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5 min readBathing In Blood
The memory hits Rona like a wave of smoke from a freshly extinguished match. He is young again, standing before his mother Duke Yashimanak in her regal study, his sister Millie beside him. Two pouches on the table. Four gold pieces for spells to perform. Simple, his mother says. Millie extinguishes the fireplace with a flourish of black, roiling flames. Rona tries. He concentrates, reaches for the magic he has read about in every book, trained for endlessly. Nothing. His mother takes a gold piece from his pouch and places it in Millie's. Maybe some day. The test continues through three more trials—telepathy, prestidigitation, a display of fire—and each time Rona fails. His mother sighs, takes his gold, gives it to Millie. On the final task, desperate and angry, Rona grabs a personal item from his mother's desk and throws it into the fire. She raises an eyebrow, replaces one of his gold pieces with a silver, and tells him he will need the time to start begging for scraps. The door closes behind her and Millie, leaving him alone.
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What you'll learn
- 1 (00:05) **Ad Reads** - Two ad breaks (Carvana, Meta Glasses)
- 2 (01:06) **Rona's Memory: The Arcane Test** - Dungeon Master Finn guides Rona into a painful childhood memory of being tested on his magic by his mother, Duchess Yashimanak, alongside his sister Millie.
- 3 (14:06) **Cast Introduction & Episode Recap** - The cast introduces themselves and their characters, followed by a poetic recap of the previous episode's events.
- 4 (18:30) **Entering the Dungeon** - The party descends through a hidden stone door beneath the bathhouse into a flooded, dark tunnel.
- 5 (21:54) **The Chamber of the Dead Three** - The party finds a chamber with three doors, each carved with an image of a god of the Dead Three: Bane, Bhaal, and Myrkul.
- 6 (24:40) **The Altar of Bhaal** - The party explores a chamber dedicated to Bhaal, finding a tapestry, a stone altar covered in entrails, and a steel mask.
- 7 (30:15) **The "Corpse" Ambush** - The party enters a room with three bodies arranged in a triangle, but the bodies rise and attack.
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Show Notes
Our Party descends into the treacherous bathhouse dungeon that lays beneath Baldur's Gate to see what the Cult of the Dead Three is planning below.
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