Critical Role & Sagas of Sundry - Vox Machina Ep. 88 - Tangled Depths

Episode Date: January 10, 2022

Vox Machina enter the Water Elemental Plane as the final part of Keyleth's Aramente.   Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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of critical world. So, to get you guys up to speed for tonight's episode, Vox Machina, our band of adventurers, after defeating the Chroma Conclave, destroying Fodak, and then Rai Shan, the mastermind behind their ascension. You've then recovered a few objects so possible revealing her plan at the very least, though keeping it tempered. You've begun closing loose winds, loose ends

that you hadn't had the time to get to to this point including finishing Kilef's Aramente. You managed to charter a ship and crew, Adi Mon, to head towards the west in the Osmit Sea, where you were boarded temporarily by what appear to be a band of pirates, defeating them and sinking the ship. You continued forward taking a prisoner. Yeah, we do. A friendly prisoner. We're friendly taking a prisoner. Nicely taking a prisoner.

What history do you remember? You then eventually found yourselves the ship reaching the outside of the Omnum Island. It's been a long week. Yeah, man. Where the ship set anchor on the outside of the reefs that encircle the center of these three islands, where in the center of them lies a partially submerged city of Vesra, the last stop on Kiliths Arremente and the Water Oshari that lived there. You, upon arriving, just past sunset, watch the city of Vesra.

The city come to life and the Vesra came out, and upon discovering that you were allies, at least friendly, they took you in and gave you the idea of what you had to do to finish this Aramente. Your task to come the following day was to be led down into the area of torrent, where the elemental rift to the water elemental plane resides under protection, and you were to retrieve three lodestones, magical stones that are occasionally farmed from the water elemental plane as they fade for power. These stones are utilized apparently in both

keeping the rift contained and keeping the city of Vesra aloft and up towards the air. However, in the process of them researching where these lowed stones came from, it was discovered in at least recent years that they were byproducts of one of the crackens that lives in the water elemental plain. And that's key. They're a number of crackens.

This one, however, was drawn back to the rift from one of the earlier expeditions of the wave riders that were attempting to find them, and now has taken up its layer on the outskirts of this rift. So your task, as Vox Machina, is to enter the rift into the water elemental plane, find and bring back three of these lodestones, and do so without slaying the Kraken as it is an important part of the ecology and continued existence of the city of That's right. So that's where we come on in there. So you guys, as it is evening, you've been fed, largely a fish and marine-based meal, and you've had the opportunity to speak with some of the locals and prepare and discuss amongst yourselves exactly what you wish to do for this journey tomorrow. So what time is it here?

I mean, it's probably a post-food and mild celebration of you guys making it here in the first place. They don't get too many intentional travelers. Most of the people that come here either shipwrecked, saved by the wave riders in the middle of storms, and soon they stay and join the Bessra. They have a number of reformed pirates, people that almost died at sea and drowned but were saved by them and then eventually joined them.

But I'd say it's about maybe close to 10 p.m. the equivalent. I feel like... You got here just up to the desk. We should have a hero's feast before tomorrow. I have no idea what a Cracken does or... Yeah. Me neither. Actually, is Yovanda still around?

She's still there. Are we still in front of her? Yvenda. You can find her. As you approach her, she's finished her meal in as like half napping in this kind of almost a high chair. Though it's built beautifully of, we'll look to be petrified, bleach white,

shells and like coral structures. This looks to be her seat at this kind of open, natural gazebo-like eating space. She's kind of half rested off of the side with her staff kind of leaning a bit. As soon as you start approaching one eye kind of flies open, curls in your direction, and she leans forward. Young Keyleth, what do you require? I'm sorry, you hope I'm not interrupting. My nap, yes, but you seem intent. What do you wish? I was just curious, I guess, if you had any advice for tomorrow morning. Is there anything I should know in particularly about the Kraken?

From what we know, the Kraken is a very hungry beast. Oh. It carries with it a swarm of long grasping tentacles. It moves unimpeded in destroy structures in its path. Seems now unstoppable with it. which is why maintaining the rift is so important. To unleash more of these entities into our plane would be disastrous, not just for our city, but for the entirety of the Osmit.

Do be aware that you will be encountering this beast deep, deep in the fathoms, the depths of the water elemental plane. So be prepared best you can to swim. You mentioned it being hungry. What does it hunger for? anything that crosses its path. You'll see the sand below in the vicinity of the rift

is partially soot, dirt, and sand. But a lot of it is sprinkled bone of things that fail to make it through the rift. I imagine it's pretty dark down there. It's not the brightest blaze, no. How large are these loadstones that we're looking for? We will show you these down in the airy tomorrow. but they're roughly, and she gives a motion about that big,

and her hands, not that large. But you can take time and research the ones that are dwindling within the temple. That way you know what to look for. And in all your experience with these beasts, are there attacks mainly physical? Mainly. However, they have a degree of control

over the waters that surround them. Those who have returned, the way of runners who do these passes every few years. They speak of currents swiftly changing, it leaving bursts of darkened ink-like material to obstruct the space. And they speak of sudden surges of energy that rock through the nearby waters.

Lots of snorkels, I think. Long ones. Really? Other creatures that live in the rift. There are creatures, but those of flesh and bone usually find their self to the belly of the beast. And due to the nature of its presence and the Rift's energy, elementals do occasionally wander, half crazed, directionless in that space as well. So be careful.

Is there a particular creature that you know is good at evading this Kraken? They travel usually in various forms of their Mure form. Right. Anything that can swim quickly, swiftly, search fast, and retrieve and return. Whatever that is to you, that's your choice. Oh.

You have the ability to turn us into different things. Yes. Is it possible to turn us into water elementals? No, that's not... That's not a thing. It's not really a beast. Can you create a herd of dolphins that we can turn it in a beast? Can you create a herd of dolphins that we can...

and commande. Sea cows. Yeah, and then just rod. Manatees. Nobles. They do have a spike. The worst of like five worlds. Well, I know that Terrian and I can alter ourselves into a mere folk.

Yes. And you can also, how many people can you imbue with your powers? To become underwater sea breathers? Yeah, could you give alter self to others? I mean, technically, I could, it would use a lot of my spell abilities, but I could give four of my little coins to people, and those coins could be used to alter yourself to be a water-breathing madman like me.

Marefolk? Well, it's sort of, just you, but with gills. What if we want to be a mermaid? Sure, yeah, you can do that. With the alter stuff, you can give yourself gills, and webbed hands, and you would gain a swim speed of your normal walking speed. And a sea shell brah.

Should that be your preference? Sure. As she begins to talk about the... For all of us. Oh, yeah. Oh, please. This is all she talked about from ages six to 13. We are the doctors of dry tent.

I want to go where the people are. Look at our deal. I want it. I can also think of a spell that would give you a clever rastafarian crab sidekick? Ooh, I like it. Turn, trick it. Oh my gosh, Dan!

Okay, okay. I've got to put the foot down before this gets weird. Oh, yeah, I agree. Let's talk about this over a hero's feast. Yeah, but like a midnight feast like... Midnight Fries like... No, because that's always a spell on the day. I don't think she's done talking.

Who? What? Oh. Oh, I'll know. Just be war. Sorry, we get killed. Sorry, we get carried away. I would recommend taking some time in the water first. Learn how it reacts to you and you react to it.

Know that the limitations of not combating in air can be restrictive. Makes sense. I don't know how my bow is going to work underwater. I don't know how my guns are going to work under water. Do you have like a training ground, like an arena that's, you know, kind of comparable, we can test him tonight?

Tonight, we could escort you to one of the more deep areas in Vesera, if you'd like. You have to be tonight? Well, yes, if we want to recover all of our abilities for tomorrow. Oh, right, yeah, good point. Do we want to practice now and eat later, or eat now, practice later?

Practice for an hour. I hear you're not supposed to fight or kill anything for 30 minutes after you eat. Yes. So we should fight first. So fight first and then snack. We shouldn't swim after eating. Just go cramps.

Even that's a pretty big number of you. I just say, I don't know what it means. Yeah. Ferdie. All right. You guys were escorted over four or five structures past the main eating floor fare into an area that quickly descends. The beach drops down into about a 10, 15 foot depth. And you can see this area is almost like a farmland

farming ground for bits of kelp and other sea plants that are just maintained for food. So we're doing this in the morning, right? You guys just said you were doing it before you were training. No, no, no, yes, we're doing that, but we're leaving. We're leaving in the morning, though. Tomorrow is when you actually venture down to the day. At dawn we swim. Then I'm going to go ahead and cast water breathing on all of us now, because it lasts for 24 hours.

Okay. So how many targets can you do with that? Can we still breathe on land? Up to 10, I believe. No. No. I think it's up to 10. Let me double check.

Don't worry. Older editions, there were arguments because they didn't specify. You have to like sleep with a glass of water by the bed and you're just, sleep in a fishbowl. All right, so yeah. Between all of you, including Trinket, you guys are able to imbue for the next 24 hours water breathing under the party. Ten. Ten million creatures.

Doty does not need it. Doty does not breathe. Doty does not breathe. All right, so you guys, you feel this strange kind of sensation as the air seems to change in your lungs, but still function. It's a bit colder, and as you slowly submerge yourself in the water, you dip underneath, and the instinct is to hold your breath for as long as you can. It's that natural survival instinct. But the moment you kind of give it and allow yourself to inhale, you panic for a moment, but then regulate for a moment and feel the water cycle through. And it's cold. It chills the interior of your lungs a bit, but you can breathe. Fine. Speaking is still a bit of an issue. It's still a kind of a garble, there's no air passing past the vocal cords. I'm keen in the water right in the middle. Oh, ha. Can we see under the water? How's our...

Visibility? Visibility. Your visibility is as good as it would be underwater. It's murky. It's difficult to get a very, very clear view of anything beyond maybe a 20-foot span. Plus, this is nighttime. It's dark. What about Percy with his glasses? I mean, could we do some, like, sort of goggle things? So we can see better? We could try and cross some goggles. Put them away. So that we can see underwater?

They are for close up, but they, I mean, like, they're not, like, attached to my, like, with water between them. You would have to ask, probably, for materials to do that. You don't have anything to craft the goggles. You don't want to lose them in the ocean, maybe put them away. I've got a pocket. I've got a pocket. Just a notebook. It's okay. Crafting goggles, would it be helpful to craft something that would allow us to speak or?

No, this time for all of it. It'd be great though. Terry, you're really good at crafting, right? I would say the best at crafting, actually. I spent my whole life doing it. All right. Could you make something like that in like an hour? I have no idea. But the adventure is to try, right? And I certainly will give it a go. My big question is what am I going to do with my guns?

Go find out. Yeah, I'm gonna try to shoot an arrow. Let's see what happens. Okay, you pull back and release the arrow, and it does fire, but it fires much slower and is impeded. It only gets about half as far, and even then the dull of thud. It doesn't seem like it pierces any... It functions, but essentially,

Essentially, the, and this goes for any ranged attacks, most range attacks, I should say, ammeli attacks are a disadvantage underwater. What? And range attacks don't go further than their first range increment. So what would that be? So if you look at your bow and it says like 60 feet, 120 feet for like first increment in the second,

it's disadvantage and anything past that first increment is an automaticness. It just stops in the water. For example, daggers. Shorter distance is 20 feet. Yeah. I could throw it 20 feet at disadvantage. Yes, and that's as one far as it's at.

Game mechanics. Also, your movement speed is halved. This is awesome. Unless we wet. Unless you have webbed fingers or you know, use alter-self. Or turn into dolphins or... We can be great whites.

Ooh, let's be sharks. We could be sharks. Or we could be murp people. I can also change us whenever we feel like being something else. Eels. Electric Eels. It just takes a turn. Rock you like an electric girl.

How do I find out how far a longbow can shoot? Not that I don't know this isn't going to work, but I'm going to try and just try and just see if I can get, even with like maybe an electric pulse, if I can light the powder. The powder is wet, the powder is wet. The minute you submerge your gun, the powder is wet, your firearms will not function underwater. They're not going to function underwater. I'm sorry for saying. It's okay. No, I'd be worried if they did.

All right, so for the longbow, your first one. The first range and commit is 150 feet, so you're okay. Okay. But anything beyond that, not functioned. Done, okay. So all melee attacks are at disadvantage because you're swinging through water. Yeah.

If you're going against resistance for water. I fucking hate the ocean now. So is there, there's no way to put a bubble around me or anything, is there? Yeah, but, oh. A bubble? Like an airtight bubble. So you think if your bullets would appear out of this bubble,

they could still go away. I could even put the tip of the gun out of the, out of the bubble and fire, but the combustion has to happen in air. Yeah, yeah, be in a closed airtight space with a firearm. That will do wonders for your ears. The firearm. How you even know all this? Oh, sorry.

The firearm has to be enclosed. Not you. Not me, just the firearm. But it would only last one shot. Blow a hole in the side. Blows, goo out of it. And water would get out. Well, here's the thing is if I could have it around just the combustion point and have the barrel sticking out of the point.

That's something we could try to make. I suppose? Out of what? We could take apart trinket. That's your bear, right? You're not taking apart. That's your robot bear? We could take apart that.

He's a real bear, Terry. He's a real bear. Well then never mind. Would you make like some sort of like cavernous hole out of like, you know, Doty's chest? We don't touch Doty. Okay, I've got a crazy idea.

What's it crazy? Is the idea? We lure the cracking onto land. I want to build a, I want to build a, I want to build a water-type vest for the guns. Basically just a packet that keeps that section dry. It's like a like a protective, like a, I used to a stunning, like a, but like soft, basically like a soft bag that is waterproof. I would use some sort of like stomach lining of some animal or some leather to build it. I couldn't reload the gun. No, you'd probably only get one shot each. One shot, or would it just be one shot? Yeah, because it might.

Because it would pierce the container. Well, I mean like, it would just around everything, but the pile would then have to be. The barrel would then fill the water. That's fucking damn it. Terry. One shot each. Yes, antlers. Respect. Can I imbue one of your mystical coins? with one of my spells that we give to other people? Or is that kind of your thing? I mean, if you inspected them, you would know that they say TD on them. They're sort of personal to me.

I have a minted. I'm sorry. I'm far-sighted. I'm so sorry. I don't think that that would work. It's sort of a thing that I can do, and I'm pretty cool at it, but. I did not mean any offense.

None taken. I respect the question, and I respect you wanting to to work with someone of my skill set and aptitude of it. I saw your work back there at the last fight, and while the gunslinger was rendered useless and everyone else was fighting on the other boat against lesser allies, enemies, I mean, you and I held off that beast together,

and it was quite amazing to watch. I mean, you're gonna take full credit for it later, I made the kill, it was 100% mine. All right, no, that's mine. But you were there and it was a good assist and I appreciate it. Thank you. Moving on, back to planning.

I'm going to need some way of defending myself or I'm going to have to take an animal form. I could give you an animal form. I may have to have an animal form. Like what? Shark. Barracuda. It's kind of small, isn't it?

A little yellow fish. A little yellow fish. It's very friendly. A very friendly yellow fish. Are you drunk? I was thinking maybe some sort of half-octopus, mur person. Ooh.

Does that exist? I've got to give you something kind of real. Okay, yes, I know. Kind of beastly. But it is challenge rating for lower, which is awesome. Awesome. That's cool. I have a question for you. I have two vials of underwater breathing from just a long time ago.

Yes. How long did those last? Like an hour. Killer whale. I have a question for you as well. All right, what is your question? My rod of mercurial form. Yes.

We know that it can turn into a crossbow. One hour. One hour. Yes. How many crossbow arrows do I own? Any? Yeah, you would have 40. 40? Okay, great.

Okay. Just regular bolts. They're bolts, they're not arrows. Thank you. You're welcome. Do we know if a Cracken is considered like Thor-Dak size or like humongose? You have no idea, but the stories say immense.

Immense. Yes. They could take down a ship, correct? Yeah, from what you've heard. It's all about them pulling ships under the water. I'm making them in half. I have a little poison bolt. Do you want one?

I've just been holding on to it. If you have a crossbow. Yes, I would love that. Thank you. How much do I owe you for it? 50,000 gold. That seems like you're just fucking with me. Yeah. It's catching on.

Let's call it an even five gold. Here you go. I'll take it. I was just gonna gift it to you, but I'll take the gold if you don't offer it. Well, I don't want there to be any sort of implied favors or anything that I have to return later. So if you're all right with it,

I'd like to just keep this business, thank you. I do still want an alter self-coin. I mean, are we doing that? I can do four of those, alter self-coins, so. Totally inhale. Take away the speed having. If we had webbed hands and feet, Would that take with the water?

Yeah, you didn't have normal speaker for the record. For the record, like with swimming, you have, you're essentially flying too. I mean, as far as in water. You can swim in a up and down direction as well. Right. So like boots of feral leaping, I don't really know, unless we're on the bottom of the ocean. It's not going to help you. But my bonuses stay, so like my vesti selection.

Okay, all right, okay. Yeah. I think so, yeah, yeah, yeah. We'll find out, I suppose. If what? If the vestiges will be functional while in the water. Wait, we're still underwater, right? All your, all that's all that.

We're surfacing and talking and going back under. We're treading water. The target's gear melds into the new form. The target can't activate, wield, or otherwise benefit from any of its equipment. With animal shapes? Yes. So you can't benefit from here.

Are you, are you fully stocked up on, all that? All that, you get the form of the creature. If you become a creature, you have a number class of 11, you have an armor class of 11. What about these me of people? Alter's self, you keep all your stuff, you just gain the ability to swim the other. Since I'm not going to be using it, and you seem like you're keeping a human form.

Which isn't very fast. Correct. That's better than half your movement speed. Correct. Which is really not very fast. Yeah. So you're probably adorable. Miller rails give us a movement speed of 60 swim feet. We're not fucking whales. I'm turning in a... He was into sharks, but he has something against whales.

I mean, don't knock it. They're faster. Are they? Take a look and see. Yeah, but they are. It says that in the book, they are definitely faster. What, Killer Whale? Maybe orcas, but they're not whales, right?

They're not actually whales, so they're like porpoises and shit. Yeah, with like cool tattooing. You guys were down with manatees about having something against killer whales? I feel like our priorities are off. We can have different animals. Like, he can shark and I can whale. Also, I know it's always been a waste of time, our planning, but we're not even talking about what we're going to try to do.

Are we gonna try to distract this fucker and take his loads or? No, I mean, if we use pass without a trace, right? Yeah. We can pass without a trace should still work underwater. If we're all something super stealthy, we move super fast, get there and get out. Let me make sure pass that.

Important question. Do we know if the elemental plane is more like the water's off the Cayman Islands and is crystal clear for hundreds of feet? Or is it like more murky, boggish, Louisiana, Gulf of Mexico, time water? You'd have to go ask. It seems like it's Mary on its trench level.

It's pretty dark. Yeah, from what you've heard and what they've talked about, the water and mental plane, most of it feels like you're a mile beneath the surface of the ocean. Oh, shit. We have to be animals that can get this.

Light is also important. I mean, there is apparently a little bit of light that comes through. You do have some visibility, though the source is difficult to really ascertain. Here's my thought. Certain of us are going to be better under the water with our natural farms, and some of us aren't. Half of us go.

Oh, I like this. Half of us. She is smart. Half of us are animals. Yeah. The other half can ride them in our altar cell form. Absolutely. Like a sea world show.

I volunteer to be a rider, or the captain of the shapes. If we throw a little bit of rope together, we can make some quick harnesses, including harnesses that can have a little bit of a netting for the stones as we get them. A harness around the big man? I think that would be quite a formidable steed. You back the fuck up right now, you know.

All right. Just strategizing, chum. Because I can alter self at will, and you have to take a spell slot. You can even elemental. I can even elemental. I don't know what at will means, but I'm very impressed.

Yes. That's not a terrible idea, because I'm gonna be able to do dick, diddly shit in there. Okay. That's like zero. It means one of us might have to borrow your bag of holding. No, I'm out. I stay on the lap. Terry, you had a bag of holding, right?

I do. All right. What do we need it for? Oh, to put the things in that we're finding. Oh, yes. Yes, of course. And there would be great keepsakes. You can't know.

No. Keep them. Oh, well, if we find an extra one, perhaps I could take that back as a... Question. Yes. I'm obviously a fan of stealth, right? But when we go in there and it all fucks up like it does nine times out of ten and the thing sees us anyway, what are we doing? Run! Run! Without the loads, with the loads? Well, those of us who can swim quite quickly, we'll try and evade, we'll try and hide and keep looking for them. But we don't want to hurt this thing, so what are we doing? Interference and distract, and a couple of us try to... Diversion.

Diversions, scatter, grab and run. Yeah. Only attack of truly necessary. New guy here. Bait, I like it, way to volunteer, Captain. Nope, no. New guy here, just a process question. I'm new to these sort of strategy sashes that you guys have.

Is this how it always is with people just throwing out random bad ideas constantly for like 15 minutes? Yeah, we do that and then we kind of take it like jazz on the day, you know? You know. Wow. Because, you know, I really, this is a big fight for me. I've never fought anything quite so big. And is there a chance that we might perish? Yes.

They're not pretty good. No, good boy. Because it doesn't seem like we have a good plan right now. Well, that's the thing about these sorts of encounters, is that any plan you have is pretty much going to be out the window at the minute you see it anyway. Right. But if it makes you feel better, this feel better. This feels less asinine than many things we've done before.

That does make me feel better. Half of us are animals, half of us are riders. We go in, sneaking. Half more plan than we normally have. I once teleported into the belly of a dragon with another jackass, and that went tits up fast. That sounds like the stupidest fucking plan I've ever heard. I'm still breathing.

Yeah. It's much like those people who give you instructions of how to survive an encounter with a tiger. is that you think about it, you've never actually met anybody who said, yes, I've met a tiger, that's exactly what I did, and I'm fine. There's no, is anybody who does that's probably been eaten anyway. It's a terrible idea. You don't try and look bigger, you don't do any of that.

You're gonna get eaten. I've read some of that. You've survived an encounter by a tiger by running really quickly in the other direction or hopefully like hacking it to death before it kills you. All right. But you know, just between you and me, this doesn't really fucking... Well, I was just, it was my... Tigers are like whatever you.

So, if four of us are fast water, creatures, right, something that swims quick. What's our diversion? Our volunteer is tribute. Well, if you drop back down to zero hit points, you'll revert back to your normal form, being able to water breathe, full hit points. That would be a bad case scenario, because I'm really slow in that case. Yes. All sorts of fight. Uh-huh. How many hit points does a killer whale have? 90. Oh God, if they said nine, I'm a shit for pets. 90.

90. Let's see. Okay. What can we do? I don't know if there's anything else better. The thing is, I feel like a crackin might be able to swallow you whole, Grog. Yeah. Yeah.

They have mous. No, they have tentacles. No, but they've got like beets. Tentacles. Don't they have beaks like a square? I didn't hear anything about a beak or a mouse. Who hasn't seen a drawing of a squid or a crackin in a fairy tale book? They're disgusting.

Book. Maybe, we have one night. We have one night. Right, maybe I could try and craft like at least some sort of concussion explosive. It wouldn't probably hurt it, but it would at least maybe shock it, like give it like a stun it. You just blow something up under water? Something that I want to try really quick. If you guys could back up or maybe get out of the water, I want to see if I can cast spells in the water.

Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. I'm out. I also want to see what lightning does, so if you don't want to get electrocuted. Definitely get out. It's going to possibly just go everywhere. As soon as those two start talking about that, I get out of the water. that. I get out of the water and started tuning the Death Walkers' Ward to lightning. Okay. Very clever.

I love that this is all under the assumption that we just had this planning session underwater. No, we were treading water. Oh, we're trying. Up and down. Oh, okay. I'm staying in the water because I want to feel the lightning. You want to see? You want to ride the lightning. Yep.

I'm going to kind of tread back from grog, go underwater, and I'm going to do, I'm just going to do a light, a lightning bolt. Okay, call lightning. Call lightning. Let me trickle fast. Call lightning. Yes, okay. So you begin to speak under water. Oh no. Spell is in coalescing. That's what I was curious about. That's exactly what I wanted. All right, then how about this? I take out my spire and I do a chain lightning. It's loud of the spire. Do chain lightning at a spire? Okay. Yeah.

As you concentrate on the staff, the lightning arcs out of the staff, and ends up searing and burning a small section of the floating kind of kelp finds that we're wandering up there. Okay. Here's a little area. So I can cast out the spire. And cool. While I'm under there, I want to B shape into a killer whale.

Okay. If you turn to a killer whale. You are, it is about 15 feet deep. So you are occupying a large portion of the water nearby. It's really hard to swim in this vicinity, especially with the density of kelp in the center of this dip. I goose grog a little bit from underneath. Oh, oh!

I'll punch it. Okay, roll for an attack. I was watching, but not that close. That scared me, I'm sorry. It's okay, it's an animal that already has a lot of. It's fine. 25. Okay, so with your strength bonus, you, let's see.

What's your strength bonus? Yeah, so you take, we'll say, nine points of bludgeoning damage, just smacks you in the nose. To be fair, no worse than anything that happens of a killer whale at sea world at that point. Oh, it's terrible. Yeah, I went there, I'm so sorry. It's been there's been there.

Sorry. Is there some sort of like alter self-spell that? Change has alignment. Oh, no. My personal alignment is already so far down. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I dropped form out of shame. I'm sorry.

You were gonna check your speeders? Speed or something? Oh. Well, I'm in like a tank. Yeah. Which is even worse, I know. Spills Tactylis. I'm out. Shit got real. I like how SeaWorld is what was our line of Taclis.

Oh no. I know what, what... Is there an alter self sort of spell that could make you be able to speak underwater? Is there anything that you can do that allow for speech. Well, if I do alter self. Did you just try, did you do alter self just now? Let me actually try that. I alter self. Yep. Oh. To be able to give myself. Pollymore.

Gills, right. Gills and like vends and stuff. And then now can I cast? Unfortunately, because it's still water passing through your throat and vocal cords. You can, if you get a full breath of air, you can get one spell off. And technically, with your, when you're breathing the water underneath, because you already had the gills in, it didn't work. You get a breath of air. and you cast the spells, the air leaves your lungs. But once you cast the spell, the air is gone. What about mur people?

How do they talk to each other? Are they really mur people? There are murp people. Frogs hacks? They have a different larynx system. Dry erase boards. Wet erase board. I deserve what happened below the table.

Last weird question, would it be possible? I'm just going to try something. Do we have a, could I basically just make a bag of air that we could carry that she could breathe in and have to breathe it in before casting the spell. Is that nuts? Well, if I may, the big fellow over there said that he had some sort of vials that you could breathe air out of. Is that true? I just supposed to let you breathe underwater. I don't know if it pumps your guts full of air or anything. May I examine it? It's water breathing. It's just a spell of water breathing. Yeah, water breathing, which you still be able to talk?

Water breathing, you can breathe the water, but you still, but you can't, yeah, it's still water passing through the vocal. What is the thing that you have? Which doesn't have the vibration to make the same sound. What if? I think it's a potion of water. What if we use some sort of cap, right, on Grog's jug, and it just makes air? Hmm. Yeah, I thought of that, but could I speak into the jug?

I was going to say we can make it, we can make a diving bell, but it would not, it would be very hard to travel with it, but we can make a microdiving bell. You guys, this is getting diving bell. What the fucking diving bell? It's getting dumber and dumber. It's basically an upside-down pot that you stick your head and you take a big breath of air, but the problem is moving. We can't move it. Okay, okay, okay. Then, killer whales?

Yep. Whales and riders. All right, who's whales, who's riders? Whales. Whale. Rider. Rider? I guess I'll be a whale.

Oh, Trinket can be a whale. Or Shar. I will ride Trinket. Triggard. You might want to go shock for one of them. Trigot needs to go the necklace, because they'll have an odd man out. Please don't make me behind. I thought you were being a rider.

I would love to, but there's no one to ride. Can't we have two people on one whale? I feel like whales are very large. That makes sense. You could must be that, yeah. Especially if it's just handles, like, it's just like hanging on to like a piece of room. All right, let's go eat food. All right.

You guys make your way out of the small, small kelp farming area, eventually back to complete your doing a hero's feast? Yep. But like ice cream and donuts, like a midnight snack kind of. That is totally doable. Waffles and... Hot Fudge Sunday. Yes.

The finest of gluttonous sweets available in Tal'Dorei are summoned upon this fine mahogany table that thrusts itself out of the sand. Everyone in the vicinity steps back and kind of, ooh, ah, this display of unexpected magic. Other folks, step four, to try and take a piece from it before somebody else. Stop for you. You guys spend the next hour eating your meal and gain the benefits of your Heroes Feast. So let's go ahead and... That's extra hit points, yeah? Mm-hmm. That's 2D10, which I will roll through you right now.

And we both are cocked. Find it on the side. That one, is that still God damn it, the dice out of your fucking dry. Shut up! An extra 11. All right, so 11 extra hit points to all you guys, including shrink it. Scarp's up happily at the table. 11 hit points.

No fear, no poison. Advantage on saves, isn't it? Wisdom saves. Wisdom saves. Advantage. No fear. No fear, no poison. 2D10.

All right. You got it. Are we supposed to go like research and load stones before we go to bed, right? The ones are the failing? Maybe we can do that in the morning? In the morning is what you were told. I wanted to bring you to the area of Torrent. No, they're heavy, are they light?

We'll find out. So, as you guys are brought to your sleeping quarters, which are these semi-private huts elevated above the water, so they're actually about about a half foot above the surface, you are each given a small chest, kind of a... a somewhat kind of soaked, damp chest, like the wood itself is just waterlogged through and through. As you open it on the inside, each of you receives

what looks to be a leather band with a circular stone affixed to the center of it. If this is gonna make us be able to fucking talk underwater. Oh, that would be super frustrating if we just took all that time. Or this isn't like one of those. Box not gonna, solving problems that don't need to be solved. Solves, yeah. Making problems complicated for five years.

Why does it put it on and see what it does? Yeah. Okay. What do you do? You, the waiting, like there's a cluster of him at the deference. Is it like, are there like a pot, like does the leather band attach it either? It has almost like a rudimentary belt clasp up both sides. I'm gonna put it around my neck like a dog color.

And I'm gonna lay down in the water face first. Okay. It kind of warms upon as it touches the outside of the neck and it feels like this is like a very loose, almost a vibration to it. Top grog. This is really cool. I put my ear in the water to see if I can hear him. It does transfer your voice through the water.

That's awesome. What a waste of knocking on. It didn't go back to your. But does it remedy the spell problem? Yes. Welcome to the cool kids table, Terry. You guys can talk underwater. There is still a limitation to the distance

travel because the sound is, you know. Pass to the best. Well, actually, no. Sorry, the sound does travel further. What am I thinking? Underwater. Can't do it. So it's to be super quiet.

However, you also look within the case, and each one that has a, what looks to be spherical, somewhat see-through domes of some glass-like material. You were also affixed with goggles. And you remember looking back, you saw some of the people who were part of the trip here, especially the guardian.

in the outside of the city had the same similar-looking goggles sets hanging around their neck. Get the fuck out. This is awesome! Hello, Water Base Culture. Would you happen to have some goggles lying around that we could borrow? Maybe something that's communicate underwater, I don't know.

Nobody has, but they were provided. These are actually, these are standard given to the Wave Riders, the guardians that look on the outskirts of Vesra. Fucking idiot. You don't feel stupid. Goom. Terry Jumbo. We don't have giant gongs on it.

I just thought of one thing for you, right? I went fishing this one time. And the lure that I had was like really shiny and sparkly. Like fish love sparkly things in the water. And I'm just noticing now that you were like really shiny and sparkly kind of all over. Like a lure? Yeah. I was actually just contemplating that.

Does you know how frustrated you get opening up a crab when you're going to eat it? I lost you on like the third word. Won't it be ironic if the cracking gets frustrated trying to peel off the armor? It would just be a wonderful irony. I'm so sorry, so you're doing well. Well, if we paint you in like black paint, or like poo.

Oh yeah. And that will immediately go away as soon as we're under water. All right, paint it is. Or tar. Should we taunt himself? No. Let's. Maybe you should be a way of.

Just not reflective. I don't like any of this. When I was treading water before, was it difficult in armor? Was it? Yeah. And if I were to remove my armor, would I be weak and squishy? You're a lot of it. That's a valid point.

That's a very fair point. You can walk along the bottom. You have a breastplate, right? Actually, so it's heavy, but it's not super impeding you. Like, you still, it's heavy, but it doesn't, from the mechanical standpoint, it doesn't make it more difficult for you to swim. It's just more of a,

but it's shiny. What if we put you like in a potato sack? So you still got your armor, but it just doesn't twinkle. It's not wrong, that's not a bad idea. Is there any burlap around? I have a robe. I have a robe. I can just wrap myself in my robe.

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Yeah, I'll stitch up the front. Okay. Thank you. So it'll be like a choir robe for you. Good idea, Grob. Thank you so much. Yeah, that was smart. Thanks. I go fishing a lot.

You lot are taking good care of me. I appreciate that. Thank you. This is going to be fun, right? Fun, fun, right? Fun, fun. Fun. Scary fun.

All right. Technically speaking, we can't quite quite feel fear at the moment, can we? It's just a general malaise of fear. Yeah. I like the latter. Yeah. Malays of fear. I had to start working on the rope. All right.

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Thank you so much. You're welcome, Barney. Yes. While they're winding down, can I sneak away and see if I can go find you, Vanda? Sure. It's not too difficult. She's in the same seat, snoring loudly,

while two of her guardians stand at the side with her thin, pull on like blades, just watching as you approach, and she's just like, I turn to her guards, and I go, do I, do I wake her up? Does she not like me? I don't want to be rude, but I kind of need to talk to her, and I'm only here for a few more hours.

One of them takes his bladed shride and kind of like hits her just gently on the side with the butt of it. She goes, oh. That's how you do it. Yes, young keyless. Hi. Hi. You know, putting on the presentation, but you can hear just

that utter, that slight undertone of frustration. What can I do for you? Yeah. I was just curious. I'm so sorry. Keep talking, please. What do you want? I was just...

You mentioned that there were only remnants of my mother that came back. Was she defeated by the Cracken, or do you think this was from another means? Do you have any more information on her? A child, there was little left of her and her allies. We found other pieces of her friends, but pieces. Leg was all we found. Much else, but the sea floor is littered with the many corpses and pieces of the crackens. Various prey. It does not take much to ascertain the nature of her And?

And you're sure of this? This is what the Cracken does to people? Does to anything that crosses its path and eats to survive. Just wondering, if there's any other potential explanation or... I'm sure there is. There are many potential possibilities for anything that happens. I only have the information that I was able to glean from the various... scouts and teams.

How long ago was this? This was four or five years back. Really? So not that long, really. Did she stay long? A few days. Prepared for their journey, much like you did. That was the last we saw of them. I was just curious. Thank you.

I wish I had different news for you. you. Did you keep anything from what you found? She thought your head turns curiously. I fear I did not gave a quiet burial to what we were able to recover, but that's all. I appreciate that much. Thank you for doing that. Of course, and once again, I am sorry for your loss, Gaelith. Part of the duty. Yes.

Yes, yes it is. Well, I should be getting my rest. Yes, you should. Yeah, big day. Swimming, lots of calories. I'm gonna go now. Yes. All right, bye.

Good night. Just concks right out again. All right. Anything else you guys should do for the evening? Well, I'm gonna follow Kuleth back to our room. You're right? Should you just follow me? Are you following me just now?

No, I was waiting outside the door. Oh, all right, okay, yeah. Sorry. No, I'm good, I'm good. I've seen the trouble behind your eyes all day. Not surprisingly, you know. I'm great. There's a lot, yeah. A lot writing on this, but a little surreal that we're here.

Long time coming. Yeah. You know, you were already a river to your people. Your life is built up to this moment. in many respects. But your father is very proud of you. You've already done a lot. You silenced that dragon.

You've done a lot. I'm just glad I have you all. You know, I know that you struggle with doubt, and I don't think it's ever gonna go away for any of us, especially for you. I think that's part of the job you're getting ready for. but I don't see it as a weakness. You know, all this time I've remembered Uriot.

I'm not big on monarchies and the like, but I liked him. He was a good man. Yeah, your soul rest. And he had doubts, and he let them inform his decisions and tried to do what was right. And the questions you have, I think they speak to your character.

Juryal was also blinded by his unknown's of a lot of problems. So I just hope I don't follow in his footsteps in that regard. Well, all that matters is what we leave behind us when we go. You've already done a lot of good. You've taught me to be happy again. I'm very grateful to you. For believing in me. You make that easy. Anyway, we should get some of you.

I'm asleep. It's a big day tomorrow. Yeah. You know, ah, I noticed about a week ago, you were curious about my wings. I shoot them out. I put them a little. We have one hour. Fate feathers.

Sky fuck. I just want Vax and Keyleth to the original Superman movie dialogue while he had loved. while he and Lois are flying. Oh, God, that weird poetry. Can you hear my thoughts? I have just like slow narration of Keelah disembodied as if he was just flying over Vesra at night. Yeah, you know.

Just for you. Oh my God. Perfect. That's perfect. Pass that down later. All right. So anyone else doing anything else? I'm collecting some seashells and taking a bit of a walk.

Okay. And then eventually we're chilling. Yeah, I'm gonna brush drink it. You need it, you're dirty. Various nuts and seawater clusters. Just gross. It's just not fun. All right, so morning comes to the sunrises,

it's a warm day, but the waters are crystalline and beautiful as soon as you step out. Since you haven't been here during the daytime, you can see, it's a paradise like existence. The sands that fall beneath the waves are white, just bright bleached white, and the entire city seems like the middle of this distant tropical paradise. The islands that do kind of flank, kind of triangular position, as the islands of Omnan, they are just lush and green and dense. You see no signs of civilization built across them. They are just unending canopies that swarm these masses of land that break past the ocean surface in the distance. But here in Veser, the city cluster, it's beautiful. The water has almost a turquoise type shimmer

when you see the areas that are deeper. And you can see in various sections where the sand drifts away, the sandbank vanishes into the reef and there you can see just an array of colors that refract beneath the water's surface. There's a gentle breeze kind of bluzz through in sections. I want to go to there.

It's beautiful. I want to spend the morning before anybody else gets up standing on the edge of the water and letting my toes sink deeper and deeper as the waves. That's nice. Okay. You guys eventually gather your way for a morning meal, and you can see in the distance now,

some of the wave runners are doing perimeters, and you can see they have large sails that are up on these triangular, like pointed boards that curve up into a horn-like javelin in the front, and they are coasting on them, basically surfing across the waves in the distance, runs around the perimeter of the reef. That's fucking sick.

And they're wearing the same goggles and the same throw pieces you were given. This is part of the standard equipment that is given to the wave writers as they check on the outside in the vicinity of Esra. That one looks like Keanu Reeves and that one looks like Patrick's Wavy. He's not coming back. It's clear sky, not a cloud, visible,

beautiful blue above you. What do you want to do to prepare? Oh, Jesus. I find Yvanda. Okay. She's actually already waiting for you, as you guys. She's been earlier than you were. I take some time in my morning prep to do a little meditation, and I take my flame hands and I do some, like, traditional

Ashari war paint kind of thing going on. Nice. Okay. Yeah. Oh yeah. Are we bringing the best thing? We're bringing the bear. The bear's going to be a whale. All right.

Hopefully the whole time. As long as he doesn't hit zero hit points and he won't turn into a bear. But he has water breathing. If he hits zero, okay, I have a question. Yes. If he hit zero hit points. As a whale.

Does he go into the- No, the form reverts. We'll revert. And then-trinket points carrying over any damage that happens. And remember, only trinkets or any of your natural form maintains the bonus hit points from your Heroes Feast, your animal form does not.

Okay. So you just have the base hit points of whatever creature form you take, and then once you go to zero and revert back to yourself, or just river it back to yourself, then you have your hip points plus the Heroes Feast. And game play mechanics can Trinket get wallop so hard that it passes all of his new form plus Trinket form and take him out? Or if it's massive. If it was a shit ton of damage, yeah. It'd have to be 150 points of that.

Thereabouts, 160. Is it possible to grab a spare set of goggles and chok her just in case? No. Asking around. We'll return them, obviously. As you approach you and asked this question, they seem waiting. Even if you do approach, they're kind of looking down the distance. She's, yes, that could be certainly mustard, and she snaps her little gnomish fingers,

and one of her guards wanders off, comes back a few moments later, and retrieves an extra pair of goggles and the throat bead. Excellent. It's called a throat bead. A throat bead. A throat bead. How many of us need my coins to become altered? Well, I need to be well.

That's me. Oh, okay. Are we, yeah. So riders, show of hands, writer, rider. I mean, I can just use water breathing and cast pass without a trace on us. That's the only thing is I can't do that if I have altered self. Oh, well then I can just.

Well, if you cast pass without a trace, there's a concentration spell. You want people to swim very fast, though. What? She can't use alter self and pass without a trace. Is alter self a concentration spell? Yes. Oh. I could cast pass without a trace though. Okay. I did bring it today. Oh, good. Alright. So I could, uh, yeah. Um, wait. Are there any few shells on the floor that I can find? Pretty shells. I've already got a small bag of them if you want to keep.

So alter self is what level spell? You can trade later. Second. You have three second level spells you can cast. you can cast, and two thirds. You would have to use one of your third level spells. Yeah. Also good skipping stone. Right. Trenu could do.

You didn't think about that. I need one for me. Yes. So you want four other two. You are correct. Yeah. Skip something like that. So. So animal shapes takes my concentration.

Correct. So I can't do that. Oh. But you could cast it. You can just have water breathing and be riding a whale. But if you get tossed from the whale, can you swim? I mean, I can swim. Well, what if you give me the coin?

If things get hairy, then I use it. Then I use it, and then we drop pass without a trace. Also, if it's hairy, we won't need pass without a straits anymore. I can go ahead and cast alter self, or sorry, animal shapes on her, but it takes a turn around for me to an action to change her into something else. So can I cast it on her, but, leave her as vex for now? I'm not gonna be an animal.

You assume the form of a different creature for the duration, a creature different from herself. Okay. Of the beast variety. Okay, never mind. We've got a plan. We're fine. Because we need pass without a trace from her, right?

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. So I'll get a coin, I'll cast it, go in, if things get bad. You can cast the coin. You're a whale. I'm gonna be a whale. It's going to be, we've got some rope here. It's gonna be your job once I'm a whale create at least a couple handholds with a harness.

You know how to use knots, right? You can do some basic. I know every knot in the book. I knew you would. The double sloop, the reverse cowgirl. I know them all. I've got the itsy-bitsy spider. I know the rusty trombone.

I've got. You're the Lasca and Pipeline. Yep. The figure eight, the figure four. The hidden figures. I've got a bunch of them. The sweet Caroline. Oh yes, that one.

That one's good. Good for tension. I'm also going to grab. I should not be allowed to drink this. I would take you aside really quickly. I have you the extra set of goggles and the bead. What do you want me to do with these? Just keep them safe?

Just in case I'm, it's you know how I get with me. my hunches. Okay. You'll know if we need them, we have them. It's just an extra set. All right, Freddy. Yovanda, these beads. Can you guys also track where we are based on them?

No, unfortunately. No. The magic is only localized. Incident. All right. We recovered as many as we could from previous scouts that had fallen. I go ahead and I drew it craft one of my... one of my bark bracelets to put around her. For scrying if you need it.

Thank you. And Bigley Man over there, do you want a coin in case you lose your whale form? Yeah. What about you, Percival? I'll take one just in case. All right. What did you do?

You say, alter self and slam it again. your body and it'll make you like a, like, with gills and stuff. Does he speak, he speaks, he speaks calming, right? He understands what I'm saying. Well, okay. What does it do? Make big, big hit, say alter, so. What's the matter with you? Why are you talking like that? That was everything I could have hoped for. He does speak fucking with you. Yeah. Very well. All right, I guess I'll make four coins.

Okay. And pass them out to Percy, little elf boy, little elf girl, and jumbo. All right. Hi, my name is Vax. That's short from Baxildan. Have you heard the legend of Tarian Darrington? From you, yes, I have. Oh, I'm good, then we're equals.

That is my sister. Her name is Vexalia. You can call her Vex. Some people call her Vax. of acts. That's true. It's very confusing. Yeah, you can call us by anything we'll both respond. At first, yes. Welcome. Okay.

Okay. Were your parents fond of you? Because to name them that similar would be just quite annoying growing up and you must have gotten confused constantly. I walk away. I follow suit. About this time, as you've seen a. Yvendo's been looking out impatiently, the water nearby at the very edge of one of the reef drop-offs splashes out and you watch as a figure kind of darts out and lands and shakes off. And what you see there looks to be a very, very dark-skinned, stalky dwarf, wearing the same goggles and throat be there.

He's kind of, sorry about the delay. He kind of wanders up and kind of pulls his goggles off and kind of rustles his hair a bit. Oh, hello. So you're the ones traveling to the area today? Yeah. Yeah. Oh. Hi. Wave right of Durant, pleasure to meet you. And he reaches up and grabs, as he takes your hand, you put it out to extend, he kind of like grasps it and kind of gives a firm shake. He's got very, very, very short kind of dirty blonde hair and a...

Durant? A beard that is like just... Yeah, like to rants. Just tattered and nodded from not being kept or combed through it. So someone you'd find at Venice Beach. Kind of, yeah. I was a mad thing that the Venice Beach Dwarf, amazing. Oh my God.

I was imagining the search of Sarah Marshall. Just finished going up the ropes and down. Yeah. Good phone, man, yeah. It's like, alright, I'm taking you down to the airy. You ready? I think so.

Sure. Are you going to be with us the whole time? Or are you just getting us there? Well, I'm just getting you to the door. Of course. There's a door. There's a door. Oh, no, now we're really in trouble.

That's what we're gonna check out that I'm gonna go before we go through the door. There's a, like doors to the other planes. That's like our people's speech. Oh, yeah. We're going to another plane? Yes. Oh, my God.

Okay, this is great. This is great. Oh, you look really excited. I am. You shouldn't be. Now come on. So you got your equipment and takes his goggles and puts them back on. They're just like, they're bulbous.

Like they're just these giant domes. make you look fly-like. I love it. Okay, now, follow us, it looks over, thank you, Evan. Of course, take care of them. It's not my job. And drives into the water.

I go in first. Wait, don't you have to make some of us? Oh, right. Jesus. God, great- How long is it now? Are we doing this now? No, because we can do it under water, can't we?

Animal shapes last one. shapes last for 24 hours. Well, let's wait until we're going into the water plane before we turn into fucking whales. Do we have to examine shit first? Yeah. With our like hand, non-flipper hands? Yeah, he's gonna be showing us the stones first, right?

So yeah, I'm just going first. Jesus, I'm going first. All right. So you guys, follow suit, diving in, diving in each one of you in the order you wish. Eventually with Doty kind of just, just sinking very heavily down after you. He's coming?

Oh, no. Should we, Terry, should we leave him? I can't. Nope, he's a construct. I would prefer Doty Notcom if he can't swim, right? Can you go solo? You can just walk across the bottom. You got to tell you what to do.

This is your call. Are we going, I'm a little confused. We're going underwater now, but not to where we're going for the mission? Correct. We are, the portal to the other dimension is underwater and through a rift. It's the ocean inside the ocean. Just lots of water. It's an Inception ocean.

Then Doty can come this far. Almost perfect. To the width. Just to the door. We barely knew him. Bring him locked. Like a buckling. All right.

All right. That was quick. Not that I'd like have a right to you. What if he gets rusty? I hadn't thought of that. It might be smart to not have him join us. The Rusty Doey is another enough that you know. Just leave him behind.

The Rusty Doody. Is he the Rusty Doey? No more wrong. What's your plan? Yes or no? Doty, you should stay behind. About a jump, like, stay behind and just take atmospheric notes. You know, time of day, position of sun,

type of clouds. And if anyone tries to steal my stuff, describe them very well in the book. Yes. A little seagull kind of like flies overhead. It's all for color, for the book, you know. Another one. He's taking very good notes.

Two chapters of Seagull's playing at her. You can have an axe. On the mating habits of seagulls when you get back. Eat your heart out, Darwin. Don't know what is in the case. Oh, my God. I can't really mad. So you get to, it's ridiculous.

All right, so you guys all eventually dive into the water. And as you do, you look down and there is essentially a 40-foot wide gap in the beach here, like this just barely submerged beach, that coasts down, then drops off directly down into this kind of cylindrical section that is just open. And then as you kind of drift down, your goggles visible, you can see around you, a dry, pale reef that slowly gives way to colorful life-teaming reef. You see hundreds of fish of different sizes and colors all darting in and out of the various gaps and openings in the side. You see vibrant plant life beginning to just massively jut out from the side of this reef as you further down. You see eels twisting through, and bits of kelp and other sort of long underwater plant

life tickle your body as you kind of push past and drift, kind of keeping track of where you're slowly sinking down. Desperately trying to follow this story. dwarf that is no longer in view. He just dove straight down and is far more comfortable under the water than most of you. Eventually, the reef begins to cluster in, tighter and you start getting a little nervous as to if you're going to hit a bottom or hit a pinch point, and then suddenly it stops. The reef just ends, and you now are floating down into what appears to be endless dark ocean. And just below you see just a faint bit of light, and you start noticing the dark color is because you're about to hit an extremely dense forest of underwater plant life. You watch us all of these long,

thin tendrils of almost like vines covered in elongated leaves begin to just curl up around you, and you start pushing through following this light. As you get across to the edge, Kieluth, you're the closest ahead, and you guys are just enough light to kind of watch the beat of where Kielith is. Kielith, you can still see Duran and kind of keep that pace. It leads you down just over this bank of where the top of this underwater forest ends. And you see attached to the reef above by a single pillar of stonework that seems to be built or carved out of the reef emerges a spiraling tower that eventually ends on the floor of the ocean here. It's made of a yellowish-white sandstone-like color. There are pillars carved out of it, naturalistic, but also

have almost a series of beveled edges to them. Within the inside, there is a dull green glow that is like sort of pulsating. And as Duren makes his way down towards one of the many openings throughout the floors, you can see there is a very, very faint, like a sparkling energy that seems to just drift up out of the center of this tower. As you make it further down towards the base, you now begin to see through some of the openings, the center of this tower is hollow. It is an exterior almost like a very thin, colosseum-like structure that goes up for multiple floors, slowly pincering as gets to the top, and it is just an open interior inside. As eventually you touch down onto the soft bottom of the ocean here,

and begin making your way slowly swimming towards the interior. You can see a number of other similarly dressed wavewriters as well as armored guardians that stand, all with various trident or spear-like weapons. A number of them appear to be a varying race is human, half-elf, elf. It appears that Dern is the only dwarf you see in this vicinity. And a couple that appear to be murfolk, like straight up half human, half-fish tails, thins, gills, the whole circumstance. What is their hair like? You see two of them.

One of which is male, no visible hair on him actually, just kind of the frill that goes down his head. The other is female. Long kind of deep, dark blue hair that just kind of drifts and as she shifts and turns and looks in a new direction, you watch it kind of hold in place and slowly shift as the water currents push through. I just stare at it out.

As you're entranced by this, your attention slowly glides over to the very center at the base of this temple, where you can see there are these three large, smooth, grayish rocks that are just embedded in the ground, about five feet wide. And in the center of these three rocks, You see what appears to be a, it's almost like an oval shape about 10 feet tall, about 5 feet wide,

that is just crackling blue energy. This opening here. And you can watch as occasionally clouds of black, murky, soot or sand, like deep, deep ocean sand kind of push through. You can see as you kind of get closer and peer in, this is a doorway into the plane. This is the rift. It looks unlike the one that you saw at Pira, which seemed to kind of flicker and have a barely contained energy when you've seen it at its, torn open stages, this appears to be fairly contained. It's demure. There's not a lot of movement. It's just stationary. And the guards that surround it in the center of this temple all kind of look inward, keeping a vigilant watch. As you kind of follow Duren making his way towards the doorway, you can see within each of these three large, half-buried stones,

there's a smaller, like a deep, emerald green, almost jade-looking stone that's about that large that is embedded in each of these. Duren kind of points over to one of them, and you hear him through the water, the throat bead carrying the sound of his voice through. This is what you're looking for. This is a lodestone.

Take your time. as much as you need to study it, find what you need, let me know when you're ready to pass through. Are they all the same color? Every lodestone is the same. Yeah, you glance through, they're all the same color. Like slight variations, and the shapes change a little bit. Some are like perfectly spherical, some are a little oblong,

just whatever shape it eventually hardened into. Kind of, yeah. Can I kill this? Like a dark, dark jade, like a Maori New Zealand jade. Not transducent at all, not? No. Kiela goes up and kind of touches one and kind of meditates in it for a second. Okay. As you put your hand towards it, you feel a very, very faint vibration.

Actually, very similar vibration to the throat bead. Really? Are the throat breeds green? Do they look similar? At this point now, you notice, yes, that's made the same material. You see that a lot of the loggstone's main purposes here, but a lot of kind of the inherent magic of them, or at least the enchantment properties of it. It's a pretty big part of the general life here at Vesra. Do the beads tend to react when they get closer to the lodestone? There is no change. But you do feel that very faint kind of hum and vibration of power of the lodestone that is embedded within.

I turn to Durand. Whereabouts do they tend to be found, the lodestones? Well, I mean, all over. All over. And he knows and been dropped. The ocean tends to swallow things up. You might have to dig. Most of we find them buried. Bear. How heavy are they?

Well, let me show you. And he goes over and grabs one and kind of... And he pulls it out. The doorway kind of flickers ever so slightly. He's like, ah, it's fine for a moment. And hands it to you. You take it. And for its size, it is surprisingly dense.

It has about twice the weight you were expecting, and your arms kind of just a little bit. Also, as you're holding it, you notice the clasp on your cloak kind of is being... is being pulled towards it. As you kind of pull it away and pull towards it, you realize these are actually fairly magnetic. The magnetic?

Yes. The magnetic. Percy, do you have a compass? I don't, but I can fake one pretty quickly if we have to. Really? You don't have a compass? Really? We never needed a compass. We were having me a poor.

I can, we can, is it possible to, well, we're too deep now? As you're having a question, as you're having this conversation, you watch this, Duren's like, patiently there. You have a compass, don't you? And I'm going to hand it back to him. No, but I need the stone.

Yes. It puts it back inside. Oh. If I examine it, do I detect any magic on it? You do. Profoundly magical. This is a very, very strong, natural magic source. This is going to be weird.

I'm going to take out a chunk of white stone residuum and just sort of compare the color and see if there's any relation. Go and make an intelligence check. I cheat. That's a natural 20. Oh! Snitch returns.

Interestingly enough, there are similarities. It is not the same material, but you've had enough time to study White Stone and get a feel that there are, this is your first inclination, that there are more than one substance that seems to be related to to the nature of magic. This is, at least based on the ecology and what little bit of history

you've picked up from the crack in how long it's been around. Whitestone may be one of the more recent sources of this type of power, or a variation of this type of power. But there are certain comparable facets of its ability, yeah. It actually occurs to me that I think I might have some magnets on my person. Can I make an investigation check? Because I had quietly my head been using them to keep my coat down when I was running around with the spider boots. Is that true? I wouldn't say that if it wasn't, if it wasn't true. Can I make a roll and see if I happen to have some on me?

I'd say you have them on you. You're Percy. It's fine. All right, that's fine. They're very simple magnets. Yeah, they might help with it. I'm going to try and just see if I can use them as a very base. What's the dousing rod for these, for these stones? Do they feel like cool? You notice that you don't, though, any sort of

pull you feel on the magnet doesn't seem to hit until you're within about a foot or so of the stone. I do have locate object. I pull out my compass and I pull out my compass and see if it works. To be fair, there are white stone. Okay, you pull out your compass? Do you have a compass? Sure. Sure. Yeah, I have a compass, by the way. Really, you have a compass? It's fine. As you pull it up, you watch, as you kind of stand there, it's currently confused. It's like kind of darting around and doing circles. As you be to step in one direction towards one of the stones, it writes itself in its direction. Fascinating.

Nice. Can we, will you keep that handy? Oh, sorry. You know? Yes. Oh, one second. Just still pressurizing. Sure. In my head, you have zinc all over your nose.

It's just a zinc. In a hula shirt? Oh, yes. Do you want to take a look? Yes, that's who are really pale people. This is probably a good idea. I tap it because I've seen other people do that, and I feel like that's what you do with compasses. And it shatters. Yeah.

It seems to be a thoughtful compass. Do you want to be the compass manner? Are you going to man the compass? Man the compass? Be navigation? The leader? Absolutely. The navigator, yes. The navigator. The navigator. The navigator.

Sure. All right. All right. Any other tests you brain types want to do on these giant green balls? I feel comfortable. We have a locate object. We have a compass. Yes. Locate object is concentration and so is past that a trace. So just be aware. So why don't we get through the void and then maybe we can do a locate object?

And then pass without a trace and then I'll cast animal shapes and then we go. Okay, object, by the way. That is a lot of steps. Is within a thousand feet? Yes. Yes. But it lasts for 10 minutes. It does, yes.

Yes. Okay. So, you guys ready? Yeah. All right, you give a night. Are we ready? Are we ready? Are we ready?

Duran kind of looks at your faces as you're all staring at us. Okay, so, like time? Have you seen a crackin? Oh yeah, I've seen it. And? Oh, it's fucking terrible. How big I'll be talking?

Uh, immense. You know, you know this, this size. It's a lot bigger. How many grogues? How many grog? Oh yeah. It's like ten grogues or long? 100. Hundred grogs long? It's special wearing this. Look. I'm not a science man, like these too, but it's big. Your beard is glorious. Oh, thank you. Yours isn't too bad yourself, boys. They kind of tusses it up. Yeah, hold on. They ever like bonnacles down here. I can put in there.

Is it fast in the water? Oh, that's pretty fast, eh? Yeah. Have you seen it leave these stones, these loads? Oh, I've seen it. Have you seen it? Oh, I don't go in there. Oh, yeah.

I just watch the doorway. That's my job. You don't watch him drop his loads. I have not yet seen the cracking drop its loads. Well, I have never filmed more people. prepared than I do right now. Let's do this shit. All right, if it goes bad, come back.

Run. Just get back. Right. You'll know exactly how to get back. You'll get back. I'll fail? Did you just say I'll fail? Bye.

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Nothing. I can't see the map yet, can they? They can't see the map. So, as you guys emerge, Oh, didn't he? Is it beautiful? You just opened your eyes? It's so cool. So this here is the exterior portal into the floor.

You step out in about two feet below the doorway. Your feet slowly hit the soft, cushy bottom of the water elemental plane. You see about you a number of thick clusters of various underwater. plant, life rising, up and slowly shifting with the waves and the water. You also see throughout the dark sand in the vicinity hundreds of bones and various other chunks of flesh and various long states of decay. It is dark down here. You maybe have about 20 to 30 feet of visual range right here, unaided. Our two human friends over there have almost no sight beyond a five, 10 foot distance here.

Usually from just the glow of your armor. Your helmet itself gives this kind of radiant glow about it. I'm using divine sense right now to see if anything is not completely. Okay, you're divining for what? Undead. In the skull, in the bones. Okay, as you carefully close your eyes and focus,

you lend your essence out to the Raven Queen, even across the plains, to guide your vision to anything of undeth or fiendish in nature. I'm gonna take a moment to use primal awareness and see, is there a way to sense crackens or anything? I don't know. Do you know? How does sense crackens? I don't know. Do you sense calamari? Damn, snark. Looking at your various choices.

Operation, celestial, dragons, elementals, fey, fay, fiends, and undeaded. And crackens. It says it right there. And crackets. Okay. As you focus your attention, utilizing, and mark off your ability there. Yes. You sense nothing. Is it elemental is in there? Elementals, aberrations, and beans.

Which one are you choosing? Oh, I have to choose one. Aborations. What do you think? What do you think? Aberrations or what do you think a crackin is? You'll be pulling a find elementals because they're definitely here.

What would a crecon be? A bearation. A animal. Yeah, bees what you don't have. A mineral. The only thing on there, the only thing on there that is maybe is aberration. Aberration?

I mean, elementals. They're not really elevations. But there's nothing on this look. All right, then I'm gonna try for elementals. Okay. You sit on focus and dozens of nearby signatures hit you. You're not quite sure which direction they come from, but you know that this area is teeming with elemental energy

and has drawn many elemental powers nearby. They're like everywhere. You're all around us, man. Aw. It's impossible. It's from inside the room. They're in the walls. Oh, the goddamn walls.

This is really important. I fart, did the bubbles go up? They do. We're in a safe place. That was weirdly helpful. You do. That's actually insanely helpful. That's really genuinely helpful.

We use our flashlights. Why are you doing this? No. No. Looking up, can you see any sort of surface to the water like you would if you were 150, 200 feet scuba diving down? I mean, your vision in the vicinity is dark, as you feel like you're at the bottom of a very, very deep abysal ocean. Looking up, you see a faint turquoise glow in the upward direction, but it seems sourceless. As opposed to straight up, it almost encompasses a full dome, and you see no sign of a break in the water.

and the various strands of plant life extend far into the darkness and strange, kind of fuzzy distance where they fade out. We get it. I have a feeling light will attract all sorts of creatures down here. Yes. I'm not entirely sure that the creatures down here have eyes. Mm. Most didn't have blind sight or echolocation. So they...

What about the kind of fish that have the things that dangle in front of their faces because it attracts other fish? Angler fish, yeah. Movement, light, shiny things, all bad. Terry Zama. He's covered. Do we have a few minutes? I can do a quick locate object spell and see if we're heading in the right direction if you want to... I'm going to use a locate object spell.

Can I assist her in any way? Nope, this is her particular spell being cast. All right. I'm just going to, I'm going to examine the sand and just gently dig around to see what's around. This is fascinating. I'm just digging for whatever. Okay. Your feet hit and... and pull apart, and as soon as you do, you see like a, you get about four inches of the soft sand

before you start hitting black dirt that immediately shows the cloud and obscure your vicinity. So you can be carefully, good to know. Stop for a second. Wow. I'm going to load up my flashlight with one of those daylight gems, but with the lens fully closed so no light can escape.

Okay, so you go ahead and you You activate to mark off another one of your opals. Sure. There's a red filter. You activate it as soon as you close the device and you feel it contained with it. We do have a red filter. All right.

You cast locate object, lawyer? Yes. All right. So as Vex, you focus concentrating on the lodestone that you saw before. No, no, no. It finds similar objects. No, no, no. Ah, ah, oh.

So you feel the direction pull you this way. Awesome. You don't know how far away, but the distance pulls you in that direction. There is a loadstone within a thousand feet that direction. You know, Terrian just gave me an idea. I tend to have that effect on people.

Thank you for your infinite wisdom, Terrian. We might be able to use a date-like spell as a distraction, worst-case scenario. Because I can place it somewhere and then leave it. Oh, that is smart. Yeah. Um. Losing up all we can. Sure. How far away can you? She can cast it on an object and leave it behind. I can leave it. As a distraction. Let's not cast it near the portal opening. I don't want to do it right now.

You could cast it on the tip of an arrow and I can shoot at least 150 feet. That's a hundred percent true. We have done that before. Just keep them in my mind. All right. Following me right. Okay, we have a direction. Do we know? Are we ready? Try to move stealthily for a little while.

Or should I just drop it and cast past without a chase right now? Let's see how we feel. Let's see how we feel. I'll go ahead and do pass without a trace on us and we'll try and move in the direction that she called. Okay. So I need all of you to roll.

Is trinkets still in your necklace? Okay. That's not an answer. I hadn't imagined him in, but... Yeah, he's going to turn into an animal, so... That's fucking bring him. Trink it out. Fuck it.

Kill a whale, Prinket. He does have water-breathing cast on him. Yeah. So he's going to fucking swim. Yes. Trinkett does not have goggles and cannot talk or cast bells in her water. I mean, he's a bear. I know.

I know. What if... As soon as Trinket... He's having a singular experience for a bear, though. Yeah. It's fun, buddy. Oh, God, no. No, no.

No, I'm gonna cast, I'm gonna, fuck. I'm gonna cast speak with animals on him. Trinket. Pass that a trace. This is before or after she's passed out of trace. Oh, she's casting past three. Oh, you're kind. That's right.

I'm casting speak with animals. Drink it. Everything's fine. You're just underwater? It's very wet. It is. What's going on? We're going to be swimming for a while.

You're going to make me cry, dear. We're going to be swimming for a little while, all right? Do you feel okay with this? He can breathe, just breathe in. It's just like land, only not. Kind of lands in the sand. It looks around very nervously. Looks one of the nearby.

kind of floating pieces of weird, errant plat matter. Yeah, we're good. Are you alright? All right. Okay. Just giving you a heads up, you may be turned into a whale. What is a whale? You'll be really, really big.

And you'll be able to swim a lot better, all right? Just remember to follow my lead, and I'm gonna hang on to you when you are a whale, all right? Okay. I love you. I trust you, too. I love you. I love you. I'm proud of you.

Okay. I love him so much. I love him. You see, like, start like, just bear paddling a little bit of the water, just like, I love you. It's fun, see, it's fun. But Paddle quietly, dear, we're trying to be stealthy. Okay. Now are you casting, or you're casting Pesota Trace.

I want everyone to make stealth checks. Stealth checks. Stealth checks. All you guys, including drink it, please. Okay, okay, okay, okay. I'm crying so hard. Oh, wait, we're all doing all. Stealth check.

I'm so sorry for doing that too. Oh, that's good. That's good. It's plus 10? 25. 25, right. 20, with our. With our...

Oh, we're not without a trace. Yeah, I'd add 10, man. 34. 33. 38. Hutt. Roads. That's all I do.

Yeah, man. I'm sorry, I'm sorry. I don't know what to add for Trinket stealth. Is that just his decks, maybe? Okay, so 29 for me. All right. And 30 for Trinket. Ooh.

He kind of looks like Kelp. He says, Underwater Ballet, man. 18. 18? Nice. Oh. All right. It's just a face in a giant leg.

You guys. You make sure I'm right on the left. So very quietly as you can, begin walking across the bottom of the floor, your toes barely touching the surface of the bottom, making your way in this direction. You guys slowly begin to shift this way, following this path. Now you're maintaining located object, too soon? Yes, I am. I thought it was one of these. I just speak with animals.

Concentration is not. Concentration is not. It is, concentration of 10 minutes. Okay, object is 10 minutes. I speak the animals is not, sorry. No. Sorry, yeah, you're fine. Okay.

Do we see anything swimming above us, around us? One. Looking around in your vicinity, you see clusters of ruins. You see broken pieces of very, very old stonework. And looking at them, they are scattered throughout the vicinity. singular chunks of structures. Let's see. Percival, go ahead and make an intelligence check. Two? 20. Okay.

Looking to the left of you as you pass by this one structure, you can see the chunk of wall that's visible. It is thick enough and tall enough where it looks like it's a sliver of the base of a larger structure that was designed for far larger creatures. and the sense of the erosion and the relatively smooth edges, the various broken parts to it tell you that it's been there for a very long time.

This was for larger creature, like giants. Giants are larger. It's hard to really tell, but it definitely creatures. This is not a human-sized. Did these ruins crumble or did they sink? They appear to have crumbled. They are, they are, the structure in which they're placed has intentional placement within here. And is the stone, does the stone feel natural, and does it feel like stone that would be underwater?

Does it look like it is, like the parts of it that have been underwater are doing well, or does it look like it's eroding as something that should have been above the surface? It looks like they're eroding as expected for something that's been there for a very long time. And then there's no writing visible. Couldn't. No, no. They're actually almost extremely smooth. Smooth. They've just been there for so long and hit with various blasts of water current, sand, dust, and other things for such a long period of time that it's smoothed the entirety of the wall structure.

Okay. All right, you maintain the locate object. As you guys push forward, eventually it leads you this way until you begin to feel the direction change this path. this path there. So you kind of lead the path over this way, and it leads you to the edge of this wall. I'm helping it. Can I look around? Does it seem like it's right there? Make perception check. Okay. Glancing about in the vicinity, looking over at all. You look at the wall, smooth, there's no indentation. There's no sign of a stone. Looking at the sand on the ground at the base of it, no sign of a stone.

Can I move some of the sand out of the way on the ground and see if I see anything? Make an investigation check. Compass. Compass. Ten. Yeah, bust out that compass. You begin to like pull apart some of the sand and the black murkings piece to come up underneath, and you don't see anything. I stand watch while they do this and just look for any movement.

Perception check. Is the compass moving? The compass is currently focused in the same direction that you were facing towards the whole point. We're going to gently. I'm going to cast detect magic. No, 27. Sorry. Okay. Nice. You glance this way.

You're looking overhead. You can see a dark, very large dark shape right about here. It looks to be the shelf of some sort of a subterranean, or at least a underwater stone cliff or a mountain of some kind that leads up into here, like a bank. At the very top, you see a very faint movement. It looks like individual long tendrils of some kind, just barely visible at the outside of your dark vision.

I come as I say, very quiet, very still. Very slow. I don't hear that, so I just cast detect magic. Oh, some of the fuck you don't. Motherfucker. So you cast detect magic. You currently, in front of you don't see any sort of magical source. seems to glow or emanate at the wall or near the base of the wall. Within 30 feet. Right. Even with under three feet of sand.

Let me double check something here for you. I'm gonna kind of wander to the other side of the wall and see if it's on the other side. I'm with you. One foot of stone, one inch of metal. Okay. You faint, you still feel the direction of the magic. Some of you're looking, but you don't see anything on or on the base of the wall. You move around? To the other side of the wall, yeah.

Okay, as you and Percy find your way to the side of the wall, there. I still keep an eye on the dark figure. The direction of the locate object leads you adjacent and just beyond the wall, on the other side of where you guys were looking. Oh, that makes sense. Do I see it now? You do not see anything. I'm going to gently pad at the base of the wall.

Okay, both of you guys make investigation change this place. Not to step. I don't have the feeling the second we touch it. Investigation? Mm-hmm. Is you want some. 15. You both start digging through and pulling through the sand and then dig further and it causes the black. We're digging softly. We're very gently. Right. I'm coming too. I want to find out there.

If anything we're sucking at this. And I'm going to cast detect magic again. Okay. Focusing, you do feel a very, very faint magical essence from a general location of the sand. About two feet to the left of where they're currently sifting through the sand. Shh. Oh, okay. Jesus. Move over there and start digging here. Just try and help us find the fucking load stones. You get past the sand.

You get to some of the black murkiness, and you're careful and start digging before. You feel one of your fingers hit a hard surface, and you can pull underneath. I think we found one. You pull them, again clearing the space around it, and it takes you a minute or so with the help of both Tarian and Percival,

but you dig enough of this sand and sit from underneath to get around, and you have there currently, in your presence, one of your loadstones. Do you think they'll know if we grab it? Do you think it's going to attract anything? I think we put it in the back of holding and it won't matter.

Outwatch. Can you swim over here? I slowly wake my way to the other side of the wall. Over the wall. Meet the rest of your allies. You swim. We lift it and put it in the back of holding. Okay.

If it's inside, vanishes. You feel the sleet. vibration of your fingers as you take the stone and slowly relinquish it to the backup holdings entry port. It vanishes to them. Do I sense another one with my locate objects, though? You do. You get the, you get a sense of something in this direction. All right. Like a line pointing this way.

C-20. Hit. All right. Let's come around. Should we hide, yeah, curve around so we can hide from the big figure up top? Yeah. I keep an eye on the big figure the whole. whole time. All right, I need Percival.

Me too. Terry, Vex, and Grog, who are moving currently to make stealth checks. Come on. Okay, okay. 24. Come on, Gil. 33. Just regular, right? No plus 10. Yeah, plus 10. Plus 10? Oh, sorry. 27. 39. Good job, Gil. Thanks, Gil. Are you guys staying ground level? Are you curving over? Are you going around? Going around.

We're trying to keep as... you know, stealthy as really long. Right, so you guys make your way around, heading this direction, following Vex. As you continue to crawl forward, Vex can bring your way forward. Trinket's kind of getting nervous at the distance. I start scooching him behind the ear. I know there's one spot behind his left ear

that calms them down as I watch with Keeler. Okay, so you slowly mander up with the side and kind of help to just keep Trinket quiet for the time being. A stream of diarrhea comes out of her. Mixing in with a black sand. Like a squid in his own right. You guys follow behind. Do we sense any kind of movement around us or anything?

Go ahead and make perception check. Yeah, me too. Especially that giant red rock right there. Do I do that too or no? No, I perceive nothing. You're not with them. You're staying back with vats. 16.

Uh, 20, 22. 21. 21? One, I saw nothing. Okay, yeah. You come to this heavy, heavy piece of thick, natural wall-like stone that is heavily embedded in the ground. This is not like the previous ones that looks like it was carved. This is just a natural formation of stone that is jutting out of the sand. It's like this thick,

10 to 15-foot wide embankment, about maybe five feet thick and about six feet above. As you approach and get to it, you don't see anything that would mark it as different, other than the series of, you start looking down as you're inspecting and you see a series of skulls, some humanoid, some larger, some like almost elongated fish or crocodile-like jaws. Some of them are older, some of them are fresher,

some of them still have bits, little thin tendrils of flesh that is mostly decomposed that drift off and change direction with the flow of the water as you make your way through. How, our masks are like, like, we've got goggles. It's just goggles, and just this little stone right over the larynx.

So our mouth is free into? Free in the water. Okay, I vomit. There's like cloud of green, yellow, and brown just kind of emanates from the front of Tarian's face. Quick question. Crackens don't like use shells, do they? Like a crab?

No. Okay. Okay. Do they? They don't. Just check it. As far as I know. Can we start looking for the lodestone?

Investigation check. Who else is helping? I'll help. I'm just looking at the compass. I'm keeping an eye out. Yeah, you're working on the compass. I'm going to look out. All right, so you're looking at the lookout, so I just need Vex and a person.

18? 18? 13. 13. You guys sift through the sand in this vicinity, pouring around, trying to kind of dig across the exterior, the stone, and pull away. You spend a good two to three to see. three minutes or so searching in the vicinity and you don't find the story.

Tonight, I was on this. I'll cast detect magic again. Can I just use the compass? Yeah, what does it say? It points in the direction that you're I want to take it and bring it down to the ground and like a metal detector sort of thing. Can I kind of start splitting the difference

in case anything bad happens? Okay, so you start making your way this way? Just very slowly. Okay, we need you to make a self-check. I wouldn't follow, I would bring it. Okay, you as well. Oh, God, oh God. Natural.

I feel like something's bad. Roll fur trinket if you can. This music is fucking crazy. Why is it so tense? 31-suff. This is good. Philip Glass nervous breakdown in giving us it's really.

That's good. That's good. Doo. 26 for a second. Okay. 45. Natural 20. 41?

45. 45? 45. See ya, motherfucker. It's your self. All right, you guys. Make your way into the in between. area Triga kind of comes behind.

Do you want to stay too far from the circumstance? I'm casting to detect magic since we can't seem to find out. It's just a rock. You too, it's not a race. Hey, Batman, oh, fuck, it's a rock again. You sense the magical presence of it in the direction that you've been facing, but it seems further past.

Okay, it's around the rock. Again. Rock. We go around the fucking rock. You sure it's a rock? I don't know, Grog. Oh, wait a second. Oh, fine.

What? Detect Magic West for ten. 10 minutes. Oh, you don't have to get to get it. So this is all one spell, yeah? Yeah, you've maintained the idea. Thank you. Okay.

Bushleg me stuff. So you go with them? Yeah! Okay. Rog, you staying where you're put or are you coming with them? I'm staying there. Okay. Oh God.

You're all three searching for? Yes. But yeah. Investigation check, investigation check, investigation check. One. Oh, Oh, Jesus of the reason. One at first.

Nine. Nine and nineteen. Five. I'm gonna get a natural one. You got a natural one? Yeah. Okay. Oh no.

The cracking eats me. As you're digging through, your finger, Tarian, hit something hard. I've got it. I've got it. You dig through. I've got it. And as you pull up what you think is the stone, you look and instead it's a humanoid head that is

mostly skeletal bone with strips of flesh hanging off at one eye that is like a pale, swollen, pink, white color. And you just start like, whoa, you instinctually step back, or start yelling onto the point there. Richard Dreyfus and Jaws. Just for the sake of this argument, make a stealth check, please. Oh, come on, two. Natural one.

No, you are lying to me. You are such lying. You are lying. Two in a row? Yeah. No. No, Terry. Terry!

Terry! Terry! Story! Holy shit! Okay. Keelith, as you're carefully looking up in the shadows, you watch as this giant dark mound just diminishes and vanishes. Oh no.

And I just say, uh, red alert, red alert, think we got a kraken coming. Think the weather is calling for a kraken tonight. As you guys hear this, you glance about in the vicinity and you watch as suddenly a series of large tentacles around this large outcropping of it looks like stone or wood that is jutting out of the base of the floor. So many you guys found a load stone. Did you guys find it? Did you find it while all that was happening or is it? Did you please tell me you found it? You rolled a... 19. 19. You just barely hit the exterior of it when this happens. You're like, oh, I found it. And you look over, see Terry and yell and then watch this

creature or suddenly swift down and begin to crawl over the top of this. Bex, fax, let's do the daylight. Red alert, red alert, daylight. Terrian, dig up the loadstone immediately. I need all of you to make initiative. Fuck! No! Feeze! Fuck!

God damn it. Maybe we could shoot daylight directly into his eye back. Oh, natural 20! Do we really think daylight's gonna help? At this point? In his eyes, maybe. He's not used to bright light. I'll take out I have been able to.

That's true. He's not used of like, I'm just like, foo, foo, towards him, like over him, away from him. All right, so. We're like directly at, towards him. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. 24. 24. 22.

22, nice. I'm not about it. 17. 19. What? All right. Worked out yesterday. Oh.

It's like, what? Ouch. Yeah, it hurts. All right, 15. 13. 13. 14 for groggy grog. Okay.

For gulgy poo. Liam, how do you remember when to use luck? Uh, when shit is exploding in your face? Yeah, well, I forgot. Oh. As you watch, this entity suddenly emerge from the top there. No. No, not cool.

Whoa, he's really pretty in that light, though. Yeah, he is very pretty. Enjoy it. It looks like a delightful, like a delightful Creole dish. The inside of his mouth is so pretty. So, top of the round. Fax, you're up. You hear this noise through,

and Kielis giving the warning as you glance over and see at the top of this structure, the dark shadow of the Kraken pull its way over the top. You see this gleaming yellow eye on the one side that's near you, and what looks to be, three, five, seven or more tentacles begin to curl over and pull it over the top, making its way towards your friends. What are you doing? I'm clicking the boots of haste, and I am casting Bless on myself, on Kieleth, and on Grog.

Grog. Okay, what's the distance? 30 feet. 30 feet. Yeah, Grog is just in range. You are blessed. What does that mean? Means on an attacks or on saving throws, you can roll a D4 and add that for a minute for the whole battle, basically.

Nice! His concentration, to keep that in mind. Okay. Great, thank you. So that's your, that's your use of the haste. You have your action. What are you going to do for your movement? I'm going to, I'm 45 stealth. I'm going to back away to behind those giant shells.

Over here? Your speed is 60 right now, so you can move 30 feet hasted underwater, swimming. All right. So I'm going to swim over that way. 10, 15, 20, 20. And then, and I'm hasted, so action action, I should have a bonus action.

Yeah? Yeah. Yeah. So I'll hide if I'm not hidden all that. Rolls, still the check. Good. 35. We've been like a bunch of whales slamming into shit.

Okay, cool. We could have done it right away. Yeah. All right. So that brings us to Keyless. How far away am I from Vex? From Vex? You're not sure.

You'd probably be somewhere in the neighborhood of 35, 40 feet. That's your right. Let me move towards, I say Vex. You used ulcerself on yourself? Huh? You vaulted yourself, right, to swim fine? Yeah. I can't, yeah.

I don't do that at will. I know. So how many feet do you want to move? Enough to see Vex. Vex! She's just on the other side of the rock, and as you say that, like you kind of look up and notice the creature, and you see Keele's head just barely poke over this stone barrier. I'm going, no!

No! No! And I prep my daylight sun. spell for whenever she draws her arrow. And I wait for that, for as soon as I see the tip of her arrow to go. Okay, so you're holding your casting action until you see her arrow go. And then I, when I say, dear God, please, Terrian, find the other loadstone. Don't kill the Kraken.

I didn't hear any of that. Because he does not have any of peace. Fuck! Fuck! That loud, though? You do hear it because you're underwater and you because of the throat bead. You do hear it, it's still a little garbled,

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Go for the raspberry cheesecake. Okay, as the dragon pulls its way over, you watch as its yellow eye all of a sudden glows blue. And you watch as the edge of its ten and the chronicles begin to give off this like luminescent blue glow. And suddenly this burst of electrical energy shoots forth from it and completely encompasses the surrounding. All creatures then 120 feet have to make a constitution saving throw.

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This is a layer action for the Cracken. Oh God. A layer action for the Crackin? Because we're in his fucking fish tank. It's made this its layer for the past for the number of years. So yeah. I met Petco.

All right, so. I meant Petco. That's better. Yeah. Use luck, Terry. I did. I did too. I do, too.

I'm grateful for it. 26. Okay. So you take eight points of lightning damage. Percy. 23. 23, eight points of lightning damage. Kilo.

19. You take 19 points of lightning damage. 19. 22 plus I'm set to lightning with the Death Walkers award. 19 halved to eight points of lighten damage. eight points of light image. Or I should have twice, I should be quarter, right? If I made the save.

Well, no, you didn't make it. Oh. I'm sorry, it was, it was eight. I said 19. Right, I'm sorry. And that took 18 damage. I apologize. It was 9, 9, and 18 damage.

That's 9, 9, 18. Got it. 18. Uh-huh. I already forgot what I rolled because everybody's talking numbers. 14! 18 points of light and damage. You got it.

Trinket. Oh, shit. You, you two. You take 18 points of light and damage, Rob. With my hashtag Bliss 27. You take eight points of light and damage. Or nine, sorry, nine. Nine.

Nine. Nine plus eight. Yes. All righty. Vex, you're up. As you kind of reel from the sudden electrical shock that pulses out in the vicinity, what are you doing? Can I, the alter self coin, does that take an action? Yes, it does.

It casts a spell in yourself. Fuck. Okay, then I'm gonna start with pulling out arrow and doing what Keelith and I talked about. Hey, I'm pulling out my arrow. You were gazing. Daylight on the tip of that arrow. And I'm gonna shoot it.

Pee-choo-poo-poo! As close as I can to the Krakken's head and just like past him. Like I wanted to go by the eyeball. Okay. Let me see here. Day and light. Throwing a meatball past a lion that's stalking you. It's a really good meatball. It's a really good meatball.

It's an artisan meatball. If I can hit it in his head, that's cool, but that's a hell, Mary, Pat. Is this light or daylight? Daylight. Because daylight, you just choose a sphere for it to happen. I've totally cast daylight on an object before. You don't need to, you say.

But we'll say for the purpose of this, you do. I can do that, right, because I did that with Grog and his bowl helmet. So that way it'll stay lit over there. Over on the arrow. Sure. Like a flare. What is happening with that? I don't know if that's allowed.

but I know we've done that. No, what happened? What's happening? So as you hit that. What is going on? He's going to be working out. You're not working out. Wow.

This is he's fucking drunk right now. I don't know, man. Tracking just showed up. That sounds like a valid to me. Oh, I know. I said it. Take a moment to breathe. Well, on that note, okay, so you focus as she draws the arrow

and pulls it with intent in the back of the bow. As you do, you focus and you watch as you aim, and then close your eyes. as you see the spark of energy curl off the front of the arrow. It's bright, nature-based daylight, just burst out of the arrows as you release it. Go ahead and make an attack against the Cracken with disadvantage, please.

Okay. Come on. Come on. Come on. Come on, come on. No, you're right. You choose a point with an object you're holding, and one that isn't being worn that line turns from the object.

You're correct. 26. 26, that hits. Go ahead and roll damage. Okay. Totally in character. Oh, 12 plus one lightning damage. All right, so 13.

This is not a sneak attack, and I obviously can't have done Hunter's mark. Right. So the arrow sinks into kind of the underside of the Crackens' dark form. You're just barely making out its bits of its shape. As the light hits, you can see now, close to look, looks like 10 various tentacles.

Now, like, kind of curling and finding its way over the top of this structure. It slams into the side, and the daylight brightly sprays out from under it. I want it to be like, by the way, because daylight's, no, lasts for an hour. So you watch as this light is now billowing from underneath the creature. It does not seem, you can see watches this pupil kind of adjust to the light. It doesn't appear to be blinded or having an issue with the daylight. However, it is now a beacon and the arrow now partially jammed into its side. You have a very, very clear idea and a bright view of the battlefield around it as this

Cracken is now emitting light in its vicinity. Well, now there's shadows. And a giant Megalodon comes in eat it. Ooh, that'd be great. So that's your first attack. Oh, yeah. I can't do a spell for my second. I can't do alter self in my second.

I'll just say, I'll just check it. Okay, do I still get disadvantage if I attack it again? Yep. Okay, I'm going to attack it again. It's not about aim, it's about the actual water resistance. Okay, I'm going to attack it again. Go for it. I got a blue mini on it.

What's 15 plus seven? 22. 22. That hits, going to roll damage. 12 plus just one damn lightning damage. Okay. One damn. One damn lightning damage, dark.

You watch is the spark of energy from the arrow hits at the second time, that the daylight struck in your view. And the energy bursts around of the lightning damage you're used to seeing it from any creature impacts, and the lightning seems to just hit its blubbery hide and vanish. Right, because lightning, it just did lightning, obviously. Obviously, it's immune to lightning. Right. And I'm going to use my motion to back the fuck off and try to get behind that rock outcropping. Five, ten, fifteen. Laser pointer.

As far as, all right? Okay, yeah, sure. Just on the other side of anything. That's as far as you can get. Okay, cool. Because you don't have your alter self form yet, and you're like, you're slowly swimming through the water sluggishly. That's as far as you get. Trinket, you want to get Trinket,

you want to give Trinket in any sort of movement. Yeah. Can he back up behind that? Pillar? Right here? Yeah. Trinket moves up and kind of guards himself behind the side. All right, Percival. I'm going to use my bonus action to cast hex on the Cracken.

I'm going to hex the Cracken. By the way, Vax, can you make it? Don't kill it. Don't kill it. No, I just want to know where it is. Okay, just don't kill it. I have nothing I can do to it. Can I hide for my bonus action as a rogue?

I literally have one word for hour, and that's to electrocute it. to electrocute it, which does nothing. These violet candies are delicious. They're really good and they're a problem. Just delicious. I'm going to dig the lodestone out of the dirt. Okay. Don't worry about it.

I'm going to spend my turn trying, keeping an eye on the thing I just hext so that I know where it is. Okay. You go ahead and dig out. It's been your entire turn pulling the loadstone out and you're now holding it in your hands. And I'm also turning to Terry and going, find the next. Next one, we've got to get out of here. Okay, so that's your action. Do you want to move it all? Yeah, once I've got the lodestone. Yes.

I want to, well, I don't have the bag. You're next to Terry, though. You can put it in his. I'm going to put it in his bag. Okay, so you move over and you're able to go ahead and put it in. And I'm going to try and see if I can get some cover, like some cover from that as far away from that thing as possible. Whatever I can do. Five, ten, you're not able really to get any cover.

Unfortunately, because the water's like, boom, Yeah. You're swimming through after putting it inside there and you move along. Because you use your action to pull it up. You kind of put it inside there as the rest of your turn. You just swim past it's as far as you can get. Yeah. All right, that ends your turn.

Oh, God. All right. Now is the Cracken's turn. Ah. Let's see. Swim speed of 60 feet. Fuck you. It coasts around this direction.

Yeah. It coasts around this direction. You cast less. We'll say it gets over in this side here, perspective-wise. Vax, would you roll for your stealth again? I didn't roll after I said I hid. But you were your hide, so you were going to hide? Yeah.

Bonus action. So go ahead and make your hide check. Okay. That's good, that's good, that's good, that's good. 35. Okay. By the way, Vaxe, I'm going to ask, go ahead and make a concentration check. So it's a constitution saving throw.

Jevis. Now I'm going to use luck. All right. 15. 15. Okay, you maintain concentration on the shite. Hashtag plus. To you guys. Here's thought that. Hashtag plus. All righty. I'm not happy with any of this. So the Krakken is now, the tentacles begin to whip outward. It's going to make one strike against Vex. Oh, he saw me? One strike against Terry and one strike against Grog.

Yeah. Because why not? So. 35 is not good enough to hide from him. Wait, you're hidden. So it does not. It's Terry Percival and Grog. You did this, too. Sorry.

That is a total of 32 against Terry. Oh, sure. Oh, yeah, that hits. Percy, that is 23. Oh, yeah, that hits. And Grog, that is 23 again. Yes, I hits. Not speaking as Percy, this is like legitimately nightmare

fuel right now. I'm not sleeping tonight. All right. You got a problem with. Oh, that's right. You hate fish. Don't tell the internet, though. I'm so sorry. Do not send him out. Taryn, you take 16 bludgeoning damage.

Cersival, you take 20 bludgeoning damage. Okay. Crog, you take 20 bludgeoning damage. Okay. Grog, you take 19 bludgeoning damage. And all three of you are grappled. The tentacle wraps around you and holds you in place. Oh.

The movement is zero currently until you try and break free. Oh, my gosh. Oh, no. It's just trying to get a feel for the friends that are in its face. Oh, God, oh God. All right. That ends the Cracken's turn, as it goes ahead and grapples three of your allies in the process. Grog, it's your turn.

It's my turn? Yes, it is. I would like to watery rage. Okay, it's a bonus action? Yeah, it's my bonus action. And can I smash the Titan stone knuckles together to cast in larger my eyes? I'm cached in larger myself. Yes, you can.

So you shift into your larger form. Yeah, I'm a bigger fish now. You are still grappled by the creature, but you are larger. Can I fight with the strength of the Teton Stone Knuckles to break that grapple? To slam your gauntles together, that wasn't, was that a, was this a specifying action

on the ability? Look at the item. It is in action. So you can not break free currently this turn, but is your action to transform, you're still grappled. He just got a bigger chew toy. Yeah. Sweet.

I'm digging it, that's my turn. Okay. Tyrion. Okay. Me? Yes. Oh, Christ. You're currently grappled. You can't move.

I can't move. I can't move my hands or anything. You can't, you can't move, like you're moving to zero. You can do things, you can still cast any attacks or disadvantage. because you are currently restrained within the grapple. Any attacks are disadvantage. Jesus. Attack rules.

Spells are still ineffective, but. I'm going to reach for my robe so carefully sewn by young Laura Bailey and rip off, I think I have, a patch. It's in like Velcro pantsage. Don't I have some spells on there? Wait, is that for my robe or is that somewhere else? No, you gave me me. some scroll spells, some spell scrolls. You have some spell scrolls. You have

patches in your robe and you have your helmet. I wrote down that I have a hypnotic pattern somehow. Was that a patch or was that something else? Hypnotic pattern? That's not part of your helmets. That would probably be one of your patches. It must have been a... Like a Boy Scout. It must have been a patch or something. Oh yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Patch. It's a bravery. It's a patch. Okay. I'm ripping off a patch. Okay, so you're off one of the patches and you go ahead and you're using a hypnotic pattern? Yes.

That weaves through the air instead of a 30-foot cube within range. So you create a hypnotic pattern around the exterior of the face of the Cracken, where the eyes are. Yes. Because you tear the patch off, you release it in the water, and you watch the patch slowly drift up. And for a second, you're like, nothing happened. Wait, what? There's a spark out of your hand.

And you watch it suddenly there's an array of colors and various flashes in the face in the area around the Cracken's face. Oh, do it work. Okay. My wisdom saving point. What's your DC? Or on the item? On the item. Jesus.

So many things. Magic is hard, guys! I know. Wasn't it easier when you just had to rhyme? I know, right? It just says spell scroll. The item, I mean, I think it's mine. This is the robe of useful items, correct?

Oh, does that have its own DC? Uh, the spell scroll, oh yes, it's one of the scrolls. It's just one of the scrolls. So yeah, we'll use your DC. I don't miss. My DC? Yeah. Is 17.

17. Wisdom save and that. That is a 21, so yes, it says. Shut. I've taken him out. So as the spark hit, the slight flash vanishes and you watch as the lids are still closed tight, and they open with this horrible, sickening, sliding sound, and the glowing yellow eyes still seem trained on various allies of years in the vicinity. Does he's got two eyes or just the one eyes? Two eyes. Got it.

All right. Is that your turn, very? Is that your turn to? He's not a pirate? I mean, yeah. I mean, I'll cast, no. I mean, he's got me grappled. I can't do sanctuary, right?

He's already got me. Well, you've already used your action to try and use the patch. That's a bonus action. But patch the bonus action? No, the sanctuary is a bonus action. Then you can do that, yeah? All right, I'll cast sanctuary on, on myself.

Okay, sanctuary on yourself, perfect. Don't act like you get to do, so it goes on. All right, Bax, you're up. Oh my God. You glance, just, just, barely over the side and you can see it's already wrapped up Grog, Teryon, and Percy with his tentacles. But one of us does not look into. Shit.

Get him undone. What'd you say? You can get him undone. I'm going to start swimming. Who's the closest of all the people grappled to me? It'd be grog. All right. I'm going to start swimming there over the shells. 15, 20, 20, and I'll blow...

And I'll use my bonus action for more movement. I've gotten that for. Okay, to dash. Yeah. That'll give you, just have him to swim right next to him. Okay. And I'd like to use Whisper to tear into the tentacle, holding him to try to get him free of it. Okay, so are you attempting to-

To un-graple him? All right, I need you to go ahead and make a, because it's not you in the grapple, this is him. Yeah. This is an athletics check. Athletics check, god damn it, man. Acrobatics is to escape from it, to help somebody else. you're having to actually physically force it off.

Plus, that's shit. Shit. Nope. You try and like grab, you're hacking at the side, but as you're hacking with the blade, you're watching as it's not quite beating past the hide of a tentacle around it. Okay, I'm out. Okay, Keelith, you're up.

I knew that's where you were gonna say. So all of my friends are still grappled. A lot of them are, yeah, three of them. Ha ha ha ha. Just go get the load. Yeah, I'm gonna cast locate object, see if I can find that third lodestone. Okay.

They're fine, you're fine. You're level 16, motherfuckers, you're fine. Oh, God, I wanted to find the lodestone. I've been eaten a dragon. Please help. Okay. Locate object. All right.

The third lone stone is kind of in the direction and just passed this way at least. I'm sorry. Wait, which direction? Your hand is lateral. You're here. It's going this way. Towards the way your hand is going.

Correct, like there from you. Okay, I'm going to use my alter-stelf swim speed and swim that direction as far as I can. Do I get a better location on it? You get there and you're still feeling it in this direction. I'll double my speed. Okay. Yeah, that's really confusing on like a fundamental level.

Can I do another like investigation check? Is it near me? Unfortunately, no. Investigation is one of those things where you spend your action moving through and searching in the vicinity. That's, other than your bonus action, that's about as much as you can get. You just feel it's in this direction from you. Okay. As a bonus action, who's near me? The Cracken's about 20 feet above you. Yeah, yeah, yeah, party members. Party members, you have Percival, Tarian, and Vax. Sorry, there's Vax over there.

Okay, I'm gonna do, you're fine, right? You're great. I'm gonna do aggressive. Vine and see if I can get Taryn out of the Crasman's... Oh, sorry. Get Taryn out of the Crackens grasp with Grasping Vine. A lot of big words. Where does the Grasping Vine start from? Can I get it kind of towards that? Sorry, deal with me.

This. Got out here? Yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Okay, so a vine curls up, whips towards Tarian wraps around. I'm going to say this is an opposed check of the vine versus the crack and strength. I need you to go ahead and roll and add your wisdom modifier. The town's important. People killer.

People killer. That's good. My strength? No, your wisdom modifier. Just my modifier? Just your wisdom modifier. Oh, that wise as fuck, motherfucker? That is with it, that was a 15.

26. It tugs and tugs, but it's not strong enough to break. The vine is now like pulling back and forth between the tentacle and Terry. Territory. Trophy. Trophy. But unfortunately, It's the dragon over again.

No. Don't say it. It's a very, very strong creature. Okay, but I'm still, well, it's someone's over here! And that's all I get. Okay. And he killed its turn, we come to the top of the round.

I need everybody to go ahead and make a Constitution saving throw. Once again, the Kraken, its eyes light up blue, and its tentacles now release another burst of electrical energy in the vicinity. hashtag bliss. Oh, hashtag blessed. Constitution, right? Yes. That's... Fifteen.

Good eye. Nineteen points of lighting damage. Twenty-one. Nineteen points of lightning energy. God damn it. Seven. Nineteen points of lightning damage. Six.

Deathwalkers award. Nineteen reduced to nine points of lightning damage. I get 19 points. 19 points. and I have resisted to lightning damage with the exalted knuckles. All right, so you take five points of lightning damage. Trink it.

Ah, give it, Mr. Come on, drink. After 20. Just kidding. He gets it, too. Okay. Okay. Okay. So that is 19 points of lightning damage.

At the end of that turn, the Cracken is going to go ahead and use, let's see, in range here. It's going to go ahead and use one of its lessonary actions to do a tentacle attack against Keelith. That is 29. That definitely hits. All right. Keelith. Prustation beholder. You take 21 points of bludgeoning damage. That really, that hurts.

21 points. I'm at 91, so 21 puts me to 70. Right? Yeah. I'll say, I will use the red markers here as people that are currently grappled. Grappled? Because you are now grappled and restrained, Keeleith. What? Oh yeah, he can grapple like all of us. He's got enough of those tinnacles. Who's not grappled?

Oh, first of all, because of your hex, I need you go ahead and make a Constitution saving throw. It showed him. Oh no. You're talking like that yet. That's 19? The later of the hour gives. No, that's mom.

All right. That brings us to Vex. Mom's been in town for a while. Vex, what you're doing? You're hiding behind the rock. You watch as four of your allies are now grappled by this creature. Fucking A. I gotta use the alter self so that I can actually do something though.

Like I won't be able to get to anybody. I'm just gonna have to waste a turn. All right, so you cast alter self in yourself as an action. Oh, am I still doing it? A little bit. I'm using Alt-a-self. All right, so you grab the coin that Taryn and gave you. You focus on it.

of gills suddenly pull from the side and all your fingers get webbed suddenly. And you begin to be able to move at your full. Okay, I'm gonna swim behind the rock. God damn it, light, the laser, no. The other rock, sorry. This rock here? Yeah, but on the other side of it.

Okay, so that's five, ten, twenty, twenty, five, thirty, that's your movement. And I'm gonna use my action, my bonus action to hide again. Okay. You still have your action, by the way. Oh. So that was your movement to get there. Oh, no, no, I'm sorry.

Action to spell, movement. You're right. Bonus action. Yeah. Bonus action to hide. Okay. Make yourself a check. Trink it has to save us all. And you cast a spell so we don't have pass without a trace anymore? So that's 24. Yeah.

Okay. Gotcha. So you're keeping low. At the end of your turn, it's going to use its other two legendary actions to do Lightning Storm? To me, no. No. I can. I cast grasping vine, which is technically a bonus action, it should not impede with my concentration spell, so we should still have pass without a trace, correct? Nope. I cast locate object. Nope.

Totally. Sorry. That's okay. Moatzone. Totally, yep. Podcast coming to the Alfonnet network. It uses Lightning Storm with its two other actions. It begins to charge up now, and it's both the slight

vicinity, you watch as the front of its mouth. You now see, between the darkness, the daylight that is glowing beneath it. The light begins to surge with electrical energy. You can see this strange, beaked, sharp mouth that opens, and as it does, bolts of thick lightning energy shock out from in front of it. That's going to be hitting Grog, Vax, and Percival. Bless. So I need you guys to make dexterity saving throws, please. Yay! Big money, no whammy. Big money, no whammies.

23. 23, you take 11 points of lightning damage. That'll do. 27. You take no points of lightning damage, because if you're evade, and... Eleven, but I have resistance to lightning damage. Right, so you take 11 points of lightning damage. All right, that brings us to Percival's turn.

You are still grappled and held in the creature's grasp. Okay. Just get out, man. I'm going to try and get an... Is acrobatics a way to get out of this, or...? way to get out of this? Acrobatics or athletics, your choice. I'll take acrobatics.

All right. All of our speakings. All right, so here we go. Let's roll well. I get advantage on this, right? No. Okay, I just thought I'd see if I could sneak that through. I can't really, I can't roll that with a resolve, can I? No, because it's not safe.

It's a big ass crack in, though. It's not bad. 16. 16? You try and see. slide through, but it's holding too fast. You can't escape, unfortunately. So that's your action. I'm minor with anything else. Do I have anything I can do?

Is there a bonus action thing I can do here? No. I am just, yeah. I think about how easy it would be to reload my gun right now if I had one. That's your turn? That's, yeah. All right, it is now the Cracken's turn. The Cracken is going to shift over here. to shift over here, still holding you guys in its vicinity.

It pushes past the area, kind of reaching the ground area. We're going to say pushing up to there. It's going to go ahead and make a bite attack against you, Grog, you're the largest medias circumstance. That is 27 to hit. That hits. All right. So you take 27 points of piercing damage,

because you are raging, that is halved, to 1,000. We'll say 14, piercing damage. However, as it pulls towards you, its tentacles pull up and that giant piercing beak just swallows you. What? You suddenly, everything goes dark and you feel yourself being pulled into the dark interior

of the kraken, the burning numbness of the acid of its interior beginning to burn away at the outside of your flesh. You are restrained, you are inside, you are blind. Oh my god. You guys watch Grog, even in his large forms, just disappear inside the Crackens Ma. That's gonna bring us to Grog's turn. Cool.

I'm in the womb again. Yes, you are. There's fluid. Do I hear a heartbeat? Very faintly. It's like a triple heartbeat. Nice. Right, cool.

Am I restrained anymore? Yes. Because I'm in the gullible. Because you're inside being crushed by its interior muscles that are pulling you towards instead of subtract. It's fun, isn't it? Nice, cool, yeah. How do you break free of bringing or strength?

That threw off my plan. You attack a disadvantage. How about, yeah, let's try. God, can I even make a melee attack? You can, it can. It's a disadvantage. Yeah, let's give it a whirl, and I'll make it a reckless attack. Yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

Yeah. It's just one roll. Let's one. Come on. Come on. That day, vote. You're still blessed, yeah? Yeah, I'm still blessed.

That's a 30. That's a 30. 30 hits. Hey. You hit a creature from inside of it. It's like literally nowhere your fist could go that wouldn't hit it. But it's like 23. 23.

23. Okay. Are you punching it or? No, I'm hitting it with a dwarf and throw a. All right. P-th. Two ends. So, are you attacking again?

Yeah. Same thing, one roll. 26. 26 hits, roll damage. 22. 22, all right. My bonus action, I would like to be very discouraged about my current state of affairs. You're just regular rage right now, right?

Yeah, just regular. Could I use my bonus action to go into a frenzied rage because I have never been swallowed? Sure. and I don't like it. Okay. Let me check one thing off as far as the Finsett rage goes. How do you get unswalled? Kill the Cracken.

Fuck this big squid. We're gonna have a really hard time explaining that to my ancestors. We can kill them too. It's not a problem. That's not no. We'll resuscitate the Crackin if it comes to it. Maybe we can just rip open its guts and then leave it. I could recessive. I could recessive.

I could do that turn. We have to resticit. We can resuscitate the crack. All right, then it's your turn, Grog? Yes. Scary. Still grappled, yes? Still grappled and restrained, yes.

Raffling with many things. I feel like I should not be here, but there's no way I can't break free. He's super strong and I'm not. So. Keep fucking with him. As a note too, goes. I didn't tell you to find the loadstone.

I forgot earlier. Any of you that are grappled or restrained by the creature have disadvantage on your dexterity saving throws. I forgot about it earlier. It's fine going forward. Keep that mind. On dexterity says. Thanks, chat room. Mm-hmm.

I just remember from the rules here. I will rip off... I'm sure Chatroom was on half of it. I will rip off another patch. I'm just using all my tricks. You don't need no sticking patch. I will rip off another patch and use, because I'm touching it, I will use vampiric touch.

You didn't take you to a goth club. It's like. Take you to the Goth Club. All right. I think that's a touch spell. It is. You still have to roll an attack to hit it. Shit. But it's a melee spell attack, I'm pretty sure.

So getting that to Fiblobal Vampir Touch. All right, so you use your action to cast it on yourself, and then make a mealy spell attack against the creatures. So go ahead and roll a D20. With disadvantage because you are restrained. So the lower of those two. Yeah. I can't use luck on the lower of those two.

You can. Oh. Okay, that's better. Still not gonna be enough. Plus my spell attack bonus? Is that way hard? So that's 20. 20 hits? Oh! Yeah. Worth it. All right. He says 3D6 necrotic damage. That's not a lot. That'll help. Not a lot. No, that's something. Oh, nine. 14. 14. So you deal 14 points of necrotic damage to the Cracken, and do you regain seven hit points? Nice. As you draw its life force away, grabbing onto the 10.

ten rules of his tentacles, like, ah! He watches the necrotic energy pulses into it and pulls the life force into you. Okay. You know, small, but okay. And once again, casting sanctuary, recasting sanctuary on myself. Because it went away when I do that. Yeah, Sanctuary's concentration?

No, well, I don't know, but it goes away if I attack him. True. However, if sanctuary is a concentration, because Vampire touches also concentration. concentration. Well, it would have gone away either way, right? I'm saying if sanctuary is a concentration spell. Oh, you can keep up vampiric touch if you want. Yeah, you can do it every turn if you want to. Oh, I can. Keep yanking that out. Oh, well then I'll just keep it going.

If you wanted to. Yes, I do. The sanctuary is not concentration. It just lasts for a minute. So your sanctuary is still on. You don't have to cast it again. Oh, no, you did attack. So you cast it again. Yes, you can have both on. Okay, I have both on. There we go. There we go. There you go. You figured that out. A lot of rules. All righty. It brings back to the top of the round. You're up. Okay, I'm gonna use Disengage to kick away from this big fucking thing and start, I'm hasted, so I should be able to get to Keyleth.

10, 15, 25. And she's grappled, correct? She is. I'm just gonna start cutting. So try to do what I did with Grog before. Okay. So athletics, you said, right? Yeah, I'd say cutting at the tentacle.

I mean, both are pretty rough for you because you don't do a lot of damage to the dagger. I'll save for the sake of going forward in this, go and make an attack. A tackle. I'm going to use my last luck of the day. That was a one. Can I say anything to him in the process? Yeah, you can. Can?

Yeah. I say, low and stowl. Right there. I keep all doing that with the fingers. 16, 29. That's 3.1. 31 hits. Go and roll damage.

You don't know where the next one is. No, this is the next one. You found it. This is the next one. I found it where I am. Because even though she's scraffled, it's still way far away. Yeah. The actual body, the sensitive part of the body is away.

All right. I see. There. That's me. The loadstone is over here somewhere. Two. That's me in the ocean. Ten of a lot. That's me in the fish. 15.

15 points of damage. Yeah. All right, you just rush up the side of her and begin hacking away at the tentacle. You watch as you're carving into it and it begins to break away. It doesn't fully... Okay, fully... One more attack, so I'll keep going then. Okay, go for it.

All right. This is Venom, that's 24 plus. Okay, good, plus nothing. Where the hell do I keep in my eyes? Where's the four? What's the fucking four? There it is, plus four is 10. I'll unload some poison in it.

That's a DC 15. Okay, it succeeds. Okay, so nothing. Oh, does it halved then or nothing for the poison? What does it say on the item? Oh, Pup, Poppup, Pop, Pop, Pop, Pop, Pop, Pop, Pup, Pup, Pup. Percival, take this down. Sure.

It doesn't say anything about having it, so I guess that means zero. Nothing. So 10 for the second time. 10 points in different. Okay, it doesn't quite carve away entirely. It's close. You'd see it's taking damage, and the tentacles like starting to pull away, but it's still holding her fast.

I'm still, I'm still grappled. Is that end of your turn? Is that end of your turn. It's going to make a bash action. Since Teryon and Percival are right next to each other, it takes two tentacles, pulls back, whack, and slams them into each other. Both of you guys take 11 points of bludgeoning damage. Oh my God. And I'll push adjacent to each other, which you already are. So that's that.

I'm not having a happy time. All right. Keyleth, you're up. So I'm still attached? You are, yes. Yeah, there's a 30-foot reach on each of these tentacles. So you're still on the the outskirts of its reach. It's damaged, it's hurt. It'd be easier to break free, but it would take your action to do so. I turned to Vax, grappled, and I say, load stone! And I point with the best direction that I can with my remaining. So you point this way. Did it make its wisdom saving throw when it attacked me?

Actually, you are part of the bash. So that is an 18 plus 12, so 30. Yes, it did. I have a saving throw constitution. I have a concentration. It's like to add it up. No. Would you roll? A one. Yeah, hex is gone. Sorry, buddy.

Who's still grappled? You are. Tarian and Marseus. Tarian and Percival and Swallie and the Beast. Don't worry about it. Yes. Okay, I look at the twins and I say, Lodestone.

There is. I'm on the other side of the rock, but I can hear you. Loftstone! And then I do control water. Okay. And I'm gonna redirect flow. And I'm gonna push all of us, I don't give a fuck, we'll be fine. In this direction, you see my laser?

This way, I'm gonna point us away. So I want to redirect flow and go, Foof! And push us away from the lodestone in the direction of everyone else. This way. How many feeding you get the water away from the Cracken and maybe it'll just be on like landlocked? I can redirect the current of the ocean for a temporary amount of time. You and Vax both?

All of us, just me and the Cracken and I guess everyone who's still grappled by him are going this way. Okay, keeping Vax away. Vax and Vax and Vax are probably, Axe and vex are probably still away. I'm going, f-hm. Okay, so I'm watching roll a D20 and add your wisdom modifier. Roll a D20 and add my wisdom modifier? Yes.

I've got advantage on that, right? No. Because a hero's feast? It's your wisdom modifier. It's a wisdom check, it's not a saving throw. That was like such a grandma reaction. Plus 11, 8, 28. Oh!

The strength of your control water does actually, is stronger than the Cracken's current ability to hold this up in place. The Krakken gets pushed this way, about 20 feet. You guys get dragged around by 20 feet, and you get dragged along with it 20 feet. Wait, who? Me.

But not Vex and Vax. Not Vex and Vex. Just you force the Cracken this way. So yes. Maintaining concentration, your locate object fails, but you're still controlling it. You push the Cracken and the rest of you, the allies that are grappled along with it.

Get the Lodestone! Right. Okay, that finishes Keelot's turn. We're at the top of this here. So let's see. Gras your mouth, be good. Yep. Here to help.

That's me and the cracker. As the water begins to force the Kraken this way, with it being pulled and kind of dragged across part of the rock nearby and seeing everyone pushing that direction, it turns and tilt sideways. And as it does, it pulses with muscles and releases, this giant cloud of ink. that swallows this vicinity, 60 feet in the area.

The entire surrounding vicinity of the battlefield all of a sudden is now heavily obscured by black ink. Awesome. I bet it looks really cool with the daylight, like passing through it though, huh? It does until it encompasses the area and blocks out the daylight. It's like watching Creamer and coffee in reverse.

This is kind of, yeah. Or the insured in every ending story. Oh, awesome. Basically, yeah. Now that. I can, I know. Vex, it's your turn. Max and Keelith are gone. Do you guys hear the faint flapping of wings and moaning?

Oh, creepy. Really creepy. I am going to, I'm at like, um, swim up and over towards my brother, towards where she was pointing the lodestone. That's one movement there. Lodestone. That's with the altered self? Yeah. Okay. I'm just like her. I'm gonna have Trinket Wow. Okay, I guess. You just move out of range of the Cracken, but it does not see you because of your high check earlier, so it does not get an attack opportunity. Awesome. I'm going to have Trinket for my bonus action. Swim up on top of the Cracken's back.

All right. We'll say Trachin's new. And try to claw through because he saw Grog get swallowed. Okay. There is Trinket currently grappling on. He's like, looking, like, he's just claws thinking he's gonna get to the bellies. He's gonna attack him with a claw attack. All right, so go ahead and make your attack. Claw attack against him.

They have to be a disadvantage? Yeah. Damn it, that was a good. I mean, all attacks are disadvantage and her water. Oh, well, okay. Same thing. It's good. Nothing bad happened.

25. Okay. 25, that does it. Go ahead and roll damage for Trinket. For Creamer. Did you say Creamer? I say Crinket. Different creature. That was the disadvantage, right? Yes. 18 and 16. Nice. 5 plus 8 is... 13. 13.

13. 13 points of slashing damage, this Trinket just rakes into the side of the crack and shh, kind of cutting four distinct lines to the side of its, you know, armored, crustacellular. Does it have an armored out like kind of a lobster? It's not like soft and rubbery, like an octa. There are parts of it. side is, but a lot of it has the kind of crustacell like armor on the outside. Okay.

All right. And I guess I still have an action because I can't get close enough to like search right for the loadstone. So I'm going to try the thing that I saw very noisy Kielith try. Still. Earlier, which is to shoot out Grasping Vine and try to break someone free with it. Grasping Vine is a bonus action, spell. Grasping Vine not. Not concentration bonus action.

Yeah, but she already used a bonus action to let you get attack. That sucks. Oh. Okay. Then I'm gonna cast conjure animals. And I'm gonna try to cast, that's third level. I get summoned fake creatures.

So what's a fake creature that swims underwater? I don't know, what's a fake creature that swims underwater? You know, things that the player's handbook does not tell you. I just want to point that out. It doesn't say this. I know this for a fact that it says in the Players Handbook, the Dungeon Master will help you select a fake creature. Oh! Oh!

You realize this doesn't help you later. I can find out. Players' handbook says a lot of things, doesn't it? Only because contra-wooded-held beings is right here. Is someone going to disappear and it? Does it say it? To what? To what?

To what? To what? The DM has creature statistics. OCR. It does say the DM has the creature statistics. Great. Do you have creature statistics, DM? Let me pick one out for you. I have my card weights.

We're gonna get minnows, aren't we? We're gonna get little fay minnows. You get to roll initiative for the summoned creatures as a group. Edge of your seat action. To get a clue. Who can look up the stats first? A fake creature.

Full content, contact stats. Aren't a whole lot of fake creatures in the Monster Manual, Wizard of the Ghost. I'm going to point that out. You know, I will say it's a little bullshit. There's shade being thrown in every direction. It's a little bullshit.

What is the rating one? Is that super lame? Yeah. Yeah, it's a little, yeah. Rating two is still super lame? No, that's, well, okay, so as us as killer whales, we're challenge rating three. Except what would be a... Except none of us were killer whales. But...

So you're conjuring a fake creature of challenge rating... Two. One creature. Of two or lower. Okay. So. You get one fake creature, two or lower. I'm sorry. They're friendly, the real initiative. They're not in the B section.

They seem like Disney characters. And they seem like Disney characters. They braid your hair. Basically tangled, but not. I'm sorry, Matthew. It's fine. I'm sorry. I don't remember all this.

It's going to be great. Have we finally broken mercy? But like, for real, they never tell you the best creatures. Well, as part of your spell of it, it can be an animal. I'm conjuring an animal. I can conjure an animal, I'm gonna conjure a shark. That's a thing, crocodile.

No, no, that's not a. I've seen a shark and I've- Fake creature. Why does it have to be a fake creature? I'm conjuring animal. Wait, I can do this. You know, that's a good point. You know what, I'll let you.

Sure. Sea hag. Is that a thing? It's considered Faye. Sea hag is a Faye, two challenge. Thank you, Google. Sea hag! It says each beast is considered Faye.

You can summon Faye spirits that take the form of beasts. And you can get a hunter shark, which is a challenge rating of two. Okay, I guess a shark. It's a hunter shark, but it's Faye because it's dyed its hair with kind of a pastel pattern. Right around the Cracken, I want it swimming around the Cracken to distract it. All right, we'll say it's right there. You got a shark now. Fighting at the crack. And if a hunter shark has blood frenzy,

which means the shark has advantage on melee attack roles against any creature that does not have all of its hit points. Then it's gonna attack him. All righty. And get eaten. I'm glad we're gonna this out. Where's those assholes right now?

Just wanna point that out. Go ahead and make your attack on it. Like 80-something episodes, yeah. Spide attack. Plus six, with advantage. A roll at what? Has advantage because it's been damaged. It's plus six.

11. It bites about a futility against the armored exterior of the Kraken. It's more for distraction purpose than any way. Carmel. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. There we go. It will be if it uses up a fucking tentacle. Yeah, that's great.

No, no, we're in. Yeah, he is so ready to use a tentacle on the hunter shark. All right. End of your turn. It's going to go ahead and use another one's points to do a group. This is how he's been plotting. Yeah, it's going to go ahead and make a tentacle attack against Trinket. We die in the Epilogue. He's biting at it currently. That is a 23 to hit.

That hits. All right. Trinket takes... Oh no. How close am I? How close am I? How close am I? You'll be dead. Twenty points of bludgeoning damage? Halfed. Because of his armor. Because of his armor. And Trinket is grappled currently. I'll be fine.

Geez. Everybody's grappled. Everybody was grappled under water. Tika, tig, tig, tig, tig, tig, tig. We were all fucking chelot. Percival, what are you doing? You know, I'm not having any luck getting out of this thing. Oh, God.

And I get the distinct impression that the whole point of this creature is that there's just no escaping it. I'm going to start trying to cut my way out of this thing. I give up. I'm cutting my way out. Okay. Because we don't kill it. No. What are you using the attack?

Just don't kill it. I'm going to use my long sword. All right. So attack with disadvantage. Let's attack with this advantage. I can't. It's just going to... It's just a tentacle.

Yeah, it's just a tentacle. With the intent to leave. Oh, that's not bad. I'm sorry. It just flash of my future. That hits. Good and mold damage. And I don't have attacks anymore, so that's...

What if you turn us into animals now? Will that break the grapple? I could, yeah. Oh. 13. Okay. And another attack. All right, go for it. Disavantage. Also 23. That hits. Go to roll damage. Also 13. All right. And again. Third attack with your sword with disadvantage. 28. 28 hits, roll damage. Do you roll both 16s? You did. You're both 16s. I know.

Some metaphor. Oh. That's good. Yeah, and 15. 15. With that, you managed to finally cut through the tentacle. It tears open. You can see like the kind of dark purple blood kind of being to cloud around the area as you feel yourself freed from the tentacles grasp. So that's your action. I am booking towards the big red, the, the, the, the big red garden of the other way. No, no, the other way. I'm looking that way. Sorry, this thing looks very, oh wait, wait, wait. This looks very, this looks very, this looks very, this looks very, this looks very, this looks very. very red to us. Yeah. Oh, no, it's not red. Oh, that's not red. Oh, that's so weird. It's not red, but on camera it looks very red to us.

So you're heading this way? I'm heading the opposite direction of that fucking nightmare monstrosity. This way? Yes. Okay, you can move five, ten. I'm gonna get behind that, that boulder and hide if possible. Here? All right. Okay. Bonus action to hide or no? Well, it's a bonus action for rogues to hide. Oh, so for my bonus action, I'm Is Minor Illusion a bonus action or not?

I'm pretty sure my illusion is an action. I can't remember I've done it in so long, and I'm feeling so useless. Yeah, I'm... I'm fighting a Crackin, buddy. Oh, I'm gonna use a... I have a heel. I'm gonna heal. I'll use my bonus action to heal.

Okay, go for it. One D10 plus 12, where's a D10? So... That's not bad. That's... Okay, 18. Okay, good. I get 18 points back. Yay. Okay, there you go. At the end of your turn, Percival?

At the end of your turn, Percival, it's going to use its third final legendary action to attempt to hit you with a tentacle. That is 21 to hit. Yeah, it hits. All right. You take... You're so grappled again, right? 26 points of blood-daining damage. And you are grappled once more. Oh! 26 points of blood-turning meat bag? Yeah, that's fine. This piece of shit.

I love it. Is that any turn? Cracken's up. All right. Top of the Cracken's turn. Brog? Yeah. The acid from the interior of the cracking begins to

begin to slowly pull around you and you feel your flesh in the exterior begin to just singe and burn and melt away. That's a lot of dice. I'm going to use the 60 foot app here. Oh my god, is it like being in lava? Sure it ain't great. Sure it ain't great. It ain't like being in a fucking spa.

That is, 45 points of acid damage. Okay. Gulp. And so turning around, the Krakken's gonna make it right back. Oh, no, Trinket. Oh no. Trinket is left this way. It's going to swim past to there.

Okay, hang on. My control water spell has a concentration and I create a current in a direction for like several minutes. I agree. And my shark gets a- The Cracken has an ability called freedom of movement. The Cracken ignores difficult terrain and magical effects can't reduce its speed

or cause it to be restrained. Well, that's just great. Sorry. That's wonderful. Does it get an attack of opportunity? Your shark does, yes. As does shrink it technically. That's a little bit better.

The dungeon master is kitty tonight. You are-annery-adventage, right? Noingly cheerful. From the shark, yes, you do. Trinkinckin has disadvantage. Okay. 16 plus six is 22! 22 from the shark.

Yeah. Oh, cast a hundred shark. This guy's a ring as pirates. All right, and disadvantage for Trinket? Oh. Well, we could kill the dragon. Which trick? 14 for Tringett.

Trigot, unfortunately, is claw struck against the back its armor as it passes past. No effect. All right. So is the crack. Do I roll for the damage of the shark? Yes. That wasn't the damage event.

Oh, yeah, no, that was just the... That was the hit. So yeah, roll damage for the shark. To space. 20, no, 13. 13 points of damage from the shark. Nice. Yeah.

All right, so the shark bites and, you know, watches it, tears away and makes its way over towards the grappled keeleth. Its jaws open with its beaked mouth. There's no room for anything else in there. That is... That is... One need four to hit? Yeah, I mean, yeah.

Oh, no. Right. Does it ever not hit? Oh no. That is. Am I about to be swallowed a frog? 22 points of piercing damage. Okay. And Kiela, you are swallowed by the Krakken.

Seven minutes in Krakken. You can do something from the inside. 22 points, you said? Whoever actually succeeded in changing anything from the inside, let's be honest here. It's just, you become part of it. Let's not get out of the system. So seven.

Just know that somehow this is a metaphor. 48. Don't know it for what? That one's tribut. Yeah, this one's crazy. Do I see Grog? You see nothing.

It is black blind darkness on the inside. And it's not as dark vision blindness. It is folds of internal muscle tightening flesh across your entire body. So not only is there no light, but there's no room to actually see anything, even with your dark vision. Can I use like a free action to be like, Grog! I'm in the Kraken! Is it a free action? You scream into it, going, Grogh, as you bring to Bower, sure.

Ew. All right, then use the crackest turn. Grog, you're up. Right. Can I like reach around? Do I feel any like dangly bits or like something like might be able to yank on? Or like hands.

I know I'm like this, but. You're unable to really feel around. You're holding your hammer here and the whole thing is like squeezing against you and the muscles are pulling intense. There's no way that I could like try and push out with my legs to try and pull something out of the bag of holding, is there? It's too tight for that. Well, what are you trying to pull out? Maybe the alchemy jug.

You could probably pull the alchemy jug out if you wanted to, yeah. I'll pull out the alchemy jug. All right. You force it out and you're holding it in the inside. And I get super fucking wasted. No, I'm kidding. I look inside of it and I say oil. Okay.

The jug now produces a bunch of oil. It gets to like fill up on the inside of the jug. Because you know sea creatures like oil. If you swallow like cod liver oil, it makes you vomit. Yeah. Unless you're a cod. And greases you up. Or crackin.

All right, so you produce a bunch of oil for your action inside the jug. Do you turn? Yep. Okay. That brings us to Tarian. You just watched Kieleth. The pinnacle of leadership, the guiding force in this whole adventure. gets swallowed by this terrible writhing sea monster.

She must be part of the plan. You're all seasoned veterans, right? This is all part of the plan, right? Oh, I've made a horrible mistake. Cal don't take me away. Oh my god. What are you doing, Tarian? Well, I saw him, I saw Percy cut his way out of the

tentacle, so I'm going to try to do the same. Okay. Look at it did me. But I need, like, I can move my hands, right? You can. You're just any attacks or a disadvantage, and you can't move. Okay, then I will take, I will reach into my magic bag and pull out a vial of acid and slam it down on the tentacle and see if it can burn through the tentacle.

Okay, go ahead and make a, this would technically be a melee or range, we'll say because it's so close. So roll D20 twice with the distance. advantage, so. Oh, one, one. Oh, terrible. So with your attack bonus for the Yeah, it's well.

Do you just grease that tears? You reach and you pull it out, and as you go to throw it, it tenses once and it just floats away. Before it slowly sinks into the sand and goes and rests there. It doesn't even impact. It's a retrievable. Sure. Yeah, that's good. And then as my bonus action, I will say to Percy,

first of all, take this down. Aye, Terry and Derrington, being of sound mind and body, hereby do not leave my belongings to anyone, but prefer to be buried with them. I'm going to gaze at him as a professional gayser. I'm going to gaze at Terry and just... and just allow my head wound to just bleed out. You channel Bratio and stare at him

to give him disproval with wordless, okay? I hate you. That ends your turn, Terry, I believe. All right, Vax, you're up. Okay, I've just gone wider. My face has gone whiter than it has since I became a paladin of the fucking Raven Queen seeing Keeleth get swallowed up, but I'm going to try.

rustic grog and she are going to get themselves out of there, and I'm going to look to where Keyleth pointed and try to see a lump or something in the sand. Okay, make an investigation check. I've found a too much. Hold on. We're 18. 18 yet.

18. Reliable talent. Okay. You just get to this part of the sand and start sifting through, and it's causing this cloud, and you hear, like, The water just being rapidly whipped through and cut behind you from the rapidly moving tentacles. As you pull through, you just begin with your action to uncover what looks to be the very peaking top of the final loadstone. Is that one action? Because I have an action and a bonus action, so I'll just do as much as I can to dig this.

The bonus action is a weapon attack. So you managed to un- I'm hasted. Oh, the hasted action is only a weapon attack? Correct. Okay. Fucking hell. Dig, dig, dig. I can't do anything.

I can't do anything. You're making progress. You're making progress. You're so good. You're so good. You're so good. Can you use a bonus to help anyone? No, I mean I'm on concentration for the blast, and they're both in there, and they probably fucking need it.

True a knife. You're hot, you're great, you're good, you're worm, you're finding that stone. I'm done. I'm done. Dig, dig, dig, dig, dig. Any of your turn, it's going to lose some of the legendary action to attempt to hit you with a tentacle.

That is a 28 to hit. Damn, okay. All right. Shit, 22. Shit, 22. No, it hits me. Yep, that is... Oh, hold on. 2. What's 28? Nah, I wouldn't hit 28.

Never mind. Because I'm blessed, but it's not enough. 28 points of bludgeoning damage. Okay. Uncanny dodge. Okay, so reduce that by half. It says 14. Okay. And you are grappled. Oh, good. As the tentacle wraps around you.

Does I have a limited number of tentacles? Uh, currently now nine. Nine. Okay. Nine tentacles. More than us. It had ten. But if we keep playing, it may have eight, then seven, then six.

That might possibly be a nice. Or it might just swallow all of us. And then we've plane-shift from the inside of the Cracken, and everything's okey-dokey. Which I have plane-shift if all goes terribly wrong. But we all have to be holding hands, don't we? That's true. Just you and me, Liv. All right, so.

The garden keyleth show, I would watch that. It's back's turn. Keyleth, you're up. Shit. Okay. Grug! Oh, geez, I'm right broken here. Crohn, and I reach out.

He's saying, do I feel him? We'll say that you're just, as the muscles squeeze you deeper in its body, you kind of slam into it. It feels like a hard bottom of boot. Oh. Oh. I still have control one. as an concentration. We'll actually make a constitution saving throw

because you were damaged by the piercing model, which is, this will say 24, so go ahead and I don't remember the number was, but we'll go with that. Come on, Mark Holmes. Concentration. Would you have advantage on because of your work after? Which I have advantage. Oh, I'm a warcaster.

That was a 16. No, I'll take with that. 16. What? Constitution saving throw. Okay. 22. Okay, so you maintain concentration.

Okay. And I find grog. You do. And I have control water. Is it watery in this? No, it is muscles tensing and a thin layer of acid. And oil. Or oils inside the jug.

Oh. You didn't pour it. Is it not just floating amniotic like water in this esophagy? No, that's what he just said. There's no water. You're in the stomach. Not the esophagus. Oh.

Anatomy. No water, though. I can't like jettison myself out of this guy's mouth. Ah, alright. We, you can spend your action to try. Okay, no, that's fine. There's options. There's not a lot of water in this space.

Okay. It's mostly like actual stomach acid from the creature and the muscles that are tensing around. We have oil. Right? Yeah. I tell Grog, I say, Hold on, and I cast a fireball right in front of us

to try and jettison ourselves out. I'm a big fan of this. With my spire of conflux, I go, and try and give this motherfucker the worst heartburn he's ever experienced. Yeah, get you ZanTax 75 now, bitch. You put that crack in on hot pepper gaming. I need you both to make dexterity saving throws at disadvantage. Disadvantage? He's got to shoot out some watery little stones. I have a load liquid. Okay. Jackpot and six of them.

You have to make a dexterity saving throw. 11. Oh wait, wait, wait, why you blessed? I'm making a Dex save. At disadvantage. At disadvantage. 13. My girl.

Oh. At disadvantage. Yep. That was in eight, rent. Plus Dex versus five. Plus best. Plus blessed. Plus blessed.

Hashtag. Hashtag blast. Oh, that's good. That's good. Plus 13, so that's 18? What's the DC on the spell for your staff? It doesn't say. So it would be your spell, DC.

Which is 20 if I'm fully equipped. Yes, you do not make you save. Your spell's too powerful. So go ahead and roll damage. On myself. Oh, like a 13. Yeah. That's fine.

So 8D6 damage to you, you, and the Kraken. Usually if a creature's fully submerged in water, it has damage resistance because of the water around it. however the spell is inside of it, so I will say that it does not get the fire resistance. The irony, if you come with a fire resistance, so I'm okay, I'm excited about that. No, no, no, no.

Oh my God. I would be exceedingly angry. We will save the cracking. We will save the crack. If you knock yourself unconscious with your own fireball. I don't care about that. I care more about the crack in the point. This is my life's work.

Literally gives the life's work. Oh, wow. Okay. Five, six, seven, eight, nine, plus four. which is 13 plus another six, which is 16, 19, and a six, which is 25. 25 was what you needed to force it to make a Constitution saving throw. 35 exactly? Well, based on the circumstances, I have the damage required for to make a saving throw to regurgitate.

However, a fireball explosion based on the... On the- Eight, I'm sorry. You said eight D6. Yes. It's actually 29 points. 29 points. All right. So as the fireball explodes, the oil that you create an inside ignites and also detonates.

Yes. How could be jug. Roll D20 for the strength of the jug. Who? No! No! He could kill the jug! That's good.

15. Okay. The jug would stand the force. could be able to blow. Good jug. The jug, however, detonates. Yeah. I love everything that's happening.

That's gonna be extra damage to you, groggy pants. For an additional. 18 points of fire damage to both of you. And the Krakken. To have, because of fire resistance. 18 points, that I can deal with. Plus 25.

Wait, plus 25? This on top of what you did. So, 13. 9. Correct. Correct. That would be 43. 43.

43 points of dance. You're alive. I'm alive. You should take a . I fucking roll the natural one. Did you? That's not even joking. On its constitution, it's DC-25, Constitu's

save a throw even with its plus 15 of the natural one. Wow. As a, it bursts inside. You watch the eyes bulge at the outside of this crack, and suddenly it vomits out a burst of smoke, dark, kind of bloody, water, acid, and both Kilith and Grog are jettisoned out of the front of the Cracken's mouth. What is the chances it dropped any of us while all this happened? Nothing. God-debted.

Everybody's gonna ask. Everyone on the outside just goes, Buh. It's kind of what I was expecting to be magnificently frank. I see him vomit and I'm like, you and me both, buddy. I don't need element. Do I still have a bonus action? You would, yes. I'm going to cast Healing Word at myself. Okay. At second level.

Go for it. Sorry. It's too, because I'm hurting. Don't forget. You still have your wild shape, forms too. Oh, I know. All right. That into turn, Keyleth? Four, five, plus six. Yeah, that is my turn. All right. Okay.

Secondary, legendary action to go ahead, and as soon as you guys emerge, one of his tentacles wraps out in your direction, Kieleth. That's a 16 plus 18. Yeah, that hits you like to 32. So as soon as you emerge, look around one of the tentacles wraps around you, and you take 19 points of bludgeoning image. Oh, God. And you are grappled by the tentacle.

Motherfuck, 19 points. Aw. What is this? Seven points. Wow. All right. That brings us to the next layer action. God damn it. Everything is still obscured in this black, inky space, by the way.

Oh, you guys missed that way you're away. The crack and did an ink jet and filled this entire 60-foot radius with ink. The whole area is drastically obscured. Even though there's my control water current going outward. It should last for 10 minutes. Well, last for 10 minutes while you're concentrating. Would you maintain concentration? I haven't broke concentration. I saved for it. We'll save right now. I already saved work when I was inside of him.

Right, but you just take the image from the tentacle. However, you are correct. The control water jet did clear out the ink from this area. It's not terrible. My wisdom, 19. It's not wisdom plus constitution. Not as good.

Bless. Plus bless. Which is good. Wait, what was that? That was three. Thank you. Three. Sorry, constitution. 16. 16. That's enough. So you maintain concentration. So yeah. So you've now cleared out this section here is now cut out of ink.

You control water, the stream that you're doing is clearing out the ink in this area. Slowest math. I know. Gill bought us Crackin. All right. Blame Gil. Cracking for cracking. Don't fuck me, Gil. All right, at this point, as it is now the 20 count on the layer action, the Crackham once again gives another pulse of electrical energy to everything in the area. Everybody go ahead and make a Constitution taping throw. 25.

All right, five points of lighting damage. Player Killer, not great. 18. 18, you take 10 points of lighting damage. Kila? Seven. 10 points of lighting damage. And she's out.

I'm unconscious. Death poker's award. So five points of lighted damage. Keelith is unconscious. Just barely. 16 for me. 10 points of lightning damage? Rob?

14 for Trinkets. It was 15, but I have resisted. So five points like damage. And Trinket was what? He gets 10 points as well. 10 points. Okay. So Keeloth goes unconscious.

You watch you see Jessica should have sent out. The lightning streaks through her and eyes darker and she kind of falls limp in the water at the moment as the tentacle begins to slowly draw our back towards its mall. All right. Vex, you're up. Okay. I'm gonna.

I'm going to keep moving towards the lodestone and my brother. I see where it came out. That's supposed to get it right there in this position. So can I use my, can I get it out of the water and put it in my bag of colding? Yeah, you spend your action to free it and you get it out of the water and put it into the bag. That's all three, right? So you have a bag of holding. I have a bag of colding. Colding, okay, yeah, you can put it in there. You have in a space.

Three? We've all three. You have all three. You have all three lodestones currently. Okay. We're all gonna die, but we have three lodestones doing it. Is Keyleth still grappled while unconscious? Correct.

Yes. And I guess for, God, for my bonus action. Can I, I don't know what to do. I'm gonna have, while I'm thinking about this, I'm gonna have the shark attack him. Because it's shark week. Okay, so the shark would be. Shark can bite tentacles.

Shark's gonna bite the tentacle that's holding on to, Who's that right in front of him? Percy? No. Right in front of him? Right there. This is Percy. This is Tarian. He's going to swim towards Percy. Wait, friendly shark. Invited the tentacle to help free Percy.

All right, go for it. And he gets advantage? Correct. Oh, shark, ally. 15 on the tentacle. 15, unfortunately, it's gnawing at it, but it's not quite, breaking through, it's tough hide. Okay, I look at my brother and say,

can you get out of this? Yeah, yeah, I'm fine. Okay, I swim back and use my bonus action to try to hide. All right, so you swim backward this way? Yeah. How far? Towards the rock, towards, yeah. Towards the rock here?

That's about as far as you can get, unfortunately. Well, I try to hide. Well, you have all to yourself on you, right? So you can. That's, let's see, so it's, we'll say that's, That's as far as you can get no reason to hide. You're still out in the open. You don't have anything to hide behind, unfortunately.

Can I sit on the ground? I want to sit on the ground and wrap my cloak around me and make myself look like a rock. Actually, you do back up into the ink cloud, so you can. Hey. And it's, da- dun, da-dun, da-dun, da-dun. There's not obscuring with the Kraken, so you cannot hide.

You can still see you in the ink cloud. Oh, really? Yeah. Okay. So didn't my control water? It didn't, this whole area is filled with ink. So you just cleared out this area here. Well, then if I can't hide for him,

can I use my bonus action to do something else? Sure. Then I'm going to have Trinket attack him. All right. Trinkin on your turn moves up to the back of it. He'll attack the tentacle that's holding Terry. Oh, friendly bear! Oh, shit, Trinket's grappled! Oh, Trinket can't move, you're right. Trinket's going to attack the tentacle that's holding him.

Yeah, Trin can't move, you're right. Never mind, friendly bear. Two-19s, and that's a critical for Trinket. Yeah. Yeah, Trinket! Yeah, Trinket! Da-da-da-da-da-da-da. Okay.

Da-da-da-da-da-da-da. Not quite, weird, but... It's, you know. Think that's ten. Ten points a damn. Trinquet just kind of tears with his jaws into the side of this interval. Did he get out? No, I do not.

Damn it. All right. That ends your go of X. At the end of your turns, can use this third and final legendary action to go ahead and attempt. Let's see. It's going to attempt to make a bash attack against Percival and Vax. Which pushes you two together. There's no way to escape it. It just whacks slams you both together. You take 13 points of bludgeoning damage, both of you. All righty. That ends in that. Perciple, you're up. Okay. I'm going to...

Hmm? I know. She's making us feel really guilty right now. I'm very little like me, I'm going to hack away at this thing right now, so I'm going to try and hack away at this tentacle and see if I can get out. Disadvantage, correct? Yep. Oh, God, I'm really not enjoying this. That's a 17. 17 does not hit. The first one, you can't quite get your arms free. And as you swing, it just barely carves like a centimeter into the creature's flesh. 19. 19 hits. Go to roll damage. I know that natural 20 is just going to waste.

It's so close. I know. That's... That's good, though. 13. 13 points of damage already. And I'll take another one. That's not going to roll well. There we go. My third hit is... 16. 16 does not hit, unfortunately. So I'm gonna burn my action surge, and I'm going to take the alter self. Okay. That was the alter, that coin you gave me is...

It's an action to do so. Yeah. But it's, what does it give me? It gives me just full movement. Gills and full movement. It allows you to alter yourself based on what you choose, which is give you gills and fens. Yeah, in this circumstance, the best bet you want to have is gills and hand fins. You can swim your full movement speed. Within moderation. Yeah, so I'll burn my action search for that.

Okay. So your alter self is in. And I've got, this right, this is new I don't have my, I'm gonna go find my healing potions and find out what I have, but I, I'll do that. Yeah, moving right along. Okay, that is your turn, Percy? Yeah. All right, that brings us to the Cracken.

His legendary actions return. Fuck. The Cracken is going to shift over there. So we'll say for the purposes of this. Does the shark get an attack? Is the Crackin an animal? Yeah. Not quite. No. To monstrosy.

It's going to curl up over the top there. Trinket does get an attack opportunity. And does Grog? No, it just moves into the space between you and Keele. Does the shark attack? The shark was not... He's grappled. Turguit's grapple. See, the shark was attacking Percy's tentacle, so it was not in reach for it to attack the actual creature.

Was Trinket within Rainesbrook? Trinket was not. No. So it already moved before. Because Trinket was grappled before it can get into space with it. All right, it is going to, let's see. It's going to use lightning storm. So I need, let's see it, four bolts of lightning. Lightning. That's going to be against three feet. That's going to be Vex, Tarian, Percival, and we'll save. Dexterity saving throws, guys. You said something earlier about dexterity saving throws. At disadvantage. At disadvantage? Yes.

Not if we're, if only if you're grappled. If you're grappled. Yeah. Five. Five. Okay. 15. 16. 29.

Okay, so, was that five? Yes. 25 points of lightning damage. First of all, first of all. 15. 25 points of lightning damage. 16 in Death Walker's award. So 25 reduced to half.

13. Okay. Point slightly damage. 29. 29. You take 13 points of lightning damage. Oh, and if I fail, deck saves, it's half damage, so I'm getting quarter damage right now.

We have evasion, so if you fail, if it's half, you do nothing. If it's, if I succeed, it's nothing. If I fail, it's half. You're failed, so it's halved. So yeah, so you get quarter. Plus, death walk, you're right, I got confused, so yes. So have that as well. All right, that ends the Kraken's turn.

Grog, you're up. Ah, ha, am I with near Keyleth? You're right next to Keyleth. Hey. You're going to get us into the same place. I'm gonna use my action to shove a greater healing potion In your stupid unconscious mouth. Okay.

All right, so that is 4D4 plus four. I roll that? Yes, you do. Do you want some more D4? No. Okay. Four D four. Great.

Yeah. Four. Six. Eight, twelve. Healing points? Mm-hmm. Oh yeah. That's a number.

That's a number. Rob, you still have your bonus action. You're a frenzied and you have your movement. I do. I want to, um, I want to doop, doop, doop, like Mario in the water world and I want to go up on top of the Cracken's face. And I want to punch him in his stupid big eyeball

with the Dwarven Thrower. Okay, so you come up onto the actual. Sweet. Crackin, okay. You madman, I love it. We'll say you're right there for the purposes of this. Okay. So go to make your attack against the Cracking.

Rackless. So just a single roll? Yep. 28. 28 hits, roll damage. Eyeball deaths. That's good. 10.

25. 25. 25. 25. 25. 25 points to damage. Does he just whack, bash it in the side of its face. The eyeball took it pretty well, man.

Geez. They're tough. Those eyeballs are hard. All right. It does. All right, Taryn. I mean, we're just trying to leave at this point. Yeah, we're booking.

We're booking. So I will, once again, try my acid trick and this time try to hit it and pull another bottle out and smash it on the tentacle. Okay. Oh, where to go. That's shitty. So I'll use luck. It's better. It's better.

20. 20 does hit, roll damage. Yay! It's 76. Right? Whoa. 22. 22 points of damage.

As you slam it in the clinical begins to dissolve it. It's not enough to break free, but it's fairly hurt. It's still holding on to you. For my bonus action, I will just say, Oh friend of shark! I could use a bite over here! My animal handling is negative one, by the way.

Good to know. All right, Taryn, into turn, Vax you're up. Okay, I take Whisper out and I'm throwing it at the ground, 10 feet away from me right next to Keelef on the ground, and bamfing out of its tentacle to it. Okay. Go ahead and attack this advantage, just to see if it doesn't caught in the water and float away.

L-l-l-l-l-l-l-l-l-l-l-l-l-l-t two... 23. It's just enough strength for you to chuck it, it hits the sand right next to her, and pff! You are no longer restrained. Yay! What a clutch fucking vestige!

Plus, Grog is wailing on its head, I'm gonna sneak attack the tentacle that's holding Keeleth, yeah? Yeah, I'll let it. So here we go. I'm waiting on a tape. Okay. Right now, somewhere in the world,

Scanlan is eating like calamari and going. Basically, yes. It's a little nosebleed, and it's a little acidy. It would've been great if Scanlon would have been here just to like dominate creature. It's like 34. 34? Yeah.

I'll add inspiration. With that, the tentacle holding keeleth is torn asunder. You using your dagger, just cut her free, and the cloud of blood left behind. She withdraws. She is free. Okay, and I will, I can't use a bonus action to pull her, right? That's too much. Yeah, unfortunately.

I will use a bonus action to stand over and in front of her. That's so pretty. Okay. That brings us to Water Wing. Keelis. Kielis, you are freed from the tentacle and you are conscious, but up above you as you're looking up in the space,

you can see the giant kraken maybe 10, 15 feet away from you. Grog is slamming it inside of the head and Vax is right there looking over you right now. Yeah, I'm just like a poodle over a pool right now, just doggy paddling instinctually. Do we have the little Loadstones. Do we have them all? Yes. Yes.

Get us on. Fuck! Fucking load stones. And I do animal shapes. And I turn to all of us to who's grappled. A lot of us, right? Yeah. Trinket, Tarian, and Percy currently are grapplinged.

I'm going to turn us into like Little electric eels. Maybe it's because we made that joke earlier, I don't know. And then, okay. Is that bad? Is that bad? No, what we wanna do?

I just want something that's gonna swim fast and then we all swim, and we slip out of his grasp, and we slip out of his grasp and swim to the portal. To the portal! And we go. for eels. There's a water snake in there that you could use. There is a water snake, which is kind of what I'm

baiting this off of. We'll use that. The giant constrictor snake. He loves looking up animals. Has blind sight. What's the speed? They can swim really fast. I know because I tried to turn into one when we were in the dragon.

You do. They have like four day of a day of a little. like a 40 swimming speed or something like that. You're saying a giant constrictor snake has a swim speed of 30 feet. It's the same speed as normal. I don't want to be a giant constrictor state. No, it would be a normal.

Or like it would be a swimming creature though. What's the speed for a swimming creature? Make a choice, Keyleth. Okay, okay, okay. Most snakes are at a 30 foot swim speed. Hunter Shark is in a 40 swim speed. A killer whale is at a 60 foot swim speed. Then make us killer whales.

But they're bigger, they're bigger motherfuckers. So can we do like a giant eel that's got a swim speed of 40 feet? Young sea serpent to swim 60 feet. Ooh, yeah, that. I want to be that. Young sea serpents. I don't know what that is.

Help me, Cecil. Help. Oh no, that's huge. It's a huge monstrosity. I can't do that. You can't do that. You can't do that, no. What are you doing? Killer whale, man, killer whale.

Look, I'm bound by what the bliers Handbook gave me, so I'll go. So these are creatures that you would know. Ah, fuck, whales are fucking big, though. Yeah. Whales are big. Yeah. So I'll be eels with a swim speed of 40 feet,

so we can slip out. What creature are you choosing, is my question? Well, it was going up of a snake speed. A snake. I'm sorry, you need to pick a You can't make up statistics here. Let me see here. So. What are you reading? What are you reading, Marisha? The giant straight snake is a land-sake. It's a land snake. It's a

land-snake. Let's not do land- Go whale. Let's get the fuck out of here. Go whale. Whales are 60 feet. It's so cold this. It's so cold this. That's a problem. Most snakes I've seen in here are a 30-foot swim speed. Then I think snake is probably better to wriggle out, though. That's the thing. Yeah.

I don't, I don't, I think he's going to be able to hold whales maybe. Okay. I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. Just look for snakes, but more possibly- Gerarmente. What are you doing? It's your casting your spell. Dramente.

What are you choosing? Kill it. What's the form? We're going to be eels. That's what I said it first. So we'll go 30 swim foot. All right, so we'll say eels. We're using the statistics for a snake.

I'm going to use a statistical for the snake but swim speed. Fuck, I'm trying to be elusive here. All right. Fuck. I, whatever, fine. You're all water snakes. You're all water snakes. Your majestic 10 hit point forms as water snakes. You all suddenly swim in these tiny snakes.

Go, go, go, go. We'll say for the current purposes of this, until it comes to the Cracken's turn, everyone who is currently grappled is not grappled because you are a smaller form. Until the Cracken's turn. So we'll have to see whose turn order is what. And we all just book it. All right. Double movement.

That brings us next to the Initiative Counter20. So I need all of you guys as snakes to make Constitution Saving Throws. We all is gonna bam fact it. Good or Reese. Hey, we're unwrappled. I don't know what that is. Eals. Wait, electric yields. Hey.

And we still are blessed, right? Yeah, we're so blessed. Constitution saving throw? You did choose electric yields. Oh. They're okay. That went off the rails. Which?

That's not bad. Oh, okay. Oh, hold on. Hold on. They got us to be immune, man. What are we doing? I know. Because you chose eels.

Winging it. The electricity has no effect. Ah! That hates everything right now. Weirdly, this worked in your advantage for the 20 initiative count. So as the pulse of energy shoots out from the Cracken, it shocks around and through all of you, but your physical eel forms take no damage as you're used to conducting energy. Sweet. Vex, your eel turn.

As an eel, I'm going to swim around the big brown rock away from the Cracken towards the door. 30, and you're going to use your action to dash as well? As far as you can get. All right. Finishing Vex's turn. All righty. All righty. I feel like I'm just leaving everybody behind. Oh and Trinket's going to do the same thing. No, run, run, run, run. Get out, get out, get out. And. That's as far as Trinke can he use his double action to do the same thing?

He doesn't have a double action. He moves in your turn. But I am gonna make my shark a tie it, Kim. The shark's gonna just swim up in in his face. All right, okay. What is happening? What is happening? What is happening?

He's going to be like, look at me out. I'm a shark. Who hasn't gotten punchy at the end of a long D&D? Man, nothing makes sense anymore. This is real D&D. 21. 21. 21 hits, full damage.

Okay. Good shark. Okay, that's a bite attack. That is. Which one breath of that? Um, okay, wait. Oh, that's more than that. Anyway.

12. I think I got a shot. All right, 12 points of damage to the Cracken. Gotcha. All righty. Sorry. And if your turn, it's going to go ahead and use Lightning Storm, costing two of its actions. It's going to focus this on Tarian, Grog, and because you were the source of its magic and it is horribly frustrated, it's Keeleth.

I need the three of you guys. Oh, fuck, it's Lightning Storm. It's not, it's all the Eels. What are doing? Oh, no. We are an electric yields. Oh, man, it's been a long week, and I can't be hitting that fucking shit. It's okay.

It's just trying to get it's mild calisthenics. All right, so it creates a lightning storm. That strikes you guys. You would just be nice to us. And it tickles. And yeah, it tickles your fancy a moment. That's two of the legendary actions. All right, personal, it's your turn.

I am going to book Double speed. Respect on the electric eels that I gave you. that I gave you. Yeah. Weirdly saving your ass right now. I'm going to book through this weird little log. I'm going to go straight through it.

Oh, yeah. 20 and 2530. You just get out the other side, just barely seeing the eel backs ahead of you, just swelling through. I wink at him with my eel life. You know what? There's like an electricity between you guys. Right in the eye.

Right in the eye. Vex's turn, it's going to use his last legendary action to attempt to make a he threw his water at us. At Uvex, the one who just recently severed one of his tentacles. That is a 28 to hit. 10 plus 18. A what to hit? Well, you're an eel.

Oh, okay. Do I not have, am I hasted? Do I have it still have advantage on my Dex saving throws? As an eel? The effect is still on there, so yeah. It's a very clever eel. It's a, because I'm blessed as well. Oh, it's a 32. Yeah!

But wait, no, it's an eel. No, it's an attack roll. Oh, it's an attack roll. It's a C, which is an eel is like 10, so you take that. Oh, okay. That is... Attributes. 18 points of bludgeoning damage.

What did it roll? Sorry, I thought. 28. Oh, definitely. Yeah, sorry. So your eel form is destroyed. Got it. and you take eight points of bludgeoning damage,

and you are grappled. Fuck. You've got the, you've got the dagger, though. Wait, why is his eel form destroyed? Because it was tended. It was tended to no hit points. The lighting did nothing, but it just bludgeoned and grabbed and squeezed around the eel,

and then you formed back with the grass. It's just a nail. He's got like no hit points as a eel. I can kill an eel. Sorry, Matt, what was the hit point damage? There's so much ship eight. No. No, no, no.

No. The statement of someone who's arguing. All right is literally all right. Snakes have like two hit. No, that's a good. It's an easy hit. I just, I ruled you guys have 10 hit points in that form. We're 10 hit point deals.

That's fine. That's fair. Flying snake is like five hit points, so you're fine. Sure. They have flying snake. Never mind. So that ends. All right, so that was on Percy's turn,

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The Cracken gets its legendary actions back. Did you skip me? You turned us into Eels. Yeah. I thought it was after Vax. Then you turned everyone to Eels. Okay. Then I went and then Percy went.

Yeah. Vax had done shit. I just confused you with Percy. You do. It's okay. The Cracken's going to do three batches. It's going to be against Grog. It's going to be against Keeleth.

going to be against Tarian. Yeah. Grog, that is 29. Yeah. Tarian, that is 31? Nope. And Keyleth, that is 34. All right.

So against Grog, that is 24 points of bludging damage. I have to 12. You are an eel and grapple. You are out of your eel form and your grapple. So when your eel form just goes dead. and then you take, what did I say again? It was 24. 24.

You say 14 points of bludging damage. Still raging, halved to seven. Okay. Taryn, your eel form is destroyed. Mm-hmm. That would be 22 points, so you take 12 points of bludging damage. Okay. And you're grappled.

Kieleth. Lucky roll. That is 14 points of bludging damage. Your eel form is done, you're grappled. And you take four points of bludgeoning damage. Eel freed itself, so now you're back up on your feet. Who's still an eel? The impersonal.

The Eel, Teryn as well. Can I make a retaliation since he smacked me? You can. Against Tim and the Tentacle. The Tentacle. All right. Reckless. Reckless.

31. That hits. 22. 32 points of damage. You slam into the tentacle, and it's still hold but it's looking severely damaged. It's starting, like the muscles starting to tear apart. All right.

That brings us to Grog your turn. Grog your turn. It's okay. We can bring it back. May I make my first strike a vengeance upon that stupid tentacle? Go for it. Yep.

That was out of roll. 30. 30 here. You need some D8. 16 points of damage. 16 points of damage. You slam it again. This time the tentacle tears open and you're free. You're no longer grappled.

Sweet. Who's in the tentacle next to me? You're gathering at this point, like somewhere having around 30 points of damage. Take it's rid of the tentacle. Are we down three tentacles now? Yeah, how many tentacles? You now are down four tentacles total. Six left. Six left. Who's in the tentacle next to me? Just below you about 10 feet is Kieleth and Vax.

I mose you over to the one that Kieleth is in. All righty. And I will smash that. Tenor goal. All right, Keylet, I need to make Constitution saving through, by the way. Ooh! With advantage. Oh, right.

Oh, boy. Is B-shaped concentration? Oh, that's a 15? You're fine. Oh, that's a natural twilight. Go ahead and roll damage for that, plus your... So roll the D-10. Yep.

Times two. It's the nine, 18, and I get two additional damage die. Yes, you do. So roll two more D-10? Okay. Actually, I do nine plus the rage damage, and then I just roll this twice. Yes. Okay, so that's... Well, nine times two, so it's 18 plus rage damage, plus your strength and a lot of fire.

You destroyed the tentacle. The tentacle's dead. Cool. Yeah, Keillis' tentacle is just smeared. You slam into it and watch as the cloud of dark purple liquid kind of goes past her face. The blood from the cracken clears and the tentacle just goes limp, the section that's been removed from the rest of the tendril. Not that you even need it, but I'll try and release Vax as well. Go for it. So roll for... Rackice.

60. 30. 32. Yeah, it hits. Cool. 22. 22. You slam it to the side of Vax's tentacle bashy-bash it. It's starting to tear apart. It's not enough to free him entirely.

Cool. I am going to bigot the back out. All right. Your movement is 50, and you have not used the altered self. You're right? No. Because I don't have that. Yes, so. Yes, you have a coin. Oh, but that's...

You haven't used it as an action. No. Yeah. So that's 5.10. But that's good to know. 15, 25, because your movement's 50 normally. Nice. So that's as far as you can get, just trying to swim in by.

Trying to get over there. Ends your turn to Grog. Thank you. Make a real good distance. And if your turn, it's going to use Lightning Storm, two actions. It's going to hit Grog, Vax, and Keeleth. with. He needs all three of you to make Dix Dirty Saving throws with Vax at disadvantage. Is this a spell? Nope. Okay. Are we all a disadvantage on the

decks throws? No, just Vax. Okay, so I got two. Don't fuck me, Gil. Oh, that's not bad? What am I doing? Dex type? So the fail means I take half damage, plus the Death Walker's Warts are quarter damage. Correct. 17 for me. And Tarian as well actually. Oh, great. Blastair. Blastair, blessed, bitch. Oh. Still?

Added equal? I haven't made a concentration in a while. I mean, I'm grappled, right? So. Well, not a disadvantage. Oh. Okay. Not great.

Wait, wait, but you're restrained, you are, yes. So yes, you do. Natural one. Yeah, so 24 points of lightning damage. Okay. You're awake. 21 total for me? 24 points of lightning damage.

I'm unconscious. Oh. Kieleth falls unconscious once more. Backs. My turn? I'm just going to repeat what I did before. No, no. You take 24, reduced to half.

Two quarter. So 12 points of lightning damage. Just a quarter, six. And then Grog? 19. 24 points of lightning damage. Reduced to half. 12.

All right, so that was the end of Grog's turn. Terry, in your turn. I reach into my magic satchel this time pulling out. a powerful healing potion, which I drink by myself. Okay. Okay. Is that what you did all the D8s for? Mm-hmm.

I kind of had a D-A. 35. All right, you know, you used to have to 35. Yeah. That's a major healing spell. Give me my D-8s back. Fuck you. Just start your bonus action,

if you wanted to do anything. Um, just sort of gently weep. Weep. Weep. I love that. Yeah, just kind of weep softly. All right. Back your up.

I'll do one more sanctuary on myself. That's my last spell. Sanctuary technically is still lasting, because it's not concentration. It's not. Oh, well then go. Well, no, every time you attack you lose it. You're right.

I keep forgetting that. I haven't attacked him in a while. You have attacked him with absence. I did. So I'll pass him back. Okay. Is Amina? Yes.

All right. Is Keeleth is adjacent to me right? me, right on the ground? Yes, she is. Okay, so I'm going to use my first action to cast lay on hands and dump five hit points into her to wake it back up. Okay. Next action is going to be to throw a whisper into the ground again, shunk and bamp to it. All right. You just escape the grasp.

Uh, uh, uh, uh, and I'm going to use bonus action to back up fucking 30, 30 feet towards the big, yeah, towards the portal. All right, by the way, all your guys forms. you refer it back to your normal selves. You're no longer eels. Yeah, I kind of went unconscious. So you're backing up, pretty fiations. Oh, right. Unconscious. They're conscious.

Yeah, you know. You are in hasted, so you have 30 feet. You just get out of the range. It's going to take a tack of opportunity on you and it's tenical. That is nine plus 18. It's 27 to hit. Oh, that hates. You say, you're a canny dodge. 21 points of bludgeoning damage. Okay. Half to 10 or 11.

to 10, and you are grappled at the tentacle. God, big. Mother bitch! Love America. We just gotta get out of here. I'm gonna kill this. Don't see it. Get us out of there!

Get us out. Leave it armless. Leave it alone. Keeleth, it's your turn. You come to consciousness. Once more, you watch this Vax is darting off, and the tentacle grabs around them. You see Taryn pulled, but the rest of your allies are rushing off in the distance. We have all the load zones, right?

Yes. Are you getting hit in the head? Yes, I literally have. Fuck! What are you doing? Who is closest by the portal? You can't see from where you are. It's actually blocked.

You just see this giant jutting underwater structure. An egg cloud. No, no, no. There's an ink cloud? No, not anymore. I got rid of that, right? No, you got rid of part of it here. The ink cloud still sits in this vicinity.

Okay, oh, dear God. I'm gonna control water again. You're casting it again? Yeah, I'm casting it again. Okay. Who's around me? Around you, it is grog, it is Vax, and it is Tarian. I am going to push us towards the portal with control water. All of you towards the portal? Yeah, control water towards the portal. All right, say 20 feet, 510, 15, 20, 510, 15, 20, 5, 10, 15,

510, 1520. Is there anyone still held on by the Cracken? No. Yeah. Oh. I mean, Tary and Vax are still grappled by it, and this, the Cracket gets moved to their. Facts is still grappled? Yeah.

And Terry. It was just at the edge of its range, and it's like me. So you're right there. Okay. I'm going to take a grasping vine. I'm going to grab Vax and yank him towards me from this. Who's got the thing? From that one, closest by. Can you?

Back towards the Crackham? This one. You are trying to yank him towards you. You are directly under the Cracken. You cannot see this, unfortunately. I can't see that? Can I see this? Can I see this?

Actually, with your control water that pushed this way, it would have cleared some of the ink in this area, but right now this whole structure is blocking you. You cannot see this wrong. Can I see this red thing in front of me? This here you can. Vax is right next to it. I'm going to drag him close. closer in, I want to judge him this way.

This way? Yeah. Out of the giant wooden structure? Beyond it. The Grasping Vine only pulls things towards where it emanates, and since he's right next to this, it'll just pull him right against the rock. Terry, where's Terry?

Terry's right here as well, just pull him into the rock. Well, bullshit all the way around. Then I just swim desperately doggie paddle towards the pole. You still have your bonus action. There's what? What's left? Your wild shape? This five hit points?

Oh yeah, that could be smart. So you don't go unconscious again? Whale it, dude? All right. I'll call her whale towards the furl. Not to tell you what you're doing, but this is your thing, and you're five hit points right underneath the crackin, the closest to it. Where am I? You're right under the Crackin.

All right. All right. It's very hard to see from this, I will say. It is very hard to see from what this is. We can pour on a cloth and just like, Time to take a big whip up. What are you shaping into? Adrenaline, Killer Whales.

Killer Whale. I think there's some of the first aid kit in the hallway. I'm pretty sure I still some last week. No, it's true. Oh my God, you actually have a mini for that one. I don't actually, I did not come. I remember that bag. I'll say for the sake of this, from the time being, this Naga will be your killer whale.

Sure. That'll work. So pretty. All righty. And all of my control, The water direction is towards the portal. Yes. Okay. You've cleared out some of the ink in this area.

That's your turn. Sure. All righty. Top of the round. The Cracken is going to go ahead and the water current seems to shift in the opposite direction. I need each creature within 60 feet of the Cracken, which is all of you, to make a strength saving throw. Oh, my God, is that including me? Yeah, all of you.

11. 11? 23. 23, all right. Yeah! See, only get pushed 10 feet. 21. 18.

23. Ooh. Push 10 feet. But only 10 for Trinket. Okay. 22 is a failure. All right, so that is 60 feet away from the Cracken for everyone who failed. What does that mean?

So, we're just pushed away. We're just pushed away. It's doing a big, like, like, The water just rushes through and pushes all of you away. Trinket is pushed. Who failed? 60 feet that direction. Roll for the shark if you could. It's going to maintain the grapple on you guys. You guys are just being yanked in that direction. Wait, who failed?

Like everyone. Everyone. I mean, 18 is what I rolled. I don't know what I add for it. Yeah, so no, that's not. So the shark is pushed up into that there. Do I get slammed into that thing? No. You actually, you do, but it doesn't do any damage. It just kind of pushes you in the tentacle, kind of holds you there, keeping you grapple.

It's not gonna release the grapple. That acid's gotta burn through that at some point. Is that continuing or? It's a different tentacle. Yeah, damn it. All right, so that brings us to Vex's turn. I mean, do I see any of this happening as I'm just fucking swimming away?

I guess my- Yeah, all the ink is now washed away at the space and everyone gets pushed away by the force of the water. Fuck! I'm going to swim up so I can see down over the rock. Over the rock. There, and you can just see over this way. You can see your brother there.

You see the crack and you see everyone being pushed this way and everything being shoved in that direction. I'm going to try to shoot an arrow into the tentacle holding my brother. All right, go. Where's another key whale go? Oh, disadvantage. Yep. Same thing.

25. 25. 25 hits, gonna roll damage. 17 damage with four lightning, which I'm sure does nothing. Nope. That's enough. Your arrow goes right through and that's the last bit of damage it needs to actually sever that tentacle. Nice. Love you. Bring him. All right. And then I'm gonna, do I have any movement to swim back down and hide as my bonus? You could certainly try. So you land back down that way.

So go ahead and roll breaking the line of sight just barely. Go ahead and make a high check. Uh, 22. 22. Okay. And then I'm going to have my shark attack him. Okay. How many tentacles? The shark has the speed of what? 40? Yeah. Yeah.

30, 35, 40. Just barely gets up into the space to hit it, so. 17 plus 9 is 26. 26 hits? Good shark. Good shark, good shark, good shark. Good shark. With a bite attack. He's going to wazers. Sweet. 14.

14 points of damage. All right. I'm just using Trinkets, stats, because that's what I had in front of me. Sure. Is that terrible? Yeah, that's fine. I'm sorry. You haven't done enough damage near enough to really threaten the cracking yet, so you're fine.

Okay. All right. Ending of X's turn. Ending of the turn. End of the turn, you can use his last legendary action. It's going to go ahead and make a tentacle attack at you. Oh, and Trinket's going to swim towards the door. All righty.

That is a 29 to hit. Shit, balls of 28. Wait, I'm blessed. It's your AC. It's just your AC. Oh, fuck it, a duck. I thought I was doing it in a deck save. The Nagami.

18 points of bludging damage. Sure. And you are grappled. Uncanny Dodge. Right, so nine. Okay. And it grapples you once more with that tentacle. Okay.

How many tentacles are left, like, three? Five. Five. One, one thing point. Fuck, he has a lot of handles. They go down fast, though. Get out, get, go. Alrighty. Percival, your turn.

I am booking double speed to that door, because I am useless. Get out, get out. I'm also, I've got form, though, so I'm full speed. What form? I'm, I'm, I'm, I've, Finns and girls. All to yourself.

That's right, you did, yeah. So, yeah. Go, go out. And you're out. You leave out. You're out. I am holding, I am just like waiting on the other end. Yes, but you made it.

That's good. That's good. Tell us your story. Please, no. Please no. It's too late. It's done. Top of the Crackens' turn.

Just tell him. Tell him Percy, tell Doty. It's gonna move over here. I was so useless in this fight. Grappled Vax. It's going, that's giant beak opens up towards you. That is a two plus 18 that is a 20 to hit. Because the haste bonus.

Yes. Oh, he does not swallow you. He doesn't swallow you. I fucking hold the two. Okay. Oh, dear. All right, so as it goes and snaps towards you. Van Damns splits, just out of the way.

However, while you are, oh, let's throw up. Restrained creatures, attacks against them, do have advantage. Okay. So that is Z-28. See you later, guys. You got swallowed? What is you wanted?

I forgot, says, until the grapple ends, the target is restrained and attacks against restrained creatures have advantage. Is that at all connected to dexterity? Sorry. So that is... Are you dead inside it or... ...just in the... ...and three four points of piercing damage.

...is inside of it. And you are swallowed. Holy fucking shit of this. It's insane. Oh my god. All right. Oh, shit. That is the Gregon's turn. Grog, you're up. You watch as it just swallows Vax's eyes go limp in the jaws,

just take his not moving form and swallow it inside. Does Keelot see this? You do, because you're back here. Make an intelligence check. Intelligence check. I know. Hold on everybody. Prepare for an amazing...

Natural 20. Nine. All right, what are you doing? I am going to attack this big stupid sea chicken. Okay, so you... Wait, I mean... Just getting to the really age. Yeah, yeah.

Yeah, of course. Go for it. That's exactly the question. Yeah, can I aim for one of its tentacles that is functioning? Sure. Go for it. Cool. Regless. Natural 20.

Okay. I should have made it him. That's a 10 plus 25. 5.30. 35. 35 points of damage. You go ahead and sever one of the nearby immediate tentacles as it's like whipping around you. I'll take the next tentacle that works.

Okay. As you finish that strike, you feel this strange sense piercing into your relatively unprotected skull. As no language peaks through. No language peeks through, but you get this very strong, angry, hungry sense, this emotional force that says, ew. You start realizing very quickly that this creature, while it's in like a force of nature, has been just feeding, but you've got its attention now. Its instinct has turned now to its intellect to reach out to its food.

You've made it angry. What are you doing with your next attack? We shouldn't have attacked it so much. Apparently my hammer is talking to me, reckless attack. All right. 23. That hits. Okay.

17. 17 damage. All ready. Last attack. That tentacle is still fine, right? Yes, it is. It's damaged, but it's still there. All right, right.

31. 31 hits. 10. 25. 25. You destroy another tentacle. It has three currently remaining. One of them is around my neck.

Yeah, so one of them. on Terry and they're two free. Correct. Okay. I am going to use my not incredible speed to just. Use your full speed to move up to it. I'm gonna just in my turn. Okay.

Tarian. I mean, I mean. Do you have a Hail Mary? I mean, no. This is, wow. No, my Hail Mary I did on my first turn. I, I, well, I'm going to, to try to break free. I will put my finger up right against the tentacle and just use

that ring of the ram and just try to punch through it. Okay. So how many charges? I regained three. Okay, so you use all three charges. Go for it. So go ahead and make your arranged spell attack with disadvantage. Plus nine is 21. That hits. Oh wait, disadvantage. That's it. That's less. That's 17. 17 just misses. You try and squeeze it by and shoo, the ring releases it,

it smashes into the rock and destroys part of the nearby plant life, which then begins to just float away. Chunks of rock and sand and some of the underground, dark soot begins to billow out. The tentacle still remains affixed around you. Terrible. You have a bonus action, anything you can... All right.

I mean, I don't have any potions or anything. Nope, that's it. It is going to... May you have one of its legendary actions to attack. Grog with one of its remaining tentacles. That is a 34. Grog, you take 19 points of bludging damage reduced to nine, and you are grappled. It only has one more tentacle left that is available. We can't fucking kill it, you guys. Don't kill it. I would like to make a retaliatory attack. A retaliaten-

You can have no tentacles. Against the one that grappled me. Okay, go for it. Go for it. Go back. Recklos. You will grow back. 31 again. That hits, roll damage.

21. 21 points of damage. You slam into it. It looks like it's pulling apart, but the muscle still holding tight. Vax. You need you to make a death-saving throw with advantage. Okay. That brings us to Keyleth. That works. You're back here. Who's grappled and who's closest to the middle? Grog is closest to you, grappled, and there is Terry on the other side. You cannot quite see. I still have control water up, correct? You would, yes.

Tarian and Graug were both crappled? Correct. And I'm free underneath them? You're free over here, yes. You're the Nogra. Okay. I used Ultra Self originally, correct? Yes. Ultra Self. So I still have all my B-shaping, correct?

Correct. Okay. Well, you have your B-shape you used to turn to this form. Huh? Your wild shape you used to turn to this form. I didn't use UltraSelt. I use ultra-cells to do that? No.

Altar-Selt just gives you gills and fins. You use- Sorry, sorry, sorry. I meant, sorry. Sorry. I meant animal shapes. No? You can use animal shapes to everybody.

Right, but you lost concentration when you're unconscious. Right, all right. Cool, cool, cool. Cool, okay. I'm going to try to get Grog out of the grasp again with my grasping vine. Bonus action. Okay. See if I can.

Grasping vine from where? Okay. You can have it come out of the ground here if you wanted to. He's right here. The Grog is right here. Correct? Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. So I want to be over here-ish.

You're pointing at the three screen. Sorry. It's hard because I don't literally have access beyond this wrong. So pulling up this way? On the other side of that, closest to the portal? Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. That's what I want. Okay, so we'll say pulling this way. Yeah. All right. Go ahead and roll a D20 plus your wisdom modifier. Ha ha ha ha ha. Don't. Fuck me, Gil.

Oh. What is that? What is that? Not... What is that? What is that? Oh, that's good. Okay, yeah, it's really hard to see. Sorry, because of the light. That's a 17. That's a 17. Yeah.

Yeah. Right. 17 plus. Sorry, I don't want to feel insane. Plus my wisdom modifier. Correct. Which is. 30, sorry, 28.

28. Wisdom modifier is plus six, right? Oh yeah, yeah, yeah. Sorry, not saving throw. So 17 plus six, which is 25? All right, so you pull Grog. this way, and with Grescent Vine is the range of what? 23, 17 plus 5.

What's the range? What's the range? How long is it? It's a 30-foot range with another 30-foot range coming from me. So 60 foot total. Right, so you can pull him out of the range. It does break. 30 foot.

Yeah, so you do break the grapple on Grog and pull him away, though. Okay. Okay. And then I have my action and my movement. Correct. I'm a normal person right now, or am I a whale? No, you're a whale still. You haven't taken any damage.

You just got pushed away. Okay. Which actually, technically, in whale form, you couldn't cast a spell. I wouldn't be able to cast a spell. So would you drop your form? Yeah. For sure. Okay.

Keelph is back into that, cast the spell. And then I have another spell, correct? Second level or lower. Second level or lower as your action, and you have your movement still. So, fucking A, this is complicated. Okay. Then I would cast, um, Oh, shit, I got grog out.

Who's almost dead? Who's almost dead? Well, Vax is inside. Yeah, I don't know if I can do anything about that right now, though. Um, I can cast a second lever a lower. Oh my god, this is awful. Just heal yourself. All right, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

Oh, heal myself. Sorry, for another healing word, level two, last level two spell. Okay. And you're gonna move some towards the... I'm gonna move... No, I'm gonna stay close towards the Cracken. So you're gonna stay here? Yeah.

Are you not moving? Where am I? You're right here. It's hard to see on the screen. It's actually not even on the screen. Right, but you can see my fingers. I can see your fingers. Let me move closer towards the Cracken and towards the portal.

There you go. And that's all I'll do. Okay, gotcha. Top of the layer action. And I am myself, sorry, level two, which is 2D8. Healing Word. Right, I need everybody to make. Sorry, 2D4.

Constitution saving throw. That's both ones. That sucks. 12. 13 points of lightning damage. Great. Percival. I'm not there.

You're not there. That's right. Keyliff. Constitution saving throw. Natural 1. 13 was slightly in damage. 13? 15.

Next? I had 12 hit points, so I'm unconscious. Didn't you just hear yourself a little bit more, though? For 12, and now I'm 0. Wait, you were 5 before. You were 5. And then I healed 7. Oh, to 7.

And I healed 7 because I rolled 2 ones. Yeah, GILF goes unconscious. No, no, no, no, wait. I rolled 2 ones on my D4s. And I have a plus 6, so that's actually 8? Eight? Do I have one hip point left? You're at one hip point. Is that accurate? Yes. 8 plus 5 is 13. You just took 13 hit points.

You're a 0. Never mind. Fuck. You just fallen conscious. I meant zero. Okay. All righty. God. I ruled a 20. A 20? Yeah. All right, so you take 13 points slightly damage. Okay. And Trinket rolled a like a 4. 13 points slightly damage. Cool.

23 in resistance. All right, so that's 11. It's going to come down to ground. Six point slide in Amish Grog. All right, so control water is dropped. It's dropped. Get out. That ends.

Keel's turn to the 20th count. Vex, what are you doing? I got him. I saw... I saw Keelis just go like, shock as the burst of electrical energy shoots through the area and she kind of goes limp again and it's kind of floating in space.

And I saw Vax get swallowed? Did I see that happen? You would have just barely seen that. of your shoulder. It heard someone say it over the ear, please. Um, I, uh, fuck a nay. I swim up and I, um, I swim, god damn it. Your bonus action for a dash if you want to try

and get closer, it's up to you. I'm gonna try to shoot, I'm gonna try to shoot, um, thorns, I guess, hail of thorns, maybe. Actually, I'm gonna try, uh, Yeah. I'm gonna try to shoot hail of thorns directly at his mouth. I don't know, try to get him to like do something to let go. Spit it up. It's the stupidest plan.

I know, but I'm not thinking clearly my brother's got fucking swallowed. Okay, what level of thorns? I'm gonna do it at everything within five feet, and Keelith is in five feet. No, Keyleth is over here. Okay. Is anything within five feet? Currently no. Okay. Then I'm gonna cast it at a fourth level. Fourth level? Yeah. Do you have a fourth level spell?

Oh no, I did grasping bind. You did. Did I? No, I didn't. No, I did conjure animals. That's right, you did. So fourth level. Yeah, okay, fourth level. So that is an additional 4D10 piercing damage against the attack. Go ahead and roll the attack. Digi-d-d-dig-dig-dig-dig-dig-dig-dig-dig-dig-dig-dig-dig-dig-dig.

23? 23 is the disadvantage? Yeah. Okay, that hits. Okay. 11 plus 3 lightning and then how many? 4D10? 4D10.

18. Okay, those 80 points of damage. So as you fire the arrow, it sinks like into the side of the mouth, just burst with thorns in the vicinity. That kind of royals, but it doesn't seem to have any effect. Um. You have your secondary attack if you want to. Yeah, I guess I'm gonna try to shoot at his eye. Okay, good roll.

Uh, 29. 29 hits. I'm, yeah. 16 plus four lightning, nothing. Okay. And I'm gonna, this is so stupid, I'm gonna swim back down and try to hide. I got nothing. You already used your bonus action, unfortunately, to cast the spell.

Yes, I did. I'm gonna stand right there and say, fuck you, let go my brother. Okay, Percival, you're on the other side of the portal looking through and your watch. Can I see what's going on? You mean, you get a slight view. You have to peek out the side. It's still obscured in like the water. And it's only been six seconds. The daylight spell is still kind of shooting out from underneath, so it's this beacon of light in the underwater area. So you get a decent view of what's going on. You just see,

like as you keel is kind of go limp in the distance. You see Grog there, you see Vex trying to shoot. I'm going to kind of, I'm going to try and, how far do I have on that? I'm going to try and stick my head through the portal. I'm going to try and, I'm going to try and I'm trying to cast minor illusion in front of the beast. Okay. And I'm, it can't be complicated, can it? It's gonna be small. It is a cantrip.

It is a cantrip, so it's nothing fancy. I'm going, I'm just gonna try and make a big, meaty target appear. I'm just like a thing that looks like, I'm gonna try and do like the shape of some aquatic animal, a small, anything to try and get right in its face. You concentrate through the portal and you watch just short about 30 feet past you, a little shimmering space. It looks almost like a fish, but it's sort of translucent and blob-like. Oh, damn it.

It's not really going to help in the situation. Sorry. I got nothing other than, yeah, I got nothing other than trying to distract it. All right. End of your turn? Yeah. It's going to use. I pull back through the portal, obviously, but. All righty. As you pull back through, and in return, it's going to go ahead and use a secondary legendary action to make a, this is going to be a tentacle attack in Zyrog. Yep. With advantage. That's going to be an ninth. 18. That's 27. That hits. You take 12 points of bludgeoning damage, plus 10, so 22, divide by that to 11.

11. All right. Can I make a Ritalito? You already used it. I did. Sorry. It's now the Cracken's turn. Getting the Cracken happen. At the top of the round, you lose a death saving throw.

As the acid begins to slowly burn away and... Oh, yeah, he's just gone. No, no, I mean, like, you lose one. The acid hurts you. It just... It just is slowly digesting you. It's going to move four to five, ten, 15, 20, we have for 30. Save the purposes of this. You're right there, Grog.

Space is getting a little cluttered over there. Do you want to raffle or did you just bit slap me? I mean, it hit you and grappled you. Okay, cool. one of those remaining tentacles. Terry, Terry is you're being pulled up over the rock, being dragged across. Like, oh God! Over there. That is, that's got 34. You take, this shit's getting intense. Getting intense. Jesus. That is 29 points of piercing damage have to 14. 14. 14. And and it swallows you a second time.

Good. Pulling you into its body. Yeah, you can give back some. Good. Yeah, no shit. I approve of this. You are consumed and restrained once again in its dark space inside as you're pulled into it.

Fuck this tiny hole shit. Then it's his turn. Frog, you're up. It's my turn now, I don't even like a second to think about it. Nope. As you pulled inside, the voice once again, and it's now emanating outward to you as well, Vex. And in the unconscious darkness,

of Vax and Killeth, the voice says, I've been healed long time, and I'll be here long after you are dust. Feed me and give me sustenance. I'll find my way through somehow. Rug. I take a greater healing potion. Can I reach Vax at all?

Can I like find any part of his foot or anything and pull him down to me? All right, so you can, You can either reach around for him, try and feel for him. You can take your healing potion as a bonus action, if you'd like. It's not for me. Oh, it's not for you? You can make an investigation check to try and find him.

This is going to be your action to do so. Is he rough at all? Hmm? Is he rough at all? The cracking. The kraken. The kraken? I don't know from what you've seen.

You guys haven't been doing focusing damage. You've been trying to move around him. It's lost a number of tentacles, but... Right, and those tentacles, the tentacles don't count to his overall damage. No, they do. They do, but... What a choice. I am going to... Fuck it. I'm going to make an investigation check for Vax.

Go for it. Oh. That's a big natural one. Filling around inside, you're unable to find any current form of Vax right now. However, you still have your bonus action. when you are friends eating. Take that fucking potion. All right, I'll take that potion myself.

What, whu-whu-whu-mo-w-w-w-w. So, what potion is in? It's a greater. It's my last greater. All right, 4D4 plus 4, hit points. So that's 48 hit points healed. Eight. Thanks, Laura.

11, 12. Oh, Lord, do you want your shark to do anything, by the way? 16. Nerold it. 16 points. Yeah. I want it to go and try to attack the tentacle that is holding Terry. All right. The shark? I'm not even aqua.

Hello shark, friend. Aquatic ally. I'll be back. 21. No, 22. That hits, roll damage. 14. 14 points of damage. That was one that previously taken 22 points of damage. The shark actually does tear the tentacle free. So technically tear in, before you, we're about to get dragged over the coals of the top of this before the shark actually tore into and removed your grapple from... It's down to two tentacles. It runs. Oh, yeah, and Trinket ran towards the door.

To the door, Terry in. I can't hear anything. Four, get four there. Well, and she's unconscious. I can't really see the layout. Is it my turn, by the way? It is your turn, yeah. I can't really see the layout of that rock.

Can I see through it? Is there an under that I can? There is actually. There's a small kind of under, kind of a low bridge. Well, ball sack, I can't move very fast now, can I? You can move 15 feet as you swim through. Can I wiggle through under the outcropping there and get to the other side? Fifteen, you can just get out to that side there.

Do I have a clean line of sight on him? On the Cracken? Yes, you do. Okay. I mean, I can't really. How's how's many tentacles does the Cracken have now? Two more. If I shoot the thing, the people inside will die.

I don't know about that. It might keep him from getting digested. Uh-uh. I don't think so. They're dead. I mean, it's not like you're saving them by not hitting them at this point. They're gonna die. Yeah, no matter what you do. Crackin and dying. That's a thousand hit points. Oh, wow.

Is there a part of the Crackin I can see that does not look like I can do damage to it without hurting the main, what is that, the thorax? You don't see any, it is a big creature. Your friends are somewhere deep inside, it's fleshy, digesting interior. The outside is armored and filled with very, very top muscle and hide. So yeah, you would probably not damage your friends if you were hurt.

All right, well then I will take off a diamond and blasted with a prismatic spray. Oh, shit. Thank God. Yeah, except half of the things won't do anything. Yeah, but we are out of options. Better than nothing. I am totally okay with a helmet.

Oh, my God. Okay, so as a prismatic spray in this direction, out this way, it'll just crest past the front of the Cracken and the tentacles. Matic spray, it's a dexterity saving throw on that. Sure it makes it. That is a 23. Yeah, of course it makes it. All right, so roll for your first beam, which is against the Cracken itself. Do I roll a D8?

Or wait, to choose what kind of beam? Are you focusing, are you focusing the Cracken? Are you focusing the Crackin or one of its tentacles? I mean, no tentacles are holding anything right now, right? Currently no. So it'd be just a crack at me. Just the crack. All right. So roll D8 to see which beam hits it. Five. Five. That is 10 D6 cold damage. Oh, cold. That's good.

So go ahead and roll that. It doesn't have resistance to that, right? 10, right? Yeah. 18. 19. 30. 35. 35. 35 points of cold damage reduced to half because it made it save.

Save all those tentacles, man. 13. If you do enough damage to it, it may vomit them out. No, we gotta do it from the inside. You get that sense. All right. Do you have, yeah, and the tentacles don't get a prismatic spray of their own? No, it's kind of one of those things where it just damages the creature.

You have to focus, like, a physical, specific attack on one of the tentacle. All right, that brings to the top of the round. Vax, go ahead and roll Death Saving Throw with advantage. I can't do it? I can't do a rip off a patch and take a potion, can I, as a bonus? A regular potion, you mean? It's a patch potion. A patch potion?

Yeah. It's like a ticket to you patch. It would be like a patch healing spell? A patch Adam. Using the patch as an action, I think, unfortunately. Sorry. I just chew on the patch. It's just jerky.

You're good. All right. You so many. So keyleth, Death Saving Theta Thore, please. Oh, God, she's... Post a Constitution? Nope, just a D20. Would you roll?

Three. All right, so you failed one death saving throw. Into that. Percy's having a Mai-Tai somewhere. All right. Vex, Trinket, and Tarian, make Dexterity saving throws, please. Eleven! Six points of lightning damage.

Nineteen for me. Six points of lightning damage. damage. And fail like five for trinkets. Six? Six, yeah. He's unconscious, so he's bamped to my necklace. All right. Well, yeah. Is he within 100 feet? Yeah, he is. Keeleth, you failed another death saving throw. Immediately. Yep, you took lightning damage. All righty. This is not going to go well, guys. We've got nobody else on the field.

Vex, it's your turn. You have an unconscious keeleth over here. I'm going to swim to her and try to cast Kear wounds. Cast it. Good, I'm casting it at third level. So that's 3D8. That sucks. Seven. Sorry.

Salva's total what? Seven. Seven. So, Keelith, you're on. You're conscious. Seven points? You heal seven hit points. You're conscious.

Back in the game. Save my brother. Yeah? Okay. All right. Ending Vexa's turn, Percival? Actually, Vexes still have movement if you want to. I'm gonna try to hide.

You have nothing to hide behind. Get out, get out, get out. I'm gonna just swim away from... I'm gonna just try to swim towards the fucking door, but trying to keep my distance from the cracking while I'm doing it. It's hard to do that right now, but you're going towards the door that way, was it any gap. All right there's a door. Vex's turn, Percival, anything?

Oh, fuck. Yeah. Does I can do anything? No, it fires electricity. Just go out. Oh, Shark is going to attack one of the last ten it goes. If I can get to it. I'm going to hold my action for

for the vague hope of something useful. Okay, holding your action to to attack the, to distract the, I've already burned it, and it laughed it off. Just to attack the Crackin, if it gets close enough, just sort, just... Okay. 28. 28 hits, roll damage.

12. That shark is our most effective weapon. The shark has been pretty great. Alrighty, that brings this to the Crackens turn. Top of the turn, the acid burns through even further backs. You feel another debt saving throw? That's two. All right.

Top of the Crackens' turn. It's going to, let's see, there's in the range here. It's mindblower. And it's like so late. It's midnight. And we're just into the wee hours of the morning watching ourselves die. This is one of our tightest games.

This is kind of nuts. All right, it's going to make a tentacle attack at both at the shark, Vex, and Keyleth. But it only has two tentacles. That's right, two tentacles. So it's going to make one at Vex and Keyleth. But the shark is so dangerous. The shark's been hurting it, and helix is just like...

You gather this creature is far more intelligent than you think. It's not a natural beast. It's a fairly intelligent creature. What if the shark gets the how do you want to do this? That is a 26 versus you. You take, well, good news is in rolling shit damage. That is 18 points of bludgeoning damage to you of X. And you are grappled by, by the least.

one tentacle, and against Keeleth, just to clean out within five feet of you. It's a natural one. I was like, I'm pretty sure you had advantage as you're prone, but a prone is within against the creature has advantage than five feet of the creature, otherwise it has disadvantage. So, yeah.

Oh, God. Did she go back to doggy paddling? That's one thing that saved you. Uh-huh. And that's gonna be just the two attacks. That's all I can do this turn. All right, that brings us to us to. Grog, you're up.

Let us whoop the ever-loving shit out of the inside of this crackin, reckless, everything. Yeah, just all three attacks, just hitting the inside. With the masters as well or not? It's not really a great weapon. Two-handed, versatile means you can hold up with two hands. Oh yeah? I'm pretty sure that's how it works.

Because that's just a, it's just a hammer. It's not like a great sword or a great axe, so I thought maybe I would have a good. so I thought maybe I'll just to be saved. I'll just to be saved. It's a heavy weapon. It's not having the spines tonight. I'm just saying. Oh, it's a heavy weapon.

It's no wonder. Yeah, you cannot. Yeah. You're right. I'll make them reckless though. All three. My honest husband. 29.

Hits, right? You'll check this internet. It doesn't get angry to me. I'm just going to roll it out. So 20. 29 hits. First is a 20. 20 points of damage.

Second one is a 10. Is 22? 22, yeah, hits. It's, okay, good. Is 24 points of damage? 34 points of damage already. Last one. Is a natural 20.

Oh! Roll damage. Oh my Jesus. That's a 10, that's 44. That's 7, so that's 51 points of damage. 51 points of damage. 51 points of damage to it. That in its own attack is enough to make it

Sautuchin saving throw. See for a four. That is a four, plus 15. It's 19. It's not enough to make it scostridging throw. It vomits Grog and an unconscious vax. Oh, thank you. Out of the front.

I know. Got to get a healing potion in that guy stacked. Jesus Christ, guys. You're killing me. Okay. Get it in him. So Grog, it's you. You still have your movement.

I do have my movement. Okay. I am going to, it's such a short, shitty movement. I'm gonna stay, can I just rotate around him towards the door and stay within? As far as I can get. 25, you get it there. All right, and in Grog's turn.

Terry him. Wait, is little elf boy alive? No. No, he's unconscious with two failed death saving throws. And Grog just ran away from him? But he's out of the Cracken. He's out of the Cracken. He's out of the Cracken.

But if you can heal him for a point any way possible, okay. Nope. Can't do it. This is not good, people. True Loves kiss? I'm very far away right now. Is it my turn? I just mean sand.

I mean that I would love to do. Again. Um, uh, do-d-d-d-d-d-d-do-d-do-do-do-do-do. Okay. I don't know. Berc. Burke. Burke. Berk. Nope. I got nothing. Pismatic spray will kill everybody else. Ring the Rams dead. I can't throw anything that far.

Right? He's like 40 feet away from me. You're right. You're... What would Terry and do with this moment? 50 feet away? How far am I? You're about 50 feet from him, yeah. You have a bag, right? I can't throw something 50 feet underwater, and I can only move 15 feet.

No, but you can swim out. There's very little I can do. I will say, I will say, crossbow and change my thing into my rod into a crossbow and knock the poison bolt and shoot it. Sure, I'll say, all right. Look at that. You turn this way.

I'll also move 15 feet. There you go. Go make your attack with disadvantage. Okay. It was a one. You pulled back in fire and it goes, and the vault just goes, and floats up, and you're like,

shit. Wow. But when I moved, Matt, I want to move toward it. It's not aware. I'm going to get you a new D20, sir. All right, engineering turn. Backs, that's a saving throw with advantage. With no luck left?

No, one, no, nothing, no luck. No luck. Come on. River queen shit? Nothing? Really? Last bit of air. Spakes in the lungs of Vax. Lifeless on the ground. All right. That ends your turn, obviously.

Keyliff. Oh. What? My God. The cracking. Who do I see? You're right here on the ground. You see Vax not moving.

You see Vex. Vex. currently grappled inside there and Grog and everyone rushing this direction towards the pole. Vex is grappled, Vax is dead, and then there's me. How close am I to Vex and Vax? You're 10 feet from Vax and 15 feet from Vex, thank you. Or 10 feet from each, actually. Time to win, 10 feet from each? Yeah. Can I swim with my alter self? Mm-hmm. Grab both of them. Can I do that? Can I grab both of them with my swim speed?

All right. Hold it yourself. Yeah? You can grab. In between them? You can grab Vax and be going to tug him towards Vex at half speeds. It's five ten. No, I've got alter self. I've got alter self. Right, but you're dragging him behind you as you go. Come on, man. Do I have Vex? 510, 15, 20, 25. 30. 30. You're like just in the space.

What are you trying to do? And I cast plane shift, and I get us out of here. Oh, shit. Okay. All right, and with that, the three of you vanish. Oh. Sorry, everyone else. The three of you? Wait, you who and who? The shark vanishes. Oh, the shark.

Who just vanished? Everyone, but you... Plane shifting where? It's you and Terry and left. Get the fuck out. Where are you going? Plane shifting where. Back to Vesra. Okay.

We're out of the portal. All right. They vanish. Grog. All right, so I finished Tequila's turn? Top of the scale here. I need both of you guys to make dexterity. Same throws.

Wait, who? Grog and Tame. Wait, Grog is dead? No. Dexterity. Oh, Dexterity. Eighteen. Eighteen.

All right, you take eight points of volume damage. What is it dead? 17. That is eight points. With resistance? Yeah, reduced to four. Okay. So just four. All right. Percival. Now. Wait, are you grappled? It's fine. Not there. You're not there. You're not there.

No one's grappled. I'm... Chill with me. There is nothing I can do. All right. And if your turn, last legendary action, go ahead and attempt to grab and grapple Grog with advantage because you... That is 26. That is 26.

Oh, fuck. You take 10 points of motion damage, being reduced. And you are grappled. Oh, 10 is reduced? Yeah. Can I make my retaliatory? You can. On that tentacle.

Reckless. 23. 23 hits, going to hold damage. That is also a 23. 23. That one, I'm taking 13 damage. Earlier that, tentacle is destroyed, there is one left. I am not grappled.

You are no longer grappled. There's one slightly damaged tentacle left. As you do so, the voices. No. That ends your retaliation. Percy's, it is now, it's now, that was Percy's turn, right? I already, I just, there's literally nothing I can do.

I have a sword either. Right, okay. It's gonna come forward here. It's gonna go ahead and do lightning storm against both of you. I need both Tarian and Grog to make dexterity saving throws once more. Mm-hmm. 18.

18. 20. No more blessed. All right. Hashtag not blessed. So not blessed. That is a really shitty rule. 13 points of lighting damage?

Dead. 13 points lighting damage. Unconscious. 20 in resistance for me. Okay. So it was sorry. So it was 13 minus that to seven. So Terry.

So Terry falls unconscious. Mother fuck. Scamlin appears in a purple puff of smoke. I know. Are you really? Are you really? Are you really? Where are you?

It's right near you. So Grog, it's your turn. You don't even like me. I'm gonna take the coin. She's with us. You took me. I'm gonna alter self. Okay.

I'm gonna grow gills and fins. Wait, shh. He's doing stuff. Okay. So the gills and fins appear, your web fingers. And what are you doing? I see Terry fall and I bolt for the portal. Going right past me.

Yep. Oh, fucking. I am staring you in the dead eye. I love it. I love it. And can I like double my speed? No, unfortunately, because you use your action to do the ability on you. Oh, wait, wait, you have the, so you have full movement.

That's right. 50. We need the fucking loadstone. Oh, he's got the other loadstone. He does have the third loadstone. Did I make it to the portal? You are just in the outskirts of it, and you see Percy yelling at you.

Moadstone! What? Oh. Right. Oh, that was a great way to ensure that you got out of here, Terry. All right. Coming through at 20, Grog, I need you to make a dexterity saving through. Girl.

Get out. Nineteen. That is 10 reduced to five. Five points of lightning damage against you. Tery, you failed a death saving throw? Automatically, you take damage from the lightning. How far is Terry from the, how many feet is turned from the portal? Terry is, as you do.

I forgot. 50? 40 feet. Yep. What's my running speed? Yeah. What's my running speed? Running to 30.

Okay. All right, first of all, what are you doing? Dash and get 60. You sell the coin, right? I've already taken it. Your potion of haste. I don't complicate this. I don't have a potion of hayst.

Yeah, sure you don't. Don't complicate this. I think we'll be okay. I think. Listen, what are you doing? I'm going to, I have a healing potion. I have a healing potion. All right.

Fucked. Come on Percy. I got. I don't know what the fuck to do. That's the title for the episode. Can you get, what's your speed? 60. Yeah, so go over there and heal me, fucker.

Yeah, I'm not going to survive one round in there. I'm 16 points. Oh, okay. I will. Yeah, there's no, there's no, is Grog looking rough? Grog, how are you looking? I'm okay. You looking fine? I'm all right.

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Three, five. Zero modifier. I don't know what that is. Love this game. Well, actually it's supposed to be charisma checks against him. What are you trying to do? Just toss the nitwit through the door! Are you trying to intimidate him?

No, I'm begging. All right, make a persuasion check with advantage. That's how technically is supposed to work. Yes. But I'm giving you, yeah. Toss the water? Through the water? With advantage.

With advantage, that was cox though, was it? That's a 20. That's okay. Yeah, it was a 20. 20, okay. Natural 20. Okay, Grog, you come through and see person looking at you and, oh shit, you don't want to make him mad.

He's your buddy. Toss the nitwit through the door. The knitwit. That's, okay. Yeah, I'm good. Okay, I'm good. Okay. I love you.

Top of the crack. I'm so proud of. Just knit wit, right? Who do you think I think the Nittwit is? I think it's... Grog. It's gonna... I can't take it back what I'm gonna see what I said.

I'm well aware. All right. I can start to argue with you if you start to do something stupid, which is fine. I technically I would think Nidwood is me. And I'd be like, okay, right? You might. I'm not gonna...

Once you roll for it, Trow. No, he cast friends and the whole point is to like, yeah. You know that. All right. Yeah, that's a DM call. It's not quite my call. Yeah, the Cracken is going to go ahead and make a bite attack against you. Oh, god damn.

This is the last one one technical left. That is an 18 plus six, that is 24. That hits you. You take, that is seven, three. Oh, shit. 13 plus 10. That's 23 points of piercing damage. How many?

23. Released to 12 because of you're raging. And you are, oh, you are not grappled by the Crackin. So it does not swallow you. So it does not swallow you. Yeah. That saves your ass there, man. I was just about to eat you.

Five, no. Okay. And good for you guys. Yeah, that's the Cracken's turn. Grog, what are you doing? I am going to Aquaman run over to Terry. You took the, see you have full speed now.

Yeah. So you can double speed if you want. Well, 25 there. It's going to take an action to pick them up. Maybe I just want to grab the He said Nettwit, throw the Nettwee through the door. What do, Grog? It's your call.

I'm not going to fight you no matter what. What do you want to do, Grog? Now he cast Friends, right? So I wouldn't want to make Percy mad. What's up to you? Friends affects him more than it affects you, technically. He just seems very persuasive. I feel like I had a point.

Yeah. All right. I'll pick up Terry. Okay. Moving back with him, because your strength doesn't reduce your movement. Five, ten, fifteen, twenty, oh, I can help. Twenty-five. reach. Can you throw Terry through? Or is that an additional action? Do I have anything to toss them through that thing?

No, it takes your whole, to pick them up and get there. You'll have the bonus action right now. Can I take just one one of the tiny little healing potions, the regular ass ones? Do if you have one, yeah. I have one. It's just. So there you go, so you take it. I forget what it's called. Yeah, it's a one D4 plus, oh 2D4 plus two. It's a red ball. 2d4 plus 2. 2. 2d4 plus 2. And Skrog turn 3. Tarian. Make a death saving threat. Six.

11. So you're fine. That's a one good one. You get a success. That brings us up to the top. Is it mine? Not quite yet. We are at the 20.

Oh, hilarious. God damn it. All right, that's a dexterity saving throw from you, Grog. It's just all out shocking. You will all lose a... 16. 16. That is 14 points of lightning damage to you, Groff.

Half to seven. Yep, half to seven. Damn. Automatic death fails. Automatic death fails. All right, that brings this now to Percival. I'm going to just lean out the fucking door and take three attacks at a tentacle and run back in. Okay. Since he's right there.

Well, currently, there is no tentacle in your range? There's no tentacle in the range? Right now, if the tentacles and arrangement is wrapped around somebody, you can hit it right there, but right now it's kind of just like in the distance. Oh, in that case, I'm going to run out, grab and pull and just like help drag everybody. through the portal. If I can... You can grab it and pull Tery and Krog's too big for you to move at all.

You're gonna be cool? We'll see. You're gonna be fine. All right. You don't know for a while. You pull Tarian through, his unconscious body through. And I'm healing potion. I got a mind.

I do. I have like a minor left that I haven't burned. You're pulling Tarian through? Okay. So I'll say between like your first movement there, you'll have enough, so go ahead and so 2D4 plus Tudatarian. 2D4 plus one. What? 2D4 plus two to Taryan. Oh, so that's six. Tarian is conscious.

Yeah, and now I'm just like, I'm just at the edge, like, ready to, yeah. All right, is now the Cracken's turn. Oh my God. You got nothing. The Cracken is going to step right here. Now directly behind you, Grog, its tentacles, it's kind of swarm, with the one, all these broken tentacles now that are trying to, like, extend. You can see parts of it are regenerating and starting to extend a little bit, not fully, but it's going to take off, but you can see it does regenerate over time. That is a bad, bad creature. You know, at the end of Percival's turn, it's going to use one of its legendary actions.

God damn it. To attempt to bash you. It's a natural 20. Oh my god. Oh, so that is 17 points of bludgeon damage against you. Just to half. What do you have? To eight, nine.

That would be nine, yeah. And you are grappled. Now it is the Cracken's turn. The Crackman is going to attempt to bite attack you. It does not have advantage. There is a 20. That's... That is 18 points piercing damage, reduced to nine.

And you are swallowed. God fucking, okay. So you get your... You get any attacks, Scraggy? All righty. Roggots your turn. All three attacks. Reckless.

That's the 32. That's 20 points of damage on the first one. All right, 20. 26 is the hit for the second one. That hits. 24 points of damage on the second one. And at 23. That hits.

With 19 points of damage on the third one. Let's make Constitution save. That is direct. That is directly a 9 plus 15. It's a 24, the DC is 25. It fails and vomits you out again to the front of it. Jesus Christ. Right through the door, it's right through the door.

Come on, through the door, you project that vomits. That's a great hand. I am. I am buried around. I'm just gonna take a picture of that people who are like, that's a little too close. With the rest of my movement, can I turn around and look at it and go,

yo, oh, ancient one. Can you read my mind now? I walk through the portal. And you do as you step away through the portal. I can't please that shit. Just double birds. I just tweeted that final saving through on his end. I, wow.

Hand you my glasses. And fall down. And that's where in tonight's game. Jesus Christ. Jesus Christ. That was... Don't fuck with the Titan creatures, man. Terrible.

Hey, your first death facts. Titan creatures. First death. He's dead! That's not good? He's still fucking dead. He's still fucking dead. Maybe my last death.

We don't know. We don't know. I think he's just like, heel, get angry and leave. But we'll find out where that brings us next week. One way or another, it'll climactic end to the Aramente. Oh my God. And all of the guilt complexes. Wow.

I underestimated that whole thing. That went so much worse than I ever thought it would be. I don't feel good. I feel like I'm gonna throw up. Yeah, I feel a little nauseous and it's not just the cracking. Thank you, Lou Cray. Thanks. Thank you, thank you.

Thanks, thank you. Thanks, Luke, thanks, Luke, great. For the robot and the, and the Legos. You're still alive? All of us, but everybody in the guys. How many people do you have at the end, grog? I'm so tired. We got loadstone.

We got lowstone. Whoa. Oh yeah. I was watching him take it down and I was like, oh my god, one more hit in broads unconscious. 49, 61, 44, 34, 34, 39, 27, 33, 26, 17, 8. Wow. Wow.

If I didn't get barf, like, we were having problems. Wow. I was going to make a running. I was, yeah, I was not willing to, yeah, I was not going to do. You always been swollen to. I. Yeah, I had a thought, but it was a bad thought. I'm really glad I didn't have to go.

I guess Terry lives over the day. I've learned a lesson. Always carry an insurance policy. Fair enough. I want to cry. Well, guys, well done. I want to cry too. You gathered the lodestones and escaped with the body of Vax, though dead.

Had that last dead saving throw happen in the stomach of the crack? with the crack and there was no way you were getting back. There was no coming back. So that's good. So in a way, we won! That's a silver lining. Anyway, guys, thank you for sticking through a very long, climactic, intense battle for both players and viewers.

Thank you Luke Great for being our awesome sponsor. Thank you Luke great. We'll be back next week to see the conclusion of this Armente arc. Much love to you all. And is it Thursday yet? Not for another week. See you guys soon. Thank you.