You're listening to the Sans Pants Network.

Although you see no water for miles around,

you are, like us, marooned.

You are stranded in this sad and lonely place called Barovia.

To mix metaphors we are incarcerated.

The fog that surrounds us are the bars of our dungeon and Baron von Strad is out jailer.

As far as I can tell, there is only one way out and that is to kill the devil Strad.

You get to what must what can only be the last guard. As you pass him, he leans in at the end of the stairs turn left there will be a chest.

The wind is blasting at you.

It is freezingly cold.

I was like when they stripped us of everything and our equipment is that including

now like warm weather gear? Yep okay well then we're going to run to that chest.

You sprint to the end. Yep. That single lonely staircase begins winding around the last tippy part of the mountain,

clinging to the side of it for dear life.

It's sheer up one side, shear down the other.

You can see even through the howling wind and the snow that it's throwing.

You can see the skeletal remains of some building lying atop Mount Gackus.

This would have once been a multi-story affair,

but now any story above the first

has been sheared away, thrown down

the side of Mount Gackers to be forever destroyed.

You reach the top of the stairs and you can see ahead of you, there is some sort of courtyard.

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