High Rollers DnD - High Rollers: Aerois #87 | Ancient Enemies Underfoot (Part 1)

Episode Date: October 12, 2020

The Frog Men hold Lucius at spear-point while the Froghemoth continues it's rage! Support the High Rollers and get early access to podcast episodes (and more) on our Patreon: www.patreon.com/HighRollers Thanks to our sponsors D&D Beyond! D&D Beyond is the official digital toolset for Dungeons & Dragons 5th Edition. Create your FREE account now and start digitising your campaigns here: www.dndbeyond.com/ Music courtesy of Epidemic Sound Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Pickaxe. I'm Dave, and saving with TD Insurance made me feel like I scored my own jingle. With over 30 ways to save, nobody seems like me. Save on home and auto like only you can at tdinsurance.com slash ways to save. TD. Ready for you. Hello, welcome back to High Rollers, the Dungeons & Dragons podcast in the world of Erois. We're sponsored by D&D Beyond, the ultimate digital Dungeons & Dragons toolkit that takes all the confusing rules of D&D and compresses it into an awesome online package.

Perfect for D&D newcomers and veterans. Use the link in the podcast description to try out D&D Beyond for free. Last time on Erois. Our heroes of Erois have made the plans for their next steps. After purchasing various ingredients and spell components in Porta Sovrano, they headed out on their airship to locate a nearby shard of Tiangong for Nova. The shard appeared to be moving across the sea, and pursuing it, the group found an uncharted island. Taking a small skim skiff down to the island from above, the party explored and discovered the island was inhabited by a group of frogmen invited to dine with their shaman gloob or

the party partook in strange fruits and odd music that dulled their senses after asking to touch the spear believed to be niang got uh tiangong nova was instructed she must be blessed by croco toa the frogman's god however croco toa's blessing appeared to be intended for her to become dinner, and the battle began. Now, Lucius is unconscious, and Glooball the Frogman has the Tiangong Spear pointed at his heart. And that is where we begin today, my dear friends. Set the scene. marshy bog-like island is fetid and with a strong smell of rot and a temperate climate it's sticky and sweaty there are dozens of bodies of slain bollywugs scattered around the island having mostly been killed by aileron sentry on a brutal ramp. But stood before you is still the giant Froggamoth,

the form of Krokotoa, and Glooball the Shaman stands above Lucius's body with the spear pointed at his heart. And yeah, that is where we're going to begin. And we are still in initiative. And I hate to say it, but it is Lucius's turn. And you are unconscious. I will need a death saving throw, please, Lucius.

Oh, my God. Very well, Mark. Starting strong. Roll. I love to start. Roll. D, 20. Roll.

It's a success. 15. So, 15, one success. You are not getting any worse. But the frogman continues to stand over. And Glooball looks poised. He looks ready that any sudden movement and he is going to plunge this spear down.

Ayla, you are next in the initiative. I will hold my turn to not I will forego my turn but still probably be looking angrily in the little shit frogman's direction

so as not to be detrimental to Lucius's life. Sure. Okay. You probably will lose your raging at the end because you haven't attacked anything or taken any damage. That's fine. So if you don't take it. Yeah.

Okay. Well, you might take damage. We'll see. We'll find out. Okay. So Aayla just watches Gloobor. You can see the Frogamoth is still active but nova what would you like to do can i so the spear is the tiangong shard right you believe so it certainly looks to be um certainly looks to be

certainly looks to be can I try and summon it similar to how I did with the shield and the other shards you can try but very much like you tried this once with Zax Ravis when you were going after the shard that he had and if it is attuned to a creature which

if the frogman is wielding it you imagine he is it's not possible to summon it when it's in possession by somebody else. You can try, but you've not had any success in summoning it. It has to be unattended when you've done it in the past. I guess it would be a really hard roll, wouldn't it? I mean, you don't know. You can certainly try.

The only other thing I'm thinking of doing is dimension dooring so I can... Where they are, is there a way I can dimension door so that my body is physically between Lucius and the spear? No. The spear is on his chest. It's, like, pointed onto his chest. There's no distance between them. Like, he's holding the spear directly over Lucius' body.

I'm going to try and summon it. So you're going to roll a d20. Just add your charisma modifier. Charisma modifier. So my charisma modifier is a plus 5. Here we go 13 14 15 16 17 18 you reach out um with your mind sensing that connection you can definitely this is clearly

a shard of tiangong you feel that bond that familiarity between the weapon you have in hand and the weapon that uh this frogman is wielding. But you meet a surprising mental resistance from this creature. Although it doesn't seem particularly intelligent, there is a strong sense of will and personality behind it, and it is stopping you from pulling it away. You won't be able to summon this thing whilst it's still anchored and possessed by this creature. You'll either need to find a way to break the attunement from them or

separate the weapon from him long enough that you can attune to it yourself and then you'll be able to merge them. But attuning takes at least an hour. If you can find a way to break the attunement, this bond between the spear and the creature,

then yes, you will be able to. Okay, that's my turn over. Okay, and there's no, like... I don't think I have anything else to do. To be clear, there's no, like, outward expression that you're doing anything, so he doesn't react. You just... This is all mental, like you're just mentally trying to summon the weapon, so...

Okay, Sentry. That's what I call the safest. Mm-hmm. You can see that you're all currently in front of this thing. It has direct line of sight to all of you as it's kind of holding this spear. And you can see that the frogman is beginning to kind of, like, move down, you know, as this is all happening at the same time. Frogman is beginning to kind of like move down, you know, as this is all happening at the same time. It looks like he's going to try and grab Lucius and pick him up, still threatening him to try and move away, like taking a hostage.

Christ. I have two ideas, but I don't know if either of them are going to work or help in any way. Well, you don't know if either of them are gonna work or help in any way well you don't know until you try true i'm thinking of either casting command on him and trying to get him to move away from lucius or misty stepping towards him and just getting in the way well like i said to like i said to kim he has the spear directly placed on his chest there's no way to get between him and lucius um but the you could you could still try and like you could try and wrestle him you could try and grab his arms and yank the spear away but that's going to come down to reflexes like who's the quicker between the two of you nothing personal kid

teleport behind you. Nothing personnel. There is very much nothing personnel about it. All the commands, yeah. I mean, as far as you know, the command spell, if you, depending on the command you give him, you could, you could, that could work. You don't know? Yeah.

What are you going to try? I think I'll try the command. I think I'll try and get him to drop the spear. Okay. So you say drop the spear. Okay. So you say drop as your command word. Yeah. Okay. Tell me DC and what kind of saving throw. A whiz 15 saving throw.

Okay. Wisdom. Natural 20, I'm afraid. So you speak out command and again there's no there's no immediate aggression you just kind of your eyes glow the golden glow of the matrix and you just speak this word drop uh and you see the frogman's eyes for a moment they blink slowly but then he just kind of resolves uh his will I do not think so. Not while I have the advantage. You will allow me to escape.

Perhaps then I will let your friend live. Anything else, Sentry? I'm just going to try and just, I'm just going to, yeah, not move. I'm just, yeah, for fear of Lucius, I'm just going to not threaten anything. Okay, Kilek. What's the nature of the other dudes? Like, are they still, you know, raring to attack?

Well, all of the other frog men are dead. The only creatures still alive are the giant frog moth, which still looks very aggressive and does not look like it is going to be... It looks like it's going to continue attacking. It doesn't show any signs of holding holding off and there are also two giant frogs that they look like they're gonna run away i'm not gonna lie they are in the motion of turning like run away as they are just animals they're just like oh scary scary predators are here. Run away now. Okay. Is there not a frog dude next to me?

Oh, yes. Sorry. There is one frog man remaining. I forgot that there was one survivor from the onslaught. They would probably still be looking like we have an opportunity. They have an opportunity to get away. Looks like he'll probably make his way over towards Gloobor, the shaman. He's like starting to back away.

But I removed him from the initiative, so I'm going to just have him go at the end of the turn. Okay, so I feel like he's basically readied an action, right? In the context of the game, he's readied an action. If he gets attacked, then I'm going to stab Lucius. So I want to create a chain of readied actions that if he goes to stab Lucius,

I'll lightning lure him. Okay. Can I lightning lure his thing, his weapon, his spear? You can't target the spear now, unfortunately. You can try, because I don't want to say no unfortunately well you could you can try because i don't want to say no you could try it's difficult the spell is not intended to have fine like control or fine accuracy like that the spell is designed to grab people-sized objects and yank them so it would be difficult i would say you could try it but it would be hard i'd

give the spear a very high ac um or is it a saving throw i can't is it a saving throw it's a strength save yeah so i i guess like yeah it's lightning for him it would probably be his strength saving throw but i'd give him advantage on it because he would have good leverage uh to use against it okay so that would be my action as a bonus action and i guess in the way that i want to do this you might want to make it a full action i want to do i'm also currently i'm going to currently just check the rules on reactions to see the order of things as well because i this is going to get uh confusing yeah well i'm feeling like if if he's like if someone attacks me i'm going to stab whereas i'm like if he's going to stab I'm going to do this

yeah okay here's what it says on the reactions certain special abilities spells and situations allow you to take a special action

called a reaction a reaction is an instant response to a trigger of some kind which can occur on your turn or someone else's the opportunity attack

described later is the most common type of reaction when you take a reaction you can't take another one until the start of your next turn if the reaction

interrupts another creature's turn that creature can turn continue it so the okay so the held action happens immediately so if he has if if this creature is saying i am going to stab lucius as soon as i'm attacked as soon as somebody goes to attack him he will stab you will then at the same time try enlightening the spear and I will probably have some sort of roll off to see which happens first. It will come down to reaction speed. Okay, well I might

I think that's the fairest way to do it. I might end up doing it anyway, but I've got a bonus action heal. I want a bonus action heal. It only has verbal semantics. I'm wondering if I could mask it and just heal Lucius so that he's on the ground alive. Okay.

Tom Hazel, you tell me, how do you mask a prayer of healing? Like saying, oh, mighty Hesper, heal my beloved companion Lucius. How do you mask that? Like this. Oh, mighty Hesper. So you're going to try and whisper it.

Okay. Sure, you can try and whisper the spell. I raise my wing into the air. Oh, there's a lot of feathers here. Sorry, it's getting in the way of my mouth. I mean, yeah, if you want to hide your mouth as you're speaking, that could help, maybe. I'm getting quite versed in low-level spells, I think.

I could probably whip one out in, like, I don't know, half a second. Right? Maybe. Is that what you're doing? What is this? What are you doing? I want to mask a heal on Lucius so that he's alive under him, so that he could at least be alive and not just die straight up. Make a sleight of hand check for me. Or actually, I guess performance

because you're like trying to mask your verbal actions. Yeah. Okay. Okay. You tell me. You tell me, Tom Hazel. I'm going to do that. You tell me. You tell me, Tom Hazel. I'm going to do that.

Okay. 14. 14, okay. He would have disadvantage. 14. 14. 14 versus 14. So I think...

Oh, boy. The thing is, I don't think a healing spell would make him stab lucius down because lucius is still you know at his mercy basically um so you can heal yeah you can cast healing word uh okay so lucius you've just very luckily just been healed for seven hp well you're welcome by the way you're still gonna die thanks buddy so you become conscious lucius you're still you're still prone on the floor um but your eyes kind of flutter now you feel the healing go through your body and you're not sure if this thing knows if you've been healed on that, what do you do? Lucius, are you

reacting? Are you like, bah! Open eyes, blast? Or would Lucius know to play dead? I don't think I'd be quick enough to react in such a way that's like, I'm going to do the perfect spell in this exact moment right now. Well, it's not your turn, so you can't cast a spell

so this is just like do you like open your eyes do you like you know cry out i'm sure there'll be some instinctive urge to react but i'd very much try and keep it quiet. Okay. Make a stealth check for me. No, just use his passive on this. No, I won't do that. I'd like you to. Eleven. Okay. Sure. I'm awake!

It's not that. It's not that. So, for those of you who are watching carefully, and I think Quill would notice this, Quill, you are certain that Gloobor knows that you've healed Quill. Like you see his demeanor change and he noticed you kind of like trying to hide your mouth

as you cast the spell. But more importantly, he knows that Lucius is alive. He knows that Lucius is conscious. Okay. All right. Yeah, in that case... Are you still holding your action? I'll carry on with that play

and just see how that goes. Okay. Delightful play. Gloobor will... Wait, it's not his turn. Actually, no, it's the Frogamoth's go. The Frogamoth will jump forward

basically jumping up to sentry, like this huge smash lands into the ground. And its tentacles will come flying out towards everybody. I just need to classic roll 20, refresh it. Oh, but who is everybody? I'm on concentration technically as well aren't I I'm holding a spell you are because you are holding it's only a cantrip

so it's not like you're going to lose a spell slot but yes you are concentrating same so sentry you are definitely going to be at least one of the targets here it's going to try and bite you it can't swallow you because you're currently large's going to try and bite you uh it can't swallow you because

you're currently large but it will try and bite you um and then let's see here five ten you are roughly the size of a barge eight tens doesn't it and then uh ala one tentacle comes out towards you and one tentacle towards quill so So I'll do the tentacles first. Quill, that is a 26. Oh, yeah, just about. Ayla, that is a natural 20. So 30. Fuck!

And then Century for the bite. That is a 27. Yep. I would die on save on enlarge. Yep. I will do a concave on enlarge. 12. I need to do the damage first before you do that, Century. 12, 19. 25 bludgeoning damage to Quill.

Aayla, I need to calculate because it's max damage and then roll again, so 3d8, 8, 16, 24, 30, 31, 36. 8, 16, 24, 30, 31, 36. 40 points of bludgeoning damage.

Fuck my life. Good news though, you are still technically raging and your rage will continue because you just took damage. Yeah, because it goes at the start of your turn if you didn't take damage. So you would have taken 20 bludgeoning damage. Hang on, I need to heal myself 20. Yeah, so yeah, because if you don't take damage or attack So 20. So you would have taken 20 bludgeoning damage, yes. Hang on, I need to heal myself 20. That's good.

Yeah, so yeah, because it's... If you don't take damage or attack anybody by the start of your next turn... Yeah, so you took damage, so it's fine. And then, yeah, Sentry, it bites you for more damage. It's 14, 16... 18 points of piercing damage, but it cannot swallow you. But now you need to make a concentration

that's staving through. So do you, Quill. Oh, yes. Failed that one. Yeah, so you're in large. Down I go. 16 for me. And then, yeah, you're fine, Quill, so your held action remains.

But you see Sentry's form shrink down as her enlarged form shrinks, and this frogamoth is now looming over Sentry's body, rearing back, ready to bite down again. Holy crap. Ah. This thing, now, he knows that you are conscious. But he does know that you are very injured. Lucius.

Does he know that we don't care? He does know that, yes. He definitely knows that for sure take him he's shiny take him does he know that we know so you see him he has the spear over lucius's body and he goes to grab lucius's collar um and then he knows that you can count on spell i think yeah he would just plunge the spear down into lucius i think um knowing that he's conscious so quillic and kala as you readied in action roll yeah plus

dexterity i guess d20 plus dex okay d20 plus dex now could i argue like master perception i just like i saw his i saw his arms bulge as he was ready to plunge the spear down good at noticing small details

doesn't speed up your reaction time Ah, okay 20 Unnatural Oh yeah, because your deck save doesn't include Your proficiency bonus, so yeah, it's the same as making Just a d20 plus dex Yeah, so the lightning lure

Rips out and it has a few seconds Where it might be able to Pull the spear free from his grip Um, so DC saving throw against lightning lure and it has a few seconds where it might be able to pull the spear free from his grip. So, DC saving throw against Lightning Lure? It's a strength save. 17? 17. He will have advantage because you're trying to

grab the spear, not him. That's a 4 plus 2 on the first roll. 1 plus 2 on the second roll. One plus two on the second roll. So the spear, the lightning wraps around the spear, just as it's about to plunge into your neck, the spear goes... flies out of hand, and you pull it, what,

ten feet towards you, Quill? It's in my hand now. Ten feet in a straight line, and it also takes 1d8 damage if it's within 5 feet of me. But whatever. Well, technically it does roll the damage for me because the spear can take damage. Oh.

Where's my spear, baby? So 5, 10. So it's going to land about there. Oh, that was so close. Holy shit. Lightning. So yeah, the spear crackles with lightning as you yank it forward

and then it kind of just spins and thuds into the wet swampy marsh ground pointing um upwards as if it's been thrown into the ground itself um you hear gloob or just cry out as the spear is wrenched from his grip um and then he will try and leap away from Lucius He's gonna try to get away as quick as you can Lucius you get an attack of opportunity against him If you want to use your reaction just remember if you use your reaction on this you don't get another reaction until the start your next turn which is next so Get reaction do it

Yeah, you get one reaction per turn, but you'll get it back at the start of your next turn, and you go next, technically. So you might as well use it. I did way more damage, sorry. It's 2d8, I believe. It's 3d8. I did another 8 plus 5, so 13 damage on top of that,

so 17 damage total. Nova, you feel a psychic scream of pain as you see the spear has a deep crack. The lightning, the power coursing through it causes a crack through the spear itself.

Is it enough for me to scream as well like yeah i mean it's a scream in your mind tiangong is in pain yeah so i think yeah i would currently like start hulk grab my head and start screaming as well like exactly the same time i just yeah lucius what do you do do you swing for this uh frogman i will swing. I don't really have much in the ways of equipment. So it's just an unarmed strike. You can just punch. Yeah. Alright. That's an

18. I punch the frogman. That's going to hit him. You punch him. Yeah, you absolutely land it here. It comes from bludgeoning damage. Here we go. Two. Two damage. Two. You just kind of backhand him as he leaps away. He splashes into the water and then will use his faster

swimming speed to go the rest of the distance. So 10, 5, 10, 15, 20, 25, 30. So he begins swimming up the river trying to get away. Calling out, Crocodile, destroy them! I must flee! The remaining frogs begin to jump away.

Ayla, you technically do get an attack opportunity against this one. As the giant frog runs away. Bet your butt I'm going to take that. No point to it, but you're gonna take it. Oh, hell yeah. The frog's threatened Lucius. She's mad. A 28 to hit. 20 to that hits, yes.

And yes, Kim, it's just a normal melee attack. 24 to hit. You both hit. Quill, you also get an opportunity attack. Oh, you can use a cantrip, actually, as warcaster, I think. I can use a cantrip, but I'm not going to. I'm going to hit it with Tiangong.

14 points of damage. The frog is dead. As it flees away, this injured giant frog, you just crush its back. No, regret! I don't get one because of reaction. The other frog also dies.

So as these two frogs try and flee, Nova and Aayla both just crush them beneath their weapons or slice them. Quill, you're not making an opportunity attack? I used my reaction for held action, right? Oh, that's right. You did, yes. That's right, you did. This one will dash, and this is the musician,

the attendant, like Shaman Gloobor's little servant. Master Gloobor, please! Wait for me! He just runs after him. I will help you escape, my lord! As he makes a run for it. Lucius, your turn. He just runs after him. I will help you escape, my lord! Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.

As he makes a run for it. Lucius, your turn. I'm going to focus on the Frogamoth, I think. So I will be doing... It definitely is a major threat. Chromatic Orb of Acid at level 3, please. Okay, sure. Here comes a ranged spell attack. That is a 23 to hit.

That will hit the frogmoth. And it's 17 acid. 17 points of acid damage. The orb splashes against the creature's side. You begin to hear bobbling and popping sounds as its thick green flesh begins to boil and burst. I send

my 7 points of dichromancy damage to the leader that's swimming away. What range for dichromancy? Bluebird. 30. Is he not within 30 feet? No. I think he should be 40 feet away.

He should be. In which case, I'll send it to the Frogamoth as well. Yep, you can do that. Yep, so another seven points to the Frogamoth as the Dicomancy Shard splashes against the creature's back as well, causing another wound of acid to pool around its already beaten body, and it just roars. It lets out

this bellow as the acid sprays against it. Ayla? Oh well. I will approach the frog, and I will approach the frog and I will

recklessly smack it in the face twice. Sounds a wise plan. 21 to hit. That will hit. This thing does not appear to be particularly difficult to hit. Meh. And 26 to hit meh and 25 26 to hit the next one

both hit I have a feeling this might kill it I hope so hope so 17 damage on the first one 14 damage on the first one. 14 damage on the second one. Still standing.

And then deck save. That is an 11. Fail. 10 lightning damage. It's slightly resistant to the lightning damage. As the lightning courses up the Frogamoth's body, it doesn't seem to quite find as much purchase as it did. Crocotele, feed!

Anything else? No, that's it. Thank you. Nova. I'm going to blight the frog. Okay. Could you make a con save 17 I'm going to blight the frog. Okay. Could you make a con save 17, please? I blight the frog. Yep, sure. 8 plus 9 is 17.

Oh. God damn it. Oh, well. It is a chunky boy, but the blight still has some effect. Yeah, I figured it would be a big con boy. But... I rolled a lot.

I rolled... Math boys, I need help. 3, 3, 3. So 9. 10, 11. 12, 13, 14, 15. 15. Plus 2 7s which is 14, plus an 8

37 sure so with that you watch as the creature's skin and muscles oh that's true, halfed so 30, still got me enough the creature's body kind halved, so 30... Still got me enough. The creature's body kind of collapses.

Its muscles begin to shrivel. Its mucusy, thick, rubbery flesh kind of collapses in like a deflated balloon as this thing just shrivels down into a putrid mess and collapses dead. Nice. Nice. Threat neutralised. Threat neutralised. Threat neutralised.

Anything else, Nova? Combat is not quite done yet. I'm going to start running towards Tiangong. Sure. So you're just going to make those moves? Yep. So Sentry and then Quillek next. Let's see. I'll go and uh heal lucius i'll do some lay on hands i'll give lucius lay your hands on me let's do 30 30 hp yeah big heels big heel that's

your action isn't it for for Lay on Hands? Yeah. Nothing else? I'll let them boys run away. I'll let them go. Okay. Quillik? I will do a Beacon of Hope, and I have to do it at level four. And I can't heal on this turn, so this is full healing for everyone around me when it comes.

And that's my turn. Yeah, I'm not chasing after the little nerds. Okay, the little nerds, they're still going to take their actions. Gloobor opens his mouth, he turns back, opens his mouth, and spits a small glowing green

ball in your direction. It is a spell. Fight me IRL, nerd. Okay. I need everybody if the spell goes off, I need everybody to make a dexterity saving throw and that's everybody. Okay, so Lucius gets the plus

three and I've got aura of warding up to ten feet. So five. That's just Lucius. Still dead. I'm dead. 11. He's killed me. 15. I got a 15.

That's fine. Anybody who got lower than a 15. So 15 or higher you succeed. Anybody who got lower. Those of you who failed the save, you are taking full damage. Anybody who succeeded, you will take half. As the tiny ball of acid,

as it reaches the middle of all of you, it expands rapidly into a giant vitriolic sphere. Yes, Lucius. I absorb that into my gauntlet. I believe you can. Do you want to tell us how that works?

So if it's the same as my innate two elements, I can pull that entire energy into the aetherium bands of my gauntlet. Nice. Does it have anything? I think if I remember, if it's over a certain level, you have to make a check or there's some exhaustion or something. It's been so long since I made this item for you

that I can't remember how it works. Let me have a look. It's a hoover like Luigi. No, he's not used the... Make a con save and throw a DC of 10 plus the level of the spell. Right. okay. So, yeah, if you make that,

but it just absorbs the whole spell, doesn't it, I think. I appreciate that, Tom. Con save, yeah. Thank you. Thanks. Yeah. It's 22. Here it is.

22, okay. If the spell is fourth level or high, you must make a... Okay, so you do need to make a check to actually successfully absorb it kind of like counter spell trot if the spell is fourth level or higher so it works almost like counter spell if the spell is fourth level or higher you must make a charisma check which is your d20 plus charisma and the spell is dc10 plus the level of the spell so this is a fourth level spell so you just need to make that's a regular check yeah so it's a d20 plus

you're just charisma modifier no saving 13 just enough so this is exactly the way that counter spell works as well so lucius reaches up with this shining chromatic uh arm gauntlet and you see the tiny sphere before it has a chance to impact on all of you the gauntlet glows uh orange the gems glow an orange color and the whole energy is absorbed into the spell. Lucius, you feel that kind of power surge through your body, but you manage to resist any of the

damaging effects from it. This frog is so pissed at Lucius right now. He's counter-spelled or absorbed everything. Is it counter-spelled or is it slurped? Is it slow? Who knows? Lucius, you now have four charges within the Prismatic Gauntlet.

So have a read on that last, that very last bit in the item of how to use those. But it holds those four charges indefinitely until you spend them or until you get more than seven charges in there. But yeah, the rest of you don't need to worry about the spell as it is just straight into the gauntlet.

And you just see this frog. Impossible! Free my minion! Free! Free! I rolled really badly in the danger sense, so I was only just going to save on that one.

And yeah, they begin to make their hasty exit. At the end of the round, as the body of the Frogamoth begins to almost decompose, the whole island, you feel a reverberation. Uh-oh. Uh-oh. Something immense shifts beneath the island.

Uh-oh. Lucius. What was that? Call for the ship. Now. Nova, you got the spear? Get the spear. Let's go. Yeah. Yeah, what'd you do, Lucicius we'll go in initiative order okay is anybody so you're gonna hold your action hold my ground as

well okay yeah so you got yeah do you want to like try and like secure yourself on the ground yeah sure um ay, what about you? Yeah, the same. I'll just prepare to keep myself steady and wait for messages to be sent. Okay. Nova? I guess, can I scoop up the spear? Yeah, you can do so.

You rush up to it, pick it up and cradle it. You can still feel that there is some lingering attunement with the the frog man but now that you have in your possession once you can spend some time with it you'll be able to absorb it into your own shard of tiangong but for now you can just sense there is a presence but it's still separated speaking of which... How bad of a mood is Nova in right now? Pretty stoned. Had a bit of a come down. Frog ate Lucius.

Yeah, I'm going to Eldritch Blast. I'm going to Eldritch Blast. I'm going to Eldritch Blast. Let's Eldritch Blast. Let's Eldritch Blast. Which one? I'm going to Eldritch Blast. Glooball.

What is it? Glooball. Grooball. Yeah. Sure. Yes. I'm in a bad mood. which one i'm gonna eldritch blast um blue ball the what is the blue group yeah um sure yes i'm in a bad group i'm in a bad mood novas novas novice had her first uh legal high or illegal high and now she's had to come down and then hurting tiangong her so it's last time i rolled an eight hurting tiangong hurt so it's last time i rolled an eight maybe yeah i rolled an 18 plus nine is math that's the first blast you gotta roll each blast separately remember sorry yeah so that's the first blast um uh i rolled a natural one on the second blast. I think even with your bonus, that's not going to hit. Yeah.

Well, so it's a plus nine, so 10 on the second one. Second one still misses. And then 16 on the third one. Third one hits, so two hits. 15 on the third one plus 10 is 26, so two hits. So the first one is three plus five, 5, 6, 7, 8, 8 points of damage. I forgot you took Agonizing Blast, didn't you now, finally?

Yep. Yep. Yes. And the second one is a 10 plus 5 which is 15. You watch as Nova scoops up this spear and then just raises Tiangong and her harm forward as these three

blasts, these beams of crackling blue energy fly forward. Gloobor has enough time to kind of look behind him. You just see the frogman's eyes go wide. Impossible! As they just burn through his body,

killing him dead. The little attendant just looks at the gloom bolt! Is that your turn, Nova? I would just like to say, in terms of RP, because Nova is normally quite nice, I think just because it's almost

because of the fear and the pain she felt from the spear being broken that it's just kind of like she's almost acting on impulse. You don't have to justify your cold-blooded murder. It's fine. You don't have to justify it. You're an adventurer. We're committing a froggy genocide here. You really are. I just want to explain why she's not in a very nice, forgiving mood right now.

Let's hope that these frogmen can reproduce on their own, because right now there's only one of them alive still. Century. I'm going to move away from the water's edge and to the middle. I'm going to give everybody a little bless, a little cheeky bless at level three okay and you can affect everybody with that yeah okay so everyone gets a d4 to saving throws and attack rolls uh as long as you're concentrating quillick and khalar yeah knowing

that uh century has this aura i'm gonna snuggle in close um and i will cast Sending to... Raya. That's her name. Raya, and say, you know, 25 words. I'll say, we need to get off this island as soon as possible. It's moving? Question mark. Thanks, guys.

Cool. The message you get back is, yes, it's moving. We're on our way we'll take us we'll take a few moments so you just have to exact time yeah uh right quillick after your turn the last remaining frogman will continue his desperate escape manages to get to the sort of edge of the island and begins sliding down towards the water's edge as you see this tiny frogman getting to the island's edge you watch as the entire the kind of the edge of the island crumbles away into the sea as again the whole thing begins to shake um

almost like an earthquake the ground beneath you is a tremor you need everybody to make almost like an earthquake. The ground beneath you is a tremor. You need everybody to make acrobatics or athletics checks. Lucius and Ayla, as you took precautions, you have advantage on keeping your footing, so you have advantage. And the Bless will work for this as well, so you get your defaults.

Oh my god. Oh my god. Oh my god! I rolled a one and a 1 on Blitz Wow 25 Who got under 18? Me

Oh I got 17 So everybody but Ayla failed Is that? I failed You failed as well Century It's not saving throw Yeah you get the bless But not the saving throw I failed. You failed the Soul Sentry. I have bonuses from Sentry's Aura. It's not saving throw. Yeah, you get the Bless, but not the saving throw.

Huge default to Bless. So, Ayla, you managed to kind of keep your footing, almost like the rolling deck of a ship or somewhere in a storm. You kind of managed to weather the movements and keep your balance. Everybody else, you fall prone, and you all begin sliding as the whole island pitches to the side.

Quill, Ayla, I will give you, if you use your reaction, you can grab Quill. Please? Yeah, you can grab Quill. You don't need to roll, it's just your reaction. But Nova, Century, and Lucius, you slide into this kind of deep pool and the water begins flowing out,

and you're just prone as the whole island pitches. You watch as the edges of the island begin crumbling away, like falling into the sea in great chunks. You do hear a vague kind of from the frogman in the distance. And then deep beneath, deep under the water, you guess, you can almost hear a kind of... Uh-oh. Turn on one.

Lucius. Can... We're going to stay in initiative order, but basically, yeah, you guys all get a go, so you've got your move action bonus action use it as you wish super super quickly so i can prep my turn can i see the storm chaser from where we are can we see it let's see you are here um i guess that a riot yeah there, there's no canopy. You would be able to see it, but it is very far away. I'd say it's probably more than 500 feet. I'd say it's at the moment...

No, it's not within 500. See if it can move. I think it moves about 80 to 100 feet around. Yeah, it's probably about sort of like 700 feet up at the moment in the air. Cool. No worries. the air. Cool. No worries. Carry on. Yeah.

Everyone can just do what they want, really. As long as it's within your action limits. Do we what? I'll just call out we need to stay together. Try and climb as much as you can. And start trying to head back up the slope as much as they can. Cool.

Make an athletics check. Where's the star for now? Is it starting to tumble? No, Nova picked it up. Nova picked up the spear. I got it. So what was the check, sorry? Athletics.

So to enable you to not slide. Natural 20. Natural 20. So, yeah, it counts as difficult terrain right now because the earth is all being churned up. It's kind of on the slant as everything's shaking, but you can move normally, basically. You can pull yourself up and move half speed. Okay, cool.

Yeah, I'll just start heading towards these structures, which I could probably grab onto a wall or something. It is a slope up to the structure. Yeah. Okay. Uh, Ayla? Um, I'm gonna do... I'm gonna do the same thing.

I'm gonna move. Um, it's not difficult terrain for me because I... because it just isn't. Um, but if I... If I take... Fuck! Difficult terrain, but if I If I take Difficult terrain. If I take Quill with me would that then essentially just make

it difficult terrain for me? It will slow your movement to half, yeah. It will move at half because you're technically grappling a creature. It's just a willing creature. I would like to do that if Quill is willing for me to also drag him with me yeah hell yeah um so is it athletics um not for you because you passed the test you didn't

fall over so you just move at half speed okay cool sure uh in that case nova um and then you're gonna drag yourself up yeah that's good for you um no, I don't think Arcane Gate's going to work. I was going to think about casting it on the skiff, but I think the way it's worded, it says two portals on the ground. So I was going to argue that, like, casting a gate on a skiff would move with the skiff because it's anchored to the skiff, but shut up, Kim. I'm going to cast...

So instead, what I'm going gonna do is i'm gonna cast uh levitate on myself um so i'm not so i'm just not affected by the shifting ground below me yeah you can just you can lift yourself off like 10 10 feet off the ground and then you'll be safe yeah so i'll cast um so i'm gonna i'll move towards the group and then can't then kind of jump and cast levitate so that I'm levitating around. And then I guess, yeah, can I... So depending on the way the island is tipping, can I position myself so that I'm below everyone else so that if someone was to slide, I could try and catch them?

So right now it's tilting towards the south, so that's why you slid south on the map. That's where it's currently tilting. Obviously if it goes another direction, you don't have enough movement to really get, because if you're casting levitate, you've only got 30 feet of movement. But you could position them if they continue

sliding down this way, then yes, you can try and help them. Okay. Sentry. Can I cast... you sliding down this way then yes you can try and help them yeah um okay sentry um can i you're prone can i'd like try and cast plant growth so like to act as like uh so you can like hold on to like plants and yeah that's a great idea oh 100 yeah so you cast plant growth and you can see there's all these bushes and algae and um moss everywhere and it just grows in abundant life. It can just be cast like as an action, right? Like you can just cast it as a normal action.

Yeah, it's instantaneous. Oh, yeah. So, yeah, just watch as the whole area becomes thick with foliage enough that even those of you who are still stood up, you can kind of grab onto it and use it as handholds. There are vines to kind of wrap around your arms like temporary ropes. Yeah, you can definitely do this. I mean, it does make it as handholds there are vines to kind of wrap around your arms like temporary ropes um yeah you can definitely do this i mean it does make it harder to move through it does make the area difficult difficult terrain it's like quadruple movement to move one space but it

stops you from being slid around um everywhere as you do so yeah cool uh so yeah so you can move century but every um you basically can it's like one square is 20 foot of movement right now so okay so you can move like one square up so you're like climbing your way up these uh these bushes and fronds that you've created through magic um perfect quillick there's a little plant fronds you've just made. I had the same sort of idea as Nova. I kind of want to, while in Ayla's arms, I kind of want to hook some talons into the plants and cast Fly on her and say,

Ayla, you're strong. Catch anyone that falls. Sure. Ayla, you now have a fly speed of 60 feet as long as Quill is concentrating. Got some cool wings. Okay. The island. Can you...

My favourite, Rhiannon Gower. Roll a d4 for me, please. Here we go. Okey-dokey. Here we go, here we go. It's a one, Mark. As expected. It's a one.

Marvellous. Marvellous. So the whole island, pitches and shifts and you see that almost kind of uh like a circle moving closer inwards the next chunk of land around the kind of outskirts of what remains of this island breaks away um almost uh up until the edges of the the frogmoth's pool um it just breaks away into the sea and you can now begin to see in the waves just beyond uh this now kind of remnant island a giant clawed scaled hand protruding from beneath the island itself uh the whole island pitches and shifts as if something was trying to dislodge you from its back. With the plant growth and all of your spells,

none of you need to make the checks. You all kind of manage to hold on as this whole thing pitches and shifts, and you just hear this... GRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR the Skrull Raktamala Was there an effect on that voice? Does the translator recognize any of it? No. Does it understand Draconic? Draconic, yeah.

It does? Yeah. The voice is saying something that the translator earring converts into common I guess it would be something along the line of like agony pain

be gone I guess we have kind of been been hurting stuff you know. But yeah, the whole shell or the island, sorry, shifts once a go. You manage to hold on. The ship is about 500 feet now. It's, yeah, it would have been 500 feet down.

So it's on its way down, but yeah, still up in the air. You do hear the kind of whistle as the ballista on the underside of the storm chaser is fired down towards the island, but you don't see where it impacts. It seems to be impacting against something. That won't help. We go back up to the top. Lucius.

We need to see where that landed Which direction was it do I know a rough direction? The ballista. Yeah, probably be to your east from where your current location is Let's start one square in it that way Yeah, it's with the plan where if it makes it very very difficult to move Towards the ballista. Oh, I thought it was like a rope thing, right? Is it just literally a... No, a ballista is a weapon.

You don't know? You heard the... Let's stay away from the ballista. Ayla, what about yourself? Can I... If I was to go sort of 30 feet out, would I get a view on what was below? So if you fly up, basically. And then come back in.

But yeah, I want to view what they're shooting at. Oh yeah, you can fly like a diagonal. Yeah, yeah, yeah. So Ayla, you fly up into the diagonal. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, like a kind of diagonal. So, Aayla, you fly up into the air. Are you carrying Quill with you? Because I think that was his impression of, like, carry me. Yeah, I can carry Quill. I can carry Quill.

Yeah, because when you're flying, yeah, it's just your weight. So you fly with Quill. Oh, okay. I thought that that was the thing of, like, carry me. You're strong. Catch anyone who falls is what I said. No, I can react to people who fall, but for this, I want

to establish what the thing is and then go back to being... I'll be your eyes. Yeah. Sure. So you carry the girl up. Look! Look! 30 feet up in the air isn't too

high, but it's enough to start getting an impression. You see that where the island, the land masses of the island that are falling away from the edges, they appear like they've grown, they've kind of grown outwards from a larger mass. You begin to see patches of it. Now that you're up high, you can see patches of it

beneath the dirt and the moss. A great shell, like that of a turtle, is beneath the ground. And you see, as you fly up, four great finned arms stretching out from below the island, and a giant

snapping turtle's head at the very front that is angrily looking around and as the eye as it twists and turns its body it's causing the whole island to shift and tilt as it does so um

okay we disc world now yeah uh i will continue to go back towards probably... Yeah, so... Basically back down,

but also beside Lucius. So, Quill, if you move along one. So that I'm sort of, like, in this spot where I can sort of keep a hold of people if they start to fall and just report to the other guys. Yes, there's a

giant, giant turtle down there. Luke's really pissed off, just for the record. He's really mad. It is what it is. The turtle is the island. The island is on the turtle. The turtle is the island. It's weird, man.

Nova. Island turtle. Can I So if the ship is within 500 foot, would I be able to create a portal on it?

If I communicated with Quill... Do you need to be able to create a portal on it if I communicated with Quill? Do you need to be able to see where the portal is? It says choose two points on the ground, one point and one point. It just says choose two points on the ground that you can see. Yes, okay, 1.10 feet on the ground and one point within 500 feet. So you can't put one on the deck of the airship because you can't see the deck of the airship because you can't see the deck of the airship.

Because you're below looking up, you can see the bottom of the airship, only the hull. So no. You would, I think, something like Dimension Door, where you don't need to see where you're going, I think you can do it. But yeah, if you need to be able to see the point, the angle is the wrong angle for that to work.

If I asked them to tilt the ship slightly, would that be enough to see the deck? No. Just a little bit. You can try. You can try. I kind of need them to get closer, really, to be honest. I would like to hold my action to...

I'd like to... Quill, can you communicate with the ship? to hold my action um to i'd like to quill can you communicate with the ship to get uh to to tilt the ship so that i can see the deck uh in 25 what yes yeah yeah sure yeah not not too far not too far but enough that i can get a portal lock. Okay. 500 feet up. And the thing is, it's coming down. But I'm not asking for it to leak. Yeah, it would need to be nearly perpendicular to be up because it's coming straight down, right?

The angle is the wrong angle. It would either need to fly further away. It's too dangerous. So it would need to go further away to then bank, and then you could see it. But if go further away to then bank and then you could see it but if you want it to come and pick you up it would need to almost be on its side for you to be able to get a good visual on it um yeah the calculator nova would know that the angles and maths yeah or even that when you guys teleport up there sure you and ayla might be fine but the

others would need to quickly grab on or they're just gonna fall straight off um okay belay that the math doesn't work out the math does not work out um i'm gonna hold my action um so that uh if anyone starts falling i go to go and grab them um just okay and yeah just i mean don't forget you you can only go up and down with levitate you can't go left you can't like it's only up and down with levitate if i just if i just happen to be near anyone like just yeah sure if anybody's like nearby yeah it's the effort that counts mark i'm 20 foot up as well by the way so probably you're so you're going 20 feet up okay and then ayla you're just above the ground as well, aren't you, next to Lucius? Yeah, I basically want to make it so that Quill can grab onto

all the plants and stuff to anchor himself in the case that I need to grab somebody else or anything. Okay, so you'd need to be basically, you're on the ground at that point, basically, because the plants are only low enough that you need to be 5 feet. Okay. But I'm kind of like got everyone in a little circle around me, so I'm feeling quite good at my gang position.

As it were. Gang position good. Can I just levitate over towards Lush? No. You can't. What you'd have to do is you'd have to go down to the ground, crawl along the plants, and then levitate back upwards.

Because levitate is just the up and down movement. So from your current position, yeah, you don't have anything to anchor yourself with. Yeah, you could go down to the ground, crawl along, and then up again. Okay, I'll do that. Can I do that so I'm hovering above Lucius? So you can go 5, 10.

Okay, I'm hovering above Lucius. Yeah. I go 5, 10. I'm hovering above Lucius. Yeah. I just, yeah. And then you'd be... I'll move my token next to him. Then you could be 20 feet. Yeah, but you can be 20 feet above Lucius if you want. Okay. But I'm just going to be holding my hand out down to him anyway, just ready. So I'm hovering

above Lucius, holding my hand down for him. I'm going to misty step 30 feet. 5, 10, 15, 20, 25. So I'm next to Quill. Right there. And I'm going to get a good... Yeah, and then I can...

No, I can't do that, can I? Can I ready an action if I've done a bonus action? Is it to cast a spell? Find Steed. Yeah, so you wouldn't be able to... Again, D&D rules, and there's reasons for this doing it. So basically, when you ready an action to cast a spell, you're casting the spell on that turn,

but you're holding its effect to go at a later turn so because you've already cast a bonus action spell this turn no but you would be able to do it next turn okay cool cool i'm just thinking of like um yeah i was thinking of casting um elko just sort of like below the group so like they can act as like a barrier like a barrier that they can grab onto yeah for sure hanger sure. A big coat hanger on legs. A big coat hanger on legs is a very ample way of phrasing it. Cool. But yeah, next turn.

Next turn you'll be able to. Elko and Elko are different. Technically, they're different creatures. They're different. Right, okay. Okay. Yeah. Elko is the familiar form,

but Elko is like a thing that century can just create at will yeah okay quill um i want to yeah i kind of want to basically just spend the entire turn just like really holding tight onto these uh things in case something falls i want to i guess like a dodge action i suppose or

something like that yeah just readying yourself like yeah having advantage or whatever on the uh yeah so a little I want to, I guess like a dodge action, I suppose, or something like that. Just readying yourself, like, yeah, having advantage or whatever on the... Yeah, so a little hunker down action. Really holding on tight to the plant growth. Sure. That's all. That's all I got. Okay, so as you guys are all anticipating this,

the airship is lowering itself down. You feel the island, the back of this creature's shell beginning to shift and then it dives underwater as the water begins rushing up around you and you're all holding on to these plants it dives under the water and it begins turning much more violently and and aggressively to try and shift things on its back i would need everybody to make uh athletics uh checks those of you who are flying you can choose not to go under the water you can just basically be like nope and just let go of whatever you're holding on to if i'm holding on to lucius like does that help you are not you were 20 feet above lucius with your hand out is what you said come on can i try and have my arms out and get lucius

and quill and just like hover them not like just stay in place you can certainly make an effort yeah i would say it's not on you though it would be be up to Lucius and Quill to try and grab onto you. If I... No, no, you're strong enough to hold both of them. ...to keep holding on to... Okay, okay, that's good. Yeah, yeah. The issue is not you.

The issue is can Lucius and Quill grab onto you in time is the question. Okay. Okay. It's on you guys. I'm going to try my best. Because you two don't breathe underwater. This is a smart plan. Yeah, no, this is a smart plan. Yeah, no, it's a smart plan.

Like, so yeah, Lucius and Quill, you guys can make decks. Let's just do decks check. So just d20 plus decks to try and grab onto Ayla's, like, holding out her arms for you. You've got to try and grab onto them before the thing pulls you underwater. I kinda got Ayla and Nova. Can I help? Well, Nova is 20 feet up. Alright. the thing pulls you underwater. I've got Ayla and Nova. Can I help? Well, Nova is 20 feet up.

Alright. You said 20 feet above. Yeah. So that's a bit too high, unfortunately. Athletics position. Just the dex checks. He's already rolled it. Oh, I got 16 as well.

16, yeah, that's easily enough. Both of you grab onto Aayla's biceps, and Aayla's strong enough that the two of you really aren't much of a weight. If it was Sentry, I'd probably have Aayla make a check for it, but the two of you just kind of clutch on, and Aayla, you just hover in place. You and Nova hover in place as the turtle and Sentry are like plunged down like a submarine.

It's okay, she can transform into a submarine. So Sentry, I just need you to make an athletics check to kind of keep a grip on all these plants around you, unless you want to just let go and float into the water. No, I'll hold on. I'll hold on. Okay. For fuck's sake. sake no you won't so the surge of the water and it's not that century's not strong enough century is strong enough to hold on but the violent shaking of the turtle things like the

wooden ramp that you're kind of next to, the buildings around you, all of it breaks apart. You do see piles of gold and what appears to be like a journal from the Gloobor's treasure pile in his room just begins to float away. But the whole building is disrupted. Big rocks and chunks of stone fly around you, and you're just knocked free and kind of left to spin and turn in the waters. And then you begin to see the giant island turning to face up towards you and the group kind of bringing itself to bear um oh shit right so

i'm just going to transfer your initiatives to a new encounter for what i've got ready here it will be lucius's go giant however. I'm a giant dumbass. I'm a giant dumbass. I should have done it the other way around. Dimension doored up to the ship, created the portal on the fucking ship. Ah, dumbass! Thinking with portals.

Do you have enough? Because I think you cast Blight. Oh, you've got three spell slots now, don't you? Dimension 4 is cast by Tengong, and Arcane Gate is just a pass. Ah, that's right. It's no spell slot. Ah had enough and arcane gate ah that's right it's it's nice and that's it ah that's it so i thought you were out of bell slot that's why you didn't do it that way um i'm just that i'm currently in the air with quill being lifted by ayla

so here's the situation right so Ayla is basically hovering about 5 feet above the water she has you and Quill like holding you and Quill effectively Nova is hovering about 20 feet above you and then Sentry and the Turtle have dived down

the airship is about 400 feet above you and is rapidly trying to descend as quickly as it can see couple of problems 400 feet above you and is rapidly trying to descend as quickly as it can see couple of problems sentries in the water that's a big problem Lucius can't do much about sentry problem

what he can do is tap into his font of magic spending seven points of it to regain a fifth level slot. And then summon a wall of ice, which will act as a floor

so that if it tilts any more, we at least have something that's going to stop the rest of us falling in if we were to descend or fall from the sky again. Okay, so you're basically creating like an ice floor below you, basically. What's the size of this area?

So it can be... So it's going to be more like a kind of pathway of ice as you create it. It's just more a long line that goes along the yeah the width so that if it were to go 90 degrees or whatever even 45 it would stop us um we'd hit again well you guys aren't on the turtle anymore yeah you're not connected to it anymore no but um this is like a just in case we fell or something were to knock us out so you have a floor beneath you

and century you look up and you watch as the the ocean above you is just frozen as this this plane of ice is created above you but now yeah lucius you create you create this wall of ice below you

um i really wouldn't make it where century was well that's below you that century was next to you so if you create it below where you guys are it will be above where century is i'm just gonna be at the mercy of ayla and not do anything this turn and just call out we need to save century that's what i'm well. Well, the thing is, I mean, where were you thinking you would place it then? I didn't realize that the turtle had fully submerged. I thought they were still

Yeah, it's like, no, it's underwater. No, it's fully underwater. It dived like 45 feet underwater. I retcon that and I'm holding on. Okay. Do you still do the sorcery point? Yeah. I'll still regain some spell slots doing that.

Okay. So you hear another kind of whistling through the air as a giant ballista bolt flies through the water, kind of impacts down in the direction of roughly where the turtle was spraying water all over you as the under turret of the storm chaser fires down. But you're not sure if it's had any effect. Ayla?

How close does that come to sentry? Like, it's within sort of like 10, 20 feet. The turtle is massive. The turtle is a gargantuan creature, but it's even bigger than a normal gargantuan creature. It's enormous, this thing. It's probably like 45 feet across. Christ.

Sorry, I completely dropped for a minute, so I don't actually know what you're saying. No, that's okay. Sorry if this is the right mic. You were here when the turtle went underwater, right? Yep. I don't think it is, but you were here when the turtle went underwater, right? Yep. I don't think it is, but you were here when the turtle went underwater.

Nothing has really changed. Sentry and the turtle are still underwater. You have Quill and Lucius on your arms, floating about five feet above the waterline. I'm going to... Sorry, I'll try and fix my microphone in a second. It's not working. No, it's fine.

I will... I kind of want to get them up away from this turtle. So I think I want to fly them up. Is Nova... So Nova's like 20 feet. Can I say... Yeah, Nova's 20 feet above you. Can you take one?

Can you take one person at all? Or are you... No. I can't really do anything else. I'm going to go for Sentry. Oh, you're going to go for Sentry. Okay, I'm going to raise up then. I'm going to get

Lucius and Quill from the surface of the water in case this thing is going to shoot up. So I'm going to spend my action trying to get Lucius and Quill as safe as possible. So how high do you want to go up? You're carrying both of them, but you're damn strong, so probably reduce your speed by 10 feet to carry both of them. Can I put Lucius on my back and

carry Quill like a little bab? Because I feel like Lucius is probably heavier to distribute the weight on the back and then a little verb. And also Lucius has got a bit more strength. He can actually you know, Lucius isn't weak. He can hold on to you as well. Yeah. Whereas Quill is like, I have one arm.

Please help. Yeah, so I'll distribute the weight a little bit to keep myself from and also i want to make sure that quill keeps focus on this so i will go up i guess 50 feet so that would take me 55 feet above the surface 55 feet above the surface okay sure can i go slightly diagonally like away from the big shadow of the the turtle i mean does that yeah you can this thing is massive but yes you are making your way slightly off now yeah not just that will move you slightly away from um nova as well if you do that so it's kind of like you guys are like i'll flip off of that way um yeah the century you see this giant turtle spin in the water it kind of

dives down a bit deeper and then spins to point its giant mouth up towards the surface and you can see the shadow as the airship is descending the shadow it's casting over the water the dragon's eyes fix on this giant shape above it um and you can see the shape you can see like looking up you can see your friends flying in the air uh it swims up so basically is just below you you are looking into its mouth um and it will it will open its mouth and a cone of scalding steam. And it's wide enough to catch all of you. I need everyone to make a constitution saving throw, please. The ship is not in range.

Does my resistance work for this one? Your magic resistance, it does not. Can we roll sentry? Uh-huh. I mean, I've got a portent of 13. I kind of want to use it, but you might roll better. But knowing you, I'm going to use portent on that. Oh, thank you.

Okay. Just in case. So 13 plus whatever your bonus is. 10 total? So thank you. No, you rolled a 13. Yeah, thank you. Perfect.

I've got no idea what the save is like, though. It's probably super high. So anybody who got lower than an 18 you fail. Oh thank god! I mean we get hit but Sentry actually passed that. So I'm gonna assume Quill and Lucius fail or did Lucius pass? 23. 23? Okay.

11. Quill, Ayla? 21. 26, 21. Sentry? 11 Quill Aayla 26 21 Sentry I got a 19 thanks to Quill oh wow so yeah

you just succeed so Quill you're taking the full damage on this we might drop from the sky though yeah concentration

you were the only one who needed to succeed that one Qu Quill. I know, but sentries like in the ocean... Oh my... Oh my god! I rolled a lot of ones. Quill, you take 43 fire damage.

Everybody else, you will take 21 fire damage as this steam engulfs you. Are you unconscious, Quillacadcalar? I am unconscious. Can you unconscious, Quillacadcalar? I am unconscious. Can you make two saving throws? One is... Well, actually, no, the death one, it's not your turn yet. But it is an injury check, I'm afraid there, Quillacadcalar.

Oh, it is. It's been such a long time. Constitution. DC 21. It's a constitution saving throw, yes. Fucking hell. I've only got plus one yes I've only got plus one I've only got plus one

Unless I roll a 20 6 No, there's no such thing Well, yeah, if you get a 21, yeah 6, no Right, I need to find my injury rules Okay, what do you want me to roll? You will need to roll a d20 for me, please

Quilek Oh, awesome, here we go What kind of injury do i get 11 11 not low not high the scalding hot steam um ayla desperately tries to like you know protect you as you can but it's too late as the scalding hot steam um part of your face is like badly burnt and melted by the steam this is a gruesome injury the creature's face is badly scarred the creature's face is badly scarred or disfigured by the attack causing terrible pain the creature has disadvantage on attack rolls ability checks and saving throws until they finish a long rest or another creature spends one minute and makes a successful wisdom

check in addition the creature is permanently scarred in a significant way the scarring can only be healed by the regenerate spell so this is like your face is like two-faced it's like melty face has this well it doesn't affect your eyes so you manage to shut your eyes quick enough that you don't take any permanent damage to your eye basically i'm just wondering if it's on the same side as the already scarred face, you know? Do you want to roll for me? Do you want to do a d4? Odd it is, even it isn't.

Okay, odds it'll be on the same side as the already scarred, even if it's hit the good side of my face. Odds. It's already on that side same side bigger scar now yeah as it just completely smells no it smells great it smells like boiled chicken um wonderful you're welcome but yeah

and yeah century you are engulfed by this steam that radiates around you, but yeah, you manage to hold on. And yeah, this blast, like a geyser out of the water blasts upwards. Uriah, the ship continues to descend. It's now 300 feet above. Nova VJ. Are we all falling now? Yep. So

yes, Ayla and Lucius, you plummet 50 feet down into the water. It's water, so I'm not going to make you take any damage. But you are now in the water. I have a feather fall token. So yeah, the feather fall token activates. So we don't take any damage from the fall. And also it

slows the rate that you fall. So you're currently still a few feet in the air as you're slowly falling into the water. They are two... In fact, actually, no, they're 300 feet, which is just on long range. So you see, those of you who can just see the edges of the storm chaser,

dozens of furry heads with longbows point over the side, and you can see them firing down into the water as the wolf pack basically take aim and try and shoot. However, as soon as the arrows just hit the water, they don't have the power to go down far enough to cause any damage, but they're trying.

Sentry. So how close am I to the island in regards to everybody else? So the island is the turtle. So the island is now the turtle's back and the turtle is about five feet below your legs and you're

about five feet from the surface of the water. Okay. You're not even five feet, you're just under the surface of the water, really. Can I use my flame lance? This is kind of like underwater jetpack type thing. So can I fire it and try and propel myself away

from the gaping moor of doom? You can certainly try, yes. Okay. I might do that. Sure. All right. So are you using it to try and cause damage and push your weight or you just want to use the force of it to basically yeah like propulsion underwater

yeah like just yeah just try and get myself out of the situation don't worry about rolling anything then just expend the use of it you're underwater so it actually kind of cools you so you don't take any of the damage yourself as it's keeping you regulated in this kind of uh cold ocean water but yeah you managed to blast yourself and i'd say what like it's a 30 feet line so you blast yourself 30 feet to one side underwater away from this giant maw because it did look like it was ready to take a bite at you as well like it blasted with steam and then it was gonna chomp um so So you're like, blast yourself to the side, narrowly avoiding being chomped. Nice.

Nice, nice, nice. For now. Anything else on your turn? Do you want to swim up to the surface? Like, just... Yeah, yeah, let's do that. Let's go up to the surface and have a little look. All right.

And then just before we go on our break, Quillen and Kalar, I would like you to make a death saving throw uh why didn't i give you your turn it should have been your turn uh i the initiative's got slightly changed order but yes um i thought i'd give you your turn sorry kim yeah you what's your turn? Who is near me? Is Quill's squishy body near me? Is anyone near me? I believe that Katie flew you away. She flew away from where you were positioned.

So they're about 30 feet. But they're... Is Quill's... That's horizontally, not vertically, 30 feet away. When the spell dropped, the fly spell dropped, and Quill was knocked unconscious, is he still on Aayla's back? Yes, yeah, Aayla's still holding him. So he's not, like, slid off?

No, he's still in Aayla's arms, but yeah. My thought process is basically basically can i get to someone so like if i drop levitate and like i don't know swim towards century or if i swim towards someone can i then dimension door back up to the ship um it's just who i i can't theater of mine uh the well the ayla lucius and quill are technically floating down. Because of the Featherfall token, they haven't hit the water yet. So they are drifting down, and they are 30 feet horizontally. So even if you drop Levitate and Swam over to them, you wouldn't be able to reach them.

You could reach Sentry. If you drop Levitate and Swam over to Sentry, you could then Dimension Door with Sentry. Yeah, it's risky, though, because because i just i don't know what i really want to do is like almost as uh ayla lucius and quill float down is hold my turn to grab hold your action mention door up you could do that yeah you could you could hold my swim to where they're gonna land yeah yeah so when quill is within range of me i want to grab him and then dimension door up to You could do that. You could swim to where they're going to land. Yeah. Yeah. So when Quill is within range of me, I want to grab him and then Dimension Door up to the ship is what I want to do.

Sure. Yep, you could definitely do that. I don't know. Yeah, because I just want to get him stable and safe. I can cast Spare the Dying as well, but I think that's too many actions. Yeah, you won't be able to do that this turn. Okay, yeah, but I'll get him up to the ship.

That might take you two turns to do it and get him up to the ship yeah so you can basically you drop levitate swim over to roughly where they're going to land and then you've got your arms outstretched and as soon as Quill is within reach you can cast Dimension Door up to the airship because you don't need to see the location you're

going to with Dimension Door so you can just up there okay and then that's your turn quillic and kalar as you are falling uh floating down to the water save here we go one out of three it's a seven that's a fail oh

it's happening again i can see it and that's where we're gonna take our break no i'm gonna try and fix katie's cameras and stuff and uh yeah we'll take a quick break um oh man this is awful but awesome at the same time this is the best but also the worst awful awful awesome awful awful awesome look you had fun just killing the harmless frogs and you know it's fine

you had a good time killing all those frogs now we got now we're fighting an island an island oh my god this