C02 - Ep. 39 - Vengeance in Vainia - Tooth and Klawstred

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Good afternoon,

Shut up.

Good afternoon, all you all.

Whoa, sorry.

I'm sorry.

Right into the mud.

Right into the mud.

I saw.

I looked over.

You put that in there.

Good afternoon, guys.

Good afternoon, all you Aldani.

Swim on into the sneaky dragon, throw back our latest thirst quencher within a pinch of life.

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One swig of this shellfish swill will take you from prone to prawn faster than a snap of your pincher.

Snap, snap.

Previously, our adventurers traiped into the tower of vampspire and trekked through Talesadoc.

They brushed up with battlers, barrels, books, and more.

But the cream of the crop was when they beheld Barney Farney's family.

Cobble a cup of coffee.

Let's continue this Caucadorous chronicle.

Totally forgot that happened.

I forgot that happened.

Hello, Hello, everyone.

I'm Gustavo Sorola.

I'm the dungeon master of our Puget Party.

I'm going to hit our four players with an arrow.

Okay.

I've accepted my fate.

Here we go.

This week's role-playing warm-up question is, describe the last time your character had a really good laugh, and why was that funny to them?

I'll go ahead first.

Hey there, it's Jip Haney.

It's your good friend, played by Blaine Gibson.

I'm a levels.

What are we at?

Level seven?

Seven.

Ah, Tifen Rogue.

Last time I had a good old holler hoop and a holler and a laugh was, oh, we were were at the camp.

And then

I watched Stinker.

And he took a doo-doo by the campfire.

And then I watched as Matith and their corporeal form stepped in it.

Oh, that was funny.

And then Elga walked over it with their little cape.

And oh, oh, that got me.

And then Barney stepped in it and he slipped in it and he fell down and he caught on fire because he's near the campfire.

Oh, I laughed so hard.

That was so funny.

That was really good.

I laughed so hard.

Get out of my booth.

Get out of my booth.

And Barney was still cold, despite being on fire.

Yeah.

Because he's an old man.

I'll go next.

That was a lot.

That was a lot.

I like it.

I like it.

I'm inventing a story.

I'm telling you.

What does stinker poops look like?

It's just a pile of bones.

It's like normal poops, but ghosts.

From where?

It just comes out of the skeleton.

So, what do you mean, normal poops, but ghosts?

Like, okay, man.

No, I know.

Like, is it like blue?

Slugs, kind of.

Blue slugs.

Blue slugs.

Oh, it's like ooze, like Seimer.

Like, ooze.

I mean, like normal dog poop, but blue and translucent.

Yeah, like ooze, like Seimer.

Doesn't have a digestive tract.

He's ectoplasm.

It's ghost stuff.

You're the ghost.

I don't poop.

Oh, wow.

A team draws pictures of poops and washes them down the toilet

because they want to be included.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Hello, I'm Barbara Dunkelman, and iVoice.

Elgo Von Breast, the half-elf, empire barbarian, level seven.

Hello, nice to be here.

Thank you so much for the subscription.

Thank you.

Yep, yep, yep.

I want a Twitch stream as Elga.

I think that'd be so funny.

Yeah, yeah.

You know, Elga, she gets a good little chuckle out of a lot of things, uh, but Elga needs to be careful with, you know, really going and, you know, doubling over laughing, because if she goes out of control, she might accidentally rage.

Oh, yeah.

And I don't want that to happen.

But, you know, I think the last time Elga had a really hearty chuckle was when Matida and I were climbing the wall and then Barney and Chip tried to climb the wall, and there was

some horns in someone's body.

Yeah, and they did laugh about leaving them forever.

Yeah, those are funny.

I also realized like laughing and crying in a character voice are two of the toughest things as a voice actor.

Yeah.

And I'm like, have I ever laughed as Elga?

I'm sure you have.

But I feel like I've only laughed as myself.

Haha.

What does an Elga laugh sound like?

It's bat form.

It was me calling quickly.

Yeah.

Well, hi, I'm Krista Maris.

And I played Barney Farney, the human cleric.

Well, besides, besides when I caught on fire,

that was funny.

Is whenever, just about a week ago, and I went to go take a big bite of a sandwich.

And then when I pulled out from the sandwich, my teeth stayed on the sandwich.

Oh, Adventures.

Oh, that's disgusting.

Wait, your teeth are not real?

Well, they're real teeth.

To someone else.

Do you remember what kind of sandwich it was, Barney?

Well, like, what kind of sandwich does Barney get down with?

It was roast beef.

Yeah, that sounds like a Barney sandwich.

That tracks.

Roast beef with like pimento cheese.

Extra mustard.

No.

Oh, yeah.

Chris has a serious aversion to mustard.

Barney would love mustard.

Nope.

It's an evil liquid.

He puts that on everything.

How did I not know Chris doesn't like mustard?

You have to know that, Gus.

Yeah.

I think Chris doesn't like two things: mustard and anything to do with ears.

No, I don't mind ears.

I just don't like it.

I got a video to show you.

No, don't.

I don't want to see your earwax video.

On the inside of the ear,

earwax and mustard.

He just said a second ago he's the ears don't bother him.

Right now, he is crazy.

I don't mind so hard themselves on the outside.

No, I'm talking about like the inner ear.

He loves it.

I'm learning a lot.

He's so uncomfortable right now.

Chris is making the mistake of letting everybody know what he doesn't like.

What if mustard got in your ears?

At least I wouldn't have to taste it.

See, I hate pictures of cute animals and

free cars.

I hate it when people just give me money.

Yeah, just

hate when you're.

It makes me scared when they pass me blank checks.

Monjour, my name is John Reisinger and I play Matique Omfisouze who's an Eric Cochrane ghost monk.

And I would have to say that the last time I laughed, I tried to get a good laugh every once in a while, but there was a really funny time where I was at the bank and I was making a transaction and then I was done with my transaction.

And then my friend Barney, he helped me make more of a transaction.

And I had such a good laugh.

I thought that was such a fun little joke that Bonnie played.

Inadvertently gave you a loan.

Just free loan.

God, we're still low on health from that.

Oh, I'm at, I got six HP five.

Yeah.

You got six hemo points.

Or yeah, yeah, hemo points.

Got any of them long rests there, Gus?

Magic food, perhaps.

Well, you're theoretically close to your home, right, Ilga?

I would think so.

Theoretically.

Theoretically.

You all hear a scream down the hall.

Who cares?

Coming from the other direction.

Then voices are shouting.

Tell the truth.

Let go.

I don't know anything.

Barney, that second voice is unmistakable.

It's her.

You know it.

She's in trouble, though.

What are you going to do?

What?

You know that voice.

She's just down the hallway you were just in.

I run.

You see her.

A spiratu spiratu is gripping her arm and won't let go

but she's not alone two young boys run up and start throwing their fists against speratu's wings but it easily knocks himself to the ground it's up to you barney your family needs you marnie needs you

Bernie runs in.

Wait, so where's the space like right now?

This would have been back, because you all were in the dregs, you know, doing your transactions in the black market.

This would have been back out in the actual commissary.

All right.

Bernie runs in and shoots the Nosferatu with a silver bolt from this crossbow.

This Feratu?

Ooh.

Yeah.

Sferatu.

Yeah, make an attack roll.

I rolled an 11.

Give it inspiration.

No.

Do you have lucky?

No.

Why don't you sound so offended at that?

So, what does that do, Gus?

I'm just waiting.

It sounded like Chris was hemming and hawing.

No, that's it.

11.

He rolled an 11.

What?

It must be because you're running.

You don't take time, you know, to set up the shot, but the bolt goes wide and clatters off the wall.

And already, you know, all the battlers in the room were kind of on edge with the scene going down.

And now that you run out and fire off a crossbow bolt, you know, the battlers that are in the room begin very quickly making a beeline for the exits.

Then I also have a bonus action.

You mean we're not in battle.

Yeah, I am.

Oh, yeah.

I mean, initiative.

Sure, yeah.

Can I take another shot?

We'll say that you run up and fire the shot, and that was a...

We'll call it a surprise.

Okay.

Then I want to use my bonus action to to cast a spiritual weapon.

You create a floating spectral weapon within range of the last refrigeration or until you cast a spell again.

When you cast a spell, you can make a melee spell attack against the creature within five feet of the weapon.

On a hit, the target takes force damage equal to 1d8 plus your spell casting modifier.

And I'm going to do that at...

Let me see my spells.

Are you going to do a silly weapon?

Yeah, I can't wait to hear what it is.

I'll do that at third level.

Do a chair.

That'd be cool.

No, I'm going to do a vampire stake.

Ooh, big old stake.

Yeah.

What kind of like a ribeye?

I give myself an inspiration die.

As you should.

So I'll do that.

And so now that has its own turn?

You can't spell you can make a melee spell attack against a creature within five feet.

Oh, okay.

Yeah.

So then can you make the attack?

I will attack with it.

Okay.

Yeah.

In,

it's been a while since we referenced it, but in Baldur's Gate, it would get its own initiative.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

It's different in D in five feet.

Those in Baldur's Gate.

So convenient.

Little axe buddy.

Yeah.

All right.

That's a 20.

11 plus 9.

Nice.

That hits.

Okay.

And then I'm rolling for damage.

That's 8 damage.

Does it have any extra bonus stack?

Is it made of silver, Gus?

Ms.

Notes.

Well, no, it's not made of silver.

I was testing you.

You passed, Gus.

Well done.

Good job.

You get to keep DMs.

I can give myself another inspiration die.

We're screwed.

This Verachu's got so many now.

Oh, no.

So what kind of damage does it do?

Let me check.

Or does it do like what the weapon attack is?

It does.

Because it's a spiritual weapon.

Yeah.

So force damage.

Force damage.

Force damage.

Gotcha.

So Jedi damage.

Eight points of Jedi damage.

But I'm not done.

Oh.

But wait, there's more.

Stinker.

Is he in the room with us?

Yes.

He hasn't used stinker ever.

Stinker runs and charges and then takes a bite.

Oh, the dreaded stinker bite.

Jumps up and takes a bite at the Nasfuratu's arm.

Speratu.

There's no Nasfu.

Feratu, Feratu, Feratu.

Speratu.

It's a Phoenix all over again.

I was thinking the same thing.

It takes a bite at the bad guy.

If it's a Nasferatu, it has nitrogen oxide, so it has like speed boost.

Yeah.

So extra speed.

Nas.

Nice.

Nice.

Flames come out the back.

Yeah, yeah.

Yeah.

That's a plus three to hit, and then it's a 1d6 plus one piercing damage.

Throll a d20 and add three.

Are they called Nasferatu?

Nah.

Sferatu.

Nah.

Stop it.

20.

Sorry, 18 plus

22.

21.

That's a hit.

Bra, Sferatu.

Skull Sferatu?

Come on.

The Sferatu is skanking.

Damage.

Oh, damn it.

Sorry, sorry.

We can't make jokes about Nasferatu all day.

I was reading about the Chris.

You don't have to yell.

He does put a yellow.

You have a microphone in front of your mouth.

When he's going fast, he goes louder.

Oh, I rolled a six.

So that's a six.

Seven.

Oh, plus one.

Nice.

The stinker took a big bite out of him.

All right, got a little bit of his paw, Sferatu.

We're with their diminishing returns.

That is good.

That's so obvious.

Like, duh, Sferatu.

That's bad.

I hate it now.

Yeah,

welcome to my world.

Wait, what?

Claw, Sferaltu?

All right, I'm out.

I'm not leaving.

I'm going to get get out of here.

Ha ha ha, Sferatu.

Okay, the last one.

That's for Fratu.

Kill me.

I feel really blossom for Autu right now.

All right.

Is there anything else you can do, Chris, or anything else you want to do?

I mean, that's all I...

I mean, I guess I move my movement towards as close as I can to get into range.

To get as close to what?

To then.

Ferratu.

Sephiratu.

Ferratu.

What is it?

Whatever it is.

Just say Ferratu.

Ferratu.

But with an S in in front of S.

Saferatu.

That is what I get.

Yeah, I think that's as close as we're going to get.

Put an S in front of Saferatu.

Is that it?

Yeah, you did it that time.

Maybe it's debatable.

Order pizza.

Get a Zaw.

Sferatu.

Place just.

I already knew the alphabet.

He's just sitting here with blankly staring off into the room, just going through stuff.

Sferatu.

I already made that one.

Okay, in that case, we'll have everyone roll initiative at this point then.

Wee!

Do we even know how many people or what's in there?

Like,

do we have a lay of the land at all?

So this came back into the commissary, which had the two long tables with the various

battlers.

Why it said that they had started making space when they saw the confrontation, then when Barney came out and fired that crossbow bolt, they very quickly started making for the exits.

Sorry, I was thinking of different straw to puns, so I didn't remember.

You and me both.

I rolled a 22 on initiative.

I rolled a nat 20.

I rolled a 21.

Did that do anything?

I also rolled a nat.

I also rolled a nat 20.

I rolled a nat 20.

Could we make it do something?

We all rolled a nat 20.

22?

Well, I did.

Mati did, and Barney did.

I rolled at 19 plus 2.

21.

Those were some of our collectively best rolls.

But I'm at 24.

Barney, what's your dexterity?

My dex is 2 or 18.

Nice 14.

No, I'm sorry, 15, 15.

18.

24.

Three numbers.

9 is 2, 15.

Just say what the, yeah, the numbers.

So I'm 14, so you would go before me.

Okay.

Well, I see Barney rolled an initiative of nine.

Yeah, I rolled twice because I had my initial role.

Oh, right.

Oh, and I also have advantage on initiative.

Do it.

You'll get better than a Nat 20.

Or?

Yeah, thank you.

Silly.

I have a question.

What does my family look like?

Just can you describe them to me?

That's a great question.

Let me finish my initiative roll right here, and I will get right to that.

We all see the family too, right?

Maybe you'll find out on your turn.

Okay.

I'm worried.

Top of the initiative order is Matik.

But I know you did have that question there, Chris.

So, you know, Chris, when you came out, you know, you very clearly see Marnie, who's a female elf, and she's prone on the ground.

And alongside her are two strapping boys who you recognize as being Samson and Titus.

Cool names.

Actually, I'll tell you what, Marney, why don't you tell me?

How do they look?

Well, I'm...

How old are they?

If you don't hurry, how old do they like?

I mean, Marnie looks exactly like you remember her and like you saw in your dream

several episodes ago.

As far as Samson and Titus, they're not small boys.

You know, they're strong.

They're probably, you know, in their early to mid-teens,

you know, from a human perspective.

Are those your sons?

Yes.

Oh.

So I would say strapping young boys.

Yeah.

Samson got dark hair and freckles and looks like his mom.

And it's the taller of the two.

And then Titus has the more of a lighter kind of like dirty blonde hair.

It looks like his grandmother on his father's side.

so Barney's mom

yeah and it's just a little like a little shorter and then a little like just a little a little pudgy okay I recall your mom is a nice Irish woman named Blarney Farney

how did you know

Blarney

and then and then Barney is she's the most beautiful woman I've ever seen and she's got

dark hair and and and freckles and a cute little nose.

I like how you described your sons in your voice, voice, Chris, and then your wife is Barney.

Sorry.

Which is really sweet.

I think Barney has a soft spot for his wife.

I think I want to go introduce myself.

And they need to meet their Uncle Chip.

We got to save this family, King.

Uncle Chip's got a few people going before him.

Oh, shoot.

First up in the initiative order is Mate, then after Mateed is Barney.

Do I see these people?

Yeah, you run into the commissary and the scene looks as I've described.

There is a female elf and two boys on the ground who are at the feet of a Sferatu who is currently being bitten by a stinker and assaulted by a spiritual weapon.

Did you say what kind of weapon it was?

A steak.

Oh, that's right, a steak.

Yeah, because you made that super wicked steak joke around.

Yeah, the New York Strip.

High five.

Please give me an inspiration.

I'm about to die.

How many Sferatus are in the room?

One Sferatu.

Oh, okay.

We can take care of that.

I'm sure he hasn't called us back up.

Is he the only one that seems aggressive?

Correct.

The only other people in the room were the battlers who are are making their way to the exits.

Gotcha.

Okay.

Well, I suppose I should assist in this battle.

I guess I'd rush in.

Can I go in?

The Sfratu's probably facing away from us, right?

Yeah, he was because he was dealing with Barney.

He's probably starting to turn at this point.

He might be still.

Yeah, I'll say he's still facing away because of Stinker.

Okay.

I'm going to stab him with a spear of Superior Baker.

Remind me, I think I have two attacks or two damages.

I guess I should roll for attack first.

See if it lands and then I can ask this question.

Another

20.

Anat 20 twice in a row.

You're rolling good today.

We should shut down Rooster Teeth more often.

I was going to say, you're rolling good at 20.

The 20s are wrong.

You came out of nowhere, Gustavo.

The 20s are off the charts today.

Oh, my gosh.

Hey, you know, tragedy plus time equals comedy.

It's been a day.

We need 24 hours.

All right.

Yeah, that's a.

Yeah, 20.

Wow, that's a 29.

That's a critical hit.

2d6 plus 6.

It has the little symbol that looks like a piercing thing, and then there's 2d8 plus 6.

What is the 2d8 plus 6?

So, yeah, it's versatile.

So, if you wield it one-handed, it's 1d6.

Then, if you wield it two-handed, it's 1d8.

And if I wield it two-handed, what is that?

I can do that and then switch off of it, right?

Because I don't have a shield or anything, right?

Exactly.

It's just gonna do it with two hands.

Do it.

Yeah, it's just to give you that versatility if you want to use a shield or not.

I'm versatile.

Exactly.

Zati is 13 plus plus the crit.

Great.

So it did one of your D8s in here.

It did two D8.

So we're going to modify that 5 to an 8.

So we'll add 3 to this.

So 16.

Okay.

I want to make that a stunning strike.

Okay, what does that entail?

That means you do a con save of DC14.

Okay, I have a plus 4, which means I need a 10 or better.

Don't do it.

A three.

Yeah!

Yeah.

Seven?

Does that make it?

No, I don't.

At all.

You are stunned, which is great.

So, since you're stunned, I'm just going to go ahead and keep hitting you.

I'm pretty sure it's like a punching bag.

You're just like going to use the Sferatu like speed bag.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

I'm going to go ahead and do the exact same attack on you again with the spear.

All right.

That's a gnat 20 again.

That's a gnat 20 again.

That's a nat 20.

Another one.

Oh my god.

Yeah, so we'll do the same thing again.

Well, for uh, it's gonna automatically roll the 2d8.

We'll make the second one an 8.

Alright, so that's 20 points of damage.

Okay.

I'm gonna keep hitting him.

I'm gonna cast Flurry of Blows and kick this vampire.

That one's only a 16.

That's good.

That hits, I should say.

Then that does five points of

magic piercing damage.

With your talents.

Yes.

And then I will do it again.

That's a bad one.

That one.

Critical fail.

That misses.

No, I don't want to use it.

I hit him three times already.

Yeah.

Silly.

What?

I've got six HP.

I'm fine.

He's stunned at you.

You might hold on to that spray for later.

Alright.

Just a peek behind the curtain.

I made a roll to see if you act, since you critically failed, if you accidentally stomped on one of the children.

And you made it, so you're okay.

Oh, okay.

Oh, glad that that

handout.

He has two.

It's fine.

Stomped.

They were off balance because they

critically failed on the...

Stomp is an aggressive word.

No, like trying to get the

Spiratu.

It's also a show in New York.

Stomp.

I remember watching that choir class.

I saw Stomp in Austin once.

Oh, yeah?

Yeah, like 20,

25 years ago or something.

Wow.

I just imagined Gus that night practicing in his underwear in his kitchen.

Just going, doom, doo, doom, doom, doom.

Why does he have to be in his underwear?

Because I always imagine Gus in his underwear.

It's how you're confident enough to speak in front of him, right?

Yeah.

The second I get home, it all comes off.

Okay, is that it for Mateed?

Se finie.

All right, so Barney, you are up.

Your friend Mateed has come through and really put some damage on this Ferratu.

This Ferratu's looking definitely much weaker than before.

And stunned.

And stunned?

I want to hold up my crossbow to its chest and shoot a bolt into its heart.

You got advantage on this attack.

Yeah, because of the stun.

Normally, I'd say, you know, an enemy would try to move away or wrestle with you, but because of the stun, we'll let it go.

Barney's kind of John Wicked.

They're stunned.

Well, normally, all you would get is advantage.

You couldn't, I wouldn't say you could hold up a crossbow to their heart.

Oh, oh, oh, you're talking about him.

Yeah.

19.

This is going to be the coldest kill in the series yet.

Yeah, that hits.

Did five damage.

But, but the silverbane bow bolts, they're code in silver and offer a plus two bonus to attack and damage rolls.

All right, so that's seven points of damage.

Do you say anything when you fire the bolt?

Uh go on Barney.

Come on, Barney.

Do not Sveratu today.

Yeah, yeah.

Yeah, you say that, and you pull the trigger on your crossbow, and the bolt pierces the Sveratu's heart.

Hey, he's talking like my teeth.

His art.

And it, like, for a brief moment, it freezes, then its entire form turns to ash, and it falls to the ground in a pile at your feet.

I have a feeling we might get in trouble for this.

Matith starts shuffling the dust under a carpet.

Just using wings to go through.

If someone comes in, they're like, have you seen Bill?

It's his birthday today.

Are we able to reclaim those bolts?

The silver bolts?

I'll say you can reclaim this one.

If you want to look for the other one, it might take a while because it went wide and hit like the wall.

Sure.

Okay.

Barney turns to his family.

Yeah, I guess at this point, Marnie, you know, would look up and see the Serato has turned into ash and says, oh, this is bad.

This is bad.

Marnie, it's me.

Yes, thank you.

Yeesh.

What?

Marnie, it's me.

It's Barney.

It's good to meet you, sir.

I'm standing next to Marnie, right?

Yes.

Since I'm just so awesome.

Can I tell if they're a ghost if I were to check?

Do you have to make a check?

You just know, right?

I would imagine.

Yeah, throw a chair through them.

It's like Gaydar.

Yeah, yeah.

It's been, it's on, it's been perfect up till now.

Can I get that a carnivy?

I haven't used it on you yet.

Marnie, from your perspective, what you know, Marnie does not appear to be a ghost.

No.

It's Barney.

Oh, yes.

I'm Marnie.

These are my children.

Get up, boys.

Boys,

it's me.

It's dad.

They like look at each other and, you know, then just kind of like start look.

We'll say Samson looks at his feet and Titus just kind of looks at his mom.

It's Barney.

Um, well, we have to go.

No, please don't go.

Count Vixie will be very angry if we don't finish our tasks, and we'll get in trouble if we're found here with this pile of ash.

Please don't go.

Wait, wait.

I'm gonna interject here.

Hey, hey.

Hi.

Hey, it's me.

It's Chipani.

How's it going, everybody?

Good.

That was a heck of a fight.

Hey, Marney, how long have you been in the service of Count Trixie?

Just out of curiosity.

Count Vixie.

Count Vixie, so sorry.

How long have you been working under them?

She kind of like furrows her brow and looks at you and says, That doesn't make sense.

Do you not know how many years or do you just, is it hard to recollect?

We've always served Count Vixie, but I like put a number.

No, you haven't.

Make me a wisdom check with advantage, Barney.

I have a theory.

Not 2025.

You realize someone's missing here.

Oh, your daughter, Calliope, is not here.

Where's Calliope?

I'm sorry, who?

Our daughter.

Our daughter?

What?

She looks a little uncomfortable and says, like I said, we really must be going.

Calfici will be very upset with us.

How are you able to get up to the quarters of the Vamp?

She points east.

All right, out that door, the room.

Out the door to the east.

The stairwell is just through there.

In fact, we should probably be returning there right now.

Come on, boys.

Wait, no, Marty, please.

She gets her boys by the hand and begins leading them out and leaves the room to the east.

I'm sorry.

Well, this is awkward.

Yeah, yeah.

Um, anyways, uh, Barney, I think maybe your family has been brainwashed.

Because I believe you when you say that that is them, right?

Everyone?

Right?

We believe, Barney, that that is in fact his family, and he is not pretending that other strangers are his family.

Barney, I think it also could be a thing like, seems like you've aged, but they haven't, so maybe there's, you know, what's afflicting Elga is maybe impacting them.

I would not say that.

That's not a good thing to say.

They did not seem to even know who Barney Barney was.

They're like, I'm supposed to be the one who's not supposed to have the tactia.

And they also didn't know

his daughter, which would be also her daughter and their sister.

Well, why?

How are we?

Perhaps what we can do is Barney.

Barney Jabran's after him.

Okay.

So you leave east out of the commissary and you enter a dark chamber echoing with snores and furnished with rows of shoddy coffins and cobwebs in the corner.

It seems like some of the coffins are occupied by sleeping battlers.

And then from here, there's another door that exits out to the east.

And as you walk in you see those doors closing.

Okay, and so Barney runs towards it.

You run through those doors and you enter a bustling chamber with battlers running in and out from the northern and western doors.

The western doors are the ones you just came in.

To the east is a rack of identical robes and to the south is a bench of identical belts.

It's like a locker room for battlers, I guess.

And do I see...

Make a...

Call it an investigation check.

15.

Chip's also doing a loose tail on this.

So you're following Barney in?

Yeah.

You don't see Marnie and the boys, but you do notice that the door to the north is closing or has closed as you're entering.

Barney rushes towards it.

Marnie and the Boys is a great band name.

That is a good name.

Yeah, you run to the north, and this is, you know, a wooden door that leads down a passage to a stairwell.

Can I also ask, and I know this might be too late to do a check or anything like that.

Did I recognize them at all?

Make a, let's call it a wisdom check with advantage.

Okay.

They were like your

chambermaids like that.

The cleanup poop.

Okay, that's a nat.

Oh, gosh.

Those are bad rolls.

Four is with advantage because I rolled a nat one.

One and a three.

And I don't have any inspo dice, so that is my roll.

No, they do not look familiar to you.

You've never seen them before.

That you can recall.

What if I go

and I like screen shoes?

Rub your eyes.

As you're doing that, Quiffley runs in.

Yeah, I was going to say it sounds like...

What are you doing?

I thought you would have gone upstairs by now, Erica.

Well, Quiffley, we have a bit of a situation going on.

There is just a

woman and her two sons in here.

And my friend Barney here, this old man who is my friend, don't ask questions.

He he claims that they are his family, but they don't seem to remember him.

Do you know who they are?

I don't see them.

Where do they go?

Her name is Marnie, and their sons are Titus

and Samson.

I want to say Marnie's not here.

He's left.

He's ran.

Arnie, you're like running.

Yeah, you're up the other hallway.

Yeah.

The doorway to the north led to a stairwell that went down.

The doorway to the north went down.

They led to a stairway that I haven't talked about yet.

Copy that.

Marnie, Samson, and Titus?

That sounds like they could be Count Vixie's battlers.

Yes, that's correct.

I know of them, but I don't know them very well personally.

Are they vampires?

No, they're battlers.

What does that mean?

They're servants for Count Vixie.

Battlers are typically victims of vampire bites that are compelled to serve other vampires.

Oh, like familiars.

Similar, but not quite the same.

Do they not age kind of like vampires as well?

Yes, that's correct.

And who is Count Vixie?

He's one of the bigwigs upstairs.

Oh, does he, uh, he's like friends with Dracula kind of bigwig?

Yeah, Yeah, he's worth due.

Okay.

I didn't I don't want to interrupt your quickly conversation.

Can I step in as well?

Quickly, this is my friend Chip.

He's uh don't tell my father, but Chip has kind of been like a little father figure to me.

Hey there, Chip Paney, pleasure to meet you.

I'm about a sixth of the age of this little one.

Don't ask questions, it's weird.

Quiffley, when you have a vampire bite like a battler, does that also impact like memory and things like that?

Like what are some of the effects of a vampire bite?

Typically, we can't recall our lives from before we were converted.

Was that including you?

You don't remember?

Yes.

This is all I've ever known.

Oh, that's very unfortunate.

Now I feel kind of bad for being part of this system.

Well, you benefited from the system.

Yikes.

But you really should hurry upstairs.

Okay, yes.

And that is this way, correct?

Correct.

Just go east here, through the dressing room, then north, and you'll be at the stairs to go up.

Okay, and is that where uh Count Vixie is as well?

Yes, definitely upstairs.

Alright, team, roll out.

Yeah.

Cliffly, you could come with us too if you want.

Oh, I can't.

I'm still running errands, but I will be upstairs shortly.

Hey, we're we're uh auto backs.

Roll out.

Well, that's good.

I like that.

Okay.

And Chip, I think you and that Cliffly guy are gonna be good friends.

Yeah, yeah.

If I could help him get his memory back, that'd be kind of cool.

Because, you know, he has slave owners or, you know.

So all you guys follow after Barney, going in the direction that Quiffley told me.

I would say, yes.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

So Elga, Chip, and Mateed, you go east, following Barney, and you enter a dark chamber echoing with snores, furnished with rows of shoddy coffins and cobwebs in the corner.

And some of the coffins are occupied by sleeping battlers.

And there is a door leaving this room to the east.

Are there name placards or anything like that that indicate whose bed is what person's?

There are no name placards.

Okay.

And Barney's already ahead at this point.

Yeah, Barney, we'll say you're, you know, going to the stairwell at this point.

I'll continue into the locker room place to just keep an eye on Barney.

I don't want to let him get out of my sight too far.

Yeah, so you continue east and you enter the bustling chamber with battlers running in and out from the northern and western doors, which you just came through.

Can I grab a belt and a robe?

Yeah, there's to the east is a rack of robes and to the south is a rack of belts.

So I guess on your way through, you could just grab a belt from the south, then a robe from the east, and then continue your way north.

The robes appear to be like cheaply made black robes.

Make me a perception check.

Six.

Sure is a robe.

Yep, it's a robe.

And the belts are made of leather.

Wait a second.

Before I put that leather belt on, is this the kind of leather belt that like Carol had?

Is there any like weird...

Make an investigation check.

17.

Yeah, these seem to be magical belts very similar to the one that Carol was wearing.

However, these belts do not appear to have fangs or vials attached.

But it has like the sigil.

Yeah,

on the buckle is a sigil.

It's the shape of a red blood drop, and inside is the outline of a white upside-down triangle.

Okay.

Which would make a thick tattoo.

Yeah, bra.

Am I right?

Had us up.

At sticky dragon pod.

What's his voice?

Don't know.

I don't like it.

It's your broth raw, too.

Yeah.

Bring it a bot.

I don't know.

I guess,

like, my idea is that, you know, we do disguise because it seems like we're going further in.

I know that we're already in disguise as vampires, but it's been a bad disguise so far.

It's gone fine.

We haven't gotten in a fight.

So far, Elga, just tell everyone that you're her friend, and you're good to go.

I mean, you can change if you want.

I like how I look.

Yeah, yeah, I'll appear to be a battler.

Okay, you could be my battler.

So you put on the

robe and the belt.

Yes.

He's a battler in training.

Save my battle.

But Elga's Elga and Mateed is still just wearing the cloak from earlier.

Yeah, the dummy.

Marnie is a little further ahead up the stairwell.

Yep.

I kick chip.

Is there anything else of note in this room?

No, just the door you came from and then a door to the north.

Okay.

All right, shall we continue north?

Go get me some dishes.

I think I smelled Barney went that way.

Yeah, you all go north and you see Barney just a little ahead of you.

You know, you're moving maybe a little faster than he is, but when you go through the door to the north, it's a small chamber with an ascending spiral staircase, and it is flanked by two ignis stone bat guard goils on either side.

Oh, there's a passcode, probably, huh?

Yeah, so at this point, I'll say you catch up to Barney here at the base of the stairwell.

Should I go up up to them and investigate the gargoyles?

Guard goils.

See if they're the same type as the ones we saw out of the front gate.

Yeah, make a, what do you want to call that?

A wisdom check or perception check?

I'll leave it up to you.

I'll do perception.

That is a 20.

Nice.

Yeah, they appear to be very similar to the ones you saw before outside of the vampspire.

You think it's the same password?

Hello, gargoyles.

Stoker.

Stoker.

It is me, Elga.

May me and my friends pass up here.

They're not going to say anything like the other ones as well.

There is no response.

and you went through fine last time yeah and i'll probably be able to go up fine all right chip which one of us will go through barney are you are you waiting for any of this or

right barney seems to be on a mission

i think barney would be going for oh yeah

go go ahead barney's son oh yeah you go on i mean i can't stop you i can't stop

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All right, so Barney Ghostru, does he say anything or do anything?

I think you just charge through it first.

Uh-oh.

You don't want to throw like a password out?

What is the password?

Oh, Stoker was the one that got us into the castle.

Stoker.

Barney, you start rushing through and say the password as you go through.

And very, like, with lightning-fast reflexes, one of the guard goils lashes out and claws at you.

And he said Stoker?

Yeah, I figured it was not going to be the same password.

Yeah.

It hits AC.

You never want to use the same password twice.

No, it misses.

Okay.

We'll say it hits you, but the claw bounces off of your armor.

Both gargoyles kind of like pop to life and start blocking your way, hissing.

Like blocking my way to the staircase.

They attacked you, Barney, and then, you know, the attack bounced off your armor, and then they, you know, kind of hopped to life and block the path going forward.

Are they like living gargoyles, or are they just like, like turrets, I guess?

Yeah, what are they made of?

Looks like they're ignis stone, but you know, they started moving.

Like, I don't know if you would say animated or living, but they are, like, moving.

They're not just attacking from like a set position they actually moved got up and then like stood in your way

and they're stone yeah well one i think i do i still have my spiritual weapon what's the duration on that one minute no okay would you consider them a stone object depending on the context yes because they're not strictly objects depending on what look at stone shape you touch a stone object a medium size or smaller a section of stone no more than five feet in any dimensions and form it into any shape that suits your purpose maybe let me me see how big these are.

They're medium.

It's probably not any bigger than five feet in any direction.

Probably right around there.

We'll say, yeah, why not?

A couple of short kings.

All right.

Well, then I touch one of them and I shape it into

something silly, something goofy.

Go on.

Because your imagination is

so silly.

I shape it.

Come on.

Comedy podcast.

You know what?

I just don't think Barney's in a comedic mood.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

So then what's his form?

He forms them into teardrops.

He makes them into something sad.

I make it into a sword shape.

You made them.

A weapon.

You know what, like, an anime made.

You make them into

like a tree.

Okay, well, I was going to say a sword, then I could pick it up and stab the other one with itself.

What?

Okay, yeah, you.

I guess.

You make the gargoyle into a stone.

Let him cook Mati.

Oh, yeah.

A fire.

Yes, sir.

That's fine.

All right, no, this.

I do this.

I didn't say don't do it.

I turned it into a stone that's attached to the ground.

Like, so it's just a block.

So you turn him into a stone block.

That's

merged with the ground of the stone okay so you make like a minecraft block stone block makes it into a swamp for mario yeah

i don't want to be a negative person but he just made something that blocked the stairwell more no no like a ground like no that doesn't block the way like the like a that's just like a thing on the ground

yeah so a five-foot cube of stone yeah that is it and it doesn't block the doorway right the stairwell i i'm visually i you can you can push it out of the way

i'm not gonna be I'm not going to be.

Okay, that's fine.

That's fine.

I'm not going to be doing that.

I was trying to point it out so that Chris could potentially turn into something that was helpful if needed.

I got you.

So one of the guard goals turns into that.

Can you do anything about the other one?

Well, that was my, I guess, action.

So then my bonus action, man, I'm running out of spills.

We're not in combat, just FYI.

We're not.

Have you rolled initiative?

Yeah, but I mean, if you don't do too much, otherwise we roll initiative.

Yeah, yeah.

Let's keep it loose.

Let's keep it fun.

Let's keep it rolling.

Jeez, I'm running out of things to do.

I'm running out of things to do.

If only you got a stone sword.

No.

You're just being that way.

I just gotta imagine stabbing a stone steady.

I know what you want to do.

I know what I want to do.

I want to use my bonus action and I want to shove it out of the way with my telekinetic powers.

So it shoves to the side so I can continue on my way.

Is there a weight limit on that?

No.

A target must succeed a strength saving throw of DC-16 or be moved five feet.

I was about to say he's like, it can move anything, Gus.

He can move a mountain five feet.

Yeah.

One creature within 30 feet.

Can Mati do something while Barney's doing this?

Yeah.

I want to go back in the last room we were in.

Okay.

Okay.

Grab my crossbolt.

No, the room before that.

After that.

Gonna get a running start.

No, the sleeping room.

Okay, the sleeping room.

Got it.

It failed its save.

I rolled an eight plus four.

That's a 12.

So it gets shoved aside and I run past it and continue.

Okay.

Yeah, the guard goal seems very shocked at this turn of events.

I don't know if it's ever anyone's ever shoved it.

What the?

It doesn't make any sense.

And then, yeah, you run past.

As you run past, Mate runs back out to the room with the sleeping battlers.

Well, I was going to do that because I didn't think that it was going to get shoved, but let's say Mate witnesses this.

Does the guard goal get back into place?

Yeah, I think the guard goil would reset back to its neutral position where it was initially.

Okay, then I would like to go in the sleeping room.

Okay.

Can I find a little sleeping battler and just go up to him and go and like like just try to like whisper like excuse me?

Um, I am new here as a battler.

Um, what's the password to get upstairs to the vampires?

Uh uh well just put on a belt.

Oh, okay.

I forgot.

You know new stuff.

Uh, thank you.

Go to sleep.

I go back in grab two four belts.

No, you only need three.

Well, I want to give one to the man that ran just in case he missed.

I think Blaine has one on already, right?

You put one on?

Yeah, I'm in disguise.

You said I was stupid.

You say, oh no, I like the way I look.

I guarantee you, it's warehouse.

Jimmy's not so dumb now, is he?

Oh.

I grab three belts, put one on, and I'll give one to Elga.

Although Elga could just probably pass through, right?

Yeah, do I need one?

Uh-uh.

I grabbed one just in case.

Could I try to go through before?

Yeah, you pass through and the guard goil does not move or react at all.

Okay, then I just have my belt and I'm holding one for Barney.

And I approach the guard goal and act like I'm walking through.

You strap on the belt and you're able to pass right through, no problem.

As I pass the guard goal, I say, that's right.

I walk through as well.

Okay, yeah.

You follow your...

Oh, I tell the guard goal, don't let him through.

Barney, I assume you put yours on.

Y'all are going to be on.

Barney's on.

Barney's off.

Okay.

So y'all begin running up the stairs or going up the stairs following Barney who seems to be charging ahead.

Everyone roll me a perception check.

That's gonna be a good one, I can tell.

Nat 20, 24.

What is it?

This is the Nat 20 episode.

Oh, I love it.

15.

12.

Yeah.

8.

You plus me, me kuzo 20.

Yeah.

You're too busy looking at your belt.

This is a new shiny belt.

Reminds me of my wife died.

Which you needed assistance for.

Go ahead and give yourself an inspiration.

Hey!

Chip.

It works.

You see, it's just, you just gotta.

It's, what is it?

Pity?

No, it's crime.

All right, so we'll deal with you, Chip, first.

It's just maybe the pressure of all of this, you know, the chaos of the Tales of Doc running up here to the next level.

Like, it's just, maybe it's getting to you because all you can see right now is red.

Mateed, you see this is an extensive hallway that seems circular.

It's adorned with red velvet carpet and is lit by golden sconces and ornamental glass chandeliers.

Pretty.

Barney's, you're in the same boat as Mati.

Maybe you're like rushing ahead.

Get out of my boat.

Elga, do you know, you know, you see, of course, each door is lavishly and uniquely decorated, either with gold, jewelry, you know, fancy things, but none of them are labeled.

And in the distance, you think you hear bells.

These resonate much deeper.

Okay.

Do I like recognize this hallway?

Yeah, you know this area.

Like I said, all these doors are unique and lavishly decorated, and you remember what the door to your home looks like.

What does it look like again?

At the same time, ready?

One, two, three.

No,

you can construct it.

So the door to like essentially Onyx.

So it's a dark black door,

and it has...

Well, like, what kind of material is it?

Like, Onyx or some exotic material, or is it like a black wood?

Okay.

Onyx is cool.

Good Pokemon.

And it's got gems kind of decorating it all the way down.

And it says a big VB in gold with like kind of like cursive writing.

When you say gems all the way down, do you mean covering the entire door or like in

columns going down the door?

Columns going down.

Elga bedazzled it.

Oh, pinstripes.

Yeah, I got lord one afternoon.

Eternity of living gets a better entire.

Her entire room in the vamp spire.

But like the tiny little gems.

Yeah, yeah.

So from a metagame perspective, you know, Elga, since you grew up here and you know, you know, many of the count families up here, while you're here on this level of the vampspire, make sure if you do any charisma-based checks, you have advantage on them.

Okay.

When, like, when dealing with other counts and their families.

There is.

I got the Riz.

Okay, cool.

So I must know: if I'm familiar with this hallway and our door, I must be familiar with who lives where, right?

To an extent, the problem is you don't remember where your door is.

But I know what it looks like.

You gotta go find it.

You'll know it when you see it.

Let's go find it.

Well, are we also not trying to find the count or count Trixie?

Vixie?

Vixie.

Dixie?

Sure.

We could do both.

I don't know what we're trying to do first.

Because I'm home and I want to see my family.

But I also know Barney wants to figure out what's going on.

Barney's off, right?

Yeah, I'll say you caught up to Barney.

Like, you're kind of like rubber banding here.

So you catch up to Barney here, and then it's up to like Barney or you guys if you know it's gonna happen.

All right, this let's find the Vixie.

Wait, so we're all collectively in this, like, it's a circular room, you said?

It's like a circular hallway.

Everyone else, you realize Chip is looking at the ground.

He's looking at the floor.

Low perception, perception, you know me.

That's why all he saw was red.

Yeah.

So the floor is red.

Looking all around, it's like, there's like a bunch of doors.

Yeah, it's just seemingly like almost endless doors.

It's like your block, your cul-de-sac.

Okay, look through all the different...

Was there any movement when I came in?

Well, we heard bells, he said.

He wants to know if a door closed, kind of like he saw Halmarty.

Make a...

Perception check for me, Barney.

Okay.

Solid 12.

That's better than a fragile 12.

It's hard to tell.

You didn't necessarily hear anything else.

Just maybe the shock of the opulence and the ringing of the bells kind of drowns other things out.

The bells?

And you said they are deeper sounding, right?

Yeah.

Like not like a small ting-ting-ting-ting, but like a deeper resonation.

Like a big, heavy bell.

Not like

a cathedral or a church bell, right?

But, you know, somewhere in between.

Is it because we're near the source, or is this a different...

Do you think that this is a different significant type of bell?

We'll have to investigate that.

Yeah, we'll have to find out.

And I'm sorry, I should have have said this earlier.

Elga, you also know the name of this level of the vampire.

Just like the first level was the Tails of Doc, you know that this level of the Vampspire is called the Clostrid.

Welcome to the Claustrid.

This is where my residence is.

The Head Zadoc.

That's lovely.

And I know the meaning of Claustrid, correct?

Yeah, what is it?

It is.

A claustrophobic.

I don't know if Elga would have ever thought to wonder about that or ask that.

It's like, it's just reality.

It's like one of the things you don't

think about.

Are we allowed to know?

Maybe we'll find out.

Well, let's go to the what's uh let's see if we can r refresh your memory and find uh the Vixie house.

I hear those bells.

Should we go towards those?

We could do that as well.

I'm easy peasy.

So is getting married or died.

Or both.

You know, bells mean multiple things.

Sorry, go ahead.

So the the your door has a VC for your nope.

What was it?

VB.

VB.

Do any of the doors have lettering that might indicate who uh the Vixen is?

He said none of them had signage on them.

Yeah, they're not really labeled.

Except for presumably the one that has a VB on it.

It also be funny for everyone's V, because it's just vampires.

It's just Vs.

This is not unhelpful.

I will say this just to expand on something that was asked a little earlier.

From your understanding, Elga, Claustrid is like, it's a name.

It's like an ancient Vanian name.

It's just...

Okay, so that doesn't mean anything.

Right, it's just like...

Because I know Tails of Doc was like...

Right, that had a mean.

This is just more like a name.

It's named after something.

Is there a heads a dock?

Perhaps.

Get out.

Okay.

I'm going to flip this coin.

Give you my inscrut.

So, Elga doesn't know where Vixie is, right?

Correct.

Okay.

I go to a door and knock on it.

Bolt.

Yeah.

Well, that's what I am.

Okay.

You knock on it, and you hear a voice from the other side say, Come in.

Oh, this did not go the way I thought it was going to go.

I open the door.

You open the door and it opens up into a foyer.

Oh, is there someone there?

Yeah, in the middle of the foyer, you see a golden-haired Mohawk halfling.

Oh.

Who's like looking around at the wall with their back to you?

Looking around at the wall with their back to me.

Bonjour.

Shush.

Oh, I'm here.

Oh.

They're right here.

Who's here?

Do you hear it?

Oh,

right there.

She points at the wall.

Is it a rat?

She's just pointing at the wall.

I look at the wall.

There doesn't appear to be anything there.

I hear them.

What do you hear?

Rats.

Okay.

I'm going to let you deal with that on your own.

I'm here to deliver a package to Count Vixie.

Do you know which door it is?

Down the hall.

But what does it look like?

It's the one that Count Vixie has.

Yeah, if I'm asking you which door, I'm asking for more than that.

I can't be bothered with that right now.

I'm in the middle of something.

It's because it is what it is.

What size is this person?

It's a halfling, so a pretty small.

I walk in and I grab them.

What are you doing?

You put Countess Vixoft down.

Countess what?

Vixoft.

Soft.

Vixsoft?

Yeah.

Witch door is Count Vixie.

How dare you lay your hands on me, Battler!

I'm not a battler.

I'm dressed like a vampire.

She points at the belt you're wearing.

Have fun explaining that.

It's underneath my cloak.

Fashion sticker.

It's like wearing Carhartt, but you're rich.

I rip it off.

You rip the belt off?

Sure.

Oh no.

Yeah.

He doesn't have one on.

This might not be good.

You go to take the belt off and you find you can't get it unfastened.

That's cool.

Oopsie.

That's fine.

I don't care that you think I'm a battler.

Switch doors, and I will leave you alone to the rats.

You are speaking to the partner of Count Vixie.

Oh.

Well, then, why did you point to Downs Orway?

Because I'm busy and I don't know where he is.

Wait, are you in your home or someone else's home?

I'm in my home, looking for the rat.

Well, wait, do you live with Count Vixie?

Yes!

So when you point to Downs Allway, he's down there somewhere.

I don't know where.

Oh, you're very bad at this.

I'm busy.

Okay, Okay, I put the halfling down and I dust them off and I go, thank you for your help.

Are your battlers in you?

No, that's why I'm looking for the rats.

Oh, okay.

I will let maintenance know that you have a rat problem.

Okay.

You have a wonderful day.

Get out.

Knock, knock, maintenance here.

Get out of the door.

And we tackle Tip to the ground and close the door.

Which direction do they they point?

Which direction did they point?

Further down the hallway.

Because you all came in up the stairs, and then this was presumably the first door, and then there's more doors.

I make note of what that door is that I just came through, so I remember it.

Okay.

Could we start going down, like, through the doors to see if I recognize my door?

What did they say, Vicsoft?

Vicsoft.

Vicsoft, yeah.

Vicsoft.

Yes, you can as well, Barbara.

Vic Sea and Vicsoft.

Vic Sea and Vicsoft.

I feel like they might be related.

They're at their partners.

Yeah, they're partner.

Right, but like, it might be incestuous.

Yeah, that's what I'm saying.

That's what I'm getting at right about.

Let's go.

How dare you make that claim of empire?

Yeah, nobility never does that.

Let's go down the hallway.

Yeah.

Or Mate goes down the hallway.

Yeah.

Did you explain what you found in there?

No, I just go without explaining.

Okay.

No, I say.

That.

Okay, that's what Count Vixie's room is, but they're not Zazo.

Don't always.

Let's follow me.

Okay, let's go.

And I'm going to be looking at the doors to see if I recognize mine on the way down.

And I knock on all the doors as I walk through.

I've got a lot of risk.

A lot to talk about if you're doing that.

I just ding-dong ditch every single one of them.

Awful.

Actually, I'll tell you what, everyone make me a perception.

Does Dika need to go patty?

I have a bag I'd like to put in right now.

18.

15.

What did I was I rolling?

I was making a poop joke.

Perception.

Six.

That's a

14.

I'm the perception master now.

Behold.

He's looking up.

Behold.

I see y'all.

Well, you are in a way, Chip.

You can tell as you're going down the hallway that the floor is continually rising.

Like you're going in a spiral.

So you're even though you're rising.

You're going in a circular hallway, yeah, you're continuing to rise as if you're going up

a spire.

Okay.

So yeah, you go for several minutes until finally you do see a door that looks familiar, Elka.

What did it look like again?

A big black onyx door with gems all the way down

in vertical lines with a VB written in gold cursive.

That was it.

Yeah, this is the one.

This is it.

I found it.

He just goes, that's not the one.

This one has all of that, except the VB is not in cursive.

BV.

Oh.

Ponvat.

Yeah.

Maybe they're partners.

Yeah, yeah.

Pon Vat.

Could I open the door?

Yeah, you open the door.

Guys, this is...

This is my place.

Okay, it was lovely meeting you.

We will see you later.

We're dropping your little girl off.

Yeah, I don't think Barney...

Lovely homeby.

Well, maybe maybe my family could help figure out what's going on and who where your family is and what's going on with them and how to maybe break this curse.

Yeah, Barney, I think we lost the scent and you know, I think uh Elga's family could probably help us.

But if you wanna go off and separate from a group, that's great DD tactics.

You know?

I I don't I can't leave them again.

Right, we're not saying that.

They already left them, they've left you.

Yeah, in the building, we are going to figure out where they are in the building and maybe more information of what is their situation from experts of the building and the situation.

We gotta formulate a strategy here, Barn.

We can't just rush in headlong.

You know,

I think that this is the right path forward.

I know, I know how you feel, though.

At least we know they're here.

They could not have left the building.

Yeah, do you know if they're in Elga's room?

Okay.

Okay.

Let's go in.

So did you open the door?

Yeah.

Elga?

Yeah.

Is it open?

Yeah, yeah, it's unlocked.

You open the door, and similar to the previous home you went into, the door opens into into a palatial foyer adorned with immaculate marble fountain bubbling with blood.

On either side of the fountain are two respective chains, one with a ruby handle and the other with an ivory handle.

Do I remember what these chains do?

Make me a wisdom check with advantage.

Bet it's the difference between the kinds of bells that it rings.

One's battler and then the other one's that deeper one.

Okay, that is a 17 and then a so 17.

Yeah, you do remember.

The ruby chain, if you pull it, it rings bells alerting Skra to of an emergency.

Oh.

The ruby one.

Okay.

Okay.

Yeah, and then the one with the ivory chain rings Quiffley's personal belt to summon him.

Ah.

You said his belt?

Bell.

No.

Okay.

Wait, does that mean that those bells that we heard earlier, the deeper ones, are summoning Sfraut to here?

Don't know.

We don't know.

But possibly.

Uh-oh.

And from this foyer, you can either go west or east.

Let's go west.

Alright, come on, guys.

Come on to my Mikasa Sukasa.

Welcome in.

Sukasa, so formal, Elka.

Don't touch any of anything.

Okay, thank you.

It's like that feeling when you were a kid, you went to one of your friends' house and you're just kind of like, the little

thing's anxious, you know?

Or like when you're showing people around your house as a kid and you're just like, that's where I sat and I ate my bubble gum, and then this is the window I looked out and I saw a pigeon flying.

That's how Blaine introduces his house as an adult.

Yeah, it's true.

Very true.

You walk west into the unliving room.

Micah, you.

Here you find a brick fireplace that lights what would be a cozy on the living room, but right away you notice all of the furniture is overturned, including overstuffed aurochs leather armchairs and a couch made from scales.

Like someone was looking for something?

Or like a cool man?

It's been ransacked.

Like it doesn't look like intentional.

It looks like...

Correct.

Okay.

A jewel-framed painting that clearly once hung over the fireplace now lies ripped near the cinders of the fireplace.

Oh my goodness.

Uh uh well, can I see what the painting showed?

Yeah, you take a look at it and it appears to be a family portrait with a jacinth-encrusted frame.

The painting has been marred and it looks like it fell on the fire stoker and some ember-singed parts of the portrayal.

All that's left are two little girls.

You recognize, of course, Elga, but on the portrait as well is Avina, who is straight-faced with piercing blue eyes, wearing a black blouse and blue skirt.

Elga, what did you look like in this painting?

In this painting, I look the exact same as I do now.

I'm holding Boris, my teddy bear.

And I also have a red cardigan over my clothes that I don't currently have with me right now.

Yeah, nice.

But curly blonde hair, kind of cream blouse with my locket on, and then my red skirt.

May I see this?

The painting.

Yeah, I'm not gonna tell you what to do with your eyeballs.

No, I mean like

is it on the floor or on the wall?

Yeah, it's on the wall.

I'm sorry.

I'm sorry.

It's on the floor.

On the wall.

Yeah.

Could Barney pick it up and cast mending?

Yeah, why not?

Now we see the parent reveal.

I'm imagining it's the scene in Beauty and the Beast where she sees the painting of the prince and like pushes the fabric up and and it like reveals his face.

She goes, Oh, of course, puts it back down.

Reading through mending, it wouldn't fix the entire painting, but it would kind of restore it a bit.

It kind of you know fixes some of the singed portions and you know, repairs some of the tears.

Parts of it are still missing, though, because they're burnt off.

It's so mending can fix like tears, but not necessarily things that have been burned and destroyed.

What's happening here?

Something I feel like those faces are going to be important literally.

Yeah, do we see the faces?

no but is it clear no you can't you can't see it's not just the faces that are missing it's like a lot of the body as well could i tell if it's just one body or if it's like two or more like where there originally is there room for like two people if there's me and my sister is it mama you would presume there's enough room for two people in that space oh yeah this is crazy because i haven't seen my mother in a very long time perhaps we should uh investigate the other side of your or maybe there's more to investigate in your you haven't seen your mother in a very long time no can you elaborate she She left when I was when I was pretty young.

Hmm.

To get like cigarettes or something.

I don't really know why, but uh, she was uh she was an elf, so I don't know what else.

Maybe she had some duty to do.

I don't know.

Hmm.

And what was she like like you?

No.

We really should have asked each other more questions until we met each other.

You know, I was trying to realize we're all just kind of strangers.

I don't know anything about you guys.

We've only known each other for a week.

Yeah, it's true.

You're learning on YouTube.

You tell us everything.

Anything that comes into your brain.

I'm an open book.

I'm a big old purple book.

Maybe we close some of that book.

No, no, no.

I'll tell you more.

Let's save some of that book for later.

Yeah, do we see anything else in this room?

Like anything?

Nothing else.

Just a door leading to the north and a door leading to the south.

And you, of course, Elga, know that the door to the south leads to your room and the door to the north leads to Ivana's room.

Can I look for Count Von Brass's vlog bunk card?

Nice.

It doesn't appear to be in here.

Dang, Robin.

Let's go to my room.

You guys want to see my room?

I'm sure everything will be perfectly intact in there.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Yeah, it's like I said, it's the door to the south.

Why don't you tell them what it looked like before you lead everyone in there?

Added it used to be.

Fear of the mind here, guys.

I like it.

Barbara gets to play Sims right now.

We're coming into my room.

It's not that big.

It's pretty humble size, but I have one little twin bed and it has a black post on it.

It's like one of those canopy beds

with white sheets.

And then I have my toys in the corner.

I have my play stuff, like my dollhouse.

And Boris should be in there, I think.

Oh, I see.

You had the latest SlayStation 2.

I like to play Bloodborne on it.

I don't know if that's a PlayStation game or not.

It is.

It's actually a PlayStation exclusive.

Or it used to be.

Is it PC now?

I think they ported it.

I don't know if it's PC.

I think it is.

I think people complained about the quality of the PC port, if I remember right.

Anyway, let's talk about that a little bit more.

That's not DND.

Yeah, as you're saying that, you know, you open up the room, or you open up the door to your room, and as it opens, you see, much like the unliving room, it is also in disarray as if it's been ransacked.

Goodness, is Boris still here?

One item does stand out amongst the rest.

You do see your teddy bear Boris.

Boris!

She picks it up and cuddles it.

Yeah, I shake Boris's little paw.

Hey there, Chip 80, Budget meets you.

Oh, Boris, Tu Vidyoto, Chip

And then Elga like proceeds to like saying,

yeah, oh, cute.

I feel like you guys should have a talk with Quiffley.

He's not doing a very good job of keeping your house in order.

Yeah, I'm very confused with what's going on here.

I did not leave my room like this.

I'm not very, you know, I'm a little messy sometimes, but no, not like this.

Maybe we get Quiffly in here and get some man sales.

Do I see any clues of like who might have done this?

Make an investigation check.

Can I also look around just to see if there's anything of interest or anything?

Barney's gonna steal from Elga.

I don't want to steal, but

like, starts putting silverware in his little thing.

It's silver for later.

I roll the investigation.

I don't know if it matters.

Tell me what you're rolling.

16.

16.

Okay, I'm going to deal with Elga first.

You don't find any clues, like nothing, nothing like footprints or nothing very obvious that would lead to

make you think it was a particular person.

Barney, the only interesting things in here would be if you were Elga, I think.

Boris.

Yeah, Boris, dolls.

Okay.

A black canopied bed.

I pull the white chain out in the foyer.

You don't want to go to the other room?

There was another room?

Yeah.

Yeah, well, there's Avina's room.

We could also go east.

East of the statue is this stuff.

Yeah.

Okay, well, let me go see if my sister's room looks like this, too, because if it doesn't, I have high suspicions she might have done this.

You walk across the unliving room to the northern side, and you know, Avina's room, the door is closed.

I assume you open it and walk in.

Yeah.

You open up the door, and it's a dark room with clothes, bedding, and belongings strewn about the room.

A ripped book sits open next to the bed.

What is uh, can I go to look at the book?

There's a ripped book.

Is it ripped pages or ripped, like, cover?

Cover.

Okay.

So you said you looked at it, right, Elka?

Yeah.

Elka?

Yeah, you take a look, and cover says, Botour des Minte.

Seems to be a book written in an ancient form of Vanian with strange symbols, diagrams, like teeth, stars, moons, and more.

Oh, yeah.

And hearts, stars, and rainbows.

Do I understand it?

Like, could I read this language?

You're familiar with Vanian, but this is like an older form.

It would be like modern times trying to read like old English, where you can pick up on some of it, but a lot of it's very different.

And does it look like her room also got like ransacked?

Yeah, I mean, things are strewn all around.

And, you know, as you're flipping through the book, you notice a page seems to be ripped out and is missing.

Hmm.

I noticed a dumb question.

Which page?

Like, is it like...

It's hard to say.

It's like in the middle of the book.

And I can't tell by context of what was before and after it.

No, it's like you're able to pick out words here and there, but no real greater context.

Butter demon?

That's an interesting book.

What's that about?

Butter demon.

I was like, what is he talking about?

What are you talking about?

The joke came and went, and then I was just like, I'll throw it in.

Hold on to that one for later.

It's definitely later in the book, like in the mid-200s pages.

Okay.

We had an encounter with missing pages in the library, too.

Do I also recognize this book as something Avina owned before?

You see, you feel like this is a book she would have.

Okay.

Check the front, see if she stamped her name at the Ivina's into all sorts of weird stuff.

She's more of the reading type.

You're more of the beating.

Yeah.

You know, I read my own books like Here Come the Choo Choo Trend and things like that.

I never got past the sixth grade level reading.

One bat, two bat, red bat, blue bat.

I do not like green eggs and blood.

Everyone make me a perception check.

18.

I think that's the version of Gus being being in the room as the teacher and putting their two fingers up to get our attention.

Yeah, 20, 6, 8.

Not one, or critical fail, so five.

So the highest ones were Barney with 20 and Chip with 18.

Is that correct?

I see all, know all.

Barney and Chip, you know, as you know, Elga's flipping through the book, for some reason, something draws your two set of eyes up to the ceiling.

Yeah.

And you notice scrawled on the ceiling in blood are strange glyphs and candle wax laid out in a triangle.

Oh.

Oh, that's a Vienna.

Always with her art processes.

Always with doing arts and crafts on the ceiling.

Are those like constellations, or is that like a new band?

Like you're you like a poster?

There's candles.

Could I ask if I recognize this as being the room from that nightmare I had?

Make a wisdom check with advantage.

16.

Yes, it is the same room from your nightmare.

Okay.

Because I was on the scene.

Yeah, the blood and the wax and stuff.

Did she like summon me in a dream to the ceiling?

You know, summons her back.

Maybe.

What's your relationship like with your sister, Elga?

You know, it used to be okay, but I guess just started acting weird

at some point.

And I don't know.

Was this like in the most like before your trip, like very recently?

Or has this been like a long-running thing?

Not too long, but you know, my barometer of time is kind of off a little bit.

So is mine, yeah.

You and me, Barneau, so old.

This things, is it?

Do we can I?

I guess I don't have like some uh detect magic, but I'm kind of like, is there anything I can do any of us recognize the glyphs or anything?

Yeah, like do they look like what's in the book?

You could do an arcana challenge, exactly.

Y'all can make an arcana check if you want to try to figure that out.

We're all good on intelligence.

I yeah, it's like your forte, right?

Seven, nine, eleven.

Yeah, it's uh, it's Greek to you.

But does it look like what I saw in the book?

Like in the the the book you just

saw?

Yeah, sure.

Okay, so it's probably page she ripped out, maybe, is what she used up on this.

Probably.

And none of us can read the book, right?

Have we all checked?

Correct.

Okay.

Do you want to go to the other space?

I know there's one more room.

Why don't you hold on to that book, Elka?

Yeah, I'm going to take it with me.

Yeah.

Okay.

Put it in my bum bag.

Cool.

Okay, well, this is weird.

Something is definitely amiss in the Von Broth household.

Yeah, your ass is a little creepy.

You might

fire quickly.

I don't think you can be fired.

Set him aflame.

That's a bit dark.

Cool.

So shall we move up?

Yeah, what's the other rooms?

Yeah, Elga, you know, east of the foyer is the parlor and the room for Countess von Brath and the room for Count von Brath.

Oh, there's those kinds of people.

Countess von Brath is your mother.

One would assume.

And they sleep apart?

Oh, I guess your mom's no longer around.

Real smooth there, Chip.

I just assumed he was a big snorer.

Yeah, you know, everyone likes having their own space.

You know, like me and my sister, we're twins and we have different rooms, which some people might think is weird.

But it's a big place, you know, we want to take advantage of the square footage.

Yeah, it's rich folks' stuff.

Let's go to the starlight.

Yeah, you cross east of the foyer and walk over to the parlor.

What would be a posh parlor is now tarnished.

Nevertheless, it is furnished with a marble countertop bar, jasper stone stools, a fire opal chandelier, and a pipe organ with ruby keys.

Cool.

I kind of want to play a Diddy on that.

Do it.

Can I play the words check?

Can I play the organ?

You can try.

You got experience.

Does Chip have experience playing the pipe organ?

Oh.

You know, sometimes I volunteer at the Little League Baseball games.

Yeah, make that performance check.

Let's try it out.

Okay.

Mud.

Oh, that's a 20.

Ooh.

you tickled a ruby and let out some old ballpark tunes.

Hot dogs, get your hot dogs.

Oh, God, I missed my.

We need to find my family.

So many families are missing right now.

I know where mine is.

Where?

They're dead.

Oh!

You know, Matida, I'm starting to think mine might not be alive anymore, you know?

Maybe, we don't know.

It's so mysterious.

I'm scared.

Let's go to your mother's room.

Why not?

Well, we are in this parlor.

In the parlor, yeah, to the south from here.

So it's like a mirror image of the other side.

The parlor's like a mirror image of the unliving room.

To the south, like a mirror image of your room, is Countess von Brath's room.

Okay.

And then to the north is Count von Brath's room.

There's nothing else in here that we could like look at.

No.

Okay.

So do you want to head south to the Countess's room?

Yes.

You head south and open up the door and you find a room filled with bookcases and shelves of books, tomes, maps, sky charts, and scrolls.

A wooden rickety rocking chair sits in the center atop a simple rug.

Many of the reading materials are in an unrecognizable language, but they all seem to circle around the subject of conjuration and divination magic, specifically planar arts.

Mom was a bit of a nerd, huh?

Yeah, she studied a lot, and I think that's where Avina got her love of reading and science and all this stuff.

But plan, I wonder if she knows about the Fey Wild or anything like that or other planes.

Australia, that's relevant to my interests.

Should we start taking a look at the bookshelves?

Yeah.

Your mom has

been gone for a while.

You seem to be very interested in my mom, Barney.

I'm just trying to understand what's going on.

Yeah, she's been gone a while.

I don't, we don't really know what happened.

My father hasn't really told me much.

I just kind of dealt with it.

Can I look and see?

Can I look and see if any of the if there's like dust that has been unsettled recently.

That's a smart call.

Like something's disturbed.

Yeah, like because if assuming no one's been in this room for a while.

It's possible Avina though has been in.

Sure, but then that might also indicate something.

Yeah.

Why don't you make me a perception check, Barney?

And I say aloud my plan.

Okay.

Okay.

I will also look around for unsettled dust.

That's true.

I got a 23.

Matith flaps the wings and disturbs everyone.

Yeah, the room appears to be undisturbed, Arnie.

However, in your investigation, or when you're looking around, you do notice that the rug appears to not be centered in the room, and one of the corners is folded over.

Can I pull back the rug?

Yeah, you pull.

You pull back the rug, and you find there's a trapdoor hidden underneath the rug.

I didn't know about this.

I don't think I've known about this.

It seems news to you, Elga.

Well, my mother couldn't possibly be under there.

I know she is.

I'm worried this will cause me lifelong trauma if I see something.

Anyways, shall we open it up?

Let's open her up.

Yeah, we go.

Yeah, let's open it.

You open up the trapdoor, and the chamber it leads to is quite cramped.

It's only big enough to hold a small chest that's sitting inside of it.

Could we look in the chest or see if it's open?

Or check it for traps first.

What are you doing?

A lot of suggestions here.

Can I check it for traps?

Go for it.

Yeah, make a

investigation check.

Five.

It looks good to me.

No traps.

Could I check it for traps?

Mitchie takes one large step back.

With advantage, right?

Because I'm close up.

Yes.

She says as she rolls away.

Gosh, dang it.

Seven.

Still.

Yeah, no traps.

No traps.

Can I check it?

I take a second step back.

Go for it.

Go for it, Joe.

Okay.

What am I doing?

Investigation.

Investigation.

All right.

16.

Yeah, no traps.

No traps.

Okay.

Well, looks like I ever put this down here.

Didn't think it was that valuable.

Maybe they just are,

you know, being silly, like keeping the front door of your house unlocked.

Everyone's very trusting around me.

Very trusting.

Let's open it.

Yeah.

You open up the chest, and inside is a picture of a young girl with dark features and black hair.

Is it a Vina?

You take a look, and it does not look to be a Vina to you.

You don't know who this is.

Is it my mother?

Wait, it's described the person?

It's a picture of a young girl with dark features and black hair.

Do I recognize the picture?

It's a young girl, so it's hard to say.

It doesn't look like anyone you know.

Just to clarify, just so I know, and maybe the audience wants to know this too.

Has Elga ever seen her mother, or like when was like when was the last time she saw her?

I mean, I think she would have been probably like seven, like in actual years.

Um, so it's been a long time.

Because Elga's like, what'd you say, like, 300 years old or something?

Oh, no, I think you said something like 180 to 300.

Somewhere between there, it was a huge number.

So it's been, I'm non-committal, it's been a couple of years.

Yeah.

Make me a wisdom check with Advantage, Elga.

I'm so not wise.

But you have Advantage.

Not gonna help me, nine.

You don't recognize it.

Okay.

Do I recognize it?

Does Chip recognize a girl?

Do I remember anything about what my mother did look like?

Because I feel like if you're seven, you would.

Yeah,

you have some memories, but you know, it's fuzzy.

Did she have dark hair?

Yes.

Does the person look like Elga to the rest of us outsiders' perspective?

No.

No, it doesn't look like her.

Is it But it's hard to say, you know,

it's an old photo.

And if she's a young, you said it's a young girl, right?

Yeah.

With dark hair.

The only thing that's in the chest?

Yes.

It's just the photo.

Yes.

Is it for Gezka?

No.

Is there anything on the back?

You flip over the photo and, you know, take a look at the back, and you don't see anything on there.

Okay.

Is there anything else in this little

nook that we just know?

It was so cramped.

This chest was all that could really fit in there.

Do you think we should take this photo?

Yeah, why not?

What if it's that, what's that story about the guy that has the Dorian Gray?

Yeah.

Huh?

Huh?

I don't know who that

I don't think it's oriented.

Okay, okay.

Maybe it is.

Basically a person that couldn't age or like whatever because they had a painting of him and the painting aged in their stead or something.

I can't remember the story.

Yeah, but I mean that that means that the painting would look like poop and this is an ice painting.

It's a picture.

And it's its own picture, right?

It's not like part of the picture.

Correct.

Okay.

Okay.

Well, I guess I should maybe take it.

Why not?

I mean, it is in my house, which means it's my property.

Right.

The chest, is it just a regular ordinary chest?

There's anything organized?

It seems to be a very plain wooden chest.

Why would you block away a picture if you're unless you're trying to hide something?

Okay, well, we take it.

Yeah.

And close up the chest.

One more room.

And I guess let's, yeah.

Do you want to look around this library type room?

We did.

And there's nothing.

Yeah.

Okay.

Oh, right.

Nothing got

sheds.

Okay.

All right.

So you head to Count von Broth's room?

Yes.

You head across the the parlor to the north over to Count von Broth's room.

Oh, before we do that, was Countess von Brath's room also like disturbed as if people were looking around?

I know.

No, no.

And Barney even investigated and it seemed undisturbed.

Interesting.

Okay.

I kicked the chair over so it looks the rest of the rest.

Everything's a kick with Mateed.

Yeah.

Wait, you can touch things with something gummy.

I like the idea that their pants are just always in their pocket.

Remember when you did kick?

Realized Mate had arms?

Yep.

Yeah.

He's playing a lot of Breath of the Wild.

Cool.

So across the parlor is Count Von Broth's room.

You open the door, and this room is in disarray and is decorated with trophy after trophy of beast and humanoid heads mounted on the wall.

Cool.

There's a shelf with an assortment of goblets, chalices, steins, and other stemware.

And most curiously, there is a bloodstone font, but it is empty of liquid.

Von Broth, he papa's a bit of a hunter, huh?

Yeah.

Does he ever go like have trouble sleeping with like 80 heads staring at him?

I like his style.

I think that provide comfort for him.

Maybe.

Are there any aero cochrans or tieflings up there?

No.

Okay.

Does it look like this room's been like.

I think you said, yeah, it looks like it's been turned over.

What else could we gather from here?

Like, does anything look out of play other than it being a mess?

Does anything look like it's been taken?

Or make a investigation check.

Sure.

Oh, my God.

You got bad rolls?

A ten, a nine.

Yeah, I rolled a one and a nine.

I don't know what's that my dice.

Yeah, it seems uh doesn't say nothing stands out.

Are there any weapons or something?

I'm assuming there's like a hunter.

His mouth.

This seems to me mainly to be more almost like a trophy room.

There aren't any weapons that you can see.

Is there like a bed?

Yeah, is there a bed?

Coffin?

I look up at the ceiling.

You look at, there's nothing on the ceiling.

And no, there's no bed or coffin.

Closet?

No.

Does it also look like there might have been any sign of struggling?

You know, things are turned over like every other room.

Like, it's kind of in disarray, but not necessarily any signs signs of a struggle.

Okay.

If I had to guess, maybe the person was looking for that picture for some reason.

That's very possible.

Why wouldn't they go into one room?

Well, it was underneath the carpet.

But they didn't even look in that room.

Yeah.

It's true.

Unless they lived here and they knew that it wasn't in there or something.

I don't know.

Well, it wasn't me.

What is up with this house?

Is this a haunted house?

Yes, thank you.

Perhaps now is the time when we should go out quickly.

That's a good idea.

That's a good idea.

Could I go back out into the foyer and ring that

ivory?

Ivory.

Pretty sure it's the red one.

Yeah, you pull the ivory chain.

Okay, do I hear quickly coming down the hall?

Use your

distant running.

It's like whenever Chris is running into a room.

Apologizing profusely.

Everyone roll me a perception check.

Those have been going so well.

Oh my god, six.

Five.

Four.

Eleven.

Fifteen.

So, no, you don't hear necessarily any footsteps or like the sounds of anyone approaching.

However, Barney, you hear howling coming from somewhere down the hall in the vampspire.

And wolves.

Howling, like, down the hallway that we just came through?

Yes, but like, not the direction you came from further down.

Like, werewolf howling, or like, howling like someone's in pain?

It's hard to tell.

It kind of reverberates through the hallway.

I don't know what that is, but we should probably go check that out.

Yeah.

There's not typically a lot of howling here.

Is there a no-howling ordinance in the vampspire?

In the classroom?

The H-O-A.

That's 10 o'clock PM, yes.

Right, yeah.

Barney, since you made the highest perception check, why don't you make me a survival check?

Okay.

Also, I mean 10 a.m.

Because

21.

Yeah, you were able to follow it.

You know, something about it strikes a chord with you.

And you track the origin.

You know it's coming from behind a plain wooden door with a doorbell.

And you know that the howling is coming from the other side of it.

When you say doorbell, do you mean like a ding-ding-ding-dong or like a button?

There's a button.

You want the ring or anyone just going to sit?

Wait, we're all, what are they called?

Not coughs.

colds, battlers.

No, no, no.

We are.

What are those things called?

What's cooler than being cold?

Ice.

Ice.

Ice.

Uh, I open the door.

What?

What are we?

You open the door, uh, and it appears to open to a vacant, unfurnished apartment.

Nobody's in there.

I have to say, wait, wait, cold.

Get out of the door.

Well, this is where the howling was.

A single room or like multiple rooms?

Like a couple of small rooms.

And it's unfurnished.

Yes.

When you say howling, did you mean like, oh, or like wind howling?

Not wind.

A creature.

Yes.

Gotta look and see if there's anything in this room that's not just vacation.

Yeah, any anything?

Make me an investigation check.

I have to look around.

15.

Don't forget to look at the ceiling.

You got really good rolls here, Barney.

You look around and there doesn't seem to be anything in the apartment.

However, you do notice that there are claw marks on the outside of the door that you came in through.

Oh.

On the outside or inside?

Like in the hallway or like when you're in the apartment?

On the side of the door facing the hallway.

Oh, okay.

So the one that we, we, when we approached it.

Correct.

Which makes me think something is inside right now that clawed its way in.

Hey, do your sound.

Not like

nothing.

I figure it was worth a try.

I realized we were recording an audio podcast.

I was looking around, like up in the air.

She actually goes, do your sound.

I'm like, wait, what am I doing?

So we heard, it was a howling coming from this room.

Wait, doesn't Barney have a bear?

I forgot about the bear.

What?

Oh, I forgot I have a bear.

Yeah, you.

Ah, yeah.

You forgot you had a bear, so you didn't bring it along.

No, I did.

I did, guys.

You know, I would.

You got to remember.

Make me three animal handling checks.

I got that soap stuff.

Oh, the blue topaz or orange topaz.

I got that soap.

All right.

Yeah,

you have a bear with you.

Oh, my God.

There's a bear.

Did you smell it?

It's where your family ran away.

I should have shut up.

I'm sorry.

I just remembered.

It has nothing to do with what's going on right now.

I just remembered.

The bear puts its nose on the button for the doorbell and takes like a big sniff from it.

I push the doorbell.

You hear like a deep bell ring.

Wow, it's a deep bell.

Maybe, but nothing seems to happen.

I push it again.

You push it again and the door spins around, revealing a dark, cramped stone room with an angry young girl blindfolded and chained up.

Oh gosh.

Oh

look at I did.

Do I recognize that as Avena?

No, it is not Avena.

Okay, is it the little person in the it's a young human girl with olive complexion brunette hair you can't see her eyes because she's blindfolded.

Do I recognize her?

She's covered in scars and clothing blood-stained rags.

You do not recognize her party.

It's the one from the painting that we found.

Or the picture that we found.

It does not look like that.

All right.

I'm going to assist the little person.

Yeah, I'm going to help them up and down.

Is there anyone...

or is there anything else around?

Or is it just the girl?

Just like a small cramped room.

Yeah, chimpause.

So that I understand what happened.

Was it that the second ringing of the bell like revealed a secret room?

Correct.

Thank you.

Okay, I'm gonna help her.

Yeah, she kind of hears you approaching.

She can't see because, you know, the blindfold.

She begins, like, growling and, like, trying to lash out as much as she can in your direction.

Hey, oh, hey, oh, it's okay.

I'm here to help you.

You seem like you're in a little bit of trouble there.

You okay?

She doesn't reply.

She's still very restricted in her movement and blindfolded.

Okay, I'm going to pull off the blindfold.

You see now that she has hazel eyes and full eyebrows.

Who are you?

I'm.

Hey there, I'm Chipaney.

Pleasure to meet you.

I feel like I set that up for a secret.

This is like a secret sentence.

Why, what's going on here?

Are you?

Have you been kidnapped?

What's going on?

No.

I'm here of my own free will.

She's got that egg.

I love it here.

This is so blindfolded.

No, I'm just kidding.

Well, let me...

Just help me, okay?

Let me out of here right now.

I think we should exercise caution right now.

Yeah, can I do like some sort of

insight?

Yeah, like some sort of vibe check.

Vibe check, yeah.

Insight check.

Do you think she might be the one who called?

I think so.

She's very feral, spicy kids.

Ah, yes, I see y'all.

Well, one.

Yeah, she's uh didn't seem to be concealing anything.

I'll try to do an inspiration.

You do, you.

You all will free me right now and take me back to my mother.

Who's your mother?

Lorenzo Wolfman.

What, why, why, who took you and why?

Maybe we'll find out.

Now,

of Tales from the Stinky Dragon.

Oh, no.

Thanks for listening, everybody.

This is a fun one.

I'm loving the Vampspire.

It's just a ton of twists.

Twists and turns.

It's and turns and tents.

Yeah, I know.

Families coming together.

Breaking apart.

Thanks for listening, everyone.

We'll be back next week with another episode.

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