of air? Or is he trying to get us... We succeeded with hope. All right. So, you succeed with hope and this ticks down by two. We're not succeeding with fear. Blind. Mm-mm. So, does that give me another hope? Hope. Hope. And now, we can use that until we're at a lower risk. There you go. I thought I was perfect because I did not want to fall.
[00:18:16] I have a feeling we were about to get attacked in the end. All right. But he did mention it. Guess. So, went off of our mouth. Mm-hmm. You may go ahead and try again. Mm-hmm. Yes. And I'm actually going to spend a fear. Oh, here it comes. To give you disadvantage. Uh-oh. I knew it. As the winds begin to pick up. He's got it out for us. God hates us. Oh.
[00:18:45] It ticks up to six now. So, when I use this one is when it falls off. So, now my wild surge is currently maxed out. Okay. Got it. I rolled a two. So, whatever you roll, minus two. Okay. So. Can we help him by, like, not shifting around too much? Yeah.
[00:19:14] Actually, if you... Everybody lean to the left. Yeah. Yeah. Lean back. Just tell us what it is. So, 22 minus two is 20. Is it enough? That is a success. Is that what fear or... That is also a fear. Son of a bitch. Please lean back. No, I just been in fear to give him a disadvantage. And now we're higher. But it was a success. It was a success.
[00:19:43] So, it does tick down by one. Mm-hmm. I was going to say, all I could do is... You made some progress. Change it to a success with fear. It's still with fear. As the winds began pushing down on you, you pushed back up against and you made some progress. However, it was with fear. So, what I'm going to need... Mike, roll a d6. I'm going to do this real quick.
[00:20:14] See if it automatically does the thing. All right. It did not do the thing. I should have used that roll, though. I took my... Some of... I took my... I took my... Oh... Roll a d6 for me. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6. Shall I roll a d6? 5, 6. Okay, Ulrich, I need you to make a strength or agility roll either or... It ain't gonna be agility, son.
[00:20:47] I need you to make a roll with a stay on. Nooooo! I'm gonna roll with stre... Arrgh! Can you please grab that die for me? It just shot off under the thing. I'm gonna spin that to give him advantage. Alright, I'll roll with 10 to give you advantage. Cause you're a demigod. Yes. Okay, yeah. Plus 10?
[00:21:16] Plus 10 to whatever you roll. Oh, cool! So... 21... 25. I don't know, what is it? 22 plus... 29. With uh... With the 10? Yeah. Okay. That is with uh... Here... Oh... It's a reaction roll. Oh, it's a reaction roll. Yeah. Good. 29, you stay on. Mike, you may continue with another roll.
[00:21:44] I shifted just right to keep you on. Yeah. I was gonna say, if he fails, like... I couldn't use any of my fails or anything, right? Possibly. Cause I have like... I have like Death Grip. Yeah. I could shoot out vines to... Right. Grab a target. So I didn't know if like something like that would be something I could do. You could actually, if what happens is if someone falls off, you do have one action to do something before they hit the ground. So...
[00:22:14] So like, quick reaction, mark your stress to gain advantage on a reaction roll, would that be something that I could do to do... Yeah. Use one of my spells? Yeah. Actually you could, yeah. Okay. Yeah, exactly. Cause that... Cause when you like... Yeah cause it was a reaction roll for him. Yeah, like if he's going to fall off, I was thinking, hey I have like a grappling hook type spell... Right. Where I can shoot out vines from my hand, cause we use it before, where I grab people and pull them towards me.
[00:22:43] I could do that if somebody's going to fall off, I could just shoot out vines, grab them and take them on. You can, yeah. But I didn't know if that's something I could do in a non-battle, cause we've never done something like that. Yes. I didn't know if that's something I could do in a non... We're using our Pokemon abilities outside of battle. Yeah. Usually you can only use HM, Spinner. That's called an HM, sir. Not a TM. I didn't know if I could do that. I've never done anything with this guy. Unless you're using a game team. Okay. Roll again, sir.
[00:23:12] Maybe it'll roll hope this time. Yeah. Maybe. There's no one going to ice today, too. That's fear. This time it is a 15. Hey! Oh, 15? Air's getting thin up here. Get hard to breathe. Is 15 still good? Nope. That's a failure with fear. Yay! I can spend three hope to make it a success with fear.
[00:23:43] The money hopes... Might be worse. Which is charm. When you or an ally within far range, roll as a failure on an action roll, you can spend three hope to change it into a success with fear instead. The difference is, it's either going to tick up by one because of the failure and something bad is going to happen in addition to it. Or, it's going to tick down by one and then something less bad is going to happen. But it's all my fear.
[00:24:13] I mean, all my hope. Yeah. Up to you. This isn't the... It's your resources. But it's us that's gonna... Something's gonna happen! We are flying. We're very high off the ground. Just throwing that out there. I will be fine! Y'all, however... I'm not sure. You have wings! You can fly without it, right?
[00:24:44] That's what I said. I will be fine. Yeah. Possibly. Depends on him. If right now, if you were to fall and hit the ground, you would only be taking like a d10 plus 5 damage. We're only 5 feet off the ground. Oh, so that's like minor. Not that far off the ground. We're just living off. Oh. So... Okay. It takes a couple of flips. Okay, I think we're fine. It's better for us to get now than to have the same thing happen and need that ability. Yeah, that's true.
[00:25:12] When this countdown gets lower and then that happens, that's when you take far more damage. Yeah. That's like... Yeah. John just said it's better to be like... I thought we were way up there. Risk it now than risk it later. Yeah. So... Okay. Good. Yeah. I should've made that thing a... Oops. Honestly, still going up by 2 helps. But... Yeah. Alright, so it takes up by 1. Yep. And then I need the 3 of y'all to make your reaction. Roll. What am I rolling? What are you... How do you do that again?
[00:25:42] Oh, you just roll the 2d12 and then you add either strength or agility. Either or for this one. 2d12. Strength or agility? Correct. A minus 1. You can just roll. Roll. Or a plus 2. I rolled a double 7. That's lucky. Does it matter? Double 7 is a crit. I got a crit. You got a crit? Yeah, double 7. You did get a crit. Wow. Nice. Lucky 7.
[00:26:11] Okay, well you hold on to that thought for a minute. I'll bet you guys. So, I got a 12. Uh, with the gear. This? Uh, it's a reaction don't work. Oh, just 12. Put this die back because that is like... What did he get? The third one of them. Hopefully I'm okay, but this dice is going back in the bed.
[00:26:42] Yeah? Eleven. Eleven? Wow. Okay, Greg. You get to make a choice. Alright. You critically succeeded. And because of that, not only did you hold on, but you get to grab one of them to hold on. Oh, which one? Do I hold on? The one that cannot fly. You and your selflessness. Alright, I'll hold on to her. So you quickly grab Sybil. Yeah. So she falls off and starts floating towards the ground.
[00:27:11] You grab her, you know, like her back. Wait, can I grab her like... I want to grab her by her ankle. Sure. Wow! So she's like dangling there. I gotcha. Jeez! Thank you! Alright. I'll grab her by her hair. Oh! Oh! Wow! I gotcha. I gotcha. I gotcha. Jeez! Alright, then I'll grab you by the wrist. It's the arm. What do you want me to grab you by?
[00:27:40] The back of the uh... Ah, the scruff. Yeah. I gotcha by the scruff of your neck. Like a kitty cat. I think that's where we're gonna settle it. I gotcha by the scruff of your neck. That works. Thank you. Ulrich! Thank you for not letting me fall. Yeah. And I just set you back up. Of course you fall off, Ulrich, but there's... you have a chance now to take an action before... Or somebody does. Now, you do have wings, you can attempt to fly on your own and get back up there where he is. That's what I'm gonna try.
[00:28:09] Go ahead and make that roll. Okay. Is this a reaction roll? Uh, no. This is an action roll. Action roll. Okay. So don't roll fear. It is not fear. Ayyy. But that's funny now. Oh my... Um... Oh no, I literally just put a die back in the bag because it kept rolling ones. And then the other one rolls a one.
[00:28:46] So, 17 with hope. To flap your wings. Yes. And catch back up to us. Yes. Well you succeeded with hope to get back up there. So... Stupid gusts of wind. Do I get a... Back to you, Mike. Do I get a hope? Oh yeah, you do. You're white, right? Yeah. I'm going to go ahead and spend a fear to do disadvantage. Alright. Well... He's being mean to you.
[00:29:15] It's another minus, dude. Just for that, I'm going to activate... I have so much fear that I need to get some back from your ruling. It's called value. How far away are you from the top?
[00:29:44] You're like a third of the way to it. You're currently 10 out of 12. Is that a range? Like, is there a range for that? It's still very far. Okay. Yeah. Just making sure. Yeah, you're still very far from the top. I need some more hope. I can't give you anything. He's okay. I need some more of that. Yeah, I'm going to try.
[00:30:13] Oh yeah. That's nice one. That's definitely with hope. Uh-huh. Uh, 18 plus whatever my trait is now. Five. Uh, 18 plus five is 23? Yep. With hope. There you go. I knocked it down by two. So you made up for that one that yeah ticked up. Thank you for getting off for a moment and pushing
[00:30:44] All right, go ahead No, okay, that's close 19 19 is with fear success 19
[00:31:16] Yes, success with fear That takes down to now you're at a seven now you've reached almost halfway point and now if you were to fall It would be taking a 1d 20 plus five inch are we within the former of the end? of the top You're still very far
[00:31:47] It's 23 with hope 22 sorry All right, you're at five Isn't this more exciting? That's a crit. Yeah. Oh nice
[00:32:13] There's just more exciting for the top. Oh, yeah That's good nice all right, so now you are Within far range of the top Clear one stress clear one stress. Yeah Good job mate, you're one success with hope of wave from reaching the top Nice Nice We're almost there We're in the home stretch
[00:32:43] As you're pushing forward Through the winds Wait, is that a one again? No, that's seven One on the other side I think Okay So That's not a success probably 13 13 13? Yeah Ooh
[00:33:12] So you're so far up at this point that someone was to plummet and hit the ground they would be taking 1d 100 plus 15 damage That that was a 13 with fear That was a 13 with fear Okay, I can make it a success with fear Uh huh, uh huh, uh huh, uh huh Please Please Please At this point you can even see the bottom Um Um
[00:33:40] Alternatively, I could use the death grip and save myself By grappling to the top and uh, bye guys! Are we still within far? I think so, so we both would be fine Yes, we would both be fine No He might be able to save him Yeah Are we still within far at the top? Yes Yeah Um So that was success with fear Uh huh Oh That means it ticks down by 1 Uh huh So you got one more
[00:34:09] As long as you succeed, it will tick up Um But, since it was with fear, one moment Yep Um Greg Yes Make a roll I will make one From scratch Which strength? Reaction roll Strength Yep, strength, reaction roll I got a crit again Seven Wow Nice Same number
[00:34:39] Geez Geez Geez Well then Nevermind Haha You just grab onto the back of the dragon and hold tight You just dig into that slime The same scruff I like I like get inside that slime I swim in there I'm completely He just like puts gauntlets into the slime so he's like anchored in Yeah How deep can I go? Oh god Oh god Oh god That's what I'm saying Okay Your minds are in the gutter
[00:35:09] Get them out You're the one that said it dude I'm talking about going deep deep into slime Uh huh Yeah you are I wanna hit organs And you're not making it any better Dirty mind You're the woman You're the woman You're the woman Still gonna play a sound I don't mind A little penetration That time goes on purpose
[00:35:40] He's gonna be all sticky when he gets out I could spin back for a plus two of this room I'm not even gonna say I'm not even gonna say Did you just need a wet The wet wipes are over there if you need them 18 with 20 with fear 20 with fear 20 with fear yeah success with fear Mmm So there you go You made it to the top Successfully Without somebody falling off
[00:36:10] Yay And we're now closer That's further than I've ever flown Do you need to take a breather? I'm still in dragon form but yeah So you made it to the top And before you is a narrow path
[00:36:37] What do you do? I try to not be suspicious How narrow is it? Is it like a few feet? Is it like two sheer rock walls? I wish Or is it just like I'm being suspicious I'm being suspicious Yes, that was out of my head Oh, it's just the path as we are
[00:37:07] Yeah, and the canyon itself too Yeah, yeah, it's not It's not like We're not having to turn to our side No, no, no Doing this But I definitely can't do a buddy up I mean I guess you could like Get on each other shoulders Or inside each other Be like kobolds Like someone can get inside me And I can get inside Dan There you go That's what I was The channel writing though Let's see
[00:37:39] Oh, yeah, there you go Did you put it? Yeah, I'm looking at that It's in the bloodstone Wait, is that here? Do you have that? That's what I was That's what you were writing on I left it at the house Whoa And you could have used it tonight No Hold on Is that But this is what you look like normally Is this guy I put the little I say The old me Next to him For scale For scale Yeah Banana for scale Yeah, that's why everybody was I don't know
[00:38:08] Yeah My mind just totally went to Now another teen movie Oh my goodness Oh Steve Rogers From Anna Spit I've actually seen that one Yeah I've seen that one It's what She recognized that reference Oh yeah I know that one now Just recently Like within the last year You've seen that one Yep Finally You should watch Perfect Score
[00:38:37] It's also got Steve Rogers And Black Widow Sold Stealing the scores for the SAT Or stealing the study guide for the SAT I like to think this as a side mission For Captain America and Black Widow I'm assuming that that's how they Decided that they wanted to work together She was deep cover in America And then she decided she wanted to be an American Because of that Wow
[00:39:08] Alright, so you guys continue onward? Do you stay in your own Dragon form? Uh For now Okay If y'all want to stay on you can I can just walk The path narrows as you descend It will be fit if he's that big Will you fit? And then It's It's gonna be a tight fit for him
[00:39:38] Pitchers Oh Oh That girth on that dragon Oh I regret asking Yeah, but it's Rib for pleasure Oh God You can see the ribs, yes Oh my God Um How narrow is it? Like Is it
[00:40:08] So it's not here so one has to pick up some of the slack Oh jeez To maneuver You're not gonna be able to do it Oh Good with dropping the form We got some good out of it Yeah you did What? Imagine trying to scale that mountain without it Yeah I have dropped out of beast form Mm-hmm
[00:40:37] I could've just spent a stress and gone into spirit form And it wouldn't have been an issue So the path narrows as you descend Into grief's hollow A curse to cut through dagger reach Where the mist never lifts The Wachobians warn that this place remembers every death that occurred here And there were many The fog thickens until the world shrinks to a few feet Whispers drift through the air Not words, not voices, but memories
[00:41:08] Shadows move at the edge of your vision The ground trembles with distant echoing screams The hollow breathes around you This is where travelers vanish Where caravans are found empty Where the geists of the betrayed and the lost wander without rest And tonight they are restless Alright, make a group roll Instinct or knowledge Instinct I have this memorized I think that's
[00:41:37] I have a plus six to instinct Oh, we're just Going up on the roll Well somebody's going to make the actual roll Everybody else is Not me Assisting or not assisting I have a plus six to instinct Does anybody have a better roll between knowledge or instinct? No, I have a plus four So you're the leader Okay Alright And everybody else Just go ahead and roll And then add instinct or knowledge Your choice Mm-hmm And then let me know what the totals are
[00:42:06] Minus one I got eight Oh, so did you roll a negative one? Yes How did you do that? Geez, how did you do that? Dude, I got a minus one in strength And even I can't do that You're rolling double ones as a crit, man Like How screwed up is your character? He's got a minus five I had disadvantage I had disadvantage But alright, so minus one
[00:42:35] I got an eye with that That's minus two Minus three And what are we doing? Just rolling Just getting instinct or knowledge It's froggy I should've stayed in dragon form I had advantage for that But you wouldn't fit Yeah I could have as a spirit Oh Oh A spirit Oh yeah That's right Oh well
[00:43:05] Um I'll go ahead and make that a minus one I'm using my Silent Hunter Okay With hope With hope
[00:43:28] That is a failure with hope Don't be suspicious But you did get a hope though Get your hope back Yay, yeah, yeah, yeah You got the hope back Oh, get the hope back And roll to see if you mark your stress Because of your ability Mark your stress then
[00:43:58] You're like I should've went spirit form Right Oh well The advantage that I would've been Plus four Nineteen I'm guessing is a success Maybe Maybe Alright Beyond grief's hollow The land opens Into the valley of scorched stone And sulfurous air
[00:44:28] Ashgrave A place where the earth cracked open long ago Releasing infernal breath into the world The Wachovians describe it as a wound A chasm of fire and shadow A place where geists burn instead of freeze Where the dead whisper from beneath molten stone Black smoke rises from fissures on the ground The sky glows with ember light The air tastes of ash and iron At the edge of the chasm silhouetted against an infernal glow
[00:44:56] Stands a gathering of figures in crimson vestments Crimson vestments? I have crimson vestments Vestments? Vestments Like their clothing? Correct, yeah I have crimson clothing And at their center Bellark Mikael Belisane Rose immaculate Hands folded Eyes fixed on you With unruble intent Fixed on me The bloodstone gem glows
[00:45:26] In his hands You know the scepter Mm-hmm And I said that's what we've come to steal And I point right at it I don't know I don't know Have we come to steal it? I think we came to convince him to help Dracula In the black Convince him to get it to us Alright So This is what I'm gonna do I'm gonna bring up the map And then you're gonna place yourself
[00:45:55] And then You'll gain spotlight I would like to be placed directly on top of the campfire Preferably there's a pole You mean that large campfire in the center? Yeah Which I'm assuming Is lit by lava Is lit? Lit by lava Is the name of my new band That would be an awesome band Yeah
[00:46:28] Anyways I'll just do that for now Okay So this is what you have And just to kind of describe the scenario here Okay In the center here You have the lava Obviously Because you're at the top of this volcano Okay You can place yourself anywhere on this map that you like Yep With an obviously reason Now what you see here is You've got the revenant Over here He's still bound In those spectral chains
[00:46:57] That's good You have Lilitha Uh huh She's there with five of her zombies And her twin brother's over here And her twin brother's over here And he is The reason why he's on top of that token Is that he's surrounded by his homunculi horn Okay Okay So he's like in the center And he's surrounded by them Yeah Okay Then you have the bell arc Who is over here And this is a raised platform So this is higher This is uh
[00:47:26] Basically very close High Okay So that's the height difference Is very close So one range Like five foot About ten Yeah Okay Ten feet Okay That's the height difference Okay So with that said You can place your And this is a little From a ridge Right here with lava pouring Are we walking in from here Yeah from that side Yeah Okay Then why are we doing it? Oh I just placed it Just placed
[00:47:55] Okay so we're walking in from here Yeah And we see the revenant chained up Yes Let me move him right there There you go Oh okay I thought he was going to be chained up Like one of Shao Kahn's people Oh He's got spectral chains So he's like on his knees right now And he's bound by spectral chains Oh Of course he's trying to Get out of them But you know The bell arc has him at the moment Fancy I can't remember who he was Oh
[00:48:26] Sybil Not me It wasn't me Oh yeah he was after you Whenever the bell arc trapped him It wasn't me The traveler would know what I was talking about But I really miss air conditioning right now It's hot over here I had some like Giant leaves Right there Oh wait are you gonna end the game? Yes Oh Well I'm not gonna fan that guy Alright
[00:48:53] I'll be with Right in between Greg Is there where you two want to be? I'm where I am You're protecting Sybil? If that's where I am I am where I am I'll be in front I am going to Inact
[00:49:16] I wanna see What would this be like talking to him? We're not supposed to be attacking Ideally we handle this with Deploying Oh I'm not attacking I'm just Prepared Well okay so players have spotlight So Someone should have gotten inside me To hide our numbers It's too late to go
[00:49:45] I'm just glad we didn't walk up with me looking like a dragon Because the last time the Bellark saw me I couldn't do that Unstoppable that's what I got after I just wanted to make sure I said the correct thing Yeah
[00:50:03] The last time I saw the Bellark Is there pulses like a beating heart Each throb releasing another wave of arcane heat that distorts the air
[00:50:27] Is your spotlight? Sooo Does the Bellark Like does it look like the twins are sparring over the lava pit? No
[00:50:53] Or is he using them now as a retinue? Well we've seen them that way Yeah Has he looked differently? He still looks old and decrepit That was assuming So as you So you play yourself as your approach the revenant still bound
[00:51:23] And then you hear the twins They're not fighting with each other Is this the Bellark? Yes They're like their Papa Emeritus So the twins are prepared right? Uh huh They look at each other and you hear the Uh Veyron he goes Sister It looks like we have company once again Your favorite though is not with them The one I believe they call Traveler Oh she goes Yes brother I know
[00:51:53] He's not here But the others will have to make do I haven't met you yet Where have I? No I don't think I did You haven't met the twins Um who are the uh The twins? Yeah They're twins Who are they? They're the twins That we met When we were
[00:52:23] Doing a side mission While you were hanging out with the Bellark Or the captain of the Bellark's Guard The Templar Commander Oh okay This is the first time I'm hearing about the twins Except for Oh wait there was that one time They talked about Oh yes They're They hear Yes They do hear them? Excuse me
[00:52:52] Definitely not now GOT twins Okay They're not GOT twins? Okay good Cause that would worry me If they made me If they made me They could totally make a kid Oh god Oh god It could be a homunculi zombie Man that kid's gonna come out saying Edward No I'm not talking about like
[00:53:21] The natural way That they could assemble a child From other children Geez Well then that went dark real quick Alright I'm just trying to make things happen So Its name wouldn't be monster It'd be the twins monster Just remember that Yeah So Veyron he looks over and he goes Sister I believe they have come back empty handed
[00:53:54] What were you supposed to have? Cause I wasn't there for this conversation The amulet that holds the bloodstone Well what the hell man Why don't y'all get the amulet? Because Dracula wants the bloodstone to give us the amulet Dracula wanna give it to us Y'all could have just punched him and they can took it Oh my god Hear me out We could do that now with the bloodstone Try not to do anything So
[00:54:23] The bell-alarm looks at the party So Who has the bloodstone? The bell-alarm He has it on his scepter That's in his possession You see a bunch of man-sister He does He goes back to him Oh wait a second He has it on his scepter? Yeah Incidentally And he's a weak old man? As a reminder Your appearance The appearances can be deceiving We've learned this As a reminder Well Out of character for the party Since it's been a couple of weeks And some of you weren't here
[00:54:53] If we betray the bell-arc And go back on our deal To Help him He will release the revenant To hunt civil Okay We don't want that But I'm just saying I can teleport over there And just take the staff I won't be able to teleport back though Yeah Okay So this is a conundrum Because The bloodstone's giving him a barrier source Oh I can't teleport over there Alright
[00:55:22] So that's what protected him from Traveler's Fireball Mike But can I teleport through the barrier? What did y'all decide on with Dracula? We're supposed to come here and convince him to come with us ideally Because he's definitely not just going to give us the stone Correct And maybe they'll do the our powers combined thing and Make captain They'll hold the item together And
[00:55:51] Reunite the gem and the amulet So that I can use Basically so that it can amplify my power To heal Dracula's wife So that Dracula will use it To heal the blood In order to heal the blood Thank you for telling me that Because I didn't know if we were going in You know Yes Guns blazing Or Diplomatic Honestly
[00:56:20] That's the diplomatic method Well then let's do diplomacy If you want to try guns blazing we can do that No no no no no no no no no no no That said Almost all of my combat abilities are on Per rest And I've already used them last session when we were doing a purely diplomatic mission And I didn't need them Okay so I have shields up Right now just in case Shields up guns out Yeah Just in case anything happens But
[00:56:51] Yes I agree That we need to do this diplomatic if we can Yeah Because if we don't It's going to be bad for Sybil And it's just going to be a shit storm And The Bellark has a lot of resources from What I've heard And We'll probably end up attacking The towns that we were trying to protect in the first place If not him The twins
[00:57:21] Because apparently they're unhinged From what I've heard Don't sit back They can hear you across the castle I I don't care I don't care at this point It's It's the truth Sybil Do we want to use your Presence rules I'm assuming your presence is higher than my I've got a three
[00:57:52] Okay So Mark four Let me look Let me look Cause we are not We don't plan on battling right now Ideally Ideally Cause I would speed up So
[00:58:21] Excuse me when I What you say I am switching out Do you have to spend hope for that? Nope Do I have to spend hope for it? To switch out of the card? Stress Stress Oh It doesn't have a cost Okay so then no No stress Alright so Before I do this It says when you make a presence roll You can spend a hope to add your strength to the roll
[00:58:51] So it would add my strength to the present right? So it would be strength Strength and presence No Oh wait That's the way I read it again When you make a presence roll you can spend a hope to add your strength to the roll Yeah that's it Yeah alright Cause it's presence plus strength Yeah Okay Okay so I would have A plus five If I spend a hope Like with presence and strength? Yes
[00:59:20] Does anyone have anything higher or? She's got four Without presence and strength Without having to spend the hope Okay then I'm not Okay And I could make it to five by spending a hope and using my healer as an experience? Well then I'm not switching out cards I will let y'all do the talking Because Well yes Wait I am strategic Oh it would be strength instead of No it would be strength and It would be strength and It would be the two together
[00:59:50] It would be the two together so I have five Oh If I spend a hope I spend a hope to Okay To add strength Yeah Plus presence Plus whatever he rolled But I don't want to lose any resources in case we get into a battle Yeah yeah And stuff like that So basically we'd only give him one more than what we already have Yeah But he'd be minus a hope So I'm gonna let y'all talk Um Because like While I do agree we should use diplomacy
[01:00:19] I am not Very You are not very close Um I am diplomatic to a point The problem is Diplo is your mace Well that's the point I was getting to I'm very blunt I am very blunt Diplo mace-y Thank you Yeah I'm very blunt with my diplomacy Uh
[01:00:53] Do While we're not actually attacking Yes I want to Roll a d6 And then decide to go ahead and spend a stress to swap Unleash chaos in In place of the wild surge that I can't use anymore Okay
[01:01:15] And it is swapped That way That way Oh That said Uh At the beginning Of Basically Now Uh I have Six tokens right now
[01:01:46] For that Wow Alright So So Who is approaching the bell lark And talking Um Your My presence Presence is higher Or Do you have any experiences that do that? I'm guessing you don't have hope right now I just won't Okay Uh Would
[01:02:16] Either of y'all have the ability that lets you compliment somebody? Uh huh To give her hope? We both do Is it currently active on either of you? Um I don't know if I was using it recently but maybe I did How do I check? Did you compliment something? No you didn't usually I don't think I did Cause I think You didn't compliment anybody last time Anybody needed it So he still has it Right so we both have it I would
[01:02:46] Very much prefer if she's going into negotiations with support Yes Like any hope? It has no hope cause I used my hope to make sure that we succeeded You both could compliment her and give her six hope Yes Can I have six hope? You would get six hope and then they would each get three I appreciate that extra skin you have on the back of your neck
[01:03:17] Okay so a compliment It's very grabable Yeah It's very grabable Oh my god What? I just love to Pull it Oh jeez Just grab it I'm not saying any of this stuff I'm just wanting I want you to know Oh this is not so bad I was going to say it anyways I'm just popping it in front of your skin You wrote the dragon really well Oh god I was thinking something along the lines of You're a better negotiator than me
[01:03:48] Please all of y'all went so wrong I didn't do anything But you're the only female in the group I didn't mean anything I was That's what my character would say Because I have to say something that she's done Yeah I mean She did ride the dragon really well Yes She did No she didn't She fell off No she didn't No she didn't He no I did He grabbed me Oh yeah He grabbed her by her Yeah that's why he's complimenting the extra skin on the back of my neck that he grabbed Yeah
[01:04:17] I missed it I've leaned Oh god I was worried about holding on to the dragon myself I imagine it's like a hoodie And you can just flap it over like that I do Where's my character? I do have a cloak That's your skin I do have a cloak No it's your skin now It's him Technically your character doesn't have Like your picture does But not your actual character Oh yeah Check the back of your neck I do have a cloak Yeah she has a cloak So you know
[01:04:45] I think you you get three hope and she gets three hope right? Yeah that's what it works So I have five hope now I don't know where my other two are You now have six hope I have a mock safe And you have three hopes sir Three more Which makes you a six Oh there they are Yes We have both mock safe Yes I got tons of hope That's a much better way to go into this fight Erg negotiation Yes Hey hey hey Careful how you wor- Word Word Word Word Word
[01:05:12] Word to your bell arm Alright So go ahead Let's do this So all you have to do Is convince him To come with us into Dracula's Lair Which Should be that hard Because all of this is technically Dracula anyway And Bring the bloodstone So that He and Dracula can fuse it together In a dance That's Very similar to
[01:05:42] Goku and Vegeta And That's negotiable I'm willing to let you negotiate back down off of that So that I can use the power of the stone with the amulet To try and heal Dracula's wife So that Dracula will then help to get rid of the blood Can I say what you said? I can
[01:06:10] I can stand and point emphatically at a cork board I can't see it now How He's just like Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah So what are you I use I use I use a hope to do what of these right? To experience Yes I'm gonna use bookworm Because I figured that'll probably Yeah Yeah I can see that good and also if anybody else wanted to spend a hope and explain you can give
[01:06:37] her I am helping her you are so there you go that's how you use his words okay so and that's so I used the plus two from this plus two from that he's not a whole advantage she's not doing God so you got this like d6 just a plus one but her plus two so you get a plus three two from your experience one from him
[01:07:02] yeah that's whatever you and then present that's great president's annual oh plus seven you know to you twelve plus seven that's average of 20 that's 21 plus seven is 20 is that hope yes 28 with hope so you refunded the hope that you spent too oh yeah it is it slides across
[01:07:32] this really well by the way sexy oh she gets some here yeah she gets some air holes into it so that I know better air hockey yeah that's what I was thinking it slides across an air hockey that's our new dynamic tabletop the turn moves especially if you use turkey ones
[01:07:55] put my character on there yes that is that is so true yeah so the battle arc that's cool he listens to Charlie doesn't do your words and he says hmm so you come back empty-handed but with a
[01:08:18] proposition instead I should have known the count would stoop so low as to delay the inevitable is to do the exact same thing you're about to do yeah I say using my instinct yeah and the bell art he's
[01:08:41] looks at you Mike he says you have no doubt already have realized that's him and I are at much of a still mate I intend to break that balance he says I see that the only way to reunite the bloodstone is
[01:09:06] is over my dead body yes to accept your proposal what quietly puts away sword but with a counter proposal pull sword back out he says it's as unwise for us to meet Dracula in his own home his own seat of power
[01:09:33] especially because of that dread or others around it right yes what is a dread or around the castle that causes every role that we paid to be at d10 hope die d10 hope die and extra hope to use hope features let's get him out of the castle yeah honestly probably better for him as well at this point yeah
[01:10:01] he's a homebody he needs to get out more can we all just meet at the tree honestly that's where we're trying to that's actually that's your knowledge going next he says instead I will meet him at the blighted grove in grauhaven I'll meet you on the edge of the forest where the blight grove and
[01:10:26] grow haven meet do you have a fast way to travel there he says yes I do for me and also them as he points to his twins can we see it from here cuz then I can that be a point that traveler knows well oh yeah you know for our
[01:10:55] the blighted grove okay but we just have to fly back to him so but I think he says the revenant will remain changed for now and come with us just in case you attempt something I plan to attempt something and it is likely to cost me my life but the thing I'm attempting is what we've already told you
[01:11:29] he says for now you have an agreement I will meet you and the edge of the blight grove at the last second during the ritual I'm gonna substitute the bell or get to my spot fusion ha okay now that the spells going the way I wanted to here pay the cost
[01:11:54] yeah that's definitely gonna work all right that's high enough okay so he's willing to meet us at the tree yes I'm gonna go back to dracula and tell him the song from
[01:12:19] hunger games all right so he's agreed so you guys are going to that's what I was thinking uh basically use your waypoint at this point we have a waypoint yeah I can use my rift wall to get us back to the castle what about traveler we can I am scared Santa Raven I could fly us down there and
[01:12:48] get traveler to meet us I have the ability to talk to nature well first things first you're using a rift to get back I'm down for that if y'all are yeah don't know what you're down for but I am so when
[01:13:13] you step into this rib sign me up can you see the other side y'all said yes so I'm assuming it's good in order to use the risk that's not good I will never assume every yes make us second spell cast on this all right what's the voting 11 plus 9 is much better already before I add in my instinct than the 15
[01:13:37] nice so success would hope that was with fear fear all right well go ahead and mark your stress or see if you do actually I don't you don't you look at you when it counts right honestly we're getting to that point
[01:14:01] it's just me out man I have one more I would really like to take a short rest before we actually enter the castle well there's a little problem with that uh while on the castle grounds you cannot rest but I placed the rift in our courtyard which is castle grounds okay yeah wait why don't we go
[01:14:27] to the doesn't before we go back oh we have to tell them to come to I mean you can still go outside the grounds and everything and rest out in front of the gates I'm just saying like in the castle itself you're unable to rest well I'm gonna have to go outside to get the nature spirit to go talk to
[01:14:48] traveler all right and tell him to teleport to us so that we can all well Dracula might be able to
[01:15:02] just teleport us all to the tree to the hang tree are you and suddenly we all yeah yeah um okay there
[01:15:42] you go back at the courtyard didn't say that mapping so in Dracula is waiting for you as you return oh he's standing right here oh yeah he's been waiting for you so I'm where we were going to come back to yeah and he has his goblet in hand as he's drinking it um i'm assuming conjured well the
[01:16:06] thing is the legends doesn't stop thieves from trying yeah so he captures them and then he just slowly just down in the basement yeah i have a feeling i don't want to see his dungeon
[01:16:27] that said do you want to talk to me or do you want me to good relations with the vampires you have since you've already been one once yeah i have not ever talked to this guy so he's holding the goblet and
[01:16:48] he looks at the party and he says you have returned with three less members did the talks go well he made a counter offer to meet at your wife's tree did he i didn't tell him that's my mom so he's
[01:17:11] bringing the bloodstone amulet the gemstone the gemstone and we can see it there told him the plan to use the stone to heal the tree and your wife using my power so he presumed that it would be best to meet there where it could happen
[01:17:39] and he says yes because he has also figured this is his only opportunity much like me that he takes a drink of his goblet just call me the balance breaker he says why go through all the trouble to find it yourself when you can just bring it to you
[01:18:14] both of us in the same place at the same time this has not happened in a long time if it makes you feel any better i have no combat abilities left he says i will make preparations and then i will meet you
[01:18:39] there at the edge of the grove okay as he's not going to fast travel us no and then he turns into bats a swarm of bats and disappears into the castle all right did he kill one of those bats does he like lose a foot or something we're not going to find out right now i would like to watch mark his dress
[01:19:09] yes step outside of the courtyard into not the dread same before i recommend that we take a short rest before we travel to meet traveler because if i'm going to fly us to meet traveler i don't want to be stressed out while i'm doing it you guys want to get short rest well for him
[01:19:41] i'm not going anywhere i'm axed out of fears like i'm getting anything out of this so i'm good i incidentally short rest gives me back multiple of my abilities are we good are we down for a short rest sure short rest let me see what i do have a short rest because it doesn't take that up
[01:20:03] so let's see what a short rest does for me wild surge is long rest anyway so i still wouldn't have able to use it so i'm fine with the fact that i swept it out so uh uh uh about everything that i can do is
[01:20:25] i'm currently six months stress i have a ability that says once prolonged rest i can create a space of natural serenity within close range when i spend a few minutes resting within the space clear stress equal to your instinct distributed as you choose between you and your allies is anybody else almost full on stress
[01:20:53] i'm stress-free now i'm stress-free i can clear my stress sweet and i do get my um my changing from fear to hope back it's once per rest the only thing i don't have is the uh three hope
[01:21:18] because that's what's for long rest okay uh how do you do short rest on this again um you should be
[01:21:30] able to hit and there you go right up there and then you should be able to oh wait hold on i got over here and i look at it i can tell what it looks like wait what downtime there should be a downtime option
[01:21:58] oh downtime click downtime and then you should be the options there you go now you can select your short rest so i get two things on short rest yeah you still get two things does i still get three you still get three sweet um i got max out i hope so it'll be a little better so you can make potions
[01:22:25] that's true and i can make them and give them people right you can absolutely you can make stress potions uh just a minor health potion okay um i can take the armor slots off right yeah you can clear armor well then i can make two money four plus tear but you're on my pay and clear all yours so what 1d4 plus
[01:22:51] tier 1d4 plus 4 armor slots cleared okay so that's what i'm saying so basically just resting works all right are you maxed out on your hope yeah okay everybody's maxed out on their hope and then to make a wood one okay i got five what's the next
[01:23:19] six six i might as well be okay um i'll prepare with you it doesn't really matter because i can only gain more hope um i wish traveler was here so i could have made a comment on uh dracula's goblet does that you look god to make the health potion is that just a downtime action so no roll so i can
[01:23:44] make two then because i have two with each action yep okay yeah so you make two so uh yeah you just uh can just write plus two on there if you want well i already have i already have and a full so can i make them and give them oh yeah you can give them and you can have by the way for consumables you have a max of five per consumable okay because that would actually put me at max
[01:24:12] then because i already have three consumables no no per each one so like oh each like for minor health potion you get five of those you have five health potions five because i already have two i already have two minor health potions and a regular health i've rather you give them out though yeah so you can pass them out oh during the downtime whoever since i didn't need to heal
[01:24:34] i just used my short rest for that for the stress yeah that lets me save that i figure i can use that right before i do the ritual to try and cleanse the tree oh yeah and that will create a space of natural serenity nice for the ritual to work in so cybil cleared her armor repaired her arm i cleared
[01:25:01] three of those emotions you cleared stress and i prepared with you've prepared with greg so greg you're now at max hope and i am as well and i have six we should have both came two so you are all at max hope all right and uh what else did you do greg you know i passed around a little bit do you have any stress did you mark any stress i don't have any stress i'm just right now we're
[01:25:29] rolling two crits you don't i'm like what am i doing wait i think the only oh no no you made three rolls so this i think every roll you made tonight was a crit no not everyone no but most of them were that's pretty pretty impressive two were what about you uh wait is two crits in a row a new kind of crit that i made and then you can give me something cool for that we call it unlikely it's
[01:25:56] cold whatever whatever all right freaking likely so i want to work on enchanting um to give it magic damage as well well you know uh you go to the projects there's no rest only long rest only long rest yeah okay so what can i do on short you can clear health clear armor uh clear
[01:26:23] stress um or prepare and gain hope i just sit forward or if you have something else you can use um like like for instance she can make uh she has a recipe so she can make potions turn down time mm-hmm if you have something like that too i don't i'm just sitting here going and you don't
[01:26:48] have any stress marked i don't have any stress any armor any health marked okay cool i i don't have any other that we walk he's meditating and my uh prepping himself up what is it what's worth i'm channeling my chi to keep my unstoppable active oh is it long rest i'm unstoppable getting himself yeah but i'm keeping
[01:27:15] it active yeah right but the unstoppable doesn't go away until it ticks all the way up yeah it only takes up on the uh attacks yeah yeah i was just making sure i didn't screw him no no no no all right i'm gonna give um great greg and all right i'm gonna give them both of them greg and ulrich guys go ahead
[01:27:41] and write down a potion on your uh sheet you both got a minor health potion oh thank you nice so now i have to make this yourself yes by the way fun training a minor health coaching for you in order to make the minor health coaching you need a vial of blood good thing you're at castle dracula yeah yeah there's
[01:28:05] plenty it's a good thing dracula didn't notice that you went into the uh basement for a moment he just left his goblet for you while he was talking with me he had his goblet down here
[01:28:19] i didn't notice several over there uh we have returned to that spot i don't want that rift to stay open so i am going to remove that rift you don't want the save point back at castle dracula
[01:28:50] he told me about how bad instead you're gonna make it at the shrine yeah probably okay all right so you're gonna travel back to the shrine i'm gonna yeah i can shift i can do it by just shifting and we can still y'all can still all ride on me while i fly to get us there yeah which should get
[01:29:17] us there a whole lot quicker yes it will so i have to do oops sorry i don't know why i'm watching people's
[01:29:40] dragon or do you want to ride on a behemoth and just walk across the land what is faster probably the dragon well let's get what's cooler though what's what about that dragon dragon all right he wants to rock to dragon right oh i will like i will ride the dragon as long as it's not a
[01:30:06] bad dragon uh by the way i move up to far range as part of my action yeah it is a bad dragon fast okay so yeah um you basically travel through the air uh for uh dust caven you know uh you the winds batter you along the way but you now are more accustomed to it from your climb yeah
[01:30:30] so you anticipate it you know and then you make your way back to the shrine i've been practicing guys as you land at the shrine do you shift back because you're not going to fit inside there what if you go to spirit when you can stay outside but especially if you're gonna open a rift
[01:30:54] i'm gonna have to drop back yeah because i'm opening that's a spell which the rift i can't use to teleport to a place until i have a place correct so yeah yep i'm gonna go ahead and shift back
[01:31:12] and then i'll place a rift outside no no i saw two i know me too so that's 14 on the dive plus instinct
[01:31:33] so 20 20. that's success for the rift yeah so you successfully made a rift so marking placed and now it's somewhere that i like better because it's my rebirth place and i'm about to connect it to my birthplace
[01:32:03] that's honestly if what i'm doing happens the way that dracula thinks it will that spell is going to go away actually the rift stays open until you choose to close it or you cast
[01:32:23] another spell technically what i'm doing with the gym is not a spell because it's a feature of the druid so if i die in the middle of the ritual but you're not just stays forever
[01:32:44] you're not true so i'll open the rift before i do it so that y'all can teleport away if you need to but they could follow so it's true this spell it is it's supposed to bring back his wife i'm trying to
[01:33:13] give his wife a body so that she can leave the tree okay it will also make me a real boy what that will do is allow him to drop the curse that is keeping all spirits here and corrupting this world this part of the world that would be good which is causing the blood that would be really good
[01:33:40] i love his plan let's do it so i'm excited for it the problem is it has a cost what is that cost in order to receive something something must be given equal exchange i was gonna say that i'm sorry we were talking about that earlier just make sure that you're not and this is the first time already that i have not had
[01:34:09] already don't have a body a second body ability you've already been tied to a suit of armor i am a suit of armor what do you mean tied to it this is me that's as your fleshy hood is full male alchemist i know it's exactly what i'm getting that i don't know if he realizes that i see it now okay yeah i don't know if you realize what i'm saying is that why you pressure the idea of equal
[01:34:36] it's the suit of armor i think i can become it existed before that oh i know that that is where yeah yeah yeah it's like we were talking about earlier yes why everybody has their first so i guess that was mine i'm the little girl dog no what i can become the kind don't please no you can't speak your name it only costs me a little stress no please
[01:35:01] and it'll inflict stress on everyone else yes it will except me i would laugh but okay so something's wrong with we made it back to the shrine you're back at the shrine you created the new rift the new marking for the rift it doesn't actually open anything until i create a connection point
[01:35:23] on the other end right so it's literally just a moral working correct is it is it glowing with light no it doesn't glow until it activates yeah okay so you just took a stick and drew it on the ground or something pretty much okay except in spell form so is it glowing you used arcane it it's like burned it into the ground so it's not glowing but it's like it's marked you didn't take a stick
[01:35:50] picture kind of like the bifrost like a scorch mark right right right yeah the bifrost burns a marking yeah yeah like that like a skirt skirt a skirt smart skirt scorch scorch scorch scorch all right you said a skirt mark i'm like i didn't have skirts up market skirt mark um and then
[01:36:12] this is the traveler and lena and travian are we able to talk to them and lena has the stone she does actually you guys are all there at the shrine yeah so yeah everyone's back there at the shrine and uh you're probably going to catch them up on the events so we're going to end there tonight okay so that's a good time to get spot to end honestly we probably could have just waited and done the
[01:36:40] rest here they're resting the entire time yeah they was taking one big old nap i was just worried it took a long rest lying i was going to run into something that required me to use stress at all traveler needed to take a big nap after doing all that work yeah but congratulations
[01:37:03] you have now reached level nine oh hey look at that negotiation you guys have leveled up by negotiating i like it sweet that is great we talked and leveled up how about that we talked our way out of a paper bag we talked our way to level nine so congratulations oh yes that's
[01:37:31] what we're in tonight and uh tune in next time we hope you've enjoyed this week's episode if you did head over to our website saturday night gaming llc.com for some more fun content also make sure to like share and subscribe on all of our social media platforms i hope you have a fantastic week and until next time this is laura hibbard with saturday night gaming signing off