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Filthy spoonlicker. Zach! What's up? My name is Zach and I play Blemin Elmar Ruthaford III, human bard. That wasn't some weird Scandinavian insult. That was just listen to the scenes. It's been literally less than a minute. Yeah, no, that's usually how that happens. And Jamie. Hello, I'm Jamie. I play Tatiana, the human rogue. And Lisa. Hey, I'm Lisa and I play Vella, the minotaur rogue. And last and certainly not least, I say rejoining, but he never really left Jameson. Hi, I'm Jameson and I play. That's true. Redacted. He does. We have a lot to cover tonight. Let's start with what happened last time.

You guys stumble out of the hell portal. You're exploring this, this, this, this kind of dungeon like space underneath of a castle. You you get away from some kind of maybe not undead, but kind of they're off. Right. Splatt has returned to his original form, which is Ian. If you you know, like we've already we've got a few people sending in emails, just voicing their opinions. And I think we have a squad of people already to start hitting up Lisa and say you could do better. But by intervention, you love is love. I, I love exactly like there is changing him.

Like there are some hard corners that maybe can be sanded down. That being said, it is a slow process, if so, because the interaction with the party is 600 percent snarkier now. I mean, he did kill his last spouse, Lisa. Just just keep that in your mind. You don't know that. You know, that's another knowledge. You're right. You're right. We don't know that. Also, he's technically technically he didn't. It was Yennward that killed her. So he did kill his wife. He did kill his wife. Yeah, that was great. Yeah, no, he 100 percent killed his wife. Yeah. Yeah, no, he did that.

I will say he did that. I did that. I made him do that. I did do gleefully. So. So we're exploring this castle. There is a tremendous like almost explosion, a bang, something like that. It feels like there's bits of the castle crumbling away and bits of stone cave in to a room you're going through. And the room is just filled with caskets. Far as the eye can see in there and some someone. Let's go with someone. I almost said something that's rude. Someone wakes up in there, and that is where we left off. So I need to ask everybody a question just before we get started here.

Everyone do me a favor. Actually, give me a Constitution saving throw. Just just just for a minute. Not not Jamison, not yet. They do. Oh, I forgot to introduce those. Oh, OK. I entered. I introduced some mods that are going to make things a little bit easier. The first our first one of the evening. He's just too concerned with looking at himself because he's so young now. You know, he is young. He's yeah. Kind of glimpse of the corner. We there's mirrors up there, too. We need new character art is what we need. We need sexy blood. Sexy blood. Does Ian know? Please.

Mirrors of loving. Oh, why do you why do you think it took him so long to get changed? Because he was modeling for me. Fashion show. This is a fashion show. That's right. Fashion show at lunch. Thank you. I got you. So everyone but Blevins. Sorry. Sorry, Zach. That's a two. So there's going to be a secondary jolt. And this is after the person stands up out of the coffin. And the secondary jolt is going to it's it's not going to knock you down, but it's going to kind of shove you over to the side. And as as that's happening, Ian is going to kind of grab your shoulder.

To like in case you were going to fall like it's a nice act. However, that is immediately going to be followed with kind of trying to push past everyone. It's like, get out of the way. I'll take care of them. And he's going to snap off a broom nearby and kind of turn it into a jutting, sharp piece of wood and advance towards this this person. So he was he was studying Blevins. Yes. Oh, awesome. Oh, that's very minimum. Oh, like he thought of me. Hey, back off. That's a love triangle I want to see. Oh, my gosh. Oh, it's it's it's it's very anime, right? The the the two that don't like each other have the chemistry while.

Oh, man. The notice me senpai on the other side. It's just like in hentai assault eight, like it is just it mirrors. The one's going to think that's the real game. Yeah, no, it's going to get that shokie. So did we all do like a perception check to see the hand last time? I can't remember. I'm sorry. The hand is like, didn't you say that? Yeah, he's going to start to kind of get up out of there. I think it's really obvious because it's like it's a room full of caskets. OK. And then like something starts getting out of the that's the first thing you think of.

You're in a place like this, like. Right. I was just trying to be worried. It was like a casket. I would be like, right, because Ian's like instantly in asking mode, you're saying ready to think. Fair. OK. He has a history with vampire specifically. So, you know, he's like, I've dealt with this before. Let me let me assume he's just a vampire off the bat. Well, OK, let me let me ask this. Everyone, because you OK. Look, he was being a bit of a dick and I need to be more specific, but he was being a bit of a dick about the door. It's like, oh, did you get that unlock yet?

So Tatiana was the one unlocking the door and then just kind of like he's pushing past people to go and kill like this person coming out of the coffin. So are there any thoughts on like, first of all, him pushing past you and secondly, him going to just assault this person? You don't know what that you know, like, just like, hey, hey, wait, wait, wait. You don't know what it can do. He's armed with just that, right? Just the wooden broom handle and like the dagger she gave him. Yeah. Yeah. And maybe he'll take a couple of passes with the dagger, just like whittle, whittle, like, you know, just like make sure it's sharp, you know, like, you know.

Definitely not goal wielding. If you say that, he's like, yeah, we don't know what he can do. That's why we kill it now. Why would we let it live? Instantly referring to him as it. I think I think Blevins will just kind of say, well, let's not be too hasty. We just came from hell and we found unlikely allies there. So why can't we not do the same here? At least to see what he's about. Right. I should also say, Jamison, you are more than welcome. Like you're a part of this. Like you're like, do you have thoughts or feelings like you? I mean, you see this guy coming like, you know, like you're there.

Sure. Yeah. All right. So. So I'll try to do it like a quick physical description. I know I share please do. Yeah. Listen, I think so what you would see, like I described before, it's like little little arms reach up and kind of stretch a little bit. And this person sits up and what you see is a sort of pale skin, dark hair with sort of streaks of gray in it. And the hair specifically is a bit longer, kind of standy up. But specifically like the 80s, Marvel Wolverine haircut, where it kind of like stands up in two peaks on both sides in the back of his head.

Some people know what I'm talking about. There's a very popular thing at the time, like like Beast had that haircut for a while. Everybody had that haircut for a while in the 80s and 90s. I don't know why. But anyway, so he's got a little bit of that going on. He's got like a goatee with some very long mustache and he stands up and he's very little. He's actually a gnome. He's he has a tiny body much smaller than his head when he first saw it would have indicated. Oh, Pippin, like a like a don't know. Stop it. That's all inspiration. I want to change my character.

If I describe my character, I hear like Pippin. And then how moist are his eyes? Would you say on a scale of one to 10? So funny thing, his eyes are very hard to make out. You ever see like if you try to catch somebody and it's kind of dark and you can't in that it's dark enough that you can't quite tell where they're looking exactly. Their eyes just seem sort of black. That's kind of what's going on. Like it's hard to tell. Maybe it's just in shadow or whatever, even though I don't know if it's a necessarily very shadowy room, but it kind of has that kind of indistinct look to his eyes.

It's not super well lit, right? Like it's you know, there'd be no reason for the coffin room to have, you know, it's like why waste power? Oh, they didn't put the fluorescence in here. Yeah. Yeah. So, yeah, he kind of he pokes his head up and he sees everybody and he just sort of perks up and then drops back down for a second. And if you're listening, there's some rustling around going on in there. How? OK, let me ask a question. And this is this is this is sensitive and I need to work this carefully. Does he have a baby coffin or like is it? I feel like it's a little bit of a little little more coffin.

Yeah. OK, so is it a custom coffin, I guess is what it's like. I feel like it's one of those ones where we got this little one. Like this is right. Yeah. OK. OK, not custom fit, but, you know, this one may or may not have been made for a child. But good news, there's no child in it, so that's the bright side. No. So he's he's wrestling around and he does see Ian coming, but he just sort of goes like and goes back down. But he does the visible one one moment. Yeah, he's very much like, oh, good company. And then he goes back down. So he's not an unintelligible vampire out to kill.

So, you know, that means something. Yeah, he'll do all his frothing in the coffin. Yeah. What does that really mean? Don't want people to see me like this. It's like, oh, pants. He's just Donald Duck in front of it. Listen, if you had to sleep in a coffin, you might go Winnie the Pooh stone. Hey, I would imagine it's stuffy. I don't I need a fan. I sleep after the first hundred years, you know? Yeah. Yeah. I just learned that there's a joke I won't tell. That's good. Like there's a filter. Just one at the bridge is too far. That makes things awkward. So you just don't like you just it's like, OK, that's the line we know.

So Ian's going to kind of place a hand on. Vella shoulder like comforting. I have experience with these types of things. Don't worry. Just stand back. Just kind of like guiding her back to like it's like, you know, just just be careful and like readying this thing, like coming at like he's going to harpoon a shark, just like gripping. Like you can hear it like just like, OK, here we go. Like coming over the coffin. So I'm going to roll a bag out of the coffin. It's like a backpack. OK. OK. Just like, you know, it's like throwing it out. I'm up now. It's time to get ready to go.

Here's my bag. Like, OK. He it's like, OK, wait, because why do you do you mean like it's I guess he anticipated an attack or at least like you defending yourself. Like you don't seem to know you're in danger. Well, yeah. So a moment after that, it'll be tossed like in the direction of where Ian is right the moment after that, he'll pop his head up and be like, yeah, can you just could you just get that? And then we'll. You're a servant, correct? Please get the bag. Let's get going. Oh, well. Just going to like this. She's like this. Yeah, we're going to keep him in my spells for a year.

So there's two levels, right? The first level is like, how fucking dare you? Obviously, but the bigger secondary looming level is. Why don't you know when you're in danger? Like, I'm going to hurt you and you're not reacting. And that's infuriating. So just like there's there's probably just a just like a solid like five seconds, Macintosh rainbow spinning wheel. Like, I don't know what to fucking do here. Just like a wolf. Meanwhile, he's like climbing over the edge, like trying to with his foot, trying to like find like something to step on to, you know.

Yeah, they usually keep these up off the ground. So yeah, so it's like a little dais or something, right? Yes. Yeah. Like trying to climb his way down. Eventually, he'll give up and just sort of drop, you know. OK, brushing off his clothes and be like, sorry, like to kind of look past where the rest and be like, he can hear, right? Can he hear? And like wave his hand up at him? Ian's going to look to Vella like, what about this situation isn't translating for him? Like what? Like just like like almost looking at Vella. It's like, do you think I'm a fucking servant?

Like you like like it's bothering him now. She's going to kind of be like, hmm, hmm, hmm. I don't I don't know. So I was like, maybe just hang on a second. You don't know. Why do you why do you think I'm here to serve you? And he'll be like, all right, well, OK, because you're just like a servant, right? Like, so can you get my bag and let the countess know I'll be right up, please and thank you. Yeah, like look fast again and be like this guy. Tatiana returns the look. Yeah, this fucking guy. He's so upset. He's going to throw this stick to the back of the room and storm out like toward the party, just like he like.

He's so angry, he's looped away from violence for the moment, like so infuriated, like it's just oh, like he wants to say 15 things and none of it like none of it comes. So he's going to storm past the group and kind of do like short like pacing the width of the hallway, like just just having a conversation with himself that he might be losing. Like he's absolutely just irate. No, I'm so I didn't realize that there was going to be company. I'm so sorry for that. I'll have to talk to the countess about that display. But it's nice to meet you. And he's like still dusting himself off because he's very dusty, actually.

Whoever is in front, he'll hold a hand up and say, I'm funky with honey hugs. Fuck you, honey. Fuck you. Let's honey hugs. Honey hugs. Mm hmm. Of the Ebony Harbor, honey hugs, trade empire. No. OK, that's fine. Maybe you haven't been out, that's totally OK. Yeah, I love it. Is it is it obvious to us that this little gnome is a vampire? I mean, he just woke up from a coffin. I feel like it's kind of obvious, but that's not as vampires you get. Like, that's almost like. All right. And the honey hawks, was it? Honey hugs, honey hugs, honey hugs. Do we know of the honey hugs of Ebony Harbor?

Give me a history check, because this would be history. Oh, that's it. That's it. There you go. Thank you, Bella. How's your back carrying the team? I was just sitting here thinking, I'm not playing my character from Ebony Harbor. Why would I know? Nice. Nice. Oh, shit. So everybody but Tatiana. There's definite. So, OK, look. You guys ever watch the shitty movie R.I.P.D. with Ryan Reynolds and shitty excuse you. We know what it is. Have you seen R.I.P.D. too, though? I mean, yeah, I did. It's fucking shit. I mean, it's a movie so bad they couldn't get the original cast of R.I.P.D. like fucking Jesus Christ.

Anyway, there's a character named Bo, but his full name is Bo Sifus. And he talks like that. It's fucking garbage. And I hate that movie. But the point is, the point is, the point is that it's an old timey name. So like honey hugs would be like it's like, oh, like it's like it's like I guess I guess like it's like naming your kid Opal. Like it's like that's just not super common now. Sorry to all the young Opals. I'm just going to cross that name off my list. All right. I look. Ignore me. What do I know? So, yeah. You know, if you're just you're standing there with your hand out, Blevins will come up, shake your hand, you know, do it like a double a double hand handshake, you know, please to meet you kind of thing.

Yeah, he'll reciprocate that. Absolutely. He's he's encouraged by it. It's like, OK, great. So are you guys what's dinner guests? What's going on? Well, Mr. Honey Hugs, I hate to inform you, but you've been incapacitated for quite a while. You see, I'm my name is Blevins Elmar Rutherfort. These are my lovely friends. Oh, OK. Nice to meet you, Blevins. Nice to meet the three of you. Um, so, uh, incapacitated, I took a nap. You did. Yeah, I did take a nap for a long time. For how long? I do not know, but your name is seeped in obscurity now. If there was any notoriety you had before, I don't think I think time has passed, my friend.

I don't know who the countess is, but this this place is an area of ruin full of monsters and and undead. Maybe like yourself. Well, I mean, maybe. Who knows? Let's let's go take a look around and see. I'll introduce you to the countess. She's usually pretty nice. Nice to me. Then we'll we'll see. We'll see about, uh, we'll see if I get something to eat. Maybe, I don't know. It's been a eight. Yes. Well, you know, eat just like finger quotes. But I guess I'll get my own bag, right? And pick up his bag. And he pulls out of his bag, he pulls out something and he puts it on like an adjusted almost like adjusting a ball cap.

And when he turns around, it's actually the top half of a skull that's been gilded. So it's like the forehead, eye sockets and cheekbones of the skull that he sort of puts on and then pulls it down over the top half of his face like a mask. Very fan of the opera. Does anything happen like no, he puts it on. He's like, all right, I got my got my stuff. Let's let's go and kick your worthless servant and get going. Well, before we do that, I just think firstly, name wise, let's go over my friends here. This is Tatiana. It's nice to meet you, Funculus. It'll be nice to have some sort of guide.

I don't think we really know where we're going in here. Oh, that's fine. Yeah, I'll show you around. I've been I've been here at least three times, and that's a funky list with a long, oh, funky list. Funky list. Nice to meet you. Right. And then we have Josephine here. Josephine also along. Nice. Hey, quick question. In the three times that you've been here before, were there ever ghouls running amok? Well, I mean, that's what we used to call some of the no, not really. No, technically. OK. No. Is that that's the situation we may have run into. Interesting. Other than things exploding.

Also, very nice to meet you, I guess. It's kind of a situation, I think. All right. I mean, I'm interested to see. We'll have to ask the Countess about that. Yes, fair enough. And then our final member of our core team here. We have the lovely Vellament. Hello. And he'll like reach way up. Nice to meet you. Very nice to meet you. Before we continue, we must inform you about the extra member of our party here. His name is Ian, and he used to be a big deal. So please mind his ego before things get violent. OK, great. Where is he? I can't wait to meet Ian, you said.

He is the one that tried to murder you on contact. He is in the hallway pacing at this moment. I might be to sing him a song to calm his nerves. He does a kind of a pain in the ass. He does that thing where he like stares politely for a minute and like blinks once or twice while he's like, he clearly doesn't hasn't put it together and goes, Oh, the servant. Oh, you do. OK. All right. Yeah, sure. He's part of your party. Big link. He's a part of your party. That's very nice of you guys, honestly. It's very nice to commandeer some of your servants garments in the other rooms because he was indisposed.

He was, but so to speak. He's trying to be nice. He was naked. I mean, listen, whatever whatever you guys have him doing, none of my business, none of my business at all. I promise you, I've seen Stranger. It's OK. Whatever calligula shit you get. You guys seem fun. All right. Yes, that is the end of all introductions. Please continue. All right. You're going to sing him a song, though? That sounds cool. Yes, I've kind of gained a stroke of luck in in my life, and I was able to kind of kind of rediscover my lot in life. And it seems to me a good song cures all, to be honest, and a good hint of celebration.

I look forward to understanding what that means someday. Let's let's get going. What's what are we up to? Well, I think we were all just trying to find a way out of this whole area. We would love to see the sky and light again, wouldn't we gang? All right. Yeah, I think that's probably our number one priority is figuring out how we get out of this place. Safely and not getting attacked by ghouls yet again. Well, OK, well, I usually prefer the north side of the building, so let's let me show you the way let's go on this way. Jason, I'm going to just say shit and you just let me know.

Yeah, you're cool. Once in a while, it'll be like West, not like every once in a while. It'll be like, just guide you, but like, you're fine. Do we have to go back out through the hallway? Yeah. OK, I was just going to say, well, it's just probably going to like kind of try and grab Ian's arm, just be like, it's OK. He knows you're not a servant. Just kind of like placate him a little bit. Like, you know, you walk by. Come on, servant. No. It's just like trying to have him a quick run. It's not it's just just like there's it's like he's clearly still angry.

I like just pacing back and forth doing that. Like I should have said this, like I feel like it, but this should have just stabbed him like that, that type of thing. But just like if you if you it's he's a monster and he needs to die. Yeah, but he's doing that couple's argument like that. You know what I mean? Like, yeah, she's going to be like, OK, but he's showing us how to get out of here. So maybe we can work with him for a little bit. He knows his way around. Yes. Fine. Then he has a use. You know, once we get out of here and back on the main road, we need to head north and back to civilization, because this will not stand much longer.

OK. Like absolutely like like hitting like, don't I'm not fighting. OK. Sure thing, man. Hunter just said such gibberish to you and you're just like, all right. Whatever you want. Yeah, sure. Uh huh. I know. Thank you for having your words. Good job. I lost his stick. He threw it away. So he'll he can follow Vela. Just, you know. Does Blevins actually try to sing to him, though, because. Oh, yeah. You know, as soon as they walk back, have have their conversation. He's like, so, Ian, do you need a quick prayer, a little little sadidi to calm the nerves? Just a quick one.

I think he definitely does, Blevins. It will I think it will real help the mood of the room if you just let it loose. Tati, you're just after my wig. You can have it. You can have it. Seriously, you can have it. You see this long black phone here. I don't. I don't need it. It feels great. You know, I just might sing because of that. This is going to become a running thing. He's trying not to lash out at people who are close to Vela. But he will ask Vela how close are you to him? Like how like seriously? The scale of one to ten like how are you guys friends or acquaintances?

Yeah. Are you guys work buddies or like are you guys tight? Because like. I'm going to give that one an eight. I feel like I pull out my little snake now. Let's hear him sing first, you know, and then we'll make a decision. All right. What? OK, what? Give me a style of music. What's Blevins like? What's young Blevins is jam like Jesus when when he regained his youth, the whistle stick just there's a way to. It's just it just called out to him, you know, being the self acclaimed champion of Ambry, you must celebrate at least once every hour. So you use that whistle stick once an hour.

Otherwise, what's the plan? Right now you have to blow on your whistle stick. So I think he's going to do that. But that'd be a performance. I mean, if you're into that. Yeah, like I guess like you can. Yeah, sure. I put on a show. No. Yeah. Give me a performance. I think you're why I picture the unofficial like the anthem of Ambry is like anything from LMFAO, like just just. Either that or that weird Six Flags song the old man danced to. Like, yeah, yeah, yeah. All the time. Thank you. Like 30 minutes away from me. But that one like a recorder. So imagine imagine that old guy from like the commercial, though, that's like then that's imagine he went back to his 20s.

That's what happened. There you go. That's a that's a character touchstone right there. OK, here we go. That's the. If you were born after 1996, not for you, but like, you know, ask your dad. What young kids do. We're dying. OK, so so with the 20, he can hate it, but his toe has to be tapping. Look, you you can say that's not for me, but you can't say you don't have talent, right? Like, right. You know what I mean? Like I. I don't know how you're making it sound like a nightclub when you're just you're just essentially playing an overgrown whistle. You ever seen those dudes beatbox into a flute?

I kind of imagine something like that. I don't know. That's just it. Just he he probably he wouldn't say anything to Blevins, but he would. He he might say something to Bella like, all right, we could use him to make money somewhere along the road, but he's really good. Like she's into it. Yes. Hey, silence is admission admission. So, hey, thank you. Oh, God. OK, so the castles, you know, changed a tiny bit in in the decades, last centuries or however long it's been. But one thing that's changed very recently is bits of the castle are falling apart into itself very recently, like 10 minutes ago.

Which is a concerning thing that we haven't talked about yet. Yeah, no. But Ian would at a certain point kind of just. You know, the way to the front door, correct? Oh, I know the way to like at least eight doors. Yeah. There's doors all over this place. You wouldn't believe how many doors. Almost as many as there are always. Let's do it. Let's go. That that sounds like a tour. What I'm asking for is you get us to the nearest door that gets us outside out of here. It's falling apart. It's derelict. So. Fockels does this thing. Where he takes what would be a couple of deep breaths, except he's undead, so he doesn't need to take deep breaths.

So in place of that is just like weirdly sudden stillness. Well, he just kind of stares at Ian. He just suddenly gets like really like. Unsettling. Good. Yeah. He goes, OK, I'm glad we settled that. Let's go. Yeah, there's some interesting galleries in here, if you guys want to see. I've only seen it one time. I'd love to see it again before before before we get ourselves out of here. Should also check in on the countess. I feel like it'd be rude to the hoop without saying goodbye. Have we already done like it's. OK, as as an adventure, there's like a top 10 places to avoid.

Right. Like that's she's pretty low on the list just because it's not like, oh, stay away from the werewolves and the silver glade or stay away from. No, like it's not as loud like it's it's like, don't don't go up there. Don't go near that castle. Just just like that type of thing. But Donners was always fine. So like it's just kind of a I mean, I'm going to shoot you. That didn't work out so hot before. Yeah, I give me a history check, I guess like hell, I'll give Ian's going to make a history check. No, his history is not amazing, but you know. The one I read my history sucks.

I don't know why I thought the patsy on a witch stuff be the one who knew because didn't one of her old acquaintances like work with the countess or get in trouble with the countess? Yes, but not when I knew. No, no. Yeah, it was after. Sorry. OK. Right, because even when we were in Donners's group, there's nobody for us to talk to, so nobody to be able to point her out to us either. Sorry. I couldn't remember. No. So Vellan Blevins would, you know, again, it's it's kind of a top 10 places to avoid it. So like there's a it's like, hey, let's go pet the shark.

You know what I mean? Like, it's very like it's like, no, let's not do that because, you know, but you're living. Do we know what like that she's dead or. Oh, you guys were busy dead when that happened. That was a thing. No, you guys were you were busy. OK. You were out of town. Let's say, you know, an F&A apprehensive. OK. But they would know in relation that we're in Donners now, though, right? I think that would be easy to put together. It's like, OK, wait, castle, blah, blah, blah. OK, that's where we are. So Donners. So that gives us OK. So now we have we know where we are.

And at the very least, it's like, OK, like you know, Ian's probably like, OK, I'm this far away from home. This is where I need to be fine. At least we're not like, you know, somewhere truly dangerous. But the countess doesn't raise any red flags for him. He doesn't care. I mean, I suppose we can go see this countess person, but I am a little worried about if there's going to be more ghouls, more vampires possibly being a lunch option. Well, I mean, if you got in here as guests of the countess, I'm sure that there would be, you know, some sort of protocol or something like that.

I'm sorry. Excuse me. What? Well, about that. Invited guests. We sort of magically popped in here without any intent to be here. So we're actually just trying to find our way out. We fought our way out of hell and escaped, and now we're trying to leave this place. It's really quite simple. He looks at Ian and then right back to Tatiana. So magically, huh? This is my penance for last session. I get it. Did you tell me more about that? You just magically just popped in. That's wild. It was through some sort of portal. I don't really understand magic much myself, so I can't really give you the details, but we get to pick our destination.

Oh, I see. OK, so we want to be a little bit quiet about it. Maybe. Do you think? I mean, if you're friends with the countess and can vouch for us, I suppose that would be OK, but otherwise, yeah. Well, friends, you know, she she's pretty nice to me, I guess most of the time. A couple of times she's been. Yeah. So I'm sure it'll be fine. Let's go see what we can do, you know, and you know, maybe maybe we give blondie here to her and she'll just let the rest of everybody walk out of here. And, you know, no big no big whoop. See, now I'm concerned that maybe we shouldn't go see the countess and we should just leave because if she didn't even know we were here, then were we even here?

Well, I mean, yeah, I guess I get that. But it also like what if she catches you being sneaky? You know, I feel like that's worse. Is that worse? Maybe I'm doing a lot in here and nobody's even come to check on us, so I feel pretty good about it. Well, I feel interested in this tour. You said there was artistic pieces. I love artistic pieces. Oh, yeah. There's a couple of galleries as a library. Don't say, oh, yeah, no, there's there might even be, you know, I bet you're a musical guy. I bet you there's some books of like old songs and some, some, you know, some titties.

Yeah. I thought you said some titties and I just I just like with nude statues, that's a new piece as well. Yes, it's true, though it's so pasty. This is one statue. I like to just climb up and hold it, you know. You can tell where all the enamels worn off bronze statues of the dog where the nose is all shined up. It ain't the nose, though. Send your fan art to daanddrpodcast.com That's daanddrpodcast@gmail.com Ian's done. He's like you guys talking about you guys talking about like just taking the tour, like throws his hands up in the air. I'm done. I'm I'm just picking a direction and leaving.

I'm done. If you want to stay here and get murdered, following this idiot around, be my guest. I honestly don't care. Fella, we're leaving. I really think we should stick together in this castle. I agree that we probably should be a more direct, but I really think we should stick together. Safety in numbers, babe. Fine. Have them follow us. I don't care, but do you really think the best option is to take a slow tour around this castle that is falling apart around us? I mean, I don't know my way around here, so I would just rather follow somebody who knows how to get out rather than taking a random hallway.

Do you think you could just show us the way out? I'll tell you what, let's just let's get up to the main floor and I'll show you the front parlor. It's kind of nice. And then maybe if there's time, somebody's around, we'll stop and have some, you know, food and we'll go from there. You know, the exit will be nearby if you want to leave or if you see something that's that strikes your interest, maybe we'll hang out a little bit. I'm really not in any kind of hurry. I don't feel like you guys should really be either, you know. As a part of the ceiling falls in front of us.

I do. OK, I do. I do think he would just say in closing. At any moment, any one of us could be crushed underneath debris. He will live. Have any of you been crushed by debris before? Not a not a fun way to go. I will say that that is not a fun way to go. I can't say that I have, sir, even but I have been to hell and I would like to live a little. Have a tad bit of fun in there. All right. Let's just you know what? Because you're your man here is such a barrel of laughs. Let's just get up to the main floor. We'll make sure that everything's OK up there. Maybe it's just the basement that's a little bit under the weather, you know.

Let's get up there. We'll check it out. And if you guys aren't comfortable, we can just go. That's totally fine. Solidly, I love it. Sounds good. Way to be reasonable. Ian will fold his arms. And when he does that, he always tucks the hand that's missing like in inside. Like he always like it's it's the it's it's a thing with him. But yeah, he does most things like he has two hands, like even like holding the stake, like it'll be braced on it like he like he's handicapable is is what it is, honestly. So, OK. Heading as you guys are walking through this place, every once in a while, there'll be like a rumble or there'll be like a like a like a slight shift or tremor, nothing like before.

But like it's clear something's happening. I'm guessing Calfuncula isn't like isn't really he's no cell in it, right? Just kind of walking through, just kind of like like it's not super concerning for him. Yeah, if he's bothered at all by it, it does not show on his face or in his pace that he sets. OK. At a certain point, you guys are going to be climbing stairs and there's literally bricks and in bits of bits of mortar that like you're stepping past like to, you know, and then you're going to be at the main floor. And at the main floor, there is a large kind of a seating area.

It's very opulent. Like you could tell like parties used to be hosted here, like balls and things like that. And a big set of double doors are going to be at the far end. And they certainly do look like the front doors. And when they happen, this place looks like hell. It's a little bit embarrassing, but you know, I'm sure that there's a reasonable explanation for that. Well, let me ask you this, Fonculous. When did you take your nap? Um, you know, that's hard to remember. Um. Let me ask you this. What day is it? Let me ask God this. God. What do we even know?

Because we know that's true. You guys know that year. So let me let me fucking explore this. Hold up. Oh, how long have we been dead for? Right. You guys have been dead for an undetermined amount of time. So is he. But he's been in a coma. You guys got back and you're not sure what year it is. And it's nighttime and feels like it should be daytime right now. So everything's fucked up. Like it just feels off. Right. So, yeah, there's kind of a to you. It feels like no time has passed. But clearly, you know, something happened. Yeah. Yeah. Well, if I'm remembering correctly, I died in 1263.

I couldn't tell you the day or the month because I don't really know how long we were all down there for, but. 1263. Oh. Hmm. 1263? 1263. Yeah. No, he's like looking around. And he'll look at 1263. What year is it when you would take a nap? You know, I want to say it started with a 10, but I can't remember exactly. Oh, boy. Yeah, that's a that's a pickle. I have questions. Let's go find somebody to ask questions to. He is going to Ian's going to brush past. Yes. Yes. It's very sad you've been rotting away in this rat infested shithole. I'm leaving out the front doors.

Thank you. Hold that thought. I think I was going to say if he was like hanging around a little bit, Bello would be like, wait, wait, what year was it when you died? I think it's like he's disassociating like front doors. Let's go. Like I've got a throne to reclaim. Like just thirty nine. Don't care. Bye. Good old Winterhaven never changes. I'm heading back. This is Donner's. So here's what I'm going to do, and nobody is going to see or hear anything because I'm going to actually use a. Sorry, I'm trying to familiarize myself with stuff here. To get it done to.

I'm going to use the subtle spell metamagic effect so nobody can see this. Hmm. Which I think costs like two sorcery points, whatever. And I'm going to use the message cantrip. And I'm going to speak directly in Ian's head. I'm going to say you stop right there, you big goddamn juice box. I have questions. OK. Is this in your voice? I would imagine it's in. OK. OK. A lot of the humor that everybody's sort of like the good naturedness that he's been displaying completely absent. And if he turns around to look at him, he's doing that sort of empty should be breathing, not breathing, not blinking kind of stare at him.

OK. This is interesting. So, OK, the way I imagine it in the way you imagine it might be different, but I imagine it like if it's inside your own head. There's kind of a like a echoey separatedness to it, like it's it's you know what I mean? Like you're you the way the spell describes it. It's like I'm whispering in his ear. OK. But only he can hear it. But the auditory sort of sense of it, I guess, would be there. OK, so I think he would stop. And turn around and again, look at him. And if there's that, you know. What did you say? What? Oh, no, I was just saying that we should, you know, just make sure that everybody's on the same page before we make any decisions about anything.

And maybe, you know, the people who make decisions in this group ought to be the ones to make decisions. What do you think they're? Chip. I think. You're a corpse that's been lying around like furniture for longer than you were up moving around, and if anyone is going to be making any decisions, it's someone who is actually a title holder in the land in this decade. He is losing his fucking mind at this point, like completely unhinged, like Tatiana pipes up, was was a title holder. You died, so somebody else. That's how it works. If anyone has it, it's my son and trust me, he's not ready to lead.

Another voice completely separate from everyone else's is going to call out. Now, if if you picture this is a big hallway in his cross threshold into the big ballroom, right in the big ballroom behind Ian, like coming from, you know, off screen to you guys, basically, because it would be, you know, somewhere in that room, echoing. It is. A very cold, like a stern female voice. What are you doing? Like just very like kind of echoey, right? And you're going to hear someone and it sounds like they're in like full plate, right? It's very pots and pans like.

And they're they're they're going to be. You're here. You hear them walking. And eventually, a woman is going to hove into your field of view, it's behind Ian, he is going to turn around, but he doesn't want to turn his back to the vampire. So just kind of take like he's taking like one step back so that he can look at at the two of you. But this is sort of a larger woman, like red hair, like, you know, full plate armor blocking the door. Now, the double doors. And one of the things that's kind of striking is she is very pale, like. Pretty goddamn pale, like in this place, it doesn't take a genius to kind of go, oh, probably vampire, like, you know.

Does anyone have anything to say to this woman before the inevitable happens? Take it away, Ian. Take it away. I feel like there's a moment of silence, right? Someone just appeared out of nowhere. It's the first person we've seen. Yeah, it's really odd because the amount of armor she's wearing, it feels like you should have heard her coming a mile away, and it's almost like she just materialized like she's just here now. Hmm. Ian is going to look back at the group, specifically at your new gnomish friend. And just kind of like raise his hand off and just like, I'm done.

Just like, and he's going to start walking toward the door. Get out of my way. I'm done. He doesn't even get out the full sentence before he is melted across the face and sails across the room. He is going to go tumbling through the furniture and he goes. He probably goes a good 12, you know, to 15 feet, like through the air. And she doesn't act like like that, like that. It's very cold. It's an icy expression. And she's going to look to the party as she starts walking towards you. I said, what are you doing here? Oh, you know, you beat me to that one and go to meet her and be like, you know, that was I was pretty close to doing something similar to that myself.

I didn't really you know, it's not really my style, but I appreciate the putting his place a little bit because the mouth on that one, huh? I would say as you're talking, she's walking very steadily and she's going to reach for her back and draw her long sword out as she's walking toward you. And there is something in her eyes that is disconnected. That is, it doesn't look like you're it doesn't look like she's registering what you're saying, like an automaton almost. Hmm. Well, if we see her pull the sword out, but we'll just say, hold, hold, hold on, dear lady, please.

Let's let's have a conversation, please. Ahem. Does she stop at all or she doesn't register that? There's even a slight. She's I don't think she's going to break stride, but she is she's going to keep. You're not one of the worshippers, and you're not going to stop the ceremony. I'm afraid you have to die. And she's going to start picking up her pace and start walking, almost breaking out into a sprint and running right toward the group. Well, I mean, they were they showed up in a magic portal from hell, apparently, but that's not any he's going to be stepping aside as he's saying this.

He's not getting this one. I'm handling it. It's OK. We're going to talk to the Countess. It's all going to be fine. Don't worry about it. Just slow down. Just stop. Stop running. Yes. Chill out. Chill out. Yeah. Move it over, Kim. We do not mean harm. We are here by mistake. Let's not do anything hasty, please. I mean, all I'm all for worshipping whoever you want. I'm not here to get in the way of anybody's religion or whatever. I mean, I think the gods kind of suck, but you can do you. That's fine. And very very just talk to him there. But if she continues to to come at us, I guess I'm going to take out my bow.

Like if she is not reason, if she's not able to be reasoned with, she's not able to be reasoned with. This is getting a little violent, please. We believe in celebration of of epic proportions. We're not trying to stop what you have going on. We're trying to do our own ceremony. I have a whistle stick. Please. My favorite part of that is I don't know if that is I am no harm to you. I have a whistle stick or stand back. I have a whistle stick. I don't know which one it is or just fun fact. I have a whistle stick. It's just a fact. It's just a fact. Everyone do me a favor.

Everyone, Bideon, roll a d20 for me. And the person who rolls lowest is getting a prize. Oh, a prize, you say? A good prize? Yeah. So, you know, I got a race team for three to my God. Jesus God, guys. Everyone wants to win. Is the lowest care and we do a roll off. It's a roll off. You both wrote it to another d20 lowest out of the two of you. Yeah. Baby. Oh, my God. My God. Seven and a four. Jesus. Well, you all did your best, but you only need one winner. You want low rolls? I got you. We're just getting them out of the way right now. That's all. Yeah. So she's got her long sword, you know, drawn and she's making a beeline right for Tatiana.

And she's going to open her mouth and just fangs bared. But there's nothing there's not like a like, I'm going to bite you. There's no emotion at all. Like something's piloting her or not, you know what I mean? And I'm going to give you a chance because she is going to get real close. Can I get a perception check, please? Mm hmm. You got low rolls? I got you. Actually. Actually. Karen and Lisa, can I also get a perception check from you guys? Jesus Christ, guys, come on. My name is Double digits. Thank you very much. Yeah, it sure was. Well, our dice look almost like almost the same.

So that's funny. Oh, man. OK, well, OK. 12, 16. OK, we can work with us. It's fine. It's good. It's good. So two things. one, the set of armor she's wearing is is kind of weird in that it looks like a big sturdy like plate armor set. But there's a weird jewel kind of encrusted in the center of the breastplate like it doesn't fit at all. It's it looks like it was kind of tacked on after the fact. Also, this woman looks familiar like. Like it's one of those things like, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, hold on. Hold on. Like you're you look different. But like I oh, shit.

Like I, I. Ah, where have I seen you before? That type of thing. Josephine with the highest role. I think it would it would probably come to her first. Like you've seen this woman in Albury before. At the time, there was like a big vampire problem there, and like she was kind of, you know, like she was always kind of on watch. Like she never slept like it was a weird thing. And she didn't fucking act like this. And she wasn't a vampire. Like it's a weird like this is weird. But anyway, legally, remember, I feel like I vaguely remember this woman. Why did why do I want to say Alex?

No. Yeah. Oh yeah. Oh, yeah. Karen, for the win. You listen to the show. It's obviously brought to set a listener. According to my Spotify. So this is OK. I I'm going to have to attack Tatiana here. OK. Oh, Jesus. Ah, no, no, no, no, no, no. Plus 11. Jesus Christ. Yeah. OK, so fun. Oh, my God, I roll it to 13. I was like 20, but like just like building up steam and then like almost running in and slashing wildly. Anime swiping me. Got it. Yeah. I'm going to guess that Mrs. Tatiana. It does. Yes. What's the rebuttal here? Like. Well, I had already taken my my bow out because I was like, OK, she's not she's not going to listen to us.

But I suppose we're at such close range because she's literally right there. I guess I will. Try to hit her with my dagger. Give it to me. Do it. OK. Oh, there's the big rolls. 26 laughter, three twos in a row. Finally, you're going to you're going to shank her, like just kind of fitting in between the plates of the armor, just put just nothing on her face, like just doesn't even feel it yet. She I mean, it hurts. You could tell because something's oozing out of her. Give me some damage. Ooh, is some sort of ooze eight max damage with with the ice. Yeah. No, there's something leaking out of her, but she shows no signs of stopping at all.

Like there's there's just nothing. OK. I mean, I suppose. I'll I'll try to step back because I don't want to get hit again. Or not hit again. How does everyone else react to this? I mean, I guess it'd be time to roll initiative, right, because we just try to jump in. Blevins would try. I think yes, I think initiative would be good, right? Yes, you're right. Right. That is the correct answer. Did you see that? All right. Well, Jansen, you're kicking things off with the focus. Let's do it. We got five minutes go. Oh, man. OK. He runs. Fair. Fair enough. So far, I'm going back to bed.

Yeah. You know what? This was a mistake. Goodbye. We back in 200 years. You guys didn't want to go on the tour with me. I'm out. Yeah. OK, so. Fockels is going to go ahead, he's going to extend his hands, he's going to mumble some nonsense and a medium hand made from compacted soil will rise from the ground and reach one creature. It can see within five feet. It must make a strength saving throw. We're going to do some earthen grasp. So the stone work underneath her feet is going to come up and try to grab her. You know, Sandman her. Oh, no, that was big. Bigby's hand for a sec or something.

Just you just grab. That is going to be. There's my spell. See if in your it'll be 15. There you go. OK, shit. Strength save. Oh, man. 12. Hey, cool. OK. No shit. Oh, man. A failed save. This target takes two to six bludgeoning damage and is restrained for the spell's duration. So let's roll them to the sixes. Damn. Seven damage. And restrained. Let me just read off that. Thing here, restrained, treat your speed, become zero, can't benefit from any bonus to its speed attack rolls against the creature, have advantage, the creatures attack rolls, have disadvantage. Creature has disadvantage on dexterity saves.

So they can't move advantage to attack disadvantage or advantage to be attacked. Disadvantage to attack out and disadvantage to text saves. Does she get to retry the save each time? We've so as an action, I can cause the hand to crush the restrained target who must make a strength saving throw to break out the restraint. Target can use its action to take a strength check against my spell save DC. So if they beat a 15, then they can go out escape. Yeah, but that's their action. Right. OK. Yeah. Sweet shit. Damn. Anything else? No, although just for flavor, when he does that, basically he gets very well, for lack of a better word, shadowy.

His little little gnome form gets very indistinct and almost inky black. And a lot of the magical effects that go into the earth to make the stonework come up and do that very shadowy, I suppose. It's darkness. Valley, you're up. Attack with advantage. Well, if that's somehow going to miss, I guess while wriggling, while struggling in this big sand hand, it's going to miss. Boo. Yeah, I don't think I think that's the only thing she can do. That's unfortunate. OK. Her turn, she's going to let's let's strength save again. Let's do that. That's all she can do.

Oh, my God. An eight. So nice. Blevins. Go ahead. Oh, she loses her old turn. Dang, that's it. Wow. Um. I think Blevins is going to stay right here and let's go with two Eldritch Blast. These have advantage, I believe. Oh, yeah. Yeah. She's yeah. Oh, well, drop up and we'll drop a one to take that. You know that that's a 16. That is it's going to miss. Oh, all right. Let's try. Let's try one more time. Tack. Come on. Oh, we'll drop it to take a 15, 23 will hit. Let's get a little damage in. OK, OK, six force damage. And that'll be it for me for this turn. So the entire time like this, this, this rocky dirt hand has her like she's struggling, but like it's not showing like on her face.

It's not like, oh, I'm going to kill you. Like it's it's just. Yeah, it's it's weird. Tatiana, you're up. All right. Tatiana is going to just take a step back and is going to then shoot with her her bow. Do do do with advantage. Wow. Come on. Oh, but one's my God. How is that even plausible? I it's somebody out there knows the percent chance of that for that happening, and it is low. Mr. Rob Weezahan just like pushes past everybody, actually. But it's definitely the chances are you're more likely to be killed by a shark than you are. Jesus, I we got a role to see if.

All right. Yeah, let's let's see if you're rolling on the table. Give me D6. Oh, now I roll high, really. All right. Well, yeah, it's time to roll a D20. Let's see how this goes. Two, two is just my number tonight. Worst luck in the area. Oh, boy. Your GM will choose a major weather or natural event and put it into play immediately. Oh, no, I'm thinking I think it's quake time, guys. I was just telling you about my seven point one trauma when I was in California. What earthquake was crumbling castle? Yeah, no, no, it makes sense. It makes sense. She's it. It sucks that it makes sense.

I wish. Yeah, I wish. I was here. Don't go outside. Like just at least the doors are right there. You know, I mean, there's at least that. But I I did die the last time a crumbling. Oh, yeah, this is going to be terrible. We were just like, you know, it sucks being crushed to death, right? And now we go. OK, I need you to do me a favor. And on a scale of one to 10, how bad is this going to be? I want you. I want you to give me a D10, but do it with advantage. OK. Oh, it won't let me do advantage. So I'll just roll another one to. One. So, by the way, it's good. Just laid out on the couch, just chilling.

He just knocked out. He's just I think he's not. Yeah, he honestly did. Like, yeah, no. So, OK, this isn't terrible. What what is going to happen is because pieces of the castle are falling apart. So this isn't going to knock you down or anything like that. But I need to test the castle itself, if that makes any sense, like the the the portion you're in. Mm hmm. I guess I guess save like the the castle needs to make a save, basically. OK, so let's just a flat D20 here. 14. So little bits and pieces are going to like like you like things are happening. It's like, hey, guys, like get out of here.

That type of thing. Something catastrophic is good. That could have been so much worse. Anything else? I can't do anything else. That's it. Josephine, you're up. It's me. Josephine is going to she didn't like that that person was like up in Tati's face because she isn't in like a lot of armor, like just female. So we're going to move forward so that I'm kind of. Drawing attention to myself rather than Tati and then getting. She's going to take her hand and she's going to kind of like pointed up to the ceiling and this cylinder of light is going to come down on this person.

How do I even use this? Wait, hold on. Well, I know you can roll it if you want to. You have to make a constitutional saving throw. Yeah, I'm going to roll it. Yeah. Um. This is giving me. Oh, OK. Things move in my DC. So if you go over to your spellbook. Mm hmm. It's listed just at the bottom, all your pertinent all the way at the bottom, I see what's happening. Yeah, it's big old letters. A spell save DC 15. All right. Shit. OK, so I got to get one of these, right? Twenty one. I got one. OK, you still take half damage. What kind of damage is it? It might be radiant damage.

No, that's good. A cylinder of sunlight. Fuck. Well, that's boo. I say boo. Yeah, to you. So do you want me to roll it? Yes. Roll my damage. How big is 40 10? How big is the cylinder? That's a good question. How big is that cylinder? It is 30 feet. Oh, 30 feet. Was it 30 feet away? 30 feet radius. So I can have it start like right in front of me. Mm hmm. OK, OK. OK, I mean, that sounds funny to me. So because I can actually I can move this around as a bonus action on my turn so I can put it wherever I want. Oh, that's a 30 foot shot up. No, it's not 30. That's 30. Like if you put it here, let's say put it there.

You want to put it there. Like here. Don't have the large points anymore. Can we just get it right now? Perfect. You want to put it there? OK, I want to play right there. I'm going to I'm going to let this slide this time. However, you get in the side. I, Karen, it's like it's like a door. Put my finger at the doors and that's the center of the. It's like a no scope flip flick, like, you know. Yes. I'm going to come to this person I forgot was a vampire and is our team now. Boom. Like, you know, I forget that he was a vampire. I just didn't realize how big a 30 foot radius.

I'm American. I would just play your fair enough. But it's in feet. Yeah, I don't know. The word radius means nothing to me. OK, that's fair. All right. We eyeball it. Roll that damage. OK. Does regular damage, even though she succeeded. Oh, my God. Roll one. Wait, why did it only roll one? Oh, because I did a plus four. Hold on. I was trying to do for D10s. How do I do for D10s? Just why don't you just link it in the chat? No, I don't know how to do that shit. Karen, it's been years. Karen. OK, which spell is it? Let's let's go back to let's go back to the let's go back.

It's called Dawn. OK. Oh, I was like, what is that noise? It's the timer ticking down. So when you when you want to cast a spell, you go over to your spell and you click on the icon for it, and then it's cast spell. And then it would even give you a little. I already did it for you, but it even gives you a little thing that you can use and you can go, oh, I put it there. And then like, you don't have to worry about that now because that's gone. Yeah, that would show you what the radius is. And I see. Yeah. It has a little thing for damage. Yep. OK, we'll do it.

I'll roll the thingy for damage. Those aren't my. There we go. Perfect. Oh, my God. That's actually quite a lot. Jesus. OK, twenty nine. Twenty nine damage. And then when she ends her turn in the space, she has to make a constitution saving. She can't move teamwork, teamwork, getting crunched on one side and. Well, hold on. All right. That is the end of round one. Round two. Whip, whip, whip, whip. Josephine. Oh, shit. Didn't know any better. Well, I wasn't expecting that. Guiding bolts at her. We'll drop a four to take a 13 20 will hit. OK. And it is. Jesus Christ, her radiant damage.

Fuck. OK, that is 13, but really it's 26. So you're just pelting, just fucking hammering her. Bella, you're up. Turns out the cleric in the House of Vampires. Good choice. Yeah. I had one question I forgot to ask last time because I got caught up with combat. OK, I just dropped my phone. Pick it up. I thought that was a coffee or something. Yeah, I thought it was like a I don't know why a soda like is. Yeah. So you said that when we like did like a perception check or whatever, she had some sort of like weird jewel kind of like in the middle of her armor. Yeah.

It really sticks out. Is it possible to like try and attack and then aim it towards that way, direct towards that if I hit? Sure. OK. And she's going to try one more time with her sword. And the advantage. They are double. We should. Fritz. OK, that's huge. Double 19, 27 will definitely hit that crystal. OK. Oh, boy, actually. Oh, hang on, since I have advantage. Where's my sneak attack? Yeah. OK. OK. That's huge. That that's that. Holy shit, that's way more damage than I figured that would do. That's going to shatter this crystal like outright shatter it like boom gone.

And instantly she is going to be in the most pain she's ever been in in her entire life. She's like the second this thing breaks and kind of like crumples off of her plate armor. Her head is going to go back and she's just going to scream. As this radiant fire bakes her like her skin is sizzling her like she is in incredible pain. She just couldn't do anything about it. Like this was always the case. She just couldn't show it. And I think it's a great time for us to stop for the night. You. Now we're where we need to be. But I want to crunch her again. Well, I'm sure you're going to have to save it.

I don't know. I thought it was like some crystal controlling her or whatever. And I was she'd be like, Oh, my God, thank you. You're not far off, actually. You're you're you're right there. Was that a necklace? So it was just part of her. Yeah, like like embedded in it. Yeah. Yeah. This story is fucked up. You're going to get it's it's it's not great. It's going to imagine it, because when you were talking about like the plate armor, I was like thinking something like the. Like how the Jesus, why can't I find the words? Because it's midnight. This is going to sound the.

The people that are made out of metal or whatever. God was the war forged. Thank you. Yes, I do. To avoid lawsuits. Yeah. Yeah. I was like, Oh, that kind of sounds like some weird war forged bullshit, like because they're kind of like, Oh, right, right. My control. Yeah. Oh, man, this it's. You. The.