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Commander Breakbone

Commander Breakbone was in charge of Camp Vengeance in the jungles of Chult. He was an unpleasant and under-qualified leader. The Wafflecrew took an instant dislike to him.

The group learned eventually that Breakbone is afraid of frogs.  Diath was able to to stir up Breakbone's fear of frogs enough to keep him away from the grung tribe that they had been attacking.

1. ↑ Episode 67
2. ↑ Episode 68
3. ↑ Episode 70
Hunter

**Hunter** is one of the classes in Realm Royale. She specializes in mid to long range combat.

## General Information

### Weapons

The Hunter Class has access to the following class weapons:

### Class Abilities

The Hunter Class has access to the following class abilities:

#### Combat Abilities

Details

* Cooldown: 19/18/16/14 Seconds
* Damage: 250/325/425/550 Health
* Enemy Knockback: 1000
* Self Knockback: 400

Details

* Cooldown: 10.5/9.5/8.5/7.5 Seconds

Details

* Cooldown: 24/23/22/21 Seconds
* Duration: 5s
* Radius: 45/60/75/90 Meters

Details

* Cooldown: 22/21/19/17 Seconds
* Damage: 200/250/300/350 Health
* Enemy Knockback: 550/700/850/1000
* Slow: 30%
* Slow Duration: 1.5/2/2.5/3 Seconds

#### Movement Ability

Details

* Cooldown: 16/15/14/13 Seconds

### Talents

The Hunter Class has can be customized with following Talents:

## Skins

* Default
* Twilight Huntress
* Pirate Queen
* Cyber Rider
* Night Stalker
* Realm Ops
* Succubus
* Hilda the Huntress
* Technician
* Ember Elf

 Voice Pack

 Voice Pack

* Tier 1
* Tier 2
* Tier 3
* Tier 4

* Tier 1
* Tier 2

 Voice Pack

* Tier 1
* Tier 2
* Tier 3
* Tier 4

 Voice Pack

## Gallery

* Possible Mage, Assassin, and/or Hunter Concepts Class exploration
Dusk elf

Dusk elves have dark skin and hair, but otherwise they are similar to wood elves. The vistani keep an eye on the dusk elves for Strahd, who killed all the female dusk elves 400 years ago. The last male dusk elves are dying out.

The dusk elves are led by Kasimir, who is burdened by dreams sent to him by his dead sister Patrina.
Mother Night

It is said that there are only two deities with influence in Barovia: The Morninglord and Mother Night. She is worshiped by the werewolves.

It is said that Mother has forsaken the Barovian people and has sent the devil Strahd to punish them for the offenses of their ancestors.

1. ↑ Curse of Strahd page 26
Artus Cimber

Artus Cimber is an adventurer who wore the ring of winter for many years. The Wafflecrew found him in Kronenheim. They destroyed his ice vulture and told him to hand over the ring of winter.Artus turned the white dragon Isohedrus into an ice statue.

In Port Nyanzaru, Artus befriended an agent of the Order of the Gauntlet and convinced the group to go to Camp Vengeance.  After helping the group fight off some Zhentarim assassins, Artus introduced the group to his friend, Dragonbait. Artus succumbed to the evil of the ring and attacked the waffle crew while they were investigating a crashed airship. The group killed Artus, whose soul entered the Soulmonger. Paultin used Handrew to take the ring of winter from his corpse.

1. ↑ Episode 60
2. ↑ Episode 62
3. ↑ Episode 63
4. ↑ Episode 72
Esvele Rosznar

Esvele is a character played by guest star VividVivka. Her parents are Valen (deceased) and Valencia. The Rosznar family, former smugglers and slave-traders, are in Waterdeep trying to redeem their family name.

The outer skin of the Strahd doll was found in her home. How it came to be there is unknown. Esvele had approached the Waffle Crew at their home, hoping that they could help her enter the vault of dragons, where the hidden 500,000 gold pieces were kept.

It became apparent to the heroes that Esvele sometimes operates as a masked viglante known as the Black Viper.

During a battle with Strahd at the estate of Lady Margaster, the Black Viper took some items from Strix, believed to be magical keys that could open the Vault of Dragons.

She showed up at the home of the Waffle Crew and subdued the Chicken Foot Coven, and then got into a chaotic melee with the crew, two drow, and a Zhent sniper.

1. ↑ Episode 114
2. ↑ Episode 114
3. ↑ Episode 115
4. ↑ Episode 133
Eighteen

Eighteen was a racing triceratops acquired during Strix's time in Chult with Acquisitions Incorporated.

When the Wafflecrew found Eighteen in the jungle near Omu, having been aged backwards into a baby dinosaur, they quickly adopted it (much to Diath's chagrin.) Waffles was notably jealous of the new addition.

Episodes:

1. ↑ Enter the Trash Witch
2. ↑ Episode 77
Beucephalus

Beucephalus is a nightmare, which is a horse with flaming hooves that can fly. Beucephalus is Strahd's mount, and is sometimes known as "Beucephalus the Wonder Horse".

When the group traveled into Barovia's past, Beucephalus was a normal horse. When Strahd rode Beucephalus, chasing the carriage, Murderbot tried to kill it with a dart, but was unsuccessful. Strix shot a *fire bolt* at the horse, but the dark powers used the magical flame to transform it into a nightmare.

1. ↑ Episode 57
2. ↑ Episode 58
Nathan Sharp

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**Nathan Sharp**, aka NateWantsToBattle, is an American voice actor, musician and gaming commentator best known for his gaming and anime music videos, from popular songs about video games to unique covers of existing video game tracks to performing anime openings in English. You may also know him as the voice of Pronto from Heroes Never Lose and Link from Zelda Universe Presents Skyward Sword the Movie. Nate is playing Paultin Seppa, a human bard.

## D&D Shows

Dark and Dicey: Nate is a player on this show, which premiered on May 14th at 7 PM on the D&D Twitch channel. He plays Pluck, a druid.

## Social Media

* Twitter
* Facebook
* Youtube
* http://www.nathansharponline.com/

1. ↑ [1]
Orolunga

Orolunga is a ziggurat in the jungle of Chult. Legend has it that an oracle dwells here. The waffle crew was told about this place by a mysterious man in Port Nyanzaru.  The waffle crew arrived at Orolunga and were able to figure out how to ascend the magical steps of the ziggurat. Once inside, they met with the oracle, who told the group how to get to Omu and that they should focus on killing Ras Nsi.

1. ↑ Episode 62
2. ↑ Episode 71
Episode 100d

This is the fourth part of the special Acq, Inc. crossover Episode 100 of Dice, Camera, Action.

## Summary

### Waffles, Incorporated part 4

#### The Party

(Kate) Rosie Beestinger - Halfling Monk

(Kris) K'thriss - Drow Warlock

(Holly) Strix - Tiefling Sorcerer

(ProJared) Diath - Human Rogue

The DM for this session is Jerry Holkins.

#### Into the Mists

The group decides they're going to have to go into the mists. They grab some torches and they tie a rope that connects all of them.

They step out and this realm that they are in is not too similar to Barovia. This looks like a cold, moonlit, Waterdeep.

It doesn't have anything, just the most prominent locales in Waterdeep.

Creatures swoop down and attack. Rosie strikes and stuns both of them. Kthriss hits them with dissonant whispers, which injures them and causes them to flee.

Diath draws Gutter and stabs one of the hideous entities. They're Shambling Mounds.

Nearby, the group senses somebody watching.

The heroes continue to pummel the creatures. Strix busts out *Toll the Dead*.

There is a woman with a silver sickle. She jumps onto one of the creatures and hacks into it.

Once the battle is over, Strix heals the mystery woman. She's a vistani. She recommends that the group get in her cart and go into her cart.

#### Lashka

She is dressed for a wedding - an old vistani wedding.

The carriage heads to a clearing. Light seems to cling to the edge of it. She asks if the group knows about the wedding ritual. K'thriss knows that that even in modern vistani weddings - lovers are always in great peril.

Lashka and vadir are always close but never touching. Always together. They seek creatures in torment because they think they've found the other. They draw them in, play with them for a time, and cast them aside.

The mists are behind them. Beyond is a star field. There he is.. my love Vadir. He'll never find me. But look at his plan. He'll engulf the entire plane. And then we'll be together.

She sees something and pulls out a tarokka deck. This was to be our time. All of reality was to be ours. We will not consume you today. We can't lay claim to the prime material today. Please take care of my universe.

Cold air begins to rise from the ground. Waffles and Simon fall. Around them is a walled city. A castle keep high up and back, to the right. As they come into contact with the ground.. demons and devils have begun to tear each other apart.
Camp Vengeance

Camp Vengeance is a fort in the jungle of Chult established by the Order of the Gauntlet. Artus Cimber and the waffle crew were asked to go visit the camp and help them deal with some problems.  Once the heroes arrived at Camp Vengeance, they were asked to investigate a tribe of grung, who had been attacking the camp.  When the waffle crew returned to the camp, it was under attack by a horde of undead. The group got ambushed by planar assailants and were pulled into a portal, but they were able to get back out.

## Denizens

Commander Breakbone: The leader.

Ord Firebeard: A dwarf lieutenant.

Umbril: Half-orc cleric of Torm.

Lorsa and Wolf: They were captured by the grung and freed by the waffle crew.

1. ↑ Episode 62
2. ↑ Episode 67
3. ↑ Episode 69
4. ↑ Episode 68
Ismark

Ismark is the brother of Ireena, and the de facto Burgomaster of Barovia after the death of their father. He met the Wafflecrew and introduced them to his sister, and pleaded with them that they help him get his sister away from Barovia, to safety.

He accompanied the Wafflecrew for a time, until the events of Old Bonegrinder. After the battle with the hags, Ismark accompanied the stolen children back to Barovia, ensuring the Wafflecrew that he would keep them safe.

1. ↑ Episode 2
2. ↑ Episode 5
Halruaan Force Bomb

The Halruaan Force Bomb is a magical item created by the Halruaan people. When it explodes, it does so with the force of 10,000 *Magic Missile* spells. This is enough to level a city.

The Wafflecrew found the bomb, a black egg-shaped device with a glass window, in the wreckage of the Star Goddess after their fight with Artus Cimber. The bomb was in a well-made chest protected by a *Glyph of Warding*, presumably to avoid the bomb being disturbed, or any jostling that might cause it to explode. Diath opened the chest and took the "egg", at the time not knowing what its capabilities were.

Some time later, the group investigated the "egg" further and discovered its true power, much to their chagrin.

After the nightmarish events of Episode 79, the bomb was triggered and began to count down. After much panicking, Diath managed to stop the countdown by inserting one of his magical keys into the bomb's keyhole.

The key remained in the bomb until Episode 92. When the Wafflecrew attempted to barter with Aremag in order to leave Chult, things escalated, and Diath eventually removed the key from the bomb and cast it into the dragon's mouth. Aremag submerged himself before the bomb exploded. The shockwave was felt as far as Port Nyanzaru itself, but the boat and the Wafflecrew were relatively unharmed, riding the shockwave out to sea. The bomb itself is presumed destroyed along with Evil Paultin and the Canaith Mandolin.

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Episode 77
2. ↑ Episode 72
3. ↑ Episode 80
Isohedrus

Isohedrus is an evil white dragon. The Wafflecrew had just escaped Barovia and were wandering in a blizzard. They spotted Isohedrus and took shelter in a lodge.

Much later, when the group came to the frost giant village of Kronenheim, they fought Isohedrus. Artus Cimber turned the dragon into an ice statue with *flesh to ice*.

1. ↑ Episode 32
2. ↑ Episode 60
Faerun

Faerûn (also spelled Faerun) is a large continent on the planet of Toril.

There are many cities along the west coast of Faerûn, known as the Sword Coast. These cities include Neverwinter in the north, then going south, Waterdeep, Daggerford, and Baldur's Gate.

The party visited Citadel Adbar in northeastern Faerûn after they escaped Barovia.
Marisiana

Marisiana is a shadar kai who lives in the Shadowfell. She collects faces. Marisiana befriended Paultin and wanted to help him kill the rest of the Wafflecrew.

She nearly killed Strix and took the Strahd doll from her.  Marisiana survived the battle and headed north with Miranda and Lavardo.

1. ↑ Episode 82
2. ↑ Episode 83
3. ↑ Episode 84
Acererak

Acererak is an ancient, undead villain who created the Tomb of the Nine Gods. When Diath asked Shemeshka about the death curse, she told him to learn everything he could about Acererak.

Strix found out where Acererak's Tomb of Annihilation was when she adventured with the Acquisitions, Inc. crew.  The oracle at Orolunga told the group that Acererak's phylactery is "not on this world."

1. ↑ Episode 53
2. ↑ Episode 61
3. ↑ Episode 71
Jim Darkmagic

Jim Darkmagic is an adventurer who is a member of Acquisitions, Inc. Strix did not get along with him when Omin Dran summoned her with an infernal contract.  The waffle crew obtained a *robe of the archmagi* and sold it to Acquisitions, inc, thinking that Jim could make use of it.

1. ↑ Episode 60
2. ↑ Episode 131
Lathander

Lathander, also known as The Morninglord, is a deity of creativity, dawn, renewal, birth, athletics, spring, self-perfection, vitality and youth. Evelyn is a devout follower of Lathander, and it has been strongly hinted that he has special plans for her. She caught a glimpse of him briefly when she died to help her friends fend off the death curse.  She visited his realm in the afterlife when she was slain by a balhannoth.

## Agents of Lathander

Rudolph van Richten

Saint Andral

Saint Markovia

Zaress

1. ↑ Episode 52
2. ↑ Episode 87
Izek Strazni

Izek Strazni is a brutish tiefling who worked for the insane Burgomaster of Vallaki. Izek had one normal arm and one huge, demonic arm.

Izek was the one who decided to hang Diath for committing murder in Vallaki. Izek eventually realized that Strix was his sister and he was overjoyed. Strix was afraid of him. He helped her escape Lady Wachter's basement.

When the group was in the black carriage riding through Vallaki, Izek jumped on the carriage and grabbed Diath with his demon arm. Paultin cast a *fear* spell on him, which forced Izek to run away.

Under orders from Lady Wachter, Izek brought the Strahd doll to Strix in the Shadowfell. Izek no longer had his demon arm and was less aggressive.

Episodes:

1. ↑ Episode 7
2. ↑ Episode 6
3. ↑ Episode 8
4. ↑ Episode 29
5. ↑ Episode 83
Dendar

Dendar the Night Serpent is a snake god trapped in a planar prison. Her goal is to escape her prison and eat the sun. She is worshiped primarily by yuan-ti. Wumba, the batiri goblin, is a devotee of hers as well.  When the waffle crew was traveling to Orolunga, they stepped on to holy ground of Dendar. A facsimile of Dendar appeared and attacked the group. Evelyn cast compelled duel and battled it one-on-one, but Dendar turned to mist before the battle could be resolved.  The oracle at Orolunga warned the group that Dendar wants to eat the sun.  While exploring the yuan-ti temple in Omu, the group came upon a large temple of Dendar.

#### Dendar's Nightmare

While in the temple, some of the waffle crew experienced strange nightmare journeys fueled by Dendar. Evelyn appeared in the tomb, Diath visited a strange version of Waterdeep where Fenthaza asked him to lead the yuan-ti, and Strix appeared in a maze with a person named "Ubtao".

1. ↑ Episode 66
2. ↑ Episode 70
3. ↑ Episode 71
4. ↑ Episode 77
5. ↑ Episode 78
Cranium rat

Cranium rats are psychic rodents with exposed brains who share a hivemind. Created by mind flayers, when they come together to form a swarm, they merge their minds into a single intelligence. Strix has a pet cranium rat named Stinky.

Cranium rat statistics can be found in *Volo's Guide to Monsters*, page 133.

Cranium rats first appeared in the Planescape setting. In the *Faction War* supplement, it is said that there are four different cranium rat hiveminds operating in Sigil. The most prominent of the hiveminds is known as "Many-as-One", or "The Us".
Jarlaxle Baenre

Jarlaxle Baenre is a flamboyant, swashbuckling drow iconoclast who leads a renegade drow faction called Bregan D'aerthe, which is made up of disenfranchised male drow. Jarlaxle convinced the group to make a special pie, which they fed to a critic. When the critic ate it, he died.

1. ↑ Waterdeep: Dragon Heist pg. 206
2. ↑ Episode 124
Klauth

Klauth is a red dragon with the ability to use wands. He was in contact with Xandala's crew, who were searching for the ring of winter on his behalf. While the group was on Xandala's airship with Artus Cimber, Klauth swooped down out of the sky and attacked.  The red dragon eventually caught up to the Wafflecrew in Omu, and attacked them.  During the battle, Klauth collapses a wall on the group. Paultin considers giving the ring to the dragon, but it had taken control of him and blocked the attempt.  Bag of Nails badly wounded Klauth by plowing into him with an airship and with an *arrow of dragon slaying*, forcing Klauth to flee.

1. ↑ Episode 60
2. ↑ Episode 61
3. ↑ Episode 74
4. ↑ Episode 75
5. ↑ Episode 76
Episode 22

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This is **Episode 22** part 1 of *Dice, Camera, Action*.

This is **Episode 22** part 2 of *Dice, Camera, Action*.

## Summary

### Episode 22 - Dead Meat

#### The Party

(Anna) Evelyn - Human Paladin of Lathander

(Holly) Strix - Tiefling Sorcerer

(Mark Hulmes) Ezmerelda - Vistana

(Nathan) Paultin - Human Bard

(ProJared) Diath - Human Rogue

This is the first episode with an animated title sequence.

#### Ezmerelda's Return

Over at Castle Ravenloft, Paultin fell and took 17 damage.

The group stops Chris and demands to know why he lets the Acquisitions Inc group ride dragons while Evelyn can't even keep her horse alive. They think Chris loves the Acquisitions Inc group more than his "real kids."

Paultin tries to wake up Falkon, but he is dead. Ezmerelda is on a battlement 90 feet above him. Paultin gives her the finger.

Ezmerelda walks down the wall. Jared is wondering if we're about to have some PvP. Paultin casts *suggestion* on her, which actually breaks Strahd's control over her.

#### Attack of the Vampire Spawn

In the Amber Temple, the group rolls initiative. Every character rolls a natural one. Then Chris rolls for Barmy - natural 1!

The first vampire attacks. Natural 20. The group is amazed.

The vampires grab and bite the heroes. Strix uses *misty step* to teleport up to a ledge. Barmy uses a measly cantrip and the group is mildly outraged.

Strix is dropped to 0 hit points. The vampire who dropped her attacks again on unconscious Strix. The vampire drops her off of a ledge, sending her falling to a lower section of the room. Diath catches her.

#### Escape

Back at Castle Ravenloft, Paultin and Ezmerelda creep into the castle and make their way to the room with the colored stones that can teleport them far from the castle.

Paultin and Ezmerelda get to the teleportation room and they are trying to decipher the riddle to figure out the locations they can go to. Here comes Kasimir. Interestingly, Ezmerelda knows that the person that the waffle crew knows as "Kasimir" is actually Rahadin in disguise.

Paultin decides to go through a portal to the Amber Temple. Ezmerelda tries to hold Rahadin off so that Paultin can escape. Ezmerelda uses a red stone to open a portal to a different place.

#### Strix's Fate

The vampires run away. The heroes go to heal Strix. They can't. She's dead! That's where the session ends.
Iron flask

An iron flask is a magic item that can be used to trap a powerful entity in it. The drow brought an iron flask containing Maegara to the fire giants in Ironslag. The drow emptied Maegara out of the flask and into Ironslag's magic forge. On the way out, they tried to trap Kuharik in the flask, but fail. They surrendered to the waffle crew and handed the flask over to Diath. Kozin told Diath the command word to activate the flask. Diath was able to sneak into Ironslag and trap Maegara in the flask once more. He decided to try to free the dwarf slaves of Ironslag, using Maegara to melt their locks, but when Maegara was freed, they all burned to death.

At the end of the battle of Ironslag, Strix trapped Kuharik in the iron flask. She freed him and gave him the task of tracking some enemies. Because she forgot to specifically tell him to return, Kuharik was gone.

When the heroes returned to Barovia, Strix tried to trap Paultin's shadow in the flask, but it didn't work.

1. ↑ Episode 47
2. ↑ Episode 48
3. ↑ Episode 49
4. ↑ Episode 50
5. ↑ Episode 53
6. ↑ Episode 54
Commander Holly

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**Commander Holly** is an artist, bird lover, cosplayer, vidya gamer, space commander, flower crown enthusiast, and silly hipster. She has 42 rescue pigeons, 1 dove, 2 cockatiels, a bearded dragon, and two cats. Holly is playing Strix, a tiefling sorcerer from Sigil.

## D&D Shows

Trapped in the Birdcage: Holly's weekly planescape campaign.

Divvy the Loot - First Quest: Holly is a player in this ongoing campaign.

The Friendly Table: Holly's introduction to D&D series.

## Social Media

* Twitter
* Twitch
* YouTube
* http://www.hollyconrad.com/
Fenthaza

Fenthaza is a yuan-ti leader in Omu. She is a rival of Ras Nsi's, and would like to usurp him.

She tried to ambush the Wafflecrew in Omu, but the arrival of Klauth, the red dragon, ruined her attempt.  When Diath had his nightmare vision, Fenthaza asked him to take over the yuan-ti clan. She said that his ancient soul made him powerful.

1. ↑ Episode 74
2. ↑ Episode 78
Citadel Adbar

Citadel Adbar is a dwarven fortress in Faerun. When the group first arrived there, the King asked the heroes to go investigate Ironslag. Jasper and Waffles returned to Citadel Adbar while the group early, while the group finished up in Ironslag. When the group returned, Evelyn brought Murderbot's parts to a creepy toymaker and paid him 500 gp to try to fix him. Van Richten arrived at the citadel. He convinced the group to kill clerics of Lathander, who were hunting Lilith. The heroes exposed the Bronzefire clan's treachery. They also learned that "King Harnoth" was actually a doppleganger of the real king, who had fallen ill.With the aid of van Richten, the waffle crew performed a ritual to protect them from the death curse. Evelyn ended up inhabiting a construct body created by Tyril Flamebane. A mysterious half-orc/half-dwarf approached Diath and gave him Gutter. The heroes were magically drawn into Barovia's past.

## Locations

There are many stores full of dwarven goods.

Store of a creepy toymaker named Tyril Flamebane.

The throne room, where King Harnoth rules from.

Rust monster pens down below the citadel.

A chained ogre that children throw rocks at.

## Issues

The dwarves of Citadel Adbar mixed with a "lower" clan. This is a major source of tension amongst the dwarves.

The dwarves suffered during the War of the Silver Marches and King Harnoth isn't doing so well. The group eventually learned that the real King Harnoth had fallen ill and had been replaced by a doppleganger. The doppleganger was worried that he was going to be killed by assassins from Yartar.

## Bounty

The king pays 10 gp per orc head and 100 gp per giant head.

## Denizens

King Harnoth: Ruler of Citadel Adbar.

Elizart Urgray: A noble who wanted to hire Paultin to become a performer.

Jasper Dimmerchasm: A dwarf scout who was imprisoned in Ironslag.

Azon Bronzefire: Runs the Bronzefire clan. Sent Krak to retrieve the golem from Ironslag.

Tyril Flamebane: A toymaker who made Evelyn's construct body.

1. ↑ Episode 37
2. ↑ Episode 48
3. ↑ Episode 50
4. ↑ Episode 51
5. ↑ Episode 52
6. ↑ Episode 52
7. ↑ Episode 53
8. ↑ Episode 54
9. ↑ Episode 52
Canaith Mandolin

The Canaith Mandolin is a magical instrument, stolen by Paultin when he and the rest of the Wafflecrew travelled to Barovia's past.

A number of spells can be cast from the Mandolin once per day:  *fly*, *invisibility*, *levitate*, *protection from evil and good*, *cure wounds*, *dispel magic* and *protection from lightning.*

The Mandolin once belonged to Jesper, the "Bard of Berez", a famous bard who had been invited to play at Sergei and Tatyana's wedding. Yesper is assumed to be a distant relative of Paultin's due to their likeness to each other.

Some time later when the Wafflecrew were attempting to escape Chult, Paultin attempted to buy them passage past Aremag using the Mandolin. He threw it into the water, however things did not entirely go as planned and it was swallowed along with Evil Paultin and the Halruaan Force Bomb.

It is presumed destroyed in the subsequent explosion.

1. ↑ Episode 57
2. ↑ Episode 92
Episode 30

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This is **Episode 30** of *Dice, Camera, Action*.

## Summary

### Episode 30: Nail in the Coffin

#### The Party

(Anna) Evelyn - Human Paladin of Lathander

(Holly) Strix - Tiefling Sorcerer

(ProJared) Diath - Human Rogue

(Nathan) Paultin - Human Bard

#### Impersonating Rahadin

The heroes are in Castle Ravenloft. They just killed Rahadin.

Diath points out that they still need Strix's tarokka item (the sunsword) in the 'room of bones.'

After a lot of discussion, Diath gives Strix a potion of *polymorph*. She makes herself look like Rahadin. Then she uses *prestidigitation* to re-create Rahadin's aura of moaning souls.

The group is going to pretend to be Rahadin's captives. They think that the bone room is down in the dungeons, so down they go.

After a lot of exploring, Diath falls into a pit trap. He slides down a ramp into a cell. Evelyn is able to rescue him.

#### The Crypts

The group ends up in a massive basement full of crypts.

Evelyn is magically drawn to one - the crypt of St. Markovia.

In the crypt, the group sees dust that they think might be the remains of St. Markovia. The group thinks that if Diath snorts it, he'll be cured. He declines. Strix quietly puts some of the ashes into a potion bottle and keeps it.

The spirit of St. Markovia appears and blesses Evelyn's weapon, Lightfall. She calls Evelyn "Lady Marthain." Lightfall is imbued with the powers of a *mace of disruption*.

#### Diath Drinks Ashes

There are many bats on the ceiling of the crypt. They suddenly start squeaking and flying around.

Strix makes a mixture of wine and the ashes of Saint Markovia. She wants Diath to drink it. Diath does!

He is in intense pain. Diath doubles over. Chris tells Diath that this is what it feels like when someone turns undead.

Diath barfs up a black substance. He churns out more of it. Evelyn thinks the evil is coming out of him. It worked! He's not a ghoul anymore.

Paultin decides to clear out the bat swarm. He drunkenly tells them to go away, and they do.

The heroes head up some stairs. Mist coalesces, and Strahd appears! Paultin says "Nice to see you again, sir."

#### Strahd

He tells the heroes that their gods can't save them now. The group makes a very poor attempt to pretend they are prisoners of 'Rahadin.'

Diath throws a dagger. Strahd turns to mist. It was an illusion.

The group is really bothered about Paultin hiding the fact that he met with Strahd before. Evelyn casts *zone of truth* and the group interrogates Paultin. They become convinced he wasn't actually going to betray the party.

The group encountered a shadow demon and Strix got it to back off by pretending she was Rahadin. End of session.

1. ↑ Episode 3
Doru

Doru is the son of Father Donavich, the priest of village Barovia. Strahd had turned him into a vampire spawn. The Wafflecrew tried to kill him, by request of his father, but Doru escaped. He was last seen fleeing on foot, with Ireena's sword stuck in his burning body.

When the group came to Castle Ravenloft, Doru ambushed them in the dining room. Evelyn hit him with Lightfall and he turned to ash.

When the Wafflecrew returned to Barovia and went back in time, they spotted Doru among those gathered for the wedding. Doru saw the group on the roof of the church. The group tried to abduct him but he eluded their grasp.

1. ↑ Episode 2
2. ↑ Episode 31
3. ↑ Episode 54
4. ↑ Episode 55
Duke Zalto

Duke Zalto is a fire giant who was in charge at Ironslag alongside his wife, Brimskarda. He has a maul with a cage on the end of it, in which he likes to keep a dwarf prisoner.

The Wafflecrew first fought Duke Zalto in the foundry of Ironslag. They freed the prisoner in his maul, the dwarf Jasper, and ran, but he caught up to them. After a few battles,, Strix ultimately *polymorphed* Duke Zalto into a chicken during a skirmish outside of Ironslag.

1. ↑ Episode 43
2. ↑ Episode 49
Aremag

Aremag was a dragon turtle who protected Port Nyanzaru in exchange for treasure. The Wafflecrew ran into difficulties paying him, and tossed their Halruaan Force Bomb in Aremag's mouth.  The dragon turtle was killed by the massive explosion and his body parts flew high in the air, raining back down into the sea.

## D&D Lore

The mouth of the Bay of Chult is watched over by Aremag, a dragon turtle with a blind, milky left eye and a piece of its shell missing. Aremag demands that ships toss treasure into the bay to appease it. Aremag then gathers up the loot and hides it in its lair, which no one yet has found.

1. ↑ Episode 92
2. ↑ Episode 93
3. ↑ Tomb of Annihilation page 42
Meloon

Meloon Wardragon wields a magic axe called Azuredge, and was an agent of the Xanathar when the Waffle Crew first encountered him. He was supposed to attack them, but he immediately took a liking to Evelyn and switched sides. He was arrested by the guards of Waterdeep after Paultin pointed him out to them.

## D&D Lore

Meloon Wardragon is a sellsword belonging to the ancient Wardragon clan, some of the earliest settlers of Waterdeep. His magic axe, Azuredge, contains the spirit of his ancestor, Lauroun, a warlord who wanted to continue to defend the City of Splendors after her death.  Meloon is able to telepathically communicate with her spirit through the axe.

1. ↑ Episode 95
2. ↑ Blackstaff Tower, page 170-171
3. ↑ Blackstaff Tower, page 228-229
Count Strahd von Zarovich

Count Strahd von Zarovich is a vampire and the ruler of Barovia. The waffle crew eventually came to Castle Ravenloft and found Strahd, who was weeping in the crypt of his parents. Evelyn stunned him with the holy symbol of ravenkind and Strix trapped him in the Strahd doll.

When the group went into Barovia's past, they battled Strahd while trying to save Sergei and Tatyana's lives. Diath stabbed him in the back with Gutter, wounding him. Strahd was able to recapture Tatyana and Sergei, and he became the dark lord of Barovia.

## Origin

When Strahd was a mortal, his younger brother Sergei was set to marry a woman named Tatyana. Strahd was in love with her, but she did not feel the same about him - she thought he was too old. On their wedding day, Strahd killed his brother and tried to profess his love to Tatyana. When she saw what he had done, she jumped off a balcony to her death.

"Death", or the dark powers of Ravenloft, took notice of Strahd's evil act. Strahd turned into a vampire and went on a rampage, killing his guards and the wedding party. His realm of Barovia became shrouded with mist and Strahd's curse took hold. Over the many years, women would be born in his domain that looked and acted like Tatyana. Whenever he discovers this "reincarnation", he tries to make her his bride, but he always fails.

## Strahd and Paultin

Strahd tried to turn Paultin against the waffle crew, but was unsuccessful. Ultimately, the group trapped Strahd inside a doll. The doll eventually ended up in the hands of some shadar kai from the Shadowfell.

## Strahd Returns

Diath found the outer skin of the Strahd Doll in Waterdeep.  Soon after, the group encountered Strahd at a party held by Lady Margaster. The heroes attacked and killed him. When slain, he assumed gaseous form. Evelyn cast *moonbeam* on him, which reduced him to a pile of ash. Strix collected and kept some of Strahd's ashes.

## D&D Lore

Strahd has appeared in many D&D products in many older editions. He has a appeared in *Ravenloft*, the *Ravenloft Campaign Setting* boxed set, *Return to Castle Ravenloft*, *Open Grave*, and more.

1. ↑ Episode 31
2. ↑ Episode 57
3. ↑ Episode 58
4. ↑ Episode 114
5. ↑ Episode 115
Juniper

Juniper is Evelyn's tame little gray mouse that resides In a roomy little pouch at her belt, or, at times, on her shoulder. Evelyn nursed Juniper back to health after finding her with a broken leg in the city streets.

While the group was at the Wizard of Wines, they used Juniper to track down Evelyn, who had turned into a werewolf and possibly ate a baby.

Juniper and the other pets got separated from the Wafflecrew in Ironslag. She got stuck inside the Vonindod and almost died. Diath rescued her from the wreckage.

Juniper died when Evelyn was slain in Barovia, but she was resurrected 50 years later by the revenants of Argynvostholt and the Vistani.

Juniper was swallowed by Summerwise the pseudodragon, but she was regurgitated before she died.

Strix kept Juniper safe while Evelyn died, and when she was handed back to Evelyn, she was covered in soot from Strix's filthy robes.

While living in Waterdeep, the group discovered that Simon had been keeping a local boy in a box. Evelyn comforted the boy once he was freed. She let him keep Juniper as his pet.

1. ↑ Episode 16
2. ↑ Episode 44
3. ↑ Episode 46
4. ↑ Episode 58
5. ↑ Episode 61
6. ↑ Episode 91
7. ↑ Episode 101
Acquisitions, Inc.

Acquisitions, Inc. is a long-running D&D campaign run by Chris Perkins. It began as a podcast in 2008 and has become a series of live shows. It has also spawned spin-offs, including the Acquisitions C-Team shows, run by Jerry Holkins.

Because Chris runs both Acquisitions, Inc. and Dice, Camera, Action, the stories sometimes intersect or overlap.

## Acquisitions, Inc. Crossovers with Dice, Camera, Action

Acquisitions, Inc. Enter the Trash Witch

Acquisitions, Inc. PAX West 2017

Dice, Camera, Action Episode 90: Omin guest-stars

Dice Camera Action Episode 100A

Dice Camera Action Episode 100B

Dice Camera Action Episode 100C

Dice Camera Action Episode 100D

Dice Camera Action Episode 100E

Dice Camera Action Episode 105: Binwin guest-stars

Dice Camera Action Episode 106: Binwin guest-stars

Acquisitions, Inc. PAX West 2018: Strix helps the group attempt a heist in Waterdeep.

Waffles Inc: A K'thrissmas Story Part 1: The heroes celebrate K'thriss's made-up holiday.

Dice Camera Action Episode 139: Walnut helps the group infiltrate Jarlaxle's ship.

Dice Camera Action Episode 140: Walnut's clone escapes Acq, Inc. HQ and steals their robe of the archmagi.
Krak Dragonspore

Krak Dragonspore is a dwarf warrior who wears black *armor of invulnerability*. The eyes in the helmet glow gold. Krak is the bodyguard of Azon Bronzefire. Krak accompanied the Wafflecrew on their excursion to Ironslag.

During the battle with the yakfolk, Krak vanished. His armor remained. When the battle was over, Evelyn donned his armor.

The Wafflecrew eventually realized that Krak was actually Kuharik, a dao, in disguise.

1. ↑ Episode 38
2. ↑ Episode 41
3. ↑ Episode 46
Chumba

Chumba was a Batiri Goblin played by guest star Geoff Robinson. Chumba met Wafflecrew in Port Nyanzaru. He was the steward of Umbril, a cleric of Torm.  He met his brother, Wumba, in Chult. Together, they nearly died after being swallowed by a zombie tyrannosaurus rex.  Chumba died trying to escape a collapsing shrine. His brother decapitated him and stole his whistle.

## Episodes

Episode 64 - In Guide we Trust

1. ↑ Episode 64
2. ↑ Episode 65
3. ↑ Episode 66
Mr Fox

Mr. Fox is an arcanaloth and a rival of Shemeshka's. As payment for a favor, Shemeshka asked the Wafflecrew to retrieve from him his magic spectacles and *X the Mystic's Arcane Grimoire,* a spellbook that he stole from Shemeshka herself.  Peggy Deadbells of the Sewn Sisters obtained Mr. Fox's spectacles and *X the Mystic's Arcane Grimoire* from him. Whether she stole them, made a deal, or attacked him is unknown.

1. ↑ Episode 61
2. ↑ Episode 89
Kuharik

Kuharik is a dao (earth genie) who made his way into Ironslag to steal a golem. Kuharik forced Paultin to team up with him to try to complete this task. He had assumed the identity of a dwarf named Krak.

He has the ability to summon the *armor of invulnerability* with the snap of his fingers. The dao teamed up with the heroes, although the Wafflecrew was very wary of him.  During a battle with the drow, the dark elves tried to trap Kuharik in their iron flask, but he made his saving throw.

Once the group defeated the fire giants, Strix cast the *banishment* spell on him, knowing his evil intentions and not wanting Kuharik to get his hands on the golem. Kuharik fails his saving throw, but catches up with the Wafflecrew and attacks them with Harshnag's axe. Strix trapped him in the iron flask. In the court of King Harnoth, the group released Kuharik from the iron flask as evidence that the Bronzefire clan had sent him to Ironslag to steal the golem. Strix later freed him and gave him the task of tracking some enemies. Because she forgot to specifically tell him to return, Kuharik disappeared.

1. ↑ Episode 42
2. ↑ Episode 45
3. ↑ Episode 47
4. ↑ Episode 48
5. ↑ Episode 50
6. ↑ Episode 52
7. ↑ Episode 53
Lorcatha

The Lorcatha are a clan that Diath is linked to.  When Strix met "Ubtao", he told her that the Lorcatha clan is linked to angels. The Skizziks are linked to devils. Some sort of deal kept the two families in a cease fire/non-interference pact. One of the terms of this pact is that members of the two clans can't have anything to do with each other or the multiverse might be destroyed. Also, the Lorcatha had to give up their souls... all except one. Diath's soul is that "ancient soul".

Later, Izek explained that the Lorcatha were a human clan who tried to destroy the Skizziks. He spoke of the Ashton Concordance, a magical agreement that dictated that Lorcathas and Skizziks could not be together in any kind of alliance.

Widow Groat told Diath that Shemeshka owns a piece of his ancient soul and keeps it in her home. She received it as payment for helping to craft the concordance.

1. ↑ Episode 61
2. ↑ Episode 78
3. ↑ Episode 85
4. ↑ Episode 89
Elminster

Elminster Aumar is a legendary wizard, originally from Shadowdale. A key bearing his symbol appeared on Diath's key ring while the group sailed from Port Nyanzaru to Waterdeep.  A talking fish delivered a message from Elminster to Strix while the heroes sailed from Port Nyanzaru to Waterdeep. It warned her to keep an eye out for clues from Elminster (part of the Immortal Fortress storyline).

## D&D Lore

Elminster Aumar is a legendary D&D NPC who has starred in many novels written by Ed Greenwood. Elminster has appeared in many RPG products, as well as a series of Dragon Magazine short stories in which he spends time with wizards from other settings, including Mordenkainen. Recently, Elminster was featured in *Volo's Guide to Monsters* as a "co-author" of the in-game version of the tome.

### Immortal Fortress

Elminster seems to be a key component in the current "Immortal Fortress" storyline, wherein people are receiving USB "keys" in the mail with cryptic clues on them. This story presumably is linked to the upcoming adventure that will take place after *Tomb of Annihilation*.

1. ↑ Episode 93
2. ↑ Episode 94
Episode 65

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This is **Episode 65** of *Dice, Camera, Action*.

## Summary

### Episode 65: Bait and Twitch

#### The Party

(Anna) Evelyn - Human Paladin of Lathander

(Holly) Strix - Tiefling Sorcerer

(ProJared) Diath - Human Rogue

(Nathan) Paultin - Human Bard

(Ross) Wumba - Batiri Goblin

#### The Zombie Dinosaur

The group travels for 3 days down a river. Waffles runs on the shore, following along. Evelyn flies next to the boat.

They spot a wukka nut tree. Wukka nuts glow.

Technical Issues--

The group makes camp. Wumba is now with them. Chumba and Wumba have formed a battle stack, a batiri goblin tactic where they ride on each others shoulders and attack as one entity. In this case, the bottom of the two goblins is invisible.

A zombie tyrannosaurus rex enters their camp and roars. Holly transforms it into an axebeak. *Polymorph* lasts for 1 hour.

Chumba wants to go swing at the *polymorphed* dinosaur. The group begs him not to. He doesn't know that hitting it will turn it back into its original form.

Diath tries to stop him, but poor Jared rolls bad. The goblin muscles him out of the way.

Chumba attacks the axebeak, but misses. He uses an action surge to try again. He hits it, and it turns back into the t. rex.

#### Chumba and Wumba

Wumba takes a selfie with his scrying orb, even though he's invisible. Chumba disengages and flees, abandoning his brother. The t. rex pursues Chumba and hits him, doing 24 points of damage. It swallows him!

Strix casts *enlarge* on Evelyn, so she can have a kaiju battle with the undead dinosaur. Evelyn is now 10 feet tall. The t. rex is 30 feet tall.

Evelyn does a pile of damage and the t. rex is bloodied. Dragonbait climbs inside the t. rex to look for Chumba. Diath says, "Don't you dare find him!"

Wumba throws his last will and testament at Diath, does a shadow of the colossus climb and tries to hack into the t. rex. His roll: a 2. Wumba is swallowed by the t. rex.

Chumba makes his first death save. A 2. Strix *fireballs* the t. rex, assuming the goblins are dead. Dragonbait's in there, too.

Diath attacks the t. rex and does a measly 4 damage, but It only had 2 left! It's dead and topples over. Things are moving in there. Evelyn assumes its Dragonbait.

She slices it open with Treebane and Dragonbait falls out. He's got Chumba. 5 zombies come crawling out after him.

The heroes start hacking into the zombies. Chumba wakes up. He's alive.

Strix *polymorphs* a zombie into an axebeak. The group quickly destroys the zombies.

The heroes retrieve Wumba's body. Wumba makes a death save... natural 20! He's up! End of session.
Falkon

Falkon was a character played by the first guest star of Dice, Camera, Action, Chris Trott. Falkon is a wereraven who tries to do good in Barovia, working alongside the Keepers of the Feather. Falkon had a romantic relationship with Escher at some point in the past.

Falkon helped the waffle crew rescue a few children from the old hags of the old Bonegrinder.

Later, he tried to rescue Paultin from Castle Ravenloft. He was killed by Ezmerelda and her silver crossbow bolts.

When the group arrived at Castle Ravenloft, they saw Falkon's corpse lying in the courtyard. Diath was overcome by his ghoulish impulses and ate part of his arm.

When the group returned to Barovia, Escher showed Paultin the corpse of Falkon in a hidden room in the castle.

## Episodes

Episode 4 - Flour Children

Episode 5 - Raven Kind

Episode 21 - Nevermore

1. ↑ Episode 3
2. ↑ Episode 21
3. ↑ Episode 29
4. ↑ Episode 55
Lorsa

A member of the Order of the Gauntlet who was taken captive by the grung near Camp Vengeance.  She and fellow captive Wolf informed the Wafflecrew that Commander Breakbone was afraid of frogs, which was why he had been focused on eradicating the Grung. The Grung had attacked the camp and taken captives as retaliation. The Wafflecrew took Lorsa and Wolf back to the Camp.

1. ↑ Episode 68
Baba Yaga

Baba Yaga is an incredibly powerful hag who lives in a hut that walks around on massive chicken feet. Strix lived with her for a time and learned how to bake. When Strix used the scroll given to her by Shemeshka to summon the Sewn Sisters, she noticed that the writing looked just like Baba Yaga's.

## D&D Lore

Baba Yaga has a number of popular adventures to her name. The initial Baba Yaga's Hut ran in Dragon Magazine. In 2nd Edition, there was a new version of the hut released in the form of a 48 page module written by Lisa Smedman. In 4th edition, Craig Campbell created a fully-fleshed out hut that revises and completes the 1st edition adventure.

1. ↑ Episode 58
2. ↑ Episode 62
Captain Ortimay

Captain Ortimay is a gnome who owns the *Brazen Pegasus*, a ship that is often found docked at Port Nyanzaru.

She agreed to sail the Wafflecrew from Port Nyanzaru to Waterdeep. The ship was nearly capsized by the dragon turtle Aremag when the group threw the Halruaan Force Bomb in its mouth, but the Captain and her crew expertly handled the ship and rode the tsunami out to sea. She died when the ship was hit by a storm.  It was revealed that House Rajnar would be very upset when they learn that she has passed away.

## D&D Lore

"The Brazen Pegasus is captained by Ortimay Swift and Dark (CG female rock gnome **bandit captain** with darkvision out to a range of 60 feet), who is both clever and calm."

1. ↑ Episode 93
2. ↑ Episode 94
3. ↑ Tomb of Annihilation page 21
Waterdeep

Waterdeep is a large city on the Sword Coast of Faerun. Underneath the city is a legendary megadungeon called Undermountain.

Diath met Strix in Waterdeep. They paired up and scraped by for a few years. Paultin was a performer in taverns and Evelyn was a fan of his. The waffle crew first got together in a bar called the Rusty Pommel.

House Dashland is based in the Waterdeep region. Lerek Dashland met with the group in Port Nyanzaru and asked them to acquire maps for him.

Diath had a nightmare vision of Waterdeep, where snow floated up and Paultin had succumbed to the ring of winter.

The heroes sailed from Port Nyanzaru to Waterdeep. Along the way they rescued and befriended Warrington Munt.

The group gained the deed to a home known as Trollskull Manor. Diath met Laeral Silverhand, the Open Lord of Waterdeep. She decided to free him from prison as a reward for slaying the Xanathar.

## Noble Houses

House Dashland

House Rajnar

House Marthain

House Margaster

1. ↑ Episode 73
2. ↑ Episode 78
3. ↑ Episode 94
4. ↑ Episode 118
Gutter

Gutter is a magic sword of backstabbing created by Shemeshka and wielded by Diath. While in Citadel Adbar, a half-orc/half-dwarf gave Diath the magic sword, saying it belonged to his adventuring partner, an ancestor of Diath's named Ashton. The half-orc/half-dwarf had been under a compulsion to deliver Gutter to its rightful owner - one of the Woodrow family. When Diath put a key in the key hole in the sword's crossguard, it summoned Shemeshka, who agreed to answer three questions in exchange for one of the keys on Diath's key ring.

### Appearance

The sword is light, a good fit for Diath's hand. In the blade are abyssal indentations. They are abyssal glyphs that spell out the word "Gutter". It has designs and patterns on it that indicate it is from Sigil. The pommel has a fox head with a dark red gem gripped in its jaws. The red gem lights up when it speaks (?). It said to him, "Hello, Diath. It's so good to be with you." Only Diath can hear the sword's voice. Worked into the hilt is a keyhole. Diath's keys fit into it.

### Statistics

Gutter is a magic short sword of backstabbing.

* The sword requires attunement.
* +2d6 damage when backstabbing.
* The sword wants to be with the Woodrows.

1. ↑ Episode 53
Dee

Dee (Deedra) is a character played by popular guest star Erika Ishii. Dee is a tall, heavily-muscled woman with dark hair and scars all over her face. She is part of Rictavio's show. Dee is a strongwoman and she does card tricks.

She first met the group in Vallaki, and then rejoined them for a short time when they left the Amber Temple and rested in Van Richten's tower.

It was implied that Paultin's Shadow (controlled by Strahd) attacked Dee in the tower while the rest of the crew was outside, but Chris claims that Dee is still alive on Sock Puppet Theater.

## Episodes

Episode 6 - All Will Be Well

Episode 7 - Unhappy Days

Episode 24 - Twitching Hour

Episode 25 - I Dream of Vistani

1. ↑ Episode 24