You know that trope in media where a master criminal gets the chance to aid the heroes and it becomes apparent that they could have been an upstanding citizen if they'd just been born into a better situation. I love that Barnaby is the exact opposite. A supposed upstanding citizen gets the chance to aid a criminal gang and it becomes apparent that they could have been a master criminal if they'd just been born into a worse situation.
@@XDarkGreyX Barnaby becoming the true final boss would be perfect, because he would either completely screw over the rest of the party or get his character killed, which are his two main motivations.
Barnaby continues to be an absolute force of nature, managing to mastermind the plan, spirit away two Dimmer Sisters, and with the save from Lilith, make it look like he had no connection to it whatsoever. And now we see why he drinks, because the power of sober Barnaby is terrifying. Also, I, and seemingly Luke as well, expected Kelly to get a redemption equals death, with her sacrificing herself to save Lilith and Barnaby. Unfortunately for the Red Sashes, Cart on the Road is an absolute artist with his trapdoors.
The thing about Barnaby is that he is not stupid, he is apathetic (and drunk). Barnaby could accomplish great things, if he cared, and he does not, he just does whatever is funny to him in the moment.
@@nyysjan someone Hut the nail on the head in the comments last week: he's like an anti-Egbert. One wants nothing more than to help their friends but is totally inept, the other is quite capable but can't be bothered most of the time
Well if you think about it, he did two jobs for the cost of two coin, which averages out to one coin per job. The continuity is maintained, and Tabaxi are unchanged.
The veiled look of astonishment on Luke's face as he grappled for a resolution after his epic boss fight was so easily circumvented out of hand by Ellen, reminds me of poor Johnny's DM Olympics in D&D. Luke is learning well, and is almost flawless with his intuition for when to bend to the players and when to bend the players themselves.
At first, I had doubts about the format of having pairs of party members do crimes without the rest of the group, but I've really come to love it. It's such a great way of showcasing everyone and delving into the chemistry between all of the group members. Such masterful DMing by Luke as well!
I like how none of them (maybe aside from Johnny and Luke) have rewatched the first season in preparation and Mike just remembers Darnell tossing him a stick to help in the fight as him trying to hit him with it.
The slight problem I had was that by my reading, you do still clear the stress even if you overindulge but they didn't do it for Mike, so it kinda felt like it was bad luck day for him that time. Though to be fair, the idea that Barnaby mouths off to a group of toughs one time, gets gutpunched, then goes back the next day and does it again to the same bunch of scoundrels has incredible meme energy and I am all for it. "How many times do we have to teach you this lesson young man?!"
@@shambleslongplay3566 I remember Luke's D&D session being a session where he stuck to his plan but I think he's become very flexible as a BitD GM When has he made success a fail in BitD?
@@photoo848 Probably the clockwork spear in this one. Edvard leaving his signature on it could count as fail despite it being a success in what It needed to do (stopping the convoy)
@@achillrabbit7146 Are you talking about 1:13:50 ? Lillith rolled a 5, success with a complication. The success was that she remained hidden, Edvard's signature bringing heat to the crew was the complication.
Something that I realized while watching this is that so many of the things that the gang has done would be impossible without Barnaby. Even if he messes up some of the scores there's also the fact that without his upper society connections they wouldn't be able to be on many of those scores in the first place.
It really is interesting to see how every character in the gang has their own use and is indispensable in their own unique way Barnaby of course provides the high society connections Lilith deals with ghosts and demons Kasimir has underworld connections, and also helps to guide the group and keep them grounded and organized Edvard creates innovations and knows how to deal with anything mechanical And Zillah provides defense for the group, notably choking many guards unconscious, sometimes with her thighs.
And with this episode, we have established that- for the most part- Tabaxi speak with a French accent in Geth. It’s canon now, there’s no turning back. Aubrey, while well loved and missed, doesn’t count, as he was from another Realm entirely.
Brilliant episode. Ellen’s ‘watch this’ moment was hilarious. I suspect that Barnaby is simultaneously the greatest and most awful character ever created. Can’t wait to see where this goes next. Thank you guys.
@@CodaBlair i feel like generally Egbert wants to be good/do well but is just bad at it. He's a chaotic good where the emphasis in on chaotic. Barnaby. . . . Barnaby may actually be a legitimate true neutral, which honestly is horrifying
“This sounds good to you does it? Not returning.” “Yes. Yes. To find out what lies beyond…” So beyond the barricade there’s a world she longs to see, then…
They will rise again when Lilith sets their spirit bottles free. Beyond the barricade might be a hell; who wants to see? Then join in the fight or at least get drunk with Barnaby!
In an alternate universe where Blades in the Dark dominates tabletop roleplaying and 'Game of Thrones' was about control of the London underworld, RUclips sensations 'The Hobby-Horses' are now well into their spinoff 'D&D' campaign about 'The Oxventurer's Guild', in which their regular GM plays a banging support character, Jane pulps people, Andy flies off the handle, Mike bumbles around, Ellen has animal traits, and their new GM steps up to the plate brilliantly.
Lest we also forget the incredible streaming sensation "Double-Sixes" who have just launched their third Blades in the Dark campaign in which, after the Bravos and Assassins, they are now playing Shadows preferring espionage.
@@rogerbaxter8207 Lest we forget Brandon El Morrigan's great Blades in the Dark shows on the channel Nat 1 including "A Tiara of Diabetics", "Infiltrating the Hemophobic Castle" "Adventure Elementary" and many others. (Dropping the joke for a second, just wanted to tell you that mutating Matt Mercer into Pat Parker is far more hilarious than anything I could ever think up and I take off my hat to salute you, good sir/ma'am.)
@@darklord884 Thanks, although just as much on your end! Honestly, playing in a long-running Blades campaign's helped with things like that more than almost anything else for me - my Leech, Ambrose Maxwell, found some weird armour in a cellar that spiralled into me and my GM/flatmate (who was inspired by this very show to run Blades) having to invent full-on ̶G̶A̶E̶L̶I̶C̶ SKOVIC KABBALAH. We're in the endgame, many things are on fire, Ambrose has turned into an accidental prophet, and I want it to go on forever...
@@rogerbaxter8207 Ah, lovely! I GM two teams of scoundrels myself and so far I've seen my teams smuggling weaponry unwittingly as part of a Skovlan uprising by Ulf Ironborn, crashed a party of the Unseen without knowing who the heck they are and one of the teams' Whispers got into a Dooku vs. Yoda esque lightning battle with Lord Skurlock. This is a fun world of wonders indeed, even a millenium after the apocalypse.
Man this is such an interesting game system. In the short term you cannot fail. Between flashbacks, ticks of load and devil's bargains, you can get out of anything. But! In the long term you cannot last. There's no way to stay ahead of stress, harm and heat, so eventually it's all going to hit the fan!
Exactly why I love the system. Also, for the long term, add the fact that every step you take, you are stepping on someone's toe. The longer you do it, the more this someone will be pissed. And the whole ghosts / spirit wardens thing prevents murderhobo style of solutions. I just wish to find anyone to play BitD with.
It's official Astor is the most sane of any brightner we've met. Bacchus wants to make soulless husks who feel pain, Monty fell in with a Demon, Kellienor wants to pierce the veil, and Lord Strangford is a religious fanatic. Sorry to say it Edvard but your hated rival seems to be the only brightner not off is rocker.
What's great is that Astor's reason for maintaining the Barricade is exactly what Edvard brought up when he first learned of it: the world would be absolute chaos if magic were to continue to exist, with people turning into bears or summoning eldritch energy in their palms. Astor and Edvard totally agree on the topic, and it's hilarious that they can't realize that.
I've been wanting to know what happened to the other species of Geth and why there were only humans and demonic descendants and finally got an answer. I love it. Also, this is the episode that finally got me wanting to play this system desperately. Before I had it on the backlog, but now I want to set up a group for this immediately.
If you guys notice this before it airs, just wanted to point out that overindulging does clear out all stress! Also you get trauma once you reach the final stress box, not after you surpass it, so Zillah should have been traumatized 2 episodes ago. Regardless, this has got me more excited than DnD recently, and I've been playing dnd for 5 years now!
Tbf Jane was playing under the assumption that that wasn't how it worked, so I feel like it would be cruel to give her trauma. She'd surely have made different decisions had she known. Not to put words in your mouth lol. Also, I'm shocked how much I love Blades in the Dark. I wasn't too sold when they first announced it, but since the very first episode it has just been consistently incredible. I love the more serious, darker tone, the bigger emphasis on role play, and the unique mechanics.
@@ceilingfanenthusiast6041 that's true, just thought of it as a fair heads up! and yeah honestly this journey has been great and i cant wait to play it with my friends!
You also have to remember that the GM can alter the rules a bit to suit their party. And even in the Oxventure they're pretty loose with a lot of the rules as well. It's one of the thongs I absolutely love about how they all play. Remindes me of the D&D games I used to have with my friends back in high school. At one point we even started making our own version based on DBZ.
I agree about the stress clearing, it was kinda unfair to Barnaby sadly, but at least the circumstances were funny, with him mouthing off to and getting punched by the same dudes two days in a row. As for the stress thing, Luke might just have been nice to her. Admittedly, I also did this one time when a player had cursed luck with rolls and resistances and was about to get their third trauma per three sessions, I gave them this extra box and said they are on the verge of gaining trauma so they stepped back. It was kinda rulebreak-y but hey, you help when you can.
I can't keep commenting enough, as much fun as I can tell the Oxventure crew likes doing these and the Dungeons & Dragons videos that they all depend on the amount of likes they get compared to views. I know I like watching these videos, and I think if you all do too you should smash that like button!
I Love the OxBox team TTRPGs! This Episode really shows how strong Barnaby can be when he’s not playing comic relief. I also love how the Blades in the Dark series has smaller scores to highlight each player. In the Oxventure episodes I sometimes feel like Ellen gets a little glossed over, with this set up I can really enjoy each character and get to know them more. Luke is a fantastic GM and I’m glad he gets his own series in this format. (I kinda wanna GM a BitD score after his inspiration)
You know, with how much Barnaby’s family has in a lot of institutions, I wouldn’t be surprised if it was revealed that Barnaby’s family actually runs the city lmao
The stock sell-off on Barnaby's part was a terrible move. Darnell would be a fool to not immediately expect Barnaby either had forewarning or a direct hand in the incident. There will be consequences.
On the other hand, Barnaby is widely known to be a drunken idiot who somehow survives his own Barnaby-ness by sheer dumb luck. It's *entirely* in-character for his public persona for him to have accidentally made bank off of a momentary fit of panic.
I've never been one for these D&D streams but just recently moved and found a local Comic, Card and Hobby store which I never knew existed in my local small city a few weeks ago and was given a warm welcome. Turns out they do multiple D&D campaigns two nights a week and invited me to join when they plan to start a new one when College starts back in early September! I'm big into my Roleplay and RPG style things, was big into NeverWinter Nights as a kid and creating my own Custom servers and online roleplay servers early 00's, so now I will just start sharpening my skills catching up and watching these D&D videos while grinding in FFXIV 😸
I love this whole episode, but I really love Barnaby selling his shares before Darnell sees that the Dimmer Sisters are gone. That entire sequence is priceless and brilliant. "With a dash of insider trading" being just barely audibly under Luke as Darnell talking was a delight.
I absolutely died at Lilith being Barnaby's "Spiritual Advisor." Also, what ever happened to getting an extra downtime action if you weren't in that last score. I know it wouldn't apply to this one, since everyone was in the last one, but it seems like that's been set aside?
1:11:16 At this point I started whistling what I imagined to be the electric lights music, until I realized it was the Gold Saucer theme. ...You're welcome for putting the Gold Saucer theme back in your head.
"A pair of Dimmer Sisters are to be burned at the stake" Well that's really not okay, it's an inhumane form of execution, and I'm not convinced any of the Sister necessarily deserve to die, so yes, you should certainly try to rescue them. It *is* a big ask, though, given the security, the public nature of the event, the-- "It's Rosie and Josie" SAVE MY PRECIOUS GIRLS AT ALL COSTS
It makes the throat smoother, and it is green- thus the name, green smoothie. Also, "I believe it's called a 'pump-and-dump'" Barnaby is the coldest HobbyHorseman by far
I would like to know what WOULD have happened if Lillith hadn't scrambled through all her options to find some way to avoid them being killed or captured by the Red Sashes. Were the other three going to have to rescue them in the next episode? Would it have led to a totally different route to the conclusion of the season? So many possibilities, nullified by a carefully-hinged floor constructed by an amoral criminal cat-man with a French accent.
If the Red Sashes found Barnaby and Lilith in a place they don't frequent and according to Kellenor they were going to get her too, does that mean they are going to go after the Gut-Cutters?
I'm so happy I was worried after the last episode that this would be the finale. but nay is better heck yes more Oxventure more blades in the dark I'm so happy thank you thank you love you guys
Well after those title bumpers in the end credits I think you may still have cause to worry. Frankly with the whole Barrier mystery in this second season it seems like the foundational change of the setting is about to be unraveled. I just don't understand why. This seems to be a successful and fun little series so it feels rather early to simply call it.
22:52 Ah, yes. I seem to recall there were at least two Baccari, and that they left the really crazy one in place to maintain stealth and vaporised the potentially less crazy one in order to escape. ^^
My thoughts on Lilith's Basilisk and trap door at the end: "She really wants to avoid this twist doesn't she!" Man, shit just got real. But I do have faith that the others found some way to escape the attempts on their lives
One of the things I love about roleplay is the GM can 100% plan a certain "cutscene", but with enough creatively (and as long as the GM isn't obstinate about it), it can be averted
I've been DMing for my family, and as of the last session, it's canonical in my world too that Tabaxi all have French accents. 🥰 So glad I clicked on one of your videos almost two years ago when I was just starting to research D&D!
Ha, even a pretend French accent is one of the weaseliest sound ls ever . . . the actual sound of it is hilarious. Even when a frenchman is threatening to kill you in a shouting rage, it still sounds no different to when they're begging or trying to flirt. It's so fucking funny, great people stuck with a little shy child of a voice all round
Haven't been this on edge from a cliffhanger since the Season 10 Finale of Murdoch Mysteries. This is almost painful... At least with this, I don't have to wait six months for answers
Wow, next week is the last episode? It feels way too soon. I hope they’re just taking a hiatus or there will be another season. Also no spoilers but what a cliffhanger!
I’m not sure it is actually, I think “to be concluded” is just referencing the fact that the narrative for next’s week’s episode has already been set up. Kind of an odd place to end the season, I expect to at least see the barricade before then. I hope it isn’t the end!
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You know that trope in media where a master criminal gets the chance to aid the heroes and it becomes apparent that they could have been an upstanding citizen if they'd just been born into a better situation.
I love that Barnaby is the exact opposite. A supposed upstanding citizen gets the chance to aid a criminal gang and it becomes apparent that they could have been a master criminal if they'd just been born into a worse situation.
Barnaby would be offended at the implication that he is not already a master criminal.
@@jodinsan tbh i don't think Barnaby gives a damn about what we plebs think ^^
"that they could have been a master criminal if they'd just been born into a worse situation" a move otherwise known as the Walter White Manoeuvre
Or would have been a master criminal if he A: Could be bothered and B: Had thought of it earlier.
Sober Barnaby is too powerful for this world.
Switches sides and becomes the second final boss.
@@XDarkGreyX Barnaby becoming the true final boss would be perfect, because he would either completely screw over the rest of the party or get his character killed, which are his two main motivations.
I like the cannon of Barnaby actually being deviously and dangerously smart but doesn't show it due to drinking 24/7
That is gifted child syndrome I think.
It seems highly appropriate the Dimmer Sisters are at odds with the Brightners.
That never occurred to me, good spot!
I have a feeling luke probably did that on purpose! God johnny taught him so well, he's an amazing DM
‘My respect for you has gone THROUGH THE FLOOR’ absolutely excellent, shame we didn’t get to see it pay off
Genuinely genius, indeed
God I hope Kasimir meets Cart-on-the-road at some point.
Barnaby continues to be an absolute force of nature, managing to mastermind the plan, spirit away two Dimmer Sisters, and with the save from Lilith, make it look like he had no connection to it whatsoever. And now we see why he drinks, because the power of sober Barnaby is terrifying.
Also, I, and seemingly Luke as well, expected Kelly to get a redemption equals death, with her sacrificing herself to save Lilith and Barnaby. Unfortunately for the Red Sashes, Cart on the Road is an absolute artist with his trapdoors.
The thing about Barnaby is that he is not stupid, he is apathetic (and drunk).
Barnaby could accomplish great things, if he cared, and he does not, he just does whatever is funny to him in the moment.
@@nyysjan someone Hut the nail on the head in the comments last week: he's like an anti-Egbert. One wants nothing more than to help their friends but is totally inept, the other is quite capable but can't be bothered most of the time
Things that have a wildly important part of Oxventure Canon: Shrek and Bisque.
Ahhh!… BISQUE
Bisqwith
Bisquemuth and the half-Shrek Bard, coming to a theater (of the mind) near you!
@@ArDeeMee thank you! I wasn't sure how to spell her name
@@DucklynStark (Bismuth is her actual name, though. Just fyi. =)
I absolutely love how immediately invested Luke got into Cart-on-the-Road. Nothing bad can ever happen to them.
I am unreasonably disappointed that the Tabaxi did not charge a fee of exactly one [gold] coin
Well if you think about it, he did two jobs for the cost of two coin, which averages out to one coin per job. The continuity is maintained, and Tabaxi are unchanged.
Lmao I love how Barnaby takes the fake job of being a narc more seriously than their other heists 🤣
16:35 "...sacrificing sanity for madness in search of deeper truths." Something tells me Kellyanor and Edvard would get along.
She gave his WMM to Astor. He would never trust her.
Barneys insider trading was absolute genius!
I feel like it's created another enemy but that was absolutely funny.
“Don’t want to make an enemy of that guy, he’s extremely organized” quote of the session 😂
I do believe this is the first time Barnaby has avoided ruining a coat.
Did he ruin his coat in the two previous adventures? I don't reckon he did, but I may be misremembering...
@@EngineerWhen maybe. This could be a "clean" season for him
He did end up in the harbour after carousing with Darnell Ironhook in the planning phase though. That sounds like it may ruin a coat.
@@EngineerWhen It was never stated in the last episode, but I like to believe his old coat was ruined with sandblasting.
The veiled look of astonishment on Luke's face as he grappled for a resolution after his epic boss fight was so easily circumvented out of hand by Ellen, reminds me of poor Johnny's DM Olympics in D&D. Luke is learning well, and is almost flawless with his intuition for when to bend to the players and when to bend the players themselves.
Arguing blades in the dark can throw more fast balls due to the flash backs as well showing Luke’s skill
I gotta say I felt like that was much more than a 2 stress flashback even if Lilith had to roll for it.
At first, I had doubts about the format of having pairs of party members do crimes without the rest of the group, but I've really come to love it. It's such a great way of showcasing everyone and delving into the chemistry between all of the group members. Such masterful DMing by Luke as well!
I like how none of them (maybe aside from Johnny and Luke) have rewatched the first season in preparation and Mike just remembers Darnell tossing him a stick to help in the fight as him trying to hit him with it.
Barnaby promoting Lilith to "The Help" making her his spiritual advisor, nutritionist, and yoga instructor.
Ellen was already in the middle of a giggle fit, but even Luke lost it with that! 🤣
This seems to be Barnaby's season. I hope should he overindulge again they take the oportunity for a Spiffy Episode though.
Highlight for me was "Hello. Can you help me?" when answering the door.
@@merissaj4518 I dunno clearing 2 heat, then immediatelly gaining 2 heat by overindulging is also a very good candidate
The slight problem I had was that by my reading, you do still clear the stress even if you overindulge but they didn't do it for Mike, so it kinda felt like it was bad luck day for him that time. Though to be fair, the idea that Barnaby mouths off to a group of toughs one time, gets gutpunched, then goes back the next day and does it again to the same bunch of scoundrels has incredible meme energy and I am all for it. "How many times do we have to teach you this lesson young man?!"
Spiffy is Barney's nickname and Squiffy is Algernon's nickname. Together they are Spiffy and Squiffy!
Mike seems to be especially funny in Blades in the Dark. I think he really just enjoys playing this character.
"So it's not just the absinthe, then." Perfect. Flippen, perfect.
That Red Sash seems pretty confident about the fate of the others, when those others include Zillah and the Wonderful Mechanical Terminator.
@@shambleslongplay3566 which rolls are you talking about? Never noticed that
@@shambleslongplay3566 I remember Luke's D&D session being a session where he stuck to his plan but I think he's become very flexible as a BitD GM
When has he made success a fail in BitD?
@@photoo848 Probably the clockwork spear in this one. Edvard leaving his signature on it could count as fail despite it being a success in what It needed to do (stopping the convoy)
@@achillrabbit7146 Are you talking about 1:13:50 ? Lillith rolled a 5, success with a complication. The success was that she remained hidden, Edvard's signature bringing heat to the crew was the complication.
@@photoo848 Nope. From 59:00 she talks about the spear and plan to install it and when she rolled she got a 6 (1:00:30)
Ellen's eyes deserve an oscar for their role in her Blades in the Dark thumbnails.
In the spirit of Ellen and her puns,
M-oscar-a
@@DrAustinSauce that pun's so tortured you could have found it in the Dimmer Mansion's basement
@@cebbi1313 The highest praise I could ever hope for.
Yes, goth Ellen is too good
I do believe she's giving us the finger.
Something that I realized while watching this is that so many of the things that the gang has done would be impossible without Barnaby. Even if he messes up some of the scores there's also the fact that without his upper society connections they wouldn't be able to be on many of those scores in the first place.
It really is interesting to see how every character in the gang has their own use and is indispensable in their own unique way
Barnaby of course provides the high society connections
Lilith deals with ghosts and demons
Kasimir has underworld connections, and also helps to guide the group and keep them grounded and organized
Edvard creates innovations and knows how to deal with anything mechanical
And Zillah provides defense for the group, notably choking many guards unconscious, sometimes with her thighs.
@@cyberneticsquid-godofmassd3759 Yeah. Then the two person scores really highlight this.
And with this episode, we have established that- for the most part- Tabaxi speak with a French accent in Geth. It’s canon now, there’s no turning back. Aubrey, while well loved and missed, doesn’t count, as he was from another Realm entirely.
They also charge one coin per job.
Brilliant episode. Ellen’s ‘watch this’ moment was hilarious. I suspect that Barnaby is simultaneously the greatest and most awful character ever created. Can’t wait to see where this goes next. Thank you guys.
what about Egbert?
@@CodaBlair i feel like generally Egbert wants to be good/do well but is just bad at it. He's a chaotic good where the emphasis in on chaotic. Barnaby. . . . Barnaby may actually be a legitimate true neutral, which honestly is horrifying
I am immediately, utterly in love with Cart-on-the-Road, just like our dear Rust before them!
“This sounds good to you does it? Not returning.”
“Yes. Yes. To find out what lies beyond…”
So beyond the barricade there’s a world she longs to see, then…
Do you hear the Dimmer Sisters sing? Singing the song of angry ghosts...
It’s the music of the spirits who will not be flesh again!
When the beating of your heart, echos the silence of the tomb,
There is a life about to end when tomorrow comes!
They will rise again when Lilith sets their spirit bottles free.
Beyond the barricade might be a hell; who wants to see?
Then join in the fight or at least get drunk with Barnaby!
In an alternate universe where Blades in the Dark dominates tabletop roleplaying and 'Game of Thrones' was about control of the London underworld, RUclips sensations 'The Hobby-Horses' are now well into their spinoff 'D&D' campaign about 'The Oxventurer's Guild', in which their regular GM plays a banging support character, Jane pulps people, Andy flies off the handle, Mike bumbles around, Ellen has animal traits, and their new GM steps up to the plate brilliantly.
Lest we also forget the incredible streaming sensation "Double-Sixes" who have just launched their third Blades in the Dark campaign in which, after the Bravos and Assassins, they are now playing Shadows preferring espionage.
@@darklord884 Of course! Pat Parker's bringing back the Cataclysm - SUN'S HAUNTED, FOLKS
@@rogerbaxter8207 Lest we forget Brandon El Morrigan's great Blades in the Dark shows on the channel Nat 1 including "A Tiara of Diabetics", "Infiltrating the Hemophobic Castle" "Adventure Elementary" and many others.
(Dropping the joke for a second, just wanted to tell you that mutating Matt Mercer into Pat Parker is far more hilarious than anything I could ever think up and I take off my hat to salute you, good sir/ma'am.)
@@darklord884 Thanks, although just as much on your end! Honestly, playing in a long-running Blades campaign's helped with things like that more than almost anything else for me - my Leech, Ambrose Maxwell, found some weird armour in a cellar that spiralled into me and my GM/flatmate (who was inspired by this very show to run Blades) having to invent full-on ̶G̶A̶E̶L̶I̶C̶ SKOVIC KABBALAH. We're in the endgame, many things are on fire, Ambrose has turned into an accidental prophet, and I want it to go on forever...
@@rogerbaxter8207 Ah, lovely! I GM two teams of scoundrels myself and so far I've seen my teams smuggling weaponry unwittingly as part of a Skovlan uprising by Ulf Ironborn, crashed a party of the Unseen without knowing who the heck they are and one of the teams' Whispers got into a Dooku vs. Yoda esque lightning battle with Lord Skurlock. This is a fun world of wonders indeed, even a millenium after the apocalypse.
Barnaby may just be the most capable hobby horse this season.
Just to be sure, Lilith did give the sisters a proper earful for scaring Finn, right?
And dayum, that cliffhanger.
Man this is such an interesting game system. In the short term you cannot fail. Between flashbacks, ticks of load and devil's bargains, you can get out of anything. But! In the long term you cannot last. There's no way to stay ahead of stress, harm and heat, so eventually it's all going to hit the fan!
Exactly why I love the system. Also, for the long term, add the fact that every step you take, you are stepping on someone's toe. The longer you do it, the more this someone will be pissed. And the whole ghosts / spirit wardens thing prevents murderhobo style of solutions. I just wish to find anyone to play BitD with.
Lilith and Barnaby! Fantastic duo.
Time 👏 for 👏 some 👏 lovely 👏 crimes!
I look forward to another "overindulge" moment.
Barnaby and Cart (on the) Road sitting in a tree, P-U-R-R-I-N-G.
I was gonna say something about Barnaby getting that 😺 lol
I’m noticing a pattern of Mike’s characters being literal *disaster* bi. More disaster than bi.
"You're money folds" is absolutely and wholly incorporated into my vocabulary now 😂
It is however an odd thing to say in Volisport, where the money is gold coins.
@@ApetureTestSubject oh no... You're totally right 😱
@@ImperfectionistGaming consider "your money spends" as an alternative.
Well, he did "fold" his investment. Perhaps a bit of precognition, there.
It's official Astor is the most sane of any brightner we've met. Bacchus wants to make soulless husks who feel pain, Monty fell in with a Demon, Kellienor wants to pierce the veil, and Lord Strangford is a religious fanatic. Sorry to say it Edvard but your hated rival seems to be the only brightner not off is rocker.
Not off his rocker... Yet... (There's time, there's always time) 😆
Edvard would say that is because Astor can't even do insane correctly. He sucks at that too. Like everything else he does.
@@jodinsan why can i like only once, you are briliant
What's great is that Astor's reason for maintaining the Barricade is exactly what Edvard brought up when he first learned of it: the world would be absolute chaos if magic were to continue to exist, with people turning into bears or summoning eldritch energy in their palms.
Astor and Edvard totally agree on the topic, and it's hilarious that they can't realize that.
This aged badly huh
Wow, Barnaby got to keep his coat! And... the leader of the Dimmer Sisters as a new ally. Nice.
He hasn't been losing it a lot recently, it's a gag you don't realize you miss until you realize it stopped happening
I think to make up for it the other three need to have destroyed one of Barnaby's coats in their (presumed) struggle with the Red Sashes
I've been wanting to know what happened to the other species of Geth and why there were only humans and demonic descendants and finally got an answer. I love it.
Also, this is the episode that finally got me wanting to play this system desperately. Before I had it on the backlog, but now I want to set up a group for this immediately.
If you guys notice this before it airs, just wanted to point out that overindulging does clear out all stress!
Also you get trauma once you reach the final stress box, not after you surpass it, so Zillah should have been traumatized 2 episodes ago.
Regardless, this has got me more excited than DnD recently, and I've been playing dnd for 5 years now!
Tbf Jane was playing under the assumption that that wasn't how it worked, so I feel like it would be cruel to give her trauma. She'd surely have made different decisions had she known.
Not to put words in your mouth lol.
Also, I'm shocked how much I love Blades in the Dark. I wasn't too sold when they first announced it, but since the very first episode it has just been consistently incredible. I love the more serious, darker tone, the bigger emphasis on role play, and the unique mechanics.
@@ceilingfanenthusiast6041 that's true, just thought of it as a fair heads up!
and yeah honestly this journey has been great and i cant wait to play it with my friends!
You also have to remember that the GM can alter the rules a bit to suit their party. And even in the Oxventure they're pretty loose with a lot of the rules as well. It's one of the thongs I absolutely love about how they all play. Remindes me of the D&D games I used to have with my friends back in high school. At one point we even started making our own version based on DBZ.
I agree about the stress clearing, it was kinda unfair to Barnaby sadly, but at least the circumstances were funny, with him mouthing off to and getting punched by the same dudes two days in a row.
As for the stress thing, Luke might just have been nice to her. Admittedly, I also did this one time when a player had cursed luck with rolls and resistances and was about to get their third trauma per three sessions, I gave them this extra box and said they are on the verge of gaining trauma so they stepped back. It was kinda rulebreak-y but hey, you help when you can.
great episode, loved all that rp, poor Lilith got the worst of it. i love that ending.
Lilith: Oh no
Barnaby: anyway
I can't keep commenting enough, as much fun as I can tell the Oxventure crew likes doing these and the Dungeons & Dragons videos that they all depend on the amount of likes they get compared to views. I know I like watching these videos, and I think if you all do too you should smash that like button!
I Love the OxBox team TTRPGs! This Episode really shows how strong Barnaby can be when he’s not playing comic relief. I also love how the Blades in the Dark series has smaller scores to highlight each player. In the Oxventure episodes I sometimes feel like Ellen gets a little glossed over, with this set up I can really enjoy each character and get to know them more.
Luke is a fantastic GM and I’m glad he gets his own series in this format. (I kinda wanna GM a BitD score after his inspiration)
You know, with how much Barnaby’s family has in a lot of institutions, I wouldn’t be surprised if it was revealed that Barnaby’s family actually runs the city lmao
Or major players within a group that does
The stock sell-off on Barnaby's part was a terrible move. Darnell would be a fool to not immediately expect Barnaby either had forewarning or a direct hand in the incident. There will be consequences.
On the other hand, Barnaby is widely known to be a drunken idiot who somehow survives his own Barnaby-ness by sheer dumb luck. It's *entirely* in-character for his public persona for him to have accidentally made bank off of a momentary fit of panic.
Barnaby making terrible moves that implicate him heavily is just classic Barnaby.
I like how Andy has manage to create a sherk meta
Mike/Barnaby has gone Galaxy Brain in this season! 🤯 well done, sir!
I've never been one for these D&D streams but just recently moved and found a local Comic, Card and Hobby store which I never knew existed in my local small city a few weeks ago and was given a warm welcome.
Turns out they do multiple D&D campaigns two nights a week and invited me to join when they plan to start a new one when College starts back in early September! I'm big into my Roleplay and RPG style things, was big into NeverWinter Nights as a kid and creating my own Custom servers and online roleplay servers early 00's, so now I will just start sharpening my skills catching up and watching these D&D videos while grinding in FFXIV 😸
“And this is Lilith my spiritual adviser” mike that was too cleaver and funny your going to have to go back in the box
How is it every week I am more excited than the last? More Dimmer sisters? Yes please!
I love this whole episode, but I really love Barnaby selling his shares before Darnell sees that the Dimmer Sisters are gone. That entire sequence is priceless and brilliant. "With a dash of insider trading" being just barely audibly under Luke as Darnell talking was a delight.
Tabaxi: Oh ho ho ho... The price just went up. I will charge One Gold Piece!
I absolutely died at Lilith being Barnaby's "Spiritual Advisor."
Also, what ever happened to getting an extra downtime action if you weren't in that last score. I know it wouldn't apply to this one, since everyone was in the last one, but it seems like that's been set aside?
It sounds like they each get 2 no matter what.
Somehow Barnaby even made profit on a non profit mission and solved the gangs money problem.
1:11:16 At this point I started whistling what I imagined to be the electric lights music, until I realized it was the Gold Saucer theme. ...You're welcome for putting the Gold Saucer theme back in your head.
I love that Darnell now thinks Barnaby is brilliant and ruthless whenever he quits drinking.
I cannot believe how much of an absolute legend Barnaby is.
When Barnaby and Lilith get together, it's always an excellent time!
Iron Hook shouldn't be financially ruined, he still has the leviathan whaling business.
Both Lillith and Barnaby were on excellent form for this one, great work chaps!
Mike is brilliant. As Egbert, he lets himself have his moments, but I feel like Barnaby is consistently very clever
Well, you know, if it's going to be any of us, I'm glad it's me.
I love Barnaby so much.
I love how excited Lilith gets at the spooky parts, lol
I love how smart Mike is with playing his characters, being both silly and helpful to the group. Everyone is a joy to watch.
"A pair of Dimmer Sisters are to be burned at the stake" Well that's really not okay, it's an inhumane form of execution, and I'm not convinced any of the Sister necessarily deserve to die, so yes, you should certainly try to rescue them. It *is* a big ask, though, given the security, the public nature of the event, the-- "It's Rosie and Josie" SAVE MY PRECIOUS GIRLS AT ALL COSTS
*Barnaby takes another sip of his drink*
Before this episode I was wondering just what happened to all the fantasy races in this future of Geth and FINALLY this episode gave an explanation
Barnaby will drink only the best spirits to toast the spirits of his fallen friends. That's the spirit Barnaby old boy!
It makes the throat smoother, and it is green- thus the name, green smoothie. Also, "I believe it's called a 'pump-and-dump'" Barnaby is the coldest HobbyHorseman by far
I would like to know what WOULD have happened if Lillith hadn't scrambled through all her options to find some way to avoid them being killed or captured by the Red Sashes. Were the other three going to have to rescue them in the next episode? Would it have led to a totally different route to the conclusion of the season? So many possibilities, nullified by a carefully-hinged floor constructed by an amoral criminal cat-man with a French accent.
omg the lore that master westaway weaves. simply amazing
Barnaby can't tell his Astor from a hole in the ground.
If the Red Sashes found Barnaby and Lilith in a place they don't frequent and according to Kellenor they were going to get her too, does that mean they are going to go after the Gut-Cutters?
I don't think we need to worry about the Gut-Cutters.
No, they only went after Kelly because she was a previous Brightoner. So Gut Cutters are fine 😊
Sounds like Lilith got several hours of the weirdest and leas relaxing ASMR possible, lol.
I'm so happy I was worried after the last episode that this would be the finale. but nay is better heck yes more Oxventure more blades in the dark I'm so happy thank you thank you love you guys
Well after those title bumpers in the end credits I think you may still have cause to worry.
Frankly with the whole Barrier mystery in this second season it seems like the foundational change of the setting is about to be unraveled.
I just don't understand why. This seems to be a successful and fun little series so it feels rather early to simply call it.
As a francophone, I find the French tabaxi trend in the Oxventure completely hilarious...I love it!
Can’t wait for the endless string of “flashback: trapdoor”’s that has been allowed into canon.
Barnaby seems to becoming the most dangerous member at this point
He is the butcher after all
Ooh the first 3 hander next week. Should be fun with Edvard Zillah and Kasimar. Kasimar is going to have good fun killing him some Red Sashes
The next episode is 3 crew members?
@@Lord_Of_Night Luke said the Red Sashes we're going after the others so I can imagine it is.
@@IndianaMiller82 Yeah. I don't think they'd do a one person episode.
WHY AM I JUST SEEING THERE'S A SECOND SEASON OF BLADES IN THE DARK?! I know what I'm listening to today.
God Baranby is absolutely on point as always! Mike does an incredible job playing him.
That was not how I was expecting the episode to end but gods I’m terrified.
Cart-on-the-road's alternate nicknames:
Cart-before-the-horse
Rene-des-Carts
tall-Cart-on-of-water
22:52 Ah, yes. I seem to recall there were at least two Baccari, and that they left the really crazy one in place to maintain stealth and vaporised the potentially less crazy one in order to escape. ^^
My thoughts on Lilith's Basilisk and trap door at the end: "She really wants to avoid this twist doesn't she!"
Man, shit just got real. But I do have faith that the others found some way to escape the attempts on their lives
One of the things I love about roleplay is the GM can 100% plan a certain "cutscene", but with enough creatively (and as long as the GM isn't obstinate about it), it can be averted
probably my favorite episode in the whole series, amazing job from everyone!!!
Rewatching this series and forgot how brilliantly Barnaby is played by Mike.
"I drink to _not_ know the true shape of reality." Barnaby is a man who understands himself deeply.
'bit of jinn'
excellent genie pun ellen
Looking forward to watching this with birthday cake 😊
Happy Birthday!
Happy Birthday😀
@@EJAndrews13 Thank you!
@@joachimkatz7495 🥰 thank you
Happy bday(possibly belated!)
Think we'll see the WMM walk through the passageway of the veil?
Next episodes complication: Keleanor dies of dysentery.
I've been DMing for my family, and as of the last session, it's canonical in my world too that Tabaxi all have French accents. 🥰 So glad I clicked on one of your videos almost two years ago when I was just starting to research D&D!
Loved the subtle knife reference, Ellen!
Is it just me or is Lilith and Barnaby the most dangerous team up among all of the Hobby Horses?
Maybe Lilith and Kasimir? Depends on what's happening
They might be. They're both smart and kinda ruthless 😂
Ha, even a pretend French accent is one of the weaseliest sound ls ever . . . the actual sound of it is hilarious. Even when a frenchman is threatening to kill you in a shouting rage, it still sounds no different to when they're begging or trying to flirt. It's so fucking funny, great people stuck with a little shy child of a voice all round
"Level 1 Harm: Touched Hair"
[stops touching own hair]
I’m just starting to watch this, I’m assuming Barnaby has this in the bag again
Barnaby does just about everything at least half in the bag lol
Barnaby is the best part of any blades in the dark
Who thought BARNABY would turn out to be the mastermind?!
Haven't been this on edge from a cliffhanger since the Season 10 Finale of Murdoch Mysteries. This is almost painful... At least with this, I don't have to wait six months for answers
Even a week seems far too long though...and none of my friend watch, so I can't even speculate with them 😭
Wow, next week is the last episode? It feels way too soon. I hope they’re just taking a hiatus or there will be another season. Also no spoilers but what a cliffhanger!
What?! Nooo! I defo hope there is more, its so good - and they do all seem to have a lot of fun with it, so fingers x'd!
I hope it’s just the season. I think they had a similar tag for the Orbpocalypse saga’s final episode.
I’m not sure it is actually, I think “to be concluded” is just referencing the fact that the narrative for next’s week’s episode has already been set up. Kind of an odd place to end the season, I expect to at least see the barricade before then. I hope it isn’t the end!