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Ep. 73 Nyx Yeet - Bellum Draconis
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As our group continue on, they come across a huge magical tower associated with the name, Fizzlebang.
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Intro written and produced by Joseph McDade
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Introduction to the Fellowship of the Tabletop
00:00:00
Speaker
Oh my god, I thought Nix was about to die for the second time in this campaign.
00:00:30
Speaker
Hello everyone and welcome to this week's episode of The Fellowship of the Tabletop. Bellendricornis, we are a live play 5e D&D podcast set in the magical home-brewed world of Aerith in the Kingdom of Sleetguard. Joining us for this week's episode, we have Darin who plays the Hyatt Elf Artifice of Rainshadow. Hello. We've got Will who plays the Dragonborn druid Baal Valkon. Nyeh nyeh nyeh. And he plays the Tiefling Warserer Nyx Carell.
00:00:58
Speaker
What's up? Callum who plays the Warforged Artifice at Alpha. I need to do some disc defragmenting. Will he plays the human cleric, Emron?
00:01:07
Speaker
sup my name is mark and i'm playing the human blade singer seph farrell reaver and last but my name is least is our master of magic a commandant of command combat dfd of dnd dungeon master danny would you believe mark reads from a script everyone when he does this and still that's what we get it's hyphenated he's written in the abbreviation shorthand yeah that's all you get
Journey and Exhaustion
00:01:50
Speaker
I give it my all. I give it my all. I give it my all. I give it my all. I give it my all. I give it my all.
00:01:52
Speaker
across sleep guard and now wet and besodden kind of like a dog or like one of the cats from aristocats and they get really really wet and all the hair gets battered down we see old girl perched on the back of a cart unaware of the weather still staring intently into his orb
00:02:12
Speaker
Ooh, walkin' talkin'! Damn, the group gettin' reunited. Seth Dunne did go and have a look at Nix's arms and see if he got any seein' freaky goin' on down there, but don't find nothin' of interest. Just a little tattoo that's been there for a while of a compass. The group start debriefin', findin' out what's been goin' on, find out that Alpha isn't quite right. Rain's done, there's a little closer looky-looky, and see some necromancy. Ooh, dear.
00:02:38
Speaker
Set them by doing some shady talk too as the group decide to start walking ahead towards Snake Run. It's gonna take them about six days travel free if they put on those sandals, but fuck that apparently. Anyway, Emron can't get it up and by that, I mean too, I can't come out on cue. I mean, he probably could get it. I never asked him. Hell, there's a pill for that anyway.
00:03:01
Speaker
Anyway, he starts talking about himself and Reigns meeting in a bar in Shadow Man, making some sort of arm, and it took them five years to make Alpha. Oh, shit, that's a lot of time. Anyway, he starts doing some sort of how to make automatons for dummies, for nicks, and carries on talking them through it.
00:03:22
Speaker
Seth wanted to do a little bit of showing off with that magic disc. He gone running himself around and he gets exhausted because he's a bitch. Anyway, it turns out that Emron's not the... Seth's not the only person taking exhaustion. Emron also taking two points of exhaustion from a long day's travel because that's a natty one, baby. And when the group starts setting up for rest, they see some sort of blue glow to the east. Five, six miles away, ominous, unusual.
The Mysterious Blue Glow: Danger or Settlement?
00:03:50
Speaker
The fuck knows what that is? Emron explains that Alpha done fucked with Prago and turns out he's getting progressively worse. So the group decide that they need to make saving Alpha their priority. They need to save themselves or find themselves a healer. And at the end, that blue light done did pulsing that even more, giving some sort of jolt through the group. Let's find out what happens next. So good. You awake at sunrise.
00:04:21
Speaker
The night passes without incident, just as Baal predicted. The temperature once again returns to that uncomfortable heat. Seth. Emron. You awake. Healed. Restored. One stack of exhaustion remains. Half of any spell slots recovered.
00:04:53
Speaker
The day is yours. Press on. There are two remaining preparation guides that the party can pull from at any point for any dice roll they make. Listeners from last week, you remember, based on Baal's survival role. I'm counting that as sort of a journey preparation event that awards the party some extra resources just to help out. One of those D6 was spent last year
00:05:19
Speaker
time out on a constitution saving throw, there are two remaining to use for this journey. So the day is yours. You orbit wake one by one. What do you want to do? I think given the, probably the sun rises
Approaching the Metallic Tower and Orc Encounter
00:05:37
Speaker
quite early, I think, and they're sleeping outside. Everyone's woken up. He's packed away his chain mail into his pack.
00:05:46
Speaker
hoping that if they when they get to snake when he'll be able to put it on because he does want to risk the fact that, you know, shit's gonna go down. And he's gonna be walking around in just his shirt and trousers and that kind of stuff, you know. Anyone else make any wardrobe adjustments? But make sure that everyone makes sure your AC is reflective of what's currently? Yeah, I dropped out. I just factored in my shield and that kind of stuff. Okay. Anyone else any wardrobe adjustments?
00:06:15
Speaker
Seth would have shuffled off his mortal coil of a jacket and has been using it as a pillow probably through the night and then would tuck it awkwardly into a satchel bag he's got on top of the critical one as well. He's holding onto that just in case it might come in handy. Are you wearing sleeves?
00:06:32
Speaker
He's got a white shirt on underneath. It rolled off. He's fully sleeved. They are at the moment down because deserts in the night are cold. And so he would have kept them down. And then, but yeah, through the day, he will roll them up. When he gets warm, he gets hot. Everyone, if you're particularly focused on those sleeves. No, no, I'm not. I'm just asking. Okay. The point where Seth will be rolling those up.
00:07:03
Speaker
Mark, you should let us know when that is. Absolutely. Everyone's got no reason to obsess over sleeves. Same as yesterday. Is the blue light still fully visible, like even when the sun's coming up? Whoever had the last watch, we'll say for argument's sake that Nix took that. The blue light sort of only dissipated because the sun rose.
00:07:29
Speaker
The level remained the same. There was just that one pulse that a couple of you spied, but really it sort of took the breath out of Seth. Seth, you know, that's not shared knowledge, but you know, some of you would have just noticed that. It's like when the sun rises and you let the light on in the room, the light's still on, but it's not the most dominant source of light.
00:07:50
Speaker
and it's on the route, it's literally the direct route. Yeah, it is Eastwood where you are heading. Okay, and would Baal have seen it the night previous as well? Oh yeah, because it was him that saw it, wasn't it? Yeah, everyone spied it with Baal after you. I'll make that known to the group then.
Magical Interference and Potato Peeler Incident
00:08:07
Speaker
Just so you're aware, something slightly unusual last night still apparently seems to be there. I can't make head or tail of it, but it lies directly in the direct route towards Snakerun. Is it not normal within the desert? Pulsing blue lights. Well, it can mean several different things, but none of them seldom meaningless or passive. Did it change all in the night, Nix?
00:08:38
Speaker
No. Okay. No. Could it be some kind of settlement that's not on a map perhaps? It could be. Who's to say? I mean, we've got to walk that way anyway. I know. I'm just trying to get ourselves. How far away do you say it was? Well, it looks at our pace from last night. I'd say it looks about five or six miles away at our pace. That should be an hour or so. Well, time to find that quality.
00:09:09
Speaker
We don't know how much of it Alpha is going to need in reserve. So is it worth considering? I know you don't like this bar using the sandals to speed up our movement. You could use the sandals or you wish. I'll be fine. I'll keep a pace. I could put you on the disc. Oh, there's an hour for a kingly ride. Yeah, it is just an hour. Sorry about that. That's fine. No, that's perfect for what I need.
00:09:40
Speaker
Alright, have we all got a pair of these central things? Yeah, we did pick up enough for everyone. What? Well, I'm in for it, if it's okay with Baal and everyone else. If you wear them for a bit while we make breakfast and break camp, I think they should be working. I'd strongly suggest we make tracks sooner rather than later. For some of us, and now Baal will cast an eye towards Seth, Emron and Rains, even though Rains obviously smashed it last week.
00:10:11
Speaker
For some of us, the sun is harsher than others. All right, we get your subtext. If we get time to attune to sandals, Daniel, I'll attune to them. Yeah, I'll say that's something you do in that waking hour before you depart. Alpha will also attune or attempt to, just out of curiosity, was when I was first cursed,
00:10:38
Speaker
obviously attuned items happen and fuse themselves. Is there anything different that happens with the sandals? No. No, just normal. So correct me, it's minus one to our AC, isn't it? Minus one to AC, but you're not hindered by sandy, difficult terrain. Alpha, you also need to reduce your hit point maximum by one, please. Yes, I do. Thank you.
00:11:04
Speaker
Seth and Nix, are you wearing sandals so we can get an idea of pace? Yes, I'm wearing my sandals. And does that mean minus two to my AC? Minus one to the AC. Minus one. I would have put these on sooner.
00:11:24
Speaker
So, by AC, goodbye health. All bar bow, now able to benefit from easier movement. Bow getting a disky, disky lift for the first
Orc Enchantment and Failed Negotiations
00:11:36
Speaker
hour. So, anything else we want to do? What are you going to press on? Time to waste him. We've got a warforged to save. Press on. One nakavolo. Help me. So,
00:11:51
Speaker
you'd manage to cover what would take you half a day yesterday in half of that time. So by the time you even start to belly rumble towards the lunch vibes, you are within half a mile now of this, the source of where the light was. And as you move closer, the dunes sort of build that,
00:12:19
Speaker
variety in size once again it takes you a while to get to the point where you think the source of that light exists and just as you sort of round this quite steep dune there in front of you is this tower this tower that i can only really describe
00:12:35
Speaker
If you haven't got an image in your mind of it, please Google it. The FIFA World Cup trophy. It's like this platform, this pedestal with this orb at the top, this huge pedestal. But this thing towers about 80, 90 feet and then has this big dome upon it.
00:12:59
Speaker
afterwards to about 120 feet the entire structure. And about 200 feet out in almost like a clock-like pattern are these signposts. Again, you're not close enough to really take in what the detail is there, but it's almost like a perimeter is made outside quite a fixed and rigid perimeter away from the base of this tower.
00:13:26
Speaker
That's what you can sort of glean from there. The tower itself is made out of sort of this metallic cladding. And then those of you who are arcaneically charged for want of a better expression, those of you who sense magic, sort of have a, not you, everyone, yours comes from a different source.
00:13:52
Speaker
but the rest of them are not Yuval, sorry. So really I'm talking to Nix, Seth, Raines, and Alpha. You just feel this electromagnetic pull. It's not like saying, oh, go in and explore, but it's just like, it's like a wind is just blowing towards you, really.
00:14:13
Speaker
How do you want to advance? What do you want to do? It's not just like you're at that point now where you could just continue east, but it is to the north of you now.
00:14:24
Speaker
Is there any signs of Kriskra style? I'm thinking purple. I know it seems stupid, but banners or anything like that that would link it in any way, shape, or form to the Kriskra. This distance, but half mile out, make an investigation check at disadvantage. You're looking for big, obvious heraldry signs and iconography on you. That's a zero. A Kriskra bat single. I know it's a one, sorry, with a natural one.
00:14:50
Speaker
and you really can't tell. You're like, it might be threatening, it might not. Hey, Cabal, you know this area most. What is this? Not a fucking clue. Cool. I'm feeling rather magically gifted right now from this. Looking at all the other magic users in the group. I don't know.
00:15:19
Speaker
considering we have need of magic right now, it might be worth just putting a head in. It wouldn't take long, though. We could investigate, I suppose. Just quickly. I'm thinking you never know. There's a charge in about the police. How far away is the tower, Danny? Half mile at the moment. Okay. Well,
00:15:46
Speaker
Alpha, you're the one with stakes in this here. I'm kind of inclined to agree with Nyx, because I feel it too. But you're the one who's got more to lose than the rest of us. I believe a shaded place to rest could also be advantageous, even if it may just be for a few minutes.
00:16:07
Speaker
That's the biggest yes we're going to get, let's go! Of course from the top, we could also use it as a viewpoint to check our route, just check if there's any damage. Let's go! Rarely will you find an abandoned tower in the middle of nowhere, but... Danny, as we move towards this, as we're half a mile away, Reigns has just got out the potato peeler and is pointing it in its direction, and it's just going to cast Detect Magic as a ritual as we walk towards it. Does the potato peeler have an AC, Darren?
00:16:36
Speaker
No, it's a potato peeler. Does it have a hit point? I would imagine it's one, so it's probably about to explode. You raised this potato peeler in the direction of the tower. You activate a spell and your potato peeler disintegrates into about seven or eight separate pieces. Shit. What were you trying to do with that?
00:17:04
Speaker
I was trying to detect magic and you can detect magic over half a mile. Wow. It looked like it worked. Well, well, I don't know. It's something. Yeah. I mean, I don't, I mean, everyone, you asked that question as if I always know the answers to what's going to happen before, before I do it. And that, I assume that's how your magic works.
00:17:26
Speaker
Yeah, well, as I say, Artificery is the game of discovery. And what I have discovered is if I point my potato peeler at that and try and cast Detect Magic, it will disintegrate. Gonna note that one down in the old book. Do you have another one?
00:17:47
Speaker
I mean, I could, I've got something. How close are we? Ah, the fissure is about using things as a conduit. I could technically take a stone I found on the floor and use that. The potato peeler was more for show. You're probably approaching quarter of a mile if you continue to advance after Reigns' attempt. Is that 30 feet? No. No.
00:18:10
Speaker
I will wait until we're 30 feet. Okay, so let me know. As long as you keep advancing, you get to past this quarter mile point and you're about 200 feet out. And that's where you can see this outer ring of signposts that are scattered in like a clock formation. Signpost is about 100 meters, sorry, 100 feet from you now.
00:18:39
Speaker
What do they say? It says in common, the following, or at least the one you've approached does. Leash of the desert. Leash of the desert. Another line. Another line. No shelter to be had here. Another line. By order of fizzle bang.
00:19:06
Speaker
What? You can't be putting this in. I'm sorry, who? You're giving this to me now. You're giving Alpha the clock. And then you also said this is not shelter. I can't not look at this. Site his ex-character. I can't not look at this. I mean, it could be any of the fizzle bangs to be fair, you know. It could have been 1 through to 900.
00:19:37
Speaker
Danny, how does the terrain look between the tower and the signs? It's still sandy but it's scorched in various places. There are no sort of footprints from the sign onwards and as you look towards the base of the tower you can see
00:19:59
Speaker
humanoid figures, quite hulking large humanoid figures at the base of this tower. You're approaching from the north, you're the shadow, so it's still early, late morning now, the shadow from this tower is to the left of you and it's casting quite a distance out towards the west. Is there a loose rock or pebble nearby? No, this is immaculately flat.
00:20:28
Speaker
This is almost hewed and landscaped. This ring, this 200-foot ring that exists around the tower. Can I pull out a copper coin? I want to flick it over the perimeter of the ring of signs. It lands in the sand?
00:20:53
Speaker
Okay. I was just, what fizzle bang is. Hold on.
Investigation of the Tower and Magic Counteractions
00:20:57
Speaker
Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. This, this, this alpha book, the book, the book we read, the, the, the, the one about the, the adventure, the one by, by, by cast and what's his face. You are one of the perfect memory fizzle bang. Why do I know that name? Why do I know that name alpha? Um, um, somebody, um, um, guys, I'm turning into folly now.
00:21:22
Speaker
Backpack, back something to do with Shrine and did something. He was somebody who traveled with the dragonborn and other heroes of the Blight, cast and spoke very highly of somebody called Fizzlebang in the stories.
00:21:44
Speaker
I believe. Um, he was, um, it's back, it's back, it's back. I got it. I got it. It's really worrying that your perfect memory is failing you, by the way. He's the, he's the little dude. He's the guy with the buck pack who, who, the, the, where the blight fell. He's the one they make the shrine after he's still there.
00:22:04
Speaker
He had a backpack and apparently, when the Blight finished, the backpack remains and now where the Blight was at, it's like most worse, the bag remains as like a monument. Right, but he's a hero. Yeah, exactly. So this is a place to go into. Well, it's a double conundrum because yeah, that.
00:22:27
Speaker
It's Backshot. Backpad sounds like... You've got to come back from Backshot. It does sound like the kind of magic... I mean, you know, any kind of making an artificery does sound like a bit of bullshit.
00:22:43
Speaker
How big are those guys that are around the perimeter? They're 100 feet wide, you say? Yeah, it's hard to get a sense of scale right now. What Seth said and what Nick said. Do we want to go... Are we planning on going in there? Let me just talk to him real quick and I'll give you like a sign to say it's safe. Let me come with you because I can... Feel free to come with you. You seem like you're really good with people. Everyone's going to put his chainmail on.
00:23:12
Speaker
That's okay. I don't know if that's a lacking confidence of myself, but I was going to quickly nip over to Nix and just kind of put his hand on your chin, kind of lift it up, stroke your cheek a little bit. And he's going to cast enhance ability on you. Eagle splendor. So you've got advantage on charisma checks. Nice cute. Okay. Seth, we're doing this.
00:23:42
Speaker
Yeah, I'm good, but I'm not going to do any talking. Yeah, that's fine. That's, that's the, now you're in my wheelhouse. Watch and learn. And if this goes on to off, if this goes pear shape, you're in my wheelhouse. Yeah. Okay. Gotcha. We are right behind you. Okay. So you're just straight up strolling. Yes. And as I get to an audible level, uh, Nick's is in a,
00:24:14
Speaker
Hi, hi, hi. Hi. You got any water? It's really hot out here. Could do with some aid. Nix is getting closer. Any aid necessary. It's really warm. Me and my friend here points to Seth. Just could do with some water if you have any.
00:24:38
Speaker
I've got gold, Nick's getting closer. What's it looking like as I'm getting closer each time? So as you're getting closer, these figures, I'd say you are maybe about 50, 60 feet away. So you've probably got good ISAC now. These figures are orcs, not half orcs, not a marauders build. These things are marauding hulks between eight and nine foot in height.
00:25:07
Speaker
size incredibly broader than anything you've sort of seen recently. Nukes, this isn't going well. No, and they're orcs, they're orcs. Yep, yep. It starts. From your approach, there are about four shapes.
00:25:23
Speaker
And as you get louder and closer, four more merge, four more emerge. And there are 12 orcs forming a line. They're not acting very aggressively. They're moving quite in unison without much animation.
00:25:47
Speaker
but you're slowly beginning to approach in one sort of curved wave formation towards you. Not charging. Sorry, Seth. Sorry. Seth knows a little bit about Folly because he was kind of semi there, saw him bits and pieces, knows what he was famous for and his kind of capacity of magic. We've seen his name on the sign.
00:26:16
Speaker
We're assuming that's funny. Could I, I want to be looking at like the edges of the orcs to see like, can I get a sense?
00:26:26
Speaker
Basically, I want to do an arcana check. Is this real or is this like what he's just been through, where he's imagined or seen something that isn't real through some kind of magical illusion, basically checking it. Sure. I don't know if arcana is the right, I think insight is probably the best one. You're trying to ascertain whether what you see or investigation is a reality. If you're reading people, you're reading, I would rule insight. Yeah, five. You believe it to be what you're seeing.
00:26:57
Speaker
He will... So you're saying they don't look aggressive? They aren't like...
00:27:02
Speaker
They aren't charging or getting to arms. They are just walking in unison, forming that shape as though they are bouncers. Almost like bouncers, really. Okay, cool. He's going to reach down to his spell book and he's going to be holding on to the lowest tab he possibly can. Not preparing anything, but just a bit of flavour that he's preparing for the worst, but isn't going to do anything. He's still in Nick's game at the moment.
00:27:28
Speaker
Sorry, while you're doing that, you just feel a really involuntary shake with the hand that's holding the spell book. You don't have control of it. Who does? Who does not? As you're like handing that bookmark, you just feel your hand tremble. As in I'm no longer holding it or just... No, you're holding the book. There's just a shake that is involuntary to you and you're not...
00:27:55
Speaker
You were a soldier once. You have a really good understanding of your body. And you know that your body is not causing that shake. The shake is coming from the book that you are grasping. Okay, gotcha. Yeah, okay, cool. Thanks. Nick, sorry, I interrupted. No, not at all. So, Nick's still walking forward, but both his hands palm facing towards the orcs up
Rescue Mission and Tactical Retreat
00:28:14
Speaker
in the air.
00:28:14
Speaker
Yeah, just some water. Me and my companion here, we're merchants, traveling merchants. We have wares to sell and noticing that, you know, the fizzle bangs, they could do with some wares maybe, but we're in need of some water. Moving closer, moving closer. So we're just here to maybe trade or barter. We come in peace. Just talk to us. We can help you out.
00:28:41
Speaker
Moving closer. You stand now maybe 20, 15. Stop me if you're at the point where you want to be stopped because they will just match you. You're about 15 feet apart right now. Literally to their toes, toe to toe. Okay. So you get within five feet. You'll get adjacent to them. They are all staring at you.
00:29:06
Speaker
You can't see the whites, the colors, the pupils of their eyes. There are just these blue sort of flare-y lights in front of them. As you sort of look right down this curved line, left down this curved line, you notice that they're breathing in unison. They're animating in unison.
00:29:37
Speaker
And they're just staring at you. Okay. So Nick's wall in one kind of swoop, take his hat, his pirate hat off his head and bow low. Nick's corral at your service. And then does he hear anything from that? Nothing. Cool. Looks up, still in a bowel position, which just kind of looks up to him. He's still feeling that magic charge in the air, right? Taking a leaf out of Reigns' book here.
00:30:07
Speaker
Nix is just going to close his eyes and with his left hand, because his right hand's got his pirate hat on and that's across his waist and his left hand was out in the air and like a flourish, his left hand's just going to draw like a sphere in the sky. It's like a purple kind of electricity light, almost like an orb. And as that orb kind of just vanishes, he's going to cast Detect Magic.
00:30:37
Speaker
What's he getting? As you go to release that spell. Oh, come on. It disappears. Do I feel it disappear for me? Do I know that it was successful? You know, you've been counterspelled. The power of the fizzle. Uh, Seth, your boy's just been counterspelled. I'm not sure what we're seeing here is. I think this might be part of our minds.
00:31:07
Speaker
Magics at play here. Nix is standing up and putting the hat back on and he's, he sticks a hand in the air in front of like, well, probably to the Orcs belly and he kind of just trying to wipe it to catch their eyes.
00:31:20
Speaker
Not yet, no, he's just as high as he can go, almost like on tiptoes, and it's almost like he's trying to like, like you distract a dog or something, just get their eye movement to your hand, the thing that's moving. So he's just doing long kind of sweeps, like a big, audacious wave. Is there any, is the heads moving all as one? Because you can't see their pupils, right? You can't see where they're looking. The heads are remaining fixed on you. You can't really tell
00:31:50
Speaker
what minor adjustments to stimulus that they are responding to. Listen, you know that sandworm that came in eight rains?
00:32:06
Speaker
You were fighting in the aquisca we just met, maybe not. There was an illusionary magic there. It's the first time I've come across it. I'm getting similar vibes here. So forgive me, Seth. I'm going to just walk through him. Wait, how did you know the sand worm wasn't real?
00:32:25
Speaker
Because I threw dagger's magic and her only reigns. Well, why don't... Instead of trying to walk through it, if it's a real orc, it will eat you. Our parts will just throw a dagger at it from here. Well, man, like, if I walk into it, I can pretend I'm drunk. If I throw a dagger at it, it's quite our style. I'm pretty sure they can probably hear us anyway. Oh, Caleb, I've just got to walk forwards. Take a step. One step. If you imagine five foot, like, into. Mm-hmm.
00:32:55
Speaker
can make happen can make strength saving for it for me. Oh shit. Minus one to this part of me really wants you to fail. Cool. Nine. So you take one step. I mean, I should really do this. You take one step closer towards the sort of center walk. And as you do,
00:33:22
Speaker
It just raises a hand and clasps you round the throat. Lifts you. And in unison they begin walking with you lifted back towards the rest of the party at the signpost. Seth you are sort of ushered and pushed back. Any resistance and you expect they're going to do the same thing to them. How are you responding to this?
00:33:44
Speaker
How tight is the grip first off? You can't breathe right now, Nix. Does Nix like it? I can't answer that. Was that question towards Steph as well? I was just wondering more like, what's the grip?
00:33:57
Speaker
Like, then what are you doing? Is that directed at me, Seth? Seth's... As in, what is Seth doing right now? That he is being essentially just... You are being knocked every now and again. You're losing your footing and you are being pushed back. Again, they're not hostile. They are... They are just moving. Stomp! Stomp! Stomp! How far away is the rest of the group? You guys have walked about maybe 120 feet. Just sayin' I left the water!
00:34:27
Speaker
Okay I'm gonna let the hustle and bustle take place for a bit and he's gonna start like kind of hop, skippity jump and kind of keeping up with them for a bit. This is your round now, this is your circle, you said this is your circle! Very much not enjoying being hustled like this until he can see that they're within a noticeable different distance
00:34:46
Speaker
40, 50 feet away from the rest of everyone else and he is going to summon his shadow blade and go for the arm of the orc that is currently holding Nyx by the throat. He's going to kind of leap forward and in a motion try and swing down the arm and then he's just going to try and leg it back to the um leg it back to the group with Nyx in tow breathing hopefully that's the aim. So you attempt to cast shadow blade?
00:35:18
Speaker
And the moment you make your reliable gesture, you are counter-spelled. Fucking folly. He's going to keep being jostled and confused as the piece of paper falls down. You lose the spell slot? Yeah. Nick's the same. If you had to use a spell slot for that, that's gone. I did, I did. I choose first level. Which, by the way, was a...
00:35:48
Speaker
Warlock. Okay. Thank you. In this moment then when Nyx is gasping for breath, Seth, you just tried to do something and almost like instantly failed and then you were just knocked back again by these hulking bodies. Emron, Alpha, Reigns, Baal, what are you doing? Emron. As they get closer, Emron's seeing them.
00:36:09
Speaker
Everyone's going to put his chainmail on while they were doing all their stuff. And he's got a shield and hammer out and he's just going to take a step forward towards them, not too far away from others, just to close that gap a little bit. Okay. To be crossing that threshold of the signposts. Yeah. Okay.
00:36:27
Speaker
Yeah, Rains is just going to shout out from where he is. He's hand going towards the Rubik's Cube like a Westerner getting ready to draw a gun, but he's not drawing the armour. He's just going to shout. Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. Okay, okay, okay, okay. Put him down. Put him down. We get it. We get it. Come a little closer. And that's what Rains is going to do for now. Alpha, Baal, anything for me?
00:36:49
Speaker
Can I go read another signpost? How far away are they? They are scattered every... No, I'm doing radiuses. Give me a degree. I could have done this if I drew it out better. Approximately 30 to 40 feet. Clockwise or anti-clockwise your position.
00:37:10
Speaker
Yeah, I think while Nix and Seth are being escorted back to where we are, I just want to have a walk down to the next signpost I'm going to say on the right. Sorry, clockwise or anti-clockwise? Be anti-clockwise. It reads identically the same. Just identically the same. Leesh of the desert, no shelter to be had here by order of fizzle bang. I'm going to tell your boss this is terrible hospitality.
Reflection on Survival and Future Plans
00:37:39
Speaker
Yeah, I'm just holding, uh, the summoning of my wildfire spirit. It's not like a concentration based thing. I'm just, if shit goes south, uh, you can see Nick's being choked out. I'm a bit jealous. Um, and yeah, you still get ready to release that. Nice. You do, you do get the sensation that while you're just thinking about that action of the wildfire spirit that
00:38:07
Speaker
You feel cold whilst thinking about it. The distance of coldness creeps in and coldness is a weird sensation to you. It's not something you experience often. Seth. When we get within, I think, shouting distance of the rest of the group, Seth's going to shout out to Reigns. Reigns! What was that thing? That statement? That thing that we said and it would make people shudder or something? The thing you said! Say it!
00:38:36
Speaker
Right now, I don't know what this is to do with the dragons, but... I don't know, I just... Try it. He's keen to call this. Yeah, ban them to call this, ban them to call this. They don't seem to make any change, of course. They're continuing to advance towards you. Seth, you've now been pushed back. You're about 10 feet, so everyone, they're about at the point now where you're joining that pushback.
00:39:06
Speaker
and now it's there Seth, Emeron being ushered back whilst Nix is being choked and physical line is pushing me. At some point, I'm going to lose oxygen, right? Look at Seth, what are we doing? I don't know, I just can't do anything. I can't spell it. None of my spells are working. He's being choked, I'm trying to cut the arm, I can't even get my shadow blade.
00:39:26
Speaker
Can Nix use his dagger? He's got his both hands free, so can he drop them because he would have been held... Constitution saving throw first. That's okay. Okie. Again? No, this is a different one. Oh my god, I'm gonna die. That's a four. You pass out. Yep. You're incapacitated. You have been starved of oxygen. Can everyone leap forward and try and pry the orcs' fingers?
00:39:56
Speaker
Yeah, so again, whilst you've been trying to navigate this, you continue that pushback and you can like touch that sign now, you're at that ring.
00:40:06
Speaker
And as you go to sort of grab the hands of where Nix is, the orc releases the grip and just sort of does a little flick motion and Nix just falls unless you catch him just outside that perimeter of Steinpost. I'll catch him, like Foy's guard, I'll hold him, like in Bodyguard, I'll get him. Nice. And as you do, I would say it's, you know, you were able to study that and do that without a roll. Your left landing foot
00:40:34
Speaker
steps over that threshold again and the orcs are no longer advancing. Seth, you've just sort of ushered over there too. And they just stand there forming a ring staring at you and you will see these things. Have they crossed the barrier? Yeah. Can I pick up? I want to try and pick up one of these signposts. Okay. Improvise weapon.
00:40:59
Speaker
The conscious thought of everyone, but Alva's probably thinking similar things. Alva's looking at a sign going, I'm gonna mate it. I think I can fuck it. I got metal, let's do this. Yeah, let's go, let's go. Yeah, I mean, make a athletics check to just try and pull that out if you want. Yeah, sure. Pick up a sign. Eight. Yeah, you pull a sign out of sand.
00:41:27
Speaker
Can I kind of stop? I just want to be careful gauging. I'm going to walk and take like a step or two steps towards the tower, but I'm holding the sign in front of me and I want to see if I get the awkward tension while I'm moving with the sign. You cross the threshold that the original signs created and yes, all eyes at once, all heads just turn.
00:41:53
Speaker
from all 12 orcs in your direction. And as you've got that sign and you're pushing, it's almost like, you know, those flotation devices are getting pulled when you're learning to swim. Yeah. If you use that horizontally or vertically and just sort of pushed against water, it's like you're beginning to feel that resistance as you take steps towards the tower with the sign. Okay. Okay. Just as the resistance kind of happens, I'm going to plant the sign back down and just wait there.
00:42:23
Speaker
And as you do, you sort of see the sign slowly in the sand, just sort of drag back to position.
00:42:32
Speaker
If we run now really fast, I don't think they could catch us. Straight into the tower. As Seth says that, Reigns has knelt down at Nick's side and has been like, I don't think Nick's is in a position for running anywhere. Is Nick's breathing? He's bloomed. What condition is Nick's in? Make a medicine check for me.
00:42:55
Speaker
Certainly. I feel like some of you got that. I feel like others of you have forgotten that. Nick's is a blue teeth link. 15. Yeah, he's breathing. He just looks like he's fainted. Seth's going to risk it for a biscuit. He's going to misty step 30 foot first from outside where he is. If it's towards it and then the minute he reappears and it's just like a small red ball of light that just appears and he
00:43:24
Speaker
The idea is that you're missing steps, 30 foot forward, and then it's going to be in full sprint towards the tower, just to see if, with two targets now, different locations, what the Orcs do. Okay. Right now, this is on the provides that the missing step even works, so that's the aim anyway. So what's the range on the missing step? 30 foot. 30 foot. So you're doing it from that threshold, so you are attempting to be 30 foot into the threshold. Correct, and then sprinting towards? Towards the tower. Yeah, 100%. Okay.
00:43:53
Speaker
You misty step. You land 30 feet into the threshold. You begin to sprint. Six of the orcs turn and begin their pursuit of you as well.
00:44:10
Speaker
six. Now walk in unison round to Alpha. Seth, I'm going to ask you to just share with me your moving speed and let me know, are you wearing those sandals currently? I'm still wearing the sandals. Okay, so regular movement speed minus one to your AC. That's correct. That's important. You remember you've got a minus one to your AC. Oh yeah, I've got that written down. And I am at 30 foot. Okay.
00:44:37
Speaker
And also, no I can't, no fuck it why not, I'll cast Longstrider as well on the same arrow, flights into the legs as well, so it's 40 foot. You attempt to cast Longstrider. Fuck, of course. And as you do, the spell fails.
00:44:58
Speaker
You spend the spell slot, you do the motion, but it fails. You're now in, you're now in a foot race, essentially between you and six orcs with a 30 foot head start. You ascertain the situation. You could arrive at the tower with six whole seconds to spare before they are caught up to you. So is that your course of action?
00:45:26
Speaker
Shit. Yes. Oh, fuck. I've committed now. I mean, you could just run past it and straight back to the other side and run out. If you wanted, you could revert, change direction. You could do what you wanted to do. It's your call. No.
00:45:50
Speaker
He wants to know what this thing's about. He wants to get a bit close. So he's going to run. He's going to run close.
00:45:56
Speaker
Oh fuck it, he's fought the undead. He's got a couple of fucking orcs and he's gonna run up to the tower just to kind of like scout it, not gonna run into it, run up to it, get a bit more of a retcon and then like, either take a very long arc round to try and keep distance or run straight past it if it's very obvious that there's a clear route to the other side where he can see a signpost and he'd peg it for a signpost. But he wants to kind of do a little recce.
00:46:24
Speaker
They're or they're about to just take something out of this. Otherwise if yeah, okay, so I want to say you run Towards the center of the tower, can you make an investigation check a disadvantage? I'll give you some information anyway because you're gonna get close but you are running you don't really have time to stop and study Yeah, plus I've got a exhaustion point as well. Yes you do. So it's a straight role. Sorry. No, it's just it's still disadvantaged
00:46:55
Speaker
I didn't see the first one. God damn it, that's annoying. Where do they go? Fourteen. Thank you. Yeah. Fourteen? Yep. That's great. So you run and you get to this tower and the tower itself is about 20 feet in diameter. It's
00:47:10
Speaker
It is four sides, but they are sort of half cylindrical, half podium-esque is how I describe it. The three sides that you're able to see in that curving arc, it's sheer steel on two of them. The last one you see, it just has this odd
00:47:36
Speaker
plate attached to it that has a series of different lights and has like exposed electrical conduit. There doesn't seem to be any internal structure. This tower that makes it sort of a lived in space. You look up to the tower from underneath and that charge is incredibly powerful, almost pulls you off your feet at times. It's almost magnetic.
00:48:06
Speaker
That's about all you can ascertain. There is this panel and there are two solid walls. And as you begin the arcing run, you're caught up by the orcs and they just sort of scoop you and make a strength saving throw if you want to contest it by all means. No, it will take it. They just sort of scoop you and in that same motion, they just charge with you to the entire other side now of this perimeter. And you are 400 feet away from the rest of the party.
00:48:33
Speaker
Alpha, in that time, you've sort of been surrounded and then they begin ushering you back. Okay. I'm not going to fight. Go rage. Rage. Rage. Rage. Rage. Rage. Rage. Rage. Rage. Rage. Rage. Rage. Rage. Rage. Rage. Rage. Rage. Rage. Rage. Rage. Rage. Rage. Rage. Rage. Rage. Rage. Rage. Rage. Rage. Rage. Rage. Rage. Rage. Rage. Rage. Rage. Rage. Rage. Rage. Rage. Rage. Rage. Rage.
00:49:04
Speaker
I mean, least of the desert could mean anything, lads. This could be a good thing that would just disturb him. Am I right in thinking that this morning or last night we talked about just saving any points over to Alpha, kind of 30, 40 feet away?
00:49:20
Speaker
that one and it had nothing to do with these kind of strangulations and chargings in. What the fuck are we doing? I'm inclined to agree with Baal. We came over here to investigate the tower. I think we can put this aside as a curiosity that maybe we can visit at another time when one of us isn't slowly dying. Is he dying? Okay. We can mark it on the map. Here, Baal, can you mark this on the map roughly where we are?
00:49:51
Speaker
Fuck. You know, a fast travel point of some kind. It'll kind of breathe, breathe a little bit of fire onto a fingertip with a kind of a produced flame, try and get the same charcoal effect that you used with Seth or the night previous or the day previous, I should say. And yeah, and just with a big charcoal clawed fingerprint, he'll just stick it roughly on the map in a general location of where we are. Nice.
00:50:18
Speaker
While we're here, one final thing to try. Here you are, Ox. Ox, Raines will say as he tries to get their attention. There's no one else in the purpose yet. They'll all turn your head to you. I come closer. I'm staying behind the line. The name Fizzlebang. Read about that name. Read about that name in the book by a chap called Kastan.
00:50:45
Speaker
There is another tale of a fizzlebang and a tower. Very important one. Saved all the verif. Now from what I've read about Folly Fizzlebang the Ninth, if indeed this is the same fizzlebang that we're talking about, he's a big fan of the iconic Wonder.
00:51:04
Speaker
Stock magic. Now, I ever heard of that in Shadow Man. It sounds quite freaky and frankly from what I read in the book, quite dangerous. I'm surprised that little gnome had any eyebrows left by the time that he was done. However, if he really was, and he really is involved in this, the thing that we're trying to save, as you may have just heard, is one of the great archomic wonders of the world. Perhaps, as of this point, the only true Nakavodo in existence. Now,
00:51:36
Speaker
Nakavolo, in case you're wondering, it's a construct, a man made of metal, fully sentient, living its own life form, finding its own morality and making its own way through this world. If you're in there and you're interested and you're as powerful and as helpful and as wonderful as you are, can you help?
00:52:05
Speaker
The six orcs that are your side of this just stare at you. Five minutes passes, maybe. Great speech, their rings. Nicks, at this point, you begin to come too. They're not illusions! They're not illusions! Don't touch them! We figured that. I don't think it was the touching. I think it was...
00:52:35
Speaker
the fact that we were disturbing this place. You're going to have to toss me. Sorry, what? I can if you want. What's the plan? What have we decided and what have we tried? We've decided Seth went on like a running race. It looks like
00:53:00
Speaker
I think he might have lost. He might have won, who knows. We've decided that perhaps we should come back here another day when one of us isn't dying. We all failed then, okay. As long as it's not just me. I'm sorry guys, I tried. I tried. I tried using all. I just tried. No, you did good. You did good next, don't stress it out. Sometimes we have to try to succeed. That doesn't make sense. We always said, yeah.
00:53:28
Speaker
Interestingly, they didn't choke Seth. It was just yourself. This is my face. I've been told I've got a jokeable face. A lot of people, when they tried to meet Nix, wanted to choke him initially. Bal will remember that. Where's Alpha? I was probably stood maybe 30 foot away from you and just
00:53:53
Speaker
counterclockwise to this circle. But none of this brains are still staring at the orcs. None of this makes sense. You irritated them, Nyx, and they acted accordingly. The rest of this just tried to break the rules and they pushed us back. So there's clearly some kind of reasoning that can be done here. I think they're just of one mind from being honest. They've got blue glowing eyes and last time I checked orcs didn't have blue glowing eyes.
00:54:17
Speaker
No, I'm not saying they're orcs, but as Nick said, he clearly was trying to reason with him. He irritated him and they choked him. So they're not doing the same thing. There's something happening here and I appreciate. Alfa, this is your call. This is your time. How do you want to handle this? Has anyone just tried taking a sword to him? Do you want me to try and hit it with the hammer? You hit it with the hammer? There are 12 of them.
00:54:42
Speaker
I mean, he's got a big hammer. Can we come back to the original point of Alpha's time? Alpha, how do you want to handle this? As much as I would have liked to have met a great hero as Folly Fizzlebang, should this truly be his domicile or past domicile as the case may be? It's like you're talking like him. Yeah, I know what you're talking about there, James. What's going on?
00:55:09
Speaker
It's better than the actual voice you did. Perhaps coming back at a later stage would be more suited at this time. I was not going anywhere. Why the fuck are we coming back?
00:55:31
Speaker
There is a draw to the curiosity tower, you know? That's fine. Be curious all you want. Let's fuck the abcryscra first. Let's save your friend. What if the weapon you need to fuck the abcryscra effectively, not saying you need any aids or anything like that, could be in that tower. How far? Everything I need is within my own chest. Just burn the fuckers to the ground. We know this. What are we doing? How fast do you go? Ok. Ok. Ork. Ork.
00:55:59
Speaker
So you were strangled hard. What's the question? What's the question? How far are they from Nick's? They're right on the perimeter. So it's like five feet. So five feet within me. You're like, you're like outside on that signpost line and they're just inside. Amazing. I'm just going to roll. Am I still, are you still cradling me with everyone? I put you down when she woke up. So Nick's is just going to stand up.
00:56:27
Speaker
Don't do it. Take out one of the daggers. Just walk over. Can I put my fist on his shoulder? Just into where my shoulders from where they stand, so I don't know, belly. Just straight out.
00:56:46
Speaker
Just stabbing. Stabbing. Okay. Oh, next. Seth. Whereabouts are you, by the way, it's been about five, six minutes since you were pushed out. So would you have used that time to wonder about grounds of the group? Yeah. They've been jogging, jogging around, not full sprint, but jogging around and seeing the six nearby. I don't know how close you would have got. And that's your call.
00:57:05
Speaker
He would have probably joined the group when Alpha was explaining how he feels about the position. So you'll be back as well. And as you sort of jog around at the same pace, the six orcs that pursued you do. So Nick's you. Sorry, Reigns? Yeah, Reigns won't have the reactions to stop this because he will go, what are you doing though? That's kind of just as he sees that happening.
00:57:29
Speaker
Rains, you offer your dagger over that threshold and into the waste of the orc in front of you, I assume? Yes. Could you roll to hit, please? Oh, it's going to be all right, guys. Roll to slowly grit. Oh, 24. That hits. Please tell me the damage. Oh, shit.
00:57:56
Speaker
Four points of damage, pacing.
00:58:04
Speaker
They've just added that to my notes. So... That's more honest than if they just slammed me. So, you skewer this orc. Am I meat in flesh, then? Meat? Oh, yes. Oh, shit. Nyx's face is full on shock mode. The dagger is in, remaining in, and the one you stab just looks down at you. And the ones next to it just all look down at you.
00:58:33
Speaker
I just slipped and fell. The dagger's coming out, as he said. I just slipped and fell. I'm clumsy. They can vouch for it, right, guys? I'm clumsy. It's just, I'm not, I'm, I'm, I've won. I mean, you're so strong. I am slowly like walking, hand on, sort of walking next steps away from the orcs.
00:58:58
Speaker
Looks like it's bleeding. I just, I'm like, I just slipped and fell. I'm confused. I'm still, I'm waking up. I'm concussed. You've given me a concussion. You're so strong. I've got a major concussion going on. Guys, I, right? I should go and see you. A healer. I'm not right. Can you just confirm? Can you just confirm? Did you take the blade out again? Yeah. As you do, it's caked in blood. And the... What colour? Red.
00:59:26
Speaker
And the orc who was stabbed, you just see, this is the only time they've moved out of unison. It just holds the wound and sort of recoils a little bit. And the others are watching. Can I cast healing word at it? Told the dead! There's an order hit. So you're casting healing word immediately on the orc. Yes. Can you cast that? At a range of 60 foot. Tell me how much you heal. I can indeed.
00:59:59
Speaker
I... Five points of damage. So Seth, are you straight in with that or are you waiting for the healing to happen? No, I'm not gonna do it. If he's healed him, I won't. I'll have fun in that. So you immediately follow up with a heal and the orc unclasps its wound, stands up straight and falls back into that unison pattern.
01:00:24
Speaker
and then next 12 fingers point at you. Oh, fuck. Oh, God. And you all feel a rumble.
01:00:39
Speaker
And as you look up, you'll see this with your perception. You'll just see the orb mounted, the dome mounted at the very top of this tower. Begin to animate, begin to just spark a little nix. In an instant, you are hit with a bolt of blue power.
01:01:11
Speaker
I'm going to roll a handful of dice here. Oh, shit. Fuck. Hey, I'm not going to be the first person to die. All this for four points of piercing damage. I tried to fix it so that they wouldn't kill you. That's an awesome dice. He's still rolling. He's going to roll him again. He's going to roll him again. Oh, God. How many hit points you got again? There's so many damage.
01:01:40
Speaker
My AC's minus one. No, it'll be, it'll be 10 minus one. Okay, could you make a dexterity saving throw, please?
01:01:49
Speaker
Base AC is 10, Ian, just for future reference. Any new characters you make? 19? 19, okay. Okay, that's half an hour. Is it? Hopefully. That's a leap there. He jumps into it. Fucking leap. So this tower just bolts this blue beam directly at you. You take...
01:02:21
Speaker
32 points of force damage and you are knocked back 200 feet. And you'll take an additional six points of bludgeoning damage as you are sort of dragged through sheer sand. So funny thing.
01:02:44
Speaker
When the 32 points of force damage hits me and it sends me into the air, I'm unconscious at that point. So what does the extra bludgeoning damage mean? Sorry, an auto fail. Cool. 200 feet away. We can't get to you. Yeah, Ethan.
01:03:08
Speaker
I mean, unless I can sprint and- Was there any chance that I could hellish rebuke as a reaction? I got it. Let me check. It's a reaction. You have to be conscious. You have to be conscious to do it. Yes, be conscious to take the reaction.
01:03:25
Speaker
You take the damage and then you technically just didn't know. It's automatically farts out on me as I get sent up. Fuck me. I can probably get in range maybe. If I dash. You need to be conscious to cast a reaction. That's fair. That's fair. I've got a range of 60 foot and I can dash. So I will allow from the point where
01:03:55
Speaker
Emron's reaction to Nyx's stab was very immediate, and Seth also wanted a thing. So I'm happy to start an initiative there, but we'll take it as Nyx's action done, and Emron, you don't have a bonus action, okay? Because you used the healing word, and Seth, you were half priming a toll with it. So those who want to join in, please roll initiative in this instance. Hello, Baal. Yeah, I'm joining. Okay.
01:04:23
Speaker
So we'll take it as given here. What's happened has happened. I rolled. That as Nick's got lifted in the air, you hear the Wilhelm scream. The life leaves his body. Fuck me. So what happened happened? It's not me, it's Nick's. So initiative, please. So it's exactly 200 feet away from us.
01:04:53
Speaker
Okay, so he wouldn't he would be in the if we're an initiative he would not have hit the 200 feet it will count as falling and you fall something like 60 feet per round you fall 500 feet in six seconds. Okay.
01:05:10
Speaker
So Nix is airborne, at the point everyone has a turn, and at the start of the next round, or the start of Nix's next turn, he has 200 feet away. Feather fall, feather fall, motherfuckers. Okay, so that's the situation, everyone has a turn while Nix is in range. Do we, sorry, are we rolling initiative for this? We are rolling initiative, yeah. Nix, you're automatically gonna be at the top, if that's okay, so I'm not gonna have you roll it. So everyone will follow Nix.
01:05:39
Speaker
Okay. Did anyone get 15 plus? Yes. Yes. Yes. Numbers. 23 from Seth. Yeah. 18 from Alpha. Yep. 15. Hang on from Rains. Okay. Emerald and Battle, what did you get?
01:06:00
Speaker
I got an eight. I got seven. Okay. Cool. Right. So Nick's has had his time. We are straight in with you, Seth. You were, you know, quite rightly about to do it. Hold the dead. So like you were the most reacted there. So this reads, right. What do you want to do? Um, yeah. Okay. I'm going to, he's going to basically run dash.
01:06:30
Speaker
Okay, he's going to, he's going to Misty Step first. Okay. As a bonus action and a Misty Step. Now I just got a quick check. This is bullshit. I've burned through all my slots, spell slots at first level. So I'm using, I'm upcasting it at second level, but it doesn't change it, which is annoying. It's just the same. Some spells do change, but unless it says so otherwise, you cannot cast it.
01:06:54
Speaker
It just costs the high. It is, however, a bonus action. So it does still leave you in action. Yeah. So then I'm basically ostensibly moving 90 feet in a turn. Yep. So it's going to be a messy step to throw this ball of red energy forward. And then again, mid stride, like just, he's just done, bang, he breaks into a sprint and it's, um, using all 30 feet of movement and then dashing after that. I've burnt through a long stride. That's first level that's gone.
01:07:23
Speaker
i can't use that um wait and also guessing where he'll land it's a spell slot as well
01:07:31
Speaker
I don't know if he's moving faster than that. If he's 500 foot. Yeah, in that second, it takes the whole round for you to execute that full movement. If you're picturing it cinematically, that's sort of how it works. Alfa, you were trying to say something. I just wanted to ask while we're going to think this is all going to be about movement.
01:07:54
Speaker
Have we attuned to the sandals? Yeah. Everyone who opted to do so. So that's everyone part from Baal did at the start of the day. Yes. Yes. Cool. That's fine. He's wanted to double check. Okay. See, mine is just basically I've bamped 90 feet. Nice. In my turn. Alpha. In this moment, it's the point at which Nix has just been impacted. So he was still there, about to be airborne.
01:08:26
Speaker
So Nick hasn't moved. He's just been impacted. Yeah. Seth is just like predicted. He's about to be propelled and Seth's going for that. He's the wide receiver going for the catch. Yeah, right. That's an NFL reference for all the nerds out there that didn't understand what I just did.
01:08:45
Speaker
And the Chad Ocho Cinco to, uh, this is it. This is even more niche mix is, uh, I know I can't think of it. I think, um, alpha would have normally responded with an aggressive standpoint, but considering current situation and what got him there in the first place, he would more so attempt to pursue in the direction that Nixon's flying off in. So all my movement and action is dash. I'm going that way.
01:09:14
Speaker
And I'm just being massively outpaced by this ugly human as well. This is against Misty Steps and runs far. How much ground do you cover? I would cover 60 feet. I have 30 feet walking speed if I've got my thing. So he would be ahead of me. Okay, great. Reigns.
01:09:35
Speaker
Yeah, Reign sees this and what he's going to do is he's going to point, he's going to try his best to estimate the trajectory that Nix is about to go on. And what he's going to do is he's going to point... Sorry, it's a very funny situation you've got yourself in. Yeah, Reign's going to point at the guy and he's going to go NC, heel and tee, get up there and NC's going to fly up out of the bag of the holding and he's just going to hover.
01:10:04
Speaker
at height level. And what's going to happen is almost like a a trajectory kind of like explosion as I'm going to hold an action and I'm going to burn a spell slot and gamble that as Nyx goes by and sees just going to be able to just get close enough to just or be in the trajectory to just disperse a cure wounds as Nyx goes flying by. It is, but that's what I'm trying to do. I'm not actually saying I'm hoping it's going to work.
01:10:32
Speaker
It's desperate, and it's what I'm doing. OK. Thank you. Bye.
01:10:42
Speaker
So seeing this massive blast of energy hit into Nyx as well from this tower. I mean, Nyx is, sorry, Bala is probably able to assume that something bad is happening here. And if he sees Nyx kind of starting to be blasted backwards, what he's going to do is very quickly shout to the group,
01:11:05
Speaker
Give me haste and I'm going to turn. And as Baal turns, you see his neck elongate. You see his face protrude forward. You see his front arms drop to the floor and he expands drastically in size as I'm going to use my action to wild shape into the shape of a camel. Nice.
01:11:32
Speaker
because it's gotta be, mate, it's gotta be stuff that I've seen before. And I don't think, Danny, unless you want to contest it, that's fine. I'm confident within this area. Camels in play. Yeah, camels in play, camels in play. And you might laugh. However, the camel has a move speed of 50 feet. So I'm going to use my full movement. Do you think that the camel would be restricted by the sands?
01:11:58
Speaker
to have a heart. No, I would say that that's freedom of movement. However, is wild shape an action or bonus action for you? It's an action to wild shape for me, which yeah, which is my thought process, but it's basically turning and going into speeding up to full tilt, Campbell style. There's not much more I can do this round, but I know full well that I've got pace in this form. So he's just going to be belting.
01:12:28
Speaker
after this blast has come in, that's my intention. So, as it stands, Seth is winning this race, he is 90 feet committed to the 200. Then shortly behind that is Alpha at 60, then Camelball at 50.
01:12:45
Speaker
Yeah. M. Rong. Sounds like a T. Your turn. Has Nick left the ground yet? No, this is just the moment of impact because everyone was so focused on this moment. I think I'm affording you all, affording more than awarding, affording you all that moment of instant reaction as a part of that turn. So he's just been blasted at this point and the propulsion is dying. And I've used my bonus action. You've already used that bonus action because that was used on the org.
01:13:12
Speaker
Can I, okay, so I had an idea. Yes, you did, well, come on, come on, fucking rules lawyer. My first idea was like to run up and grab him. I'm actually gonna use an action to change into tilwha. Okay. And because I have a flying speed, I'm going to scoop up Nyx and sort of try and catch him so that as we're propelled, I can then use my flying speed to stop me from landing and hitting the dirt. Okay, I need you to make an athletics check then. Of course. Because you're about to absorb an,
01:13:41
Speaker
not just Nix's weight, but the velocity behind something that's capable of sending a 200 pound person 200 feet. This sounds a bit like trying to catch a rope before people fall off a cliff. Yeah, right. It's somewhat similar. Why is it always Nix? At least it was a different cattle weight. Is this a disadvantage? Why would it be a disadvantage?
01:14:05
Speaker
I was just asking. Here's a bit of check, isn't it? Yes. Oh, you have exhaustion. Thank you for reminding me. Yes. No, Emron has exhaustion. Tylwar was... Same being. It's good. That's a 15. Okay. So you are able to clutch on. You're not able to necessarily have control in that moment, but you are tethered to.
01:14:30
Speaker
My idea was to let the trajectory carry us and then so that as he starts to go to the ground, I can use my flying speech. Sure. Okay. Then your movement then, because at the end of the round, you're going to be 200 feet propelled. Your movement then will be freed up to pull away. That makes sense. Yeah. Okay. Um, it's like this everyone suddenly goes gold and he, he almost rushes towards Nick and almost embraces him and grabs. And as they're about to take off.
01:15:00
Speaker
I'm seeing, like, when Thanos sends Mantis flying in Infinity Wars and Spider-Man wraps himself around with his claws to try and lessen the impact. That's... Sorry, by the way, guys. So you go, you wanted Tilwa, you got it, man. It's the Orcs' turn. It's the Orcs' turn. They're their own plural. Orcs is their own plural. It's their turn. They just stare.
01:15:29
Speaker
Top of the round, Nyx, you pass through the range of NC and receive the dice roll worth of healing, please. Oh shit. Nice one, Darren. Just a dispersive cloud of healing tea is about to go off as I cast Cure Wounds. Give me one second while I cast it.
01:15:59
Speaker
Here it comes. I'm going to be conscious. Anytime now. You get eight points of healing. Yeah. I'm up. I'm awake. I'm down. You are healed midair. And at this point with Emron gripping you and using the movement to pull you out of that propulsion, we're going to break initiative. So,
01:16:29
Speaker
that the crisis has been averted. OK, so as Nick's comes to. Thanks. Thanks, Darren. As Nick comes to, he kind of blinks and he looks up and I assume he seems to are kind of mixed in with the light that's returning to his eyes and both as he kind of kind of set across the sky, she's going to blink, kind of weakly go. See, I know I could turn it on. Oh, yeah.
01:17:01
Speaker
You have made a very poor choice. Yes, it's his body's gone limp. And everyone's going to, Tilwha is going to flap his wings and bring Nix to the ground safely.
01:17:15
Speaker
throwing back in the Ork. And at this point, like, you're still propelled quite a bit. So, Seth, you're still running and sort of seeing that momentum stop. And then they sort of appear way short of that expected range. And you'll sort of gather about 100 feet away from that perimeter. And as you do, you just still see the Ork sort of about face and return to the core of the tower. Don't slice them, guys.
01:17:44
Speaker
I think I've come to a conclusion, guys. I think I know what we need to do now. We need to fuck off. I believe it is the wise truth. Camelbawl just faces you directly, Seth. The head just straight to your face. What the fuck is this? And just kind of lets out a big kind of lip-goggling sigh of a... Nice.
Healing and Team Bonding
01:18:13
Speaker
I think we could have risen him. That would have been much easier. If we had a sled, he could pull it. Raines. Raines. Yes, yes, Nix, Nix. Am I going to die? I don't think you're going to die, Raines. No, I'm not going to let you die. I'm not going to let you die. You kept me alive apparently when bad things were happening. I'm keeping you alive. It's fine. We're keeping each other alive, Nix. I saw the light.
01:18:44
Speaker
A blue light. Yep, you did. And then you probably saw a kind of white, defersion explosion light. That was tea, by the way. Healing tea. I managed to turn Tewa on, though. Yeah, you did. If you wanted to speak to me next, you merely had to talk to me in the right way.
01:19:06
Speaker
I'm sure. Thanks for healing me, by the way. Yeah. You look like you still, you look like you need another. I feel like shit. Not going to lie. We'll kind of get down like Campbell style kind of down, lying down almost. You know how they kind of bend their front and forwards, backs and forwards legs, like some creepy shit where they bend the wrong way. Uh, just down low next to you, Nick's in, uh, not even questioning it.
01:19:32
Speaker
Never seen you. Don't know what you are. Just not questioning it. Just... What are you doing? You're just lying next to me? Is that what... Yeah, yeah, yeah. I'm there. Like, I can't speak. This thing? Am I getting on this thing? Is this a new thing? I'm going to use my... How long was I out? I'm going to burn my healing hands to give him another four points of healing. Nice. The tool was hands glow. And in order to give him another four points of healing... I will take it all.
01:20:00
Speaker
Thanks, Tilla. Don't be a stranger. As you know, my time on this is short, and I cannot return now until Emron is well rested. Yeah, Tilla, right, right. What the fuck's with the tower and the orcs? I am not an all-knowing being. I am not omnipotent. I cannot... I do not know everything. I only know what Emron knows and what the Divines choose to tell me.
01:20:28
Speaker
Then let me be one of the Devines. I went and had a quick look. I could tell you everything about it that I saw, possibly maybe not. You are not one of the Devines. Yeah, I know. I was being magnanimous, you know, just making stuff up, making me sound important. Basically, I saw some control panel thing. I don't know how to explain it really. So anyway. Could you draw it? Could you draw it? Could I draw it? No, I could not draw it.
01:20:59
Speaker
I don't, anyway, it's a tower, obviously we knew that, it's two sheer sides and on the back there's this contraption thing, it looked metal and some of the energy that hit Unix is flowing like a fucking head. It looked like that was flowing through this panel thing, like a cogs and stuff turning like it felt like, I don't know.
01:21:21
Speaker
I think I saw an entrance. Honestly, I couldn't even tell you what it was. Just fucking hurt like a mother. I've got the biggest headache right now. As Nick says that, there's all of a sudden a ding from NC. And what you just hear is this sound of water just pouring into a mug. And it nudges the mug towards you, Nick. And it just says, drink this. You'll feel better for it in one. I'm going to cast another round of Kewoons. Yes! Nice. Burn these fella sluts.
01:21:51
Speaker
Burn them all. Oh, even better, tempo. Oh my God, I feel like a new Tiefling. It's only like, it's only like the first few hours of the day as well. Nick stands up and he just kind of rubs his shoulders there. He's just like, okay. Okay. All right. No more stupid shit, guys. All right. I'm just here to tell you, don't do anything stupid. Till one looks at him. I've taken all the stupid for today. Till one looks at Nick's. I'll see you soon. And then... How do I turn you on?
01:22:21
Speaker
Until what goes? I don't have to die each time. Oh, seriously though. Thanks. Oh, fuck, Nix. What the fuck? I'm alive. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. We know. Fucking hell. Don't stab him. Listen, huddle up, huddle up, huddle up.
01:22:44
Speaker
If we all take a different angle, oh God, at the same time, I reckon we could have him. Could we perhaps? No, maybe let's go and try and we can come back another day.
01:22:59
Speaker
I can't do it, Seth. All right, everyone is out. How about everyone else? NC is going to just turn around and is going to now nudge the empty mug at Nick's feet and it's going to glance towards you, Seth, and on it, and it's our karmic writing is, my capacity to heal stupidity is running low. See, even the little thing is calling me stupid.
01:23:22
Speaker
Screw a lizard. I feel like we're gonna be outnumbered here. Okay, fine. Unless me and camel boy want to go rock this bitch, uh, by the way. Yeah, I know. I, you look so cute as a camel. Mix just goes over and kind of rubs your cheeks. Like, remember that's a dragonborn. Just bowl, allow it. Carl will remember this.
01:23:48
Speaker
stroking you, going over your humps. The head, he'll kind of move around and try and pick you up on his back unceremoniously. If you're standing, head to his legs and just stand up now at full height and just start moving to the northeast. He's taking me away, guys. God damn, that camel's growing another leg. Oh, wait. Nope, nope.
01:24:13
Speaker
I want to take off his chain mail and we'll keep walking after burning all those resources. Oh, Nix is stupidity. It's the bonding moment, I feel, for all of us. And you're welcome with the Seth, Bal, and Nix just tenderly stroke Bal. It's just welcoming you to the
Debating Next Moves and the Distress Message
01:24:32
Speaker
group. And we all rose together in the face of adversity, stupidity maybe, and we did it, guys. What a team.
01:24:41
Speaker
You know, let's leave this place. You know what? I hope I don't need to use till war again for a bit. We could try digging under it this time. Oh, okay. So that if maybe it's the surface and if we go beneath it next time, they won't follow us till war potential says that.
01:25:01
Speaker
NC just turns and looks at alpha and almost seems to have like a glitch for a second where just for a second an indiscretable amount of time, it's impossible to read what it is, appears on NC's body and the clock, it just seems to count downwards as it stares at alpha before flicking back and then just emitting a noise as it comes back out of this kind of like glitch and just goes, I am older
01:25:30
Speaker
before flying back to ranges.
01:25:34
Speaker
Shadow, only you've seen that, Alpha, as it literally stopped, turned and looked at you as if there was some form of interface happening, which has happened before since Magnus has gone and flipped at you, shoes and shoulders, and discerningly whatever it was was going downwards. As NC runs away, Alpha's just going to kind of whisper to himself at this point, stupid little squirrel shit.
01:26:02
Speaker
So, I would like to point out that squirrels just saved Nix's life, just an FYI. I love that squirrel. Squirrel's great. Me and the squirrel. Fast, firm friends. While you're catching your breath, Emron, how long was Til were here for? How long? He was only here for a minute. That's why I thought I've had him fade away after after they'd done stuff. I figured that minute burned out. You're catching your breath. To the east.
01:26:33
Speaker
you hear a quite chaotic flapping of wings and a very high-pitched squawking and as you turn this hawk moving with a real sense of urgency looks injured looks exhausted sees you and it's not diving in a
01:27:01
Speaker
predatory way it's like falling and opening its wings in an attempt to try and slow itself down but in its haste it just sort of bundles and falls on the floor in front of you unconscious from the impact
01:27:20
Speaker
Seth's going to sprint as much as he can now after running up towards it, thinking that this might be Penglog returning, perhaps? It comes quite apparent this is a bird, not a spider. Oh no, I got him to change into a flappy. Oh yeah, no, it's not yours. There is no iconic connection. This is an organic bird and it's in distress and injured.
01:27:53
Speaker
I go over to it and cast Healing Word and invoke Alito's name to heal the bird. And as you do, it sort of reshapes after it's a broken beak from that impact, everything just sort of clicks back into position a little bit and it just turns and it's able to say, help me and it's not its voice, it's a projected voice.
01:28:24
Speaker
Myself and my comrades are in danger. I've lost half my men, but the civilians are alive. If you're hearing this, please find us. This bird will help you find us. I must go. And then there is this immediate cutout before
01:28:54
Speaker
the last word can be spoken. And the bird just looks at you, tilts its head, and begins to take off back in the direction it came.
Reflection on Adventures and Community Importance
01:29:07
Speaker
And that is where we're going to end this week's episode of The Fellowship of the Tabletop. Oh, man. Ah, another side quest to distract us from Callum.
01:29:21
Speaker
Excellent. Oh my god. I thought, I thought Nix was about to die for the second time in this campaign. I mean, he fails that save. He's gone, right? That's the thing. We failed that save. He would have had two chances to save. The deck save from the force damage. Yeah, he was fine. I could have got there in time. Yeah, we would have got there in time. I really like how carefully you're all managing your resources in this very hard to navigate space.
01:29:49
Speaker
I've only got a choice though, I've only used mine to literally keep Nix alive. You haven't got a choice but someone made a choice that put you in that position. I've used all my first and second spells. Of course you did. In the counterspell bar one. I like that Nix has this thing where you're just going to test if everything is real by stabbing it from now on.
01:30:08
Speaker
Yeah. It's because of that real fucking illusion. That was happening from Reigns all that time. Not all that time ago, not that long ago. I was just like, it's got to be the same thing. I was just like... So I was either going to have to be... I thought about being Tillwall second. My first job was as M1, trying to tackle Newsy's weight to keep Nick's down. Then I thought, hang on a minute, I have a flying speed. This is much easier. There you go.
01:30:36
Speaker
So, that happened, guys. That just happened. I feel like the group is starting to connect again with new and old friends, saving each other, each other.
01:30:56
Speaker
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