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DND Foal Watch 3 - 01.19.26

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· 1 h 15 min · 11,955 words · 359 timestamped sections

This is the full, timestamped transcript of "DND Foal Watch 3 - 01.19.26", an episode of Katie Van Slyke published January 20, 2026 (1 h 15 min, about 11,955 words). It mentions 8 people, works and ideas, including Fandolin, Shadow Heart, Black Spider, Gundron Rockseker, Cragmaw Castle.

What this episode is about

The content centers around a Dungeons and Dragons gaming session featuring a group of players, who are preparing for their campaign's final night. Amid technical difficulties and lighthearted banter, the participants introduce their characters, discuss new visual setups with dual cameras, and share personal updates, including the introduction of a new pet.

Key takeaways

  • When tech fails during D&D, it's all fun and games until someone yells in all caps.
  • Coffee: the real MVP of gaming sessions, ensuring players and DMs alike stay awake and moderately coherent.
  • Who knew new setups for streaming could yield more chaos than a dragon attack in a campaign?
  • Plot twist: half the group shows up for D&D but prioritizes coffee over character development.
  • In gaming, as in life, sometimes the best strategy is to just 'let it happen' with laughter.

Who speaks in this episode?

  • Katie Van Slyke (Host) · 30 min speaking
  • Nate (Guest) · 23 min speaking
  • Raven (Guest) · 8 min speaking
  • Matt (Guest) · 8 min speaking
  • Linda (Guest) · 4 min speaking
  • Buck (Guest) · 4 min speaking
  • Vania (Guest) · 4 min speaking

What is discussed, and when

  1. – 10:00: Shadow Heart
  2. – 20:00: Fandolin, Shadow Heart
  3. – 30:00: Fandolin, Black Spider, Cragmaw Castle, Gundron Rockseker
  4. – 40:00: Fandolin, Shadow Heart, Black Spider, Wave Echo Cave
  5. – 50:00: Black Spider, Fandolin, Shadow Heart
  6. – 1:15:17: Shadow Heart

Notable quotes from "DND Foal Watch 3 - 01.19.26"

  • Again, Dungeon Master Nate, Linda, and I am Shadow Heart. Shadow Heart also acquired a dog yesterday, and so that dog is Vengeance. Anyway, he's checking the sound.
    about Shadow Heart · at
  • So, so far a man named Gundron Rockseker hired the party to escort his wagon full of all sorts of goods into the town of Fandolin to meet up with who we're now calling Bertram.
    about Gundron Rockseker · at
  • They've gathered and what they found from glass staff was that over him was you know someone called the black spider and also something about a cragmaw castle. at which point…
    about Black Spider · at
  • They learned some info from it and they realized that the thing that everyone's after is in this cave wave echo cave. so they began their way they journeyed there and that's kind of where we end. So, like I guess like I guess last time we.
    about Wave Echo Cave · at

Who and what is mentioned in this episode?

People

Concepts & topics

Places & events

  • Fandolin — Place · 8 mentions · first at
  • Cragmaw Castle — Place · 1 mention · first at
    From glass staff was that over him was you know someone called the black spider and also something about a cragmaw castle. at which point you know they figure out they collect…
  • Wave Echo Cave — Place · 1 mention · first at

Full transcript with timestamps

Now what about now? Can you hear us now? We're uh trying out some new stuff. We're working on it. Just a second.

There we go. We're good. Okay. All right. Now, now set that up. Okay. So restarting with the intro. We have a new little setup today with two different cameras. So, we've got one on Miss Raven and I just so everyone knows I can see her without turning her on. Okay. Um, we've got Sorry. Um, everyone's here tonight. We're playing probably the last night of this campaign of Dungeons and Dragons. So, we are waiting on Raven. If you want to watch her, we've done a split screen now. If you don't want to listen to us, you can put it on mute. Um, but as for now, we're we're going to let our dungeon master Nate set us up for the last night. Dungeons and Dragons is a new thing for us. This is only our like fourth or fifth time ever playing. Tora is back. Toga has been out for a couple nights, so she's now back.

Uh, we've got Vania. Uh, again, Dungeon Master Nate, Linda, and I am Shadow Heart. Shadow Heart also acquired a dog yesterday, and so that dog is Vengeance. Anyway, he's checking the sound. All right.

Thanks, chat, for uh helping us with some technical difficulties. Whole new system.

Y'all don't got to yell. We can hear or we can we're watching. I promise. All right.

I love how they're like, "Echo, we can't hear you. CAPS. CAPS. WE DID IT." It's like [clears throat]

I'm just imagining like can't hear you. Who are you? Alrighty. Okay. Like an angry email.

All right, guys. Yeah. All right, guys. Um, Papa, I also washed my hair, so that's good.

Someone did comment on it saying it looked pretty. Thank you, They said, "Damn it. I liked being able to see Matt's screen."

You're going to No, you're not. That's the camera over there. You're not kidding.

You're not having to. What's going on here? You know what? We can't have everything. So, we'll figure that out at some point. Maybe we end up having like one if we end up with D and D being a thing like we have something on a computer

is going on. Yeah. I mean, you could share screen. What are you anyway? Working on other things right now.

I had to fix something, but now I've messed something up. Can you fix it like at 3:00 a.m.?

We should get a coffee. Huh? Do Do you need a minute? No. We can We can let people join in before we actually

You just want to go make a coffee. I'm going to I want to just point out just the the

It seems like you need a couple minutes to settle in. That's fine with me. I'll go ahead and

I want a coffee. Are there more of those caramel? No, they're out. I think there are.

No, I think you moved them, didn't he? Oh, maybe there's a bunch of them in there.

You sure? What's going on? So Matt's having to fix something because in our last catching up with Katie, I let out some news and then literally as he's uploading it, I'm on the phone and find out that I can't tell the news and so we had to take the whole thing out. Anyway,

it's fine on there. Yeah. So Raven also tore her like full alert completely out today. And so can you shut that door that Matt opened so that the dogs can't go upstairs?

Matt Matt loves to leave that open. Remember when we fell down? Hey, remember when both of you fell down it and almost died

within the same night? Their eyes same 24 hours. Um, but anyway, I we we got the vet out and so she does have her full alert back in.

Ah, I see. Yes, subs already know. I see. I see what happened. Close one. ASMR.

Why isn't this working? Make sure no one falls. Oh, yeah. I haven't even posted that we're on that we're live.

I have I don't have my shoes on, so that's We'll try. What? What did you say? Someone said, "Make sure no one falls down the stairs tonight."

It's the shoes. That is funny. That's better. Welcome back. There we go. All right. Welcome back to Catching with Katie.

And it was a second question. Last night, Matt admitted that because my voice goes directly into his brain so much with his headphones that if he were to ever lose his identity, um that they needed to just like bring out the catching up with Katie, like make him watch it. If I was like Alzheimer's,

like if you lost your memory and we were trying to bring you back to like we're trying to get you back to like lucidity and like grounded. Gotcha.

It wasn't that brother. What? It was like 3 seconds early. Brother, you know what? of any stallion alive.

Oh my gosh. We'll look at this later. Yeah, we're just waiting on the coffee people to get back.

Ah, ah, he's in his own little world over there. Wait. Ah. It was a simple mis little double up situation.

Raven and Maggie. Simple. Dunzo. That's why I send you like timestamps whenever I'm like, "Hey, here."

Dunzo. Dunzo. Dunzo. Kitchen with Kane. So, you're not drinking any coffee? I am. I'm just going to wait till we get started, then go. You're gonna wait until he gets started, then get up and

wait till he says, "So you're at like So we also Buck is here. He just chose the dark side."

Yeah. And he's like a D and D guy. We'll get him on here. We'll publicly shame him.

What happened with the robbery during D and D last night? Do you think it's cuz Shaina is over there and Shane's

wait and we'll we'll let Nate reveal the rob the result of the robbery. Do you think it's cuz Shaina is over there from Sha's pretty?

No. It could have happened. It could be. Damn. I was going to shoot my shot. You just

actually Lindsay, I told you you can only shoot your shot with Buck if you're going to marry him.

I told you I will. We're not doing office romances unless it's ending in a wedding.

We are not encouraging in work relationships. Like I'm not going to stand. But she he doesn't work for her. He works for us.

He does. It is office. So here's here's my stance on it. I have I'm not going to stand in someone's way from finding their true love and getting married,

right? Obviously. Okay. But it's not encouraged. That's it's not encouraged to have flings. I guess I should say flings are not encouraged.

So, help me out here. You have to like marry him if if you do this. If he comes to me crying on his knees, says I can't live without Lindsay, maybe.

Yeah, maybe. But you'll have to work with a different client. That's my alarm, by the way. for me to wake up. Dude, I wish it wasn't so hard for me to go to sleep. My wife can go, "Good night."

For an hour and a half just like staring at the ceiling, catching it with Also, first day you didn't even like Buck.

Me? No, her. Oh, I She She also didn't talk to me. So, right off the bat, I don't talk to anybody. What's going on? Is this social hour? Are we are we just just chit chatting? We should we do this another night?

You want me to tell you what happened? Hey, so you need to do a a preface to um people were asking the result of the robbery. So you could like say like so this this this happened which now let us

the result of what? Uh or the rob Bury of the that when Katie got that the the armor place.

Yeah. Oh yeah, vengeance is on my character sheet. Like I have a dog now. It's in my extras.

Yeah, someone says the just crazy rolls back to back to back to I mean to open the door and not I I put the dog in the room uh to alert. It was an alert threat and she rolled

a nat 20. She rolled a nat 20 for stealth and animal handling. But and I had the like the leave no trace or whatever spell that gave me plus 10 stealth.

Yeah. And so um the dog just kind of jumped in her arms and here and now it's ready to fight on my behalf.

This little lost dog was found and the camera keeps autofocusing. Yeah, there's deal with it. There's there's no fix.

Okay. Um, also, uh, the thing that went across the camera was Nate standing up.

Yeah, that's me right here. Let's see. I'll try, but I don't think so. Okay. So, what's going on in there? to which Oh, yeah. I forgot the cure egg's in there now.

He's hopping in. He's hopping in. All right. I think we could get him. I might have fixed the autofocus. I might have made it worse.

Buck is coming. He's on the way. He's on the way. All right. So, Buck knows that he already has like a little bit of a

Nothing crazy now. He said that. Huh? What's going crazy? No, it's fine. Nothing's going crazy. It is just like slightly focusing.

So, unfortunately, because he heard some chatter, Buck knows that Shadow Heart wants to kill his character. Oh, like your mug. Show Show the mug. It's not available anymore. So, that means that's like why like you need to jump on it when they're available. The cuteness of the holiday mugs.

Can I see that? Yeah. It's cute. So, what is it? Bartram. Bertha. Bertram. Bertram. What is it?

I'm just thinking of the guy from Hey Jesse. I can't even remember. Is it Bartham?

I think it's Bar. And then I was thinking of the guy from Jesse. You have to send me that campaign name.

So, it gives you like a generated world and everything. Mhm. Yeah. Maps and whatnot.

That's really cool. Hey, Abby. How are you? Fine. Good. There's There's still going to be like Where's that? [snorts]

Can I just announce that I'm not Abigail's not here. Actually, this is actually her twin sister.

H I'm just kidding. Demi followed me last night. That was humor. I love you, Demi. We love you, Demi.

Demi didn't follow me. Demi carried this whole game. Demi is the DM. Demi is the shadow DM.

She's the code DM. She's the shadow DM. Are we uh we ready? I think 30 minutes tops.

So So these saving throws Uhhuh. When is that used? Throw is used when you're concussed.

Uh well, it could be something that is uh like sometimes you may cast a cantrip for something

and you don't roll to hit. you you do it and the target has to do a saving throw. So it may be like a dexterity 12 or higher which would be them maybe like dodging.

Mhm. And if they fail on the saving throw, right, they get hit. So right here, like my saving throws is like strength, dexterity, uh like intelligence. Is it different clicking it here rather than up top? Or is it just the same?

If it's a saving throw, your modifier might be different. Okay. Often times maybe not, but it might be different.

Yeah, I hear my wisdom is plus five, not plus three. Charisma [clears throat] is different too.

And my charisma is different. Yeah. Yeah. Let me send that to you. on here. [snorts]

Um, so for those that don't know and don't have Snapchat, Snapchat actually gives you some insight on a lot of things. Uh, we were able to get a vet to come out and put Raven's full alert back in. So, she has it. We're all good. We are not live streaming the bird.

Yeah, that's not happening. I will. Also, [snorts] everyone thinking Shaya's stealing my husband saw that a lot uh last night.

Lord, I can't explain to you how text how wrong that is. You're welcome. I don't think I can quite explain to you just how little of chance that would actually happen. Not just from like, oh, she couldn't steal my man. She's a hot woman. I get it. But just like it just it just wouldn't happen. So,

available characters in campaign. Remember the ice cream sandwich? Nico, that's that was a character I made before I knew I was DM.

He made a character named Nico. I see a female movie. Why is everyone a female?

For the sake of time. Oh, so this character doesn't have a No, it's not. You know what? I might make my next one a

And then I might go and plunder. Yeah. So, um, so I can make um Yeah, there will be time to

I might have some I might be like bar wench, you know. It's fine. There will be significant um significant

I want to be a woman significantly more planning and I I say that not and more planning than name there will just be more time to have planned with more knowledge of the game and it's just going to be just a different game entirely. It's going to be a different game. But we are back in Falladin. I will say that in our next quest.

Fandolin. Fandolin. Fandolin. Falladin. Falladin. Fallen. We could also watch that Dungeons and Dragon movie with Chris Pine.

What? Stranger Things. I heard that. That wasn't good. There's a new There's a Dungeons and Dragons movie.

Yeah, it's it's it's all right. But it's it's uh it's cool. Does he play it and then he's like playing it outside of the game?

It's just like it's just like a movie. It's not like Jumanji. No. Oh. Is my character's name supposed to be something?

Yeah. You're Baram. Bartha. You might as well. It's fine. You're just going to be dead anyway.

No, we're not going to kill. We're not going to kill him. Nate. Um, I'm going to ask if this is just for like some like test or whatever. She's asking for like to pick four things. If you just had like they're just going to send it. if you had to just pick four things like this doesn't have to be anything.

So, Buck, there's a lot of women on this live and they're want to know who you are and they didn't see the Snapchat introduction, I'm guessing. So, why don't you just

show them the hair that needs Yeah. Show them the hair and then just give a little intro, like a little bio.

Yeah. My name's Buck. Uh, Buck, whatever. I'm from Mississippi. Was born in Jackson. moved to Nashville six years ago. Uh been a photographer for a long time. Got lucky enough to link up with him and get brought into this whole crew which has been really fun, really enjoyable so far. Like everybody, they've been treating me really nice. Um

we try. I am going to kill you, but it's fine. I'm fine with that. I can accept my faith for that one.

Um also, we need we need age and height. Age and height. I'm 28. I'm 67. I'm 6'2.

[snorts] 62. I think that would be Oh, quit. We don't really need mics, per se.

Don't read the chat. What are they saying? Chill. Play it cool. We're on YouTube.

YouTube. Yeah. Um, if I'm sure I think that would probably be your best seat. Yes, I think so. Right side.

What if a bunch of [snorts and clears throat] mayors go into labor at the same time? We panic.

We crash out and we run. We panic for sure. I should have put deodorant on. I'm sorry Lindsay.

Is that what that is? I JUST SHOWERED. [screaming] I JUST SHOWERED, BUT I CAN feel I'm in a sweatshirt.

Zing. That was a zing. Like the tangy smell. E. That's uh like the fresh out of shower smell. Just put on a big sweater smell.

They fresh out of the shower smell. put on a white handbag and I put on a big sweater and sat down and played D and D spell.

You know one that one. I'm not tired of y'all. That's what you're wearing. I thought you were like making a fake scenario. I was going to add like put on a big robe, put on some slippers and sit down and watch TV smell and I'm like oh you're

No, he's he's doing a bit like it was a full bit. That's crazy. H Abby, what brand are your glasses?

Tattoo. Oh, what is that? Or what was that? Supposed to be a line. I turned them into like with that scar on.

It's really bad. Which way? Okay. Oh, wow. Yeah. Oh, he's showing scars now. That might be one of the worst things like tattoos I've ever seen.

Let me see. I don't know what I'm looking at. There's no supposed to be a line. We're about to get a tattoo gun. So we

I think also the lighting is not doing you any favors. Um what are your glasses? Someone asked.

They're Amazon blue light glass. She's She's a faker. Ready? She doesn't need them. I mean, they're not like prescription, but as far as like me getting a headache goes, I need them, but they're mostly for vibes.

[ __ ] is a young Snape. I'm what? A young Snape? Oh, I know my character. You're more He was more pale.

You're more serious. You're more serious with the hair. I know. Okay. Always. Are we being Are we Are we good to go?

Oh. Um always. I guess. I wish somebody would take advantage of that. Next campaign, I have a character that speaks just like Alan Rigman.

Oh, we would like to see the provisions. There will not be any what does he say? One waving or

one waving. There will be no in silly incantations. Silly incantations. I turn to King Orchestra and I say turn to page 394.

Look, I don't know if you're doing anything personal, but people can't see your phone. People will zoom in.

They will sweat just starts pouring down. They will zoom in. Fair enough. They will zoom in. They will clip.

Yeah, he put it AWAY ON MY phone because of this. He's like, I'm going to bed. Okay. So, let me uh

Are we live like right now? Yes, we are live. All right. Here we go. Here we go.

All right. DM is speaking. [snorts] We're in the world. So, let me uh should play our song. Let me catch uh let me catch you up a little in totality.

Y by the way, can y'all hear Nate? Good because it is farther than Is it farther away from you this?

Uh it's it's probably about the same as last time. If you can't hear me well, just that's ask let us know chat. But [snorts] um that's fine.

So, so far a man named Gundron Rockseker hired the party to escort his wagon full of all sorts of goods um into the town of Fandolin to meet up with uh who we're now calling Bertram.

Okay. and [snorts] you know he was going to pay them for delivering it before at the same time he said I have to go a couple days early um and he he took uh some security with him uh he said because he's found something big

um and he he has to go early to take care of business um so they they depart and then you know the party leaves the next day. They they come over the hill. Um they see two horses with no riders. They see the ground and just littered with black feathered arrows. Um the party rushes in to start, you know, checking loot looting the surroundings and all of a sudden goblins jump out of the woods and it's an ambush attack. Uh they managed to uh fight and kill three of the four goblins. The last one took off um running back to its hideout. They decided to not follow. They went ahead into Fandolin where they dropped off the wagon um and collected their payment. Uh but not first trying to deceive Bertram and steal the wagon. Uh but it was unsuccessful.

That wasn't B. That was Gundron, right? Gundron is who hired you. Bertram is the the Yeah. Um, at this point they they get a tip of the No, at this point they step out into the city and some red brand ruffians step into attack. Now they've learned that they've been terrorizing the town. Um, and so this is just another one of their menacing acts. They end up having a big brawl in the middle of town. Um, [clears throat] they they kill two of the four. One runs and they take another one hostage. They take that one back to their room in the end and do a bit of interrogation to get some information at which point they learn that this is a much bigger operation than they thought and they get the directions to their hideout which is underneath um the old Tresendar manor.

Um it's in a cellar so they find the seller door and they go in. Um Matt goes in sneakily or Vana goes in sneakily retrieves a very valuable pouch. Um, he went in alone because he was the stealthiest and he said, "If I'm not back in X amount of time, come get me." So, the other party sneakily comes in because he wasn't back yet.

Um, Shadow Heart trips upon entry, causes a loud ruckus, and everyone is alerted.

Um, at this point, battle breaks out. They go a little deeper in. They fall into a trap. Um, Linda, Linda just cannot get past this trap. It takes multiple attempts. She keeps falling into the pit, getting hurt, being revived. aunts. Repeat, repeat, repeat.

Yeah. Good stuff. Many times. They fight They fight some uh fight some skeletons. They free the three members of the family that the red brand ruffians had stolen from the town. That was the main like crux point that we have to stop them. They go deeper in and they end up uh meeting Glass Staff who is the he's he's the head of the Red Brand Ruffians and the boss of the hideout. Um they end breaking out into this battle. He's a wizard. He's a strong wizard. And they end up winning. They get his uh staff. They find some uh some papers with information on it. Uh which leads them, you know, back to the town of Fandolin. They go through the things.

No. Tell tell what happened to Glass Staff. Um [clears throat] what happened to Glass? Why don't you tell him what happened last?

Uh in the middle of interrogation, he uh he said, "That's all you're getting out of me." And so

Oh, and at which point she just uh you know, more there was more information to be gotten. And she just

swiftly I like to kill hostages. Takes them out and everyone was like, "Why did you do that?"

Um so then they go back to town. they uh regroup upon the information that they've gathered and what they found from glass staff was that over him was you know someone called the black spider and also something about a cragmaw castle. Uh at which point you know they they they figure out they collect info and they go okay we're headed we're headed to Cra. We found out it's just you know north of town. So they head out. They get there, this is the the biggest place they've seen yet. It's dark, it's damp, wet, goblins everywhere. They're just clearing room by room. Ching ching ching ching.

Falling goblin. Falling goblin. Fallen goblin. Falling Linda. Falling goblin. Falling goblin. Um

falling Linda. Falling. Yeah. So, so they they go deeper. They a bit at one point they cast uh you you drop some fog in the room. Everyone's blind. Terrible. Can't see anything.

It was a wild fight. It was a wild fight. And then at this point they are they're level three. They've had a couple of level ups and we reach a point of despair because Linda just ran through the fog, ended up busting through a door and coming out on the other side in the clear. Everyone else is still lost. She proceeds to investigate in which she finds King Gro and just a D woman um which turns out to be what a doppelganger. Very strong, very powerful. And so eventually she comes back out. They make it out of the fog. They regroup. They bust [snorts] through the door. Um and they they begin battling because King Gro has this map.

This which was Gundron's map. Gundron's in the room mostly unconscious. Yeah. And so King Gro has Gundron's map and he's trying to sell it to the doppelganger. The doppelganger wants it. Um, and so they're in this battle, but they they need the map.

And so they're in this huge battle. It's not looking good. Everyone's on their last leg. Linda again is down and out. She's throwing saving rolls. She's failed two of them. One more and she's completely gone forever. So Shadow Heart throws her over the shoulder, bolts out of the door, and is fleeing. At which point Matt's fleeing behind them and he makes it to the door and he stops. He turns around, takes one step in and shuts himself in the room with the monsters so that they could escape.

Big man. He turns around. The spiral tattoo on his hand begins glowing. Traces it. A big ball of light explodes, fills the room, expands, fills the whole castle. The air goes over everyone. Everyone levels up from his heroic act. Um they bust back into the room. They take out the direwolf. They take out King Gro. And they take out the doppelganger. They rescue um Gundron. They get the map and all of the information, but for whatever reason, uh they decide to not trust Gundron. They take him back.

It is not for whatever reason. They take him back as a whatever reason. They take they take him back as a hostage.

Okay. Question. They take him back as a hostage and um are you trying to get back they get back to the town and this was a very influential man in the town. Most of the people a lot of people had jobs and businesses because of him. Um

you know they there's not really a mayor of f uh what is it? Fandin missing for this town was a statue of this guy. Yeah. Only thing missing and they were and they were planning to build it.

Yeah. Yeah. The only thing missing was a statue of this guy and they were planning to build it and they they bring him back again for whatever reason as a hostage um tied up and the town is insanely upset and they're saying untie a mob of 55 people end up surrounding them weapons in hand to attack um and uh you know Vidia here makes the smart decision and unties Gundron and convinces everyone this was a misunderstanding. I don't know how I got cast as the bad guy when you keep saying

every time before we play you say but in this Yeah, you you announce this. You announce it that I'm going to be more evil than THIS SPECIFIC SITUATION.

I DON'T UNDERSTAND why everybody's so against I'm just recapping him. There's no case to

in this situation though. He was shady. He didn't pay us our money. We all we did was have his hands tied together. He's a man who been imprisoned for however YOU ALL WE DID WAS have his hands tied together so that he didn't hurt us

to you. And you are very validated and had every right to be suspicious in your own mind. And I and we all went along with it.

You thought he was suspicious, which is an okay thing to think. And we catered to your suspicion. We were like, you know what? You may be right. So, we left him tied up all the way to town.

But then he put us as like like we didn't go save him. It was certainly perceived that way as the town's person, which Nate was the town's people. [gasps] [sighs]

Okay. Um, I'll let you continue. So, again, they took him back as a hostage. The town did not like it.

Yeah. Um, so that's kind of where we are. They they ventured out on their journey from there um to you know they unrolled the map and they they learned some info from it and they realized that the thing that everyone's after is in this cave wave echo cave. Um so they they they began their way they journeyed there and that's kind of where we end. So, like I guess like I guess last time we played, you know, Fandolin was kind of on the edge of falling apart. Like if you guys failed in stopping the Red Brands um and the Goblin at Cagel Castle, Fandolin would have continued to just further be overrun and overrun in the same way they were. You expose the, you know, the corruption and everything that was going on with with all those people.

Um, and you're continuing to follow the same trail that just keeps pointing to something bigger and bigger and bigger as you go. Um,

because because in reality that place we did rob the place as well and that's why Bertram came with us.

Okay. So that's that's Yeah. The whole reason you're here. Yeah. I guess I guess that's a very important the whole reason that you're here is because they decided to um rob the

the armor store, the armor and weapons store. Um, they went in. We just happened to discuss our plan right in front of that. What happened what happened was we were at your store planning this.

I would have robbed you. They didn't let me. Yeah. They were at your store planning this and um

they were just doing it loudly and he heard Yeah. Um and so they they went to the armor store and they robbed it. Uh, and the whole reason that that happened is because they went to buy they went to buy goods and Shadowart thought that um the owner Lenine was sticking it to her on the prices.

Royally upset her. She was not very extremely fair. I need to know what gold cuz you were like like the whole thing was we risked our lives for a wagon that was worth 150 gold pieces and then we get to the dang armor place and the potions place and everything is 400 gold pieces or like 35 little like a full breast plate and what was on the wagon was like some barley

right but it's like I need to know what what cuz when we asked you okay how much is 150 gold piece you're like that's a lot of money so I'm just like

a breastplate Oklahoma. [clears throat] Top tier saving your life. It's a big investment.

Big investment. I mean, and they didn't have a lot in stock. I mean, you you see the lowlevel uh the ruffians are just wearing some scuffed leather.

I will also say this, there's very few walking around with breast plates. Nate is from the research that I have done in preparing for this Nate campaign, I have so much appreciation for Nate fighting for his life behind these three screens. So, I will 100% accept that we currently don't know the value of gold in in all of this. If that is the only thing, then I was like, he's doing a fantastic job.

Which I know is not what what you were saying. That's not what I'm saying. I know. Anyway,

I just learned most definitely. So, now you're you you are a part of the party now. Y

um because you you said that you knew key details and they were asking for you to tell them. Um, but you thought, well, if I tell you, you won't need me.

If I lead you, you're just keeping something in your back pocket, you know. So,

especially since Shadow Heart keeps threatening to put knives on and Shadow Heart does keep threatening to kill me.

Just so that you're caught up, Buck, because he was at a wedding all weekend is coming in as Bertram.

Buck is coming in as Bertram, the NPC. Oh, stupid. So, uh, that's kind of that's kind of where we are. So, in reality, you know, Fandolin is pretty much

Can can Bertram speak goblin? No. Dude, Bertram is the most basic NPC. Maybe Bert speak goblin.

We don't know. What if Bertram turns out to be just like is he are we considering him that he's at level one?

I mean, he's not uh he's a warrior. He's a shopkeeper. [snorts] Um, I'll let you set the stage before we start asking question.

Anyway, Fandolin was just pretty much a smoke screen to the real problems going on. Um, the the burning fire is clearly somewhere else. It wasn't with the Ruffians. It wasn't at Pride Mall, but you believe and now you're on the same page as Gundron in believing that the real what everyone's after is in this in this cave dungeon [snorts] that this cave that you're going into. Um, and and pretty much every clue that you've uncovered has also kind of pointed to the same thing, which is the black spider. Um just it's this idea of almost a warlord. The black spider. What is this this mysterious

I'm sorry black spider real. That was a really solid gulk. And from from what you've learned through the map and through Gundron is that somewhere deep in this cave, the I the thought and what he believes he's found is that that's where the forge of spells lies. And with the forge of spells comes wealth and power.

It's right there. So, you know, most people imagine like a forge where you would just make weapons, but this is this is no blacksmith's furnace. This is a place where the ancient miners and mages of old made magic permanent.

They made weapons that don't stop glowing when the spell fades. Okay. Blades that strike harder than steel ever could. It could be the birthplace of magic itself. That kind of power can [clears throat] build kingdoms. And the black spider wants it.

He's not doing it. Gundron know knew this. It's why he was captured. It's why he was taken. It's why there's such threats in the town. and you've wiped up most of them, but there's still one left. There's still one lurking. You see, the last time the forge burned, people died by the hundreds, the hundreds, and even thousands trying to reclaim it and own it. And then one day, it went quiet and it was forgotten. But now it's reemerged. It's been found again. Maybe it may not be true. But it but if it is, you may well be the only one [cough] able to keep it out of the wrong hands.

You may be the only ones able to stop the threat on what could be Fandolin, the region, perhaps the world. Magic of this this power is nothing to be trifled with. And so now you stand at the mouth [snorts] of way cave, the jagged stone, tall. It feels weighty.

As you step closer, the temperature drops. There's no map, by the way. Give us the map.

Try now. Mhm. Yeah. As you step closer, you feel the temperature drop. Oh, I mean, it's just like

it's uh Oh, okay. It's the kind of cold that goes all the way to your bones. You breathe and just fog fills in front of your face. The light from your torches and lanterns feel weak here. It's dark. You feel small. You hear you hear a steady dripping inside. The slow rhythm of water pulsing through the stone feels like the heartbeat of the cave. You also hear [snorts]

you saw the tracks on the ground. Someone beat you here. What do you do? [clears throat and cough]

I'm going to not make the same mistake I did in the very first encounter that we had with the goblins and use my freaking abilities that I have to sense this stuff in the first place.

Yes. Um, so I would like to examine the mouth of the cave a bit more. Maybe look around for traps. Look around for more footprints. Look around for just anything that might give some insight.

Okay. Um, you're still at the mouth or have you stepped in? We're still at the mouth, right?

Yeah, we're we're kind of peering inside. We're just Okay. Uh, there there's no traps or anything out of the ordinary uh at the mouth of the cave. Uh, just the general sense of, you know, anxiety and uneasiness.

How far can we see in? Not too far. Maybe 10 or 15 feet. Is there any torches on the wall?

Um, no. But you do have you We have torches. I have a torch. I have to do You should have torches.

I currently am have a favorite terrain type and before we enter this cave and still technically in it. [clears throat] Um, while tracking creatures, I can learn the exact number, sizes, and how long ago they passed through the area. I would like to examine the tracks a little bit more. It also says that um double proficient skills when making an uh uh int or wisdom check was INT.

Intelligence. Intelligence or wisdom or wisdom check. So I would like to do uh wisdom check on the uh tracks

on the traps. Tracks. On the tracks. Okay. Yeah. Roll on the traps for wisdom. Roll for wisdom on the tracks. Is that what you're saying?

Yes. Yeah. I thought you just messed up. Are you saying pan? Just sounds like an N. Rolling for wisdom. Searching for wisdom. Rolling for wisdom as a saving throw. Disregard. I'll take it to 17. It's still a d20. [snorts]

Just kidding. Uh, proficiity bonus is doubled, which my proficiency bonus is two, so plus four, which turns that into a 19. Jeez. Um, yeah, that's fine. Um, yeah. So, you Yeah, you get close to the ground, you examine the tracks, and um, you notice that the tracks are they're not animals. It's bootprints. You notice that the tracks are bootprints. Um, and they're fresh enough that the edges haven't like they haven't been knocked down yet. How long ago would you say?

Um, it couldn't be more than an hour. Oh, so we're on the heels. How many are there?

Uh, just one set of one set of bootprints that you see. And you see you see what direction.

You also see I guess into the cave. um little tiny they're not holes in the ground, but you just see like little little little small like that

like tracks kind of. Yeah. Or spider legs. You're not sure. You just see little holes.

You'll see little uh how far how far are they apart? Uh [snorts] the the little

Yeah, the holes are about this far apart. Right here. Here. Okay. Here. Many holes.

Yeah, many holes. Upon examining the mouth of the cave, is there I mean, is there anything that

that stands out? Is there a pathway that is there anything that like that seems like a path or

Yeah, there's certainly an entrance. Okay. You're definitely you're definitely aware of the entrance, but uh it's

it's just kind of spooky. I would like to not light my torch just yet and creep um towards the entrance of the cave as far as I can see within my dark vision 60 ft. So, I'm going to move my full 35 ft.

Did you check for traps? Let me uh I mean, he said there's Okay. Well, he said at the mouth.

Well, and also he's going to put he's going to pull up just so what we can currently see from the mouth.

I'm going to go ahead and add you guys [clears throat] So, let's add Let me get a new Linda Vidia.

Shadow Heart Bertram. [snorts] What's his name? Really? Baram. Oh, I think I put B.

Oh, that's a big cave. It's Yes. Dang. I don't want to be in the front. I don't want

Yeah. Make Bertrram go in first. Mhm. Yeah. How about How about you test that out?

Watch you send your dog. How How far can you move? Have I trained my dog yet? How many days has it been?

My dog hasn't trained yet. It's been one day. It's been one day. Okay. [snorts] She's got

He's got to have a little more time. That's fine. I I can also I also have a high animal hand and animal handling

contrary to animal handling. Um I can like uh essentially if I really hacked at it, befriend a squirrel or like a rat that could go in there.

Is there any way for me to expedite the animal training by like rolling or anything?

Uh long rest would be a full day. We could make camp at the edge of that the mouth of the

because I feel like going in here the dog would actually be super beneficial. I I will emphasize

you are on the heels of what you strongly believe to be the black spire. Um I just really wanted in this venge even supposed to be here

in this neither are you anything. Um something that will prove important is time. Okay. Okay. So, we need to go.

Um, are [clears throat] we loaded in? Essentially, you all are in y'all. Everyone's looking for the same thing in this cave. And he has an hour at start.

Okay. Um, is what you've deduced. I am going to creep further into the mouth of the cave. Just as far as I

How far can you go? 35 ft. Just as far as I can see. Go ahead and move yourself.

Uh, five. I think you should make Bertrram walk in front of you in case there's any traps on the floor.

Bertrram's my boy. I just vowed for my his honor. 15 20 25 30. I'm good right here. 35. I'm good right here.

I'm still using the side of the wall. All right. So, that affords you. Now, I need another I can't zoom

60 ft now. Um, and I can actually this is I would like to cast players can also help you

because it lasts for an hour. I would like to cast past without a trace as we move in because then everyone in our party has plus 10 uh

stealth. No, it's more than that. You can see the hole. Okay. So, I would like to follow Matt and cast pass without a trace. Now, reminder, I believe y'all have to stay within 30 ft of me for it to affect you.

And I can also uh essentially attempt to hide within plain sight. DM, do you got my that I cast that spell?

Yeah, I got you. Okay. Now I'm gonna also move in with Vania and Linda Bertram. Come on.

I am also moving in. Okay. So the entrance to the tunnel leads to a large natural cavern. Um, it's supported by uh the pillars of rock that you can see. Uh, in the western part of the cave behind the pillar are three bed rolls, a heap of ordinary supplies. So, you know, some sacks of flour, bags of salt, casks of salted meat, some lanterns, flasks of lamp oil, some pickaxes, shovels, uh, and some other just miscellaneous gear. Uh amid the supplies, uh you see the body of a dwarf who's been dead for at least a week.

Oh. Um the northeastern section of the cavern has collapsed, forming a 10 foot wide, 20 foot deep pit. You notice that a sturdy hemp rope is tied around one of three stilemmites in the cavern and dangles into the pit.

Say that last part one more time. Uh, you notice that a sturdy hemp rope is tied around one of the three stellagmites in the cavern and it's it dangles into the pit. How much oil is there?

Um, how many flasks? Four flasks of lamort. I'm going to take all four flasks. Could come in handy.

Can I take a pickaxe? Yep. Could also come in handy. Yeah, I'm going to take a pickaxe as well. I'm going to investigate the dwarf's body.

Okay. Um upon I assume you're looters. I'm investigating the door quickly. Looting.

Okay. Um roll for roll for uh roll investigation. Okay. Well, I'll just set you ahead. I'm just going to add a custom item. except I don't know what it would like damage.

You step up to the goblin body, the first thing you notice is that, you know, he kind of has a a strange elongated skull. Um, he's got some green streaks on its skin. Uh, he's kind of dressed in filthy rag, so you're you're immediately aware it's not a crag m. It's not one of those. Um, that's about all you can I'm going to loot him upon uh,

[snorts] Linda, it's a pit. Back up. I know. Everybody's telling me. No, I'm not going in the pit. Linda's being a little more cautious today.

I have too many uh keep getting lost. I'm sorry. What was that? Too many what? [snorts]

You know, like No, you got to do the action. I have like a dice roller tab. I have like the campaign tag,

right? [clears throat] Okay. So, I'm back. Upon you uh looting his body, you find five gold pieces and you see tied around him, which you remove is a cloak of protection.

Oh, snagging that. Didn't protect him. It must be faulty. So that will gain you a uh a plus one bonus to your armor class and saving throws while you're wearing them.

Oh. Oh. I know. Mine's up to 18 after I stole that. Uh, part of being a ranger.

18's really nice. 18 is super nice. The 32 hit points is also nice. All right. What do y'all do?

I'm going to Where is the dwarf's body? Right here at the entrance. Yeah. Yeah. He's He's near where you are.

Okay. Um, I would like to move from this Like I'm talking teamwise. What do y'all think about moving from this stelagmite and carefully move to the other stileagmite just to get a little closer look at the pit?

I was going to say, can we like peer over the pit safely? You can. You can. Okay. Uh, how far

how far can you move? Uh, 25. I mean, I'll allow you to move freely. We're not in combat.

Okay. So, we're just just kind of we're just going to kind of go look. So, what do we see? What do we can we see anything?

You you see a uh just just a collapsed area of the cavern. It's about, you know, 10 ft across. It's 20 ft wide. You see the rope hanging down and you see, you know, another dead goblin body at the bottom. But

do you see anything like hanging to the rope? Is the rope We can see down to the bottom.

You can see to the bottom. How far is it? 20 ft. Does it lead anywhere or is it just a pit? Um, it looks like it leads somewhere.

It's like there's a tunnel kind of. Yes, I guess. So, we're all going to have to go

allow you to uh Well, that or we use the rope to swing. I don't know if we can get across. Can we see across or is that just a wall?

Um, there's nothing behind. So, we're just have to get a wall. Have to go down in there.

So, you can see I'm going to use you at some point. Don't you Don't you worry. I don't doubt it. [clears throat]

Vana, are you are you coming? Mhm. All right, gang. You're You're still back there.

Let's go. I'm going to investigate the strength of the rope. Can we reach the rope?

It's It's It's sturdy. All right. It's tight around the I'm going to take [snorts] the first plunge and go down.

Are you going down? Where are we? I'm going across. We can't go across. There is no across.

It's just a wall on the other side. I'm following. I'm taking the first plunge and going [snorts] down. Wait, Linda,

we're holding the rope. The ropes would be over here, right? Is it over here? Um,

or is it over here to the line? He said, you can all go to the bottom if you're taking the rope. I don't care where you go down at.

I'm going to acrobatically jump down. What's it look like? What do I see? Uh, so to the northwest of the cavern, you see the entrance um to I mean what kind of just looks like a a passage.

I see. Right. Like and you see one to the east as well. Okay. I see. One to the northwest and one to the east.

I'm going to creep into the passage to the right, which would be the east, and see if I can see further down in there. 60 ft.

Okay. You want to see 60 ft. So, and I can also only have I can see 60 ft too. Who Who has a lantern and who doesn't have a lantern? I

have a torch. Who has a torch lit? I don't have my I have a torch lit and I can see 60 ft in the dark.

I don't have a torch lit. But the 60 ft in the dark would not be applied if it was if like the torch was lit. It would be in the dark and it could only make out um figures. It can't make out like colors or anything. Just shades of gray.

Okay. So, if the torch was lit then that would add a little bit more light. Um, but I'm just going to creep in here about 60 ft or to where I can see. Oh, nice. Okay.

Okay, great. All right, we going to we going to slowly with weapons drawn. I'd like to have like a little check first before we even start moving forward.

Go for it. Can I Can I use my perception to see about any, you know, maybe traps, uh, any any funny business? Um.

Uh, sure. Go for it. Do I roll? Where are you checking? I want to like, you know, look around on the ground. Look around on the walls. Are there any hidden hidden little divots? Are there any, you know, where someone could be hiding? Is there

in in the passage? Yes. Okay. Uh, you can roll for perception. Roll perception. Roll perception.

15. So, you don't see uh you don't see anything in the passage. Um there's nothing there's nothing alarming. It's just again it's it's just a dark passage. It's a little anxietyinducing, but there's nothing alarming uh in the passage itself.

I'm going to slowly creep. Check the ground for uh tracks. Uh you check the ground. Uh you don't see anything here. It looks like it's been, you know, trampled there. You can see that it's been traveled on, but there's no distinct tracks.

I'm going to go back just to the entrance of the other one. Just to the entrance by going in and investigating the ground for tracks over here.

Same thing. Okay, let's just press on to where we're I say we just pick this one.

Let's just let's just make our way down. All right, we're going to quietly meander our way down. Mind you, we have stealth plus 10 at the moment, which that started as we entered the cave. That started the hour mark.

Well, you don't have stealth plus 10. You haven't said you're going into this room stealthily.

We're trying to be stealth. I said I just said we were going in there as quietly stealth. Okay,

everyone. Everyone, when I I said, "Hey, we're at the beginning like we're doing this thing to be stealthy."

You could. It does. That that plus 10 applies to like a roll only a roll. If you say like, "Hey, I'm" It's not like, "Oh, you roll and now the rest of your time in the cave is whatever your huge stealth roll was."

It would be like, "I now we have plus 10 for an hour, so we're going to do rolls." Okay. Can

help me out on that because I was like, "We're going in here. Let's be quiet. I'm" And I was like trying to make it really known.

So, we're going to go for the next hour. We want to be stealthy as [ __ ] U may not. Maybe. May not. Like when you went down the rope, you could have described to me that you went down the rope like this as opposed to like there's multiple ways to go down the rope. And I'm not even though you say you want to be stealthy, I'm not going to apply stealth to you. Like if you want

because it's you're doing it. Everything I'm doing is stealthy. If it's all right, I'm going to I'm going to require a stealth role in everything that you do.

I'm going to That's also fine. I'm not going to necessarily try to be stealthy the whole time, but as of now,

because we may not need to be. Um, but you don't know. Right now, we're going to try.

Right now, I am being stealthy. Right now, I am stealthily. Okay, roll for stealth.

I will I will stealthily. Everyone roll for stealth. Oh crap. Sorry. Oh my god.

Okay. Well, add 10 to everybody's. Mine's 10. I saw a six. Five. My 20 is not really.

I I have a disadvantage. So I rolled twice. So you had a 15 and then a two. I had a 20.

You have disadvantage. So you're a 12. Yes. I'm a 15. Okay. So I mean I had 21 plus 10. So

And what are y'all doing? What order are you in? I'm first. I'm second. I'm literally invisible right now.

What' you roll, Bertram? Oh, here. Here. Which dice? Uh, D20. Roll a lot of dice in my days.

Just one. Yes, we get to live through you. That' be a big 16. 16. 26. Me and Bertram are creeping.

Yeah. So, you're all going up. Yes. Okay, I'm going [crying] and I'm going to lead [snorts] the party. Let me see where

Bertram, get behind me. In the back. He's not even You're continuing down um down these

What? You know, you're just you're just walking down a dark passage. Mhm. We have lanterns, right?

Yeah. Yeah. You can you can see a little bit in front of you. So, but you're you're just traveling along. There's

there's nothing out of the ordinary. It feels calm. Okay. You're just walking through.

All right. Well, let's keep going. We're going to keep going. Move it, Vana. Okay. So, it looks like going do we want to keep going to the east or do we want to go north?

Let's go east. I'm going to stealthily press uh towards or using my hand pressing towards this wall. Um

same. Will y'all stay here so I don't so the flame doesn't catch the attention of unwanted foes.

Okay. I'm just I'm going to try to remain 30 feet in front of everybody at all times so I can be the

Oh my god, the Dana. Well, [snorts] I'll be able to see anybody before they see me and I can holler back. I'd rather them I'd rather see somebody than them see the fire light.

So, I'm going to use my I mean, I'm going to try to be have 60 feet of vision as much as possible here. And this is just my first um I'm going to actually make a stealth roll to go all the way down this hallway here as stealthy as possible.

Okay. Yeah. Roll 18 + 10 28. Great. I have a plus five stealth buff automatically. I'm going to look around the corner. I'm going to motion to my party to come to me

stealthily. We're moving Bertram. Do we need a roll for that or? No. Oh, there's a door over here

cuz I checked the coast was clear. Linda saw a door. All right, let's go investigate the door.

Lindsay, I mean Linda. Linda. Linda is putting her ear up to the door. also feeling

okay for traps just like that. Okay. Uh roll uh roll perception 21 21. You uh 21.

You you you investigate the door and you see that it's ever so slightly partially cracked. Oh.

Um, it's always s like you listen for a moment and you hear faint crunching and splintering sounds.

Okay. What do you do? We like like armored up stealthily peer in. Is that that's what you did?

Nope. That's not what I did. So Verdana is going. It's cuz Katie's freaking Tennessee. She started Verdana.

No, I don't. I say Vana. I know. I think you said it one time. Maybe I just said it one time. Maybe I'm just using.

All right. I'm going to try to peek through the crack. That's what I just said.

Okay. Are you peeking through the crack? I mean, you go ahead. Do you want to peek through the crack? Do you peek?

I'm going to peek through the crack. I think everybody should peek through the crack stealthily. Like on

I'm going to stealthily peek through the crack. Sometimes loaded way to do that.

One on top of the other. Yeah. All right. Yeah, we're going to do that. We're going to stack on top of each other. Scooby-Doo style. All we all want to see through the cracks stealthily.

Um you all lean over ahead and you all just here. Wait. Uh roll stealth. Oh why we Yeah, cuz we said stealthily and that's

Yeah, roll stealth. 9 + 10 is 19. NICE. [screaming] 11 [clears throat] 16. You got 17.

You all stacked your heads on top. Um, and the the two the two top bump the door.

Who are the two top? Uh, Porgga and Linda. Damn it, y'all. Bump it. Um, [clears throat] nothing happens, but you all hear just that

somebody crunching chowing down. Can Can he see? No, nobody. We're all just stacked. Like, nobody can see. It's not cracked enough to see anything.

Dark vision. Unstack. I know, but I can't like see around the door. Is there the uh

detect magic? See if it's a creature. Does detect magic identify creatures? Doesn't somebody have that you were for the duration you sense the presence of magical effects within 30 ft of yourself? If you send such effects, you can take the magic action to see a faint R around any visible creature or object in the area that bears a magic. And if

is that a full spell? Yeah, the spell is stone. No, we're braver than that. We don't need to waste a spell.

No, don't waste a spell. I'd rather just bust in there before I wasted a spell.

Now, we all do have enhanced stealth. Magnet though. This is a What? I Why don't we use the enhanced stealth to maybe open that door up?

I'm going to try I'm I'm going to try to take the first since I have the highest stealth buff. I'm going to try to take the first step. I'm going to push the door open and peek my head through.

Okay. Uh, roll stuff. 21 + 10, 31. Um, you push the door open. No creek. No creek, Matt. It's stealthy.

You, uh, you see three ghouls sitting at a table. Show us what a ghoul is. You want to clear this room, guys?

Oh, yeah. No, we're I'm about to turn back to my party and go baseball. Three ghouls.

Okay, here's the thing though. Before we even get into this, listen to me. So, we're going to This is a This is a room that's encased, right? As far as As far as we know.

What did Well, can you Did I see the whole room when I peaked my head in? Yeah.

Is there a back wall? Uh you you just see some old stone bunks uh kind of No door

in orderly. Uh they're they're just in in a line against the wall. Is there a door? Uh there is a corroded iron bazer

uh full of cold coals in the middle of the room. Noted. Uh you see the bones of half a dozen half a dozen dwarves and larger bandits just kind of scattered around the room.

Can we can we see that real quick? They're still clad and Oh yes. I'm only saying just to uh see the position of the god or I did want to know that. I just want to see the position of the ghouls.

Is there another way out of this room? Thank you for asking the question that I've been trying.

Yes, there is another door. Okay, thank you. 8.8. Oh, wow. Okay, so here's my It's about to get crazy.

So, here Hey, listen to me. Can we Shadow Heart speaking? Can we I'm going to turn back and look at my party and we're going to whisper and form a game plan. We would like to attempt to make this attack as stealthy as possible so that we don't alert everyone else. So when you're choosing your your attacks because we're going to probably use some spells or use some whatever. We need to have a little rest to try to get our spells back.

We haven't used any spells. I've already used one to keep our stealthy. Can we take a rest in this situation

right now? Yeah. Well, time is of the essence. I would have recommend resting, right?

Yeah. I'm saying after the attack. Oh, I thought you said like right right before. I was like, this is a good time.

After the attack. Yes. Yes. Yes. 100%. Um, time is of the essence though. I say,

but we need spells as well. We need spells. We need to reserve our spells. I also have spells now. So, here's the other thing to consider. We don't know what is going to kill these ghouls.

We don't know if we go in there and go think if they're going to go. So Verdenia [snorts]

I maybe you take a like a bow shot reaches down into her satchel. Shots have been terrible.

Yeah. She cuts she cuts the bottom of her tunic, rolls it up and puts it ties it into somewhat of like into a ball on each side. So it's there's weight on each side. I take the oil that I stole from the very beginning and I light it on both side. I dip it in on both sides. I light both ends on the torch. You can tell me if I can do this. I'm going to throw my flask of oil, shatter it onto the ground of the room, and then toss my flaming uh tunic into it. And we're going to kick this thing off.

I like it. I'm obviously I'm good with it. I'm good with it. I'm going to do with it in the direction of the ghouls. And I'm just going to hope that they take some sort of fire damage as ghouls. roll for

undead always take fire damage. Yeah. Yeah. Um Yeah. So you you light them. Um mainly the objective is to light like just to throw it on the ground and light the ground in front of them off front. That is my objective. Cut it in.

Questions about this episode

Who speaks in "DND Foal Watch 3 - 01.19.26"?

Katie Van Slyke (Host), Nate (Guest), Raven (Guest), Matt (Guest), Linda (Guest), Buck (Guest), Vania (Guest).

What is "DND Foal Watch 3 - 01.19.26" about?

The content centers around a Dungeons and Dragons gaming session featuring a group of players, who are preparing for their campaign's final night. Amid technical difficulties and lighthearted banter, the participants introduce their characters, discuss new visual setups with dual cameras, and share personal updates, including the introduction of a new pet.

What is mentioned in this Katie Van Slyke episode?

8 people, works and ideas are mentioned, including Fandolin, Shadow Heart, Black Spider, Gundron Rockseker, Cragmaw Castle, Wave Echo Cave. Each one on this page links to its own page with every episode that mentions it.

How long is "DND Foal Watch 3 - 01.19.26"?

The episode runs 1 h 15 min; the transcript is about 11,955 words in 359 timestamped sections.

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