Short Rest: Trinyvale X Strahd - Ep. 21

10:25 "Do you want an answer or do you wanna talk over me" I've never felt more seen 😂

What is a faraday cage… if not a towel to hide from god?

I think I need to get some translucent wings and go wandering around the grocery store

I’ve definitely listened to the all stars mixed bag and I think they talk about the smoke guy more in this short rest than they do in the whole mixed bag episode

i think they talked about food in the short rest more than dinner was referenced in the main session

"Do you want an answer or do you wanna talk over me?" fucking sniped him 💅

Well, if I ever see any of them at the airport, I’m definitely going to cryptically tell them not to get on that plane.

Can’t believe all the Connecticut mentions lmao

the open concept toilet is actually called a pittsburgh potty and i’m not joking it’s real and they’re always in the basement

I totally woulda skipped the dinner too. I'm thinking how are they going to find what they need to find if they go to dinner first. I doubt Strahd gunna be like go ahead check out my basement once he knows they are there.

In regards to the Triplets skipping the dinner: I think the module implies that players will potentially go to the castle multiple times before facing Strahd in a final show down, which didn’t make a whole lot of sense to me. How I did it in my campaign of Strahd was that I just didn’t do the castle at all and had them fight Strahd in the cathedral that’s like right in the beginning of the castle. Then they went down to the catacombs and gave Strahd the final blow.

"Do you want an answer or do you want to talk over me" is SO real

Ive actually never had a party refuse the dinner so getting something different was really interesting. Our mindsets have always, "well its in the book, we gotta!"

In Lancaster PA there's a hotel that's a steam boat! not quite a cruise ship on land but it's pretty cool :)

Yo any Naarm/Melbourne fans wanna have a meet up when the show is on? Picnic or pot luck or something? Be a Super queer & chronically fully sick timeHmu insta @ SidFerocious !!

Can’t believe Jake now has a floop’s foogly as a familiar

Billions$ you have to eat the bird bones in all wearing a napkin over your head because it would offend god to see it. After the first one Axe orders two more. Classic.

For a cool 35 mil you could've owned an 80 room mansion https://www.mansionglobal.com/articles/medieval-italian-castle-with-80-plus-rooms-going-on-the-auction-block-35928

Waddup, two of my friends can longer make the Sydney show so if anyone wants to buy two tickets let me know!

BRIAN! (or anyone) Which third party monster manual would you recommend for a spooky campaign? I always hear you shout out Kobold Press but they have so many options!

Every stray cat I meet, I'm like, "is God sending you to test me?" -Emily Axford

Ortolan bunting!

Is Murph thinking about Tim Curry as that pollution smoke guy???

For context the Breakers Mansion has 70 rooms, Buckingham Palace has 775 rooms.

As a cracker barrel host of 5 years I’ve never felt so knowledgeable during a short rest, like all the scientists during the croissant debate. People ask to move tables everywhere. Mostly to the windows and the walls, most people don’t like sitting in the middle. A surprising amount of people ask not to sit in a booth (which is something we don’t have in the first place). Most people are rude when complaining.

Murph was in rare form today

Let the record show that our ultimate Dad Complaint™️ growing up, was my asking for a better unit on vacation by saying “my wife thinks the toilets are too small”

Wearing a hamburgler shirt while listening to this is wild

“Yeah why don’t you do it in my bush” is certainly a series of words Emily chose to say

Ortolan Bunting, a little bird drowned alive in Armagnac after being force fed. They would eat bones and all

Dear makers Any chance you could make a collection of live shows (regardless of the characters played)

"I've seen a chicken burned this bad and survive" is my favorite comment I've heard for undercooked meat in a restaurant. It's the perfect balance of (fix this please) and being goofy.

I've been a member since you started the Patreon. How have I missed this Mixed bag?! I'm going to have to go back and check it out

if someone shouted “the big one’s coming” and ran into the open plan toilet, I would assume it was about their business and not an earthquake. But I would clear the restaurant.

The open concept toilet is called a Pittsburgh toilet

The Triplets are going to run into the Bon Freres on that dry-docked cruise ship. The fight over the slide will be legendary.

Someone told me about the poop plume too!!! When I was a little kid!!!

I'm down for another cartoon all stars review, from the perspective of smoke

We need an in-character Surprise Round with the triplets. I want to know what they would do if they were denied entry into a Costco because they’re not gold star members and can’t shop for the extra hour up top

“The Big One’s coming, think about that before you go to bed” Jokes on you. I can’t stop thinking about the big one and haven’t been able to since 2004

Enjoyed the surprise Surprise Round, so I am officially petitioning for a new episode, please and thank you.

As a server in a semi-nice restaurant in Chicago, people ask to move tables CONSTANTLY. We have entire sections on our floor chart (namely, the high top tables in the bar area) where the servers have a later start time for their shift in the morning, because no customers are gonna want to sit there anyway. It’s effectively overflow seating for when our main dining room fills up. And the average lady 55+ will literally act offended if we try to seat her anywhere other than a booth, and will march up to the host to ask to move with no hesitation if the booth they get is too noisy or dim or chilly. We have regulars who make reservations and ask for specific tables on their reservation notes. I could rant forever about this, but tl;dr a lot of people are VERY opinionated about what kind of table they want in a restaurant

the conversation of good table vs bad table spoke to me so deeply. as someone who has basically lived in a restaurant for 20 years, we all know when it’s the bad table and we always feel bad seating you there. if it’s like, BAD, you can absolutely move mid meal and there will be no question. we know why

Ok but were yall shown Joan of Arcadia in elementary school? “What if god was one of us” was the theme song and also kinda the thesis of the show. It was incredibly corny, to no one’s surprise

so excited for the hamburglar naddpod shitiverse induction ceremony

murph’s jens is showing

Em...google the Biltmore here in NC.

Man. This talk about the undercooked chicken reminded me of a time as a kid where we went out to eat and the chicken I got was like. SUPER undercooked. And I showed my parents. And they called the waiter who called the manager. And whole the manager was there. I was like. Yeah. This chicken is raw but like. It's fine. I don't want to cause any problems. I'll finish it. It's fine. And the manager was instantly like Do! NOT! And like full on reached across the table to swipe the chicken sandwich from me before I could take another bite.

So in regards to the "Why would we have dinner with Strahd?" question, it's worth pointing out that, in the module, the dinner happens much, much earlier in the campaign, practically at the beginning. Basically it happens during that early bit when Strahd hasn't really gotten too antagonistic with the party, other than a little bit of second-hand fuckery. It looks like Caldwell folded it in with the end game (so that they only visit the castle once, perhaps) and yeah — by that point dinner with Strahd makes less sense. But as written, it happens way earlier.

speaking of organs at sports - one of my favorite content creators is @jabsmusic on tiktok who plays the organ for the st. louis blue and st. louis cardinals! seeing how much fun he has picking songs for specific teams and players is so cool.

Emily, even the white house has 132 rooms

Next surprise round I'd gonna be pretty hamburglar centric

The bird in question is Ortalon, one of the many insane facts I’ve learned from Brooklyn Nine-Nine. Traditionally eaten with a napkin over the head to hide the shameful act from god, the bird is eaten whole, bones and all!

The dish Caldwell is talking about called Ortolan Bunting. It’s a super fucked up French dish and now is pretty widely illegal according to google. A small songbird is force fed and then drowned, the person eating it is supposed to cover their head with a napkin and then swallow it whole. My apologies to anyone who just read this comment

Scratched that Surprise Round itch. I humbly request more! 🙏

Aren’t there like mega mansions nowadays that have over a hundred rooms? And like palaces and similar with even more?

Emily should check out Buckingham Palace - nearly 800 rooms iirc. That'll blow her mind 😂

Leaving Strahd in the dining room is like exploring the whole map in a video game before triggering the one cut scene that moves the story forward