D&D is For Nerds - The Auticcus#2 Strong Opinions about Gnomes
Episode Date: January 9, 2016The AuticcusIn which our heroes deal with a very special guest on the airship. We prepare our own breakfast, fall off the side of the ship by lunch and kill some birds before dinner. Atticus thinks he... knows about arrowhawks, Nathaniel asks about snake oil and Ira decapitates a majestic beast. So join us as we get struck by lightning. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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Hey, welcome to episode two of D&D Sidequests. I'm Jackson Bailey, playing the part of Atticus
Bluebird.
I'm Joel Zammett, playing the part of Nathaniel Kraken.
I'm Leo James, playing the part of Ira Thornborough.
And as always, I'm Adam, your DM.
Previously...
So I'm playing Atticus Bluebird.
I've got an eyepatch, I've got a gold tooth, a peg leg, and I'm just very racist.
So I'm Nathaniel Kraken.
I am an orcish wizard.
I have a little viper called Betsy.
Yeah, the name's Ira Thornborough.
I'm a half-elf ranger.
I have a familiar who's a powerful owl named Patio.
You guys work for Captain Flim Bap-Bap.
There's another mercenary called Father Glenn Pollard.
His ship is somewhat unusual in the fact that it's an airship,
not a boat.
Oh, okay.
All right.
I don't trust no creature
smaller than a frog,
or frog-sized.
That's just a personal belief of mine,
and I'm sticking to it.
At some point,
I'm throwing a homunculus off the edge.
So a ram is just a ram.
It's a ram.
You bought a ram. It's like, Jackson, do you own a ram? Yeah. Do you know what a ram is just a ram. It's a ram. You bought a ram.
It's like, Jackson, do you own a ram?
Do you know what a ram is in our world?
It's a ram.
It's that.
How much control over it do I have?
None!
BatBat is there, like, standing on a crate.
Come on, come on, look at the amazing airship.
He seems to have completely forgotten
that he needs to shove off in five
minutes, maybe?
That's better.
I guess we'd better get going.
So, night
passes. Morning's coming.
Who would be... Well, obviously
Ira, you're awake in the morning.
Atticus and Nathaniel, this is like
maybe 8am-ish.
Would you guys be awake? I'd be waking up.
This is probably when I wake up.
I'll be awake.
Up for like half an hour maybe.
Oh, I've got to check my bird now.
I've got to let it with it.
I can see Nathaniel in his dressing gown.
Atticus, you're like still super sleepy,
so you're not really paying proper attention.
You're probably like just, you probably just looking over your hammock,
making sure there's no homunculi in the night that have accumulated.
Do they move? Do they move in the night?
Well, during the night, some of them will wake up, go out,
and some will come in and sleep.
Oh, gross.
Anyway, that's happening.
So, Atticus, you're not paying enough attention.
You don't notice.
Ira and Nathaniel, you both feel like you guys need to be heading straight south.
You both feel it when the ship starts moving, like, eastward.
Like, there's physical, like, you know, you feel the ship shifting.
You're going either off course or something's happening.
That's odd.
Let's investigate.
You can yell into the pipe happening. That's odd. Let's investigate. You can yell
into the pipe thing.
Although that would...
That's odd.
Just letting you know
that if you yell
like we're drifting eastward,
everyone's going to hear it.
Yeah, I know.
Maybe I'll be like,
well, that seems odd.
I'm getting paid.
I don't care.
Whatever.
I'm sure Babab knows
what it is.
Am I allowed in the brig
to speak to Babab?
Brig?
The brig is a jail.
Okay, brig. This ship? Brig, wrong word.
Or it had one, but not anymore.
Cockpit.
We are bridge.
I meant bridge, but I mean cockpit.
So am I allowed back in to just query?
Yeah, yeah.
You can even just lean through the door.
Hey, BatBap.
I can't help but notice that we're going off course a little bit.
I feel like we're going east.
BapBap doesn't immediately answer you, but he looks over his shoulder and says,
Come in here.
I like Josh's view.
Thank you.
I'm sorry about the button thing.
He moves past the captain's wheel and stands right in front of the window.
He's pressing his face up against the glass almost.
He says, Come right up here. Okay's pressing his face up against the glass almost. He says, come right up here.
Okay, I press my face against the glass also.
He points at something.
You have trouble seeing it
because he's pointing at something
at his eye level through the glass.
What does that look like to you?
He points at something.
I try to line my eye up against his finger.
What do your elf eyes see? What do your half elf eyes see? What do your elf eyes see?
So you see a lot of clouds.
In the distance, you see what looks like a bank of blue clouds shifting.
You've never seen this before.
It looks super odd.
Yeah, I can see blue clouds.
You say that?
Yeah, I've never seen that before.
clouds. You say that? Yeah, yeah.
I've never seen that before.
Bat-Bat puts his hands back on his
hips.
Belts?
Hips.
Do me a favor. Just make sure
we keep this heading. He has literally never
let anyone else hold the captain's
wheel. He just used for you to hold the captain's wheel.
Do it wrong.
Just make sure we keep this heading. All you need to do is, if it pulls one direction, Never let anyone else hold the captain's wheel. He gestures for you to hold the captain's wheel. Do it wrong. Do it wrong.
Just make sure we keep this heading.
All you need to do is, if it pulls one direction, don't let it.
Bat-Bat leaves the bridge.
All right, I hold that wheel.
That's a lot of responsibility.
Yeah, it depends on it. Hold on a minute.
He's like a homunculi crawling over the wheel.
No, I'm cool with those guys.
He's like a homunculi crawling over the wheel. No, I'm cool with those guys. You look like a bolt in his mouth.
I'm just super psyched.
I'm holding the wheel.
So excited.
Okay, cool.
Atticus and Nathaniel,
you're probably maybe getting breakfast.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
I'll be preparing a nice, delicious meal for us both.
I'll let him cook me breakfast, guys. I ain't nothing touched
by them homunculi. Damn right, we've made
you delicious. What have I made?
Roll. Let's see.
Bread and cheese.
Bread and cheese.
I'll cook an egg. With some egg.
Alright, then. If you cook an egg, you're cooking it on the
stove, the homunculi. Nope, nope, nope.
I'll have bread and cheese.
That's fine. I'd like to slide up.
Is there like a table for like the... It's like
a cafeteria I imagine. I'll slide up
wherever's free. Okay, cool.
Humbly eat my bread and cheese. The only other person
who's up right now is Millip. Yeah, I'll eat a hard-boiled egg.
Yeah, we'll have some hard-boiled eggs. The only other person who's up
is Millip Burfellow, the gnome.
He's sitting at one of the tables
eating a slightly smoking meal.
Or maybe he's smoking a pipe. Hard to tell.
I'd like to slide up against
Sidelop to him. Let's all have a little bit
of a breakfast with this.
You guys are having a nice chat. What's he eating?
Oh, what's he eating?
Once again, he's either eating
something through a tube or smoking a pipe.
And it's actually hard to tell.
I'm going to go ahead and assume
the homunculi didn't mean that for you
no no no
he nudges you a little bit with his arm
my own supply he says
he takes another puff or another sip
you Sharon are just talking
you want some?
I want to look over at Nathaniel like, what is this?
I just give you a nod.
All right, yeah, I can scoot in.
What have you got?
He passes the pipe or bottle over to you.
I inhale.
I inhale.
You immediately realize that you should have, like, it's a straw.
It's a drink, not inhaling.
Imagine trying to inhale smoothie.
That's what you just did.
Oh, you've poisoned me.
Actually, it doesn't hurt. Like, immediately you just cough a little bit.
It's, like, unpleasant, but nothing else.
I feel like I did that wrong.
You gotta...
Millup, like, chuckles a little bit.
You gotta drink it.
Drink it.
Sip, like a straw.
You don't know what a straw is.
Okay.
I wanna, like, try and drink it like a drink.
Like, somehow sip out of it.
That works as well.
It tastes fruity.
I'm incredibly suspicious of what I'm eating.
What's in this?
A couple different things.
Okay, vague.
He basically goes through a Willy Wonka-esque list
of different fruits and berries.
I'll have a bit of it.
Give me a little bit of that.
I hand it over to him.
I try and
do the straw.
Do I do it well?
Yeah, you get the straw down.
Oh, good.
It tastes like a bit fruity.
You imagine it's maybe
like, I don't know, if your character has ever had watermelon It tastes a bit fruity. You imagine it's maybe like...
I don't know.
If your character has ever had watermelon before,
maybe watermelon?
I haven't.
No.
Okay, well.
A little too intense for my taste.
I'll go back to the bread and cheese.
That's an honest man's meal.
Can I hear you through the tunnel?
Probably, yeah.
You don't need to make a listen check.
Oh, no, no, no.
The cafeteria, that main area like, area is, like,
it's an open doorway and then the bridge.
Are they, like, tasting this drink by the tannoy, though,
so I can hear them?
Yeah, quite a bit.
So I just speak through the tannoy, like,
guys, can you bring me some of this drink?
I like the sound of that.
Do you mind if our friend is, what are you doing?
I'm
steering the boat
why is he steering the boat? He shouldn't be doing that
he's banned from the bridge
I'm pretty sure he was
I'm going to go try and find BatBat to get
tell, you know, I'm going to snitch
you notice
BatBat came out earlier, like while you guys were having this little mealap Bap came out earlier.
While you guys were having this little meal, Bap Bap came out
of the bridge and went above
decks. So you go up above decks.
Yeah, I'm going to head above deck.
Bap Bap's standing where
Selina was, on the prow of the
ship. He's got that little...
No, he's got a little sextant.
I'm flying!
He's got a little sextant and he appears to be looking at something in the far distance.
Tap him on the shoulder.
He turns around.
You know that half-elf friend of ours is steering the ship, right?
Friend.
You know that half-elf friend of ours is steering the ship, right?
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
He gives like a wave of his hand.
What does that look like to you?
He points into the distance.
Do I see the blue clouds?
You do.
They're a bit closer now.
Blue clouds?
Hang on.
I don't know the kinds of clouds, but...
I think in the bridge, it's just like us two and Millip,
just you holding the thing.
We're all like drinking out of this thing.
He's chatting to us about what he's selling. It tastes like watermelon, guys.
I don't know what this is.
I know water. I don't know what
a mallard is. I don't know what water, do you grow it
in the sea? Sea melon.
Sea mallard, that just seems kind of odd.
Millip, do you know what it is?
Yeah, it's his drink.
Do you know what a watermelon is, Millip?
Millip?
Millip's distracted right now
Sorry, he's just sipping his drink
What was the question?
Millip, do you know what a watermelon is?
It's a type of fruit
Do you know what fruit is?
Probably, yeah
Anyway
So
The clouds actually look more like they're a swarm of something.
Oh.
It's hard to tell from this distance,
but you can distinctly make out tiny little figures zipping around in it.
Birds, I suppose.
Can a monkey like fly?
Yeah.
Oh, oh, oh.
I throw up involuntarily.
You're probably too busy
you want a sip of whatever there
so you're like
you're still holding the wheel
but you're not paying attention
a homunculi is holding the drink for me
I'm not
Millop takes out
another one of those pipe things
and lights it
you're pretty sure this time he's just smoking
a pipe
pretty sure
Millip just like run out of glasses
and was like I guess I'll drink my smoothie out of my pipe
today
what do you sell Millip
oh a little bit of this
a little bit of that what are you looking for
welcome to the vague ship enterprise
I got potions that'll make people fall in love.
I got snake oil if you want to trick someone into buying snake oil.
Got a lot of that.
Man, we just can't get rid of that for some reason.
Curiosity, how much you sell that snake oil for?
Snake oil?
A snake needs oil.
I've got a snake here.
Betsy, meet Billup.
Billup, Betsy. Two silver, a steak here. Betsy, meet Billup. Billup, Betsy.
Two silver, a flask.
Does that work for anybody?
What do you mean?
Well, I guess if you're convincing enough.
So I guess no.
What are you trying to do?
I'm insulting him to his face.
Oh, I see.
Oh, I see.
I'm just going to take insults well.
In that they don't understand that you are insulting them.
But a love potion.
Love potion?
What's in this love potion?
It's pure distilled love, I think.
I don't know.
How much is it?
That sounds suspicious.
That's a good question.
I think it's 50 gold.
50 gold.
I thought it was going to be cheap, so I just drink it straight away.
Sweet.
You'll drink it.
Damn right.
Let's see what happens now, bitches.
Nathaniel's on the war pod.
Two silver
done, I skull free. You attract
the monkey life.
Oh no, it backfired.
They swarm you and suffocate you.
Have you ever seen like flies, flies crawling out of silence?
You know when a cat sleeps in a baby's face and kills it?
That's a constant fear.
Making up with a dry, leathery mouth.
Ew.
So is it a literally actual love potion?
That's what he says.
That's too funny.
Wow.
I didn't know that was a thing in D&D.
Make a snake and eagle
Fall in love
I was gonna say
Are they best friends
Can they be
Are we working on that
We're working on it
Yeah okay
Betsy what do you think
I know you can't eat it
You know
You know how it is
I want it to be like
Adam from Farthing Wood
Oh sorry it's 150
I can't remember
I was being a weasel
150 gold 150 gold So it's 150. Oh, no, I'm just being a weasel. 150 gold.
150 gold.
So it's an actual love potion.
Yeah.
Permanent effects?
Sorry?
Permanent effects?
What does it do?
Sure.
Or is it just a fling potion?
Did he just pick these potions up from somewhere else?
We ask him about what is clearly potentially a date rape potion.
What is this?
Well, hang on right here.
He hops off the chair, goes back to his room, comes out with like...
Do you both...
Well, have you left the bridge?
No, no.
You're still on the bridge?
I'm still on the carpet.
You can't read over his shoulder, but fucking you, Nathaniel, you can.
When he takes out this scroll, the scroll is just
instructions for the potion.
The potion
basically has the effect of
charm person on someone, but for a lot
longer a duration. Like, rather than
hours, it's like days.
That doesn't seem ethical,
Willem.
Fight him. Fight him.
Fight him in the brood.
Who do you sell this to?
Where did you get this?
These are just trial ones.
We sell them in bulk.
That's not good.
I start explaining consent.
He nods politely.
I actually have some words with Atticus.
I now have very strong opinions of gnomes.
Rock and roll.
I'm not done through my inventory, he says.
Would you like gunpowder?
What does that do?
He goes into his room and comes out with another sheet of parchment.
Seems less rapey.
It's just the description of what gunpowder does.
It doesn't mention anything about guns, though.
It's just like, you know, firepowder.
It sounds like a party trick to you.
Yeah.
Apparently you can use it in, like, fireworks.
That's lovely, but I need to go now, Milup.
Hey, all right.
You enjoy your meal.
As you walk away, you hear him talking to himself like,
all right, Milup, that was a good attempt at a sale.
Good practice.
Nobes or rapists?
Gnomes don't know right from wrong.
I'm going to find Atticus to regale him with information about gnomes I have.
So is it visible what the dots are flying amongst the clouds?
You could stand there and wait.
In maybe another ten minutes you'll be able to see them properly.
I'm assuming some kind of birds there.
Some kind of big cloud birds.
No birds fly on this high.
How do you know?
You seen any birds fly on this high?
Doesn't mean there's none.
You ever seen a, you know, red dragon?
No.
They still exist.
Do they?
Well, I don't know, but I don't know.
Do they?
But I don't know.
They could be birds.
Do you know what they are?
I think I do.
Do you want to enlighten me?
I think they might be arrow hawks.
Do I know what arrow hawks are?
You've never heard of arrow hawks before?
A hawk you fire from a bow.
Yes.
I understand. I want, BapBap.
I want you to do something for me.
I want you to go downstairs,
tell the folks to get into their cabins
and not to come out for a little while.
Then I want you to grab Nathaniel, Ara,
and we'll probably need Tolod as well.
Grab the three of them, come back up here.
Wait, no.
Keep Ara on the thing, the wheel.
Yeah, that's probably not a bad idea.
Okay, we'll do Captain.
He nods.
I head down to the cafeteria where everybody is.
Attention!
There's a hawks
from Bo's Arrow Hawks.
So that's bad.
Everybody get in your cabins.
Hunker down.
Nath!
What was the other lad's name?
Hoggum?
What?
Oh, Glenn.
There's Lord Byron.
No, no, no.
Glenn.
Glenn Hoggath.
Father Glenn.
Tullard.
Oh, Father Glenn Tullard.
Sorry, I thought you were talking about the passengers.
No, no, no.
I sent everybody there.
Nath!
Tullard!
You're needed on deck.
There's some kind of arrow hawks coming.
How can my God appease you?
I don't have fucking time. How can our God help you the dawn of fucking time?
How can our god help?
Anyway, come on deck.
We're about to be besieged, all right?
If you're going to fuck around.
By the way, I've got...
Ira, you're good.
I've got some information about...
I guess we talked about noobs.
As you're leaving...
The god?
No, no, the noobs.
As you're leaving, Lady Sif looks at you super concerned and says,
is there any cause to be alarmed?
I don't think so.
I mean, any hawk that's small enough to be fired from a bow can't be too much trouble.
Lord Brian laughs.
The man's obviously right.
Any hawk fired from a bow is not going to be a hassle for us.
You know, the largest bow I've seen is about yea high,
which means the hawks are about the size of a chicken.
That's the largest bow I've ever seen then as well.
He laughs and gives you a little bit of a clap.
I think we're going to get me again.
I'm going to look back at him.
Right, so it shouldn't
be too much trouble, really.
Do you mind if my boy stands on the deck
and just watches?
Look, like I said, they're very small, about the size of a chicken,
so I can't say if it's going to, you know, it won't be too much danger.
Well, if it's not too much danger.
I can't imagine it would be.
He takes his boy and puts his boy on his shoulders.
Come on, lads.
And the glass is going to their room.
I'll take him onto the deck.
No, he's carrying the boy.
Oh, good.
Oh, he's coming up too.
Yeah, he's coming as well.
Looks like mostly it'll just be batting away birds.
Does any of us know what an arrow fork is?
No.
You all get up on deck.
I want to pull up my net
because I might catch some to use in my arrow.
Batbap
isn't paying much attention so he doesn't know
that the lord
and his son are on deck.
I don't want to get in such trouble.
I'm on the tannoy again, guys.
Would it be better to have a bow on deck?
I've got a bow, I think.
It's fine.
They're just tiny arrow hawks.
They're just tiny hawks.
It's going to be battening them away so they don't break the bow.
You're once again a bit closer to the clouds now.
You say that, Ira, and Captain Bat-Bat says,
no, that's a good point.
He turns around, immediately sees the Lord and his son.
The hell are you doing up here?
Well, they just wanted to, you know, see the birds come by.
It's going to be dangerous.
Oh, I can't imagine it would be, Bat-Bat.
They're not going to be that, you know, what?
Being swooned by a bird never hurt no one.
He walks up to you.
Like, he gets up to your waist.
But he looks you dead in the eyes and says,
take them downstairs, please.
And then he passes you.
Well, I don't know why he's so insistent,
your lordship, but...
Captain's wishes.
Look, you can leave the boy up here.
We'll look after him.
The boy nods and says,
Yeah, can I please, Dad, please?
Lord Byron nods...
Brian.
I keep saying Lord Byron.
Lord Byron.
Lord Brian nods and says,
Well, are you sure it's going to be safe?
Well, I mean,
I don't know what the captain's fretting about. You know, if things get hairy, we'll send him downstairs. Well, are you sure it's going to be safe? Well, I mean, I don't know what the captain's fretting about.
You know, if things get hairy, we'll send him downstairs.
Well, okay.
Bat-Bat switches with you, Ira, and he says, get up on deck.
They're going to need you.
Aye, aye, captain.
Okay, you head up above deck.
You pass Lord Brian on the way down.
Master Tom Wilton is still on deck.
How old is Master Tom Wilton?
He's maybe 12.
Oh, boss.
I thought he was going to be 8.
I'm imagining Lord Brian, like, I'm going to say Brian Bless.
Brian Bless.
Brian Bless.
Oh, man, imagine.
Okay, all three of you can see proper now.
The Arrowhawks are super close.
They're all about the size of, like, maybe a halfling,
so, like, a toddler's size.
Roughly a bit smaller than Master Tom.
Yeah.
I'm going to, once again, Jackson, if you would like to describe.
Oh, what the fuck?
So imagine, like, a pirate's X marks the spot.
But then give the X feathers, okay?
Right?
So make the ends of the X, the lines, wings.
And then out of the middle of the X
comes like an ostrich head, kind of?
No, more like a flamingo head looking at it now.
Right?
Poking out.
But it's got eyes...
Okay, so this is complicated to describe.
Its mouth...
It's like some sort of fucking Escher creature.
It is.
Its mouth is less like a mouth
and more like the two top parts of the beaks come together.
Does that make sense?
And it's got four eyes. So it's like the top half of a bird and then underneath that is, again, another top half of the beaks come together. Does that make sense? And it's got four eyes.
So it's like the top half of a bird,
and then underneath that is, again, another top half of the bird.
Gross.
And it has a long tail.
I'll pass that around.
People can maybe make it a bit clever.
Guys, imagine an X-wing.
There you go.
An X-wing with a jagged beak, two tongues.
Yeah, it's like one head.
Oh, sorry, that's a photo of my ex.
Sorry.
Jagged beak, two tongues.
That bitch, Stacey.
One head, but yeah, the top and the bottom
are both the tops of a bird's head.
And yeah, they have two tongues.
So someone got a bird head,
and then got a mirror underneath their head? Yes. they have two tongues. So someone got a bird head and then got a mirror underneath
their head? Yes!
Which is funny because it means
one eye is flying upside
down. Yeah.
They look very vicious.
Oh, Christ. Yeah, right?
It's a puzzler.
Someone's got two birds and smushed into
one bird. Why has he got a bottom wing?
Ladies and gentlemen, Arrow hawk, Google it.
That's magic, I'm assuming.
Nothing evolved.
That's an arrow?
What have I been looking at?
I was looking at assassin vine.
There's a massive swarm of them. About as big as a cloud.
At this distance now, you can finally...
It was obscured by the cloud, but you can notice it finally now.
There's a...
So you guys know what a griffon is, right?
Yeah.
Like eagle head, body of lion, giant wings?
Yep.
Fucking sick as shit.
Where are you? Everybody's favourite.
Everyone loves a Griff-on.
Griff-on.
Griff-on. Griff-off. Exactly.
There's one of those in the centre
of it and these arrowhawks
are just going to town
on it. Like, you can, there's
more blood than griffon
going on right now. Um, let's, I'm just
going to grab Master Tom. Tom? Tompkins. Tom. Master Tom. Let's just put you down. more blood than griffin going on right now let's i'm just gonna grab master top tommy topkins tom
master tom let's just put you down go find what are they doing to that griffin tearing it apart
they're just saying hello to him but let's just i'm just don't cuddle the boy
i want to like lean down put my hand on the child's shoulder, gesture out and be like, that's nature.
That's the real world.
What you're seeing right now is the true way of the land.
You're going to get coddled, boy, because you're a rich child.
I see it.
Remember this moment.
So, Nathaniel.
So young.
I like traumatizing young men.
Take him to the stairwell and go find your father.
As that's happening, I'm going to need you guys.
And then I'll stay on deck.
Oh, no, I don't want to.
But I want to, though.
Hi, Solos.
Oh, no.
Joel, you haven't done one yet.
Hi.
Oh, no, Adam's in ecstasy.
As you are ushering him down on the side
Like the sidewalk way
Bap Bap says over the tannoy
Hold on ladies and gentlemen
The airship gets a massive burst of speed
Heading towards that formation
You and the boy need Everyone needs to make balance checks But formation. You and the boy need, everyone needs to make
balance checks, but
for Nathaniel and the boy,
these balance checks are very important.
We're on stairs.
What if we just fall off?
What if I break my neck?
You can become a vapor.
Let the child
die. Become a vapor.
Adam's like thanking the god of mean DM.
The sudden burst of speed makes you slam into the side of the railing.
You're holding on to Tom with both of your hands in the gesturing back.
You flip over the side, taking him with with you and you start falling what you guys are in the
cloud bank that's how high you are shit get out of there you idiot as soon as you go off the railing
the first thing you notice before you even start falling is like as the fucking air just hits you proper now that you're out of the protective area of the ship.
Hang on.
And just on another note,
yeah, Atticus and Ira,
you both keep your footing.
But do.
Can we help?
Can we?
Oh, no, there's no helping at this point.
You don't even know he's gone over.
I'm a cast fly.
Yeah? Yeah. I think that's the only. I'm going to cast Fly. Yeah?
Okay.
I think that's the only thing I can do.
Drop the boy.
Drop the boy.
Drop the boy.
He's weighing you down.
I'm an orc.
I can live.
Oh, yeah.
That's true.
What level spell does Fly?
Three.
Oh, you are so lucky.
You cast.
You managed to keep your concentration.
What would have happened if it was a higher level?
In high stress situations, you need to make a concentration check.
Otherwise, you fail the spell, don't cast it, and you lose the spell.
How many castings of fly do you have?
Only two.
That would be funny.
Fly, fail, fly, fail.
I'm flying.
Now a more important thing.
Goodbye, guys.
I'm dead.
What do you have on you?
A ram.
No. Rod. What's you have on you? A ram. No.
A rod.
What's a metamagic rod?
Oh, I forgot to explain that.
So with that, three times a day,
you can cast any of your spells silently.
Oh, cool.
Neat.
You need to have the rod on you and in your hands.
So, okay.
So that's all the items on me is the metamagic potions of levitate, gaseous form stuff.
There you go.
Man, you pretty much had perfect spells for this particular situation.
Almost as if I helped you out there.
Who knew?
Not me.
Yeah, you and me.
If you're like making the child chug a potion of levitate and then just holding on to it.
As soon as this happens,
I'm just thinking, guys,
we need some kind of man-safe system.
We need to tie some ropes around our waist.
You don't want this to happen again.
What if it had been either of us, Ira?
We'd have been screwed.
We'd have been dead.
I would have been calling on my owl.
See if you can lift me.
Yeah, you're super lucky you have basically nothing on you.
You're able...
Because you can only fly when you're in your light encumbrance load.
And you're carrying the boy.
I'm sorry, Tom.
I'm so sorry.
No, no, no.
Drop your backpack, you cunt.
You said it was fine.
I wasn't dropping nothing.
Yeah, I know, but you were like, if you were to...
Well, if it was, I mean, quick thinking, I'd be like, what's heavy, the boy?
Highs or lows?
Lows.
Screaming?
Just a lot of screaming?
I put my hand over his back. It's got... I lose. Screaming? Just a lot of screaming? Click him off.
I put my hand over his back.
It's going to be okay. Suffocate him?
Shush him.
What an ironic death at this point.
It's going to be okay, Tob.
It's fine.
No, you need both hands to firmly hold him.
I'm holding him.
That's true.
Have a shush spell.
Okay.
So where do you want to fly and land?
I want to try and fly
you want to be really quick
because the ship is a lot faster than you
to broader horizons child
the quickest thing onto the ship so I can get him below deck
okay you can just get yourself back super quick
back onto the walkway
you get there and you're probably like a bit
like even in the six seconds
it took you to cast
the spell and fly towards the ship
the ship's like pulled really far
away and you started at one end
the front end of the walkway, you landed
on the back end of the walkway
if it had taken you any longer
you might have been using that
fly spell to descend super slowly
instead
I'm just loving the image of you hugging the child around your waist using that fly spell to descend super slowly instead.
I'm just loving the image of you hugging the child around your waist and flying off
to the sunset. And everybody on the deck of the ship
being like, where's he going?
So for the people on the deck,
Ira
and Atticus,
you both, it becomes
super quickly apparent that
bat bat means to ram the cloud.
Uh-oh.
Sick.
Rope around our waist.
Yeah, wise.
Yeah, there's like just hooks on the sides of the ship.
Cool, we'll tie rope around our waist and hook ourselves on because Nathaniel.
This ship was obviously once designed as a sea vessel
because there's like flotation devices
Is there any
Is there any way for me to set up a net now?
No not with the time you have
Okay never mind
I was like maybe I could catch one
Just train it
Throw it between us
Yeah
Can we do that?
That's quick
As we ram
We're tied to the side
Yeah
And we hold the net between us.
We'll hold it between us.
Okay, so I'm going to say...
I'm going to lose the net.
Nathaniel, are you going to make sure that Tom gets to his room?
Okay, you make sure he's...
Yeah, I'll be the responsible adult here.
You're escorting Tom to his room.
When the ship hits the cloud... Uh-oh oh it's like your your full orc body
crushes the boy uh there's like this massive jolt throughout the entire ship everyone feels it
and um fuck your names atticus and ira you just like break you've properly braced you uh
just roll with it did you have a net out yeah yeah extreme fishing yeah I'm sorry so I said I said
hi Griffin was like just below the prow of the ship bang slams into it the
Griffin rolls up on top of the ship slams into you. The griffon rolls up on top of the ship, slams
into you two, holding the net.
The griffon is too big for this net.
Oh, wow.
Hold, lad, hold!
All three of you, plus maybe half a dozen
arrowhawks,
slam onto the deck and are rolling
around on the deck. I'm going to go to initiative
because combat is beginning.
You nearly caught a griffon in a net.
She's sick.
Not even nearly. What the...
Shut up. Almost. It touched the net.
That's nearly. Oh, that's right. What's his name
is here as well.
Father. Father Ted.
Father Ted.
Father Ted.
I'm not even...
He's just there.
We're going to fight some... I'll fight these arrow hawks he's just there. We're gonna fight some...
I'll fight these arrow hawks.
Fight the griffins or the hawks?
The hawks are fighting the griffins.
So are we on team hawk or team griffin?
That's more dangerous to me.
Nathaniel!
That's not me, that's Sam.
You looked at me.
Nathaniel!
Your turn.
But I'm putting... where am I?
You're downstairs with Master Tom.
Okay, I'm going to like push him into the door or whatever.
Into the door.
Just smack him in there.
He's not physically harmed, so my parents don't really understand.
They just know that he's like bawling his eyes out.
Is he quite, yeah, quite pale.
But there was, look, there's hawks are everywhere.
Just like
he might lie to you and say we
fell off the boat. Don't listen
to that at all. Hawks swooped him.
He's a bit of a faint of a hawk.
Through the open
doorway to the walkway, one of the
arrow hawks is slammed into the
side of the doorway and tumbled
into the room.
It stands up.
What are you doing?
How does it stand? It didn't look like it had legs.
It also had a wing underneath its belly.
Well, it writes itself, I guess.
Okay, that's fine.
How does it land?
Adam, I'm scared and confused.
Like an X-Wing.
Here's little landing sticks.
There's a guy with lights They don't land
Well then it's flying in the room
It like slams around and then just like
It's flopping around on the floor riding itself
I have acid
Something called acid splash
Is that just like
Is that going to damage
Anyone else in the room
Is my question.
You are standing at the doorway to the fucking Wilton family.
It's slammed into the main room.
It's up the hole from you.
If you throw that ball of acid,
the only thing you're likely to hit other
than the arrow hawk
is like the
surrounding ship.
Alright, I'm gonna
use...
Which could probably
handle a blob of
acid.
I'm gonna use
magic missile.
Okie dokie then.
I hear the question
you've asked is
great.
That does
something different.
Okay.
I've got no area
of attack spells.
Really?
Are you finding
sphere that you?
No, I don't think so.
Oh, that's an AoE?
Yeah, that's an AoE.
Oh, sweet.
I'm going to kill a bunch of things.
Sort of AoE.
Actually, it's just not.
Not really at all.
It affects one target, but it lasts for rounds.
And then you can move it around.
Yeah, you can move it around.
Anyone who runs through it gets hurt.
Pardon me, Atticus.
Thank you.
I say in the commotion on deck.
Allergic to a griffin.
Griffin and elves.
Three bursts of magical energy leap from your hand.
One of them strides.
One of them is just this massive fuck-off-like one.
And the other two ones were a bit smaller the first one slams
into the arrow hawk and it fucking starts tumbling again across the floor the other two blast into it
uh you're like standing there like because you know you've been flying out in the air
you're old this fucking thing's landed in here just burst out. You're like firing magic at it.
It's the time.
And you're like, did I actually need the second two bolts for the first one?
Just kill it?
You're like, was that overkill?
Whatever.
Whatever.
I draw my knife.
What's happened?
It's dead?
Oh, it's buried.
It's rolling around on the ground in like bloody chunks.
Collect its feathers. Make a headdress.
Okay, above Dex.
Yes.
The griffon starts fucking thrashing about with you guys on top.
I don't know.
It was caught up in Samus Adventures.
It starts riding itself, and the arrow hawks are just swooping down at it.
You guys are both underneath it right now.
are just swooping down at it.
You guys are both underneath it right now.
It's like massive front and rear legs are like stomping around you.
This thing is like,
imagine a horse,
but with claws and heavier almost.
About the size of a horse,
but heavy.
It's got fucking weight to it.
They just continue their fucking fight.
You guys are being drenched in griffin blood
By the way
Atticus it's your turn
I'd like to draw my cutlass and just stab up
Into it's haunches
No it's underbelly
With a griffin
It's on me
I gotta get it off me
Are we killing everything
I don't give a fuck I don't want to die
Get gone
Foul beast
Are griffins like unicorns
Where they're like
You know
It's bad to kill one?
No I think it's good
I think it
It's like
They're like the middle ground
Like dragon's bad
A griffin's neutral
A unicorn's good
So like
Don't kill a unicorn
Kill a dragon
Maybe kill a griffin
Maybe Do what you like really kill a griffin Maybe
Do what you like really
With a griffin
You know
You're like a hot maybe
Yeah
Are we
Getting any special powers
From the griffin blurts
Yeah
You uh
Stab upwards
And you cut
Like your cutlass
Goes deep
Into the griffin
And then you like
Slide it across
You can feel it like
Raking across bone
And you just like Work it as well as you can.
Rock and roll.
Yeah!
It dies.
A simple man.
He's a ranger. Can he commune with animals?
That's what I was just...
Too late.
Oh, are they?
Yeah.
I think a griffin counts as a monster.
Anyone can communicate with a griffin.
It's intelligent.
Oh, straight up?
Like, he a dude?
I'm not sure if they actually just talk.
Is it male or female?
She a dude?
No, she a lady?
They're intelligent.
You just stabbed an intelligent...
I feel this is now...
Is this murder?
I feel this is now leading towards the unicorn scale of dragon and unicorn.
It's basically like someone who has a...
Who is...
Imagine someone with an IQ of 50.
Oh, okay.
That's what this is.
Not a very clever guy.
Yeah.
Oh, he's a dullard.
No, that's fine.
Mule kicked.
They can't speak, but they understand common.
That must be a living hell.
Tough more with among their own kind.
Plus, I guess, how are you?
Ira? Ira, sorry, your turn.
Yes, well, I suppose because we've engaged the griffon in combat,
I too am lying under the griffon, is that right?
Yes.
You could use your bow and arrow, but in your current position,
it would be super awkward and you probably wouldn't hit.
Okay, let's...
I'm trying to mime it right now, it's hard.
You have your longsword.
Yeah, I'll go with my longsword as well.
I would recommend.
Let's see how we do.
See, I'm waiting for Adam's reaction,
because usually when we do something bad,
like, say, kill a unicorn,
he kind of is like, ooh.
But I think it's good to kill a griffon.
I don't know if we're doing good or bad.
It's spooky.
Like I said, Griffin's the neutral animal,
so Adam's going to be neutral for it
Adam gave me a look like
What Jackson?
You are neutral
Okay
That could only be more perfect
If you followed that
How about that?
There we go
Ira, you stab upwards
Your sword blade However, it pierces the Griffin How about that? There we go. Ira, you stab upwards.
Your sword blade, however, it pierces the griffon, but in its side,
and you don't do nearly as much damage as Atticus.
Your blade is more of a glancing blow.
Hey, we're still taking it down.
Nathaniel, it's your turn.
Come on, Nathaniel. It's hectic here under the griffon.
Come join us. Someone below deck, yeah? turn? Come on Nathan, you're on this tactic here under the griffins. So I'm going to run
up the deck, someone
below deck, yeah?
Have a lie down.
If you want to hurry,
you're going to have
to make a climb check.
Yeah, okay.
Yep, cool.
That'll be your turn,
yeah?
That will be your
turn, yeah.
But you'll be on deck
at the end of this
turn.
Just watching us.
Knife in my teeth.
You're up on deck.
You see what's happening.
What do I see?
You see this...
Hang on.
Actually, quickly.
14.
106.
Okay.
So, Nathaniel, you see this massive griffon.
You know what a griffon looks like, right?
Yes.
So it's standing over the prone forms of Ira and Atticus.
Both of them are thrusting upwards,
so obviously they're not dead or anything like that.
Inadvertently, the griffon is either the subject
of the arrow hawk's aggression,
or it is protecting them from.
Probably not protecting them though
because both of them have swords lodged
in the griffin's underside
alright
if the griffin weren't there though
the arrow hawks are just bang bang bang
just fucking going at it
if the arrow hawks weren't there
they would be
just filled with arrow hawk arrow
that was not a sentence but I understood what you meant filled with arrow, hawk, arrow.
That was not a sentence, but I understood what you meant.
Filled with arrow, hawk, arrow.
Sentence now.
Sure, if the arrowhead wasn't there,
they'd be filled with arrow, hawk, arrow.
Got it?
Yep.
Good.
Okay, sure.
Why not?
Let's go.
What does it happen now?
What do you do?
Nothing.
No, you came up and backed up. I came up up and bought it and went, oh, this is...
Oh, shit!
I might go back down.
This is a bit much for me.
Wiltons, I'm going to stand here with you.
A bunch of the arrowhawks, like, slam into the griffin,
and they just start tearing into that fucker.
They've, like, got, got you know those fucking beaks
like both way around beaks
you know what I mean? Eyes on all sides.
They start tearing into that
you guys are just being like, you're pretty sure
an artery, several arteries
have been severed. The griffin is bleeding
very heavily
and it almost feels like you're underneath
a waterfall of just hot blood coming
down. Oh god.
See some of that slime inside the griffin.
The griffin, like, spins around in a rapid circle,
and of the maybe 20 arrowhawks here,
the griffin, like, slays 10 of them in one go round.
Are we still attached to the griffin when he spins around?
It's like...
Are we getting dragged along?
Not really, no.
Your sword probably slides out.
Maybe if you don't attack him, he might not think it was you.
Atticus.
No, no, I'm not that clever, Zan.
I know.
Yeah, because you stabbed it.
No, am I still stabbed into the griffon?
You can go again if you want.
Can I, like, stab into it and then heave up and try and push it over?
So, like, I'm underneath.
I'll mime it for you.
I'm underneath.
Yeah.
I go, whoa!
And, like, stand.
Like, push it off me.
That was such an exasperated yeah.
You know what I mean?
Like, here, I'll do it with my hands.
I'm underneath over here.
I know what you mean.
I'm like, whoa!
I know what you mean.
I'm thinking of logistics.
I'm going to tip a griffin over.
Throw it over the edge.
You're only size medium, remember?
Yeah, but I'm super strong.
Okay, sure.
I'm the strongest lad in the land.
You are.
Strongest and handsomest.
Strongest and handsomest man.
Even though I've got an eye patch,
gold tooth, peg leg.
Eye patch, gold tooth, pedicling.
Oh my God, yes.
Adam Cannavale's exasperated
That means that I do the thing that I want to do
Okay stab deep with your
Scimitar your cutlass
And with your other hand you grab
Like the side of the griffin
You push
With all of your might
And you roll the griffin onto
Its side and you are standing
Over it now.
Hey, do I have...
I don't have action change, that's not a thing.
Dang.
Ira, it is your turn.
Okay, so what are the arrowhawks doing now?
They're still swooping around.
They don't look very friendly to you, though.
Okay, are they going for us now?
They're like...
Well, they haven't started yet.
They don't look friendly towards you,, they haven't started yet. They don't look friendly
towards you, but they haven't outright
attacked you yet.
If we are going
all the way of killing this griffon,
now that
Jackson's flipped it on its side,
I will take my long sword
and leap on top of it,
stabbing in.
You actually want to leap on top of it?
Let's give it a go.
Yeah, go nuts.
Fuck the police.
We started underneath, now we're on top.
We're on top.
Started on the bottom, now we're here.
Exactly.
It's a thematic circle.
Yeah, hero circle.
Journey of life.
Circle of life.
The Lion King 2.
Nature.
Yeah!
Super good.
Oh my goodness.
Adam's making like
these faces
good faces for us
maybe
maybe
no because he's not
joyed so we're not
dying
yeah it's true
Adam's not happy
so we're not
it's dead
a look of disbelief
the idea that Adam
was trying to kill
it's a look of
betrayal at his dice
exactly I guess because the with the idea that Adam was trying to kill us. It's a look of betrayal at his dice.
I guess because the griffon is on its
side and somewhat
incapacitated and busy
you are able to leap onto the
griffon and stab
downwards with your
fucking longsword.
Yes.
You stab
into the griffon's neck,
slide across,
you behead the griffon.
Yes, four moves.
The griffon's body is propped up enough
on its side that its head makes an
audible squelching sound as it
separates completely.
It is not a clean separation, though,
and gore and grizzle are everywhere.
Take a speak. There's long stretches
of fucking skin still holding it back.
You could have mounted that.
Put it on a wall.
I did that. That was me.
Nathaniel.
Okay, then.
I'm going to lob some acid splashes at some arrow hawks.
You throw a glob of acid.
The group of arrow hawks part almost perfectly.
And the glob of acid flies clear past them. I see how this goes.
I was going to say, does it hit the deck?
No, you haven't ruined your day.
You've ruined some random person below you.
Lent on the same child.
Jakes and spats on.
A little elf child.
Mama, the sky is beautiful today.
Oh, no.
Heard of acid rain?
This is quite literal.
Well, even acid, when people say acid rain, they do mean acid rain.
Yeah.
But this is acid rain. they do mean acid rain. Yeah. But this is acid rain.
This is equally acid rain.
Little Master Tom sitting, looking outside the window.
Just a splosh of acid in his face.
Through the brain.
I think that's how it goes.
Hey, is it the mandrill's turn?
I mean, the Skyhawks?
That's a band.
No, Skyhooks is a band.
Skyhooks is a something.
I'm sure it's something.
Was Skyhookks a video game?
Was it like a CD?
Two of the Arrowhawks.
Well, actually, wait.
Hang on.
Highs or lows?
Any one.
First one.
Low.
Low?
A lot of you fucking don't.
One of the Arrowhawks flies over the side of the ship
and you lose sight of it.
That's good.
Two arrow hawks open, like, their massive fucking weird moors
at you, Nathaniel,
and then bolts of electricity launch from their mouths
and strike at you.
What?
What the fuck is this bullshit?
God damn it. I will have none of this. strike at you. What? What is this bullshit? God
damn it.
I will have none of this, thank you very much.
I enlarge in them.
Would they get confused? You dodge
to your left and one of the bolts of
electricity blasts against
the deck of the ship
and you dodge that one. But the other one
strikes you dead on in the chest.
Oh man.
Get fried.
Five damage.
Alchihuahua.
Alchihuahua, heart-shaking mama.
Oh, that is not good for me.
Then of the seven remaining ones. Oh, wow, okay.
Dang.
Can I get an odds or evens, Jackson?
Evens.
Evens, evens.
Evens.
Okay, cool.
Three of them swoop you, Atticus, and four swoop at you, Ivan.
Sweet.
That's all right.
We got this.
Yeah, we got this.
Just yell along.
Make yourself seem bigger.
Cast a spell on us.
In Ludge.
How are we doing?
Well, my bad, actually.
One of them, Atticus, one of them swoops down,
and you, like, lift your shield.
Bang! Just slam it out of the way.
Another one comes in under the shield,
slams into your chest, and rakes you with its beak.
And then, as you're doubling over from that one,
you lower your shield and expose your head,
and one comes in at your fucking face.
Ah!
God, they are birds.
You take five damage from the one that slams into your chest.
Oh, no.
Oh, no!
It's a crit hat for the bird man.
It's a crit sad for old Atticus over here.
Old Atticus Bluebird.
That's my name. Don't worry about it.
Adam, you're silenced.
And I've got four of these to look forward to.
And no shield.
I'm like reflex.
What's this, Adam?
Okay, so
I can choose piercing or slashing
here because it's got different types.
So I want you to choose for me if you took piercing or slashing here, because it's got different types. So I want you to choose for me.
If you took piercing or slashing damage,
knowing that one of them is going to lose you a body part.
What do you want?
Yeah, I kind of want to lose a body part.
I think you want to lose a body part.
What is it going to be?
Slashing or piercing?
Slashing or piercing?
Which one do you think?
Piercing just throws.
Probably slashing might take an arm, I reckon.
All right, let's say slashing.
Slashing, severed hand.
The hook!
That's so cool.
Normal damage and target loses a hand
and takes a D3 constitution and strength drain.
Fortitude negates.
That's amazing.
That's so cool.
I'm going to get a hook.
I know.
So it slams into your face, or at least you thought it did.
Its main body slams into your face,
but the side of it clips your arm and snips your, we'll say...
Dominant.
Whatever your dominant hand was going.
Left hand, which I'll say has your shield.
You take five points of damage.
I wonder if we can, like can weld a shield onto that.
There's a way.
There's a whiz, there's a way, as they say.
And you lose
two points of constitution.
Is that permanently?
Drain. It won't
come back naturally, but
like a cleric.
Hey, we've got a cleric.
Hey, we've got a cleric.
You guys know he's bullshit.
He's legit, guys.
He's the best cleric in the land.
He's the worst cleric in the land.
Okay, so that will lower your maximum hit points, BTW.
God damn.
But that makes sense.
There's less of my body now.
I get it.
Your total hit points go down by five.
Dang, son.
I had a rough day just now.
Also, how many points did I say you took?
You said I took five and then another five.
And two con.
So you're on 40 hit points total.
Wow.
That's pretty good.
That's fine.
Thank you, shit.
Fuck. I'll lose a hand. And That's fine. Thank you, shit. Fuck.
I'll lose a hand.
And then four of them swoop you up.
Are you ready for the pain?
Blood's spurting out.
What if I can just slam my stump into the bird?
Adam's exclaimed, good or bad,
what's going on? Imagine if they all
got critical haps. I said that and Adam's eyelids went off good or bad, what's going on? Imagine if they all got critical haps.
I said that and Adam's eyelids went off.
Oh my goodness.
Are you just dead?
Are you like blind, no hands?
A similar thing happens where one of them swoops you
and with your arm you just reach out and bat it out of the fucking way.
But you open your chest, three of them, like fucking missiles, strike you.
Oh, fuck.
From two of them, you take a total of nine points of damage.
Jesus.
Oh, I did the wrong one.
Sorry.
Maybe you don't take nine points of damage.
I did the wrong one.
Oh, sorry.
Jack, you lose a leg.
No.
Your torso, gone.
The other leg.
Two peg legs.
I had a cliff everywhere.
I'm trying to imagine somebody without a torso
and their legs just extending into their hands.
Just sinew.
Yeah, like, whoa.
Atticus, sorry, you're on 55.
Oh, yeah, I thought I was doing, yeah.
Out of 60.
I thought so.
I thought so.
You take, Ira, you take nine points of damage from two of them.
Jeez Louise.
And then from one of them.
Oh, boy.
Oh, no.
Okay, so.
Piercing or slashing?
Know that you will lose a body part.
Piercing or slashing I don't usually give people
this option but I'm no for piercing punctured lung double damage and target begins to drown three rounds later.
Oh my gosh.
Hey, and guess what we don't have?
Clary.
But, will a health potion sort that shit out?
No.
How do we sort that shit out?
You need a restoration potion.
Oh.
Have you got one?
Because I don't.
No.
Cure light wounds.
You like started
flipping through your thing
and I could have
just immediately been like
because I bought
those potions for you.
No.
I wanted you to keep
the hope for just a moment.
You see my face.
How do you stop him drowning?
He every round
he'll make a fortitude save.
Okay.
So he just writes himself.
That's fine.
That's fine.
Don't even.
Stress.
Jesus Christ.
14 points of damage from that last one.
As it literally embeds itself in your chest.
Get my...
Oh, Dak.
Yeah.
Let's...
How much damage did you take?
Nine from the other ones.
So a total of 23 damage
Nearly half your hit points
You don't have any restoration good times do you?
Samad over there
Enlarge him
Then the poison will have more body to go through
Okay Atticus
Oh you drop your shield
Your armor class goes down by two.
I'd like to yell,
Get below deck!
to Ira over here.
And then I'd like to use my...
What's it called?
It was one of my feats.
My power attack?
Yeah.
This one that makes damage more,
but I'm less likely to hit.
More damage, less likely to hit.
And I want to try and stab the one that took my hand.
It's just flying off of your hand in its mouth.
Well done.
Okay.
Thrust forward.
How many...
You can do up to five points.
I should have said,
you can do up to five points.
You should have... So I do up to five points extra? Yeah, you can do up to five points. I should have said, you can do up to five points. So I do up to five points extra?
Yeah, you can do up to five points extra.
Okay, but if I do five...
So it's plus five damage, negative five to hit.
Oh, yeah, yeah.
Up to.
I would have gone all the way.
All the way every day.
That's me.
Take my hand, will you?
I'll take your life!
I'll take one of your four...
You can't use your sword double-handed now either.
No, I'm going to be like...
You thrust forward, skewering one of the arrow hawks.
It dies on your sword.
Spasms once and dies.
I'm just going to start skewering them.
Hey, I have cleave.
You can keep going.
Yes! You keep with the power attack
You hit another one
Can I just skewer it again
Yes
Do you want to
Well you could have killed another one
But okay you only killed one
No no no I wanna like
Skewer the others I just wanna get like a shish kebab
Of them on my sword
You skewer, you kill two
Two are spasming, dying
in death throes on your sword
Go for another
I thought you were like, I want to hit this one again
No, can I go for another?
No, cleave only once
Hey, still good
Okay, Ira, first round.
You feel woozy.
What are you doing?
To be fair, just letting you know,
you don't know that you're going to start drowning.
Try to keep yourself separated from your character.
Can I attack?
Yeah.
You might want to pull out your bow and arrow
because you're slightly better at that.
Yeah, I think I'm going to give a rapid shot to go.
Okay, cool.
So you've got to pick now.
Do you want to hit the same one twice or two different ones?
So you can do quite a bit of damage with one arrow,
but you're not sure if that's enough to kill one.
Yeah, I'll have two shots at the same.
Two shots at the same?
Cool.
Take him out of the sky.
You hit the same one twice Two shots at the same line. Cool. Take him out of the sky. You hit the same one twice.
That's my arrow noises.
Okay, so your first arrow, like, sends it spinning,
and it, like, starts flying really erratically.
Your second one strikes it, and it stops flapping its wings.
It just, like, sails over the side.
Sweet.
Some elven child, like, looking up in the air. Mama, I just got acid over the side. Sweet. Some elven child
is like looking up in the air.
Mama,
I just got acid in the face.
Spit, acid,
What is that?
Is that an angel
come down the sail?
Oh, no.
Shut up.
My eyeball has been pierced.
I'm going to need
to lodge in person.
Is that a man's hand,
mummy?
Okay,
so you rush over to Atticus.
You put a hand on his back.
I'm going to make you huge.
All right!
It's like the thing I grab his shoulder and scream in your face.
Not like angrily, just... Showing him my stump hand.
Is my viper...
Can it do poison bite?
Yeah, its attack does have a poison bite yeah it does it has
it's attack does have
a poison element to it
do you want it
though to get caught
on a bird
that flies away
go and attack one
for real
for real
it can't
they're flying
it's a snake
you can
you can throw it
you can pounce
you can curl
um
strong
oh never mind
you useless
let me have a look
at your sheet.
Just throw it, Zoma.
I guess if you...
No, you can't throw it because he used his spell.
No, I mean, he could throw it physically with his arm.
You wouldn't be aiming anywhere.
It'd just fly through the air.
Just throw it up.
A bird comes in, takes it, and fuck off.
Ah!
No, it's...
Shit.
Like,'s just period
can't leap
ah
it can't coil up
like a spring
boing boing
no it can't leap
that's sad
so
if it's
if it isn't on the ground
it can't really attack
alright Betsy
you just keep being a brat
it does that
good
okay
ah
you can swore yeah that's pretty much it
that's your turn
okay
cool
I'll be big next turn
and I'll be able to grab them out of the sky
yes
can I get a highs or lows first person
highs
good job
yay
okay
three of them just scarper
they're just gone
sick
you're welcome
I just
highs
highs of the three that are left two of them are ones that Scarper. They're just gone. Ah, sick. You're welcome. I just shout, hi!
Hi!
Of the three that are left, two of them are ones that, like, blasted
you with bolts of electricity.
They swoop down
and try to attack you, Nathaniel.
The final one, like, flies super
high, opens its maw at
I'm thinking of a number between one and ten.
Six.
Five. Five. 5.
5.
Attacks you, Atticus.
I hold my stump to the heavens.
It blasts electricity at you.
The electricity strikes you dead on in your shield.
Conducts, not your shield, sorry, your breastplate.
Oh, rats.
The electricity
courses through
your armor.
It's like
your stone
cauterizes it.
Yes.
You take four
points of damage.
That's fine.
I'll fucking shrug
off four points of
damage.
Don't give a shit.
Yeah, try 14.
Tell me how you do.
Then the other
two, yeah,
swoop Nathaniel
Oh no
Swoop Nate
Nate get eight
Get away from me bird
Both of them hit you
Dammit you birds
These fucking birds
Have actually
Wow both of them got max damage
Okay so the first one
Slams into you
Ow
Spins you around
It's like
Like in a cartoon or something like that
You spin around
You're like
What was that
And then the
second one slams into you right after
that you son of a bitch you take um 14
points of damage yes I want to hit the
point what the fuck what the fuck looks
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