Well, well, well, I think my roomba is outside my recording studio
making a lot of noise. So while I go deal with that, why
don't you won't sit down, shut up and welcome So from a Far podcast
last time when from a Far podcast and I think you you might be ready
for some more stuff, some more some more leadership, more responsibility here I
mean, but you can't we trust her though, I mean, you don't
make it very far into the journey. You stow away quietly, laugh quite
quite badly. Why are we chosen for this? But then you remember,
like sort of like a blurry moment, and then you're like, no,
yeah, we're here, We're chosen, We're the ones. I no,
no, I was gonna say. I think we need to all the items
we have with this purple stuff we need to get rid of. I want
to throw my netches over the board. It's more of the thought for you,
like, yeah, there's been a lot of things that haven't really made
sense, Like, hey, you know I did that detect magic before the
attack, right, A lot of bad vibes coming off of this, A
lot of dark energy, kind of a chrotic ou tea. Isn't that what
the mayor asked us specifically, I can't quite recall there was a purpose just
before you black out, you see a violet purple sort of pulse of energy
as as Neptune is standing with her back to you, saying, it's all
happening the way he said it would. Is you also saw that ship come
back as he sort of whispered as he says, I think he's on there.
Nailed it as as good as every other time that we've done this thing.
Did it one got in one? Well? I realized for the first
like two years of doing like the podcast, I was like, I was
so precise about that, I would freak out. I'm like, oh man,
I've got to make sure it's all on sync and stuff. But then
a couple like last year when I was editing, I realized that, like,
just throughout the editing process, I purposefully put things in and out of
sync, so it doesn't actually really it's it's all good. Where well it's
it's good. It's good, it's good. Um yeah, So I guess,
without without further ado, are you all ready to dive into this thing?
Let's do it? Oh? Okay, So you all are standing sort
of looking up at this ship. As you're standing on the back of this
whale, you're slowly gently rising and falling. It's it's kind of intense because
like this whole, these thousands of shipwrecked ships on this thing's back are there's
a slight movement to them as the as the breath of this thing, or
as this thing breeds in and breathes out, you hear like wood creaking,
and occasionally ships bumping up against each other. But for right now, the
four of you and Willem, because I didn't forget him this time, the
four of you and Willam are standing in front of this this ship that that
I well, I guess this is a good clarification. Vex, how long
have you been in Butcher's Bay. You've been there for quite a while,
right, yeah, for as long as I think they can remember. Yeah,
okay, And Craig and you are the one who's relatively new to the
situation, right yeah, Okay, So then for sure, Vex, LT
And Bruce recognize this ship. Greg and I'll leave it up to you if
you recognize it or not. Ye. As the four of you s down
on the back of this gargantuan whale in the midst of this forest made of
wrecked ships. You all stare at the ship in front of you. It
looks not as pristine as the day it sets sail from Butcher's Bay three years
ago, but it is still clearly that ship. What is it doing here?
This reeks of magic. This reeks of magic and something else mustard.
As you look at the ship, you see written in silver letters the words
the Phantom. Any doubts that you had before are now gone, for that
was the name of the ship that set sail when the ghost Ship first attacked.
But again, things aren't adding up. The ghost Ship attacked, then
the Phantom set out to destroy it. Then the Phantom came back, speaking
of terrors, the terrors of the ghost ship and the terrors of the black
ocean that it sails on. So how is the Phantom here now? Well,
it looks like it's time for the lowly Butcher's ball team to step up
to the plate and hit a home run when it comes to solving this mystery.
That's how we're going to start this one. So as you all stand
rising, slowly, rising and falling in the back of this whale, what
do you all do? There's no right wrong answer. Actually, well,
I mean I guess the first thing is like, huh, well that's a
that's a site. It's horrible. I don't like it. Cool. So
you are on the ship. Yet you all are on the ship. You're
you're looking up towards the ship, and like I said, it's it looks
like it is it more intact, And actually it looks like it's more intact
than the rest of the ship's around it. And in fact that it actually
looks like it's still somewhat seaworthy. It is a lot older and a lot
in a lot worse shape than the pristine full sails flag flying high when it
set sail three years ago, but it does still look seaworthy. Like I
said, Will has kind of grabbed a Bruce's hand and he said, I
think I know I feel him. He's on there, all right, my
brother. Yeah. So yes, I don't know what some of you,
but I recognize that ship there. Yeah, I don't want to have met
it. But I mean we're all, you know, staring at it.
So I got we're all thinking it that ship. Okay, the same the
one and the same. Yeah, I say, we uh, when we
do a little scouting sneak a bore see what we can see. It would
be stealth a little bit, be a little sneaky. Remember well, you
know, we'll we'll employ, we'll employ playbook play sneaky sneak, you know.
Yeah, no, no, that's perfect. You made it. You
made it um wonderful. Yeah, so doub sorry, No, take that
self self censoring attitude and get it out of here. It's it's number sixty
nine, but it is on its four hundred and twentieth iteration it is,
you know, or it could have been on the page then not quite as
funny sex joke twenty four Yeah no, or eight thousand, eighty thousand and
eighty five. Oh dude, you just spilled be I edited that out in
the in the in the editing process, actually edited that out right now,
right now, live live, live editor. If you all want to approach
this stealthily, totally um. Even though you guys got really high skilled checks
or your survival checks when you were trying to find this boat, you got
through quickly, but you did still see. There are quite a few entities
and beasts and terrifying monsters on this ship, on this thing, so you're
not alone. You're definitely not alone here. If you want to, if
you want to try to get onto the boat, that is awesome. If
you want to go look around more, that's awesome. If you want to
just like in this adventure now and go back and like be like you know
what we're done, that's also rag. It's kind of tie tie. You
want to go take I'm but will sweepy, where do you go put it?
Time? Yeah? I say if we sneak up, sneak up?
Does that seem good? I mean, I'm always down for a good sneak
Let's go, let's get some stealth checks please. Yeah, Craig, And
you know you are the You're the pincer point of the sixty nine. You
got to get on ahead of their right. So I'm right in the the
forward frost of the sixty nine. Okay, So that's what I'm talking about,
the head of the action. We've we've sixty nine so much group,
Okay, we've practiced. The good thing. William is a young child,
and he does is all just right over here. If I was tall enough,
I would cover Willman's ears, But I think I'm too sure. I'm
not going any farther for this person. Than I have to. I will
not bend over and cover his height. I don't know, true, true,
true. Um. Okay, So so we got a thirteen from Lt.
Craig and roll to nine. Ok not great so far not looking get
ahead, don't worry. Bruce is bringing it home with the stealth role at
disadvantage. Uh cool, first one was a five, but don't worry,
was a natural one. Let's get yes, yes, what about stealth.
You gotta a real quiet okay, real quiet, all right, and you
just hear echoing across this whale, real quiet, like real, real real
you hear actually okay with Okay, I'm sorry, Vex ver seventeen okay,
oh I'm hiding behind the team, the team. Well then you'll you'll see
very clearly, Vex. You see as the as the team LT did.
Okay, okay, job, But Craigan and Bruce just in classic Craigan and
Bruce fashion, just causing a whole ruckus and Vex you turn to like tell
them to be quiet. As you guys are making your way to the ship,
and you see something not great. Um. You see the masts and
the ships that are in the background of of this scene. You see one
of them sort of slinkily detach and it sort of turns. And as it
turns and starts like very slowly walking towards your group, you see some arms
kind of sprout out and some legs start to separate at the bottom, and
it's it's about a thirty foot tall figure but like very very slender, very
terrifying it. Like I saw this thing on Instagram the day where like somebody
was like looking out over like a misty night, and like it was like
they were looking at like it was like a city covered in like fog.
And as they were looking, like one of the telephone poles like got up
and started like walking towards it, but like it kind of morphed into like
a little like a very disfigured human. It terrified me. And that's what
I want you all to imagine now. Yeah, as this very tall,
horrific disfigured human starts walking towards you, which was disguised as a mass a
second ago, that is what you see vex um. I'm pointed out to
William first talk on a sleeve and looks at it, and it looks back
at you and says, I'm just I'm I'm a literal child. He starts
he just starts running, running towards the ship. He's like, yeah,
towards the ship, like away from the beast, towards the ship. Towards
the ship. Yeah. Wait, so this is the mass creature was not
on the ship that we're trying to get out. It's hurting you towards the
ship. Basically, if you want to get away from this thing, the
ship would be a pretty good spot time. I'm following, um, just
gonna delt my way there by what are we talking about? Bruce, Bruce,
Craigan and lt. All of a sudden, you just see Willem dash
forward and Vex hot on his heels and just just to move this along a
little bit. You all hear this from behind you and you turn and you
see this terrifying masked monster. We're all like pink panther tiptoeing, and then
we just see will like and Vex book like our silhouettes of dust are still
there for a second. Yeah, very looney tunesy and Eltie, Actually can
you raise can you make me either whatever you're better at history or animal handling?
Both are okay. I'm trying to see if you recognize this creature eight
out of like I recognize the creature, you don't. But even even without
recognizing it, you that that's information because you're you're pretty You know that it's
big, you know that's terrifying. You know that it will probably squish you
all if you don't move fast enough. But you're pretty in touch with the
monsters and the and the beasts and the creatures that live close to Butcher's Bay,
something that's been sort of nagging at you for a while now, and
this sort of solidifies it. You've never seen a creature like this, So,
yeah, what do y'all doing? There's a there's a mast a mastodon,
a mass stiff also a good good joke. A run yeah, yeah
yeah, Craig and and Bruce Cadell along towards the ship l tire you following
suit, Yeah, slowly, like kind of staring at it like quizzically.
Okay, so you all, you all make it to this ship relatively quickly.
There's there's enough debris and detritis and broken pieces that you're able to get
up to the top the main deck without much of an issue. And that
is what you see on the map here, just your your standard, your
standard ship. Um, and as you all as you all kind of punker
down and get on top of the main deck and the hunker down, this
mass stiff. You get the sense it didn't it didn't see you. It
wasn't particularly chasing, it was just moving. Does this ship have a mast?
This ship does have a mast. Okay, it has. It has
several masks, and one of them, one of the masks, actually turns
its head away from you and tries to high numbers. Uh no, but
the one mast creature, giant stretched out creature that was chasing you. Like
there's that moment of like, you know, like Lord of the Rings when
the Hobbits are hiding in the underneath the roots of the tree after finding the
mushrooms and the nascoul Yeah, yeah, the naskols like above them. We
kind of have a similar situation of that. We're like, this big monster
is like above you all. You're hiding down underneath like the rigging of the
deck. And after a few moments of a super intense itty you it turns
and it starts walking away. Um, and you all are you all are
on the main deck of the ship known as the Phantom, and the things
you see most of it's pretty derelict. You see towards the front of the
ship, towards the bow of the ship, you see what looks like a
cargo hold a cargo like a big trapdoor basically looks like it's sort of broken,
looks like there could be a potential way to get down. You also
see in sort of in the back near the aftcastle you see us, thank
you. You see a staircase leading down. Um. But aside from those
two points of egress or entrance, you just see a bunch of broken barrels,
bunch of decaying ropes. Um. Sorry you've used a couple of words
of decay. But like when we're talking about like ship decay, are we
talking about like, um, I don't know what, like moss growing over
It wouldn't be moss And be like oh yeah, good, good question.
What's the gross little seething barticles? Like? Are we covering bars here?
Do we got like some new life? Make me a nature check please?
Or investigation check? Either or said nature or investigation? What am I?
Oh? None of them? What about a strength that you get? A
strength? Look at this wall really hard. I'm a strength based botanist.
Well, the plus zero I got fifteen. So I'm going to sample a
barnacle because let's water all the time. I kind of know what's up.
Yeah, actually that is a good point. Do you notice there are there
is a lot of like barnacle crustacean sort of wear and tear from like average
sea adventuring kind of growing up the sides of this. Most of the decay
you see though, is more like the sales are really tattered. The wood
looks like it's splintering, um looks like soft. Yeah yeah, yeah,
like like just a very old ship. But one thing you notice with with
the barnacles, you said you taste one of the barnacles. Yeah, something
kind of strange happens as you as you you bite into the barnacle. Is
it is it safe to say that that VEX has has tested the barnacles before?
Absolutely? Okay, So as a vegetarian real life and also as not
a barnacle boy, I don't know what barnacles tastes like. Can people really
eat them? I don't think people do. I don't think. Don't think.
Maybe no no judgment if you're if you're like man barnacle soup. Hell
yes, But even without trying them. I imagine when you bite into them,
into them, they don't turn into dust in your mouth. And it's
not like it's not like dust isn't like this is just really old. It
like literally turns to like ash in your mouth. That that was you should
try this barnacle awful, This is not natural. And I'm gonna break off
a bunch and just kind of hand them out like snucks, you know,
normally, Like how does barnicles and stuff the barnacle bits? Yeah, yeah,
that's one. Everybody well sort of looks to the to all of you
all and he's like, um, if this is what it means to be
part of the team, And he takes a big bite and said, just
ash ash in his mouth he spits it up. Wow, I'm a riot,
everybody. What else do you think? That's not normal? Um?
Also not normal to really eat barnacles. But I feel like that's not a
normal reaction when you chew about anyway. Oh no, no, it's normally
like just eating the outside of a lobster. Oh yeah, okay, so
you have had barnicle before. This is not a normal barnacle thing. Oh
no, no, not even glass. Strange strange doubts. Why am I
to eat it? Well, the greatest company, this is strange. Yeah,
that's why I made you eat it. That's like such an older sibling
thing to say. I was reading some notes on my character. I'm not
like, I gotta be a little bit meaner, just a wee bit.
No, it's it's fantastic. It's it's so good. If anyone else tries
these these barnacles, the same thing happens. It just sort of turns into
this like ashy just not pleasant substance in your mouth and as you all kind
of are crunching on these barnacle bits, every one who ate a barnacle,
can you please make me a wisdom saving throw? Yeah? I think I
have a point that maybe Okay, I pretended to eat one. Okay,
I can you pretend to make me a wisdom saving throw? Then? Oh
yeah they're great? I mean bad, they're bad. Yeah, So then
I guess everyone except for Bruce, please make me a wisdom saving throw.
I got a one plus four healthy fine, No twelve, Yeah, I
took a big old bite. Twelve. Twelve is going to be better.
Got ten ten, So we're gonna we're gonna do something that no, well,
that one that passes. Um. No, so you all got less
than the DC here. Um, so we're gonna we're gonna do a little
bit of improv off script. Oh no, no, no, I'm not
ready. We're off score off script here, guys, let me let me
close my notes. Um, what so you think of this? Think of
this for a second. What would have been in your time in Butcher's Bay,
um, or just in the time throughout your your back story, what
would be one of your characters more memorable worst memories? Oh gosh, I
think um like a community humiliation slash rejection. Okay, there was a some
community classes um that was originally run by the folks that are now the speedwalkers,
um swinger, sorry, thank you to speed They've they've really delve into
a lot of activities. UM. Oh yeah, and this one was cooking.
Um it was cooking with um, non traditional crustaceans, which is kind
of barnacles like barnacles, which was like when when Vex Hexington originally arrived at
Barnacle Bay, they were, you know, enamored by everything. They weren't
this like broken, beat down, cynical hum individual that they are. Um.
At the beginning, they were just like, you know, bright eyed
and enthusiastic and ambitious. So they joined this community um center run by swinging
speedwalkers, and they singers UM and VECs really believe it, like this place
was going to be it. But they quickly found out that this community event
of cooking with non traditional crustaceans was a bit of a joke that was set
up to originally humiliate like another member of the Swinging Secret Swinging uh walking club.
You can't get their name right, it's amazing mh. But and then
VEX ended up being kind of like the target of their humiliation. And there
was going to be like this big community dinner where there was like one hundred
and fifty you know, a lot of really important city people were invited,
and VEX broke off all the crustachians and all the barticles from a bunch of
ships and uh and mixed it with some ice and another third ingredient of your
imagination presented ketchup articles, ice and catches. Yeah and uh yeah, and
it was humiliating. The entire swinging walking group expressed their utter disgust and distaste
at the presentation, and how could somebody as short as me, who doesn't
even belong to Butcher's Bay even dare to step up. So I ran home,
cried, and joined the Butcher's Bay Butcher's Ball to learn how to fight
enough to kick butt um. But only and except I only ever hit after
that, Santa was so much wow inspiration for you. So yeah, you
it's something something kind of strange happens. As as you as this ash kind
of coats your mouth, you start to relive that moment the but it's a
moment you've relived several times. Actually, you you you remember going to the
Secret Swingers cook off and then things get kind of fuzzy. You remember being
very excited, very happy about living in this new space and being with these
new people, and then then things are kind of fuzzy, and then you
don't remember much after that. That's the way it's been in the past.
After you take this like sort of ash, Prince Prince Barnacle, that's when
all of a sudden you remember the end of that memory where things were just
really humiliating and awful and terrible, and it's it's confusing because this has been
that was a relatively good memory, but now it's been sort of tainted by
what really happened. It's weird, and what's going to happen is uh,
what is your wisdom? Score? Zero? Oh? Ten? All right,
well now it's nine and who's next? Um. Craigan's memory that he
goes back to, uh is so he was banished from his home by his
you know, he's from an aristocratic line of Cobolds, so he you know,
his parents kicked him out, cut him off financially, and he was
sent here. He went to go to where he knew some of his nearest
cousins were, which is Butcher's Bay. But there's this burned, this memory
burned into the back of his mind, the Cobold last that he was in
love with. And as he's like, he has a handkerchief tied to a
stick bundle type thing over his shoulder as he is walking down the long dirt
road away from his family's estates, and he looks back and he sees Chadwick
cobalt Stein going over and like putting his hand around the love of Craigan's life,
and the last Craigan just he turns around for a second like he's about
to do something, and then he looks at his family's arm guard, all
of them pointing guns at him, and he said, he's like, I
must go. Lovely, fantastic inspiration for you as well, thank you,
very similar to what what just happened in vects his mind. You have relived
this specific memory several times up until this point, and it hasn't been bad.
Um. You actually remember leaving your state and being somewhat excited about branching
out on your own, and you remember this cobalt Last saying I'll wait for
you, like very gone with the wind, like yeah, And as you're
remembering it for this time, all of a sudden, cobalt Stein, what
did you say? As was Shadwick? I think Shadwick Cobaltstein sort of materializes
in this memory and is around, like puts her arm around that. The
cobald lasts and as you remember the guards pointing guns at you, previously your
memory was they were waving you on and having good luck so the property.
And it's again it's very confusing to you because up until this point that's been
a good memory. But you know this to be true. Oh man,
And what is your wisdom score? Thirteen? It is now twelve which is
going to be that big of a deal for you. Yeah, that didn't
change anything. LT. Yeah, so probably um when I got injured from
one of our one of our matches, I got injured pretty bad and fever
broke own wasn't able to get into the water, and all I wanted to
do was get into the water. But I's hilirious and I just felt so
warm. My skin was trying cracked, and I just wanted to get in,
but they kept saying no, it was bad. I kept trying,
they can hold me back. And then I just laid down sweating, just
streaming of the water and not be going to feel this coldness and just feeling
so warm and dry and the skin just peeling and cracking away, and I
just win in the water, but they would let me and I was hilirious,
and I kept trying again, and then yeah, just a cycle just
winding in the water up when to get into it, just singing there warm
and just sings to feel like I was never gonna be able to get back
to it, like I was on a desert. Well, fantastic inspiration for
you as well. The way that memory changes for you is you remember this
specific Butcher's ball match, and you remember scoring the winning playbook sixty nine final
touch sneak. You remember being the hero of this specific match, and you
remember being like raised up on the shoulders of your team and carried and your
praises were sung all over the city. But as you start remembering it after
this, ash coats your mouth. Instead of your friends hoisting you up there,
holding you back as you're like reaching and just trying to get to the
water, but they're they keep pulling you back for your own safety because you
are you are hurt. But it shifts from this yay LT to no LT,
come back. You can't. You have to stay out on the water.
He's in a full body cast with one of those little levers that just
his fingers can touch. So he's like his hospital bed is just going towards
the edge of the dock and they're like, no, come back this.
At this point there should be no surprise. What is your wisdom now it's
it's nine Who I take your entire brain, it's it's now nine, um,
And yeah, that is what happens. That's why you shouldn't eat barnacles.
Bruce. You see this sort of look and something happens to will him
and he oh gosh, my head hurts um as he as he eats it
empties his bowels. Bruce, you see your friends as as they eat these
barnacles. This look of like beyond horrors bawling, Yeah, tears and tears
up lts has a look of recidation, just like accepting, like a final
fate. Just like that look. We're like, you know you're dead,
so you're just like that's it. You can't escape. It's yeah. So
how would having seen that, Bruce? How would how would you respond?
Right? Hey, gang, you know I'm gonna kind of pull a full
of coach move here and say no more eating random things off a ghost ships
horrible? I just wanted to make Arcord particle recipe. Yeah, alright,
gang, heydudd up here. Hey hey, yeah, we're gonna get through
this. It looks like y'all went through something real traumatic. Uh listen,
hey you got we had a job to do. Remember remember while we're here,
right, we're here to help our newest team member, Finders Brother,
Finders Brother, I'd say we uh can we can we rally? How are
we doing? Gang? How you doing well? I need I need a
bunch of clean x. Here we go. I pull up little baggies of
orange slices. Here you go, Oh, have some orange slices. Clean
out your mouth, get a little sites. You didn't tell us you brought
these. I'm always packing, but I'm always packing, always packing a lunch,
I say, we rally, take a little five, and then we
head down to the basement of this place. That's boats have basements, right,
just right. If it's blow the waterline, it's a basement level.
Yeah. I've been not ships my whole life. I know what it is.
You don't need to correct. It's a boat basement, all right.
When we do a little sixty nine down there, as long as I can
blow my eyes, my nose on, my eyes out somewhere, pulls out
a handkerchief, blow your eyes up. What yeah, thank you? There
you go. Yeah, it's a crapper, hope. It's it's when you
like blow your nose and your eyeballs like cartoonishly of celestial It's not all beauty
as you're as you're blowing your your nose and eyes out VEX. Willem William
comes over and he uh, he says, I know this is really confusing
and strange, and I don't know what you all just saw, but what
I saw really really kind of messed me up. But thank you. And
he's like looking directly at you, Vex. He says that I know I
don't have a lot to go on other than just a feeling. And I
think my brother's here. You say here, Sorry to interrupt you, do
you mean like here, like on right now? I don't know. I
don't know how to explain. I can feel him, he's I think he's
below deck. I think we should get moving. Let's just go now.
I mean why wait, I mean something was obviously not right, so okay,
okay, it was just really quickly, are there any more boogers in
my nose? And I'll tell towards you. Ah my good, there's nothing.
You're fine, It's clear, thank you? All right? Is clear?
All right? All right, let's go sixty nine in the basement of
this boat and find this young man's brother through sixty ninety. All right,
let's go brother onward. I love it. So you all have two options.
Do you want to head down the stairs or like I said that,
you just even like without like investigator anything you see there's a relatively large hole
towards the boy ship is over the table. I know it's probably smart to
walk down the stairs where it's safe, but part of me does want to
just jump in this damn hole and like super sue hole on your call,
let's go eltie. Um. So then what what's the what's the walking order
here? Then jumping order, falling down whole order? If we time it
right, we could all just create a very tall like each person getting on
the shoulders of the person below them. Yeah. So as you guys get
to this whole, um, get to the front of this whole, you
hear the the wood creaking and straining underneath you all, um, and you
look in Yeah, sure enough, it is like sort of a loading area.
And as you look down, you think you see some what looked like,
I mean, you know, to hammock it. You see several hammocks
just sort of right down there. Hem make you say, and let's let's
just let's get some either acrobatics or athletics checks. As you all, I
assume you all jump down, jump down into into this boat. That's a
twenty to jump down. It's twenty, okay, not twenty another geez dang,
all right, Craigan got fifteen, VECs got a nine. They like
tumble down, they like stub their toe on a board that's nicked out and
then just fall in. It's not horrible, but it's not good, not
great, um, but it's you know, it's okay for Natural twenty double
Natural twenty, we have to reward that somehow. First of all, you
you two get down flawlessly, not a sound made, not a not a
single point of damage taken, in the kind of like um super hero status.
You all land kind of in a cool pose, the cameras a low
angle, like wow, these people are really cool, and then all of
a sudden you just bamn like Craig and just falls right flowing his cobalt little
face. Oh sorry then vex us vex sorry, vext um. No no
damage taken though, it's just sort of a goofy bit. But um with
the NAT, with the NAT twenties, Um, let me get to my
notes here. What we're gonna do though with the Natural twins, te um,
we win the campaign. Everything. The five shadow monsters that are down
here, they don't see you all. Oh and in fact, they're all
starting to move in the opposite direction away from you all with the natural twenty
with both natural twenties. Um, so they don't see you and they're moving
away. As you all jump down into from the main deck down to the
hammock deck with the double natural twenties, you see sort of sneaking out from
in between hammocks and in between like decaying crates. You see five like shadow
beasts. Looks like they're sort of incorporeal. But you see that, You
see that they don't see you, and they are actually moving away towards what
you see. You see a door over here on the other opposite side of
this hammock deck. Um, And yeah, what do you all do?
All right? Gang? What do we think? We got some opposition up
here, opposing team? We can enter, you can, I'll bum rush
and be a distrection. So you need to get down the right. It
looks like they might be leaving. We could just let them up, just
leave. Maybe I don't think, I mean they're going where we need to
go, because we were trying to get over the right. That's like we're
trying to we're trying to. Yes, you see them heading towards the back
of the ship, which you see a doorway that leads to what looks like
a storage room. You also see there is a singular staircase heading down in
this room, so you have you potentially have two options, two ways to
go. You could go through towards into the store rooms if there's anything in
there, or you could head down another level. It's down, it could
be, it could not be. Who knows be either way. Both those
things are in front of either way, either direction, right, yep.
I mean, let's maybe we just hide for a second. Let's let's see
what plays out. If if they just go on with their merry, shadowy
way, maybe we can then just walk in. There's almost so many places
they can go to. I mean, like it was a borning shadow hanging
out on a boring ship, like, oh, it's not too many things
to do. That's a good point. I love's just so curious about your
life that you think this ship is boring. That's amazing. One of these
days, sit down for ice cream, and I'd love to just hear more
of your stories. Yeah, anyway, it sounds like we're just gonna sixty
nine, like we've never sixty nine before, and just you see as you
say, oh, they're probably pretty bored you just hear them say, oh,
it's so boring ship, nothing to do but wait and be a shadow.
That's that's what you hear. They all say that in Unison. It's
very It's like their NPC loops got on the same in the same time,
or they practice it really hard because they've been bored for a lot of years.
That's that's actually it. I got a really random question, really random
answer. Maybe I need to roll history since I know William from a while
ago, is there any chance I would know his brother? Roll history?
Let's see what happens quest him. That's a very good question. That is
a four. Okay, yeah, unfortunately you you did not meet him.
No, William, could one of these shadow things be your brother? He
just looks to you with like the biggest like tears welling in his eyes,
the most Pixar like No, please, no, I hope not. Man.
Who would have thought that this creepy ghost ship on this creepy large whale
would have creepy monsters on it? You did not to me. I think
at this point, Borg, I think you might be the only one here
listening to me. No, what are you talking about? Oh? Wait,
where is everybody where? Did everybody go, well, you know what,
we're still having fun, right, Borg, Yeah, we're having a
good time here. Why don't you come with me over here? Maybe I
think, I, oh, yeah, that seems like there's people over here
in this door. All right, let's go one. You thought we forgot
about your birthday. You all are too kind. Oh my gosh, thank
you. Oh yes, and we have a peanut You have a peanut butter
cake. Peanut butter sure, yeah, I could get some mother. Oh
well, y'all are so kind. And Borg, why did you get me?
Let me show you Borg present time. Are you tired of large piles
of old clothes just cluttering up your house and your yard and your car?
Well, so, no, you're right. That's why we invented the pile
piler. Peter's pile piler. It takes one pile, it takes two piles
and puts it into one. So if you have it, one does require
a CDL to operate. It does. Once you get that CDL, you're
free to rent any of our Peters pilers for any range of time from one
minute to two seconds. And we have rates that roll all the way up
and down baby, and a lot of times they'll be they'll be rolling while
you're rolling on the Peters piler. So like we'd be like, yo,
hey buy this, rent this Peter's piler for fifteen dollars a second um.
And then when you bring it back, we're like, oh, sorry,
that was our eighty five dollars a second Peter's piler. But that's just way
to make the big bucks. So we make the big bucks. And you
know what we do with all those big bucks. We put them in a
pile. We lift them up with a peter piler. That's right. Act
now call now four oh seven six three eight one three five two. Somebody
in Orlando will probably pick up someone and just say, hey, Christian David
Sencia, you want your very young Peter's piler, and then hang up very
quickly because that's probably a real number, I think. Okay, all right,
bye, oh man, okay, good night, guys. This is
great. Thanks for coming. Hey, Earl, you know this, uh,
thanks for playing arong being the good sport. You know, I know
you don't like a big thing for your birthdays, but you know I had
to. I had to do something special. It's been a while. My
initial reaction at this point knowing that our history together board would be too say
you're wrong or insult you or something. But this was really sweet, so
thank you, thank you. This is the sound of me extending my hand
for a handshake. Okay, all right, it's a little hard with the
elephant stump, but well, fist bump them, fist bump. Yeah.
Sure. Um, I don't know what if you do without you Borg?
Oh okay, all right, well i'll see you tomorrow. Okay, the
Scott awkward. I made it awkward. I'm gonna go tell the story too.
I guess myself because it sounds like everybody went to bed. But anyway,
Borg, thank you, and here's what happens. And here's what happened
next in the story. Did we hear it? Did? Did it?
We all hear him say that he felt his brother on the shop? I
mean, do you feel him for one of these things? I know it
hurts, but he closes his eyes and he focuses real hard. No.
I think I think he's he's either deeper down or far farther in. And
it's not a huge boat, so I don't think there's a whole lot more.
But but yeah, no, I think we're good if you want to
kill him, Yeah, we could do that. I don't know how you
kill a shadow though. He looks at you like it looks at your net
and you're tried and lt And he says, are you like a shadow killer?
You can try. I'm going to be running, just attack one.
There we go. I'm going to use on our racial abilities and so if
you're next to me, you're gonna feel like the air rounding kind of cold,
like it's like a frost like Ryan kind of cocas my body and my
trident and um, so we use my Surge of the Deep before we get
started. Very cool. Yeah, and the final thing we'll get with this
natural twenty, I'm gonna give you each of you a an action before basically
you guys get a surprise round. Um before before we're gonna roll initiative.
So Ltie, you can do that and you can charge and do unless that
is an action to do your your what do you call it? Surge of
the Deep? Is that an underground oracle? Original? It is? Yeah?
That is what crazy cool? So that is that? Is that all
you're doing for your surprise round? I don't know if I shoot that or
just my m because I want to rage too. Are you sure? Yes?
Absolute? Like, okay, we have that. That would be my
action though, So you what does it look like when you're rage? Have
you raged yet? Yeah? Yeah, yeah rage. The last time,
I guess you don't remember me it was because it's okay, no I don't
see what's good? No, no, what are the audience doesn't remember what?
They don't remember either. They all just texted me they said, oh,
what what does LT's rage look like? And I was like, I'll
ask him. I'm like texting them right now. It's great yet, I'm
sure it was. I remember it being great a And so basically it's it's
hard to discern because like he's his skin is all black, like you know,
I'm almost like a whale skin like all black, really dark and so
um when he rages, plus like the sturge of deep so like you said,
frost kind of cover his body like the white kind of crystally ice and
then um, with the rages, you see his muscles gol kind of tally.
It's like a little like bigger almost and you see at the top he
has like fins on top of the said they kind of stand up straight of
like a sharp jagged points and yeah, that's what looks like when he fantastic
when ages. So do you all know LT is get getting in the zone
right now? Cool? So that that is it for your your surprise round.
What about the rest of you? What would you like to try and
do for these shadows as you as you like? It's very clear LT's about
to like charge him and and wreck these shadows days. I give everyone the
uh the the go get them's the taps? All right, gang, all
right, let's go, come on, give a quiet clap, not to
give away our our position. There we go, team, all right,
we're gonna get it. All right, LT's lead, let's go, gotcha
lead, And I'm casting or I'm using one of my features, emboldening bond,
which basically means four creatures willing creatures. Said, you add a defour
to any attack, rollability checker saving, throw one crowds h god, okay,
that's what cleric? Are you again? What type of cleric are you
again? A fucking good one? Yeah? Of course? Peace? Peace,
peace, cool love it um? Is that it for your surprise round?
Sure? Okay, I mean yeah, that was your If that's an
action you can move you if you have any bonus actions. Oh yeah,
I was gonna move, so I'll definitely move on mine too, because how
far we because I want to make sure you build to get someone around.
So Eltie dashes up, dodging some of the decaying broken buses and jumps vaults
over a hammock. I thought that was gonna be cooler in my mind when
I said said that. So now he over so it's a low hammock and
he overly too him so because over confidence, say this isn't so bright so
cool. There's a front foot over a little tiny like like like a like
the imagine one of the pirates on this ship had like a like a pet
monkey, and you jumped over like the monkeys do a full philip. Yes,
that's really intense. Um, so you move. So, yeah,
you move up about thirty feet deeper into this hammock deck and you're now right
behind these shadow shadow monsters. Bruce has cast his emboldening strike no emboldening boxes,
and which is a feature, so I can still cast a spell.
So as a bonus, actually the cast shield the faith on lt that bus,
your ac up by two. It's a concentration spell. So I get
if I get hit. So for the listeners at home and people who aren't
watching this podcast, we're using we're using a mapp today, so um,
which is pretty exciting. I also just looked at Brist's token. It's just
a donkey. That's hilarious to me. You didn't know I did. Wait.
Is Bruce Springsteen a donkey? He's been a donkey this whole time?
I'm sorry this whole time. This changes so much way to find out this
has been a major part of the story. Where have you been? You're
telling me our new head coach is a donkey. You see him play.
It's like air bud, but with a donkey. Bruce Springsteen, you have
you have cast shield of faith on LT, raising his ac as LT charge.
I'll finish. I'll finish by moving up to Uh, there's a crate,
a bust of Darelick crate in front. I'm gonna kind of do a
cool power slide and get some cover and uh that end my turn. I
don't know, maybe half cover or something. I don't know. We'll give
you a quarter, We'll get plus what did the plus one? Okay?
Love it? As Bruce Springsteen charges up about halfway towards the shadow. He's
hiding behind the dare on box. Vex or Craigan, what are you trying
to accomplish? You want to go first? Vex is just kind of looking
confused. I think they hit their head a little bit when they tumbled down.
It's still just like we was trying to stand up, like, oh
my god, what's going on. Craigan's gonna say, oh dear, we
could have maybe not five fuck the scary shadow things taught of me Bain and
he's got a wow and he's casting Bain at fourth level, so you get
I get one more person. I said, four of these guys. Guy,
I have to make a charisma saving throw a beat seventeen. Um,
I'm gonna tell you right away. They're there. They're not very charismatic.
They have ay have a negative one in that charisma. I want to use
some different dice. Once you're stalling, you're selling dm stal Fine five five,
fine, Fine, you've twisted mine mine arm all here we go.
I'll use I'll use Lord Richter's power. Nice. Um, they're all metal.
They're gonna fuck up my desk. Um geez each way five pounds desk
legs. Just the three. First is a three minus one versus three one
two. Second one is an eight minus one seven second, third one is
a sixteen minus one fifteen close but no cigar, no cigar. And fourth
one is a three minus one that is a two. So all four of
them, all four of them miss. They're all banged. So whenever the
target uh is making a saving throw or an attack roll uh, they roll
four yeah, and subtract the number rolling from whatever their role is. So
just remind me of that, because I will forget gotcha. I probably will
too. Um and a last but certainly not least B and Vex. Okay,
So I'm gonna wobble over a little bit, kind of confused, not
super clear, like okay, saw the those are bad. We're gonna everybody's
hitting what oh okay? Um, and then I'm gonna cash shatter Okay,
I love it on a ship. Let me yes, do it? I
mean you, I mean do it doesn't helpe, it doesn't go awry.
What's the worse that could happen? So? I think the loud ringing noise
that that occurs from Vex's shatter it kind of it's it's the sound of when
an iceberg cracks in half. Oh very it's a like a very unique yeah
sound, and it's a it shatters your heart. But with the enemies,
it'll just be their entire bods. So can I get a constitution saving room?
Absolutely, they're a little better at con Are you just are you just
hitting one or are you trying to hit all of them? Shatter single target
That's what I thought it was. It's a twenty foot radio sphere sixty foot
You're absolutely absolutely right. You can definitely hit all of them with shatter.
This bows coming down. Yeah, range sixty feet area ten foot, so
yeah. So basically you're just following up like with the old this is this
is playbook five thousand, six hundred twenty two, the Bane into into Iceberg
Shatter I'm playing, and you you immediately follow up with with shatter and that's
constitution same. So I'll let me do that for you real quick. First
one a D four minus a D four? What am I trying? Yeah?
A sixteen that's awesome because this one got a nineteen minus three no minus
four ship um yeah, So that one. First one fails. Second one
is an eight minus three five. Third one is a four minus four,
So that's a zero. Last one is a seventeen minus one. Sixteen does
that pass of the sixteen? Okay, so one one of them pass three
As as you, as you wobble forward and shoot out your your shatter spell,
you see three of them take the damage. Imagine one that got zero
was like the one that was like saying, I'm so bored, like they're
just they're just actually like I need what happened turned around at that point and
it was yawning, and Vex's shadow to its mouth. So sweet abyss,
take over this boredom twelve damage. It's not as fancy as I thought.
I don't think I get to add anything too, But do the ghouls have
blood? So that what you're telling us the ghostie boys. As you shatter,
as you cast shatter, and as you all hear this like echoing iceberg
ripping apart, you see the shadows now finally take notice of you, and
they turn around and as the shatter takes holding, as the bain sort of
withers them a little bit, you see like bits of this like almost like
ash kind of floating up off these things. Not necessarily blood, not necessarily
guts, but like they let out these just horrific like screams as they start
to get just kind of erupted. And that's what VEX does. VEX step
forward and using shatter blasted the four that Craigan has bained. And now that
we are an hour into this thing, let's roll some initiative. Oh shit,
we still haven't done. Oh wow, No, it's gonna be a
quick fight. Don't don't even worry about it. Um, I'm just gonna
do one initiative for all of them. They got a five, oh wow,
and I rolled terrible out an aid, So that's wow. I got
a seventeen. Baby. You guys are going before these things and it will
get lower than five. Awesome. So then in that case, uh,
just because I have a feeling y'all are going to destroy these things before they
get a chance to go. Who wants to go first? We will do
this kind of like spell jammer ship combat and see it's your your team's turn.
Since I'm so close, I mean I feel like i'd probably be LT
for sure. Yeah, absolutely LT. So you see shatters taking effect,
You see the withering effects of Baine happening to these these shadow blokes. What
are you doing as you rage and rush into these folks. So at first
I think about using my net, but I've seen them already damage, So
I'm just gonna make two strikes. So I'm going to just jump in,
like lunge both hands and stride in the first one, like the middle one.
So there's like there's three, there's kind of three three sinks out by
side. I'm gonna jab the middle one. Okay, fucking hit. So
let's see. And one thing I always do here from for a podcast they're
ac is a twelve. Wow, well that's I didn't even have to use
a D four. That's twelve exactly to hit three exactly. That's what you
got. So that is a thirteen. And then because with the search of
the deep and so as I stab until like you see the frost rhyme from
like, they try to kind of go into them as well, and so
they'd take them. They're gonna take a D four with of a cool damage
if I can do a D four plus three, so sixty yet thirteenth piercing
and then three cold damage. Wonderful, And is your tried in the plus
one new Oh no, just a trident. It's a plus one to me.
We flashed back to that time LT got divided to a wedding. They're
like, who are you gonna bring for your plus one? Very confused with
psych my tridents. Yeah, this is this is my plus one. For
the piercing damage, you're gonna take half of that, So that's nine damage
total, which is actually still enough to kill him. So please describe to
me how you kill a shadow. Just a straight up so a lunge with
a jap. The treads right through like it's um, it's shadowy chest.
It's I kind of go straight through and the frost ryme just kind of like
that, so it doesn't do much when the frost like it thinks, it's
like, you know, thinks, okay for a second. Then the frost
spreads out through a shadowy body. It's like the whiteness of like the rhyme
kind of crackle all up and down until like it goes to the court wal
thing that's just kind of shatters. It's like a light dust so cool.
So yeah, you can sort of like solidify this shadow and then it crackles
away into like snowy ashy dust. Fucking love it. Also, remember that
you three have inspiration and second attack. I'm gonna I'm gonna check that another
because you get two attacks because on a mobile, please do yes. So
that's a twenty three. That's that's gonna absolutely hit four points of piercing and
then they roll that du four before rore you. You can still kill it
in a three. All right, Well, maybe I spoke too cool as
like the dust and ash of the first shadow that you killed is still kind
of falling to the ground and settling, and you stab the second one and
you see that that that freezing rhyme as you were talking about, like start
to spread out and it doesn't quite good to the edges of this shadow,
and it looks like this one still is kicking but not well at all.
That's my turn, fair enough? Cool, So lt you remain locked in
combat with this with one of these shadows underneath in the middle deck of this
ship, on the hammock deck. As who is going next? Craigan will
go next? Wonderful, he says, Okay, well, like if we're
doing this, we're doing it right, um, and then he begins to
hum a little finding the right key before dealing out a little ditty I like
to call synaptic static casting that at fifth level. So he's going in hard
but basically level. Yeah. Yeah, So you choose a point within range.
It's a twenty foot radius sphere. And the way that these shadowy specters
are arranged on the deck, Craig and believes that if he positions it a
little bit up and towards the starboard side and behind them a little bit,
he would be able to leave Elti out of this sphere of psychic energy.
So, yeah, you make an intelligence saving throw. Seventeen is what you're
looking for. You you are one thing I've always loved about you Christians.
You're really very good at picking out all my monsters. Like worst stats I've
had to do. I've had to get good at it because even with Kippa,
I think I have like one spell that's like rolling dice, yeah,
or like rolling to hit. Everything else is those like the sink or swim.
So these these things, even before the ban, these are gonna it's
a negative two. It's because they're intelligence is a six. They're not very
smart. Um, so what am I trying to beat? Seventeen? So
that first roll is a ten minus two, which is an eight minus two.
So that's six on the first one. Second one, it's a natural
one. Let's go, well's let's see how negative we can get that one.
So that's a negative one already plus four, that's negative five on that
just explode. Yeah, So another one got a ten on the dice,
that's not gonna make it nineteen on the dice. Minus two is seventeen but
with okay, so he's going down too. And so the very last one,
last one isn't baned. Oh well, it's an eight on the dice.
Okay, um minus two six, so all of them just a is
malif fail this left level spell? Okay, and what's gonna how are you
gonna kill my favorite monsters? So after I failed save and this might not
matter, but the target has muddled thoughts for one minute. So yeah,
during that time, they roll a D six and they subtract that number rolled
from all of their tack and tack rolls, ability checks and constitution saving throws
to maintain concentration. But other than that, they take eighteen second damage.
Um okay, so Christian, Yes, the one, the one that is
undamaged, has eighteen hit points. Okay, So if you could write describe
to me how you kill all these fucking shadows after being like, I don't
want to kill we don't need to fight. These things echo but with one
spill. We call them the one Craigan is the memory of the painful memory
that has so recently surfaced is still kind of buzzing in the ambient background of
his mind, as much as he's trying to push that down. And so
I think he started out synaptic static, maybe not intending it to be quite
as powerful as it was. But the lamentful song that he begins weaving about
lost love and and and a bitter rivalries all of a sudden before he knows
that his eyes are squinched shut at the ending line, and then when he
opens his eyes, they're all they're just like almost like a how with LT
it like faded and like almost like blew away like dust in the wind.
With these ones, they kind of like glitch out, like there's like a
like weirdness to them before they just kind of blink out. And as they
blink out, VEX, you probably noticed this because you've been kind of keying
in on this, Uh, they turn into this ash and sort of float
away us with his ash think of like the upside down sort of like the
particle sort of ashy ooey, gooey, sort of nasty shit just sort of
everywhere, just going, and almost before it even started, y'all are out
of it. Um. Oh that's that's it. Um. And you all
a couple things happen all at once. Um. Because that that fight,
all that whole fight was about six seconds long. You all feel the boat
kind of lurch a little bit like and you think, yeah, maybe maybe
that shatter was a little too good. As the as the boat sort of
rumbles a little bit, and uh, as you all here, as you
feel the boat shift, you hear from beneath your feet, you hear,
uh it sounds like snoring almost, And that's what we that's where you get
from that. Um. So yeah, congrogicitions, you guys. Beaten my
shadow puzzle. Willem comes out of the corner after he was hiding. I'm
afraid of shadows. He's with you Alligan. Well, sorry, I didn't
realize that was going to be so quick. I wouldn't have offered yea.
Anyways, Willem, you're kind of the compass guiding this here little expedition.
The hafto cold you want to lead the way. Yeah, sure, actually
that that's a really good idea. And uh, Bruce you notice so as
you all start to leave the hammock deck, Bruce, you notice a few
things, because we're gonna start heading down to the actual very lowest deck of
this ship, the basement, you know, the basement and the boat basement.
You as you're leaving the room, you notice a couple of things.
Most of the stuff in the hammock deck is decaying and has this sort of
barnaclely incrustation dust ash covering it. As you start to head down the stairs,
you see the doorway in front of the stairway leading down it is in
fact a storage room. You see several crates in several boxes. Uh,
you notice some movement going on in there? And before we get down even
farther, h do you respond to either of those things? Oh? Yeah,
if there's movement. I pointed out to the rest of the group,
like, hey, gang, yeah, there's a little bit of movement in
there, like those barrels. It's kind of how we found William. Right,
it's cold. It could be the same thing. You look to William
and he's like, I'm pretty I'm pretty sure it's down. I'm pretty sure
he's farther down. I don't know what this shit is that in there.
If you guys want to roll me some investigation checks that is. I was
just gonna stab with my Tridon. I was just gonna stab with the Tridan,
like I wasn't thinking about it being a person. But you know what,
woods them's low. So yeah, you're good. You get you stab.
Uh and as you start to stab at this thing and get a little
um okay, So just to reset the stage a little bit, you guys
are leaving the hammock deck. You've found your way to a staircase and you're
heading down another level. Right at the other side of the staircase. Before
you head down, you notice a storage room. And this storage room kind
of at the entrance to the storage room, LT has noticed sort of this
movement, sort of weird mass, and he's poked it with his trident.
As you do that, the mass, this movement kind of on the floor.
It was sort of like this undulating sort of could only be really described
as like flesh on the ground. Probably should have said that before and as
you establish your trident, just because I am a kind of benevolent dam and
I'll give you all the choice of whether or not to get into another encounter.
You see this thing start to rise up, and this this flesh starts
to like it looks like it's like crawling and slithering as as this thing rises
up to about six feet tall, and you notice, roll me another.
You're you're pretty like in touch with nature and pretty in touch with like the
animals and the beasts and stuff. Right dabble okay, son? Do you
think either nature or animal handling or just wisdom or intelligence or what would you
um? As an expert of Yes, I'll do wisdom because like I said,
I think that makes the most sense. It's a negative one wisdom.
Cool, Yeah, that's a seven. Cool. You you do not recognize
this thing, but you you know, beyond the shadow of a doubt,
it is not of nature and it is not of this world. Um.
And above the table, I'm going to tell you it is not something you
would necessarily find on your plane of existence because it is an aberration. It
is a gibbering mouth or above the table. Oh, to get back into
the scene here, you've stabbed it and it's an idiot. It doesn't realize
where you have, where you are. It's like standing up basically, what
it's like back to you and who who did it? Who must have been
the wind. I'll leave it up to alt if you want to engage,
if you want to try to just slaughter this disgusting abomination of mouths and eyes
only because he's frustrated because he doesn't organize this. He didn't organize the thing
outside. So yeah, like he wouldn't. He would attack, like,
let's go, it's the dumbest thing ever, but he would No, No,
you absolutely, it is this happening really quickly? Am I still range?
It's just like right after you're for sure ranging? Still still have the
plus four and I think you still have the shield as well. What does
this shield look like? It's just like metaphysical like what it is there?
Like a there's a there's a slightly larger version of Bruce like almost like an
exo suit around LT and he's just kind of dancing. He's dad dancing.
Yeah yeah cool. So um for the second time tonight, can I get
initiative roles? Okay, sorry y'all, No, No, honestly, this
is great. Uh did anybody get twenty to twenty five. Anybody get fifteen
to twenty? I did? Oh gosh, wow, y'all ten to fifteen,
twelve, fourteen? All right? Five to ten? I gotta five
four four oh, no, one plus three? Alright. As as you
all were sort of flushed with your victory against the shadows, maybe maybe a
little too overconfident, maybe a little two cockey. Maybe the DM just forgot
to sort of describe things appropriate before you die. The thing as LT sort
of prods at this mass, this writhing the barrel, what the hell?
What the hell? As you as you prod at this thing with your trott
and it stands up, and it first is like, oh where is everybody?
Uh? And then it realizes its first initiative and it's like, oh,
there you are, and a couple things are gonna happen, So everybody
please. That's that's right. That's why I was taking y'all's wisdom. Can
I get wisdoms saving throws from everybody? That's a natural one for me,
baby, that's a three an they're healthy. Four twenty three, twenty three
is as much better. So everybody who got lower than at ten, you
can no longer take reactions for this next turning serious nothing serious. On a
failure, the creatures can't take reactions. Start of the next turn, and
roll at D eight to determine what it does during its turn. So just
winded me to roll a D four for when I get to y'all's turns.
So this is just the area this thing has as as like as it turns
around and looks at LT as LT pokes with us tried, and you see
just all over its body, just these mouths open up and they just start
to scream and gibber and gibber at this just this high pitch and low pitch,
and it is honestly horrific. And LT. Craigan and VEX you all
your spine chills and you can't move, and the voices are in your head.
They're echoing longer than they should, and they're bringing up more and more
and more of these bad memories. Bruce, you see this happening to your
friends as hold on second, did everyone enroll a D four for that saving
throw to add on to it? I mean it's still would have been I
don't know what. I'm sorry, I just remembered. Sorry, thank you,
good to remember, good to remember? Um So then um lts.
You're looking at this thing as as like I said, your your bones and
your marrow starts to chill. I like the film though, like the cold.
You like the cold, but this actually that's that's that's one of the
things that's dis concerning about this. This is a cold that you don't like.
It's like it's like in your mind. It's not just like the surface
level of context not contextual. What's looking for a tactile feel of like being
in the water that's being surrounded by chili icy water. This is like in
your very soul and you don't like it, and that's weird. Um.
And what you really don't like also after that is um. One of the
mouths on this this thing opens up like a snake and it kind of unhinges.
It's already disgusting jaw and I'm gonna needed to make a dexterity saving throw,
please, okay, let's see add four to it. So and plus
I get I think I get advantage of Jana to dexter saving throws against effectic
can see can absolutely see this. As you see this, this globule of
this like like very much like I said, the upside down, This like
cashy, floaty particle stuffs goobys start to oh, no, two four add
the D four. It's like, okay, I mean it's not gonna anything,
but this why I just want you to add it. It's a five,
so so it's just a sixth soble okay six total not great? Um,
so I'm gonna reroll cool. I don't so as this as this mouth
unhinges like a snake, and this globule of ooey gooey nasty just this just
certain it doesn't like projectile out of you. It almost looks like it's crawling
out and like sort of envelops you a little bit as you are not blinded
as this this nasty shit from this gibbering mouth or gets all over your face.
And oh it also is going to take a swing at you. My
guy, Yeah, that's a nineteen to him. As you take fourteen points
of piercing damage, seven points of piercing damage as this thing latches onto you
with many of its mouths and it just starts to sort of envelop you.
That's it for its turn. As next in the order, we have Gregan
and Gregan real quick, before you do anything, you actually don't do anything,
okay. As this, as these echoes bounce around in your head,
you are seeing images of your family banishing you. You're seeing images of your
your cobald beloved turning her back on you and joining forces with chad'sberry Crunchington.
What did you call him? Yeah, that was it. It was chadwick
Wick Chad, that was his name. You don't do anything as you guys,
you are um paralyzed lte Okay, So that's it. That's it for
that one, Eltie. I get a roll for you now because you also,
yes, effect oh shit, this is very lucky that your friends haven't
joined you up to this point yet, because I just rolled and I got
an eight, which means you attack a random creature within ten feet of you.
And the only thing that sometimes isn't things is the gibbering mother. So
as you're standing in the storeway kind of blocking your friends from this gibbering mouth,
as it's sort of starting to wrap around you with its mouths and it's
nigue and nasty shit, Luckily you are still able to focus enough and you
take a swing at him. So can I can I back? I'm so
I'm going to back up a little like it like two feet are gonna launch
my ned at it with disadvantages. I'm blinded. I was going to check
my ned at it. So yep, and as you're looking for is oh
good good news or friends, it's nine oh disadvantage. It's a twenty two.
So the net hits a hit with the net, and so it's gonna
make these next attacks. It's normal because I can do a bonus actual because
I would try to net ornament an oracle, and so I kind of back
up the kind of blinded and just kind of chuck my in the general direction
and it kind of spreads out like a fisherman, you know, kind of
wraps around it. They're gonna go quickly just kind of jabbing its general direction.
And so since it's to be kind of like nullify the disadvantage because it's
in the net, I assume us Okay, even though I'm blinded, I'm
following the net, all right. It's a little mass right in front of
you. You're fine, we'll see I can do a D four to this.
What's the what's act nine? Oh? No matter where are because I
have a plus nine, so I don't We're always gonna be hitting this thing.
Sorry, now we're at fourteen and the Lemero two D four So fourteen,
so nineteen what's a damage? So pretty garbage but nineteen points of damage?
No, and it's restrained. It is restraint. Cool. So as
as LT kind of steps back and throws this net over this thing, you
see the mouths almost like hands like trying to like reach out through the holes
of the net. But as we discussed last time, it is almost impossible
to get out of a net um. This thing is now restraining, and
LT just takes several stubble several jabs at it with his tried in good job.
That was a good amount of damage to it. Do we need to
make a say for my blindness or no? Yeah? Yeah, yes,
yes please please space space space bastace next terity of thirteen. Okay, nope,
still broke my eyes like still still it's it's it's on your eyes.
You can't quite get there, as Bruce, it is not your turn.
You were unaffected by the gibbering mouths. Your friends are facing off against this
horrific site. Two of your three of your friends or two of your friends
are almost incapacited already. When you need when you're doing. Bruce knows when
his team needs a little pick me up. That's what he's here for,
you know, all right, gang listen, Hey, hey, we're down
in the third quarter, but you know semi finals. We're here right now.
Okay, where did the semi final? Let's go. He starts to
emit this like light purple aura, and it kind of spreads out from him
to I think it's a thirty foot circle around me. And as my teammates
get hit with this, they are under the effect of the my aura of
purity, which means each non hostile creature in the aura, including me,
can't become diseased. So I don't know if they're diseased right now. If
they are, I think that would be off. But they also have resistance
to poison damage, and they have advantage un saving throws that would cause blindness,
charm, deafen, frightened, paralyzed, poisoned, or stunt. Hell.
Yeah, so let's just say, elsie, make another make another role.
Let's let's give you that advantage on that on that role as things are
happening simultaneously. So let's see if we can unblind you. I can see
routine as the as the gooby, drippy, nasty upside down. My asthma
is dripping through over your face. It's you. You start to feel it
like getting deeper and deeper, maybe even like infecting your eyes. But then
you feel this like is this light purple aura from Bruce erupts and you're able
to wipe your wipe your eyes off and you can see that the horror of
this thing that is now in front of you. Thanks coach, awesome,
fantastic. Well down, Bruce, what are what else are you trying to
do? So just point of order that is also a concentration. So I
dropped the shield of faith on you LT, so that two ac is gone.
This is up from ten minutes. So this aura is around us for
ten minutes, and then I'm going to do a second level healing word on
LT to help them we cover some of that hit as a bonus action.
I just saw a really cool way people did health on TikTok, but I
forgot it, so that this story is useless. It's fantastic, my favorite.
Thank you for sharing. Next time I will find my safe TikTok and
you guys will have good healing. That's twelve oh that's pretty good. So
what does that look like when you when you heal? How does how does
your how do your heels look briss? I pull out a baggy of orange
slices, and when I hand one to you, it's it's encompassed in this.
My aura is kind of like a light lavender is my mat the color
of my magic. And you see like it's got a little oora. I'm
like, here you go, budd Hey, snack up, you know,
get your energy back. You got this, all right? Good job,
Ember one doing great? All right? You had you had to feed me
because my hand, both hands are on my plus one and so feed me
spite own. It kind of makes you look like you got like an orange
piece as your teeth. It's funny. Look at that. It's silly.
Oh man. I love. I love. Even in the face of just
absolute abominable horror, this group is able to So it's so happy. I
love it. No, that's sounded really sarcastic, but I did mean it
is anything else you're trying to do, Bruce, That is it. That's
all I can do. Fantastic. As Bruce is starting to put down the
clerical charms and uh and buffing the team from behind, VEX, can you
make me a wisdom saving throw with advantage place to see if you can to
see if I roll this D eight and give you give you back your turn.
Yeah, it's kind of banners. Yes, So fourteen or fifteen?
Do I get to add a D four for sure? Yeah? Yeah?
Oh yeah if you take the fifteen and the AC is a sixteen, so
I think you'll back you pass in it, but roll let's see it.
Let's see where you get. Okay, solved it three, So that is
a eighteen. You're trying to be the sixteen A turn, Yes, you
do, as as this as the chill sort of leaves your soul and leaves
your bones as you kind of shake it off, as as you feel Bruce's
presence and his coach lead the citrus. Yeah, you smell the citrus.
He kind of splitss you a little bit. Uh and uh yeah your turn.
Yeah, as you kind of come to your senses, you see LT
holding his own against this horrific, slobbering, slathering creature. I like your
orange smile. It's very nice. Now watch out Eldert's blast and love it's
good blasting. Yes, my magic is like you know Iceberg blue fucking great
twenty four. Yeah, it's it's nine what you're looking for? Um so
yeah, absolutely, yeah, Well the damage wasn't incredibly exciting for forced damage
or forced damage as your elder's blast is icy blue magic shoots out of your
fingertips. Uh you see, it's just a big chunk of this thing.
Yeah, and it's coming back at you with those nasty, nasty mouths.
Is that it for your turn? Yeah? Um so then we're back up
to the mouth. There's turn as lt. What is your ac currently it's
yeah, but it's a restrained so it's gonna have to try to get out
of that with its action. Thank you for Thank you for reminding me as
I imagine as much a strength check. Yeah, it's really easy because it's
just a net. But I don't know, man, that's a pretty hard
to get out of it. Don't give about too much credit. No,
no, But if it's it's it can tackle with disadvan with disadvantage. Cool.
So then it's still like in in the net. It's sort of like
slither towards you, like pushing up against the net like its mouth, one
of its mouths like coming out of one of the net holes. Um,
and it's going to take attacking a disadvantage that's eleven plus nine and a three
plus nine, which is twelve. Where's your wow? No, because that's
at thirteen. Oh dang, all right, well hell yeah, thank you
as and it's blinding spittle blinding spittle did not recharge. Um. So this
thing is actually just it's it's it's kind of it used its new groad in
the beginning as it is, uh, Greg and your turn, um,
please make me a wisdom saving throw with advantage that's a fourteen as my highest.
Did you add your your your d four? No? I did not.
Oh this could be it. It's like oh eighteen baby, there you
got it? Same same thing as you see el uh as you see this
mouth or trying to like snap its nasty jaws through ELT's net and Eltie's holding
it back with his tried and the net. You shake out that that that
chili soul, spine tingling chill. Do you have a turn? What are
you trying to do? He's gonna cast shatter centered on this boat. No,
it's not good take it? What what level are you casting at?
Fourth level? Good? God? So I gotta be a con seventeen con
the seventeen not too bad. I have a plus three on that. Do
I does the restraint? No, just sterit only sterdy saving barrels as a
disadvantage on that is an eleven plus three fourteen all right, so it takes
the full twenty eight damage. It's good, good gravy um as just more
and more like teeth or flying off this thing and jawbones are like rupting out
as anything else you're trying to do, Craig. And as you blast with
what does your shadow look like? Tell me, tell me what what we're
what we're doing with here? Okay, um, Craig, unlike the deep
resounding cracks of icebergs breaking his just shout, it sounds more like a like
a glass shattering. Love him and this this thing you see it maybe even
starting to try to like get away now as as like a huge portion of
its health has been taken away. But it's still trapped in a net.
So we can't go anywhere. We have circled back to LT. All we
all just trapped in a net. Oh yeah, so LT you're you're unblinded,
you're unfeared. What are you doing to this thing, so i'n to
attack it twice. So first was a nineteen with the advantage that's ten above
what it needs to be. So yes, well done. See when get
an at twente so darn so no, so both are gonna hit at least
let me do all the damage first. I it's a little better. So
right now it's eighteen than we're one two D four BLUs round of frost and
damage. Yes, twenty one points of damage. Wow, described to me
how you kill I used to jibbering out there. Let's go finish what you
started. So kind of first like jab and then kind of pull out.
So I'm gonna so, yeah, I'm gonna kind of jab through it all
the way with the like it's gonna track. It's gonna it's gonna get so
gonna like jam it through and then it's gonna bitterly pull it back as a
frost spreads and kind of like crack it like it's like little ice cubes.
It's kind of like a little meaty ice cube chunks. Love it. Yeah,
and as you is exactly as it how it happens as you shatter this
thing, Yeah, you turn it into ice and then shatter it in these
little meati ice cubes as congratulations, you've beaten my mouth puzzle. Dude,
god man, no more of this. I mean, I'm not opposed to
fighting everyone, but we got we have a goal. We can't just keep
getting sidetracks. Far cat Hare is not doing so loud. They're in a
cot. Well, come out of a cot here, it's okay, yeah,
I don't mean to be rude. Also, Willem, but maybe pull
your weight a little bit. As William William looks at he He's like,
oh yeah, it pulls out his knife and I was like, oh,
I was. I was going to go next fine, next right, okay,
yeah, sure, no, next next time, for sure, next
time, for sure. Gregg and I didn't notice it was a They didn't
see it's it's fine, it's fine. But also, Willem, did I
just hear next time, let's uh, maybe not not go into that next
phase with that assumption. You're right, yeah, nothing nothing bad is going
to happen for the rest of our adventure. Right, we're talking about a
positive mental attitude. Yes, a PMA. We're going to find your brother
on the next level, right, everyone, right, we got him?
Yeah, right, yes, just because I love you all dearly. You
quickly look throughout the both these rooms and you find the magic guy him that
was hitting here. Willem, did you find that for us? You actually
did something? Yeah? Yeah, he's like, oh yeah no, this
is this is why I wasn't fighting, and he pulls out in a movable
rod. I had that, I had that written down. Did we get
one of those already? Did you have two? Now you can make a
ladder, you can climb up to heaven. I don't know, I haven't
written down, and I have no idea why. I probably did. I
love I think a movable rods are the fucking coolest. Well, then,
okay, how about this? You also he also no, no, no,
I got two of them, know ye, no, no, you
get that. You get that, and you also get He finds four potions
that look like they are of like kind of like a light blue variety.
It's a good color. It is um. He's like, I don't know
what these do, but we can keep it. You can't just they're just
gonna drank things that you find in other people's beds. Maybe, I mean,
we ate barnacles. The last thing we put in our mouth here put
us on a weird trip. Okay, I don't where the barnacles came from.
Okay, well I'll hold onto these and then maybe in the future if
we are looking for some like cool mountain dew, Arctic blast or what is
ze Oh and then he takes off his mask and he's a planes traveler.
No, he hold He just like, hold onto these because we need to
get going here, because I just looked at the time. And he's like,
yeah, oh that's right, and he gets very sad and very somber,
and he says, yes, we got to find find my brother.
Thank you for a minding. And you all just to move things along here
a little bit. You all head down to the final and bottom level of
basement, the basement, thank you, to the basement level of the ship.
As you descend the stairs, you find the bottom of the stairs,
you find a hallway. There's some classic pirate crates and barrels everywhere. As
you get to the base of the stairs, you see a door right in
front of you. Says this is the kitchen. There's nothing exciting in here,
okay, And then you turn, you turn to the left and head
down the hallway in the other direction away from the kitchen where there's nothing exciting
in there. Um, and you see another door a little farther down the
hall, away from the kitchen, door that says, this is the captain's
quarter. This is where the story continues. And you all go through the
captain's quarters as well. I mean, feel a little bit peckish, gang.
I don't know, up on my orange slices. I'm not a very
experienced adventure But the door that says go in here is I don't know,
it seems to make sense to me. Yeah, but as we go through
on us, pat I'm bruce. Then back say thanks coach for the stay
back there. But you saved me. You saved us, all right.
You rushed in there, you took care of business. I need to thank
you, Thank you, budd. You did great. Hey, all of
us did great. Hey, Ronov applause. Quiet, we did quite well.
My own shoulder. We are still sixty nineties, so we gotta be
quiet. Oh right, right, sorry, let's give it. Let's give
ourselves the ronov applause for the grade sixty ninety we've been doing in the basement
of this wonderful everyone, super stuffed, super stuff stellar. I love TTRPGs.
It's been delicious because the orange slices. Yeah, and lt still has
the orange smile. And as you all open the door to the captain's quarter
where the story continues, you all open up the door and you see a
very stately but like old captain's quarter. You see a bed. Often one
corner, you see a table that has maps and ship ship cartography tools and
all sorts of navigation tools. In the middle of the room you see a
giant organ in the background. But in front of the organ, you see
a desk, and at this desk, kind of slumped over it, almost
asleep, you see a body. And as you all open the door,
and as you're clapping softly, something strange happens because the body wakes up and
looks at looks at you five. It's very, very weird what you see.
Because you all remember a mayor Anvil. You had hot chocolate with him
just a few days ago. He congratulated you on your win at Butcher's Ball.
When you saw him, he was very well put together, a little
salt and pepper in the hair, very nice, well fitting tailored suit that
denoted his noble and aristocratic background. But what's strange about this person that you
see now is it's also Mayor Anneville, but much more disheveled and wearing a
pirty coat, and his salt and pepper hair is very unkempt and hanging in
a sort of wispy ribbons around his head. And as he looks to you
and his eyes focused in everyone's eyes meets. I think that's where we're going
to end tonight's session. Oh shit, as you see an older, maybe
more real version of Mayor Annville. Well, because me and Bruce thought something
was all right with Mary Anevielle. I think we we thought someone was off
back then, right, you super did bluster. I cast shatter shutter as
well once more for good measure. Hello, I'm Adam Lgrave. I'm playing
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