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slash discord. Thank you Joy. As scenery arounds you changes, another vision
fills the sky. Sakawachi cries deliriously. The stars, the stars, they've
come to punish us. And as this monstrous sight in the sky's eyes become
javelins of light, they streak down towards the Mermaid's tears at incredible speed and
land on the deck with two audible thuds. Bright light shoots out from where
the starlight lands and coalescing where the light lands, you see who extremely strange
looking creatures. They are snakelike in their appearance, with faces upon them.
They emit this strange, nebulous light and we'll move you over here. I
need each of you to roll a D three. Please, it's a two
three one two Okay, I'm sorry, they're all no worries, all right,
rasch sonk rolled a two. Uh, you are a rolled one,
malvic rolled a three. You actually rolled it correctly the first time. You're
all good the first one. Okay. And let's see our Celia. You
got a three. Karun you got a two. Okay, let's move you
over here. Oh no, let's see I got a roll for Sankouachi.
Well, okay, Socowachi start back here. Uh. As these creatures begin
to manifest from the beams of light all around you, this horrific frost that
you experienced from this previous this blizzard that happened you can see uh still rhymes
part of the deck of the ship. And a horrific gust of freezing wind
comes in as well. Everybody, please select your tokens and roll me some
initiative eighteen twenty nine, twenty five, twenty six. Okay, and we
need some initiative for these strange creatures as well. Oh, go ahead and
add around marker as well. Alrighty, it is their turn first. As
these creatures begin to coalesce from this light, you all taken your surroundings again
in sort of very like different positions on the deck. A bit disoriented as
to how you got there. And let's see here uh as Sakawachi is sort
of panicking next to you, or see these creatures begin to move and hmm,
this one that is near Malvic and Karoon will side on whom do this
too? Okay? Uh, this will be towards Malavik. As you begin
to see this creature move and coalesce next to you, Malvic, you see
its scales begin to shimmer, and it's as if each scale reflects the starlight.
It is dazzling. It is beautiful and you need to roll me a
will save seventeen. Okay, Malavik, you are fascinated with this creature and
let's see that is not a crit fail. You are compelled to remain within
thirty feet of this creature and must spend each of your actions to move closer
to this creature as quickly as possible on your turns. If you are unable
to end its turn within thirty feet of this creature, something may happen.
As you can you can still attack it, yes, okay. It will
then attack you with its fangs. That is a thirty two to hit right,
Okay, starting with twenty two piercing damage, it sinks its teeth into
your flesh as you see yourself just in the scales, this reflection of light
and shimmer, and it just captures your attention, and it moves so quickly
you don't have time to react or do anything. It sinks its teeth probably
like since a crit I imagine like into your neck dealing twenty two piercing damage.
Plus, I need you to make a fortitude save. Believe that I
just sit there and I allow it to happen thirty Oh shit, that wasn't
even a grit. Okay, uh mmm okay, uh you just take the
damage. Nothing else happens from the bite. That is it for the first
one's turn. The next one will have a few choices to make. Uh
okay, this will be How should I interpret this? I should roll a
better die, roll this one because that number is not the visible Okay,
you don't have to, Karoun. I need you to make me a will
save. Please. Is this an emotional effect? No, this is concentrate,
enchantment, incapacitation, mental, primal and visual and kissy. Right,
the scales shimmer like starlight. You said the which type of safe will save
it is a will save yes, twenty one? Okay, uh, you
kind of you kind of realize for a second, Karn, what's happening here?
As these scales are having a hypnosis like effect on you, and you
manage to look at something nearby, maybe just to like take your focus off
of these shining scales. And you are not fascinated by this creature. However,
Rasha, seeing better, you are in range, and it will go
ahead and try and bite you twenty four to hit. That does hit,
but not a grit good for you? Mmmm. It is, however,
fourteen piercing damage, and I need you to please make me a fortitude save.
I'm going to re roll the critical failm cool sixteen. Maybe it's not
a quit fail anymore. It is a fail however, and you are stupefied
one okay? That is it for their turn a rash talk. It's your
turn. Exciting to see what stupefied does. Thank you, thoughts and instincts
are clouded. Stupefied always includes value. You take a standus penalty to this
value on intelligence, wisdom and charisma based checks and dcs including will saving throws,
spell attack, roles, spell dcs and skilled checks that use these ability
scores. Anytime you attempt to cast a spell while stupefied, the spell is
disrupted unless you succeeded a flat check with a DC equal to five plus your
stupefied values on this case of six. And does this clear off when his
turn is gone? Or is it something that lasts so much? For?
How so this is? In this case? This is a persistent thing that
you have to clear off yourself. Ow is that clear? Uh? You
have to take an action to try and shake yourself out of it, basically,
got it a single action or a double? Good question? And is
it possible for one of us to unstupefy? That is a treat condition thing
as well. However, I do not have it yet. Let's see.
I believe it's one. It's not like persistent damage, which is too nomally.
Oh no, then I think it would be too babe, I'm not
sure. I don't know. Persistent damage I believe is two. If you
do it by yourself in combat, that's damage. I do not know how
this works. That's like if you're coated with something. If it doesn't specify,
it might be too. So this classified this is classified as a poison.
Then it's two yep, yes, all right, shake your my head,
take a step back, and use the final two actions to kind of
kick yeah and clear that condition. And that is all I do. Uh.
I feel like there's a check, isn't there. I think that's a
check if you not for a persistent after you take damage clearing it. I
think it's just two actions because you're using up your turn. Is the problem.
Well, even with dedications and whatnot, I would have to roll a
contested role for it. I'm looking at that for you right now. Oh
yeah, I thought that was for clearing it yourself, like you could.
Yeah, that's like a recovery. Yeah, you're thinking, is something else
m GM decides how your help works. That's for assisted recovery. The rules
are intentionally vague. Restorations also another thing that can clear it or at least
reduce it. But I'm not seeing anything on removing it yourself. You might
not be able to rashta Okay, it says take it says recut me take
yourself to see persist dam. It runs its course that automically ends after a
sat amount of time. Usually it's a minute. I saw I read something
else, but so I think in this case, I'll keep trying. I'm
going to try. That's all I'm going to do. Even if it doesn't
work. I think, yeah, you just try and like shake off this
uh this condition from yourself. This is uh uh going to require something else
though, so when you just try to shake it off, you just kind
of get more lightheaded. All right, that's it, Okay, yarra,
it's your turn. Oh all right, First and foremost, noticing my companions
taking significant damage from these creatures, I'm going to tap into my oracular curse,
casting life link upon both a Rashtok and Malavik, healing them for nine
points of healing each and from there, allow me to just check very quickly
the range on restoration. It might be touched. All right, So I
am unable to do restoration from here at the moment, but I can next
round. You could probably see like a rash talk kind of a bit wobbly
on his feet, a rash Talk darling. Give me a moment, and
then with my final two actions here, I will go ahead and I will
instead mh, I'm going to go ahead and cast needle darts upon the creature
that is in front of malevik. Okay, we're twenty three to hit that.
M is a hit beautiful. That is going to be fourteen cold ion.
Okay, all right, that's just my ten. Uh. This thing
is sort of peppered by small needles and they immediately like retract. You see
like small tracks of of I would say, almost purlescent blood emanating from the
wounds. Okay, Malvic, it's your turn. Did you say I was
fascinated by this thing? You are? And that's really bad. That's some
huge de buffs. When I click fascinated on here, it takes offt like
two on everything. Is it clear? Let me look it up. I
know how it clears, but I don't know if you we kill it?
Alrighty well, I just since I'm fascinated, I'll just I sit there with
the thing lodged in my neck and I kind of turned towards you are slowly
and with dead eyes, and I just try to grab it. Okay,
you can make a you can absolutely make a grab the check twenty eight.
Okay, that is a success. You grab this creature and as you do,
your head starts to clear a little bit. Your vision gets a little
fuzzy for a second, and then you kind of start to come back to
yourself. You realize that this horrific like sneak like creature with a face on
it is biting your neck and like you, you've grabbed it, maybe to
hug it at first or something, and now you're suddenly realizing, like,
what the hell is going on? Mm hmmm, yes, I will take
so I might still fascinate it. At the end of your turn, you
are no longer fascinated, okay, I will grab. I will then light
My light grip would turn into a hardened grip, and I will grab the
back of his hair with as tight as possible and tie two. Oh,
I'm sorry you are you are not fascinated since it attacked you, I'll just
oh it clear at the moment you I'm sorry, got you all right with
that? I have it in my hand. I will then rage my second
action. A little brow will emanate from me, and then I will take
my hatchet from my that's my third action, and hold it in my head.
I don't want to just strike with the hatch, and I think that's
unfair. So it was just remain grappled and I am getting ready to strike
with my hatchet. Okay, uh, coron. And did I when I
was attempted to be fascinated, did I feel as though it was a visual
type of thing by looking at it? Sure? Well I was fascinating.
Yeah. I mean the scales on this thing, do you know, like
old eighty movies, old eighties movies, whenever they try to do like a
lens flare and like everything everything glittered. No, yeah, yeah, it's
like that. Like their scales are just like super purlescent and like those you
know, if anybody has a stigmatism in their eyes and they try to drive
at night, it's like that. Yeah. All right, Well, is
it possible then that I can just pull in my pull something over my eyes,
like my my like a piece of cloth. Or can I do that?
Can I give myself the blinded condition? Right? Take an action to
do that? All right? I will take an action to blind myself.
Uh. And then I would like to at my feet just to drop an
alchemist fire for splash damage. Okay, it should hit both of them,
there are both, right, Then I will do that. Uh. The
na palm lands on the tails of these creatures, and uh erupts with for
fire. Damage. Just see Karhoun in gulfed in flames, tackling with a
blindfold on ah alrighty that is oh and that was try to go prone maybe
for cover? Can that take cover here? You can't really take cover.
There's no place to do that. You're on this deck right now. Or
you can go prone if you want. Uh, yes, I will you
go prone? Okay, right, and that is my turn, right on
top of the fire that's smothering out the fire that's not on them. Okay,
this is my turn. All right. For my first action, I
will exploit vulnerability. As I gather my senses around me. There's a twenty
eight esoteric role against it's DC. That is I believe a success. Let
me just doubble check. That's not a grid. Uh, that is not
a crid. Okay, I learned of its highest weakness. It does not
have one. All right, that's fine. I will activate my personal antithesis.
Then you see, as I begin to approach the creature, I reach
into my component pouch. I begin to pull out what appears to be soot
almost this dark charcoal like substance, and I will smear it over the morning
star. I looked at Takawachie, I will do my best to protect you.
Stay close to me. Oh, this is fart. They punish us.
She's never been like this since you've seen her, just screaming. She
seems delirious. Shit. I would like to take an action to try to
calm her. Seeing this delirium washing over her, I will lower my weapon
and try to grab her by the shoulder. Look her in the eye.
Takawachie, you are not alone. Your friends are here with you. Please
make a diplomacy check twenty nine. Okay, Sakawachi is absolutely like having some
kind of panic attack. You grab her by the shoulders and just kind of
like try and shake her a little bit to get her to acknowledge your presence.
That focus on you, and you can see that she she takes her
eyes off of this nebulous roiling sky and focuses on and she looks into your
eyes instead. All right, watch it's me. Listen to the sound of
my voice. We need you right now. These are monsters, creatures.
They are on our ship. We'll figure that out together, but right now
I need you to focus, and I think it would be fair to say
I'll spend my third action to try to steal her resolve and try to comfort
her. I think you're okay, you've already spent one action too, and
you see that she's kind of coming around. Okay, I'm trusting you to
have my back, and for my final action, I will move here.
Okay, that is my turn. Okay, top of the round. M
Why can I not change this? Okay, that's cool, We'll just leave
it as round one. But it's not around one mm hmm okay, oh
boy, okay, Uh. The winds sort of kick up in speed,
just sort of star like effect floating through them. This absolute gust of glacial
wind pushes against all of you. I need each of you to please make
me a fortitude save thirty four from Malvic to start it off four eighteen eighteen.
Oh, I'm sorry. Did start with a raschak yet? Did?
Okay, let's see we've got one success here, folks. Ooh ue critical
success. Everybody else besides Malvic uh is affected by this glacial gust. You
take three persistent cold damage everybody except Malavic things at the end of your turn.
Yep. Okay. These strange creatures, which, for the sake of
our audience, are known as lunar naga. Uh. This one that is
currently grabbed by you, Malavic will try to break free with an acrobatics check
versus your athletics modifier. What's your athletics modifier? Never mind, I'm pretty
sure you beat it. It tries to break free. It's three total.
Yeah, because it's thirteen plus yes plus ten. Yeah. Its first attempt
to break free is a fail. It will try again. It succeeds this
time, breaks free of your grasp and will then with its final action,
try to bite you. And this will be a third attack basically because the
acrobatics checks count towards your multi attack penalty. That is at nine. It
tries to bite you with its fangs and misses as it kind of wriggles out
of your arms. It's just so awkward. If you've ever tried to like
hold on to like a cat or something when they don't want to be held,
it's a little bit like that, and they just like wiggle out of
your grasp and in the process they try to bite you, but you managed
to pull your head away in time. Okay. This one that is over
here south of ar Celia. Oh, and this is is still on fire
by the way, and you can see smoke just kind of boiling up from
its scales. It makes this horrific screeching sound as it is absolutely not enjoying
that the other one that is south of you are Celia. I think we'll
take a step here in between a rash talk karoon and yourself. It is
flat footed now, yep, and it will aim for you. A rash
talk with a fang attacks a quit oho. That's thirty four piercing damage.
That's clear. Can I take five of it for you? I raise my
amulet and I reduce it by sunsn yeah, okay, and I need a
fortitude save im. Okay. This will make it so that you are now
stupefied too. I'm sorry. I apologize. It has stupefied as escalated that
whatever venom is coursing through your veins has escalated to stage two. It's still
stupefied one. I apologize. Uh okay. Then for its third action,
it will uh wanted to run through fours you. It will attack you again
a rushiack. Let's lastack. Another fang attack headed your way for twelve piercing
damage. It sinks its teeth probably like right, in your shoulder joint,
like right there, missing your neck slightly, and I need another fortitude safe
twenty eight. Okay, you can feel the poison like coursing through your veins
at rostok. But you, however, you are able to you feel yourself.
Maybe your adrenaline is rushing and it is potentially you have some kind of
antibody or antigen in your in your system that's able to slow down the poison.
Somehow it does not affect you. Okay. The fire will also do
some damage here to the creature, and it is your turnal rashtop the kind
of it can't concentrate, eh, I touched this creature and try to think
my clothes into it as bugs begin to crawl out attempting. Was that?
Oh that was my forte with goblin pox. Feeling a little weaker than normal,
I'm going to make the flat D twenty check. I have to get
it was a seven or higher. Let me see, yes, I know
it's six or higher. Your stupefied one. Oh, it's stupefied one.
It didn't go up right river and the goblin box fails. Okay, the
goblin box fails. Sorrybody, and I have only one action. But I'm
next to this thing and I'm stupid, so I do nothing. Okay,
Yara, it's your turn doing much. Hmmm, rosstock dying? Am I
handling what you're going through? Or am I hearing you? I look horrible?
Oh, everywhere a rosso gets out of their doing mom Well for now.
If you've ever seen a snake attack, you know it's that like super
fast motion, and a rostalk has like hit like several times. You could
probably hear that like smack of it of its attack, like hitting him.
All right, well, it's gonna have to take care of himself for a
moment. I'm going to go ahead and place a hand on my chest and
I will glow golden as I cast restoration, utilizing my rich spell in order
to be able to hit him from here, I believe I should be within
range. I probably checked that. Yes, within thirty feet. This will
clear his stupefied condition. You will feel a cold air envelop you a rastalk
as you are no longer doing Oh it hurts. Everything is pain. WHOA,
yes, darling, you need to get out. Oh wow, God,
And that is getting the realization of what's around me for the first time.
This fight has everything bad happened the moment that started. That's one of
the reasons I wanted to I roll. Had you guys roll to see where
you were to start. I mean every day. It happened every time now,
just because it's like, you know, I'm going to put these creatures
here, and you start wherever you start based on you know what you roll.
Okay, anything else in your turn, you are no. This is
all three actions done, alvic m of this. I will try to sink
my hatchet deep into this creature, since I had in my head already,
and this will be with fire damage included. This is a thirty one thirty
one that is a hit, not a crit There's fourteen damage for four of
it is fire. My second interim, I will then check out my great
sword while this hatch is still embedded in it, and swing from my fire
attack. Okay, out rage, but it's just a difference. I've a
rage than anyone seen. It's small, quiet built inside. No, so
oops, I'm sorry to do what you will with that. That's the second
attack is negative five? Is this an agile weapon? What is the hatchet
or your great sword? Is your great sword is not an agile weapon?
No, okay, so then that will be a twenty three to hitten.
That is a hit all right, for twenty five damage for with the in
fire, I think like you stick the hatchet in with the first attack and
just leave it like stuck in the creature. And as you do, you
draw your great sword like with one motion, bringing it up to strike with
an upward strike, and you hit the naga hard in the side. You
know, since it's that weird snakelike body, you know, it can kind
of move almost like cloth. So when you strike it, if it's not
bending the right way, it's like it almost moves with your attack, it
can lower the efficacy of your attack. But this time you hit it squarely
and you you deal a nice chunk of damage. You see blood pouring out
of the wounds, all per lesson and sparkling as it does. And I
just kind of stared an eye with a silent rage as I am just focused
on this talking and anything I can think about is destroying it. Yeah,
I believe that is the end of my ta. Yeah, and everybody that
had a turn since the top of the round. So that's a rashchak and
Yara. You took three persistent cold damage. Indeed, uh, okay,
Karun, it is your turn. At the end of your turn, you
will take the three persistent coal damage. Karun is already biting the top off
another lchemist fire and going to smash it onto the ground again. Absolutely.
Uh the na palm like substance splashes out around the naga and uh as you
crush it on the ground and uh more fire lights up. Now, as
far as I know, with this persistent damage, it doesn't stack right,
correct it. The persistant doesn't stack on itself. The highest number overrides it.
But it's the same. Oh, there's also the after we take persistant
damage roll of DC fifteen flat check to see if we recover. So I
believe we're supposed to roll that too, Yes, yes, flat D twenty
seven for me stays on a rashtak stays on. Okay, So all right,
and I'm going to prepare another alchemist fire and stay prone and that will
be my turn. And now, how much coal damage do I take?
Three? Three, eight, five? And I rolled it the twenty You
say it, yes, be the fifteen. It is a five. Persistent
coal damage stays on right, And just to sort of emphasize what's happening here
is it's this glacial wind. It's almost like you're trapped in a wind tunnel.
Anybody that's kind of moving against it, you can feel it pushing against
you as well. There is a difficult terrain condition that is set across the
deck of the ship. Right, you just hear more keckling, but it
is chillier. Now that is my turn for Celia. I swing as hard
as I can twenty one. Well, it's flat footed. It af that
matters. That is hit Okay. It will take seven bludgeoning damage and then
an additional five damage. This is a this is considered a magical attack.
Okay, you stab with your or I'm sorry, you strike with your morning
Star. A bludgeoning attack on its scales several scales kind of like dent inwards,
and this horrible bruise forms and blood splatters, sort of sparkling as you
attack it. As I find a wind of opportunity, I will swing it
upwards, using the momentum for a second attack. Nineteen nineteen is unfortunately a
miss, all right, and then with my final action I will attempt to
sling my free arm around it and grab it okay, this so will count
as your third attack. Okay, so there's a minus ten ten yeah,
hmmm, do I want to do that? I think I'll just try to
hit it for a third, but okay, if that's okay, Yeah,
that's a ten two heavy morning star swings trying to hit this thing that's undulating,
you know, like moving around like it's like a wacky waving inflatable tube
man sort of situation. As you try to strike it, it just moves
out of the way when you try and strike, all right, and then
I'll make I take three persistent cold damage and I roll a ten stays on
m that's my turn. Okay, saku wachis now getting involved. Sakawachi will
move to probably here for safety, probably here. I don't think she's feeling
good enough to get close to these things, and we'll cast bless So Orcilia.
You are covered by blessed and that will be it for her turn around.
Okay, everybody can roll me an occultism or arcana check or twenty five
sorry what did you say? Or esoteric unfortunately not okay, mellories twenty twenty
six. Okay, that might be good enough. Follow on, let me
drike yes. As you all are focusing on this cold that is happening to
you, this glacial gust, something catches your eye. Something is off about
it. It's not it's not happening. Your mind is playing tricks on you.
This gust that is blowing across the deck of the ship, it's not
real. It's in your mind. And rash talk Yarra and our Celia,
you're the ones who noticed this. As you notice this, maybe you have
a second where you all see each other and you realize it simultaneously. And
as you do, the gust dies away. Your persistent cold damage is now
gone. Allusion Karun Malvic. You don't know what happened, but that gust
is gone. You're not quite sure why, but it's died down. Persistent
cold is gone. Or Celia or Rothsakanyara, you have that sense that something
was going on there. Okay, the trick of the mind, strange wad
that we're having. A lunar naga Uh is currently attacking Malvic. But I
think it might do something different here. Malvic. As you are fighting this
creature, you see its eyes begin to sort of sparkle and swirl around.
Everything's starting the girl a little strange. I need you to make a will
save m hm thirty. Oh yes, it's malevis is Okay. That I
believe is not a critical success, but it's damn good. Okay, m
This creature is definitely trying to screw with your mind malvic mm hmm. And
then it will, oh we could do that. That's nice and annoying.
It will cast a spell upon itself. You see the scales begin to sort
of sparkle, and almost from this internal reserve of energy, it just kind
of starts to glow, and the glow starts to spread outwards to its flesh,
and you see it begin to heal. Okay, that's it. For
the one to the western, one to the east that is next to Karuna,
Rashak and or Celia, well, actually I got a roll. The
fire stays on. Okay. This one that is by a Rasha, Karun
and ar Cilia, well attack Karun who is currently prone? Is this one
flatboted? Since the Artilia and Karuna excellent okay versus melee attack? Also,
I was just swapped foot that is correct. Yeah. I think it gets
a bonus against you Karun because you are a prone mmm. Yep. You
are flat footed. Oh yes, minus to circumstance penalty to attack rolls uh
to melee attack roles. Is this a melee attack? Uh? All right,
yes, that's right. Okay. It will try and blank you with
its fangs. That is a twenty four to hit. It does hit,
okay, it's not a cray right, no, right, and that will
be twelve piercing damage. And I also need you to make a fortitude save
for me versus poison twenty seven. All good, you're not stupefied. However,
it will attack a second time. I think, oh we can do
that. Oh that sounds good, we can do that. Okay, yeah,
this is weird. Let's do it. Okay. As it strikes you
with its fang's karoon, it sinks its fangs in and then you can see
this glow start to like travel up its scales, and little little bits of
electricity start cascading around its scales, and then from its tail it will shoot
out a lightning bolt through Arcilia and Sacawachie. I need it's just an attack
roll Holy shit, reflex reflex Arcilia and Sacawachie. Damn. Okay if that
twenty two girl Jesus Christ, easy, uh down, uh maybe fifteen.
It's a basic save, so it is half for a success, correct,
And Sancowachi has to succeed. Good luck, Socowachi, because I don't think
you're that kind of that ship. Where'd you go? This is when she
pulls out the not twenty I believe? Sure, Okay, that's two successes.
However, still, a crazy lightning bolt shoots from this thing's tail.
You can see like the spines along its along its back like uh, like
all connect with this little bit of electricity as the core of this creature lights
up brightly and shoots a lightning bolt which doesn't hit you directly our Ceila,
you dodge out of the way, but like just from the proximity arcs of
the lightning like singe you as it passed you. And Sakawachi, okay,
that's it. For the lunar Nagos turn a rasta and they take fire damage
and I have to roll to see if that is finished as well. Could
I use a reaction at the end of its turn or as a reaction?
I think I'm doing this correctly. I would like to use my emissarious protection
so as I take the lightning damage. My breathing begins to quicken, and
you see these red scales begin to slowly protrude from the sides of my face
as I gain one AC and plus one two fortitude, saving throws temporarily.
Okay, this is a special ability that Celia gained after performing the blood bond
with Malvic on a ley line. Okay, uh, fair enough, Raschock,
it's your turn. Yeah, I can think clearly our and I don't
like where I am now that the rain is gone, now that my poison's
gone. Ah. The rostock is worried about the snake, namely if it
will strike out quickly if he tries to move away. He has a terrible
fear that that is the case, and he doesn't think he'd survive it,
so he will do what he can back. I don't know if I'll stand
logging and to see you better case and you are hasted. I do not
respond, but there will be a huge grain on my face and acknowledgement and
I'll five for now step this way. Okay, that's my final Just slowly
trying to back up, keeping my arms raised in protection of my face.
Alrightye uh, we see Malevic sort of do the like street fighter normal resting
pose. It's just a little bit faster, at one point five times as
fast. Okay, all right, it's your turn. Oh don't you worry
your osktok, Darling, I've got you. The scars on my face will
glow, and I will cast a two action level two heel utilizing my moderate
curse on a rash talk. This will grant a base of eighteen plus another
sixteen plus another two healing to a rash talk. So that will be ashamed
thirty six. Yes, so that'll be thirty six points of healing to a
rash talk. That's a lot better than you, of course, Darling.
With my final action, I will go ahead and I will pat Malevic on
the shoulder. Oh wait, no, he's hasted. Yes, and I
will grant him guidance and that will be my turn. You'll just feel a
little growl overrate through your head. Okay, Doki, it's your turn,
Malwick real I mean, so the first action I'm going to do is I'm
going to to take my great sword and slash at it without guy, it
does have to be my next attacker, can it be just in this round?
This round? Your choice round? Great all right without dans so twenty
flat footed. That is a mess, okay by one one, isn't it
one? With that miss, I will then have the sword sink into the
deck of the ship and stand up laid down, and the ship is up
for me to grab one ready, and I will then use another action to
retrieve my hatchet from its body. I don't know if that's a free action
or not. It's action because I will retrieve my hatchet in the midst of
me missing my hand, will raise retrieve the hatchet and then try to sink
it into his neck. So just just one thing to keep in mind,
you have. It's really cool. I love the flavor of everything, but
you you basically like switch weapons, so you have to like drop the hatchet
when you use your great sword and all that stuff. I decked the sword,
so the sword is in the deck standing up next to me, which
you'll still just ass hoisted. Okay, So I'm taking actions to repick up
weapons. Is that? Is that what you're trying to say, or you're
trying to say it costs you like an action when you keep switching. That's
why I asked of me retrieving my hatch. It is free action or not?
Right. It's so normally, if you're restricting yourself to using the hatchet
as your main weapon, you have that retrieval rune on it so it comes
back. But you have your great sword in your other hand, which requires
two hands. It's like you're trying to use your hatchet. You have to
drop it. Yeah, that's not essentially what I was doing. I dropped
my great sword, but just you know, sink it into the deck high.
We want to say, and I will use guidance on this attack.
Okay, no, no, no, god, it did it again.
I'm so sorry. I thought up pressed two let's say twenty two minus five
minus five. Yeah, no, so this is an agile weapon, so
it's only minus four for the hatchet, but that's still a miss unfortunately.
Okay with that, that's my third huh. This is your because because you
if you're going to use your great sword again, I don't know, right,
Okay, my fourth action, I will then uh retrieve my grae sword,
So that will be your third action. Retrieve your great sword, and
you have one more action left. Oh okay, that's you're saying to drop
the hatchet. Yep, I just dropped and then for my fourth action and
I will take a swing and this will be full penalized. As attacked them
with three. So twenty twenty is a hit. So I guess if anybody's
watched, you just see an assault of attacks just coming out left and right,
switching weapons, just trying to chop this thing up in bed as much
as possible. Yeah, rocks, Yeah, I think like they're sort of
like hitting to the untrained eye. But you know, malvic as you're swinging
like there, it's like glancing blows. You know, it's sliding off scale
stuff like that. But one of them, that last attack with a great
sword, you strike at the right angle and it likes sails underneath the scales
and like you feel it hit the meaty flesh underneath, drawing blood. Four
that will be fire. Then that would be the end of my day.
Karn. Don't like being prone anymore. I think I would like to stand
up. Okay, how many turns does that one? However, just there's
bullshit to worry about him for standing up. Cannon Volk attack of opportunity not
this time? Good Hey, Ross talk is watching this very carefully. Perhaps
they have also put blind foils on to keep them from seeing me. I
will also take another alchemist fire and pop it open, and it's room thoughts,
you know, eat like a little bubble, crash it down things,
crash it down around my feet and cackle. Okay, just throwing another lesser
alchemist fire at your feet, not get anything except just cascade fire all around
you. Fire dances all around Karun, the silhouette of Karoon in the wall
of flames, cackling. I wish I could play the music one winged angel
right now, one burning angel now, and that is my oh and also
I rolled for I have damage. Yes, it is three do not?
You do not? Oh? No more? Yeah, you're not damage.
It's strange that that cold is kind of just gone all right, right right,
it has gone now it's cold here, but it's not like that.
That horrific wind isn't blowing anymore? Got it? And what is your your
splash damage? And you're persistent? It's four and four born four they're both
four all right, excellent, and that is my turn, okay, or
Celia, I am suddenly inspired by Karoun. I will use my first action
to fling my cloak around and I will try to get it over the head
of this creature to try to obscure its vision and blind it. Okay,
this will be I would say this is probably an athletics or acrobatics check,
all right, athletics thirteens. Yeah, Unfortunately, this thing's just too fast,
just manages to get out of the way as you throw your cloak over
like a fishing net. It just kind of manages to bob and weave out
of the way. As it tries to bob out the way. I will
swing with my other hand twenty nine. Uh, okay, twenty nine,
and I'm gonna I'm gonna give you a multi attack penalty here. Okay,
so that that's still a hit, however, Okay, so that will be
ten bludgeoning plus five additional damage, so fifteen total. Okay, good morning.
Start collides with a meaty part of its body as it dodges out of
the way from the first attempt at blinding it. Okay, and then for
my third action, I will attempt to swing the cloak over it again.
A negative ten penalty to this via twelve. Yeah. Unfortunately, no luck,
it's just too fast. It's like you have announced to your pet that
you are going to take it to the vet and you are trying to capture
it. That would be my turn. Hey, Sakawachi will extend the range
of bless and she puts a hand on your shoulder or Celia and says,
I have your back. Thank you, and a rash talk you feel the
blessing extent towards you. Okay, around the lunar naga. Okay, first
things first, the one that is currently fighting with Malavic. I think we're
gonna go ahead and shoot a lightning bolt towards Malvic and Yara. I'm gonna
need reflex saves from the both of you. I'm going to reroll there,
okay, rerolling in twelve. I'm going to go ahead and utilize the root
magic pouch that a rash talk has given to me. So for the first
time in the day, I get a plus two against a saving throw for
a spell or a haunt. This is going to be passed to you.
And it was a reflex, you said, reflex twenty eight. Okay.
Is there any hase bonus for reflex saves? No, it is just as
extra action. You're moving. Yeah, okay, Well, it's a good
thing you rerolled at Malvic because that was a crit that was headed your way.
And this lightning is no joke. Again, we see this naga sort
of begin to light up from its core. It's lightning begins to cascade on
its scales down the spines, and it will point its tail towards Malvic and
Yara and shoot out a lightning bolt. What is that minimum damage? That's
awful. That's for nine electricity damage. Unfortunately, so Yara you only take
four and Malvic you take the full nine electricity damage. I would actually take
five of that for Malvik due to my lifelink on him, So I'm taking
nine. Okay, I would just trying to position myself in front full blast,
but well instinctually and I don't realize that I have a life link on
personally due to my condition, So negative four, I guess, Okay,
Actually it's nothing because I have temporary had points. And then for its last
action, it will try my temporary head points skip it goes away before Yaa
takes damage because it technically does not hit me. So with that, I
have six temporary hit points. That means that if it was nine to three,
it take three and I take no damage, but all my attempt is
gone for its last action will try and bite you. Melvik. I broad
in my muscles twenty four to hit it, okay, and I need a
fortitude save. Okay. Poison does not affect you. However, you still
take fourteen piercing damage as it quickly snaps its neck seeing you take the lightning
and maybe momentarily standing still, and it will strike you for that fourteen piercing
damage. Okay. The one on the other side here will go a roll.
Okay, it will spin towards you are Celia, since you are trying
to blind it and attack it, and it will try to. It will
try and strike with its fangs towards you. Twenty missus. Okay, go
for a second fang strike thirteen is a miss and then I think what it
will do is for a third action. Mmmm. I think it will spin
and try to attack Karoon because its last fang attack seventeen. You can try.
Oh it does not succeed. You are blinded. Are you sure that
it doesn't succeed? Uh? Oh? Blind is They will me to make
the persistent rules after this. Yeah, blinded is just a status penalty perception,
not I see Okay, Oh all right, it does not hit all
right. I hear it coming for me, and I duck out of the
way so quickly, like a snake myself. This you know, this thing's
very thick, sort of muscular creature and you can feel the attack, like
just go barely over your head. You know, it's like swinging a large
tree branch or something past you. You can feel that kind of attack.
Okay. For podcast listeners, Malvic was just emoiling, like yeah, I
know, I know, yeah, just some truth rash talk. It's your
turn. Goodness, okay, Ah Celia, are you all right? I'm
fine? Do you do? You look fine? It so, lie.
I look a bit cispy, but I am standing strong. I also like
look a little hot and glistening. You know, my eyes are burning a
little red. I've got these weird scales coming out of my face. It's
kind of sexy, you know. Do you like scales? And it's a
bit more normal for me. Ah no Ah, looking at this, looking
at aunt Celia, seeing karoons stand up and not get bitten. All of
the things are finally coming together for a hostalk ause he's no longer stupefied and
here instead of reach out and touch this creature again as bugs begin to crawl
out from his robes and gloves as he attempts to pass on an advanced scurvy.
Ooh, it must make a fortitude save of DC twenty one. I
swear to Gods if it quits. It didn't, Thank God's it still succeeded.
But now it's enfeebled for one whole minute. Okay, you I don't
know what the visual effect of scurvy is, like boils or something. So
scurvy you get jaundiced, your liver fails. You're basically it's it's bad you
don't have vitamin C essentially, and your body begins to like weaken and fail,
and you get kind of blowthy, get you bleed from your gums,
yellow yellowed from the jarndice from the liver failure. It's a terrible disease.
And it doesn't happen though, it's only it's enfeebled one for an entire minute.
That's what it succeeds. It's a very nice spell. And from my
final my friend, little little mosquitoes filled with a healing liquid from me fly
over to our cilia, giving a life boost to you for four rounds for
six points of healing each that will be at the beginning of each of your
turns. I cannot find the enfeebled condition on this list. It's like a
broken We got it, you're already it's a broken bone, I think so.
Yes, it's like bone snap. I thought that's what I saw for
it. The image and whom did you place life boost on rostock Arcilia excellent.
Yes, it's next to the little eye with the slash through it.
Uh, there's the blood drop the eye, and then there's a bone snapping
above a heart with a lock looking thing. It's right past the numbers,
all the plus numbers if you see like all over under plus five. Ah,
thank you. Yeah, that's just as broken. Okay, regardless,
Uh, that is not listening is enfeebled, but well, energy, drained,
entangled, exhausted. I do not see enfeebled. There is not the
bone breaking, all right. I figured to do it fit. But that's
fair enough. We'll use the bone breaking and pretend like I will remember.
Okay, okay, um, you are oh all right, so hmm,
everyone's looking fairly decent. Excuse me, Malavic, and I will place the
hand upon my chest, casting guidance upon myself before I wave my hand over
Dronis's rap here and launch needle darts to the creature in front of Manavik or
a thirty one to hit. Ooh uh, that is not all it is
a crit so oh sh well, I scooch Malevik out of the way sort
of and launch my hand. All the darts go flying at once, piercing
the creature in various extremities. As it collapses to the ground, blood trickling,
and the needles disappear and sat back above. My hand just tears chunks
out of this creature. Each needle. You can see it's already wounded.
Whatever scales that had like already been exposed is where Yara aims, and it's
just taking chunks out of this creature. There's this terrific and it sort of
wobbles for a second, and like a piece of rope that has been let
go heavy and fall into the deck. It falls in front of the amut
one down monvic pat end of turn. It's your turn. I ah,
damn it. I did not take their feet. Oh, events were cool.
Anyway, it's going to use it as a weapon. Ah. I
will then look up from the corpse and as the other Naga is kind of
like swerving and spinning around to coil itself. I will lock eyes with it,
and with it, I will bore a gaze for intimidating glare. Let
you find it. I will look down upon this corpse and didn't look straight
into the eyes of the naga as the coiling itself round and catch eyes with
it, and then with a resounding you see the steam of the fire that's
building inside of me start to smoke out the sides of my lips as they
lock eyes with it and cast, well, not technically cast, but do
raging. Intimidations means that I can intimidate while raging, and they have intimidating
glare. Okay, please make it texture. I'm not gonna rule that it
was too fast and I looked in lock eyes with it. Okay, then
if that's the case that they ignored me, then I will then take two
actions, just recklessly charged with my great sword to cut it. This will
be flat footed as well. You need me to post that as well.
The chat. Let's see, why are you fly footed? Creature? Yeah?
Yeah? The creature four of you around it sudden charged, which means
I can move up to fifty feet and attack at the same time, and
of gruesome because you like stepping on the corpse of the other one. This
would be my first strike thirty two. Thirty two is a crit well,
as I run through and a step through the other creature bare down breaks his
bones. I will then grind my sword up on the deck of the ship,
kicking up some wood and slashing upwards at a very nasty angle as I
cut through, and I have one more actually remaining. Yeah, you're taking
a chunk of meat out of this creature, right. And then for as
I'm screaming shouting for my fourth action, the fire that was building as I
tried to do intimidating glare would build up inside me anymore. When my mouth
opens, I will shoot a fireball out as well with excuse me a second?
Its where I could keep on all these skills? Where is it always
over here? A dragon spit? That would just a spell that I can
cast that will your camera? Your camera was like perfectly crop for a second
for like a mault of mal lurk where you sorry so many freaking skills basically
with that I can do. I have no idea where I put it.
Oh, it's under spells and I used to this. Okay, all right,
it's a twenty okay, a twenty uh dragon spit uh. This is
a ranged attack, it says an innate spell, right, but you're making
range. Yeah. It says this is normally a range attack, but you
can also make a melee attack an unarmed reach. So this is this is
your second attack. So there's a multi attack penalty here. Ticket is that
right for a spell? I mean, if it's an attack, then if
it has an attack trait, yes, correct, so this will be a
fifteen to hit. Unfortunately that is as okay, yeah, but it's not
scream it shoots out, so not used to it as I am definitely not
used to seeing it. Is that your devian feet or is that other bullshit?
It's innate? Okay, doesn't answer my question? Thank you? Okay,
that's what it says. I know, but that's not your deviant thing
that you got right? No, it's not. No, oh that's what
you mean. I'm so sorry. I never used that. So no,
okay, it's it's an innate spell, not a deviant Okay, yes,
I was I answering a question. We're both for missing each other, okay,
okay, so two actions for the sudden charge. Yes, oh,
I have a fourth action. Yeah, you have a action. What can
I do? I attack, I believe is it? Okay? Pro let
him to grab it, but as well, because I I mean, I
could hit over thirty. We'll have your minus. This will have a minus
ten multi ten. There's number three, yeah, minus ten at thirteen.
Okay, so that's a three. Unfortunately, this thing is just too fast.
It's he already included the minus ten. No no, no, oh,
yes I did, yes, I did. It's still a thirteen.
Yes, I hit number three on it, but it doesn't matter. It
just doesn't list. It's so weird. Yeah, yeah, okay, Karoon,
it is your turn. I've heard that the one creature has fallen,
and I assume it has fallen because I have burned it to death. And
now I will direct my attention to the next creature, which has not yet
burned to death but will soon. I unkept my final alchemist fire, and
I throw it again at my feet, engulfing myself and the creature in flames,
and Melevic also in flames. M okay, if it is, I
do have resistance, so it's all gay. I was just saying it for
effect. Okay, Yes, another the splash of napalm lands all around.
Some of it's definitely landed on, like, you know, parts of your
clothing and stuff. Malvic. You know, you're just like too enraged to
really notice, just like little bits of like missing patches of hair or like
you know, just because you're nearby, it doesn't do any real damage to
you though, Melovick. Yeah, the creature is definitely in a lot of
pain. It's looking really hurt. That is my turn, art Celia.
As the creature is distracted with the supplement of my companions rushing forward, I
would like to take a moment to look around. If I can, I
underst stand that we are in some kind of illusion. We keep experiencing this
over and over again. Is there anything that I noticed about the ship that
we're on where our immediate surroundings. Please make a perception check blo faking.
Oh it looks normal. Can I spend a second action to look harder?
Uh? Yes? With a penalty? How much a penalty? Mine is
twenty But I'm not gonna say I'll be honest, You've already got a penalty.
Okay, I'll just hit it. Then yeah, seventeen, that's actually
an ateen because of blood it is ah and then flat footed flat put it.
Unfortunately, that's still not good enough to head. Damn, miss,
I swear damn that is a fourteen. That is also I miss Unfortunately that
sakuwachi will extend the range of bless and it is new round and this creature
will mm hmm. Shall we throw a lightning bolt? We can hit three
people with this one. Let's do that. You can see the core of
it begins to light up again and the lightning begins to cascade down its scales.
Karun malvic Yara, I need reflectaves twenty five awesome, okay uh Yara,
I think you do not take any damage because you have crick uh malavic
Karun, you take eleven electricity damage. I take five from Malevic might interject
as a caster. This is a line attack. How does it hit all
three of them? Its thick? Does it not work the same way as
Uh? It's a straight line if it crosses a couple of them, yes,
with the line if they're situated, but if the if you take a
ruler and measure out, I don't think it won't be too thick. I
think it is just a line. I don't know how the snapping work.
That would be a gem discretion, but it is a line attack. Uh,
you are right. Let's see who uh okay, I think you are
back lightning bolt hit Karun. Correct. Karun was the only one that got
hit by that. Yara managed to dodge it out of the way. I
will raise my amulet to reduce the damage by seven against Karun. Okay,
there you go, bestie. Okay, and then one attack left from this
lunar naga. It will aim. Actually let me roll the other die because
there's now four of you around it. It will aim uh one, two,
three, four, five towards Malvik with a fang attack. You know
what, anytime you say it will aim, I just automatically know what's going
to hit me no matter what die you use. You have Malavik dye.
Don't say this as both combats. I've been almost knocked out first every time
from rolls while you're that tank. You have a healer, You've got all
these Jesus. Yeah, congratulations, Mallowick, that's a crit. Yes,
you get fucked alone by yourself or ostock. You you got hasted while I
was in me combats. We're gonna need a therapy session after this. I'm
gonna talk to mine after this week, quietly eating popcorn out of no.
What I am saying is when we're all standing around one target, I get
hit except for the other times when I was hit anyway, Alright, what
is this ship? You are hit for twenty eight piercing damage and I need
a fortitude save. Okay, wait, so is that twenty three? Are
you taking this r? Is it? No, it's only the first time
you get hitching around? Didn't get hit. I didn't get hit again.
Oh you didn't take the damage from the excellent? Yes, I take five
from this, so make sure you correct with your health. I already took
five, so I'll take it from this. Ah okay in a four to
two save, ye correct? You ignore the poison for this creature's turn my
teeth and yeah, like it got you like on the neck again, malvic.
You know just uh you can feel like poison coursing into your veins and
you you feel the fire from your rage probably cascading through your veins already,
and it burns away the poison that's there. It's your turning rostock seeing people
doing a little better. Seeing one of them fall, I decide to uh
do things I haven't done yet. My claws extend out farther than normal as
I cast magic into myself and make an attack roll of God's that's not right.
It's still failed, but that's not adding it right regardless. I myth
with the spell as my claws go out, and I attack, trying to
rake across it with elongated claws and myth, and then I back away.
That is my final action. Alrighty y a rah, it's your turn.
Oh already hmm, yeah, I will go ahead and repeat the assault.
I'm going to go ahead and I will past needle darts towards this creature,
waving a hand over the rape year for thirty to hit. Uh, how
do you kill it? God's I think I'm panicking looking at everyone because everyone's
looking a little hurt. And finally, like, I just say as right,
and I launched the needles directly towards the creature wherever they have been mutilated
previously, with the final one landing directly between its eyes. You see Malvic
just this thing is like latched onto Malvic and he's like trying and pull it
off. You see him readying his great sword, and it looks at you
for a second, and then it just kind of like falls off onto his
shoulder and then like a piece of limp rope falls to the gun. Oh
did I get both of those? Yes? As you all see these creatures,
the ground, the stars, and the nebula around you begin to fade,
you're out of combat. Yeah, and looks on our rose. What
what were those? Ah? Would I'm able to roll a thing for knowing
what those were? Yeah, you can make a I will take a cult
or nature or esoterical lore mhmm, I'm taking a cult for thirty. Well
you're starting to figure it out. I am going to grab one since I'm
hunched over, grab it by his hair, and then lift it up.
H go on, yeah like before. Okay, we'll even better. I
will try to down grab it and lift it up. But notice that my
ads empty, and then I will feel for the wounds on my body.
Are those two there? We never specified that last time. That's right,
they're not there. Did I expend spells? Yes? You did? Okay,
Oh so we're full health? Okay, you are not full health?
Ah? Okay, I see a thirty to knowing what these might have been.
Yes, uh, rush talk, Oh boy, it's a good role.
Mm hmm. How shall I describe that is the question. This is
a two part answer for you. These creatures are called lunar naga, and
there are astrologers and diviners that speak of such creatures whose dark scales and white
hair sparkle with motes of light mimic the night skies to which they are forever
drawn. They are parts of different nations. You've heard that they come from
a nation called naga Jar and they are like an intelligent creature like peoples that
exists, these Nagas who can potentially serve communities as soothsayers, and some have
founded observatories and such. And it makes no sense why they are here,
but why they'd be hostile? Correct. And then you start to tie together
the visions that you've been having and this nebulous star like vision that you've just
had, and realization that several others group recognized that that glacial gust was not
there, and that the thing that you just experienced some kind of shared psychic
trauma. The wounds that you took were in fact not physical, they were
psychic wounds, and you believe that they are all tied to this strange lucinogenic
liquid that you found and your memories. This moment of clarity happens where you
realize that everything that you've seen some kind of memory. Sorry, we should
be back now. I'm just restarting a few programs just to hopefully make that
work. Sorry, everybody, this random technical bs today. This revelatory moment
kind of happens for you. Hear a rash talk where all of these things
start to get linked together. Were you what do you do? Ah?
I thought you were saying more my mistake. I thought there was something else
there linked to the hallucinogetic liquid as psychic attack. Oh this sounds ile.
Ah, this is all connected. Those snugger they are not hostile normally,
they're an intelligent species. They aid others normally. There's no reason for them
to have attacked and no wounds. This is arranged some sort of psychic attack
where we saw, uh maybe linked to the liquid. We need to get
out of this sea as quickly as possible. We'll find a way to filter
not intelligent enough not to get burned to death? Am I right? Ah?
Me myself? Yeah, thank you twenty one. Uh, okay,
it was in the snow. It may have been aerosolized. We need to
find a way to stop breathing whatever it is, sin or this will keep
happening because at this point, you know, you can see that the like
the ghostly crew of the ship are all sort of staring at all of you.
Captain Tinhill slowly floats over towards the rest of you. Are you all
right? It happened again, didn't Yes, you were moving about and it
was strange. It was as if you were talking and swinging around your weapons.
You were in some sort of battle psychic mm hm. You will wouldn't
happen to know any protection magic, would any of you your crew? Nay
ah, There was another one of those bubbles though, that is what causing
them. We must avoid the middle costs. Is it not possible to simply
pop the bubble or something? He would go in the air. They are
fighting too large m hm and m I suppose the ship itself hop the bubble
as it were. He must avoid them. Oh, this will happen and
we are in danger. When it does. You can see Camptinton Hill sort
of motion towards the crew, yelling various orders and things as he yells up
to the crow's nest. All right, everyone on your guard. Keep an
eye out for any bubbles. I want double shifts up at the crow's nest.
Avoid them our own costs. We'll make our way tagging no matter what
about work, Yeah, yeah, yeah. Despite the lack of physical wounds
upon ourselves in I believe we all could probably use a little bit of a
little bit of healing in the sense of taking our time. If you'd like
to send me to treat any of you, I can give you some selves
and oh you'll help your process. It is more physically meant. There's spites.
I would like a little bendid if that's possible. Yes, what were
you going to say? As Celia Isa can watch you with us. Yes,
it's she's still in the trance. That is what we last remember before.
Yees Soako wachie uh is looking pretty rough right now, just in terms
of like a bit shell shocked by everything. Is Dnigi with us as well,
has joined Sakuachi and you see ulukuk and Nyama. I've also sort of
like come up to sort of check why don't we yusher everyone below deck so
that we can speak with Socca Watchi, and I can tend to with his
wounds. M hmm, let's do that. You look up after the others.
I will look to Soako, Watchie and them, and I will take
anyone that would go with me. Down below I would go, I'll throw
bug, I'll stay with us Celia. This time, my words are not
great, and I may be able to shed light on some of the older
effects. Maybe as I approach Sakawachi, I will lower down to my knees
to join her companions that have circled around her. Is she going to be
all right? What happened? What happened to all of you? I do
not understand. Lukuk and the Numa A sort of trying to figure out what's
going on. A psychic attack they're being I think maybe that whale it is
stargeting us through some sort of that biological bubble means, but it is psychically
linked. He even formed the crew to avoid them at all costs, so
that may not happen again, hopefully. Socca Watchie's looking at the both of
you, sort of hugging herself a little bit. Denis rubbing her shoulder,
and uh Numa and the cookar nearby. He looks on our faces. Pulled
a flask from my belt, uncork it and offer Tacawachi's something to drink.
She looks down for a second, contemplating, like waiting a moment. I'm
not quite sure about the drink. I am patient, and I look at
her with a sense of sadness on my face. I am torn that she
does not trust us, saster everything we've been through, but I understand it's
a lot for anyone to bear. Is there a problem? She takes the
drink and drinks it very hesitantly. It's easy to say, you don't have
to make any sort of role to notice this. She gives it back to
you and nods her head sheepishly. I'm sorry that this is all happening.
We knew from the start it was not going to be an easy journey.
But you are not alone. We are here with you. I feel strange,
I feel like pieces. I do not remember everything. I think I
will rest excuse me. I will begin to back up and look to her
rash talk. What should we do? We should give them a space for
now. Do you think they would want the dosage of the memory foods?
I think not right now. M. She did say her memory was spotty.
I figured that would help, But m you don't know what I can
do. I think sometimes when these sort of things happen, all you can
do is wait and just trying to be there. No, I mean,
yeah, what do I to do? I attemptick acknowledge, but that is
all it seems. I am useful for That's not true. I am not
a combatant. M Hm. I am not helpful here. I am helpful
with the knowledge. I acknowledge this. But what am I doing? I'm
not good at diplomacy. I am not effective. I can make Manovic it
big and explode something, but that is Malevic. He would have been fine.
What can I do? I turn constantly treated? I am. I
turned sharply to you. I put my hand on your shoulder, a rash
talk. You cannot possibly actually believe that we've been through so much together.
Yes, I've been following for a very long time, but think back.
I cannot heal well. I my insects do a little more than some basic
survivability. I think every time we are in danger, I am constantly helped.
That's it. So am I. I can't swing like Malvic does I
can't heal a lick of anything. You comfort you disease so that they trusted
you. There was weakness there, yes, but they eventually trusted. I
am not trusted, or if I did that, they would have walked away.
It's true, and you know that I'm not leaving, but I don't
know what I can help with. Truly, you have helped so much.
Well. Who else has been able to sustain us, to give us energy,
to give us the will to push forward. You are much more than
that. You are my friend. My friendship doesn't keep one alive. I
think it does. I think that you don't give that enough justice. Perhaps
I need to speak with my patron. I think thank you for your time,
as Celia. I mean that I don't know. I'll go I watch
rash talk walk away. I will go below deck to join the others after
a moment, let's talk what she will be fine? Tanigi and the others
are looking after her. They wish to rest for now. Very well,
And are you all right? We're just setting up here. Would you like
me to take a look at you as well? I'm fine, Actually,
I feel great. I am concerned for a rash talk, However, I
think I think this adventure is taking an invisible toll on him. Whatever do
you mean? I think there are some wounds that are not physical, a
little bit of pride, a little bit of self worth. I think we
should give him some space for now, but I think it would be important
if we help reminder Ashtak how important he is to us. I think he
needs that, undoubtedly right M Well, at least the question of what's next?
Would we wish to all rest? Or do one of you wish to
eat some of the food that a Raschok has made. I believe that this
voyage trip, whatever we want to call it, has taken a lot out
of us, just taken it hold in our minds, twisted and shifted a
lot. We what we thought was figured out, was not even more confused
than we were when he started this whole journey. I believe we should push
for getting off of this voyage, getting ourselves online. I too am exhausted
mentally, so it feels physical. So perhaps then you have a rest,
and if Oursilia or Karoun would like to try the food, I will monitor
them. Will admit time hesitant to after the recent offense, bad timing seems
to be a terrible mistake on our part. What happens if we run into
another bubble as we ingest this? That's is fair? Ah that food,
yes, I forgot. I would like to wait till after the voyage.
I personally am not doing any of that. You will not take part in.
That's all three. But if you, Yara, are head set on
figuring some things out, you, of all of us, has the most
immediate response to wanting to do this. We can all look over you instead.
I'll do it. I'll eat anything I duly noted. I think the
question is would we like to wait? I believe now. I believe now
it's a good time for you to experience whatever. Because we're an enclosed space.
We are near you do not know what's on the other side of this
egative, but even happening in a mindev what kind of tolld that's going to
be on us? With that, going from our past history, you will
be slapped with something pretty heavy early on. So I believe, while the
calm is there, take your dive. That is just only my advice.
It's not well in most cases. No, I agree with you here Malevik,
and I think it would be wise. But I do not ingest it
as much as I am willing to, because we don't know what kind of
effect it's going to have on Malevik and myself. I'll do it, yes,
all right, I eve it. You will have your chance to eat
it. I'll keep an eye on you unless you both want to go together.
It'd be a good way for us statists to see if you invade each
other's minds, as if it was with the elusive nature that's been having.
But if that karoon may survive, sorry one word, it may do well
with this case because they are used to putting random things in everybody all the
time. Maybe built up one in it. Yeah, and that's too and
may have built up some kind of chemical resistance. I've already got several different
potions I'm going to take before and immediately after, like a pickle. Well,
that's disturbing scene. That might heighten certain things. But if that's what
you want and show them. I've already got like a little journal to like
coloring, you know, to write little poems. I think you should both
all right, and I see and I are strong enough to look at the
both of you. If you take any also actions, I will put you
down and make sure that you will not get back up. Fair enough,
all right, good bottoms up, then karun use the hamms. If something
happens, I will tie you up inside the amic and then put you down.
Before we do this, somebody needs to look at the device. I
will hand this to whoever is closest this device. If you see this tiny
little bubble here, if you see this moving upwards past it's about the halfway
point, that is an early warning indication that the bubble is approaching. Mm
hmmm, I'm so all right here. I will keep this close all right,
are we ready? Shots? Shot? Shots? Shut? All right,
and we shall sup on three one o. M m oh that's terrific.
That was no no, no, no, no no no, I
mis Cynthia Puka. Please don't oh, I won't these lay down on the
vix quickly? Yes, all right, curtain's already laying that I'll turn to
before should I take them up? I don't think that's a good idea.
Not fund the ankles together. No, but you can get the materials ready
absolutely ken, yes, yere, I've already gotten not going. There's an
old ritual that we used to do when sharmans will put us and doing sort
of the same state. But this is just a test of the mind to
be able to resist you to build our wheel power. We could tie their
ankles together, but they hadn't split them across the wall and then pull at
each in tividual to their bodies about to snap it. And once that happens,
if they move, if they do anything violent, their joints would dislocate.
All right, Yes, yes, sounds a good idea. Maybe we
put that on the back burner for now we slowly. I'm on it.
I have the not ready to go here you are m What I would do
is I'd walk up to Karun and pinch an nerve and and next to her
artery to try to cut the oxygen to a brain to put her out faster.
Then I realized a little bit and then absolutely just passes out, follow
with the idea past probably enjoying it, so I didn't. It tends to
pass out and it's gone. Sure. Uh you know that it Uh.
From what a rash tak has said, it took about an hour or so
for something that happened to Sakawachi and himself. Maybe that's part of the digestion.
Maybe that's part of your natural metabolisms. Who knows. I will take
notes as this occurs and try to be as detailed as I can. Uh.
An hour passes. Yeah, I'm sorry, Yara and Karun. What
I think you feel here is pretty severe migraine. You might see some flashes
here and there, but you know, when you have just you've just exhausted
yourself mentally, You've you have that that sort of light headed feeling, that
combination of maybe migraine symptoms or like an inability to really push yourself mentally with
any sort of deep existential questions or anything along those lines. You just feel
drained. It's like you're whatever's happening to you physically and mentally, you've got
nothing left. You're like mentally exhausted. And an hour passes, and I'll
leave it up to you if you feel like you've you've fallen asleep or not.
But nothing seems to happen. There's a few flashes here and there,
maybe of Ayudara snow. Nothing. Another hour passes, another hour passes,
eventually fall asleep. For the rest of you. You wouldn't have seen anything
else happen to them. Mm hmm, convulsive. They haven't really reacted.
You might have noticed. They might have just been kind of still or calm.
They passed out at some point, no discolouration as far as I can
tell. It might just take a little longer with them. M I don't
know how long you sort of watch over or wait or what have you.
I mean you can you're sort of resting yourselves here, just kind of keeping
an eye out on that bubble which hasn't really seemed to have any reaction.
If it's been an hour, I will look to Malavik. A few hours
now, I will look to Malevic. I'm going to go get a rash
talk. Perhaps you might be able to help us or understand what's happening.
Yes, that's a good boy. If anything happens, please let me know.
Yeah, yeah, we'll let you know the way that we I'm trying
to get hold of how we can do this, but I believe that a
strong emotion would alert you just as fast as I can nail out. Yeah,
we should talk about that sometime, But let me go get a rash
talk. I'll be back. I'll be waiting. Will you'll see me loom
over the bodies and just like put my face super closer to theirs to like
see if there's anything happening. Well, at least he's very diligent A rash
talk. I hope I am not disturbing you. No, no, I
am watching for bubbles. So Yara and Karun have ingested the substance and it's
been a while now. They don't seem to be reacting. If it's all
right with you, I think another pair of eyes might be helpful here.
Yes, I can look over and see what might be the issue, right,
Yes, No, I'll hold the door open as we head back down.
And did they take it several hours ago? And nothing? Nothing?
Please make a medical check for me check? Yes, that is indeed a
nature check for me as I peer over, which does indeed get a plus
two? If I'm using it in place of medicine, that would be nineteen.
Okay, I'm not entirely sure why it's not working. I mean,
you've only done this twice before. Hard to tell exactly what's going on.
M It doesn't seem effective. The pupils look like they're sleeping. I'm unsure.
Maybe the patch didn't turn out well. Do you think they're in any
discomfort or me? I don't know. I don't think so. They are
not tossing or turning as though they're under attack or distressed. Karin looks pleased.
If anything, they look like they're sleeping. Well, I really pleased,
very well. Ah, I did it didn't work. I did that.
That one was talking a little too much. So I did pinch the
oxygen off the brain for a little bit to knock them out. I don't
know if that did anything. Are they still breathing? Yes, Corona's breathing.
If it was only Karoon, I would have maybe thought that was the
problem. But mm hmm, yeah, right as well, I'll walk up
to a rashtuk and then drop the rope. Hmmm. I guess I won't
be needing these anymore. Then I'll just kind of mope over to or see
you instand. When do I have rope? Well? I was going to
tie their ankles together and the wrists two days. How does those placas over
there pull into their joints or about the pop? If they moved any hostile
matter, it would dislocate their joints and eventually waking them up. Did I
react so violently, No, But it was precaution. We decided that it
was unnecessary. Unfortunately, I try to bring my customs to the forefront,
which it seems to be a little loud. What I say I was thinking
is over indulgent. I can tell what you're thinking by the way. Oh
I blush mm, and I agreed to formally. I wouldn't want to do
it anyway, but it was more than we needed. More precaution is not
unwise. Should just agree with me. I do not entirely disagree with you
all the time. I am I disagreeable. This is an illusion happening again.
Are we in a bubble? No? I checked the device. We
seem to be fine. No bubble detected. No didn't. You would see
that. I would look down, but a slight smile on my face,
and in whatever emotion you get from that, it was what you will get.
Hmm. Apparently I am disagreeable to you. I will continue watching the
bubbles. They seem fine. Mm hmm. Everything okay with you? You
see measurable? I am well, I am not armed. I need to
commune more to receive my blessings from my paper. Looking looking greener than normal.
Oh, that may be an illness. I should check into that.
Your skills are shining a bit more, and I realize that you're standing in
shadow. But yeah, I should check that too. That is not I
was changing colors the last dosage. I will look in this thank you rush
talk. I think that Suraldic is trying to compliment you. H I have
done nothing. You have done nothing. You have countless times have saved Do
you have saved me from being digested? I haven't given you a proper thank
you for that, and I am I really appreciate still being here. I
do not want to become anything with stomach acids or even worse excretion of the
anus. Ah, you are welcome. I really do appreciate that. All
right without you, whatever you feel like enlarge in me again, feel free
to do so. If I'm trapped in the stomach, I will make a
note of this good because no one else could do that. But you.
I do not believe they know the spell. How is accurate? That makes
it very useful? And I turned to our say with the ugliest smell,
I am corning ear to ear. I'm so pleased with what is happening right
now, and you would feel unbridaled joy coming from me, and I look
confused. Is that I do not understand the custom. But yes, there
was no other lizard folk that we would have on this trip other than you.
I am the only one. This is correct. If you ever turn
into a dragon, I would really hold back from killing you. Thank you.
Yes, sir, he's the back of my blood instead of fourth of
its blund damage versus slicing is pretty good. It's a blood circulating in a
certain Yes, thank you, and I leave, okay. I I hug
you. I throw myself at you, and I hug you tightly. Oh,
thank you. I think that was a very kind thing to do.
No, I was not. I was. I just embrace you. I
give up. Hi, okay, I hold you for a moment, and
then slowly I pulled back. Perhaps they're just sleeping for now, so I
don't see any reason for us to disturb them. M Yes, But if
we find out something we don't want to find out, maybe we find out
where the problem the whole time? What do we do there? The thing
about knowledge is that you can't control it. It will be what it is,
and not knowing doesn't mean the absence of its existence. It has been
and always will be. All we can do with it is take it in
stride. What matters more is what we do with it than what it is.
I will leave that to you. I am good at destroying whatever comes
our way, and I believe that's something that we need to reminder us talk
about, is that there are certain things that I cannot handle that you cannot
handle. That none of them that he he really does take care of us.
Should I start calling him daddy Papa? No, you should ask first.
I thought of some total kind of authority would make him feel better.
Captain maybe leader? No, that would be you. M hm. Really
you think of me as a leader? Yes, look at you start Ron
strong In Farose said, well, in doubt, I mean all the things
that make a good leader. Yes. Also, you have a sense of
mind. You think about reactions before doing them. I'm more of a doer
than I think yours more of a reactionary korunas and so trying to figure that
one out. But when it comes to a rash talk, he's more of
a When something happens, he can deduce it, deduce, deduce it.
Your vocabulary is slipping in my mind, I don't even know what that means.
Well, at the end of the day, yes, you are looked
at as our leader. I feel we all make leader decisions, but I
believe we all come down to consensus that come to you for knowledge of the
world. You are for a traveler. I believe that is in your nature
to be a leader. Well, I'll do my best. Try to lead
everyone to a path that that will satisfy their hearts. Good. Yeah,
and now it leads you. I will let you lead. To figure out
what is going on with our scaly friend. He's not looking well and I
can since it. I think, why do you think it might be your
health? Oh? M hm, he does seem to have some kind of
there's really so much emotion. So every time I talk to him, he
just stares at me blankly, and then there's this sound over the time.
I don't understand what that means. That's him laughing. Oh, I need
to stop looking disgusted every time he does it. Maybe, yes, you
should definitely stop that. That's a good first step. I thought he was
going to hack something up. I was waiting. M You know, I
misunderstood him a lot, and maybe I heard his feelings. Maybe it helps
whenever you said something that could be disturbing or could possibly make them feel different
or indifferent. Please to let me know I am working on this. I'm
proud of you. Ah. It takes strength to want to change oneself or
at least put in consideration of others. It requires an effort. M weakness.
That is one that I'm willing to submit to. I think it's strength.
It does not come naturally to people. Is it attractive? It is
very attractive. Then I will take it as a strength. No more weakness,
and I will storm off and try to make a rostock feel better.
Oh shit, I look as if I'm going to stop him. Then I
look to friends. I will look after them instead. I do not want
anything to happen to them under my care. I will sit down, take
out my journal, and simply wait off the rest of their sleep or Celia
begins to take note in their journal, and the night kind of fades down
as our group get some rest. You all get a full night's rest,
and I believe there's been healing done by Yara uh. And the day passes.
The following day passes, you were all kind of notified that there was
another bubble that was avoided through the night. The entirety of the next day
sort of passes and you can see the dusk sort of settled in, and
as it does, you hear a You hear a cry from the crow's nest,
and that cry is land home. I can head almost fat. Finally,
there is the dinging of a bell that you all notice. Mmmmmm mm
hmm. Everybody can give me a perception check ready twenty twenty three. Okay,
Malvic and rash talk. Amongst the waves and the sounds of wind and
such, you can notice a light and the sound of some rowing a drawing
you to the edge of the deck the rail. Looking out, can see
that there is a small boat with someone in it and someone rowing. There's
a sort of a stand with a bell on it. That's being wrong.
Look over there an attacker coming. Pare yourselves another illusion. It's a small
rowboat. He take out my great sword. Perhaps they I'll just sing hello
a greeter from the docks. I put my hand on the flat of your
sword, and I push it down. Is anyone like a sailor? Or
has anyone in many port cities? Do you think before? That's really outside
of our proof travels together. I only traveled a little bit with my sister,
but I think it was all on land. All of my traveling spin
Land found I'm a I am a swimming lizard, folks specifically, I don't
know if that would actually apply here, but hereah. Otherwise I'll take a
society role from Oh, I bet have thrown this was. If anybody is
like, thank you trained in society or whatever I am in twenty five Oh
my critical, I am also trained twenty one rash talk Yara and Karn.
You would all assume this is some kind of maybe like a harbor master or
something that's uh that's coming out, or someone that works for a harbor master.
Why this sky works here? He's the master of the harbor to be
fine? Oh do we see this? May be you hell, it might
be fine, people, but your ship looks like it was dragged from the
bottom of the lake. We don't want trouble if we don't want spectral shifts
or ghostly crew talking at our port either, which is for your own safety.
Well, thank you for taking the time and effort to come. Tell
us that would it be all right if we take a rowboat in instead?
We'll hang on just one second here. These people have helped us quite a
bit. Actually, we know they are quite safe. Who are you?
Who are you to tell me that we cannot bring our ghostly ship it?
Sure you I would like to roll intimidation. You can absolutely roll intimidation,
or Cilia, you can make a diplomacy check, all right to assist twenty
six? Does this help me at all? Intimidating glare not in this case.
That's a combat thing, all right, and this group coersion work.
Maybe I can intimidate some of the other people on this little boat. So
let me just check and see what course mechanically does. But potentially it could
and that there's a twenty four for intimidation and a twenty six from ossilia.
Okay, alrighty, as long as you don't bring the boat to the port,
you're more than welcome to find harbor further down. Do we have any
sort of row boats? So we're gonna have to ask to hate to write
with them. There would definitely be a rowboat on the side of the ship.
Yeah, we definitely have robots. Don't thank you very much. Yeah,
you can see him kind of like grumbling. This guy wants nothing to
do with you. You don't have to make any sort of role to determine
this grumbling. Does it help if with my twenty six diplomacy, I was
absolutely leaning up against the rails with my massive titties, like just propped up.
As soon as you started to I knew it was getting We all knew
objections. I object almost help object. Can we give phoenix right work?
It's project which just do the ar Celia Phoenix right thing? Just like yeah,
uh, this person uh was probably barely able to see really what was
going on. There's some mist that's that's coming up from the from the waters
and such, so I don't imagine so can click cast light the uh the
crew of the Mermaid's Tears kind of grumbling a bit, and you hear like
Captain Tinhill uh laugh a little like underneath his breath and shake his head.
Uh. Well, I didn't exactly expect the warmest welcome, but we will
do this. We'll get yourselves ready to disembard. Don't pay these people and
the attention, captain, just humans, humans and the petty little squabblings.
But if we anger the harbor master, you might be inconvenienced at the very
least understood, Captain. Am I to take that as a sign of you
taking a liking to us. There's a pensive look in Captain Tinhill's face,
like a slight smile. Ah, I look towards capstand and to see if
there's a slight smile. The same smile is still there. It's just painted
right on. I don't know if I trust that once too, we will
miss you too. I well make the robo ready. Come on, lads,
let's get these fine folks. What about our treasure? There was treasure,
wasn't it to get something from this already received that and we cannot take
the ship with us. And this is good pie m hm. Yes,
I'll walk up to cats Tan and like we didn't have the best of time
together. You attacked me first, Keep the ship safe. It's important to
my companion. It's not me. It ain't so bad. And I'll slap
it in the back and I'm pretty sure that it'll just been around and it
be in the back too. Yep, that's exactly what happened. Then I'll
walk off and I'll turn back and try to give the same smile it gave
me. It was like a droplet of water that falls from one of the
moorings on the ship, just like lands conveniently like near the eye till next
time you know, well, I'll walk up and join everyone. So this
will be your final journey then, Captain ye, but it is one that
we've long prepared for. With your permission, Captain, I have taken record
of many stories of your crewmates and of the ship itself. Perhaps I can
share these and tales and songs so that you may live on through them.
There's a broad smile across his face, and he he will bow before you
and extend a hand. I take it, and he kisses you on the
hand, and he says, you are a fine line Parsons, one that
is an old pirate does not deserve the company of h that I agree that,
I agree with you. Let's give up again. The crew sort of
all faces you as the rowboat is ready, and you see the second largest
city of Mendev in front of you, the lights of this place, docks,
and a light snow that falls as Mermaid's Tears begins to float past the
port, the harbor further down the coast, maybe another maybe a mile or
so. As the crew sort of lines up with the gangplank in the rowboat,
you can see that they don't stand at attention, but they all sort
of have a smile, and they all kind of line up for you,
this ghostly crew that you've come to know over the last week or so.
It was a pleasure, Thank you for all you've done. The pleasure was
all ours. May you all rest easy soon enough. We won't forget you.
When he lies ahead, whatever we face, no and we go there
thoughts of you. I will Curtsey, and I will look to the others.
I'll just do old war band salute and nod my head and turn around.
The ring will bow her head. Mm hm. You will give a
formal bow, one you might find in a court. You all make your
way onto the rowboat. I'll row, yes, yeah, I'll do the
right. The crew sorry ahead is Danigi and Saatchi and them joining us.
Took Yeah. There. There's definitely a mood change amongst them, for sure.
You can see that they are following, and they're all sort of giving
their own like individual goodbyes for the rest of the crew, and they sort
of will give their thanks and such. But I think they are recognizing the
moment that you're having with the crew, your connection, the fact that you
did this for them, they'll sort of pile into I think two rowboats,
and you can see the crew on the on the edge of the deck sort
of helping to lower a few of them. Wave. As the boats are
lowered into the water, the crew waves begin to fade onward and I'll begin
rowing. Begin to row your way towards the shores of the Agada second largest
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