(Vaesen) Ravenloft: Mistborne - Episode 18: A Misty Dawn

[00:00:10] Granny Olsen sees off the letters she has written to her distant kin, aware with a heavy

[00:00:16] heart that she is pulling them into a darkness she has spent many lifetimes protecting against.

[00:00:23] Alas, she is desperate as the old tricks are failing.

[00:00:28] So it's up to these cousins to venture beyond their mundane world and venture into

[00:00:34] the misty lands.

[00:00:36] As Ilsa looks regretfully away beyond Barovia, unaware of a shadow falling over her, the

[00:00:44] next step to redemption falls to these.

[00:00:48] Mistborn

[00:00:49] Hi, welcome to One Less Die, a Vossen actual play podcast.

[00:00:55] We are concluding our Ravenloft in Vossen campaign, Mistborn, with an E at the end.

[00:01:01] There's been an E at the end the whole time?

[00:01:04] Yeah.

[00:01:06] It is grammatically different from that other title, from that other author that Josh keeps

[00:01:12] bringing up.

[00:01:13] Just enough to avoid copyright.

[00:01:17] Yep.

[00:01:18] It's not a stargate, it's a fargate.

[00:01:22] Just like that movie.

[00:01:25] So yeah, when last we left off, you guys had defeated the cult of Strahd and rescued

[00:01:35] your captured cousins and twins.

[00:01:43] And you currently, you'd gone through what was left of the ancient Amber Temple up on

[00:01:50] Mount Glacchus and found Exentathor, well I'm never going to pronounce this guy's

[00:01:58] name.

[00:01:59] Exentathor's phylactery.

[00:02:05] So you have that at your disposal.

[00:02:09] He is currently bound in a circle with Petonius interviewing him, because Petonius

[00:02:16] likes to acquire undead lore and specimens.

[00:02:21] So what better source than a living and maybe not so breathing lich.

[00:02:27] I want to quote Linden.

[00:02:29] Unliving and maybe not so much breathing lich.

[00:02:32] So yeah, I believe last we left off you guys were going to figure out exactly how

[00:02:38] long you're going to let this lich live or leave it in Petonius' hands before heading

[00:02:46] on out to, I guess spread the good word that like the cult is gone and Strahd will not

[00:02:52] be returning prematurely.

[00:02:53] Ding dong, the witch is dead.

[00:02:57] Basically.

[00:02:59] So yeah, as you guys are entering back into the main chamber of the Amber Temple,

[00:03:06] you hear the melodious dulcimer tones of Petonius' unending questions to this lich.

[00:03:15] How many hours has it been?

[00:03:17] How many days has it been?

[00:03:18] It's only been like a few, probably only been like about an hour at most I think

[00:03:22] when you guys were searching for things and such.

[00:03:25] Excuse me, Game Master.

[00:03:28] I feel that we are remiss that you do not allow us to introduce our characters.

[00:03:33] As you're entering to talk to deal with like the lich and Petonius and all that stuff.

[00:03:41] Who are you guys and what are you doing here?

[00:03:44] Starting at the top.

[00:03:48] For a final go around, folks, this is Adam or Cries in the Row of Johan or John as

[00:03:56] we switch his name about here and there.

[00:03:59] He started off as a simple hunter from the hills of Eastern Kentucky.

[00:04:06] Throughout the course of this game, my dark secret came back to haunt me as plot 10

[00:04:16] was familiar with a lady from The Mists.

[00:04:21] Her name was Ursula, which I wrote on a sheet of paper and have had

[00:04:28] repeated to me multiple times throughout the course of this.

[00:04:31] I don't know if the Game Master has edited that to make me seem more competent,

[00:04:37] though I feel that he has not.

[00:04:38] OK, but it's been a real fun run.

[00:04:45] You know, my characters found a forgotten love, but wasn't forgot because he

[00:04:50] misplaced her, but because Granny Olsen did a little bit of a memory wipe on me.

[00:04:56] And so now I've.

[00:04:59] Accomplish what I thought for getting my ass handed to me several sessions

[00:05:05] for the first five or six sessions, it felt like I think I lived.

[00:05:09] Wait to see.

[00:05:10] So hopefully happy ending.

[00:05:19] Dave, you know, that's me.

[00:05:23] I'm Dave. I'm playing Dorothee at Connie's Mark, the doctor and

[00:05:30] sword wielding armor clad, although less armor clad by the end of it, because.

[00:05:36] I found that I was actually quicker without it, even though I almost died

[00:05:39] the second I took my.

[00:05:41] It was handy that you took that off, because otherwise you would have just

[00:05:44] fallen down that ravine much faster and much and would have ended

[00:05:48] your character much quicker.

[00:05:50] Oh, sure. But yes.

[00:05:54] She was just a doctor back in Newfoundland and ran into some supernatural.

[00:06:04] Going on in the area,

[00:06:06] save some supernatural creature from dying and got pulled into here.

[00:06:10] And through the course of the campaign,

[00:06:15] I've attempted to do good in combat in melee combat in Vossen,

[00:06:21] which seems like the dumbest thing to do because of how deadly everything is.

[00:06:25] In Vossen, it is a horror game. Yes, indeed.

[00:06:30] But yes, it's been fun regardless.

[00:06:34] And yeah, and I met a a werewolf.

[00:06:39] But his name, okay?

[00:06:42] Yes. See, see, Adam, this is like this is what it is when you remember

[00:06:47] your your your partner's name.

[00:06:51] It's not because I also had to write it down.

[00:06:56] I'm sorry, Adam, for shaming you. I'm sorry.

[00:06:58] It's OK. That's fine.

[00:07:01] But yeah, and that's about that.

[00:07:04] All right. And then next up, we have Josh.

[00:07:09] We do have Josh.

[00:07:13] For the last time, for the first time, for the last time.

[00:07:17] Wait, I am Lars Larsen.

[00:07:23] I am now apparently a triplet.

[00:07:26] And one of my brothers is a dog through sorceress shenanigans.

[00:07:31] Good old Jaeger.

[00:07:33] Yep. Oh, yes.

[00:07:35] He said, I guess I mean, I guess there was some claims to my mother being a bitch then.

[00:07:40] Wow.

[00:07:42] So seems we're calling Jaeger a good boy now.

[00:07:45] Yeah. Well, I mean, he's been a dog for like years.

[00:07:50] Look.

[00:07:53] Who's a good boy?

[00:07:54] Who? I don't know. Right.

[00:07:56] Who's a good brother? Who's a good brother?

[00:07:58] Who's a good bro? Who's a good bro?

[00:08:02] I'm the best bro.

[00:08:09] All right.

[00:08:10] That's it for Lars.

[00:08:12] OK, then we have a purple Dave.

[00:08:16] Hey there. So this David,

[00:08:19] I have been playing Sorin Hedrickson for the duration,

[00:08:23] who is totally just an old man from the hills of Appalachia.

[00:08:29] Of course, what else would it be?

[00:08:31] And totally not.

[00:08:34] I know. Well, it's strange.

[00:08:36] Well, we'll find out why later. Yeah.

[00:08:40] So. Well, who am I to judge?

[00:08:43] Yes.

[00:08:45] So, yeah.

[00:08:46] Yeah. Yeah.

[00:08:47] Petonius is going on and on.

[00:08:48] It's like, so so you just you give your information freely,

[00:08:52] like to any any person that comes in and asks, Oh, yes.

[00:08:56] Yes. I quite very much.

[00:08:58] Look. So and oh, friends, I've learned so much in the last hour.

[00:09:03] It's like he doesn't have to leave, does he?

[00:09:07] Says, OK, as you're walking in.

[00:09:10] So we have a thought.

[00:09:13] Oh, yes. Oh, oh, that looks like my flaktery.

[00:09:18] I'm going to use this voice now because the other one,

[00:09:21] like the GM couldn't pull off very well last time and had to stop midway.

[00:09:26] It works.

[00:09:28] He doesn't sound like an idiot now, though, is he?

[00:09:29] Supposed to sound like he was supposed to be like a befuddled

[00:09:33] like sort of like character because that kind of what like

[00:09:38] this lich is supposed to act like based off of the book.

[00:09:41] But so it seems that this temple is in disrepair

[00:09:48] and that its original use is falling down.

[00:09:54] And it feels like what we should do

[00:09:59] is change both of those things.

[00:10:02] Feels like we should restore it to its original glory.

[00:10:06] And a cabal of powerful

[00:10:10] sorcerers or sorcerer ask characters

[00:10:14] should move in and take over the whole

[00:10:19] keeping Strahd from showing up again thing.

[00:10:24] Or at least make sure that the cycle is observed properly.

[00:10:29] Oh, yes, I suppose.

[00:10:31] Whatever.

[00:10:33] Whatever.

[00:10:35] Whatever you say.

[00:10:35] I mean, when I first came here, I for what I recall, which is very spotty,

[00:10:41] most of the most of the wizards that have built this place

[00:10:45] were already dead and long gone or long since

[00:10:53] long, long since entombed.

[00:10:58] But you hold all the cards here.

[00:11:01] So as he says, as he's like his arms are still like kind of like

[00:11:05] stretched out down, like to the ground as if like they're held

[00:11:08] by invisible chains in the circle.

[00:11:12] It's not just like a wall around them.

[00:11:14] No, it's like it's like there's like sort of like a glowing,

[00:11:16] like pentacle circle or like underneath, like at his feet.

[00:11:20] And like his hands are just kind of like held out

[00:11:23] a little bit from his body as if he's being like held from like

[00:11:27] chains that are like anchored to the ground.

[00:11:32] But there are no chains.

[00:11:33] It's just like that's what is like how his his hand or his arms

[00:11:35] are like looking like.

[00:11:37] But Tony says like, well, if that's all well and good,

[00:11:40] but I would like to continue conversing with this this fellow

[00:11:44] and perhaps even gain more of the more of the lore

[00:11:49] and information that he has to tell about his lichdom and such

[00:11:53] and about the other undead creatures of the Misty Lands.

[00:11:57] Absolutely.

[00:11:58] In fact, you can have all of the conversation

[00:12:00] that you would like with him.

[00:12:02] I'm just going to hold on to this lovely little trinket.

[00:12:06] While you're having that conversation.

[00:12:10] And then when the time comes to return to this temple.

[00:12:17] I will return, I will bring this trinket and that nice

[00:12:23] I can't say young, that nice fellow will join me.

[00:12:29] We will be the first two.

[00:12:31] I don't have a picture.

[00:12:33] Sorry, who are you referring to, like when you said that, like the other.

[00:12:36] Just try to get the lich.

[00:12:37] OK. Yeah.

[00:12:37] Yeah. The lich and I are going to start the process of restoring this temple.

[00:12:44] OK. Yeah, the senile old lich is just like very, very good.

[00:12:55] It's your other option, honestly.

[00:12:57] I suppose. Yes.

[00:13:01] I mean, otherwise, I could just smash this now

[00:13:04] and you could go on to the happy whatever afterlife you've earned.

[00:13:10] I suppose that's true.

[00:13:13] But Tony's actually probably says that also.

[00:13:15] Well, when at some point in our in our little research thing here,

[00:13:21] I would like to have a look at that flat just to like get a get some

[00:13:24] just get some imagery, get some get some some notes on it.

[00:13:29] The whole fell actory of a lich is something I don't have quite in my my pocket yet.

[00:13:36] That's dangerous information, but Tony is and you know it.

[00:13:41] Yes. What? You don't trust the Tony's.

[00:13:44] I don't trust anybody with that particular information now.

[00:13:47] But Tony has has proven himself in the past, so we'll discuss it.

[00:13:52] There's a couple of concessions

[00:13:54] that we want to make sure are nailed down before.

[00:13:59] The phylactery is just handed over.

[00:14:03] I mean, by all means, like you can keep it.

[00:14:05] I just want to take some notes and some sketches, perhaps.

[00:14:11] Oh, yes, yes.

[00:14:13] Yes, yes, yes, yes.

[00:14:16] Oh, God, your character was Balgrim the whole time.

[00:14:18] So, yes, yes, yes, yes.

[00:14:20] That was an RPPR joke.

[00:14:23] The deep kind of RPPR actually think about it.

[00:14:29] So I'm not pro-tund enough to be Valgrim.

[00:14:32] No, no.

[00:14:34] So.

[00:14:37] Yeah, so you guys are just going to like, are you?

[00:14:40] So you're going to be leave or you're leaving, though,

[00:14:42] the temple to go back down to the block and such, right?

[00:14:44] Yes, we probably escort our cousins down to block as well.

[00:14:50] I mean, we've got the.

[00:14:53] Petonias, do you want to stay here and talk to the Litch?

[00:14:56] Or do you want to come back to block you with us?

[00:14:58] I would love to continue talking with this fine gentleman.

[00:15:02] This fine gentleman here.

[00:15:04] OK, can we borrow your wagon for like a couple of days

[00:15:07] and just bring it back with all of the supplies

[00:15:09] we're going to need for the first round of rebuilding and what not?

[00:15:13] But but it's that's but all my books.

[00:15:19] Actually, as you say that, the the old Litch is like, well, actually,

[00:15:25] if if you look in there's a there's a there's a compartment

[00:15:29] in the statue there, the the keeper of secrets.

[00:15:32] It points to the the giant, like central stone statue of this chamber

[00:15:37] that has like this sort of like hooded no face kind of look

[00:15:41] looking down at the court courtroom of the courtyard.

[00:15:45] Oh, it's got a keystroll wagon.

[00:15:47] Oh, well, actually, there's some some some amber talismans within

[00:15:51] that will summon spectral steeds that you could use.

[00:15:57] Oh, that's handy. Yes.

[00:15:59] I believe they belong to the original wizards of this of this temple.

[00:16:06] All righty.

[00:16:08] Everybody grab an amber charger and let's go.

[00:16:13] Yeah, you guys acquire find like the pretty quick order,

[00:16:17] like his points where it is and stuff and you find these

[00:16:20] these little amber amber medallions with like a horse skull kind of

[00:16:26] etched into it, into the into the iconography of it.

[00:16:30] And he explains you just need to like basically like flip the coin

[00:16:34] and it will it'll summon the steed.

[00:16:37] And and sure enough, once you do that,

[00:16:42] the medallions effectively transform into these large

[00:16:46] spectral skeletal mounts,

[00:16:50] not unlike for for the yellow Dave and Josh.

[00:16:54] For for the yellow Dave and Josh, not unlike case from Warframe.

[00:16:59] Oh, OK, cool.

[00:17:01] Like kind of like these like, yeah, these sort of like

[00:17:03] very like arcane skeletal steeds.

[00:17:07] Does mine have a sidecar for the egg?

[00:17:09] Yes. There's a side bag.

[00:17:15] Hold on, Tony is.

[00:17:18] Oh, wait, are we which I got to ask him something in a minute.

[00:17:21] I walk back inside.

[00:17:22] Yeah, keep going. Yeah.

[00:17:25] Oh yeah. So you go back in and he's still like just on and on

[00:17:28] and then you have to interrupt him.

[00:17:32] I had to interrupt the game master to do this.

[00:17:36] Tony is.

[00:17:39] Would you believe that Lars's dog is actually his brother?

[00:17:45] Really? Yeah.

[00:17:47] And apparently, he's been.

[00:17:49] Curious. No, that I wasn't supposed to know that.

[00:17:54] Oh, no, I think you people didn't know that.

[00:17:57] He's jokingly saying, oh, yeah, yeah.

[00:17:59] So he is.

[00:18:00] Swedish.

[00:18:02] But what I always I was I was assumed that the dog was had

[00:18:06] some kind of some kind of enchantment or something about it.

[00:18:10] Like I could read its aura through my sense eyes.

[00:18:14] I guess you guys know already.

[00:18:16] Yes, my sensors.

[00:18:18] But yes,

[00:18:20] I was my friends a bit overwhelmed at the moment

[00:18:24] and didn't quite think of it to hear.

[00:18:27] Did you happen to know of a way that,

[00:18:30] you know, say somebody could turn a dog back into a human?

[00:18:36] Ah, well, I I don't know.

[00:18:41] Personally, personally, I don't.

[00:18:43] I deal in necromancy and necrobiology, not

[00:18:48] transmogrification or polymorphine or something like.

[00:18:51] But I could send out word you are you

[00:18:56] you gentlemen and lady are returning to Earth, correct?

[00:19:01] That's what I'm.

[00:19:03] That's what I'm figuring.

[00:19:04] But to be honest with you,

[00:19:07] we haven't quite made up our minds yet, all of us here.

[00:19:10] But I just before we wrote off and I regretted not asking you,

[00:19:15] I wanted to take a moment to check with you and.

[00:19:19] Well, I do have a connection or two back at Earth.

[00:19:23] I think at the time that you will be returning

[00:19:27] that I could send I could send out a letter for and have them

[00:19:32] set up a meeting between you and between your folk and and

[00:19:37] if you wish, they're much more in

[00:19:40] it's more much more their expertise than than I.

[00:19:43] Ah, and well, I appreciate it.

[00:19:47] Well, listen, sir, it's been it's been the utmost pleasure.

[00:19:50] We definitely couldn't have made it

[00:19:52] without off helping God think or.

[00:19:58] Helping us along and he kind of just looks at the lich and goes.

[00:20:04] You're you're you're all right, I guess.

[00:20:08] You'd be good now.

[00:20:09] Thank you. Thank you, young man.

[00:20:11] I will.

[00:20:13] Well, not but not too good, I hope.

[00:20:18] He kind of tries to like awkwardly like chuckle at that.

[00:20:21] Yeah.

[00:20:23] It's very awkward with him.

[00:20:24] Yeah.

[00:20:26] Well, boys, I'll see you later.

[00:20:28] I do want to apologize.

[00:20:30] I just thought that we should check here before we, you know, for Jaeger.

[00:20:37] Jaeger shall remain destined to be a dog.

[00:20:41] Never.

[00:20:41] Goes back and then, oh, shit, we forgot to see if we can fix.

[00:20:46] Yeah, Jaeger is like, yeah, yeah, you jerks.

[00:20:51] The dogs don't live that long.

[00:20:53] When you say that, I would like to point out that

[00:20:57] the word fix and dog should not be put together.

[00:21:01] Yeah, yeah, I was thinking that too.

[00:21:03] I just didn't want to.

[00:21:04] I didn't want to be the one to mention it.

[00:21:07] Whoops.

[00:21:08] Yeah, just take my what?

[00:21:09] What did you take my testicle, bro?

[00:21:12] Yeah.

[00:21:13] I thought you were a dog.

[00:21:14] You were a dog.

[00:21:16] Oh, so it's just okay to take.

[00:21:18] No, but so yeah, back to the scene.

[00:21:22] I will do, I will wave smile walk outside at large.

[00:21:26] I just checked to see if he knew how to, uh, to fix Jaeger.

[00:21:30] He doesn't door tape.

[00:21:32] Will you help me flip my horse back into a coin when we get back to town?

[00:21:36] Sure.

[00:21:37] Yeah.

[00:21:37] How do we turn these back into coins?

[00:21:39] You do notice that there's like the medallion is like,

[00:21:44] you notice there's a medallion on the bridle that you can just pull off.

[00:21:50] And as soon as you try it immediately,

[00:21:53] like sort of like in caporelates and like turns into like an amber mist before like disappearing.

[00:22:03] And then you flip the coin again and it resummons the skeletal speed.

[00:22:09] So, okay.

[00:22:10] Good.

[00:22:11] We still have those quarters to the gumball machine.

[00:22:12] Perfect.

[00:22:13] Yeah.

[00:22:17] So yeah.

[00:22:18] So you guys are taking flight with your various cousins and what have you.

[00:22:25] Actually, as you guys are about to take off,

[00:22:27] you guys do hear the cawing and crowing of ravens as three ravens fly up from up the

[00:22:38] mountain trail that you're about to head up, head down.

[00:22:41] And as they reach you guys,

[00:22:45] they turn into a through the shadow and mist become three humanoid beings.

[00:22:54] The old woman from down near Berez and the two Makarov twin or like the Makarov children.

[00:23:03] It appears actually even that one of the kids no longer has a need for his crutch

[00:23:09] as he seems to be walking and flying normally again.

[00:23:15] But his leg is recovered.

[00:23:16] Yes.

[00:23:18] Oh, and so this is the old woman.

[00:23:21] I cannot remember her name again.

[00:23:22] God damn it.

[00:23:25] But yeah, she's like, oh, you've made it.

[00:23:29] You've dealt with the cult, it seems.

[00:23:33] Yeah.

[00:23:35] They've all been dealt with rather finally with the exception of,

[00:23:40] well, the captured lich.

[00:23:43] And I have a proposal as far as he is concerned because he seems

[00:23:49] mostly harmless.

[00:23:52] Yes, that old fool is he even in his even in his prime, he is not a physical threat.

[00:24:00] It's more or less his,

[00:24:03] his generosity is what gets the is what seems to always get the better of Barovia

[00:24:09] is, is, uh, he has a very, very open, uh, open source methodology to knowledge.

[00:24:21] Which is fair.

[00:24:22] But that is going to be very helpful for the new Amber order.

[00:24:29] She kind of just like why does I'm sorry, a new Amber order?

[00:24:33] Yes.

[00:24:35] The new Amber order that is going to watch over Barovia.

[00:24:38] Interesting.

[00:24:43] Very well.

[00:24:43] Yes.

[00:24:46] So we were, we came up here to make sure you guys were all right or at least to check in and such.

[00:24:51] And do you want us to fly?

[00:24:54] Or I can have one of the some of the boys fly back and spread the word until you as we're,

[00:25:00] as we're heading back.

[00:25:02] Oh, yes, that would be lovely.

[00:25:04] And we can talk on the ride down.

[00:25:10] Splendid.

[00:25:11] Yes, we'll need to discuss this.

[00:25:15] And figure things out.

[00:25:16] Boys.

[00:25:17] And yes, so basically what do you want the boys to relay back down to Vlaki as you guys are

[00:25:23] heading back down that way?

[00:25:24] The cult is no more.

[00:25:27] They have been vanquished.

[00:25:29] The threat of Strahd rising up early is no longer a threat.

[00:25:39] Sunshine, lollipops, rainbows, all that stuff, you know.

[00:25:42] Yeah.

[00:25:44] Things that don't normally appear in Barovia are about to happen.

[00:25:47] Like also that we are looking for craftsmen, masons, you know.

[00:25:56] Possibly carpenters, people who can help us to turn

[00:26:01] that decrepit site into a livable place again.

[00:26:08] And we're also looking for scholars, people who actually want

[00:26:12] to stand against the rise of Strahd.

[00:26:19] The new Amber Order is going to be recruiting.

[00:26:23] Okay, so with that information, does anybody else want to send any other word down?

[00:26:30] Or are you guys letting Sorin do all the orchestration?

[00:26:38] That's pretty much it, right?

[00:26:39] Mm-hmm.

[00:26:42] You don't want to let, or Yohan, especially if we were in that,

[00:26:45] don't want to let the wolf pack know that you guys are all right?

[00:26:54] I was waiting my turn.

[00:26:58] That's why I was asking.

[00:27:01] Anyone else?

[00:27:02] Like, we have very, very able messenger boys right here.

[00:27:07] Yeah, they kind of puff up their chests a bit with a bit of pride.

[00:27:11] But yeah, Dorotea, would you like to send a message down to your—

[00:27:18] Werewolf with benefits?

[00:27:20] Yes, the werewolf with benefits.

[00:27:22] The words weren't coming to me, so Dave.

[00:27:26] Dave?

[00:27:28] Dave?

[00:27:29] I was muted, I'm here.

[00:27:32] I've been saying words.

[00:27:35] God damn it.

[00:27:36] It's fine.

[00:27:40] All right, so for those of you at home, just imagine two middle-aged men,

[00:27:45] two men that are unfortunately approaching it,

[00:27:47] and a small child sitting around with one of them muted.

[00:27:53] A small child?

[00:27:54] Really?

[00:27:54] Jesus Christ.

[00:27:55] Josh makes me sound like I'm ancient.

[00:27:57] Come on!

[00:27:59] That's fair.

[00:28:00] 20 year difference.

[00:28:04] All right, anyways.

[00:28:05] I'm two years older than Josh.

[00:28:07] I know that offhand because you're the same age as my father.

[00:28:10] Okay, well Josh, I didn't really want you to find out.

[00:28:15] There was this one time I went up to Canada.

[00:28:20] Aaron is like that.

[00:28:21] You make me feel ancient.

[00:28:22] Like, a young kid.

[00:28:26] I'm gonna be 24 this year.

[00:28:28] Yeah, I mean, yeah.

[00:28:31] I'm sorry, Josh.

[00:28:32] I do it out of love and out of jazz.

[00:28:35] I just had a picture of Dave just sitting there talking,

[00:28:38] and I saw at a table looking at each other confused.

[00:28:40] And then, you know.

[00:28:42] What's he saying?

[00:28:47] If I play a game with you in person, I will do that.

[00:28:50] All right, I'm breaking.

[00:28:51] I'm getting this back on course.

[00:28:53] Dave, what did you want Dorothy to say?

[00:28:55] Oh, we refuse to be on course.

[00:28:57] Josh, don't make me throw you out of this call.

[00:29:01] What I was going to say was, rather what I was saying is,

[00:29:04] since we're probably going to be sending one of them back

[00:29:08] to the werewolves camp.

[00:29:11] Do they have a name for their camp?

[00:29:12] They're just the pack, honestly.

[00:29:14] They don't really have too many names for things.

[00:29:21] If one of them is going to be going back to the pack,

[00:29:23] then yes, I would like to let Ulfren know that

[00:29:27] I've survived the encounter.

[00:29:29] Considering when we were leaving out,

[00:29:32] I was kind of like, I don't know,

[00:29:33] I might not be able to do something like this.

[00:29:37] Is kind of the vibe I was going with.

[00:29:42] Things are fine.

[00:29:46] I'm unsure whether or not I'm going back

[00:29:49] to where I came from or not.

[00:29:51] But I'm sure Johan and I will be stopping by before we leave

[00:29:59] if we're both leaving, because Johan might be staying.

[00:30:05] All right.

[00:30:09] Lars, do you have anything to say down there,

[00:30:11] or like to bring up down for the people before you arrive?

[00:30:18] I don't talk to people.

[00:30:20] So the children in a flurry of shadow and mist

[00:30:26] turn back into ravens and swoop down the mountain trail

[00:30:32] and through the crags and ravines out of sight into the mists.

[00:30:37] What you all notice kind of seems a little bit more...

[00:30:42] The mists of Barovia have always kind of been ever-present.

[00:30:46] It's always kind of been like an ever-present kind of gloom

[00:30:49] about the world.

[00:30:50] It seems a lot lighter these days

[00:30:53] as you've left the Amber Temple and such.

[00:30:57] And yeah, you hop onto your Amber steeds

[00:31:02] with your twins and cousins in tow.

[00:31:07] I imagine on either their own steeds

[00:31:09] or on the back, whatever extra space you guys have

[00:31:15] on your steeds.

[00:31:15] They're pretty big steeds.

[00:31:18] And you take off down the mountain trail

[00:31:21] at a surprisingly fast but not worrying gait.

[00:31:29] And you make it back within about half the time

[00:31:32] it took you to get up here from Laki.

[00:31:36] Do all of us know how to ride horses?

[00:31:39] Even if you don't, it seems like these horses are like...

[00:31:43] There's something supernatural about them

[00:31:44] that enchants them to allow even somebody

[00:31:47] who has never ridden a horse be able to ride them.

[00:31:51] These horses are supernatural?

[00:31:52] I never would have guessed.

[00:31:53] Yeah, these amber arcane spectral creatures.

[00:31:58] These World of Warcraft mounts.

[00:32:00] These legendary World of Warcraft mounts

[00:32:02] that I've given you.

[00:32:03] Considering the year that we're from,

[00:32:05] we probably all know how to ride a horse anyways.

[00:32:07] That's true, yeah.

[00:32:09] But yeah, you take down the mountain trails

[00:32:15] effectively preceded by a call

[00:32:19] from up at the very highest point of the mountain

[00:32:21] as the rock lets out a mighty crow,

[00:32:25] signifying a change in the wind.

[00:32:30] And yeah, you guys get down in about...

[00:32:33] Probably it takes about a full day to get back to Vellaki

[00:32:36] at the speed and grace that these steeds are going.

[00:32:40] And by the time you reach the gates to Vellaki,

[00:32:45] you can hear sort of like the commotions of celebration

[00:32:49] from within the walls.

[00:32:51] And even like various outlying farms

[00:32:54] and homes beyond the walls of Vellaki,

[00:32:57] people come out and greet you.

[00:33:00] Mostly at first out of the spectacle

[00:33:02] of like these glowing arcane horses,

[00:33:04] but also at like recognizing the power

[00:33:07] of arcane horses, but also at like recognizing who you are,

[00:33:11] they begin cheering for you.

[00:33:15] And again, the sun begins peeking out

[00:33:17] a little bit more through the graying clouds.

[00:33:21] And as you're sort of paraded into the...

[00:33:25] Like through the main western gates of Vellaki,

[00:33:32] you guys see down the road,

[00:33:35] the main strip of Vellaki and near the town square,

[00:33:41] there are men, women, children, wolves,

[00:33:49] and even some...

[00:33:52] Well, actually you guys can roll a vigilance one last time.

[00:33:58] Oh, yes.

[00:34:00] Now how does this work, Chris?

[00:34:01] Chris?

[00:34:07] Oh guys, I'm sorry.

[00:34:10] Johan has a heart attack.

[00:34:11] It falls off his steed and is crushed.

[00:34:14] Trampled?

[00:34:15] Yeah.

[00:34:18] Unfortunately, he was the first in line,

[00:34:20] so he got trampled by all doors.

[00:34:22] It's not good news.

[00:34:23] Yeah, it was very...

[00:34:24] It was strangely comedic.

[00:34:28] All right.

[00:34:29] Try to stop.

[00:34:31] He died as he lived, clowning.

[00:34:38] Lars just like, specifically just like veered for him.

[00:34:46] Sorry.

[00:34:50] I'm sorry.

[00:34:52] My god, already doing better than last time.

[00:34:54] I got a hit.

[00:34:56] Nice.

[00:34:57] Zero hits.

[00:34:59] Zero hits.

[00:35:01] I've got two.

[00:35:02] Okay.

[00:35:06] So Lars, you see heads kind of...

[00:35:12] Little heads popping up from like around like hidden corners

[00:35:17] or like on top of rooftops like the...

[00:35:20] With long pointy ears and green wool caps

[00:35:26] as it seems like some of the marrow have kind of popped up into town to witness the celebrations.

[00:35:32] And Soren, you also see this, but you also see a couple of...

[00:35:38] You see one particular, particularly large head poking out from the main...

[00:35:43] From like one of the closest timber walls of Vallaki's town

[00:35:47] as Fredrickson has also decided to like come by

[00:35:52] and just like kind of have a gander at like all the celebrations.

[00:35:56] Sort of like the giant spirit of Christmas present from the Disney version of Christmas Carol.

[00:36:09] No, no.

[00:36:10] That's the only good one.

[00:36:12] How dare.

[00:36:15] But yeah, it seems like a lot of the...

[00:36:18] It seems like people in Barovia for the first time in centuries, millennia, eons,

[00:36:26] there is a culmination of peoples coming together after a blight has assailed the lands.

[00:36:39] And yeah, you're greeted by the mayor,

[00:36:45] by the matron that was in charge of the orphanarium with her and all the kids and

[00:36:50] some of that, the Markov family, the owners of the Blue Water Inn,

[00:36:57] otherwise known as the...

[00:36:58] Otherwise, as you know, the were ravens.

[00:37:01] And Johan's pack of werewolves are in the street.

[00:37:06] And there's some people that look a little on edge.

[00:37:09] And certainly you see that on the other opposite side of the street from the wolves

[00:37:14] are those two like hunter bros that are like just giving that all those wolves kind of like

[00:37:20] a very kind of cautious and maybe even peeved Claire.

[00:37:26] Like glaring daggers at them?

[00:37:28] Yeah.

[00:37:29] Just like untrusting in such a way in those regards.

[00:37:34] What do you want to interrupt?

[00:37:36] Going back a second.

[00:37:38] It said orphanarium.

[00:37:40] Yeah, there's like an orphanarium.

[00:37:41] The first thing that popped into my mind was an aquarium of orphans.

[00:37:47] Nice.

[00:37:49] Oh my God.

[00:37:52] But that is an old term for an orphanage.

[00:37:54] I don't doubt it.

[00:37:56] That was the first thing that crossed my mind and I struggled.

[00:38:00] And here's our glass...

[00:38:03] Here's our glass habitation center for the orphans.

[00:38:07] It's like a terrarium, but it's an orphanarium.

[00:38:11] God damn it.

[00:38:11] They filled them with water so that they would swim or drown.

[00:38:16] Oh, at the very least, it'll be revealed which one of them was a changeling to Marrows.

[00:38:24] Oh God.

[00:38:25] I will say Josh, thank you because that's the first time that I've ever actually had that

[00:38:29] idea pop in my head about the word orphanarium.

[00:38:35] Now you will never forget it.

[00:38:37] God damn it.

[00:38:40] What you're supposed to say is thank you, Josh.

[00:38:41] Well, you did actually.

[00:38:42] I actually just did.

[00:38:43] I thanked him and then I said, God damn it.

[00:38:48] So yeah, there is sort of a big celebration as you guys return into town after the Markovs

[00:38:57] let everyone know what had happened on Mount Clackus and the situation.

[00:39:02] It seems like the mayor has designated that Vallaki will allow,

[00:39:06] as long as there is no violence from either side, he is willing to allow some of the non-human

[00:39:13] parties of Barovia within the walls.

[00:39:20] That's a huge step in the right direction considering when we got here they had a...

[00:39:26] You found like wolf skulls and like they formerly had wolf heads on pikes and such.

[00:39:32] Yes.

[00:39:33] Yes.

[00:39:37] But yeah, so there's a big feast that night.

[00:39:42] So if you guys want to try and...

[00:39:44] If you would like to do anything during this time,

[00:39:46] this is sort of like just a time of mingling and celebration.

[00:39:51] After the toasts, I would like to get everybody's attention and make a big announcement.

[00:39:59] Okay.

[00:40:00] Specifically about the new Amber Order and how we are...

[00:40:05] Or the good news is that we have vanquished the cult of Strahd.

[00:40:10] They are no more.

[00:40:12] And we believe as a whole that the only way that we are going to keep them from

[00:40:22] rearing up again is through constant unending vigilance.

[00:40:27] And to that end, we would like to introduce the idea of the new Amber Order.

[00:40:33] We are taking applications.

[00:40:36] We are basically having tryouts for those who wish to join.

[00:40:41] We will accept anyone from any walk of life and that

[00:40:46] those of us who have come to this world from another world

[00:40:51] are going to be going home.

[00:40:52] However, I am not going to be going back to the old earth because Barovia is my home.

[00:41:03] Barovia has always actually been my home because this is not my face.

[00:41:11] I'm going to grab it and pull it off.

[00:41:16] Okay.

[00:41:17] I'm sorry, what?

[00:41:19] So yeah, do you want me to describe this or do you want to describe

[00:41:22] the gory details of how you transform?

[00:41:26] Oh, please.

[00:41:27] Please do.

[00:41:28] Okay.

[00:41:28] Let me just pull up my DM that you sent me about this.

[00:41:33] So in a rather boisterous and theatrical yet gory fashion,

[00:41:43] Sorin just digs his claw into his own face and as blood starts dripping from the wounds,

[00:41:50] he just rips off his own face like skin and flesh and all to reveal the de-glamored form

[00:42:00] of this being.

[00:42:05] Unfortunately, those closest to Sorin, I do in quotes,

[00:42:14] are just sprayed with blood in viscera

[00:42:17] and the remains of the fur pelts and stuff that he used as his clothing.

[00:42:24] And then this being is just kind of, as you guys are wiping your eyes from all the red you have on you,

[00:42:33] there's this being just kind of casually brushing off skin bits and the remnants of muscle and

[00:42:40] the outfit off of his sleeves and such.

[00:42:46] As if it was a bit of spider webbing.

[00:42:52] So everybody roll for your check.

[00:42:54] Yeah, I already had Dice in, man.

[00:42:56] I was getting the dice out.

[00:42:58] I somehow got a hit.

[00:43:00] Wow.

[00:43:03] This is when I somehow get a hit while super mundane things like,

[00:43:09] do you see that over there?

[00:43:11] Nah.

[00:43:12] I don't see it.

[00:43:13] Just like I always do.

[00:43:14] What do I roll for fear?

[00:43:17] You roll either empathy or logic with everybody, with every player except for David.

[00:43:24] Yeah, so plus two.

[00:43:26] Yeah.

[00:43:29] Plus one for the dog.

[00:43:29] Technically Jaeger counts.

[00:43:31] For you, yeah, sure.

[00:43:34] I got a cheesecake.

[00:43:36] Nice.

[00:43:36] I hate guys.

[00:43:37] I'm going to have to get a little bit of a

[00:43:45] nice.

[00:43:51] Also, David, I do want you to roll a...

[00:43:57] What's the one?

[00:44:01] You can either use magic or you could also do...

[00:44:07] What's the one rule for this?

[00:44:09] Inspiration to make sure that the crowd takes this

[00:44:13] or to kind of mitigate crowd collateral on things.

[00:44:18] Yeah, let's see if we can mitigate the fear just a little bit because...

[00:44:26] Let this be the role you bomb.

[00:44:30] Watch.

[00:44:32] Yeah, no, didn't bomb it.

[00:44:34] That's actually 460.

[00:44:41] That feels a lot better.

[00:44:44] Big smile.

[00:44:45] Yeah, do you want me to...

[00:44:47] David, would you like me to show them the sketch I did of your character?

[00:44:51] Yes, please.

[00:44:52] Okay.

[00:44:55] Now bear in mind, the facial hair should not be there.

[00:44:59] I put that on there before David corrected me on what it would look like.

[00:45:06] But yeah, that's what Sorin or as he is actually known as...

[00:45:14] Malvodon.

[00:45:20] That's what he looks like.

[00:45:22] So would you like to describe your new form there, Malvodon?

[00:45:28] Yes.

[00:45:29] So all of the age is just gone.

[00:45:34] In place it's a very ageless looking person.

[00:45:39] Skin and hair are not the same colors.

[00:45:43] They're more aquaticy, shall we say.

[00:45:48] I've got the same eyes as mom.

[00:45:50] More teeth than the Osmond family.

[00:45:52] And the wardrobe is also way more upscale.

[00:45:55] Instead of buckskin pants that I stitched together myself.

[00:45:59] Seamless leather trousers and a king's ransom in silk and silver.

[00:46:04] No gloves.

[00:46:05] No gloves.

[00:46:07] No gloves whatsoever.

[00:46:09] I do have rather pointy, pointy claws at the ends of my fingers.

[00:46:14] And I think that we're going to go with webbing between them.

[00:46:19] Because let's be fair, the Fomor are broadly aquatic.

[00:46:24] Yeah, makes sense.

[00:46:27] Also, I think it would be just...

[00:46:30] I like the personal touch that I tossed into the sketch.

[00:46:33] That your cane...

[00:46:34] You still do have the cane, right?

[00:46:36] The ruined cane.

[00:46:36] Oh yes.

[00:46:37] It has the...

[00:46:39] It's a bit of a gnarled stick.

[00:46:43] Sorry, continue.

[00:46:44] Yeah.

[00:46:45] Oh no, go ahead.

[00:46:46] Oh yeah, so the ruined staff that is no longer in gnarled cane,

[00:46:50] it's now this more prim and proper befitting fey royalty.

[00:46:58] It also now is capped with a crystal orb

[00:47:02] that belonged to a certain mobile home dwelling witch.

[00:47:13] Very nice.

[00:47:14] But yeah, as he is...

[00:47:17] As Malvedon has revealed his full form,

[00:47:20] that's when out of the woodwork,

[00:47:22] a bunch of the marrow that were just kind of like hiding in the shadows of Vallaki

[00:47:27] kind of just like pop up.

[00:47:29] And at first everybody's like...

[00:47:30] It jump scares a bunch of people.

[00:47:33] I draw my sword.

[00:47:36] It's an invasion.

[00:47:37] But then they're all just kind of like hopping around,

[00:47:40] not in any kind of threatening manner,

[00:47:41] but they're shouting,

[00:47:42] Malvedon! Malvedon! Malvedon!

[00:47:49] Just gonna sign hi to my human friends.

[00:47:52] And be like, uh-huh.

[00:47:57] I apologize for that deception,

[00:48:01] but it was necessary, my friends.

[00:48:04] Also, I want to just point out Granny Olson,

[00:48:08] who welcomed you guys into town as well

[00:48:09] because they made it back to the town and such

[00:48:12] with Tom the ghoul and...

[00:48:16] Was it Tom or was it Ted?

[00:48:18] I think it was Ted.

[00:48:19] Ted and Ted the ghoul.

[00:48:21] Although now that I think about it, it should have been Tom.

[00:48:23] Anyways, Ted the ghoul and stuff like that.

[00:48:25] She looks like she spat out whatever she was eating or drinking.

[00:48:30] And is just like, why does it...

[00:48:32] What?

[00:48:33] Like, she apparently was taken by surprise

[00:48:38] just as much as the rest of you guys.

[00:48:41] That's not comforting.

[00:48:43] Shouldn't she know?

[00:48:48] You look to her and she's just like,

[00:48:50] I... What happened to Sorin?

[00:48:56] Oh, the real Sorin was taken under hill when this deception began.

[00:49:01] That was when he was approximately 20 of your years old.

[00:49:08] I...

[00:49:09] And he will be returned to you, you have my assurance.

[00:49:13] But it's been me here this whole time

[00:49:18] because I was needed.

[00:49:21] A dude playing a dude playing another dude.

[00:49:24] I apologize for the deception,

[00:49:26] for my charade, but my presence here was absolutely necessary.

[00:49:36] And I stand by all of the promises that I made

[00:49:40] while I was wearing this face lifting it up.

[00:49:51] Yeah, people are kind of like...

[00:49:54] They're being placated by your charisma or magics.

[00:50:02] But you can definitely...

[00:50:04] This is definitely unsettled a few people,

[00:50:06] but they're not taking it as badly as they definitely could have.

[00:50:12] Certainly your cousins are kind of having the truest of reactions

[00:50:16] in terms of the full-blown reaction rather than like the crowd.

[00:50:21] Lean over to Lars.

[00:50:22] You're human, right?

[00:50:23] No, they should be like...

[00:50:30] It's like you're from Toronto, right?

[00:50:33] It's like, well actually I'm Swedish.

[00:50:35] What?

[00:50:43] Well, this was unexpected, but it doesn't change anything, cousin.

[00:50:56] And it doesn't change my aim.

[00:50:57] I will keep Barovia safe for as long as I must.

[00:51:05] There's going to be a new Barovia,

[00:51:08] a Barovia where the fae and humanity can live in harmony,

[00:51:16] where the threat of Strahd rising from the tomb is not the ever-present menace.

[00:51:28] The people of Barovia deserve a chance to breathe again.

[00:51:32] All right.

[00:51:32] I would like one more inspiration check there, Maldovia or Malvadon.

[00:51:41] Not Maldovia, Malvadon.

[00:51:48] I'll do like the razor roof motion.

[00:51:55] Oh hey look, that's four sixes.

[00:51:58] Yeah, people begin sort of like...

[00:52:01] It starts slow like the tide,

[00:52:04] and then progressively there is a cheer across the crowds.

[00:52:10] And people are honestly just happy that you're not going to suck their blood

[00:52:16] or tear out their jugulars or raise their towns to the ground.

[00:52:24] It's a low bar, but...

[00:52:26] Yeah.

[00:52:26] Welcome to Barovia.

[00:52:28] It's a very low bar, but we're going to soar over that one.

[00:52:33] We're soaring over that one?

[00:52:38] I like that.

[00:52:41] So yeah, after a few moments of cleanup,

[00:52:49] some maros come over and start kind of just cleaning up things around Malvadon.

[00:52:55] You know what?

[00:52:55] Out of the...

[00:52:59] Out from between some of the buildings,

[00:53:03] a elegant tall woman, similar in nature to the new Soren slash Malvadon,

[00:53:14] comes up to join Malvadon and

[00:53:17] gives everybody a low greeting bow.

[00:53:26] I'm going to match that bow except a lot deeper.

[00:53:31] Dear, it's so good to see you in your true form.

[00:53:36] And these must be your cousins that I've heard so much about.

[00:53:42] While smiling...

[00:53:43] Your air quotes a thing back then.

[00:53:46] Because nowadays I would just silently air quote while looking scared and confused.

[00:53:52] But that's not a thing back then.

[00:53:54] Well, yeah, you effectively do something like that.

[00:53:56] And she's like, cousins aren't always blood, dear.

[00:54:01] That's true.

[00:54:03] Yeah, and she's smiling with the smile of a shark.

[00:54:08] There's far too many rows of teeth in her mouth.

[00:54:12] And her eyes are just like jet black, much like Malvadon.

[00:54:18] But yeah, she gives you guys all a courteous greeting and sits down alongside you guys.

[00:54:27] Some of the marrows kind of come up a little bit more and hang out.

[00:54:32] Oh, hello there.

[00:54:34] Yeah.

[00:54:35] So, Lars, what?

[00:54:39] Are you strolling up to the...

[00:54:41] Oh, come on.

[00:54:43] I was going to say the whole like, hello there.

[00:54:47] What happened?

[00:54:54] But yeah, so is there any...

[00:54:56] And obviously like the werewolves are there as well.

[00:54:58] So I'll say you and your wolfoo and your cub are also there together.

[00:55:11] Yeah, Hans.

[00:55:13] They're there.

[00:55:13] That's a pain, Chris.

[00:55:14] You should know things.

[00:55:16] Yes, Chris.

[00:55:17] I'm sorry, Dorotea just dies.

[00:55:23] Slips on some of the viscera.

[00:55:27] Just like knocks her head open.

[00:55:32] So yeah, it's basically like Vossen and humans at a banquet of victory in the center of this town.

[00:55:42] Is there anything Dorotea or Lars, for that matter, would like to do with this gathering?

[00:55:54] Well, if I may be so bold as to jump in here.

[00:55:56] So while the Ewoks are playing on the skulls of stormtroopers...

[00:56:01] Yeah, the marrows are just like, yep, yep.

[00:56:04] Oh, me going about will...

[00:56:12] No, me going about.

[00:56:13] Fuck that.

[00:56:13] I'll go like, excuse myself for my cousins and my twin apparently that I haven't spoken to.

[00:56:22] Oh yeah, sorry, I apologize.

[00:56:26] No, there's nothing to apologize for.

[00:56:28] Yeah, he introduced himself as...

[00:56:31] I gotta pull up the names.

[00:56:33] As Jacob Anderson.

[00:56:37] Yeah, I look over at Jacob and go, we'll catch up.

[00:56:42] I'll take care of Granny.

[00:56:44] She's taking the whole Soren thing a little hard.

[00:56:49] I've got him.

[00:56:50] I've got him, brother.

[00:56:51] I appreciate it.

[00:56:54] And then I'll kind of make my way over, you know, child runs for daddy.

[00:57:01] Pick him up, swing him around, even though he's probably quite...

[00:57:08] I can't remember how old he is.

[00:57:11] I think he was like around 12-ish.

[00:57:13] Yeah, so I mean, goddamn.

[00:57:15] That's... let me tell you from somebody who has an 11 year old.

[00:57:20] Yeah, he's about like preteen-ish at this time.

[00:57:25] Well, I will pick him up by his arms.

[00:57:27] I'll lean over and like bear a hug, spin around, kind of.

[00:57:32] Oh, I'm over here.

[00:57:39] But then, you know, make it over to Ursula.

[00:57:46] I think we're done.

[00:57:48] About where, I mean, my cousin's this grim, dark work.

[00:57:54] Yeah, she's smiling, just very, very...

[00:57:59] Just overwhelmed with emotion.

[00:58:01] And gives you a large embrace.

[00:58:06] And is like, so when will we be moving the pack?

[00:58:12] Is that still the plan or are you staying here with us or are we going with you?

[00:58:20] We can always go back if you don't like it.

[00:58:23] But we need to get my niece to her father, my brother.

[00:58:31] And yeah, we, you know, talking over with the pack.

[00:58:37] See if they want to come.

[00:58:38] Who wants to stay?

[00:58:39] Who wants to branch out?

[00:58:44] Check out the wonders of the 20th century?

[00:58:49] I think.

[00:58:50] 19th century.

[00:58:51] Oh, we're in late 1800s, right?

[00:58:53] No, late 19th century.

[00:58:55] Sorry, it's the 19th century, so 1800s.

[00:58:57] Yeah.

[00:58:58] Okay.

[00:58:58] 17 something.

[00:58:59] No, it's 1890 something is technically the...

[00:59:02] We love it.

[00:59:05] Yeah, apparently.

[00:59:07] Yeah, 1890.

[00:59:07] It was a good year.

[00:59:13] The 1890s.

[00:59:15] Gotta love those 90s.

[00:59:18] I wouldn't have guessed, I was born in the thousand.

[00:59:22] God.

[00:59:24] You were born in 1900.

[00:59:25] I remember my name was 90s.

[00:59:31] Or solid does bring up.

[00:59:32] It's like, well, yes, I had heard that one of our own Ulfren

[00:59:38] was considering going up with your cousin Dorothea up to the Northlands,

[00:59:45] some place called Newfoundland.

[00:59:48] Some newfound land.

[00:59:51] That proves the barren hillscape.

[00:59:54] Yes.

[00:59:56] Don't pronounce the O.

[00:59:57] She lives in a place called Cock, or named for somebody's...

[01:00:10] They raised roosters there, darling.

[01:00:13] They had a really proud rooster.

[01:00:18] Sorry, I can't ever get past the fact that they named the town dildo, I'm sorry.

[01:00:23] Yeah.

[01:00:25] I am an immature 12 year old.

[01:00:28] Well, it's older than the term, isn't it?

[01:00:30] No, yeah.

[01:00:31] Dildo technically is a boating term.

[01:00:34] It's not just a private parts thing.

[01:00:37] Anyway, sorry to break the mood.

[01:00:41] It's fine.

[01:00:42] I mean, I deserve it.

[01:00:44] There's also that other lovely village just down the jetty, Fanny Hammer.

[01:00:51] You laugh, you joke, David,

[01:00:55] but there is a place just south of dildo called Shag Rock.

[01:00:59] So...

[01:01:01] Where everyone takes their dildos.

[01:01:04] Yeah, anyway, moving on.

[01:01:06] Maybe the last time I make a character from dildo.

[01:01:09] I think we've kicked the dead horse.

[01:01:14] Yeah.

[01:01:16] It will not be the last time.

[01:01:18] As I flip the corn on this dead horse and it returns to her coin,

[01:01:22] I will say to lovely Ursula.

[01:01:27] So we can kind of go ahead and prepare.

[01:01:31] I'll talk with...

[01:01:34] He's still soaring to me, but I will talk to looks at image and chat

[01:01:41] Maladon to see if the original soaring.

[01:01:47] I'd like to make sure he's well set up.

[01:01:49] And if you all like everything you see,

[01:01:52] over in the hills, then we can begin a new...

[01:01:58] In beautiful Kentucky.

[01:02:05] That isn't a slight...

[01:02:10] Don't worry, Soren will be on Soren's mountaintop.

[01:02:15] He will wake up and he will remember all of his time under hill as if it was just a dream.

[01:02:20] Is he going to be old, guys?

[01:02:21] Or is he going to be like 20?

[01:02:26] He was taken when he was 20.

[01:02:27] So he aged while he was gone, right?

[01:02:29] Do the age the same.

[01:02:37] Maritime, I think, is what I called the one marrow specifically.

[01:02:43] Yeah, Maritime, the marrow commander who's there.

[01:02:48] His green cap has a feather in it signifying that he is different from the other marrows.

[01:02:53] It's like...

[01:02:58] Sorry.

[01:03:01] I apologize to the she and the other circles of the fey.

[01:03:08] Maritime looks to Alvedon and is like,

[01:03:15] I know he should be still in his 20s, I believe.

[01:03:21] Yes, when we take someone, they sleep.

[01:03:26] It is an eternally youthful sleep.

[01:03:32] They sleep outside of time.

[01:03:37] Well, kind of, yes.

[01:03:40] Actually, when you put it that way, he is, but he's dreaming.

[01:03:49] Yes, he is dreaming and waiting to be reawakened and put back into his rightful place.

[01:03:58] And what of his family that are going to have him return in his rightful place?

[01:04:04] How many years after he was taken?

[01:04:06] I assume like 40.

[01:04:08] Soren did, or Malvedon, did Soren have family?

[01:04:13] That's the pretty part about this.

[01:04:15] There were no family.

[01:04:17] That's why Soren was such a great candidate for me to borrow his identity.

[01:04:25] He lived on top of a mountain where no one actually noticed.

[01:04:31] Do you realize that it was 30 years on top of that mountain before anyone

[01:04:38] actually came to see me?

[01:04:42] Yes.

[01:04:42] In fact, I believe you all, you folk are his extended family,

[01:04:48] the only family he ever has or he'll ever have.

[01:04:56] Now, I admit that it has been quite some time since he went under the hill.

[01:05:03] I mean, that was a rather old face I was wearing.

[01:05:09] But he'll be able to start on that mountain.

[01:05:14] Some of the trees will definitely be taller.

[01:05:18] Some of the bears will have aged out and there will be an entirely different family

[01:05:23] of woodchucks that is living underneath the woodshed, but it will be his house.

[01:05:29] I guess you did live there though.

[01:05:32] It'll be like coming home.

[01:05:34] I did.

[01:05:36] I lived.

[01:05:37] I learned.

[01:05:38] I waited.

[01:05:40] And much of the same knowledge that I have is knowledge that he will be imbued with.

[01:05:47] Your cousin Soren will be an arcanist as well.

[01:05:52] He'll know a thing or two about the fey because

[01:05:55] no matter how much we try to wipe the memories of his time under the hill away,

[01:06:01] he is going to remember quite a bit about the Vassan.

[01:06:05] And the injuries that he had picked up as a 20-year-old young man,

[01:06:10] you realize that Soren went to the top of that mountain because he was

[01:06:18] quite literally attacked by a Lindvorm and he was hit by corrosive venom.

[01:06:24] Well, those wounds will be gone, but it took quite a bit of time.

[01:06:28] We let him heal and so he will be emerging going back to his home.

[01:06:35] All of his wounds are going to be gone.

[01:06:37] He will have more knowledge and he will have benefited from his time.

[01:06:43] It just means that his clock is going to be moved up a little bit ahead.

[01:06:47] There might be a little disorientation.

[01:06:50] There might be a little bit of disorientation,

[01:06:52] but give him time and he will come to know all of you as much as I have

[01:06:59] and he will grow to love you as much as I have.

[01:07:02] And he'll probably hand you a rather large hunk of iron just to make sure that you're human.

[01:07:08] Yeah, that didn't seem to work on you.

[01:07:10] Yeah, we failed to realize that you were wearing gloves the entire time.

[01:07:14] Oh, not anymore.

[01:07:16] No.

[01:07:18] Waves the giant whipped cloth.

[01:07:20] Yeah, yeah.

[01:07:22] No more need for disguise.

[01:07:25] You say the glove thing.

[01:07:28] I've seen him touch metal with his bare hand.

[01:07:34] I'm just going to reach over and pick up the fleshy, fleshy...

[01:07:37] The hands and fingers.

[01:07:40] Some like, oh god, some like fingers like slots.

[01:07:44] You realize that this is also a glove.

[01:07:47] Oh my god.

[01:07:50] Turn around and walk away.

[01:07:54] It is a glove.

[01:07:58] Yeah, did he just like walk off for foley?

[01:08:03] Yeah.

[01:08:04] I thought I heard like a distant like, oh fuck.

[01:08:08] Oh, fuck.

[01:08:11] Yep.

[01:08:12] Ah, fuck butt.

[01:08:14] Oh, fuck butt.

[01:08:16] That shit's disgusting there right there.

[01:08:21] That's my thing.

[01:08:22] Okay, yeah, and as this is also going on, Dorte Ulfren arrives on the scene and is like,

[01:08:31] Dorte, my love!

[01:08:33] I managed to survive.

[01:08:35] You did!

[01:08:36] He just gives you like a big bear hug, raises you up.

[01:08:39] No, it's a wolfhawk not a bear hug.

[01:08:42] Yes.

[01:08:46] Lars Malt.

[01:08:51] But yeah, so basically Ulfren goes in as well as like,

[01:08:56] so I've been thinking while you were away and I said,

[01:09:00] Ulfren, if she comes back, I will go with her to this newfound land.

[01:09:07] Surely I will be able to, I will be the first werewolf to come to your lands

[01:09:16] and run across all the coastline.

[01:09:20] As long as you feel it's safe to do so.

[01:09:22] So, it's uh, my newfound land is not as welcoming as your kind is here.

[01:09:32] Especially now after the town seems more welcoming.

[01:09:36] That being said, I am happy to have you come back.

[01:09:42] Yeah, he is just overjoyed.

[01:09:44] He's like a giant golden retriever.

[01:09:47] But yeah, so unless you guys have something else you would like to describe or have brought up.

[01:10:00] Actually, Lars, Hugo comes over.

[01:10:04] It's like, Lars, my brother.

[01:10:09] I've been talking with my butler and I see this tab that has been in place.

[01:10:27] Was this you by any chance?

[01:10:28] Oh, it was Jäger.

[01:10:31] Hammer pans down to the dog.

[01:10:33] Looks up to you.

[01:10:36] Just crashes down and is like, Jäger, is this all you?

[01:10:40] And Jäger looks up to you, Lars.

[01:10:43] And you think, he can't say it, but you think he's like,

[01:10:47] he sort of just nods for a second and then just kind of barks an affirmative

[01:10:52] to Hugo to kind of like, basically like, I'll jump in front of that bus for you, bro.

[01:10:59] I expect a bullet for this later.

[01:11:03] And he's like, oh, well, you're such a good boy.

[01:11:05] Well, I can't.

[01:11:07] You know what?

[01:11:09] You seem, Hugo looks you up and down, Lars, and is like, well,

[01:11:15] I've done very well here and I feel like I should probably

[01:11:20] share some of that success with you.

[01:11:24] If you would like, Lars.

[01:11:25] I'm sorry?

[01:11:29] Your baby mama.

[01:11:30] Oh, sweet.

[01:11:31] By the by the miss.

[01:11:32] She wanted to give you something.

[01:11:33] I slap him hard.

[01:11:36] Yeah, he's like something you're like, yeah, something realizing what it's like.

[01:11:41] It's like, do you want to roll?

[01:11:44] Like, see how powerful that slap is?

[01:11:45] Or a fuck or.

[01:11:48] Yeah, roll.

[01:11:49] Roll.

[01:11:50] Was it physique or something?

[01:11:52] Yes.

[01:11:54] Close combat.

[01:11:55] Close combat.

[01:11:55] Yeah, close combat was to like suck your brother.

[01:11:59] I will put this fucking role too.

[01:12:05] If you have to.

[01:12:07] Oh, I don't have to.

[01:12:08] I've already hit him, but I'm putting this role on.

[01:12:11] Even if he rolls well, he's going to push the full name.

[01:12:14] Yeah, I was going to put the role no matter what

[01:12:16] he wants to hear the the the Ford a like smash attack sound

[01:12:22] from using a fricking home run bat in Smash Brothers.

[01:12:26] He wants to make sure he.

[01:12:28] Yeah, I was just he wants to make sure that the misses here's here's the slap

[01:12:34] from all the way in Barovia.

[01:12:35] The world.

[01:12:36] Yeah, yeah, exactly.

[01:12:38] His new name is Chris Rock.

[01:12:41] Three hits.

[01:12:42] Three hits?

[01:12:43] Yeah, he is just he he does like a he does like a twist in the air like around

[01:12:49] and then like play and then lands on the cobblestone.

[01:12:53] Wait, did he die the way that like

[01:12:55] like guys die in freaking the old Street Fighter or like spinning around going?

[01:13:00] Oh, I kind of in that I was kind of thinking more like how some characters

[01:13:05] like did the twirl in like Jackie Chan's Shanghai Nights.

[01:13:10] Oh, okay.

[01:13:10] Where they just be like the the twirl in the air and then hit the ground.

[01:13:16] Yeah, and eventually he gets back up like completely like discombobulated is like, oh,

[01:13:21] I suppose I did deserve that.

[01:13:25] Um, tell you what Lars, um, if uh, I should probably go find uh,

[01:13:38] my lady.

[01:13:39] What was her name?

[01:13:40] Um, is he saying this in character?

[01:13:42] I thought harder than I thought.

[01:13:43] This is in character and out of character.

[01:13:46] This is in character and out of character because this fits the character.

[01:13:49] Yes, it does.

[01:13:50] Um, well, it's a pain.

[01:13:52] It's a pain.

[01:13:54] Yeah.

[01:13:55] Um, but uh, tell you what for all the grief I may have caused you, uh, Lars, um,

[01:14:03] I'll have if you aren't staying in Barovia, I will uh, I'll have my man

[01:14:13] give you some funds for your journey back to Earth.

[01:14:21] Uh, is that does that see you well?

[01:14:25] Yes.

[01:14:25] Yes.

[01:14:26] Yes, that does.

[01:14:27] Okay.

[01:14:28] Uh, so you'll be getting you'll be getting two wealth, um, or two dots of wealth there.

[01:14:33] Lars, I have a question.

[01:14:35] Yeah, the funds here like the the currency itself, is that going to transfer over to

[01:14:42] Well, it's silver.

[01:14:44] It's at the very least it's valuable metal.

[01:14:48] Yeah, it is.

[01:14:49] It is the coinage of Barovia.

[01:14:51] Um, I'm going to say is uh, like it's probably like the the money that you guys would have

[01:14:59] seen with the currencies you would have seen with the coinage would probably have been

[01:15:02] silver of some kind.

[01:15:04] So yeah, but they'll be minted differently, right?

[01:15:07] Yeah.

[01:15:07] So you guys, but you guys could always like, you know, melt that stuff down and

[01:15:10] then like sell it at a jeweler or something like that and basically make that wealth back.

[01:15:14] So yeah, for sure.

[01:15:15] Or you could just hand them coins and it's like, what is this all hail strad on the face of

[01:15:21] What are these?

[01:15:22] Who cares?

[01:15:23] It's silver.

[01:15:24] It's got bat insignia on the other side.

[01:15:29] Must be from Romania.

[01:15:32] It's one of them dang fur in coins.

[01:15:35] Yeah, make sure it's actual silver.

[01:15:37] Yeah.

[01:15:37] Woo wee.

[01:15:40] I don't know who this this strad guy was, but he he was really good with his

[01:15:43] minting.

[01:15:46] I don't know why that jeweler had like that accent, but

[01:15:52] So yeah, as as Hugo kind of goes wandering off to go maybe go see it make amends with

[01:16:00] with the his misses.

[01:16:02] Maybe to go see a dentist.

[01:16:03] We don't know.

[01:16:04] Yeah, maybe that too.

[01:16:07] Is there anything else you guys would like to do while you're in Vlaki before I kind

[01:16:11] of shift into the the epilogue side of things?

[01:16:19] Speak now or forever hold your peace.

[01:16:22] Other than that one little thing, but if it's doable.

[01:16:27] Actually, I also just had this idea.

[01:16:28] Johan, do you want to have a Barovian wedding?

[01:16:33] Yes, Johan.

[01:16:34] Do you want to have a Barovian wedding?

[01:16:36] Like.

[01:16:38] Do you want to know?

[01:16:39] You want to turn this celebration into another celebration?

[01:16:42] Yeah, yeah, I'll make an honest woman out of her.

[01:16:44] You mean you'll make an honest wolf out of her.

[01:16:46] I'll make an honest wolf out of her hell for all right.

[01:16:51] Honey, I put this off of that thing.

[01:17:02] Honey, we can't just go back.

[01:17:05] Like, you know, we got to cause a scandal with my family here.

[01:17:09] So if you will do me the honor and drop someone the.

[01:17:17] What are you doing?

[01:17:19] Well, where I come from is this way we propose marriage since

[01:17:24] we are making it official of sorts.

[01:17:30] I she like looks around and there's like a couple of people.

[01:17:36] A couple of people and a couple even the Marrows and so it just like shaking

[01:17:39] like nodding their heads like yes, yes.

[01:17:40] Yes.

[01:17:40] Like, oh, okay.

[01:17:44] Yes, let's let's do this.

[01:17:46] Johan.

[01:17:48] Chris, you just gave me twice facts when I did that to my wife.

[01:17:52] Like he had a look of terror at her upper like part of her upper lips

[01:17:58] are to curl like Elvis.

[01:18:05] So I can't do it right anywhere.

[01:18:12] It's not you.

[01:18:13] It's the fact that she like her people don't really have this custom.

[01:18:16] But yeah, it's me.

[01:18:17] I swear.

[01:18:18] Yeah.

[01:18:19] But yeah.

[01:18:20] Okay.

[01:18:20] So you guys basically stay another night effectively as there is sort of a

[01:18:28] as you go to the local church in the Locky.

[01:18:33] At this point, the same guy that like, yeah.

[01:18:36] Oh, would you guys want to have it in the Locky or do you guys want to have

[01:18:38] it in in Barovi in the village of Barovi?

[01:18:41] Which is also close to the wall to the walls of miss where you're going

[01:18:45] to go through the exit Barovi technically.

[01:18:49] That sounds a little more appropriate.

[01:18:51] Like, you know, okay.

[01:18:53] Okay.

[01:18:54] So you guys are here for a few more days.

[01:18:56] My way as the party moves from the Locky to Barovi village proper.

[01:19:06] And yeah, there is a very nice ceremony with the cousins, the wolf pack,

[01:19:16] various members of the fake of the Shadowfell fake court,

[01:19:20] for Morians, the Barovian humans that you met,

[01:19:30] the mayor and such in him from Barovia village and some from

[01:19:34] Blocky as well.

[01:19:35] Petonius eventually comes down from the mountain to attend.

[01:19:42] Took a break from his busy schedule of

[01:19:46] He just portaled in.

[01:19:50] I got a good five minutes.

[01:19:51] Here we go.

[01:19:52] Yeah, it's like a rift opened up and he just like walked through.

[01:19:55] It's like, hey, hello.

[01:19:57] I heard there was a

[01:19:59] I was imagining he'd like frag the literature too by just carving out the

[01:20:06] I'm also surprised.

[01:20:09] I'm also surprised.

[01:20:10] None of you guys just like wait, you could portal through this whole time?

[01:20:16] Not the slightest bit surprised.

[01:20:17] I know that that is a bit magic that Petonius has had, but he's decided not to use.

[01:20:22] No, because it's not about the destination.

[01:20:26] It's about the journey.

[01:20:27] Yeah.

[01:20:28] Okay, Gandalf.

[01:20:29] So what you're saying is that you've really been enjoying this road trip?

[01:20:34] Indeed.

[01:20:35] And quite an unexpected journey.

[01:20:39] Yes.

[01:20:42] So yeah, it's a very nice it's the father and his son,

[01:20:48] the priests from the church in Barovia village,

[01:20:52] sort of getting everything in order and such.

[01:20:57] You're decked out to the nines through some of your various,

[01:21:02] through Helga and Hugo's financing.

[01:21:06] Like they got a tailor to get you some nice suits and outfits and such.

[01:21:12] Your waifu, wolfu to be was a little initially a bit uncomfortable with the kind of outfits,

[01:21:29] but she did look rather nice coming down the aisle with your son Han kind of walking her

[01:21:36] down the aisle and such to give her paw to you in marriage.

[01:21:44] And yeah, again, I will say also by her request,

[01:21:54] it was the entire ceremony was held at night rather than during the day

[01:22:02] as the skies cleared and a big full moon shown silver light over the church.

[01:22:12] David Soren is my best friend.

[01:22:16] He's been my best man from the beginning.

[01:22:19] Oh, just breathe cousin.

[01:22:23] Is Jaeger the ring bearer or is that your son Han?

[01:22:28] My son, oh come on, I can't cut him out of it.

[01:22:31] That's fair.

[01:22:34] The flower girl somebody can carry.

[01:22:37] What I used to call Bula, but I can't remember now because our family is Ariel.

[01:22:41] Her name is Ariel.

[01:22:42] Yeah, like the mermaid.

[01:22:46] Our family has a curse with names.

[01:22:50] Hey, you.

[01:22:55] For some reason, I see granny just staring daggers in the front.

[01:22:59] Just the groom side front row.

[01:23:02] Just I don't know who she's madder at you for marrying the werewolf

[01:23:06] or me for hiding her grandson this whole time.

[01:23:10] David Yeah, really.

[01:23:12] Um, yeah, so the ceremony goes on and

[01:23:21] Lars as you're like sitting there, you're like, you're enjoying or you're kind of,

[01:23:26] well, you're enjoying the kind of good feel vibes of the ceremony and such.

[01:23:31] But something kind of like tips you off.

[01:23:34] You look around, it's like where the hell, where did Jaeger go?

[01:23:39] And you're looking around and

[01:23:43] as in like it, he's nowhere to be found for the entire like rest of the ceremony.

[01:23:50] And as everybody is like getting out of the church

[01:23:53] and like the crowds kind of like, like funneling out and such,

[01:23:56] you're still looking around and some of that and you're getting kind of worried.

[01:24:01] And then there's a tap on your shoulder.

[01:24:04] And you look, you turn around and you don't entirely recognize his face,

[01:24:13] but his eyes are the exact same as Jaeger's.

[01:24:18] And it's a human.

[01:24:20] Lars is my dog.

[01:24:22] But yeah, it's a human, but the same age as you.

[01:24:28] A little bit shaggier hair, but the same kind of hair color as you.

[01:24:32] And he is wearing a nice kind of turquoise and well, honestly, the outfit kind of looks

[01:24:41] similar to Kathleen, the Fomorian queen and Malvadon's attire.

[01:24:48] And wait, is this Jaeger in human form?

[01:24:55] As Jaeger's like, well, as he opens his mouth, it's like, hey, brother.

[01:25:01] Bork, bork.

[01:25:08] How's it going, brother?

[01:25:11] Turns out the fae queen there is powerful enough to make a dog back into a human.

[01:25:21] Though I was told that apparently I'm stuck with the eyes.

[01:25:29] Because they are actually dog eyes that he has.

[01:25:34] I think I'm going to need some tinted spectacles or something.

[01:25:39] But yeah, looks over to Kathleen, the Fomorian queen, and she just kind of waves.

[01:25:49] And then he just kind of waves back and is like, thanks.

[01:25:53] So yeah, that was a gift from Malvadon who asked his mother if her fae powers could maybe

[01:26:02] reverse at least some of the transformation that had befallen Jaeger.

[01:26:09] Way to go there, David.

[01:26:12] Hug your brother or something.

[01:26:15] It got rid of my dog. Way to go.

[01:26:16] Hug your brother.

[01:26:22] At least give him a ball or something.

[01:26:32] Lars, did you want to do anything like your brother's back as a human again?

[01:26:36] Yeah, but I lost my dog.

[01:26:39] We can get you a new dog.

[01:26:41] I mean, at this point, Kathleen walks over.

[01:26:46] She was being elegant and she's like, I'm just walks over.

[01:26:49] It's like, all right, look, if you want the don't worry.

[01:26:53] No, no, it's like, don't worry.

[01:26:54] He can shift back in and out similar to your friends there.

[01:27:00] And he looks over to the werewolves and such.

[01:27:03] Well, to be fair, once that ensourcment has happened,

[01:27:06] the body kind of remembers.

[01:27:08] Have you ever dislocated a bone?

[01:27:11] It's like that, but on a mystic sense.

[01:27:13] You're more prone to dislocate that same shoulder over and over and over again.

[01:27:18] So he can probably do it.

[01:27:23] It'll take practice, but eventually he will get to the point where he just goes

[01:27:26] from human to dog and dog to human just whenever.

[01:27:30] Although I would recommend stretchy pants.

[01:27:38] He does look oddly enough like Taylor Lautner.

[01:27:44] Don't do that to him, Chris.

[01:27:46] Don't Chris, don't.

[01:27:53] Yeah, I'm sorry.

[01:27:54] But yeah.

[01:27:55] All right.

[01:27:56] Not sorry.

[01:27:57] Yeah.

[01:27:59] Yeah.

[01:27:59] So you have your brother, but you also have your dog still.

[01:28:03] And I mean, if you really want to try and find a way to

[01:28:07] fully cure him of this ensorcelment,

[01:28:10] there might be something in your epilogue for that.

[01:28:11] The very least to get back to those, the people who did this to you

[01:28:18] or did this to you and your family and such.

[01:28:20] I didn't get a chance to interject with this.

[01:28:22] I am so sorry.

[01:28:23] I didn't want to talk over with people.

[01:28:25] I've been hanging on to this when it was mentioned that Hugo was like

[01:28:30] buying like getting a suit ready for for Johan and stuff.

[01:28:37] What brand of suit would that be?

[01:28:39] You think?

[01:28:39] Because I would think it probably Hugo Boss at something else.

[01:28:44] If like it has to be right.

[01:28:48] I would agree with that.

[01:28:49] Yeah, it's for lucky.

[01:28:51] It's an offshoot of Versace.

[01:28:53] Yeah, yeah, it's it's Barovian.

[01:28:55] It's the equivalent of Hugo Boss and Versace.

[01:29:00] Again, Helga and Hugo make a lot of money.

[01:29:02] So they've done really well for themselves in Barovia.

[01:29:05] Indeed.

[01:29:06] Okay.

[01:29:07] Yeah.

[01:29:08] You just edit that in.

[01:29:10] I'll leave it at this point.

[01:29:11] Yeah, yeah.

[01:29:14] Yes, please get it.

[01:29:15] Okay.

[01:29:18] So is there anything else you guys would like to do?

[01:29:22] Are you guys going to make your decision?

[01:29:23] Are you staying or should you stay or should you go now in Barovia?

[01:29:28] If we stay there will be trouble.

[01:29:32] But if I leave it would be double.

[01:29:34] That's true.

[01:29:37] So I'm going to let you know, I'm going to stay.

[01:29:40] I'm not going to go.

[01:29:43] Okay, so, so Malvodon and his Fomori court are going to remain in Barovia.

[01:29:53] Though you guys do know that apparently when you guys get back to Earth,

[01:29:57] there will be a cousin somewhere up on a mountain in Appalachia.

[01:30:01] We're gonna have to track him down now.

[01:30:03] I guess somewhere in Eastern Kentucky or like, is it going to be in like West Virginia?

[01:30:09] I'd say Eastern Kentucky.

[01:30:11] Yeah, I just think it's like, so we got a cousin in Western Kentucky

[01:30:14] and a cousin in Eastern Kentucky.

[01:30:17] Almost having my ass.

[01:30:22] Well, so yeah, if Sorin knows where that is, can we get a map?

[01:30:28] I feel like we should ask him for a rough map of how to find him.

[01:30:31] So we're not just scouring the Kentucky countryside.

[01:30:35] I try to find it.

[01:30:37] Sure, this is his mountain and you know, Granny knows as well,

[01:30:40] although she's not talking to me for some reason.

[01:30:44] She's like, yeah, she's been like staring at you kind of in disbelief

[01:30:47] and just like, I can't believe I didn't notice like, or like, I can't believe I didn't know.

[01:30:53] I don't know my own friend.

[01:30:55] We'll work on it.

[01:30:56] It's like, it was pretty horrifying how you revealed yourself.

[01:30:59] Yeah, she took it pretty hard.

[01:31:00] She's like been Keanu Reeves sitting the whole time.

[01:31:05] I just want to eat a sandwich, man.

[01:31:09] I would apologize, but that's how we break a glamour.

[01:31:13] It's never clean or neat.

[01:31:18] Usually there's a certain je ne sais quoi that has to be part of it.

[01:31:24] Kathleen is just like nodding her head.

[01:31:27] It's like, it has to happen a certain way.

[01:31:33] We can't be, I mean, I'm sure you've heard about the ones that

[01:31:38] the fae that live in trees that make cookies.

[01:31:44] We're not like them.

[01:31:46] We're not pretty.

[01:31:47] We're not the summer court.

[01:31:52] Kathleen is like, we're not even the winter court.

[01:31:54] Technically, we're the shadow court.

[01:31:58] We're a lot closer to winter than summer if you just look at it from the angle though.

[01:32:04] Yes.

[01:32:05] Although we are going to do a lot for the light.

[01:32:09] I mean, I'm sure that those very brave, very, very good boys

[01:32:15] gesturing towards the were raven

[01:32:18] are probably going to do a lot for Barovia in the future.

[01:32:22] I know that when it comes time to recruit messengers for the new Amber order,

[01:32:27] they might be willing to step up.

[01:32:31] We have big plans for Barovia and the rest of the Misty Lands, says Kathleen.

[01:32:36] Doesn't sound ominous at all.

[01:32:38] You're not sure if there's malice to that or if she's just being rather confident.

[01:32:45] It's going to be a new day for Barovia.

[01:32:47] The sun will rise.

[01:32:49] Make Barovia great again.

[01:32:51] God.

[01:32:53] What Barovia have you been living in?

[01:32:55] Barovia was never great.

[01:32:59] Make Barovia better again?

[01:33:01] We're going to make Barovia better.

[01:33:03] Hey, just make Barovia better.

[01:33:05] We're going to build to a better tomorrow

[01:33:08] and not the better tomorrow with all of the John Woo-ism.

[01:33:11] No, an actual better tomorrow.

[01:33:14] Okay.

[01:33:14] It seems like this is going to be a farewell for now at least

[01:33:20] to Malvadon slash Soren as are the rest of you leaving for Earth with

[01:33:29] and Granny Olsen actually eventually does come over to like,

[01:33:32] she will help you guys find Soren's mountain

[01:33:39] or whoever is going to Kentucky to search for Soren.

[01:33:43] Like that kind of stuff will happen.

[01:33:46] Eventually, Granny does come up to Malvadon.

[01:33:49] It's like, well, Soren or should I call you Malvadon?

[01:33:59] You can call me by whatever name you wish.

[01:34:02] Whatever is most comfortable for you.

[01:34:05] She kind of like gives a smirk and is like,

[01:34:08] well, Grant nephew, it takes a lot to pull a wool over my eyes

[01:34:17] and I'm surprised it happened, but I am getting old

[01:34:24] and I've made lots of mistakes trying to spare this family and save our people.

[01:34:31] But thank you for your part and for keeping Soren safe.

[01:34:39] I'm just sorry that all of this had to happen.

[01:34:44] You've done a lot for Barovia.

[01:34:48] Don't you think it's time that you took a break, got to rest,

[01:34:54] spend some time with your grandchildren, get to know them really, really well?

[01:35:01] I think I've been in the mists too long.

[01:35:04] I think I need to go back to the lands of my beloved

[01:35:09] and see my other nephews and nieces and grandchildren.

[01:35:15] With that, Granny Olsen is planning on basically living out the rest of her days on earth.

[01:35:22] I will take that torch for you and should you find one of your kin

[01:35:30] that you would rather I pass that torch to, I will gladly relinquish it.

[01:35:38] But until that time, I'll hold it.

[01:35:43] I'll hold it.

[01:35:45] I will keep this land safe.

[01:35:47] Thank you.

[01:35:49] Do you trust me?

[01:35:50] I do.

[01:35:51] I just hope that the old powers don't intercede for a while.

[01:36:00] I'm going to give her the very, very toothy grin.

[01:36:04] I'd like to see them try it.

[01:36:06] Strangely enough, even with the shark smile, she comes in for a grandmotherly hug.

[01:36:15] You take care, grandson.

[01:36:19] You as well, Granny Olsen.

[01:36:22] And then she goes up to your mother who's standing nearby.

[01:36:28] And they share a very subtle gesture of appreciation and such.

[01:36:33] And then it turns over to the rest of you guys.

[01:36:38] It's like, well, the mists are opening.

[01:36:43] I can feel them showing the way back to earth.

[01:36:48] Are you coming?

[01:36:52] I believe so.

[01:36:54] Oh, fuck yes.

[01:36:56] Oh, fuck bud.

[01:36:58] Oh, fuck yeah, that or what.

[01:37:00] Okay.

[01:37:01] So and then, Johan, you look back and you see the wolves are basically all ready.

[01:37:06] Like they're like your wife and your son, they are in their wolf forms

[01:37:15] with the rest of the pack ready to move on into the beyond the mists.

[01:37:20] And Dorotea, are you also ready to go?

[01:37:25] Or do you have something to do?

[01:37:27] Do you have something to do?

[01:37:29] What is my sister doing?

[01:37:32] Helga is going to remain.

[01:37:35] She has a practice here.

[01:37:36] She has a life and a rather successful one.

[01:37:39] And she's come to care for these people in the time that she's been here.

[01:37:47] So she's going to remain.

[01:37:50] She feels more bound to Barovia than earth.

[01:37:53] That's fair.

[01:37:54] In fact, most of your other just for the sake of the rest of you guys,

[01:37:57] like your twins that were also taken and that you guys rescued,

[01:38:03] similarly they feel a stronger bond in connection with the lands of Barovia than

[01:38:08] than those of old earth.

[01:38:10] So they will be remaining.

[01:38:18] I feel more of a connection with actual earth.

[01:38:20] So I'll be returning because this place has been an adventure, but also hell.

[01:38:29] That year for the quiet, easy life of severing limbs and resetting bones at my clinic.

[01:38:36] Yeah.

[01:38:37] And as you're getting ready to head off, you guys here in the distance.

[01:38:41] Wait, wait.

[01:38:45] As you see Tim Baker,

[01:38:46] the ace reporter from the from the from the CR 1313.

[01:38:53] Hi, Tim.

[01:38:53] How's it going?

[01:38:54] It's like, ah, I heard in the bar that you guys were heading out.

[01:38:59] I was like, wait.

[01:39:05] Take your time, Tim.

[01:39:06] Sorry.

[01:39:06] You need a minute.

[01:39:10] Do you guys need a

[01:39:12] a journalist in your world or like, I don't know how I'm getting back to my world.

[01:39:18] Honestly, you don't want to stay in this one?

[01:39:21] No.

[01:39:23] Far man.

[01:39:26] I've been a ghost.

[01:39:27] I was ghost for like, I don't know how long and then you guys brought me back.

[01:39:31] And this place just reminds me of that other of that train from hell.

[01:39:36] Um, I'd like to I'd like to know what happened to to Corvair and the rest of my

[01:39:43] and even like seer like see what happened during the last war and such.

[01:39:47] But like, I don't know how I'm getting back there.

[01:39:52] And to this point that Petonias is like, well, actually,

[01:39:56] I am going to I plan on venturing to some of these other realms and worlds eventually.

[01:40:01] So if you would like, I could on on my on my way through those one of those this this

[01:40:08] what is this place called?

[01:40:09] It's called it's called Eberron.

[01:40:11] Right.

[01:40:12] On my way through Eberron, I could I could drop you off if you wish.

[01:40:17] Oh, well, that would that would be swell.

[01:40:19] That'd be perfect.

[01:40:21] Thank you to Cincinnati.

[01:40:23] That sounds terrifying.

[01:40:25] I mean, if you guys.

[01:40:29] Yeah, here's the thing.

[01:40:30] Out of game, like pulling out a game for a second.

[01:40:33] Do you guys want Tim to come back to Earth or do you want him to go back to his home reality?

[01:40:40] I would extend the offer if he wants to.

[01:40:43] That's what Tim wants to do.

[01:40:45] It's Petonias immediately going.

[01:40:47] Oh, no, no, I'm I'm going I'm going to have a bit of a tour around the

[01:40:52] the Mistylands before I head to any other reality or realm.

[01:40:56] But how about when before you stop off at Eberron, stop off at Earth and you can pick

[01:41:01] up Tim and drop him off until then he can live in on Earth away from his fears that

[01:41:07] he has living here and memories.

[01:41:11] That depends.

[01:41:12] Are there dragons on Earth?

[01:41:15] Not that I know of.

[01:41:16] No.

[01:41:17] Are there trolls?

[01:41:20] Warforges?

[01:41:22] Vampires, ghosts?

[01:41:22] I mean not the ones you're thinking of.

[01:41:25] Well.

[01:41:25] Basically, there's naming off a bunch of other like are you are like do they do

[01:41:30] they set off magical bombs over your city?

[01:41:35] Not magical.

[01:41:37] There's not even mundane bombs back then, dude.

[01:41:39] There's some D&D.

[01:41:40] Oh yeah.

[01:41:43] Yeah.

[01:41:44] You know what?

[01:41:44] It's a boring place.

[01:41:45] You'll love it.

[01:41:46] You know what?

[01:41:47] I think I'm going to take a look at this.

[01:41:49] I'm going to have a gander at this old Earth.

[01:41:50] Maybe I can write some pulps when I get back to Eberron.

[01:41:54] How about this place called Earth?

[01:42:00] All right.

[01:42:01] So yeah, Tim Baker is joining you guys back in old Earth as well.

[01:42:08] And as you're saying farewell to the small group of people that have kind of

[01:42:16] gathered at the edge of Abrovia Village,

[01:42:20] um, you guys start walking out into the mists and there is a slight disorientation,

[01:42:29] but it's not as bad as you had expected it to be.

[01:42:33] And eventually the mists sort of kind of correlate and like it gets darker in the mists.

[01:42:41] And when the mist dissipates,

[01:42:44] you are coming out of the mouth of a cave in what looks like to

[01:42:51] Sorin or sorry, no, sorry, Malvodon's not there.

[01:42:55] What looks like to Johan, Eastern Kentucky's forest cover.

[01:43:04] It appears to be the same cave that you actually recall.

[01:43:08] It looks like the same cave that you and the, uh, you and, um, where you and

[01:43:14] Ursula first met and were how they've been able to traverse between the realities.

[01:43:21] Yeah.

[01:43:24] So, and I guess it's my stop.

[01:43:29] And yeah, we will sort of fade to black for a moment as I pull out my epilogue

[01:43:38] notes for like what happens in the next, like in sort of the, in the future for you guys.

[01:43:47] So I'm going to start with this one here.

[01:43:51] At least for the next cycle, Strahd's return is quite diminished.

[01:43:56] Even so that perhaps a band of clever cats guided by a Fomorian prince and his allied

[01:44:02] catsith could take him on and really ruin his day.

[01:44:08] But that is for another story.

[01:44:11] And back on earth as the years and decades pass in Kentucky, a small paramilitary family

[01:44:19] stands vigilant over a, over a mist shrouded plot of wilderness where a cave breathes

[01:44:28] dark corruption.

[01:44:30] These hills also have an unusual amount of wolves.

[01:44:36] As for Dr. Conningsmark, Jaeger's brother Lars and a befuddled Appalachian man, Soren,

[01:44:45] a member of the Swordwreath Society, the 19th century front for the age-old wizardly

[01:44:51] Circle of Swords organization, approaches them with the offer of occult aid and financial support

[01:45:00] in exchange for help investigating various mystically related situations as they arise.

[01:45:06] But what of dear Professor Petonius?

[01:45:10] Perhaps in these times and these spaces he travels beyond Barovia,

[01:45:16] deeper into the mists in search of new undead specimens and lore.

[01:45:22] The research is never finished and Falcovnia awaits.

[01:45:29] And that is the end of the Vosin in Ravenloft campaign Mistborn.

[01:45:38] Your characters can either like decide to have joined the Swordwreath Society to investigate

[01:45:44] various other Vosin related things and such through the ages.

[01:45:48] Um, this game also sort of opened up some uh based off your choices it sort of opened up

[01:45:53] two other possible potential campaigns um with a Call of Catthulhu game

[01:46:00] uh where you're a bunch of cats dealing with Strahd

[01:46:05] or a diminished Strahd.

[01:46:07] As you guys have rendered him down to effectively being a D&D NPC who could be

[01:46:12] killed by house cats.

[01:46:17] Yeah basically um it this also kind of opened up for a potential Knights Black Agents campaign

[01:46:22] where the descendants of of Johann Anderson and his werewolf pack have set up a sort of

[01:46:30] paramilitary um uh supernatural defense group in the in the woods of Kentucky

[01:46:38] uh to help stop um uh incursion events from from uh from the Mistylands.

[01:46:45] Yeah so uh yeah that's that's it guys that's what I've got for uh for for Mistborn so um

[01:46:55] comments questions suggestions.

[01:46:57] Okay so I absolutely adored this campaign start to finish

[01:47:01] um and um I am looking forward to playing in the next one I don't

[01:47:07] I don't know what it's gonna be but whatever it is it's gonna be amazing.

[01:47:12] Yeah I think it won't be like necessarily like a campaign campaign but it'll be like at least

[01:47:15] some like some small games of like these of like what happened in the future like there

[01:47:19] might be some if you guys would if you guys want to bring back these characters for some

[01:47:22] Vosin games I could always like run some like one-shot stuff um if you if you want

[01:47:28] Dorotea to return and dealing with like weird supernatural stuff in on earth kind of things

[01:47:35] and similar with Lars like Lars you could play I guess Lars you could technically play as

[01:47:39] as Lars or Jaeger.

[01:47:43] I think for me Dorotea wanted to go home because like she's had enough adventure

[01:47:49] and dealing with supernatural so she's probably not going to come back so if I am

[01:47:53] going to be playing in another game I might just be Jaeger.

[01:47:56] That's fine yeah you could be Jaeger yeah.

[01:47:58] Yeah I could totally see you could also be Ulrin.

[01:48:04] Ulfren actually.

[01:48:05] Or Ulfren yes my bad but yeah um Adam Lars.

[01:48:10] How long have we been doing this?

[01:48:14] Yeah Josh do you have anything about the to talk about the game?

[01:48:19] Not specifically no it's just been overall fucking great.

[01:48:23] Awesome I'm glad I hope I've given you I've I hope I've given you guys like all

[01:48:31] like uh moments to shine in the game.

[01:48:36] I know I know I've given like some of you guys a lot of stuff I hope I've given like

[01:48:40] all of you guys some like spotlights.

[01:48:45] I've certainly tried yeah.

[01:48:48] I mean it's always hard the more players you have right.

[01:48:50] Yeah I mean like four players is usually like a like the sweet spot so.

[01:48:56] I like to deliberate focusing on the dark secrets of course that you know mechanically

[01:49:02] they're supposed to pop up anyway kind of feel like that but now I you know personally

[01:49:08] speaking from you know my point of view I definitely didn't feel slighted I enjoyed

[01:49:13] playing with everybody I played with each of you all before obviously and you know

[01:49:20] maybe not together in this particular group and all but this it's been a lot of fun.

[01:49:25] I was sitting here trying to figure out how long we've been playing this game.

[01:49:29] So we've ran about 19 sessions like this session was called a Misty Dawn because

[01:49:36] the first session was called a Misty Dream so I feel like this is like where you guys are

[01:49:40] you wake up from the dream or from the nightmare and into a new dawn sort of thing.

[01:49:46] Mm hmm.

[01:49:47] Um but yeah we've been running this for I don't know how long have we been running this game for?

[01:49:51] Well I mean we started we did the first row up that we did on that so I honestly think that

[01:49:57] we're maybe nine or ten minutes I think we're yeah now I think we started probably

[01:50:06] May last year it was around May yeah so uh I mean I think we were averaging about two games

[01:50:13] a month there and it's just for something that was started out on a Saturday morning me making a

[01:50:21] flip of comment about how Vossum would be a great game to reincurse a shroud and then like it

[01:50:26] then we did that what we did that kind of uh roll up game or that uh that brainstorm

[01:50:31] plot growers game about uh Ravenloft and Vossum. It's it's been everything and it's you face

[01:50:39] it out enough that I forgot half the shit we even talked about eventually when it was starting

[01:50:43] to get relayed it was like that son of a bitch he was listening. Yeah technically David and Adam

[01:50:48] knew about most of the plot points I was throwing in um from like the very beginning

[01:50:52] because uh we had a a talkie episode where we made we basically brainstormed like the ideas that

[01:50:58] this campaign became um but again like enough time passed between the sessions that like

[01:51:05] I'm glad that at least like there was some like some freshness to it.

[01:51:08] It's individual secrets even though I with Granny Olson by the way guys Olson Twins

[01:51:16] like yeah that's that's great actually it was a long running pun and I loved it.

[01:51:21] Yeah but no this this was great and you know from somebody who's bought every Vossum

[01:51:29] material a lot of free league stuff like between Chris and I we own shit loaded this

[01:51:34] stuff it was fun to actually blow the dust off of a game on the shelf.

[01:51:38] Yeah well I also have like the Curse of Strahd and Ravenloft stuff and I was it was cool to

[01:51:42] actually like get to pull like pull out this like age old like decades old like

[01:51:48] campaign setting from like classic D&D and actually like

[01:51:52] use a different try see how how it works in a different system with like that has similar

[01:51:56] themes so. Like for disclosure uh games like this you know I've enjoyed

[01:52:04] one shots and like little small series and stuff like that but being a part of a larger campaign

[01:52:09] is I mean it always is special it's kind of a bittersweet moment here that uh it's over

[01:52:15] I think yeah at the ending yeah definitely justice.

[01:52:19] Yeah and I hope I was kind of worried about halfway through the uh like um the ending here

[01:52:25] that was like oh god is this just going to be like Lord of the Rings where just like the

[01:52:28] end there's just like multiple like there's like 12 different endings that like help like

[01:52:31] stack after each other.

[01:52:33] Then the credits start and then 10 minutes into the credits for their long credits

[01:52:37] then there's another scene.

[01:52:38] Yeah.

[01:52:41] I think it all worked out it balanced very well and I like David's reveal because I mean

[01:52:48] by the way folks none of us knew that this was how it was going to happen.

[01:52:52] Me and me.

[01:52:53] None of us fucking knew.

[01:52:55] David when did I when did I show you the the drawing I did and tell you or and then

[01:53:01] you told me how you want to like reveal yourself when did that happen?

[01:53:07] Yesterday evening.

[01:53:08] Yes like I decided like yes last night I was like oh shit I need to draw what

[01:53:15] Malvodon looks like and I was debating okay so how is the big reveal going to happen

[01:53:20] and I just the whole idea of hey why don't we do this publicly right about the time

[01:53:27] oh hey that's an idea the new amber society.

[01:53:31] Yeah.

[01:53:32] Yes this will work.

[01:53:36] Yeah so it may it may take like an emerald joke.

[01:53:40] Oh god damn it.

[01:53:41] It's okay you did now.

[01:53:42] Yeah yeah it's going to be like for the future of of Barovia at least like

[01:53:49] the the old the great old powers that like dwell beneath like the mists in Barovia and

[01:53:54] some of that they're going to be a little hampered for a couple of cycles perhaps more

[01:54:00] than they expected now that the Shadowfell Fomorian court has kind of moved into the

[01:54:08] vampire turf.

[01:54:10] To be fair if they didn't want us to step in they should have made the place less inviting

[01:54:15] to us.

[01:54:18] That's on them.

[01:54:19] That's fair.

[01:54:20] They should have known better.

[01:54:25] What else do I have here?

[01:54:25] Yeah so I actually did keep a thing here of like end game stuff so like

[01:54:30] I've been like kind of collecting like notes about like what your deeds and stuff

[01:54:33] like that through the game so yeah Fomorian faction stronger in Barovia being far more

[01:54:39] combative to Estraud's return.

[01:54:41] Babalus Yaga has been weakened unable to properly cast some of her greater magics

[01:54:47] but could still do some tricks to in Straud's next cycle.

[01:54:54] You guys retrieved his her book I Straud which is the a biography like an

[01:54:59] a biography of Straud's like how he came into power and stuff like that

[01:55:04] and gave that information to the to the were ravens who are already kind of a built-in setting like

[01:55:14] good aligned like they're trying to fight the endless war against evil in in the Mistylands

[01:55:21] because they traverse to the other Mistyland like realms like the Dread Domains

[01:55:25] to try and like thwart evil where it can so you basically gave them more leverage

[01:55:32] with that book and you can you kept Exanth the exophanter the lich he's still a senile old

[01:55:44] lich so he and he's being studied by Petonia so like he was the reason he was one of the

[01:55:51] reasons Straud like had so much power as he did. Like Straud on his return is probably

[01:55:57] still going to become be a vampire but in terms of like his power levels it'll be super greatly

[01:56:02] diminished to the point that perhaps some cats from Call of Cthulhu could actually like thwart him

[01:56:11] but that's also like down that's in some like like literally that's like centuries from like

[01:56:18] like like dozens of centuries from now um when Straud will return so the land does actually

[01:56:23] no peace for quite some time and since like the Fomori are going to be there and they're kind of an

[01:56:32] ageless be ageless species uh they don't they they don't forgive they don't forget and they

[01:56:39] have long memories um yeah any any other things that you guys want to add or should we even

[01:56:49] should we like um hold on and like do we want to do it do we want to do a post-mortem for

[01:56:55] this game or this campaign? Yeah I'm not okay like um or like is there anything you guys want to

[01:57:06] bring up uh now before I have uh or before I um uh request that Alistair leaves for the

[01:57:12] the final time of this campaign? I was trying to say thank you. Did we reveal everyone's dark

[01:57:19] secret throughout the game? I think so does everyone know what Dave's was?

[01:57:25] How? He's attracted to Vosin?

[01:57:30] Uh yeah actually I think that was it. It was uh you you have a yeah you have an attraction to

[01:57:35] Vosin so every time a new Vosin showed up I tried to like remember to pull that up of like

[01:57:40] now Dave or Dorotea that that that fe creature. Yeah I was basically looking through all the

[01:57:48] the dark secrets and I didn't really like any of them but the one came up saying unnatural

[01:57:53] lust which I took as a lust towards unnatural beings instead of just her being horny which was

[01:57:59] wouldn't be have been fun. Yeah let's see mine obviously I was a changeling the whole time

[01:58:08] I uh I saw that one in the book and I went oh this looks lovely and I said so

[01:58:13] Chris changeling how far can I push this?

[01:58:17] And I yeah it kind of turned into a game within a game of how well can I disguise it?

[01:58:26] Yeah um and I also just liked it because it was like double hamlet like your characters are

[01:58:33] already getting kind of like have like this like sort of um uh like doppelganger syndrome

[01:58:38] sort of situation with like having this having the twins that you you're not aware of

[01:58:43] and then have a a second kind of set of that with the changeling. It was it was glorious

[01:58:50] and very well done I had fun with it because um in my own personal head cannon of it uh Sorin

[01:58:59] can't tell a lie. Yep so the most that I can do is like within wheel of time I can ice

[01:59:07] the diet they have to swear an oath to tell the truth but they do not have to swear an

[01:59:11] oath not to misdirect so every time somebody asked me a question where I would clearly lie to

[01:59:18] I just evaded the question. Yep oh trust me I fucking noticed. I know you did. Yeah

[01:59:31] and then there of course is Josh's super serious secret dark secret. Yeah no one ever

[01:59:40] figured it out. No no totally not certainly not when Indrid Cold came came uh came around which is

[01:59:46] the I was like it was you said your character was like again your dark secret is you're

[01:59:51] secretly Swedish this whole time and I was just like what the hell like

[01:59:58] initially I was like how the hell am I supposed to like use that and then I was like wait

[02:00:02] the Swedes were terrified of Adam and I was already planning on like creating an app like a

[02:00:08] kind of using that kind of thing for like a Vossan thing with Indrid Cold I was like

[02:00:14] and Lars is Swedish. I can swear. Yeah and and Josh and Adam's like uh sort of like

[02:00:25] hate relationship or annoyed relationship to one another is like it works so well it contrasts

[02:00:31] to this because like Indrid Cold is basically just Adam in terms of description. Sorry Adam.

[02:00:40] Love you Josh. You're a villain Adam. He's an unintentional villain.

[02:00:48] I said I'm a peppered educator it's old hat. Well it also doesn't help that you I've seen

[02:00:54] a photo of you that makes you look like the slenderman so but yeah yeah honestly Jaeger I

[02:01:01] wasn't sure what we were gonna do with Jaeger like in terms of like is he gonna because he was

[02:01:05] Jaeger evolved throughout this entire game like he developed like I'm sorry Josh like I like

[02:01:11] Lars. Jaeger kind of stole Lars's spotlight. Oh shit. The dog. Yeah I know but like I was

[02:01:21] I was not sure until like I finally revealed it what he was actually what was up with

[02:01:25] with Jaeger and then I just kind of like fitted into like the the thing I'd kind of come up with

[02:01:32] for your secret like dark secret of like your family like you were you had said that your

[02:01:37] character was on the run from like because um your parents have been killed by werewolves

[02:01:41] and so I created this like cult of werewolf uh of hexen wolf sorcerers that had killed

[02:01:49] your parents and so like you had seen them as werewolves when they killed your parents and

[02:01:53] then that's when you had fled um so you're technically you're being your your family

[02:01:59] was killed by by sorcerers who can turn into werewolves in a way um. Do you have like a

[02:02:06] fear overcoming segment when we like encountered the friendly werewolves?

[02:02:13] I honestly don't think we ever that's the one thing I do kind of regret is that we never

[02:02:17] actually like went into that because yeah I don't recall him being afraid of werewolves.

[02:02:23] He he was. I never spoke. Yeah yeah which Josh I do feel like yeah I I do feel like you should have

[02:02:31] like outside of your character narrated that or like kind of given us some like point hints

[02:02:36] on that because otherwise it just seemed like you weren't really like engaging in the game

[02:02:41] but he got on he was super tired so I get it yeah that's true yeah that's also true um

[02:02:49] but yeah so uh yeah I I do I do commend you for like at least like going staying keeping that part

[02:02:54] of the bit where it's like no like these werewolves make me uncomfortable I'm not

[02:02:58] interacting with them. Like I'm not gonna be all friendly like no I don't speak unless

[02:03:03] I fucking have to. Yeah um but yeah um thanks thank you guys for for jumping into this game

[02:03:15] and and entertaining this uh this this idea of like running a Ravenloft campaign in Vossen.

[02:03:23] So this isn't like the natural Vossen like so Vossen no yeah Vossen doesn't really have

[02:03:31] there's there's actually just recently they came out with a an actual campaign setting for it

[02:03:36] but um it's basically like Call of Cthulhu but like using Swedish folklore and like

[02:03:43] northern and eastern Scandinavian folklore instead of like Cthulhu and like eldritch

[02:03:49] abominations yeah it's sort of like it's a horror investigation set in the 19th century

[02:03:56] with a little dab of like supernatural environmentalism because you as as

[02:04:02] investigators aren't always trying to kill the Vossen. You're trying to fix their problem

[02:04:09] with the encrouching human industrial um machine because like most of the time the reason why

[02:04:16] there's a conflict between humans and Vossen is because the humans are encrouching on the

[02:04:20] Vossen's territory that's been there since time immemorial and because it's in the 19th century

[02:04:27] like human industry is like kind of bulldozing forests or mining a mountain kind of stuff and

[02:04:33] basically encrouching on these creatures natural habitats. Look Ms. Dryad I'm sorry I know

[02:04:39] that you've been here in this tree for thousands of years but we need to put a parking lot where

[02:04:43] you're playing. Yeah basically yeah or you need to find a way to stop the the parking lot from

[02:04:48] being built because the Vossen are going otherwise otherwise there is the it is going

[02:04:53] to come to blows and you're going to have to put down a creature that's been there since

[02:04:58] before the species was born so yeah it's it's that kind that's that's the the the default

[02:05:07] setting is not too far off from some of the stuff I already kind of love about that I've tried to

[02:05:12] throw into some of our our grumble hammer games so that's also why I kind of fitted it on top

[02:05:19] of using the um the the D&D setting of Curse of Strahd which has like a bunch of like

[02:05:26] Barovias basically just like folklore and gothic horror which is a perfect setting to

[02:05:31] kind of like throw into this the system. It was also good to like for me to kind of like

[02:05:38] bridge the gap between Vossen and Ravenloft with the grumble hammer universe which was

[02:05:43] to me that's the earth setting like when you get where you guys came from on earth like that

[02:05:47] earth is the grumble hammer universe yeah because also like the Vossen.

[02:05:53] Because it's also connected to Eberron too. Yeah so Eberron the whole Eberron connection

[02:05:59] because like for for David and Adam I don't remember if you guys were called or if you

[02:06:03] guys were aware um me and Dave and our friend Aaron are had run a an Eberron campaign recently.

[02:06:10] So I when I was looking through uh the uh curse not the Curse of Strahd the Ravenloft book

[02:06:18] the the of the the overall Ravenloft setting um there are other dread domains other than

[02:06:24] Barovia and one of them is actually one of the the last train trying to get out of

[02:06:30] the Mournlands in Eberron which is this place that is like turned into a disaster zone

[02:06:34] by arcane bombs um and it is basically a creepy ass like carcosa-esque ghost train

[02:06:43] and I was like well how the hell am I going to get these people from earth

[02:06:46] to a D&D realm why not it's the 19th century why not a creepy

[02:06:53] gro- a creepy transdimensional ghost train hey creepy transdimensional ghost train is awesome

[02:07:00] yeah yeah that was a good hook yeah and it gave us a whole little adventure and like

[02:07:05] fortunately somebody actually went ahead and and on drive-through RPG and actually made

[02:07:10] um the dread like fleshed out the dread domain of the seer 1313 so I was able to actually

[02:07:17] use that for that that one shot and uh that's how we got Tim like Tim was actually like that's

[02:07:23] that's just an encounter uh in the uh in the train is that you encounter a guy who is getting

[02:07:29] killed uh he's he's you you encounter him as a ghost and he has gone through this hellish

[02:07:36] cycle of being every every uh six or seven hours he is revived as a huge as a flesh

[02:07:42] and blood person and then killed again by a mysterious person on the train and it becomes

[02:07:48] that ghost and so the the encounter is you guys have to figure out either how to stop that from

[02:07:56] happening continually or just leave it just leave him to his torment so and as a result you guys

[02:08:04] had a sort of an off and off again on again lackey through the campaign I did love him he was

[02:08:11] yep and just the fearful am I gonna die if I go this way no no you're not gonna die are you sure

[02:08:19] because I've died a lot and I don't want to do it again it's like I'm tired of dying

[02:08:25] do you think also not die yeah also the dig to Cincinnati is like hey do you want to go

[02:08:30] like uh I've heard this place we have this place called Cincinnati it's like

[02:08:33] oh Adam you bring back the my nightmare memories of Cincinnati

[02:08:40] Sin City more like but um yeah I feel like some of this we could also probably uh talk more on

[02:08:47] and a post-mortem rather than the the end of this of this game this the session is basically

[02:08:52] a post-mortem right now yeah so I'll stop for now um and uh I guess um yeah until

[02:08:59] until next time internet this has been the Mistborn campaign uh goodbye take care sleep well