Ravensholm S01E01

Stream Opening
[Paul drinking tea, realises they're on] "“We’re live are we?  We up?  We up? We’re up.'""'Hi, and welcome to Questing Time, a thing that is apparently working”"

Summary
"“We begin in the Forgotten Realms.  Far to the East of Baldur’s gate, on the Dragon Coast, in the city of Westgate, where they don’t write adventures about so I can get away with stuff.'"

"'It’s an unruly settlement, rife with Danger, Crime, and their problematic child… Trouble.'"In the first episode of the Ravensholm campaign the players annoy a necromancer, fight Jason Statham and his thugs, and ...

Highlights

 * Claire somehow(?) disguises herself as a cloak.
 * First appearance of the Honk song!

Intro
The Amazing Claire, Reverend Jack Hardcastle, Phillin Blanks & The Rough Knight have been working together for a while, taking on odd jobs such as guarding shipments of goods, killing massive rats in a shop basement and, on one occasion locating a pan for an old lady.

We join them just after they’ve spent 20 minutes killing more rats in a warehouse basement, earning them 5 gold. They exit the warehouse into the merchant quarter at sunset, with rain falling, and people buzzing about packing away stalls for the evening.

Construction Zombies
The party investigate an alleyway blocked by a zombie and discover Lemuel Dansvey, an elven necromancer who is using a horde of zombies to demolish an old warehouse. After interrogating him for a bit, three of the team head back to the inn, while Claire sneaks back to find out more. For some reason she decides the best course of action is to climb on his back and pretend to be his cloak. Somehow, this works. As far as she can tell everything is as it seems, but when she climbs down and Lemuel realises shes there he jumps in fright and sets the zombies on her. Claire escapes, and runs back towards the inn.

The Call to Adventure Inn
While relaxing by the hearth with a pint of beer & a bowl of stew, Phillin notices a suspicious man (with a remarkable resemblance to Jason Statham) pretending to play cards while apparently signalling to an accomplace at the bar. Phillin mentions this to Ruff and Jack, but before they can act, the second man steps outside & returns with two more thugs, and the first man stands up and shouts to Jack. He reveals that his name is Leduke Leadbetter. Jack arrested him and his family for petty theft a few years ago, before he was kicked off the force, and he's back for revenge. Leduke and his men attack.

Trivia

 * The character portraits are switched, which Paul doesn’t realise until 5 minutes into the stream.  Matt Highton has Jack’s picture, Richard Soames has Claire’s picture and Briony Redman has Phillin Blanks' picture.  Only Rufus Hound has the correct picture of Ruff.
 * Rich’s connection is terrible throughout, as it will continue to be for the first few episodes.
 * Phillin attempts to sign away his corpse after death, but is talked out of it by Ruff.  He later goes ahead with selling his corpse to the Dustmen in Sigil.