Oxventure Presents: Blades in the Dark - MURDER AT VOLISPORT ACADEMY! Chapter 1 

Well, given the participants, it is a variant of "Everything's gone a bit Mike...."

@@ebony1442 dont think I've heard that one. What's it from?

@@WizardPete One of the Hitman playthroughs from last year or 2018, I think. Jane said it when Mike ended up having to shoot his way out of a situation about 3 minutes into the mission.

"Oh, here he comes! This is going to be so hilario- I am terribly sorry for your loss; especially since I am, more or less, the cause of it."

Edvard's Series of Foreseeable but Untimely Events

I need this

And then some guy called Astor, from a rival fraternity, gets all the credit for the prank and becomes a legend at the school.

Which is actually what would happen with most of the usual movie pranks if they happened in the real world.

In that order

Ah, so a distraction tool. Nice.

You mean Edvard’s jacket?

It is a glorious jacket.

Too much focusing on what this year's Rag Week prank would be...

And do! They get to the bottom of things within the night, and subdue the perpetrator so nobody else gets hurt while rescuing a (relative) innocent caught up in things. But yeah, great analysis.

And! Spoiler to anyone who hasn't watched part 2: Edvard is the ideal person to have known Lilith's secret, seeing how he reacted to it with simple scientific curiousity. While I don't doubt that the others would also be chill with her secret, but from a story perspective, Edvard is the most fitting. Again, what with both of them being the academic-minded of the group.

Not faster than the Bluecoats. They cracked the case in minutes! Clever cogs. It's always clever cogs with them academic types, innit?

Really he should be a quarterback

It used to be such a nice neighborhood until these ruffians fell out of the sky

"Today's weather forecast includes light showers of angry dudes, followed by an easterly flow of rampaging ghosts"

Don't forget the occasional moonbeam 🤣

Yup.

Yep. This hit hard. Oof.

You lot got cancelled lectures?

Eh, being French one year at my uni (Sorbonne) costs 120€ in administrative fees.

Yes, this.

The real Wonderful Mechanical Man was inside you all along!

A prototype innovention automaton escaped from the Astor labs... it explains everything and nothing.

@@cordeliaseil So that's what's causing all this pain?

the project is still not quite done, (or is it?) however once it is they should do that.

I have a question that I think Edvard needs to answer: what is the purpose of the Marvelous Mechanical Man?

When there's literally someone else in the world. Luke's evaded his telling us all this time. Don't worry what people say, be a dad. A dad is a lot for one person to be. But, I believe Luke will put up a fight to be the best father figure and will do alright 'cause he's cool.

@@sleepytime999998 Key change!

I genuinely thought he was gay until now lol

Andy would probably take nine stress irl and gain one Trauma: Unstable.

Probably one of those cave-berts

Ghostberts?

@@beowulfsrevenge4369 Ghostberts

@@beowulfsrevenge4369 my friend I think you mean Eggdolons I admit that joke was terrible

@@josevst7274 it made me chuckle :-)

The tea is from Edvard's new patented Travel Tea Jacket. The reservoir is in the back of the jacket and through the combined power of friction and your own body heat, the tea is kept at optimal drinking temperature. Utilizing a small mechanical squeeze pump concealed beneath the left arm, the tea is dispensed down a tube and out a nozzle fitted at the right wrist directly into a waiting tea cup (not included). In a pinch, the Travel Tea Jacket can also be used as a personal defense item: With a more vigorous flapping of the left arm, hot tea will be forcefully expelled into the vulnerable eyes and face of any would-be assailants. This feature, of course, was designed intentionally, and not discovered accidentally while trying to demonstrate the jacket at a party that Edvard was then forcibly removed from while the other guests tried to tend to their screaming, scalded hostess, no matter what outrageous lies that crooked Astor might be spreading.

And the cup itself is another invention, the yet to be patented "Lumiere Wonderful Utility Travel Teacup" or "LUWUTT" for short, it is a great invention to accompany The Travel Tea Jacket. It is made from hundreds of tiny, heat-treated metallic rectangles that are connected by thousands of even smaller hinges for ease of foldability and versatility, yet still retains the feel and colour of the highest quality porcelain due to a special Lumiere-brand paint it is coated in. But that is not all! Due to its foldable nature, it is of course capable of being stored in a space the equivalent of an average sugar cube, but through vigorous testing (and not accidental fiddling intent on impressing his friends with) Professor Lumiere has developed alternate uses for the item, which include: As a napkin, as a nose-guard, as an automatic eye-patch, as a small box-cutter and last but not least, as a functioning stun baton. We advise you get the Lumiere Wonderful Utility Traveling Teacup alongside the Travel Tea Jacket for your tea-drinking experience to always be excellent, comfortable and most importantly, INNOVENTIVE! (Disclaimer: Lumierecorp cannot be held liable for any accidental cuts, bruises, shocks, scaldings or potential house fires from the LUWUTT product's hidden experimental flamethrower function. Please use our products safely and take every opportunity to tell Amadeus Astor that he is a jerk, a thief, a fraud and an idiot!)

"Ah, so it WAS the taser."

In all seriousness I am excited for tomorrow! :D

Give them a chance, they will probably find something to do.

@@SirStanleytheStumbler yeah you are right about that xD

As long as they're not the ones getting Crum, it's fine.

Sure they are, trespassing is the lovely crime

That would be hilarious. Corazon's exhibit is him standing over the corpse of an owlbear he didn't slay and Ladsenkaldin.

It would be hilarious to see how accurately time remembers them. Sure, there's a statue somewhere of Corazón, but it's probably not labelled such.

He has a stature from the time he was a king for like 3 minutes

@@dragoria20 Like there is an exhibition about their exploits but everything is kinda off, Egbert is a t-rex and Corazon looks like Captain Crunch.

@@johnoneil9188 Prudence is a scary spider demon all red with horns and a forked tail. Dobs probably just Saint Francs of Assisi but a half Orc with penchant for helping orphans. He probably never got over building that orphanage...

*666* "Oh My Sweet Satan"

That, or the Dartmoore Level in Hitman.

I don't see the similarity not a Butz in sight...

@@Musikur Won't lie, I forgot the tutorial mission existed and was thinking of the first proper mission, which is technically the second mission. Where he has to find out who killed his mentor while her ghost assists him.

@@georgesears934 how could you forget the wonderful name-pun that is Frank Sahwit and Phoenix’ amazing “Frank Sahwit? More like Frank Didit!”

@@dunadan1995 I think people tend to forget it since it isn't repeated as much as the gag of people mistaking Larry's name for "Harry Butts". But I would agree. Phoenix's epic pun at Frank's name felt like a hoard of lava-spewing rattlesnakes biting me in the butts and then melting my skin off.

Or the school from Silent Hill. Either or.

Novelty rubber stamps and ink pads could be the Next Big Thing in customised merch. Great idea!

Well have you seen their amongst us series? Andy's reaction to his own stack kill was amazing!

Oxventure the Masquerade

@@majdramadan8404 YES

She spoke about it in one of the podcast episodes if i recall

A thousand times YES

HOW DO I SUPERLIKE A POST?

Hopefully we'll get to see some of them in flashbacks =)

Prudence is absolutely Miss Fortune from Fallout.

Andy has an impressive ability to wear clothes. Anybody can put on clothes, but Andy can Wear them.

Sort of unconvinced about bid system makes for good tale telling. Balances the DM /player load well. In DND much more on DM But can't shake the Deus Ex Machina feeling from "flashback" mechanic.... But moves story along

@@jasonudall8614 I think that is the point of flash backs

This made me smile

Some puns take commitment.

LOVELY CRIMES! LADS LADS LADS!

LADS LADS LADS

Reins reins reins reins reins reins.

I honestly hope that if it's canon, it's ruined by the end of the adventure.