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Transcript
00:00 (upbeat music)
00:02 (upbeat music)
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00:34 - All right, all right.
00:35 For all of you in video land,
00:37 don't forget to like, comment, subscribe,
00:39 and click the little notification bell.
00:42 On my road to partner.
00:43 Our last episode was a total freaking disaster.
00:48 Not only do I not remember enough of the game,
00:53 but (laughs)
00:56 just everything's a disaster.
01:00 I'm gonna make this episode
01:01 a little bit better than a disaster.
01:04 By not only showing you five minutes crawling
01:09 through this dungeon, and after I do that,
01:12 let me mute that.
01:14 After I do a little bit of the dungeon crawl,
01:18 I'm going to go ahead and just pause it
01:23 until we get toward the end.
01:24 I hope I remember when we get toward the end,
01:30 but you know, I'll make sure you guys see
01:32 the completed dungeon before I move on.
01:37 After about five minutes,
01:41 you'll get the idea of what the dungeon is like.
01:44 And while you've seen me use regular walking,
01:47 I will definitely be step walking through this dungeon
01:51 because you have to bump up against the walls
01:54 in order to see if they've got their illusionary walls.
02:00 This dungeon's like full of them.
02:03 And it takes forever.
02:06 I'm not gonna make you sit through that.
02:08 So let me go ahead and replace the mage that I just got.
02:13 And after I replace the mage that I just got,
02:16 we're gonna go ahead and get through this.
02:19 (upbeat music)
02:31 For safety's sake, I laugh at you.
02:34 Yet I am here because I have not found the path
02:36 which will allow me within the caverns.
02:39 Should I trust you?
02:41 I have but one goal,
02:43 to leave this malodorous and filthy land.
02:46 Somewhere in those subterranean passages lies a portal.
02:51 Where it will take me, I know not.
02:54 But if you help me reach it, yes, I will join you.
02:58 (upbeat music)
03:01 It can be found.
03:04 How fortunate our encounter that by chance
03:06 I have means to enter the place,
03:08 that chamber where the portal lies.
03:10 True, I am loath to join any party I do not lead.
03:15 But if you open the caverns to me, I will follow.
03:19 Though heed these words, that without me,
03:22 the portal shall remain inaccessible to you forever.
03:28 For me to leave now is no more and no less
03:30 than the day requires.
03:32 What must be will be.
03:34 Whether I exert my magic to influence the outcome or not.
03:37 And so the grounds and streams and paths
03:39 will return me to my hut.
03:41 My feet will feel the trail they provide.
03:44 When destiny calls you back to me, I will be there,
03:47 sharpening my skills in madness and magic.
03:51 (upbeat music)
03:54 (upbeat music)
03:57 And I already read this.
04:00 Imgarde, whether given grudgingly or not,
04:04 your assistance is welcome.
04:05 One thing appears true, that we shall not find our way
04:09 through the portal and the caverns
04:10 without you alive and well and at our sides.
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06:01 Oh my God, my lady is not,
06:21 she's not disabled.
06:26 I guess they did think about this.
06:28 Oh, that's interesting,
06:32 'cause I walked in here before
06:33 and I thought she was disabled because she was possessed.
06:37 Well, this isn't nearly as much of a failure
06:39 as I thought it'd be.
06:40 (upbeat music)
06:43 (upbeat music)
06:57 (upbeat music)
07:00 All right, this guy.
07:02 So I need the ninja.
07:06 She's really a cleric.
07:09 God, they dress her up as a frigging ninja.
07:10 I keep forgetting, that's what ticked me off so much.
07:14 She's dressed up as a ninja, but not a thief.
07:16 Instead, the woman who's like a bard is a freaking thief,
07:20 except I need a thief.
07:21 I don't think I want this guy,
07:23 but I'm gonna save and I'm gonna figure it out.
07:26 (upbeat music)
07:28 All right, reading all of them, one through four.
07:37 One, friend, I must ask you,
07:39 what are you about on this dark artery beneath the Ivalice?
07:43 Two, if we may be so bold as to ask,
07:46 in your travels in these caverns,
07:48 have you encountered anything unusual?
07:51 Three, whatever your reason to journey alone
07:53 in these caverns shows great courage.
07:55 Will you join us?
07:57 Four, sir, no.
07:59 Oh no, do you know your way about these caverns?
08:01 Okay, so,
08:02 I won't spoil it for you.
08:08 I just remembered who this guy is.
08:10 I think no matter what, he forces us to take him.
08:15 I may be wrong though.
08:17 - Because so few dare to venture here
08:22 does not make us friends.
08:24 I am neither your friend nor your enemy,
08:27 but I may be willing to bargain.
08:30 You see, I know you or know of you.
08:33 I share your goals.
08:34 You can, as it were, trust me.
08:37 As we wander these caverns together,
08:40 you will come to know me as a man of constant resolution,
08:44 one well suited to become your partner.
08:52 The existence of the caverns themselves
08:55 lying beneath the dark Iblis is unusual.
08:58 For my part, I am seeking a portal of sorts
09:01 rumored to exist.
09:03 Thieves may use it to travel between Ravenloft
09:05 and a kingdom known as Elterel.
09:08 If true, their back and forth wanderings
09:11 bring untaxed wealth into the land.
09:14 As an agent of the Burgomaster,
09:15 I must join your band to assure that you are not so engaged.
09:19 (dramatic music)
09:22 Your courage, too, has not gone unnoticed.
09:27 At first I believed you a thief or worse,
09:31 but your manner reveals otherwise.
09:33 It is well that I have met you,
09:35 and perhaps as we travel together,
09:36 our separate purposes will become one.
09:39 We can talk and learn much of one another's plans.
09:43 (dramatic music)
09:45 (dramatic music)
09:48 Strange to say, but I've enjoyed
10:04 our restless wandering time together.
10:07 Perhaps we'll meet again and continue the adventure.
10:10 But for today, enough will be enough.
10:12 Should you need me again, come to Barovia
10:14 and look for whatever place I've found to call my home.
10:17 (dramatic music)
10:25 (dramatic music)
10:39 (dramatic music)
10:42 (dramatic music)
10:46 (dramatic music)
10:48 (dramatic music)
10:58 (dramatic music)
11:08 (dramatic music)
11:11 (dramatic music)
11:24 Let me see if I can stop him from getting in my group.
11:37 (dramatic music)
11:40 The existence of the caverns themselves,
11:49 because...
11:50 One might as well toss coins into Lake Zarovich
11:56 and speak freely in this harsh, unblinking world of ours.
12:00 Still, having met you here,
12:02 there may be some good we can do for one another.
12:05 I posit you this case.
12:07 Allow this stranger you've met in the caverns to join you,
12:11 under close watch if necessary,
12:13 and I will reveal my knowledge when it seems profitable.
12:16 I insist.
12:18 (dramatic music)
12:23 Yeah, no matter what, he has to join up.
12:33 Oh, it kills me I don't have a thief in my party.
12:35 This means I can't skip any doors.
12:39 All right, let's go.
12:41 Your courage, too, has not gone unnoticed.
12:48 At first I believed you a thief, or worse,
12:51 but your manner reveals otherwise.
12:54 It is well that I have met you,
12:55 and perhaps as we travel together,
12:57 our separate purposes will become one.
13:00 We can talk and learn much of one another's plans.
13:03 Strange to say, but I--
13:11 (thunder rumbling)
13:15 (alarm blaring)
13:18 (thunder rumbling)
13:27 (dramatic music)
13:29 (alarm blaring)
13:32 (thunder rumbling)
13:41 (thunder rumbling)
13:54 (alarm blaring)
13:58 (alarm blaring)
14:01 (thunder rumbling)
14:06 (alarm blaring)
14:15 (thunder rumbling)
14:18 (alarm blaring)
14:28 (dramatic music)
14:31 (thunder rumbling)
14:35 (alarm blaring)
14:39 (thunder rumbling)
14:57 And that, my friends, is why you want a thief,
14:59 to disarm all the freaking traps that are everywhere.
15:02 (dramatic music)
15:04 (thunder rumbling)
15:07 (alarm blaring)
15:19 (dramatic music)
15:25 (alarm blaring)
15:28 (dramatic music)
15:34 (alarm blaring)
15:39 (alarm blaring)
15:46 (dramatic music)
15:51 (alarm blaring)
15:53 (alarm blaring)
15:59 Did you see that?
16:12 The freaking key?
16:14 That's why I want my thief.
16:16 (dramatic music)
16:20 (alarm blaring)
16:23 (dramatic music)
16:41 (alarm blaring)
16:49 (dramatic music)
16:51 (alarm blaring)
16:56 (alarm blaring)
17:07 (alarm blaring)
17:11 (alarm blaring)
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17:25 (alarm blaring)
17:27 (dramatic music)
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17:41 (dramatic music)
18:09 (dramatic music)
18:12 (dramatic music)
18:17 (dramatic music)
18:20 (dramatic music)
18:34 (dramatic music)
18:37 All right, so you guys get what's going on here.
19:04 I think I'll show you a bone golem
19:06 when I finally come up across him.
19:08 'Cause right now it's just skeletons.
19:16 So yeah, jump cuts coming up because I'm gonna pause it.
19:22 There's a lot of, I have to search all the things.
19:25 I know that I'm missing some.
19:27 Oh, the door's down there.
19:28 That's right, door.
19:33 And I need a key or a thief.
19:37 I wonder if I could come back in with a thief.
19:41 I don't think I've ever tried.
19:43 But yeah, so you get the idea of how this is laid out
19:47 and it's just not fun.
19:49 So I'm gonna go ahead and jump cut as I go through this
19:53 and see you soon.
19:55 All right, all right, all right.
20:02 Time to show you where I am.
20:04 I'm in the upper right-hand corner.
20:08 And as you can see, I've been through a lot of places.
20:11 There are all sorts of doors.
20:13 I'm like a third of the way through this dungeon.
20:16 I've been playing for an hour since,
20:20 or half an hour, easily since I paused the video.
20:24 So yeah, jump cut.
20:25 And there is a mage journal that you can read
20:31 mage journal that you pick up up here.
20:33 So, and the dagger of throwing.
20:38 So,
20:39 let's read what the mage journal has to say.
20:49 Ah, Ravenloft, she who clutches her children so tightly,
20:57 none may ever leave the dread shadow of her skies.
21:00 No, allow me to take back those words.
21:03 You know what?
21:05 Let me go ahead and play the background music while I read it.
21:08 Ah, Ravenloft, she who clutches her children so tightly,
21:14 none may ever leave the dread shadow of her skies.
21:17 No, allow me to take back those words.
21:20 For seeing them in writing,
21:21 I know that they are but bitter reminders
21:24 of my own failures.
21:27 To be sure, Ravenloft is difficult to escape.
21:30 Few portals exist.
21:32 Of that I remain convinced.
21:34 Exits, as uncommon as the one-way gates
21:38 which sometimes mirror newcomers to a land.
21:42 I once slew a were-raven beneath the full moon
21:45 of a certain month,
21:46 but the shining hollow circle which appeared
21:48 lay before me at the pinnacle of a rocky crag.
21:52 By the time I had climbed the distance, it had vanished.
21:56 Yeah, actually, you know what?
21:57 You committed, essentially,
22:00 you committed a curseable act,
22:02 which is why you will never escape Ravenloft.
22:05 By the time I climbed the distance, it had vanished.
22:09 It opened once, then disappeared forever.
22:11 Many another ritual, including gifts of blood,
22:15 have sputtered and failed in the same manner,
22:18 leaving me bitter,
22:20 but with enough heart to continue my fevered journey.
22:22 Is it fevered?
22:25 Fevered.
22:27 Fevered search.
22:27 Lifting the curse of Albion.
22:31 Acquiring Trimia's catalog of outer-plane artifacts.
22:37 Finding the date of the great alignment of southern stars.
22:41 Which of these, my future schemes, hold the most promise?
22:45 I'm pretty sure this is actually Strads.
22:49 Dead thing.
22:51 I don't know, maybe I'm wrong.
22:53 All right, so,
22:55 wanted to read that to ya.
22:59 And now that I've read it to you,
23:02 I've still got quite a bit to go
23:04 and several doors to unlock and open.
23:07 Oh, God, I wish I had my thief with me.
23:13 Next time, just gonna make a thief.
23:16 All right, let's keep going.
23:18 All right, all right, all right.
23:20 See this thing in my mouse?
23:22 That's the key.
23:24 And the key was found right here.
23:27 So pick up the key.
23:31 And I'm going to have to try and figure out
23:34 if there's an order to open the doors.
23:39 And I'll know in just a minute.
23:40 So yeah, pausing the game again.
23:42 All right, jump cut.
23:45 All right, now you guys may see on this map
23:49 that I have T1 and T2.
23:50 No, those are not abbreviations for the Terminator movie.
23:54 I hit a teleport and I didn't want to.
23:59 I'm now getting into Bone Golem territory.
24:05 I'll be hitting it pretty soon.
24:07 I'm not sure.
24:08 They might hold off on the Bone Golems
24:10 until I have to make my way back to the Iblis Caves
24:13 at the end of the game.
24:15 I hope that's the truth.
24:17 Either way, I need to get out of where I am now.
24:21 And I think I actually hit a teleport before,
24:23 but it was like from one room to another
24:25 and I didn't notice it until after I'd already moved.
24:29 So yeah, let's pause again and keep going.
24:33 And I died.
24:36 Damn it.
24:38 Well, time to load a save game
24:45 and get back to this spot.
24:46 Oh God, I don't even know when the last I saved.
24:52 I don't think it was too far ago.
24:54 Let me see where I saved.
24:56 Let me see where I am.
24:57 Over here, let's see where I saved.
25:03 Load.
25:05 Shtonic Camp, Auto Map.
25:09 That's not too far behind.
25:12 I already have my key.
25:13 So yeah, I think I'm going to go ahead and
25:19 try to open that one door.
25:21 (laughs)
25:22 I'm gonna see if it takes my key.
25:24 Might as well see it while I'm recording.
25:26 And by the way, what killed me was the lightning bolt.
25:34 Oh good, you keep the key.
25:35 All right, might as well check here.
25:38 (siren blaring)
25:41 Oh, I'm not sure what that was.
25:47 I'm not sure what that was.
25:49 I'm not sure what that was.
25:50 I'm not sure what that was.
25:52 I'm not sure what that was.
25:53 I'm not sure what that was.
25:54 I'm not sure what that was.
25:56 I'm not sure what that was.
25:56 I'm not sure what that was.
25:57 I'm not sure what that was.
25:58 I'm not sure what that was.
25:59 I'm not sure what that was.
26:00 I'm not sure what that was.
26:01 I'm not sure what that was.
26:01 I'm not sure what that was.
26:02 I'm not sure what that was.
26:03 I'm not sure what that was.
26:04 I'm not sure what that was.
26:05 I'm not sure what that was.
26:06 I'm not sure what that was.
26:06 I'm not sure what that was.
26:07 I'm not sure what that was.
26:08 I'm not sure what that was.
26:09 I'm not sure what that was.
26:10 I'm not sure what that was.
26:11 I'm not sure what that was.
26:12 I'm not sure what that was.
26:12 I'm not sure what that was.
26:13 I'm not sure what that was.
26:14 I'm not sure what that was.
26:15 I'm not sure what that was.
26:16 I'm not sure what that was.
26:17 I'm not sure what that was.
26:17 I'm not sure what that was.
26:18 I'm not sure what that was.
26:19 I'm not sure what that was.
26:20 I'm not sure what that was.
26:21 (alarm blaring)
26:23 I'm gonna call this T2 since I already had T1 up there.
26:28 You know what?
26:39 I think I mistyped the other ones.
26:41 I put T1 and T1.
26:42 Oh wait, no, that's right.
26:44 Oh God.
26:46 How should I do this?
26:47 T1.
26:51 (alarm blaring)
26:54 How should I do this?
26:55 Because I need to make sure there's,
26:58 where you go into one, you come out the other.
27:00 I need to identify it.
27:02 So maybe.
27:04 Let's see here.
27:08 What code should I use?
27:10 What notation?
27:18 T1, T2 for E2.
27:23 Teleport for exit.
27:25 How about that?
27:26 And I'll write it down.
27:28 T is teleport, E is for where you end up.
27:42 So let's go ahead and fix that.
27:44 (computer mouse clicking)
27:48 All right.
27:58 Time to pause and just look around.
28:03 Jump cut.
28:06 Okay, so you guys may have noticed that there,
28:08 I do have a couple of raised dead scrolls.
28:12 I don't use them because when you do, you lose your stats.
28:16 These are all Dungeons and Dragons rules.
28:18 It's not like, it's not like World of Warcraft
28:21 where you're raising people from the dead
28:23 every 10 freaking seconds.
28:25 Actually, that was the original live request.
28:29 No, but you lose stats permanently
28:32 and it's just not worth it.
28:33 So that's why I don't use them.
28:35 All right, pausing again.
28:39 All right, all right, all right.
28:41 Jump cut, as you can see, as you can plainly see,
28:45 I am now way, I'm way over here.
28:48 Let me turn off the text.
28:50 I'm way over here.
28:52 I was over here.
28:53 I went there to search and it teleported me.
28:57 This is why I hate the caves of the Iblis.
29:01 You make progress and you're randomly teleported
29:04 all over the place.
29:05 Sometimes you're teleported right into a bunch of skeletons,
29:07 which is what happened last time.
29:08 I just didn't show you.
29:10 Yeah, this is why I'm not recording it.
29:13 And if you wonder, if you say,
29:16 well, Kevin, why don't you record
29:18 the whole adventure in the caves?
29:19 We might miss something.
29:21 Seriously, just make a good map or use my map.
29:26 I'll provide my maps for download through a Google Drive.
29:29 But yeah, it's,
29:34 there is no reason to skip any enemies,
29:40 because you need all the experience points you can get
29:43 in order to face Strad.
29:45 And you need all the experience points you can get
29:48 when you transfer your characters over to the Stone Prophet.
29:51 And yes, you will be wanting to transfer your characters
29:54 over to the Stone Prophet,
29:55 because if you start out from the,
29:57 from your weakest,
30:01 if you start out new in Stone Prophet,
30:03 you're gonna have a real bad time
30:05 trying to fight the mummies.
30:07 So yeah, you have to go through this dungeon crawl anyway,
30:12 and it's just not fun to watch.
30:15 So I'm going to go ahead and now that I'm over here,
30:18 I guess I'm going to visit that door down there,
30:23 because there's a key down there, a keyhole, I believe.
30:29 Yeah, and I'm going to go test that out.
30:33 And then I'll, I mean, I'm just going to keep doing stuff.
30:38 Jump cut.
30:39 Oh, so the key doesn't work.
30:41 It's for a different keyhole.
30:43 Great. Oh, that's right.
30:45 They have the stupid little different keys.
30:47 Oh God, this is why I use a thief.
30:51 Ah, God. Anyway, jump cut over.
30:53 Okay, all right.
30:55 This is one of the things I hate about the Ivalice,
30:58 another one that I hate about the Ivalice.
31:02 This, there's some of these illusionary walls.
31:06 They're actually shifting walls and not illusionary walls.
31:10 So they don't show up as purple like they should.
31:14 But look at this.
31:15 I'm going to show you,
31:16 and you will see it's purple.
31:22 It's temporarily purple right there.
31:29 So I'm going to say illusionary wall.
31:32 I think one map I went through
31:40 and I redid all of my notes into little tiny ones,
31:44 twos, threes, fours, and I just numbered the whole thing.
31:47 But when you print them out and save them,
31:50 they already automatically just give you numbers on them.
31:55 Yeah, so that's, that's fun.
32:00 That's just fun.
32:01 Let me tell you that much.
32:02 So yeah, jump cut over.
32:06 Jump cut.
32:09 Okay, so the, you see something on here
32:14 called lightning trap plates.
32:16 It's like throughout that entire section,
32:18 you just walk past it and it trips lightning bolts.
32:22 And I've been killed four times now
32:25 because I wasn't smart enough to avoid them.
32:28 So yeah, I knew they were there and I kept screwing up.
32:33 Anyway, they only trigger the lightning when you move.
32:37 And I kept moving like a fool.
32:40 Anyway, jump cut.
32:45 All right, I told you I'd let you see a bone golem.
32:48 Here they are.
32:50 And they are pains in the butt.
32:52 (upbeat music)
32:55 See, they killed my guy off real quick.
33:04 (groans)
33:07 That's what they do.
33:08 And now to figure out where rope four leads.
33:16 (laughs)
33:18 Rope four and rope five do things
33:25 and I'm not sure what they do.
33:27 (upbeat music)
33:35 (upbeat music)
33:38 But yeah, gonna pause again.
33:56 You know what, I'm gonna show you
33:57 how I killed these bone golems.
33:59 I let them walk back and forth
34:01 because their AI gets stuck.
34:04 And I just hit them from afar.
34:07 (laughs)
34:09 Don't just wait to,
34:11 you have to do that with the vampires and the lights too.
34:14 Jump cut.
34:18 Hey guys, remember when like two hours ago
34:22 or 10 minutes ago, I put this key down,
34:26 for you guys, it was 10 minutes ago.
34:28 I put this key down here
34:29 'cause I thought I didn't need anymore.
34:31 I need it.
34:33 (laughs)
34:34 I need it for this door
34:38 all the way over,
34:41 over here.
34:45 I need it for all the way over there.
34:47 So yeah, I should probably mark them key one and key two.
34:51 K1 and, you know, K1,
34:54 KH1 and D1 for keyhole and whatever.
35:01 So I'm gonna go ahead and do that now.
35:03 Jump cut.
35:05 All right, everyone, jump cut.
35:06 Okay, so here I am and you will see me.
35:11 I'm right here.
35:12 As you see, I've spent another hour
35:14 trying to forge my way here.
35:16 And it was that long.
35:18 It's just, I know people can speed run this,
35:21 but God, anyway, it was just,
35:25 it's been a trudge this afternoon.
35:27 Let me mute that.
35:30 So this is where you get the vestibule key,
35:33 the church key,
35:34 and I'm gonna go ahead and give it to them.
35:37 And jump cut again.
35:40 All right, all right, all right.
35:42 So right by that area,
35:44 she says, "Stop, here it is.
35:47 "I told you I would recognize the door
35:49 "to where the portal lies.
35:51 "Now I'll open it,
35:52 "and with the grace of the gods, we'll be on our way."
35:55 So all of this happens right near the last place
36:00 that I jump cutted.
36:03 I just had to do some searching.
36:05 And so we're right here in the middle of the area
36:09 where the portal is.
36:11 And this is nothing,
36:13 it's a circular thing going all the way around.
36:16 And it's nothing but bone golems.
36:22 So I'm gonna go ahead and pause again,
36:24 but I wanted to read that to you.
36:26 The portal is in the center,
36:27 and I need to figure out if I can ever open those doors.
36:31 I know there's,
36:32 I'm pretty sure those doors open for the real portal.
36:36 And this is going to be the fake portal.
36:39 So yeah, so this is what's going on,
36:42 and I'm gonna go ahead and save and quit out.
36:45 Or not quit out,
36:49 I mean, continue on and whatever.
36:53 Anyway, I'm just babbling at this point.
36:56 (laughs)
36:57 It is, I've been streaming now for five hours,
37:00 and three of those hours have been this 40 minute recording.
37:04 So jump cut, jump cut again.
37:08 And you see there is,
37:09 there are a bunch of,
37:10 there are a bunch of illusionary walls.
37:14 So that's the new jump cut right here,
37:16 illusionary walls everywhere.
37:18 Jump cut, all right.
37:22 So I cleared this area,
37:24 there was only one bone golem.
37:25 I swear I remember there being more than that.
37:30 Then again, there are five bone golems
37:32 you fight throughout the thing.
37:33 Maybe it was just my,
37:35 the pain of fighting those bone golems
37:37 when I went through a couple of those,
37:39 couple of times before.
37:41 I'm 99% certain that that is the end of the game hole.
37:45 You know, you go there,
37:47 the doors actually open.
37:48 To my knowledge,
37:51 there is no way to open those two doors early on.
37:55 I can always go back and check at some point.
37:58 So this is the filled out area.
38:01 You see a lot of the,
38:02 this was a long time mapping and going through,
38:06 and of course, phone interruptions.
38:08 I dumped all of my equipment at the beginning.
38:11 So this is the start.
38:13 And so I'm going to save now,
38:20 and I'm going to enter through the portal,
38:22 and I'm going to go back.
38:24 I won't record it,
38:24 but I'm going to go back and grab all my stuff
38:26 because there's a lot of stuff here.
38:28 You basically have to go in,
38:29 see, look at how full my inventory is.
38:32 I am not using any of the,
38:36 I'm not using any of my potions
38:39 because you desperately need them
38:41 when you go in fight Strad.
38:44 It's almost impossible to rest.
38:45 Same with the cemetery,
38:46 you wind up having to suck up,
38:48 suck down potions,
38:49 and that takes up a ton of inventory space.
38:51 So this is what I've got so far.
38:54 And all those keys,
38:57 I'm going to drop them off at the beginning.
38:59 You know, I like to,
39:00 you know, little role play head cannon
39:03 is that somebody else is going to go into these caverns.
39:05 You might as well give them keys to start out with.
39:08 Then again, the mists and the lambs
39:11 may move the keys on their own.
39:14 So this is what I'm doing right now.
39:17 And let's go ahead and get on through.
39:22 Let me save again.
39:24 That way, if I can't get back inside the caverns,
39:27 I'm going to recover my save,
39:30 get my stuff and you know, whatever.
39:32 So this is what's going to happen.
39:36 Let me turn on the music and mute me.
39:37 (soft music)
39:40 (soft music)
39:42 And that's what happens.
39:54 He's gone.
39:55 That rascal gained our confidence
39:56 and vanished without leaving so much a football fall
39:58 on this side of the portal.
39:59 By the gods, look around.
40:01 I'd say this is no further from where we started
40:03 that we could have walked in a sullen mile.
40:08 Then all the stuff is dropped.
40:11 Oh, and I got to kill these bats.
40:12 (soft music)
40:15 And I'm going to go ahead and...
40:20 (soft music)
40:22 Worthless ninja girl, not even a thief.
40:28 I'm going to go ahead and grab the wizard and go back in.
40:33 That's what I'm doing.
40:34 (soft music)
40:38 And so let me grab the wizard real quick.
40:41 Yeah, yeah, yeah.
40:43 Grab the wizard.
40:46 - Of course you are after all not here.
40:55 - We've already heard that.
40:59 And I'm going to exit.
41:06 (clattering)
41:08 I'm going to run back.
41:10 I'm going to see if I can get back in.
41:12 I'm pretty sure I can.
41:14 Yes, I can.
41:20 And here's all my stuff.
41:23 So I'm going to go ahead and end the video there.
41:24 It's 41 minutes.
41:26 I hope you guys have enjoyed the video.
41:28 And yeah, I cut a bunch of stuff out.
41:31 (laughs)
41:32 I cut a bunch of stuff out.
41:34 It's boring.
41:35 It looks like this.
41:37 It's a slog.
41:38 I mean, it's boring to watch.
41:41 It's somewhat boring to play.
41:43 You know, I spent five hours.
41:47 So obviously it wasn't too boring for me.
41:52 I mean, I do enjoy this game,
41:55 but I mean, not five hours in here.
41:58 I think it's been four hours in here,
42:00 maybe three and a half.
42:02 And you've got a 42 minute video
42:04 and I cut a bunch of stuff out.
42:06 So yeah, this is...
42:09 Obviously you're going to see the live version
42:15 of this recording.
42:16 I'm going to go ahead and stick it in.
42:18 And...
42:20 Spell's already in the spell book.
42:25 Oh, the key.
42:28 I'll go ahead and drop that outside.
42:30 Cure light wounds.
42:33 See, I got a lot.
42:34 You know what really kills me?
42:36 All right, knock, smell, scribed.
42:39 I'll tell you what really kills me about this.
42:42 There are tons of cleric scrolls of raised dead,
42:47 which you just don't ever want to use
42:50 'cause it screws you over and cure disease.
42:56 There's no disease to be cured.
43:01 For sure, well, I guess there are in the...
43:04 You see, I guess you can get some diseases in the cemetery,
43:10 but yeah, it's like, why even bother?
43:18 Just don't do that.
43:22 I mean, if you don't have a cleric in your group
43:24 and you're playing this game,
43:26 you're setting yourself up for failure.
43:28 That's just a fact.
43:30 You need a cleric.
43:32 And if you have a cleric,
43:34 even the worst cleric NPC in this game,
43:37 even the worst one has cure disease.
43:43 So I don't understand why anybody would want those scrolls.
43:48 They're useless.
43:54 All of the yellow dots you see on this map,
43:58 they are just like useless trash.
44:01 And unlike other role-playing games,
44:03 you cannot sell trash items
44:08 because, I mean, nobody has any money in Ravenloft,
44:12 first of all, which is a little bit more
44:15 of an accurate gameplay, if you think about it, than most.
44:20 And I mean, I guess you would need a cure disease
44:25 in case your cleric got sick.
44:29 So I guess I could see that.
44:31 But yeah, cause critical wounds, that's almost useless.
44:38 A lot of these cleric spells just are not...
44:41 They're just not that useful
44:46 because of the difficulty it is in using spells.
44:49 You have to equip it first.
44:51 You have to make sure you've got it going in the right...
44:56 In the right way, I guess.
44:58 Oh yeah, I need that one.
45:01 I mean, I don't know.
45:04 You have to grab the scroll out of your inventory.
45:07 You have to put them in his hand
45:08 and you have to attack him and it's real-time combat.
45:11 So it's incredibly frustrating.
45:13 But let me make sure here.
45:16 Auto-map.
45:19 Oh yeah, I get dumped off over there.
45:24 And so I'm gonna go ahead and finish.
45:29 I think I'm just gonna finish here.
45:31 But yeah, that's basically it.
45:35 Oh, that's nice.
45:39 Oh, that's nice.
45:41 I like...
45:42 That guy, by the way, is Strat.
45:44 So...
45:52 I just...
45:53 I mean, he was Strat.
45:55 You sort of find that out, I think.
45:58 But yeah, it's...
46:03 It's fun.
46:08 Anyway, so that's it for today.
46:11 Thank you for hanging out with me
46:13 and thank you for watching the video.
46:15 Don't forget to like, share, comment, subscribe,
46:18 and click the little bell thingy.
46:20 And I'll go ahead and I'll end this right now.
46:23 Looks like there's some music in game.
46:25 And I'll turn on the music
46:27 and I'll finish my inventory stuff
46:29 after I turn off the video.
46:31 So take care.
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