High Rollers DnD - Glory of Palladrax (Part 1) | Altheya: The Dragon Empire #78

Episode Date: September 23, 2025

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the Dragon Empire. Our heroes are deep beneath the waves as they seek to help Grutheth of Tremorow complete the second of his knightly tests. Two champions of the embered evil goddess Ojanja have been terrorizing the seas of the Suncrest Isles, and Sir Joran Harper, Knight of the loyal hounds, has tasked Gruff with slaying them. With the first champion Agamox the Doom Claw, slain. The party dived into the deep waters of the Blood Kelp Forest in search of the second champion Coral Song. They know that the priestess has made a lair for herself in the wreck of an imperial warship, the glory of Palladracks, and that she has awoken a terrible sea beast to serve as her pet. However, before they could reach the shipwreck, their path was suddenly blocked by a powerful

magical barrier of currents and storm energy, which needed to be disrupted in two different location simultaneously, splitting the party, the heroes successfully defeated the ritual's guardians and brought down the mighty storm wall, opening a path to Coral Song and the shipwreck. And that, my friends, is where we are going to pick back up today. You have reconvened having traveled through what was once the storm wall barrier. I will remind you, if you did desperately need it, you do have available a heroic short rest, which is a five minute short rest. Yes.

And perhaps now would be a wise time to use it. Yeah, I'm gonna do that. So heroic is just compress a short rest into five minutes. Cool beans. Do I have any hid dice to spend? I have a spell. I kind of don't need to. No, some of you may not need to.

You will get Bardick back. It's always worth doing and do it. Spent a hit dice. Spent a hit dice to just to max out my HP again. Yes. You slightly don't hide. You're slightly don't hire it. Daisy is obviously with you.

I will try and run Daisy in combat. But if there is anything specific you want her to do, please do say otherwise I'm just going to default to what I think Kinti would do. Cool. Okay. I'm sorry for Sam I've bummed up today. Yeah? No, you sound fine.

You know what? You sound great. You sound great. Thanks. We sound great. We sound great. We sound great. We're all about supporting each other.

Love your bros. Kiss your homies. Kiss your dad. Kiss your dad. Kiss your mom. A little bro job. Goon for the guys. Goon for the guys and a little bro job.

I want to point out that it was Tom and Trot, who said these things. I've lost count of my experience. You've caused Riena to lose track of HP. I'm not even at full HP after that short rest. I use four hit dice, which is pretty natural. I need to see this. I've got that spell that user.

as hit dies to heal myself, so I have to keep some hit dice spare in order to make use on that spell. Pretty spicy, if you ask me. That's the spiciest things ever happen in Dungeons and Dragons. And we do still have water breathing on. You are still deep, deep underwater, however. And then a couple of us, so myself, Rowan and Daisy have the anti-charm.

You have the advantage. The little blessing from the Silnare. Advantage against charm effects. But these guys over here, no, no, no, no. No, no, no, no. You did not get it because you fucked up. Hey, Ree, 17. Don't.

She's still calculating. How much help did you lose? I'm going to stop asking a question. We're deep in the mass. Shut up. Deep in mass. Deep in mass. Brain, no room.

There is only a short distance at this point. We are talking probably a good sort of very, very short distance to arrive at the shipwreck itself. Okay. You are still navigating this thick forest of, this red blood kelp that just seems to surround you at all times you have been sort of wading through it kind of pushing through there are pockets where it becomes a little sparser and things like that but generally it does block an obscure vision at most points and it grows you know hundreds

of feet tall like this is you know it stretches right up uh towards the ocean uh it's enough to obscure like people from seeing us right or uh yes in theory yeah yeah okay okay what would have name is connecting our minds. Yes. I believe that I think it was eight hours. Yeah, so you've got plenty of time. Big roll. And is Yuga still with us?

So yeah, if you look for him, he is currently with you. Yuga is a caporin, which is a sort of sea turtle man. He has this kind of bandolier of these gourd-like shapes that he occasionally draws breath from. It seems to contain air rather than liquid. And he's got a little staff. and he's swimming alongside you. He's sort of leading the way,

but you can see he's beginning to slow down as you're getting close to your destination, and Yuga will turn around to you and say, just... And he's doing the sign language to Rowan, who's the only one who can really understand him at this point, apart from the universal... Thumbs up.

Positive, affirming his gesture. But he will say to you, Rowan, in his sort of three-fingered... Sign language, just beyond here is the shipwreck that you seek. I feel like I will be a burden if I come further with you. The singer is powerful, more powerful than the ones we just faced. I feel I will only get in your way and cause you and your friends trouble. I wish I could reply to this, guys.

What would he say? You're saying he's going to be a burden if he carries on any further and that there's a lot of power in here. I just want to reassure him that he's provided a lot to us. However, I would like them to be safe, to be fair. So I'm going to try and nuance that into a response.

Oh, a thumbs up. Yeah, that gives you a big thumbs up all round. A thumbs up says a thousand words. It really does. And he will point in the direction. Which gruff, you still have some residual energy of the old commune with nature spell and you still see that very faint golden line

which is pointing you in the same direction anyway. So you feel like, you know, at this point you don't need Yuga's navigation. If anything, there is the possibility, it seems that Coral Song managed to prepare that ritual to erect that barrier. There could be centuries, there could be traps still present here.

but Yuga, it seems, has gone as far as Yuga is, feels comfortable taking you. I stay, Yugo, Yuga. Thumbs up. Yeah. Thumbs up. He will. God, he's so happy with that one.

Just to keep on top of the table. He reaches down and scoops up sort of a claw full of silver. silt and sand, and he does not pocket sand it. He sort of throws it in front of himself and makes a symbol of like a circle, which you infer is maybe some sort of religious rite, you know, that he is some sort of divine magic wielder or primal magic wielder and he seems to,

he's almost like he does this and like bows his head and closes his eyes towards you all. Because he's druidic. You have seen him use druidic magic, yes, yeah. follower of Alfa, presumably. And you saw that there was the shrine built in there, in Puperea, his village, which was dedicated to the, some considered to be dead god, dead deity Alfie,

but perhaps is not, that is a teaching of the Sion church rather than being the truth, perhaps. Gruffeth, I only understand the hand signals, but I think this is a gesture of faith and goodwill to us. I don't know if there's something we can do, with your powers? Can I do a religion check? Yeah, sure, yeah, yeah.

Make a religion check, yeah. Yeah, six. You assume what you already have, that it's maybe some sort of ulfe, like, you know, like a prayer or like a blessing, or like, you know, you're not quite sure, but there is no magic. It is just a gesture.

It's like, you know, it's like a wishing you good well or like wishing you safe passage or safe journey. I think we should all do the same thing back. Yeah, gruffle. Just grab some sand. Just grab some sand. You sort of like put it, you sort of throw it into the water in front of you and then as it's slowly kind of merging, you create like a circle in it.

And he bows his head respectfully back to all of you. And then thumbs up. Yeah, as the sand disappears, just everyone's thumbs-uping each other. It's like a standoff except we're all like, he sees the two and he like... Double thumbs up. He now does the double thumbs up. Well, I think we've really upgraded it here. Good.

Thank you, we will see you, Perporea. He's looking at this, Jeff, so he doesn't understand. Don't worry, that. Santhius is all covered. Great. See it. When you do this, he like reaches out to you, and there's like panic on his face.

He's like looking at you. Something else. Does it? Oh no, okay. It means you're in immediate danger. Thumbs up. Maybe you have a heart attack. Okay, all right. Looks a bit concerned and then double thumbs up again.

I don't know what I just said. I have no idea what I just said. I have no idea what I just said. I just point to my brain and dismiss. Yikes. But yeah, he will just pull back and he finds like a spot to sort of hunker down. And not hide, but like he's going to wait here basically for you guys. Great.

Has anyone had seen any sign of any big, you know, large, great devourers? No. All in our journeys? No. Okay. I was just going to... Hello, my name is Graf. I haven't been Graf for two weeks, but I have been to Wales. You don't need to do this in your office.

And remember that lovely video I showed you of that lovely man painting Warhammer? And he does a very good video. And he's got a lovely Welsh man. Very strange graph that you have to reorient your accent inside your head. Right. Um... Lantheus. Hello.

Was it you who had the poison on you? I think it was Rowan, wasn't it? Who had the poison? I think we gave it to Rowan, didn't we? Because there was a grand plan of Dimension Doering out of his... Out of the Great Barrow's bed. Yes.

I think Rowan had the plan of doing... Dimension Dorin or the Dimension Door. Or the Create the Object thing that you do. Make the big illusory object and then the confusing things. You weren't going to do a create the object thing? I think I was just going to get gobbled up. Yes.

Because I am an edible thing. I'll make myself look edible, be gobbled. Yes. Would I just say, I guess you are quite edible. I guess to, in some form, yes. Anybody's eatable, I suppose. If you try hard enough. Yes.

Well, to a great devourer that likes to devourer. Now, because we've had like some disc because we've done some pre-recorded and we've had a bit of showing it. I will remind you one thing. I'm going to try not to do this. I'm going to try and leave it up to your memory. You remember something specifically

that just being inside the creature might not be enough to poison it. You might have to injure it on the inside to get into it. but like his hide on the outside is like it's very very difficult yeah very yeah yeah yeah once i'm in i'm going to coat my sword okay with the poison good idea and jab and jab away and then dimension door out yeah and then completely safe going to make a mental note of this spot right here uh this spot here this is like about 10 minutes away from where

this battle might be taking place i'm gonna wipe that okay uh just through a just to a quick double check on how the spell works. Just make sure that you can, you don't need to be able to see the face. You can just, you can just visualize it. Especially when you're inside that thing, it's gonna be, you're gonna be shaking around, thrown around like crazy.

It doesn't have a V component. Verbal, which means verbal. And if I'm bubbling under water, can I verbalize? Yeah, because we have water breathing, Cosmos. We've been water breathing this whole time. And I just know if you could speak. Hmm. Yeah, I'd say that you can cost spells and stuff.

Because otherwise there's a lot of spells that's going to be able. It's because you don't have to, because you're breathing the water as if it was oxygen. It's just, I would say that like, like, and apparently somebody in the comments correct to me, apparently sound carries very well underwater. I imagine it would be quite a lot of. Vocal chords don't create sound.

Yeah, it would be like, br. But we can knock on something and you could hear it for miles. Right, there you go. So, like, I think the magic of this is like you can speak, but like it doesn't travel very well. like you're kind of speaking in like a tiny air pocket here and then it just doesn't go anyway. We're not whales as in the mammal.

You can hear those fuckers. You're amazing. We don't have the residence chambers. I arrive at exactly the spot desired. It can be a place I can see when I can visualize or when I can describe by stating the distance and direction. So you could be like... Yeah.

Wow. That's awesome. So dimension door is because it's a, what, fourth level spell. It's a little bit more freeing and like, come on. I didn't realize you could literally just say, I want to be 30 feet that way. But you could end up... In a wall.

In a wall. But if it's a play... I would say if it's within, like, the last minute of memory, you can imagine that rock next to where Groff stood and then on the, you know, appear there and you know, whatever. Yeah. Okay.

Okay. That's good. So, Rowan has poison. Go inside, stab it up, get poison in bloodstream. How long does it take for the poison to... You don't know. They don't actually say that. It's a large creature as well.

It could take... Sometime. Yeah. You want to know, despite that plan, having been in place for a few episodes, there is a Twitch prediction going on right now who is most predicted to get swallowed by the worm? Mm-hmm. It's not Rowan. I think a couple of episodes ago, I immediately said Rowan or Xanthius.

Okay, no. 40% say Ophelia. Which is a lot of people. That's a big percentage. Why? I think that's based on the player, not the character. And it's not just us five. There's three other options in there as well, of no one, an enemy or any allies. any allies and 40% is Ophelia, that's...

Five percent. There's a lot of choice. Because you two have already been gauzed, haven't you? Not on camera. I think, yeah, not. Oh, sorry, that was a... That's a member's video. Sorry.

Hey, if you subscribe. Sorry. Shouldn't have said that, no. I've got the poison. Yes, good. I will deliver it, and that's the best we can do. Well, yes. Yeah.

As soon as you make it out, no matter what else happens is... Just get out. Just get out. Exactly, just get out. Make sure the poison is delivered to the bloodstream. We'll deal with anything else the best that we can. And then does a dimension door need a space to have a door? Oh, what? Like, you actively need to walk through it.

If it swallows and I try and make a portal, and it's all just esophagus. Yeah. I've always seen it, rather than creating actual physical doorway, it's just like a magic teller. Going through it. That's not how it did, isn't it? Nova, Tian Gongme.

But that was very, yeah, and it was very specifically what you did is next. Okay, I miss Nova, I miss my 50 ways to teleport. Okay, so nothing yet. I miss gravity. Listen, do we have a plan B? Is it worth distributing another vial of poison? Could be worth it, just in case.

I believe you only have the one. Yeah. And the other plan is we try and pierce its hide somehow. Very, very difficult, but I mean, between, Veracity and all the other spells we have, we might be able to break it in some way. Yes. We do also have the complication

the choral song might be trying to bewitch us. Well, yes, you've got some protections. I go in because I have this protection at least. Yes. Against it. You two are vulnerable. Well, more vulnerable, yeah. Yes. But.

We can run distraction. We can run distraction. You are very distracting, yes. We are very distracted. We have distracted. we have our main plan and if I get in there and I cannot deliver the poison

I'll come out and let you know great but we can always communicate you can still communicate with us let us know when the old nimble communication just before you get digested I don't like I won't have long once I'm swallowed

to do what I'm about to do so okay it's gonna be so gross by the way but I'm just gonna process that later you're already wet yeah once you come outside You'll clean it all off immediately.

Yeah, but, yeah. Rowan, what you're doing here is very brave. Mm. And I am very gracious to you for doing it. I try kneeling in water. Stop kneeling. In all serious, though, if it starts to go wrong, if you are in danger, get yourself out.

Oh, I intend to. Don't you worry about that? It's terrifying. The concept of being swallowed. Yeah. Oh, God. I kind of meant. I can imagine, it's awful. Yeah, process that later. Process it later.

Yes, yes. It's a healthy way to look at things. Later when it's all done and we're all safe and everything has gone to plan. And we're alone behind closed doors. Yes, then we can cry. And we can cry. And only then.

All a brave group of heroes. If you're crying to water, no one can see your tears. That's a good plan. Should we cry now? I've been crying the whole time. Have you? Wow. You know, it's been a long time.

We haven't eaten in a while. I am starving, by the way. You wait in pura-pura? Yeah, we had some kelp, seaweed things. They made you a little stew. They're really salty. Some light, such a light meal. I'm a hungry, hungry boy.

What's the plan? Bet you weren't expecting such a hungry guy. How did we blow this thing out? How do we get his attention? Well, it's whether we want to go in and take them by surprise or if we want to go in head on. Well, we've got the element of surprise, right now.

Oh, well, no, we don't, because we just lowered the barrier. They have seven explosions. I think at this point, we may as well just charge the place, yes. Either way, Sir Gruffeth, Knight Errant. As fast as you go, as fast as we go. Not as sir yet, right, trust each other. Actually, I might do that thing again.

Actually, don't trust each other. That thing that we did on the pillars, where I parted the water. Oh, yes. That's a good idea, yes. That worked very, very well, yeah. I might try that again, especially on the choral song, because I don't think she'll be expecting it.

No. So if that happens, well, we've got a very short window for everyone to do everything they can do normally, okay? Yes. Well, yes, a good plan. It will least disorient her for a second. There's a chance that they are just as capable on land as they are in water, but a quick fall, it would stun me.

And I'm so perceptive. Reface, our primary goal is to end choral song. right? Yes. With the great devourer being a big spanner in the works. Yeah, he's protecting her. So I'll do everything I can to help with you until the great devourer arrives. Well, I'm imagining the devour will be there with her. It's on the ship. Yeah. All right. I'm ready. I'm ready. Okay. Yes. You begin making your way, parting the giant enormous red blood-red fronds of the blood kelp forest making your way through swimming and there is an odd

calm to the water here you've been traveling for some time and you've encountered you know dangers and creatures and things like that but there is just stillness now especially with the passing of the storm wall where the current was constantly surging there was a roaring in your ears the whole time now it is still and calm. You begin to see rocky outcroppings and glimpses of rotten, submerged wood ahead as the fronds part and drift. We can see tattered sailcloths risen up high

still attached to half-broken masts as eventually you emerge from the blood kelp into a sort of rocky space and see before you the glory of paladranks. An immense, once perhaps beautiful, now a sort of carcass underwater of an imperial warship at its front covered with underwater flora and algae and barnacles. and coral, you see just the occasional glint of gold of the great figurehead of Paladrax, the dragon themselves. Perhaps a sparkling gemstone eye just peeking out from amongst it. The ship itself is battered and broken, great holes in its hull and overgrown.

in front of the ship itself not standing but sort of gently swimming above a rocky outcropping you can see a figure and music begins to fill the water around you despite your current location this music this gentle humming song filters out and you can hear it clearly as if it were a performer in the tavern's common room there are no lyrics to it is but a melody at this point and it is both beautiful and sad a lament

drifting above the rocky outcropping you see the source of this song at first you see beautiful almost wrapped a dress of flowing colored thin silk but you realize it's not silk it's membrane of some jellyfish-like material

almost falling around her as a dress you see legs beautiful, long, slender legs that end in these sort of webbed toes and feet. Her body almost ornately dressed in a carapace like a corset flowing over, like an elegant gala ball. But there is no pretty face to this creature. A great, almost nautilus sort of shelled creature's head

with tentacles dripping down the front and seaweed-like hair trailing down behind it creates a monstrous image but the voice that echoes that travels through the water itself is one of beauty hauntingly so you see scattered around

this rocky outcropping are spikes of darkened stone upon with there are bodies people captured alive or dead you are not sure at least some of them appear to be writhing or moving oh on smaller spikes you see Silmir the little pixie mermaids several of them in a similar state not sure if they are dead or living. The figure

stands currently alone and as you break the blood kelp fronds and emerge into this space you hear in your minds a voice. You were a mistake land walkers.

She reaches out and sort of almost caresses one of the Silmir on the spike. More, mother, realized how flawed and weak you were when the sovereign remade her. If you had been stronger, better, you would have been weapons to use against the protomagy. But instead, the queen of the deep died. She suffered in agony because you were all too wrong. She knew she had to remake you. I can remake you in the image of what she wants. And you watch as with a clawed hand, she plunges it into the body of the Silmir as blood flows into the water spreading like ink.

And with her free hand, she casts it to one of the humanoid bodies, one of the Suncrest Isle civilians, plucking it from the spike. As you see, its eyes bulge and extend as they begin to emerge on stalks and carapace where its flesh is begins to grow and twist. As a shell begins to emerge on its back, his hand extends and becomes a claw. as you see this man becomes one of the deep children. Cool. That's so cool. But also terrible.

That's the origin. Oh, man. I'm kind of into it. Hear me out. You also see scuttling out from the ship three large crustaceans, their shells, made of the same thunderstone that you encountered during the ritual. And they sort of scurry around. And you see the arcs of lightning

jump between their shells as they scurry and form a triangle. the strongest shape. It is. A triangle, what's surrounding them? Around Coral song. Right, okay. As this sort of arcing triangle, like a prism, forms around her.

And you can see that she reaches out, she discards the dead Silmir, and the arc kind of coalesces around her wrist like an eel or a, you know, a sea, snake, and then she gently tosses it back into the air where it reformed as part of this sort of pyramid prism of

lightnings arched around her. Okay. It is at this point as well that you notice a shadow. Something within the wreck of the ship. Slithers, you see the light sort of being blocked as

something slithers past the cannon or the balister port and things like that. Yeah, okay. You can see that there are gaps in the ship itself as you see something, a light, a sort of very pleasant, soft, gentle, warm light. Like, bobs along.

Oh, okay, okay. It's a horror angle and fish. Hey, for podcast listeners, I'm going to post a picture of the battle map on Patreon for free, and we'll try and be as descriptive as possible for you to see what's going on. To give it a little description now, the very back of the map closest to me is the ship on its side.

It's been sort of as it's crashed, it's been twisted. We can see the blood kelp rising up behind it as well as one of its broken masts. Another of its masts lays across the seabed, crossing over to near some rocky platforms, which are kind of scattered around the field along with various sea plants and flora of the blood kelp itself. With this, there is no negotiation. There is just initiative. Did that make sense? Before actually, fate.

Fate then initiative. Yes, fate and initiative. Very important for this one. I want some stat boys to update me on how many times I've failed fate. Oh. Well, you can't fail it. Well, no, that's true. Or, you know, not in our favor.

I got a one. Oh, lovely, that's a fate for me. That's right. Oh, another one for me, how generous. Four. Oh, one for you. How cruel. No, I got two.

Oh, thank you, Chris Trott. That's lovely. And what does Marks one look like? A six. How about that? I'll return the fake. Three and two. Three and two.

You guys can split your weight a bit more. Yeah, what's this? Five. If only. Given that this is a pretty dramatic fight, I am going to include one for Daisy here. Even though we don't normally do it with people that are missing. Let's see what Daisy gets first.

Yeah. A four. Okay, keep it. Keep it. Keep it. Yeah, great idea. We're gonna keep it from the start. That's a good idea.

So with that, we are gonna roll initiative here. This is, there is no talking to this being. They are fueled by a primal hatred of all things, not them. Oh man. See you on the other side. Good luck, everybody. See you on the other side of the war. Get out safe, Rowan.

Godspeed, Pilgrim. Godspeed, Pilgrim. Can you say the other side, do you mean? Yeah, his butt. I got friends on the other side. Poophole. Yeah. All right, I got a 21 for Daisy.

Wow. What are we looking at for ZAM? Eight. Eight, gruff. 19. Rowan. Seven. Ophelia.

17. Wow. Kind of good mix. we've got some people going later. We've got some people going early. Yeah, yeah, it's all kind of plan. Let me get... I think more mother needs to stay in better contact with Sovereign.

Yeah? Yeah. All righty, choral song is rocking at a lovely... Ooh. She'll see... Zanzas update, yeah. He won as well. Yeah, get a text about Zanzan. Daisy is just going to beat her with her...

Who literally blew up a proto-maggolvolt. Oh, yeah. The devourer. That's true. I haven't got a fiber yet, I guess. Remade in her image. No, Kamasb must be on dial-up, Daryl, is that sorry? So,

Fibbe yet, they're still on copy. No, no, idiots. At the top of the first round, Round one. It would normally be Daisy. Fight! There is an effect. As choral song, you see that this nautiloid-like head,

she seems to possess the ability to both speak and sing at the same time. That's spying. Oh, wait. He's her own duo act. You begin to hear, kind of like when Rowan plays Sostanuto and it seems to almost play multiple instruments at once, choral song is able to split her voice into multiple parts.

And she begins to sing. Everyone cover your ears. Or head. This lament changes ever so slightly. And she begins to sing, imagine very Dark Souls choir-esque. Oh, right. Boss music here. What you're going to say, imagine by...

Imagine all the people. I got me through the pandemic. As she begins to sing... What hero? A hero. In a language which you do not understand the words that she's speaking, but the meaning seems to almost translate in your mind. This is being sung in some deep speech

that is of what the deep children speak, but yet the meaning is being translated to you through emotionally. And this verse, this verse, first verse begins that speaks of the tides pulling in and bringing the sailors from the shore out into the deep as the first verse of lure of the deep begins. I know, I've just, I need everyone to make a strength saving throw. It's gonna be different verses and then chorus

and then like sort of, that's awesome. Shamsara round too. Yeah, potentially affecting. This is a push or pull effect. A question pull effect. This is not a charm effect. No, this is like a mark thing. So like when Gruff has his armor of oaken thorns active,

he has advantage against being pushed and pulled, right? Okay, okay, okay, okay, okay. So what are we looking at? Natural 20 plus one. 21? Success. Not on this one, you don't. No, on charm.

Yes, I will tell you if it is a charm effect. Lure of the, what's the name of the song? The name of the song is lure of the deep. Dope. Ah, so we got a 21 for Gruff, that is the success. Is it a not 20. Perfect. It's not 20, can I grab some.

What do we get from? Two. That's a fail for Rowan. I got an 11. Fail for Xanthius. Yeah. 14. Fail for Ophilea and a fail for Daisy.

You all feel yourselves. Do you want to make that gamble again? Grab someone thing. Pulled in by the tide. Oh pulled in, that's good. Can I do my best work clothes? Free movement. 20, hell yeah, thanks.

Oh, okay, yeah. Well, they're all in a nice little bunch. Yep. Oh, it's not moving us uniformly. Being spread out. That's weird. So that's verse one. So you all feel yourselves being pulled in

as if the tide itself is pushing on your backs. Gruff, experienced sailor, imbued with you sort of managed to hold yourself and you're kind of swimming back against this current being prevented from being drawn forward. As this song continues, again, just before we begin the full turn, something else happens, but this does not come from choral song. Rowan and Graf, Rowan, that sword that you carry that is made of that primal stone that you know was a gift from Ulfay

to the original people of Althea back during the bright storm, there is almost a sort of glow to it and gruff your staff the sort of implement of your magic also has a slight glow to it as you feel where you currently stand you are not in the deepest parts of the ocean yet you are deep underwater but you are not in the depths you can look up and still see the now setting sun of the waves, very high, far, far above you, you are still partially within Ulfay's realm. And something, an energy of power, an unspoken voice, almost as if somebody was whispering, but you can't hear it. You can just sense it. Somebody almost whispering, calling and you find the water around you no longer seems to slow you no longer seems to impede the movements

you need to bring your weapons to bear you are all blessed by Alfei and are no longer you do not move at half speed and there are no penalties to attack roles during this encounter. All of us? All of you. Oh. You, as if you were fighting on land.

Oh. So you can move an attack as normal here. Other effects of water, unfortunately, things like fire spells are still going to be penalised. But your movement and your attacks will be unimpeded here. We've basically been given a flying speed as well because we're like underwater. You are basically, yes, that is basically it. So you are, you can move in three directions. Hell yeah.

But yeah, you feel this a sort of caress or an embrace or something almost giving you this smallest advantage here as this power seems to wash over you, as you're sort of driven forward, or at least most of you. With that, it is, Daisy is up first. Do you have anything you would like particularly want Daisy to do? Otherwise, I was just going to have her... I'd like to suggest she attacks the...

A little crab. Crabs, yeah. The crustacellia. Yeah. Good plan. What is her range on the throne, daggers? Uh, 60 feet, I believe. Oh, wow. Without this penalty of being underwater, yes.

Would it be worth her going for the one that's like way off to the side there? I can probably go and get one as well. Let's move. Yeah, she can move 15 feet. Yeah, she can move 15 feet. You'd like her to do that? So wait, you were saying Ophelia's gonna get that one in the distance.

I can get the furthest most one. So this one, what? The one up here. If Daisy maybe takes a shot at the one on the sail at the back there. Who's there. And then, whilst a closer or mele guys, I suppose, can go for the one that's right next to Coral song as well. Sure. Okay.

In that case, yeah, Daisy will pull a radiant blade, kind of sensing that she can now fight more easily, and she will throw a radiant blade at the Thunder crab. Thunder crab. Thunder crab. That's cool. No sneak attack, unfortunately. Unfortunately, also, that is going to be a miss.

I rolled a four. Nice. Nine, so only a 13. So maybe it's the sudden, you know, having just gotten used to being fighting underwater, she goes to throw this radiant blade as you see lightning begin to spark and crack off this creature's shell

as the attack nears it, but the attack sadly just goes a little wide and impacts probably in the rocks beside it. As a bone section, because she hasn't moved, she will try and throw a second radiant blade. Natural one. This is always the case. Whenever I'm controlling a PC,

if anybody else would like to roll, please do. As you do so. Rolls like a god, when he plays me. I don't want that responsibility. Yeah. Although, I will try and remember this for the future. She does have an ability to use homing strikes. I will try and remember that next time.

Homing strikes. But yes, so she moves forward, throws these two radiant blades, but neither connect. unfortunately. That's okay, that's right. So, she will finish her movement because I think Daisy is always playing quite cautiously.

Yeah, she dips into some cover there. Yeah, she'll try to hide there. Which is important because it is now Coral Song's turn. Carver is, everyone. Very high. La la la la la la. She continues the song, which is still going through verse one.

And so what she will do is I am not looking for it. As a bonus action, she will conjure a whirlpool. Oh, oh, cool. Oh, cool. A world pool. Oh, is that directly under Ophelia? Oh, yeah, that is.

Now, does a whirlpool, Karen, is being swallowed? I need. In fact, actually, I'm going to shoot. Probably. It kind of does, right? Yeah, I think so. Swallowed by the sea. Roan, Ophelia, and Xanthias. I need you to make strength saving throws.

As she conjures this sphere of a whirlpool, basically. as those of you who are within 10 feet of it, are pulled towards it. And it's 15 feet wide as well. Okay. 17. 17 is just barely a success. Damn it.

Natural one? Failure. Thelia? 13. Yeah. You are also pulled in. Oh, but Ophelia is like pulled directly onto it. Oh no, we're all pulled onto it.

Yeah. So you are now both occupying, so you're basically on top of each other. You are both in the middle of the world. Will it when? Don't breathe this. You are kind of sucked into this whirlpool, Xanthiasnophilia. As you feel the crushing weight of this whirlpool,

it is potentially harmful. And also, for reference, every square of the whirlpool is difficult to rain. That'll slow you down. Then she will, that is a bonus action. Yeah, yeah, yeah. As her action, I am going to have her use an arcane, Oh no, I will use a siren scream.

Oh, wow. Against, oh, gruffet, sensing Alface's tase stench. What's a vibe in here? Just hang out, bro. That is a 28 to hit. She kind of reaches back as this kind of like banshee, oh, kind of, you know, ripples through the water towards you. Like the circles of...

Oh, yeah. Um... It's like a roobo bean and Pokemon. Yeah. Yes, or Banshee in X-Men. Yeah, dude, yeah. Yes. Or a choral song from High Rollers.

Yeah, and that. That is 18 psychic damage gruff. Wow. And you cannot make reactions until the start of your next turn. Oh boy. As you feel yourself kind of rattled as this sonic force kind of strikes you

sort of reverberates in your mind. Sonic force, there is nobody within melee range of her to do her second attack. So, I think, oh no, of course. At the end of her turn, I'm gonna use her first villain action. Okay, to spend a point of fate. Okay, you got that back. And use, come forth my pet.

Oh, yeah, we come. For snaking out. Now, I wanted to get a custom mini for this. Unfortunately, it wasn't gonna arrive in time, so I've had to make do, I'm so sorry. Why don't you get one of those toys that you're holding it, wiggles? I was potentially looking at like what toys I could get off Amazon to put on a base.

So this is not, this is the right base size, but it is not quite the impressive miniature I wanted. Huge. Oh, he's cool, though. So yes, this is, technically I think this is above huge, because this is huge and then the base below it is. Gaggantuan. Yeah, this is going to count as Gagangchuan.

It bursts out from the ship, and because she has used her come forth my petability, it can make a free movement and an attack. What? How fast is it, though? Uh-oh. It surges forward and poor Daisy is going to get a chomp. Oh, but she doesn't have the poison. That is an 18 to hit, which will hit Daisy.

She's going to take some damage. She does have the dodge thing, right? Let's have uncanny dodge to reduce the damage. That is going to be 16 points of damage, which she will half to eight. Thank you. And it only has one attack. Well, it has one attack. However, Daisy is now in its jaws

and is grappled and restrained. Oh, God, okay. And then Xanthius and Ophelia, Ophelia, you are within 30 feet as it's bonus action. Oh, no, this is not its turn. This is what it can do as a villain action. My apologies. So, yeah, she just come forth my pet,

and it bursts out from the shipwreck. that's your ripples, you know, kind of snakes its way through the water, just bites Daisy. Daisy is like in its mouth, desperately trying to like hold its teeth from like chomping down. She's behind the teeth almost imprisoned by the snake as it surges forward. But that is going to be the end of Coral Song's turn. Oh my God. What a nitro turn.

Rough, it is your turn. How high up is everyone swimming from the ground? I'm just going to say that initially you're like five feet off the ground, like five, ten feet. Like, not much. And your feet. As a bonus action, I'm going to cast armor of Oak and Thorn. Activate your armor of Oak and Thorne. The green armor springs up around you.

Nice. And then as an action, I'm going to cast Control Water. Okay. And it's a hundred foot cube. Well, we'll get to that in a second because as a reaction, I'm going to try and counterspell. No. But counter spells change.

It has changed now. So, Gruff, you need to make a Constitution saving throw now. You could, you could fate it. They could counterfeit it, but that's okay. All right, add a D6. Okay, I'm not going to write that down. Counterfeit? That's not good.

No, 10, 11, 12. It's not enough, I'm afraid. So you go to control water, as you did before, so effective against the creatures when you used it before, kind of splits in water and she just is like you have no power here servant of the dead one and just breaks the spell as you try and conjure the primal energy to split and control the waves i control the waves here she's within range of me right yeah i believe so yeah 60 feet range she hasn't got a reaction now though it's true she has used a reaction big mistake

I'm going... Do you still have movement? I'm going to move away from her. Try and stay on the battle map, please. Obviously, we can just say, okay, I'm going to move, you know, imagine that there's a big wall of blood help. She definitely is 60. I mean, I can, yeah, I mean, like, 5, 10.

Yeah, that's 40, 45, 50, 55, 60. She's technically in this space. I just have her, like, there, like, for balancing. I pre-measured. Yeah, it is, yeah. Does, would this corner of this outcropping, would that give me a little bit of cover? It'd give you some cover, yeah,

it'd give you half covers a plus 2 AC. I'm just gonna... I'm gonna tuck a little bit... Okay. So swim away and a little bit behind the rocks. Okay. And that's all I got. Okay, all righty.

So after gruff, we then go to Ophelia. Ophelia, at the start of your turn, this whirlpool is gonna do some damage to you, I'm afraid. Alright. I was hoping to break the whirlpool on you guys. It's all right? That is only gonna be five points of bludgeoning damage, but as I said, this is difficult to rain,

and you are in the middle, so it's gonna be 20 feet of movement to get out of the whirlpool. No problem, oh. Okay, so I would like to begin my turn by raging and... Rage! ...the power of the grandfather. Your vision goes that, you know, all shades of red and black.

Now, Big boy has kind of scoffered my idea because now he's going to be, well, I'm going to be right in his range if I go anywhere near him, I imagine. You do imagine that he has reach with his attacks. Yes. So I think what I might do is skirt around him and go for the crabby boy

that's closest to chorosong on this rock. This one? Yeah, that one. I'm going to go. So you would have to leave his threatened range. I think he's got it 15 feet of. Yeah. He's a bit.

big boy. I'm gonna risk you for a biscuit. Maybe more. You're gonna risk it? I'll risk it. So I can do half movement because I'm raging to start with. Oh, that's right.

That literally gets you out of this just for raging because that's 20 feet of movement basically. And then I can go 50 feet off. And then you just zip well, I'm gonna move you to here because as soon as you leave this thing's range, it gets to make an opportunity attack. And if it grabs you, you will be restrained and grappled so your speed becomes zero.

That is gonna be a 20, Uh, uh, 20, dead on. Oh, that just, just hits. Just hits. AC19. P-p-p-p-poo-poo-poo. Well. Where's my D-10?

There it is. Prediction was wrong. I was the second person to get gossed. Uh, Daisy hasn't been swallowed yet. Not yet. 18, uh, damage. Half to nine? It'll be half to nine, yes, that's right,

because you are raging. However, you are grappled. Oh, okay. You bear. Where you were. So in its tail. No, it can hold two creatures in its mouth. That's cool.

So it bites, it's got, it literally has Daisy, and as it swit kind of snaps its neck around, bites into Ophelia. And before Daisy is having a chance to get away, it's jaws slam shut again, and it's now got them both grappled and restrained. It doesn't look like it can fit any more than that, though. Can I, as a reaction to that,

past hellish rebuke, aiming it down its throat? You absolutely can. Just to do some damage. I think I'm going to give this thing disadvantage on it. I'm actually just going to say it fails the deck saving throw because you're in its mouth. Yeah. Like, and you're just going to...

In mouth, flame, explode. Now it is fire damage, so it's going to be halved anyway because you're underwater. So this is 2D10. Fire damage. 10, 10 fire damage. 10 points out. So five, because it is halft being underwater.

So you kind of scorch the inside of its mouth. And it sort of shakes its head around, but... is not deterred. Oh, you monstrous thing! Yeah, that's all I can do then. I can attack it. You can still take it, but you are restrained,

so you have disadvantage. That was a reaction, yeah. So you can attack it, but your speed is going to zero and you're restrained, which means you have disadvantage. Then I'll just, yeah, just to give it a gizzity go then. Okay. All right, Veracity, let's see what you can do today. 16.

16 does not hit. No, it's like natural. tough, thickened hide, seems to rebuff the strike, even from the inside. Argouchi, second strike, even worse, a two, so seven title. Don't forget you got fake guys, don't forget to whether if you need it. I doubt that D6 would have helped, that two to be able. No, not that too, no.

But yeah, so you go to strike, but this thing has got you in its teeth. It's hard to bring your weapon arm to bear as you are unable to... I've got a feel like teeth. Yeah, it's got a bit of vampire in my teeth. Anything else on your turn, I feel? That is my turn all done, though. Pretty much done there. We actually then go to Xanthius.

Hello, I'm in a whirlpool. Oh yes, you are, thank you. Aller motions. Yep. That is gonna be nine points of bludgeoning damage to you. Nine points. And again, it's gonna be about 20 feet of movement to get out because you are in the middle of it.

Yeah, okay, I do have 30, if I go, it's just like a, almost a ball, it's a sphere, right? Yeah, okay, so even if I go up, but it's still gonna cost you 10, 20 feet in your movement. Am I within snake range? Um... Snage.

Oh, yeah, it looks like I am within 15 of it. Um, so if I was to go just... Well, you... Like, this thing cannot fit any more creatures in its mouth, so it can't... Oh, it's used his reaction, yeah. Yeah, and it's used its reaction to... Um... Okay, in that case, I will use my 20 feet of movement to...

Which would go up, or do you want to go... Diagnar a little bit. Five and ten. Sure. Um... Now, I need to be... Five, ten, fifteen, twenty, twenty, twenty, thirty of its mouth. Thank you, yeah, I'll go a little upsie as well.

You're only about 10 feet up at this point. Enough to get out of the whirlpool for now, and I want to pick a particularly large and powerful-looking run and cast that as I cast a, yeah, light spills out around me, and I cast Circle of Power. Oh, an aura. A new spell. An aura radiates from me in a 30-4.

emanation for the duration while in the aura, you and your allies have advantage on saving throws against spells and other magical effects. Oh my God. That sounds pretty good. When an affected creature makes a saving throw against a spell or magic effect, they take that when they would take half, they instead take no damage.

Oh, if you succeed on the save. So good. Very good. Could you use your counter spell? God damn it. I did. You might have to spell magic, but... Spell slot.

Spell slot? And that is a full action to do that. And for a bony action, I would like to convert some runes. Yes. Oh, I do have some runes already. I love that for you. Are you done? So I can leave you to your run conversion.

Yes, let me, let me, who up conversion. All right, well then Rowan is up. Rowan is going to swim around the whirlpool. Mm-hmm. Oh, thank you. Beat, 5, 10, 15, 20, 25, 30. Mm-hmm. It's going to cast phantasmal force on the Great Navarra.

Okay. And I'm going to take a risk here, assuming some things about its nature. And if, well, I'll see if it succeeds first, so it's a saving throw, intelligence. Oh. 15. Yeah. One. Now.

It does not seem the brightest creature. It does seem to be a sort of, you know, not a mindless beast, but certainly a low-intelligence creature. So I can create a phenomenon that's no larger than 10-foot cube and is conceivable only to the target. I'm going to surround myself in clouds of blood. Hmm. So I look like I'm just pissing blood as a way of saying,

I'm an enticing thing to eat. So I'm going to call you on this one because the Phenhasmos force is you are creating something, like, scary or harmful to it, I believe. So that effect would... A phantasmal object, creature or other phenomena that's no larger than temperate cube that's perceivable only to the target for the duration, includes sound temperature or other stimuli.

But I believe it's because this does damage to the creature as if it interacts with the thing. So it would need to be something that can harm. And then a poisonous cloud around daisy. Around daisy. Okay, yeah, that's perfect, yeah, absolutely. So, like, some sort of horrid... So it's like it's coming out of its teeth.

That's also against a random failure as well, right? Yeah. Okay, okay. And does that affect happen now or? Yeah, straight away. Okay. While affected by the cell, target treats the phantasm if it's real. You can even take damage.

On each of my turns, such a phantasm can deal 2D8 psychic. So you can do that now? Yeah. Nice. And any time it's in the area of this thing, it can take it as well. Yeah. But if it avoids it, it doesn't take the damage. So I see you, I'm going to attach it to Daisy.

Yeah, yeah, because you want it to spit Daisy out, basically. Yeah, that's a great idea. Ten points. Ten points of psychic damage, which it has no resistance to. Yeah, you see the creature kind of, and you can see it's in the process of about to probably spit Daisy out. Cool. It's not his time. Hell yeah.

You just joined that fun run. Is that your action and move? I think that's, I'm going to give Bardock inspiration to a, Ophelia. Okay. Being in the jaws as well. Okay. Thank you.

Just, you hear a sensory note and you know it's a Rowan feel. Entry your ear canal through the water. Great. And that's it, I think. Okay, great. If you're done, it is going to be the creature's turn. It is going to spit Daisy out. Basically, like kind of, you know,

kind of spit her out. But I think that because you are two separate creatures, Does it have the ability to spit one, but not the other? Well, what I would say is I would say that Ophelia can make a... I'll give you a free escape attempt, so you can either make athletics or acrobatics attempt. Because it's going to actively spit Daisy out, but it wants to keep you in its mouth.

So it's going to try and spit Daisy out and then quickly snap on you again. So you have like a window here to break out, basically. Oh, I could do my athletics. I have advantage while I'm raging on athletics. Nice. You can also use bardic. Got a barding and there is three fate in the pool.

I'll use a bardix as a D8. Yeah. Perfect. Rockin. Oh, 10, 11, 12. Oh my God, 13. Really?

Yeah. Not enough, I'm afraid. It's hardic as well. So. Yeah, I've rolled a 2 on the DA, a 10 on my D20, and then my Fetix is a plus 1. Are you rolled with advantage? Yes. Yeah. No, I'm fortunate.

So it spits Daisy out, like having said, oh, this poison, like it tastes, you know, it's like, oh, this thing's horrid, and I don't want this anymore. But I want to keep my tasty yum yum treat and snaps shut on you. It's quite flattering, really. Yeah, it will then, I'd say that spitting Daisy out is like a bonus action. I'm then going to use its action to use swallow. I need Affili to make a strength saving throw. Fate it.

You got a fator. Fade. Oh, but you have advantage, right? I've advantage, so. Do you like to spend fate? Go on, man. Yeah, you got to. We don't want this prediction to be correct.

Two nap ones, watch this. Natural fucking 20 and a nat one. Okay. It gives, it gives, it gives. Give us and take it away. What the hell? So it tries to, you know, these horrid like multi-layered folds within its throat

are trying to force you down into its gullet. And you sort of plunge nasty and you're like, you're like holding onto its tooth and like, you know, this is Robert's Joel. And it is unable to swallow you. Good. It is unable to swallow you. Instead, what it will do then,

it spat Daisy out. It will make a tail attack against Daisy with its secondary attack. That is going to be 22. That is going to hit Daisy, unfortunately. Spitting something out and kicking it. for 11 points of damage. And she is knocked back as well. How often does she get the uncanny dodge?

Her reaction, so she needs to have her turn again. Right. Okay, got it. This is the last thing in the turn, so. But that's gonna be its go. I think it will, it still has you grapple the philia. It will just use a bit of its movement to move around here like this. and sort of block you, your path to thing.

It looks at you, like, you'd literally be in like, yeah, it turns its gaze on you. It can only swallow or bite, it can't do both in a round, so it's gonna try and bite you next time. Well, I run at all. With that, the swallow end fight, same round.

That is the end of the first round. Well done, everyone. Well done, verse two. Well, after a verse, it is normally the chorus. No, they go to the, like this one, this one cuts to the bridge. This cuts straight to the bridge. No, this, you begin to hear the song

that Coral Song is singing does begin to shift and becomes this repetitive melody simply called the chorus, the sort of lyric, some of it translates to hear the lure of the deep. And I need everybody to make a wisdom, charm saving throes. But everyone, it's a charm effect. All right? How well can I hear inside a creature?

You can hear this, perfectly fine. Okay. I would say that this is a magical effect. So yeah. Everyone has advantage. Everyone? Everyone within 30 feet.

Oh, within 30 feet? Oh, I thought it was 10 feet. 30 feet is massive. Alright, so yeah, wisdom advantage. Thank you. Oh my god, that advantage you literally save my life. The sound of the police. 16 for Daisy.

15 plus one. It's shit to you, Mr. Dice. So what are we looking at for Rowan? Let's go around. 20 is the success. Daisy got 16, which is a failure, unfortunately. Oh shit, 17? Is just the success.

That's the number you needed, 17. I forgot I have minus 2, I got 13. That is a failure for Xanthius, Griffith. 25. Success. So Xanthius and Daisy, as you hear this song, you look over

and choral song no longer looks like choral song in its true form you see whatever you are Daisy and you tell me like this would be someone beautiful somebody like resplend somebody that you want to admire this would be somebody that would appeal to you specifically

so a shard of male yeah very clearly a person with arms and legs. But this could be like, Hey, San! I was thinking, yeah, for Daisy, could it be her mother?

Like, you know. I mean, she never knew them. Perhaps this is what Daisy thinks her mother looks like, yeah. But yeah, it would be that kind of figure. You are both charmed by Carlson. Whilst you are charmed, I will remind you, you cannot attack the charmer or target the charmer

with harmful abilities on magical effects. Please, please, please, please. Please, please, I'm begging you, please. Please, God, please. Does that break concentration? It doesn't break concentration. I love you, man. I love you.

But you cannot take any hostile action against Carlson. Good, that's fine. That includes, including her in areas of effects of things. I would have immediately broken a fifth level spell if it did. Well, we'll find out what happens. Daisy, so that is at the start of the turn as the chorus of the lure of the deep takes place. Daisy's turn. Pretty rough.

Daisy, should I still go for the crab? I don't want to hurt that, I don't want, my mum's here, I don't want to hurt it. You can see like she's confused about what's going on, but it's like, I think, uh, and is confused as to what is happening here. But she can still attack the devourer or she can go for this crab. Crab. All right, do you want her to move closer?

I think she's good where she is. Stay where she is. Okay. Retain that cover. Yeah. That is definitely gonna hit. No sneak attack on this, unfortunately. But I believe it's still like D6 plus five for six. So the first radiant blade sinks into the crab shell.

As it does, you see the Thunder crab when it is struck by an attack. It's conductive shell along the path sort of following the arc of the dagger as it throws. A blast of lightning sort of echoes back. Daisy takes another five points of lightning damage. Oh, my God. But you can see it's not a very strong creature. That blows sort of dented its shell. Daisy will try and hit it with her second attack, which hits.

Nice. But then another burst, probably. Unfortunately, I keep rolling ones for damage, but that's still going to be another six points of damage there. To the cram. All damage, baby. And then unfortunately, yeah, Daisy is blasted by another three points of lightning damage. Does it look like it's coming from the crab itself?

Yes. No, I mean, the prism is still active, but when the creature is struck, it's almost kind of using the radiant blade and then arcing, you know, a spark back, basically, along it. Okay. Oh, I forgot to use that. Oh, well. I have to remember that next time. There's a lot of things in this encounter.

There's a bit homely thing. Any, no, no, no, this is for the creature. Anything that you would like Daisy to do, she has used her who would like how to move, or is she happy where she is? That's fine, right? I think Daisy's good, yeah. What does it take for her to go Radiant?

I believe if she goes big mode. Yeah, the other name for it, Siko mode. Sikko mode. Once per long rest. I go to Chad mode. A bonus action. A bonus, okay. Oh, wow.

to Boney to... Yes, to attack. Okay, I think she can do it next turn. I think she should go, what was it? Turbosiko Nasty mode. TubbosikoChad, not Gagachad. Yeah, she does do extra damage equal to a proficiency bonus, which is always good.

That's an extra plus four damage. So yes, I will do that next time. That's it. All right, with that, it is Coral Song's turn. No, he's not. That whirlpool vanishes. Okay. Bye.

Perfect. Great. But I do need a recharge roll for it. Can you roll the D6 for me? Yeah, you know. Why Rea? Yeah. Would you like to roll at Chris Trott?

No, unless I say, Rea. We don't even know if high is good. High's probably good, right? Recharge is normally five and six. Four. It does not recharge. Okay. So the Whirlpool does not recharge.

Instead, she will, I'm gonna leave your little spell on for now. Little spell? Little spell. My little spell? Little spell. Oh. Oh no.

I could just attack you actually and try and knock concentration off. Yeah, you don't give you hit. Oh, I mean, you've tempted me now. Oh, dear. I'm just saying, all I've got to say is, good fucking luck, chump. Oh, God.

22. Yeah. Yeah, that does hit, actually. Yeah, does that hit? That hits, that hits. It's unshearable. Oh, that's a shame. It's beyond the range of fields.

What should attack him with, have interest? 21 psychic damage. Concentration check, please. Well, I'm going to reduce that. Oh, yeah. With my runes. 21. So, da, da, da, da, da, da, da, da, da.

B, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, du, I'm going to use, one, two, three, 21, four runes. Four whole runes. I have. Big boy. Big spend. Um, okay, okay, reduce this by, Come on, 21.

Mm-hmm, uh-huh, mm-hmm, uh-huh, uh-huh, mm-hmm. Wait, mass, 12. 15, I reduced that by. So you still take six psychic damage. Six, which means I need to be a 10 with my concentration, but I have plus 8 in my concentration. Three, so 11. I was just like, man, if you roll a one now.

Oh, bloody. Tempting fate, my guy. But yeah, you managed to hold concentration of the spell, but you do have to burn those runes as you are blasted by another siren scream. Rune to make you burn. Critically, I am no longer glowing like candlelight and below fire.

Oh, what a shame. And I know that changes the fight massively. I know, what's the point? What's that for your school? Let's just go home. And that's going to be it. I'm not going to use her second villain action just yet as she's perfectly fine.

Not in any rush. We go to, after that, Gruffeth of Tremoro. I will remind you she has her reaction back. Yeah, I'm also out of 60 foot, though. You are, so out of 60 foot, yeah, it's true. I don't feel that people are ready to go full mega sicko mode, though, if I drop all the water.

So, and also Zan's going to drop 10 foot and knock himself out of concentration. 10 foot, that? He's actually technically 25 feet up in the air because he's 10 feet above where the whirl was. Just do it over there, please. Maybe I don't, no. Not this round.

Not this round. I want to cast a moonbeam. Okay. On the crab that Daisy has been attacking. Okay. So that is... It's level three. So can you make a DC something or other...

I believe it's con. 16? Con 16. Yep. Fails. Seven... Oh. Oh.

Oh. 7.7 and a 9, so 14, 23. Radiant damage. 23 points of radiant damage. The crab is completely destroyed by this column of radiant noise. Wow. They don't seem to be particularly strong. When you see as it does collapse,

the thunderous energy of the coral seems to cause an implosion, causing everything within about 10 feet of it sort of implode with a thunderous energy, but there are no creatures there. No, it's right. Nothing happens. Great. What about the line between them?

Yeah. So the line still remains, but is now sort of creating a sort of oval shape and seems to be weakened. Okay, okay, all right, okay, cool. It has not split, like the prism is split, but then it kind of creates like a ringed oval shape instead. It's like a point in illustrator.

Mm-hmm, mm-hmm, that's a fucking nightmare. No. Um, I am gonna use my bonus action to cut a shaleo on myself. Okay. And I might stay where I am. Okay. Yes.

Okay. That me. All right, then we go to Aphelia. Okay, um, uh. You are still being held by this creature. So it's an action to try and break out. I was wondering if I could, do I know that if this guy is gonna try and eat Rowan?

Um, I would say it's hard to tell, but it certainly is looking. looking in Rowan's direction. Can I ready an action to, like, lash my whip around one of its teeth, and when it opens its more, I can reach out a hand to pull Rowan in when he's in range, and then kind of swap us out. So then as he comes in, I can then use the momentum to put myself out.

So what I would say is you absolutely can do that. What I would say is you could basically, you would still make an attempt to escape, but I will make the DC lower because you're kind of going to wait for him to like, you know, you're anticipating him to bite Rowan, you'll use that momentum to like swap you out and I'll give it, like, I'll make it a lower DC basically. Yeah, if that's what you want to do. That would be a held action. Yep, all good. All right. You good with that? Yep, all good. Okay.

Rage ends for this turn. Uh, well, you could keep, you could use your bonus action to keep your rage going. That's true. I can do that. Yes, I'll use my bonus action to keep my rage up then. All right. Nice. Um, in which case we go to Zanzan. Hi there. The, um, the charm effect that is on me. Yes. Can I... Nope. Even when they attack me?

They haven't attacked you. Oh no, they did attack you, but also, yeah. Okay, fair enough. I forgot that I attacked you with it. But it also is in the effect that, yeah, that does not break the charm because the singing is continuing. Okay.

That's fair enough. I'm trying to... No, it's quite mean, actually. No, it's spicy, but yes, I'm trying to... not look at this visage um yeah because it is a figure that is not to zan's liking seeing them here um and i would like to cast i think i might just uh so if i if i the marrith of the snake is closed right uh yeah it's kind of currently closed yeah i'm just wondering if there's some way if i just start pelting this thing with energy,

if it will potentially make it, you know, shriek or something. Yeah, I will do a chromatic orb. Okay. Against this thing's, this snake's nasty little more. And I'm going to choose the damage type of... Does this thing have the similar sort of coral and stuff of the other creatures? It seems to. It's got like this very, very thin.

thick, gray, you know, eel-like hide. It's sort of mixture of eel-like, thick eel, blubbery skin with scales on top as well. Okay, so not easy to discern. No coral, no coral that you can see. Yeah, okay. Hmm. Well, poison worked well last time,

so I'll go with poison on my chromatic orb. Okay. Which is that. I will glow. I will use my mage rage before I start that as well as a bony action. That's where Zan is. Hi, it's here.

Sorry I wasn't glowing before. And I will, yeah, attack with advantage because of that. That's a two. And that's an eight. That is a not enough to hit, I don't think. 16. Not enough, I don't think. It's not enough. No, very close.

But the chromaticorp just scorches the scales, but it's not enough to deliver the impact of the poisonous energy into its body. Fuck. But I am now glowing and I'm nitro-sico mode, my own version of nitro-sico mode. And I will swim back down to go behind this pillar down here in a more favourable position for when Gruff wants to use the part-water ability or, you know, destroy water.

All righty. And that's me, bonus action and everything spent. Okay, all righty. Rowan. Rowan's going to swim up. Blu-blu. Face to face. Hey.

Like, kick its teeth. Kind of lurches back as you swing for it, thinking it's a proper attack. Lock eyes with it as if you should lock eyes with a predator. It's kind of got these like big bulbous eyes on the side of its head

and hanging from the front of it is this like angle of fish-like light kind of these bobbing, glowing oil. I'll swim towards that light. It kind of looks, it tilts its head and its eye kind of looks towards you and then it does look like it's going to try and bite you. Great. I'm going to just make it a little more annoyed by casting vicious tone,

which is my country. Wisdom save of 15. Ah, fail. Cool, that's just 2D6 psychic. Love that. Eight points of psychic. Okay. Very difficult to tell if this thing is her or if it's, you know, how wounded it seems to be.

There's no physical, real signs of injury to it at this point, but it looks in your direction, angry, kind of its lips curling back, revealing these rows and rows of needle-sharp teeth. And in between nose and arm. Yeah, it's just like... I'm trying, I'm trying to get it to open. I'm trying to get you into it.

Oh. Would it be an action, a bonus action to grip hold of Ophelias? Ophelius already spent the action for that, Which case I'll prepare myself to be gobbled. Okay. And a swift exchange to occur. Great. Perfect. It's a free swallow.

Yeah. Love that. So it's going to be, it's go. It's going to literally do that. It is going to... Above game question. Yes. The poison is in a flask, some kind.

Yes, it's in like a hollowed out gourd. I assume that would be an action to coat or to deliver it. Um, I would say, yes, it would be an action to coat a weapon or something with it, basically. Um, but also if you try and do that like underwater, it's probably going to be less effective. You probably want to have some sort of pocket of air or something to do that in. Um, otherwise it will. Well, in I go. Yeah.

Uh, it is, well, that was an above, above the table question. Uh, it is, it's go. Um, was the, um, was the, um, idea for you to swap places with. Yeah. Okay, cool. Yeah. Uh, so. Uh, so.

I guess the question here is it is going to make a bite attack against you, Rowan. Yeah, good luck. Yeah, I mean, it's going to try and bite you and I guess you either. Isn't it just like a willing? Well, no, because it's like his armour still protects him, right? So that is going to be 16 to hit.

Fail. So what I would say here is like it doesn't puncture your armour. So you're not going to take any damage, but if you still want to swap places with Ophelia. further in past the biting point. Sure, yeah. So give me that athletics or acrobatics check. Cool beans, athletics again, with advantage.

With advantage. How did you get there, bro? Two teeth. Oh, my God. So, you... I hate it. Pretend this is a one shot. Yeah.

Okay. Right, you wrap the whip around its tooth, you reach out of row and you go and try and swap places with him, But as Rowan swims in and you go to leave, the whip gets caught and it yanks you back and the teeth slams shut before you can escape. And you are now, you are still, unfortunately, going to be grappled and restrained at Rowan

as you are now both inside of its mouth. So, come in a moment. I am going to spend a fate on its fated action. me hungry, as it is going to attempt to swallow you both immediately. So I need strength-saving throws from both of you. This could work out. Yeah. Yeah, this could be all right.

You need a buddy. Yeah, we'll hold hands and we go down. Swallow buddies. You can cut a hole in its side and he does this point. You can voluntarily fail this. Dimension Dog can carry two. Can it? Then I guess I'll come with you then.

I'll help, I mean, as well. Hey, what was your team name? Team Swallow. No, what was it before the last episode? That was two weeks ago. Thunderstruck. Team Thunderstruck are back in again. Back in.

Thunderstruck. Gonna get swallowed. Right? Well, if you fail, if you voluntarily fail, you don't need to roll. Sure. I'm like that I'm praying for a flume. Yeah. Well, there's only one way this is going.

The multitudes of folds in this creature's gullet, which have their own teeth and hooks that are sort of dragging you back through it. Oh, fuck. As you are pulled in immediately. you are both blind you are still restrained so you're both blinded you are restrained

but who gets swallowed first I would say a failure because Rowan was very no you're not allowed there you go 40% of the Twitch chat predictions I would say you were in its mouth you were further in

yeah further in as you are swallowed you are both yeah blinded restrained but you do notice that as you sort of the initial rush of water that goes in as you begin to slide down this immense creatures like gullet there are pockets of air

it almost does become a bit of a flume as there are, there is water still within it but that is being expelled through some sort of you know filter or something as yeah you you feel actual like stale acidic you know quite acrid air filled the space I regret it's how do I get out I don't want to go

I can't see you yeah you are I will say you are both blind whether or not you can, like, reaching out, remember, you're a strain, like you're trying to reach out and feel like, I will say we'll have to find out if you can find each other in the darkness. Turn your turn on. But we jump to the top of a brand new turn. These turns are being rapid.

As the next verse of the lure of the deep begins. The dur of the leap. Coral song begins to sing this one now talking of their watery grave, dragging these sailors and dragging people down, talking of the fauna or the, sorry, the flora and the plants of her lair, you know, wrapping the sailors up as all of the plant life begins to animate and becomes animated and reaches. out to grab anybody who is near bar.

Oh, my God, we have to worry about the terrain as well. Yes. Love it. And so I think for now, this is only going to affect Daisy currently. It's her favourite saving throw. It's a strength saving throw for the year old Daisy. As the plants reach over this barrier and bind her restraining her. Oh, God.

Oh, God. So three of us are restrained, two of which swallowed. just in time for a break. Just in time for I was literally going to build. You saw, I was going to build up to it, thank you. I'll cut that, you do that again. All right. So with as the plants, the seaweed wraps around Daisy,

binding her to this broken mast, that is at the top of Brandon Real, which means we're going to take our break here. Oh, great idea. And then come back after five minutes. Sometimes you just wait a beat. You know, just give it a beat. Let me finish.

Yeah, I know, I know. Trust in your other. Trust in the Dungeon Master. I trust in the third one. With that, we're going to take a five minute break. We will see you all back here in five minutes, everybody, to try and see where we get on with this combat. Is it looking good? Is it looking bad? We don't know.

It's going to find out. Yeah. Sorry. Yeah. You're all right. Some people have taken some damage, but we'll find out. We'll find out. I'm having a good time. Yeah. Have a drink. Swallow some water. Swallow some snacks.

I'd kill the crab. You did. You did. One crab. One crab has been defeated. Eat a crab down. Great job. But the plan. The plan is happening. It's different.

It's happening. It's different. We'll see you in five. Take care everybody. Bye. Bye. Bye. Bye.

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