Dice Shame - 75 | 'On Thin Ice'

Episode Date: March 18, 2021

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Get in that, buddy! Krala, let's get the hell out of here. I don't really have time to think too much. Take that, Beastie! Ha ha! All right, I'm gonna kill the motherfucker. Oh, that's a good idea, Doreen. You should hit it. Doran's got a panicked face.

Jack! Doren! What should we do? Jack has a very keen mind. I'm not a smart dwarf. There's something beneath the ice. Ready yourselves. Starts as kind of a loud, yawning noise and turns into a scream. Welcome back to Dice Shame, episode 75 on thin ice.

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Get ready for a long intro. I'm in a worrisome place, guys, because I'm in a place where I really like my two sets of dye. Oh, oh. I need to replace one. That's dangerous. I love these two sets. We've done it.

I just rolled a natural 20, so I need to keep these sets. Sounds like you just wasted a natural 20 is what I heard. I'm sorry, Rob. I'm sorry, Jeff. Jeff, Jeff, fuck that's hilarious. Did you guys

re-listened to the start of this most recent episode? It's very good. I laughed so hard. Me too. Especially,

what's that thing called when you have music in the background? Everybody's like, a montage. The fact, yeah, that was great. I was like,

oh my God. You know what? Our intro should just be us talking about how good our other intros are. Have you heard other episodes? They fucking rock.

If you have it, if this is your first one, go back and listen to another one. I don't know. You want a recipe for popcorn? Go check it. People really liked that. Of course,

intro. I mean, I don't really have a proper indoor. Here I go. Do you guys remember that show Fear Factor? Yes. The one with Joe Rogan. I mean, I know it existed. I've never seen an episode of it. Is it Joe Rogan? Yeah. And people ate like weird stuff and did weird stuff. That's the whole thing. I used to love that on Survivor when they had to eat the bugs. And I was remembering how a fear factor that was like a whole component of the show is like climb up really high and don't die. Get, I, I I don't know, entombed in concrete or some shit. And then eat this beat. Entombed in concrete.

I don't know, dude. Die. Step one. I think you're thinking of saw. Step two. Fucking die. Are you free of dying? Just do it.

Try it. And then eat this alligator. Saw off your own arm. He won $20,000. Now let's chip them out. I don't know. I just always thought it was kind of fun. No, it is.

That's a fun show. You like all that stuff. I do. I like the extreme stuff. I can't deal with that gross out kind of humor stuff. It's no good. You know what? I was really into that as well.

I'm not going to lie. That was a good reality game TV shows. I really enjoyed it. I'm too empathetic or something. I just get too grossed out. I put myself right in, like, watching somebody else do something like that. I'm right there. And I'm like, no, I can't. I don't want to eat a bug right now. I'm just not. It's no good for me. I'm going to side with Justin because he and I haven't spoken yet. And I'm thinking maybe we're on the same page because I'm kind of indifferent. Oh, you're in? Yeah. No, no, no. I'm like, I definitely haven't said anything. I don't know, I watched the show sometimes. I was like, oh, that's a thing. And that was the thing. Yeah, you and I are on the same page.

Because I'm very like, eh, like, don't get me wrong. When it comes to those reality shows, because Joe tends to like them, I can absolutely get whipped up into a frenzy. I'm not like sitting in front of the TV watching. The Bachelor in Paradise. Right. Not that there's anything wrong with those shows. No, no, no.

I know that Joe really likes the reality. Survivor slash Fear Factor type show. And to my knowledge, that's the only two that exist in that circle. Joe Fallick or Joe Rogan? Joe definitely likes it.

But if we are to talk about reality shows that you are into Harlan cooking reality shows. Oh, absolutely. You were into that. To a degree. I like cooking, but there is a spectrum

where the reality aspect takes over that I become extremely disinterested in. And to use an example that I've been watching, the Great British Bake Off, I enjoyed, we watched a few seasons We watched the first two seasons, three seasons

And then... Is that what it's called though? The Great British Baking... Isn't it called The Baking Show? I think it's actually just the Great British Baking Show. That's the Great British Bake-Off. Everyone calls it Bake-off, but it's not called Bake-off. Regardless, there's an element where the reality TV takes too much

and I get disinterested. And that's kind of happened. I think we got four seasons in and there are only like eight episodes each. And I was like, okay, I'm kind of good to take a break from this because it becomes too much, especially the American shows, man. Oh, yeah. Is she going to be able to take the flan out in time?

That was like that... Flawn. Nailed it? Does she know how to pronounce Flawn or Fland? Which is it? Do I know how to pronounce it? Joe will make the argument because they do not know what a fucking macaroon is. You know what?

It's so funny because in the first few seasons, Paul Hollywood fucks it up consistently over and over again. And then in like season three or something, he kind of figures it out. He's like, oh, it's a macarone. Does anybody call him Hollywood? But they're the same thing. There's a great video by Adam Ragusa who breaks down, like, macarons and macaroons

are the same thing just filtered through, like, they're very recent, like the very recent that macron as a French, oh, that's a fancy thing, that's a new dessert. It's brand new. Like, within our lifetimes invented and given the name macarons to sell the yuppies. Like, it's not an, it's not a old dessert with a. It's still a real thing, though. Isn't a macaroni have like coconut in it, though? I'm gonna, you should watch this video.

But aren't they spelt different? They are. Like it's not a dessert with a long-storied history. It's a dessert sold to kids. You know what I hate in cooking shows? You ready for this? Tall burgers. These stupid Gordon Ramsey burgers that are like a foot tall

and the burger is like a piece of meatloaf. And you have to literally saw it in half and flip it over and use a knife and fork to eat a burger. I cannot stand tall burgers, and they need to go. Your mouth just ain't big enough, harder. No, I'm not a fucking snake. You know what? I have to say that I'm probably going to be on my own here

because I'm not really a Caesar drinker, but I see these Caesars that have like a freaking meal stacked on top on a pin. Oh, that's fair. You know, stuck into the drink. And it kind of irritates me. I'm like, pick a drink or pick a meal. Okay, so in the frat house of Disham, When it comes to watching TV together, Alex and I are on the couch when we're watching Fear Factor.

We're all into it. Harlan and Justin are going to hang out for a little while and then they're going to go play video games. With our nice flat burgers. Rob is in a different room because you can't watch the show. However, when the Caesars come around, Alex cannot stand the salad Caesar. I need my Caesar to have at least three kinds of vegetables in it. I want a pickled bean. I want a stock of cucumber.

It's about balance. I want a piece of... That's fine. I literally saw, I think my wife was out, and her and a girlfriend had these scissors that had like a fucking clubhouse sandwich pinned on top. I'm not even exaggerating. It was like clubhouse sandwich and then a donut and then an ice cream Sunday pinned on top. A donut?

I'm like, what in the hell is going on there? But to put it in perspective, it's like a $25 drink. I don't think Joe necessarily likes those tall things as much as you like the pickled things on it. Because if someone was like, would you like one in your drink or would you like an entire plate of pickles, pickled radishes, pickled cucumbers, and pickled pickles pickles, would you not take just a pickled thing? I think you just really like pickled things. Correct. Yes. It's an added bonus of how they're delivered. Because you kind of get a freebie. I mean. For brined vegetables. I mean. I just pulled that German. I pulled that in. I like. I would agree with you, Harlan, on the big hamburgers. It kind of goes hand in hand. Tall burgers are the worst. Tall burgers. You can't bite into them using. Maybe I got a big mouth. I'm very ambivalent. to tall burgers. They're fine. They're not my favorite, but whatever. I don't... I eat them. And I don't care for Seizers. I'm the worst. I got no... I got no friends in this friend of yet. Come on, Rob. Join us. Rob, you... I'm there for that. You just don't like oyster juice. Can we just circle back to that tall burger thing?

What do you mean? What do you mean you don't care about tall burgers? They're the worst. How are you going to eat a tall burger if it comes to you? Maybe you've never had a tall burger. I definitely have, but you can... Everything has a corner and you just bite. into a corner and maybe don't get one of everything in the whole thing. It literally doesn't have a corner. No, no, they don't have corners. You have to cut them in half. Have you seen a tall burger?

I'm talking about like a tall burger, bro. Have you seen a tall burger? Yeah, he's seen a tall burger. I'm certain I have. I don't think this is all going to make it into the intro. Oh, it would make it in. It must. I mean, the sort of reality TV I can watch a ton of.

Did anybody watch Project Runway? Oh, project runway. Oh, man. Anything that is like, these are artists being creative and thinking through problems where they're given like, you have macaroni, make a dress. And I'm like, fuck, how is that even possible? And then someone will do it and it's immaculate. And you're like, that's stunning.

Kind of like drag show. Or there's like a glass blowing one. Drag race. I would have guessed, if I was going to, I thought if you liked a reality show Rob, I would have guessed you were into like a terrorist house type. I've never watched a terrace house. Is that a terrorist house? I would be surprised if you just liked that.

I think you'd enjoy that. You know what I think I I hate more than tall burgers is is flimsy buns that are just full of air. Oh, yeah, they're bad. A tall burger with a good structure to it compared to like a short one that's made a shitty stuff that falls apart in your hands? Absolutely. I disagree. Should we play some D&D? Fuck yeah.

Here's a segue. Oh, there it was. We were looking for it for so long. Speaking about a story about a hamburger. so Harshnig is leading the way he's traveling with you guys to Evelyn but he's taking the back roads because he doesn't want to be on the road

seen with you guys it's a bad look to be hanging out with giants but saying that you're a giant killer and he hears what you say about these dwarves and maybe you're not looking good for you guys so you're keeping it on the down though he's taking you through the wilderness a little bit Red's eating his breakfast meal from Cray Rainloff. These are fantastic. I feel a little bit temporarily stronger.

Yeah, yeah. About three temporary hit points stronger for each of you. Nice. That's very tasty. I gave one of these bits of jerky that cured overnight to the giant as well. It'll make you stronger. It disappears between two of his teeth. Yeah, he just gets them stuck there. If you get a splinter, this will help.

It's mid-morning, and the sun is bright, although, It is very cold. The snow is shifting across the surface of the land, mirage-like. Are we still in the trees or out on a field? You're kind of out in the open, though you're away from the road. So you can't see the road. There's maybe a couple of hills between here and there, maybe a wooded area. I think Red is taking the lead, the far lead, maybe 20 feet ahead of everybody.

I'm sort of in the back, I would say. Yeah, Jack likes being in the middle somewhere. I think he's got Kieran flying circles up above trying to see interesting things and update this like map of the surrounding area with anything we see. And Kralath is next to Jack ushering Jackson to try to follow Kieran. You can do it. You can do it. Yeah, Jackson's taking some nervous circles in the sky,

not really used to being out in the open land like this, but, you know, taking a cue out of Kieran's book. I think they're becoming friends. Nice. And Harsh Nag is probably maybe keeping pace with you red, but like also leading the way, but sort of keeping a little bit of distance between himself and the rest of the party. Well, it's a nice day. Very peaceful out. It's kind of cold crisp out, isn't it?

Like a pink rose apple. Mmm, mm-hmm. Yeah. The quiet of the morning's track is broken by, a deep groaning sound. Jack, quiet down back there. I know we're going back to Everland, but... It's just the worst.

Did you guys hear that? And maybe red with your high passive perception, you're the first one to intuit the meaning of this growing noise, this loud sound that starts to reverberate from underneath your feet. and you have just a moment's notice before the ground

beneath you starts to shift. Everybody make a dexterity save. Uh-oh. Dexterity. Dexterity. Dexterity. Dexterity is my dexterity. 11. Fail. No! 17. Succeed.

Nice. 16. Succeed. Seven. Fail. Succeed. Uh-oh. And Harsh Nag. as well with a 10.

Uh-oh. Insta-death. With this creaking, groaning sound, the snow and ice underneath your feet starts to shift and then crack. As water opens up underneath you. Oh, shit. Kraloth and Doren, you're unable to jump to safety. But Jack and Red, you keep your feet.

And you see just off to the side, Harshnag also loses his balance and falls into this gaping rift in the ice. Everyone roll initiative. Oh, shit. Bum, bum, bum, bum. Fuck off. I'm just rolling. You always say fuck off after initiative. Always.

It's so funny. Natural one. Ooh. Horshame. Oh, fuck off. Man. Fuck off. And also natural one for Harsnag.

Oh. Oh. Shame, shame. We were not prepared. Tell me what is this dice shame game? What about Doran? Doran got a Doran's roll in the four in. A four?

Yeah. Okay, good. Doran rolled a four. Alex rolled a four for Doran. Five for Jack. I got a 23. Oh, is that it? Kralath?

14. Not bad. middle. Okay, guys. So we have Kralath, we have Doren, we have Harshnag all going in the drink. It is cold ice water below, dark and deep. Yeah. Not fun. We're in full body armor. Additionally, with this red, it's your turn and you hear another sound. Starts as kind of a loud, yawning noise and turns into a scream. Oh, fuck. Ah!

Is it cold? Oh, yes, it's cold. Oh, it's cold. Can I discern where it's coming from? Underneath you. Oh, fuck. Red panics. He spins around to see this massive break in the ice.

How big is the water? exposed right now. I mean, it's kind of a jagged, large break, probably, unfortunately, caused by harsh Negg's huge mass. It stretches between, you know, 30 and 40 feet in all directions. Okay. Kind of jaggedy shards of ice. Red hears the breaking of ice deep beneath his feet as well and sort of takes a half

step back. He reaches back and he tears a patch from his. new robe and he throws a 12-foot rowboat towards Kralath which lands in the water with a and this rowboat just like appears before you Kralath.

What in Kellev? Wow. Get in that, buddy. You too, Doren? Because I think it's going to be much easier to get in a boat than to try to climb back on breaking ice. Brilliant, Harlan. Yeah, nice. That's awesome. Yeah, so this 12-foot robot just appears. Then Red yells to everyone. There's something beneath the ice. Ready yourselves. And I'll go 30 feet towards the direction we were heading to get some distance from the breaking ice. Cool. Okay. So Krayloth,

you're floundering in the water right beside you, this little patch of fabric lands and then morphs into a large wooden rowboat. Jack, you are just adjacent to Kralov, but you've managed to cling to solid piece of ice and then Doreen, you're floundering nearby. Mm, yeah. All of a sudden, you feel the water under your feet move with the passage of some great creature, and it breaks the surface of the water in a shower of ice. Oh, my God.

This creature has a huge, long, serpentine body topped with spines. It's blue and yellow, color, and it's got kind of an insectoid face. It screams at you again for disturbing it.

Oh, no. And it's sleep. And then tries to eat you, Kralath. I hope it doesn't. Twenty-seven to hit. That hits. Ooh, hoo-wah. You're not going to like this. I am not. I know for sure I'm not. You take

35 piercing damage. Oh. Oh. And. and and and and 12 lightning damage what whoa the fuck yeah as electricity just charges between its mandibles and electrocutes you it's like 47 damage period you are also grappled oh fuck what's your HP uh I believe it is at 26 holy shit Kralath it's your turn so right now Kralath you're considered as being held of the water. So this creature has taken you in its terrible jaws and is holding you like five feet in the air. So Kraloth is completely surprised. One minute he's falling into frigid icy water. The next he's in the jaws of this giant frigid monster. Yep. And he is just on

impulse going to try and break free. Make a strength check. And I am going to use inspiration. Not a bad idea. 18. That'll do it. Nice. You squirm out of this creature's jaws using your substantial strength to pry its mandibles open and you fall splashing into the water below you. What do you do now? That's your action. Then I am going to, as a bonus action, cast sanctuary on myself.

Mm-hmm. So whenever this creature tries to attack me again, it has to make a wisdom-saving throw. And as a movement, I'm going to pull myself up onto the ice. So Kralath, you pull yourself up out of the water onto the ice and just lay there, bleeding at Jack's feet. Jack, what do you do? Kralath, let's get the hell out of here. Okay. And I'm going to grab the spell guard sphere and reach down and grab Kralath and explode with a thunderous energy that's going to catch this thing to make a Constitution save for me, please. DC-15 Constitution?

That's the one. 16. So he will take 10 points of thunder damage, and we will appear 30 feet beyond red somewhere. Cool. So you travel southwest, kind of perpendicular to the shoreline approximately. Yeah, just trying to get a little bit of distance between us and this creature. Just looking at the creature while we were casting that spell, Am I able to learn anything about it?

Have I heard any stories about this sort of thing? Do I, have I heard of this kind of critter? They're not terribly common. You can roll a nature check. I got a 12. Yeah, you've never heard of this creature before. Oh, ice bug, swimming thingy. Yeah, so what does your spell explode?

You teleport yourself into an unoccupied space within rain, da-da-da. Immediately after you disappear, a thunderous boom sounds, and each creature within 10 feet of space, you left must make a constitution save. you know it's a thunderous boom so as you reappear just behind red on the ice you hear a cracking as some of this ice gets demolished from where you were standing doran it's your turn you are floundering around in the ice what do you do oh doran is uh like do you think from the waves and stuff the boat might have made it closer to me probably not good use of my boat yeah exactly i wanted to to use it, but I guess what's going on in Doran's mind? He's still my little, uh, you know,

courageous dwarf. I'm like, I'm gonna face it. You know what I mean? Like I'm not gonna, I'm not gonna run because I can't. So you can swim for, it's double movement to swim through this icy water. I get up onto the boat. Yeah. Am I within range then of this? I guess I can. Yeah, you're, you're right up next to its rising gross body. You see that it's got like, 80 little arms that are topped with these pincers that have like fins on them

okay okay so I'm looking at this from the bright side and little arms to swing at so okay I'm gonna make two attacks okay because that first one was a two I'm gonna re-roll it I'm gonna he's lucky okay because I want these to hit do you want them to hit

oh that's a good idea Doreen you should hit it go for it Doren is stupid 27 to hit That hits. Nice. There we go. Doing nine damage. Doran, as your axe collides with this creature's body, a bolt of electricity just leaps out into orc splitter and up the body of the axe and you take nine lightning damage.

Oh, yuck. Okay. You see Doran's skeleton. Yeah, yeah, just for that one second. Doran and lights. I don't really have time to think too much, so I'm going to take a second swing. I don't

have time to think about why I just got electrocuted. Admittedly, Doran is not a smart dwarf. I'm not a smart dwarf. I just... I'll show you toaster. I'll stab you one more time. Standing there, teeth a jittering

beard icicles you know, shattering from lightning bolts. I I stand there kind of in shock and literally in shock. And I look over across the pond and I see Red with his bow kind of ready to take a strike. And I yell, Red, he's going to electrocute me again. Shoot him. You're going to add five points to your damage if you hit this guy.

So go for it. All right, darling. Oh, natural 20. Oh, you kidding me. Beautiful. 36 damage. Nicely done. Thanks, Doran.

Are you all right? He stands there frozen. Harshnig pulls himself up out of the water onto the ice beside this creature and takes a step back and with his long reach, attacks with his great axe. He's going to swing twice.

That's a natural 20. Nice. I actually get to use it this time. We're not going to interrupt this one. So exciting. I'm going to use my phone because there's too many dice. You're on the side of the heroes. Harsh nag is allowed.

Good sign. Yes. So I'm going to roll 6D12. Hmm. That's 45 damage. Wow. And he's going to roll it again. He makes the second attack. That's a heck of an axe.

That was only 15. So he just like, hacks a good portion of this creature's little tiny legs off on the one side and then takes another swing but he slips on the ice and another huge portion of this lake cracks and falls into just shards of ice he falls back down through the ice as it dissolves into shards underneath his feet and splash he falls in well good call on going to the boat that's great Yeah, because Doran, you're fine. You're still sitting pretty in this boat.

Sitting pretty frozen. Well, well said. Red, it's your turn. All right, I'm going to kill the motherfucker. Oh, no. Oh, no, what did you get? That's only a eight. No, that misses.

It's not going to do it. Come on, here we go. I'm still going to use my sharpshooter. He catches the arrow in mid-air and then just snaps it in his little mandibose. And as he's snatching it, I shoot at him again with a... Oh, 24. Who?

Motherfucker. So like it catches the first one and Red almost did it purposefully as he fires the second one. Now that he's like just got the first one, it opens a weak spot under his arm. And the second one sinks in. Which arm? Third one from the left.

The one that's not there anymore. It's just a hole. It's... 23 damage. Good job. Suck on that. And I'm going to move back my full move action with feline agility. Leaving Doran relatively alone on the ice. He's got a giant with him.

The creature grabs you in its jaws, Doran, with a, ooh, 20 to hit. Dirty 20. Damn it. Dorn, you take 44 piercing damage. Oh, fuck. And 10 lightning damage, and you're grappled. Oh, my.

Doren, you try to break free, but you're clamped, secure. purely in this creature's terrible jaws and you're helpless as it takes you under the water into the dark and cold. Don't it! And this is where audience, you're all going to hold your breath.

Until I come back up. Next week. Should we play through the rest of this battle? Yeah. All right. So unfortunately, this creature is no longer visible and neither is your friend Doren. Krayloth, it's your turn.

What do you want to do? Kralath is going to take a nap. Push himself up off the ground. Say, thanks, Jack. Oh, thank Kallum for you. Thank Kallum for you were there. And Kralov, as he pushes himself up, he's going to stagger forward. And he's going to cancel his sanctuary and he's going to cast beacon of hope on himself.

Okay. As he tries to make his way back towards the ice. Where's Doran? Can't see him anymore. Hey, Turkamanda. Shit. All right, let's go back to Everland. So the rules for holding your breath in D&D are such that you can hold your breath for a number of minutes equal to one plus your constitution modifier.

Oh, that's pretty great. So you can hold your breath for quite a while, Doran. Several rounds. One plus my, so I can hold my breath for five minutes. Jack, it's your turn. What do you want to do? I'm running 30 feet towards the water. I am Misty stepping 30 feet under the water.

And now I've got a swim speed of 40 feet to try and see the thing and swim as close to Doran in this creature as I can go as I dive down to try and get to Doran and this critter. Cool. Wow. That's your whole movement, right? Superhero Jack. Yeah. That's pretty fucking cool. Don't forget there's Stephen.

Jack, you just like dash across. the ice, jump in the water, and then deep underneath the water. You see it there, this long form. It's bigger than you imagined. Oh, boy, its body coiling and uncoiling in the depths. You're just seeing, like, sunlight coming down through the places in the ice where it's been exposed to open air. The water feels thick with cold. And it almost takes your breath away. bubbles just explode out of your mouth, and then you see him, you see the face of this creature and Doran, small struggling within its, its mouth. So yeah, you're about maybe 25 feet away from the creature. So I had 30 feet to get to the edge of the water. I misty stepped 30 feet.

So I became a mist and became mist 30 feet underneath the water. And then I can swim 40 feet because I have the ring of swimming. So that's a hundred. Okay, yeah. So if you use your ring of swimming, you can get right up to this beast. Yeah. So I'm hoping to be with an our arms reach a Doran maybe just on the far side of him. Cool. Doran, it's your turn. Doran's got a panicked face. He's holding his breath.

But I'm going to second win this as a bonus action, which means I roll a D10, his four headpoints, which seems so pathetic when it all comes down to it. Oh, I'm grappled, right? What do I have to do to ungrapple? So you can make, as your action, an escape check, basically, where you can use athletics to try to escape. Right. 25. Nice.

Yeah. All right. Ungrapple. So you squirm free of this creature's grasp. It's the giant's turn. He's going to swim to the edge of the ice and pull himself up. And he doesn't have a target to attack. so he's just going to move west along the edge of the ice.

Cool. Red, it's your turn. Red shouts towards the water. Saving, get in the game! And the dolphin just sort of pops up from the water, and he's like, Ah, ha, ha, ha, ha. Go down and see if they need help. And if they're in trouble, bring them this.

And I reach into the bag and I toss the balloon backpack. Oh. I feel like that could be like a life preserver, right? Like you pull it. Yeah. And it's like, pf, like it would just. you know, worst case scenario if Doran goes down, strap that shit on him and the dude's going to get back at the surface.

That's interesting. Yeah, I throw it at Stevens. He was like, ah, and like puts it in his mouth and like dives down towards the others. Yeah, Stephen sees this full scene, this terrifying, undulating monster. This monster lashes out at you, Jack, and tries to grab you in its jaws. Yay. It's 29 to hit you. That'll hit.

36 piercing damage. Uh, that is a lot of piercing damage. And 12 lightning damage. Well, I have five hit points left. Oof. That's all you need. It's Kralas turn. Kralath, you are standing on the shore.

There are bubbles coming up from the water. Kralath is going to shout. Jack, Doren! It turns back to red. Ooh. What should we do? We wait. Get ready.

When that thing comes up, get close enough, so we can give it the old one, too. All right. I'm going to try to get closer. And I'm going to cast Cure Wounds on myself as a level three. And because of Beacon of Hope, I get just max healing. So I don't have to roll any die. Nice. Nice.

So that's going to be, I'll heal a bunch. It's going to be a bunch. 24. So I heal 27. Nice. Oh, so much. Jack, it's your turn. You are being just cradled in this creature's jaws. Yeah, not loving that. Doran's within five feet to me, though.

He still is. And so I think not being able to take another shot like that, I'm just going to reach out towards Doran, and the Spell Guard sphere is going to glow, and we're going to explode in a big wump of sound and head 90 feet towards shore. Cool. Nice. Under the water still, or just? No, up on the ice, uh, trying to get, you know, at a...

I wonder how easy it is for you to judge how high up you need to get. He does have a keen mind. He does have a keen mind. That's true. You always know which direction is north. All right, you slam into the top of the ice. No, I'm just kidding. You do great, and you land exactly where you want it to go, and everyone's proud of you.

Beautiful. And this thing should make a constitution saving through. It will. Or take 20 points of damage. 18? Take 10 points of damage. I will. Thunder damage.

Thunder damage Dorn, it's your turn Takes a deep breath Thank you, Jack I got you, brother That was cold and shocking I've got a, there's nothing I can do here I disengage, I stumble towards the shore

And you know what I do is I start piling up some wood I get up the bank I mean, it might come across the ice and try to eat us But at least we can't drown on land tear Jack's books apart to make a fire. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, I know. I start building, kindling. It's not funny.

Shaky hands. Doran, great job. Retreat. Yeah, build a fire, warm up. Avoid hypothermia. Harshnag is going to continue traveling around this break in the ice. And as he does, more ice begins to crack and fall into the lake. Kralath, you fall in.

Yep. But everyone else. else is now just fine. It's your turn, Red. Steven! I scream, loud enough for him to hear me. And he pops back up. Get that on to Kralov's back.

And he sort of nods, and he's going to move 60 feet. And this little dolphin comes up and, like, helps you put on the backpack. So cute. That's awesome. Thank you, dolphin friend. And then the dolphin looks back to me, Pellet! No, no, no, no. I'll be okay.

I'll just... And the dolphin nod. And pulls the cord and it immediately inflate. Yeah, you begin to move up and out. Oh, yeah. Thank you. Thank you so much. Yeah.

All right. Ha, take that, Beastie. And he's like getting higher and higher. And then I'm going to move 90 feet to the south, which probably should be enough to get me to the shore. Fly down the here, Krayloff. I don't know how. For some reason, I know it's not.

For some reason, I imagine this attach. to Creole's butt, and he's, like, floating with his hands down. That's the image you get? Maybe Stephen put it on him. Stephen looped it on backwards. He put his legs through the armholes. Oh, yeah. And he's just, like, got his hands dangling down.

That shield in the mace, that pulls you in it, you know, there's some gravity there. Hey, at least I can defend myself like this. That's right. I'm looking at the base, yeah. And as you float up and over this frozen lake, Kralath, you see the creature writhing around in the darkness in anger below you from being cheated of its prey. Yeah, and as I'm floating up, I'm realizing I'm getting higher and higher and higher. And I'm like, oh, too high, too high.

And then I see the water and floating ice just break apart as this maw of this feast. Just jump straight towards me. And I'm like, higher, higher, higher! It closes its jaws just like feet from where you're hanging and then falls back with a huge splash into the water I'll see you guys at Everland back to Everland

back to back to Everland with a big friend thanks again to our Patreon supporters Christopher Ryan Evans Mitchell Cadwell Jessica Orrett

Colin Burkart Daniel Doug Katie Orrett and Merlin you make all of this possible see you soon I'll do the sound effects for the cracking ice.

Crick, crack, crack, crickety, cracket, crack it. I'm just giving you stuff to use for your songs, Harlan. That's all. I appreciate that.