Legends of Avantris - Beneath Dark Wings | Ep. 77 | Dark Waters: Part 1

Episode Date: February 12, 2026

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Welcome to Legends of Evantris. I'm Iris and you're listening to Beneath Dark Wings. Here's what happened last time. Last time on Beneath Dark Wings, I need to pull up my fucking notes. You had just leveled up after Duprease had been prevented into oblivion and consumed by Kiberi, the watching master. He's probably fine, though. What level are we? 17.

17. That's a lot. Deprease got wishboneed. That's very funny. And you all decided to move onward, and you found yourselves in the riving realm, the layer of the abyss, ruled over by Ugudank, the squirming king. It was there, you realized that this was a blind worm that could not find its home, and you helped assist. And you found the left leg of Ravanovian. Then you teleported to the hungry tarns, a strange jungle-filled ruins. Toa somehow dominated and befriended a two-headed Tyrannosaurus-type creature named Fengi.

And you found on top of the pyramid, they offered the strange goo found in the egg of Raoum, the demon created from Virgil Zern by Pizzou. Probably not a good idea. Yeah. Yeah. You know. And discovered a bunch of secrets in the Brazier. You then made your way to Picard's landing. The layer

of Picard, the rotting husk. A massive whale-like beast covered in parasites and rotting. It was at this point you healed and brought water back to the domain. And moved on to the flesh forges. The layer of Dweergus. What a Dweigus.

I didn't think I'm in his name. He was very Dwergis. We talked about this after last session. I was like, there's no one Mike made up any of these names. Not chance in hell. Oogadank? I could see that. The Chrysalis Prince.

It was there that you decided to disguise yourselves as a demons and walk in. You got a little grub that metamorphosized with grubby. I miss grubby. Butterfly-like Kazmi demon. I drew it. Oh my god grubby. That's so cute. It's not going to do it.

Oh, dang. I don't have autofocus turned on. turn on. Well, whose fault is it? Oh, turn it to this camera. You'll be able to see it better. Yeah, just hold it up and point it. Hold it kind of close. Yeah, that's silly. Hold on, I got you. No, no, no, it's really not that good. Okay. I think it's pretty good. It's not like Andy's buff shrew. Oh, that's very good. It's all very good. I'm kidding. You then, you then began the metal. Wait, Mike, you forgot a crucial part. What? Or band. Oh, yes. You created a band. I don't remember the band was a bad. We got the rolling bone.

Rolling bones. Bone marrow. I was Bone Scots. We had like a Bousley. We all smiled. Bonnie, Billy, and the lesser demon formerly known as osteoporosis. I made an Eric Carr reference. That's very funny. The real ones will know what I've And then you arrived the Shatter's Sea in a deep abyss of an ocean. It's dark, but you somehow adapted. Your voices carry in the dark water. You found yourselves growing gills and a film over your eyes you're able to see however you swam downward in darkness, knowing that the layer where the queen of chaos herself resides is at the top of this ocean, seemingly able to travel there just by swimming up eventually. But you decided to swim down into the depths to hopefully find the seemingly treacherous and conniving

Dagon, the Prince of the Depts. And it was there, you found a glowing light that was enchanting and absolutely beautiful that drew you in. And in there, you found the entrails of

Ravanaueva, and you heard a voice commanding you to feast. Any questions? Yes. The only stat increase I did not record was Cha. Did not get? It has outgap. We haven't gotten Cha. Just want to make sure.

But we have gotten 10 temp HP per round. Oh, I told you remember it. You did. Good job. Wow. Thank you for remember. I might have put it in my notes, but that was clever. Good job.

I don't know. Wait, we have temp HP per round. At the top of each turn, we gain 10 plus. Caprice cuts off his pinky and then it. That's gross. Oh, temp. Temp. Temp.

Not healing. So it wouldn't regenerate his finger. Then it doesn't stack. You got your tab to be you not getting more HP. What? What do you mean? That's very funny. I thought it would.

Any other questions, anything I missed? That's pretty good. Okay. No. That's it. You stare at the enchanting light that glows with this strange color that shifts and shapes

until it turns to one singular color. this ghastly blue-green that glows brighter and brighter as you stare up to it and you hear the voice in your head a single time freeze. What do you do? Did anyone else just hear that?

Yeah? Yeah, I heard it. Yes. Oh, I did. We're not supposed to eat the entrance, are we? No. No. I mean, what else is that?

I look around to eat it around. I look around for things other than entrails to eat. I have to check it at a disadvantage, please. Oh, disadvantage. Is it so dark that we don't see each other, or we can see each other? You can see now, as the light now is glowing, this bright.

I rolled a 20 and a 17, so I'll take a 27. You look around and you see nothing, but then you hear something below you even deeper. Thump, thump, thump, thump, thump, thump. You hear what sounds very faint, but down below, the beating of a heart. You guys hear that? No. Listen, listen, real quiet.

I'd like a beating heart sound just below us. I hear like a blam, blum, blah, blah, blah, blah. But I think that's because we're in the water. No, no, no, no, no. It's definitely like a heart beating sound. Do you hear it? I would say with Caprice calling it out and the darkness, that's exactly what you hear.

Are we supposed to be finding her heart? Well, we already have the entrails. I feel like, I feel like, maybe that's where this Dagon, daygone guy is. Did we retrieve the entrails yet, or no? They're floating on the light. Oh, we're already, we've already found. the entrails. We haven't retrieved them yet.

We can see them. Yep, they're at the center. And basically now the light is getting so much brighter and brighter. It is now starting to basically get washed out as it's disappearing into this glowing blue-green light. Try to go grab them. I want to just get out of here quickly. Do you have any magical grabbies? I'm just going to use my mage hand. That's what I mean by magical grabbies.

Done. Okay. I will swim until I'm about 30 feet away from where I think the getting trails are, especially if they're harder to see. And then with my knife in my left hand, I'll just move my right as a magical arcane small hand forms and reaches out to swim over and attempt to grab the entrails

and pull them close. You conjure your mage hand as it goes into the light as you swim closer and closer and you need to make a charisma saving through a disadvantage. Oh shit. I'm not good at that. Spike some big numbers me. Ah, my lo's a 17, baby. 17 total? Yeah, my low was a

I use cutting words to reduce that by B-2. Don't fuck up. You, as the hand delves into the heart of that light, you hear a song. It's beautiful. It's sad. It's melancholy. And you, the color in the light is incredibly

beautiful and you are torn as you you lose yourself to the song. With a 17? Oh my God. Okay. As you are compelled to dispel the mage hand

as you what are you doing? Feel the immeasurable knee. What was the creature closest to you? I would be right behind him. All you can now hear, thump, thump, thump, thump, thump, is Caprice's heart pumping in his chest. And you feel an immeasurable hunger to devour it.

Oh, Jesus. You would watch as the mage hand, like, disappears, and my hands kind of, like, fall down to my sides, and my head is kind of hung low, and my ear is cut to the side. as I'm listening to this beautiful song and I would just sort of swim and turn around and look at you Caprice and It'd be a moment's pause before I What's going on feeling I swim at you and try to plunge my dagger in your heart? I wouldn't notice anything was off until like like visibly. Yeah, he looks normal I swim at Caprice and I attempt to

Drive my my Talen Guard dagger into you as I want to I want to consume your push. Felix! What are you doing? Hey, attack girl. It's just a dagger. This isn't going to do anything. Is that 24? Oh, that's pretty good. You are fish-like.

You have, like, the gills. Yeah, you're not like literally just turning in a fish. Okay. My mistake. I should have 28 to hit. Stans to reason. Oh, God. No, it's not worth it.

All right. I did seven points of silvered piercing damage. Oh, what the fuck? And then as like, as I get him, and like the blood, like, I would try to bite where the wound is and, like, drink the blood that's, like, coming out of him. Felix, what the ass! As soon as I see Felix, like, go in,

I would start swimming. I'm probably a good ways away, but I would start swimming to try to grab Felix and restraint. Athletics Chuck. Against Felix's acrobatics. Felix has gone fucking crazy. Okay. What is the guy?

What are you doing? You stop it! Marius, fervous thirst, extends beyond a pence. I think I'm going to be okay in about six seconds. Oh. That's right. It would just... No, I'm like trying to eat your flesh.

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Get the fuck off of me! It's my heart, it's alive, and it's pumping blood. Oh, what am I doing? Athletic, or acrobatics. 23? Okay. You slip away.

No, no, no. See, no. It's not. You don't want blood. The heart, you hear thuff-th-th-th-th-th-th-th-th- Okay. I attempt to stab him again. Please, someone stop me. This time I only got a 19.

As my action, I will very quickly whip out my fiddle. And Felix, come on! It's my heart! It's alive and it's pumping blood. I'm going to use my action to cast counter-charm. During that time, any friendly creature within 30 feet of me that can hear me can gain advantage on saving throws against being frightened or charm. Oh, yeah. I haven't had any...

So if you can repeat it, then perhaps you'll have because you're using that action, go ahead and roll it an advantage. Sweet. I have not used Counter Charm this entire campaign. 22 with a natural 20. You hear this song... As you hear this beautiful song, it's in your ears now as your eyes,

as you all see Felix's eyes shift to a glowing blue-green that is flashing. and getting brighter and brighter and brighter as he's turning into a predator as he's trying to devour Capriese's heart and suddenly with the final note of Caprice's song, the music, the song leaves your ears

and all you can hear is Caprice and you now are covered in Caprice's blood and snap to. Dentrails. Yeah, you tried to fucking eat my heart, man. What's wrong with you? The music! It's the music! It wasn't you, Felix.

It wasn't you. Well, it was me, but it wasn't against, it wasn't my will. Yeah, I used the music to care. It did not get out of it. Don't get close. Don't get close. If you start to hear the music, don't get close. I mean, it does make sense.

It's said to feast, so. Well, does anyone have anything else to eat? Well, Caprice did say that there was a thump-thump of a heart somewhere beneath us. Maybe we need to eat that. Well, I'm not going to, of course. And maybe one of you needs to. He tried to eat my heart, and there's a heart below us. Well, just he's already hungry.

I should let him eat the heart beneath. Well, that's a weird thing. I'm not hungry at all. Well, considering the fact that you tried to eat Capriza's heart, and that was incredibly rude and very unfair to make all of us watch, you should have to eat it anyway. Yeah, you went to like a frenzy, man. You were like shark blood.

You have like a little blood snack already, so no one of you're not hungry. You owe us one, I think. I'm not getting anywhere near any hearts and trails. anything anywhere where we were susceptible of that music well I didn't hear any music except for what he played that's good yes neither did I do you think maybe you have some deep seated resentment towards Caprice that just now was the time where it sort of emerged I don't think so are you sure I mean what's their resent he's a nice guy that's not what you said last night what about their tongue did you hear I have a

I'm just shit stirring with my giant spoon. Why don't I go for the intro one last time? And if you need to, then you can knock me out of it and we'll go and investigate the heart. But I feel like if it's a song, then maybe I can... Maybe I can try to... Countermeasures. No, stop. Stop.

This would be the first time when we didn't do what the thing said and got the body part. I think we need to feast on something before we go to me. Well, if you're volunteering, you can go eat the heart. I will do it. So I don't know if that's a good idea.

I just think... Well, let's just go down and see what's there. If you start hearing anything, don't get any closer to it, all right? It's a hauntingly beautiful melody. It's hard to describe. I've never heard anything like it before. If I'll hear music, I'll swim away. And if you get charmed in someone, I don't really have anything to help you.

So... Well, good praise I'll help. I can play it. something to maybe counter the music a bit and give you the best shot. It'll be inspiring. And I agree. I feel like maybe that we have to do a thing in order to get the thing instead of just going after the thing. Yeah. And if it comes down to we need to eat somebody's heart, you should probably let Felix eat your heart. No, what? I'm not going to eat your heart. Don't worry. Well, if one of us is going to die, it should be you.

None of our. Why? Don't you. Have two hearts? No! What? You don't? How do you think teafling's worried this? This whole time? Definitely not teafling biology.

Are you sure? I'm pretty sure, yeah. If anyone has two hurts, it's Toa. What? You have two. Oh, well, then we're good. Look at the size of his fucking chest. You can fit two hearts in there.

Oh. I mean, I guess there's room, but what if I just have one really, really, really big heart? You definitely have a big heart, Toa. Oh, that's very nice. I like to think I do. Hey. Keep that whatever you did ready, because if Toa turns on us, it's going to be a lot worse than just a minor dagger wound. Well, can you describe what the song was like, and maybe I can try to sort of match it or resonate against it?

It was just hunting and beautiful. It's hard to describe. I've never heard anything like it before. Never heard anything like it before. All right. You do you, and when you get close to that entrail noodle mess, I'll start playing. I need to go down before I go over there. I'm nervous if we all go down, then we're going to lose the entrail. Someone needs to stay back, at least to stay with them. I'll stay with them. That's eyes on the price.

Everyone's saying. Yeah, I'll go down there. You shouldn't go alone, Toa. Then someone come with you. I'll come with you. Yeah, yeah. Wait. But if you get, you know, like him, and then you're just going to eat Iris.

Yeah, well. Shouldn't you go with him? No. No, I don't think that it's that. that's gonna cause the heart eating. Okay. I mean, I don't know how any of this fucking works. It's just trying to get the entrails

without perhaps doing the thing. If he does the thing and he doesn't get charmed by the thing, then we all of a sudden, we know what the- Okay. Okay. I'm already like, I'm like 50 feet down. Oh, he's, he's going to swimming. Wow, he's fast.

Good luck. He's really wearing nothing under that, huh? Making that black check. I'm hanging on to his ankles. Pretty good. Uh, Jesus. This is front tail. You guys ever play Wishbone Roan Role?

25. 25. 25. You are powerfully swimming down as the sound of the heartbeat is thumping louder and louder and louder as you are plunging deeper and the light disappears above you,

as do all of your friends. Are you going alone? Is anyone going after you? No, I'm going with you. Iris, you are able to swim down I hear music. Oh, sorry. That was, that was you guys.

Weirdest jamming. Sorry, I shouldn't, I shouldn't stop. I should keep going. No, keep going. Yeah, no, keep going. Joa, darling, it was music unlike anything you've ever heard before. They play that song every night.

Well workshop, you know. Put on some underpants. Oh, I do. Oh, sorry. I fixed myself and I get something. Oh, God. You, he, he, Here, thump-thump, thump, thump as it gets louder and louder.

And I need both of you to make perception checks at disadvantage. Oh, well, that's a three. 12. It's also a three, but let's see. You probably have a plus gazillion. 15. 15? Mm-hmm.

What do you get? 12. 12. Yeah. I bet you're probably get my dice out. Yides. You both stare downward and you hear the thump-thump-thump, thump. And you finally see a fleck of color below you.

It's that same blue-green that the light had changed to. Oh, no. That Felix's eyes had turned to. And they're almost like little lines that move. Thump, and you realize now, as they're starting to illuminate, you see ocean floor as it's glowing. And as you swim down and down, both of you see as these squirming, slithering lines of blue-green light.

You realize now that they are blood veins on a heart that is on the bed, the sea bed. the seabed, it's this black sand that is pulsing and thumping. And you see now tendrils of this blue-green blood or Icor

some kind of substance drifting out of its pores, of its valves, and then just disappearing and dissipating into the water and you see it down below you on the ocean floor. What the heck? There it is.

Are you going to consume part of it? I think I'll probably have to eat all of it. The whole thing, how big is it? It looks to be about a human... Like actual heart size? An actual heart size, but... Oh, it's not like a giant heart.

Make a... Both of you make a nature check as you swim up. Are you swimming up to it, both of you? Yes. Okay. At advantage, because of Iris and an Nuvius. Oh. Oh, that's very funny. Thank God for that.

Eleven. I have to turn off the auto fall asleep on this. That's what I did. You said nature. 21. 21. Iris, you swim down. You're familiar with hearts.

You've seen them many times before, and you know that it's an important organ in the faith of Anubis. And you've seen Tabaxi Hearts. You've seen human hearts, a variety of species. This seems to be somewhat humanoid, But it definitely looks off.

It is not a human's heart, although it looks somewhat similar. It looks something with that, with the 21, it looks something like a combination between something human-like and something fish-like. Oh. Joe, before we put that in your mouth, just know that this might make you feel better about it. Maybe it won't. But it's not human-like entirely. It's human and feeling.

fish like. So it's like a fish human creature hybrid thing. I don't know if that makes me feel better or worse. But based on the size of it, you should be able to swallow it whole like an oyster. And he didn't say snack or he didn't say meble. He said feast. So either way, I have to get the whole thing down. I do think that's true. It's not the worst thing I've eaten. and I'll land on the ocean floor. Pss. You land and with...

Hydraulics. I'm keeping your perception on my suit. Oh, great. What do you need? As Toa lands, you feel a bit of water move kind of at your back. Oh, God. As you feel motion of something huge,

a mere 20 feet from you. and then it's gone and still as soon as you. I hate it. Oh, no. Something very huge, something large, just moved behind me. Toa, do you see anything? Like something spooky or like a friendly, friend character.

I will look around saying if I can pinpoint it for us and we don't feel or see anything from where we are. No, you're seeing just the light. You see the light, you're. We're still dancing. 30. It's not a human heart. It's not a fish's heart.

It's a combination, human heart and fish is hard. Felix is just like. With a 30. I should have volunteered to go with them. What a ball. With a 30. Iris, you look around and it's incredibly dark, but this heart is glowing and the light that it's casting,

being the only light down, here is traveling far, sending this strange, ghostly green light out into the sea, and you see off in the distance, probably about 50 feet from you, an enormous dark shape, just being cast, just catching the glowing blue-green blood vessels of this humanoid fish-like heart. And it looks serpentine. it is snaking back and forth almost like an enormous eel or serpent slithering about as it flicks a massive fined tail

as you see just a silhouette of it as it then disappears into the darkness and you feel the push of the water and it was so faint it was so close if you imagine if you perhaps wanted to Baxi and had your natural feline fish sense You may not have even noticed this, how, and ruling a 30, that you would see this massive shape lurking and then almost circling you, like a shot. We're being watched, but it doesn't seem to be getting closer and interfering at all, so just do what it said. Consume.

Okay, I'll do it quick. Do you want me to put some salt on it? I have some salt in my bag of holding. Oh, you do? I do, and I'll reach in and I'll grab a little container of salt. And it was just like, oh, I didn't think that one through. Has opened my mouth and taste tons of salt. Yeah. That's right.

Did it work? I think it did. I taste salt. Great, go. Oh, thank you, Iris. I want to like north on this. Like, you hear from both. Oh, we did it.

Oh, man. It looks salty, and I want to say the whole bowl of salt. That's very funny. Cho. I don't want to finish my salad now. You? and you to make a wisdom saving throne. We should have shut this thing out

for you fucking housed it. Disad damage? Disadvantage. It was almost so good. It was almost an 18. Not a human heart. It's not a thing she's hard. That is it.

12. How do you know this song? The Irish already established that we sing it every night for some reason. You eat it. And you finish every morsel. It is salty. It is fleshy.

It is disgusting. But somehow you manage to feast. Feeling compelled by your strange new biology. And you swallow every last grasp. Every single morsel of this. And your lips are stained with the strange, ghastly, blue-green blood as you swallow. And suddenly. It hits your stomach, and it is vile at first.

But then it starts to taste delicious. Oh, wow. As you begin to tear into it, it's so savory. It's so salty. It's so good. Iris really must have made it taste really great with that salt. I don't think, Cyrus, this really isn't too bad. You suddenly, the ocean leaves you,

and you hear a voice, a singing voice, a melancholic sad song as in the depths of the ocean that you had been in disappear but now before you you see the silhouette of what looks like a mermaid you've heard the tales but you have not ever encountered one

holding out her beating heart before a horrific abomination of the depths, a massive fish-like creature that's just as octopus and eel as it is, deep-sea angler fish, as it lunges forward and devours his heart. And suddenly the music continues, the singing continues, but this scene disappears as suddenly you are in the cacophony of a battle. see demons, hordes of demons, tearing apart their Oberoth masters. You've been in this battle before. You fought as the seven angels, the wind dukes against Misk of the Wolf Spider.

And in the chaos, in the clouds, in the bloodshed, be seven pieces of the rod of law shattering and casting. You hear that same sickening, crunching, devouring of this strange fist creature eating the heart of this mermaid. You hear the... as you see hunched over a humanoid shape with four wings spreading from its back, a jagged beak, talon-like hands,

and the pulsing, dripping heart of Misk of the Wolf Spider, chomping and devouring and consuming. And you see this for a split second until you are then transported and you're standing in, At the end of all things, at the end of the universe, as you are devouring and consuming,

no longer is it Pizzou devouring the Prince of Demons. It is you, and you hold a dripping avian heart, eating, consuming, and Pizzou lays smashed before you, his ribcage torn open. as you devour this heart and you hear that same voice right before this vision fades. Feast.

And suddenly you snap back to reality. The singing stops. You are, your iris is right before you. As you, Iris, you suddenly see Toa start to shake violently. His eyes turning that same horrible blue-green. Am I like... You're... And then you come back.

Oh, that was the... Oh, I see. I see. Oh, God. And his eyes are returning back to their colors. Yep. I will swim over and put my arm around Choa's shoulders. It's all right, Toa.

Oh. You had some sort of vision, didn't you? Your eyes close to him. Am I okay? Of course you're all right. Are you sure? Well, let me... Let me do a double check on you.

You put your panties back. on, right? Yeah, well, yes. Okay, let me, let me check. And I'll medicine check him just to make sure you seem okay. Make a perceptive check because you're distracted is advantage. The kind of check requires for panties. That's very funny.

He's got to bend over and cough. 10 for medicine check. 10. You just turn your head. You don't have bend over, that's extra. No. And 16 for perception. You look, inspect Toa, and you see that he has changed.

His teeth now are sharp and needle-like. His eyes are larger in his skull. And you see a fleck of... You see something glowing on his forehead. As beneath the skin, you see a... a light of blue-green as his flesh is starting to wriggle and pulse

as it then kind of breaks free from his forehead and a tendril of fishy flesh emerges, a bulb grows and that spectral ghastly blue-green light

pulses from it. Am I okay? Lovedy, Felix. Oh God, is that I think I need your help. The moment I would hear her call for us, I would start swimming down. You start swimming down.

Just relax. I need to just think, I just think, I just need you to relax. Don't worry, we're coming, we're coming. Fixing, fix it, fix it. Keep your mouth closing of what you to drink any more liquid. We're all all reserved. I need a perception check from you, Toa.

Fixing, fix it, fixing, fixing, fixing. Athletics out of verbat. 15. I'm gonna raise my, my... No, for three of them, swim down. 16. I'm going to raise my onk, and I'm going to press it against Toa's face, and I'm going to

cast greater restoration on Toa. Okay. How does that work? I just use five charges of it, cast greater restoration. Or do you mean, how does greater restoration work? Yeah. Oh, you view a creature you touch with positive energy to undo a debilitating effect. You can reduce the target's exhaustion level

by one or end one of the following effects on the target. one effect that charmed or petrified the target, a curse, including the target's attumment to a curse magic item, any reduction to one of the target's ability scores, one effect reducing the target's hit point maximum. And so I don't know if we'll do anything, but it's what I've got. As Toa, you are being consulted, you are being inspected by Iris, as you hear, as the cacophony around you of all your voices, and the concerned voices of your friends, as they are above your. you as you now your mouth is covered with this bioluminescent icor and the glow now in your eyes the thing above you it's strange and as as iris is inspecting you you hear the thump

thump thump thump in her chest as you feel a hunger you must feast you've been compelled to feast the prince of the depths has compelled you to has commanded you to feast and you out of Everyone here, you always kneel. You feel like you need to lunge forward and tear out her heart and feast upon it until you feel the warm sand of Iris's magic. This strange charm leaves you. Your body does not change as, what was your perception that you got? Oh, that was her perception.

Yep. Oh, fall. Disadvantage are normal? No. No. 25. Damn. Pretty good.

As, big old fish. You feel the water rushing all around you as something massive is directly behind your Toa. As Iris, you are looking at inspecting Toa's teeth, as you then see another pair almost identical as an enormous abyssal sea serpent maul emerges near several feet behind Toa in an instant. as you are suddenly taken aback as it's going to, because you've seen it, it's not unseen, so it's just gonna roll straight on to attack you. Oh, shit of value.

Tell it behind you. Let's see. Oh, I'm sorry! 18. That misses. Rhee-hoo. How do you, as this massive serpentine abomination, a lunges forward to it in an attempt to bite you.

What do you do? So what I do is my feet are still on the ground, and I would just look at the Iris and my like mouth, like my smile got huge, my mouth open with those long angler teeth. And I opened up and Iris like stopped me. And she warns me and then I'm going to, without a word, I'm going to flip around. And as I flip around, it's like when you're in the ocean

and you jump over a wave off the bottom. I'm going to basically leap off the floor of the ocean and try to go over it as it like. lunges past. It does. And it misses you. You feel a rush of water sending you tumbling back. As this massive serpent slithers past you as the rest of you see this demo, what were your athletics check? Do you remember? 15, 16, 17. Okay. Nice. You are able to get there just in time. You are all now 30 feet away from the scene as you see this massive sea serpent. Whoa! Now it's eyes open, glowing, radiating with that same blue-green light. I need everyone to

furnish the Oh shit! Has anyone else playing Shadow of Colossus? Yeah, Shadow of the Colossus? That's great. Oh! Did you hear the weight when it hit the table? It's fine.

He's a hefty boy. He's a heft boy. Toe is behind it. So, toes here. Yeah, you guys would be closer than we would, probably. Right. Lucy would be on this side because she jumped around it.

It's a spurt serpent. S-E-R-P-E-R-P-P-P-P-A-N-T. S-P-P-P-P-E-N-T. You want to get a little closer? No, there we go. We can adjust. If you're 30 feet away, and then, yeah, because I could also battle cam.

It was a little more than a little. Thanks, camera lady. She's a queen! Camera Broad! She'll be a queen! Brod sword. Brod-sword. It's brod sword.

There we go. Actually, this is how we do it. I got the brodswode. Oh, we're calling for anything soon. I keep losing initiative cards. You remake them every session. Yeah. Monthly campaigns, man.

I think we just need initiative cards with our names on them. Just fancy. No. No, that's not thematic. We need cool official initiative cards. I did. I do it for ice found. We need to order some of the Glowfordished Aura,

would and I'm gonna make wooden initiative cards for every campaign. I want acrylic. Do we do acrylic? Oh, we can do acrylic. Because we can do different colors. Like color-coated acrylic. That's bad.

That ass is fuck. What would also be cool is if we put a strip of, well if we put a strip of light, like L.D light in there and you put the acrylic on it it'll shine through the engraving. I love it. 20 and 25. Nobody got 20 over 20.

15 to 20. 18. I got 15. 18. 18. 18. for 50. 18 for Leptie.

15 for Iris. 15 for Iris? 10 to 15. 12. 11. 6. Wow. I had a bad roll finally.

Cause you had a bad roll. Finally. I was doing 12? Six. Six. I got to see what this guy. Very much last. You don't know.

The layer action could be at five. Unlike. You never know. No. Where action is always 20, Derek. Not if I say it. Not if I say so. This is Justice Seasb.

When I'm the DM, it's gonna be five from now on. I love that for you. Okay. Lifty, you're up as you see this massive serpent and you don't really need to, yeah, this is the bottom of the map. There's no terrain. It's just this black sand going all around. And in the light, in the light of this massive serpent's eyes,

you can see Toa has changed and the glow from Toa is full. as this thing is full dangle. You got a full dangle now. He's at full dangle. Going. Okay, look at you do it. We can play wishbone twice. That's very funny.

Double the chance to win. Is this our moment? It is. Okay, I am going to swim forward. Taking my spoon and spinning it like a propeller forward at this massive guy. Yep. and I will make a quarter staff attack and then I will use my flurry of blows, which I can now use how many?

You've got a lot of those. A lot, yes. Intoxicated frenzy. When I use my flurry of blows, I can make five total attacks. Oh, no, I don't want to use that. It has to attack different creatures. Oh, it's like an AOE, yeah. Can I use my normal?

very close? It just gives you the option. Okay, I see, I see. It gives you choices. All right. You want me to fix that? 26, 28, and 27 to hit. Those all hit.

Okay. That's what happens at the end. Yeah. Just all the liquid system. What do you need? Any kind of writing out? There you come. Okay.

So dealing 42 damage, I'm I'm gonna swim down to it. I'm swimming using my spoon almost as a propeller. I'm gonna swim at him making an initial strike, just trying to like wipe the smirk off. Do you want me to get you back up here? I don't think I do. No, I'll get you in there.

Yeah, I will make a spoon attack at his scaly body and then kick using both my, do I have feet? I have feet, my webby feet. I'm gonna kick away from him making two kick attacks to kind of, you know, reset myself. Okay. How much damage? 42. 42. You are smacking into this. You swim straight down as it is going to follow up

and attempt to make a tail attack as using one of his legendary actions. Making a tail attack on you. Eight of that would be lightning damage if that matters. That does not matter. Okay. As you shock into it as it's going to hit 22 to hit? Oh, he's a disadvantage.

Uh, higher. So 22. 22 hits. 22 hits. So it is going to deal, blah, blah, blah, blah, where's my D12s? Oh, I want to go, I'll meet my phone. Oh, wow. Strength saving throw, please. Wow. It deals 22 points of bludgeoning damage as it smashes into you.

Strength saving throw DC20, please. I am going to use, I'm going to use my drunkard's Oh no, I can't do that. Shit. I don't you have something? I'm sorry. I don't you have something where I fail something if you roll it? Yes.

I think you can spend, or you can spend key points to add to it or something. It's under features. Yep. I was the drunken time. I would say we can't find it. We can, it's not a big deal. Just move on. Okay, no, that's fine.

Okay, fail. How much? You are, you take an additional, an additional eight point. points of bludgeoning damage, and you are rocketed up 60 feet away from the battle. It was 22 damage plus 8? Yes. Okay, so 30.

As you rocket up. Okay, with that as I wish you turn. I'm gonna look towards this thing and cast R of purity around myself. And then I'm going to move closer to Lufty, just around it. How far did you say I'm rocketed? 60 feet. Up. Up. So just stay there. Just remember you're gonna have to move 60 feet down to get back to it.

And so you're gonna move your foot, you're moving up around. Yeah, so that I'm within, I just need to be, it's a 30 foot radius. So you're definitely in range of it, unless you wanna be rid of us. Yeah, I just wanna be able to be in range of everybody. Yeah, so every.

I think this stuff. One, two, three, four. This should, yep, yep, yep. There you go, okay, you do that. As in the darkness, Iris is magic radiates out this golden light. With that, it is going to be going to use a legendary action to try to bite toa again.

Oh, ouch. That is going to be a 20, 29. Oh, damn. Oh, damn. Holy smokes. Almost missed, it was 21. 29, uh, bada-uh. 20 points of bludgeoning and 10 points of cold.

30 points. As you feel the crushing depths of this. I'm 40% cold. Okay. I think I'm resistant. With that, Caprice you're up. I'm up? Yeah.

25 is. Iris is up. Oh, you just went. Oh yeah. Oh, you know, Joe is up. Sorry, toes up. Yeah, toe is up. Yeah, toe is up.

Yeah, okay. Oh, I got a 12. It was not ready. I was not ready. I am going to lunge forward. Oh, no, sorry, you got a 12. Sorry, Caprice is up. Okay, I'm my fault.

Caprice you're up. Caprice you're up. Oh. I got 11. Never mind, toes up. We're gonna get there. Take the scenic round. Stop trying to make me go.

I am going to just sort of floating in the water and having sort of leapt up, I'm going to just focus and try to channel, be in tune with myself and the spirits. My tattoos will glow, blue.

Do I have any kind of, do I feel like I have any additional combat bonuses from this transformation. Not that's not that. Not that you're aware of right now. It doesn't appear to be any positive or negative effects. Just physical changes. So mechanically, I'm using rage, and when I rage,

I get to move half my movement for free. Hoor-oo-oo-wee! I'm just going to shoot down with my mall here and make two attacks, advantagely. Okay. That's probably a hit for the first one. Oh. The second one is a...

18 18 hits oh sweet so both that um the AC is 17 is 2d I'm gonna need more D6s is some of these root ones that because they're fun so that is one two three four five ten I think I rerull that so six let ten 16 17 18 18 so it's 19 so It's 19 plus... Big money. Plus rage. 19 plus 24 is 24, 34, 34, 44 minus 1 is 43 points of damage. Nice.

On the first two attacks. And then I think I need to check for Winfury proxy. Hell yeah. Let's see. Nope. And no. Two and the 25. Okay.

That's my turn. That's your turn. Actually, I'm going to use my actual movement to swim around and kind of try to block him off his ass. I mean, I know that he- Jam him up. There's a Z-axis here, but I'm going to try to like walking. Yeah. You swim around blocking your friends.

It seems to be very much focused on you. It is then going to use, yeah, that's fine. Okay, with that, it is Caprice's turning. Finally. In my panic, I will pull up my fiddle and immediately be to sing. It's garbled and watery, but I'm still singing the song that's stuck in my head from when we swam down. It's not a human heart. It's not a fish's heart. It's a combination, human hard and fracas slow on the creature. It needs to make a wisdom saving throw DC19.

I'm going to use a dread. No. That's unfortunate. I use the dread. I got a natural 20. Okay. 23. That passes. One of my dresses is gone. Damn. And I mean, I'll take it. You have like 20 of them.

I'll fucking take it. So I cast that spell and then I'll, um, I'll yell out to Lufty. She may be small but she ain't puny. In her flasks where the finest brew be. That's where I love my sister. That's why I love my sister Loofti. And I'll give you inspiration. So take this tiny violin.

Oh, look at it. That's very nice. That'll be the conclusion my turn. One, two, three, four minutes. You see as this serpent, Toa, as it is looking down at you, as you look up and you see its teeth look similar to yours. Its eyes look similar to yours.

And you see now that it is looking down at you and its jog gets wider and wider and wider. And suddenly the ocean, crushing depths of the ocean that you resisted and the cold that you resisted so long feels colder and colder and colder as it uses a 60-foot cone rhyme breath on oh yeah no that's gonna work very very well except for Lifty as it blast out the rhyme breath everyone needs to make a Constitution saving itself shit constitution you say Rhyme breath is um I don't think I want to twist this I have plus 10 I feel pretty good

about that. Um, I mean, we have a ton. Give me three. My plus 11. Give me three. Yeah. Let me, let me make an even plus 13. I'm gonna take one. We all need to make this save. You should take five. I mean, I've got a plus five. So I'll take, oh, you take five. Okay. We've solely twist. I had plus four, but I already rolled, so. Okay. Oh, shit. So we're doing five for Caprice. Sure. All right. That's good. We did three for Felix. I got 25. And I'm taking two. Uh, Grette Felix. Son of a bitch. Ah, it's now 17.

I got a natural 20, so 30. 24. What did you get? 24. Uh, dread. You got a natural 20? I'm not going to, I'm not going to dread a 20. I got a 23 without twist.

Damn. Uh, dread. Damn. All right, well, I'm going to twist. Give me five twists. Can we do... Are we doing dual and twists? I didn't twist last time.

That's fair. This is a new roll? Yeah. Dread. How many? I got dreaded. You want five? Yeah.

Yeah, because I still, like, I just reapplied my same number. If I was only supposed to apply 10 instead of 13, I could change it. But I just kept the plus 13. Yes. I think that's fine. I see. That's smart.

You know what I mean? That's the way to do. Okay. I love that. 18 was the DC. 18 was the D. I failed. By one.

And. Good dread, Mike. Good dread. Is it gonna one-shot me? I'm very much, I'm very much dreaded. I have 10 temperate HP, correct? Absolutely. Oh, that's right, we all do, right?

We all should. As long as we took a turn. Well, I mean, it was active before, isn't it just a natural standard? Wait, what? It's the top of every round. Oh, it is. So I think we probably all have time. Unless we're saying it didn't count

at the beginning of this fight, I will not have it. We all get it at the top of each round, right? But mechanically is that the turning of your turns. Which means I wouldn't have it. B.H.P. 42 points of cold damage if you failed, half of you passed. That won't kill me, I'm good. I'll just pretend like I don't have the tip.

As it blasts, as all of the, the C starts to crystallize very briefly. You said how many, 42? 42 if you failed. Half of you passed. 205. And that is the serpent's turn. 21. 10.

Okay, that's it. Felix, you're up. I get absolutely blasted by this cone of cold, this frost damage, and ah, and I'm, I'm, I'm trying to shield my eyes as I look at Toa and I say, Oh, Toa, what happened to you? Don't worry, we're gonna fix this. And as soon as the rhyme and the frosts

is kind of settled around me, there'll be this absolutely brilliant blaze of light as seven moats of flame wreathe around my head as I cast Crown of Stars. And with my bonus action, I will make a spell attack throwing one of these moats at this creature. Yeah, I miss. That's my whole turn.

Okay. Whiskey. It goes wise, arcs, with that. I keep my concentration. Okay. I'm like, I'm not, legendary. What do we get for staying near Iris?

I don't want to move too far from her. You get, because it's purity, you can't become diseased, you have resistant to poison and you have advantages on saving throws against blinded, charmed, deaf, and frightened, paralyzed, poisoned and stunt. That sounds pretty good. I'm gonna stay still.

Okay. The crown of stores goes wide, casting. glowing light into the darkness. With that, it is, I'm gonna save that, actually, Lifter, you're up. Okay, I am going to swim furiously back down using my entire, I have 55 speed, so I will get back in front of them and I'll,

I like my fish, fresh, not frozen. And I will swing my staff down and follow that up with two punches. Okay. AC 17. I am short on spell slots, by the way. Alright, 23. I used him up last session, big time.

22. Duh. 27. 27? So those all hits. Okay. Oh shit. I have a level of exhaustion.

You do. I should have. Uh-oh. No, Iris. Oh, no. I. Great restoration. That's right.

Let's go! Nice. Thanks, Grady Resto. Grady Resti. Grady Resty. I love Grady Rusty. All right, 37. 37, you smash into it. You're here, the cracking and the snapping. 37. Okay.

Okay. Okay. You do that as you're smashing and smashing and smashing and smashing in. And this blood is starting to pull out from this creature. as let me see. It's going to use its reaction to bite. Toa, 21 is the AC. Does that miss? I have 22 AC. I'm dreading. That's another one. I'm gonna let it go.

You missed twice. As you managed to dodge out of the way in this ocean. I'm over here. To do that. And with that, Iris, you're up. I'm probably just gonna get out this time. I don't even know what to do. It didn't plan. I am, I'm not very close to it.

I think I will use a bonus action, and I will cast spiritual weapon at a third level. Do you have a little token for it or something? No. We can just put a, no, here. Something down. Oh, look at it. So the spiritual weapon will be right in front of it,

and then I will use my regular action to Toll the Dead. It's a wisdom saving throw, DC20. I'm gonna use one dread. Oh, that's even worse. Oofta, fails. Okay, so it's... Another 100. 4012.

Wow. Because it's been damaged, right? Yeah. 40 points of necrotic damage. How do you pull them? Wow. Okay. As the tolling rings out and you hear a loud bellowing groan and a groaning hiss as it bellows out. And I need you toa to make a make a an inside check. Man, all the dead's amazing. Insight.

Inside, yep. Holy shit. 20. As it lets out this and it's kind of a groan, something sounds terribly off. It reminds you of your own voice.

And now it's your turn. Excuse me. What? Oh, I'll do it's going to legendary action to bite you. Natural one. I'm using one. Oh, no, I do not dread ones, ones or... 20s. What?

20s. What? Is it my turn? Is your turn? I know that would like basically cousins now, but I have to do this. I'm sorry. And I'm just gonna go, you know. Oh, he should have an advantage on all those attacks that he did in the last round. Were you doing that? On all of his attacks? All of his attacks. On you. On me. Oh. Roll a few more dice. Before we do that. 26. That hits. Nut natural one. I miss us.

I think that'll make. 21. That misses. Even worse. Just a little bit damage. Do you want extra hit on? A lot of extra hit on. A little extra extra hit.

I'm gonna do chomper attack. Yeah, that's fine. Chomper attack on if you don't mind. Maintain Game State. That's right. Thank you. That's right. A little bit of a piercing and cold.

So it's cold and piercing that. Oh, so I'm going to all of it because I'm a glides. Then I'm raging. That's why you're like, you're going anymore. I don't care. Yeah. Yeah. What a rip.

I got a lot of hit points too. 32. Half. So... 15. 16. Okay. Ouch!

Now I'm gonna do that thing and say that thing. I'm attacking advantage. Oh, I already rolled the last time, and I think I got a six. It was my high effect, actually. Wow. So that was a six plus 14. Is it 20 to hit? 20 hits?

Oh, wow. So they both hit. Um... Oh, God. There it went, I re-rolled stews, I think. I'm pretty sure it did. 10, 16, 16 plus 24 is what, 1640 points of.

Legending damage. Barbes, damn. Okay, and then let me check for some windfaring prox. 71. Oh, that was close. 28. 28. And then let me just check my inventory or my, not my inventory, yeah, my inventory actually.

Is he looking wounded at all? He's looking wounded, yeah. After this, you're smashing it and smashing in. And with each grunt, you hear your own voice. And the eyes look at you and you through the glowing eyes and now you see that there is a tendril now wriggling over you, like, although it's serpentine-like, it is also fish-like, and the glowing angler orb is above you. As your eyes, you feel like you're looking, something about those eyes look familiar. I'm trying to think if Toa would think, oh, this is me,

or just like we're kind of kin, and we're sort of fish of a feather, you know? It does seem to be somewhat reflective. Fish of a scale. Oh. you or am I gonna be you? Is this some crazy metaphor? What am I? And that's my turn, okay? What even is this life? You do that, and it is now Caprius's turn.

No! That song didn't work. I gotta get a little closer, I guess. One, two, three, four. Try this one on for size. Uh, baby, serp, serp, sirp, sir, sir, sir, sir, SIRP SIRP SIRP SIRP SIRP SIRP SIRB Baby, Surp Surp. I'm gonna make a, it needs to make a...

It just happens? There's no way that that just happens. What? What are you doing? I'm casting irresistible dance, but it doesn't say a wisdom saving throw. It says... There's definitely a saving throw. It says attack Wiz 19.

Says on a successful save, so that must be... Yeah, so Wiz 19. Yeah, but that's... This is the bad thing. Choose one creature. This is a real spell? Yeah, yeah. Auto's irresistible dance.

I think that the initial thing happens. Yeah. And then it can make a wisdom saving throw and regain control of itself. Yep. Wow. Yep. It's concentration.

A dancing creature must use all of its movement. It begins a cosmic dance. It can't move. It has disadvantage on deck saving throws and attack rolls. While the target is affected by the spell, other creatures have a different. advantage on attack rolls against it. Oh, wow.

Let's go. As an action, it can use its action to try to regain control of itself. Baby serp, surf, sir, sir, so sir, baby, serp, sir, baby, serp, sir, if it can't be charmed. I'm on mama, I'm on grandma. Slythering back and forth dancing with this strange hypnotic motion. Lufti is also dancing like the ocean. That's huge.

It can still use, it still can attack though. At disadvantage. Okay, it's going to make its final legendary action to, uh. But if it does that, it just says, as an action. the creature makes a wisdom saving throw. Yeah, it'll have to use an action on its turn. Right, you have to choose to try to, like that's a strong spell. That's super strong.

Wait. 20 to hit. We're gonna hit a whole. I know I'm doing Capri Threat when I get Derek no and Derek. Okay. Okay. Advantage. Advantage too, so.

Yeah, don't forget your advantage. Fish for crits if you want to. But he's, it's not right. It's not bad. It's just, oh, what's happening? Yeah, so it should be straight. Okay. It's the serpent's turn right now?

Yes. And he's attacking tow. Oh, this is just a legendary action. Oh, legendary action. Then she's going to attack you again. 17. 21. 29 points of damage halved.

And then it's going to try to constrict you. Using a constrict attack as it slithers around and it trying to crush you in its grasp. Did you take your 10 HP? I did not. So let me heal 10. Well, don't heal 10. You just get 10. But it would have, I took more damage.

He's advantage, he's advantage because he deroglesly attack? I recklessly. Yeah, so he's straight. Straight. That is a 31. Judge. Madhance. Madhats.

That hits. This is all going to be, oh wow. You are now grappled and restrained as this thing, crushes you. As it does, four D10, bludgeoning damage. Blue. Plus something. I'm sorry cuz I didn't mean it.

It's very funny. 22, 24 plus. 31 points of legend and damage and you are grappled restrained as you are now in the sea serpent's coils. As Toa, you now feel in its chest

thump thump thump thump thump thump and you are hungry. Oh boy. With that. Oh gosh. Well, I need to see if he gets his breath back too. He is not. Okay. Breath breath breath.

Refields you're up. I start by casting a firebolt at advantage because I have advantage on taxis. Okay The 32 to hit Yeah, that'll do it. That's 4 D10 fire damage It's actually 33. It never get phone. In the crooked moon, there'll be increased with 33 ACs. That's pretty good. So 28, 31 36 points of fire damage from just the fireball. Yeah Then as a bonus action I will make another attack with my crown of stars another moat moat

Nice uh that's gonna be another 30 to hit That's 4012. You're to re-roll ones. Because it's evocation. So that's going to be 12 plus 14 is 36, 46, 46, 51 points of radiant damage.

Okay. It's looking very rough. It's looking extremely rough. And I'll just reposition. It is grappling toa. And you hear a blast and a roar of pain as you look, as it crushes, you hear its heart toa.

Thumb, thump, thump, thump, thump. And you realize now that it is in unison with your own heart. Thumb, thump, thump, thump, as this thing is slithering back and forth, and you feel that hunger. The heart is so close to you, and it's feeling has blasted its head as it lets out a whale in strangely human-like, a humanoid-goliath-like serpentine roar. Okay, lift it, you're up.

You got this, Lufty. Okay. I am going to go for- Maybe this is me. Do I hear that? Was it like squeezing the life out of him? Kill it, kill it! You talk.

Kill it! I'm not sure how to feel I'm awfully hungry too. I'm gonna swim over to where he's being grappled and get y'all fish fingers off of him! And I'm going to punch and try to like either break ribs or just disturbed that area where he's holding on to Toa. Okay. Uh,

Very witcher of you. That was. Natural 20. Oh, I did. I did do that. Damn, all right, nice. All right, so I got a natural 20. I got a, oh, I can't do math, 31.

And 17. 17 does it? I'm going to dread that. Okay. So just re-roll it, the 17. The 17. More than that. Okay. Okay. So then I will add this guy in there. That was a lot of damage. Oh wow. Alright.

Got to give it up. Do you add the seven with the like for the... Then now you're 20 that doesn't double now. Just okay. Okay. Extra Doss. Forty-dust. Forty-four? Yes. Oh, I can do the thing. Hold on. Oh, like from the Lala Habyrinth? No.

I want to go up, all down. I'm gonna do this. Oh, I want to, I know I said I was doing all kicks, or punches, but I will just like, you know, like the thing she doesn't kill Bill where it's, the final one, too, punch, whatever it is. The final one, I want to punch in and rip out its heart into my beating hand.

Oh, good. Okay. You do that. As you, you punch, punch, and you, you now being so close to Toa, you hear the thump, thump, thump, thump, as you pierce your hand in,

and you, with a sickening rip, you hear, for a moment, pleading in Toa's voice. As you rip the heart out as the serpent lets out a horrible roar. No, no, no, no, I'm cool, I'm cool, I'm cool. And falls to the black sand completely dead as the heart stops. And in that same moment, Toa, you feel an overwhelming compulsion to devour that heart. As you hear one last thump-thump-thump.

You feel compelled. And I bilbo. Athletics or sacrobatics. Incredible. Me? Oh. My acrobatics? Only if you're trying to not let him meet the heart. I would probably be scared and be like, oh, and kind of take it with me.

You can use your barric inspiration if you're feeling sassy. I have 29. Do you think I mean? It's Toa. Okay. What is the inspiration to? It allows you to add a D12 to it if you want to. So you can make it a minimum of 30. I don't want him to eat me. He would get the heart from him.

presumably you'd be safe. I'm also going to dread you lifting. Oh, me, bitch. Okay, um, so then I've re-rolled this. Okay, so it is a 25 plus six, so 31. 31? Toa? Toa, what do you get? I'm doing the math. Let me just double check here. By a Lynn back. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you for that inspiration. What's 19 plus 12? 31. 31. I got a 3. 31. The one. Can we roll again?

I think you roll off. I would... You rode your dread already? Yeah. Oh, wow. That was my dread. Damn. I roll again.

And basically, Lofty goes and tries to get away and you manage to snatch it out, but Toa stays right on you. You're double in effort. You see his mouth opens wider and wider. Get the way! Get away! I keep coming. Oh yeah, that's gonna be... Yeah, he's gonna get me now.

I think it might get you. I'm raging, unfortunately. reaching unfortunately, so I have advantage. It feels like it's your destiny. Yeah. That is a 29. Got me. You all see Toa lunge over and

tail into the heart and consume it in Toa. It is the most delicious, beautiful thing that you've ever tasted. The heart of the ocean, no. As you consume and consume and consume and as you swallow, follow, the shift, you see some movement below, is this corpse of this serpent that's sinking down to the bottom shifts and gets smaller and smaller and smaller and smaller. And you see on the ground, on this black sand, the corpse of a Goliath, a cavity in its chest where its heart was. the same tattoos of Toa upon its body, looking up, its eyes open, motionless.

What is that? What's going on? Do I feel in my back and my own mind? Yeah. Or am I still? Yeah. Come back. Toa, what is this?

What is this? What's happened to your face? Do I see my body? You look down and you see it. Oh! I don't think that's me. It can't be. You're you.

You are you, aren't you? I feel my chest. Yeah. Thumb thumb. Do I still, like, I'm still webbed and... You still webbed? You have the little dangly bag. You got sharp teeth.

The fang dangler? You got the fangler. It's got to be an illusion. It's got to be a trick. Dick, can't you tell? I'm going to swim down and try to dispel the illusion. I kid it. You know, like my hand hits against the body.

Make an insight check. This is some kind of trick, right? Ooh. In sight. I mean, the serpent did kind of sandalog me. towards the end. I just feed me with cousins. That's why I called him cuz that one time. 20.

20. You shake it. Oh. And I'll keep this with this insight check. You shake and your heart, you look in it, it looks as if

you are on the black sand of this deep ocean of the shadow sea. It looks as if the your heart has exploded out of your chest. In the body, in the body, or mind. In the body.

This thing corpse that looks like you, and you shake it, and you hear a single word. Fused. As the body begins to shift and shake suddenly in your arms and get even larger as it keeps its humanoid shape, but you feel now wet feathers in your arms as you see what looks like, below you.

The corpse of Pizzuzu himself. On the ground, four wings bent and crumpled. The cavity in the chest where a heart might be completely empty. Do I, am I ravenous at this point? No. No.

Oh! Wait. Ow! This isn't... No, that's not me anymore. What are you trying to say? DePrius is right. These are tricks, some sort of vision, something. I'm not. I'm not P-Man.

No. No, you're not. You're T-Man. You're all right. Yeah, I'm T-Man. Is this entity hungry for P-Man? Oh. Do you still have some of that egg?

Could we maybe feed it to this thing? I used it all up. With a 20 insight and how you're feeling. Iris's words ring true, Bilbo. Yes, it rings true. I think you're right. I think old fish fella wants to eat this corpse right here on the ground. Maybe we just need to make it that promise that when all is said and done, it can eat it.

I don't care what happens to the body of P-Man once we're through. We could just bring it up to him if he's right there hanging out. A little sauce, you know? And in this moment, the corpse of... scenes, what had, and what you had encountered was this all-powerful demon king is now this broken,

battered, almost like a baby bird that's fallen out of a nest. Or looking so weak and helpless and dead, it now starts to shift as the, almost as if it's desiccating incredibly quickly. You see dark, gray flesh now,

as it sifts and decomposes and floats away into the sea, leaving just a dark smear across this dark sand. Oh. Maybe this was all just another test, and this entity now is, he's on our side. Maybe this is just some sort of recognition that we did the right thing. Well, we'll know if we can get the entrails about trying to eat each other's hearts. Fuck.

Yes, that was going to be my point I can't believe we got through that entire scene without Caprice saying, eat your heart out Son of a bitch I'm a little stressed, Toa Don't you put that evil on me We're all a little stressed, all right? We're all at each other's throats, it's okay

It's all right, you'll get the next one I'm sure of it Shit And we're all stressed and you can still come up with she ooze on my goo until I dank? Where is this coming from, Toa? It's hard to look at you. He's got the fucking dangly dangle.

Yeah, I'm a little worried about this. I don't think it's permanent. I think we can fix it. You better go away. Maybe we can just push it. He might just need a night of rest. Can I control it? Hold on.

Is it prehensile? Is it prehensile? Can I move it or no? Can I think of it? It just gets brighter. It just gets brighter. Made a constitution check. Capricis, how close to tow are you?

I think we'd all be in a certain order. We're all close to each other. I'm five-bion. As contract, just straight? Just straight. Seven. Contestrain. Seven.

Unless I try. You focus and it gets a little bit brighter, like a little like, yeah. Some bubbles from behind them. Very funny. As you, as this happens, he's kind of thinking about this, you feel a squirming inside of you. Ooh, Caprice.

Oh, yay. You squirming, you feel like your, almost like your entrails are slithering inside of you. As you see something in the corner of your eye and you look up and you see floating down above you a small set of innards. drifting down from the blackness above. They're like spiraling down like a falling rope. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. We did it. Okay.

The trails are coming down. What catch then? They're going to get all sandy. Okay. Bag. I don't know. Hold on, hold on. It's going to be like catching spaghetti.

No, no, no, no. Good God, it's Capri. What is wrong with you? If you twist as you go along, it makes it a lot easier. Oh, yeah, okay. I got it. I got the end trails. Can we get out of you now?

Yeah, I think we're good to move on. I'm glad I'm not hungry. I hope this goes away. I'm sure once we're out of the water, it'll be back to normal. Maybe. I mean, we all have minor changes to our body that maybe are only in effect in this realm. I guess Capri still has that worm in it. Yeah, I got the worm.

You got that worm. A devil might own my soul. You got this fucking dangly biz. I'm holding intestines right now. Look at this. I'm like jumping in and out. I'm like a lasso. This is a fucking nightmare.

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casting bright light in a five foot radius and then dim light and what do you call it? It's like me too. The light spell. It's what you're called it? It's the light spell. My stars at last for an hour, so let me know. I guess when that's up. Not that it's going to be mechanically relevant. And if it is, I'll just fire all six all time of lift. Great.

It's going to look like the go-on. Come in, yeah, it gets out. Anyway. Do you could shoot one at my thing dangler? I don't want to do that. I'm worried about you. We got to get out of here. Where's Escher?

Let's leave. We have what we're here for. We need to get Toa back to normal. Is Asher still in my buns? Mm-hmm. Okay, cool. That's where he's been. After the entrails came down,

he swims forward in his little bird bat form, and he looks at them, and he's kind of, he's looking all around, and there's a very distrustful, suspicious look. about him, as he's kind of crawling on your arm now towards Caprize. Do we need to find a more private place? Do one of these, if that's what you'd like us to do. With that, Escher pushes off of Lufty and begins to flutter upwards. That's following.

Yeah, yeah, this is... We swim after him. You do. You swim. Upwards and... you leave the dark, the darkness of this abyss behind you, the strange smear of the corpse with lingering bits of that blue-green behind you, you feel as you swim up. Actually, I need everyone to make perception checks. Not this advantage because of the crown stores and the glowy, glowy, glowy biz. Hot dog, 27. Okay. Very hot dog, natural 20. Damn.

30. Okay. 24. 23. 20. We're very perceptive. You swim upward. And just like you had felt like you were being washed by Kabiri, the watching master, you feel a similar sensation.

And as you swim upwards, you feel the occasional movement in this deep water, bubbles occasionally being released from your mouths or your gills as you're ascending and and trying to swim higher and higher but the corner of your vision the corner of the light you feel like there's you see an occasional massive tentacle with octopus-like suckers slowly move the occasional movement of an enormous a barbed fin the occasional slithering of some sort of scaled

hide just out of the edge of the light seemingly never encroaching but never too far behind and you swim for ten minutes

15 minutes and you keep going up and up and up and up and up and it seems endless until you finally see light above you. And it is a violent, radiating, harsh, garish light up through the water that radiates down. It's streaks of orange, streaks of purple, streaks of green, as if there's almost like you're witnessing a battle above you

through the sea as you you suddenly no longer feel the presence of this massive shape in the water that had been trailing you. The true depths

of the shadow sea and the abyss therein is below you as you finally see the surface. And the waves are violent as you're swimming up and you see this roiling, violent sea and flashes and streaks of color and light. As you move closer and closer and you get closer, as you finally break above the surface, leaving the shadow sea and entering the next realm of the abyss,

the steaming fen, as I changed my music. What do I play like some neat, like neon? You take a huge intake of breath as you look across a roiling, violent sea.

the massive waves, dozens of feet tall, rising and crashing off in the distance. And you now see that there are rocky formations rising up and looming over, spiring hundreds of feet into the air that the waves are crashing against. The sky itself is roiling with dark clouds, no sun, no moon, just streaks of lightning and crashing of light. as this chaotic roiling sea before you feels very much that this is very clearly the layer

ruled over by this queen of chaos. Oh, shit. You see that mere, probably a mere hundred feet away from you. You see that there is a formation of rocks where you could be able to swim to, not very far. You hadn't seen them coming up as if there had been some sort of change or shift of the layers. As you look down and gone as the abyss, as you even see the flashing of chaotic light below you and the lip currents and ripping tithes are all around you in this cacophonous area,

it does not seem too dissimilar to your time in limbo. There is a kinship here as the roiling chaos. all around you is almost overwhelming at first, especially with the crushing quiet of the shadow scene. What do you all do? I think if I saw these cliff faces or land masses

that I'd probably start to make my way over quickly, but I would look to see if we've all returned back to normal. Just a quick glance around. It's like look at Toa, look at all of us, and see if like there are any remnants of how we looked. You look around and the gills are gone. The scales are gone, the fins are gone. Even Toa has lost his little lure.

You know, I've always meant to go look up every session. I always forget. What that's, there's a weird name. Yeah, I said it in. Dinglehopper. You did. It's a, it's a, it's a, it's a dangler.

It's definitely been angler. But make an insight check, Toa. Angler, dangler. Angler. What is an angler fish's lore called? Dangler dangler dangler. 17. You still feel kind of a sense of hunger.

Oh. And there's something within you that feels... Sorry, buddy. Something that hasn't left you. I would be like, you know, slowly making my way towards one of these land masses and just say, oh, toad, you're back to normal. You've changed back.

I think it was all an illusion. I'm still hungry, so I don't think I ate any of those things in reality. It was all just fake, and now I'm just a little pickish. Well, that's a good sign. It really looked like you ate them all. You licked your fingers.

It really felt like I ate the mall and swallowed it down every little bit. It has to have just been the effects of that layer and were gone. We're out of it. We're back to normal. It's called an ESCA. An ESCA.

Yeah, it was very, very interesting. No said it too. I thought knows was just having a stroke. Weed. Well, hey, Lala, come on, let's make our way to these rocks. Fuck. You are able to pull yourself up. Water's dripping off for you as You look you finally get a sense of your surroundings as you see now that this this rock formation is relatively small and you see that probably a good 500 yards away, a huge pair of spires rising up into the sky. Damn. And you noticed something strange, and you hadn't quite noticed before, as that all over these things, there are strands of strange webs and webbing that connects them as if, and strange

sacks of cocoon that are attached to these rocks, and you see movement all across, small shapes moving all about dark and jagged and chaotic. I don't like the looks of that. It's certainly not good, but we've come this far. We've got to keep going. And with that, you see, you hear the flapping of wings as Excher's bat form, and shakes all the water off, and he suddenly turns back into his corrupted avian form, and he takes a gulp of air. On the back?

That went far better than I could have hoped. Wait, it was good, Edwin Wehran? I was expecting far more treachery, far more bargaining promises to be made. I wonder it sounds like he just wants to eat, you know, whatever's left at pee, man. You can't imagine that's good, but it's not bad for us, I guess. Right? I thought he wouldn't give up the entrails without a fight.

Well, technically he didn't. Yeah, didn't you watch us fight that whole fucking serpents? That was effortless. Well, not effortless. Well, there's nothing. I mean, I think... Not for you. Kind of a strong serpent.

Really cool-sounding serpent, too. I mean, he had a really cool breath and was really strong at grabbing things and twisting them up. Yes. Perhaps it is... Perhaps it's just that these Obereth lords are not as...

Are even more treacherous and envious of Pazoo than I had surmised. Here, give me that caprice. He takes it from you, he opens up the part of the mansion and puts them in there, closes it. All right. All we need is two more layers. The steaming fen, and then back to Pizzunia. So maybe now's not the time, but then what?

When we get to Pizzunia, we find the last piece, and then what? What's the plan? We have to see what my mass has accomplished in this time we've taken. I do not know what that layer will even look like. I will not be able to open a portal even remotely near the black cigarette. I'll be halfway across the layer and will have to travel. I do not know what to expect. My connection to him is clouded.

has intended, but I do not have any sense of what has transpired beyond what was shown to us by the watching master. Hopefully we've moved pretty quick, I think. Hasn't been horribly a lot long. It's hard to say. I mean, who knows how time moves while we're doing all of this. You mean it could It could be longer It certainly could be

I mean When we were All given those visions, right? That was like the present when we were shown that, right? Maybe Could be 10 years No, it couldn't Don't say that

Well, it could To priest could be Marriage to Hersia now Oh my fuck Iris. Can you help me just a little bit, keep my head in the game? Just a little. I'm trying to give you a sense of urgency.

That is not what that is doing. You're not feeling urgent. Let's assume that's not happening. Let's just assume that what we saw is like what happened. Would you feel it if DePrice lost his virginity? I think. I hope so. I don't know if that's how that magic works.

I don't think we're connected like that. No. And he was obliterated. He was annihilated. Annihilated. Oh, they would be terrible though. Your first time feeling it like bioproxy? Oh.

Nothing. We're fine. Everything's fine. We have time to rest, right? We've been through a lot. We have maybe a brief one, but I don't know. wait if we can like sleep sleep no I don't mean sleep I mean like mechanically a throat rest I've got lots of hit dice to spend 17 of them I think even taking all

the blows I don't have that many one if everyone else is okay I can I can always heal you to her I'll be fine feeling well I don't really want to spend any more time here than we have to yes I agree yeah the webbing and the creeping and just come here big boy I'll take care of you whatever Creepy sack. I'm sorry, did you see the shaking sex? Sacks. Oh, sacks.

Six, yes. Six. Six. Six. Here we go again. You listen. You may be deep. And on this ripping wind.

Roughly how wounded do you look? Sorry. I'm a little, I'm about half. How many points do you have? I have 136 out of 209. Okay. Oh, wow. You hear a howling.

From not just one, but dozens, hundreds of voices. It sounds incredibly strange, as that it carries on the wind, seemingly from the direction of those, the massive webbing, as you look off and those strained looming spires. And you see that there's scattering as far as you can see these strange spires covered with webs. So all of them are like that.

Is there any kind of like an obvious path or is this like very treacherous climb to move forward or towards where we're looking to go? You're not sure where we're looking to go. Basically, there are hands. There's the smaller bits of rock that are rising up from the ocean that don't have these large colonies,

but you can see looking around that there are, if you played Sea of Thieves, they have all these massive rocks that are all sticking up, and this sea is covered. in these things. It would be incredibly difficult to navigate a ship throw, given how many rocks there are. This is perhaps going to be the most dangerous situation yet. We'll have to polly with the Queen of Chaos. And we don't know anything more about her, no name, no likes, dislikes, a list of her fears.

Is she like usually into parlaying? Or yes, no? The Queen of Chaos. I mean, maybe it's a yes some days and no the other. Yeah. I know that they all claim to pay her fealty. I know that she was the one to grant Miska the title of Prince of Demons. And now Pizzou, the king of demons.

And all of the fealty they pay her, though, is just lip service. I do not know if she is that foolish in vain, or if she has some grander plan. But she seems to truly believe that Pizzou is just imporn in her plan. Oh, if that's true, then she shouldn't have any problem turn insides, right? I mean, is there any way, like, letting her know that the others seem to be changing with the tide? She'd see the light? I do not know. You'll have to try and...

If it's true, what Arbox Arb said, whatever that thing inside you is, may come to life once we face her. Oh, no, you can't be serious, right? You may be right. I have no idea what will happen when I get close. It's beyond my ken. He seemed to believe that

you would need to beat her into submission. Okay. But we shouldn't kill her, right? Can she be killed? I don't know. Can we just be like, oh, but we promise. Don't you like this fish go a bidder? Into submission just means she does our bidding. So if we're going via the words,

no, we don't need to kill her. And look, I've got a little left in the tank. We can do this. Even if I have to use up the rest of it. To make this happen, we can do this. We just got to be stronger. I can turn on the charm. If we need maybe parlay, if we duck our way through this.

I could seduce her. I'm using my pearl to regain a spell slot, by the way. Let's see her first. She is. What was a team? She is quite smitten with my master. Oh. No.

Is there a way that I could look like? Caprice, I don't know about that. No, I think it's a great idea. No, she knows that Pazuzu was atop the pyramid, preparing for her arrival. Look, and if we need to parlay, I don't know if we want to be deceiving these creatures. That's all I do.

I don't get any other tricks. I, I, no, there's no, there's no deception, if that's what you were thinking. No, I'm thinking seducing is just really like convincing. Well, sometimes it's deceiving. I mean, didn't, uh, didn't answer say through my, uh, I had to deliver a kiss of death, right? Like, uh, what if you just say that, that P-Man sent you as a little treat for his lady? and seduce her that way. That's not bad.

That's pretty fucking good. And then deliver the kiss. I'm a present. I'm a little gift. Just wrap you up in a bow, huh? Huh? All right, but here's the thing. If we do this and you start to feel like something's happening,

you gotta get in there, quick. I'm gonna be honest. I hope I just like my eyes roll in the back of my head, I black out and what's the name takes over, because I, this doesn't. I just don't want something like, you know, burst out of your chest and kill you. And if it is going to kill you, we got to make sure that you

deliver this kiss of death so that you don't die in vain. Iris, do you have more of that, uh, wake up magic if I do chest burst? I do, Caprice. If your soul wills it, I can return you. Can you not turn me into a halfling or something like that? Uh, then you have a one in a hundred chance. can't becoming a halfling. Look, and if we really have to close distance quick,

I can get you there. Oh. All right. Seducy, kiss of deathy, Wormy vessel, Queen of Chaos Time. Yeah, you got this. Yeah, we can do this. Show us your sexy face.

Come on. Bless you. We'll work on it. No, it was good. It was good. It was smoldering. It looked pensive. I have to go for smoldering.

That's the good word. Yeah. It's let us see the Tigre. I bet it was good, don't stop. Why are you living? This isn't funny. I'm nervous. Turn magnum.

Is it left or right? I can't ever, you can't turn left. You can't turn left. You can't turn left. I'm an happy turn. I'm an happy turner. I like pout my lips and raise my eyebrow and just sort of try a bunch of... They all look goofy.

They all look goofy. You don't have to help you this. Hopefully I, for the audio, you know, for the podcast later. I'm sure when the mood hits, you know, we can put on a little, you know, dim the lights, a little incense, you know. Do you have magics to make this creature look like Hersia? No. Well, I can just make myself look like her, Jha. I don't think that's going to help.

And we will have the added complication of the wolf spiders. Is that what that is? Her clutch. Was that the howling? Yes. Oh, God's. Her clutch. They hurt children after Miska, the ones that you had faced previously.

I mean, clutch is all awful. I mean, I really much prefer satchel. Especially when you're going out. They're easy to leave on a counter or a tabletop or something, and then you forget about them, and you lose everything that you are, and they really should just have a strap. That's true. I think he means like a pack, like a group, a group of wolf spiders.

There's a... I was thinking like a clutch of eggs. Why would you make a clutch out of eggs? That's disgusting. Why is it called a clutch? wolves are now because you clutch it in your hand no that's not what I mean why is a clutch called why is the clutch a name for a group it's not it's a name for a handbag

it's like a sack a sack of eggs I think the two of you are talking about fundamentally different than the two of you and I think they're right children the wolf spiders after Miska's death I should have to put them out them in.

Oh, I see. And she has the power of the wolf spider. Although Pizzou may be the king of demons. Hmm. This power, spider's power, is something we might be able to steal. Oh, oh. Like once we beat her, right? Once we get her to submit.

If that is something we can. can do. We can rip it from her. And when we rebuild my daughter, she was fundamentally changed by a spider. We can, I don't want her to just be a weapon again. No, but this is, this is, this is a, this is a real plan. This is good. It's a direction. Yes. Here's a chance. There's a ghost of a game. chance, but it still is one. When your daughter is rebuilt, rebuilt, will she remain

vampiric in nature? I don't know. Or if she does, does that not, aren't you worried the same thing will happen all over again? All I know is that Drizlash is banished.

To it have the ever, ever strange, hoarded realm he came from. He is gone. Only seek out that entity because she was struggling with her childlike immortality. Well, I think we looked at, we inspected, I think some of the body parts, and they didn't seem undead of their biolike. Well, their body parts. Didn't we see that they looked like kind of, weirdly like healthy and normal human, or no?

Maybe I'm misremembering. They were, it's difficult to tell. You could raise, you could draw that conclusion. possibly, but you could also just draw the conclusion that being disassembled that's difficult to tell. I'll just forgive what I see. I think what they're trying to say is you just have to be prepared that you might not be getting your daughter back. Not what you expect or want.

I will do whatever it takes. I do not care. I will give her a second life. even if she has to be something terrible. If she is my daughter again, then that's all I ask for. It may be the only way. But if you want to do this, be a subtlety and subterfuge,

then just get a commitment. That may be possible, but if we want to steal her power, if we want to bring hello that may take a fight. The choice is yours. I've already done too too much to bring on the end of things.

You got my support. Whatever you choose to do. I got your back no matter what. We gotta see if if I can get this kiss in, right? Whatever that does. And I think that if we can do

more, we can still be the heroes of this story. You know, we can, maybe get whatever this power is to help your daughter, to free her, to undo all this, right? That would be redemption for more than just us. I, we'll have to play the cards as they come off the top of the pack, but it's gonna, I just don't know what to expect, you know? I don't think there's any way to for whatever was going to happen here. Can't be ready for a fight, but, hopefully,

things go easy. You know, for that turn of phrase, why is it top of the pack and not top of the deck? There's a word for a pack of cards. It's a dick. The top of the deck has... The top of the dick? No, the top of the dick.

Isn't that what I said? No, you're saying top of the dick. No, I said top of the dick. No, I know what you said. That's what I just said. I'm saying top of the dick. Felix. Felix is looking around. Trying to get my good orientation.

What? I'm trying to find out where we have to go here. Since when? A dick and a dick are totally different things. One's a grouping of cards and the others are penis. Gorsh, what's a penis? A lot of penis talk, did I? Yeah.

She. We like the ears. She resides on a palace. I'm sorry, did you say phallis? A palace on the edge of a stinking salt marsh right on the coast. If they follow the stink, we'll find the palace. So we'll have to swim there? Unless you have some other idea.

Unless you have some sort of portable boat. That's ridiculous. Did you say portable boat? Portable bones! Oh my God! We're all out of ideas. If only. If only, we had one.

It's impossible. Guys, what do you mean? Someone who grow up in the islands knowing exactly how to navigate it perfectly. What do you mean? Has everyone forgotten my portable bone? You have a portable boat? Yes, I have a portable boat.

You are a portable boat. Why don't you tell me? I just did. And I will grab, I'll go into my things and I'll pull out my wooden carved box, and I will open it up, and I'll sort of, I'll kind of pull all of the figurines of the wind spirits out, and I will dump the water out of it. And I will take out my small, it looks like a little catamaran with a single sail, but there's a decently large platform between the two holes. There it is! Wow.

In the morning. Sorry, go ahead. You know, Toa, I always thought you were stupid, and I found that quite attractive, but... You're a lot smarter than I then I first thought. You should be proud of yourself. Well, thank you. I don't think this really makes me smart. I think it just makes me lucky.

But I am very glad that I have this. It was a gift from the spirits. Because they knew how important their boat was to me. Maybe there was a destiny here. Maybe they knew that we would have to make one final voyage. They knew. Wow.

That's pretty amazing. They always know. Don't think final voyage. One additional voyage. For now? Final voyage before the final voyage from a certain point. Not like our final voyage, but... I just say we're going on.

A voyage. We're gonna go on a voyage so that it's P-Man's final voyage. Oh, wow, P-man's final voyage. Yes. Sure. We're all aware that there's a very real chance that we don't make it home, right? Yeah, but if we say it, then it's like real, so you just have to brush it off. We're gonna make it home? No big deal.

We're gonna keep... We can do this. Yeah, we're gonna do this. Even if we succeed, it doesn't mean we'll make it home. I'm not. Why are you being such a sad sack? I'm not. I'm being realistic and I'm okay with it.

He's right. The chances of us surviving are almost zero. If at the end of the day, six of us don't make it back, but we stop what's happening, that that's all I can really ask for. To know that Milo's okay, to know that the rest of a ventress is okay, I'm all right with it. Our lives are nothing compared to the lives that we will say. It is a worthy sacrifice to do what needs to be done. Yeah, but they're like, we're not going to die because we're awesome. Escher is going to walk up to you, Lifty.

He's going to put a hand on your cheek. I thought you're going to say chest. And he's going to look down in you. And he's going to say... He has been in my buns all day. He gives you a snap, and then I just snap you out of it. He smacks your ass. And he grabs your cheek and he says...

Stop. Do it again. I, we may not survive. And after I transform into a bat with what happens to the queen of chaos, I may not make it beyond that. But I want you to know, I've grown fond of you. Don't be catching feelings now. And then I'll lean and say, just kidding. Me too. I'll give him a little kiss on the cheek.

Is he like a gross, like, he's like nasty? He's like, is his face kind of relatively normal? He's grotesque, but in like a house, like a house, would be castles? He's still a sexy, bish, anime. He's still a sexy, busy anime, but I would, like, covered, but also a monster. Okay, okay.

He's also like, oh, I read Beauty and the Beast. No, it is literally book talks, like, biggest thing. He has been all around the world, and she's seen, she's seen a lot of tale. Yeah. So, she's down for it. And he then turns back to you, but it does get bigger, doesn't it?

I'm sure you've known What? What? What? He means this. Oh. Take a step back, everyone. I'll swim back. Oh, we're on the rock. Oh, that's right. That's right. We're on the rock.

I'm going to walk down to the edge and place it in the water. All right. He goes nothing. Let's hope this still works. It gets sucked into a sewer with a clown inside. Waka. and you will see, nothing will happen at first, but then the wind will start to kind of swirl around where you can almost like see it,

like in Sea of These when you're on the boat. Oh yeah, yeah, yeah. Or wind waker. Yeah. Oh yeah. And it'll start to blow this like light blue as it swirls around the ship and it'll grow and grow and grow and grow to a full-size single-sail catamaran.

Um, there she is. There's Walker. Wow. What does Walker mean? Amazing. Oh, I don't know. It's just the name of my boat. She's beautiful.

Permissioning the Queen's Humble sort of way. Look at it, Lifty. It's the Wind Walker. That's very funny. That's very funny. Tell her, permission to walk aboard. Please, you're all my friends, everyone. Get on, get on, get on, get on.

During our conversation about strategy and the Queen of Chaos and all that, Could we justify a short rest? If you take a full hour, then yes. Did we take a full hour? Probably not. It's up to you? I would think that we...

If we could do it where, for the voyage, everyone else is resting while I am... Okay. If you want to basically forego a short rest... I will forego the short rest. This can be the part of the continuation. Yes. Okay?

This is huge. I'm using my arcane recovery. He looks at you, Luffy. He says, well, thank you. I must transform back. No matter what happens, sacrifice everything to stop Azuzu. No matter what I do, no matter what happens to my little bat. Now he sail.

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