Critical Role - C2E75 Rime and Reason

Episode Date: August 22, 2019

The Mighty Nein find themselves transported to snowy Mythburrow in pursuit of a white dragon, and must use all their wisdom to escape with their prize and their lives intact...(guest starring Mica Burton!)Watch Critical Role live Thursdays at 7pm PT on https://www.twitch.tv/criticalrole

Once upon a time, a group of curious storytellers breathed life into epic tales set in the wide fantasy world of Exandria. This is Liam O'Brien, here to welcome you to Critical Role. We'll dive into the story in just a moment, but first, a few notes. This is the audio-only version of our broadcast that streams Thursdays at 7pm Pacificm. Pacific over on twitch.tv slash criticalrole and youtube.com slash criticalrole. If you subscribe to our Twitch channel, you can watch the video on demand immediately after the broadcast.

And it's also available Mondays at 12 p.m. Pacific on YouTube. And of course, for all you wonderful podcast listeners, freshly minted episodes release right here on the Critical Role Podcast Network one week after our broadcast on Thursdays. With all that said, let's get into the story. Hello, everyone, and welcome to tonight's episode of Critical Role, where a bunch of us nerdy-ass voice actors sit around and play Dungeons & Dragons. We're here for Dungeons & Dragons!

We do have, after the announcements, our friend Liam is going to be attempting to Skype in for the game. He is out in the middle of nowhere, but has apparently gotten some aid from some critters at the place he's staying and we're hoping the connection's enough to get him through here, so we're going to try.

So thank you, whoever you are, helping Liam out on that end. So before we get into it, we have some announcements to get through. First and foremost, we have two wonderful sponsors tonight. First, our friends since beginning campaign two, and the ones who endure this gentleman every week, D&D Beyond.

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with merch stuff, but I always feel like there could be more stuff focusing on my characters, so I thought I'd use some of my time tonight to pitch a few merch ideas to Laura. Now, these are just prototypes. They're not finished products, but maybe if you guys like them and she likes them, you can find these things in the CritRoll store later this year. First up, Nott's Bag of Buttons! Our favorite goblin rogue loves buttons, and so will you when you pick up this limited edition giant sack of stolen buttons.

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That is so cool. All right, so we've also got, for those who haven't seen it, the second issue of the next installment of our comic book series, Vox Machina Origins, is out, came out yesterday. Issue two, the fantastic cover art from our Critter artist, Will Kirkby.

So cool. It's badass and it just gets more intense from here on out, too. It's so good. Oh man. So some folks who may have known the origin history we briefly discussed in the past get to see all the original stories we played at home now played out in Awesome Comic Faction.

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And for Laura, you have something to announce as well? Yes, well, you may have noticed on our store online this morning. Oh shit, I knocked it over. Oh god. Well-e Weathering machine! Da-da-da-da-da-da-da! It's the Dev Dine!

Whoa! Go back. Whoa! High quality paper. I know! It's the same size as our other maps by Devonroo. Nice. It's beautiful, it's glorious. You can check it out on our shop.

It's so good. I know, I know. Badass. Each one comes with a cock ring. No. No, that's not a thing. That's just a shipping tube. Square cock ring.

It's just a shipping tube, man. It's just a shipping tube. Oh, it's in our US and our UK store. Round hole square peg. Square hole round peg. I beg to differ. That's the joke, man. No, it can go both ways.

Don't. It can go both ways. Anyway. Yeah. Thank you, Laura. So do I. Thank you, everyone. I'm trying to get that Gleaming the Cube joke in there all week. That's the end of our announcements,

so let's go ahead and get us into. Can I? Oh, wait. I'm trying to get that Gleaming the Cube joke in there all week. That's the end of our announcements, so let's go ahead and get us into it. Can I? Can I? Oh, wait, whoa. Thank you. I had the lucky, prestigious honor of joining the future Super Bowl champion, Dallas Cowboys, at their training camp, boom, earlier this week.

And I just want to send a special shout out to All-Pro Center Travis Frederick and his D&D adventuring party, The Janitors, for allowing me and my brother to attend. It was amazing. They gave us gear, and I'm going to wear it for the fucking game. Love you, cowboys. Yes!

So is it safe to assume your favorite team is the cowboys? Yeah, I'm from Dallas. I love the cowboys, they're the best, they're the best! I'm sorry! This has been him all week. Awesome. Sports ball. Man. I've never seen him so excited.

Thank you guys for, you know, I mean, Laura's a great wife, but I've never seen him this excited. I have. And he's a father. He's a father. He's a father. But you have a child. But he was awesome. You're beaming. It was awesome. And he's a father. It was awesome. He's a father. But you have a child. It was awesome. You're beaming. It was so cool.

All righty, well, on that note, let's go ahead and jump into tonight's episode of... They're real sticky. Critical Role. Roll and roll, roll and roll, roll and roll, roll and roll. The adventure begins, they were always beside you. Your nerdy best friends and the DM to guide you. And they rise from the flames for the battles ahead villains beware cause you're about to be dead

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Little late on that, Sam. Welcome back. SAM and LAURA Welcome back. So last we left off, as we're trying to get a Liam O'Brien to connect here. Well, old machine. Almost 200 episodes of this series. Well, old machine. That's part of the charm, I like to think.

So last we left off. The Mighty Nein, heading northward to the Graying Wildlands in search of the means to assemble two broken pieces of an artifact they've acquired over the breadth of their adventures, as well as seek for the means to pursue the visions that Caduceus had received from the Wild Mother, had found themselves in the subterranean dwarf elf city of Uthodurn.

While searching about, you encountered an individual named Reani. Reani, who was a vigilante protector, it seems, of the local neighborhood and had an aligned interest in the venture that you were notified that required a white dragon to be sought to acquire this material known as Iceflex,

which is mithril treated with the breath of a white dragon. A dangerous mission. You researched where this white dragon may be, and with the help of your ally there, acquire some materials, make some connections, and prepare yourselves for the journey. You called in an additional favor with Shadowhand Essek, teleported northward to the Mythboro,

which seems to be the demaind, or demaind, depending on how you want to pronounce it, of this entity, this white dragon known as Gellion, the Nightmare in Ivory. Ah, that's really close. I'm sorry. We were trying to remember his name right. We knew it was a bag. We just didn't know what the adjective was.

No worries. You arrive via teleportation to the outskirts of this mountain at the base, being blasted with wind and snow and ice. Glancing up, you can see a little ways up what looks to be a cavern that enters into the base of the mountain with icy veins curling out from this entrance. And that's where we left off.

So as the wind is howling through, being spattered and smacked with hail and hard snow, Essek immediately takes a step back and goes, All right, friends. I'm not staying very long. This is ridiculous. Have fun. And turns around and starts walking away. Thank you.

Walking or hovering? Hard to tell at this distance. What about his footprints? Is he leaving footprints in the snow? You can make a perception check. Oh, you're that first one in the night? You got one. Okay.

I don't have my seven. I think it's a plus four. Is it? Did you actually get it right? That's amazing. Is it 14? Tell me it's a single tire track. I got to look at my perception. Do you have to give me on his Refreshing?

Yeah, yeah. It's two wheelie tracks. It's not wheelie tracks. 15. 15? Would you? I'm like 11. 11, okay. What you do see are, you don't see any footsteps.

What you see are two grooves dragging forward. He's on skates? It's his toes. It's his toes. He's hovering, but the snow is, too. Oh, wow. Is he wearing shoes? You can't tell, the cloak goes just past that. I hope his toes are okay.

Probably pretty cold at this point. You can get frostbite that way, that's pretty heavy. Oh, yeah, there we are. Bye! Oh. I'm really glad we bought jackets. Do we want to maybe batten down somewhere? Sure.

Anything nearby, like a cave? Not the dragon cave. Not that cave. Please, not that cave. Are there any other clearings or caves? Is there anywhere that seems like it might give a shelter that isn't the big entrance of doom? Make a perception check from this space. About what time is it?

I'll say, at the storm at this distance, do it with disadvantage, just because your vision is somewhat obscured by the storm. Can I look, too, because I said it, too? Sure. 11. I did say it. I said it. It was fine before disadvantage, but 11. Sorry, man.

Oh, disadvantage. Weather's shitty. 13. 13. Looking around, there might be a couple of rocks you could try and push yourselves up against to get out of the extent of the storm, but there's no other shelter-like caverns within the mountain that are immediately in the vicinity.

The teleportation spell was very accurate and brought you straight towards the base of Mythboro, per your request. When we look up, can we see any caves in the mountainside? Just a little bit of that. That's what they were looking for. Can we see inside the giant mouth of the cave? It looks like it's a couple hundred feet from you,

so you're not able to tell at this distance with all the mess of weather pushing in its way. You'd have to get closer to look. And with the mess of weather, daylight breaking through at all, time of day? No daylight breaking through. You guys had taken a day's rest before traveling to Rosohna, so if I recall, and we'll say for now,

it's like midday, maybe early afternoon. So there's light out, but the sky itself is dark gray, heavy clouds, coming through storm, not quite blizzard, but it's still an intense storm. And several hundred yards to the mouth of the cave, vegetation, trees, and the distance? Several hundred yards to the base of the mountain or to the mouth of the?

To the mouth of the cave. It's like there are certain levels where it evens off and then climbs up further and then climbs up further. Okay, okay, okay. From what you can see, there are a handful of leafless tree trunks with completely barren branches

that are visible at certain points, even just in the vicinity around you and along the mountains here. You're not sure if they're just old and have long been dead, or if there's an actual cycle of weather and nature that occasionally the storms allow things to grow. I feel like I might get a sense.

Can I walk over to one of them and, you sleeping over there? Sorry. You all right? Make a nature check. Thank you. I love it. Wow, I hope I don't keep rolling like this because that's exciting.

Where'd it go? Eight. It's hard to do. The tree is barren. It looks like a tree that exists in a cold space, unfortunately. Yeah. Should we peek into the cave and see if we see the dragon? That's what I was going to ask.

Before we bed down for the night, should we at least establish that this is the correct cave? That wasn't my idea. My idea was like, if the dragon's far back in the cave, we can take a corner to ourselves and take a nap. What if he's not far back in the cave and he's just right there? What if it's not the right cave? Then we run?

I mean. Well, let's do a little scouting trip. We have a cat. Let's do a little scouting trip. We have things for this. We have a cat, don't we? We have a cat, yeah. Oh yes, oh yeah, I have a cat. Oh, Shasta.

Oh boy, oh boy. Oh, hello. Is your cat a cat? Oh boy. What was that I heard? I am sure it's a real special. Okay, okay, I have a cat, oh yeah. Matt is horrified. I am.

Is your cat a cat today, Mr. Caleb? Oh, yeah. Oh, he asked him yes and no questions! My birthday was two months ago. Liam, wherever you are, thank you for this gift. Thank you for this gift, Liam. Oh god. I mean, yes, not only do we need to carefully

scout the cave, but also in case the dragon is in there, and if we agitate it, how the fuck do we get out of here? We don't really have a quick means of escape. Oh yeah, I have a teleportation circle. And a hut. You also have a hut that we can be in. Oh yes. How long does the hut last?

10 hours? Eight hours, as long as he stays within it. Okay. Right. So we can get ourselves, wow, you did that to me. Wow. Too much accent happening here. But, but, but, Mr. Caleb. You know that you can be inside the dome

and controlling the cat at the same time, isn't that correct? Oh yeah. Please elaborate. Oh, you know. Oh, well. Hurdy-gurdy-gurdy. It's good that we're getting the positivity out now

before we're all fucking in a road rage. Ooh, sweet. Swedish Wizard is my favorite addition to this team. Uh... Should we send him? He doesn't feel like dogging very much, I think. I think he's already going into his trance. He's going to go to London Dax, much to scoff.

Set up the dome, send Cat out. Ja. Ja? Ja? Yeah. It's RJ. Liam actually, yeah. Which is actually German, yeah.

Ja? I'm pretty sure it's Ja. Minor kitty, he go forth. I think I'm rushing real quick. Yeah, I went to caveman. Okay, all right. So are you setting up the... First cast the spell, maybe?

Right up, right away? Okay, well, what does it look like? What is this landscape? We should creep. We can go against the rocks that I saw at the outcrop. Yeah, there's a gradual incline up the side of the mountain.

It climbs at places and then levels out a bit and then climbs more, and the further in you get, the more the incline of rock begins to raise and raise to meet the actual heavy mountainside. You're about 250 feet or so from the entrance of this cavern, and around you is just snow and ice and dead trees and rock.

We don't hear anything, we don't see any dragons around, there's no? Not at the moment, no. Okay. Because if we catch its attention, we're going to be in some trouble right now. Yes, and then we'll be sitting there for eight hours, hoping it goes away. Which it won't.

I don't think dragons just disappear. You know what we could do, if I may? We could create the dome, and by we, I mean you, Mr. Caleb. As soon as it's set up, I believe it can keep everything out, right? However, it will also keep snow out, so if we covered it in snow, like covered it up with snow. It would be really hard to see.

It would be really hard to see, is what I'm saying. We could also make it look however he wants it to. So we can make it look like snow. We could make it look white, and we could also just puff it up a little bit. That's not terrible, yeah. I can make us a campfire. That would be a badge thing, I think.

The smoke would come out. Oh, lights and the, yeah. Do we have any supernatural fire, maybe? I have supernatural fire. Well then, I don't think supernatural fire makes smoke, if I recall. I don't even know what supernatural fire is. It's like Caleb's light falls that he has sometimes.

Does produce flame make smoke? Ah, I'm going to have to turn off my buzzer here, because we're getting a shit ton of Liam texts in the good and bad. Also, knowing from past experience and text messages, the hut is actually warm inside. Quite warm, yeah. You can control the temperature inside, okay.

Right, Mr. Caleb? Yeah, it's toasty. Got it, it's got a now. Ja. Oh, it's ja. I would say the first two is the magic of the bonfire would not create smoke. Oh, good to know.

Because why not? I took German, that's the funny part. All right, so we make the dome, and then once we're all cozy inside, Frumpkin can go in and peek around. Yeah, or you can do it, because you can be invisible. I can. I can also, you know, like,

send messages to the dragon. That seems like a bad idea. But here's the thing. I mean, I can wait to say all this when we're in the hut, but here's the thing. It's not like we're going to sneak up on this dragon, right? I mean, we're not going to sneak into the thing and sneakily make him or her breathe on this thing of metal,

they're going to know we're there, so might as well talk to them and see if maybe they'll just breathe on it without fighting us. They could be nice. They could be a nice dragon. I'm okay with that, however. Maybe we should talk with them after we've rested

and have all of our capabilities. No, maybe we should talk with them before, that way I don't waste my spells. I see. I have a question. Have any of you ever actually spoken or dealt with a dragon? No. No. Have you? No.

Well, we kind of did in the Happy Fun Ball. We actually all did in Covenant. Oh, yes! But that was not really it. Was it an ice dragon? Did you talk to him? I did, back again. Oh, yes! But that was not really it. Was it an ice dragon? Did you talk to him? I did, yes, I did, yes. Sorry, I repressed that memory.

You've been through a lot of shit. Wow. A lot happens in a day. They're very smart. You ever think about that? Like, are we really living in the moment? Are we processing what's happening? I don't know, Caleb.

No. No? Is that Beau? I can't tell! It's almost the same! I'm going to button at you. You can get the doll for a visual aid if you need. I'm going to lean somewhere in the wilderness, like, let me in, let me in!

I will say that dragon was very intelligent. It seemed very clever and dark and I... If you want to make an arcana check, and you read a lot on the white dragon, right? Yeah. You actually know that white dragons of all the chromatics are known to be the least intelligent. That doesn't mean that they're stupid by any means,

but as far as the scales of the chromatics, they have, they're, the most intelligent of white dragons sometimes range the average intelligence They have, the most intelligent of white dragons sometimes range the average intelligence of a person. Aren't they also the most vengeful or something? They're the most feral in some ways. The most animalistic, hunt, eat.

They're intelligent, like any intelligent creature is, but they're not the kind to outsmart one of wits, necessarily. So maybe we could send in an animal with the metal strap to it or something. Yeah, that would be amazing. Yeah, yeah. I have animals.

You have animals? I can make animals. You can also turn into an animal. I can also turn into an animal. But then I want you to be the one that we try to set on, not fire, but ice. But I can make an animal that we can set on ice. Yeah. Yeah. And tie the metal to it, and then the dragon

will just be like, oh man, I'm so hungry. I'm so feral! I'm so feral! Wait, but if it's hungry, what if it eats the bar? That's a good point. We need to agitate it, we need a... We need a fast animal that just runs around. What if it's the bar? That's a good point. We need to agitate it, we need a... We need a fast animal that just runs around. What if it's like a cheetah?

Cheetahs would die in the snow. What if it's like a snow leopard? A snow leopard? But then if the dragon kills it, we still have the problem of a big dragon going and eating its body or something. Or taking the ore. I mean, it's a shiny metal, don't dragons like? We could attach the piece of metal to a rope,

so if the snow cheetah dies, we just pull it. I thought about that. I thought about that. The rope might burn. What if, okay, what if we put the metal in the snow leopard's mouth, it runs in, it gets breathed on, everything like that. The snow leopard dies. He's about to get eaten.

And then you send in your Mage Hand and you snatch up the ingot out of the dragon's mouth before it ever gets to eat it. Then you bring it back into the hut and then we're all safe and then Caleb. I like that idea. You can do a teleportation and then we're gone. How far away do you need to be for your hand?

I think it's about 60 feet. I'll also say that we do have a little talky button that we could attach to. Ooh, the snow lever. All right. And the snow lever can send a message that says, we're friends, hi. Do we now have a talking snow lever?

Mine as well. Well, another thing to keep in mind with all this withdrawing things out of the cave, look around our feet. Are there snow? Are we leaving prints in the snow tracks? Where you're standing right now, yes, very much so. So if we go in and flee,

or throw something in and attract it, it will lead a straight line directly to? But we have the hut. Yeah, the dome. Right, and then we do the teleportation circle within the dome, and then we just bounce out from the dome. Sounds like it could work. No, if that can, does that work?

Or I can send in a snow leopard, and then I turn into a giant spider, and then I send out spider web, and then I pull out a spider web, and then we run away. Yeah, there's also no guarantee that one hit of ice breath on this thing is going to cut it. This might take a few rounds.

On the metal, you mean? Yeah. Yeah, because they said it had to change color. It has to glow blue, right? Yeah. I feel like we have two approaches that we can take here, which is we can either try and reason with this dragon and try and- Or we kill it.

Well. Or we just try to trick it. Or we try and trick it, which may lead to killing. I would just like to point out that its name is the Nightmare in Ivory. It sounds like a woman scorned on her wedding day. I don't know. Maybe it is. Or a good electronic advantage. So somebody has to marry it, problem solved.

Fjord, you're very attractive. You are very attractive. I can't do this. I don't want to marry a dragon. Honestly, a proposal might soften. Does anybody have a ring? I have lots of rings on my fingers. On me is Liam. Problem solved.

No, this is, I mean. An important question for Caleb is, can the dome be up, and then can he also conjure, draw whatever the transportation? Teleportation. Yeah, that one. I'm pretty sure, yeah, if I, ooh, awkward, can he hear us?

Stretcher on, stretcher on. Oh, yes, he can. I didn't realize he was even gone for a second. Because, you know, dome is a concentration spell. Yeah, and I can have one of those up at a time. Well, the dome is not concentration. Oh, it's not? No, it just lasts for eight hours once it casts.

So I can't do it, can we do it? Neither of them are concentration, but each take a minute to cast. Okay, so that's fine. The Teleportation Circle as well? Yes. But that's fine. If we're inside the dome, then the dragon can be in the dome,

and then you can draw at your leisure. That also means that any contact we have with the dragon will be no Caleb. Here's a question. Yep. If I use Dimension Door, and that you pop over, then would I be able to pop into the dome,

or would I have to pop just probably next to you at times? You're allowed to. You're welcome in the dome. He decides who comes in and out. But is it considered on the same plane of existence? Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Then yeah. Okay. So I think we have a good exit plan. But we should get closer and see what we'll be informed by.

It seems like, talking you through with these animals and the Mage Hands and everything, it seems like some of us are going to have to get close to do this. What if we go in and the dragon's like an old man and we can just slit its throat and leave? The older they get, the worse they get. Also, it would be called the Nappan Ivory

if it was that old. Maybe he just hasn't had his name updated, we don't know. Also, regarding killing, I don't think the dragon can breathe once it's dead, so that will have foiled our plans. This is true. I think we go in, we get the breath, it turns blue, and we leave.

I don't think we should try to kill it, because it's going to be very strong. I agree. Can I still take? Blue Dragon was really little. I mean, he was kind of a baby, and he was really hard to kill. I've got a pitch, I've got a pitch. It's not a good pitch. Let's hear it.

We're excited to hear it. Okay. It's a really bad pitch. What if we all go in together, because we're better as a team. Yep. Sure. And we have some fast folks among us, namely you, Beauregard. And also you can bamf around with your Dimension Door a little bit.

A couple times. Yeah. So what if we spread out as much as we can? We'll have to see what the inside of this cave is like, but if we spread out a lot and do a hot potato thing with the mithril, right? And that way, even if it blasts one of us, maybe we won't die, and then we can just hot potato it somewhere else,

and then the dragon will shoot that person, and that person won't die either, maybe. I'm actually down for this on a conceptual level. I hear your pitch, and I'm going to, yeah. I think we can start with some of the illusion stuff, but eventually, if that thing, if this piece of hunk of metal gets stuck, someone's going to have to run and get it,

and then I think the baton pass off is actually not a bad call. But, okay. Once it's blue. What if, though? It might, yeah. One hit from his breath does kill us. Well, then we'll find that out very quickly. I was going to suggest that maybe Reani could go first. I can go first.

Let's just get Lily and Aida. I feel very sorry. How about we just get Lily and Yvonne and we'll assume in the woods. How about we just get closer and we actually take a look, yes? Frumpkin? Will you go in? Will you, Caleb, will you send Frumpkin in? We should go around the side,

set up the dome, and then send in Frumpkin, yes? Set up the dome. Yes, yes, yes. Caleb, can you cast the dome twice in one day? If we set it up now, will you also be able to set it up so we can sleep? As long as, yeah, as long as I sleep. Oh my god. It's a third-level spell,

so it can be cast multiple times a day. Okay, well, yeah, but we're going to sleep, though, right? We're going to sleep? Let's go check it out. All right. We move closer. On a flank. Why like why like why like? Not straight forward. I guess that's why I'm straight. All right, you cast Castlet of Trace.

Everybody go ahead and roll stealth checks, please. Oh god. Oh god, which one am I going to use? Oh, thank goodness. Hey! 17? Five. Plus 10. With Castlet of Trace. Oh, 27. Nice. 27. All righty of Traits. 27. Nice.

27. All righty. Oh yeah. Nature bros. I rolled this thing, but I don't know how to tell what number it landed on. What is that? I think it's a nine. It's a nine.

How do you know that? Why did you roll that? What is that? Is that a UFO? It's supposed to be a shield. I feel like I should roll a different dice, just because I don't know what it actually says. Then go for it.

Well, that's the thing. 33. Okay. 43. 31. And for Beau, that was for Beau, for Caleb? Oh wait, we don't have a pass for that, we do it? We do a pass for that. 43 do have a pass. 43, yeah.

You added 10? Yes. What was the actual time? 28. 15. Okay. Sorry. You guys trudging through the snow, making your way up the side of this mountain. Are you going towards the right or the left side of the cavern entrance?

I like left. Sure. Or is there one that has more of a flat area next to it? Between the two of them, the side of the mountain tends to be pretty similar. There's some variations, but it doesn't seem to be much of a difference one way or the other. There's no plateaus on either side?

Slight plateau on both sides. Okay, then the left. Okay, you guys curve to the left, make your way to the side, unnoticed. No other scenario, no issues. Do we hear anything being closer? Make a perception check. Natural one.

I'm going to sniff the air. Make a perception check. 17. 17. It's a very, very clean smell with the ice and the wind cutting through, and the smell's been very familiar to you. You do catch a slight whiff of something on the wind

that is different from everything else. It's somewhat pungent, it's very faint, and only comes a little bit here and there. It's almost like wet dog. As we climb closer to the cave, can I see inside of it yet?. That's the best way I can describe it. Can I see inside of it yet? You guys are moving on the left side of it. Do you want to head towards the front of the cave?

Yetis? No. They mentioned yetis. They did. They have hair. Let's stay as a group. Yeah, let's stay as a group. We need to cast that fucking dome. Can we make our campsite now? Are you going to do it right in the mouth of the cave? Just like, maybe just so.

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Okay. All right. We need a counter for how many times she says, yeah. I am very smart. The roll stats is on the job. You don't want to give them the task. Yeah, I know, they're like,

everybody just sighed. Yeah. This is just making me miss my Leverhosen right now. You don't want to give them the task. Yeah, I know, they're like, pull on. Everybody just sighed. Yeah. This is just making me miss my Leverhosen right now. I pull out my pocket kitchen sink and my air mattress and I take 60 seconds to set up. All right, so he pulls.

I love how he always describes the magical process in such vivid detail. So the small crystal bead that is the required material component for the spell is produced. A brief moment of concentration and uttering of incantations before everyone surrounding Caleb, you're completely wrapped in a semi-transparent dome. I make it white. Right. So it white. Right.

So it has a textured exterior where it looks like a pile of snow against the side of the cavern from the outside. From the inside, it looks like a slightly shaded glass. Ooh, cool. It is warm on the inside. The freezing temperature is causing you to chatter your teeth and keep your legs and body muscles moving.

Suddenly becomes comfortable. Rod of warmth, if anybody needs some help here. It's warm in the hut. Yeah, but it's going to loosen up your joints, anyway. Your body feels good. I also want to cast Produce Flame and just pass it around just to warm people up. Serene just comes around and warms each person individually

with this roaring, crackling fire in the middle of the hand. Exactly. Anybody? I got a little old bacon that I'll hold up. Just toast it. What's wrong with that? Should I send out my kitty cat?

There's a kitty cat? Oh, yeah. It's called a kitty cat. You watch this fey cat apparate, orange in color, with slight stripes across the fur. I will gently pet him. Come on, we can slip in.

This is the greatest day. Ah, he likes you. She's getting there. She's getting there, yeah. A single tear falls down my face. She's beginning to see. She's starting to believe. Every actor needs a warm-up process.

It's like, hey. Yours is a Muppet. Don't forget, Caleb, when you're looking through Frumpkin's eyes, lean on Beauregard. Oh no. Put your hand on her shoulder. I always do.

I'm also, do we have a Frumpkin? Yeah. I'm going to cast Bless on Frumpkin. Will that work? Yeah, it will. I'm casting Bless on Frumpkin, Caleb, and Nott. So for one minute, I believe is the length of time. For that one minute? Yes, Frumpkin is blessed.

So Frumpkin manages to curl away from your grasp after the spell apparates around him, giving this slight warm glow, and Frumpkin is going to delve out into the snow. Make a stealth check for Frumpkin. Does he have Pass Without a Chase? He won't once he leaves the radius of Jester. Poop. That's right.

You get to add a d4 to it. No, it's not a save or an attack. Oh, right, it's not an ability check. So yeah, just a straight roll plus Frumpkin's. Oh, darn it. Frumpkin stats. Did he give you Frumpkin stats? Here, I got a monster manual right here. Cat, it's just a cat, fey cat?

Just a cat. Cat. Go, cat. Dexterity bonus for stealth is plus four. Six. Okay. So, looking through Frumpkin's eyes, Frumpkin. Frumpkin's roll, not mine. I have nothing to do with it.

Exactly. Cat and snow is adorable, though. Yep. Just keeping really low and leaping, like disappearing into each cluster, coming around the circle to the front of the cavern. It is adorable, though. Yep. Keeping really low and leaping, disappearing into each cluster, coming around the circle to the front of the cavern. You can see the ice that is gathered around the edges

and how it spindles out. I describe all of this to Beauregard. All right. And everybody else. All right. Go ahead and make a perception check with Frumpkin, please. So roll again. There is no light in that. Goddamn it.

It's okay, Caleb always rolls shit to leave. It's true, it's true. It's the perfect game simulator so far. And add a plus three to your roll as a disadvantage because it is dark inside. Oh. Seven. Okay. Frumpkin glances in, looks into the darkness.

Doesn't see much in the inside. A little bit of daylight's coming in and scattering across the bits of ice and snow that's blowing into the main entrance. Frumpkin enters slightly and looks around the corner. You just hear, FROGMAN! Frumpkin turns around to run

as a big furry hand grabs Frumpkin and Frumpkin warps out of its hands. I do that thing that don't be okay. Yes. What did it see before it bamfed the fuck out? Big furry hand? It was the dragon. Was it? Was it? Are dragons furry? Sure.

What color was the hand? Right, was it? You said it was furry? It was a hand, it looked like a humanoid hand, but with a bunch of fur on the back of it. Ah, sorry, it's really dark in there. It's a fucking yeti. It's got to be a yeti, right? I don't know. What's a yeti?

Why would a yeti be living in there with the dragon? Are they friends? Maybe this is not the dragon's cave, maybe this is a yeti cave. We have no idea. Oh shit. Question, can we kill a yeti? I don't know. Please? I don't know what the yeti is. Do you have, can we kill a yeti? I don't know. Please? I don't know what the yeti is. Do you have a desire to kill a yeti in particular?

That is nice. Should I send a message to the yeti? No. I don't think, can I speak? Uh-uh. Everyth... I just got fuzzy claw. Yeah, because from it began to turn around

after hearing the sound and just the hand reached out, grabbed, and as soon as it did, you bamfed it out. That complicates things. One dragon is one thing. A dragon and several other occupants is entirely another matter. Maybe the dragon has a yeti for a butler.

Maybe they're just scavengers. We have to know more. We have to go in, we have to see. You want me to get super drunk and go in? No. Not particularly. I can invisible myself and probably sneak past. Can you invisible somebody who's not drunk?

Could you go invisible and not be shit-faced? Yes. That might be better. Can you only make yourself invisible? I think I can only make myself invisible. What if I send in an animal that can see in the dark, like a bat, and then we can see what it is? Can you see through that animal's eyes?

No, but it can come back and then I can talk to it. What if it doesn't survive? I can make someone else invisible. What if it's upstairs on the ceiling? Then it can't see, right? I mean, it's not a terrible idea. It's worth a try. It's not a terrible idea. A bat is, you know, they just go in the cave.

Sure, let's go for it. A bat is about as small. Is there such a thing as a snow bat? Let's try it. I don't know, but I think bats are pretty strong, right? How smart are they? Bats are actually pretty smart. I tried to convince my dad to give me one.

I wanted a pet bat and he wouldn't let me. You read lots of books, so I trust you. You wanted a pet bat? Thank you. Yeah, this was after I asked for the snake. You went, okay. Oh, Mr. DM. Yes? Do you happen to have Bat Stats? I do. We also have them right here.

Bat Stats! Bat Stats! Thank you, D&D Beyond. Thank you, D&D Beyond. Thank you, D&D Beyond. I forgot to put it in my extras. I didn't think that I would need a bat. Armor class of 12, one hit point, speed of 30 feet flying, but they do have blind sight 60 feet,

so they can sense things without light. Bat. Does anybody have any other suggestions of an animal that should go in and look? No, actually, your idea is great. It's very low risk. Bat? Seems like it would fit right in. Cool.

I would like to cast Urr. And if the bat, will you see through the bat's eyes? With Conjure Woodland beings, I don't. No, no, the bat comes back out and then she talks to it. Okay. Right. No, you don't see through their eyes. No, I don't. No, no, the bat comes back out and then she talks to it. Okay. Right. No, you don't see through their bat. No, I don't see through their bat.

No, I don't see through their bat. Are you summoning a bat or a swarm of bats? I will actually, as, at a fourth level, I can summon. This is a fourth level! Found a bat. That's the only level I can cast it in. Yeah, right. Oh, okay.

Yeah, I want to summon, what's the challenge rating? Challenge rating is zero. Can I summon eight bats, please? Yes, you may. I would like to summon eight bats. All right. Amazing. And then I would also like, yes. These bats can kind of skitter and land

inside the dome where it's warm. In the fucking dome! You know, they're friends, they're friends. And then I would like to cast, I would like to cast Speak With Animals. All right. I would like to say, hello, friends. We have a special mission for you. I would like you to go into the cave, be quiet,

really quiet, and I want you to see what's in there, and then come back, and then tell me pretty please. All right, double checking, one thing, one fast. Perfect, yeah, Speak the animals are not concentration. So all eight bats look at each other in the back and you can go, okay, okay, okay, okay, okay, okay, okay. Okay, bye, be safe. Now, you watch them emerge and the wind hits

and they all have to bear down before, but they make their way around and they all enter the cavern. Big-ass rock comes out and picks him out of the sky. Jesus. Fuck! Don't kill my baths. No, no, no, I don't want a rock, I don't want a rock. About a minute and a half, two minutes pass.

No. Three minutes pass. Then you see come around the corner. A bunch of these bats return and land and scion landing on your arms and your shoulders. I'm like a Disney princess, like, aww. Yeah, exactly. Duh.

The best Disney princess ever. Fucking dumb, covered in bats. I love it. All right, so yeah, the bats express to you, with their rudimentary intelligence, the best of their ability, that there's a room with a cave across it.

Uh-huh, uh-huh. And there's some tents in there. Oh. And some fuzzy people. Oh, fuzzy people. Okay, and then I go, thank you, darlings, and I unsummon them. What'd they say? They said that there is a room with another room.

The rooms have tents and fuzzy people. Tents? Tents. They didn't say how many fuzzy people. Nope, they just said fuzzy people. Wait, wait, wait. So the yetis live in tents? If they're yetis. Yeah, if they're yetis.

But on the plus side, no dragon, or on the downside, no dragon. I think it's on the downside. You're a fuzzy person. They said that there was another cave? Yes, there were rooms. So there could be a further cave beyond this that the dragon is in.

Deeper in, yes. This is just some sort of an outer. The best you can ascertain, there are bats. This is an outer layer. All right. We might have to surpass this one first before we get to the gooey white dragon center. Unless there's just a whole other cave

on the other side of the mountain. Well, we'll find that out once we get to the center. Or higher up. How tall is the mountain? Are we looking at the cave really low of the mountain. Well, we'll find that out Or higher up. How tall is the mountain? Are we looking at the cave really low on the mountain and there's a lot of mountain? Make an intelligence check for me. It's about as good as I expected.

Three. Oh wait, that's a saving throw. Yeah, no, it's still a three. It's fine. No, you ascertain by Essek's communication that this teleportation spell was successful directly. To where we said to go. To where you said to go. So you're pretty sure this is Mythboro

where you were looking for. We just may have to go deeper in. Or higher up, or down below. That's what I mean, you're like, you're like, what if it's like that? But at the very least, I think we should ex- How wide is the mouth of the cave? It's roughly 20-ish feet wide.

20, 25 feet wide. How high on the mountain is the cave, comparatively to the rest of the height of the mountain? Oh, it's, let's see, it's about maybe 150 feet from the base level of most of this valley at the base of the mountain. And the mountain itself is probably,

at least this range can go up to three, four, five, 6,000 feet at times. Like it's a mountain range. If we make sure that we sleep and we rest, I can turn into a giant hawk and I can go check out the mountain to see if there are other caves if you want me to. I can do that, too, and so can Caleb.

We turn into giant eagles. Should we go on an adventure? You want to do that now before bed? We can check out the higher up and see if there's a higher cave. Before bedtime might be a good idea. Some of us can stay here and a couple people can do a scouting party. Just so it's said.

Caleb has to stay here. Okay, so we can go. Just so it's said, lots of wind, right? And if the dragon happens to be out and about or whatever, then you're on your own and in the air. Message immediately if you see anything. I don't think I can message if I'm an eagle, but I can dive really fast back to the dome.

Then you're going to use the buddy system, right? Buddy system, we're going to stay together. Yeah. Sure, go for it. There doesn't seem to be any safe way to do this. No. White eagles, so that we'll blend in with the snow and stuff. I think that's a good idea, yeah. Okay, so you're using your wild shape

to become a white eagle, and you're using polymorph. All right. You both, your physical forms expand, the feathers protruding until you both are these majestic white eagles that are forced to step out of the dome because of just the size and the space you take up, but you both can glance at each other.

And you get to make your way, pushing through the wind with your scythes and your wingspan. It's not too much of a challenge for you in comparison to the bats necessarily, though it is challenging. You begin to make your way up the side of the mountain. You have a little more time than she does, but you have an hour before this spell fades.

Okay. What do we see? Both of you guys make a perception check using the perception of a giant eagle. Ah, plus four. Plus four, okay. And because it is an eagle, because it is a giant eagle,

they do, I believe, have advantage on sight, but because of the snowstorm, your vision is halved, so it's just a straight roll. It's okay, I rolled 23. Nice. I rolled a 14. A 14, okay. It's hard for you to see at this distance going up the side of the mountain,

but Reani, as you scan about to make your way up, you do see a handful of other caves across the surface of the nearby mountain range in the 40 minutes or so as you circle around. They're all fairly small. Okay. 10-foot, five-foot. A lot of them appear to be just natural areas where either the rock just slightly recesses in

or the entrance, the caves themselves, are meant to house smaller creatures or were areas where long ago, the volcanic activity that may have formed some of these mountains had created some sort of a hole, but nothing that seems to be large enough to allow the entry and exit of something as large as the white dragon you seek.

Got it. So I guess after 40 minutes, as a needler, I shake my head and then point my head back down, like we should go back. And we've gone as high as the mountain? You've gone pretty close to the peak, yeah. I go and use my feathers and go, .

I vomit. Thumbs up as a giant eagle. Yeah, so I guess I'll make my way back to the hut. All right. You guys dive back down while they're away. Fuck. Oh shit. You guys are sitting there and you hear this guttural grunting sound,

and around the edge, you see what looks to be roughly a nine to 10-foot tall humanoid creature. Blue-gray, thick, hide-like skin around the face and the fingers, but a thick, thick, white, matted fur that covers most of the body. It looks like a man and an albino gorilla. And you see two of them come around the edge,

just glancing around. They walk by. One of them leans in the dome as it pushes by and its hand hits it and uses it to push along. How big did it look like us? The hand from thumb to pinky was probably about a foot and a half, if not two. Aw.

Yay. If not a little bigger. Skullcrusher. Eventually they meander back and return to the edge of the cave where they came from. Were they just wandering? Were they wearing anything? Did they have tools or were they just wandering?

The ones that you saw wandering out weren't wearing anything. You didn't see any tools on them, necessarily. No bandoliers, no weapons, no spears, no like... Rifles or... Unfrozen lawyers? Unfortunately, no. Those are more to the south.

No pouches with material or anything like that. Didn't look like anything. Okay, that's nice. The eagles return. They're making their way. Looks like the yetis wandered back from where they came from. Were they smelling the air? Yes.

What? Nice. Turn back into people so we can talk to you. Yeah, right as I land, I'm going to, a foot off the ground, turn into Jester. Reani also does that, but not as gracefully, and trips a little bit, catches herself. Catches herself, perfect.

What did you discover? Thank you. It's really snowy and the mountain's very high. There's a couple little caves, but they're not big enough for a dragon, probably. Unless it was a baby dragon, but I don't think it's a baby dragon. Oh my gosh, oh my gosh, oh my gosh, I just had an idea.

Do we get to keep the baby dragon as a pet? Well, what if the dragon went in when he was a baby, he was, you know, the terror in ivory, and then he grew and he couldn't get back out, and that's why nobody's seen him for a hundred years. It's a sailboat in a bottle. He can't get out. He's stuck in there. What if he's a dragon? If we can get him out, then maybe he'll do things forboat in a bottle. He can't get out! He's stuck in there!

If we can get him out, then maybe he'll do things for us for a favor. Maybe we can just ride on him. Oh my god, do you think he'd rather? Yeah, the nightmare. The nightmare in Ivory is just a metaphor to his situation. It's his nightmare!

And he's stuck in this ivory mountain. See, he was nice the entire time! You're on board with this idea, aren't you? Yes. Definitely baby dragon stuck in Frosty Mountain. Yeah, I'm playing two people today, and yeah, I agree with them. Oh! She gets two votes! Caduceus has said nothing. It's not agreed upon by the way.

I'm, I'm, I just don't see the point of disagreeing with anything yet. Oh goddammit. See Twinkies on our side, we win. I will speak when I think something has particular value. I think right now it's going to be an awful lot of seeing what comes at us and a lot of the value. I think right now, it's going to be an awful lot of seeing what comes at us, and a lot of the plans we're making right now,

I think, are going to fall apart once we hit the giant furry pale. Oh, Fuzzy Man. Fuzzy Man. While we were away, two of those furry pod creatures that Frumpkin saw came out, about nine to ten feet tall, white fur, bluish gray skin. Big fucking hair. Very impressive. Big paws.

Do they seem nice? No, no. Have the Glassblades ever seen yetis, and would Rimi know about them? You have probably encountered these entities once or twice. Have I probably fought them? You've probably fought them off, or at least directed them away from individuals.

Got it. So you are aware of yetis, and as they describe them, you know exactly what they're talking about. Oh. Okay, so we have to kill these guys. They're not nice, they attack townspeople, and I think it'd be best if they were eradicated. So you've fought them before?

Yes. What are their weaknesses? Do they have any? Not so much weaknesses. They definitely do well with cold, and probably not the best means of assaulting them with anything cold-related. Well, they like snow and they like cold,

so don't blow them with ice. Other than that, they're meat and meat can be stabbed. You're all right, yes. I think that's true. The big question is, should we assault these creatures tonight before we bed down, or tomorrow? I mean, it's like a whole city of them or something. Eh, just the bats only said tents.

How many did you guys see? Two, only two. Two is easy. That would be a good idea. Then we get to sleep and be fully rested for the dragon. We could draw them out with some noise and then we can wait for them at the mouth of the cave and when they come out, we ambush.

It seems like they take their patrol fairly frequently. So yeah. What if we drew them out a few at a time? Yeah. I think it's a good idea. I mean, are we able to ration our ability to attract them in that way? How hard were they to kill before? Sure.

How hard were they to kill before O Great Diem? I mean, they usually, from your experience, they can be solitary or sometimes they travel in packs. Three, four at most, you've seen. They're hardy, but not impossible by any means. Like I took them down myself? By yourself? Yeah, one. Okay.

But usually you had other glass blades at your disposal as part of this, or you led them away into a situation where they ended up getting themselves hurt or trapped, and then you managed to escape. You do know that they have pretty nasty claws. I think with teamwork, we can take them out, but be sure not to get scratched.

I love your can-do spirit. Yeah! We need to rest tonight either way before we do anything. Agreed. Don't we? Yes. Okay. But also, I don't want to fight all of them and use up all of our abilities and then be on empty when we fight a dragon.

Who is feeling up to fighting at least one fuzzy man? I'm good to support. So we draw out one fuzzy man, we see how we feel, we take a nap, we fight a dragon. I would love to have your enthusiasm, but two just came out and we did nothing. We draw out two fuzzy men. There are one, two, three, four, five.

There's nine of us. For the Mighty Nein. There's never actually been nine. I'm sorry, you just have to. What? Just ignore it's fine. There's seven. One, two, three, four, five.

Just go like this, Mighty Nein! Mighty Nein! There you go, you got it. Okay. There's seven, and so seven versus two means we win. Well, look. Two fuzzy men. We made this dome close to the entrance of the cave,

so if there is a ruckus, I'm sure it would be loud. They can't see us in the dome. We also don't have Caleb if we get into this fight, because Caleb's got to stay in the dome. Right, and I am a little bit under-equipped at the moment, so. So five. You can't fight?

You can't fight. I can fight. I can grapple them. I cannot count four. I have a whip and a dagger and a glove. A dagger can stab through meat? Fuzzy men are meat? Yes. We can fight.

I think it'd be better if we clear down some of this now. Because we okay, okay, okay. There are two currently walking around. Did they go back in the? They went back inside. Okay, okay, okay. What if I take the handy dandy stone that you gave me, I toss it out in front of it, and I'm like,

and that's the sound that it makes. Uh-huh. Then they come out. They come out, and we can tie a rope across the thing, and then as soon as they come out, they trip, and then they're prone, and then we attack them. That's in the front. In the front of the cave?

Creatures. We stealthily pull a rope across the map. Yeah, in the mouth of the cave. In addition to this plan, I think that we take the people that want to fight the most, which seems like me and you and you and you to help, and you and maybe sometimes you, and we go a little bit down the mountain,

just enough so they can come out, and we won't disturb possibly the fuzzy men sleeping, because what if in the morning we have to fight more fuzzy men, and then we have to fight a dragon, and then we all die? So I think we take out some fuzzy men now, so we don't have to take out more fuzzy men later. Can Caleb hang out the hot, in-throves fireball?

The in-throves spells outside of the dome, but. From inside of the cave? From inside. That's his turret. Nothing can come inside, but. So he's a turret. Yeah, so, you know, if you get them close enough, you know, I can, as you all know, fire is my specialty. Ha ha ha ha ha ha.

From the dome, do we have line of sight on the mouth of the cave? No. Great. Because you guys made the dome on the side. I have to on the mouth of the cave? No. Great. Because you guys made the dome on the side. I have to come out of it. I can make another one. What is the range on fireball and other? I think it's like 120 or something, 120.

We just need to get them within sight of the dome. We take them 119 feet. Town on the mountain. Fireball is 150 feet. Great, okay, good. Wait, no, all other creatures and objects are barred from passing through its spells and other magical effects can't extend

to the dome where we cast through it. Fucking shit! Wait, through it or around it? Can he poke his head out and be like, pew pew? I will say if he pokes his head out, the spell ends. Oh yeah, so no, he's sitting in that bitch. Yeah. Is it because it's his, can he, no?

No. Um. It's, yeah, otherwise the spell would be a little too powerful. Let's try it. Let's try it. Let's lure out one or two. Green man wants to try, yay! You seem nervous about this.

I am excited. Yeah, for a drink? Inspired, yes, actually. We can prepare our, we can prep ourired, yes, actually. I would not think you would. We can prepare our, we can prep our spells, prep our attacks. So you guys are plotting the entranceway? I think we're plotting a little, like, yeah. So what we're going to try to do is lure them.

Let me show you the layout, then, if that's what you're going to do. Yeah! Because it'll help you strategize better. We really wanted this entire time. We just wanted to see your maps, Matt. Show me your maps. Matt is getting us ready for combat,

which is powered by Dwarven Forge. They just launched Plaguestone, a new line of sets tied to Pathfinder 2nd Edition. Pathfinder 2nd Edition. Check it out now at DwarvenForge.com. Oh shit! That's cool, that's cool. All the weather outside is wonderful.

All right. It's not me, Emily. This is so rad! You guys are all situated over here. That's me! There's a fine powder all over it. Oh my gosh, Matt, this is so cool. If I sneezed, would that make a mess?

Yes, it would. Wow, is that painful? This is really helpful. No, this is actually fake snow from a hobby shop. That's awesome. Imagine the street value. So don't break it. We're hoping for it.

So this is the arrangement. Here's the front of the cavern. The mountain continues further down, but it's just one of the plateaus as it rises up further up this direction. But this is the entryway. Do I have a laser anymore? How far away is that, is right here?

I do. Each one of these is five feet, so from where you guys are here, it's about like four. Oh, is it out of batteries? You know, just given the topography, if we could lure one to the edge. About 90, 95 feet to the edge. We should get it to like here.

We should lure it. Or I was even thinking over here. I can always recast my hut. Oh! So you could be part of this fight. I will be a part of this fight. Well then, let's station you somewhere hidden.

Very far away. 149 feet away. In the meantime, perhaps it's good to keep the hut up as a place of safety if we need to retreat. For setting ourselves for the ambush, right? Or if someone gets knocked unconscious, we can bring them somewhere. Okay, so Caleb will be 149 feet away,

and you'll have your fire powers ready. Yeah. I will be hidden as well, and I can fire upon them when they emerge from the cave. Okay. When they emerge, is there any way to get them to stick or to trip or to fall? Are we doing that tripwire plan?

I mean, we can try, yeah. I can throw some stones. It'd probably be hard to see, me too. Yeah. Could attempt to stun them, which I will do regardless, but I'm assuming that they're pretty hardy. Caleb does have a lot of silver wire. We can run it along,

and then they can trip and fall off the side. That's true, from where he always makes his things. The silver thread. Oh, I see. his thing. The silver thread is quite thin. Okay, okay, okay. Like dental floss. I say we get them down over here. Dom, this is so dumb. No, it's perfect.

We can lure them down here, then we just have some coverage and we can do it and it'll take them too long to get back to the cave. It's the same on the other side. Yes. Would this planning session count as a brief short rest? Since we're just sitting in the hut and we've just been sitting for a while?

I'd allow it. Thank you! I'd allow it. I just wanted my life shape back so bad. If you guys want to take the hour here, yeah, we can do that. Bless you, dear. All right, so what are we doing?

All right, Caleb, where are you going to be? As far away as possible. Or stay in the dome for now. Yeah, and he can just drop it as soon as he crosses. He needs to. In the meantime, it's a safe place to bring unconscious people, just in case. I will call for you when they may have.

Where should they toss this stone to? Come out. Down here, maybe. Yeah. To where it lures them? Like over here? I think, yeah, because behind the rock, because then they're trapped behind the rock. I will stay with Caleb also, just because someone needs to watch out for him.

Well, let's, like, are we going to tie it to a rope and then make it move? What are we tying to a rope for? Because then we can start it over there and then we can reel it back in as they start to come out. So if we throw the stone in the front of the cave and then we reel it in so they come to here, so they're backed up against this

and then we can attack them. And then as soon as they're within this range, then we hit everything. I'll hit them with Bane and you guys can hit them with some other stuff. I can turn into a scorpion and poison them. Oh, could be fun. Let's start this.

This is a good plan. This is a good, I like this plan, however, recall that the Talking Stone only says a word every five minutes, so we're going to get one word out of this thing. That's right. Well, no, it doesn't say one word, it says a message every five minutes.

So technically, I could talk for like four and a half minutes into it, drop it, and it would make a noise every 30 seconds. Is that true? I'll say I limit it to about a minute of audio. I could talk into it for like a minute, and then every four minutes it would do something. We also have Thaumaturgy,

so we can make sounds happen all within 30 feet of it. Once they get close enough. Then we don't need the rock at all. No, we do, we do, because we can do it would do something. We also have thaumaturgy, so we can make sounds happen within 30 feet of the thing. Once they get close? Then we don't need the rock at all. No, we do, we do, because we can do it at a distance. Also, yetis can see things. They'll look at the rock and follow it like a dog. I also have firecrackers. That's allowed. That might be a lot

to bring too many. I just wanted it out. So what should I do? I'm just going to maybe sound like a baby yeti or an animal that's hersey? What does a baby yeti sound like? I'm very serious, so yeah. Yeah? Yeah.

Yeah. Yeah, but just be howling, howling loud. What if it was a little lower, like a little more gruff? That's pretty good, actually. Yeah, needs to show up. I'm glad we're not at the show. Are you recording right now?

Yeah. Oh, sorry. Start again. Don't. You got to do it again. Jesus. Sorry. Okay, everyone quiet. Everyone quiet. Room tone. Room tone. I'm not going to do this for fun. Okay, everyone quiet. Room tone. Room tone. Wow!

Wow! I'm not going to do this for sure. Okay. Performance check. I was doing that pretty loud. He was probably rolling a perception check. Yeah. Yep.

Shit. One of them begins to creeple on the side there. We know it works. I'm going to make a little bit of sound down there using thaumaturgy. Oh, we're doing this now? The whole plan is on? No spell can pass by the shell while you're inside of it. I'm going to toss, oh god.

Don't do anything, just let it go back in the cave. I'm going to use the silver thread and tie it around the stone. Okay, you tie it around the stone. No, because it's going to leave a place. Okay, you tie it around the stone. Don't, don't do anything. Just let it go back in the cave. Why? Because we're not ready for an ambush.

Well, we can cut it off. It moves over to the edge there. I'm just going to toss this over the rock. All right. I'm going to toss. Another one comes out of this point there. Oh, that one looks angrier. I'm not in position. Okay, I'm going to squeeze the rock so that it doesn't make noise again. Oh, that one looks angrier. I'm not in position.

Okay, I'm going to squeeze the rock so that it doesn't make noise again. See what they do. They scope around a bit, the area, glance by and look off this way, and then both eventually go back inside. Now we can set our ambush. Okay, okay, okay, so what I need to do is come down,

make the noise into the rock, and then leave. Okay, so you head down this way? Yeah, quiet and carefully. Wait, isn't the noise already in the rock? The noise is already in the rock. So it's just going to play in another four minutes? It's going to play, I already squeezed it, so if I squeeze it again, will it just play the noise?

It would, yeah, unless you're resetting it, so. Yeah. Okay, so you move over here, and you set it down where? That looks good. Okay, so you're putting the rocks. Maybe, yeah, I'm going to set it down right here. All right, so we're saying put the rock there. Yeah. Okay.

And then where are you going? I'm going to scamper away over here. Okay, and you hide there. Time's ticking. I'm going to leave the dome and come out over the edge on the first platform down. Make a stealth check. Oh yes, yes, yes.

I'm going to... Can I move? 27. Can I move and try to get here and hide behind this little outcropping? Sure, I'll let you do that. I'm going to head the same direction as Nott. I'm going to go ahead and be invisible. Okay, you cast Invisibility on yourself.

You are invisible. 18. 18, all right, where are you going? Maybe right here. Right there? You got it. Nott will be... I want to go. I know, can I?

Can I? Okay. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Can I get more bows going? Sure. Make sure they can't see you, because they're going to come and look over the edge right here. Oh shit, you're right. They might even climb down the edge.

17. 17, okay. You're heading over to the boat? It's not good. Can I go there, actually? Will I be seen if I'm in that outcropping? You will eventually. Fuck!

You knew it was coming. All right, Caduceus, Fjord, and Caleb, what are you guys doing? I'm staying in the boat. All right, Caduceus, Fjord, and Caleb, what are you guys doing? I'm staying, right? I will stay in the dome. All right. I'm going to hide behind the dome so that I can run out and sling the spell

when it's time and then use it for cover. Actually, wait, hold on. That's way too close to the stone. Okay. Can I go, is that possible? That, like, behind there? Right there, or up here? Like, in there, yeah.

In that little nook. Sure, cool. I that little nook. Sure. Cool. I'm going to prepare to invoke duplicity. As soon as they come out, I want to make a duplicate adjuster come around here as soon as it would be within. Okay, you got it. You're situated there or to the front, or where do you want? Behind, yeah, that way I can run.

So I can make a little movement. All right to go? Behind, yeah, that way I can run. Cool, so we'll say you're there. All right. You guys wait a moment, that quiet, you hear the or the wind, then you hear the sudden eruption of . As soon as the noise happens, you just want to create a.

Oh no, I'm waiting until they come out. Gotcha. These they come out. Gotcha. These two come out once more and rush towards the edge here and here. Glance down. This one begins to climb down. I'm pressed up against the wall.

I'm pressed up against the wall. I'm pressing up against the wall. I'm in the snow. I'm in the snow. Fucking hard. This one here leaps down. I'm trying the snow, I'm in the snow. This one here leaps down. I'm trying not to breathe. Makes a superhero landing.

They both turn. This one lands, and they both look to the stone, and out of the corner of its eye begins to turn this direction. Something caught its eye this way as it turns. I jump off and I fucking point the sword at you! Oh my god! Invoke duplicity right here.

You got it. All right, and with that, I need everyone to roll initiative. You do have a surprise attack on them, so go for it. I just go right now? Yes, that's down. Okay, I'm going to jump off, and with a flying leap with my stick, I'm going to come down with a big slap.

All right, go for it. Slap it. We'll slap it real good. Slap, slap it. Yeah, that's a natural 19. That'll hit. 29. Ow. Okay, nine damage and Stunning Strike. Woo!

All right. Come on. Natural 16 plus three, 19. Succeeds in the first Stunning Strike. Fucking yucky. Plus three, plus three. Okay, okay. Ooh, I like the color of this. 60% chance.

Okay, attack, attack. I get to go again, right? You do, you have your second attack. Ooh, 13. 13 hits. Low AC, they're big. Low AC, they're big. Okay, eight damage and stunning strike.

All righty. Roll over. That's a 16 total. Nope. Nope, and resist it again. What's the save? 16? 15. 15 is my key save. I think so.

I'll have Bane up soon. You have your bonus action still. Bonus action, Patient Defense. You go into your Patient Defense, and now everyone roll initiative. I got 16. 16, all right. So 25 to 20.

20. All right. Ew. So 25 to 20. 20. All right. Ew. So we have Jester. Oh no. 20 to 15? 19. 19 for Beau. 19 for Nott.

Beau and I'm saying Nott is the first because Nott has the higher dexterity. 16 for Reani. Jester. You guys go and order, my bad. Oh, it's all good. This is your first time in our battle. I'm learning, I'm learning! Welcome to the Thunderdome.

15 to 10? 16 for Caleb. Okay, so. Sorry, sorry. Caleb and Reani are at the same time. Oh, Caleb. Okay. Reani. Anyone else? Four.

Six. Oh no. Womp womp. Cad and then four. You'd think I'd have my shit together, but I don't. Jester, you're up first. I'm going to cast, I'm going to run up with my duplicate and touch its leg and cast Inflict Wounds at second level. All righty, go ahead and roll a melee spell attack. 17 plus nine, 26.

That definitely hits, go ahead and roll damage. At second level, you cast it definitely hits. Go ahead and roll damage. Yeah, I think it almost dies. That second level you casted? Yes. Nice. 16, 18. 18? 18 points of damage. Necrotic. So lit.

So you watch as the duplicate rushes out, as it turns and sees Reani against the mountain, suddenly it hears this charging of divine energy, turns around and sees the duplicate reach out, grab the leg, and suddenly, watch the fur strike into a black-gray color from where the hand grabs it. It pulls back, trying to pull its leg away,

and you see the muscle atrophy from where it contacted. Dope. That's dope. I'm going to have my duplicate back up and act like she's defending herself. You got it. Nice. All righty. You're going to stay put then, Jester? Yes. All right.

Nott, you're up. Good. I will, I said, losing invisibility, I will fire my crossbow bolt at the one locked in with Beau. You got it. Ooh, not good, 15. You have advantage on the attack roll because it doesn't see you. That's right, I do. That's coughed.

18. 18 hits. Go ahead and roll damage with Sneak Attack. Yeah. All right, yes. Uh-huh, uh-huh, uh-huh, still working on it. 32. Oh, nice! You know what? I'll pump in the Fury of the Swarm.

Yeah! 41 points of damage. All right, as you appear out of your invisibility, screaming, you fire the bolt. The creature just got pummeled by Beauregard and then turns around, Beau gets into her fence and turns around, its claws, you can now see them up close,

these large, nasty-looking pointed claws. Its mouth is open, its teeth, it roars in your face with these burning red eyes. One of the eyes takes up a crossbow bolt. It falls to the ground. Oh! Oh! Nice!

Okay. Amazing. Okay. All right. I will use my action, I mean my movement, to climb back up to the next level up. All right. And how much further can I run? Half distance, right?

Yeah, this is all, although you, because of your ring, I'm saying I'm allowing to move. But climbing up, is that going to take? Oh, climbing up, sorry. From that point there, it's going to take you about 10 feet of movement. Okay, can I get close to the mouth of the cave?

Sure, you can get back 20 more, 25 more feet. There is where you can get. Tuck there, and I'm going to bonus action look down the cave and see if anyone's coming. Okay. I don't know if I can bonus action proceed. You don't have that ability, unfortunately. Okay, well then I'll just bonus action

crouch down, hide if I can. You have nothing to hide behind. Great! Then I will. You rush and you're just looking inside the cavern right now. Then I will bonus action to move and tuck myself around the corner.

There you go. Good call, good call. There you go. Good call. You got it? All right. You do have darkvision, though. So I'll say you do see. Oh god. Hello. Oh god, it's right there!

Oh, hello! Rushing out. Oh shit. The other two are following him from behind. Oh god, oh god. Okay. All right. Cool. But none of you know this. Only Nott knows this. Beaure back, go back. All right, but none of you know this. Only Nott knows this. Beauregard, your turn.

All right, with an adrenaline kick from watching Nott kill this guy, I'm going to leap over his body and go for the one that the Jester duplicate. He's fighting. Easy enough in your movement to get up next to it. A pop pop. Still rushing by the rock that's going

. It's just flying fast. Rush up to the other yeti, go for it. First attack, 15. 15 hits. That's good, that's good. 14 damage. Nice. And second attack.

Yep, 21. 21 hits. And that's eight damage. Slick, slick, slick. I'm just going to Flurry of Blows this. Go for it, two more strikes. Yeah, those both hit with a seven and a 17. Great.

Okay, that's 11 damage for the first, and nine damage, no, sorry, 10 damage for the second. All righty. One more ki point stunning strike? On that last one? Well, I would say you don't have to. Nice. Because you just, between that and what Jester had done

the previous round of that one, as you pummel in the back of the head, it falls to one knee and looks up as that final hit, you come down and crack it right square in the face as you pull your fist back. It has a smear and a bit of a trail of blood as it gathers across the snow as the front of its face is caved in slightly.

Yeah! Setting strike work, you guys? Shh, shh, shh, shh. Sorry. caved in slightly. Shedding strike work, you guys? Then it becomes this Turini's turn. Everybody's dead, right? It looks like it, yeah. Uh... Fuck. All right, then I'm going to use my turn to sneak over to where Nott is and look into the cavern. Okay. Yeah. And I have darkvision.

Right as you turn the corner, you can see now, stepping into the light, there is another one of these yetis, the fur. Sweet. It looks over straight towards you, and you see it was following, it was looking to turn the corner. Yeah. It looks like it had noticed

Nott rushing out into the middle of the open and was following a path until you jumped in the center. I still have my action, right? You do, that was just your movement. I want to use Blight at the fourth level. Jeez! Okay. I just want to see it go.

You got it. Reactionary? Yeah. Is that a constitution saving throw? That is, yes, con 16. All right. It's 8d8. Well, the natural 16, so it's half damage. Still takes damage.

So. Man, good roll, so far, for just saving throw stuff. Can somebody help me math? Yes. Thank you. 16, 17, 20, 22, 23, 26, 32. Half of 32. All right, so that brings me to 16 points of... Cool. Necrotic damage.

As you put your hands out in front of you, invoking the spell, you watch as, at the base of its throat, where the fur is, that all blackens, something reaches up and grabs its throat for a second and begins coughing and sputtering. And then as my bonus action, I want to summon my flame blade, just so I'm ready.

Oh, cool. Yeah. My flame blade just so I'm ready. Oh, cool. Yeah. My flame blade is what level spell? I'm going to cast it at my second level. We'll say you can't cast two spells in the same round unless one of them is a cantrip, unfortunately. It says it's a bonus action. It is, it is, but that's the limitation.

Then as my bonus action, I want to turn into a giant fucking scorpion. That is definitely fine. Yeah, somehow that's okay.. Yeah, somehow that's okay. Druids. Somehow that's okay. Druids, we're broken. I love it. So as it turns around,

coughs and looks up at you like it's vengeful. Suddenly you transform into this large, dark, chitinous scorpion, claws out front, tail whipping and dripping venom. The yeti goes, and looks taken aback and a little unnerved by what it sees in front of you. Nott, this happens two feet from you

and is very unnerving. You guys all hear Nott screaming on the top of the mountainside. Well, I guess that's happening. That finishes Reani's turn, Caleb is up. Caleb sees this happen. Oh no, my friend is in need. Caleb can see.

Yeah. Not so. So he's going over. Stepping over? Dropping. Yeah, his 30 feet, his movement. Dropping the dome. Okay, the dome vanishes. And hopefully he, yeah. Five, 10, 15, 20, 25, 30.

That's as far as he can get right there. That's as far as he can get? He's not a monk. I know you're used to a lot of movement. Just a regular dude. So he can't see anything? He can't see anything. Right now, he can see a scorpion.

He can't see anything. I'll have him back up and hug the wall a little bit. Okay, like there? Yeah. Okay. That works. What are you doing? What's going on? There's yetis! Are you Schwarzwald?

What's going on in the yetonia? Get to the top! The Alans! What's the yeti doing here? All righty, that finishes Caleb's turn. Now it's their go. They smell like poopy! Oh no. So this yeti's going to rush up,

seeing the scorpion, which has definitely distracted it, it's going to glance over in your direction. You're like, oh, this is one thing that, you know, you've noticed you haven't really been the target of it yet, but it looks at you angrily and you feel this chill run past you. I need you to go ahead and make a constitution saving throw using the scorpion's constitution.

Oh fucking shit! Oh no. That's a stomach flame. Ooh, okay. Scorpion's constitution. Oh fucking shit! Oh no. That's a summon flame. Ooh, okay. The chill runs through you and you feel your body lock up. You are paralyzed. Cool, I love this, I'm so happy.

You know. You know like you do. You know like you do. I got an item for that. There it is. Paralyzed. Oh no. You do take, in your scorpion form, 13 points of cold damage.

Oh, shit. Yeah, you're right, I do. The other yeti rushes forward, now angry at both what you did and the creature that now you've turned into before. It's going to take two claw attacks against you, which have advantage because you are paralyzed. That's going to be a 20 to hit, so that hits your?

It does. All right. And the second hit is going to be 13 to hit. Does not hit. What's the scorpion's armor class? 15. Nice. So yeah, the second one misses entirely. Rolled really low on the advantage one. So the first strike, since you are paralyzed,

is an automatic crit. Cool! So you do take. Can I do the thing? You are not within 30 feet. I'm not within 30 feet, never mind. Goddamn it. All right.

Boo. It's all right. I know. I'm okay. It's just a scorpion. It's okay, you take 12 points of damage. Oh, that's not bad. Not too bad on that end there.

I'm still fine. That ends their go. Caduceus, you're up. I'm going to try and skirt over to this little, as close as I can get to seeing what's up. Can I get on that little edge that's on the corner there? Is there an area? Is that weird? Yeah, I don't think I want to be quite in the realm of. You can get there.

That'll do. You're moving this as far as you can get. That's fine. Rough terrain. There's so much happening here. I'm just going to use Bless on Caleb, Nott, and the scorpion. Okay. Reani's no longer Reani, Reani's just the scorpion.

Blessed? You're blessed. Does the blessing remove paralysis? No, but when you roll your save, you get to add a d4 to it. Nice. Which is nice. Huge. All right. Is that your turn, Caduceus? Yeah, my bonus actions are bullshit.

Fjord, you're up. Yes, I am. The dome has vanished now. Your friend has turned into a scorpion. Hello. Yes, I will. I'm not going to do, nope, yes, I will use 30 feet. Five, ten, fifteen.

Five, ten, get up there. Climb a bit. Give it 20 feet and move. I'll take another, I think I'll use another 10 feet just to come up so I can get eyes on that first. Yep, you do have the view of it there between the edge of the cave and the mountainside and where the scorpion is.

And I'll use the Glove of Blasting! All righty. Holy shit. Yes, yes, yes. 19. That hits. On the first one. Second one. Is an 11. 11 misses. Second one.

Is an 11. 11 misses. Okay, and the third one is a 28. Yes, so that's two hits out of three. 4d6 fire damage. Thank you. The ax that just made the splash. 4d6?

I thought it was only 2d6. It's 2d6 per hit. It's okay. 2d6 per hit, okay, great. So that's seven, sorry, eight, 15, and five more for 20. 20 points of fire damage. Ah!

Fuck, fuck, fuck, fuck, fuck, fuck, fuck, fuck. But it felt good to fire something out of your hand. Did it seem like the fire angle was bad? Did it seem like it really didn't like that? Fire bad! You have a quite, not quite, but quick glance. However, you do see, and Reani, you do see, as the fire hits it, its eyes do light up

and it starts going like. The flames are still curling up and burning away the fur. It looks like it's really put off guard by the flames. Fire is good! Fire is good! Fire good. All right, that finishes your go for it? Good, yes. put off guard by the flames. Fire is good, fire is good! Fire good. All right, that finishes your go forward? Good, yes. Jester, you're up. Oh, okay.

I'm going to send my duplicate up, and I'm assuming she doesn't have to actually make acrobatics checks to climb. She can just move, zoom, 120 feet up. 120 feet? Can she move that far? Yeah. That's awesome. That duplicate can move within a minute.

Yeah, she can move all, she's like, wee! Hold on, hold on, hold on. Just a shimmery gesture, like doing flips. I think I just have to keep her within 120 feet of me. Maybe she can only move 30 feet. She can only move 20 feet, I'm a liar. 15, 20, 25, I'll let her go up to there. Because she can just float diagonally.

She's not burdened by gravity. Okay, so she can't actually get up next to them. No. Is she within? Okay. Then I'm going to, with that. Plus, you don't have visual on them, so you couldn't even cast anything through her on something if you couldn't see them.

Then I'm going to climb up as Jester. Okay. For my movement. Can I see them now? 10, 15, 20, 25, 30. You can if you get right there. Oh god, would I be able to just climb to right here and peek my head up so I could give it a little?

Unfortunately, no, it's too high. Okay. So do you want to head over there? I feel like we're clumping. It's okay. We are definitely. It's a doggy pile, it's fine. What could possibly go wrong?

Definitely clumped. Hey, Matt. I hate it when you say these things. Yeah. It's a doggy pile, it's fine. What could possibly go wrong? Definitely clubbed. Hey, Matt. Mm. I hate it when you say these things. The wink made it more scary. No, it's so bad. This is awful. Makes my tummy rumble.

Okay, well, that takes some of my choices out. I'm going to... It's not happy. It's okay, you wiped out half of the current threat in the first round, so. Yeah. Can't all be sunshine and roses. Okay, now that's concentration.

And that is also constant, wait, is my, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I've never done this. I've never played D&D before. You're concentrating on a spell. Okay, okay, okay, okay, okay, okay, okay. As a spell, I'm going to cast Guiding Bolt at level four at the guy in the front. Right there, okay, roll for an attack.

Both of them. Nott, you're on deck. Yes. 19 plus nine. That definitely hits, go ahead and roll damage. So that is Guiding Bolt 76. Yikes. 76 points of damage. 76, yeah. There we go.

Ooh! 12, 14, 17, 18, 20, 24 points. 24 points. And then the next attack is an advantage.

It's a very, very shiny falling corpse as you blast it in the front of its neck and chest area where the fire was burning and now there's a concave area where the flesh has been punctured inward. It tries to breathe for a second before grabbing out, putting one claw onto the front of the scorpion and then falling forward.

Yes! Limp, its hand scraping off of its armor. Fuck you. If I wasn't paralyzed, I'd be disgusted. Yeah. Like, eh. I want to see a scorpion go, gross. Yeah.

If a scorpion's face goes down. There's one more live yeti. There is. Out right now. Gross. He can't see me or I can't see him? You're not hidden. He saw you before and saw you run behind,

but you're not currently hidden. I'm not currently hidden, but I could be. If you had. Bonus action hide right now. Roll a stealth check. All right, I will bonus action hide. Tucking into the rocks. 27.

27, sure. And then I will attack. Okay, so you dart out this way to do so? I mean, I don't know how this works. So I have to hide, but then expose myself to shoot? Kind of work. But then you might get sneak attack, at least. Yeah, but will that negate the hide, or will it not?

No, no, no, no. The idea is essentially you're firing as you go out in that way. Okay, okay. So you'll allow this? Yeah, I'll allow it. All go out in that way. Okay, okay. So you'll allow this? Yeah. Okay, all right, so I shoot. Ooh, 13. 13 hits. Oh! Wow.

It's big chunks. Sneak attack. See, this is an occasion that you should have shaken them instead of just doing what you did. 23 points. 23 points. His rolls are like... All righty. Come on. That's all I can do, except we are clumped, so I'll use any remaining movement I have

to go to that other rock formation across the way. Over here? Yeah. Who has the ingot, by the way, at the moment, right there? Not a problem. All right, that finishes Nott's turn. Beau, you're up. The reason for the season. Oh, I had Bless. What does Bless do? You add a d4 to your attack.

I hit anyone. I pick up the talkback. Because I said I was going to do it. Talkback button. You hear the roaring and screams and combat up top of the mountain. Jester, I got it! Jester. I got it! Just, I go up.

Okay, so it's 10, 15, 20, 25. Acrobatics! 35. Parkour, parkour, parkour, parkour, parkour. Athletics usually is a climbing check for these things if you wanted to try and push up. So that'd be a scary job. Yeah, yeah, yeah. It's fine, it's just hard to go up there.

Yeah. It's all snow and ice covered rocks. Yeah. In the middle of a storm. But I'm a monk and I can walk on water, so. Frozen water is different than... But Matt, she said- Roll an acrobatics check with disadvantage.

Yeah! I'm into it. Damn, you mess with the D and you get the T. Oh! Disadvantaged. Did you roll a one? I rolled a 19 and a one. No, no, no. So.

So. I am so excited. Sometimes the haggle works in your favor, sometimes it doesn't. In an attempt to get to the top of the mountain without losing movement, you rush up, and as you're partway up, you can barely see above the edge where your friends are,

as your foot hits one edge where your momentum's been building, and your foot hits smooth ice. Hey, Beau! Goes out, you watch her bob up, and then tumble back down. You boom, boom, boom. Home Alone style.

Landing prone, boom, into the stone. On dead yeti. Yeah. You do have Slow Fall, so you do manage to reach out into the snow and the rock, and I'll say you... Snap your forearm on the glasses. This is not good, not the enemy!

No, you do have Slow Fall, so. Oh, oh! But no, this is less the fall impact and this is more the stone hitting stone. You take six points of bludgeoning damage. Okay. I imagine you just see a topknot and then the topknot disappears.

Who was that mysterious topknot? Anyone who's had to live through a frozen winter. Is that your movement? It's so true. You're prone on the ground. Okay, okay. Sorry. I'm sorry! He says sorry with a giant grin on his face. It's okay, I'm two characters today.

That's true. Say that with Caleb. I will stand up and keep trying to go up the fucking mountain. Okay, well, you don't have any more movement, so you have to use Step of the Wind to do so. I want my action, I haven't. Oh, sorry, with your action you can, yes.

So you can burn your action with movement. So you've got 20 feet left. Please eat shit again. 15, 20, that's as far as you get with your movement. We're just missing Macaulay Culkin. Hey, but you can see. You can see. Now you have a view.

There's a dead yeti on the ground. You can see burnt blackened fur all around its neck and head, its face down in the snow. Behind it's one that looks partially wounded that's roaring and turning around while there's a giant scorpion just locked in place. Dope. All right, ending Beau's turn.

Serena, you're up. You were paralyzed, make a saving throw. I guess full blow. Added D4. Added D4. Added D4, too. Whoa! Yeah. That's 18, but 18, 19, 20.

Yeah, you managed to shrug off the paralysis effect. Yes. I'm fine. So as a giant scorpion, I have three attacks. I would like to Claw Claw Sting. So this is the end of each of its turns, but I'll allow it, why not? I allow it? You allow it?

Go for it. It says multi-attack. I know, go for it. Okay, yay. I'll let you do it. Yay, okay. So first is a 16 to hit. That hits. That hits. Second is a, that hits, it's a 17 plus four. That hits. That hits. And then, probably not, that's it.

Three, four, five, six, eight, seven, seven. That does not hit, unfortunately. Okay, so the two claws, that hits. So that's only one d8 plus two. There they are. Ooh, yikes. Nine, nine points of claw damage. Oh, it's also grappled.

And it's grappled, that's cool. That's excellent. In your pincers? In my pincers. The tail misses as it manages to pull out of the way, but you are now holding it in place so it cannot move. All right, that finishes your turn? Yes, but as a bonus action, I want to hiss at it. Go for it.

Well done. That's it, thank you. Caleb, you're up. Uh, yeah, I'm going to move forward. To there, like you said? Yeah. We're leaving tracks. He's looking pretty rough, I'm assuming, right? He's not looking great. Yeah, get close and do something.

I'm going to do exactly that fjord. I'm going to move around and I'm going to... Her medics over here is's going to implode. Is that my movement? No, no, you can move further if you want to. Can I move forward a little bit closer to the scorpion? There you can, right there. Burning hands.

Okay. Over this way? Yeah. All right. To try and knock at the scorpion. 15 foot. Yeah, you can definitely do it. Oh, sh. That's so high tech.

What the fuck is Burning Hands? It's Burning Hands. Burning Hands is a festival that they have in China. All right, so it's 3d6 fire damage. Does that. Dexterity check. It's a puppet festival. Burning Hands and Traveler of the Gods. So 13,

I do not think that makes this DC. Ooh, ooh, 13. 13, I do not think that makes this DC. Fail. Ooh, ooh! 13. 13 points of damage? Fire damage. That's cute. Nice. Fjord fell from the mountain and...

Oh, that's it, it's done. Sorry, Fjord. Oh, Fjord died. Okay, I'll take a heads up on that. So the body of the already dead yeti is just emulated. It's not burning. The other one, the flames in front of its face

and its chest, there's fire now across its shoulders. It's trying to pull back, but it's currently caught in the pincers of the scorpions. It's like. Oh god. It looks pretty rough. I love these things. I know, I do too.

I don't know what else to do. That's your action and your move. I think you're good. That's what I do. I did the thing. All righty, it's now the eddies' turn. It can't get away since it's grappled. It's going to attempt to take its attacks against you. That's fine.

However, it has disadvantage on them because it was hit by fire. Oh, really? Yeah. Yeah, I knew that. That's going to be a natural one. Does it punch itself in the face? Yeah, both miss. The first swing goes towards you,

and as it goes down, your claw grabs it and squeeze, and you hear the wrist snap. Oh no. It's now held in his other claw and jams down and hits the top of the head near where the eyes are, but as it pulls back, you manage to withdraw the head slightly into the armor a bit, and it completely misses anything of value. It just scrapes across the outside of the scorpion's armor.

Cool. No effect. All right, that finishes that turn. Caduceus, you're up. I'm just going to step up a little bit and just so I can get eyes on this thing, and I'm just going to do some basic, basic, I feel like this is coming to an end. It's just Sacred Flame, this thing.

Sure. Dexterity check. That is a 15. Nope. All right. Let's go ahead and do damage. That's 11 points of radiant flame damage. How do you want to do this? Yeah!

I just see where it's going already, and I just start from the feet up, and I'm just going to roll it all the way up and just pull up the whole furry thing. The red burning fire atop meets the yellow gold burning sacred fire from underneath, and as the two meet in the center, the entire yeti is immolated in the claws of the scorpion.

Yeah, that's fine. Shh. And is no more. Does Caleb have to make a saving throw so he doesn't have a thing? He does. Only if he kills it. No, no, he didn't kill it, that's right. Okay. He did not.

You have eyes on it, are more things coming? Looks great. I'll take the rest of my movement to back up. There's still going to be coming. Was there another one? I don't know. Okay. I want to look. Make a perception check.

A disadvantage, because it is in darkness. 12. You see nothing beyond probably 20 feet into the cavern where the light ends. Caleb will take out his globules and send them down the cave. All right, so as the light globes. Oh, don't judge my choices for my friend.

As the light globes drift inside the cavern and light up the perimeter, a moment, two moments, a few moments pass, and there are no yetis following up this band of which you had destroyed at the mouth of the cave. I bring the globules back. Excellent choice. So do we want to sneak in here

and maybe take our rest in their camp? Yeah, it would be probably better. Before we do that, I want to sneak in here and maybe take our rest in their camp? Yeah, it would be probably better. Before we do that, I want to unwild shape and turn around and go, see, it was easy. You're totally right. That's your uniform. It's awesome. Thanks.

Yeah. You became like a crazy monster. Yeah, it's fun. I didn't get to poison them, though, but usually that's what I like to do. And you know yetis, there's nothing to harvest off of them, right? A venomous fang, a crazy claw, anything of worth?

You burned most of them, so there's nothing to harvest. But they might have some stuff back at their camp. Good call. Yeah, let's check their tents. Let's stealthily. Yes, stealth. Both me and my duplicate walk up and high five you.

Yeah! You go to high five the duplicate and your hand just passes through. Ooh! Wait. So you guys are entering the cavern? Stealthily. Stealthily. Everyone roll stealth checks, please.

Oh, let me look, let me look. Can we do this with them? I'm not in the second level, so. All right, so straight rolls. Straight rolls. Oh, that's enough to one. Why don't I go ahead of the party, then? We don't know that we rolled bad.

You don't get to decide not to because you rolled poorly. I know, but I can go further into the cavern, yeah. 14. All right. 18 for Beau, 16 for Caleb. All righty. 32.

10. 10. It'sy. 32? 10. 10. It's a four total. Okay. You guys all carefully begin to make your way into the entrance of Mythboro. So within and beyond the whipping winds lies the rocky cavern and snow-packed stone

and the veins of ice spiraling out from around the cave to span the ceiling and beyond. This oblong cave stands about 60 feet tall and about 100 feet across to the opposite end. While to the western left-hand side of the chamber, you can see a cluster of what looks like makeshift structures made of stretched leather,

just thrown together, not great craftsmanship, but very makeshift. On the opposite end of the chamber, you can begin to see, as you bring the light in to feel more comfortable opening the space a little bit, you can see a wide 25-foot tunnel that presses further into the mountain. That's Valhalla. So you said there's leather structures around?

Mm-hmm, to the left, western side of where you're looking. I'm going to go stealthily, peek into one or two of those, if I can. Sure, all right. Inspect or include. You can make an investigation check or a perception check, up to you.

Investigation. Go for it. 30. Okay. Okay. Checking the tents, you find numerous bones of all manner of creatures, as well as it looks to be a cache of frozen meat

still on some bones. When I say bones, I mean probably a good 300 pounds of bones. When I say bones, I mean probably a good 300 pounds of bones. Whoa. Some look to be from creatures or elk or other things that probably live amongst these mountains. Some look humanoid, some look larger than humanoid. Looks like whatever these things were devoured

and eating to subsist, they tossed them into this back corner on the outskirts of where these tents were, and then just build this graveyard of bones. Items in the bones. You do see some basic tools. Probably what was used to construct this element here. It's very basic.

It's the equivalent of Stone Age-type materials. You also see some basic weapons and traveling and climbing equipment, things that were probably left by some of the individuals that were eaten by the yeti here. You also notice there are tents here for far more than four yetis, probably about nine. So. But they're not here.

They're not here. They might be out hunting. Yes. 100%. Amid the bones or the basic tools, anything shiny, any buckles or anything? Oh yeah, plenty of leftover belts and a couple of brass buttons you might find from a coat that's torn. You grab a couple of those. Yes, yes.

Yeah, and then it's just the general tools and climbing equipment, whatever. Anyone would bring themselves up a mountain, essentially. Caduceus! There he is. No, I'm going to walk through and do Detect Magic, just to. Okay. No Detect Magic. No, no, nothing magical in the vicinity, unfortunately. Magic dagger.

But there are daggers, swords, random odd things. Within these rudimentary, stretched pieces of leather, as you're looking around, you glance up and look, and on the inside, there are very, very simple drawings. It looks to be made from dirt or, yes, the colors. There were variations in color, so it could be dirt, urine, blood, all sorts of things that could have been used, but there are pieces of artwork and such put across the inside of the stretched leather.

Beau will go check those out. Okay. Can I get a story from them? You should probably clean up. They're made of bodies of... I'm really good at understanding artwork. Paintings? Yeah. Do you get any?

No, come on, art history major. Yeah. I am. Oh, sitting next to Laura is rubbed off on you. No. Sorry. It's okay. With your investigation check, because you rolled super high,

as you guys arrive, you've already ascertained what these designs are. You can see what looks to be some sort of a lizard-like creature with wings depicted in this elevated, almost godlike position. And little figures that look probably representative of the yetis that live here beneath, arms up beneath it. You can see what looks to be gifts

and things brought from far away to this creature. Just at a quick glance at the different pieces of artwork, you can see there's almost like a microcosm religion or some sort of a relationship of worship to this dragon creature depicted in the artwork. We're on the right track, kiddos. You think that they were? I have an idea. You want us to pretend to be yetis?

Yes, but what if we cut out all of the guts from the yeti and put on the yeti suit? Oh yes. Oh, that's... And then we could walk in like a yeti. You want a Tauntaun in there? We could all be, three of us could be in one. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

And we could walk in and sit down. Can't we also do the polymorph thing? Oh. Oh. Oh yeah. Yeah, we could do that. Wait, but go back to the first idea. I thought it was a good plan. I still like the first idea, because we can't all polymorph.

Well, polymorph only allows you to turn into beasts, if you remember. And yetis are not beasts? Yetis are not considered beasts. Ooh, see? So we're back to plan A. I don't think we're there at all. Have we looked for anything magical? There's nothing.

Will the dragon be mad we killed its friends? It won't know yet, unless we tell it. I feel like the dragon just looks at these guys as a means to an end. I don't know, friends feels like a strong word for a dragon. Worshipers is the vibe I'm getting. These creatures bring the dragon things, present it to them, to the dragon.

So we could bring an item, present it to the dragon, but now we have to get the dragon to breathe on it. What is something that you like to breathe on? What is something, what would a dragon just? What is something, like what would a dragon just be like, ah, do? Something. Food. But then it would eat it.

Yeah, but doesn't it, would it breathe with ice breath onto something it wanted to eat? Do ice dragons freeze things? As you did read and you did the pre-research on this, white dragons specifically enjoy freezing their prey through intense frost breath and then eating them in their frozen state.

Cool. Yeah. Oh, they like icicles. They like frozen crudités, meat. So they put it on the goat or something. Yeah, they'll freeze the goat. Is it possible to put it beneath some offering for the dragon and then either teleport it out or grab it away and leave the meat? I mean, we can use Mage Hand

and try to grab it away before the dragon does it. Cozy feet, though. If we brought multiple animals, can you make multiple animals? I can make a lot of them. And we've already got yetis. Or I can turn myself into a wooly mammoth. That's true, but what I'm saying is,

if we presented as yetis, if we presented, say, four goats to the dragon, and the one in the back is the one that has our little piece of ingot in it, it's going to freeze all of them, maybe start munching on the first one, and when it gets to number three, we just go get the last one and say, oh, didn't mean to give you this one, sorry, dragon,

and then leave. Then why do we have to steal the goat back? Well, we need the thing that's inside it. So why don't we just take the thing that's inside and leave the goat? How do we do that? Well, you just put it, like, if it's in a pile, it doesn't have to be inside of it. Maybe the goat has a really cool tag on its collar.

I can talk to the goat and make a tag. Cowbell, yeah. Never go wrong with a cowbell. Everybody likes cowbell. Or we can send in a woolly mammoth and... Also with a cowbell. Yeah, and put the cowbell on it. And let it burn the woolly mammoth.

Yeah, and then possibly the woolly mammoth would be able to take it, because they're pretty strong. And even if not, you have the power to then Dimension Door out of there and save yourself. So wait, but we're putting you up as bait? Yeah. But I'd be a woolly mammoth. I can conjure a woolly mammoth. Oh. I mean, how?

But if we're both woolly mammoths, then it won't know what woolly mammoth to breathe on. And how much damage can Flame do? 100, 200 points of damage in one shot? 300? I mean, we'll be fine. What are you talking about? It's like, that's a lot of kittens.

What are points? That's one kitten. I think we've established this, haven't we? Yeah. 200 kittens. 200 kittens. What if the minute that the form drops, as the Woolly Mammoth, then I just Dimension Door away. I like it.

This seems... I like it. This seems like it. Plus, we'll be close at hand to protect her because we will be in a yeti costume. I am not giving up on this yeti costume. I could also make a tiny hut near the battle. Yeah. I had to let him go.

Come with me. This is a hut. Dragons are a lot, though. I mean, I think we're... Yeah, we could have a hut to retreat to. This seems like... It's very simple, Caleb. I mean, Caduceus. You, me, and Fjord are in a yeti costume.

We're escorting two woolly mammoths up as tribute. The dragon freezes both woolly mammoths. One of them has our mithril on it. I'm going to keep an eye on the door in case other things are coming back. They'll be very angry because there's a bunch of dead yetis out there. I know.

I hate to be a party, hmm? What are we using to conjure a mammoth? Conjure animals. What's the highest? CR two. CR two. Mammoths are CR six, just as a heads up. It's all good. You need one mammoth.

I hate to be a party pooper, but I did counting, and there are lots of tents, and there are more tents than we killed, and if we're going to just keep talking here, we should be prepared to fight, or we should go outside again. Yeah, you're actually very right. I will, as Caleb, will go to the front of the cave,

and he will take out his silver thread. We could also set up an alarm spell around there. Hiding some of these bodies so that they're not just sitting out here. Yeah, yeah, I'm going to go out because I'm really strong. Move around, move the bodies and hide them under snow. Okay.

Will Conjure Flame burn yeti bodies? Over time, maybe? Yeah. It'll take you probably about an hour, two and a half hour per body, because it's a lot of body, and even then it's still going to be a charred corpse. Oh. It's not going to turn to ash. You need a really hot flame for that. Can I not turn up the dial on my palm?

Probably not that hot. Okay. You can't conjure a phosphorus grenade, you know, in the middle of a game trip. I was hoping I could make like a torch, like a blue flame torch. From the simple weapons that are not found, can I find a sword of just a simple sort? Yeah, there is actually, there's a longsword amongst there.

Looks like it's, I mean, it's cold to the touch and it hasn't been poorly treated. It's a little dinged on a couple edges, but it's still very serviceable and balanced. Is that like a plus eight versatile weapon? Or not a plus eight, but a d8, sorry. It's just a d8. Yep. I will take that.

You got it. As I'm down on the ground, dragging the yeti bodies into hiding, I miss Yasha a lot because me and her were always the ones that would carry heavy things. Okay. Shall we send the cat in a little further to see what's inside? See if this is a net. Put the dome up first before we do that.

So Caleb cast the alarm spell at the mouth of Kate. He'll go back inside by the tents. We want to pop up a dome, or maybe on the other side of the tent? Maybe on the opposite side of the? On the opposite side. We'll make another dome. Oh, oh, yeah, yeah, ja.

Make a dome. And then, Frumpkin, be stealthier this time. All right. You chuck Frumpkin to which direction? To do what? Oh, deeper in the cave. Okay. So go ahead and roll stealth from Frumpkin.

Yeet the cat. I love that show. Yeet the cat? Oh, it's cock-a-poo. Never hurts to have it. What is it? Plus four if it was the cat's dex? 12. 12, okay. And then roll perception check with disadvantage

because there was no light. The cat's scanning deeper in the cave? We're giving it a good cat scan. I'm sorry, I don't know what's wrong with me. Fucking fuck, fuck, fuck! What'd you do? Natural one. Oh! On stealth? Perception?

Perception. So Frumpkin wanders further into the cavern. The chill grows more intense. And the cavern itself seems to almost begin to corkscrew, like shifting and kind of wandering and winding. Frumpkin gets about 120 or so feet in and has been able to really make out no details at all. Okay.

Okay, bring Frumpkin back. and has been able to really make out no details at all. Okay. Okay, bring Femkin back. I explain to them in a incredible Zimnian accent that it's really fucking cold and about 120 feet of a journey. Yeah. All right. Am I back from hiding the bodies yet, or am I still hiding bodies? Is it just you?

I'm helping. You're helping? Yeah. Okay. I'll say it takes you about an hour or so to properly feel comfortable with hiding the bodies. So there is still a mess of charred gore and stuff at the face of the cave that you could try and cover with snow, and that'll take a little longer. Okay, so an hour and a half, I'd say.

Okay. So we have to rest. We have to evade yetis who come in here. We might. And we have to still formulate a plan for. I like the idea of offering a sacrifice and then getting, I just don't think we should offer it one of us. That feels dangerous.

I think we should offer it something and maybe just try and get what we need. We don't have anything to offer it. Well, we can make things. We can make a small animal, right? Well, how big, what's the biggest? Can you make a cow with a cow bell? How big is challenge rating two?

It's a dragon, doesn't it like treasure? How big is it? Challenge rating two, like how big can I get? Oh, for you? Like if I'm conjuring a challenge rating two creature. Okay, and add some stuff. Gotcha. That would be...

We have a goblin, we have a coven. To talk to it, you mean? Like a brown bear's challenge rating one. Okay. Direwolf is challenge rating one. Oh, so challenge rating two would be like a... Giant boar is a challenge rating two. Ooh. Yeah. Do you think it be like a... Giant boar. A giant boar? Ooh.

Yeah. Do you think it would like to eat a boar? A giant boar? A giant boar. That sounds good. I don't know. Well, do we want to try to buy it off? A giant elk is a challenge rating two. Or an elk.

Or something hooved. Or something fuzzy? Aiken's over there. Well, whatever you think would last the longest against ice. So what about a wintry-type creature? Oh! A polar bear, or some sort of...

Um, um. That ain't bad. Um. And what about an ice spider queen? Is that a thing that can resist some ice damage? That is challenge rating two. Is it? It is. Then I'd allow it.

Is it a beast? Is it a beast? It's a beast. Large beast. Large beast. Yep, you got it. So it can resist some ice damage. Ice queen, I would assume. All right. I do not care. That seems like a plan.

Can it resist cold damage? I don't know, does it say that it has resistance on it? It's a winter. Ah. Well, the top, maybe. Maybe the top. The knuckles are raised. Resisting cold, yes!

It doesn't have cold damage. That's good. So really takes a match. So eight real good. Do you think it wants to eat spiders? Sure. I mean, maybe. Anything that comes into its lair, probably. We could put a bunch of stakes all over the spider, just in case.

In the cave, in the... A cape of steak, a steak cave. An ice steak spider queen. In the tent painting, what are they offering it? What does it seem like what's on the altar, if you're trying to work it out? Make an investigation check. Why investigation?

Because this is the kind of thing, this is what deducing is all about, buddy. Caduceus. I thought you said Caduceus. Five, man, five. Oh no. You're not a person who appreciates a lot of fine art. To be fair, this yeti who drew this, not very talented. No, it's not on you.

It's a call me over. I'm just saying. Hey, Jester. I am good at looking at art. You are literally sitting next to me saying this right now, I feel like. Call me over any time you want. Should I do it now? You can, yeah.

Hey, Jester. Yeah? What do you think that is? Make an investigation. I don't know. 16. It's not very well drawn, you're not sure. It's a pretty shitty drawing. That's what I said.

I think it's drawn with poop? It's too cold, I can't tell. So what are you guys doing? Maybe, well, we're going to take a nap. Can we take a nap? I think we need a... Okay, but if we take a nap here, there's good odds, well, we're going to take a nap. Can we take a nap? I think we need a nap. Okay, but if we take a nap here,

there's good odds that the yetis are going to come back. There's an alarm spell. Sure, but then we have to wake up and fight them. That's okay. We don't have to wake up and fight them. That's true. They won't see us if we dome the side of the wall. Oh yeah. All right.

We'll know that we're their home and then we can take care of it once we wake up. All right, Caleb, do you want to make a dome inside their tent? Oh, it's already done. So you're taking a long rest on the opposite wall within the Yeti Cave. Okay. Yes.

Just understanding that, right? Yeah. Yes, but it's made to look like rock. Okay. Kind of, trying to. Yeah. Yeah. You want to be, I just want to double check. We want to be inside the cave for when the tripwire goes off

and lets them know that they are in the cave with us instead of outside of the cave. They don't hear the tripwire. No, no, we do. But then we're in there with them. But they can't see us. They can't get to the dome. They can see us, can't they?

There's a big ass dome where there wasn't one before. There is something new in their living space that they've never seen before on the opposite side. Can we have enough magic to, that is a fair point. You have to cast it again. Can you cast it again? Never mind. Yeah, but it's only eight hours.

And then they can go poke the dragon and say, hey, there's some stuff in the dome. Maybe we should just. What's the intelligence of Yrena? I can do it one more time. Okay, then let's go true. Maybe we should just. What's the intelligence of the arena? I can do it one more time. Okay, then let's go outside. Let's go outside, let's go outside. We'll put our dome outside.

Where it was before. All right, same space, you set up a dome. Okay. Caleb, you're off your game today. All right, yeah, before we go to sleep, I do have one thing I want to do, if we're all, yeah. Oh yeah, Liam has eight things he wants to do. Of course he does, what's he want to do?

He sent me a document. What's it all? He wants to change the transmuter stone to resistance to cold damage. Got it. And then he wants to cast identify on all of those things that spilled out of the library box. Oh yeah, the fucking two boxes in the bag or whatever.

Yeah. They came out of the page. They came out of the page of the spell. Oh right, yes, yes. And then Niamh's tiny hat for the dome. Yeah, that's not that bad. Yeah, it's not too bad, it's not too bad. All right, just giving him shit because I can.

No worries. You're going to get the angry type. It's a very detailed page. It is, it's impressive. It's written in German. Good thing you took that class. Thank god. That one class.

Thank you. Two semesters. Whoa. All right, so. Some of the things that fell out, the little box containers, one of them appears to be a snuff box. Okay. Second one looks to be a small,

jangly container of coin. Contains 25 platinum pieces. Ooh! The third item is a scroll case. Oh! That's nice, Dottie. You're going to be so happy. The scroll case does contain three specific spells.

What? Greater Invisibility. Whoa! Major Image, and Levitate. Whoa! How does, wait, does that mean he can learn those spells? How long does it take for him to learn? Greater Invisibility, Greater, greater something image, major image?

Major image. And levitate. And levitate. Levitate. Ooh. That's sick. If Liam was here, he'd be so pissed that we were learning the spells. Yeah, he would be like,

you don't know what my spells are. Only I know what my spells are. Sorry, Liam. We love you. Cue angry texts. He did say, if useful for dragon dealings, he would share. If not, he would keep it all under wraps

until next game. Oh no! Well, you deem them useful! I deem them useful. They are useful. You can levitate a dragon and then drop it. I can. Can you do that? We can mass, we can greater greater invisibility all of us. Oh my god. I think they have true side effects.

Yeah. I don't know, though, but do you? It does take two hours for each level of the spell to inscribe it, and he'll not be getting a long rest if he does that through the night, and he'll be exhausted if he doesn't sleep. So these are the things he might need to describe

down the road when he has some doubt. Okay, okay, okay, okay. All right. But useful for dragons, nonetheless. Does the snuff box have anything fancy about the snuff box? You open it up and it's filled with some sort of ashy powder. Do I recognize it? Snuff. Do you want to detect the snuff?

I've already burned my detect magic for the deck. Oh, I might have detected, no, I have this bad. Ashy Powder. He used Identify, he knows what it is. It's Snuff. What color? Ash. Right. I mean, that was a...

That's true, he did use Identify, he would have known. All right, so we've made our hut, we're going to sleep. Fjord, if you've got a second. Yes, of course. I'm going to talk outside got a second. Yes, of course. I'm going to talk outside for a second. Sure. Okay, you guys walk out.

The light has dimmed. There's just that faint bit of silvery light that crests the white snow in the fields down below the mountain on the edge of it. Night is coming rather rapidly. I know you're having a hard time with everything, and I know you have a lot of questions. My family came originally from

disciples of one god, and we were given to another. Then that goddess has put us in the service of yet another. While we do worship the Wild Mother and we are clerics of the Wild Mother and followers of the Wild Mother and paladins and otherwise.

I'm so sorry, my bag is just going everywhere. No, I'm pulling things out and setting a thing up anyway, so it all works. Setting up a little thing. One of the prime, one of the prime tenets of what we do is we're about gift giving. And we are the Wild Mother's expression of

joy and bounty. And I know that she has seen you and deemed you worthy of her consideration. And I'm very, very glad that she has decided to take you through this next part of your voyage towards whoever you're going to be, but part of what we do, clays, is about finding what's true for you,

and it may be her or it may be another deity, it may not be, but she is here to help you become who you need to be, but you don't necessarily need to end up in her charge, and that may not be what we're trying to blossom within you. You may be a gift for another god. You said you were, you worshiped one god, and then were gifted to another and then another?

The Raven Queen was our original patron, the clays. And when we asked questions about what she would want from us, she sent us to the Wild Mother, and we became her, well, we became her charges. And when we asked the Wild Mother what she would have of us, we became the makers of fine gifts.

Graves are gifts. Oh. Often for the living and for those who remain, but also, the gods and goddesses have to talk to each other and communicate with each other, and one of the ways that they do that is by reminding, reminding themselves that they are all part of a larger tapestry and interconnected. You can't have civilization without nature.

You can't have a storm without nature. You can't have stories and dreams without civilization. All these things, they have to connect to each other, and sometimes it's about finding out where something's supposed to be. I'm casting Commune. Okay.

I'm going to let you speak to her. To who? To the Wild Mother. You have three questions. The answers will be simple, just yes or no, simple positives or negatives, but if you want. And it can be, I know we have a lot here,

and if you have any questions about what we're getting into, that's fine, but I wanted to give you the opportunity of maybe clarifying something that's inside of you. Right, three questions, simple yes or no answers. Or complex yes or no's. All right. I have set up a small little fire and I'm breathing in the incense and starting my trance.

Okay. I have felt your presence, Wild Mother. Is there a reason that you intervened in my particular journey. You want me to carry this question on? I do. Just whispering along. The warmth of her presence comes and encircles you

and the biting cold of the growing night fades around both of you. Though you do not have a direct connection, there is a presence and a warmth that unexpectedly encircles your space beyond just the small fire you've set. The answer comes through unclear. I think it's the wrong question.

I don't think that that has that kind of answer. Wrong question. I miss having the ability to affect greater change by having more at my fingertips. If I were to change the way that I live, change what I focus on or do, would you be able to help me regain some sort of standing in a way that's similar to what I knew before.

The warmth becomes a jovial understanding and the wind picks up slightly around you, but it's a warm wind. You swear for a second, you see a green leaf or two scatter by before vanishing into the shadow of night. The answer appears to be a definitive yes. I think so. Something akin. Oh god, I have all the, so many more questions.

Why did I ask a stupid one first? I don't know about any of this. It's all a bit under, overwhelming, cities and nature and deities and overlapping. Would you please do something or show me something or intervene or take agency in my life and show me how best to move

towards achieving that sort of change? The warmth has almost like a gentle breeze passing through the boughs of a tree, like a forest sighing. It very much has a playful sigh to it. The answer comes through, unclear, but asking. You understand the answer, as you are a man of faith,

to know that the answer is to require faith. I mean, if you're Fjord, I could answer that one. What do you think this is? All of us, me here, you here, these people, this is intervention. Right. Eventually, one day, somebody will pray for a miracle, pray for something to save them to whatever gods are nearby,

and that prayer will be answered because you'll show up. That's how it works. That's what a champion is. How often do you talk to her? I mean, never stop. I don't have your stuff. Even for my family, I'm a little odd. I don't have your stuff.

Even for my family, I'm a little lot. A little eccentric. That's a good word, yeah. Without all of that, is it still possible to talk to her? She's always listening. She is. Yeah, the answers that you get may not be the ones you want,

and the answers may come in ways that you don't necessarily understand or are almost too obvious to see. The answers may be that you need to find where your power is, where is the place that you are strongest. And nature is very big. And you are a mystery in many ways.

And I think inevitably, something's going to come out and show itself within you, and that'll be the moment you know that what element of righteousness you were supposed to champion and represent, what is the thing that inspires you. I love the oceans. I always have. What do you like about the oceans?

You can get lost out there, and it's easy to fall away from everything else. It's calming, it's meditative, it's humbling. You are at the mercy of the elements. Perhaps the greatest one on this plane. What do you dream about when your dreams are your own? It's been so long. I don't know what I dream about,

but I used to remember going down to the shore and just enjoying the sound of the ocean. It'd wipe out everything else. It's calming there. It's also powerful. Seeing things wash up on the shore, be pulverized, made into smaller pieces. It's relentless.

Maybe when you were lost on that ship, you were heading towards something good and perfect at the bottom of the ocean, and maybe you just got caught by something that was down there, hoping to catch something, heading towards that purity, that goodness. Maybe there's still something down there that's

what you're describing, and not that thing that was a corruption of it. Maybe. That reminds me, I should have asked if Uk'otoa is finished with me or not. Uk'otoa. Oh, I can answer that. No.

What do you mean, no? Why would it be finished? I don't have the key or the sword or any gifts. I think that that might not be a story that's over yet. That may be something you were battling for the rest of your life, but we're going to arm you and you're going to be fine.

But no, this isn't gone, it's just sleeping. Great. Good, yes. It's good. It's angry at you. Maybe it means that it fears you. Oh. Maybe it's right to.

I wish that were true. If I wanted to learn more about all of these deities that seem to trade amongst us, like cards. How would I do that? Well, there's the big ones, the ones that are the big ideas of entities that rule large swaths of the world. I read that book when we were waiting

about the Calamity and the Betrayer Gods and all of that, does that serve as a menu of things to choose from? Well, there's no menu. You may. Uk'oto was not in that book. It's a very big world, and there are lots of little ideas looking for champions, and there are lots of little ideas looking for champions, and there are lots of big ideas looking for champions,

and maybe something that we don't know about, like a Traveler might come your way, or maybe a big idea will get ahold of you, I don't know. Good, good, good. Yes, more unknown. I like it. You will. It'll feel good.

Thank you. I know you don't have to do any of this. It's very much appreciated. I am your sign from the Wildmother. This is what I'm doing. This is what I'm supposed to do. You asked for a sign and this is it. We're going to keep doing this. We're going to keep doing this. We're going to keep meditating, keep looking for the thing that you need,

starting with this sword. Yes. I'm all for that. Thank you. It's worthwhile. Oh god, it got cold. Actually quite warm. While I'm going inside, I have no mean on me.

You head inside? Mm-hmm. You head inside? Mm-hmm. Okay. A quick look out to the horizon just to see if there are any shapes. Perception check. 20. 20. It is dark, so the disadvantage, technically.

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I wonder if that's because of our honored guest. Stupid. We go inside. All right. You guys all rest up for the night, for the longest? Okay. In the comfort of the dome, you take your eight hours of rest,

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you come to consciousness within the cavern after a long rest, within the eight hours that you've rested, which was not long after the sun set. It is still dark. Oh shit. The sun hasn't quite risen yet when you come to your point of full rest.

The dome fades because it only lasts for eight hours. So it lasts for the length of the long rest. The chill creeps in in the darkened shadow, lightless interior of the long rest. The chill creeps in in the darkened shadow, lightless interior of the cavern. What would you like to do? Oh no, we're outside of the cavern. That's right, I mean, outskirts of it. But we're going to go in.

Colder. Much colder now. So, first I produce flame so everybody can huddle around it. We got a bar. No, it's just, it's just. People can see it, don't start, get started. Oh, shh!

Where are we? Oh, fuck. I pull out the rod, and we can just pass the rod of warmth around from person to person. Grab the rod, all hands on the rod. All hands on the rod. Warm warm pass, warm warm.

All right. All of you desperately clinging to a semblance of body heat. Thankfully, like I said, you brought some furs with you and prepared yourself for the journey, but it's still fucking cold. Question. Yes. Was the tripwire alert spell still up? Do we know if yeti's had it?

It did not trip in the evening's call for it, so. All right, are we doing this yeti costume idea? No. Can I send in more bats first to see if there's a dragon? Please? Pretty please? Let's get a little further in first.

It's occurred to me that since they didn't come in the night, those missing yeti are probably the dragon's dinner. Did you just fart? No, it sounded like it. Another habit of mine. It's all right. You're trying to do it again, but it's not doing it.

No, no, it's embarrassing. Another half a turn. It's all right. You're trying to do it again, but it's not doing it. No, no, it's advancing. I wish it would. It sounds like a fart. Because it was a fart. Why? Hold on. Oh god. We've been on Caleb's, or sorry, Caduceus' mushroom diet, it's fine.

You can't recreate it because it was a legitimate fart. Shit. I've got to fart before the end of this episode. Chiffon, please. So, what would you guys like to do? We should sneak into the cave again? Mm. Oh.

Everyone roll stealth checks, please, as you enter the cavern in shadow. Should I pass without a Teresa's? What the fuck is wrong with me today? Hey! Natural 20. Ooh, Beauregard. One for Beauregard. All right, those cancel each other out.

31. 31, 18. For Caleb. 10, 11. Natural 20. Okay. Ooh! Vacuum and clutch, okay. So as you guys quietly enter the cavern, the distant fate element of early morning sunrise blue

beginning to crest on the horizon towards the east, you make your way into the Shadowed Yeti Cavern. This little giant. He can't do it. He can't let it rest. Passing within the shadow. Sorry, I didn't mean to use the word passing. I know it's a sensitive shadow. It looks like they have not returned,

wherever these yeti may have been. There is the larger, further end of the cavern to explore. What would you guys like to do? All right. One more recap of the plan. You turn into a woolly mammoth. Yes. You're holding the mithril in your somewhere.

Yeah, I'm going to hold it in my trunk. No, no, no, what am I saying? No, no, you're going to be a queen spider. Or a spider, thank you. Yeah, you're going to be a queen ice spider, and you're going to have the mithril. No, no, no, no, no, I'm summoning a spider, and we're putting it around the spider's neck,

and then it goes in. Okay, great. Okay. But it's just going to walk in? We need someone to present it. No, no. That's when the mammoth comes, or the yeti. We don't have a yeti. The costume. Oh, we need that. We're not going to do

the yeti costume. I think we need to do the yeti costume, unless you want to do disguise self and be the smallest yeti in history. I can't do that. Oh. I can! I can. We'll be very small yeti. Can dragons see through illusions?

Should I sit on your shoulder? And then we just disguise ourselves as like, I could be the top half. And I'll be the bottom half of the yeti? Who knows dragons really well? Would I have read if dragons can see through illusions or bad body puppets? I mean, after these.

They don't specifically refer to those topics. Usually that's involved in the cognitive capabilities of a dragon. Normal people will normally see a puppet. That it's a kigurumi? Yes. No, no, no. Me and Nott are going to disguise ourselves as a bottom half of a yeti and a top half of a yeti.

Oh, where you're combining disguises. Your disguises have to still be humanoid in form. You can't be half a humanoid with disguises on. Which is why we need a yeti skin to wear. What do you mean they're gone? We set them all on fire. No, we didn't. We didn't burn them all, you buried them.

Okay, we buried them. The discussion was that the fire would take too long to dispose of the yetis. That's fair. But they're probably rather frozen right now. They'd be hard to open up. I could warm them up. Do you know how to make a yeti costume? You know, there is an option of just offering food and paying this dragon handsomely in treasure.

I mean, I spent a lot of money on a teleportation. That's what I was saying, I could send a message to the dragon and see if they would just do it. Why is, I can do that and see. If they say no, then we're fjokt. No, what if I pretend like I'm really far away and I'll be like, I'm across the planet from you, but I heard of how amazing you are.

Can you breathe on some mithril for me? I'll give you shit. Do it. I think that's under 25 words, what they just said. I'm ready, let's go. I don't think this is- What's the worst you could say? No? Yes.

And then that's it. And then we go with plan B, which is yeti puppets. No, no, no, no, no. Once you send a message saying, hey, brace yourself for some mithril and money soon, and then a half of a yeti walks in five minutes later, holding it. To help cut through some of the confusion,

message does require you be familiar with the creature. I am, it's name is Nightmare in Ivory. You are aware of it. I don't know if I would be considering this familiar. Oh, man. Question, if my bats echolocate around the dragon and then I describe it, would that then be familiar? For the bats?

Shit. Let's just send in an ice spider queen with some mithril around, and then you know what? We can make ourselves look like a yeti, but we'll stay far away, and we'll just wave in the shadow and be like, there's your shadow, and we'll send in the spider. If I stood far enough away,

I'd look like I'm a bit regular-sized yeti, but I'm just far, far away! You're not respected in the end. Are we sending the bats in first again to do a little recon or no? I can do that. I can also always send in my shitty cat from the game. It fucking fails at everything.

I don't know. Caleb! That's your cat! Sorry, I love him so much. The bats are a bit more potentially native to this area. Also, they can see in the dark. Aside from an orange, tawny cat. And the cat cannot.

That's true. Yeah, so maybe we send... Buggy. I don't know if we can send... Aggressively unsummoned? You're familiar. She just throws from it and it disappears. I just think. Doesn't do well on YouTube, these things.

No! Go ahead and send in the bats, but I'm going to still push one more time for the yeti costume. I ain't going to lie. I'm not saying no anymore. The yeti costume can come after the bats. Yeah, yeah, yeah, send in the bats.

Okay. On that note. Send in the bats. You re-summon and send in a cluster of bats? Yes, I re-summon, I conjure woodland beings. It's like a huge cluster. I tell them the same spiel. Make their way deeper into the cavern. They head their way through the 25-foot wide entrance.

They follow the corkscrew spiral. They disappear for a bit. About 10 or so minutes, they return. Oh shit. Okay, I cast Speak With Animals. All of them. Okay. They impart to you the information of, the cave, it goes around, and there's a lot of ice, it's really cold.

Then it goes straight up, and then there's a tall bit, and then there's a little bit forward and again, and then there's a wall of ice. Oh fuck. Did you not see a dragon? No. Oh, and how tall is far up? Far up.

Like how many flaps? They all start quietly flapping to themselves trying to count. A lot. A lot of flaps. Okay, thank you everyone. They've been intelligent to two, I don't know. That's right, I unsummoned them.

You can really talk, it's good. So, flag on the play. There's a hallway, it goes around and around, and then it goes straight up. The Bat said it took a lot of flaps, not so sure how many, and then there's a wall of ice. No dragon. I bet the dragon is behind the wall of ice.

Of course. That does further go towards our theory that he got trapped here as a baby. Oh, god. Listen to this. No yeti can climb up a thing and then bust through a wall of ice. So if they're bringing these gifts,

they're probably setting it at the bottom of the tunnel or the shaft. Or maybe there's like a pulley system. They're not going to climb up with a thing. Maybe there's like a basket. No, there's no pulley system. I bet there is. There's no pulley system. I bet there's something a pulley system. Maybe there's a pulley system. Maybe there's like a basket. No, there's no pulley system. I bet there is.

There's no pulley system. I bet there's something, you could set something in and then pull it all the way to the top and let it be up there. Negative. I'll bet you five gold. Then I think it doesn't matter. We should still try to send in the ice spider

and have a deep breath on it. Of course, agreed. Let's just head up there. The only question is, do we need a yeti to bring it breathe on it? Of course, agreed. Let's just head up there. The only question is, do we need a yeti to bring it and leave it? Ooh. No. Okay. That's fine.

I think as long as, wait, can anyone cast Invisibility on me? Yes, I can. You can? Yes, I can. Can you do it to you, too? Not at the same time, but that's okay. I can if it's a higher level. I don't think I have any higher levels. A's okay. I can if it's a higher level.

I don't think I have any higher levels. A third level spell? You don't have a third level yet? Yeah, then no, so you can only do one. I don't think Caleb has access to it yet. Nope. Who goes in the yeti outfit? Caduceus for the body.

Are you volunteering for this? Me for the head, Jester for the arms. Are you volunteering for this? Me for the head, Jester for the arms. What? Three of you, we're going to leave three of you to this idea? Lose. You can go in there, you're pretty dexterous. I don't really understand.

Well, you know what? No, never mind. For the moment, I'm going to be on board with this because I don't actually think it's going to get that far. Stop doing that! No, don't give in! Reason! I'm not giving in. I'm just disguising myself

as a variant or maybe I'll be a baby yeti. You know what, if we're leaving the President at the bottom of the shaft, then it doesn't matter. The dragon's not going to see us. What if the dragon's never even seen a yeti and this whole point is moot? Yeah, we'll bring the spider, leave it, make some noise, like,

and then we'll leave. Chester's so good at yeti noises. I am, I'm really good at it. Has it changed since yesterday? I was being a baby yeti. Oh, what does a real yeti sound like? Ah! Ah!

That was the one dying from fire, though. That was its death gurgles. We could just make a loud sound. Mm. I am here for this plan. All right, let's fork it home. Hey, we should check for traps as we go up. I bet the dragon has set a lot of traps

up the corkscrew and the thing. Figuring out my spells, but yeah, all right. Oh shit, good call. Thank you. Time to get my drink on! Yeah, that's why I'm staring at my spells, but yeah, all right. Oh shit, good call. Thank you. Time to get my drink on! Yeah, that's why I'm staring at my thing right now. I'm still, so wait, you're pro-Yeti costume until the rest of the group isn't Yeti costume?

Oh, it's not that I'm pro-Yeti costume, I'm just a deep believer in learning through failure. Uh-huh. I figure this will end when they figure out they can't make a yeti costume, because I've never seen any of these people sew before, and I know I can sew a bit, but I'm not going to. I'm not saying we have to sew,

I'm saying, Caduceus, that we can cut one of the yetis up and back. No, no, no. All of its insides out, just skin it, basically, and then just wear it. No. I've had to do some of this before, it's just not that easy. All right, forget about it. Let's just go. All the parts are stuck together. Oh, it's just not that easy. Forget about it. Let's just go. All the bards are stuck together.

Oh. I didn't think about that. Yeah, no, it's not just like a pocket with a zipper on the back. On paper, this is a great plan. I just want to point it out. Trying to paint that picture in my head. Let's go ahead and stealthily into the tunnel.

Am I summoning a spider? Not until we get closer. Well, I mean, is the spider friendly, or is it? It's my spider, so it listens to me. How long does the spider last? Up to one hour. Well, wait, we'll get a little further. Could be good to have a spider friend.

Okay. Yeah. I will cast Mage Armor on myself. Okay, so Caleb gets Mage Armor. Mine or self. Got it. You guys all progressing further into the cavern? Yes. Sure. With a light source or not, because it is pitch black in this cave,

and currently only three of you do not have darkvision. You could do the globules, they're pretty faint. Ja. Do we want the light? Ja. Ja. Should I have Sending today? Do you think we're going to need it?

Maybe if we need Essek? I... We won't, though. We have Caleb. Oh, if Caleb dies, though. Caleb's not going to die. We're not going to let Caleb die. Okay, well, I'm going to not have it. Wait, did we cast the dome? I don't know which one it was.

When we get closer, possibly? Yeah, when we get closer. If we manage to get closer. I like the way you think. No. All right, so are you summoning the Globes of Light? Mm-hmm. All right.

And traveling with you, ahead of you, what's the plan? Who's up front? Oh, we'll put some dark visions up front and the globules can be just behind. Okay. With the blind people. So marching order is? I'll go first. I'll go behind Nott.

I'll go behind Beau. I can go behind Jester. All right, Jester. This minute. Who's up? Then we have Caleb, Fjord, and Caduceus. Who's lower? I'll take the back and I'll just keep an eye on the-

Leave it perfectly. They're ordered from height. Oh! It's amazing. That's pretty great. So I can keep an eye on the back. I'll be focusing where the blind is. All right.

Perfect. On the way out. Perfect. Oh, scary cave music. Oh, it's fine. Caleb, Caleb, who does this? Could be chanting med scary cave music. Oh, it's fine. Okay, look, Caleb does this. Could be chanting meditative cave music. So you guys begin to enter,

slowly making your way into this extended tunnel towards the back. You're at the front there, Nott. What are you doing? I'm going to take a big swig. Okay. And slowly proceed ahead, just checking for traps as I go.

Okay. You continue forward. The temperature is increasingly colder. As you begin to step a few feet into this cavern, you can see your breath is extremely visible. And as you're quietly making your way through, you hear this faint tinking sound around you that you begin to realize is the sound of

the faint bit of moisture in your breath, freezing and then shattering on the ground. It's cold. Your noses and your ears begin to go numb. It is freezing cold. Go ahead and make an investigation check. Oh, I don't think we can touch the walls. 14.

14, okay. Seems to be safe. You continue on for about 30, 40 or so feet, carefully. Make another check as you progress forward. Even worse, 13. 13, no. I'm getting scared, I'm going to take another swing. Okay.

Continuing on, the tunnel itself begins to shift upward and curve the upper part of the spiral. You move a little slower as you guys are having to, in the slight incline, make sure you don't slip, as it is rather slightly slick here. The light, as it pushes through, you can see it gleams across the ice surrounding you with a little bit of modicum of light you carry.

Go ahead and try again. 17. 17, okay. You don't notice any of the traps. Okay. Continue moving. You begin to see these unique pillars, like stalagmites of ice appearing in different areas

as you guys push through and continue forward for another 30 or so feet. Roll again? If you want to check again, yeah. Stalagmites of ice! What? Are they all the, are they? You can talk for it.

Yes, are there two on either side of the pathway that we're walking down? They're a little more scattered. You see right now, currently, probably four of them with the light you have, and there's one immediately to your left, two off to the right up there, and there's one that's just out of range from the faint bit of light that's giving your darkvision.

Are they all about the same size or different sizes? Different sizes, but they're all about six, seven feet in height. You should inspect them. All right. I don't know if those are stalagmites. Make a perception or investigation check here, Coy. I'll do it if you want. No, no, no, I'll do it if you want.

No, no, no, I'll do it. I will take one more swing first. Okay. You roll better when you're fucked up. No, I roll worse. While you were drunk! You are now drunk. Great. Why do you do this shit, Sam? Okay, 14.

14, okay. You're looking for traps or you're inspecting the? You said to look for what? Just inspect it. To see if it actually is stalagmite or something. It's like smooth ice with a faint dust of snow. You look over, it looks like a weird stalagmite of ice. Nothing else catches your attention.

Do I see anything that looks like it could be any type of mechanism? Make a perception or investigation check. People that have been frozen in this hallway? Or, yeah, it's some goddamn, I'm supposed to be good at this shit. 11. 11.

Nothing gets your attention. You continue on? Yeah, let's keep going. Okay. Is anything coming from behind? Perception check. 27. 27? Nothing from behind. All right. Okay, you continue on.

You guys are just now stepping into, you begin to see right at the end of your darkvision what looks to be an end, like a slightly curved wall. What does the ceiling look like right now? You glance up and it looks like a smooth ice tunnel. Elements of it look broken a bit and there are some very faint icicle-like protrusions. They're just the top, but they're thin.

They're maybe a foot long, two feet long. So we haven't reached the part where the Bat said it goes up yet, that's just in front of us? You don't, not yet. Okay. You do see an end to the tunnel. Okay, I'll go all the way to the end, and then going off what the Bat said,

I'll just look all around. There's nothing else around here? Looking straight up, indeed, the tunnel shifts into an entire vertical path. Same width, same space. It's about 25, 30 feet diameter, like almost circular cavern, but it shoots straight up at this point.

Are there any pulleys? Make a perception check. One. No pulleys. And you don't see any other details, which is funny because the rest of you can see a lot of details around, just instinctually around Nott.

There's nothing here! The bats were wrong! What are you talking about? There's nothing over there. You see a bunch of broken ice scattered across the ground here at the base. Just broken, shattered chunks of different sizes of just ice that Nott pushes out of the way

and is like, I don't see anything. Does it look like the ice came from above? It looks like it's not, it's hard to tell, it's ice. Okay. So if this is where the bat said it goes up and there's a wall, should we just put the spider here, back up, scream a bit, and see what happens? Are we currently standing with the open,

the length above us? Correct. Okay. And your darkvision is 60 feet, right? Yeah, it continues up past the range of your darkvision. Just smooth surfaces of ice. Smooth surfaces of ice. We are literally fish in a barrel if we stay down here. So maybe we should back up. Who puts fish in a barrel?

Or if we wanted to make a dome, this might be a good spot. Oh. Yeah, should we dome it? Maybe not in this room. No, back a bit. And then make a spider. And then I can make a spider. What'd you say, Caleb?

But what if we put the spider down here and the dragon doesn't come? And then we put the spider down? Can you make a spider a second time? I can make a spider two more times. Okay, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. We have an hour with the spider, too. There's nothing else down here?

There's no ladders, there's no bones, there's no anything? Do we see any sort of equipment, weapons? You can make a perception or investigation check. Also, is there anything to climb up the wall? 18. 18. The broken ice that's around the ground, you begin to look down and see elements of it.

You see a hand in one of the pieces. You see part of a head in another. Oh! These are remnants of things that have been sundered entirely, frozen and pulled apart. But each chunk you see is but a part where the majority of where the bodies would be is missing. These are the scraps.

Maybe this is where they leave the stuff. So if we leave some stuff here, we get into our little hiding place and then pull the metal out when it's time. Hopefully the metal is still there. So you mean like hide the metal among this ice stuff? Hide the metal with it. We'll put the metal with the spider

when it cooks the spider. But like on the spider or under the spider? Under the spider so it doesn't get. Or maybe just hang it around the spider's neck or something? This is my question. If we hang it around the spider's neck or something? This is my question. If we hang it around the spider's neck, if the spider goes away, the metal goes away.

Well, it's going to cook it first. I understand, but it still goes away. So do we leave the metal on the ground or put it on the spider? If it's on the spider and the spider and the metal get cooked, then we can Mage Hand and as long as it's not like a tight core, just like, you know, or like put it in the spider's hand.

It'll be in a block of ice. It's not going to be in a just like, you know, or like put it in the spider's hands. It's not going to be in the block. It will be in the block of ice. It seems like he's been freezing these people and then eating the ice and the person around it. Hmm. I mean, if a hand and a head and all these things are sticking out,

I assume the rest of the body was consumed. What makes me nervous about just leaving it on the ground, though, is if the spider blocks the path of the breath. I mean, we could just try and be on it and with it with Mage Hand and make sure it's in the path. Wouldn't it be impervious to being frozen if the whole point is to get it frozen?

Yeah, but it might be stuck to the spider. Oh. Not if it's on a rope. Yeah, if we- Like a dangly rope. If we put it on the ground next to the spider, I bet you know this breath, it goes really far. Fjord. It's got a cone sort of effect. Can you turn it invisible

just in case? But then how would we know when it's done? And yeah, also I don't think we can turn it invisible. Fjord, you're a sailor, you're good with knots. Isn't there some sort of like a rip cool, rip what? Dragon knot. It's a real thing. Kind of a ripcord situation

where you can pull it and slip it off? Oh, like you can yank on the piece of rope and release the knot? Uh-huh. Oh, gee, I don't think so. Not with a yank, I mean, you could. What if we put the ingot on top of a shield and it's round, right, so it's like a sled, and then we tie the rope to a thing,

and so when we go to pull, we can just pull the shield, and it pulls out faster. I like it. We'll just sit it on the ground next to the spider. Works for me. It looks like the spider maybe killed something, you know, with the shield. Is there something just standing inside of the dome and holding the ingot on the outside of it?

We could do that, too. The dragon might think it's odd that there's a gigantic 20-foot dome right next to a weird spider. This dragon's stupid. Well. No, I'm kidding, it's a person. A stupid person. I say we hide it among the shards of glass on the ground

and maybe tie something to it. That'd be better. Sure. Yeah. Do we have an extra shield? We have my shield. Or mine. You need it. Yeah, true.

Okay. Are there any shields lying around on the ground? Yeah, there is. I could take one of the plates off of my old, I mean, I have one of the beetle plates. We have a plain wooden shield. Great, perfect. Oh, I'll do it. Hey.

All righty, so what's the plan? Yeah. We're going to. What's the plan? Put the ingot on the shield. Put the ingot on the shield, put the shield face down to where it's sliding on the thing, tie rope to the handle of the shield, back way up, and keep that on like a thing, ready to pull.

Who's going to pull? I'll pull, I'm really strong. And then we're going to send in the spider to sit under the tunnel, and then we're going to yeti call. Or just make a noise. It doesn't have to be a yeti noise. Do we still have the rock

so we're not making the noise, so it doesn't come swooping down the hallway, but it comes to the spider? How much rope are you guys going to put on this thing? How much do we have? 50 feet for me. 150 feet as well. So 100 feet of rope.

150 feet of rope. Okay, so you can tie end to end and have 100, we'll say tied together, 145 feet of rope. Hello? How deep down is this head underneath the ice? Are you going to be able to pull 140 feet faster than I can? Mostly eaten, you see part of a forehead and an eye that's locked in about like,

there's like two inches of ice around it, and it looks like it's... There's not a face. No. Okay. Was hoping. Sorry. This is the perfect place to bring Speak With Dead. You never know.

Yeah, it's true. You have to find a more complete corpse, unfortunately. Some words you never thought you'd hear. I wonder how the yetis We have to find a more complete corpse, unfortunately. There's more to see up there. Okay. I wonder how the yetis let the dragon know that something's here. Do you see anything around that they bang on? Yeah, can we see any sort of alarm system? Make a perception check.

We have firecrackers. I was about to, you beat me to it. 23. 23. 23. You don't see any tools or implements that would be used to gather attention. She's got firecrackers. That'll do it, or we have the thaumaturgy.

Yeah, we can shout thaumaturgy at the tunnel. Shake it a little bit. Make it sound like yetis. Yeti noises, yeah. Some kind. Just do it. Okay, so you have the rope. Good plan. And you're tying the rope to the ingot of mithril?

To the shield. Oh, to the shield, okay. The mithril on top of the. On top of the shield, and you're placing it where? Right next to the spider that we're going, like under the path. Okay, so central to the bottom of the tunnel. Hang on, I have an idea. He takes out some of his gum.

Chewing gum? It's not chewing gum. Well, he's got a xantham gum type of thing. Okay. He sticks it to the bottom. Oh, that's fine. Sticks the ingot to the shield. You got it.

My spider can also climb up the wall and knock on the door. Cool, cool, cool. Should we have him do that? Is there a door? Or her. Well, on the giant door of ice. The ice wall.

Well, we want the spider to stay by the ingot. It can knock and then crawl back down. So we don't have to scream and put ourselves at risk. Well, we can use Thaumaturgy to make it sound like the Yetis are calling. All right. Okay. You want to cast Invisibility on me, just in case? Are you going to be closer than 150 feet?

Yeah. All right. We need somebody nearby to see if the ingot turns blue. I'll stay nearby. No, you will not. You are a little cherub boy. You cannot be anywhere near the fierce creature. I'm cold resistant. Maybe I should stay.

If you wanted to stay inside the hut for yetis, you should stay inside a hut for dragons. Absolutely, it should be just a sheik in Dimension Door away if it gets too close. All right, I'm just wanting to help. You can help by being safe. You're super strong! I saw you in that last fight with the whip.

Why don't you pull the rope? Oh, yeah. It's like a whip. It's a good emergency. All right. Okay, so you're handling. 145 feet away. You're handling the rope at the end of the length. You guys have placed the shield in place.

Caduceus, bless him, he can't pull a rope. Bless only lasts a minute. That's all we'll need. I actually, yeah, I might, well. I want to reach over and just pat him on the head. Okay. All right, is Caleb producing the? Oh yeah, is Caleb going to make the?

He's making the hut. 145 feet back? Yeah. Okay, that'll still put you inside, Oh yeah, is Caleb going to make the? He's making the hut. 145 feet back. Yeah. Okay, that'll still put you inside, like right towards the entrance of the cavern, so you guys are near, in between where the yeti kind of village area is, the entrance of the cavern, you guys are right on that cusp.

Okay. Okay, the dome is created. I will cast Invisibility on Beauregard. Beauregard is invisible. Okay. Maybe I should be invisible because I'm going to be next to you. It's okay.

I'll just be out there. Yeah. No, you should be invisible. I'm going to disguise myself as... I will cast Invisibility on you. Actually, wait, Caleb can cast Invisibility. I don't think he has the spell, does he? Look at his list. He can check his inventory. He might, but he had a scroll once,

but I think he used it as a scroll. Used it as a scroll. Yeah. He doesn't have it. He didn't get to scribe it. No. That's, again. So should I do it to you? Or do you want to disguise yourself or something? Or...

I just thought I can run real fast. Yeah. So should I do it to you? Or do you want to disguise yourself or something? Or... I just know I can run real fast. Yeah. That's all. You can only do it to one person. It's kind of what I got right now. Who should I do it to? I don't know. Are you cold resistant? No, but I can run real fast.

I can dimension door. What are you saying? You want to be invisible or you don't? No, I'm saying I can be invisible and be a runner in case something's going to happen. And you can get out quickly, then. All right, I'll just be me. Unless you wanted to disguise yourself.

I'll hide behind one of those stalagmites on the ground. Okay, so you're back and get behind one of those? Totally. The one that's closest or further back? It's about 60, 70 or so feet away from the center of the cavern for that last one. Is that close enough so I can see if it's turning blue? You have darkvision? Yeah. It's on the cusp. Okay.

What are you doing? I'm going to be up there with you. You're not cold resistant. No, I know, but I'm good at hiding up there with you. Okay. You're not cold or resistant. No, I know, but I'm good at hiding. But what if you get breathed on? You could die. You can Dimension Draw me out. I'd have to get to you. I'll be near you.

Stay right next to me. I always follow orders. Oh my god. This is going to shit really fast. I want to push pause and hit the save icon. I know. If only. Save point. Save an extra slot.

Some pieces are set. What are the next things to do? Shall I make my? Yes. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Okay, so Caleb says, Ah, if anything, ah, goes wrong, you send yeah, yeah. Okay. So Caleb says, If anything goes wrong, you send me a message. Okay. Won't get to you

because you'll be in the dome. Yes, I will. Nope, nothing goes through the dome. SAM and LAURA and SAM and LAURA and SAM travels. Sound travels. So you just yell. You can hear outside. She'll hear. You scream a little bit.

Oh, fucking save me, baby! What's grabbing me? Okay. So. What's next? You summon your spider? Yes, I use Conjure Woodland Beings to summon an Ice Spider Queen. You see emerge from this green-blue glowing tear,

this horizontal tear through the middle of the air in front of you, as it splits open like a weird ethereal wound. This spindly series of legs, black with blue stripes and striations to them, pour out as this large, thin, elongated spider emerges. You can see it probably from tip of its multi-eyed face to the back of its swollen blue abdomen,

probably about six and a half, seven feet. Its legs go out to about 10 from side to side. It is a unique, intimidating sight. It looks towards you. So I want to first druidcraft a little flower crown for it, since it is a queen. And I want to place it upon its head. And I pat it and I go,

you're going to do a good job for us today. And I'm sorry, you're probably going to be eaten, but I don't love you any less. Go forth. I'm going to, before this, before, I'm going to take Sprinkle out of my hood and give him to Caleb, no, to Caduceus, no, to Caleb, because he's definitely staying in the hut.

Oh, ah, ja. Caleb, take care of Sprinkle, okay? Oh my god, if Sprinkle would have been in my hood and I tried to dimension Doras out, I wouldn't have been able to take you. Oh my god, if Sprinkle would have been in my hood and I tried to Dimension Door us out, I wouldn't have been able to take you. Oh my god. I know, I'm terrible at that, I've been. You've never Dimension Doored

with that creature on you before. I haven't. All right. Really? Is the spider taking the shield? How does this happen? No, the shield is already right there. Oh, the shield's already placed? How does this happen? No, the shield is already right there. Oh, the shield is already placed?

Okay. So the spider just stands over it, you direct her over there. Then I back up, I back far, I back back to the hut. Okay, so you're in the hut. You're in the hut. I am. Caleb's in the hut. Beau is invisible with Nott and Jester

on the opposite side. Before, just in case, I'm going to tap you and give you freedom of movement. Yes, queen. Oh, and then Caleb wanted to do Gift of Alacrity on someone doing a crucial action. Gift of Alacrity, or do you mean the other one? The fate thing, probably. Yeah.

Oh, he wants that on himself. Okay, got you. He made a point to make that. But the fate thing. And then Gift of Alacrity we'll put on Reani. Okay, so you have a plus eight to your initiative rolls. Oh, damn. Mm-hmm. The next hour.

He wanted the fate thing for himself. Okay. Got it. Okay. Shouldn't Jester have something? Doesn't matter, it's fine. I'll just be out here with Nott with no extra anything from anybody. Thanks a lot, everyone. We can take care of ourselves. You and me both, Jester, yeah.

We're au naturel. See you, Fjord! You smell like booze. You smell flammable. You smell flammable. Caduceus, where are you staying? I'm staying just behind the dome, if that makes sense. I'm just using it as cover.

Okay. Behind the dome, in the dome, in the dome. Actually, maybe in the dome. Caleb, definitely in the dome. All right, Caduceus is in the dome. City four in the dome. The other three are ahead, up about 60 feet from ground zero, where the spider's been summoned

and is currently loading over the shield. I will augment, I will be 30 feet, 25 feet out of the dome. That way, if I need to pull, I grab and I just run in instead of try and do this shit. Both smart. Okay. 25 feet from the dome. All right, got it.

So, what's next? We got to make some noise. Oh, right. 50 feet. I'll be 50 feet outside of the dome. Okay, you got it. He's getting brave. Price is right. I want to see, wait, let me look how far

of a distance thaumaturgy. You're 60 feet of movement if you burn your action. I know, I'm only 2d650. Okay, I'm going to use thaumaturgy. Within, oh, I'm going, oh fuck, I'm going to get up close to the top of the tunnel, to where it goes, and I going to use Thaumaturgy to echo yeti noises up the tunnel shaft.

Then I'm going to make a run for it and hide behind that stalagmite. Okay. Okay. Make a performance check for me. 20. Good, all right. When it counts. This is a stretch of Thaumaturgy's capabilities.

So you make a noise, a thunderous noise, similar to a rumble of thunder, but you sculpt it to be similar to what you remember the yeti sounds to be like. Echoes through and you remember the yeti sounds to be like. SAM and LAURA, echoes through and you hear the echo go up to the top. A moment passes. About a minute passes.

Should I have my spider knock? What, like climb up and knock? Yeah. Climb up the ice wall? It has sticky feets. Sure. Yes. You hear this cracking impact sound. Chunks of ice begin to fall and plummet. you hear this cracking impact sound. Chunks of ice begin to fall and plummet.

A huge piece slams into the ground next to the spider. Backs out of the way. I don't like it. You hear. With each heavy impact grinding sound, more ice chunks fall, slamming into the ground. It gets louder and the vibrations, the impact of the tunnel rumbles, rumbles, and vibrates underneath you.

Right at the top of this tunnel, you see these two white claws scraping into the ice, just into your view. As these two expanded wings unfurl, white claws scraping into the ice, just into your view. As these two expanded wings unfurl, covering the entirety of the upper part of the cavern. As it slowly holds itself, looking down, you can see the snout of an ancient white dragon. Ancient?

Oh! Peered down. We've got this one. Peered down and maybe about 15 or so feet from the spider just. Oh god. The mist out of its mouth. You can just barely see its glowing, icy blue eyes.

It goes. Interesting. You watch as a blast of icy white blue force just sprays out against this spider, and it billows out and pushes into the chamber. It doesn't do damage to you guys from your proximity, but the burst of cold still numbs the surface of your skin at this distance.

It feels kind of nice. I need your spider to make a constitution saving throw, please. Okay. This is going to dictate whether we bail on this or not. All right. Bail? Yeah, because if this is like 12 to 12, we're fucking getting out of here.

That's a solid 13. 13, that's a failure. Yeah, I figured. But it has a resistance to cold. It does, and that's useful. All righty. Let me roll some dice here for a second. Yeah, I may need more spiders.

Ancient. That's it. That's it? Oh god. That's a cast blast. M's it. Oh god. That's very much. That was a cast blast. Mammoth. Mammoth is round two. Round two. You can tag in a mammoth.

Yeah, then you would die. Okay, yeah, you're right. Yeah, no, you're right. 74 points of cold damage. Oh! It's okay. No, no, no. Reduced to half.

Oh! So that's, can somebody math for me? It's, you're okay. 74 is 32. Yeah, well, no. No for me? It's, you're okay. 74 is 32. Yeah, well, no. No. 37. 37 points of cold damage. It's okay.

37. So it blasts into the spider. You see ice collecting around the outside of its carpus. The dragon looks down curiously at it, still surviving there, its head turning a bit. The mist still out of its mouth. How does the? We're looking, can we see?

Make a perception check. I will also make one. Are you looking at the mithril? Yeah. Can I do the same? Sure. Six. 23.

23, and? Clutch. 16. 16, okay. With all the ice and all the insanity that's happened, the only person with clear enough eyes to see the mithril is Jester. Peering through all of it, you look and see,

it's not quite glowing yet. Yeah. What's the spider do, if anything? So, can I still communicate with it even though I'm in the hut? You're giving it, from though I'm in the hut? You're giving it, from this distance, I'd say you probably have to step out to try and...

Okay, so, the dragon can't see me if I step out, right? You don't think so. Just put your face barely through. So I want to put my face barely out, just so I can tell the spider to, in its own spider way, flip off the dragon, since it's still alive. Okay. A little leg just goes up and goes, meh!

Okay. And then I pop back in. The spider, which it was about to back away instinctually, its need to run from this massive creature, it resists it at your will, which it's been brought to bear at your beck and call. Sorry, buddy. Bears back, and its third right leg curls up under its abdomen and

sticks it straight up towards the dragon, which gets its breath back. The dragon goes, and releases an even angrier torrent of ice, blasting down. This blasts back into all of you. I'll say, just make a dexterity saving throw, the three of you.

Sorry, this is for the greater good. 14. 23. You said dex saving throw? Correct. 16. 16, okay. The proximity does seven points of cold damage to, what'd you roll, Cadence. 16. 16, okay. The proximity does seven points of cold damage to, what'd you roll, Kyn? Sorry.

16. 16, fail. 14. 14, fail. 23. 23, you succeed. So you take only three points of cold damage, seven to both of you. I'm resistant. So three to you as well. Evasion! Evasion. There you go. Evasion.

Roll one. Wait, I thought I'd take half damage if I fail. No, you take half damage if you fail. And I fail. Yeah, so you take three. You take them. You get three cold damage. You get three cold damage.

The spider takes... I mean, the spider's spot. The spider's gone. 68 points of damage reduced by half. That's a little bit of an overkill, but yeah, the spider is no boss. So after the torrent blasts downward, the mist subsides and you can see now there's this large block of ice

that has encased and entombed the spider. The dragon snarls its nostrils and then bites down, sinks its teeth into the block of ice and then scurries up into the cavern, lifting it up with it. The rope begins to zip along with it. What does it look like? The mithril's on the ground, what does it look like?

It looks like this chunk of ice is carrying the mithril with it and the rope with it. No! You can see now the slack go and start pulling you forward. Fjord, what are you doing? I'm holding onto that bitch! The rope going past us, I grab onto the rope, too.

And can I hold onto Fjord? Because I'm in the hut with him? Oh no, I'm not, no, I'm out of the hut. 50 feet away. Shit! Yeah, Fjord just darts away from you guys. We're seeing the rope slide past us, right? You are. So yeah, I grab onto the rope, too.

You're going to grab onto the rope? Yeah. Okay. I will also grab onto the rope! You might be able to just yank the rope down, like whatever it is. So can we keep that? Knock it loose, because it's at the bottom of whatever ice chunk it would be going up.

It's lifting up. Make a strength check. Yeah, okay. Are you helping? I will help as well. So you get advantage on a strength check. Yeah, okay. Are you helping? I will help. I will help as well. So you get advantage on this strength check. Okay. Can I help by throwing two of my shurikens and seeing if I can cut?

Well, you can't help pull a rope and throw. No, I'm not. Oh, I see. That's what I'm saying. See if I can throw them. Do you bless me? You're closer on me. Cut the rope. Sure, roll an attack. Don't cut the rope!

Don't cut the rope! Don't cut the rope! I don't need the rope! After the thing! After I'm throwing it! What? After the, so it's not connected to the dragon! No, no, no, no, no! I'm holding onto the rope.

Oh, no, no, the rope isn't connected to the dragon. The rope is frozen to the... The rope is frozen under the shield, which is connected to the ice trunk. If you cut the rope, we'll lose the mid-stroke. We'll say, well, you're invisible, right? Yes. They wouldn't even see you doing this.

Okay, it's fine. That was your first instinct. Just roll an attack with your shuriken. There's no way to communicate this, and the moment that happened, this was the first instinct. It's fine, it's fine. So my range, Dex? Correct. Hang on. It might be shitty. It might be shitty.

Hang on. 13. 13? Correct. Hang on. It might be shitty. It might be shitty. Hang on. 13. 13? Yes. Go ahead and roll damage. Oh boy. Shoot again. Do I, okay, what is it for the darts? 1d4 plus your dexterity modifier. Plus my dex modifier.

Okay, okay. Eight damage. Okay. The rope goes slack in your guy's hand. Would she have done it before I was yanking the rope? Would she have done that before I would have had a chance to pull? Roll your strength check. 19? 19. You yank.

The rope actually snaps with your strength. There is no way you're holding an ancient dragon pulling up into an ice cavern. No, I didn't think that would be able to yank the shield off. Unfortunately, no, because as it pulls up and you see, it froze the ice that was underneath to whatever is there.

So a lot of the chunks of people, including the ice, the ice is somehow captured up in the ice and is now being lifted up the cavern. We're going up. So as the rope goes slack, you guys all take a moment as you hear on the ice and is now being lifted up the cavern. We're going up. Okay. So as the rope goes slack, you guys all take a moment as you hear a couple other odd pieces falling.

It's all right, it's all right. As it was flying away, did we happen to see a glowing piece of mithril in the ice? Yeah, could you see if it was glowing? You would've been far away. You would've been too further away. I'll say both of you make a perception check. Not me.

24. 24, you did see a faint blue glow about a foot or so within the bottom of the ice crystal being dragged up to the top. So this is definitely a glass half full proposition. Are you? Yeah. Sure. Or we could just go get another piece. Definitely a glass half full proposition. Yeah, sure.

Or we could just go get another piece. No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. We're going up there. All right. We sneak up. This is now a theft. Now it's a stealth mission. That's right. Yeah, now it's recovery.

This couldn't have gone any better. It really could have, but that's okay. I can think of a number of scenarios where this would have gone way better. We need to wait for the dragon to eat the Ikes, right? Break up that block. Most people, when they eat, they get tired and they go to sleep afterwards.

Right, yes, could be a nap after. Tummy full of? I don't think we should take the whole group. I think it should be a couple sneakies. Go in, get the mithril, and ban Fjallt. I would say not, but she reeks of petrol. It's insane. I do not. I can be invisible. Can you turn me invisible?

The dragon will smell you at this point. I'm not sending you in alone. I can cast Pass Without a Trace on myself. I'm not sending you in alone. We need. I have Pass Without a Trace. I can go. Are you stealthy? I'm stealthy. I have Pass Without a Trace, I can go. Are you stealthy?

I'm stealthy. I'm stealthy. How much worse do you roll with your hammers? Just a little. Yeah. But I'm... This is what you do, rogue's going to rogue. Yeah, I'm still amazing at it.

First of all, stealth, I get advantage on every roll, so I'm actually totally fine. Yeah, for you, it counteracts the effect. It counteracts, so I'm fine with stealth. That's a given. So we should maybe get everybody a little closer to the den, so that when we do bamf out, we can bamf out.

We only need 60 seconds unencumbered. I can Dimension Door 500 feet. Yeah, no, yeah, exactly. We should be close to the dome and let them... You can turn into something that flies, right? Mm-hmm. So you could get out of there in a hurry as well. Mm-hmm. Flying dragon.

Dragons can also fly, yeah. Yeah, but you're super fast and awesome. You're a superhero. That thing's faster. That is true. I mean, you make your own decisions, Reani, but we should actually move quite quickly. You were told in a dream

that you needed to tangle with this dragon. I'll go with you to protect you. Thank you. But you've got to be stealthy. Okay. We should all start heading in that direction. No. I didn't say anything.

Go, go. Do whatever you're going to do, but do it direction. No, I didn't say anything. Go, go, do what you're going to do, but do it quickly. Yeah, we should move. Reani, what if you turn into a giant eagle or something, stealthily fly us up? You can drop me a nod up at the top. And I will be your getaway car. Well, I have Dimension Door.

Just kidding. So that's probably faster. That makes sense. But if something goes wrong. I'll save you. Yes. Okay. I can do that. Good.

Huh? Or you can go in and, you know, fight the dragon and distract it, since it is, you know is your call to action. And maybe you will land a killing blow on its secret weak spot and your god will be very proud of you. If that's what you want me to do, I can.

No, I don't want you to do it. Must go. You can hear the very faint sound of crunching echoing from further down the hall. It's going to start climbing. Oh, from the other end of the hall? No, from the direction of the dragon. The dragon's eating right hall. It's going to start climbing. Oh, from the other end of the hall? No, from the direction of the dragon.

It's the dragon's eating right now. It should probably move. No, we're not all going. It's only the three of you or the two of you. Chaos group? It's chaos group. Jesus Christ. Let's go.

Am I going? Yeah. Okay, all right. So what's going on? Who's going where? We're going to start climbing the ice. Wait, I can carry you. I-hmm. I don't like the move there. So what's going on? Who's going where? We're going to start climbing the ice. Wait, I can carry you. I can also. Okay. Yeah. I can make the dimension door.

It is smooth ice. There are grooves in it. You can see now from the dragon first dragging its way down in areas where its claws hit there. Without climbing gear, it's going to be difficult to climb straight up, just as a note. If I pass without a trace, I can't cast it as an eagle?

You can cast it and maintain concentration while in eagle form. Would that be a sneaky eagle? Yeah, I'd say that would be a quiet way of making sure there's the least amount of wind noise and landing gently. Kind of like one of those, the stealth jets, when I just hover up. Yeah. Yeah.

It's almost more of an owl-type maneuver. Okay. Actually, wait, I can be an owl. What? Are owls sneakier? Generally, from a knowledge of nature, the feathers of owls are designed to be stealthy predators, but I don't know about this side, do you have a giant owl at your disposal? I have a giant owl.

A giant owl, I would say, would probably be. Also night vision. Also night vision. Okay, so I would like to first cast Pass Without a Trace. Okay. Hold on, hold on, hold on. You have the ability to just get there, no sound. Yeah, I have Dimension Door. Then why don't you just do that?

You have to see where you are. Right, it could be useful. And if we're on your back as a giant owl, is that what we're doing? Either on my back or in the case. Okay, yeah. Can you carry three of us? Well, you're small, so yeah.

Okay. Sure. Mm-hmm, sure. Um, I'm going to spend a- Then you can be in charge of getting Beau back down, because I can only take one person. Okay. Back with me.

I'm going to put Freedom of Movement on you, too, then, before we just, uh. Okay. Just going to burn through a couple spells. And don't I have something special from Caleb? Oh, that's just on my initiative roll. Plus two initiative. Okay. Yeah. Yeah. All right.

All right, so who's going with the giant apple? All three of them are. Will you be able to move stealthily with three of us in tow? Pass without a trace. You'll pass without a trace, you can certainly try. Boy. Boy.

Okay. I mean, Nott's pretty small. I was going to say. Beau's pretty lightweight. You have some more armor on, but. Little bit. If Nott's hanging lightweight. You have some more armor on, but. A little bit. If not, it's hanging on to the scruff, very small, and then I'm carrying the two in the claws. It's balanced. It's better.

It's better, right? You want to give it a shot? I'm going to Blessing of the Trickster you as well, so you can roll with advantage. So you get advantage on your stealth checks. Okay. That is great. Wonderful. Is there any blessings you want to do right now?

It's only a 13. You cast Sober on Nott. Yeah, the giant eagle does get a plus four, or sorry, the giant owl gets plus four to its stealth checks, which is nice. That's still a plus four and advantage. Correct. At least for the next minute,

you get added d4 to any save for at least 60 seconds. I don't have a long-term. It's only within 30 feet, bless. Oh, actually, oh, I can do this really quickly, can't I? But I can't bless this. Nope, everything's a minute. I don't have anything that lasts longer than a minute. All right. I'm going to bless us as we go up. Okay.

All right. So. So the three of you, so we have currently, we'll say the, I'll use the giant eagle as an example. Three non-animals. With Nott, Jester, and Beau heading upward. Right? The rest of you are staying behind. Caleb is staying in the dome.

Caleb, you guys are staying at the bottom of the tunnel. Okay. Yep. It's just a nice little girls trip, you guys. It's fine. Making your way upward through the tunnel. I need you all to make, well, technically with this one,

I'd say you make a stealth check for all of you since they're on your back. So with advantage. With advantage, plus four to the roll. And plus 10 for Passive Essence. Okay, so that's 14 plus 10, so that's 24. Plus four to the roll. Plus four. Plus a d4.

A d4 to the roll. Oh shit, plus a d4, okay. That's another one, so that's 25. 25. Okay. Ugh. So. You come up towards the top,

reach the crest where the tunnel straightens out once more, and there you can see what was once the ice wall, but the center of it has been carved out and broken. The dragon, without an issue, burrowed through. It's seen as part of its affinity for the element around it. It pushed through without issue, but now you can see there's this opening

where within, you can actually see past the ice wall into the lair. Now the tunnel opens into a multi-tiered chamber of extreme cold. A weirdly heart-shaped chamber, kind of oblong and strange, entirely comprised of ice, while massive, jagged icicles jut from the ceiling

like a field of Democles' swords. You can see the topography shifts and changes. There is a center that looks to be almost like an ice lake or puddle of some kind, frozen over in front of you. And the weird topography reminds you of a frightful playground of jutting winter crystal. If anyone wants to make a perception check

as they step and glance through the space. Somebody help her with doing it. The heartbeat's sounding really great. It's really creeping out. Yeah. If anyone wants to make a perception check as they step and glance through the space. Heartbeat sound. It's really creeping me out. Yeah. 24 perception. All right. Where's my owl perception?

Ah, plus eight. Oh damn, owl. Yeah, the perceptive view. Oh, thank god. That's a nine. Okay. Well, you glance past. You can see in the far back chamber, the large, white-scaled form of the dragon, its wings folded in as it faces loosely away

and in the corner. It is one foot is up on this raised platform with what looks like stone steps leading up to it. The back half of it sitting towards the edge of that ice lake in the center. It is just chewing and biting through the cluster of ice. Does it seem like it noticed us at all? It doesn't seem to have noticed your presence.

You rolled higher than its passive perception. Oh, nice. 23, by the way. Oh! I'm getting sweaty. You also see within here, not through the light, but just through your dark vision, amongst elements of the ice that surrounds the chamber,

you can see textures that catch your eye. A faint shine of gold and silver, bits of the treasure hoard embedded in the ice walls around it. Who knows what things are ensnared and locked within the icy exterior of this lair. You do also notice these very faint blue-purple lights that are pulsing.

You see one in the far, far corner, not too far from where Gelidon is, and you see a faint glow coming from a little alcove that sits off to the side. Let me go ahead and show you the light. Oh no! You can see what you're dealing with. Oh, I'm so scared.

Are people known to get heart attacks at the table and pass out as I'm getting there? From the scene starters. I want to remind you guys that all combats are powered by Dwarven Forge. Check them out at dwarvenforge.com. They sent me this helmet. Holy fucking shit.

Fuck! Wow, that is such a fucking cool map. That is amazing. How did you make that? Oh! Oh no! No! That is the biggest thing I've ever seen!

What? Why are we doing this? Level nine! Because someone had a bad breakup. Yeah. So we have this. Okay, okay, okay, okay. Unnoticed here.

The faint glow seems to be coming from this end here. What? And right off here. Okay, that's where the purple glow is? Weird pulsing purple glow. Purple glow. Okay. We need you guys. This is...

What? To catch us when we fall? Okay. Oh no. Okay. So wait, purple glows, but what? But no sign of the blue? Of the mithril? You don't have a visual point on it, a bead. Does it look from the back that it's still eating?

It looks like it's. Okay, it's with the thing. Like, the distance it's at, you can just barely make out the shape of your dark vision. It's right on the cusp, and there's no light in this chamber. It is pitch black. We have to hide. We have to hide right now.

Yeah, you're going to have to go invisible, draw them out and go around. Yeah, Beau sees nothing. It is just blackness. I've got my goggles. Oh, you do have your goggles, never mind, sorry. I'm used to humans, sir. You're right. Let's go hide.

That's my bad. Hide, hide, hide. She's invisible. Wait, am I still flying or have I landed? Do the little wave. Okay. Oh wait, you're not invisible. You attacked with your shuriken.

You did. So you're not invisible anymore. Okay. But I can make you invisible. No. Who needs to be invisible? Well, thank you. That'd be great.

Oh wait, let's go over there and hide. Decisions while Yeagering. We're going to there and hide. Decisions while Yeagering. We're going to hide behind this. Decisions while Yeagering. It's a lot. It is. It's two or three. Are you going to drop your form or are you going to?

I feel like, are all of us going to go fucking in or is it just like, we just need to get somewhere to hide for now and then we can figure it out. Like you and me can go try to sneak in and I can Dimension Door us out. I can't Dimension Door four people out. We can Dimension Door us out. I can Dimension Door four people out. You can Dimension Door us in and out.

Yeah, I could. But we don't know where it is. It's where we're seeing it. We would see it glow, because it's pitch dark and you're seeing it. You know, it could have fallen off and down the tunnel in any place. If we peek our head in,

can we see a faint blue glow from within this cavern anywhere? From your perspective there? Make another perception check for me. I could be next to Jester if I can get over there without the dragon seeing. You guys have a minute? I'm letting you get up to there

with your same stealth. That's so weird. That's horrible. There's one. Oh! One, it was almost 19. There is no sign of the blue glow from this perspective, unfortunately.

I have a huge darkvision. I have 120 feet of darkvision. You have 120 feet of darkvision? Yeah, do I see anything? Do I see a faint blue glow anywhere? Not from this point. Actually, if you want to make a perception check, are you still Eagle form?

I'm still my Owl form. I'm sorry, Owl form. Then go ahead and roll perception from your Owls. They might have advantage on perception checks or something. They're Owls. 16. Keen hearing. Oh, keen hearing and sight.

Advantage. Oh, I have advantage! Yeah. That's better! What's 14 plus eight? keen hearing and sight. Advantage! Oh, I have advantage! Yeah. That's better! What's 14 plus eight? Nala has darkvision at 120 feet? 22. 22 plus my 120 feet darkvision. You see right in front of it, in the midst of this chaos there, there's a faint bit of the blue glow

of the imbued iceflex mithril covered in chunks of broken ice and crushed ice, all emanating. You can see bits and pieces of the spider. Unfortunately, as usually with some of these spells, the fey creatures are, upon death, reverted back to wherever you pulled them from. The spider is, or this isn't some fey creature,

this isn't, this is... No, it was a fey creature. That's right, because it's wooden beings. So yeah, so the ice is being No, it was a fake creature. That's right, because it's wooden beings. Yeah. So yeah, so the ice is being eaten, but there is no spider. Fuck you, dragon. And the dragon seems very unhappy with that circumstance. I'm sorry, Mr. Dragon.

Agitated and trying desperately to chew through the ice to find the meat of its meal, of which there is none. Why don't Rainy and I act as the distraction? We bolt out while you guys go. Grab it and then go. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Okay. So I nod with my owl head.

Actually, get down to the bottom. Make noise at the bottom of the tunnel. Okay. Well, you can flap here. Yeah, make a sound and then just dart down on the owl. So, I'll try some owls. I can't speak as an owl, can I? No.

So I want to just hold out my claw to summon, like, get in it. Get in it. We hide, we're going to hide. Super hide. Can you make bolters invisible? Can I make bolters invisible? I heard bolters. Bolters.

No. Just bolters. Bolters invisible. We're going to hide as much as we can over here. I can make oneultures invisible? I heard vultures. Both of us. No. Just vultures. Vultures invisible? We're going to hide as much as we can over here. I can make one of us invisible. I'm going to, can I Blessing of the Trickster myself? I'm not sure if I can. Nott can hide for a while. A willing creature other than yourself, nope.

Yeah. Can you make me invisible? Yeah. And then you have advantage on stun. I boop her on the nose and turn her invisible. And then I'm going to. So this is your second channel of divinity, if you have no more.

No, no, no, I didn't actually do Blessing of the Trickster, I didn't need to, because she already has a bit of time. Oh, got you. But before you do that, I'm going to Pass Without a Trace so that we have higher, and then you can make me invisible.

Okay, you cast Pass Without a Trace again. Did anybody give me that I can go however far I want, however fast I want? What was that, no? No, I only had three, and it's less far in how fast, it's just if you try and get caught. Grappled. Oh, sure. Doesn't make you faster.

Question. If I, as an owl, wanted to bolt, could I just bolt? No, it's an hour. Freedom of movement? I mean, if you. Like if I bolted out of the cavern and like through the tunnel. Yeah, you could do that.

Yeah, cool. So at your owl speed, yeah. At my owl speed? How fast is your owl speed? I feel, can an owl outspeed a dragon? I don't know. I feel like you should make noise in the tunnel. I need to find out.

How fast, what's your owl speed? Five feet, and I fly 60 feet. Okay. I fly 60 feet. So you could do 120 if you did your action. In a round. Yeah. So we're going to take off, and then I'll do the thing, once we get momentum going.

But I'm going to wait for you guys to get in place. Okay. For the record, I don't think you can outfly a dragon, but we're going to find out. I'm going to get a head start. You're going to get a head start. So to recap, I'm going to lift off the ground, you're going to make a noise,

and then I'm going to fucking go. Yeah, you just go, and I'll time it. Me and Nott are hiding, hiding, hiding. Okay. But we're super hiding. We'll go ahead and roll stealth checks with your additional hiding benefits. You guys are now moved behind in position. You're attempting to hunker down

and not be perceived by the sensities. So check. I just do a straight. Exactly. Oh, terrible. Advantage. No, no, no. No advantage, I'm drunk. So 18 plus Password of the Island, no, no. No advantage. I'm drunk. So 18 plus Password Island is 28. 29. 29, okay.

You guys are hiding in position. And what are you doing? And I'm invisible. And you're invisible. So I'm holding Beau, and gently, I gently pull out my bottle rockets. Yes! My firecrackers. The Hufferdook firecrackers. Okay. I pull out my bottle rockets. Yes!

My firecrackers. The Hufferdook firecrackers. Okay. And I hold up a match. I gently lift off the ground, and before anything happens, I just nuzzle Beau in hopes that we're not going to die. I nuzzle her back, and while I nuzzle her back, I think, fuck you, Professor Thaddeus.

I guess I have to buy owl flair. All right. All right. And I give a small nod. As we take flight, I light the firecracker, and I'm heading out of there. And I wait, wait. You guys, from down there, hear a series of explosions. Suddenly, from behind,

suddenly the dragon turns around, wings beat up, it jumps and leaps, spinning. Ah! Into the area, as you guys dart down, you hear it slam into the area. As you guys dart down, you hear it slam into the frozen wall behind you and dive after you. Its fly speed is 80 feet. Fuck! And it is gaining.

I'm going into the, I want to go into the hut, because the hut can protect me from everything, right? All right, so at double speed for your turn, that puts you at, sorry, 60 speed, so 120 feet. Right. So you get over the edge to the bottom of the tunnel and about 40 feet inward. So you're down close to where you guys were hiding before. Okay. The dragon comes through

from the whole distance there, trying to catch up with you. It gets down and lands on the bottom. Okay, right. As it slams down, it's a, yeah, because it drops. It doesn't even try and fly, it just falls. Hits there. Oh god. It's a, yeah, because it drops. It doesn't even try and fly, it just falls. It hits there. Oh god. It's going to go ahead and take a deep breath and

blow outward, 40 feet out from it on the ground. It will catch you in its breath. I need constitution saving throws from all three of you, please. All three? Sorry, no, I'm sorry, of you and just the two of you. Sorry, sorry, my bad. You're fine, you're fine.

Oh my god. Ah. Don't you have some bonus? Oh yeah, do I have a bonus? A Bless? I didn't Bless you, did you Bless? I Blessed, I Blessed us. You're Blessed, right? You cast Pass Without a Trace, though.

I did. Oh, but no. 11. Sorry. I'm going cast Paps out of trace, though. I did. Oh, no. 11. Sorry. I'm going to use my luck, and I'm going to roll again. Go for it. Because fuck that one. Uh. Oh, thank god. Oh, I'm an owl, though, right? Okay, so that's...

Good luck, this is really shitty so far. That is, and you said constitution? That's just a 13. Okay. That is 61 points of cold damage to each of you. Ah. I turn back into Reani. No, it's a dex save.

Oh fuck! You turn back into Reani. Yeah. Okay. But you're already at the bottom at that point. Right, so how much? 67? 61 points of cold damage, I think I said, right? 61. 61. So you take 67? 61 points of cold damage, I think I said, right? 61. 61.

So you take 61, and so any leftover damage goes to you and Reani for him. Okay, so 61 minus 19 is what? 61, 51, 41. You're at 40. It's 42. 42. 42. 42. So you take 42 points of cold damage.

I'm still up, I'm still up! Okay. Jesus Christ, I'm still up! Ah! As an owl? The minute the dragon passed us, I'm dimension-dooring me and Nott to the other side. Get it, get it, get it, get it. All right. Of the cavern.

You guys leap over to where it was. Is it, what do we see, is it an ice or is it? Can we see the Mithril? You can see the faint blue glow. You have to rummage through to get to it, but you can see it. You do we see, is it an ice or is it? Can we see the mithril? You can see the faint blue glow. You have to rummage through to get to it, but you can see it. You both reach out, grab it. It still has a bit of ice around it.

It freezes your fingers to the touch. It hurts and burns to grab. So you grab it and it burns the skin, but it's fine, it's fine, you can deal with this. So you take half damage of the frost on it, double ones. You take one point of cold damage as you grab the frozen iceflex mithril. Okay. I'm just going to

quickly look around. Make a perception check. Just four. Just four. I mean, easy to see. All of these are just piles of gold and silver and platinum. You can see chain mail glowing, you can see weapons. This is a dragon's horde that is half frozen

and half exposed, or covered in snow and slush. All around you, everywhere you look, in this moment of clarity. Can I take your action and grab something, and then we will bamf, but do it. Do I get a movement and action? I can't believe this comes. If you want to.

I will move, grab one thing and run back to her. Okay, okay. Grab the first shiny thing that's exposed. Okay. Whatever it may be. Okay. And run back to her. You reach and grab, you grab in a pile

and pull out what looks like a rainbow-colored stone. It has layers of color to it. Okay, let's not. And you look at it briefly and the colors shift slightly and you rush back. We could. Can I use another action? Yeah. I'm going to Dimension Door us again.

Oh, no, you use one action this turn to rummage through and find the mithril, so you can't do it this turn. Okay. We also Dimension Doored over here. Yeah, yeah, yeah, that's what I'm saying. Okay, so if you Dimension Doored with your action,

I'll say, technically, you're still rummaging through to get the mithril, you're just now pulling it out. As you ran over and got shiny thing, I got the mithril out. Right. Okay, okay. So now, your guys' turn. Goddamn. Hut, hut.

Hut, hut, hut. Can you book it? No, I'm going to Wild Shape into an Ice Spider Queen. Get to the hut! You're going to Wild Shape into an Ice Spider Queen? I'm going to Wild Shape into Ice Spider Queen.. Get to the hut! You're going to Wild Shape into an ice spider queen? I'm going to Wild Shape into an ice spider queen. All right, is it a bonus action for you because you're circled at the moon?

Yes, it's a bonus action for me. Yes, you do, a bonus action. You watch as Reani turns into a replica of the ice spider queen in front of you, and you are. How far away is the hut? From your 40 feet in, you guys put that about 145 feet back, right? Fuck us in the ass.

So you have about 100 feet to get to the, but you can double speed. 90 feet to get to the dome, so there's a 10-foot radius. Is that only 60 for me? Do I double it? Yeah, you're 60 feet. God, what the fuck?

I'm going to jump off the spider and run. Okay, so you run a distance of, your speed is 45? 90 feet. So 90 feet, double action. Okay. And so that's your, so yeah, you can make it just into the dome from here. Are you in the dome?

Yeah, you can throw out in the dome. All right, so I'm going to be just hanging by the door, seeing if I need to help anybody. We all go back down. Okay. I'm inside, but like, yeah. The three of us are in, yeah. All right, so you three are in there. You see Beauregard rush through

and just barely make it inside. Her hair and flesh is frostbitten and covered in snow and ice, just shaking with just absolute interior frozen cold. Reani? And you move at double speed is what, 60? 30-foot speed? 30-foot, yeah.

So yeah, so you're just running away. That gets you, you have another 30 feet before you make it into the dome. The dragon does have a turn, though, as soon as you're running. Does Caleb have a turn? Caleb has a turn. Don't fucking go out into the dome. The dragon does have a turn, though, as soon as you're running. Does Caleb have a turn? Caleb has a turn. Don't fucking go out of that dome.

Dallin can't cast anything out of the dome. You sit your ass in there. You're right, you're right. He leaves the dome, he loses the dome. Okay, okay, okay, okay, okay, okay. The dome is so important. All right. The dragon, at this point, after landing and breathing

the blast of snow, it's too thin for it. I mean, the space in here, it's about 25 feet wide. It can't fly through it, so it loses its fly speed. How close is the spider at this point? How close is she to the dome? She is roughly 30 feet out at this point. I'm just going to, as coming, I'm just going to try and pop a Bless on you, Caleb, and Beau.

Okay, she Blesses her all up and around. All right. It is now the dragon's turn. The dragon, we'll see if it gets its breath weapon back. Yep. Of course it does. Of course it does. I'm so sorry. Oh boy.

So it's going to get, I just rolled like five and then a five again for getting its breath weapon back. So go ahead and make another constitution saving throw for your ice spider. With a d4. With a d4, I'm going to use my other luck, because that was shitty.

Okay. With a d4, that's 10 plus, still only 11. With the damage resistance, though. Yeah, well, that's, yeah. Sorry. I fail it, 11. 64 points of cold damage. No, 32.

Because it is resistance, you take 32. I am still a spider! You're still up? I am still a spider! That's the way to do it. All right, now it's your guys' turn. So using your next action, you now have rummaged through a wall. I have the mithril.

You've pulled the mithril out, and you now have it in your hand and it's freezing your hand. You run over. Do you want to head back to Jester or do you want to try and make another pull from the treasure? Fucking get something else. I've got to waste a whole other action

just before I can even do my Dimension Door. You're not ready yet? All right, great. I'll go over to another pile and just grab something. Roll an investigation check for me. With disadvantage because you're drunk. That hit the side. With disadvantage? Because you're drunk. Oh, the side. With disadvantage? Because you're drunk. Oh, that's right, you're right.

God. That's okay. 18. 18, okay. You go ahead and reach in, out of the corner of your eye, you see a faint blue glow, and you reach in and grab, your fingers touch something, it has a weird moving metallic texture, and it's cold to the touch, and you pull it out

and drag it over, and as you reach over, you look in your hand, and there's a piece of chain mail that's dangling out of your hand. Just a piece of chain mail? Like a chain out of your hand. Just a piece of chain mail? Like a chain shirt. It's a chain shirt, okay, cool. Jester, we're alone in a dragon's lair. Think how much the Traveler would love a dick

in this place. Or at least a pamphlet, something. Okay, yeah. So it's both of your action this turn. You get to contemplate what you do next turn while the dragon is still distracted at the moment. For my bonus action? Yes. Can I at least pull out one of my little travel figurines that I made a bunch of with my pate?

Yeah. All right. Okay, allow that. Coming back. You're up, Reani. I use my actions to sprint into the hut and turn back into Reani. Wait, wait, wait, question. My move, how far away is it?

30 feet. 30 feet? Cool, so I want to use. 30 feet will get you just to the cusp of it. You'll have to action to try and move all the rest of the way back. Fuck it, I'll do it. I'm inside now, please. Okay. You don't even have to, yeah. Yeah. So, using your whole turn,

you rush in, skittering through the snow up on the side as you can wall walk on the ice to that issue, scooting right in as the spider would be too large to enter the actual interior of this dome and would push other people out just from pushing in. Right as she hits the barrier, Reani shifts back into her regular form.

Before I shift back, I would like to use a bonus action to expend one spell slot to regain some hit points. Okay, is it a bonus action to lose your form or do you drop it as a free action, that's my question. Ah, fuck, I think I drop it as a free action. Double check here. It's been a little while. Yeah, it's been a while. Ah, fuck. I think I drop it as a three action. Double check here. It's been a little while. Yeah, it's been a while.

Been a while. Been a while. Uh. She dropped it as a three. But it just says you can revert back to your normal form as a bonus action. So yeah, you will either. Never mind, all right, that's fine.

Yeah, the spider's too big to fit in there, so it's up to you. I'm in a hut with a cleric. Okay. So I'm back in. You come rushing in. That extra bit of movement as you push in and right as you're about to,

you guys see the spider just barreling towards you, you're like, this isn't going to work, this isn't going to work! And right as it impacts, reverts back into Reani, and you guys catch her with the momentum that she had rushing forward. She is as far more frozen in pain

than you expected given the spider form, but still surviving and standing. Oh my god. Just tears streaming down my face. All right, you guys? Come on, come on! What do we do? We go to the dimension door that's out of here!

What's that purple thing over there? Do you want to look at it while I set the Traveler thing down in the dimension door? You glance over, and you see, locked into the ice of the wall, there's some strange metallic contraption. You don't recognize its make. It looks weird and alien,

and that weird blue pulsing glow, it's just slowly lighting and then fading, and lighting and then fading. You've never seen something of this type of construction. It's mostly embedded in the wall, and it's huge. It's like 20 feet tall, five feet wide. You have no idea what it is. You can't get it out. I can get it out.

It'll be very loud. No, don't get it out, it's fine. What is that thing? I don't know. I'm going to sit the Traveler figure down exactly where it can see it. But that purple thing could be important. I don't know. Nott, our friends could be dying down there.

We have to go save them. You're right. I'm going to Dimension Doras. But I, ooh. Two. The opposite side of the dome. Okay. You guys appear, the dome right there, and in that brief moment of you like,

we made it, you watch as Gelidon leaps towards Step into the dome. The dome, and you guys step in right as you watch this large ancient white dragon scraping on and biting. Its jaws opening, grinding against the side. Slamming into the side as hard as it can. So what's happening?

You guys are all inside the dome. I want a circle! I want a circle! You can't! I'll jump! I can't hold my liquor! Inside, yeah. It's not concentration or anything. Oh my god. So it'll take a full minute.

All right, so Caleb begins drawing the circle across the ice. You're setting it down. You see the dragon's angrily roaring and slamming its claws, and on the opposite side, you can see a handful of yetis that apparently have come in since you last arrived. They're like, nope.

They just turn the other way. You watch it. About 20 seconds in, Gelidon's anger subsides. Megan's caged lion stalking around the inside of the circle. About 40 seconds in, goes, Where do you think you're going? Oh no.

50 seconds in. We didn't want to disturb you. For the record, we're really sorry, and I just throw seven platinum out the door. Tooth teeth? We're really sorry. Mark seven platinum off. Yep.

I know you're sent now. Five seconds. Mister, mister, do you, are you sure you can cast this inside this place? Unleashes a torrent, you watch the ice crackle up around and form this igloo dome over the outside.

Right as the circle is finished, you see it, all the same runes flare, familiar from before. You have six seconds. Get in! You all rush in. Get out! You all rush in. That brief moment as you feel the air pull out of your lungs and you all stumble forward, gravity-less, and then land onto the wooden,

warm floor interior of the vellum steeple in the middle of the garden. As you all push through, knocking over a table as one of the various archivists there loses all her papers. Like, everyone turns around and glances down at you guys, breathing heavily, covered in frost, sweating. And that's where we'll end tonight's episode.

Oh! So if you're cool to join us for a little bit next Thursday, Yeah! we'll finish out the rest of this little mini-story with you. Oh my god. I can't feel my toes. Oh, I'm dying! No. You did so good.

Thank you! You did so good. There were some clever moments in that. I'll give you that, man. That was so clutch. That was all right. The spider was so clutch. The spider saved my life!

Oh my god. The spider saved a lot. Dimension Door saved a lot. Invisible drunk ass goblin saved a lot. Dimension Door saved a lot. Invisible drunk ass goblin saved a lot. And Fjord sat there watching it all happen. Woo! Damn, guys. Oh my god. Ugh.

I need a drink. And don't feel good. Well, we'll get a drink after this. I think that's the plan. Oh man. I'm shaking. Yeah. Boof. I can feel it. He said he knows our scent now. Oh fuck. Yeah. I can feel it.

He said he knows our scent now. Oh fuck. Yeah, he did. We don't smell that. It's going to take him a while. You don't know if that was an idle threat or just getting into your mind or if there was something to it. Who knows? Dragons are weird.

I can just imagine everybody taking a nap somewhere and a dragon just shows up and goes, I found you! Those two weird machines, that was just a TiVo and a Netflix. I mean, he doesn't leave that cave. Yeah, he's like the hoardiest of hoarder dragons. I love how the other one was a TiVo. Oh yeah.

He's a dragon, he doesn't get out much. Yeah, he's old. He's about a decade behind the times. Netflix works? Does it have granchians? I was super excited for that. I had no idea how that was going to be done. There was a lot of possible pieces around here.

Like, I'm fucking, I'm all about that, man. That was awesome. Okay. Yeah, that worked. And thank you to Dwarven Forge. Because most of these pieces are from their Kickstarter last year, but they haven't shipped yet.

They were nice enough to send out a lot of these sample prototypes for use in this map, particularly. Yeah, a lot of them sample prototypes for use in this map securely. Oh, really? These are prototypes, right? Yeah, a lot of them are. So these sets will be available, I think, in a couple months. So thank you, Nate and the whole team

at Dwarven Forge for letting me play with this awesome ice set for this. I liked that. But yeah. Oh, there it was. Okay, well. Fuck. We'll pick this up next Thursday.

If I'm still alive by then. Yeah, if we all survive until then. Yeah, I know, I'm going to kill everybody. Until then, guys, thank you for joining us tonight, as always. We love you very much, and is it Thursday yet? Good night. Thank you so much for joining us on this adventure.

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