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we are castaways and is terrible bad

1:02

dream somebody decided to improve you switch

1:04

of the metaphor we are imprisoned in

1:06

the fog is the bars of our

1:09

sale and our jailer is Baron Von

1:11

Strong. As hard as I can tell

1:13

there's no way to escape of of

1:16

in possibly by die be by being

1:18

eaten by war. Flint said. He

1:22

looks you up and down like he can see

1:24

what's happened to you. The mistake has already been

1:26

made. I'm. Sorry stake

1:28

all deals made within

1:31

these walls. Carrier catch.

1:33

You. Cannot wiggle out of this. but

1:35

if you try everything you have gained

1:37

will be taken from you. Whatever.

1:39

You want? You. Will lose if

1:42

you break your deal. Heap.

1:44

Bottles out some tea and biscuits

1:46

for you to years ago perhaps

1:49

three I am was was was

1:51

torture her to attack religion site

1:53

right them and just just do

1:56

what they take up chin chin

1:58

chin chin. so we. have a

2:00

choice or you have a choice? Maybe.

2:02

I think so. I

2:04

don't know if it's even any choice to really make.

2:06

I think it's already been made. Okay.

2:09

I'm sorry but yes. The choice has

2:11

been made for you. I

2:14

struck him here in a deal with an entity

2:17

called Vampyr. Right. In

2:19

exchange for power, the power to get... I

2:23

was going to say what but perhaps I meant who.

2:26

He'd gotten what he wanted. What did he want? That he

2:28

had not gotten who. There

2:30

was a war, a terrible battle. I

2:34

was his court mage. We

2:37

won the battle but barely. It was a

2:39

close thing. It was very close. Who are

2:42

you fighting? I do not remember.

2:44

Their names have perhaps been stricken from

2:47

time itself. Strahd has

2:49

that power here. So you're fighting.

2:52

You won barely and then...

2:54

Strahd was forced to hide for

2:56

a time. In

2:59

that time, the Vistani took him

3:01

in. And ever since he has

3:03

let them come and go from this realm. But

3:07

after the campaign, the battle

3:09

was won barely. The

3:11

war took a little longer. Strahd

3:14

returned and then made

3:16

a home here. But the home was

3:18

not enough. He

3:21

wanted something, someone. But

3:23

he could not have them. He said the brothers...

3:25

Petrovna. Who?

3:28

He says he met their brother

3:30

before. Hey, Strahd's brother.

3:32

He's Strahd's brother, Sergi. Sergi?

3:35

Yes, something like that. Something

3:37

like that. You said... Did

3:40

you say something of the stars, the

3:43

sky? I miss the sky. Not

3:45

much to see in Barovia these days.

3:47

He took it from me. Often very

3:49

overcast. You said that we had a

3:51

choice. Hector? Sorry. Yes,

3:53

so when Strahd

3:56

came, he met with the

3:58

NC known as Vampyr. Free Vampyr. get the

4:00

power and then... Well

4:03

I guess it is a Barofia. What if

4:05

this happened? Yeah. Um... So

4:08

once every 10,000 years we

4:11

can seal things

4:13

back up. The upstairs? The

4:16

dial. Right, yes. What it was counting

4:18

down. The sundial thing. What it was

4:20

counting down to, I believe, is it

4:22

was counting down to when we could

4:24

seal something up. OK. So we... Seal

4:27

up the impure. Strad's

4:29

power, gone. Gone. Correct. Barofia free.

4:31

Back to the square one. Yes,

4:34

Ravus. Only here gets his skin

4:36

back. Perhaps. No, no. I

4:39

am a lick now and for all time.

4:42

OK. No, my deal was not

4:44

with Vampyr. I see.

4:46

Was your knowledge deal? No,

4:49

no, no. Perhaps. Yes,

4:51

it was knowledge of a sort. But

4:53

there are many knowledges that can be

4:55

found here. Many powers that can be

4:58

found here. I forget what

5:00

deal I made, though. But you said

5:02

a choice. That's one option.

5:04

So there was two Sogoffigers. Right.

5:08

So we could seal

5:10

the other thing back up. And

5:13

what becomes of us? Well,

5:15

Eileen phrased it

5:17

as in, well, I would then become its

5:20

jailer. But then when

5:22

I die, it will be free. So

5:26

it's really not really a choice at all, is it? No,

5:28

it was a terrible deal. How

5:31

long you got left? You know? Yeah.

5:34

Seal Stroud. You knew

5:37

where Van Richten's camp was?

5:40

Van Richten? Oh, there

5:42

was an elf here not long ago. There

5:44

is his camp. Right.

5:48

I'll take you there. Thank you. No,

5:51

no, not at all. It's nice to have

5:53

company from time to time. You

5:56

lasted longer than many others. At

5:58

last, it put the heat. Yeah. Adventurers

6:01

come here to die. No, I mean, do

6:03

we not continue to last? The

6:06

stranger, ex-offender, whatever you wish to call

6:08

him, looks at you, Pip, and there's

6:10

a brief moment of, like,

6:12

the fog clears. Yeah. And

6:15

he talks directly to you, Pip, and only to you.

6:17

Oh, fuck. If you died, no

6:19

one would know where to look for

6:21

the fucking stain. And

6:23

then the fog comes back. Pip

6:28

does exactly the same face I do where

6:30

you just, like, fully recoil, like, in kind

6:33

of a horror, and then get a real

6:35

faraway look at his face. Yes.

6:39

The owls. The owls. I'll

6:41

take you. Thank you. What the hell? He's

6:44

a lich. What do you expect? So,

6:48

um, so, so, Eselin gave me, taught

6:50

me the ritual that we need to do, and I know

6:52

exactly what we need to do. In doing

6:54

so, I need to

6:56

take her back into the material

6:58

plane. Okay. That's

7:01

not so awesome. She

7:04

is already, in the sense, in the

7:06

material plane. She

7:09

says she has plans within plans

7:11

within plans that will stretch out to

7:13

millennia. Right. But, uh,

7:15

I, when I die, I will

7:17

hold up the now very

7:19

mundane looking amaze. I

7:22

will possess his weapon,

7:24

and I will teach the

7:27

people who will this, my descendants,

7:29

and their descendants, and their descendants,

7:32

of what to do and the knowledge that we

7:34

have. And then one

7:36

day, her avatar will pick me up,

7:38

and I will be gone. Okay.

7:40

My soul is already hers, she says.

7:43

A deal I never really thought

7:46

I'd made. Well, I mean. I

7:48

would make the best of it that you can.

7:50

There will be no afterlife for you, but you

7:52

will live many lives. I don't know,

7:55

man. I mean, it wasn't really yours

7:57

to give away, was it? Your

7:59

soul? You'd already promised it to

8:01

somebody else. Promised it to Penny. Right.

8:05

If you ask me, that's who Aline

8:07

should take it up with. That is

8:09

a very good point. I

8:11

would caution not to mess with the dealings

8:14

of gods. If you

8:16

break this pact, will you lose the knowledge? Verse,

8:22

will Vampyr or he

8:25

become free if we have sealed them? Yeah.

8:28

I think that you have been given a

8:31

curse that you do not want, but

8:34

in exchange you have been given a

8:36

power that you need. I think

8:38

you are right, Sesme. It is a

8:40

terrible burden to know that there will

8:42

not be eternity awaiting you, but there

8:44

is a comfort knowing that in exchange

8:48

you have saved many lives or

8:51

given many lives more time.

8:53

Aline did say it was a millennia. It

8:56

is a long, long time. If

8:59

I can be

9:01

free of this place, we can go, we can get

9:04

rid of Sir Grace. I

9:06

can help Tiefany. As Marilda

9:08

looks forward and nodding, she sounds dismissive,

9:10

but it is not like she is

9:12

trying to be mean. She has just

9:14

got other thoughts. Save Tiefany.

9:17

She is just kind of a bit dismissive of

9:19

it, but it is more like she is returning

9:21

to whatever train of thought she had before. I

9:24

could avenge something. I could do it over

9:26

that pinky black. You are

9:28

led back the way you came, and then

9:30

back onto the original balcony that you started on.

9:34

You go through the other, the opposite set

9:36

of double doors, which you had not checked,

9:38

but are unlocked. And then you

9:40

go through corridors, like

9:43

a little twisting little path. You

9:45

pass a hole that has been, like there is just a

9:47

hole in the ground. That is no good. You do not

9:49

want to move towards it. No, no, I am not thinking

9:52

about it. But

9:54

then Exifander brings you to a door, pushes

9:56

it a little bit, just to show you

9:59

it is unlocked. and gestures towards it

10:01

saying, beyond is an

10:03

amphitheater, a lecture hall. His

10:06

camp is in here, was in here.

10:08

Thank you. Thanks, stranger. If

10:11

we get the time, you know, we've got a

10:13

lot going on, we'll

10:15

try to bring you your equipment. My

10:18

equipment? You're foreseeing the stars and

10:20

the sky. I remember, the stars.

10:22

Yes. He took them from me.

10:25

Stranger wanders away, muttering to himself.

10:28

I didn't mean that. I don't think we're really bringing

10:30

him his equipment. As for all the frogs,

10:33

if he knew Strahd, a lich

10:35

is a powerful entity, but if

10:38

we, he does big

10:41

words, if we jump him with

10:44

his equipment, it might jog his memory,

10:46

we can get some information out of

10:49

him and then fucking destroy him. At

10:52

the very least, we should destroy him.

10:54

Yeah. Any

10:57

information we can pry from that

10:59

dead skull is good. Who's

11:01

first in? Probably Esme, I would

11:04

imagine. Esme. Yeah. Esme steps

11:06

in first. She does a

11:08

bit of a gasp, puts her hand over her

11:10

chest, and then fuck this

11:12

place. She spits on the ground and keeps

11:14

walking. Okay. I'll go

11:16

in next. Okay. This

11:19

chamber is brightly lit by red copper land thorns,

11:21

I don't know what that is, so I'm going

11:23

to ask, that hangs from the ceiling, and I

11:25

won't Google it. There's

11:28

a red light. It's good to take a stand, dude.

11:30

I refuse land thorns. Call them

11:32

fucking lanterns. I'll say something better. D&D, shut

11:34

up. The walls are

11:36

sheathed in amber that has been

11:39

shaped into bas-reliefs of wizards with

11:41

spellbooks. Stairs to the north

11:43

and south descend 20 feet to an

11:45

obsidian lectern, behind which is

11:48

a slab of black slate

11:50

hanging from chains. Down

11:52

the stairs are descending rows of

11:54

marble red benches. It looks, yeah,

11:56

like some sort of lecture room or something like that. Around

11:59

the podium You can see the same

12:02

camp that you saw outside of the

12:04

amber temple the same camp that you

12:06

saw in the wizard's tower Fenric

12:09

and really does the same

12:11

thing every fucking Esmeralda

12:15

as always there are some fucking

12:17

crates here with equipment in them

12:20

as Marauder cracks them open and

12:22

starts refilling her her supplies. No

12:24

worries aside from that you do

12:27

find tucked underneath the

12:29

lectern there is a journal which Esmeralda

12:31

picks up as she's picking it up

12:33

a A

12:36

metal amulet falls out of it and

12:38

into her hand which she catches basically.

12:40

Oh I

12:42

do not know what this is clearly he thought

12:44

it was important. She throws it to

12:47

She keeps it You

12:53

are you stopped her from killing

12:58

And then we kind of stopped her from going to the

13:00

resurrection She

13:03

can still go back I really

13:05

don't think we sure If

13:08

she went back now, would you let

13:10

her yeah, okay let her know Communications

13:14

key, baby If

13:19

we still think bringing him back using whatever it is that's

13:21

like is here then we can go back those

13:24

were my exact words As

13:27

Marauder flipping through the book she she

13:29

keeps the amulet. Yeah, she maybe shows

13:31

it to you It's um

13:33

it's got a it's an amber

13:35

amulet. Yeah, so presumably something to

13:37

do with this place. It's got

13:39

a The what do you call

13:41

it? Hang on? I gotta look it up. It's an animal.

13:43

It's got an animal head on it um Dog

13:47

no, it's like a bird Yeah

13:52

Evil see You

13:55

know how there's been a seagull theme yeah, it

13:57

is fucking weird the I don't know why Jackal

13:59

also It's not an animal. It's a it is an animal.

14:01

Sorry for the bird You

14:03

know It's

14:06

got a jackal head on it. Okay,

14:08

okay jackal Anything to

14:11

me at all jackal. No, they're the

14:14

the god of the werewolves

14:16

right like Like a hyena in a

14:18

way suppose. Yeah, it could be could be no, it

14:20

doesn't look like that. No The

14:23

desert creature which is weird. Mmm, but

14:26

not that weird and

14:29

if anything So

14:31

I guess as more elders just flipping through

14:33

the book right now not much that we

14:35

do not know already Oh, I

14:37

found out where the name Rahadin comes

14:39

from. Oh, yeah, there's a dusk elf

14:42

who comes here Sometimes van Richten spoke

14:44

with him. His name is Rahadin. He

14:46

is Oh

14:48

as Barrelda, it almost looks like she's

14:50

looking at a porter for a second. She unfolds the

14:52

thing. We see A

14:55

tusker you are in in in

14:57

old the x is his tower.

15:00

There was a there was a there was oh Like

15:04

a butler of sorts. Yeah. Yes

15:06

as morale that turns the Thing

15:08

for that thing is a sketch that Rick didn't

15:11

had done They do bear

15:13

a striking resemblance van Richten sketch makes

15:15

the elf look a little bit older

15:17

but with elves It's always fucking hard

15:19

to tell anyway It's a certainly a

15:21

dusk elf the same kind of stone

15:23

expression Rahadin

15:26

I believe perhaps from

15:29

van Richten's study he is a

15:33

Strads butler Okay,

15:36

and he would come here he

15:38

comes here sometimes he prays to

15:40

the statue in the center Okay,

15:43

who is she keeps flipping through

15:45

God of Secrets, right? Oh

15:49

Interesting he's praying for Strads

15:53

release right well

15:55

that's that's and let's not forget this the

15:58

nature of deals Any

16:00

good deal. There's something as

16:02

a free lunch, even for Strahd. Let's

16:06

keep that in the forefront of our minds. What

16:09

we need to do is we

16:11

need the ashes of the vampir's avatar.

16:14

And we should bring those ashes here.

16:19

As Maratha lets out a

16:21

snort of a laugh, and in

16:23

doing that, it'll shield

16:25

him in the amber. It

16:28

takes five minutes. Ideally, you want to do

16:30

this with two people. When

16:34

we start doing that, well, not

16:36

the avatar, but the actual entity

16:39

will try to fight back. So

16:44

all we need to do is kill

16:46

Strahd. Step one. Kill

16:49

Strahd, who is not just a

16:52

vampire, a intimidating foe, but kind

16:54

of the vampire in

16:56

his realm. We

16:58

kill Strahd. That's step one.

17:01

With Strahd's allies and army

17:03

on our heels, rush

17:05

for the amber temple. A

17:07

full barovia away from Castle

17:10

Ravenloft. Basically literally as far

17:12

from one another as you can

17:14

be. Now with vampires, when

17:17

you kill them, they stay

17:19

dead. Famously,

17:21

you would be crazy to hear

17:23

this. No. Because

17:25

when we killed Eshur in

17:29

Velika, that's the end of him, right?

17:31

Absolutely not. Yes. So when we do

17:34

that, then we have to scoop up

17:36

the ashes. And as the

17:38

ashes I assume are reforming, take

17:41

them more than a day's travel. How long does

17:43

it take for a vampire to... As

17:45

Maratha, who knows? Well, a

17:48

vampire killed in its crypt turns

17:50

to ash. Naturally, this just happens.

17:53

But that is dead, dead for

17:55

a normal vampire. I'm guessing for

17:57

Strahd, dead, dead is not a...

18:00

enough and we must make him dead dead dead.

18:04

We kill Strad, he goes to his

18:06

crypt, we stake him in his crypt, he

18:08

turns to Ash, we take the Ash,

18:10

bring it here, then we can kill Strad.

18:14

Correct. So yes,

18:16

because whenever the

18:19

entity is here, the avatars are not truly

18:21

dead. There's been many uprisings

18:23

against Strad, correct? That's what

18:25

we've heard before. Someone

18:29

mentioned, who was it? They

18:32

took him out once before, he returns.

18:35

They took him

18:37

out, they took him out, was that in

18:39

Markovia's books? It might have been. I believe

18:41

so, yes. That sounds like where it might

18:43

have come from. So

18:46

they're taking him out, they're taking him out

18:48

and then I think it's all done, but I

18:50

guess there's dead and there's dead. So

18:53

it can be done, is what I'm saying. It's

18:56

not about killing Strad, it's about trapping

18:58

Vampyr. But Strad

19:00

has been killed before. Not

19:03

dead, but dead. I

19:06

know I understand you're saying step one is

19:09

to kill Strad and it seems impossible, but

19:11

it has been done. Plus, if anybody can

19:13

do it, it'll be

19:15

the man awash with destiny,

19:18

who's had something

19:20

like seven or eight Taraka cards come

19:23

through in the last month. As

19:25

Beralda keeps flipping through, this entire time

19:27

she's been reading through, there is perhaps

19:29

a complication. Step

19:32

one is not killing Strad. Go

19:34

on, Step one. Vampyr,

19:36

he is tainted or he is this land.

19:39

What Strad is this land? They are the

19:41

one and the same, perhaps, who knows? It

19:43

is messy. Strad

19:45

gains power from this place. She

19:49

keeps flipping through, she shows you a

19:51

big map of Barovia. Not

19:54

the town, all of Barovia, surrounding countryside and

19:56

everything. Oh, I think I know where this

19:58

is going. maps of

20:00

Barovia laid so that someone could

20:03

read connections between places. Like someone's

20:05

trying to decipher cuneiform, but using

20:08

trees and mountains and even

20:10

settlements as the cuneiform. What's

20:12

cuneiform? It's like pictograms. Yeah,

20:15

okay. Like pictures. Like an old language.

20:17

Yeah. It's like

20:19

pictures meant to represent ideas

20:22

and words and stuff. Okay, so it's like, say you're

20:24

getting a bunch of different, like, A4 pictures of paper,

20:26

and then layering it over the top and all in

20:28

different ways so it makes a big map? Yeah,

20:31

it's like, you know people who,

20:33

in our real life, who seem

20:35

a little, maybe, crazy,

20:39

when they're like, oh, if you connect

20:41

these dots in New York City, it

20:43

makes a pentagram. So

20:46

it's Charlie Day, doing it. Yeah, yeah,

20:48

yeah, yeah. It's got big,

20:50

I mean, for you lot here right

20:52

now, it doesn't seem so crazy, but

20:54

for us- In another context, it would

20:57

seem. Yeah, pretty much. Yeah, pretty much.

20:59

Anyway, yeah, so all of these notes have

21:01

been arranged in such a way, and Esmeralda

21:03

is piecing them together in this way. You

21:06

can see that there are texts, scratches

21:08

from wall art, and a dozen other different

21:10

writings with attempts at translations next to them.

21:13

So you see, it'll be written in like

21:15

something you can't even identify, then it'll be

21:17

written in infernal, then it'll be written in

21:19

old infernal, and then it'll be written in

21:22

common, or some other language. So

21:25

Esmeralda speaks, haltingly at first, she

21:27

says, before he, before- Right.

21:33

Van Richten was researching the

21:35

devil Strahd, and

21:38

the deal he made with one of

21:40

the entities here, Vampyr. Yes, yeah. Yes.

21:43

In exchange for conducting a

21:45

ritual involving the sacrifice of

21:47

his brother, Sergi, Strahd

21:50

was given immense power, both personally and

21:52

over the lands of Barovia. Heaps.

21:55

Yeah, yeah, yeah. The Lands,

21:58

they're now a part of- Im

22:00

just as like a three Your animals

22:02

deep within straw is one of three.

22:06

A the translation is unclear. Seeds

22:08

or perhaps a hot okay said

22:10

so in the it is one

22:12

of three this inside him right

22:14

like the seed that the golden

22:16

seal the like the clear that

22:18

the the heart of sap. Oh

22:20

right yes he has a tree

22:22

of Yarrow would yeah let's similar

22:24

to that. perhaps of the translation

22:26

does not mention what happens to

22:28

the other two merely. That one

22:30

was planted within fraud. Ah!

22:33

Marijuana was planted in the tree this year

22:35

and a treat. When. It all

22:37

involves. There

22:39

was a marine such a hurry know? get

22:41

out isis. Out of her eyes

22:43

valley where I they did that one

22:46

go distantly some random god stop the

22:48

seed of oh I'll just so busy

22:50

working on this trip we just had

22:52

to get out of valid guide. yeah

22:55

you will Ah I'm sure it's fires

22:57

edwin have been that it's high. One

22:59

made stride and the other made the

23:01

pre blight. So what could a password

23:03

air in? I had wise thou inner

23:06

city that is now controlled by an

23:08

internal bubble winter or whatever is mine.

23:10

and then they are. Exiling

23:13

is why did I have another

23:16

they've hired already? Blast Not to

23:18

say I go off on yeah,

23:20

heck that maybe stars disassociate again.

23:22

These connections between Strada and the

23:25

land they run deep. This is

23:27

much. Much

23:29

more complicated magic than I'm used

23:31

to. The side sorry pots. It's

23:33

may now be impossible to separate

23:35

fraud from these lands. Fries.

23:38

As moral this thing is continue to scan

23:40

through some of the documents searching for meaning.

23:44

It looks like the connection I'm

23:46

it sends him here. It is

23:48

what her a is his source

23:50

of power but it's also have.

23:53

A. Cage is he will Forty I'm not. Enter

23:55

the end of the prison. than

23:58

peer traps Strahd and by extension

24:01

all of us here in Barovia

24:03

using this. So he made

24:05

a deal with vampire. He made

24:07

a deal with Vampyr to kill

24:09

his brother after he won some

24:11

war or something. Something like that.

24:13

That's what stranger was. And then

24:15

he made a deal to get

24:17

rid of his brother for some reason and then

24:20

chained here. Yeah. These lands,

24:22

they draw power from the same

24:24

locations that Strahd does. Perhaps

24:27

if we are able to destroy

24:29

these lodestones or faines, we

24:32

can weaken him for a final blow. Van

24:34

Richten, her kind of

24:36

voice catches again, has approximated their locations.

24:38

She unfurls the biggest of the maps

24:41

which has a full layout of Barovia.

24:43

It's a very old map. So you

24:45

can see Kuchari

24:48

is now marked with a... or

24:50

in this map sorry, Kuchari is

24:52

marked with a dragon, a silver

24:54

dragon's head. Which

24:58

is something that you mark in the back of

25:00

your brain. She

25:02

consults the map and then points where

25:04

you are at Mount Gakas. Mount

25:07

Gakas here, there is a fain

25:09

which grants Strahd vision over these

25:12

domains. There is

25:14

little he cannot see while this lodestone

25:16

is active. It says... Oh.

25:20

Esmeralda stops for a second. Strahd

25:23

knows when someone says his

25:25

name. He knows where

25:27

they are and they are immediate to the

25:30

cenote. I imagine this bullshit little affectation I

25:32

do the kissing my fingers and putting it

25:34

to the air that everyone does is doing

25:36

nothing then. It might not

25:38

do nothing but... Fair

25:40

enough. Is it marked this little...

25:43

There is an approximate location. Okay cool cool.

25:45

So when you say his name, he knows

25:47

that there is people speaking about

25:49

him? He knows... It

25:51

does not say how much he knows but

25:53

he is aware of you, of your location

25:56

and a Little bit about

25:58

you. So The Affectation... A

26:00

boy hit as you say is actually doing a

26:02

lot when you meet the not saying his name.

26:05

Oh that's true the affidavit there. Are

26:08

I've. Ssssss.

26:13

That's fair enough. Their s i'll eat

26:15

crow who haven't had one mood? Yes

26:17

so I guess. Okay yeah he points

26:19

to like Sars it's too late just

26:22

north of valid I were you for

26:24

the ordinary mass is high here at

26:26

the on the bed of the lake

26:29

at the deepest part. There is

26:31

another lodestone. This one makes him

26:33

impervious to magic. Spells will bounce

26:35

off him as arrows of dragons

26:37

skyn that was in the leg.

26:40

And I the very bottom of it directly

26:43

at. well I'm and we weren't much of

26:45

a position to sink said day. But yeah

26:47

we were right on top of that. The

26:49

this time she points way out to the

26:52

west near yes sir a hill where if

26:54

you recall by the same the top house

26:56

and also were different than kind of the

26:58

three blight. here there is the a Druids

27:00

Grows Arm. Perhaps our friend can tell us

27:03

exactly where the Grove is but at it's

27:05

center is another same. With

27:07

shops unless it is destroyed

27:09

gives draws near immunity to

27:12

physical damage. shooting. Need blade

27:14

sleep? It's way through his

27:16

enchanted skyn it will turn

27:18

moments before piercing is hop

27:20

said destroyed I think. Add

27:23

to it. Friends did not

27:25

want thinks destroyed. Yeah, the

27:27

writings here are unclear on

27:29

how exactly who breaks Throgs

27:32

connection, but to destroy these

27:34

load stones or things would

27:36

be. The easiest way and I nice

27:38

dress this time to ask her was a

27:40

way that we could just sitting there was

27:43

see suspected that there was this Canucks this

27:45

year was the of the listener so this

27:47

that's the deal with whole deal in worship

27:49

the land the land distraught to the worst

27:51

stroud as trying to ask topless if it

27:53

was a way we could. Yes, He

27:56

seemed really reluctant to of

27:58

millennial, perhaps? Multnomah? Some. Near

28:01

as we're all the points all the

28:03

way to the east passed to the

28:05

village of Burrow V. I'm in er

28:07

there's a lot of fields open fields.

28:09

It's burrow the of the village is

28:11

the breadbasket if you will have the

28:13

rest of of the rest of the

28:16

valley. Any food comes from their own

28:18

recently been salted India has a severe

28:20

his or yeah sorry was the but

28:22

avoid will have the old washing over

28:24

Pip as he looks at it on

28:26

the map. Are there is another same

28:28

here in the fields which specifically protects

28:30

fraud. From the weaknesses that come

28:33

with vampirism, running water, radiant

28:35

damage, any other limitation, even

28:37

if strong loses his impervious

28:39

this to physical damage. If

28:41

we do not also destroy

28:43

this lodestone, a steak to

28:45

be hot will not harm

28:47

him. Red sauce or that

28:49

is before. Mode. Stones. But

28:52

there is one more thing to

28:54

consider. S C points the castle

28:56

raven last, the seat of Scrubs

28:58

power. The. Texts make

29:00

reference to an extra protection

29:02

one the thronged constructed for

29:04

himself. It is not all

29:06

the land, but we should

29:08

keep it in mind. The

29:10

walls of Castle Raven Last

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It is allies. Fell. Off

31:00

the suspect game pad guess while

31:02

it is alive, any harm done

31:04

to straw does instead transferred to

31:06

the beating heart. It would be

31:08

wise to destroy it separately. To.

31:10

Remove that protection. Have

31:13

some have destroyed the hot inside straws

31:15

costs or without him more realizing it's

31:18

yeah how much it is kept him

31:20

ha ha. I think that we gave

31:22

him Benson like strong evidence is is

31:24

it yes sorry this earth moon yeah

31:26

I'll just don't we how to his

31:28

show Yeah have to this point A

31:30

I don't know I just have a

31:32

of the Abbot. Several like that are

31:34

spread from the a good to get

31:37

into A Either way here is dead

31:39

Vendrick than notes mention that. It is

31:41

most likely kept within the clock tower.

31:44

Fell get any sign that says

31:47

step One. Sided. These. Lodestone.

31:49

Saints. And. Severed.

31:52

a ties between on strat in

31:54

the land and i just look as

31:57

you again sorry several you have

31:59

your honor as well. It's

32:01

like, come on! I

32:03

mean, I've been saying it the whole time,

32:05

nothing has happened, but I'll stop. And

32:09

quotation marks, nothing has happened.

32:11

There's the great General Pip

32:13

Mandarin. Well,

32:17

so step one is his ties to

32:19

the land. And then the

32:21

aforementioned. Well, I

32:23

know Tarpos,

32:28

she took all of the nashin to

32:30

a temple or something. Yes,

32:32

some holy site near

32:34

Mount Gakkis. The base of

32:36

Mount Gakkis. Could be the same

32:38

place, possibly. Potentially. Maybe

32:40

she's doing something there. Okay,

32:43

Sanzul, whatever that might

32:45

have done. Yeah. Very

32:48

much. Just because it's like

32:50

Hector's training is all like

32:52

God bullshit. Yeah. Nature

32:54

bullshit. So it's just like, I

32:56

don't know. I'm scared. Going to

32:59

bed. Stop going to bed. She's

33:01

happy. I guess those are the

33:03

things that Tarpos was telling us

33:05

about. Perhaps

33:12

she's going to. We

33:15

know she was kind of already on the way to

33:17

something. She left to do something.

33:20

You assume because she had spoken about

33:22

some ritual to basically

33:26

to make things or respect

33:28

you. Yeah. And

33:30

it would not be that much of

33:32

a stretch to assume that this ritual

33:34

is potentially similar kind of. Yeah. Yeah.

33:38

You've already know that she knows where

33:40

the lodestone from Mount Gakkis is. Yeah,

33:42

right. I mean, maybe Tarpos

33:44

has already taken care of one for us. You

33:47

know about destroying the

33:49

lodestones. You know that

33:52

Elaniel is pro

33:54

destroying the lodestones. But Tarpos

33:56

is not pro destroying the

33:58

lodestones. She hasn't taken care

34:00

of it as far as you're aware. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

34:03

When I think it was trying to speak to the

34:05

two of them, there was this, again,

34:08

trying to get an answer

34:11

from Tarpos's, like

34:13

I guess, bleeding stone. Yeah. Yeah.

34:17

They're cleansing it or killing it.

34:19

I don't know what will diminish

34:22

Strad's powers if one will wield

34:24

and one won't. Yeah. When

34:26

you start cleansing or destroying or whatever

34:28

these lodestones, presumably

34:31

Strad will know, right? Does

34:33

Van Ricton say anything about that? She

34:36

flips through as Mae keeps reading.

34:40

It is difficult to say whether

34:42

or not Strad is aware of

34:44

the lodestones. Certainly if

34:47

he does not know the instant it

34:49

happens, he will quickly deduce when his

34:51

power begins to wane. When magical

34:54

effects begin to harm him again,

34:57

he will know. You understand. And

35:00

I presume, I guess the idea would be

35:02

to try to hit them all before we even approach

35:05

Strad. Absolutely. Where was

35:07

the one, one of them you were saying as

35:10

Mae stopped Strad from

35:12

being able to sort of tell,

35:14

view the land, right? There's

35:16

one that if we destroyed it first would

35:18

mask our actions with the others. That is

35:21

the Mount Gakas one. That's the Mount Gakas

35:23

one. Yes. Okay. This

35:25

would make us, he

35:28

would need to rely on the

35:31

eyes and ears of his creatures instead. That

35:33

seems like a good one to hit first

35:35

then. Perhaps. Perhaps

35:38

Tarpos and Gorbanushin are already

35:40

there. Meanwhile in a place

35:42

of hostility, Tarpos hunches her

35:44

body against a snowstorm. Gorbanushin

35:46

in tow behind her, cling

35:48

close, left the mighty wind

35:50

to bowl them over and away down

35:52

the side of Mount Gakas. For

35:55

a brief time, Gorb casts his eyes

35:57

down the cliff to the wicked stones

35:59

below. below, ones that would

36:01

break his bones and rend his flesh

36:04

if he would only fall to meet

36:06

them. Lushan instead tries

36:08

to conjure a small flame to

36:10

keep their shaking hands warm, only

36:13

to find time and again that

36:15

something within this place leaves the

36:18

weave of magic inert, a dead

36:20

thing to be held and examined,

36:22

but not used as he is

36:24

accustomed. While both dwarves try to

36:26

put their thoughts aside and focus

36:28

on the journey, Tarpos does the

36:31

opposite. Her gaze turns inwards to

36:33

memories from long ago. Arch-druid

36:35

of the Grove, Kavan is holding

36:37

her hand. Tarpos' bare

36:40

feet feel soil. She is

36:42

six. She can draw

36:44

a line of essence from the

36:46

ground into her heart and through

36:48

her hands into Kavan's heart. Slowly

36:51

she extends her awareness. Kavan

36:53

nods gently, prodding her onwards.

36:55

''You are doing well, my

36:57

child. These lands

37:00

want to talk. They

37:02

spittle their voices forth. All

37:05

you need do is listen.'' Tarpos

37:08

is a good listener. Her

37:10

earliest memories were not her own,

37:12

but voices of the forest. Speaking

37:15

to her as an infant, she remembers

37:17

herself through the eyes of the flowers

37:19

as they guided her to Kavan, an

37:22

orphan in the woods. Tarpos is

37:24

older now, a teenager,

37:26

years before Strahd came to

37:28

this land. The wolves

37:31

were friendly then. They speak

37:33

to her and she listens to them. The

37:36

wolf who would one day be Boris

37:38

tells her a joke and she laughs.

37:41

Suddenly the forest is screaming. The

37:43

wolves scatter and Tarpos wraps her

37:45

hands around her ears. She

37:48

screams from pain. Distantly she

37:50

can hear the forest calling out in pain. Instantly

37:53

Kavan is by her side. He holds her. Breathe

37:56

in. Two, three, four.

38:00

Hold. Two, three, four.

38:04

Out. Two, three, four. Kavan

38:07

repeats. The child

38:09

is sensitive, Keshka mutters. Her

38:12

mind cannot handle this. Tarpos has

38:14

come of age. Normally, a coming-of-age

38:17

ceremony is a time for celebration,

38:20

but a new presence has come to

38:22

this land, a dark presence. As

38:24

arch-druid Kavan must decide how

38:26

to approach a changing land.

38:29

The trees no longer sing in

38:31

harmony, the animals no longer offer

38:33

friendship. The lands change,

38:35

and so must we. Keshka

38:38

gestures angrily at Kavan. Strahd's

38:41

power offers us immortality. The

38:43

grove would be as an

38:45

apex predator. In

38:48

the predator, you see only strength, Kavan

38:50

speaks calmly, though his voice has an

38:52

edge of warning, and you

38:54

see strength as only force. This

38:57

is not how nature speaks. Keshka's

38:59

mouth curls with a smirk. I

39:02

fear there might be something blinding

39:04

you, old friend. A weakness

39:06

you do not wish to cull. Keshka

39:09

lets his words trail off as all

39:12

eyes turn to Tarpos. The

39:14

attention is too much. The world

39:16

begins to spin, and Tarpos' vision

39:19

narrows. The child is

39:21

sick. She cannot lead our people

39:23

properly. The voice is somewhat cold. A

39:26

chill that whips to the bone.

39:28

A cruelty and indifference that only

39:30

the emotionless hand of nature can

39:32

express. Her mind

39:34

processes… The voice

39:37

trails off, searching for the right words.

39:40

It processes… It

39:43

can be easily overwhelmed. The

39:45

weight of arch-druid would simply

39:47

be too much for the girl.

39:50

Keshka feigns sorrow towards Kavan.

39:53

Tarpos has been an adult for a long

39:55

time now. She is no longer a girl.

39:58

Her fists clench in red. rage, her

40:01

vision begins to narrow, but she

40:03

contains herself. The

40:05

rite of change will begin, and a

40:08

new archdruid of the grove will be

40:10

chosen. Tarpos' mind

40:12

returns to the present. They have arrived.

40:15

A spindly trail flares out from

40:17

the side of the mountain like

40:19

webbing between fingers. At

40:21

the edge, a rock stands out,

40:23

different to all around it, a

40:26

shard of black stone, with

40:28

veins of zircon running through it. Old.

40:32

Older than time, perhaps. If

40:34

they had the air to gasp, Gorob and Lushan

40:36

would have done so. The rock

40:39

feels powerful in an unexplainable way.

40:42

To behold this is

40:44

to know that it is something

40:47

as gravity, it is just inherent.

40:50

For the first time in hours,

40:52

someone speaks. Here.

40:56

Tarpos calls over the gailing wind.

40:58

Gorob and Lushan merely nod, struck

41:00

silent by this place. Tarpos

41:02

closes her eyes. At first the

41:04

wind is too loud. She feels herself

41:07

teeter at the edge of emotion, about to

41:09

be engulfed in a wave so high that

41:11

she might never breathe again. But

41:14

Tarpos plants herself firmly and

41:16

conjures the line from herself

41:18

into the rock. She

41:20

doesn't force the mountain, she lets it come to

41:22

her. Tarpos lets the mountains

41:24

speak. And it does. The

41:27

wind slackens, the chill slinks away.

41:30

Still with her eyes closed, Tarpos walks

41:32

the trail, listening the whole time. She

41:35

does not know if her hands are on

41:37

the stone physically, but she feels a connection

41:40

to the ancient heart of the land, and

41:42

she knows she is close enough. The heart

41:44

is burned, filled with the emotions Strahd has

41:46

streaked with this place with. The

41:48

emotions are as much part of the land as

41:50

the trees are. But to be in

41:53

communion with the land is to take a part

41:55

of it into you. To gain the trust

41:57

of Sangzor is to feel pain

41:59

and sorrow. sorrow and anger and

42:01

loneliness of Strahd. Tarpos stands

42:04

now before the old goat, the

42:06

essence of Mount Varkis. Distance

42:09

is meaningless on the mountain, separation is

42:11

an illusion. Throughout the mountain

42:13

Tarpos sees everything, the jagged shard

42:15

of the Amber Temple, Piran talking

42:17

to Bigfoot Paul in the tavern,

42:19

the hag combing through the wreckage

42:21

of her house and calling back

42:23

her puppet children. Tarpos opens her

42:25

eyes. She is standing where

42:27

she began. Perhaps she never left. Done.

42:31

Tarpos turns to Gorban Lushan. They

42:33

bow in respect. You will

42:35

be arch-druid, they say in

42:37

unison. By our lives,

42:39

my lady, we swear it. Okay.

42:44

Well, unfortunately with Gorban

42:47

Lushan and Tarpos, we never sort of

42:49

planned for a place to meet, did

42:51

we? They sort

42:53

of just disappeared. Yeah, they disappeared. They

42:55

sort of just left. I

42:58

mean, hopefully they'll come back, but

43:00

where do their loyalties lie? Who

43:03

can say? But at least we have

43:05

a heading now. We've got a

43:07

next step. Right. That's plenty.

43:10

We've got a next step. So once we

43:12

leave here, I think we've taken

43:14

that ludmila, whatever

43:17

the abattoir is, whatever

43:19

is under there. Collect the guy

43:21

that you want. The engineer.

43:24

Yeah. The engineer, yeah, whatever.

43:26

Okay. Well, I mean, the less

43:29

time we spend in here, the better, I say.

43:31

And then I just want to start looking around for an

43:34

exit. I mean, I know there's an exit to this room,

43:36

but I'm going to make it clear. All right, let's get

43:38

up and leave. We've done everything we can. Okay. Was

43:41

there anything else that we needed here? As

43:44

May searches around in

43:46

Van Richten's equipment, it

43:48

is hard to say. He

43:51

is not one to hide things much,

43:53

but I mean, maybe I

43:55

don't know. My question

43:57

is, there was a... bridge

44:00

that we had to walk across.

44:02

Right. So I guess if we... how

44:06

far was the bridge in

44:08

terms of distance? The

44:11

bridge was about 50 feet. Is

44:13

there any ropes or anything like that

44:16

in these supplies? Esme

44:18

Shakespeare had no ropes here. Well, we could

44:21

at least wait not in the Amber Temple.

44:23

Or we could at least, you know... What

44:27

alternative are you suggesting, Esme? I

44:29

merely state an encounter

44:31

that we must pass. Right, right.

44:34

I don't really want to go upstairs

44:36

either. I miss the... The...

44:38

The... The... I

44:41

mean, the falsely named undead, he's just going to

44:43

wander around. He didn't seem like he was much

44:45

of a threat on the way in. But

44:48

if the alternative is just to waste

44:50

away in this cave... I

44:53

mean... Esme stands up.

44:55

She's not impatient. She just

44:57

isn't making a decision. There

45:00

is also the matter of... What

45:02

would you like to do with your mental,

45:04

Esme? She seems that... You

45:07

could see that there is clear

45:09

indecision across her face.

45:13

The... There

45:15

is perhaps a way

45:18

to speak to him. To

45:21

get some final advice, she says. Okay.

45:25

Okay. What does

45:28

that mean? Heck! She's

45:31

lying. She's got some ulterior

45:33

motive. Speak with undead, something

45:35

like that. There is a ritual.

45:38

Yes. Okay, what kind of ritual?

45:41

It is right, ancient to my people. The...

45:46

The... And what

45:48

do you need for it? I

45:50

would need... We cannot disturb his body.

45:53

We cannot disturb his remains for

45:55

another hour at least. So...

45:59

I will need to be alone. long. Well if

46:01

um, rise. Yeah yeah cool. Can

46:05

you do it real? Um, yes it

46:07

must be done where they died. That

46:10

is close isn't it? You don't pick

46:12

up on her lying? No but I

46:14

know what this ritual is suspicious. Sure

46:16

yeah that's fine. Pip is under the

46:18

impression that both Hector and Esme want

46:20

to resurrect Van Richten and Pip's like,

46:22

fuck you fucking idiot, he's gonna come

46:24

back as a fucking zombie dude. Let

46:26

me quickly check what happens if you

46:28

accept that power. Look,

46:31

my perspective has always very much been you're

46:33

in charge of your own life, you're in

46:35

charge of your own destiny. I don't want

46:37

to be the one telling someone what to do. Well

46:39

in that case then better let her go do it.

46:41

Exactly, I'm not one to be like look Van Richten,

46:43

I don't know if Van Richten, that's not my mental,

46:45

I haven't lost a mental, I don't know what to

46:47

do here. Whereas like you know I can

46:49

kind of feel like look, he has pros and cons of

46:51

both things. Well

46:54

if even before

46:56

you speak to him we can

46:58

look at it in several ways. So

47:01

let's say we make a deal

47:03

with a dark entity of this place who

47:06

has I guess

47:08

from history we

47:10

can say has made Strahd, has

47:12

made a lich and

47:14

has made Father Limic. I say the

47:16

name. Whoa! Hector

47:18

is... The

47:21

room rumbles when you say his

47:23

name. And

47:27

then Eileen who wants

47:29

to bring about the end

47:31

of everything. So we know that

47:33

those are the known entities. Yeah.

47:36

So if we were to bring Van Richten

47:38

back and everything

47:40

was fine, let us say, let us say. Everything

47:42

is perfect. The advantage is

47:44

there, is get your

47:47

mental back of course. My selfish

47:49

reason for me is that Iris

47:51

will have a better chance of survival. It

47:54

might be her only chance of survival. You

47:57

manipulative son of a bitch.

48:00

At that time you both pick up on it, she... Like,

48:04

it might be true, but Esme is

48:06

not saying that because it's true. Yeah.

48:08

Yeah. So there is...

48:10

Come on, Hector. I know, I

48:12

know. I am just positing the pros and cons.

48:14

Yeah. Okay. So

48:17

we know that. We also know that Van

48:19

Richten drank a vial of holy water before

48:22

the end, so he did not want to

48:25

come back as a ghoul. Yeah, exactly.

48:27

Now we don't know what

48:30

will happen if we bring him back. He

48:33

could be brought back as a

48:35

ghoul, as a zombie, as something

48:38

else, not himself, a vessel.

48:41

We know that this place, at least

48:43

not in the Amber Temple itself, but

48:45

by the Barovia, we do

48:47

know that the spirits do

48:49

not pass on. They

48:52

are around. All the

48:54

odds in the evil

48:56

sarcophagus temple here in the

48:58

mountains that Van Richten is

49:00

brought back with no complications. The odds

49:03

are not in our favor. They never are when you make a

49:05

deal. I'm here to tell

49:07

you, it is rarely, if ever, worth

49:09

the cost. And if you try to

49:11

bring him back, I will

49:13

try and stop you. I'm

49:16

sorry, Hector. We've already

49:18

got so much on our plate. What if he

49:20

comes back as a lynch? Yes. Exactly.

49:23

Exactly. I like

49:28

that it is, so I guess the

49:31

subtext here is

49:33

that I guess we're both not wanting Esme

49:36

to summon or to bring back

49:38

Van Richten, but

49:41

Hector wants Esme to get there

49:43

on her own accord. Yeah, yeah,

49:45

yeah. Whereas Pip doesn't believe she

49:47

will. Guess what?

49:50

Yeah. So I will very

49:52

quickly remind you of the layout of

49:54

this room. So you're in. Oh

49:56

no. I'm about to be

49:59

strangled again. You're

50:01

in like a lecture room basically. This

50:03

would once be a place where people

50:05

sat down. Imagine like a lecture

50:08

room in any university. If you're imagining a Goodwill

50:10

hunting, you're in the right place. It's a

50:13

lecture theatre. Up the back there is one

50:15

door, there is one door exit. Van Richten's

50:17

stuff is where the lectern is where people

50:20

would speak. Where is everyone in the room?

50:24

Esme would have been basically on the stage

50:26

where the equipment is. How long did Esme

50:28

take to look through Van Richten's stuff? An

50:30

hour probably. I'm probably sitting down in one

50:32

of the chairs. There are two sets of

50:35

stairs on either side of the chairs going

50:37

up to the back where the door is.

50:40

I imagine sitting on the stage, kind

50:43

of, if she's there with a bunch of staff

50:45

sitting on the stage. Cool, you're both sitting? I

50:47

am. Yeah, again,

50:49

I was trying to do this

50:51

in a non-violent way. What is

50:53

going to work, let me tell

50:55

you. Esme, looking at you, Pip,

50:57

after you say that, she turns

50:59

and she just starts sprinting. Fuck.

51:02

Don't, don't, don't. I call out

51:04

to Esme. If the roaster

51:06

reversed, what would Van Richten do? She's not listening

51:09

to you. She's not

51:11

even a persuasion roll out of them? Uh,

51:14

that would be technically 10 rounds, but...

51:17

No. Actually,

51:21

you should have even had disadvantage. Yeah, no,

51:23

you're not her dad. She

51:27

explodes, she's going to get her dad.

51:29

She explodes out the door off the

51:31

top. That is her first

51:33

turn. Let's go to initiative. Okay. Actually, no,

51:35

it wouldn't be an initiative. You're

51:38

chasing after her, I assume? Yeah. Alright,

51:40

it is an opponent. Um... Oh,

51:46

I can't think, do I stop you? Dude.

51:48

Because I'm like... The

51:51

Ambitempos making a fight!

51:53

Because I'm like... Pips get

51:55

lumpsucks! Because it's only...

51:59

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