S3E11 — Blood Feud 1 — Havoc v Isha Inverraseth


Champions and players	byConnieChang (Connie) as Havoc; blackgirlmage (Lexi) as Isha Inverraseth
Result	none. The Grandmaster freezes the fight, which continues in Blood Feud 2
Arena	the Grandmaster’s “dark city”, a foggy, silent village of small wooden huts under moonlight
Hosts	Caustic Phoenix (Grandmaster Elusia Skypiercer, chaos event, the lamp genie, scene narration); Mudcat (the Arbiter, Gerald / Box of Chaos, the werewolf pack, rulings)
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What happens

Opening — the Dread Fortress throne room

0:00:53 “We have returned to the Dread Fortress! Chaos is home.” The Arbiter comes in through the subterranean entrance, his chains still clanking at his ankles and wrists. Drew interrupts his own narration: “We get it. You have chains. You describe it every single week.” The Arbiter: “I’m still a prisoner.”
0:01:22 The Grandmaster suggests he bedazzle the chains, perhaps with real gems from “some treasuries somewhere in the dungeon.” The Arbiter: “I’m going to definitely put a pin in that one.”
0:02:00 The throne room is dark. Only moonlight comes through the windows, every candle is snuffed out, and a cold breeze raises goosebumps. Elusia sits on her throne under a giant blanket pulled over her head, with Doug the Pug on her lap. She is reading him an ancient, worn book of monsters from woods, deserts and sky. Doug shivers at every page.
0:02:53 She points out a zombie, with sunken undead eyes and a jaw hanging askew. To the Arbiter: “Come, you’re a bit of a monster yourself. Tell Doug about the zombies. You should know firsthand experience. You look like one.” The Arbiter points at Doug, “who is literally a cyborg zombie.” The Grandmaster covers Doug’s ears: “He doesn’t know that.”
0:03:54 Glad to escape the scary stories, Doug hops to the Arbiter’s feet, actually excited to see him “for once in his life.”
0:04:14 The Grandmaster asks whether he has brought “at least two worthy champions this time.” The Arbiter: “Two, one and a half, we’ll see.” She lights a few candles.
0:04:32 The Arbiter slams his chains on the ground. The ringing reverberates off the walls and rips open a portal. “Grandmaster, for your pleasure tonight, Havoc versus Isha!”

The champions

0:05:05 — Havoc. “A brick shithouse”: six foot four, light brown skin, thick tangled black hair “like the wine dark waves of a storm-tossed ocean,” and steely gray eyes. Scars cover her muscled body. The one that draws the eye is a jagged, roughened cut on the back of her right hand that looks older and kinder than the rest. She wears a long tattered black cape, crimson and obsidian sleeveless leather armor and bright gold chains. Across her back is a 60-pound maul with a gnarled, weighted steel head and a jeweled pommel. “She’s a blunt, brutal weapon of death.”
0:06:03 Havoc chuckles: “This isn’t what I expected when I dipped into that lake to take a bath.” The Grandmaster: “You won’t find water here, but perhaps you’ll get a bloodbath after all.”
0:06:34 Havoc asks: “What are you, a god? A pretender to a god, perhaps?” The Grandmaster: “This is not the day for answers from me. At least not yet… Perhaps if you win, you’ll stand a chance.”
0:07:05 — Isha. She is shrouded in darkness, and eyes slide away from her because something about her is unnatural. At first all you see are shadows of footsteps, then she reveals herself. She is very tall and vampire-like, with dark brown undead skin, black hair shaved at the sides and pulled into locks down her back “for hunting,” glowing pulsing red eyes, and a smirk. She has thick archer’s arms and many belts, clips and pouches, “prepared for every situation.” Her dark cape is tattered, ripped and blood-soaked, and tattoos cover her arms and hands. She carries herself elegantly. She raises a palm in a wave: “Huh, this is unexpected. But not unwelcome.”
0:09:12 A shadow passes over Havoc’s wolfish face, and her gaze sticks on Isha’s raised palm.
0:09:35 Isha: “I’ve been hunting you for some time now. I knew one day it would come down to this.”
0:10:03 Havoc: “The Lycan Slayer. Ah, yes, the packs have been whispering about your ilk. Traveling about the weavespun forests, hunting down shifters. And yet, you haven’t taken any fighters from my pack yet.” Isha: “Wherever your shadow went, I followed. And whenever I killed anyone that seemed close to you, it just didn’t feel right… So I was saving you for last.”
0:10:54 Asked why, Isha smiles. Her canines elongate, and she raises her palm again: “For this.”
0:11:13 The Grandmaster brings a candle close to look: “What is this? Some bond, some broken memory?” In the light, Havoc sees on Isha’s palm a jagged, symmetrical mirror image of the scar on the back of her own right hand, which itches in response. Her hand twitches toward her maul. “Isha?” “Now you remember me.”
0:12:07 Havoc thought Isha had died. Isha: “After you killed me, right?” Havoc: “No… I didn’t, I spared you.” Isha: “Only in vitality. You left me… I was your choice and you chose differently and left me alone in that forest, bathing in my own blood. And now I’m going to make you bathe in yours.”
0:12:46 The Grandmaster is delighted. She slaps the Arbiter on the back: “I think you’ve actually done well this time.” She calls it a grudge match (“weapons in hands because this is how we talk here”) and asks to hold both their scarred hands. Havoc grips hers like a crushing vise, her eyes never leaving Isha. Isha takes it “way less delicate, but more precise.” The Grandmaster: “I like to hold hands with everyone.”
0:14:00 “Arbiter, would you summon the portal to my dark city?” Magic particles from the Arbiter’s palm coalesce into a singularity, and a black void rips open with misty fog rolling out across the floor.

The arena — the dark city

0:14:37 The Grandmaster leads them through onto brick and stone ground edged with dirt. It is a sleepy, quiet, eerie town: fog snakes through every crevice and alley, and moonlight is just enough to see by. The buildings are simple small huts about 10 feet tall. There are ghost footprints everywhere, but no one is heard or seen.
0:15:30 Her wings open and briefly part the fog, which rolls back thicker. “Turn this dark blue land into red. Change this fog into a river of blood.” Doug, terrified of the two champions, lets out a small fart, and she flies up to her seat with him.
0:16:30 The Acolytes, almost ethereal, cheer from above in “a haunting, gorgeous choir,” demanding blood. The Grandmaster: “You will be witnessed by my acolytes, my people, those who I love and care for. So do not disappoint them… And if that’s true, then you may return home.”
0:17:29 Havoc: “Oh, so our pain is meant to be a spectacle, isn’t it?” She half suspects she is drowning at the bottom of the lake and hallucinating. “Doesn’t this take you back… to that fateful night when there were other hungry eyes watching us, another fight to the death?” Isha: “Nobody deserved what happened to us… I believe our burdens were shared at the beginning and will be shared at the end.”
0:18:26 Havoc: “If you truly are the Lycan Hunter, I have to pay back your debt in blood. As the new alpha of the Kingslayer clan, I cannot just let this pass.” Isha: “I think you have bigger things to worry about than some little pack.”
0:20:23 The Arbiter: “I feel like I’m interrupting here, so let me get the fuck out of the way.” His white wings carry him into the sky. Initiative: Isha 16, Havoc 14.

Round 1

0:21:10 Isha’s undeath has “stilled the blood in her veins, but brought new life to something deeper.” Her eyes glow brighter red. She leaps for a rooftop, barely catches the edge and rips off shingles. She uses pure strength, clawing into the wood: “this could be you.”
0:23:52 Havoc kneels by her maul and laughs “like a war drum being beat by a vicious hand”: “Oh, Isha, skipping arm day.”
0:25:33 Isha: “I never skip leg day,” and tries a somersault across to the next house. As she runs, Havoc calls out advice: “Brace your knees for landing. You are always so bad at that when we were kids.” The advice hurts Isha’s feelings, and she crashes to the ground between the houses, hurting her right knee.
0:27:34 Havoc sniffs with her bestial snout: “I don’t smell blood. Maybe you didn’t crack your skull open. Come on, get up. Fight me.” Isha: “You could never tell your ankles from your knees, from your arms, from your elbows. That’s not how bodies work… I was perfect at it when I was younger.”
0:28:10 Havoc: “Maybe I’m not drowning in some half-baked lake out in the Whispering Woods. And if that’s so, then the Isha I know would have picked herself up by now.” Isha: “Why don’t you use more than just your fists and your silly little nose and get over here.”
0:29:15 Isha casts Pass Without Trace and hides (stealth 36), which makes her effectively invisible. “Come fight me,” then silence.
0:30:31 — Flashback (built by both players).
- Isha was the bookish one, the runt of the litter, slow to grow and the last of her class to hit a growth spurt. She knew everything from books but never went outside, so everything physical was three times harder for her to learn.
- She was picked on even by the nerds.
- Young Havoc, “an outdoors non-binary butch lesbian” as a child, burst into the village library and beat the bullies off with a huge stick, a “progenitor” of her maul: “Hey, fuck off! That’s my friend!”
- Havoc kept supporting Isha. Isha always wanted the sides of her hair shaved, and Havoc cut it for her in a bathroom somewhere off in the woods, while Isha was nervous (“I gave you your first queer cut”). Isha: “Gotta kill the barber.”
0:33:33 Havoc is a beast-hide shifter: shifting gives her temporary HP and +1 AC.
0:34:57 She kicks in the door of the hut 10 feet away (strength 23); it goes down “like a drawbridge.” Inside are a small main room with a stove, a table with four tucked-in chairs, two closed doors to bedrooms, two windows on the left and a curtained window on the far side.
0:36:22 Havoc barricades the windows with the table, chairs, cabinets and a big cast-iron pan, leaving only the door open so Isha can’t shoot through a window. As she works she shouts: “You know I had no choice, you think I wanted to do what I had to do to you. I didn’t. If you just come in here and we talk, we can talk. But if you want to fight, we can fight too.”
0:38:04 “That oath we swore, I have carried it on my palm, etched across my heart every night since. No moon has passed that I haven’t thought about you… but I thought you were dead.” She rages: her eyes turn bright gold, and a pillar of pure primal light bursts harmlessly out through the roof. Afterward a soundless wind whips around her, as if she were always swimming, and power ripples off her shoulders. The Grandmaster fans herself: “Wow, this is a show.”

End of round 1 — hero points, the Box of Chaos and the lamp

0:39:47 “For once the Arbiter and Grandmaster agree. Don’t keep counting on this.” The Acolytes chant “Fight!”, and each champion gets a hero point, described as an energy drink in their hand: “Just remember to use it before you die.”
0:41:06 The Arbiter snaps his fingers: “Let’s pick it up a notch.” The Box of Chaos falls hundreds of feet and lands with a thud in the street. A column of pink and yellow fire shoots up, and Gerald lifts his yellow-eyed head out with clawed shadowy hands. You may sacrifice anything to the box for a magic item.
0:42:00 — Chaos event. Isha is invisible, so Havoc rolls (11). A small gold lamp drifts down and lands softly beside the Box of Chaos. Inside her barricaded hut, Havoc only hears it, with ringing bells “like a Disney World fireworks show.” Havoc has been to Disney World and loved it. “Everyone thought she was like a character actor when she was shifted.”

Round 2

0:44:11 Isha: “Havoc, you always were one to run away from your problems, and here I stand… Hiding is what kept me alive all these years.” Havoc: “Then I’m glad you did it, Isha.” “You won’t be glad for very long.”
0:45:05 — The teeth. Isha goes to the box. Gerald: “What’s up?” “Nothing much. What about you?” “Nothing. Just hanging out in the box, dealing chaos.” She can’t offer a soul, because “I don’t have one because I became a vampire.” Instead she offers her teeth: “I guess I only need four. I never got my wisdom teeth out so you can have them.” She reaches into her mouth and pulls out her own wisdom teeth. Gerald: “Perfect. This will go create my teeth jar.” Bec wonders whether this makes Gerald a tooth fairy.
0:47:22 The lid flips open again with a column of magic fire that gives off no heat. Gerald floats over a dagger: “I found this. I’m not using it.” It is Tinderstrike, an uncommonly sharp flint dagger with sparks cascading off its edge, which makes its wielder resistant to fire.
0:49:24 Isha picks up the gold lamp and scouts the hut. She sees only curtains, not the barricades behind them; the chimney is on the far side.
0:50:33 — The Molotov. Isha takes the tinderbox and an oil-soaked cloth from her explorer’s kit and lights it with Tinderstrike’s sparks. “I’m going to smoke you out.” In the doorway: “You wanted me to face you, you wanted me to fight you. I’m going to make you regret it.” She throws the Molotov on the ground in front of her and steps through the flames into the house. The old, dried-out wood starts to catch.
0:53:19 Isha needs a moment (“I have to process this… It’s emotionally difficult”). The Grandmaster offers a 10-minute break and looks at Doug, who is doing his potty dance. Isha: “Take care of your dog… We will stay here. The fire keeps roaring.” The champions stay in the burning hut through the break.
0:54:23 After the break the fire wicks up the walls and smoke fills the air. Isha, who doesn’t need to breathe, draws the smoke into her lungs and lets the fire burn around her feet. “I’ve been waiting to do this for a very long time.”
0:55:01 — The arrows. She uses Steady Aim. Her longbow is spectral, made from “a force of grief and shadow that traces her every footstep”; it drips like ink that turns to dry-ice vapor. She forms each arrow as she draws. The first arrow is a nat 20 that pierces straight into Havoc’s heart, and a second arrow hits as well. Havoc, who had been leaning forward in a chair Isha calls “your throne,” is slammed back against it as if by a hammer, then pinned again by the second arrow. “Oh, Isha, when did you learn how to handle a bow that well?”
1:01:41 — The vision in the arrow. The shadow is “years of regret”: whispering voices (“Put her in the ground! Put them in the ground!”). Then comes a glimpse of a young girl, still in the clothes she wore when Havoc left her, walking house to house gathering what she could, finding a bow, and training through a time-skip, tears in her eyes at every age, until “the bow has completely melted into her hands.”
1:04:28 The fire climbs both walls, and the bedroom doors burn away to reveal empty rooms.
1:04:41 — The maul. Havoc’s maul glows red from the heat “like a steel blade… in the maw of a furnace.” She charges and attacks recklessly. The first blow is a glancing hit (it exactly matches Isha’s armor), an uppercut to Isha’s jaw. The second pounds her down onto one shoulder. “So you’re up and then you’re down.”
1:07:50 The burning building starts collapsing, and flaming wood drops from above. Both take a little fire damage; both are fire-resistant (Isha through Tinderstrike, Havoc through her bear-spirit rage, which resists everything but psychic).
1:09:23 Havoc: “Let’s take this outside. We’ll decide this under the night sky, the same way it began, just you and me.” She slings the maul across her shoulders and walks right past Isha. Isha is honor-bound but blinded by rage. She holds Tinderstrike out and lets Havoc walk through the blade. Havoc looks down at her: “Isha, come on. You can do better than that. Fight me, out here, even terms, no tricks… Just you, me, our weapons, our teeth, our fists.”
1:12:21 — Havoc defies the arena. In the dark town square she stops by the whispering Box of Chaos and addresses the crowd: “You and all of you, Acolytes, is that what you’re called? You seek to laugh at our pain. You seek to exploit our grief. I refuse. I refuse to abide by the terms of your game. All that I care about right here right now is you, Isha.” She swings the maul to slam the box’s lid shut. “No one has attacked it before.”
1:13:35 Gerald answers with a hellish rebuke. The box slams shut, and pink and purple flames, hot this time, erupt from its cracks and push Havoc back. Havoc rolled a nat 1 on the save; even her second roll fails. Someone remarks, “You didn’t have to be a dick about it” (speaker uncertain).
1:14:39 Havoc: “I see a willing accomplice. Isha, drop these games. Face me. Forget the Grandmaster. Forget that other heretic. Forget this box of flaming skeletons. It’s about you. It’s about me. It always has been… Drop your weapon and face me.”
1:15:12 Isha: “This is about the blood we shared on that day. This is about my palm burning every single time I killed someone that wasn’t you. So for once, I will listen. But after this, you have no mercy from me.” She tosses Tinderstrike to the ground.
1:15:39 Havoc lifts her maul one-handed, muscles bulging (“fan service”), and shows the scar rippling on the back of her hand: “We live together, we die together. You still have that mark on your palm. You still remember your oath, don’t you?” Isha: “This is somewhat of a hymn to me… these words come to lose meaning after time.”
1:16:44 Havoc: “I spared you in that forest, I hoped against hope. I raged against despair. I prayed to gods I have seen my pack devour that you would be okay… and now you stand before me not a ghost, not a wraith, but what? A self-made angel of death? I guess we have that in common.”
1:17:33 Isha: “I wish with every inch of a heart that does not beat in my own chest that it didn’t have to be this way… You left me there staring at the sky, hoping something would finish what you had started… So your biggest mistake was leaving me alive.”
1:18:44 — Havoc’s side of that night. “The wolves that slaughtered our village would have slaughtered me too if I had done anything but rip you within an inch of your life. You know they sent me out into that forest to hunt you, to kill you, and yet I left you standing. That wasn’t a mistake… Your life, to me, has never been a mistake. It has always been beautiful.” Isha: “I seem to think of this as nothing short of abandonment while you think of this as nothing short of a miracle.”
1:19:22 Isha rips off her coat and throws it aside. She draws two short swords; her body is lean, a sculpture she made of herself. She spits a mouthful of blood from her pulled teeth. In flashes of lightning she looks less angry now, and tears trail down her face again, like when she cried as a child.

Round 3

1:21:55 The Grandmaster: “Do not just focus on one moment of your past. Remember the lifetime that both of you have taken to get to this point. The promises you have made to yourself… Now with daggers in hand, what do you want?”
1:22:43 Havoc: “If this isn’t just an illusion or some twisted dream because I drank too much barley beer… All I’ve ever wanted was for the back of my hand to stop itching. To fulfill that oath. We live together, Isha, or we die together.” Isha: “Then I guess we die together. That’s what I want.”
1:23:16 — The short swords. Isha walks slowly toward Havoc, swinging the short swords with the force of a maul. The first blade slices across Havoc’s chest. The second, a nat 20, drives toward Havoc’s still-bleeding heart. Havoc spends a luck point to force a reroll: “No, eyes unclouded this time.” It still hits, and Isha declares the blow non-lethal. Havoc’s tough skin turns the edges; it is the force of Isha’s anger that hurts.
1:28:11 Isha’s tears turn from clear to shadow trailing down her face as she becomes “almost like this vengeful spirit.” With each swing: “You left me. You left me behind.”
1:30:21 — The eagle. Isha drops Pass Without Trace and casts Healing Spirit as a spectral, bright gold eagle circling overhead. Both players say they share an eagle; Havoc has an eagle spirit too. It shines only on Isha, against her shadowy look. Her words get quieter: “You abandoned me. You left me behind.”
1:32:33 The Grandmaster reminds them they still hold hero points, and that Isha has “the lamp that jingles at your side.” Chat votes for the lamp.

The lamp genie

1:34:00 The lamp is deceptively sharp. Rubbing it cuts Isha for a drop of blood. Green smoke slithers out and forms a humanoid: “What is it that you want?”
1:34:51 Isha: “What is that, a little shrub?” Genie: “Just because I’m green doesn’t make me a shrub… I’m power, kind of powerful.” He grows bigger. Havoc: “I’ve never been anywhere like this before.”
1:35:22 — “Genie.” “You ever heard of a genie?” Isha only knows the word from books and has never heard it said aloud; she has to have it spelled (G-E-N-I-E). Havoc: “Isha, you’re the smartest person I’ve ever known… Look at this book smart nerd. They’ve learned everything from a tome.”
1:36:04 The genie asks Havoc what she is: “I am a Lycan. I am Havoc. And this is my maul.” He turns away, unimpressed.
1:36:22 The genie asks for a gift. Isha tries to “pocket” him for later, and he is offended: “You summon me, I get insulted for being a bush.” Payment, he says, is already made: “it’s with blood!” Isha: “I will treat you however you would like to be treated, I promise, but I do have a wish.” His eyes widen, and he squints at her: “Say that last part again.” Havoc: “No, no, Isha, don’t.”
1:38:29 — The wish. “I want to go back to where it began.” He claps faster and faster, the smoke swells, and poof: both champions are back at their round-one starting points. Genie: “I can’t believe you made it so easy for me… I was thinking I’d have to be clever.” Havoc, from across town: “It’s just like that time, you took those bullies’ words literally. Just meet me by that chest thing that’s full of fire.”
1:39:44 — The hero point. Isha takes her energy drink: “I meant what I said. I want to go back. I don’t want this battle to happen here in this meaningless space. And if I were to die, I’d rather die where you left me.” Havoc: “I understand… Heretics, angels, devils, demigods, divines, whatever you are. Can you grant her that wish?”

The pack

1:40:40 The Arbiter: “You guys want to go somewhere else to kill each other, that’s fine by me… but they’re going to want to come too.” Dozens of werewolves Havoc recognizes climb onto the rooftops and come out of the alleys.
1:41:38 Isha: “Are these the ones you call family now?” Havoc: “Yes… They’re not evil like we think they are. There was a reason they slaughtered our village. They were hungry. Vampires were chasing them out of hunting territory.”
1:41:57 Pack: “We’re a pack. You can’t leave or lie to us.” Havoc: “I never thought you’d find out… the girl is not a problem. She is not a threat.” Pack (Drew): “Oh, we know she’s not a threat. Because you’re going to finish it. Or we will.”
1:42:31 Havoc turns back. Isha: “I’ll do it.” For the first time, Havoc cries, and lifts the maul again: “Isha, I’m sorry.” Isha: “Took you long enough.” Havoc: “Then let’s die together,” and she hauls the maul back to slam it down.

The freeze

1:43:27 The maul freezes just before it lands. The air freezes, and both champions are held solid as statues. The Grandmaster touches down and moves Havoc’s weapon away: “This battle will continue, and we will have blood. But it is not going to end here.”
She strokes Isha’s frozen face: “You will have your wish and you will find the grounds that you once stood upon. You will not be cheated out of that right.” To Havoc: “And you will need to choose a side and prove who you really are and what you truly love.”
1:45:31 The Grandmaster to the Acolytes: “The battle may not have ended. But it should remind us that there is always a fight going on in our hearts, in our minds, with all of our body. Be sure to join us to see the conclusion of this on D20 Deathmatch.”

Dried Blood (after-show)

In-character farewells (canon, Dried Blood)

1:59:37 Each is pulled away to a demiplane to train. Isha, disappearing: “Wherever their shadow goes, mine will follow. This isn’t the last you’ll see of me.”
2:00:25 Havoc, for the first time, looks deeply conflicted as she is pulled away, looking at her werewolf family, who want her to kill the Lycan hunter “that’s been stalking all of werewolf kind”: “A blood debt, like I said, Isha, must be paid in blood, but if the brokers are corrupt, why do I swing my maul?”

Out of character — creator notes

1:47:05 Drew: this is “our first two-parter”, the first organic one; Battle for the Crown was planned as multi-part.
Connie and Lexi had orbited each other in tabletop for ages but had never played a streamed game together. Both see themselves as story-first players; Lexi calls them both screenwriters.
Plans that changed:
- The town originally held hidden hunters (Bec: “Are they vampire hunters?”). The perception rolls were checking whether the champions’ noise drew them.
- The plan was a later map change back to the square with the hunters as a chaos event. The fire made Bec drop it (“we don’t need people interfering”).
- The wolf pack reveal was decided mid-show, with Bec and Drew typing in the background.
The genie (Bec, a creator ruling on lore): “It’s actually a knockoff genie… he’s called a weenie instead.” He has limited powers: ask for a cool weapon and you’d get a balloon weapon; ask for a companion and you’d get a stuffed animal. Lexi: sending them back to the first initiative spots was the most magic he’s spent in years. Bec: “he’s gonna go back in there and sleep for a very long time.” Bec felt bad that the genie disrupted the mood.
Drew: “the last time somebody tried to get some sort of wish granted in the arena, they ended up morphed together in the same body.” (Bec: it would have become a psychic battle; Lexi: “the get along shirt.”)
Bec worried werewolf v vampire is a familiar tale, but praised the fresh relationship.
Inspiration: Lexi mentions Darren Shan’s Cirque du Freak and recent vampires-and-werewolves talk. They went for conflict between iconic monsters made personal. Connie: “Let’s make this lesbian drama.”
Plans for part 2:
- Connie: she expected a one-shot, hence the heavy exposition. In part 2, Havoc must choose between “this love that they thought they lost and this new family they found that their love hates”, and the pack did kill their village.
- Lexi: Isha “is not a good person”; she killed many werewolves and “probably still doesn’t see that killing those other werewolves was bad.” She is “almost stunned,” waiting for Havoc’s choice to push her. Both see their characters as neutral evil.
- Bec: the werewolves have been an “easy otherization” for Isha, but they are Havoc’s family. Bec closes: “We’re going to reveal more in episode the blood feud two.”
Drew notes it’s odd that nobody died, then asks for final words.

Who and what appears

Characters

Havoc (Connie Chang). A Lycan (werewolf) and beast-hide shifter; in wolf form a black dire wolf with gold eyes when raging. New alpha of the Kingslayer clan.

Gear and powers:
- The 60-lb maul (gnarled steel head, jeweled pommel).
- Bear-spirit rage (resists all damage but psychic), reckless attacks and a luck point.
- Her rage manifests as a harmless pillar of primal light and a soundless wind around her.
- Has an eagle spirit.
Lore:
- Arrived in the Void while bathing in a lake in the Whispering Woods.
- She has been to Disney World and loved it.
- Childhood: Isha’s protector. She beat off bullies with a stick and gave Isha her first undercut.
- The night: after wolves slaughtered their village, the wolves sent her to hunt and kill Isha. She tore Isha “within an inch of” her life and left her alive.
- She believes the pack attacked because vampires were driving them from their hunting grounds.
- Calls the Grandmaster and the Arbiter “heretics” / “pretender to a god.”
Acts and defiance:
- Refused to strike first and refused the arena’s “game.”
- The first champion to attack the Box of Chaos, and Gerald burned her for it.
- At the end she cried and swung to kill, choosing “let’s die together.”

Isha Inverraseth (blackgirlmage / Lexi). A vampire with no heartbeat who doesn’t need to breathe, has no soul (“I became a vampire”) and has elongated canines. Known as the Lycan Slayer / Lycan Hunter among the packs.

Gear and powers:
- Rogue skills (cunning action, sneak attack, Steady Aim).
- Spells: Pass Without Trace and Healing Spirit (a golden eagle).
- A spectral longbow of grief and shadow, two short swords, explorer’s kit and many pouches.
Lore:
- Childhood: bookish runt and bullied, but “the smartest person” Havoc has known. She learned everything from tomes and didn’t know “genie” was pronounced that way.
- After she was left for dead: she gathered a bow from the village houses and trained for years.
- The hunt: she has hunted Havoc’s shadow through the weavespun forests, killing those close to her and saving Havoc for last.
The scar: a mirror image of Havoc’s scar on her palm, which “burns every time I killed someone that wasn’t you.”
In this episode:
- Pulled out her own wisdom teeth for Gerald.
- Set the hut on fire.
- Wished to fight where Havoc left her.
- Said “I’ll do it” when the pack demanded her death.

The oath. Matching scars, on the back of Havoc’s right hand and Isha’s palm, mark a blood oath: “We live together, we die together.” It was made with shared blood “on that day.”

The werewolf pack (Havoc’s pack / family). Dozens of werewolves who appear on the rooftops when Isha asks to leave. They ordered Havoc to finish Isha long ago: “Because you’re going to finish it. Or we will.” Member names heard: “Asmodai,” “Gerald” (uncertain). One reference to an “elder wolf” (1:04:08).

The lamp genie (“weenie,” per Dried Blood). Green smoke in a deceptively sharp gold lamp; he takes payment in blood. He is touchy about being called a shrub or bush, and is a knockoff genie with limited powers. He granted Isha’s wish to return to the starting points.

Gerald / the Box of Chaos (Drew). Laid-back (“Just hanging out in the box, dealing chaos”). He collects “all kinds of shit” and is starting a teeth jar. When Havoc struck the box he retaliated with a hellish rebuke of pink and purple fire.

Grandmaster Elusia Skypiercer (Bec). Reads Doug monster stories under a blanket. Promises the winner may return home. Froze both champions mid-blow, promised Isha her wish, and told Havoc to choose a side. She ordered them sent to separate planes to train.

The Arbiter (Drew). Still a chained prisoner of the Grandmaster. He opens portals by slamming his chains, and has white wings.

Doug the Pug. Scared of the monster book. Per the Arbiter, Doug is “literally a cyborg zombie,” which Doug doesn’t know. He farted in fear and did a potty dance.

The Acolytes. The Grandmaster’s “people, those who I love and care for,” cheering in a ghostly choir.

Places

The Dread Fortress throne room and its subterranean entrance.
The Grandmaster’s “dark city”: a foggy, moonlit village of small wooden huts, with ghost footprints and no people. One hut burned down in this episode.
The Whispering Woods (Havoc’s lake) and the weavespun forests (where Isha hunted).
Havoc and Isha’s slaughtered home village, with its library, and the forest where Havoc left Isha: “where it began.”
The two separate planes/demiplanes where they now train.
The Grandmaster’s treasuries “somewhere in the dungeon.”

Items

Tinderstrike (flint dagger, sparks, fire resistance), from Gerald in exchange for Isha’s wisdom teeth. Isha dropped it at Havoc’s request.
The sharp gold lamp and its genie.
Hero points as energy drinks.
Isha’s Molotov (tinderbox and oil cloth).
The Grandmaster’s monster book.
Gerald’s teeth jar.

Lore statements

The Grandmaster says champions who don’t disappoint “may return home.”
Wishes in the arena are dangerous: a previous wisher was morphed into one body with someone (Dried Blood, Drew).
Gerald retaliates when the Box of Chaos is attacked.
The Grandmaster can freeze champions in place and pause a Deathmatch to continue later.

Quotes by character

Havoc

0:06:03 “This isn’t what I expected when I dipped into that lake to take a bath.”
0:06:34 “What are you, a god? A pretender to a god, perhaps?”
0:10:03 “The Lycan Slayer. Ah, yes, the packs have been whispering about your ilk.”
0:17:29 “Oh, so our pain is meant to be a spectacle, isn’t it?”
0:18:26 “As the new alpha of the Kingslayer clan, I cannot just let this pass.”
0:18:53 “Oh, Isha, you will find very soon that there are few things bigger than me.”
0:23:52 “Oh, Isha, skipping arm day.”
1:03:20 “You buried them. Every single one of them. In the background of your training, I saw graves.”
1:12:34 “You seek to laugh at our pain. You seek to exploit our grief. I refuse. I refuse to abide by the terms of your game.”
1:14:39 “Forget the Grandmaster. Forget that other heretic. Forget this box of flaming skeletons. It’s about you. It’s about me.”
1:18:44 “Your life, to me, has never been a mistake. It has always been beautiful.”
2:00:25 (Dried Blood) “A blood debt, like I said, Isha, must be paid in blood, but if the brokers are corrupt, why do I swing my maul?”

Isha Inverraseth

0:08:10 “Huh, this is unexpected. But not unwelcome.”
0:10:26 “Wherever your shadow went, I followed… So I’m saving, I was saving you for last.”
0:12:24 “I was your choice and you chose differently and left me alone in that forest, bathing in my own blood. And now I’m going to make you bathe in yours.”
0:25:33 “I never skip leg day.”
0:44:11 “Hiding is what kept me alive all these years.”
0:45:54 “I never got my wisdom teeth out so you can have them.”
1:15:12 “This is about my palm burning every single time I killed someone that wasn’t you.”
1:17:33 “So your biggest mistake was leaving me alive.”
1:19:22 “I seem to think of this as nothing short of abandonment while you think of this as nothing short of a miracle.”
1:23:16 “Then I guess we die together. That’s what I want.”
1:39:44 “I don’t want this battle to happen here in this meaningless space. And if I were to die, I’d rather die where you left me.”
1:59:37 (Dried Blood) “Wherever their shadow goes, mine will follow. This isn’t the last you’ll see of me.”

Grandmaster Elusia Skypiercer

0:02:53 “Come, you’re a bit of a monster yourself. Tell Doug about the zombies. You should know firsthand experience. You look like one.”
0:03:41 “He doesn’t know that.”
0:06:23 “Well, you won’t find water here, but perhaps you’ll get a bloodbath after all.”
0:12:46 “You know, Arbiter, I think you’ve actually done well this time.”
0:15:30 “Turn this dark blue land into red. Change this fog into a river of blood.”
0:16:30 “You will be witnessed by my acolytes, my people, those who I love and care for.”
0:39:12 “Wow, this is a show, okay.”
1:21:55 “Do not just focus on one moment of your past. Remember the lifetime that both of you have taken to get to this point.”
1:43:27 “This battle will continue, and we will have blood. But it is not going to end here.”
1:43:27 “And you will need to choose a side and prove who you really are and what you truly love.”
1:45:31 “There is always a fight going on in our hearts, in our minds, with all of our body.”

The Arbiter

0:01:21 “I’m still a prisoner.”
0:01:40 “I’m going to definitely put a pin in that one.”
0:04:19 “Two, one and a half, we’ll see. You never know till you know, right?”
0:20:23 “Well, I feel like I’m interrupting here, so let me get the fuck out of the way.”
0:41:06 “Let’s pick it up a notch.”
1:40:40 “You guys want to go somewhere else to kill each other, that’s fine by me. I can make it happen, but they’re going to want to come too.”

Gerald (Box of Chaos)

0:45:05 “What’s up?”
0:45:17 “Just hanging out in the box, dealing chaos.”
0:45:31 “That’s okay. I collect all kinds of shit. What do you got?”
0:46:15 “This will go create my teeth jar.”
0:47:42 “I found this. I’m not using it.” (speaker ID 01)

The lamp genie (Bec)

1:34:00 “What is it that you want?”
1:34:51 “Just because I’m green doesn’t make me a shrub, are you kidding me?”
1:36:57 “You summon me, I get insulted for being a bush.”
1:37:12 “There’s no… you’ve already paid, it’s with blood!”
1:37:35 “You promise?… Say that last part again.”
1:39:36 “I can’t believe you made it so easy for me to come up with.”

The werewolf pack (Drew and Bec)

1:41:18 “I thought we told you to finish this.” (speaker ID 01)
1:41:21 “It looks like you didn’t do what you were supposed to do.” (Bec)
1:41:57 “We’re a pack. You can’t leave or lie to us.” (Bec)
1:42:20 “Oh, we know she’s not a threat. Because you’re going to finish it. Or we will.” (Drew)

Canon notes

Blood Feud 2 was never played. The feud is unresolved and unlikely to return.
The “Gerald” Havoc names in the werewolf pack is probably a different Gerald from the Box of Chaos. (Havoc says the line at 1:41:14.)

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