C02 - Ep. 35 - Vengeance in Vainia - Velcome to Vainia

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Speaker 9 Good day to all you Devas.

Speaker 5 Soar on into the stinky dragon, knock back our latest latte, peanut butter angelic.

Speaker 2 It's a mixture of gourmet peanut bludger, two shots of healing touch espresso, a spoonful of ethically treated cream, and topped with chain-shaped grape syrup.

Speaker 5 One drop of this divine drink is enough to spring your wings while singing at a wingding.

Speaker 10 Previously, our adventurers uncovered clues corresponding to Carol's demise.

Speaker 15 Then they caught up on correspondence via cockatrice.

Speaker 11 Finally, they were visited by strange visions in their sleep.

Speaker 15 Pour yourself a potation and proceed with this pungent potboiler.

Speaker 18 Hello, everyone. Welcome to Tales of the Mystic Dragon.
I'm your dungeon master Gustavo Sorolo. I'm going to hit our four players with an arrow.

Speaker 18 Shoot us, get us!

Speaker 20 Damio.

Speaker 21 Speak, dear.

Speaker 22 Hit me.

Speaker 21 What is happening, please?

Speaker 12 I hate this. All right.

Speaker 4 Thanks for listening, everyone.

Speaker 12 It's called Yes And.

Speaker 4 We did it.

Speaker 24 Barb started it.

Speaker 25 Barb started it.

Speaker 26 All right.

Speaker 18 What is your character's favorite time of day?

Speaker 5 I feel like everyone across the board night.

Speaker 31 It's got to be right now.

Speaker 23 Hi, I'm Chris Damaris.

Speaker 33 Hello, Chris Damaris.

Speaker 21 Woo, Chris.

Speaker 23 Chris. Class, Chris, Chris.

Speaker 12 Chris in the room.

Speaker 35 And I play Barney Farney, the human cleric.

Speaker 12 Yeah, but

Speaker 12 you guys don't know every time.

Speaker 24 This episode is three hours long.

Speaker 25 And

Speaker 37 my favorite time of day is sunrise when the sun's...

Speaker 17 Peeking out and it's brightening the day and the night's over and you get started of a brand new day.

Speaker 44 I also wake up pretty early.

Speaker 42 I wake up at about, you know,

Speaker 45 4 a.m.

Speaker 35 every morning.

Speaker 46 That's early.

Speaker 20 Wow.

Speaker 47 I also go to bed at 6 p.m.

Speaker 49 Not so early.

Speaker 5 It's hard for Farty to travel.

Speaker 50 He's the worst Twilight monk ever.

Speaker 53 He goes to bed before Twilight.

Speaker 2 Twilight?

Speaker 5 It's 6 p.m. Maybe it's winter.

Speaker 55 It's like the end of the day for him. It's Twilight.
He's done.

Speaker 56 That's my preferred schedule.

Speaker 46 Yeah, like when does Old Man End and Cleric begin, you know?

Speaker 46 Like, because old men and you know, going to bed early and having the, you know, early bird dinner and all that stuff, but cleric, Twilight Cleric should be up at night.

Speaker 24 The sun comes out and the evil things go away and the day begins.

Speaker 30 I don't like you looking at me when you're saying these.

Speaker 39 Welcome to my life.

Speaker 45 He's always like, hey,

Speaker 59 this is going to be one of those references that five people will get. There'll be one person in this room who will get it.

Speaker 59 You sound like Charlie Brown at the beginning of the Charlie Brown Broadway musical. He starts off the whole musical being like, oh, it's such a good day.
The sun's coming out.

Speaker 25 Nothing bad can happen.

Speaker 59 It's a very Charlie Brown moment.

Speaker 5 It's a Charlie Brown musical?

Speaker 62 It's great.

Speaker 59 It's Christian Chenewit. It's like basically premiere thing that she was.
She was Sally.

Speaker 46 I want there to be a musical for this.

Speaker 46 Someone should make a Stinky Dragon musical. That would be...
With Micah. Of course.

Speaker 63 If only we had a musician.

Speaker 59 We've already gotten puppets, and so musicals would be the other like biggest.

Speaker 6 Who would play us?

Speaker 59 I want to be in it, but I don't want to be me.

Speaker 16 This is a different. era.

Speaker 54 This is

Speaker 66 a different era.

Speaker 25 Say there, uh, well, hello.

Speaker 61 I'm Barbara Dunklin.

Speaker 57 I play Elga.

Speaker 67 Yeah, main character.

Speaker 54 Okay, Elga Barbara Rass.

Speaker 54 Star of Campaign Two of Stinky Dragon Adventures.

Speaker 46 I play the female barbarian half-elf vampire. I did a different order this time.
Yeah.

Speaker 68 And

Speaker 69 a flex.

Speaker 68 Sorry, Elga is still waking up here. Elga, favorite time of day.

Speaker 68 To nobody's surprise, surprise is the middle of the night. It's very peaceful.
Most people are asleep. Barney is asleep.

Speaker 68 Yeah, I just get to enjoy my time and you know hang out. Not upside down necessarily.
But you know, I enjoy the middle of the night.

Speaker 49 That's a good to know.

Speaker 72 But I think everyone prefers the time when they can get away from Barney for a little while.

Speaker 74 What?

Speaker 73 No, no, no, no. You're not supposed to be here.

Speaker 59 I mean, that starts at 6 p.m. We're good.

Speaker 71 Just in time for prime time television.

Speaker 45 Want me to go next? No, no, no.

Speaker 29 I'll go next. Hold your horsies.

Speaker 77 Sorry.

Speaker 23 Sorry, that was, I came off really aggro.

Speaker 5 No, it's fine.

Speaker 12 You're good. Well, I don't think saying horsies could ever be aggro.

Speaker 78 Hold your horsies from our horse girl.

Speaker 79 Hey, it's me, local horse girl, Blenn Gibson.

Speaker 36 Horse girl.

Speaker 29 I play Chip Haney, the Tafling Rogue.

Speaker 80 He's a level seven.

Speaker 82 And my favorite time is about the hours between 4:30 to 5.30 a.m.

Speaker 80 I fail. Like, that is the optimal time to hide a dead body.

Speaker 82 But you got to watch out. You got to watch out for a couple things.

Speaker 39 You got to watch out for

Speaker 83 joggers.

Speaker 77 You got to watch out for Barneys, old people.

Speaker 80 But I mean, I find that that's a good time to hide the corpses because no one's up.

Speaker 79 You know, that's too late to be up partying.

Speaker 80 It's too early to be up working out.

Speaker 84 Perfect time for hiding bodies.

Speaker 85 Could you use like Barneys to help you hide the bodies?

Speaker 82 Yeah, you could be like, hey there, old gentleman, sir, can you help me carry this large carpet?

Speaker 87 Because

Speaker 75 they're just happy to have attention, right?

Speaker 5 Like they just want to talk. They don't care what they're doing.

Speaker 46 Now I want a remake of Bodies, Bodies, Bodies, but it's Barneys, Barneys, Barney.

Speaker 80 I'll tell you for a fact, you can carry a body bag through the city in the middle of the day.

Speaker 47 People don't care. Oh, yeah.

Speaker 33 You did that on your show, Social Disorder, right?

Speaker 25 I remember that. I forgot about that.

Speaker 46 I was like early Rooster Teeth days filming that, and I just remember just like yeah that's a social experiment show you could see on roosterteeth.com production company that we work for go check it out my jacket off i just got shivered

Speaker 82 thinking about that show what's the climate like in wisconsin is it cold because if it's cold that makes it hard to like bury bodies oh yeah it's real frigid this time of year the ground's like hard yeah yeah you got you get real good at uh digging and snow plowing though it's fine the bodies you know you can look for the lakes yeah so what about out on the lake you can carve like a

Speaker 5 hole yeah like do some do some quote-unquote ice fishing.

Speaker 31 Yeah, yeah. Okay.

Speaker 59 I get it now.

Speaker 47 Okay. So confused.

Speaker 30 What?

Speaker 60 What do you guys think? Disposing bodies.

Speaker 46 Oh, ice fishing.

Speaker 23 Yeah, like

Speaker 65 you cut a hole, drop them down.

Speaker 23 Drop them down.

Speaker 46 And then someone else will find it.

Speaker 93 Yeah.

Speaker 59 We should stop talking about that.

Speaker 59 My name's John Reisinger.

Speaker 59 I play Mati Confisu.

Speaker 54 Jeez.

Speaker 59 The Archochron Ghost Monk. And it's interesting.

Speaker 3 Yeah, I thought that most of the times that people would say would be the evening, but I'm going to be with the gentleman here.

Speaker 13 Of course, as a baker, I like the mornings.

Speaker 59 It's the time to get all of your preparation going on, get all of the bread and treats and things for your patisserie completed.

Speaker 59 And it's very nice.

Speaker 59 Alongside other reasons, the morning is also when there's not very many people around and I get to be alone, you know, just

Speaker 59 with my cupcakes and muffins and all of that.

Speaker 79 I read like a Reddit poster or something once, and it was talking about how, like, the crazy hours when it's really late and you're kind of sleepy, just remember there's a baker jamming to music and just in their zen making cupcakes or whatever.

Speaker 72 And I was like, oh, that puts me at peace.

Speaker 16 It was just such a nice image.

Speaker 68 I really liked everyone's answers because they're all in the morning and I'm at night.

Speaker 46 So nice alone time for Elga. Yeah.

Speaker 30 Yeah.

Speaker 82 Unless I wake you up and I say, hey, kiddo, let's go.

Speaker 44 We got berries to body.

Speaker 51 Whatever.

Speaker 54 Berries to body.

Speaker 23 Get abotty.

Speaker 33 And just slam into a bunch of raspberries.

Speaker 4 Oh, yuck.

Speaker 2 Chip, you find the silver pin that Carol gave you with an S wrapped around the scabbard.

Speaker 7 The pin shimmers across your eyes, and you hear a sword unsheathed.

Speaker 24 Shing!

Speaker 100 And you feel a new memory pop into your head.

Speaker 100 Chip!

Speaker 68 I'm back from the markets!

Speaker 102 Honey, do you mind helping me unload?

Speaker 102 A little early for a nap, sweetheart, don't you think?

Speaker 6 Did you really think that you could hide from us?

Speaker 5 You know we're always connected.

Speaker 9 No illusions can conceal your true nature to us. Besides, you have work to do.
Talon isn't finished with you.

Speaker 49 Ah, the infamous killer Carol Kino.

Speaker 103 Or is it Shivy?

Speaker 63 I always get those two mixed up.

Speaker 46 What do you want?

Speaker 63 Word is, you're the assassin that can handle any hit, no matter what the stakes. Well, let me tell you, the stakes couldn't be higher, my dear.
Wouldn't you agree, Chip?

Speaker 88 Stop.

Speaker 46 I'll do whatever you want.

Speaker 102 Just don't hurt him.

Speaker 60 Oh, that's splendid news.

Speaker 44 See, ladies, I told you we'd all be fast friends.

Speaker 106 So, who's your target?

Speaker 63 Let's just say I've been meaning to discuss some rather grave issues with our clan leaders, starting with Lorenzo Wilson.

Speaker 23 Oh, that reminds me.

Speaker 51 Since we're friends and all, I brought you a gift.

Speaker 108 I had it handmade just for you.

Speaker 67 Call it an insurance policy.

Speaker 47 In case you change your mind when the time comes, this little bent will help us keep an eye on you and let us know if you're covering outside the lines.

Speaker 63 who are you of course how rude of me you can call me

Speaker 21 Eddie

Speaker 111 so chip you remember this you know you saw it happen yeah you know it's a memory from Carol's mind like that unlocked in your head so so you have access to that

Speaker 79 so I'll have access to our memories where so where are we now are we still waking up we're still in the hut yeah y'all are still in the hut as far as I know, unless you tell me otherwise.

Speaker 85 Barney's checking out his hut.

Speaker 8 Maybe there's a leak.

Speaker 113 Like a gas leak.

Speaker 105 Why we all had those crazy dreams.

Speaker 80 Okay, so, you know, we all had those crazy dreams, right?

Speaker 34 Oh,

Speaker 80 good morning, rise and shine.

Speaker 52 Oh, Barney. Barney, wake up.

Speaker 23 There's a hut.

Speaker 86 Anywho, we all had messed up dreams.

Speaker 5 You know the pendant that I got from Carol?

Speaker 48 Well, it kind of like snapped a memory into my noggin

Speaker 11 and i i think carol killed the wolfman i think that

Speaker 48 yeah i think she was forced to to to assassinate because the hags and eddie put her up to it why would she frame you i don't

Speaker 48 she knowing my wife she would not have intended to frame me barney

Speaker 68 i think that's very weird barney too that's so odd that that's you know or us like who is she who was she working with uh her the the hag sisters, which were

Speaker 29 Shivy.

Speaker 50 It was...

Speaker 18 Sketch?

Speaker 115 Sketch and Skitch?

Speaker 90 Oh, no, Sketch.

Speaker 115 And Shirock. And Shirock.

Speaker 91 Skitch and Shirock, who I guess are technically now my sister-in-laws, but I don't like them so much.

Speaker 117 The tracks. And

Speaker 95 Eddie.

Speaker 68 Oh, well, that's

Speaker 68 no surprise whatsoever to any of us.

Speaker 5 No, not at all. But also,

Speaker 79 that kind of tracks, you know, knowing

Speaker 118 what happened to her before she passed with the veins and stuff.

Speaker 79 I think that that is indeed connected to Eddie.

Speaker 90 Then that's that's like confirmation right there.

Speaker 59 This might be an unpopular opinion, but I really don't like that Eddie guy.

Speaker 49 Oh, hot take from a teeth here.

Speaker 59 Wow, I tried, I tried to watch my words very carefully, but you know, I can't help it. He's not a good guy.

Speaker 45 I mean, yeah, I'd kill him on sight.

Speaker 8 Calm down, okay? I'm sorry, I just

Speaker 68 harsh words.

Speaker 59 I will go do my breathing.

Speaker 2 Everyone, make me a perception check:

Speaker 65 seven, 11.

Speaker 2 7.

Speaker 23 24.

Speaker 71 Barney with the clutch perception check there.

Speaker 49 Barney, as you look around and as you're talking with everyone, you feel like a voice is missing in this discussion.

Speaker 6 And you look down and notice that the alchemist is still asleep.

Speaker 71 And on top of that, you notice that Gigi is out and about licking the alchemist's face while he's still asleep.

Speaker 17 What about Stinkers?

Speaker 6 Stinker is also still asleep. He's doing that little thing where he's like kicking his leg.

Speaker 63 Oh, he's asleep.

Speaker 103 So's the alchemist.

Speaker 61 Did we wake them up?

Speaker 24 Or are we leaving?

Speaker 68 I wonder if the alchemist had dreams like we did.

Speaker 90 Yeah, I'll wake him up. Alarm! Alarm! Alarm!

Speaker 12 Alarm! Alarm! Alarm!

Speaker 73 Shoots up straight up in stand, like he goes straight from laying down to standing up.

Speaker 28 There's like no in-between.

Speaker 5 It's like a cartoon.

Speaker 6 Canonically, that's just how he wakes us up every morning.

Speaker 49 You know, the alchemist looks around and like touches his face, which is still kind of like moist and sticky from all the licking.

Speaker 6 And he looks at you all's face and says, Oh, I see I wasn't the only one he licked.

Speaker 69 He licked us?

Speaker 112 Yeah, you all realize now that your face is, you have saliva, cat saliva on your forehead.

Speaker 62 Hank, have you guys been actually licked by a cat?

Speaker 48 I don't think that you'd sleep through something like that.

Speaker 5 Getting licked by a cat is one of the worst things.

Speaker 46 I'm wondering if the cat knew something bad was going on with us and was trying to wake us up.

Speaker 99 Or causing something bad?

Speaker 4 Oh, no.

Speaker 59 I don't like that insinuation of my cat.

Speaker 68 Matty, does does your cat have like some type of toxic

Speaker 123 saliva?

Speaker 14 Licky, licky.

Speaker 59 I don't even think he has saliva.

Speaker 59 He's incorporeal.

Speaker 5 And yet, you have a little bit of saliva on your foreheads.

Speaker 11 That's very interesting.

Speaker 95 Did you all have any strange dreams?

Speaker 106 I had one of the worst dreams. Yes.

Speaker 29 Terrible dreams. Sad, bad.

Speaker 68 Yeah, it was weird. I didn't like it.

Speaker 25 I did. Everyone ignored me.

Speaker 5 You d oh I thought you meant you did like it.

Speaker 73 You mean you did have a dream. I had a dream.

Speaker 12 And everyone ignored.

Speaker 24 Everyone just ignored me.

Speaker 8 Well, anyways.

Speaker 12 That's just the worst insult you can do to a boomer.

Speaker 34 Can Mate.

Speaker 115 Sorry. I was trying to act like.

Speaker 12 I was ignoring party boomers.

Speaker 24 It was great. It was great.

Speaker 61 It was so good.

Speaker 59 Can Mate pick up Gigi and kind of turn around from the group and like maybe walk to like the edge of the hut or something and just like do you have something you want to tell me

Speaker 59 if there's something you need to shout you can do it right just imagining you holding a candy

Speaker 5 Right up to the teen's face, just look, just like, and just trying to have this little...

Speaker 91 It's all right. Do you have a secret?

Speaker 59 Do you want to tell me something?

Speaker 108 It's just right now is the time.

Speaker 23 No, no truth.

Speaker 15 GG's face gets real close.

Speaker 8 Oh, I do not trust this. What did he tell you?

Speaker 115 Nasty.

Speaker 80 Can I try an animal handling check or some sort of medicine check to examine said pet?

Speaker 106 Matine, do you mind if I say, hey, that's a cute cat, A GG?

Speaker 117 It's your uncle chip.

Speaker 59 Didn't Didn't you fail your last anime handling check with Gigi?

Speaker 52 Daniel's love chip, AD.

Speaker 6 I think that's what it was.

Speaker 23 Listen, I've had a rough couple.

Speaker 92 I've had a rough week.

Speaker 86 And I need to pet that cat, if you don't mind.

Speaker 8 That's the creepiest way to ask to touch someone's pet.

Speaker 92 Roll. Okay.

Speaker 12 All right, all right, all right, all right.

Speaker 8 It's an eight. There it is.

Speaker 63 God.

Speaker 71 Yeah, Gigi just like looks at you with that like blank cat stare, stare, just like looking straight into your eyes.

Speaker 106 Gigi's neutered.

Speaker 59 I will tell you this. Gigi technically comes from the Australian plane and is an incorporeal creature, so there might be some mystery involved with this little kitty.

Speaker 46 Can I like investigate or like look at this saliva, the spit on our?

Speaker 85 You're just like trying in general to look at it?

Speaker 46 Yeah, see if like, I don't know if it's like a different type of substance or like, I don't know.

Speaker 57 Yeah,

Speaker 116 make an investigation check.

Speaker 46 I'm going to look at it close up. So that would be with advantage, which would be 14.

Speaker 5 You take a real close look at it, and nothing seems out of the ordinary about it other than the fact that, like Mateed mentioned, Gigi is kind of from the Astral plane or Australian plane.

Speaker 49 So it's unusual that you would have saliva like this.

Speaker 59 Could I make a check, Mr. Dungeon Mister? Yes.

Speaker 59 With my feet, that gives me perfect recollection.

Speaker 5 of the past.

Speaker 59 Could I see if there might have been something I missed about when Jack gave me Gigi? Like anything that maybe in the moment would have seemed, I don't know, off or special or different?

Speaker 72 You know, you were not giving any extra information or anything that would lead you to know more about this.

Speaker 72 However, you do recall that this saliva seems reminiscent of that purple fluid you've encountered before.

Speaker 82 Wait, but that came where did that come from?

Speaker 5 That was like pools of it by the dragon in the Australian plane.

Speaker 23 No, no, no.

Speaker 49 You first encountered it at the pools with the Dragon, but then you encountered it again on the Australian plane.

Speaker 115 So

Speaker 29 then that cat's a Dragon!

Speaker 24 Punch! I punched the guy!

Speaker 35 It was in the Australian plane.

Speaker 122 Australian. And I didn't...

Speaker 35 And I didn't put more in.

Speaker 75 You tried to...

Speaker 72 You got some with your mage hand, and you tried to drop it on Mateed during your combat.

Speaker 92 Oh, that's right.

Speaker 62 No, but that's.

Speaker 46 Oh, you're right.

Speaker 60 Wait, so was Gigi putting us to sleep then?

Speaker 115 I don't know.

Speaker 8 Or like keeping us to sleep.

Speaker 108 This is a new cat to me. I don't really know.
I've

Speaker 59 just, you know, my experience thus far in cats is that they are very strange.

Speaker 8 But also, that doesn't.

Speaker 23 From my recollection, that doesn't inherently bring out bad dreams and memories, but it's just something we have to dream about.

Speaker 59 It seems to be

Speaker 59 a memory-inducing liquid, like thoughts and memories, and unlocking of stuff.

Speaker 117 Yeah.

Speaker 86 What'd you dream about, Alchemist?

Speaker 24 It's all so fuzzy.

Speaker 4 Mm-hmm.

Speaker 107 Henry followed me into work one day.

Speaker 59 That's what you say like Henry Ford.

Speaker 30 No, Henry Fonda.

Speaker 120 Yeah. Oh.

Speaker 77 Oh, yeah.

Speaker 86 That happened. We almost stabbed him.
Yeah,

Speaker 61 no, he's fine.

Speaker 56 Henry's fine. You saw Henry.

Speaker 106 He and Frank Frank Esker are fine.

Speaker 126 Do you remember how long ago that was?

Speaker 51 If it was...

Speaker 36 I mean, what?

Speaker 68 Was it a dream of something that you recall happening in real life?

Speaker 107 No, I don't recall that ever happening.

Speaker 68 Unless it was a dream of something that did happen that you weren't aware that happened because you were just unaware of it happening.

Speaker 97 Maybe.

Speaker 8 That makes so much sense.

Speaker 86 Well, because like my dream was that

Speaker 48 my dream was that I was asleep, but something was happening in my house while I was asleep. So maybe this isn't so much a dream that you've perceived, but something that's happened around you.

Speaker 68 It's like a security camera

Speaker 68 that captured a moment that you were unaware of.

Speaker 41 Exactly.

Speaker 66 Mine never happened.

Speaker 14 To your recollection. Barney.

Speaker 44 Barney.

Speaker 6 What did we eat for lunch yesterday?

Speaker 8 I think that was Chris.

Speaker 33 I started looking at Chris's face as he reacted to that.

Speaker 45 Barney, what did we eat for lunch yesterday?

Speaker 71 Was it crackers?

Speaker 115 Now rest my case.

Speaker 84 Perhaps we should make our way up to Vania.

Speaker 25 But you weren't questioned.

Speaker 47 But you said it was weird dreams.

Speaker 124 What about that was weird?

Speaker 107 That I could see as Henry.

Speaker 84 It was almost as if I was perceiving things from his perspective.

Speaker 12 Oh, oh.

Speaker 124 Well,

Speaker 29 let's explore that further.

Speaker 48 What happened in the dream?

Speaker 80 He was following you to work, didn't...

Speaker 95 Doing what else?

Speaker 79 And yet, dot dot dot.

Speaker 107 It's really hard to remember.

Speaker 84 Maybe if I woken up slowly, I could recall my dream.

Speaker 127 But something shocked me awake.

Speaker 91 Strange.

Speaker 24 I don't know what it was.

Speaker 107 I don't either.

Speaker 62 It's very alarming.

Speaker 84 Yeah.

Speaker 101 Hmm.

Speaker 95 Well, I promise that the other people still pay more attention to you next time.

Speaker 126 What?

Speaker 61 Uh-oh. That seemed almost threatening.

Speaker 49 No, no, sorry.

Speaker 35 That was Barney talking to stinkers.

Speaker 20 Oh!

Speaker 122 Because everyone's paying all this attention to Juju.

Speaker 123 Gigi. Ji-ji!

Speaker 51 Juju.

Speaker 12 Everyone's...

Speaker 5 Give me your juju.

Speaker 12 Everyone's like... Bad juju.

Speaker 35 Everyone's hanging out. He's like talking to Gigi.

Speaker 16 Gigi?

Speaker 24 Juju? Gigi.

Speaker 24 What is it? Gigi.

Speaker 77 GG.

Speaker 59 Try it with a softer G. GG.

Speaker 53 Yeah, like I was like, there you go.

Speaker 119 Gigi.

Speaker 8 Gigi.

Speaker 59 It's the pronunciation of the letter J in the French language.

Speaker 59 Because his name is JJ.

Speaker 73 How did you write this down?

Speaker 117 G-E-A-H.

Speaker 115 G-E-A-H.

Speaker 35 As phonetically as I could.

Speaker 83 Okay.

Speaker 8 We'll see. We'll see.

Speaker 54 Where's Gacket?

Speaker 5 Anyway, that was just Barney, because everyone was like, but you started talking to Stinker out of nowhere.

Speaker 62 Yep.

Speaker 79 So we might not have gotten to the bottom of this mystery with the cat and stuff, but at least we know if, you know, in the future we need to, like, I don't know, interrogate someone, we'll just squeeze Matid's cat and he'll barf the thing on

Speaker 80 you know because we got the we got the mystery fluid an endless amount of purple goo from Gigi yeah if your cat starts drooling or bathing itself we're gonna need you to bottle that up there Matid we just need you to scoop it and put it into a nice glass jar let me don't touch it you people are strange.

Speaker 119 I have to say this.

Speaker 59 We're talking about bottling the saliva of a kitty. I don't understand you.

Speaker 90 With the kitty, it's magic saliva.

Speaker 8 Anyway,

Speaker 8 maybe we should get going.

Speaker 68 Alchemist?

Speaker 126 Yes, let's.

Speaker 84 The village of Vania is only a few hours up the ridge.

Speaker 95 Should we be cautious? Is there danger?

Speaker 22 Oh,

Speaker 29 ask Yelga.

Speaker 86 You're from here.

Speaker 68 I will use my danger sense.

Speaker 5 Oh, so Elga's leading the way.

Speaker 93 Obviously.

Speaker 5 This is her. What is that? That's a great segue.

Speaker 71 What is the marching order for this?

Speaker 103 Elga first.

Speaker 59 I'm not fighting this time.

Speaker 92 I'll go behind.

Speaker 59 Chip, where would you like to be in the matching order?

Speaker 90 I'll just be in the back, kind of moping, because my wife is dead.

Speaker 68 All right.

Speaker 59 That was a bit of a heavy response.

Speaker 108 Yeah, well, you know,

Speaker 5 it's what happens when the family dies.

Speaker 49 Elga, Barney, Mateed, Chip.

Speaker 24 Yes.

Speaker 80 Yeah, but Chip by like 20 feet, though.

Speaker 71 Actually, can I be back with Chip?

Speaker 111 Because I want to have a combo.

Speaker 115 Congratulations, Blaine.

Speaker 116 So you want Mateed second and Barney third?

Speaker 8 Blaine says, says like in character.

Speaker 59 Chip wants like a lone time.

Speaker 27 He's like 20 feet behind everybody.

Speaker 25 Hey, I seriously, you're born in the lost of your life.

Speaker 18 That's major little brother energy right there.

Speaker 111 And we'll have the alchemist between Mateed and Barney in the center of the party.

Speaker 16 Okay.

Speaker 73 You all embark up the craggy black mountain and hike with the morning sun warming your backs.

Speaker 71 But as you climb higher and higher, daylight slowly begins to fade faster than normal.

Speaker 94 After the better part of a day, you'll finally reach a ledge just below the summit.

Speaker 42 Why doesn't everyone go ahead and roll me a perception check?

Speaker 37 Could I also have a quick little sidebar with Chip?

Speaker 131 Uh, sure.

Speaker 71 You want to, I guess, before we get to the perception checks?

Speaker 92 If that's okay. Yeah.

Speaker 130 So I was like,

Speaker 127 uh, Chip,

Speaker 38 I made you something.

Speaker 93 Oh, yeah?

Speaker 122 I like to do little carpentry carving things in my spare time.

Speaker 41 And

Speaker 89 I hand him a, it's like a little, um, a little like a

Speaker 35 little I don't know what you call like a thing a mem a memory thing with like

Speaker 133 for Carol you chip and care okay chip and Carol a memory thing for you and Carol I carved a little like um like a keepsake yeah little like a heart yeah like a heart a keychain like name a shape

Speaker 66 I'm watching everybody it's like Chris hasn't actually said what it is so what is it Chris summarize first it's a it's a wooden okay thing with two hearts and one says that are like next to each other and one says chip and one says carol it says love is forever and then i say this for you also

Speaker 25 yeah

Speaker 73 and

Speaker 114 when you said two wooden i just wanted to clarify when you say two wooden things what are the things

Speaker 27 kind of okay i was gonna say i kind of didn't want him to explain because i just wanted the community then to just have to draw this yeah okay okay okay fair enough uh but it's fine chip takes it and is very sincerely like looking it over and like that's very thoughtful of you, Barney.

Speaker 44 Because I think Chip, well, no, no, in all seriousness,

Speaker 79 Chip would recognize like every single stroke of the blade and all the carvings. That's like, that's, I'm holding hours of work that my friend put into this thing.

Speaker 89 It is very thoughtful.

Speaker 128 Then Chip will stow it in his

Speaker 122 bum bag.

Speaker 43 And then I also made you this.

Speaker 137 Oh, okay.

Speaker 41 And it's a wooden steak.

Speaker 66 A wooden steak.

Speaker 70 Delicious.

Speaker 60 No, I think. Oh,

Speaker 46 what does the wooden stick say on it?

Speaker 137 Steak.

Speaker 20 Oh,

Speaker 98 Use on elega in case of emergency.

Speaker 24 No, no, no, no.

Speaker 58 But is what is this for protection against?

Speaker 5 Chris just shrugged his shoulders.

Speaker 38 It's an audio podcast.

Speaker 79 Knowing the place that we're going into and that there's vampires around, I'm going to just like, okay, okay, we're going to stick that in there.

Speaker 128 And I put it in the bum bag as well.

Speaker 59 I didn't mean to laugh at your precious moment. The thought just entered my mind when I laughed that you didn't describe the scale of it.

Speaker 92 And so what I imagined was Barney handing over this like four foot wide

Speaker 69 well i'm expecting it was like anatomically correct wooden hearts two of them

Speaker 122 the two things thing is such a vague word maybe can i can i can i maybe this instead of two hearts it's two dagger blades crossed and once this chip and once this carol and this is just retcon the entire is that okay is that better

Speaker 105 whichever the the the the sentiment still stands from chip that that's like a very thoughtful thing and uh yeah so i'll stow that in the bag what a wonderful precious moment mike is shaking his head at me barney go ahead and roll that perception check let's uh let's get it running

Speaker 66 i rolled a 23 i think i rolled a 13 or 12.

Speaker 65 i rolled a 12.

Speaker 122 17 from Barney.

Speaker 138 All right. We'll start with the low ones here.

Speaker 89 Ship and Mate both got a 12, aka the perception pals.

Speaker 42 Just the

Speaker 59 team names just keep coming. Yeah.

Speaker 121 Well, first of all, in general, you know, it's surprising how fast the day has passed since it's nearly nightfall at this point. And the trail seems to narrow just ahead.

Speaker 138 And nestled amongst some large black rocks is a well built of red stones.

Speaker 121 Barney, maybe it's the altitude, but every now and then you swear you can hear something scurrying and you can see shadows in your peripheral vision.

Speaker 38 Elga, always destroying the perception checks.

Speaker 121 In the distance, beyond, you can start to make out buildings made of wood.

Speaker 59 You said the well is in our path made of red stone. Yeah.

Speaker 26 It's like, you know, y'all are coming up on on it here pretty quickly.

Speaker 121 And, you know, you see some large black stones surrounding a deep well made of red stones.

Speaker 82 Like gimstones or like brick.

Speaker 79 Oh, I guess they're stones.

Speaker 30 So volcanic in nature?

Speaker 98 I don't know.

Speaker 114 You'd

Speaker 75 make me a wisdom check.

Speaker 59 I shall do one too.

Speaker 50 About the waste of your time. Here we go.

Speaker 37 Use my perception pow.

Speaker 97 A

Speaker 79 13.

Speaker 50 That's a four, so let's go with chip.

Speaker 121 So in general, as you've been traveling, you know, up this mountain, I believe in the last episode, the Alchemist referred to it as Mount Ignis, that, you know, in general, all of the stones here are black.

Speaker 121 And so you can tell that these red stones are obviously different, but it's not that they're gems.

Speaker 39 It seems like upon closer inspection, or as you're getting closer, they're almost more like stained.

Speaker 66 Oh, God, that's blood.

Speaker 135 That's blood.

Speaker 68 What are you talking about?

Speaker 43 Elga, welcome home.

Speaker 98 This is

Speaker 82 this like a blood well?

Speaker 98 Do they know I'm from here?

Speaker 46 Have I said that?

Speaker 38 Or do they just know that?

Speaker 62 I think you said it. I think you said it.

Speaker 39 Yeah. Okay.

Speaker 42 Plus, and you got that letter in the last episode.

Speaker 24 Right, okay.

Speaker 68 Um, you know, guys, I think it might be time I tell you something.

Speaker 12 I

Speaker 12 oh man,

Speaker 12 okay.

Speaker 68 I'm a vampire.

Speaker 97 What?

Speaker 34 No.

Speaker 93 Yeah.

Speaker 92 But what

Speaker 92 how

Speaker 68 you I just thought you just liked blood you knew didn't you?

Speaker 91 I might have had a clue.

Speaker 88 Okay, yeah, have you been beating off of us?

Speaker 97 No,

Speaker 68 not without your consent.

Speaker 79 I'm uh Chip recognizes that that might be a touchy subject for Barney, so he's gonna kinda like position hisself.

Speaker 45 Barney's like that, like

Speaker 66 yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

Speaker 79 I mean, I'm gonna position myself in a way to maybe defuse the situation if it if it happens.

Speaker 68 Barney, I never touch you, I promise.

Speaker 37 What are your intentions?

Speaker 68 To to help everyone and solve the murder trial that we are trying to figure out. That's it, right?

Speaker 60 Right, sucking the life out of us.

Speaker 25 No, out of other people,

Speaker 20 only the people who are evil.

Speaker 66 Only so so vampires only kill only suck the life out of people who are evil?

Speaker 68 I'm not saying that I am representing all vampires, you know, not all vampires, Barney.

Speaker 36 Okay,

Speaker 64 common phrase.

Speaker 68 I just thought I should let you all know, if we're about to go into Venia, you might figure out some things about me. And I want you to hear from me first, okay?

Speaker 125 And why haven't you told us before now?

Speaker 44 Well, because of how you're reacting, Barney.

Speaker 82 You don't seem to have a great,

Speaker 80 you know.

Speaker 82 Vibe towards the undead and you know justifiably so you've had some traumatic experiences but like we know Elga we've been traveling together for so long she's for She's friends.

Speaker 43 We love Elga, right?

Speaker 101 Right?

Speaker 86 This isn't, it doesn't change who she is just because, you know, she's a vampire.

Speaker 90 That's like, you know, it's fine.

Speaker 38 It's just Elga.

Speaker 59 Did you not think it was odd that she turned into a bat like yesterday?

Speaker 120 Yeah.

Speaker 68 Yeah, I thought that would be a pretty

Speaker 74 good one.

Speaker 82 Remember when she like fell on the ground in Carcassouk and just her like licking blood off of the meat floor?

Speaker 59 Wait, I have a question. Pardon.
You know I'm dead, right?

Speaker 79 You know I'm not alive.

Speaker 66 i had my suspicions i'll say that a picture barn doing the what

Speaker 98 i had my suspicions yes but i i

Speaker 66 i

Speaker 59 and you you know you know that chip is a dragon actually right what that's a lie that's

Speaker 74 i was about to be really surprised actually

Speaker 122 i do feel like uh ghosts tend to not they don't kill

Speaker 65 they they they are i mean, I mean,

Speaker 113 they don't drain the line.

Speaker 68 Every type of creature kills.

Speaker 142 We all have our past.

Speaker 68 Just imagine it's just a matter of there's good people and there's bad people. Yeah.
And there's bad humans and good humans. Bad vampires, good humans.

Speaker 59 I got to say is that you were very against your new dog when you came around, but it seems just a second ago you really cared about that dog and really wanted it to be included.

Speaker 143 Yeah.

Speaker 125 I don't like the dog.

Speaker 31 Can I do an insight check on that?

Speaker 96 Yeah, I want to do an insight on that.

Speaker 46 Can I cover Stinker's ears when he said that? Sure.

Speaker 68 This little guy, Stinker, he didn't mean it.

Speaker 99 Okay.

Speaker 59 14. Yeah, that's a 23.

Speaker 59 I know that that is a lie.

Speaker 36 My little dog.

Speaker 20 How do we resolve that?

Speaker 87 Does Chris have to roll deception?

Speaker 134 He can.

Speaker 61 What do you do?

Speaker 66 Yeah, I mean, I have to leave that up to the player.

Speaker 85 It's whether or not he's deceiving. Like, how honest is he being with that sentence?

Speaker 50 Yep.

Speaker 28 Yeah, so if you are attempting to deceive, they know that's not true.

Speaker 41 I think at this point, Barney's warmed up the stinker a bit, quite a bit.

Speaker 59 Well, you've been around Elga quite longer than that little puppy.

Speaker 80 And we're talking about like the evil of you know the undead and how they kill and murder.

Speaker 125 Bro,

Speaker 44 I'm alive and kicking.

Speaker 84 I have killed so many people.

Speaker 82 So you won't even imagine how many people I've ended their lives.

Speaker 68 He can't stop talking about all the things he's killed.

Speaker 45 Exactly.

Speaker 60 But you don't.

Speaker 122 Do you kill women and children?

Speaker 45 Children, no.

Speaker 26 Women, if they're bad, I don't discriminate.

Speaker 68 He's a feminist.

Speaker 51 I'm an equal opportunity murder.

Speaker 28 Opportunity murderer.

Speaker 54 Do you go to people's house?

Speaker 76 Do you

Speaker 122 attack people's homes?

Speaker 61 Do you kill their families?

Speaker 10 Well, no, not entire families.

Speaker 48 I'm not a family annihilator, but on the job, you know, I have to do all sorts of bad things.

Speaker 68 Because I think what I'm gathering from this, Marnie, did the vampire kill your family?

Speaker 113 No, they didn't.

Speaker 38 No, they took them.

Speaker 37 Oh,

Speaker 37 that's right.

Speaker 59 That's right.

Speaker 80 Wait, so we've talked about this in the past because we've seen the

Speaker 137 flashback.

Speaker 41 Was that you said undead?

Speaker 79 I thought it was zombies, but was it vampires?

Speaker 25 It's vampires. Vampires.
Oh.

Speaker 65 I can't remember.

Speaker 135 I guess this is.

Speaker 44 I guess this is me speaking meta.

Speaker 26 Do you remember what the in my

Speaker 122 head canon?

Speaker 41 It was always vampire.

Speaker 66 There we go.

Speaker 39 Okay.

Speaker 145 Oh, no.

Speaker 59 You know, what I learned is that the best way to get over a fear is like exposure. So let's just shove Elga in his face often every once in a while.

Speaker 73 I thought you were going to say, let's go to let's go to Vania.

Speaker 120 Yeah.

Speaker 143 Why did you become a vampire?

Speaker 68 I didn't want to, Barney. You know, things happen.
I don't, it was so many years ago, it was kind of beyond my control. I didn't choose this.
I wasn't born this way.

Speaker 41 Well, actually, you know, because we I have suspicions.

Speaker 37 How old are you?

Speaker 68 You know, I've lost count.

Speaker 65 Like Dracula or?

Speaker 68 Somewhere in the range of 164 to 322. Oh.
Somewhere in there. Wow.

Speaker 59 It's mildly inaccurate of an estimation.

Speaker 68 Once you get past like 150 days, I understand.

Speaker 59 It becomes annoying to count the days.

Speaker 23 Yeah.

Speaker 136 That's terrible.

Speaker 50 I'm sorry, Elga.

Speaker 44 Do you like your life as a vampire?

Speaker 68 I mean,

Speaker 68 there are some upsides for sure, but you know, every now and then I get a little bit of a weird look, or you know, people don't want me to come into their home unless I ask them to, and then they need to give me permission, and sometimes it doesn't work, and then I have to just sit outside the home, and it's very lonely.

Speaker 98 It's very sad.

Speaker 37 You were forced into it.

Speaker 68 Yeah, I guess so.

Speaker 84 At this point, I think the alchemist would step in and says, You know, Bonnie, if you wish, we can talk about this in the safety and the comfort of the asylum once we're back in Natura City.

Speaker 125 A tiny hut.

Speaker 137 No, she's

Speaker 58 that is that the alchemist saying that we should be in the insane place?

Speaker 34 No, no, no.

Speaker 77 It's not that it's an insane place, it's just a place to help people.

Speaker 132 Oh, okay.

Speaker 59 That seems like something someone would say when they're putting them in the insane place.

Speaker 20 No, there's nothing wrong with it.

Speaker 62 There's no implication about that at all.

Speaker 55 It's just the alchemist genuinely wishing to help. Just put on this this jacket, Barney.

Speaker 98 It's fitted for you.

Speaker 95 Okay, gang, we got a mission ahead of us.

Speaker 82 And Elga probably wants to go, you know, look around.

Speaker 79 They probably haven't been home in a while.

Speaker 44 Barney, are you good?

Speaker 68 Barney, I promise I would never cause you or anyone you love harm. And

Speaker 68 you are safe with me, okay? And I promise I will help you find the answers you are looking for. You can trust me.

Speaker 144 I think Barney looks really torn and sad and nods without looking at Elga.

Speaker 25 But is.

Speaker 46 Elga also realizes her sippy cup of satiation is poking out of her pocket and kind of shoves it back in.

Speaker 25 Nothing to look at here.

Speaker 37 I'm sorry.

Speaker 88 I'm sorry, Barney.

Speaker 68 Okay, why don't we just call truths for now, okay?

Speaker 68 You can trust me. Okay.

Speaker 98 Elga, thanks for sharing that with us.

Speaker 68 You're welcome. And I'm sorry if you are disturbed by this very shocking news.

Speaker 42 It's a total shock.

Speaker 39 It's going to be the front page of the newspaper tomorrow.

Speaker 5 I've known the entire time.

Speaker 34 What are you all talking about?

Speaker 54 This is the weirdest conversation.

Speaker 62 I like the idea of Mati just being silent the whole time.

Speaker 105 She'd be like, I knew. Hold on.

Speaker 47 Nail files in the corner.

Speaker 109 Did you know?

Speaker 25 Huh? Did you know?

Speaker 79 I had my suspicions, but you know.

Speaker 82 We live in a weird place in a weird time.

Speaker 79 You know, you got to open your mind up, Barney.

Speaker 88 You know, get with it.

Speaker 114 It's all right. People are different.

Speaker 60 They come from different backgrounds.

Speaker 68 And not everyone is bad.

Speaker 141 You know, my wife catfished me, turns turns out.

Speaker 87 She was a hag the whole time, but I still love her to death.

Speaker 103 Well, she is dead.

Speaker 45 We still love her.

Speaker 92 Tooon.

Speaker 34 Yeah.

Speaker 113 Too soon.

Speaker 98 Yeah, too soon.

Speaker 68 Anyways, shall we just continue on the Sylvania?

Speaker 129 Yeah, there's weird shadows around us.

Speaker 46 Should we investigate this world?

Speaker 114 Yeah, why not?

Speaker 46 Or is it more of just like the fact that we discover it was blood?

Speaker 79 Should we throw something in it and make a wish?

Speaker 30 You could take a look around.

Speaker 44 What's in? Have we even looked in the well?

Speaker 121 No.

Speaker 143 I'd like to look in the well. There you go.

Speaker 92 Go and make an investigation check for me.

Speaker 114 It's filled with ink.

Speaker 46 Cartoon derail

Speaker 105 with a...

Speaker 45 No, these are like sweet character moments.

Speaker 80 Yeah, I've been over here messaging with Micah.

Speaker 143 Like, I know we need to move along, but this is like really good role play and like really good character development.

Speaker 121 Like, I don't want to step in and squash it.

Speaker 59 21, Nat 20.

Speaker 34 Ooh, look at you.

Speaker 146 You know, as you look around a little closer, you can tell that indeed the redstones are stained with some kind of liquid.

Speaker 92 Is it blood maybe?

Speaker 121 And the well is seemingly fathomless, perhaps as deep as the mountain.

Speaker 146 And you think you can hear something deep inside the well, maybe something slightly high-pitched.

Speaker 40 It's really hard to make out.

Speaker 59 Like a ringing sound, or does it change in pitch? So it could be like something from a creature?

Speaker 37 Is it bats?

Speaker 116 I'll say it's almost like tinnitus, like a really high-pitched whining.

Speaker 65 Oh, from down in the well? Oh,

Speaker 65 like

Speaker 92 well, yeah, he asked that same question. Yeah, sorry.

Speaker 59 It's okay. Chris doesn't listen.

Speaker 5 I'm just messing.

Speaker 66 What?

Speaker 74 When's your old?

Speaker 59 I do have a question. Bonnie, you have so many little magic tricks.
It's very cute when you do them. Does any of them, are they able to produce light? Would be able to

Speaker 59 send something down into the well to see what this is.

Speaker 145 Yeah.

Speaker 68 It might end up angering whatever is making that sound.

Speaker 50 That's horrifying.

Speaker 37 I have fairy fire.

Speaker 41 Each object any 20-foot cube within range is outlined in blue, green, or violet.

Speaker 130 Any creature in the area with spells cast is also outlined light.

Speaker 41 So I could do that.

Speaker 122 We could like put some, like cast something, put some.

Speaker 44 Does this fair fire glow, Gustavo?

Speaker 114 I believe it creates a faint outline, if I remember right.

Speaker 26 I'm looking at it.

Speaker 89 I'm about to pull it up on a tree.

Speaker 59 Something that would stand out in a dark abyss.

Speaker 131 I believe it's supposed to be really faint.

Speaker 128 How deep is this well?

Speaker 59 He said, seemingly.

Speaker 116 Perhaps as deep as the mountain.

Speaker 147 Oh my gosh.

Speaker 59 Okay, I didn't know.

Speaker 72 Because there's like light.

Speaker 65 Yeah, no, I just don't have it.

Speaker 59 I don't know what spells clarics have access to.

Speaker 46 I could always like turn into a bat and go look down there.

Speaker 37 Oh, that's scary.

Speaker 46 But it would be my one use of it.

Speaker 79 Well, I mean, is this the end of our destination or is this just like on the way to Vania?

Speaker 6 Like, is Vania further up?

Speaker 30 Craig is further up.

Speaker 135 One of you, I think Elga perhaps saw some buildings.

Speaker 68 I did see some woodhouses up there. That's right.

Speaker 46 Are the woodhouses like normal wood or are they also stained? Could I tell?

Speaker 98 It's so far away,

Speaker 98 you can barely see it, and you're the only one who can see it because

Speaker 59 maybe we put a little pin in this well and investigate the village.

Speaker 46 Elga puts an actual pin

Speaker 123 on the surface of the well.

Speaker 46 Could we tell if the red and black is just like fresh blood and dried blood? Or is it like is the black just black and the red?

Speaker 135 So the the the stones in general on this mountain are black. Okay.

Speaker 146 So you they appear just like regular stone.

Speaker 94 Okay.

Speaker 121 Whereas the red is maybe is that black stone just covered in

Speaker 42 blood or something.

Speaker 42 Okay.

Speaker 46 Could I investigate it to see if it is blood?

Speaker 121 Yeah. Should we already do that?

Speaker 26 No, but you can.

Speaker 40 You make an investigation check on it. Okay.

Speaker 46 With advantage, because I'm a close-up?

Speaker 114 Yes, and I would also say just in general, because Elga might have some familiarity with blood.

Speaker 105 Okay.

Speaker 46 I will do that 20 on my advantage.

Speaker 42 It does definitely seem like blood.

Speaker 59 I think I made a mistake, and I've sent Chris down a rabbit hole of looking at all his spells.

Speaker 59 I'm looking over and Chris has just been looking like he is studying the SATs at his computer.

Speaker 79 And I'm like, I know exactly what that boy's doing right now.

Speaker 25 He is looking through steel.

Speaker 17 He's looking for a light spell.

Speaker 59 And he is going to miss everything we're saying because I sent his little brain down that hole.

Speaker 25 That well we're looking at, that's where Chris's brain is.

Speaker 55 I like to picture his brain just came out of his skull and went straight down the well, down to the bottom.

Speaker 79 You know, we're going to be going into a village of people that probably know exactly what's at the bottom of this, and we could just ask them.

Speaker 41 So I say we boogie.

Speaker 48 Time is of the

Speaker 11 essence.

Speaker 98 Time is of the essence.

Speaker 82 Is that what it is? Yes.

Speaker 12 That phrase sounds weird in my brain.

Speaker 92 No, that's correct.

Speaker 137 Okay.

Speaker 68 I hear a lot of phrases.

Speaker 68 That seems to be correct.

Speaker 46 Let proceeds.

Speaker 120 Yeah, right. Yeah.

Speaker 128 Chip falls.

Speaker 88 We all go.

Speaker 73 As you all try to pass by the well and press on, six humanoid bats emerge from the well

Speaker 26 and block your path, each of them wearing red robes.

Speaker 5 See? Okay.

Speaker 59 This teaches us,

Speaker 59 just investigate everything.

Speaker 25 Don't move along.

Speaker 23 Just stop.

Speaker 59 And you want us to move along, Gus, and now you've taught us.

Speaker 147 We are the Sferatu.

Speaker 145 All sentient creatures that wish to enter Vania must first make a blood oath to uphold Devanian vows.

Speaker 46 You just had to do another Sferat

Speaker 25 for Chris. This is great.

Speaker 147 Barney pulls out a wooden stake and...

Speaker 93 No, no, no, Barney, no, no.

Speaker 68 Put it down. They're not necessarily violent, so we don't have to maybe try to incite anything here.

Speaker 65 They're asking for blood.

Speaker 82 Yeah, but that's like a custom here.

Speaker 16 It's kind of like getting a blood.

Speaker 59 I feel like you have a body that just produces it constantly.

Speaker 73 Why do you need it all?

Speaker 46 Mated the ghost being like, you gotta buy full of blood.

Speaker 135 It's not a big deal, Barney.

Speaker 82 It's fine.

Speaker 13 This is their home.

Speaker 50 We're gonna follow their traditions.

Speaker 68 Hello, Sveratu. My name is Elga.
I'm actually from here, so we're just coming to visit.

Speaker 136 Make a perception check for me, Elga.

Speaker 59 Oh, I thought I was gonna do like a a charisma thing.

Speaker 46 Uh, 16.

Speaker 122 Yes, Vino.

Speaker 137 And they point at your palm of your hand.

Speaker 46 What's in the palm of my hand?

Speaker 40 On the palm of your hand, a sigil has appeared.

Speaker 89 It's the shape of a red blood drop, and inside is the outline of a white upside-down triangle.

Speaker 46 Oh, we saw that on their belt, the belt, belt, so it like kind of wasn't on my hand before, but ever since coming into Vania, correct, it has now appeared in the palm of your hand.

Speaker 68 Okay, well, I guess I don't need to convince you.

Speaker 68 See?

Speaker 105 And I hold it up.

Speaker 68 You may pass. These are my friends.
They're coming to visit.

Speaker 82 Yeah, do we have like a guest pass or like a day pass?

Speaker 145 Yes, the blados.

Speaker 82 What does that entail?

Speaker 147 All you have to do is repeat after me.

Speaker 42 Oh, that's easy.

Speaker 147 And offer blood.

Speaker 50 That's not as easy.

Speaker 147 To develop.

Speaker 65 Oh, okay.

Speaker 62 All right, Gliz, let's go.

Speaker 73 Just Medicaid, it's not like they're asking you.

Speaker 116 They're not asking to feed on you.

Speaker 26 They're not asked to die.

Speaker 89 They're asking you to just offer some blood to the well, okay.

Speaker 20 All right, well, okay.

Speaker 68 Well, remember how we said we'd put the pin in it. Why don't we just use the pin to

Speaker 54 put the pin in you?

Speaker 24 Yeah,

Speaker 68 do you guys need me to help you, Matti? Do you make blood?

Speaker 145 I do not, even spiritual blood, Vildu.

Speaker 147 What is spiritual blood?

Speaker 99 Play along with me.

Speaker 20 What

Speaker 98 That was the best.

Speaker 137 Yep.

Speaker 43 Oh, okay.

Speaker 25 Yep.

Speaker 2 I got some speak.

Speaker 59 I thought this might have been like a combative moment, but nope. Okay.

Speaker 85 But before we do the vow, how is everyone going to draw blood and

Speaker 94 offer it to the well?

Speaker 135 I would say the arm blade of blurbling, but I realize it has poisonous effects, so I don't want to poison myself.

Speaker 68 Do you want me to help you, Tip?

Speaker 74 Sure.

Speaker 68 Okay, give me your finger.

Speaker 22 All right, here we go.

Speaker 46 And Elga just like puts one of her little teeth right at the tip of the finger.

Speaker 89 Oh, that's nice.

Speaker 76 Okay, now drop it.

Speaker 98 Okay. What do I say? Okay, well, what about everyone else? How's everyone else handling that?

Speaker 39 No, we can all do the vow together.

Speaker 122 Oh, I was to say Barney would go.

Speaker 114 I guess.

Speaker 98 Unless you want to watch Chip do it.

Speaker 30 Yeah, I think Barney would go last.

Speaker 89 Oh, okay. And see what happens.

Speaker 39 Do you want, Montee, do you want to do it with Chip or would you rather go later like Barney?

Speaker 42 Let's do it now.

Speaker 34 It'd be a a bonding moment.

Speaker 94 Yeah, I'll do it now.

Speaker 59 It's no big deal to me.

Speaker 59 Mati takes their, I don't know, their talon and like just like awkwardly, like takes their one talon, uh, scratches their leg, puts that talon down, and just puts that leg over the well.

Speaker 85 I thought, you know, I figured you were gonna rough house with Gigi a little.

Speaker 121 You know, how invariably a kitten will scratch you or like draw a little bit of blood.

Speaker 59 I feel like Mati would just stand there, like arms crossed, and just do this with their legs.

Speaker 53 Yeah, just put their leg over the well and like global upper half.

Speaker 87 Yeah.

Speaker 59 What do I say?

Speaker 147 Repeat after me.

Speaker 56 Repeat after me

Speaker 59 very good i state your name i i mess the pain

Speaker 45 spare under pain of death swear under pain of second death that valst in vania

Speaker 147 valst in vania i shall adhere to the vanian vows undermentioned

Speaker 99 i shall adhere to the vanian vows undermentioned table's lost me on that one no one may enter the vemspire unless invited by count dracula no one one may enter the

Speaker 96 Vamspire unless invited by Count Dracula.

Speaker 147 No vampire may travel outside of Vanya unless permitted by Count Dracula.

Speaker 96 No vampire may travel

Speaker 82 outside of Vania.

Speaker 61 The Vamspire

Speaker 44 Dracula

Speaker 147 silver is strictly prohibited in Vanya unless permitted by Count Dracula.

Speaker 113 Silver is expressly permitted to submit

Speaker 82 except for by Trout Dracula.

Speaker 68 I don't think there's gonna be a lot of damage after this.

Speaker 82 No silver.

Speaker 114 Unless you get a doctor's note from Trout Dracula.

Speaker 110 So Chip on the tip of your finger and Mateed on your foot.

Speaker 116 That same sigil that's on Ilga's palm appears there.

Speaker 42 Oh, that's cool. Neat.

Speaker 44 Cool ink.

Speaker 125 Tattoo.

Speaker 44 Look, we're twins. High five.

Speaker 38 Mate.

Speaker 50 High five with my foot.

Speaker 140 All right, let's go.

Speaker 94 How do you draw blood for the wall?

Speaker 60 I just did.

Speaker 68 What'd you do?

Speaker 125 I did it with him.

Speaker 125 I don't think he did.

Speaker 125 No.

Speaker 135 Can I see your end?

Speaker 66 Yeah.

Speaker 50 Could I do?

Speaker 68 Also, I'm a little bit worried because it said no vampire may travel outside by any animals permitted by Count Dracula. I don't know if I got permission.

Speaker 79 I assume so. They seem like this is, you know, binding.

Speaker 131 I will say your father in the letter seemed aware

Speaker 105 of you leaving.

Speaker 46 Because he did send me to go check out the peace parade.

Speaker 146 okay that's right that's right i just don't feel like barney would want me to do this i don't know

Speaker 46 you would do this i just want to see yeah yeah are you just trying to essentially like lie and say you did it yeah

Speaker 134 if you come up with a compelling way and make like some deception checks we can play with that this this kind of reminds me of uh when bart tried to get into uh the infinite campaign has like a dragon board yeah go check it out how many there there's four of them six of them six of them okay and now since it's not a group all eyes are on you Barney.

Speaker 26 Barney.

Speaker 59 Look at me, Barney. Show me your hand.

Speaker 122 All right.

Speaker 66 Well, Barney shows his hand.

Speaker 25 I don't know why I didn't show up.

Speaker 58 Matid pecks his hand.

Speaker 20 Oh.

Speaker 46 As he's holding it over the wall.

Speaker 59 Okay. That was easy.
Now just say the words.

Speaker 26 Yeah, a little bit of blood trickles out.

Speaker 35 Could Barney like say the words, but not like kind of like fingers crossed behind his back where he doesn't do it?

Speaker 138 Yeah, we'll have you

Speaker 136 do it with a perception check.

Speaker 129 I'm sorry, with a deception check.

Speaker 136 Man, I'm all over the place.

Speaker 46 So are we? It's okay.

Speaker 113 Hectic, hectic recording.

Speaker 35 And then I guess while I'm saying, sort of saying the words, could Barney like try and like recreate the symbol behind his back with like some...

Speaker 134 What color is it?

Speaker 145 What symbol?

Speaker 114 The symbol? Yeah, describe it to me.

Speaker 144 Can I roll a.

Speaker 140 It's like a...

Speaker 122 Can I, can I, can my in-game, I saw them doing it, right?

Speaker 41 So, so, like, it's hard to recall.

Speaker 140 I know what it looks like.

Speaker 123 Make a

Speaker 123 you do?

Speaker 130 Well, like, my character literally just

Speaker 65 saw it. But did Chris?

Speaker 116 Make a intelligence check.

Speaker 123 So, I got the vague, you know, shape of it. You know, you know, the color.
Can I look right now? You know, can I look right now with my eyes?

Speaker 121 You're trying to think which ones would be visible easily. You could see the one, I guess, on Mate's leg.

Speaker 116 So, make a perception check.

Speaker 46 I think you should only let him do it if he could actually recall what it is in real life.

Speaker 92 Go ahead and draw it.

Speaker 79 I know, I know exactly what it looks like.

Speaker 100 I could describe it in perfect detail.

Speaker 140 15, yeah, yeah, chip.

Speaker 110 You want to tell them, or Blaine, you want to tell them, I should say.

Speaker 94 It's a blood drop with a triangle in the middle, but it's upside down.

Speaker 79 What color is it? Red?

Speaker 59 No, the triangle.

Speaker 36 Oh, red. No.

Speaker 94 Was it black? Nope.

Speaker 53 White.

Speaker 25 Oh, oh,

Speaker 25 beige.

Speaker 105 I was pointing to my face. Rosy cheeks.

Speaker 51 I don't know.

Speaker 59 There's a white triangle.

Speaker 41 Yeah, so Barney will do the...

Speaker 114 How are you going to try to draw this again?

Speaker 122 Like, put it kind of hands behind his back. And with my, I'm going to do it with my mage hand while I'm talking.
I'm going to have one hand behind my back and I'm going to have mage hand behind me.

Speaker 136 Like...

Speaker 46 Are they going to use like the blood to make the blood?

Speaker 41 Yeah, using some like,

Speaker 129 the blood that I actually did.

Speaker 41 The blood from whenever Matit poked me.

Speaker 143 And then,

Speaker 35 you know, like ash from, you know, and dirt and stuff and trying to recreate it with my mage hand while I

Speaker 110 say the mumble the words okay we can give this a try why not this is D ⁇ D repeat after me repeat after me

Speaker 116 unless permitted by count dracula unless permitted by count dragula so uh at this point what do you do barney Well, my mage hand was doing that symbol kind of like discreetly.

Speaker 144 Right. And then, I mean, I already drew the blood, right? Mm-hmm.

Speaker 137 So then I'm like, I don't like your customs.

Speaker 25 Ever since, I don't know who it was.

Speaker 30 Someone described Barney as a boomer, like in the last episode of their previous one.

Speaker 116 I just cannot get that out of my head.

Speaker 26 Definitely a boomer.

Speaker 137 Okay.

Speaker 66 This better not be permanent.

Speaker 137 I don't want any tattoos.

Speaker 94 You have a tattoo.

Speaker 140 Yeah, you got a tattoo at Carcassonne.

Speaker 36 It was not permanent.

Speaker 116 Okay, do you, so I guess if you're saying that, are you looking at it?

Speaker 122 Yeah, I mean, do they need to see it?

Speaker 94 I mean, they're still there.

Speaker 122 Yeah, yeah, so I'm like, yeah,

Speaker 59 you know, when you're going through like border patrol and they don't need to see anyone,

Speaker 30 I look at it, and I'm like, this better not be permanent.

Speaker 116 All right, make your deception check.

Speaker 25 21.

Speaker 34 Oh, that's pretty good.

Speaker 26 All right, I'm gonna make my insight checks.

Speaker 131 They are plus four on insight.

Speaker 37 All six of them. Yep.

Speaker 131 That's a

Speaker 123 21 5 17 17 3.

Speaker 26 So you fool three of them, but three of them are unfold.

Speaker 89 One of them rolled a 20, so they got a 24.

Speaker 37 So where does that take?

Speaker 116 Well, they're just kind of still standing there watching you.

Speaker 59 This is like when you're traveling with friends and one of them just gets caught by like TSA because they like they brought like a water bottle like food through there.

Speaker 59 You're just like, come on, we gotta get to our flight.

Speaker 25 Perhaps Vishal Duz evolves again, repeat after me.

Speaker 120 Oh god.

Speaker 51 Oh my god.

Speaker 139 And that's permitted by Counter Oculoc.

Speaker 122 Oh, that's permitted by Counter Acula.

Speaker 72 And with that, the six of them vanish with a red mist.

Speaker 125 That wasn't so hard.

Speaker 114 I think Micah just pounded his head on the desk.

Speaker 30 Oh, wait.

Speaker 79 I had to submit something to customs because

Speaker 61 Elga. Okay, we are all good to go.

Speaker 73 You get the refund when you leave.

Speaker 98 Okay, well, no, I have a piece of silver on me, I think.

Speaker 79 Oh.

Speaker 135 Yeah, but we have to get inside the sound.

Speaker 79 Yeah, if he puts it in his bum bag,

Speaker 135 it's the sheath pen.

Speaker 30 Yeah, yeah.

Speaker 110 Yeah, you could try to stick it in the bum bag.

Speaker 26 Are you gonna turn it over?

Speaker 79 I mean, they just disappeared.

Speaker 39 I think they're so tired of us.

Speaker 68 Okay, so shall we continue on?

Speaker 46 I assume the alchemist also did this, right?

Speaker 39 Yes, okay. Well, he'll have done something similar, uh, pricking his finger with a dagger.

Speaker 59 Sure, you don't want to go through it all?

Speaker 92 I

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Speaker 104 Charlie Sheen is an icon of decadence.

Speaker 150 I lit the fuse and my life turns into everything it wasn't supposed to be.

Speaker 64 He's going the distance.

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Speaker 104 When it started to change, it was quick. He kept saying, no, no, no, I'm in the hospital now, but next week I'll be ready for the show.
Now, Charlie's sober. He's going to tell you the truth.

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Speaker 73 You all press on past the well and eventually reach the summit of the Black Mountain, Vania.

Speaker 146 Before you is a village of shadowy staved buildings crafted with wooden spires.

Speaker 85 The village encircles a towering pinnacle made of glossy black rock.

Speaker 130 Elga, you know this tower to be the Vamp Spire, your home.

Speaker 36 See you guys later.

Speaker 59 The way you're describing this is that there is clearly like a typical kind of village surrounding this thing.

Speaker 59 Can we see inhabitants?

Speaker 6 Yeah, there's people walking around.

Speaker 132 There's a couple of different like shops.

Speaker 91 Are they

Speaker 21 human?

Speaker 26 There are various D ⁇ D races, you know, walking around this village.

Speaker 59 Is there any way to be able to tell if, like, I'm just curious because it seems like, are these the non-vampires that live around Vamp Spire?

Speaker 17 It seems like all throughout this village are local non-vampire vanians.

Speaker 65 So, the food.

Speaker 81 So, there are, so, this isn't a town consisting of just a part of the dead.

Speaker 46 But it sounds like the vamp spire is.

Speaker 65 It's the agriculture that surrounds the actual city.

Speaker 73 These are the cows. Yeah.

Speaker 46 I guess what is so the vamp spire, like, what, is that like a building? Is it like an area section of the town?

Speaker 42 It's like a pinnacle that's like made of glossy black rock, kind of similar to the rest of the mountain.

Speaker 25 Big tall, big tall, yeah.

Speaker 137 Like a spire, right, right.

Speaker 130 Like Minas Tirith or something.

Speaker 58 Sure.

Speaker 59 I was thinking like the Judge Dredd building,

Speaker 122 like where it's built into the mountain kind of thing.

Speaker 89 Tower, maybe a tower would be like a better way to to describe it.

Speaker 137 Okay.

Speaker 87 So, Aga, where's your house?

Speaker 68 You know, I've only been gone a week,

Speaker 68 but I seem to forget.

Speaker 121 You know, your home is in the Vampspire.

Speaker 66 Okay.

Speaker 68 Well, my home clearly is in the vampspire So maybe I should go in there and and see what's up and maybe see if I could get you guys to come inside even though you're not vampires if Count Dracula invites you in you'll be able to come So maybe I'll go give a little chit-chat and weasel our way inside what's your relationship like with Count Dracula that I mean I don't know if you're gonna be able to answer that right now, but I I like does does Do we know from the beginning of the campaign you were a fan of right?

Speaker 50 Like what's the what's the relationship like do you?

Speaker 46 Well, I know that my father is a count,

Speaker 46 Count von Brath, so I imagine there's some type of like royalty or like he's like Uncle Dracula.

Speaker 68 And then them.

Speaker 94 So just to re-establish, what's in, because it's been like a while since we talked about all of it, this was your first time leaving the Vampspire, Elga.

Speaker 121 So all of this was new to you before.

Speaker 114 You've lived your entire life within the Vampspire.

Speaker 55 Okay.

Speaker 89 And you're a fan, but you have not talked with Dracula directly. Okay.
Oh, okay.

Speaker 42 Okay.

Speaker 136 Thank you guys. Yeah.

Speaker 114 Sorry, I'm trying to run a balance between like, but I've seen him around.

Speaker 110 Yeah, I mean, he's also would be in the vampire.

Speaker 128 Okay. Could I go in?

Speaker 46 Or do we want to look around the area first?

Speaker 12 That's a good question.

Speaker 98 Yeah, well, you're not like right at the base of the vampspire.

Speaker 121 You're kind of just like entering the town.

Speaker 66 The vampire is more like in the center of it.

Speaker 72 You're kind of like on the edge of the town, just kind of getting in, and there's all these like wooden shop, wooden building shops.

Speaker 41 Does Arne recognize any of this?

Speaker 42 Make a wisdom check.

Speaker 41 13.

Speaker 26 It seems oddly familiar, but not in a way you can quite put your finger on.

Speaker 136 Not like you've been here before or something.

Speaker 89 Just there's something familiar about it.

Speaker 59 Do the buildings have doors?

Speaker 94 Yes.

Speaker 59 We're back to those kinds of cities.

Speaker 46 I also, could we just like quickly recount everyone's dreams? Because I feel like it's going to have some relevance here.

Speaker 46 So Barney had a dream where two people were talking with a black spire in the center, which could be the vamp spire. There was one male, one female.
There was a heated debate. It was muffled talking.

Speaker 46 And they said something like, it's not the hour or it's not hours.

Speaker 46 Barney thinks he might have seen the man before, has blonde hair and a tailored black suit, and then blood red necktie. Necktie.

Speaker 59 That was like the connective tissue between all of them.

Speaker 46 And then Matid died the same way that Carol did with the two fangs dripping above with a red necktie.

Speaker 123 That was someone who had a red necktie.

Speaker 113 Yeah. Potentially.

Speaker 46 And then in Chip's dream, he was talking to Carol.

Speaker 79 This is all in my house, though.

Speaker 46 Yeah, and there's a large blue coat guy.

Speaker 64 Okay. Thick dark.

Speaker 57 Did it?

Speaker 46 I mean, it said high collar with thick dark hair.

Speaker 107 Oh.

Speaker 8 I was like, I didn't think anything was

Speaker 59 descriptive of Eddie.

Speaker 46 And then I had a dream that my sister was going crazy and then bit me. Yeah.

Speaker 79 And that was here in the Vance Bar.

Speaker 120 Okay.

Speaker 59 Thank you.

Speaker 46 So, just to kind of recap those things, because I feel like that might be of relevance.

Speaker 127 Good.

Speaker 119 Let's make our way through the village. See what we see.

Speaker 42 Give yourself an inspiration, Die, Barbara.

Speaker 120 I really like that.

Speaker 116 That focusing of information and recap.

Speaker 88 Cool.

Speaker 68 Yeah, maybe let's just walk around. You know, I want to work up the courage to go inside.

Speaker 98 Any cool shops?

Speaker 83 Yeah, there's uh several businesses all around.

Speaker 123 Let's see, there's like you see one, two, three,

Speaker 97 four,

Speaker 136 five different businesses that appear to be open with people walking in and out of them in your immediate area.

Speaker 94 What are they?

Speaker 121 Uh, yeah, you look around and you see um signs on each of the shops in your immediate area.

Speaker 30 They say Vladbank,

Speaker 30 Vlad, yeah, Vladbank, Lowe's Hanging Fruit,

Speaker 138 Oldenwares, Marin's Mantlery, and Vanyard Valhera.

Speaker 79 Where do you want to go?

Speaker 135 I mean, I wouldn't mind weapons, but also, you know, I got this belt with the fangs and stuff like that.

Speaker 79 I don't know if this is like a common product, but I do want to see if we could find if someone's selling something like this.

Speaker 136 Pick a shop.

Speaker 92 Violence von, what?

Speaker 12 Pick a shop, any shop.

Speaker 77 Van Devin.

Speaker 45 Mantley.

Speaker 135 What's the mantley?

Speaker 120 Probably.

Speaker 45 I'll just like window shop. I don't know.

Speaker 34 Haberdashery?

Speaker 110 Not quite.

Speaker 26 So you walk up and try to peek into the window.

Speaker 77 Sure.

Speaker 83 Make a perception check.

Speaker 44 We got it.

Speaker 59 I will assist.

Speaker 125 14.

Speaker 59 Does he need an assistance?

Speaker 105 You tell me?

Speaker 42 Yeah, 10, 10.

Speaker 76 No.

Speaker 132 You're trying to cover his eyes as he's trying to peer through the windows to look inside.

Speaker 59 I'm just a bird just looking at a glass window, not understanding what you're doing.

Speaker 39 You run into it

Speaker 54 when he's unconscious on the ground.

Speaker 73 I'm just a bird standing in front of a boy.

Speaker 105 Yeah.

Speaker 114 As you walk up to Marin's, you get like the smell of fresh linens wafting out the door.

Speaker 138 And when you peek in the window, you see racks of cloaks, capes, scarves, mantles, and robes.

Speaker 130 Ooh, I don't know if we need anything in here.

Speaker 30 But, I mean, I don't know.

Speaker 68 I mean, if you want to, you know, when in Rome, I'll poke my head in and say, hey, do you guys sell belts?

Speaker 57 Specifically ones with fangs?

Speaker 62 You peek your head in.

Speaker 6 and shout that, which shocks the shopkeeper who was, you know,

Speaker 49 arranging some merchandise.

Speaker 141 Sorry, I'm a tourist from Wisconsin. First time in Vania.
I love the place.

Speaker 49 To your surprise, it's a younger male tiefling.

Speaker 92 Oh, he's got adorable dimples.

Speaker 73 He's wearing a violet cashmere shawl.

Speaker 101 Oh, hello.

Speaker 151 Marin. Didn't see you there.

Speaker 23 Your name's Marin?

Speaker 44 Of course. Why are you speaking to the third person?

Speaker 52 That's cool. Hey, I'm...

Speaker 124 Chip says hi. This is Chip.

Speaker 120 Marin is pleased to meet you.

Speaker 108 You as well.

Speaker 86 I reached out in the tiefling way of shaking hands, which is with our tails.

Speaker 112 Oh, Marin extends his tail, and they interlock and do the secret tiefling handshake.

Speaker 5 Yes.

Speaker 33 How old would you say he is, Marin?

Speaker 83 Very young, like pre-pubescent. Oh, okay.

Speaker 29 Wow, you run your own shop? That's impressive, Marin.

Speaker 151 Marin has only the finest quality of goods here.

Speaker 80 Like I said, though, do you got any like belts like this?

Speaker 29 Does this craftsmanship look familiar to you?

Speaker 59 Or perhaps know another shop that which sells something like this?

Speaker 90 Yeah.

Speaker 80 This is Mateet, by the way.

Speaker 117 They don't have a cool tail like us, but they're cool.

Speaker 99 I have a tail.

Speaker 80 You can't do the tiefling handshake.

Speaker 29 I dare you.

Speaker 27 Matit starts hovering and floating off the ground.

Speaker 11 Can you use this?

Speaker 115 Can you do this?

Speaker 12 I start jumping.

Speaker 38 Yeah, yeah.

Speaker 20 So what?

Speaker 151 Marin takes a look at it and says, No, Marin doesn't carry any merchandise like this. Marin typically sells cloth goods.

Speaker 17 Anything of

Speaker 129 magical ability?

Speaker 123 Oh, yes.

Speaker 51 Of course.

Speaker 151 Marin has many fine goods here. Could Marin interest you in a neckerchief or a shadow sash?

Speaker 29 Chip is interested in the shadow sash sash. What is that?

Speaker 46 Shadow sash.

Speaker 151 Allow Marin to show you.

Speaker 6 And Marin picks up a charcoal gray sash that softly emanates smoke.

Speaker 34 Ooh.

Speaker 16 What is that?

Speaker 151 The necker chief and shadow sash are on sale currently. And Marin has some full-price merchandise as well.
Marin has the Cape of Mount Bonk, Mantle of Spell Resistance, and Rogues Mantle.

Speaker 11 What's Rogue's Mantle?

Speaker 151 Oh, you have fine taste. Would you rather Marin talk about the Shadow Sash first or the Rogue's Mantle?

Speaker 117 I hate to be a pain in the butt.

Speaker 77 I kind of want to know what they're all are because I feel like there's some pretty cool stuff here.

Speaker 46 At least those two I think sound good for you.

Speaker 115 Yeah, Rogues Mantle and Shadow Sash.

Speaker 151 Marin already has the Shadow Sash in hand, so allow Marin to explain this one.

Speaker 33 I keep forgetting he's talking in third person.

Speaker 151 The Shadow Sash allows for abilities such as accurate assassination and veiled and vapors.

Speaker 3 Tell me more, what is accurate assassination?

Speaker 72 Metagame-wise, if you roll a one on a damage die for your sneak attack ability, you can roll the die again, but you must use a new roll.

Speaker 115 Okay.

Speaker 72 And then the vapor thing is probably some sort of like whenever you kill a creature on your turn, you can take a free action to become invisible via a waft of smoke at the end of that turn.

Speaker 34 Oh, that's pretty good.

Speaker 111 And that lasts until the end of your next turn or until you attack or cast a spell.

Speaker 101 Okay.

Speaker 48 And then what does the rogue thing do?

Speaker 115 Mantle.

Speaker 5 Rogue mantle.

Speaker 23 Oh, yes.

Speaker 151 This is quite an in-demand item. This dark, hooded mantle of thick cloth is infused with secretive, deceptive magic.

Speaker 151 While wearing it, you gain the following benefits: dark vision, moving shadows, and willful enmity.

Speaker 8 I don't need any of that stuff.

Speaker 82 Uh, well, okay, how much is the uh the the the shadow sash?

Speaker 151 You're in luck. Marin's having a sale on the shadow sash currently.
It could be yours for the low price of 50 HP.

Speaker 48 Oh, that's a unique hit point.

Speaker 1 Hey, Marin, the currency is blood.

Speaker 62 What if I had gold or platinum instead?

Speaker 99 Oh, that's worthless. Oh, Marin doesn't want that.

Speaker 39 I love it.

Speaker 57 It's not like off your like total age, like permanently, right?

Speaker 46 It's just like taking a hit kind of thing.

Speaker 151 Hemo pieces are units of currency here in Vania. Have you not been here before?

Speaker 80 This is my first time.

Speaker 151 Oh, well, you must first go to the Vlad Bank and make an exchange to get some Hemo pieces, if you wish to purchase anything here.

Speaker 68 Oh, totally knew that.

Speaker 120 Yeah.

Speaker 101 Okay.

Speaker 29 I'm going to go to the Vlad bank real quick.

Speaker 80 When you two, Marin, do you make Marinera?

Speaker 68 I'm so sorry for my friend, Marin.

Speaker 4 We'll be back.

Speaker 35 See you later, Marin.

Speaker 46 He loses an inspiration back.

Speaker 73 Oh, it says on Chip's character sheet he's level six now.

Speaker 22 He's gone down.

Speaker 46 Should we

Speaker 61 go to the Vladbank?

Speaker 111 You walk over to the Vlad Bank and walk inside, and inside is a blood-stained wooden counter lit by a single candle illuminating a single teller wearing a name tag that says Ravenverth.

Speaker 111 It's a middle-aged human woman.

Speaker 78 She's fiddling with a small knife.

Speaker 71 She got patchy dark blue hair.

Speaker 6 She's covered in scars and wearing a black vest.

Speaker 1 Bonjour, we are here to get some currency from you. Ooh, my uh uh customers, okay.
Can't handle this. Wait, Elga, would you have any in savings?

Speaker 68 Hello, my name is Elga von Brath.

Speaker 68 Can you look up my account, please? And not count, but account.

Speaker 12 This is good.

Speaker 3 This is good.

Speaker 75 Oh, yes, of course, the von Brath. Your father's account is plentiful.

Speaker 68 Okay, excellent. I would like to make a withdrawal.

Speaker 72 Hmm, I don't see your name as a signatory here.

Speaker 68 That's odd.

Speaker 59 You know how you let your children have access to your bank account.

Speaker 111 Perhaps if you bring

Speaker 111 Count von Broth here,

Speaker 112 he can make a withdrawal on your behalf.

Speaker 68 Yes, I see why you would need that. But did he not call you earlier and say that I'd be coming to do this?

Speaker 59 Is Elga a trust fund, baby?

Speaker 12 Does Elga maybe have something to

Speaker 33 no, no, uh, no no count von broth here recently so strange you might be forgetting when he called you and said that his daughter would be coming to make a hefty withdrawal definitely remember that what no no definitely would remember that yeah what kind of creature is he uh middle-aged human woman that help would that help you i mean i could cast a spell try and uh try

Speaker 95 i feel like very ruffled enough feathers in this town i don't want to like get booted or attacked.

Speaker 59 How might we exchange for some emo uh coins?

Speaker 8 Oh hemo pieces.

Speaker 2 Yes, yes, yes.

Speaker 72 For every drop of blood you exchange, you receive one hemo piece.

Speaker 5 And then

Speaker 71 what is a drop of blood to our character?

Speaker 112 Medigame-wise, it's a one-hit point.

Speaker 5 Like damage or permanent?

Speaker 89 Damage.

Speaker 95 Just damage.

Speaker 75 You provide the blood, and it must be fresh, and you can extract it however you wish, as long as it is red and wet.

Speaker 46 Does a metagame perspective as well question the blood that Elga has in her sippy cup, does that count for anything?

Speaker 65 It has to be fresh. Fresh.
Fresh.

Speaker 18 Okie dokie.

Speaker 81 I'm so on my guard.

Speaker 48 I honestly don't think that I would do the transfer because

Speaker 90 I feel like we've been attacked and so many things have happened that I don't know that I'd want to make myself that vulnerable.

Speaker 59 I take my spear out, I cut my hand, and give them 55.

Speaker 73 Well, it's not an exact science, unfortunately.

Speaker 72 You have to roll damage from your spear and see how much damage it takes.

Speaker 94 I don't have to keep hitting myself with spear.

Speaker 12 That's brutal.

Speaker 5 All right, let's do this.

Speaker 68 Stop hitting ourselves. Stop hitting ourselves.
Stop hitting yourself.

Speaker 53 This is a little bit of a gamble.

Speaker 31 You don't know when it's going to stop.

Speaker 5 Let's do this.

Speaker 65 Rolling for damage.

Speaker 3 11.

Speaker 78 You see Raven Virth start pulling out some tokens.

Speaker 5 So she starts pulling out crimson tokens with the Vanian sigil branded on it.

Speaker 6 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11.

Speaker 46 The Vanian symbol, I'm guessing, is the blood drop with the white.

Speaker 120 Correct. Okay.

Speaker 65 Let's let it ride.

Speaker 59 That's another 10 for a total of 21.

Speaker 111 She pulls out 10 more.

Speaker 112 She's like, it's like at a casino.

Speaker 73 She's got like, it's like chips, a little pile of them.

Speaker 46 It's kind of dark when you think about it, how people come in here to get these pieces. I'm just like, yeah, I just slaughtered someone.

Speaker 46 I guess some money in return.

Speaker 53 That was 12 for a total of 33.

Speaker 71 33.

Speaker 59 Let's keep going.

Speaker 61 That's another 8.

Speaker 111 41.

Speaker 59 Let's keep going.

Speaker 68 It don't look so good.

Speaker 34 What was I? 33.

Speaker 85 You're at 41, so that's now 53.

Speaker 59 12. I'm at 3 HP.

Speaker 93 Oh, my God.

Speaker 59 I literally can't roll anything else that wouldn't hit me.

Speaker 11 Here you go.

Speaker 78 Raven Birth hands over.

Speaker 5 What did I say? 53?

Speaker 15 Hemo.

Speaker 59 i have three hp yeah what happens if jac scratches me

Speaker 5 or gigi do we have we established gigi no i i would say you know it wouldn't be much damage i would say gigi would probably do like a d2's worth of damage okay so roll a d4 one and two is one three and four is two one

Speaker 77 54 go for the gold so i'm at two hp yeah so now you have what did we say 52 yeah 52 uh hemo pieces oh the 94.

Speaker 109 54.

Speaker 66 54, sorry.

Speaker 63 54 hemo pieces.

Speaker 45 We have two HP left. Yeah.
I kind of want to do it again.

Speaker 142 No, no.

Speaker 92 Don't.

Speaker 46 What if Mati dies here?

Speaker 61 Oh, he did it. Roll the one.

Speaker 51 55.

Speaker 96 I'm a monk. I'm made of precision.

Speaker 44 You did it.

Speaker 62 And I give him a big slap.

Speaker 23 Dead.

Speaker 73 Mati's got 55 hemo pieces.

Speaker 142 Yeah.

Speaker 31 I'm dripping with money.

Speaker 108 That was fun, guys.

Speaker 8 We should do this more often.

Speaker 12 What do you guys think about it?

Speaker 108 Mated just faints.

Speaker 5 Do you have a glass of orange juice I can have?

Speaker 129 Can Barney do, I guess, a peel of alleviation on Matid?

Speaker 124 What does that do?

Speaker 129 It heals you.

Speaker 35 1d6 plus 5 hit points.

Speaker 8 Yeah.

Speaker 52 More money!

Speaker 65 Do I roll or you roll it? I roll it. Oh, you roll it.

Speaker 115 That's, yeah, six plus five, so that's 11.

Speaker 130 And then I'm also going to give you a...

Speaker 35 I think I have a healing potion.

Speaker 144 And I can't. I.

Speaker 115 What? I would, I would probably hold on to it.

Speaker 22 I feel like. Yeah, but would we, like, I don't know.

Speaker 52 We're in a safish place, right?

Speaker 130 I don't know. What'd you give? So what are you giving me?

Speaker 5 11 hit points.

Speaker 25 Total?

Speaker 35 You have healing. And then I'm also going to do.
I'll cast healing word at the second level.

Speaker 10 So that's 2d4 plus 5.

Speaker 23 All right. Go ahead and roll that.

Speaker 99 That's eight.

Speaker 59 So a total of 19. Yeah.

Speaker 14 Mateet cuts themselves again.

Speaker 8 No!

Speaker 25 I was waiting for this.

Speaker 113 I don't know why Barney's doing this.

Speaker 25 Mateet's just going to immediately convert it.

Speaker 20 I was like, he didn't even ask.

Speaker 54 She just started healing.

Speaker 44 I was like, I know what the next step here is.

Speaker 45 Jean was very quiet.

Speaker 24 Something had to be going on.

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Speaker 28 No, no, Barney grabs you.

Speaker 141 Barney, Barney, Barney.

Speaker 106 Apes. Barney grabs.

Speaker 77 Too late.

Speaker 110 I think a monk would be able to evade you.

Speaker 45 Yeah, yeah.

Speaker 12 Can we roll for it?

Speaker 68 You can stop them, Barney.

Speaker 61 I turn incorporeal while you tried to grab.

Speaker 25 Then you can't hurt yourself.

Speaker 77 I can turn back whenever I want.

Speaker 85 So another eight. Yeah,

Speaker 27 Raven Verth

Speaker 70 pulls out eight more

Speaker 11 cases.

Speaker 108 That's 14.

Speaker 5 Another six?

Speaker 54 That's 14.

Speaker 28 This is not my intent.

Speaker 54 What are you doing?

Speaker 51 You didn't clarify.

Speaker 54 You just started healing without asking.

Speaker 46 This is why we have to bet Ben Jones.

Speaker 36 I was paying attention.

Speaker 88 I forgot that Jones' insane.

Speaker 62 You can say that, but Matit's rich now.

Speaker 23 I had 20.

Speaker 59 I'm now down to six again.

Speaker 135 Correct.

Speaker 59 I have a total of 69 coins right now.

Speaker 93 Nice.

Speaker 59 I don't have anything that could do that little damage, so I'm going to do a couple of Gigi scratches.

Speaker 119 I'm going to do two Gigi scratches. Okay.

Speaker 1 That's a two and a four, so that's one in two.

Speaker 59 So I'm down to three HP.

Speaker 119 That's an easy GG scratch right there.

Speaker 33 That's a ZG scratch.

Speaker 34 That's a four. I'm back down to three, Kenny.

Speaker 55 I'm back down to one.

Speaker 25 So what do you have?

Speaker 1 Well, I have so 55 plus 19.

Speaker 83 So 74.

Speaker 49 74. Evil pieces.

Speaker 107 Barney, that was so kind of you to do that.

Speaker 59 Now I have so much more money to go spend and do some shopping.

Speaker 16 You really exist.

Speaker 67 Do you want to, do you have any more?

Speaker 59 Do you want to do some more? I, you know.

Speaker 8 This place is evil.

Speaker 79 This would be an abomination of a place to Barney.

Speaker 62 It's just like a place that's like uses life as currency.

Speaker 115 This is great.

Speaker 13 It's like that's an allegory for capitalism.

Speaker 34 Yeah.

Speaker 91 Bleed and spin. I kind of want to.
Now I kind of want it.

Speaker 141 I won over Chip.

Speaker 45 I won over Chip.

Speaker 141 I'm just going to do it in rapid succession.

Speaker 2 I'm going to pull out my crossbow and just shoot myself a couple of times.

Speaker 8 His crossbow.

Speaker 68 Chip, if you want, I could help you and make this go faster.

Speaker 6 Six. Yeah, go ahead.
Six.

Speaker 1 410.

Speaker 130 Hey, does bonus HP count?

Speaker 4 13.

Speaker 14 What do you mean bonus HP?

Speaker 130 Does bonus HP count towards the 21?

Speaker 62 Like champ HP?

Speaker 23 Yeah, yeah.

Speaker 39 You were saying bonus HP.

Speaker 87 That's what I was like.

Speaker 4 29.

Speaker 142 No, he can do what he wants.

Speaker 4 33.

Speaker 21 I

Speaker 59 chip's max is 53.

Speaker 45 38.

Speaker 6 Chip's just shooting a crossbow into his legs.

Speaker 12 46.

Speaker 69 I think his head.

Speaker 21 He's just shooting into his head.

Speaker 63 51.

Speaker 29 Got two HP.

Speaker 46 Man, best up. Gigi?

Speaker 33 I have a 50-50 chances surviving.

Speaker 5 Do it. Do it.
Ah, Carol's dead.

Speaker 141 What do I got to live for?

Speaker 12 What a rip, GG.

Speaker 59 Okay, it's a roll of D4. A one and two is a success.
A three and four is you're down to zero.

Speaker 25 That's a one.

Speaker 20 Look at that.

Speaker 49 Make sure you all write down how many humo pieces you all have because I'm not keeping track of that.

Speaker 62 Well, I just got to damage myself and I'll just make the math.

Speaker 31 Damage.

Speaker 117 You have, I think, 52.

Speaker 5 52.

Speaker 14 I've done it. What HP?

Speaker 8 Let's go, Miss Dan.

Speaker 14 We're going to

Speaker 21 put money.

Speaker 59 We're going to Vegas next.

Speaker 24 Shopping spree.

Speaker 46 Vaniagus.

Speaker 18 Yeah, Vaniagus.

Speaker 59 Let's go to the slots. Okay.

Speaker 68 Anyway, so following up, if I could take something from my dad's account.

Speaker 28 Of course.

Speaker 2 Once you bring Count Van Brath here, we'll happily do that.

Speaker 68 You know,

Speaker 120 I'll follow up.

Speaker 10 We'll be here. Okay.

Speaker 4 All right. So,

Speaker 49 Ravenverse looks at Barney. What about you, sir?

Speaker 91 Money, Barney.

Speaker 35 I believe you've taken enough from us.

Speaker 75 We don't take, we exchange. We have a very fair exchange rate here at the Vlad Bank.

Speaker 31 Matit's just in the corner, like, flipping one of the hemo pieces.

Speaker 68 What happens if you give the hemo piece back?

Speaker 5 Then we'll consider it a deposit.

Speaker 62 Yeah.

Speaker 68 You don't get that to your health?

Speaker 28 No, there's no.

Speaker 73 Unfortunately, there's no way to do that.

Speaker 80 You know, Barney, you know, if we get attacked in this town, it could be bad for me and Matit.

Speaker 24 Give me like healing things, like group heals.

Speaker 33 I really just, I'm feeling really vulnerable.

Speaker 23 Barney's about to like clunk both of y'all

Speaker 133 and drag you out.

Speaker 11 Okay.

Speaker 1 No hemo pieces for Elga.

Speaker 49 Not right now.

Speaker 3 No hemo pieces for Barney.

Speaker 59 Let's go shop.

Speaker 88 Take your blood, bunny.

Speaker 59 I will take it to the bank. Ah, too late.
I'm already there.

Speaker 136 Barney, go ahead and give yourself an inspiration. I like that one.

Speaker 85 Yeah, where do y'all want to go? Do you want to go back to Marin's Mantlery or do you want to go?

Speaker 25 What else was there?

Speaker 60 Do you want your sash?

Speaker 89 I could probably hold off if I find something better.

Speaker 99 I'm in need of a weapon.

Speaker 6 The Bladbonk, of course, Lowe's Hanging Fruit, Olden Wares, Marin's Mantlery, and Vaneyard Valhera.

Speaker 91 Let's go to Vineyard Valhera.

Speaker 39 Let's go. Yeah.

Speaker 25 Yep.

Speaker 72 Y'all walk over in that direction, and it's an outdoor wine bar. They have a bunch of patrons sitting under shade trellises, sipping from goblets and flutes.

Speaker 42 There's a bartender there who appears to be a female goblin.

Speaker 146 She's currently holding a corkscrew wearing a blood-stained apron.

Speaker 8 Bonjour,

Speaker 59 we are visiting your fair city for the first time. What is it that you offer at your fine establishment?

Speaker 34 Oh, welcome.

Speaker 30 I'm Valhera.

Speaker 73 Pleased to meet you.

Speaker 110 We have

Speaker 83 a fine assortment of beverages.

Speaker 42 She motions behind her, and you see that behind Valhera sits stacks and stacks of barrels with thin tubes spiraling out, funneled into wine bottles.

Speaker 73 Why don't you make me a perception check, Matid?

Speaker 137 Could we also tell if she is it like a stutter or is she nervous?

Speaker 136 You can make me an insight check, Elga.

Speaker 145 Good catch.

Speaker 38 19.

Speaker 121 Mate, you notice that the barrels shudder or moan every now and then.

Speaker 20 Oh my god.

Speaker 46 Also, I did a Nat 20 on my insight check.

Speaker 59 This place is delightful.

Speaker 121 You may think that maybe it's not necessarily fear.

Speaker 46 Okay.

Speaker 46 But it's not like her speech. It's like not like a stutter in her speech kind of thing.

Speaker 98 Yeah,

Speaker 98 it's kind of like just a general stutter of the speech.

Speaker 145 Yeah.

Speaker 40 You would assume so based on your insight check.

Speaker 89 Okay.

Speaker 59 Are all of your beverages, let's say, blood-based or do you have things that are for those of a different

Speaker 26 palate?

Speaker 26 Oh, um...

Speaker 110 This is all various vein varieties.

Speaker 82 Now, are these...

Speaker 27 Would you prefer a dark vein variety or a light v vein variety?

Speaker 106 Are these cruelty-free sourced or

Speaker 65 oh, yeah,

Speaker 12 Grass fed or

Speaker 94 farm the table.

Speaker 59 Elke, would you like to have something since this place seems to be geared towards you?

Speaker 68 Yes.

Speaker 123 Barney just leaves.

Speaker 68 I would love a glass. What would you recommend?

Speaker 110 We have a dark vein variety, Rothe Rosso,

Speaker 110 Lupe Lunan Noir, or the light vein varieties like a Gundac Seco or a Jaculi Blanc.

Speaker 68 Have the noir one, please.

Speaker 79 Maybe in a vintage, yeah.

Speaker 83 A

Speaker 121 selenogical essence fused with the delicate, malicious undertones.

Speaker 66 She pours you a glass

Speaker 92 that's one HP.

Speaker 59 I toss a coin.

Speaker 68 Ah, thank you, Madid.

Speaker 42 My pleasure.

Speaker 146 So is it like, you said the barrels were shaking and moaning?

Speaker 46 Yeah.

Speaker 130 So is it like someone, a living creature's in there?

Speaker 93 I don't know.

Speaker 59 No, it's like, you know, at Disneyland when it's like a little attraction. It's like all for show.

Speaker 38 Is there someone?

Speaker 37 Is there a creature in that barrel?

Speaker 39 Who are you asking?

Speaker 98 What's their name?

Speaker 116 Her name is Valhera.

Speaker 65 Valhera.

Speaker 114 Oh, no, that's

Speaker 89 a vein variety source. Okay.
Insight.

Speaker 123 Yeah.

Speaker 89 17.

Speaker 136 Do you think that she is being honest about it being about what she said?

Speaker 38 No, but was she...

Speaker 35 When I asked if there was something living in it...

Speaker 89 She said it's a vein variety source.

Speaker 35 Does that mean there's something living in it?

Speaker 94 Living.

Speaker 123 Um, No.

Speaker 30 Maybe.

Speaker 110 You're very inquisitive.

Speaker 135 He's new here.

Speaker 81 Don't mind him.

Speaker 40 He's...

Speaker 40 What kind do you want?

Speaker 85 She's asking you, Barney.

Speaker 37 I don't want anything.

Speaker 12 I'll take his.

Speaker 122 Your loop luna noir is a very delicious Elga.

Speaker 132 Does it do anything to you? You think it may be dire wolf blood?

Speaker 140 You've had this before.

Speaker 68 Hints of dire and hints of wolf.

Speaker 66 No notes of wolf.

Speaker 46 She's spinning the glass around in her little hand.

Speaker 27 That's exactly how a little kid would play at a minor.

Speaker 46 She drinks it and it leaves like a little milk mustache.

Speaker 21 Adorable.

Speaker 54 Got dire wolf?

Speaker 120 Yeah.

Speaker 30 No,

Speaker 89 it doesn't give you anything.

Speaker 42 It doesn't affect anything. Okay.

Speaker 30 Okay.

Speaker 82 What was that other place?

Speaker 48 It was the wares.

Speaker 63 Olden wares. Oldenwares.
Let's go there.

Speaker 130 Are you good, Edigo?

Speaker 46 I think so. So you said these were like, you said

Speaker 46 vein sources?

Speaker 61 Vain varieties. Vain varieties.

Speaker 30 Vain varieties.

Speaker 79 I'm looking for the pun or the hidden meaning.

Speaker 46 Well, they said it was like different.

Speaker 59 You know, it's like if you if you feed a cow grass or if you feed it, you know, butter.

Speaker 65 I don't know.

Speaker 120 Oh God.

Speaker 20 Okay, well, thank you, Valhara.

Speaker 68 I guess we'll go now.

Speaker 139 Walking away.

Speaker 41 I think Barney is just like, I hope you enjoy your day.

Speaker 27 Thank you.

Speaker 62 I hope you enjoy your day too, sir.

Speaker 25 I'm not talking to you.

Speaker 68 Are you talking to me?

Speaker 25 I'm talking to you.

Speaker 125 For all you know, that could be my family.

Speaker 68 Is your family your family a dire wolf?

Speaker 66 No, but they could have ended up in the same place.

Speaker 94 I don't know.

Speaker 98 So it's all fun and games.

Speaker 122 I'm glad you're having a good time.

Speaker 25 Thank you, Barney.

Speaker 38 I'm having a great time, actually.

Speaker 74 It's just all just swirling.

Speaker 133 Barney's imagining his family locked in a barrel and being bled dry.

Speaker 39 Well, not imagining that.

Speaker 59 I have not done anything bad. I have given my blood and that's all I've done.
And now I'd like to go see what they have at the Oldenwares bonnie. Is that okay with you? Yes.
Okay, thank you. We'll go.

Speaker 14 Thank you.

Speaker 111 As you all are walking over to the sign that says Oldenwares, you see a crowd forming near the middle of town in front of the vamp spire.

Speaker 72 In the center are a few people shouting at the top of their lungs.

Speaker 46 Dracula?

Speaker 38 More like Dracula.

Speaker 34 Uh-oh.

Speaker 67 Your own so-called leader has broken the Vanian vows himself.

Speaker 2 And yet he refuses to answer for himself.

Speaker 72 The crowd begins to grumble and shuffle closer.

Speaker 100 You catch a glimpse of three protesters interlocking arms blocking the entrance to the vampspire. They start shouting in unison.

Speaker 51 You can't bite!

Speaker 113 We won't budge!

Speaker 51 Till we get some oversight!

Speaker 100 People in the crowd start to shout at the protesters.

Speaker 10 Where do you come off?

Speaker 118 Yeah, Dracula would never break the vows. Who do you think you are anyway?

Speaker 100 The protester in the center steps onto a pedestal, and you finally see it's a fetching woman with green eyes, fading long auburn hair, wearing a floral-patterned blouse.

Speaker 10 She looks familiar. Our names aren't important, but our cause is.

Speaker 72 The alchemist's jaw drops.

Speaker 61 That's that's my wife.

Speaker 6 Frankeska!

Speaker 100 The crowd becomes irate and starts charging straight for the three protesters.

Speaker 23 Francesca!

Speaker 64 Find out what happens in the next episode of Tales from the Stinky Dragon.

Speaker 68 I hope they get here faster than not.

Speaker 115 I didn't think we'd be seeing Frankie.

Speaker 53 We had a bit of a detour.

Speaker 12 That's true.

Speaker 27 What were we doing?

Speaker 12 Perish!

Speaker 8 Man.

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Speaker 59 I'm sorry.

Speaker 4 I did not mean to roll an initiative.

Speaker 24 I already just rolled initiative.

Speaker 25 I guess Elga, you better make a reflex save or something.

Speaker 96 No, no, that was an accident.

Speaker 49 I fidget when I'm uncomfortably fidget, and I clicked initiative.

Speaker 46 Well, in that case, Elga rolls initiative.