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Ep. 157 Nyx Decoy - Bellum Draconis
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The Undying Champions start to hatch a plan to Kidnap Delmond Trase
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Welcome and Introductions
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thank you thank you thank you thank you thank me we you thank you thank you fun you hall thank thank you you fun you we're excited veryry
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it's the only
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Hello everyone and welcome to this week's live studio audience version of the Fellowship of the Table Top, Bellembroconis! um Very. We're a live play 5e 2024 D&D podcast set in the magical home-brewed world of Aerith in the kingdom of Dralak. Joining you for this week's episode, we have the Granny Smith Pie-Smashing Edgelord Callum, who plays the war-forged Shartafistr Alpha.
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Hello. We've got Pubey, who plays the rules consultant human cleric Emron. Hello. Ian, who plays the tiefling war-saurer Nyx Corell. Hello. Will, who plays the dragonborn druid Bal Valkon.
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Hello. Darren, who plays the half-orc barbarian Tharix Unjari. Very. My name is Mark and I'm playing the Human Blade singer Seth Faroreva. And my last but by no means least is the Pumpkin Carver, the trick to our treat. He puts the bone in our skeleton, the human storyteller centipede, the two girls to our one cup, the one man to D&D's one jar, Dungeon Master Danny!
Old Gell's Quirky Antics
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Boo!
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and Speaking of a singular jar, we see the long toes of old Gell reaching deep into a jar of what can be only described as a preserve, perhaps jam, perhaps a raspberry jam.
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But he used his toes as his short, stumpy fingers can't reach the bottom. And he digs in deep with the toes to get the last of it out and lifts it up, and sucks it off his long toe. And the orb falls out of his pocket.
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And he has to skitter after it like ah like ah a spider until he picks it up with his mouth.
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Spits that into his hand and then looks us and begins. I'm going to have to get a hoot to clean up this mess. Ocean's Eleven! The group awaken and form up.
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Emron passes on the message from his dream, and Sebastian becomes
Heist Planning and Strategy
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agitated. It turns out that Helena is alive! Bob puts all the cards on the table again, and the group chat theories and make a heist plan. They is going to locate object on the list of Delmontrace. Sebastian's going to stay out of Goldview, but they got options of how to do it. They could go in the front door. They could go from the dock.
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yeah They could scale the walls. They could go into the poop chute entrance to the kitchens. And for the way out, they can go to the houndmaster's kennel. And ah maybe they could get some secret ring to open up a secret passage. i don't fucking know, but there's lots of ifs.
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And it all depends on controls the castle. Sebastian reveals that the Akriskra are a-watching Nyx, and Nyx is all like, what? I can't remember that shit. And apparently he's telling the truth. When all is revealed, Seth suggests that the group actually use that to their advantage.
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Embron tries to identify what this scrying thing is, but fails, and Seth's all like, hey, let's send Nyx away, and old Nyx, here's a plan. And then Nyx goes away, and he's like, we're gonna use him as a double bluff, boys.
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And he comes up with this masterful, massive, intricate plan. There's also a little bit of information dropped by Sebastian, which is the Demon Gates are following Alpha at a quicker pace.
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Maybe the group could use an Alpha Hellbomb. The group eventually decides on a split. They's going to go stealth and muscle. Baal, Alpha, and Tharok in the stealth group, and Emron, Seth, and Nyx in the muscle
Countdown to Urgency
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group.
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And Sebastian goes up to Seth, and he's all like, I miss your voice, boy.
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And as the morning salty air breezes over the severed compass, all apart from Nick's begin to tuck in to Tharox fish stew prepared freshly this morning.
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Alpha, your perfect memory recalls countdown that you are keeping in the back of your mind. 49 days. If the note of the alignment is to be accurate, 49 days till said event.
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ah
In-Person Recording Chaos
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I That was not, an dumb that was a destroyer bullshit. i didn't smell anything. I was trying to stroke my nipples and I was like, I did that, I did that. was like, I'm trying to lick your ear as well. This is why we don't it in person anymore, because just touch each other too much. Yeah, that's true.
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it's It's like someone just shat themselves to try and punch. So, listener, as as you might have ascertained, we are all in one room today as opposed to being separated by the interwebs.
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ah So when Hobbes did his intro, he wrote down afterwards, who farted? Big capital letters. It was none of us. None of us Oh, well, that... I think you had an anus in that. I fart on that thing? We can smell things that aren't real. That's called D&D, baby.
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That's called
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that's called d and d baby
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I'm so sorry, Danny. Seth is chowing down hard on his fish. Thank you, Seth. He loves a good bit of fish. As you got watch as Sparrowhawk just throws in a couple of bones out into the the sea itself and steps back into the chamber and leaves the five of you on deck.
Journey to Goldview
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Below deck, uninvited from this private conversation, is Nyx, is Maris, Pike, Brotin, and Heldrack.
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Who? Oh, yeah, the... Sorry, sorry. The people you hired? people visit The deckhands that you hired. You, Seth, hired. I vetted, right? You vetted them. Vetted them hard. Yeah, ID cards. Yeah, yeah absolutely. Check out they had, they could work and that was... their work says Yeah,
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And as the silence of the last spoon hits the bowl, what do you five wish to do?
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So...
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How far away are we from Goldview? did Did Nick say another day? Something like that, didn't he? ah we We kind of set the captain down below. he's He's the one that usually... Who's driving this thing?
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He's going in circles. He's looking up the wheels just spinning.
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Okay, so... It was a day. I think it was a day. What are we telling Nick when he comes up? We're going in through the front gate. OK, good. And that's it. just say, Nix, we're going front gate.
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We'll just be... think that's what we... Yeah, let's just... We'll just tell him that. OK. Shall we let him out? Well, that means that from now on we can't really talk about anything else related to the plan.
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Maybe don't tell him that I'm going to go scout and see who actually runs the place. Can any of us talk in our mind? Nix can mindfuck hard. Can anyone else do that? No. So think I think just if he asks, we say, what's the plan? Or why don't we just just take him with us and just don't tell him the plan?
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And it's okay. So it's easier. Yeah. Just Nix, follow me, and then go from there. Okay. And then maybe maybe make him overhear something like, yes, we're just going to go into the front door or something like that.
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Maybe be all sneaky. Okay. There's also the point that what they what they were what what the will realise is that we no that we know that they're watching him. That that has been established, yes? So what why why? Why lie to him at all?
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Triple bluff. Now we're talking. No, I've lost it. i but So the messies become the messers. Literally before we sent him down into the deck, they will now know that that that we know, right? Yeah, but Seth did that clever thing where he was like, here's the plan, and he he showed the plan with with the thing on, and then we changed the plan. It's literally minutes ago. How have I forgot that?
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That stew was really good, though. Someone farted on the boat. So, yeah, so they know that we know that they know that we know. But they don't know that we know that they know that we know. So we're using what we know to what they don't know, you know?
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Yeah, sure. Okay, we'll call that one go with that Okay, so... Seth's eye is twitching. Farrakh just shouts, get off my sister. yeah Get off my sister!
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Okay, so... Get there. You're going scout during...
Barl's Animal Transformations
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How are you to do that again? Well, I've been shown by our good friend ah the types of birds that are here locally and I believe that I have the ability to convert someone or or something into a creature. So yeah, like I can't, I'm not quite there with my wild shape yet. I still need a bit more practice. So one of us needs to flock?
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No, I can do it on myself. Oh, go sorry, I didn't know you. Oh, okay. But, you know, so maybe I'll just, you know, casually, you know, fly off. But I've got that for about an hour, so I need to be an hour away, or half an hour away, preferably.
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Does it need to be in the daytime?
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I don't know whether it's a nocturnal bird or not. That's a very good question. i've got lot I can get closer. I can wild shape closer. I can fly back. I've got i've got options. Okay. and ah Another question. When you wild shape, yes, you maintain your own senses. Is that correct? Most of them. My mental senses. My yeah my charismatic inability.
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Will the spell do the same or will you get the senses off the animal you turn into? Never use it before. That's a very good question. Well, we'll find out won't we? Yeah, and if I, you know, start, I don't know, eating my shit or whatever it is those birds do, then you can be like, bad idea, and maybe I'll hear you, maybe I won't.
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Okay. Considering we still have a day before we get there, could practice beforehand. What a brilliant idea. Okay, okay, okay. Time currently something we have a little bit of. No, that's right, that's right. For once. All right, well, just let me get this book out and just study this bird.
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does the bird, that the local bird look like? So you have you have three that are listed on the page. One is a type of gull, a coastal gull, which you've seen quite regularly before in your times moving up and down Sleetgaard previously.
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ah There is a nocturnal owl, a coastal owl. And there is a bird of prey. A hawk, a sparrowhawk.
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Well, that one feels like it's a bit too on the nose, doesn't it? Won't the hunter have the best sight? um That's a good point. Yeah, if I do have its senses, then hawks are pretty good at seeing things from a long way off.
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If it's nighttime, like owls are relatively, well, they can fly silently, can't they? And gulls are pesky as fuck. And there'll be lots of them so you'll blend in. That's true. Ooh, options. I like this.
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which Which one shall I go for? Let's go for the sparrow walk.
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All right. Okay. Let's see. Right, stand back. i have not tried it before. um And what Barl's going to do You don't need to get naked, do you? you don' always get naked do you I don't know.
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should Should I just in case? No, no, I just wanted to check the words. Seth nods.
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Dick in hand.
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What happens to your things when you're wild shape? Is it like it to be the same? or you Well, it kind of, it all melds into one, so I don't need to to drop anything. um I don't know. if If all my clothes fall off, don't play pranks on me.
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And Ba will kind of and kind of click out his neck a little bit um and he will channel that um that spell. It's got verbal and somatic components as well. I'm not quite sure. haven't prepped what he would say, so I'm not going to do my usual draconic voice with it. But what is going to happen is it's kind of, as with most of his spells, it's gonna this this fire is going sort of build in his mouth. But instead of it trickling down or anything like that, it's actually going to...
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um Almost like magnetic putty with a magnet that's been dropped into it where it kind of absorbs it. That fire is going to go up and around him and kind of ah encapsulate him. And he's going to change and shrink in shape and cast Polymorph on himself to become the Sparrowhawk. Great. i need you to make a intelligence saving throw with a minus four to the outcome of the roll.
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Okay. Oh, damn. Okay. Oh, damn, indeed. Intelligence saving throw. Yeah, I can do that. Don't forget we've got prep die. ah With a minus four. Right. Okay, here we go. ah That is a Why did do that with my thing and not my... Yeah, it's a natural one.
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You don't recall the reason why you did this and you fully believe you are now out looking for your breakfast as a sparrowhop. Cool. Barl's darting off straight up in the air and straight away.
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And for the next hour, Barl does not return.
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but well but you just want to watch is right but was So you your son you're kind of sailing due north-west and you just watch as Bail turns into this form and then immediately darts south towards the southern coast.
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ah oh He's going quite far. Fuck. Now, what happens when he stops being that? ah Okay. Do we need to stop the boat?
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What the fuck has just happened? He's flying very far off in the wrong direction. We when it's when we we need to stop the boat. Seth's going to climb up. So we'll get Nick's. Seth's going to climb up the snow ah crow's nest and start like flapping bits of fish to try and like get the attention again, like flicking up bits. It's a sparrowhawk. It's a hunting bird. That's not going to work. um I'm going to go get Nick's. Should have turned him into a fucking seagull the scavengers. Seth, make a performance check. Oh, shit.
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Mum! Mum! That's what I got! Mum! And Alpha, can you remind me if you're channeling the wind today? Yeah, yeah, yeah. I would have still been channeling the wind. Okay, you're channeling a northeasterly...
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sorry, northwesterly wind, and you're trying to summon a bird to the south. So it'll be a disadvantage, please. A disadvantage? I mean, it's seven, so I don't know if... It could get not pick worse. could You a wonderful R. I have a natural 20 for the second one. so Well, you do have an ability. Oh, oh, oh, oh, yeah, yeah. Heroic Inspiration.
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Burn that. would What does that do? No, I mean the Embarcation roll. No, fuck that. I'm going to use Heroic Inspiration. I'm going to use Heroic Inspiration and try and re-roll that performance.
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Yep. Okay, okay. A disadvantage. 21 or Oh, shit.
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um okay i need
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I need a perception check with the Hawks plus four modifier, please. Okay. He's like a swan.
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Hungry, but not starving because you've just feasted on a bowl of fish too. The taste of fish still sits in your palate. And seeing it's a good nautical mile to shore...
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You just catch whiff and movement behind you with your diligent senses of fish being propelled in the air. And you think I could have a little bit more fish and you turn back towards the ship.
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Okay. and the the three or four pieces of fish that you're continually lobbing from the crow's
Seth's Aerial Rescue
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nest up into the sky, maybe about 20, 20 feet at that. Let's say on average. Yeah. On your fourth fish, you return, but you are coming in talons primed, darting,
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and you swipe and you're able to nimbly catch maybe if you give me a dexterity check. Okay. Using plus three. i have ah I have a plan during that. depending on what he's in your he's in your spell range currently he's made about 40 feet we'll see how this roll goes as to whether he nails the catch it's an eight that's enough to nail an in motion fish that's not that's dead already because it was used as part of cooking so this sparrow hook comes within five feet of you um something you want to do five feet of me so in this in this process of him making this dive to catch this fish
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Okay, I was going to Misty step up to grab him, but in that case, I'm going to just yeah grab grab the hawk talons, whatever I can, just grab bits of it, a wing, the head, yep just something to grab hold of it and just try and pin it down to the to the deck um in order to placate it some way.
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haven't really got a plan past that. I didn't think this would work. Val, you're assuming you are being hunted here, so I yeah need you contest this grapple. Yeah, nice dress. I can do it as a dex save, so I'm going to go for a plus three on that. That's 12 on the save. What's your... DC.
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Your strength. ah would you need my strength modifier so it should be 8 plus proficiency plus strength would be the DC that is set for the grapple 12 okay meet me meat and beat so you're unable to capture you attempt to grapple this hawk and you it just sort of flaps out of the grapple so anything you want to do before it leaves your reach No, but what as it gets away, i don't think there's anything I can... I would get an attack of opportunity, surely. Yeah. If you're if you're considering this hostile, yeah. No, i'm not. I'm trying to placate.
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and So I'd let it fly off a bit and then tab out the spell book, fling forward, misty step, just in front of where... In midair. In midair. Double check that you need to actually have a set location in misty step. It just says to an unoccupied space.
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So I'd go directly in front of him as he's flying off. I'm going to go directly to wet in front. So we literally, I'd bamf and appear before they fly into my chest. Okay. And um I again, try and grab hold and then we'd fall. Okay. So you've got a 60 foot fight flight speed. So I'll say as part of this round, you threw 30 feet in, caught your prey, five feet to go down and and snatch it.
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Well, grappled a little bit, but failed. So you go 20 feet out the Northern side of the boat. and then you misty step out. So for this cartoon like moment while you're treading air before you fall into the sea, 40 feet up and 20 feet out.
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um What would you like to do in this moment? we I want to attempt another grapple. Aren't you also at the top you when you're also in the crow's nest? That's what I'm saying. It's 40 feet up. Oh, sorry. of this ship and 20 feet out. ah fucking Which sits 10 feet above the water, so you are... I can't do that triangle quickly, but I will do it now. Trigonometry.
00:19:53
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This is spectacular to watch from the deck as well. Another grapple check. it's Another grapple check. DC is going to be 12 again. Nine. Yes. Eat shit. Okay, so you've got temporary hit points. It's good. It's good. You're grappling this bird and now you fall to your splashy peril. and Because you're falling on water and it's not from a perilous height, I will half... How much did we do we fall per round?
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You fall something like 120 feet per round. I'm going to hit in this round. You're hitting this round. trying see if I can get another bonus action this, but I'm... You will not be able to. Cool, cool, cool. You will not be able to. And I would protect... as I fell as well.
00:20:29
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You're both going to take full damage. Cool. Okay. That's not how it works, but you are hitting the water at a drop of... kind of Can I counterspell the ocean?
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We can throw a rock to sort of soften. Yeah, let's rebuke the ocean. Fuck you, see. I'm just going re... While this is taking a... Yeah, while this is taking place... A diversion.
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A diversion. We'll get him. I can't swim, by the way, so... That's fine. There's nothing to deal with. You can go into your crocodile fish form again, can't you? That worked so well last time. So it's for every 10 feet fallen and you're falling 50 feet. Could kill you? Yeah, 100%.
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could I have six temporary hit points though, so you know. yeah youre He's still rolling, listeners. Haft. That's
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Okay, you're to take 11 points of bludgeon damage each. cop That's already halved. That's enough to knock your one point of... um My one temporary hit point out. Yep, so you are no longer in hawk form, but now you are incredibly both wet. Yep.
00:21:33
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Nyx, there are small portcullises on the side of the ship. You do see... you mean portholes, not portcullises? Thank you. What's that doing there? Yeah, portholes, thank you. On the side of the ship, you do see quite a heavy splash as Nick's... Sorry, Seth and Bar are now treading water out in the water.
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And it from from above deck, you hear everyone shout, Nick, we need stop the boat. Nick, we need to stop the boat. Man over, board.
00:22:05
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Oh, my God. Nix who's been playing liar's dice with Marys Pike, Brot and tie-dice is like, what's going on? I'm coming. Guys, I think we're needed.
00:22:17
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Way anchor, Pike. And he'll open the the door and everyone will flock upstairs. It's got a barrel on there. Everyone's everyone's moving Everyone moves the going Come on, guys! I left for like ten minutes! It's like that scene in the first Pirates the Caribbean where Keira Knightley just falls past George Diggins. Absolutely. Wait, anchor, Pike! get Get it, get it, get it!
00:22:44
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Hitting the water and Barl turning back. to ah What the... OK, fine. Oh, the boat's going... Seth, seth hold on, hold on. And Barl is going to wild shape into ah dolphin.
00:22:57
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OK. LAUGHTER Oh, don't drop the anchor yet, Pike. I want to see what's going to happen. You hold fire on the anchor. And Val can speak in his normal voice as a dolphin.
00:23:10
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So he'll be like, Seth, what the fuck happened? Let's just get back to the boat. And and using that kind Alfred, just put the wind in the sail a little bit more. Let's see how far we can keep this going.
00:23:23
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And in your ear, as we're travelling through, Nith is just perfectly matching the the angle of the swim. and And just kind of sideways in your ear, or whatever a dolphin has the equivalent of it. Would he not have fallen as well? Has he not just gone because he fell as well? Oh yeah. Is he not taking 11 points of damage? What range can you keep?
00:23:44
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Millimilia, so it's going to be like 30 feet. um I'll burn it. I'll burn it because it would have he would have hit as well. Okay. He would have come with. and Okay. No, he's not there then.
00:23:56
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Nothing. nothing We just would have been slashing through the water. Echo the dolphin style. With the wind... um Nice reference. With the wind speed you're able to maintain as part of your sorceress ability there, Alpha, and you are equally as quick as a dashing dolphin.
00:24:11
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The boat is as equally as quick. So no one is losing or gaining any ground. This will be interesting to see how they get up. Emron's got a rope and he's throwing a rope off the back to hopefully... Just let them be, Emron. This is a beautiful moment right here. I feel like this is Nick's revenge for being isolated. It's just like watching this. If you do continue to throw the rope, it'd be like trying to lasso... No, he's letting it out behind the boat so one of them can grab onto it. Okay, fine. Great.
00:24:41
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It's up to you guys if you steer towards that. Seth would just kind of point towards Emron and see the rope coming into the water, trailing into the water, whether or not you see that or not. Yeah, yeah. I've got a good birth passive perception, but will kind of steer towards that.
00:24:52
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you're You're blocking my blowhole. Oh, thank you. Wow, this is strange. It's bitterly cold, Seth. Your body kind of adjusts quite quickly, but for that is really cold water.
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And he's going to reach out through the water with it flip-flapping around and try and try and grab a hold of the rope and then try and re-grab hold of... ball uh not really sure how he's going to pull a dolphin out my nose just hold the nose and i'll re reform myself and uh my whole become hand is his face but his hand goes up and and hopefully bro clasps your wrist yeah and then i'll just kind of give a couple of tugs on the rope hopefully as a signal to to emron everyone will haul you out
00:25:34
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and probably probably dipping into a second portion of food here tharok what are you doing whilst this scene unfolds tharok was also getting a rope and he was about to go so it's taking fucking time i pulled that wizard out of the fucking ocean and then he'll see then he'll see ember on just doing that and he'll hear nix and go oh fair enough and he'll just start to clear out the pot from this morning just just that just very calmly just starts clearing out the pot nice if you could bring some water up with you i do it to wash out the pot but if not don't worry i'll go but below Nice.
00:26:03
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and And Alpha the Wind Waker just concentrating on the wind. Yeah, I'd just let all this unfold if it's been going off. I have faith in everybody else. i Just blowing the sail. Just fans erupt from your side so you turn into this travel aircon unit. Could we turn them into a hover gun proper aircon? Oh,
00:26:19
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Blow the wind back straight up and just see what happens. ah back on shore and sad yeah da yeah um seth who would be shivering with with the cold and would just be giving a stink eye towards um ball um he'd go to get the spell book out but everything's still dripping so he puts that away and then just nods towards nith who's reformed and will appear again at your ear and just say the form of the dolphin overpowered your senses you are no longer dragon form no the dolphin's fine it's the fucking bird i just i just wanted to hunt you know but thank you thank you for for getting me out of that um and at least we know we know that and um i was like i was like no no maybe we shouldn't he looks over towards next six his wide eyes you guys are We know that that dolphin is a great way to get someone back to shore if they fall overboard, don't we?
00:27:19
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Seth nods. Yes, we do. Yes. You guys are going to make it really hard for me not to peer into your minds. say Am I okay to... Nick's pointing at the wheel. Yeah, we can keep sailing.
00:27:33
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ah Okay. Actually, that's it that's an interesting point. Why can't he read our minds? is did they hear they they They see through him, right? they don't We don't know how it works. We have no idea. The trouble is, and i was hoping to keep the dolphin a surprise for Nick's, but now he's obviously aware of it. and is Now he can ride dolphin. It's got blow him. mean, you know, it's...
00:27:53
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It's one of many creatures that I plan on asking you to take form of. So I'll just be up there and Nick will just carry on up to the the wheel of the ship and put his hands back on it.
00:28:06
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And as you do that same bioluminescent glow just appears around different accents of the ship.
00:28:14
Speaker
Bar will cast create bonfire he'll kind of snot out a mini bonfire onto the deck obviously not trying to catch it no no no hold on hold on because he's also got control flames as a cantrip so he's obviously not going to let it catch he's going to have it very very self-contained and safe within there but Farrah just walk over with the cooking pot and go for fuck shake put it in there or a breathier you know that kind of thing look at him he's shivering
00:28:45
Speaker
Is he shivering? Seth
00:28:50
Speaker
will have taken off his um large coat and then his second coat underneath that and then his shirt and we'll be putting things out around the bonfire to to dry it out
Shipwreck Discovery
00:28:59
Speaker
um looking like a very, very skinny, pale white man with one eye. I am sorry, Seth, but thank you, genuinely. It stinks, I want just the one.
00:29:09
Speaker
Okay. Maybe talk another time. Thank you. You're not sorry. While you're all sheltering around Seth in this moment to try and warm him back up,
00:29:24
Speaker
Maris just shouts whilst looking starboard side, Captain! And points yeah points to the water.
00:29:35
Speaker
Debris, Captain!
00:29:38
Speaker
cheese? I was in my head I was like, cheese? Solid dad joke. Glance over the side of ah which way Maris is pointing and what kind of debris do I see?
00:29:56
Speaker
Fuck you, Will. A series of wooden floating objects are moving against the wind. I'm moving so from the northwest and sort of floating, not at a speed like the ship is, but I just sort of bobbing very slowly south southward that you'll almost like run over them.
00:30:17
Speaker
Right. Oh, we're heading straight forward? Yeah, but it and as it gets closer, it's like it's small things like barrels, scrap wood, some floating cloth, some ah like beams.
00:30:29
Speaker
Insignias? Any flags? the Make perception check. Okay. I can perceive you. 25. That's crit. There we go.
00:30:40
Speaker
Let's go.
00:30:45
Speaker
Never again. You study for a while. You've seen this before. This, this is a shipwreck that's, that's fractured from naval combat.
00:30:58
Speaker
And as you sort of hold on to the rigging and lean overboard to see, you just see this piece of sail almost turn in the water as it gets into the riptide of the ship, just turns over.
00:31:15
Speaker
And there are two sphinxes emblazoned.
00:31:20
Speaker
On this piece of cloth.
00:31:23
Speaker
ah Do I know the two sphinxes? It's the heraldry of shadow men. Oh no. Oh no. And you're approaching sleek guardian waters.
00:31:35
Speaker
Okay. i Brot, can you winch up the sails just a bit? Let's call the speed. Alpha, drop the gust please. Captain.
00:31:46
Speaker
And they proceed to do so. um I can't slow down. I can only redirect. Just as a thing i just just just stop gusting. Turn it off.
00:31:57
Speaker
That's why I said stop the gust.
00:32:02
Speaker
Damn it, Alpha. Stop embarrassing front of the crew. It's my day on the job. It's my first day. ah We've got a situation over yonder deck, as Nyx points over...
00:32:20
Speaker
There's a Shadomendian vessel that's been destroyed.
00:32:26
Speaker
Sparrowhawk emerges from the cabin. Doesn't that suggest that Shadomender are trying to attack Sleekar? Because the two are on opposite sides, aren't they? So it would make sense that potentially Shadow Men forces are trying to attack Sleet Guard. And if that would make sense, no? Yeah, I mean, there's unfortunately, you're right. But there's also many other reasons why a ship suddenly just could have run up ashore, hit a rock, could have been a kraken, could have been a spider.
00:32:57
Speaker
um But it's something to just bear in mind that we're heading into dangerous waters. do you think there's anything out there we can down there can salvage or is it another reason why i've stopped the ship i don't know if anyone wants to you know as nick's points towards the wreckage to go do a dive mean could we attach a rope around someone and then lure them down to get there i like that that'll be a first volunteering mean i'm fucking heavy if you want to lift me up the tharox muscles you can hold emron right okay emron's gonna sort of
00:33:31
Speaker
yeah Take his chainmail off so he doesn't like sink. you know Hold on, why are we not sending the dolphin? Because the dolphin doesn't have hands. That's true. It's also controlling flame at the moment on the deck of the ship. And I'm a little bit worried about that situation. got it under control. i can control it. You know can control it. I'd like you to keep it under control. i always do. Emron. Emron's getting himself ready to be lowered down. as a reminder, I can breathe underwater.
00:33:59
Speaker
i'll Go and jump over then, Alpha. Be a good... ah Just as a thing. Are you really heavy and s sink as well? and Between me and Emron, we'll get him back on the deck. It's fine. Okay, Emron puts his chin up. Oh, look ah yep. Go on.
00:34:12
Speaker
Go on, Alpha. oh Quick, attach the rope to him, Tharok. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Do that. Alpha was about ready to jump off. and then and his Oh, rope. Yep. Tharok, yeah, i'll I'll jump off. No, I think we're going to lower you down.
00:34:23
Speaker
No, I cannonball. and Is she a fucking idiot? Sometimes... I literally just thought the dolphin didn't have hands and then he goes and does that. What the fuck is wrong with that? Blame the creator. I do wonder if the memory room that Rain's putting in him did have any actual intelligence. so to talk But, you know, not to speak ill of the... Okay, um right. Awkward.
00:34:48
Speaker
So you all are peering off that port side. I'm holding onto the rope as well, just to clarify. that six The five of you, Sparrowhawk and two of the crew, all looking over to see how Alpha sort of resurfaces.
00:35:02
Speaker
But with your passive perception, now that the wind is not being channeled in a direction towards gold view, the natural wind stream is coming back into effect.
00:35:15
Speaker
And it is a suddenly breeze, hence why this debris is sort of coming towards the ship and unmistakably the smell of
00:35:24
Speaker
burning.
00:35:27
Speaker
cannon fire, perhaps, you're detecting. Okay. Tie-dye, can you drop the anchor, please? So, and does so. And Alpha, when you sort of hit the water and then bob it under for a second...
00:35:47
Speaker
I would treat being underwater as though you're needing to rely on dark vision that you can't see as far above so water as you can under. So you can kind of only see in what your dark vision allows. So do you have dark vision? No. You're looking you're looking at about a 30 foot radius. Okay. Shit, Iron Giant.
00:36:07
Speaker
um Didn't install the headlabs. Didn't put headlabs in the eyes. But this is quite deep water. You can't see the the seabed below you. You can, however, detect a number of predatory aquatic life below deck that no and know that you are there.
00:36:28
Speaker
The ship has slowed down, so they're not necessarily avoiding the ship. And then this single thing, metallic object appears in the water behind them. three or four sharks just begin to circle you a little bit not too close but you you can see fins you can see the sides of them as they're kind of trying to learn what you are before they get closer yeah and then beyond them you can just see as you're looking up towards the surface of the water yeah pieces of driftwood pieces of um broken ship essentially it's just floating down what would you like to do
00:37:06
Speaker
I will lose shout back up to the boat. You're underwater. you'll resurface and we just see a bubble just didn't you used to be an artifice that can like cast messenger give itself dark vision yeah once upon a time go but up you as I see as Nix is because he's he's hanging off the the edge and kind of watching whatever the fuck you're doing and um your mind just feels that familiar presence of being linked um and you hear my my voice in your mind just like how you doing
00:37:42
Speaker
It's been a while since we've done this, Nix. It's very dark down here. Yeah. Yeah. um What are you doing? Well, I assumed we were trying to find certain things from the debris of the ship. Yeah.
00:37:57
Speaker
Can you see anything? I see mini sharks. Right. I mean, I'm not worried about that. Are you? i like At the moment, they're keeping their distance, but...
00:38:09
Speaker
Please advise them if I pull on the rope, pull me back up. Right. I do mean, you're made of metal. It's not like you're going to... I don't know what shark teeth would do to my construct body. I'd rather not find out.
00:38:20
Speaker
Fair enough. yeah You're under the water for maybe a minute. And slowly, this other form begins to bob into view. And you see the haunched sort of U-shape of a drowned sailor.
00:38:36
Speaker
coming into view. The back. It's almost like, picture like their back is on the surface level and the rest of the body's like in the water.
00:38:44
Speaker
I will message back to Nyx or Awaken Mind or whatever is. I'm being approached by an inactive body.
00:38:56
Speaker
You're being poached? Approached. Oh, sorry. I got a little bit of white noise there in the... Must be the water. ah Okay, so Nyx will relay that to the group.
00:39:07
Speaker
Bring the boat up. Didn't someone say something about heads and talking to them when they're dead? The the body? Yeah, bring the body up. Right. And we could talk to it and all. Tell them to hold on. Get the body.
00:39:19
Speaker
Get the body. get the body ah i Okay, I will attempt to grab the body. Give it a couple of tugs when you're ready to be pulled. slow enough that you can kind of just scoop it in. Yeah, so very slowly, almost like gravity yeah new Gravity S kind of thing.
00:39:32
Speaker
Embrace it, and then one hand just a couple of tons of the rope that's behind Alpha. And who's holding at the end of the rope? That would be interesting. The moment that tug Sparrowhawk also lends his strength, not that as much as you two have, but wants to help.
00:39:47
Speaker
And then as you begin to pull in, and you're lifting this very heavy um object. I'm good. You're good. I need one of you to make one of each decide who's helping. One of you decide who is yanking. I've got advantage on my run already. Go for I'll have to rage to give myself advantage. i don't want to do that.
00:40:11
Speaker
Alpha is booting booting. need to do that.
00:40:18
Speaker
Sustained water damage. That's 22. Warranty void. Yeah. So you're able to lift Alpha. And Alpha, just a very light um strength saving throw is you're just trying to hold on to this body as the water is no longer taking the weight. You are taking all of it. twenty one 21.
00:40:38
Speaker
Great. And this this ah drow court drowugh corpse just comes out of the water with you. And you land back on deck. What would you like to do? could up No grace, let go of the body it clumps down onto the deck.
00:40:53
Speaker
I'd have some respect. Well, isn't this might be one of the enemy's forces? But if we're only going to wake them up to question, they're not exactly going to attack us. I don't think they realise they've just been dropped on the ship.
00:41:06
Speaker
They're dead. i don't know how the spell works. just know someone mentioned it when were talking about...
00:41:13
Speaker
Yeah, that's true. It's probably worth noting as well that I can easily smell on the wind, cannon fire, gunpowder effectively, so I don't think this ran aground. I think it was sunk.
00:41:24
Speaker
Okay, Maris, can you just round up the artillery, please? Do a check. and The cannonball's up on deck. Captain. Captain. And yes, that two of them sort spur out and begin to just prime, not load powder or anything like that, but just move things near the cannons.
00:41:43
Speaker
Yeah. So they're reachable. Make sure they're secure deck. And one's going to look over, is there anything else? Because you mentioned barrels as well. Is there anything else we want to take from this or we just happen with, I mean, the body's great because but actually we can, there's no point at getting anything else. Anything that a ship will carry.
00:42:05
Speaker
what do we What do we need? ah yeah it was it was our It was mainly like, do we know, is there any evidence from the wreckage of what they were doing? But now we've got this guy and one points to the corpse. I suppose that's kind of done.
00:42:17
Speaker
Shall we search his pockets? I don't know what that voice was. Shall we search his pockets? That's probably worth it before we speak to him. Who is doing that, by the way? Who can do that? It's not me. Seth's going to put his hand up ah and sheepishly look towards Baal.
00:42:34
Speaker
Do you have to ask the questions? ah He's going to shake his head and point to Nithravar.
00:42:44
Speaker
see that going wrong. Nithravar.
Interrogating the Drowned Sailor
00:42:48
Speaker
He looks around with his huge orb-like eyes and needle teeth and stares through you into the cosmos beyond. We we need a little bit of a... Let me run, pause this for a moment.
00:43:02
Speaker
Favor. Neither of us that's salivating and nodding. It doesn't break his gaze. um We need to ask this person some questions, and Seth's going to do the spell, I believe.
00:43:15
Speaker
so you're going to have to ask the questions for us. Is that something you can like cooperate with? Knowledge forms an important part of mortal time folds. Take that as a maybe? Yes.
00:43:31
Speaker
Okay. You know, for so long I assumed it was AI, Mark. Everything Nithraval said, like, you have it, but to see it's actually you is genuinely inspiring. Oh, man. I had to look the story. want to suck his car. No, I genuinely assumed that he must just fire Nithraval to chat GPT. No, I haven't got the time for that. Wounded.
00:43:51
Speaker
ah That's Ian who does that for stories.
00:43:56
Speaker
the cannons are loaded we go fucking lord site I love how we went from compliments from me to do you just dry buying in like a flick of a switch he knows we love him yeah it's alright it's alright Sparrowhawk Sparrowhawk just says is anyone going to search him I think I'll do it.
00:44:14
Speaker
You turn over this drow body and it's he's wearing a very loose white. Picture picture at a sort of typical Caribbean-style sailor.
00:44:26
Speaker
Loose white linen top tucked into these breeches. And on his chest, so this exposed tattoos, very much of the Ando and... Gynos. Gynos, thanks, thank you. um Very much top to toe in her heraldry akin to Shadom. And you search his pockets, there's a small pouch with about three gold pieces in in various bits above the change.
00:44:49
Speaker
But nothing else nothing else that's survived the waters.
00:44:54
Speaker
She's got three gold pieces, couple of coppers, nothing more.
00:45:00
Speaker
Okay, Emron. Do we want to keep the ship... Emron's now looking at Nyx at this point. ships Do we stay here until we've done this? Absolutely. If, Bar, you're smelling gunpowder, we're heading into battle. Is someone keeping a a watchful eye out, just in case? Yeah, I've got it. can't stand at the front. How long he been dead, do you think?
00:45:21
Speaker
I don't know. ah Can anyone... If I can still smell the gunpowder, it must be recent. Can I do a medicine check to check how dead he is? Go for it. OK.
00:45:38
Speaker
Somewhere between two days and a week. um Yeah, I mean, he's pretty bloated and soggy. So maybe two i don't two days ago, maybe a week. how does this spell work?
00:45:51
Speaker
so Seth's going to shrug um and he's been pouring through since then and still with a slightly shaky hand he's put back on his shirt now and has read over it and can see his mouth kind of the the le reading along to some of the words on the page silently but he nods in kind of and does kind of like back off to everyone a little bit and and he points to he won't point to a watch because watch is something invented and he points down
00:46:21
Speaker
and Go to the back of his book, write down the word now. Now? Question mark? Brat, can you just go up to the crow's nest, please? Keep weather eye out. Captain. And the dwarf climbs with immense speed.
00:46:36
Speaker
So he goes back to his page and rips out again one of these tabs. This time it forms a kind of a small reddish greenish quivering... but kind of blob of kind of fungusy blight-esque thing. This is a necrotic necromancy spell.
00:46:52
Speaker
And then it forms in his hand and he can see it starting to kind of creep up through his fingers, almost necrotizing parts of his fingers as he pushes it into the the forehead of this of this person. does require a head and a mouth. and And if he was deceased, if the deceased creature was undead before it died, it doesn't work as well. I thought let you know.
00:47:11
Speaker
i'm and the spell also fails of the corpse it was the target of this spell in the last 10 days so the only requirements for it to work Do you want me to describe what the the rest of it about like the questions and stuff?
00:47:22
Speaker
Well, as you begin to make yeah that spell... sorry, it pushes it in and kind of goes to the head. The body itself glows like a very faint blue, and the eyes, almost like a ghostly circle, appear in them.
00:47:33
Speaker
And you watch as just the the jaw cracks open on this creature, and it just the head slowly rolls towards the person casting the spell.
00:47:45
Speaker
as it rolls that way, Seth's going to roll it back the other way towards where Nithravar has stood on the deck, and staring wide-eyed at it, and he's going to put the head there.
00:47:58
Speaker
Nithravar asks it why it was sailing towards Goldview. Nithravar nods. Why does your form melt through the material plane?
00:48:14
Speaker
ah god fuck We made a horrible decision here. And just this briny breath is released as this corpse attempts to speak.
00:48:27
Speaker
Unknown.
00:48:34
Speaker
How long ago did your mortal form depart through space and time?
00:48:40
Speaker
Day.
00:48:44
Speaker
Time is immaterial.
00:48:47
Speaker
How did your mortal form cease to exist?
00:48:57
Speaker
See... Butter... Sleetgaard. yeah Were they winning?
00:49:10
Speaker
Nithervan nods again. Um...
00:49:16
Speaker
Did the formulation of attack from one force to another necessitates someone winning?
00:49:25
Speaker
i
00:49:32
Speaker
Cryptic. Excellent.
00:49:39
Speaker
Upon the sea, within the vessel you find yourself, what was your major mission therefore leading you to die? Destroy Goldview Castle
Naval Combat Debate
00:50:01
Speaker
Excellent! and the corpse just withers back to lifelessness again. ah Seth quickly removes himself from that situation after the spell ends and goes to the fire and just checking on his fingers and he's freezing cold again.
00:50:14
Speaker
had warmed up and now the spell has drawn out all the kind of warmth and he's freezing and it's blue in the skin to warm up again. And Nithravar looks very happy with his job.
00:50:25
Speaker
And Stares looking up at Emron again.
00:50:29
Speaker
Good job Nithravar, that was quite helpful. He just stares through you and doesn't respond. Okay. Everyone looks to go. So...
00:50:42
Speaker
Appy? ah Yeah, we're going have a fucking sea battle. Oh, well, Appy. Man the decks. Okay. ah what what what what What? We're going full in. We're going to blast some cannons in some fucking faces. Are we better equipped than the Sleet Guardians were?
00:50:59
Speaker
Oh, no, but that's part of the fun. I got the best cannons that I could for the gold that we have. so How many we got? Four? Four. And the normal... No, hi I got the high quality ones. Alpha, what's what what's the normal complement of a Sleek Guardian vessel?
00:51:14
Speaker
Not Sleek Guardian, Shadomandian vessel. There is no normal one. It depends if it's of a Royal Navy or military one. I don't know. Fuck. Make a history check, you'd have seen.
00:51:25
Speaker
ah
00:51:28
Speaker
That's why I asked him. Average speed velocity of an unladen swallow. got a seven on a history check. You recall from your time in Coastal Shadowmen, your very brief time in Coastal Shadowmen, seeing ships that had hundreds of cannons, seeing ships that had cannons somewhere in the low forty s
00:51:52
Speaker
By comparison to what this ship is equipped with compared to what I have seen, i believe the phrases were screwed. Okay. when Not necessarily, no no. there's different navigational tools at our disposal. I've only got the wind as in our favour. Exactly! Like, we can just load the cannons up on one side, keep the coast in line and fucking blitz them.
00:52:14
Speaker
Does that not then negate our stealthy approach? Yes! Yes! But how often have you ever had a sea battle, Emron? Well, we were boarded by pirates when we were travelling over from Shadow End to Goldfield. Yes, but that was on deck.
00:52:27
Speaker
That's true, it was on deck. Yeah, you're right, Alfa. But is that not is that not a sea battle? I mean, few things in life are late the soul, like a... fucking sea battle we we had a sea battle with that that necromancer warlock of the seas not a few days ship on ship cannon on cannon blasting each other to hell these are recipes for a great day i don't want to go back to hell nicks no no for the love of all that is not only i don't want to go there okay um You look like you're desperate to say something. No, Farak's just glancing around. Are there actually any ships on the horizon? Are there anything to say that combat is imminent?
00:53:04
Speaker
No. What the fuck is going... What what are we fighting? Well, Shadow End? Common sense. i ah Everyone says.
00:53:16
Speaker
um Well, that's a good question. We could be fighting Shadow End or Sleek Guard. We could be joining forces with Sleek Guard to fight Shadow End. Or we could... Yes. Or we could fight both. Or we, you know, do what we initially were on this boat to do. And the battle could be over by the time we get there.
00:53:36
Speaker
Nick looks down at his feet. He's been dead a day. So if he's been drifting on the on the currents, then it could have happened actually on the top. Your medicine check placed it between... But he said he days.
00:53:50
Speaker
Oh, did they say days? I heard Sorry. ah Okay. So, I mean, he could have been drifting for a couple of days. So one thing we do need to be aware of, though, is we could... get there and Sleek, or at least Gold will not be in control of the people we thought it was and actually be in control of Shadow Men.
00:54:10
Speaker
ah ah No, guess. Sorry, Nick. There's also the point to to consider that if Sleek, I'd won that fight, any remaining Shadow Men ships will be scattered to the wind and fleeing.
00:54:22
Speaker
And coming this way. And coming this way. And if Shadow Men won that fight, they will be laying siege to Goldport as we speak. And we need to get there quick. Can we get there quicker or is it just what we were travelling at?
00:54:34
Speaker
We can go full mast and have Alpha use us got. Nix, don't be like that. I'm just, it's, there is a moment. know. Cannons on cannons.
00:54:45
Speaker
Nix, love that. Well, we may still need them when we get to the port harbour. We may still need them. Exactly. And when we've solved this whole mess. Blasting into each other's holes and the sound of splintered wood. you had me at holes, Nix, but I just feel like this isn't quite what we need like right now. The sound of cries of sailors Pirates coming together, a steel and steel clash.
00:55:05
Speaker
I'm sort of imagining Nix kicking his heel, like a child. Yeah, yeah, yeah. His shoulders are down. What you saw was him elated and now it's like you've taken away his favourite toy.
00:55:18
Speaker
and Okay, but well while we sort that out, um everyone's going to begin a funeral rite on the dead drown. Okay, thank you. Using ceremony. So it can't become undead for the next seven days or anything like that. Thank you very much.
00:55:32
Speaker
Just in case, you know. So it's going to spend the next short rest amount of time the next hour or so just recovering from that. And then hopefully just... I'll better hit die.
00:55:43
Speaker
and I've got to spend an hour doing this. so Yes. Well, your predicted arrival time is not until tomorrow evening. So, you know, you have all of the short rest available for you today. Yes, please.
00:55:56
Speaker
Does invisibility work on a ship? Let's target a creature. bring the ship alive if the ship is a creature to nix like another person the ship would need a pulse and uh and a beating heart needs a well what is alive it's very you know what is alive like plugging a playstation into a tv can we plug alpha into the ship and like becomes a alpha is contributing enough to the ship current You can do more. No, I ain't got the right port. If we plug in, if we only had an artifice, we could take his memory room.
00:56:29
Speaker
Am I to understand that we just want to carry on through to Goldview under a stealthy guise and as quick as possible? Yes, samy and if there are ships there attacking it, we may have to fight our way through. Does that make you feel better? A little bit, yeah.
00:56:44
Speaker
okay okay way anchor drop sail your gust there's an equal deflation in the crew actually who are up for a scrap and they say captain and there's just a little bit less pep in their step now it doesn't mean that there's not going to be a scrap it just means that we shouldn't go looking for one
00:57:03
Speaker
We have the bigger cannons. Yeah, but we we could be outnumbered. Should I actually share Nick's disappointment? I would like to see these cannons shoot something. Bigger cannons, and then we could face, like, hundreds of cannons. So R4 is, like, you know, taking a piss in the wind. Just get about yeah your jobs. going to sail.
00:57:23
Speaker
Nick's will go over to the wheel and just grip it a little bit harder now. Aw, we laugh.
00:57:31
Speaker
i a
00:57:34
Speaker
Farrakh will begin prepping carrots and and and and any other form of stewed meat ready for this evening's meal. He had a role on this ship and it is to ensure that everybody eats. Nice.
00:57:46
Speaker
And with us purposely not trying to share too much information with Nyx, Seth wanted to take intervals of rest. You progressed throughout the day using the favorable wind that you offered.
00:57:59
Speaker
So it is alive. a as you're approaching sunset, there is a call from... Although i imagine you will be in the crow's nest now, again. So it won't be from the crow's nest.
00:58:13
Speaker
Seth, I imagine you'll be sat in the crow's nest. ah Yeah, he would have returned. if Once he's warmed up, he would go back up. Back up there. Kick the dwarf out. Just continuing this this emo teenage phase that he's in. um He's keeping a watch. Thank you very much. Watches don't exist yet. Aye, Captain. Aye.
00:58:28
Speaker
ah fuck There is a call from the deck, from one of the deckhands that just says, we've now entered the waters of Sleetgard. And as the sun slowly sets on the horizon and Tharok, your evening stew is being distributed amongst the ship.
00:58:47
Speaker
Is there anything people want to talk about nexts as we begin to slow the boat down? Sorry. Nyx would just make sure that.
00:58:56
Speaker
It's just spiders crawling over you. Oh, real life. Look at that. You're on the ship. Oh, it's happening. Oh, Arachne. um Nix would just make sure that the ship is slowed down sufficiently to kind of get through the car the the waters of the night. So it's exactly what we did last time. yeah um The sails are at quarter.
00:59:15
Speaker
Alfie, you can drop the gust so much. and And it's more about just like keeping ahead and as he's just steering the ship. Do we need to shroud the lanterns, Nix?
00:59:27
Speaker
Anything like that?
00:59:31
Speaker
How dark is it? You said it's sunset. It's approaching sunset, yeah. Yeah, not at the moment. But you're you're right. When it gets to pitch black, no light on deck.
00:59:44
Speaker
It's worth noting you didn't pass another vessel all day. A few fishing boats that you see. you smell the gunpowder? Val? Do I?
00:59:56
Speaker
No, because the wind has now been directed by Alpha. The moment that started again, you weren't smelling it. Yeah, we've moved on. It's not the same now. Although if Alpha's stopped the wind.
01:00:06
Speaker
Yeah. Aye aye, Captain. ah It's not blowing in the direction. Cool. I can't. I don't know. Sorry. Yes, okay. It's better to be safe than sorry, unless we were going in full battle mode.
01:00:20
Speaker
Nyx looks hopeful. No, yeah, we'll keep the lights dim.
01:00:29
Speaker
M1's going to go hunt out or go find Sparrowhawk if that's possible. Yeah, he's been on deck most of the day.
01:00:37
Speaker
you When I delivered the message this morning, you seemed like you were was there a reply you wanted me to send Drago at any point?
01:00:46
Speaker
No. Oh, okay. I just wanted to check.
Emron's Mystical Dream
01:00:49
Speaker
No. um
01:00:52
Speaker
When, and again, he's looking suspicious at the sailors and trying to keep hushed tones.
01:01:01
Speaker
When we've done what we're going to do. Yep.
01:01:08
Speaker
We anticipate meeting the Red Rooks party and meeting Ghost Wings party. All in one spot.
01:01:20
Speaker
Where we're headed next. And again, just gives a knowing look to those around.
01:01:26
Speaker
I'll know if
01:01:29
Speaker
I'll know if something terrible has happened. okay Was it always the plan to meet at? No. But it is now. How do they know to meet there? Or do want me to tell them?
01:01:40
Speaker
They know. Okay.
01:01:45
Speaker
Okay. So when we succeed, you want us to say we're on way? Say nothing. Okay, fine. Because we don't know who's watching or listening.
01:01:57
Speaker
Good plan. Okay. I'll keep it free just in case they want to get in touch with We may find ourselves waiting for a while.
01:02:09
Speaker
Or they may be there when we arrive. I can't say. for you We've agreed that's where we'll meet. Okay. How confident are feeling about everything?
01:02:22
Speaker
I have been on quite a whirlwind in the last couple of hours. In the last few days.
01:02:32
Speaker
For fear of not wanting to demotivate you, Emron, I'm not going to say. prefer you to be honest, to be frank. Who's Frank? but Fuck off. You bring up fucking cheese.
01:02:49
Speaker
I feel as though when I see home, I'm going to be...
01:02:56
Speaker
stressed. I feel as though I'm going to...
01:03:00
Speaker
be unable to control how I'm going to feel and I don't want to jeopardize anything that we have planned.
01:03:09
Speaker
That's understandable. i mean, don't worry though, if everything goes to plan and everything works out, we can rebuild Sleet Guard.
01:03:21
Speaker
It's not gone forever. I know. I know. It's not the first time we've been at war. At least this time it's not with the dead. Yeah. ah
01:03:35
Speaker
Okay, I just wanted to just check in with you. appreciate that, Emron. I do.
01:03:43
Speaker
i'm You know as much as I know.
01:03:47
Speaker
I have no veil to hide behind. No information. Yeah. If there's any reassurance, when I had my dream, I did see all the four people there in the dream, which was good.
01:04:03
Speaker
And there was a fifth person there, but I just couldn't work out who it was. ah I hope it's not Prego. I really do.
01:04:12
Speaker
Your dream, yeah by nature of dreams, they're built around things we've experienced.
01:04:19
Speaker
Yeah. So is what you're seeing the past? Or is what you're seeing the present or the future? This was what I was... I had that thought myself. like is am i being Am I seeing what might have happened before in some weird, like, what's happened before will happen again kind of way?
01:04:40
Speaker
And when the Gartons were originally overthrown, which feels a bit weird, or or is it some kind of... metaphorical message and it's all representation there's some of the facts seem so consistent and so solid though that I don't know whether it's a sort of guide with a bit of what might happen everyone sort of shrugs and shakes his head and I don't know, going to be really honest, it it just happens.
01:05:09
Speaker
It just started and at the moment it doesn't seem to be steering us in the wrong direction when I seem to try and follow what it's suggesting so I've got no reason to doubt it at the moment but I don't know whether it is what was, is or will be.
01:05:30
Speaker
What power produces these dreams? It's not normal for someone to have an ever-growing singular dream every evening. I don't know. I don't know whether it's my connection through Tiloire trying to tell me stuff.
01:05:45
Speaker
I don't know.
01:05:49
Speaker
I really don't. And I feel like things are... Now I've accepted what I am and and and my connection to himself, things seem to be better in that I can control or be myself more rather than him solely being controlled, which I think is a good thing because I'm accepting him. So its rather than just being separate, we are one.
01:06:10
Speaker
So I don't know whether that it's something from his side. i don't know. There's never been like a guide of, oh, you you're an Asimar, therefore you you'll you'll get this. And I'm like, okay, because I just thought I was me growing up.
01:06:25
Speaker
You're the only one of your race I've ever met. Okay. I have no other understanding if this is normal or not. No, I don't suppose suppose that there are many of us.
01:06:39
Speaker
I don't know. I mean, it's it's It's weird, isn't it? Because there's lots of tieflings about. You meet lots tieflings. mean, maybe it's just rarer for celestial blood to mix in with other races.
01:06:55
Speaker
Or perhaps they just don't reveal it. I mean, yeah.
01:07:02
Speaker
Yeah. But it'll be reet. It's reet. We've got a plan. We're going to do it. It's going to be reet. And there's nothing to worry about, Vlad, and everyone sort of gives him a pat on the shoulder.
01:07:13
Speaker
We'll get this done, and it'll all be good. too
01:07:17
Speaker
Keep that. Keep that for your friends.
01:07:22
Speaker
I will. Especially Nix. You're going to need to be convincing if he's isolated. He will. He knows I can't lie, so, you know, be good. You're going to have to.
01:07:34
Speaker
I'll just say we're going to the gates, and that's it. It's the truth.
01:07:43
Speaker
Good evening. And to you. You know where any of us are if you need out. Likewise. Okay, how I'll leave you to it. And I'm sort of bimbled away.
01:07:57
Speaker
And the rest of you sat around tucking into the evening food. Anything you wish to do Mechanically, I just want to change out spells. Same here.
01:08:07
Speaker
But also, sitting next to Nick's like, have you managed to, you know... Get that spell prepared. ye you Yeah, we talked about ye it. just It never came up. and yep yeah Yep, yep, yep, yep, yep.
01:08:19
Speaker
Let's...
01:08:22
Speaker
a Tie-dye. Fancy steering a ship? Yes, captain. Yep. Take the helm. Well, let's just... I've done this and it didn't work on me, so let's try and do this on you. Should we go downstairs?
01:08:38
Speaker
I feel like we should go downstairs.
01:08:41
Speaker
To remove the curse? Yes. Okay, sorry, yes, let's go.
01:08:46
Speaker
Savvy. We're all watching you go down. Everyone's thinking, they're going to fuck. He said he's going to help me with the the curse. We're removing the curse. Seth, what you call it? It's very good. Everyone's just nodding like a, yeah, sure.
01:08:58
Speaker
Yeah, sure. Seth's slowly pushing cloth into his ears. We call remove the curse fucking where I come from, but have fun. ah uh right okay okay okay sit down sit down on the bed okay nix kind of cracks his neck cracks his fingers and he shakes his hands he's getting ready um so it's uh it's the curse on the cloak you want removing right oh just yeah yeah is is it where we were we just removing the curse
01:09:36
Speaker
Well, I mean, yes. Cool. Yeah, no, that's fine. yeah Sorry, i'm um i' I'm trying to concentrate. I'm trying to concentrate. Nix pulls out his warlock book and he's... You've had to wear that when you were screwing as well. You can't remove the cloak. You had to wear that while you were screwing. Yeah, Superman.
01:09:56
Speaker
ah I need to make a new source for a warlock, Tally. Okay. Okay. And he pulls out his warlock book and he's flicking through the pages and he's found the remove curse one.
01:10:08
Speaker
It's okay. Okay. Don't move. And it's just for the cloak. Yeah? I think that's the only thing cursed. I need you to wear it. I can't take it off. Great. That's part of the curse. This is why we're fixing it. I understand.
01:10:21
Speaker
you know what you're... Do you know how this... I trust Like I said, I've done this before and it didn't work. So I want to make sure this one works. Okay. Do you want me to turn around? No. Okay. No, no, no. I'm fine. I'm fine with the audience. That's not, that's not a thing. You're okay. All right. Keep your eyes on me. Just, um I don't know.
01:10:36
Speaker
Think happy things. Happy things. ah Positive things. Like, ooh, you're on beach. There's the sea. Doesn't quite do it for me. Ah, just, just like, you know. Okay.
01:10:47
Speaker
And then Nyx, with one long blue finger, will tentatively touch the cloak and book in his other hand as that kind of, ah that as usual, the purple energy kind of animates around his two horns and kind of flows down through his body as lightning kind of almost takes hold as it travels down his arm through to his finger. And then as he touches the cloak...
01:11:10
Speaker
He's gonna cast Remove Cursed and the the cloak's gonna glow purple and then fade and then glow and then fade and glow in that kind of ebbing of a flickering light.
01:11:23
Speaker
What happens? So as you watch as this spell is cast, that the unbreaking chain that bounds it around your neck just begins to fizz and dissipate and disappear.
01:11:39
Speaker
And the cloak, almost like creature breathing around in pain, falls off your back. and tethers itself to the next hottest thing it can find is, Nyx, you are surrounded by this fiery cloak.
01:11:59
Speaker
You are permanently attuned to this cloak. You will lose one attuned item. Oh, shit. Which one? You can pick. But this is you now have the cape of exploding flight.
01:12:10
Speaker
Once per day as an action, you can take some fire damage and all sources of flame within 120 feet are extinguished and your cape transforms into a pair of fiery wings. but don't want it.
01:12:21
Speaker
and I don't want it. I don't want it. I feel it has no protection qualities, does it? I feel weaker with this on. I i i didn't think this would happen. just thought I'd be able to take it off. and Oh, no. Do we hear all this?
01:12:38
Speaker
You hear the words? The spell is silent. Oh, no. yeah and I don't want it. I'm sorry, Nix. It's all over you. I'm so sorry. i just don't want this. It's on your back and I can't get it off.
01:12:51
Speaker
Seth shoots a look towards me. Just trying! It's the same thing when it was all over me. well What affects you can't affect me, right? Well, I just... Too hot!
01:13:05
Speaker
I feel dirty! Everyone's humming at the front of the back. Mmm! He's humming to himself. And then you do you you you can't use the things you want to use, right? it's like No, i not i not I don't want this, but do you need this to like function? Or were you planning to like get rid of this thing? I didn't want to get rid of it. I just didn't didn't want to have to... I wanted to be able to, you know, change what I was preparing then and there, the day before, and things like that, and I wasn't able to with it with it on me, and now it's on you. Yeah, yeah, yeah, that's fine. I can use one of their deckhands. That's why we hire them, but, like, do you want this? and Otherwise, I'm going to call down, like, i don't know, Brot.
01:13:41
Speaker
do i As in, what what when you say, do I want, as in, what what do you mean? do i want as an i Do I want the cloak? The cloak. But it it just, did did you didn't want it yourself and it's it's on you. yeah but I can, thankfully, I know that I can do the spell. I can get rid of this. I just will put me and Brot in a room together and hey, presto, he's got a new gift. I can i can i can wrap it up. I can make it sound like he's got a promotion or something. Oh shit, I i didn't know.
01:14:04
Speaker
i But I'm just making sure that you don't want this. I i don't, I don't. It's useful.
Garment Utility Debate
01:14:10
Speaker
It's really useful. I just... um I wanted... Do you think... Do you think I should wear it do you think I should have it?
01:14:18
Speaker
I mean, I think you can look better in other things, but is it is it handy to have? Super handy. It fucking saved Alpha. I was attached to it when it did... So why did you it go? Because I wanted to be able to use my Pearl of Power every now and again. Is that okay? I just wanted that up option to have that in my pocket, you know? It's just because...
01:14:37
Speaker
It was restricting. all right well you You've got the power of choice right now. I'm just saying, like, you know, I could use that spell and get it off tonight, rest, and i won't be able to do it tomorrow is all I'm saying. I'm going to be choosing other things. Right.
01:14:54
Speaker
You never know when we might head into a sea battle. So I'm just saying, like, um I could use spells differently. And you don't want to be able to fly? No, I can fly already. but So can I. But I don't even...
01:15:06
Speaker
10 minutes. I'm resistant to fire. I don't need to wield fire. That's a you thing. I feel like we all have our kind of attributes that we bring to the group. Yours is fire. I don't want to take on down on step on your toes. Does it look cool? isn't it just What, on me? I don't know. I mean, I make everything look good.
01:15:24
Speaker
You're not wrong.
01:15:27
Speaker
i doing bar i don't know i just it's been on me for such a long time well how about how about like uh we give it to brot um he seems like a likely lad and we'll make good use of it and then if you change your mind give me a night and then we can do it the next day
01:15:47
Speaker
It's good option. Sammy, I don't want to command you because, you know, I'm kind of the captain at the moment, which I don't know that's kind of worked out. But, like you know, I'm just saying, like, if you want to go and get Brot and then bring him down here and then me and Brot will do the thing and then, that you know, that's good.
01:16:03
Speaker
You could always... You could command me. Make it a command. I'll use the hat. I wear the hat when we do our thing. It's fine. No, command me.
Approaching Threat
01:16:11
Speaker
Genuinely, command me. To interrupt, Seth, as the person who's likely having the most sentinel-style watch of the Horizons at the moment, could you make a perception check as to what's happening out at sea?
01:16:20
Speaker
I can indeed. As you're trying to listen over this... At night. Domestic. Sun is setting. Oh, sorry. I thought it was still nighttime now. It's it's approaching. 15. There are three metallic orbs, spheres, flying towards the ship.
01:16:40
Speaker
um Seth's going to take out his scimitar. and bang it hard against the side of the crow's nest over and over again to get someone's attention. And we'll be pointing towards where those... Are they in kind of close unison from the same direction? Yes, almost like three birds flying towards the ship. And he'll just point towards them to get Alpha's attention, to get Varrock's attention, to get anyone's attention, maybe even Emron's attention, to look over that direction so that he has another pair of eyes on it.
01:17:12
Speaker
And from there, can because he's got the, I guess, advantage of height a little bit. Have I seen anything like that in the in the past? Yes.
01:17:23
Speaker
These are the same style of monodromes that you encountered seconds after the Jewel of the Desert Champions. The little floating football sized spheres with wings and tiny spears.
01:17:37
Speaker
We killed them, didn't we? And they're coming directly for the ship. and then yes he's going to keep the sword out and will bang more vociferously on the side of the uh but he'll also take out a dagger and ah throw it down and across towards the cabin door aiming for it to clatter against the door just to make a noise for those below as well and uh ditch ditch a dagger you're you're all hearing the banging now aren't it
01:18:07
Speaker
What's up? Everyone sort of looks and then follows Seth's pointed hand. Oh, fuck. Farrakh will immediately turn towards the whole door and will just shout down, Bal, Nix, we've got company.
01:18:24
Speaker
Alphold will just shout out, Sea Battle. I'm coming up on deck. i yeah Yeah, right, okay. Nick's looking down at his new chainmail. His new curse.
01:18:40
Speaker
Fine. New cloak. Okay. And then we'll run up. Clop, clop, clop, clop, clop. Boots on wood. and surveys the scene. ah Right, okay. um Cool, this'll be fun.
01:18:55
Speaker
We've done this before, right? He looks around to everyone as ah we all recognize what we see. I mean, they've nods they were pretty easy-ish to beat last time, I think, can remember. Okay, well, I'm not going to point the camera cannons inwards, so... Avast, let's ready our swords. He looks around to Marius, Pike, Brot and Tie-Dye.
01:19:17
Speaker
Ready? Okay. Everyone's going go stand towards the front of the boat. they're coming from. So that's going to come down from the crow's nest as well. So he's in and amongst everyone. Okay. they get They get to within 120 feet. yeah Good. um Sorry.
01:19:30
Speaker
When they're 120 feet, can cast Guiding Bolt at them? so and On their approach. Sorry. On their approach. They just release this very monotone message that says...
01:19:42
Speaker
You will surrender for a search. Enemies Sleetgard, beware. And that repeats in three or four different languages. First in common, then Elvish.
01:19:55
Speaker
Then it moves into Gnomish, moves into Dwarvish.
01:20:00
Speaker
Have I seen this before? No. You've seen these creatures before? No, but I've never seen this search. No, no. Are they staying 120 feet away or are they now staying... They're slowly flapping in. They're not like moving in like breakneck speed, but this mess is just ringing out lots of different languages.
01:20:17
Speaker
Do we want to hide Alpha and pretend or are we just going for this? I can make him invisible. um just I'm just thinking about what our options are. Do we maintain subterfuge?
01:20:27
Speaker
ah Well, it sounds like...
01:20:32
Speaker
that we should destroy them all. Seth will have written down at that. he would have turned it around just as you said that and he'd be smiling because he just says target practice? question mark Because, you know, that would ah initiate further battles.
01:20:47
Speaker
ah You're so hard to see battles. I love it. Sparrowhawk's going to turn and look at how how is Sparrowhawk perceiving this? Because we've we've just heard sleek enemies of Sleetguard.
01:20:58
Speaker
Sparrowhawk, I assume, heard this as well. hu Yeah, so he's just coming out on deck as everything's sort of been clambering.
Episode Conclusion and Social Media
01:21:04
Speaker
Heard the message and he doesn't look concerned.
01:21:11
Speaker
And that's where we're going to this episode. The Bellaship on the Tabletop, Belem Draconis. um Keep it on edge. Edges. Edges hard. Edges side. Can I get the the notes to the fucking yeah i and thanks like a cloak of farting? What, did you have to ditch for that?
01:21:30
Speaker
just I had to get rid of my... It made sense to get rid of the cloak of protection. yeah no so You can't double cloak, Matt. I mean, you can double bag it. Yeah, but like it has a fashion sense. um Everyone doesn't know.
01:21:43
Speaker
Okay, cool. That was awesome. So, yeah, I don't know. I'm in person doing this for the first time of this year, but I will find some sort of segue into the ending like that.
01:21:55
Speaker
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