Barovia IV #12 An Encounter with Human and Elf
D&D is For Nerds
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🗓️ 25 October 2025
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Once again I find myself wanting to help and I am yet again without the tools to do so. Moments ago I was prepared to kill these poor souls and now I'm racking my brain trying to think of ways to aid them. Why can't I let this go? Why must you take in every stray you come across? You have a mission. Kill Strahd. Or stop him. A monumentous and impossible task. But let's say it's achievable, will that solve anything? Or will that leave the people of Barovia unknowingly vulnerable? Is he really the unsung protector of these lands? If he is, he's not doing a very good job. Honestly, he spends more time sending out his generals to attack his own populace than providing any sort of protection. Or at least that's what I assume he's been doing. Speaking of generals, I wonder how Pip is going? The man led a small militia, a rag tag group of - I should be paying attention to what's going on, everything has calmed down but the wind is beginning to unnaturally pick up.
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| 0:00.0 | OY, lads, did you miss out on the Jaron's Outpost Kickstarter and wish you weren't such a big doofus? |
| 0:05.6 | Well, fear not. |
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| 0:11.4 | search for D&D for Nerds or Jaron's Outpost and slam that late pledge button. |
| 0:18.7 | Although you see no water for miles around, you are, like us, marooned. |
| 0:24.4 | You're stranded in this sad and lonely place called Barovia. |
| 0:28.8 | To Mi' meek's metaphors, we are incarcerated. |
| 0:31.4 | The fog that surrounds us are the bars of our dungeon, and Baron von Strade is out jailer. |
| 0:36.9 | As far as I can tell, there is only one way out, |
| 0:40.2 | and that is to kill Devil Strad. We're going to have to circumnavigate it. We're going to have to, |
| 0:48.5 | I imagine maybe if we head around and we can try and find a place with a cliff's not so sheer, |
| 0:53.3 | and we can climb back up. |
| 0:55.1 | Iona and the engineer look from you to Cavendish. |
| 1:00.4 | Cavendish turns around and silently begins leading you. |
| 1:03.6 | Sure. Fine. Whatever. I'll follow after. |
| 1:08.3 | The four of you begin making your way around trying to, as you said, circumnavigate. |
| 1:14.4 | While that happens, you hear... |
| 1:19.6 | Little, yeah, little titters of laughter. |
| 1:23.7 | Okay. |
| 1:24.3 | Do I think they're just kind of watching us and laughing at our predicament? Okay. Well, whatever. I don't want to start shit for no reason. So we'll just let them titter. Who gives a fuck? |
| 1:36.9 | All right. And perception check. All right. Pip, you and the rest of the group kind of come to a slow stop. |
| 1:46.4 | You can tell the tittering is getting louder and closer. |
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