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Ep. 65 It Gets Everywhere - Bellum Draconis
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Turns out the party hate Sand, some more than others. Join us as our group make progress in their quest to recuse the Dragon Queens Eggs.
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Intro written and produced by Joseph McDade
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Transcript
Introduction and Character Setup
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He's then also going to use something else, because I got more shit, and it's difficult. I've done characters in a while. I do do this so quickly, Garbo. I have a bit of newfound respect for you. We spent the whole turn getting ready. I know, and I did, and then I forgot what some of us did. And then I... This term for you is sponsored by Speedy Rolls. I'm not rolling anything, you bitches. It's his first day, guys. It's his first day.
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Hello everyone and welcome to this week's episode of the Fellowship of the Tabletop, Bellum Draconis.
Humor and Game Setup
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We are a live play 5e D&D podcast set in the magical homebrewed world of Aerith, currently in the Kingdom of Dralak. Would you rather be silenced with a gagball or spanked with a paddle? To answer these questions and more, we have Dauran who plays the High Elf Artifice like Rey and Sadal. Can you pick both for me? No. We've got Will who plays the human cleric Emron.
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Yeah, I'm not engaging with this. Will, who plays the Dragonborn, Baal Valkon. So am I sitting. Ian, who plays the Tiefling warlock, Nyx Karel. I would take the ball gag and then use the padaw and play ping pong. Nice. And Callum, who plays the Warforged Artifice at Alpha. Harder, baby. And by last, and by no means least, is our Maestro of Magic, our Commander of Chaos and Combat, our DMD of DND, Dungeon Master Danny. Spanked.
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whoa that's what you guys are going to get today in this episode did we need a safe word for this episode spatula spatula it's always fucking spatula now the salty air the salty air wafts over a shanty on the edge of a dusty town a small tavern has a window open to the gushing sea beyond
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We see the faint white glow of old girl's orb.
Recap and Revelations
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He sits cross-legged in the corner of the room, gazing into his orb. He jumps up at your entrance.
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Oh, Dragon Balls! You wanna know what done happened last time? Well, we had some sort of crazy omniscient shift of narrator. It was fucking awesome! Feels pretty good. Um, well, Sunset seems to have done their past whilst the group was down seeing Shondralakar when they made their ways back up north side, back up top. And they had a feast out laid for them with all sorts of spicy things. Nyx took a taste. He liked it.
00:02:55
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Uh, I think the bomb might have liked it too. And then we got Marota, big ol' bomb drop there. Marota been working for y'all. Chris, girl, what the fuck is that all about? She's saying it's just mercenary work, didn't mean to leave it, and was actually sent to capture damn characters from season one. Oh shit, you was gonna have to listen back to that to find out what happened there. Uh, anyway, there was some sort of talking back and forth with Alpha and Rains.
00:03:22
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Some shit about Alpha not being a jigsaw puzzle, but being actually the jigsaw himself. I mean, I think he understood it. And finally, the group done did leave that whole Marauder behind and go get them some dragon eggs.
Desert Journey Begins
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The group travel through wild sands.
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No roads or villages aid your journey. The sun beats down relentlessly, casting a shimmer of heat over an endless expanse of golden sands. Each step you take feels like lifting your foot from a giant oven floor to another. The air is dry and the only sound is the soft, rhythmic crunch of sand beneath your feet.
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The horizon in front of you as you scale these dunes and descend these dunes again seems to stretch forever. Mirage is playing tricks on your eyes in a distance where you think you spy another source of water soon sort of dissipates to just tricks of light. The sky is this brilliant cloudless blue, interrupted occasionally by a tiny bird of prey that just offers a second of shadow.
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As you walk through this undulating sea of dunes, it seems almost frozen in time. You keep walking in the right direction, confident of the way you're heading, but everything seems similar. The silence is both eerie and calming.
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broken occasionally by these whispers you hear on the wind. In tongues, sometimes you recognize, sometimes you don't. The words seem to bear no connection. The journey eventually becomes this meditative state in itself, a dance with the elements.
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The sand, like a fine powder, slips through your fingers as you brush your hands over it. Occasionally, you spot the tracks of some desert creature that's maybe a day or two ahead of you. What's overwhelming, however, throughout all of this is how your body is responding to the heat. At midday, temperatures hit the equivalent of 50 degrees Celsius.
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for some of you that burns a bit hotter. For this first day of travel, I'd like you all to make constitution saving throws, please. Alpha at disadvantage, as you're essentially a walking hot pot. I'm a conductor, baby. Bow and Nyx at advantage, please, as you're resistant to the effects of heat. I knew we should have fucking traveled at night.
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It's times like this, I really miss being on the open waves.
Surviving the Heat
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I'm sure I want someone to tell me back in Shadow Men that travelling in desert, you're travelling at night, it's much better. Okay, so did anybody get... Well, we'll go through the list. Next, what did you get? Seven. Seven. You suffer one point of exhaustion for your progress this day. Oh, bastard!
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reigns five from a natural one natural one yeah right so you die oh shit you end or you at least approach sunset with three stacks of exhaustion oh shit emra holy shit
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I have to read what that is. I don't actually know what happens there. Disadvantage on attack rolls and death. As well as half speed and disadvantage on ability checks. Yes. Yes. Yes. M run. I got an 11. One stack of exhaustion. Alpha. Ten. One stack of exhaustion. Ball. Natural 20 for a 21. Oh snap.
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while your next three D20 throws are all made at advantage as you feel a shaman-like connection to this environment and the heat where it would conquer others reinforces you.
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to the next three times you cast a D20 advantage. Yep, thank you. Finally then, as the day transitions to dusk and some of your progress is really hindered by the fact that rain is struggling in this heat, the temperature begins to relent.
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We're dipping now into the low 30s by the time the sun has set. The dunes take on a different character, shadows playing on their curves, and the sky becomes this canvas for a breathtaking display of colors. Picture an inverted Oreo Borealis. Yeah, you have this twinkling night sky interrupted by no sort of pollution whatsoever. And then these orangy hues that sort of create these glowing clouds above this twilight scene.
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The air is beginning to carry a cooler breeze, but still dry. Could, perhaps, Ball is the most native to these lands, but I'm not going to prescribe that. But someone who's feeling up to it make a survival check at this point to see, unless you want to press on, but a survival check to perhaps think about where a suitable shelter might be. I think it makes sense. Up to the party. I think it makes sense for Ball to unless there are any.
00:09:28
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Anyone wants to contend it? The logical choice for Alpha will be the most experienced desert traveler. OK, yes. Makes sense.
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Tibar will do exactly that. He'll kind of survey the land over all the 20. That's using my first advantage. Nice. Yeah, so you find this almost rocky outcrop that sits beneath this tidal wave of a sand dune almost, and the rocks are cool in comparison to the hot sands. It's not enough for all of you to shelter?
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to comfortably, about three of you could benefit from the reduced temperature. The rest of you would have to sort of make due on the sands, but it's as good as any in this environment for sure.
Camaraderie in Camp
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I have the ability to create water and I can make water fall as rain if I were to create an area of rain to cool people down.
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Is that possible, Diem? Absolutely. Use your spells as you wish. So as they're setting up camp, everyone's going to sort of go over to Barl as the expert. Barl, I don't think Reigns is managing this heat well. If I use some of my magic to create a bit of a little shower for him, do you think that'll be all right to do out here?
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Mmm, seems many of you can't quite handle the heat. Looking at your face is fair enough. If you keep it relatively localized, I don't see an issue, but just be warned. Water is scarce out here. You don't know what might come crawling out to take a drink.
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Okay, I'm going to take that as a yes. Everyone will sort of go over and everyone will sort of go over and help Rains on his knees at this point. He's glazed over. You would have had to have been carried almost the last couple of hours at Rains. Alpha would definitely have been escorting Rains when he started to slow down, made sure he gets nestled under the dunes and Alpha stepping out away from the rocks and everything else. Alpha would put himself out into the heat.
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So just away from the rocks, everyone will create this 30 foot cube area with rain. So yeah, I create 10 gallons of water will now fall as rain for a bit. How long for?
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It's instantaneous. It says create water. You create up to 10 gallons of clean water. So it's up to within range. Alternatively, the water falls as rain in a 30-foot cube within range, extinguishing exposed flames. It doesn't say how- So 10 gallons worth. 10 gallons worth is produced. So it would be enough for one of you or two of you to have a very productive long rest.
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Yeah, I'm trying to cool rains down. Sorry. Nick's watching you do this and feeling a little bit worse for way himself, which is surprising considering Nick's is okay with the heat. He moves over to where you've done your waterfall and he draws this kind of symbol in the sand at the base of it. And it's almost looks like a drop of water and
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part of your water just kind of almost circulates in Nyx's open palm and then freezes. There's a good selection of water that freezes as I've cast Shape Water and then Nyx will give a nod to you and then walk over to Rains and hey, this might help and just kind of pass it over.
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in the hopes that you gain some strength to be able to walk over. Reigns instinctively just lifts up his head and sips as best as he can before just falling back down. He's gone for all intents first.
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The lights are still on, there's like a murmuring, his brow is completely covered in sweat. The best analogy I can give is that he's circling pretty close to Comatose Khal Drogo at the end to see them on a Game of Thrones. The lights are on, but there is very, very little that Reigns could do at the minute. He couldn't tell you his own name. Nix has got a bit of material and wraps it around the ice and just kind of holds it against your forehead.
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And as Nix is dabbing, Baal steps in. He's going to turn to one side away from the group and ignite another bonfire away from them, not necessarily near them and go, what the fuck are you doing? What? I'm a bit cold. But he's going to bend down next to Rains as well.
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stretch out a hand and he's going to cast Enhance Ability Bears Endurance.
00:14:54
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Um, so effectively, mechanically, it's going to give you two D six temporary hit points, um, which are lost when it ends. So it can last up to an hour. So it's only an hour long. Um, and I've rolled the minimum I could possibly roll on that. So it's only two, um, two temporary hit points, but the, you get advantage on constitution checks. So his intention is very much to kind of alleviate some of the, uh, exhaustion. I know that mechanically that's, that's not necessarily going to work, but the intention is to soothe him somewhat.
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Nice. Does anyone else have anything they want to say in that moment as you're over this, this, this recovering reigns? I think Alpha would look at Baal and just thank you for your assistance. There's a nod and I'm going to go and sit very close to the fire. So based on what you've decided to do there and how you rolled with the survival check, there is,
00:15:55
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Enough shelter, and it sounds like rain is going to be one of the beneficiaries of this, there's enough shelter for three of you to remove a single stack of exhaustion with this rest. It will be a long rest for the purposes of hit point recovery and spell slot recovery, but it will not be enough to sustain that exhaustive recovery, just given the nature of this heat. So three of you will see the benefit of one stack removed from this overnight rest. Two of you will not. You guys can decide who that will be.
00:16:25
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Just given the scene in front and with Nick's being more able to deal with the exhaustion or not, Nick's out. He's out in the heat area. And he's going to be gathering up some sand. OK. That's it. In a little pouch.
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So presumably Rains is going to be one of the beneficiaries. So between Emeron, Alpha and Baal, who's taking the other two. He would look at Emeron before he goes and just offers up the cloth with the ice, which stays frozen for an hour. Okay. As if to kind of look after him type thing.
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Am I right in thinking Baal doesn't have exhaustion at all? Yeah, don't worry. Yeah, it's just we might as well put the three of us in the... So the three shadow mendians will probably go into the rocks to cool off because we've got some deserts, but this ain't that kind of desert.
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So Alpha would be very much next to Reigns pretty much for as long as we'll do. I don't know if we'll need to skip it. You put aircon, do you suddenly just go... Not yet. I need some more levels before I can do that. Well, I'm basically going to be next to him all night as in how things kind of happen. And yet over the next hour, Alpha's kind of
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just doing any kind of medicine he's stuff he can think of that he's read about so it's like dabbing the cloth on the head for ratings and all this kind of stuff but he's not going to leave his side and obviously he doesn't sleep anyway.
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So the three Shadow Mendians are in this sort of rocky outcrop, the shelter of that whilst Nix and Bao are taking rest in the sands.
Night Reflections
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Separately. Separately. OK, at first. Whilst this is happening. You get cold, buddy. Alpha, you can get it. And the NC is out of the bag of holding and just appears to be flitting between online and offline, like staggering, almost like glitching in the video game.
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NC's connection to Reigns is faltering. And as such, kind of like the characters in The Beauty and the Beast, when the final petal's about to fall, NC is flitting between sentience and just reverting back to a taxidermy squirrel.
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But you can tell through that that Rains is in palpable danger. Alpha's very limited knowledge of biology, in all fairness. He would probably grab NC, keep him, kind of put him in front of him, almost like he's about to do some project work on him, and he's wondering if there's anything he might be able to do to NC that would actually help Rains in the same manner. So how Rains affects NC is like,
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He's got his Tinkins tools out and he's just seeing if anything he could do might perk Rains up or at least bring some kind of life to him, obviously to no success, to no avail. We've done, but it's something that he would be trying. Make a nature check as you're sort of trying to understand human anatomy, have elven anatomy. I rolled a seven. You're just sort of poking in with some objects. Like you put a thermometer underneath his tongue and that's probably the most productive of that session.
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Alpha. We've done all that we can do. Now, reigns in the hands of Selen, as he would put it. Now, I shall maintain my vigilance here by his side and still attempt to assist. We have done what we've done. We've cooled him down. We've got the place where he can rest. And I will continue to assist him.
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That's fine, but don't do out that now is a detriment. There's something called trying too hard, lad. Popsicles! Get your popsicles! This mix is frozen water after another hour. Just hand it out to anyone.
00:20:37
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Cylindrical shape. Nice. Can I get Nyx and Baal to make perception checks as you're not tending to rain, so you're sort of taking in that wider landscape around you.
00:20:49
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My passive is 17, if that's- Feel free to roll against it. It'll take 17 as the lowest. Okay. Yeah, no worries. I'll give you- Fucking about 21. Nice. No, I'm gonna roll higher than that. Oh no, I'm not. Fuck. That's 17. Rolled 17. So what you're beginning to see, and particularly when Nyx's ice kicks in, is while the water was happening, steam was rising from the sands, and then you introduce this sort of shield of ice almost, and this, um,
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secondary effect of your spell produces this steam cloud that sort of just lingers above where you're camping. It starts quite small at first, but over the course of that hour it grows and you become almost somewhat argue protected, somewhat almost argue blinded by this 60, 70 foot radius of steam that sort of
00:21:42
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sits about a foot above the sand level. So if you sort of ducked really low down, put your head to the ground, you can probably see out again, but you've lost almost like the picture, like a mushroom top. You've missed like that much visibility. Like you can see where the stalk is, but above you, it's quite hard to see.
00:21:59
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And even for you, Bal, this is an alarming growth of moisture, even for a mild, low-level ice enchantment that it's got you concerned.
00:22:13
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Can I do something about it? What would you like to do about it? I would like to cast Destroy Water and destroy up to 10 gallons of water. So that would essentially, everything that Emron produced, the by-product of that would then dissipate. Oh, I see. I think, Emron, it was 10 gallons in your Create Water? Yes. Okay, so there's enough to like punch a decent cylinder through this cloud, yeah.
00:22:38
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Uh, yeah, in that case, then, I mean, I've only got, I think the same kind of range on it. So I wouldn't be able to necessarily, if it's spreading out, fill all of it, but the lack of visibility would certainly be a concern, especially with it not currently being nightfall. Um.
00:22:53
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You can destroy fog. The spell allows you to destroy fog, doesn't it? Exactly. I'm just wondering, I mean, Rains is how he is at the moment, isn't he? There's nothing that's really gonna do much more. The fog isn't necessarily gonna help with that. Yeah, so I'll destroy as much as I can. Nice. So it goes from being this mushroom to almost like this ring, this like Saturn, Saturn's ring shape almost, that is just like the outer radius of this. You have about 10% obscured vision now, really, from what you had before.
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which is great management of the by-product of all this good stuff, what slowly begins to happen alarms you once again as more fog descends. And then you hear a voice. Drop the gold. And it's hard to place it. It's almost spoken in one direction, bouncing off a dune in the other, and you're hearing it in about three different directions.
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Do we all hear this? Yeah, it's spoken in common and it's it's loud. Everyone's stood up from the rocks and he looks down to Alpha. Stay with Reins for now, but be ready. I think you're going to get some point. You've got your boomerang out and ready. Have your cannon ready.
00:24:20
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Emron will step out from the rocks. He's got his hammer and he's got a very, very fixed look in his face. Probably his reddened skin and that kind of stuff from all the sun they've been getting. And he sort of stands defensively and now out of the rocks. And looks over towards Nix and Baal to see what they're doing. For Baal, upon hearing this,
00:24:50
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going to put a hand up behind his cape that was kind of draped over his back and he's going to kind of unhinge something and I suppose Nix and everyone who's looking over him would now see what he's going to do is he's going to remove from his back what looks like an incredibly rotted disc of hardened flesh in some way but
00:25:16
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It's not just a random disc, it's actually, it looks like it's completely alight. This thing looks like it is just burning hot on fire flames wreathed from it. It's almost active like a torch in some way, shape or form. And you see him kind of affix it to his arm. He's donned the shield that was on his back and he's going to keep his eyes peeled looking round.
00:25:42
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Sorry, because everyone was looking at what Nix was doing. Nix is just stood kind of turning left, turning right, facing forwards, facing backwards. And if you could see his ears, they're trying to pinpoint where the sound is coming from. All the while, if you look into his hands, there's just some energy just growing from the palms. Nothing other than that. Make an investigation check to see if you can pinpoint. Fuck yeah.
00:26:12
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Yeah, how's a two? You're pretty sure it's coming from like, bow. Fucking bastard wants our gold. The voice strikes up again. Drop the gold now. How about you come here and say it to my face?
00:26:41
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Nice one. And Rob will shout back. The fog grows. And you bring snicks to be able to not see all of Baal. Parts of it becomes obscured. You look back and you can't quite see all three of the Shadow Mendians. Oh shit. Oh shit. Last chance.
00:27:04
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Just by the logic of NC what also happens at this point is that some of Reigns' other Artificery starts to give away and the bag of holding collapses and gold just spills out all around Reigns.
00:27:27
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Alpha does not shift next to Rains, he's not bothered if the golds later on are Alpha A moving. And just for the record, yes, I have activated my little turret as per the advice of Emrom. We've found quite a nice place to stay here, so we'd rather stick around and you can, as some of my dwarven friends used to say, fuck off.
Morning Philosophy
00:27:52
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Nix is going to, as he takes a moment, the hairs on the back of Nix's neck start standing up as he starts to notice that everyone around him is starting to slowly disappear. It's almost like a Resident Evil game by the sounds of things. Fucking freaky ads! So Nix is flicking through his book and he's going to cast Thaumaturgy and create a Rumble of Thunder from behind him and go out loud, you're not the only one with powers here!
00:28:22
Speaker
Not really confident, but the rumble of thumb does emanate from behind. It just starts low and then just crackles as, as, uh, as you would get if lightning crossed the sky. But obviously it's all soundscape. Could you make an intimidation check with a vantage please? Oh, that's better. Uh, 21. Um,
00:28:52
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Right, drop the gold now, or else. I've got a passive insight of 17 as well. Am I picking up on a sense of trepidation now from the voice? Absolutely. I'll say as such to Nick's, I'll go, whatever you've just done seems to be working. No, you can fuck off. Nick shouts back.
00:29:25
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Last chance! And Ron lights his hammer and be like, you heard us, you've bitten off more than you can chew, so fuck off before we make your entrails your extrails. And because there's been a change in that kind of voice and Bao's drawn attention to it to Nyx and given the state of reigns as well and the heat,
00:29:55
Speaker
You know, there's other ways, if you need help, there's better ways. We're not evil people and we have water. Five gold. Just give me five gold. You know what? You know what?
00:30:19
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from one magic wielder, powerful magic wielder, to someone obviously still learning their craft. Yes, I will give you five gold. No, Nix, no. You're given to bullies once, and they only make it worse. We're in the depths of this hell desert, Emron. Maybe they're just trying to feed their family.
00:30:42
Speaker
which is fair enough, but if they're doing that, then mugging fork ain't the way to do it. This is freely given. Just come, just come out of there. Drop this. Drop. And Nix is kind of gesticulating around. Still can't see Emron, so he's just shouting out having this conversation with shadows. Just drop whatever this is. It drops. What do I see? Absolutely nothing.
00:31:12
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You're still in this sort of crater almost. There is those dunes around you, but you don't see anything from the position you had. Nothing has changed from when visibility changed. Can they see back to range and alpha? Yep.
00:31:26
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Reigns has Sonic the Hedgehog'd, like when he gets hit, like his coins have just... Ah, go ahead. That's a lovely image right there. I was like, what, he's turned blue? His hair's gone spiky? He's suffocating. The coins are just everywhere. The bag of holding has, like, NC given up. There's a silence after the fog lifts, and you just hear, shouting very far away,
00:31:57
Speaker
I'll get it in the morning. Just leave it on the floor. Please. Yeah. Um, sure. Do you need anything else? It sounds like you're in trouble. Like, like I said, we're not here to hurt anyone. No response.
00:32:21
Speaker
Oh, maybe it's the sands gods. I don't know. There's so many gods. Is there a gods of sands? He's looking to Paul. I don't believe so. I just feel like it's some pathetic thug that doesn't seem to be able to back up what they have to say. Well, maybe, maybe, maybe you just thought that this was a very powerful group. Poor person. Ah, Nix, and everyone's saying this from the rocks.
00:32:50
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go around and give in to bullies, and then they're going to redeem themselves. So, you know, he tried to stand up to us and realised that actually we weren't just a bunch of folk he could nick stuff off. I mean, it's better than him taking things too far. Like I said, or just they backed down pretty quickly. And now I'm just thinking, what's their motive?
00:33:17
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Probably because they're not used to folk backing down. Maybe, you know, when normal travellers in that lot are travelling through desert, they're not used to fighting things. And therefore, when we get faced with such dangers, we go, all right, then time to fucking nut it in the face. Rains, whilst this is happening, is just going to reach out towards Alpha with a very feeble hand and is just going to just say, oh, the word could come back.
00:33:48
Speaker
Marota Wood. She was right. She was right. She would. He could come back. Just just saying that over and over. I do not understand dreams. Marota Wood could come back. What? I'm literally shouting. Basically in that feeble voice, it's just Marota Wood. She was right.
00:34:17
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could come back and that's all. That's as much as Reigns can muster. I know what Reigns is trying to say, but that's all that Reigns can muster. Yeah, Alpha Con interpret that it's not a coherent sentence to him. He's going to turn and say, Reigns is saying something, but I do not understand the context in which you're saying it. Something about Barota being right and would come back.
00:34:42
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I don't know what could come back rain sis could come back could come back as he hears you say would doesn't and then and then just goes back into like a fever kind of I Bet he's really glad that you're the one stood there alpha Bali like I keep something to say
00:34:59
Speaker
Yeah, deeming that the main part of the threat has gone, he's going to take the shield off from an arm, place it back, and latch it back underneath the cape again. Again, it's been alight this whole time, and even when he places it behind his cape, it still looks like it's burning on fire.
00:35:18
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shield bal was that crafted from dead bodies another time perhaps maybe not right now nyx and bal's going to get as high as he possibly can not as in wow what are you smoking uh you mentioned that there was like a like a where reigns and alpha and mrun are they're kind of in like a
00:35:41
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they kind of sheltered someone. I think what Baal would try to do is get up high and see if you can spot from distance where that voice has come from. Yeah. So as you get yourself to high ground, your passive is high enough to see these tiny, a tiny pair of no bigger than a half length tracks that literally came right above you both in the dunes and then
00:36:11
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quickly dashed another way given the distance between each of the tracks that recede from this space. Okay and it'll cool down over the top. Something small up here it seems with a good vantage point. Do we follow or do we stay? I don't mind either way.
00:36:33
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I think it's probably worth us having a watch. We're in no condition to go troupsing around through the desert in the night. Let's just make sure we've got a watch in the night that up there looks like a good spot to be able to keep an eye on stuff.
00:36:48
Speaker
Why do I feel like I'm getting volunteered again? No, we'll split it up. Don't worry. I would not leave the side of Reims. If whatever he is comes back, we can deal with him then. It's fine. It's fine. You are right. I'm just being a dick. And Nick's all woke up to the point that everyone suggested. And again, Burke enrolled. OK. Orb. So Nick's taking the first watch by the sounds of it.
00:37:16
Speaker
Biles by his side. It's a slight tension when Bile comes and sits or stands near Nick says, it's not bad tension. Don't know what sort of tension is, like a heat, electricity, an interest. Just Nick's self-aware that there's a presence there. As you walk past Rains and Alpha as well, you will see a tiny little like droid bot just kind of
00:37:45
Speaker
calling around, um, reigns almost kind of protecting and guarding him at this stage. Okay. So BB eight. If Nick's and bowel are taking first watch, everyone in alpha, I assume you're taking the second. I again, I know that we can't cover the whole night on our own. Nick's last to take up some more. Yeah.
00:38:12
Speaker
It doesn't sleep. So perception checks from everyone who will be engaging with a watch, please. Yes. Okay. Will, sorry, Emron, what did you get? 19. Alpha. 20 or natural. Nice. Ball. 26. Very good. Nix.
00:38:44
Speaker
24 and that was with a crit. Motherfucker. Middle finger to you, Nix. Right? I'd like to think Nix is there just kind of looking at Bao and he's got a hand over his eyes as if to go, yeah. And then Bao just whips out some binoculars.
00:39:06
Speaker
evening passes without incident. Certainly no return of your, uh, your predator, your one-time predator, uh, in that you wake the next day. Those of you who only sustained one point of exhaustion sleep that off rains, you awake with only two stacks in this day. So you have reduced, uh, reduced speed, half speed and skill, all skill or checks at disadvantage.
00:39:37
Speaker
Am I still sorry? Yes, Nix, you carry yours through. You weren't getting that super rest. You press on. The second day of travel begins before we go. They don't like to do anything. Yes. Yes.
Entering Sleet Guard
00:39:52
Speaker
I will make sure I'm the last one of the group and I'm going to put five gold down for our little friendly friends. Nice. Everyone's going to be staring over at Nix.
00:40:05
Speaker
He'll walk up to you and just go, listen, OK, I've done similar things in my past and I was very inexperienced and I was very afraid, but someone was making me do it. And you were successful and did it more. I'm here. With you. Learning to be better. But you don't.
00:40:29
Speaker
Sometimes you don't know who's controlling them and you don't know who's making them but they back down really quickly and that just sent Something in my head. Maybe a memory of what I used to be Fair enough Nix you're gonna do you you'll do you but just think next time this person if they're not being told to do it against their will and
00:40:56
Speaker
might go even bit further and folk might lose their life because you gave him a win. Or I don't do this, he can't feed his family and folk might lose their life. Just got to do with what you can do with in front of you.
00:41:13
Speaker
Agree.
00:41:48
Speaker
and everyone will leave Nix to leave his little pile of gold. Nix is going to leave it in the shape of a love heart. So one coin, two coin, three coin, four, then almost. And he's going to leave six because six makes the pattern of a heart. So that's what he's going to do. Nice. Okay. He asked for five. Can't you follow instructions? He'll definitely come back now, won't he? Yeah, that's it. Give him a bonus. He's coming back with mates. Wait, wait, wait. Are you having a stroke?
00:42:18
Speaker
I can't have another day of that. I ain't gonna make it, if I do. Emron, can you, I can't. Come on, come on, Reigns. Emron will go over and take some of Reigns' gear off him and then support Reigns in his walking.
00:42:48
Speaker
Alpha, can't you just carry him? Reigns, we're getting through this and, you know, we don't have time for you to go quitting on us yet. So let's go. Short and sweet. There you go.
00:43:09
Speaker
So the second day of travel begins at a slightly reduced pace than you were hoping for, given that you're helping brains every now and again. You press on for the first couple hours of the morning and although no signpost would reveal this, you pass into the borders of Sleet Guard.
00:43:31
Speaker
The landscape undergoes this gradual transition of being these harsh sands to being slightly more savannah-like. Occasional sprouts of grass and shrubbery appear. Occasional signs of insect life first. You pass the occasional small reptile, but nothing really substantial. The sand gives way to these sort of
00:44:00
Speaker
golden grasses for lack of moisture but they still manage to barely exist here that sway in this light breeze the temperature drops again you're not moving in 50 degree heat it's more like 40 the air feels that much lighter and there's a slight moisture to it it's not that dry air that you have been feeling
00:44:23
Speaker
And this change in scenery for some of you particularly reigns, I imagine brings about a sense of relief that the monotony of those dunes replaced by this mosaic of colors and textures. You walk for a few hours more, acacia trees, cacti,
00:44:50
Speaker
other desert flora begin to sort of appear. I'm losing the noun there. And you press through this midday sun before you start to think about taking a break again. Just that point where yesterday you sort of checked in with yourselves and you tested your constitution. You spy
00:45:15
Speaker
In the distance, less than a mile away, as you sort of emerge over this outcrop, a large building. A large building made of tents and posts. Beside that large building are two wooden structures, and there is this rumble, a gentle rumble in the earth. I'm going to need you all to move on to roll 20, please. Oh, shit. Yeah.
00:45:45
Speaker
It's a white page for now. It's been updated. Things. There's things. Oh, shit. So what you see before you is this structure, this tent-like structure. And then there are these two almost like guard towers slash raised loading docks. They look like fishing jetties.
00:46:15
Speaker
over this, this dark motion full.
00:46:24
Speaker
river almost it's like a river without water it's like the sands are moving like a river in this west to east direction so for reference to you all on your map that darker patch of sand that sort of snakes around these structures it's moving almost like a river would and you see on these jetties five boats that are that are moored up
00:46:52
Speaker
There are a number of people dotted around this scene, all of whom wearing the purple cloaks that you have come to associate with the crisscross. Centered around this large bonfire in the middle of these three structures are these white, sort of four foot diameter oblong shaped eggs.
00:47:24
Speaker
How do you want to proceed? This is you in the bottom left of the picture. And I need to take a second to make sure you will have control. Are those some of the eggs we're looking for?
00:47:40
Speaker
So you will have noticed that upon entering kind of sleep guards area, you see kind of a different demeanor come over bowel as well. That he almost seems a little more relaxed. You've seen him kind of taking the, the, the plant life and things like that. But as we've gotten closer to this area, and especially like you say, when we have taken in those, uh, eggs in particular, you see immediately the demeanor change, the eyes narrow.
00:48:08
Speaker
And he looks over to Emron and says, yes. Great. Okay. So what was about nine of them? Five of us.
00:48:27
Speaker
What's the terrain like, Danny? Is there a route that it looks more concealed than others? So everything up until the sand river, let's call it for now, is a sort of like uphill climb. So you are slightly hidden by the fact that you are lower down in that dune.
00:48:49
Speaker
The sands themselves, everywhere that is yellow on for your reference, counts as difficult terrain. So rains, you are going to have some trouble moving through this space. These darker patches where there is sort of earth and outcrop, that's regular terrain. And I'm not going to tell you about the river until you get closer. Next is going to just look towards bow at the
00:49:16
Speaker
they dragon eggs or dragon born eggs it matters not no absolutely not i'm just your your stake in this what my stake are they is that we protect them at all costs agreed and i can see that this is a very intense situation for you um and i'm trust just is there family ties
00:49:41
Speaker
How emotionally invested are you? And are you clear of thought? To my sovereign mother, these are everything. Cool. To my sovereign mother, I owe everything. You seem clear of thought to me. Okay. Danny, what time of day is it? Midday. Oh, fuck.
00:50:07
Speaker
It's also worth mentioning as well. You can spy just to your east. The carcass of a camel that's being consumed by four, they look like rattlesnakes from this direction. So if we had the time, I'd say we come down, wait for nightfall, and then go in. But I'm guessing... I think they're going to take those eggs on those boats. Yeah, that's a bit too far away.
00:50:37
Speaker
Two options, we're down float so we could go round to the east and see if we can use the distance between us to take on these groups in order so they can't support each other.
00:50:54
Speaker
Effectively the two over there and everyone will point sort of up towards the north east where there's the the The two on the platform and the one by the by the eggs with the fire than the three round the smaller fire If we got them there's a lot of them to support each other The other three over there at the he's gonna point towards the east where there's the two on the platform and the one on the ground with the three boats in front of it that looks
00:51:20
Speaker
bit more distance away. Only problem is, the tent, we don't know what's in it. That one you're describing, Emron, the foremost doc, they are actively loading those eggs. Okay. Right.
00:51:38
Speaker
What's the boats made out of, Danny? From here, you perceive wood. They're only green on your reference to make them pop out visually from the terrain. I didn't know if it was some long leaf kind of contraption. They were brown tokens on a brown background. I was like, they can't see that. That's fair.
00:51:55
Speaker
Are they moving, so if there's a current in this sand, are they moving with it up and down? So are they tied down or are they shifting forward? You can see those regular machinations that a boat would make if it was moored on a lake, on a river.
00:52:13
Speaker
And are people on it, or any eggs on it, or are they as empty as they appear? The eastern dock itself, they're actually loading that. So those forex you see on that static image, they are, as you investigate, being loaded. The ones that are in the center of the scene, surrounded by the fire, keeping them still incubated, you presume, are still there, stacked there. Rains. Rains, as this is happening, as his senses are
00:52:42
Speaker
slightly returning to him he's just glancing inland down river from these from these rivers and he's just trying to to I suppose make recall in his memory if the the flow of river in the direction that these boats look set to travel is back towards Goldview.
00:53:04
Speaker
Make a... I suppose nature is the closest thing to geography. Make a nature check. Can I aid on this? Sure. We'll do Mark's rule for aid. So you roll nature first, Nix, and then whatever that hits adds to the roll that Rains will make. Okay. A 10. Which I believe, Mark, does nothing.
00:53:37
Speaker
Correct. Yes. Okay. So it's a straight roll from you, Raines. Yeah. At disadvantage, that's a 13. 13. It's hard to tell. So you've only traversed main road from South Eastern Sleetguard into Northwestern Drolak.
Rescue Plan and Confrontation
00:53:57
Speaker
It's hard to know exactly if that's the direction it's headed. It's headed eastward in general. So it's going somewhere between the two kingdoms.
00:54:06
Speaker
But with that role, it's hard to really know. Rains will say it that. And he will look at Byle and probably see the flaring nostrils and will just try and temper this and say, look, I promised you I'd help and if we're going to do this, all weapons and magic are blazing. I will do what I can, being how I'm feeling.
00:54:36
Speaker
However, combat isn't the best way to guarantee that those eggs are coming out of this unscathed. We might want to think about how we're going to get our hands on those, because going in their own magic and weapons blazing isn't necessarily the most conductive way to protect them, those eggs. They are not going to give them over willingly.
00:54:58
Speaker
I'm not saying we don't know. And the longer we wait, the more likely they are to get away. But you know this area best. What do you suggest? Who was that to you, sir? Sorry, Nick's is within the conversation of everyone. So he's directing it as Raines is directing to you, as he's directing it to you. Oh.
00:55:25
Speaker
I say we get immediately into the boats that they are currently loading with the eggs, every priority being that we maintain their safety, and we burn these fuckers to the ground. Intense. Intense. Sounds like we've got a plan. Oh, agreement in the intense. Of all people. We need to get as close as we can.
00:55:50
Speaker
As stealthy as we can. Reigns, you're not in addition to go toe-to-toe. She needs to be fried. Reigns support. I can do that. Alpha, that's probably you can do that as well. Nick's not quite sure how you're feeling whether you're toe-to-toe or... You just play it fast and loose, do what you're coming up with. Make it up as you go along. Fair enough. And then Bar and I, I believe, Bar, you want to get up close and personal with these folk.
00:56:20
Speaker
either I might not I need to get those eggs safe he's gonna unhitch his shield from the back but it isn't
00:56:27
Speaker
He's he doesn't look like he's in the crouching position kind of stealthy. He looks like he's about to get up and fucking charge Charging that man gonna work though about we've got to go around and then oh if we go straight at him we're gonna get all tons of fuck fuckery come at us and we're all gonna die and then Your lady ain't gonna get their eggs back at all interrupting here
00:56:50
Speaker
In the last six minutes, it's taken you to have these conversations. The first boat is now departing with two eggs on it. Ball is charging. Oh, the chaos. That's Nick saying it out. Oh, the chaos. So.
00:57:04
Speaker
The boat is going to unmoor. I will allow Baal one full turn and then we will roll a full turn initiative. Emron, as the person who was with Baal at the point where he just sparked off, you have advantage on your initiative roll when it happens, okay? Okay. So, Baal, you have one turn. What would you like to do before everything starts?
00:57:27
Speaker
Baal is going to charge his full movement to get as close to that departing boat as possible. Okay. Difficult terrain. So it's difficult terrain, but you can use that little rocky outcrop to catch up on some of that lost movement. Okay. So would I be right in thinking that I can move kind of a 25 foot, then up onto the rocky outcrop? What's your, sorry, what's your regular movement? So regular movement is 30 foot, I think. So yes. Yeah. You lose, you lose that five. Okay. Awesome.
00:57:57
Speaker
That's what he's going to do because he doesn't have another option other than to get as far there as he can. And are you saying that there's someone on, there's someone, there's one person on the boat, is that right? Yeah. And they're a hell of a distance away from me. Right. Okay. Let me just quickly. For reference, they're about 130 feet away from you. Someone handily drew an arrow. Okay. Yeah.
00:58:21
Speaker
not a problem that is that's a long old distance what i'm gonna do is i'm gonna use my action uh and the guys behind would kind of see this he's got one hand on a flaming shield as he's kind of sprinting out now uh as he's kind of running you'll see flames wreath up over his arms and it's almost like there's something moving like a kind of something serpentine is uh building from his arms as you see this
00:58:46
Speaker
kind of snake-like creature at first start breathing and coiling around his neck but then it takes on wings and you see the best way to describe it is like imagine almost like a Chinese dragon style thing as what he's doing is he's using his action to summon his wildfire spirit around himself and he is just going to say to it
00:59:13
Speaker
Mother, get the eggs now. And that's, I mean, that's his action to summon that. His bonus action is going to be commanding that to fly as far forwards as it can. And sadly, I can't get too far with the Wild Far Spirit. I mean, I don't even think that it can get within. I might be wrong. I just need to check its range, but I feel like it's only got
00:59:40
Speaker
uh 60 foot of range so it will go 30 foot and then an extra 60 foot on that so that's 90 feet from where i currently am would that get me in range to this person or not uh for it to attack no it wouldn't would it no but you get pretty darn close yeah not a problem so i'll send the the wildfire spirit um i can i can command it to kind of
01:00:04
Speaker
do things it can dash I suppose so what I'll do is yeah I'll use my bonus action to command it to dash so it's gonna fly 60 feet from me forwards and it's gonna be kind of flying its way towards that boat towards those eggs okay do you want to put something on the map to indicate that I will do and you know okay and as you sort of invoke that the the
01:00:29
Speaker
The four serpent-like, snake-like creatures that are feasting on that carcass of the camel just flee in sheer terror of this mightier serpent form that has just appeared, and they leap back into that river. And that's all you see right now. But we're going to roll initiative. Emerald advantage, please. Thank you all.
01:01:09
Speaker
Would I be right in thinking this is the third role that I've made from the previous one? Or did that finish as of the long rest? Nope. So this would be advantageous for you as well. Okay. Did anybody get above 20? Okay. Anyone above 15? Yes. Yes. Okay. Who are yes? Give us your names. Alpha. Alpha with 17.
01:01:40
Speaker
Alpha. Next one. M1 with 17, but I'm a minus one to my Dex. Anyone above 10? Bow? Yep. Yep. Sorry, I'm on 14. Next one. Ian, didn't you get 19?
01:01:53
Speaker
You're muted. You're muted, so we can't hear you. That's why no one knows what you did. Fuck. Okay, so... Look at that. How bad is that? How bad is that that I was muted? 19. Thank you, Nick. Please. I'm so sorry. I said it many times and even gave Callum a shrewd look as if to go, how dare you talk before I do. And what was your old reigns?
01:02:17
Speaker
Three, second natural one of the night. Oh, rough. Okay. Where's that girl when you need him? A crisper rolled highest. Fuck off. Son of a bitch. Their first boat in that is able to sail 60 feet out of reach and out of view. The next one, we're going to move sort of from the, the,
01:02:45
Speaker
the chryscra who are departing first. So the one on the tower goes to collect an egg and begins to put the first egg on the second boat. Then we're going to jump to the individual who stood at the foot of this tower, who's going to climb up to the tower and grab the next egg. Actually, he doesn't.
01:03:13
Speaker
What does he do Mark? What? Actually what he does instead is he walks to the right hand side of that kind of harbour and looks out over this river he can see in front of him and just squints his eyes with his purple robes and looks out towards where he can see a ball and this snake thing.
01:03:31
Speaker
and he just stands there and he's actually ignoring the egg for now and is just staring out towards where the party are approaching, just looking. Holy shit. Okay, so this figure is just watching you.
01:03:51
Speaker
Next, you're going to see a bit less of a animated scene. A couple of those taking camp at the top of the map are going to just meander around. No one is really moving with any urgency yet. You don't get the sense that other than Mark's controlled position, anyone else has seen your flame on ball. Okay. Next, you're next up. What do you want to do?
01:04:20
Speaker
OK, so seeing Bowles direction and concentration and focus on the eggs and seeing the first two kind of go away, he's just like, I think on the fly, think on the fly, flicking through the book, flicking through the book.
01:04:35
Speaker
Okay, let me try something. And he's going to draw a shape in the sand just with the tip of his finger. And it's just a bit of clothing. And he's going to close his eyes. And this purple energy is just going to start surrounding him as he casts Disguise Self. And he's going to imitate a crisper that he's seen in front. Nice. And to everyone else, Nyx has just transformed in like a
01:05:02
Speaker
Stars in their eyes smoke mirrors tonight matthew i'm gonna be there and next comes out and he's all in his purple cloaks or anything like that and he's going to look at rain. I need to buy the bag holding. Free action rains you can vocally respond.
01:05:27
Speaker
I think Rains is seeing what Nyx is planning here, which is a dash to go and get these eggs. And Rains is just going to go, all right, best idea on the table, and we'll hold it. Well, when it gets to his turn, we'll hold out the burger holding. Can I just double check? Do you need to be attuned to a burger holding? Because it's your artificial creation. It's an infusion, but there's no reason why I can't give it to anyone else. Good to know. OK, Nyx, are you moving at all?
01:05:57
Speaker
Staying disguised and waiting for reigns. If I haven't got the bag, I can't move. So I've only moved closer to reigns while this conversation is happening. And so if the six seconds is up, my hand is outstretched as time slows down. Do you not use a bonus action to like take the back?
01:06:13
Speaker
Allow a couple I've just said what yeah, so let me respond that turn when I'm right down the bottom the initiative order is Alpha. Yeah, I think it's pretty obvious what Nick's is thinking to do and I think reigns could infer Just given the fact that haven't heard I'm sure I've changed my entire look in front of you Alpha Europe everyone you're all to follow
01:06:39
Speaker
Okay, what Alfa's gonna do, he's gonna see these eggs being loaded. He's gonna try as quickly as what he can do to build up any kind of pace with his movement. So all my movement, just as far east as what I can actually get, is going to pull the currently deactivated beta off his chest where he normally kind of is and
01:07:06
Speaker
Perlin, Far East is what he actually can do.
01:07:10
Speaker
He was chucking that mother. Well, apparently it's an improvised weapon I use in quotation marks. I can go as far as 60 feet with advantage. I'm not aiming for anything. I'm just going for distance. So I don't know if you want me to make a check for that. I think what I will do is I will allow the throw, but I want you to make an athletics check based on accuracy.
01:07:36
Speaker
and based on how soft the expected landing is going to be. Like, is this a damaging throw? Are you going to hurt Beta by doing this? So, Rathletics, I've got a number in my head that stops me from taking damage. Go for it.
01:07:50
Speaker
Okay, he's not currently active, so I'd say if he takes damage, he's just gonna break anyway, but let's see whether this goes. Like landing a rover on Mars. 14. Fair. Okay, so pick on the map where you'd like Beta to have landed, and then put an icon down for me. Does Beta need to roll a separate initiative? No, he uses my bonus action to basically do whatever he needs to.
01:08:17
Speaker
So I think I can only go as far as there. Okay, I'm just to the right of the snake then. Where's there? Okay, Alpha has been able to make it to the rocky outcrop for a bit of maybe less difficult terrain.
01:08:42
Speaker
thrown Beta just as far as what it can do and it basically ends up just a little bit more east of where the camels and snakes were and they have gone. I'm assuming that would be my action. What I can do now is take my bonus action to activate Beta
01:09:04
Speaker
And in all fairness, cause him to, well, he's going to turn into the force ballistic cannon. And I'm going to attempt to basically shoot the one that is nearest the boat. The one that has literally just loaded the egg onto clearly a very bad person. We're trying to save these things. That's a shame. 12, um, from beta 12, uh, meet some beats.
01:09:31
Speaker
Go ahead and roll damage. Do you have a range of 60 on that? I can go up to 120 with the force ballester. And it is 13 points of force damage and he gets pushed 5 feet back as well.
01:09:54
Speaker
To recap that turn, you lob this metallic mortar, for want of a better terminology, as far as you can throw it, it then animates, it then shoots this beam out that hits square into the chest of this criss-cross dock worker, let's describe them as, and then propels them 15 foot back. Five foot back. Sorry, five foot back.
01:10:19
Speaker
Mark, your character is also on that loading jetty, and what you see is this force of light hit into this comrade of yours, and he just disintegrates in front of you. Dead. You stand alone, Mark's character, on that jetty. Thank you, Alpha, is that all of your turn? That is everything I can do.
01:10:47
Speaker
I think his purple ropes are going to start turning brown pretty soon. From what I can work out based on my difficult terrain disadvantages, if I move 15 feet and then
Combat Chaos and Strategy
01:11:07
Speaker
take the dash action, would it take another five feet for me to get onto the non-difficult terrain?
01:11:15
Speaker
So I should get to, let me move my character to, yeah. So that costs five feet for this. That gives me another 20 feet. So I'm going to get to just in line, everyone would have dashed and got just in line with Baal on the non-difficult terrain. As I'm looking to my left and I'm seeing the other tower,
01:11:39
Speaker
they've obviously seen this, they've probably seen this shot but haven't had a chance to react. Is the tower in a position where I could summon my spiritual weapons so it wouldn't be seen yet? So the tower only really functions as a tower because it sits above a lower terrain. So it's sort of in line with the rocky outcrop that you're stood on. That's all right. I will just
01:12:07
Speaker
Go for it. I'm going to spend a bonus action to summon my spiritual weapon next to the guy that he's just to the north of us at the sort of closest edge of the next bit of dock. Go for it. Okay, spiritual summon. So a spiritual weapon suddenly appears next to him, a hammer appears next to him and smacks him in the face. Go for it.
01:12:40
Speaker
That's an 18 to hit. That hits. Please go roll damage. This episode is brought to you by speedrolling. Eight points of force damage. It wasn't me. Thank you. So as this hammer just sort of appears with
01:13:01
Speaker
uh, just in front of the, the, the groin of this, uh, chriscra, uh, member, and then takes this almighty swing. You just see this, this individual full prone for a second and then just recoup holding themselves. Oh, so gently. Thank you very much, Will. Is that all your turn? Yeah, that's it. Absolutely everything.
01:13:25
Speaker
Okay, so I have sprinted forwards and I've just seen this cannon come over and just blast the guy that I'm kind of sprinting towards. I'm going to use my bonus action first to get, and I believe I can do this because it's within range, my wildfire spirit to get right next to that egg. And I'm going to use the feature that the wildfire spirit has, which is fiery teleportation.
01:13:48
Speaker
The wording of it is, the spirit and each willing creature of your choice within five feet of it can teleport. Now, it's an egg. It's- It doesn't have an intelligent score of anything. Okay, so we'll, maybe before I do this, will I know if this will work? Will I be able to teleport it off the boat is what I'm trying to get at, I suppose. I'm gonna let you roll for it.
01:14:18
Speaker
Okay. Inside the egg is a willing creature. The creature has no idea of anything because it's unhatched, but I'll let you roll for it. Odds. Any dice. Odds. It doesn't work. Evens it does. Right. Okay. Fair enough. Big roll coming up. Uh, it is me. It's odd.
01:14:43
Speaker
So your spirit sort of encompasses it, surrounds it in flames and tries to sort of do that, that teleport action. And your spirit just teleports to the place where you intended it to go. The egg remains on the boat. Okay. Not a problem. So the spirit is, yeah, does exactly that kind of, Oh, fuck me. Cause the trouble is leaving behind from the teleportation is a small fiery blast. The boat ignites.
01:15:13
Speaker
Yeah, it's a D6 plus three of fire damage on the boat. So that boat's now on fire. The egg is on the boat that's on fire. And I've made this problem a million times worse. Given the use of the terminology explosion, by the next time it's your turn, that egg will fall into whatever is in that river.
01:15:36
Speaker
Okay. Okay. I like my eggs sunny side up. Yeah. Fuck. Cause I like, Oh, fuck me. I've made this so much worse for myself. You have just poached that egg. Okay. And this river is moving, uh, uh, West to East. Left to your screen to right to your screen. What I will do in that case then is 10 feet or.
01:16:03
Speaker
Yeah, about 10 feet further on from the boat. I'm gonna cast Windwall.
01:16:09
Speaker
Um, so I'm going to create a, uh, just, just covering the kind of the river and casting it kind of just on the top of it. I'm going to create this wall of wind that is going to be blasting back upstream as it were. Um, and it's just going to be pushing air that way. If anything gets close to it, it can take bludgeoning damage, but it's, yeah, it's basically the intention is to counteract the effect of the stream pushing one way. And where is the origin of that wall?
01:16:39
Speaker
The origin of that, well, I've got 120 feet of range on it. So I will have to do that. Well, I can do it. I can move.
01:16:48
Speaker
Let's see, I'll move myself forwards, full movement. Did you say the snakes that are on the sand? They're not there. Sorry, they're gone. That's not a problem. That means that I'll get a bit more room to do it. I'll pop it on the Roll20 map in a second, but just for listeners, it's about 10 to 15 feet in front of the boat. You'll see Bile kind of do this kind of spinning, conjuring motion with his hands, and he's just going to create this massive wall of wind that is just blasting countercurrent
01:17:18
Speaker
So if anything was to come further downstream from this point, hopefully it wouldn't. That's all he can do right now. He's not even paying attention to anything else. Great. Reigns. Yeah, Reigns is in.
01:17:36
Speaker
particular admiration of what he's just seen from Nyx, Rains is fully aware that the very first time he met Nyx, Nyx effectively swindled him. And it's kind of shocked at the growth of someone who has gone from swindling him to silver to willing to risk his life to rescue some dragon eggs. And Rains willingly holds out the bag of holding and says, brave, brilliant and
01:18:05
Speaker
Kind of stupid, I love it, Nix. And what will happen if his NC's head will pop out the bag of holding? You go with him, NC. He gets in trouble, you come back. He needs healing, you heal him. And NC will dip back into the bag of holding who is going with Nix. Reigns will then go, well, we've had our distraction as things have gone off on fire and it's past the bag of holding over. Is that a free action to hand over the bag of holding? Is that my turn?
01:18:33
Speaker
You can make a bonus because it was initiated by Nyx's held action. Bonus action, Bag of Holding to Nyx. Action, Rains will turn and see where the spiritual weapon has formed. He's seen the explosion.
01:18:49
Speaker
You can see one's been hit by the spiritual weapon and immediately what Rains will do is he will draw his fingers up and he will just say his one final thing and see how full suit parameters to me and on the little bag of holding as it's just being handed over will be okay skip and what Rains is then going to do is that the guy in those things and Andrew thinks
01:19:08
Speaker
mouths on the shoulder plates that clasp his cape to his studded leather suit. They're going to open and out come the conglomerate balls of Bag of Holdings that run up to his fingertips and he takes the pistol formation and he just points firstly at the one who is on the decking who's just been hit by a spiritual weapon and he pulls the trigger and a round of magical missiles are going in that direction. Nice.
01:19:42
Speaker
Okay, just continue my absolute turd rolls tonight. I've got a one for damage. So the first missile goes off and does two points of damage to the one who's been hit by the spiritual weapon. And just as that one is recovering from a blow to the groin, looks back out to the party in a distance, and this missile knocks him in the side of the head and he is out. He is dead. Okay, and I assume the one behind him is starting to stir to the fact that someone has just gone down with the other three.
01:20:10
Speaker
are forming and just quick fire one, two, three, six points of damage towards the next one behind him. Six points. Beautiful. Thank you very much.
01:20:18
Speaker
I check the range on magic missiles is 100, I think it's 120 feet. Anyway, it's well clear of what I need to reach them. Great. Thank you very much. End of your turn. So something happens. Oh, sorry. Rain's also with what movement he's got would have just started to move towards that rocky area. So he's out of the difficult terrain. I don't know. So Rain's movement is currently half of 35 feet and it's towards in that direction.
01:20:45
Speaker
But then it's half of that again, isn't it? Because you can definitely try it. Yes. So he's edging towards it, I think. It's about eight feet. Range is edging. So there is a commotion that you have caused. And as a result, activity in this trading post-like space begins to get a bit fraught. And you just hear on the wind,
01:21:11
Speaker
Three shrieks coming to the east of you, as one comes into view, far to the east, this giant vulture-like creature. That's its turn, it had to dash in. Top of the round, Mark's character. What do you want to do?
01:21:37
Speaker
All right. Um, so he has just, well, this person has just witnessed someone's chest explode, a magic flaming serpents crawling in the sand, a boat explode, and then a wall of wind blowing back a boat that's on fire. All of which has happened within six seconds, pretty much. Yes. So that wall of wind that's blowing the boat on fire towards another boat.
01:22:03
Speaker
as well. But carry on. Okay. He looks out and I can see from the position, I can look down and see these people approaching and what they're doing to what's kind of happening to my situation at the moment. And
01:22:21
Speaker
Is going to go by side for a second and he's gonna like his hands are gonna like shake like he's trying to shake off something from his fingers for a second and he's gonna look really panicky and go look from side to side for a second and stills himself and two things happen.
01:22:38
Speaker
One thing happens, you can't hear it so you can only see it. And those of you that would see it would see it. He's just going to turn around and run away. And he's going to run back towards the fire as far as he can. He's going to dash.
01:22:56
Speaker
and he's going to run right into the midst of everyone. And you'll, if anyone was to be watching him, you'd see him kind of like mouthing stuff to people around him, like pointing to different directions, ordering movement around, shouting quite vociferously at individuals. And then is going to very subtly, one arm, his right arm's gonna go down by his side and he's gonna start muttering to himself. And that's the end of the time. Okay, thank you. Can you get that far with the default train?
01:23:26
Speaker
They don't seem to have a problem. Oh, sorry. Thank you. He's the commander. Kill him. He's Shepard. Stop him. So with this, it's now the Christmas turn. The one that's just received a barrage of missiles is just going to look out in a distance from where they came and repeat the favor back to you, Raines. As you see, this hand appeared back out and three missiles are coming back.
01:24:01
Speaker
You take nine points of force damage as the whole three, boom, boom, boom, hit you in there. It should be four, not that I want to talk myself into more damage. Say again? It should be four. You get four darts. It's just I had to use, I could only throw three at him because I'd use one on the other. Yeah, you can. Oh, beautiful. Okay, lovely. That works for me. Yep. Nine points of damage. Ouch.
01:24:27
Speaker
And then with the rest of their turn, they are going to remove themselves from the top of this tower. One by one, two more figures appear from inside the tent and begin to start to relocate some of these eggs. Most of them spend their turn getting these loaded as though the priority has changed.
01:24:58
Speaker
And then two more are going to head up onto that western tower to look at what's coming. And you do notice that those two that just came on begin to start muttering something and creating an incantation, but nothing really takes effect this turn. Okay, that is the end of their turn. It is now Nix's turn. Nix, what would you like to do? Bag of holding in hand? Disguised?
01:25:18
Speaker
yep nix gets up from the crouch position after taking the um he wasn't prone uh but gets up from taking a bag of holding and looks at just reigns because he's the nearest one i'll be back i promise and i'm sorry for what i'm about to do and then nix turns 180 and runs and he's going to
01:25:40
Speaker
I'm sure it's difficult terrain, so I'm going to, you can help me here, DM. I've got 60 feet of movement and I want to get to the fire where the rest of the eggs are, where the, of Crisco are currently taking the eggs, the original journey where it is.
01:25:58
Speaker
So near the fire. And as I come over the hill, because I've seen missiles hit rains, I know that they've got a got a whereabouts opposition. Nick is going to be like, help, help. It's an ambush. It's an ambush.
01:26:15
Speaker
I'm over here! As Nyx runs forwards. Okay, are you dashing as part of that to get as close as you can? Yeah, yeah, yeah. 60 feet, including the dash, and that's the end of my go. I'm just getting as close to... The best route I can offer puts you sort of equidistant between this rocky outcrop and then the sea, the sand river. Could you make a performance check for me? With advantage because you're disguised. I can.
01:26:42
Speaker
20. Great. Thank you very much. End of my go. End of your go. Next up is Alpha. Hello. Right. Lots of movement. Alpha is going to basically move further east to the end of this like rocky outcrop, which I assume is just normal travel on that. No difficult train for the rocky outcrop, lovely.
01:27:07
Speaker
Um, the beta is also going to move. He's still in, um, like Rocky, not Rocky. He's still in the sand dunes. So he can only move half of that. Let me say five feet of movement. He gets, um, so that's about all he can muster. Um, the other members of the, of Chris, that have, um, enveloped on the,
01:27:36
Speaker
Easterly dock where they've moved a load of the eggs baiter is going to take another shot at one of those Probably the one he's got the clearest shot on which I think from the line of sight looks to be
Desperate Egg Rescue
01:27:47
Speaker
the gentleman at the back There are 13 to hit that will hit Lovely and that does eight points of force of damage and pushes him back again. He talked about the
01:28:05
Speaker
the Easton loading jetty. Easton docked the guy at the very back because it seems to be a better line of sight in between all the dragon eggs. So there you get pushed back five feet at that. And there's like a guard rail at the back of that that you just sort of knock him into and he's just sort of splayed out arms over it trying to hold on for dear life. Lovely.
01:28:29
Speaker
You know what, let's go for it. I've still got Alpha's action. I don't know how this is going to go. This Boomerang, if I've added the right thing, has got like 120 foot range as well, throwing. So he's going to kind of cling on to it, think of Marota, think how he threw it. And she, so I always do that. Think how she threw it. And just try and imitate her the best way that he possibly can do. And he pulls his arm back and just
01:28:56
Speaker
gives everything he's got with the boomerang again aiming for the one at the back probably trying to just knock him off balance or something like that go for it for a 14 to hit that hits
01:29:14
Speaker
and five points of bludgeoning damage with this boomerang. So you lob this boomerang, and as it hits, it won't return to you. It will fall on the floor over there, so you'll need to recollect it. But it's enough to carry on that momentum that you started with your cannon to just cleave the life from this person. And that abcriscra is destroyed. Thank you, Alpha. Anything else with your turn?
01:29:40
Speaker
Nope, I've done everything I can do again. Okay, Emron, it is you and after Emron it's Baal and by the start of Baal's turn, that egg that is on the boat on fire being blown is going to fall. So you are the last person who can make any attempt to save that egg. Nothing I can do to reach that egg at all. So, you know, don't naff all I can do. I do not have the range of anything to get to him. That egg dies because of you.
01:30:09
Speaker
I'm not the one that started cooking it. We know why that egg dies during bowl of Valcock. Emron will dash towards the edge of the river and then stop because that's 30 feet. Then my bonus action, my hammer's going to shimmy on up towards the bad guys.
01:30:35
Speaker
And we'll land himself, we'll land itself in between the two of the people on the now sort of, I suppose, Western most platform. And then I'm going to hit the one with the blue dot next to it. Okay. Go for it. Make an attack roll, please. Okay. The 17 to hit. That hit to do some damage. Okay.
01:31:02
Speaker
that does 8 points of force damage. Nice, yeah, so this hammer again, another impactful groin shot, temporarily brings this person down to one knee, he's able to push himself back up again, but a clean hit. Cool, that's the end of my guys. Okay, so that egg then sat on that blazing
01:31:26
Speaker
squad of a boat sets on fire and we'd lose that egg into whatever is in that sea river, that sand river below. You have lost so far three eggs. Thanks, thanks, thanks Will. But Val, it's your turn, what would you like to do? Uh, rule with rage?
01:31:48
Speaker
Fuck. Yeah. I don't have rage. I can't activate it, but I'm fucking furious both with myself, with the situation, with everything that's fucking happening. Uh, do I believe that egg to be properly lost? Yeah. You know what's in these rivers and you know that it's, it's, um, going to get beaten near instantly. Okay. In which case.
01:32:17
Speaker
He is going to roar fire into his hands and he is going to fling it out to the nearest Obcisca. I'm casting Scorching Ray at second level, literally on anything that is close by 24 to hit for the first, 24 to hit for the second.
01:32:38
Speaker
and 23 to hit for the third or three hits so six points of damage on the first fire 12 points of damage on the second fire and nine points of damage on the third basically i like i don't give a shit if i overkill the first one is going for the guy nearest uh that's nearest to the eggs um i mean like i say he's kind of splaying this out as well so if
01:33:04
Speaker
If that guy falls, I don't know whether he'd notice it in time within his raid. I'll give you this for free. You kill him with the first one. So the second one is just another follow-up attempt. You lose the third one. If you're in this state of rage and you want to RP it, first one, second one, he goes down and you just sort of can re-target that third one if you want. Yeah, he'll curl a hand underneath and blast the third one off to his left.
01:33:30
Speaker
into, I mean, he's got 120 feet of range, so whoever he can see over there for 9 points of fire damage. One of the ones on the tower that remained? Yeah, I mean, if he can see it, it's in range for him, so if he can see someone in purple robes, the closest person he can see in purple robes is getting the full effects of that. Perfect. Well, it'll be the one that Emron's Spirit weapon didn't strike, and that's enough, again, to kill that guy outright, so you have taken down two of them with that spell. Amazing. Bonus. Good stuff.
01:33:58
Speaker
action I'm going to have my wildfire spirit get onto the second boat and explode again with a fiery teleportation and just get 15 feet it can teleport itself it doesn't need to teleport kind of anyone else for it and it's only anything within five feet so it will only affect that boat and it's going to get itself 15 feet
01:34:23
Speaker
off that heading towards the rest of the abcisca. The windwall is still up. I haven't dropped concentration on it yet. And also what I'm going to do is I'm going to start veering to the north and use my full speed, which will only get me 15 feet across the sand.
01:34:39
Speaker
heading towards the remaining purple cloaked. Great. And it's worth saying as well that this wind wall is just blowing this sandstorm over like the tops of this battlefield, not enough to obscure vision, but it's almost like this layer and this cloud of sand is just above you blocking out some of that direct sunlight.
Rising Tension with Enemies
01:35:00
Speaker
Thank you very much, Paul. With the second boat satellite as well, with the... Yeah, so it's a blaze now. It will be lost by the end of the round if no one intervenes. Awesome. Brilliant. Reigns, Europe. Reigns will hobble forwards, number five feet.
01:35:18
Speaker
I'll do that at the end of my turn. Come on, old man, Reigns. And what Reigns will do is this time he's going to see the spiritual weapon again. That's kind of like his guiding star in it. And what's going to happen is that the mouths on the Andes sinks and Gynos sinks will close. The Rubik's Cube in the wrist will flash blue. He'll pull down on it, point in the direction of Chris Gris, who's up on the deck. And he's within 90 feet, so he can be or Reigns will attempt to hit him with the lightning launcher.
01:35:48
Speaker
Go for it. That's a 10 to hit. That misses, I'm afraid. I've had a fucking stinker with the dice tonight. Absolute stinker. The end of you go? Yeah, I'm done. Okay. So yeah, you just sort of launch this lightning and everyone just observes this lightning bolt just shoot through the scene.
01:36:17
Speaker
And this is enough of an alarm now for another to emerge from inside the building. And this one says, we've had quite enough of this. Get them now.
01:36:29
Speaker
and just points in the direction of this flying creature that has appeared to the east. And then behind it, you see two more flying in. It's the giant vultures turn. Now, they are able to fly, so they're not hindered by this difficult terrain. And what they're going to do first is the first one is going to come in an attempt to grapple Alpha. The other two won't quite make it in time, so they have just dashed into the scene.
01:36:54
Speaker
PTSD! PTSD! Alpha, could you please make athletics or acrobatics contest the shit out of it? I want to contest! I don't agree to this! No! It's okay. If I fall on the sand, I'll just bounce. It's fine. Yeah. Like a bouncy castle, isn't it? Surely. So you rolled a 10. I rolled a 10. The vulture rolled a natural 20.
01:37:19
Speaker
So you are grappled and they have 20 feet of movement left. So you are hovering just above Emron over this picture white water rapids strength of current beneath you. It's about a 20 foot drop below and you just sort of your foot just grazes the shoulder of Emron as you pass over.
01:37:45
Speaker
Everyone in the case are asking, no, it hasn't left your opportunity attack reach. It's just above you. But that is the vulture's turn. You'll just see this floating alpha in the air above you. Top of the round, Mark's character.
01:38:02
Speaker
The last thing that he saw was this character with his hand down by its side. He's been muttering to himself as well, and a couple of things are going to happen. So firstly, he's going to mutter a line to himself and do a little gesture with his hand. Again, too far away to really see it.
01:38:16
Speaker
And all the cool stuff I've got planned, you're going to get to really see because it's too far away. But what appears in his hand is this book, a large book, and he rips out a bookmark, pulls out the bottom of it. And there's this red mist follows along with it in like a thin film from the bookmark to the book, wisps then forms around his hand forming that will look at the guard of a blade.
01:38:39
Speaker
And in an instant, he kind of whips it out in this blade, a long, double-edged scimitar, a glowing, faint red and brilliant silver forms in the air. He immediately starts to hum and sing in the air, this kind of sombre dirge. He pulls the blade close to his chest and runs his palm along the flat of the blade, and then kind of bows his head to himself again, still muttering to himself. He's then going to, again, if anyone could see, I'm going to argue, can see. Alpha can see. He is elevated enough to see what's going on.
01:39:07
Speaker
Let's have a bit of a toothy grin and then sprints forward towards the man who has just shouted, go get them, go get them. What jumps off his shoulder and jumps over this man is this large spider that lands on the other side of this person.
01:39:32
Speaker
And he's then also going to use something else because I got more shit and it's difficult. I've done characters in a while. I do do this so quickly. I have a bit of newfound respect for you. We spent the whole turn getting ready. I know. And I did. And then I forgot what some of us did. This term for you is sponsored by speedy rolls.
01:39:54
Speaker
I'm not rolling anything, you bitches. I'm trying to- It's his first day, guys. It's his first day. Like introducing too much that you can't see or hear as much of it as auditory, you bastards. Why is no one in the range? And he's then going to use...
01:40:07
Speaker
his bonus action. Oh, that was a bonus action. The first thing was a bonus action. Sorry, I'm still learning this character. The second thing I'm going to that he runs his handle on the side of the blade and then in a single motion, he's going to drop into a really low stance and try and hamstring and the crystal grab that's in front of him, literally trying to cut across both his legs at the back in order to disable the fool and absolutely kill this man. That's that's that's my aim at the moment. Okay.
01:40:35
Speaker
And I'm going to, oh, that's good, roll 24. So it hits. That definitely hits. And he's going to take, ah, fuck you, D&D Beyond. Why did you get in the way of my speed rolling, you motherfucker? That's good. That's good. 13 points of psychic damage as this blade rips, erupts across the back of his legs.
01:40:51
Speaker
And with every intention just to slow him down you sever straight through cleanly and this body falls lifeless on the other side of your strike as you just sort of hold that stance post swing and watch this body behind you fall. With the rest of his movement then he would then twist around and I should have rolled out the advantage bugger
01:41:13
Speaker
twist around and drop into a low, again another low stance with the sword and his back hand away from him, his palm kind of facing out towards the next member of the Ofcisca, in a kind of readied stance and that's the end of his go. Thank you very much, it's the Ofcisca's turn.
01:41:30
Speaker
having seen you, Nix, perform this attempt to blend in and then instantly be near death. Shakespearean performance, yes. Absolutely. But only to an audience of one who's on their last legs is just going to flee at this point. I don't believe your spiritual weapon invokes opportunity attack yet. It's just going to use all his movement to dash out of view back into the tented area.
01:41:58
Speaker
The one that just saw Mark's character strike is going to turn and attempt to strike you, Mark's character, and takes out this steel scimitar, and it's just going to make two strikes at you for a 13 to hit. Miss. Or a 16 to hit.
01:42:22
Speaker
Miss. Oh, very good. So these two swings just sort of come in quickly and you're able to nimbly dodge them. The two who are surrounding the eggs that are still incubating near the fire are going to step into view. And they're going to cast one on Emron and one on Baal, the spell Command.
01:42:54
Speaker
And they are going to tell you, well, you need to both make wisdom saving throws first. I got a 10.
01:43:11
Speaker
But you hear in your mind something compelling you to charge forward directly and you're able to just shut that out. Everyone you hear the same instruction and to you, it's like Alito directly is telling you, it's okay. Just sprint forward with everything you've got. And you have to use your next turn to advance five foot directly towards that person. Okay.
01:43:44
Speaker
For reference, everyone is currently stood on the bank of this sand river, which has a lot of moving, sharp, pointed, organic things protruding out of it, causing this current.
01:44:12
Speaker
And that's all the Chris could do. Nick's, you're up. Everyone's still being grappled, right? And Alpha is being grappled. Apologies. Alpha is still being grappled. And he said, right. So I'm in difficult terrain, correct? Yes, you are.
01:44:26
Speaker
And this brown sea, uh, five foot in front of me, that's constantly moving. Is it lower than my current level? It's a picture you're sat there stood on a riverbank and it's sort of flowing in front of you, but like a five foot dip.
Treacherous Sand River
01:44:42
Speaker
And it's not water. It's full of some sludgy creature thing. Do you want to make a closer investigation into what it is?
01:44:50
Speaker
No, no, no, it's just from surface. I'd know from surface. What you're seeing essentially is this almost like avalanche of sand moving at ferocious speed through this channel and occasionally these like horn-like objects razor-sharp just appearing and then diving almost like dolphins moving in tandem.
01:45:16
Speaker
Oh, shit. And that is, I'm writing thinking that's 20 foot across. Yeah. And there's no bridge. No, no, there is to the north of you, to the far north, there is sort of a bottleneck where it's easy to sort of hop, skip over where the bank sort of goes over the top of an under flowing channel.
01:45:40
Speaker
Oh, but it's all difficult terrain. Jesus. And Alpha is hovering above. Alpha is about 6 to 10 foot just above you.
01:45:51
Speaker
Six foot above me. Yeah, so his feet are six foot above you. His, what's being grappled is one hand is 10 foot above you. How high would you say that Nick's can jump? You can do a standing jump. You can do a standing jump equal to your, um, you would be able to jump three plus your strength modifier. Sorry. I think we were there. Sorry, Will. Yeah. Three plus whatever your strength is. So two modifiers. You can jump two feet.
01:46:15
Speaker
You can send your arms above you and reach your distance equal to half, oh. I would argue where you are, if you leapt up, you could just like tap the bottom of his feet if you were at full extension. Like tickle his heel, that's it. Wow. Um, I'm fucking.
01:46:34
Speaker
Absolutely useless now all i can do is next is just gonna walk over to the edge with a look of complete fucking trepidation and what the fuck.
01:46:49
Speaker
have we got ourselves into? Just keep the performance up and look at everyone and go, sorry about this, and he'll cast, he'll whip out his dagger and a shower of spark, as he whips his dagger out with a flourish, a shower of sparks will just kind of cover you from head to toe, from precious irritation. And that's the end of my go. Nice, nice.
01:47:15
Speaker
Thank you very much. It is now Alpha's turn. Alpha, you- Hang on, just so you know. Just so you know. It's a Warlock spell. Nevermind, you're good. Thank you very much. Because I didn't tell you that this guy's self was... Think. Can I- I can- As you are, I'm moving myself on a map. So I'm stood over the wall to just kind of- No, I'm moving the map. How do you move- How does one move oneself? Use the mouse tool. I've done it. Look at that. What a novice. Nice. But I'm within...
01:47:46
Speaker
I'm within feet of Alpha, as long as Alpha is above me, that's fine. Everyone's close by, so yeah, it was just a shower of sparks towards this direction. That's the end of my go, sorry. Great. Alpha, you're up. You are currently being held by your left arm above what looks like sand piranhas. Lovely. Right.
01:48:13
Speaker
First thing I'm going to do, Beta Force Ballista Cannon is going to attempt to actually shoot one of the vultures or eagles or whatever the hell is. They're not the one that's carrying me. I will specify that right now, but there are two others in play.
01:48:31
Speaker
Just like it's like kind of about to fly over miss as I get closer. You're gonna see another four shot come at him for a 21 to hit this is on which of those two I'll do it to the one that's most northerly 21 to hit does hit Thank God for that and that is for 11 points of Force damage rate
01:48:58
Speaker
As you hit, you just sort of catch a clean wing and there's just this plume of feathers that just spray off in response to your strike. Wonderful. It's probably going to kill Beethoven now, but there we go. I think Alfred's just going to kind of ready in action. He's hoping that he's going to try and fly him over the river as such. So I want Alfred and his short sword just to be ready.
01:49:24
Speaker
Because if he goes over the river, as soon as he's a little bit clear of it, he wants to try and stab the bird with his short sword, just to try and riskily get him to be dropped. But if he goes away from the river or up, then I'm going to stab him preemptively. So you're readying in action on those terms? On those terms. Can you make sure you write that down so that we don't interpret those terms differently the next time you tell us what you're doing?
01:49:51
Speaker
So, away from the river or up, Alfred's going to stab immediately. No, he's not, because that's going to drift from over the river. You know how breaking a grapple works, right? I do, but I'm trying to use this. Trying to glide over. But there are rules that say how you could break a grapple. Kill the bird? No, no. It's an action to break a grapple. You make an action. Right, okay. You can't attack. Does it break a grapple? Well, I can attack, but he doesn't break the grapple in that case then.
01:50:21
Speaker
It's flavor. Okay. If you pause me in away from the river or waiting until he's over the river safely, I'm going to use an action to try and break the grapple that the bird has on me. Okay. Write that down in your own notes. Yes. I'm scribbling down now. Wonderful. That is the end of your turn. Yes. M run. You have to begin your turn by walking five foot into the sand river. I have a question. Yes. Is this command directly harmful to me?
01:50:52
Speaker
You don't know that because you've not investigated the river yet. Okay, cool, that's fine. Am I able to do other actions as well as I'm doing this? Let me read that back, yeah. You have to follow the command on its next turn. The spell has no effect, the target is undead. You have to follow it. Yeah, I know what everyone's about to do because everyone was going to do literally what it's going to do, but his own work.
01:51:19
Speaker
My apologies, you were given the approach command, so you have to take the five feet. Oh no, the target moves towards you by the shortest and most direct route and ends its 10 within five feet of you. So you have to just move and end your turn. But it doesn't, so it doesn't give my actions. Okay, that's fine. So I can't long jump this, I just have to walk, don't I? Yeah, so what the command said. I walk forward then.
01:51:47
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So hearing this, what you perceive, the voice of Alito willing you to step towards that of Chriska member, you step over the sandbank and descend five feet before you're hit by something that we will find out in the next episode.
01:52:16
Speaker
of the Fellowship of the Tabla Toplay.
Conclusion and Social Reminders
01:52:42
Speaker
Thank you very much, Danny, for that. That was fucking good. I did not want that to end. I don't think anyone does. And I hope you, the listeners, do not want to, too. So if you want it to, and extend this, you could just, at Danny, if you want it to, and maybe ask him what will happen next week. I don't think he'd tell you unless you roll a really high persuasion check. Or if it's a review.
01:53:09
Speaker
Yes. And that is what I was going to say. And two. And one. And thank you for tuning in, making us a party every day of the week. We love you for it. If you did want to connect with us on X, you can do so. The main page is at Fellowship Table. I'm at iWorldA1. Father Will is at... Club, club, club. Natural20Will. Baby Will is at... Fellowship NPC, PC. Oh, my God.
01:53:37
Speaker
Darrin's out. Darrin Page A6. Callum's out. The D20 Gamer. Mark is out. Hastily rolled DM. And our fucking awesome DM can be found at Total Party Thrills. Until next time guys. Farewell.