So everybody piles onto the raft. It floats better than you'd expect. Oh
my god, does barely any water get onto the top? Yeah? Only
if you rocket significantly does water splash over? Is this what's known as buoyancy?
I am terrified. Oh, we can eventually need to do sailing or
yes, okay, right now you're going to spending two momentum to roll four
dice. Okay, all right? That was dangerously close to a nineteen where
we would have had a complication but we didn't, which is yeah, apparently
only optomer is allowed to roll complications. Wow, that's true. I love
how the system is like, yeah, they're unskilled successes. Also, he's
got a wound. It's treated, but let's all remember he's we got to
remember it. Yeah yeah, never let this motherfucker forget he wounded. Yeah,
it's marked as wounded and treated because you get rewounded if you get hurt
again. Oh excellent. Those wounds don't go away until you've had time to
rest and recover. I'm gonna say it now. Repeated reinjury does not mean
you get more wristweed. It is not affective reapplication understood. Do not hurt
yourself to acquire more wrist weed. I will ration it if necessary. You're
hurt. I'm not a weed a holic, all right, good he is,
however as an archer arista holic. So he side was. But you
know, that's a different story entirely. It didn't go down by branch of
the family. Speaking of branches, you guys are paddling. Yeah, Vega
is able to steer you with a steady hand, giving you instructions. Confidently,
we need more paddling on the right calls stop staring out in the space.
You know. Whatever he orders he needs to give. Yeah, wait
a minute, aren't there salts in alchemy? Yeah? So he stares into
salt sometimes, Yeah, the salt stare, stares out into the salt and
beholds the face of socks. A little bastard. Get the hell out of
here, my pile of salt. What are you doing with my salt?
Scenarian, You want to give that the fuck back, or we're gonna have
a fucking problem, socks. That means you're the event horizon of alchemy,
one of them. Yeah, sure, Yeah, I'm the unfortunate bastard that
picks you up when you die of heart failure. That's what I am.
So as you guys are paddling away from the island, one of those scenarios
where you're like, Okay, we gotta go quick, must go faster.
Yeah, I can't look around. Oh god, I'm so scared. And
it's slow going. You are almost to a point where the trees narrow up
ahead, where you're out of what you would call the bog that surrounds the
island, when suddenly the raft bobs and there's some swirling in the water,
as if something massive is moving just below the surface. Look is that you
don't say? I say, okay, how about your in the wrong neighborhood
this time? Did you ever think about that ship? It did not,
you know, he's never considered that anyone because ned regardless, we're in its
neighborhood and it knows we ever a sweed. We're screwed. I feel like
I know the answer to this, because we're in a raft that we're paddling
with bullshit oars. But is there emergency maneuvers I can try and do or
are we kind of are we kind of here? Well, there's two ways
you could go about this. You could try and steer away from it,
and try and predict its movements, or everybody can just paddle as hard as
they can and try and just move really fast. The banjos are a cat
I don't know what a Hyborean banjo looks or sounds like, and I don't.
I'm not head ducking a catfish in this bullshit raft. So let's go
faster. Not he not head faking, but yeah, we pick up the
pace. I want everybody to roll athletics checks. We have a collective difficulty
here. It's going to be a post check. So's versus him? He
is there any momentum in the pool? Right momentum in the pool currently?
My athletics ten can? I have one Tatian? Thank you, Octomer?
Would you like to use the momentum I was going to spend a fortune?
I'll use the other momentum them three fucking successes, baby, let's go oh
no, oh my god, A two and a two? Really? Oh
no, I almost succeeded at something. Well, Greg, this asshole reality
give him another twenty socks. There is literally an option to just succeed,
but you were just too built up in your hate to make it anymore.
Listen, I didn't offer you to buy this one off. Yet by discretion
you are correct. That is fair or success is one failure. I guess
I don't give a shit. Just kill you and my miserable existence or sust
somebody's gone to the swamp. I just want you guys to know. Congratulations
on your roles. Mixed for socks on that because this thing only rolled once.
Oh so okay, I'm glad things played out the way they Yeah,
we have a total of four five, six on seven, eight nine,
what if it's not the catfish and eleven twelve thirteen successes capital heat paddling brother.
Technically it's fourteen because I have a strong back. That's true. You
if you do have a strong back, I also have a strong posts.
I have a strong back. Did you take strong back? It's an athletics
perk. I'm thinking of courageous. I'm sorry. Okay, yeah, yeah,
you do not have a strong back, then I don't fifteen successes?
Well, I guess you can max out the momentum pool. I'm sick.
I'd love to see that. Can we just pumpet into Ye're not dying?
This thing comes up and bumps the raft and you guys have the literal rat
brain kick in and you're just like hauling ass. That's the name of the
raft. The raft is now hauling, asked Paul end Ass. Somehow in
the middle of everything, Octamer breaks his paddle and he's just paddling with his
hand. Not my dude, gets us out of here. It's a worthwhile.
I agree. Well, I'm not gonna steal the sword and paddle with
that now, am I. I don't think it would work very well.
It would work exactly as well as your hand, and it would require less
hand in the water. We're still not doing it. But but yeah,
it seems like the catfish doesn't really know what the fuck this thing is,
so he just nudges it a little and that scares the hell out of you
guys. And you manage to navigate through a passage in the tree roots that
is too narrow for the creature to follow you. As you turn back and
look over your shoulder, you see several of the cypress knees. They're sticking
up out of the water shutter as the creature throws its bolt against them to
try and break through. So that's pretty cool. Low, It's there.
Not for nothing that would have been good to eat, but I do not
want to go back. They're under any fucking circumstances. Yeah, it would
require killing it, though not happen. Man, get me out of here.
I don't like our odds at killing it. No, I'm not.
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