High Rollers DnD - High Rollers: Aerois | #47 - Under the Sea (Part 1)

Episode Date: September 30, 2019

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Create your free account and speed up your campaigns today. Last time on High Rollers. The party travelled to the settlement of Yamalotai, an orc settlement out in the Sea of Broken Stars. There, they rescued the settlement from an attack by Sahagun and various sharks. After dispensing with the Sahagun

and some interesting choices in battle, mainly from Sentry who floated down to the sea, the party dispensed with the Sahagun and met with two figures who had been protecting the sea. The party dispatched these to Haugen and met with two figures who had been protecting the town. Wavelord Jowani, who is the orc leader of the settlement of Yamalotai, as well as Baroness Erin Coralsong,

a Triton noble of the underwater realm of Tidesilver, the Triton ruler of the Seas of Erois. Whilst there, they met with several other citizens of Yamalota as well, especially Lentz, who is a Triton salvager of Court of Shadows goods as well as Starborn Alliance and Solvin relics. And he had a number of wares to display, but sadly none were purchased, including a Solvin shield. Not yet.

Not yet. wares to display but sadly none were purchased including a solvent shield not yet uh not yet however after speaking with wave lord jowani and baroness erin coralsong the party have been informed that over the last three weeks the sahagun have become extremely aggressive all across the seas of arois and specifically the people of yamalota have been besieged by a force that has been seen with remnants and pieces of Court of Shadows armor and weaponry and that they have become far more aggressive. Baroness Erin Coralsong was specifically sent here to investigate a settlement called the Twilight Corals nearby that had gone silent and that nobody had heard from in some time, and she has requested the party's aid in investigating the settlement and then putting a stop to the Sahagin attacks by eliminating their high priestess.

That is where we begin today. Very cool. You have had water breathing cast upon you by Wavelord Jwani, which lasts for 24 hours. You left Yamalotai about an hour and a half to two hours ago um having traveled about 50 miles um via the airship to the region uh of uh the sea where the twilight corals is located uh baroness erin coralsong has informed you that the settlement itself is deep below the waves and you will need to swim down to investigate it i believe that the last thing that had happened is nova nova vija um had attempted to speak with the eternal known as helios

that is accompanying you on the airship um to seek his aid or his protection on your mission but he had informed nova that he wanted to hear from the rest of the party if they wanted him to come and their reasons for wanting him to come along as well before he made his decision. So you have a choice.

You can either just crack on or if any of you want to go and speak with Helios, now would be the time to do it. Could I quickly do a clarification as well? Of course you can. I've had a lot of questions

about this. Sure. When I got back from the one-shot, I used had a lot of questions about this when I got back from the one shot I used the coin yes to replace Lady Dusk Willow yes to replace one level of bard with

one level of wizard you did a lot of people have been asking why I've been introducing myself as a cleric wizard that's why so I just basically hard swapped bard for wizard

and we did that because you weren't really enjoying bard it didn't really enjoying bard it didn't really make sense for your character anymore it gave me a lot of spells I could get

as a cleric so it was kind of it felt very redundant whereas wizard feels very cool and gives me access to new interesting things

well and you have you have a reason to level wizard up as well there are things that you want from high level wizard as well

so that is just a pure DM making it for fun it's for fun it's you know so Tom can enjoy the character. And that was in the one shot that they did in PAX.

Yes. Which is available on YouTube. It's on our YouTube channel. Yeah. So there you go. That's a little clarification for you. There you go. That's what Quill is now.

Cool. Cool. So yeah. So the airship hovers perhaps a few meters above the water. You can hear waves kind of like as the tide surges, the occasional wave kind of just kisses the bottom, as the tide surges, the occasional wave kind of just kisses the bottom of the airship.

But otherwise, it hums, hovering in place. And the crew just go about their business. Oriah and the rest of the crew

are just working. Do we want to show off the ship, by the way? I think we do. We can attach the mast. Attach the mast first. So, we now have a massive,

I want to say miniature that's all we have that's it Sid might be able to switch to the other camera as well the airship okay thanks Sid for trying to get on really good shot

there it is that's great you've got like the front bit it's probably harder than that so for podcast listeners we bought what ship is this this is the

Fallen Star I think it's called by WizKids I really like the Gryffin. Oh, yeah. So Dragonclaw. Dragonclaw. An actual airship, or well, a ship that we hope to customize to look more like the airship.

Yep. That we can use for battle maps and things like that. Isn't that cool? Look how big it is, by the way. Oh, there you go. There you go. It's massive. It's not quite the design of of it But it's a shape

Yeah the deck is about the same But the actual like sails And the design and stuff Isn't quite right It's a beast It's so freaking cool But do you know the best thing Tom Is you can take all of your

Player characters off that And then we can put the ship To the side Because we're not going to be Using it today We're not actually using it today So there we go I can stay there

I mean it can do But it will block the rest of the map When we come to Oh you can like And everything opens mean, it can do, but it will block the rest of the map when we come to it. Oh, you can like open up the... And everything opens up. It's very, very cool. You can take off the stairs. You can open up the portholes.

Okay, it's not on product review. So there you go. Stairs are gone. That's the ship we've got. Am I now? Should make ship combat a lot cooler to look at and a lot cooler to play as well. It's really cheap. It's very cheap.

Right, but come on. Take your characters off and put it all back. There you go. And tell me what you're doing. I think Sentry probably speak to Helios. Yep. Okay. So Sentry goes and finds Helios. He's probably on the very prow of the ship just looking out over the water. His big

lion-leaning form just kind of glowing softly in the afternoon sun. I'll do the same, but before that I would have got on my pyjamas instead. So you put your pyjamas on underwater. I didn't bring a swimsuit,

so this is Lucas' next best thing. Are they silk? Your pyjamas, yeah, they're like silk and pink with like stars on them or something, I remember. They're very classic. I'm not wearing the hat, though. Okay, so no hat, but pyjamas, like little silk them or something. I remember. They're very classic. Yeah. I'm not wearing the hat though. Okay. So no hat, pajamas,

like little silk pajamas. Okay. So, uh, whilst, well, whilst Lucius is getting changed, um,

I'm assuming century makes her way over to speak with Helios. Uh, yeah, you find him at the prow of the ship. Um, and he probably is just looking out on the waves. Okay. I'll just give him a little tap on the shoulder.

You can feel that, like, being an Eterna, he's like an embodiment of energy. There is a physical form there, but it's not like a solid creature. Okay. It's, you tap him and it, you don't quite, like, put your hand through him like a ghost, but you can feel that it's just energy. Like, it's not like a hard substance.

Okay. And he turns to you. Ah, you are the Guardian Sentry, yes? That is correct, yeah. I believe. I'm assuming you have come to speak with me after your friend, the Ganassi, informed you of my desire to speak with people. Yeah. We'd really need you down there, Helios.

You seem capable sorts. I'm not underwater. I'm not good underwater. It slows me down terribly. Why do you think that I would be any different? Do you act differently underwater? Does water have any effect on you? It is important to remember that as an Eterna, I am not a living creature in the same sense. I can make myself appear in this form to make it easier to speak with you people here on Orois, but this is not what I am meant to be. I am a being of living energy.

I can take... I can change my form, but not in a way to become anything that you would recognise as a creature. My duty as a guardian, as a protector, Turner, was to basically act as a shield, as a protector, Turner, was to basically act as a shield, as a barrier between my people and harm. I did this, and he kind of gestures up.

In the world beyond this, in the dark space, it is like I simply will myself to be a barrier. Here it is, it's not the same. I do not fight. This is what I tried to explain to your Ganassi friend. I am not a fighter. I am a protector. Well, like me, then. You are a protector?

Well, I try to be as best as I can. How so? Well, I very much try to protect my friends when they're in combat. Why do you do this? Because they're my friends, and I wouldn't like to lose another set of friends again. You speak of lose another. This implies that you have lost people before, yes? I have, yes. When Starbane attacked Solvin many, many years ago,

Solvin sunk beneath the waves and I lost everybody. Everyone that I loved, everybody I cared for, everyone that gave me anything good in this world, they've gone. But I found new hope with my new friends and all these new adventures we've been on, I'd very much like to keep them around as long as I can, which is why I protect them. Your people, the Guardians, you were created here on Erois, weren't you? We were, yes.

And yet you still believe in defending this place, even though you were used as soldiers, as weapons? Well, as best as I can. It's the only thing I know how to do. It's what I was made to do. If I have nothing else to do, then what else am I good for? I feel that you and I are more similar than the others, if nothing else.

I too was created to protect and to fulfil a purpose. And I too have lost people in the war against Kallus and his forces. This is something that your Ganassi friend does not seem to understand. I do not know her well, but she carries around Tiangong and she is curious in Tiangong in the same way that Alessandra was. They see us as subjects, as things to study, as tools perhaps. I believe there's a bond there though. They trust each other and they act together as if they're one being. It's impressive. It's amazing to see.

Lucius, you probably arrive at about this point. Hello. Century, have you convinced Helios to come along? Oh, we're just having a little chat. Oh, wonderful. You are Lucius, if I remember the name right. Yes, Captain Lucius, Varian Elwyn Elinasto, at your service.

You are one of the original elves of Erois, yes? You are the... No, no, I'm not that old. Do I look it? I mean as in that you're kind, your people are. The prime race, yes. Though it's kind of aloof to say some of these things.

Why should I help you and your crew, Captain Lucius? So far from what you have told me, you are perhaps involved in a great many things that could cause great danger to Aroas. Yes, but I think the bigger threat's

out there, and we're trying to be the protectors to stop that, you know? Yes. You say this, but do you truly understand this threat? Your guardian friend here, I believe, does. She fought against Kallus and she has seen the kind of

armies he can bring, but do you truly understand what that means? Absolutely not. I don't have a clue and I'm terrified, so I'm glad I have you and Sentry around to guide us. I appreciate your honesty Sentry around to guide us. I appreciate your honesty, if nothing else. Yes, if it weren't for these pyjamas made of silk, there would be stains.

And do you understand that I am a protector, Eterna, that I do not attack, I cannot kill your enemies, I will not harm other living beings for you. You understand this? Well, yes. In fact, Sentry is a protector as well, and we probably need more protection. We're the ones that do all the attacking anyway, so someone to defend us would be very useful.

But, you know, I just thought it'd be interesting because it's underwater. I would like Sentry to make a persuasion check, but with Lucius you may also make a persuasion check, but with Lucius, you may also make a persuasion check, because I feel that you are lending credence to some of the things that Sentry has said.

And I know that you are very persuasive. Not one! Eight. Or 17. Eight or 17? With the neck jammies. Yeah. Okay.

Helios turns to Sentry. I will make this agreement with you, Sentry Guardian. I will assist you in your desire to protect others. Okay. This is no means a agreement between us. This is temporary. Yeah. If I fear that you do not have the interests of your people

at heart, if I feel that you step away from the beliefs that I think that you and I share, I will no longer aid you. Do you understand? That's very fair. Thank you. Then very well. Then I will travel with you as to assist you in your

duty of protection. And he reaches out and places a hand on your shield and his form dissipates into a small orb. It impacts with the shield, which begins to softly glow golden. And then around your collar and neck, this kind of mane of like fur and a long golden cape begins kind of spilling out

and just remains locked in place. begins kind of spilling out and just remains locked in place this kind of softly glowing mantle and cloak that billows out kind of overlapping your existing cape you can go on D&D Beyond and under items you can find Helios' blessing

I think it's called oh dang I don't think I'm going to start this episode with that it's cool I think that's what I called it's cool. Oh, dang. That's badass. I don't think we're going to start this episode with that. It's cool. I think that's what I called it anyway. Let me check. That's very cool. Helios is a grump.

He is a grump, yeah. He's absolutely a grump. He's a cat. Why did it not work? He's a cat. He knocks things over. I was about to defend that, but no. No, yeah.

Helios is blessing. Yeah, it's cool. It's an item. You know what we don't need to do? It shouldn't require attunement. Helios is blessing, yeah, it's cool. It's an item. You know what we don't need to do? It shouldn't require attunement. Go back to Lentz and buy that shield now. He's got a loser shield. He's got a loser nerd shield.

Technically, did Sentry passively skin and wear Helios? I think that means you don't quite understand what an Eterna is. So your AC should have increased by one. So the main thing is it's plus one to your AC in saving throws. So that's just generic benefit. You have plus one AC in saving throws. What's the AC now? However, in addition, Sentry,

and this is why you were the right person to speak to Helios, any ability that allows you to protect other creatures from harm, such as the protection fighting style or a paladin's aura, has its range increased by five feet as long as Helios' blessing is with you. So your auras and your protection fighting style increase by five feet. So you guys have plus two on saves. Around ten feet, yeah. Holy crap.

Yeah. And then your protection fighting style is normally creatures within five feet of you. It's now creatures within ten feet of you. Nice. So. Nice. Nice. Sentry.

Sentry. You killed Helios and wore it. I skinned a cat and wore it. There's a slight strange visual element of that as well. It does look like she has like Helios' great lion mane is now like around Sentry's shoulders. Lucius is taken back. It's like a very Hercules kind of like wearing the pelt kind of mind. I'm not sure what just happened, but

you seem to be wearing Helios now. You hear this, you do hear a disembodied voice of like, I have provided my blessing to Sentry Guardian. And I am still here. I can still hear you, you should be aware. Are you talking from the fur or the...

The essence. The magical energy. Remember, that is what I truly am. Essence. Indeed. I've never worn another person before. I have. It's weird. It's weird. I've worn an Eterna before. Do you say that out loud? No.

I don't. Too soon. Hashtag too soon. While this is going on, Quill, Ayla, and Nova, Baroness Erin probably approaches you and is like, right! Are you all ready?

I think so. Are you going to be alright down there? No. Are you going to be all right down there? No. Do you know how far down we're actually going to have to go? If we're where I think we are, I mean, we're probably going to be traveling for a good while, about an hour. But with Jowani's spell,

it shouldn't be any different to a hike in some ways. Okay. And are we going to need lights? Are we going to need... Well, the twilight corals are... They're not too far down where it gets dark, but light will help. It'll be quite dim down there for you

if you can't see in the dark. Are we all met up again? Or is it... At the moment, she's just talking to these three, but you and Century and Helios can join in a second. She's just like, yeah, it could be a little dim down there um most of these waters are pretty calm so you won't need to worry about any strong currents or swimming around most of you lot though uh you might find that you're a little slower to move down there and certainly there's certain fighting

stars that you land as well you're not used to fighting down there so you might need to just adjust how you fight I'm not sure how I think most of you apart from you and your guardian friend appeared to be more spell casting types which should be fine I'm not used to fighting wherever I am oh you'll be alright then just remember you'll probably be a bit slower moving around great you'll probably be a bit slower moving around. Great. Are you slower underwater, even if you... Yeah, because I can only hold my breath.

I'm not, like, I'm an air, not a water. If she was water Ganassi, she'd be fine. Yeah, if I were water Ganassi, I'd be like, woohoo! Zoring around like Prince of Dawn. Who else can move underwater? Is it just me? You. You're the only one with... You and Aaron

have a swim speed. Yes! But she looks over and is like, yeah, if you're the only one you and Aaron have a swim speed yes but she looks over and is like yeah if you've got any more preparations I recommend you do them now we'll head down to the corals

find out what's happened down there and then from there we'll move on as we need to now and yeah you guys arrive at this point

I did swimming class back on Gustaven it's very important to do your stretches first and also to stay very hydrated because you can't drink the water around you. It's very salty. And probably full of poo.

Okay. You'll get crampies in your leggies. Sure. Do you have any idea what we might see? Century has a golden fur cloak around her and her shield is glowing, by the way. Did you? Helios is coming! Just because you were going to continue that

conversation I think Quill would go like hmm. I mean yeah my perception I can probably see that Helios. You can. Thank you so much Helios. Thank you. I have agreed to help your guardian friend as their desires match my own. That's fair.

I'm just happy to have you along. He just goes, he is a grump. He's still not sure about you. Fun. Not sure about any of us, really. Sentry, he likes Sentry. Yeah. Everyone likes Sentry Yeah

Everyone likes Sentry Come on If I had a shield He'd like me Breeze doesn't No Who doesn't? Breeze doesn't

Yeah He's a dick though Speaking of shield Do you have the barrier ring? I look at my hands I hate you all Obviously Yes

Good Okay good Just remember Remember to use that Please I hate you all. Obviously. Yes. Good. Okay, good. Just remember, remember to use that. Please. Just please, for the love of God, use that. Whilst you are doing some admin, I'm going to remind you of some things with regards to water-based combat, by the way. Water-based combat?

Yeah. Anyone with a swim speed, you're fine. If you've got swim speed, which is pretty much Aayla, you can just act as normal, right? Why does it say that? It will be under your movement if you have got swim speed, which is pretty much Aayla, you can just act as normal, right? Why does it say that? It will be under your movement if you have a swim speed. If you don't have a swim speed, basically, you move at half speed.

Every foot of swimming costs you two feet of your movement speed, so just imagine that you're at half speed. He just challenged me, going, where is it? I was just wondering where it was. I've got a fight speed. You gain resistance to lightning damage and you can breathe underwater. You also gain a swimming speed of 30 feet. There you go.

If you don't have a swim speed, your melee attacks are at disadvantage unless you use certain weapons, which is basically any kind of thrusting weapon. So a dagger, short sword, spear, trident, javelin. You can use all of those in melee fine. Okay. The ship has enough crew where like century if you want to say like can anyone lend me a spear like kamala somebody like one of the beasts crew probably is like yeah i've got a spear and they can give you a spear basically

or a short sword real dud weapon though like it's not a magical weapon it's just a normal weapon or a short sword would probably be the most common as well. They can give you a gladius-style thrusting sword. Cool. What if I used Tiangong as a throwing disc? So any ranged weapon will automatically miss at its long range. So if you throw it over its short range, it just misses. It's just like... Yeah, exactly. So generally anything past 30 feet, it's not going to hit. What about a hammer?

Huh? A hammer. A hammer would be a bludgeoning weapon it would be slow same thing yeah does that affect mine if i have you have a swim speed so it doesn't affect for some reason doesn't affect you even though just because you're like really good at swimming i guess it's kind of like aquaman where you can kind of you you're magically manipulating the water around you so you can like spin and stuff it's stupid no spells are affected right uh fine so magic is unaffected unless you can't breathe but as long as you have water breathing on you're fine you can cast and speak and everything else um but any creatures

fully submerged in water have fire resistance so fire spells will be less effective underwater what about lightning uh so lightning physics wise there is no surface yeah there's no rules for lightning underwater like it isn't any worse so i'm not gonna make it like you can just use lightning as normal okay so if i use a shocking grasp it's not gonna kill me no it's almost maybe that like physics in physics in real world physics that probably doesn't make sense but in dnd there's no rules for it so i'm not gonna try and make my own i I'm just going to follow this. Win, win, win, win, win, win for Ayla. Win, win, win, win, win.

A win-win and then a couple more wins. Yeah. Aaron is just like, if you've got any questions about the Sahogun or Tritons, ask me. Well, actually, I mean, they've managed to dispatch a giant shark and multiple priestesses and other things.

Are we expecting worse down there? I suspect that it depends. If they fortify the Twilight Corals, then yes, probably. But I imagine that they've mainly come from the ravine, the cold light depths nearby. That's probably where we'll meet more Saurhagan resistance. But I want to investigate the settlement first. My people are there and I suspect that there's probably not much left, but I need to know what happened.

Okay. Okay. Any other creatures that you think they might have? Sir Horgan have a natural affinity with sharks, but they're also, we've known them to work with other underwater creatures before. So sometimes there's like a slave race called Marrow, which they sometimes work with. Quite large, quite brutish, a little unintelligent, but the priestesses can somewhat control them and manipulate them.

Quite brutish, dangerous combatants, but they're pretty dim. Mainly sharks, but also there's razorfish, which we might encounter. They're more of a natural hazard deep beneath the waves. As long as you're not bleeding, you should be all right. They're drawn to blood. So as long as you're not heavily bleeding, you should be okay.

Now, to just make it absolutely clear. Yeah. Baroness. Yes. This extremely adept at fighting, capable, that we saw, is not joining us I know, I'm coming with you of course I'm coming with you

these are my people, it's my mission I'm absolutely coming with you I'm trained in combat and I know a few spells you seem to hold your own well, I can try obviously let's all work together and do our best and hopefully if you're interested in

whatever the Sahogun are up to, then we'll get to the bottom of it. Sure. Can I use my messenger ring and just suddenly become really interested in the ceiling? Sure. And then just be like, if they're with the Court of Shadows, there might be more Eterna similar to Night Frost. So we should keep an eye out for that.

Why don't we ask Helios if he can sense it? Or Tiangong. Or Helios can speak, right? I didn't know if you guys wanted to talk about this with people. I'm so confused, so I'm just limiting it to messenger rings for now, so you don't shout at me. I mean, if you detect anything, let us know through the mail. I'm pretty sure Helios will let us know.

You've all gone quiet again, are you all right? All right. This ceiling's really interesting. Gearing up for a swim. Is silk a good choice for underwater? Terrible. No, probably terrible. Yeah, worst.

Yeah. Any kind of loose flowing fabrics you want to try and bind up. You want to keep yourself as aerodynamic as possible. I don't have anything else. Then take it off. It's very cold down there. I mean, it will be. The water breathing might protect you a little bit,

but these are pretty temperate waters. We're kind of at the midpoint of Eros. How deep are we going? Pretty deep, but not deep enough for it to get too cold, I don't think. Do I have to pop my ears? For the twilight corals, no. If we have to go deep into the ravine, we definitely will need to think about depth a little bit more.

Okay. What's the identifier for the High Priest? She'll look similar to the others but she'll probably have more iconography on her. Also she'll be very powerful. She'll probably have quite a lot of Sahogun and Meru

around her. I imagine that she'll probably be in the ravine. She'll be in their nesting caves I imagine. So we need to go the ravine. She'll be in their nesting caves, I imagine. So we need to go down there and find out. Okay. Nesting caves. Birdman.

Can't remember your name. Quill, thanks. Quill, sorry. Maybe stick close to your gardening friend, because I noticed that you're a bit limited on momentum down there. Yeah, no, I am. Thank you. But yeah, that's the plan.

I'm going to stick to Sentry, basically. All right. As an emergency, and she holds up a trident, as an absolute emergency, I can summon forth some creatures to get you out of danger if you need to get out,

if you need to get to the surface quick. They can fly swimmers up? Yeah, I can summon a few, a few of my friends, sea friends to swim you up. How many of us will you be able to... I think I can summon about four dolphins. Right.

Okay. They're magical. They're not real dolphins. And they'll last about an hour. I've heard of dolphins. You're not... Oh, right. Yeah, you landwalkers probably wouldn't have seen any before, right? So, okay. Well, yeah, I can summon some dolphins if we need to. I can't wait. Sure. That's a bit of a

like that's if like for some reason you can no longer breathe or if you get in trouble then that's our quick exit. That's alright. Can I summon now? No I can only summon them once a day. Okay. Sorry. I'm really excited. I just grew up reading about them. They're my favourite animal.

Landers are weird. I drew a lot of pictures. You've never seen a dolphin before? No. Crikey. I'm an air ganassi. Strange. Right, and then she just jumps into the water. She just dives off of the side of the boat. Three point dive.

Is that how I can swim? Is that how I dive? Aayla splashes straight in. Can we roll for dives? Sure, you can roll for dives. Anyone, like, yeah, like, these two are pretty proficient, I'd say, like, doing, like, a nice... Performance, or... This would be acrobatics, I think, for a dive.

Natural 20! So, yeah, Nova does this quite... Do you actually try and do a dive, or are you just, like, and then just jump in? I'd probably... I'd probably actually, yeah, have swimming lessons, so I'd probably... I'd do a proper, like... Fancy. Yeah, you in? I'd probably actually have swimming lessons so I'd probably do a proper like you do like a full night plus acrobatics

I got eight essentially just sort of like throws herself in but the weight just kind of like the armour and the shield just kind of rolls her over and she just belly flops in have you seen that video of like the mum and the two kids by the side of a pool

and the mum dives, the kid next to them jumps in and then the baby just goes boom. Yeah, yeah, yeah. He just like tumbles in. This is like this. Very nice though. Well then Lucius, I am double checking with Uriah and Kalara that

everything's okay and leaving the ship Uriah's like it is fine captain we'll remain here I will take the airship a little bit up but if you need help just signal us and I'll bring us down I hand her my folded pyjamas oh are you now just naked no I've got

tiny pants on which have an embroidered L on the front I'm assuming you have your focus, your arm. The arm focus is on. All the, like, the useful things are on. So you've kept your magic items. Do you have, like, a bag for, like, your other equipment? I have a satchel.

So you have a satchel, the arm, and then pants. What's your arm? Do you have an arm? I guess it's a sorcerer. AC. Yeah. It's a sorcerer. Base.

So I've got a 12. Yep. Okay, 12. I mean, it's a dive. It so I got a 12 yep okay 12 I mean it's a dive it's not a great dive but you actually manage to like get in the water it's probably you end up

like feet first like you're more just like and then in and then Quill is the only one left on deck well I guess like being Aarakocra

I am happy to just be in Aarakocra nude okay with like just no clothes right okay yeah you can do it.

You're a feathery boy. Yeah, I'm a feathery boy, so I'm covering all my feet. So you can keep your satchel and stuff, but you can take off all your robes and stuff. I'll keep my satchel. Okay. And I didn't roll too well. I got an eight. So I guess I like sort of turn onto the ladder.

And I sort of slowly try and move down the ladder. But then a wet run. I slip on that and just fall into the ladder. And then you're kind of like kicking around classic bird like just making a play

bird swimming is not the most elegant thing in the world I've done it once before I'd like to think that Ayla came back

to the surface to watch the rest of them do this you and Erin are both watching them like top marks bird

top marks the Ganesi did alright that was quite a good dive both watching him like Top marks bird! Top marks! The Ganesi did alright though. That was quite a good dive. Century, just as a point whilst you are a guardian you have metal parts. You are also made of wood which is buoyant so you're not just like sinking but it's more

the heavy armour and the shield and the weapons is actually what's weighing you down more. But you're also very strong, so you're, like, still keeping, you know, your head above the water when you want. Just so you don't think that, like, Metal Mario, you sink from the top. You know, you are, you can swim. Also, do you want to add a short sword to your equipment and equip that rather than your battle axe? Yeah, so just go into equipment, add a short sword, and equip that.

Cool. Cool. Cool. All right. If you make your way, you... How do we work out our swim speed, by the way, if we don't...

It's half your movement speed. It's half your movement. Yeah. But because you're not under threat, you basically can just move at a regular pace. Sure. And I'm guessing Aaron and Ayla

will probably scout ahead a little bit. Sure. So you guys swim ahead and then occasionally come back to the surface. Well, no. Erin just starts swimming underwater straight away. Can we speak to each other?

You can. You can speak to each other telepathically. If you want to speak to Erin, you just have to get close because you can breathe. So it's actually, as soon as you start going under the water, it's strange. Reflexively, you're holding your breath, but then as your breath is getting desperate

and you realize you need to breathe, you just inhale, like, by natural reflex. And the magic, it's just like, it's like breathing very thick air. Like, you can almost, like, it's like, you're, like, almost swallowing the air. Are you breathing in air? Yeah, you're, like, breathing in the water, but it's... Oh, that's weird. And it's the magic is filtering the oxygen.

This is like when you watch something that's underwater for ages and you get like... Yeah. Yeah. But it takes you... Like the first like 20 minutes of the swimming down is just you getting used to this idea that you can just breathe normally and you can speak.

That's messed up. But the air is obviously, it's like distorted and if they're too far away, they just don't hear it. So you have to get close to the person you want to speak to you normally need to be within about 10 to 15 feet for them to actually fully hear your what you're saying otherwise it's just and then just bubbles away i'm swimming by constantly cussing gust by the way casting so you're just kind of like propelling yourself like a little jet boat i'm like facing backwards like a scallop gust gust okay sure that's incredibly slow

backstroke it gives me 15 feet so what it pushes 15 I think so yeah push 15 okay yeah right well that's pretty much

your speed then 5 feet but with your movement speed yeah you can basically propel yourselves yeah yeah gust is only a counter I just imagine you're like

doing backstroke yeah but I'm just gusting the air. The water here is surprisingly warm. It's very temperate. This feels almost like Caribbean, Mediterranean. You are at the equator. You're at the center of Eros, effectively.

Also, I peed. It's very warm. And as you begin to go deeper, the afternoon sun is reflecting through the top of the waves. And you have this constant swell and surge of water all around you. And you occasionally feel like a very gentle current. The currents here aren't very strong. But as you begin to sink lower and lower, you begin to see schools of brightly colored fish, turtles swim by in the distance.

And you begin sinking lower and lower and lower as the waves and the light begins to get dimmer and dimmer as you everyone equalize equalize as you reach down you begin to see in the distance great coral formations like underwater mountains, these huge spires of bright purple, dark blue, deep red formations like brightly colored mountains scatter the landscape. Great clumps of ferns and seaweed attached to them like small forests that gently drift and sway in these gentle currents beneath the waves as this pleasant warm water surrounds you. It's not long, about an hour, hour and a half, swimming deep down and you think maybe east or west. East, sorry.

When you begin to see the outskirts of a village, the houses are constructed, they're like hollowed out coral formations or large seashells from some enormous beast that have been hollowed and carved out. You can see that they've been decorated with bioluminescent

paint that's been painted on the side of it. Bioluminescent algae. It's a diversion. But yeah, you begin to see these It's been kind of painted on the side of it by a luminescent algae. By a luminescent algae as a diversion. As a diversion. All right. But yeah, you begin to see these, and almost like little farms. Like there's embedded into the sand at the bottom,

you can see like these big strips of seaweed, like wheat, and these giant farms that have been collected. You see like nets, like three-dimensional farms farms rather than having like a pen in fences there's nets coalesced into a into like a sphere and there are fish caught in the inside like a little uh farm cool but you don't see any people you don't see any tritons and the water begins to turn a little colder and the silence begins to grip you. It's that surging, that constant swell of water

and just the sound of your teammates swimming around you is really the only thing you can hear as the water just surges around you. If you guys want to place your miniatures all at the end of the battle map. And then this is Eren, the Triton. Oh, cool. Do we have to worry

about the bends? No. Not for now. You can see that there are these large rock formations. There are plants. Some of them on the seabed. You can see that there are broken ruins, pieces of stone walls.

Ancient looking, covered in seaweed and ferns and bright flowers. Some of the plants have these long barbed tendrils, these large open kind of like leaves, like giant sort of like mouths almost that loom up and begin gently swifting and swaying. And you see that just in the distance, perhaps about, you know, sort of 80, 90, 100 feet ahead of you, you begin to see these houses embedded into the coral. For the purposes of the battle map, any of these kind of like worked stone walls are actually the coral houses. You can actually see them.

They don't have doors, but they have holes, which are the windows. And yeah, they're built into coral formations themselves. And then you can see that there are various rocks and there are various kind of like plants all swimming around um yeah and that's what you you see when you initially enter the area um we're not going to roll initiative but i want you guys to just track your turns and your movement so like let everybody move or decide what they're doing. We're not an initiative,

but it's just more like your movement and what you're doing. Just let's keep a track of that as you explore this settlement. Okay. Erin leads the way and she kind of like points, she swims closer to you and through the kind of distended water you hear her just say like Well, this is this is the coral twilight's but things don't look good this that we should have been met by guards There should have been people out in those farms I've not seen anything. I've not even seen traces of bodies. We should be killed. We should be really careful

Okay, how bright is? careful. How bright is dim light? So it is dim light. You can see the vague outlines of everything but detail you will need a light source for. Obviously torches and things will not work

down here. You will need magical light. Dancing lights? Dancing lights is absolutely perfect. Even better. Evocation cantrip. Light. Yep. You can just summon light and it will project around you. Cool. The light does, you know, refract and, you know, warp some things, but yeah. Can I ask the Baroness, is there anything here that is useful?

Is this village known for anything? Is there a resource or magical artifacts? Or would there be a reason that this is a village? I mean, the reason the village was placed here was basically because it's quite quiet. The temperature is quite warm. Most people that came to live here were farmers, people that wanted to get away from the largest settlements, people that wanted a quiet life, you know. But there is the ravine nearby the cold light depths now we've known that there have been sahogun in that ravine for a long time but they were a small force they were pretty malnourished they didn't have a lot of equipment um so king king tide silver did establish a small garrison here we sent most some of our elite troops um

basically soldiers who wanted to uh you know, not retire, but they were well-trained and we wanted to give them a bit of a, you know, a relaxing place for the last few years. And they've been keeping things under control up until now. So, but in terms of, there's not a mine or anything like most, this is just a quiet little place, almost a place for people to raise families. Before Yamalotai, would this be the place they'd attack first? It is the closest settlement to the depths, yes.

But there should have at least been a battle here. The warriors should have at least fought back. I don't think we'll see anything. We'll need to move closer in. Maybe explore, maybe investigate some of the houses, see what happened. Okay. Would you suggest we use lights to guide our way, or would that lead them to us? If there's anybody here, then yes, obviously lights will give us a way under the water. Sir Horgan can see in the dark, so they don't need lights, really. In which case, we need light.

Either way. To balance the odds. And stay close. Yep. And she will just, she'll swim about, she'll go through that little rock formation, like the little corridor there, and she'll swim 30 feet towards the village.

Cool, so she goes quite a way in. We'll catch up. Slowly. Ayla can go at her normal speed. Well, my normal speed's 45 Oh okay so you're going to just go 30

Okay So yeah I'll cast light I guess can I cast it on like the Hesper charm that I've got Yeah you can cast it on an object So I'll cast it on that and then move slowly forward 5, 10, 15 Okay Yeah I'll move in line with Quill

I'll move forward 15 as well Okay 15 for me So you guys are all sticking together and then ayla and erin are basically um dancing lights but keep it on one person each so you just keep one above each of you cool doesn't need one with the dancing lights and the light you've got plenty okay sorry can i cast it on century shield instead sure yeah century shield is technically softly glowing anyway it's not bright light though yeah might gives like a 30 foot radius

of bright light the front line at the moment it like, a 30-foot radius of bright light. I mean, she's the front line at the moment. It makes sense that she has the light. You also don't have any clothes on. I've got my Hesper. Let's go to Holy Symbol. What's your passive perception, Ayla? 14.

Okay. Never mind. Ayla, actually, one thing you would notice, Ayla, as you get closer, you see a creature in front of you and Erin. You see an amorphous blob of viscous-looking liquid with these long tendrils. And every now and then, a little bit of charge runs up and down its body, like a little crackle of lightning kind of echoes up and down its body. It's a jellyfish.

Erin kind of gestures up and down its body it's a jellyfish yeah oh erin kind of gestures you away like um you don't want to get too close to it's a storm cloud they'll they'll zap you if you get too close if you get within if five feet of it or so it'll zap you so she like gestures for you to swim around her um and then she's going to wait for the rest to catch up before she heads in any further you guys can take some time like it's just like track like you know how long you're taking because don't forget you can dash as well yeah as long as you don't take any other actions you can swim 30 feet i guess i'm also just i guess looking around as well so yeah like looking around well unless you want to go another way yeah do you want to go another way. Yeah, do you want to go around the other side or do you want to swim through that little crevice?

Don't forget, it's also 3D. You can swim over stuff as well, but just remember it's five feet up and over. Remember, it's a 3D space, so you can go up and down. Or do you want to go up? Just up on the top there, yeah. Cool.

It's real slimy. Slimy rock. Yeah, we're not too far behind Aayla at least I'll just go through the crevice following Sentry I'm going to basically stay behind Sentry like at all times she's also got the light as well just in case

well yeah you guys begin making your way through again you don't notice anything Erin waits for you guys all to swim up you begin to see with the light, you begin to see that there are marks in the ground. Looks like big, heavy drag marks, maybe. But also you begin to see that there are chips of metal,

broken ends of a spear half buried in the sand. There are signs of metal, broken ends of like a spear half buried in the sand. There are signs of activity, but there's no blood or bodies that you can see. Can we do a perception check? Yeah, you can make a perception check, yeah. I mean, I'm tracking your passive perceptions. But right now you're still quite far away

from the village. Can I see how many of those kind of drag marks there are? From back here, like maybe one or two. But they kind of lead into the village. What way do they look like they're being dragged?

They've been dragged from those outer farms that you pass on your way in. They look like they've been dragged towards the village. 16? 16 perception. I got 18, so less village. 16. 16 perception. I got 18, so less than my passive. 18 perception, still good. Okay.

So, yeah, quill just on the cusp of that 18. So just so I'm sure, if I roll perception and it's less than my passive, does that feel better? Yeah, so the difference is that your passive is something I will track, but there will be, like, limits to it, right? So in this case, and I'll explain why, if you'd gotten closer to the village, I would have just told you with your passive.

Because you're further out, but you're actively, like, listening and, like, searching for stuff, I'm going to give you the same information, right? So it's the kind of passive is, like, you'll just get it regardless. But if you actively choose to make a check, you might get information earlier than what I would have given it to you before. So in this case, as you are you're listening and you're looking around for

any signs of something and Quill, with your super keen eyesight, at the very back in this area you see like little pulses of light maybe coming from the coral houses and the formations. You can also see what, in the kind of central area,

floating limbs, like hands. Oh, God. No blood, but definitely limbs. You can also see that some of those limbs, like tiny schools of fish, are feeding on them, like nibbling and biting away um and you think strain your ears and nova you pick up on this hearing wise as well this whole area this whole time you've been swimming there's been so little sound because

you just have this swell this churn of the ocean but now you get closer to the center of this village. And you're not, you're certain that it's not a real scream. But there's like a haunting cries and screams like echoes. Like ghostly voices calling out. Is it similar to like the ghost voices we heard in the key of the depths of the night eyes like you don't know what it is but whatever happened here it's left a dark taint on this place and now you begin to notice that apart from those jellyfish

and these schools of fish feeding on these limbs there's no other signs of life there's no other fish there's no other shellfish there's no crustaceans like this place is devoid of all life and you begin to see more and more like signs of broken weapons and um you know things like where the coral has been broken where where it's been cut, or it's been scraped and clawed and ripped apart. Something very bad happened here. Yeah, I'll communicate. There's potentially people at the back there

and all the limbs and stuff. Do the claw marks look like, you know, triton fingers desperately gripping on while they've been dragged away, or is it the sign of a larger creature? Some of them look like pieces, like, it doesn't look like finger marks, but it looks like people have grabbed them and it's, like, the coral's broken off.

But then there are also points that just look like these very large, like, larger-than-normal-sized claws have, like, raked it. There's something very big here. Yeah. Still here. A quill?

Mm-hmm. Your eye, has that recharged? Can you see? Good question. Has it recharged? It was three or four days since we left. I think I asked this last time. I think it's something where you're going to need to keep a track on it

because I can't remember exactly when you last used it. You had like two, three days on the ship from Gustaven to Yamalotai. Yeah, well, I last used it in the cell, and apparently we spent like seven days or so sorting out the library stuff in the ship as well. You did spend some time there, so yeah, probably. In that case, yeah, sure. So roll your D3.

D3. Three. So two charges back. Neato. Okay. Yes. Yeah. Is it worth seeing what happened here?

I could find out. Maybe you need to be in the location. So if you want the village, you'll need to be closer. You're still on the outskirts at this point. You're kind of on these kind of like plants and rock formations. I could... If we get closer, I can find out what happened in the middle there. But I could also ask about these bigger rips in the earth

to find out actually what caused that. Yeah, well, that's what I mean. Because if you asked what happened here, surely you would see what is making the big scares. Yeah, I mean, okay. In that case... You may also see it if you get close enough anyway, so be careful.

True. Do you want to use it? I mean, yeah, I'll find one of the... Erin is going to start swimming closer, but slowly. She's only going to go 15 feet she'll go around the jellyfish she doesn't get too close to it

stay out of 5 foot range okay I think I feel like I know what's going to happen here oh also it's quite dark down here there is a blue glow near Quill and Ayla as a little goblin

made from translucent energy phases into existence. I guess he's not swimming, is he? He's not swimming, he's a ghost! So you're just this, like, now that it's darker and you're out of the sunlight, this, like... Fantastic. He's, like,

floating around like swim speed okay i don't know like half doggy paddles but he isn't really that could be i won't do what i was gonna do i'm gonna find one of the biggest like massive claw marks and I'm just going to ask I guess what caused this okay so one of the claws not the pieces that have broken off yeah

this area around here yeah this little kind of like like little kind of half cave yeah so you find like the claw marks

you feel once again the familiar foggy vision of the eye of the storm clouds your sight and begins rushing for a moment, like kind of almost speeding through fog at a great speed. And then you see a vision. And this time for once, actually, you're still in the same space you were. You're not in a different place this time. Whereas when you've used this before, you've gone to different different places this time you stay and you're almost still there yourself

and you see a large blue skinned shark like in its appearance with a great hinged jaw um creature with like a long eel like tail and fins um dragging a triton woman by her hair. And she's kicking and screaming. She's bleeding profusely from cuts. And he just grips onto the coral and yanks back as he throws her behind him into the waiting arms of more of these creatures. And you see a Sahagin priestess

just gesturing for the woman to be brought to her. The woman tries to fight back and one of these large creatures just skewers her with a large spear. And she's just like, and the blood begins pooling out and spilling into the water, clouding the area in front of her red.

And then the Sahagin priestess just is like, she's speaking a language you don't understand. And she begins like just stroking the face and just nods and then begins pulling her back towards the village. Okay. So there's... And then your vision snaps back. Massively bejeweled priestess, perhaps?

No. No, she looks similar to the ones that you've seen before. Oh, okay. So while Quill is doing that, what is the rest of everyone else doing? I mean, Kim's having a freakout here. Yeah. Freaking out.

Yeah. Can I ask Helios how he's doing? Talking to Helios. You all right, mate? How's it going? He's like, I'm fine. Cat underwater. I have no, I do not

sense the difference in environment as you do. Good to know. Good to know, buddy. I'm just going to follow. Okay.

Erin, as she's going. Okay. So, um. Is she moving? Yeah, she'll move forward. And I think she's a trained, she's somewhat

of a trained soldier, so she's going to start moving quieter. So she's kind of stealthing underwater by keeping low to the ground and trying to minimize her movements. So she kind of like, and you can see the underwater between her hands, like this webbing has appeared, like that wasn't there before. This kind of like webbing has grown and she just kind of like one swift push and she lets that, like the drift of like the current propel her to a rock and then she holds there for a moment so she's going to try and stealth for a little bit um and she rolls well yes she doesn't have any training and stuff so 15 um yeah and she's basically she slides over towards this rock here, basically. Pretty good.

So she's not near where I saw the limbs and bits. She's getting closer to it, yeah. Right, okay. I guess everyone else needs to take a turn first. Yeah. I would stay behind the side quill while he's tripping. I guess it's readily obvious when I'm... Not to the others, actually, no. I mean, you just go... It's tripping. I guess it's readily obvious when I'm... Not to the others, actually, no.

I mean, you just go... It's six seconds. It's like you see all of this in the time it takes for six seconds to pass in the real world. Sure. So it's like you have a brief moment and then you're back into it. But enough for everyone else

to do whatever actions they need to do. Yeah, like one turn of actions, yeah. The following century. Yeah. What do you of actions, yeah. Just following sentry. Yeah, what do you guys move? Are you guys going to move up? I'm going to follow... Erin? Seeing that she's stealthing more, I'm going to stealth.

Okay. Rolls a 17. Okay. Stealth. What else? Couldn't go to this. You can see there's this, like, thick seaweed-like fern with these, you know, great kind of tendrils of seaweed

that begins drifting out. Cool, cool. I'll probably let the other guys know that you've now started sneaking. Aayla's started sneaking, so now we should probably start doing the same. So we'll try and stealth forward a little bit. Remember you have disadvantage sentry. Yeah, so 15. Just forward, straightforward?

Hug the edge of the cave bit. Don't forget, if you don't do anything else you can dash, so you can actually go 30 underwater. Yeah, like there. There? Yeah. Let everyone else catch up. That was 10 feet. Yeah, that's less. One more, yeah, maybe.

Here? Yeah. Actually not too far away from, that's this. One more, yeah, maybe. Here? Yeah. You're actually not too far away from the rock that everyone else is at. No. Where do you want to go? Overfell. Follow Central. I want to stay next to Quill.

Where do you want to go? I'm staying because I'm still looking at the thing. Okay. Where do you want to go? Yeah. Yeah, I'll start heading out. I'm also going to try and drift above the floor. Okay.

Because touching the floor would, like, billow up loads of sand and dust. Yeah, if you're not like Erin. Erin knows what she's doing, so she does this one swift burst and then lets the current drift to the rest of the way. If you were swimming normally, you'd be kicking up loads of dust. So if you want to swim up slightly higher, so you can put Lucius up higher. Cool. Nice. Cool. Nice.

Okay. I guess once I'm out of it, I'll say what I saw to everyone with the messenger rings. I can't communicate that to Aaron. You can communicate on the messenger rings. The jellyfish kind of just begins drifting closer towards... Like a jelly bubble. Oh, do they? Yep.

do they yep um erin and ayla as you begin getting closer you can see that from the far building into the coral this one back here you see flashes of dark purple this kind of faint pulse of purple magic glowing through the holes of the coral house like this kind of light of purple energy I will say that to in the messenger thing to the other guys Erin just kind of gestures and points at that and basically starts pulling out her trident at the ready. Yep. Okay. I'll have my hammer ready to go. I'm guessing I didn't see glowy purple lights in the vision at all.

You didn't. Can I... Quill? Mm-hmm. The priestess, was she wearing any jewelry or anything that looked like... Remember when we saw

the girls that worshipped Zalkira and they had amulets? In fact, as Nova mentions it, she was clutching a staff that had that emblem at the top of it. It looked like the staff was maybe made from, like, a broken piece of metal and then the emblem at the top of it it looked like the staff was maybe made from like

a broken piece of metal and then the emblem has been attached to it with like underwater twine and stuff like that like a made crudely made staff but it had zakira's emblem yeah oh so we're looking at sacrifices for power i think it's the same thing as before, yeah. Okay. Ayla and Erin, there is a disturbance in the water and... Like a pulse of water-like power just kind of... Out from that house. Pulse of magic, pulse of magic. Any ideas? Do I notice anything else happening after thatulse of magic, pulse of magic. Any ideas? Do I notice anything else happening after

that pulse of magic? For the moment it just kind of like... I mean, maybe at this distance you can begin to hear a faint muttering hissing. Kind of like... Just barely

audible on the waves. I think chances are they sacrificed the tritons to power the spell for Zarkira. Oh, like, remember when we were, the girls in the village and they were doing the same, but we interrupted it? Bad, bad, bad, bad, bad. Can I just drift around next to Erin and tell her,

say to her do you know if like whispering but do you know of any sacrifice rituals that Sahagin might have she kind of shakes her head like

this is the first time they've really been using magic when they attacked Yemelotai they've always just been like beasts almost like just slightly smarter than sharks. They've definitely, they've got more intelligent. I've never heard of sacrifices. I mean, maybe they would, I can imagine them taking my people to eat,

but nothing else. We should be careful. Something's definitely wrong here. I can sense it in the water. And she's going to begin just kind of like drifting off like bring your other friends up and then she's going to drift away. Everybody come closer.

So you're saying we can move 30 if we wanted to. Yeah if you want to just dash yeah basically. Cool I will catch up to Sentry and go to the side of her and I guess I guess you're losing. Okay. Lucius. Lucius. I mean it's the jellyfish why aren't you? It's gonna. I'm the other side of her, I guess. I guess you are, Lucius. Okay. Lucius. Lucius. Let me ask the jellyfish why, aren't you?

He's going to... I'm going to ask you. Go over the 5, 10, 15, so there. But you're flying above the jellyfish. And I'm not going to dash. I'll ready a chromatic orb. Okay. For if anything comes out of that

that looks really nasty and wants to attack us, I will fire an acid chromatic orb at it. Okay. You guys weren't... How stealthy were you guys moving, or did you move stealthily? I dashed, so I mean, I don't know if I can dash. I did my normal...

You can. Disadvantage. Sure. All of us... If you're trying to move stealthy, then yeah. I'll let you say that if you want to move stealthy. Oh, throw at disadvantage. Yeah, disadvantage if you dashed, yes.

Ten. Ten? I'm probably not going to dash. Okay, then just make it normally. There you go, five feet back. Yeah, you can go back. I got a nat 20 on the first one and a seven on the second. Oh, damn.

Eleven. Fifteen for me. As more of you begin kind of swimming up, not as quietly as Ayla and Erin have been, yeah, you begin to, like, kick up. And as Lucius kind of passes over the jellyfish, there is this kind of, like, spark as it senses something nearby, kind of, like, not enough for it to attack you,

but it just kind of, like, pulses with power. Sentry, like, as you kind of swim down this kind of uh just a piece of like rock or coral like donks against the shield like where you've kicked it up and the current is like um and just the currents it's almost like a ripple in a pond right the currents as you're swimming change ever so slightly and subtly underneath uh under the water um yeah that that's it. Okay. Cheers. It all sounds like that travel far as well

underwater. Yeah. Maybe. Cool. Cool. Basically, I've right clicked sentry,

I've clicked follow. Okay, so you're just going to follow as behind. Okay. I know that reference. Full slash Aaron Will. Follow. Yeah. Slash in Quillplas. I've sent something. Force slash Aaron Will. Slash in, Quilplers.

She's going to come all the way around to here and start hiding around here. Oh, so she's like, what, ten feet from the wall? She's trying to, like, see inside basically. Do I see any of the stuff floating about? Yes, as you get closer

you begin to see there are hands like triton hands that have been severed and they've been like where the breast of the arm was it's been sort of like just kind of like rotted away um there is also near the other buildings that lucius and maybe you can see a bit more floating around on the inside of these tiny like razorfish these like big fish with big piranha like mouths and they're eating body parts they're like like having a great time um but more importantly as you get closer to the house on the end ayla you see another of these like pulses of purple magic and then a shape begins to emerge. Cool, cool.

You see this kind of, at first, there's almost a sense of relief from both you and Erin as you see initially what appears to be like a triton hand, so not clawed, but like a triton, slightly webbed hand kind of emerges. Initially. Perhaps a little larger than expected and then followed behind it is a grotesquely swelled kind of almost like pumped up arm as this huge arm kind of stretches out um and then another kind of like arm pulls

out of the building and it pulls itself shakingly free and then finally she probably would have once been a triton but now her face has been stretched into a wide shark-like grin um a pair of horns has begun to sprout from her head and curve back and her whole head has been like stretched like it's been elongated and enlarged through magic very rapidly as this giant body begins to basically just pull itself through. I don't know about this one, Mark. I feel pretty sick, Mark. As it kind of pulls itself

free, it kind of like looms, looks up, and it just kind of begins swaying in the water, not seemingly seeing you or Aaron as you're kind of like swaying in the water, not seemingly seeing you or Erin as you're kind of clutched in amongst these coral and reeds. I will telepathically communicate to the other guys what the hell I just saw.

I saw a lot. Just stays in front of you. Coming behind it, emerging from the building, you see a Sahagin priestess, but different to the ones you saw before. The ones before you saw were these kind of, like, almost blue-skinned

humanoid, but they had these kind of grotesque shark-like appearances, like this rubberized skin, these large mouths filled with teeth and black eyes. The one that emerges looks distinctly more humanoid and more like a triton still big black eyes like a shark's like but pupils now her mouth is still full of razor sharp fangs but there's almost a delicateness to it as her shape and you can see

her body is still reforming like you can see that it's kind of shifting to become more of a humanoid shape um where she once had these kind of fat kind of swollen finned legs they're becoming this long slender tail um like a sea serpent as she pulls herself free though she however with her passive perception um absolutely sees you and erin as she pulls free a real action the creature that came out first if you were going to target a creature that would have been the first one big boy yeah it didn't look like it was going to attack anything because it hadn't seen anyone yet but you definitely see it i mean would you have shot it even if it didn't see it yeah you can choose not to take the action so you do so well two things happen at once then you see cam conjure this sphere of magic and launch it

towards the large bloated creature but the sahorgan priestess just raises her hand and this shriek, this kind of like echolocation sonar-like screech, like... And the water begins rippling. And as it does, emerging from the other two buildings that you hadn't gone to... What? You see these two enormous bipedal snake,

like, tail-legged creatures, the merrow, the blue skin creatures that Quill saw with these large claws. But they also appear to be carrying these large harpoon-like spears with chains attached to them. They also appear to have scraps of Court of Shadows armor crudely attached to their

bodies. Is that unique to when I last saw them? Yes. Oh. And that, my friends, is initiative. I think that's initiative, isn't it? Woo! Okay. I wanna go home! Well, the big big boy is very slow. That's fine, they're big big boys. So, big boys either side of us. Do I get off this chromatic orb before this initiative? Yeah, the chromatic orb is basically the same time as the other creatures emerge. So that's your surprise round, effectively. Sick.

Let's roll for the mirror. Not much better. Oh, man. Okay. Terrible initiative. I don't like the sound of underwater combat. Just get the dolphin. I love it.

Let's go. I love the idea of don't find it here don't get the Dolph out there go Dolph yourself hey good Dolph kiddo someone 23. Quill. 17. Nova. 9. Lucius. 20. Sentry. 12. 9. 9.

And then Arian is at 9 as well. I'm freaking out. Okay, well, let's just kick this off before we go on break. With a little round of combat. Ayla. Hello! So, in fact, sorry, let's do the Chromatic Orb, actually, sorry.

So, ranged spell attack is a magic spell, so it does not suffer the penalties for off-range. Twelve. Twelve to hit against the big thing is a hit. It's wearing no armour. You can see that whoever this woman once was

Her body has been twisted And ripped apart She's basically naked except for a few scraps Covering her up But her body has been distended I mean she's large She's big You can see her muscles bulging with power

How much do I have here? 18 plus 5 dichromancy on the priestess, please. Okay. There's a pendant here that I can use. So, 18. What type of damage? Acid. Acid damage. Okay. To that creature.

And then how much to the priestess? 5. Okay. So that goes off before anything, and then it goes to A. Let's go. And that, basically, as the orb hits, that's when the two creatures begin swarming out of the other rooms. Oh, no. And the Saurgans are like,

and, like, kind of gestures towards all of you. And they look similar, like, distorted, horrible. No, these ones look different. These are, like, blue-skinned, like, fishmen. The one in the video. Yeah. These are marrow. Coolned like fish men. The one in the video. Yeah. These are, these are marrow.

Cool. Okay. Marrow. I'm going to swim up to the priestess. Okay. Rage. And then hit her. Okay.

So bonus action to rage. Let's swim up. Oh, I got a natural 20. Let's just open this up by wiping a boy. Wiping a boy. Natural 20. No joke. Wow. One was cop a boy. Wiping a boy. Natural 20. No joke. One was cocked and then I got two natural 20s.

Nice. Right. Cool. That's a double damage. That's a lot of damage. That's D&D. So max damage on the first one, then roll a dice. Okay. I've never got crit with these new rules. So it's basically max damage on the dice, so what's your normal damage dice?

10 plus your strength or your normal damage bonus. So 17 with the Howling Tempest plus the 6 from my aura? Just that? The d6 from my... You can't do your aura because you raged as a bonus action. It's a bonus action to use your aura. So 17. Plus another D10. Plus

13 for the first one. Hang on. 17 plus... How can it be 13? It's just the D10. So you do 10 plus 7 for your damage.

So 23. So, okay, 23. Okay. On the first one. On the first one. The second one is the same. On the first one The second one It'll be 17 plus 8 Nice

17 plus 8 is 25 47 damage You destroyed it Oh my god Yeah, you literally swim up to this priestess And she raises her hand like Like ready to cast the spell or do something. Before you can do that,

you just spin in the water, and just the hammer just cleaves her head, just rips the head from her body. With all the force that you can muster, just, and that, as the head just comes loose. Oh, just instantly stops. The creature, like, near you goes berserk. Like, as soon as the priest just comes loose. Oh, it just instantly stops. The creature, like, near you goes berserk. Like, as soon as the priestess dies,

it just begins howling and screaming under the water. It begins tearing at its own flesh. It goes insane. God, I imagine there's just, like, a wake of blood behind her hammer. Oh, and that's the other thing. With all the blood blood you notice the giant schools of fish I didn't mean to do that one can you stop talking ever hey mark you say thanks if you want no daddy's boy here I'm literally gonna like put a

gag in your mouth for any time that's not your turn. I think people would be more annoyed if I didn't. I'm going to 5, 10, 15 away from those. I'm not going away. But can I go down behind the jelly boot? It will attack you if you go there.

He's using it as cover. I want to keep a good arc on it so can I be as high up as far away before it starts? Where do you want to be? I noticed the buzz when I went up here, right? So I just kind of want to arc there, like there. I mean, just put yourself on the higher up thing so we know that you're above the water, but yeah.

Okay. I'm kind of, like, behind the jelly. You're not behind it, you're above it. You said. You said you're above it. I was trying to be, like, halfway down as well. Right, you're still above it then. Yeah.'re above it. I was trying to be like halfway down as well. Right, you're still above it then. Yeah.

Yeah, okay. Because it's kind of floating around the bottom level. Sure, whatever. You can't get cover from it unless you are next to it. And I'm going to cast Armor of Agathys on myself. Okay. Is that ice? Yeah.

It is cold damage. Is he frozen? I'm going to stop talking. No, it's magic Magic I almost said magic Mike then it's magic Mike speed on the little swarms of fish Swarms of fish they go towards blood don't they? Oh man, they just immediately get Oh God 25, 30, 35, 40. Oh man, they just immediately get to the 15, 20, 25. But that guy, the spawner Satan,

has just ripped their skin open, right? It's torn at his skin, but no blood's come out. But the blood from the priestess is filling the area, and these things are coming towards that and are beginning to feed ravenously on what it can find there. They're not attacking Aayla. Punt her head towards the monster. She's not bleeding.

So that's the swarms. Quill. Oh, Quill. That's you, boy. Is it me? I think Sentry's got 20. No, I've got 12. Oh, yeah. We'll do this round of combat, then we'll take the break. Man, I'm going to... Oh, no, I'm not. Careful with your

miniature. you're literally right yeah that boy is in fact your foot's already come off you've got no foot don't know how you've done that

there's no foot you are very aggressive with that mini yeah not that aggressive I lost a leg I mean you have I literally just

watched you squeeze it yeah right well I'm gonna back up a little bit and then 5, 10, 15, 16, 25, 30, 35, 40. So he's in range. Could I...

40 feet? That's not... 5, 10, 15, 20, 25, 30, 35, 40. What? Do you want to be within 40 feet? No, no, no. I was just seeing if it was in range of a Guiding Bolt. Which I'm going to do. I'm going to Guiding Bolt him. Okay.

Although I haven't got Recharge spells. Yikes. What? Big oof. Since the last fight, I guess we haven't had a long rest, have we? You haven't, no? No. Well, either way, I will do a level two Guiding Bolt on this boy.

So plus seven to hit. Boom! On the Marrow. Yeah, the marrow that was near Lucius. 16. We'll call that marrow A.

Yeah. 16. Hits. Just. Oh! Blasts past the remnants of armor around its body.

Awesome! 5d6. That's insane. 6, 1, 7. What level is that? 10, 11. Second level. Second level? 5d6?

Yeah. Garden Bolt's really good. Also 120 feet range. It's actually quite... It's OP! Yeah, it is. That's why I keep telling you, it's why I don't heal you. 13 to Magio's.

13 radiant. Yeah, and advantage on whoever hits it next. Next, yeah, okay okay perfect um that's just your go fully done uh i can't do any bonus action so i'll yep stay like that

okay it would be the priestess she's dead essentially um cool i think i'm gonna channel divinity

um so if i did turn the faithless how would that work how does it work tell us okay so as an action you present your holy symbol, each fae or fiend within 30 feet of you that you can hear must make a wisdom saving throw.

On a fae or the creature is turned for one minute or until it takes damage. Okay, so turning means it becomes frightened of you, basically. It has to move away from you. Okay, cool. But yeah, any fiend or fae creatures within 30 feet. Nice. Cool, so I'll do number A, boy. Nice. Cool, so I'll do number A, boy.

Okay. And I'll... Marrow A. Marrow A. You'd have to move one there. Yeah. Okay, I can tell you that when you try to channel infinity, this creature is neither fiend nor fae. Okay. So you summon the power of Solvin

to try and push this thing away to get it out of your sight, but whatever it is, it does not seem to understand the power that you're driving into it, and it does not seem to be affected, unfortunately. No problemo. And so that's your action, and you've used five foot of movement. Ah.

So then I'm going to cast Shield of Faith as a bonus action. Yep. That's got a 60 feet range on it. Sure. Who do you want to cast it on? I'm going to cast it on Faith as a bonus action. Yep. That's got a 60 feet range on it. Sure. Who do you want to cast it on? I'm going to cast it on Quill. It's plus two AC for ten minutes. Plus two AC.

Cool. Sweet. Thank you. I just remembered an ability. Something that I should have done earlier. Never mind. Okay. After Sentry, we go to Nova.

Can I move so I'm within 30 foot of this boy? Mm-hmm. we go to Nova um can I uh move so I'm within 30 foot of this boy so so how much movement was that

because you only got 15 foot oh 5, 10, 15 no yeah you're just so am I within

30 foot of him 5, 10 5, 10, 15 20, 25 just yeah okay can I cast hexblade curse on him yep 5, 10, 15, 20, 25 just yeah can I cast Hexblade Curse on him? yep

and then I'm just going to go for Eldritch Blast and then Eldritch Blast do I get advantage? advantage from the first one so the first beam it's multiple attacks with Eldritch Blast so 16

so 16 plus 7. It's going to hit. It's going to hit. So the first one hits. It's a d10. Seven points of damage. Okay. And then the second beam.

That one does not have advantage. Does not have advantage. Ah, plus 3 damage, because it's plus 3 damage from my Hexblade. Hexblade's cursed, yep. So that's 10 points to start with. Yep, yep, yep. Thirteen plus seven is twenty. Hits.

Boom. Ten again. Ten points of damage again. Okay. Yeah, that one seems heavily injured now as you blast it with magic from a distance. It kind of like gets slammed in the water as it gets blasted back. Just waiting for it to move, though. Erin's turn.

Erin, faced with one of her own people that's obviously the subject of this thing, I'm going to make a wisdom saving throw for her, which she passes. She will basically try and attack this giant thing, basically. She will swim up to it and begin trying to attack it,

and she will cast Booming Blade. Ooh. Thank you. She misses. Aw. Two plus a six. So she goes to thrust, and you feel this kind of thunderous energy erupt from a trident, but the creature is actually surprisingly swift and dodges to the side

and then begins whipping its head around. Booming Blade isn't like a next hit sort of spell, is it? If it hits, it deals extra damage and then if you try to move it, it'll do stuff. And then finally we have, and we'll take a break after I do this, the Tomb Marrows are going to go.

Uh-oh, this is when they start to tear us to shreds. This one will go. Oh, he's not going to... He's got a half-pun now. Oh, okay. Oh, he's not going to... He's got a harpoon now. Oh, yikes. They're doing a pincer attack. So, both Mero, one will target Nova and one will target

Quill. They hurl these harpoons at you to try and basically impale you with the harpoons. That's a natural 20 against Nova. I'm going to react to protect on Nova. You can. I have disadvantage. Becomes a 19.

I just rolled it the second attack. So it's not a crit, but it's still a hit. Quill, a 2. Hey! Son of a biscuit. You've got a high EC as well, thanks to the shield of faith. You do. So Nova, you're going to take... Hellish Rebuke! you're going to take doop doop doop doop doop

hellish rebuke. Wow. You're going to take nine points of piercing damage. All right. And then can you make a strength check for me, please? Here we go.

Here we go. Do I get advantage because of sentry? Nope. She protected you from the attack. It's not saving through. It's just a strength contest.

So you have been put strength through. Strength. Just a strength check. So you have been put. Just a strength check. D20 plus strength. Eight. Eight. You are pulled 20 feet towards the marrow. Five, ten, fifteen. So he would have been a bit further back. And then he's going to bite you.

Chomp, chomp, chomp. That is a hell of a play. For a 17. Exactly. Oh. For a total. Exactly. Oh. For a total of 10 more points of piercing damage as he rams you with a harpoon, yanks you in, and then Can you let me know when you're below half your hit point

maximum, please? Uh, yeah, sure. I'm not there yet, but... Anybody, just anybody, let me know when you're below half your hit points. Finally, this thing is going to turn, and it goes for Ayla. It's not going to move out of Thingy's reach. It reaches Ayla, and then it is going to make a multi-attack.

It's going to attempt to bite you and claw you. First hit is a 21 with its bite. I'm assuming that's a hit. And then the second one is a 21 as well. So you're going to take... What kind of damage take can damages it you're gonna half all of this because it's not magical I said six so half the three for the first attack and then That is five half the two. So you take five total damage Um An ugly

Weird little chump I will remember this Um And with that That's a full round of combat Yeah And it's break time So we're going to take a quick break

We'll be back And then we'll be back To finish off this battle Under the sea Under the sea Down where it's wetter It's not much better Under the sea Merci!