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DND Foal Watch 3 Pt. 2 - 01.19.26

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This is the full, timestamped transcript of "DND Foal Watch 3 Pt. 2 - 01.19.26", an episode of Katie Van Slyke published January 20, 2026 (3 h 40 min, about 14,667 words). It mentions 5 people, works and ideas, including Bertram, Flame Skull, Venia, Indeed, Shaya.

What this episode is about

The discussion revolves around a gaming session of Dungeons and Dragons, filled with technical difficulties and light-hearted banter among players as they prepare to dive into a significant plot development within their campaign. Amid the chaos, players manage to coordinate a brief break while addressing overlapping distractions and logistical challenges.

Key takeaways

  • Technical difficulties are like adulting: just when you think you’ve got it together, something freezes up.
  • In a world of instant gratification, waiting for your live stream to start feels like a medieval siege.
  • Dungeons & Dragons: because sometimes reality needs a break, just like these folks taking potty breaks.
  • The struggle of balancing friendships and a big game is real; multitasking like a pro or just multitasking in chaos?
  • Pregnancy discussions on a game night? When your RPG is as unpredictable as labor; both can lead to unexpected twists!

Who speaks in this episode?

What is discussed, and when

  1. – 15:00: Bertram, Indeed
  2. – 30:00: Bertram
  3. – 45:00: Bertram
  4. – 1:00:00: Bertram
  5. – 1:15:00: Flame Skull, Bertram
  6. – 1:30:00: Flame Skull
  7. – 1:45:00: Bertram, Flame Skull

Notable quotes from "DND Foal Watch 3 Pt. 2 - 01.19.26"

  • How did I meet Katie? I actually found the my job on Indeed and didn't meet her until like the second interview.
    about Indeed · at
  • Bertram, what was your d20 roll?
    about Bertram · at
  • Flame skull is now going to move. be bricks when they come out.
    about Flame Skull · at

Who and what is mentioned in this episode?

People

  • Bertram — Person · 19 mentions · first at
  • Venia — Person · 3 mentions
  • Shaya — Person · 1 mention

Companies & orgs

Concepts & topics

Full transcript with timestamps

You got it. Risky territory. Let's uh yeah. Wait, what's happening? It's not working.

Well, it is. It's just Should we switch to the iPad? Um, we'll give this around here.

Technical difficulties. Technical difficulties. Okay. There we go. Do we have nothing? It's my Here we go. That's frozen.

Brave it. That's fixing it. I'm fixing it. Everybody chill. I'm fixing it. Is it on?

I'm fixing it. Everybody chill. But I just didn't know if it was on. Yeah. Everything should be

Y'all got to breathe. I got to breathe. Oh no. Having some technical difficulties. Technical difficulties.

It's not even coming up on mine that it's live. Oh, it's not? No. Go to home. Is it for you? That's weird. Okay, got it. Now, um we're taking a little potty break at the beginning of this one just because we're about in the game of Dungeons and Dragons, which we're playing while we wait on Raven to hopefully f. Um, we're just hanging out and playing a game. We are about to make a pretty big move within the game. And so, we were just going to let people get back on uh give a chance to let everyone hopefully get the kinks out and everything like that before we move on with the game.

So, uh, we're going to take some potty breaks. It'll probably be about 5 minutes um before we actually start. They went outside. They'll be back. They're They're doing something.

Crack another Red Bull, Lindsay. I don't need no more Red Bull. No, I'm about to go get another drink.

Don't tell me. What's Buck doing? Buck's watching. Okay, Buck is struggling because on the other side of this wall, my husband and friend Shaina are watching the game. Like the big game. I don't know. Is it the national championship?

I think so. They're watching the game. And so Buck has been struggling cuz he al he wants to be in both places at once. So, he's over there watching that while we get ready and then he'll come back. I'mma potty. Lindsay, answer some questions while we're gone.

Ask some questions, people that I can answer. That I can answer. Oh my god. I don't I don't know everything Katie knows. If if she starts giving birth, we shut off the live and we zip over.

Um, I'll show you my nails. Two fell off, so I won't show you them. But these are my nails. Which baby are you excited to see? I'm really excited to see all of them, but I'm really excited for Lexis. Do I like the name Royal? I do like that name, but I don't know what Katie's thinking. I think she's thinking Crow and Violet. Um, what's my favorite Red Bull flavor? This guy. I'm very excited for my first F. Kind of nervous. I watched a couple from last year, so I kind of know what to expect.

I want my little milkshake. Get you a milkshake. Temperature right now is oh, sorry.

23° and it feels like 18. It's cold. It feels like 18. I'm going to go for you.

White peach and vanilla berry full time. I did not see that. I don't have a horse. I do have two cats. But Katie wants a girl. We're back live. We're back live just for the uh the newbies in coming in.

Is there any win there? Yes. What about being limitless? What? Sorry. Matt, do you have any cookies or cinnamon rolls tonight?

Cinnamon rolls. Can we make the cinnies? Cinnamon rolls. We have brownies as well.

Oh, well, that takes longer, though. You just have to put cinnamon rolls on a pan.

You don't know me. You don't know how quick I can make some brownies. Brownies take longer to bake, too.

Yeah. My cat's names are Cat with two T's and Bandit. You call him Kata? How silly.

How did I meet Katie? I actually found the my job on Indeed and didn't meet her until like the second interview.

Indeed, you did. I actually met her and Abigail in the second interview. Really?

Yes. Cool. I thought you guys were really cool. I was like, who am I kidding? I was kind of intimidated by you when I first started working here.

Who? Abigail. She's just a little mean looking. It's fine. Mean looking. Oh my god. I'm not mean looking.

I'm looking. She looks way prettier when she smiles. You should smile. Shut up.

Everybody should smile more. I've been told that I have to look like a serial killer my whole life.

So imagine that. Yeah, that imagine that. Wait, I did. I didn't like it. I would. Would you rather give birth in the cold or winter or cold of winter or heat of summer? the tears start falling down your teeth.

That's what I was trying to do. And I I say cold of winter. Wait, what was the question?

If you had to give birth in the cold of winter or the heat of summer, which would you rather choose? Like if you were a horse?

If I was a horse? Yes. And I had to give birth. Mhm. Um cold winter. I said cold, too.

As the mom, cold probably. Will the baby ice. Uh it it would be miserable. Um I'm going to say uh mid to late fall.

That's not a choice. That was not the choice. Oh, what were the choices? Hot summer or cold winter?

Um either hot summer or cold winter. Wow. How cold? Cold cold or hot hot. Um, yeah. No, in between.

Let's just say I'm glad I'm not a horse. Why is this the last night of the campaign? We kind of

We It's ending. Cuz we uh, you know, this started. It may not be. It depends on We flub this up.

Y'all could really flub this up. That's a great way to put it. We could flub ourselves. could very easily turn into more than you are bargaining for Chinese.

Is that your milkshake? It is. Did you make it with ice cream? I did. Will you have ice cream?

Nope. Not you. A I was We have cinnamon rolls. Cinnamon rolls. But I got a milkshake from uh or like whatever their new frozen thing is. If you want it, man, you can have it.

Nah, that's all you. That's all you. If any of y'all want it, I swear y'all can have it. I haven't even touched it. It's like chocolate chip Oreo something frozen blasting.

It's all you. I had one of those moments where like there was opportunity to say something quick and I slip through like 50 options and then like a moment passed like I just like short circuit. I was like mind

roll for whit. That's going to be a new bit is y'all are going to do roll for you. Bet my next tattoo isn't about to be a D20.

Yeah. You getting more coffee? Yeah. Um, all right. Is that the last thing? I'll wait until I have the cinnamon rolls.

Is there any possible way to dim this light a little bit? Yeah, I guess you're right.

We're in a cave. I didn't have time to set up a stream deck. I have had a We're in a cave. It shouldn't look like this. Yeah.

This is the brightest. Is Has this been how it's been the whole time? No. Well, the whole this whole time. Yeah. Like tonight.

My poor world building out of me. You're in a cave. I know. Why is it so bright?

Someone said they've got a D20 tattoo. I'm flubbing. I'm flubbing the cave. Big flubber.

The cave is dark. M. I like it. Yeah, that's much nice on my much better. The cave is dark and spooky.

And we just have torch light. You just have torch light, but it's not flickering.

No, no flicker. I do periodically check on Indie for those wondering. Um, I found the culprit for those vanilla Oreos

the other day. What? Wait, what were they? They were buck. Those vanilla Oreos.

What? What were they? Whose were they? You They're yours. I know, but like what happened to them?

We were just discussing who who would buy them? Given a choice on a on an aisle of Oreo options. points at the vanilla one and says that's the one.

Yeah. See, I go vanilla Oreo chocolate milk instead of chocolate. Wow. It's different. It's different. It's the same, but it's different.

It's same. Same. Yeah. I got a bag in my bag right now. That's I know. I know. I saw them. That's how I knew. I keep it on me.

I'm telling you, I really don't eat like candy or snacks, but I've always been messed by things. Vanilla Oreo.

Yeah, I got chocolate milk, too. I'm telling you that's the that's the way to go.

I think it'd be good with peanut butter. I like regular Oreos with peanut butter.

Yeah. Came in talking about snacks. Yeah, I'm hungry now. All right, there's some there's some chips in there. Well, he's making the cinnamon rolls.

Cinnamon rolls are coming. I chose this as my sweet treat. So, Cinnamon roll. We didn't have that option.

Uh what was uh what was your roll, Bertram? Bertram, what was your d20 roll? The one prior?

Yeah, it was a four. No, the initiative roll. The one. I might not have done it if we just did.

Okay. Yeah. Yeah. Go for it. It's a 21 actually. That's a what? It's upside down. My bad is 17.

About me and Bertram about to go in there and just take care of business. 21 on a 2.

All right. Dude, imagine Bertrram just bust out of this entire situation with Shadow Heart on Does Bertram have a weapon?

We should give Bertram a weapon. As of right now, it's too late. No, it's not too late.

See what I currently at least got them hands. I've got two hands. Imagine he just

I got two hand axes. I could give him a hand axe. I say we just see we just let him cook.

You could have a crowbar. I'll talk my way out of it. Crowbar hammer. Let's give him something.

Nothing. Hey, I've got that. I didn't want it anymore because I didn't I'm not going to use it. Can I give him

I have a spear. Mind you, I'm doing this just right now. Yeah, I'm not going to keep you alive long, but I I will give you this quarter staff

where it has a piece on the top where when you hit somebody with it, if it's big enough,

uh you prone, they go prone. Oh, that's nice. Okay, so he has my quarter staff.

Yeah. Okay. Just in case I can be useful. He has the quarter step. Let's leave him with just a quarter staff

and see how that mean. What's what? lay down. You have to use your next laying down if you get on your back.

I didn't know what it meant. When you get knocked down, you're in the prone. Your next turn has to roll to stand on.

Yeah. So, you have to like you burn a turn and you're a lot more vulnerable. Yeah. That's all Bertrum gets. Cuz right now I want to stay alive. I will be using your body. Yeah.

To shield myself. Human shield. Yeah. 100%. I would not want to I'm gonna spend this whole time I I don't care really the result of this campaign. I want to spend this whole time keeping Bertram.

He's gonna he's going to be like fighting. He's be like I pull Bertram behind me to the left.

I pull Bro swiftly behind me. I say stay behind me. We're both back into a corner and I just have my spirit. I'm just like staying in the perimeter.

You good? I just had a milkshake in my nose. In the heat of the moment, I cast the smoke spell and then me and B make hurry. Save yourself.

And then they get married. The most dangerous threat to you right now is shadow.

But Danny is a woman, by the way. Oh, perfect. And then we're going to kiss. A woman monster.

And then they kiss. I'm thinking I'm forming some sort of thing for Bertram. We can go.

I think you are. Yeah. Yeah. We're going to place the ghouls. What is Vidamia? What do you look like?

Um, can you show me your your profile picture here? It's right here. What's your app?

But Dana is right here. I'm uh It's actually at the cool ghoul 21. Oh, so she's kind of hot.

Oh, I can see everything for some reason. Now I hate Vidia more. So, like I thought Vadena was kind of like green and bald.

No, that's the image you had of me this whole time. Yeah, I thought you're green and bald and like big muscled.

Do you not look at like the icon the map this whole time? I've really only seen your face too

just from the icon. Shadow Heart's hot for sure. All right. Okay. you uh they all take uh

what order they took four fire damage as um as you threw your concoction into the midst of them, which is actually pretty insane.

I do like that Venia thinks outside of the box like that. So now you're all in the room.

You're all charged in, I guess. Um, all right. Well, I didn't. Whoa. You stayed outside. Yeah, I saw the boat.

What? It's my most It's my literally my What do you do? I am going to We're on your way.

No, I'm talented. I am going to Take How far are these ghouls from me? Um shoot through Bertram.

They're 35 and 40 feet away. 3540 ft. That's quite a tote for what I was wanting to do. All right, I'm going to knock a arrow. And with my newfound confidence, since I just kicked this whole thing off, I'm going to fire it at the farthest right ghoul.

Farthest right ghoul up there. The one in the back. No, the closest one to roll. Roll to hit.

11. The dog's in a pack on my back. It's a It's a little too far for you to aim accurately, especially in this level of darkness.

Um, your eyes hadn't quite adjusted and your arrow flies right over their heads. Um,

what do you do? Oh gosh. So, we're all in this room. We got a quarter staff and that's it.

Okay. And they're not really close to us. And you What's his What's his move? Uh, how how far can he move?

Uh, he can move 30 feet. Oh, god. How far are they from us? from Bertram. 25 ft.

20 to 30 feet. Okay. I might close half the distance. Okay. Not fully there, but just taking a couple steps up. Getting a little bit closer

behind the thing thing. Yeah, I like it. The bazir. And then I think I'll probably just wait there to see what their move is. See if they are coming closer.

Okay. The uh the closest ghoul the closest ghoul to the party uh runs toward the bazir on the ground launches over Bertram.

Oh god. Lands right at Linda. Linda right at Linda. Uh, dodge goes for a fight dodge

roll and and goes to hit you with claws dog attack. Shadowart releases her dog from backpack. It whimpers and turns out the wind runs out.

Get me out of here. Nah. No. You at least got a date with it. It It goes and you just Knock them claws away.

Uh, Shadow Heart, what do you do? Okay, Shadow Heart. Sorry, was not thinking. So, I'm 30 ft away.

I need to move that ghoul. I'm going to try not to burn my spells here at first cuz I think I'd like to try to deal some damage. Um, I can use my crossbow while staying Oh, wait. How How far is this other ghoul that leaped? He's right in front of Linda. So, he's right in front of me. Yeah.

So, arguably I can step forward just like five feet. And I'm going to do touch him.

Yeah. Uh, so I'm going to use dual wielding shortswords. Okay. And I'm going to try to go for the throw.

Okay. Roll the hit. Five. Uh, yeah. Roll the hit again. Three. M no, you you you charged in with a

you but you weren't close enough yet. Um and they both just No, no dodge needed. It looked good until you realized how still far away you were when you swallowed.

Okay, cool. Cool. Um, Toga, what do you do? I'm going to go for the one in front of Linda.

Okay, with my dagger. Okay, roll to uh roll ahead. 20. Nice. That 16 plus four.

Okay. Uh, roll for damage. Uh, you you go for the dagger strike. The goal was a little bigger than you thought and you just kind of got him in the leg.

Right. Right. Just a little ow. Ow. That kind of hurt. I knew we should have left Horga.

Yeah. And no one else has. You didn't do anything. The uh the next school's still back by the

Me and Bertram are in here just taking care of business, dude. Bertram hasn't done anything but move and and then wait for us to do something.

Yeah, but the aura he's emitting right now. He's emitting no aura. I'm going to attack for location.

The the other ghoul uh runs the the 25 ft over to shadow heart and attacks with claws

18 armor. Um the claws are are deflected by your armor. Yeah, they are. Linda, what do you do? So, I have How dark is it in the room? Like, can everyone see?

It's uh the Is there fire everywhere? You You can see faintly from the remnants of the burning from what you threw.

That's still burning. Is the oil like on the ground? Is the oil still on fire? There's There's light fire spread across the floor in a small localized area.

Crazy. It's faint. It's It's not bright in there. I know. imagining that that sick. It's kind of scary. Imagine just like faintly seeing ghouls going like

I have um a can trip for I don't know how to say this. Thurmaturury thr um I can do fireplay and cause flames to flicker, brighten, dim, or change color for 1 minute. So, I'm going to use that to brighten the flames. So, everybody at least has a minute. Nice.

Okay. To do something, but Oh, yeah. I'm also Yes. going to Great. Sideep to the left of the ghoul in front of me and guiding bolt cuz it's 120 ft to the ghoul at the back.

You're ghouling in the back. Yeah. Okay. Bowl in on that ghoul. Roll for hit. That was bad. Not good.

14. And again, she's coming in clutch. Roll for damage. I wish she bolt flies across the room.

Heavy strike hit. Yeah. Dead. But Daniel, what do you do now? I'm going to cast Hunter's Mark. on the farthest goal because it has a range of 90 ft. Okay,

what this does is I get to deal an extra d6 damage to a target whenever I hit it with a weapon attack and I have wisdom. I can roll up wisdom or survival uh check uh to find out more about it. So, I would like to do that.

Dude, say what again? Let me Let me double check real quick. Yeah. Read some literature.

You hit it with a weapon attack and you have an advantage on any wisdom perception or wisdom survival check you make to find it. Oh, to find it.

Like if it escapes. Oh, okay. Okay. Okay. I guess. I guess. Well, what is it called? What is it called?

Uh Hunter's Mark. I I'll also I think everybody should have chat VT pulled up as a player. It helps so much to like I'm finding out more things that I can do. Can

Yeah, you can track the creature. Can I Do you need that right now though? Well, can I find out?

It gives extra damage. Well, more than that. it. Um, yeah, it gives extra damage with my um whenever I hit it with anything.

Yeah. About So, you casting? Yes, I'm casting. And then I'm going to Is there a save or anything for it?

So, it just automatically works. Sorry. Yes. Okay. Um, and then I am going to step into the room onto the right here. And then I'm going to research this, but continue on with the flow

is uh what's your action? Does that spell cast not count? I thought I thought it was a bonus action.

The spellcast is I think so. Okay. Okay. Then I'm going to move into the corner of the room and I'm going to fire a arrow at the ghoul that I just hit with Hunter's Mark

in the back. Vengeance in the back. Yeah. Roll for nine. Um is lighter. You're uh I'm going to give you the tracking, but the uh the arrow is not tracking. you know, if you know what I mean. There you see, you can still see him. You'll be able to track him, but the arrow wasn't tracking him. You know what I'm saying? You missed, buddy.

Old Bertrram. What do you do? So, do something. Yeah, for sure. I'm behind. Take advantage of situation.

Or two of them. Yeah, you're behind. Yeah, you're you're in between all three. Yeah, the two that are closest to the rest of the team are probably not really looking at me. I imagine they're focusing on the other guys.

Yeah. I like it. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. So, I'd imagine I'd go up to that one that's closer to me. That's kind of in the middle.

Mhm. And I have my quarter staff, which I don't know what the damage is, but I'm going to GO FOR JUST A

Louisville slugger dome hard as I can. Okay. Give me a I'll go for Give me a Give me a D 20 roll.

20. That's right. That's right. See what happens. Uh one you uh you turn around um with your staff and you swing um and you you're still like 8t away.

Okay, got it. You full on miss. And now the uh the ghoul closest to Linda. Bro, give me a break. Linda

is uh actually going to knock you out. Going for to move. Oh yeah. Actually going to go for toga here. So you get you're going to get knocked onto the beds there.

Oh, okay. And uh he's coming for you, babe. To here is going to get attacked with claws. What's your armor?

18. Oh. Um, you have good armor. Spend that the whole time. Nice. Uh, it's it's a 19, so it's a hit. Um,

[ __ ] me. You take uh you take seven damage. And I need you I need you to roll for uh constitution. You need a you need a DC10.

Constitution. You need to roll for constitution. And we need at least a 10 in your saving throws. Look up here in the in corner. Is there a con? Yeah, I

need you to roll 14. Okay. Yeah, constitution. Yeah, you that was a success. So, you just take seven damage.

Great. Um, Shadow Heart, what do you do? Okay, I'm going to go after this ghoul on my my right.

Yep. Um, I'm going to use um the sound you heard from outside the cave is now a little bit louder.

Okay. Okay. Um, I'm going to use my uh I'm going to do a double mace attack. Okay. On the one to your right.

Yep. Roll a hit. 12. Okay, roll for damage. Seven. Roll to hit. 14. Roll for damage.

Three. Yeah, you you uh you swing both times. You make solid contact in each and deal significant damage.

Sweet. Um to what do you do? Um, can I go after the one that or is right in front of you?

Yeah, I'll go after the one in front of me. And I have two weapon fighting as my bonus attack. So, I'm going to do

Yeah. Uh, okay. I'm going to do my uh short sword in one, I guess. And then do I do it the other one? Okay.

Where's the live stream? Say hi. Uh, look. 16. Look. Roll for damage. Nice. That's cool.

Five. You're That was on the one closest to you. Yeah. Okay. Roll. Roll to hit again.

Um, I'm going to do dagger. Oh my. Five. Yeah, he he sidestepped that dagger. Too easy. Just give you one of these. just um so the wood to the right of shadow heart

yep is attacking shadow heart is you're still the closest um armor 18 he's going to attack with claws uh but he's going to be deflected he's also going to run uh back to the pile of bones Okay.

Uh, Linda, what do you do? Go after the ghoul. He's on to him. Uh, well, obviously I'm going to get up from the bed,

right? Yes. And then, was she doing the prone then? No. No, she wasn't. Go get a little

She She landed. She landed up right on on her boot. She just got like bumped brushed off.

Okay. I I have an idea. I have an idea and I'm going to do it. So, I'm going after the ghoul that's on toga right now.

Yeah. And I'm going to crossbow it. Okay. Light. But hear me out. I'm coming. I'm standing up off the bed, right? Or I'm getting up off the bed. It's not just a regular like stand up with a bow. It's like a

Okay. You know, you know, like coming around her like Linda rolling for a ruffle hit on that.

EIGHT. You have to act out what it actually you you go to put your foot on the bed to launch off and the pillow slid.

The pillow slips and you shoot the ground. Oh man, that was valant. What a call.

What a what a great call. It was so good though. That was awesome. That was a good That was good.

Okay. Okay. The uh the last ghoul in the back is going to kill Bertram. Run up to Bertrram and he's going to attack. Bertrram has uh

10 armor. Let me give him 12. Bertram's AC12. And this is a 17. So, Bertrren takes seven damage.

Damn. Um, and uh, what is And I I need to roll a d20. And we're going to You're going to have a a plus three on constitution.

Okay. So, we need a 10. 19. Which one? Thank god. So you don't get your He doesn't take the damage.

He takes the damage. He does not take what also would have happened. Oh, okay. Um

Matt, you look like a goblin over there. Vania, what do you do? Why'd you ask? I am going to being a monster hunter as I'm observing this fight. Have I noticed any weaknesses in the go in the ghouls that

Oh, maybe maybe a certain action caused a little bit more damage than the others.

Okay, that's a that's a good question. Whatever Katie did caused significant damage.

Double macing definitely did it. You you you haven't you genuinely haven't noticed any weakness after we kill these guys.

Um Oh, they're not in. But you do know that they are immune to poison. Immune poison.

Immune to poison. Luckily, none of us are using that. Using that. They they uh from what you know of the monster, you've also attuned that they must also have dark vision.

Okay, I'm going to take my spear that has been sort of catching the ground every time I walk. I'm going to set my pack down. I'm going to pull the spear out and with to the ghoul in between my party, I'm going to charge and I'm going to jab it right into the chest and throw it into the bed and push the spear straight through the bed.

Period. Roll your head. Come on, Matt. I'm going to equip my spear. Right. There it is. And then Whoa. Interesting.

It was You can throw it. Yeah, it was just I was thinking about that, but now I'm not going to do that.

All right, roll for hit. 20 not an 17 plus three uh damage. Three. So you run you run through and you stab him. You push him into the bed and squouch. He goes all the way through him and uh he's he's momentarily stuck to the bed. Take that.

Mission accomplished. Bertram, what do you do? All right. So, where Let me see.

You just got attacked. Uh yeah, by the Yeah. And my quarter staff will prone him if I hit him. Would it what?

It It makes him go prone. What does it do? It It'll It can topple him. Okay. Quarter staff can topple.

So, I feel I have to go for the guy closest to me that just attacked me. I'm just going to try to hit him. Like the quarter staff is just like a That's like a long It's like a long stick bow.

Essentially, it is. It does have Does he know like the the top significance? Yeah. Yeah. It gives him the top effect.

Um Yeah. Give me a Oh, yeah. I hope this works out. Hold on. I got a plan. We got a long time to come back, but we'll see. Uh yeah, give me roll a d20.

D20. Come on. Something decent. Plus two with the staff. Be a seven plus a nine.

Eight nine. So you go to attack him with the staff and you it would have worked. You just didn't quite hit him hard enough. M.

So it's just like a but not like a Bertrum. You're just a body. Got it. Um so the ghoul who uh had run back to the bones damage.

I'm not Katie. I'm shadow to lunge towards Vana. And attack with claws. He had a armor check

on who? The denia 15 plus one with the cloak. Yeah. So 16. Okay. Yeah. It's uh you defend from the claws.

Shadow heart. What do you do? All right. Um so the the ghoul that's right next to Linda Journey Fire. That's the one that's pinned for the moment. Correct. Yes.

Okay. Well, I'm going to I'm gonna let Linda and Toga take care of him. Um I think they've got him. So, I'm gonna You know, if anyone's going to kill Bertram, it's going to be me. So, I'm going to go up forward to this guy. What?

What? Do it. I'm going to go up here to this ghoul near Bertram. Okay. Well, actually, no. I'm gonna stay back here and I have my frostman.

I thought you were about to kill him. The ghoul did it. No, I'm saving him from the ghoul.

I'll kill him later. That would have been funny though. I just kill the ghoul. Y'all saw it. The ghoul.

No, I'm going to use my crossbow and shoot the ghoul be. So Bertrram, I want this to be known. Bertram thinks

I'm aimed right at him. Bertram thinks he's like, "Okay, it's my time. She hates me." So, I have it lined up, but it goes right by him. He He like thinks it hit him because of the wind. It literally like

almost gets him, but it goes right into the ghoul right beside him. Okay, here we go. Roll.

Right through between the eyes. Roll for hit. Roll for hit. It's going to be so embarrassing. Nine.

Yeah, you uh you actually clip Bertram's shoulder. Good. Bertram takes one damage.

Oh. Oh, now you're at four. Was it my good arm? Do I have a good arm? It was your left arm.

Okay, I'm a righty. Can I do a whatever? It's my turn. To what do you do? Are y'all at like full health?

Yeah, I am. And yeah. Okay. You're like, I need to heal. No, I'm I'm going to I think I'm going to help Bertrron. I'm gonna go around here.

Okay. And I'm gonna I guess come up this way and do little spin and twirl. I'll just do I do a little melee attack.

Yeah. Yeah, I do a little melee attack. Okay. Roll into it. I do melee. Um 13 for damage.

It's just undefined. I heard three. So you hit Why does this always happen? I I literally have not made I've haven't done anything this entire time.

My bow hasn't done anything the entire campaign and it's by literally my highest thing I have.

Yeah. Uh my crossbow never does anything and it's the highest thing I have. At least you guys didn't slip on a pillow.

Yeah, that is embarrassing. That does sound good. That sound echoes through the room. Through the cave. The ghouls

whip their heads around. They run out of the room. They're afraid of it. What do you do?

Heal. Do we have time to heal? Yeah, I I guess I'm at full ran out of I'm at full health. Do you need to heal myself? I'm going to run towards the door with my uh bow drawn and I'm going to uh Is the door open?

Uh yeah, they busted through it. I'm They busted through door. Which door? The They went out to the left.

Is the door that we came in through though open? Yes, that door's open. I'm going to go to the door that we came through and shut it. And I'm going to suggest that Shadow Heart go to the other one and do the same.

Can I heal? Um can is there anything in the room that we can barricade ourselves?

Do the thing, don't I? Um let's see. Uh, that is true. What I would like to survey the room for a moment and see what's in there that is useful to us.

Uh, just some clad broken scraps of armor from the people that they were devouring.

She wants to roll to heal. Go for it. I hate when it does that. 10. Nice. So, what does that mean?

10 hit points. You get 10 health points. So, I just go to like the max. You can also hit 12, like click it, and then just go up.

Thought that out yesterday. Um, yeah. I'm going to post up by the door uh with my spear.

I'm over by this door and I've shut it. And um I've taken anything of heavy weight in the room and I'm barricading.

Okay. But don't aren't we still kind of on a time crunch though? Yeah, but we also I have no clue. What do we run? Should we run?

Well, maybe whatever it like whatever yelled was like calling them to it. Is it approaching or just

All you heard was the sound. You want to make a break for it? What do you mean?

Go towards this left door to that shadow heart. I think we have to. Let's run for it.

Okay. Well, kick all the [ __ ] that I put in front of it. All right. We say as shadow of heart stacking it. We say actually

actually we should go through it. We got to get out of here, man. So you're going through.

We're going through. We bust through the door violently scared out of our little stealthily mind.

Yeah, the stealth is gone. Bertram's going first upwards. Okay. Bertram saying "Bertram wait.

We're just kind of getting it." Okay, which way are we going? I think upwards. Bertrum, check for traps.

Yeah. All right. We're going to stop at this corridor and you can I guess reveal what's going on here. We'll let you catch up.

It's just the hallway. Okay. Okay. And then these are all Can we see? Is it dark?

It's dark. It's dark. Linda, get back here. Sorry, I glitched. Can I see? I can see 60 ft. I can only see gray spots, though. Um I still have a torch that I haven't lit yet. I did light it.

Um and through it. Does anybody have a torch still? I do. Um, yeah. Melinda has her torch or Tora has her torch. You You begin to hear a

sound. I can never do that again. You heard it. I hate that so much. It wasn't It was literally

How close is it? Uh, you perceive it to be about maybe 40 to 50 feet, but there is no visual.

Is it getting louder? You think? Are we trying to find it or are we fleeing from it?

I think we're going head first to I think we're trying to get to I don't know. Oh god, it's still so

That's kind of scary. I don't like it. Huh? I said I don't like it. I don't like it. All right, I'm going to

Can Linda be Scottish? No. SCOLAN. YOU'RE SCOTTISH NOW. SCOTLAND. YOU'RE SCOTTISH NOW. All right. Um, I am going to step in front of the party and I'm going to use my perceptive. I'm going to

I would like to Yep. I'm going to turn this peak. I'm going to Guys, I see a staircase. I think I can make out some sort of a staircase.

Okay, let's We're going to make our way up the staircase. Come on, Bert. I'm over here banging my shoulder up. Is Bert healed?

No. No. No one healed. I'll heal Bert. Cut a piece of my shirt. Hey. All right. We're going to stop at the bottom of the staircase. I would like to use your wound.

I would like to heal Bertrum. I'm going to do it. Where you at, Bert? Come here, Bert. Baby. Baby, are you okay?

They didn't Did they hurt you, baby? Did they? Not too bad. NOT TOO BAD. DRAMATIC THING LIKE THEY'RE UP THERE like bartading the doors and I'm like broom BABY DID THEY BURST YOU INTO THE BOTTOM of the staircase not you guys

on on like health of four yeah my next question was you were four all right I'm going to cast cure wound

on I'm going to roll for effect 13 beautiful all right Bert's back all right um

Bert's back again I'm going to not run, but I'm going to Hold on, guys. Let me shut up, Linda.

I'm going to uh creep up the stairs. I say creep, I'm kind of scared, so I'm like walking up the stairs, but really relying on my shadow vision right now.

Yeah. Yeah. See, someone else said my image. Essentially, I'm trying to use my shadow vision while y'all two hold the torches. And if it's clear,

dead body. Oh, buddy. Where? Oh, up ahead. I see now. That looks like this. I thought there was one person on the screen.

Oh, and more stairs. Okay. Okay, we're going. You you you take you go up the stairs. Um and there's you know steep escarpments divide this large cavern into three sections. High ledges at either end and a lower section in the middle. Carved stone stairs climb to the ledges. Two large tables.

More dead bodies. Damn. Dad, you're not my neck. I can't believe how much we haven't explored.

Yeah, we might not be done tonight. We might. Well, um maybe not. Two large tables stand in the middle section along with a pair of old brazers. A smaller table stands on the eastern ledge. The skeletal remains of dozens of dead warriors attest to the fierceness of the fighting that took place long ago.

Long ago. Long ago. Long ago. This isn't recent. Not recent. These are skeletons, right?

Is there anything of value around like high armor? I'll let you finish fully what we see before.

So sorry. Really wanted that breast plate. Do I see any breast plates? Um, roll for perception.

Discounted or otherwise? Roll. Roll for perception. Check. Uh, can I detect magic?

Uh, 10. Uh, you don't see any breast plates. You want to detect magic? And at 20 though would have been right there.

Okay. You certainly didn't do that. Your size, your casting. Mhm. Um, there's no magic. No magic detected.

Even around the tables. Even around the tables. All right. I would like to approach the first dead body and examine what happened to it.

I don't believe him. Uh, roll investigation. 12. Um, you you lean down. You look at the the scattered uh skeletons. Um, you you know you you don't really get any information, but you just kind of make me guys, I know what happened. He got smashed with a sword and he died.

But then I would like to uh like So you can roll for like history. Yeah. And so would that be a way to get some insight on like what happened there?

Yeah. What does your character say about that? You may actually have I I'm more of a I have like a religious black.

I have a proficiency in history. You do roll for history. I say somebody should check.

You do it. Yeah, you can roll for history. 17. Nice. Wow. That is a history check.

Um looking for some history. He's like, "Ah, give me a second." He's like, I the fitness grand pacer test. I have not heard them in so long.

We should do it for fun one day. You realize that the the fighting that was taking place in this room was actually um pretty important. The forge of spells

uh wasn't just, you know, somewhere in the mine. It was it would have been placed in like a more deep and defensible location connected by major passages from maybe rooms like this. Um, so this you you you realize that they were fighting over this room because it would have been, you know, maybe a good key point for guarding access to the forge and controlling movement through the mine. What is up here at the edge at the the stairs right here at the far right? Is that like a altar of some sort?

A table. Or is that just a table? That's just a table. Okay. All right. All right, I'm going to press down the stairs

and I'm going to push up towards the north to see if there's a passageway. Toa.

Wow. Is there anything here of importance near all these other bodies in the middle?

No, it's pretty much just a Okay, I'm going to turn guys. I think I can see some stairs. I'm going to turn back.

What is this? Uh what's this bench over here? That's Oh, that's a table. That's what I was asking.

Wow, you move fast. What? I said I just watched your person go like 8 foot down.

Wow. I'm going to go up here. I'm going to say, "Guys, I think I see some stairs." I'm going to turn to Bertram. Bertram, baby. I'm going to hand him my spear.

Stop it. You stay safe. Stop it. So, now you have a spear and a quarter stone. And I'm going to remove the spear from my

Weren't we supposed to put the cinnamon rolls in after the fight? And then I'm going to roll to put the cinnamon rolls in.

Roll for acrobatics parkour. Freaking I'm going to cast. Can we make Vidian Bertram do it?

He's casting locate cinnamon rolls. Roll for persuasion. Where's the pan for the cinnamon rolls?

Oh, hell. Uh, perception check. So, there's some cabinets um on the back of the

island. Island. And that's not the back, that's the side. And usually in cabinets there are bakeear.

No, I'm not going to rubbish through your thing. You're not a rubbish. Cooking is actually a wisdom check.

I can't see. Cooking is a wisdom check. Demi delight just informed me. Ah, okay. Okay. Nice to know.

Let's see what else she said. Pop it real good. Smack it. Spank it on the on the counter and pop it.

Daddy now. Oh, you already messed it up. Take it. I want it to be audible into the mic when you pop it. Everyone,

that was nice. That was nice. That wasn't like that good. I thought he was going to

Yeah, I thought he were going to like bang it and he didn't. No, I thought you get messed up.

No, I bang it every time. My legs are so restless. Huh? Do you ever get like a restless leg? Like a Yeah. Like your leg just randomly just like starts feeling. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Jonathan gets that all the time when he I can't eat too much.

It's like uncomfortable and I have to move my leg. It's like an actual thing. Yes.

Yeah. No, I know. I'm just trying to explain it how I'm feeling. I know. Wait. Did Shaya leave?

Oh, I was like, where' she go? I don't know what you're doing. All right, here we go.

Magnesium deficiency. Probably five cinnamon rolls. One, two, three, four, five. Somebody's not getting

It's okay. I had a milkshake. I don't have to have one either, but Are there really only five cinnamon rolls in a pan?

They're g. Ah. Oh, kind of want one. It's fine. I don't need one. Don't need one.

Do better design. You all right, Lindsay? She's done. I heard the toilet flush already. That was too quick.

Mhm. Please, we're in a cave. We're in a cave inside somewhere today. We're in a cave today. We've made it this far. There's so much we haven't done. All right.

Hello, Moon. Oh, I could also give him the chain shirt cuz he has I don't know if that would really What's Would you say his armor already was?

Yeah. Bertrrams. Bertrrams is 12. It wouldn't do nothing. Would not do nothing. All right. So, going to press up the stairs and I'm going to look to my left. I'm going to look to my right and see what my shadow vision can see.

You can't move my Just have to refresh it. That's what I had to do. It happened like once in a while for me.

Whoa. What is that? What did you find? Still I still can't move it. Um, where are you?

Wow. What is that? bird room. All right, I'm going to press towards the right sneakily down this wall and I'm going to suggest that somebody in my party uh man that door.

I'm coming in. I'll man. Bertram, watch the staircase. Peek I'm going to peek around the corner and see what I can see. Whoa,

guys. We're going to need a bigger boat. Is that a forge? Vault. Oh, you said uncover the middle

to forge and a canal. Water canal. Is that a dead person next to it? All right. I have questions, but I'm going to let you set this scene real quick.

Yeah. Uh, as you as you step into the room, you notice a very large blast furnace and and you notice a blast furnace and a mechanical bellows powered by a water wheel. Uh, that's what dominates this chamber. The furnace is cold and dark, but heaps of coal are piled nearby along with carts full of unrefined ore. The water wheel sits in a 10 foot wide channel cut into the floor of the room, but the channel is dry. Passages exit to the west, south, and east. The empty channel sits The empty channel exits to the north and east. More than a dozen withered corpses lie scattered around the room. Individuals still wearing remnants of armor. Floating above them is a skull engulfed in green flame.

Where is this? in the room with So we're So we're at the whatchamacallit the forge. The water wheel.

You're at You're at a blast furnace. Uh and mechanical bellows. So that's probably the forge.

This is not the forge, but it might be a piece of what runs the forge. Okay. Is there water?

There is no water currently. Where is the floating skull engulfed in green flames? The floating skull engulfed in green flames is right. Let me go ahead and add that for you.

I have the detect evil and good spell. Yeah, it's just Yeah, even evil are good beings, right? Aberation, celestial, elemental, fay, fiend, or undead.

Sick. Right there. All right. Yeah, run it. I brought I'm gonna go into the room and I'm gonna say, "Linda, come here.

Linda, Linda's on the way." An egg skull engulfed in green flames. Lindsay, I mean, Linda's going to detect evil and good. It just says detection is the effect.

Uh, it's evil. Gasp, I say as I step back. Do we know anything about it? Ro for history. Roll for

is uh what you do know about it is that you just got a little too close. Roll for initial.

Oh no. What a setup. D 20 minus one. 19. You rolled a net 20. Mhm. Wow. Minus one.

19. So we're both 19. Higher dexterity goes first. Mine's 15 plus two. So I go first. over Linda.

Okay. World. All right. That was a 20. Linda, you got what? Got what? Got 19. 20.

20US one. 19. She got 19, too. But she got 20. You got a 192. Higher dexterity, so she would go first in the order. Tora

five, Daniel 17. chat loves Bert, baby. All right, Bert, what do you do? What do you do?

I'm first in this account. So, we just walked up. We just walked up to this. You walked up to a uh Well, you did it.

Yeah. Um you're still at the top of the stairs. Yeah. Uh but Linda is approximately two feet from it.

Fantastic. Um which really irritated it and I didn't began to attack. It began to attack.

Okay. It initiated the attack. In what way? Uh it it it got brighter green and Yeah.

started moving towards you. Okay. Am I close enough to move to it? Uh, yeah. You can get all the way to it. That's your max move.

I guess I'm going go up to it if it's if it's seeming like it's fixing to attack.

Okay. Am I right after her? Mhm. Um, I would like to So, you're just moving to it? Wait. What did he do?

Are you also attacking? I say I might as well I guess hit it as well. Yeah. Okay. Roll. Roll to hit.

13. Roll for damage. B. Nice. Oh yeah. 12. That quarter staff goes a divot in the green flame just whips out straight.

Okay. So you can because I thought that it would have been like untouchable. Okay. So I think I'm I'm going to go ahead and make an attack as well. I was going to do a shield of faith, but I think I'm going to save that because that gives everybody else like a two plus AC, but I think I'm going to save it. So, I think I'm going to Am I next right?

You're Something tells me this isn't the worst thing. No, I'm I'm going to save that. Uh, so I'm going to move forward to the flame and in a jumping leap with my uh spear, I'm going to stab right into it.

Okay. roll to hit 19 world damage four. I've got a wild. It was a hit, but it wasn't a great hit. Um Linda

what do you do? I can use a spell and then an action, right? Yes. Okay. Uh, I'm going to use my thermomey to dim the light the fire.

Okay. For a minute. Um, and then I'm going to sick. I don't want to use fire because it's fire. Um, I'm going to go for the morning star.

Okay. Eyes. Yeah. You know. Yeah. Okay. Well, maybe not this time. You You hit through the flames.

Perfect. But you missed the skull. Perfect. But Daniel, what do you do? I am going to reach into my pack. I'm going to How is this a regular human skull?

Um, how big is it? It's regularly sized. I'm going to reach into my pack. I'm going to pull out my iron pot and I'm going to Otani it against the wall.

Ding. Roll for ding ding ding ding ding 12. Roll for damage. It just it uh it just said undefined. Like it's always going to be two. Like the damage is just two. Is that what that means? because it's not a dice roll. It just says budgeoning damage two for an unarmed strike.

Uh roll Why would you choose to damage because I It may shatter. I'll let you roll 2d6

for I like this. So uh we'll go two d6 for nine or sorry six and two eight eight damage with a frying pan. Oh,

I thought you were going to smack it to the ground and sit on it. What if it comes off the boat after that minute?

The skull is still closest to Linda. Mhm. So, it's going to attack. Did I send it anywhere?

Yeah. Or did it just take it? Oh. Uh, yeah. I will. Yeah. Get away from me. I got to zoom in.

I got I got to move. I really didn't have a sense of direction when I came in. I was really just going for a home run slammer.

Yeah, he went uh you sent him about five feet back. Are these rolls done? Um flame skull is now going to move. Uh

be bricks when they come out. Thanks, Chad. I would forget it. I did forget it. I forgot we even had zero.

We uh got a cool background. This is This attack is on it's actually going to be on shadow heart.

Okay. Um armor's 18. Uh flame skull is going to cast fireball. Um so I need out of you. What is the save here? See has been a while. Okay. Yeah. Roll. Uh the piece of roll.

Yeah. Roll dexter 15. Uh you it misses. Let's go. Okay. Uh to what do you do? Um let's see here. Wait, why is she next? I got 19 in initiative. I was I was attacked.

Oh, I'm sorry. Sorry. Sorry. Sorry. Sorry. Sorry. I'm back. I'm back. I'm back.

Back. You're good. My apologies. I don't know what What do you do? Um it will little uh guiding bolt do anything to this this skull?

I guess I was up here. Sorry. Okay, I'll do that. Okay. Is that one where you rolled to hit?

Yes. Okay. Roll to hit. Oh my god. Oh, 12. Oh yeah. I thought it was a one. Smell like oatmeal.

I'll say this. It would have, but it's not going to do anything to him this time.

Why? It just because uh he he dodged it. What do you mean? It would have it would have damaged him, but you you did it with ill proficiency.

You casted the spell a little halfhazard and your aim wasn't true, so you missed with your spell.

Oh, not just like a certain number that you Yeah. Yeah. You got to hit the armor like when you roll.

We have an armor like you have 18. Oh, okay. Yeah. You got to hit the same number for them.

Okay. You didn't roll high. Why is that one so much like it's bigger than the other ones? It's certainly nothing we've ever fought before. That's for sure.

Just They're all different. You said he rolled a 12. Uh yeah. Yeah. Seems like more of a boss.

Not damage, just hit. Yeah. Okay. Um old birdie. What do you do? So I hit it with the quarter staff last time.

You hit it with the quarter staff and did, you know, pretty decent damage. Gosh. Does it take a move to switch to the spear?

Uh, no. I would not count that as your action. Okay. So, I could try to try to use my spear. See if that's a different damage effect.

Yeah. Say I do that and just try to launch right into it. Okay. Yeah. Uh, strike.

Give me a d20. B's being brave. Oh, four. No. Is a four. it uh in swapping you swapped to the spear so slowly

that uh it you telegraphed your whole move. Yeah, he saw Yeah, it didn't it didn't work out too well.

Try to like help keep it up. Yeah. Yeah. Shadow Heart, what do you do? Um I'm like right up here on it now. Um, so I'm going to I'm I'm going to stick away from spells still and try to just keep chipping away at it. Um, except I'm going to I don't know why something in me wants to leap up and grab a hold of it and and try to bring it down.

So, it's an unarmed strike. Okay. Yeah. Roll ahead. 16. Uh, roll for damage. Oh, I I didn't even know that. I'm sorry. It's a bludgeoning. I

It's like a I'm dumb. I I didn't know that that was that case, but I'll stick with it.

Pin. Yeah, for damage. It only does. Okay. Uh, the flame soul is going to take two damage. You run and jump up.

I can't tell you. Uh, you run. You jump. You grab uh the skull with your hands. Um the skull raises higher into the air and now you're just hanging from the skull.

It's kind of badass. How high? Uh the skull is 10 feet in the air. Oh sick. All right.

I mean legs dangling and all. Linda, what do you do? So I've got channel divinity. which I can um divine use divine spark essentially force the creature to make a DC12 con saving throw. On a failed save, the creature takes 1d8 plus two necrotic or radiant damage. Your choice or half as much on a successful save.

Okay, so I need a I need a saving throw. Yeah, DC 12 con saving throw. Oh, she's pawing right now. It's a con.

Yeah. Plus two on that. It's a four. Uh, the creature takes one d8 plus two necrotronic or radiant damage.

So, roll uh roll one d8 plus two. Eight. Eight. So, the flame school takes four damage. The flame skull has uh

Wait. Oh, wait. Eight. Pause. I get another roll. Why? Cuz I have advantage against magic.

The flame skull as a magical being has advantage on single throws and we get a 14. It doesn't hit.

Wow. Whatever. So, she's 10 foot up in the air. Okay. Um, Venia, what do you do? I with being such a good shot am going to try to send an arrow at the skull.

Yeah. And try to just see if that shoots it down. Yeah. Roll. Roll for hit. Oh my gosh. That was almost a freaking 19. I got a eight.

Dang. Um you you again you the the brightness from the green flame just blinded you for a moment and your your true aim uh missed. Uh the flame skull now turns its attention to Venia who just fired that arrow and uh lunges at you with uh a multiattack of fire ray twice. Uh, armor check 15 16. Uh, the second one hits for 14 damage. The first one missed. The second hit. I'm glad the first one missed.

To, what do you do? I was looking at I have this thing. Uh, one of my actions is channel divinity. Uh, and you speak a prayer and hold up a holy symbol. And it says each un is it undead?

I'm assuming undead. It's a tiny undead. Says each undead that can see or hear you within 30 ft must wake must make a wisdom saving throw. DC 13. If a creature fails the throat's turn for one minute or until it takes any damage, it must spend its turns trying to move as far away from you as it can. It can't willingly move to space within 30 ft of you.

Okay. Whoa. So, what do I do? Um, I guess I got to make a It's wisdom. What is What is the saving roll for?

It's a It says wisdom saving throw DC13. DC 13. I have no bonus here. I got a 13.

Wow. On the second one, I could roll with adv advantage on spells. I got a 10 and a 13.

Okay. No effect. Uh, good try, Bert. What do you do? That's a sick. So, did it just move 10 feet up? arsel.

No, it it just still is 10 ft up just to get uh So, I can still attack it from the ground.

You can still attack it from the ground. Yeah, I think I'm definitely going back to the quarter.

Okay. Yeah. Didn't have much luck. Spear. Yeah. Roll D20 to hit. Come on. Give me something different.

Put her down. You throw it. Three again. Three. Wow. Uh you go to swing and he goes still dangling legs. You actually catch one of the legs of Shadow Heart and she takes one damage.

Wow. Take one damage. She's not going to be like, "Yeah, I'm which hair is exactly the opposite of what happened in the other room."

Literally, I'm like swinging from it. I'm like, "Fucking B." Like, okay, for the arrow.

Um, okay. So, I'm up there and I take out my shortsword, my double shortswords, and just start stabbing it.

Channel divinity will not take advantage spells. Spells. Okay, continue. I take out my shortsword, the double shortsword, and I start just stabbing it.

Okay, roll the hit. 20. Nice. Wow. That 20? No. 18 plus two. And that's the first one. Five.

Okay. Roll the hit. 12. Roll for damage. Nope. Wait. Sorry. I'm I'm thinking of the wrong thing. You missed. The second one did deflected off of the skull. Uh, Linda, what do you do?

Come on, brother. Okay. Um, I'm going for What are my actions? Uh, my crossbow. I'm just going to

Oh, stupid. Good. Carry on. Okay. Um, pull my arrow. Knock my arrow. Pull it back and let it release.

All right. Release it. Two. One, two, three. Release them. And the damage. And the damage is What?

We're just chipping. We're really chipping away. Chipping away. His jawbone's off.

Vidia, I'm going to cast Ins snaring strike and try to attempt to bring it back down to the ground with my vines.

Okay. What's the What's the roll for save? Strength. Strength. Uh, it is strength.

Yes. Strength 12. Um, apparently there's northern lights outside. Really? It hits.

It hits. All right. Roll for damage. Roll for effect. Do you all want to peek outside and see if you can see the northern lights?

Y. Sha, go see for us. Go. Your phone for the uh the the snaring vines. Go take a picture. Go take a picture.

Did you have to like do a setting on your phone? The snaring vines. It was I'm not sure. Wrap around. Twist through the eyeballs of the skull. Pull it down. Shatters.

It's done. DONE. LET'S GO. VENGEANCE. GOSH. Vengeance didn't do. Yeah. I forgot vengeance was even here.

WELL, CUZ I HAD NO TIME TO TRAIN. VENGEANCE, BABY. Vengeance would be so handy now,

but I didn't have time to train. Kimmy, the cinnamon rolls are out. Yeah, let me put icing on them now that we've won.

All right, let's find out find out about the school while I'm icing these cinnamon rolls.

Wait a second. Vengeance. What? What's happening? Can we just ice the cinnamon?

The the pieces. there. No, they're coming back together. No, dude. I really thought you had sitting

the flame. Did you see it? I mean, it's white out there. I don't know. It reignites.

Um, it's uh it's back. Does my Has it burned away? The snaring initiative again?

No, you're still in it. Okay, you're still in it. Uh, the skull is going to who's closest? Oh,

he's back. Google says it's unlikely to see the northern. The vines can be burned away.

Go to Bert. The uh the the flame skull attacks shadow heart with uh uh fire ray

armor 18. Fire ray twice. Why do you get two on me? It's a double attack like with your daggers and they both miss.

Sweet. Uh to what do you do? Can I try the same thing? Do you have holy water? Yes. Yes. Yes. You can try the same thing.

Do you have holy water? I do. Okay. Uh, I'll try the same thing. Uh, so you need a DC13.

Okay. 11. Wow. Okay. So, it says, so now I have to run away from you or on my next turn.

If the creature fails its saving throw, it is turned for one minute or until it takes any dam damage. A turned creature must spend its turns trying to move as far away from you as it can. can't move to a space within 30 feet of you. So I guess on your next turn

of you. And what was it about taking damage unless you take damage? Unless the skull takes damage

like when you take damages off. Uh it turn it's turned for one minute or until it takes any damage.

Okay. Yeah. Cool. Uh Bert. Yeah, I'm probably going to pass my attack because I'm not having the best luck here. I I will let you know um

just in being a kind DM as all of us first timers um you're going to have to do something.

What you're doing now will not kill it. Yeah. So maybe it is the holy way. You could kill this thing 15 times if you want to and it'll keep coming back.

Yeah. Well, if she uh if she if it's running away from her. No. Hey, how many turns do we get to Linda? Linda, throw your holy water to

Bert. You, Linda. Go, Bert. B. Bert. Me, Linda. Yep. Okay. Can Linda give me her holy water?

Uh, I'll allow that. Yeah. Okay. I'm taking a nap. Yeah. So, I think I might just kind of stay where I'm at, not do anything because it doesn't seem like the bludgeoning of my

Well, he can't do anything anyways right now. It's in party equipment. Oh, it's in the party equipment. Okay. Um, I am taking out the holy water that Linda has bestowed upon me and I am running up to it and doussing it. And also, I don't know if it's because I'm a cleric and I'm super religious, but like I feel like that might help in some way.

I have a holy symbol. you uh you run up and you uh roll. Uh I need two d6, four and three.

You run up and you you splash the holy water. What do you you splash the holy water and it It falls to the ground. Rolls.

Dead. For real. For real. Like for real. For real. Dead. Thanks, chat. Thanks, chat.

Team work. Team work here. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Um All right. What do you do? Um I want to pick it up.

Yeah. Can we Can we take it with us? Yeah. This is a little What is it called? It's a flame skull.

Is there any Is there anything from it that can be usable later if we take it or just a skull now? It's just a skull now.

I don't want it. Just a trophy. I'm good. Just a trophy. Okay. I thought maybe it had

I'll put it in my bag. Thought it might have some residual power. Scare someone.

I'll put it in my bag. You killed it. All right. I'm going to carry on north. What about this big thing right here?

Is there anything? Well, y'all investigate. I'm going down bottom right. Oh, she's Linda's gone. True.

Can I mean he said it was part of the the forge or something that like makes the

Do we see anything about the the water wheel or about this implement that could could be of use or give us any insight on the forge itself? Um the the machine that you are in the room with is an essential part of the forge um you know running and operating it. Uh it is connected. There's not much more to really be ascertained from from the room though.

Okay. I'm going to press I'm going to hop into the dry canal. Okay. And I'm going to press down. Linda, come on.

North. I was going to take and go that way. Sneakily peek around the corner. You could go there, Linda.

Should we split up? Why? Somebody go with her. But think about it. There can't be that much over to the right.

Certainly not. I say we split up. Okay, who you going with? Bertram and Linda. Bertram, baby.

What? Not without me. The [ __ ] Y'all two go. Y'ALL TWO GO. I DIDN'T mean to. the majority.

Well, I want to see what's up north. Well, then you're There's two doors right here.

Bertram, baby. I'm up north. Bert, baby, I see three doors. Bert, we stay with us.

I've got a tiny knife to come to me. I've got a tiny knife at Bertram's kidney. He can't move.

Yeah. Okay. Okay. Linda's pushing forward to the doors. We'll play a choice. You missed to the doors.

She hasn't like she's now away from you touched them or anything. She is just in front of

it. I'm wanting to know more about this. I would have a whole scene about this and the girlfriend initiative.

What happened? Hand to hand only. All right. Let me uh let me see where y'all are right quick. I'm up north.

Linda, you're down in there. I see three doors. I want to explore. Uh do we see anything? What do we see right now?

Ask questions, Linda, before you start just going. I I was waiting for him to as you're in there.

I'm hoping I stumble upon a giant spider eating on and he just looks up at me and I just look up at it

and you just start I'm going to and then it's going to be like that scene in the mummy and I'm going to be running down these drive and I'm just going to be like

I'm not going to just imagine they deeming that and I'm open you open the door to the next corridor and you hear a faint. We're going to be running down the hallway.

I told you so. What's our What's our word? Should we run into danger? Tallahassee.

Tallahassee. That's our word. All right. No, no, no. Tallahass. Because if we run into danger, it's not like we're going to sing. Obviously, we're in danger. So, what if it's just like that's our word when we say like, "Hey, shit's hit the fan. We're about to have to just go like we're like

like hey let's sing like Tallahassee baby it's party time. Oh it means fight. We're fighting out of here.

Oh my god. Like this is this is last chance. Like this is like we have no other choice. Diplomat diplomatics have failed. Diplomacy has failed.

Okay. Um unlike Linda's situation last time she nailed that. That was pure luck. truly busting in.

We still have 7500 people. All right, Matt. I mean, Venia. Yep. Uh you peek around the corner and what comes into view uh for you is a wide rift. Okay. You have a wide rift before you. Um a stream pours from the west wall before tumbling into the rift and flowing to the north. Okay.

Secured to the iron stakes along the western edge of the rift are several ropes leading to the chasm floor. A drought supervisor barks orders at two bug bears sifting through rubble while two other bug bears stand guard.

That's where we are. That's where I am. I would like to also pause and ask um in a situation where we split up, which I still would love to play out. um would be a situation to where like almost in turns where like I you know I would make the action, you would say what happened and then you go to their action and see what happened. Okay, so

do a little split screen. I'll do that and then they can that can be my You sure? We can we can run.

Yeah. Yeah. I have no idea. They We don't know. Oh, true. I would love to see how this plays out.

True. Okay. He He honestly would love to die. I think I think he would love I mean like this would be like I have no problem fully committing to a death. What's your Hey, what's your

I'm full. You're okay. You uh actually I need to heal. I have to. So for You want me to wait?

Can I take a moment and heal so I get my one health back? Uh you'd have to cast for it or whatever it is.

Um I think I have a canrip the maybe not. I'd have to use a healing word. I think I'm good. I'll wait. I am going to cast cure wounds though. I meant to say that. I got a four. I got a six.

Mhm. Blue raspberry strawberry. Should have brought burger with me. I tried to bring with me.

I know. I'm literally at knife point right now. He can't he can't do [ __ ] A knife in the kidneys,

right? Imagine like in the story it is like Bert the whole time and he's just on this grand adventure with us. I would feel so betrayed, dude. Like really actually like I would feel so betrayed and I would I would act that out. Are we we still do you feel like we're still a good ways from uh finishing this campaign?

A little bit. Are you tired? Me too. Unfortunately. Me too. And I'll never say that.

You are too. [ __ ] lame. It's midnight. Yeah. Usually halfway done. This is the halfway mark.

I mean, we can beat it at a stopping point. We just can't rest. We just can't what?

Take a rest or I'm about to just arrow Lindsay, I think. I think. All right. Uh,

lack of commit. I find your lack of commitment disturbing. I'm going to roll the force choke.

So, uh, what are we doing? You guys calling it. Sorry. I, uh, I don't really know how to end it.

I guess pause. We're we've reached we're at two points. We're figuring out. As of right now, it doesn't look like she's going to have the baby. I I have a feeling about these things. I generally do have a six sense whether I voice it or not. It's probably not going to be tonight. So, at least it'll be recent enough that we won't like completely forget like what we're doing.

By the way, I would also just like to continue apologizing. Uh last year we had zero mayors make it this far into their gestation. And

I feel like even I feel like it hasn't been that long. And maybe it's just because it's the first one,

but like I just don't have like usually I have this feeling of like also DM. I would like to say I would like to continue and I I'm with you on the disappointment, but I understand everybody. So

continue. She wants to continue the game. Well, I know. But like he's disappointed, but it's fine.

Well, it depends on who stays. I mean, it's we can we can do whatever. No, we we need to do it.

We can do whatever. If Lindsay's just tired and not dead, then we'll we'll all back out.

I'm sorry y'all. We just staying up to like because Well, it's fine because the reality of the situation is is like even if we did finish this today, the second campaign wouldn't have been able to start till next week. I'm not even going to be here this weekend. So,

we're al Did you know we're supposed to get so much freaking snow this weekend?

I know. I heard we're supposed to get like 12 inches. might be here. Did I hear 19 wrong?

I think I actually heard 12 to 15. It's on up there. I've heard 5 to 10 5 to 9 and I've heard 10 to 18.

They changed it today on basically nobody knows anything right now. Anything you hear right now is a pure guess.

Last night when we checked, there was three single digits and today there's one. So

it is a pure guess right now. But I see your kids get lower. All right. I guess we will uh

I guess we might pick this up tomorrow. We might get to what? I don't know what to do.

Yeah, we will pick this up tomorrow. Um Okay. Well, we are mainly just going to keep watching her, but I mean we can uh

she would have to do some pretty serious um

Questions about this episode

Who speaks in "DND Foal Watch 3 Pt. 2 - 01.19.26"?

Katie Van Slyke (Host), Lindsay (Guest), Buck (Guest), Shaina (Guest), Abigail (Guest), Bertram (Guest), Shadow Heart (Guest), Linda (Guest).

What is "DND Foal Watch 3 Pt. 2 - 01.19.26" about?

The discussion revolves around a gaming session of Dungeons and Dragons, filled with technical difficulties and light-hearted banter among players as they prepare to dive into a significant plot development within their campaign. Amid the chaos, players manage to coordinate a brief break while addressing overlapping distractions and logistical challenges.

What is mentioned in this Katie Van Slyke episode?

5 people, works and ideas are mentioned, including Bertram, Flame Skull, Venia, Indeed, Shaya. Each one on this page links to its own page with every episode that mentions it.

How long is "DND Foal Watch 3 Pt. 2 - 01.19.26"?

The episode runs 3 h 40 min; the transcript is about 14,667 words in 515 timestamped sections.

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